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2 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 as 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, MAY 12, 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. Four white men will represent Ohio in the next national republican convention. We hoped that one delegate-large would be an Afro-American. 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? Alton, Ill., Afro-Americans, who having for years been fighting in the courts separate ("Jim Crow") schools for their children, will carry their case to the supreme court of the state, and win, because their cause is just one. They lost the fight in the circuit court, as a result of the perjury of prejudiced witnesses. It cost the Afro-Americans of the country the Mississippi membership in the national republican committee to make Hon. James Hill and Hon. John R. Lynch, of that state, political friends after many years' fighting. The former made a deal with a white republican of that state, to beat the Lynch forces in a recent state convention, that secures to the latter (white) the position so long held by National Committee Hill. "Twas ever thus. While our people fight one another some white person walks off with the "plum." It is about time we were learning the old lesson, now nearly 30 years old. The University of Michigan correspondent of the Detroit Free Press, in the issue of that paper of May 6th, criticises severely the disgusting lecture recently delivered in Ann Arbor by one-eyed Senator Tillman, of South Carolina, concluding his article with the following sentence: "Senator Tillman will not be given a return date." It is a rank insult to any intelligent audience to force upon it that blatherskite and foulmouthed individual, and we are pleased to note that the good people of Ann Arbor realize this at last. One dose of Tillman is just one too many. The judiciary committee of one of the houses of congress has recommended a bill that as a law will provide an indemnity for persons lynched by mobs, providing the victims are foreigners. This is the rankest kind of discrimination against American citizens, and especially those of color, ever attempted, and if it is enacted into law by a republican congress, every republican member who votes for it ought to be a "marked" man that our voters throughout the country should never tire trying to defeat until the desired result is secured. Write to your United States senator and congressman relative to this pernicious bill. Virginia has prepared for a constitutional provision which will practically disfranchise the great majority of Afro-Americans in the "Old Dominion." The white people of that state are rapidly falling into line with those of Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina and Alabama, who have in late years demonstrated their full belief in the notorious decision of Judge Taney, who is alleged to have said: "Black men have no rights that white men are bound to respect." The Hon. W. C. P. Breckenridge, of Kentucky, never spoke truer words than when he said that all such laws as the one referred to and the "Jim Crow" car law of the south can be but temporary affairs, as it is only a question of time when they will be effaced. This will come when the whites of the south have progressed, broadened and become civilized to the degree which will enable them to treat all American citizens as they should without reference to class or color. In interviews published in the Columbus Press-Post of Tuesday, we are surprised to find a number of A. M. E. bishops practically apologizing for the drawing of a color line by a Columbus restaurant keeper (white). It seems that Bishop B. F. Lee and other delegates to the general conference of the church, now being held at the capital city, were refused accommodation, and the matter was brought up in Tuesday morning's session of the conference for general discussion. Discrimination in public places on the ground of color, race, or previous condition of servitude, whether in Ohio or Georgia, should not be apologized for by prominent men of our race, to say nothing of others. It is wrong, and should be so characterized, in the press, in the pulpit and everywhere else, and until our prominent men, as well as others, have the manhood and courage to denounce it unqualifiedly, we may expect a continuance of just such mistreatment. In every family you'll find an old man trying to quit smoking, and a young one trying to earn.—Atchison Globe. San Diego county, California, voted to support the candidacy of U. S. Grant, jr., one of its citizens, as a delegate to the Philadelphia convention, but refused to consider a resolution indorsing him for vice president. The Baroness Burdett-Coutts has just entered on her 86th year. Since she became the possessor of her fortune, in the year of the queen's accession, the baroness has spent in charity, it has been estimated, £1,000,000, out of the £1,800,000 she then inherited. By last official census in Holland the number of cattle returned was 1,500,- 000, of pigs 1,200,000, of sheep, 680,000, and of horses 270,000. The shortage of hog products in Holland offers to the United States a profitable market, the stability of which would seem to be not only well established but on a basis of permanence. It is said the most valuable checker board in existence is that of the late Prince Bismarck, who was a great lover of the game. The squares of the board are made of silver and gold, to represent the usual light and dark colored leather. The draughts are of silver and gold, having a diamond or ruby in the center of each. As measured by C. C. Martin, the engineer of the Brooklyn bridge, the center is 135 feet above mean high water; as measured by the war department for the passage beneath the structure of the training ship Buffalo this distance is 132 feet. Mr. Martin claims that the bridge has been made to sag three feet by the extra weight of the trolley cars. The British empire now has a population of 400,000,000, with a capacity of almost unlimited increase in the sparsely settled regions of her colonies in the temperate zone. Add the population of the Yang-tse valley of China, now under the British "sphere of influence," and we have an aggregate of near one-half the total population of the globe. Great Britain is indulged comment over the fact that no notice has been taken in parliament of the attempted assassination of the prince of Wales in Belgium. In March, 1868, his brother the duke of Edinburgh (now Duke Alfred of Saxe-Coburg) was wounded by a would-be assassin in Australia and both houses of parliament adopted congratulatory addresses to the crown on his escape. Bank notes and general lithographing work has reached a high degree of perfection in intricacy of design in late years, and while counterfeiting has not been stopped, the difficulties have been greatly increased. A paper of specially prepared fiber and chemically treated substance has been made on which it is impossible to make any change or erasure without detection. Still, even this fails sometimes. Maj. Gen. Sir Herbert Charles Chermside, who succeeds to Gen. Gatacre's command in South Africa, is a distinguished officer. He was born in 1850, educated at Eton and entered the royal engineer corps in 1868, gradually proceeding to the rank of colonel by 