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THE TOPEKA PLAINDEALER. THE LAW AND ORDER GANG VOLUME V. Has Swallowed up the Republican Party in the City of Topeka They Have Formed a "Lily White" Party to Which No Negro Need Apply for Admission, they Say None are Competent. The Republican city organization of Topeka has been swallowed up by the law and order forces. Instead of loyal Republicans at the helm, a lot of sore headed, bolting, petticoat men, who dub themselves Republicans are holding the reigns. They bolt the ticket whenever they so desire. They bolted Hazen, Lucas and Nichols, and even the supposed staunch Republican papers followed them. They had associated with them, a few women consisting of old maids, grass widows and a few husband rulers, to raise the cry, "Down with whiskey and up with hypocracy, save our boys and girls from these hell holes, ete." Let us see how much of this they mean. First, they know that the drug stores can furnish all the whiskey that the people have money to pay for Second, that through such a policy one class is enriched to the detriment of the entire public and the tax-payers. Let us see what class of women it is that keep up this wail, hue and cry. It is not the woman who stays at home and darns her husband's socks and clothing, who keeps her children neat and tidy, who is always busy attending to her own affairs and not meddling and gossiping about her neighbors, one who always has warm meals, a kind word and a kiss for her devoted husband when he arrives from his work. This class of women are always willing to trust their husbands to look after the outside world, and he is always willing for her to adorn and beautify their home, for if a woman ever came near to angelizing a place, it is in her home, surrounded by her children, trainning them in the way they should go. Then we have the masculine class—old maids who have no children trying to dictate to people the way in which they should have their children go; the grass widow who gossiped and worried her husband until she drives him to drinking, then a divorce follows. She charges it up to the saloon, and the whole community is put into a commotion by the neglectful manner in which she operated her domestic affairs. Another class of married women is those who have petticoat husbands without any conception of being a man of his own or about rearing a family, starts out with an idea that children can raise themselves. In the evening the wife wants to attend some social function or church meeting where some wayward sister or brother is being tried for wrong doing, so she can spend the next week gossiping. While this is going on, her son is allowed to go to the theatre or some other place of amusement, coming in at any old hour of the night. This is kept up until he cultivates the habit of drinking. The girl is allowed to accompany some strange man to the dance hall, where they participate in the alluring waltz or two-step until a late hour. While the mother is out gossiping or at church praying for the destruction of these places, they are assisting in keeping them up with the presence of her children. When the downfall of these children comes, the parents lay the blame to whiskey, and hollow, "Oh, drive them out, they have ruined my boy, daughter or husband" as the case may be. It is simply because the child was not directed in the way it should go, and "when it grows old" says the scripture, "it will not depart from its way." This is the condition in Topeka today. These foolish whims has disintergrated the Republican party in this city, until we have no city organization. The women do not constitute, nor do they assume to study the principles of parties. They only know one thing and that is to vote against whisky, but parties cannot afford to ignore interests that is far more vital to the welfare of the citizens. People do not have to drink. Food and clothing is a necessity of life, to have an opportunity to earn them is all that is asked. We cannot build cities and pay taxes with loud talk and protests. We cannot grow by continual strife; the outside world will ignore any city that keeps up such a lick. There is but one Republican party and that name stands for everything that is decent. When a set of people style themselves as law and order, and then try to make loyal Republicans sawllow that kind of a dose it will never go down. People who bolt when things fail to go as they desire ought to be dubed law and order, for they need something of this kind to keep them in line. This law and order party has completely eliminated the Negro. The only recognition he has received from these people is empty honors—a member of the central committee; a place on the executive committee would be permitting him to get too close to the "cash box." The foremost leaders of the law and order forces succeeded in putting the Negroes in a Jim Crow school. They say that not one of our prominent Negro lawyers are competent to fill the office of police judge, a position that pays $900 per year. A few Negroes who want to stand high with that class, intimated that a Negro might be consigned by that august committee to the position of police judge. They were turned down immediately and were told that no Negro need apply. There is a few self constituted Negro leaders lined up with this crowd who are a detriment to the race. They have never succeeded in accomplishing anything for the benefit of the race since they have called themselves politicians. They fight every Negro who is striving to accomplish something for the betterment and advancement of the race. This is the class of Negroes that is lined up against Republicanism. Since this so-called hypocritical name, law and order has been perpetrated upon