Wichita Searchlight

THE WICHITA SEARCHLIGHT REMINI Of the Frederic This Article was ly For The By A Wic nd will Appear REMINISCENCE this Article was Written Especially For The Searchlight By A Wichita Lady and will Appear In Three Parts PART ONE think it was in 1843 that I first Fred Douglass. I am not good remembering dates, but it was year when the Anti-Slavery city of New England sent outable corps of lecturers and a band of sweet singers, to hold 100 meetings through the north and northeast, to awaken the people in their apathy in regard to slavery, and create a public sentiment, but it was hoped might lead to adoption of peaceful means and real measures for its abolition, further sounded the alarm berye no warnings in the air, notno earthquake underneath? Bri'p' why will ye slumber where skeeper only wakes in death! The wise saw that a crisis must me if timely and well directed effec- s could not avert it. A system of gradual emancipation and colonization was the plan most routinely hoped for and advocated some of our best statesmen. Fail was written on all peaceful solutions this question, and the terrible bond between 1861 and 1864 saw its great national sin washed away by the blood that flowed from hearts of our nation's bravest noblest sons, and left thousands怨able homes and aching hearts and we had to learn the lesson new "That God is just and that.'s silence will not sleep forever." But we cannot writing a history of those wars, and will get back to 1843 or out that period. The three lectures sent to our locality were George Braithburn, Wm. A. White and Fred Druglass. They proposed so hold a two days' vacation. The churches all resisted admission except the Baptist, and so many threats were made at they withdrew their offer. This was at Pendleton, Madison Co., Indiana. On the opposite side of Fall Creek was a beautiful grove (It lives in my memory as one of the earliest spots in the world) in this grove they ected a speaker's stand and arranged and proceed to open the convention. Many threats were made but it was not expected that anything worse than a noisy, annoying demonstration would occur, was a little girl then, and in company with several others we were on our way to the grove when the mole rode by in full force pell mell --- 5TH YEAR brandishing such weapons as they had. The leader wore a coon skin cap, with the tail hanging down behind his head. Some were hatless, some had their sleeves rolled up to their shoulders, some had their pants rolled nearly to their hips, shirts open in front, and others had their clothes on wrong side out. The toughest looking set imaginable, all were under the influence of liquor; some were reeling in their saddles, and all were yelling and cursing. We knew there was nothing for us at the convention, so we went to the house of a friend, and shortly after we got there Mr. A. White came in with the blood streaming down his back from a gash in the back of his head; then Fred Douglass was brought in apparently initially injured. He was knocked down and one hand was broken and he was faint but soon revived and told us that he feigned death to save his life. After they knocked him down he peeped out of the corner of one eye and saw a man holding a huge stone over his head, but another man called, "come away and let the d——nigger alone, he's dead." His friends came and carried him away, and that night he was secretly conveyed to the Quaker settlement east of Pendleton, where he remained until he was able to travel which was something over a week. During that time he gave us a talk each evening, simply telling us a slave child's life, and the boyhood, and youth of a bond man. There was no bitterness in his narrative; in fact he seemed rather to excuse the acts of individuals, because of the demoralizing effects of the system of slavery, it was the system he was fighting and not individuals. He was a young man then, tall straight and fine looking with an easy carriage and good manners. He had a large bushy head and a pleasant voice, and was not as dark as he was in later years, when he was older, but he claimed to belong wholly to the colored race and said whatever talents he had came from his slave mother rather than his Anglo-Saxon father. Of his father he knew nothing, of his mother but little of his age he was not certain, because family records were not kept by slaves except by the coming and going of seasons. He thought from WICHITA. KANSAS. JULY 4. 1903. the best information that he could get, that he was born in 1827, and lived with grandmother until about seven years old, at that age he could begin to do chores and was sent to chores and was sent to the plantation. His grandparents had been faithful and trusted slaves, and when they were old they had several miles from the plantation, and were allowed to make their own living and take care of their grandchildren until they were old enough to be of some use. His grand mother had five daughters, all hired out, his mother was 12 miles away and the only chance she had of seeing him was to steal away in the night, walk the 12 miles and back again before the overseer's have sounded. His only memory of her was that she was a grand looking woman with a sad face, who sometimes in the night held him in her arms, and he was too sleepy to stay awake, but he was glad to see her and always reverenced her memory. Although a field hand she managed to learn to read which was an unusual thing for a slave to do. She died while he was set a young boy He had had an easy life with his grandmother, and enough to eat, but when he was sent to the plantation he with other children were put in the charge of a cross colored woman, and during his stay there he never had his appetite satisfied. He was always hungry and suffered with cold in the winter time, as the children's clothing consisted only of a tow linen shirt, and they had no beds, just slept where ever they could find the most comfortable corner. Their tasks were light, but they suffered extremely from hunger and cold. Their food was a kind of