1887. In 1877 he was military attache with the Turks in the Russo-Turkish war and in the following year he assisted in the delimitation of the Turkish frontier. John D. Rockefeller said in an address before a New York Bible class the other evening: "The pursuit of riches is not a wrong thing. On the contrary, gold is one of the mightiest agents for the doing of good, and though there are bad rich men just as there are bad poor men. I believe that most wealthy persons look upon their money as a sacred trust which they hold for the good of their fellows." Samuel Stophlet, of Kansas City, is the originator of a novel idea for the raising of the additional money necessary to rebuild the Convention hall. He suggests that the iron of the burned building shall be made into medals bearing a picture of the old hall, with the dates of its completion and destruction on one side and the date of the completion and dedication of the new structure on the reverse side, these medals to be sold at $1 each for the fund. Away with the linen handkerchiefs, says Dr. Pfeiffer, the discoverer of the influenza bacillus. The handkerchief propogates 70 per cent. of all colds, and inflammations of the head, throat and nose, he declares. It often causes erysipelas to spread, and that influenza reoccurs season after season in epidemical form is directly traceable to the use, or abuse, of the linen handkerchief. The sick person, Dr. Pfeiffer says, carries a veritable arsenal of microbes in his pocket. This microbe needs nourishment, darkness, warmth and dampness. While the diamond mines at Kimberley have been producing about $18,000,000 worth of gems a year, the industry in Brazil, formerly the most important diamond-producing country in the world, has fallen to a low ebb. It is now carried on only by individuals or small associations working in a crude manner. The yield was never much over $1,000,000 in any year, and the product is now worth annually less than $200,000; and yet the quality of the Brazil stones averages higher than that of the Kimberley output. Recent discussion over the incidents connected with the life of Barbara Freitchie, the heroine of Whittier's heroic verse, has brought to light the entry in birth records of the First Reformed church, Lancaster, Pa., of the heroic birth. The record says that "Barbara, daughter of Nicholas Hauer and Catharine," was born in Lancaster on December 3, 1766, and was baptized in the church by Rev. William Hendel on December 14 of the same year, Mrs. Barbara Gamber acting as sponsor for the infant. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1900. GENERAL CONFERENCE. The Twenty-first Quadrennial of the A. M. E. Church Now in Session at Ohio's Capital. Organization Perfected—Committees Appointed — Welcome Addresses and Responses—Anti-Boer Resolutions—Color Line Drawn—McKinley's Telegram—The Episcopal Address—Conference Notes. Special to The Gazette. Columbus, O. — The twenty-first quadrennial conference of the A.M.E. church, which is made up of delegates from Africa, Bermuda and Nova Scotia, as well as this country, opened at 10:30 a. m., Monday, in Goodale Street Auditorium. There will be 403 delegates in attendance, and Monday morning's session was presided over by Bishop Turner, the senior bishop of the church. The organization was completed at the afternoon session. At the evening session welcome addresses were delivered by the governor, the mayor, Bishop Lee and other local ministers. Responsive addresses were made by Bishop Arnett, Revs. H. T. Johnson, T. A. Thompson and Mr. W. J. Andrew. Sunday services were held in the Auditorium, and in the evening anti-Boer resolutions were adopted. At Tuesday morning's session the refusal of a local restaurant keeper to accommodate Bishop B. F. Lee and other delegates came up for discussion, the most striking characteristic of which was a failure to roundly denounce such mistreatment, whether given in Ohio or Georgia. An exception might possibly be made in the case of Rev. A. A. Whitman, who referred to the color-line scamp as a "Spaniard, a Dago, an alien, and a scab on social order." During this and the afternoon session a large number of committees were appointed. Tuesday evening a reception was tendered to the missionary bishops and missionaries. Several bishops and a number of prominent ministers delivered addresses. Rev. L. H. Reynolds, of Louisiana, was unanimously elected secretary of the conference. He was given half a dozen assistants, including Chas. S. Smith, who was elected official stenographer. Resolutions were adopted commending Bishop Turner for his earnest and successful work in South Africa. Wednesday morning's session was devoted to the reading of the Episcopal address, which was a special order of business. Dr. B. F. Watson was appointed musical director of the conference. The following telegram was received from President McKinley: "I have much pleasure in extending to the members of the A. M. E. general conference my congratulations and good wishes." The time for beginning the election has not been decided upon as yet. Bishop Lee read the address. At 3 o'clock memorial addresses were made for Bishops Emby and Armstrong, who died during the past four years. Bishop Lee presided Wednesday evening. Among the things said in the address by the bishops was: "We recommend to the church to raise $150,000 per year, the next four years, or $600,000 within the coming quadrennial as our twentieth century offering. This is less than 25 cents per member, which, with proper plan and executive force, can be surely collected." Persons desiring to know the daily doings of the conference should be sure to order The Gazette and we will keep you posted each week as to the things of importance said and done each day until its close on May 30. CONFERENCE FEATURES Several special features are included in the conference programme and these anniversaries and special days promise to be of unusual interest. Wednesday, May 9, 8 p. m., anniversary of the educational board, Bishop Lee presiding. Thursday, May 10, 8 p. m., lecture, "The A. M. E. Church on Canvas," by G. F. Richings. Friday, May 11, 8 p. m., Bishop Tanner presiding. Reception of the alumni association of Wilberforce university to all alumni of other colleges, who may be members of the general conference in honor of the founding of the manual labor school in Columbus, September, 1847, by Rev. John M. Brown. Monday, May 14, 8 p. m., anniversary of the publications. Tuesday, May 15, 8 p. m., anniversary of the Parent Home and Foreign Missionary societies. Wednesday, May 16, mass meeting in interest of "Our Father's Church." Thursday, May 17, 8 p. m., concert by south African choir of the Parent missionary society. Friday, May 18, the anniversary reunion and reception of the Mite Missionary society of this district to the Parent Mite Missionary society and the foreign Mite Missionary society. Saturday, May 19, 10 a. m., woman's conference, St. Paul's church. 