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T. IL GOPEKA PLAINDEALER. VOLUME IX. The Editor Finds the People Making Money and Put ing it to Good Use. We find the the colored people who want something are continuing in the good work of securing homes, buying real estate at a rapid rate We found more young people owning property here than in any section that we have visited. Two young men are engaged in the second hand business, carrying a good line of household goods from a tie cup to a bedroom set. They are also engaged in plumbing and are the first of the race in Kansas to engage in such a business. Colored men should learn this business. T. W. Green, Jr, is one of the best horse sheers in the country, drawing good wages. More men of the race might follow his example and grow rich and happy. We heard some awful good news about Mr. Green. We did not learn her name One of the substantial colored families of the city is that of Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Seymour, 311 South St. They own their beautiful home close to the business center. Others also own valuable property. Mr. Banks, an old soldier, has lived in Kansas since '69. Mrs. Jessie Hoyt is pushing her work as an artist and will succeed. Mrs. James Stewart, a buxom widow, will leave for Abington, Va., next month, to reside. She owns valuable property here which she will hold. Mr. Joe Poole is one of the finest plasterers in the West. He makes from five to $25 dollars per day. Why can't we get others to do likewise? Young men like him could do well at this trade Mrs. Mary Ross was married recently to Mr. Bucker; they are industrious and are saving money. Presiding Elder J. R. Ransom was holding quarterly meeting in Bassett last week. Rev. H. Williams is doing well. He will build a parsonage room. After the quarterly services the ladies of the church realized a nice little sum from the sale of ice cream and cake. J. J Jones, recently from Bartletta ville, is doing a nice little grocery business. A. Boll of Bassett is the man who owns considerable property and has lots of cash. Our old friend, Alex Reeves, and his sons are making history and money at the cement works. Lane Brooks is depot master at Iola. AI CHANUTE. The colored people own their homes and have them paid for. We had no trouble in collecting for Tim PLAINDFALER. They all have the ready cash. All are at work, no tillers. This is the home of A. E. Ray, the champion runner of the United States and pulls down several hundred dollars every year in prizes. His parents are among the best fixed people in the Southeastern part of the state. They own good property and have money on hand all the time. Milton Gaston, who manages the Bened et elevator and mill, owns good property; he has worked at this one place for twelve years. He is a Ken tucklan by birth, a race man and stand's high with the people. J H Nowland, a Topka young man, has charge of the Elke club and is making money. He and I is devoted wife, formerly Miss Narjo, are living in a pretty home, nicely furnished, she is a first-class, neat house keeper. J. Dickson, the druggist, has held a clerkship in one store for a number of years, owns good property and is saving money. J. N. Hale and G. W. Daws n. house cleaners have the i town and are making money. They also own good property. W.M. Fields, one of the leading Masons of Kansas, has charge of supplying the Santa Fe trains with water and ice. He has lived in the city of Tucumne for years, has bought property and has something laid up for a rainy day. This is the home of ex-state senator Carpenter. When asked what he thought of the political situation; he said that he was not in politics. That Jim Nation, Seth Wells, Newt Alien and McClellan were the houses of Newsho county, that whatever they say is law and gospel and that no other citizen dare say aught. He thinks the people will yet call the bosses' hand. Mr. Ed Dickson is married and is living in a nice home of his own. His honey moon doesn't seem to wear off Mr. and Mrs. Campbell own good property and are among the most industrious people of the town. Washington News Notes. Washington, D. C.—The annual meeting of the Baltimore and Philadelphia conference of the A. M. E. Zion connection was held from the 14th to the 21st, and was largely attended at all of the sessions. Bishop George Wylie Clinton presided, and delivered and episcopal address that treated the problems of the Negro and the influence of the church in solving them in a highly illuminating fashion. In organizing the conference, the following officers were elected: Chief secretary, Rev. W. H. Marshall, assistant secretary, Rev. George M. Oliver; statistician, Rev B. J Bolding; marshals, Rev. R. C. Thornton, Rev. S. W. A. Tolbert, Rev. J. S. Dorsey and Rev. J. W. E. Rolay; post office messenger, D. P. Witten; press representatives. J. W. Poo and P. H. Williams. The session formulated some of most pressing reforms to be brought forward at the Philadelphia general conference next May. Cosmopolitan Baptist church, Rev. Simon P. Drew, pastor, is making an effort to raise sufficient funds to commence the erection of a new $100,000 temple of worship. It is Dr. Drew's idea to establish at the nation's capital a Baptist tabernacle, seating 3,000 or 4,000 persons and have available an immense auditorium in which the great meetings of the denomination can be held, and suitable for commeniments, fraternity conventions, or any large gathering devoted to the moral and material uplift of the people. A Mr. Weatherspoon of New York has agreed to donate $10,000, if a like amount will be raised by the church itself. Of this amount, about $1,000 has been already subscribed, and the remainder will be forthcoming. The Trinity Baptist church, Rev. J. Anderson Taylor, pastor, has been officially recognized by the associate churches as an independent Missionary Baptist church. Trinity is an off-shoot of Shiloh. Howard University and Armstrong Manual Training school will have splendid exhibits at the Jamestown exposition. The next session of the Baltimore conference of the A. M. E. church will be held in the Metropolitan church here. It will be held just before the general conference at Norfolk, and will have a significant effect upon the various candidates for the various offices, as this neck-o' the-woods is full of aspirants for the big place. The situation now looks as if Dr. E. W. Lampton would make the bishopric on the first ballot, and that Ira T. Bryant for the Sunday-school union will come under the wite a winner. Dr. John Hurst and Dr A. L. Gaines will have to fight for the financial secretaryship and editorship, respectively, of the Christian Recorder, but the men who beat them out will be all out of breath when they reach the post. Dr. W. T. Vernon, who knows a thing or two about the inside workings of the connection, is simply "sawing wood and saying nothing." TOPEKA, KANSAS, FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 24, 1907. TWO SIDES OF THE COLOR QUESTION! Ray Stannard Baker and Harris Dickson Deliver Themselves on the Color Question. W. H. BISHOP ABRAM GRANT, Ph. D., Scholar Stateman and Educator Who Will Deliver the Commencement Address at the Topoku Industrial Institute Wednesday at 3 p.m. Hear Ye Him. Mr. Dickson's Side. [Continued from Last Week] I go in the Saturday Living Post. The fathers of the present generation were better men than their sons, healthier, more reliable, more industrious. There were better artisans and mechanics among the slaves than among free men today: Young Negroes are idler, more vicious, and have been educated into six hundred per cent of more criminality. Left to his own devices, the Negro produces only twenty seven per cent of the cotton crop, despite the popular idea that he makes it all. The English president of a Southern railway system once told the writer that for twenty years they had been gradually eliminating Negroes from all positions of responsibility where negligence would cause loss of life and property. These are facts, open, norious facts, which no man can gain say. The South has had its bitter dose of Negro voters. We took it not in a sugar-coated pill, nor in a capsule, but straight. Negroes governed the country for eight years after the war, and increased the war debts five-fold. Four years of unparalled war left the Southern States with an average debt of seven millions; Negro rule in eight years of profound peace and BISHOP ABRAM GRANT, Ph. D. Who Will Deliver the Com- Industrial Institute Wednesday abject poverty multiplied those debts to an average of thirty-four millions. War is less expensive than peace under Negro domination Vardaman knows these things, we all know them. The Vardaman Idea is growing. It is an accepted fact in the North—although there are differences of opinion as to its present expediency. It is being whispered by politicians of both parties in the Border States, under their breath, for the Negro wields the balance of power. Lifelong Republicans in Maryland have been driven temporarily into Democratic ranks upon this issue—the bigament which binds the solid South. Gov. Warfield, after recent experience, has changed his views, and his state is now in a fair way to rid itself of the black incubus. Mark the reason given for Gov. Warfield's previous reluctance—he is said to have come of the old slave holding class, and has not yet outgrown his sentimental kindliness for the Negro. This is a characteristic of his class. Vardaman is six feet, black-haired, erect as an Indian, white hatted, white cropped, atalwart and p.c- A man of intense personality, he says what he thinks, and says in unmistakable English, that he backs it up with all the might that in him lies. His propensity for speaking out in meeting without regard for diplomacy has kept him on the fighting line all his life. But Vardaman would be happy nowhere else. Before the Spanish War he was editing a newspaper at Greenwood, Mississippi. He preached intervention. Then he deemed it his duty to help fight the war he had advocated. Leaving wife and family, he enlisted as a private in the First Mississippi Volunteer. A neighboring company elected him captain but the then governor of Mississippi refused to commission him. His indignant company wanted to disband, but Vardaman held them together and forced the election of another leader. He immediately reenlisted in the Fifth U.S. Volunteers of yellow fever immunes, although himself not an immune. The situation at fever-stricken Santiago was so desperate that Colonel Roosevelt and other officers, in the famous round robin, said that if they were not taken out of there they would die. Vardaman, with the Fifth Immunes, was sent to relieve them. A few months Dr. Scholar Stateman and Educator Emancipation Address at the Topch day at 3 p.m. Hear Ye Him. after his arrival in Cuba, he was ap pointed Major "General Wood," says the governor, "told me an incident that happened to Colonel Roosevelt in the battle of San Juan. It seems that a Negro regiment had broken, and some of them were lying down in front of Roosevelt's position. When the Negroes got cool and began to look around them, one big, black yellow raised his head and remarked, 'Dis aint our c'mand,' 'Keep your position, ordered Roosevelt. "We're gone' back to our c'mand,' the Negroes insisted. "Keep your position, Roosevelt repeated. 'The first man that moved I will kill. If you don't believe I'll kill you, ask that man,' pointing to a mergeant. "Yes, he will kill you," the mergeant assured them cheerfully. And the Negro lay quiet. "That is just like a Negro," the governor commented. "Under the leadership of one brave white man, while the band is playing, you can lead him into the mouth of hell but Continue on Page 4 --- As Mr. Baker Sees It! (Continued from last week.) One day, walking in Broad street, I passed a Negro store one. I did not know there was such a thing in the country. I went in to make inquiries. It was not, well kept, and evidently prosperous. I found that it was owned by a stock company, organized and controlled by Negroes; the manager was a brisk young mulatto named Hupar, a graduate of Atlanta University. I found him dictating to a Negro girl stenographer. There were two reasons, he said, why the store had been opened; one was because the promoters thought it a good business opportunity, and the other was because many Negroes of the better class felt that they did not get fair treatment at white stores. At some places—not all, he said—when a Negro woman went to buy a pair of shoes the clerk would hand them to her without offering to help her try them on; and a Negro was always kept waiting until all white people in the store had been served. Since the new business was opened, he said, it had attracted much of the Negro trade; all the leaders advising their people to patronize him. I was much interested to find out how this young man looked upon the race question. His first answer struck me forcibly, for it was the universal and typical answer of the business man the world over, whether white, yellow or black: "All I want," he said, "is to be protected and let alone, so that I can build up this business" "What do you mean by protection?" I asked. "Well, justice between the races. That doesn't mean social equality. We have a society of our own and that is all we want. If we can have justice in the courts, and fan protection, we can learn to compete with the white stores and get along all right." Such an enterprise as this must cater the new, economic separation between the races. "Here is business," says the Negro, "which I am going to do." Considering the fact that only a few years ago, the Negro did no business at all, and had no