The Western Globe from Stockton, Kansas • 1

WESTE RN LOBE. Volume STOCKTON, KANSAS, FRIDAY, AUGUST 15, 1902. Number 2. ADDRESS TO EDITORS. WHEN YOU ARE IN NICODEMUS Kansas in Paragraphs.

A state abbreviation there is no such word as fail. August, according to the language ofjeirels, Sardonyx, "conjugal fidelity." A congressman from one of the western states has a friend who has toasted him so much lately that he smelly of crust. At J.he St. Louis fair in 1904, a complete exhibit of the American Negros' progress will surpass not only all other. but the progress which has been hronouneed impassable.

LA Mother's Prayer, A ur ifouian in England had a mosphere, as seen in the numerous Young Men's Christian Associations and other institutions calculated to create high ideals of manhood and womanhood. In the business world they are providing employment for their boys and girls. We must do likewise. We must labor to build up and develop negro business enterprises to the end that employment congenial with education will be open for them. We further urge upon our people the great importance of the home and its proper culture and development.

We need homes where parents high-minded and cultured will labor to develop manhood and womanhood. Let all labor to that end. AND WANT Dry Goods, Notions and 'Groceries GREAT MEETING OF NEGROES. callatGE0 sYYERS' TttE POSTOFFIG STOf. Highest market price paid for all kinds of Farm Produce, and the Lowest possible Price charged for Dry Goods and Groceries.

Try Trading There and See. son, jvery reckless, dissipated and profaiie, for whom she poured out her prayers and tears. He engaged in the slave-rrade in Africa and became hopelessly abandoned. But at last his mother's prayers were answered. He was converted and became a most eminent minister of the Gospel.

This John Newton was the instrument in the conversion of many. Among these ivas William Wilberforce, who gave the death-blow to the slave-trade in Britain. Wilberforce brought Leigh Richmond to see the better way. He wrote the "Dairyman's Daughter," whijh has been translated into many languages and read with devout gratitude by many thousands. So exceedingly fruitful can God make one poor woman's tears and prayers.

Let us trust God to multiply our seed sown and increase the fruits of our righteousness. Word and Work. 'US? Congress at Atlanta Growing Larger and More Enthusiastic. Atlanta, August 8. The general themes for today's sessions of the Negro Young People's Christian and Educational Congress were moral and social reform, missionary questions and temperance.

Many interesting addresses were delivered by clergymen and educators from all sections of the United States. The attendance on all of the sessions and the interest and enthusiasm manifested were very gratifying to the promoters of the conference. "The Conversion of the World" was the general subject considered at the morning meetings. In the afternoon the delegates gathered at the various Evangelic churches of the city for the discussion of missionary questions and other subjects connected with the social and moral advancement of the race. At all of these meetings considerable attention was given to the question, "To What Extent Is the Race Addicted to Drink? Its Evils and Its Cure." St.

Joe Dailv. 4z FRANK BARBER GO. War Veterafls Will Unite. Washington, D. The consolidation of the Spanish War Veterans and the Spanish-American War Veterans promises to be soon accomplished after a dissension which has lasted for several years.

A committee of five members from each organization has been preparing a constitution and by-lars and these will be submitted to the respective organizations for approval. President Roosevelt, who is not a fnember of either, it is said, has Have a Good, Neat and First-class line of ed in moulding a public sentiment that will not permit the United States to deal otherwise than fairly and justly with those races that have been added to our domain either by choice or by conquest. It will also greatly enhance negro citizenship if the press will urge the young negroes of our country to become producers rather than consumers, and to endeavor to open up and improve every opportunity to make themselves felt in the commercial world by engaging in business pursuits, accumulating homes and making themselves indispensable factors in American life. Nor should we discourage the aspirations of those youths who desire higher education as a means of making themselves proficient in the professions, as having a very important bearing upon citizenship. We must also encourage negro leadership as a most potent means of elevating the masses, and securing and maintaining their civil, political and personal rights in all sections of our great country.

