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The colored American., 1902-07-12
JOYOUS Days ihCOme--

when the vacant supervisorship is
filed
When the Galley Negro" is made to
wOlk
When L c. Moore wriles another
poem.
When the congressional campaign
opens.
When kitchens are kept as neat a.
pslOrs.
When the Jane MOseley gets on her
new ciJthes.
When every city has Negro Busi-
meas League
When Prof W. ID. Richards is given
iudgeshiP.
When children are Taught industry
and obedience.
When ground is broken for the True
R6trmers hall.
when RAn6 Olph Nelson takes the
lecture platte rm.
When J. William Cole enters upon
the practice of law.
When Clarence v hite OIgsniz's
permanent OFcht stTa.
When Anticipated women decline
to support lazy men
When We learn that the farm pays
better than city iIil.s.
When busy people re. use to listen TO |
the curbstOne orator.
When Francis De b. Smith receives |
bis VIII earned pre- motion.
When J. Il. Douglass puts out 8
first class concert company.
When brains will fiDd as ready
market among US as "bo, ze."
When cO,Ored ftlks cease to he so
noisy in all of their gatherings.
" hen Justices Terrell and Hewlett
are assured of their posts for life.
When ie lousy an Oug our putative
leaders is reduced to minimum.
When the civil rights law ts enforced
IN the federal District Of Columbia.
When defaulting church truste, and
Ldge treasureIs are brought to book.
When the cOlored people are adquatt-
i lJreCOgnIzed in the District building. |
When 10 900 WashIn9tonial SUBJ
scrlbe and pay for The COloSed Ameri
can.
When the Baptists elect Rev. w.
Bishop Johnson as educ ational secre
tary.
When people are the same to you |
0ehind your back that they are to your |
face.
When preachers are required to be |
What they should be or forfeit their |
pulplts.
When managers of entertainments
carry their printing to the job offices o
tie race.
When critics of public men prov.
'helr allegations or shut their DIR y
mouths,
When Negroes learn to cast thAi,
IaLIots for their fIiends, regardless OF
party label.
When the Negro learns the science
m saving as glIbly IS the science OF
"talkOlOgy."
The colored American., 1902-07-12

Don't miss the next issue of The
COIoTed American. Ii Is found at all
newsstands.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-03-28

hospital who will teach Honor Wesley
more than we can"
I'm terribly disappointed in the
girl" said the sweet-faced old lady,
VINO sat by the window, sewing. I've
just had letter from Honor's guard
ian about her New York trip. He sent
her a check last week for 500 for the
two weeks holiday, yet she could not
afford pot of lilies. This thought of
the sick whom others don't remember
meant Mary Linden going home in the
day coach instead of the parlor car,
and Lucy Craig giving up pair of
kid gloves to afford the lilies. That is
the sort of thing love to see my girls
do. Tt could scarcely have meant a
bit of self-denial to Honor"
81 have great hopes for Honor" said
Miss Mary, cheerily.
Every girl at the round table glanced
curiously at Honor when she took her
seat. Her face was flushed rosily. It
may have been the effect of her walk
in the bracing spring air, butte Miss
Mary's keen eye it came from some
thing in the heart of the girl. The old
hstlessness was gone, a new purpose
and enthusiasm shone in the dark
eyes. Honor was one of the quiet girls
of the school; tonight she seemed
more silent than usual.
The'constant stream of chatter dealt
with the visit to the hospital and the
people there, and tears came into girl
ish eyes as they told pitiful stories of
| the sick. Then the chatter leaped to
the Easter vacation. A group of the
girls were going with Miss Mary as
chaperon to Old Point Comfort, others
to spend their two weeks holiday in
New York. The girls with homes not
| too far distant were wild with delight
at the thought of seeing fathers and
mothers and brothers and sisters.
| Honor was the only girl who did not
| join in the general anticipation. Her
neighbor, roguish Mollie Cable, rallied
| her on being tongue-tied.
In the Lady Lindsay school there is
a half-hour every evening after tea
when the principal is to be found in
her room for chat inside a closed
| door. Honor was the first to claim her
tonight, and the old lady led her to
the large chair by the window. The
girl did not sit down, she stood over a
vase of daffodils, touching them with
tender fingers. She turned when the
principal Spoke to her and burst into
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-03-28
THE EASTER DINNER-TABLE.
Few Suggestions as to Decoration
of the Festive Board with
Spring Flowers.

