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2 PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY. One Year $1 50 Six Months. 1 00 Three Months. 50 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 THE GAZETTE, Case Library Building, Cleveland, Ohio. Member Ohio Legislature, { 1894 to 1898 1900 to 1902. CLEVELAND, OHIO, MARCH 17, 1900. 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. WHAT HAVE YOU DONE? Ohio's civil rights and anti-lynching laws will be strengthened. Are you helping to do this? Our women can do much if they will. Call on the legislators in your county at once. 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. There is work for all! Read our Columbus letter in to-day's Gazette if you wish to be pleased and also learn more of what is expected of you, Ohio readers. 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. WE FAVOR SAFE COUNSEL We preach the gospel of peace and we would insist upon an honorable and rightious peace such as would become a brave and fearless people. Patrick Henry once exclaimed; "Our brethren, cry peace! peace! but there is no peace." Another contended, "better die all freemen, than live all slaves and be butchered up like sheep for the slaughter." We advocate no rash and unwise resort to indiscriminate measures. We, of all the races, must be prudent and patient, doing nothing that shall impair our status as a struggling people. The counsel of the Plain Dealer in this city, "to overcome evil with good," is both timely and judicious. Our people are numerically weak, compared with the growing strength of that element who are known as our persecutors and we would discontenance any intemperate utterance on the part of those who would conserve the best interest. But dispute this truth, it may be well to remember that a people exusperated, long goaded and oppressed and seeing the awful doom which awaits them, might in bleeding and hopeless agony make welcome any fate and risk their lives upon the possibility of some returning fortune in their favor, rather than wear the badge of despised cowards and die like dogs. We are with the Plain Dealer, but not regardless of any alternative. There is not a race of people on the globe that would be willing to accept the cruel conditions of Afro-Americans in this and tamely submit to wanton and merciless tortures without a protest and without resentment. No, not one! and if our white friends occupied the place of the Negro, and the Negro the place of the white man, even then this state of things would be resisted even to the death of their last man. A thousand white men would at once wage war against a hundred thousand Negroes and take chances. Let the Plain Dealer treat fairly the subject and advise us how we may best escape the penalties of the lynchers. TILLMAN OPPOSING AND FAVOR ING ENFRANCHISEMENT. Ben Tillman becomes exasperated and cruelly rebukes the administration because of the adoption of the bill disfranchising the Japan slaves and the Kanakes in the island. He grows eloquent, and in holy horror denounces the action of congress in instituting laws best adapted to the government of the new territory. Mr. Tillman has been severely, but very justly criticized by a portion of the press for this show of hypocrisy, owing to the fact that the people of South Carolina have shown no regard for law, and have nullified the great measure of our free constitution. The action of the legislature of South Carolina in disfranchising the colored people of that state contrary to law, is a crime against this government, but the action of congress in formulating plans suited to the condition of the people, is a legitimate right. The action of Tillman and his crowd is base robbery, treason against free government, and on account of which, the severest punishment should be inflicted. Tillman knows something of the theft already committed by the THE GAZETTE. CLEVELAND. O., SATURDAY. MARCH 17. 1900 states. He knows how, in blatant words, he has defied this government, in the propagation of his incendiary utterances. The law of this nation guarantees to every citizen the right of the franchise. The legislature of South Carolina has usurped the authority of the general government and declares that this guarantee shall not exist. And now Tillman rebukes our government for exercising a legitimate right, even in the face of South Carolina, high-handed villian, which presumes to rob Afro-American citizens of their political freedom. But he has no ground of reason in his attempt to censure the general government and he betrays an unmatched hypocrisy in the act favoring the disfranchisement of the colored people of the south. He stands guilty of the very thing which he feigns not to approve, and has given sanction to the degradation of a people far his superior in some respects, while he advocates the enfranchisement of another people quite unprepared to exercise the privileges of political freedom. Such an encroachment upon law and common justice is an unpardonable offense which admits of no apology. Strange indeed that this desperate man should be heard upon matters of such grave import to the nation, while he has shown himself the chief of political treachery. For if it is right to disfranchise an extremely illiterate and dependent people, most assuredly it is wrong for state legislatures to disfranchise those whose rights and immunities have been secured to them by national law. Mr. Tillman can not advocate the doctrine of enfranchisement abroad, yet oppose the sacred jewel among his own countrymen. BEN TILLMAN ADMITS ROBBERY Ben Tillman proves himself the most consumate reprobate of all men who ever held a seat in the United States senate. With unblushing audacity he boasts of the disgraceful provisions of the constitution of South Carolina which nullify the right of suffrage to Afro-Americans of that state. He admits the injustice, he admits the crimes, the murders and the ballot-box stuffing—all perpetrated to maintain "white domination." It is on the whole rather a sad anomaly that under our free government and in the American senate a man may be found who would confess himself a perjurer, for Tillman has more than once sworn to maintain the laws and defend the constitution of the United States. He professes loyalty to his country, loyalty to truth and honor and loyalty to his God. Yet he has perjured himself, has betrayed his most sacred trust, has deceived even his constituents and like a dog returns to his vomit. Along in the seventies no one feigned more of friendship and fidelity to the Negro, for he sought his influence and support in order to secure his own political promotion. Gaining their confidence by which he went into office, he has become their bitterest persecutor. Now he brings the charge that the votes of Negroes were purchaseable. But the charge is not absolutely true, for among the Afro-Americans, there are thousands who are far more honorable than Ben Tillman. They never could have shown the ingratitude which this haughty ingrate and usurper has so brazenly practiced upon them. Worse still, for Ben Tillman and his followers are guilty of highway robbery. By force they have denied the colored people rights and privileges which belong no more to them than to any other race. Now we repeat an opinion which is not universally entertained. Our people are loyal and conciliatory and are not easily induced to do that which is contrary to popular opinion. They understand that they have rights under this government guaranteed and irrevocable and that no state can justify deprive them of a free and equal suffrage. Intimidation has played a bloody part in robbing the black man of his rights. But suppose the Negro should confront this opposition, should meet it in an issue of blood, resolved all to a man to die rather than endure longer this outrage, assuredly there would be a sorrowful and fearful adjustment of affairs in the black belts. In the south, it is true other states might come to the rescue of Ben Tillman and his followers, and even the general government might feel called upon to lend a hand in suppressing the insurrection, but nevertheless the mad havoc of internecine war would be felt with terrible and alarming effect, if the oppressed long-goaded and disfranchised element of the south should rise in concerted action to maintain their political immunities. Nor would it be a matter of extermination on the one hand, but a question of reconciliation. Tillman sees the perfidy and criminality of his villainous robbery and he knows that his position is both untenable and treacherous. Hence he contends that Negroes' votes are purchasable. Admitting this proposition for the sake of the argument, we ask are the whites who buy the votes any more honorable than the blacks who sell them? Indeed is not the individual who takes advantage by making the purchase, far more corrupt and villainous than he who under oppressed considerations receives aid as a relief from embarrassment. It is the buyer who offers the inducement rather than he who finds himself seduced by the seducer. We, however, will remain loyal and steadfast to duty, will favor no action calculated to embarrass the general government, will bide our time in hopefulness and patience, confident that never a day has been so dark, but that there has been a darker. To protect ourselves against outrage and violence, we have been often told that the odds will be against us; be that as it may, yet the sacrifice on the part of the more powerful element may recoil upon itself and the result prove irreparable to those of whom we may be victims. Robbed, harassed and butchered, let us earnestly hope that an allwise and righteous God will direct and govern the affairs of men. The Nickle Plate Road. 