Topeka, we have not been able to secure a Republican state convention or even land a Shawnee county man at the state house for dog pelter. The only Republican ticket we can support is under the head of judge of the court of Topeka, in which no one but men participated. A majority of all the women that voted at the primaries did so through persuasion or for mere curiosity. We know of women who remembered and followed what the lamented Ingalls said: "Everything is fair in politics. The Bible and the hymnbook have no place in a political campaign!" We know of women who were working and promising both sides—strong law and order women too. We advise those who want to see Topeka grow and flourish like a green bay tree, to steer clear of the law and order candidate for mayor. Personally, he is a good man, but he is training with the wrong crowd. If you want your taxes reduced, vote not for the law and order candidate. If you want the Republican party recognized, vote against the law and order candidate for mayor. If the laboring men want work this summer, vote against the law and order candidate. Elect Bergundthal and you will reduce the street force one-half. If you want a conscientious church going Christian for mayor, vote for Michael Heery. Now is the time for all the hypocrites to get right. The colored man has been ignored by the law and order forces. Vote for a straight business administration. When the law and order forces elected Mr. Drew mayor a few years ago the working force of the city was cut in half, and that half worked irregular and on short rations. Taxes were higher, the joints ran and the city collected no revenue. Oklahoma Jottings Prof. J. R. Maine, principal of the high school in Kingfisher, Okla., TOPEKA, KANSAS, FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 27, 1903. The Indianola Postoffice. The sworn duty of President Roosevelt is to see that the postmistress at Indianola, Miss., is protected, if it takes the entire army and navy to do so. No set of out-laws, renegades and nullifiers of the Constitution should be allowed to dictate the policy of this government and not until this postoffice is opened will the people of this country who reverence the flag, feel that she is waving over the people with the breeze of freedom. We know the president has displayed 'courage all along the line of right and justice. He was courageous when governor of the Keystone state, when he led the gallant charge of the|Rough Riders up San Juan hill, when he dined with Booker T. Washington, and in standing by Crum, collector of the port at Charleston, but it must be remembered that the race is to him who holds out to the end. The President should have this postoffice opened, and reinstate this lady in her official rights, and if necessary send a regiment of soldiers down there to see that she is protected. If this state of affairs is allowed to continue, these Southern out-laws with Money and Tillman at the head, will soon nullify everything in the Thirteenth, Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments to the Constitution, which they have almost accomplished. The men who fought for the Constitution never intended that those who opposed it should do with their tongue and pen, what was done with the sword. Act! Act!! Act!!! Mr. President and continue your courageous and manly reputation. and formerly a resident of Kansas City, Mo., is doing much to advance the race in the Territory which his friends will be pleased to note. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Downs, (old South Carolinans) of Everston, Ill., who moved to the Territory recently, are doing nicely and showing the people what South Carolinans can do in a short while. E. O. Tyler, an attorney-at-law who came to Kingfisher a few years ago from Texas is a lawyer of exceptional ability and stands well at the bar of profession. We had the pleasure of attending the Republican City convention, and found a few of the old southern type of colored politicians like BenButler, who never looses the opportunity to raise to "a pint of order." The white contingent was liberal enough to concede one colored member of the school board, and we are sorry to say, but they have did more than the city of Topeka would do. From what we saw and heard the colored farmers are making great progress and the prospects for wheat and other crops are looking fine. We find that the young Negro is idling his time away by loafing and jumping from town to town instead of assisting their parents in improving their claims. We would advise them to earn money and send to their parents to stock their farms with calves and pigs in order that they may have something to sustain The sworn mistress at Indiana navy to do so. Constitution should and not until this period reverence the flag, of freedom. We line of right and justice stone state, when he hill, when he dined collector of the peace race is to him who postoffice opened, necessary send a protected. If thus out-laws with Mon in the Thirteenth, tution, which they the Constitution not their tongue and p Mr. President and them when they go home sick or tired from city life. In a business way the colored people of Kingfisher are doing fairly well. They have several grocery stores, blacksmith shops and a drug store. We find that Jake Admire, of the land office, is to Oklahoma politics what Cy Leland is to Kansas. Prof. F. F. Bailey, principal of Washington school at Hennessy, Okla., is now serving his fourth term in that capacity and has an enrollment of seventy-six scholars. Judge Frank McKinley, of Kingfisher, an old Topekan, is giving general satisfaction in meting out justice to the inhabitants of that city. He has one of the finest cottages and in the best locality in