The Gazette

THE GAZETTE. One Year. 81 50 Six Months. 1 00 Three Months. 50 Subscribers are requested to remit by post office money order or registered letter. Entered at the post office in Cleveland, Ohio, as second-class matter. All communications should be addressed: H. C. SMITH. Editor and Proprietor THE GAZETTE, Case Library Building, Cleveland, Ohio. Member Ohio Legislature, } 1894 to 1898 } 1900 to 1902. CLEVELAND, OHIO, JAN. 5, 1901. 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. In Colorado the other day"White Caps" tarred and feathered the wrong man—an Afro-American. In Indiana week before last another innocent member of the race was lynched. In the last ten years there have been many cases of this kind in the south. While these sacrifices are great and horrible, they wonderfully increase the sentiment against mob violence. At the request of Hon. John G. Jones, the only Afro-American member of the Illinois legislature, and Editor Manning, of the Indianapolis World, we have sent them copies of our Ohio anti-lynching law. They propose to father a movement to secure the enaction of a similar law in their respective states. We sincerely trust that success will crown their efforts. Two or three years ago at Urbana, Champaign county, Ohio, "Click" Mitchell was lynched on a charge of assault preferred by a white woman of that community. Relatives of Mitchell began a suit against the county under our Ohio anti-lynching law which resulted in a judgment against the county for $5,000, after the case had been carried through all of the courts, Including the Supreme court of the state. Last week "Cliff" Lancaster, another Afro-American, was arrested on a similar charge, bound over under $1,000 bail and promptly taken to Springfield, where he was jailed, the sheriff deciding to take no chances this time. But for our mob violence law, Champaign county would have had another lynching to its discredit. WE PROTEST. The recent utterances of some of our clerical leaders in the south have shown more of a disposition to attribute to the race things that are not really chargeable. Charges have been made that are not at all tenable and have been made more through a hypocritical spirit than in truth. False charges time and again have been laid to the race with seldom little credit from those unconcerned in regard to what we justly merit. We fully realize the fact of our many imperfections, our disadvantages and our want of opportunity. But we need above all things in connection with the words of admonition and counsel a vindication of our manhood rights. There is danger of too much truckling; there is danger in this ready acquiescence in charges not universally true. It is not necessary to imply that which is virtually negatived by a majority of our people. It is human to err and it is quite possible to discern the imperfections of our common humanity. But it is unjust that we surrender any principle in morals or religion for the sake of a temporary gain in popularity or otherwise. The race may be very justly reproached for unpardonable sins which cannot be condoned; but there are frequent indictments brought against us for offenses of which we are not guilty. It is not necessary to magnify the evils incident to our early training and environment. We have too much at stake to trifle with the sacred interests of the masses of our people. Kind and temperate reproof is always in order. But what we need above all things is the fullest vindication of those rights and privileges which are ours by a common decree of nature. It is to be deplored that we find to-day among some of our ablest Afro-American leaders in the south, men who devote much of their oratory in repremanding the Negro and pointing out his defects to the southern white man. Frequent reproofs and admonitions are always timely, but when our leaders make it a business to dwell exclusively upon our sins of commission regardless of the high ends to be attained most helpful to our condition, it betrays simply a disposition to self-aggrandizement and self-adulation. Men need not hope to popularize themselves at a sacrifice of truth and fair dealing. Catering to a cruel and proscriptive sentiment in open disregard of every demand of duty on the part of all concerned, is not likely to accomplish the best results for the citizen and the state. Words suited to the taste and prejudice of a proud and vain oligarchy hardly ever succeed in the desired effect. The whole truth and nothing but the truth is the best guarantee for our uplift and protection. Without that our doctrine is false and misleading. We can't serve God and mammon, and we dare not stifle the convictions of enlightened conscience. We want no bending of the knee to Baal, no compromise with wrong, no patronizing spirit to that which is steeped in tyranny and unrighteousness. Let us fear God rather than man, and not like cringing curs shift the sins of a nation upon the shoulders of a peo- ple long oppressed. A wise general may stoop to conquer, but never at the expense of humiliation and disgrace. It is not the part of wisdom for a man to confess himself guilty of a crime of which he is absolutely innocent, and it is despicably mean to lend acquiescence in designing mischief. We trust that our great prelates will bear in mind that there is an almost universal design in the southern mind to humiliate, disfranchise and place the Negro at a disadvantage under his own government. Then when the Negro is to be lectured in the conferences, that he must behave himself, prove himself industrious, leave alone the women of the other race, and the whites are warned to watch their cooks, this would seem to implicate the blacks undeservedly in crimes, and that too without reason. Any insinuation giving indorsement to the false charges laid to the race is unfair. In short, it is slanderous to acknowledge or imply guilt on our part, where none is known to exist, and it is wrong and unjust to impeach the race or impugn the motives of an illiterate people upon the ground that charges have been preferred. We very well understand the spirit of the times. We should be more ready to defend than to incriminate. Every nation stands ready to espouse the cause of its own; while from every quarter our assailants and traducers may be found. Why should we be less loyal and true? To side with the strong against the weak, or to join hands with our opponents, engaged in the work of our humiliation and shame, does not elevate us above the plane of Negroes nor make us the equals of all men. Exaltation among our own people should remind us that all we are or all we may hope to be, must come to us through our own race. The Afro-American is great only so far as his own people make him great. We must honor, recognize and respect each other before we can be called great among other nations. Let us then remember whence we came, quit this mean truckling to a sentiment which despises us and be true to our integrity. We are not so bad a people as some would like to make us; for whether good or whether bad depends on how you take us. "LEAVE CONSCIENCE OUT AND VOTE THE NEGRO DOWN." Pending the adoption of the infamous "grandfather clause" in the legislature of North Carolina the spirit of democracy quailed for a time in the presence of that stupend-out iniquity about to be perpetrated against free government. And so long as men discussed the question and considered the gravity of their proposed measure the more embarassing became their attitude before the country. They remembered no doubt the brave and heroic stand taken by Mangum, Stanley, Badger and other true leaders in the state, some 60 old years ago, when selfish men sought the disfranchisement of free Negroes. In the midst of hesitancy and diffidence, one of the conspirators entreated the members to lay aside conscience and vote the Negro out of politics. Conscience was not dead to the duty of the hour and like Judas, men paused ere the deed was done. The speaker of the senate asked that the members would desist from speech-making and have the vote at once. But the cause of right and justice was too sacred and obligatory to be thus ignored. So when Senator Thomas Fuller, the only colored member, rose from his seat and plead the indulgence of that body that he might submit his reasons in opposition to the bill, the strongest men weakened in the presence of the great Negro leader who stood before them. It was a moment of trial and peril; for the senate was not without the true and the brave. Senator Fuller was allowed to be heard and in soul-stirring eloquence and irresistable logic, he exposed the iniquity of the bill with a potency of argument