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THE TOPEKA PLAINDEALER. VOL. IX. HOKE SMITH REFORMING. Georgia Governor Will Soon Be on the Lord's Side— Coming in Slowly. Hoke Smith was inaugurated governor of Georgia on June 20th. The oath of office was administered by Chief Justice Fish of the supreme court before the joint session of the legislature which began its annual session this week. Governor Smith from a platform erected in the open air on the west front of the capitol. Governor Smith suggested special legislation to prevent corporations from using improper influence to control legislation. He advocated that all representatives of corporate interests should be required to register with the secretary of state. AGAINST FREE RAILROAD PASSES. The legislature, he said, should prohibit the railroads from issuing free passes between points within tae state. The contribution of money for political purposes by corporations or special interests, the governor declared, should be prohibited by a new state law. He urged requiring candidates for public office to submit sworn statements of money spent, its purposes and its sources. The state constitution should be amended, he said, to provide a new standard for the elective franchise, suggesting the Alabama law as a model. He referred to the provision in the constitution of the United States which declares that "the right of the citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or any state, on account of race, color or previous condition of servitude." The state of Georgia, he maintained, has the right to fix a legal standard—the qualifications being required of all without reference to race or color. This amendment, he suggested, should divide the voters into six classes, as follows: 1. All persons who served in any war of the United States, the Confederate states or the state of Georgia. 2. Their lawful descendants. 3. All persons of good character who understand the duties and obligations of citizenship. 4. All persons who can read and write correctly in English any paragraph of the federal or state constitution. 5 Owners of forty acres of land on which they live. 6. Owners of $500 worth of taxable property in the state. "The right to quality under the third provision." Governor Smith declared, should expire January 1st, 1910, and under the first and second provisions, January 1st, 1913. Any person qualifying under the first, second or third provisions is qualified to vote for life, unless he fails to pay his taxes, commits a crime or does some act subsequently to prevent his voting." ASSERIS THE NEGRO'S INFERIORITY Continuing, the governor said. "Any plan for the Negroes which fails to recognize the difference between the white and black races will fail. The honest student of history knows that the Negro had full opportunity for generations to develop before the days of slavery; that the Negro race was improved by slavery and that the majority of the Negroes in this state have ceased to improve since slavery. Few have been helped by books. All have been helped who have been taught or made to work. The Negro child should be taught manual labor and how to live. The Negro teacher should be selected less by book than by character examination. Racial d forces cannot be overcome by misguided philanthropists. Superiority does not justify cruelty. The man who breaks the law to punish a criminal is himself a criminal. There is no place in Georgia for riots and mobs. It is the duty of the governor to exhaust the power of his office to enforce the law and to prevent lynching, and I shall perform this duty. I recognize the duty of the white man to be absolutely just to the Negro. A Kanian Weds in the Philippines. A letter received in Junction City recently from the Philippines tells of the marriage of Bedford Hunter, a former Junction City boy. Redford Hunter is a Negro, and he was graduated from the Junction City high school shortly before the Spanish-American war. In 1890 he went to the Philippines as a teacher. He has worked in the capacity of a teacher up to this time and for the last year has been in charge of all the schools in one big district. April 15th he was married to Senorita Pas Montilla, the daughter of a wealthy Filipino at Igug. The wedding was attended by more than 500 people and the ceremonies lasted two days, most of which time was tken up with dancing and feasting. For the teast it was necessary to slaughter two cows, three sheep, six pigs, and great flocks of chickens. As a result of his marriage, Hunter has a whole town full of relatives. His father in law presented him with a furnished bungalow. Hunter already has a rice plantation, and is now one of the big men in the province in which he resides KANSAS FARMERS TAKE NOTE' I have caused circular letters to be sent many of you from St. Joseph, Mo., which is headquarters for our great Tri-State Fair. Will you kindly read them and note the purposes. Never before, west of the Mississippi, has so noble a movement been inaugurated by our people, of our people and for our people, neither have such opportunities and advantages presented themselves as at St. Joseph, to demonstrate and prove our progress, beyond a reasonable doubt, in these three States. I have been elected Commissioner of Agriculture and servant for this State; therefore I desire an expression of heartfelt co-operation by sending or notifying at once of any article or commodity, from a glass of jelly to finest horse, or pig, or pigs. The Sundflower at te agriculturists are urged to take advantage of this fair and exposition that it might enable the sons of Kansas to carry off many prizes for agricultural productions at Topeka, 1911. The Sundflower State Agriculturists will report in the next week's issue of THE PLAINDEALER. Farmers of all sections take note. Commissioner of Agriculture Trt State Negro Industrial Exposition and Fair. HIAWATHA, KANS. Mrs. Oscar Banks returned Sunday day from a few days visit with friends in Falls City. Mr. and Mrs. George Montgomery are visiting in Friend, Nebr. Mrs Mary Denton and Miss Mary Miller of Sabetha attended the rally here Sunday. Mr. Frank Banks and Mr Leo Linnear of Onsha are visiting relatives here. Sunday was rally day at the Second Baptist church. Services were held at the court house. Rev S D Topp, the pastor, officiated during the morning service. Rev. Davis pastor of the A M E church preached this afternoon sermon and Rev W L Brasso, an evangelist, preached the evening sermon. The members of the AM E church gave an entertainment Thursday night for the benefit of the church "irs James" has entered the sowing Friday afternoon. TOPEKA, KANSAS, FRIDAY MORNING, JULY 5, 1907. ST. JOSEPH'S BIG EXPOSITION! Negroes Will Hold the Largest Fair and Industrial Exposition Ever Given in the West---- Four States will Participate. Following the Color Line R.S. Baker Tells of the Rural Negro. Following the Color Line R.S. Baker Tells of the Rural Negro. We made a special trip to St Joe this week to ascertain facts in connection with Tri-State Negro Exposition and Fair, to be held August 4-9, 1907. This will be the largest undertaking to occur in the West outside of the St. Louis exposition A wealthy white citizen who is interested in the uplift of St Joseph and the colored race suggested the idea of holding this exposition, and will assist the board of directors and lady managers by allowing them to draw on him to the amount of $7000 to defray expenses and pay premiums to those who would compete for prizes. The following are to be the exhibits: Needle and art work, the work of skilled mechanics, best hogs horses, sheep and cattle, to be owned and controlled exclusively by Negroes. The board of officers and managers have offices at Thrdd and Edmonds, Board of Trade building. There are several stenographers, clerks and traveling agents, who are securing exhibits for this great enterprise. They are already overrun with communications, asking for particulars, assuring the directors of their presence Thousands of whites will attend this fair and will spend their money to make it a success. The various chairmen are visiting with each other to make their work the best. Pres. N C Bruce, Vice Pres L E Perry, W A Hill, secretary and treasurer, and Dr. M O Rickels chairman, W M Huddley, Sept. of stock, J H Sims committee on education, Mrs H H Walker, Pres. and Mrs J Smothers, vice president, and other members of the committees are determined that nothing shall be left undone. The grounds are located near Lake Contrary, a large, beautiful body of water, dotted with boats and houses and surrounded by shade trees and shrubbery, making an ideal place for pleasure seekers and sight scents. One can camp for a week amid the flowers and blue grass, and breathe the pure atmosphere, which is exhilarating and helpful. 'Street cars run to the grounds every five minutes, all cars running past Union depot. St Joe is noted for having one of the best systems in the West. One good feature about this exposition is that no whisky nor gambling will be allowed about the grounds. Tents and cots will be provided for those who wish to camp on the fair grounds, at reasonable prices. Meals will be served at prices that will reach every one. The several days will be set apart for events of great interest to the multitudes that will attend. The Contained from Last Week. From the American Magazine. One of the most active causes of this remarkable movement is downright fear-or race repulsion expressed in fear. The white people dislike and fear to live in dense colored neighborhoods, while the Negroes are often terrorized in the white neighborhoods—and not in the South only but in parts of Ohio, Indiana Illinois as I shall show when I come to treat of Northern race conditions. I have accumulated many instances showing how Negroes are expelled from white neighborhoods. There is a significant reason for this. Governor's day Hod Carriers' day, Children's day, Farmers' day. Men of great ability will make speeches. Senator Foraker, Registrar Vernon, Booker T. Washington, Kelly Miller and several other distinguished men of national reputation are on the program. J G and C. A Groves, officers of the Sunflower Agriculturist, have promised to bring six car loads of produce, cattle and horses to the exposition. A marvel of the 20th century will be the great industrial fair held by the people of St Joseph August 4-9 We hope every one who has anything worthy of note will write this committee and assure them of their exhibits. This will be an incentive for the race and these states in the West to move on more rapidly in accumulation of wealth. The Shriners of St. Joe have shown the committee that they will help to make this a success by holding a reunion at this time. There will be drills and parades of several secret organizations which will compete for prizes, and those wishing to engage in these drills should write the committee at once for place and participation. The exposition will open Sunday with Camp Meeting and a sermon will be preached by Rt Rev. Bishop Grint of the Fifth Episcopal Diar. A choir of 100 voices will render music on that day. Mr. Palmer L. Clark, who controls the park and is manager, and Manning B. Pletz, working as hard as a committee to make it a success—these two gentlemen represent white citizens of St. Joe and are in earnest in this matter. Mr. Pletz, who is director of music in the park, is a gentleman who is a fair, honorable, thorough business man, deeply intested in the success of this fair of the colored race. He was born in Springfield, O., across the street from the immortal Lincoln and was always imbued with the idea that the colored man should have equal show to earn a dollar with the white man, and he assures the committee it shall want for nothing. Mr. Pletz was three times page of the Illinois legislature. This is a splendid opportunity for people to run stands, merry-go-rounds and other amusements. They will secure one of the finest colored bands in the United States, which will open the exposition. For privileges write W. A. Hill, Board and Trade Building, Third and Edward Streets. Little Rock, Ark, Jan. 1. Practically every Negro in Evening Shade, Sharp County, in this State, has left town as the result of threats which have been made against the Negroes. For several years a small colony of Negroes has lived just on the outskirts of the town. A short time ago notice were posted warning the Negroes to leave the county at once. About the same time Joe Brooks, a Negro who lived with an family two miles north of town, was called to his door and fired upon by unknown persons. A load of shot struck the house close by his side and some of the shot entered his room. He and his son left the country and practically every member of the Negro colony has gone. They have abandoned their property or disposed of it for whatever they could get." From the New Orleans Times Democrat of March 20, 1907, I cut the following dispatch showing one method pursued by the whites of Oklahoma 'BLACKS ORDERED OUT. 