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The American citizen. [volume] (Topeka, Kan.) 1888-1909, 1889-05-31

bier. and a grander purpose than eth
er heroes who died in that strife.
They had no home to protect, they
had no country to save and laws to
uphold. Thew fought for hope, net |
even a promise of cltizenship-yet in
spired by that hope they marched
forth to battle.
The circumstances under which
these men enlisted and went to battle
ia but the more honor to them. The
objection of the white troops, the
threats of the rebel government, ana
the poor pay-and no possible chance
Of promotion, all tend to show they
were loyal to the flag and to their
race.
These "Black Boys In Blue" had in
their power to demonstrate to the
world that the Negro could ahd
would fight; that manhood and bra
very did not abide only beneath white
i skins. How we'll they performed
their duty is fully shown by history.
In the report of every battle i'll which
colored troops were engaged, and IN
the many glowing eulogies now PAID
them by soldier orators.
Ioaote the latest from Rev. Henry
Hopkins in Kansas City, Mo-:
IL want to say a word of recognl-
ton Of our colored troops. Pm glad
to see a representation of them here
: to.nis mt. | shall neY cr forget the first
} time | ever saw our cOlored brothers
O under arms. 1t was day of dread
and suspense during one of the bat
ties of the Wilderness. We didn't
know what to expect next, but we
l. knew 1t meant fighting, for the man
It at the head "intendSd to fight 1t out
r. on that line If it took all summer
Gone morning." continued Mr.
y HOPKINS, 1--WE saw dusky crowd ap
preaching. My regiment hated thu
y colored men, and would almost have
20 fought to keep them out of the army
;r but we needed them then, and never
were men more welcome.
DR.. Hopkins told an incident o
bravery on the part of some OF til
y colored prisoners at Andersonyill
who refused to be exchanged. Whe
their release would haYe kept thei
white brethren in the prison pei
y "Here is an act" continued the speak
Oh err. that challenges the bravery
IL .he white men. | don't know ths
GO there IS any need for exhortation
Gu this assembly, but all old soldle
10 should be the last one TO refuse I'll
d. and free recognition of the colOre
man.
Oh We should always shed tear an
drop flower on the grave of ever
ny colol ed soldier. While decking wit
Is choicest flowers the graves of all IL
TN brave loyal men who battled for OF
1e country let us treasure deep ia Of
'tn hearts the memories of our brave CO
ne ored men. And as the old soldier
Oh lame and weak, passes along the hl9
81 way of life, let us strew his pathW'
rs, with roses of gratitude, and when tt
OF green sod of earth covers his remain
len plant thereon some evergreen bush
lie tree. When Memorial Day com
rue again, garnish the grave with Sprin
md times sweetest flowers. Teach O.
children to ever pray MAY God bic
lew Our Soldiers"
The American citizen. [volume] (Topeka, Kan.) 1888-1909, 1889-05-31
State of Kansas, Shawnee Co., Q. 9.
In the District Court of said county.
Amanda Summers, Plaintiff,
Ollie Summers. Defendant.

Ollie Summers. Defendant.
Ollie Summers, the defendant heI o
in, is hereby notified and required to
take notice that he has been sued for
divorce in the above said court by
Amanda Summers. And unless ! Q
appears and pleads, answers or de-
murs to the petition of said plaintiff
filed in said court, on or before the
22nd day of June A. D. 1889, the said
petition will be taken as true and
judgment rendered accordingly-di-
vorcing aaid plaintiff from said de-
PENDANT and awarding her the care
and custody of Amer and George
Summers, minors, and issues Of the
marriage referred to in her petition.
Price & Thomas,
Attest. Att'ys for Plff.
w. E. Sterne, Clerk.
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w. E. Sterne, Clerk.