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 [Continued from first page.] burg, attended.—The Republican club, of Wheeling, sent Messrs. Ward Williams, William Turner Arington, William Jones, Dr. Stalyard, William Lee and J. C. Dixon to the state convention held at Parkersburg last Thursday.—The Fifth Street M. E. church choir under Prof. Jackson, is invited to sing at Rev. C. T. Lewis's farewell service in Bridgeport Sunday.—Rev. Love will deliver his last sermon before going to conference Sunday. Youngstown.—The members of the Rescue mission gave Mr. and Mrs. Charles Tocas a farewell reception the 9th. He was presented a handsome Bible. They will leave for Bass Lake the 13th.—kev. L. W. White has returned from Findlay where he was visiting his family.—Miss Alice Kelly is convalescent and Mrs. M. Summers is ill.—Quarterly meeting was held in the Rescue mission Sunday. The following officers were elected in the literary society of the mission: Bert Stewart, president; M. E. Boggess, vice president; L. Boggess, secretary; Cora Brockenborough, assistant secretary; Mrs. L. Smith, treasurer; W. Burke, chaplain; F. B. Luce, sergeant-at-arms; B. Logan, critic. Great interest is taken in the literary society by the young people.—A surprise party was given Miss Mayme Johnson the 13th, the occasion being her birthday anniversary.—Mrs. John Robinson and son left last week for Oberlin.—A concert was given in the Baptist church March 12. Cats are greatly venerated in Persia. The feline friends of the shah number fifty, each having its own attendant and a special room for meals. When the shah goes on a journey the cats go, too, being carried by men on horseback. It has been decided that some change must be made by our army in its smokeless powder. Numerous tests have well illustrated the fact that the powder now used is extremely dangerous, being made nearly entirely of nitroglycerin. A new instance of electric street railways being used for freight purposes is found in Cleveland, O., where stone is being hauled from a quarry eight miles distant. Fifteen thousand pounds capacity freight cars are used and the work is done after the close of the passenger traffic. Philadelphia's Baptist temple has been placed on the tax list, despite the exemption of church property, because it was giving promiscuous entertainments in the church building, to which admission was had by the purchase of tickets, which were on sale to the public, just as tickets to any other secular entertainment are offered. There is hardly a ranch in the Panhandle of the western part of Texas that does not have its own private telephone system, and the barbed wires of the pasture fences are used exclusively for the purpose. A number of these private lines are fifty miles long, and messages are sent and received daily that distance without a break. The loudest speakers in congress are Senator Tillman and Representative Brosius. Mr. Brosius speaks with a long, deep roar, while Senator Tillman, when thoroughly wrought up to his subject, speaks in spasmodic shrieks. Senators Lindsay and Wolcott have powerful voices, but they are more careful of them than the gentlemen named. Authorities differ as to the rate of growth of the human hair, and it is said to be very dissimilar in different individuals. The most usually accepted calculation gives $6\frac{1}{2}$ inches per annum. A man's hair, allowed to grow to its extreme length, rarely exceeds 12 inches or 14 inches, while that of a woman will grow in rare instances to 70 inches or 75 inches, though the average does not exceed 25 inches to 30 inches. A Maj. Hook, of the East India Co. service, in London, was entitled by the will of a relative to an annuity of 400 pounds a year until his wife was buried. To fulfill the terms of this important document, after death he caused her body to be embalmed, sealed up in a glass case and placed in the upper chamber of his house, where it remained for thirty years, but no person was ever permitted to enter the room where it lay. The states of North and South Carolina are having a race in the building of new cotton mills. During the first fifty-seven days of this year 17 new cotton mills were commissioned in South Carolina and two old ones increased their stock. In two months and one day in North Carolina 15 cotton mills were projected. The total capitalization of the 19 South Carolina mills amount to $2,835,000; that of the 15 North Carolina mills reaches $2,070,000. A girl in Germantown, Pa., had an "unlucky room." No one can enter it without walking under a small ladder. The mirror is cracked and peacock feathers are strewn about in profusion. Directly over the girl's bed is suspended an umbrella, which is never closed. There are thirteen articles of furniture in the room and on the walls are hung thirteen pictures. The girl wears no jewelry except opals, and will only have her room cleaned on Fridays. Payment of the bicycle tax in France is proved by a small plate affixed to the machine every year, but the government now proposes to issue plates good for four years. The holder must have his name and address engraved at his own expense, but he is supplied with new plates when necessary, on producing the fragments of the old. Should he cease to own a bicycle he must at once deposit his plate, to have his name stricken off the list of persons liable to the tax. The story that Gen. "Joe" Wheeler is returning from the Philippines to claim as his bride Mrs. George W. Childs, who now resides in Washington, has been revived. It is asserted upon what seems to be excellent authority that the veteran soldier and the widow of the famous Philadelphia editor will wed. It is further asserted that the trousseau of the bride prospective is being completed in anticipation of the happy event, and that the details have been arranged. ENGLAND'S BLACK ALLIES. South African Basutos Have Adopted Civilized Customs and Manners. The South African Basutos would be a difficult nation to suppress and bring under control again if once armed, says Collier's Weekly. They are a warlike and superior Kaffir tribe, numbering over 220,000, and have adopted more of the civilized manners and ways of the white settlers than any other of the South African natives. Fully 50,000 of them are said to be adherents of the different Christian missionaries who have labored among them. They have never been disarmed, and in an emergency they would prove a formidable foe in the field. The paramount chief to-day is Lerthodi, a man of great force and emergency, and highly civilized. He is the direct successor of Moshesh, the famous chief who built up the Basuto kingdom out of the fugitive clans that were driven southward in the first decade of the present century. The English had a clash with the GEN. LUKE This well-known Tennessee lawyer he the southern representative on the new he enlisted in the confederate army, amments of the civil war. After peace war Memphis, and was soon afterward elector of Shelby county. Until a few weeks a ship with United States Senator Turley ceptance of a place on the commission cations. GEN. LUKE E. WRIGHT. This well-known Tennessee lawyer has been chosen by President McKinley as the southern representative on the new Philippine commission. While still a boy, he enlisted in the confederate army, and served in the principal western engagements of the civil war. After peace was restored he was admitted to the bar at Memphis, and was soon afterward elected attorney general of the criminal court of Shelby county. Until a few weeks ago Gen. Wright practiced law in partnership with United States Senator Turley. His income has been large, and his acceptance of a place on the commission cannot be ascribed to pecuniary considerations. This well-known Tennessee lawyer has been chosen by President McKinley as the southern representative on the new Philippine commission. While still a boy, he enlisted in the confederate army, and served in the principal western engagements of the civil war. After peace was restored he was admitted to the bar at Memphis, and was soon afterward elected attorney general of the criminal court of Shelby county. Until a few weeks ago Gen. Wright practiced law in partnership with United States Senator Turley. His income has been large, and his acceptance of a place on the commission cannot be ascribed to pecuniary considerations. Basutos in 1848 after a victory over the Boers. The Basutos were severely defeated in the opening campaign, and before a larger reinforcement of English could be dispatched to the scene Moshesh prudently sued for terms of peace. This wily move saved the Basutos from an exterminating war with the English and made the two nations live peaceably together for upward of half a century. The English, in fact, became their protectors and advisers. When the war between the Basutos and the Boers of the Orange Free State broke out, ten years later, the paramount chief, Moshesh, appealed to the governor of Cape Colony, who interfered and settled the disputed boundary question. This was repeated again in 1865, when the Boers made a supreme effort to annihilate the Basutos, whom they accused of stealing their cattle. This time the English declared the Basutos English subjects, and the Free State had to settle the matter with the British high commissioner. Drunkenness a Century Ago. In reviewing "The Early Married Life of Maria Josepha, Lady Stanley," the BOERS PRAYING OVER BRITISH SLAIN. A correspondent of the Sphere, a Leo other interesting things that after one Boers helped the British bury their des service," says the English correspondent a short prayer, hoping the war would so uncovered they sang a hymn in Dutch." most pathetic of the South African war is kin. THE CHRISTIAN