Nor should agriculture, in which more than half the American people are engaged, be overlooked by the press in efforts to better our condition as citizens. The young negro should be encouraged to leave our crowded cities and to seek homes farms in agricultural sections where they can develop the highest and best citizenship possible under our free institutions. The young negro should be constantly reminded of the fact that no mere tenant, no day laborer either in city or country, will ever be regarded as the equal of one who owns his farm and is an honored tax payer in his community. Also, the idea should be impressed upon him that if prejudice confronts him in other avenues of American life, it is upon the farm that he will meet less of this than in other callings, and that mother earth stands ready to nourish and supply all her children who will appeal to her by honest and industrious labor. The celebration of Emancipation day will be also a potent means of stimulating the patriotism of our children and arousing in them a feeling of gratitude for those who died in a defense of their liberty as represented by the Stars and Stripes.

The negro press should see to it that these celebrations be held in all sections, and that in song and story the memory of our dead heroes be revered as sacred, and that deeds of valor, both of blacks and whites, be not forgotten by those who live and enjoy a land made fruitful by the blood that has been shed upon innumerable battlefields in order that a government of the people, by the people and for the people, should not perish from the earth. We believe the condition of our people can be greatly improved by the united efforts of our minority and the press. Daring the past twenty years, through misguided zeal, our ministers have unduly urged our people beyond their means in erecting numerous and impressive church buildings, thereby burdening the masses with the payment of obligations far beyond their means. It is our honest belief that the work of the church and the press for the coming year should be to develop in our people a distaste for display in all things. To labor to develop in them a strong desire to live within their means, and lay aside something for a rainy day.

Let all labor strive earnestly to build up sentiment against the cake walk, and those things which, appeal only to a brutal passion. Our people ure growing, and the labors of those who dedicate the working days of their lives to the up-building of the race should be along lines of morality, thrift and frugality. In politics we are convinced that the best interest of our people will be lnfornW the officers of both that if GROCERIES FEED. the coysoiidation is acxonipli'shed he-f will jojn. ALSO FAMILY DRUGS.

i Colored Press Association Outlines Methods Designed to Help Along the Advancement of the Race Leaders. In its recent session the Western Negro Press Association prepared and will submit to their people the following address: NEGRO CITIZENSHIP. No question today of a political nature should so vitally concern the American negro as that of his status as a citizen. It is useless at this time to discuss the question whether his enfranchisement, at the close of the war, was a wise political measure or not. The consensus of intelligent opinion now seems to be that in matters political the negro has been a disappointment to his friends and has measured up to the full expectation of his enemies.

It is but just to say, however, that if the Southern people had welcomed him as a political ally and had recognized him as a factor in civil affairs at the close of the war, and if the negro had shown more of a disposition to accept and deal with local and state conditions as they were rather than as he hoped them to be, negro citizenship today might have been better established and maintained by public opinion than we find it. The trend of sentiment is against any national interference or settlement of this question, and the idea seems to be that the states, as such, have the right alone to fix the status of American citizenship. The federal government has the right to remedy any denial or abridgement of the right of suffrage by reducing the ratio of representation in Congress of any state in proportion to its voting rather than its numerical strength. Confessedly it would be much better ultimately to have all the states treat its citizens justly and to make no distinction based upon race or previous condition of servitude in the adjustment of a political question so vital as that of citizenship. But past experience shows that there is a tendency in some of the Southern states to deny the right of suffrage to negro illiterates, even in states where education is made a test, and to confer the right of suffrage by indirect yet effective expedients to white illiterate voters.

