The Gazette

THE GAZETTE. One Year. 81 80 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, second-class matter. All communications should be addressed: H. C. SMITH. Editor and Proprietor THE GAZETTE, Case Library Building, Cleveland, Ohio. Member Ohio Legislature, 1 894 to 1898 1 900 to 1902 CLEVELAND, OHIO, DEC. 1. 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. That is a very interesting letter on our page 1 to-day, on Prince Hall Masonry. Everyone should read it carefully. Mrs. Ida Wells-Barnett did work for which she deserves unstinted credit in that Evans case referred to in an article from Chicago on page 1 to-day. The "colored brethren" who are expecting jobs under the present administration as a result of work done or alleged to have been done during the recent campaign, will look in vain. Mark our prediction. That Colorado governor and sheriff ought to be impeached for their conduct or rather failures to act promptly and properly in the case of the Afro-American, Preston Porter, who was recently burned at the stake in that state. Up to date there have been five convictions of Akron rioters and more to follow. Ohio is certainly away in the lead in the effort to stamp out lynching and mob violence. Beside the $5,000 judgment against Champaign county as a result of the Urbana lynching and the $1,000 judgment against Logan county for mob violence (both under our Ohio anti-lynching law), two more (in Logan county) are pending for like amounts ($1,000 each). Considerable "rot" is being published in race papers just at this time. It has relation to a number of Afro-Americans whom it is said secured the re-election of McKinley. The fact is that with a few exceptions they simply made political "grand stand plays" and bluffs, and really did not do half as much as thousands of the race who will never receive such free advertising. Most of those mentioned received pay, too, either in the shape of salaries or a "per diem," or as expense money, which they took good care to make as large as they possibly could, knowing that that would be all they would get in a majority of cases. THE ATTEMPT TO DESTROY THE FIFTEENTH AMENDMENT. The action of the southern whites in the disfranchisement of the Negro voters in North and South Carolina, Louisiana and Mississippi means defiance of the federal constitution. And because as yet nothing has been done by federal authority to rebuke this outrage upon the national constitution, it has emboldened such southern leaders like Tillman and others to despise the higher powers of government and to press their encroachments ad libitum. A more audacious rebellion against authority and law has not been equalled except in the case when the southern states attempted to withdraw from the Union. Under the administration of President Hayes it was demanded that the United States troops be withdrawn from the south. They were withdrawn and intimidation and bulldozing began. Colored men were driven from the polls on election day and ballot-box stuffing became the practice in almost every southern state. Amnesty to the south as a pardoning power, for disloyalty and treason against the government, was acknowledged thanklessly and in bad faith. The south accepted nothing graciously, even though the government at Washington had exercised the largest degree of magnanimity to rebels. Lamar, of Mississippi, perhaps the grandest of southerners, had indicated a profound spirit and devotion to loyalty, but patience and long endurance of the growing feeling of defiance against national authority soon culminated in a repetition of treasonable designs and incendiary utterances. In open sanction to the disloyal behavior of the south, the United States supreme court nullified the civil rights bill, thereby giving endorsement to the course being pursued in the south. The race problem at once became the topic of intense concern to leading minds, north and south. But it has not been treated without bias. Hence venality and corruption have dictated a cruel persecution and madness against the race, hitherto unknown in the history of our country. The disposition on the part of the humane and better element to vindicate the humanity and the inalienable rights of the black man under a free government and in the exercise of our equal citizenship, only awakened an intensity of hatred against the newly enfranchised Afro-American. Men resorted to the most appalling methods in order to prove him unfit as a voter. Lynch law and mob violence were inaugurated as a means to degrade him, when oftimes he was guilty of no crime. Resolved to disfranchise the Negro at any sacrifice of truth and honor, the southern states have ventured a terrible risk. Recognizing that the act has been put in force in direct violation of law and believing that eventually the nation's congress must act THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1900. upon the case, it is now asked that the suffrage amendments be repealed. Having by force and violence repudiated the right of the elective franchise to the Negro in several of the states, there remains a feeling of unrest in the southern mind and manifestly because disfranchisement in this way means robbery and outrage. Civilization has placed upon the act the stamp of infamy and shame, and no section of the country is more heartily spurned and ridiculed than these states. Ashamed of their own deeds of dishonor, the effort is now being made to induce acquiescence in the demand upon the government to repeal the Fifteenth amendment. Ashamed of its own unenviable abasement in deeds of oppression against black men guilty of no offense against the laws, the south implores the general government to aid them in concealment by wiping out the great suffrage law of the land. Ashamed of a vallainy most startling and incomparable, the southern people entreat the nation to assume the burden of their immense crime. But the government can have no part directly in crimes so revolting to civilization. It dares not tamper with America's great magna charta—the hope and pledge of the people's liberty. It must deal magnanimously; it must act upon every unholy carriage on the part of the states; it must pass upon every encroachment upon personal and political freedom; it must act with a firm hand and the supreme court of the nation must decide upon the righteousness and constitutionality of every measure nullifying the national law. Pan-American Exposition Color Lines Buffalo, N. Y.—Thus far not a single representative of the race has been properly placed by the management of the Pan-American exposition—either as director, superintendent of a department, honorary vice-president or even clerk in any of the departments. Our people here are indignant at this discrimination and held a meeting Nov. 12th in one of our churches under the auspices of the "Phyllis Wheatley" club, composed exclusively of women. Mrs. Wm. H. Talbert, corresponding secretary, read a paper entitled: "Why the Afro-American Should be Represented in the Pan-American Exposition." She alluded to our race exhibit in the Paris exposition which attracted widespread attention, and deplored the fact that up to date the Pan-American exposition had ignored the race completely. Mrs. A. D. Wilson, president of the W. C. T. U., also advocated an Afro-American exhibit. James A. Ross, a well known Afro-American politician, addressed the club. Mrs. Talbert has the strongest following as being best fitted to be an exposition commissioner. She is one of the most capable women of the race here, being a graduate of Oberlin college and a lady of much experience and executive ability. After the passage of resolutions the meeting closed. Wheeling, W. Va. Items Wheeling, W. Va., Items. The Baptists held their grand rally and raised quite a neat sum. On Dec. 3d the election of officers of King Solomon's lodge No. 7 will take place. All members are requested to be present.—Mr. Harrison Morgan and Mrs. Mary Morris were married last Tuesday.—Mr. Bruien is ill.—Mr. Cornell Thompson died Monday morning at the hospital and was buried from his daughter's home.—Miss Marion Perkins, of Columbus, O., is visiting Mrs. Tom Perkins. "Hiawatha." Mr. Samuel Coleridge Taylor, the great Afro-English composer of the cantata "Hiawatha," and hundreds of other musical selections of various kinds, is married to an English girl. Recently a son was born to them and named Hiawatha. Mr. Taylor is exceedingly agreeable, modest and gentle in his manner. He is very much interested in American jubilee melodies and in one of his symphonies has a few bars of "Nobody knows the trouble I have seen, Lord." International Live Stock Exposition. At Chicago Dec. 1st to 8th. The Nickel Plate road will sell excursion tickets on Dec. 1st, 2nd and 3rd at one fare for the round trip plus $2.00, good returning until Dec. 9th inclusive, on any of our Peerless Trio of Daily Express Trains where scheduled to stop. Write, wire, 'phone or call on nearest agent, C. A. Asterlin, T. P. A., Ft. Wayne, Ind., or E. A. Akers, C. P. & T. A., Cleveland, O. Important Notice. Change of time C. T. & V.—B. & O. R. R., effective Sunday, November 25, following change of schedule will be made: Leave Cleveland for Akron, Canton and Valley Jct., 7:15 a. m., instead of 7:25 a. m.; 3:25 p. m. instead of 2:35 p. m. For Pittsburg, Washington, Baltimore, Philadelphia and New York, 3:10 p. m., instead of 3:25 p. m. For Chicago 9:35 p. m. instead of 9:40 p. m. All other trains remain the same. A Big Cut in Tax Values. Albany, N. Y., Nov. 28.—The court of appeals yesterday handed down a decision fixing the value of the property of the Manhattan Railway Co., which is subject to taxation, at $9,492,307. This is the termination of litigation begun in 1894 concerning the amount of taxes which the company shall pay to New York City. In 1894 an assessment of $17,860,712 was placed upon the property of the company by the local assessors. A reassessment was ordered by the court of appeals and the reassessment fixed the value at $16,909,638. Yesterday's decision reduces the valuation nearly one-half. Cruel Chinese: Berlin, Nov. 28.