mush poured in a trough and they ate it with pie as shells or whatever they could get, never had any spoons. His master's oldest daughter was a very kind hearted lady. He had learned a few little songs and when he was very hungry he wound go and sing under Miss Lucretia's window, and he was always sure to get a piece of bread and butter. One day Miss Lucretia told him that he must wash himself clean and get the dead skin off his feet, for he was sent to Baltimore to live with her sister Mrs. Hugh Ante, and was to have trousers to wear. He spent most of his time in the creek scrubbing himself, and was the happiest boy on the plantation. He had heard marvelous stories of Baltimore and he was going there, and he was going to have trousers. Miss Lucretia superintended his getting ready and in three days from the time he was first of his good fortune he was sent to Baltimore. Mr. and Mrs. Auld met him kindly, they had a little boy named Tommy, and Mrs. Hugh said Freddie here is lit.le Tommy, and Tommy this is your Freddie, and he must take care of you and you must be good to him. There que had plenty of good food and a bed to sleep on with cover to keep him warm. Miss Sopha treated him with great kindness, even affection, and he was quite happy. She began to teach him to read, but he had but little more than mastered the alphabet When Mr. Auld discovered what she was doing and forbid it. "It was against the law to teach the slaves ter ad." UNITED WE STAND, DIVIDED WE FALL. CHANCES FOR NEGRO GIRLS They Now Get Into More Responsible Places and Earn Better Pay. From the New York Sun The young colored girl who is better educated than most of her class is coming into favor in New York as a worker at tasks which require refinement and discrimination in the doing. One Hampton institute student has a place of trust in the woman's department of a leading bank, where it is not only required of her that she be consistently polite and oblidging, but that she render such clerical aid in going over accounts or counting bills, as may be required. She wins praise both from her employer and from the bank's patrons for her cheerful willingness and capability. Several colored girls have qualified themselves to be manicures, others have learned the hairdresser's trade or to give massage treatment, and are working as specialists in these businesses and winning success. More than one is well established as a dressmaker, showing peculiarity not only for work itself, but for business management. And colored girls are regarded by ladies' tailors as good, handy sewers, many of whom display knack for draping and arranging. Not a few find good homes as care takers for flathouses and apartment buildings, caring for three or more houses for a single employer. A young colored girl of pre-possessing appearance acts as secretary for a couple of hours each day to the elderly woman whom she serves as maid. Several colored girls have tately taken training as thorough ladies' maids and are serving in fastidious households. Others have secured permanent places as seamstress and private dressmakers in city families, yet time was when trained colored help in the woman's department was neither wanted nor to be got in the Northern states. The Only Colored Painter in the City Work Guaranteed—Price Reasonable Office 703 N. Main Phone 936 FROM BOOTBLACK TO B. A. Record of C. W. Wood, the Negro Just Graduated At From a Chicago bootblack t Columbia bachelor of arts is the record of Charles Winter Wood, the Negro who the degree last week. Mr. Wood had already won oratorical honors in the West. He will go to the Tuskegee Institute this fall to continue his work at the head of the English department. Fifteen years ago, while blacking boots and selling newspapers on a Chicago street corner, he attracted the attention of Judge Jarvis Biume by quoting Shakespear while he was polishing the shoes of the jurist. Judge Biume became interested and said: "Say, Charley, I'll give you a dollar if you'll learn the ghost scene from "Hamlet". The colored boy quickly consented, and on going to the lawyer's office to earn his dollar he found a roomful of Judge Blume's friends, who were prepared for amusement. He recited the scene in such a way that astonished his auditors, and induced Judge Blume to undertake his education. Dr. D. K. Pearson, who has aided many struggling colleges in this country, and the Rev. Frank W. Gunsaudus, the Chicago preacher, later became interested in Wood, and he was sent to Beliot college to be educated. During his course there his dramatic and oratorical ability became so marked that he was chosen as the Wisconsin representative in the interstate oratorical contest at Galesburg in 1895 winning second place Wm. J. Bryan was one of the judges, marked him 100 per cent. Eight years ago after he forsook his bootblacking outfit for newspapers and books he appeared as Oedipus in Sophocles'tragedy when it was presented in Central Music Hall Chicago, by the Greek department of Beloit college. Piano Tuning $2.50. Phone 981. Cor Douglas and Emporia. Wichita, Kansas. COLORED PEOPLE LEAVING THE SOUTH For many years violent abuse of the colored people has been the chief stock in trade of democratic politicians of this state. Men have elevated to public office principally as a result of their superior ingenuity in appealing to the prejudices of the white agricultural and factory operative classes wherever the colored citizen was concerned. And in very many instances the Negro was made the subject in political campaigns where he bore no relation to the issues under discussion. It has been carried on until it became delightful to the ear of those for whom it was intended. The white farmer subordinated this consideration for the labor upon which he must depend to cultivate his fields to that of this prejudices as assiduously cultivated by the selfish politician. It is therefore quite natural that the feeling of mutual dependents, which should exist between the white farmer and the colored laborers would be destroyed under such