2:30 p. m., addresses and question box; 8 p. m. (in Auditorium), "The Duty of the A. M. E. Church to the Orphans of the Race." Mrs. Amanda Smith; 9 p. m., reception in St. Paul's church. Sunday, May 20, 2:30 p. m., meeting in interest of Christian temperance. in interest of Christian temperance. Monday, May 21, 8 p. m., anniversary of the Historical and Literary society and Ministerial Educational society. Tuesday, May 22, 8 p. m., anniversary Church Extension society. Wednesday, May 23, 8 p. m., addresses on "What Can We Do for the Development of the Interest of the Young People of the Church?" Thursday, May 24, 8 p. m., "A Night With the Poets of the A. M. E. Church." Friday, May 25, 8 p. m., sacred concert by the Orpheus orchestra of Wilberforce university. Monday, May 28, 8 p. m., addresses on "The Necessity for Higher Literature." Thursday, May 30, final adjournment of general conference. Colorado annual conference has the honor of being the annuer conference in regard to the dollar money. With a membership of 800 the dollar collection for 1899 was $1,221.36, a per capita contribution of $1.052. Each member of the church is expected to contribute $1 each year for general church expenses and this is designated the dollar money. Colorado conference includes Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, Montana, New Mexico and Arizona, covering an area of 670,920 square miles. Rev. P. A. Hubbard is presiding elder and he has done ef- fective work. He is being prominently mentioned for the position of financial secretary in case Rev. M. M. Moore, the present incumbent, is elevated to the bishopric. MAMMY'S GROWIN' OLE In de little cabin yonder Mammy's growin' ole; But she lubs to set an' ponder, When de sunset gol' Flushes up de hill an' medder. How de deah, good Laud hab led her Th'u' de sunshine an' de shadder, 'Tell she's gray an' ole. You kin see her th'u' de winder, Near de firelight's glow. Dah you 'll fine her, summah 'n winter, Rain er shine er snow. Dressed in her ole-fashioned manner, In her apron an' bandanner. Croonin' softly, sometimes, an' er Rockin' to an' fro. Lak she used to do. Memory's bad an' eyesight's failin', But her faith, th'u' sto'ms assailin', Keeps de getherin' mists f'om veilin Heben f'om her view. Shet de do' an' tip-toe 'round her- Mammy's growin ole; An' she allus sleeps mo' sounder Ef de room ain't col' Ble room ain't cor, An' de chillun plays mo' keerful— Seems to wake up peert an' cheerful; Mammy's cup is pu'tty near full; Ca'she she's gittin' ole. Yes, she's gittin' ole, an' failin'— Failin' evah day. You kin see de way she's ailin' She h'aint long to stay; An' some day, while tears ah streamin' Mam'y'l fall asleep a-dreamin' Ob de light she's seed a-gleamin' Up de King's highway. —James D, Corrothers, in The Southern Workman. K. P. LODGE ORGANIZED. Personal, Social, Lodge and Other Local Notes of Interest Youngstown, O.—Mr. and Mrs. John Vactor entertained at dinner Sunday W. N. Johnson, of Piqua; Mr. Payne, of Wellsville; Rev. H. Butler, Mrs. Mattie Vactor and Miss M. E. Boggess.—Mrs. Clifford, who has been visiting her daughter, returned the 6th.—Several Masons of Cleveland were here assisting the lodge this week.—Miss A. Stewart, Messrs. W. Berry, J. Holmes, R. Molten, Thomas Johnson, sr. and jr., visited in Cleveland May 6.—Wm. N. Johnson for Springfield May 7.—Mr. Payne returned to Wellsville the 7th.—Rev. L. W. White left for Columbus to attend the general conference.—Payne's Historical Literary society will close Monday evening with a musical programme and a mock trial.—W. N. Johnson, G. C. of Ohio, was here last week and organized a K. of P. lodge with a membership of twenty-nine. Mr. Payne, of Wellsville, and several members from Cleveland and Homestead assisted him. While here he was the guest of O. D. Boggess.—Miss M. E. Boggess entertained at luncheon Tuesday evening in honor of Mrs. L. A. Cunningham, of Cleveland. The following were present: Mesdames A. vactor, M. Vactor, P. R. Berry, R. B. Jackson, R. Burton, C. Gray, W. Stewart, T. Johnson, L. A. Cunningham, Mr. and Mrs. T. D. Berry, Mr. and Mrs. J. Vactor, Mr. and Mrs. N. Smith, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Van Dusen, Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Lynch, Misses M. Johnson, A. Stewart, H. Van Dusen, E. Stewart, Messrs. W. Berry, J. Holmes, W. Tabler, S. Holmes and G. Richards. Lockland and Wyoming Items Lockland and Wyoming Items. The Home Missionary society rendered a short programme at the A. M. E. church after Sunday school. Rev. Coleman preached at 7 p. m.—Mrs. Lansdale was baptized at Christian church and Rev. Burch baptized two converts Sunday.—The May fair at the A. M. E. church closed Saturday evening. Sixty dollars were raised. Misses Malinda Smith, Laura Johnson and Alice Poston are the committee elected to train the children for Children's day.—Miss Clara Jenkins, of Cincinnati, visited Miss Verbie Roberts Sunday.—Miss Rebecca Thompson, of Hamilton, was entertained at dinner Sunday by Mrs. Rev. Coleman.—Mrs. Cavillier is having her house remodeled.—Rev. Chas, Payne is improving his property, and William Douglass has purchased the lot adjoining it.—Miss Lizzie Lee was the guest of her mother Sunday.—Mrs. Lena Moore and her cousin visited in Middletown Sunday.—A number of strangers were in Lockland Sunday attending the rally at the Predestinarian church.—Granny Ray, 104 years of age, one of Lockland's oldest citizens, died Wednesday and was buried Friday. She was a member of Mt. Zion church and was well known in Hamilton county.—Mr. Lankford, of Hamilton, was the guest of Miss Hattie Cassidy. Gem City Cullings. Dayton, O.—A number of Odd Fellows attended the annual sermon at Xenia Sunday.—Miss Minnie Jones is visiting Mr. and Mrs. George Hall in Franklin.—Rev. Collins, of Eaker St. church, will baptize Sunday morning. —Mrs. Ida Jones is ill.—Misses Truly, Dr. Burns and Ed Deaton visited in Franklin Sunday.—Rev. Gilmere, of Pennsylvania, was here last week.—The C. W. C. A. gave a social at Mrs. Mattie Jackson's Thursday afternoon.—Elmer Payne is ill.—Messrs. Butler and Mosee were in Xenia Sunday; Messrs. Brown, Johnson and Mosee, and Misses Mayme Jones and Della Butler went to Franklin Tuesday evening, and Messrs. Wright and Jeter left for Columbus Monday.—Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Jones entertained Rev. Gilmer at dinner Friday, and Misses Seine entertained the Fleur De Lis Friday afternoon.—Mrs. Brand died Monday evening and was buried Thursday. Baseball Game. Wilberforce, O.—Revs. E. A. Clark and D. A. Graham preached Sunday morning and evening respectively. The baseball game played on Wilberforce grounds Saturday between the Wilberforce and whittenberg teams resulted in a Wilberforce victory. The annual baseball game between the junior and senior classes was played Monday afternoon, resulting in a senior defeat. After the game the juniors made a rush for the seniors' banner, which was torn into threads.—Mrs. Chas, Smith is greatly improved. Seashore Excursion via Pennsylvania Lines Will be Run August 9th. The annual low rate excursion to the seashore will be run via Pennsylvania lines Thursday, August 9. On that date reduced fare tickets will be sold to Atlantic City, Cape May, Anglesea, Avalon, Holly Beach, Ocean City, Sea Isle City, Wildwood, New Jersey, Rehoboth, Del., and Ocean City, Md. The round trip from Cleveland will be $13.50 to either of the ten resorts mentioned, which constitute the most popular summer havens along the Atlantic coast. No more enjoyable vacation outing can be planned than a visit to the seashore in midsummer. Arrangements may be made for participating in the pleasures offered by this excursion by communicating with C. L. Kimball, Assistant General Passenger Agent, Cleveland, O. June 1. Wheeling, W. Va., Items. Eureka lodge listened to its annual sermon Sunday at Wayman chapel. Over $21 was raised. Rev. Cunningham, a local M.E.minister, addressed the congregation Sunday evening.