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THE GAZETTE. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAX. 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 postmaster. 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, APRIL 14, 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. 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? A CHRISTIAN WHITE WOMAN AGAINST SEPARATE CARS. That southern white woman writing to the New York Sun protesting against the bill now before the Virginia legislature, requiring Negroes to travel in a separate car, takes a brave and righteous stand for justice when she offers her objection against the passage of the disgraceful, proscriptive measure soon to be considered by that body. In many respects the intelligent white people of Virginia have shown a spirit of malignity far exceeding that of many of our southern states. We need not wonder that now and then we find Christian women in that state pleading for the preservation of the principles of religion, of integrity and justice and for the maintenance of that sublime doctrine proclaimed to the multitude from Mount Hattin by our blessed Lord. The degradation of one class of people under the same common government, is degradation of the entire people and reflects deleteriously upon the integrity and wisdom of the ruling element. It is a betrayal of a crude and resentful nature with no disposition to elevate the masses and to care for the happiness of all, but to oppress and outrage the poor and the more unfortunate by foul usurpation of authority. Yet in language pertinent to every seeming evidence of kindly interest on the part of a large majority of the whites, she offers a strong argument against the separate car bill. The fact that such action means retrogression, leaves no room to cavil. Virginia has in many respects led every other southern state in wealth and prosperity and has given encouragement to her colored citizens in their endeavor to improve and enjoy life. Hitherto quiet, orderly and respectful, the proscription will tend only to humiliate and debase them, that even though animated with an innate desire to deport themselves becomingly, the degradation and disparity which they must feel can only awaken the most loathsome abhorrence and contempt for the name of honor, manhood and citizenship as well as a spiteful abomination for the lecherous authors of a law that seeks to dehumanize them. In all railway travel may be found refined and cultured ladies and gentlemen among the colored people as well as among the whites. The former class, however, is less assuming, less imperious and more modest and is therefore necessarily less annoying. But the coarse and uncouth of any race are not to be made the victims of unpardonable abuse and insult. Such an infliction is a violation of reason and the moral law. It is a crime against humanity and civilization and the man that advocates the degradation of any living being, in order to subserve his own ends, lowers himself in the esteem and judgment of all intelligent, good people. No matter what be the position of the individual, whether he be judge, law maker or governor, he becomes a vulgarian and a perjurer, and forfeits the respect and confidence which he fancies he enjoys of other men. Any just denial of personal liberty is robbery and base villainy, and though enforced and maintained as law, it brands the legislator as an individual unworthy the confidence of men. Can an honest man then through some vain and idle ambition brook a stigma which in his more thoughtful moments must cause his cheek to burn? Rectitude of purpose and consciousness of rank injustice to a struggling people stirs the soul of intelligent womanhood and pleads with the whites of Virginia to pause in their attempt to brutalize the colored race in the adoption of the separate car bill. Proud of her own state, once the home of Washington, Jefferson, Henry and Richard Henry Lee, she pleads that base treachery shall not betray the cause which they so much loved and revered. She says, "We tell the Negroes that we of the south are their best friends, but it is hard indeed to have them believe it, while we draw the color line in such a way as to fix upon them the stigma of worthlessness and shame." Then she reminds the people of the south of the terrible mistake they have been making ever since emancipation in their refusal to recognize distinctions among our own race. She deplores the effort being made on the part of state authorities to maintain and encourage good government among the people and for the people, yet blindly and maliciously impose cruel and humiliating restrictions upon those whom they make amenable to law and would have to rise and walk. She rebukes the mad inconsistency of the whites in their unholy exactions of the poor which persistently conspire to cripple them in their aspirations to a nobler and more dignified life. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1900. A GOLD DEMOCRATIC VIEW. Doubt as to the Success of Bryan in the Democratic Convention. The New York Times, an independent democratic paper that would like to support a candidate for president who is a democrat in accord with such men as Cleveland and Olney, and holds to the party traditions before the advent of Bryan began an editorial one day lately with the declaration that "Bryan is not growing stronger, but weaker, as the day of the convention draws nearer." The Times goes on to say: "The popular defection from Bryan is visible, widespread, and due to perfectly well-understood causes. In this year of very great prosperity, when debts are being paid off or have been paid off, when labor is employed at good wages, and when cotton is almost ten cents a pound, no considerable class of the American people any longer feels that it has need of Mr. Bryan's services or of Mr. Bryan's principles. The times have changed and he has not really changed with them, but he has made awkward efforts to change, which have served merely as a public exhibition of the weakest side of his shifty character. * * * The meddling of the populists has hurt Bryan among democrats who still cherish some regard for the traditions and name of their party. Democrats know that it was not an accident that the platforms of the democrats and the populists in Nebraska are identical in substance and principles. They know that Mr. Bryan saw and approved the democratic platform before it was submitted to the convention. As the populist platform was a close copy of that of the other convention, held at the same time, the conclusion is irresistible that Bryan accomplished practically the fusion of the democrats and the populists in his own state, and his speech was equally acceptable to both. That evil companionship was barely tolerated four years ago. It is much more distasteful now." The Times calls attention to the increasing frequency of reports from the south, the middle states and the northwest that Mr. Bryan may be beaten in the democratic convention if those in the east opposed to him can unite upon a man hostile to free silver, and cites the defeat of Gen. Grant in the republican convention in 1880 by the organization of the Blaine, Sherman and other factions, which united on Garfield. The cases are not similar. The republicans were agreed upon a platform, and all the men who were voted for in the convention were in harmony regarding the party policy. In what is called the democratic party to-day the Clevelands and the Olneys are as far removed in their political opinions from the Bryans and Altgelds as they are from the out-and-out populists. Evidently the Times discovered that the case to which it alluded would not apply to the democracy at the present time, as it alluded to reports that gold democrats would vote with the populists for Mr. Bryan, and added that they would not do it. "The gold democrats," it says, "are sensible men, and it is hard for a sensible man to be a fool." To this statement it adds the following prediction: "Long before the campaign is over W. J. Bryan will make himself impossible to all save a negligible few of the most fanatical anti-imperialists. All of these gallant gentlemen who now talk of their stern purpose of rebuking McKinley by voting for Bryan will confess that after all it is better that Aguinaldo should lie in the bed he has made than that a man without capacity and without principles should be pitched into the white house by votes cast in the heat of passion. They will either provide themselves with a candidate of their own or they will go to the polls and vote for Maj. McKinley, and be glad of the chance." —Indianapolis Journal. SECRETARY HAY'S SUCCESS. A Diplomatic Triumph Scored by the Representative of Republicans. Nothing could be more gratifying than the reception accorded to announcement of the completion of the "open door" negotiations set on foot by our government by the public press of America and Europe. Everywhere the acknowledgment has been general that Secretary Hay has scored a diplomatic triumph of the most far-reaching nature in a truly masterly fashion. Where all Europe stood aloof from undertaking negotiations because each nation interested in China might have been suspected of having some ulterior end to serve, Mr. Hay on behalf of the United States was able to act without having his motives impugned. What makes Mr. Hay's success especially gratifying to his fellow countrymen is that nothing was staked on the negotiations. If the governments of Europe did not choose to acquiesce in the proposal of equal rights to all in their various spheres of influence in China the United States would have been no worse off than before. Mr. Hay simply ventured to win without staking anything to lose. When we consider what has been won, not only for American trade and prestige in the orient but for the equal trade of the world in Chinese ports, it seems impossible to overestimate the value of this stroke of American diplomacy. No wonder that it has evoked nothing but praise and congratulations from the entire press of America.