This being true, the only remedy then left us by the Constitution is that of reduced representation in Congress of states that enfranchise illiterate whites and disfranchise illiterate blacks in plain violation of the federal constitution which says that, in no event shall this be done. The negro press of the country can do a great deal of good in keeping this matter of disfranchisement before the nation, and especially so in calling the attention of Congressmen who are to be elected this fall to this provision of the Constitution, and to point out its plain violation. We want no cheap citizenship in our republic; no servility, no serfdom should find any lodging place under the stars and stripes. If blacks in Louisiana are disfranchised on account of being illiterates we must insist that whites be disfranchised for the same reason; and that Congressional representation be limited to the number of those who have the right to vote. Let it be understood that we do not object so much to property qualification or to an educational qualification as a voting test, but to the radical "basis which is prohibited by the Constitution of the United States.

As one of the best means of applying remedies to abridgement of suffrage in the states, colored citizens in some of the states are testing the constitutionality of such acts before the Supreme Court of the United States. Much can be done by the negro press to encourage our people to give financial aid to those who are making manly fights for negro citizenship. The Afro-American Council should also be supported in its efforts to protect our citizens and to uphold their rights in the courts of our land. During the ensuing campaign the colored press can do a great deal to call attention to those questions of a public interest that vitally concern our people, such as more practical phases of education for the masses and better special advantages for the individual; political and cjvil rights to all citizens regardless of race; broader opportunities for American negroes because of our foreign possessions. In short, America has an opportunity to test the highest phase of her Christian and civil institutions in dealing with the weaker and darker races of earth, and the negro press should be engag WHEN AT.

i NICODEMUS i Appointed, The new post master at Stockton seems be a very agreeable one. Many 'good qualities are well exemplified in the person of Mr. Ed Young and the majority of the people seem to be 'ire 11 pleased. Of course it would be a great exception in a town the size of this to be perfectly in harmony with everyone. In distributing mail he seems to be prompt, accurate and and in talking with Mr.

Young at the'v. indow he seems to be as pleasant as ever. It does not look as though the elevated advancement has done its usual work. It generally effects people's craniums but it has utterly failed to do so in the above instance May he live long in the service of the government is the sincere wish of the Globe. 7 and need anything call and receive kind business treatment and the benefit of good prices.

i hoppers had tried to harvest them. If Story Teller, No. 1. A bright pickininy baby exclaimed quite suddenly, (a result of something in mind) "Mamma what's I going to geet fur being good?" Mother "Nothin' if you 'haves yourself." No. 2.

At a recent gathering on an old Virginia plantation an aged colored man arose with the sublimity of a king, and after satisfying himself that a moderate degree of attention was paid him, said: "As yoo move 'way from dis gathering so the sun do move 'way from earth." No. 3. Reflection "In that calm Syrian afternoon memory went gleaning the happy fields of childhood. "Went where?" asked the unobserved listener. "Gleaning the happy fields of childhood," was the quick reply.

"What did memory find?" Reflection "Diamond sparkles of youth-golden moments burned in idleness. No. 4. PRECAUTION. Mother (To a daughter who had just come ironi the parlor after bidding an affectionate good night to her lover.

"It seems that you take a dangerously risky step to get on peaceable terms. A wise argument will serve well the purpose. Daughter "You say wise mother, love is the best wisdom. Alone it is power. I did not keep my distance nor let self step between.

No. 5. Grandpa "Why! why! my babe, what hath troubled thy peace?" Little one nearly choked with sobs "Mamma says my to'usley head must be smoothed." Grandpa "Well wont a candy doll help my babe?" "No, grandpa, but two would." No. 6. "Come child," growled the annoyed matron as she pulled briskly at the boy's arm "why, what, are you asleep "Yes 'um," sleepily answeied the lad.

the hoppers had not harmed them the estimation is that they 'would have made 70 bushels per acre. to time. Mr. Peasley is proving himself to be one of the most successful farmers on the creek. Henry Sights is going into the hay business heavy this year.

He already has more hay in the stack than any man on Box Elder. Henry means business. The man who has been killing prairie dogs in Rush ought to come over in Hobart where he could find something to do. There are large towns of them in Hobart that need clearing out. He has been quite successful in Rush as he killed five towns clear out slick and clean.