'Lawton, Okla., March 20. 'Negroes, beware the capers. We, the Sixty Sons of Waurika, demand the Negroes to leave here at once. We mean Go! Leave in twenty four hours, or after that time your life is uncertain.' These were the words on placards which the eighty Negroes of Waurika, forty miles south of Lawton, saw conspicuously posted in a number of public places this morning. "Dispatches from there to-night stated that the whites are in earnest and that the Negroes will be killed if they do not leave town." Not a few students of Southern conditions like John Temple Graves among the whites and Bishop Turner among the colored people, have argued that actual physical separation of the races—either by deportation to Africa or elsewhere, or by giving them certain reservation like parts of the South to live in—is the only solution. And here is, in actuality, a natural segregation going forward in certain parts of the South though in a very different way from that recommended by Mr. Graves and Bishop Turner; for even in the blackest counties the white people own most of the land, occupy the towns, and dominate everywhere, politically, socially and industrially. Mr. Brown plantation contains about 3,000 acres, of which some 1,500 acres are in cultivation, a beautiful rolling country, well watered, with here and there clumps of pines, and dotted with the small homes of the tenantry. As we drove along the country road we met or passed many Negroes who bowed with the greatest deference. Some were walking, some drove horses or mules and rode not infrequently in top buggies, looking most prosperous, as indeed Mr. Brown informed me they were. He knew them all, and sometimes stopped to ask them how they were getting along. The outward relationships between the races in the country seem to me to be smoother than in the city. Cotton, as in all this country, is almost the exclusive crop. In spite of the constant presching of agricultural reformers, like Mr. Brown himself, hardly enough corn is raised to supply the people with food, and I was surprised here and elsewhere at seeing so few cattle and hogs. Sheep are nonviident. Ir Hawkklawville, though the country round about raises excellent grass, I saw in front of a supply store bales of hay which had been shipped in 400 miles, from Tennessee. Enough sugar cane is raised, mostly in small patches, to supply syrup for domestic uses. At the time of my visit the Negroes were in the canefields with their long knives, getting in the crop. We saw several little onehorse grinding mills pressing the juice from the cane, while near at hand, sheltered by a shanty-like roof, was the great simmering syrup kettle, with an expert Negro at work stirring and skimming. And always there were Negroes round about, all the boys and girls with jolly smeared faces—and the older ones peeling and sucking the fresh cane. It is a great time of year! How does the landlord—and a lord he is in a very true mouse—manage his great estate? The same system is in use with slight variations everywhere in the cotton country and a description of Mr. Continued on Page 4. NUMBER 27. KANSAS BLAOKS DOING WELL. The Plaindealer Editor Finds Nothing But Prosperity all Over Kansas. We visited Manhattan, Junction City, Salina, Elsworth and Abilene the past week and found the colored people progressing nicely. They are erecting several buildings and new homes in these different towns, also they are buying property. We saw oceans and oceans of wheat, acres of coin and numbers of herds of cattle. Manhattan was our first stop. Here we visited the home of Miss Minnie Howell, a teacher in the public schools of Kansas City. Her mother conducts one of the nicest rooming houses in the city. Manhattan has a population of about 100 or 150 colored people. Gilbert brothers'ave one of the best barbershops in the city. They have recently completed a two story brick building. These two gentlemen stand high in the community. We met Sheriff Boyle, who seemed to be a courteous gentleman. JUNCTION CITY. Our next stop was Junction City. We found a few of the Tenta cavalrymen at this station who are preparing to give their first ball. The colored people are also building homes. Mr. D. D. Aldridge has made great improvements in his home and Mr. A. S. Asbury has built a new addition to his house. Mr. P. P. Hammond, an old resident there owns several good pieces of property which is in good repair. We also met Mr. John Blue who owns a beautiful cottage and is doing nicely. Mr. and Mrs. Bert Kimbrouga have also completed a fine cottage on Twelfth and Madison. We have not the time to tell of all the business people we met here and their welfare. SALINA. At Salina we found W. W. Shobe and wife doing fine in the grocery business. They are among the wealthiest people in Salina and are still accumulating a fortune. For the last ten years they have been constantly and earnestly at work. We met several widows for whom Salina is noted. Among them were Mrs. W. C. Cowns, Mrs. A. O. Murrell and Mrs. Alice Williams. Mrs. Cowen is a very independent woman, and she is an industrious as she is independent, Mrs. Murrell reats out her beautiful cottage and Mrs. Williams has a lovely two story eight room house. THE PLAINDEALER desires to see some good, hardworking man go to Salina and change those widowa' minds. Rev. W. D. Cox, one of the most popular ministers in Salina own three houses which are kept in good repair. We congratulate him upon the accumulation of such valuable property. ABILENE. We found the people of Abilene striving to accumulate something. We met Mergeant Murry Gibson, who served thirty years in the army. Mr. J. Simpson, a progressive farmer, owns thirty-six acres of land with hogs and other products which bring him a large sum. Mr. J. D. Lewis conducts one of the oldest barbershops in the city. Mr. Temple is one of the most successful hog raisers in Salina. Railroad Porters Get a Raise. Mr. C. A Fox, chairman of Porter's Railway organization, has received a letter from Manager Hurley raising the wages of porters who have been in service two years $10 per month, and those who have been in service one year $5. The men are thankful for this raise, which was justly due them. Mr. Fox is pleased to thank these years' work. ATCHISON, KANS. Misses Maggie Garrett and Lelia Hammond, of Leavenworth, are visiting Mrs. Rachel Taylor and friends. Mrs. Flossie Givens entertained a few friends Tuesday, in honor of Misses Hammond and Gavett, who were also entertained on Wednesday by Miss Pearl Irene Anthony, on Thursday by Miss Gladys Wroth well and in the evening with a party by Miss Agnes McDowell at the residence of her aunt, Mrs. Rachel R. Taylor, on Saturday evening by Miss Bernice Butts. Mrs. L. Holloway was called home Saturday evening, to be at the bed side of Mrs. Robert Hyston, who is very ill at her home on Division. Mrs. Maud Porter is very ill at her home on Mound street. --- A surprise party was given Miss V. St. Claire at her home, by the Petromian Club, before her departure for the Jamestown Fair. The evening was spent playing various games, interspersed with the good music of the hostess and Miss Penn. A dainty luncheon was served, and the guests departed for their homes wishing Miss Virginia a pleasant trip. Mr. W. Parker has opened a new barber shop, corner of Division and Eighth streets. We must not forget him. Mrs. Willis's daughter, Roxie, and her husband, are expected home soon. Solones' horse seems to be giving the other horses some trouble on the race track. What has become of J. Guthrie's patient? Do you know, Luther? Goldie and Oliver were all smiles Sunday. Misses C. Wilson and L. Cunningham leave Sunday for Illinois. We wish our patrons to bring us news, and we are going to increase the PLAINDEATER subscription here to three hundred. PLEASANTON NEWS. The Normal has begun in Mound City and Miss Edith Douglass has gone to attend it. Miss Etta Smith has been home on a visit from Iola. Uncle Chas. Smith will soon have his house erected. Mesdames John Brown and Will Smith are going to give a large social on the Fourth. Hal quite a nice time last week with the merry-go-round and hand concert. Sunday was Rev. Barnett's day in LaCygne and Rev. Arnold accompanied him and reported a good time. Mrs. Ssrah Fine is thinking of visiting her son in Wichita. Mr White is still in the laundry business and doing well. Rev. Bass was in from the country last Monday, reporting a good garden and lots of blackberries. Mrs. Charles Smith has been on the sick list but is better. Mr. and Mrs. Fine were visiting in Fulton on Sunday. Bibles and soup books at cost prices. Write A. U. W. Mission Board, dealers in Christian literature, 2e22 Papin street, St. Louis Missouri. Office Hours 9 to 12 noon 2 to 8 30 p.m. DR. A. A. MAYER. S Attention to Weak EYES. Strabismus Corrected without an Operation. Calls made to any part of the city. In Topeka Thursday, Friday and Saturday of each week at 1112 West Twelfth Street. Permanent office: 633 New Hamshire St. Lawrence, Kas. The New Japanese Code. Nijushiuse Hosumi, professor of law in the University of Tokyo, in a paper on the new Japanese code read at the recent 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, recognising for the time being some of the most firmly implanted of the old customs rather than inviting by an attempt to revolutionise 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 was usually 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 1863 followed this tradition in addressing itself to the officials of the empire. When the second code was proclaimed, however, in 1874, 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 here. 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 managed with ancestor worship and central over. the marriage of subordinate members. Any, member of the house may own property and on his death leave it to his heirs, where property 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 medinval 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 reorganise 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 saubbed this pretentious individual and caused his result, 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 tantalising ways of spelling the names of Manchester will have. U. D. Davidson Company Wholesale and retail human hair dealers. Wigs $15 per dozen or $3.75 each and up; switches $4 per dozen or 75c and up; kinky hair, wavy hair, straight hair, dark brown and jet black colors. Money must accompany all mail orders. 1402 Calhoun Street, Fort Worth, Texas. TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN MY alliancation for a permit to sell inholding liquories according to law, at 1021 Kauai Avenue, in the Third Ward of the city of Topeka, is now on file in the office of the probate judge of blowned county, hannas. The hearing of the same is to for Monday at 10 o clock a.m. July 9, 1967. O. A. TAYLOR, M. D IV ICIAN AND SUBGRO office Hours { 2 to 4 and 7 to 8p.m. Residence 1535 Van Buren. CALL FOR A SOLUMN CONCLAVE Bishop Grant is Named as One of the Trustees for the Jeans Fund. To the Citizens of the State of Missouri: On February 13th, 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 car law, which had already passed the State Senate, and to appeal to the reason, liberality and good judgment of the railroad 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 prevailed 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 discreet 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 while assembled in the A. M. E. church; Jefferson City, Mo., February 13th, 1807, instructing the president and secretary of that gathering to invite a solenin convocation of the people of Missouri through their representatives, for the purpose of considering the advisability of a permanent organization. The meeting is hereby called to convene in St. Louis, Mo., opening in Central Baptist church, July 10th, at 9 a.m. and closing in St. Paul A. M. E. church, July 11th. All religious denominations, educational institutions, charitable associations, secret societies, and any other organizations in the state not 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 B. SILVINS. NAMES OF PERSONS SELECTFD TO SERVE AS TRUSTEES FOR THE JEANES FUND. Hollia Burke Prissell, Hampton, Va. Booker T. Washington, Tuskegee, Ala. William H. Taft, Washington, D. C. George Foster Peabody, New York City Andrew Carnegie, New York City. Robert R. Morton, Hampton, Va. James C. Napier, Nashville, Tenn. Abraham Grant, Kansas City, Kan. James H. Dillard, New Orleans, La. Talcott Williams, Philadelphia, Pa. Robert L. Smith, Paris, Texas. David C. Barrows Athens, Ga. Robert C. Ogden, New York City, Walter H. Page, New York City. Belton Gilreath, Birmingham, Ala. George McAneny, New York City. Samuel C. Mitchell, Richmond, Va. 