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THE GAZETTE One Year 81 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. CLEVELAND, OHIO, APRIL 7 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 NEWSIBEST AND BEST in the country. 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. H. B. 369 and H. B. 629! Remember them and see your members of the legislature 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. Our bills amending and strengthening Ohio's anti-lynching and civil rights laws are on the calendar of the house of representatives, and will come up for consideration next week. They are house bills No. 369 and 620. See your members of the legislature at once in their interest. Be sure to call your senator or senators' attention to them, also. AGITATE I AGITATE I House Bills, No. 369 and 629 will supplement the civil rights and anti-lynching laws of our grand old state, and it behooves every loyal citizen and friend of good government to urge the passage of these bills. Is there a man, woman or child that does not desire the well being of Ohio; is there a person who feels the care of home, who fondly loves the growing institutions of his state, whose hopes are big for the future, who does not desire to shield his own loved land from lawlessness and mob-violence? It is a matter of duty that every intelligent and well-informed individual, sharing the fostering care of our great commonwealth, should contribute his best means and influence to its support. We owe it to ourselves and to our posterity to strengthen the laws and every means of protection that life and liberty may be made secure to the humblest as well as to the strongest. Shall we overlook the fact, that though we may enjoy a temporary protection, yet no man is safe in his person and liberty so long as the laws are threatened and disregarded. And though the strong and the influential may content themselves that it is well with them, we ask is there a citizen whose soul is so little and mean as to enjoy any repose of mind while he knows that a single man of Ohio has been wronged of his just rights under the laws. A moment's reflection ought to remind us of the fearful and disastrous consequences which must befall any people neglectful of their first duty to the state. We live not for ourselves alone; but for the millions who shall come after us. Lynch law and its kindred crimes have darkened the fair name of all south land and rendered it a hiss and a byword before enlightened mankind. The south in humiliation and shame gloats in the wanton drunkenness of crime that has stained the record of a great and powerful nation. It has flaunted its shame in the face of the northern people and flung defiance in the teeth of the national government. Ohio has felt the touch of this blasting humiliation and in conscious pride asks and demands the influence and support of every good person to stay the hand of violence and lawlessness and rescue her name from a barbarism which today has entailed irreparable mischief and disgrace upon the entire country. As in the past Ohio has led the van and has in patriotic pride braved opposition for the righteousness of its cause, so now let her true and loyal sons and daughters bend their best energies in urging and agitating the claims of House bills 369 and 629 that they THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1900. may become laws and the nation's best heritage in helping to stamp out the worst infamy that has ever yet disgraced a people. Yes! Talk about bills 369 and 629, talk about them to your neighbors, talk about them in high and low places. Tell them that the bills involve the cause of the people. Call your meetings and ask your legislators to vote for House bills, No. 369 and 629. Ohio expects every man to do his duty, it pleads with every loving mother and fond father, to lend their voice and sanction to this cause. Your government and your country demand your earnest and untiring co-operation, and only the most indifferent and careless will disregard this sacred and imperative duty. Centuries are but a day with the Almighty and every passing moment only brings us nearer the time when either by neglect or the performance of a righteous duty, we shall realize the fruits of our labor. Let us press the battle and labor on for liberty and law, for humanity and God. Right knowing is not doing; but right knowing with right doing is the object and end of every growing interest. In some respects our people have been as clay in the hands of the potter, allowing others to do our thinking and our choosing. But owing to our adverse circumstances we are confronted with unequal conditions and we must bring to ourselves materialism to balance accounts and restore the equation. In other words we must advance on new lines. We must progress. We must think more, do more, and waste less. Inertia is death. We must break away from the traditions of the past and do that which is wise and necessary for ourselves and the best interest of all concerned. Men attain distinction only when they break away from hoary traditions and master conditions which lead to necessary innovations. Wyoming and Lockland, O., News. The grandmaster of Kenton, O., organized a ladies' court of M. M. D. K. and H. of J., composed or some of the best ladies and gentlemen of this city. The following officers were appointed: Most Ancient Matron, Mrs. Sallie Jackson; Senior Matron, Mrs. May Waller; Most Worthy Joshua, Rev. Lee Wells; Court Treasurer, Mrs. Callie Maxberry; Court Secretary, Miss Anna May Waller; Inner Gate Keeper, Mrs. Jane De Sleet; Outer Gate Keeper, Mrs. Lucy Moore; Lecturer, Miss Willie D. Waller; First Court Director, A. Moore; Second Court Director, Wm. Phillips; Third Court Director, H. C. Waller. The Court is known as the "Virgin Mary." The Maple street Christian church is preparing a programme for Easter. Edward Minnis and his mother have moved to Maplewood. The union service at Mt. Zion church was well attended. Mrs. M. V. Roberts is organist. To-morrow morning the Baptist church will meet at Maple street Christian church. The sermon will be delivered by Rev. Burch. At the A. M. E. church, the Woman's M. M. society held their call meeting after Sunday school. Rev. Coleman preached at 11 and Rev. Kiner at 7:30. The entertainment given last Saturday by the ladies of the sewing circle was well attended, as was also the one given at Mrs. Savage's. The entertainment at Maple street Christian church by the Busy Bees was a success. Mrs. Marie Gray is training the children of the A. M. E. church for a grand concert. The members of Mt. Zion church are preparing for their Easter market and also arranging a programme for Easter. The S. E. club gave a reception at Mrs. Hill's in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Whitehead and Mr. and Mrs. Daniel. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Davis and Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Derrickson were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Julia Fry, of Glendale, last Friday. Rev. Coleman attended the wedding of his brother in Cincinnati last Wednesday. Mrs. Rev. Coleman recited one of Paul Dunbar's poems at the missionary tea last Thursday. Mrs. Susie Phillips is ill with consumption. The pink tea given by the Women's M. M. society at the A. M. E. church, March 27, was a success. A short programme was rendered: Singing by the quartette, the Gray Bros., recitation by Miss Nettie Renfro, recitation by Dora Bates; solos: Mrs. James, Miss Malinda Smith; instrumental solo, Mrs. Addie Jackson; recitation, Verba Roberts. Mrs. Nettie Cox is holding meetings every evening this week at Miss Esther Merritt's. C. B. McKinney, of McKinney, Ky., is the guest of his sister, Mrs. Erastus Daniel. Ministers' Expression Regarding Rev. S. C. Morris Regretfully we, the colored pastors of the M. E., A. M. E., A. M. E. Zion and Baptist churches of the city of Cleveland have heard that the Rev. S. C. Morris is about leaving the Antioch Baptist church and we cannot allow him to go from our midst without some expression of the sentiments we hold concerning him. We unhesitatingly say that this city has never been favored with a colored minister more thoroughly equipped for his high calling than the Rev. S. C. Morris. He has been in this city for about a year and has added much strength to our ministerial ranks, and by personal contact with him privately and publicly we have found him nothing less than a straight forward Christian gentleman and minister and have therefore learned to respect and love him. As a scholar, Rev. S. C. Morris is of a high order, a profound thinker, and reasoner. As an expounder and preacher of the Gospel, he is certainly one of the best some of us have ever heard. His is a real teaching ministry and as a public speaker he is not easily excelled—a man that ranks in the first order for eloquence, depth of thought and logical clearness. His leaving this city will be a standing record of the greatest mistake of his church and we will, as citizens, be losing an ideal man of our race. A man strong intellectually, morally, and religiously a man able to lift up the race to a higher intellectual moral and religious standard. We need such a man in this city. We still hope that he will not feel forced to leave us just now, but should he really go away, we sincerely hope he will accept this as a public expression of our good wishes for his future welfare, and of our confidence in him as a Christian and a brother in the ministry of our common Lord. We desire a copy of the above sent to Rev. S. C. Morris. the above sent to Rev. S. C. Morris. Rev. E. D. Dandridge. Rev. Chas. Bundy. Rev. E. J. Carter. Rev. W. M. Langford. the whole country are once more uni- President McKinley spoke in Washington and rejoiced that the people of ited. The differences between the north and south have been buried in the graves of the brave men of all sections and races who died in the Spanish war. But the Negro is still in the wood pile, where he has been from the foundation of the government, a disturbing element which nothing but justice and humane treatment will ever remove. The Blind Black Samson still has his broad shoulders against the pillars of the state.