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The American citizen. [volume] (Topeka, Kan.) 1888-1909, 1889-05-24
State of Kansas, Shawnee Co, 8. ..
In the District Court of said county.
Amanda Summers, Plaintiff,
Ollie Summers. Defendant.

Ollie Summers. Defendant.
Ollie Summers, the defendant here
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 he
appears and pleads, answers or de-
murs 10 the petition OF said plaintiff
filed in said court, on or before the
22nd day of June A. ID. 1889, The said
petition will be taken as true and
judgment rendered accordingly-di-
vorcing said plaintiff from said de-
PENDANT and awarding her the care
and custody of Amer aud George
Summers, minors, and issues Of the
marriage referred TO in her petition.
Price & Thomas,
Attest. Att'ys for PHI.
w. +. Sterne, Clerk.
The American citizen. [volume] (Topeka, Kan.) 1888-1909, 1889-05-24
Kansas City, Mo
Mr.. Ed.

Mr.. Ed.
Perhaps a line or two from the
city, beside the big Muddy, will
be of interest to the many readers
of the American CITIZEN.
The Oklahoma fever has subsidized,
and the people are moving along
quietly once more, each one keeping
the even tenor Of his way.
]. ]. Davenport, our newly elect
ed Mayor, has remembered the coll
ored brothers with the following ap-
pointments: Henry Williams, St.
COM, $40, Rev. c. Hunt, Dep.
Supt. Of Work House $40; Henry
Harris, guard w. H., $40; SIEVE
The American citizen. [volume] (Topeka, Kan.) 1888-1909, 1889-05-24
II. S. Sanders, Secretary.
Two Legged Tobacco Worm IN tAe
Church.

Editor AMERICAN CITIzEN:-
Please aIlew me to speak few
words through your paper. What |
wish to speak of is a matter of inter
est. We find in our churches pro-
Tossing Christians who 60 into church
with tobacco in their mouths. have
no objection to any person chewing
the dirty, filthy weed, but | don
think people ought to diShoner the
house of the Lord by splitting tobac :
CO Juice on the floor where ladies are
compelled to get their garments all
soiled and often spoiled. | see some
oct down on their knees to pray with
tobacco in their mouths. Preachers
and deacons and all who claim t.
love the Lord might wait until they
oct out of doors to chew. Some one
should see to'it that no member o.
visitor is allowed to come into tn
house with tobacco in their mouths
| don't use tobacco. If l did,
would not chew it in the church.
Respectfully,
J. D. Spriggs.
Topeka, Kan, May 10, 1889.
The American citizen. [volume] (Topeka, Kan.) 1888-1909, 1889-05-24
NOTICE.

The members of the Kansas Y alley
Joint Steck company are hereby no.
titled 20 met at II. Rolling's board
ing house, POS Sixth ST., next Mon
day evening May 9th, at seven
o'clock for the purpose of electing Of
ticers and transacting other business.
Ii. w. Rolfe, President.
r. K. Bigham, Secretary.
The American citizen. [volume] (Topeka, Kan.) 1888-1909, 1889-05-24
IS A NEGRO JOURNAL A NECES
SITY?

The question is often asked, same
times by intelligent men and some
times by ignorant men, els a Negro
journal necessity" "Has such a
journal any specific missiOn?" We
answer, Yes. The despised and ex-
cluded position that the Negro has
been forced to occupy in this country
for over two hundred years makes
the Negro journal an absolute neces-
sity. With the journals Of the other
races continually betraying and mag
nifying his short cOmings and weak :
er qualities, and overl ooking his high
er possibilities, he needs some agency
lbv which he can demonstrate his
powers and manhood. And in order
to do this, we should have a good,
strong Negro journal in every State
and Territory in these United States,
to espouse and advocate our cause.
Some of our intelligent men q ridi-
cule the idea of supporting a journal
edited by Negro. But our present
educational, social, religious and po
litical status, proves conclusively that
such a Journal is not a pleasing lux
ury, but crying necessity. Few
papers edited by white men beyond
a certain groove will publish articles
9 prepared by Negroes. If you doub
! what we say, try it. We have an ar
{ ticle in this office now prepared ant
I presented to one of our white con
{ temporaries which was rejected
s Many of these editors (white) will tel
you bluntly to carry your articles {
r your paper, and we say SERVED hin
y right"
5, This cold, airy way sone of gu
Re tall Ikes have of beratlng and rid
euling the efforts Of young men an
women Of their own race, smacks
freshness that should receive I'll
! unqualified condemnation Of ever
true lover Of his race.
The necessity o. maintaining
Negro Journal is not question th'
! Negro editors alone are to pass upo
but it is a question which the Peep
in their united financial support al
:. intelligence must pass upon and fc
" ever settle; for they are the ones
.e' whose interests these journals are
L. tended to promote. Unfortunate
III many of us, we have not yet tul
realized the Importance Of establish
- and maintaining a strong and te
less journal in our midst. One Il
OF will without fear or favor CONNIE
her the good and condemn the evil; 9
the that will encourage and inspire
young men and women to reach hi
rom er planes in life. Such journals
e is must have if we ever expect to z
a standing and recognition with
-n,d other races; and with generous $
port from the people, the ''impOss
on editor and bad grammar" will 8
disappear.
The American citizen. [volume] (Topeka, Kan.) 1888-1909, 1889-05-24
SPECIAL NOTICE.