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WASH PHONE 860. 211 N. WASHINGTON AVE., IOLA, KAS Soldiers Course in Event of His Be- ing Suddenly Awake. Of Col. John C. Hayes, who served with distinction under Gen. Winfield Scott in the Mexican war, an amusing story is told by T. E. Farish in his "Gold Hunters of California." Hayes with his command, had been out scouting. On his return he made no report to Gen. Scott, who sent for him. Gen. Scot was a veritable martinet in enforcing military discipline. After Hayes was seated in the commander's headquarters, Scott said: "Col. Hayes. I have received no report of your expedition against the padre." "I did not think it worth while," said Hayes. "Every officer of the army is required to make a full report of everything to his superior officer. Please make your report verbally." Hayes began by saying that he struck the padre's trail on a certain day, followed it for two days and on the third day, while his command was resting at noon and taking their sista, the old padre came down on them. The "boys" gathered themselves together and whipped the Mexicans off, killing quille a number of the padre's command. His own loss was insignificant, one killed and three wounded. "Surprised you, eh?" queried Scott. "Yes; we were not expecting blu." "Where were your pickets?" "Did not have any." "What!" shouted Gen. Scott. "A colonel in the regular army of the United States go into camp in the heart of the enemy's country and never place a picket on guard? What would you do if surprised when asleep?" "Shoot the first man that waked me up," was the cool reply. Russia has a larger proportion of blind people than any other European country. Two out of every 1,000 of her people are sightless. Kallithrix Parlor HAIR GOODS, HAIR ORNAMENTS, NEW POMPADOURS, SWITCHES, WIGS, AND FRIZZES OF ALL KINDS. A NICE HINE OF TOILET |WATER AND PERFUMES. F. J. Weaver. Bonded by the Metropolitan Surety Co. J. .JOHNSON Proprietor. WHAT HE WOULD DO. MRS. M. L. FIELD, 819 KANSA: AVE. Alfred Rivers. Reference: Missouri Saving Bank. J. W. ANDERSON Plumber. 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 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. TO TOPEKA SUBSCRIBES. A great many of our subscribers in the city are in arrears, and we would be pleased to have them call and settle. We have been very lentient with them, and they should know by this time that it takes money to run a newspaper, and unless their bills are settled their names will be dropped from the list. ANSWER WAS BEFORE HIM. Query of Phillips Brooks That Seemed Unnecessary. It will not be difficult for Bostonians to recall the excitement caused some years since by an enterprising tailoring establishment"nown to fame for its important prognosing of the question, "Do you wear panties" which greeted the eye at every turn. When this horror of advertising was at its height, his forlisk the Rt. Rev. Mr. Courtney, then but recently crested bishop of Halifax, paid his first visit to his former home, Boston, where, for a number of years he had been rector of St Paul's, Tremont street, which post he had left for the higher dignity in Nova Scotia. He appeared on the street in the conventional dress of an English bishop, including the long black stockings and knee breeches. Thus attired he was met by the Rev Phillips Brooks who paused before him and gazed attentively at the unusual figure thus presented. The eyes of the distinguished Boston clergyman traveled slowly down the tall form of his late colleague in the ministry until they rested upon his nether extremities then, extending his hand, he inquired, solemnly: "Do you wear pant?" Self-Control. There is poetry in moderation. There is power in self control. If you are going to be master of any situation you must first be master of yourself. The man who loses his head when he loses his heart is pretty certain to lose the girl also. J. W. Voohie's Restaurant I also carry a fine line of GROCERIES and MEATS. Give me a share of your trade. State Avenue. Kansas City. near Home one EUs West. FOR SALE—At Muskogee, I. T. the nicest and cleanest up to date cafe and hotel in the territory. If you want a nice, clean cafe, see meat once. I wish to suspend business on account of failing health. J. W. H. MARTIN, 106 Court St. Bath 15 Cents Bath 15 Cents Dyeug & Specialty The Prohress Barber Shop and Shining Parlor Haircuts 25c; Shave 10c Massage & Specialty SCOTT & SWENDELL, Props. 121 Independence Ave. KANSAS CITY, MCD BELL PHONE 2474X MAIN S. M. Chandler's Barber Shop and Pool Hall [Picture of a man with a mustache and a suit]. First-class Artist in the Barber Shop—Popular Prices, Work Guaranteed—You are Always Welcome. KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI, 112.4 E. Sixth St. ARE YOU GOING TO VISIT CHICAGO THFN, If you are you would want to stop at some good reliable house where things are homelike! Well, drop us a letter with (80 cents) inclosed and we will see to it that you will have a First Class place to stop where not only men and women can stay in comfort care. All the leading Hotels and private Boarding houses in all the large cities Register with us. Write us at anytime you wish to get Rooms. THE FIRST NATIONAL RODMING ASS N. BHP Billiton, Chichester, England An enjoyable time was reported by each and every one who attended the old settlers' picnic last Friday and Saturday. We had a very nice rain Friday and Saturday, as it showered all day. Harvest has begun around in Rooks county, wheat is very good in places, and also corn and other grain looks very prosperous at present. Mr. John Taylor has finished erecting a new house on his farm nine miles north of Plainville, which he is now occupying with his family. Miss Pimma Lloris is now visiting at Delphos, Kansas with friends. Miss Curt Lloris compounded her cousin's last Wednesday. Miss St. M. H. expecting to go to California the next of July. WEAR CITY, KAN. The C. M. E. church wish to sell their house of worship for $150. See or write Mr. James Furgoson. It is a bargain. Mrs Clare Yanger of Lawrence, district M. W. G. of the Household of Ruth, made her annual visit on the 20th. While here she was entertained by Mrs. L. F. Taylor. Her next stop was in Parrons. Rev. C. G. Tutt of Oswego was in our city on the 22d delivering book. He preached at the St. John church morning and night. Mr. R. D. Anderson, Mr. R. C. Chatman and Mrs. S. A. Kinnell returned from Topeka on the 22d, where they attended the state Sunday school convention. They report a fine session. All the old officers were reelected. The next meeting will be held in Kansas City, Kansas, June, 1908. Miss Arvey Ellison of Paola, who just graduated at Quindaro, arrived in our city on the 23d to visit her sister, Mrs. Mosey Stewart A JIM CROW PARK IN THE OLD JOHN BROWN STATE. Following are the names of the white Kansas men who opened a Carnival Park to all nations but the Negro. The name of the town where this park is located is Kansas City, Kansas, United States of America, sweet land of Liberty, offering justice to all and special privileges to none. So the law of the land reads. "The Flag indicates that; but the poor old Flag is made to LIE." Will you Negroes withhold your trade and vote from the following business men of Kansas City, Kansas? Holzmark, the furniture dealer. Geo. Graubel, the soda water man. J. Horton, the wall paper and stationery man. The above men looked in the faces of the leading Negroes of Kansas City, Kansas, and told them without a bat of the eye "we won't have a Negro in our park, either as a servant or a spectator." The only reason given was that the park was private, notwithstanding the fact that all over town there are bills posted inviting the PUBLIC to attend this park. If any Negro, having spent one year in a school room, will say that the word PRIVATE can be applied, then Dear Old Webster should turn over in his grave and revise his dictionary and the Negro take one more year in school. VENDETTA. In the District Court of Shawnee County, Kansas. Bertha Coon, Plaintiff. vs Per Lee Coon, Defendant. To Per Lee Coon: You are here by notified that the depositions of surdry witnesses to be used as evidence on the part of the plaintiff in the above entitled cause will be taken at the office of Frank N. Gilberts, a notary public, at Number 35 Conet street. Binghampton, New York, on the eleventh day of July, 1907, between the hours of 8 o'clock, a. m. and 6 o'clock p. m., and that the taking of the same will be adjourned from day to day between the same hours until completed. BERTHA COON, Plaintiff, F. J. LYNCH, Att'y. First published June 14th, 1907. 60 YEARS' EXPERIENCE PATENTS TRADE MARKS DESIGNS COPYRIGHTS & C Anyone selling a sketch and description may quickly erect our copyright free whether an invention is privately patented, communicated strictly commercially, HANDBOOK or otherwise, without payment for producing patents. Patents taken through Mann & Co. receive special notice, without charge, in the Scientific American. A handwritten illustrated weekly. Large circula- cation of any scientific journal. Forms a year for months 6, 12. Sold by newadvertisers. MUNN & Co. 361 Broadway, New York Branch Office, 65 W. St., Washington, D.C. Rings Round Eyes J-10 To the Master-Warder, GREETING: Punication of the Most Wily-first Annual Grand city of Parsons on the of such business as attinued on the 29th and Each Lodge is not retary. These return up to June 24th, 1900. We enclose your important item and all claims made before the Lodge and proper Delegates are re- Amount delinqu- The Grand Lodge This Proclamation PUBLICATION NOTICE.] No. 24,364 MASONIE of the Master-Wardens and Brethren GREETING: Pursuant to a resolution of the Most Worshipful Prince, first Annual Grand Communication of Parsons on the fourth Wednesday such business as may come before issued on the 29th and 30th. Each Lodge is required to fill in a diary. These returns should be carried to June 24th, 1907, and a report. We enclose you blank forms to important item and the officers of claims made before certifying the Lodge and properly signed. Delegates are requested to be Amount delinquent Grand Rev. The Grand Lodge will open pro-This Proclamation must be re- ON NOTICE.] 