that sent conviction to the hearts of fellow senators. Amazed and bewildered, one of the advocates of the measure exclaimed: "Leave conscience out of the question and let vote the Negro out of politics." The purpose to eliminate the Afro-American from southern politics will be done mainly by outraging human conscience. Not only does the act violate conscience, but it is a direct violation of the national law, a travesty upon American liberty and American manhood. Nothing in the annals of our government has so surely encroached upon the federal laws as this assault upon the constitution. The exclusion of the public conscience has entailed upon the country the cowardly tendencies of the administrative power and has emboldened bad men to challenge the right of government. The foreigner, who comes to this country, finds happy and peaceful homes and enjoys undisturbed the right of suffrage. The Afro-American, to the manor born, is hunted down, persecuted and driven from pillar to post only on account of the color of his skin. It is not that he is a bad citizen that he is now disfranchised, it is not on account of his illiteracy; for illiterate white men are allowed the ballot under the "grandfather clause," but it is on account of racial distinction that the awful stab was made in violation of all conscience. The intelligence of the people beheld the perfidy of the unmitigated crime, they saw the shameless robbery perpetrated upon a helpless and inoffending people and buried their conscience in the depth of their own infamy. It was a conflict between truth and error, between mind and physical force, between honor and dishonor, it was a base and humiliating surrender of all manly virtue and principle. Seared and hardened in the sin of the heartless seducer, THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1901. conscience fled to brutish beast and justice found no advocate. No wonder that some of the best people of the state wept for the cause of the commonwealth, no wonder that men tremble when they remember that God is just. As traitors to the cause of constitutional liberty, men of North Carolina threaten to impeach the Supreme court of the state in case it pronounces counter to their plans of disfranchisement. To entertain any ground of fear from the federal government, it is hardly reasonable to believe since republican administrations have refused to apply restraints or enforce the law regulating any infringement upon our national constitution. But a bill reducing the representation of defaulting states would not suffice in meting out equal justice to the citizens of the United States. The Afro-American as a citizen should be protected in the exercise of the rights of an equal citizenship and nothing short of this right can redress the wrong. Should the matter be tested in the Supreme court of the nation and that court fail to accord the demands of justice, this should at once subject the judges to deserved impeachment. Fortunately for the court, there can be no appeal from the judges. But it is evident that every defaulting state is guilty of unwilling acquiescence to the federal laws and hence have assumed an attitude of actual rebellion against the government which makes the authors of the measure chargeable with treason. The crime of treason calls for extreme penalties and ours is a craven government, when it dares not protect itself against aggressions so flagrant and extraordinary. A more humiliating spectacle of a world-power unable to assert its moral strength in its own defense is nowhere else to be seen on the globe. The shame it is that an exodus has begun in the state of North Carolina, which daily gathers growth. Six hundred, then a thousand, and another thousand is added to the number, and intelligent Afro-Americans will continue to leave the state despite every opposing force from without. They are now on the move and the crying question with the farmers. and business people is to procure help to meet the demands of labor. Let the American statesmen and our business magnates consider the duty of the hour and act upon it ere the nation loses. WHIP-POOR-WILL AND KATY-DID Slow de night's a-fallin, An' I hvehac callin' Arl I nyhean de calm Out erpon de lonesome hill; Soun' is moughty dreary, Solemn-lak an' skeery. Sayin' fu' to "whip po' Will." Now hit's moughty tryin', Fu' to hyeah dis cryin', 'Deed hit's mo' den I kin stan': Sho' wid all our slippin' Dey's enough of whippin' 'Dout a bird a-visin' any man. In de noons o' summah Dev's anothab hummah Dey's anothah humman Sings anothah song instid; An' his th'oats a-swellin' Wid de joy o' tellin', But he says dat "Katy did." Now I feels onsuhtain; Won't you raise de cu'tain Ovah all de t'ings dat's hid? W'y dat feathahed p'isen Goes eroutb a-visin' Whippin' Will w'en Katy did? -Paul Laurence Dunbar, in the Janu- ary Ladies' Home Journal. New Brighton, Pa., Brevities. The mock wedding held in Wayman's chapel Thursday evening by Mrs. Caliman was a success.—Quarterly meeting was held Sunday at the A. M. E. church. Rev. Richard Brown preached Sunday at 3 p. m. and was assisted by Rev. Hawkins.—Watch meeting was observed in all the churches.—Frank Stewart is visiting in Cleveland.—Rev. A. E. Waldon spent Christmas with his family.—Mr. and Mrs. Edward Williams, of Beaver Falls, invited a number of her friends to a New Year's dinner.—Miss Mary Leland spent Christmas in Leetsdale with her sister, Miss Rowenna Leland.—Mrs. A. E. Waldon entertained on Christmas.—Rev. Anderson, of Pittsburg, preached to the True Reformers at Rochester Sunday.—Mrs. Scott, of Mercer, is here visiting her son, Earl.—Miss Mary Bean received calls on New Year's day.—The members of the A. M. E. church donated Rev. H. A. Grant and wife a large quantity of edibles.—Mrs. Mary Sim is better.—Quite a number from Bridgewater attended the quarterly meeting here Sunday. North Carolinians Who Are Prosperous. New York City.—In recent years there have come to Greater New York hundreds of Afro-Americans from North Carolina. The Society of the Sons of North Carolina in Brooklyn derives from its annual ball the revenue which goes to take care of the sick, poor and indigent of those who come from that state, and very many have done so since the Willington massacre and riot. Last week the annual ball was held in the Atheneum in Brooklyn. That some of the exiles from the Old North State have bettered their condition by being scared from the state was evidenced when many of those who patronized the ball drove to the hall in coupes and barouches. A 85,000 Lynching: Indianapolis, Ind.—On the night of September 14, 1897, a mob broke into Ripley county jail at Versailles and brutally beat and afterward hanged five of the prisoners, among them being William H. Jenkins. His widow went to Illinois and there took out letters of administration and afterward brought suit in the Federal court here against Sheriff Bushing for failure to protect her husband from the mob, and against 70 citizens of the county, charging each with complicity in her husband's murder. To-day the suits were all compromised and withdrawn, the defendants paying Mrs. Jenkins $5,000. Another Akron Rioter Sentenced. Akron, O.--Andrew A. Halter, a prominent democratic politician, who pleaded guilty some weeks ago to rioting, was on the 31st sentenced by Judge Kohler to pay a fine of $50 and costs. The Peruvian legislature has passed a law granting absolute amnesty to all persons who may have been concerned in any political transgression or offenses, with the right to fill public offices. All political prisoners confined at Lima have been set at liberty. A Philadelphia women makes a comfortable living each summer by taking plants to "board." When the wealthy residents of the city close their homes, preparatory to spending the season at the seaside, the woman calls and gets their plants and takes them to her own conservatory. Hanging in the window of a barber shop are the long and flowing whiskers worn for many years by Dr. T. A. Stevens, of Independence, Mo. They hung down below the doctor's waist and they were famous all over the county. The doctor bet them on the election of Bryan. A committee has been appointed to revise the French signal book, as well as the system of tactics for light squadrons. A similar revision was made in 1891 by a committee under the presidency of Adm. Duperre. The present revision is due to the fact that when the squadrons met for maneuvers in the summer some discrepancies were found in their practice. --- The city of Birmingham, Ala., has already begun to make preparations for a "metallic exposition," to be opened there November 15, 1904, and continue until