professional men, it is really surprising to a Northerner to see what progress he has made. One of the first lines he took up was, not unnaturally, the undertaking business. Some of the most prosperous Negroes in every southern city are undertakers, doing work exclusively, of course, for colored people. Other only enterprises, growing naturally out of a history of personal service, were barbering and tailoring. Atlanta has many small Negro tutors and clothes cleaning shops. The wealthiest Negro in Atlanta, A. F. Hamilton, operates the largest barber shop in the city; he is pres- ident of a Negro insurance company —of which there are four in the city and he owns and rents some fifty dwelling houses. He is sadd to be worth £50,000, all made, of course, since slavery. Another occupation developing naturally from the industrial training of slavery was the business of the building contractor. Several such Negroes, notably Alexander Hamilton, do a considerable business in Atlanta, and have made money. They are employed by white men, and they hire for their jobs both white and Negro workmen. Small groceries and other stores are of later appearance; I saw at NUMBER 21. least a score of them in various parts of Atlanta. For the most part they are very small, many are exceedingly dirty and ill-kept; usually much poorer than corresponding places kept by foreigners, indiscriminately called "Duggs" down here, who are in reality mostly Russian Jews and Greeks. But there are a few Negro grocery stores in Atlanta that are highly creditable. Other business enterprises include restaurants (for Negroes) printing establishments, two newspapers and several drug stores. In other words the Negro is rapidly building up his own business enterprises, tendng to make himself independent as a store. The appearance of Negro drug stores was the natural result of the increasing practice of Negro doctors and dentists. Time was when all Negroes preferred to go to white practitioners but since educated colored doctors became common, they have taken a very large part—practically all, I am told—of the practice of Atlanta. Several of them have had degrees from Northern universities, two from Yale; and one of them at least has some little practice among white people. The doctors are leaders among their people. Naturally they give prescriptions to be filled by druggists of their own race; hence the growth of the drug business among Negroes everywhere in the South. The first store so be established in Atlanta occupies an old wooden building in Auburn avenue. It is operated by Moses Amos, a mulatto, and enjoys I understand, a high degree of prosperity. I visited it. A post-office occupies one corner of the room; and it is a familiar gathering place for colored men. Moses Amos told me his story, and I found it so interesting, and so significant of the way in which Negro business men have come up, that I am setting it down briefly here: "I shall never forget," Le said, 'my first day in the drug business. It was in 1876. I remember I was with a crowd of boys in Peachtree street, where Dr. Huss, a Scotchman, kept a drug store. The old doctor was putting out in front, smoking his pipe. He called one little Negro after another, and finally chose me. He said: "I want you to live with me, work in the store and look after my horse." he sent me to his house and told me to tell his wife to give me some breakfast, and I certainly delivered his message correctly. His wife, who was a noble lady, not only fed me, but made me take a bath in a sure enough porcelain tub, the first I had ever seen. When I went back to the store I was no regenerated that the doctor had to adjust his posture before he knew me. He said to me: "You can wash bottles, put up castor oil, salts and turpentine, sell anything you know and put the money in the drawer." "He showed me how to work the keys of the cash drawer. 'I am going to trust you,' he said. 'Don't steal from me; if you want anything ask for it, and you can have it. And don't lie; I hate a liar. A boy who will he will steal too.' "I remained with Dr. Huss three ten years. He sent me to school and paid my tuition out of his own pocket; he trusted me fully, often leaving me in charge of his business for weeks at a time. When he died I formed a partnership with Dr. Butler, Dr. Slater and others, and bought the store. Our business grew and prospered, so that within a few years we had a stock of $3000 and $800 cash. That made us an button. We bought land, built a new store, and went into debt to do it. We didn't know much about Continued on Page 4. Mrs. S. H. Harrison left this week for a visit to Columbus, Kansas. For fine ice cream soda, go to the Capital pharmacy, 312 Kansas ave. Mrs. Carrie Johnson-Williams left yesterday for Oklahoma City, where she will join her husband and reside permanently. A. B. Williamson's opeka Giants were defeated by the Unions in Kansas City Sunday 0 lost week. It was a well played game, the score being 6 to 3. Holton signal Holton has 23 lawyers. The list. M. A. Bender, J. A. Bacon, Case Broderick, Gen. H. Barker, A. E. Grane, G. C. Dumm T. A. Fauchild, H. F. Graham, C. F. Hurrell, Guy L. Hursch, Charles Hayden, John S. Hopkins, J. B. Hopkins, J. S. Kenoyer, Sidney B. Linscott, James H. Lowell, John D. Mayers, C. W Noble, I. T. Price, DeVere Rata, A. Walker, F. T Woodburn, E. Woodbourn. Where, oh, where is Hon. M. A. G. Martin? We have not been in formed of his departure from Holton. NOTICE. Mrs. Susie Wagoner Scott has been restored to membership in her tabernacle, and all tabernacles are hereby notified to receive her as a member in good standing and as one of the elected grand officers. By Sarah H. Harrison posted out of office. FIRST AFRICAN BAPTIST CHURCH. The ladies of the Sewing Circle are busy preparing for the annual bazaar, which is to be held May 29th and 30th at the church. The program for the first evening will be rendered by the members of the circle, while the young people of the church will entertain the audience on the next evening. The usual fancy work and article made by the ladies will be displayed for sale, and supper and refreshments will be served in the basement. The public is invited to attend. The church is looking forward to a big rally in June, after which the work on the auditorium will be resumed. Collections for each Sunday average $40, much to the credit of the whole hearted members. It is hoped that by a strenuous effort the June rally may surpass all former efforts. # The morning service was attended by a very good congregation, who were much interested in Rev. Carr's sermon on the subject, "Christian Weakness." The pastor took occasion to pay particular respect to the dancing Christian, or perhaps, we should say the dancing church member. While the great argument of such persons is that dancing does no harm, Rev. Carr argued that it does no good except to afford a very dangerous kind of pleasure. Members who dance never are known to give evidence of spiritual strength, and that they benefit the church very little financially or otherwise. The text for this discourse was: "And I could not speak to you as spiritually minded, but as carnally minded." ```markdown ``` The sermon was supplemented by talk from one of the deacons, who advised that members who attended dances be seen and remonstrated with to mind their ways. Rev. J. C. Caldwell, an evangelist of the A. M. E. church delivered a sermon full of enthusiasm Sunday evening from the text "Iat every soul be subject unto the higher powers." Our congregations are often made recipients of blessings by visiting ministers. We welcome and appreclate their labors. YOUNG PEOPLE'S GRESS. The Young People Literary Congress of the Fifth Prescipal District of the A. M. L. church will convene in its second annual session on Thursday morning, July fourth, '07, at St. John church, Topka, Kans. Bishop A. GRANT, President. J. C. CARDWEL, Dist. See'y. For information regarding accommodations, etc., address J. E. EDWARDS. 511 W. Seventh street, Topeka THE BAPTISTS WILL MEET. The State Sunday-School Convention and B. Y. P. U state convention will hold their annual session at the Shiloh Baptist church, Topeka, Kans., June 19-21, 1907. The Sunday-schools will elect their delegates and send their names to the correspond ing secretary, Mrs. W. L. Grant, 1964 North Fourth street, Kansas City, Kans. This request is made that the local Sunday school will be prepared to care for all who wish to attend the convention. The Capital City is making great preparations to royally entertain the Sunday school workers of the state. An outing will be arranged for all who wish to see the city on Saturday. There will be special features all the week. Let all the good Christian workrs of the state "Come, for all things are ready." H I MONROE, President. MRS W. GRANT, See'y. Mr. and Mrs George Moss of Kansas City are the guests of Mrs. and Mrs G Meaux. Mrs R. J Norman and Mrs J H. Lambertson were cordially entertained at dinner by Mrs. Lavinia Davis at her home, 94 miles from the city. Dr A A. Mayer of Lawrence will be in Topeka Thursday, Friday and Saturday of each week at 11:12 W. Twelfth street, where he will be pleased to serve those who are in need of assistance. Dr. Mayer graduated in ophthalmology, and gives a special attention to weak eyes. He corrects strabismus without an operation and will answer calls in any part of the city. Dr. Mayer is the only Negro in this section that treats this class ofills, and those desiring good service will do well to see him. Watch THE PLAIN DEALER for his ad, next week, and also keep in mind the days that he will be in Topeka, and also his location in Lawrence, he has a commodious office at 633 New Hampshire street. THE RESCUE HOME. Mrs. S. F. Malone, president of the Kansas Rescue Home or F. C. Mission, wishes the public to know that the good people of Lawrence are manifesting a great interest in the work of the home. The A. M. C. church, of which Rev Brown is pastor, gave a liberal donation; the Warren street Baptist church also gave a donation. She recently visited the literary club of which Mrs. Young is president, and was highly pleased at the interest manifested. The club gave a donation and pledged to do more in the near future. One of the art clubs, of which Mrs. Lucy Brown is president, wishes to help in the work and arranged for a meeting on the fourth Monday evening in this month. The Holly Grove Baptist church gave a pledge, with the assistance of Mrs. Matt'da Jones, to give a liberal donation. Mrs. Carson is going to assist the work. It is hoped that the good people over the entire state will fall in line as Lawrence has. The board is requested to meet at the home Tuesday, May 21st. All members are requested to be present. MRS. S. F. MAYONI, President. BEG C. G. FISHLACK, See'y. The rally last Sunday was a grand success. Mrs. M. D. Jones walked away with the banner, as usual. Her club raised $253 82. Miss Ollie Stall's club raised $126 75 Mrs. Amanda Alexander, $124 50 Mrs. Hallie White, $97. The total amount with the general collection was $625 75. Iev G D. Olden preached two able sermons during the day. During the two years he has pastored the church Rev. White has done great work for the people. A very remarkable act of his during the rally Sunday was the giving back to the donor ten dollars which had been given by a sister 68 or 70 years old, who has herself and an aged companion to support. Rev. White said that the church was to help the aged and the poor, and that he felt that the church should help her rather than that she should help the church The Ladies' Missionary Auxiliary of the Second Christian church met Monday evening at the home of Mrs. Pinkston. 618 Lane street. About 45 were present and the meeting was a grand success. ST. JOHN A. M E CHURCH. The good people of St. John are now putting forth renewed efforts to put their house of worship in good condition for the Young People's Literary Congress which convenes on the 4th of July. they have decided to celebrate the mortgage lifting with a great Jubilee opening on the evening of June 3rd, and concluding with Friday evening. June 7th. Many of the pastors of the city will participate in the Jubilee. The celebration will be followed by a repair fund rally on Sunday, June 9th. The church clubs began then meetings again this week. The Willing Workers held an enthusiastic meeting on Monday evening at the home of their president, Mrs. L. H. Slaughter, and perfected plans for the short but decisive battle which is to be fought the 9th of June. They meet on Monday night next at Mrs. E. Huddleson's on Crane street. The Sons and Daughters of the King met in a business session at the residence of Mrs R. W. Wheeler on Tuesday evening. A pleasant time was enjoyed The Sewing Circle was delightfully entertained on Wednesday afternoon by Mrs. A. McNeal on Jefferson street. The handsome new home was tastefully arranged and decorated for the occasion, and a delicious lunch was enjoyed by the many members and friends. The Jap Rose club, under the management of Mrs. Anna Farris, assisted by Misses Lilian Jentz and Eva Phillips, will present the beautiful May Queen Coronation and drill on Tuesday evening, May 28th. The Rock Island club under Gen. Eliza Marion will be in line during jubilee week. The soldiers of this historic club have never known defeat. Among the strong forces of the church is to be found that band of earnest young ladies known as the A. B. O: U.T.'s. This club of ladies with their very affable advisor. Mr. W. W. Buckner, has become one of WAITERS AND PORTERS CLUB WAITERS AND PORTERS CLUB Bowling Alley. Pool, Billiards, Cigars, Soft Drinks. A Jolly Place and a Jolly Time for all. Vaughn & OLIVER, 404 KANSAS AVE. NOTICE. Bibles and song books at cost prices. Write A. U. W. Mission Board, dealers in Christian literature, 28224 Papin street, St. Louis, Missouri. NOTICE. The PLAINDEATH collector will be at your door soon. Chanute, Loft, Independence, Coffeyville, Parsons, Galena, Baxter, Olathe and other towns in that section of the state. CELL PHONE 1001 MAIN * FIRE HOURS 7 TO 10 A.M. 12 M TO 1 P.M. ud. Phone 969. 