4.364 MASONIC PROCLAMATION To the Master-Wardens and Brethren of GREETING: Pursuant to a resolution adopted at the close of the Thirtieth Annual Grand Communication of the Most Worshipful Prince Hall Grand Lodge, held in the city of Atchison, Kansas, the Thirty-first Annual Grand Communication will convene in the Lodge Room of King Solomon No. 65 in the city of Parsons on the fourth Wednesday in August, 1907, being the 28th day thereof, for the transaction of such business as may come before it for the good of the Craft. The Grand Session will be continued on the 29th and 30th. Each Lodge is required to fill out the enclosed returns and forward one copy to the Grand Secretary. These returns should be carefully filled, and show the names of all members in good standing up to June 24th, 1907, and a report of all work done up to that date. We enclose you blank forms upon which ALL claims for charity must be made. This is a very important item and the officers of Subordinate Lodges are earnestly requested to carefully investigate all claims made before certifying. And BEAR IN MIND that all claims must be under the seal of the Lodge and properly signed. Lodge and properly signed. Delegates are requested to be on hand promptly, prepared to do work. In the District Court of Shawnee County, Kansas. Julia A. Perkins, Plaintiff, vs Thomas Perkins, Defendant, State of Kansas to said defendant: 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, Plf. J J. KING, Att'y Attest: R. L. THOMAS. Clerk District Court. First published April 5th., 1907 BOB BOSS4Free. ARTHUR HARRIS, Sec. AL. RODGERS, Business Mgr., Home 'Phone 7659 Main Bell 'Phone 4114 Main OLYMPIC CLUB. Chas. Smith..... Sara Yarbrough N. C. Pearman..... Ed. Tipton James Sprangles..... Al Reynolds William Kelly..... Ben Lewis 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. Fred M Stonestreet. Stonestreet red M. Stone street. G. W. Hamilton Stonestreet & Hamilton. Successors to J. M. Knight. Undertakers and Embalmers We carry one of the finest Topeca. Corner 7th and Quincy Sts. and Quincy Sts. Top We carry one of the finest lines of Undertaking goods to Topeka. Open from 6 a. m. to 1 a. m. The tis peculiar to women, take different forms. Some ladies suffer, every month, from dark rings round their eyes, blotches on their skin and tired feeling. Others suffer agonies of pain, that words can hardly express. Whatever the symptoms, remember there is one medicine that will go beyond mere symptoms, and act on the cause of their troubles, the weakened womanly organs. Mra. M. C. Austin, of Memphis, Tenn. writes: "For five (5) years I suffered with every symptom of female disease, but after using the well-known Cardui Home Treatment, I was entirely well." 333 PROCLA TI N 777 1907, at 10.00 o'clock in the morning. PRELIMINARY SESSION—The Board of Grand Curators is requested to meet Tuesday afternoon, July 10th. REPRESENTATIVES—Temples are requested to send their C. M. or V. M. and pay their traveling expenses and board. Tabernacles are requested to send their H. P. or V. P. and pay their traveling expenses and board. Palatiums their P. P. or V. P. and pay their traveling expenses and board. Tents are to send their Q. M. or V. Q. M. and pay their traveling expenses and board. TAKE DUE NOTICE-All Temples, Tabernacles, Palatiums and Tents must be represented, as the law is positive on this point. Send Quarterly Report June 1st. ENDOWMENT RECEIPTS—Send or bring all receipts that you have received from the Endowment Secretary since the last Grand Session to this Grand Session, as per Constitution, page 169, article 23, and put them in the hands of the Committee. BE ON TIME-As our work is done by Committees, we want all delegates represented on some one of the Committees at the hour of evening ANNUAL SERMON-The Annual Sermon will be preached by Rev. Sir C. G. Fishback, C. G. O. Wednesday night, July 10th. All members must be present in full dress regalia. THE OFFICIAL PAPER—Quite a number have neglected paying for The Searchlight, our official organ, which should be promptly paid. Attest: A. W. HOPKINS, C. G. S., 321 Dakota Street, Leavenworth, Kansas. PUBLICATION NOTICE. All persons interested will take notice that my petition is on file in the office of the Shawnee County, Kansas, Probate Court, asking for authority to sell the following described real estate situate in Shawnee County, Kansas, belonging to the estate of Matilda Jones, deceased, for the purpose of paying the debts of said estate and the expense of administration, to wit. Lot 369 Western avenue, North Topeka, Kansas. Said petition is set for hearing at the office of the Probate Judge, in the city of Topeka, said county, on Monday, the 8th day of July, 1907, at which time and place you can make known any objections you may have to the granting of such ordre. Dated June 20th, 1907. G. W. WATSON. Administrator of said estate. First published June 21st, 1907. W. W. CALDWELL, Physician and Surgeon. Ind. 960 Phones Held: Office 4.4-1 " " Res 4.4.2. Office 921 Kansas Ave. TOPKA, KANSAS G. W. Hamilton & Hamilton, Topeta, Kansas Wine of Cardui The Mt. Clemens Hotel and Mineral House owned and conducted by a Colored Man at any of the health resorts in the United States. Write for Special Rates. GEO. I. HUTCHINSON, Proprietor, 48 WELTS STREET : MT.CLEMENS, MICH. The Knights and Ladies of the Orient. A FRATERNAL BENEFICIARY SOCIETY. WILL ISSUE YOU POLICIES FOR YOURSELF AND CHILDREN PAYING, PARTIAL-LIFE, NICK, FUNERAL AND DEATH BENEFITS, IN CASE OF DEATH No home loving man can afford to be without LIFE INSURANCE THE KNIGHTS and LADIES of the ORIENT is duly authorized by the laws of the State of Kansas, and is under the Sup't. of Insurance of Kansas. Its officers are bonded in retrollable Sury Company. LIBERAL TERMS TO AGENTS. For information Address:- National headquarters, 501 Kansas Ave., Topeka, Kansas. Our Motto, "Prompt Payment of Claims." Furnished Rooms 50c Up. Meals 50 Cents Up. ```markdown ``` FRANK WILSON, C. G. M., 943 Everette Avenue, Kansas City, Kansas. American and European Plan Telephone No. 245. Hotel and Mineral Bath House. Has opened its doors for the accommodation of Colored People that come to Mj. Clemens in the future for their health and treatment of Rheumatism. It is the only Hotel and mineral Bath BY LIFE INSURANCE? What, Why Not? Rights and Ladies The Orient. NATIONAL BENEFICIARY SOCIETY. LIFE FOR YOURSELF AND CHILDREN LIFE, NICK, FUNERAL AND DEATH OF DEATH Afford to be without LIFE INSURANCE. ADIES of the ORIENT is duly author state of Kansas, and is under the Sup't officers are bonded in retrollable Sun MRS TO AGENTS. F. r information class:- National headquarters, 501 Kansas Ave, Topeka, Kansas Prompt Payment of Claims." Pearl McNeal, Topeka Most Heartily Welcomes the Coming Meeting. Will Do More Than Her Share to Make the Topeka Meeting the Best in the History of the Organization. The National Negro Business League, of which Booker T. Washington is presi ble it will hold its eighth annual ses sion in Tulsa, Kansas, this year, the 14 having been fixed for August 14, 15 and 16. It is the first time in the history of the organization that it has seen fit to hold a session so far west as Kansas. This League, as it generally known, is composed of many of the best, most influential and industrious men and women of the race, and we may say that in a large measure represents the wealth, business acumen and intelligence of the race. And when we say intelligence we do not mean to connue the terms to literary attainments, but we mean that class of men and women who do things who accomplish something for themselves and are a living and practical example to the commercial and business world, that could be well emplated. Men and women of every likelihood are represented in this great concourse of industry that is soon to invade, for the first time, the broad and inviting plains of historic Kansas. Largely the majority of those attending will come from the North, East and South; some as delegates, and many as friends of the League who will make the trip to see the West as a matter of curiosity and personal pleasure. The attendance will be large, we dare say, the largest in the history of the League in point of delegates enrolled. What will the West do? To what extent will we contribute to this splendid galaxy of the commercial and business world? Is it not the most opportune moment to place ourselves favorably before those of the more distant parts who are soon to become our guests? It will be a splendid opportunity for the North, South, East and West to touch the cord of common brotherhood and for three days drink from the same fountain that will be filled with the season. Of economy, thrift and industry. There has never been a time in the history of this Republic when there was a greater necessity for a common understanding—an understanding as to the best methods of making a life worth living. Of making a life not only commendable to ourselves or one's own country but to the world. The program for this session will be ripe with seed thoughts, thoughts which when once dropped will take root and send forth a hundred fold. The benefits to be derived from this meeting, especially to the West, is calculable. The opportunity will not, unless we begin as once to look, be seen until it is past. To the end, therefore, that we in the West, especially, may be able to grasp and hold all the benefits that are to be derived from the meeting it is urged that in each community (city and country alike) Leagues —Business Men's Leagues—be organized and delegates be elected at once to attend this meeting, and all business men and women put forth every possible method to be in attendance and hear the program. The committee on transportation is assured of a rate of not over one and one third fares for the round trip for the benefit of those who may avail themselves of the opportunity. Topeka most heartily extends to all her warmest and best right hand. The necessary committees have been appointed and ample accommodations for all will be provided. A most hearty reception will be extended. Further information will be given by addressing Ira O. Guy, first vice president National Negro Business League, at 311 West 14th street, Topeka, Kansas. JAS. H. GUY, Chm. REV. C. G. FISHDACK, Sec., REV. J. E. EDWARDS, D.D. J. IL B. TAYLOR, PROF. F. ROUNDTREE, Committee. Williamson House... Rooms and Board-first class accommodation. When in Okmulgee stop at the above hotel if you want good treatment at REASONABLE : RATES. Rates $5 to $7 per week. So 1.70 per week. The Plaindealer THE PLAINDEALER PUB.,CO. 112 East Seventh Street. FRIDAY, JULY 5, 1907. 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: "To 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." We are informed through a dispatch from Jackson, Miss. that Governor Vardaman has been converted. We hope it is true, for we know that the devil and all his angels would not care to have anything to do with him, so far below their standing is he. N.r will he be welcomed to look toward Heaven. We do not believe there is any place under the earth, above the skies or on the earth where such a man as Vardaman can ever be accepted. With all the wrongs he has done the colored people it would be impossible for him to think of making one step toward Heaven. How to Stop Tillman. A reply to Senator Tillman's speech made in Omaha, Nebr. May 14th, 1907, on the race problem. I, myself, will never believe that Senator Tillman believes or even thinks what he says on this subject. "To be superior you must be the best, and to know you are superior there must be a contact," and a race as old as our friends should not only be superior, but perfect, of which they are neither. If he know and believes as he says he does, that, the Negro is inferior and incapable of a higher education, of grasping high ideas, mastering difficult problems and holding high offices, why does he allow the inferior being to worry his intelligent mind? In other words, why does he not leave him alone? He has succeeded in communicating his ideas and sentiments concerning the Negro to the universe, why not be content and show his superior qualities by not molesting them! No, that is not it. My opinion is that Senator Ben is fond of notoriety as many others, and the solution is this: Attacking the Negro race is his way of getting his share of notoriety. He even intimated as much in his speech in Omaha, and said that some of the smart members of the race had given him a great boost by appealing to the mayor to stop him. Right here I want to express my ideas about this, and before I do I would like to say there is a chance for any of us to have the wrong idea. If we never express them others will never know. I do think that as long as Senator Ben with all his superiority is not superior enough to ignore us. The inferior should show their superior qualities by ignoring him. It only helps to boost his noto jety. 1 I hope every one will feel as I do about him and what he says. His great speeches and himself are as so much chaff blown by the winds in my estimation, and when he makes his great speeches, as he thinks, in the citie, ignore him. Don't try to stop him at all, just pay him no attention whatever. Even the way he continues to nag and worry after the Negro shows his lack of intelligence, leaving off superiority, in my way of thinking, without reciting other things too numerous to mention, all of which will prove that he and his great race are not as superior as he rates them. . --- He would not dare attack and other race as he does the Neakp for it. For example, see how quickly the great superiors retreated and offered reparation to the Japanese. Why? Because there is a great race power of protection behind even the most insignificant of that race, and they dare not insult them. He knows the Negro race is defenseless with no protection whatever, and that is why he continues to nag and attack them. No great superior would attack a weaker race knowing it to be without protection, but a coward takes advantage of the defenseless. There was never a race in the history of the world with the disadvantages that has made the progress that the Negro, have made in the length