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One Year Six Months Three Months Subscribers are requested to remit by post office money order or registered letter. Entered at the post office in Cleveland, Ohio, as second-class matter. All communications should be addressed: H. C. SMITH, Editor and Proprietor of The Gazette, Case Library Building, Cleveland, Ohio. Member Ohio Legislature, 1894 to 1902. CLEVELAND, OHIO, FEB. 17, 1960. THE GAZETTE is the oldest, and has the largest bona fide circulation, double that of any newspaper in the Interest of Afro-Americans, published in the state of Ohio, and comparison with any will immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWSIEST AND BEST in the country. Remember house bill No. 369. Tell your member or members of the legislature that it must pass and that they must vote for it. Help stamp out mob violence in grand old Ohio. Tell your legislators that our people demand that they vote for house bill No. 369. Every man, woman and youth in the state can and should assist in the passage of H. B. No. 369. It will strengthen Ohio's anti-lynching law and is the kind of legislation most needed. Do your duty! There are a number of our readers who, if they will, can very materially assist us in locating agents and correspondents. We sincerely trust that they will do so promptly without waiting longer. Does this mean you, reader? Call on your member of the legislature, at once, and interest him in house bill No. 369 which seeks to strengthen our Ohio anti-lynching law. Let our ministers and leaders in all the Ohio communities be especially active. Don't delay. On our first page to-day we republish an interesting and pertinent communication written by ex-Lieut. Henry O. Flipper, who has made an excellent reputation, since his retirement from the U. S. army, as one learned in the law. It is worthy of a careful reading and thought. WASHINGTON'S VIEWS UPON THE HARDWICK BILL. Most ably and well does Prof. B. T. Washington discuss the educational qualification bill restricting the ballot to the intelligence of the country. It is the Hardwick bill as offered before the legislature of Georgia. Mr. Washington takes broad grounds and makes an unanswerable and convincing argument in favor of right and justice. It is a pointed and common-sense opinion expressed in the interests of both races and in fact it contemplated and covers that interest which conserves the future greatness and glory of the southern white people. Mr. Washington is absolutely impartial in the treatment of the subject as it concerns the races. Respectful and dignified, he relieves himself of all cant and grapples the question of disfranchisement in a masterly manner. The understanding clause, he holds, while it may serve to keep Negroes from voting, will eventually be used to keep white men from voting. It may restrict the Negro, who sells his vote; but again he asks what about the white man who buys that vote? The Tuskegee sage reasons logically, fearlessly and fairly, and it is not likely that the intelligent southern mind will presume to ignore this truth. A CRISIS. In the event that the present difficulty in Kehtucky is not quelled in due time, it will in all probability involve other states into an irresistible contest. So long have the powers of general government been tampered with, that individual states dare asume an attitude in defiance of federal authority. The present threatening is nothing less than rebellion and should have been promptly suppressed. It is armed insurrection against lawful authority within the state, and the danger lies in the spirit of toleration, which, being petted and indulged, offers a spectacle which is at once dangerous in the extreme. Dangerous, because if citizens in one state may thus exhibit themselves in armed resistance to authority, then any number of states within the Union may with impunity offer a similar example. Armed insurrection upon any ground is open rebellion against the authority of the general government and deserves to be dealt with in the same manner as when Anthony Burns was led away from Boston or when the Harper Ferry raid was suppressed. The general government is tolerating too much, and for the sake of the public peace and the life of the nation, it should teach the individual states to render willing submission to its demands. Should the Indians offer such a demonstration of defiance, why at once they would be confronted by Uncle Sam's bayonets. Should colored men be engaged in a similar quarrel, the government would have no hesitancy in commanding a peaceful settlement of the present serious conflict. When the Boston tea party met the British in the bloody struggle within our own borders, it was in many respects the home people on one side against the other. It was the patriots against the tories. A conflict of arms between two political parties affords no difference as to the consequences, and if the contesting parties may thus engage, how long will it be before the whole country will be placed in the same condition when the road spirit of rebellion sought to disrupt this government. Anarchy with- THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 1900. in a state is rebellion against the government. The lesson taught at Frankfort is simply a repetition of the same act in Kentucky. It is a challenge to the nation to interpose if it dares and it means defiance, revolution, anarchy and war. The authority of the general government has been too long nullified and despised. Hesitancy and timidity on the part of the administration in time of a mighty danger is a sure invitation to rebellion. Killing Negroes for the last thirty odd years without the sanction of the law gives license for other crimes and induces assaults from any quarter. Shall the nation endure more? All armies are liable to night scares which, at times, almost amount to a panic. On one occasion a British regiment in India marching over the ghauts on its return from maneuvers at Chinchwud, was thrown into temporary confusion by the bolting of a couple of pack oxen laden with cooking pots. Tarantulas are being used in Australia for the sake of their webs, the filaments of which are made into thread for balloons. They are lighter than silk and, when woven, lighter than canvas. Each traantula yields from 20 to 40 yards of filament, of which eight twisted together form a single thread. With the exhaustion of the zinc mines in Wales and on the continent of Europe, and the increasing demand for zinc in the construction of electrical appliances, and in the syanide process for the reduction of gold ore, the development of areas where the zinc may be mined is watched with considerable interest by mining men and manufacturers in this country. English technical journals, which were very sore over the award to an American firm of the Atbara bridge contract, are now bragging over the performance of a Wednesbury company, in getting the material for the new Tugela bridge ready for shipment within a month of receiving the contract. The bridge is 105 feet long, and required 750 tons of material. Gov. Crane, of Massachusetts, is a man of much sympathy and charity. In the paper mills which he owns in Dalton, a pension system exists, practically, if not nominally. There are not a few aged men in town, former employees in the mills, whose sole duty now is to walk to the office and draw their pay—for service loyally rendered in the past. A strike in the mills has not been known in the three generations of family management. A small contingent