—Several papers print letters from German soldiers in China describing cruelties practiced by the Chinese upon white prisoners. The limbs of the German lieutenant Fredrichs and of two Italians were severed one by one until the tortured victims were dead. "Thus," says one of the letters, "every white prisoner is treated by the Chinese." Will Search for Poison. Denver, Nov. 28.—A special from Pagosa Springs says that the remains of George A. Barber, an Iowa man who died there suddenly on November 20, have been disinterred and will be subjected to chemical analysis to ascertain whether they contain poison. It is said Barber had taken out life insurance six weeks before his death. The flags to be hoisted at one time in signaling at sea never exceed four. It is an interesting arithmetical fact that, with 18 various colored flags, and never more than four at a time, no fewer than 78,642 signals can be given. A new high record for seats on the stock exchange, New York, was made the other day when that of S. C. Goffee was sold for $46,500. Albert J. Elias, former president of the Third avenue railroad, recently purchased a membership for $46,000. A seat on the Baltimore stock exchange was purchased for $4,500 by Frank B. Cahn. This is a record price for seats there. A certain New York hotel uses a bushel of potatoes a year for pen-wipers on the tables in the writing rooms. Every morning a large potato is put in a compartment of the pen box, and after twenty-four hours the potato is removed and another put in. Pens in penholders are stuck into the potato half a dozen at a time, giving it the appearance of a porcupine. Two Hungarians, Messrs. Polak and Virag, who some little while ago discovered a system of very rapid telegraphy, are now said to have invented a system by which 60,000 words per hour can be transmitted and, what is more wonderful, printed in ordinary characters on a slip of sensitized paper at the receiving end. The slip comes out of the receiving instrument ready to be gummed on to a form for delivery. A firm in Lyons, France, takes advantage of the shortening of cotton fibers under non-mercerized treatment by caustic potash to produce in silk webs certain peculiar and very rich embossed effects. The silken webs have cotton threads at fixed distances, which, when the chemical solution is applied, shrink, while the silk, keeping its original length, is gathered in tiny folds. In this way the most diversified patterns are produced. For some time past efforts to locate a squeaking noise in the pipe organ at Bethlehem church, Sheboygan, Wis., have proved fruitless until recently, when the organ was overhauled and the trouble discovered. In one of the large pipes a live owl was found, which is now in the possession of J. W. Piel, the organist. Now that one mystery is cleared up, the problem of explaining how the owl got into the organ is yet to be solved. Butterflies have often been met out at sea, and the fragile things will hover about a ship for days. A scientist of this city recently saw a butterfly, the Monarch commonly known as the milkweed butterfly, 600 miles from land. It played about the ship for some time and then disappeared. When asked if he thought it would land, the scientist replied that he started out expecting to, and he thought probably the butterfly had the same intention. Bavaria has the most curious of all claims to notoriety, which is that it possesses the longest lightning conductor in the world. It rises some yards above the top of the meteorological station on the Zugspitze, the highest point in the German empire, and runs down the side of the mountain to the bottom of the Hollenthal, where there is running water all the year around. The length of the rod is five and one-half kilometers—nearly three and a half miles. An American who visited the Paris exposition thinks its failure to realize expectations was due to two things. It was not sufficiently localized and its magnificent distances made people weary. The other trouble was disappointment with what had been announced as some of the biggest features, like the telescope that was to bring the image of the moon within a few miles. The visitor says the show resolved itself into a "Sunday afternoon parade." It is said that the curved pages of the ordinary book are injurious to the eye of a reader. The curvature necessitates a constant change of the focus of the eye as it reads from one side to another, and oscillary muscles are under constant strain. Moreover, the light falls unequally upon both sides of the page, further interfering with a continued clear field of vision. It is suggested that the difficulty might be obliterated if the lines should be printed parallel to the binding instead of at right angle to it. The youngest reader of manuscript in New York is the grandson of a partner in a big publishing house. For the past three years, and now he is only 16 years old, he has read manuscripts, chiefly boy's stories, and his judgment has been verified by the success of the books which he has accepted. One would naturally expect that a boy would be the best judge of a boy's story, but no other publishing house has submitted such manuscripts to boys. The readers for most of them are men. Trolley cars of a suburban electric railway near St. Louis have a complete telephone outfit whereby their crews are able to converse with the headquarters office on occasion. Each car carries a telephone set and a jointed fishing rod, the sections of which are wired. On the tip of the rod is a stout wire hook and at the butt of the rod is a piece of flexible conducting cord ending in a plug which may be inserted in a socket on one of the vestibules of the car. Alongside the tracks is a telephone wire. Austria is the one civilized country in the world which never puts a woman in prison. Instead of giving a female criminal so many months in prison, she is sent, no matter how terrible is her record, to one or the other of the convents devoted for the purpose and kept there during the time for which she is sentenced. The convent is not a mere prison in disguise, for its courtyard stands open all day long, the only bar to egress being a man who acts as porter, just as in other convents. Prisoners rarely escape. REASON FOR THANKSGIVING. KEEP Thanksgivin'! Well, I reckon I can show a first-class reason Why this house-hold—baby, wife and me—and even our old dog, Should thank God for all His goodness in a song of praise this season. Though my general disposition is to grumble like a hog. For, if ever man had special cause to hold a celebration Of Thanksgivin'—in his heart of hearts—that very man is me. I am sure that when my tale you've heard to this you will agree. Though for years I've been a member of a church, yet I'm confessin' That my vicious, wicked temper and fault findin' spoiled my life, It has turned to bitter sorrow days that should have proved a blessin' And has marked deep lines of care upon the brow of my dear wife. She has hoped and prayed and waited, while she patiently expected That some day her prayer of faith would bring an answer from above; And at last, in God's own time and way, the change has been effected. For my heart lost all its anger when it found a Saviour's love. How it happened? Well, I'll tell you. See that dog there? Come here, Rover! He ain't much for looks or breedin', but that dog no man could buy. Still I allus call her "baby;" she's the apple of my eye. So I called the dog and shouldered my old trusty double-barrel. And I grinned when Mary mentioned that this was "Thanksgivin' week." Well, we soon got in the timber, and we walked and walked and hunted. But no turkey! So, as usual, I got mad and almost cussed. And, in spite of all Squire Carroll said, I grumbled, growled and grunted. And I felt I'd have to kick the dog or else I'd surely bust. So my neighbor said he reckoned there's no use in us in a tryin' in grumboh or in siggin, For it's ten to one there's better luck for us some other day." So we parted, and I walked on, gettin' madder every minute At the turkeys, at the squire and at my- self the most of all For my wicked, foolish anger—I knew well there's no sense in it— Well, sir, just then "Gobble, gobble," came the turkey's welcome call; Down I dropped, and when I saw him it just made me warm all over Down I dropped, and when I saw him it just made me warm all over, "For," thinks I, "you're just about the Done some fool thing—least I thought so—and my turkey flew away. What did I do? Like a coward, grabbed that poor dog by the collar. And I own I beat him shameful, but he didn't even moan. Well, sir, I can't tell my feelings; why, I thought I'd surely smother. When I saw him fall I turned away in horror from the sight. When I got near home I noticed how the air was growing colder. And a cloud bank rolled up gloomy to the west'ard, threatenin' snow. So I hurried on, and wondered what would wife say when I told her About Rover. She and baby thought so much of him, you know. As I reached the corner yonder I could see the lamplight burnin' At the window, and I knew the folks were waiting there for me. And I walked on in the darkness slowly A man with a stick is leading a dog through a wooded area. "I OWN I BEAT HIM SHAMEFUL." though my heart was yearin' To sit down once more by Mary, with my baby on my knee. At the open door, awaitin' with a welcome smile, stood Mary. "Where is babe?" "She went to meet you when she heard old Rover bark." So she answered, and my heart fell as I looked out on the prairie. Just to think of her a wanderin' alone out in the dark. "She's all right; the dog is with her," says her mother, speakin' cheerful; But the dog is not. But, you know, I knew he wasn't, so I stood without a word— And just then we both were startled by a