The AMERICAN CITIZEN publish
ing company will have special meet
ing at the Office next Wednesday
evening, May 20. All members are
requested to be present as business
of Importance will be transacted. By
order Of the president,
H. Rolling.
H. S. Sanders, Secretary.
The American citizen. [volume] (Topeka, Kan.) 1888-1909, 1889-05-24
To all whom it may concern.
II. Frazier. Secretary.

Q al WIIUHI Il may NOIINNII'
Any one in need of the service
Of a thorough and competent
carpenter who can do all kinds oil
carpenter work, and do it honestly,
could not do better than to con
suit w. X. dubit, 2oI Jackson St
He having just finished ahouse
for us, we know whereof we
speak. FREEMAN BROS.
II. w FREEMAN.
]. +. FREEMAN.
+. J. FREEMAN.
The American citizen. [volume] (Topeka, Kan.) 1888-1909, 1889-05-24
NOTICE.
r. z. Bigham, Secrt

All members of the Benevolent So
ciety Lodge No. 3. are hereby mott
fed 10 meet at their hall on next Sun
day afternoon, at l O'Clock sharp, so
as TO attend their Annual sermon, TO
be held at the Metropolitan Hall, on
Kansas Avenue, near Fourth St.
T. Handy, President.
III. Frazier, Secretary.
The American citizen. [volume] (Topeka, Kan.) 1888-1909, 1889-05-24
LOCALS.

Will the Literary observe its an
niversary exercises this year?
On last Tuesday night the Beney'
client Society Cornet Band was re-
organized, composed Of the young
talent Of the society.
Send us the news.
Read the AMERICAN CITIZEN.
Subscribe for the leading Negro
journal Of Kansas.
Do not fail to see the Ladies Sew
ing Circle at Music Hall on the 10th
and 31st inst.
Prof. w. ]. Johnson and family
have removed from 116 Quincy ST.,
to 500 Western Ave, where they
are at home to their guany friends.
At the Republican meeting at the
Court House on last Monday even
ing, three colored men after express
ing considerable displeasure with the
course Of the Republican party IN
not granting to their colored breth-
rem equal opportunities in the race
If life said. We are Republicans
and can't be anything else, and if
the party should place a dog on the
ticket We would continue to vote it.
It does really seem to us, that we
are retrograding.
The Benevolent Bazaar at Ladies
Library Hall on the 10th, 18th and
18th inst, was a grand success. The
hall was tastefully decorated, and
the various bazaars were filed with
d fine assortment Of useful articles.
The children presented a very In
teresting program under the guidance
Of Miss Maggie North.
If you are indebted to the AMERI
CAN CITIZEN please pay up as w
need the money.
r. III. Wade attended the Ban
Duet at Lawrence on Tuesday.
Mrs. John Saunders is at Kansa
City, Kansas, visiting her parents
Mrs. Smith, Of Lawrence, spen
few days in the city.
Mrs. Weir, Of North Topeka, die
on Thursday.
Subscribe for the CITIZEN.
Stop in and pay up.
Read J. NJ. FIoyd's lad in ar
other column.
Mr.. E. Jelts and father are in Oh
lahoma.
The Kansas river was up abov
high water mark last Sunday.
Keep in remembrance the SA'
bert Concert Company May 3Ot
and 31st.
It's getting warm now a-days, al
raining at pleasure.
NOTICE: The members of Il
Young Mems Progressive Soci
Club are expected to be present
their meeting next Tuesday eve
8 o'clock. Meeting will be held
]. Il. Guys Law Office, 491 Rams
Avenue. By Pres.
Miss Ida Tarlton entertained b
friends with social last Wednssd
evening in honor Of Miss Ida Jon
who will soon leave the city. Th'
were goodly number present,
@. O. Hall and family are in u
orado.
The Johnson and Wilson REIN
Minstrels at Music Hall Friday e
Be sure to hear them. The /
Greek Lyceum is still living,
chief attraction last Monday eve,
ing paper BY Mr.. F. Roundtree
Lawrence has six graduates
year. Misses Eva Jones, s.
Stone, Miss Moore, and Mr.. Wa
Gray Of the High School, and
Sherman Harvey Of the State
Yersity.
Have We any society in Topeka
I'M
The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-09-21