The decoration of an Easter dinner
table should be a joy to every woman
who can command some spring flowers.
For, of course, if available, only spring
flowers, with their promise of new life
and golden days, would be ones choice;
lacking which, however, no flowers
need be scorned. One can make table
beautiful with green alone, particular
ly such delicate green's as asparagus
or maidenhair ferns, or even the COM
mon fern or smilaX artistically ar
ranged. Perhaps the loveliest floral
setting for the Easter feast would be
one of white tulips and maidenhair
ferns. These could be arranged in a
single piece in the center of the table,
or the centerpiece could be of ferns
alone in variety, and the tulips placed
at each cover in tiny crystal vases
only large enough for single bloom
and it's leaves. Tulip-leaves are very
effective and should never be removed
in any disposition made of the flower
Next to the pure white of Easter. in
tulips or other flower Qeaving the lily
with its sacred symbolism to its right
full Office in the church), this choice
would fall upon something yellow, the
most gladstone of colors, and natures
spring favorite. Of these jonquils are
probably the most effective.-Ella Nor
ris Kretschmar, in Woman's Home
Companion.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-03-28
SIGNIFICANCE OF EASTER.
Is That of Life Breaking Out Over
Its Old Narrow Bounds and
Limitations.


The significance of this Easter-time
is that of an expanded life-life
breaking out over its old narrow
bounds and limitations, life throbbing
out into new and. more glorious
realms. Death and the grave seem to
abruptly limit life, just as the dark
ness of night shuts down and cuts
off the sunlight. Easter takes in the
morrow. The great Easter forecast
for humanity is life leaping out into
eternity as in the rock-hewn tomb
Christ disenthralled Himself of the
vestments of the grave. Who can
measure all that is meant in that
grand formula of expression:
when 1 awake in Thy likeness 1
shall be satisfied?" The Eastertide
is an earnest of the opening out of
our earthly life in itself. Many Imi-
tations pen US up far within the
range of our conscious capacity for
life even while we are here. Selfish
ness and sorrow and narrow horizons
shut us in in the restricted bounds
of this life, but the Easter opens the
door and the way out into larger
life and more glorious hberty-'the
liberty wherewith Christ hath made
US free."-Christian Work.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-03-28

friends in Arbutus and cannot think
of anywhere could have such peace
full two weeks"
What an Easter Sunday that was in
Arbutus! There was scarcely room in
the homely little hostelry for the
throng who had gathered from far
and near. Every house in the village
had its guests, men and women to
whom the memories of childhood were
sweet, and they brought their boys
and girls. eager to see father and
mothers old home. Easter was late
that year, and spring was forward.
The naples along the street had flung
out blood red tassels, and the lilac
bushes sported tiny green tufts. Ev-
cry dooryard was gay with hyacinths
and tulips and daffodils. Even in the
dark woods, which clothed the noun
tain side, there were outbursts of
golden green willow and snowy shad
blossom. The sweetness of spring and
the peace bequeathed by Christ to
earth filled the church as radiantly as
the sunshine itself. There seemed to
be a new JOY in the very peal of the
bells, and one felt the glory of the res
direction in the music that echoed and
reechoed within the walls. A famous
organist who was once barefoot boy
in the village had found a substitute to
fill his place in New York church. He
was putting his heart and the inner
most thought of it into the music that
breathed the soul of the Easter time
The chancel held sheaves of snowy Ill
les, but even rarer than this fra
GRANGE came a spicy, delicious sweet
ness from long wreaths that swept
from pillar to pillar. They were woven
from the green of the cedar and rosy
mayf1owers, from which somebody had
called the village Arbutus.
The Easter service was beautiful
and solemn one. A gray-haired rector,
who preached the first sermon in the
new church, aided the young pastor.
After the doxology had been sung
there was a short after service, in
formal and memorable. The old rec
tors voice came brokenly, most of all
when he led to the place of honor in
the choir an old, snowy-haired woman
with the eager flush of youth in her
face. 'sMrs. Truitt,'' he said to the
congregation, "whom few of my
people will remember. Hers was the
sweetest voice that led the choir at
our first service. Again she viii sing
for us the hymn we listened to that
Easter morning fifty years ago."
There was solemn hush in the
little church and all eyes
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-03-28