—Lexington (Ky.) Standard. Secretary L. G. Jordan has issued an appeal in behalf of the Foreign Mission Board of the National Baptist convention, calling upon all Negro Baptist churches, Sunday schools, Young People's societies and Women's Missionary societies to unite in a service in April to raise money for their workers in Africa. He says: "In four years we have gathered around us thirty-five churches, fourteen day schools, three industrial schools, fifty native workers and 2,100 members in Africa. In Cuba we have a growing school and now comes a plea that we take under our protecting wing a struggling work in British Guiana, South America." A large number of thrifty farmers among our people are leaving the state bound for various places. They are determined to do this on account of the lawless element in the state and the manner in which a large number of them have been dealt with; not only inhumanly, but much advantage has been taken of them in business transactions which they have been powerless to resent. On account of this ill treatment and undue advantage the state is losing a large per cent. of the necessary adjunct to its agricultural prosperity and will be the means undoubtedly of causing some farmers to raise short crops and otherwise hurting the state. The colored citizens of the rural districts will continue leaving the state until they are treated in a becoming manner.—Savannah (Ga.) Tribune. In Anderson, S. C., Mr. David Dooly, a blacksmith, and perhaps, the wealthiest colored man of the town—has just completed a new hall. It is a substantial brick building, two stories high. The lower story is used as a blacksmith shop, and the one above as a hall. The colored people of the town now have a decent place where they can have their entertainments. Hon. John Knight, the son of slave parents on a cotton plantation in Louisiana, has made a colossal fortune out of bananas. Freed by the war of 1862-65, he migrated south to Gautemala, where he found a fortune by starting a farm on which he grew bananas and the costly vanilla bean. He now owns vast tracts of coffee, cocoa plantations, gold mines, a bank and a line of steamers, and lives in a handsome villa just outside the capital. The legislature has passed a bill to remove the remains of Hon. James Lynch, colored, ex-secretary of the state, from the white cemetery of Jackson, Miss. Lynch's remains are resting in that part of Jackson cemetery owned by the aristocratic whites. The monument erected by the state to his memory is one of the most magnificent in the cemetery. Although the remains of over one thousand Negroes are resting in various parts of this cemetery, those of Lynch alone are singled out to be removed. The poorer whites must be content to bury their dead near the remains of Negroes, but the legislature comes to the relief of the rich aristocratic whites and orders the removal of the remains of one prominent colored man from the cemetery. The remains of poor whites and Negroes in Jackson's white cemetery can mould in the dust side by side together.—Vicksburg (Miss.) Light. though of a highly dignified character, one of the best in the work; while the utterances of the pala-faced Priest are given to the tenor, the chorus, however, playing a very important part throughout. The cantata ends as Hiawatha, in his canoe, sets off from the shore on his great voyage towards the Unknown. Mr. Coleridge Taylor to-night elected to conduct in person, which, perhaps, was rather a bold undertaking, considering that he could have had comparatively few opportunities of directing so large a body of voices. The general performance suffered in consequence, and, moreover, more rehearsals were apparently necessary. The important baritone part, which contains, indeed, the whole of Hiawatha's words, was entrusted to Mr. Andrew Black, who gave a very fine reading of the "Farewell" and other portions of the music. On the other hand, the voice of neither Miss Blauvelt, the soprano, nor of Mr. Mockridge, the tenor, was strong enough for the Albert Hall. The cantata was, however, favorably, and the end of each part even enthusiastically, received. If the soprano, Miss Blauvelt, and the tenor, Mr. Mockridge, both of whom, if memory serves me correctly are Americans, were in this country and were required to take the parts in Mr. Taylor's compositions they take in London and under the direction of a colored man it is amusing as well as disgusting to imagine what might be the result because there is little doubt but that they would give in to American prejudice, governing themselves accordingly. House Bill, No. 369, which amends and strengthens our Ohio Anti-Lynching Law, and H. B., No. 629, which amends and strengthens our Ohio Civil Rights Law, are on the house calendar for third reading and will come up for passage possibly before this letter is published and reach the senate for consideration next week. If our people are to do anything at all in behalf of the passage of the above mentioned bills, they must do it quickly, because but a week or ten days remain before the assembly will adjourn. Only a few of our people have indicated the material interest in this measure that all should, and it is high time that thousands of them were calling upon and writing their members of the legislature, particularly their state senators. If we would have the protection to our life, property and rights that we are entitled to under the United States and state constitutions we must indicate more interest in what is being sought to be accomplished as a result of House Bills 369 and 629. Please act promptly—call upon or write your representatives and state senators at once. H. C. S. [Continues on first page.] Howard. Rev. Johnson delivered an able sermon Sunday night to a large audience. Springfield.—Mesdames Mary Edmondson, Oneeda Henderson, Anna Taylor and Miss Elizabeth Williams will give an entertainment April 9th for the benefit of their lodge, the "Daughters of Jerusalem."—A grand concert was given by the choir at the A. M. E. church Monday night.—Rev. Talbott attended the conference at Covington, Ky.—Miss Issa Jackson visited in Dayton last week.—Mrs. Fannie Underwood and Mrs. Amanda Brown are very ill.—The concert given by the literary society of the A. M. E. church, Tuesday evening, was well attended.—Misses Cora and Ida Williams returned to Wilberforce university.—Robert Walker is building a fine residence.—Miss Belle Harris expects to visit in Boston, this month. wedding marche at the Johnson and Miller (white) wedding last month. Youngstown.—Mrs. A. Harris returned home last week.—The Rescue Mission has prepared a fine program for Easter. — The Philanthropic club will give a ball April 26th, in Excelsior parlors. — Communion was held in the Baptist church, April 1st. — Misses J. Crawford, Grace Massy and others of Warren attended the True Reformers' entertainment. — Mr. Knowl is the guest of Mrs. J. Lewis. — The choir of the Methodist church gave an entertainment Tuesday evening. — J. Lewis is preparing to give a concert in the Rescue Mission, April 16th. — A mistake was made in the issue of March 24th. It should have read, that Wm. Nelson, chief of the division, Miss M. E. Boggess, secretary and Mrs. R. B. Jackson and W. Mistress went to Akron, March 19th, to set up a fountain of "True Reformers." They were assisted by L. Trent, of Pittsburg. — Mr. James and Mr. B. Jackson are very sick. Oberlin.—Mrs. Cora Phoenix gave a birthday party Thursday evening, and every one had a very nice time.—Mr. and Mrs. Tysen celebrated their golden wedding Monday evening.—The Epworth league gave a free concert last Friday night.—Rev. Wood is expected to preach at Rust M. E. church, Sunday. This is his third term.