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One Year..... $1 50 Six Months..... 1 00 Three Months..... 50 Subscribers are requested to remit by post office money order or registered letter. Entered at the post office in Cleveland, Ohio, as second-class matter. TRADE COUNCIL 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. FLANK THE COWARDLY WORK OF THE "LILLY WHITE." There are thousands of Afro-Americans quite unconcerned in regard to their political status as a voting element, but it behooves them as men and citizens to awaken from this lethargy to a full sense of their duty and apply their soul's best energy in furtherance of righteous claims and the maintenance of our manhood rights. We are men among men, and thrown amid the activities of this hustling American life, we must do our part to conserve the primary ends of human governments. The right way is the best way, and it would prove a dishonest deal with the parties concerned for either the one or the other to surrender those claims to which all citizens are justly entitled. We simply cannot do this. There is a community of interest involved which demands of every man an honest exercise of his political influence. The moral law prescribes our duties and it should govern our actions even in our political dealings. This law exists primarily for securing the rights of the people and without these rights the law is abrogated. The Afro-American is a part of the government and the people in common, and the law exists as much for him as it does for the more favored of the republic. The fact that some are more favored than others is no proof to superior claims under the government. Our country is thrifty and prosperous, but it is so because Afro-Americans have helped to make it so. Shall we be proscribed and denied the privileges of an equal government on account of mere racial distinction, and that, too, contrary to the moral and the fundamental law of the land? Shall a haughty and imperious oligarchy assume the control of our political machinery and dictate the management of affairs in the interest of selfish and despotic tyranny? Rather should not we, who are citizens, receive due encouragement and share an equal part in the protection of the law and the government. Now we are forced to ask who is this modern Caesar that dares offer this personal affront to Afro-American citizens? Who is Senator Pritchard and who is millionaire Hanna that they should presume in the face of the law and common justice to eliminate the Afro-American from the politics of the American people? The effort, however, can in no wise promise good to the republican party nor to the country. It savors only of incalculable mischief and turmoil to the advocates of law and free government. When the states of the Union ratified the action of congress in fixing the political status of Afro-Americans in this country, the decree was final and complete. Why should Americans resort to the mean and loathsome task of pilfering him out of his well earned rewards. The friend and benefactor of the nation and a tried and trusted patriot who has soood unfalteringly for the cause of Americans and the republic, why should Afro-Americans be thus hounded, goaded and jaded about a well merited legacy? Our government is in many respects as strong as an impregnable wall and can well afford to be generous to all of its citizens. But many of her boasted citizens disloyal and ungrateful to-day are proving themselves its worst and most persistent foes. Blind to the most sacred demands of the hour and nerved by an impulse than animates the heart of traitors, they lend themselves to a service, because to persecute and degrade Afro-Americans seems to be the winning card and the one thing most popular. TO THE RESCUE. If Afro-Americans mean to be in earnest, if they mean to be alive in regard to the immense duty which now confronts them, they will lose no opportunity to strike well directed blows against a deceitful foe, which seeks to strip them of their political strength wherever it is possible to do so. The enemy is found in our own ranks and it behooves us to organize against him and to bring him to see the folly of his heartless treachery. Treachery in no way has ever been honorable and fair dealing. Unfaithful party leaders never have and never can do more to disrupt the party. They can do nothing more or less than traitors and being false in any respect to their own obligations, they prove themselves false to the trust reposed in them. For the first time in American politics has it been known that the leaders of a party have sought so defiantly to prescribe a portion of their followers in furtherance of designs so futile and emp- THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1902. Conditions everywhere prove the instability of our present party leaders. Men little scruple to engage in dishonest deals in order to conserve the ends of an inordinate ambition. But when party leaders join in an unholy alliance against their own followers in order to conciliate a bold and open enemy, we have at last reached the climax of unmitigated villainy. Democracy itself has never in all its history betrayed such lack of consistency and fealty to its army of followers. The republican party under the leadership of Mark Hanna, Senator Pritchard and President Roosevelt have attempted a game at which they cannot win. Without the semblance of fair dealing, they have inaugurated a movement to displace Afro-Americans from the party of their first love or drive him from the face of the earth. But whether consulted or not or whether admitted into the councils of the party, he nevertheless remains a power behind the throne, will assert his strength and prove his availability in the moment when he is most needed. To-day Afro-Americans must stand together, they must ponder well the situation before them, determine their course of action and make such terms as will best conserve their rights and immunities as citizens of a great republic and members of a great party. We can and we must do our part and guard well those rights to which we are entitled under a common government. We need not hesitate and we must be as ready to flank our foes as they are to flank us. He who would be free must himself strike the blow. Let us enter into a concert of action in the north and let our votes be so cast as shall neutralize the force of the action of the "illy white" republicans of the south and their northern allies, in their narrow and selfish designs. If republicans in the south mean to ignore Afro-Americans, then let Afro-Americans in the north ignore republican leaders in the north who dictate this action. We have nothing to lose on our part in taking a bold and fearless stand for the cause of justice. We have everything to gain by proving our loyalty and our devotion to those principles upon which the great party of Sumner and Lincoln and Grant was founded. Great is Hanna and great is Roosevelt, but it is the consummation of supreme madness for these embryo statesmen to inaugurate a movement so hazardous to the safety of the party and the cause of the government. As citizens let us maintain our vested rights; let us prove ourselves as faithful to our integrity, our manhood and the cause of free government as any other class of Americans, and let us do so without compromise or the sacrifice of principle and honor. The motive actuating the men who now seek to disarm the Negro is of the sordid and meaner kind and availeth nothing under republican system. The right of citizenship demands a fair and honorable discharge of duty to every citizen. But when men of either party meet in conventions to caucus against rights which are the common heritage of all, it indicates a rottenness that calls for the severest retaliation. Afro-American delegates in the south are being turned down in republican state conventions. The fight seems to have just begun. The "lily whites" are resolved on the elimination of the Afro-American from the republican party in the south. Let us be as wise as serpents and as harmless as doves and hold ourselves in readiness to baffle a design so cowardly and base. In the northern states we constitute a strength of nearly a half million of voters. At least we poll the vote of 478,000 strong. To make the republican party in the south respectable, we are there denied the right of representation in republican conventions. Let us therefore know the leaders who are engaged in this crusade against Afro-Americans, let us adopt methods most advisable and resort to such means in the exercise of the franchise as may preserve to ourselves unimpaired the blessings of liberty to the citizen. RECOVERED HIS VOICE A Messenger Attributes It to the Eclipse of the Moon. Washington, D. C.—To some peculiar and inexplicable lunar phenomenon accompanying the total eclipse of the moon, on last week Thursday night, Howard Merriman, the aged Afro-American messenger of the treasury department press room, attributes the recovery of his voice. For months past Merriman has been hardly able to make himself heard in a whisper, his vocal cords apparently being paralyzed. But last week Friday morning, when he reported for work, he greeted his chief in a clear, strong, youthful voice. Merriman solemnly and seriously asserted that during the eclipse he found his voice changing, and when the moon had passed out of the earth's shadow his voice was as clear and as strong as in the days of the reconstruction period following the war, when he was a sheriff in lower Mississippi and aided in running down members of the infamous Ku-Klux Klan. Freeman-Jackson. Flushing, O.—Mrs. Albert Cole drove to Trenton Sunday after her daughter, Miss Alice.—Mr. Lewis Carter was in Cleveland last week.—J. H. McCullough stopped here en route from Cleveland.—Misses Rhoda Brannunn and Alice Cole attended the Freeman-Jackson wedding at Trenton last Wednesday.—Master Edward Cole is improved.—Messrs. Walter and Charles West and Misses Minnie and Jessie Fletcher, of Cadiz, were here Tuesday.—Rev. Taggart was returned to this charge and preached an able sermon last Tuesday night.—Rev. Chas. Bundy, P. E., preached for us last Wednesday. He is a good speaker.—Mrs. Anna Henderson is sick.—Mrs. Jane Carter was at Wheeling last week.—Mr. Harry Henderson is in the oarber shop this week.—At the social at the A. M. E. church Saturday evening $6.10 was made.—Mr. Ed Acton and Fred Farley, of Morristown, were here Sunday evening.