CHRISTIAN A correspondent of the Sphere, a London illustrated weekly, writes among other interesting things that after one of the bombardments of Ladysmith the Boers helped the British bury their dead. "After our major had read the burial service," says the English correspondent, "one of the Boers stepped out and said a short prayer, hoping the war would soon end; and while we stood with heads uncovered they sang a hymn in Dutch." The scene is described as one of the most pathetic of the South African war, and proves that after all the whole world is kln. A correspondent of the Sphere, a London illustrated weekly, writes among other interesting things that after one of the bombardments of Ladysmith the Boers helped the British bury their dead. "After our major had read the burial service," says the English correspondent, "one of the Boers stepped out and said a short prayer, hoping the war would soon end; and while we stood with heads uncovered they sang a hymn in Dutch." The scene is described as one of the most pathetic of the South African war, and proves that after all the whole world is kln. London Spectator comments on the light in which drunkenness was regarded at the beginning of the century. There was a christening of twins, and rejoicing among the neighbors, tenants and laborers. "All the guests," says Maria, "were as drunk as I ever had the pleasure of seeing anyone." Among the laborers, however, "that extent of intoxication was not reached which causes men to be swine." Lady Shefflers, who received this account of the festivities, replies: "I would have given a great deal to be present; there is nothing I love so much as such sort of festivities, where one has the satisfaction of knowing that one makes one's friends happy as well as drunk." In London, she declares, "when you give a ball you affront many people, please a few, make many drunk, and yourself miserable." Wife-You used to call me the light of your life. Husband-So I did, but I had no idea the light was going to be so expensive.-N. Y. Journal. LARGEST TREE IN THE WORLD Called the Hurricane Tree in the Capital of the Bahama Islands. In Nassau, the capital city of the Bahama islands, they say "the tree in the public square"—not the trees. Now, the public square of Nassau is quite as large as that of most cities of the size, but there is only one tree in it, and that tree literally fills the square and spreads its shade over all the public buildings in the neighborhood. For it is the largest tree in the world at its base, although it is hardly taller than a three-story house. It is variously known as a ceiba, or a silk cotton tree, but the people of the low islands of the West Indies call it the hurricane tree. For no matter how hard the wind blows it cannot disturb the mighty buttressed trunk of the ceiba. In the hurricane of last spring all the palms and many of the other trees of Nassau were overturned, but the great hurricane tree, although it lost all its leaves, did not lose so much as a branch. Its trunk throws out is been chosen by President McKinley as Philippine commission. While still a boy, and served in the principal western engagements restored he was admitted to the bar at and attorney general of the criminal court to Gen. Wright practiced law in partner- His income has been large, and his ac- cannot be ascribed to pecuniary considera- great curving, wing-like branches, some of them 20 feet wide and nearly as high. These extend into the ground on all sides and brace the tree against all attack, while the great branches spread a thick shade overhead. In the tropic sunshine of midsummer, hundreds, even thousands, of people may gather in the cool of its shadow. No one knows how old the great tree is, but it must have been growing hundreds, if not thousands, of years. A very old picture in the library at Nassau shows the tree as big as it is at present, and even the oldest negro in the island cannot remember when it was a bit smaller. "A FLOWER OF HELL." Strange Blossom Recently Sent from Central America to an Indiana Man. E. C. Downey, an attorney of Churubusco, Ind., who spent many months in Central America, has just received from a friend in Guatemala one of the most wonderful species of flowers known to mankind. It is called the London illustrated weekly, writes among of the bombardments of Ladysmith the end. "After our major had read the burial, 'one of the Boers stepped out and said on end; and while we stood with heads The scene is described as one of the, and proves that after all the whole world "rose of hell," and grows only in the vicinity of Antigua, near the crater of the volcano of Fuego. It is looked upon by the native Indians with a superstitious dread, and is named the "rose of hell" because it thrives better near the steaming Fuego than away from it. The Indians regard the crater of Fuego as the doorway of the infernal regions, and this flower as being produced by the evil spirits associated with the demons of the sulphurous clime where the souls of the sinful all go. The flower is very deadly, and when boiled into a liquid and given to any animal death rapidly follows without pain, as quiet and peaceful as sleep. Science does not record another instance where this wonderful flower is found except in Guatemala, and the only place it is found in that country is near the doorway of the famous Fuego volcano. Several universities of this country will send after specimens of the rare flower and use it for experiments and demonstration to the classes in botany. --- CURRENT TOPICS. There are 90,000 trees in the city of Paris. In the rock of Gibraltar there are seventy miles of tunnels. The hair grows considerably faster in winter than in summer. In ten years the descendants of two rabbits will number 70,000,000. Wheat costs $4 a bushel in Cape Town. Livery teams hire for $25 a day. In small hotels in Russia each guest is expected to find his own bed clothing. Massachusetts has 116 street railway companies, controlling 1,492 miles. The Christian Endeavor society is represented in every country in the world. The world annually produces something like 3,000,000 tons of butter and cheese. Artificial flowers, mixed with the real ones, are used for table decorations. The Stonewall Jackson Memorial association has been incorporated in Virginia. Twenty thousand people have been vaccinated in Savannah during the past two months. The will of Thomas X. Dowd, of Malvern, Kan., bequeaths $10,500 to that town for a free library. Philadelphia has forty-one wards and two branches of the city council. Chicago has thirty-five wards. The military rule is that five times the number of an entrenched enemy are required to dislodge the latter. The Transvaal was an unknown land, so far as European knowledge or influences were, prior to the year 1830. To mobilize the entire force of the Boer army when war was declared took but 17 telegrams from Gen. Joubert. London is 12 miles broad one way and 17 the other, and every year sees about 20 miles of new streets added to it. India rubber heels on shoes, decreasing the fatigue of marching, will be adopted, it is said, by the French army. A movement is on foot in Hamburg to unite the various scientific institutes in the city into a sort of university. Cavalry cover four miles an hour when walking, nine miles an hour when trotting, fifteen miles an hour galloping. An automobile omnibus service has been established on the Isle of Man, between the various towns and summer resorts. Barring the Egyptians, the ancient Mayas of Yucatan seem to have been the greatest pyramid builders the world ever saw. Horses in their wild state live to the age of thirty-six normally, being still fairly fresh and hearty at that age in the desert. The ancient plow of India, costing perhaps 75 cents, pulled by oxen, is used in that country still. Few implements are employed. A Chicago company proposes to furnish electric light and trolley power for San Juan, Porto Rico, and all the country for miles around. Increased attention is being paid to tobacco culture in Georgia, and the article is being profitably grown in many counties of the state. Miss Mona Clarke, one of the few women engravers in this country, occupies a lucrative position with a wholesale house in Chicago. The number of timber rafts on all the rivers of European Russia is said to be more than 80,000 yearly, with a total of about 25,000,000 logs. Prof. Ira Remsen, of Johns Hopkins university, has been elected an honorary member of the Swedish academy of sciences of Stockholm. Mr. Rhodes fits out the tattered prisoners of Kimberley with new suits and transforms them into clean and respectable members of society. There are over 100 gold mines in the immediate vicinity of Johannesberg, stretching out on all sides of the city. The monthly output of the mines was fifteen tons of gold. The multiplication of new compounds in organic chemistry is something appalling. In 1883 the total number of carbon compounds recorded was 16,000, but a newly revised list by Dr. M. M. Richter enumerates not less than 67,000. And the end seems vet far off. The deepest ocean temperatures ever recorded were taken aboard the Pacific submarine telegraph survey ship Nero recently. At a depth of 5,070 fathoms a temperature of 35.9 degrees was recorded, and at 5,101 fathoms 36 degree. The deepest previous casts were made by the British survey ship Penguin. It is said that there are over 12,000,000 golf balls used each year in the United States, American players being particularly prodigal in their use The majority of the golf balls come from England. They are difficult to manufacture, slight differences in the composition interfering with their usefulness. The eighty-third annual report of the American Bible society makes the statement that 65,962,505 copies of the Bible have been issued since its establishment. The German war authorities have duplicates of all bridges in France. If, in case of war, any of these bridges were destroyed, they could be replaced in six hours. Money is not plentiful among many British aristocrats. The late duke of Teck was frequently at his wits' end to make ends meet. With the death of his wife her state allowance of $15,000 a year ceased. The children of the poor in Japan are nearly always labeled in case they should stray from their homes while their mothers are engaged in domestic duties. Traction engines are employed by the British forces in the Transvaal for the conveyance of supplies. They drag heavy loads up steep hills, and save the struggling horses. The Cossacks are almost never merchants, although they alone maintain nearly 60,000 fighting men and can muster 128,000 in an emergency, there are 440 of their own people engaged in business. M. $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 in any way, because your spirit is thoroughly endorsed by leading. 