For peculiarly soft yet penetrat-
ing shades of color, marvellous group
ing in form, fantastic solemn and
tender shaping of rugged cliff and
mountain and valley" says a dIstin-
guished artist, 1.-THE wonderful empire
of Colorado standi peerless" The
Alpine scenery along the line Of the
South Park Division Of the Union
Pacific in Colorado ia the most mag
nificent in the United States.
The American citizen. [volume] (Topeka, Kan.) 1888-1909, 1889-05-31
"They rested there-escaped awhile
Erorn oornn uhinh wnar the Life AWAY

They rested tneTe-eSCdptu dWHIIt
From cares which wear the life away,
To eat the lotus of the Nile.
And drink the peoples of Cathay."-
And every American business man is be-
ginning to find that his summer vacation
is more and more of necessity; the
money making machine won't stand the
strain without an occasional rest. The
American Alps" of Colorado offer the
highest conditions for personal relation,
pure vital air, comfortable hotels and the
noblest scenery in the country, and may
be reached on tho South Park Division
of the Union Pacific Railway.
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ious to know what the word ct the
head of the bill was, the supOrinten-
dent of the S. S. gave the required
information. 1t was only, "Comc
and see for yourself . very easy to
read if they had only known how.
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To all whom it may concern.

To all whom it may concern.
Any one in need Of the service
of a thorough and competent
carpenter who can do all kinds of
carpenter work, and do it honestly,
could not do better than to con
suit w. K. dubit, 2oI Jackson St.
He having just finished ahouse
for US, we know whereof we
speak. FREEMAN BROS.
II. w FREEMAN.
]. f. FREEMAN.
L. J. FREEMAN.
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color. is found Ii Co...
artist; So are many ~.
tul effects. There 4
engineering skill Ia
famed oil over the Woris :.
Graymount nestled ss,s...
Gray's Peak, the ci,e.
range; sunrise On Grsv.
once witnessed ne1er |.
Idaho Springs the h.,..:'
spot blessed with the A.s
all who come. within
young levithian DenV,,.
camp Of Georgetown r..
per air of the mount,Sn,
cool and clear -thess =.
lightful spots in IL q
reached by the Color,aa
of the Union Pacific
ado.
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Rev. P. johnson, on last Sabbath
afternoon, in his sermon before the
Benevolent Society referred to the
non attendance Of our educated men
to church, and non-interSst in the
general advancement of the race. tie
said he did not know why they re-
fused to attend church, unless 1t was
because they could not learn any
more or not. This seeming indlt-
ference Of our educated men IN re-
ligious and other enterprises among
our people, is enc worthy Of some
consideration. We have for some
time noticed this lack Of interest on
the part of our more advanced men
and women, and find that the rea
son for their nOn-attendance a
church and not non-interest IN othel
enterprises is that our preaching
with few exceptions, is very unSatls
factory and that there is prett.,
general feeling among the masses t
shape and carry things without thei
assistance. Thus they stay away.
The American citizen. [volume] (Topeka, Kan.) 1888-1909, 1889-05-31

ARGENTINE KANs. Miss Emma
Tyewater who for the past two weeks
has been visiting friends in Dalton,
Mo, has returned.-Mrs. Matte
Brashears is on the sick liSt.-MiGs
Frances Thompson, the handsome
and acknowledged belle Of Kansas
city, was a guest at the Venerable
mansion last week.-Rev. Bradshaw
was at Olathe Monday on business.
The A. NJ. E. church Sunday
school is preparing to give concert
ON the 10th Of June.-MoRH ANON.
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LOCALS.

