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THE TOPEKA PLAINDEALER. AN IGNORANT GEORGIAN F. Wade Vaughn, a Georgia Cracker, Gives an Excellent Display of His Ignorance Out Here in Educated Kansas. His Abuse is Regarded as the Frothings of an Idiot. According to F. Wade Vaughn, of Georgia, who is in Topeka this week attending the National Association of Mutual Insurance companies, there is some doubt as to what Georgia will do retative to the Democratic presidential nomination. Sentiment, he says, is divided between Hearst and Parker. Mr. Vaughn is not as distinctly Southern in his conversation as many of those from the Sunny South, but he is intensely Southern in his ideas. He is bright and an extremely interesting conversationalist. Like nearly everybody else in the Cracker state, he is a Democrat. "The working class is in Georgia are for rearst," Mr. Vaughn said, in speaking of Georgia politics—there is but one kind of politics in Georgia and that is Democratic—"but the men with money are for Parker. They are scared to death of free silver, and because Hearst is supported by the element that was for free silver they are against him now. "Why, there were several thousand of these Democrats who voted for McKinley four years ago. They are the money class." It is generally believed that Hoke Smith, who you remember was in Cleveland's cabinet, voted the Republican national ticket. The Atlanta Journal is the Parker organ, and the News, John Temple Graves' paper is for Hearst. "The big issue in the South, though, is the nigger problem." Mr. Vaughn always says "nigger." "The Democrats are together on that proposition. They believe that the persistence with which Roosevelt has persisted in the appointment of Crum over white people is an insult to the South. If he wants to give Crum a job, why don't he take him up to Washington where the white people won't kick? "It is wrong to recognize the nigger as the social equal of the whites. God Almighty never intended them to be equal. Don't the Bible say, 'The sons of Ham shall be hewers of wood and drawers of water?' Educating the nigger as the social equal of the white man simply develops the instinct in him to assault white women. It is not safe for a white lady to go on the streets of Atlanta alone after dark. A lot of niggers have been educated to think they are as good as a white man and they have become criminal in their instincts. They have killed three policemen in Atlanta in the last three years, and if it wasn't for their fear of lynch law they would be much worse than they are. Some time ago it was found that a gambling den which was run by some of these nigger toughs, had a watch tower above it which was stocked like an arsenal. One day a nigger in that watch tower picked off a policeman in the street with a rifle. It was impossible to capture him and the building was burned and he burned with it. Right to the last he stood in that tower trying to shoot more policemen. "All the niggers are not that way Many of them know their place and do not assume to be the equals of the whites. That kind the South believes in. If they are needy they always get help. People in the North do not understand the attitude of the South toward the nigger. Up to a year or two ago there was an old nigger in Atlanta who had followed his master through the war. He could call the roll of the Thirty-ninth Georgia regiment from memory and tell every man who was dead. Every Memorial day he used to put on an old confederate uniform and a sword his old master had given him during the war, and he was prouder of that old uniform and sword than any white man in Atlanta could have been. And that nigger had the respect of everybody, and when he died six of the best known men in Atlanta were his pall bearers. "When my wife was a little girl her mother died and she was raised by an old black mammy. I expect she thinks as much of that old mammy as she does of me. Some time ago the old mammy come down from Virginia to visit us. We met her at the train and my wife kissed her, but the old woman didn't think for a minute that she was our equal. At our house she ate in the kitchen with the cook and wouldn't think of eating with the family. You Northern folks don't understand the attitude of the South toward the Nigger. It's the nigger that has been educated to think he is the equal of white folks that we are down on."--Topeka State Journal. If the gentleman. Mr. Vaughn of Georgia, who claims to represent the white people of that prejudice region would consider how ridiculous his statement to the State Journal sounds in the ears of the loyal people of Kansas, and what an ass he has made of himself, he would never open his fool blating mouth again on the race question. The only consolation he received was from a few Negro haters, who migrate from the hell regions of the South and have not lived in Kansas long enough to become civilized and immune from race prejudice, and a few copperheads who always oppose human rights. He speaks of the working classes of Georgia being for Hearst for President. He lied when he made this statement and he knows it. The colored people constitute she working class in Georgia, and they are Republicans. The average white man of that state does no manual labor, but subsist and feast on the hard-earnings of those they oppress and call "niggers." Not content with almost three hundred years of free labor, with making concubines and building harems of our women and forcing them to do that which was against their wishes, but today they are trying to and committing the same offense. They should consider that Kansas is not Georgia, and her virgin soil nor her good name is not besmirched with such henious crimes. Had the gentleman from darkest Georgia took the second thought when he said that the educating of the Negro developed an instinct to assault white women, perhaps he might have been able to state what caused him to love colored women, and if now he hasn't from one to ten who he is secretly and clandestinely living with, he is an exception to the rule, for the