of Boers has ealized the uselessness of merely earing up a section of railway and throwing the rails into a stream—the usual Boer method of destroying a line. What they do now is to heat the center of a section to a white heat, and carry the rail by its two cool ends to the nearest tree or telegraph pole round which they twist it in such a way that it is absolutely impossible to use it again for railway purposes. Although not generally known, it is nevertheless a fact that Washington, the fourteenth city of the union in point of population, contains the greatest Negro population of them all. There are more Negroes in Washington than in any other city of the union, not excepting the great cities of St. Louis, Baltimore and New Orleans, with more than double its population. There are nearly three times as many black people in Washington as St. Louis. In the calendar year 1899 our manufacturers increased their exports over 1898 by as much as 25 per cent, making a record of $380,787,891. The importations of materials for use in manufacturing increased 33 per cent. The proportion of exports of manufacturers in 1899 to total exports increased to 30.4 per cent. The chief items of increase were copper, cotton goods, agricultural implements, iron and steel manufactures, leather goods, mineral oils and fertilizers. At Ladysmith, recently, Lieut. Col. Sir Henry Rawlinson, of the headquarters staff, was aloft in a war balloon making a reconnoissance when a shrapnel shell went clean through the balloon and burst some distance beyond. Had it exploded while traversing the gas bag it would have been good by forever; as it was, the balloon sank to the earth without any exhibition of undue haste. The next time it ascended a black patch showed where the damage occurred and that was all. A Brooklyn physician has succeeded without operation and by the use of drugs alone, in restoring sight to eyes which have been for years totally blind. Three remarkable cures have been effected. One man into whose eyes the light had not passed for 20 years is now able to see objects within a few feet. Another, afflicted for 10 years, is able to walk about the street and have the pleasure of seeing beauties in life and nature which he never even dared hope to look on again. Now that Uncle Dick Thompson is gone, after living his four score and ten, not a few persons will be drawing conclusions as to his mode of life and its results. The man who hates to give up the fragrant weed, despite the fact that his physician tells him he smokes too much, will exclaim: "Bosh! Look at Uncle Dick." He smoked altogether a cigar which would have been a cigar 36 miles long if all he consumed had been put end to end. In later years he smoked but seven or eight cigars a day, but during 70 years he averaged 20 a day, or say a total of 500,000. The Nicaraguan canal will cost $125,000,000 and will be 170 miles long, but the lake part of this, or the natural waterway, will be 140 miles, leaving about 30 miles to be built and locked. That doesn't seem much, but there will have to be lockage enough to raise the biggest vessels afloat something more than 100 feet and then let them down again. The cost is mentioned above and the time for the completion is estimated at six years. Both these estimates will be exceeded, probably 50 per cent, before the enterprise is in shipshape and good working order. JEFFERSONIAN PRECEDENT. Basis of the Recommendations of the Philippine Commission. In the first half of its full report the Philippine commission confronts the anti-expansionists with the recommendation that at the very outset there be granted to the people of the Philippines "larger liberties of self-government than Jefferson approved of for the inhabitants of Louisiana" when the territory at that time known by that name had been purchased by the United States. The commission believes that it will be safe, expedient and desirable to grant to the inhabitants of the archipelago a large measure of home rule in local affairs. "Their towns should enjoy substantially the rights, privileges and immunities of towns in one of the territories of the United States," says the report. The provinces should be turned into counties and vested with substantially the same functions enjoyed by counties in the home territories. The report goes into the details of the plan for such a form of territorial government, which plan is modeled, like all bills for territorial organization which have been enacted from time to time by the congress, after the plan of organization which in 1804 was adopted for the newly acquired territory of Louisiana, of which Thomas Jefferson outlined the first sketch and which he approved in its completed form. In this connection the commission directs attention to the fact that in 1803, when there was considerable difference of opinion as to the disposition that should be made of Louisiana, President Jefferson evidently became irritated by opposition within the territory to the plan of government proposed for it, for he complained that "although it is acknowledged that our new fellow citizens are as yet as incapable of self-government as children, yet some cannot bring themselves to suspend its principles for a single moment." Be it remembered that this Thomas Jefferson was the man whom the little anti-expansionists of to-day pretend to regard as their great prototype. The absurdity and impossibility of the "independent republic under American protectorate" plan which Aguinaldo is believed to have had in mind and which Mr. Bryan is advocating, are clearly shown by the commission. Referring to the protectorate proposition it says, in its report: "Under the chimerical scheme of protection cherished by Aguinaldo, if a foreigner lost his life or property through a miscarriage of justice in a Philippine court, or in consequence of a governor's failure to suppress a riot, then the United States would be responsible for indemnity to the foreigner's government, without possessing the power of punishing the offenders or of preventing such maladministration, or of protecting itself against similar occurrences in the future. Nor could the liability to foreign nations be reduced without permitting them directly to seek redress, and such a course would, it is to be feared, speedily lead to the appropriation of the Philippine islands by the great powers, who would not need to seek far for pretenses for intervention." The report is so voluminous that it is impossible to discuss even one part of it—that relating to a form of government that would be safe and satisfactory—in detail. In general, it can be said that the plan is in accordance with a precedent that was established nearly a hundred years ago and which has remained unshaken and unquestioned until now, and that it holds out to the people of the Philippines as liberal a portion of self-government as they could reasonably expect.