|
Kansas City, Kan, Saturday. f
Our collector will soon call. See
him.
The recent rains have been very '
damaging. 4
Miss Mamie Johns has returned
from Lawrence.
The Lacip, Austin and Brown
Minstrels gave a. very creditable
show at Lukens last Friday eve.
Rev. Rucker and several others
left for Oklahoma last Tuesday even
ing.
The East Creek Lyceum was
crowded last eve. The program was
we'll rendered. Every body is invl-
ted out.
Miss Minnie Waller has returned
from her school; accompanied her pa
rents who attended the graduation
exercises at Parsons.
The Pleasant Hour Circle will
have their closing exercises on June
6. They have prepared an extra
program; there are two contests tor
the evening. Every body should at
tend.
Miss Kizz'e Buford is in Argen-
tine where she expects to spend the
summer. Her sister, Miss Della,
will also 90 at closing Of school.
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Jacobs are
soon to leave for Boston, Mass, their
future home. Mrs. Jacobs has been
employed as one of the teachers in
the city, and has made many friends
during he stay in Topeka.
Our churches here Of late are be,
ing annoyed by continual misbehav
ior from our young people. We hope
their conduct will soon be amended
or else somebody will be brought be
fore the public.
Rev. Watson spent Saturday ant
part Of Sunday in Leavenworth. The
pulpit is being filled by Rev. }. l.
Davis.
Mr.. Jack Buford, Of Argentine,
in the city.
The Central Baptist Association
will convene at Independence, Kan
sas, Wednesday before the Ind Sun
day in August.
Miss Minnie Waller, daughter {
Hon. ]. i. Waller, graduated recent
" at Hobson Normal at Parsons
Kan. She is now in the city.
The Literary and Musical Concel
given at Rev. Fosters church 0
Lincoln St. was a grand success.
Do not fail to send your subscriE
ton to the AMERICAN CITIZEN, tt
leading Negro paper Of Kansas.
Subscribe for the AMERICAN Or
IzEN.
If you owe us please pay up.
School closes June 9th.
The LADIES' Sewing Circle held
very successful "Fair" at Music HI
May 3Oth and S1st.
A. L. Spriggs Of Kansas. Cit
Mo, is visiting friends in the city.
Send your subscription to t
AMERICAN CITIZEN, the leadi
Negro journal Of Kansas.
The Pleasant Hour Circle v
hold its closing exercises next Thu
day evening. A special progr
will be rendered.
Mrs. Mark Freeman and Mr..
w. Johns attended the closing
ercises Of the Lawrence High Sch
last week.
A company Of our young pee
known as the Silver Star Dram
Club, will soon produce the pop
melodrama, 1.-The Widows Cast
Hurry up for we are on the qui
MI = ILL nmnnr the Ho
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Ssnse 1or eur peorI.
Europe 50 gliblp
snem are profound.
I.Od es beauties !
hundreds q thoussss.
c a!is who are tho..s:.
with Switzerland: ~
away weeks It Luc.....o
ouni. and attempted 4
and andy, yet have never
lovely i, ely beauty. The via
81 e.1I any one Of tie az
| More. More than Alpin.
visitors along tie S..,t
10 ion Of the Unlon Pss'
world.
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The aCltizen's" Course Commended

Topeka, as everybody knows,
has a large negro vote, yet last
Tuesday in the congressional
election, only six votes, says the
CITIZEN, the organ of the colored
race, were cast in the third. the
heaviest ward. In Shawnee coun.
tv, with its 1900 negro votes, less
than 100 were poIled. The rea-
son, says the CITIZEN, why the
negroes RETAINED from voting, is
because they are dissatisfied.
They feel that they "have not
been treated right by either state
or national administration, and
are therefore under no obligations
to either. Well, that's getting
pretty plain. as we'll as trife in,
dependent, and seems to portenc
yawning chasm e'er long be
tween the grand old party and it:
wards, the freedmen. We fear the
Lord High Tomnoddies Of thai
party are trusting too much to sof
talk, gush and moonshine. If they
would retain the colored brothers
they will have to come down witt
a few loaves and fishes instead
Emporia News.
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funds for his new $4,000 church to
be erected on the corner Of Seventh
and Western Ave.
Mr.. G. w. Todd is able to be on
the streets again acknowledges the
kindness Of friends to himself and
family while sick.
Decoration day was fittingly OBJ
served yesterday. The usual Gus
tomary marching to the cemetery
was departed from, and the decorat-
rating Of the graves was the work Of
an informal committee. The military
and civil societies formed line on
Kansas avenue and marched to the
Grand Opera House where an
address was delivered by Hon. b
W. Hatch of Buffalo, New York.
The American citizen. [volume] (Topeka, Kan.) 1888-1909, 1889-05-31