Kingfisher, Mrs. McKinley, his estimable wife, takes great delight in the cultivation of fine flowers and raising poultry. She is doing much for the betterment of the race. Mesars I. S. Nicholson and Chas. Goodwin are the successful grocers in Hennessy and are doing a nice business. Mrs. J. H. Hayden, who lives a few miles out of the city, is one of the most successful florists in the United States. She formerly resided in Topeka, and is the only lady in the Territory who has a hot house of such magnitude located on a farm. WHITE SERVANTS FOR BLACK RACE! New York's Black 400 Employ White Servants. It Has Become a Common Sight in New York--Negro Women Say They are Excellent Servants. So many unexpected things are happening in New York of late, that a person would not be surprised should they hear of Ben Tillman having located there and married to a black wite, or of his having accepted a position as "coach" in the family of some wealthy Negro. Last week Mrs. Aida Overton Walker was admitted into New York's four hundred and took it by storm. Now comes the Negro aristocrat, wealthy, cultured and refined, who has white servants to attend to the wants of his household. While the Negro is being "cussed and discussed," New York is making marked and commendable strides towards solving his problem. The New York Sun in a recent issue published the following editorial: The agitation which the pretensions of the colored race are exciting in the south would be debuless Indianola Post In duty of President Roosevelt is to the Indianola, Miss., is protected, if it takes the No set of out-laws, renegades and should be allowed to dictate the policy of the postoffice is opened will the people of Indianola feel that she is waving over the people we know the president has displayed cow justice. He was courageous when governor led the gallant charge of the Rough Rider with Booker T. Washington, and in report at Charleston, but it must be remembered holds out to the end. The President, and reinstate this lady in her office in regiment of soldiers down there to this state of affairs is allowed to continue money and Tillman at the head, will soon, Fourteenth and Fifteenth amendments have almost accomplished. The men never intended that those who opposed the pen, what was done with the sword, and continue your courageous and manly aggravated by the knowledge that colored families of means are now employing white servants, and that the white man not only stands behind the colored man's chair at meals, but the white woman dances attendance on the colored woman, makes her bed, sweeps her parlors, cooks her meals and occupies in her household a position of sub-servience as low as that filled by any colored servant in a white household. In New York where certain members of the colored population are so affluent that they drive automobiles, employ butlers and keep a staff of maids, the employment of white servants has assumed large proportions. Many colored women seem to prefer white servante, and have no difficulty in procuring them. The spectacle of a white, rosy-cheeked maid-servant opening the door to a fashionably-dressed ebony damsel, who has come to call on her mistress, is gradually ceasing to excite surprise. The maid herself considers it no ignominy to remove the wraps of colored guests, take their orders, wait upon them and receive every mark of condescension. She does not feel slighted because she is relegated to the colored party's kitchen, and when it is indicated that she is not good enough to be received among her mistress' friends in the drawing rooms she does not complain. Mrs. Gilbert, a wealthy colored woman in Brooklyn, who occupies a fine house at 15 Douglass street, proclaims her preference for white servants in strong terms. Her own race, she declares, turn upon their fellows when they become rich and try to drag them down. While colored men and women make admirable servants to white people, they become impertinent and overbearing when called upon to serve in the house of another colored person, and insist upon asserting their equality. There is no possibility of retaining the relations of mistress and servant, Mrs. Gilbert declares, between a colored mistress and a colored servant. On the other hand, there are hundreds of honest German and Irish emigrant girls coming over every day, who have not been brought up with race prejudice, and who are quite willing to serve a black mistress providing she pays them well and treats them properly. MR. J. P. BERRY. Mr. J. P. Berry, one of the most successful Negro grocers in Topeka, announces his candidacy for city marshall. In an interview with a PLAINDEALER scribe he said: "The Republicans in Topeka have eliminated the Negro from elective office and recognizing this fact, I announce myself as a candidate. The Democrats have come to the rescue of the 'out-cast blacks' and nominated me at their convention last Saturday night, and I trust that the colored people will recognize this fact and govern themselves accordingly." Mr. J. P. Berry was born in the District of Columbia, Nov. 9, 1859 and came to Kansas Sept. 19, '83, and located on the North side, where he has since resided and built up an enviable reputation as a successful to office. to see that the post- the entire army and and nullifiers of the of this government, of this country who people with the breeze courage all along the Governor of the Key- Riders up San Juan in standing by Crum, remembered that the sent should have this official rights, and if to see that she is sinue, these Southern in nullify everything ents to the Consti- men who fought for and it should do with . Act! Act!! Act!!! ly reputation. grocer. He has a wife and six children and is also a heavy contributor to the city's tax fund. During