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One Year..... 81 80 Six Months..... 1 80 Three Months..... 50 Subscribers are requested to remit by post office money order or registered letter. Entered at the post office in Cleveland, Ohio, the second-class master. 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. ALLIED PRINTING TRADE SCHOOL COUNCIL CLEVELAND CLEVELAND, SATURDAY, DEC. 14, 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. The race newspaper that can praise President Roosevelt's recent ignoring (in his message) of our cause, will bear watching. Surely U. S. Senator Lodge, of Massachusetts, would not lead the effort in favor of the infamous Chinese exclusion act which contains a color-line provision. The democratic caucus of the United States senate barred Senator McLaurin, of South Carolina, the other day because of his "flirting" with the republican party to the extent of securing from the McKinley administration control of a number of federal appointments in his state. While accomplishing this McLaurin was posing as a "lily white" republican. He fooled McKinley and has fooled Roosevelt some, but failed to fool the democratic caucus of the United States senate. Judge E. D. Crumpacker, of Indiana, a member of congress, seems to be the most outspoken friend the race has in that body. His efforts against disfranchisement in recent congresses, especially his present effort to line up the republican members of the house of representatives against the great evil that is nullifying a section of the Fourteenth amendment of the United States constitution, are most commendable indeed. Prominent Afro-Americans throughout the north, as well as in the south, who are represented in the lower house of congress by republicans, should see to it that their congressmen back up Judge Crumpacker, or else hold them to account when they seek renomination and re-election. Let our contemporaries pass this word along the line. White church members of Frankfort, Ky., are trying to prevent Afro-American Baptists from building on a desirable site they purchased in that city. The opposition has reached the persecution stage. And southern whites claim to be the best friends of our people. Down in Virginia, chivalrous (?) whites, the "best citizens," led by a prominent minister of their class, are trying to prevent the re-election to the state board of education or some body akin to it, of President Tyler, of "Williams and Mary college," of that state (son of President Tyler), because he permits his daughter to remain a student at the same (northern) college which Brooker T. Washington's daughter attends. The south seems to be making a determined effort all along the line in recent years, to "down" the Afro-American and force their prejudice against us upon the entire country. They (prejudiced southerners) have made entirely too much progress, too. Our people are entirely too inactive both in personal effort against this later day movement of the south, and in encouraging their white friends and political representatives in congress and elsewhere, to oppose it. We must shake off the lethargy and get into action and at once. The condition is growing entirely too serious for comfort. Judge Crumpacker's speech in congress, published in the Congressional Record of January 15, 1901, is pertinent and ought to be read by every intelligent and thoughtful Afro-American. Write your congressman to send you a copy of it. THE HUMBUG OF SOCIAL EQUALITY. Still the agitation of the question of social equality is on hand and is discussed as in the olden times, when Frederick Douglass, Charles Lenox Raymond and John M. Langston were storming the citadel of slavery. But strange to say, no black man is concerned about social equality. Certainly Afro-Americans are not agitating the question. Equal rights before the law, equal rights under the government and equal rights in the enjoyment of life, liberty and happiness are the things which Afro-Americans demand. After so much robbery of the political rights of the black man, and the disfranchisement of thousands of our loyal citizens, why should southern white men set up the deceitful and delusive cry about social equality? Why this attempt to deceive the people in agitating a question which is not before them? Unlike the pestilence, famine and earthquakes which sometimes come upon us without our bidding, the black man is not round sitting in white men's parlors, or forcing himself in unwelcome places in order to gratifying a longing desire. No such ambition dwells in his bosom. He has no craving to occupy seats of the scornful nor to obtrude himself where he is not wanted. Afro-Americans, like all other intelligent and thinking people, appreciate the situa- THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14, 1901. tion before them and are too busy about that which pays than to fritter away their time in forming social bees. At best, there is nothing in social privileges, except so far as they can be made profitable. But a mere social meeting, or imaginary attitude of equality, does not make it so and puts nothing in a man's pocket. Never in the history of our country has the question of racial social equality been urged or discussed, yet frenzied white men in their anxiety to arouse public feeling or to gain a sort of cheap notoriety have thrust it upon the attention of the people. A giddy minded class has seized it as whole, some food to feed an insatiable hate, while they feel no just cause for alarm. We say alarm because the masses of the people, even in their wildest fancy, see nothing in the bug-bear cry to awaken their remotest fears. Incidents may now and then present themselves in individual cases where prejudiced and irrational minds may cause a flutter, but that is no evidence of a fact that social equality is sought. If the individual cases, persons of either race, are brought into certain social relations, that is no argument that Afro-Americans are seeking social equality. It is the merest nonsense that where white and colored people are sometimes associated in business of any kind that social equality is implied. No man is necessarily the social equal of another because duty and business necessitates their being together in the same hall or parlor. There must be a mutual inclination and a hearty reciprocity as well as the most cordial appreciation before the fact of social equals is established. There may be certain social relations maintained between persons in the absence of any attempt to imply terms of social equality. It is an outrage upon common sense and the rules of etiquette to stigmatize a man because he accords unto another the ordinary amenities of a well ordered and dignified life. But all men as moral agents are called to exercise their own volition, to choose or not to choose, and if they act upon the decision of their own judgment they are responsible solely to themselves, and any purpose to reproach them would be an encroachment of the laws of civilized society. Governors Aycock, of North Carolina, and Candler, of Georgia, are at serious fault in agitating the matter of social equality between the races. Negroes are not demanding it, they show themselves in no way concerned to dwell in the tents of white Americans, and it is idle, preposterous and unjust that a charge so egregious and ridiculous should be laid to them. CURRENT TOPICS. London is soon to have an office building on the American plan. The New York Zoo is now in possession of a genuine double-headed snake. A southern California man is reporte to have found an egg of the extinct dodo. In Turkey red hair is counted a great beauty and the women dye their hair that tint. Kubellk, the famous European violinist, is here. He will get $100,000 for his American season. It is said that $9,000,000 will be needed for the repair of our warships during the next fiscal year. The most expensive chair in the world belongs to the Pope. It is of solid silver, and cost $90,000. George Ehret, an old man of New York, worth $35,000,000, owns no less than 800 saloons in that city. In Paraguay all the houses have brick stoves built in them, so there is little or no necessity for iron stoves. Cock fighting is no longer a legalized form of sport in Manila, the civil authorities having issued an order prohibiting it. Dispatches from Turkey say Armenia brigands have captured sixty women and children and are holding them for ransom. A well-known explorer of Africa says there is no doubt that many animals talk and laugh in certain ways among themselves. Comparatively few horses attain to seventeen hands, but Kansas boasts of one that measures twenty hands and weighs 2,412 pounds. Mrs. David Dreyfus, of St. Louis, has been officially selected as the World's fair beauty, and will rank as the most beautiful woman in the land. President Roosevelt has granted a concession to the Port America Company to build two railroads in Porto Rico to run in different directions out of San Juan. The report of First Assistant Postmaster Johnson says the yearly increase in the postal revenues has resulted in the free delivery service becoming