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THE TOPEKA PLAINDEALER. VOLUME VIII. America's Racial Problem Sensibly Discussed by an Able English Author. B. C. Wee in Harpor a Weekly I seem to find the same hatiness and something of the same note of harshness that strike me in the cases of MacQueen and Gorky in America's treatment of her colored population. I am aware how intolerate, how multitudinous, the aspects of this enormous question have become but looking at it in the broad and true man I have proposed for myself in these papers, it does seem to present many practical elements. There is the same drop-off towards an indeterminate verb, the same disregard of proportion as between small evils and great ones, the same inference to the fact that the question does not stand alone, but is a part, and this time by no means small part, in the working out of America's destinies. In relation to the colored population, just as in relation to the great and growing accumulations of unassimilated and increasingly unpopular Jews, and to the great and growing multitudes of Roman Catholics whose special education contrudicts at so many points those conceptions of individual judgment and responsibility upon which America relies, I have attempted time after time to get some answer from the Americans I have met to what is to me the most obvious of questions. "Your grandchildren and the grandchildren of these people will have to live in this country side by side; do you propose, do you believe it possible, that they should be living then in just the same relations that you and those people are living now; if you do not, then what relations do you propose shall exist between them?" It is not too much to say that I have never once had the beginnings of an answer to this question. Usually one is told with great gravity that the problem of color is one of the most difficult that we have to consider, and the conversation then breaks up into discursive anecdotes and statements about black people. One man will dwell upon the uncontrollable violence of a black man's civil passions (in Jamaica and Barbados colored people form an overwhelming proportion of the population, and they have behaved in an exemplary manner for the last thirty years); another will dilate upon the incredible stupidity of the full-blooded negro (during my stay in New York the prize for oratory at Columbia University, oratory which was the one redeeming charm of Daniel Webster, was awarded to a Zulu of unmitigated blackness); a third will speak of his physical offensiveness, his peculiar amell which necessitates his social isolation (most well-to-do Southerners are brought up by negro "mammies"); others again will enter upon the painful history of the years that followed the war, though it seems a foolish thing to let those wrecks of the past dominate the outlook for the future. And one charming southern lady expressed the attitude of mind of a whole class very completely, I think, when she said, "You have to be one of us to feel this question at all as it ought to be felt." There, I think, I get something tautable. There emotions are a cult. My globe-trotting impudence will seem, no doubt, to mount to its zenith when I declare that hardly any Americans at all seem to be in possession of the elementary facts in relation to this question. These broad facts are not taught, as of course they ought to be taught, in school, and what each man knows is packed up by the accidents of his own untrained observation, by conversation always tinctured by personal prejudice, by hastily read newspapers and magazine articles and the like. The quality of this discussion is very variable, but on the whole pretty low. While I was in New York opinion was very much awayed by an article in, if I remember slightly, the Century Magazine, by a gentleman who had deduced from a few weeks' observation in the slums of Khartoum the entire incapacity of the negro to establish a civilization of his own. He never had, therefore never could; a discouraging ratification. We English a century ago said all these things of the native Irish. If there is any trend of opinion at all in this matter at present, it lies in the direction of a generous decision on the part of the North and West to leave the black more and more to the judgment and mercy of the white people with whom he is locally associated. This judgment and mercy points, on the whole, to an accentuation of the colored man's natural inferiority, to the cessation of any other educational TOPEKA, KANSAS, FRIDAY MORNING, DEG. 21. 1906. attempts than those that increase his industrial usefulness (it is already illegal in Louisiana to educate him above a contemptible level), to his industrial exploitation through usury and legal checine, and to a systematic strengthening of the social barriers between colored people of whatever shade and the whites. Menawhile, in this state of general confusion, in the absence of any determining rules or assumptions, all sorts of things are happening—according to the accidents of local feeling. In Massachusetts you have people with, I am afraid, an increasing sense of sacrifice to principle, lunching and dining with people of color. They do it less than they did I was told. Massachusetts stands, I believe, at the top of the scale of tolerant humanity. One seems to teach the bottom at Springfield, Missouri, which is a county seat with a college, an institute, a high school, and ecological garden there—the exemplary method teaches the major last April three unfortunate nurses were burnt to death, apparently because they were necroos, and as a general conjective of imperfection, they can have been innocent of any particular offence. It was a sort of racial increment. The edified Sunday school children hurried from their gospel teaching to search for souvenirs among the ashes, and competed with great spirit for a fragment of charred skull. It is true that in this latter case Governor Folk acted with vigor and justice, and that the better element of Springfield society was evidently shocked when it was found that quite innocent negroes had been used in these instructive pyrotechnics; but the fact remains that a large and numerically important section of the American public does think that fierce and cruel reprisals are a necessary part of the system of relationship between white and colored man. In our dispersed British community we have almost exactly the same range between our better attitudes and our worse—I'm making no claim of national superiority. In London, perhaps, we outdo Massachusetts in liberality; in the National Liberal Club or the Reform a black man meets with all the courtesies of humanity—as though there was no such thing as color. But, on the other hand, the Cape won't bear looking into for a moment. The same conditions give the same results; a half educated white population of British or Dutch or German ingredients greedy for gain, all controlled and feebly influenced, in contact with a black population, is bound to reproduce the same brutal and stupid aggressions, the same half honest precepts to justify those aggressions, the same ugly, mean excuses. "Things are better in Jamaica and Barbados," said I, in a moment of patriotic weakness, to Mr. Booker T. Washington. "Ehl!" said he, and thought in that long silent way he has. . . . "They are worse in South Africa—much Here we've got a sort of light. We know generally what we've got to stand. There—" His words sent my memories back to some conversations I had quite recently with a man from a dry goods store in Johannesburg. He gave me clearly enough the attitude of the common white out there; the dull prejudice; the readiness to take advantage of the "boy" and the utter disrespect for colored womankind; the savage, intolerant resentment, dished dangerously with fear, when the native raises his head. (Think of all that must have happened in wrongful practice and wrongful law and neglected educational possibilities before our Zulus in Natal were guided to face massacre, spear against rifle!) The rare and culminating result of education and experience is to enable men to grasp facts, to balance justly among their fluctuating and innumerable aspects, and only a small minority in our world is educated to the pitch. Ignorant people can think only in types and abstractions, can achieve only emphatic absolute decisions, and when the commonplace American or the commonplace colonial Briton sets to work to "think over" the negro problem, he instantly banishes most of the material evidence from his mind—clears for action, as it were. He forgets the general carriage of the ordinary colored man, his beaming face, his kindly eye, his rich, jolly voice, his touching and trusted friendliness, his amiable, unprejudiced readiness to serve and follow a white man who seems to know what he is doing. He forgets—perhaps he has never seen—the dear humanity of these people, their slightly exaggerated vanity, their innocent and delightful love of color and song, their immense capacity for affection, the warm romantic touch in their imaginations. He ignores the real fineness of the indolence that despises servile toil, of the carelessness that disdains the watchful aggressive economics, day by day, now a wretched little gain here and now a wretched little gain there, that make the dirty for tune of the Russian Jews who prey upon Continued on Page Four. DISCHARGED FOR WHITE MEN'S CRIME! Brownville, Texas Saloon Element Disguised as Soldiers Shoot up Town in Order to Cause Removal of Uncle Sam's Best Soldiers. Washington, D. C., Dec. 13—Special— "Not a single soldier of the Twenty-fifth infantry participated in the shooting at Brownsville, Tex., on the night of Aug. 13. I positively know this to be true, although of course I cannot now submit the evidence of this fact. "Who can say that the shooting was not done by the white man of Brownsville for the purpose of casting odum upon the troops? Who can say the shooting was not done by some of the colored population of Brownsville in return for the repeated assault to them and the black soldiers at the fort?" "Finally, who can say that there was not started a riot by some of the 'low down white trash' of Brownville, and that this was instantly met by some of the colored residents of the town? "These are questions worth answering by somebody. In any event, I am absolutely certain that the soldier had nothing to do with the firing and that time will show this statement is correct." Theory of Colored Man. This extraordinary declaration was made by a colored man of almost national reputation who has been investigating the Brownville not from his own point of view. It was not Gildrich Stewart, the colored representative of the Constitutional League, who has been active in endeavoring to secure a remission of the sentence. The statements were made by a man who has the interests of his race at heart but who has been convinced by personal talk with the soldiers and by interviews with colored man in Booucoule that the colored soldiers did not and could not go out or the fort that might. He intimates in the strongest possible way that the root of August 13 was precipitated by white saloon keepers, who were extremely jealous of a colored man who started a saloon having a colored soldier as his partner and who atracted every bit of the profitable trade of the enlisted men of the Twenty fifth infantry. Quarrel Between Saloons According to this remarkable story, which it must be remembered, comes from a colored man who has unquestioned sympathy with his own race, the white saloon keepers planned to drive the colored man out of business. Their plans, it is alleged, were discovered by the colored people of the town. When the white saloon keepers and their friends started out to shoot up the colored gin mill, according to this negro version, which is now printed for the first time, the colored people of the town were ready for them. It was they, it is said, who shot at the policeman, and it is a significant fact in support of this story that the only man who was killed was a white saloon keeper, who was shot in the rear door of his own saloon, and who, according to current belief among whites and blacks, had been particularly active first in endorsing to prevent the granting of a license to the colored saloon keeper, and then later on in arousing sentiment among the townspeople, and particularly among the saloon keepers, against the colored saloon which was frequented by the soldiers, who had transferred their trade absolutely from the white establishments. The soldiers, of course, were the most profitable customers of the lower class in Brownsville, and the loss of their trade by the white saloons must have been felt seriously. One Mystery Never Solved. It has been a mystery to army men and to everybody else how a squad of soldiers could possibly have sneaked out of the fort, rushed through the town, and returned in time to answer to their names at the general roll call which took place anywhere from ten to thirty minutes after the first shot was fired. The men might have sneaked out of a fort in time of peace, but it is hard to understand how they could have sneaked back again after the post had been around by the firing, after the sentry had fired his piece three times, which is the signal of alarm, and after the sergeant of the guard had been called out to discover the cause of the disturbance. It the statement now made on a colored man's authority is true it accounts for a great many things. First of all, it accounts for the failure of anybody in the fort to discover the absence of