conditions. That it had been greatly impaired, one has only th inquire among the large number of strong, hale laborers found drifting into the cities and towns of this state from the farms. It will be found, teo, that they are not leaving their homes in the country altogether for the pleasures of city life. They are leaving on account of drawbacks which deny them living wages and the prospects of accumulating something for a rainy day. Of course there are those who leave the country and farm f r the temptation of tow life, but they are few of that class. They are of the small quota which the rural population contributes to the regiment of "hoboes" so commonly found among all races of a city's population. NO 6 With, perhaps, the intention to repair some of the injury done to the farming class, the politician has resorted to drastic legislation. Anticipating the action of labor to hunt relief, a high license is imposed to prevent labor agents from inducing the farm labor of the state away The laws of labor contracts are so framed that the laborer can be held as having engaged to work for a given time upon slight technicality. This is only part of the explanation why colored labor is leaving the farm for the towns, and why so many are yearly moving to the Northern and far Western states. Ex. W. S. HENRION DRUGGIST 501 N. Main St. Wichita, Kans. Brailschis 120 E. Douglas Avenue. FOOTWEAR Is Always Reliable The Oxford (Kan.) Register says that Gene Showalter of that town is the typical Kansasa girl. Although but sixteen years old, she taught the biggest school in the country during the past school year. After school closed she went home and helped her father plow for oats. Then she made a lot of clothes for herself. Now she is taking a little vacation in the form of a term at a teachers' summer school. Street Cleaners of Paris. The street cleaners of Paris form a little army. They number altogether 3,880. They are divided into brigades, under the command of forty-four superintendents and 159 foremen. Five hundred sweeping machines are used, and those, with the water carts, find employment for 1,600 horses. The cost of the service works out at about twelve cents a square yard per annum. Putting Comfort Before Style. It may be a more swell event when waiters from a hotel or club are engaged to pass the refreshments at a party, but we prefer a party where the hostess or a neighbor girl urges, "Do have some more." The hired waiter can't get that personal note of appeal in his voice if he wears a dress suit and costs $2 for the evening.—Atchison (Kan.) Globe. Made Matters Worse. A lady, in passing up a church aisle caught her dress on a corner of a pew and tore it. As the process of tearing was very audible to the congregation, the feelings of the lady may be imagined when, at the moment, the clergyman began the service by reading the sentence: "Rend your hearts and not your garments." Victoria's Premier an Irishman. William Hill Irvine, premier of Victoria, who has just introduced an unprecedentedly drastic piece of anti-strike legislation, is a native of Newry, the smallest of the Irish parliamentary boroughs, where his uncle, John Mitchel, one of the leaders of the '48 rebellion in Ireland, practiced as an attorney. Regains His Sight. John Miller, colored, of Uniontown, Pa., became blind in his right eye many months ago and recently one of the family threw a potato which destroyed the sight in his left eye. His physicians believed him entirely blind, but the sight gradually returned, to the right eye. "Waterclad" Warship. The Russians are experimenting with a "waterclad" battleship, which has an upper deck of cork and a second deck-of armor. The space between the two can be filled with water; then the ship floats a foot under the sea's surface. THE SEARCHLIGHT. W. N. MILLER, Editor. Entered at the Post Office at Wichita, Kansas, as Second - Class Mail Matter. Published Every Saturday at No. 110 NORTH MAIN St. - RATES OF SUBSCRIPTION - STRICTLY IN ADVANCE One Year [ by mail ] ..... $1.00 Six months [ by mail ] ..... 75c Three months [ by mail ] ..... 50c ONE M. ONTH ..... 150. Advertising Rates Made Known On Appi cation. 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So agents will send the money with subscriber's name. 6th Address all communications to "The Wichita Searchlight" Wichita, Kansas. 7th Any erroneous reflection upon the character, standing or reputation of any person which may appear in this paper, will be gladly corrected if brought to the Editor. "To Live and Let Live," is OUR Motto. DO THFY HELP THE RACE? Just about the beginning of every political campaign in Wichita there has always been a class of colored men who start a "colored newspaper" graft. They have, of course, their boosters and to hear them talk they would have the world by the tip end of the head, with a downward pull. They begin amidst the beating of drums, the wagging of tongues—and with a "much ado about nothing." They make their rounds among the white politicians —visiting both sides—of course—and gather in money from 5c to as high as can be obtained. The long-looked-for-trembling-an arm c-talked-to-death sheet appears and during the time allotted to live, has much “we’s” to say. As the campaign warms and the opportunities for grafts gets brighter, much is “said” about the “down-trodden race.” The campaign closes, and then it is discovered that some repairs (?) must be made—(where?) and publication is always suspended “pending the making of these repairs.” But, as it also happens, the repairs are never completed until within seeing and hearing distance of the next political campaign. This old gag has been worked on the white politicians’ and colored people of Wichita so long, that we some time wonder if they will ever tire of it, and put a pre-empty “stop thief” to it. But, does such things help the race in Wichita? By the fact the “smooth guys” are able to collect money from the white politicians and colored people on the mere name of a “paper,” and when the “money” is in, stop point blank, does