7 TO 10 P.M. * M. JAMISON, M.D., PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON examining Physician of the Knights and Ladies ation Special Attention to diseases of women and private diseases O. A. TAYLOR, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON 181 Kansas Ave. Both 'Phone 776 Calls answered day and night. Office Hours { 2 to 4 and 7 to 8 p.m. Residence 1828 Van Doren. Get Busy The Afro-American WILL GET We are sending hundreds of to good positions in and out of the We are Headquarters for Relief women coming to Kansas City shou always have a demand for comp connection, and can accommodate HELP SENT TO ALLI WHEN TRANSPORTATION IS Office 1005 M'G National Life Insu The Knights Prote Authorized to do bus State. We issue policies to create a reserve fund to loa accident benefits while you United States should carr benefited. Get Busy If You Want Work The Afro-American Employment Agency WILL GET YOU A JOB We are sending hundreds of competent colored men and women to good positions in and out of the city. We are Headquarters for Reliable Negro Help. Colored men and women coming to Kansas City should come direct to our office, as we always have a demand for competent help. We have a Hotel in connection, and can accommodate you until you get a situation. HELP SENT TO ALL PARTS OF THE COUNTRY WHEN TRANSPORTATION IS FU NISHED. Office 1005 McGee Street, Room 3 KANSAS CITY, MO. National Negro Life Insurance Co. The Knights @ Ladies Protection Authorived to do business under the laws of the State. We issue policies from $75 to $1,000. We create a reserve fund to loan to memburs. Sick and accident benefits while you live. Every Negro in the United States should carry a policy with us and be benefited. P.C. THOMAS, Narl Sec. New and Hand Good Furniture, Stoves, Se Gas Fitting, Etc., bong We do Gas Fitting, All Work Guaranteed. Furniture, Stoves, Second Hand Clothing, Gas Fitting, Etc., bought, sold and exchanged. We do Gas Fitting, Repairing and Uphol- All Work Guaranteed. PHONE 860. 211 N. WASH PHONE 860. 211 N. WASHINGTON AVE., IOLA, KAS the factors of the church's life and is destined to grow in importance and usefulness as the years go by. The Allen League of C. E. has launched its boat upon the sea of usefulness and intends to play an important part in the effort to raise money for the church repairs. Ceme and worship with us Sunday. To the 18 000 Kansas Baptists: On June 18-20 the State B. Y. P. U. and Sunday-school convention will meet at Shiloh Baptist church, Topeka, Kans. The said annual meetings have been looked forward to from year to year as the greatest coming together of young people of our race in Kansas. Each year adds a new interest. Already the members have made this their watchword. 'On to Topeka in June.' They are coming from the four corners of our Baptist home. Last year we did well. But this year it seems to be a universal Kansas spirit to do more than ever before. For it is plainly seen that the more we do only enables us to see the great need of a greater work. The officers of both departments, together with the members, have labored hard this year, and I hereby ask that we come together at the appointed time to talk of our past labor and to bring in the sheaves for the Master's use also to formulate plans for the future. The officers of the B. Y. P. U. decided to have at Topeka a state banner. It will be given to the union sending the most money above the representation fee of $300. CONCLUSION. Let every local union send in the names of their delegates not later than the 4th of June, because immediately after said date the program will be made of those who send in their names. If you fail to send your name to me, don't say I should have known you would be there. Send all communications to Norris L. Stokes, Cor. Sec'y and state organizer, Chanute, Kans. REV. MART. S. JONES, PRES. HATTIE BROWN, Rec. Sec'y. F. J. Weaver. Bonded by the Metropolitan Furety Co. J. JOHNSON Proprietor. NOTICE CONCLUSION. Alfred Rivers. Reference: Missouri Saving Bank. If You Want Work Employment Agency YOU A JOB competent colored men and women in city. Table Negro Help. Colored men and children come direct to our office, as we repetent help. We have a Hotel in you until you get a situation. PARTS OF THE COUNTRY IS FU NISHED. Street, Room 3 KANSAS CITY, MO. All Negro Insurance Co., & Ladies Section Business under the laws of the from $75 to $1,000. We can to membnrs. Sick and live. Every Negro in the policy with us and be Second ds Second Hand Clothing, buy, sold and exchanged. Repairing and Uphol- J. W. ANDERSON Plumber. INGTON AVE., IOLA, KAS WINFIELD, KANSAS. James North came in from Wichita last week, to visit home folks. Rev. B. A. Smith, of the Second Baptist church, left on Saturday for Lawrence, where he preached on Sunday. L. Monroe has gone to Wellington to visit his parents, John Monroe and wife. Miss Ollie Collier is expected to arrive from her home at Emporia next Tuesday. She is a member of the Second Baptist choir, and we are glad of her return. Mr. James Nichols, of the Second Baptist choir assisted the P. M. E. choir during the District Conference. Andrew Charles has renewed his subscription to the PLAINDEWER. Rev. Denton, of Newton, preached at the Second Baptist church on last Sunday. Mr. James Nichols and wife have completed their new home on South Manning street and moved in last week. Mr. B. Eatez, of Claten, N. M., a traveling man, was in the city last week, the guest of Mr. Arthur Nichols and wife. Mrs. L. H. Slaughter has made a reduction of 25 per cent on hats. 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Practically a Unit in Support of the Jamestown Negro Exhibit—Message of Lester From Chau : Norfolk, Va., May 22, 1907.—For the past few weeks the special agent of the Negro exhibit in connection with the Jamestown Exposition has been sending out money orders for subscriptions to the entire Negro press of the land, and up to this time more than three hundred of our papers have received attention at his hands, under the authority of the executive committee designated by the General Government. The managers of the exhibit are strong believers in the efficiency and influence of the race press and in aition to setting apart a special day for the entertainment of the "press fraternity." They are taking pains to secure copies of every known Negro publication in order to place before the public a complete exhibit of the journalistic strength of the American Negro, to be kept within ready access of the people throughout the life of the exposition. Visitors from all sections will thus be enabled to find their home papers constantly on file, and keep in touch with what is going on among the friends they have left behind. There are in this country fully four hundred newspapers, magazines and periodicals of various kinds published by colored people, and when they are all displayed in a single collection, the effect will be startling to those who have not been in a position to know the tremendous strides the race has been making in the intelligent use of printer's ink. This graphic demonstration of our journalistic resources, which will be in charge of Mr. R. W. Thompson of Indian, will unquestionably be one of the most noteworthy features of the entire exposition. Referring to Negro journalists in general and then attitude toward the great race enterprise now being made ready at Jamestown, Mr. Thomas J. Calloway, the experienced and intrafatiguable chairman of the executive committee in the charge of the work, said to a representative of the press: "one of the especially pleasing circumstances connected with the task of getting together the Negro exhibit for the Jamestown Exposition is the practical unanimity with which the movement is being supported by the colored press of the country. Ninety nine per cent of the 400 Negro journals in the land are in hearty accord with the plans and purposes of the executive committee. They are not only cheerfully publishing the facts we are giving out week by week, giving of their space at our small suffrage, but many of the editors are writing us personal letters of an encouraging tenor, and volunteering to render any service within their power to make the exhibit one of which the race may be proud. That such careful and unplanned assurances are very helpful to us gives without the saying and to give out no statement not also lately reliable." LA IUNTA NEWS Mr. and Mrs. Robt. Sims have returned from Topka, where they attended the twenty-fifth anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. R. Sims on last Monday. When wishing comfortable rooms all on Mrs. L. L. Tyler Mrs. Iom Corning is on the sick list We endeavor to be as careful as we can, this week. Mrs. James Scott entertained at lunch last Thursday for Mr. M. Collins of Kansas City, Ms. Mrs. Harry Badgett entertained Mrs. John Marshall, Mrs. Wilford Davis and Miss Starkey to dinner last Sunday. Mr. James Scott, Mr. F. L. Tyler, Mr. W. M. Gove and Mr. Geo Gross attended the 101 Fellows sermon in Pueblo, Sunday, and report a grand time. New W. Tailor, the tailor. All work guaranteed. Mrs. L. C. Rucker and Mrs. Harris of Rocky Forl, and Mrs. Daniels and Mrs. J. P. Bather of Portland, Ore, are the guests of Mrs. R. C. Rucker, all attending church in La Junta last Sunday. Miss Lannia Bush, who has been in Oklahoma teaching, passed through our city last week on route to Las Vegas, New Mexico. Mrs. N. Green is on the auth list. INDEPENDENCE KANSAS That quarterly conference of the A. M. E. church had Sunday, with proclaiming at 1 o'clock by Rev H. L. Johnson at St. John, M. E. Chapel, and at night by I. Her Rinsom. Everybody enjoyed the service. The death of Mrs Wayne was a sad shock to her many friends and family. She shelt before many knew of her sickness. The body was shipped Monday morning to all well, Kansas, for interment. Her husband, Rev. I Wayne, and two little sons, together with Rev. Chris, Leul, accompanied the body. As in our pileface brother demonstrated his love for the Negro even here last week. At what is known is the Independent Rubber Plant where Negroes and white men are employed sometime night not were Negroes but for some person to plant shut down and when it start it again it stands with white men and now works later a gang of Negroes were put to work around the yard loading and doing work with a Negro team. Test Thursday a gang of Negroes and whites were out to kill. In the District Court of Shawnee C. y. Kansas. Julia A. Perkins. Plaintiff, vs Thomas Perkins, Defendant, State of Kansas to said defender You are hereby notified that you have been sued in the District Court of Shawnee County, Kansas, by the above named plaintiff, Julia A. Perkins, whose petition in said case was filed in said court on the 1st day of April, A. D., 1907, that unless you answer said petition or appear herein on or before the 17th day of May, 1907, the allegations in said petition will be taken a true and a judgment rendered against you divorcing said plaintiff from you and for other proper relief stated in said petition. JULIA A. PERKINS, Pliff. J J. KING, AU'Y The Albany Hotel SANFORD W. KING, Prop. Rates $5 to $7 per week. Special arrangements BOB ROOS, Free. ARTHUR HARRIS, See AL. RODGERS, Business Mgr., Home 'Phone 7539 Main Hell 'Phone 4114 Main OLYMPIC CLUB. 603 WEST FIFTH STREET Kansas City, Mo. BOARD, OF DIRECTORS: Chas. Smith ..... Sam Yarbrough N. C. Pearman ..... Fd. Tipton James Spranglet ..... Al Reynolds William Kelly ..... Beu Lewis ot brick. A young Negro named Rob Washington was passing brick to a white man and in some way a brick was dropped on the white man's toes. He immediately took up a brick and knocked the breath out of the kid. Now Washington being am inor, his father made some inquiry into the matter the next morning. The Negro boss was informed that it would be better that he and the balance of the Negroes employed should know nothing concerning the matter. Mr. Shelby, the foreman, asked his employer it he meant that because of color a man should not get justice? He redened, and Mr. Shelby said that under such circumstances the Negroes were not safe and the Rubber Plant is now worked by whites. So far as is known at this writing it is a plain case of the white man having a rival along the industrial line in the Negro and what better work of progress, could we have than this strenuous effort of the white man to knock him out of every place of importance. About ten days ago because the foreman of the Sycamore Brick Plant pretended to hire Negroes to whites, notices were given out that every nigge rhad better life by a certain time, and they all skipped but just three, who said they had come to stay and they stayed and they stayed, armed to the teeth. What will be the final outcome of this awful race problem? CALL FOR A SOLEMN CONCLAVE. To the Citizens of the State of Missouri. to the citizens of the State of Missouri On February 14th, 1907, fifty delegates, representing ten counties and the largest cities in the state, assembled in the State House in Jefferson City to enter their protest against the separate cut law, which had already passed the State Senate, and to appeal to the reason, liberality and good judgment of the national committee and other