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One Year..... 81 80 Six Months..... 1 00 Three Months..... 50 Subscribers are requested to remit by post office money order or registered letter. Entered at the post office in Cleveland, Ohio, has second-class matter. All communications should be addressed: H. C. SMITH. ALL-ED PRINTING CITY COUNCIL TRAD. S. COUNCIL CLEVELAND 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. TO OUR FRIENDS,OUR PATRONS ONE AND ALL,A HAPPY AND PROSPEROUS NEW YEAR. The new year is upon us and every citizen in retrospecting the past twelve months is called upon to determine how well he has spent the old year now gone forever. If he has been faithful in meeting the duties and obligations before him, he may find a happy assurance in the prosecution of grander and nobler things. Each task well done is but an inspiration to the accomplishment of higher and more enduring ends and the individual, whether merging into manly youth or maturer life may take courage and thank God that his star of destiny leads onward to meridian height. But if, on the contrary, he has disregarded the duties and obligations before him, he may, upon a review of the past, engage his mind in serious reflection, retrace his course, press forward to the higher calling, the goal of his ambition. None need despair in the achievement of glory and fortune. The sun sends forth its glorious beams to cheer and vivify the saddest heart. None need despond, but merved by the promises of the golden future, all may win lauels of triumph, live again in the evolutions of the untried future and find joy and success in the new year. With trust in God and a resolution of purpose to conquer in the right, a season of untold pleasure may be amply realized and life be worth living. To our many readers, we bid you a joyous and a happy New Year. Be it yours then to share in every blessing, realize life's fondest dreams, read the rewards of the soul's best endeavor, that peace, health and happiness shall become the crowning jewel of our most sanguine aspirations. Truly we hope that each and all who feel the enkindling of warm desire to improve and better the condition of our poor struggling humanity, may enjoy the love of sweet fellowship such as shall unite and bind the hearts of earth's millions into a strong, helping force to lift up mankind everywhere. Especially to our friends both at home and abroad and to our kind patrons, in conclusion, we bid you a happy and prosperous New Year. CATERING TO SOUTHERN FEELING. It is with sincere regret that we read in public print utterances from Bishop Evans Tyree, Bishop C. S. Smith and Dr. John N. Abby which are at variance with the principles of true manhood and utterances which are at once compromising and humiliating to say the least. These utterances are proclaimed in the south and are designed to curry favor with that element who believe in the subordination and degradation of the Negro. Recent addresses from Bishop Tyree to members of the Mississippi conference show that while he dares not offer a single word of reproof against the inhumanity and injustice done the ignorant masses of our own race, yet he administers unseathing reproach to the lower strata of the race for sins for which they are not in toto responsible. In fact Bishop Tyree is more magisterial than generous and is more disposed to reprimand than to encourage and plead the mantle of charity and good will. Though he pleads not against his own people, yet he entreats the authorities of the law to compel the illiterate and vicious of the race to render acquiescense and in case of failure, they must suffer imposed penalties. In other words, Bishop Tyree dwells more upon the vices than upon the virtues of the race. He delights more in disclosing the criminal offenses of his race than in kindly suggesting the remedy. It really does seem that Bishop Tyree is seeking more to ingratiate himself into the favor of the southern whites than to please God and deal righteously with his people. He is not called to play the master, to deal rashly and to exalt himself above his own. Let him advise, let him counsel in love, let him chide gently and hold close to his bosom as a kind father those for him he labors, but let him not censure and implore the cruel hand of the tyrant against those whom he would help and bless. It is a mistaken idea that our great leaders must feel called to out Herod Herod himself. The trouble is manifest that some of our leaders are too sycophantic, too compromising only that they may popularize themselves and be called great Negroes by the southern whites. This thing of catering to southern feeling and the spirit of caste leaves lurking in its trail a danger far greater than any wrong we may perpetrate hurtful to ourselves. Instead of helping our cause in this, we are being hopelessly damned by the very men upon whom we depended for safety and for succor. We cannot serve two masters, but it is ours to build upon the eternal rock of righteousness. We have for a long time deplored the wayward tendency of Bishop C. S. Smith in his truckling to a pernicious southern sentiment. Nobody knows the southern mind any better than Bishop Smith, and while it is a matter of wisdom