—Chicago Times-Herald. Agricultural Prosperity Democratic spellbinders are already at work in the farming districts of the west trying to convince voters that the present agricultural prosperity is due entirely to good crops and that a republican administration has had nothing to do with it. The most reliable statistics show that the products of the farms of the United States were last year worth $1,660,000,000 more than in any of the last three years of the second Cleveland administration. Can any intelligent man who studies these figures believe for one moment that this enormous increase in agricultural prosperity was due solely to better crops? The argument is quite as absurd as would be that other one that the gain has been due solely to better government. But it is fair to say that the revival of industrial and general commercial activity which was a direct result of the election of 1896 largely increased the demand for farm products. The farmers recognized that demand and governed themselves accordingly, sowing more acres of grain, reaping big crops and getting their reward in clean cash.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. While President McKinley was holding out against clamor and trying to prevent war with Spain, democrats were rampant for the annexation of Cuba. Now, when the president is trying to make the best of a situation forced upon us by the war, they are violent anti-expansionists. It is a great old party.—Judianapolis Journal. STRIKES AND DEMOCRATS. Efforts of Calamity Howlers to Foment Strife Among Laboring Classes. The news which comes from Washington, to the effect that democrats high in the national councils of the party are trying to foment labor troubles, with the purpose of inaugurating an epidemic of strikes during the coming summer, should not be surprising. While it is not likely that there is anything political in the present strike of the machinists, it is undoubtedly true that the followers of Bryan hailed the announcement of a possible general industrial tie-up with joy. The democratic party thrives on that sort of thing. Eight years ago it made and won its national campaign on the issue of the Homestead strike, and four years later it appealed to the passions and prejudices of the people on the issue of hard times. A series of big strikes during the coming summer would give Bryan and the democratic orators an unlimited supply of ammunition, and they would use it to the best possible advantage. That is why the leaders of the party will do their utmost to foment labor troubles and create a feeling of unrest among the people. They are willing to go to any lengths to destroy prosperity by upsetting business and industrial conditions, if they can thereby gain an advantage at the polls. On this account manufacturers who wish the present conditions to continue should use their utmost endeavors to maintain pleasant relations with their employees. This is not the time for an industrial war, and it should be avoided by all honorable means that can be employed. If the democrats are trying to promote an epidemic of strikes in the interest of that party they should be checkmated by the employers of labor, if that can possibly be done.—Cleveland Leader. THEIR FRIEND BRYAN. Philippine Insurgents Trying to Hold Out Until He Is Elected. A dispatch from Lincoln, Neb., Col. Bryan's capital, to the St. Louis Globe-Democrat is an instructive commentary on Col. Bryan's campaign against imperialism. Capt. J. H. Culver, of the Thirty-second regiment of United States volunteers, is now at his home in Milford, Neb., on leave of absence. He is a veteran of the civil war and is described as a conservative man. He says that the insurgent army is divided into small bands, which "have been instructed by Aguinaldo to hold out in small parties, harass the Americans and carry on a bushwhacking warfare until after the fall election, when they expect their friend Bryan to be elected. Bryan's name is as well known to them as the name of Aguinaldo, because of the publication of extracts from his speeches in the Tagalo language and the free distribution of them." The admiration of Aguinaldo for Bryan, the democratic party and the rest of the anti-imperialist tagrag is well known. The necessarily delusive hopes of an Aguinaldian victory in the United States have been and are the chief support of the remnants of rebellion in the Philippines. Wherever Aguinaldo is hiding or running, he knows that his only friends are the democratic party and the Atkinsonians. Unqoudtedly he exaggerates their importance as they exaggerate his. But he has a right to take such allies as he can find. The position of an American political party and an American political leader that are regarded by the enemies of the United States as their friends and their reliance is not honorable or fortunate —N. Y. Sun. PRESS OPINIONS. Mr. Bryan continues to be the advance agent of his own defeat. He is making another 10,000-mile tour, mostly through the enemy's country. Kansas City Journal. It is quite possible that the south may spring some surprises in November. The people down that way are much in earnest about expansion, and they see a great many things to their liking in sound money and a protective tariff. Kansas City Journal. When the republicans were last in power the democratic party was distressed about the treasury surplus, and a repetition of the trouble is at hand. Perhaps the missing issue may turn up yet.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. It is denied that William J. Bryan has decided to move from Nebraska to Texas. But the people may have something to say about that. We miss our guess if when the election returns are read next November Mr. Bryan will not hear the people say: "Go to Texas."—Troy Times. The democratic enemies of the administration in congress must lie awake nights to think up things about which to ask for information. They are groping in the dark trying to find something that will reflect upon the president or his administration.—Cleveland Leader. No doubt the democratic editors who have been hoping that the gold standard law enacted by congress would relegate the money question to the background will be sorely disappointed by Col. Bryan's determination to make the free coinage of silver the leading issue.—Ohio State Journal. The people of this country may heartily congratulate themselves on the fact that the cheap money and repudiation agitation, inspired and maintained almost wholly by demagogues, has brought the best fruits in the positive and final establishment of a sound financial system in the great republic of the world.—Philadelphia Times. On the first of March the farmers of this country had in their possession, according to the official statistics, 158,700,000 bushels of wheat, 773,700,000 bushels of corn and 290,900,000 bushels of oats. These are smaller reserves than were on hand at the corresponding date a year ago, but they are surprisingly large in view of the high prices that have been paid for grain and the continuous foreign demand. The only conclusion is that the farmers have grown so rich that they can afford to hold their grain and are not compelled to sell at once in order to pay the interest on mortgages and provide their families with the necessarier of life. What a change there has been since 1896, when the calamity howlers were in full cry!