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THE TOPEKA PLAINDEALER. FORMALLAY INSTALLED Historical Society State House VOLUME VI. Dr. Gordon at the Head of Howard University. The Inaugural and Other Addresses Letter Read from President Roosevelt. The Exercises Closed With Services. Men of national prominence, representative of the executive and legislative branches of the national government and of the District of Columbia; educators, representing prominent institutions; judges of the higher courts, the leaders of organized labor, lawyers, doctors and a host of other professional men gathered in the First Congregational church at Tenth and G streets, northwest, recently, in attendance upon the concluding exercises incident to the inauguration of Rev. John Gordon. formerly president of Tabor college, Iowa, as president of Howard university of this city. The presence of so many distinguished men was a signal tribute to Howard university and its new president. The auditorium of the church edifice was well filled with the representative residents and the student body of the institution occupied the galleries, which were filled to their utmost capacity. Seats on the platform were occupied by Representatives Burkett of Nebraska and Dalzell of Pennsylvania; Mr. Henry B. F. MacFarland, president of the board of District Commissioners; Mr. Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor; Justices Pritchard and Anderson of the District Supreme Court: Justice Peele of the Court of Claim, Gen. H. V. Boynton of the board of education of the District, Admiral Watson of the United States navy, Mr. Wm. V. Cox, president of the Board of Trade; Presi-gallandet of Gullauillet college; Prof. Lucy of the Iowa college, Iowa; Dr. Mayor of Boston, Mass; President Crogman of the Clark university of Admont, Ga.; Mr. H. Warner, William V. Dunnell, Dr. Francis H. Smith, Gen. George W. Balloch, Rev. F. J. Grimke, Bishop Betjunin W. Tanner, J. H. Merriweather, Lluis Roberts, United States treasurer, and others, including the dean of the various departments and the numbers of the faculty of Howard university. PRESIDENT ROSEVELT FOLLOWING. It had been expected that President Roosevelt would be in attendance. Pressure of business prevented his attendance, however, and he expressed his regrets in a letter received by D. Tennis Hamlin, president of the board of trustees of the institution, which was read from the platform. The letter of President Roosevelt follows. "Permit me to extend to President Gordon and to Howard university my congratulations on this occasion. I wish I could be with you in person, for I appreciate to the full all the work that Howard university has done for the education and uplifting of our colored fellow Americans, whose struggle for spiritual and intellectual development is of necessity so difficult and often so painful." Letters of regrets for their absence and congratulating President Gordon upon his inauguration were also received from Senators Hoat, Allison and Millard, Admiral Dewey and Gen. Oliver O. Howard, founder of the university, and Booker T. Washington. DR. HALF'S ADDRESS. The exercises proper were opened with the rendition of several musical selectios by the United States Marine band. The invocation by Rev. Oscar J. W. Scott and a serenade, Reason," and were followed by the address of Rev Edward Erbertt Hale, a plain of the United States Senate. Dr. Hale based his remarks upon a personal interpretation of the meaning of "a liberal education" as used by John Adams. In his opinion a liberal education meauses more than a mere instruction. Instruction, he said, is only a foundation for education. "In our time for the young Ameri- can there are five great duties as he enters upon life and takes the privilege and duty of the ballot," said Dr. Hale. They are these: "This century is to build the four-track railroad from Hudson's bay in the north to Patagonia in the south. "Second, Europe has to build such a railroad from the Baltic to the Pacific. "It has to build such a railroad from Cairo to the cape. "Young America shares with all the world the duty of bringing universal peace. Universal peace reigued in all the world from the time of Paul 200 years. It is the duty of this century to restore it. "Perhaps men do not remember that the preparations for these duties involve an education wholly beyond the instructions of the three R's which are the specialties of the common schools. It is absolute necessity, following on that instruction 'a little learning is a dangerous thing.' THE WELL TRAINED MEN. "To speak of the foundation of the whole matter, we are in this world to be fellow workers with God. He creates, He bids us create. The broader the preparation the more service he will render. The great advances of the century have been won by well-trained men, not that people pick up gold repeating watches in a heap of pebbles in Sahara. "I will not be tempted into the well-tilled field where men discuss the value of Greek or logic. But I shall speak simply as to what this nation wants and what God wants it to have. It wants the leadership of men who believe in the year 1924 more than they believe in the year 1787; the leadership of men who care more for the copper of Lake Superior, for the iron of Birmingham, for the sugarcane of a Cuban plantation than they care for the second Lateran council or a battle of Tiberius. This age does not want, however, that these leaders shall be rule-of-thumb men. It does not want that they shall stumble upon these discoveries. No. For it does not choose to be ruined by their failures." A little learning in the opinion of Dr. stale, is dangerous. A man or woman's training should be complete. Our pean countries take a different view of the problem of education. They believe that a public education means the development of muscle and strength. The university, he continued, is to change a boy or a girl into a man or woman. The state is bound to provide opportunity for every child of the land to receive education. LESS RATILOUS WORLD EDUCATION. Dr. Hale discussed science as applied to industries. In concluding he said the government had been lavish in instruction, and that as the foundation is now perfect. Congress should provide for the further education of the people and build on the foundation. "The people," he said in closing, "ought to compel Congress—our servant, for it is a servant to the people—to build one battle ship less every year, and distribute the ten millions of dollars which is expended for such ships to the District of Columbia and the states of the Union which are most in need of greater educational facilities." The address of Rev. Tennis S. Hamlin, president of the board of trustees of the university, who presided, was in the nature of a review of the history of the institution, and was very brief. He noted that the university was chartered March 2, 1867. Its scope, he said, took a wide range, debarring none, and expressed the opinion the school has an important mission in connection with our new island possessions. At the conclusion of his remarks Dr. Hamlin, with the audience standing, presented the charters and keys of the university to the new president of the university. THE INAUGURAL ADDRESS. Dr. Gordon replied in an eloquent TOPEKA, KANSAS, FRIDAY MORNING, APRIL 15, 1904. manner to the remarks of the speakers and discoursed at length upon the education of the Negro race. He said in part: "In accepting this trust, which the president of the board of trustees has so gracefully placed in my hands, I must express my appreciation of the honor done me. You have placed in my hands the keys of Howard university, which were carried in turn by the Rev. Charles B. Boynton, D.D.; the Rev. Byron Sunderlan, D.D. that soldierly founder of schools and colleges, Gen. Oliver O. Howard; Edward P. Smith; that able executive, Dr. William W. Patton, and that graceful scholar and poet, Dr Jeremiah Eames Rankin, my predecessors, men all notable for faith and achievement. "There have been only two logical positions as to the relation of the Negro and learning. One was that which prevailed so long in so many states, and which made it unlawful to teach him even the alphabet. If that was what was wanted, it was a good law and could be executed. But if not, and the schoolmaster be allowed to teach him the alphabet, you can not stop a man at any line you may draw. If you do not want him to go to the limit forbid the alphabet. Give him the alphabet and those twenty-six magic characters will unite and reunite, in more and more complicated combinations, until f. on them shall have proceeded the whole of human knowledge. I do not know that there is any special potency in A, and yet there is, for A means also B, and A, B, C involves, before one can stop, X Y, Z. HOWARD UNIVERSITY'S CONSTITUENCY. "The constituency to which Howard addresses itself is not an entire race. It is the exceptional members, the fraction of the race—those who capable of receiving the higher education, those who are to be its group leaders. I care not what the century nor what the country, nor what the race cited as an illustration. Everywhere, always and among all men, peoples have risen, not because the submerged masses, the millions were lifted bodily by regenerating forces, exerted either from without or within, for no nation has ever been rich enough, or powerful enough, to educate and raise its working class as a whole, but because there can be in it one or more or all of these classes, preachers, poets, state-men, generals, admirals, lawyers, physicians teachers, editors, scientists, captains of