—The Spinsters' Whist club was entertained by Miss Ora Glasgow last week Friday evening.—Mr. Basil Ray returns to Cleveland in a few days. He spent a few days at his former home, Mt. Pleasant, O.—The funeral of Mr. Neubay, of Bridgeport, was held Sunday afternoon.—Mrs. Black's funeral services (who died in Fairmont) were held Sunday at the Eoff Street church.—On the list of weddings in the near future is that of Mr. John Jackson and Miss M. Isabelle Carter.—Over $100 were raised at Ebenezer church rally Sunday.—Mr. Thomas Lewis, who has been an invalid for some time, is reported much better.—[Correspondent will please write on one side of the paper only.] John Brown Celebration. Sandusky.—John Brown's anniversary will be celebrated at Decatur St. church Wednesday evening.—Solomon Blaine left for Indianapolis Saturday.—The juvenile M. M. society's social given Wednesday evening was a success.—The A. M. E. church will give a social the 25th.—Mrs. Emma Rodgers and daughter, Hazel, and Mrs. Lora Jefferson, of Chicago, are visiting their mother, Mrs. White.—The Odd Fellows will give a May festival Wednesday evening. White of the Boiled Egg Unfit to Eat. Very few persons can eat the white of a hard-boiled egg with any degree of comfort. Eggs are highly nutritious and easy of digestion when lightly or under cooked. The albumen, the white of the egg, coagulates as soon as it is dropped into hot water. The long boiling renders the yolk soft and mealy, but the white becomes tough and indigestible, and should be discarded.—May Ladies' Home Journal. Died at the Age of 114. Cincinnati, O.—Annie Ray, colored, 114 years old, who, in all probability was the oldest woman in the United States, died recently at the county infirmary. She had a number of children, one of whom is 82 years of age. "Granny" claimed to be an eye-witness to the famous Hamilton-Burr duel fought in 1804. She was a slave in Kentucky. A cotton seed oil mill is to be built at Yorkville, Fla. There is an asparagus farm of 206 acres near Charleston. The Vandalia last week handled 112 cars of stock east-bound. French Canadians almost entirely use home-grown tobacco. Sweden is making rapid strides in manufacturing industries. Names have recently been appned to a number of Alaskan peaks. A thirteen-foot alligator was captured near Hardeville, Fla., recently. The finest shops in a Chinese city are those devoted to the sale of coffins. Bremen received 1,045,635 bales of American cotton up to November 1, 1899. More deaths are due in England to alcoholism than to diphtheria or typhoid fever. In Scotland plowing matches are taking place all over the country. The chances for practice lately, however, have been few. The cost of preparing the American exhibit at the Paris Exposition has been $240,633. The largest item is salaries of experts—$72,045. There are now upward of 400 rural mailcarriers in the United States, and during the year just closed they carried close to 10,000,000 pieces of mail. England has a Garden City association, whose aim is to build cities in such a way that they shall combine the advantages of country life with those of town life. A vienna editor who went to the last Paris exposition in a fairee has reached the present show in an automobile and promises to visit the next one in a flying machine. It is noted that of 34 great battles 12 were fought on Sunday, 6 on Thursday, 5 on Wednesday, 2 on Friday, while Monday, Tuesday and Saturday claim 2 apiece. Polish women in Pennsylvania celebrate the close of the Lenten period by swiching their husbands and deluging them with water. It is a custom imported from Poland. It is estimated that, during the past fourteen months, upward of 10,000 wolves have been killed in Wyoming, in addition to mountain lions, wild cats, lynx, bear and coyotes. Over five tons of documents produced by England in the Venezuelan arbitration case have been removed from Paris. They required two railway cars to take them away. Fifteen years ago native Christians could rarely find employment in India. Now they are preferred by contractors, because they do more and better work than the heathen. The will of the late William Goldthorp, of Jo Daviess county, Illinois, gives about $30,000 to the Methodist Episcopal board of education to aid needy young men studying for the ministry. Minneapolis has established and maintained for years three public playgrounds for children, at a cost of $300. Of this sum $100 came from the city treasury and the rest from private contributions. 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. 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Dayton, Chicknati, Indianapolis, St. Louis. Pacific Coast and Warner Joseph Cars. Best line in the West, South and South west. Ticket office. 116 Euclid Ave. Bell Tel. Main 910. Home Tel. 853. *Daily. Depart. No. 11. Southwestern Limited. *8 30 am. No. 3. Col. & Clin. Express. *7 15 am. No. 33. Col., Clin. Express. *11 40 am. No. 12. Col., Clin. Louis Express. *12 60 m. No. 27. Columbus Accommodation. *4 00 pm. No. 37. Col. & Clin. Express. *8 30 pm *Daily. Arrive. No. 28. Clin. & Clin. Express. *6 45 am. No. 26. Galion 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 35 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 Rye 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 Euclidia Ave. (Coronel Arcade) Cleveland, O. WARREN J. LYNCH, G. P. & T. A., Cincinnati, O. Cleveland Union Station. Pennsylvania Lines. Foot of Bank Street. Ticket Offices at Station, Euclid Av., Woodland Av., and Weddell House corner. Through Trains run as follows by Central Times: *Daily. †Daily except Sunday. From Cleveland to Leave Arrive Pittsburgh & 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 Pittsburgh, Bellaire & East. *3 10pm *6 25pm Ravenna & Alliance. *3 1pm *8 3am Ravenna & Alliance. *5 10pm *8 3am Philadelphia & New York. *11 10pm *4 30am Baltimore & Washington. *11 10pm *4 30am Wellsville & Pittsburg. *11 10pm *4 30am From Cleveland to Leave. Arrive. Columbus & Cincinnati ... *8 35am *5 40am Orville & Columbus ... *8 35am *5 40am Orville & Millersburg ... +8 10pm +12 10pm Columbus & Cincinnati ... *7 35am *7 30am NICKEL PLATE. The New York, Chicago, St. Louis R.R. All trains stop at Euclid avenue, Broadway and Pearl street. City ticket office 189 Superior rreet. Tel. Main 218. All trains arrive and depart from Van Buren St., Union Passenger Station, Chicago. Eastward. 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 29 am No. 3, Nickel Plate Ex. 11 13 am 11 20 am Local Freight. *3 50 pm *6 40 am *Daily, except Sunday. All express daily. Tuesdays except Sunday. Chicago Buffalo, New York and Boston. Uncoiled rolling cars and depot restaurants operated by the company. THE CLEVELAND, TERMINAL & VALLEY R. R. CO. (R. & O. SYSTEM) Depot foot of South Water street. City office, 241 Superior street. Arrive. Depart Valley Jt. & Way Stations. *8 20 pm *7 25 am Wheeling & Chicago *9 25 pm +7 25 am Akron, Canton & Chicago *8 15 am *10 00 am Akron, Canton & Wheeling *10 30 am *3 5 am Akron, Canton & Chicago *8 15 am *6 35 am Akron, Canton, Marietta Baltimore, Washington *12 10 pm +11 00 am Baltimore, Philadelphia *10 30 am *3 25 pm And New York *12 10 pm +11 00 am *Daily except Sunday. *Daily. Pulman, palace, restitute sleeping, care Cleveland, Lorain & Wheeling R'y. VALLEY DEPOT. Depart. Arrive. Cleve. & Wheeling Ex..... 7 10 am 11 40 am Cleve. & Wheeling Ex..... 1 00 pm 7 15 pm Cleve. Uhrichsville Ac..... 5 10 pm 6 20 am Sunday trains between Cleveland and Uhrichsville arrive at 9:55 a.m. and 7:15 p.m. Depart at 7:10 a.m. and 6:25 p.m. 