of time, and Senator Ben and all of his kind are aware of this. It is not the Negro himself they hate at all. It is the progress of the Negro, and when they attack the race, it is not the worthless, shiftless kind, it is the progressive Negro that worries and causes this agitation So let Senator Ben go ahead, don't try to stop him. The kind of speeches that he makes will help to boost our notoriety. There was never a race more prominent or generally talked of than ours, or one that caused more restlessness. Why? They are climbing too fast but cannot afford to stop to look back at such as he. He and his kind would like a way to stop this progression, but alas, there is no way. We are bound to climb on and on until we shall reach the top most round of the ladder of life. The greatest consolation of the whole, Senator Ben and his great race are not the only superior beings. There is One above all, whose shees Tillman is unworthy of unlatching nor any of his followers, who will one day settle this great race problem. And we are thankful that it is not left to Senator Ben nor his friends to settle as to who and which race shall be superior, although he and his kind think so; and the time is not far distant when we shall see, for our friend recognizes his equal in the interiors, already, and if I am allowed space I will show that his great superiors are not so superior after all, but are a barbarous, uncivilized race. S J. D. Following the Color Line! Continued from Page 1. Brown's methods, with references here and there to what I have heard or seen elsewhere, will give an excellent idea of the common procedure. The black belt is a country of great plantations, some having as high as 30,000 acres, interspersed with smaller farms owned by the poorer white farmers or Negroes. In one way the conditions are remarkably like those prevailing in Ireland; great landlords and a poor tenantry or peasantry, the tenants here being very largely black. It requires about 100 families, or 600 people to operate Mr. Brown's plantation. Of these, 90 per cent. are colored and 10 per cent. white. I was much interested in what Mr. Brown said about his Negro tenante which varies somewhat from the impression I had in the city of the younger Negro generation. "I would much rather have young Negroes for tenants," he said, "because they work better and seem more disposed to take care of their farms. The old Negroes ordinarily will shirk—a habit of slavery." Besides the residence of the overseer and the homes of the tenants there is on the plantation a supply store owned by Mr. Brown, a blacksmith shop and a Negro church, which is also used as a schoolhouse. This is, I found all through the black belt, a common equipment. Three different methods are pursued by the landlord in getting his land cultivated. First, the better class of tenants rent the land for cash, a "standing rent" ot some $3 an acre, though in many places in Mississippi it ranges at high as $6 and $8 an acre. Second, a share-crop rental, in which the landlord and tenant divide the cotton and corn produced. Third, the ordinary and puts in his own crop. All three of these methods are usually employed on the larger plantations Mr. Brown rente 2,500 acres for cash,400 on shares, and farms 600 himself with wage workers. All the methods of land measurements are very different here from what they are in the North. The plantation is irregularly divided up into what are called one-mule, or one-plow farm—just that amount of land which a family can cultivate with one mule—usually about thirty acres. Some ambitious tenants will take a two-mule or even a four-mule farm. Most of the tenants, especially the Negroes, are very poor, and are wholly dependent upon the landlord. Many Negro families possess practically nothing of their own, save their ragged clothing, and a few dollars' worth of household furniture cooking utensils and a gun. The landlord must therefore supply them not only with enough to live on while they are making their crop, but with the entire farming outfit. Let us say that a Negro comes in November to rent a one-nule farm from the landlord for the coming year. "What have you got?" ask the landlord. "Nothin', bore," he is quite likely to say. The "boes" furnishes him with a cabin to live in—which goes with the land rented, a mule, a plow, possibly a one horse wagon and a few tools. He is often given a few dollars in cash near Christmas time which (ordinarily) he immediately spends-wastes. He is then allowed to draw upon the plantation supply store a regular amount of corn to feed his mule, and meat, bread and tobacco, and some clothing for his family. The cost of the entire outfit and supplies for a year is in the neighborhood of 4,300, upon which the tenant pays interest at from 10 to 30 per cent. from the time of signing the contract in November, although most of the supplies are not taken out until the next summer. Besides this interest the planter makes a large profit on all the groceries and other necessities furnished by his supply store. Having made his contract the Negro goes to work with his whole family and keeps at it until the next fall when the cotton is all picked and ginned. Then he comes in for his "settlement"—a great time of year. The settlements were going forward when I was in the black belt. The Negro is credited with the amount of cotton he brings in and he is charged with all the supplies he has had, and interest, together with the rent of his thirty acres of land. If the season has been good and he has been industrious, he will often have a nice profit in cash, but sometimes he not only does not come out even but closes his year of work actually in deeper debt to the landlord. Some Negroes, nowadays usually of the poorer sort, work for wages. They get from $12 to $15 a month—against $5 to $8 a few years ago—with a cabin to live in. They are allowed a garden patch, where they can, if they are industrious and their families help, raise enough vegetables to feed them comfortably, or part of a bale of cotton, which is their own. But it is sadly to be commented upon that few Negro tenants, or whites either, as far as I could see, do anything with their gardens save perhaps to raise a few collards, peanuts and peppers—and possibly a few sweet potatoes. This is due in part to indolence and lack of ambition, and in part to the steady work required by the planter. The wife and children of an industrious wageworking Negro nearly always help in the fields, earning an additional income from chopping cotton in spring, and picking the lint in the fall. This is the system as it is in theory: but the interest for us lies not in the plan, but in the actual practice. How does it all work out for good or evil, for landlord and for tenant? who rent a farm is nearly as free to do as he pleases as if he were the owner. But in the South, the present tenant system is much nearer the condition that prevailed in slavery times than it is to the present Northern tenant system. This grows naturally out of slavery: the white man had learned to operate big plantations with ignorant help; and the Negro on his part has no training for any other system. The white man was the natural master and the Negro the natural dependent and a mere Emancipation Proclamation did not at once change the spirit of the relationship. To be continued. BAND KAN Miss G. A. Whitlock: I am better this week. Monday was a grand day with the Masonic order. Rev. J. R. Ransom preached their annual sermon. The order had grand success financially on Monday night raising $110. The following were among the guests from Pittsburg who took part in the celebration: Meadames R. D. Gorham, R. Taylor, T. W. Pierce, H. Goodwin and Miss Stella Taylor. The Gilmore military band furnished music for the occasion. C. L. Lewis was in Weir City on Monday. J. O. Pierce, of Pittsburg, was in Yale, Monday. Mrs. Mame Varbrough was in Pittsburg Wednesday, shopping. O. Edmondson is on the sick list this week. Look out for the ken barbecue at two A. M. E. church, July 15. Elizabeth Galloway will leave on Sunday for Chicago, to join her brother for a two or three months' stay. HUTCHINSON, KAN. The stockholders of the great soda ash proposition met this morning and Rev. C. O. Smith, Alex. Purkerson and several other colored gentlemen, who had subscribed to the stock, were there with the goods. The meeting held by the A.M.E. church Sunday, June 30, was a success financially, the proceeds of the day being $90. T. Gasaway, J. B. Martin, E. K. Martin, M. Martin and N Gordon, all of Pratt, were in the city Sunday looking for harvest hands, paying two-fifty per day and board. They also say that wheat will be more than an average crop. These gentlemen are the kind that the race should be proud of. Lewis Garrett, a young man formerly of Topeka, was last week so unfortunate as to get his jaw dislocated and broken in two places, but is getting along nicely under the skillful attention of Dr. Baskette. Rev. Harden Smith, of Missouri, labored with the 2nd Baptist church Sunday, June 30, preaching very instructive sermons. Rev. H. I. Jones and sister-in-law went to Wichita to attend a rally given by his church, and also a banquet given by the church in honor of the pastor and family, on Monday evening, July 1. They are expected home Wednesday. Rev. Mrs. M. Stewart, Presiding Elder A. H. Brooks and Rev. Sims of Sterling, attended the Basket meeting In the District Court of Shawnee County, Kansas. Jackson Wright vs No. 24,448. Lula Belle Wright PUBLICATION NOTICE. The said defendant, Lula Bell Wright, is hereby notified that she has been sued by Jackson Wright in the above named court for a divorce, and unless she appears and answers on or before the 20th day of July, 1907, the petition filed by plaintiff will be taken as true, and judgment rendered, divorcing plaintiff from defendant. Elder Wilson, pastor of the 2nd Baptist church, spent Sunday in Emporia. Rev. Crawford, a visiting minister, preached three able sermons on Sunday. Rev. Abbott, with the assistance of an evangelist, will carry on a series of meetings at the A. M. K. church. The Literary society rendered an excellent program on last Tuesday evening, afterwards a grand entertainment was enjoyed by all. Mr. Nick Chiles visited this city and also Junction City, last week Misses Mabel Wilkinson and Priscilla Jackson were agreeably surprised by a number of young people at the home of I. H. Clews and wife, last Thursday evening. The time was spent very pleasantly with cards and musc. Light refreshments were served. Miss Lulu Crawford is quite all with malarial fever. Mrs. Henry Crews and Miss Elizabeth returned home from Salina on Saturday. Mesdames Henry and Fannie Depriest, of Salina, spent several days in the city, visiting relatives and friends. Mrs. H. Depriest was a delegate to the Ladies' Federation in Kansas City, stopping here to visit for a few days on her return. Miss Mabel Wilkinson, of Troy, Kansas, who has been vloring Rev. Abbott and family for the past 3 months, returned Monday, accompanied by Miss Pricilla Jackson. Mrs. N. Dunlap returned home last week from an extended visit in Leavenworth ELLSWORTH, KANS. The editor of "THE TORREA PLAINDELLER" was seen on our streets a few hours Sunday and was quite successful in his business for the general welfare of his paper, which should be in the home of each American Negro in the United States. As Mr. Chiles is no race coward he owns his paper and plant in Topeka, Kansas, the capital city of our golden state. He is intellectually bright, courageous and firm for his race and people. He delivered a wonderful address in the Second Baptist church of Ellsworth, of which Rev. Robert Cox, of Salina, is pastor and who was present. He spoke on the general upbuilding of the young Negroes of the world; and how they should stick together, own real estate, be industrious and have business possessions of their own. W. W. Shobe, of Salina, spent a few hours in Ellsworth on Sunday with friends. Guy Williams has left for Minneapolis, Kans., where he has a place in the Parker Hotel. Guy is a good steady boy and we wish him success. The people of Ellsworth are making preparations to send delegates to the Fourth Annual Session of the Smoky Hill River Baptist Association to be held at Nicodemus, Kas., August 0 12. Two boys of Ellsworth went to harvest and could not stand it a day; but went back again Monday to try it over at #3 a day. That is pluck. Of the Western Negro Press Association Will Meet at Topeka, Kansas. To the Press: Pursuant to the regular appointment under the provisions of the constitution, the Western Negro Press Association of the United States is hereby called to convene at Topeka, Kansas, in its eleventh annual session on Monday and Tuesday, August 12th and 13th, 1907. All proprietors, editors, managers, reporters and correspondents west of the Mississippi river are eligible to membership in the association and are urged to be present. We cordially extend an invitation to the members of the fraternity throughout the country to meet with us in Topeka, Kansas, to consider those questions so vital to the welfare of the race in this country. Recent developments such as the Brownville affair, Tillman's lectures of making sentiment against us show the need of action on the part of the intelligent and thoughtful members of the race, and the press must undoubtedly take the lead. We would again urge upon every paper and its entire staff to make this meeting a personal matter in order to secure a large and enthusiastic gathering. The executive committee, Nik Chiles of Topeka, Kansas, chairman, and W. H. Twine, corresponding secretary, of Muskogee, I. T., will apprise all western railroads of the convention and will request them to extend courtesies to the members and publishers of the craft. W. H. DUNCAN, Press. D. B FARR, Secy. Colorado Springs, Colo., June 19. 