self-sustaining. The greenfinch is the earliest riser of the bird family. It sometimes begins to pipe at 1 o'clock on a summer morning. The blackcap comes next, and then the blackbird. Far away from civilization gesture-language is still extant in Australia. Some of the tribes possess an excellent code that is almost as efficient as the spoken language. The German millionaire Jakob Plaut, who died in Nice last February, left the greater part of $2,000,000 for charitable purposes and institutions in Berlin, Hamburg and Saxon cities. By way of commemorating the birth of Jolanda Margherita, niece of Queen Margherita of Italy, Prof. Zopetti recently published an historic sketchn of the rineteen Margheritas of the house of Saxony. American millionaires who expected to buy seats to King Edward's coronation from needy British peers are shocked by the information that none but British subjects will be present except in an official capacity. As many kisses as shots are exchanged on a big field-day with the Russian army. The emperor kisses his officers, the officers kiss each other men embrace lovingly; old generals kiss; in fact, everybody is kissing and being kissed when the czar reviews his troops. MRS. WINFIELD SCOTT SCHLEY. Mrs. Schley, who stood nobly by her distinguished husband, Admiral Schley, during the trying ordeal of the naval court inquiry, is one of the brightest and ablest women in Washington. Before her marriage, which took place nearly 40 years ago, she was Anna R. Franklin, the daughter of a family that has given its sons to the army and the navy since colonial times. She is a woman of tact and admirable discretion, and has scores of friends in and out of official circles. The Schleys at the present time reside at Washington. They have pleasant apartments at the Arlington. Mrs. Schley, who stood nobly by her distinguished husband, Admiral Schley, during the trying ordeal of the naval court inquiry, is one of the brightest and ablest women in Washington. Before her marriage, which took place nearly 40 years ago, she was Anna R. Franklin, the daughter of a family that has given its sons to the army and the navy since colonial times. She is a woman of tact and admirable discretion, and has scores of friends in and out of official circles. The Schleys at the present time reside at Washington. They have pleasant apartments at the Arlington. WILL NOT INSURE CUBANS. They Must Learn to Live Like Americans Before They Can Be Eligible. A Cuban who applied for insurance from a local company the other day almost wept when told by the examining physician that he could not insure him, but that he should call again in about two years. The agents had assured the Cuban that he would be a first-class risk. In despair he went to New York and confided his woes to an old friend, who is the head of the firm for which he is the Philadelphia representative, says the Times of that city. The friend said: "Since the Spanish war, when so many young men from Cuba and Porto Rico have come here to engage in trade. I have seen scores of cases like yours. You are killing yourself by insisting on living in Philadelphia as you did in Havana. Persons who come to the United States to live, no matter from what part of the world, must make certain concessions to climate. You drink as much black coffee and smoke as many cigarettes here as you did at home. Very well, it will kill you if you keep it up. Your insurance man probably thought you were consumptive. Stop living like a Cuban in Philadelphia; eat, drink and smoke as men there do, and I will guarantee you an insurance policy in less than two years." INSTRUCTION BY PHONOGRAPH Correspondence Schools Now Use It to Teach Various Languages to Students. Correspondence schools which undertake to teach languages by mail have found a useful adjunct in their system in the phonograph. In addition to the usual instruction papers, which give the student a reading knowledge of a language, a speaking knowledge may be gained by the exchange of record cylinders between instructor and pupil. It is claimed that by this means the student may acquire perfect pronunciation, since he can repeat the phonograph lesson as often as he finds necessary, and nest, and five or six of sects were stinging it they did not touch the ting close by. HAVE TO BE O Why Suburbanites Are About the Accurate Watches “Before I became a said a man who recently town, according to the Record, “I used to not erable amusement the people who every day would watches with the officials COLT FOR WHICH $105,000 WAS PAID. This figure, paid by G. Faber, of Long colt, Duke of Westminster, is the record p. lions in a few instances have brought me two-year-old was $40,000, for King Thomas there is no certainty that the Duke ever assumption that blood would tell, and the his illustrious ancestors. But at this most ticket. E. Nardell This figure, paid by G. Faber, of London, to R. S. Sevier, for the two-year-old colt, Duke of Westminster, is the record price for an untried horse. Celebrated stallions in a few instances have brought more, but the best price ever received for a two-year-old was $40,000, for King Thomas. King Thomas never won a race, and there is no certainty that the Duke ever will. The animal was bought upon the assumption that blood would tell, and that his perfornacles would equal those of his illustrious ancestors. But at this moment he stands in the position of a lottery ticket. thus impress upon his memory every detail of pronunciation and inflection. be found in front of several Chestnut street jewelry stores. I used to regard them as cranks when they would If the student can avoid acquiring the Punch and Judy tone of the phonograph, says the New York Times, there would seem to be no reason why this method should not be an extremely good one. One can imagine that the temptation to imitate its peculiar squeak, especially in French, would be almost irresistible. The idea constitutes one of the most practical uses yet made of the phonograph. A Fast Locomotive. Batavia has been trying the American locomotive, and likes it, all except its "unearthly screech." Our engines are somewhat vociferous, but they need to be, in order to give fair warning of their swift approach. It was an American engineer who told of the exploit of a locomotive of which he once had charge—that it ran so fast that it reached the station ahead of the sound of its whistle, which came along a second or two after the train had stopped.—Troy Times. --- ENGLISH WASPS. as a Rule They Are Not Vicious and Rarely Sting Each Other When They Become Aggressive. The common wasp, as a rule, keeps its sting for self-defense, says the London Spectator. It will bite a fly in two with its jaws if it gets in its way on a window pane, but it does not use its sting even when trying to rob a beehive, and "tackled" by the bees. The latter will push a wasp away five or six times, hustling it off the footboard, without provoking it to sting. But if a bee endeavors to sting the wasp, it then grapples with it and stings back, killing or benumbing the insect almost at once. British wasps are fussy and excitable, but not vicious, like many of the Indian wild bees. However crowded or uncomfortable they may be, they very rarely quarrel with or sting each other, as, for instance, when a number are on the same window pane, fretting and anxious to get out. Only when the entrance to their nest is threatened do they become actively aggressive, and then as a rule the attack is not begun till the person who excites their fear interposes between them and the entrance to the nest. A setter dog was noticed to turn and bite itself, whimpering with pain, just as the party were sitting down to a shooting luncheon by the side of a wood in Yorkshire. The dog, being tired, had lain down on the hole of a wasps' nest, and five or six of the yellow insects were stinging it at once; but they did not touch the persons sitting close by. HAVE TO BE ON TIME. Why Suburbanites Are So Particular About the Accuracy of Their Watches. "Before I became a suburbanite," said a man who recently moved out of town, according to the Philadelphia Record, "I used to note with considerable amusement the crowds of people who every day would compare their watches with the official timepiece to don, to R. S. Sevier, for the two-year-old prize for an untried horse. Celebrated stallion, but the best price ever received for a us. King Thomas never won a race, and will. The animal was bought upon the at his performances would equal those of ment he stands in the position of a lottery be found in front of several Chestnut street jewelry stores. I used to regard them as cranks when they would say to each other: 'Right on the dot,' or draw long faces over a difference of a fraction of a minute. For my part I was satisfied if my watch kept decently good time, and never bothered my head over a matter of five minutes or so out of the way. "I have since discovered that the people I used to think were cranks are really suburbanites, with trains to think about. It hasn't taken me long to discover the importance of having a watch exactly right, and after having missed several trains I myself have joined the crowds around the places where the official time is kept." Uses of Peat Peat is being made into a kind of wood that will answer admirably for paving and railway sleepers. Peat wood can be made to resemble any kind, from willow to oak; it will not warp, is very durable, holds nails and screws with a firm grip, and becomes harder when laid on damp surfaces.