—Troy Times. Easter Bells! ASTER bells! Easter bells! Oh, the happy sound! Chiming over hills and dells, All the earth around, With the budding flowers springing, With the song the brook is singing, With the carols gayly ringing, Wake, ch. gladsome Easter bells! Easter bells! Easter bells! Sing your message grand, Echoing in cadenced swells Over sea and land! In the seed from earth awaking, In the bud from winter breaking, In the heart its gloom forsaking, Read your story, Easter bells! Easter bells! Easter bells! Waken Peace and Love! Kindness in your music dwells, Hallowed from above. Stay the tumult and the wronging, Melt the clouds around us thronging, Hush the cares to earth belonging, Joyful, joyful Easter Bells! —George Cooper, in Golden Days. MRS. DEWEY'S EASTER. THE horses jogged easily along toward town. They were lazy old fellows, Nat and Billy, and they had a heavy load of grain on for the T mill and perhaps resented it. Mrs. Dewey sat perched up beside her husband on the high seat of the wagon, drawing her shawl close about her, as the chill March wind struck her sensibly, as she remarked to her husband, with a protesting shiver. She was a plump little woman who had been pretty once, when her hair was brown and curly, her eyes bright and her complexion fair and peachy, but since she had married Lon Dewey, and gone out to his big grain farm to live, continual hard work had aged her greatly, and the brightness and bloom of her girlhood days were almost crushed out of her. Mr. Dewey was a good man, for all that he so thoroughly needed waking up, but he had been accustomed to seeing his mother and sisters turn off great quantities of work with their robust health and strength, and it simply did not occur to him that his wife was wearing her life away in a treadmill which was taxing her to the utmost limit of her endurance. "Wheat's a bringin' a dollar a bushel," remarked Mr. Dewey, as he flicked his whip suggestively around Nat's heels. "I reckon if I can get the crop sold afore she drops, I'll be some hundreds ahead of what I've been ary year before in some time." "Lon, don't you suppose, if you do, that we could have a new carpet in the parlor. It seems like if I could have something real handsome to look at, it would lighten the work ever so much." "Ain't I handsome enough?" asked Mr. Dewey, with unusual humor. Mrs. Dewey laughed. Her husband was not a handsome man at his best, and to-day he had taken little time to "slick up," and the March wind had tousled his hair and reddened his nose in addition. "The rag carpet was pretty enough when it was new," she continued, "but someways I've got awfully tired of rag carpetin'." "You winnin' folks get terribly tired of things anyhow, it seems to me," remarked Mr. Dewey, reflectively. "Yes, we do, Lon," replied his wife, with an unusual burst of feeling. "I'm tired to death of looking at the same things, and of wearing the same clothes year in and year out. I get so hungry for pretty things sometimes it seems like I'd go wild." Mr. Dewey turned and looked at his wife in astonishment. "Well, I swan, Martha," he said, slowly. "Pity you didn't marry a rich man that could give you all you wanted." "No, I don't: want no rich man." Martha Dewey caught her breath in a half sob. "You're plenty rich enough, only you've got a notion of thinking I don't need nice things like other women have them. Pretty things don't cost so much more than humly ones, either." "Well, I snum, what's got into you, Martha, all of a suddent?" "Nothing new, Lon Dewey," replied his wife in a combative tone, "it's there pretty much all the time, but sometimes it swells and surges, and sets me going in spite of myself, like the water turns the big wheels at the mill." They were in the town now, and a young woman was tripping along the sidewalk, clad in a handsome tailormade suit, whose perfect fit and material added grace and beauty to a form and face no more to be admired than Martha's in her younger days. Martha looked at her with longing eyes. "If I could be dressed up like that when I go out, I wouldn't mind the hard work atween times so," she said. The miller came out as the horses trotted up to the door of the great, busy mill. He had been acquainted with Martha years before, and he noted her tired face and shabby attire. "Martha Hillis didn't get much of a snap when she married Lon Dewey," he reflected inwardly, as he invited her to come into the office and get warm while her husband sold his wheat. Martha forgot her longings in the curiosities of the office, the telephone, the immense ledgers over which the bookkeeper was pouring, the bookkeeper himself, a thin, wiry man who made figures with the quickness and precision of an automatic machine. His wife came in as she waited, a brilliant, graceful creature whose garments were redolent with the perfume of rich fur and odorous sachet powders. A bunch of carnations was pinned to her cloak. "See what Bathers gave me when I ordered my Easter lilies," she said, smilingly to her husband, then noticing the hungry, wistful look on the little woman's face in the office chair, a sweet thought came to her, and unpinning the flowers, she laid three of the fullest and richest in Martha's hand. "Oh, thank you," cried Martha, her voice trembling with eager delight. "I'm so fond of flowers, and I don't get any time to raise 'em." She was still fondling the blossoms, and inhaling their rich perfume when Mr. Dewey came in, rubbing his hands in high good humor. "Well, Martha, I reckon we'd better go up to town now," he said, as he folded a check which the miller had given him. "I've got some runnin' around to do, but you can wait for me some place." "Come over to my house first and get a lunch," urged the miller. "Mrs. Dewey looks too weary to sit around the stores, and my wife would be delighted to meet her, I know." Mr. Bonney had a hearty, persuasive way which was hard to resist, and a few moments later Martha was taking off her bonnet in Mrs. Bonney's cosy sitting-room, in response to a generous welcome. Mary Bonney was one of those sweet, gracious women whose very presence means peace and good will, and Martha looked at her enviously as she moved about in her pretty home, giving an order here, offering a suggestion there, and all the time smiling a welcome to the tired little figure in the big easy chair, a luxurious change from the jolting of the high-seated wagon. It was all so pretty, it rested her so to look about her, and drink in the beauty of the soft, rich carpet on the parlor floor through the vista of the draped archway, and the daintiness of the lace curtains. An oil painting of a scene in the Alps fascinated her with its wondrous tints, and before she knew it she had spoken aloud. "If I had such a parlor to look into, I—" then she stopped in confusion. "You are admiring my Alpine scenery," observed Mrs. Bonney, following her eye. "I hung it there where I could see it readily from this room. It rests me so when I am tired, the glimpse of the beauties of nature which I never expect to see for myself." "Then you know what it is," replied Martha, eagerly. "I get so lonesome for pretty things to rest my eyes on. Maybe it's wicked, for I've got a good home, but there isn't one single thing in it that is pretty like that picture and carpet." "It isn't wicked at all," Mrs. Bonney spoke warmly. "Our Father would not have filled the earth full of beauty, and given us the taste to enjoy it if it had been wrong." Mr. Dewey, obtuse as he was, observed the contrast between this home and his own, and he was touched by his wife's evident delight in her surroundings. Her eyes were shining, and her cheeks pink as she followed her hostess to the tasteful dining-room, where the lunch was set out on a pretty table, bright with silver and crystal, for the & Notions PUSH &: Notions "LET'S GO IN, MARTHA." Bonneys lived as well as their guests, and enjoyed their best things every day. A stand by the window was filled with Easter lilies, each bearing a tall shaft of buds almost ready to blossom, and in a little sewing-room adjacent, a table was strewn with the details of an Easter costume. "We are in our annual flurry," observed Mr. Bonney, jovially. "Wife and the girls always enjoy a little Easter finery, but we old fellows don't have much show in that direction, do we?" the colored a good oppo to eat eggs like better counter, eat hardness or against his test it is picking, and with a brocess. The or a turkey fellows. Opears. In a "We don't make much fuss about Easter at our house," replied Mr. Dewey, uneniously, as he remembered that not only Easter, but Christmas and birthdays passed by unheeded. After all, life was a barren routine at the Dewey farmhouse, and he was beginning to realize it. "Well, Easter means so much to us," Mr. Bonney's ruddy face was touched with a tender feeling, "that we love to celebrate it with all the brightness and beauty possible. By the way, Dewey, we