The Gazette

2 All communications should be addressed: H. C. SMITH. CLEVELAND, OHIO, FEB. 24, 1900. THE GAZETTE is the oldest, and has the largest bona fide circulation, double that of any newspaper in the interest of Afro-American, 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. BISHOP GRANT AGAINST EMIGRATION. Bishop Abram Grant, in his famous lecture against "Negro Emigration to Africa," takes a decided stand against the masses of our people going to Africa. Yet he allows that colored business men with capital, teachers, doctors and lawyers whose training may best fit them for the work, now find their opportunity to develop and hasten the time when Ethiopia shall become a paradise regained. This is the position of Bishop Grant, which seems to betray a distinction without a difference. The intelligent masses will find it advisable to remain in America, but the learned, professional men may be allowed to engage in missionary work. But are not all intelligent and qualified men necessarily missionaries and are they not quite as well capable of unlifting the benighted millions of that country as the select few? If a few good and capable persons may go, then why not the many; why not an innumerable host of reformers enter the field to hasten the redemption? We ourselves are opposed to emigration to Africa; we are opposed absolutely upon the ground that the conditions will not admit and the possibilities are not such as to require it. As Afro-Americans we are fighting out our own destiny on this continent. Like other races, we are here to stay, pursuing a certain line of duty committed to ourselves as the builders of a great nation. Our time will yet come and we will labor here to reap the reward of our trial, our patience and triumph. The malaria of that country is against us, and its preoccupation by other nationalities forbid that we shall wander into a distant land confronting responsibilities quite unequal to their immediate demands. While we were in bondage, millions of foreign elements were seeking pioneer life in the land of the Pharaohs. Already the start is taken and other nations are leading. Yet there lies before us a signal duty which remains for ourselves to do. We can help those who are there; we can help the natives in educating and fitting themselves for an improved condition. Thrift, enterprise and prosperity are the best inducements to retain a people at home. We find them in America, and by these we hope to rise. We owe it to ourselves to improve our condition, to make the best of our immediate opportunity and thus become a helping factor in utilizing our means in the amelioration of the condition of the people of Africa. TWIN EVILS. No two evils serve as a greater curse to this nation than that of moblaw and the convict lease system, and none are more revolting and shocking to Christian civilization. The one demoralizes public morals, vitiates the better feeling, inflames the body politie with the fever of unrest, wrath and rebellion and dooms the unfortunate Negro to certain helplessness and degradation. The other pitilessly consigns the Negro to prison and to gradual torture, despoiling the fair attributes of noble manhood and imposes upon him revengeful and unendurable penalties hardly known in the catalogue of crimes. We charge the prison managers with crimes and we hold the state authorities of the south no less with the responsibility of these guilty and extreme inhuman offenses. All lawful punishment inflicted is designed to bring about reform; but the convict lease system of the south is a system of torture, barbarity and of merciless revenge directed more to gratify a spiteful hate. Against these barbarous prison practices the authorities of courts and states have nothing to say and thus THE GAZETTE. CLEVELAND. O., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24. 1900. the despised Negro becomes the fell victim to an easy snare. The government itself tolerates the action of the mob, until the class to which mob violence is virulently applied has come to regard with mistrust any sincere intention on the part of congress or the administration to intervene on behalf of outraged law. The manifest purpose on the part of the government to concern itself more in regard to foreign elements seems ample proof that the government does not fully realize the possible danger which very naturally must follow as a consequent result of heedlessness and oversight of the wrong done the nation and a class of its citizens. The theory that the nation cannot interpose against outlaws of a state in order to save its own life is a false one. An outlaw is an insurrectionist and a rebel and the government has a right to demand of any state to suppress such an evil even to the calling out of the national guard. Timidity on the part of the government to punish rebels and traitors induces assault, and unless measures are applied in rebuking the invader greater embarrassments must follow. Lynch law is a crying evil among Americans. It is their shame and their pest. It is their dare devil and seeks upon the mere pretext to entrap and destroy the life of some humble black man. The mob is the outgrowth of brutal instinct. It is brutality culminating in its most fiendish nature striking in fury and madness the innocent with the guilty. It need not be a matter of surprise that we find our leaders bravely protesting and pushing their fight against a practice which threatens the degradation and extinction of the Negro race upon American soil. Without protection no people can thrive and prosper, no people can live. To protect the lives and property of the colonists from the deadly attacks of the savages, Nathaniel Bacon instituted the first grand movement for liberty and independence and awakened a spirit of freedom which nerved the souls of the patriots in the great struggle under the lead of the immortal Washington. We do not wonder that our only Negro leader in congress is grooming himself by masterly endeavor to strike to its grave this monster enemy of the race, and has enlisted the influence and support of President McKinley and his cabinet in making odious the leaders of the mob as well as making them severally answerable for the part they take as murderers, cutthroats, pillagers, flayers of human flesh, burners of human beings at the stake, and as criminals against the law. Hon. Daniel Murray, who is in hearty accord with Hon. George H. White to secure federal action, favors the move to have the present congress amend the statute so that it will be compulsory on federal marshals and district attorneys to see that persons charged with crimes are protected from the mob and that United States marshals be empowered to call on citizens and the national guard to aid in protecting the prisoners from lynch law. Hon. P. B. S. Pinchback and other influential citizens in Washington have been active in this movement, and it is hoped that Mr. White will not tire in his endeavor until a bill efficient and availing shall be come the accepted policy and law of the nation. BOSTON'S LATEST FAD An Afro-American's Wood Carving Captivates Fanclubs of Art. Boston, Mass.—Just outside of Boston, in Cambridge, lives a young Afro-American lady named Ardena White. She comes from Cincinnati and was born at New Richmond, O., near the birthplace of Gen. Grant. She is plain looking and coffee-colored. Her father is a cook on an Ohio river steamboat. He moved his family to Cincinnati soon after Ardena was born. She is a wood-carver and she came here in hopes of earning money enough to enable her to take a course of lessons at the Boston School of Art. She is making money enough, and orders are pouring in upon her at such a rate that she has no time for school. Miss White says that back two or three generations, there is a strain of Indian blood, but that so far as is known there is no admixture of white. She designs and carves exquisitely beautiful things in cedar and oak. None of her people knew anything about art, and her own work is largely natural talent, as she has had but little opportunity for technical instruction. Her designs have a quaint originality that pleases the art lovers of Boston, and she has become quite the fad. Items of Interest. The Hon. H. C. Smith, the only Afro-American member of the legislature, has introduced a bill to amend the law against lynching. The bill makes the county commissioners liable for damages, for any violence, injury or death at the hands of a mob in that county. Mr. Smith is always keenly alive to the interests and rights of the Afro-Americans and has the courage to look after them. He is an able legislator who looks after the interests of his race, and in no way neglects the general interests of the state, and his white constituents. He is a representative of the whole people.