the reign of Gov. Leedy and the "metropolitan police system," he served as an officer with honor and credit to all lovers of peace and harmony. Mr. Berry has been identified with the "reform" or Democratic forces about fourteen years, and is honest and conscientious in the stand that he has taken, as may be seen by his faithful service to the party. Among other things, Mr. Berry says: "Now, if the Negroes of Topeka desire to save themselves from ostracism, so far as elective offices are concerned, the time is ripe and they now have an opportunity to strike the winning blow." STAND BY DUMONT SMITH! The Seventh District Crowd Should Get Together and Nominate Him. The fight in the big Seventh district for congressman should be decided on the first ballot. If the Seventh wants a statesman, select F. Dumont Smith. If the Seventh wants her interest properly looked after, and a man of practical experience, select F. Dumont Smith. He is one of the brainiest men in Kansas, which he clearly demonstrated in the Senate during the recent session of the Legislature. Cast aside personal ambition and work for the interest of the district by nominating Senator Smith. He can accomplish more than any man that could be selected. Send him to Congress. IN CIVILIZED (?) AMERICA W. R. Andrews, of Grand Rapids, Mich., at a recent toast, got off the following appeal to the Filipinos: "You Philipinos don't know what you are missing by not wanting to become citizens of this grand country of ours. There isn't anything like it under the sun. You ought to send a delegation over to see us—the land of the free—land of fine churches and 40,000 licensed saloons; bibles, forts and guns, houses of prositution; millionaires and paupers; theologians and theives; liberists and liars; politicians and poverty; Christians and chain gangs; schools and scallywags; trusts and tramps; money and misery; homes and hunger; virtue and vice; a land where you can get a bible for fifteen cents and a bad drink of whisky for five; where we have a man in congress with three wives and a lot in the penitentiary for having two wives; where some men make sausages out of there wives, and some want to eat them raw; where we make bologna out of dogs, canned beef out of horses and sick cows, and corpses out of the people who eat it; where we put a man in jail for not having the means of support and on the rock pile for asking for a job of work; where we license bawdy houses and fine men for preaching Christ on the street corns; where we have a congress of 400 men who make laws, and a supreme court of nine men who set them aside; where good whisky makes bad men and bad men make good whisky; where newspapers are paid for suppressing the truth and made rich for teaching a lie; where professors draw their convictions from the same place they do their salaries; where preachers are paid $25,000 a year to dodge the devil and tickle the ears of the wealthy; where business consists of getting hold of property in any way that won't land you in the penitentiary; where trusts 'hold up' and poverty 'holds down'; where men vote for what they do not want for fear they won't get what they do want by voting for it; where a girl who goes wrong is made an outcast and the male partner is called a gentleman; where women wear false hair and men dock their horses' tails; where the political wire-puller has displaced the patriotic statesman; where men vote for a thing and cuss it 164 days; where we have prayers on the floor of our National Capitol and whisky in the cellar; where we spend $500 to bury a statesman who is rich and $10 to put away a working man who is poor; where to be virtuous is to be lonesome and to be honest is to be a crank; where we sit on the safety value of energy and pull wide open the throttle of conscience; where gold is substance—the one thing sought for; where we pay $15,000 for a dog and fifteen cents a dozen to a poor woman for making shirts; where we teach the 'untutored Indian' eternal life from the bible and kill him off with bad whiskey; where we put a man in jail for stealing a loaf of bread and in congress for stealing a railroad; where Negroes are accused of crimes, burned at the stake and white men are given fair trials, proven guilty and allowed to go unmolested, or given a twelve-month in the penitentiary; where the check book talks, sin walks in broad daylight, justice is asleep, crime runs amuck, corruption permeates our whole social and political fabric, and the devil laughs from every street corner. Come to us, Fillies. We've got the greatest aggregation of good things and bad things, hot things and cold things, all sizes, varieties and colors, ever exhibited under one tent." Austin vs. Williams EDITOR PLAINDEALHR: I see that another mountebank has arrived in Topeka and can be found on the south east corner of Sixth and Monroe streets, where he is selling his filthy rubbish every afternoon and evening. This mountebank, who claims to be a servant of God, called to travel around the country and teach the way of salvation, seems to upset God's call to sinners, which reads, "Ho, every one that thirsteth, NUMBER 12. W. R. Atkinson in a Toast to the Filipinos Scores a Strong Point Against the Barberous Americans Mr. Austin Takes a Fall Out of Evangelist Williams, Says he is a Grafter. come ye to the waters; and he that hath no money, come ye, buy and eat, yea. come buy wine and milk without money and without price;”—Isaiah lv, 1,—and in its place he has sent out this call: “Ho, every one that is simple, come ye to the Tabernacle! he that hath plenty of money, come, buy my rubbish; come with plenty of money for I sell it at a great price, and I will give you all the latest contortion acts and silly antics of the day. This performance