—Miss Martha Burke drove to Barnesville Friday. O'HARA SPEAKS OUT! The National Republican and Congressional Committees Responsible. They Can Stop Republican Disfranchisement in the South--It is Now Up to Chairmen Hanna and Babcock--The Bundy Interview. New Bern, N. C., Oct. 12, 1902. Hon. H. C. Smith, Editor Gazette: Dear Sir.—In reply to your card inviting me to give my views on the political condition confronting the Negro voters in North Carolina and other sections of the United States, I would say that the actions of Senator Pritchard, of North Carolina, who poses as the mouthpiece of the white southern republicans is cowardly, brutal and wanton. I say cowardly because none but moral cowards are ungrateful. All that Senator Pritchard is to-day (politically) he acquired at the hands of the Negroes of North Carolina, for at the time he was a candidate for a seat in the United States senate none could rival him in obsequiousness to the Negro members of the general assembly and their friends. He was a veritable Peckens to some and an Abinedab Sleek to others, and at present would fill the roll of a Titus Oates were it in his power to add to his betrayal of those who aided him in the hour of his dire distress, persecution and even extermination. But the senator is not alone culpable for his acts; he and his henchmen are but the outgrowth of a sentiment that grew out of fusion and its attendant evils. I have seen some screed in the press stating that the president of the United States has said some soothing words to certain clergymen who visited him a few days since, and the Rev. gentlemen are satisfied (so states the press). However this may be, we have yet to hear a word of condemnation from the republican national executive committee, that body which absolutely controls within the party such matters, nor has the republican congressional committee, now engaged in endeavoring to persuade the people of the several states to elect republicans to the next congress, had a word to say on the subject. Both of these organizations should tell the Negro voters of the several states how the republican political machine is acting in this all-important matter. They cannot shift the responsibility to the president, for, saving in the distribution of the loaves and fishes, he is unable to dictate the party's policy in treating its members. Speak out, gentlemen, election day is at hand, and you are appealing to the Negroes of some of the states to come over and help you elect your candidates, while you smile at Pritchard and his ilk in the south, as they damn and eject the Negro from the councils of the party. Speak out and condemn or condone the action of Pritchard as you like, but don't hide in the bushes of silence. The Negro is entitled to know whether you are his friend or foe. The question for the Negro to consider, as I take it, is how will they meet and successfully overcome the conditions that confront them? I would advise thorough organization in every county, congressional district and state. Let it be understood and strictly adhered to, that the Negroes are independent voters and will vote only with the party that advocates and practically puts into effect and enacts measures according to them the full recognition of American citizenship. Cease sending through the press high sounding resolutions that are meaningless and forgotten before the ink with which they are written is dry, but ACT with promptness and meaning what you say, nothing more nor nothing less. Do not be led astray by promises, or compromise principles because Mr. A. or Mr. B. has been given or promised an office. Let it be fully understood that we are not clamoring as mendicants for office, but that we insist upon the full recognition of our rights as American citizens and that nothing less will suffice. In North Carolina the conditions to be filled precedent to acquiring the right to vote, I am of opinion will in the main be beneficial to the Negro, in that it will cause him to study and at least acquaint himself with the organic law and its requirements. The payment of a poll-tax, which applies to both races alike, is, I take it, no great hardship, especially as the largest portion of the tax is applied to the support of the common schools of the state, and under the present administration facilities for a common school education are at the disposal, in every county of the state, to all persons over the age of 6 and under 21 years. All persons should cheerfully pay the necessary taxes for the support of the government. Citizenship with its privileges carry also its responsibilities, and these should be assumed and discharged as faithfully as the privileges are demanded and enjoyed. I am opposed to the so-called "grand-father clause" in our state constitution as recently amended, for I believe that an ignorant white man is unable to intelligently discharge the duties of citizenship as an ignorant Negro is said to be, and the law should apply to both races alike, and this will be so after the year 1908. Let us organize, depending solely upon God and ourselves, ever remembering that "he who would be free must himself strike the blow." J. E. O'HARA. New Bern, N. C., Oct. 12, 1902. Hon. H. C. Smith, Editor Gazette: Hon. H. C. Smith, Editor Gazette: Dear Sir.—I send herewith a few thoughts on the political situation as it appears to me from the Negro's standpoint. I hope you may be able FOR THE HOUSEWIFE. Kerosene oil will clean blackened silver almost instantly. Scrubbing brushes should be turned bristle side down to dry. Brooms when wet should be hung up to dry, and not left standing. Whole cloves strewn about the pantry shelves will keep red ants away, and are said to abolish moths. If a carpet is wiped over occasionally with a cloth wrung out of a solution of alum water the colors will stay bright for a long time. to use it and that it may do some good in stiffening the political knees of some weak brother. I THANK YOU SINGERELY FOR THE FIGHT THAT YOU ARE MAKING FOR THE RACE, and anything that I can in my feeble way do to aid the good work I shall at all times try to respond. Respectfully yours. HANNA RESPONSIBLE. Afro-Americans Barred Out of the Alabama Republican Convention—Their Only Hope. Birmingham, Ala.—The Alabama republican state convention was held Sept. 16 with not an Afro-American participating in the deliberations. There were about 300 delegates in attendance. It is the first white republican state convention ever held in Alabama. James Bowron, of Birmingham, was temporary chairman. He made a speech of an hour's duration, after which Senator J. C. Pritchard, of North Carolina, was introduced and spoke for an hour. He is chairman of his state republican committee, and was chairman of the recent North Carolina state republican convention which also barred out Afro-American republican delegations (regularly elected) headed by ex-Congressmen Cheatham and O'Hara, and other prominent men of the race. That is why he was invited to the Alabama convention of last week. Senator Hanna, of Cleveland, chairman of the national republican committee, condones the elimination from republican politics of the southern Afro-American. Will our brethren in Ohio please remember this fact and help us by opposing him? It is our only hope for the future. OUR COMPLAINTS. In a Caustic Interview Presiding Elder Bundy Enumerates Them. Rev. Chas. Bundy, president of our local ministers' union, said a few days ago in an interview published in a daily paper that "the republican leaders have not treated us fairly, and we are disgusted. The colored people hold the balance of power, and they can have their rights if they demand them. We might as well begin the fight in this city as anywhere else, so we are preparing this open letter to colored voters. Our grievances are striking and of a nature to appeal to every colored voter. We have been disfranchised in several states of the south and the republican majority in congress refused to do anything. It also refused to legislate against the "Jim Crow" car laws of many southern states and against the monstrous cancerous crime, lynching. It passed the reapportionment bill increasing the congress representation of several of those 'disfranchising' southern states, when the federal law explicitly says it should be decreased in proportion to the number of citizens disfranchised. It also refused to do ANYTHING for my people and capped the climax when it re-enacted and amended the Chinese exclusion act, which robs every Afro-American of the citizen-right of testifying in the United States courts as a witness in certain cases. Then, too, Senator Hanna chairman of the national republican committee, appointed a democrat by the name of John G. Capers (white) a member of the national republican committee when he knew he great majority of the members of the state republican committee of South Carolina had indorsed for the place its chairman (Deas), an Afro-American, whom he also tried to prevent being elected to the chairmanship. Hanna and McKinley, and later on Roosevelt, recognized and recognizes southern democrats for appointment to the best federal positions in that section of the country and turn down loyal black republicans, thousands of whom in years gone by have been shot down in their tracks like so many mad dogs, simply because they sought and were trying to vote and support the republican party, now disgraced by such miserable, insulting and hurtful leadership. Here in Cleveland the black voter has not only been ignored and refused places, but insulted, and grossly, too, in ways too numerous to mention. It is simply an insult to any intelligent Afro-American for Hanna to approach him in the interest of the party or its candidates, when the treatment of his people by McKinley, Hanna, Roosevelt, the national republican committee and the recent republican congress is remembered. The thing for the loyal local Afro-American to do this fall and next spring is to NOT vote the republican ticket whatever he does—if, indeed, he does anything in the way of voting." AMEN! Gatewood and Grimes, Attention! Jim Gatewood came away from Keysburg, Logan county, Ky., in company with Martin Kenner, leaving mother, Hasty Gatewood, and father, Arthur Burks, who were then sold to Joel Stovall. I left them at Stovall mills. Sisters Annis, Arizona and Angeline Gatewood, and sister Rhoda and brother Arthur Grimes. Anyone knowing the whereabouts of any of the above will please oblige greatly by forwarding the information to Chas. E. Williams, 63 Blaine street, Cleveland, O. Kentucky exchanges please copy. Among the pretty novelties in the jewelry line is a lorgnette chain of amethysts. A brooch in the form of a tortoise with back of an irregular pearl encircled with diamonds is among the novelties. Pendants made of rough pearl are popular and some are of quaint design. One sees elephants and ostriches of rough pearl. A fan that is also a lorgnette is one of the new ideas. It comes in feathers as well as lace and gauze and the lorgnette is fastened to one of the outside stinks. NO LABOR-SAVING DEVICES. Cotton Landers of New Orleans Won't Have Chutes—Make Loading Longer. New Orleans, La.