—Xenia (O.) Standard. The home left by the noted jockey, Isaac Murphy, was sold at Lexington, Ky., to satisfy a mortgage of $5,000, given by the jockey's widow. Speaking of the threat of Joseph Chamberlain to turn loose the Zulus against the Boers, an ex-consul said: "That would be awful. I can hardly conceive that the English government would contemplate such action. The people of the Transvaal fear nothing so much as the 'black terror.'" Mrs. James Brown Potter, after reciting "The Absent Minded Beggar" and taking up a collection for the yeomanry equipment fund at Bath, England, put up a tambourine at auction and said she would kiss the man who would pay 20 guineas or more for it. Dhumjibhoy Bomaniji, a Parsee merchant, accepted the offer and got the kiss. It is understood that Mrs. Potter has no further use for the white men who were present.—Chicago Times-Horald. Ignorance is a blank sheet on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one on which we must first erase—Colton. A HUMBUG ISSUE. The Democratic Cry of Imperialism Will Go the Way of Sixteen to One. The issue of imperialism dwarfs. Some gold democrats, like Bourke Cockran, with political ambitions, magnify it into a bridge to carry them back into full fellowship with the democratic party. Some republican extremists, like Hoar and Carnegie, with distorted vision see in imagined tendencies of the nation long before they have been clearly defined to other people a great danger to the republic. But among Americans the masses, not seeking temporary capital for campaign purposes, but as man to man, sensibly studying the future, imperialism is shrinking. If President McKinley and Mr. Bryan, presumably representing the two sides of the question, should sit down to a frank discussion of the Philippines problem, the acuteness of the angle of divergence in their policies would be surprising. Yet, Mr. Bryan and all of the big and little fellows who take the cues from him will conjure a mighty specter of imperialism from now until election day in November. The day after election imperialism will be deader than sixteen to one was in November of 1896. Mr. Bryan believes in the incorporation of Porto Rico and the Hawaiian islands as parts of the United States. That is well established republican policy. Mr. Bryan has said privately, not publicly, that it looked as if the annexation of Cuba was destiny, but he was not in favor of it except by the free consent of the Cubans. The republican party has never been in favor of anything else. As to these steps of expansion, there is no difference between the leaders of the two parties. Now, the Philippines! Whatever Mr. Bryan may have stood for six months ago, he is not for immediate evacuation of the archipelago, and recognition of independence of chaos. He is for the restoration of law and order in the islands by United States authority, for the organization of civil government in the hands of the natives, for the maintenance of that government until it can take care of itself, and then for withdrawal of the authority of this country gradually to the extent of recognition of home rule, or, as he calls it, "independence," in domestic affairs. And after that Mr. Bryan thinks the United States should retain a certain naval and commercial status, and should stand between the Philippines and the rest of the world for the protection of the former. This is Mr. Bryan's plan as talked over by himself and leading senators and representatives of his own party during his repeated visits to Washington. The anti-imperialism of Bryan and the democrats is no longer the anti-imperialism of Hoar, Carnegie, Boutwell and other haulowners. How far does Mr. Bryan and his so-called anti-imperialism differ from the administration's policy? The president's course has been consistently for the restoration of law and order in the shortest possible time, and for the establishment of civil government in the hands of the people of the islands, to the fullest extent of their capacity. Up to this point there is no difference between the republican position and that which the Bryan people are now assuming, except that Mr. Bryan thinks if he had the execution of the policy he could go faster than McKinley is doing. That is a matter of opinion. The republican policy contemplates home rule in the Philippines as fast as the evolution of the Filipinos will warrant it. It is being demonstrated at the present time in the establishment of local self-government by communities and tribes. The real divergence of Mr. Bryan from the republican course comes in his optimistic impression that he and his party could make a self-governing nation of the Filipinos in short order. The republican policy is a matter of development from hard experience. The administration does not profess to see Utopia for the archipelago in the immediate future. The president realizes that for some time to come, for a period that can be described only as indefinite, the United States authority must remain sovereign in the islands, and must represent the Philippines in all international relations. It is no part of the republican policy to incorporate the Philippine islands as parts of United States territory, subject to the same constitution and laws. On the contrary it is the policy to have separate and distinct laws and tariffs. It is the purpose that while the United States stands sponsor for the Filipinos, the door of trade for other nations shall be open in the Philippines. Filipinos are not to be American citizens. Their islands are not to stand in the relation to this country that Porto Rico and Hawaii will. The Philippines remain part of the orient, the United States accepting international responsibility for the archipelago, cultivating civilization of the Filipinos and sustaining good government. The open door in the Philippines to other nations is part of the bargains of the open door in China by other nations to the United States. The issue of imperialism which the people of this country will pass upon in November will be whether William McKinley or William J. Bryan is best qualified to work out very nearly the same results in the Philippines. — Washington Cor. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. PRESS OPINIONS The small audience which greeted Mr. Bryan in New York when a 25-cents admission fee was charged is presumptive evidence that there are many to whom Mr. Bryan looks like a far smaller sum than 30 cents.—Albany Journal. With the opening of the mills making it profitable for silver mine owners to produce 4,000,000 ounces more this year than last year, the gilded west may conclude after all that Bryan is not a true prophet.—Pittsburgh Times. For the first time in nearly 30 years the Pentsylvania delegation will in the coming republican national convention support a successful candidate. All will be for McKinley regardless of factional divisions on other questions.—Philadelphia Press. Col. Bryan is having a pleasant time among the New England Yankees, even if he doesn't make any votes there. The silverite is surely getting a good idea of the greatness of the country to which the election of McKinley rested prosperity.