the men during the time of the tramp. It accounts for the general belief in the fort, from the time the first shot was fired until about daylight that the tramp was in the town, by town people, and that the fort was being attacked. Bullets Fired Over Fort. BUCKETS FIELD OVER FORT. It explains the positive statement of some of the soldiers and particularly one man who was in the hospital and could prove an alibi, that bullets were heard whistling over the fort at various times, and that men were heard on the outside during the black soldiers to come out and be shot. It explains to a certain extent why the only actual victim of the riot was a white saloon keeper, who was shot in the back door of his own saloon and who was said by some people to have had a gun in his hand when he was shot. Incidentally, it may be stated, as indicating the feeling against the black saloon keeper, that his barkeeper, a man named Allison, was immediately arrested by the civil authorities on the ground that he had guilty knowledge of the affair. The grand jury failed to report any indictment, but Allison was arrested on some other charge and at last accounts was still in jail in Brownville. Must Bring the Proof. In view of the prospective court material of Maj. Penrose and Capt. Mokhla, the question as to whether the troops participated in the shooting up of Brownville will necessarily have to be the first thing to be established by the prosecutor. If there is any doubt on that point the whole case against the two officers falls to the ground. In explain the point of view now taken by certain of the colored people I give the substance of the statement as given to me by this colored man in the presence of a distinguished officer of the United States army whom I had asked to be present at the conference to supply the technical knowledge necessary to understand the situation. It is perhaps proper to say that the officer, who previously believed the soldiers of the Twenty fifth were guilty, now thanks they were not outside of the fort that night. The same opinion is held by other army officers, who have personally expressed it to me, and the belief is growing that there is enough doubt on this subject to warrant the closest scrutiny so as to determine whether there is any real foundation for the charges made against the colored troops Tells the Real Story. During the course of a long conversation, during which the colored man interested in the case was cross examined at every point, he said in substance: "The real story of the Browaville affair, as I believe, has not yet even been histed at. I have convinced myself, at least, that the soldiers did not go outside the fort and had nothing whatever to do with the shooting. When I say I know this, you will ask for proof. When I tell you the story as I learned it, you will see why proof cannot be forthcoming, because positive proof that the soldiers did not leave Fort Brown that might would mean the lynching of every colored resident of Browaville the morning after that proof was offered. "Mr Gilchrist Stewart, who went out for the Constitution League to investigate the case, did not go to Brownville. The chaures are that if he had done so he would not have come back. He went to Fort Hena and talked with the men. Other colored men, however, have been in Brownville. They have talked to the colored people there, and you are at liberty to draw your own inferences as to what he found out. More Money than Whites When the soldiers of the Twenty- with infantry came to Bronxville they found they were not allowed to drink at the bays of the saloons. They had more money among them than nine-tenths of the white patrons of those saloons, and on this account Jim Crow bays were fixed up in the saloons to acquire the soldier's trade. The men resumed to patrolize these bays, and small a soldier named followman and an other colored man who had some money decided to open a colored saloon for the express accommodation of the soldiers. "The white saloon keeps fought this movement bitterly. The men were for- ed to put up $1,000 for the license and $1,000 for something else, and their capital was exhausted when the saloon was opened. After that the colored men went nowhere else. The white saloon keepers were bitter. The colored men were liberal spenders immediately after each payday, and the white saloon men were anxious to drive the colored bar out of Brownville. "The Jim Crow' bars were all neglected. The colored soldiers flocked by themselves, and there was not even the slightest excuse for a race riot, so far as the saloons were concerned. From what can be learned by indirect methods from Brownville, because we have none of us shared to go there ourselves, the indications are that the white saloon keeps planned that night on about that time to shoot in fellowman's saloon. The soldiers had had a payday only two or three days before and had spent their money freely. The white saloon keeps had felt this loss more than ever, because, although the colored soldiers were despised and looked down upon, they had stood menaces and were on the whole more valuable customers than nine tenths of the white men who frequented the saloons, at least those in the Tenderlom or low district of the town Colorado Citizens Warned Colored Citizens Warned "There is reason to believe that the colored people learned of this plot to shoot up Hollowman's saloon. Possibly some of the soldiers knew of it. It might have been the reason for the raid of the soldiers from the fort, if there was any such raid. On the other hand, it is not unreasonable to suppose that some of the white men started out to shoot up Hollowman's saloon and were unexpectedly met by colored men of the town, who gave them as good as they were sending. "From what we have learned we believe it was no accident that Frank Nauton, the bartender in Tillman's saloon, was shot and killed fifteen or twenty feet outside of his back door. There were plenty of khaki uniforms around that town and they were worn by both white and colored people. The police and Texas rangers wore them, and half the colored men in town had khaki suits which had been discarded by the soldiers. "Discharged cartridge cases could be had by almost any one who went into the post and those and the clips which hold the cartridges together when put in the magazine, stood around in open boxes for shipment back to the arsenal, and were handed out as souvenirs to any one who wanted them." "Not a single witness on the part of the townspeople could swear positively that the men who did the shooting were soldiers. A few of them saw khaki clothing, and the next morning a lot of cartridge cases and chips were picked up about the streete. Some of the witnesses said they recognised negro voices but there was no evidence of any volley balling or the word of command or any or the kind of actions which a squad of soldiers would instinctively have followed. Wartants Sworn Out. "Ian days after the shooting the civil authorities aware out warrants for the arrest of certain soldiers. Their selection was evidently made in an arbitrary manner. They picked up certain people about whom they knew and added the sentinels and others who were on duty in the fort, and who could not possibly have gone out to shoot up the town. But some men were arrested on these civil warrants, sworn out by townspoise for popular reasons, which will become apparent when you remember this riot was started by a row among saloon keepers. Among the men arrested and held in the guardhouse for the action of the grand jury was Private Hollowman of company K, who was a part owner in the colored saloon, which had caused the jealousy of the white men in town "There was also arrested an ox soldier named Allison, Hollowman's partner, and the man who put up a good deal of the money. He was the hartender of the place, and he was put in the guardhouse, although he was a cavalier and could not possibly have been with the soldiers when they made the raid, or at least when they came out or the fort. The grand jury investigated these cases and found no bills against either the soldiers or Allison. "The lattention was removed from Brownville immediately. The Hollowon man Allison saloon had no more business and to cap the climax Allison was soon restrained by the civil authorities. I have heard stories that he was cruelly tortured to make him tell the story of the shooting in the town. In the last of my knowledge and belief he is still in jail after having been sobbed of every cout he had in the world by his jailers, who compelled him to pay 100 per cent Continued on Pare Four. .NUMBER 50 Christmas! Discriminations in the Public Schools Agalust Negroes Remains the Same. "THE SCHOOLS AT WICHITA." EDITOR PLAINDEALK. Under the above caption, in your issue of Nov. 30th, you published an article in which, among other things, you stated, "The Negro children are permitted to attend the schools in their vicinity." Knowing your paper to be always an outspoken one in behalf of our race, I cannot but believe that you have been misinformed as to the real status of our school question in this city. I have taken quite an interest in the matter, have given both time and money to have the matter tested in the courts, and propose to stand by my people until the question is finally adjudicated, even though it requires more money from my earnings. Having stated my position, which is openly known to my people in Wichita, I believe I am in a position to refute the statements, in part at least, as furnished your valuable paper for publication. In so doing I shall no attempt to enumerate the several instances where the Wichita school board and superintendent are disorning against our children as that would take too much of your valuable space, but will cite only a few as fair samples of what is actually going on. The little daughter of Mrs. Sallie Rowles, in whose name the test case was brought, lives within 400 feet of the school where her grade is taught; still, if she attended school she would be compelled to go nearly one mile, to the "Park school annex" as the four rooms for Negro children are called. I live within 150 feet of the school in which is taught the grade my two boys are eligible to, yet they must go nearly one mile to get to this "annex," where even a part of the playground is fenced off for them to play on. Now, what is true in these two instances is also true as to about 15 Negro pupils living within one block of my home, not to say anything of the instances too numerous to mention, in other portions of the city. True, most of us are sending our children to school, but we want it understood that it is not because we believe we are not discriminated against by the school board, but because we do not want to deprive our children of what little school advantages they have left us. The large number of us who are opposed to this "annex bull pen" school business, think the school board and superintendent are discriminating against our children, and if the foregoing citations do not justify the thought, then we are wrong and are in dire need of enlightenment. In conclusion, allow me to say, that although the District court has in a somewhat lengthy and fact-avoiding way (permit if you please, the coined word) rendered a decision adverse to us, we have not given up the fight. Our case comes on for a hearing at the January session of the Supreme court, and we hope to win. If we do not, I am of the opinion that the U. S. Supreme court will have an opportunity to render its initial decision upon this question, which I am informed has never been before them for adjudication. Yours, FROM WICHITA. The superintendent of the public schools has led if the article below is true. He is quoted as saying that the children were sent to the schools in their immediate neighborhood. Wichita, Kans., Dec. 7, '06. Mr. Nick Chiles: Dear Sir: I just read an article in your paper about the Wichita schools. I wish to say that the school board of this city is discriminating. I live in the same block in which the Emerson school is located, and I cannot send my daughter there because she is colored. The superintendent and principal both told me that she could not attend the Emerson school on account of her being colored. If I want her to attend school she must walk seven blocks further to the Jim Crow school, which has a partition between the halls so that the so-called pretty whites cannot see the ugly blacks in passing in and out. There was also a high board fence to separate the playground, but the board concluded to take that much away. A great many of the colored people of Wichita send their children to the Bull Pen school because the school board was continually threatening to arrest them if their children were not in school within five days. I suppose you know that the better class of people have earned the case to the Supreme court. It may be that the judges there won't have to decide the case in favor of the parties concerned from whom they get the largest number of votes, but will decide by law and truth. We want what is our own right an American citizen. Very respectfully, Mrs. SALLIE ROWLES, 412 N. Water St. WESTERN TUSKEGEE. Attorney J. H. Guy, one of our trustees, accompanied by Mrs. Guy, visited the institution yesterday. They expressed themselves as well pleased with the progress of the institution and the work being done by the students. Our butchers are busy killing hogs this week. They will also kill beef enough to last the school during the winter. Our farmers will find that it will pay them to raise their hogs and beeves for some consumption instead of purchasing meat from city markets. Mr. Matthew Seymour, class '04, is serving an general superintendent of the East Arkansas Baptist academy. They have an enrollment of over 300. Mr. Seymour is well pleased with his new work. Principal Carter made a business trip to southwestern Missouri and western Kansas last week, incurring some assistance for the institution. The religious societies are making preparations for their week of prayer during which season we hope for many conversions to Christ. Our Jubilee Singers are kept busy filling engagements. Sunday they sang at the Third Presbyterian church. Monday evening at the union meeting of the Young People's associations. Every number elicited an encore. The Nightingale club, composed of our youngest girls, rendered an excellent program in chapel last Saturday evening. Many parents and friends attended from the city. All credit is due Mrs. J. D. Ballentyne, our musical directress, for her careful training of the club. Mrs Ballentyne is doing splendid work in her department, the results manifested an ability that places her among the very best instructors of music. LADIES—SEPTRO is a guaran used PHOTOGRAPH for you—never falls—pleasant to use sanitary and beneficial in its effects. Used and recommended by thousands of grate ful married ladies. Absolutely harmless. Six months treatment $1.00. Mailed in plum package upon receipt of prizes. Write for particulars. LE BLUE REMEDY CO. Lenoir, N. C. SHRINERS The lid will be taken off at Masonic Ha. 404 Kansas Avenue at 8:30 p. m. 