Sweet Chariot from Dunlap, Kansas • 2

Sweet Chariot. I) UN LAP, KANSAS, SEPT. 1 18S7. THE BURNING BABE. As I in hoary winter's night Stood shivering in the snmv.

Surprised I wrs with sudden heat. Which made my heart to glow And lifting up a fearful eye To view what fire was near, A pretty babe all burning bright, Did in the uir appear; YA ho scorched with excessive heat. Such floods of tears did shed, As though his floods should quench his flames Which with his tears were bred. Alas!" quoth he, "but newly born. In fiery heat I fry.

Yet none approah to warm their hi arts Or feel my lire, but My faultless the furnace is The fuel, wounding thorns; Love is the lire, and sighs the smoke. The ashes, siiaiiics and scorns Ihe fuel justice layeth n. And mercy blows the coals, The metal in this furnace wrought Are men's defiled souls For which, r.s now on fire I am. To work them to their gi od. So will 1 melt into a lath To wash them in my blood." With this he vanished out of sight, And swiftly shruuk away.

And straight I calk-d unto my mind That it was Christmas Day. A Million Colred Children in the South Have no Schools and no Teachers. Not more than three thousand stars can be seen in the sky in one night with the naked eye. There were more than six millions of Colored people in the United States in 18S0. Then there were two thousand colored faces in this nation for each star in the sky And the number is rapidly increasing.

On the average now not less than SoO colored babes are born each day of the round year. Squall squall squall What if they could all cry like Mrs. Peterson's! The appearance in the Southern states is well described b' the editor of the A. M. E.

Review. "As travelers go whirling past the ever present cabin of the balmy Southland, they see Children to theriirht of them. Children to the left of That is, children many; and the point is that four-fifths of them are black or colored. Whites reside chiefly in the towns or cities; but even there the black children greatly outnumber them. The real fact is white children in the South arc comparatively scarce, while colored ones arc seeminglv as numerous as the sand.

For six weeks we were running to and fro through the Carolinas and Georgia, and we confess we never before saw so many children such a string of black, jo'-ful eyes. Every cabin-door was literally crowded with children. And then the joy of the thousands of little ones whom we saw the smiling, the jumping and the gesturing. Tennyson's cannons 'volley'd and Even so these children. We venture the like was never seen before, if we except possibl3r the first generation of Jews who came up from Egypt.

Are we askfd to explain it? for so universal is it that explanation is in place. Surety some of the many children would stand motionless, as the cars whirl there no mighty occasion-nay, mighty cause. The white children of the South so stand, by actual observation; but not so the black. They are as lively as jumping-jacks. Why? The reason we offer is The joy of the parents of these children at the thought of freedom and enfranchisement appears in their offspring.

Would you know how glad the Negro parent of the South was at the thought of freedom? Learn it in the sparkle of the ren's eyes, in the laughing countenance, in the restless limb. And further, would you know the grief of the South that is white at the thought: My niggers are all gone, read it in the vacant countenances of their children." Friendship is an addition of souls by which each is made, equal to the sum. J. W. Hogan intends putting up a sign on his super-maxillary.

It is as follows: Keep off the grass." Hello, uncle Moses, how's times with you? "Well, I'se only gettin' a taste. In old slavery times I used to get a full meal; that's so. Old master gave me a pound of bacon ebery time, an' I was fat an sleek, I tell you. I nebber felt a day's work dem times. I could pick 200 pounds cotton ebry day, an' I beat 'em all chopping, hoeing, anything at all.

Why, I used to hoe 10 )0 acres of cotton, an' I nebber got tired till de last row. Of course there was a lot of us for such a large field. But I learned to do all my work by art. I worked too hard. Well, I nebber slept any hardly.

At night I'se always out lookin' after my property. You see, my master an' 1 was sorter in partnership. He didn't know it all de same. No, I'se nebber tired in my life till one day I'se up on bizness three whole nights. Then my heart got tired.

Let me tell you, when a man's heart is tired he's not soon rested. I nebber got whipped no. In de fust couldn't whip me nohow. De white folks 'splained it by sain' I was peculiar, a sort of fool. But I didn't care, 'case I nebber got whipped.

I'd let a man call me guv'nerob de state ob Morris county befo' he whip me. Let me tell you, dis am a large large these no-account white pcoble nebber can cover it. I hear people calling Kansas larger than other states, but pshaw I call Kansas de Globe, an' don't sav nuflin' 'bout de udder states. But dey oulit to have ole master up here to show 'em how to lay off dese yer prares." Never mind, Moses; rou can take the master's place now. "Thank you! thank you! How it rests me to talk to a man who can 'preciate de subjec.1' A Devilish Legislature.

This body sits in Georgia. A law has just passed its lower House which makes it "an offense punishable with a fine of one thousand dollars and the chain-gang one year, for any teacher or trustee of any public or private school in the State to allow wThite pupils to attend Colored colored pupils to attend White schools." There are only two colored members in the legislature, and theirs were the only votes cast against this bill. As might be supposed, one-fourth of the whites and four-fifths of the colored people in Georgia cannot read. In the ten years preceding 1880 there was an increase of 24,000 voters in the State who could not read or write. Going backward at this rate, how long before Georgia will be unfit Air free government? A few girls can board in the Academy building with the teachers.

A part of the pay could be taken 1:1 housework. LAND I LAND LAND Last year 240 acres of good land was purchased near the Kansas Freedmen's Academy for the purpose of encouraging poor Colored families whon nke a difficult living in the cities to remove to the country. This is an important part of the work which the Academy Board has undertaken to do for the advancement of colored people. It is impossible for poor ptople to rear their families well in the cities, and they cannot buy land on any terms at private sale and an outfit for farmer's work without help. The 210 acres bought here is cut into ten-acre lots and given to Colored families without It is the gift of a lady in Maine who used to send money to John Brown and Gov.

Robinson to help the free-state men in Kansas before the war. Let us hear from Colored men or widows on this feature of the Freedmen's Academy. How many would leave ihe cities for ten or twenty acres to be had on very easy terir.s Address ANDREW ATCHISON, Trincipal Academy. The Kansas Freedmen's Academy is not a cheap school it is a free school. Special preparations made to accommodate students.

Pupils must study and behave well, or leave. Let men and women who cannot read come right on. They are sure to learn. Fifty students can tind boarding inDunlapat per week. Some pleasant rooms can be had for baching.

Young men can tech for $1.50 per week. 'ihree students met a Jewish peddler. The first one said, "Hello, Father Abraham;" the second, "Good morning, Father Isaac," and the third, "Howdy, Father Jacob." The Jew replied, "I am neither Abraham, Isaac nor Jacob, but I am Saul, the son of Kish, looking for his father's asses, and now I have found them." McMillan and Brown, two of our best Academy goys, are on the programme for addresses at the Emancipation Barbecue at Cottonwood Falls. They can both make fine, sensible speeches; but we advise one of them to do the speaking and the other to do the eating. One big thing is enough for a man in a day.

A pood library and splendid Literary Society for the students of the Academy..