dog a howlin' fearful, Somethin' like a coyote yelpin'; just the worst I ever heard. "Goodness me," says wife, "that's Rover! But I never heard him cryin' Out in such a dreadful way as that"—then, suddenly, once more Came that doleful sound a-ringin', just as if the brute was dyin' An' was asking us to help him, so I dashed out through the door. See those cottonwoods, just yonder! All the ground there's full of water. Soft and marshy, full of pit holes, deep enough to hide a steer. As I ran along I prayed that God would save my baby daughter— Then I thought of murdered Rover, and I wished that he was near. It was darker than a pocket, but that made no difference to me. So I run on calling "Baby" till it echoed all around. "Here I am, come help me, papa! I'm a-sinkin' in the water!" How my heart beat as I dashed on, pray-in' God with ev'ry breath. Till at last, waist deep in mud and slush, I found my baby, daughter I found my baby daughter! With old Rover—bruised and battered—holdin' on to her like death! Well, it didn't take me long, you bet, to get her on my shoulder. And the dog crawled out behind us till we safely reached the trees. Then I hollered out to Mary—such a yell of joy, it told her That our babe was safe—and then and there I fell down on my knees. There, I guess that's all—O. Rover? Why, I'm glad to say I missed him With my shot; but his poor head and back were shameful bruised and sore. --- "I guess you'll have the house full Thanksgiving. Nancy Ross was in here to-day, and she says that the whole district is coming, and Nancy knows if anyone does, for she spends most of her time trotting about picking up gossip and retailing it out again. She is as good as the local columns of a newspaper for giving news about what folks are saying and doing, and she says that the idea of the Thanksgiving dinner in the schoolhouse has caught like wildfire. Nancy says she wouldn't miss it for a party." The larger boys and girls of the school met me at the schoolhouse the evening before Thanksgiving, and we decorated the room beautifully with evergreens and several flags we had been able to borrow. Provision had been made for two long tables to run almost the entire length of the room with some smaller tables in the corners. "I suppose that we will have to be careful how we seat the people at the tables," I said to Mrs. Dorton. "You just leave that to me," said the old lady. "I know the people better than you do, and I won't be so apt to make awkward blunders. I'll set 'em down all right." Nancy Ross was right when she said that the whole district would be present at the dinner. The dinner was to be at one o'clock, and by noon the house was filled by a merry, happy crowd, including almost every family in the district. There were baskets and boxes and even tubfuls of turkeys and chickens and doughnuts and pies and cakes. There were baskets of big red apples, and Hiram Hawkins brought half a barrel of sweet cider. Some one brought a basket of popcorn balls for the children, and there was an infinite K K "BLEST BE THE TIE THAT BINDS." variety of jellies and jams and preserves and pickles brought forth from boxes and baskets. "There's enough stuff here to feed an army," said Hannah Dorton, as she bustled about from table to table, the happiest and most active person in the house. A few minutes before one o'clock I heard her say to Mrs. Kate Whiting: "Come, now, Kate; you and your husband and two children are to set at this table over in this corner. Come right along." And when they were seated the old lady bustled up to Mrs. Patch and said: "Now, Lucy, you and your husband and the children are to sit here at this table." "And if she didn't plump them right down with the Whitings that they hadn't spoken to for years," said the voluble Nancy Ross afterward. Indeed Nancy was so fond of telling about that Thanksgiving dinner afterward that I think I will let her tell it now. "Then," she said, "if that Hanner Dorton didn't set old Squire Bent down at the head of one table with his daughter Nellie at his right hand and his son-in-law, John Watters, at his left, an' their baby in a high chair at its gran'pa's side, an' it wa'n't three minutes before the old squire had that baby in his arms and he et his whole dinner with the little thing in his lap. I heard his daughter say to him 'shan't I take the baby, father, so that you can eat your dinner in greater comfort? But he held right on to it, and there he sat talkin' to Nellie and John same as if there'd never been any trouble at all. And he had that baby in his arms the whole afternoon, an' went around as proud sayin' to folks: 'See my grandson. Ain't he a mighty fine boy?' It was the first time he had ever seen the child, an' the next week he made Nellie and John come and live with him. Then what did that Hanner Dorton do but put Reuben Hoopes an' his brother Siles and their families at a table by the maidens, an' I heard her say to 'em: 'Come, now, you folks want to be sociable an' have a good visit together same as own brothers ought to on Thanksgiving day.' Their wives have always wanted to make up, an' I tell you they found their tongues mighty soon, an' 'fore that meal was over they was talkin' away as if there had never been any row over property or anything else. An' before they knew it the Andersons and Robey families found themselves at the same table with Hanner sayin' to 'em: 'Now it don't make no difference about the past. This is Thanksgiving day, an' a good time to forget that there has ever been anything but a happy past between you folks.' "We will now sing: 'Blest be the tie that binds.' An' ev'rybody sung it, an' then Elder Sharpe asked a blessin' an' the dinner was begun. There never was such a spread seen before in these parts, an' you never would have thought to have seen them people eatin' an' laughin' an' merrymakin' together that there was such a thing in the world as malice or envy or bitterness or ill-will or anything o' that sort, no you wouldn't. After the dinner we had games an' sung songs an' made speeches, an' from that time on there was more peace an' happiness an' sociability in the neighborhood than there ever was before. I tell you, we'd good reason to stand up as we did before we started for home an sing 'Praise God from whom all blessings flow.'"—J. L. Harbour, in Detroit Free Press. --- But my Mary washed and nuzzled him and, to tell the truth, she kissed him And we all just love and pet him as we never did before. So to-morrow load your folks up in the wagon and come over. After church we mean to spend the day in prayer and songs of praise. For this family—baby, wife and me—and faithful, dear old Rover, Mean to make it just the happiest of all Thanksgiving' days. —Tom Sullivan, in Chicago Times-Herald. A RURAL PEACEMAKER. A Thanksgiving Story. T HEY did not pay much attention to Thanksgiving in the country school district in which I taught in the west a good many, years ago. Christmas was the chief holiday of the winter, and it was celebrated without any special demonstration, for most of the people were poor and there was not much sentiment in their general make-up. Old Hannah Dorton, with whom I boarded, was of New England birth, and she had not come to the west until some years after her marriage. She was a woman of a good deal of force of character, and no one in the neighborhood had a nimbler tongue. One evening about two weeks before Thanksgiving I said to her: "Do the people observe Thanksgiving very generally in this neighborhood?" "No, they do not," replied the old lady with considerable emphasis. "And it has always been a good deal of a trial to me that so little attention was paid to a day that we made so much of back there in dear old New England. It was the greatest holiday of the year to us, and how we did enjoy it!" "Why do they pay so little attention to it here?" "Well, I guess it is just because they have never got in the way of paying any attention to it. They never celebrated the Fourth of July as it ought to be celebrated until my husband got them started to doing it ten years before he died, and now we have a big celebration every year." "Some one ought to start them to celebrating Thanksgiving." "So they ought. But who is to do it?" I reflected for a few minutes, and then I said: "Suppose we start them off in that direction." "How?" asked the old lady dropping her knitting into her lap and manifesting eager interest. "Suppose we get up a Thanksgiving dinner in the schoolhouse. Invite all the folks in the district to come and bring their dinner with them. There does not seem to be any social life in the neighborhood unless one can call occasional spelling matches and singing schools in the schoolhouse social diversions. The people never eat and drink together in a merrymaking of any kind. Don't you think that the idea of a Thanksgiving dinner in the schoolhouse would take?" The old lady reflected for a moment and then said: "Yes, I think it would. It would be a novelty to every one, and I think the folks would turn out big, only—only—" "Only what?" I asked. "Well, the fact is, there are so many folks in this neighborhood that don't speak to each other. I never saw anything like it. There is old Squire Bent, who won't speak to his daughter because she married John Watters against the squire's wishes. There was nothing against John, excepting that he was poor, and he had a brother that had been in jail, but John couldn't help that, and he has done splendidly ever since he married, and it is my opinion that the squire would like to make up with John and Nellie, only he is too proud to make any advances, and they won't either. Then there is Kate Whiting and her sister, Lucy Patch, who had a falling out years ago, and ain't spoke to each other since, and before that one was the very shadder of the other. Reuben Hoopes and his brother Silas and their families fell out over the property after old man Hoopes died, and they ain't spoke since. Then the Anderson and Robey families had a falling out five years ago, and they don't speak, and before that they were as thick as flies around a molasses bar'. Then there are other families in the district that ain't as friendly as they ought to be, so your Thanksgiving dinner might end in a riot if all these people come together in the schoolhouse." "Not with a woman of your tact at the head of it." Levi "Well, you go ahead and get it up, and I will aid and abet you all I can. It will be a break in the monotony of things here even if there is a fight." I spent all of my time before and after school during the next ten days in calling at all of the homes in the neighborhood and inviting the people to come to the schoolhouse on Thanksgiving day with well-filled baskets. 