will also be interspersed with a goodly amount of vulgar and indecent language, and when the excitement dies out a little I will crack a few stale jokes for your amusement, and while my lackeys are passing the baskets among you for your shekels I will call upon my four hundred singers, who are trained to sing words but not to sing praises to God, and they will give you a variety of waltzes and other tunes.” This mountebank will not have anything to do with the God of Israel but introduces another God for us to worship. The Bible says: “Hear, oh Israel, the Lord, our God, is one Lord.” Deut. vi, 4; Mark x11, 29. At the tabernacle we are taught, “Hear, oh ye simple ones, the Lord, our God, is three Gods.” The Lord says: “There is no God but me.” Isaiah xliv, 5, 6 and 18, 21, 22. The mountebank at the tabernacle says: “Besides one God there are two others. I know them both. One is Father and Son, the other is Son and Father. The other is both of us and yet is not either of us. They are each co-equal and co-eternal. The Bible says, “But to us there is but one God.” 1 Cor. vii, 6. “One God the Father of all.” Eph. iv, 6. “And this is life eternal, that they might know Thee, the only true God.” Reader, do you think that if Christ was co-equal and co-eternal with God he would have addressed the Father as “the only true God.” That would have been one co-equal telling another co-equal that he was the only true God. Where, then, would be the co-equality? The Bible teaches therefore, that there is only one God, the father of all, and Jesus Christ is the Son of God, having been begotten of God through the Holy Spirit, Luke i, 35. God was the one who begot, the Holy Spirit was the power or influence emanating from Him under the direction of His will in the begettal, and Christ was the Son of God begotten, who after growing in wisdom and stature was made perfect by the things which he suffered. Heb. ii, 10. Yet, in the face of all this evidence, this mountebank will stand before the people and tell them that there is a great and merciful and loving God, and then give him the lie in every sentence he utters. Our Topeka ministers sanction his teaching by lending themselves as ornaments upon the platform and shouting amen to every lie he tells. He also makes the religion of the Bible so vulgar that he has to divide his congregation. Is it any wonder that our beautiful city of Topeka is overrun with drug store saloons, gambling houses, joints and houses of ill fame, when such blasphemous doctrine is preached under the cloak of religion? Is it surprising that infidelity is on the increase? In it to be wondered at that our young people are growing up with bitter contempt for the church and for everything connected with it? More anon. H. O. Austin. It has been announced that President Roosevelt will be in Kansas during the month of May, and one of his stops will be in Topeka. The President will receive a royal and hearty welcome from all classes of citizens, but from none will he receive a heartier and more cordial welcome than from the Negro citizens. No President since the days of Abraham Lincoln has endeared himself more to the Negro than has President Roosevelt. His flat refusal to be influenced in the making of federal appointments by color, and his public announcement that real merit, and qualifications, both morally and mentally shall be the standard, will do much to elevate the standard of Negro leaders. Such a policy marks the passing of the Negro political shyster and rapportees who have grown fat through political prostitution. It is hoped that the committee having charge of the entertainment in Topeka and other Kansas points will spare no pains to convince his excellency that the people of this state are a unit for him, and that party factions will not prevent his receiving our state delegation next year. The Indianapolis Freeman says that Boston needs a paper that stands for the race, and Bro. Trotter does not deny the charge. New York's 400 has admitted Mrs. Aida Overton Walker into their society, which should convince Tillman and his crowd that the refined Negro is as far above him and his class as the stars. Those Negro educators who officiated at the elimination of the black man from elective office in Topeka, doubtless feel that they have made of themselves what Christ rode into Jerusalem. The Negro farmers in Kansas are doing more to solve the problem than through any other agency. They are happy and prosperous-independent of all labor organizations whose sole object seems to be that of preventing the Negro from earning a livelihood.- The Negro, young and old, should profit by the prosperous condition of our farmers and cease to congregate in cities and towns and being content with the hand to mouth fare found in cities. The Negro farmer is a producer and has a place and standing in the world of commerce. It's through the farm and truck garden that the problem can be solved, and our people should lose no time in getting there. Down in Linn county they have a sort of peculiar way of doing things, and among them is that of electing a printer to supply the county with its job work, etc., at hold-up prices. The tax-payers grew tired of being fleeced, and petitioned their representative to have the law repealed, but the dadies of law were too "foxy". and got next to him and blocked the game. If the tax-payers want this law knocked out, the thing to do is elect a printer who is against it, and will work for its repeal at the next session of the Legislature. J. E. Latimer, of the Herald, is the proper man, and he would work hard to have it erased from the statute books. Linn and Barber are the only counties in the state that have such a hold-up system of printing. Print shops in Topeka