it help the race? What is the difference between a man sticking a gun under your nose and relieving you of your money, than for a man to lie to you about running a paper and get your money? In the one case the law would arrest him and send him to Lansing as a highway robber, but what is the man in the second case, and where is the remedy? It is high time, indeed, that the politicians and colored people of this city would seek some protection from the hounding of these political brigands and smooth tongue grafters. The Negro in particular should stamp their seal of disapproval. We again ask the question "Do they help the race?" In His Own Hands The political, social, moral and financial future of the Negro race in America is in their own hands. In this twentieth century, with the advantages of the great common school system of America—the greatest in christendom—with the opportunities to earn an honest livelihood, with the full freedom of spaech, freedom of action, freedom of manhood, there is little or no excuse for the present and future generations of the Negro race not to advance in every way. The race can no longer expect that some others must face and fight their battles of life. Every man in this age is to be judged by his own standard. The present generation must learn that honesty, faithfulness and earnestness in politics, in in social life, in morality and financial economy, is the standard by which men are to be judged. The race itself must stamp out of its ranks political bickering, social corruption, immorality and financial extravagance. The race itself must cast from its ranks those men whose sole aim is to deceive and to thus pull down the race. Political juglery social corruption, immoral practices, and financial recklessness has been the ruin of more than one race and there is no question but that it can prove the ruin of the Negro race. Let the preachers from their pulpits and on the streets—let the teachers in their schoolroom and the homes—let the Negro leaders on the stump, in highways and by-ways—let the fathers and mothers at the family circle and at their daily meals—let every self-respecting and race-loving Negro—teach that the race can only progress by the practice of political purity, social cleaness, strictly moral habits and the most exacting financial economy. We must put less stress on politics for money and more stress on politics for a principal—and the best interest of a majority of the race—we must put less stress on what is termed "a good social time" which generally includes drunkenness, debauchey, gambling and other things which is of service to no man, and we must put more stress on making our social circles purer and more elevated, we must set an everlasting seal on immorality in every form and encourage the youth the maiden, the wife and husband to practice morality every day. We must put less stress on spending 95 cents out of every dollar we earn for "fine clothes" "good eating" and "drinks" and put more stress on and encourage young and old to invest at least one-half of their earnings in real estate, good bonds, bank accounts and conducting legitimate business enterprises. We say, then, that in this twentieth century, the political, social, moral and financial future of the American Negro is in his own hands and it is left to him to say of what value it shall be. Time will tell. And the Negro must blame no one should his future not be what he should then like. CHURCH DIRECTORY St. Paul A. M. E. 521 N. Water St. 11 am preaching. 4 pm Sunday school. 7 pm Song Service. 8 pm Preaching. Rev. P. D. Yochn, Pastor, Residence 521 N. Water. New Hope Baptist. North Mead ave. 11 am Preaching. 1 pm Sunday School. 8 pm Preaching. Rev H. F. Frazier, Pastor 239 New York ave. Second Baptist, 521 N. Wichita. 11 am Preaching, 3 pm Sunday School, 8 pm Preaching, No Pastor. Tabernacle Baptist. 834 N. Water. 11 am Preaching. 1 pm Sunday School. 8 pm Preaching. Rev. A. H. Mayo, Pastor. The literary and musical entertainment to be given under the auspices of the Stewardess Board of the A. M. [E. church on the 16th promises to be one of the grandest affairs of the season. An excellent program is being prepared for the occasion to be rendered by some of our best talent. Mrs. F. E. Motin, the renowned elocutionist who has returned from Topeka and is visiting her parents, has consented to render some of his choicest selections. Mrs. Motin needs no introduction as to her ability. Mrs. E. Banks who is expected to arrive from Topeka in a few days will also take a part. The following program has been arranged: Chinneth Orchestra. Vocal Solo.....Mrs. Estella Patton Selection.....Mrs. T. E. Motin Duett.....Misses Daisy and Carrie Bradford Vocal Solo.....Mrs. E. Banks Recitation.....Clarence Topp Vocal Solo ..Mrs. Florence Braden Cornet Solo.....Mr. L. Fines Quartine. Mrs. Harper and others The ladies G. L. A. club will close their meetings for the summer season with a basket picnic at the Carter farm. The season which will be closed then has been a very profitable one for the club and they have made much advancement in the art of needle work. The Searchlight go s to press this week on Thursday instead of Friday, one day earlier, so that the papers might be delivered on Friday as Saturday is the glorious 4th of July, a legal holiday on which no mail will be delivered. We take this precaution so our readers may get their paper this week, otherwise they wouldn't be delivered until Monday. Newt Edmonson, one of Wichitas colored men, but who is at present making his home in Kansas City, Mo., was in the city Wednesday. Newt at one time was a very prominent factor in the local political circles. He says he has gone entirely out of politics now, and likes his present occupation as railreading much better. Newt is a jolly good fellow and his many Wichita friends were glad to meet him. He is running from Kansas City to California. The Merchants who appreciate the trade of the colored people ADVERTISE IN THIS PAPER. PATRON IZE THEM. Rev. W. H. V. B. Tayler filled the pulpit