that black men in their labors and trials in the south should be as wise as serpents and as harmless as doves, yet it is a base betrayal of human rights for this apostle of Christ to assume the attitude he holds in his weak and cowardly toying to southern reeling. He tells the young Negroes of the south that they are living in a paradise, but do not know how to appreciate it, and in proof of his assertion he cites them to the Ku Klux clans which then infested southland. In the face of the terrible lynchings, the burnings and killings, he asks the young Negroes to be contented and believe themselves happy. In the face of the deplorable outrages which are being perpetrated by white caps in every southern state in the hour of midnight, this man of cloth, in defiance of a stubborn truth, tells this people that they are living in paradise. Dr. Smith knows better, and yet that the current of public feeling may favor him, he dares to propagate a falsehood that is as wicked as it is palpable. Now comes the artful Dr. John N.Abbey bending the knee to Baal. In much weekness and penitence he prostrates himself in the dust of humility and declares to the Memphis (Tenn.) Commercial Appeal that the states that have disfranchised the Negro have dealt wisely, justly and have conferred a blessing upon the race. SAD—SAD—SAD—indeed must be the destiny of the race if committed to such hands. COLOR MUST NOT BAR A MAN FROM OFFICE. As we have said frequently recently, all the ado in regard to the right of Afro-Americans to hold office is certainly the outgrowth of superlative nonsense. The constitution of the United States determines that fact. Then how in reason can any honest and intelligent citizen argue against the truth? No man unless he be insane or hopelessly ignorant can presume to agitate a matter which has been long since settled by the United States congress. The daring presumption on the part of an obdurate, conscienceless and disloyal element to offer a fight against the vested rights of citizens, whose claims cannot be disputed, places that element in line with the worst and most dangerous class of the republic. Just after the days of reconstruction men dared not venture to question the rights of an American citizen. They concerned themselves rather in making secure their own forfeited rights than grudgingly withholding them from others. The idea is ridiculous and painfully revolting that southern white men are found fighting against the rights of the Negro and in defiance of the law and the constitution. But the president in a letter to a southerner who desires to have his name concealed, combats the idea that color bars a man from office. The southerner holds that being a colored man ought of itself to bar him from office. President Roosevelt expresses his surprise that the opinion has obtained that he would not appoint reputable colored men to office, when objection is made against them solely on account of their color. "It has been my consistent policy," says Mr. Roosevelt, "to recognize colored men of good repute and standing in making appointments to office." The attitude of the president in this respect speaks well for the man. Standing abreast of the times, he dared to assert the righteousness of his cause in recognition of an honest duty which he owed to his fellow citizens and proved the courage of his conviction. No service is more to be appreciated by all true Americans than that now rendered by our chief executive and it is for aim that we bespeak the gratitude and love of his countrymen. His Official Life Was Short His Official Life Was Short. Washington, D. C.—The shooting affray which occurred in the United States legation at Monrovia, Liberia, on October 6 between Dr. John R. A. Crossland, of Missouri, the American minister there, and Thomas J. R. Faulkner, of Brooklyn, N. Y., has resulted in official action which amounts practically to the recall of Dr. Crossland. Leave of absence has been granted him by the state department, with the understanding that upon his arrival in the United States he will tender his resignation. The leave was extended by the department in order that Dr. Crossland should not be compelled to pay the expenses of his homeward voyage. Are Said to be in Danger. Are said to be in danger. Kansas City, Mo., Dec. 31.—Eight missionaries who are working in Morocco under the direction of the Gospel Missionary union, whose headquarters are in Kansas City, are believed to be in peril. At Fez are stationed George C. Reed, formerly of Nebraska, secretary of the Morocco mission; Mr. and Mrs. Welliver, of Minnesota; Maude Carey, of Emporia, Kan.; Irene Ward, Avoca, Ia., and Nellie Alson, of Alabama. Another party now at Mequinez is composed of F. C. Enyart, of Kansas City and Victor Swanson, of Nebraska. This town is 40 miles west of Fez. To Increase Navy's Personnel. Washington, Dec. 31.