—Cleveland Leader. Certain Indications That It Will Remain with the Republicans Till 1905. The present United States senate is composed of 50 straight-out republicans, five silver republicans, 26 democrats and five populists, and there are four vacancies owing to the failure of the legislatures in four states to elect United States senators. The total membership of the senate is 90, and until some new state is admitted into the union, a prospect now remote, in view of the fact that there remain practically only three territories, New Mexico, Oklahoma and Arizona, in the southwestern group, 45 votes will be sufficient to control the operations of the senate, as of the five silver republican senators, three, Kyle, of South Dakota, and Stewart and Jones, of Nevada, are in accord with the republican party on all questions apart from the silver coinage. The terms, of 30 senators, 17 republicans, 11 democrats, one silver republican and one populist, will expire coincidentally with the beginning of the term of the next president, and from present indications the silver republican will be succeeded by a straight-out republican in South Dakota, the populist will be succeeded by a straight-out democrat in North Carolina and the republicans will lose two senators in Colorado and Montana, and will gain one in Delaware, the effect of which would be to make the next senate stand 50 republicans, 28 democrats, four populists and four silver republicans, irrespective of the vacancies in Pennsylvania, California, Delaware and Utah. Pennsylvania is a stanchly republican state; California is usually republican; Delaware and Utah are doubtful, but with both of the latter democratic and all existing vacancies filled, the republicans would have a membership of 52 in the senate during the first two years of the next republican administration, as against 30 democrats, four populists and four silver republicans. On March 4, 1903, the terms of 30 senators will expire, 16 republicans, eight democrats, three populists and three silver republicans. In Iowa, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Vermont, Oregon and Wisconsin the reelection of republicans is practically assured. In Georgia, Arkansas, Louisiana, South Carolina, Florida, Alabama and Missouri the reelection of democrats is most probable, while two of the silver republicans, Kyle, of South Dakota, and Jones, of Nevada, or their successors, are likely to be in the republican column now, and the democrats are likely to make gains in Maryland, Kentucky, North Carolina and perhaps California. If the populists reelect their three members and silver republicans retain Teller, their leader, in office, as seems probable, this would be the division of the senate meeting on March 4, 1903: Republicans, 46; democrats, 33; silver republicans, 4; populists, 4. and New York, Ohio, Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin uncertain. All five of these states are important, and any forecast of their probable action in the election of senators three years hence would be affected by too many contingencies to be of much present account. Without counting any of these states, however, the republicans would have 46 members, a clear majority, until 1905, the year succeeding the next presidential election, so that republican control for the next five years in the senate is about as thoroughly secure as anything may be in American politics.—N. Y. Sun. The Difference. When William McKinley, president of the United States, was informed of the Kentucky calamity he expressed his deep regret at the incident, and beyond expressing his regrets he said nothing. When William J. Bryan was told of the shooting he proved himself once more the prince of demagogues by remarking that he hoped the republicans would be given "a monopoly of violence." Jumping at conclusions is the unmistakable stamp of a little mind, and Mr. Bryan pleaded guilty promptly and frankly when this opportunity was presented him. There was at first nothing that would indicate to the fair-minded man that there was anything in the case other than the mere fact that an excitable crank, filled with a mad desire to precipitate a more intense excitement than that which had been extant in Kentucky for some time, had taken the affair into his own hands and brought matters to a sudden and undesirable climax. President McKinley showed his conservatism, which is but a technical name for wisdom, by expressing no opinion and pronouncing no one guilty without evidence. This is but another opportunity for American people to compare the two men, their methods, their wisdom and their caliber, and to form a judgment as to which man is the safer to trust with the guidance of a great nation through constantly recurring vicissitudes.—Indianapolis Journal. Bryan Felt Cheap. When William Jennings Bryan first went to Nebraska, he was hired to take the stump against Thayer, who was running for governor, and said some hard things against the candidate. "Thayer was elected," Bryan said. "After he took the governor's chair he was called to be toastmaster at a banquet at which I was set down for a speech. I did not care to go to that banquet. I did not wish to meet the governor. I remembered all that I had said of him, and I felt cheap. But I went, and sat there through the early proceedings quite uncomfortable. Finally it came time for the governor to call upon me. He rose from his seat, with the programme before him, and slowly said: 'Mr. Bryan—Bryan.' Then he slowly turned his eyes upon me and addressed me: 'Do you speak or sing?' That is all I ever heard from Gov. Thayer as to what he thought of my campaign speeches against him."—Chicago Times Herald. Congressman Sibley, of Pennsylvania, who has just formally come over to the republican side of the fence was one of Col. Bryan's strongest and most active supporters in 1896, and made a vigorous campaign on the stump in his behalf. And yet Bryan says he knows of no one who voted for free silver in 1893 who will not vote for it this year—Iowa State Register he lives, but throughout the state wherever he is known. He has many friends who are backing him for the position, and the writer headed a delegation of ten or fifteen members of the house and senate, including all of the Franklin (Columbus) county members, which recently called upon the governor and the adjutant general in Mr. Brooks' behalf. Stronger endorsements could not be secured for any one of the candidates. Present indications are that Capt. Brooks will be appointed to the position. Conferences with the governor and adjutant General Gyger held to-day confirm me in this belief. It is unfortunate that Cleveland had no candidate for this place. The only ones eligible to this position under the standard set by the governor are war veterans who possess clerical ability, good character and the proper backing. The governor and Mr. Brooks are both residents of Columbus. Another point in the latter's favor, when it is remembered that, like Cleveland, our people of this city are without representation in the clerical force of any of the state executive departments. I sincerely trust that our readers will not delay in calling upon their members of the legislature in the interests, of house bill No. 369, which if passed, will materially strengthen our Ohio anti-lynching law. See to it also that your friends do likewise and that an organized movement along the lines suggested is perfected in your community. An Afro-American traveling abroad writes among other things the following to the editor of The Gazette: "The hook is never baited for the fish already caught, but for the one still in the stream. We have been landed all these years in the republican fishing baskets, and in my humble opinion 'tis long since time for some of us at least to get out and let them feel the need of us. We may just as well as any other people come to realize that the war is over, and if the president can wear a rebel badge and strew their graves with daisies, surely we can vote for a democrat and try and make friends with them, letting by-gones be by-gones. If the president, whom we helped to elect, can fold men to his bosom whose hands are dripping with the innocent blood of our people, I see no reason why, or consistency in, our voting for him or the party he represents. To my mind the time is at hand for us to simply act as other men would under like