an agony of tears. Tie old lady rose
and drew her to a low chair beside her
own, and the girl hid her face in the
tender arm that encircled her. She
did not interrupt the tears; she,
smoothed the soft brown curls softly
and waited till the sobs grew fainter.
The girl raised her head and kissed
the lovely, wrinkled hand that lay on
her shoulder.
81 never really loved anybody in my
life, except my grandmother" said
Honor, in a choked voice. when I
was little thing-four years old
[ was left alone in the world. Mother
and father were lost at sea. I remem-
Der being told how the great ship went
down and that they would never come
back I don't believe I understood
what it meant. Grandmother came
for me from California to Connecticut
and took me home with her. There
was never anybody quite like my
grandmother. We had nobody in the
world but each other. One morning
I went to call her and she did not an
swer; she lay with her eyes closed;
she was smiling and her snowy curls
struggling over the white pillow. The
birds were singing and the sweetness
of the roses was coming in at the open
window and down on the beach could
see the futtering sail of the little boat
we were going out in that morning
she and land I could not believe it
that she had left me quite alone"
The lady gathered the sobbing girl
into her arms as if she had been lit
tie child, and the room was still. The
merry laughter of the girls in the Ii
barry came family down the hall.
Honor lifted her head and dried her
eyes.
''That happened three years ago."
she said. 81 was just -. My guardian
came to see me. He told me had
plenty of money and he was kind
enough. He let me choose where I
would go. I did not care. wanted to,
go away from Santa Barbara. I have
been in two or three schools. I did
not like any of them. This has seemed
more like home than anywhere I have
been-and yet I'm not bit like the
other girls; they know it and I know
it,
81 am very glad you have told me all
this" said the principal, gently; sit
is hard trying to be mother to girls
| into whose hearts I cannot look"
ST did not know I had a heart, the
sort of heart grandmother used to
live in, till to-day. When stood there
alone in the long white ward, without
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-03-28
Tie First
>Easfer:
BY Emma Hevvtek Weed.
*HEE'IBEazIESayyz::
EEP, weep, o world!
World thatHe came

to save!
He is slain-He came in vain-H1s heao Is
low in the grave!
His sun has gone down in blood; ana the
awful shock of defeat
Hath stirred the sepulchred dead, and they
walk the city's street
Slowly, with hating tread, and eyes I'M
used to the light;
And Where is He?" they cry, in their wild
and vague alright!
Then voice, that is not voice, put an
echo lost in the gloom,
Maketh lament: LAY, where? He is dead
in Joseph's tomb!'
Weep, weep, my soul. With the sorrowlng
women three!
Bring Him thine aims of tears-the Martyr
of Calvary!
For the mob hath wreaked its will and the
nailed hands and feet
Are wrapped in the linen white, for the
slumber of silence meet!
Night Ger the city bfoods, and the heavens
are black and grim;
With never a Star of Hope for those who
have followed Him!
Mournful the plant and deep, of the lost
world $ final doom:
HE is dead-the Christ is dead and laid in
Joseph's tomb!"
List, list my soul, There's a stir in that
rock-hewn prison
And the Seraph sentry cries: He is not
here-He is rfseni''
Then the first glad Easter breaks, in a
marvellous 'splendor white,
And the world from its sorrow wakes and
turns its face to the light!
The vaSSalS of Rome retreat; and the
great stone moves at the breath
OF Him, at Whose girdle sway the keys
of the jailer, Death!
Sing, shout and sing, while the skies with
morning bloom.
He liveth-Who once was dead and laid in
Joseph's tomb
Youths Companion.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-03-28