—N. Y. Post. THE DOMESTIC REALM. A Few Hints, Shams and Pillow Covers, Care of the Hair and Bathing. In bed dressing a return to pillowcovers must be noted. The stiff-rolled bolsters are still used, but their obvious fraud has long been considered inartistic, and many housekeepers prefer the sleeping pillows to be placed upon the bed during the day. When this is done, for the purposes of cleanliness extra covers are required, and the so-called shams are used. Instead of mechanical adjustments to hold these in place, they are supplied with a backing of sheer muslin, which converts them into an actual case that is drawn on over the other pillow. A well-dressed bed is an important part of the modern well-equipped bedroom, folding beds having been relegated to the list of expedients necessary often but never desirable, says the New York Post. No amount of washing of the hair will keep it clean if dirty brushes are used, yet persons otherwise fairly neat are careless in this respect. A specialist says that hair-brushes should be washed once a week, and if used on hair in which there is much dandruff, twice a week is not too often. The brushes should be washed in cold, not hot, water, to which cloudy ammonia has been added in the proportion of a scant tablespoonful to a quart of water. Care should be taken not to wet the backs of the brushes, and when washed and rinsed—a good way to rinse them properly is to use a shower spray on them—they should be put on edge in the air to dry. Dressing-combs, too, should be frequently cleaned, a comb-cleaner being used for the purpose. A good bath sponge, as everybody knows who has tried to buy them, is expensive. An excellent substitute that gives the size and durability without the cost is a sponge bag, or rather a bag of sponge's. Buy one big, unbleached sponge of the poorer quality, tear it to pieces, and pack the pieces into a bag made of cheesecloth, sewing it up when full. Attach a tape to one corner and an excellent bath sponge is produced. It will last three or four months, is cleanly because easily aired, and is pleasant to use. It should cost about 15 cents. A good cold cream for which an old subscriber asks a receipt is made as follows: Put in a double boiler six ounces of sweet almond oil, and, having put as much water in the outer vessel as for any cooking, set on the range to warm. Have ready four good-sized cucumbers, which have been carefully wiped to be perfectly clean. Cut them, unpeeled, in squares two or three inches in size. When the oil is warm add the cucumbers and set the boiler on the back of the stove where the water will simmer for four or five hours. Strain, and to six ounces of the liquid add one ounce of white wax, one of spermaceti and two of lanolin. Heat until these ingredients have melted, then remove from the fire and beat with an egg-beater until cold, adding during the beating process two teaspoonfuls of tincture of benzoin. This is one of the best cold creams known, and is a standard formula. MOST VALUABLE SERMONS. The World's Record in Point of Numbers Belongs to the Late Mr. Spurgeon. The pulpit at Westminster Abbey was once occupied by a preacher who was not a clergyman, and had never been ordained. This was in December, 1873, when Dean Stanley invited Prof. Max Muller to preach on the religions of the world. It was one of the most interesting sermons ever heard, and when printed afterward brought in $3,500. The world's sermon record is held by the late Mr. Spurgeon, says the Buffalo News. His sermons have been published weekly for 50 years past, and there are still enough to last several years more. They have been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Servian, Arabic, Urdu and many other strange languages. No fewer than 348 of his texts were taken from Psalms, 253 from St. John, 211 from Isiah, 185 from St. Matthew and over 100 apiece from many other books of the Bible. Over 100,000,000 copies have been sold, and their profits exceed those of any other half dozen preachers. For the most valuable single sermon ever preached it is, however, not Mr. Spurgeon, but Canon Fleming, who holds the record. This discourse was first heard from the pulpit of Sandringham church, on the occasion of the death of the duke of Clarence. It was afterward published, and its profits have since amounted to a total of $7,500. The money has been equally divided between the Gordon boys' home and the British home for incurables. There is very good evidence that a ghost was once seen in a pulpit. Curiously enough, it was the ghost of a living, not a dead, man. The late Rev. H. R. Haweis was once prevented from preaching by illness, and his curate took his place. Two members of his congregation remarked that no sooner had the curate got into the pulpit than Mr. Haweis appeared, standing behind him for a few moments, and then went away again. They were much puzzled, and asked Mr. Haweis about it. He told them that at the time he was sitting shivering over his fire at home, in Chelsea. Tomato Custard. A tomato custard is a combination of eggs and tomatoes that is usually relished. Beat four eggs slightly, add half a cup of sugar, one pint of tomatoes, stewed and strained, and three cups of milk. Bake in cups standing in hot water, either on the top of the range or in the oven.—N. Y. Post. Not an Ornament. Myer—Is it true that Miss Oldham has just inherited $500,000? Gyer—It is; and she will need every cent of it in her business. “What is her business?” “Looking for a husband.”—Chicago Daily News. Sweet Sovereignty in the Basement Rich in imagination, replete with innocent pleasure, there is no joy like the joy of the doll period. And here only can be found exactly what you want and at a price you feel able to pay—the price range is broad, but every price represents a value which cannot be duplicated in the city. Mail Orders accompanied by cash promptly filled. State what you want and about what price you desire to pay, sending money to cover the cost. If you send too much money, we will return the balance. A WOMAN LETTING A BABY DOWN Extra special—Kid body, double jointed doll, cork filled, blesse head, real hair, sleeping eyes, steep stitch hoo, pat ent leather slippers, 21 inches long..... 98c Handoomely French deceived dolls—the latest Parisian models; the gowns are made in latest style and of elegant materials, beautifully trimmed hats, pretty shoes and hose, best bisque head, real curly wigs, sleeping eyes, jointed bodies from..... 22c to $15 Very latest importation—Asserted metre silk dresses, hair-filled, real hair, sleeping eyes, white satin neckings, white with slippere, double jointed riveted bodies, from $2.25 to $10.00 Tons of Fresh, Pure Tons of Candies! This is not st—and probably not enough then sell so cheap—we buy it in barr packing in 5-pound boxes—we buy And, best of all, we handle candy wholesome. Mixed Candy, per pound..... 9c Clear Candy Toys, per pound..... 15c Faberight's Mixed Creams, per pound..... 15c French Mixed Bon-Bons, per pound..... 18c French Creams, per pound..... 10c Special B Candies, Toys Mail Orders accompanied by care you want and about what price money to cover the cost. If you see the balance. The May Co. The BAILEY CO. THE NEW Grocery Department. The patronage of this department grew to such an enormous extent that something had to be done. Rather than simply enlarge, we thought it best to thoroughly revise, and make an entirely new department of it. Pursuant to this arrangement entirely new fixtures have been arranged throughout, making cleanliness a main feature and insuring a perfectly sanitary condition. But this is by no means the only improvement that has taken place here—the stock has been fairly revolutionized—fresh goods have been substituted for the old, and many new lines added. Here are some specials for SATUR- DAY, which will show beyond a doubt that it pays to buy your Groceries here: Javanese Coffee, in pound packages, at 9c. 3-4 Mustard Sardines, new goods, per can, 5c. Maine Packed Corn, natural flavor, can, 7c. Pancake Flour, 3 pkges for 25c Mince Meat, Log Cabin bread, per package, 8c. Hand picked Navy Beans, 5 lbs. Hand-picked Navy Beans, 5 lbs. for 22c. for 22c. Extra Fancy California Dried Extra Fancy California Dried Peaches, 2 lbs. for 25c. Fancy Cleaned Currants, K 10c. Seeded Raisins, per pkge, 125c. Ivory Soap, cake 4c. 4 ibs. Japan Rice for 19c. Finest Elgin Creamery Butter, lb. 25c. Finest York State Cheese, lb. 16c. Quart Cans Table Syrup, 10c. Cleveland's Popular Store. THE BAILEY CO. 138 to 150 Ontario St. --- MARIA DE GALLE Papier Mache Jointed Body Dolls—real hair, gliding eyes, trimmed or most dress drill made for the money, from..... 29c to $2 La Hung Chang Dolls—All the largest Japanese models, from..... 23c to $1 French Blesque Doll Heads—real curly wigs, from 12c to $2.00 Pins Kid Body Dolls—best bisque head and real hair, drop stitch hose and sheer, velvet, double jointed boots 29c to $5 Famous Cinderella Baby Dolls—known as the handiest and most doll made; real curly hair, sleeping area, drop stitch hose, breasts clippers, trimmed chambers—the bodies are indestructible, from $2.59 to $12.50 Candies and Cheap Fetching it—almost a car load. You can realize why we can sell and do not have to pay for items where others buy bucketfuls, so which we know are pure and Standard Chocolate Drops, per pound..... 