—Rev. C. M. Williams, pastor of Mt. Zion church, attended the Baptist convention last Thursday and Friday at Elyria.—Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Perry, of Elyria, visited here Sunday.—A daughter was born to Mrs. Jas. Brown, of Clarksburg, W. Va., sister of Mrs. A. H. McGee, on the 16th of March.—Mrs. Jane Blake is in a very bad received while cooking at a hotel in Cleveland.—All those who wish to put items in "The Gazette" please send them at time of delivery or have them in by Monday night. Give them to the agent, N. A. McGee. Dayton.—Prof. Woodson, of Wilberforce, delivered two able discourses at Eaker Street church Sunday, and Rev. Hamilton at the Mission.—Mrs. Ella Broady, of Minneapolis, died here suddenly Wednesday and was buried Monday. Her husband arrived Saturday.—Miss McKnight died Saturday and was buried Monday.—Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Bush celebrated their china wedding anniversary Wednesday evening. Many handsome presents were received.—Mrs. George Bailey entertained Misses week.—The Abraham circle will iniguest, Miss Issa Jackson, of Springfield, to dinner Thursday, and Mrs. Leach entertained them Saturday evening.—Mrs. Nancy Stewart of Noblesville, Ind., is the guest of Mrs. H. E. Boone.—Mrs. Susie Jackson, of Covington, Ky., came to this city to attend the funeral of Mrs. Ella Broady. Martins Ferry.—Mrs. Rosina Richardson visited in Mt. Pleasant, Sunday, and Thaddeus Blancheard, of Adina, visited his sister, Mrs. Anna Syms, Sunday.—Miss Florence Locket, of Morningview, visited here Saturday.—Mesdames Ida Jackson and Anna Syms were in Wheeling, Saturday.—Miss Alice Scipio was sick last week.—The Abraham circle will initiate five new members next Thursday night.—The infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Bush is ill with brain fever.—Rev. J. H. Love returned from Conference Saturday, after spending a week visiting his son in Xenia, and father and sisters in Columbus.—Elmer Walker left for Cleveland Sunday.—Mrs. Elmira Evans was very sick Saturday and Sunday, but is improved.—Luther Ginder had his face painfully burned Sunday with rodine, taking it for glycerine.—Mrs. Mattie Young, who has been sick, is better. Wilberforce.—Last Sunday services were conducted by Rev. E. A. Clark, who preached in the morning, and the Y. P. S. C. E. conducted the evening service.—The Y. M. C. A. conducted a student's prayer meeting, Monday evening, at which time the delegates, Messrs. J. Guynn and Chas. Starr, who were sent to the Findlay Y. M. C. A. convention made their reports. They were very interesting and a source of much encouragement.—Rev. J. C. Coleman, who has been sick for some time, visited the Seminary Tuesday. — Prof. O. E. Jones preached and conducted communion services at North Street A. M. E. church in Springfield, in the absence of Rev. John Dickerson, P. E. —Prof. G. F. Woodson preached both services at Eaker Street A. M. E. church, Dayton, Sunday.—M. O. Davis in the senior class at the Seminary, preached at the A. M. E. church, Cedarville, Sunday, and John H. Hamilton, of the junior class, preached at the A. M. E. mission in Dayton, Sunday.—Bishop Arnett went to Columbus Wednesday morning.—Mrs. Chas. C. Smith is convalescent.—The Turner brothers and Flack's meat market are doing a good business. A Splendid Opportunity! 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, Lorain, Toledo, Wilmington, Kenton, Lima, 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. Mileage Tickets Of the Central Passenger Association are good on the Nickel Plate Road between Buffalo, Chicago or intermediate stations. 32 HE SAVED SIX LIVES. Gallant Work of a Young Colored Man at a New York Fire-Took Children From the Burning Flat While Hanging Head Downward From a Nearby Window. New York City.—Six lives were saved by the gallant work of a young colored man during a fire at a flat house in West One Hundred and Thirty-fourth street recently. The man's name is M. S. Anderson. He detected the fire while on his way to work. The flames had gained considerable headway, and in a window of the second floor stood a man named Nelson with his six little children hovering about him, their escape having been cut off by the flames. With two passers-by, Anderson ran into the building next door and up to the third floor. With his two companions holding his legs, Anderson swung head downward, and swaying his body back and forward, managed to reach the children as they were held up to him by the father. All were taken out safely in this manner. The firemen brought the other occupants of the building down the hadders. New Brighton, Pa. Brevities New Brighton, Pa., Brevities. Thomas Findley was sick last week, but is better.—Mrs. Haskins is ill with "la gripe."—Rev. Weirs has been suffering with a cold.—Rev. A. E. Waldon's daughter is better.—A large number attended the concert last Thursday evening at Reno's hall in Rochester, given by C. H. Robberson.—The ladies of the Bethel church of Bridgewater will give an entertainment Thursday evening.—Rev. Tate, of Leetsdale, was the guest of Charles Davis Sunday.—The Second Baptist church in Beaver Falls is without a minister.—Rev. Richard Brown held his quarterly meeting Sunday, at Bridgewater, assisted by Rev. Disharoon, of Bridgewater, and Revs. Grant and Bruein, of this city. -Thirty-nine people from this city attended, and seventy-five communed. -The New Brighton chorus furnished excellent music.-Rev. Disharoon and family were in Sewickley last Thursday and Friday.-Oliver Grimes, of Beaver Falls, was visiting here Saturday.-J. W. Bruein is sick.-Mr. Williams and Hester Ford have gone to housekeeping on Fifth avenue. Whipped a Kentuckian. Detroit, April 1.—Hon. W. W. Ferguson, former legislator, lawyer, and politician, and influential among Afro-Americans, whipped a Kentuckian, who objected to his being served at the same table with white people in a public restaurant. The Kentuckian protested to the manager, and also reproached a waiter girl for permitting Ferguson to eat in the place. Ferguson demanded an apology, but the Kentuckian refused, saying that he would die before he would apologize to a blanked "nigger." Ferguson knocked him down with a blow on the jaw and laid him out a second time. The fight was stopped by bystanders. More power to "Brother" Ferguson. Congressman White Refused. Congressman White Refused. Pittsburg, Pa.—The jury in the case of Assistant District Attorney Walter E. Billows, against William J. McCarty, a prominent restaurant keeper who refused to serve a meal to Billows and Congressman G. W. White, of North Carolina, returned a verdict today in favor of the plaintiff for 6¼ cents. Billows asked $5,000 damages. This sort of "justice" was awarded in Ohio courts in similar cases until Hon. H. C. Smith of Cleveland, remedied the defect in the Ohio civil rights law by adding a minimum penalty in 1894. Victoria, B. C.—Poverty-stricken, enfeebled by disease caused by over-indulgence in alcohol, a complete wreck of his former self, Peter Jackson left for Southern California, hoping to regain his health. Sympathetic friends of the erstwhile champion made up a purse to defray his expenses. His chief occupation now is fondling the championship belt, one of the few remaining trophies of his fistic victories, in spite of poverty he refuses to sell it. The Alton, Ill., School Fight. Nearly 200 Baptists. New York City.—Men, women, and children of color, some deaf, some mute, and others blind, but most of them whole and sound—to the number of 184 were plunged into a tank of water and brought out of it gasping and breathless in the Mt. Olivet Baptist church on March 11. Postmaster Baker Case Postponed. The Nickel Plate Road Offers to the traveling public a great convenience by the sale of the Central Passenger Association Mileage Ticket, which, besides the Nickel Plate is honored for passage on thinty-six other roads. Apply any agent. No.48 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 Hay's Protest. Washington, April 6.—Secretary Hay has addressed a vigorous protest to the Turkish government against the proposed application of an edict excluding American pork from Turkey. The note enters an emphatic denial of the pretense of unwholesomeness set up against our pork as a basis for the exclusion, and makes it necessary for the Turkish government to support its contention by adequate evidence before it can enforce the edict. $100,000 Fire Loss. Philadelphia, April 6.—The glace kid works of the J. P. Mathieu Co., two large four-story buildings, were destroyed by fire last night. Loss $100,000. 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. 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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, 1892. - This is to certify I came to New York from Albany. I was a stranger in a strange city out of work and money. I had no money. I had no money. Undertook. What 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 or in trouble, to give to him at once. Sincerely, ALBERT AYERS, 2937 Atlantic avenue." 