at the Second Baptist church last Sunday. Rev. Taylor preached well and is a fine singer. He had a good meeting and raised the following sums of money—church collection, $11.00; Sunday school, $1.95; young people's meeting, 20cts; after collection $3.01; total $16.22. One member was added to the church. Rev. Taylor filled the pulpit at 11 a. m. and 7 p. m. He will preach at the Second Baptist church again next Sunday. At the request of the management of the Wichita Searchlight, the meeting of the Western Negro Press Association has been changed from Wichita to Colorade Springs, Col. The meeting will be held on August 4, 5 and 6. The good people of Colorado Springs promise to give everyone a joyful good time. The cry now is "On to Colorado Springs." The date is August 4, 5, 5, 1903. Before you buy a good horse, find out what is the matter with him. ```markdown ``` When Miss Henrietta Vinton Davis was in Wichita making preparations to give her play she came to the Searchlight to get some of her printing done. After the work was ready she said she had no money and got us to give her the work promising to pay after the play. We did so, and after the play she said she was still "broke" but would send us the money. She left the city and we have not heard from her since. We have been wondering if that was her way to beat the printer out of his money? Rev. A. H. Mayo, pastor of the Tabernacle Baptist church will preach from the following the text next Sunday:--John XIV-16 26, "And I will pray the Father for you and He shall give you another comforter, that He may abide with you forever; but the comforter which is the Holy Ghest He shall teach all things." Subject, "Personality and Deity of the Holy Spirit." J. TIPP, .....o.....o.....o..... PROP Best Hand Laundry In the City First-Class Work Guaranteed, 609 East Douglas Ave..... Wichita, Ks Mr. Sie Cox left Saturday for Milwankee with a fine string of race horses for Chandelier, from there they will go out on the racing circuit, returning back to Wichita next fall. Miss Lavina Harper, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L. Harper, has been quite sick for the past few days. A Wichita lady writes very interestingly of her recollections of the famous Frederick Douglass. The high wind of Tuesday was something to think about. The G. L. A. club met at the residence of Mrs. J. L. Harper Tuesday and will hold their next meeting at Mrs. S. W. Jones, 501 N. Water. Owing to going to press one day earlier, if there is any news which does not reach us on time this week it will appear next week. Dr. J. E. Farmer Physician and Surgeon Diseases of Women and Children a Specialty. Office 703 N. Main St. Tel. 936. 20.65 Chicago, Ill. $20.65 and Return via FRISCO SYSTEM Account Summer Schools Tickets on sale June 14th, 15th, 40th and July 1st. Good to return until Sept. 15th. 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They are called "the Books of Samuel" because of his prominence in history, though a late Jewish tradi- sion says that the prophet himself wrote portions that fall within his life. "Samuel the Last Great Judge,"— Task. Under the judges the people dead in the virtue and power. The dead of the nation God seemed too spirit- ful for the nation's apprehension. Sam- was raised up to be the leader of the news in their transition to a form of permanent like that of the nations then. Gene History. Samuel was born, probably B. C. 1192, and died at the age of forty about four years before Saul. What "Why the People Wanted a King; Protects." -Vs. 1-5. At the time he entered in our lesson, the nation was a sad plight. About twenty years before Samuel had broken the yoke of divine oppression by a great, Godwin victory at Mizpeh, and gave place order to the land through all the wars of his judgement. He was of age had compelled him to hand over to his sons the active management affairs, and they had proved entirely worthy. "Quenon Samuel was old." He was sixty years old. "He made his judgments." "They were simply to support their father in the administration of Kell." They were judges in Beer-sheba, "hay- ather in the south, while Samuel bely still ruled in the north. And his sons仕胯, in his husbands仕胯,仕胯 after luceur, his lureur, money wrongly ob- sessed. "And took bribes," Samuel, liv- er a distance, may not have known his sons' misconduct, and he was not with them, but deposed them from so that he was not punished as Then all the elders of Israel came Samuel, unto Ramah." Samuel's home. The people now proceed to urge three reasons why they should have a king. First Reason. 5. "Behold, thou art bound Reason. "And thy sons walk in thy ways. Now make us a king." It is appoint one. Doubtless the elders in the city oppose the prophecy of Deut. 17: 14-20, and desired punishment. "To judge us." That is, namely to settle disputes, but to rule them. Third Reason. "Like all the nations," such a king as those of other nations but as the other nations had kings, they desired one. "Why the People Wanted a King; or True Reason." Vs. 6-9. God now the sorrowing prophet that the hearts for the people's request are the actual people of greatness under the divine rule, and a desire to pinge into worldliness and charity. 