average Georgia white man lusts after colored women. We would like to know what method was taken to educate them to assault colored women! We think turn about is fair play, and if education will develop a white man why not a colored man? If it don't cause white men to commit crimes, why would it cause colored men to commit offenses. We are told that education enlightens people and causes them to be more acceptable to fair play and justice. He takes the Bible to bear out his statement that Ham shall be a hewer of wood and drawer of water. He forgot to mention that the scriptures say the labor is worthy of his hire. Ham don't object to being these two things if the white man will pay him for his services rendered, and let his women alone. The closing exercises in the colleges and high schools is now on and we find young men and women of our race graduating side by side with the young white men and women—receiving their diplomas from the hands of the same professo TOPEKA, KANSAS, FRIDAY MORNING, JUNE 3, 1904. which has been done in Kansas every since she has been a state, and we have our first time to hear of one of these pupils marrying into another race. Again our friend, F. Wade Vaughn lies when he asserts that education makes the Negro think that he is the equal of the white man and that he becomes brutish, but we do say that his education has learned him to know the difference between an honest, dignified, upright white man and a low, degraded, ignorant hypocrite of a would be white man. The more the Negro becomes enlightened the more jealous the southern white man is of him, for it is only a question of time when the iniquity of the fathers will be visited upon the children and "Mr. Georgia Vaughn" will see his sons, daughters or grand-children as members of the despised race—and Mr. Vaughn and all his itk cannot help themselves for the time is fast approaching. What we try to keep people from doing, the more determined they are to do that very thing. We expect Vaughn will turn over in his grave when his evil spirit whispers to him that a Negro has married into his family, but his spirit will be so hot from the old man's smelling pot that he won't have time to comment. He speaks of the rough Negroes shooting a policeman in Atlanta. We will bet that they were right, and were being imposed upon. We heard the story different. It was a business colored man, and Vaughn and his crowd changed it to suit themselves as they do everything pertaining to the Negro. He should take a glance at the large and increasing crop of white toughs in Georgia, and if they would stop them from interfering with the rights of the Negro, the entire people would be better off. He speaks complimentary of the old, ignorant Negro whom he worked without compensation during all the best days of his life as a comparison of what the young, thrifty, educated Negro of today ought to be. He won't be subjected to Vaughn's unreasonable demands so easy as the old slave fellow—the young Negro wants to know what is in it for him. The "Old Aunty" that nursed his wife, and who he calls "nammy," should be commended for eating in the kitchen, for we think anyone who would invite an aged woman, who had come several hundred miles to visit a woman whom she had nursed and raised from infancy, to eat in the kitchen (and after hugging and kissing her upon her arrival) is as mean and contemptable and as hypocritical as Judas who betrayed the Saviour, and we know of no race or nationality who would stoop so low as to do a thing of this kind unless it was a Georgia "cracker" or some person of unsound mind, and if it was left to us to pass on the sanity of the race haters of this country—over one-half of the entire South would be an insane asylum. GIVEN AWAY. If those who wish a fine lithographs of Pres. Roosevelt and Booker T. Washington dining together, or a group of Abraham Lincoln, Freed'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, J. W. Golden or Percy Lewis, we will 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 oppor-unity 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. SAINT PETER CLAVER! The Man Whom Pope Plus Mentioned in His Letter. A CHARACTER SKETCH! The Noble Work of the Saint and the Present Attitude of the Catholics Toward the Negro, Teaches That we Accepted the Wrong White Man's Religion. Below we give a short sketch of some of the good the Catholic church has done and is doing for the Negro. Saint Peter Claver, who the Pope referred to in his letter to us was a colored man sent out by that church as a missionary priest. If the Negro wants recognition as a man and a chance to earn a livelihood without being ostracised, let him recognize the Catholic church as it is the only one where the white man meets all on a level. This white man's religion that only recognizes a man who is white and rich is more than we can bear, and we are constrained to believe that the Catholic's is the only white man's religion that does not discriminate against us. Whenever the opportunity presents itself, vote to put a Catholic in office. If they were law-makers, we would be treated like men. SAINT PETER CLAVER. Three hundred years ago, the city of Cartagena was the great slave market of South America. Thither came, yearly, hundreds of vessels laden with men, women and children who had been stolen from their homes in Africa, to be sold as slaves. From the moment these poor people were taken prisoners till the vessels touched port, their lot was one of suffering and cruelty; but as soon as they reached Cartagena, they met a friend. This was Father Peter Claver, a holy Jesuit priest, who devoted his life to the unfortunats Negroes. For thirty years he labored for these afflicted people, consul ing and bringing them to a knowledge of God's truth. During that time, it is said, he had the happiness of baptizing about four hundred thousand Negroes. His love for the slaves was so well known that, upon the arrival of a slaveship, the pious people of the city hastened to gratify him by bringing him the news; for this he remembered them in his