blossom to give to anybody and
watching the girls move about among
the narrow beds, I saw myself in one
minute as am, selfish and hard and re
bellious. I would have given every
penny I had in the world to give my
grandmother a happy half-hour, and
yet would not spend a dollar on these
poor sick people. 1 stood with a great
choking lump in my throat, when Miss
Mary came to tell me there was some
happy all at once. When I saw the old
lady at the end of the long white ward
Il don't know when I had done such a
thing-I bent down and kissed her
She had sweet, patient old face, and
white hair, like grandmother. We had
a long, long talk while she sat holding
my hand. She has no relatives, and
for week she was all alone. She did
not tell me this, the doctor did. She
was alone and they found her nearly
dying with pneumonia. The doctor
says he had a hard pull bringing her
through. She told me of one thing
she wants more than anything else in
this world. She was born and brought
up in Arbutus. On Easter Sunday they
celebrate the fiftieth anniversary of
little church there. Her father
built it. When she was a girl she sang
the dedicatory hymn and helped to
| decorate the church with flowers. She
was married there. She told me all
about her wedding. day. She wore a
wreath of lily of the valley and a
white muslin frock. / asked to see
| the doctor before / came home. He
thinks on Saturday she will be well
enough to travel. He said she would
soon grow strong with change of air
and rest, and-if she was happy"
The girl turned away and touched
the golden daffodils caressingly.
"WeIl, Honor, dear, what can we do
for her?' asked the principal.
The girls face famed with scarlet.
''That is what I wanted to ask you. I
would rather go to Arbutus than New
York. 1 have plenty of money to take
good care of Mrs. Truitt, and would
like to have you be my guest. 1 heard
Miss Mary say she was looking for a
place in the country where you could
go for a vacation. They say Arbutus
is lovely
The principal drew the girl to her
and kissed her. 81 will be very happy
to go with you, Honor. I have old
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-03-28

Scientific persons in New York and
Pennsylvania explain the devastating
floods that have just visited those
states as due to the destructive de-
forestation that has been going on
for generations. Just as deforesta-
ton brings on floods at one time and
droughts at another, forestry work
will put an end to droughts where
they exist. Pennsylvania and New
York have walked up to the situation
and are building forests on large
scale.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-03-28

BrookIyn, NEW lork.
four months, when my husband became
impatient because grew worse instead
of better, and in speaking to the drug
gist he advised him to get Lydia Es
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
and SanatiVe Wash. How wish I
had taken that at first; it would have
saved me weeks of suffering 1t took
three long months to restore me. but
it is a happy relief. and we are both
most grateful to you. Your Compound
has brought joy to our home and
health to me. y Mrs. PAULINE JUDsoN,
AZ Hoyt Street, Brooklyn, N. "
$4,000 forfeit if d5oOe testimonial is not genuine.
1t would seem by this state
ment that women would save
time and much sickness if they
would get Lydia Z. Pinkhanl's
Vegetable Compound at once.
and also write to Mrs Pinkham
at Lynn, Mass, for special adj
vice. IG is free and always helps.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-03-28

A petition is being circulated in
Louisiana asking congress to appro-
pirate money to finish and maintain
the monument which marks the site
of Jackson's victory over the British
at the close of the war of 1912. The
battle was fought on the plains of
Chalmette, a few miles outside of
New Orleans. Louisiana started the
monument long ago, but has left il
unfinished.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-03-28

The New York home which Col.
Oliver II. Payne promised to Payne
Whitney and HIS bride Miss Helen
Hay) on their wedding day will be on
Fifth avenue near Seventy ghth
street. The cost of the land and of
the building to be. erected upon it
will be near ST 100000
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-03-28

A Des Moines Qa.) judge has de-
cided that a wife who keeps a board
ing house is not bound to board her
husband when he is physically able
to work and help keep up the family,
but refuses to do so. If this decision
holds good throughout the country
considerable addition to the avail
able labor supply of the country may
be expected.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-03-28

A bass singer in Columbus CO.,
church choir has recovered his lost
voice after 10 years of enforced
whispering by coughing up a tooth.
The next sweet singer from Ohio who
loses his voice will know where to
look for it.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-03-28

During the war the Beers have
killed two British generals, Symonds
and Wauchope, and captured one,
Methuen, but they missed an imPor-
tant point when they failed to get
White at .Ladysmith.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-03-28

aire of Poughleepsie, N. Y, had as
his maxim that mo man has a right
to consume more than he produces"
and living up to that principle he ed
ucated his children's hands as well as
their heads and, when they left
school, he required each to learn 2
trade.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-03-28