—The members of the state and house naval committees after a conference with the secretary of the navy have practically decided on a plan for the increase of the personnel of the navy. It contemplates an additional naval cadet from each congressional district, two for each senator, and ten annually to be appointed at large by the president THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, JANUARY 3, 1903. The Event of the Season. The Bachelor club's ball at Woodlift hall last Monday evening was unquestionably the social event of the holiday season. The young men and ladies had been looking forward to it with high expectations for many weeks and were not disappointed in the slightest degree. About fifty couples were in attendance and enjoyed the delightful music furnished for the dance by Bowman's excellent orchestra from 9 p. m. to 2 p. m. The affair was a brilliant social success, too. The principal gentlemen guests from abroad were Mr. Chas. Berry, of Youngstown, and Harvey J. Whyte, of Baltimore. The beautiful costumes of many of the young ladies and the evening dress of the gentlemen added materially to the most pleasing scene. Among those beautifully gowned were Miss Emma Buchanan, who wore tan silk mulle with blue silk trimmings; Miss Gertrude Goins, of Massillon, blue embroidered batiste, black velvet and lace trimming; Miss Myrtle Means, white brillantine with white lace trimmings; Miss Corum, green foulard, lace trimmings; Miss Viola Perkins, flowered organdie, lace trimmings; Miss Sneed, black grenadine over black jet trimmings; Miss Moxley, blue dimity, lace trimmings; Miss A. Williams, gray lansdown, lace trimmings; Mrs. W. Bolden, black and lavender organdie; Miss Lulu Ford, Youngstown, lavender lansdown and velvet trimmings; Miss Nellie Baker, green organdie, ribbon trimmings; Miss Cora Johnson, Massillon, cream skirt, white silk waist; Miss Bertie Cossey, w. e. organdie; Miss Addie Stewart, Youngstown, gray nun's veiling, chiffon trimming; Mrs. Wm. Coleman, Buffalo, blue cashmere; Miss Armstrong, white organdie, ribbon trimming; Miss Roberts, Oberlin; Miss Amelia Lawson, pink mulle; Miss Mamie Davis, pink silk mulle, white lace trimming; Miss Pearl Crawford, foulard white silk and aplique trimming; Miss Florence Wilson, blue cashmere, white silk trimming; Miss Florence Scott, black silk skirt and white silk waist; Miss Marie Taylor, pink crepe, black aplique trimming; Miss Eva Daw, blue silk, white chiffon trimming. TO FLORIDA AND THE SOUTH. Through Passenger Service via C. A. & C. Railway. Through passenger service to winter resorts in Florida and the South will be resumed for the season over the C. A. & C. Ry., Jan. 5th, 1903, via Cincinnati, Chattanooga, Atlanta and Macon to Jacksonville and St. Augustine. By leaving Cleveland at 8:10 a.m., passengers may step aboard the through sleeping car in Columbus Union Station, leave there at 2:15 p.m., and arrive Chattanooga next morning; Rome 8:33 a.m., Atlanta 10:40 a.m., Macon at noon, Jacksonville 8:15 p.m., St. Augustine 9:30 p.m., on the Florida special consisting of sleeping, dining and observation cars. For particulars consult nearest ticket agent of the Pennsylvania Line or address C. L. Kimball, assistant general passenger agent, Cleveland, O. A Pretty Wedding. Wellsburg, W. Va.—Mr. Robert Moten and Miss Pearl Wallace, formerly of Albermarle county, Va., were married at the A. M. E. church Christmas night by Rev. Henderson. The wedding march was played by Miss Decamps. The bride was given away by Mr. James Pryor. Following came Robert Moten and Miss Lizzie Mashon, Nathan Childs and Miss Birdie Shorts. Edward Childs was usher. The bride was dressed in white cashmere, trimmed in ribbon and lace, and carried white chrysanthemums tied with ribbon. The bridesmaids wore white and carried flowers. The wedding supper was served at Chas. Mashon's.—Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Holt are spending the holidays with Mrs. Dage Childs. TOTALLY DESTROYED. Adventist Publishing Plant at Battle Creek, Mich., Goes Up in Smoke—Loss About $300,000. Battle Creek, Mich., Dec. 31.—In the total destruction last night of the big building occupied by the Review and Herald Publishing Co., the Seventh Day Adventist colony is brought face to face with a second heavy loss by fire within a year, the Adventist sanitarium having been burned down only last February. Last night's loss is estimated by officials of the Review and Herald Co. at $350,000, with insurance amounting to $150,000. The fire was discovered at 7:30 p. m., when only 25 of the 375 employees were at work. One of the 25 had not been accounted for at a late hour last night, but the others got out by way of fire escapes, the stairway from the book room in which they were working being already in flames when their first warning came in the form of choking clouds of smoke. When the fire department arrived the only thing that could be done was to fight for the safety of adjoining buildings, the one in which the fire originated being evidently doomed. Almost within an hour from the first alarm, the Main street wall fell in. J. H. Watson, a billing clerk, was seriously injured while saving books and valuable papers in the office. The fire is supposed to have originated in spontaneous combustion in a pile of rags in the press room. A Plea for Tariff Reductions: Boston, Dec. 31.