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Can tell you what business is best for you and where. Can tell you how to win speedy marriage with one you love. How to be successful in all you doings, in short what is best to do. Her succeeds when all you need to help and satisfies you pity. Call and see. And it lucky to consult this refined christian gentleman. He has a medicine that will cure drunkenness; can be given patients not knowing it. Thousands through him are now Rich, Happy and Successful in all their undertakings, while those who neglect his advice are still laboring against poverty and adversity. Through his perfect knowledge and empathy he is an important creet that he Werre out our memories and win you friends. His aid and advice have often been solicited: the result has always been the securing of speedy and happy marriage and all your wishes. In love affairs he never fails. In all of winning the affections of the opposite sex. It is the curse of Spiritualism that in all large cities there are a class of men and women who claim powers they do not possess. They have neither gifts, credentials nor references. Surely the colored people are not so wanting in sense as to throw their time and money away on such. DR. SHEA refers to the Hon. Charles Miller, capitalist, 2481 Atlantic avenue; the Hon. Wm. Denmore, architect and builder, 47 Cleveland av. and Arthur Sewell, ship Miller, capitalist. All have run him for the patrush seven years. He has a free test of his power to all. The Doctor has practiced five years in New Orleans, St. Louis, Memphis and Louisville; understands thoroughly the diseases, spells or influences the race is subject to. He is now and always has been a true friend to the colored people and always had a large patronage from them. Please Read the Following: "BROOKLYN. June 3, 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 did. My friend advised me to go and see Dr. Shea. I did; he told me the cause of all my trouble; he took me in and treated me like a brother. Through him I got a good position that very week. I had been to others; they took my money and did me no good. I bless the day I first met Dr. Shea. I would advise all in bad luck, sick or in trouble, to go to him at once. Simply, ALBERT AYERS, 2337 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 my death, I was taken to the hospital. I resolved to consult him. He told me my husband was alive and well and where he was; told me he would come home and when. To my joy all of it came true. He is home now; came back like one from the dead. I also wish to say that this month I lost the sum of $2.00. I will be very sorry. 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 SHEA, my P.D. friend. DR. SHEA, can show thousands 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, Knee Pain, Pleasant and alluring 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 trifling with human life. Call at once. Do not delay. Diplomas hang in parlor's registered office. 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. "CLOSED SUNDAY." 651 Fulton St., Brooklyn, New York. Menton please. REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF The Guarantee Savings & Loan Company At the Close of Business, Sept. 15, 1900. Commenced Business November 15, 1895. RESOURCES AND LIABILITIES. RESOURCES. Cash on hand, Sept. 15, 1900. $ 11,280.24 Mortgage loans. 482,187.06 Stock loans. 12,100.00 Furniture and fixtures. 2,148.02 Real estate. 600.00 Insurance and taxes, advanced. 891.83 Sundry accounts. 444.84 Books and supplies. 1,236.58 STATE OF OIHO. CUTYAHGA COUNTY. 185. he has been duly sworn, deposed and says that he is the Secretary of THE GUAR- ANTEE SAVINGS & LOAN COMPANY of Cleveland. Ohio, and that the foregoing is a true report of the affairs, and business of said company as shown by its books at the close of business on Sept. 15, 1900. J. A. BLODT. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 15th day of Sept. . . . JOHN K. CORWIN Notary Public. [DEAL] JOHN K. CORWIN. Notary Public. CLEVELAND TO BUFFALO "While you Sleep." CITY OF ENLE both together have much doubt, in all respects, the funniest and fastest that are run in the interest of the traveling public in the United States. Connections made at Buffalo with trains for on Eastern and Canadian points. Ask ticket holder. LIVE. Send four cents for illustrated pamphlets. SPECIAL LOW RATES TO BUFFALO AND NIAGARA FALLS EVERY SATURDAY NIGHT. 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 have the patronage of Afro-Americans. The fact that they advertise is assurance that they want it. Local reading notices (advertisements) ten cents a line. CLEVELAND, SATURDAY, DEC. 1, 1900. WHERE "THE GAZETTE" IS SOLD. PUSHAW'S News Store, Cuyanora Building opposite the Post Office, Open Sunday. Opposite the Post Office. Open Sunday. N. HEXTER'S News Depot, City Hall Building, cor. Wood and Superior streets. Open Sunday. S. H. MOODY'3 News Store, No. 387 Superior street, second west of Bond street. Open Sundays also. GOODMAN'S News Depot, No. 586 Central avenue, cor. Sterling avenue. Open Sunday. P. JOHNSON TARRER'S Restaurant, No. 608 Central Ave. Open Sundays also. ALEX. O. TAYLOR, Local Reporters. J. EDWIN DUNJILL. A rally was held at Zion church, No. 434 Central avenue, last Sunday. The fruit and rubber sale given by the King's Daughters society November 27 was a success. At the grand rally held at Antioch church November 18, $81.50 was raised. Mrs. H. Grimes, of Sterling avenue, who died recently, took out life insurance 13 years ago amounting to about $77 in the Prudential Life Insurance Co. In 13 years she paid over $90, and at her death her heirs were paid $77 or $79. This is "mighty" costly life insurance. Prof. Booker T. Washington has sent the editor of The Gazette an invitation to attend the annual Tuskegee Negro conference, which will meet at the Tuskegee Institute, Ala., Wednesday, Feb. 20, 1901. An invitation has been received to attend the third annual ball of the Philanthropic club on Dec. 27th in Diamond Parors, Park Square, Youngstown. The most unique affair of the season thus far will undoubtedly be the "rainy day" skirt ball. It will be the most largely attended, too. AtWoodlift hall, Monday evening. The Thirteenth Ward Industrial League entertainment and ball at Woodliff hall on Monday evening was a decided success. Messrs. Wm. Nelson, Henry Taylor, Dr. T. L. Jones, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Mrs. Wilson and others deserve great credit for its success. Quite a number were present at St. John's church Monday evening to hear Mr. Wm. Douglass, Mr. Wm. McCoy and Hon. H. C. Smith explain the merits of his invention and many purchased stock in the company. There will be another meeting at the same place Monday evening. The Russel House, Detroit, Mich., was over two months selecting a headwaiter. During that time E. W. Harper, headwaiter, at the Mansion House, Brooklyn, N. Y., was offered the place, but refused. W. F. Cozart, editor of this column, was next offered the place, but the salary asked by him ($75) was too much for the Russell. J. B. Goins, of the Nelson hotel, refused on account of being requested to cut waiter's salary from $25 down to $21. Finally H. T. Eubanks, of Cleveland, agreed to take the house, and now the waiter's salary has been cut down to $21.—W. F. Cozart, in Indianapolis Freeman. The seventh annual grand ball of the Meadville Terpsichorean club will be held December 25 at Library hall, Meadville, Pa. Music by Northwestern orchestra. Mr. Wm. A. Miller, of this city, is one of the floor managers. On the 14th inst. an enjoyable whist party was given to Mr. and Mrs. Fred Berry, of the East End, at Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Howland's, 80 Forest street, by Miss Lydia Johnson. Refreshments were served. G. W. Johnson, of Chicago, and Miss Susie Gaines were married at Rev. Langford's on November 17. A rainy-day skirt ball will be given at Woodliff's hall, corner Central avenue and Sked street, Monday evening, December 3. Music will be furnished by Bowman & McAfee's orchestra. Admission, ladies 25 cents, gents 35 cents. The officers are: Horace Martin, president; Henry Dickerson, secretary, and George Y. Fields, treasurer. Don't fail to attend. Patrolman Peter Hill and Mrs. Bowles, both of Sterling avenue, were quietly married last week Wednesday evening. Hon. W. R. Stewart, of Youngstown, was in the city last week Friday afternoon and evening. The New York Herald of Nov. 15 makes this statement: "H. T. Burleigh, formerly of Erie, Pa., has been engaged as one of the baritone soloists of St. George's quartet choir in New York at a salary of $800. Mr. Burleigh has been for some time vocal instructor in one of the leading conservatories of New York City, and has proven himself a most capable instructor." St. George is one of the leading white churches of New York City. In an interview published in a local daily paper Monday, Rev. Edward D. Dandridge, pastor of Shiloh church, said relative to the Rutheven verdict: "The first morning of the trial I entered the court room convinced that Rutheven was guilty. I did not believe that