Europe i u -
YOU think il !. =. s,l 4.
An 10 know yo 4.
oughly? Try p.rk
Union Pacific
mer. There y
switzerland.
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Capital sts

tls Kansas Are.
Prompt asts .1aII
short notice. = ~
Collars. Cuiis;
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Lectures and entertainments.

Rev. DR.. Cleveland will repeat his lect-
ure ON Historical Philadelphia" this even
ing, at Meridian-street Church, in the au-
dience-rOom, and it will be followed by a
social in the p~arlors of the church.
Geo. KEENAN,, the Siberian traveller, will
lecture tomorrow night, at the Y. NJ. G. A.
Hall. His subject will be, IAN East ST.
berian Convict Mine." Mr.. Remnants arti-
cles in the Century on Russia have made
him one of the most noted travellers, writer
and lecturers of the day.
The second quarterly convention of the
Methodist Young Peoples Union will be
held at Roberts Park Church tomorrow
evening, at 7:l5 o'clock. The programme
will consist of songs, instr umental music
N the reading of papers, among the
contributors of the latter being Miss Nellie
Fatout, Me~ridian-street Church; DIR. S. A.
Keen; Allie w. Coffin, Edwin Ray Church,
and +. w. Douglass. The miscellaneous
discussion of each paper will be open to all,
each speaker being limited to three minutes.
George H.. Thomas Post, q. A. r., will
give another of its semi-mOnthly enter
tainments this evening, at the hall on
papers will be read, and instrumental and
vocal music will enhance the interest of
exercises.
Miss Chaffee will give, this evening. at
Plymouth Church, her second lecture. Hhe
subject will be the Fine Art of Converse
tion."
The Art Association will give an exhibit
of shawls and embroideries at the resi-
dence of Mrs. j. L. Pratt, No. 500 North
Pennsylvania street, beginning this even
ing and continuing through Wednesday
and Thursday, from 10 A. NJ. till 10 P. NJ.
The exhibit will include Persian, Indian.
Delhi and cashmere shawls. and rare and
art embroideries. An unusual display will
be made. This evening Mrs. Abby Cady
will read a paper on embroideries, and
than she. Beside the display and the
paper, the annual election of officers will
take place.
The ladies of the Second Presbyterian
Church will vary their usual programme al
their Wednesday afternoon meeting by
talk from Mrs. Mills, followed by a social
chat and refreshments served by Mrs.
Charles +. Sayles.
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FALSE PENSION CLAIM.
Man and Wife Accused of Trying to Defraud
the Government Out of Considerable Money.

Deputy United States Marshal Charles A.
Turner, of Fort Wayne, came to the city
yesterday with John FL. Manon, whom he
arrested at Laotta, Noble county, on the
charge of conspiring to defraud the govern
ment. The indictment on which the arrest
was made was returned by the United
States grand jury for the Western district
of Michigan, Manon having formerly lived
at Petoskey. 1t alleges that the prisoner
and his wife, Margaret. formed a conspir-
acy to secure pension money from the gov
eminent. Mrs. Manon, under the assumed
name of Margaret Butler, it is charged.
made a false pension application. and in
another affidavit before the county clerk at
Petoskey she swore that she was the widow
of Henry Butler, who was killed Dec. IL.
1862. at Fredericksburg, Va. The affidavit
was sent TO the department at Washing ton,
and an investigation of the case revealed
the conspiracy. Manon and his wife left
Petoskey, and last week it was learned that
he was at Laotta. Mrs. Manon isalso under
Indictment, but the officers nave not yet
been able to find her. A deputy marshal
last night started with Mr.. Manonto Grand
Rapids, Mich, where he will be tried.
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PRICES ALWAYS IN PLAIN FIGURES.
PETTIS, BASSETT & co
Butler University,s Plans.