members of the House of Representatives who were present, to keep the proposed bill from becoming a law. We are thankful to say that the better judgment of that body provoked and we have been spared the humiliation to which our people are subjected in many of the other states. The success which attended our efforts upon this occasion indicates clearly, that with organization throughout the state and district management, we can do much toward creating a healthy public opinion in regard to all matters bearing upon the interests of our race. The Negro is under criticism, he needs defense; his civil and political rights are in jeopardy; he needs protection for these reasons the delegation adopted a resolution which assembled in the A. M. R. church, Jefferson City, Mo, February 10th, 1907, instructing the president and secretary of that gathering to invite a solitary convoitation of the people of Missouri through their representatives for the purpose of considering the divisibility of a permanent organization The meeting is hereby called to con- sence in St Louis, Ms. opening in Central Boptst church, July 10th, at 11 a.m and closing in St Paul A M I church, July 11th. All religious denominations, educational institutions, char- table associations, secret societies, and any other organizations in the included in this number are requested to send at least one delegate from each city, community and precinct to be present at said convention at the time herein designated. ABRAHAM GRANT, President GEORGE E. STEVENS. The date of the Fourth Annual Session of the National Association of Negro Teachers has been changed by local request from July to August 1 and 2 Great crowds of teachers are preparing to attend this meeting. The local committee is getting ready and has named Captain Allen Washington as chairman of the Entertainment Committee, and who will answer all questions as to board, lodging, etc. He should be addressed at Hampton Institute, Hampton, Va. The program is in preparation and will be issued June 1. OTTAWA ITEMS. Services as usual were in vogue at the A. M. E. church last Sunday, Pastor W. P. Green officiating. Prof. and Mrs. J. W. Cooper, versatile entertainers and pleasing concert artists, are in our town and have entertained large and appreciative audiences at the Third Baptist church and the A. M. E. church, respectively. All who had the pleasure of witnessing their program give them the highest praise. Prof. R. D Anderson, the optician and jeweler of Weis, is in our city and will vividly portray the eye in all its important phases at the Third church Tuesday evening, May 21st. He is en route through the district and is worthy and interesting. Open up for him! Last Sunday was the most strenuous day witnessed by the Third Baptist church since the present pastorate Pastor J. L. Washington baptized nine candidates in the Maria des Cynes river at 9 a.m. The ordinance passed off without anything to mur the solemnity of the occasion. The banks were strewn with people, yet perfect order prevailed. Many who entertained fears of the 130 pound pastor being able to handle the five feet and upwards of 200 pound candidates quickly dispelled them. Rev. H. W. Scott, of Olathe, was present and conducted the funeral services of "Father" Maddox, a venerable aged, manly, Christian gentleman and superannuated deacon. Rev. Scott beautifully portrays the past life of this Christian man, much to the delight of those who have known him for a long time. The 20th Century and Ladies' Leading Light Club, also the Pastor's Aid club, served refreshments last week, which netted them quite a sum. The infant son of Mr. and Mrs Joseph White died Saturday at 6 p.m. Funeral was preached by Pastor Washington and Rev. A. Clayborne at 4 p.m. Sunday Quite a number of friends attended services Sunday. Regular church collection for the day netted $22.11 Pastor J. L. W. was away on a fly trip to Baldwin and Lawrence last week. The B. Y. P. C. was addressed by Mr. C. S. Price, of Ottawa University. ARGENTINE ITEMS Argentine has a band of eighteen pieces and under the leadership of Mr John Scales is progressing nicely. They have been organized for two years, and have had a number of engagements this season. Miss Mary Kelley continues quite sick Miss Lillian Porter is on the sick list. The city teachers were examined Thursday and Friday of last week Mrs. Rev. Brooks will leave on the 23rd for a two weeks' visit in Holton and Lawrence. The A. M. E. church浸透ed four and sprinkled two Sunday, May 19 The Topeka District will hold the District Conference and Sunday School convention here June 18, 19 and 20. Frank Moss returned from San Francisco Thursday; he went for the summit, but a month was sufficient HUTCHINSON, KANSAS The ladies of the Lydian Society of the Second Baptist church gave a Church last, May 7, which proved a grand success. The articles made were all useful and were readily disposed of. The sum realized was $1985, the expenses being light, they clothed $1175, which was the last payment on a carpet which they purchased about six months ago, the carpet costing them $10700. This speaks very good for this faithful few who have gone through cold and heat, and many treatments to keep the work from going down. The way has seemed dark at times, but thank the Lord the darkest hour is just before dawn, if God be for us, who can be against us. We praise no man nor honor none but we give God the glory, who is the Alpha and Omega. President—Sister R. McQuinn Secretary Sister R. I. Moore Dr M N G Cust Vaughn our annual visit to the Households of Ruth Lupka June 1, Malone June 1 June 5, Nicolema June 6 Dunlap June 7, Emporia, June 8; Strong City June 10, Newton June 11, Hutch Inson, June 12; Great Burl, June 13; Wichita, June 11; Independence June 13; Coffeyville, June 17; Chetopa, June City, June 20; Parsons, June 21; Fort Scott, June 22; Iola, June 24; Kansas City, Kan, June 23; Atchison, June 29 OMAHA DISTRICT CONFERENCE, A M. E. CHURCH All ministers and delegates who ex- post to attend the District Conference at Leavenworth on June 11, 12 and 13th, should send in their names at once to Rev John A. Gregg, 400 Kluwa street, so that homes may be provided for them EMPORIA. KANS Miss Mae Helm, who was in Osage City attending the B. Y. P. C. board, has written, stating the board was a grand success. Mr. Harrison Campbell and Mr. Jess Helm and Archie Hav attended the Phi Sigma club ball in Topeka last Thursday night. The Old Lelows thanksgiving serman was celebrated at A M E. church Sunday, May 12th, at 2 o'clock, conducted by Rev. Newby. Rev. J. H. Vaulee, state missionary, preached at St James Baptist church, Sunday, and delivered a noble sermon, subject "Look and Live." Mr. James Stafford of Kansas City was here Sunday visiting friends and relatives. Those attending the board at Osage are as follows: Rev. W. S. Blake, pastor of St. James, Empronta; Mrs. R. A. Allen, Doughass, Miss Mae Helm Miss Pearl Montgomery is on the sick list. We hope she will soon recover and will soon be out. Miss Lamphin and Mrs P. P. Madlov of Kansas City, Mo., is visiting with Mrs Cheton for a few days. Mr and Mrs. B Bryant of Kansas City visited her mother, Mrs. Thompson, Sunday. Miss Florence Smith of Kansas City, Kan., is visiting her grandmother, Mrs Gallmore Mrs R. A. Allen and Mrs. Minnie Douglass visited with Mrs. James Barnett at Bardsey, Kansas, from Saturday till Sunday. Mrs Laura Holtz of Kentucky and children have arrived in Emporia, where they joined Mr Holtz and two sons, Jeremiah and William Holtz, and will make their home on Cottonwood street. Mr Frank Taylor was in Strong City a few days last week on holiday. Mr. Pearl Carson left Saturday for Colorado Springs, where he has accepted a position. His many friends regret losing so enterprising a young man from their community, but they all unite in wishing him much success in his new home and his new undertakings. Miss Carrie Payne was home for a few days, visiting with friends and relatives. The Emperor Brown's hall team gave a municipal play Saturday night at Massome hall, under the management of Mr. Bott Rich and Carl Rogers, and are preparing to give another performance in the next future for the benefit of the team. Miss Kate Stinkey is in Emperor visiting with her grandparents Mr. and Mrs Sam Ray Myrtle Harrison and Mr. Gary Rogers, both of Emporia, were married Thursday at Kansas City and after spending a day or two they returned to Emporia, where they went to home-keeping. They will live at 1010 Sylvan street PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR. He was the world's greatest Negro poet. The fact that he had no white blood in his veins makes his achievements in the literary world the more astounding. A fine engraving made in three colors has just been issued which sells for only one dollar ($1) Send for one today. Address 'The Colored American Novelty Co., P.O. Drawer 2318. Washington, D.C. Agents wanted Williamson House... Rooms and Board-first class accommodation. 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A Texas editor who had been handed a lemon by three of his subscribers sent each one of them a card bearing the following inscription "For three of my delinquent subscribers. One of them said: 'I will pay Saturday night if I live.' He's dead. Another said: 'See you tomorrow.' He's blind. Still another said 'I hope to pay you this week, or go to hell.' He's gone.' THE WHITE MAN'S IDEA OF GOOD NEGRO The following articles appeared in the Montgomery Missouri Standard and the Tribune respectively: President Roosevelt is becoming a little alarmed in regard to the negro vote. Last week he held a caucus with three negroes, one of them being the Kansas negro recently appointed to a responsible position by him, another a Bishop of the African Methodist church and another negro of prominence. The object of the meeting, it is stated, was to arrange to control the negro vote in the next presidential convention. Teddy is afraid the negroes will be offended at his action in discharging the negro troops at Brownsville, and he appointed the black man to a good position and is now getting ready to tell on his neck and—claim his vote in the next campaign. He will get it. He is the only man we have yet seen who can be on both sides of a question at the same time, and hold both sides when it comes to voting. Teddy and his big stock is a master politician. Last Saturday, April 20, 1907 Mr. Ulysses S. Grant Pattis and Miss Drew Robinson, in colored couple, were united in marriages at the home of John W. Jacks, Rev Simpson by obtaining Mr. Jacks, by the way is the patron who suffered a bad attack of nigrophobia last winter when the Jim Crow bill was up for passage in the legislature. As railroads are common carriers, the Jim Crow car question has never been anything but an economical and political one—there being no question of social equality involved. The spectacle of the Standard man tour flushing for the Jim Crow bill and tolerating the incident mentioned above is a sight on girls- and men—Montgomeryshire. All of which goes to show that what the standard has always contented is true, namely, that Democrats are better friends to the negro than those called benefactors, the Republicans Democrats do not hold out to the negro any alluring promises of social equality, but they always treat him like a decent human being when he behaves himself, and when he goes to a Democrat for a Job, he usually gets it. It is no unusual thing in the South for colored servants to be married at the home of their employers, their best friends. Re- --- to the motors about election time, but all the rest of the year they allow the Democrats to take care of them, and when the colored man becomes regular and shows a disposition to kick over the trunks, they remind him that the Democrats win they will put him back in slavery. Democrats and southerners are honest with the negro. They are his true friends. They teach him that by living a polar industrial life he can become a respected member of society, but that his true sphere is as a tutor for others and that no thoughts of social equality should ever enter his head. The South would settle the race problem without trouble in the northern Republicans would keep their mouths out of it. But they would. They are eternally teach in the room that he is the equal in every way of the white man, and putting wild notions into his head. They will sit by his side in the cave cat with him at the table, all to get his vote and keep it. The librane editor, in holding up his hands in holy honor at "the Standard man to tolerate the above incident" shows that at heart he is no friend of the negro, no more so than most other white Republicans who profess to be their saviors. As to the him Crow proposition, no man can truthfully deny that such a measure is a good one. It is as good for the negro as the white man. There is no discrimination. It is true that by its provisions, a colored man cannot ride in the car with a white man, but neither can a white man ride in the car with a colored people. As mattres now stand it is often extremely offensive for a white man or woman to be obliged to travel in a car filled with colored excursions and at the same time it does not look exactly fair to force an inoffence save colored man to give lip a sent to a white person—which, by the way, is often done. A Jim Crow car is the proper and equitable solution. It is fair and just to both races. The Jim Crow measure should have become a law in the recent legislative session, but some of the members lacked the courage of their convictions. If John Jacks, editor of the Montgomery Standard, measures the love of the Democratic party for the sole