prayers. Providing himself with cooling drinks, fruit, biscuit, and other delicacies, the priest hurried to the unhappy blacks. Before they were ready to leave the ship, Father Claver was their to help them. He provided wagons to remove the sick, accompanied others to their new homes, and begged their masters to treat them kindly. Having gained the love of the slaves, Father Claver instructed them in the truths of religion, neither discouraged by the stupidity of some nor the rough ways of others. Not content with making them Christians, he wanted them to be good Christians; to gain this end he continued to visit and instruct them, encouraging those who lived piously and reproving those who did wrong. When not otherwise engaged Father Claver spent his time in the hospital, tending the sick, dressing their wounds and waiting on them as if he were their slave. In fact, he called himself "The Slave of the Slaves." Nor were the Negroes alone the objects of his care, for wherever God's work was to be done Father Claver was there to do it with energy and love. For thirty-two years this holy priest labored among the poor, the sick and the neglected; then our Lord called him to his reward. For many months before his death he could not rise from his bed without help, and during that time he was often uncared for. Yet he never complained, though he sometimes expressed sorrow that he could not On Sunday, September 6, 1654, he was helped to church for the last time, and after communion, as he was returning to his room, he passed the sacristy. "I am going to die," he said to the brother, though he then seemed no nearer death than for months past. That night the saint fell into a stupor, and on the feast of the nativity of the blessed virgin, his soul passed to its eternal and glorious reward. — Catholic National Third Reader. LILLIAN MAY PRITCHETT AT REST. Miss Lillie Pritchett, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Pritchett of Spring Valley school district, died Monday last (May 23) about 8:30 p. m., of consumption. For several years she has been working in Joplin. About eight weeks ago she took sick, and two weeks later returned home, but the dreaded disease had marked her as a victim. She was an exceptionally bright young lady and respected by all her acquaintances. She was about twenty-five years of age. The remains were interred in Mound City cemetery. To the parents, brothers and sisters the community extends sympathy in their bereavement.—Pleasanton Herald. Miss Pritchett was one of the best known and most highly respected young ladies in Linn county. For several years she was correspondent for some of the leading journals of that section, and served this paper as correspondent from Joplin, Mo. She was well educated, cultured and refined, and as a news paper correspondent was considered to be one of the best. She was a devout Christian, and her sweet disposition and loving manners have endeared her to a large circle of very warm friends who mourn with the bereaved family, the writer among the number. The will of an all wise Providence has been done, and the spirit of a dear good girl has been wafted to God, who gave it. Peace to her ashes, rest to her soul. —I. S. RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT. LIFE IN SUNNY KANSAS Mr. EDITOR: Your wide awake paper has many readers in Topeka. Your news column is full of interest, as are also all local letters, for all save those who have a cosmopolitan taste strongly flavored with Kansas preferences. If this is true, Mr. Editor, will not a letter from a Topeka man be in order? If not, there is your waste basket or a match and cigar, so let the fatal flames devour us. Kansas, beautiful Kansas! She is 200 miles wide and 400 miles long, giving us 81,200 square miles, which before it was occupied by the farmers for purposes of tillage was almost one entire pasture of as good wild grass for stock as the world ever produced. Kansas is as large as all New England and 16,000 square miles besides. It is twice as large as Ohio; it is two and a half times the size of Indiana; it is one-fourth larger than Missouri; one-third larger than Iowa or Michigan or Illinois. It is as large as Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, Connecticut and Rhode Island put together. While Sumner county, the banner wheat county of Kansas, produces and puts upon the markets of the world, more wheat than all New England combined. It is impossible to overestimate the value of citizenship in this beautiful state that sent more soldiers into the Union armies than it had voters when Sumpter fell; that excelled all quotas without draft or bounty; that had the highest rate of mortality upon the field of battle. While now here in the space of a day's ride on the American continent, can there be found crowded into the short space of "from sun to sun" a more diversified collection of beautiful landscape scenery than that spread out in grand panorama before the occupant of a parlor car on the A. T. & S. F. Route from Kansas City west, up the valley of the Kaw to Topeka, then south and west through the great wheat fields of Kansas. And should you be favored, however, with both a clear sunrise and sunset in one day, as was the writer on the occasion of his first visit over this beautiful country, you will cherish in the chambers of your memory the most enchanting picture of a life-time. Sunset at sea has awakened the lyre of many a poet, and inspired the pencil of many a painter, but neither pen nor pencil can give an adequate picture of the beanties of a sunrise or sunset in a Kansas wheat field. Thousands upon thousands of acres of golden grain food for man and beast the grandest picture ever witnessed by the eyes of man since darkness brooded over the world and light came rushing upon creation at the word of God. While the great railroads and telegraph lines have put almost inaccessible districts into close touch with the great centers of population; Yankee ingenuity has enabled the Kansas farmer to accomplish wonders with the aid of the latest improved