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It is the most economical. It is not possible for anybody to produce a preparation equal to it. Full directions with every bottle. Only 50 cents. Sold by mail or courier. 40 percent of Expense. Money Order for 3 bottles, express paid. Write your name and address plainly to OZONIZED OX MARROW CO., 76 Wabash Ave., Chicago, Ill. Please mention this paper (THE GAZETTE) when writing. GO TO.... W. B. GIBSON'S ..RESTAURANT.. 232 St. Clair St., For First-Class Meals at All Hours. Cooked and served, ladies and gentlemen, in first-class style. Oysters served to order. Special attention paid to business men's noonday lunches. Give him a call and you will be satisfied. The Society for Savings, Marla Thompson and the unknown heirs of Henry Simmons, of David Simmons, of George Simmons and of Ferrege Greenfield. Maria Thompson, who resides at Goldsboro, 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, fiefed the estate of the estate of Moses Simmons, 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, situate in the City of Cleveland, County of Cuyahoga, and State of Ohio, to-write, and 108 in James M. Hoyt's sub-division of ten-acre lot No. 37 in said city, and together makes a frontage of 30 feet upon the westerly line of Sterling avenue, and extends in rear to Laurel street 148 and 5-12 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, 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 Dollars, as indicated in exhibit "A." attached to said petition. That the last half of the taxes for 1899 are unpaid and are a lien on 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 amount of $10,000, 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 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 payable defending his 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. CLAIRVOYANT. MRS. MARTH, the world-renowned and highly celebrated business and test TRANCE CLAIRVOYANT, reveals everything. No imposition. Can be consulted on all affairs of life. Business, Love and Marriage a specialty. Every mystery revealed, also, of absent, deceased and living friends. Removes all trouble and estrangements, unites the army and the 800 challenge to any medium who can exceed her in her startling revelations of the past, present and future events of one's life. Remember, she will not for any price flatter you; you may rest assured you will gain facts without nonsense. 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If you are unsuccessful in business, have bad luck, things go wrong with you, then you should consult Mrs. Marth. She will tell you what your trouble is, as she understands the spells and evil influences. She has spent years helping distressed persons and has brought thousands to success. For advice by letter $1.00. All letters must contain stamps. MRS. M. B. MARTH, 246 West 31st. Street, NEW YORK CITY, N. Y. Hours: 10 A. M. to 8 P. M. Sittings. Mention THE GAZETTE. TRAVELERS' REGISTER Trains on all roads run on Standard Time which is the same as BALL'S CITY TIME. CLEVELAND CINCINNATI CHICAGO & ST. LOUIS BIG FOUR ROUTE Solid vestibule trains run daily to Columbus, Dayton, Cincinnati, Indianapolis, St. Louis. Parlor Car and Wagner Sleeping Cars. Best line in the West, South and Southwest. Ticket office, 116 Euclid Ave. Bell Tel Main 910. Home Tel. 853. *Daily. Depart. No. 11. Southwestern Limited. *3 30 am No. 8, Col. & Cin. Express. *7 15 am No. 33, Col. Cin. 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Eastward. Arrive. Depart. No. 6. Standard Express... 9 55 am 10 12 am No. 4. Eastern Express... 2 06 am 2 16 am No. 2. Nickel Plate Ex... 8 12 pm 8 22 pm Westward. Arrive. Depart. No. 1. Western Express... 4 46 am 4 56 am No. 5. Standard Express... 7 00 pm 7 20 am No. 3. Nickel Plate Ex... 11 13 am 11 20 am Local Freight... *8 50 pm *8 40 am *Daily, except Sunday. All express daily. Through sleepers on all trains, Chicago, Buffalo, New York, and Boston. Unexcelled dining cars and depot restaurants operated by the company. LOCAL DEPARTMENT. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS.—Subscribers not receiving THE GAZETTE regularly should notify us AT ONCE. We desire every copy delivered promptly. We advise our patrons to carefully examine THE GAZETTE's advertisements before making purchases. Business men who advertise in this paper should be liberally patronized by Afro-Americans. The fact that they advertise is insurance that they want your trade. Local reading notices (advertisements) ten cents a line (six words to a line.) CLEVELAND. SATURDAY. APRIL 7. 1900. 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 Miss Carrie Brown, of Wheller place, returned to Ft. Wayne, Ind., last week for a short stay. The Masons gave an enjoyable reception to their friends last week Thursday evening in their hall on Ontario street. Mrs. Chas. Leek and daughters, Misses Edna and Bessie, of Elyria, were guests of Miss Sadie Cisco last week Friday and Saturday. Mrs. Bolden, of Vine street, has returned from Rendville where she has been visiting relatives. Master Quinn Montgomery, of Lincoln avenue, entertained at his fifth birthday Monday evening, March 26, from six to eight. Twelve little ones were there and enjoyed themselves extremely. Mr. Mason H. Brown, who died and was buried recently, was one of the oldest and one of the most highly respected of our people in this city. For many years he was messenger for the Society for Savings, was a pioneer in Mt. Zion Congregational church work and was one of our most substantial residents. Mr. Brown was a quiet, conservative, Christian gentleman, who made a host of friends during his long residence in this city. His widow has our heart-felt sympathy in her bereavement. Mrs. J. S. Thomas, of No. 672 Sterling avenue, is local representative of the Nelson Manufacturing Co., whose advertisement appears upon the third page. Mrs. Thomas is an intelligent, energetic and business-like woman, whom it will be a pleasure to meet. Mr. "Tobe" Green, a Cleveland boy, who has made his home in Chicago for many years, and who has been ill at the home of relatives in this city for about six weeks, died and was buried the past week. His relatives have the sympathy of many friends. Mr. Arthur T. Abbott, with Messrs. Lawton & Sons, agents for several of the largest eastern insurance companies, who has been ill the past week, has recovered sufficiently to go to Lorain, where he is to deliver a lecture on "Insurance." Hon. John P. Green, a stamp clerk in the departments at Washington, D.C., was recently confirmed in the Episcopal church. When he left Cleveland the general impression was that he was a member of Mt. Zion church. Henry L. Thomas, formerly of this city and Chicago, who recently went to Washington, D. C., to take a position there, is a clerk and stenographer in the bureau of yards and docks, which is a part of the navy department. He passed a very excellent civil service examination in Chicago and was "placed" through the efforts of Congressman Burton and the editor of this paper. Be sure to read the Boston Chemical Co.'s ad, elsewhere in this paper. It is said that Will Hanley is to succeed H. T. Eubanks as head waiter at the Hollenden hotel and that George Myers is at the bottom of it. At St. John's church tomorrow, Rev. Chas. Bundy will preach morning and evening. Sunday school and C. E. meeting at 9:30 a. m. and 6:30 p. m., respectively. Easter will be elaborately celebrated. Splendid programmes are being arranged for each service. A concert and spelling "bee" will be given in the church the 18th, by the emergency committee, and "The District School at Blueberry Corners," and "A Trip to Europe" the first week in May. Fanny Bridges, five years old, sued the Big Consolidated for $250. Tuesday. Recently her leg was broken by a Scovill avenue car at Vine street. Mrs. Alberta Gamblee and Mr. J. Walter Wills were married last week Thursday night, notwithstanding the very strong parental objections which have prevailed for some weeks past. Expressions of sympathy are in order for our hopeful, persistent but disappointed friend, E. W. B. The groom has entered the soap manufacturing business with his wife. Richard Green, son of Mr. B. S. Green, the book agent, died last week Thursday after several months' illness with consumption aged 40 years. He came from Chicago six weeks ago. The funeral occurred Monday, Rev. Worthington of Grace church officiating. Mr. William Carey, who has been the guest of his sister, Mrs. Mary Bundy of Sterling avenue, returned to Peru last week. For the sum of 35 cents any gent can enjoy a full evening's enjoyment at Easter dance, Monday evening, April 16th, at Woodliff hall, and for an additional sum of 25 cents he can bring his best girl, or some other fellow's for that matter. We will treat them all well. Gilliam and