10c Gum Drops, per pound..... 8c Ribbon Mixed Candy, per pound..... 10c Sugar Pop Corn, assorted, per quart..... 5c Prices on for Churches Each promptly filled. State what you desire to pay, sending too much money, we will return WONDERFUL DISCOVERY Curly Hair Made Straight By TAKEN FROM LIFE: BEFORE AND AFTER TREATMENT. ORIGINAL OZONIZED OX MARROW (Copyrighted.) This wonderful hair pomade is the only safe preparation in the world that makes kinky or curly hair straight as shown above. It nourishes the scalp and prevents the hair from falling out or breaking off. cures dandruff and it is made from forty years and used by thousands. Warranted harmless. Testimonials free on request. It was the first preparation ever sold for straightening kinky hair. Beware of imitation. Marrow as the genuine never fails to keep the hair straight, soft and beautiful. A toilet necessity for ladies, gentlemen and children. Elegantly perfumed. The great advantage of straightening your own hair at home. Owing so its superior and lasting qualities it is the best and most economical. It is not possible to straighten your own hair at home. Full directions with every bottle. Only 50 cents. Sold by druggists and dealers or send us 50 cents for one bottle or $1.40 for three bottles. We pay all express charges. Send postal or express money order. Write your name and add plainly. OZONIZED OX MARROW CO. 76 Wabash Avenue, Chicago, Illinois. Please mention this paper (THE GAKETTE) when writing. "Florida Special" "ONLY ONE NIGHT OUT" FROM CLEVELAND TO ST. AUGUSTINE Pullman Palace Sleeping Cars. Through without change. Every Week Day, Via. BIG FOUR ROUTE Effective Monday, January 6, 1902, the "Big Four" will operate Through Pullman Service, Cleveland and Columbus, O., to St. Augustine, without change, via Cincinnati and "Queen & Crescent"—Southern Ry.—Plant System—and Florida East Coast. Sleeper will run on "Big Four" regular train No. 33, in connection with the magnificent "Florida Special" from Cincinnati. The train consists of Pullman Vestibulated Sleepers, Magnificent Dining Car, Composite Observation Car, Vestibulated Baggage Car. "FLORIDA SPECIAL." P. M. Lv. Cleveland, Dayl. except Sunday, 12:25 Lv. Columbus, " " 4:09 Lv. Birmingham, " " 6:12 Lv. Dayton, " " 8:12 Ar. Chickcottati, " " 7:00 Ar. Jacksonville, " " Monday, 8:15 Ar. St. Augustine, " " 9:00 For full information and particulars as to schedules, rates, tickets, etc., call on Agents "Big Four Route," or address the undersigned. WARREN J. LYNCH W P. DEPPE. Gen. Pass. & Tkt. Agt. Asst. G. P. & T. A CINCINNATI T. G. D JAY COLLVER 116 Inc. Ave. Letter Heads. Fine Commercial Job Work of All Kinds. Get Our Figures. 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.O. SATURDAY. DEC. 14, 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. TARRER & THOMAS' Restaurant, No. 608 Central Ave. Open Sundays also. F. VALENTINE'S Grocery Store, 366 Central Ave. ALEX. O. TAYLOR, Local Reporters. J. EDWIN DUNJILL. Mr. HENRY TAYLOR, Advertising Solicitor. Miss Bell Lacy, of Pine street, visited in Ravenna Sunday. Mr. C. L. Lacy has been with the Sigier Brothers Co. for 19 years. It would be advisable for his people to call upon him when in need of watches, rings, diamonds and anything in the jewelry line. The time has come when our people should patronize their own, and Mr. Lacy has stood firm for the period above mentioned and is not only representing himself as a true man, but his race. The proper time to call upon him, so he can give you his whole attention, is from 2 p. m. to 10:30 p. m. Encourage him and benefit yourself. Up to date the total amount raised in the rally at Shiloh church is $333. The pastor asked for $350. Of the amount raised $250 is to be paid on the organ, $25 given to the City Missionary society and the balance, $58, is for current expenses. The original cost of the organ was $1,200. In less than two years the sum of $975 has been paid on it, leaving a balance of $225. This the pastor, Rev. E. D. Dandridge, hopes to wipe out at the next grand rally. Much credit is due the latter for the persistency and the splendid business ability in managing the rallies which have always proven successful. The Cleveland, Lorain & Wheeling city ticket office is at No. 241 Superior street, with the B. & O. R.R. 'Phone, Bell Main 702 or Cuvyoga A. 736. St. Andrew's mission, corner of Central avenue and Sked street. Rev. Edward S. Doan, priest-in-charge. Sunday school at 2 p. m. Ev ning prayer and sermon at 3:30. Music by the vested choir. Wednesday evening service at 7:30. Mr. Mayo, an older brother of Miss Lora Mayo, arrived in the city from Pittsburg on Monday evening. Mr. Peter Jackson and Miss Edna Steptoe were married in Squire Reilly's court in Case building last week Wednesday. F. B. Scott was called to Painesville last week by the sudden death of his mother. Miss Florence Isabelle Dunjill and George H. Foster, jr., will be married December 25 at Mt. Zion church. A reception from 8:30 to 11:30 will be held at the bride's home, No. 64 Hackman street, where Mr. and Mrs. Foster will be at home after February 1. Long life, happiness and success is wished them. The bride is one of our first young ladies. Mrs. Mable Baylor, of Central avenue, left Saturday for Chicago, her future home. An aged Afro-American was found on the sidewalk on Bolivar street, near Christy's wholesale grocery store, Tuesday. He died while being taken to Huron Street hospital. The remains are at Hogan & Co.'s morgue. The cause of his death is a mystery. The coroner was notified. The entertainment at Woodliff hall Tuesday evening under the auspices of Light of the West lodge No. 46, F. A. A. M., was a success. The program was of an unusually high order, Dr. G. Harry Wilson being in charge of the same. Those who contributed toward it were Mrs. Catherine Skeene-Mitchell, Dr. Wilson, Mr. Charles Blanchard, tenor; Mr. Henry Davis, cornetist; and Harry L. Freeman, accompanist. The committee in charge of the affair was composed of T. H. Edmonds, T. H. King and G. W. Cowdry. Dancing was indulged in after the program. Miss Nellie E. Leach, of Steubenville, is the guest of her sister, Mrs. Susie Smith, 70 Allen street. Mrs. Jessie Bolden, of Grant street, gave a very pleasant party last week in honor of her brother William's 21st birthday. The Marquette club and ladies were the guests present. Some of his earlier paintings belong to this period, as, "The Banjo Lesson," a study of the Negro in his cabin home, and a companion piece, "The Bagpipe Lesson," a picture of peasant life in Brittany. This painting is remarkable for the fine handling of the light that flickers through the trees upon the humble musicians. Through the influence of Dr. (now Bishop) and Mrs. J. C. Hartzell, of Cincinnati, an exhibition of his paintings was given in that city. He was thus introduced to many patrons of art and wealthy people, and several of his paintings found purchasers. He was induced to go abroad for further study, and in 1892 he found himself in Paris. He studied under two of the best masters of art in that city, Benjamin Constant and Jean Paul Laurens, both men of thorough technique and academic training. In 1896 he painted his first great picture, "Daniel in the Lions' Den," which was exhibited in the salon and received honorable mention. He has since exhibited several times in the salon of the Champs Elysees. The The Marquette club has elected the following named officers for the ensuing year: Earl Parker, president; Jesse Hutchinson, vice president; Wm. Turner, secretary; Preston Robinson, treasurer. Other members of the club are: Robt. Bush, Cliff Jackson, Will Wheeler, Burt Baker, Lorenzo Martin and Walter Stratton. Tuesday evening Major Fulton announced that invitations were out for a reunion of all Afro-American soldiers who served in the Spanish-American war. The reunion will be held Thursday evening at 344 Central avenue. At St. John's church to-morrow quarterly meeting services will be held. Preaching by Presiding Elder Johnson morning and afternoon. Communion at 3 p. m. Junior C. E., 10 a. m. Senior C. E. meeting at 6:30 m. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 14. 1901. The following trustees were elected for the ensuing year for St. John's church, last week Thursday night: Geo. Carroll, Geo. Buchanan, R. G. Long, Chas. Truman, Peyton Lemon Thos. Berryman, Nelson Jones, J. E. Cuver, Alex. O. Taylor. The stewardess board of St. John's church elected the following officers for the ensuing year Wednesday night: Mrs. Eliza Lemon, president; Mrs. Lizzie McIntyre, secretary; Mrs. Henrietta Braggs, treasurer. Rev. Charles Bundy left for Zanesville Thursday morning. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Campbell have purchased and moved into very good property at No. 398 Cedar avenue. Charles A. Pulley, esq., who graduated from the law department of Western Reserve university last spring, is now professor of commercial law in Harvison college, formerly Ferguson Academy for Colored Youth, at Abbeville, S. C. His many friends here will be pleased to learn this and all wish him every success. Come and spend a "Night in Germany" with the "King's Daughters" on Tuesday evening, December 17, 1901. Admission 10 cents. In the parlors of Woodliff hall. Proceeds to assist an aged lady into the "Home." "WHERE PHYLLIS SLEEPS." A Poem by the Talented Daughter of Ex-Consul to Santo Domingo, Hona A. H. Grimke, Reproduced from the Boston Transcript. The fair enchantress of the skies smiles on the rippling river, Along each bank the dark trees stand and gently shake and shiver With every passing wind. A bird its homeward way is winging, And softly o'er the gloomy hills, a distant bell is ringing. or Sleep, her head is bending; While I, a soul alone, my melancholy way am wending To where the patient willow weeps Upon the grave where Phyllis sleeps. Alone! For e'en the sobbing leaves rub cheek against the other, And brother, mingling tear with tear, gives sympathy to brother, Alone! For e'en the startled birds awakened by the weeping. Soothe each other with sweet chirps, and soon again are sleeping. Alone! There is no loving heart, no falt'ring hand to need me, Then wherefore linger on the path? So on my feet and lead me To where the patient willow weeps Upon the grave where Phyllis sleeps. Dear one, I lie upon thy grave, my tears like rain are failing. My breaking heart, my yearning soul in vain thy name are calling. in vain thy name are calling. Poor little tired head, whose sunny curls I used to treasure! Poor little tired feet, that learned all but too soon to measure The distance to the door! And still those tender eyes so pleading Can never see that all the pathways of my life are leading To where the patient willow weeps Upon the grave where she now sleeps. —ANGELINA WELD GRIMKE. White Widow Contesting the Will. Alton, Ill.-Litigation has been started, in the St. Charles (Mo.) circuit court, over the possession of the $100,000 estate of Eli Keene, who lived near West Alton, Mo. The suit, instituted by the widow, involves the ownership of rich farming lands and the legal standing of the seven children of Keene by a slave. Keene lived many years with her and recognized the children as his own. The children will endeavor to show that a common law marriage was in force. Mrs. Keene will contend that, under the Missouri statutes, intermarriage of white and colored people is a feony. In addition, she alleges that Keene married her many years before the death of the colored woman. She desires to waive her rights under the will and ask that the property be divided according to the Missouri laws, which would give her one-half the estate. Under the will she is given only a life interest in a small farm and a few less valuable bequests. Keene died in Alton one year ago, and his widow claims his mind was unsound when he made the will. Sick Jr. Cuban Hospital. Lima, O. Mrs. Emma Ware died Saturday of consumption and was buried from St. Paul's church Monday afternoon, Rev. White, assisted by Rev. Carr, officiating. Mr. Burr McCowan, of Delaware, brother of the deceased, attended the funeral.-Mrs. C. D. White and son Chester are recovering from their recent illness.-Mr. John Morin, suffering from kidney trouble for several months, does not improve. The doctors held a consultation.-It has been reported that Lieut. Peter McCowan, of the United States army, is very sick and in a hospital in Cuba.-Mr. Frank Ware, recently appointed guard at the Ohio penitentiary, will leave soon to accept the position. He was detained here by the illness and death of his wife.-Mrs. Anna Morin is sick.-Ask "Fred" Bond why it is that he is always getting into trouble. "A Heroine in Ebony." Agents wanted to sell "Harriet Tubman, the Heroine in Ebony," by Robert W. Taylor, financial secretary Tuskegee Institute, with an introduction by Booker T. Washington. Harriet Tubman was the famous spy, scout and hospital nurse for the Union army in the Civil war. A liberal commission allowed all agents. Address Robert W. Taylor, 7 Grenville place, Boston, Mass. Price 25 cents. The Colored American says: "It is a very unique but most valuable pamphlet and is worth fifty times the selling price. Every Afro-American of race pride and every patriotic American should buy one." Compromised on Color Line. Scranton, Pa.—A color-line problem was presented to the Federation of Labor convention held here last week in a contest over the seating of a delegate from the Central Labor union of Richmond, Va. The basis of the contest was that the union refused to admit Afro-Americans to membership. The convention seated the delegate and instructed the federation's executive board to form a separate central union for Afro-Americans in Richmond. Low Rates for Christmas and New Years' Holidays Via C. T. & V. - R. & O. H. R. Tickets for sale December 24th 25th, 31st and January 1st. Good returning to and including January 2d, 1902. Cabbage contains only three per cent. of carbon, potatoes 12, and rice 38 per cent. The manuscripts of the fifth and twelfth centuries are written with very good black ink, which has not shown the least signs of fading or obliteration. The ocean used to be considered about as deep at its deepest as the highest mountains are high. It has now been proved to be half as deep again—that is, 46,236 feet. Adoni-beszek, mentioned in the Book of Judges, was captured by the Jews, who cut off his thumbs and great toes. This was done to prevent his making any attempt to regain his throne, as in the east a maimed man could not be a king. William the Conqueror, like the other Normans of his time, shaved his face clean. The Normans also had a fashion of partially shaving the head, which made the Saxons just before Hastings imagine they were about to fight an army of monks. The shipment of game in milk cans is the latest move adopted by those that desire to evade the game laws. Three innocent-looking new milk cans that came into St. Paul by the Northern Pacific express, when seized and opened, were found to contain 100 partridges. There are about 500 deer on Long Island. The law allows them to be hunted on four days during the month of November. Being so near New York, it would be thought that the army of hunters would completely exterminate the animals. But experience shows that the city hunters are such poor shots that the deer are in little danger. The reported discovery of beds of nitrate of soda near Lovelock, Humboldt county, Nev., may prove of considerable importance. Chili at present furnishes the world's supply, and the use of the mineral for agricultural purposes is increasing, due to the results that have been gleaned in that all-important matter of "mixing brains with the soil" WESTERN WAGON TRAINS. Freighting in the Early Days Was Highly Systematized in Every Particular. In his second paper on "The Settlement of the West," in Century, Emerson Hough gives some details regarding southwestern wagon-trains. "The story of the Santa Fe trail has been told by many writers, and its chief interest here is simply as showing the eagerness with which the men of that day seized upon every means of transport in their power, and the skill and ingenuity with which they brought each to perfection. The wagon-freighting of the southwest was highly systematized, and was indeed carried on with an almost military regularity. The route was by way of the Council Grove, then the northern limit of the Comanches' range, and it was at this point that the organization of the wagon-train was commonly completed. A train-master or captain was chosen, and the whole party put under his command, each man having his position, and each being expected to take his turn on the night-watch which was necessary in that land of bold and hostile savages. During the day the train moved in two columns, some 30 feet or so apart, each team following close upon the one immediately preceding it in the line. In case of any alarm of Indians, the head and rear teams of the two parallel columns turned in toward each other, and thus there was formed upon the moment a long parallelogram of wagons, open in the middle, and inclosing the loose riding-animals, and closed at the front and rear. The wagons were loaded to a great extent, with cotton stuffs in bales, and these made a fair fortification. The Indians had difficulty in breaking the barricade of one of these hard, caravans, defended as it was by numbers of the best riflemen the world ever knew. Small parties were frequently destroyed, but in the later days a train was commonly made up of at least 100 wagons, with perhaps 200 men in the party, and with 800 mules or oxen. The goods in