1907 HIAWATHA, KANSAS. Rev. D. S. Topp and Miss Ella Miller attended the State Sunday school convention. A number of Hiawatha people attended the rally at Highland. Rev. W. L. Brasco, the evangelist minister from Council Bluffs, Iowa, has been preaching a series of sermons at the Baptist and Methodist churches. Misses Viola and Mary Allen spent a week in White Cloud visiting Mr. and Mrs. Sam Irving and family. Rev. Davis attended the District Conference in Topeka. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Montgomery leave the 23d for Friend, Nebr. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Cobba went to St. Joe on an excursion the 16th. Mrs. Murray of Chillicothe, Mo., is visiting Mr. and Mrs. John Saunders. The Sewing Circle met at Mrs. John Cobbs' on Friday. Mr. Ben Maxey, who recently sold his lota to the Grand Island railroad, has moved his house to the southern suburbs. ROCKY FORD, COLO. Fail, the 18 year old son of Hon. and Mrs. Geo. W Gross, died at Swink, Col. Monday afternoon, where he had recently been taken by his mother with a view of benefiting his health. Interment was at Rocky Ford where the family formerly lived. Mr. Gross and his family are well known here, having spent the past winter at their home in this city on Spruce street. The death of their son came as a surprise to their many friends who deeply sympathize with them in their bereavement. Mrs. Sarah Cooper and husband, John Cooper, from Kansas City, Mo, are visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hains. They expect to make the West their home. Mrs. D H. Spotes is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harris. She expects to reside in Rocky Ford. Mrs. Bryant of Holbrook is reported very ill. IOLA. KAN. The First A. M. E. church, Rev. Wm. B. oJhinson pastor, held a successful rally June 23d, in which they succeeded in raising over three hundred dollars. Dr. J. Frank McDonald, editor of the Western Christian Recorder, assisted in the meeting and preached two excellent sermons. Congressman C. F. Scott spoke at the G. A. R. Hall at 3 p. m. With Rev. J. W. Gordon, pastor of the Second Baptist church, Rev. H. H. Williamson, Rev. Hill and Rev. Duncan of the Baptist church, the beautiful corner stone was laid under the asphires of the Mason's order. Payne's Military band furnished the music for the occasion. The choir of the church is an excellent one. Rev. Johnson has done a good work since he has been here and has the esteem of the citizens. He has purchased a house and not and now a brick church with a basement is in course of erection and when completed will be the finest among the colored churches of Iola Mrs. W. B. Johnson, his wife, is an excellent worker, while his daughter ranks high as a musician. The church considers itself highly honored in securing the services of this excellent family. Rev. J. W. Gordon has been somewhat indisposed but is convalescent. Dr. J. S. Rass is enjoying a good practice. The colored ministers have formed an alliance and are doing much good in looking after the spiritual as well as the material interests of the race. PLAINVILLE, KANSAS. The colored people of Plainville meet together twice a week and have prayer meeting. We hope it will be so they can have a minister once in a great while. Miss Stella Martin of Stockton has been visiting with Miss Cora Taylor in this city for the past week. There were over one thousand people in attendance at the baseball game at Damar last Sunday between Damas and Natoma. Miss Martin and Miss Taylor attended the ball game and Mr. Clark Roce and her husband Message 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. The soda season now opened at Capital Pharmacy. Mr. John Lawson of La Junta, is visiting in Topeka a few days. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Snell left Monday for Kansas City, where they will reside in the future. WANTED—Men for quarry and warehouse. Good wages, steady work. Do not write. Apply at works. The Iola Portland Cement Co., Iola, Kansas. Meedames Mary Brooks of Lawrence, Daisy Walker, Kansas City. Mo., M. J. Jones, Lawrence, were guests last week of Mrs. A. R. High tower. WANTED—1000 couples, cake walkers to compete for championship of the West for the Negro TriState Fair and Industrial exposition, St. Joseph, Mo. Mr. G. L. Hudson of Atchison is also soliciting subscriptions to THE PLAINDEALER. He is doing good work and has already sent in a batch. We hope that he will measure arms with Prof. Ross and secure 1,000 subscribers. WANTED- Attractions of all kinds, such as bands, aerial acts, gymnasts, acrobats, balloon ascensions, high dive, educated horses and dogs for the Negro Tri-state and Industrial exposition. For particulars address W. A. Hill, Board of Trade Bldg., St Joseph, Mo. Pref. Albert Ross of Kansas City is trying to secure 1,000 subscribers before school begins. We hope that he will succeed and think he will, as he has already secured one-fourth of that number. The people of Kansas City ought to see Prof. Ross and give him their subscriptions to THE PLAINDEALER. As Rev. Carr had not returned Sunday morning, the services were conducted by Rev. James Alexander, who preached an excellent sermon. His text was "Behold the Man." Rev. Brown preached at the evening service, from the subject, "The Good Fight." The Sewing Circle will meet this afternoon with the president, Mrs. M. Clinkscale, on South Quincy street. All are cordially welcome to attend any services, Sunday or mid week The Sabbath school and a number of the older members and friends of the church spent the 4th at the grove owned by the Smith brothers, north of town, and had the finest time imaginable. The crowds were met at Garfield park by wagons and driven to the grove. LAWRENCE, KANS. Misses May Strode and Beatrice Hoyt entertained at a delightful dancing party Friday evening, in honor of Mrs. M. Smith of Portland, Ore. Music was furnished by Strode's orchestra. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. C. Cropp, Mr. and Mrs. John Payne of Ohio, Miss Lillie Williams, B. Robinson, E Lee, L Jackson, Maud Walls, M Patterson, E Carter, Phyllis Barker, Allena and Inez Smith, Lotitia Wright, Eva Brown, Lucile Warfield, Mr and Mrs B Harper, Meerss. Wm Hughes, Elgin Woody, Cord Drake, Robert Jackson, Roy Blackburn, C Austin, Woody Jacobs, L Brown, Lee Mason R Rogers, Earl Burns, Bruce Patterson, Sidney Rogers. All expressed themselves as having had a delightful time. Mrs. Mildred Smith, who has been visiting her brother, J. H. Strade, and her sister, Mrs. J. White, has returned to her home in Portland Mr. A. slept in a shoe snop last night. Wonder who he is? The City Federation of Women's clubs will meet next Monday, July 8th at the usual place. Business importance. WANTED—At once, a good barber. No boozer need apply. J. B. LEWIS, Abilene, Kans. Miss Albertha Lewis of Wicbita, Kane., spent last week with Miss Ida Taylor at her home, 932 Spruce St. Mrs. Ida M. Jordan will leave Monday for Wear City to attend the grand session of the Knights and Daughters of Tabor. The Twelve Star club met with Mrs. Ida M. Jordan Monday evening. Mrs. Ida M. Jordan entertained Tuesday evening, June 25th, in honor of Rev. Sir Frank Wilson and Mrs. Emma Gaines. Those present were Rev. and Mrs. W H Housley and Rev and Mrs J. L. Woodson. --- Mrs. F. Linsday of Xenia, O.. was in the city a few days this week en route to California. She was accom panied from Topeka by Mrs W. 1 Jamison, whose guest she was while in the city. WANTED-To sell all kinds of concessions, no exclusives. 100,000 will be here for the Negro Tri State exposition. For particulars, address WA Hill, sec'y and treasurer, Board of Trade Bldg., St Joseph, Mo ITS OBJECTS ARE Mrs. D. Alexander and Miss Ogeal Wilson were hostesses at an eight o'clock dinner Monday evening at the home of the latter, complimentary to their sister, Mrs. Anna De Moss of New York. Those present were Mesdames Anna De Moss, Anna Hodges, Cora Ray, Elnoir Alexander, Nellie Johns, Leona Talbott, Lena Thompson, Lizzie Cooper. To give opportunity to bring together evidences of their inventive genius, products of farm and field and everything cred tadle to the race. NOTICE. District Househould of Ruth No. 12, will meet July 16-18 at Salina, Kans. All households that have not elected them delegates, will please do so at once, and send the name in to D. W. R. Letitia Carson, 425 Buchanan street, Topeka, Kansas HEAR AMERICA'S FOREMOST SPEAKERS: SENATOR FORAKER, Prof. W. T. VERNON, Gov. E. W. HOCH, Bishop ABRAM GRANT, Prof. B. T. WASHINGTON, NOTICE. St. Mark's A. M. E. church will have a big rally on the 4th Sunday in August, and will expect all ministers and their congregations to be present; also all other friends. REV. W. H. Housley, Pastor 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. $5,000 in Prizes for 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. Horse Racing, Fine Stock and Farm Products of all classes. Dated April 3rd, A. D. 1907 W.I JAMISON. Administrator of the estate of Julia A Scott, deceased. First published April 5th, 1907. A. SIMS' POOL AND BILLIARD PARLORS Headquarters for all who wish a nice time. When Hutchinson call on him. 406 SOUTH MAIN STREET WHEN IN MUSKOGEE, I. T., STOP AT 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. REDUCED RATE on all Railroads. For Stand Priviledges, Etc., Address "CAST DOWN YOUR BUCKET WHERE YOU ARE" A Tri-State Negro Industrial Exposition and Fair WILL BE HELD AT Saint Joseph, Mo., AUG. 4-9, 1907 In the District Court of Stewart County, Kansas. Charles Lisenby, Plaintiff, vs No. 242 Minnie Lisenby, Defendant. The said Minnie Lisenby is hereby notified and required to take notice that the plaintiff has filed his petition in the above said court in an attempt for a divorce and that she must appear, plead or answer to the petition therein filed on or before the said 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. TROWE Attorney for Plaintiff First published March 8th, 1927. In the District Court of Shawnee County, Kansas. Laura Thomas, Plaintiff. No. 24,37 Mace Thomas, Defendant. PUBLICATION NOTICE. The defendant, Mace Thomas, 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 petition will be taken as true and judgment rendered divorcing plaintiff from the defendant. to afford a chance to all our people to visit Saint Joseph and beautiful Lake Contrary, the fullest of all sorts of attractive and wholesome amusements of any other place of recreation of all the Middle West. Joseph Reeve Attorney for Plaintiff. Attest: R. L. THOMAS, Clerk, By JENNIE C. ROSEN, Deputy. First published April 19, 1902. PUBLICATION NOTICE. In the District Court of Shaw County, Kansas. Elizabeth M. H. Heckert, Plaintiff, Delph Heckert, Defendant. The said Delph Heckert is hereby notified and requested to take care that the Plaintiff has filed her petition in the above entitled Court action for a divorce 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. Hecker By her Atty., W. I. Jamison Attent: Clerk of the District Court First published April 26, 1907. For First-class Rooms and Lodging When in Pueblo, 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 $3.50 to $12 SUITS $15 to $4t 212 FRANCIS St., ST. JOSEPH. FEELING LIVER-ISH This Morning? TAKE THEDFORDS Black-Draught Stops Indigestion Constipation 25¢ WANT 6,000 More Men, Women and Children to Read and Pay for THE TOPEKA PLAINDEALER 50c THREE MONHTS 50c Liberal Commission to Energetic AGENTS WRITE FOR TERMS Who have a nice, large room on the third floor to rent. Call at the office of THE PLAINDEALER. Missice Laura and Eulalie Douglass of Columbia, Mo. are attending the Young People's Congress. Missice Allie Taylor and Emily Weddington are in Colorado Springs. Miss Alta V. Sexton, of Hannibal, Mo., daughter of Rev. J. W. Sexton, P. E., of the Hannibal district, is in the city, attending the Young People's Congress 1. Attorney Bell of Leavenworth and McWilliams and Clark of Lawrence were in Topeka Wednesday on business. --- Prof. J. Z. Mosely of Columbia, Mo. is attending the Young People's Literary Congress which is in session at St. John A. M. E. church. He is the guest of his aunt, Mrs. R. S. Sims, and his sister, Miss Ilossie Moseley. Miss Blanobe K. Morrison of Columbia, Mo. is attending the Young People's Congress. Miss Morrison is a leading teacher of Springfield, Mo., and is noted for her excellent musical talent. --- NOTICE—A good lunch counter, pool and billiard hall for rent. A party who can cook, or who can secure a good cook, can take this place and coin money. Takes very little money to handle it. The finest location in the city. Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Grant, 811 East Eleventh street are the proud parents of a baby boy, born June 29th. Mother and baby are doing well. Mrs. S. W. Blackman has opened hair dressing parlors at Tenth and Kansas Ave., on the west side of the street. She has just recently returned from Chicago, where she took special training along this line for more than a year, and thorough-understands the business. Hon. W. W. Fisher has entered upon his duties as bookkeeper and purchasing agent for Western University. The school has grown to such an extent that it requires a competent man to attend to these matters, and in selecting Mr. Fisher the state has done a wise thing, as he is in every way eminently qualified. His large acquaintance through out the North, South, East and West will greatly benefit the school and broaden its field of good work. John Clarence Brown, who for the past few weeks has been suffering from heart trouble, died Sunday night at the home of his parents on Morris avenue. He was twenty-one years of age. A kinder, or more sympathetic young man never lived. It seems hard for one so young to pass from among us, but it is the will and way of an all wise Providence who doeth all things well. Funeral services were held from his late residence, conducted by the Rev. J. E. Edwards. Interment in Topcka cemetery. He leaves a father and mother, several brothers and sisters and numerous friends to mourn his demise. Peace to his ashes. VERY LOW RATES TO NEW ORLEANS. The National Baptist Publishing Board has succeeded, after months of liberal and constant communication with every general passenger agent of every road in the four passenger associations, in having two of the largest ones announce an exceedingly low rate as follows for the Sunday School Congress. Excursion rate for the Sunday School Congress at New Orleans has been announced for the Southwestern Passenger Association, which includes that territory lying south of Missouri, and west FOR SALE Improved and Unimproved FARMS In Waubaunsee and adjoining counties. See or write WESLEY PAGE, Eskridge, Kansas. TOUSSAINT LOUVERTURE. This soldier, statesman and martyr with a mere handful of men held at bay sixty ships and 30,000 trained soldiers—the flower of the French army and navy. Wendell Phillips pronounced Toussaint the greatest general the world has produced. Pictures of this great Negro, and of all eminent colored people sold by The Colored American Novelty Co., P, O. drawer, 2218, Washington, D. C. Agents wante ST. JOE NEGROES We are glad to note the fact that the colored people of St. Joseph have issued a proclamation to all the people of Nebraska Missouri and Kansas to attend the Tri-State Negro Industrial exposition and fair August 4-9. Every colored farmer, mechanic, professional people of the race should place on exposition some product of their labor. Push on, citizens of St. Joseph, we are glad to see the colored people of that section of the country make an effort to demonstrate and maintain an industrial exposition. Everyone in the state should co-operate with St. Joe, and make this undertaking a success. Mrs Anna De Moss arrived home Thursday of last week from New York to visit her parents. She was met in Kansas City by her sister, Miss Ogeal Wilson, who escorted her home. --- Dr. M. O. Ricketts of St. Joseph. Mo. was in the city this week on business pertaining to the Tri-State Negro Industrial exposition and fair, to be held in St. Joseph in August. The doctormade this office an agreeable call Tuesday. Prof, Shelton J. French, president of Western university, accompanied by his wife, is attending the Young People's Literary Congress. They are guests of Hon. W. W. Fisher and wife. Mr. J. Mord. Allen, the poet, has been engaged to write the lyrics and songs for Williams and Walker's show. This company can be complimented upon securing such an eminent young man. The greatest bishop and one of the greatest men on earth, was in Topeka this week. His name is the Rt. Rev. Abram Grant, bishop of the 5th Episcopal district of Kansas. He is president and founder of the Young People's Literary Congress, in session this week at St. John A. M. E church. The rector of St. Simon's Episcopal church, Father Brown has begun a series of special sermons on "Biblical Characters," at the 4:30 o'clock services on Sunday evenings, which will be continued during the summer. Sunday's subject will be "Ruth, the Moabitess." The Holy Eucharist will be celebrated at 7:30 a.m. Choral matins and sermon at 1:30 a.m. subject, "Dying but Living." All are cordially invited to attend these services. The many friends of Rev. N. T Gamble were pained to learne of his death, which occurred Sunday afternoon at the home of his daughter and son in law, Mr. and Mrs. E. Hilley, on Western avenue, from a complication of diseases. Though he looked the picture of health, he was not a strong man. He fell in his pulpit at Brown chapel, just after preaching a very strong sermon. He preached his first sermon in this church, as well as his last. He was 52 years of age at the time of his death. He leaves a daughter, several grand-daughters, three sisters and a host of friends to mourn his death. He was a member of Euclid, No. 2, A F and A M, which performed the last rites. Rev. J. E. Edwards preached the funeral, assisted by Rev. J. R. Ransom. There were 22 ministers present. Rev. Gamble was an upright Christian man, a hard worker in the ministry. Peace to his ashes! C. T. Phelps' Barbershop C. T. Phelps' Barbershop The Best Artist and the Best Place. 221 FRANCIS STREET, SAINT JOSEPH, : : : MO. A. J. AUGUST MARRIED. The many friends of Mr. A. J August, the popular haberdasher of this city, are congratulating him upon his marriage to Miss Hannah Chaska, a charming young lady of Ft. Wayne, Ind. The marriage took place on June 27th at the home of the bride's parents. The immediate relatives of the contracting parties were present. The ceremony was performed by two rabbis. Mr. Dave August, who is associated with his brother in the clothing business, was best man Mr. and Mrs. August are now on their bridal tour in New York and other eastern cities. They will be at home after August 1st at 4c6 Topeka avenue. Are You K. of P.? IF NOT Why 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. in your locality, confer with the Deputy Grand Chancellor of your district or write JOHN E. LEWIS, G. C., Box 1017, Wichita, Kansas. PYTHIAS. The following officers have been elected for the Sunflower Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias, Jurisdiction N. A. B. A. E. A. A. and A.1 Jno. E. Lewis, Grand Chancellor, Wishita, Kas. J. B. Lavis, Grand Vice Chancellor, Weir. B. Pope, Past Grand Chancellor, Topeka. Rev. S. W. Datcheloi, Grand Prelate, Lawrence. Rev. J. S. King, Grand Lecturer, Weir. E. S. Lee, Grand Master of Exchequer, Topeka. Dr. I. H. Anthony, Grand Keeper of Records and Seal, Kansas City. W. A. Wright, Grand Master at Arms, Winfield. J. E. Hobson, Grand Inner Guard, Columbus. Fred Martlu, Grand Outer Guard, Wichita. Dr. S. H. Thompson, Grand Medical Director, Kansas City. J. H. Guy, Grand Attorney, Topeka. A. T. Glover, Grand Secretary Endowment Board, Wichita. S. W. Fleming, Grand Treasurer Endowment Board, Wichita. Doo Williams, Supreme Representative, Lawrence. Place of next meeting, Lawrence, 1907 Dr. M. O Picketts, Chaliman of Negro State Fair, to be held at St. Joseph, Aug. 4 to 9, was in Topeka last Tuesday, to invite Gov. Hoch to address the colored people on that occasion. Also, to interest some Topeka people in this great exposition. On Wednesday evening Miss Heater Hawkins and Mr. Isaiah Holoman were joined in holy wedlock The marriage ceremony was performed at St. John A. M. E. church by Rev. J. E. Edwards. The church was well crowded with persons present to witness the ceremony. After the wedding many persons had the honor of being guests at the reception at the bride's home, Fourteenth and Jackson. A number of valuable presents were received. Mrs. Holoman has been a prominent teacher on the North Side for several years. The couple left the following day for their home in Bartlesville, I. T. ST. JOHN'S DAY CELEBRATION, IOLA, KAS. Sol. Watkin's Lodge No. 71, A. F. & A M., of Ioh, Kau., celebrated on the 24th of June, at G. A. R. Hall, it being the great event of St John's Day, only known among Free Masons. The evening was that sort of enjoyment that will not very soon lose space in our remembrance. Everyone in attendance went away wearing emiles. It was well understood that the main source of the evening's great pleasure is attributed to the Eastern Star Lodge. The house was called to order by Dr. J. S. Bass, who was the master of ceremonies for the evening. He introduced the first speaker of great event, Mr. W. Stotall, W. M. of Sol. Watkins Lodge, of Iola, who spoke in brief but eloquent tones to all present. In his spirited remarks his special and most earnest appeal to the secretary and treasurer of the lodge as to their accuracy and uprightness to the order was interrupted by Dr. Bass's remark, "Shun the pen, boys; shun the pen!" In his closing address of welcome his talk was that of heart-felt welcome to the grand Eastern Star Chapter of Iola. The next speaker introduced was Mr. T. W. Greene, jr., whose principal theme was, that he and all others who had made such a wise choice to take a part in the "Star" degree was next to the wisest man, (King Solomon) in his wiedom, for he had "Heroines of Jericho," with him in the Temple. Rev. J. W. Gordon, pastor of the Second Baptist church, was the next speaker. His appeal was solely to the Master Masons of Watkins Lodge and Star combined. The honored guest was then seated at the long and spacious tables, then ready and waiting for its most worthy guest. A two course lunchcon was then served in up to date style, Mr. E.G. Greene being toastmaster of the evening. All partook of the dafties prepared by a most skillful committee: J. R. Rose, A Austin, A. Wood, J. Buse, H Shepard, W H. Newman and W. Stavall, James Maney in Juno. He acted as chief waiters for the occasion. The first table then meeting the second set of guests gladly filled their places. These were most attentively served, each one at this table being made a toastmaster to which all responded. Mr. H. W. Grubb acted as St. Peter, at the door. The evening proved to be one that will not soon be forgotten by all in attendance, only waiting for the return of "St. Johns Day" Celebration. W. Stoyall, W. M. TRI-STATE NEGRO INDUSTRIAL EXPOSITION AND FAIR. St. Joseph, Mo, August 4 to 9, 1907 This fair is offered by the leading and most progressive men and women of the western country. President, N. C. Bain the popular and thoroughbred collegian and scholar who has in five years com- pletely revolutionized the Negro schools of St. Joseph and placed them on a high industrial and high class literary base, is respected for his great abstraction and high character and unequaled push. He has Dr. M. O. Ricketts, the old reliable Master Mason, is unexcelled as an orater and statesman, and physician. Mr. W. A. Hill, the astute secretary and treasurer, is of the high bred class of gentlemen. The board of directors assisting