there could be an iota of doubt in regard to the murder of the patrolman. But the testimony presented has changed my mind. I believe that the police searched Rutheven's rooms with the intention of finding stolen property, and for the greater purpose of catching the colored man and sending him back to Bucyrus, where he is wanted for burglary. I cannot say that Rutheven is guiltless, but I cannot see how the testimony given in the trial can convict him of murder in the first degree. An entertainment by the Gallilean Fishermen will be given at Zion A. M. E. church, No. 434 Central avenue, on Tuesday evening at 8 o'clock. Admission, 10 cents; supper, 15 cents. Don't fail to attend. Charles Alexander, recently elected instructor in printing at Wilberforce college, was formerly connected with the State college for Afro-Americans located at Normal, Ala. Prof. Council, president. Speaking of the football game between teams from Oberlin college and Western Reserve university, last Sunday's Leader said: "The real star of the day was Fairfax, the colored half back. This young man, who was responsible for the defeat of Oberlin last year, was not put in the game until the second half had started, but THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1900. while he was in the game he was the hero and made kieserve's only touch down. The way he banged into the visitors' line, with Laub helping him and tearing the tackles to pieces, opened the eyes of all. He carried the ball six times in succession from the fifteen-yard line to the goal line without a rest before he was able to make the touch down, and had it not been for holding he would have made another. He was also the man who carried the ball to within one foot of the goal line. All of his gains were made on the right side of the visitors' line, where McCleary and Yeagle had holes waiting for him. * * Fairfax was then called upon again. Then the colored man, who accomplished wonders for the team last year, showed his real strength. With strength born of desperation owing to his ill luck in the first attempt, Fairfax made the touch down after six plays, he carrying the ball each time. Such playing has seldom been witnessed on any field, and Fairfax was carried down the field by his happy fellow players." Rev. Dr. Philip Aristides Hubert, formerly a member of Zion A. M. E. church and financial agent for Livingstone college of Salisbury, N. C., has joined the A. M. E. connection and is now financial agent for Wilberforce college, this state. Mrs. Hubert, a niece of Mrs. Wm. McKoy, of Maple street, now resides in this city. Rev. Langford preached at St. John's church Thanksgiving, and in the evening Rev. Wright, of Zion A. M. E. church, preached at Cory chapel. The concert and social given at the church last Thursday for the benefit of Rev. Langford was an enjoyable and successful affair. The Willing Workers will give an entertainment at the church December 6. An interesting programme will be rendered. Although Rev. Dandridge, pastor of Shiloh church, asked for $350, almost $370 were raised at the rally held November 10 and 17. This money will go towards defraying part of the debt on the organ and for the purchase of coal for the winter. Mr. Wm. Douglass, the veteran inventor, attended church last Sunday morning at Shiloh church and also stayed to hear the children's day exercises. Dinner was served at the church Thanksgiving day. THINGS TO THINK ABOUT. Shamoy leather is not, nor ever was, the hide of the chamois, but the flesh side of sheep-skins. Americans at Lucena, on the southern coast of Luzon, 20 hours from Manila by steamer, can read Chicago dailies 32 days after publication. Prolonged residence in the United States does no confer citizenship upon a foreigner, although it is a reason why it should be conferred. A child born of American parents temporarily residing abroad at the time of birth is by law entitled to all the rights and privileges of, and in fact is an American citizen. Boston, with 100,000 less than half as many inhabitants as Philadelphia, shows postal receipts only $211,000 less than the latter. Boston's receipts are $1,200,000 more than St. Louis, although the latter city is larger by 15,000. According to the postal receipts of the 50 largest cities in the country, Boston makes the remarkable average of a trifle less than six dollars to each inhabitant, showing that either a vast amount of business is done in Boston by mail, or else the social correspondence is much heavier than elsewhere. Under our form of government there is such a thing as high treason against not only the United States government, but against any of the state governments. This is said to have been a potent factor during the civil war, when the people in the southern states found themselves compelled to choose between allegiance to the national government or allegiance to their state government. SOME EDITORIAL FOOTNOTES. [From the Indianapolis Journal.] Opportunity knocks at every man's door; the lazy man waits for her to climb in the window. The interesting people are those who have neither too much ignorance nor too much information. A broken friendship is much like smashed china; the disaster occurs in secret and the blame can't be placed. The social world is for the energetic; indolent people like to wear old clothes and not talk unless they feel like it OLD WORLD CITIES. The city of Berne, Switzerland, is making the socialistic experiment of building free-or nearly free-workshops for tailors and shoemakers. Stockholm, Sweden, has 40,000 telephone stations, averaging one for each household. Those who have no apparatus of their own pay only $2 \frac{1}{2}$ cents for a message within a radius of 50 miles. Rotterdam, from its favorable situation, has gradually pulled ahead of Amsterdam, and is now the most prosperous harbor in Holland. It has captured most of the German trade and does an immense business with the United States. It is reported from Teheran, the capital of Persia, that a monument is to be erected there in front of the Russian legation in memory of Alexander Gribokedoff, the Russian minister to Persia, who was murdered there by an anti-Russian mob in 1829. FACTS ABOUT COAL. Coal brings the highest price in South Africa and the lowest in China Statistics show that 43,963,933 short tons of machine-mined coal were taken out last year, or an increase of 11, 550,933 tons over the record for 1898. Coal yields a large amount of coloring matter, the magenta obtained from a ton being sufficient to dye 500 yards of flannel and the vermilion 2,560 yards. Electric coal-cutting machinery is rapidly displacing hand work and other varieties of mechanical mining appliances in the collieries of Great Britain and the United States. 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CLEVELAND, CINCINNATI, CHICAGO & ST. LOUIS BIG FOUR ROUTE THAT NEW TRAIN "THE ST. LOUIS LIMITED" Leaves—CLEVELAND. 8:00 A. M. (Daily). Arrives—INDIANAPOLIS. 3:05 P. M. Arrives—ST. LOUIS. 9:00 P. M., same night. Arrives—KANSAS CITY. 7 next morning. With Fine Vestibule Coaches, Drawing Room and Dining Cars to Indianapolis and St. Louis, also Coach and Parlor Cars to Columbus and Cincinnati. One of the fastest and finest trains in the country. 5 Fast Trains to Columbus, 4 to Cincinnati, with Sleeping and Dining Cars. Trains from Cleveland to Leave. Arrive. *Col. Cin. Inc. & St. Louis...3:35 a.m. 1:50 a.m. *Galton & Intermediate...7:00 a.m. 7:30 p.m. *Col. L. Inc. & St. Louis...8:00 a.m. 6:58 a.m. *Col. Spring'd. Day. Cin...12:35 p.m. 2:55 p.m. *Indianapolis & St. Louis...1:00 p.m. 2:30 p.m. Galton to Cleveland...9:45 a.m. Galton and olumbus...4:00 p.m. p.m. *Col. Spring. Day., Cin...8:30 p.m. 6:45 a.m. *Daily. Get Tickets at COLLVER'S. 116 EUCLID AVE. Phone Main 910. Cleveland Union Station. Pennsylvania Lines Foot of Bank Street. TICKET OFFICES at Union Station, Euclid Av. and New City Ticket Office, No.1 Euclid Av., Cor. Public Sq. THROUGH TRAINS RUN AS FOLLOWS BY CENTRAL TIME *Daily.* (Daily except Sunday. From Cleveland to Leave. Arrive Pittsburg & Bellaire. *+7 00am* +11 15am Salem & Pittsburg. *+8 00am* +8 30pm Pittsburg, Bellaire & East. *+3 10pm* +6 25pm Pittsburg & Philadelphia. *+1 40pm* +6 2pm Baltimore & Washington. *+2 10pm* +6 15pm N. Y. Balt. & Wash. *+1 11pm* +1 30pm Ravenna & Alliance. *+5 15pm* +8 1 am Wellsville & Pittsburg. *+11 10pm* +4 30pm Philadelphia & New York. *+2 10pm* +11 30pm Baltimore & Washington. *+2 10pm* +11 30pm M.I. VENON & TAN-HANDLE ROULE. From Cleveland to Leave. Arrive. Akron Columbus & Cincinnati. *8 25am *5 40pm Indianapolis & St. Louis. *8 25am *5 40pm Milersburg & Columbus. +1 49pm +1 05pm Col. Cin., Ind. & St. L. *7 35pm *7 80am 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 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 21 pm Westward. Arrive. Depart No. 1, Western Express... 4 46 am 4 56 am No. 5, Standard Express... 7 00 pm 7 20 pm 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. *Tourist resort, Calgary, Calgary, Calgary, New York, and Boston. Unexcelled dining cars and depot restaurants operated by the company. THE GLEVELAND. TERMINAL & VALLEY R. R. GO. Depot foot of South Water street. City office 241 Superior street. Arrive. Depart. Valley Je & Way Stations.. *5 45 pm *7 25 am Wheeling & Chicago.. *6 25 pm *7 24 am Akron, Canton & Chicago.. *8 05 am *9 24 am Akron, Canton & Wheeling *10 20 am *2 33 am Akron, Canton & Chicago.. *8 05 am *6 35 am Akron, Canton, Marietta *10 10 am +11 00 am Wash, Balto and Phila.. *10 15 am *3 55 pm *Daily except Sunday. *Daily. Pulman palace vestibule sleeping cars between Cleveland and Chicago also between Cleveland and Philadelphia, J. E. GALBRAITH. Traffic Manager Cleveland, Lorain & Wheeling R'y. VALLEY DEPOT. Depart Arrive. Cleve. & Wheeling Ex..... 7 20 am 12 00 m Cleve. & Wheeling Ex..... 1 35 pm 6 00 pm Cleve. Ubrichsville Ac..... 5 10 pm 9 50 am Sunday trains between Cleveland and Ubrichsville arrive at 9:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. Depart 7:20 a.m and 6:00 p.m. What Newspaper Do You Read? ARE YOU A SUBSCRIBER OF THE GAZETT IF NOT, SEND IN YOUR SUBSCRIPTION AT IT IS THE OLDE THE GAZETTE? NOT, SEND IN YOUR SUBSCRIPTION AT ONCE. IS THE OLDEST! THE GAZETTE? 