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 show what is best to do. He successes when he fails. For Patricia he has satisfaction or no call. Pay 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, Happy and Successful in all their undertakings, while those who neglect his advice are still laboring against poverty and adversity. Through his perfect knowledge of chemistry he can impart to you a secret that will overcome your enemies and win you friends. His aid and advice have often been solicited: the result has always been the securing of speedy and happy marriage and all your wishes. In love affairs he never fails. He has the secret of winning the affections of the opposite sex. It is the curse of Spiritualism that in all large cities there are a class of men and women who claim powers they do not possess. They have neither gifts, credentials nor references. Surely the colored people are not so wanting in sense as to throw their time and money away on such. DR. SHEA refers to the Hon. Charles Riley, capitalist, 2481 Atlantic avenue, Hon. Dumont avenue, 42 Cleveland ay, and Arthur Sewell, ship builder, South Brooklyn. All have known him for the past seven years. He gives a free test of his power to all. The Doctor has practiced five 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: "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 out of money. I had no luck in anything I did. I had to go to a friend who 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 luck, sick or in trouble, to go to him at once. Sinceely, ALBERT AYERS, 2037 Atlantic City." 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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'3 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 The Monday Night club will meet March 19 at Mrs. I. E. Oliver's, 61 Blaine street. Dr. Bundy visited Wilberforce Wednesday. The masquerade ball given by "The Trolley club" Tuesday evening was a very enjoyable affair. Woodiiff hall was filled to its utmost capacity with friends who had gathered to pay tribute to the new organization. Motorman J. C. Brown is president and Conductor R. K. Hodges secretary of the club. Capt. J. Harden is still very sick at 19 Bank street. He is a prominent member of several organizations in the city and is deserving of more attention than he has been receiving. Miss Anna Caldwell will go to Willoughby Monday to spend a few days. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Buchanan have returned from Akron where they visited Mrs. Linder, their cousin. Prior to 1871-72 the world's production of beet sugar had reached 1,000,000 tons; in the present crop year it is, according to latest estimates, 5,510,000 tons, while the cane-sugar crop, which in 1871-72 was 1,599,000 tons, is in the present year 2,904,000 tons. Rev. E. J. Carter, pastor of the A. M. E. Zion church, is sick with "la grippe." A collection was taken up for him last Sunday at St. John's church by the Deaconess' board. Rev. Langford will leave for conference the 21st. "Auntie" Davis is quite sick; also Amnie, the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Washington. Mrs. John Poindexter has been ill with quinsy. Crawford Mann was removed to the City hospital Monday, suffering with a complication of diseases. He is in destitute circumstances. Miss Bettie Harris was in Wheeling, W. Va., the past week to participate in a concert. Ed Elsner and Daniel Fairfax were in Oberlin last Saturday. Mr. Garrett Morgan, who was struck by a Broadway street car three weeks ago, on Davis street bridge, is recovering rapidly. He will be able to leave Charity hospital in a few days. John Brock has received an appointment to a position in the custom house. It will last until June 1—it is said. Miss Lucy Reed, of Greenwood street, entertained at dinner last Sunday. Seven courses were served. A Lenten tea was given at the home of Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Embrey, of Central avenue, Tuesday evening for the benefit of St. Andrew's mission. Mr. and Mrs. William White, of Harris street, will leave for Mechanicsburg Monday to bury their sister. Rev. Chas. Bundy was in Wilberforce the past week. The "Robeda club" is arranging to give its first annual banquet on May 30. The members promise to make it the finest affair of the kind ever given in the city. "Allen's day" was appropriately celebrated last Sunday at St. John's church. The programme in the evening was well rendered. The decorations were extensive and in conformity with the occasion. The C. E. society elected officers Monday evening and gave a public reception to its friends. To-morrow morning and evening the pastor, Rev. Chas. Bundy, will preach. In the evening the W. C. T. U. will hold a special service. Next Wednesday evening the recital will be given by Mr. J. Gerald Tyler, pianist, of Oberlin conservatory, and Mr. Clarence White, violinist, assisted by other talent. The result of the "bank opening" of the Coral Builders Wednesday far surpassed the most sanguine expectations. The amount of money collected by the three principal contestants was as follows: William McIntyre, $101.33; Mrs. Frank Long, $53.95; Frank Lee, $25. The total amount raised by the six contestants was $182.54. The diamond ring was awarded to Mr. McIntyre and a beautiful pin to Mrs. Long. This effort reduces the indebtedness of the Coral Builders on the organ, in St. John's church, to about $79. We have received from the Sunday school union of the A. M. E. church a copy of the Teachers' Quarterly for the second quarter of 1900. The leading editorial pages contain a complete record of children's day money from 1882 to 1899 and the purposes for which it has been expended; a statement as to the circulation of our periodicals; extracts from the report of the secretary and treasurer of the Sunday school union to the general conference of 1896 concerning "Fire and Insurance;" also a reprinted letter from Bishop Gaines, dated August 8, 1895. The Sunday services at Cory chapel were interesting. Rev. Canben preaching the morning and Rev. Langford the evening sermon. To-morrow will be Rev. Langford's last Sunday before going to conference. He will preach in the morning and Rev. Moore, of Antioch, at three o'clock. Rev. Langford will preach his farewell sermon Sunday night, and will leave Tuesday morning for Covington, Ky., to attend the annual conference. The Epworth league, Sunday school and church are in a prosperous condition. Wm. N. R. Alexander, of 54 Laurel street, left for Hudson and Ravenna, where he will remain until about the 1st of May. Church services were held in Shiloh Baptist church Sunday. The Sunday school room, still being in a bad condition from the effects of the recent fire, services were held in the church room. The library, consisting of about 100 or more of new books, was not damaged by the fire, but were slightly soiled by water. Mrs. Alexander, who for ten years has been a Methodist, joined the church Sunday morning and is a candidate for baptism. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, MARCH 17, 1900. Mr. Henry L. Thomas, formerly a resident of this city and a stenographer in the employ of the Erie railroad, who has for several months occupied a similar position with the railroad company in Chicago, passed through here last Sunday week en route to Washington, D. C., to take a similar position in the navy department of the government service. Mr. Thomas took a civil service examination for the position while in Chicago, and secured the place as a result of that and the assistance of Hon. T. E. Burton and the editor of The Gazette. Mr. Thomas was married to a very estimable young Cleveland lady just prior to his leaving Cleveland for Chicago. 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. Gibson's restaurant and Sigler Bros.' jewelry store, where Mr. C. L. Lacey is employed. If you desire The Gazette delivered at your residence by carrier, send a card to Arthur Markowitz, 147 Scovill avenue. New Brighton, Pa., News. The M. M. society met last Thursday evening at Wayman's chapel, and after transacting business a lunch was served.—Earl Scott, of Mercy, Pa., is visiting his uncle, Frank Stewart and Miss Jessie Gardner, of Beaver, visited her mother, Mrs. Thomas Reed, Saturday evening.—Rev. R. Brown, of Bridgewater, visited here Monday, as did Rev. W. H. Tyler, who was the guest of Rev. W. H. Weirs.—A. W. Tanner and daughter, Miss Parsilla Butler, of Beaver, the two Miss Websters, Master Theodore and brother and Mrs. Jones, of Beaver, attended the rally at the A. M. E. church Sunday.—Mr. Woodson, of Beaver Falls, and Ora Waldon, of this city, are better.