Western University, Kansas City, Kansas. Rooms are being engaged now in both ladies' and gents' dormitories for the coming school year. It has been affirmed that Prof. W. T.

Vernon is to deliver an address at Speed, Kansas, August 15. In consideration of the juniors, candidates for graduation of 1903 are principally those of the Industrial departments. Mr. Dennis Matthews, one of the first graduates of Western University, has joined the navy where he will remain for tour yt.jars. Being one of the 23rd Kansas does not quench the patriotic thirst.

Success has a secret Persistency. concerned by a careful attention to Rush Township, At the annual school meeting in district 84, Thursday, July 30, Geo. Veverka was re-elected treasurer. He has bjjen treasurer in district 84 for nine years and at his re-election his treasurer book balanced to the cent. That Speaks well for a man's books kept for nine years.

So many officers get thir books tangled up, not from a dishonest intent but from negligence and forgetfulness. The tax levied was the same as last year The district has increased sorneTu valuation above last year. Sono improvements will be made on the school grounds Nnd repairing done the building. were not many in attendance at the school meeting. U.

3. Dodge was employed to do the repairing on the school house. The school board, while together at the school meeting, considered the application of D. J. Green and contracted wish him for their next term of school, beginning October Green 's work the school room last year in 84 seamed to be very satisfactory.

The report is that wedding bells will seon ring on Lost Creek. There are several places from which they might be heard. Toii Green is talking of having a cattle-sale. Tom has got some high grade'cattle which ought to sell well. Mr.Tob Lowry's new house is quite an improvement to the south part of thetoinship and looms up fine.

The-'wheat on the sod in Rush township ip all right but the old ground wheatfis not turning out so well. MrJVeverka had oats that went 45 bushels to the acre, after the grass- the details of all questions as they affect the commercial and industrial interests of the communities in which we live. We shall labor to honestly The state soldiers' home at Fort Dodge has a beautiful new chapel which will soon be completed and readv for the old veterans' use. Four Days of Enjoyment, Sept, 9, 10, 11 and 12. The Stockton Fair Association has made better and more preparation than ever before.

The purses for speed are larger and the premiums are better than they have ever been. Among the interesting races will be seen two automobiles contending for a large purse for the fastest machine. This race is something rare and it is worth seeing. Extensive preparations are being made. The grandstand will be enlarged, and many of the other builti-ings, so as to make plenty of room and afford pleasant accommodations for all.

educate our people into a perfect un Mary Kllen Lease says her husband never contributed $5 to her support during all their married life. Mr. Lease's drug store certainly was not a popular or else Charlie thought Mary Ellen big enough and derstanding of the salient principles of all political parties, with a view of making them intelligent and conscientious voters and citizens. We believe the highest type of citizenship is seen in the intelligent patriotic citizen who labors "with malice toward none" and for the betterment of all. Undoubtedly the gravest question before our people is the proper care and training the boys and girls of our homely enough to hustle for herself.

Oberliu Eye. Hobart Items, The Johnson Bros, are having quite Great Coal Find, The coal found in Jewell county is said to be enough to last for many generations. The stratum of coal measures thirty-four inches and is clear coal; no shale or anything of the kind. Five miners are at work and they take out three tons a day per man. They were seen to take out one piece about 14 feet long, 4 feet wide and 34 inches thick.

They have already taken out about 350 tons and have 200 tons on the dump. The coal is of excellent quality. race. We appeal to the best elements of our people especially, and to all good success with their new steam thresher. B.

O. King and Co's. fixtures arrived last Saturday evening and were placed in position the fore part of the week and the stock of goods have been moved into the building. Mr. King now has a nice large room and a very favorable location for his ru people in general, to aid us in this John Taylor's wheat field was dam work.

Proper and renumerative employment must be provided for them. m. aged considerable by the high water. Box Elder was out of its banks, the first it has been so bad for a long The white people surround their boys and girls with a wholesome moral at fir pi.