agricultural machinery. Good sized cities are so numerous in the state of Kansas, that only a small population is really isolated. The wild Indian, the Western desperado and the buffalo have disappeared before the hardy and determined settlers of the frontier. While the former has in some cases become rich through the donations of the government or sent to Congress to make laws to control his white and black neighbor. In the last few years trolley lines and rural mail routes have put the farm houses in daily touch with the busy world of business and commerce. Now, Mr. Editor, we have in this country thousands of young men working for the gigantic corporations for small wages; corporations that hold and always have held a deed of trust upon what few brains their humble sires possess. These young fellows are induced by the management to put their small earnings into stock on the plea that the managers of the trust want to share its profits with its workmen. By imposing thus upon the confidence of their employees the Morgans and Schwabs, Vanderbilts and Rock efellers, Astors and Goulds get the dollars earned at the white hot fur- Hon. W. R. Kuykendall Draws a Vivid Word Picture of Life and Its Joys in the Sunflower State He Also Reviews the Disasterious Flood of Twelve Months Ago. naces, and put the same into their own pockets, and then stand back and laugh, while the workingmen watch their investments dwindle into insignificance as the water is squeezed out of the stock they have purchased. Tell those young fellows for me that Kansas has almost 1,000,000 acres of land subject to homestead, and my advice to them is to come west to the land of the free, where the treacherous Kaw rolls down to the sea; where a man can be a man if he is willing to toil, and the humblest may gather the fruits of the soil. Kansas can also boast of having more beautiful women according to population than any state in the union. And one to see them would almost swear that their sweet lips had robbed the rose, while the glow of the sun-kissed side of the peach is in their cheeks, and to practice osculation with one of these Kansas beauties and bask in the sunlight of her smiles with reasonable discretion and unfaltering industry, is a positive cure for half the ills that human flesh is heir to; but a kiss to have any scientific value should last one minute and four seconds by your Waterbury and be repeated often. Well, last spring one year ago, Topeka threw open her doors and entertained the greatest flood known to man since the dark ages of Noah and the deluge. Civilization has spread her white wings over Kansas, and this week Topeka is celebrating her fiftieth anniversary by entertaining the Parker Amusement company and other visiting friends under the big cottonwood tree on the beautiful state house grounds, where, only a few years since, the western desperado, the noble red man, the buffalo-bull and the wild beast of the jungle held perpetual carnival. Beautiful Topeka! With the poles off the streets and the wires under the ground she would be the city of the Angels, clean and well kept. A modern city of delights for the tourist and traveling man and attractions for homeseekers. Topeka has beautiful homes, is the most marvelous city in all sunny Kansas, of a modern growth comparatively, for the older Topeka of the seventies is but a memory, like the fragment of a half forgotten dream. In the season it is perfumed with roses and garlanded everywhere with flowers thriving in perennial beauty. Topeka has fine homes with spacious lawns, ever green, countless trees, graveled driveways and embowered with the luxuariance of the flowers of sunny Kansas. Topeka was laid out in 1854, incorporated in 1857, made a city of the second class in 1867 and a city of the first class in 1881; is on the main line of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe, Chicago, Rock Island and Pacific, and Union Pacific railroads. The terminus of the Ft. Scott branch of the Missouri Pacific system; the Leavenworth, Topeka and Southwestern and Manhattan, Alma and Burlingame railroads. It is the home of the Santa Fe general offices; and has the largest and best equipped railroad shops in the world. Topeka has a population of almost 40,000, and an area of almost 7 square miles, or 4,000 acres. The two great cities, North Topeka and Topeka proper, are separated by the Kansas river which is spanned by one of the finest Melan arch bridges in America. It has 150 miles of streets and avenues, having a width of from 80 to 130 feet. Almost 100 miles of alleys, 20 feet wide, 125 miles of sidewalk and at the close of this season we will have 45 miles of paved streets composed of Trinidad saphalt, Colorado sandstone, native sandstone, vitrified brick and cedar blocks. About 45 miles of public sewers. The city owns its electric light plant Topeka Plaindealer. published at Topeka, Shawnee county, Kas. every Friday morning by THE PLAINDEALER PUBLISHING CO. 112 EAST SEVENTH STREET. NICK CHILES, - - BUSINESS MANAGER H. CHILDERS, - - EDITOR Entered at the postoffice art Topeka as second class mall matter. FRIDAY, JUNE 3, 1904. Troubles of Their Own, Junction City Baptists Fire the "Rev." Norris and Give Cause to the World. EDITOR PLAINDEMER: We, the undersigned, submit the following for publication: The Second Baptist church of Junction City, Geary county, Kansas, do hereby notify the public and all sister churches that S. A. Norris is not a minister of the Second Baptist church of this city, and we wish also to state that he is not a Christian man in any sense of the word. He positively refuses to use Hitchcox's Directory for church government, which is the custom of the Missionary Baptist church. He also tries to bind the members to some rules he has selected, namely: If a member fail to pay his dues within two months, said member was excluded from the church without a church meeting or any report of the church clerk. Said S. A. Norris has been here about eight months and has continually solicited money from the members and general public to buy seats for the