—At a meeting in Faneuil hall yesterday called by the American Free Trade league the following resolutions were adopted: "Whereas, The tariff duties upon beef and coal, by assisting the extortions of monopoly or impeding relief from them have proved a serious hardship for our people, and Whereas, Such abundant evidence is easily accessible to congress that investigation need not cause delay in the removal of this hardship; Resolved, That as American citizens we ask that the tariff duties on beef and coal be now removed." Another Rebellion Brewing in China. Shanghai, Dec. 31.—A military officer has arrived here from Kan Su province to procure munitions of war and supplies for the commander of the imperial forces. He reports that all the imperial troops enlisted in Kan Su, together with a majority of the Mohammedans there, are only awaiting Tung Fuh Siang's signal to march on Pekin, expel the foreigners and uphold the dowager empress. Prince Tuan is expected to co-operate with Tung Fuh Siang with a force of Mongolians. SHORT NEWS NOTES They Come From Many Parts of the World. Information of Recent Date Collected in Various Ways and Condensed for the Convenience of Our Busy Readers. The Baltimore & Ohio railroad officials announce that the company will build a new railroad 200 miles long that will shorten the distance between Baltimore and Pittsburg by 50 miles. At Allentown, Pa., John Bachman, aged 24 years, and William Bachman, aged 19 years, brothers, were found dead in their room in a hotel. They had been asphyxated by illuminating gas. It is supposed they blew out the gas when they retired. Judge Samuel J. Clarke, who led an overland expedition to Colorado in 1849 and is said to be the last surviving member of the first legislature of that state, is dead at Geneva, N. Y., aged 78 years. Fire in the city hall at Marlboro, Mass., destroyed the building, also the armory of Company F, Fifth regiment, and the Marlboro public library. The total loss is $100,000. The Library contained 25,000 volumes and documents of incalculable value, which cannot be replaced. The building was a four-story brick structure. An anonymous admirer of Abraham Lincoln is going to place busts of the great war president in every public school in the boroughs of Manhattan and the Bronx. The offer was made to the New York board of education and was accepted. Returns received by the Railroad Gazette show that approximately 164,547 cars have been built during 1902, including cars for use on elevated railroads, but exclusive of street and other electric cars. This is considerably the largest record which has ever been made in the country and exceeds by 25,542 the output for 1901. These figures do not include cars built by railroads at their own shops. During the year 4,870 locomotives were built in the country as against 3,384 last year. The interest and dividend payments to be made in January will be the largest ever recorded. The total of payments by American corporations is in excess of $132,000,000. This total is considerably larger than were the payments made in July last, when a similar compilation showed a grand total of $123,678,353. Anton Anderson is dead at New York City as the result of a fight in the course of which he struck his opponent on the mouth. Anderson's knuckles were cut by the blow against the teeth and the next day his hand puffed up and a surgeon informed him he was suffering from blood poisoning and amputation of the hand would be necessary. Anderson would not permit the operation to be performed, and the poison spread to his arm and then to his body. Eventually the hand was taken off, but too late to save his life. At Denver, Col., the coroner's jury which was investigating the death of Mr. and Mrs. John Singer returned a verdict that the man administered strychnine to his wife while he was mentally unsound, and killed himself by the same poison. Though he was worth $59,000, Mr. Singer feared that poverty was about to overtake him. At San Pedro, Cal., fire in the center of the town destroyed about $75,000 worth of property. Half of the prominent business blocks in the city burned. B. Swift, a laborer, and N. C. Andfinson, a retired capitalist, perished. The Demmler tin plate plant at McKeesport, Pa., which has been idle for several months has resumed operations in full, giving employment to 500 men. The Monongahela steel furnace and the Boston iron and steel mill, which have been idle 10 or several weeks, will also resume operations in full. This will place all the iron and steel mills in McKeesport in full operation on January 1. The operators of the Flat Top coal field in West Virginia will give their miners an advance of 10 to 20 percent. beginning January 1. Twelve thousand men are affected. A fire in the factory of the Standard Rock Candy Co., in Brooklyn, N. Y., did damage to the amount of $100,000. A telegram from Elizabeth, Pa., announces the death of Capt. W. W. O'Nell, president of the Marine bank of Pittsburg. He was known to the coal trade from Pittsburg to New Orleans as the owner of yards at many river cities. Commander John E. Roller, formerly commander of the gunboat Monocacy, has reached this country from the Asiatic station, having been ordered home by Rear Admiral Evans, commanding that station, for persistent infraction of the rules of the navy which prohibit the commander of a vessel from permitting his wife to make her home aboard his ship. Secretary Root has decided that it was impracticable for