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Our delegation is there. Send one dollar to help support our servants at Washington We must be heard. Send your name and dollar. Get on the Role. For particulars, write, Rachel T. Mitchell, 916 La Rue Street, MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE. LIFE INSURANCE? Why Not? Mrs and Ladies Orient. BENEFICIARY SOCIETY. FOR YOURSELF AND CHILDREN, BLOCK, FUNERAL AND DEATH 1,500.00 IN CASE OF DEATH. To be without Life Insurance of the ORIENT is duly autho Kansas, and is under the Sop't s are bonded in a reliable Surety TO AGENTS. F. r information national headquarters. Kansas Ave., Topeka, Kansas. Payment of Claims." Pearl McNeal, Nat'l Secretary. The Entre Nous Social club gave their Christmas party Friday evet at Frenzer hall, 24th ahd Parker streets. Mrs Mary Willa and Mrs. Belle Hardy entertained a few friends on Sunday afternoon, complimentsay to Mrs. John Page, of Topeka. Invited guests were John Norman and Henry Payne and their wives. Invitations have been issued for the marriage of Mrs. Mary Overall and William Quatrebaum. The wedding will take place on Tuesday evening, Dec. 25, at the residence of the bride, 2010 Lake street. Rev Mackay, of the All Saints Episcopal church, will perform the ceremony. Mrs. Carnie Phelps. Furnley, of Chicago, who has been in the city visiting her father, J. Phelps, left Wednesday for California Mrs. Catherine Cabbell left Saturday for Chicago, to spend 2 mo th with her niece. Mrs. Cabbell is the mother of Mrs. Kraex Williams Mrs. II. V. Plummer is in Atchison, visiting her parents and also her sister, Mrs. James Hill, of St Joseph. S. II. Young and wife, of Indian apolis, are Omaha visitors. Frank Wheaton of Columbus, O., has come to Omaha to reside. Mrs. R. M. Workcuff is in Sloux City, Ia., visiting. R. K. Johnson, of Salida, is in Omaha, visiting friends. Mrs. Thomas Rigga has recovered from her recent illness. The Ladies Whist Club royally entertained their husbands and a few friends in a six course program live to be on Tuesday evening, Dec. 18th, at the residence of Mrs. G. W. Wilson, 2716 N 28th Ave. The club has a membership of 12 ladies, Mead James J. N. Thomas, A L. Wilson, H. V. Plummer, T. P. Maltrautt, J H. Hutton, E. S. Williams, P. W. Workouff, Geo. W.son, H. Hart, S. G. Prentice, Dan. Desdundes, and Laura M. Craig. The invited guest were, Mr. Young and wife of Indianapolis, Misses Jatia Allen, Mayme K. Johns, Messrs. Emory R. Smith, Frank P. Jacobs and John Lename. W. E. Hill and wife, of Minneapolis, Minn., are spending the holidays in Omaha Many of the ladies will keep open doors New Years day. The ladies of the Smart Set club will give a ball early an January. Winifred Johnson will visit his old home in Topeka during the holidays. Joseph Brown will visit his parent in Topeka, during the holidays. Miss Mary Florence Kellogg will visit friends in Tabor, Iowa, during the holidays. Mrs. Carrie E. Henderson of Stoux Falls, Dakota, will spend the holiday in the city with her sister, Mrs H. Smith. Charles Brown and wife are in Topeka, Kansas, visiting relatives and friends HUTCHINSON, KANSAS. The threatened coal famine has abated and we have hopes of fire for a while at least. The weather, however, continues cold. Little Ethel E, daughter of Rev H. I. Jones and wife, has been seriously ill, but is improving. Rev. Raimey passed through the city Saturday, on his way to his home in Great Bend. William McCoughler's A'e was sent home to her parents. I'opaka last Monday. William not be found. All the churches in the city are arranging to have Rev. Beider wolfe the noted evangelist, come to our city in March. Irrespective of race or denomination they are interested in the move and Rev. H. I. Jones is one of the executive committees. The A. M. K. church is in the midst of a great revival conducted by Pastor Woods and Miss A. Scott of Kansas City. The ladies of the Second Baptist church were unusually successful in their rally last Sunday. This church is now very beautifully repaired on the inside. the first of January. The choir and the young people of the Second Baptist church will render a Cantata during the Holidays. Miss Nelson Williams is on the sick list. Mrs. II. I. Jones is expecting her sister, Miss Ethel Webb, of Eldorado, Mo., to spend the holidays with her. The editor will receive from here some Christmas gift subscriptions. CENTRALIA, KANS. The weather has been quite nice and the farmers are husking their last rows. Rev. Copeland is in the South for a ten days meeting. Mrt. ! Lem. Clay was up from Frankfort last week visiting Mrs. Copeland and calling on her many friends. Mrs. Irene Arnold left for Seneca this week. She will be absent for about a week or ten days. Winifred Montgomery bought a 3 year old mare last week. B. E. Neeley and wife spent last week in Seneca and Oneida. P. Montgomery and daughter, Lamedna, helped to carve turkey at John Johnson and wife's, Thanksgiving. Mrs. C. Rice returned last Sunday from Kansas City and will immediately pack her household goods and return for the winter, where Mr. Rice has a steady job. Mrs. Allie Johnson will accompany her and stay through the holidays. Miss Minnie Ellington, of Hawtha, has been here the past week helping to ease for her sister, Mrs. Calvin, who is sick with rheumatism. Miss Nannie Shannon leaves this week for Topeka, where she will remain until spring if she likes it. Mr. Lem Clay and Mrs. Copeland were guests at tea Sunday evening with Mrs. Allie Johnson. The invitations are out here, and nouncing the wedding of Rev. Byron and Miss Anna Fouts, of Frankfort, on Christmas day. The Willing Workers met with Mrs Copeland on the 14th. Afsdrt taking up the work for about three hours a three course lunch was served and a jolly good time had by all. The last meeting was with Mrs. G. L. Brewer, and all reported a nice time. The A. A. O. N. M. chrine will receive in full dues on New Year's Day, 1907, at Masonie hall, 404 Kansas avenue, from three to five. WANTED—Educated colored men to travel and distribute samples and circulars of our goods among their own people. Salary 180 per month and expenses Sanudera Co. Desk ro, Jackson Boulevard, Chicago. A. SIMS' POOL AND BILLIARD PARLORS Headquarters for all who wish a nice time. When Hutohinson call on him. 306 SOUTH MAIN STREET. L. P. Hall, BARBER SHOP Hair Cutting, Shampoe, Shave. Special attention given to Pimples and Sore Faces. Give me a call. Satisfaction guaranteed. 162 PRESTON AVENUE MEMPHIS, THNN. W. H. LUCAS, The price at my Studio is cheap, but the work is of the highest class. Why pay such an enormous price when the same careful work can be secured for ONE-HALF? Stop and see me. 123 Kansas Ave TOPEKA. WANTED—Goodbarber. Apply to George E. Gray, 334 Kansas avenue. Mrs. Anna Chiles-Snell will ar: rive next week to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John B. Chiles. THE PLAINFALKR will be glad to receive any news of interest to the colored people of the city. 'Phone 1056, Bell. The A. A. O. N. M. Shrine will receive in full dress New Year's Day, 1907, at Masonic Hall, 404 Kansas avenue, from three to five Mr. Ned C'Banton will spend the holidays with his mother at Clay Center. Dr. and Mr. O. A. Taylor will hold a family reunion at their beautiful home 1535 Van Buren street, during holidays. Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Beck of Wamego announce the marriage of their daughter, Araminta G., to Dr W. W. Caldwell, Monday afternoon, December 4th, at 12:30. The A. A. O. N. M Shrine, will receive in full dress on New Year's Day, '91, at Masonic hall, 404 Kansas avenue, from three to five p. m. Miss Inez Woods a teacher in the public schools of this city, will leave today for Kansas City to spend the holidays. Prof. Gaitha Page is in Kansas City this week. Miss Cyrenia G. Smith filled his place at Buchanan school. WANTED-Young colored girl with best of references for house work, to work for white lady. Good wagon chance to attend college. Miss, G, HERNDON, Miss Cora L. Bennett, a teacher in the public schools at Council Grove, arrived today to spend the holidays with her mother and sister Miss Bennett is giving excellent sat istaction and reports her school an doing nicely. Miss Mattea Sneed, who has been ill for several weeks is slowly improving. The Y. M. U. A. Glee club and Ladies' Auxiliary will give a concert at St. John A. M. E. church December 26th. Mrs. James Buchanan and daughter, Jennie, of 946 Spruce street, who have been spending the summer on their farm at Great Bend, have returned home for the winter. Mr. A. L. Sykes, who has been on a tour through Texas and other parts of the South, is in the city this week. Attend the holiday musicale at St. John A. M. E. church December 26th for the benefit of the Y. M. C A. piano fund. There will be a grand musical entertainment given at St. John A. M. E. church, December 26th, by the Y. M. C. A. Glee club and Ladies' auxiliary for the benefit of the piano fund. All who love music should be there. The A. A. O. N. M. Shrine will receive in full dress New Year's Day, 1907, at Masonio hall, 404 Kansas avenue, from threeto five. A BARGAIN For a small five acre tract of good garden land at a reasonable price, write or call upon D. Chiles, care THE PLAINDEALER, 112 W. Seventh street, this city. This is a good investment for the right party. INTER-STATE LITERARY. The Sixteenth annual session of the Inter-State Literary society will be held at Eben-zer A. M. E. church, St. Joseph, December 26-28. This will be one of the greatest meetings ever held. Session opens Wednesday afternoon. The citizens of St. Joe have made ample preparations to entertain the visitors. President I. M. Horton, with the assistance of his committee, has prepared an extensive program. Mrs. Rachel King of Kingfisher Okla., is visiting Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Henderson. Mrs. Carrie Ashworth entertained Monday in honor of her little daughter's second birthday. A three course lunch was served, and little Thelma received a number of useful presents. Mrs. Wm. Robinson of Buxton, Ia., will spend the holidays with her mother, Mrs. Angeline Williams. 412 Buchanan street. Miss Emma Tabor is sick at her home, 112 E. Serve th street. Mrs. J. M. Rivers returned Saturday from a visit with relatives in Leavenworth. CARD OF THANKS We desire to thank our kind friends for their kind assistance for their beautiful offering of flowers for our nephew and brother. ROBINETT POWELL. ELIZA SLAUCHER. FIRST AFRICAN The Sabbath School will have its Christmas tree on Monday night, at which time the little people will render a program consisting of recitations, solos and instrumental music. The decoration of the tree will be attended to by the teachers, who also will receive and care for all presents brought by parents and friends. A merry time is anticipated. The Children's Mission Band, under the direction of Mrs. Susan Tellis, is gaining in numbers and in interest. It meets every Saturday afternoon. The social committee of the C. E society is making preparations for a good time on Tuesday evening. You are invited to attend. Services last Sunday were attended by a large congregation who appreciated the pastor's sermon, from the subject, "The Help of the Holy Spirit." The workmen on the new church are progressing in a manner that is quite encouraging. The Russians and Japs are making strenuous efforts to be ready for the rally on the third Sunday in January. St. Simon's Episcopal church; Western avenue and Seventh street, Father Brown, priest,—Sunday services, 11 a. m., morning prayer and sermon, subject, "The Trustfulness of Prayer." 