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Write for Our Extraordinary Induce- ments to Agents. "THE GAZETTE" CLEVELAND. OH CLEVELAND. OHIO. OLEVELAND. OHIO. JJ A Something Very Difficult $e,cure ip Quinay Sore Throat and anv suf with this malady should never be with- out Palmer's Lotion. A few vears ago Mr, ©. W. Rosenbach, of 3ist Street and Indiana Avenue, Chicago, Llinois, wrote: “I have ‘een troubled with Quinsy sore throat over ten years and after using your Louion Bnd at the finest and quickest remedy [have ever ried.” Palmer's Lotion is indispensable at this season of the year when sudden changes ‘of temperature cnse much nckness and di wease. If your Graggist does not eppen to Rave it, send so Solon Palmer, 1" Bear sBtreet, New York, for sample of Lotion and Lotion Soap. ee Back Action. “The ill cure baldness?” : “Nonsense! know men who got bald ‘0 learn to pronounce massage.”— Toisapaie Jebed Excursion Sleepers Via M., K.& T. By. Weekly Excursion Sleepers leave St. Louis ‘yis Katy Fiver (MK. ek hy) vers Tuce Gay at 8:16 p. m, for San Antonio, Los An. ole oe can aero ee aKa iy Ts jeave ‘City via the Kk: By. every Saturiay at 9:05 p. m. for San Antonio, Los Angeles ae Gan Beas Pen Picture for Women. ' “T am so nervous, there is not a ‘well inch in my whole rr I am 50 ‘weak at my stomach and have indi- gestion horribly, and palpitation of ke istict/Aatl Eups losing fea, Tota headache and backache nearly kills me, and yesterday I Dey. had setae tea} sivere in a wergtie iat e lower part of my bowels bearing down all the time, and pains in my groins and eo 1 cannot sleep, walk, or sit, and I believe I am diseased all over ; mo one ever suffered as I do.” ‘This is. a description of thousands of eases which come to Mrs. Pinkham’s attention daily. An inflamed and ul- erated condition of the neck of the ‘womb can produce all of these symp- CF a & A : —* \ < Soa Ans. Jomxy Wrutiasms. ‘toms, and no woman should allow herself to reach such a Soe of misery when there is absolutely no weed of it. The subject of our por- = in this sketch, Mrs. Williams of Englishtown, N.J., has been entirely cured of such illness and misery by Lydia E. Pinkham’s _—— Com- Em. and the guiding advice of Mrs. nkham of Lynn, Mass. No other medicine has such a record for absolute cures, and no other medi- ~eime is “just as (ser Women who ‘want a cure should insist upon getting Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com- yund when they ask for it at a store. Sear write a letter to Mrs. Pink- “Sham at Lynn, Mass., and tell her all “your troubles. Her advice is free. $2.00 UG S$ 0 .p snoes P oO . UNION MADE ‘The real worth of W. The clas sakes ie souresain ed Line 4 y gannot be saualied at Led ices Ober 1L000.- ‘Sy ris er em ir of W. L. De NO Pee sheet : ‘ wll poate outweer 4 Ny Py two palrs 0 weeny y Patrons $3 or $3. sn al We 1 ponerse © ert 83 cand 83.50 ‘shoes in the world. We make eee eT ether two manufacturers in the U. Khe tati=- of W. L.| Douglas $310 sr" 30 aipes for BEST | ro ers cv coere| BEST $3.50} ice’ tits G" as Sense] $3,00 he. ganderd, 'alvers been mn SHOE |e ore ease | SHOE, zee REASON pov WT Doorn B seman edi as ent uiher make is becane THES. Beene eeneat et me evecbascarat loge covener WE. papaetee ema Sick P yours wit tek gel tk for youtrbend” cate ts Beer tes raeaing Magia toate Seren Fon anvore! ation era yey doh te COUGH, By pias KEM eS) i|BALSAM canons ‘Sencar Soph See SA ‘What Shall We Have for Dessert? This question arises in the family every day. Let us answer it to-day. Try Jell-O mdelicious and healthful dessert. 2. Caiing? at minutes, No boiling! no ing! add boiling water and set to ‘ceol. Flavors:—Lemon, Orange, Rasp- wberry and Strawberry. Get a package -i@t your grocers to-day. to cts. ‘g BB i Dr. Wittiams’ Indian Pie ; Blotmpene wii gure Bina i Biseding. and Wtebiea 3 Pica. fr ‘ndsorte the famors, atlays the’ Tiebe fog at once, acts as a eee, instant re . Prepared for Plies apa eeegee the private a Pers eee by WibeM Who hi Frome. Severane Ome ne EY ce teri Les, SERS MESS,” Tribe une building, New York. DROPSY NEW DISCOVERY: gives fick cosetand cures worst > ‘Book ot Peurass sont, bos Dr atinata Go THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O,, SATURDAY. DECEMBER 1. 1900. CURRENT TOPICS. A man named Boatmai runs a ferry in Mississippi. Hoss & Harness is a livery stable firm in Indiana. Out of 100 people born, only one lives to the age of 65. In Marion, Ind., a law firm bore the name of Robb & Steele. In South Pittsburgh there is a law firm named Bright & Early. There are fewest children, compared to the population, in Wrance and Brazil. In Japan it is customary for the bride to give all her wedding vresents to her parents. Bandmaster Sousa says the Amer- ican people as a mass are the most } musigal in the world. Apples and several other Australian fruits are exported packed in the shredded bark of the tea tree. Almost every class of skilled labor is said to be scarce in Texas, and good mechanics are in great demand. During the short perio’ that King Victor Emmanuel II. has reigned over Italy he has received a million beg- ging letters. Mr. Woolley, the prohibitionist can- didate for president, received upward of 400,000 votes, the laryest-a candi- date of that party ever received. There is an inexpensive eure for rheumatism which is rarely tried and will never be popular. It is the sting of the bee, the ordinary every-day bee. Forty tomato growers of Ohio, In- diana and Kentucky met at Cincin- nati and made an agreement to raise the price of their product 30 per cent. over last season. Col. Don Augustin Cervantes, of Havana, Cuba, is a man who can truthfully declare that he'd rather fight than eat. His 35 duels are proof sufficient of such a statement. The government of Canada has at last, after repeated efforts, been pre- vailed upon to permit the celebrated 48th Highlanders’ Regimental band, of Toronto, to make an official con- cert tour of America. Over 5,000 miners employed in the Scranton (Pa.) region left for other fields of employment during the re- cent strike. Many of the Slay and Hungarian miners returned to their former homes in Europe. A philosophical statistician caleu- lates that in the year 2900 there will be 1,700,000,000 people who speak the English language, and that the other European languages wil! be spoken by only 500,000,000 people. Mojeska was a comic opera singer before she attempted tragedy, and one of Lecocq’s most brilliant com- positions was written for her, and she sang it in French, afterward in German, and finally in Polish. 4 A Chicago woman talked herself to death not long since; literally and vetually cut off her lifespan with her tongue and her teeth. For over ten years she had never stopped talking, by night or by day, asleep or awake. When Lieut, Gov. Timothy Wood- ruff, of New York, visited Dannemora state prison recently he asked to be locked in a dark cell, the extreme form of punishment at the prison. Before he had been there a full min- ute he asked to be freed, saying that he had experienced enough for a life- time. John Brice, son of the late Senator Brice, whose marriage with Florence Ricketts, a chorus girl in Philadel- phia, last. spring, created such a sen- sation, has, with his wife, rented a modest little home in Cragie street, Cambridge, Mass., and settled down to a year of hard work in the law sehool. ~ ‘One of the most distinguished Brit- ish surgeons in South Africa says the things that have impressed him most are the merciful wounds made by the rifles in nse, the popularity of the X ray and the ineffectiveness of ar- tillery to <lestroy life. The loss in killed ie imsignifieant compared with the battles of the past. Siamese women trust their children to thy care of elephants. The babies play about the hugé feet of the an- imals, who are ever careful not to hure the little creatures. And if dan- ge: threatens, the sagacious old use will curl the child gently. in thi uted Binet out ot Hiaia's Way upon his own broad back, A good camel will travel 100 miles 8 day for ten days through the desert. Some, at least, of the great redwood trees of California will be preserved, the state having recently come into possession of about four hundred acres of redwood forest throngh the will of the late Col. J. B. Armstrong, of Cloverdale, Sonoma county. ‘The tract is to be held as a public park. In the course of an Australian tour in 1898 Mme. Alva volunteered to sing seven gongs one night at Bendigo to some nuns before their going into “retreat.” A wealthy Australian, pom aire. died, has left her $175,- recognition of her goodness of heart as well as ‘her magnificent endowments asa singer.” The leg- acy was at the rate of $25.000 a song. From the house of mourning of the late Marcus Daly comes the an- mouncement of the engagement of Miss Mary Daly to Mr. Jumes W. Gerard, a young lawyer and a mem- ber of the firm of Bowers & Sands. An English manufacturer drives something of a trade in crowns. They DOG GOES THROUGH PUMP. Terrier Is Sucked In and Ejected Un- injured at Bridgeport Station. A terrier belonging to Engineer Mc- Arthur went through the pumps of the Bridgeport pumping station at Chicago the other day and was none the worse for his trip. It had been playing on the footbridge over the race, or in-take, from the south branch, when it tumbled into the black waters that flow from the stock yards region. Five of the pumps were in opera- tion and a swift current was running inward. Before the dog could reach the narrow bridge around the basin he was sucked under the arch into the center pump well. A fireman who xaw the plight and apparent end of the beast walked