circumstances. I had not intended to write thus when I began this letter, but my heart is so full of our sorrows, that words seem to come unbidden under any and all circumstances." Five little Africans, ranging in ages from 7 to 11 years, in charge of a white man and woman from South Africa, are concerting in this city. They sang in the house Wednesday afternoon and "charmed" all who heard them. H. C. S. A GREAT UNDERTAKING. Fraternal Insurance with No Color Line - The United Brotherhood - Headquarters in Chicago - Some of the Best Men of the Race Behind the Enterprise. MARDI GRAS RATES To New Orleans and Mobile via Pennsylvania Lines. Reduced rates for Annual Mardi Gras Festivities will be sold this year to New Orleans and Mobile, February 19th to 23th, 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. HOW KAFFIRS FIGHT. They Settle Disputes in a Somewhat Picturesque But Decidedly Effectual Way. "One of the most expressive words I have run across," said A. D. Lockett, a mining man of Rossland, B. C., "is 'pelleo,' of the Zulu tongue, which is in general use in South Africa. It is literally translated into English as 'done for.' The first time I ever heard it is firmly impressed on my mind. The Kaffirs are awful scrappers and there is almost sure to be a fight when rival parties run across each other. Christmas day, and, in fact, all holidays, are generally marked by rows, and for that reason are known there as 'fight days.' The two races which most bitterly hate each other are the Bechuanas and the Shamgongs. "The way the Kaffirs fight is to form in long lines, which gradually approach each other. Then suddenly a man will dart out of one of the lines and rushing up almost to within striking distance of the other will jump up and down with derisive expression of face and gesture, all the while pouring a stream of vituperation upon the enemy, and will finally retire to his own ranks. This maneuver will be promptly repeated by the party attacked, and so it will go on until both sides are lashed into an ungovernable frenzy, and then they will go at it hammer and tongs until one or the other gives way, when the victors, howling 'Futsak! Futsak!' (get out! get out quick!) will chase them as long as there is a possibility of inflicting damage. As the Kaffirs do not indulge in ornamental things, but go in for the most businesslike kind of fighting, weapons are kept out of their hands when possible. "One day shortly after my arrival in Johannesburg I was driving across the veldt when I came across some Kaffirs fighting. As I drew near one side broke and made a run for it, the other side pursuing at top speed. Not more than 50 yards from my buggy one of the fugitives stubbed his toe and fell, whereupon his pursuer, who had in some way secured possession of an assegai, promptly drove that weapon through the body of his prostrate enemy and deep in the ground beneath. I ran to them and sharply asked the survivor what he was about. Looking at me with eyes in which the battle light was beginning to die out he slowly shook his head and shrugging his shoulders, and pointed at the body: 'Ah, boss, pelleo, pelleo.' And you can wager he told the truth, for that Kaffir never even quivered after the assegai struck him. I asked in Johannesburg what the word meant as soon as I got back."—N. Y. Tribune. LEG BREAKING PROFESSION. A West Virginia Man Who Made Money by Bringing Suits for Personal Injuries. "One of the strangest characters I ever met in my life died lately at a little health resort in West Virginia," said a prominent lawyer of this city the other day. "He was a professional legbreaker, and to the best of my knowledge and belief earned a living for nearly 20 years by following that vocation. His scheme, briefly told, was to go to a strange city, break his leg, or pretend to break his leg, by falling on some bad pavement and then sue the municipality for damages. He usually got compromises ranging all the way from $1,200 to $5,000. The way I became acquainted with the man and his methods was rather peculiar. He came to me in the winter of 1899 and engaged me to bring suit against one of the most prominent merchants of this city on two notes aggregating $6,300, which, he claimed, had been given him in connection with a patent for refining raw sugar by a new process. "The merchant admitted the genuineness of the signature, but said the paper had been procured by fraud, and intimated that he would spring a big sensation on trial. I had confidence in my client, who, let me say right here, was one of the most plausible and fascinating men that ever lived, and I was preparing for a red-hot legal battle, when one day I received a letter from his divorced wife, living in Sioux City, Ia. She gave me in detail the history of the man's life, cited fourteen or fifteen legbreaking exploits, giving names, dates and full particulars in each case, and wound up by saying she had mailed similar information to the lawyer on the other side. I was thunderstruck and sent for my client, and as soon as he saw the letter I knew by his face it was all true. He made a blustering denial, promised to return next day with proof and left town that night. I know positively that he swindled different cities of this country out of over $35,000. His wife claimed that he never really broke a limb in any instance. It is lucky for New Orleans he didn't try the scheme here. This city offered exceptional facilities for a leg breaker."—N. O. Times-Democrat. Cuban Society. Americans generally have the idea that in the old days the most brilliant social element in Havana were the Spanish officials and their suites. I wish they could see the horrible little outhouse in which six staff officers and their families were supposed to live at the summer palace. It would serve to accentuate their mistake. As a matter of fact the social circle of Havana has always been made up of Cubans; Cubans with Spanish titles (just as Canadians have English ones), and Cubans without titles; rich Cubans and poor ones, but always and preeminently, if not exclusively, Cubans. From the captain general down Spaniards were strangers and foreigners, who might or might not be admitted to these sacred precincts according to no law whatever.—T. B. Matt, in Scribner's Magazine. The Nickel Plate Bond Has become a member of the Central Passenger Association Mileage Ticket Bureau, and all mileage tickets properly issued by any line, a member of that Bureau, are valid for use on that road in the same manner as on other roads, members of that Bureau. No.30 Mileage Tickets Of the Central Passenger Association are good on the Nickel Plate Road between Buffalo, Chicago or intermediate stations. 32 Central Passenger Association Mileage Ticket Are accepted for passage on all trains of the Nickel Plate Road. No. 31 PETER H. $1000 REWARD. DR. SHEA. MARVELOUS MEDIUM. Gives the names of dead and living friends, tells who and when you will marry, also of business, journeys, lawsuits, absent friends, health or anything you wish to know, no matter what it is. He can call up your spirit friends and show them to you. Can make them rap all around the room. He asks no questions; don't ask you to write the names for him. Don't try to pump you up but tells you right away its thoroughly enforced by lepers. Spiritualists everywhere; received from them a gold medal and special license to practice his wonderful powers; credentials no one else can show; can give thousands of references to both white and colored patrons. Twenty-five years practice—seven in Brooklyn—will show you that he can do all he tells of. Can tell you what business is best for you and where. Can tell you how to win speedy marriage with one you love. How to be successful in all your doings, in short what is best to do. He succeeds when you call him. Please do not fraction or no pay. Call and see. You will find it lucky to consult this refined Christian gentleman. He has a medicine that will cure drunkenness; can be given patients not knowing it. Thousands through him are now. Rich. 