would jump at the work for one-half the price as provided by law and make a good profit. We would take a slice ourselves, and consider that we had made a neat little contract at a live and let live price, and pay our printers more than $7.50 per week too. Omaha Neb., is having a warm mayoralty contest this spring, and an awful bitter and dirty fight is being waged against Mr. Moores, the present incumbent. We advise the Negroes of that city to show their loyalty and appreciation and stand by him. The Negroes of Omaha, have secured more and better appointments under Mayor Moores than in any city in the country. The position of inspector of weights and measures now held by T. P. Mahammitt, pays about $1,600 per year, and is one of the best paying positions in the mayor's store of gifts, and this along with several other good places given the Negroes by him, is ample reward for their voting strength. Defeat Mayor Moores and instead of having Negroes at the head of departments, they will have a broom brigade. They should also stand by Fred. L. Smith, candidate for councilman in the Fifth ward. He is an able lawyer and if elected would reflect credit upon the race. We hope to hear of our old friend, Fred. L. landing safely. Advantages of Saving. We are glad to reprint the following from the Chicago Tribune, and recommend that every Negro read it carefully and paste it in their hats for future reference: Saving develops careful living. Its underlying principal is self-control, chief among moral treasures. Saving enhances daily comfort. No slavery is so burdensome as debt; saving cancels and forestalls it. Saving produces a peace of mind unknown to him, who in time of misfortune, must depend upon the bounty of his friends. Saving provides for the future. Cash capital is a necessity in starting business, and saving creates capital. Saving promotes general prosperity. Deposit money in a savings bank and you enable someone to borrow funds for investment in safe business enterprises, giving profitable employment to many. Determine to save; for will power, an everwhelming determination, is the prime essential. Keep an accurate cash account; it is an invaluable help in intelligently regulating expenditures. Open a savings bank account. On Dec. 2, 1812, a committee from the Society for the Prevention of Pauperism in New York presented a report saying: "Your committee do not hesitate to declare it is their business." discreet management savings banks would be productive of greater good in the United States than in any other part of the world." The growth of savings banks has been a great factor in making ours the happiest, most prosperous of nations. A savings account should be opened for every child; he should be taught from his earliest days to increase that account. If a system of savings banks such as exists in France could be established in our public schools it would be one of the greatest contributions ever made to our national and individual welfare. Deposit regularly. Lay aside some portion of each week's on month's income. At the beginning of 1902 a certain young man decided to deposit $5 a month in a savings bank. He did so, but at the end of the year he had saved $125. Think carefully before withdrawing. Decide whether the dollar withdrawn will be more useful now than it will be later on when it has increased to $10. Sacrifice small present pleasures for greater future good. Deposit extra and unexpected receipts. This same young man receiving a present of $5 placed it in his savings. Those who receive prizes in this contest might well leave the amounts permanently on deposit with the company. When income increases, do not spend all of the increase. Set it to work for your future needs. Use a metal bank at your home or office. A savings bank is distinctly a moral agency, promoting self-control and judicious expenditure. We could well afford to compensate savings banks for their service. But they not only do the work gratuitously, they pay interest. In the words of Prof. James H. Hamilton of Syracuse university. "The savings bank as an institution represents the most conservative, the most logical, and the most hopeful scheme for bettering the conditions of mankind." SUMMARIZING. Saving encourages better living; increases daily comfort; provides for the future; promotes trade and commerce; establishes credit. To save, exercise will power persevering; keep an account of income and expenditures; utilize the facilities granted by saving institutions; deposit on every pay day; deposit all special income and withdraw only when compelled to. OLATHE. Miss Sadie Phillips, who is attending State Nermal at Emporia, was visiting her mother, at home, a couple of days last week. Mr. George Rollins, of Kansas City, is visiting home folks. C. H. Collins, principal of the Phillips school, of Kansas City, Kas., was visiting in Olathe, on Sunday. The home of Mrs. A. Phillips was the scene of much merriment last Saturday, when the friends of Miss Sadie Phillips gathered to spend an evening in honor of her nineteenth birthday. About twenty-five guests were present. The house was tastefully decorated for the occasion and a two course lunch was served. KINGFISHER, OKLA Wm. Allen returned from Arkansas, last Wednesday, where he had been visiting his son. Nick Chiles, of Topeka, was here last week, looking after business. Mrs. M. D. Brookins returned She left her daughter, Mabel, much better. The missionary society of St. Mark A. M. E. church is becoming very interesting. Sunday afternoon, at 3 p. m., there were many ladies present filled with the Spirit of God. It was a service long to be remembered and it is hoped that the results of these meetings will be seen in our homes, and on the street, among our young