The board of trustees of Butler Uni
versity hold a meeting to-day to select a
successor to Rev. lack Sweeney, of Column
bus, the recently-elected chancellor
of the university, who has been
obliged to tender his resignation
on account of failing health. Mr.. Sweeney
will also give up his ministerial work for
the coming year. He left yesterday for
North Carolina. where he hopes to get re-
lief from a throat trouble which has COM
PEELED him to discontinue public speaking
for the present. While the trustees will be
loath TO lose Mr.. Sweeney's services, tn ey
propose TO make an earnest effort to secure
"a competent man TO fill his place and carry
ont all the plans they have had under con-
sideration for the enlargement of the uni
versitys work. The endowment FUND has
been considerably increased by recent
sales of land belonging to the institution,
and 1t is hoped that with the donations ex-
pected from its friends all the facilities
desired will be attained.
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Jugglery as to an Emergency Clause and a
Direct Constitutional Violation.

The school-book law has been found to be
out of joint, and badly, too. not only
through a willful or ignorant disregard of
the Constitution, but in juggling with an
emergency clause. Nobody knew that the
bill as passed had such a clause until some
who are supposed to have a personal inter
est in putting the law into force at once,
with the hope of securing a profitable job,
began to shout about the hardness of the
State Board of Education. 1t may serve
to keep in an easy frame of mind these
people who lave been figuring on the
money reward they hope to get out of the
law for assuming to be disinterested patri-
OTIS in urging its passage to announce
that the board will meet next week to adj
vertise for bids from schoOl-book publishers.
But that does not damage the pertinency
of the query as TO the peculiar manner in
this instance of creating the emergency
clause. The clause. it is true. appears on
the enrolled bill, but who pu t it there is
not plain. as there is nothing in the record
of either the Senate or the House or the re-
port of the committee which had the re-
shaping Of the PieasanS bill to show that
In emergency clause was considered. In
the title OF an act an emergency Is referred
to but the committee left it out of the text,
and the Senate and House did not restore
1t.
But there is another feature concerning
the law of far more Importance, perhaps,
than,the ever readiness ON the part of the
Democratic enrolling clerk to insert in a
bill what was not acted upOn by either
house. Section la of the Constitution of
the State requires that every bill shall be
read by sections on three several days IN
each house, unless in case of emergency
twO-thirds of the House, when such bill
may be pending, shall. by a vote of yeas
and nays, deem it expedient to dispense
with this rule; but the reading
of a bill by sections on its final passage
shall in no case be dispensed with. When
the school textbook bill came, through a
report of the committee on education, into
the House of Representatives and was
made a special order for Feb. 20, the Demo
Gratis called it a caucus measure and de-
cided to rush it through. under the gag
and now, perhaps, they will be just as will
ing to assume the responsibility of having
made their act questionable by violating, In
every particular, the constitutional section
which shows how legislation can be done
under a suspension of the rules. The vicious
Democratic partisans. or mullet-headed
Democratic legislators, either title will do,
were in such a hurry to make the bill a law
and apply the gag rule, that they passed it
on the day it was read the second time, en-
crossed and read the third time without
su~spending the constitutional rule. There
is no record of such action and the Demo-
Gratis alone are to blame.
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NORTH STAR FINE CUT
The Sweetest and Best Chew on Earth