—Albany Journal. LINCOLN NOT A TRAITOR A Favorite Trick of the Megaphonic Mouthpiece of the Renegade Democracy. Bryan is endeavoring to defend the stand he has taken against the flag and the honor of our country, and trying to justify in every possible way the position he has taken as a traitor and as a friend of the enemy. With the blood of the late Gen. Lawton and hundreds of other brave heroes dripping from his finger tips, this little joss of the silver barons holds up his hands in holy horror when accused of being a traitor, and tries to make the people believe that in criticising the stand of the government and the nation he is only following a precedent handed down by the martyr Lincoln. It is a favorite trick of his to try to justify himself by pointing to something that Lincoln is said to have said or done, and when in a right place he always refers to Lincoln. he does so without authority and has upon many occasions been caught in his alsehoods, but deceit seems to be the principal trait of the man's make-up, and on and on he goes on the broadoad of falsehood that leads to defeat and ruin to whomsoever travels it. In Minneapolis the other day he made a speech and quoted disconnected sentences from a supposed speech of Lincoln, in which that great man criticised a democratic administration for its conduct of the war. He attempted to justify his criticism of President McKinley by this speech. The speech made by Lincoln was made on January 12, 1848, and the last battle of the Mexican war had been fought on September 12 of the preceding year. President Lincoln held his peace while the war was being fought, and gave no comfort to the enemy, but Bryan is now comforting the Filipinos with his stand against our flag, and in reality can be called the leader of the Filipino army. When the war is over Col. Bryan and all others may criticise the war and the nation all they please, but when they do so now they can be naught but traitors. "Col." Bryan's speech at Minneapolis is only another proof that he is the living personification of deceit and falsehood.—Iowa State Register. So far, President McKinley has declined to interfere in the Kentucky trouble. This is a wise decision. The people of Kentucky should have every opportunity to settle their own affairs. The habit of running to the general government whenever local difficulties arise is not one to be encouraged. Of course, it is possible that there may be need for intervention later, but this cannot be till the people have conclusively demonstarted their unfitness or unwillingness to deal with the situation. Besides, it is not the business of the general government to decide disputed elections. President McKinley has done well to keep out of the muddle.—Indianapolis News (Dem.). TELLER'S INDORSEMENT. Fine Tribute to the Gold Standard by the Former Champion of Free Silver. Senator Teller is, of course, opposed to the financial bill which is before his chamber, the principal purpose of which measure is to put the gold standard in the statutes. He dislikes the bill for several reasons, but chiefly on this account. Yet he unintentionally, and perhaps unconsciously, says a good word indirectly for it. "Is there any necessity for this legislation to increase American credit?" he asks. "I would like to ask the senator from Rhode Island (Aldrich) whether there is any trouble with American credit. Is there any other country which can sell its securities at such high prices as we can? All our bonds are hugger than those of any other country. Nobody is questioning our honesty. And yet we have legislation here the avowed purpose of which is to strengthen our credit and relieve taxation." The Colorado senator paid a fine tribute here to the merits of the gold standard which he opposes. He passed a glowing eulogy on the republican party which he has left, and which he is in the habit of denouncing. It is the gold standard which is the cause of the advancement in the credit of the United States. It is the republican party which is responsible for the gold standard. "Is there any other country which can sell its securities at such high prices as we can?" Not one. Our low interest government bonds rule higher on the markets of the world than do the British consols, which are Europe's gilt-edged securities. "Nobody is questioning our honesty." The senator is emphatically correct here also. Moreover, nobody will ever have a chance to question the nation's honesty while the republican party remains in control of its government. Teller is unquestionably correct on both points. The credit of the government is the highest in the world and its honesty is undisputed simply because the republican party is now, has been for some time past, and is likely to be for some time to come, in complete charge of its affairs. It is a pity that Teller left the republican party. The senator is a man of character and ability. No other man who has ever been on the silver side has as much brains as Teller, except Jones, of Nevada, and Jones has abandoned that cause, and has come back to the republicans. Teller will be compelled to do the same in the very near future. His state is drifting back to the republican party, as shown by the fact that in the recent county elections it chose 181 republican officials, as compared with only 81 democrats and only 216 of all the nonrepublican elements of the state in combination, and these number eight distinct parties or factions. Teller is out of place in the Bryanite aggregation. In his present affiliations he can never have any influence on the country's poitics. He is cut off from all connection with the forces which control the nation's destinies, and make it glorious. Moreover, he is putting himself in a false position, and is liable to have his motives and ideas misunderstood. Though ostensibly an anti-republican and an anti-gold standard man, he has just furnished an impressive tribute to the beneficence of the gold standard and to the financial sanity and courage of the republican party.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. DRIFT OF OPINION. Col. William J. Bryan's idea of an honest and winning campaign seems to be to run on a silver platform and say nothing about it.—Indianapolis Journal. Bryan went up against hard times with his "sixteen to one" cry and lost. Is it sensible to propose it again as a cure for prosperity? — N. Y. World (Dem.). Pennsylvania's democratic machine is for Bryan. He knows what it is to be beaten, and so do the Pennsylvania democrats. They resign themselves quietly to the repetition.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. The democratic party is equal to everything when it is not in power. Finance, war, the currency question, foreign policy, domestic policy, etc.—it is master of all these questions when in a minority, but when it is in power it fails utterly in all. — Indianapolis Journal. Bryan is engaged in the task of instructing the eastern democrats in the details of his renomination and the making of a platform for him to stand upon. Of course, it has never occurred to the silverite that it would be possible to choose any other candidate.—Cleveland Leader. There comes from the west, from the national committee of the populist party, the question whether the democratic leader who has been fraternizing with the Empire state democrats is to be, to use the actual populist phrase, "a pig in the west and a puppy in the east?"-N. Y. Sun. Mr. Bryan, continues to talk about this country adopting "the money policy of England." It is not England alone that is now governed by the gold standard, but every country of consequence in Europe. Fully 95 per cent. of the exported agricultural products of the United States are sold in gold-standard countries. And this country, with nearly $1,000,000,000 in gold and $500,000,000 of silver money, is practically bimetallist, while every freecoinage country is silver monometallist. —N. Y. World (Dem.). Defeat in Sixteen to One. Mr. Bryan is declaring that he has not found a man who was for sixteen to one in 1896 who is not now a silver man. Evidently he has not heard of Representative Sibley, who was an emphatic silver advocate in 1896. Of course, he cannot be expected to note the changes announced in states. To the Journal has come the names of quite prominent local democrats who have renounced sixteen to one. Not long since a democrat who has been honored up and down the state said to a friend that he "wished the party leaders would drop the silver issue and their opposition to the old democratic doctrine of expansion." He voted for Bryan in 1896 and will probably vote for him in 1900, but he sees nothing but defeat in the advocacy of sixteen to one. There are others—many others.