industry, merchant princes, master mechanics, leaders. composing together a fraction of our whole mass which then raised the submerged remainder. "It is to produce these leaders who will themselves dig their race out on the sound of d spond that Howard exists. For this is insignificant that to meet the cases of those who have ability, there should be opportunity for them to go astar as they are capable of going. That there will be an increasing necessity for a university for these no one who has studied the situation doubts. There were brief addresses by members of Howard university faculty and by Dr. Ct. Gean, president of Clark university. The election of the university occurred in March of last year, but he was unable to come to Washington until in September, when he took charge. Dr. Hamlin was meanwhile the head of the institution. The inauguration in ceremonies were necessarily delayed. Should Be Ousted from Office We are in receipt of a communication from a party from Chickasha, I. T., complaining of a statement made by the county attorney of that county, a Mr. Johnson, who says there are no virtuous Negro men or women in our race. Further that the whole race is worthless and other things too ridiculous and absurd to mention. If our informant has stated facts, we are at a loss to know how such a contemptible cur as this can hold an office in that part of the territory where he received his appointment from the hamis of the government. We small make special efforts to get the particulars concerning the statement made before a jury and a supposed United States District Attorney and if they are true, we will take the matter up with the U. S. authority and see that Mr. Rosevelt is informed, and see if the government will employ such a class of men to defame the reputation and standing of a nationality of people who have as much right in this country as Mr. Johnson, of whose ancestors we have no definite knowledge. TILLMANITES ON TOPEKA AVENUE! The Chiles Family Will Continue to Eat Three Times Daily and Be Found at the Same Place After the First of the Month-We Want No Social Calls from Them. The time has come that all Negroes do not look alike to white people, as may be seen from the following which appeared in the Topeka State Journal of the 14th: NICK CHILES MOVED IN! The people living in the neighborhood of the new Kemper flats just being erected on Topeka avenue between Seventh and Eighth streets, are very much excited over the fact that Nick Chiles, the Negro politician, and his family have moved into the adjoining house at 717 Topeka avenue. But Nick won't live there long. The agent of the building states that it is his intention to serve a notice upon him at the end of the month to seek another domicile. Back of the whole deal is a story. J. W. Golden, a brother-in-law of Chiles, and who is almost white, came into the office of the Richards Real Estate company last Friday and stated that he wanted to rent a house. Mr. Richards showed him the property at 717 Topeka avenue, and Golden leased it for a month. Mr. Richards thinking him a white man Just as soon as Golden and his family were safely escenced in its four walls, Nick Chiles also moved in with his family. That is what the whole neighborhood is mad about, and some of the people declare that they won't have it so. "You see," said Mr. Richards this morning, "there was something underhanded about it. I thought Mr. Golden a white man and never had the slightest inkling that Nick Chiles would live in the place. It is the intention so far as I know now, to notify Mr. Chiles and Mr. Golden to leave the place at the end of the this month when the levee expires." The property is owned by C. Dyson, who lives west of the Topeka cemetery. If the above voices the sentiment of the people who depend upon their color to carry them through this world they are in a hopeless plight. The very idea of a person having to be white to enjoy the privileges of an American citizen is all bosh. It has become a common by word that if you are a convict and white, you are better than the most progressive Negro in the country. We did not move in the community for those kicking to make us social calls, nor will we do anything to make them look any smaller in the eyes of sensible people than they really are. We buy our salt down town, and to borrow—we do that at the bank. We eat whenever our appetite calls for it, if it is a dozen times a day. We do not annoy the order man with five cents ham, five cents tea, ten cents sugar and seven cents hard, hence we are not worried. It is a fact, that right here in Topeka, there are Negro men and women married in white families, others employed in good positions and growing families, and this same class of people who are kicking on a Negro living in the same block with them, are in much closer touch with Negroes whom they believe to be white. As to us living on "Fashionable Topka Avenue," the streets look beautiful, and some portions is inhabited. By fashionable and well bred people who employ house servants, maids, coachmen, etc., and don't go down town until 9 o'clock in the morning, but the block in which we live, everybody rises with the Santa Fe whistle and every woman does her own cooking and washing as we do and a majority of them are renting as we do. We are eating three meals a day, and a good many who are kicking are not. Such men as C. J. Devlin, Chas. Blood Smith, T. B. Sweet, the Quintons, Crosby, Bob Cofran and many others who constitute the cream of Topeka society, would not think of kicking because a decent and respectable family should happen to move in their locality. We hope every Negro whose race the whites can't tell will use their best effort to accomplish all the good they can for the iniquity and injustice that has been done our race by them for the past three hundred years. Had the white man been as good and virtuous as he should, he would have been able to tell the difference between a Negro and a white man. We are living at 717 Topeka avenue, a block composed of people who work for a living, who are poor but proud, and being afflicted with the same disease, don't feel that we are out classed, and at the end of this or the next three months to come, we will be living right there. "Love thy neighbor as thyself," Sayth the Saviour. Now you church hypocrites, throw off your mask and live according to this doctrine. SELLS @ DOWNS SHOWS ! A Topeka Enterprise That Should Be Encouraged. Everybody in Topeka and Shawnee county should attend Sells & Downs great united shows, Saturday, April 23. This circus is our own home production and is controlled by one of Shawnee's favorite sons, Willie Sells, the acknowledged king of showman. He is a thorough gentleman, princely in his make-up, and does not deceive his looks. His partner, M. J. Downs, is one of the best natured gentlemen one could ever meet should they travel the world over. Mr. Downs is strictly honest and square in his dealing, with all mankind. The man who sees that the show is loaded and ready for business is Charles Durham, better known as "Blue Jay." He is a typical showman, a shrewd follow and thoroughly understand his business. Mr. Perry, the treasurer is the corner stone of the concern, and to meet him is a source of great pleasure. Mr. Perry looks after the entire financial end of these mammoth shows, and can account for every cent at any minute. Mr. Strickly, the man who tells the thousands of people through the columns of the newspapers about the thrilling acts, etc., is one of the oldest circus men on the road, having commenced when only sixteen years of age. He is courteous, kind and gentel and knows how to get the worth of a newspaper in his line of work. Messrs Sells and Downs have saved money by securing his services for this position. Topeka is their winter quarters, where they spend thousands of dollars every year, and the people of this city are their friends, and wish them unbounded success. GIVEN AWAY. If those who wish a fine lithograph of Pres. Roosevelt and Booker T. Washington dining together, or a group of Abraham Lincoln, Fred'k Douglass and Booker T. Washington or a lithograph of Lincoln, Douglass or Washington will send one dollar to this paper or pay our agents, Mrs. Carrie Hughes. J. B. Bass, Arthur Harri Lewis, mail them their choice of either of the above. This is a standing offer for the next 60 days and anybody can avail themselves of the opportunity of getting one of these lithographs which retail for 50 cents. This is a great offer—THE PLAINDEALER and a 50 cent picture for one year's subscription—one dollar gets both. UNNECESSARY COLOR LINE The colored people of San Antonio, Texas have taken the proper step to do as people who have respect for themselves and families. The move was brought about by a recent ordinance passed by the city of San Antonio which provides for the Jim Crow street cars, the two last seats having been set apart for the accommodation of the colored people. It makes no difference how respectable or well dressed the people may be, how dirty or how crowded these two seats may be, all the colored people must be crowded in these two rear seats. The other portion of the cars is reserved for the other people, "because they are white." It matters not whether they are gamblers, prostitutes, thieves, just so they are White They are accorded all rights and privileges, which are refused the best of our people, "because they are black." For this outrageous ordinance and treatment the better class of colored people of San Antonio have inaugurated a hack line and have pressed into service "any old thing" for transportation in order