are going to have especially fine services in church on Easter Sunday. Come in and enjoy it with us." Mrs. Dewey looked at her husband, eagerly. There was always so much to do at the farm on Sabbath morning, when they were apt to sleep late, that they had almost given up church going entirely. It was another link out of the chain which bound her girlhood days to her present. "Yes, do come," urged Mrs. Bonney, seeing the look on Mrs. Dewey's face. "The decorations will be lovely, and the music especially fine." Mr. Dewey cast a doubtful look at his wife's best dress, doubly shabby in contrast with Mrs. Bonney's handsome teagown, and he thought of his own best suit, which had long seen its palmiest days, as he said: "Well, I'll see; mebbe, if the weather is good." He walked along in silence beside his wife as they went out of the hospitable home. That check in his pocket seemed burning to get out and spend itself on the things which Martha not only wanted, but needed to keep her life fresh and young, her spirit sweet and hopeful. He had intended to add it to his already satisfactory bank account, but as he looked down at his wife's face his mind changed. They were passing a large dry goods store where everything, from a carpet --- to a paper of pins, was sold. "Let's go in, Martha," he said, awkwardly. "You said you wanted to look at some carpetin', and say, whilst you are about it, I guess you'd better pick out a new dress and some Easter fixin'. That bunnit you've got on looks sort o' ragged." "Oh, Lon," the little woman came near transfixing the entire street by throwing her arms around his neck then and there, but he opened the door hastily. "Get all you want, Martha, and I'll foot the bill," he said. "I'm going down to the tailor shop, for if we go to that Easter meeting we want to look a leetle mite as other folks do." Martha's heart sang for joy all the way home, for wasn't there a roll of the loveliest carpet she had ever dreamed of possessing under the seat, and in her lap a bonnet and dress pattern which she would not trust out of her own hands? Little things enough to make a heart glad in view of the wondrous message of the Eastertide, still to the starving just the crumbs must be fed until they can bear the stronger meat. That followed later, as Martha's heart opened up to the beautiful Easter service, as flowers open their thirsty cups to the warm rain. Mr. Dewey, too, saw something in life which he had never seen before, a hope beyond the sordidness of everyday care, which lifts the spirit on invisible wings into the realm of the unseen. Life at the Dewey farmhouse was never again the same routine of dull, unbeautified labor, and Martha is growing young again.—Mrs. F. M. Howard, in Chicago Standard. EASTER MONDAY EGG-ROLLING Thousands of Children Spend a Joyous Day in the White House Grounds. Clifford Howard, in writing of the annual Easter Monday egg-rolling in the white house grounds at Washington, gives a fine glimpse of the sport in the Ladies' Home Journal. "The chief points of attraction," he says, "are the mounds of hillecks that rise in gentle slope from the lawn in various parts of the grounds. Their sides are richly carpeted with soft, thick grass, and here it is that the little children roll their eggs. They clamber up the hillside with their baskets, the little tots crawling up on hands and knees, and then turn and roll their eggs one by one down the green slope. But the children do not confine themselves to rolling eggs. Many of them take more pleasure in sitting about in groups and picking eggs with one another. This is done by striking two eggs together on their points. The one whose egg is broken, in this encounter is the loser and gives up his egg to the other. This game is particularly enjoyed by PUSH the colored children, for it gives them a good opportunity and a good excuse to eat eggs, and there is nothing they like better. Preparatory to an encounter, each little fellow tests the hardness of his egg by knocking it against his teeth. If it can stand this test it is considered a good one for picking, and the owner sallies forth with a broad grin; confident of success. The boy who owns a goose egg or a turkey egg is a prince among his fellows. 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He succeeds when all other, not only live help and satire, but also call. Call me. Call me. Call 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 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 friends. His aid and advice have been given to many years ago when he 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. They sense as to throw their time and money away on such. DR. SHEA refers to the Hon. Charles Miller, capitalist. 2481 Atlantic avenue; the Hon. Wm. Denmore, architect and builder. 47 Cleveland av. and Arthur, Sewell, ship builder, South Brooklyn. All have known him for the past seven years. He gives a tree test of his power to all. The Doctor has practiced five years in St. Louis, St. Louis, Louisville, Louisville understands thoroughly the diseases, spells or influences the race is subject to. He is now and always has been a true friend to the colored people and always had a large patronage from them. Please Read the Following: Please Read the Following: "BROOKLYN, June 3, 1892.—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 drove. What I did was to friend 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 get 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 go to him at once. Sincerely, ALBERT AYERS, 2837 Atlantic avenue." "BROOKLYN, Aug. 15, 1891.—This is to certify that my husband had gone away and been absent two years, I mourned for him night and day. I gave him up as dead. Hearing of the wonderful things DR. SHEA was doing, I resolved to consult him. He told me my husband was alive and well and where he was; told me he would come home and when. To my joy all of it came true. He is home now; told me he would come home and when. To say that this month I lost the sum of $2.0. I am a poor woman and I was most insane. I went to DR. SHEA and he told me I would find my money and to my intense joy I did find it as he told me. I thank God there is a man so gifted in our midst that can help people and tell them what to do. Sincerely, Mrs. MARY MILLER. South Plainfield, New Jersey. DR. SHEA can show thousands such as the DOCTOR. SHEA has been carefully educated in the Homeopathic and Eclectic Medical Schools of Medicine. His success is wonderful in curing paralysis, Rheumatism, Asthma, Sore Eyes, Tumors, Cancers, Constipation, Ague, Dyspepsia, Tape Worm, Liver Complaints, Deafness, Catarr, Dropsy, Piles, Nervous Debility, Heart Disease, Consumption, Diseases of Women and Children, Fits, Kidney Diseases and all strange and mysterious diseases which others don't understand. All diseases, no matter what they may be. Nothing but honorable treatment. He will honestly tell if you can be cured. Has all new remedies and new successes. Has had ample experience in public hospitals and private clinics. No to living with human life. Call us do not delay. Diplomas hang in parlor. Is a registered physician. A new remedy for rheumatism just discovered, not a liniment. Hopeless cases and those that others cannot cure solicited to call. A perfect and radical cure warranted. Fat folks made thin, the childless made parents. All letters must contain one dollar, two stamps, age, lock of hair. Charges for medical treatment only. 651 Fulton St., Brooklyn, New York. Mention this paper. ```markdown ``` The Smith Premier Typewriter offers to the user of writing machines the best value possible to obtain. No typewriter can be made more carefully, or of better material or have more intelligent expert inspection. No other typewriter offers so many real improvements. No other typewriter will do good work for so long a time. Let us mail our Illustrated Catalogue, Free. The Smith Premier is especially adapted to the "Touch System" of Typewriting. Smith Premier Typewriter Co. No. 248 Superior St. Cleveland, O. 