4. The thing displeased Samuel, when he asked, "Give us a king to judge us." Why was the request an evil one, since he had been prophesied that the nation would become a kingdom (Gen. 17: 6; 35: 10; 17: 14-20)? Because the people had waited for God's time, or may asked Samuel if that time had been evil and also because it prompted him to imitate, the deeds for imitation, and, perhaps, the wish or easier requirements than the stern reality which the judges had required the condition of their success. "And Samuel prayed unto the Lord." 5. And the Lord said unto Samuel, "His reply is very tender toward his servant, and very sad in its reluctant abandonment of God's high hope for people. "Hearken unto the voice of people in all that they say unto thee, they have not rejected thee, but they rejected me." 6. Now before bearken unto their house, how would they protest solemnly unto the king? Would give them one more chance to choose the best. "And show the manner of the king." "The sword of the king—that is, his customary behavior." —H. P. Smith. V. The Request Granted and the Receives Prophesied." - V, 10, and to the end of the chapter. God did not intend to impel the israelites to accept his rule, or more than he compulses us. But his for them was so great that he would not allow them to plunge into worldiness and isolation without a warning. "And Samuel told all the words of the Lord unto the people." That is, to eders, the representatives of the people who would pass the message on to the people Samuel had only to look at neighboring valleys to learn the probable fortunes of the Helwis bending in. In the, Samuel prophesied that the nation would be reduced to practical artery by their greatly desired kings,—prediction amply verified by later his eders. They would pray to be delivered the invants in that day, and they would be to escape from their imposed houndage. The Warning Rejected. With these solutions prophesies ringing in their ears, the eders refused to turn from their mad pose. They insisted on a king; they like other nations. And so the hardened Samuel promise them the fulfilment of their degree, and with this promise the aged prophet dismissed the assembly, seizing the elders home to their respective towns, knowing that their permission was a punishment—worthy. Lessons for us. First Lesson. We ask the Israelites, often pray foolishness our prayers are foolish; (1) Whenever they do put God's will first. (2) Whenever the more for ourselves than others. (3) When we present and forget the future. (4) When they are not based on God's命令 but on our own unattugged desires. (5) One of the greatest arts of learning to ask the right things from God in the right way. Second Lesson. God requires our outstreme allegiance. "Ye cannot serve God as mammon." God is not satisfied with our lives devoted to him and half to ambitions, misery greedy, servileiation of others, and self-seeking. All good things God adds to the life that chooses God well. All good things fall away from the life that refuses that chooses God or the world—which shall overcome you? Since cheerful living is a light, the light of darkness is its opportunity of shining. To be happy in life's happy days is as easy as breathing. The opportunity of help comes in with trouble, sorrow, loss. And it comes most, perhaps, with pretty troubles. To be cheerful when it is easy to be praised or sad is to win a victory for Christ and hold a light for men. One lamp in the city's glow counts little; but how men in the darkness of the wood follow one lamp that shows the way towards home and peace! B. F. McLEAN, YARDS AT Wichita, Clearwater, Peck, and Cheney, Kansas. CHAS. A. SCH Real Estate, and Insurance NOTARY CALL AT The ELITE Restaurant CHAS. A. SCHWENDIGER Real Estate, Rental, Loans and Insurance Agent, When You Want A GOOD MEAL Always The Best, and Cooked Well — MEALS 15cts — C. L. KINER, Prop. 408 N. Main St. Wichita, Kas. OPEN ALL NIGHT GO TO ISRAEL BROS. For Real Estate. F. I. D. Israel. 127 N. Market Wichita. Get a Searchlight, if you want the news. WINFIELD, KAS Rev. J. J. Watson attended district conference at Cherayvale last week and preached in Wellington last Sunday. P. B. Andress and daughter of Arkansas City were in town Monday. 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ALL KINDS OF COAL & FEED PHOENISCH BROS, PROPS. 622 N. Main St. Phone 530 When in need of Groceries do not forget that you can always get the Best at the Lowest prices at KERNAN'S 1102 E. Donzier Ave. Phone 857 ROWLEE 823 N. Main St. Cheapest Hardware and Stove house in Wichita; because we pay no rent and have light expenses H. H. Hess & Co Bicycles, Guns, Ammunition, Fishing Tackle and General Sporting Goods. 209 N. Main Phone 444 SM SALE Phone 444 POULTRY Successful Management of Geese From Farmers' Review: The rearing of geese for market and exhibition purposes if properly managed, will bring in a considerable income, with little expense. A few suggestions may be of interest and help to those unacquainted with their management. I have had best success by dividing my stock into small flocks of one dozen each at the breeding season, each flock consisting of 6 males and 6 females. If left to themselves geese will pair, if sexes are of equal number, although 1-3 males and 2-2 females will give good results. The dividing into small flocks necessitates expense for fencing, but as the fence is about the only item of cost in providing quarters for them it is insignificant when compared with the expense of poultry houses. The shelter for geese may be of the rudest kind. With the exception of severe storms in winter they need no shelter except shade, afforded by bushes or trees. If one is so fortunate as to have a pond, the yards should extend some little distance into it and the eggs will prove more fertile. Water to swim in is not necessarily essential, however, for I have had excellent results from tubs and small tanks sunk in the ground. Barrels placed on the side may be used for nests if desired, but geese are generally indifferent to nests provided for them. Geese are largely self-supporting. They pasture much the same as cattle. Breeding geese should be procured before the breeding season, for in new quarters geese do not lay well nor mate so freely. Results from young geese, too, are generally unsatisfactory. Eggs do not hatch well and goslings lack vigor. I have had experience with several varieties, but prefer the Toulouse. They are of largest size, probably the best layers, and they are equal if not superior to any other variety in the amount of feathers produced in the year. And this is a very important fact to be considered, when it comes to the matter of profit. I consider it most profitable to keep only the best of pure-bred stock and produce stock for fancy and exhibition purposes. It costs no more to raise them and the stock when raised commands a much