around to the en- gine house to tell the engineer of the mishap. McArthur looked into the seething waters pouring from the pump and saw his dog vomited forth. It fell into the canal basin and floated swiftly away. A few minutes later the dog, wet and staggering, came into the engine room and for half a day lay sick on a pile of waste, finally recovering completely. EXPLORES HISTORIC CAVE. ‘Well-Digger Finds Grewsome Things in “Devils Wheelwright Shop.” | The Jobnsonburg cave, near Blairs- town, N. J., known as the “Devil's Wheelwright Shop,” has at last been explored. Frederick Douglass Stickles, a loca! well-digger, descended into the cave with a lighted lantern, a number of candles, « rope, a bag thrown over his shoulders, a revolver, and a hatchet. Ue explored it for two hours or more to a depth of 300 feet, and says he x(ruch a crystal lake that had eyeless fish init. He found tomahawks, por- tions of two skeletons that looked like those of human beings, all sorts of curionsly-shaped stones, arrow- heads and an endless variety of un: @ergrownd curios. He captured 4 large number of white rats and a white owl, it is said. It is said that the ‘tories used to conceal themselves within the “Devil's Wheelwright Shop” to make weupons for use against the patriots, hence its carions name. DRESSED BIRDS ARE DEAD. The Needed Lesson That Was Given o Fault Finding Poultry : Dealer. During last Thanksgiving week a poultry- man of the northwest sent several barrelfuls of fat, drassed turkeys to a certain commis- sion merchant, who is an extremely “close buyer” and never fails when he receives a consignment to claim an aliowance for some- thing alleged to have spoiled on the way, Heretofore, says the San Francisco Argo- maut, he had dealt exclusively in live fowls, and probably the correspondence clerk got things mixed. At any rate the shipper was astonished to receive a letter by return mail about as follows: “Dear Sir: We regret to advise you that four of the turkeys in your consignment of November reached here dead. Please make deduction for same and return correct amount. Yours truly.” nen The poultryman communed with himself and replied thus: ; “Dear Sir: Iam sorry to say I find it im- possible to make the concession requested. I ave established a rule requiring all cus- tomers who desire live dressed turkeys to notify us in advance, so we can send them in heated cars. Turkeys without feathers and insides are liable to catch coid if shinped in the ordinary. manner. The mortality among dressed iurkeys was very large this year. Yours mournfully.” EARNED HIS SALARY. With a Few Notes from His Chest He Mustrated the Value of His Singing. A favorite story of the late Sims Reeves tells how, once vpon a time, the famous tenor was stranded at a country junction, waitin for a train, Tt wa: cold and miserable and the singer was naturally not in the best of temper. While chewing the cud of disap- pointment an old railway porter, who recog nized him from the published portraits, en- tered the waiting-room. “Good evening, Mr. Reeves,” he said. “Good evening, my man,” replied the vo- alist, getting ready the necessary tip. But the man sought for information rather than 8. ihey tell me you earn a heap of money,” he remarked. “Oh!” murmured Mr. Reeves, “And yet,” peraned the porter, “you don’t work hard. Not so bard as I do, for in- stance. But I dessay you earn—p'raps ten times what I do—eh?”” “What do you earn?” asked the singer. “Bighteen, shillings 2 week all the year round,” said the porter. i Sims Reeves ed his chest: “Do re, mi do!” he ie the last note being a ringing top one. “There, my manj there's your year’s salary gone!” — Worked Both Ways. “T can’t have lost all my good looks,” said Miss Northside to her best friend, Miss Bhadyside, “‘for I can still obtain a seat in a crowded street car.” “Oh, well,” replied. Miss Shadyside, “you know the mien will give seats to old age as well ~- to youthful beauty.”—Pittsburgh Chr cle-Telegraph. iiss A Mean Trick. | _Hingso—Yes, I let my wife bowl all she wants. dJingso—Why? “T twit her about her strength and bet sh a gan't carry up the coal trom the eellar.”— Syracuse Heraid.” = * | Complimented His Wife. Some automobilists along a lonely country “Toad stopped at a wayside cabin to get a drink, ‘Tc man of the house answered their Knock. When he withdrew for pitcher and glass there came a voice from within as of some one objecting—a high, feminine voice not likely to languish for want of practice. Through the open door the automubilists could see that an exquisite cleanliness pre- vailed. The orderliness without had already struck them. As they quaffed the water— “Your wife must be a fine housekeeper,” re- marked one of the party. “Ya-as,” said the man, thoughtfully, his eyes fixed on the horizon, “she’s h—I on dirt.”—Chicago Chronicle. a She Strives to Please —“I told Miss Uld- girl the other evening, for a joke, that every time she inughed I wanted to kiss her.” “Did she think you meant it?” “Well, whenever I meet her now she begins to laugh for al! she's worth.”—Pick Me Up. A Parasite —Towne—“It seems Jenkins haw just discovered that he has a fam- ily tree.” Browne—“'Yes; it’s an outgrowth of his successful business plant.”—Phila- delphia Times. Couldn't He Write It —Patient—“C-c-can you c-c-e-cure st-st-stammering?” Physician ='Wes, air. Doyou wish to take the treat. ment? "Patient "Nanna, Tut W-w-want,to learn to #a-say- ch-ch-ch-chrys: chrysan-the-the-the-m-m-m-mum so, T ean tell the florist what I w-w-want before the chch—the flflowers w-w-wither.”—Balti- more American. ae Sister § sues “Why, Wille! What do xou mean ‘your v against Mr. Gaboy’s head that way?" Little Willie "Cause tna said he was awfully eoft, an’ I jus’ wanted to see if ma knowed what she was talkin’ about.”—Omaha World-Herald If a woman has only three lines to write on a shect of note paper she can't resist the temptation of writing two of them on fe side margins and signing her name ¥ gde down over the. dateChicage Daily coe Sandy as an Art Critic. One day, while Millais was painting his famous picture, "Chill October,” among the reeds and rushes on the banks of the ay, a man came up behind him and stood look: jng at the picture, then at the surrounding landscape. Finally he asked in a broa Scoteh dialect: “Man, did ye never try pho: tography?” “No, never,” replied Millais, ainting slowly. ’A pause. “It’s « hantle ferent leal) quicker,” said the man. “Yes, suppose so,” Another pause; then | the Scotchman added, thoughtfully: ‘An’ it's mair like the place!”—San Francisco Argo- We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall’s Catarrh Cure. F. J. Cheney & Co., Props., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15,yéars, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transac- tions and financially able to carry out any obligations made a their firm. ne io Truax, Wholesale Druggists, To- 0, O. Walding, Kinnan & Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. ; : Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Price 75c. per bot- fle. “Sold by all” Druggists, "Testimonials ree. Hall’s Family Pills are the best. Comforting Poor Papa. A well-known businesg man whose head is bare, yet who wears a luxuriant growth of whiskers, was being railed recently for being bald by some of his intimate friends in the presence of his small daughter. Lit: tle Mabel didn’t understand that it was all in jest, and erawting upon her parent's lap ut her arms about his neck and turn: Gefiantiy toward bis tormentors: “My papa wiad ruvver hav’ his top hair on his chin, Tatar. ven cape eee Oh lezen Cheonile, For the present winter season the Louis- ville & Nashviiie Railroad Company has im- proved its already nearly perfect’ through service of Pullman Vestibuled S.eeping Cars and elegant, day coaches from Cincinnati, Louisvilie, St. Louis and Chicago, to Mo- bile, New Orleans and the Guif Coast, Thom- asville, Ga., Pensacola, Jacksonville, Tam- a, Palm Beach and other points in Florida. Pevtect Gonnectiouttiaade “with steamer lines for Cuba, Porto Rico, Nassau, West Indian and Central American Ports.’ Tour- ist and Home Seckers’ excursion tickets on sale at low rates, Write C. L. Stone, Gen- era! Passenger Agent, Louisville, Ky., for particulars. eS Judging by Appearances, Dyer—Is that soiemn-looking young man across the way an undertaker? Gyer—Yes; that is, he is a grocery clerk who has undertaken’ to support a wife on a salary of six dollars a week.—Chicago Evening News. Best for the Bowels. No matter what ails you, headache to a cancer, you will never get well until your bowels are put right. Cascarets help nature, cure You without a gripe or pain, produce easy natural movements, cost you just 10 cents to start getting your health’ back. Cascarets Candy Cathartic, the genuine, put up in metal boxes, every tablet has C. ¢. C. atamped oniit, Beware’o? imitations. .Mrs. Leo Hunter—“Why are you 0 sus- picious of Count Von Squint? He can’t help cing crossed.” Mr. Hunter—I know it but he looks crooked.”—Smart Set. Lane’s Family Medicine, Moves the bowels each day. In order te ve healthy thie is necessary. Acts gently on he liver and kidneys.“ Cures sick head, ache. Price 25 and d0c. Hawkins—“I see a man out west rescued a widow from drowning, and she married him. in three days.” | Robbins—“What caused the delay?”—Cincinnati Enquirer. Dyeing is as simple as washing when you use Pursa Fapzutss Dies. Sold by’all druggists. “Jones’ wife left him because he stole a kiss.” “She must be particular.” “She is. He stole it from the cook.”—Cleveland Press. —— tee To Cure a Cold in One Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. Al druggists refund moneyifitfails tocure. 