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-American. The fact that they advertise is assurance that they want your trade. Local reading notices (advertisements) ten cents a line (six words to a line.) PUSHAW'S News Store, Cuyahoga Building opposite the Post Office. Open Sunday. N. HERTER'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. ALL NED PRINTING TRADES COUNCIL CLEVELAND Miss Whitfield, of Jamestown, N. Y., is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Walter Randolph, of Perry street. Mr. Emmond Hollingsworth, of Cuyahoga Falls, was the guest of Mr. Rufus Justice the past week. Mrs. Nora Poindexter and children left for Detroit Tuesday night. Miss Ianza Powell and "Dr." Ferd Simpson visited Akron Tuesday. Miss Julia Miller and Mr. William Henderson, an employe in William Taylor's barber shop, are to be married next month. Miss Bettie Harris and Mr. George Higgins have been quite sick. Mr. Walter Wills is spending a few days in Wilberforce, having been called there by the death of Dean Mitchell. Mr. Towles, of Xenia, arrived in the city last week Friday. The "Yonold" Pedro club was very pleasantly entertained Wednesday evening by Mr. and Mrs. L. Buchanan of Vine street. The first prizes were won by Mrs. W. Randolph and Mr. Thomas Flemming, and the booby prizes by Mrs. Flemmings and Mr. Williams. Refreshments were served. The Young Men's Magazine and Literary club will hold an oratorical contest in Mt. Zion church Wednesday evening, April 18th. A fine musical programme was also arranged for the occasion. Messrs. Carroll Scott, Walter Brown and William E. Smith are the contestants. A prize will be given to the winner. Rev. Dr. Mason, of Rochester, N. Y. was in the city the past week in the interest of Livingston college, of Salisbury, N. C. He stopped with Mr. and Mrs. Horace Roller. The home of Mrs. Nellie De Forest was damaged by fire recently during her absence. Quite a number of effect were destroyed. Rev. Charles Bundy was in Zanes ville last week. Mr. Clarence C. White visited relatives in Oberlin this week. Miss Lillian Caldwell has returned from Washington, Pa. Charles Yates, alias Roberts, 56 Blaine street, was arrested Sunday night for peeping into windows of East End dwellings. The soubriquet of "Peeping Tom" has been conferred upon him by the police authorities. Judge Fiedler fined him $25 and costs. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas, of Sterling avenue, entertained Tuesday evening. About 25 guests were present. They will leave soon for Chicago, their future home. Miss Florence Richardson and Mr. T. J. Shauter will wed in June—it is said. Mrs. Carrie Bell, an old and respected citizen, died last Tuesday morning at her home, 440 Central avenue, after a short illness with typhoid pneumonia. She has been a faithful member of St. John's church for many years, and, notwithstanding she was blind, could always be found active and earnest in church work. The funeral occurred Thursday afternoon from St. John's church, Rev. Bundy officiating. Capt. J. Harden died Thursday morning. Seremia, the 7-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Green, of Sheeley court, jumped from a second-story window, at 501 Central avenue, recently, injuring her head and hip. Children scared her by telling her the house was on fire. She was taken to Lakeside hospital. At St. John's church to-morrow morning the pastor, Rev. Charles Bundy, will preach a special sermon. At 2:30 p. m. the Sunday school will have its Easter exercises. At 7:30 p. m. a special programme, appropriate to the occasion, will be rendered. The day will be devoted to "missions." Next Wednesday evening a concert and spelling "bee" will be given by the emergency committee. The national grand lodge of the U. B.A.F. will convene at Cleveland, O., in July. The grand temple will meet there at the same time. The session will last about five days and there will be about 900 delegates in attendance. Mr. William Robinson, now on a business trip to St. Louis, Mo., and Brinkley, Ark., is expected home this week. Miss Myrtle Gray entertained about 20 young ladies and gentlemen in honor of her sixteenth birthday Thursday evening, March 29th, at her home, 168 Sibley street. Luncheon was served and the evening was spent in dancing and games until a late hour. The editor of The Gazette takes pleasure in acknowledging receipt of a lithograph of the Tuskegee Institute school grounds, sent him by Booker T. Washington, principal of the school. The editor of The Gazette attended the business dinner of the Builders' Exchange, held at the Chamber of Commerce building Saturday, April 7th, at 12 o'clock. The subject for discussion was "Pending Legislation at Columbus of Importance to Builders." The editor made a short speech. Services at St. Andrew's church, corner of Scovill and Chapel streets, Suncay, will be as follows: 7 a. m., holy communion; 10:30, holy communion and sermon; 3 p. m., choral evening prayer and holy baptism. Dime books, lenten boxes and special Easter offerings to be made at any service. Hon. H. C. Smith, editor of this paper, is in receipt of an invitation to be present at the ninth annual banquet of the Wendell Phillips club at Clough's hall, Cleveland, O., Tuesday evening, April 17th. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 1900. Rev. Morris, of the Antioch church, preached at Cory chapel Sunday morning. It will be impossible to hold Easter services in the church Sunday, as was anticipated. The large room in the Forest City armory will be used for this purpose. Sunday evening the programme will be very interesting. It is hoped that the church will be ready for occupancy the fourth Sunday in this month. Mrs. Mary Tindell, of Forest street, Miss Fannie Wilson, of Hackman street, Mrs. Langford, of Forest street, and Mr. Jefferson, of Maple street, are sick. Mrs. Corbin and Rev. Langford went to Oberlin Monday to attend the funeral of Rev. Wood's little daughter. Rev. G. J. Jones, pastor of the M. E. church, of Springfield, visited here this week. The weather is very uncertain this spring, so in order for the ladies and gents to display their Easter suits to the best advantage, we would advise them to attend the Easter dance at Woodliff hall Monday evening, the 16th. Admission, gents 35 cents; ladies 25 cents. The G. U. O. of O. F. gave a pleasant social at the home of Mr. William Parker Wednesday evening. There is only one attraction Monday evening, the 16th, and that is at Woodliff hall. For further particulars call at above place at 8 p. m. Gents, 35 cents; ladies, 25 cents. Booker T. Washington, president of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial institute, Tuskegee, Alabama, will lecture at Gray's armory Monday, April 16, at 8 p. m. The subject of his lecture will be "Tuskegee and the Negro problem." Admission is free. Bring your friends with you. It is hoped that as many as possible will attend his lecture. Mr. Booker's qualities as a lecturer are so well known that the need no description. Rev. Alexander Moore occupied the pulpit at Antioch church last Sunday. No steps have yet been taken to secure a new pastor. Miss Sarah Wilson died at her home on Cedar avenue Tuesday morning at 3 o'clock. Her funeral took place from Trinity parish, on Perry street, Thursday at 2 p. m., Dean Williams officiating. A host of friends mourn her death. The King's Daughters held a "Hayseed Social" at Woodliff hall Monday evening. A short programme was rendered and an enjoyable time was had. Miss Florence Scott, of Sterling avenue, is again able to be out, although not entirely recovered. Mr. John Edwards, of Hackman street, is still quite ill with the grippe. Dr. Ellis A. Dale graduated from the medical college Tuesday evening. He was the only colored graduate in his class. Lewis E. Johnson spent Sunday in Springfield. Mrs. Jennie Thomas, of Hackman street, is able to be out again. Miss Kittie Skeen was forced to give up her position at Endean's studio on account of sickness. The Excelsior band was mustered into the Ninth battalion, O. N. G., Friday evening, April 6th. Dr. Wren, of Columbus, made the physical examinations. 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. Be sure to read the Boston Chemical Co.'s ad., elsewhere in this paper. Legal Notice. STATE OF OHIO, CUXAHOGA COUNTY, ss. In the Probate Court The Society for Saving, Maria Thompson and the Unknown heirs of Henry Simmons, of David Simmons, of George Simmons and of Ferrege GreenNid, defendants. 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, 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, situate in the City of 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-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 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 Dollars, as indicated in exhibit "A." attached to said petition. That the last half of the taxes for 1890 are unpaid and are a lien on said real estate, and the character 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 statue in such case made and provided. 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Street, 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, NY BIG FOUR ROUTE Solid vesicule 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, 119 Euclid Ave. Bell Tel. Main 910. Home Tel. 853. *Daily. Depart. No. 11, Southwestern Limited. *3 10 am No. 3, Col. & Clin. Express. 7 15 am No. 33, Col. Clin. Express. *11 40 am No. 35, Ind. & St. Louis Express. 12 00 m No. 27, Columbus Accommodation. 