higher price. There is also the additional advantage of being able to sell all surplus eggs for fancy breeding purposes at a great advance above the market price. Geese are long lived and if properly handled are profitable to a great age. —Elmer Gimlin, Christian County, Illinois. Quick Returns from Poultry. Poultry gives quick returns to the investor. There is no other branch of live stock producing that compares with poultry raising in this regard. In the raising of beeves, horses, sheep and swine considerable time must elapse before the returns are made on the investment. Not so the poultry business. A year is a long time in the poultry business. If a man wishes to raise broilers, he buys an incubator in November, buys his eggs to put into it a short time afterwards and in the months of early spring has marketed his two-pound birds and is ready to reinvest. Even if he wants to produce winter eggs, he does not require a year to get returns. He hatches his chicks from hens or incubators in March, April and May and by December is taking in money from the sale of his eggs. The farmer's son or daughter can take advantage to invest some pocket money in a real business, and get not only pleasure but profit from it. This fact should lead many of the young people on the farms to go into the poultry business on a small scale. Ten thousand flocks might be started this spring by these youthful experimenters and be made to yield some returns by Christmas. Hundreds of boys on our farms are going into experimental corn raising on a small scale. Why not some others go into experimental poultry raising? This is a field for the girls as well as for the boys. Let the matter of quick returns be made a test. It would be interesting to learn the records made along this line. We hope that many of our young friends will give the matter their consideration. Caring for the Bull. The bull should have a ring in his nose about the time he is a year old, says Charles L. Hill, and earlier if he is headstrong, and as soon as it is healed he should be taught to lead by it, and always be handled by a staff. A daily grooming will greatly improve his looks and doubtless do him good. Do not keep your bull in a foul dark pen, but if possible give him a light, airy box stall, in sight of the herd of cows, and be sure and clean his stall, and water him daily. Do not abuse him, but still be firm with him. Never fool or play with a young bull, but always make him mind, and then as he grows older never give him a chance to know that he can do anything else. Do not trust him if he is gentle, though you may do as you please about it if he acts cross. It is always the gentle bull that kills the man. Careless handling of bulls has cost our own state some of her best dairymen and breeders. When small fleshy protuberances appear on birds, as on the head and neck of a turkey cock, those parts are said to be "carunculated." HORTICULTURE No Apple Belt. We sometimes hear people speak of a belt for growing this and that, as if a well-marked territory could be described within which produce of that kind could be grown, and outside of which it could not be grown. The term has been applied to the raising of apples, and men now and then speak of the "apple belt." But there is no apple belt, and to use the term merely confuses the discussion of apple growing. The apple can be grown over a wide area of country,—how wide we do not yet know, as that is largely dependent on varieties. Thus in Wisconsin, Minnesota and northern Iowa it seemed at one time as if it were quite useless to attempt to grow apples. The early settlers put in apple trees of the Baldwin, Pippin and Greening varieties, and experienced failure for the most part. They for some time after believed that to grow apples in those states, except in exceptionally favorable localities, was impossible. But some lovers of the apple were determined to do all possible to establish the growing of this king of fruits in the regions where they lived. They saw that varieties must be developed that would stand the severe conditions of those climates. A generation has passed, and we see those states now large producers of apples of new and hardy varieties. The apple growing territory has thus been pushed hundreds of miles further north than it was thirty years ago. We are now told that the regions of Wisconsin about Lake Superior will yet be dotted with productive apple orchards. In these localities the problem of apple growing is a hard one, but is not too difficult for the genius of man to solve. More work has perhaps been done in pushing the apple growing region north than in extending it toward the south. This is due largely to the fact that cold has always been recognized as an enemy of the apple, while heat has not been. Yet the apple, being a temperate climate fruit, is as certainly held in check by the heat as by the cold. In our southern states we find large areas where the apple is not grown. These are usually the level lands. Along the mountain ranges, at a good altitude, the apple has invaded the south, and in the west along the foothills of the Rockies it has nearly reached the Mexican border. Doubtless work on varieties will yet dot the southern fields with orchards bearing red and yellow apples. Great possibilities are locked up in the variations that are found in seedlings, and what the limit of these varieties are no man can now guess; for work with them has but begun. After another hundred years of seedling growing and experimentation with new varieties we shall know more about the limitations of the apple. We may yet grow apples in abundance from the Canadian line to the Gulf of Mexico. Hill Side Orchards The orchard on the top and sides of a hill must have different treatment from that growing on the level or gently-sloping land. The latter may be cultivated annually. The hill orchard cannot be cultivated, as that would result in disastrous washing during heavy rains. One object in putting an orchard on a rather steep hill is to utilize it in a way that will prevent