4:30 p. m., "The Christian Temple." On Christmas eve, 11 p. m., choral celebration of the Holy Eucharist. Christmas Day, 11 a. m., choral celebration and sermon. All are cordially welcome to these services. PUBLICATION NOTICE. In the District Court of Shawnee County, Kansas. Bessie L. Nesbitt, Plaintiff vs James Nesbitt, Defendant. Said defendant will take notice that he has been sued by plaintiff in the above entitled action and that unless he pleads to or answers said petition of plaintiff on or before February 2nd, 1907, said petition of plaintiff will be taken as true and judgment entered divorcing plaintiff from defendant and giving plaintiff the custody of their minor child, named Willie May Nesbitt Attorney for Plaintiff. First published December 21st, 06. AN APPEAL This is to certify that the Kanessa Rescue Home or Florence Crittenden Mission for colored girls and women will open the first week in January, at 1020 Washburn, and we do here appeal to the good people of Topeka and the entire state, as this is a state home, to please help us. Donations of money, provisions coal, furniture and stoves bedding or anything in household line will be gladly received. We are striving with your assistance to make this home a success, as it is much needed. Anyone having anything to give please address. MRS F. MALONE, President 825 Center street Mrs. James B. Cooper last Friday entertained the following guests at dinner: Mrs. H. C. Wilson, Mrs. M. Pace, Mrs. S. H. Lambertson, Mrs; Bradshaw, Mrs. Alexander, Mrs H. C. Barker. We are pleased to note the continued progress of the race in Topeka. We had the pleasure of taking a ride at the rate of forty miles an hour in the new, 24 horse power automobiles purchased recently by Mr. K. S. Lee, the druggist. It is the Rambler make, and cost $2800, the first and only one owned by a colored man west of the Mississippi river and east of Denver. I is kept at Taylor and Co.'s garage on East Seventh street. SHILOH BAPIST CHURCH HOLIDAY SCHEDULE. Sunday, 11 a.m. and 7 10 p.m. preaching by the pastor. Monday, 8 p.m., Xmas tree. Tuesday, 8 p.m., Business Men's League. Wednesday, 8 p.m., Address by Governor R. W. Hooh. Thursday, 8 p.m., Musical by Shiloh choir. Friday, 8 p. mr, "I'lantation Melodies." Sunday, 11 and 7:30, preaching by the pastor. Monday, 9 p. m., Watch Meeting. Tuesday, New Year's reception, 4 to 10 p. m. The public is cordially invited to be present each evening. An excellent lunch will be served at the close of the program. Season tickets, 25 cents. General admission each evening beginning Tuesday and continuing through Friday evening, 10 cents. Program begins each evening at 9 p.m. Take Washburn, Quinton Heights or West Tenth cars, get off at 12th and Clay. Everybody welcome. 1920 REV. J. E. EDWARDS, the energetic pastor of St. John church, who is doing excellent work. PUBLICATION NOTICE. In the District Court of Shawnee County, Kansas. Samuel Rysyjs, Plaintiff, vs No. 24,185 Attue Rysyjs, Defendant. The defendant will take notice that she has been sued by the plaintiff above named, and must on or before January 25th, 1907, plead to or answer the petition bled in said action, or judge me will be entered in said court divorcing plaintiff from the defendant and for the custody of minor child. Erzue Rysyjs FAMILIA RISTAS, Plaintiff First published December 14th '06 COME TO VINITA. OKLA. A grand opportunity for colored people to buy good farms or city property. The land in the surrounding neighborhood of Vimita is fertile and rich, cheap in price, will grow cotton, all kinds or gains and vegetables The health and climate of this neighborhood is fine. All kinds of poultry and live stock does well here The market is good the year round Now is the state colored man's chance to get some of this new territory land before it is all taken by other races. The colored citizens are selling and leasing their land to white people every day For further information call or write Real Estate Dealer and Colored Immigration solicitor for good farm lands and tenants Come at once and let me put you in the rate for a good farm or city property Office Madden Budding, Vinita, Okla FOSTER WILLIAMS GOFFEYVILLE'S LEADING GROCKER ALWAYS HAS THE BEST AND CHEAPEST GROCERIES TO EVERY CUSTOMER he gives The Plaindealer REEF Holiday Musicale THE MEMBERS OF THE MIDDLE SCHOOL FOR MEN'S SCHOOL Y. M. C, A. Glee Club and Y. M. C. A Ladies Auxilary, Wednesday Eve., Dec. 26, '06 AT ... Saint John A. M. E. Church, Benefit Y. M. C. A. Piano fund. Come and hear them. Patronize him. Howard University Medical Department Howard University Medical Department Including Medical, Dental and Pharmaceutic Colleges. THIRTY-NINTH ANNUAL SESSION will begin October 1, 1906, and continue eight months. Instructions is given by didactic lectures, quizzes, clinics, and practical laboratory demonstrations. Well equipped laborstories in all departments. Unexcelled hospital facilities. F. J. SHADD, M. D. Sec 901 R BTRBBT See us for Job Work PUBLICATION OF HUMMONS. N. J. Reaser, of parts unknown, will take notice that she has been sued in the District Court of Shaw nee County, State of Kansas, by her husband, J. H. Reaser, and that unless she appears or answers the petition of plaintiff filed in said cause on or before the 20th day of October, 1906, the petition of plaintiff will be taken as true, and judgment divorcing plaintiff from defendant will be rendered accordingly. Attest Atty for Plaintiff. I. S. CUKTIS, Clerk. [SFAI] By JENNIE C. ROSEN, Deputy. First published Sept. 7, 06. For First-class Rooms and Lodging When in Puchelo, Colo., Stop at B. W. Shelton's Rooming House, in Lumpkin Street, three blocks from the Union Depot. He can be found at the gate of the depot Cheap Excursions Southwest Low Rates each first and third Tuesday, monthly Round trip tickets sold from nearly all Rock Island points in the North and Central West to practically all points Southwest. Rats about half the regular fare Pluck means sure success in the South west. An illus- trated book or two will help you to a better acquaint- ance with the country. I'll be glad to send them on request, titrate the section which most interests you. Rock Island System A, M. FULLER, C. P. A. Topkea, Kne WILLIAMS AS THE BEST AND OCERIES The Plaindealer REEF Rev. H. Charles Pope's MOVING AND STEREOPTICAN PICTURES, THE DEVIL'S COOK KITCHEN OR DEATH IN THE POT. Ball Room to Hell, The Black Hand. 7 Reasons Why God Didn't Kill the Devil. This Wonderful Moving Picture and Suspicious Exhibition is doing untold good among the young people, especially the dancing class showing 26 different ways where there is harm in dancing. This exhibition is endorsed by some of the leading ministers and newspapers throughout the United States. Being of a Religious, Moral and Instructive nature it will do untold good in any community. Satisfaction guaranteed in every respective Hear the timey and instructive lectures by Prof. S. H. Thompson o boston, Mana. Ministers wishing date for their church should address. Rev. H. Chas. Pope 1627 TWELFTH ST., N. W. WASHINGTON, D.C. The Pliandealer FRIDAY, DEC. 21, 1906 A MATTER OF JUSTICE! Good! Mr. President, we are glad you can order out the army and navy to protect the Japs in their rights. Perhaps, some day you will find time to give the Negroes in the Southern states the same consideration. You surely have not forgotten Atlanta. Washington, Dec. 18 — President Roosevelt has transmitted to congress a message relating to the Japanese school situation in San Francisco, accompanied by the report of Secretary Mitchell there on the message follows. To the Senate and House of Representatives I herewith add for your information the final report made to me personally by Secretary Mottell on the situation affecting the Japanese in San Francisco. The report deals with three matters of controversy—first, the exclusion of the Japanese children from the San Francisco schools; second, the boy cutting of Japanese restaurants; and, third, acts of violence committed against the Japanese. As to the first matter, I call your especial attention to the very small number of Japanese children who attend school, to the testimony as to the brightness, cleanliness and good behavior of these Japanese children in the schools, and to the fact that, owing to their being scattered throughout the city, the requirement for them all to go to one special school is impossible of fulfillment and means that they can not have school facilities. Let me point out further that there would be no objection whatever to excluding from the schools any Japanese on the score of age. It is obviously not desirable that young men should go to school with children. The only point is the exclusion of the children themselves. The number of Japanese children attending the public schools in San Francisco was very small. The government has already directed that suit be brought to test the constitutionality of the act in question; but my very earnest hope is that such suit will not be necessary, and that as a matter of comity the citizens of San Francisco will refuse to deprive these young Japanese children of education and will permit them to go to the schools. The question as to the violence against the Japanese is most admirably put by Secretary Metcalf, and I have nothing to add to his statement. I am entirely confident that, as Secretary Metcalf says the overwhelming sentiment of the state of California is for law and order and for the protection of the Japanese in their persons and property. Both the chief of police and the acting mayor of San Francisco assume Secretary Metcalf that everything possible would be done to protect the Japanese in the city. I authorized an order of Secretary Metcalf to state that it was failure to protect persons and property, then the entire power of the federal government within the limits of the constitution would be held up and violated to enter into a case of arbitrary law on the land in which the guard of the Japanese is stationed, where in the men will and price protection for their persons and property and to this end every thing in my power would be done, and all the forces of the United States, both civil and military, which I could lawfully employ, would be employed. I call especial attention to the concluding sentence of Secretary Metcalf's report of November 20, 1906 The White House, Dec. 18, 1906. INDEPENDENCE. KANSAS Rev. Charles Tealo preached a grand sermon Sunday morning to a number of people, which was much enjoyed. His text was in Act 11 7. Rev. Kidd, pastor of the A. M. B church, spent the past week in Pleas- anton, Kansas. Mrs. Fannie Buckhannon left just Tuesday for Arkansas to spend the hol- iday. Mrs Charity White of 318 East Main street has opened the door of welcome to her friends and strangers and customers to restaurant, grocery store and confectionery store, which is so far a dream of beauty. The department has a large glass front, dining room closed of beautifully. Those to call to the city to call and give her your patronage. The Silicon Moon Restaurant 318 East Main street. There is a great talk between the pastors of the three churches are going to organize a Bible class, which will be held one night in each week. Sawan Welch has moved his barber shop and pool hall to the corner of Fifth and Main. The pastors, stewards and all officers of the three colored churches are also using an fixing to arrange a program for January 1, 1907. Mrs. Hannah Barnes of Quenemo, Ka, left for her home Saturday. Mrs. Flebar McGill, who has been on the sick list on nineteenth street is better at this writing. Mrs. Wilson of Coffeyville, Kas, who has been visiting her niece in this city. Mrs. C. Woolson, returned to her home last Thursday. Mr. Thomas, who was in the city at the burial of his son Frederick, left for his home in Leavenworth Dec. 16. Mrs. Rector of Coffeyville left for her home. LOOK, READ, BELIEVE, WHILE IT IS TIME TO BELIEVE. A few people call that I talk often of myself and have my name often in print. The saying is true. But I am used to the popular outcry, and stress, which is placed upon these subjects. And it is needful for me to do so. Just simply to get them to honor the talents which the Great God gave to them. My God will show those persons all whether the words are true or whether it is a new sensation or not which I declare unto you. 1. Now God's hand is lifted up. 2. Now God's hand is lifted up for this people. 1. In all the rooms which have been down into the what they have con- tinued to do us likely, and have cast the tough side. And they have not hone- on the great God for all the good which he has done. 2. Today' God sets a plumblime of rightness in the earth. 3. Today' God breaks the glory of the 'mage' throughout the whole earth God uses up to work His strange work. 4. 'This day' God is glorified. 5. 'Christmas' this is your watch; keep yourself from evil, watch for the promises of God and the glory. 8. "Christmas," whether Jesus Christ be short in doing for you this promise or if the time seem long to "you," remember this. When it is all aided up, it is only a few days. 9. Get under God's protection. 10 Leave the evil work, serve God right today. 