4 00 pm No. 37, Col. & Clin. Express. *8 30 pm *Daily. Arrive. No. 28, Clin. & Col. Express. *6 45 am No. 26, Gallon Accommodation. 9 45 am No. 36, Ind. & St. Louis Express. *2 30 pm No. 46, Columbus & Clin. Express. *2 55 pm No. 24, Wellington Accommodation. 6 33 pm No. 2, Col. Clin. & Ind. Express. 9 25 pm No. 18, Southwestern Limited. *1 50 am Nos. 11 and 18 do not stop at Erie Ry. depot. No. 37, leaving at 8:30 p.m, has local sleeper for Cincinnati. Nos. 33 and 46 have dining cars. For tickets call on D. JAY COLLVER, city passenger and ticket agent, No. 116 Euclid Ave. Colonial Arcade). Cleveland, O. WARREN J. LYNCH. O. WARREN J. LYNCH. Cleveland Union Station. Pennsylvania Lines. Foot of Bank Street. Ticket Offices at Station, Euclid Av., Woodland Av., and Weddell House corner. Through Trains run as follows by Central Time: *Daily. *Daily except Sunday. From Cleveland to Leave. Arrive Pittsburg & Bellaire ..... +7 00am +12 10pm Salem & Pittsburg ..... *8 00am +8 30pm Philadelphia & New York ..... *2 10pm +11 30pm Baltimore & washington ..... *2 10pm +11 30pm Salem & Pittsburg ..... *2 10pm +11 30pm Pittsburg, Bellaire & East ..... *8 10pm +8 20pm havanna & Alliance ..... *2 10pm +8 30pm Ravenna & Alliance ..... *5 10pm +8 30pm Philadelphia & New York ..... *5 10pm +8 30pm Baltimore & Washington ..... *11 10pm +4 30pm Wellsville & Pittsburg ..... *11 10pm +4 30pm MT. VERNON & PAN-HANDLE ROUTE. From Cleveland to Leave. Arrive. Columbus & Cincinnati... *8 35am *5 40pm Orville & Columbus... *8 35am *5 40pm Orrville & Millersburg... *8 10pm +12 10pm Columbus & Cincinnati... *7 35pm *7 30am NICKEL PLATE. The New York, Chicago & St. Louis RR. All trains stop at Euclid avenue, Broadway and Pearl street. City ticket office 189 Superior street. Tel. Main 218. All trains arrive and depart from Van Buren St., Union Passenger Station, Chicago. Eastward. Arrive. Depart. 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Stanton, in Atlanta Constitution WOUDNT that bump you!" murmured, the faro dealers, reflectively, as a thin pock-marked man passed the corner of Broadway and Thirty-eighth street. "What's that?" asked the race follower. "Seein' you throw the frapped countenance up against Hennessy. Say, wasn't you feedin' him couple years ago, when I seen you down i' New Orleans?" "Sure!" said the race man. "And now you throw him down?" "That's right." "Woman?" "Not on your life." "What then?" "Say." said the race man, "d'y' ever hear how me and Hennessy come together, an' what happened to both of us?" "Nope." "Well, it's a queer story, and it goes to show what a freaky thing luck is. We couldn't ever trot double. If Hennessy is flying high, I'm cold broke, an' if I'm a winner, Hennessy's on the pork. Besides, he could never stay square with a friend nohow." "Well, how about it?" asked the faro man. "It was after the season closed at Brighton Beach in '97. Hennessy had been up against it for four long, warm, weary months. He'd been playin' everythin' in the business from favorites to 100 to 1 shots, an' he couldn't win breakfast money. I'd been foll'in' the western circuit all summer an' had nursed up quite a wad, an' when I come back to New York the first man I run against is Hennessy. He was comin' out of a Sixth avenue beanery, where they sell coffee for two cents a cup, an' say, if ever any man looked like a bad nickel, it was Hennessy. I'd seen him when he was rollin' high out in California, an' I had a few drinks with him then, an' some guy had told me that Hennessy was a man 'at never stood by his friends. But say, I was sorry to see a man down on his luck, an' I says to myself, I'll help him to take a brace. So I fits him out from feet to finish, an' then I promises him $5 a day for two weeks to play the ponies—me lavin' off awhile to rest. "Wek, after a few days Hennessy begins to do business again, and inside of a month had nursed together a little wad of about three hundred dollars. "Now,' says I, 'we're off to New Orleans.' "An' we went an' started into the game the next day. But Hennessy's luck had changed again, and there wasn't anything he could win. Neither of us could make it out. Hennessy said he's gone into the theater with his umbrella up, an' I guess p'rhaps that's what it was, but anyway, he was a dead one from that on, and in two days he didn't have but $50 in the world. Then I told him to stick to me and follow my plays, and he did, and in two days I had lost $1,700 and all of Hennessy's $50 was gone. So I gave Hennessy $10 to start fresh on and told him to lay his own money an' keep away from me. So he did and lost every nickel of it before night. "Well, it was up to me to take care of him. So he goes off and gets a little more somewhere, and every mornin' he's 'round to my room for breakfast money and I'm givin' him $3 to feed himself and play with. That kept up the whole winter through, me givin' him $3 every day, besides drinks an' cigars, an' laundry bills, and every now and then a tenner to get his stuff out that he'd hocked. But I guess it was luck to me, because I lived high every minute of the time and quit the game $3,300 better than when Hennessy and me started south. "I guess Hennessy thought the same thing, 'cause he comes 'round one morning and say$ if I'll stake him to a little roll he'll quit me and try his luck on the western circuit. So I gave him $500 and he started for Chicago. It wasn't long before we heard of his luck, and my five hundred begins to come back. "Good? Why things just swam his way. I was glad of it, although I wasn't doing so well myself. As Hennessy's stock went up mine started to slump, and pretty soon I was in the hole up to my neck. When the meeting closed it left me stone broke, with only one suit of clothes left and livin' in a hall room near the corner of Ninth avenue and Thirty-second street. Then I began playin' the poolrooms with what money I could borrow here and there, but I couldn't get enough ahead to make any kind of a play, and I began to think if things didn't come my way I'd have to quit the game and go to work." "Say, wouldn't that bump you?" said the faro man. "Well, about this time one day," resumed the race follower, "I was coming down Broadway, feeling pretty sore and mean and raggy. I'd had nothing for breakfast but batter cakes and coffee, and I didn't just know who was going to stake me for dinner, let alone a dollar or so just to try if my luck had begun to change. Well, while I was feelin' this way, not exactly sure if I wouldn't chuck the whole business and chase a job, who do I run against but Hennessy. He was just coming out of Martin's with a toothpick sticking out of his jaw and a look on his face like he was full up to the chin with green turtle soup and baked trout and roasted canvasback and nesselrode pudding, with a pint of champagne, and a pousee cafe at the end of all. Say, it made me hungry just to look at his mug, and he was wearin' a hot silker an' a long coat and a diamond lamp fit to knock an eye out of the prince of Wales, and, say, when I saw Hennessy that way I thought it was like findin' a mine. There was ready money all over him." "An', of course, he staked you good and plenty?" said the faro man. "Did I say that Hennessy had a pint?" mused the race follower. "Well, maybe it was two of them and maybe it was three. Anyway, Hennessy had a little skate on. It wasn't enough to excuse him and it was just enough to make a mean man nasty. "‘Hello, Hennessy,’ says I. "‘Hello,’ says Hennessy. “And I saw then and there that my gold mine was a frost. Hennessy was givin’ me the go-by. But I was too hard up to be haughty, so I stops him. “‘Say, Hennessy,’ says I, ‘are you goin’ to walk past a man like that? Don’t you know me?’ “‘Yes,’ says Hennessy, with a kind of an ugly grin, ‘I know you well enough.’ "I've been in hard luck since I saw you, Hennessy,' says I. 'I'm on the hog for fair—stone broke, old man!' "That don't surprise me,' says Hennessy, 'not a little bit.' "It don't!' says I, and you can bet I was surprised, if he wasn't. "Not a particle,' says Hennessy, 'you went broke when I quit you, because I was your mascot. You stole my luck, and I figure that you owe me about $5,000. The minute I left you things came my way.' "Well, I tried to laugh. 'Why, Hennessy, old man,' says I, 'you're stringin' me. D'ye take me for a hoodoo?" "That's what I do,' he says, 'the worst hoodoo this side of the Rocky mountains.' "‘Well, say, Hennessy,’ says I, 'stake me for a hundred and let it go at that?' "Not a nickel,' says Hennessy. 