church, which sum has amounted to between three hundred and four hundred dollars. This money has been misappropriated. So the members have at last recovered from their sleep and have asked for a business meeting, which they were refused, and the door of the church locked in their faces by the appointed trustees—Nick Dunlap, Gaines, and Dan Hurley, who is acting deacon by his appointment. We also wish to notify the public and churches that Nannie Dunlap is not authorized to do any business in any way for the said Second Baptist church of this city. The real trustees of said church are John Turner and Geo. Robinson who are sworn in by law and so recorded. The majority of the members of the Second Baptist has reorganized with forty-five members and elected new officers as follows: Trustees—John Turner and George Robinson: Deacons—S. Harrison, A. Flamigan, John Harrison and Geo. Robinson; Clerk—Jane Maddox: Organist—Inez Perkins; Treasurer—Hannah McAllister. We publish this as the voice of the Second Baptist church to protect all other churches and the public from the goats in sheep clothes. JOHN TURNER | Trustees. GEO. ROBINSON MANHATTAN, KANS. Samuel Cavins who has been quite sick with rheumatism, is reported some better. Dan Hines and wife moved into the Cornelius Johnson residence this week. The Kansas State Agricultural college will close June 16, with 100 graduates, the largest number in the history of the college. Among the number are three colored persons: Maud Smith of this city, Chas. Groves, son of the potato king, and W P. Terrel of Texas. C. F.'s ADDRESSES. 1. Mrs. Lula Buford, 2509 North Sixth St., Kansas City, Kan. 2. Mrs. Musie Garner, 623 South Main St., Council Bluffs, Iowa. 3. Mrs. Flora Thompson, 36 North Chestnut St., Iola, Kan. 4. Mrs. Mollie Spencer, 502 Vine St. Atchison, Kan. 5. Mrs. Mary Curry, Ottawa, Kan. 7. Mrs. Sarah Henderson, 815 Walnut, St., Salina, Kan. 10. Mrs. Maggie Flahback, 1795 Massachusetts St., Lawrence, Kan. 11. Mrs. Jennie Floyd, 408 Oakland Ave., Kansas City, Kan. 12. Mrs. Bettle Johnson, 211 Stewart Ave., Kansas City, Kan. 13. Mrs. Nannie Dunlap, Junction City, Kan. 15. Mrs. Ida King, Box 1054, Weir City, Kan. 16. Mrs. Nancy Preston, No. 1507, Clarke St., Parsons, Kan. 17. Mrs. Kitty Willis, 722 Judson St., Ft. Scott, Kan. Lawrence Primaries. LAWRENCE has had her primaries and nominated a man for county judge who believes in mob law and so expressed himself in the legislature of 1901. We are glad that W. A. Brady of the Lawrence World was nominated from the 13th district for the legislature. And we are pleased to note that Mr. Brennan landed the nomination for county commissioner. Let the Negroes of Douglas county stand up for recognition. They are too weak in a political combat, and all for the want of a recognized leader. Follow Col. Beck and recognition will be added unto you. Think of it! Not a Negro holding a good paying job in the court house. Show your colors, Negroes. Our First Duty. AMONG the many that as a race to account is to make places of emplied daughters when they come colleges. Do not sit around is nothing for them but the black parlor. It is your men, to make places for gives employment to and those "shaky" kind who but would rather bury in would do so much toward money. Put your money, boys and girls a chance to selves, and make the joust for the future generations. AMONG the many things that fall to our lot as a race to accomplish the most important is to make places of employment for our sons and daughters when they come from the schools and colleges. Do not sit around and whine that there is nothing for them but the wash-tub and the boot-black parlor. It is your duty, colored women and men, to make places for them. Every Negro who gives employment to another is worth a dozen of those "shaky" kind who wont trust one of his race, but would rather bury in the ground that which would do so much toward relieving the situation—money. Put your money to use and give the boys and girls a chance to win laurels for themselves, and make the journey of life less rugged for the future generations. Start today. A Possible Warning. WHILE many o'er and perhaps joys are harping on an imaginary evil," which now has not it might happen that some to carry into effect some allusions sometime create would remain in obscure comfort for America show the land from the China nel and the high seas from coast of America. God a way, and it may be that to the "yellow evil" are divine Providence of whi Babylon revelled in her secure in the strength of one battery and Babylon WHILE many of the American journals, and perhaps journals of other nations, are harping on an imaginary dread of a "yellow evil," which now has not even a tinge of reality, it might happen that somebody will take a notion to carry into effect some such idea. Such wild allusions sometime create ideas that otherwise would remain in obscurity. It would be nice comfort for America should the Japanese sweep the land from the China Sea to the English Channel and the high seas from China to the Pacific coast of America. God works in a mysterious way, and it may be that these careless allusions to the "yellow evil" are but the warnings of a divine Providence of what is to be. When old Babylon revelled in her strength and glory, feeling secure in the strength of her army, God loosened one battery and Babylon fell—forever lost. A CATHOLIC STUDENT WRITES. Mr. EDITOR:—It was with the greatest enthiasm that I devoured the contents of your excellent journal. Sir, it is with tears that I have lamented the condition of our race and that none of our many papers save yours seems to see that our only hope as a race is in the Catholic church. Why can't some of our journalists see this, or rather, study the subject? You are making a mark which shall enroll you on the list of the famous as the real redeemer of the Negro, if your energies continue. There can be no unity neither socially, educationally, politically, financially nor otherwise until there is a sub-stratum of religious unity. You are aware, Sir, that we have