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 assurance that they want your trade. Local reading notices (advertisements) ten cents a line (six words to a line). CLEVELAND, SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1900 WHERE "THE GAZETTE" IS SOLD. PUSHAW'S News Store, Cuyahoga Building opposite the Post Office. Open Sunday. N. HEXTER'S News Depot, City Hall Building, cor. Wood and Superior streets. Open Sunday. S. H. MOODY'S News Store, No. 387 Superior street, second west of Bond street. Open Sundays also. GOODMAN'S News Depot, 586 Central avenue cor. Sterling avenue. Open Sunday. WANTED-BARBER-None but a first-class barber need apply. Nine dollars a week guaranteed. J. W. Woods, 15% North Main street, Oberlin, O. Wanted - Barber. - A first-class workman at once. J. E. Benson, 147 Superior street, Cleveland, O. Dr. Daniel Brown, a graduate of the Indiana Medical college, has been appointed in the Indianapolis city dispensary, after a competitive examination. Mr. Arthur T. Abbott spent Saturday and Sunday in Columbus, attending the A. M. E. general conference. The band and Company D, Ninth battalion will go to Point Breeze tomorrow to drill. Jus. Y. Gilliam, leader of the band; Mr. Fred Moore, captain of the company, and Major John C. Fulton will be in command of band and company. A recital and testimonial benefit will be given for Mr. Clarence C. White, voilinist, and Mr. J. Gerald Tyler, pianist, of Oberlin conservatory, at Woodliff-hall, Tuesday evening, May 15. Bowman & McAfee's orchestra will be in attendance. Admission, 25 cents. Miss Addie Stewart, of Youngstown, was the guest of Miss Marie Taylor Sunday. Miss Grace Thompson, of Detroit, is expected soon to be the guest of Mrs. Gordon, of Sterling avenue. Ben Whiting and Miss Rosa Davis will wed the 16th. Davis will wed the 10th. Mr. and Mrs. L. Buchanan and family have moved from 52 Vine street to Willson avenue, near Willson bridge. The funeral of Mr. Randolph Jefferson took place from Shiloh church Monday afternoon, Rev. E. D. Dandridge, the pastor, officiating. He leaves a wife and son to mourn his demise. Messrs. Charles and Wilson Berry and Mr. Holmes, of Youngstown, were here Sunday. Mr. Maurice Tyler, of Columbus, was the guest of Miss Ada Daugherty Sunday. Mrs. John Mule, of Harmon street, is visiting relatives in Columbus. is visiting relatives in Corinthus. The will of Prof. J. A. D. Mitchell, deceased, was probated Monday. The estate consists of a house and lot at No. 200 Oregon street. It will be equally divided between his wife, Mrs. Virginia Mitchell, and the four children. Mr. Benj. Ricks, 86 Corey avenue, recovered the goods which were stolen from his house November 24 last, at the police station Tuesday. They were found among the property taken from the house of Harry Flick, the alleged murderer of Police Captain Shipp. Jas. Fearon, his wife, Ida Belle Fearon, and Elizabeth Chillia, the alleged wife of Harry Flick, were arraigned in police court Tuesday on the charge of being suspicious persons. Attorney Avery appeared in their behalf and by consent the cases were continued to May 11, bail being placed at $3,000 in each case. J. Gerald Tyler, of Oberlin conservatory, visited Clarence C. White, Sunday. Mrs. Craig and Miss Francis, of Columbus, spent Sunday here, the guests of the former's son and wife, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur McFarland, of Livingston street. The Misses Nall, of Detroit, are guests of their sister at No. 48 Hackman street. At St. John's church to-morrow grand rally day for the trustees. Preaching morning and evening by one of the ablest men of the A. M. E. connection attending general conference at Columbus. In the afternoon Dumon court, No. 10, I. O. O. C., will have its annual sermon preached. Frank Lee, G. L., K. of P., left Wednesday morning for Piqua and other points in the state in the interest of the order. Rev. Chas. Bundy was in Columbus the past week. The Fisk Jubilee Singers concerted successfully at Pilgrim Congregational church on the South Side last week Tuesday evening. John Skinner, saloonist at 37 Bright street, was locked up in the central police station last Saturday on the charge of shooting with intent to kill. It is alleged that he fired two shots at Minnie Chew. The concert and dance given for the benefit of "Auntie" Davis Monday evening was a decided success. The expenses were $34.25 and up to date the management reports $15 cleared. There is $8 in ticket money out yet, which if turned in will make the net proceeds $23. All who have tickets and money will do a great favor by reporting at once to the manager, Mrs. Anges Martin, 548 Central avenue. Mrs. John White, of Allen street, entertained Wednesday evening in honor of her husband's birthday. Mrs. Mary Valentine Sheldon has entered an Episcopal convent in Baltimore. One of the best head hotel waiters in this city or in the country is Mr. Frank Terry, of the Weddell house. This seems to be generally conceded. "Yonold Pedro" club met at Mrs. H. J. Embrey's, 450 Central avenue, May 3. Eleven games were played. The first gents' prize was won by Mr. Chas. Rudd; first ladies' prize by Mrs. W. R. Randolph. Consolation, gents' by L. Buchanan; ladies', by Mrs. Thos. Flemming. The menu served was chicken patties, roast ham, corded rolls, coffee, salted almonds, cream wafers and assorted cakes, strawberry cocktails. The editor of The Gazette has received a beautiful calendar from the South Pacific Co., which is a "gem." Young men from 16 to 19 years of age desiring employment can secure same by applying to J. F. Gruver, manager of the Euclid avenue bowling alleys, 411 Euclid avenue. Those employed will be furnished a suit, and be paid $1 a day for services. Rev. L. H. Ferguson, P. E., preached three sermons at Cory chapel Sunday. The collection was $30.78. Eugene Howard, Misses Hattie Fitzhugh, Nellie Jackson, Eliza Langford, Mr. F. W. Corbin and wife, and Rev. Langford are attending the Sunday School institute and Epworth league convention in Oberlin. A reception will be held this week at Rust M. E. church, Oberlin, in honor of the delegates. John Boyd and Miss Mary Boyd have returned from Fernando, Fla., where they spent the winter with their mother.—Mrs. Little is visiting in Kentucky.—The W. W. will give a social next Thursday evening. A grand concert and May dance will be given by the Ninth Battalion (formerly Excelsior) band at Woodliff hall on Monday evening, May 21. Admission 25 and 35 cents. The Fisk Jubilee Singers, who have been concerting at several churches (white), are composed of students of that famous college, who are accompanied by Rev. Dr. J. G. Merrill, dean of the university. The supreme court of Ohio has decided that Hon. Harry C. Smith's head is level by sustaining the bill he is author of, which makes lynching a crime punishable by payment of a large sum of money and forfeiture of official position. Bro. Smith is one of the most loyal race advocates in this country and will not have to live long to be honored as the champion of champions. He never has thrown aside the race and its rights for pats on the shoulder and big promises. His manhood is of too lofty a type to accept hush-up places. Keep on, for merit is sure to receive its reward.