'You got my luck once, but you don't get it again, see!' "Then he turned back into the cafe, and I could see him through the window ordering a new quart." "Wouldn't that bump you!" said the faro man. "Say, isn't luck about the queerest thing on earth?" continued the race man philosophically. "Here was Hennessy a tramp only a year before, when I was a high rider. Now, I'm on my uppers, and Hennessy's on the wave, and yet at that very minute my luck was on the turn. I walked around the corner where I could curse Hennessy on the quiet and there in a little heap of wet dirt by the curbstone I saw something shining. I picked it up. It was a five-dollar gold piece, and there was a hole in it. Say, do you remember me coming into your bank with it?" "Sure," said the faro man. "Say, it needed a lot of nerve to lay the whole five on one card, and me hungry, too, but I was afraid if I'd break the five I'd break my luck, see?" The faro man saw. "So I laid it in one bet, and won ten times running. Then I called the turn, and finally quit $4,000 winner. Say, that was about the dizziest game I ever played, and when I cashed in I went and eat the best dinner that the Tenderloin afforded. "Well, I didn't see anything more of Hennessy until, January, when I went to New Orleans again with a small interest in a string of good ones and another interest in a combination book that a guy named Shorty Allen was running. I was riding high again, and Hennessy wasn't. It did seem queer, but it looked like we both couldn't do business at the same time. I ran against him several times and made as if I'd forgotten the throw down he gave me in front of Martin's, and at last one day he came sweatin' around to my rooms, lookin' for a tip. One of our horses was entered for seven furlongs on the next day, with about one chance in a million of winning, but Hennessy had an idea in his hat that the race was to be fixed. He didn't know I was interested in the nag, but he did know that I had an inside track with the stable and came to find out which way the cat was goin' to jump. "Say, old pal,' he said, 'I've only got $1,000 left and I want to make a big play to-morrow so's to get even again and I can't take any chances. Can't you put me wise?'" "Say," said the faro man, "wouldn't that bump you?" "So I told him to see me an hour before the race," the race follower went on, "and he went away. Say, d'ye think it was up to me to give him any straight tip?" "After the way he turned you down? Nit!" returned the faro man. "Well, next day the mare was a five-to-one shot, and about an hour before the race Hennessy came sneaking up. "Do I play her?' he says. "For all you're worth,' says I. “‘Sure,’ says I. “Well, the book I was interested in was offering a shade better than the others, and Hennessy went against it to the limit. In 20 minutes every nickel he had in the world was laid against my horse. When they were at the post Hennessy sneaked up again. “‘Sure?’ he asked. “I gave him a cold grin and just said: ‘Middlin.’ “他 turned pale and gasped. ‘But you said: ‘Sure!’” "Oh, well, Hennessy,' I said, 'there's nothing sure. I always thought I was sure of you until you fooled me. The mare might spring a tendon, or run wide, or anything. See?" and something did happen—I'm not say in' what. Anyway the favorite romped in an easy winner and Hennessy was broke. He's been broke ever since."—N. Y. Sun. Smith—Have you heard that Jane Silligal has committed suicide? Brown—Bless me! You don't say so. Smith—Yes. Jumped over Waterloo bridge. Brown—Ah, she was always fond of jumping to conclusions.—Ally Sloper. Society Specials Communicated Through the Autocrat of the Apartment House. They were riding together on an Indiana avenue car. One wore a little gem of a black bonnet, with violet trimmings, and the other had on an appropriate Lenten symphony in gray. "By the way, did you hear that Lillian Bell is to be married?" asked the one in the black bonnet. "Dear me, no! How did you find it out? Who is it? When is it to be? Where are they going to live? Is he—" "Sh, dear, and I'll tell you all about it," whispered the other, behind her little mouse-colored muff. "In the first place, he's young—only 25. He's veree, veree handsome, he's rich, they've been acquainted only three weeks. He is veree, veree much in love with her, and she with him. They are going to have a simplee beautiful wedding, and then they are going to take a trip to Paris, and after that live in New York. And—" "Well, well, how much you know about it! I didn't suppose you were acquainted with Miss Bell. Never heard you mention it, my dear." "I'm not; never saw her in my life," said the other. "But you know that the Bells live in one of that row of green-stone houses down there on Lake avenue? Well, the houses all have the same janitor, and a friend of a friend of mine lives in one of them. The janitor told all about it to the woman in the green-stone house, she told my friend, and my friend told me. There!" "How lovely!" murmured the woman in the Lenten gray.—Chicago Inter Ocean. Getting At the Facts: Wife (after the honeymoon)—Why did you deceive me about your income? Husband—I didn't, my dear. "Yes, you did. You told me you were getting $50 a week when you asked me to marry you." "You evidently misunderstood me. I said my position was worth $50—and so it is—but for some reason best known to the boss he gives me only ten dollars." — Chicago Evening News. Wise is the man who acts as if he expected to live a hundred years, but is prepared to shuffle off to-morrow. — Chicago Daily News. Dar ah sum people who hate a thief who borrows books an neebah returns dum. — Arkansaw Thomas Cat. Age may not be garrulous, but there is no denying the fact that it tells on both men and women. — Chicago Daily News. Mrs. Fogg—"Why, they tell shameful stories about your friend Bobson. They say he is half drunk all the time." Mr. Fogg—"And that's the way the world loves to exaggerate! It does Bobson a rank injustice. He half drunk all the time! The thing's absurd. There are many hours in his life when he is asleep, and there are many hours when he is drunk through and through—Boston Transcript. Suspicious Bank Manager—"I think we'd better examine the cashier's accounts." Second in Command—"Do you think he is embezzling?" Manager—"I am almost sure of it. He is growing very careless about his personal appearance. Only rich men can afford to do that."—Sydney Town and Country Journal. Miss Nice—"What do you think of the new woman, Mr. Fair?" Mr. Fair—"I detest the bold, shrieking creature. How much more lovable is the old woman, like you!" Miss Nice—"Sir! (He tried desperately to explain, but she would not hear.)—Melbourne Weekly Times. Teacher—"Willie, can you tell us what this spells: 'R-e-f-r-g-e-r-a-t-o-r?'" Willie Starvem (the landlady's son)—Um-m. Why—er-er—"Teacher—"Corre. What does your mother put the cold meat and vegetables and things in?" Willie Starvem (brightening) — "Hash!" — Philadelphia Press. Stern Father—"What an unearthly hout that young fellow stops till every night, Doris. What does you mother say about it?" Daughter—"She says she haven't altered a ta, pa."—Punch. Diggi—"I can't understand it." Biggins—"What's that?" Diggins—"It is stated that the Parisians eat 100,000 pounds of snails daily, and yet they call the French people a fast lot!" Coloured Comic. 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The thermometer went down to 32 below zero; but we did not suffer with the cold at all. We have worked every day all winter, are all well and feeling well. Have built a log house 18x18, two log stables 16x18, and are now busy on a well. We have ten cows, three other cattle and six head of horses. The boys send their best respects to Mr. Huechison, and say they will talk to him enough to pay for not writing when he gets up here. Will write you again next Spring and tell you all about the Winter. We all unite in sending you and family our best wishes and respects and hope this will find you all well. Yours very respectfully, (Signed) THOMAS TATE, Duhamel, Alberta, Canada. P. S. It has been down to zero this month; it is 22 above now. HER ONE REQUEST. The Only Remaining Thing That Was Necessary to Complete Her Happiness. "Listen, my darling." 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"It shall be granted," exclaimed her enthusiastic lover. "Only tell me what it is." The girl at his side stirred rapturously. "How good of you!" she said. "I was only going to say that when we have moved into our new home I would like the privilege of furnishing it all over again to suit myself."—Life. Ask Your Dealer for Allen's Foot-Ease, A powder to shake into your shoes. It rests the feet. CuresCorns, Bunions, Swollen, Sore, Hot, Callous, Aching, Sweating feet and Ingrowing Nails. Allen's Foot-Ease makes new or tight shoes easy. Sold by all druggists and shoe stores, 25c. Sample mailed FREE. Address Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. Punishment "Did your wife scold when you came home so late last night?" "You don't know what it is to have a wife who was once a school-teacher. She simply made me write 100 times on a slate 'I must be at home by ten o'clock.'"