~ Ross Park car.
He would have been churllsh con-
ductor who would not have smiled. 1t
was balmy outdoors, as it the very
approach of Easter had put to rout
the long, dreary winter. All along the
river bank on we'll kept lawns there
were patches of soft, tender green.
Inside the car there was more green.
The 20 passengers hailed from the
Lady Lindsay school, and 10 pairs of
arms were tucked about pots wound
in green crepe paper. Each pot held
tall stalk of Easter lilies.
The car stopped before the hospital
and the 20 girls climbed the long fight
of steps leading to the low brick
building that struggled over the hill
top. At the end came Miss Mary, the
principals daughter, and Honor Wes-
ley. Miss Mary's lilies brushed Hon
or's hair occasionally. She was the
only girl in the party who had brought
no flowers. She had excused herself
by saying she needed all her money
for her Easter visit to New York.
''All right said Miss Mary, cheer
fully, probably there will be lilies
enough to go around. There are sell
in the long white ward.''
Honor was left alone while her
schoolmates tiptoed about among the
patients. She had not imagined she
could feel lonely here. She was-she
was lonelier than any of the women
in the narrow beds. The nurses were
bustling here and there among the
girls, there were low bursts of laugh
ter and greeting as if everybody knew
one another. On the small table be-
side each bed stood pot of lilies. A
delicate fragrance was already watt
ed about the long room. There were
smiles on pinched faces that lay on
the white pillows, and there were wan
faces that flushed rosily. Honor be-
gan to feel terribly alone and awk-
wardand ashamed: then Miss Mary
came hurrying to her.
Honor" she said, ''I'm so sorry. We
are short just one pot of lilies. 1t is
for poor old lady at the end of the
ward. Nobody seemed to notice her
at first; there was screen by her bed.
She lies there gazing down the ward
with such pathetic look in her eyes,
I'm going to telephone for another
pot to Farlow's."
"Let me go for it, Miss Mary-let me
give it to her,
Miss Mary looked at Honor keenly
care you sure you can afford it?
Won't it break in on your trip to New
York?'
mo, it won't" and the girls face
grew scarlet. CT don't believe knew
what doing things like this means. I
am so glad there was one bed too
many"
$50 am I, Honor" said Miss Mary,
heartily.
The girls were waiting in knot by
the hospital door when Honor jumped
off the car with her arms about a green
wrapped pot. The tall, slender stalk
with its snowy blossoms almost hid
the girls radiant face.
81 believe she has grown during her
ride up from town. thought Miss
| Mary, but she said: Honor, I've ar
ranged with the matron to let you
visit with the old lady till five o'clock
I think it will do you good to know
her. I'll send Miss Brown for you.''
When Miss Mary reached the school
| she went to her mothers room and
| shut the door. Mamma" she said,
while she pulled off her gloves, ssI be-
lieve I have found somebody in the
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-03-28

Gov. Odell, of New York, favors a
state expenditure of $2s, 900 in the
improvement of the Erie canal. The
first state in the union owes it's po-
sition largely to it's enterprise in
building waterways.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-03-28
CURRENT COMMENT.

The s'Alice Roosevelt and the
Helen Gould" are the names of new
roses exhibited by the American Rose
society in New York city.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-03-28

1t is an extremely favorable fact
that no serious engineering difficult
ties bar the way to the construction
of a deep canal from the Mississippi
river to the lakes. No mountains
Intervene, with torrential streams
and huge walls of rock. Nature has
carved the path by way of the eIlh
nois river, and an important link at
the lakes has already been built. All
that remains to be considered is the
cost. Rock excavations can be made
at less than half the expenditure Of
20 years ago, and dredging machinery
has been greatly enlarged.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-03-28

A revolution is threatened in Tur-
key and rebellion is brewing in
Arabia. People who have struggled
with the names current in those por-
tions of the world will feryently pray
that the trouble may be settled
amicablY
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-03-28

One of the public schools in Bos.
ton has divided large vacant lot
forming part of its grounds into 80
garden plots, each Of which is cul-
tivated by a grammar school boy or
girl. The work last year was car
ried on under competent direction,
and large amount of onions, rad
ishes, tufnips, beets, lettuce and corn
were raised. Parents were interested
as well as the pupils, and many back
yards were utilized in the same way.
Teachers regard the gardens as a
practical laboratory in which much
useful knowledge may be impaired.
Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1902-03-28

Vaccination, under a new law, is
compulsory in France within the first
year of child's life, with revaccina-
ton at the ages of II and 21.