11 God has heard the word, evil man have spoken against Him. JOHN HARRISON. Junction City, Kansas WINFIELD, KANSAS Mr. and Mrs. Daly of Arkansas City, brother of Mrs. Jesse Banks, spent Saturday in our city in route to Coffeyville. Miss Clarrie Harvey of Wichita spent Sunday in the city, the guest of franks. Mrs J. W. Wool received notice last week of the marriage of Mrs. Rosy Jackson to Mr. Jentry McChalland, both of Independence, K辛. Mrs. Jackson lived in Winteld for a number of years and has lots of friends here who send congratulations. Preming Eller Brooks of the A. M. B. church held his quarterly meeting here last Sunday an quarterly conference on Monday evening. Rev Brooks preached a good sermon and the attendance was good. Mr Win McAlson of Arkansas City was up several days last week as a witness in the Moore murder trial. Moore was convicted. The drama under the suspices of the Second Judgment church choir is rehearsing Tuesday and Saturday of each week and expect to be able to put it on about 11 a.m. on the holidays. The name of the play is "Diamonds and Horses." in three acts Hon. W. A. Wright, in public on Wellington, to minister, in work at all its stations which it in the last four years P. A. N. Nichols, who has been very much am proved Mr. I. H. North, who has been at Sulphur restaurant the past six months, his servant Charley Franklin is filling the vacancy. Luther Moore of Wellington is now third cook at the Butler hotel. MIGGINSVILLE. MISSOURI. Mrs. Maggie Johnson changed cars at this place last Monday, on her way home from Mayview, Mo., where she has been teaching. On account of a few cases of diphtheria the schools were closed. Mr. Kantz Davis, who has been very sick, is reported to be some better. Died, in Kansas City, Mo., Walter Smith, son of Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Smith, who are living here. The remains were shipped her last Saturday, and the funeral services were held at 1 o'clock p. in Sunday, at Rev. J. H. Jenings' church. Mr. John Williams has been on the rock host for some time, but is now improving very nicely. PUBLICATION NOTICE In the City Court, Fort the City of Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas. J. D. Ewing, Plaintiff, vs. Thos. Bennett, Defendant. You are hereby notified that you have been sued in the above named court in an action to recover $1000 for board money furnished you. You are further notified that unless you plead or answer to the said bill of particulars on or before the 29th day of November, 1900, filed in said court, the plaintiff will take judgment for the above amount and costs of this suit. THE TRAGEDY OF COLOR! color in the Carolinas. No, in the place of all these amiable every-day experiences he lets his imagination go to work upon a monster, the "real nigger." "Ahl! You don't know the real nigger," said one American to me when I praised the colored people I had seen "You should see the buck nigger down South, Congo brand! Then you'd understand, sir." His voice, his face had a gleam of passionate animosity. One could see he had been brooding himself out of all relations to reality in this matter. He was a man beyond reason or pity. He was obsessed. Hatred of that imaginary diabolical 'buckager blackmail his soul. It was no good to talk to him of the 'Black American Packingtown Brand,' or the "buck Englishman suburban race meeting" and to ask him if those men ought to perceive mistaken or wrongly so. No reply would have been given. You don't understand that I would have answered you don't know how we Southeasterns I can only did not begin to realize one most important aspect of this question until I reached Amorac I thought of the eight millions of Black men black ink. But when I met Mr Booker at Washington for example, I met a man certainly a white man appearance as our Almanal Lashir, who is, as a matter of fact, quite white. A very large proportion of these colored people, indeed, is more than half white. One bears a good deal about the high social origins of the Southern planters, very many derive habitually from the first families of England. It is the same blood flows in these mixed colored people, since just think of the sublime absurdity, therefore, of the ban. There are gentle men of education and refinement, qualified lawyers and doctors, whose ancestors assisted in the Norman Conquest, and they dare not enter a car marked "white" and intrude upon the dignity of the rising loin monger from Eastham. For them the "Jim Crow" car. One tries to put that aspect to the American in vain "These people," you say, "are nearer your blood, nearer your temper, than any of those bright eyed, ringed immigrants on the Last Side. Are you ashamed of your poor relations? Even if you don't like the half, or the quarter of negro blood, you might deal cewily with the three quarters white. It doesn't say much for your faith in your own racial propetency, anyhow. " The answer to that is usually in terms of mania. "Let me tell you a little story just to illustrate," said one deponent to me in an impressive undertone—"just to illustrate, you know. A few years ago a young follow came to Boston from New Orleans. Looked all right Dark—but he explained that by an Italian grandmother. Touch of French in him, too. Popular Well, he made advances to a Boston girl—good family. Leave a nearly straight account of himself. Manied." He paused "counts" to time of spring little son. His eye made me feel what was coming. "Was it by chance very, very black? I who-pred "You're Black" black are your hot Voluntely negroed Projecting jaw the throat, it is hard to see in in oneside mother's in consider the pure mullet, pure white woman" What can one say to a story of this sort when the taint in the blood curse up so powerfully as to blight the child at birth beyond even the habit of the pure blooded negro? What can you do with a public opinion made of this class of ingredient? And this story of the immanentable results of intermarriage was used, not as an argument against intermarriage, but as an argument against the extension of quite rudimentary civil ties to the men of color. "If you eat when them, you've got to marry them," he said, an entirely fabulous post grand responsibility. It is to the fault whites my sympathies go out. The black or mainly black people seem to be fairly content with their immorality; one sees them all about the States as waiters, cab drivers, railway porters, ear attendants, laborers of various sorts, a pleasant smiling, acquaintance folk. But consider the case of a man with a broader brain than such small uses need, conscious, perhaps, of the exceptional gifts, capable of wide interests and sustained attempts, who is perhaps as English as you or I, with just a touch of color in his eyes, in his eyes, in his finger nails, and in his imagination. Think of the accumulating sense of injustice he must hear with him through life, the perpetual slight and insult he must undergo from all that is vulgar and brutal among the whites. Something of that one may read in the sorrowful pages of Du Bous' "The Souls of Black Folk" they would have made Alexandre Dumas travel in the Jim Crow car if he had come to Virginia. But I can imagine some sort of protest on the part of that admirable but arduous man. . . . They even talk of 'Din Crow elevators' now in 'southern hotels' At Hull House, in Chicago, I was present at a conference of colored people—Ming Jane Addams efficiently in control—to consider the coming of a voxational play, "The Chairman," which seems to have been written and produced entirely to exacerbate racial feeling. Both men and women were present, business people, professional men, and their wives; the speaking was clear, temperate, and wonderfully to the point, high above the level of any British town council. I have ever attended One lady would have stood out as capable and charming in any sort of public discussion in England—though we are not wanting in good women speakers and she was at least three-quarters black. And while I tour in Chicago, too, I went to the Peking Theatre—a "soon" music hall—and saw something of a lower level of colored life. The common white, I must explain delights in calling colored people towns and the negro, so far as I could learn, uses no realization, nor uses a variety of utter quite distinguished merit, good humored and brisk into heart, was that knight and lord, in one thing of the kind, in one would hall in a British town as lighthon and in Portsmouth in that one ward of knitting and love in that quite artifice and single aded the name seemed to me did his sort than, with a better knight and a better temper than a lonely lion and some think a user self-respect. He thinks more of department, he bears himself more elegantly by far than the white at the same social level the audience reminded me of the sort of gathering one would find in a theatre on Camden town or Horton. There were a number of family groups, the girls brightly dressed, and young couples quite of the London music hall type. Clothing ran "smart," but not smarter than it would be among fairly prosperous north London Jews. There was no gallery — usually — no collection of orange eating, interrupting hooligan at all. Nobody seemed alone, nobody seemed present for various purposes and everybody was sober. Indeed, there and elsewhere I took and confirmed a mighty hiking to these gentle, human, dark skinmed people. Discharged for White Men's Crime! Discharged for White Men's Crime! extra for everything he had sent from the outside, from writing papers to food and the news of life." Can't be Explained. This story may not be worthy of belief. It is given for what it is worth, because it is a new light on an obscure situation. Neither military men nor the townpeople have yet been able to explain how it was possible for soldiers to escape from a fort, begin shooting up a town, and get back without detection. There is ample evidence, to show that the first was alarmed long before the shooting stopped and the sword testation on every man unarmed officer into which officers were well was hastily cleared upon the unarmed officer in the own had been their own. A gun grit and had been fired by the officer in a land grove there would have been just such a disturbance in the town as the witnesses described and there would be no necessity to account for the mysterious presence of every soldier in the fort at the chook roll call at 11 o'clock, an hour before the shoot- ing, and at the roll call on the call to arms, love than half an hour after the first shot and before quiet had been re- stored in town. In conclusion, it is proper to say that the colored man who told this story, while he may be mistaken, in an upright, honorable man who would not wellfully tell a lie, and who evidently believes that he has scanned the solution in my story, 'That no one else has made it public and that he did not desire to have it made public in due to the fact that although the colored soldiers were discharged without honor, they had their lives, while if it should become even probable that the colored people of Browneville did the shooting, not many of them would survive the production of that fact J. W. Voohie's I also carry a fine bee of GROCERIES and MEATS. Give me a share of your bounty. State Avenue, Kensington City, Kensington House one and a half West. Undertakers and Embalmers. We carry one of the En- Topeka. Corner 7th and Quincy Sts. 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JONES, 499 KANSAS AVE, TOPKEA KANS. PYTHIAS. G. C., J. K. Lawla, Box 1017, Washita. V. G. C., B. Pope, Topeka. G. P., B. W. Batehelor, Lawrence. G. M. R., K. R. Lea, Topeka. G. K. R. & B., Dr. L. H. Anthony, 1814 North Fifth, Kansas City, Kan. G. M. A., W. A. Wright, Winfield. G. I. G., E. Hobson. G. A. G., K. B. Harris. G. M. D., Dr. S. H. Thompson, 1512 North Fifth, Kansas City, Kan. G. P. C., W. W. Plumb, Topeka. G. T. K. B., G. W. Fleming, Washita. G. B. K. B., A. T. Glover, 792 North Market, Washita. G. Atty., J. H. Guy, Topeka. G. Marshal, W. H. Hooker, Arkansas City. Freeman—Fred Martin, Julius Roose B. P. Garner BOLEY The Boley Barbers Wanted PROF HARRY ROBINSON, 31st Floor, St. Joseph, Mo., is in need of two st. c. barbers. This is a first class shop, and good barbers can make good money. AL ROOKE KILLI BUSINESS Mgr. OLYMPIC CLUB. 916 In Milmore Ave., Kansas City, Mo. BOARD_OF DIRECTORS: Chas. Smith. ... Nam Varbrough Scobe Childers ... Ed. Tipson Matt Bolon ... Nain Jones EARL DUNN, Pree. H. J. BETTIN, Bee. J. P. PHILLIPS, Steward. Afro-American When at Leasore, Call and See us. We Strive to Please. Phone 1349. 