convoy in such a train might be worth $500,-000. The time in transit was about ten weeks, the out trip being made in the spring and the return in the fall." Pretty Romance in Dakota A bit of romance surrounds the marriage in Huron, S. D., of Andrew Nelson, of Faulk county, and Mrs. Annie Grove, of that place. They were lovers in Norway nearly a quarter of a century ago. Andrew came to South Dakota to win a home for his sweetheart. He took up a quarter section of government land. In some way he lost trace of his Norway girl for awhile, but later learned she had also immigrated. Not until two weeks ago did he hear of her whereabouts. He learned that she had married, was the mother of three children and that her husband, being dead, she had to labor to support and educate her little ones. Andrew called upon her, the old-time love was revived, and two days later they were married, the event being celebrated at the home of the bride's brother, Nels Storkson, in Huron. Mushroom Soup. Take a quart of the common mushrooms; cut off the stem ends, wash and peel, put them into an agate saucepan with two ounces of butter, salt, pepper and half a pint of stock. Simmer until tender; remove from the fire, drain out the mushrooms and chop fine. Add sufficient stock with the liquor from the mushrooms to make three pints of soup. Thicken slightly with a little butter and equal quantity of flour rubbed together. Boil up and serve.—Washington Star. Shattering Traditions King Edward's order that at his coronation identical honors shall be paid to presidents and crowned heads is, says the New York World, the one great rent in the fabric of medievalism which he purposes to exhibit to a gaping twentieth century world. Probably Wouldn't. "Hello," the first deaf mute's fingers signaled rapidly; "did you get that job as office boy?" "No," replied the other deaf mute, "the man said he didn't think I'd answer."—Philadelphia Record. BEFORE USING Sold at all drug sto curely wrapped on receipt of s AGENTS CAN MAKE TRAVELERS' REGISTER Trains on all roads run on Standard Time. "THE ST. LOUIS LIMITED" Leaves—CLEVELAND, 500 A.M. (Daily). 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What's the use of being a suburbanite unless you can corner and capture that nebulous but brilliant treasure that is so hard to seize in a big, vulgar city—"social standing." How much easier it is to be "one of our best families" in Treesomehurst than in Chicago. And how much more certain is one's tenure of aristocracy there than in the city. All you have to do is to disassociate yourself from trades people, "belong" to things, observe the Sabbath, and play whist with some show of human intelligence. Having failed to carry out these simple directions Dexter Henderson fell from grace with the elite of Bonne Terre in spite of the lofty position in society long maintained by the rest of the Henderson family. Col. Henderson, a southern gentleman of a somewhat Puritanical turn of mind, who could not afford to send Dexter to college, agreed with some misgivings to allow him a course in the manual training school. That finished, the lusty young fellow begged for his father's permission and influence to get a place for him in some railroad machine shop. The colonel got red as a turkey gobbler at the mere suggestion and gave Dexter to understand that the vulgarity of his ambition was a thorn in the tender side of his aristocratic sire. In fault of better occupation the youth then fell into the idle ways of the suburban village, than which there is no surer route to damnation. He preferred quoits to whist, he played football on Sunday with an eleven from the glass works, he was on speaking terms with every servant girl in Bonne Terre, and to crown all he was shameless enough to put on a leather apron at Bull Dolan's blacksmith shop and work there whenever the notion struck him. Dolan said the lad was a good smith, but Col. Henderson furiously chewed the ends of his white mustache and thought of the lion that had whelped a wolf. But Dexter pursued his scandalous part unterrified. He matched cocks with the village drunkard, "pulled off" boxing bouts in the Henderson barn, went fishing with Squinty Jones, the barber, and stole a kiss from Harbine's pretty nurse maid in plain view of half a dozen prominent citizens. The colonel first cut off Dexter's money allowance, then quit speaking to him, and finally ordered him off the place. That fixed forever the young man's "standing" in Bonne Terre, and he was in a fair way to be ostracized by the unanimous respectable element when the Spanish war broke out. Then he did what all well-established scapegraces are naturally expected to do—he enlisted. When the colonel heard the glad tidings he bustled into his study, locked the door and (no, he didn't shed any tears) he got down his bottle of Scotch and "hit it" for three cheers. Dexter, having no mother to grieve over him, and his two elder sisters being married into the most exclusive society of Bonne Terre, spent little time over his adieus. He lingered longest with old Bull Dolan, to whom, with gentle solicitude, he committed his brindle bull terrier. Squinty Jones, proud of the confidence, became the custodian of Dexter's fighting chickens. The crowd that saw him off on the train was not made up of the select of the village, but as he waved them good-by young Henderson (the unnatural vulgarian) actually felt a lump in his throat and a twist in his heartstrings. There ought to be a lot of stuff to put in here about how Dexter Henderson distinguished himself in the war, how he charged up San Juan hill and earned his shoulder-straps at Peking in the Chinese invasion. But the trouble is he didn't do any of those things. He just went away and was never heard of for nearly four years. Then one fine morning last spring he hopped off the train at Bonne Terre, roared hellos at everybody in sight, and with a squad of admirers at his heels marched up the street to Dolan's blacksmith shop. Brown and bearded as a Calmuck Tartar, broader, healthier, happier than ever, dressed in his dirty khaki, and with nothing better than a sergeant's stripes and an honorable discharge from the army to show that he had been at the front, Dexter yet loomed a hero in the eyes of these vulgar fellows of Bonne Terre. The little group of his admirers, with Squinty Jones and Enoch Huff, the town drunkard, leading, had almost reached the blacksmith shop when somebody said: "Git off the sidewalk, fellows; here comes Col. Henderson." Dexter saw his father coming. He Dexter saw his father coming. He FIND MAN OF STONE AGE. Gigantic Prehistoric Skeleton Discovered by Hunters Near Shohola Glen, N. Y. Hunters from Susquehanna, Pa., while excavating for a hunt near Shohola's glen, N. Y., discovered a cave in which they found the skeleton of a man of gigantic size. It was swathed in rawhide trappings that kept it in a sitting posture, the knees drawn up to the hand and clasped in a bony embrace with fleshless arms. At last he hurries homeway-d-ah, but not to welcome rest! He gulps his dinner down with all his might, And feverishly hurries from the table to get dressed For the hurry and the bustle of the night. Oh he hurries in the morning and he hurries through the day. And he misses much that might inspire me! He hurries till they leave him in his grave and rush away And hurry to forget about him then. —S. E. Kiser, in Chicago Record-Herald. felt like running away, his face blazed with mingled joy and shame, he paused in the middle of the sidewalk, looking straight at the colonel, and stood still. The men at either side were silently expectant, all in awe of the aristocratic old gentleman, all aware of his harsh attitude toward his boy, and yet all confident that he would take Dexter's hand and give him welcome home. Col. Henderson, the glass of fashion and the mold of form in Bonne Terre, came stately between the open ranks of the men who had helped to make him mayor of the town. He beamed frigidly, raised his silk hat, said "Good mawnin', friends," and with just one cold, swift glance at Dexter passed on. "I guess that didn't include me," laughed the young soldier to Squinty, but the red bronze was gone from his face and for a second the yellow pallor belied his jaunty bearing. Dexter spent that night with old Bull Dolan. "A lot o' things has happened in Bonne Terre since you left," said the blacksmith when Dexter had told his story. "First, the high-toned gang got together, an', led on an' abetted by Col. Henderson, incorporated the place into a town and began to reform it. Us tradespeople was scared to put up anybody, so the swells put their own in, an' now they're runnin' it. Th' s'loon is gone, they're a tax on dogs (yours was shot for not havin' a tag), it's agin th' law for to play anything but bean bag on Sunday, chicken fightin' is a felny, an' as for futball, I think it's down in the buks as homicide with malice aforethought. They's a license for everythin', and if you work on Sunday you forfeit your license. Sure, the colonel hisself revoked my license last week because I putt a shoe on Father McGill's horse, though I didn't