Gen. Chaffee, Gen. Smith and other officers to go to Manila to testify before the Glenn court-martial, as the purpose of the investigation can be fully subserved so far as the testimony of the officers named is concerned, by securing their depositions. The president has commuted the sentence of Jesse Snider, who was convicted in Arkansas of robbery, and sentenced to imprisonment for 20 ears in the Detroit house of correction, to imprisonment for ten years, for the reason that the prisoner was a mere boy at the time of the offense and was led into it by a gang of older criminals. The state bank of Webber, Kan., was dynamited and robbed of $1,500 in cash. The robbers dug a hole through the stone vault large enough to admit a man and then blew open the steel chest which contained the money. The Maxon block, opposite the Union station at Schenectady, N. Y., has been destroyed by fire. The fire, which probably was caused by an overheated chimney, was a spectacular one. The total loss was $100,000; insurance about $75,000. The principal portion of the building was used as a hotel. Moses M. Ham, for many years editor of the Dubuque Herald, a democratic national committeeman from 1872 to 1888, once a state senator and postmaster at Dubuques during both of President Cleveland's administrations, is dead at Dubuque, Ia. He was 69 years old. Catholics in every part of the world are preparing to show their devotion to Pope Leo XIII at the end of the celebration of his silver jubilee next April, by presenting to him an almost priceless jewel. This is a topaz, weighing nearly four pounds, the largest in the world. It is now in the hands of skilled workmen in Rome, where it is being richly carved. That lemon juice will destroy the typhoid germs in water is authoritatively announced by the Chicago health department after careful experiments. One teaspoonful of the juice to half a glassful of water is known to be a good combination and repeated trials invariably produced the same result—every germ was killed. The Rhode Island state board of agriculture has voted to raise the cattle quarantine and allow farmers to buy and sell in Rhode Island and Connecticut, except in cases where farms have been infected with the hoof and mouth disease. One mile south of Fort Wingate, Ariz., the frozen body of August McCue was found in his wagon, which was in a ravine off the road, with the horses still attached to it. The horses were nearly starved and had apparently been there a week. Robert B. Armstrong, private secretary to the secretary of the treasury, will be appointed assistant secretary of the treasury on the reassembling of congress, to succeed Gen. Spaulding, whose resignation has been in the hands of Secretary Shaw for some time. Mr. Armstrong comes from Illinois. The coal stringency in New England has become so acute that a curtailment of train schedules on railroads in that section in the near future appears to be almost inevitable. The Pennsylvania Railroad Co. has commenced the building at South Elizabeth, N. J., of a large system of hothouses and conservatories for the growth and nursing of shrubbery, trees, plants, flowers and exotics, to be used principally in the gardens at stations along the New York and Pittsburg division. Gov. Durbin, of Indiana, has notified Sheriff John S. Dudley, of Sullivan, Ind., that he is no longer to consider himself a public officer because he permitted a mob to take a prisoner from him and lynch him. Dudley has announced his determination to contest the constitutionality of the statute. Three buildings were burned to the ground and two hotels and the post-office were damaged by fire at Braddock, Pa. During the fire Chief McMichael, of the fire department, and Policeman George Young were badly injured by an explosion of gas. Loss $55,000. A Norfolk & Western passenger train was wrecked near Greenville, Va. Engineer Wesley Bailey, of Roanoke, was instantly killed. None of the passengers were hurt. The train was running about 40 miles an hour when it struck a curve where an angle bar had been removed. The Michigan Central Railroad Co. has begun a suit at Detroit against the state of Michigan for $6,000,000, for damages resulting from the revocation of the railroad's special charter by the special session of the state legislature just at the close of Gov. Pingree's administration. A passenger train on the Illinois Central crashed into a work train at Caneyville, Ky. Three men were instantly killed and two injured. One of the engines was demolished. One man was fatally and six seriously injured by the wreck of a trolley car which crashed into a brick building at Atlanta, Ga. Raymond Palmenberg, founder of the form and fixture business in this country and the inventor of the method of display now in use in all the big stores of the country, is dead at his home in New York. In a fire which shot through five factories in the river front district of Brooklyn, N. Y., three firemen were killed, three were badly injured, and more than $400,000 damage was done. Railway building has been active this year—the heaviest, in fact, for 15 years past—and shows a 12 per cent. increase in mileage over a year ago. France and Guatemala have agreed to submit to the international