reason that U. S. Grant Pettis married Miss Daisy Robinson, his servant in the dining room or kitchen, we rather expect it was the latter, as it is in keeping with Democratic ideas. Probably Miss Robinson and Mr. Pettis were employees of Mr. Jack at a very small salary, and Mr. Jacka' heart went out to this poorly paid couple who could not raise enough money to buy the proper wearing apparel for a decent wedding. Mr. Jacks' editorial shows the kind of man he is and where he belongs. He would have been in place in the time of Herod and Nero. We can see why The Tribune poked fun at it and showed the hypocrisy of his brother, Editor Jacks, who was only giving this couple what was their due, as they thought finished work performed for Jacks. Jim Crow white people do Jim Crow things, and never think of anything good for anyone but Jim Crow folks. Jacks' editorial on Jim Crow cars shows his lack of intelligence. You should go south, brother, and learn what Jim Crow car laws and other Jim Crow laws mean. Old Missouri A Marked and Signal Advance! A new era in Negro musical skill invention and genius in the West "FAREWELL ALMA MATER," the inter-state prize winner. A beautiful piano masterpiece composed and written by Miss Mabel E. Harding, of South M'Alester, Indian Territory, a student of Harmony Class and Choral Society of Western University, Quindaro, Kansas. THIS high class musical gem was awarded the first prize at the last session of the Inter-State Literary Association, at St. Joseph, Mo., last Christmas. It has been engraved and published by the best Boston music printers, and is now being sold to anxious, eager Negro boys and girls, men and women who play the piano in all parts of these Western States. TO EDUCATE, AND NOT TO MAKE MONEY: Prof. R. G. Jackson, director of Music Department and Prof. Albert Ross, director of Business Course department offered last year their first creation, "O Western UY" to the western people, and it scored a magnificent triumph. This year, this second creation so classic in its refinement, so superior in its melody, is winning the hearts of critical and discerning public. In presenting this original composition of surpassing worth and individual superiority these two serious workers who are ever promoting young Negro talent and exceptional ability, have been prompted by a noble desire to pat forward only that which hits the characteristics of NOVELTY and INFRINSIC AREAS. HONORARY MUSIC TEACHER PATRONS. Prof. N. Clark Smith, Chicago, Ill. M. Gertrude Jackson, Chicago, Ill. Prof. Will Blue, St. Louis, Mo. Madame E. B. Harrison, St. Louis Mo. Prof. Desdune, Omaha, Neb. Miss Flora Cassels, Omaha, Neb. Miss Alice Thompson, Muscatine, Iowa. Miss Bertha Allen, Des Moines, Iowa. Miss Elizabeth Bell, St. Joseph, Mo. Mrs. J. C. Caldwell, St. Joseph, Mo. Madame Mattie L. Teeters, Sedaha, Mo. Miss Vinta Barnett, Joplin, Mo. Miss Daisy Day, Kansas City, Mo. Miss Edonna Hubble, Kansas City, Mo. Miss Maud Richardson, Kansas City, Mo. A MOST APPROPRIATE GIFT. From mother to husband to wife and lover to sweetheart. It is being tendered upon programs of Negro churches, schools and entertainments from Chicago to Sylvan Prairies and service, Washington. Never fails to satisfy and gratify the people, and gives them full value in return for their liberal patronage and generous encouragement. MAIL ORDERS: No matter in what town you live send TODAY, and we will mail to any address you desire, a copy of this sterling production at an unusual rate for educational purposes, half price. The par copy of the two creations for 20c. them poor laws, poor schools and poor experience. As to the African Methodist church, it is not obligated either to President Boosevelt or any other men or parties. If Jacks and his party would learn some sense they could get the Negro vote. Mr. Dickson's Side once get his tail turned to the enemy, and it's 'Good by wife and potato patch.'" After ten months in Cuba, Vardaman returned to Mississippi, ran for governor, and was defeated. Four years later he was elected. There has never been a governor in the South who has striven more earnestly to protect Negroes. He has pardoned more Negroes than white men. He broke up the White Cap organization, and sent many of them to the penitentiary for outrages upon Negroes. On one occasion a lynching was threatened in a distant county Vardaman rushed to the scene on a special train, and personally brought the Negro back to Jackson, where he would be safe until the day of trial. This is only one instance There are many others. His administration of state affairs has been scrupulously honest and successful; even his enemies concede that much. The necessity for the repeal of the Fifteenth Amendment is not so much for the protection of the white man as it is to protect the black man against inevitable destruction by the white man. If we undertake to adjust the white man's civilization to the Negro it lifts him to a condition and atmosphere in which he cannot live, any more than a fish out of water. Neither can we draw the white man down to his level. Therefore, we have got to make laws for the utterly distinct moral and intellectual requirements of the respective races. Thomas Jefferson saw that more than a hundred years ago Abraham Lincoln realized it fifty years ago Every observant man in the South knows and feels it today. As Mr. Baker Sees It! business—that's the Negro's chief trouble—and we lost money changing our location, so that in spite of all we could do we lost everything, though we finally paid our creditors every cent. After many trials we started again in 1886 in our present store. Today we are doing a good business; we can get all the credit we want from wholesale houses, we employ six clerks, and pay good interest on the capital invested." said it was the credit system; the fact that many Negroes have not learned financial responsibility. Once, he said, he nearly stopped business on this account. "I remember," he said, "the last time we got into trouble. We needed #400 to pay our bills. I picked out some of our best customers and gave them a heart-to-heart talk and told them what trouble we were in. They all promised to pay but on the day set for payment, out of $1,600 which they owed us we collected just $1.25. After that we came down to a cash basis. We trust no one, and since then have been doing well." He said he thought the best opportunity for Negro development was in the South where he had the whole race behind him. He said he had once been tempted to go North looking for an opening. "How did you make out?" I asked. "Well, I will tell you," he said. "When I got there I wanted a shave; I walked the streets for two hours visiting barber shops, and they all turned me away with some excuse. I finally had to buy a razor and shave myself! That was just a sample. I came home disgusted and decided to fight it out here, where I understood conditions." Of course, only a comparatively few Negroes are able to get ahead in business. They must depend almost exclusively on the trade of their own race, and they must meet the Highly organized competition of white men. But it is certainly significant that even a few—all I have met so far are mulattoes—are able to make progress along such unfamiliar lines. Most Southern men I met had little or no idea of the remarkable extent of this advancement among the better class of Negroes. Here in a strange thing. I don't know how many Southern men have prefaced their talks with words something like this. "You can't expect to know the Negro after a short visit. You must live down here like we do. Now, I know the Negroes like a book. I was brought up with them. I know what they'll do and what they won't do. I have had Negores in my house all my life." But curiously enough, I found that these men rarely knew anything about the better class of Negroes—those who were in business, or in independent occupations, those who owned their own homes. They did come into contact with the servant Negro, the field hand, the common laborer, who make up, of course, the great mass of the race. On the other hand, the best class of Negroes did not know the higher class of white people, and based their suspicion and hatred upon the acts of the poor whites with whom they naturally come into contact. The best elements of the two races are as HONORARY MUSIC TEACHER PATRONS. Prof. N. Clark Smith, Chicago, Ill. M. Gertrude Jackson, Chicago, Ill. Prof. Will Blue, St. Louis, Mo. Madame E. B. Harrison, St. Louis Mo. Prof. Dundee, Omaha, Neb. Miss Flora Cassels, Omaha, Neb. Miss Alice Thompson, Muscatine, Iowa. Miss Bettha Allen, Des Moines, Iowa. Miss Elizabeth Bell, St. Joseph, Mo. Mrs. J. C. Caldwell, St. Joseph, Mo. Madame Mattie L. Teeters, Sedalia, Mo. Miss Vinta Barnett, Joplin, Mo. Miss Daisy Day, Kansas City, Mo. Miss Edmonia Hubble, Kansas City, Mo. Miss Maud Richardson, Kansas City, Mo. Miss Nettie Penik, Kansas City, Kan. Madame Cunningham Summers, Kansas City, Kan. Miss Pearl McNeal, Topeka, Kan. Madame J. in M. Wright, Topeka, Kan. Madame M. O. Craw, Muskogee, Ind Ter. Miss Lola Jones, Guthrie, Okla. Madame Elizabeth Dishman, Denver, Colo. Miss Mabel Foley, Denver, Colo. Prof. L. L. McGrade, Colorado Springe, Colo. Madame S. J. Jones, Pueblo, Colo. Miss Letha Laters, Butte, Mont. Miss Mamie Garner, Salt Lake City, Utah. Miss Fannie E. Alexander, El Paso, Texas. Madame Olive Parsons, Santa Fe, N. Mexico. Madame John C. Woods, Los Angeles, Calif. Miss Edna Whitesides, San Francisco, Calif. DO YOU CARRY LIFE INSURANCE? If Not, Why Not? 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Ind two Phones: Bell other 4.1-1 ** Rev 4.1-2 different continents; and that is one of the chief causes of the growing danger of the Southern situation Last month showed the striking fact that one of the first, almost instilative, efforts at reconstruction after the Atlanta riot was to bring the best elements of both races together, so that they might, by becoming acquainted and gaining confidence in each other, allay suspicion and bring influence to bear upon the lawless elements of both white people and colored. Many Southerners look back wistfully to the faithful,simple,cheerful, ignorant, obedient, old, plantation darkey and deplore his disappearance. They want the New South, but the old darkey. That darkey is disappearing forever along with the old feudalism and the old-time exclusively agricultural life, A new Negro is not less invitable than a new white man and a New South And the New Negro, as my clever friend says, doesn't laugh as much as the old one. It is grim business he is in, this being free, this new, fierce struggle in the open competitive field for the daily loaf. Many go down to vagrancy and crime in that struggle; a few will rise. The more rapid the program [with the trained white man setting the pace] the more frightful the mortality. The Capital Pharmacy dispenses cool soda water. Call when you want to be refreshed. 1 To My Patrons You will find ARTIST O.J. BROOKS at 731 Minnesota Avenue, Kansas City, Kas in the same old town that he has lived for 10 years last October. He moved last month to new quarters a few doors west of the post office. I thank my friends and good patrons for their large patronage that made the rooms too small 1512 to hold my business. I have tried hard to give you an honest deal in every picture that I have painted or drawn for you, as a satisfied patron is the best advertisement a man can have in business. Owing to the fact that the artist I had with me 4 years was forced to leave me last December; leaves an opening in in my studio for a first-class lady portrait artist. I pay the studio price paid by other places, and will advance transportation from any part of the United States to my studio, to one who can prove to me in advance that they are real and truly an artist ARGIST O. J. BROOKS, 731 Minnesota Ave., KANSAS CITY. - KANSAS. Things. Worth Remembering Hear the orchestra concert LEE'S, Store Sunday at LOCAL NEWS W. W. Plumb was numbered with the sick last week. Will Holmes of Leavenworth was in the city on a visit a few days this week. Mrs. Paul Caldwell of Denver, Colo., is visiting relatives and friends in the city. All aboard for the baptizing at Tenth street bridge next Sunday by Rev. Dallas L. Childress Born, Wednesday of last week to Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Miller, two sons. The mother and babes are doing nicely. John Carver was among the excursionists to Kansas City Sunday. He took this advantage to visit his old home in Independence, Mo. Mrs. Mary Lawson, who had been visiting her mother, Mrs. Robt. 6 Sims, has gone to Kansas City, where she will visit a few days before taking her departure for her home in La Junta, Colo. Mr. and Mrs. Perry Garnett entertained informally Friday evening at their home on West Sixth street. The friends asked were Mr. and Mrs. Ben Austun, Mr. and Mrs. Dennis Ray, Mrs. Bert Buckner and Mr Tod Hunter, The last meeting of the kindergarten, held May 24th, is reported a grand success, though all the mothers were not present. After singing a lovely song, Mrs. Chapman offered prayer, after which she delivered an address in a most impressive manner. Those who listened were reminded of their youthful days and the experiences of their childhood. It was a glorious time. Afterwards they partook of ice cream and cake. It is hoped that the next year will bring as much success to the kindergarten and that all mothers will take an interest in the work and co-operate with Mrs. Chapman and Miss Jordan, her assistant. Lee's Drug Store is the best place by far in the city to get all the latest soda drinks. LEE'S DRUG STORE is the only store in the city in which absolutely no "color