spent enough money in different denominations' churches, in religious fights and contentions, in bitter educational oppositions, and separated ourselves all as a result of religious prejudice and hundreds of religious factions, sufficient indeed to put the race on a firm financial basis with our own railroads and street cars. We could have advanced tenfold in our educational institutions if we had been all this time possessed of religious unity so that educational and all other points of unity would necessarily follow. Then, too, would not the Catholic church, which can not be conquered, have espoused our cause as she did that of the Filipinos and so bring equality and justice to all within her fold? I shall bring out in a paper soon the many reasons why the only hope temporarily for our race is in the Catholic church. The spiritual benefit is of course paramount and above all, but it is the social side I shall deal with. I am here working over the conditions of my deapised race, for whom I am ready to give every drop of my blood, and hastening my course to the priesthood, tor as a convert I have seen both sides, but there must be some brave, courageous journalist who will be active in in pen and labor to bring this before our people. If the Catholic church was what our people think it is, I would surely be its strongest enemy, but I know if they understood the real teaching and glory of the church they would rush into it as an entire race. It is not impossible to bring the entire race into the church if the right methods are used. Our race has all the elements of a most intellectual, shrewd, religious and in every way a most powerful race, which would sweep all of its difficulties before it if these elements were properly things that fall to our lot implish the most important employment for our sons and one from the schools and und and whine that there the wash-tub and the boot- duty, colored women and them. Every Negro who other is worth a dozen of wont trust one of his race, the ground that which d relieving the situation— y to use and give the o win laurels for them- rney of life less rugged s. Start today. of the American journals, journals of other nations, mary dread of a "yellow at even a tinge of reality, the body will take a notion of such idea. Such wild ideas that otherwise curity. It would be nice would the Japanese sweep Sea to the English Chan- m China to the Pacific works in a mysterious of these careless allusions but the warnings of a that is to be. When old strength and glory, feeling her army, God loosened fell—forever lost. applied in union with and under the master hand of the mighty Catholic church. This is the only hope for us; other solutions have and will repeatedly prove failures. Here is a college and seminary opened to colored Catholics as well as white, all on equality, and only two of us here. The way is opened and there are thousands of young colored men of greater intellect and natural ability, of exemplary piety and earnestness, of good health, who are ready to do and die for their race and the glory of God. But, alas! they are sadly misinstructed of the Catholic church, where they can be most useful to God and the salvation of the race. It there are young men, even if they are Protestants at present, who are really good men, lovers of God and his truth. of good health usually, having a common school education of an average normal course, and who desire to glorify God and save his race, and is willing to forsake all the vanities of the world, such as fast society, etc., here is the place for him, if he desires to give his life to true religion. We need stalwart colored men to make stalwart missionaries. It he is the right kind of young man, not over sixteen nor under thirty, expense is no hindrance whatever, let him apply. Money is no object to the church in support of the right man. But of course he must first become a Catholic, not to get to the priesthood, but because it is the only church of God and the priest admitting him will judge of his qualifications for studying for the priesthood and so he may enter this city. If the editor desires to see his race most benefitted and truly liberated he will see to this matter, give it his serious and prayerful study, and perhaps call the attention of the many bright young men of our race to it. One who has studied Caesar and Cicero may become a priest in five or, at most six years. I am now about to go on vacation and will address you from there. I will subscribe and try to get subscribers for your noble paper. Yours for our race, AUGUSTINE J. McNORTON St. Joseph Seminary, Baltimore, Md. Of Western University, Quindaro, Kas. Chautauqua Program Wednesday, June 1. 9 a. m. to 12 m., - - - Edito 1:30 p. m. to 5 - - - Indus Thursday, June, 2. 9 a. m. to 12 m., - Business Me 1:30 p. m. to 5, - - Physici 8 p. m.—Closing exercises of the Musical of Western University. 9 a. m. to 12 m., - - Editors' Division. 1:30 p. m. tc 5 - - - Industrial Division. 9 a. m. to 12 m., Business Men's Division. 1:30 p. m. to 5, Physician's Division. 8 p. m.—Closing exercises of the Musical Department of Western University. Friday. June 3. 9 a. m. to 12 m., - 1:30 p. m. to 5, 8 p. m.—Address to Litera Mitchell, of Kansas SUNDAY, JUNE 5th, at 3 mon by Rev. John F. C 9 a. m. to 12 m., - Teachers' Division. 1:30 p. m. to 5, - Woman's Club Division. 8 p. m.—Address to Literary Societies by Rev. Robert Mitchell, of Kansas City, Kansas. SUNDAY, JUNE 5th, at 3 p. m., Baccalaureate Sermon by Rev. John F. Cook Taylor, of Topeka. Monday. June 6. 9 a. m. to 12 m., - 1:30 p. m. to 5, 8 p. m.—Address to Religi- R. Vaughn, A. M., TUESDAY, JUNE 7th, - W. B. John WEDNESDAY, 8 p.m., THURSDAY, 2 p. m., Commencement Orator, - R of Langston Universi The leading lawyers, teachers, editors, industrialists and women attend the Chautauqua. W. T. VER NOTICE. 9 a. m. to 12 m., Lawyers' Division. 1:30 p. m. to 5, Ministers' Division. 8 p. m.