May 15, 1905. Its charter name is to be the International Metallic and Industrial exposition. The state is expected to contribute $100,000 toward the expense and congress is to be asked to give $500,000. Divers who have been at work in the sea between Cape Matapan and the island of Corgo, the ancient Kythera, report that they have seen statues and other archaeological objects. They have brought to the surface a hand which must have belonged to a great bronze statue. The Grecian government has undertaken the supervision of the further researches which will be made. The Danish ship yards which turned out the yacht Standard for the czar are now engaged in the construction of another yacht for the Muscovite emperor, which, while smaller, is to far surpass everything as yet known in comfort and luxury. It is to be used in the semi-inland waters of the Russian gulf and especially on the great rivers which traverse the empire in every direction. Thomas Gaither, of Hancock Station, Md., killed four big porkers that had been fed on the refuse from a dining car. While making the sausage a hard substance stopped the grinder. When removed it proved to be a beautiful solitaire diamond ring. It was sent to Baltimore for inspection, and came back with the information that the diamond alone was worth $600. The ring was mutilated, but the stone was unharmed. There is one man in the world who is learning Dutch just now with all his might, for he has wooed and won a queen whose native tongue it is. Nobody would learn Dutch for the mere sake of learning it, and it is not surprising that Duke Henry does not know it; but, says the "king," anybody would learn it to sit beside a queen on her throne, and it is not surprising that Duke Henry is learning it as fast as he can. The adjutant general's department has on file many applications for retirement of officers who have served thirty years. Under existing law the president can, at his discretion, retire such officers, but unless there is a most excellent reason why an officer should not be required to remain in active service all such applications are being refused. It is said to be surprising how many officers of thirty years' service are anxious to leave the active list. Apropos of the late death of Thomas Arnold, the father of Mrs. Humphry Ward, it may be of interest to know, what does not seem to be generally known, that the Arnold family was of Hebraic extraction, and that its name in Germany, whence it came to this country, was Aaron. Aaron in English is generally transformed into Arnold just as Solomon finds easy and natural transition into Sullivan and Hirsch into Harris, etc. The annual report of the board of ordinance and fortification, which has just been received by the senate, contains a list of curious offers made by inventors during the year. These are classified under the head of "subjects considered," and the ingenuity of the American is strangely displayed. Not less than nine airships were offered to the board during the year. All of these were rejected. Among those with aerial machines are Carl Browne, Philo T. Rood, Cererac Paul, John H. Crozier and others of less fame. It is the habit of those who are addicted to any form of abstinence or indulgence to quote instances of extreme longevity, as they arise, in support of their practice. Henry Richards, of Worthenbury, who attained recently his 102d birthday, will be quoted by smokers as a remarkable example of the healthful effects of nicotine. Mr. Richards smokes regularly four ounces of tobacco a week, sometimes more, and yet he was voter before the first reform bill and can remember the battle of Water- ____ A half-forgotten state law in Maine permits the seizure of real or personal property of any inhabitant of a town which is unable to pay its debts. A Bangor attorney obtained a judgment against the town of Otis and sent an officer to collect. Finding the town treasury empty, the officer proceeded under the statute mentioned and seized a yoke of oxen belonging to one of the selectmen and a dozen cows belonging to other citizens. Other creditors threaten to take similar action to the attorney. CURRENT T P JS Silk dresses were worn in China 4,500 years ago. Connecticut twins celebrated their 85th birthday recently. The world's coal mines yield 400,000,000 tons of coal a year. A fort built by mound builders was discovered near Wayne, O. Wm. Marconi, the inventor of wireless telegraphy, is only 25 years old. The duke of Manchester's family name is William Angus Drogo Montagu. It is said that France is trying to buy 100,000 square miles of land from Brazil. In Berlin sign painting is added to the list of trades practiced by women. Pecksburg, Ind., has a haunted house in which balls of fire roll around the rooms. There have been 257 popes, who have reigned on an average for seven and a half years each. There are 4,000,000 llamas in Peru. The skin weighs six pounds and is worth twenty shillings. In proportion to its size, England has eight times as many miles of railroad as the United States. In the Arctic regions there are between 700 and 800 varieties of flowers. They are all either white or yellow. Among the British troops in South Africa there were 15,000 cases of typhoid fever, of which 3,642 proved fatal. The letter X only occurs once in a thousand letters in the English language. In French it occurs five times as often. Man's ordinary temperature is 98.6 degrees when in good health; that of a snail 76 degrees, and of a chicken 111 degrees. A $35,000 library erected by H. C. Frick, of Pittsburgh, in honor of his father and mother, and presented to the Wooster (O.) university, was dedicated recently. The restoration of the bloody tower in the Tower of London is now completed all but a few repairs to a turret, and the repairs to the lieutenant's lodgings are finished. A Russian engineer has invented an electrical apparatus manipulated from the stage of a theater, by which, at one touch, all doors and exits are opened toward the outside. There is talk in Kansas of appointing a rabbit commissioner for the state, the reason being that 40,000,000 pounds of jack rabbit meat goes to waste annually in the state. The biggest match factory in the world is the Vulcan match factory at Tidahalm, Sweden. It employs over 1,200 men, and manufactures daily 900,000 boxes of matches. One-fourth of the inhabitants of the world die before they reach the seventh year, one-half before their seventeenth year. Of every 1,000 persons, only one reaches the age of 100 years. From potato buttons to wooden silk is only a step. Remarkable to relate, wood can be utilized for soft, flowing gowns. Wood pulp silk has long been a staple industry in the St. Etienne district of France. Prisoners in Morocco are compelled to pay the officers for their trouble in arresting and escorting them to jail. This plan makes the police watchful and always alert for business. There is a great demand for hands by the planters in Hawaii. No less than 30,000 men are needed there in the cultivation of sugar and efforts being made to secure them in this country. Among the fossil animals that have recently figured in geological literature is a fossil camel from Roumania which enjoys the distinction of being the only one so far known in Europe. The present population of Athens in Greece is only 80,000. There is no accurate census of the city when in its ancient glory, but it is supposed at one time to have contained 500,000 inhabitants. A lot of society women in New York city are organizing a boycott on firms dealing in sweat-shop goods on which are placed Paris labels. They have had careful investigation made, and they intend to publish the results thereof. Efforts are being made in Beaufort, 8. C., to get an appropriation for rehabilitating and perserving the "old fort," which stands on the spot where Jean Ribault landed 300 years ago. It was built by the Spaniards after they had driven out the French The fact that the flag of the United States is the oldest national flag in Christendom is not an unmixed blessing. Its three colors have, in a little more than a century, come to be the colors of many nations, so that to-day red, white and blue is one of the commonest combinations there is. It is American, it is English, it is French, it is Dutch, it is Norwegian, Servian and Russian, and it is the combination on the flags of Costa Rica, San Salvador, Peru, Paraguay and Korea. According to Leslie Stephen, in the "National Dictionary of Biography." Wordsworth as poet laureate wore the same coat to levees that Samuel Rogers had worn, and the same coat passed subsequently to Tennyson when he became poet laureate. The largest and finest collection of meteorites on this side of the Atlantic is the one in the Harvard Mineralogical museum in Cambridge. Reckoning European collections, it ranks about fifth or sixth in the world. The British museum has the best collection, and the cabinets in Vienna and Paris rank next. in ruling paper the worker, using quill and ruler, seventy years ago, took 4.800 hours to do the work now done by machine in two and three-quarters hours. The old-time workers got $1 a day. Now two men employed earn $7 between them. The czarina has the greatest difficulty in speaking her husband's language, and the words come but slowly and laboriously, despite the many lessons given her by the czar. Privately the czar and czarina speak frequently in English, but their conversation is generally carried on in French. SIMMONS AND BASS, Proprietors. Imported Ales, Wines, Liquors and Cigars. Wine Rooms. No. 620 CENTRAL AVE., cor. Maple Street CLEVELAND, OHIO. 