—A number of voters from Beaver Falls and surrounding towns held a meeting here last week for the purpose of forming a political organization. The officers elected were: John E. Johnson, president; Henry Suckers, vice president; John R. Johnson, treasurer; Lester Ford, recording secretary; Mr. Bolden, corresponding secretary; Rev. Carter, chaplain; David Palmer, sergeant-at-arms. The name adopted is the "Beaver County Republican Reform club." Energetic Persons Wanted. The old reliable Gazette desires at once an energetic and honest agent, and a good correspondent, in every city and town in Ohio having a number of Afro-American residents. We are especially desirous of hearing from persons in the following named cities at once: Akron, Springfield, Steubenville, Toledo, Wilmington, Kenton, Sandusky, Columbus, Circleville, Portsmouth, Lancaster, Xenia, Newark, Cincinnati, Urbana, O.; Pittsburg and Allegheny, and other western Pennsylvania cities and towns; Wheeling, Parkersburg and Charleston, W. Va. Address a card to the editor of The Gazette, Case Library building, Cleveland, O. Send us the name of some good person or persons in any of the cities named above to whom we can write relative to the matter. Cleveland's Anti-Lynching Law Case. Columbus, O.—The case of J. W. Caldwell vs. the Commissioners of Cuyahoga county for $1,000 damages, under the anti-lynching law, was argued before the supreme court March 2. Caldwell, during the Brown-Hoist strike, in Cleveland, in 1896, was shot in the leg and wounded on the head in a riot. The circuit court pronounced the law constitutional, and this is the first time the supreme court has had an opportunity to pass on it. 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 Women Are More Lavish in Their Purchases of Precious Stones Than Ever Before. American women are fond of jewelry at all times, but there has been little limit to their desire for precious stones this year, says the Chicago Chronicle. This is the jewel age. Never before have women in America worn so many or such costly ones. The report of Gen. George W. Mindil, jewelry examiner at the New York public stores, shows the importation of precious stones and pearls during the year 1899 to have been $19,321,752.55—the largest value ever brought through the port of New York in the history of the jewelry trade. Of this amount $5,907,534.76 represents uncut diamonds and $13,414,217.79 cut diamonds, precious stones and pearls. The Spanish-American war had an appreciable effect upon the diamond market during 1898, and this year the Transyaal war caused the price to advance. Fortunate are those who possess all the diamonds and pearls they desire at present. Of course, the advance differs according to the quality and size, inferior stones being plentiful and cheap. Pearls have become so popular that despite the increased price it is impossible to supply the demand for fine specimens. Colored stones are not fashion's favorites. Emeralds—that is, handsome stones—are scarce. Perhaps it is the accuracy with which colored stones are imitated that has caused them to become less popular, for many of the imitations can only be detected by an expert. Fancy stones, especially colored diamonds, have become a fad, and the jewel cases of American women contain some of the finest specimens of these beautiful stones to be found outside of the royal collections of Europe. The native music of aboriginal tribes is regarded as of great importance in anthropology, and the recent British (Cambridge) expedition to the Toures straits and New Guinea carried along phonographs to record the songs of the savages. Some of the songs thus recorded on Murray island are already obsolete, and will, it is believed, die out with the old men of the tribes. "In savage life," says one of the members of the expedition, "the songs of the tribe are its chief heritage." PROFIT FROM A MISTAKE. Wrong Grade of Iron Sent to Japan Comes Back and Makes Money Here. A curious illustration of the economy with which modern commerce and transportation is conducted, is given in a report of the "Foreign Markets" section of the department of agriculture. It is there stated that the farmers of Denmark find it profitable to buy American bacon and butter for their own consumption and send that which they themselves produce to the English markets, where, by reason of its long established reputation, it commands a higher price than the American product. Another example of a similar sort, which also shows the phenomenal advance in iron prices which took place last year, was the experience of a prominent export house in New York city. In 1998 this firm shipped a lot of pig iron to Japan. The grade sent was found to be unsuited to the Japanese market, however. The demand there is said to be for a soft iron which can be readily broken up into small pieces for use in the primitive forges, and the American pigs proved difficult to fracture in the customary way. Most of the shipment was therefore returned to the New York export house. By the time it reached here, however, the price of iron had risen so much that, after paying the freight on the consignment half way round the world and back again, the exporters still made a profit on the transaction.—Engineering. The Fire of Genius. The fire of genius is frequently extinguished by having cold water poured on it.—Chicago Daily News Legal Notice. STATE OF OHIO, CUYAHOGA COUNTY, ss. In the Probate Court. Charles Bundy, as admini- strator of the estate of Moses Simmons deceased. vs. The Society for Savings, Maria Thompson and the Unknown heirs of Henry Simmons, of David Simmons, of George Simmons and of Perrebe Greenfield, respectively. Maria Thompson, who resides at Goldshore, in Wayne county, North Carolina, and the unknown heirs of Henry Simmons, of David Simmons, of George Simmons and of Ferrebe Greenfield, respectively, deceased, heirs at law of Moses Simmons, deceased, will take notice that Charles Bundy, as administrator of the estate of Moses Simmons, deceased, on the ninth day of March, A. D. 1900, filed his petition in the Probate Court within and for the County of Cuyahoga, and State of Ohio, alleging that the personal estate of said decedent is insufficient to pay his debts and the charges of administering his estate; that he died seized in fee simple of the following described real estate of 50 feet down the Cleveland, County of Cuyahoga, and State of Ohio, as being all of sub-lots Nos. 104 and 105 in James M. Hoyt's sub-division of ten-nere lot No. 37 in said city, and together makes a frontage of 50 feet upon the westerly line of Sterling avenue, and extends in rear to Laurel street 148 and 3-12 feet in depth. That the said defendant, the Society for Savings, holds a mortgage lien on said real estate by virtue of a certain mortgage executed to it as mortgagee by the said decedent during his life time, dated November 14, 1894, and recorded in Vol. 595, page 509, of Cuyahoga County records, that the amount secured by said mortgage is Five Hundred Oars, as indicated in exhibit "A," attached to Oars, as indicated in exhibit "A," attached to the last half of the taxes for 1899 are unpaid and are not said real estate. That it would be for the best interests of the estate of the said Moses Simmons to sell said real estate at private sale for the reason that the character and location of said property leads plaintiff to believe that he could sell the same for a greater sum at private sale than at public auction. The prayer of said petition is that the plaintiff may be authorized to sell said real estate to pay debts, at a private sale, according to the statute in such case made and provided. The persons first above mentioned will further take notice that they have been made parties defendant to said petition, and that they are required to answer the same on or before the 12th day of May, A. D. 1900. CHAS. BUNDY. Administrator as aforesaid. March 9, 1900. ALEX H. MARTIN. Attorney. STARKEY—Abel, beloved husband of Bonnie L. Starkey, at his daughter's residence, 442 Central avenue, March 11, 9 p. m. maged. 70. Fungal at St. Andrew's chapel, corner Scovill avenue and Chapel street. 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Comparison with any will immediately establish its rank as one of the And has the largest bona fide circulation, double that of any journal in the interest of Afro- Americans, published in the State of Ohio. Comparison with any will immediately establish its rank as one of the IN THE COUNTRY. Read what a Leading Minister, in Pittsburg, Pa., the existence of the above-named paper. 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 colored man, though his face may be of ebony his demonstration of what can be done by the editor is a young man who, by dint of INDUSTRIAL DEALING, has succeeded in giving to the country a PAPER WORTHY THE PATRONAL reader of THE GAZETTE since its first appearance, I feel that in justice to the paper, the course 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, 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 Curious when the fact is remembered that in its columns are famous from the wisest and best minds of our race. It is a paper, although his face may be of ebony hue. The Gazette is a prairie of what can be done by the young men of our race. A man who, by dint of INDUSTRY and ECONOMY and has succeeded in giving to the colored people of Ohio and PEOPER 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. THE GAZETTE IS AOKNOWLEDGED TO BE A LEADING REPUBLICAN NEWS Devoted to the Interests of the Rac IT ADVOCATES AN IMPROVEMENT IN OUR A LEADING REPUBLICAN NEWSPAPER Devoted to the Interests of the Race. IT ADVOCATES AN IMPROVEMENT IN OUR EDUCATIONAL. MORAL A FINAN And is neutral in nothing that the Progress of th MORAL AND FINANCIAL CONDITION neutral in nothing that advances or impedes the Progress of the Race. And is neutral in nothing that advances or impedes the Progress of the Race. Besides Correspondence from All Parts of the Country, Portraits and Biographical Sketches, Interesting Serials, Editorials, ODD FELLOW, MASONIC and other Lodge News, it gives from week to week a General News Summary of Which alone is worth the price of the paper. One year. $1 50 | Three months. $ 50 Six months. 