—Martinsburg (W. Va.) Pioneer Press. When Director of Police Barrett rescinded rule 44, Patrolman Charles Smith, now Chief Corner's stenographer, was thrown into a state of uncertainty. Smith calculated upon uniting his destinies with a St. Louis lady who is an Oberlin college graduate. The wedding is to be in the month of June. Now he cannot dictate when he shall have his time off, and Chief of Detectives Lohrer says that the only way out of the difficulty is for St. Louis to come to Cleveland instead of Cleveland going to St. Louis.—News and Herald. There is a card at The Gazette office for Mrs. Annie E. Bodie, mother of Miss Flavia Bodie. Please call her attention to this. After reviewing the parade, which was two miles long, Admiral Dewey was escorted to the Auditorium, Memphis, Tenn., where a reception, tendered by representative Negroes of the city, was held. The admiral talked pleasantly and freely and evinced much interest in their condition. The visitors where then driven to the hotel for a few hours' rest. Mrs. J. S. Thomas, No. 672 Sterling avenue, is local agent for the Nelson Manufacturing Co.'s Straightline, an advertisement of which appears in our paper. It is a splendid article of the kind, and Mrs. Thomas is a lady whom it is a pleasure to meet and who knows how to properly treat her patrons, respecting their confidence and properly appreciating their patronage. The Gazette desires to urge its readers to encourage those of our people in business, who have sufficient enterprise to advertise in this paper. Therefore, if you desire an article such as Mrs. Thomas handles, call upon her and give it a trial. A recital and testimonial benefit will be given for Mr. Clarence C. White, violinist, and Mr. J. Gerald Tyler, pianist, of Oberlin conservatory, at Woodliff hall, Tuesday evening, May 15. Bowman & McAfee's orchestra will be in attendance. Admission, 25 cents. Lane-Morgan. Zanesville, O.—James A. Lane and Miss Bessie Moran were married by Rev. A. M. Thomas Friday evening.—Miss Cora Singer is expected home soon.—The entertainment given at St. Paul's church Thursday and Friday was a success. Alonzo Wooten, in the "Emblem," deserves special mention.—The Moorehead band has removed from Turner's hall to a hall on Main street.—Mr. and Mrs. Wright have arrived from W. Va.—Owing to Rev. Jones' absence at Columbus the Odd Fellows did not have their sermon Sunday.—Miss Alice Johnson is improving.—A party of young ladies and gentlemen went to Carlisle's, in the country, Sunday.—Mr. Stanton, of Washington, will visit here soon.—Miss Bertha Singer is ill.—Andrew Jackson was in Columbus Sunday.—A boy was born to Mr. and Mrs. Sampson.—Raymond Bolden has returned from Springfield and Columbus, where he appeared as a wing dancer with the New England Specialty Co. Will sell low rate excursion tickets to North Manchester, Ind., account annual meeting of German Baptists (Dunkards), at one fare for the round trip. Tickets good going on May 29th to June 4th inclusive, beyond a radius of 100 miles, and on May 31st to June 8th within a radius of 100 miles from North Manchester, Ind. Good returning until June 10th, or by deposit until July 5th inclusive. Call on or address E. A. Akers, agent, Cleveland, O., or C. A. Asterlin, T. P. A., Ft. Wayne, Ind. No. 67 Excursions to Cincinnati—the "Queen City" of Ohio—via Pennsylvania Lines. May 21 and 22 for national convention Luther League, of Cincinnati, excursion tickets non-transferable form will be sold to Cincinnati via Pennsylvania lines, valid for return trip Friday, May 25, inclusive. Excursion Rates to Columbus via Pennsylvania Lines, May 23d and 24th. Prohibition state convention will assemble at Columbus May 24, and low rate round trip non-transferable excursion tickets will be sold Wednesday, May 23, and Thursday May 24, from Pennsylvania lines ticket stations in Ohio to the capital city, valid for the return trip until Saturday, May 26. Cottage Grove Lake Plenice Grounds. Cottage grove picnic grounds on the Cleveland Terminal & Valley R. R. has been thoroughly overhauled and renovated and will be opened for the season about May 1, under an entirely new management. For particulars apply to J. R. Galbraith, Traffic Manager C. T. & V. R. R., Cleveland, O. The Nickel Plate Road Offers special low rates to Milwaukee, Wis., account Biennial Meeting General Federation of Womens' Club. Tickets sold June 1st to 4th inclusive, good returning until June 11th, or by deposit until June 30 inclusive. Call on or address E. A. Akers, agent, Cleveland, O., or C. A. Asterlin, T. P. A., Ft. Wayne, Ind. No. 68 THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1900. SUMMER OUTINGS. Where to Go and How to Get There. The seashore, mountain and lake resorts constitute the most attractive pleasure grounds for the summer idler. They are within easy reach via Pennsylvania lines, and agents of that railway system will furnish full information about rates, train service and through car comforts to any of the summer havens. They will assist in arranging details for vacation trips and give valuable information free of charge. Apply to the nearest Pennsylvania lines passenger and ticket agent and be relieved of all bother in shaping preliminaries for your summer outing and vacation trip. C. L. Kimball, Assistant General Passenger Agent, Cleveland, O. New Brighton, Pa., Brevities. Quarterly meeting will be held at Zion church in Bridgewater to-morrow.—The Odd Fellows will have their annual sermon to-morrow at Rochester.—The Baptist missionaries will hold a convention. The tenth grand rally was held Sunday.—Edward Richardson, of Steubenville, is visiting here.—A number from this city will go to Rochester to join the True Reformers.—Rev. A. E. Walden left Saturday for Pike's Run.—Louis Costly visited in Sewickley last week.—Communion was held at the Second Baptist church last Sunday.—Rev. Carter, after six or seven weeks' illness, is better.—A. Stokes, of Warren, is visiting Mrs. Cobb in Beaver Falls.—Mrs. Thomas Wright and daughter left last week for Lisbon, O. Anywhere and Return for One Dollar on the Nickel Plate Road. Anywhere and return for one dollar means that parties of five or more traveling together on one party ticket and returning same day may travel on Sundays on any one of the Peerless Trio of Daily Express Trains between any two given points within the distance of one hundred miles. Not necessary to organize parties large enough to justify special train service to secure the low excursion rate. Organize parties of any size of five persons or more and enjoy a Sunday outing on the Nickel Plate Road. Any agent will explain it. Write, wire or 'phone E. A. Akers, C. P. & S. A., Cleveland, O., or C. A. Asterlin, T. P. A., Ft. Wayne, Ind. No. 71 Eight Pieces of Music for 10 Cents. To anyone sending us 10 cents we will send eight pieces of New, Full-Size, Copyrighted Music, the publisher's price of which is $4. Besides this we will send 36 pages of bright, interesting, illustrated stories and up-to-date articles. This is a fair and square offer, or it would not appear in these columns. Address W .E. Annis, 1260 Broadway, N. Y. DIVORCE NOTICE. Katherine M. Cassidy, plaintiff, vs. Henry F. Cassidy, defendant. The defendant, Henry F. Cassidy, whose last known place of residence was Denver, Colorado, is hereby notified that the plaintiff, Katherine M. Cassidy, on the 1st day of May, A. D. 1900, filed her petition in the Court of Common Pleas of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, praying to be divorced from said defendant. The grounds alleged in said petition are willful abuse for 8 years paid and upon neglect of duty. Said cause is No. 70731, and will be ready for hearing on and after 6 weeks from the first publication of this notice. C. W. SNIDER. Plaintiff's Attorney. 