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He gives a tree test of his power to all. The Doctor has practiced for years in New Orleans, St. Louis, Memphis and Louisville, understands thoroughly the diseases, spells or influences the race is subject to. He is now and always has been a true friend to the colored people and always had a large patronage from them. Please Read the Following: Please Read the Following: "BROOKLYN, June 3, 1882.—This is to certify I came to New York from Albany. I was a stranger in a strange city out of work and moved to New York for anything undertook. What to do I did not know. A friend advised me to go and see Dr. Shea. I did; he told me the cause of all my trouble; he took me in and treated me like a brother. Through him I got a good position that very week. I had been to others; they took my money and did me no good. I bless the day I first met Dr. Shea. I would advise all in bad dress or in trouble, to go to him at once. Sincerely, ALBERT AYERS, 2037 Atlantic avenue." "BROOKLYN, Aug. 15, 1891.—This is to certify that my husband had gone away and been absent two years. I mourned for him night and day. I gave him up as dead. Hearing of the wonderful things DR. SHEA was doing, I resolved to consult him. He told me my husband was alive and well and where he was; told me he would come home and when. To my joy all of it came true. He is home now; came back like one from the dead. I also wish to say that this month I lost the sum of $2.0. I am a poor woman and I was most insane. I went to DR. SHEA and he told me I would him, my wife, my child, my dog, my told me. I thank God there is a man so gifted in our midst that can help people and tell them what to do. Sincerely, Mrs. MARY MILLER, South Plainfield, New Jersey. DR. SHEA can show thousands such as the DOCTOR SHEA has been carefully educated in the Homeopathic and Eclectic Medical Schools of Medicine His success is wonderful in curing paralysis, Rheumatism, Asthma, Sore Eyes, Tumors, Cancers, Constipation, Ague, Dyspepsia, Tape Worm, Liver Complaints, Deafness, Catarr, Dropsy, Piles, Nervous Debility, Heart Disease, Consumption, Diseases of Women and Children, Fits, Kidney Diseases and all strange and mysterious diseases which others don't understand. All diseases do not matter that they may be. Nothing but honorable treatment. He will honestly tell you if you can be cured. Has all new remedies and new successes. Has had ample experience in public hospitals and private clinics. No trifling with human life. Call at once. Do not delay. Diplomas hang in parlor. Is a registered physician. A new remedy for rheumatism just discovered does not a liminet. Hopeless cases and those that are amenable to care to call. A perfect and radical cure warranted. 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We advise our patrons to carefully examine THE GAZETTE's advertisements before making purchases. Business men who 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 cents a line (six words to a line.) CLEVELAND, SATURDAY, FEB. 24, 1900. WHERE "THE GAZETTE" IS SOLD. PUSHAW's News Store, Cuyahoga Building 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. 387 Superior street, second west of Bond street. Open Sundays also. GOODMAN's News Depot, 586 Central avenue cor. Sterling avenue. Open Sunday. ALLIED PRINTING TRADE'S COUNCIL CLEVELAND Mr. and Mrs. J. Poindexter and Mrs. Walls have returned from Buffalo. Charles E. Gordon has returned from Michigan greatly improved in health. Capt. John C. Fulton is a candidate for constable. He registered Monday. Rev. Charles Bundy was in Columbus the first of the week in the interest of Wilberforce university. The trustees of the institution are desirous of securing from the state legislature an appropriation of $25,000 toward the new dormitory of the normal and industrial department. Mrs. Marian Nettles has been sick. Mrs. Lizzie Bartlett, wife of Henry Bartlett, and brother of Mr. William White, engineer of the City hall, died last Saturday morning at the home of her brother, 60 Harris avenue, after a short illness with lung fever. The remains will be taken to Mechanicsburg, O., for burial. At St. John's church to-morrow the pastor, Rev. Charles Bundy, will preach morning and evening. Rev. George Prosser, the evangelist, preached his farewell sermon Sunday night. Subject: "The Anatomy of the Heart." Sunday school 9:30 a.m. Y. P. S. C. E. 6:30 p. m. Quarterly meeting March 4th. Love feast next Friday evening. Bishop Payne's birthday will be celebrated by the Mite society at 3 p. m. to-morrow. A special program will be rendered. A good girl desiring employment can find same at 133 Commonwealth avenue by applying at once. There are only two in family. A splendid opportunity. Mr. Joseph H. Archer, a republican candidate for justice of the peace, is a loyal republican, and deserves the vote of every true republican citizen in the coming election of officers. Vote for him. Mr. George W. Carroll, of Newton street, has received a letter from his son, Dr. Joseph Carroll, who is with the Forty-eighth or Forty-ninth U. S. V. regiment, which recently arrived in the Philippines. Vote for Charles A. Metcalf, a republican candidate for constable. He is a deserving, active, honest and loyal republican. Vote for him in the coming campaign. We have received from the Sunday School union of the A. M. E. church, organized by Dr. C. S. Smith, August 11, 1882, and incorporated in 1889, an illustrated calendar. It is really a souvenir of the forthcoming general conference of the church. Upon the face of the card appears cuts of Bishop Turner, Arnett, Handy, Lee and Derrick; of Drs. Smith and Moore, and the Auditorium in which the sessions of the general conference will be held when it meets in Columbus, O., next May. Dr. Smith has been its secretary ever since its organization, and has built up from nothing one of the most important plants of the A. M. E. church. Mr. C. C. McMahon appears before the republicans of this city as a candidate for constable in the coming election. Mr. McMahon is of a very genial disposition, honest, active, and takes, as has always been his custom, great interest in the doings of his party. By voting for him in the coming election of officers you will be casting your vote for the right man in the right place. Rev. Langford has been confined to his home with a lame foot. Mrs. Langford's mother, of Kentucky, recently died. The Epworth league will hold its literary meeting each Wednesday evening. This department is under Mr. Green, who will arrange a programme for each meeting. The Sunday school is increasing in attendance. The W. W. will hold their next social at Mr. and Mrs. John Beard's, 674 Sterling avenue. Mrs. Wilson is better. Miss Congal, of Akron, visited Mrs. Beard last week. The little son of Mr. and Mrs. Emmet Harrison is ill with pneumonia, and the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Pollard is also sick. On the 28th Mr. Hubenth, of Bulgaria, will give a lecture and stereopticon views of his country. Maj. Fulton says he will win even if the "Little Black-Clifford-Myers-Eubanks Tammany" is against him and for another candidate for constable. Mr. McSpadden went to Painesville, Mentor and Elyria one day last week in the interest of his employer, bringing from Elyria a very fine horse. He went to Akron Friday. Mrs. Lucy E. L. Taylor, republican candidate for school council, is one of the best members of the present school council. Vote for her in the coming primaries. The Young Men's Progressive Republican club held an enthusiastic meeting Tuesday evening at No. 5 Wick block. A reorganization of the club was affected by the election of the following officers: Warren J. Cossey, president; Edward Beattie, first vice president; George Fields, second vice president; J. E. Dunjill, secretary; Jess Turner, corresponding secretary; James Starkey, treasurer: Frank Brooks, sergeant-at-arms; Will Brooks, commander. The organization is composed of young men and was formed for the purpose of taking a part in the approaching campaign. The club has unanimously endorsed Maj. John C. Fulton for constable. The club will hold a meeting Wednesday evening in Glessen's hall. Miss Kittle Skeen has been ill the past week. An alleged new republican club held a meeting Thursday night on Erie street. About a dozen persons were THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24. 