—After a session of several days the white and colored screw men who are engaged in loading cotton in the holds of vessels have agreed upon a division of the work and scale of wages which they will force upon ship agents. A strike has been impossible before because the Afro-American screw men had signed a three years' contract with the ship agents. This agreement they have finally abandoned to join forces with the white screw men. The cotton loading will be divided equally between the two forces and each ship will be required to employ exactly the same number of colored and whites. The two races, however, will not work together. The former will be in the front when the whites are working in the stern of the boat. The screw men will also object to the use of chutes which slide the cotton into the ship's hold and facilitate and expedite the loading and will establish 120 bales as a day's work, whereas by using chutes, they have been able to load 400 bales a day to each hold or opening. The screw men believe that they can enforce their demands without a strike now that they have all the screw men in their movement. Scott-Mackey. Wellsville, O.—Mr. and Mrs. James Butler's infant daughter, Beatrice, died Saturday evening with a complication of diseases. The family has the sympathy of friends.—Quite a number of young folks called on Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Spires, of Liverpool township, on Sunday.—Misses K. Hall, J. Johnson, Mr. Robert Lacy, of E. Liverpool, and S. B. Jackson, of this city, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Johnson, of Oak Grove park, Sunday.—Constable P. O. Spires has purchased a new uniform.—Mr. Morser, of Lisbon, was here last week.—G. E. Lawson, Wm. Payne, S. Smither and Chas. Snowden, members of Co. E., U. R., K. of P., have purchased new swords and belts.—C. W. Cordin, traveling agent for The Gazette, passed through here en route to Akron.—Miss M. Alice Payne has accepted a position of letter writing at the Talbert Mfg. Co. of Philadelphia.—Mr. Scott, of Wheeling, and Miss Mary Mackey, of Clarksburg, were married Sunday afternoon at Mr. and Mrs. Edward Manley's. Two Marriages. Dayton, O.—Mrs. J. R. Wilkinson is very sick at St. Elizabeth's hospital.—Mrs. Lizzie Billingly and Miss Maggie Ramie nave gone to California.—Mr. and Mrs. Gatewood have moved on Front street.—Miss Minnie Jones and Mr. Chas. Mosee and Miss Mabel Buckner and Mr. Peter Black were married last week.—Rev. Collins has moved to 122 Maple street.—The church aid society of Zion church had a hallowe'en party at Mrs. Johnson's Thursday evening.—Rev. Collins preached at Zion church Tuesday evening.—Mr. and Mrs. James Brown were Mr. and Mrs. Burrow's guests Sunday.—The Home Missionary society held an all day quilting at Mrs. Sloane's Friday. Ramsey-Brown. Cadiz, O.—Quarterly meeting at the A. M. E. church October 19. Rev. Chas. Bundy, P. E., preached afternoon and evening. Rev. H. H. Fox was returned for another year. The church and people welcome him back.-Miss Ola Ramsey and Mr. Chas. Brown, were married last Thursday evening by Rev. Fox. Their many friends wish them a long and happy life.-The Thursday Night Reading club began its winter course last Thursday evening.-We desire at once an active and honest person to represent The Gazette here. As W. H. White, our present encient representative is going away, we desire someone to succeed him. Write us at once, please. Walcott Quits and Chicago Bars Him. Chicago, Ill.-Joe Walcott, the middleweight, will undoubtedly be barred from the fistic circles of Chicago after his exhibition here on October 9. In the third round of his fight with Frank Childs he quit, and Referee Siler declared the bout "no fight." Walcott's excuse was that his left arm had gone back on him and that he was unable to continue. The first two rounds were fairly fast and the crowd was eagerly waiting for the fight to continue in the third when Walcott announced to the referee that he must stop. He said his shoulder, which had been knocked out in his fight with George Gardner, had gone to the bad and he was helpless. LIKE RATS IN A TRAP. Americans in a Moorish Town are Sur ounded by Hostile Fanatics. Gibraltar, Oct. 30.—A letter received from George C. Reed, a Kansas missionary at Mequinez, Morocco, with several other Americans, indicates that numerous interior tribes have broken out in rebellion. The roads, it is added, are infested with bandits and travel is unsafe, native sentiment taking the form of a general anti-foreign crusade. Fanatics have torn up the survey flags marring the line of the sultan's railroad, claiming that they were emblems of foreign suzerainty over Morocco. Mr. Reed continues: "I consider the situation grave indeed. If the sultan is able to call the loyal tribes to his aid and thoroughly punish the rebellious Girwans, who were the chief movers in the recent raids and robberies he will make his position all the more secure; but if he does not succeed in doing so the trouble is bound to thicken. If I were in Morocco merely for my health I would make for the coast as soon as possible, though at present we are as securely locked up in Meouinez as rats in a trap." The English missionary, Mr. Cooper, who was murdered at Fez and whose murderer, by order of the sultan, was seized and shot in front of the mosque where he had sought refuge, wrote shortly before his death, taking a more optimistic view, which was so tragically dissipated. Cubans Must Have Reelprocity Cubans Must Have Reciprocity. London, Oct. 30.-Gen. Leonard Wood, formerly military governor of Cuba, was questioned yesterday on the subject of various special dispatches published here alleging the existence of serious economic and political conditions in Cuba. "In view of the present crisis the Cuban sugar industry is absolutely doomed without reciprocity with the United States." I believe the reciprocity bill will be passed during the next session of congress." ELDER CARSON A WORKER. The Tod Cafe and Buckeye Club-The Opera House and Park Theater- Personals, Etc. Youngstown, O.—Mr. Wm. Robinson, contractor, has nearly completed the A. M. E. parsonage. Rev. B. M. Carson, pastor, deserves credit for the way he has worked. Eacn day until the present stage of completion, found him doing laborer's work. His congregation has been with him in his effort. The house will cost about $2,000.—J. A. Kelly reports having a fine time at Washington during the G. A. R. encampment.—Our people are doing well here. It is a pleasure to see such young men as Chas. A. Hedgepath pushing to the front. The "Tod Cafe," of which he is proprietor, is one of the finest in the state and cost about $4,000.—Youngstown should be proud of possessing two good play houses, the Opera House and Park Theater. Mr. Rook, of the former, and Mr. Weber, of the latter, see to it that they have none but first-class shows.—C. W. Cordin dined at the Tod cafe as a guest of Chas. A. Hedgepath while in the city and was also entertained at luncheon by Mrs. Wm. Robinson.—The Buckeye club, recently promoted and organized by Mr. Hedgepath, is in a flourishing condition. Billiard tables and a barber chair were put in lately. At the club's meeting, October 28, good speakers were on hand. The officers of the club are: C. A. Hedgepath, president; Edward Bunch, vice; Wm. J. Hicks, treasurer; C. H. Jones, secretary.—C. W. Cordin called at Hon. W. R. Stewart's sanctum and found him well and with more business than he could attend to.—All persons having items for publication will please hand them in to Rev. Carson until the return of The Gazette's representative, when there will be a local agent to attend to the business of the paper regularly.—Mr. Wm. Robinson recently secured a $2,800 contract from R. H. Raynel. Pleasant Green Baptist Church Dedicated. Portsmouth, O.—Mrs. Kitty Dixon is visiting Mrs. Susan Fleming, of Columbus.—The trustees of Findlay Street M. E. church will repair it for the winter.—Mrs. Cornute, of Ironton, was the guest of her son, Mr. Wm. Connute, and family last week.—Mrs. Cecil Smith joined a party of friends from Circleville Sunday and spent the day in Kenova, W. Va. Mrs. Lena Whymar, of Circleville, will be her guest this week.—Mrs A. Price and Miss Martha Scott were in Chillicothe, Circleville and Kingston last week.—Mr. Edward Johnson and family were guests of Mrs. Johnson's mother in Columbus last Sunday.—Dr. Hubert has been elected S. S. superintendent of Pleasant Green Baptist church.—The stewardesses of Findlay Street church presented their pastor, Rev. Brooks, with a barrel of flour.—Rev. Wilson, pastor of Seventh Street A. M. E. church, has moved his family from Gallipolis.—Mr. Calvin Bunch has moved into his new grocery store on Thirteenth street.—Wm. Haley, of Cincinnati, was the guest of his parents, Rev. and Mrs. Haley, last week.—Mrs. Lottie Shoemaker spent Sunday in Cincinnati.—The Pleasant Green Baptist church, Rev. J. L. Murray, pastor, was dedicated on the 19th. The dedication sermon was preached by Rev. I. V. Bryant, of Gallipolis.—The church and pastor have won a signal victory. They owe but little. There will be an October fair on the 30th and 31st. Had His Fingers Bitten. Had His Fingers Bitten. Wheeling, W. Va.—Mrs. Effie Davis, Mrs. George Hull, Mr. Wm. Morrison, Mr. Andrew Robinson and Miss Mary Logan are sick—Little Harold Jones, while attempting to cross a fireplace, accidentally fell and burned his hand seriously. — Mr. Washington Jones is improving from a stroke of paralysis,—Mr. Wm. Rainbow was arrested by Officer Miller on a warrant sworn by his wife on the grounds of cruelty to his family,—Mr. Geo Kyle, who had his fingers seriously bitten by a young man by the name of Wm. Jackson because he refused to lend the latter money, was taken to the hospital.—Mrs. Craig was here Thursday.—Mr. Thos. Scott visited Mr. Charles Gray, of Martins Ferry.—Rev. and Mrs. Alex. Rainbow are on a two weeks visit in Cadiz and Mt. Pleasant.—The young people's society meets every Thursday at Ebenezer church.