people. NORTH TOPEKA Macedonia Tabernacle No. 93 is very busy making preparations for the wedding of Miss Sarah Walker, G. S., which will take place Thursday evening, March 26. at the U. K. T. hall, 509 W. B street, at 8 p. m., sharp. Rev. H. W. White will perform the ceremony. This daughter will be married by the Tabernacle. The members of the True Eleven are requested to be at the Tabernacle Hall, 509 W. B. street, Friday evening, April 3, at 7:30 p. m. Very important business. Ida M. Jordan, V. G. Mrs. Katie M. Teat, Sec. The Young Men's Literary and Athletic Association of the Institute will give their Literary entertainment at the Institute, Friday evening. The Spring Athletic Tournament, given by the Institute Cadet Company will be held at the State Fair Grounds. April 10th the Institute Baseball team will play the Washington School team; April 11th, the contests in running, jumping, pole vaulting, bicycle riding, etc., will come off. The city merchants have donated several valuable prizes for this tournament. The Booker Washington Literary society will hold a Girl's Declamation contest at the Institute, April 24th next, for a gold medal. Girls under eighteen only will be permitted to participate. Each colored public school and Sunday School of Topeka has been invited to select one of its best talent to represent it in the contest. Prizes will also be given for second and third place. Mr. Albert Ross, chairman of the committee in charge of arrangements, intends to make this one of the most spirited contests yet held this year. The Tailoring department received this week two outside orders for making Spring suits for friends of the school. The mothers and fathers of Kansas and the West, anticipating a great rush of students to enter the school next year, enlarged as it will be, have already begun to write and have places reserved for their daughters and sons. The Grand Lodge of Masons of Illinois has had places reserved for several students it desires to place in our institution. TUSKEGEE INSTITUTE NOTES Tuskegee, Ala. 3-17-'93. EDITOR PLAINDFALER: I take the liberty of asking the use of the valued columns of your newspaper to remind our people of the fourth annual meeting of the National Negro Business League, to be held in Nashville, Tenn., during the coming summer. The colored people of Nashville have already begun making thorough and elaborate preparations for the meeting of the League, and from every point of view the next meeting promises to be the largest most important in the history of the organization. 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K. Emery, Prop. F. K. Emery, Mg Emery's Cafe, The best first-class man in the city at all hours. The Hirbour Steam Dye Works and Topeka Pantatorium. Steam and Dry Cleaning of Fine Garments For Ladies and Gentlemen. Feathers, Furs, Gloves. (FrenchDry Cleaning.) Goods Called for and Delivered. Pantatorium Membership $1.00 per Month. YOU NEED An EASTER SUIT! Come In and Look Over Our Line of MADE--TO-ORDER Goods. Prices Lower Now Than Ever Before. Both Phones 872. No.115 W. 7th Street. Reynolds & Childers. OFFICE HOURS 7 10 A. M. 12 M. to 4 P. M. Telephone. 654 7 10 P. M. J. M. JAMISON, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND 'SURGEON Special Attention to decesses of women and private diseases. Office and Residence . MADISON BRI Kohl's Laxative Tablets Topeka, March 16, 03. EDITOR PLAINDEALER, Dear Sir: Allow me, through your paper, to thank the many friends of the Cumberland Band who helped in our last concert; also, those who helped us during our first year's work. I also wish to say, we are now beginning on our second year's work, and would like to have the support of all our old friends, and many new ones. The work has been a pleasure to me, notwithstanding the great financial strain under which we have labored. I am willing and glad to devote my time in the interest of the youth, and will feel well paid if, by so doing, one boy is benefitted. I feel grateful to the many parents, who have stood by me in this great struggle. They have helped to make the band a success. I would be glad to say all the parents, but I cannot. However, nearly all of the parents have taken an interest in the organization, and have done all they could to assist us, morally and financially. There are others, who have not thought enough of the organization to pay one visit, or give one cent to help it along. They know nothing of the band beyond what is told to them. It seems to me, if I had a boy under sixteen years of age, I would know something about the organization in which he belongs. It is not my purpose to tell anyone how to raise his or her boy, but I believe we would have a better class of boys if they were given better attenton. My experience in this work has been a lesson to me. I am thoroughly convinced that we as a race pay too little attention to our youth. If the Negro problem is ever solved, it must be through the rising generation. The band and its influences are for the benefit of every Negro in the city, and I hope to have the co-operation of our people, especially our Christian people, regardless of denomination. I would say to the parents who have taken no interest in the band, we need your assistance. Please help us, and don't stand in the light of your own child. I refer to the parents who have boys in the band. 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You are hereby notified that you have been sued by the plaintiff in the above named court in an action for divorce, and that unless you answer the plaintiff's petition filed therein or or before the 25th day of April A. D. 1963, said petition will be taken as true, and judgment rendered therein divorcing the plaintiff from you, ```markdown ``` Rock Island System P.'A, Gopekar, Kas Prof. A. L Sykes, INSTRUTCOR IN GERMAN, FRENCH OR —SPANISH.