1900. present. The following officers were elected: R. S. Justice, president; G. G. Higgins, secretary; David Williams, assistant secretary; Capt. Henry Brock, treasurer; Frank Wilson, sergeant-at-arms. A large crowd attended the Marquette club reception last Wednesday evening at Woodliff hall. A number of Oberlin people were present. Our people should rally around Maj. John C. Fulton and nominate him for constable. Have but one aim and that to increase our local representation in the offices of the city and county. Fulton is by far the best candidate we present. See our legislators in the interest of house bill No. 369. Don't fail. The members of the Cuyahoga delegation in the legislature are: Senators Dodge and Elmer; Representatives Breck, Phare, Davis, Roberts, Glenn, Mackenzie, Tilden and Smith. See all but the last one. Our readers who believe in race progress should not fail to patronize W. B. 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That it can not be doubted when the fact is remembered communications from the wisest and best mind FOR THE PEOPLE it represents, and can be a colored man, though his face may be of ebony hue demonstration of what can be done by the editor is a young man who, by dist of INDUSTRIAL DEALING, has succeeded in giving to the country a PAPER WORTHY THE PATRONAL reader of THE GAZETTE since its first appearance course, I feel that in justice to the paper, the ed upon the people generally, to support the identified with the COLORED people, and is in success of all without regard to Complexion. At a Leading Minister, Rev. J. W. Gazaway of Pittsburg, Pa., says: THE GAZETTE. The healthful signs of life and a highly useful career are indicated of the above-named paper. That it is a paper of Brain and Cultubed when the fact is remembered that in its columns are forams from the wisest and best minds of our race. It is a paper it represents, and can be relied upon as a friend of even though his face may be of ebony hue. The Gazette is a practice of what can be done by the young men of our race. Being man who, by dist of INDUSTRY and ECONOMY and FAS succeeded in giving to the colored people of Ohio and the PAPER WORTHY THE PATRONAGE OF ALL. Having been the Gazette since its first appearance, and having watched that in justice to the paper, the editor and the race, I should people generally, to support the paper that is PRACTICAL in the COLORED people, and is in harmony with the interests without regard to Complexion. J. W. GAZAWAY Read what a Leading Minister, Rev. J. W. Gazaway of Pittsburg, Pa., says: THE GAZETTE. The most healthful signs of life and a highly useful career are indicated in the existence of the above-named paper. That it is a paper of Brain and Culture can not be doubted when the fact is remembered that in its columns are found communications from the wisest and best minds of our race. It is a paper FOR THE PEOPLE it represents, and can be relied upon as a friend of every colored man, though his face may be of ebony hue. THE GAZETTE is a practical demonstration of what can be done by the young men of our race. The editor is a young man who, by dint of INDUSTRY and ECONOMY and FAIR DEALING, has succeeded in giving to the colored people of Ohio and the country a PAPER WORTHY THE PATRONAGE OF ALL. Having been a reader of THE GAZETTE since its first appearance, and having watched its course, I feel that in justice to the paper, the editor and the race, I should urge upon the people generally, to support the paper that is PRACTICALLY identified with the COLORED people, and is in harmony with the interests and success of all without regard to Complexion. J. W. GAZAWAY. 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Evans) says she feels entirely cured of systemic catarrh of twenty years' standing. She took nearly six bottles of thy excellent medicine, Peruna, as directed, and we feel very thankful to the for thy kindness and advice. She did not expect to be so well as she is now. Twelve years ago it cured her of la gripe. I want to tell them there has been a great deal of Peruna used here last winter. Peruna does not need praising. It tells for itself. We can and do recommend it to anyone that is afflicted with catarrh." As ever, thy friend, John Evans, South Wabash, Ind. When catarrh has reached the chronic stage, of course it has gone beyond the reach of all local remedies. Nothing but a systemic remedy can reach it. Peruna is the only remedy yet devised to meet such cases. Peruna eradicates catarrh from the system. It does its work quiet-burse. It cleanses the mucous membranes of the whole body. It produces regular functions. Peruna restores perfect health in a natural way. No one should neglect to procure one of Dr. Hartman's free books on catarrh, sent to any address by The Peruna Medicine Company, Columbus, Ohio. A Sure Cure. Doctor—I'm afraid your wife isn't going to pull through. Husband—Oh, yes, she will. I told her I already had her successor picked out in case she didn't get well.—Chicago Journal. A Competent Defense. The homeliest man in congress is Eddy, of Minnesota. He rather glories in the distinction of ugliness, especially as all his other characteristics are enviable. During his last campaign the enemies of Mr. Eddy charged him with being double-faced. He met the charge in a manner that disarmed all criticism. "Great heavens," said Mr. Eddy to his audience, "do you think that if I had two faces I would wear the one I am showing you now?"—Argonaut. Florida, West Indies and Central America. The facilities of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad for handling tourists and travelers destined for all points in Florida, Cuba, Porto Rico, Central America, or for Nassan, are unsurpassed. Double daily lines of sleeping cars are run from Cincinnati, Louisville, Chicago and St. Louis through Jacksonville to interior Florida points, and to Miami, Tampa and New Orleans, the ports of embarkation for the countries mentioned. For folders, etc., write Jackson Smith, D. P. A., Cincinnati, O. Criticising a Professor. A professor of English literature in the Kansas university once posted this notice: "Ir communicating with themselves the students will whisper as often as possible." He was horrified next morning to find this written under his notice: "That is to say, talk to yourself in whispers as much as you can."—Chicago Chronicle. Lane's Family Medicine. Moves the bowels each day. In order to be healthy this is necessary. Acts gently on the liver and kidneys. Cures sick head ache. 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It is one thing to have your farm muddy now and then; another to have it all swamp.—Hudor Genone. A Blessing.—Topeka has a deaf mute barber. ing." These are the shallow brooks with their noise. Seek the source of the brook and it is deep and quiet. The source of illness is impure blood. America's Greatest Medicine, Hood's Sarsaparilla, is Nature's own means of cleansing the entire system. It has no superior, no equal, only imitators. Debility—"My system was all run down. I had blackheads and that tired feeling. I began taking Hood's Sarsaparilla and have gained ten pounds in weight and feel like a new man." William J. Knight, 821 Bluff Street, Pittsburg, Pa. Hood's Sarsaparilla Never Disappoints Hood's Pills cure liver ills: the non-irritating and only cathartic to take with Hood's Sarsaparilla. PISO'S CURE FOR CURES WHERE ALL USE FAILS. Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use in time. Sold by druggists. CONSUMPTION THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1900. John Evans, South Wabash, Ind. membranes of the whole body. It produces regular functions. Peruna restores perfect health in a natural way. No one should neglect to procure one of Dr. Hartman's free books on catarrh, sent to any address by The Peruna Medicine Company, Columbus, Ohio. PECULIARITIES OF STATES. Some of the Physical Features for Which Certain Commonwealths are Noted. "Has it ever occurred to you," said the committeeman from Poweshiek, "that Iowa is the best watered state in the union and has less sterile land than any other?" No, it has not. Never thought of it. In fact, we don't know much about Iowa over here in the east. She gave us some clever men in Allieral; George W. McCreary, secretary of war; James Harlan, secretary of the interior; Senator Gear and Gov. Kirkwood. Jeff Davis, a lieutenant in the United States army, thrashed a lot of white folk in Dubuque, and the Mormons settled at Council Bluffs. Another thing—Iowa passed a law prohibiting liquor dealers from making more than 33 per cent. profit on sales. What else is she famed for? The Poweshieker's remark led to study of the physical peculiarities of several states. In proportion to size, Georgia has a great many more counties than any other state, the present number being 137, with promise of a new one to be named after Lieut. Brumby. Texas with nearly four and a half times the area of the "cracker" state, has 244. Georgia has no lake, and her rivers and creeks are not above the average. Massachusetts has 208 pounds, 122 rivers and more coves and harbors than any other state. She has more islands than any other state except Florida. Hard to believe, isn't it? The average reader will be amazed to learn that little New Hampshire, with less than 10,000 square miles, has no less than 406 lakes and ponds, 154 brooks, 58 rivers and 294 mountains. This makes Iowa look small. Colorado, a big state, has 566 creeks. Texas has comparatively few rivers, lakes and creeks. Alabama has 663 creeks and 87 rivers. Iowa cannot approach that record. Minnesota has 222 lakes and 140 rivers. Pennsylvania, one of the biggest, richest states, has altogether only 16 rivers and not a creek. Kentucky, also a big state, has no creeks and only 23 rivers. Tennessee has 31 rivers and creeks all told. Indiana has 8 creeks, 2 lakes and 15 rivers. New York, a state of modest size, is well equipped with rivers, lakes, creeks, islands and mountains. Louisiana is nearly all rivers and bayous, and Florida is largely made of creeks, islands, lakes and rivers.—N. Y. Press. Did Not Know. Recently a rosey-cheeked German girl applied for a position as domestic in a well known family. The girl learned to speak the English language in a remarkably short time, but many of the expressions did not appeal to her in the proper sense. The telephone had a peculiar charm for the girl, and at times she would loiter about near the instrument in order to answer a call. One day there came a ring and she hastened to the 'phone and put the receiver to her ear. "Hello," she cried. "Hello," came back over the 'phone, "who is this?" "How do I know?" innocently inquired the German maid, and to this day she wonders why the man at the other end laughed until he rang off.—Chicago Chronicle. Why can't somebody give us a list of things which everybody thinks and nobody says and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?—Oliver Wendell Holmes. Florida and Cuba. Write to J. C. Tucker, G. N. Agent, Big Four Route, 234 Clark St., Chicago, Ill., for full information as to Low Rate Excursion tickets to all Winter Resorts in the South east, via Cincinnati, Louisville, Asheville Atlanta, Jacksonville and East and West coasts of Florida, as may be desired. Pride fattens on desire.—Chicago Dispatch. To Cure a Cold in One Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund money if it fails to cure. 25c. Silent neighbors make a desirable neighborhood.—Chicago Daily News. A Dose in Time Saves Nine of Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar for Colds. Pike's Toothache Drops Cure in one minute A man is seldom sidetracked to success.—Chicago Dispatch. Some people enjoy any weather but the kind prevailing.—Chicago Dispatch. CURRENT TOPICS. There will be over 7,000 exhibitors at the Paris exposition. There are a great many caves and pre-historic mounds in Iowa. Bianca Peak, 14,885 feet above the sea level, is the highest in the U. S. The Salvation army, for the second The Salvation army, for the second time, failed to get foothold in Mexico. More than 13,000 Michigan farmers raised sugar beets for the first time last summer. Nearly 50 per cent. of the people of France and Germany are engaged in farming pursuits. About 50,000 tons of American coal has been orded for Italian and other Mediterranean ports. Compared with the thoroughfares of other industrial countries Glasgow's streets are mean. Eighty-two pictures of the Henry Hilton collection were sold recently in New York for $56,465. The bee industry employs 300,000 persons, and the revenue from it is about $20,000,000 a year. Paris expects to expend $300,000 extra on the police service alone during the exposition months. More than 12,000,000 acres of the Sahara have been converted into fertile soil by means of artesian wells. It is supposed that the average depth of sand in the deserts of Africa is from thirty feet to forty feet. In time of war France puts 370 out of every 1,000 of her population in the field; Germany, 310; Russia, 210. In the Crimean war the British fired 15,000,000 shots and killed 21,000 Russians, or one man to every 700 shots. A common sight in Cape Colony is a herd of ostriches accompanying a railway train as it speeds on its way. The cemeteries around London cover 2,000 acres, and the land they occupy represents a capital of £20,000,000. Competent judges have estimated the number of deer slain by sportsmen in Maine in one season to be 10,000. Senator Stewart was first elected to the senate in 1864, and is now serving his fifth term, which will expire in 1905. There are in Havana more beautiful horses and elegant carriages than in any city of equal size in the United States. Henry Savage Landor went about Boston in summer clothes, saying the climate was tropical compared to that of Thibet. Sycose is the new material used in a substitute for sugar in diabetes. Its sweetening power is 550 times greater than sugar. For calling another man a liar through the telephone, a citizen of Boone county, Iowa, had to pay a fine of $2. Seven shillings a day has been adopted by the New South Wales government as a minimum wage to railway laborers. The Russian government contemplates the purchase of more than twenty thousand cars for the Trans-Siberian railway. The Boer depends entirely upon his horse, which is often beautifully trained, and stands unwatched behind him while he fires. Since the visit of Sir Henry Loch to Pretoria, in 1893, the Transvaal president has positively refused to utter one word of English. The Mauser bullet makes a clean perforation of bone and muscle. Soldiers shot through both cheek bones have lost the sense of smell and taste, but are otherwise quite well. Most of the wounds are in the hands and arms. Lord Wolseley, Lord Roberts and Sir Evelyn Wood have all written considerable for the press. Sir Redvers Buller has never written anything but dispatches to the war office, and shows his aversion to any other channels of publicity. A Boer farm and homestead is, it is said, to be one of the features of the Paris exposition. In this form will be exhibited the chief wild animals of the Transvaal. The means of transportation in the country are also to be illustrated. Miss Maude Earle is spoken of in England as the successor to Rosa Bonheur. She is said to be one of the greatest living painters of animals. Dogs are her specialty. All the noted dogs in England are "sitting" to Miss Earle for their portraits. One of the military journals in France calls attention to the fact that, owing to the intensity of the electric light used on board men-of-war, the men are frequently affected with eye complaint, which in some cases have led to total blindness. The czarina of Russia has a fad for black roses, and these odd flowers have been making a sensation in St. Petersburg. A florist named Fetisoff has produced in his garden roses jet black in color, and the finest specimens are now owned by the czarina. Chicago Knights of Columbus are perfecting plans to preserve the