—Indianapolis Journal. STATE NEWS. [Continued from first page.] max were married last week.—Rev. Laws preached at the A. M. E. church last week.—Chas. Smith is sick.—Mrs. E. Curry, of New Castle, visited here last week. Hillsboro.—Wm. Pope, of Circleville, is visiting in our city.—Jas. A. Kiligore, C. C., of Hill City, K. of P. lodge, No. 46, is greatly improved.—Mrs. Joe Young is not well, and Miss Minnie Riggs is improving slowly.—Parmer's big Uncle Tom's Cabin will play in our city on the 23d.—Mrs. Lucy Donaldson's health is improving.—John N. Johnson is anticipating a position in Columbus.—Miss Gee, principal of our public schools, is ill.—Dr. J. W. T. Patterson, of our city, has opened his office on South High street. Washington C. H.—Rev. Carter preached both services Sunday at the A. M. E. church.—Rev. Wilson, formerly of Springfield, is now pastor of the Second Baptist church. Communion services were held Sunday evening.—A number of young people visited Wilmington Sunday.—Raymond Cole, who has been out of town on business, returned last Friday.—Messrs. Jas. Weaver, Sam Bell and Miss Minnie Rickman spent Sunday in Sabina.—The members of the Second Baptist church served dinner and supper Saturday.—The A. M. E. church is now preparing for a grand jubilee, beginning the last of March. Cadiz.-Mr. and Mrs. R. T. Ballard, of Emerson, visited their parents and friends Sunday.-Rev. Tate is holding revivals at Smithdale.-Ellsworth Randolph has gone to Scio.-Edward Peterson, of Uhrichville, visits this city frequently.-Misses Stella and Martha Miller entertained Wednesday evening.-John Jackson has returned to his home at St. Clairsville.-Rev. John Harris has returned from the Epworth League convention at Bridgeport.-Tim Bailey will leave soon for Iowa.-A number of young ladies held prayer meeting at Miss Ida Manley's Sundav.-Rev. Adkins, of Wheeling, is spending the week with his family. Piqua.—Bishop B. F. Lee spent Saturday and Sunday here and preached both sermons Sunday.—Mr. and Mrs. Taylor Madison entertained Rev. Woodson and wife at dinner, and Misses Carrie and Jessie Woodson at tea, last Sunday.—A well filled basket was received at the A. M. E. parsonage Monday afternoon, for which the pastor and family return thanks.—Allen's day will be observed Sunday evening.—John Hall, of Troy, visited here Sunday.—Wm. Johnson is in Steubenville.—Mrs. Lizzie Collins spent a week in her home in Darke county.—Mrs. Huggard visited Troy Sunday.—Freddie Wilson is improving. Findlay.—The New Century Musical Circle met at Misses Carrie and Blanche Brown's Wednesday afternoon, and the following officers were elected: President, Miss Emma Baker; vice president, Miss Emma Stewart; secretary and treasurer, Miss Hattie Adams; corresponding secretary, Miss Blanche Brown; chairman of programme committee, Miss Carrie Brown.—Mr. and Mrs. Edmons and little daughter, of Fostoria, are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Guy.—Mrs. Fletcher, of Sandusky, is visiting her husband in this city.—L. H. Jones, attorney in Columbus, is here on business.—A valentine social will be given at Mrs. A. B. Wood's Wednesday.—The B. and R. society will render a programme Sunday. Dayton.—Mr. and Mrs. Chas, Moore enttained the Whist club Tuesday evening, and Miss Mayme Hughes, the Fleur De Lis, Friday afternoon.—Messrs. Washington, Taylor and Parsley, of Piqua, visited here Sunday.—The Fleur De Lis gave a party at Miss Della Butler's Wednesday evening. Dancing was the chief feature.—The Colored Women's Christian association had their sermon preached at Eaker St. church Sunday evening. Bishop Lee delivered the discourse.—Quarterly meeting services were held at the Wesleyan church Sunday. Rev. Collins preached.—Mrs. Effie Ferguson died Thursday and was buried Saturday.—Miss Bessie Collins, of Piqua, is visiting her brother.—Will Shaw is ill.—Miss Lucy Whake, of Franklin, visited Mrs. Frank Mitchell last week. Wyoming.—Rev. Coleman talked to the Juvenile society at the A. M. E. church after S. S., Sunday. To-morrow will be Allen's day at the church and a programme will be rendered at 7:30 p. m.—The rally at Maple Street church was a success.—George Johnson, who has been sick for some time, died last Sunday afternoon. The funeral will take place from his home on Tuesday, Rev. Coleman officiating.—Edward Minnis, the principal of the school, who has been ill, is now able to take charge.—Mrs. Rebecca Williams and Mrs. Georgia Ferris are sick.—Mr. and Mrs. Ben Raymond, of Glendale, visited Mrs. Bishop Raymond and mother Sunday.—Miss Ella Singleton entertained Henry Smith and sister, of Avondale, and Mr. Lewis, of Chicago.—Andrew Rogers left for his home in Springfield after visiting his daughter, Mrs. Julia Fry, of Glendale, and his niece, of Wyoming. Mrs. Walter Davis gave a surprise party in honor of her husband last week. Henry Smith, of Avondale; Mr. Lewis, of Chicago; Mr. Erhart, of Glendale, and Carl Duncan, of Elmwood, attended. Four People Killed at a Crossing. Montreal, Feb. 16.—Four residents of Mont Carmel were killed last night by the Pacific express on the Canadian Pacific at a crossing near Three Rivers. They were Eugene Bellmaire and wife, Charles La Francois and a sister of La Francois. They were driving rapidly in two sleighs, were wrapped in furs and at the crossing did not see the approach of the train. The first of the two sleighs reached the track directly ahead of the locomotive, which ground the occupants under its wheels. The horses of the second team ran over the sleigh of the first and struck the baggage car, those in the sleigh being mangled underneath the car. Struck a Snag in Quaker Town. Struck a snag in Quaker Town. Baltimore, Feb. 16.—The new baseball association received a setback yesterday that will probably delay its organization for a year. 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TRAVELERS' REGISTER Trains on all roads run on Standard Time which is the same as BALL'S CITY TIME. CLEVELAND, CINCINNATI, CHICAGO & ST. LOUIS, NY BIG FOUR ROUTE Solid vestibule trains run daily to Columbus, Dayton, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis, Parlor Car and Wagner Sleeping Cars. Best line in the West, South and Southwest. Ticket office, 116 Euclid Ave. Bell Tel. Main 910. Home Tel. 853. *Daily. No. 11. Southwestern Limited. *3 *30 am No. 14. Col. & Cln. Express. *7 *15 am No. 30. Coln. Express. *41 *10 am No. 25. Ind. & St. Litts Express. *12 *00 am No. 27. Columbus Accommodation. *4 *00 am No. 37. Col. & Cln. Express. *8 *30 pm *Daily. No. 28. Clin. & Col. Express. *6 *45 am No. 26. Galion Accommodation. *9 *45 am No. 36. Ind. & St. Litts Express. *2 *30 am No. 46. Columbus & Cln. Express. *2 *55 am No. 24. Wellington Accommodation. *6 *35 am No. 2. Col. Clin. & Ind. Express. *9 *25 am No. 18. Southwestern Limited. *1 *50 am Nos. 11 and 18 do not stop at Erie Ry. depot. No. 37, leaving at 8:30 p.m., has local sleeper for Cincinnati. Nos. 33 and 46 have dining cars. For tickets call on D. JAY COLLVER, city passenger and ticket agent. No. 116 Euclid Ave. Central Aroost, Cleveland, O. WARREN J. NICH. G. P. & T. A. Cincinnati, O. Cleveland Union Station. Pennsylvania Lines. Foot of Bank Street. Ticket Offices at Station, Euclid Av., Woodland Av., and Weddell House corner. Through Trains run as follows by Central Time. *Daily. †Daily except Sunday. From Cleveland to Leave Arrive Pittsburg & Bellaire. +7 00am +12 10pm Salem & Pittsburg. *8 00am *8 30pm Philadelphia & New York. *2 10pm *11 30pm Baltimore & Washington. *2 10pm *11 30pm Salem & Pittsburg. *2 10pm *11 30pm Pittsburg, Bellaire & East. +3 10pm +6 25pm Ravenna & Alliance. +3 1pm +8 3am Ravenna & Alliance. +3 1pm +8 3am Philadelphia & New York. *11 10pm *4 30pm Baltimore & Washington. *11 10pm *4 30pm Wellsville & Pittsburg. *11 10pm *4 30am MT. VERNON & PAN-HANDLE ROUTE. From Cleveland to Columbus & Cincinnati...