line" is drawn. EVERY DRUG. every brush, every article of rubber goods, every patient medicine and every other article in LEE'S DRUG STORE is the very best that money can buy. Recently, Dr. Crumbine, state pure food commissioner thoroughly overhauled our large stock of Drugs, Soda Syrups, etc., and out of a stock valued at $8,000, just 60 cents worth of Drugs were condemned as unsalable. The Doctor and his assistants also pronounced our stock and store as one of the cleanest and most sanitary that he had ever seen. The Sunday Evening Orchestra Concerts are the hit of the season. Our store is crowded every evening and on Sundays with the best people of Topeka, and if you wish to be in the middle of the swim, you must join the big crowd. Mrs. Abbie Plumb, Henry and Miss Phena Daniels of Holton attended the Ewing-Davis wedding on Wednesday of last week. Whilst in they were the guests of their aunt, Mrs. W. W. Plumb, 1012 Buchanan. Mr. and Mrs. J. Edward Davis of Holton were in attendance at the wedding of their sister, Miss Mayme Davis, last week. Mrs. Davis returned Saturday, and Mr. Davis went to Coffeyville, where he has accepted a position. The fourth semi-annual reunion of the Oriental and Accepted Scottish Rite Freemasonry will be held at Masonic Temple, 404 Kansas avenue, commencing May 30th and extending over June 1, '07. Among the distinguished visitors, Illustrious Milton F. Fields, 33rd degree, M. P S G. C. of St. Louis, Mo. will be present. Banquet in full form will be served by the ladies of the Council of Kadosh, 130 o'clock p.m., Friday May 31st, Mrs. B. F. Austin, caterress. NOTICE. District Household of Ruth No 12, will meet July 16-18 at Salina, Kans. All households that have not elected then delegates, will please do so at once, and send the name in to D. W. R. Letitia Carson, 125 Buchanan street, Topeka, Kansas. PUBLICATION NOTICE. In the District Court of Snawnee County, Kansas. Flemming Scott Roath, Defendant. The above named defendant will take notice that he has been sued in the District Court of Shawnee County, Kansas, for divorce by the plain tiff herein named, upon the grounds of desertion for a period of more than one year, and that unless he answer said petition on or before the 8th day of July, 1907, judgment will be rendered as prayed for in said petition and granting the plaintiff an absolute divorce from him, the said defendant. MARY ELIZABETH ROATH WESTERN UNIVERSITY The Great Educational Institution for Kansas and the West DEPARTMENTS:--Theological, College, Normal, Sub-Normal and State Normal. Mansion Leading and Best Industrial School of the west SHELTON FRENCH.A.M.,Acting Pres. Phones: Office Bell West 1428. Residence Bell West 16 courses Classical, College, Preparatory, Normal, Sub-Normal, Musical (Instrumental and Vocal), including piano, organ and harmony, Drawing (Fine Arts and Mechanical), Carpentry, Printing and Book-Binding, Business Course, Stenography and Typewriting, Tailoring, Dressmaking and Iain Sewing, Cooking, Laundering, Farming and Gardening. Quindaro, Kansas. Advantages Splendid Location, I Good Influences and Thorou Splendid Location, Healthful Climate, Good Influences and Thorough Teachers. Information For terms, prices and all inducements offered, write to A number of Topekans went to Kansas City Sunday. Mrs. F. W. Matley, G. W. C. of the Court of Calanthe, left Sunday for different parts of the state, to make her annual visits to the courts. Mrs. Hobson was accidentally scalded about the face Monday. It was very painful, but not serious. Mrs. Lee Anderson, Miss Mabel King and Mrs. Washington are among those who attended the May party at Lawrence. Miss Iossie Moseley, who for several months has been in Kansas City, returned several days ago and is again employed on THE PLAINDEALER as bookkeeper and city collector. Mrs. Eileen Fort, who for the past few weeks has been visiting her sister, Mrs. J D. Page, lett Saturday for her home in Chicago. She was accompanied by Miss Minnie Page, who will spend the summer with her. The ladies of the Shamrock club, with their husbands, gave a surprise party on Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Edmonds on Tuesday evening. They were overcome with surprise, but recovered sufficiently to share in the enjoyment of the occasion. PUBLICATION NOTICE In the District Court of Shawnee County, Kansas. vs No. 24.428. Per Lee Coon. Defendant. Per Lee Coon, Defendant. The above named defendant will take notice that he has been sued in the District Court of Shawnee County, by the plaintiff herein, upon the grounds of drunkenness and extreme cruelty, and that unless he answer the said petition on or before the 8th day of July, 1907, judgment will be rendered as prayed for in said petition, granting the plaintiff an absolute divorce from the said defendant. BERTHA COON, WESTERN UNIVERSITY. The University Octette sang to a large audience at the Independeose Ave, M.E. church, the wealthiest white congregation fa Ksnets City, Mo,, lact Thureday evening. The rapt attentlon given, the mautfeata- tions of extreme pleasureafterwards and the purchase of uesrly 50 cop- fea of the ‘Inter State Prize Win- ner’ composed by Mis M, Harding, by these wealthy white people, was aa convincing sud surprising vo i was eminently commeandsble, The University Band gave 5 con- cort Friday evening at the A. Sf. XK, church in Leavenworth. Prof. @. W. Jackeon, of Topeka, received : great oration because of the excel- lence and high degree of training o! the student young men, The Senior olsas speat Frids; afternoon picatcing in Lesveawort! visiting the State snd Military pria ons and the Old Soldier's Home sod Fort Leaveaworth. The Elocation Department, i charge of Mrs, Facny R. Motin, 0 Topeks, will give their Commence meat Recital, Tharsday, May 23rd in our Anditoricm, Final examinations in sll depsrt ments, will begio Moodsy moraio; tocloee up work of the year. CENTRALIA, KAS We had quite 3 snow storm here the l4th soda crust waa freven on the ground. Mrs. Allic Johnson left Sunday for Kanesa City,where abe will visit ber parents and other relatives. Mrs J, Guna, of Senecs, stopped off here a few hours Isat week. She had been st Nicodemus, to attend the funeral of her sister, Mra, Ber- the Bibb Lewis. Keron Brewer snd Chester Duan went on sn excursion to Nt, Joe., Sendsy, Msy 19. The commencement exercises of the Centralia H’gh achool were held May 19th snd were we'l stteaded. Miss Brower waa valedictorian, he subject being “The Signs of the Times.” She spoke with ese snd it seemed a pleasure for her a4 wel as ber sucttors, and all could hear, This honor waa quite a compliment to the colored+peeple of Central ae well as to Miss Brewer, ay she i the only one that baa ever had the honor of being valedicturian, snd this entitles ber toa year of free schooling st vome college, = We hope thst others tasy follow. After the program many were invited tc Mose Brewer's home, w here iseerean and cake were werved. Miss Brewer received many nie tokens of re. meribrsuce. Those present from ost of town were: Monaro Brewer of St. Joseph, Misa Clara Coffee ot Frankfort, Mrs. Bea Tillery amd daughter erence and son Joseph of Seneca, Misa Amands Jenning: formerly of Kanass City but now attecding school st Seneca, wha graduates next Friday night, May 34th. Mr. Ed. Brewer accompanted bis cousin, Str. Brewer, bre’ to St, Jo- veph, wlere be will remuin fora while. EMPORIA, KAS Misa Mabelle Dicasoe, who has been in our city fur the past eight weeks, completed ber conre in dreawmaking and returned Luwe on Saturduy, May l¥, We very riuch regretioving her, Perle Carson left for Colorsde Springs, Col, hatardsy, for w in- defiatte petiod. Rev. Johuson, former prior of the Methodistchurch, now of Tolls, was inthe city lat weel,e. baat ness. Altew young people co eyed the horseback ride given in hunur of! Miss Mabelle Dickeor ritday, May V1. The party included Sins Dts belle Dakvon, Dilla Tipton, Sadi Phulipy; Mowers, Parle Careon, Ec Staley aud Warridon Camptell, Sadie Philip» returned home law week afters plarart vient in Toze ka with frunds, NEWTON, KAS. » Theron, Bur Loder. eave. a wae decorated in the Japanese faeh ion and the ladies wore Japanese costumes, Mr. Robert Jouea and wile passed through the city fron Paols, en route to their home in Denver. The N.U.G. club met st the home of Mra, T. C. Jordan, whet the following wae the programme iessoa, We should Encourage Eack Otherto Rise, Mra J. BM. Groes Paper, A Model Howe, Mre Childs The clud wis) meet at the homeo Mra, Childs, May 26. The (CM E sewing club wi entertained [sat Waduesdsy evening by Mre. Chsa Miller. Walt Patvereou caine dowa frog Florence Monday eveing. TOUSSAINT UU ) Baek ee This soldier, statestnan and autyt with a mere handful of men heid at bay sixty ships and 30,000 trained soldiers—the flower of the Freach army aod navy. Wendell Phillips pronounced Toussaint the gecatest general the world has produced Protures of thia great Negra, and a! all emiueat colored people sold by The Colored American Novelty Co, P.O. drawer, 2218, Washington D,C, Agents wanted. —— WEIR CITY, KANSAS, Rev. C G Tutt, of Oswego ais— triet, President of the B, Y. P, U., visited Wier City ou the {5th and preached thst night at St. Jobn's church From Lere he goes to Cherokee. W. M. Stitts, formerly of Als., who travela through the country, ‘patating pictures, was here on the sth, delivering a lecture. His work will recommend him once you see it. Rev. Tutt, of Oswago, 1s aelling the life of Paul Lawrence Dunbar. He has takea over twenty orders and thst is not bslf of what he will get. Juliua Keace of Cherokse, was it Weir on the 17th and made a con- tract with A. Dillerd to plsster his new house. RD. Anderson lef; here on the 17th for Ottawa, Kaa. James Lolles had a narrow eacape on tho 13th, his house being struck by lightmng. He waa lying ot the floor and was stunued, Ihe twe doga, which were under the houae. were killed about at the spot over which be Isy, Mra. Joka Uarria was taken very sich on the Ith, and her Eaaterr Star sisters keep clove around he bed, Rev. GW, Willams weul tc Yale on the lath to tlt Rev. Spark’ mane pulpit Robert Henesor, formerly of thi- plice but new of Kansas City, paid hiv old home a viet on the Ivth, returning that nignt. John Croft, who is now working at Independence, wii upto see his family on the Lith. OTTAWA, EKEANS Mass Rtetas Wilson, of Lawrence, is here, visitiog ber sister, Mra, Clsyborne, after vviet at Waovls, with a few frends. Dercon Marion Maldox pred away Uriday night, at his reatdence ou XN, Mulberry atreet, Paneral wasatthe trd Baptiat church, on duaday, Kev, H.W, deo, Olathe, othuting. | Rev, J. ta Washington baptized nine csndidites Suoday, Mra, Martha Clayborne enters tamed th WL & BL ME, cirel Isat Thos: lay afternoon, Refresh: mente were acrved, after which Ma Couper played afew piano seleu Horw, weompinied by dtr. Cooper onthe mandolin, J, W, Cuoy er, the noted seutiil \o qtist of [Birminghtm, N, Y., ane hiv wife wentto Hillwia Monday, after s wayhere of aweek, Hl give three concerts wiile in on euly. Thiy stopped with Rev an. Mis Clayborre dT. JOSEPH, MO, The Eortuightly Literary club aave sn, ecgning ani, rerpotion, 2 dayevening, May 13. The program for the evening consisted principally of papers and discussiors of literary selections atudied durlog the year, A very excellent paper was read by Mis Ethel Gross, oo the lie aud writ- logs of Chaucer, and s remarkably interesting one by Mra. W. F. Care rion on the Character of Lady Mac- beth, A good, pointed discussion was led by Mre. Hawkine and Mire Pearson, after which a spirited open discussion wae indulged ia by all, upholding aud denoancing the vari- ous phases of the character of Lady Macbeth. A plessing and lastruct ive paper on **The Dramatic Art of phakespeare” was read by A. T. Walker, J. A. Dyer favored the club with an able address on ''The Value of Literature,” which was highly enjoyed by all. The mueical numbers consisted of a very beautiful vocal solo by Mrs. Smothers, accompanied by Mrs. Whiteey; alo, piano solo by Miss Stella May, than whom there is acar.ely a better known musiciso inthe Weat, After the literary and musical part of the program all indalged in an exceedingly toothaome repast. The president and members of the club were the recipients of many high compliments ou the work of the clab and the successes of the evening. WICHITA, KAS. We are enjoying epecial religious feasts here now. Rev. J. R. Rich: ardson, of Kaneas City, is conduct- ing s few days meeting at the Tab- ernacle Baptist church, and Rev. N. 