1T pin merely touches its anatomy, and yet 1t will fall down . flight Of stairs and not mind 1t any more than book-agent would. It can be sweet, patisnt, serene, when alone; get, when trotted out for exhibition, wIll show much of its mothers temper and all of its fathers depravity. It can Tighten its mothers burdens by adding Co them, A paradox that does not need . diagram.
 When there are two of him the mothers care increases; % does his fathers desire to be protaDe. Some times there are triple plated editions of him, but the instances arc rare, which Is fortunate, as 1t keeps suicide among distracted fathers below the average.
 There Is possibility of his having the humps, chicken pox, scarlet fever and measles, of his being good, dying young and becoming an angel, or of living long enough to become bald headed and useless. There is . possi- bility of his becoming 6 president or something else-more likely the latter. If girl, she may marry an Italian count, who'll count her out in his va- rious schemes for squandering her fortune. She may get into the ballet if she lives long enough, or get e divorce if she settles down in Chicago The boy baby may make . fortune as an inventor, and then lose 1t by start ing a newspaper. He may be nothing but half. starved clergyman at $500 . year, or rise to the enviable distipc- tion of base ball pitcher at e6,00O. It will depend on the want of brains, the preponderance of muscle, and the innate propensity to kick.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-09-21
A MEMORY.
nv MRS. N. L. RAYNK.

He left us At the close of one bsight day And 10 one saw hlm go: Without one farewell word he went away From us who loved him so. The sun went down, the evening star came out And made a thining track: We called hts name with merry ech0ing shout But, ah, he cane mol back. The sOft frankincense Of the dewy night Perfumed each tree and flower: The whip poor will. in melancholy plight. Called from its tree top tower. We gathered all his playthings from the aoor - Ills bells and balls and toys And lad them up with hearts distressed and
 sore
 To hear his welcome noise. Would He who carelh for the sparrow's fall Regard our Idle fears, Nor let harm happen to a thing small We asked ourselves with tears. We looked upon hts cunning. pictured face. Gazed in his wistiul eyes. And wondered at the tender human grace Beneath that rough disguise. We dwelt upon his soft caressing touch, The trust so freely given, And sighed to think not even one of such May ever en CT heaven. How ol that love and loy alty all death No tithe is set apart Beyond survival ot this neeting breath Dust unto dust thou art. So passed the long night hours at early dawn A netghbor called who said That uear A corner Of his daisied lawn
 Def,oa Free Prsss.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-09-21
Reconsidercd. Exchange.

A touch of sentiment-not of senti- mentality, which is quite another mat ter-is always refreshing, especially in 6 rough seeming man.
 "I say, squire, what'll you take for that dog O yourn?" said a Yankee peddler to a Dutch farmer In Penn- sylvania- "He ain't much to look at, but what was you calculatin' he'd fetch?"
 "Oh, dat dog ishn't wort noting most, {" answered the farmer "he ishn't wort you to buy him."
 "Guess tew dollars would cover him, wouldn't it7"
 "Yes, he ishu't wort dat"
 "Well, I'll take him." said the ped dler.
 "Shtopl" said the Dutchman "dere's one ting about dat dog can't sell"
 "Oh, take of this collar; l don't care nything about that"
 "'Tain't dat," replied Mynheer "he's 6 poor dog. but I can't sell de wag oi his dail when I comes home"
 The trade was of, and the Yankee went away disappointed.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-09-21

Excursion Rates to Sioux City Corn
 Palace.
 On September 2S, 24 and so, and October 1, the Illinois Central Rail- road will sell excursion tickets to the Corn Palace at Sioux City, Iowa, at rate of sl4.7o from Chicago to Sioux City and return.
 Tickets sold on September 2S and 30 and October l, will be gOod to return within ten days from date of sale. No stop over privileges allowed.
 Tickets sold on September 24 will be good to return within thirty days from date of sale, and will be good for stop-over privileges west of and in- cludiDg Iowa Falls, In both direc- tions. r
 For tickets, time of trains, etc., apply to nearest ticket agent. A. H. HANSON, General Passenger Agent, Chicago.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-09-21
POSSIBILITIES OF BAsYHoooD