*8 35am Orville & Columbus...*8 35am Orville & Millersburg...+3 10pm Columbus & Cincinnati...*7 35pm NICKEL PLATE. The New York, Chicago & St. Louis R.R. All trains stop at Euclid avenue, Broadway and Pearl street. City ticket office 189 Superior rreet. Tel. Main 218. All trains arrive and depart from Van Buren St. Union Passenger Station, Chicago. Eastward. No. 6, Standard Express...9 55am No. 4, Eastern Express...2 06am No. 2, Nickel Plate Ex...8 12pm Westward. No. 1, Western Express...4 48am No. 5, Standard Express...7 09pm No. 5, Nickel Plate Ex...11 13pm Local Freight...*3 50pm Leave. Arrive. *8 35am *5 40pm *8 35am *5 40pm +3 10pm +12 10pm *7 35pm *7 30am Arrive. Depart. 9 55am 10 12am 2 06am 2 16am 8 12pm 8 21pm Arrive. Depart. 4 48am 4 56am 7 09pm 7 20pm 11 13pm 11 20pm *3 50pm *6 40am *Daily, except Sunday. All express daily. Through sleepers on all trains. Chicago. Buffalo. New York. New York. Excellent dining cars and depot restaurants operated by the company. THE CLEVELAND, TERMINAL & VALLEY R. R. GO. Depot foot of South Water street. City office. 241 Superior street. Arrive. Depart. Valley Jt. & Way Stations..... 6 20 pm * 7 20 am Wheeling & Chicago..... *9 25 pm * 7 25 am Akron, Canton & Chicago..... *8 15 am * 10 00 am Akron, Canton & Wheeling... *10 20 am * 3 5 am Akron, Canton & Chicago..... *8 15 am * 6 35 am Akron, Canton, Marietta Pittsburgh, Washington Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York..... *10 30 am * 3 25 pm +2 10 pm *11 00 am *Daily except Sunday. *Daily. Pulman palace restfulie sleeping cars be- tween Cleveland and Chicago, also between Cleveland and Philadelphia. J. E. GALBRAITH. Traffic Manager. Cleveland, Lorain & Wheeling R'y' VALLEY DEPOT. Depart. Arrive. Cleve. & Wheeling Ex..... 7 10 am * 11 40 am Cleve. & Wheeling Ex..... 1 00 am * 7 15 am Cleve. Uhrichsville Ae..... 5 10 am * 8 20 am Sunday trains between Cleveland and Uhrichsville arrive at 9:53 a.m. and 7:15 p.m. Depart at 7:10 a.m. and 6:35 p.m. ```markdown ``` NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—Subscribers not reselling THE GAZETTE regularly should notify us at once. We desire every copy delivered promptly. We advise our patrons to carefully examine THE GAZETTE's advertisements before making purchase. Business men also advertise in this paper should be liberally patronized by Afro-Americans. The fact that they advertise is assurance that they want your trade. Local reading notices (advertisements) ten cent per book. PUSHAHA's News Store, Cuyahoga Building opposite the Post Office. Open Sunday. opposite the Post Office. Open Sunday. N. HEXTER's News Depot, City Hall Building, cor. Wood and Superior streets. Open Sunday. S. H. MOODY's News Store, No. 287 Superior street, second west of Bond street. Open Sundays also. GOODMAN's News Depot, 586 Central avenue cor. Sterling avenue. Open Sunday. AELLED PRINTING TRADE COUNCIL CLEVELAND Wanted—Every man and woman to use one of the greatest preparations for Cleaning Carpets in the world today. Sample 30 cents; postage taken. Agents wanted. Big money. Write to-day. A. Proctor, 1305 Franklin street, Pittsburg, Pa. Bertram Joseph, the 7-months-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Lucas, of 23 Linden street, died last week Thursday morning after a short illness with brain fever. The funeral occurred Saturday afternoon, Revs. Langford and Johnson officiating. The floral tributes were profuse and beautiful. Miss Flossie Douglass and Mr. William Fields, of Buffalo, will wed in the spring—it is said. Mrs. E. Poindexter, of Detroit, is visiting friends and relatives in the city. Messrs. Arthur T. Abbott and Welcome T. Blue represented the Oaward Foraker club in the Ohio Republican league's annual convention at Cincinnati on Monday. According to the city police monthly report, of the 1,232 arrests made in January only 59 were Afro-Americans. Miss Morris, who has been visiting her cousin, Miss Mary Hatter, returned to her home in Buxton, Canada, last week. Miss Ida Moore will leave for New York on the 25th. Bishop Payne's birthday will be celebrated at St. John's by the M. M. society February 25, in the afternoon. The valentine social given by the general conference committee was an enjoyable affair. The programme was splendid. Those deserving special mention were Mrs. Rosa Johnson, Misses Ethel Carey and Florence Scott and Mr. Wm. Taylor. The entertainment given by Great Western Lodge, K. of P., at Woodliff hall Wednesday evening was well attended. William Leek, of Ashtabula, was in the city the first of the week. Mrs. J. Poindexter and Mrs. Walls were called to Buffalo Monday night by the sudden death of their mother. Mr. Poindexter left for Buffalo Tuesday night, accompanied by his little daughter, Edna. Miss Esther Irving, stenographer in The Gazette office, will do type-writing for those who desire it and at very reasonable rates. Be sure to read our Columbus letter and ex-Lieut. Henry O. Flipper'sable communication in to-day's Gazette. See our legislators in the interest of house bill No. 369. Don't fail. Mr. and Mrs. Noble have removed from 280 Central to 112 Harmon street. Wesley Davis, of Elyria, was here Sunday. The dancing and card party given by the Roberda Social club Tuesday evening at Woodlif hall was one of the most enjoyable affairs of their series of entertainments. About 50 couple were present. The social success of the club is due mainly to the efforts and hospitality of Messrs. Lewis Buchanan, Elisha Freeman, J. F. Ochard and others of the social committee. Sam Moore is a candidate for constable. The Douglass club, one of the most promising Afro-American social organizations in the city, will attend the entertainment, "Thirty Years of Freedom," at Gray's armory, in a body next Friday evening, a resolution having been adopted to that effect. Mrs. Rosa Johnson left for Columbus Thursday morning. Hon. H. C. Smith has introduced nine or ten important bills in the present legislature and is working hard to pass them. You can assist him a great deal with H. B. Mo. 369, if you will—and you ought to, because it is a measure of great interest to our people. At St. John's church to-morrow the pastor, Rev. Chas. Bundy, will preach morning and evening. Sunday school at 9:30 a. m.; Y. P. S. C. E. meeting at 6:30 p. m. Bishop Allen's birthday will be celebrated March 11. Quarterly meeting March 4. Miss Clara Parker, of Springfield, is visiting Mrs. Hedgepath, of 9 Vine street. Robert Murray, the veteran of San Juan Hill and other Cuban incidents, who was arrested February 4 for accosting the girls from Miss Spencer's school on Euclid avenue and applying endearing epithets to them, created quite a sensation at Central police station Tuesday afternoon by moaning and growling in a terrible manner. He told Turnkey Gavin that he was suffering excruciating pain in his stomach. Judge Fiedler immediately issued an order for Murray's removal to the city hospital, but before it was carried out Dr. Friedman made a careful examination of Murray's case and reported that nothing was the matter with him. It was found that he was feigning illness and was resorting to this method of securing escape. Judge Fiedler at once rescinded his order. The members of the Cuyahoga delegation in the legislature are: Senators Dodge and Elmer; Representatives Breck, Phare, Davis, Roberts, Glenn, Mackenzie, Tilden a I Smith. See all but the last one. A valentine social was given at Rev. Chas, Bundy's Wednesday evening. Horace Martin is again confined to his bed, and is in a very critical condition. The young men of the city have organized a literary society called "The Young Men's Literary and Magazine Club of Mt. Zion Church." They meet THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17. 