—Thos. E. West will succeed Miss Lilly B. Curtis as agent and correspondent for The Gazette. All indebted to the latter will please settle. She thanks the patrons for their patronage. Expiled His Crime on the Gallows Wellsburg, W. Va.—The A. M. E. congregation were glad to again welcome Rev. R. M. Henderson, their pastor, for the coming year—Quite a number were in Wheeling Sunday.—Miss Lucy Richard, of Pittsburg, returned Thursday, after a three weeks' visit with her mother.—On Friday evening at Moundsville State Henry, who worked on the street car line, paid the penalty with his life for killing John Richardson two years ago. About 75 witnessed the execution. Desperate efforts had been made to have Henry's sentence commuted to life imprisonment. When the visitors passed out into the prison yard Henry, accompanied by his spiritual advisers, was heard singing "Let the Lower Lights be Burning."—Mrs. Emma and Mrs. W. Branch were in Wheeling Saturday. Our Good Friend Harris Writes. Canton, O. Oct. 28, 1902. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor Gazette: Dear Sir: I must commend your appealing to the northern Afro-American to help eliminate such leaders of the republican party as are trying to take the liberties from our brethren in the south and hope that our people north may read and understand just how their brethren in that section are being treated I trust that the "dastardly outrage" may be carerally noted and wisely considered. I have distributed The Gazettes among my men and urged them to read and think. I hope the appeal may be heeded by all who can help push the success of our people. Very respectfully. W. R. HARRIS. Woman's Friendly Institute Opened. M. $1,000 REWARD. DR. SHEA. MARVELOUS MEDIUM, Gives the names of dead and living friends, tells who and when you will marry, also of business, journeys, lawsuits, absent friends, health or anything you wish to know, no matter what it is. He asks no questions, don't ask you to write the name for him. Don't try to pump you in any way, but tells you right off. He is thoroughly endorsed by leading Spiritualists everywhere; received from them a gold medal and special license to practice his wonderful powers; credentials no one else show; can give thousands of references to both white and colored patrons. Twenty-five years practice—seven in Brooklyn—will show you that he can do all he tells of. Can tell you what business is best for you and where. Can tell you how to speedie marriage with one you love. How to be successful in all your doings, in short what is best to do. He succeeds when all others fail. Positive help and satisfaction or no pay. Call and see. You will find it lucky to consult this refined Christian gentleman. He has a medicine that will cure drunkenness; can be given patients, not knowing it. Thousands through him are now RICH, HAPPY AND SUCCESSFUL in all their undertakings while those who neglect his advice are still laboring against poverty and adversity. Through his perfect knowledge of chemistry he can impart to you a secret that will overcome your enemies and win you friends. His aid and advice have often been solicited, the result has always been the securing of speedy and happy marriage and all your wishes. In love affairs he never fails. He has the secret of winning the affections of the opposite sex. It is the curse of Spiritualism that in all large cities there are a class of men and women who claim powers they do not possess. They have neither gifts, credentials, nor references. Surely the colored people are not so wanting in sense as to throw their time and money away on such. DR. SHEA refers to the Hon. Charles Miller, capitalist, 2481 Atlantic avenue; the Hon. Wm. Denmore, architect and Seward, Jr. Cleveland avenue, artisan. Seward ship him for the past seven years. He gives a free test of his power to all. He understands thoroughly the diseases, spells or influences the race is subject to. He is now and always has been a true friend to the colored people and always had a large patronage from them. PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING: "BROOKLYN, June 3, 1892.—This is to certify I came to New York from Albany. I was a stranger in a strange city, out of work and out of money. I had no luck in anything I undertook. What to do I did not know and I advised advice. 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 met luck, slick or in trouble, to go to him at once. Sunny, ALBERT AYERS, 2937 Atlantic ave. "SOUTH PLANFIELD, Aug. 15, 1891.—This is to certify that my husband had gone away and been absent two years. I mourned for him, night and day. I gave him up as dead, Hearing of the wonderful things DR. SHEA was doing, I resolved to consult him. He told me my husband was alive and well and where he was; he told me he would come home and when. To my joy all of it came true. He is home now, come back like one from the dead. I also wish to say that this month I lost some money, and I am now to DR. SHEA and he told me I would find my money and to my intense joy I found it as he told me. I thank God there is a man in our midst that can help people and tell them what to do. Sincerely, MRS. MARY MILLER, South Plainfield, N. J." A Sensation in Brooklyn—A Minister's Statement. "I wish to state that one of my parishoners was sick and in trouble for a long time, Mrs. Brown, 37 Gay street. No one seemed to understand her case. She had several doctors, but none of them seemed to know what was the matter. None could do her any good. It was my duty as her pastor to call and see her. Hearing of the wonderful work being done by DR. SHEA, the last few years, I thought I would call to see him myself. I found him a kind, sympathetic gentleman. He gave me a wonderful test of his powers; told me to send him a lock of patient's hair, which I did by her daughter. He told me at once what war the matter and in what time cured him. He said that her family had seemingly been under a cloud. Now, all is changed. All are well and prosperous. I can truly and heartily recommend DR. SHEA to all those in sickness or distress of any kind, REV. WILLIAM JOHNSON, Pastor of Lebanon Church, Brooklyn." DR. ELLARSON, DR. SHEA'S SUCCESSOR, AND SPIRIT MEDIUM, CAN SHOW THOUSANDS SUCH AS THE ABOVE. DR. ELLARSON has been carefully educated in the medical schools. DR. ELLARSON'S success is wonderful in curing Paralysis, Rheumatism, Asthma, Sore Eyes, Tumors, Cancers, Constipation, Ague, Dyspepsia, Tape Worm, Liver Complaints, Deafness, Catarrh, Dropsy, Plies, Nervous Debility, Heart Disease, Consumption, Diseases of Women and Children, Fits, Kidney Disease, and all strange and mysterious diseases which others don't understand. All diseases, no matter what they may be. Nothing but honorable treatment. DR. ELLARSON 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 or write at once. Do not delay. Is a registered physician. Diplomas hang in parlors. A new remedy for rheumatism just discovered, not a linfiment. Hopeless cases and those that others cannot cure solicited to call or write. A perfect and radical cure warranted. Fat folks made thin and thin folks made fleshy. The childless made parents. DR. ELLARSON, Dr. Shea's SUCCESSOR, occupies his old stand, 651 Fulton street, BROOKLYN, N. Y., and can do for you all Dr. Shea did, and has even still greater power. Call on or write to DR. ELLARSON, 651 Fulton St., Brooklyn, N.Y., Nearly Opposite Orpheum Theater. State your troubles freely. Office hours from 1 to 7 P.M.; also by appointment. ALL LETTERS MUST CONTAIN AGE, LOCK OF HAIR, STAMP AND ONE DOLLAR. Confinement Cases Taken. S. GRANT, CUSTOM TAILOR Ladies' Tailoring a Specialty. Garments Remodeled to Suit the Latest Fashion. 490 CENTRAL AVE.,CLEVELAND,O. Repairing at Short Notice. THIS PAPER IS ON FILE IN CHICAGO AND NEW YORK AT THE OFFICES OF A. N. Kellogg Newspaper Co. ```markdown ``` 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 (six words in a line). CLEVELAND, SATURDAY, NOV. 1. 1802. "THE GAZETTE" Is Sold at N. HEXTER's News Depot, City Hall Building, cor. Wood and Superior streets. Open Sunday. S. H. MOODY's News Store, No. 887 Superior street, second westof Bond street. Open Sundays also. GOODMAN's News Depot, No. 586 Central avenue, cor. Sterling avenue. Open Sunday. HATCH & GREEN's Barber Shop, N 544 Central Ave, cor. Greenwood St. F. VALENTINE'S Grocery Store, No. 260 Central Ave. JAMES F. BEASON'S, News Stand, No. 133 Central Ave. G. W. CROCKET'S News Stand, No. 344 Central Ave. Do Not Vote for These Candidates. If you vote next week don't fail to scratch off the ticket the names of EDWIN D. BARRY Candidate for Common Pleas Judge WALTER D. MEALS, Candidate for Common Pleas Judge. The first two broke in part, or whole, pledges made our people when they ran before, relative to representation in their offices. Kennedy is notorious with our people as a result of the remark he made the past summer when sentencing an Afro-American by the name of Carter to the workhouse. It is not necessary to repeat what he said relative to colored people being south "where they are lynched," because that is too well known. Walter Meals Is not and never has been any friend of our people and showed it in the county convention of last year. These men are on the republican ticket. Scratch their names off. It was a mistake to ever have nominated or renominated them. Mrs. J. S. Thomas has pneumonia. Mr. J. Norris, of Youngstown, was here a few days this week. Miss Blanch G. Brown, of Steubenville, is here visiting relatives. Prof. S. F. Nelson, of Wheeling, is in the city to apply for a divorce. in the city to apply for a divorce. FOR RENT. — Furnished Room. Bath and furnace. Mrs. Evans, No. 17 Shelburne street. It was Caterer McNaughton (and not Norton) who served the spread at Woodliff hall at the reception held for Mr. Wilde, of England. FOR RENT. — House — Twelve rooms, one or two families, on Blaine street. Sewer, gas, water. Inquire W. T. Blue, 315 American Trust building. There were only a "handful" of our people at the republican meeting, the chief speaker of which was Hanna, at the Forest street armory Monday night, October 20. Good. Mr. Samuel Jones died and was buried recently under the auspices of the Knights of Pythias, to which order he belonged. His wife, Mrs. Prudence Wilson West Jones, died about a year ago. It is currently rumored that John D. Rockefeller has withdrawn his $500 provisional gift to the Old Folks' Home pending the publication of its financial report for the last two or three years. Don't forget the date, September 20. Why? Because on that date the Young Ladies' Loyalty club of Shiloh church will give their second entertainment. Come out and help them. Bring your friends and your friends' friends with you and help them in their cause. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Daw, of Beechwood street, have returned from Washington, D. C., where they attended the G. A. R. encampment, visited friends and relatives. Mrs. Daw was gone about three weeks. Her sister, Mrs. Van Brackle, of Washington, is here visiting her. Many attended quarterly meeting at Cory chapel Sunday. Rev. Smith, of Bainbridge, Ga., and Rev. Johnson, of New Orleans, assisted the presiding elder. Miss Effie Copes, president of the sub-district Woman's Home Missionary society of Oberlin, was present and organized a society. The society met at the parsonage Friday afternoon. Rev. J. H. Smith, of Bainbridge, Ga., preached ably at Cory chapel Sunday, Monday and Tuesday evenings and lectured Wednesday on "Race Pride and Conditions in the South." Rev. Smith is a very strong speaker and had large audiences. He was here attending the missionary convention and visited The Gazette sanctum on Wednesday. S. E. Woods, J. P. Green and other ex-local Afro-Americans holding petty jobs in the departments at Washington were hustled home the past week to help carry the election. Poor John has been floundering around like a fish out of water, evidently fearful that he will lose his job. Thus doth Hanna crack his whip over the back of his political slaves. The. Jewett Anti-Lynching league will meet at St. John's church Monday evening, November 3, in mass meeting to discuss the outrages perpetrated against our people by lynching and mob violence. Messrs. J. W. Brown, J. L. Murray, Rev. W. J. Johnson, Hon. Harry C. Smith and others will be the speakers. Committee, Dr. E. M. Grant, Dr. A. J. Howard, T. H. Smith and Mrs. John White. The annual ingathering of the Old Folks' Home, held Thursday, Friday and Saturday of last week, was a success in point of donations and attendance. Dinner was served from 12 to 3. In the evening the Mendelssohn orchestra furnished music. Those present were also entertained by little Miss Irene Hammond, a promising reader; Mrs. George Jones and the East End trio. The financial report of the home is still "coming." Afro-Americans who do not feel like voting either the democratic or republican ticket on election day next week can vote the prohibition, socialist or any other ticket except the two objectionable ones. Hanna is kicking Afro-American republicans out or the party in North Carolina and Alabama. We can help "bump his head" here in Cleveland and show him that THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1902. such a despicable and ungrateful course is not only obnoxious to us, but also hurtful. Ex-Gov. P. B. S. Pinchback, formerly of Louisiana, now a resident of Washington, D. C., was slated to speak at the armory on Thursday night with Senators Fairbanks, of Indiana, and Foraker, of this state. The governor is one of our most distinguished citizens and one of the few remaining members of the "Old Guard." He has our highest respect and esteem, regardless of the fact that he is lending aid and comfort to Republican Disfranchisement Hanna. This we regret. The republican meetings held in Woodliff hall on various evenings the past week by the Fulton-Sam Moore-Myers-Eubanks-Clifford "Little Black Tammany" were poorly attended and anything but successes. This is as it should be. Stay away from the meetings until "big chief" Hanna is taught a much needed lesson, and that is, that even the Afro-American can resent positive injury whether meted out to him by individuals, the chairman of the national republican committee (Hanna) or any other party organization. Be sure to read ex-Congressman O'Hara's letter on Page 1 of this paper. An employment agency is being conducted by Mrs. J. D. Jackson at No. 628 Central avenue. 'Phone M. 2077 (Cuvahoga). J. W. Crawford, of $100\frac{1}{2}$ Prospect street, has repainted and repaired his restaurant and will keep open nights until after the theaters. Anyone wishing oysters in any style should call on him. His prices are reasonable and he has the best. All agree that 20 years' experience in one particular line of business ought to make a man competent, and competent workmen do the best work. Therefore, when your shoes need repairing call on Mr. George H. Turner, of No. 627 Central avenue. Patronize him. My! but that Old Folks' Home report is a long time coming. It certainly begins to look as if there is something "rotten in Denmark." Mighty long time explaining what was done with that $950. Six or seven hundred for repairs is a little "raw." What became of the $250 or $350 balance after the "six or seven hundred for repairs?" Mr. S. Grant, the tailor, has opened an establishment at No. 490 Central avenue, where he remodels garments and makes a specialty of ladies' tailoring. Here is another opportunity for our people to patronize one of our own class. He does only the best work and at rates as reasonable as any. Let our men and women take their work to Mr. Grant. John P. Green says in Wednesday's Leader that the republican party freed us. Therfore we should vote its ticket forever, matters not who is on it. "Wouldn't that jar you?" The republican nor any other party freed the writer—Tearful Johnny to the contrary notwithstanding—and the thousands of Afro-Americans who were freed by Lincoln's proclamation and the war, owe their freedom as much to the 200,000 black soldiers in the war of the rebellion as to the white soldiers (republicans and democrats) and Lincoln. Then, too, the government and country, including the republican party, owe these black soldiers much for helping to preserve intact the United States of America. Their services, history says, was invaluable, the tide of battle in favor of the government not setting in until they were admitted to the army in 1862 and 1863. John should go way back, sit down and keep quiet, because he is a back number. "sartin suah." There were hot times on the Public Square at noon on Tuesday. "Tearful" Johnny Green made a few minutes' harangue in which he took occasion, for the second time this week, to either charge or insinuate that the editor of this paper was a democrat or had democratic leanings. Walter L. Brown, who was one of his small audience, immediately mounted the little platform about 50 feet away and drew to him a majority of those listening to "Tearful" John and denounced John's statement as a "—— lie," assuring his listeners that Hon. Harry C. Smith was not only a republican of the old school, but a thorough race man who could not be bought with dollars or a job to oppose the interests of his race even to please Republican Disfranchisement Hanna, chairman of the national republican committee and junior United States senator from Ohio. He also told the crowd that Mr. Smith stumped the city for Hon. Robert E. McKisson and Hon. W. J. Akers, republican candidates for mayor, when Hanna and his friends were opposing them in favor of the successful democratic candidates, Mayors John H. Farley and Tom L. Johnson. "IN DAHOMEY," Written and Performed by Afro- Americans-Williams and Walker, the Stars-The Authors and Composer. New York City.—An extravaganza written and performed by Afro-Americans is new at the Grand opera house this week. The big theater was packed with people at Wednesday's matinee, and they were tremendously noisy with laughter and applause. That was mainly because Bert A. Williams, of the familiarly funny firm of Williams and Walker, was the mainstay of the show. Mr. Williams is a born actor. With a twist of his big mouth, a motion of a long hand or a lift of a broad foot, all quietly and easily, he tickles you more than Mr. Walker can by violent exertion; and Mr. Walker is an amusing fellow, too, with a brown little wife who beats most of the white soubrettes at singing and dancing. Those three could give an hour's vaudeville show without helpers. But "In Dahomey" is a play with 16 definite characters, as many more who figure in the background and material enough to require three hours for delivery. Its authors are Will Marion Cook, formerly of Washington, D. C., and Cleveland, O., for the music, J. A. Shipp for the prose and Paul Laurence Dunbar for the verses. Their work averages up to a level with that shown in the touring extravaganzas, and much that is no better gets into Broadway. The layout and the outfit of the show are, in a general way, like those of its class, except that all is Afro-American. A party start from Boston to colonize in Dahomey and stop for a while in a Florida town on the journey, each of those places providing the scene for an act. Thus the subject is altogether racial. A SLPENDID OPPORTUNITYI The old reliable Gazette desires an energetic and honest agent, and a good correspondent, in every city and town in Ohio and adjoining states having a number of Afro-American residents. We are especially desirous of hearing from persons in the following named cities: Zanesville, Springfield Lima, Urbana, Washington C. H. Cambridge, Massillon, Youngstown, Sandusky, Hamilton, Piqua, Toledo, Delaware, Rendville, Lancaster, O.; Allegheny, Pittsburg, Washington, Sewickley, New Brighton and other western Pennsylvania cities and towns; Parkersburg and other West Virginia cities and towns; northern Kentucky and eastern Indiana cities and towns. 