136 W. Douglas. WICHITA, KS. "THE KEYSTONE," RESTAURANT AND CAFE First-class service Short orders a specialty. When in Kansas City, call and see me. If you're pleased tell your friends, if not tell me. R. S. STREET, Prop. INFORMATION WANTED OF WILL DOUBLEY. Any information on W. D. Doubly who was lost hei of at Aylon's, I T., will be thankfully received by his brother, W. S. BROWN, 2824 State Street, 31-4-13. Chicago, Ill. HAIR GOODS, HAIR OR NAMENTS, NEW POMPA DOURS, SWITCHES, WIGS, FRIZZES AND MRS. M. L. FIELD, 819 KANSAS AVE. FEELING LIVER-ISH This Morning? TAKE THEDFORD'S Black-Draught Stops Indigestion and Constipation 25¢ AT ALL DRUGGISTS A Gentle Laxative And Appetizer BELL PHONE TOO MAIN ? to 10 A.M. 12 M. to 6 P.M. tud. Phone 86. ? to 10 P.M. J. M. JAMISON, M.D., PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Seamining Physician of the Knights and Ladies section. Special Attention to deacons of women and private deceases. Office and Residence, 527 Madison Street. O. A. TAYLOR, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON 821 Kansas Ave. Both 'Phone 774 Galls answered day and night. Office Hours {2 to 4 and 7 to 8 p.m. Residence 18 15 Van Buren Office over Lee's Drugstore 921 Knee, Ave Office Hours 10 8 m. 12 4 and 6 8 p.m. W.W. CALDWELL, M.D., Physician and Surgeon Ind 900 Phones Bell Office 4.1-1 10 Res. 424-2 NEWS OF THE WEEK. Miss P. A. Henry of Lyndon is in the city W. P. Parks of Kansas City is in Topeka visiting friends this week. Mrs. H. Forte will leave Monday for Springfield, Mo., where she will spend the holidays. The A. A. O. N. M. shrine will receive in full dress on New Year's Day, 1907, at Masonic hall, 404 Kansas avenue, from three to five. WANTED-Educated colored men to travel and distribute samples and circulate of our goods among their own people. salary $80 per month and expenses. Saunders Co. Desk 10, Jackson Boulevard, Chicago. The Ladies' Shamrock club will keep open doors New Year's at the residence of Mrs. C. Mukes, 405 Madison. Hours from two until five. The ladies hope to welcome many friends. The Phi Sigma girls will receive at the residence of Miss Bessie Hawkins, Fourteenth and Jackson, from two until six, New Year's Day. The Golden Rod Art club met with Miss Lizzie Cooper Friday, and the next meeting will be with Miss Lilia Ford on Van Buren street. A reunion ortday party was given Mr. J. Clark at his home, 1414 Western avenue. Monday evening, by Mrs. Clark. Among the numerous presents received was a beautiful rocking chair. Mrs. Salie Hunter, who has been visiting her relatives in Kingfisher, returned home Saturday. Mrs. John Odell gave a family dinner Thursday at her home on Western avenue. Miss McElroy received with the family. The Atheneum Art club met last week with Mrs. J.L. Williams, 1220 Madison street. Mrs. Fort was a pleasant visitor. The meeting this week was with Mrs. Hayes. After lunch was served the club adjourned to meet with Mrs. Walker. Mrs. G. Broadway of Chicago is visiting her relatives. Mrs. M. E. Matley and Mrs. Nancy Perkins. Misses Cora H. Allen and Anna Allen and Miss Hugh Pettis of Vinita, Okla, are the guests of Mrs. S. E. McCarroll on Leland street. Mr. and Mrs. Fitman, who have been visiting their mother, Mrs. Eliza Bryant, departed Tuesday for Seattle, Washington. David Chiles has a good home for an old man and his wife, who desire to raise chickens on the shares. Will furnish a good modern house and nine rooms. Address PLAINDEALER. Nervous Worn-Out Nervous Worn-Out If you ar in this condition, your nerve force is weak—the power is giving out, the organs of your body have "slowed up," and do not work imperfectly. This failure to do the work required, clogs the system and bruises distress and disease. When the nerves are weak the heart is unable to force the life-giving blood through your veins; the stomach fails to digest food; the kidneys lack power to filter impurities from the blood, and the poisonous waste rises in the system to break out. Nerve energy must be restored. Dr. Miles' Nervine would it, because it strong the nerves; it is a nerve to one and toic, that re the entire nervous system. Dr. Niles, he ne is rell to your drugrist who will curtain that the first bottle of it falls, he will return ye Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind IMPORTANT NOTICE. The Sunflower Agricultural convention will convene in Topeka in January, 1907. They will hold their meetings at the Shiloh Baptist church. This is one of the strongest organizations among our people in the state, and is worthy the support of our people. It is hoped that our people will open their homes and care for our colored farmer. ST. JOHN A. M. E. CHURCH. The official board met on Monday evening and elected the officers for the ensuing year. Mr. Andrew Giles. Mr. H. G Brown, seo'y, Mr. Robert Hendrickson. ase't seo'y. The following named ladies were confirmed as a board of stewardesses for the year: Mendames Laura Adame, G. A. Alexander, M. Chiles, A. Lucas, M. Smiley, Taylor Ree I, Ella Rolling, Mattie Brown, Mamie Woods. The sewing circle was delightfully entertained on Wednesday afternoon by Mrs. Ella Rolling. Mrs. Julia Brown left yesterday for Albuquerque, N. M., to witness the marriage of her granddaughter, and to spend some time visiting. Mrs. H. W. King, the wife of Rev King, has been confined to her home for several days. The choir of St. John has prepared some excellent music for Christmas. You should hear the music Christmas morning at 11 o'clock, at which time the pastor will preach from the subject, "The World's Christmas Gift." The Christmas tree and cantata of the Sunday school and church will be given Monday night. This will be a great event in the church work. Many of the young people have been specially drilled by the superintendent and teachers for this occasion. A committee of ladies will be in charge of the tree and receive all presents. The pastor will occupy the pulpit both morning and evening Sunday. You are invited to worship with us. The A. A. O. N. M. Shrine will receive in full dress on New Year's Day, 1907, at Masonic Hall, 404 Kansas avenue, from three to five. 60 YEARS' EXPERIENCE PATENTS TRADE MARKS DESIGNS COPYRIGHTS & C. Ansona sending a sketch and description me quickly asserting our opinion free whether an invention is probably rational or not. HANDBOOK in strikes soft free, oilless agency for securing patents. Patents taken through Munn & Co. receive special notice, without charge, in the Scientific American. A handsomely illustrated weekly. 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First published Dec. 14th 1906. PUBLICATION NOTICE. In the District Court of Shawnee County, Kansas. No. 24,086. R. A. Thomison, Plaintiff, vs L. Thomison, Defendant. The said defendant will take notice that she has been sued by plaintiff in the above entitled action, and that unless she answers the petition of plaintiff on or before December 12th, 1906, said petition will be taken as true and judgment rendered divarcing plaintiff from defendant. Attest: I S CURRIS, Clerk First published Oct. 26, '06, PUBLICATION NOTICE. In the District Court of Shawnee County, Kansas. No 24,085. Martha Knott, Plaintiff, 18 Henry Knott, Defendant. The said defendant will take notice that he has been sued by the plaintiff in the above entitled action, and that unl as he answers the petition of said plaintiff on or before December 12th, 1906, said petition will be taken as true and judgment rendered divorcing plaintiff from defendant, and giving her the custody of their minor children, Emma, George and Jimmy Knott. JOFFIN REED. Attent: Attorney for Plantill (STAT) J. S. CURRIS, Clerk. First published 0 t 26th July 11 m 1 hour 7 104 m 11 hour 44 74 m 1 hour 106 79 p.m. DR. N. B. FORD, PHARCIAN AND SCHLOSEN C. OVER THE DUG NET, Health and Dugway HUNTINGGE. KANSAS KANSAS CITY, KANSAS It is reported that Mrs G. L. Horsey is steadily regaining health Miss Laura Gant is to be married to Mr. Junius Harris, December 29, at the A. M. E. church. Miss Lydia Freeman will spend the holidays in Chaton, Mo, with her cousin, Miss Lunce P. Freeman, and other relatives. Rev. Collier preached at the A. M. L. church Sunday evening. Quarterly meeting will be held at the A. M. L. church Sunday afternoon, Dec. 23, 1900. Mr. Charles Ish is on the sick list. Electa Chaper elected officers for the ensuing year as follows: Mrs. A. J. Holmes, an ardent church worker, was elected Matron Mrs M. Y. Matthews, a graduate from the High School and other schools, and was successful in her teaching in public schools, also one who can fill any office given to women, was elected secretary Mrs Maud Jones, a worker in church clubs, was elected Associate Matron Mrs. P. Freeman, a graduate from the High School and of other schools a successful teacher and efficient church worker, was elected as Conductors Mrs Early, a good worker in church clubs, was elected Assistant Conductress Mrs. J. L. Dyson, an un-tiring church club and art club worker, was elected Treasurer Prof. Milton Collins, a High School graduate, an ex-teacher and a mail clerk, was elected Patron Shiba Chapter elected Mrs I Wilson as Matron and Mrs M Wilson as Secretary Prof Kings entertainment for the Sunday school rally at the Metropolitan church was quite largely attended. It was called "In Old Kentucky." Mr. J. W. Smith is out again. Mother Mobilya funeral was largely attended at the First Baptist church Dr. Horsey's wife is some better. The A M L. Sunday school raised over 110 last Sunday. KANSAS REALTY CO. Consisting of lay C. O Smith and W. H. Pallott, have then office on Sherman avenue East. Oppose the government building. Himself unmanned and are now ready for business. They earnestly solicit the patronage of persons having business in their line. They buy, sell, rent and make short loans. Business outside of the city will receive prompt attention. Dr J. M. Baskett has also furnished his office in the up to date style in the rooms adjacent. Under the skilful eye of Dr Baskett, Miss Ona Parkerson has failed to get away and the presence of the Doctor at any time is far better than a drink of concentrated live. The young damsel is out of danger. Mr. Perry Allen is the sole to pay this offer a call. He owns property. He is able to buy and maintain business. IOLA. KANAS on Saturday evening Dec. 14, at 6 o'clock at Mr. John P. Roll & Hammel Mo, and Mrs. Isaac Coxer on Hartville Mo, were invited in the holy hour of matrimony Rev. W. Gordon entertaining the young couple left on the 050 o'clock train for Nevada, Mo, at which place they expect to make their future home. The marriage was performed at the parsonage. Some of the best talent in lobb are rehearsing for the Spinster Convention, which is to be given in the near future for the benefit of the Second Baptist church. The Men's Dollar Club of the Second Baptist church met at the home of Bro Frank Weston and wife on last Thursday evening. After an hour of business an excellent program was rendered. The club is progressing nicely under the leadership of Dr T H McColor as president. This club will give an opoosum supper December 25 at the G A R. hall. Rev. and Mrs J Wooden will on New Years Day keep open doors at the parsonage from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. Each caller will be presented with a beautiful souvenir. The Second Baptist church has been completed. The pastor, Rev. J. W. Gordon, and the members are well pleased with the new church and we feel that the Lord has blessed us in our struggle, and much praise is due to our worthy pastor. The church will be deduced the first Sunday in January, 1907. Special services will be rendered on that day. The W. H. and F. M Circle of the Second Baptist church met at the residence of Mrs. P. H. McColors on last Tuesday afternoon, December 11. 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We trust that Mr. Chiles may soon visit our city a. n. What the city needs is more the dustrious men, such as carpenters, painters, an undertaker establ shment, a dry goods store and a pown shop and second hand store would do a banking business. W. A. Norrell the consortial man has resigned his position at Martin & Watson's shop, and use now be found in Jones & Maple's law office in the real estate business. A. A. Hawkins was in Sluenger Sunday. Now is the time for the Negroes to get together and to formulate some plan to protect themselves after the Constitutional Convention, that is, if such laws are enacted as were stated against the Negro. Rev. A. G. Washington, pastor of the A. M. E. church, is getting along nicely with his church. January is almost here and why not celebrate the Emancipation Proclamation on the proper date, and let July and August rest. In the country, where colored people own thousands of acres of land, they need good farmers and farm hands, men with money and ability. We arrived at Muscogee Sunday Nov. 10th. Here in where you had a large number of colored people engaged in business Day goods, clothing, shoes, millinery, in some processes, hobbies, business, law etc., doors, undertakers, and in the every thing that goes to making a cut, you with that colored people engaged to I the progressive one people would get together and raid a show of the young street loot which would add materially to the wealth and progress of the Our next visit was to South Mrs. Alster. This is the home of Col. James Beck and P. H. contractor E. I. McDinnell. We were the great at Mr. and Mrs. Col. Beck, who are going nicely. Mr. McDinnell is one of the academy men of the city, owning one of the best dancers in the town. To be found people are engaged in rehearsals, one in theater, one doctor. We met Rev. Brooks, at the A.M. E. church. He is safe has taken a claim in the Strip, which is valuable. We found a good many role young men. We met Mr. H. Cox, carpenter and constructor, who all the work he could. We found two INSURED A NATIONAL PRATELENAL SOCIETY incorporated Under the Law on $100, $200 and $300 and $200 for children aged 10 and 12 years old insurance every town. Write a letter on and Ladies of Protection P. C. Thomas Nairn J. G. Groves, Nairn THOMAS, Nairn Sec. in control, in the town in the town not on any other from here. We seemed the difficult to move. All roads in this section are a more progressive course than from a local and West hold the old route in their place. All they know is, Namur, "this being too far South. We'd not make a thorough invest in the land and surrounding country. The next stop was at Bryton, 20 mil a seat of Mascogee. If you find several progressive colored men in business. Eighty per cent of the land for 40 miles around is owned by colored people, and this is where colored men who want to grow cotton, corn, cattle, hogs can buy land cheap, and get rich. We met Mr. J S Carter, who has the contract carrying the mail to and from the trains. He and his sons are engaged in the mercantile business, owning their property and making money. Mr. Carter was a resident of Topeka for several years. David Ball is in the barns trade and doing well. I. Z Howerd, of Texas, is engaged in the hardware and implement business. Dr. A. J. Alstog is the druggist, physician and surgeon. J B Smith has a first class barber shop. There is one dressmaking and millinery. Chas Ezekil, only 22 years old, has just moved into his 100 feet trout, new stone building, department store, carrying a fifteen thousand dollar stock. John Grayson, who conducts a restaurant, owns 320 acres, of