1900. every Wednesday night in the lecture room of the church. All young men are invited. A valentine social was given at Zion church on Central avenue Tuesday evening. Chas. Gordon and Will T. Boyd are at Mt. Clemens, Mich., ill with rheumatism. There was one accession to Zion church on Central avenue last Sunday evening. The pastor, Rev. E. J. Carter, left Thursday morning for Washington, Pa., where he will conduct a series of meetings. Rev. Meeks will preach the morning service, and Rev. Alex. Moore the evening. Sunday. Rev. Alex, Moore informs us that he has sold out his grocery at 623 Central avenue, and has purchased the business recently owned by the Centennial Co-operative Co., located at 598 Central avenue, where old and new customers will find a hearty welcome and an excellent supply of groceries and provisions, including fresh and salt meats, also fruits and vegetables at prices that will please. Mr. Roy Crawford will call for and deliver orders. Mr. C. B. Simmons, who has been in Huron Street hospital for about three months suffering from injuries sustained in an accident, is now recovered and has returned to his home on Cedar avenue. While crossing Prospect street on his wheel he was struck by a car, which ran over his ankle. Joseph H. Archer is the republican candidate for justice of the peace. Wm. E. Annis, 1260 Broadway, N. Y., will send 24 pieces of new music for 25 cents, consisting of two-steps, marches, songs, etc. This is all new, full size, copyrighted music, printed on heavy paper, and is now being sold in music stores at 50 cents a copy, making the value of the music $12. In addition 100 pages of interesting stories and illustrated articles are given. This offer is for a limited time only. The new pipe organ for Shiloh Baptist church arrived last week and was used for the first time Sunday. It would have arrived sooner but for the strike in Chicago. The lecture given at Corey chapel Wednesday evening by Mr. Habenth, under the auspices of the Epworth league, was a success. Mr. Habenth is a native of Bulgaria, instead of Haiti. He will give another lecture and stereopticon views of his country and inhabitants soon. There will be a lecture at Epworth Memorial church Monday evening under the auspices of the Cleveland Epworth league. Rev. Langford was called from Elyria, where he was holding revival services, to officiate at the funeral of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Lucas's little son, Friday. Allen Hyde, who has been ill with typhoid pneumonia, is convalescent, and Mrs. Hyde, his mother, is ill. Mrs. George Wilson, of Forest street, is sick. Miss Mary E. Nunn and Mrs. J. Anderson are better. William F. Brown has returned to his home in Windsor, Ont. James Griffen has returned home from Canada, where he was called by the death of his father. Mr. James, of Elyria, has accepted a position here and will make Cleveland his home. The following is a list of the delegates of the Onward Foraker club who attended the meeting of the Ohio Republican league in Cincinnati Monday; Hon. H. C. Smith, Maj. John Fulton, Capt. J. E. Reed, Messrs. W. T. Blue, J. C. Brown, Jesse Bartlett, J. E. Warwick, J. M. McSpadden, J. R. Snyder and A. T. Abbott. Alternates; Messrs. Walter Brooks, Geo. Scott, Thos. Battese, H. J. Embrey, E. W. Burrell, John Bush, Geo. Fields, Wm. Fox, Edward Daw, L. J. Dean and Frank Isaacs. Our readers who believe in race progress should not fail to patronize W. B. Gibson's restaurant and Sigler Bros.' jewelry store, where Mr. C. L. Lacey is employed. Central Passenger Association Mileage tickets will be accepted for passage on trains of the Nickel Plate road on and after February 10th. 18 Central Passenger Association Mileage tickets are good on the Nickel Plate road between Buffalo and Chicago or intermediate stations on and after February 10th. 19 If you hold a Central Passenger Association Mileage ticket use it on trains of the Nickel Plate Road on and after February 10th. 20 If you desire The Gazette delivered at your residence by carrier, send a card to Arthur Markowitz, 147 Scovill avenue. This is a splendid opportunity for any person, male or female, old or young, especially students, to make some money, who has a few hours to spare on Saturdays. If you have friends that would care to see a copy of The Gazette send us their address and we will send them papers. Don't be afraid to forward a dozen or two addresses whenever convenient. Thirty Years of Freedom. At the Grays' armory February 23 and in a matinee February 24 nearly 300 of our people will present a production entitled "Thirty Years of Freedom," for the benefit of the Home for Aged Colored People. The play will present in song and story, in comedy and tragedy, the history of B the race. The performers will be some of our best known people. Harry L. Freeman will direct the orchestra. Before the curtain will appear two popular male quartettes, the Electric and the Mozart, a mixed quartette, a ladies' trio and solcists. The historians are: Hon. H. C. Smith, C. W. Chestnutt, esq., H. T. Eubanks, J. L. Bolden and Rev. Daniel Johnson. Scenes from the life of the race in the thirty years since slavery will be presented. A plantation scene will be given and the answering call and ready response to the call of Lincoln will be shown. Maj. John C. Fulton, Capt. A. A. Moore and Company D of the Ninth battalion, O. N. G., and Capt. Thomas King, of the Cleveland cadets, will be the soldiers. Representations of the drama, society, art and music will close the evening in the educational feature. Among the participants are Dr. G. H. Wilson, Mrs. W. H. Clifford, Mr. Jay Noble, J. Walter Wills, Misses Katharine Skeene, Florence Dunjill, Bettie Harris, Messrs. Daniel Fairfax, William Green, Charles Bundy, Charles Sellers, Andrew Edwards, Dr. A. Nieren, Dr. Simpson and Miss Nettie Ricks. The stately minuet will be the crowning society scene by eight couples. Through Mrs. John Huntington, who has kindly acted as honorary secretary, 100 well-known Cleveland women have consented to the use of their names as patrons of the entertainment. Among them are Mrs. Samuel Mather, Mrs. Jacob B. Perkins, Mrs. Mary E. Cary, Miss Mary Whitehall, Mrs. J. U. Topliff, Mrs. Frank P. Smith, Mrs. F. P. Sterling, Mrs. M. A. Hanna, Mrs. Calvary Morris, Mrs. J. V Painter, Mrs. George A. Garretson, Mrs. George W. Howe, Mrs. E. G. Tillotson and others. The active patronesses are many of our prominent ladies in church and philanthropy. Among them being: Mrs. Abner