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Twenty years o' married life—mingled smiles an' tears, We can't hitch up no longer; I'm a hangin' back. But put shafts in th' wagon, with one horse 'stead o' two. The's a vision sort o' comes to me—comes through the mist an' blur. A vision o' twenty years ago—I wonder if 't comes to her. When the preacher joined our hands in his an' said: "My children, give Yer hearts an' lives t' each other as long as ye both shall live." I wonder if she remembers—I'd sort o' like to know, I'd like to go and ask her, but now it's too late to go. Too late to come together—we've got to face our fate. I wonder if anything's sadder'n them two words, "too late." For a man as old as I am, an' a woman old as she, Sort o' old for people to find they can't agree. I wonder if I was hasty? Mebbe I was. I b'leve With an evener on th' wagon I wouldn't a had to leave, An evener o' Patience th' balance would sort o' make, When we got to goin' sideways, an' let us give an' take. I wonder if I was to go to her--go to her an' say: "We've been pullin' uneven—let's try another way. We'll lengthen th' temper strap a hole and shorten up th' tongue. And more lead forward a little or th' An' move th' load forrdur a little so th' weight'll be better hung. Mebbe we've not been hitched up right —could pull th' load along If we'd look th' harness over an' find out what was wrong." I wonder if I was to go to her an' put th' case an' state What I b'lieve to be th' matter—if it would be too late? —Bismarck Tribune. WHAT IS TACT? IT WAS a combination of spring weather and steam heat in the office and Ellsworth drooped over his desk. His languid thoughts had straggled far away from the abstract spread out before him. Suddenly he reddened and set his teeth together with a click. Then he threw back his head and began humming a tuneless melody, the burden of whose words was: "La-la-la!" There was a defiant bravado in his voice which impressed the stenographer in the outer room and which made Goodwin stare as he came in just then. "Thanks for your hospitality. If you urge me I will," opened Goodwin, stretching himself upon the office couch with the manner of a fellow who had been there before. When he was well settled he turned a spring lassitude eye on Ellsworth and drawled: "Since when did you learn to sing?" Ellsworth called to his stenographer to shut his office door. Then he managed to exert himself enough to swing his swivel chair until it faced another and to hoist his feet. "Goodwin," he asked, in a solemn tone, "what is tact?" "Tact," said Goodwin, lazily, "is what the other fellow hasn't got." "Then I'm the other fellow." "Oh, pshaw! 'Tisn't so bad as all that, I guess." "It's worse than that. I'm a bump on a log, I tell you. That little tune you caught me warbling—" "That little aria I was executing as you came in is a way I have of trying to express indifference when a vision of one of my bad breaks flits before me. Say, I've got more recollections of that kind than you could shake a stick at, and they're always coming across me on tired days like this. You know what I think tact is? Its not letting the emergency rattle you. Talk about 'tact vs. talent'—a fellow's got to have both. Talent I've got—" "He's so modest!" soliloquized Goodwin. "Talent I've got," repeated Ellsworth, with conviction, "but tact—no. Remember the chestnut about the amount of tact it requires when you've lifted your hat to a stranger to make him think you were only scratching your head? That's the idea I'm getting at. To master the sudden situation, instead of letting the sudden situation master you. The things a fellow's had time to plan out don't count. Now, just before you came in, a fool thing I did last week struck me suddenly. There wasn't any reason why I should think of it. It just came without any warning and made me get as warm as if it had happened a minute ago. I tell you I suffer from these things, and when they come into my head before I know what I'm about I find myself making an effort to throw them off by singing out like that." "Singing?" answered Goodwin Ellsworth grinned. "It never occurs to me that a codfish is very sympathetic, Goodwin, except when I am associating with you. Queer what comparisons will do, isn't it?" "How'm I going to sympathize without knowing what the matter is? Spring is moving along and the way I feel now I am going to take my summer vacation early this year. Suppose you'll be ready to tell me what you've got on your mind by the time I get back?" "Maybe—if you give me a chance. All there was of it was this: Coming back from my trip north last week I had to change cars at Detroit and I forgot my overcoat—left it in the other train and never thought of it until my train had begun to pull out of the station. I rushed out on the platform and there came the porter of the other car, running after me, all out of breath. Next minute he swung himself on the steps of my sleeper and landed my coat in my arms. Of course I knew what to do. There's nothing small about me, Goodwin—you know that. I never thought of putting the fellow off with a quarter. That's a $65 overcoat. What I was feeling for was a half, but somehow or other I couldn't get my fingers on it. The train began to move faster and faster, the porter was shifting from one foot to the other, with his hand on the railing all ready to swing off as soon as I'd done my duty; I --- THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, MAY 12, 1900. pawed wildly in my pocket for the fifty-cent piece that wouldn't come, and, at last, as the train was going almost full speed, I jerked out a silver dollar in desperation, slammed it into his hand and yelled out: 'Here, take this—it's the smallest I've got!' "That'll do, Goodwin—that'll do. I'd like to see the tragedy you couldn't get humor out of. I suppose you'd have laughed at the time to see me charge into the car and fire the coat at one seat and myself at the other. It wasn't that I was mad about giving him the dollar—but why couldn't I have done it in a way to get the credit or it? Why did I have to pose as a chump? That's what does me up—it's lack of tact, I tell you." Goodwin was sitting up to laugh. "Say, I wonder what you'd think of a performance of mine at the banquet last week," he said. "You didn't come, you old miser! I was responsible for the programme, so I went around and warned some of the fellows to get ready for impromptu speeches, and beijiggered if they didn't prepare