loss of soil and its fertility by the means of running water. But in the case of the hillside orchard it is not generally necessary to set out the trees on the native sod and leave them to their fate. In many cases, where the soil is composed of heavy clay, drainage is a help. We have seen clay hillsides that would hold water in holes and hollows for a week after a rain. In such soil the excavation made for the tree at the time of setting out will prove a veritable water bowl, in which stagnant water will remain for days to the great detriment of the tree. We call attention to this fact for the reason that many people have the idea that all land with a declivity is naturally well-drained. The hill orchard will generally have to be kept in sod, but this does not always prevent the use of the spade around the trees. After the ground has become well filled with the roots of the trees it is sometimes advisable to use mulch. This destroys the grass, but does not disturb the soil. To what extent this can be practiced will depend on the conditions of soil, slope of land and rainfall. Shropshire Premiums Every Shropshire breeder should send to Mortimer Levering, secretary, at Lafayette, Indiana, for a circular relative to the special premiums to be offered by the association at the shows this season. 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Leaves Dail El Dorado, Eureka, Yates Center, Kansas City and St. Louis 9.25 am Conway Springs and Coffeyville 11.30 am For St. Louis 3.00 pm For Kans, City and St. Louis 9.50 pm Hutchinson, Lyons and Geneseo 7.35 am Geneseo, Salina, Puablo, Denver 5.00 pm For Anthony and Kiowa, 6.10 pm For Anthony and Kiowa, 7.40 am Arrives Daily Kiowa, Anthony, Conway Springs, and Clearwater 9.20 am Little Rock, Conway Springs, Coffeyville 4.50 pm From St. Louis 2.35 pm From Kan. City and St. Louis 7.05 am From Denver, Pneblo, Salina, and Geneseo 11.25 am From Hutchinson 4.00 pm From Hutchinson and Geneseo 9.25 pm From Anthony, Conway Springs 4.40 km Kansas City, St. Louis, Yates Center and El Dorado 5.50 pm From Kiowa, Anthony and Conway Springs 9.05 pm WICHITA and WESTERN No. 472, Pratt and Kingman Pas No. 474, Pratt and Kingman accommodation, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday 1.20 am No. 471, Kingman and Pratt Passenger, except Sunday 5.15 pm No. 473, Kingman and Pratt accommodation, Monday, Wednesday and Friday 9.15 am CHICAGO, ROCK - ISLAND & PACIFI R. R. WEST BOUND Leave Daily No. 11 Texas Vestibulated Ex. 6.50 pm No. 13 Texas Fast Express 6.00 am No. 35, Daily, Except Sunday, 3.10 pm EAST BOUND No. 12, Chicago Vestibulated Ex. 9.50 am No. 14, K.C. and Eastern Ex. 10.30 pm No. 36, Daily, Except Sunday 1.35 pm PRISCO SYSTEM EAST BOUND Leaves Daily St. Louis Mail and South-western Limited 1.30 pm St. Louis and Ft. Smith Ex. 8.15 pm WEST BOUND Kansas and Colorado Mail Ex. 3.10 pm Meteor 8.25 am ATCHISON, TOPEKA & SANTA FE R. R. Leaves Daily Kansas City, Chicago Express 11.20 am K. C., Colorado, California Ex. 2.55 pm Wellington Accommodation 5.15 pm Arrives Daily Panhandle Express 10.00 am Englewood Branch, Except Sun. 3.00 pm Leaves Daily Panhandle Express 6.25 pm Oklahoma and Texas Express 6.35 pm Oklahoma Daily Express 8.30 am Wellington Accommodation 8.45 am Caldwell Acc. Except Sun 8.45 am Texas Express 5.10 pm Englewood Branch, Ex. Sun. 7.45 am FRISCO SYSTEM EXCURSION RATES. St. Louis and return, $10.50 Tickets on sale June 15 and 16 Indianapolis and return $21.90 Tickets on sale June , 8,9th. Boston, Mass., and return $37.95 Tickets on sale June 30, July 2, 3 and 4th. Buffalo, N. Y. and return $26.65 Tickets on sale every day until Sept 30th. Indianapolis and return $21.90 Tickets on sale June 13 and 14 Cleveland, O., and return $26.90 Tickets of sale every day until Sept. 30th. COLONIST TICKETS On sale Daily until June 15th. San Fran', Los Angeles, Sacramento $25. Billings, Livington, Butte, Helena 20. Ogden, and Salt Lake City, Utah 20. Spokane, Wash. 22.50 Portland, Tacoma, and Seattle 25. Vancouver and Victoria, B. C. 25. For further information call at GITY TICKET OFFICE Corner Main St. and Dougal Ave., A. B. DEEM, B. F. DUNN, City Ticket Agent. Div. Pass. Agt. TAKEN FROM LINES OZONIZED OX MARRO (Copyrighted) The Missouri Pacific Shortest Line To Colorado Po MISSOURI PACIFIC RAILWAY Most Direct Line To KANSAS CITY Reclining Chair Cars on all the SEATS FREE. Call at our New Passenger state cor. Douglas ave. and Wichita for reliable information relative I. R. Sherwin, P. & T. A. THE WISE MAN'S WI FRISCO SYSTEM A Modern Railway Line, Traversing States and Territories of MISSOURI ARKANSAS KANSAS OKLAHOMA INDIAN TERRITORY TEXAS AND THE SOUTH WEST TENNESSEE MISSISSIPPI ALABAMA AND THE SOUTHEAST EUREKA SPRINGS The Frisco System operates wide-resistance electric-lighted trains. All cafe cars and the halls under the management of Fred Harte Time of trains at WICHITA EAST-BOUND St. Louis Mail and Express — Leaves Wichita 1:50 Arrives St. Louis 7:20 Arrives at Memphis 8:00 St. Louis and Fort Smith Express — Leaves Wichita 8:15 Arrives St. Louis 6:45 Arrives Fort Smith 10:20 WEST-BOUND Kansas City and Colorado Mail and Exp Leaves St. Louis 8.35 Leaves Memphis 8.25 Arrives Wichita 3.07 Meteor Leaves St. Louis 2.20 Leaves Memphis 9.15 Arrives Wichita 8.15 Through Parlor, Coaches and Reclin Chair Cars, also Pullman Pallace Sleep between Wichita and St. Louis with change. For reliable information as to run outes, time, etc. apply to any Frisco ag th. undersigned. It is a pleasure for to answer questions, B. F. DUNN, Div. Passenger Agent, WICHITA. Dr. Abernethy, a man proverbial in tolerant of mere fads and crochets had yet a strong personal objection to sleeping in damp sheets. The Iron Duke (and it may be remarked in passing that Lord Robert of our own day has a similar aversion) would grow quite uneasy if she up in the same room with a mad dog. Sir Walter Raleigh had a marked objection to prison life; and Lord Burleigh, his great contemporary, never liked to slip off a curbstone with his tongue between his teeth.—London Punch.