Smith, Mrs. Benjamin Ricks, Mrs. D. A. Johnson, Miss Margie Wilson, Miss Agnes Bolden, Mrs. Ben Douglass, Mrs. Charles Sides, Mrs. Mary Bundy, Miss Nettie Ricks, Miss Marie Taylor, Miss Carrie Harmon, Mrs. B. M. Shook, Mrs. Tilman Farlice, Mrs. E. A. Langford, Mrs. J. S. Jackson, Mrs. G. Washington, Mrs. C. Burdine, Miss Edna Anderson, Mrs. J. L. Bolden, Mrs. Tom Walker, Mrs. Alberta Gambles. MARDI GRAS RATES To New Orleans and Mobile via Penn- sylvania Lines Reduced rates for Annual Mardi Gras Festivities will be sold this year to New Orleans and Mobile, February 19th to 25th, inclusive, good returning leaving those points not later than March 15th. Anybody may take advantage of the low rates, and any Pennsylvania Lines Passenger or Ticket Agent will furnish full particulars upon application. Gen. Passenger Association Mileage Tickets. The Nickel Plate road has become a member of the Mileage Ticket Bureau of the Central Passenger Association, and all mileage tickets properly issued by any line, a member of that bureau, are valid for use on that road on and after February 10th, in the same manner as on other roads, members of that bureau. No.17 ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE THE undersigned has been duly appointed and qualified as administrator of the estate of Moses Simmons, late of Cleveland, Cuyahoga county, Ohio, designee. CHARLES BUNDY. ALEX. H. MARTIN, Attorney, 501 American Trust Building, Cleveland, O. Powers Says the A. A. is Dead. Worcester, Mass., Feb. 16.—President Powers, of the Eastern league, who was in Worcester Thursday, said that he was not worrying at all about the American association. "The American association will never open a gate," he said, "and the players are signing rapidly now with the National league." Mr. Powers said the Eastern league will have Providence, Worcester, Syracuse, Rochester and Toronto without a doubt. Barnie's Hartford franchise will be transferred to Newark. If Baltimore and Washington come in, Montreal and Springfield will be dropped. AGENTS WANTED Enclose 2c stamp for reply, and we will send particulars telling how you can make from $75 to $150 per month, and also be presented with afine Gold Watch. Address P. O. Box 570. SCOTT REMEDY. CO., Louisville, Ky. TRUSSES, 65c, $1.25 AND UP 65c. We are selling the very finest Trusses made at FACTORY PRICES, less than one-third the price charged by others, and WE QUARANTEE TO FIT YOU PERFECTLY. Say QUARANTEE TO FIT YOU PERFECTLY. 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THE HOMES OF GEORGE WASHINGTON Where the Patriot Soldier, Statesman, Citizen Was Born, Reared and Died—Mount Vernon the Home of His Memory HE potent magic of association makes place to so insistently suggest person that Stratford-on-Avon means nothing but Shakespeare, Abbotsford is Scott, Mount Vernon is Washington — Washington, the country gen- public events, turbulent grown, and rebellious, again drew him mercilessly from his quiet retreat to the field of strife. There was a glad return, soon followed by another call, this time to direct the wavering course of the new ship of state, a weary home-coming and then the last great summons. Forty-six years Mount Vernon was Washington's home, more than a hundred years has it been the home of his memory, the Mecca of patriotic pilgrimages. Washington entered upon the duties of the presidency with the utmost reluctance, for it meant the sacrifice of all he considered most pleasant in life—the quiet activity of his beloved Mount Vernon. The seat of government being in the city of New York, the house formerly rented for the presidents of congress was chosen for the presidential residence. This was one of the largest houses in the city, simple and substantial, generally known as the Franklin house from its location on the corner of Cherry and Franklin streets, near Franklin square. The house was of brick, three stories high, rather too small for such public service, although more than ample for the needs of a private citizen. To the elegant and appropriate furnishings granted by the government, Washington added a touch of familiar comfort and beauty by transporting by sea from Mount Vernon great quantities of silver and china, pictures and books —a bit of home amid unhomelike scenes. A much larger and finer house in a more fashionable part of the city was chosen for the second presidential residence in New York. It was generally known as the Mansion house. VERNON. THE MUSEUM It occurred was a plain house of the primitive Vir-— four rooms on the an attic story with a long and a massive brick chimne Wakefield, which theains, seems to have been over Goldsmith as well as and was built for a home by Alexander Macomb, a famous revolutionary general. This house stood on Broadway, tradition says upon the very spot where stood the first buildings on Manhattan island—the rude huts built by Christiansen, the earliest Dutch trader and adventurer. Washington had lived but six months in the Mansion house when it was decided to move the seat of government from New York to Philadelphia, thus depriving the old house of its hospitable inmates and its temporary publicity, but leaving it a memory of former greatness that served for many years to fill it with guests whose increasing demands for improvements finally obliterated all traces of its former identity. The mansion being erected in Philadelphia by the state legislature for his use did not meet with the president's approval. As he absolutely refused to furnish and occupy so large a house it was finished for use as a state university, and other provisions for suitably housing the presidential party were obliged to be made. In this dilemma, the historic home of Robert Morris, the financier of the revolution and the intimate friend of Washington, was generously offered and accepted. Here Washington resided until his resignation from office, with the exception of a very few months spent in Germantown, whither the family had been driven in the heat of summer by the yellow fever scourge. This temporary refuge, known as the Perot-Morris house, still stands—the only other of the eight houses identified with Washington's home-life yet in existence being Mount Vernon. These were not all happy days. Washington looked forward to the approaching end of his second term with a feeling of intense relief, comparing himself to a wearied traveler who sees before him the resting-place where he is at length to find repose. With the acclamation of the people still ringing in his ears, he returned to Mount Vernon after an absence of eight years, and easily dropped back into the round of country duties and pleasures that had always had such charms for him. "To make a little flour annually," he wrote to a friend, "to repair houses fast going to ruin, to build one for the security of my papers of a public nature, will constitute employment for the few years I have to remain on this terrestrial globe." Although arrived at last at his heart's desire—peace, home and rest—his was not to be a life of entire separation from the affairs of his country. JEANETTE HESSE. SAGE OF SAWHAW SAYS. It is sometimes fatal to judge a doctor by results. The more careless the maid the more cares the man. Eloquence which carries people away is the kind that takes. The might of money often combats the smite of conscience. The correct person is the one who can always be corrected pleasantly. Some people who think they will take the cake merely get humble pie. --- HE potent magic of association makes place to so insistently suggest person that