so much that I thought they'd talk all night. I knew I'd got to call out all I'd spoken to or have hard feelings, so I managed to whisper to Gorman and a couple of others that they'd better cut us off with crisp, short speeches in order to set an example to Franklin, because old Franklin was liable to prose all night. Then I got around by Franklin and told him we'd enough of these long-winded old figureheads—for heaven's sake to stir us up with one of his short breezy talks. Now, that sort of thing, Ellsworth, is what I call tact." "I don't," said Ellsworth. "There was nothing sudden about it. I could have done that myself." "Hold on, now, till you hear it all. I'd no sooner left Franklin and tiptoed back to my seat, patting myself on the head for a diplomat, than up he gets and begins his speech by saying that he's just been informed the company has had enough of these long-winded old figureheads—and so on!" Ellsworth groaned appreciation. "Never you mind—it didn't stump me!" boasted Goodwin. "The fellows' jaws began to drop and everybody looked at me, but up I jumped and I says—as easy and smiling as you please—says I: 'Gentlemen, pardon the interruption, but I want to propose a toast within a toast. Here's to Jonathan Franklin—the merriest and most accomplished liar of them all.' Well, sir, everybody roared and Franklin didn't know where he was at and the other fellows said afterward that it was mighty poor taste in Franklin to call them long-winded figureheads, even for the sake of his joke on me. How was that?" "That," agreed Ellsworth, with a touch of awe in his tone, "that's the real thing. That's tact." And he puffed at the cigar he had lighted in a leisurely, plenty-of-time fashion. Goodwin took to the couch once more. "According to our deductions," he said, slowly, "tact seems to be the ability to lie gracefully—or, at least, to deceive." "I should add to that definition the words: 'On the spur of the moment,'" said Ellsworth, with an air of settling a weighty question. In the silence that followed both men seemed to drowse. An electric bell roused Ellsworth and he swung back to the telephone on his desk. "Hello!" he cried, in a sharp business-like tone that went off like a cannon in the sleepy office. "Yes, I've done that very thing! In the pressure of business this morning I utterly forgot your Aunt Mary was coming. What time was the train due? Thunder! She must be halfway out to the house by this time. Why, sure! I meant to meet her—as much as could be—but you've no idea how things pile up on a man when he gets down to the office in the morning. The matter was completely crowded out of my mind. Pity you didn't call me sooner, dear. I'd have shaken everything and gone to that train. Yes, things are pretty heavy to-day. I'm working on that big abstract, you know. Yes—a good many interruptions—men coming in to consult, and all that. No, don't hurry—there's only one man waiting now. Let him wait. You're more important to me than any man. Oh, no, I don't think I'm working too hard, dear. This spring weather's a little trying for a fellow that has to go right on digging, but I think I'll stand the strain all right. Too bad about Aunt Mary. You know nothing but business would have made me forget your wishes. Shall I bring you some violets? Not much—I won't forget that! Good-bye." He was solemnly relighting his cigar as he caught Goodwin's admiring eye. "And yet you say you haven't tact!" said Goodwin. "Oh, well," deprecated Ellsworth, elevating his feet once more. "Any man could rise to an emergency like that. I was talking to my wife."—Chicago Daily Record. Doing It Well. Half-heartedness never wins in this world. If a thing is not worth doing, do not do it, is a good rule. The late Robert Louis Stevenson was always an enthusiast in whatever he undertook, even when at play, says Youth's Companion. His stepdaughter, Mrs. Isabel Strong, who was for a time his amanuensis, says that Stevenson used to maintain that no one could write a good story who was not a good player —who could not enter fully into the spirit of the game. He himself threw all his energies into whatever he might be playing. At one time he was visiting a house where a small boy was "playing boat" on the sofa. When the lad got tired he did not wait for the ship to come to port, but got down from the sofa and walked toward the door. Stevenson, who was watching him eagerly, cried out to him, in apparent alarm: "Oh, don't do that! Swim, at least!" 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Belching, vomiting up of sour food, rash, flushed skin, colic, restlessness, diarrhoea or constipation, all testify that the bowels are out of order. If you want the little ones to face the coming dangers without anxious fear for their lives, see that the baby's bowels are gently, soothingly, but positively cleaned out in the spring time, and made strong and healthy before hot weather sets in. The only safe laxative for children, pleasant to take (they ask for more) is CASCARETS. Nursing mothers make their milk mildly purgative for the baby by eating a CASCARET now and then. Mama eats a CASCARET, baby gets the 0c box of CASCARETS to-day and you will find that, as we HE MISSED THE MOTIVE. The Speaker Thought It Was His Own Genius That Heid the Child. This is a story which Representative Eddy, of Minnesota, tells on himself. Mr. Eddy not only enjoys the situation when the laugh is turned against him, but has a sense of humor which leads him to start the laugh sometimes himself: "In making the campaign in my district one year," said Mr. Eddy, "I took along as an attraction a veteran of the war of 1812 and of the civil war who was a famous hand at beating the drum. He was a drummer from away back and could arouse a whole township. Drum music is an incendiary kind of thing, anyhow, and the old captain's drumming was particularly stirring. "Well, one night, after the captain's drum had given the usual overture, I commenced my speech to the populace which had been lured to the scene by his drum. I noticed at the foot of the rostrum, the same being a big dry goods box, a bright-eyed little fellow about 12 years old, who sat through the speech, following me with great attention. It pleased me very much. Any fool can interest an audience of adults, but it takes a genius to hold a child. "So, after the speaking, I went down and spoke to the little fellow, and after shaking hands with him asked him how he liked my speech. "‘Oh, it will do,' he said; 'but if I was you I would keep the captain drummin' all the time.'"—Washington Star. A Pretty Old Horse. Rev. Frank Gunsaulus at one time believed that his parish work would be made much easier for him if he possessed a horse on which to ride from place to place, so he determined to purchase one. Now what Rev. Mr. Gunsaulus didn't know about a horse would fill a large volume, and as might have been expected he fell into the hands of the philistines. He saw nothing wrong with the horse, however. He had told the man of whom he bought it that he was not used to riding, and so wanted a quiet animal, and in this respect, at least, the horse fully came up to the requirements. One day Rev. Mr. Gunsaulus' father came to visit him, and the horse was proudly shown to him. Gunsaulus pere looked the horse over carefully. 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