1 00 | In clubs of ten one year. 1 00 In clubs of five, one year. $1 25. Write for Our Extraordinary Induces ments to Agents. CLEVELAND. OHIO. 3 SMALLPOX DISTRIBUTORS How the Germs Are Nurtured and the Disease Is Spread. It would seem that people will never learn to be careful. The recent alarming spread of that dire epidemic, smallpox, throughout different sections of the country has been traced by physicians and sanitarians in many instances directly to the moldy and rotting layers of paper and paste which cover the walls of many houses. The practice of laying layer after layer of paper on a wall, using common flour paste, is especially calculated to create homes for disease germs. People could not do more to effect such a result if they tried. The rotting vegetable matter affords caves from which are ready to dart forth the infection at every opportunity. There is no excuse for this practice, as walls and ceilings can be coated with a pure, cleanly and sanitary material like Alabastine, for instance, at no greater expense. Alabastine is a rock-base cement, which incorporates itself with the wall or ceiling. It is easily applied, comes ready to mix with cold water, requires no washing or scraping before renewing or retinting, is beautiful, long-lasting and safe. For walls that have been infected, nothing is equal to Alabastine as a disinfectant to render them pure and clean and the rooms once more habitable. NOT UP IN THE CLASSICS. Congressman Who Was In the Dark as to Title and Colophon. A certain member of the house of representatives, nameless here forever more, met a newspaper correspondent in the lobby the other day and mysteriously invited him to his committee room. The correspondent cast a chew of tobacco out of his mouth in anticipation, and followed the statesman to the seclusion of the place designated. "Say," said the member, looking about carefully to see that only the two of them were present, "I want to ask you a question in confidence." "Oh," responded the correspondent in a tone of disappointment, "is that what you wanted?" "Yes; and if you can give me the information I am after you will do me a great favor." "All right," said the correspondent, recovering his wonted spirits, though the other kind were lacking, "what is it? Go ahead with your rat killing." "Well," began the member in a manner reminding one of the preface to a book, "I had one of the boys look over a speech I am going to make, just to see what he thought of it and make a suggestion or two to improve it, if necessary, and he's got something into it that I'm not up to." "What is it?" asked the correspondent, the member hesitated. "Well, I'm fairly well up on the Bible, and when I come across the sentence 'anywhere from Dan to Beersheba,' I know what it means well enough, and also know about Dan and the other one. I had that in the speech, but he said it was a chestnut by this time, and it would sound more tony and abreast of the times and literary culture to change it from 'Title to Colophon,' and I told him 'all right,' but didn't let on. Now, you are a friend of mine, and I want to ask you about this. As I said, I'm up on the Bible, but I don't know the classical business a little bit, and while I can kind of catch on to Title, I'd like to know who in thunder Colophon was. Do you know?" The correspondent explained, and the member saw to it that his cast-out chew of tobacco was not wasted.—N. Y. Sun. Coughing Leads to Consumption. Kemp's Balsam will stop the Cough at once. Go to your druggist to-day and get a sample bottle free. Large bottles 25 and 50 cents. Go at once; delays are dangerous. Not All Taffy. "Can you tell me who Ananias was?" asked the old man of the proprietor of the book store. "Of course I can," was the reply. "He was champion liar of the world at one time. Did anyone call you Ananias?" "Yes, sir. Yes, called me Ananias, and, durn my buttons, if I didn't think he was givin' me a bushel of praise! Next man who calls me Ananias won't never know what house fell on him!"—Chicago Evening News. Spring Medicine There's no season when good medicine is so much needed as in Spring, and there's no medicine which does so much good in Spring as Hood's Sarsaparilla. In fact, Spring Medicine is another name for Hood's Sarsaparilla. Do not delay taking it. Don't put it off till your health tone gets too low to be lifted. Will give you a good appetite, purify and enrich your blood, overcome that tired feeling, give you mental and digestive strength and steady nerves. Be sure to ask for HOOD'S, and be sure that you get Hood's, the best medicine money can buy. Get a bottle TO-DAY. All druggists. Price$1. ABSOLUTE SECURITY. Genuine Carter's Little Liver Pills. Must Bear Signature of Brant Wood See Fac-Simile Wrapper Below. Very small and as easy to take as sugar. CARTER'S LITTLE LIVER PILLS. FOR HEADACHE. FOR DIZZINESS. FOR BILIOUSNESS. FOR TORPID LIVER. FOR CONSTIPATION. FOR SALLOW SKIN. FOR THE COMPLEXION PRICE 10 Cents Purely Vegetable BENEFITS MUST HAVE SIGNATURE. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, MARCH 17. 1900. THE carriage turned and the horses, pampered and spirited, started rapidly down the hard, winding road, while Horton, waving his hand to two faces looking out the window of the quickly-disappearing train, jumped in his trap and followed. "Come over and spend the evening, now that your friends have gone," Miss d'Aubert called to him as they left. Beyond the limits of the village they drove through the beautiful, peaceful scenery of southern Louisiana, through broad stretches of cultured land, handsome houses in the midst of towering trees, thick shrubbery and flowers, past groups of whitewashed cottages and green pastures, where cattle browsed in content that the day was done and the pleasant spring night close at hand. Aurore leaned forward and looked silently at the calm and beautiful landscrape, while the continuous crunch of the wheels on the gravel and quick beat of the horses' hoofs seemed an accompaniment to her confused and whirling thoughts and emotions. The wave of brilliant color which had swept over her face with a keen, joyous surge as she recognized the clear-cut features, fine eyes and firm, pleasant mouth so vividly remembered, remained like blushing roses in her cheeks, while a look of startled tenderness, undiscernable in the dwindling twilight, forced the curves of her lips into lines of exquisite beauty. "How time flies!" remarked her aunt, with a sigh of placid content, weaving certain plans for the near future, in which her handsome niece was to take a prominent part. "Do you not think May is a very charming mouth, cherie? Why not listen to reason, and let Robert persuade you? June is the best possible time to go abroad, and your uncle and I could join you later in Paris. We could spend the winter there if Robert can spare the time, and your sorrow will cease to overshadow you, my dear. You are too young, mon infant, to be unhappy. There is so much in the years to come to gild life for you into happiness; our affection and Robert's devoted attachment will quickly chase away all the shadows if you will only be reasonable and consent." A look of keen distress settled over Aurore's face, and although her lips parted as if to speak no sound came. "It is for your welfare and happiness I press you, Aurore," resumed her aunt, with kindly emotion. "Robert Horton is your only close relative, child, and should the accidents of life take us old people away from you who would protect and care for you? Your father was my dearly loved brother. Were I to die, Aurore, I could not meet him if I left his only daughter alone and unprotected in this heartless and cruel world." With a half sob Aurore threw a loving arm around Mrs. d'Aubert's neck and declared with loving reproach that she would not listen to words so sad, and to eventualities too distant to be anything but shadows. "You are trying to frighten me. Let me stay with you and dear old uncle, and let us frame no plans, or, if you will, let us three go abroad in June, you and uncle and I. "We will visit together the old German towns you are so fond of, and when winter comes we will see." But her aunt shook her head with smiling persistency, while fondly stroking Aurore's brown hair as it rested on her shoulders. Like most gentle and placid natures, Mrs. d'Aubert, when once her mind was made up on a question, became tenacious and immovable and rarely ever abandoned her point. This her husband well knew. "Celeste est inebranlable!" he would say laughingly. "But, cherie, poor Bert is wearing his heart out," she continued, gently. "You are unkind and not fair to him. And your father wished it. So why put it off? Nowhere would you find a kinder or better man than Robert Horton. And his untiring devotion! Does that count for nothing? Be reasonable, ma petite. Let us say—the last ten days of May. Let me tell Bert—" "No! no! no! Not yet. Not in May!" pleaded Aurore, a poignant anguish clutching at her heart strings. There was a long pause, while a carriage swept up the avenue and stopped. "Ah, les jeunes filles," sighed Mrs. d'Aubert. "Very well, cherie, we will speak of it later." Her aunt was placidly unmoved as Horton sprang out and came forward to help them