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(ESTABLISHED IN 1883), And has the largest bona fide circula that of any journal in the interest Americans, published in the State of Comparison with any will immedi establish its rank as one of NEWSIEST AND the largest bona fide circulation, doubt of any journal in the interest of Afro- americans, published in the State of Ohio. Comparison with any will immediately establish its rank as one of the VSIEST AND BEST And has the largest bona fide circulation, double that of any journal in the interest of Afro- Americans, published in the State of Ohio. Comparison with any will immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWSIEST AND BEST IN THE COUNTRY. Read what a Leading Minister, of Springfield, O., has the existence of the above-named paper. That life can not be doubted when the fact is remembered, communications from the wisest and best mind FOR THE PEOPLE it represents, and can be no colored man, though his face may be of ebony hue, demonstration of what can be done by the editor is a young man who, by dist of INDUSTRY DEALING, has succeeded in giving to the country a PAPER WORTHY THE PATRONAL reader of THE GAZETT, since its first appearance course, I feel that in justice to the paper, the edi upon the people generally, to support the people identified with the COLORED people, and is in success of all without regard to Complexion. At a Leading Minister, Rev. J. W. Gazaway of Springfield, O., says: THE GAZETTE. The healthful signs of life and a highly useful career are indicated of the above-named paper. That it is a paper of Brain and Cult, rubbed when the fact is remembered that in its columns are found from the wisest and best minds of our race. It is a paper it represents, and can be relied upon as a friend of even though his face may be of ebony hue. The Gazette is a practice of what can be done by the young man of our race. The young man who, by dist of INDUSTRY and ECONOMY and PACES succeeded in giving to the colored people of Ohio and PER WORTHY THE PATRONAGE OF ALL. Having been the Gazette, since its first appearance, and having watched that in justice to the paper, the editor and the race, I should use people generally, to support the paper that is PRACTICAL for the COLORED people, and is in harmony with the interests without regard to Complexion. J. W. GAZAWAY. Read what a Leading Minister, Rev. J. W. Gazaway, of Springfield, O., says: THE GAZETTE. The most healthful signs of life and a highly useful career are indicated in the existence of the above-named paper. That is a paper of Brain and Culture can not be doubted when the fact is remembered that in its columns are found communications from the wisest and best minds of our race. It is a paper FOR THE PEOPLE it represents, and can be relied upon as a friend of every colored man, though his face may be of ebony hue. THE GAZETTE is a practical demonstration of what can be done by the young man of our race. The editor is a young man who, by dint of INDUSTRY and ECONOMY and FAIR DEALING, has succeeded in giving to the colored people of Ohio and the country a PAPER WORTHY THE PATRONAGE OF ALL. Having been a reader of THE GAZETTE since its first appearance, and having watched its course, I feel that in justice to the paper, the editor and the race, I should urge upon the people generally, to support the paper that is PRACTICALLY identified with the COLORED people, and is in harmony with the interests and success of all without regard to Complexion. J. W. GAZAWAY. 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One of the new novels of exceptional merit, built along historical lines, is "Lionel Ardon," by Malcolm Dearborn. Like many of the novels of the time it takes its name from that of the hero. The scene is England and the time that of Henry VIII., and through to Queen Elizabeth. The hero, Lionel, is the son of Lord Ardon, who is killed in a duel with Lord Raven, and his death is quickly avenged by the young son. The story follows the entrance of the hero into English court life, and contains some brilliant descriptions of the gayeties and festivities of those times. One of the principal characters is Lady Jane Grey, who is, in fact, the real heroine. This is the only novel that has ever brought to the sympathy and admiration of story readers that woman of purity and exquisite womanliness. Published by G. W. Dillingham Company, New York. Price, $1.50. Mr. McCall—Good evening. Bobby, is your sister at home? Bobby—I don't know. I heard her tellin' she expected a proposal to night, an' if you ain't the feller I guess she ain't home—Philadelphia Press. VERY LOW COLONISTS' RATES To the West, Northwest and Southwest. The Missouri Pacific Railway and Iron Moun 'ain Route will sell one way Colonists' and Settlers' tickets to California and North Pacific Coast points, also to points in Missouri, Arkansas, Indian and Oklahoma Territories, Louisiana and Texas on the first and third Tuesdays of each month from October 21st to April 31st, at one-half the standard first-class fare, plus $2.00. For further information see nearest Agent, or write H. C. Townsend, G. P. & T. Agent, St. Louis Mo. A Thin-Soll Crop Egotism is one of the crops most easily cultivated. A peculiarity of the plant is that it makes the most rapid and permanent growth on the barrenest of mental reservations. Los Angeles Herald. Hives are a terrible torment to the little folks, and to some older ones. Easily cured, Doan's Ointment never fails. Instant relief, permanent cure. At any drug store, 50 cents Willing to Accommodate. "Are you a wet nurse?" asked the lady, who had advertised in the newspapers. "No, ma'am," replied the applicant, "but I'll let you turn the hose on me if you give me the job."—Boston Post. Energy all gone? Headache? Stomach out of order? Simply a case of torpid liver. Burdock Blood Bitters will make a new man or woman of you. "You didn't dig any coal to-day, did you?" chuckled the striker. "No," replied the non-union miner, good-humoredly. "I wasn't in the vein for it."—Philadelphia Press. June Tint Butter Color makes top of the market butter. "The boy who is always as clean as his mother wants him to be," remarked the large-waisted philosopher, "may turn out all right, but precedent is against him."—Indianapolis News. A. So says Mrs. Josie Irwin, of 325 So. College St., Nashville, Tenn., of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Never in the history of medicine has the demand for one particular remedy for female diseases equalled that attained by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and never during the lifetime of this wonderful medicine has the demand for it been so great as it is to-day. From the Atlantic to the Pacific, and throughout the length and breadth of this great continent come the glad tidings of woman's sufferings relieved by it, and thousands upon thousands of letters are pouring in from grateful women saying that it will and positively does cure the worst forms of female complaints. Mrs. Pinkham invites all women who are puzzled about their health to write her at Lynn, Mass., for advice. Such correspondence is seen by women only, and no charge is made. W. L. DOUGLAS $3 & $3.50 SHOES UNION MADE W. L. Douglas shoes are the standard of the world. W. L. Douglas made and sold more men's Good- year Welt (Hand Sewed Process) shoes in the first dia month of 1909 than any other manufacturer. REWARD will be paid to anyone who can disprove this statement. CANNOT BE EXCELLED. 8009 sales, Bat 6 months, $1,103,820 | 1903 sales, Bat 6 months, $2,340,000 Best imported and American leather, Heyl's Patent Calf, Enamel, Box Calf, Calf, Vici Kid, Corona Celt, Nat. Kangaroo. Fast Color Eyelets used. Caution! The genuine have W. L. DOUGLAST name and price stamped on bottom. Shoes by mail, 25c. extric. Iluna. Catalog free. W. L. DOUGLAST. BROCKTON. MASS. HAMLIN'S WIZARD OIL HEADACHE ALL DRUGGISTS SELL PILES ANAKESIS gives instant relief and POSITIVE GUILDWELL PILES For free sample address "ANAKESIS," Triumph building, New York. PISO'S CURE FOR GUNNER WHERE ALL USE FAILS. Best Cough syrup. Tastes good. Use in time. Sold by druggists. CONSUMPTION THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1902. BUCKEYES Massillon. — Mr. Lem McPherson was in Alliance and Misses Cora Johnson and Ethel Carey in Cleveland Sunday. —Mr. C. Perkins left Saturday evening for Cleveland and spent Sunday with his best girl, Miss G. Ballard. —Messrs. R. Emery and C. Robinson are frequent Canton visitors. —Mr. Jones, of Alliance, spent Sunday here. He has accepted a position. There will be a wedding soon. Akron.—Charles Green, of Canton, Mr. William Jones and Mrs. Bevoles Jones were here Sunday.—Miss M. and Miss C. Johnson visited their friend, Miss Violet Dyson, of Wadsworth, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.—Mrs. A. Jackson and Mrs. G. Brown are very ill.—Mrs. M. Jones, wife of Rev. R. A. Jones, and Mrs. E. Thomas visited in Columbus.—Mrs. N. Jackson, of Wadsworth, visited her aunt and friend here Sunday. Advertisements, lists of names, wedding presents, etc., obituary notices, speeches, resolutions, poetry and inquiries for relatives must be paid for. Our advertising rates will be sent on application. Correspondents must mail all letters for publication on MONDAY of each week, and always place their names and that of their city and town on the outside of the wrapper about returned copies. Unless this is done proper credit cannot be given you. Salem.—Rev. J. P. Davis preached at the A. M. E. church last Sunday.—The K. of P.'s of Lisbon held a meeting here Sunday. Messrs. D. Williams and wife, F. Taylor, R. Green, D. Hill, L. Hicks and Wright attended.—Mr. Wilbur Bess has returned from a ten days' stay in Pittsburgh.—Mr. B. Johnson was in Lisbon Sunday.—Mrs. Nims, of Columbus, is visiting her sister, Mrs. E. Venable.—Mr. H. Venable's barn burned down. Two valuable horses were burned. Findlay.—Rev. Butler preached an able sermon last Sunday.—Mr. Fred Hill is improving.—Mr. L. Roberson and Mrs. M. Murray were married last Thursday evening.—Mrs. A. B: Woods spent Sunday in Toledo.—Miss Hattie Wright is ill.—Mr. Ed Blain and Miss Morgan, of Fostoria, were married last week in that city.—Messrs. A. and O. Hardin, Miss Emma Powell and brother, Oscar, visited in Indianapolis and Anderson, Ind., last Sunday.—H. M. Woodson and wife, of Bowling Green, were guests of his brother and wife last Sunday. Lockland and Wyoming. — The King's messengers of Cincinnati, held their meeting in the A. M. E. church all day last Sunday.—Mt. Zion church held communion services all day Sunday. Quite a number attended. —Rev. J. C. Turner and wife left for Cleveland on the 25th. Mr. and Mrs. Broadenax entertained them at dinner Thursday evening. A surprise party also was given them on Thursday at their father's residence. Mrs. Sally Jackson entertained Rev. Orr, of Cincinnati, at dinner Sunday. Mrs. Lunchford entertained the Self-sustaining club Friday evening. Mr. Chas. Turner is sick.—Mr. Blue, of Locust street, died Thursday and was taken to Kentucky for burial. Middletown.—Miss Ada Elam has gone to Troy.—Rev. Smith preached here, Rev. Derrickson at the coke works and Rev. Palmer at Glendale Sunday night.—Mr. Geo. Tandy is sick.—Rev. A. R. Palmer caught 14 pounds of carp.—Mr. and Mrs. W. Perry are pleased over the arrival of a baby boy on the 18th. Mother and child are doing well.—Mr. A. Harris repairs stoves, — Afro-Americans should patronize our business men. Price, Mullen, Russell, Patterson, Hatcher and Tucker are all generous and enterprising Afro-Americans.—Mrs. Fry's flowering quince bush produced several nice quinces. Oxford.—Mr. Geo. Lawrence and family have moved to Richmond, Ind.—Rev. Watson, pastor of the First Baptist church, has returned from the state convention at Dayton.