charge for that same. Now the shop is shut up, and divel an open will I open again. I'm goin' t' sell it. I'm too old to be workin', an' if I must rest I might as well be off to a real cimmetry." "Is the glass works inside the town limits?" asked Dexter. "It is, an' I know what you're thinkin' of," said Bull. "But they're no use tryin' to beat th' ristocrats here. We could outvote thim all right, but we couldn't get anybody to run." The conference which followed lasted till the morning birds were crowing. The next day the dingy old sign that had hung for years above Bull Dolan's shop came down and on Saturday a new one went up. It read: That was the beginning of the young rascal's fight for recognition. He had bought the shop with his soldier's back pay, and from the first day he ran it for all it was worth. As the warm days came on he put his anvil out in the little area before the shop, where all who cared to look could see the red sparks fly from his swiftly ringing strokes. The music of his hammer was the first to sound each day, and at night the last to cease. The silk stockings of the town, the good people who were his father's friends, feigned to ignore him, but at their pink teas and sewing circles his name was bandied and his deeds described as the acme of filial impiety and vulgar impertinence. Meanwhile Dexter plied his trade. His was the only smithy in Bonne Terre, and, revile him as they might, the aristocratic neighbors could not evade his services nor his bills. Col. Henderson, proud gentleman of the old school, smothered his rage and shame, but he never walked on Dexter's side of the street, never looked his way, never mentioned his name. When the time for election came on he was nominated to succeed himself and there was no thought of opposition. But one night about a week later there was a "mass meeting of citizens" in front of the blacksmith shop, at which Bull Dolan had the audacity to nominate Dexter Henderson as candidate for mayor in opposition to the distinguished and irreproachable incumbent. The "swagger" voters of the town laughed first, and then began to count the glass workers, the trades people and other vulgar friends of Dexter, and they then began to look wise and get busy. But it was too late. The colonel never quit sneering when they told him sadly that his son had defeated him by 165 votes. He didn't even wait to fill out his unexpired time in office, but haughtily moved to town, where he now lives in a fashionable club in which he can drink Scotch high-balls in company with other gentlemen of tone without scandalizing their ideas of morality. The "better element" of Bonne Terre is now petitioning for d'sincorporation. Dexter Henderson, the blacksmith mayor, continues to goad them with his banalities, and it is even whispered that he is "keeping company" with Harbine's pretty nurse maid.—John H. Raftery, in Chicago Record-Herald. Near the skeleton were several bowls of reddish clay, but almost as hard as flint. A rude stone tablet was found near the skeleton's side covered with rude pictures of birds and beasts, among them one of a monster half beast, half reptile. A number of implements were also found in the cave, among them a huge ax made of stone and stone spear heads of unusual size. A company with a capital of $1,000,-000 has been organized in Vineland, N. J., for the making of flour from sweet potatoes. PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS. John—"Here, I'll take the baby while you dress. I'll sing to him." Maria—"No. Let him cry."—Boston Herald. "Has Mr. Wise a good education?" "He was graduated from a theological seminary, so I presume that that is the kind he got."—Indianapolis News. That Hired Girl Again.—"Do the Smiths keep a girl?" "No. They hire a good many, but they don't keep them."—Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. Harry—"Fred says there is only one girl in all the world for him." Dick—"That's just like Fred's exaggeration. He knows well enough there isn't even one."—Boston Transcript. "Spell 'chicken.'" said a Paola teacher to a boy in the primary class. "I can't do it, ma'am. I ain't got that far along," said the boy, "but I can spell 'egg.'"—Kansas City Journal. Kate—"Martha declares that the men are all alike." Edith—"Then you can't blame her if she takes the first one that comes along. You may depend upon it, that's just what she will do."—Boston Transcript. "I notice that a Connecticut judge says that a woman is not a proper person to pass upon the character of a case of masculine intoxication." "Good for the Nutmeg judge! I'll bet he's a married man and carries a latchkey."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. A Softhead.—Littlewit—"Oh. yaas, I've got a situation, but it's pretty hard work. I'm after a good soft thing, though, and I'm going to get it, too, if I can only keep my head about me." Miss Pepprey—"I don't doubt it. You'll surely have a soft thing if you only keep your head about you."—Philadelphia Press. HATED MEN TILL DEATH Austrian Woman Who Adhered to Life-Long Antipathy for the Sterner Sex. There has recently died at Vienna an aged spinster, Fraulein Marie Irrgang, whose especial pride through life was that she was a man hater. She was loyal to her sex antagonism to the last, and throughout her life gave no signs of wavering. In her will she directed that no man should be allowed to take part in her funeral procession, says a London exchange. An early disappointment in love is believed to have been the cause of Marie's hatred of the "mere man." She was a member of a society called the Jungfrauen verein, an association of old girls and young girls who had been converted to the anti-man views of Fraulein Irrgang. Though the fraulein decreed that no man should take part in her funeral procession, she could not prevent men from looking on, and the streets through which the procession passed were thronged with the male animals she so much detested, gazing curiously at the unique sight. The procession was composed of an immense throng of women of all ages and all social conditions and of deputies from every woman's society in Austria. But Marie's directions were not carried out to the letter after all, for the banner of the Jungfrauen verein was so heavy that no woman could be found who was strong enough to carry it. So it was borne aloft by one of the hated sex, who marched along, the only man in the procession. Fraulein Irrgang had a rival in Fraulein Gretchen Marie Schultz, an old maiden lady of Berlin, who was known throughout Germany as "the man-hater." Having had an unfortunate love affair 50 years ago, she vowed that she never would speak to or if possible look upon a man again as long as she lived, and, being a woman of wealth, she was able to keep her vow until her death not long ago. She bought a retired house about a dozen miles from Berlin and equipped it from basement to garret with furnishings made by the hands of women. She surrounded herself with a band of women each of whom took a similar vow of perpetual hatred of the opposite sex, and so skillfully were things managed that for 50 years the fraulein neither saw nor spoke to man or boy. Another man-hater, and one who carried her hatred beyond the tomb, was Marie Lenoir, who died in Paris a few months ago. By her will she left her whole estate, valued at $15,000, in trust to two women of her acquaintance holding similar views with herself regarding men, "to be used in waging warfare in such ways as may seem fitting to them against the selfishness and tyranny of man." Enole Sam's New Coin Factory Uncle Sam's New Coin Factory. On the 1st of November Uncle Sam abandoned the antiquated mint building on the corner of Chestnut and Juniper streets, in Philadelphia, and with his family of employees, including over 200 women, his ponderous machinery and his millions in treasure, took up his Quaker City residence on the corner of Spring Garden and Sixteenth streets, in the finest structure of its kind in the world. The old mint on Chestnut street, which was created by act of congress soon after the constitution was ratified, was the first place in the United States where federal money was coined, and I doubt if there is any structure in the country that holds more secrets or has as many queer and generally unknown facts.—Landon Knight, in Woman's Home Companion. The Mystified Ermine. 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The change from a job to a situation is not always appreciated by the incumbent; as, for instance, when a political job becomes an embarrassing situation.—Puck. A Dose in Time Saves Nine of Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar for Colds. Pike's Toothache Drops Cure in one minute. Every man hides his deformity.—Atchison Globe. Some smiles look as though they had been soaked in vinegar.—Chicago Daily News. Most of us waste most of our time standing around talking about nothing.—Washington (la.) Democrat. All of us think that we show a great deal more consideration for other people than they do for us — Indianapolis News. Desirable Furniture.