that they may retain the respect they have for their wives and daughters who travel on the highways. They should indeed be commended by the better class of white people for refusing to patronize this street car line. This idea of people making (or trying to make) themselves God-like because they are white should be discouraged by every reasonable thinking citizen in this country. The time has come when man should be measured by his standing and qualifications. We herewith produce a strong editorial from the San Antonio Daily Light, which is good food for thought: There is enough in the colored situation now, without any incendiary preaching on the part of white or black. The situation is not simplified by any such declarations as those of the minister who advises his people to burn and slay and that the whites will only accept the blacks as entitled to decent treatment when the colored people retaliate on their enemies and burn and kill in revenge for the outrages perpetrated upon them. On the other hand the action of the governor of Mississippi in vetoring a bill appropriating a few thousand dollars for the colored normal school of the state is just as indefensible. The claim that education only rokes the Negro worthless is not only distinctly contrary to all observation, but it is not to be tolerated an open question on that any of our citizens are to be shut out from the benefits of education. State taxes are levied for the maintenance of the public schools, and these taxes are paid by white and black alike, and the colored children are not allowed in the white schools, and are therefore entitled to the same education as the white children are in the separate schools provided for them. There is strong feeling among the people of Mississippi on account of this action of the governor, and the attempt will be made to pass the bill over the governor's veto. This city has a spasm of colorphobia in the measure that assigns certain seats in the cars to colored people and sets apart other seats for the whites. It is not half so much a question of color as of clearness, of sight as it is of smell. The presence of a dirty, drunken white man is far more to be resented as a seatmate than a clean, decently behaved colored man or woman. Five pounds of white baby in the eyes of the law sanctifies the person of the greatest colored woman in the world, and no matter how dirty nurse and child they are not excluded from the assembly of the whites. The whole restriction is wrong. There should be some standard of decency and cleanliness in regard to the public conveyances, and some methods of protecting the people who ride on the cars from the drunken and the proline and the filthy, and this is of infinitely more importance than to set forth arbitrary color lines as the standard by which to admit or exclude in public conveyances and public places and resorts of all kinds. It makes no difference as to our personal feelings and prejudices, these cannot be pandered to at all times. There is not NUMBER 15. The Colored People of San Antonio, Texas Have Taken a Step in the Right Direction The San Antonio Daily Light Gives Some Good Thought on the Matter. one of us but would rather ride in a car where all were white, all happy, all handsome, but this is not possible. It is all right to make regulations to keep the filthy and the roughs and all who make their presence a nuisance out of the cars, but to make an arbitrary division on the line of color, when our wives and sisters and daughters and sweethearts and mothers are accustomed to their colored servants and their colored coachmen and all the rest in the closer contact of home is pure foolishness. Some common sense in doing public business is surely required. Now this street car company should have made a rule to provide that people who are clean should ride anywhere in a street car where a seat was vacant. And it is taken for granted that all intelligent people will not sit or force themselves upon parties where they are not wanted, but will use their best judgment in all cases to make others comfortable and happy We hope the good citizens of San Antonio will use their influence in repealing this law. We are sure the better element of colored people will lend their aid to this end. We, as Negroes, do not care to have any special privilege or distinction of charity because we are poor, but we do want the rights of American citizens and will have them, or we will know the reason why. The time has come when the Negro must think he is as good as any other man, for it is not the color of a man's skin, but the internal quality—energy, push, courage, education and the exercise of good judgment that makes men. We usually have in all cities a cheap class of Negroes, both educated and illiterate, who bow and scrape to the whims of the prejudiced white man, and this class should be looked upon as an enemy to the race and country. We hope enough reasonable men of the council can be elected to repeal this ordinance. We don't know why it was passed, for mercenary reasons or for hated they may treasure against the Negro. We hope, however, that the councilmen who voted to make the law will see the wrong and hasten to repeal it. An Inhuman Act. The most disgusting thing that ever happened in Topeka or a civilized community was the shipping of the body of Mr. Thomas Jackson Ovrerr, a Mason and Knight Templar, of Kansas City, Kas., who died at the home of his parents in this city. Instead of the body being embalmed and properly prepared for shipment and burial by undertakers Stonestreet & Hamilton, the Countie Bros., of Kansas City, who assume to be undertakers, ordered the body placed in a pine box and shipped to them in Kansas City, where they would prepare it for burial, which was bitterly opposed by the wife and relatives of the deceased. It seems to us that the Masons of Kansas City should employ an undertaker who will have some humane consideration and not try to work to the disadvantage of their brother undertakers, especially men of their own race who are in the same business. In all civilized communities where undertaking and burial supplies are to be had, the body is always prepared at the place where the deceased died and then shipped if the same was to be shipped. This is the first case known to us and we hope it will be the last that will ever happen in Topeta. Common courtesy and decency teaches us that we should know better, and we hope the Countee Bros., will learn this before they herald to the people that they are undertakers and embalmers in every sense the term implies. Messrs Stonestreet and Hamilton would not stoop to anything that is detrimental to any organization or family to increase their funds. They are first-class undertakers and embalmers and are getting all of the funerals among the race and a few whites Topeka Plaindealer. FRIDAY, APRIL 15, 1901 A TRIP TO LANSING. Our visit to Lansing last Tuesday to intercede in the behalf of an unfortunate convict, and also our visit to the women's department is worthy of consideration. There are 43 female inmates for crimes from grand larceny to murder in this department. This enclosure of about one acre is surrounded by a 20 foot wall with a watchman's tower. Miss Jessie Fugate, the matron of Montgomery county deserves much commendation for the discipline and order that she maintains among the inmates. The rooms are all neat, clean and well ventilated, with comfortable beds and bedding. Likewise, the inmates are clean and tidy and obey the orders given them by the matron without any hesitation. Miss Fugate was once a school teacher and is very determined and dignified, and will carry out any rule that she may make. While she is positive, at the same time she is as kind, sympathetic and reasonable as one could be in control of a class of people like that she contends with. She is assisted by Miss Amy Brown, a lady of the same qualities as the matron. Mary Wade, one of the women sent up from Topeka is certainly to be pitted, for she has always been unbalanced and her association in Topeka has caused her to be sent to prison twice. We think if she was sent into the country on a farm and not allowed to live in a city she might be made a better woman. She has only one finger and a thumb on her left hand, but does all the work in the laundry. It is unfortunate that she has no one to attempt having her paroled out of prison and given another chance in life. Ella Buckner, who was sent up for eleven years for highway robbery from the person of a white man, says that if she is paroled she will change her node of living and actually go to work to help support her parents. Further, that she will cause no one any trouble. This woman looks well and seems to weigh about 225 pounds. I am of the opinion that there are several women in this prison who, should they be paroled like the men and given a chance in life, would change their manner of living. There seems to be but little effort to parole women inmates from prison and I think the women's organizations of the state of Kansas should take this matter in hand ann see what can be done toward relieving some of these unfortunates from prison, provided always that they can be placed under the proper protection of some one who will see that they endeavor to mend their ways. We are glad to say that the warden and deputy are both looking fine and healthy and seem to be members of the "Don't Worry" club. Our friend Welch is still in the tower looking out for the welfare of the institution. Also our friend, W. H Jones, who has charge of the stable and freighting from the city, has purchased a beautiful horse