alight. Mrs. d'Aubert looked with fond approval at the rather melancholy, dark, refined face of her nephew and thought with a sigh what a handsome and attractive man he was. She was almost put out as she leaned on his shoulder in getting out. "When I'm auntie's age," Aurore said with a slightly embarrassed laugh, refusing the help of his outstretched hands and jumping on the marble steps of the porch, where Mrs. d'Aubert stood. "I'll be over about eight," Horton said, rather shortly, as he turned, swung himself in his trap, took the lines and drove off. "Tu n'es pas gentille," Mrs. d'Aubert said, with gentle reproach, as they went in the wide hall. And Aurore asked herself while going up the broad winding stairway why it was that she could not greet her cousin, her old playmate of those sweet early years, of whom she had always been so fond with even ordinary cordiality, but instinctively repelled and repulsed him. Why she dreaded every approach to that one thought which she so well knew was dominant in his mind, and why she felt so miserable, so utterly wretched, when he looked at her with that appealing air of devotion she knew so well. The March evening was warm and pleasant, and Aurore slipped into a lighter gown before going down to supper, only partly conscious of how its clinging transparency brightened the brilliance of her beauty. "Where's Bert?" queried her uncle, looking at her admiringly as they sat in their handsome dining-room while Aurore deftly handled a silver tea service centuries old, family tradition declared. This was always a pleasant time of the day, and her uncle loved to linger and chat before adjourning to the library to read his voluminous evening mail. "Go back to visit Mayence, and Cologne, and Coblentz, and their wonderful art treasures and those queer attractive German villages? Spend a month at the Spa? Then to Berlin? "A very pleasing plan. Why not execute it?" Aurore and her uncle sat and planned while Mrs. d'Aubert had gone off and left them and was ensconced by the reading lamp with a late magazine. And Aurore was eager and radiant, not at the anticipated pleasure of a tour abroad, as her uncle thought, but in the hope of pestponing that fateful future which loomed up so immutably. That future, planned by her father, approved by all, urged so persistently by her dear and loving old aunt, and pleaded for by Robert Horton, with the silent, but passionate, entreaty of eyes that never left her, and by a thousand acts of ceaseless devotion, from which her heart turned with a horrible ingratitude. Aurore thought miserably. "Ah, but, little one, your aunt and I are too old for such junketings," her uncle resumed, with a shake of the head. "You must listen to good advice and let Robert be your guide and companion. We will join you in the fall in London or Paris, and settle down to a pleasant winter of enjoyment—such a winter as your youth and beauty deserves." With a loving gesture he went toward the library in search of his mail, and Aurore, with a sigh, passed out on the porch. Aurore sat on the marble steps and looked out over the moonlit garden, and determined to have it out once for all with her innermost thoughts, and to come to a distinct understanding of all those chaotic, troublous feelings which had so insidiously taken possession of her. The faint chimes of the village church bell came on the still, odorous air, some fireflies went flitting through the flowering shrubs, and a profound melancholy took possession of Aurore—a yearning she could not define, while reason asserted itself with cold insistence. "You do not even know him. You saw him for one short half hour, that memorable night when wind and storm were abroad; that winter night, whose dawn severed the frail thread of a life so dear to you. "How do you know," said reason, "that he remembers you? That he has given you a single thought? "Because he looked full and keenly and long, your vanity has supposed that there was interest and admiration in a glance only remarkable because it came from eyes of singular and splendid forcefulness. "You must, you must thrust this silly recollection from heart and brain. You must get rid of it. Bury it under cares, ambitions, anything! And rub out from memory the lines of that strong, fine face, which haunts you so persistently, so cruelly. "What are his ties and affections? You know not. "Had he cared to seek you, could he not easily have done so? "Forget him. Blot him from memory, and give a gracious hearing to the friend of your childhood, to the tried and true affection of all these years, which has never varied, never lessened, and in doing so give pleasure and happiness to those who have taken you to their hearts, and who shelter you with their kindly love." So reason spoke. And Aurore, glancing back through the doors which opened down on the porch, saw in the beautiful oak-paneled room, rich in rare decorations, on whose walls hung the portraits of a proud old ancestry, the handsome, elderly, gray-haired people whose cup of content would be full, she well knew, if the plan they cherished was carried out to fulfillment. Aurore leaned against the tall column of the porch and looked out at the radiance of the night, and as the soft, plaintive call of a bird broke the stillness it seemed to her that her heart would beat its last pulsation and die, this calm, glorious night of spring, for reproachful in the intensity of its deep, ineffable look came back the face of her dreams, plain and distinct, in the soft, shadowy light. With a stifled cry Aurore covered her face with her hands. "Did I frighten you, Aurore? I thought you heard me come out on the porch," said Horton, with a grieved eagerness. "What is it, sweetheart? You look as if you had seen a ghost. Why, you are trembling, and your hands are icy cold. What an impressionable little child it is, in spite of its 20 years," said Horton, smiling tenderly, while chafing Aurore's hands with loving gentleness. "Now sit down and tell me what you were dreaming about, and what wicked thoughts were absorbing you. They must have been villainous, to have blanched your cheeks that way. "Why, Aurore, child, you are as pale as these lilies I brought you. I know they are your favorite flower." Yes, Aurore's heart must have died when she gave that stifled cry, for it seemed too cold and lumb. But memory still lived, for, holding the lilies of the valley, she remembered that some one had stooped and picked up from the wet stones a few similar frail blossoms, broken from her hand, one night long ago. They sat side by side on the marble steps, and the two elderly people inside peered lovingly at them, nodded and talked, with a pleased laugh to each other, and laid bright plans. And Aurore gazed silently out at the calm ethereal light, resting so peacefully over all things, while Horton, with desperate emotion, poured out his soul to her, while a palpitating stillness seemed to hover around. "The dream of my youth and of manhood, that dream, sweetheart, which holds for me life's ambitions and dearest hopes!" Robert Horton was saying. Like a faint sigh, the scent of the lilies of the valley came to Aurore, and the stillness of the moonlit night enwrapt her. There was a slight bustle indoors in the handsome library. Mrs. d'Aubert looked up, paused, and came forward. "A dispatch for you, Bert, from your frend," she said, pausing in the doorway.—N. O. Times-Democrat. The above illustration shows one of the mammoth buildings occupied by the great Mail Order House of the John M. Smyth Company of Chicago. For one-third of a century this Company has been in business. Beginning in a small way they supplied their neighbors in the near-by towns, each year widening their field. They are now selling merchandise direct to the consumer at wholesale prices throughout the United States. Some years ago they began supplying their customers with an illustrated catalogue. As the business expanded they were obliged to increase the size of this catalogue, until to-day it exceeds 1,000 illustrated pages, quoting the lowest wholesale prices on everything to Eat, Wear and Use. By a superior process of color photography they illustrate many of their goods in natural colors, bringing out the rich color value of curtains, carpets, draperies, and the latest designs in wall papers, etc., thus enabling the customer hundreds of miles distant to select goods at his own fireside, knowing by the description, illustration and price the class of goods he may expect. This feature of their business is becoming more and more popular each year, for it not only saves long and tiresome railroad journeys but is a great time saver. It leaves out the profit of the jobbing house, the retailer, the expensive commercial traveler, the general agent, the sub-agent, and thus eliminates from one to four profits, saving this amount for the consumer. In short, it is a great wholesale store brought to the home. The mammoth cata- logue referred to is a 20th century dictionary of economy. The illustration above shows the recent building added to this great enterprise. building added to this great enterprise. The success of this Company seems incredible, considering the fact that they have advertised so little. Their spirit of fairness and industry is the secret of this wonderful success. The quantity of goods they require in some lines enables them to handle train loads of merchandise secured at the lowest possible cost and freight rate. When goods in the rough are coming from the mills and factories in the East, the lake steamers are pressed into service at a freight expense which is but little in advance of the iron ore rates. Their references are: Any bank or express company, or any man, woman or child in Chicago. ONE