—“But these chairs,” she said, “however fashionable they may be, are very uncomfortable.” “Ah!” replied the salesman, “that's the beauty of these chairs, madam. When a caller sits in one of these chairs, madam, she doesn't stay long.”—Philadelphia Press. Loanedit—“Borrowit, didn't you get my lawn mower last summer?” Borrowit—“Yes, I'm the man.” Loanedit—“Are you thinking of bringing it home this winter?” Borrowit—“Hadn't thought of it. I'm going to lower the knives in that machine and use it to shave the ice off my sidewalk.”—Indianapolis News. The Best He Could Do. There was a clergyman (in Tangipahoe, La., let us say) who was much annoyed by the mischievous boy of a neighbor. He reasoned with the brat, but with no effect. He laid the case before the boy's parents and they showed him the door. One day he told his brother—a rough and vigorous man of worldly habits—all about this persecution. The brother bolted out of the door and presently returned with the cheering word that the boy would make no further trouble. "I told his — father," said the wicked brother, "that I would come blankety near kicking the blankety stuffing out of him and his blankety-blanky-bankety boy if he ever bothered you again." "But I hope you did not let even that wretched creature hear such language as you have repeated. Brother, you did not really swear at him, did you?" "Oh, not at all," said the wicked one, "but I gave him such a close imitation of swearing that the whitewash on the walls looked like blue calcineine before I was half through."—N. Y. Mail and Express. CASTORIA For Infants and Children Bears The Signature Of Charles H. Hitchner. In Use For Over Thirty Years The Kind You Have Always Bought THE CENTAUR COMPANY, 77 MURRAY STREET, NEW YORK CITY. For More Than a Quarter of a Century the reputation of W. L. Douglas $3.00 and $3.50 shoes for style, comfort and wear has excelled all other makes sold at these prices. This excellent reputation has been won by merit alone. W. L. Douglas shoes have to give better satisfaction than other $4.00 and $5.50 shoes because his reputation for the best $3.00 and $5.50 shoes must be maintained. Sold by 3 Douglas Stores in American cities selling direct from factory to wearer at one profit; and best shoe dealers everywhere. W. L. DOUGLAS $3.50 SHOES $3.00 UNION MADE The standard has always been placed so high that the wearer receives more value for his money in the W. L. Douglas $3.00 and $3.50 shoes than he can get elsewhere. W. L. Douglas makes and sells more $3.00 and $3.50 shoes than any other two manufacturers in the world. Fast Color Eyellets Used. W. L. Douglas $3.00 and $3.50 shoes are made of the same high-grade leathers used in $5.00 and $6.00 shoes and are just as good in every way. Insist upon having W. L. Douglas shoes with name and price stamped on bottom. Shoes sent anywhere on receipt of price and 25 cents additional for carriage. Take measurements of foot as shown; state style desired; size and width usually worn; plain or cap toe; heavy, medium or light soles. CATALOG FREE. W. L. DOUCLAS, Brockton, Mass. Persons contemplating a journey East or West should be careful that the rates paid for their transportation do not exceed those charged by the Nickel Plate Road. This company always offers lowest rates and the service is efficient. Careful attention is given to the wants of all first and second class passengers by uniformed colored attendants. The dining car service of the Nickel Plate Road is above criticism and enables the traveler to obtain meals at from thirty-five (35) cents to $1.00 but no higher. The Pullman service is the usual high grade standard. Semi-weekly transcontinental tourist cars ply between Atlantic and Pacific Coasts. Confer with nearest agent of the Nickel Plate Road. Cantions Short—Do you believe that a fellow feeling makes us wondrous kind? Long—It all depends. What are you feel- Long—It all depends. What are you feeling for now?—Chicago Daily News. Travelers Cull It Blessed Of all the blessings that a railroad company can confer upon a long-suffering public, none is greater than smokeless coal. The Lackawanna Railroad burns it! for which all travelers call that road blessed. No smoke! no dust. Its policy may well inspire the gratitude and patronage of a grateful and appreciative public.—Outing. Flirtby—"No, I've given up calling on Miss Roxley." Jiggs—"Ah! I suppose her father had a hand in that?" Flirtby—"Well—er—not a hand, exactly."—Philadelphia Press. On Dec. 3rd and 17th the Norfolk & Western Ry. will sell round trip tickets from Cincinnati and Columbus to points in the Virginias and Carolinas at greatly reduced rates. For all information as to rates, address Allen Hull, D. P. A., 45 E. 4th St., Cincinnati. A Change of Base Yeast—I see a Philadelphia composer has written a quickstep. Crimsonbeak—Yes, and I hear they are using it in Chicago for a funeral march. Yonkers Statesman. Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. Price 250. "Don't you know you oughtn't to smoke, my lad?" "So me physician tells me, but it's the only way I can get relief from business worries."—Indianapolis News. Piso's Cure for Consumption is an infallible medicine for coughs and colds.—N. W. Samuel. Ocean Grove, N. J., Feb. 17, 1900. It is not hard to let your moderation be known to all men, so far as the virtues are concerned.—Ram's Horn. Half an hour is all the time required to dye with PUTNAM FADELESS DYES. The hypocrite prays cream and acts skim milk.—Chicago Daily News. The Sale Million of Syrup of Figs and which it has given at the qualities which owe With the diffusion of should be and a general that it should have an effect and be wholly of quality, or substance demand for Syrup shows that it is destined cathartics which we usually disagreeable and finds a true laxative, taste, gentle in its action. 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In the process of manufacture figs are used as they are pleasant to the taste, but the medicinal virtues of Syrup of Figs are obtained from an excellent combination of plants known to be medicinally laxative and to act most beneficially. In order Buy the Genuine—Manufactured by the ARNIA FIG SYRUP San Francisco, Cal. New York ruggists Price fifty cents per Finds Very Ancient Coin: William E. Davis, a veteran of the Forty-second Indiana infantry, living at Flora, Ill., has a Roman coin which he found while campaigning in the Philippines and which numismatists claim is more than 1,600 years old. Authorities say the coin was struck by the Emperor Maximinus in 236 A. D. The coin is in an excellent state of preservation and the inscriptions are legible. It is the size of an American dollar and is made of bronze. The obverse bears the head of the emperor and the inscription reads, "Maximinus Pius Augustus Germanicus," and the reverse has the figure of a man bearing aloft an olive brauch and bears the words, "Pax Augusti." It is supposed the Pax coin found its way from Spain to the Philippines years ago and was lost in Luzon. Mythology in Kansas. "Some one in Kansas proposed that a statue of Ceres be placed on the dome of the new statehouse, but now he wishes he hadn't made the proposition," remarked the exchange editor, as he laid down a Kansas paper. "What's the objection?" asked the telegraph editor. "It is urged that no one in Kansas knows the lady, and that she probably was an actress, anyhow. It is the opinion that the figure of Chief Fewclothes, an Indian, would be more appropriate as an ornament to the dome of the Kansas statehouse." "Well, I should think that a statue of Chief Fewclothes would be a nude departure, at any rate." -Pittsburg Gazette. "How crazy you women act over the 'Woman's page!'" said Mr. Pozenby, in tone of withering sarcasm. "I wonder why the papers don't have a 'Man's page,' too?" "They do," Mrs. Pozenby replied. "I've never seen one." "Oh, yes, you have. It's the page devoted to prize fighting and horse racing and other occupations of that sort."—Youth's Companion. Her Circulating Medium "She's a very cautious woman. Especially about gossip. No woman ever heard her retail any scandal." "But I am told that stories confided to her in secrecy do get out somehow." "Yes, I know. You see, she tells them all to her husband."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Hoped They Would Run Their Course. Mrs. Vernon Brown—Why on earth don't you get your husband to cut off his whiskers? Mrs. Smiffian Jones—I wouldn't have him do it for the world. I want him to let them grow and get them all out of his system.—Stray Stories. Figs Annually of ans of Bottles and the universal satisfaction test the fact that it possesses commend it to public favor. knowledge of what a laxative oral understanding of the fact truly laxative and beneficial free from every objectionable the large and growing de- Syrup of Figs nced to supplant the old-time are generally injurious and is well. In Syrup of Figs one is simple and pleasant to the on and beneficial in effect. manufacture figs are used as the taste, but the medicinal Figs are obtained from an of plants known to be and to act most beneficially. Beneficial Effect YRUP Co. New York, N.Y. y cents per bottle. Had Him There.