of the antelope stock from one of the fine Kentucky stock farms; and it is destined to be one of the crack roadsters of the West. This horse is one of remarkable beauty, and any one laying eyes upon it will immediately begin digging in his pockets. We saw several Topeka boys, among whom was John Thompson who is waiting upon the warden. He says if he is liberated he will never commit another crime against the laws of the country. In way of message to his acquaintances and those who are leading dishonorable lives, he says, "Take warning and look for honest labor." He says he is treated well as a prisoner, but to be shut out from freedom and pleasures of life is too burdensome and at times seems as though it would break his heart. Some people who are just able to rent a house a little better than a barn (and do their washing at home) imagine that they are great rulers of men—monarchs of unlimited power. They try to dictate who their neighbors shall be—raising Cain when tenants not suitable to their fancy get too close to their rented abode. But they will have yet to learn that they are just as objectionable to other and better people as they imagine other people are to them. This "kicking" business originated from the "donkey" family; therefore the loud braying often heard. --- We are anxiously awaiting for some reply from Gov. Vardaman of Mississippi, who has stated that education has unfitted the Negro for good citizenship and thinks that education should be withheld from them. We wish that he would answer our letter or consent to meet an educated gentleman who, we think, will make him so ashamed of himself that he will wish he had never been born. Let him meet this gentleman or keep his mouth shut. ```markdown ``` Tm: action of the white high school scholars at Kansas City was a disgrace to barbarism, much less to the boasted high civilization of America. What one man or boy does is no indication of what the race, as a whole, will do. Let reason and justice rule—not prejudice. ```markdown ``` THE Russians are in a hard row of stumps. What they do not lose through the skill of the Japanese, they lose through their own carelessness in running over mines. They have lost their best admiral and several hundred men, who went to see McGinty. WE do not take much stock in the Bates story that Councilman Wolf accepted fifty dollars from him to secure protection from police interference for his violation of the prohibitory law. THE Populist state convention is all over but the weeping. The fusionists controlled, and they will wait to hitch on to the tail of the Democratic kite. FT. SCOTT, KANS. ANNOUNCEMENTS. C. E. Holstein is a candidate for county clerk of Bourbon county, subject to the Republican county convention. Henry Drum is a candidate for register of deeds of Bourbon county, subject to the Republican county convention April 30. A. H. Shoemaker is a candidate for county superintendent of public schools, subject to the Republica county convention of Bourbon county April 30. NOTICE. To the citizens of Topeka: We have discontinued our Burial association, as we find it impossible to run it under the present circumstances. We have about 500 members 100 of whom are paid up; and to those who are paid up for six months or a year, if they will call at our office their money will be refunded. We appreciate those who have tried to help us make the association a success, but having tried for six months to put the establishment on a firm basis, and having failed, we decide the best movement for us and those concerned is to discontinue the association. It will be impossible to try to run it without the assessment plan and under the present circumstances it will be imposing on the good people who have helped us to bring the association up to this point to continue otherwise. So many of our people seem to think that the dime for initiation fee is all they have to pay; we have difficulty in having them understand that it takes money to run any business; this being true, we do not wish to impose upon them, hence discontinue the organization. very truth, STONESTREET & HAMILTON. SELLS & DOWNS SHOWS These Shows this year are Bigger and Better and in a More Communicating Position than ever before to maintain their Unquainted and Univeral Starting and Rank, and to amaze and delight their millions of patrons with MANY EXTREME NEW AND INCLUSIVE TEXTURES THE PONTIAC ZOUAVES They are the first druid solvers in the world and are unanimously pronounced so by an assembled and delighted public and a competent critical press. These Citizen Soldiers of the Great State of Illinois will be seen at every afternoon and evening exhibition in the same phenomenal performances in tactics and evolution. Not until you have seen them and know their marvelous career, can you realize how much they have added IUSTRE TO THE STARS AND GLORY TO THE STRIPES OF THE FLAG OF THE TREE. Truly Wonderful Display of Grained Animals, Beasts, Birds and Reptiles The oddest Ocean Marvels ever seen on shore in original tricks of the most astonishing character and never before exhibited. Queer performances by grotesque Ocean Actors. The strangest marvels of the Artic Seas, and displaying the intelligence of humanity. A CHOIR OF SINGERS From ocean's sombre depths. Quaint amphibious musicians. vocalists and comedians. An oceanic orchestra, skillfully trained to perform. This unique and special exhibition presents THE MARVELLING CHERCINETT FAMILY. MARVELS MOST FAMOUS ACROBATS THE GREAT MARTELL FAMILY. The Very Greatest Bicyclists in all the World. THE FAMOUS GARCINETTA FAMILY-B in Number. Marvelous Acrobats who have Started all Europe. THE SILVERTONS--Tight Wire Walkers. THE BROTHERS RONCHETA. Europe's Greatest Barrel Jumpers. MISS EFFIE DUTTON, Indisputably the Most Astonishing Bareback Equestrian on Earth. MISS RONE DOCKHILL. The Queen of the Circus. The Most Graceful in Arenic Circles. MISS KITTIE KRUGER. Especially Selected from the Most Renowned Riders of Europe. MISS BLANCHE HILLARD, A Brave and Fearless Rider, whose Skillful and Adroit Riding Excite the Most Unbounded Admiration and is Wildly Applauded. The Only Genuine Olympia Hippodrome With all Kinds of Thrilling and Desperate Races. AN ENDLESS PROGRAMME OF STARTLING EVENTS TWO EXHIBITIONS . DAILY. Mr. G. A. Bigbee, one of our industrious young men has opened to the public a fine line of staple and fancy groceries in the Knights of Tabor building, 1300 Quincy street. He makes a specialty of country produce, such as butter, [Picture of a man in a suit and bow tie]. eggs, chickens, etc, and the colored people of Topeka should feel proud of this new enterprise. He is a public spirited young man and we hope the people will give him a large share of their patronage which he richly deserves. This business is conducted in a building owned by the Knights and Daughters of Tabor, a colored organization that is building up a reputation for the race. TO THE PUBLIC. I have rented my hotel at 116 East Seventh street to Mrs. Maggie Adams, who knows how to conduct a first class hotel and I hope the public will give her a liberal patronage. Tojaka is in need of a hotel for the accommodation of our people and by giving Mrs. Adams our support, a first class hotel can be maintained. I shall devote my time to increasing the circulation of THE TOPEKA PLAINDEALER, its job work and the upbuilding of the Negro and the defense of human rights. I shrill also give some of my time to the Topeka and Indian Territory Land, Coal and Development company and the Knights and Ladies of Protection, of which every enterprising Negro should take hold and encourage. THE PLAINDEALER will from now on keep the battle fierce and raging upon those who assume to be better than other people because they are white. This great bugaboo inaugurated by a certain class of men, that all the rights and power is delegated to them because they are white is nonsense, and the good thinking people should take hold of this matter and see that a man is measured by his standing and qualifications and not color. It is becoming so now that if a man is a convict and is white, he is given more privilege than the most highly respected Negro in this country. This thing must be stopped NICK CHILES. NOTICE The annual election of the stock holders of the Topeka and Indian Territory Land, Coal and Development company will be held at their office. 