—N. Y. World. Nome City, Alaska. Is twenty-eight hundred miles from Seattle, via Ocean. Is said to be the richest gold field discovered up to this time. The first steamer will leave Seattle on or about May 10, 1900. For full particulars address Geo. H. Heaford, General Passenger Agent, Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, Chicago, Ill. "The caramels are coming! Oho! Oho!" softly hummed the maiden, as she heard her nicest young man's ring at the doorbell. Ohio State Journal. 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. Sound Judgment.—The bandmaster's.—Harlem Life. The source of many a large river is but a small spring.—Chicago Daily News. Is what Mrs. Archie Young of 1817 Oaks Ave., West Superior, Wis., writes us on Jan. 25th, 1900, "I am so thankful to be able to say that your SWANSON'S '5 DROPS' is the best medicine I have ever used in my life. I sent for some last November and commenced using it right away and it helped me from the first dose. Oh, I cannot explain to you how I was suffering from neuralgia. It seemed that death was near at hand. I thought no one could be worse. I was so very weak that I hardly expected to live to see my husband come back from his daily labor. But now I am free from pain, my cheeks are red, and I sleep well the whole night through. Many of my friends are so surprised to see me looking so well that they will send for some of your '5 DROPS.'" RHEUMATISM "I have been afflicted with rheumatism for 2 years. I was in bed when I saw your advertisement in a paper, recommending SWANSON'S '5 DROPS.' I try it. It has completely cured me, but I like it so well that I want two more bottles for fear I will get into the same fix I was before I sent for '5 DROPS,'" writes Mr. Alexander Futrell of Vanndale, Ark., Feb. 6th, 1900. Is the most powerful specific known. Free from opiates and perfectly harmless. It gives almost instantaneous relief, and is a positive cure for Rheumatism, Sclatica, Neuralgia, Dyspepsia, Backache, Asthma, Hay Fever, Catarrh, La Gruppe, Croppe, Sleeplessness, Nervousness, Nervous and Heart, Weakness, Dropy, Malaria, Creeping Numbness, etc., etc. 30 DAYS to enable sufferers to give "5 DROPS" at least a trial, we will send a 25c sample bottle, prepaid by mail for 10c. A sample bottle will convince you. Also, large bottles (300 doses) $1.00, 6 bottles for $5. Sold by us and agents. AGENT WANTED Territory. We are dedicated. No matter how pleasant your surroundings, health, good health, is the foundation for enjoyment. Bowel trouble causes more aches and pains than all other diseases together, and when you get a good dose of bilious bile coursing through the blood life's a hell on earth. Millions of people are doctoring for chronic ailments that started with bad bowels, and they will never get better till the bowels are right. You know how it is—you neglect—get irregular—first suffer with a slight headache—bad taste in the mouth mornings, and general "all gone" feeling during the day—keep on going from bad to worse until the suffering becomes awful, life loses its charms, and there is many a one that has been driven to suicidal relief. Educate your bowels with CASCARETS. Don't neglect the slightest irregularity. See that you have one natural, easy movement each day. CASCARETS tone the bowels—make them strong—and after you have used them once you will wonder why it is that you have ever been Deafness Cannot Be Cured by local applications, as they cannot reach the diseased portion of the ear. There is only one way to cure deafness, and that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed condition of the mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube. When this tube gets inflamed you have a rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and when it is entirely closed deafness is the result, and unless the inflammation can be taken out and this tube restored to its normal condition, hearing will be destroyed forever; nine cases of ten are caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an inflamed condition of the mucous surfaces. We will give One Hundred Dollars for any case of Deafness (caused by catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Send for circulars, free. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Hall's Forensic Lab, the best Not Intimate Enough Miss Maison—Excuse my ignorance, but ought I to call you Mr. Bones or Dr. Bones? The Doctor (irascibly)—Oh, call me anything you like. Some of my friends call me an old idiot. "Ah, but those are only people who know you intimately."—London Tit-Bits. Are the Most Disagreeable Months of the Year in the North. In the South, they are the pleasantest and most agreeable. The trees and shrubs put forth their buds and flowers; early vegetables and fruits are ready for eating, and in fact all nature seems to have awakened from its winter sleep. 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. Difference in Location. Lady—You tell me that you do not always chop wood? Sandy Pikes—No, mum! When I'm up dis way I chop wood; when I'm down in Chinatown I chop suey.—Chicago Evening News. Many People Cannot Drink coffee at night. It spoils their sleep. You can drink Grain-O when you please and sleep like a top. For Grain-O does not stimulate; it nourishes, cheers and feeds. Yet it looks and tastes like the best coffee. For nervous persons, young people and children Grain-O is the perfect drink. Made from pure grains. Get a package from your grocer to-day. Try it in place of coffee. 15 and 25c. Couldn't Think of Vampire. Pearl—What do you call these bats that Speltz. Bromus. Rape. Corn. Oats. Five remarkable things. Bound to make you rich, Mr. Farmer. Salzer's catalog tells the story. Send 5c. postage and this notice to-day for catalog to John A. Salzer Seed Co., La Crosse, Wis. [k] The successful man sometimes gives his mother's slipper the credit of having first made him smart.—Chicago Democrat. 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. The charms of solitude depend largely on the man who is to be charmed.—Chicago Democrat. We refund 10c for every package of PUTNAM FADELESS DYES that fails to give satisfaction. Monroe Drug Co., Unionville, Mo. Sold by all druggists. In teaching the young, be careful not to deceive them; they will catch you at it.—Atchison Globe. I do not believe Piso's Cure for Consumption has an equal for coughs and colds.—John F. Boyer, Trinity Springs, Ind., Feb. 15, 1900. Some men never realize how mean they have been until they run for office.—Chicago Daily News. O, How Happy I am to be BE FREE from Is what Mrs. Archie Young of 1817 Oaks Ave., "I am so thankful to be able to say that your SW have ever used in my life. I sent for some last N it helped me from the first dose. Oh, I cannot ex it seemed that death was near at hand. I though I hardly expected to live to see my husband come from pain, my cheeks are red, and I sleep well the so surprised to see me looking so well that they RHEUMATISM "I have been afflicted with it when I say SWANSON'S C try it. It has completed more bottles for fear I w 5 DROPS," writes 6th, 1900. It has most powerful specific gives almost instantaneous attica, Neuralgia, Dysarthr, Lai Grippe, Cre Neuralgia, Hedychus, Dropsy, Malaria, Cre 30 DAYS to en sample bottle will convince [TRADE MARK.] Sold by us and agents. AGENT SWANSON RHEUMATIC CURE CO. IN THE I No matter he health, good h Nothing in the Wide World has such a record for absolutely curing female ills and kidney troubles as has Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Medicines that are advertised to cure everything cannot be specifics for anything. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound will not cure every kind of illness that may afflict men, women and children, but proof is monumental that it will and does cure all the ills peculiar to women. This is a fact indisputable and can be verified by more than a million women. If you are sick don't experiment, take the medicine that has the record of the largest number of cures. Lydia E. Pinkham Med. Co., Lynn, Masa. C. W. Rosenbach, (31st St. and Indiana Ave., Chicago, Ill.,) wrote, Feb. 11, 1888, "I have been troubled with QUINSY SORE THROAT for ten years, and I find Palmer's Lotion the quickest remedy I ever tried." Lotion Soap Prevents and assists in curing all skin diseases. At Druggists only. 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 sage. extra for carriage. State kind or leather, size, and width, plain or cap toe. Cat free. W. L. DOUGLAS SHOE CO., Brockton, Mass. 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. A. N. K.-C 1808 $20.00 Per WEEK and expenses for man with rig to introduce our insect destroyer. Salaries Guaranteed. Address, with stamp, PERFECTION MFG. 60., PARISSON, KANSAS.