25c. A smile is the reflection of a light heart — Chicago Daily News, Even, the timid ebgineer whisles at dan. Ea N Y. Press. PAIN OPENED HER SKULL mS. LaSners nemarkacie ofory—wur. Wreene’s hervura Cured Her. Ee SS CA ae NANO |} Neyer NN ny), WD) > Ss cee aS / My (ie: WG wees \ Wee BS (9 ACs ee “ys (Od erage pets ANY WL aw Cn eS SP Naw 2 = : ass A. wt 2 (GZ (ZI x \\\\ iy), NEG AX LY f LOAN XN RS WN pe 22): con GAS We s ZG \ \S ae ESS Z \EY WABVals VR oS 7 SSAA S 58 WG “4 i . “gy! re S : Pe) | eee «< v 4 MRS. FRED. C. LASHER, JR. ‘The case of Mrs. Fred: C. Lasher, Jr., a well-kn N. Y., is one of thé most interesting on record. It is aches caused her head to split. “ For thirteen years,” she say: ‘I suffered from and day, until the bones of my skull opened so that thumb right into the opening on to my brain. Two claimed that I was on the verge of insanity. I was years, but got norglief. Then I tried Dr. Greene's remedy, and inside of a year the bones of my head shape again.” * ‘That Mrs. Lasher’s statements are true is vouch Westport, and by @ Justice of the Peace there. D: and nerve remedy ured Mrs. Lasher when all other r thousands of suffering women every year. If your | sleep and are weakan@ nervous, remember that this Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy, will make Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve re: prescription, from a discovery aft | tion and experiapent. Dr. Greene, 35 West 14 ak ee ee OR Be eee Gone a | ‘The case of Mrs. Fred. C. Lasher, Jr., 0 well-known woman of Westport, _N. Y., is one of thé most interesting on record. It is an actual fact that head. aches caused her head to split. “ For thirteen years,” she say: ‘‘I suffered from terrible headaches night and day, until the bones of my skull opened so that the doctor could lay his thumb right into the opening on to my brain. Two doctors attended me and claimed that I was on the verge of insanity. I was under their care for nine years, but got norglief. Then I tried Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy, and inside of a year the bones of my head had taken their natural shape again.” i ‘That Mrs. Lasher’s statements are true is vouched for by reliable men ot Westport, and by Justice of the Peace there. Dr. Greene's Nervura blood and nerve remedy eured Mrs. Lasher when all other remedies failed, and it cures thousands of suffering women every year. If your head aches, if you cannot sleep and are weak.and nervous, remember that this great curative agent, Dr. Greene’s Nervura blood and nerve remedy, will make you well and strong, Dr. Greene’ Nervura blood and nerve remedy is a physiciau’s prescription, from a discovery after years of investiga- tion and Dr. Greene, 35 West 14th St., New York City, ‘is the He can be consulted free personally or by letter. How’s This? Time to Go South. Try Grain-O! Try Grain-0! Ask yourGrocerto-day toshow you a packe age of GRAIN-O, the new food drink that takes the place of coffee. Children may drink it without injury. as well as adults. Allwho tryit like it, GRAIN-O has that rich seal brown of Mocha or Java, but is made | from puregrains,and the most delicate stom: ach receivesit without distress. } the price of | coffee. 15c.and 25c. per package. Allgrocers, ; A Professional Opinion, . First Doctor—Bolus tells me it is difficult to exaggerate the importance of his discov: ery. | Second Doctor—Well, it may be difficult, but I guess he'll do it.—Puck. | The Census of 1900, A booklet giving the population of all ‘cities of the United States of 25,000 and over according to the census of 1900, has just been issued by the passenger depart- ‘ment of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway, and a copy’ of it may be obtained ‘by sending your address, with two-cent stamp to pay postage, to the General Passen- r Agent of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Pau Radway, Chicago, Il | ABreach of Etiquette —He—“Tnotieg you don't speak to the Uptowns any more, What have they done?” She—Done? Vulgar things! Lost ail their money!’ —Philadel phia Bulletin. Coughing Leads to Copsamption. Te pene rae tie the Cough st once. Go to your druggist to-day and get a sample bottle free. Large bottles 25 and 60 ents. Go at once: delays are dangerous. | Old Party—"Do you enjoy going to school, ‘my dear?” Up-to-Date Kid—Pretty well but I enjoy coming home from school agood | dea! better.”—Somervilie Journal. ; Carter's Ink i is used by millions, which is a sure proof of itsquality. Send for free booklet, “Inklings.” | Address Carter's Ink Co., Boston, Mass. No Doubt of It—"So there was a real | fashionable audience at the musicale?” “Oh, yes; they kept right on talking through all | the music.”—Philadelphia Bulletin, Piso's Cure is the best medicine we ever used for all affections of the throat and lungs—Wm. O, Endsley, Vanburen, Ind., Beb. 10, 1906. | If a man thinks he is wronged and tells you his troubles, don’t say there is another ‘side to the story, or he wilt think you are /a fool.—Atchison Globe. Check Colds and Bronchitis with Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar. . Pike's Toothache Drops Cure in one minute, phe bootblack begins at the foot—N. ¥. ress. Dyspepsia is the bane of the human ays tem. Protect yourself against its ravages by the use of Beeman’s Pepsin Gm. You will never profit by your mistakes as long as you blame others for them.—Ateh- ison Globe, See eerie etre > ‘ : : a « oa Yon) : Weeks) ‘ EI Nae COME AND GO : In many forms : Rheumatism : Neuralgia : Lumbago Sciatica : make up a large part of human ‘ But they” go promptly by the use of ; : St. Jacobs Oil : which is a certain sure cure, é es eee ts 1 eevee enti The Census of 1900. Carter's Ink A NARROW ESCAPE. A GRATEFUL WOMAN. ee ee ee eR et A ee , ie f\ Sj - =< an i ew aS x ! eg = aes C eee | =. == oe j ee Ie oe S SF Br | (Gee 2 ss — if Sep pF. ee =F Ze es — = ———a Li ————— ee ————————————— i ee &. [— EE Sa WN SS SAE [SSS i | LSS — ———————— MRS. F. J. LYNCH, GRAND RAPIDS, MICH. Mrs. F. J. 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SEN Ske a D4 bl ¥ | CALC AGO: & ALTON geekeneseeee ae 2 : : e = Cigar Dealers Like = = > to have their regular customers stoke = = el ieee = $ Old Virginia Cheroots& = because they know that once a man & starts smoking them he is “fixed,” = = and that he will have no more trouble s @ with him trying to satisfy him with @ 5 different kinds of Five Cent cigars. > WM Three hundred million Old Virginia Cheroots smoked this Mill S year. Ask your own dealer. Price, 3 for 5 cents, : = Oe FOROS ZCHOROHOROHOHO fr fy GNM A treatment taken at home by the i N K HA B ! Whisiey, Ber Ets, i Whiskey, Beet Et, Obnoxious, aires re! from other treatments: endorsed by business firms of National Reputation. Write for couvinding cvidaace, "THE DAGON IRERAOIIE GOe Doc ataaet Rovetation. | : Chronic Coughs and Colds Are Catarrhal ‘ Diseases. Catarrh is the Contin- ual Scourge of Christendom. Catarrh hovers ominously over every city, and nestles treacherously in every ham- let. It flies with vampire wings from coun- try to country, and casts a black shadow of despair over all lands. Its Dect ap- proach anditslingering stay makes it a dread to the physician and a pest to the patient. Tt changes the merry laugh of childhood to the wheezy breathing of croup, and the song of the blushing maiden to the hollow congh ‘of consumption. In. its withering grasp the rounded form of the fond wife and mother becomes gaunt and spectral, and the healthy flush of manhood turns to the sallow, haggard visage of the invalid. SS Gouigh, takes the asian Soeesenaistin Warre ror InLusTraTrp Mar Fouper To GEO. J. CHARLTON. userat Pat HO! FOR OKLAHOMA! Y {000,000 acres new tands to open to-settiome Siimente tor Mle MOWa CLIEF devoted tortator | Bur ation above these lands, One year. tian” single | Bul copy, We. Subscribers receive free iliustrated book on uA Gtighosia Moreas's anual So pacesertiers Guide | stay Tlove.ti ts. “Address DICK 'T. MORGAN. FELEY-O°B | =~ = MATISM Van Buren's Rhen- | a4] matic Compound fs | als the only positive cure. Pastex: | of Bars pean fey seit Depot | ‘8. Call Ave.. Chicago. | eer eee te | « PISO’S CURE. FOR iT Fs CORES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS 2 . ‘Bost Cough Syrup. Ca ceo bi tee &] tn time Soi by cai 4 7 = r= -— FO! § NSUMP TION oa sneech: pipe we to Solin che eerie ys odors of chronic catarrh poison the kiss of the fondest lovers, and thickened mem- branes bedim sight, impair hearing and de- stroy taste. Like the plaguesstricken Egyptians a cry of distress has gone out from every house- hold, and the mildew of woe clings to every hearthstone. Catarrh in some form, catarrh in some stage lurks as an enemy in the slightest cough or cold and finishes its fiendish work in heart disease and consumption. No tissue, function, or organ of the body escapes its ravages; muscles wither, nerves shatter, and secretions dry up under its bug iag presence. So stubborn and diffi- cult is this disease that to invent a remedy to cure chronic catarrh has been the ambi- tion of the greatest minds in all ages. Is it therefore any wonder that the vast multitude of people who have been cured of chronic catarrh by Peruna are so lavish in their praise’ of this remedy? That the discovery of Peruna has made the cure of catarrh a practical certainty is not only the testimony of the Reople but many medical men declare it to be true. As a drug store in this age of the world is incomplete without Peruna, it can be ob- tained anywhere with directions for use. A sonal guide for the prevention and cure of eatarrh and all diseases of winter, sent free by The Peruna Medicine Co., Co- lentes Mia Dessert for To-Day. You need not wi about it if you have Xop.aeet get roy abou you ha Only necessary to dissolve in hot water and stand away to cool to secure the most deli- cious jelly. Absolutely pure gelatine sugar. and fruit favors. Flavors: Lemon, orange, raspberry, strawberry, wild cherry, pea tise eudaversd “eallsleot ter alas — coffee jelly. Your grocer sells it. ee To Self-Supporting Women mse etamstorr at amecer ee eared Foutensckieriens “eae ares "@ to 7 W, 18th Bireet, New Work, ~siepneer-hagiasiinvwnbivtid | Ir aula nme