Frank II. Stauner. in Detroit Free Press.
 Wentworth remarks that "IIeaven lies about us in our infancy" to which some one has waggishly added, "and our neighbors lie about us after we are grown up." If the baby Is only & week or two old we are not 90 sure about the "heaven," for the supposed angelic smile may be the result of a twinge of collie. The boy baby Is most subject to collie, and 90, by fair infer ence, more heaven lies about him. Probably Eliza Cook properly sized up the subject when she wrote
 "And heaven was round us when we fed
 on rich, AmbroslAl ginger bread"
 1t is neither kind nor wise to vote 6 baby an unmitigated nuisance. In doing so we shut our eyes against its wonderful possibilities. Babies may be like weeds, and weeds, says Emer- son, are plants whose virtues have not yet been discovered. Ruskin says that 6 child's education begins when 1t Is six months old-at the time when 1t "can answer smile with smile." How ever, the smile may not be essential {; and yet, If the baby Is boy, 1t will be better for him to do his smiling" then than after he's grown up. He canex- hibit his developing intelligence with out the answering smile. To pull out 6 handful of papa's whiskers, to smash grandma's spectacles all over her face, and to fatten out the kitten like pam cake with the rolling pin, Is a devel- opment sufficiently ample. By its yells, vigorous and prolonged, it shows compass of lungs and tenacity of pur- pose. Such varied aptitudes are fair indication of its possibilities.
 Another writer, as smart as Ruskin, says Ca child should be educated twenty years before it's birth" We have not time to go back to the last generation it is enough to educate the babies oi this one. We are not writing a book on the subject, and SO we'll file away the opinion with the trite old Span ish proverb that Gan ounce of mother Is better than a pound of clergy"
 4 baby's accomplishments are as varied as they are numerous. 1t car keep house in turmoil all day and in consternation all night, with a pro- voking self-consciousness that it didn't half try. It has . wonderful faculty for sleeping in the daytime when il ought to be awake, and of being awake at night when 1t ought to be asleep 1t can wear out a pair of shoes in twenty -four hours and its mothers patience In one. 1t can beat the hired girl breaking dishes by two or thret laps, and needn't get out of ita mothers lap to do 1t. It is large enough to occupy the whole of ths bed at once, and yet small enough tc creep into the kitchen drain, selecting the time for the feat just when itl mother has put on 1t white, newly lanndered dress.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-09-21
A Tough Yarn. New York Dispasoh.

A &00#M M8EMs
 New York DispascA.
 "Talking of life-preservers,s = sAid the truthful mariner as he knocked the ashes out of his pipe, syou remember the old steamer aRoustabouts that used to run from Buffalo Co Chicagoa Twas mate On her the year before she va lost. We were about sixty milss out from Chicago when Mike LanagAn, who was doing something up On the mast, fell, struck on his head on the roof of the cabin and bounced clean out into the lake. Well, the captain he see hIm fall and he stopped and backed that old "Roustabout" quicker'n you could say seat Mike went down like c plummet for be was knocked insen- sible, and l know'd there was DO use to hssve . life preserver for him % Jest hurried up the boys In getting the boat down, although l didn't expect 1t 'ud do much good. We had Jim King on board. Passenger from Chi cago. You remember Jim King, don't your"
 "Csn't say that do, l" remarked by- stander.
 "Well, Jim was champion quoit- thrower in them days. He's dead now, poor fellow, but Jim was a hoss on throwing quoits. I tell you quoits were a great game them days. Every village had a quoit club and the boys on the farms uscd to throw hoss-shoes. It was something like baseball in these times, although never sec as much fun In base ball as l could see in a good game of quoits."
 "Oh, come of ," cried the impatient listener. "What did Jim do, or did he do any thing? Did the man drown?"
 "Now, don't be too fly. Who's tellin' this yarn1"
 "Well, you don't seem to be."
 "Go oni Go on" said the crowd.
 "Well, you know, In quoits ringer was when you put the quoit around the stake. It counted double. We'll, Jim he picks up the round life pre- server-its like great big quoit, you know-and as the cap'n came running aft, Jim he sings out, 'Cap'n, Pll bet you five dollars l'll make Q ringer on that man If he comes up within the length of this line.'
 "'Bet you twenty dollars you can't, said the cap'n.
 "'Take you,' said Jim, and just at that mint up bobs Mikes head about sixty feet astern. Jim threw 1t, and I'll be durned If that hfe-preserver didn't 20 plump over on Mikes head clear down on shoulders, and there it stuck. We got down the boat, and when we got to Mike he hadn't come to yet, and didn't for some time after. He'd been . goner if it hadn't bin fur that ringer although 1t took the skin offen his nose"
 Did the captain pay the twenty dollars7"
 "Pay 1t? You jist bet he did. And Jim handed it over to Mike and Mike he blew 1t all In when we got to Dc troit. I wish some of 1t was here now, fur Pm mighty dry. Thanks. Don't
The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-09-21
Harvest Excuruons