Howland. Fourteen converts were baptized in Shiloh Baptist church, last Sunday evening, after which communion was held. The children in the Sunday school department are practicing for Easter, at which time an excellent programme is to be rendered. Do not fail to attend the Easter lance at Woodliff hall, Monday evening, April 16, given by Gilliam and Howland's orchestra. Admission, rents, 35 cents; ladies, 25 cents. Mr. John Edwards, of Hackman street, is confined to his bed with the "grippe." Sarah Bell Wilson, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James H. Wilson, of Cedar avenue, is suffering from main fever. Miss Wilson is an ex- THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, APRIL 7, 1900. ceptionally bright young lady, and was to have graduated from high school next June. Overstudy is thought to be the cause of her sickness. Mr. Buckner Simmons, of Newton street, is again quite sick. Mr. Samuel Harris, of Sibley street, died at his home last week. His remains were sent to Baltimore, Md. for burial. Miss Florence Scott of Sterling avenue, has been quite sick during the past week. Miss Alberta Sweet and Mr. Albert Travis are soon to wed. Mrs. Lucy Douglass, of Newton street, suffered greatly from neuralgia all last week. Mr. Basil E. Ray, who has been traveling with Porter J. White's "Faust" Company, has returned to the city on account of illness. Gilliam and Howland's orchestra will render twenty-five numbers at their dance on Monday evening, April 16th. Mr. Henry Taylor, who is one of the Afro-Americans employed at the works of the People's Gas Co., at the foot of Pearl street, in the place of the strikers, was arrested Sunday evening on the charge of violating the firearms ordinance, but was released on bond. While the men were going to work, men, women and boys hooted and jeered at them. Stones and bricks were even thrown. Taylor drew his revolver and shot in the air which infuriated the crowd and they were chased into the works. It is claimed that Taylor was justified in shooting. He was formerly a constable in Toledo. Mr. and Mrs. John Poindexter contemplate going to Detroit to make their future home on account of the former's health. Mrs. E. Poindexter and children will leave the first of the week for Detroit. Mrs. Laura Walls has removed from Judd street to 556 Central avenue. Deputy U. S. Marshal Keeley arrested W. O. Timbers and Chauncey Bell at Urichsville, Monday and brought them to Cleveland. They are alleged to have stolen a letter containing 25 cents from the Urichsville postoffice. Lizzie Roberts, of 486 Erie street, was arrested Monday evening on the charge of pocket picking. She is alleged to have picked the pocket of Edward Schutz, of the Prospect House, of $350 while on Prospect street. Mr. Henry Tedford, of Vine street, has gone to Boston Mass., to locate. His wife will join him in the near future. Miss Sarah Bolden and Mrs. Harriet Grimes have been quite sick. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Long have deferred their time of departure indefinitely. The management of the Colonial Hotel, of which Mr. Long is the headwaiter, is quite unwilling that he should sever his connection with that house. Mr. Long is a very congenial gentleman and has won many friends while in the city. Will Honley has arrived from Toledo, to accept the headwaitership of the Hollenden cafe. Miss Florence Dunjill has been elected organist of Zion church, 434 Central avenue. Miss Maggie Brown and Miss Florence Dunjill were elected superintendent and secretary of the Sunday school, respectively. The mock trial held at the church was a success, $35.00 being realized. The jury failed to find a verdict and Mr. Clark was sent to prison to await a new trial, which will be given Tuesday, April 24th. The editor of The Gazette is in receipt of an invitation to attend the second annual ball given by the Philanthropic club at Excelsior pallors, April 26th, at Youngstown. O. Music is to be furnished by prof. J. W. Clair's full orchestra. Dr. Ed. Dale, one of the most promising young men of this city, will soon graduate from the Cleveland Homeopathic Medical College. We hope that success will be his. The editor of The Gazette takes pleasure in acknowledging receipt of an invitation to attend their commencement exercises Tuesday evening, Apr. 10th, at 8 o'clock, at the Euclid avenue Baptist church. On account of the conflagration in Cory chapel recently, services were held Sunday in Forest street armory. Rev. Langford has returned for another year. It is hoped that services can be held in the church Easter, and the pastor is working hard to accomplish it. The W. W. gave a social at Mrs. Henderson's, 709 Central avenue, Thursday evening. The weekly class prayer meeting and literary society will be held at F. W. Corbin's, 611 Central avenue, until the church is repaired. Mrs. J. S. Thomas, Mrs. M. Gatewood and Miss Fanny Howard have been ill the past two weeks, but are now better. Mrs. Malinda Brown and Mrs. Langford are still sick. The S. S. officers and teachers are making preparations for the Easter service. A good programme will be rendered. When Flossie Arnold of 149 Hamilton street entered a saloon last week Friday night, and ordered a quart bottle of champagne, she was singing "I'm living easy." Patrolman Howlett arrested Flossie on a charge of suspicion. Later, Jos. Griffith (white) an American house guest, reported to the police that the girl had "touched" him for $30. She was found guilty of being a suspicious person. Sentence was reserved. George Gibbs, of this city, decisively defeated "Freddy" Green in five rounds before the Business Men's Gymnasium club recently. This proved to be one of the best bouts ever given before the club. 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. Central Passenger Association Mileage Tickets Are accepted for passage on all trains of the Nickel Plate Road. No. 31 AGENTS WANTED Enclose 2c stamp for reply, and we will send partiellars telling how you can make from $7; 60 $1.60 per month, and also be presented with afine Gold Watch. Address P.O. SCOTT REMEDY.CO, Louisville, Ky. Box 570 TRANS-ATLANTIC TRAVELERS Furnished Special Attendants by the Pennsylvania System. The bureau of attendants for trans-Atlantic travelers established in Jersey City and New York City twenty years ago by the Pennsylvania System, has proven a great convenience to persons making European trips and to tourists arriving in America at that port. It will be particularly convenient for visitors to the Bay Area because the departure docks of most of the Atlantic coastline are convenient to the new Jersey City Passenger Station of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company. This bureau consists of experienced agents whose duties are to meet passengers arriving in Jersey City and New York over the Pennsylvania Lines and assist them in arranging for trans-Atlantic trips via any of the steamship lines by conducting them to steamships and aiding in preparations for a trip abroad. The agency will provide cabs operated by the Pennsylvania Lines system and aid personal passengers with their baggage. They are fully posted on matters pertaining to steamships leaving New York, and arrangements can be made through them, for procuring steamship tickets in advance. They also meet incoming steamships to aid travelers in shaping details for continuing journeys from New York over the Pennsylvania Lines by furnishing tickets, arranging for the transfer of baggage from steamship docks after it has been passed by customs inspectors, and having the same checked through to destination. They will reserve sleeping car accommodations and relieve persons of the foregoing details, making themselves useful as an aid and guidance for travelers. Further information on the subject may be obtained by addressing the nearest Pennsylvania Lines Ticket Agent, or C. L. KIMBALL, Assistant General Passenger Agent, Cleveland, Ohio. Apr 1 THE NEW BIG FOUR Will take effect April 15th and will afford the traveling public the finest train service ever offered. 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AMERICAN ENTERPRISE The pastor of the First Presbyterian church at Pine Bluff, Ark., was telling his congregation of his travels in the Holy Land, and closed his remarks with this incident, illustrating American enterprise: "When at Jacob's Well' he drew therefrom with his own hands a bucket of water; after doing so and looking at the tin bucket, he found it was a lard bucket with the name of 'Swift and Company' branded on same, which was the same as he had seen in Pine Bluff many times."—Kansas City Gazette. A Literary Help Cannibal King (to poet laureate)—What's wrong with that coronation ode? Can't you finish it? Laureate-I can't get enough feet in the last stanzas. King—Officer of the guard, go out and cut enough feet off those slaves to supply the poet laureate's needs. It shall never be said that King Oombalenskago did not encourage literature to the limit.