—Address to Religious Societies by Rev. Edw. R. Vaughn, A. M., of Kansas City, Kas. TUESDAY, JUNE 7th, - Oratorical Contest for the W. B. Johnson Medal. WEDNESDAY, 8 p.m., Class Day Exercises. THURSDAY, 2 p. m., Commencement. Commencement Orator, - President I. E. Page, A. M., of Langston University, Langston, Okla. The leading lawyers, teachers, doctors, business men, ministers, editors, industrialists and women's club leaders of the West will attend the Chautauqua. W. T. VERNON. President. 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By virtue of an execution issued to me, out of said Datr et Court, in the above-entitled action, I will, on Wednesday, the 22nd day of June, A.D. 2004, at 10 o'clock A.M. of said day, at the east front door of the Court House in the City of Topeka, in the County of Shawnee, in the State of Kansas, offer at public sale, and sell to the highest bidder, for cash in hand, all the following-described real estate, to warrant: An undivided one-half interest in a tract of land beginning on the Northwest corner of the Southeast quarter of Section No. 34, in township 10, South Range 15, East of the 6th Principal Meridian; thence East 16½ feet to a stone in the center of the road, thence South 16 3/8 - 10 feet; thence West 16½ feet thence North 10 8/3 - 10 feet to the place of beginning containing 46 acres more or less, lying and situated in the County of Shawnee in the State of Kansas. 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That on the 7th day of April 1904 the above named plaintiff filed his petition in the above named court praying judgment that he be divorced from 300, that unless you answer said petition on or before the 13th day of June, 1904 judgment will be rendered against you divorcing said plaintiff from you as prayed in said petition. GEO. W. STRAITON, Plant ff. (seal) Attest: I. S. Curtis NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT. STATE OF KANSAS. SS. SHAWAEE COUNTY. In the matter of the estate of JULIA A. SCOTT, late of Shawnee County, Kansas NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT Notice is hereby given, that on the 15th day April, A. Doe, the undersigned was, by the Probate Count of Shawnee County, Kansas, fully appointed and qualified as Administrator of the estate of Julia A. Scott, deceased, late of Shawnee County. All parties interested in said estate will take notice, and govern themselves accordingly. W. I. JAMISON, Administrator. 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All persons interested will take notice that my petition is on file in the office of the Probate Judge of Shawnee county, Kansas, Probate Court, asking for authority to sell the following-described real estate, situated in Shawnee county, Kansas, belonging to the estate of Archie Grant, deceased, for the purpose of paying the debts of said estate and the expenses of administration, tow-rise. Lots numbered four hundred and seventy-seven (477) and four hundred and seventy-five (475) on Buchanan street, King's addition to the city of Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas. Said petition is set for hearing at the office of the Probate Judge, in the city of Topeka, said county, on Wednesday, the 1st day of June, 1904, at which time and place you can make known any objections you may have to the granting of such order. Dated April 11th, 1904. R. O. HILLIARD, Administrator of said estate. The general conference made presiding elders the chairmen of the Sunday school conventions; also Allen Day will be celebrated in February to raise money for the mission preachers, worn-out preachers, widows and orphans of the annual conferences, and 25 per cent. of the Easter collection will be reserved for the same purpose. No annual conference moneys will go to the bishops. Their salaries have been increased by $500 to meet their house rent and conference traveling expenses. Two laymen from each presiding elder's district will have seats in the annual conference, and be members thereof, serve on committees, etc. Twentieth Century fund was inaugurated for missions, education, church building, etc. The general officers are as follows: Dr. E. W. Lampton, financial secretary; Dr.J. H. Collett, business manager; Dr. H. B. Parks, missionary secretary; Dr. B. F. Watson, secretary church extension; Dr. W. D. Chappelle, secretary Sunday school union; Dr. E. J. Gregg, secretary Allen endeavor league; Dr. H.T. Johnson, editor Christian Recorder; Dr.G. W. Allen, editor Southern Recorder; Dr. J.F. McDonald, editor Western Recorder; Prof. Jno. R. Hawkins, secretary of education; Prof. H. T. Kealing, editor A.M.E. Church Review; Dr. W. H. Heard, secretary preachers' aid. There are several new members of the quadrennial boards from the fifth district: Dr. D. P. Roberts, financial board; Dr. G. H. Shaffer, missionary board; Dr. W. S. Dyett, church extension board; Dr. E. T. Cottman, Sunday school union board; Dr. J.E. Edwards, educational board; Dr. F. Jesse Peck, Southern Recorder board; Rev. J.R.Ransom, Allen league board; Rev. R. L. Beal, publication board; Rev. J. W. Braxton, preachers' aid board; Rev. W. R. Buren, Wes- GARDEN CITY FEWS. James F. McCue and Miss Hen Ridgeway were united in bands of holy matrimony on Saturday evening at the A M. Church, Rev. E. W. Smith lating. The ladies of the sewing cirt- ture at the A. M. E. church a and a very enjoyable time. A new remarks by the pastor a masters the circle adjourned the parsonage where refres- ntions were served The year old son of Mr. a ss. McCormick died last w d the funeral was held at a baptist church, Rev. Lee off- ring. The members of the A. M. are preparing to put a new re- mium their church building. F. S. McGee, plasterer a contractor, is plastering a ho- Dr. Johnson. HUTCHINSON NEWS. The Woman's Christian as sition held their annual mee u the C. M. E. church last S y and Rey B. R. Ross preach CHETOPA, KANS. MUSCOGEE NEWS. The schools of the neighboring towns are closing and the teachers are coming into town to attend the Normal which opens June 6. Miss Pearl Armstead, teacher at Okaaha, passed through the city last Saturday en route to her home at Emporia, Kas. James D. Reef, electrician, transacted busine s in Wagoner