For sale 10y the following Wholesale Deal
ers in Indianapolis:
Syphers, Mcbride & Co.
A. b. Gates 81 Co.
Chas. f. Meyer & Bro.
Also, the following Retail Dealers:
G.. II. Peters. $40 Washington street.
Geo. A. Stone, los Broadway.
ii. c. Rafiensperger, Virginia avenue.
NJ. c. Staley, Virginia avenue.
j. w. Bryan, 123 South Illinois street.
o. III. Smith, 152 East Washington street.
II. G. Regain, TO East Washington street.
+. w. Mercho, 100 East Washington street.
III. L. Frauer, 246 East Washington street.
Pomeroy d. Huber, 80 North Pennsylvania
street.
l.. s. Stockman. 251 North Illinois street.
X. Depew, 302 North Illinois street.
Edw'd A. Brett, $50 North Illinois street.
Chas. Railsback, Al North Illinois street.
Leck & Co., 81 81 SO West Seventh street.
&C Lohrman. 400 North Mississippi st.
ca. Parker, % Indiana avenue.
Chas. Lawler, 80 Indiana avenue.
j. L. Barnitt, 800 North Mississippi street.
Jacob Baker, los South Illinois street.
Keeter. the Grocer, 2S2 and 2S4 South ILL.,
nois street.
Borst q Hahn, Morris street and Hadley
avenue.
w. j. Hamilton, 414 South Meridian st.
G. Duongus. 436 South Meridian street.
Fred. Hotter, sos Madison avenue.
Joseph Dwyer, 425 Madison avenue.
Clement Esterday, 40 Massachusetts, ave.
A. Lewis * Co., 401 North Alabama street.
Chas. Kempker, 500 North Alabama street.
Schulmeyer Bros, 14S & $50 ST. Mary's st.
+. N. Roberts, 292 Massachusetts, avenue.
F. III. Carter, 200 Massachusetts e
c. III. Schad, corner Noble and Washington
streets.
j. G. Muetter. southwest corner Washing
ton and East streets.
A. Horner, % North Delaware street.
Peter thinner, 293 South Delaware street.
Joseph Kabalzer, 900 South Delaware st.
C. w. Ankenbrock, 355 South Delaware
street.
John Strobel, 81 South Illinois street.
Morrison 81 Filters, 1879 South East street.
j. n. Sawyer, southwest corner Cedar and
HOlbro0k streets.
C. C. Watson, 511 Virginia avenue.
Henry Rodenwald. $40 Virginia avenue.
Wm. Keimeyer, 141 East Washington st.
John Popp, "a English avenue.
j. w. Thompson, 81 South Illinois street.
CIV. Nickum, corner Christian avenue
and Broadway.
Chas. O'Connor, 34s College avenue.
j. P. Brown, Massachusetts, avenue.
j. b. Anderson, 13 Massachusetts, avenue.
j. M. Ryder, n Massachusetts, avenue.
VIM. Bushman, Fort Wayne avenue.
Julius Haag, Denison House Drug Store.
Grub & Co.. Al and 46 Indiana avenue.
j. ID. Gauld, 201 Indiana avenue.
H. A. Benton, 81 North Illinois street.
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Waiting for the Decision,

The State Board of Health has elected
DR.. John N. Taylor, of Charlottesville,
president. The meeting at which this was
done was attended only by the three hold
over members of the board. AT present
there are two physicians at least, whose
place upon the board will be determind by
the coming decision of the Supreme Court
The Legislature named for members of the
board DIR. Seawright, Lafayette, and DR.
Dill, Fort Wayne. and the Governor ap.
pointed to the same positions DR.. j. NJ.
Moulder, KokomO, and. DR.. Weaver, OF
Evansville. The two latter have received
the commissions while the two first named
hold only the questionable certificates OF
Green Smith and Mason j. Niblack.
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sioner ReRuiter to prevent his disturbing
rights to the stree is. The president of the
company, u. J.. Hammond, said that in 1888
he was its treasurer. and that the company
was perfectly willing TO comply with the
city ordinances. The company intended to
use electricity as a motor. with the conduit
system in preference TO the overhead. The
argument was confined mainly to the al
legged distractions that the Citizens COM
company. and the opposition this latter
has received on all hands. The question
will be axe under advisement.