—Baltimore American. To California Quickly and Comfortably Via Chicago, Union Pacific and North-Western Line. 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Go at once; delays are dangerous. An Ohio genius has invented a chair that can be adjusted to 1,000 different positions. It is designed for the small boy to sit in when he goes to church.—Buffalo Express. A MOTHER'S STORY. Tells About Her Daughter's Illness and How She was Relieved— Two Letters to Mrs. Pinkham. "Mrs. PINKHAM:—I write to tell you about my daughter. She is nineteen years old and is flowing all the time. and th ton litt try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, but I want your advice before beginning its use. I have become very much alarmed about her, as she is getting so weak."—MRS. MATILDA A. CAMP, Manchester Mill, Macon, Ga., May 21, 1899. "DEAR MRS. PINKHAM:—It affords me great pleasure to tell you of the benefit my daughter has received from the use of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. After beginning the use of your medicine she began to mend rapidly and is now able to be at her work. Her menses are regular and almost painless. 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Highest refences given. C. MADISON SMITH, FOERT PLAIN, N. Y. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, APRIL 7. 1900. CURRENT TOPICS. Jacksonville, Fla., is to have a soap factory. In 1892 Japan produced $5,000,000 worth of paper. The population of London increases by 70,000 a year. The first chimneys were introduced into Rome from Padus in 1363. The introduction of acetylene gas into France is making progress. Austria, a country remarkable for its large eaters, has the highest death rate. The emperor of Austria is increasing his recruits by 50 per cent. a year. Pressed steel cars are coming into use on all the railroads on the continent. A case 102 years old has just been settled in the court of claims at Washington. There are 344 cities and towns in New York state which have a public water supply. The United States courts in New Mexico costs the government about $75,000 a year. An 11-year-old boy is the manager and operator at the telegraph office in Kingstree, S. C. Twelve camels shipped from Algiers to New York died on the voyage across the Atlantic. The czar of Russia's army is the only one in Europe that can boast of feminine medical officers. Ten thousand cabmen of Naples are on strike to prevent the introduction of auto-cabs in that city. Some Spaniards dream of a reunion of the Spanish states of South America with the mother country. Two hundred thousand acres in Chihuahua, Mexico, have been bought for 400 colonists from Missouri. Cooper Union, in New York city, had a revenue last year of $58,489.78 Its expenditures were $59,087.09. The number of newspapers and periodicals in the United States has increased from 5,871 to 21,178 in 1899. There is a clock in Brussels which has never been wound up by human hands. It is kept going by the wind. The queen's will is engrossed on vellum quarto size, and is bound as a volume and secured by a private lock. The foreign commerce of the port of Boston last year aggregated $190,485,000, surpassing all previous records. The American corn kitchen at Paris will be in charge of a colored woman trained as a cook in Maryland. Minnesota's schools cost about $5,000,000 annually, and that is one-third of the money raised by taxes in the state. The advance in coal at Baltimore it is estimated, will cost the consumers of that city an extra $5,000,000 this year. In Belgium severe penalties are imposed on persons who have the right to vote, but do not avail themselves of it. Settlers in Siberia along the new railroad are buying their agricultural and other machinery in the United States. John F. Wilson, delegate to congress from Arizona, is an authority on the various American Indian languages. Chicago's registration for the April election is 347,782. The vote of New York in the last election for mayor was 526,556. Mayor Harrison, of Chicago, has never missed being present at a meeting of the city council since his election to office. The duchess of Aosta and her sister, the queen of Portugal, are reputed the most beautiful of royal ladies in Europe. It is estimated that if the Boers should blow up Johannesburg and destroy the gold mines, the loss would reach $350,000,000. The Italian government has decided to establish a bacteriological laboratory for the study of bubonic plague in the island of Pianosa. Nearly 30 per cent. of the patients in Paris hospitals have been found to be persons who were addicted to the excessive use of alcohol. There is an epidemic among the Italian and French silkworms. They refuse to eat and are dying in myriads on their mulberry leaves. An attempt to evade the payment of 1 cent toll on the Berks and Dauphin turnpike has just cost a rich Pennsylvania cattle dealer $10. Soil was brought up from a depth of 326 feet from a coal mine in Belgium, and from it sprouted weeds of a species unknown to botanists. John S. Cunningham, the largest tobacco planter in North Carolina has withdrawn from the democratic contest for governor of that state. According to Henri Rochefort, who has made an investigation of the statistics, 211 French officers threw up their commission in the French army at the beginning of the South African war and enlisted with the Boers. A movement has recently been started by a number of society women of Washington to establish an art exhibition modeled after the Paris salon. The prosperity of the farmers in the northwest is indicated by the fact that many of them are making arrangements to visit the Paris exposition this summer. A society young man was tried publicly in the court house at Lamonte, Mo., for stealing corn. It was a mock trial and ten cents admission was charged, the proceeds going to the town cemetery improvement fund. In the town of Ensley, Ala., eighteen months ago there were 500 people. Now there are 5,000. They were brought there by the steel mill, the rod mill and other industries. Pennies are legal tender to the amount of 25 cents. Payments tendered in pennies in larger quantities can be refused without impairing the legal standing of the creditor. When the New York Third Avenue railroad has completed work on the big power house that will supply power for all its lines, there will be installed machinery that will produce 100,000 horse-power. The amount of national bank stock ALABASTINE A SUCCESSFUL FARMER. Within three miles of the town going eastward is the farm of Mr. W. Creamer, one of the municipality's largest and most prosperous mixed farmers. Mr. Creamer came to this country in 1880 and settled on a portion of the land which comprises his present enormous farm of 1,280 acres. In common with many others of a similar period he experienced all the hardships and difficulties common to the absence of railway and market facilities. In no wise daunted, by energy, industry and indomitable will he has been able to surmount all obstacles and has achieved an unparalleled success, and is known throughout the district as one of its preeminent farmers. His operations extend over 1,280 acres, two sections (the thought alone of so much land makes the eastern farmer dizzy); 800 acres of this is broken and the remainder is excellent pasture land and wood. This harvest he took off a crop of 500 acres of wheat and 200 of other grains. Four hundred acres are plowed and ready for wheat next spring. Mr. Creamer is, as has been stated, a mixed farmer of no mean proportions, having at the present time 40 horses, 60 head of cattle and 50 pigs. The most modern farm buildings are found on his premises, the main building being a barn 55 feet square on a stone foundation containing stabling for 16 horses and a large number of cattle. The loft is stored with 29 loads of sheaf oats for feed and tons of hay; there is also a cutting box. Another building of large dimensions is the granary, in which after teaming large quantities to market he still has stored 3,000 bushels of wheat. A crushing machine is in the building. There are a number of lesser buildings containing chicken house, pig pens and cattle sheds. The farm residence is a handsome frame structure of ample proportions, in connection with it is a wood shed. The water supply is unexcelled; besides house supply there is a well in the stables and a never falling spring situate in a bluff, which never freezes. Surrounded by a thick bluff of poplars, extending in a semi circle to the west, north and east, the winter storms are broken and accumulation of snow unknown. Added to his farming operations, Mr. Creamer conducts a threshing outfit for the season. His success is only one instance of what can be accomplished in Western Canada.