'P, Anderson, of Birmingham, Als., ia assieting Pastor Hall in a great meeting at the 2nd Baptiet church. Many soule are being saved and a big baptizing will follow. The public schools will close this week and the young people will be turned loose to idle in the streete and grow worse, We had another cold anap a few dsya ago, but the eun ie shining out with heat today. The devil bas hie Sunday Excur- sions on the line again. Let the people who would lead a good life, to belp the public, stay off the Sun. day traina and go to church. GREAT BEND, KAN, I would aay to the people of Grest Bend that I desire to thank you fur helping me during the sickaeas and desth of our father, Woping God will blesa you all, I remain as ever, Yours in Christ, Mr. & Mus, Curt, YALE ITEMS. Dock Green is reported better. Mrs, Beard is on the sick lat; also, Mrs. Iludaon, who ia reported better at this writing. Qnite a number from Yale went to Fort Scott on last Suuday, toat- tend the anoual sermon, Among them, Messre,Gilmore aod Mondaey and wives, and Mrs, Yarbrough. Mesdames Gsllaway, Murdoch, and Johnson were in Pittsburg on Monday, shopping; aluo, on Fridsy, Mesdames Yarbrough and White. Mra, Lille Ward sod Mr, Her- bert were in Pittsburg Saturday, on business, Vey, Spencer of Pitteburg, spent afew days in our city on businces, LL. W. Whitebead was in ]’ttas burg Saturday on busivess. Mr, Little of Vittsburg,Sundayed in our city; also Louis Jobnavn, of Mineral, who was the guest of Mr, and Mra, Hudson, J. MM. Beasley of Pittyburg, wae in our city Monday. Mr. Gotler and wife of Curranss vile, have moved to Yale, Miss Retta Wells ia giving short hand less ns. Mrs, Jessie Jubnson of Mineral, in spending a week with her porenta, Mr, Uudsou aad wife, “Vhe Maud Voy» gave an enters taimmint Monday night. Mus Georgia Whitehead iv taking |] mrusiv leavons, | Mrs, Wheaton and Mass Maple TOPEKA DISTRICT, ct Conference and Sun- y School Convention of the 1 Methodist Episcopal Church to be Held ‘ues. Wed. and Thurs. e 18, 19 and 20, 1907. At Argentine, Kansas. District Conference and Sun- day School Convention of the African Methodist Episcopal Church to be Held Tues. Wed. and Thurs. June 18, 19 and 20, 1907. At Argentine, Kansas. eae SORMING: 10 00 A M Devotional Herlod —Rev, NT. Gamble 10,30 A Mo Annual Sermon —Rev, J. KE. Edwards, The Sacrament of the Tard’s Supper Annual Addsess—Rev. HL W, King, P, EL Roll Call Hlection of Utheers Appomtiment of Committees At tha hour the Sunday School Convention will be called to order by Urof. Ry HL Wade, Dietekt Superintendent. Devotional Period —Dr, 1. E. Edwards Annual Address —trot. R. H. Wade, Dist. Supt. Farolluent and Organization of Convention, Paper—"bothusiana in the Sunday School,” Manhattan Delegate. “Lhe Bible an the Sundsy schuul" ‘North Lawrence Delegate. “Punctuality of Utheers, Teachers and Scholars,” lathe Delegate. Round Table —Question Box: (ab Children’s Day. (bi The Quartutly Review Benedictlon, TUESDAY BVENING, Praise Service —Rev. C. R. Runyon. ww ot hermen —Rev. dM. Pope. a Offering and Benediction. WEDESDAL MORNE NE DISTBICT CINERRE NCE Devotional Perio !—Rev Wo P. Green Roll Call —Reading Minutes Report ot Pastors Vapet —"Lhe Financial Ability of the People ot the District,” Rev. N. T. Gamble, Paper —"The sforal Condition of the een Rey. & Hf, Barker, Paper —"What the People aie Pulse for Mis- sions,” Res, FE, D, Abbott. Benediction WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON, AUNDAY BL MOUL CONVENTION. Devotional Periud —Rev, J, M. Brown, ©The Teachers’ Meeting, Its Benefits.” Brown Chapel Delegate. “Tact vs. Talent in the Sunday School Teacher,” Lawrence velenetes “The Place of the Sunday Bebool in the For- mation of Character" Emporia, Delegate. “Tha Desecration of the Sabbath, Ottawa Delegate. “]low to Prepare a Sunday School Lesson.” Dr, J. E. Edwards, Round Table ani Question Box—‘How We Conduct our Teachers! Meeting.” Ienedection WEDNESDAY EVENING. Praise Service —Kev. BC, Davis. permon—Kev. J. Wo Brown Ofteuus and Benediction THURSDAY MORNING, UISTAICT CONFERENCE. ievatimal Horied —Rev. C, A, Murgan. Roll Call and Reading Minutes [The Spurtuat Confithon uf the Churches,” Res. L, G, Newby. “The Con Liteon of the Dube: Schools” Rev. J. L Crew. “Lhe Requirements of the Sunday School,” lev, J, Eo Edwards. “The Meats Necessary ta Make the Churches Mote Prosperous Financlally,” Rev, C B Runyon ‘What Can We Do te Make Our Churches Mne Spratual? Rev, d. M Willams “The Newnsity of an Tdiwated Ministry,” Rev, W, P. Green. Tar adiction UISTAICT CONFERENCE. Mo Devotional Heied —Rev. C, A, Morgan. Me oll Call and Reading Minutes Mo The Spurtuat Con fitlon uf the Churches,” Res. L, G, Newby. dhe Con lite of the Dabtie scheads.” Rev. J. L Crew. Mt the Requirements of the sunday pchool,” lev, J, Eo Edwards. fo “The Meats Necessary ta Make the Churches Mote Prosperous Financlally,” Rev, C B Runyon Moo‘ What Gan We Do to Make Our Churches Mne Spratual? Rev, d. M Willams ME ihe Newnsity of an Fuated Minutes,” Rev, W, P. Green. Tar adiction AMULRSDAY AFLERNUOS, BUNUN ne itont, COTVENTION. 2:40 P.M. Devotional Meriod —Rev. WP. Green Reparta —Committees and Schools Vaper —"Benethts of Table tudy,” Junction City Delegate Paper "Music it the Sunday Sthval, Ita Pure pose and Plo" ‘Argentme Det gate. Paper ibe Small Sibool, How tr May Be (ora ted" St duln (Lopeba) Delegate, Paper "What fo Do When the Attendance Wanea” Open Divcuseron Huainens Round lable and Question Vox. (A) w Lhe Iible vs Leisod Helps” (hb) “the Normal Work (eh “Davin Diy and How to Make the Most ort" (4) A Gue ar Bla State SUspsy Scuout Cove vestion. Water Ir Cay Do, Warat IF Miwut Tho Rene haba NOUICE Nach Pastor fa requested to seport 2 conte por member and each Sunday Nchook Delegate Jcents por snember for their Church and “Scot Tt og be possible. Tishop Grant 1D will attend, and render sporial service in sume part of the program Al laubyecte will be open for discuaston DO YOV CARRY LIFE INSURANCE? If Not, Why Not? The Knights and Ladies of the Orient. A FRATERNAL BENEFICIARY | 1IOPLIN, MO. Mise Fanoie Leng of Carthage, accompanied ber principal, Prof. Powell, lately in visiting the public schoole. Tne Ladies’ Ald society met Io the Suudsy Schoul room of Trinity chapel, Thursday. Buriness wos tranescted, the ladi « msde some good gingham aprons, an after the work Mra, Wixstou royally enter- tatoed the little band of workers with three layer brick cream—-va+ nilla, etrawberry sud chocolates marble cake, wiih strawberries and cream, The teachers are working hard, gettlog ready for Commencement, Friday, May 31. amprovemente on Kentucky Ave. have been wonderful su are still increasing, Mea. Kate Harrison ia to be commended for the beautiful froutof her dwelling, She haw ad- ded one more stone to the ‘Race building."* Rev. John Yarber, 3 young min- ieter formerly uf Joplia, preached an intelligent sermon Sunday even- ing at Trinity chapel. We were glad to have the worthy editor of the Pra xpearee visit us this week. When he sees the im~ provements Joplio bas made he te as pesce'ul and pleasant and all amailes, like a child can be or Chiles either; but when he aeesthe dark elde,the crushing fictoreot our city Old Nick geteiobim cud steos in front of tae pleasant ebild (Chiler) and we hear the voive of Nick Chiles reprimanding where he sees the ne- versity ard commending where he seen great good, through the leaves of the widely epread Piatnnracer. 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Walk- crafter years of research and hae praven beyond question to be the must benefic'ai scalp and bair grow- ing preparation ever used, It hee given perfect satisfaction to the hun- dreds whu have used it, without onc slugle excention. One treatment positively stops the hair from falling out, Address a} communications to, Mme. C3J., Walker, ..New.. Metropolitan Theatre 400 KANSAS AVENUE. Only Colored Vaudeville House in the City. A. C. HARRIS. A. L. HUDDIFSON. Business Mg r. Stage Manager Good music, sweet singing, clever dancing and high-class comedy Every Friday Night An entertainment especially for Ladies and Children. New faces, Songs and ANY SEAT IN HOUSE 15c House open for bookings. Address: A. C. Harris, care of Capital Office. NATIONAL NEGRO BUSINESS LEAGUE. It was decided at the annual session of the National Negro Business League, held in Atlanta, Ga., in August, 1906, to hold the eighth annual session in the bustling city of Topeka, Kansas, on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, August 14, 15 and 16, 1907. The local Negro Business League of Topka, in active cooperation with Mr. Ira O'Guy, must vice president of the national organization, is already at work planning its arrangements for the entertainment of those who will attend. The Hall of the House of Representatives in the State capital building has been scouted for the sessions of the League Governor E.W. Hoch, the Topka Commercial Club, and the leading citizens of the city and State, who all joined in the invitation asking that the coming session be held at Topka, are actively doing all they can in the direction of contributing toward the success of the coming meeting. No man or woman interested in the business development of the race should taint to attend the Lopka meeting. It is to be held further west than any previous session, in a region where great opportunities are opening to our people and where constructive agencies should be set in motion to the end that our people may avoid themselves of every means of rooting themselves in the business openings or that section. We are assured of a rate of one and one third rate plus 25 cents from all parts of the country for the meeting. Local Negro Business Leagues are urged to elect delegates as early as convenient, notifying the national organizer and the corresponding secretary of the names of such delegates. It is especially urged that arrangements be completed as early as convenient and well ahead for special Pullman and coach accommodations to Topka. Privacy and comfort will be secured if delegations are organized in each of the States and combine their jobs in such a way as to have Pullman service provided for them to and from Topka, Mr. C. F. Adams transportation agent, 914 Street, N.W., Washington, D.C., will be pleased to operate in any way possible in making such arrangements. Where Local Leagues do not at present exist, then formation is urged. A well organized and wide awake Local League will be of great service to the town, or city in which it is organized. Some of the things that are possible for it to do aside from stimulating business enterprises, are the following. 1. It can keep a list of the young men and women who are intelligent, trained, and qualified to fill responsible places as clarks, accountants, salemen, tutors, porters etc. A League can do much good in getting suitable occupations for as many as are competent. Latonia Cafe and Restaurant. Fish of all kinds, Chicken, Porter House Steaks, Ice Cream, Cigars and Tobacco. Most popular Restaurant in Kansas City. JACK FIELDS, Proprietor, 912 E.12th Kansas City, Mo. W.A.DOXEY &WIFE Practical Bathers Massage and Swedish Movement Treatment, Vapor Baths and Betz hot air treatment. Treatment given for rheumatism, poor circulation, Stomach, Liver and Kidney Trouble W. A. DOXY & WIFE, Excelsior Springs, Mo. especially in the northern states. 2. In protecting the community as against fraudulent schemes, such as false stock companies, that are gotten up solely for the purpose of defrauding the colored people. 3. In fostering an interest in civic affairs, such as sanitation, clean yards, cultivating pride in making attractive in appearance the home districts of our people, and in other ways showing an interest in everything that may make up a better community life. There are certain live subjects for discussion which affect in every way the moral and civic growth of our people. Such subjects, if intelligently discussed throughout the whole country wherever our people are in large bodies, will prove of incalculable service in moving for ward out progress. Such subjects as the following are suggested 1. How to unify the colored people in the business interests of the community. 2. What the professional men, ministers, teachers, doctors, lawyers, etc. can do to assist the business men and women. 3. What business men can do to assist professional men. 4. Patronize Negro business enterprises 5. What new businesses can be created? W. E Jackson PHYSICIAN AND SURGON Office 604 Kansas Ave. L. BISIND. TOPEKA, KANSAS WHEN IN MUSKOGEE, I. T. MARTIN'S HOTEL and CAFE It is one of the nicest cleanest Cafes in the city. Everything up-to-date and served in style. Clean Beds a Specialty. Jas. W. H. Martin, Proprietor 106 COURT STREET. Photographs 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 W. H. LUCAS, 123 Kansas Ave TOPEKA NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT The State of Kansas, Shawnee County. In the Probate Court in and for Said County. In the matter of the estate of Julia A. Scott, deceased, Creditors and all other persons interested in the aforesaid estate, are hereby notified that I shall apply to the Probate Court in and for said County, sitting at the Court house in the City of Topeka, Shawnee County, Kansas, on the 4th day of May, A. D. 1907, for a full and final settlement of said estate. Dated April 3rd, A. D. 1907 W. I. JAMISON Administrator of the estate of Julia A Scott, deceased. First published April 5th, 1907. The Peoples' Cafe PENMAN & WILSON, PROPRIETORS. An ideal place to get a nice meal or short order. Everything is first-class, and our special Sunday Dinner is unsurpassed. Give us a call. 105 WEST FIFTH STREET A. SIMS' POOL AND BILLIARD PARLORS Headquarters for all who wish a nice time. When Hutchinson call on him 806 SOUTH MAIN STREET INFORMATION WANTED OF WILL DOUBTLY. Any information of Will Doubtly who was last heard of at Wybark, I.T., will be thankfully received by his brother, W. S. BROWN, 2824 State Street, 3t-4-13. Chicago, Ill. established in the comm. 6. How can the business enterprises already established be improved? 7. How to secure additional country trade. 8. If a bank does not exist, can one be established and supported? 