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SHEA refers to the Hon. Charles Miller, capitalist. 2481 Atlantic avenue; the Hon. Van Denmore, architect and builder. 47 Cleveland, architect and Seewer builder. South Brooklyn. The Doctor has practiced five years in New Orleans, St. Louis, Memphis, 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 to a strange city out of work and another to another city out of work anything undertook. What to do I did not know. A friend advised me to go and see Dr. Shea. I did; he told me the cause of all my trouble; he took me in and treated me like a brother. Through him I got a good position that very week. I had been to others; they took my money and did me no good. I bless the day I first met Dr. Shea. I would advise all in bad or in trouble, to go to him at once. Sinceerely, ALBERT AYERS, 2937 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 went to the church. 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 $2.0. I will be very sorry. I went to DR. SHBA 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 MILLEN South Plainfield, New Jersey. 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, Kidney Diseases and all strange diseases, disease which other adults 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 hung in parlor. Is a registered physician. We are remedy for rheumatism just discovered, not a cure in cases and those that 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. Mention this paper. At the Close of Business, Sept. 15, 1900. Commenced Business November 15, 1895. RESOURCES AND LIABILITIES. RESOURCES. Cash on hand, Sept 15, 1900. $ 11,790.24 Mortgage loans. 482,187.06 Stock loans. 11,104.00 Furniture and fixtures. 2,148.02 Real estate. 600.00 Insurance and taxes, advanced. 891.83 Sundry accounts. 444.87 Books and supplies. 1,236.58 LIABILITIES. Permanent stock (inc. div.) ..... $118,500.00 Prepaid stock (inc. div.) ..... 1,750.00 Paid up stock (inc. div.) ..... 88,875.00 Installment stock (inc. div.) ..... 275,613.05 Bills payable ..... 11,000.00 Unfinished loans ..... 13,798.85 Deposits ..... 1,000.00 Contingent fund ..... 951.00 Total liabilities ..... 1510,888.60 "Money at Interest is a Good Silent Partner." STATE OF OHIO, CUYAHOGA COUNTY. 85. J. A. Blodt, being duly sworn, deposes and says that he is the Secretary of THE GUAR- ANTEE SAVINGS & LOAN COMPANY, of Cleveland, and that the foregoing is a true report of the affairs, and business of a 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., A. D., 1900. [SEAL] JOHN K. CORWIN. Notary Public. 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 11 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. Through siepers on all trains. Chicago, Buffalo, New York, and Boston. Unexcelled dining cars and depot restaurants operated by the company. 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 01 pm Cleve. Uhrichsville Ae.... 5 10 pm 9 50 am Sunday trains between Cleveland and Uhrichsville arrive at 9:50 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. depart at 7:20 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. LOCAL DEPARTMENT. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS. - Subscribers not receiving THE GAZETTE regularly should notify us at once. We desire every copy delivered promptly. We advise our patrons to carefully examine THE GAZETTE's advertisements before making purchases. Business men who advertise in this paper should 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. JAN. 5. 1901. 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, No. 586 Central avenue, cor. Sterling avenue. Open Sunday. P. JOHNSON TARKER'S Restaurant, No. 698 Central Ave. Open Sundays also. ALEX. O. TAYLOR, Local Reporters. J. EDWIN DUNJILL. The reception given by the Bachelors' club at Woodliff hall December 28 was a fine affair. About 25 or 30 couple were present. Miss Ethel Carey returned from Massillon Sunday. Miss Pearl Penticost and Miss Eva Daw have been confined to their homes the past week with the grip. The Mistletoe club gave a party New Year's night at Mrs. Black's on Central avenue. Miss Addie Hackley, of Richland avenue, entertained New Year's day from 4 to 6 and from 8 to 10 p. m. The King's Daughters gave a party at Woodliff hall New Year's night. at Woodliff hall New Year's night. A concert was given at Woodliff hall Monday evening for the benefit of the Old Folks' home. Mrs. Walter B. Wright and sister, Mrs. Eva Jackson, of Girard, and Lewis Johnson visited Chicago last week. The Monday Night club gave their last reception Monday evening at I. E. Oliver's, of Blaine street. Mr. and Mrs. James Johnson, of Massillon, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. McIntyre last week. Miss Cora Johnson, their daughter, spent Sunday here. Mrs. I. E. Oliver, of Blaine street, entertained a number of young people at dinner Tuesday evening, in honor of her daughter, Miss Essie. The cantata "Santa Claus and Uncle Sam" was rendered before a large and appreciative audience last week Thursday evening at St. John's church. Miss Parker has returned from Circleville, where she visited relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Hedgepath have returned from a very pleasant visit in Chillicothe. Miss Blanch Jones, who has been the guest of the Misses Douglass, returned to Columbus Sunday. Miss Kate Hawkins, of Oberlin, was the guest of the Misses Brooks during the holidays. She returned home Wednesday. Miss Jamita Mosley entertained a few young friends Tuesday afternoon. Miss Minnie Pettiford and Miss Daisy Hurley, of Fremont, were guests of Mrs. Nettie Fry during the holidays. Miss SadieWalls, of Oberlin, visited in the city last week. Miss Cynthia Chambers, of Oberlin, was the guest of Mrs. Effie Quinn the past week. Dame Rumor says Miss Laura Mayo and Geo. Johnson will soon wed. They were the most attractive couple at the Bachelor club's party last week Friday evening, it is said. Mrs. George Quinn entertained a few friends New Year's night. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Buchanan highly entertained at dinner Tuesday Mrs. J. E. Smith, of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. L. Buchanan, George Buchanan, jr., and Alex. O. Taylor. John Lee has gone to Omaha, Neb. William Taylor returned Sunday from Baltimore and Washington. David Manson, who returned to Chicago last week Wednesday night, was one of the participants in the Strother-webb wedding. At St. John's church to-morrow the pastor will preach morning and evening. Sunday-school at 9:30 a. m. and C. E. meeting 6:30 p. m. Mrs. Robert Vactor, of No. 28 Howe street, received a $400 diamond pin as a Christmas present from her husband. Miss Nellie Vactor entertained 12 of her young girl friends at dinner on New Year's. It proved a very pleasant affair. The members of the Second A. M. E. Sunday-school (East End) met Christmas night and enjoyed a pleasant time with a "Santa Claus." The superintendent was presented with a fine umbrella. The secretary, Miss Matilda Jackson, received a beautiful book. The members and friends of the church presented Rev. J. C. Turner, the pastor, a suit of clothes, money and other presents. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Rudd visited the latter's parents and relatives in Findlay recently. Miss Grace Tucker and her guest, Miss B. Ormes, of Olmsted Falls, left for Oberlin last week to visit. The first charity ball will be given at Forest street armory on February 13, under the management of the Robeda Social club, for the benefit of the Cleveland Home for Aged Colored People. Full particulars later. The entertainment given by the Y. P. C. E. of the Second A. M. E. church at Mrs. Fred Berry's, in the interest of the Galveston sufferers, was quite a success. They desire to thank all who contributed articles to make up the well-filled box which is now on its way. Ed Ruthven will not be brought back to this city to testify in the trial of Lizzie Ruthven. Attorney Avery, counsel for Lizzie, wished to subpoena him, but the prosecutor objected. Judge Neff was appealed to, and he stated that Ruthven's deposition could be taken or the prosecutor and attorney might agree on his testimony. Lizzie Ruthven has been a prisoner since May 7, the day after Patrolman Shipp was shot, and she is indicted on the charge of receiving stolen property. A pretty calendar has just been received at The Gazette office from the Columbus (O.) Standard, a newsy JUST A MOMENT, PLEASE!! Churches, Lodges, Societies and Individuals! Bring your orders to THE for ALL KINDS of JOB PRINTING GAZETTE Spend your Money where you ask Favors. race paper. On the right hand side appears a good portrait of the editor and manager, P. W. Chavers, and on the left hand side the portrait of another editor, Rev. J. M. Riddle. Miss Sally Hightower, of Cincinnati, is spending the holidays with her aunt, Mrs. Sally Bostin. Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Moore, of No. 30 Webster street, entertained at a banquet Christmas evening. The guests were: Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Nelson, Mr. and Mrs. Seems, Miss Evans, of St. Louis; Mr. and Mrs. Hart, of Dayton; Mrs. Gibson, of Cincinnati; Mr. and Mrs. Waters and a number of other friends accompanied by the Empire Trio. The services at St. John's church Sunday, under the supervision of the deaconesses, for the benefit of the poor, were instructing and interesting. Hon. H. C. Smith delivered a short address on "Charity," which pleased the large congregation greatly. There were other short addresses by the pastor and others. St. Andrew's Episcopal mission, corner of Scovill avenue and Chapel street, Rev. Edward S. Doan, priest-in-charge. Holy Communion 8 a. m. Morning prayer conducted by Mr. Fisk at 10:15. Evening prayer and sermon by the rector at 3 p. m. The offertory solo "Sion" will be sung by Mr. James E. Boone, at the afternoon service. Wednesday evening service and choir rehearsal at 7:30. Shiloh Baptist S. S. had its election of officers last Sunday. With the exception of the secretary all the officers of the Sunday-school were reelected unanimously. Representative Crumpacker, a republican of Indiana, has again introduced a bill reducing congressional representation to the basis of voting population. It is in this way that he proposes to punish states that disfranchise the Negro. And it is the only way in which the federal government can punish them. Yet President McKinley opposes Crumpacker's bill. When that gentleman proposed it last year it was pigeon-holed. And such will doubtless be its fate again this year unless Mr. McKinley can be persuaded to favor its adoption. Here is an opportunity for northern Negroes who object to the disfranchisement of their race in the southern states. Let them bring their influence to bear in support of the Crumpacker bill. If they neglect to do so, if they allow that bill to be again pigeon-holed without a protest from their leaders or their press, without so much as a petition in its favor, they must not be surprised if the public come to suspect them of having a deeper interest in the plums of republican machine politics than in the maintenance of their constitutional rights as a race.—The Public, Chicago. Correspondents will please remember that advertisements, lists of names and of wedding presents, lengthy obituary notices, speeches, resolutions, poetry and inquiries for relatives must be paid for. Our advertising rates will be sent you on application. Mail all letters for publication on MONDAY of each week, and always place your name and that of your city and town on the outside of the wrapper about returned copies. Unless this is done proper credit cannot be given you. Made a Dash for Liberty. San Francisco, Cal.-Just before the steamer Zealandia sailed for Honolulu on the 26th ult., two of the 25 Afro-Americans who were being sent to the islands to work on sugar plantations made a dash for liberty and succeeded in escaping, notwithstanding that police and others pursued them. They came here from Nashville, Tenn., in charge of R. O. Bean, travelling agent of the Southern Pacific. Mr. Bean said that owing to the great demand for cheap labor in the Hawaiian islands the planters have concluded to engage thousands of Afro-Americans. The Nickel Plate Road Offers to students desiring to return home for the holidays the special rate of a fare and a third for the round trip. Tickets sold the day school closes and the day preceding, good returning to and including the day school reconvenes, but not later than Jan. 8, 1901. This rate available only to students holding certificates from the head of the school. 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. 272 Under Our Anti-Lynching Law. Under Our Anti-Lynching Law. Akron, O.—John M. Davidson has commenced suit against the city for $5,000 damages, alleged to have been sustained for the death of his daughter, Rhoda, who was shot during the riot of August 22. The 3-year-old girl was in her mother's arms in front of the city building when the police fired into the crowd. Mr. and Mrs. Davidson were seated in a carriage at the time, and Mr. Davidson's petition alleges that they were driving through the crowd when stopped by the press of people. Before he could get out the firing commenced. A Poetess' New Position. Wilberforce, O.—Miss Mamie Fox, who for many months has officiated as private secretary to the president of Wilberforce college, has been elected to a position as teacher in the Plymouth (state) normal school in North Carolina and will leave the first of the week for her new field of labor. Miss Fox's home is at Chillicothe and she is a poetess of exceptional ability. Her many friends wish her God-speed. Carnegie's $20,000 Gift. Tuskegee, Ala.—Mr. Andrew Carnegie has given $20,000 for the erection of a new library building at the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial institute. This is the first building that Mr. Carnegie has given to any colored institution. Efforts are being put forth by the young men of the school to erect a Y. M. C. A. building on the school grounds. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, JANUARY 5. 1901. Editor Gazette: Rev. W. R. Wilson, who started a little store at No. 629 Central avenue, October 24, commenced business on a small scale, his articles being a phonograph, pop corn oals and peanuts. His trade growing, Mr. Wilson increased his stock and finally went into the grocery business. Then his neighbor, Mr. Kline (white), who lives the second door from Mr. Wilson, objected to his selling groceries and made complaint to Mr. S. Kaul, the proprietor of the block at the corner of Central avenue and Newton street. Mr. Wilson is also in this block. Mr. Kline threatened to move out if the owner of the block did not stop Mr. Wilson from selling groceries. The result is Mr. Wilson must move or stop selling groceries. He is going to move to No. 611 Central avenue. From this a child can see the prejudice on the part of Mr. Kline toward Mr. Wilson, who is a Negro, and must not sell groceries so close to Mr. Kline. If there is any manhood and race pride in those of the race in this city, especially those in the vicinity of Newton street, Sterling and Central avenues, Mr. Wilson should be given their trade, and those who have been dealing with Mr. Negro Objector Kline should immediately withdraw their patronage and give it to Rev. Wilson. As a race we must come together if we ever expect to make the progress and win the success necessary. We are on the eve of the twentieth century and the Negro must show himself a man on all lines. W. M. LANGFORD, Pastor Cory M. E. church. The Pastor Honored. Cadiz, O.—Miss Edwards, of Wellsville, is the guest of Miss Martha Epp.—Mr. and Mrs. King, of Lorain, are here visiting. — The Tuesday Night club entertained New Year's day at Mrs. Thomas Mason's.—B. M. Fox, of Hamilton, was surprised by a host of young people at the A. M. E. parsonage Friday evening.—The Masons' banquet drew several strangers New Year's night.—Mrs. A. W. Wren has returned from Mt. Pleasant. — Miss Maud Brown will spend the winter with her sister, Mrs. Jessie Redman.—Theodore Mason has put in a new furnace.