—Baldur (Man.) Gazette, Nov. 16th, 1899. Thousands are going to Western Canada this year to take advantage of the free homestead laws that are being offered by the government. A Bit Rough. One man in particular stumbled along as if walking in his sleep. An officer passed. "Sir," asked Michael, "what country is this at all we're marching over?" "The Natal table-land, my man," was the reply. "Bedad, sir," said Pat, "I think the table's turned upside down and we're walking over the legs of it."—London Answers. Reception Music "Shall I sing, or play, Mr. Boredhost?" "Oh, it doesn't matter, Miss Blimm —whichever you think you can do without interrupting the flow of con- versation."—Detroit Free Press. The Million Dollar Potato It's marvelous. Salzer's catalog tells, so also about Rape for cattle, sheep and swine. Costs 25c. a ton to grow. Send 5c. and this notice, to-day, to John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis., for his big catalog. [&] After a man does a clever thing, he usually talks about it too much.—Atchison Globe. Piso's Cure cured me of a Throat and Lung trouble of three years' standing.—E. Cady, Huntington, Ind., Nov. 12, 1894. Some folks think that honesty, in moderation, is the best policy.—Puck. How My Throat Hurts!—Why don't you use Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar? Pike's Toothache Drops Cure in one minute. Is it proper to call one's brain his notion department?—L. A. W. Bulletin. We have no earnest, persistent, enemies but ourselves.—L. A. W. Bulletin. Too many people are contented with the hire life.-Chicago Democrat. Mrs. Murphy—"Oi say, Pat, what would yez do if the ould house would tumble on yez and erush yez to death." Her Husband—"Faith, an' Oi'd fly fer me loife."-Ohio State Journal. A Little Boy's Reflection.-Little Johnny thinks that a bed is a curious thing. He says he is sent to it for punishment, and it it punishment when he is made to get out of it.-Boston Transcript. In making promises it is well to remember that they are likely to be interpreted to mean the utmost the words allow, and something more. Cautious words save trouble.-United Presbyterian. Thorne—"Is Dobbs of a peaceable disposition?" Bramble—"He lived in a boarding-house for three years without kicking."-N. Y. Journal. First Sufferen—"I'm going to change my boarding place. The beefsteak is always burnt to a cinder." Second Ditto—"Come up to ours—it's rare enough there."—Philadelphia Press. "Hash," said the man who eats his meals at home, "furnishes us with an example of an end without means." "Yes," said the boarding-house man, "but at my place it is mean and without end."—Indianapolis News. It is truly a mysterious providence which orders the man who is expected above all others to admire a woman's millinery, to be also the man who is expected to pay for it.—Detroit Journal. Dismal Dawson—"I don't often brag about it, but my ancestors kin be traced back to the first American settlers." Hungry Higgins—"I can't never looked the thing up, but I wouldn't be a prised if I could trace mine back to old Joner."—Indianapolis Press. Alabastine is the original and only durable wall coating on the market. It is entirely different from all kalsinem preparations. Alabastine is made ready for use in white or fourteen beautiful tints by the addition of cold water. It is put up in dry powdered form, in packages, properly labeled, with full directions on packaging. It is used to coat walls, kalsinesines, wall paper and paint for walls. Alabastine can be used on plaster, brick, wood or canvas, and a child can brush it on. HE WAS AGREEABLE. Would Let the Old Uncle Shoot if He Found Him in Such a Position. This young fellow is engaged to a pretty Detroit girl, but they don't care to publish the bans until after Lent. This disturbs an irascible old uncle of hers, who has a daughter of his own, too much after his own style to be a favorite. He took it upon himself to send for the young man the other day. "Are you going to marry that niece of mine?" he asked, sternly, when they were alone in the inner office. "Pardon me, sir, but I must decline to answer. She has a father and a mother, and I'm on good terms with them. I fail to see that it is your affair." "There's a whole lot that you fail to see. young man. I'm really the head of our family, and I'll not shirk my duty. Her parents are a couple of chumps. Are you or are you not engaged?" "You force me to say, sir, that it is none of your infernal business and that you are just what I heard you were, a sour, cross-grained old curmudgeon." "See here, sonny, I'll not bandy words with the likes of you, but if you had been going with my daughter as long as you have my niece, I wouldn't do a thing but put a revolver to your head, informing you that if you didn't marry her I'd shoot." "And I'd beg of you to shoot."—Detroit WHAT THEY REALLY SAY. Husband and Wife at the Theater Who Appear to Be Engaged in Conversation. A man and wife enter the theater. As soon as they are seated and she digs around for the hat pins and removes her hat they look at each other smilingly and seem, to onlookers, to be carrying on an animated conversation. Here's what they're really saying: Husband—Your hair's crushed and plastered down in front like a dago barber's. Can't you give it a swipe that'll— Wife—Unreasonable thing! How can you expect me to have my hair all fluffy and nice as soon as I take off a heavy tooreader hat that comes down over my— "Well, give it a couple of dabs, anyhow. Looks now as if you'd been making a high dive off a—" "There—now does it suit your lordlordship?" "Oh, well, it isn't as dinky as it was. What's become of that—what you-call-it—that rat thing you got to put under your front hemp awhile ago?" That made it stick up some, anyhow, and—" The dog ate it up, and it was too warm, anyway. My, what a frightful haircut your barber gave you to-day! Makes you look like a Russian moujik! Don't you think you'd better change your barber?" etc.—Washington Post. An Overworked Bird Dorothy—Our Audubon club had a lovely meeting this afternoon. Papa—What did you do, dear? "Oh, we passed an enthusiastic resolution appointing a committee to take immediate steps—right off, you know—for the protection of the cuckoo." "The cuckoo?" "Yes, papa; in the cuckoo clock, you know."—Detroit Free Press. F. J. Cheney & Co., Props, Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. 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The Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company reaches the Garden Spots of the South, and will on the first and third Tuesdays of March and April sell round trip tickets to all principal points in Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia and West Florida, at about half rates. Write for particulars of excursions to P.Sid Jones, D.P.A., in charge of Immigration, Birmingham, Ala., or Jackson Smith, D.P.A., Cincinnati, O. "I shall never be able to find another husband like dear John," said the widow. "I know," replied the persistent suitor. "But wouldn't you like an entirely different one, just by way of contrast?" -Philadelphia North American. From Baby in the High Chair to grandma in the rocker Grain-O is good for the whole family. It is the long-desired substitute for coffee. Never upsets the nerves or injures the digestion. Made from pure grains it is a food in itself. Has the taste and appearance of the best coffee at $ \frac{1}{4} $ the price. It is a genuine and scientific article and is come to stay. It makes for health and strength. Ask your grocer for Grain-O. Necessity is said to be the mother of invention, but is not oftentimes invention the mother of necessity? Most inventors go broke—Boston Transcript. Ghost of the Glacier And Other Tales, including Making a Revolution, Susquehanna Trail, Sculpture of the Elfs, Once a Pillar of the World, Feathers of Fashion, and others. A delightful volume, beautifully illustrated. Ready for distribution about May 1. Send 10 cents to T. W. Lee, General Passenger Agent Lackawanna Railroad, 26 Exchange Place, New York City. Edition Limited. It is said that care will kill a cat; but if a man doesn't care very much he will probably find a bootjack or a gun just as effective.—Chicago Daily News. To Cure a Cold in One Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund money if it fails to cure. 25c. Fortune favors those who work as if they expected to succeed without it.—Chicago Daily News. 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 headache. Price 25 and 50c. It takes two to quarrel; but some folks don't seem to have much trouble finding the other one—Puck. Ella—"I am carried away by Tennyson's poems." Stella—"I am sorry we haven't a copy in the house."