which 100 are in the city of Sapulpa. Wm Alcorn conducts hotel and bakery. We were entertained at the house of Capt Robinson and wife, who are among the leading families of the town. Capt Robinson is engaged in the real estate business, notary public, and being a lawyer he draws up legal instruments. He was dean of Walden University for several years. Rev. D. A Law is one of the wealthiest ministers of the territory and is also engaged in the undertaking business. The following list includes other business men and establishments: Undertaking, Robinson and Lemmings The Big Four Realty Bank and Trust Co will open on business Jan. 1, 1997, doing a regular banking business, skating Rink department store and event market. Chris Ezell Lawyers, Messrs Robinson and Morrison the Dear L. W. Levine and Blanksmith N. G. Prent and Crawton Jones in Morrison, R. E. L. Mitchell J. W. Cray Land, W. J. Pindy, The Citizen's Prodig Co., D. A. Lee manor, Cottabeders, D. A. L. Barrly Bldg. Restaurant, Lea Durant, Phil Jones. Hardware Howard Brothers and McCinn Real estate, Boynton Realty G., Gen T Robinson Pors Churchers A. M. E. Rev J. M. Granberry, pastor, Bpnt, Rev N. A Robn, pastor, Oth Fellows, Boynton Light ```markdown ``` The town is on the Friar, and the quite a population of colored people. J B Kiss was a long but a building corner stock of 1800. There are a long storeroom by J D Weller one doctor two lawyers one total and much more. Mr. J John Willems, who has lived there for years and in doing a good business, one dreammaking establishment Rev. J. H. H. has been moving from their riches to the town, where he will part r. He is doing well and will assist in locating good farms in that area in the country. Hardware stores are needed in several towns, that would pay the invoices. Our most star was Wingenee. We found Smith & Sons, whose try the largest stock of general not the smallest, in the countryside. VISION, 11 We arrived Saturday morning and found our people telling their and they came to the town of Cotterell, and the people knew of it. We stopped with Ryderhill, which was with standard. We were eagerly entertained at the house in Mr. Mr. H. P. Wren, who was among the most substantial and leading people of the town. Mr. Wren is engaged in the Pentatomium and Closus cleaning business. Our agent, Mr. A. A. Hawkins, is engaged in the barb business. We have one door, and two lawyers, young man from Howard, the name James & Mapple M. A. Sorrell has recently opened a real estate office on Locust Land hunters, farmers and those who want to make money on good land at cheap prices. KINGFISHER A few of the leading eight around IF YOU WANT LONG AND BEAUTIFUL HAIR USE Mme. C. J Walker's Wonderful Hair Grower. It promptly excels all others. It not only grows the hair but cures the scalp of all diseases and leaves the hair in a sun, air and natural condition. 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Torms $1.4 years four months. $1. Hold by all newadvertisers MUNN & Co. 301 Broadway. New York Branch Office, 88th St., Washington, D.C. NO 1 E No more to all Fabrières that Susie Wagner North is evacuated from the Western St Fabrières Now for telling the news in Nath Wollism a having him in- sulting the members on the street and also for desperate chase of fighting a black grinding and summoning all members. I do years I have been trying to reform this woman. She has been in demption. She is the worst charac- ter I have saw SAN JOEL LAMBERT President of the Western San Tolomade, No. 9 Oklahoma City is the city of the new state. Here is where a colored undertaker, a colored drugst, a colored dry goods and military store and a gente' clothing and furnishing goods enterprise would pay. W. F. Tucker is the seal, a grocer and owns his store building. J. H. Brooks one of the first settlers, conducts a first class restaurant and luncheon under. He owns property and is centrally located in the business center. This is the headquarters for colored people. We met our old friends S. B. Steele and E. R. Williams both headwriters of the two leading hotels in the city Mr. Williams has bought property and has opened up a first class cafe and club Mr. Steele is looking as prince as ever, and is laying his money in the bank for a many da. Thus Edwards is most excellent K P. of Oklahoma in a restaurant and lodging room. Dr. W H Saugher in physical an and surgery of it. He is a graduate of a angle man Dr. W. Saugher, a son of Mohair in medicine. M Holland the doctor only Lawrence, counselor Trailer and carrier in a two story brick house in town. Robert Bigham, one of the old residents of the city, from F. F. F. a malloon and good cozy in E. Crossow is a thriving man and Rev I. B. a manning an employee of the city waterworks. Dick Pavon, a Hopeen has made money and saved it since he lived in the city. TO BE CONNECTED. PUBLICATION NOTICE First Published in the Upper Plains dealer June 15, 1911 to the Iowa Mortgage Company, W. Wilson, husband of M. W. son; Diana Robbins and Rubadoux, his wife, and John Daw truments in error; You and each of you are hereby sent firm that Peter Robbins, the officer in ror, and on the 2nd day of March in the office, the place of the sur- rine Court of the State of Nebraska relation in error and are made the of a certain judgment rendered by the sect of which is to obtain the ver- District Court of Sherrard County as an act to obtain the证 court which A letter of Willem staff of the State of Nebraska error and affects the service required in to obtain the证 of more residents Steven A. Schorn, and B. P. H. Hammond Attorneys for Palatine in prison Attorney D. A. VALENTINE. MARTIN'S HOTEL and CAFE It is one of the nicest cleanest Cafes in the city Everything up the street and served in style Cafe in Bedford Specialty Ix. W. H. Martin, Proprietor 100 COURT STREET. Rev. J.J. Watson passed through here on the 10th, on his way home from Cherryvale. Rev. J. S. King, of Neosho, Mo. was shaking hands with old friends on the 11th. Mrs. Isabella Myers and daughter, who came here from Alabama, last September, to live with her daughter, Mrs. N. Griswold, left here on the 14th, for Dayton, O. where she has two sons, one of whom she has not seen for twenty years. K. C. Coker arrived on the 16th, to spend a few days. He and his wife lost all their things some time ago, by fire at Independence, Kansas. Much was donated to them in Weir by their lodge and several others. The Fair held by the A. M. R. church was a well affair. At 8:10 p.m. on the 10th the house was called to order by the Rev. F. L. George, pastor. Prayer was offered, by Rev. A. Dillerd. Welcome address by Rev. M. H. Spencer, response by Mrs. F. L. George. The closing night was on the 11th. The one selling the most tickets, Mrs. Lillie Dupree, #18 50, gets a gold watch; next, Minn Mary Carson, $7.50, gold ring; receipts over $50 Mrs. Jennie Readers went to Springfield, Mo., for the holidays. GALENA NOTES It has been quiet a while since we have seen any thing from the holy city, Galena. The quilldriver seems to have dipped his pen in silence. Reporter, where art thou? The Old Folks Concert, given at the Baptist church last Thanksgiving night, was indeed a grand success. The pastor and members of the Little Bethel A. M. E. church are beaulifying their edifice. Look out, boys! If you do eo again we'll lay hands on you. Do what? Yon remember last Saturday night. Galena business men of color, outside of mining, are vory scarce. A young colored man entered a Mexican's lunch room and asked for a Chilli. The reply was, "Your counter has not been built yet." The young man inferred the rest and walked out. One among the principal things the Negro should learn is to be economical, to spend money wisely, build lunch counters of our own. Then, and not until then, can we avoid some of the many embarrassments with which we have to contend. There will be a grand Carnival given by the Auxilliary Board of Little Bethel A. M. E. church, on Decem. 25-26, 1906, to which the public is cordially invited. There was a grand banquet given at Moeba hall last Thursday night, in honor of the K. of P's. Every thing was nicely arranged and up to date and spoke well for the order in Galena. Sir Knight Sergeant Young, the Captain of the Uniformed Ranks of K. of P., is an up to date K. of P., and deserves much praise for the care he takes in training the boys. Brother Joseph Larkness is quite an active trustee of Little Bethel. The Auxiliary Board of A.M.K. church held a very profitable meeting last Monday evening. Mrs. Susan Glenn was Chairman, Mrs. Julia Ewings secretary and Mrs. K. Ewards treasurer. Mrs. Emma Stewart is on the sick. Little Bethel S. S. will give a and Concert on the 27th inst. and are cordially invited to attend. The world is much in need of men who are great thinkers; but much more is it in need of men who are it does. We are all more or less consider- where we will spend Xmas; but many of us are considering as where we shall spend eternity. There are two things some Ne will not do. They will not and to their own business, nor bother the white man's business. --- HU49R HE STRUCK IT. Tommy's Thoughts Were elsewhere, but he Could Guess. "There is a sentimental Tommy in all most every school," said Michael King of Lewiston as he leaned over the counter of his cafe on Main street and cut a luscious pumpkin pie. "There was one in our school when I was a boy. He was Tommy Prazier, and he was a mighty smart little fellow, but he never had his lessons. He knew where every bird nested, where the May flowers grew the thickest and where the high top sweetings fell first; but, bless you, he couldn't remember his lessons. He was critical in many matters too. He knew all that was passing in the politics of the state and nation, but he was off in his history lesson. One day he came in life and couldn't keep his thoughts on his book. On his way to school he had seen a big mud turtle by the side of the track, and he had to put a big rock on him to hold him till night, and his anxiety lost the turtle should get away blinded his eyes. He hoped that somehow the teacher would pass him over. He listened to the other children reeling, with a big mud turtle crawling away before his eyes with a rock on his back, but finally the teacher's eyes fell on him. "Tommy Frazier, what little was Lord Nelson killed in?" "Tommy was in despair, but he found a way. "Did you say Lord Nelson" he asked cautiously. A Lesson From Files. It was in a country school, and I was hearing my little second reader class. The lesson that day was a story about files, their curious ways and habits. Among other things the story said that files always kept their faces clean and then went on to tell how they rubbed their feet over their hands, as could often be seen by watching them. The last thing in the lesson was the question, "What lessons can boys and girls learn from the files?" I asked the children to answer the question. Only one small boy ventured an answer, and that was, "To wash our faces with our fe Christian Register. Easy For an Expert. "Hah," said Sherlock Holmes, Jr. after shaking hands with his host and taking a hasty glance at the other guests, "your wife is jealous of your!" "By George, Holmes, you're a wonder! I've never told a soul about it, and I don't believe she has. How did you find it out?" "Merely one of my wonderful deductions, my dear sir. It's very simple. I see she has invited only old ladies and homely ones."—Chicago Record-Herald. What They Bid "What do you do when you outgrow your clothes?" Representative John Sharp Williams asked two of Representative Champ Clark's children, to whom he was trying to explain why crabs and lobsters shed their shells and snakes their skins. "Let out the tucks," answered one of the youthful Clarks—Denver Republican. Tom (at the lunch counter)—Pretty tough doughnuts these. Dick-One good thing about them though. Tom—And what's that, for heaven's sake? Dick—The hole. That part you don't have in chew, you know. — Boston Transcript. A sign. "He's still employed by that big wholesale house, isn't he?" "No. I think he's in business for himself now. He used to take an hour for lunch, but now he only takes a bare five minutes." — Philadelphia Press. Unselfish. Father—Here! Take that drum out of here! Willie—But, pop, I wanted you to enjoy it with me—New York Amort can. The Strange Part. They Know Where to Step. Women always chide their husbands for working overtime, but they never spurn the money which is earned that way.