these able leaders are: Dr. W. S. Carrion, Andrew Baker, L. E. Perry the mattress maker, H. H. Walker stork of the U. S. Postoffice, A. Quarles, Wash Williams, Dr. I F Ramsey the successful undertaker, M. D. Lawrie the eminent tailor, Dr T I McAllister the dentist Beatrix these are Rev J C Caldwell, Dr J K A. Crossland Mr Wm. Humley, Mr Gen Walker Mr James Gordon Mr Thomas Coleman Mr L. A Masse of scots of the men and women working in sweet and union. Mrs H. H. Walker, presiden. the ladie's board of managers of the State Law and Judicial Service Mrs H. C. Callwell chairman Mrs. Glen, secretary Mrs Cusen H. Mrs. Marie Coles, Miss L. L. Leah, L. M. Whitey, supervisors of music Mrs. C. L. Philps of the fine arts, Mrs Newton Hickman of pyrography, Mrs A. Baker, Mrs L. L. Humphrey and co-ens of other ladies are going vigorously ahead with fine arts and other collections of great interest to this fair Program. MONDAY School Children's Day All children free from 4 to 12 years Special program given by colored children entertaining the white children. Ad dress by President Bruce, introducing Major Spratt and Arthur W. Brewster, postmaster. Children's games of all kinds. TUESDAY—Ladie's and gentlemen open contest in riding and driving. Ru bouts, single and double, silver cups 1st, 2d and 3d prizes, tenth monies mounted egg race, prizes ogars 1st, hat 2d Mule race (half mile) prizes, cigars 1st, pipe 2d. WEDNESDAY—Rolting, three minute class, $100, 5 per cent to enter 3 per cent to start. First money $65 second $25, third $15. Free for all tret $10, 5 per cent to enter 3 per cent to start. First money $65 second $25 third $15. Running halt male upd hours 2 and 1, $75. First money $50 second $25, 5 per cent to enter 3 per cent to start. HURSDAY - Purging, 2 all class, 100 5 per cent to stair 20 5 per cent to enter, 5 per cent to start; first money 50, second 125 third $15. Due for all purging, $100 5 per cent to enter, 5 per cent to start Running race, half mile past, $75, first money $10, second $25 DRIDAY - Nabble house, 5 points 21st, 31st, Silver cup Walk, first and center house, 1st, 21st, 31st, Silver cup SATURDAY - Special Labor day program. Guest of honor and speaker Hon. W. T. Vernon, Register of Treasury, Races, trotting and pacing. LADY BOARD OF MANAGERS MRS. H. H. WATKER, President MRS. J. A. SMOOTHER, 1st Vice President MRS. L. GREEN, Secretary MRS. J. C. CALDWELL, Chairman MRS. S. E. WHITNEY MRS. M. D. LAHIP MRS. J. H. GREEN MRS. JOHN CLAY MRS. C. CALDWELL MRS. LATHERBURH MRS. G. D. RIDMUND MRS. G. T. PHEPS MRS. NEWTON HICKENS MRS. CASSIDI THOMSON MRS. ADY MASON BELL FROM 1809 MAD OFFICE HOURS 12 M to 6 P.M. Ind. Phone No. 17 to 18 P.M. I. M. 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It is very versatile and put up only in 80 c. size and made only in Chicago and by Ford. It remains hard wear. Refuse all others. Full directions with every bottle. Price only. If your drastician dealer can not supply you, he can give it for you from Ford. Ford's Hair Pomade is one 80 c. or three c. titles or 80 c. for a but- tle size. It can be placed in U. A. When order- ing sound post or express money order, and mention name of the paper. Write your name and address. Charles Ford Pike 153 E. KINZIE ST. CHICAGO, IL Agents wanted everywhere. HELLO, BILL1 At the Elks' banquet which will take place July 9th, the following parties have been invited to take part on program from the following whose names will appear in week's paper: Kansas City, Kansas City, Kansas, Washington, D C Oskaloosa, Kans., Sedalia, Toneka, Kans. Tickets will be on sale at the following places: James White's pharmacy, 312 Kansas avenue; Varghese and Oliver's Pool and Bowling hall, 404 Kansas avenue; Charles Lyon's barbershop, 109 E. Fifth street; S McCarroll's barbershop, 1'6 E. seventh street. The committee will make it one of the finest affairs of the season. $1.00 per plate J E HARLAN, ROBERT WASHAR A D HENRY JAILES WHITE W D COOPER Come, "As we journey through life, let us live by the way." NOTICE. To the friends of the Big B Bands We have set July 4th for our daily day, at which time we want to raise $50 or more. It is impossible us to keep up expenses without We ask every friend to give us something by July 4th. We owe a balance on our uniforms, besides need new horns. Dr W E Jackson has consented to receive the funds. Please help us if you want the band to live The band will give free concerts from a wagon in different parts of the city that day if the weather permits J. B. Bass, editor of The Moor Plaindealer, will be in Toppea attend the Western Ivegr Prew association and says he will bring all Northwest with him. He would like to know the whereabouts of J H E Taylor, once manager of The Together Call, and Arthur Harris, of the National Mirror, Kansas City. Mr. Bass is very much interested in the welfare of these gentlemen and one who can give information of please write J B Bass, Moor Plaindealer. Negro Editors Will Meet Business Men in Top The greatest preparations being made by the people of Tampa and Kansas for the entertainment of the National Business League and Western Negro Press association Prof Booker T Washington, The T Fortune and many leading lights of the race will be present on this occasion Mr. Washington is the promoter of this gigantic body. The purpose of the league is to promote and perpetuate the business management of the race. This is where our ideas will be given which will increase the business management of the race all over the United States. There will be farmer, mechanics, laborers, bankers, merchants, leagues and doctors in attendance who will decide and tell the people how they succeeded in their community and how others can succeed. This is splendid opportunity for the colored race to inaugurate for them a state policy of carrying on business and stop being a tool for the prejudice American white man. There is advance opportunity for men of the race with small capital to furnish employment for another class of mercantile business besides grocer and restaurant; with dry goods hardware and furniture stores and many other class of business that will give employment to our colored men and women. This class of business is where a large per cent of the majority of the race is spent. We do hope that some ideas will be advanced by the league at this session where the race will progress more rapidly. Every body should avail themselves of the opportunity to be present in special efforts being made to ensure that visitors are properly entertained PRESCRIPTIONS... Lee's Drug Store, 921 Kansas Ave. The old four room parsonage is one of the first houses built in this town. It has been used by our church twenty years and has been a nuisance to the community. Through the members and pastor it has been replaced by the best arranged eight-room in the Kansas conference. A complete bath with hot and cold water, gas fixtures and range, the house is up to date building. The reply that the pastor is a man does things as well as talk. We are one of the most prominent corners of city and it is beginning to show ever before. Shorton Allen has been having remodelled and some new rooms and it makes quite an improvement on the building. Mr. Teeves and little daughter, of Iola Kan, are in the city. Mr. and Mrs. Dan Weeks They remain for about two weeks. Mr. Dav was postponed till the day later going to the downpour. Mr. Sade Philips went to Kansas for a short visit and will go train to Olathe for a visit. Minnie Collier named friends in last week John D.annon of St. Joseph, Mt. the guest of Mr. and Mrs. J D. Hein spent Sunday in his brother Willard Hein, and friends May Hein and Mrs. Bert Rich the State Sunday school and an institution in Topeka last Mrs. Warren Turner have al- mote other cottage or having a painter The time of the Order of Eastern preparing for a grand reception in the hall of Fourth and it will be a treat in the landlouse at the entrance of the come at legend and 25 cents of Emporia, and Carson M. M. Afe of Kansas City. was quietly married at the home of the motive, Mrs. Violet Bell tuesday night. Note at the rel- rence that brides were present Mr. and Mrs. Afe of Sudla, evening the day they were the. Have the shes of their host of friends. Mrs. L. Duncan has returned home from Neosho Falls, where she was attending the funeral of her nephew, Luther Heroll. Mrs. George Young and little daughter Sallie, of Grandby, Mo, are in the city visiting relatives and friends. If you want to enjoy the Fourth of July, come to Emporia on the third and fourth. Each day will be one of amusement. Come and see as there is expected fifteen thousand visitors will be here during the two odays. Robinson's circus exhibits on the Fourth. Blind Boone and company visited us at St James Baptist church Sunday night and made an interesting talk in behalf of the Baptist cause. Monday night they gave a concert at the First Methodist church. Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Armstead have a little girl caller at their home. Miss McGee of Huntsville, Tenn., and Mr. Will Houston were united in holy wedlock Wednesday evening Everybody wishes them much success. Hew. Sally and the delegate from Las Vegas came back Saturday evening. Both report a good Sunday school convention. Vegas was indeed sorry to hear of the death of Mr. A. Duvall who for twenty five years ran a hotel in our little city. He was well thought of among the whites as well as the blacks. Miss I. Hyhet and Mr. De Groff were married Saturday evening. The received many beautiful presents. They expect to make their home here for the present. Miss Matilda Houston, who is of Fisk University, is in our city. She expects to spend three months with her mother. She elaves in September to take charge of a school in Texas. Everybody wishes her much success in her work. Mr. Dillly left Friday evening for Kansas City Mr F Carroll and Mr C Conors will leave next week for Old Mexico. 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 Why does your doctor tell you to take this Prescription to LEE'S, 921 Kansas Avenue? Why do so many druggists send to LEE'S for the Drugs with which to fill your Prescriptions? than any other druggist in the city, and that the druggist who refused to sell you a glass of ice cream soda the other day charges you more for your medicines than Mr. Lee? And did you ever hear of any one being refused anything in Lee's store because of his color? Really, now, do these ideas ever present themselves to you? Why don't you try Lee's Drug Store just once and see if you are not as well pleased as you are with the store that considers you unfit to drink a glass of soda at the counter or soda tables? Come to our store Sunday evening to Wilson's Orchestra Concert, and see what Lee's Store is like, won't you? WESTERN UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENTS:--Theological, College, Normal, Sub-Normal and State Normal. 141 Leading and Best Industrial School of the west SHELTON FRENCH,A.M.,Acting Pres. Phoces Office Bell West 1493. Ret Jeace Bell West 15 courses Classical, College Preparatory, Normal, Sub-Normal, Music (Instrumental, and Vocal), including piano organ and harp Drawing (Fine Arts and Mechanical), Carpentry, Printing and Book-Binding Business Course Strengthening and Typewriting Talenting, Domestic and Plain Sewing Cocabulary, Laudering Farming and Gardenizing Quindaro, Kansas. Advantages Spendid Locare, K Good Liaisons and T-ou Friend Locale, Healtaful Climate, Good Liaisons and Trough Teachers. Information for terms written and a reflections otherwise written PAUL LAURENCE DUNBAR. He was the world's greatest Negro poet. The fact that he had no whites 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. PUBLICATION NOTICE. In the District Court of Shawnee County. Kansas. Elijah Hunter, Defendant. The said defendant Elijah Hunter, is hereby notified and required to take notice that he has been sued in the above said Court in an action for divorce by the plaintiff, Anna B. Hunter; and that he must appear, plead or answer, on or before the 26th day of July, 1907, or the petition filed in the above said suit will be taken as true and judgment rendered according to the prayer of the same. A. M. THOMAS, Attorney for P'lf ANNA B HUNTER. First published June 7th, '07. PUBLICATION NOTICE In the District Court of Snawwoo County, Kansas. Bertha Coon, Plaintiff, vs Nj. 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, 1937, judgment will be rendered as prayed for in said petition granting the plaintiff an absolute divorce from the said defendant. BERTH COON. are