caravel Santa Maria, which is now falling into decay in the lagoon of Jackson park. George Everett, builder of post offices and custom houses for the United States government, worked as a day laborer and stone cutter less than twenty years ago. The Chicago post office shows a great decrease in the sale of postage due stamps since the rules prohibiting the forwarding of underpaid second and third class matter went into effect. The Carnegie-Frick concern in Pennsylvania reports a profit last year of $21,000,000, and we understand that about $40,000,000 will be the net output of profit this year. A troop of Boer horsemen who perform nightly in a German circus have been forbidden that part of their programme which represents a victory over the British redcoats. Horses are scarce in Dawson City, while dogs are numerous, and so the latter are used by the fire department. They are so trained that at the tap of the fire bell they jump at once into place. Is Now Located There, Farms in His Neighborhood Being Taken by Former U. S. Residents. The following extracts from a letter written to Mr. Benj. Davis, Canadian Government Agent at St. Paul, Minn. give an excellent idea of what is said of Western Canada by those who have gone there during the past two or three years. "When we first arrived here and took up our homes on the prairie near Dalesboro, Assa., for a short time we had a fit of the 'blues,' but now all hands are settled to business, hale, heart and contented, enjoying the finest winter we have ever seen. We have got very comfortably situated, with considerable preparation for a crop, and all hopeful. I think this is a very fine country, and if the past season's crop is not an exception, which they claim not, I believe this is going to be the Wheat Field of the West. It is filling up fast. In this township last spring there were 25 quarter-sections of land vacant and to-day there is not one; I can stand at my house and count 10 houses where there was not one last spring, with six more to go up this spring. This is only a sample of what is going on all round. We intend to build a church next summer, right close to my place, so we will be strictly in line. It would have amused you to have been here last spring. There were crowds of land-seekers, and sometimes in the spring the prairie is not very inviting, and of course lots were discontented. There was one in the crowd who jumped on me for putting a letter in the paper, only for which he never would have come here, and he was very hostile, but eventually he got a place, and to-day claims he would not take a Thousand Dollars and move out, so I am glad he is satisfied. "Well, my dear Sir, as Arthur Finney is about to move out in March, with his family, and also one of my sons, anything you can do for them to assist them along and to make things smooth as possible, will be greatly appreciated by me. I will close for this time, and will write from time to time to let you know we are living. Drop us a few lines to let us know how things are moving in St. Paul. Yours Respectfully, LITERARY REWARDS. Wrestling Match Between Writers in Which the Truth is Badly Strained. "Well, if a man goes into literature he must expect his pay in something besides dollars and cents," remarked a Chicago novelist as he stroked his blond imperial. "Yes, that's so," said a second, a big man who writes western stories and delights to have himself photographed in a picturesque felt hat and an overcoat with a cape to it. "Now, for my 'Prairie Yarns' the best I could do was $25,000, and they haggled over that as if it had been an amateur performance." "They treat me the same way," said the little blond man, who has a trick of holding his head on one side. "Now for my 'Skyscraper'—magnificent piece of Chicago color, with Mrs. Seymour-Seymour in it, and the Snobs murder case, and all that, West side and North side and all that—what do you suppose I got for that? A beggarly $35,000, and I was silly enough to take it down and let the royalty go." They looked at each other narrowly. The man who writes "Prairie Yarns" said he must be going. As the elevator descended with him swiftly he muttered: "You never can tell one so big that that prig won't go you one better." pierced me on me une. The little blood he laid his throbbing forehead in his hand and mused: "It takes something more than the author of 'Prairie Yarns' to feae me."—Chicago Inter Ocean. THE BOY WAS BENEFITED. His Parents Had a Falling Out and He Came Out a Winner in Consequence. "The other afternoon," said the man in the box office of a theater, "a boy came to me and said: 'Are these any good?' and I took from him two front row seats for that night which had been torn into a hundred pieces or so, and then cleverly pasted together again. 'Oh, yes, my child, 'but how did this strange accident happen to the tickets?' The boy replied: 'Why, papa came home with them last night, and showed them to mamma, and he seemed to be in such a good humor somehow that mamma thought it would be a good time then to tell him how she owed over $100 for provisions. She told him of it, but he got so mad that he said that every night now he wouldn't come home till after 12 o'clock, and he told me for Heaven's sake, when I got married, to look out for a sensible woman. All the time mamma laughed, and he was getting madder, and so he said she wouldn't go to the theater with him, after that, and he tore the tickets up, and rushed out somewhere alone. He ain't back yet, either, but mamma don't care. I picked up the pieces off the carpet and pasted them together, and if you'll exchange the tickets for matinee ones I guess I'll come down on Saturday with some other fellow and take in the show.' I gave other tickets to the candid kid, and he walked away very well pleased with himself."—Philadelphia Record. You never meet some men that they do not ask you to take a chance in a raffle.—Atchison Globe. Ignorance is a blank sheet on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one on which we must first erase.—Colton. If you unintentionally wrong anyone don't hesitate to frankly explain it. A quarrel that may last for years can be gotten rid or by an explanation. We do not like an apology; we do not like an action requiring an apology; but an explanation is always in order; it is always genteel.—Atchison Globe. The sea, as well as air, is a free and common thing to all; and a particular nation can not pretend to have the right to the exclusion of all others, without violating the rights of nature and public usage.—Queen Elizabeth. A love-sick crow was importuning a fan young female crow to be his mate. But she would not answer "yes" to his entreaties When he begged her to tell him why she objected to him, she giggled out: "Oh, 'caws!"—Baltimore American. Foozle—"We don't call them 'bunkers' over on our links now." Tee—"No; what then?" Foozle—"They're so hard to get over we call 'em kopjes."—Baltimore American. "Doctor, a friend told me that drinking lemon soda will cure seasickness. Is it true?" "Yes, provided you sit in the shade of a tall tree when you drink it."—What to Eat. Disqualified for Age.—A well-known horseman was engaged to a young woman who had deceived him in regard to her age. The engagement was broken off, and in explaining it to a friend he said: "You know, sir, she was really 27, and she said she was only 22. That was giving her wrong age, and she might have been disqualified for that, mightn't she?"—Badminton. "Hit do 'pear lak Providence is on my side,' said the colored brother. "You know I los' my lef' arm in de sawmill last year? "Yes." "Well, I got $50 damage fer dat; en fo' I'd half spent de money along come de railroad en cut off William's leg, en I got so much money fer dat dat I ain't done countin' in yit! It Providence des stan's by me, en dey keep on a-hackin' at us, we'll soon be livin' in a painted house with two brick chimneys!"—Atlanta Constitution. STATE OF OHIO, CITY OF TOLEDO, $82 LUCAS COUNTY, Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is the senior partner of the firm of F. J. 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