—The members and friends gave Rev. and Mrs. H. F. Fox a Christmas present—a fountain pen and purse of money. Much credit is due Mrs. Eva Strother and Miss Minnie Fletcher for these gifts. A Familiar Calendar. The 1901 edition of the Columbia desk calendar is being distributed by the American Bicycle Co., Columbia Sales Department, Hartford, Conn. It will be sent to any address upon receipt of five 2-cent stamps. This unique and useful compilation has been issued annually for the last sixteen years and it has come to be regarded as an indispensable article in many business offices and homes. Special Rates via C. T. & V.-B. & O. B. B. for Christmas and New Year's holidays. Tickets on sale Dec. 22, 23, 24, 25 and 31, 1900, and Jan. 1, 1901, good returning to Jan. 2, 1901, inclusive. Inquire of agents or address J. E. Galbraith, Traffic Manager C., T. & V. R. R., Cleveland, O. Fatally Injured in a Hospital. New York, Jan. 3.—Mrs. Edward Hughes, of this city, made a statement yesterday to the effect that her husband, who died in St. Luke's hostal about a year ago, lost his life because of injuries received in Bellevue hospital. Mrs. Hughes charges that her husband was taken to Bellevue in June, 1898. She says she saw him in a straight jacket and made to trot up and down a corridor in the Bellevue insane pavilion while an attendant flogged him with a long strap tipped with metal. Later the man was taken to the Manhattan hospital, where it was found that seven of his ribs had been fractured. Refused to Grant a Receivership. Chicago, Jan. 3.—The United States circuit court of appeals yesterday handed down a decision sustaining the decision of the lower court, denying a petition for a receiver for the National Linseed Oil Co. The suit was brought in 1898 by James Clark "and others," owners of 4,600 shares out of a total of 180,000 shares of stock of the so-called trust. The petition for a receivership alleged negligence and bad management on the part of the officers of the company, by which, it was alleged, the assets of the company, valued at $7,000,000, were dissipated. New York Legislature Convenes. Albany, N. Y., Jan. 3.—Both branches of the state legislature convened yesterday. The feature in each branch was the reading of the message of Gov. Odell. Senator Timothy E. Ellsworth, of Niagara county, was elected president pro tem of the senate, the democratic members voting for Senator Thomas F. Grady, of New York. Fred Nixon was elected speaker of the assembly. The democrats voted for Daniel S. Frisbie, of Schoharie county. Both houses adjourned until January 9. An Alleged Bigamist Arrested. New York, Jan. 3. G. W. Howard, a consulting engineer, of Boston, who came to this city about a year ago as the representative of the Whitney-Elkins-Widener syndicate, and who has made his home in this city since that time, was arrested at the New Amsterdam hotel, this city, last night, on a warrant charging him with bigamy. Howard had offices in this city and has been a prominent figure in the social circles of Brooklyn. Singers Visit Mrs. Van Liew Columbus, Jan. 3.—Mrs. Emma Van Liew, the Van Wert vitriol thrower, was visited yesterday by her sister, niece and nephew and the Northwestern Ohio male chorus, of Van Wert, which won the $300 prize at the eisteddfod here. TRADE MARK REGISTERED 1892 U.S. PATENT OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. BEFORE USING HARTONA AFTER USING HARTONA Hartona will make the hair grow long and soft, straight and beautiful. Makes the hair grow on bald and thin places. Restores GRAY HAIR to its original color. Hartona cures Dandruff, Baldness, falling out of the hair, itching, and all scalp diseases. Hartona does not have to be used all the time, as it straightens the hair and gives it fresh life and lustre, and the hair stays and grows naturally beautiful and straight after the use of Hartona. No hot irons necessary. No pasting the hair down with grease. Hartona is positively harmless—one box can be used by everyone in the family. 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Reader, do you ever notice that some people seem to have good luck all the time, and no matter what they do they seem to prosper, while others, yourself may be have such a hard time to tell all the matriarchs how hard they try, they find at the end of the year they are no better off than when they started. This is because they have not consulted the right Medium, while the successful people, in all probabilities, have been to one of the genuine Mediums and obtained advice. If you are unsuccessful in business, have bad luck, things go wrong with you, then you should consult Mrs. Marth. She will tell you what your trouble is, as she understands the spells and evil influence. She will help you caring distressed persons and has brought thousands to success. For advice by letter $1.00 All letters must contain stamps. MRS. M. B. MARTH, 246 West 31st. Street, NEW YORK CITY, N. Y. Hours: 10 A. M. to 8 P. M. Sittings. Mention THE GAZETTE. ..HARTONA.. 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Thousands of delighted patrons are not perfectly satisfied and delight no matter if you are employed or employed. NO-SMELLS body; cures sore and aching feet, chisegreable odors caused by perspiration. Address all orders to INA REMEDY CO., 909 E. M. AND OFFER. In three large boxes of Hartona Hair Smell. Goods will be sent securely plainly. Money can be sent by post. 9 E. Main St., C. L. The Sigler ties the hair grow on bald and thin places. Restores GRAY the hair, itching, and all scalp diseases. Hartona does no estre, and the hair stays and grows naturally beautiful and down with grease. Hartona is positively harmless—on hair just the same as adults. To meet the popular and received it on sale in 25c. and 50c. sizes, in our special round ana remedies. Remember, we handle no fake goods, and you All our remedies are trade-marked, registered and copy- and 1900. We refer you, as to our responsibility, to the editor of this paper. own in the United States. 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OUR GRAND OFFER:—Cut out this advertisement and send us with One Dollar, and we will immediately send you four boxes of Ozono and one bottle Skin Refiner, guaranteed to make rough skin soft and black skin bright; also one bottle Skin Food, which curts all Skin Diseases, removes Wrinkles, Freckles, Moth Patches, Tan, Liver Spots, and all Facial Blemishes; also one package Anti-Odor, removes all odors arising from the human body, cures Womb Diseases, Chilblains, &c. All the above, worth $3.50, we will send for $1.00. This grand offer is unprecedented. Parties sending $3.00 will receive four lots. BOSTON CHEMICAL CO., 310 E. Broad St, Richmond, Va. CLEVELAND & SANDUSKY BREWING COMPANY, 1109-1116 American Trust Bldg., ERNST MUELLER, President. JACOB KUEBELER, 1st Vice Pres't. JNO. M. LEICHT, 2nd Vice Pres't. WILLIAM H. CHAPMAN, See'y & Treas. --- 3 WITH 4 Americanizing the Philippines. It is the rule of the war department to grant honorable dischargers from the army of soldiers who desire to go into business in the Philippines. A large number of officers and men in the volunteer regiments have already done so, and many others whose commissions expire in July next have made applications. This is considered one of the most effective methods of Americanizing the islands. Business opportunities are numerous and encouraging, and those officers and soldiers who have already undertaken enterprises have met with gratifying success. $100 Reward $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Hall's Catarrh Cure is the only positive cure known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggsges, 75c. Perils of Civilization. If we are driven to the hard labor of opening oysters for the sake of avoiding preservaline and to milking cows to keep clear of formaldehyde it is evident that the highest civilization has not lightened our burdens, but rather added to them. By the way, embalmed beef has gone out of fashion, hasn't it? -Detroit Free Press. Celebrated Oculists Fail To relieve many cases that Palmer's Lotion has permanently cured. Some time ago Mr. V. M. Green, of Huntington, West Virginia, wrote: "After trying the most celebrated oculists of Boston, Albany and New York City, for Granulated Eyelids, with no success, a few applications of Palmer's Lotion relieved the inflammation and its use has effected a permanent cure." This Lotion will also be found valuable in curing Pimples, Red Spots or any eruptions on the skin and is particularly efficacious if used in connection with Lotion Soap. If you can't find them at your druggist's send to Solon Palmer, 374 Pearl Street, New York City, for samples of Palmer's Lotion and Lotion Soap. A. Morrison "Ian't our grocer somewhat eccentric?" said Mr. Snaggs to his wife. "Yes, and even his breakfast wheat is cracked," replied Mrs. Snaggs.—Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph. Try Grain-O! Try Grain-O! Ask your grocer to-day to show you a package of GRAIN-O, the new food drink that takes the place of coffee. The children may drink it without injury as well as the adult. All who try it, like it. GRAIN-O has that rich seal brown of Mocha or Java, but it is made from pure grains, and the most delicate stomach receives it without distress. $ \frac{1}{4} $ the price of coffee. 15c. and 25cts. per package. Sold by all grocers. Transposed Beatrice—Did you observe Mr. Flashleigh's beautiful hose? They're the most exquisite clockwork. Constance—Ifear you have Mr. Flashleigh transposed; the machinery you speak of, my dear, is in his head.—Ohio State Journal. 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 Carthieve, the genuine, put up in metal boxes, every table has C. C. C. stamped on it. Beware of imitations. Not the Genuine Article "That girl is only an imitation Boston girl." "What makes you think so?" "She says 'whom to' instead of 'to whom.'"—Indianapolis Journal. Lane's Family Medicine Lane's Family Medicine. Moves the bowels each day. In order to be healthy this is necessary. Acts gently of the liver and kidneys. Cures sick bee ache. Price 25 and 50c. At the Door—"Hey, little boy, I'll give you ten cents to shovel off the snow." On the Sidewalk—"Ye will, will ye? An'wot'll yir gimme not ter swipe ye wid a snow-ball?"—Indianapolis News. Piso's Cure is the best medicine we ever used for all affections of the throat and lungs.—Wm. O. Endsley, Vanburen, Ind., Feb. 10, 1900. Tess—"Jack tried to kiss me last night." Jess—"Indeed? Of course you resisted?" Tess—"Certainly; every time."—Philadelphia Press. To Cure a Cold in One Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All drugstores refund money if it fails to cure. 25c. To those whose god is honor, disgrace alone is sin.—A. W. Hare. J. Dr. Llewellyn Jordan, Medical Examiner of U. S. Treasury Department, graduate of Columbia College, and who served three years at West Point, has the following to say of Peruna: "Allow me to express my gratitude to you for the benefit derived from your wonderful remedy. One short month has brought forth a vast change and I now consider myself a well man after months of suffering. Fellow sufferers, Peruna will cure you." Catarrh is a systematic disease curable only by systematic treatment. A remedy that cures catarrh must aim directly at the depressed nerve centers. This is what Peruna does. Peruna immediately invigorates the nerve-centers which give vitality to the mucous membranes. Then catarrh disappears. Then catarrh is permanently cured. Peruna cures catarrh wherever located. Peruna is not a guess nor an experiment—it is an absolute scientific certainty. Peruna has no substitutes—no rivals. Insist upon having Peruna. A free book written by Dr. Hartman, on the subject of catarrh in its different phases and stages, will be sent free to any address by The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, Ohio. PISOS CURE FOR COUches WE ARE ALL USE FAILS. Best Cough Drop. Tastes Good. Use In Time. Sold by drugrate. CONSUMPTION THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, JANUARY 5, 1901. HIS MOTHER KNOWS Our baby is a winsome thing, A precious gift from Heaven, Born with the blossoms of the spring, Straight from our Father given: He could not be more pure and fair, From flossy head to toes, I've heard his mother oft declare— And think his mother knows. His eyes are blue as yonder skies, His breath is fragrant, too; His smiles they are a sweet surprise, His skin has purest hue. Our neighbors have a baby, too. But, but! I pity them. For I have learned, long since I knew, Ours was the choicer gem; He puts the neighbors' babe to shame Whene'er his face he shows. I hear his mother oft declare— I'm sure his mother knows. She tells me how the people stare Whene'er she takes him out. And says (because he is so fair She hasn't any doubt) He is the wonder of the place, And so, where'er she goes. The people gaze upon his face— His mother always knows. Bring on the babies near and far, He's sure to take the prize. Quite sure to be the ruling star-- I know his mother's wise. And she declares triumphantly, With face with joy that glows. None equal to our boy could be-- I'm glad his mother knows. -Anna D. Walker, in Christian Work IT IS extraordinary how wrong ideas get about. Some people actually call me a flirt. There is not the slightest foundation for such an assertion—except that I happened to get engaged to five or six fellows one week. (Indignantly.) I do think people should be more careful what they say! (Confidentially.) I'll just tell you how it happened, and you'll see that I was not to blame at all. The first engagement was Sophie McLeod's fault. It wasn't an engagement at all, really. We were talking one Monday afternoon, when I was staying at Aunt Anne's, and she kept telling me how handsome and good and clever Fred Thomas was. I got so tired of hearing her that I simply had to do something. (Scornfully.) You know what a little silly she is. "My dear girl," I said at last, "why do you think it necessary to tell me his perfections?" She became excited directly. "I thought you scarcely knew him," she said. I believe I had spoken to him twice, as a matter of fact. "Not know him!" I cried. "Do you mean to say that you haven't heard that he and I—" I paused and looked mysterious. "What!" she glared at me. "He—you!" "It's a secret," I said. "You are engaged?" "I did not say so." I looked very shy. Like this. (Looks shy.) I am not very shy, really. You wouldn't believe it; but the stupid girl turned quite disagreeable with me. She told her mother that Fred Thomas and I were engaged; and her mother told everybody. Fred Thomas was away on a visit, so he could not contradict the report. I thought it was great fun. So did my cousins — the ridiculous boys. Rev. Adolphus Surplice did not think it fun at all. He is Aunt Anne's tame curate. (Meaningly.) He had grown tamer while I was staying there. He called at half-past nine on Tuesday morning to inquire if it was true. Of course I said "No." He became so sentimental that I wished I had said "Yes." He did not trouble to contradict the rumor. (Reflectively.) I fancy he thought it would keep other people off. Wasn't it mean? He called again in the afternoon, also in the evening. Of course, a report got about that he and I were engaged. I didn't mind the report; but I minded him. So I told Cousin Tom that he must do something to protect me. He said that he would. He is very ingenious. (Sadly.) I am afraid he is not always strictly truthful. He had a little conversation with the curate. Then Rev. Adolphus picked up his hat and rushed out of the drawing-room with a loud groan. I was afraid Tom had been disagreeable, so I asked him what he had said. "Oh!" he replied, carelessly. "I just told him that you were engaged already." "Why, you stupid!" I said. "I told him this morning that I barely knew Mr. Thomas." Tom grinned. "I didn't say Fred Thomas." "What! Who?" I gasped. "Me," said Tom, unabashed. I could have boxed his ears with pleasure. "You nasty, rude—boy!" "Oh, all right," he said, cheerfully. "I will if you like." Of course I knew he wouldn't. (Laughs.) There happens to be somebody else whom he prefers. So, on the whole, I thought it was a good joke—if mother didn't hear. Mother is—well, very prim and proper. you know. (With much gravity.) I am considered very like her. On Wednesday afternoon, Jack—Tom's brother—came to me with a long face. "I say, May," he began, "I've always said you were a good sort." He looked as though he desired reassurance. "I don't mind your saying it," I informed him, graciously. "Thanks. Er—then you—er—wouldn't mind my saying I was—er—engaged to you!" I jumped up and shook him. At least, I tried to; but he is six feet odd. "You—you donkey!" I cried. "I wouldn't dream of it." "Neither would I," he said, emphatically. "You impertinent, hateful—" "You don't want—" he began. He caught my eye in time to stop. It was lucky for him! The idea! "Whatever made you say such a thing?" I asked. "Well," he said, uneasily, "Mrs. Meadows." She is an enterprising widow. "That's where it was. She began to talk about engagements, and—er—that sort thing, you know, and to look at me, and—er—that sort of thing, you know; and so I said—er—" "More of that sort of thing, you know?" I suggested, kindly. "ao-o, I didn't. She said it was time I was engaged to some one; and I—I said I was—to you!" "Did she scratch your eyes, and—er— (mockingly) that sort of thing, you know?" "You always make