—Town Topics. ABA WHAT "KALSOMINES" ARE. Kalsomines are cheap and temporary preparation, manufactured from whiting, chalks, clays, etc. They are stuck on the walls with decaying animal glue. Alabastine is not a kalsomine. It is a rock-base cement, which sets, and it hardens with age. It can be re-coated and redecorated without having to wash and scrape off its old coats. Alabastine is utilized to a great extent in hospitals, as it prevents the accumulation of dirt and the congregating of disease germs, being disinfectant in its nature. ```markdown ``` PERUNA PROTECTS OUR HOMES. D The Roberts Family, of Falls City, Neb., Are Healthy and Happy—A Rare Sight in These Days. They Say, "We Think Peruna Is The Greatest Medicine On Earth." No man is better known in the State of Nebraska than Mr. Carl T. Roberts, contractor and mason. A typical American—active, shrewd and full of business sagacity. He is not only a provider for his family, but a protector. In a recent letter to Dr. Hartman he writes, among other things, as follows: Hon. William Youngblood, Anditor for the Interior writes from Washington, D. C., to Dr. Hartman, Columbus, Ohio, as follows: Mr. T. G. Walker, Carneiro, Kansas, writes: "It is with pleasure that I report that I am better than I have been for many years. I believe Peruna is without a doubt the best medicine that ever was used in a family. It has cured my nervousness, with which I have been afflicted for a great number of years." "Our boy, James, had the membranous croup, and repeated attacks of lung fever. Our boy, Charlie, was also subject to repeated attacks of pneumonia and pleurisy. Our third boy, John, was subject to fever and ague (malarial) and liver trouble. Your remedy, Peruna, cured my boys entirely, and now I have three of the healthiest boys in the State of Nebraska, which I attribute to your medicine. My wife had a stomach trouble which Peruna also cured. Altogether for my whole family we have used nineteen bottles of Peruna, and have thus saved $500 in doctors' bills. I am a contractor and mason by trade and am known all over Nebraska. I have had a stomach trouble which has been greatly relieved by your remedy, Peruna, for which I am still taking it. We think it is the greatest medicine on earth." C. T. 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DO YOU COUGH DON'T DELAY TAKE KEMP'S BALSAM THE BEST COUGH CURE It Cures Coughs Colds, Croup, Sore Throat, Infu- lenza, Whooping Cough, Bronchitis and Asthma. A certain cure for Consumption in first stages, and a sure relief in advanced stages. Use at once. You will see the excellent effect after taking the first dose, sold by dealers everywhere. Price, 25 and 50 cents per bottle. W. L. DOUGLAS $3 & 3.50 SHOES UNION MADE. Worth $4 to $6 compared with other makes. Indorsed by over 1,000,000 wearers. The genuine have W. L. Douglas name and price stamped on bottom. Take no substitute claimed to be as good. Your dealer should keep them — if not, we will send a pair on receipt of price and 25c. extra for carriage. State kind of leather, size, and width, plain or can toe. Cat. free. W. L. DOUGLAS SHOE CO., Brockton, Mass. THE Pleasantest, most powerful, effective and never failing REMEDY for Rheumatism Sciatica, Neurigia, DROPS LA GRIPPE and CATALOG If all knew what thousands know of the efficacy of "5 DROPS" as a Curative Pain Pain known to the human body, there TRAD MARK would not be a family in all America with the only one on the market. Send a trial bottle, 250, or large bottle $1.00, (containing 300 doses) 6 bottles for $5.00. SWANSON RHEUMATIC CURE CO., 160-164 E. Lake St., Chicago, Ill. ASTI CHURCHES AND SCHOOLHOUSES. The interior walls of churches, schoolhouses and all public halls should never be coated with anything but the durable and pure Alabastine. So evident has this fact become, that hundreds of tons are used annually for this work. The genuine Alabastine does not rub or scale off. It is cleanly made long period buildings. Every owner building should use it. Ask your paint dealer or druggist for card of tints, and write for free copy of our interesting booklet to Alabastine Co., Grand Rapids, Mich. ```markdown ``` Big Four Lv. CLEVELAND.....8 : 00 A. M. Ar. INDIANAPOLIS.....3 : 10 P. M. Ar. ST. LOUIS.....9 : 45 P. M. to try Peruna, and after using one bottle she has wonderfully improved. It has proved all you have claimed for it, and I take pleasure in rec ommending it to enjoy her life. Hon William Youngblood. pleasure in recommending it to anyone who is aflicted with catarrh." Peruna has become, in a multitude of households, absolutely indispensable. A Swallow is one of the earliest harbingers of spring—an equally sure indication is that feeling of langu- gid depression. Many swallows of HIRES Rootbeer are best for a spring tonic—and for a summer beverage. 5 gallons for 25 cents. Write for the list of premiums offered for labels. Charles E. Hires Co. Malvern, Pa. A New Train Week The "St. Louis Big (Effective Texas, Kan a Lv. CLEVELAND..... Ar. INDIANAPOLIS..... Ar. ST. LOUIS ..... PARLOR CAR MODER Ask for Tickets via Big Fou WARREN J. LYNCH, Gen'l Pass. Agent In 3 or 4 Years an Independence Is Assured FARMS WESTERN CANADA FREE If you take up your homes in Western Canada, the land is plenty, illus- trated manitoba, with experience of farmers who have become wealthy in growing wheat, reports of delegates, etc., and full information as to reduced rents can be made on application to the Superintendent of Immigration. Department of Interior, Ottawa, Canada, or address the Under- signed, who will mail you atlases, pamphlets, etc., free of cost. F. PEDLEY, Supt. of Immigration. Ottawa, Canada; or to M. V. MORRIS, to M. Blk., Detroit, Mich.; D. L. CAVEN, Columbus, Ohio. MATISM VAN Buren's Rhen- matic Compound is the only positive cure. Past ex- perience speaks for itself. Depot 83 S. California Ave., Chicago. REJECT THE "JUST AS GOOD." The dealer who tells you that he can sell you the "same thing" as Alabastine or "something just as good," either is not posted or is trying to deceive you. In offering something he has bought cheap and is trying to sell on Alabastine's demands he may not realize the danger to himself as well as to you. Beware of all new substitutes. Dealers risk a suit for damages by selling and consumers by using an infringement. Alabastine Co. own the right to make and sell wall coatings adapted to mix with cold water. ```markdown ``` Mr. T. G. Walker, Carneiro, Kansas, writes: "It is with pleasure that I report that I am better than I have been for many years. I believe Peruna is without a doubt the best medicine that ever was used in a family. It has cured my nervousness, with which I have been afflicted for a great number of years." It is a fact of ever-increasing astonishment that so many otherwise sensible and provident people will, for the neglect of so simple a precaution as to have a bottle of Peruna at hand, bring upon themselves the needless suffering and foolish expense that a practitioner of medicine is forced to witness every day. As soon as the value of Peruna is fully preciated by every household, both as a preventive and cure of these affections, tens of thousands of lives will be saved, and hundreds of thousands of chronic, lingering cases of disease prevented. Peruna is the household safeguard. A complete work on chronic catarrh sent free to any address by the Peruna Medicina Company, Columbus, Ohio. PILES Dr. William's Indian Pile Ointment will cure Blind, Bleeding and Itching Piles. It absorbs the tumors, allows the itching at once, not as poultice, gives instant relief. Prepared for Piles and itching of the private vagina on mail on receipt of price. 50 cents and $1.00. WILLIAMS MFG. CO., Props., CLEVELAND, OHIO. ARTICHOKES Mammoth White French A Sure Preventive of Hog Cholera. Enormous yielder, and the greatest root fattener for hogs, sheep, colts and cattle known. Write for circulating telling all about the condition. Appear again. W. F. MANLEY, RICHMOND, IND. DROPSY NEW DISCOVERY; gives quick relief and cures worst cases. Book of testimonials and 10 days treatment Free. Dr. H. H. GREEN'S SONS, Box D, Atlanta, Ga. JIS LIMITED" MA Four (April 15th.) O sas and Missouri. 8:00 A.M. 3:10 P.M. 9:45 P.M. S. IN COACHES. DINING CARS. r Route. W. P. DEPPE, Ass't Gen'l Pass. Agt. innati. FREE PLAYS 1000 TUNES To successfully introduce our new Cigars in our County, reliable persons (either sex), furnished Furniture, Furniture, caled Box, American made. This captivating instrument plays AUTO- cally 1,000 beats. to perfection Dance Music, Songs, Jigs or Hymns. For a short time only, we will give same FREE. Send at once. On receipt 10 cents (silver) we will ship PRZ- FAID or Pounder, for cash. EAGLE MFG. (Q. Q. 21 John Street, New York. WHYBE MISERABLE with disgusting stuff constantly falling from your nostrils into your throat! One packet of DR. OULMAN'S OWN CATARRH SNUPF CURE will get you right with yourself and the rest of the world. Sold in 50c and $1 packets. Send DR. A. OULMAN, 6616 Jackson Ave., Chicago, Ill. NEVER KNOWN TO FAIL! ROOFING The best Red Rope Roofing for 1c. per sq. ft.; cape and nails Included. Substitutes for plaster. Samples free. THE FAY MANILLA ROOFING CO., CAMDEN, N. J. Use Certain Corn Cure. Price, 15c. A. N. K.-C 1807 FISO'S CURE FOR CURES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS. Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use in time. Sold by druggists. CONSUMPTION