112 E. Seventh street, Thursday, May 26, 1904, at 8 p.m. All stockholders are hereby notified to be present in person or send a representative with power to cast a vote for eleven directors. NICK CHILES, Pres. J. H. CHILDERS, Sec'y. Engraving Dept. of the Hail and Breeze (Depeka) makes our CUTS. ASK FOR HELP. St. Paul, Minn., March 21, 1904. The women of our race, our mothers, wives, sisters and daughters are preparing to go to the meeting of the National Association of Colored Women's clubs at St. Louis, end that they may escape the indignities of the "Jim Crow" cars, are casting about for means whereby they may engage special Pullman cars at an extra charge and expense; and even in this many will be inconvenienced and not a few will not be fortunate enough thus secure the comforts afforded by the Pullman company, and above all, escape from the "Jim Crow" cars. All honor to these brave women for their feresight, undauntedness and courage, too; but what a shame that they are compelled to resort to these means in order to have decent accommodations on a public carrier. The women of no other race will be thus compelled to do. And double deep the shame that their being denied the accommodations, facilities and privileges furnished and supplied by the Pullman company to all others who apply, is chargeable to the men of our race because of their intelligence. To provide against just this condition, for eight months we have been spending efforts to collect funds to test the right of the Pullman to refuse such accommodations. All recall the case of Rev. R. T. Johnson, (Editor Christian Recorder) vs the Pullman company for refusing him the accommodations, facilities and privileges that the company supplies to the public. The case was tried to the court and a jury; and the jury returned a verdict for the highest amount the plaintiff could recover. The Hon. Kirkpatrick, who tried the case, set aside the verdict and gave judgment for the company, notwithstanding the verdict, on the ground that the company had the right to deny persons the accommodations of their cars solely because of their color, and there was no law, neither statutory nor common, that forbade them denying such right. Steps were at once taken to carry the case to the Supreme court of the United States. We took the grounds that unless the ruling was reversed the company would enforce a rule, at least through out the border and Southern states, refusing its accommodations to persons of color. The first money for the cases was raised at a service held at St. Peter Claver's church (a Catholic church of St. Paul, Minn.) With this printed matter was gotten out setting forth in full the case and the purpose to which the money was to be expended. Broadcast this matter was distributed and race papers were urged to publish the appeal for funds; ministers petitioned to ask contributions of their churches; individuals imported and associations and societies visited and contributions solicited of them, and all were requested to send in the names of persons who might contribute. The receipts have not covered the expenses involved and had it not been for the National Afro-American council taking the money out of its reserve fund the appeal would have had to be abandoned. And even now there is a serious want for funds to prosecute the appeal to final determination. What now will the race do? The company is enforcing such a rule. Bishops of our churches and our women are forced into the "Jim Crow" cars there to be subjected to all the indignities common to the coarser classes of both races. Will we now contribute the necessary money? Surely the conditions make the duty urgent and imperative. Longer delay but brings more hindrances and to make success more difficult to obtain. For myself, I still have the faith that a response will be had, and so appeal again that those who will send what sum they can. A dollar is asked of every one but credit will be given for any amount. A much less sum would be sufficient if all would contribute, but we must provide against a large number failing. Perhaps I should state, though I think, too, I should not, some friends of mine and of the race, Catholic priests, have extended me an invitation to come into their parishes and lecture concerning the race to their parishioners and receive contributions to the fund. My mind is that funds should come wholly from the race, but the cause is that of right between man and man, and all men have to do with such a cause. This emphasizes in my mind the thought that the pastors of our churches should do as much. We are glad to furnish all information wanted, and quite pleased to receive the names and addresses of persons who are likely to help so good a cause. Respectfully, FREDERICK L. McGHEE, Vice-Director L. B. N. A. A. C. Union Blk., St. Paul, Minn. CALIFORNIA One-way-$25. Tickets on sale during April. Round Trip-$45. Tickets on sale April 23 to May 1, 1904, inclusive. Diverse Routes. If desired the round-trip tickets will be issued going and returning via different routes. Liberal stop-over privileges accorded. Personally conducted excursions three times a week. Fast trains, irreproachable meal service. Your chance to visit California economically and comfortably, and under pleasant conditions. Free descriptive literature and full particulars by applying to T. L. KING, TICKET AGENT, ATCHISON, TOPEKA AND SANTA FE RAILWAY, TOPEKA, KANSAS. Vitac-Ore --- A Revelation in size, magnificence and beauty, the st Louis World's Fair will surpass any previous Exposition. 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REDUCED RATES TO CALIFORNIA 130. for California opportunity is here 30, the Rock Island System will principal points in California at the That long-looked-for California opportunity at last. March 1 to April 30, the Rock Island sell "tourist" tickets to principal points in Cali low rate of That long-looked-for California opportunity is here at last. March 1 to April 30, the Rock Island System will sell "tourist" tickets to principal points in California at the low rate of $25.00 FROM TOPEKA. See Rock Island agent for rates to intermediate points. Tickets are good in Tourist Sleepers, which the Rock Island runs daily, Chicago and Kansas City to Los Angeles and San Francisco by way of El Paso; three times a week via Colorado Springs and Salt Lake City. agent for rates to intermediate points. In Tourist Sleepers, which the Rock o and Kansas City to Los Angeles o of El Paso; three times a week via It Lake City. See Rock Island agent for rates to intermediate points. Tickets are good in Tourist Sleepers, which the Rock Island runs daily, Chicago and Kansas City to Los Angeles and San Francisco by way of El Paso; three times a week via Colorado Springs and Salt Lake City. Tickets and berths at this office. A. W. LACEY, Ticket Agt.. North Topeka. A. M. FULL C. P. A. Topeka. A. M. FULLER, C. P. A, Topeka. Vitac-Ore One of the greatest remedies in existence. It cures: Rheumatism, Bright's Disease, La Grippe, Blood Poisoning, Sores and Ulcers, Catarrh of any Part, Female Complaints, Stomache and Bowel Disorders, and General Debility. MRS. M CHILES, State Agt. 116 E. Seventh St., Topeka. The Only Place. 116 N. National Ave. Regular Meals --- 20c Short orders at all hours. MRS. S. F. FUNKHOUSER, Prop. FT. SCOTT, : : KANSAS. In the District Court of Shawnee County, Kansas. James Thompson, District N, J. James Thompson, Defendant State of Kansas, Shawnee County, N James Thompson: You hereby be affirmed that on the 6th day of April, 1917, the plaintiff hereof James Thompson, died with the clerk of the District Court of Shawnee County in the act cuffed him on the petition asking that he be divorced from you and that the burden of the mortal debt, fiduciary and forfeit of such that does your answers of petition on so, further the 6th day of May, 1917, the all-attorney will be appointed to serve as presiding judge. FRANCO THOMPSON Attest: L. S. Curtis, Clerk. (Scal.) FREE FREE March 1 to April 30. A. W. LACEY, Ticket Agt., North Topeka. Roca S) NOTICE. FREE Col. James Beck of Lawrence, was in the city Tuesday. Mrs. Mollie Pace is very ill at her home, 716 Filmore street. Mrs. J. M. Forbes who has been very sick, is rapidly improving. Mrs. Mary Jordan continues to imprve from her recent illness. The ladies' Shamrock club meets next Tuesday with Mrs. M. Brown. Mrs. Elizabeth Buckner, mother of Mrs. Robert Keith is on the sick list. The Golden Rod club was entertained last Friday by Miss Inez Wood at her home, 14th and Van Buren streets. Mr. Corvin Patterson of Kansas City is spending a few days in the city on business. Mrs. Belle Bennett will leave Sunday for St. Joseph, Mo., to visit her sister, Mrs. Geo. Gross. Mrs. Thos. McCampbell returned to Kansas City Sunday after a visit with Miss Dollie Russell. Jefer-on P. King of O-kaloosa, spent Saturday and Sunday in the city visiting with friends. Miss Lena Thompson who has been quite ill for several weeks, is improving and will soon be at herself. Miss Marie Chiles returned Sunday to Chicago, after an extended visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Chiles. Mr. and Mrs. Lemon Clark, 1414 Taylor street, very pleasantly entertained a few of their friends last evening at lunch. Rev A. M. Ward of Kansas City, Kansas, was called to the city Monday to conduct the funeral services of Mrs. Julia A. Scott. Mrs. Birtha Lytton or Emporia, passed torun in the city Monday en route to Lawrence to attend the Navarro club party. Burgess Palloy and Dr Shepherd of Larned, Kansas, are in the city attending court, guests at the Adams Hotel, 116 E. 7th street. H C. Parker, Troop "D" Tenth cavalry took the examination for promotion to second lieutenant in Leavenworth last week. Rev. T. L. Scott of Hutchinson, visited relatives and friends in the city this week. He conducted the morning service at the C. M. E. church last Sunday. Mrs. Mary Barnes returned Monday from Jackson, Ohio, where she was called on account of the serious illness of her mother, leaving her somewhat improved. Mrs. Matilda Stewart returned last Monday from Buckland, Kas, bringing her son, Mr. Dick Stewart, who is suffering with a severe attack of lung disease. Rev. P. D. Skinner has returned after an extended visit throughout the East. He conducted services at Shiloh Baptist church last Sunday night. Attendance was good. --- The district Sunday school convention which was held last Sunday at the East Hill Baptist church. was the most successful convention held for years. It was well attended. Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Williams of Parsons, Kans., who spent several days in the city, guests at the Adams House, I-ft Tuesday morning for home via Cofleyville where they will visit a day or so. Mr. Henry Moore of Jetmore, Ks. well known here, having lived here at one time, died April 3rd after a brief illness. He leaves one son, Mr. Thomas Moore, with whom he lived at the time of his death. Thomas, son of Mr. and Mrs. Isaiah Haynes, died at the family residence, 1226 Jefferson St., North Topeka, last Wednesday, after a brief attack of pneumonia, aged one year and eight months. Interment at Rochester cemetery. The Ladies Sewing circle of St. John's A. M. E. church met Wednesday with Mrs. Huddleson on East First street. Lunch was served from 3 to 10 p.m. The circle will meet next Wednesday with Mrs. Charles Pillows, 817 West 10th street. Rev. David E. Overr of Garnett, will arrive in the city Sunday and will conduct services at the Shiloh Baptist church Tuesday night. Mrs. Edward Miller and Miss Sallie Jackson passed through the city Tuesday en route to Denver from Kansas City, where they were called on account of the death of their father. Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Black of Omaha, are receiving congratulations on the birth of a fine baby girl. Mrs. Black, formerly Miss Lillian Dickinson, is well known in Topeka social circles. Ohver, son of Mr. and Mrs. Cunningham, 306 Crane street, died last Monday morning, after a severe attack of pneumonia, aged 1 yr. 3 mo. The body was shipped to Meridian for interment. James C. Devine has returned to to his home in Chicago after several days visit with his wife and mother-in-law, Mrs. Lucy Stevenson, 314 E. First street. He reported a delightful time while in the city of Topeka. Dr. A. C. Brisecoe, dentist, graduate of Meharry Medical college of Nashville, Tenn., is in the city and will locate here. We extend him a cordial welcome to our city and hope that abundant success will crown his efforts in his special line of duty. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ware royally entertained about forty friends last Friday night at their home 1196 Lane street, complimentary to their niece, Miss Grace Ware, the occasion being her 17th birthday. The evening was spent in various games and music, after which a dainty lunch was served. Mrs. Sina Wallace, widely known as "Aunt Sine," died last Friday at her home at 11th and West streets. Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon from the Christian church, Rev. B. C. Duke officiating. She was 104 years of age, and leaves a daughter, Miss Margaret Wallace, and a grandson to mourn her demise. Clifind, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Core, 1210 Law-street, died Friday evening of last week, after a long illness of consumption. Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at Shiloh Baptist church, conducted by Rev. Fishback. He was 17 years and 11 months old. Interment at Richie cemetery. Mr. Wm. Core, grand treasurer of the Knights and Daughters of Tabor, and wife have the sympathy of that order, their friends and this paper in this their time of bereavement. It Was a Surprise Tuesday night, when a number of the members and friends of the "B" Street Baptist church had gone to church and had a very pleasant meeting in prayer and song, the pastor, Rev. G. W. Harts, was made to stay at home on a promise of an appointment with Officer Radford. The pastor remained on the Lookout for his expected guest until long after bedtime, and sleep had mastered. The family had retired and the pastor was just ready to follow, when the household was disturbed by the sudden thundering on doors and windows and singing of song. The visitors had baskets full of good things galore, which they left at the pastor's disposal. He and his family heartily thanked the donors and invoked the blessings of God upon the host, saint and sinner alike. SECOND CHRISTIAN CHURCH ITEMS. Miss Ella Smith is drilling a class of sixteen girls for a Maypole drill, which will take place on the evening of May 11th. Our baptistry will be completed this week, ready for our baptizing Sunday at 3 p.m. There are five candidates for baptism. The C. B. W. club will meet tomorrow afternoon with Miss Mary Jamison. Visitors are invited to be present. Cream and cake served, Elder P. H. Moss of Emporia, filled Elder Duke's aprointment at Wathena last Sunday. There is a growing interest in our Sunday school and church services. Visitors and strangers are always welcome. SHILOH BAPTIST CHURCH. SUNDAY BAPTIST CHURCH. Sunday school at 10 a. m. At 11 a. m., preaching; subject, "Passing by on the Other Side." Baptism at close of morning service. Song service at 4 p. m. B.Y.P.U. at 6:30 p. m. Preaching at 8 p. m., subject, "False Friends." Visitors made welcome. Come out early and get your seats. C. G. FISHBACK. Pastor. The following attended the party by the Navarre club at Lawrence Monday night: Misses Inez Wood, Clara Williams, Corinne Buc-ner, Minnie Page, Lena McNeal, Oda Perkins, Jessie Jones; Messrs. Fred Stonestreet, Sylvester Vaughn, Ned O'Banion, Frank Eagleson, E.S.Lee, Roscoe Guy, Fred Williams; Mr. and Mrs J. M. Wright, Mr. and Mrs. Allen Alexander, Mr. and Mrs. John Page, Mr. and Mrs. S. P. Jordan, Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Page, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Guy and Mra. Robert Buckner and Capt. Albert Ross. Peter Heinz, the popular ice cream manufacturer and milk dairyman will visit his old home in Berlin. He will leave next week. While abroad he will visit London, Paris and several other important foreign cities. He will be away six months. We wish him a happy voyage and a pleasant trip. Mr. Heinz is a self made man, having accumulated his wealth by steady and continuous work. His ice cream has the lead in the city as in other portions of the state. C L. Henderson, of Granding, Ill., brother of Mrs. Lizzie Jamison who died at her home northeast of town last week, attended the funeral and returned home Monday. The services were held Sunday afternoon from the late residence of the deceased, conducted by the Rev. Taylor. Interment in Rochester cemetery. The "Whist Express" is the new fast train that carried Judge A. M. Thomas and Mr. Wm. Gueene on a quick trip to "Boston" last Tuesday evening, the result of trial of skill against Miss Ogeal Wilson and J. M. Dorsey. Mrs. Ruth Stewart is now prepared to furnish board and lodging for transients or weekly at 1303 Kansas avenue. She has several nice, newly furnished rooms. They are up to date in every respect. Girls' Declamation Contest! TWO MEDALS GIVEN. The Second Annual Girls' Declaration contest will be given at the Shiloh Baptist church Friday, April 22d. There will be representatives from the various ward and Sunday schools of the city. Dr. W. G. Stewart and Mr. John M. Wright will present medals to the best and highest contestants. Special music will be rendered by the muscular department of the Industrial Institute. The entertainment will be held strictly on a high class order and it is earnestly hoped that the people of the city will turn out en masse. Be sure to be present to hear and encourage your candidate. Admission on 25c. Refreshments in the basement. The Ne Plus Ultra Art club will give a banner to the Sunday school that sells the most tickets. GIDEON'S "Georgia Camp Meeting" company will be at the NEW CRAWFORD for an engagement of one night, Sunday, April 17th, presenting a choice collection of mirth-provoking and novelty acts never seen here before. Every phase of good vaudeville is presented, while the program is crowded with big hits in the way of latest songs, dances, comedians, expert musicians and a finale brimming over with unbounded fun. A BigStreet Concert will be given by Prof. George Bryant's celebrated band. LOST—Brown leather pocketbook between Seventh and Harrison and Seventh and Western avenue April 3, containing some money, door key, several papers of value. My address is on a card in the pocketbook. The finder will please return to 1225 Quincy street, and receive reward. Extraordinary! At St. John's A. M. E. church April 19 a Violin Recital by Mr. Joseph N Douglass, grandson of the late Frederick Douglass. Mr. Douglass is the most finished violin performer of the colored race. The following solos will be rendered by Mr. Douglass: W.M. E. JACKSON, M. D PHYSICIAN AND SUEGEON Office 404 Kansas Ave. OFFICE HOURS} 7 to 10 A. M. 12 M. to 4 P.M. Both Phones 454 7 to 10 P. M. J. M. JAMISON, M. D. 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Bareback riding, hurdling, trick, fancy and menage riding, aerial acts, grand gymnastics, tumbling, vaulting, leaping, athletic and contortion feats, juggling, equilibristic pole balancing breaking hadders and other acts. This season Sells & Downs have secured the famous Pontiac Zouaves, the finest drilled soldiers in the world and Capt. Winston's Wonderful Seals and Sea Lions. They are trained to play the barjo, drums and siag comic songs. In fact, they are marvels beyond description. ROOM AND BOARD Nicely Furnished Rooms and Board at 1434 Quincy street-corner 15th street. MRS. A. HOWARD, :: Propr at 116 N. 8th street, who keeps a first-class ROOMING HOUSE and RESTAURANT. Give him a call. Everything first-class and up-to-date. Has Opened a New Fruits, Confectionery, and Everything Nice. Cold Drinks. When in Salina call on the MAN FROM IOWA at the Salina Club Room THOS. SMITH, 501 N. Third St Eureka Dr. CARL W. SHAF A Complete Drugs, Toilet Articles. 