— CHARGES REASONABLE. 115 N. JEFFERSON STREET V. A. TAYLOR, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Officie answered day and night. W. M. E. JACKSON, M. L PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Office 484 Kansas Ave. PHONE 685. TOPEK, 69 D. L. Taylor, 329 East Center street, Salina. Cora Taylor, 116 Parallel avenue, Kansas City, Kas. All lodges will please send in the time and place of meeting, accompanied by he $1:00 subscription. Mrs. A. C. Scott, and avenue and Rees street, Leavenworth. Susan Richardson, 1180 Buchanan street, Topeka. Henrietta Clarady, 1126 Wilson avenue, Parsons. Jennie Alexander, 918 Pennsylvania avenue, Lawrence. Laura Johnson, 2010 South 14th street, Lincoln, Neb. Kittie Willis, 722 Judson street, Fort Scott. Anna Handley, 321 West Thrd street, Ottawa. Emma Maxie, 411 Ransom street Fort Scott. Maggie Fishback, 2054 Tennessee street, Lawrence. 415, 417, 419, 421, 423, 425, 427, and 429, on Buchanan street north, in Lindalea addition, to and adjacent to North Topeka, being the property at the north-west corner of Fourth street, otherwise known as the lower Silver Lake road, and Buchanan street north, in Shawnee county, Kansas, and that you must answer the petition filed by the plaintiff on or before May 7th, 1903, or the petition will be taken as true and a judgment of foreclosure, foreclosing the plaintiff's mechanic lien on said property, and subjecting said property to the claims of the plaintiff as aforesaid, for the payment of said sum of $43.78, with 6 per cent interest from June 11, 1902, and the costs of said action, will be rendered accordingly. W. S. McGLINTOCK. Attorney for Plaintiff. Attest: I. S. Curtis, Clerk of District Court. (By Prof. G. W. Jackson.) Don't Fail to Hear JACKSON'S Twenty-third Regiment Band at Bowersock's Opera House, Lawrence, Kas., Friday April, 3rd. MISS OGEAL WILSON, Violin Soloist. CAPT. WM. REYNOLDS, Phenominal Bass Soloist. Do not fail to hear the Finest Colored Musical Orgnization in the United States, and which takes high ranks among th best of either race. Lawrence, Kan. Misses Sadie Moore, of Kansas City, Ada Barnet and C. Wilson, of Atchison, were the guests of honor of a very informal gathering last Friday evening, at Miss Maymie Holland's. The evening was spent in social conversation and music. The guests passed to the hall; where Misses Cora Thurston and Mary Patterson served coffee and sandwiches, then, passing to the dining room ice cream and cakes were served. Mrs. Mollie Gillum is gradually improving. Miss Dora Wilson and Mrs. Tolbert, of Topeka, were the guests of Mrs. Mattie Bryant during their stay in the city. Miss Sadie Moore left last day for her home in Kansas receivney. Imperial Art club met Saturday with Mrs. Alga Bowers, N. Lawrence. The concert given by Mrs. Tolbert, of Topeka, assisted by Miss Dora Wilson, was a success, the church being filled with eager auditors. They returnd to their home in Topeka Saturday. One of the swellest happenings of the season occurred at the home of the Misses Ellis, on the evening of March 20, when the K. N. T. girls entertained about sixty of their young friends at an introductory reception. gie Davis, Beulah Austin and Ethel Long gave the guests further assistance. Among the guests present were: Misses Mattie and Victor Miller, Nellie Norton, Eva Ella Ella McPike, Inez Jeans, Chloe Polk, Vera Lindsay, Daisy Pieris, Sadie Moore, Nellie and Katie Figgins, Lillie and Frank McWilliams, Grace Todd, Cecel Carter, Agnes Grey, Beatri Hoyt, Bessie Johnson, RaySea Myrtle Austin, Mattie Jeans and Lizzie Williams. Messrs. Jennings, D. Davy W.C. Brown, F. Davis, J. Prie F. Johnson, W. Parks, A. Clov S. G. Toole, C. Drew, J. Renfle C. Langston, C. Mallory, Marshall, A. Williams, R. Roers, B. Norton, H. Gleed, Silvers, B. Ellis, J. Bowers, Copeland, F. Copeland, F. Po L. Bailer, R. Jackson, L. Mass and E. Woody. Mrs. A. S. Carter chaparoned the crowd. Wichita. Fred Andrews is in the city. All his friends are glad to see him again. Miss Laura Brown was her last week, the guest of Mrs. A. Anderson. The revivals have closed both churches and were a great success. The Baptists had big baptizing last Sunday after noon. Mrs. A. D. Hobson left Saturday afternoon for her home in Columbus, after a three-week The time was very enjoyably spent in games and other amusements, whist being the chief feature of the evening. During the evening a short though excellent program was rendered, which showed that the girls are making quite a progress along the literary line. The program was opened by a welcome address by the president, Miss Ora Carter, who deserves much praise for the undivided attention she has shown the club. The address met with a prompt and timely response by W. C. Brown. After an instrumental solo by Miss Mattie Gillum, Miss Lottie Smith read a paper on "The K. N. T. Club," which showed that the young lady had spent much time and thought in its preparation. About eleven o'clock the guests assembled in the dining room, which, as well as the rest of the rooms, was tastily decorated with club colors, purple and gold. In the center of the room stood the table which held the club cake, whose beauty was made vivid by the many purple and gold candles that burned around it. Above this was an arch containing the initials, K. N. T. In the midst of this splendor an excellent repast was served by the reception committee: Misses Bertie Saunders, Octavia Long and Lillie Williams. Each member of the club took an active part in performing the duties assigned her. Miss Anna Copeland was door girl, while Misses Mag DUNLAP, KAS. 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