last week. Mrs. Dr. South of So. McAllister, teacher at Lee, is in town and will attend the Normal next week. Miss Welch of Wagoner, teacher at Twine, passed through the city last Saturday, en route home and was accompanied by her younger sister. Bessie E Hill is on the sick list. A. G. W. Sango transacted business in Okmulgee last week. A social was given in honor of Miss M. Williams at the home of Miss S. Coldwell, which was well attended and a pleasant time enjoyed by all. Minnie Kellar is in White City, Kansas, on an extended visit to Miss Gussie Taggart, the music teacher. T. J. Elliott of Wagoner, transacted buiness here last week. Rev. E. Arlington Wilson of Kansas City, passed through the city last Saturday en route to Tallequah, where he delivered the baccalaureate sermon. A. R. Jones and Miss Mamie Holland were united in marriage on the evening of the 30th ult. at the home of the bride. They visited two days with the groom's parents at Wagoner. The K. of P. lodge will lay the corner stone for the A. M. E. church Sunday at 3 p. m. Knights of Tabor. COLORADO JURISDICTION. The Knights and Daughters of Tabor were called together at Pueblo, Colo., May 25, in their grand session by S. A. Jordan of Little Rock, Ark., I.C.G.M., at 9 a.m. After reading minutes the session went into a committee as a whole, after which the session was an interesting one. The reports which the committee brought in show the district to be in a fair condition through the administration of S. W. Byrd, D. G. M. The third day was devoted to electing annual officers as follows:—W.E.King, D.G.M., Colorado Springs; Dt. Mary Duncan, D. G. P., Pueblo; Dt. Nettie Washington, D. G.R., Pueblo; Sir L. J. Jones, D. G. O., Denver; Dt. Alice Jones, D.G.I. St., Denver; Dt. Eliza Anderson, D.G.O. St., Pueblo. After the installation of the grand officers, a grand banquet was served by the Knights and Daughters of Pueblo, who proved themselves worthy of the cause. FT. SCOTT, KANSAS. Joe I. Curry, one of the most industrious of our young men, has gone to the Indian Territory where he will go in business for himself. A grand banquet was tendered the colored graduates of the High school at Bridal Veil park and it was the swellest affair ever given in Ft. Scott, over sixty couples being in attendance. Prof. Ezra Watson has returned from a visit at his home in Burlington. Both the old soldiers and the Spanish-American colored soldiers took par. in the Decoration day program. Miss Bertie Wilson of this city died Sunday of consumption. Wm. Waters, 504 KANSAS AVE, Clothes Cleaned & Pressed. OLD PHONE 357. ATCHISON, KANSAS. Before the deluge the private opinion of Topeka's 400 ran high. The Scot, Presbyterian, Saxon, Puritau, Methodist and Roman Catholic could no more assimilate than oil and water. The flood was a great leveler. Prominent men of the community and humble laborers were comrades, foilists and ministers, druggists and Christians, Scott, Presbyterians, Saxon and Puritan, Methodist and Baptist, Jew and Gentile, the Roman Catholic and agnostic all pulled at the same ripe. Every body pulled, save a few pin headed politicians, who stood upon the shore with their hair parted in the middle, kid gloved and patent-leathered, beckoning to the treacherous waves to bring back the remains of their relatives or friends to their atms. The city's life boats were manned by a few worldly fellows, among whom was Freeman Sardou and his two sons, Freeman, Jr. and Charles, Charles Quant, L. W. Bowersfield, I. W. B. Grant, Arthur Newland, Fred M. Close, and Edward M. Grafstrom, (the latter losing his life) and a score of others whose names I did not learn. While it was at its highest a part of the great city was on fire, and those fiery flames made white with heat shot upward as if they were trying to meet the very clouds up in the sky. People stood on the burning burning buildings until they were compelled by fate to fall, to a watery grave, and litter on their remains were taken limb by limb from the ruins of these great buildings. Oh horrible thought, that their bodies, once the habitants of beautiful souls were now only to be carted away to the great silent city of the dead, and there left for the vile worms of the earth to feast on their beauty. Oh! how much nicer it would have been had they chosen death by cremation, then their dust might have been thrown to the wind, and once more we could have felt their sweet faces against our own in every breeze that kissed our brow as they were wafted over the sunny slopes of Kansas, mallowed by the golden billows of wheat, perfumed by the wild rose and kissed to warmth by the summer sun, while it sang requiem to the ear of a never-ending sorrow. It is impossible to describe the destruction of this deluge. It is the only thing that ever happened in all this western world that ever bluffed the liars. They have just simply acknowledged the feebleness of words and backed off. When the great waters subsided many of the old land marks were gone. Among the most prominent was the building at 108 North Kansas avenue. This was headquarters for the Topeka eighty, the Smoky Row Four Hundred." The naughty daughters of Jerusalem and the wicked sons of Ham. A rendezvous of Johnson Jordan, Jess Harper John Collins and a similar aggregation of social parasites. The law abiding citizen of the city welcomed the destruction of this building with a hallow of gladness, for in this house was planned a murder of the deepest, darkest cast, one that was seldom equaled and will never be surpassed. No human being who has seen the destruction of this flood has been able to tell what he saw. The finest writers in the English language are compelled to acknowledge the feebleness of words. No tongue can tell it. No pencil can paint it. No pen describe it. No kodak ever invented by Yankee genius can photograph it. Standing upon the wrecked and ruined Shonkwiler residence, where seven people lost their lives, language falter, figures fail to enumerate and imagination folds her snowy wings. 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