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Good agents wa P.C.T Headquarters: 117 West Fifth str U.S. Our society is similar in character and management RIGHTS AND LADIES OF SECURITY, A. O. U. W., and GOODMEN. No intelligent Negro should be without heprotection of our families warrants no delay in the ance. Good agents wanted. For further information write P. C. THOMAS, Nail Sec. : 117 West Fifth street, Topeka, Kansas. Society in the U.S. Our society is similar in character and management to the KNIGHTS AND LADIES OF SECURITY, A. O. U. W., and MODERN WOODMEN. No intelligent Negro should be without INSURANCE. heprotection of our families warrants no delay in the matter of insurance. Good agents wanted. For further information write P.C. THOMAS, Nafl Sec. Headquarters: 117 West Fifth street, Topka, Kansas. Traveling the States of K Colorado, Cansas, and the In Five (5) Daily Passenger n each direction, between The Famous H Are reached by this LIN Calling the States of Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, Kansas, and the Indian Territory. (5) Daily Passenger Trains are run on this line direction, between Kansas City and St. Louis The Famous Hot Springs Of Arkansas reached by this LINE Traveling the States of Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska Colorado, Cansas, and the Indian Territory. Five (5) Daily Passenger Trains are run on this line in each direction, between Kansas City and St. Louis The Famous Hot Springs Are reached by this LINE Portraits in Oil from Life. O. J. BE D. J. BROOKS, O. J. BROOKS. ARTIST. Studio—1512 N. 5th St. KANSAS ONE-WAY RATES. When in St. Jou 512 N. 5th St. KANSAS CITY, KAS. Studio—1512 N. 5th St. KANSAS CI韦. KAS. Every day from March 1 to April 30th, 1904, the Union Pacific will sell One-way Colonist tickets at the following rates: $20.00 to Ogden and Salt Lake City. $20.00 to Butte, Anaconda and Helna. $22.50 to Spokane and Wenatchee, Washington. $25.00 to Everett, Fairhaven, Whatcom, Vancouver and Astoria, via Huntington and Spokane. $25.00 to Portland and Astoria; or to Tacoma and Seattle, via Huntington and Portland or via Huntington and Spokane. $25.00 to Ashland, Rosebud, Eugene, Albany and Salem, via Portland. $25.00 to San Francisco, Los Angeles, San Diego and many other California points. For full information call on or address J. C. FULTON, Depot Agt., or F. A. Lewis, City Tkt. Agt., 525 Kansas Avenue. WILEY JONES, W. D. COX Proprietors. The Jones Hier Muskogee Indian Territory. WILEY JONES, W. D. COX Proprietors. The Jones Hotel Muskogee Indian Territory. First-class accommodations— Seventy-five rooms—Newly opened, European plan. Hotel and Care Neatly Furnished Rooms Phone 2812 Walnut 2 Rings 1001-1005 E. 18th Street Kansas City, - - Missouri. Phones { New 179 Old 1302 Fred M. Stonestreet. TEXAS LEGAL MISSOURI PARKS RAILWAY Night Phone 179% New Night Bel G. W. Hamilton Topeka, Kansas. Knights and Ladies of Protection A NATIONAL FRATERNAL INSURANCE SOCIETY Issues policies. the sums of $250, $500, $1,000, also $73 $100, $150 and $200 for children over 6 years of age. This is the only colored Fraternal Insurance Missouri Pacific Route SOUTHWEST SYSTEM. Crayons, Pastels. When in St. Joe, stop at WALKER'S ----PLACE, 209-211 S. 2d St., ONE OF THE SWELLEST IN THE WEST WAITERS AND PORTERS' Headquarters! WAITERS AND PORTERS' Headquarters! CHAS. PHELPS' Barber Shop is where you meet them. The leading barber shop in the city. ...... 214-216 Francis St., - ST. JOSEPH, MO. MRS. V L. NORTH'S lo occidental Born to Jack Roach and wife Wednesday, a girl. Both are doing nicely. A. Coleman and wife have opened a skating rink on South Main street We wish them well. Rev. Stewart formerly of Abilene preached at the Second Baptist church Tuesday evening. A fair sized crowd greeted him as he is well known in this city. Miss Bertha Rickman, of Valley Center died Saturday night and was buried Monday. Many of her relatives and friends of this place attended the funeral James Chatman died Saturday at his home in this city. The funeral was held from the C. M. E. church conducted by the Rev. H. H. Williamson. He had no relatives here and none could be found elsewhere, although he was said to have a sister in the East. To Our Many Readers of Newton: This paper is not pushing a white man's scheme to graft money from our race, and will always be found trying to enlighten them when such schemes are being put into execution to extort money from them. The Knights and Ladies of Protection is a Negro order strictly. J. G. Groves, the potato king, of Edwardsville, is treasurer and Col. James Beck, of Lawrence, who is running a successful steam laundry in that town is the president. If intelligent Negroes can't get together on such men as these, then let them go with the white man who loves them so well that he keeps every good job he can from the Negro. We are for the race and you can bet we will continue. The Knights and Ladies of the Orient is controlled by a white money loaner of Topeka. He is also treasurer of the order and dictates how the funds shall be used. The fact that the name of the treasurer has been leapt off their literature, proves conclusively that a graft is being worked to secure the use of the Negro's hard-earned cash. The best thing for the Negro is to give the Orient a good letting alone. NICK CHILLS. ATCHISON. Miss P. Evelyn Hickman, stenographer and typewriter, for THE PLAINDEATER office visited Mr. and Mrs. Geo Taylor a few days while in en route to her home in Frankfort. People who are indebted to this paper may look for Miss Willa Smith soon. The Leander and Hero circle's party Thursday evening was a brilliant success. Prof. Davis' instrument furnished high-class music. The guests of honor were Miss Esther L. Shreve, of Chatham Ont., Canada, and Mrs. Alice Bailey, of Kansas City. The True Eleven Hall was richly decorated. Rev. Matt S. Jones will return to Atchison next month. He has endured much hardship in trying to save his claim and we are glad to see no disposition on the part of Rev. Copeland to take advantage of Rev. Jones in his tribulations. The majority of the church and all outsiders are praising Rev. Jones as a trustworthy Christian gentleman and all will welcome his return. Miss Lucy Lysles entertained Miss Ester L. Shreve and Mrs. Alice Bailey at an up-to-date dinner last Friday. They were invited out to several other tables, but the rain and snow kept them from responding. A banquet table was set by The True Eleven temple for them on Thursday afternoon of last week. Andres Dudley died Saturday morning from an attack of epilepsy. The funeral took place from the residence, Rev. Wm. Smothers officiating. Mrs. Amanda Greenly's club gave a successful masquerade at the A.M.E. church Monday eve. Doctors Linley, Shelley and Hudson operated on Mrs. Henry Jones at the private hospital last Tuesday. The patient was one hour under the anesthetic and stood it well. The Episcopal church has been reorganized at the Knights of Tabor hall, under care of Rev. Brown, a very intellectual and cultured gentleman. Mrs. Addie Webb, who has been visiting at the home of Jno. Black, was suddenly called to her home at Newton on account of sickness there. P. C. Thomas, national secretary of the Knights and Ladies of Protection, installed officers of the Atchison Council Tuesday. The council now numbers 43 members, and is getting along nicely. Wm. Briggs is president and every colored person who wants insurance should apply or to the local agents. It is the best proposition before us today. Mrs. Grant G. Brown attended the funeral of Mrs. Anderson at Leavenworth last Sunday. Ebenezer church will put on $1500 worth of improvements this summer. EMPORIA. A. Reeves was home from Iola last week on a visit to his family. F. L. Gayden finished ahead of his class at K. S. N. and will visit in Arkansas a week and will then go to St. Louis to remain until June when he will return here to come out with his class. Presiding Elder Braxton held his third quarterly meeting here last Sunday at the A.M.E. church and services were excellent. A grand rally will be held Sunday and special efforts are being put forth to make it a success. Misses Georgia and Ada Walker have returned from St. John, Kas., to resume their studies at K. S. N. Mrs. R. Moore has gone to Kansas City for a few days and from there she will go to Excelsior Springs, Mo., for the benefit of her health. W. L. Harrison is still very low at his home on Cottonwood street. Rev. S. M. Graves visited his family here this week. Miss Bertha Tipton attended the dancing party in Lawrence Monday night. P. F. Lewis left Tuesday for a tri. through Ind. Ter. and Arkansas in the interest of Tim PLINDLALLR. We wish him all the success desired. Miss Anna Willingham has resumed her studies in school here after the sad loss of her mother. Miss Belle Ewing is again in the city with her many friends. Rev. J. P. Howard's little girl who has been quite sick, is much improved. ROOM & BOARD Mrs. Ruth Stewart is now prepared to furnish board and lodging for transients, or by the week. Nicely furnished rooms. Everything first-class and up-to-date. 1303 Kansas Ave., :: TOPEKA. Garden Spot of the Earth. The fertile soils of eastern Oregon or Washington yield, in over flowing abundance and in highest perfection, every grain, grass, vegetable and fruit of the temperate zone. To enable persons to reach these favored localities without unnecessary expenditure of time and money, the Union Pacific has put in effect Round Trip Homeseekers' Ecursion rates as follows from Missouri River, April 19th: $3200 to Ogden and Salt Lake City. Also One-Way Colonist rates every day until April 30th, to many points in the states of California, Oregon, Washington, Montana and Utah. For full information address J. C. FULTON, Depot agent F. A. LEWIS, C. T. A., 525 Kas ave, THE NAVARRE CLUB. Never before has Pythian hall presented such a pleasing sight as on Monday night when the young men of the Navarre club entertained their friends at a dancing party. The hall was beautifully decorated