Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1894-10-25

houses and homes but of mansions
which are superior in appointments
and conveniences for comfort to the
great houses in which their former
masters dwelt. One of them has an in
come from the government of upwards
of $40, 200 per annum, and has held
lucrative and responsible positions for
nearly quarter of a century. Another
wealthy colored man owns a handsome
hoase on Connecticut avenue, our most
fashionable thoroughfare, and he could
easily sell it for four times it's actual
worth, because his wealthy and ariste-
cratic white neighbors would be glad
to crafty the sense of resentment
which is so common in some quarters
against the lately enslaved race.
The schools for colored children are
separate from the schools for white
children, and an entirely separate but
coordinate system of educat ton is main
tanned, from the primer school room 10
the high school, where diplomas are
issued upon a par with the diplomas of
the white children's high school, and
which indicate a curriculum of the
same extent and value.
Upon Fifteenth street, within few
blocks of our most pretentious hotels
and practically in the most fashionable
quarter of the city, there is very
large church maintained entirely by
colored people, which, in appointments
and furnishings, is equal to the best
churches furnished and maintained by
the white people; and this church is
particularly famous for its strong, and
in some respects excellent, quartette
choir.
Upon the same street and within a
stones throw of the church referred
to above, there is a less pretentious
church for co1ored people, that is to
say, less pretentious in external APP
pearance. But within it is simply ger
geous, and it's audience is composed of
some of the wealthiest men and women
in this city belonging to the colored
race.
Down in the southern and southeast
ern portion of the city, however, the
investigator can find every class of ne
gro, from the ignorant believer in hoo
docs and fetch worship to the intelli-
gent but uneducated negro of the plan
tation variety. They come to Wash
ington from every section of Maryland
and Virginia; while hundreds, if not
thousands of them, find their way here
from states more remote. In the al
legs, and on the unused public reserva-
tons, the lower OFQcrS Oh negroes drS
found. They are all good natured
Jolly, seekers after pleasure of every
kind; and yet within their ranks the
worst, most degraded and brutal Grim
iuals are to be found, and are known
ITO be existent by our police and detec
tive officers. So thoroughly have these
people been watched and studied by
the guardians of our peace that it is
not likely that any crime can be com
United by one of their number and the
guilty be allowed to escape.
In these lower orders of colored PEG
pie there is to be found on every hand
the strong belief in might doctors,
which terrorizes so many of that class
of people. They have somehow become
so thoroughly convinced that th'
agents of medical colleges are on
every night in search of live specimen
for the doctors to operate upon, tina
they look upon every stranger wh'
may come into their neighborhoot
after the setting OF the sun as a nigh
doctor in search of victims.
This belief in might Doctors nearl.
cost young co1ored man his life few
weeks ago. Some systematic burglarie
had been going on within our city TO
some time. The. marauders not onl
robbed houses, but destroyed furniture
cutting and slashing carpets. curtain