—Mrs. Lena Pratt, of Hamilton, visited her sister.—Mr. Logan Williams, of Hamilton, spent Sunday here.—Miss Carrie Bedenbaugh is now living in Wyoming.—A. S. S. mass meeting was held at the First Baptist church October 19. Miss Logan, of Glendale, rendered a pretty solo, "Jesus is Mine." Mr. Dues, the district president, was also present.—Mrs. Emma Harris, of Indianapolis, is visiting her mother.—Mrs. Enell entertained Monday evening in honor of Richmond, Ind., guests.—Miss Fanny Bradley has returned to Michigan. Ravenna.—Miss Mabel Wileoxen, of Warren, is visiting Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Byrd.—Mr. C. Proctor visited in Canton recently.—Mrs. C. Alexander, of Windom, was the guest of her daughter, Mrs. W. C. La Count.—Born to Mr. and Mrs. John Cox, a son.—George and Garfield Ford have returned from Lancaster.—Mrs. G. Young entertained a quilting bee Thursday.—Z. W. Mitchell, of Zanesville, supreme master of the Loyal Legion of Labor, gave an interesting talk to about 30 of our folks here last Tuesday night. After, an organization was effected and the following officers elected: Chairman, Edward Proctor; secretary, H. W. Fullum; treasurer, Johnathan Proctor; prelate, Mrs. L. A. David. Canton. — Rev. Green visited his daughter in Youngstown last Sunday. — Rev. Bell is back home again. — Miss Ella Mickens, of Washington, D. C., is here visiting her parents. — Eugene Tate and John Early had a very bad accident while working with Ben Randolph. Their faces are badly disfigured. — Mrs. John Henson entertained at a card party last Tuesday evening. — Mrs. John Avams and Mrs. Mary Lacy gave an entertainment at the Second Baptist church last Monday evening and Miss Ruby Johnson wns the drawing card. — Mr. Robert Emery and Charley Roberson, of Massillon, were here Sunday afternoon. — Mrs. T. C. Lacy and Mrs. W. H. Henderson waited a party in Akron. Bellaire.—Sunday was quarterly meeting at St. Paul's church. Rev. Charles Bundy, P. E., preached an able sermon in the morning. Services all day were well attended.—Miss Mary Rheubottom is again quite siek.—Mr. Burns Harvey has returned from Washington, Baltimore, etc. Miss Myrtle Jackson is able to be out again.-Mrs. Joe Rheubottom and Miss Esther Smith have returned from Pittsburg.-Miss Della Kinney is convalescing.-The ladies of St. Paul's church are arranging for a Thanksgiving dinner at the church.-Mrs. Lucy Severs and Mrs. Sadie Preston were out of the city a few days this week.-Mrs. Nannie Jones is again at her work at the Arlington restaurant, after a few days' illness.-Mr. George McPherson is quite sick.-Mrs. Robert Clark visited here Sunday.-Mrs. Martha Sterns attended services at St. Paul's church Sunday night. Martins Ferry.—Mr. and Mrs. Anderson Richardson attended Mrs. Carrie Freeman's wedding supper at Emerson last week.—Mrs. Hannah Conway and daughter were in St. Clairsville last Friday.—Mr. Williams, barber, moved his family here Saturday.—The stewardesses of the Second M. E. church gave a chicken supper Saturday night.—Quarterly meeting at the A. M. E. church Sunday. Rev. Chas. Bundy, P. E., officiated.—Mr. Fred Wilks is convalescent.—Miss Ella Cohran, of Claysville, Pa., is here visiting.—Revs. Bundy and Taggart were Mrs. Julia Wilkes' guests Sunday.—Mr. Harry Walker, of Waynesburg, Pa., spent three days here.—Mr. Joseph Allen has recovered from the malaria fever and returned to work.—Mr. Elijah Jackson has returned from his cousin's in St. Clairsville.—Mr. Walter Champ was called to Harrisville by his sister's illness.—Mrs. Marguerite Murphy and Mrs. Mattie Dyer left last Sunday for Pittsburg.—Mr. Blackburn was Miss Jennie Conaway's guest Sunday.—Mr. Ross Newby was in Wheeling on the 18th.—Miss Mary Murphy, of Wheeling, spent Sunday here.—Mr. Kemper was Mrs. Lizzie Lucas' guest Sunday.—Miss L. B. Curtis visited her sister friday evening.—Messrs. Hamilton and Walker were in Wheeling Monday.—Mrs. Ida Scipio returned Monday from her sister's in St. Clairesville. CONDEMN GEN. CLARKSON. North Carolina White Republicans Who are Backed by Senator Hanna Resent His Interference in Their State. Washington, D. C.—The North Carolina republicans, who are endeavoring to make the party in that state a white man's party, are greatly disgruntled over what they term the interference of Surveyor James S. Clarkson, of the port of New York, in the politics of their state. The republican state convention early in the fall, which excluded Afro-Americans from participating in the convention, was notable for the prominence of many of the delegates in the business and social affairs of the state. Afro-Americans, although practically disfranchised by the constitutional amendment which goes into effect this fall, did not take kindly to their exclusion from the party convention, and have endeavored to place in nomination candidates of their own race. In the Second congress district S. H. Vick, of Weldon, the only Afro-American postmaster in the state, was nominated recently, and at the convention in the Fourth district at Raleigh, which adjourned Friday without nominating an Afro-American candidate, great stress was laid on a letter read by W. Lee Person, one of the delegates, which he had received from Gen. Clarkson. This letter follows: New York, Oct. 13, 1902. My Dear Mr. Person: I am glad to have your letter. I need no thanks for what I did in opposing the "Jim Crow party" in Alabama and other southern states. No self-respecting republican can tolerate any such attempted departure from the cardinal doctrine of the party. The president has no sympathy with it, and you may assure all your friends and your whole race that he is as sound on the doctrine of human rights and manhood suffrage as I am. I shall be glad to hear from you whenever you have anything to communicate. Sincerely yours. JAS. S. CLARKSON. "The "Lily White" republicans, in addition to condemning Gen. Clarkson for interfering in the politics of another state, are inclined to question Gen. Clarkson's authority to speak for the president in the matter as, they say, Senator Pritchard had the approval of the president and Senator Hanna in his movement to build up a white man's party in North Carolina. HIS OLD HOME. A Cleveland Visits It and Sends a Glowing Account of the Progress of Our People There. Fulton, Mo., Oct. 27, 1902. Editor Gazette, Dear Sir: I concluded while here on a visit to my old home to drop a line to the readers of The Gazette, knowing they are interested in the condition of our people here. I am surprised at the rapid progress my race has made here during the last 15 or 20 years I have been a citizen of Cleveland. They are engaged in every line of business that small capital will permit, and judging from appearances, it will not be long before they will be engaged in the higher branches. This is a town of about 6,000 inhabitants, one-third Afro-Americans; about one-third of that number own good, comfortable homes and many fair bank accounts. There are three good churches paid for, ranging in value from $2,000 to $7,000 each. The education of boys and girls is amply provided for. There is a seven-room brick school house and an equal number of teachers, all of whom are graduates from reputable colleges. Each of the pastors of the churches have diplomas from colleges and stand the equal of their white contemporaries. An Afro-American physician, Dr. Coston, stands at the head of his profession in this city and the other physicians (white) consult him in difficult cases. He has a fine office, well equipped and keeps an office boy busy. His practice is the best in the town. He owns both town property and farms, grocery stores and restaurants are managed by our people, and in the country fine farms are owned, and in the majority of instances are paid for. Again, I must confess my surprise at the progress. I shall be able to say more upon my return. I leave here to-day, will stop at Jacksonville, Ill., and thence to my Cleveland home. J. H. HARRISON. Judge Logan Dies. Philadelphia, Oct. 30.—Ex-Judge James A. Logan, general solicitor of the Pennsylvania Railroad Co., died suddenly last night at his home in Bala, a suburb of this city. Why Syrup of Figs is the best family laxative It is pure. It is gentle. It is pleasant. It is efficacious. It is not expensive. It is good for children. It is excellent for ladies. It is convenient for business men. It is perfectly safe under all circumstances. It is used by millions of families the world over. It stands highest, as a laxative, with physicians. If you use it you have the best laxative the world produces. Because Its component parts are all wholesome. It acts gently without unpleasant after-effects. It is wholly free from objectionable substances. It contains the laxative principles of plants. It contains the carminative principles of plants. It contains wholesome aromatic liquids which are agreeable and refreshing to the taste. All are pure. All are delicately blended. All are skillfully and scientifically compounded. Its value is due to our method of manufacture and to the originality and simplicity of the combination. To get its beneficial effects — buy the genuine. Manufactured by CALIFORNIA FIG SYRUP CO. San Francisco, Cal. Louisville, Ky. New York, N. Y. FOR SALE BY ALL LEADING DRUGGISTS. On the Verge of Bright's Disease.—A Quick Cure that Lasted. CASE NO. 30,611.