9. If a millinery establishment does not exist, can one be established and supported, etc? 10. If a shoe store or gente' furnishing store does not exist, can one be established and supported? If a drug store does not exist, can one be established and supported? The National Negro Business League stands for the elevation of the Negro people in business and commercial directions, but recognizes fully the necessity for work also in other directions, such work, for instance, as is being done by the Afro-American Council and numerous religious and secular organizations. During the land period of its existence the league has given the race new hope and new light and added faith. It has stimulated the entire race in business directions. Largely through its influence nearly fifty hundred local business leagues have been organized, business of nearly every character including merchandising, banking, real estate dealing, manufacturing, contracting and others, have been started. There are now about thirty one banks in the United States owned and conducted by Negroes. Twelve of these are in the State of Mississippi, four in Georgia, two each in Tennessee, Arkansas and Indiana Territory, and one each in Alabama, North Carolina and South Carolina. We must strive for a greater number of such establishments. The bank is the highest expression of business development. The officers stand ready to co-operate in every way possible with those interested. The national organizer and corresponding secretary will be pleased to forward a little booklet, "Hints and Helps for Local Negro Business Leagues," whenever requested. BOOKR I WASHINGTON, 1. THOMAS LORIENTE. Chairman J. Committee TIMELLI J. SCOLL Controlling Secretary THE WAY OUT. complete instances of the individual achievement often throw more light upon the availums of human progress than statistical tables. Whether the Negro of America are moving upward in civilization or not is sometimes discussed with reference to the birth rate, the amount of property held by the colored people in the aggregate, to the proportion of illiterates in the population, and the like. The National Negro Business League approaches the subject of Negro advancement from another point of view. It undertakes to bring together those colored men and women who have succeeded materially in some occupation, to bring before the race at large the narrative of their successes and stimulate others by then example. Mutation against wrongs and injustice and for better conditions it leaves to other agencies, it directs its attention exclusively to the record of progress that has been made in spite of obstacles and under existing conditions. It has the power within itself the power which is created by the sense of achievement. Its meetings never take the form of combative discussion, but rather of instructive suggestion. In the years in which it has existed there has not been even a single parliamentary wrangle. It is not to be infuriated, however, that all the speakers assumed that every problem connected with the material adjustment of the Negro, and with his economic relation to other Americans was solved. Hippily, the way out which in Washington indicates is comparatively unobstructed. Little land in the South is waiting cultivation. Opposition is not directed against Negro landowners as it against Negro farmers. The colored man who wishes to buy a farm can have his wish granted if he has the money to buy it with and it be his not the money he can borrow it on terms which other men oppose. No one chooses to purchase the products of Negro agricultural labor. Here is the opportunity which stands as it were, imploring Negroes to meet at the story of one Negro farmer in Arkansas, which was unfortunately cut short by lock or time, is the sort of story that could be told of any other colored man who would use the same forsight and industry. The colored farmer has several thousand acres, he told with some detail as to figures the exact profits which he had from his land, and estimated out of his own experience how a man with industry could be borrowing money on his farm in five years and be due of debt. His gospel of agricultural success ought to be praached to Negroes throughout the whole South together with this gospel how yet there needs to be amount of also the warning that a day of judgment is at hand. If white immigrant turns southward, the land which is there now so cheap will rise in price and become less easily obtainable. If the Negroes fail to possess it the Italian immigrants, and other aliens may occupy it. Those who are concerned for the future of the Negro race in this country ought to urge upon the colored people immediate action in getting pos Negro Business League are unquestionable, as all really successful people are. The great service that the league can render does not lie in the exaltation of any particular class of Negroes, but rather in pointing to the great mass of Negroes the way toward attaining the same kind of success that their fellows have won. The words which are spoken at the meetings of the league reach comparatively few of the nine or ten millions of colored people in the United States, but they will bring real prosperity to the race as a whole if the few who hear these words will carry the message to the regions where they dwell and rotate it there—The Outlook, New York. The soda season now opened at Capital Pharmacy. If you want employment call a or write the Afro-American Realty and Employment office, 1005 McGee street, Kansas City, Mo. Weaver and Rivers will find most any kind of employment for you; see them at 1005 McGee street, Kansas City, Mo. Are You K.of P.? Why Not? DO YOU NOT KNOW that the Knights of Pythias is the strongest and most progressive order of the age? The four departments of the order are as follows: SUBORDINATE LODGE: In this the members are united to care for and protect each other interested as well as in sickness and distress. UNIFORM RANK. In this department our young men are receiving a military education which they can get in no other way, thus making them better and more useful citizens. LADIES COURT. In this the wives, mothers, widows, daugeters and sisters of the Knights are united for the common purposes of life. In this department we are paying out thousands of dollars annually to widows and heirs of deceased Knights. IF THERE IS NO LODGE in your locality, confer with the Deputy Grand Chancellor of your district or write JOHN E. LEWIS, G. C., Box 1017, Wichita, Kansas. GRAND OFFICERS KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS The following officers have been elected for the Sunflower Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias Jurisdiction N. A. S. A. E. V. A. and A. Jno L. Lewis, Grand Chancellor, Wichita, Ks. J. B. Davis, Grand Vice Chancellor, Weir. B. Pope, Past Grand Chancellor, Topeka Lev. S. W. Batcholor, Grand Prelate Lawrence. Rev. J. S. King, Grand Lecturer, Weir R. S. Lee, Grand Master of Exchequer, Topeka. W. A Wright, Grand Master at Arms, Wainfield J. H. Hobson, Grand Inr. Guard, Co Lombina Fred Martin, Grand Outer Guard, Wichita Dr. S. H Thompson, Grand Medical Director, Kansas City. J. H. Guy, Grand Attorney, Topeka. A. F. Glover, Grand Secretary Endow ment Board, Wichita. S. W. Fleming, Grand Treasurer End owment Board, Wichita. Doc Williams, Supreme Representa tive, Lawrence. Place of next meeting, Lawrence, 1907 second international congress of arts and sciences at St. Louis gave an interesting exposition of the manner in which the Japanese have sought to conform their legal system to western ideas. The method employed has been conservative, recognizing for the time being some of the most firmly implanted of the old customs rather than inviting by an attempt to revolutionize everything a reaction which might defeat the purpose of the new code. About the year 700 a legal code, based upon Chinese moral philosophy, with the cult of ancestor worship and the feudal system, was drawn up and promulgated. This code, with some minor changes, continued in force until the beginning of the nineteenth century. A system of such antiquity naturally had to be reckoned with by the drafters of the new code, though their task was somewhat simplified by the fact that the old laws had never been published. They had been made for the edification of the judges and other officials. The decree promulgating the new preliminary code after the restoration of the emperor in 1603 followed this tradition in addressing itself to the officials of the empire. When the second code was proclaimed, however, in 1878, the emperor's subjects, as well as his officials, were commanded to obey it, and it was declared that "henceforth every law upon its promulgation shall be posted in conspicuous places for the information of the people," making it evident to the Japanese that their government was to be from that time one of laws and not of men. The legal condition of women was one of the most complicated problems which confronted the revisionists Both Buddhism and feudalism had Japanese women kept in a state of dependency. The Chinese doctrine of the three obediences was strictly enforced under the old law—in childhood a female was subject to her father, in youth to her husband, after her husband's death to her sons. A woman had no legal rights which her husband or sons were bound to respect. In dealing with this question the drafters of the new code made a clean sweep of tradition and established legal rights for women similar to those of the most advanced European nations. Unless otherwise stated in the marriage contract, the property of a woman at the time of her marriage now remains hers. She may also acquire property after marriage and hold it in her own name. There is no distinction between the legal rights of an unmarried woman and a male citizen. A woman now has the same rights as a man in the matter of divorce. In the maintenance of the "house," a survival of the old clan system, the new code has been less radical. The unit of state in Japan is still the family rather than the individual, but the powers of the head of the house now are practically limited to certain rights connected with ancestor worship and control over the marriage of subordinate members. Any member of the house may own property and on his death leave it to his heirs, where formerly it reverted to the head of the clan. It is believed that in time the "house" will be disintegrated and will join the rest of the medieval customs of Japan in the limbo of the past. A French authority on European affairs, M. Yves Guyot, predicts in the North American Review that Russia will hereafter encounter hostility in attempting to float war loans. He says that the French investors are now awake to the fact that the French-Russian alliance is a one-sided affair so far as advantage goes, and that Russia has flooded that country with her bonds. Russia's weakness is so manifest, says M. Guyot, that the limit of faith in her future will soon be reached in France. Russia still has an immense gold reserve to fight on, and the end of the war is not likely to come soon because of her financial straits. Yet failure of credit in the house of friends is not a pleasant prospect for a nation situated as Russia is. Our neighbors on the north seem not at all given to the worship of imported greatness. Some time ago England sent over a titled major general to organise the Canadian militia, and the colonial premier plainly told his leadership that he was not wanted. In the late national election the Laurier administration, which anubbed this pretentious individual and caused his recall, gained votes as a result of the incident. Not alone St. Louis, but the whole country, may be congratulated over the success of the Louisiana Purchase position. The labors of the project and managers have been appreciated, and millions of people have added to their stock of knowledge in a way that can never be forgotten. The correspondents in the far east having nothing better to do, seem to be amusing themselves by inventing new and more tantalizing ways of spelling the names of Manchurian will-be. 4 The said Minnie Lisenby is notified and required to take notice that the plaintiff has filed his petition in the above said court in an action for a divorce and that she must appear, plead or answer to the petition therein filed on or before the 30th day of April, 1907, or said petition will be taken; as true and judgment rendered according to the prayer of the petition therein filed. A. M. THOMAS, Attorney for Plaintiff. First published March 8th, 1907. The Capital Pharmacy dispenses cool soda water. Call when you want to be refreshed. In the District Court of Shawnee County, Kansas. Laura Thomas, Plaintiff. No. 24,374 Mice Thomas, Defendant. The defendant, Mace Thomas, is hereby notified that he has been sued by the plaintiff above named, in the District Court of Shawnee County, Kansas, for a divorce, on the ground of abandonment, and that he must answer the petition filed by the plaintiff, on or before the 4th day of June, 1907, or said petition will be taken as true and judgment rendered divorcing plaintiff from the defendant. JOSSEH REEN, Attorney for Plaintiff. Attent: R. L. THOMAS, Clerk. By JENNIE C. ROSEN, Deputy. First published April 19, 1907. PUBLICATION NOTICE In the District Court of Shawnee County, Kansas. Elizabeth M. H. Heckert, Pillantiff, Delph Heckert, Defendant. The said Delph Heckert is hereby notified and requested to take notice that the Plaintiff has filed her petition in the above entitled Court in action for adjournce and that he must appear or answer to the petition herein filed on or before the 5th day of June, 1907, or the petition will be taken as true and judgment rendered as to the prayer in the petition herein filed. Elizabeth M. H. Heckert, By her Atty., W. I. Jarison. Attest Clerk of the District Court. First published April 26, 1907. For First-claas Rooms and Lodging When in Pathelo, Colo., Stop at B. W. Shelton's Rooming House, 210 Lampkin Street; three blocks from the Union Depot. He can be found at the gate of the depot. M.D.Lawrie, Tailor and cleaner Suits and Trousers made to Order PANTS $4.50 to $12 SUITS $15 to $45 21 FRANCIS S1, ST. JOSEPH, MO FEELING LIVER-ISH This Morning? 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