September s4sh and October sth the Missouri Pacific railway and s. Louis, Iron Mountain Q Southern railway will run Harvest Exear- sions 70 all Poasss '. soaslxssss,a nlssoaffi: n,f and Utah. Only one fare e9r the round trip. Ticksts iimited to thirty dAyss wttn noerAl stop-over privtleges. Tor full deeoripsiea ol John E. Ennfs, DIstxtct PAssenger Axont 1lis- ssari Pscinc Hallway. ise Cisrf street. Chioa- 60. III.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-09-21

"why is London,s 2 asks New York theatrical manager, "the nursery of barbecue dancers2s A nursery3 From the specimens sent to this country ws should call 1t moro like sn old womAn's home of burlssque dancsrs.-Norris- f0svn Hcrdd.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-09-21

It oosts less Co 70 Co 70 . doctor than it does Co have him come to - you, but the apotheoAry man always gets there, just the same -Sbsssvgi7zs Journal.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-09-21

When you hear a young man ay that . girl has no heart you may be pretty sure that she has hiG-Las0- renee ARseric0a.
The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-09-21
STATE OF Ono, CITY or TOLEDO,
 LUCAS COUNTY, s. $.


 FRANK J. CHENEY makes oath that he Is the senior partner of the firm of Y. ] CHENEY t& Co, doing business in the city Of Toledo, county and state aforesaid, and that said firm will pay the sum Of ONE HUNDRED DOL LARS for each and every case of CA. TARRH that cannot be cured by the use Of HALLS CATARRH CURE.
 FRANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence, this 9th day of De- cember, A. ID. 1886.
 Sx.I A. W. GLEASON:
 Notary Public. Halls Catarrh Cure is taken inter. nally and acts directly on the blood and mucus surfaces of the system. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO, Toledo, o. rYSold by Druggists, 75c.
Arizona silver belt., 1889-11-09
The Chamber of Torture

Is the apartment to which the unhappy sufferer from infammatory rheumatism is confined. If, ere the crisis of pain is reached, that fine preventive, Hostetter's s Stomach Bitters, is used by persons of a rheumatic tendency, much unnecessary suffering is avoided. Nervines, ano- dynes and sedatives, while having none but a specific effect, are yet very desira- ble at times. Yet they can produce no lasting effect upon rheumatism. because they have no power to eliminate from tee blood the rheumatic virus. Hostet- ter's Stomach Bitters does this, and checks at the outset disease which, if allowed to gain headway, it is next to impossible to dislodge or to do more than relieve. Rheumatism, it should be re- membered, is disease with fatal ten dency from its proneness to attack the heart. A resort to the Bitters, should, therefore, be prompt. Dyspepsia, kid ney complaint, malaria and nervousness are relieved by it
Arizona silver belt., 1889-11-09

The big river mining schemes have been in hard luck of late. The Big Bend enterprise did not pan out as expected, and now a similar clam on A-sape ryer has met with disas%r. The heavy and continued rains raised the Feather rlver so high that it went over the dam of the Golden Gate mine, near 0royille, and into the river bed, where the men had just commenced to work. The loss Is said to be S1OO.OO0.
Arizona silver belt., 1889-11-09

Miners have long been on the look out tor an explosive, says the Sclen- titic and Mining Press, which, while doing the work of gunpowder, will be free from the danger which attends that explosive in mines when explo- sive gases are liable to be met with. It IS now claimed that such an agent has been discovered. The British Mail, of September last, says that flame less explosive, called carbonite, which has for some years been largely used in German coal-min es, will shortly be introduced into England. A power full syndicate, comprising some of the engineers of the best coal properties in the United Kingdom, has been formed fox thls purpose. It is stated that this explosive has been proved to be absolutely safe in "fiery mines, ' and in cases where It has been ex- ploded in the midst of an explosive mixture of fre-damp and ar it has failed to ignite the mixture.