Profit, Our High ARM MELBA Sewing Machine has the Up-to-Date Improvements in machine accessories. Accessories with choice of oak or walnut cabinet, is furnished AUTOMATIC SELF-THREADING SHUTTLE. By one movement you are ready for service. The MELBA has the patent ONE Profit. Our HIGH ARM MELBA Sewing Machine has all the Up-to-Date Improvements in measurements and Accessories, with choice of oak or wal- nut cabinet. It is furnished with impressible AUTOMATIC ELF- THREADING SHUTTLE. By one movement the shuttle is threaded 110 lbs. it is shipped at first-class rate. The freight will average about $1.00 within 300 miles of Chicago. The cabinet work is ornamental, the seven drawers and cov- er the HUY GANE RIGHT finial. Having the heavy NIKOEL-PLATED RIGHT finial. Put Each machine is carefully tested before leaving our factory. A MELBA sale to us means a new friend and customer for our general line of EVERYTHING you need. We will ship this machine to it on a close margin and fully GUARANTEE it for TWENTY YEARS. We will ship this machine C.O. D., with examination privilege, to any point in the U. S. on receipt of $800 in order. Price of 7-drawer machine is $140. OUR SPRING CATALOGUE of 1,000 illustrated pages will be sent prepaid on receipt of 15 cents, which will be sent in the mail. You will receive a receipt of first order. This catalogue quotes wholesale prices on EVERYTHING you EAT WEAR and USE. Established 1878. JOSEPH J. 150-166 W. Madison St., Order by this No. 11 B. CHICAGO, ILL GRAIN-O THE FOOD DRINK. Coffee injures growing children, even when it is weakened. Grain-O gives them brighter eyes, firmer flesh, quicker intelligence and happier dispositions. They can drink all they want of Grain-O—the more the better—and it tastes like coffee. All grocers; 15c. and 25c. TAPE WORMS "A tape worm eighteen feet long at least came on the floor when I taking two CASCARETS. This I am sure has caused my bad health for the past three years. I am still taking Cascarets, the only cathartic worthy of notice by sensible people." GEO. W. BOWLES, Baird, Mass. CANDY CATHARTIC Cancarets TRADE MARK REGISTERED REGULATE THE LIVER Pleasant, Palatable, Potent. Taste Good. Do Good. Never Sloken. Wear 'en. or Gripe. 10c. 25c. 50c. CURE CONSTIPATION. Sterling Remedy Company, Chicago, Montreal, New York. 513 NO-TO-BAC Sold and guaranteed by all drug- cists to CURE Tobacco Habit. Curcs Croup and Whooping-Cough Unexcelled for Consumptives. Gives quick, sure results. Refuse substitutes. Dr. Bull's Pills cure Biliousness. Trial, 20 for 50. FISO'S CURE FOR CURSES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS. Bcm Cure System. Testes Good. Use in time. Sold by druggists. CONSUMPTION ARTIFICIAL SUNLIGHT. BRILLIANCY AND SAFETY. A Revelation in Economical Illumination for Homes, Hotels and All Classes of Buildings. Acetylene, the new artificial light, three years ago known only to Scientists, is today coming so rapidly into popular use that it promises to replace all the older means of lighting. The new light has been christened "Artificial Sunlight," as by its rays colors can be distinguished as by day and in softness, steadiness and all qualities of light the resemblance is most marked. The great economy and convenience in producing the new illuminant, and the beauty and excellence of the light itself explain in a measure its marvelous growth in popularity. Calcium Carbide, the material from which each individual user produces his own Acetylene, is a solid substance, hard as granite and is ordinarily crushed, like broken stone, to pieces about the size of eggs. This material is compact, clean, convenient and even safer to handle than coal. Its marvelous affinity for water makes it of value and the moment it comes in contact with water the generation of Acetylene begins. Carbide, as it is generally called, is usually packed, in air and water tight drums, holding one hundred pounds of this material, each. Enough Acetylene gas can be made to light a large room for several hours by merely throwing a piece of carbide the size of one's thumb into a tumbler of water. In that case, however, the gas is not controlled—the gas is all made in a few moments and lost. Machines called generators are made, which cause the Carbide and water to be brought together just in proportion as the gas is needed for lighting. Most of these machines are simply constructed and they do this automatically. If the light from one burner is needed, then the machine causes just enough gas to be made to supply one burner. If ten burners are lighted, then the same machine will deliver enough gas to supply ten burners. The very simplicity of this principle has attracted the attention and inventive genius of hundreds of scientists and mechanics; thus, in some instances, unreliable and unsafe Acetylene generators have been produced. The good and reliable machines are many, however, and most of such are constructed under the direction of competent mechanical engineers and sold by responsible con- is needed, then the machine causes just enough gas to be made to supply one burner. If ten burners are lighted, then the same machine will deliver enough gas to supply ten burners. The very simplicity of this principle has attracted the attention and inventive genius of hundreds of scientists and mechanics; thus, in some instances, unreliable and unsafe Acetylene generators have been produced. The good and reliable machines are many, however, and most of such are constructed under the direction of competent mechanical engineers and sold by responsible concerns. Imagine receiving one's supply of artificial light, as a solid, one hundred pounds at a time in a little drum from the freight station. When one realizes that each package will make as much light as 25,000 candles for one hour, more light than the ordinary size family will use in three months, and such a package will cost about $4.00, perhaps the explanation of the increasing popularity is found. The cost of Carbide has been steadily reduced notwithstanding the early impressions of the great expense in manufacture. Such large quantities are now being consumed, and such material reductions in price have actually been made, that users can expect that lighting with Acetylene will be as inexpensive as it has proved to be desirable in point of excellence and beauty. Acetylene solves the lighting problem wherever city gas and electric light is not available, by the simple process of the Acetylene plant. These can be placed in any dwelling or building by an ordinary mechanic, can be manipulated by any person of ordinary intelligence. They are practical, simple, safe, economical, and appeal to every owner or occupant of a building, every merchant or manufacturer, and every individual interested in the artificial light problem Wide Open. Miss Skreecher—"I noticed that Dr Brown, who sat next to you, was quite interested in my singing last night. Miss Peppery—I don't think it was your singing, dear. He turned to me when you had finished and said: "I never miss an opportunity to study the tonsils; it's my specialty, you know."—Troy Times. Low Rate Home Seekers' Excursions. The Missouri Pacific Railway and Iron Mountain Route are now running a series of excursions to the West and Southwest. Tickets on sale March 6th and 20th, April 3d and 17th, at very low rates. Maps, folders, time cards and illustrated pamphlets on the various states mailed free on application to H. C. Townsend, G. P. & T. A., St. Louis. He Knew. "Now, boys," said the Sunday school teacher, "our lesson to-day teaches us that if we are good while here on earth, when we die we will go to a place of everlasting bliss. But, suppose we are bad, then what becomes of us?" "We'll go to a place of everlasting blister," replied a small boy at the foot of the class.—Yonkers Statesman. You Can Get Allen's Foot-Ease FREE. Write to-day to Allen S. Olmsted, Leroy, N. Y., for a FREE sample of Allen's Foot-Ease, a powder to shake into your shoes. It cures chilblains, sweating, damp, swollen, aching feet. It makes New or tight shoes easy. A certain cure for Corns and Bumions. All druggists and shoe stores sell it. 25c. Y.—"Have your wages gone up?" C.—"I guess so; the boss made an assignment today."—Yonkers Statesman. 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. Price 25 and 50c. It is hard for a crooked man to tell a straight story.—Chicago Dispatch. Look before you elope.—Chicago Dispatch. A blind wood sawyer's wife says she never saw him see, but she often goes to see him saw.—Chicago Daily News. There is a special tier of griddles in Hades for "painless dentists. —Town Topics. "Never despise physical deformities," says the Manayunk (Pa.) philosopher. "The dog with his tail cut off has no fear of tin cans." It is a wonder that a man doesn't appreciate to a higher degree a seat at his own fireside, considering how much the fuel is costing him.—Atchison Globe. A Chicago youth calls his sweetheart a silent belle because he kissed and she never toiled.—Chicago Daily News. "Isn't it hard," said the sentimental landlady, "to think of this poor little lamb cut down in its youth to satisfy our appetites?" Miss Pepprey—"Why, she doesn't look as if she knew her own name." Miss Newitt—"She doesn't, half the time." Miss Pepprey—"Really?" Miss Newitt—"Yes; you know she n'rried a Polish nobleman."—Philadelphia Press. Stage Manager—"You say you have had some stage experience?" Miss Gush—"O, yes, indeed! I took the leading part in our church cantata at home once, and—well, to tell you the truth, everybody said I just played my part too lovely for anything."—Ohio State Journal. She—"We discussed the greenback at our study club to-day." He—"Well, what did you decide?" 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