in the club colors, purple and white, the color scheme being carried out even in the electric lights. In the center of the hall, suspended from the ceiling, was a large white umbrella beautifully illuminated in white and purple electric lights. The balcony, where refreshments were served, was a complete lattice-work in the club's colors. Cosy corners here and there, between pillars, and under arches, the beautiful costumes under the soft light, made everything complete. The music was furnished by Strodes orchestra. The grand march was lcd by Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Wright of Topeka. There were two hundred guests presesnt, there being visitors from Kansas City, Topeka, Atchison. Emporia and Liberty. At the wee hours of the morning all departed declaring the Navarre club boys royal entertainers. LINCOLN INSTITUTE NOTES. President B. F. Allen's scholarly and forcible address, "Commercial Training" delivered before the American Association of College Presidents April 11th, is full of timely suggestions valuable not only to the Negro in business, but to all who hope to do their part in the solution of the difficult problems confronting us. Besides this address, President Allen delivered the response to the welcome address. A more extended account will be given next issue of the trip to Baltimore and the results. glad to see him and welcome him. He made a very instructive and interesting talk to the faculty and students and, having carefully examined the work in each department, expressed himself as well pleased with all the work of the school, and with the buildings, grounds, etc. Among the visitors last week were Mesdames Page of Moberly and White of Denver. These ladies have daughters attending the institution and both were enthusiastic in their praise of the school and the results attained by their daughters. At the afternoon service last Sunday Prof. J. S. Yates addressed an appreciative audience on "The Mission of the Negro Student." Attention Graduates! President Allen requests that all graduates of Lincoln Institute send in their photographs of themselves at the earliest possible moment. These pictures are to form a part of President Allen's exhibit at the St. Louis Fair and will materially assist in reflecting credit upon "Lincoln Institute Day." It is hoped that all the graduates will co-operate in this, and other plans looking to the common good of the race. MANHATTAN. KANS. Mrs. Nannie Dunlap of Junction City, spent a few days in the city, guest of Mrs. Smith-Jecter. Miss Sarah Simms came up from Emporia Saturday evening to spend a few weeks with relatives and friends. The Douglass school was very agreeably surprised by the presentation of the national flag by the Ladies Relief Corps last week. The Douglass school cadets were organized April 4 by Capt. W. P. Terrell, of the K. S. A. college, and great interest is being shown by the boys of the company. NORTH TOPEKA. Robert Jordan left last Thursday for his work at Enid, Okla., after fifteen days 'visit with his family. Macedonia Tabernacle No. 93 has elected officers as follows for the ensuing year: Mrs. Ida M. Jordan, H. P.; Mrs. Bettie Warfield, V. P.; Sylvia Brown, chief recorder; Mrs. Sarah McCoy, treasurer; Mrs. Irvin High, rigor; Jennie Hicks, outward centerner; Mrs. Turner, inward centerner; Blanche High, vice recorder; L. Lyman, chairman sick committee. The trustee board meets second Thursday of each month at 8 o'clock. The order is doing nicely. One sick member. The Twelve-Star club meets Monday night at 8 o'clock sharp with Mrs. Ida M. Jordan. All members and friends are respectfully invited to be present. IT'S UP TO MR. VARDAMAN The People are Anxioualy! Awating the Outcome and if Vardaman is Fair he Will Accept. We have at last found a brave, highly educated man of our race who has challenged Gov. Vardaman, of Mississippi to a discussion of the race problem, to take place at the state house in Jackson, Miss., the capital of that state. We hope that the people of that state will insist on Gov. Vardaman accepting this challenge as both are educated and well informed upon the status of the Negro. Both are Southern gentlemen, and we would be glad to have them meet face to face and discuss this great question. Now if Mr. Vardaman and his friends want to be fair, they should embrace this opportunity, and if they want the world to believe that they are fair to the Negroes of Mississippi, accept this challenge from an eminent physician and educated gentleman who proposes to discuss this matter in a gentlemanly and business like manner. The challenge reads as follows: Gov. of the State of Miss. Dear Sis; I am a colored man, and I do not consider you an enemy of the Negro race, but you are a man of mis-taken views. I do hereby challenge you to a discussion on the rare problem to take place at the State House in Jackson, the capital of your great commonwealth. I consider you as one of the best orators upon the American continent and it would be useless for me to meet you without some preparation, but if you accept this, notify me, and within a reasonable time I will gladly meet you. The above letter was sent to us with instructions that we publish it in full and see that it is mailed to Gov. Vardaman, which we did, accompanying it with the following letter: TOPLKA, KAS., 3-22, '04. Hon. Jas. K. Vardaman, Jackson, Mississippi. Dear Sir:—You will find enclosed a copy of a letter from a distinguished physician, an educated gentleman who wishes to discuss the race problem at the state capitol of Mississippi, you naming the date and hour that this is to take place. believe that you are too generous not to accept this challenge. Mr. Caldwell is an educated gentleman, and would no doubt throw some light upon the question that is agitating the minds of the American people. I hope you will consider it a pleasure to meet one of the foremost Negroes of the South who would like to discuss this matter calmly and gently with ill feeling toward any one. We are desirous of lifting the manhood of the Negro to the standard where you and all of the Southern whites will respect him. If you have been misquoted in C. P.'s ADDRESSES. Mrs. Lola Buford, 2508 Mrs. Kansas City, Kan. Mrs. Musie Garner, 621 Council Bluffs, Iowa. Mrs. Flora Thompson, 31 St. Iola, Kan. Mrs. Mollie Spencer, 502 St. Kan. Mrs. Mary Curry, Ottawa Mrs. Sarah Henderson, 81 Salina, Kan. Mrs. Maggie Fishback Hausett St. Lawrence, 1 Mrs. Jennie Floyd, 408 Kansas City, Kan. Mrs. Bettie Johnson, 21 Kansas City, Kan. Mrs. Nannie Dunlap, Kan. Mrs. Ida King, Box 100 Kan. Mrs. Nancy Preston, N St. Parsons, Kan. Mrs. Kitty Willis, 722 Scott, Kan. Mrs. Emma Maxle, 411 Scott, Kan. Mrs. Laura Smith, 3 St. Coffeyville, Kan. Mrs. A. E. Anderson, B, I. T. Mrs. Della Dorsay, 718 St. Parsons, Kan. Mrs. Annie Coleman, 72 Lavenworth, Kan. Mrs. Amanda Lott, 42 Lavenworth, Kan. Mrs. Ida B. Willis, 100 Utute, Mont. Mrs. Phannie Corneal, E, Neb. Mrs. Lee Anderson, St. Wichita, Kan. Mrs. Fracy Davis, 111 Fifth St. South Omaha. Mrs. Susie Green, Box 4 Kan. Mrs. P. B. Gooding, City, Kan. Mrs. Jennie Alexandria St. Lawrence, K Mrs. Charlotte Dalton, K Mrs. Kansas City, Kan. Mrs. Susie Richardson St. Topeka, Kan. Mrs. Jennie B. Taylor,—Topeka, Kan. Mrs. Annie Brown, St. Omaha, Neb. Mrs. Maggie Brown, 110 Omaha, Neb. Mrs. Laura Johnson, 200 St. Lincoln, Neb. Mrs. Ida M. Jordan, 903 North Topeka, Kan. C. M.'s ADDRESSSES. Dr. D. Lords, Weir C Sir Geo. W. Taylor, 111 Chilson, Kan. Sir Geo. C Tucker, 900 Seventh St. Omaha. Sir F. H Walker, 1 St. Topeka, Kan Sir R. M. Bingham, 191 Ft. Scott, Kan. Sir John H. McKianis, Leavenworth, Kan. Sir A. H. Morton, Parsley Sir W. W. Shobe, 323 Se St. Salina, Kan. Sir Richard Clark, 150 St. South Omaha Sir Allen Garner, 71 St. Coffeyville, Kan. Sir C. Parris, 918 Penn Lawrence, Kan. Sir Ed Henderson, 191 Topka Industrial THE WEST Five teachers from DON-SECTARIAN school of Christian Culture Industrial and Educational WESTERN TUSE ers from that famous institution RIAN school for the Negroes of Culture. Topeka Industrial and Educational Institute. "THE WESTERN TUSKEGEE." Five teachers from that famous institution. The ONLY NON-SECTARIAN school for the Negroes of the West. A school of Christian Culture. DEPARTMENTS Normal, Normal Preparatory, Agricultural, Industrial, Business, Music and Milrtary Science. TRADES TAUGHT Carpentry, Painting, Dress making, Launa culture in its varied phi- cal and Mechanical Dia- tion. Expenses reasonable. ention given home trai- tained. Form of I very best. Endorsed by. The Fall Term begi- ning opening day. For fu- WM. P. Painting, Printing, Book-binding, Laundrying, Basketry, Domesticated phases, Stenography, Type-writtenical Drawing. Carpentry, Painting, Printing, Book-binding, Tailoring, Sewing, Dress making, Laundrying, Basketry, Domestic Science, Agriculture in its varied phases, Stenography, Type-writing, Architectual and Mechanical Drawing. ADVANTAGES reasonable. Self help encouraged home training of young women. Form of 105 acres. Location and dorsal by ministers of every denomit Expenses reasonable. Self help encouraged. Very careful attention given home training of young women. Rigid discipline maintained. Form of 105 acres. Location and location the very best. Endorsed by ministers of every denomination. The Fall Term begins Tuesday Oct. 13. Try to be present the opening day. For further information address Washington Temple No. 25, meets each Friday night at Sons of Protection hall, corner of Sixth and State Sts.—Sir Edward Henderson, C. M., No. 1917 North Third St., Kansas City, Kan. 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