—C. E. Boies, dealer in grain and feed, 505 South Water Street, Akron, O., made the following statement in 1896, he said: "Ever since the Civil War I have had attacks of kidney and bladder troubles, decidedly worse during the last two or three years. Although I consulted physicians, some of whom told me I was verging on Bright's disease, and I was continually using standard remedies, the exerciating aching just across the kidneys, which radiated to the shoulder blades, still existed. As might be expected when my kidneys were in a disturbed condition, there was a distressing and inconvenient difficulty with the action of the kidney secretions. A box of Doan's Kidney Pills, procured at Lamparter & Co.'s drug store, brought such a decided change within a week that I continued the treatment. The last attack, and it was particularly aggravated, disappeared." Three Years After. Mr. Boies says in 1899: "In the spring of 1896 I made a public statement of my experience with Doan's Kidney Pills. This remedy cured me of a terrible aching in the kidneys, in the small of my back, in the muscles of the shoulder blades, and in the limbs. During the years that have gone by I can conscientiously say there have been no recurrences of my old trouble. My confidence in Doan's Kidney Pills is stronger than ever, not only from my personal experience but from the experience of many others in Akron which have come to my notice." A FREE TRIAL of this great kidney medicine which cured Mr. Boies will be mailed on application to any part of the United States. Address Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. For sale by all druggists, price 50 cents per box. Not So Very Crazy. An Emporia (Kan.) sportsman was out gunning a few days ago, the Gazette says, and happened to go by the poor farm. One of the crazy men they keep out there saw him and began asking him questions. "What have you killed?" asked the crazy fellow. The Emporia man said he had a meadow lark and two doves. "What did you pay for that gun?" "Sixty dollars." "How much is the dog worth?" "Twenty-five dollars." "An $85 hunting outfit to kill 25 cents' worth of game! They keep me locked up in here because they say I'm crazy, and they let you run loose. It isn't fair," said the crazy man. Four Daily Trains to St. Paul-Minneapolis via Chicago & Northwestern Railway. Leave Chicago 9 a. m., 6:30 p. m. (the North - Western Limited, electric lighted throughout), 8 p. m., and 10 p. m. Fast schedules. Most complete and luxurious equipment in the West. Dining car service unequaled. For tickets, reservations and descriptive pamphlets, apply to your nearest ticket agent or address W. B. Kniskern, 22 Fifth Avenue, Chicago, Ills. A Coincidence. It is worthy of note that Love and Justice are both represented as being blind, and that the victim of either seldom escapes.—Woman's Home Companion. The rarest of flowers is candor.—Racine. Most men mistake slight applause for an encore.—Chicago Daily News. Discontent is the want of self-reliance; it is infirmity of will.—Emerson. Laughing cheerfulness throws sunlight on all the paths of life.—Richter. The average man is hardly modest enough to consider himself such.—Puck. Want of care does us more damage than want of knowledge.—Franklin. Idle boasting is the smoke and true courage the fire.—Chicago Daily News. The praise of religion may be quite different from its practice.—Ram's Horn. Truth Crushed Again.—One time Truth set out to catch a Lie. For many miles and for many years she pursued it. At last she overtook it. The Lie was firmly established on a tombstone. There being a heavy penalty for defacing an epitaph, Truth was forced to abandon her efforts.—Baltimore American. Probably.—He—"I never saw anything like this tide. Here I've been pulling steadily for 10 minutes and we don't seem to have moved a foot." She (after a pause)—"Oh, Mr. Stroker, I've just thought of something! The anchor fell overboard a short time ago and I forgot to tell you. Do you suppose it could have caught on something?"—Washington Times. Why He Opposed War At the beginning of our war with Spain a teacher of a primary class told some of her boys about the war and asked all who favored it to hold up their hands. Up went every hand but Jack's, a boy of eight. "Why, Jack, why are you opposed to the war?" asked the teacher, and Jack's surprising answer was: "Cause, Miss Sophia war makes history, and there's more o' that now 'an I can ever learn.'"—Chicago Chronicle. A CHARITY FIB. The Young Idea Was to Set the Sensitive Person Perfectly at Ense About His Nose. Notwithstanding the man knew how he had come by his red nose, he was extremely sensitive about it, and any reference to it was resented promptly and with emphasis. One day he was calling on some ladies when the small boy of the family was present. The youngster was strangely attracted by the radiant nose, and kept watch on it from the moment the visitor entered the room until he had a chance to speak to his mother, relates the New York Herald. "Is it wrong to tell a story, mamma?" he asked so that everybody could hear. "Of course it is," she replied, with a proper degree of horror. "But isn't it right to tell one just sometimes?" he persisted. "Well," she hesitated, "possibly if one is told to spare the feelings of some person it might be excused." "And why does my little man ask such a question?" inquired the gentleman very coaxingly. "Because," responded the boy, "I wanted to say your nose wasn't a bit red, if somebody else wasn't going to say it pretty soon." Later when the culprit was going to punishment he asked his mother if she wouldn't have licked him just the same if he had told the truth. COULDN'T BOSS HIM A Clergyman Who Wouldn't Submit to Any Orders from an Undertaker. Rev. R. Perry Bush, of Chelsea, who was present in a ministerial capacity at the opening of the convention of the Massachusetts Embalmers' association recently consented, in the absence of Mayor Collins, who was to address the body, to speak a few words of greeting. He related an instance of a stuffy undertaker and a funeral, says the Boston Herald. "As I entered the church," said Mr. Bush, "I was greeted by the undertaker in charge of the funeral, who said: 'I want you to stand there,' pointing to half-way up the pulpit steps. "I prefer to stand either at the top or the bottom," I replied. 'Then I can see my audience.' "You stand where I tell you," was the retort. "I'm running this funeral." tort. 'I'm running this funeral.' 'But you are not running me,' I answered, 'and I will give you just one minute to withdraw your order or get another minister.' And I took out my watch and commenced to count off the seconds. At the thirtieth he said: 'Well, stand where you darn please!' St. Jacobs Oil In cases where bronchitis has become chronic from want of proper treatment in the earlier stages, there is nothing so good as Dr. August Koenig's Hamburg Breast Tea, in conjunction with which is strongly advised the use of St. Jacobs Oil as an outward application, along the front of, the throat, from close up under the chin to well down to the top of the chest; the one remedy assists the other, and, as intended, they work in complete unison. The wonderful penetrating power of St. Jacobs Oil enables it to reach the adhesion of foreign matter which lines the bronchial tubes and which makes breathing more and more difficult. As these adhesions become inflamed and enlarged, St. Jacobs Oil causes such adhesions to break away, making expectation easier and more free. Dr. August Koenig's Hamburg Breast Tea, drank slowly and very hot, soothes and heals the parts, is comforting and quieting, stops the cough and relieves the breathing. This manner of treatment (and there is no other two remedies that will work together so successfully) reaches the difficulty from the outside and the inside at the same time. St. Jacobs Oil reaches the roots of the adhesion, and assists Dr. August Koenig's Hamburg Breast Tea in clearing them; then both remedies act in unison in healing and curing. The above remarks apply with equal force in cases of asthma, croup, whooping cough, enlarged tonsils, and all bronchial affections. Every family should have St. Jacobs Oil and Dr. August Koenig's Hamburg Breast Tea always in the house in order that they may be promptly used in the first stages. Often the maladies develop with wonderful rapidity, and complications take place with equal sadnessness. A Solitary Exception. "Our officials should understand that Uncle Sam expects every man of them to do his duty." "All except the customs officials, of course. He expects them to collect it."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Hundreds of lives saved every year by having Dr. Thomas' Eclectric Oil in the house just when it is needed. Cures croup, heals burns, cuts, wounds of every sort. Money and time are the heaviest burdens of life, and the unhappiest of all mortals are those who have more of either than they know how to use.—Johnson. No matter how long you have had the cough; if it hasn't already developed into consumption, Dr. Wood's Norway Pine Syrup will cure it. The Invaid.—"So Sokaleigh's health is gone, eh? What became of it?" "He drank it."—Puck. Fortify Feeble Lungs Against Winter with Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar. Pike's Toothache Drops Cure in one minute. Some men are known by the friend they fail to make.—Chicago Daily News. Piso's Cure cannot be too highly spoken of as a cough cure.—J. W. O'Brien, 322 Third Ave., N., Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 6, 1900. Education is mitigated ignorance.—Chicago Daily News. Look out for the man that let's you do all the talking.—Atchison Globe. GOVERNOR OF OREGON Uses Pe-ru-na in His Family For Colds and Grip. CAPITOL BUILDING, SALEM, OREGON. A Letter From the Executive Office of Oregon. tinally in the house. In a recent letter to Dr. Hartman he says: STATE OF OREGON, EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, SALEM, May 9, 1898. The Pe-ru-na Medicine Co., Columbus, O.: Dear Sirs-I have had occasion to use your Pe-ru-na medicine in my family for colds, and it proved to be an excellent remedy. I have not had occasion to use it for other ailments. Yours very truly, W. M. Lord. It will be noticed that the Governor says he has not had occasion to use Pe-ru-na for other ailments. The reason for this is, most other ailments begin with a cold. Using Pe-ru-na to promptly cure colds, he protects his family against other ailments. This is exactly what every other family in the United States should do. Keep Pe-ru-na in the house. Use it for coughs, colds, la grippe, and other climatic affections of winter, and there will be no other ailments in the house. 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Letters of congratulation and commendation testifying to the merits of Pe-ru-na as a catarrh remedy are pouring in from every State in the Union. Dr. Hartman is receiving hundreds of such letters daily. All classes write these letters, from the highest to the lowest. The outdoor laborer, the indoor artisan, the clerk, the editor, the statesman, the preacher—all agree that Pe-ru-na is the catarrh remedy of the age. The stage and rostrum, recognizing catarrh as their greatest enemy, are especially enthusiastic in their praise and testimony. Any man who wishes perfect health must be entirely free from catarrh. Catarrh is well-nigh universal; almost omnipresent. Pe-ru-na is the only absolute safeguard known. A cold is the beginning of catarrh. To prevent colds, to cure colds, is to cheat catarrh out of its victims. Pe-ru-na not only cures catarrh, but prevents. Every household should be supplied with this great remedy for coughs, colds and so forth. 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