Stratford-d-on-Avon means nothing but Shakespeare, Abbotsford is Scott, Mount Vernon is Washington —Washington, the country gentleman of the old school. HE potent magic of association makes place to so insistently suggest person that Stratford-on-Avon means nothing but Shakespeare, Abbotsford is Scott, Mount Vernon is Washington — Washington, the country gentleman of the old school, "A soul whose master-bias leans To homefelt pleasures and to gentle scenes," rather than the soldier or the statesman. While an unfailing interest ever centers about this historic homestead, Washington's haven of rest amid the tumultuous scenes of his maturer years, the spot where stood the humble home of his birth is not altogether forgotten and unknown. On a gently sloping bank overlooking the quiet waters of the Potomac, whose broad reaches stretch wide to the Maryland shore beyond, and swell with slow full tide to the great bay below, now stands a slender marble column marking the site of Wakefield, Washington's first home. In the year 1658, two brothers, John and Lawrence Washington, appeared in Virginia, purchased lands, and established themselves in Westmoreland county near Bridges creek. The estate of John Washington, a thousand or more acres stretching for a mile along the Potomac, became, three generations later, the birthplace of George Washington. The house in which this mo mentous event occurred was a plain wooden farmhouse of the primitive Virginia pattern — four rooms on the ground floor, an attic story with a long sloping roof, and a massive brick chimney. The name Wakefield, which the estate still retains, seems to have been a tribute to Oliver Goldsmith as well as a testimony to the literary appreciation of the owner, Augustine Washington, since it was given by him just about the time of the publication of "The Vicar of Wakefield." Made homeless by a fire which completely destroyed this house three years after the birth of his youngest son George, Augustine Washington moved his family to another estate in Stafford county. This second home was much like the first—a plain wooden structure with four rooms and an attic, It, too, stood on rising ground, looked across a broad meadow to the Rappahannock, and beyond the river to the village of Fredericksburg nearly opposite. Upon the death of Augustine Washington this estate on the Rappahannock had become the property of George Washington, while, according to the English law of primo-geniture, his eldest brother Lawrence received the lion's share of the property which included a fine estate on the Potomac called by the Indian name Epsewasson, or Hunting Creek. Lawrence, who had been educated in England and had fought under Admiral Vernon in the Spanish wars, soon returned to Virginia, built himself a goodly home which he christened Mount Vernon, and took up the life of a country gentleman of means. To this pleasant home the younger brother often journeyed in vacation times, and here he afterward came to live under the loving guidance of a brother to whom wide difference in age gave an authority almost paternal. By the death of his brother Lawrence, Mount Vernon came into the possession of George Washington when he was but 23 years old. Here, four years later, he brought his fair young wife, in time became the best and most prosperous planter in Virginia, sat year after year in the Virginia house and helped to rule the colony, served in the church vestry, and held in his strong hands the reins of local government. Thus with the passing years the current of daily life flowed gently on at Mount Vernon. The peaceful pleasures and pursuits of a country gentleman's life did not dull nor stupefy the hospitable master. He remained athletic, strong and enduring, keen in perception, and warm in his affections during all these happy years of rest and waiting that intervened between youth and middle age. Then the great stream of TRADES UNION NOTES. There are 193 trades unions in the city of Philadelphia. The Pattern Makers' National league has 4,000 members in the United States. In the Colorado legislature there are 17 union men, and the lieutenant governor is a trades unionist. Eight months ago there were only three trades unions in Niagara Falls, now the town boasts of 23 organized bodies. MATTER OF DOUBT. The Train Boy Knew People Pretty Well, But He Had a Guess Coming. "One day last fall," said a well-known Montana man, "I was riding on a train in my state and got to be on pretty fair terms with the train boy by buying a few of the things he had to sell. It was not a very formal kind of a train, and when the boy had finished his rounds he came over to sit with me and 'chin a bit,' as he said. I was willing enough, as he was a sharp lad and there was nobody else to talk to, and he went right at things. "Do you know, he said, 'that I can tell by looking at a man might near what he is. Now, there's that fellow over there in the corner; he a Chicago drummer. I can tell him by the way he lets his money go and the flip style he has when he talks to people. And that chap over there with the sik hat on, he's a preacher from a country town, I'm dead sure, and I'll go ask him if you say so." "I didn't say so, because I didn't care a continental, and the boy went on with his descriptions of the people on the train. At last I asked him what he thought I was. I had on a pretty flashy suit of light stuff and was thinking I was looking pretty well, so I was willing to risk the boy's venture. He looked me over for a full minute very carefully. “‘Well,’ he said, at last, ‘you’ve got a sloo of money, but I ain’t dead sure whether you are a cattleman or a gambler.’”—Washington Star. A LESSON IN COURTESY. Neat Rebuke Given a Haughty Woman by a Man in Working Clothes. One afternoon a stylishly dressed woman boarded an Illinois Central train at Forty-seventh street. She sat down in the only vacant seat, beside a young workman, who was reading a book. The man wore blue overalls and carried a dinner pail. The woman drew herself together superciliously and elevated her eyebrows. In getting her ticket she dropped her purse, and the young fellow picked it up and offered it to her politely. She took it, without a word of thanks. All the way up town she fidgeted and behaved so unpleasantly that the attention of the other passengers in the car was attracted to the little drama. When the train stopped at Randolph street the woman, in crowding past, knocked the book from the workman's hands. "I beg your pardon," she condescended. "Not at all, ma'am," responded the young fellow, cheerfully. "It's quite in keeping with the rest of your conduct." And everybody thought it served her right.-Chicago Inter Ocean. Free Speech Edward Everett once concluded a stately speech in congress with a long, sonorous and superbly modulated citation of a passage from Tacitus, and then took his seat. No sooner was he through than up sprang a burly member from the west. 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When this tube gets inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases of ten are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75c. editorial Comment "Poor old Jones, the grocer, died early this morning," said the village editor's better half. "Huh!" exclaimed the local-opinion molder. "he's been dead for years." "Been dead for years!" echoed the astonished wife. "Why, what do you mean?" "Just what I said," replied the v. e. "Any man in business who doesn't advertise is a dead one."—Chicago Evening News. 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