game of a fellow," he growled. "Not when I am engaged to him," I said, sweetly. "By the way, do you know how many people I'm engaged to at the present moment, Jack?" He shook his head. "Four!" He whistled and opened his eyes. "I say, May, you're quite a sort of she—Mormon!" Then he went out—portant. Yours ever, Guy." The next morning was Thursday. I had seven letters of congratulation, and began to feel rather uneasy. In the evening I had four more. On Friday morning I had eight! Two asked me what I would like for a wedding present, and three inquired who it was, as they heard such conflicting rumors. As it happened Cousin Guy came over that morning. (Enthusiastically.) Guy is a dear! My very, very best friend. No, no! I only mean "friend." He is a lot older than I am, and has been appropriated for years. Of course I told him about it. He laughed at first. Then he was so cross that I cried. Naturally he said: "Never mind," and kissed me. I didn't mind that, only—Mrs. Jackson came in at the moment, unannounced. She put up her eye glasses and stared. And Guy said: "It's all right, Mrs. Jackson. We're engaged!" So she tossed her head and went out. (Impressively.) She is the biggest scandal monger in the place, and (tearfully) I knew she'd write and tell her nephew, Capt. Armstrong. I —I didn't want her to. He—he (pettishly)—Oh, bother! Guy had the sense to keep out of my way the rest of the day. I was so angry that I wouldn't even say good-by to him when he went. Next morning I had a note: "Dear May—Come over to mother's this afternoon. You must. It is important. Yours ever, "Guy." "Oh!" I cried, "surely he doesn't mean that he—" Of course I knew he didn't; but I could help worrying. (Very seriously.) I wouldn't flirt with dear old Guy for anything in the world. He met me at the station and teased me all the way to the house. He had a wedding present for me, he said, in the drawing-room; but when I went in there was nothing there; at least, only Capt. Armstrong! "Allow me to congratulate you on your engagement to Guy," he said, icily. "But I—I'm not," I stammered. "To your cousin Jack, then." I shook my head. "To his brother Tom, then?" "No, no!" "And the Rev. Adolphus Surplice." I stamped my foot. "I hate him!" "And Mr. Thomas." "You—you know I'm not." "And—the others!" He looked very angry. "You seem to be engaged to nearly every fellow in the neighborhood." "A few have escaped," I assured him, "as yet." "They will have their turn, no doubt." He seemed very disagreeable. "I suppose even I might hope." I tossed my head. "You'd have to be a great deal nicer than you are this morning," I told him. He looked at me very hard. "I—I don't like being stared at." "I am going to exchange to India," he said, quietly. I went and looked out of the window. Of course, it wasn't my business what he did; but I thought it seemed a pity, because (ingeniously) you see his people wouldn't like it. "I think you are—horrid," I said. "You might—India is such a nasty, hot, dirty place. Suppose you had a fever; or something dreadful happened to you?" "A few engagements, for example?" "Yes," I said, feebly. "It—I—you—they—Oh, do tell me how to get out of them." He wouldn't speak. So I took out my handkerchief; and suddenly I found him beside me. (Prefends to draw away from an encircling arm.) "I know a way," he said. "Do you? How?" "Make another, of course! A serious one, little May." "I don't suppose anyone would," I said. He said—well, I don't think he said anything much, but—we got engaged! (Solemnly.) Really and truly engaged I mean, of course. (Impressively.) And this was nearly two months ago, and I've not been engaged to anyone else ever since. (Insinuatingly.) So I'm not a flirt, am I?—Madame. FORTH AND BACK. This Objector Says That Novelists Should Make Their Heroes Pace Properly. It struck us forebibly the other day when one of our great scholars spoke of a man as pacing "forth and back," says the Philadelphia Record. How many times have we heard of pacing "back and forth." Though you may contend that this is an unnecessarily small point, yet it is a fact that most people, when starting out to cover a short space a number of times do not make their first turn backward like a crab. Invariably do they take a few steps forward, and then, turning, retrace them. Hence, they go forth and back, and forth and back, and so on, until their emotion of exercising is over. And "if a thing's so," to use one of Koko's never-failing reasonings, "why not say so!" Stop a moment to think of it, and you'll agree that it is ridiculous to start a thing backward, and about as easy as to start climbing a tree from the top. Novelists with restless heroes are especially requested to take notice. CASTORIA For Infants and Children Bears In The Use Signature For Of Cha. H. Fletcher. 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He waited awhile longer, sitting up in bed staring at the miserable sleeper, and, finally becoming alarmed, he roused him. He sprang up in bed, glared wildly around and said: "Where am I? I don't see the storm?" "Why, here in my room," said his host, soothingly; "you remember you stayed all night with me? I beg your pardon for waking you up, but you carried on so I had to." "Beg your pardon," gasped the guest. "I shall never be grateful enough to you. I dreamed I was out with Miss Bud and a terrible storm came up, and my shoes were new, and I was just ordering a coupe for two when you roused me. Old boy, you have saved me a dollar." And the host says he was actually afraid to go to sleep again that night for fear the soupe would come, says the Louisville Times. There Is a Class of People Who are injured by the use of coffee. Recently there has been placed in all the grocery stores a new preparation called GRAIN-O, made of pure grains, that takes the place of coffee. The most delicate stomach receives it without distress, and but few can tell it from coffee. It does not cost over 1 as much. Children may drink it with great benefit. 15 cts. and 25 cts. per package. Try it. Ask for GRAIN-O. Little Left to Stand On A scientist has now arisen who declares the Gulf stream is a myth. If science continues its devastating way we shall soon have nothing left to cling to but esoteric Buddhism and the significance of cat tracks.—N. Y. Press. Coughing Lends to Consumption. Kemp's Balsam will stop the Cough at once. Go to your druggist to-day and get a sample bottle free. Large bottles 25 and 50 cents. Go at once; delays are dangerous. The Marches. Perhaps. the piano by ear entirely. Mrs. Nexdoughre—indeed? Sometimes it sounds to me as if she were using her foot. -Baltimore American. Dyspepsia is the bane of the human system. Protect yourself against its ravages by the use of Beeman's Pepsin Gum. A feast fit for a king is not always fit for a man who has to work for a living.—Puck. PUTNAM FADELLESS DYES produce the fastest and brightest colors of any known dye stuff. Sold by all druggists. The average girl thinks that getting a letter with a sealing wax stamp and an initial on it, is next to getting a letter bearing a coat of arms.—Atchison Globe. Cytoplasm "At this," wrote the author, "the great, strong man broke down and wept. For the first time in her young life Lucille saw that agonizing sight—a man's tears." Here the Demon of Cynicism, which so pervades our literature, moved him to write: "For none of Lucille's folks were given to the jag habit." Now he realized he had done wrong, yet left the line unchanged, with the perversity of genius.—Indianapolis Press. It is not at all infrequent for a man to meet death bravely, for there is much nobility in the sons of men. But rarer and finer yet is the courage to live bravely on in the face of age, decaying strength and faculties, ill health, poverty, disillusion, and the falling away of friends.—Atchison Globe. McJigger—"What do you think of Jigley marrying that girl who stutters so?" Thingumbob—"He's in luck. She certainly won't be able to talk to him." McJigger—"Nonsense! They say she's very determined. Just imagine how frightfully long it will take her to give him a piece of her mind."—Philadelphia Press. Kash—"What was Jones fired for?" DeSales—"For giving away one of the trade secrets, I believe." Kash—"You don't say?" DeSales—"Yes, he told one of the customers that the boss was an old blockhead, and the boss overheard him."—Philadelphia Press. Sure Sign.—Mamma—"You have become very fond of Mr. Huggard in quite a short time." Daughter—"Why, mamma, what makes you think that?" Mamma—"I overheard you telling him last night that he was 'too hateful for anything.'"—Philadelphia Press. 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