—New York Press. CALIFORNIA AND THE JAPANESE. That the great issue on the Pacific Coast today is whether or not this shall continue to be a white man's country and that this is of such vital character that the states menaced by the present situation will subordinate all other principles in politics to it and flop to the Democratic party because it is supposed to stand for the color line—those are the assertions made by a staff correspondent of the Chicago Tribune in a San Francisco dispatch. The race question out there, as he pictures it, makes the situation on the same proposition in the South—where a different race is involved—look tame. The feeling against the Japanese in California, Oregon and Washington has always been exceedingly hostile, but it has been greatly intensified by the proposal of the president in his message that they be admitted to full citizenship and accorded favored nations' rights under the immigration law. Many fear the agitation may lead to violence in the more isolated and poorly policed communities. The correspondent, in relating the story of his inquiry into the agitation describes an interview with Consul Uyeno, who e reports to the home government caused all the trouble Uyeno, smiled at the idea of war between Japan and the United States. He declared Japan was the greatest friend Americans had—but on the school question he was firm. It was he who two years ago, told his government that San Francisco was planning to refuse Japanese rights accorded other nations—and who when the move actually was made by the school board after the earthquake, cabled the news that has started so much trouble. I saw Col. Uyeno in temporary offices at 2730 Pine street. He is so suave and sweet that no man with chapped lips ever would dare to tell how suave and sweet he is Also, he is discreet. AMERICA'S CHANCE IN JAPAN. "Japan claims the rights of all favored nations," he said. "Does Japan accord the rights of favored nations to America?" "Surely so—all rights." "Could I go to Japan and enter the schools there to learn the lan guage?" "Surely so." "Can I own property there?" "O, Japan is a small country. There are restrictions. He smiled "Would I be received as an equal?" "Surely so." "If I made a contract with a Jap anese would that bind me?" He smiled. Then I added: "Is it true I would not be accorded contract rights in Japan equal to Japanese?" "You would have all the rights the citizens of other nations have." We got back to the school question "The move was premeditated," he said. "It is a question as to whether a treaty is the supreme law of the land." "Was not the situation forced upon California by the earthquake?" "No, it was planned before that "Do the Japanese regard it as an insult to their nation?" ADMISSION WAS PLANNED AHEAD Thereupon the men who had said that there was no intended insult to the Japanese and that the San Francisco school board acted merely through necessity arising from the earthquake and fire were sought. James Graham, a member of the executive board of the Japanese and Korean Exclusion league was frankness itself. "The school board we elected over a year ago was pledged to maintain separate schools for the Japanese," he said. "We started the agitation two years ago. Only a lack of money prevented the board from providing separate schools then. They promised to do so as soon as financial conditions would permit The earthquake brought the opportunity." So Uyeno's statement was proven true. . Furthermore Graham, who for years has served as a collector of statistics for the Exclusion League, talked trouble. velt may turn California into a Democratic state, as was done by the Chinese agitation. The people will not stand it. It the Federal courts order us to receive Japs in our schools on terms of equality, we will take out of the schools. "The situation is dangerous," he continued. "People here don't care what Roosevelt says. He does not know. Fifteen years ago we thought the same way the East does now. We have learned. Unless the Japanese are held back and prevented from grabbing our land and our business we must get out of California." "It is a Japanese army," declared W. V. Saffard, Commissioner of Labor for California, "an army in a double sense. Every Japanese emigrant is a member of their military organization—a discharged soldier, or a man with a mission. They come as an army of occupation. Unless restricted they will stay." "Everywhere it is believed Japan is having a diplomatic game, although few think war is an immediate object. M. L. Wharton of Manila, one of the passengers on the steamship China, just arrived, said, "Everybody in Manila expects war. The Japs there are predicting the Philippines will be owned by the Japanese inside of two years. Capitalists are alarmed and are preparing to get out rapidly if the storm breaks. Meantime the school board stands impassive. It will not accept the Japson equality. Politicians declare the legislature will not only pass a more stringent exclusion law, but demand that the federal government take action restricting Japanese immigration. Opinion seems to prevail in the East that the Japanese question is a labor union question. This is true and untrue. Labor unions have been active in the matter, and in fact form the backbone of the Japanese and Korean Exclusion league. But the But the backbone of the anti-Japanese sentiment appears not to be among the labor unions, but among the small shopkeepers, small ranch owners and small fruit dealers. LIMITED COMPETITION WITH JAPAN. The Japs have not come into open competition with organized union labor except in two instances. True two years ago Japanese competition broke the fish gutters and salmon canners' unions, but in the main, the Japanese have kept out of the competition with organized labor. The only two instances in which they have locked horns with union labor are in the cooks and waiters' union, which they have destroyed, and latterly in the Union Works. As to the attitude of California as a whole, it is different from that of San Francisco. In the south of the state Japanese are welcomed. In the wheat, corn and alfalfa fields he is not known. Down South where are the great ranches owned by easterners who look only for cheap labor the Jap is the salvation of the citrus fruit crop. In the berry and grape region he saves—but he is a problem all over the state and an unwelcome one. Ten years ago the Japanese were welcomed as the salvation and solution of the Chinese problem. Now the people are complaining bitterly and calling for the Chinese to solve the Japanese problem. Strange as it may seem, in the East the Japanese is rated much lower than the Chinaman, both as to actual worth as a worker and as to honesty and reliability. California would, perhaps, rather lift the bars and let in the Chinaman, than permit the Japanese to continue to come in large numbers. The virtues of the Japanese make him more dangerous and he has more vices than the Chinese. The Japanese can live on about the same money as the Chinese and is so much smarter in improving opportunities that he can compete with anyone. It is not only San Francisco that it complaining. Conditions in other places appear worse—and complaints are louder. True, Los Angeles, largely composed of easterners, is complacent and easy, welcoming Japanese. GREAT BEND, KANS. Miss Ethel Stephens was sweet sixteen December 11. Western University, CINCINARO, KANSAS Mansion The Leading and Great Institution of its Kind in the Great West WILLIAM VERNON. A. M., D. D. President at his home, 1805 North William street, at the age of 73 years, eight months, three weeks and one day. The funeral was held on the 6th at the A. M. E. church, of which he had been an active member for 33 years. Rev. B. W. Alexander, pastor of the A. M. E. church preached the funeral, after which the body was laid to rest in the Gr at B and cemetery. Miss Rosa Watson and Mr. George Childs were united in the holy burs of matrimony Wednesday evening. December 5th at the residence of the bride's father, Mr. David Watson. Rev. J. H. Kaimey, pastor of the First Baptist church, preached two able sermons Sunday and the church felt the Spirit and realized that God was in their midst. Rev. J. H. Ramey left on the 12th for Eldorado, Kans., to meet the executive board. The Queen Esther circle met at Mrs. Millie Calmor's Friday. Mrs J. H. Ramey, president, Mrs Linda Johnson, secretary. Rev. E. W. Alexander r. pastor of the A. M. E. church, preached a very interesting sermon Sunday, and Sunday night, and the members are feeling the spirit and are doing nicely. The Willing Worker club met at M. James Rooks' Friday night Mrs. G. H. Smith, president, Mrs H. C. Sellers, secretary. We thank the neighbours and friends for their kind assistance during the illness and death of my father H. C. ELLERS AND FAMILY Miss Annie Irish of Kawanah Otn Mo. is visiting her sister, Mrs G H. Smith. Miss Kate Joshlin is quite at her home. North Stone street. Miss Myrtle Johnson is on the sick list. Mme. De Vaui School of high-class tailoring Tutition reasonable. Write for information. The Little Rose Bud Cafe A. J. SEYMOUR, Prop.: 796 Wyansotte Street. Kansas City, Mo Cafe Open Until 2 A.M The only first-class place in the city. PRIVATF DINING ROO West The Leading C COURSE Classical, College mal, Musical (Instrument organ and harmony, Dress Carpentry, Printing and Stenography and Typewritiain Sewing, Cooking, I WILLIAM THE MARTIN MARTIN You are hereby notified that the plain staff above named filed her petition in said court on the 10th day of October, 1906, asking for a divorce from you and Dr.P. Holmes, Regular Medical Physician with Thirty Years of Experience in the United States. A GREAT DAY, NO. 4, 1826. With 22 years of experience. He will come you in a hundred yards. Will return any one of Fever and Chills in five minutes. Will give you all his eases. Old Saints. Poor souls. Gramp Colic. Bluenose. 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We wish this to be the best meeting in the history of an organization. The oratorical works among Colleges and High Schools will be a special feature. Also, the content among musical composers and poetic writers. The basis of representation is as follows. Old societies will pay a fee of $1.00, new societies $1.50. Each are entitled to three delegates and a corresponding number of alternates. Please send list of delegates to the Corr. Sec., designating the program representative, not later than November 24th. MRR W. L. GRANT, C. Sec. 1064 N. 4th Street. Kansas City, Kansas ISMAH HORTON, Pro. Kansas City, M. 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When ordering and postal or express money order, and make the price. Write your name and address capital is to The Ozonized Ox Marrow Co. (Name generalis without my signature) Charles Ford Reit 70 W. W. 10th Ave., Chicago, IL Agents wanted every whereu rsty, ```markdown ``` The Great Educan on institution in Kansas and the West Departments Theological. College. Normal, Sub-Normal and State Normal. the Great West While President Roosevelt's treatment of lynching, mob violence and other matters of racial interest, in his message to Congress Tuesday, is especially strong, there are a few very hurtful and wrong impressions made by it. His statement that "the greatest existing cause of lynching is the perpetration, especially by black men, of the hideous crime of rape" is not borne out by annual lynching statistics, and is not true. It is unintentional label of the entire tree, north and south, and hurts and will continue to do so for years to come because it is a presidential endorsement of a Southern reiteration that has been in habitiously circulated by prejudiced persons for years, and too, in the face of destructive statistical facts, with a view to its ultimate acceptance and belief upon the part of the entire country. WE WANT 6,000 Now, to President Garnett place in his address and the sight to make the people of the country see and recognize the truth shown in the statistical facts destroying the vitally injurious renovation, may go on with reloubled sign, from now on. In the paragraph following the one containing the sentence quoted above, the President has the following contradictory statement: "Two thirds of the lysohings [of Afro-Americans] are not for rape at all." True is true, but the harm has been done. More Men, Women and Children to Read and Pay for Equally hurtful and untrue is the Southern charge that our people, north or south, harbor their criminals. Equally unfortunate is the President's giving it place in his message. We are no more prone to this sort of thing than are other classes of Americans. It is wrong, particularly so for the President, to even give out in trustly an opposite impression. Every month in the crimes of tape are committed by white-brutes in the large cities of the country than are charged to Afro-Americans in an entire year. Why create the impression that it is a time peculiarly the Afro-Americans? Yet this is exactly what the President has unintentionally done by his imperfect treatment of the subject. If we had an opportunity we would change and real to him a portion of a paragraph of his message, substituting the word "white" for that of "colorel," in order that we might thoroughly impress him with another fact which he seems to eye look and that will appear after a careful reading of the following change excerpt from his message: "Every white man should realize that the worst enemy of his race is the white or mind, and above all the white criminal who commits the dreadful crime of rape; and it should be felt as in the highest degree in offence against the whole country and against the white race in particular, for a white man to fail to keep the officers of the law in hunting down with all possible ravages and real every sort of infamie or fander." Liberal Commission to Energetic The President is especially strong in an endorsement of industrial education in the following sentence: Of course, the best type of education for the colored man, taken as whole, is not just a sort of education in schools like Hang on and Tuskogee, where the boys and girls the young men and women are trained industrially to well serve in busy public schools in America. AGENTS He is especially severe in his denation of antiscientific and insensitive speech and writing" o annotative Southern demagogue like Ben Tillman, I am Verlman, Tom Dixon, Jack Graves, Hue Smith and their ilk. His argument in favor of the public school for a in the South "free of the proportion to tax" nonsense advocate in some of the states, is especially timely and strong and we trust will have a great effect for good.—The Cleveland Gazette. WRITE FOR TERMS