arbitration court at The Hague the French claims against Guatemala. They are similar to those against Venezuela. Advices from New Guinea say natives there murdered two European prospectors and many other persons. It is feared that the drought has caused the natives to resort to cannibalism. Thousands are starving or subsisting on roots. Eight hundred thousand dollars a year has been added to the wages of the 9,000 members of the Truck Teamsters' union of Chicago. The men were in conference with their employers for over two weeks discussing schedules, and an inerease which amounts to about $1.75 a week for each man has been conceded by the employers. The total number of immigrants that arrived at New York and were admitted in 1902, up to and including December 29, was 545,750, as compared with 407,703 in 1901, a gain of more than 138,000. The month of May showed the largest immigration, the number of arrivals in that month being 82,054. The government has purchased four more buffalo from a private herd in Idaho for stocking the Yellowstone national park. The herd in the park now numbers about 45. During the rehearsal of a western drama in the opera house at South Marion, Ind., William Fogleson, aged 18 years, the hero, shot and instantly killed Oliver Miller, aged 25, the villain. The shooting was witnessed by six other members of the company, one of whom was a sister of William Fogleson The Chicago union of the United Garment Workers and the Wholesale Tailors' association have reached an agreement which continues until March 1, 1904. By the terms of the contract the union gets full recognition; 48 hours will constitute a week's work, and the minimum pay by the week is to be $20 for suit cutters, $18 for trousers cutters and $14 for coat trimmers. The workmen are given 16 holidays a year with full pay. Fatma Sing Hpoo, reputed to be the smallest adult person in the world, is dead at Beaumont, Tex. She and her brother were on exhibition and after the performance Fatma became ill and died before a doctor could reach her. She was 22 years old, weighed 15 pounds and stood 28 inches high. M. B. $1,000 REWARD. DR. SHEA. 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 want to know no matter what it is. He asks no questions, writes 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 can 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. Can tell you how to speed 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 him. In the knowledge of chemistry he can impart to you a secret that will overcome your enemies and whn 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 friends he never fails. He has the so-called 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 bldg. 47 Cleveland avenue, and Arthur Sewell, ship builder, South Brooklyn. All have known 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: PLEASE READ THE FOLLOWING: "BROOKLYN, June 3, 1802.—This is to certify I came to New York from Albany. I was offered 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. A friend advised me to go and see DR. SHEA. I did; he told me the cause of all my trouble; he took me in and treated me like a brother. Through him I got a good position that very week. I had been to others; they took my money and did me no good. I bless the day I first met me. SHEA I did at a time I slack r in trouble, to go to him at once. Sincerely, ALBERT AYERS, 2037 Atlantic avenue." "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 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 the sum of $250. I am a poor woman and I was insane. My money, SHEA and I was told 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 parishioners 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 at the age of 10 was her sister, and in a short time cured her sound and well. 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. 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A perfect and radical cure warranted. Fat folks made thin and thin folks made fleshy. The childless made par- 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 651 Fulton St., Brooklyn, N.Y., Nearly Opposite Orchestra, 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. When writing mention this paper, please. 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. --- Leaves—CLEVELAND, 5:00 P. M. (Daily). Arrives—INDIANAPOLIS, 11:45 same night. Arrives—ST. LOUIS, 8:30 A. M. next morning. Arrives—KANSAS CITY, 5 15 next afternoon. 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VALENTINE’s Grocery Store, No 36 Central Ave. Gays jast week 1) Lorain, Dr. G. Harry Wilson has secured offices in the Schofield building. Mr. Charles Berry, of Youngstown, qwas in the city Monday. Miss Lucy Manson and Miss Anna Johnson spent Christmas in Akron. Miss Peék, of Erie, is spending the ‘holidays with Mr. and Mrs. John T. Smith, 705 St. Clair street. Albert I. Williams and wife are spending the holidays with the former's» parents in Arkansas. Ernest Howard and Mrs. Carrie Lawson were married the 11th ult. They are living at 155 Root street. ' Mrs. Margaret Henderson, of Knox- ville, Tenn., is the guest of her son, Walter C. Yardley, and wife, 23 Will- gon place. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Johnson, of Elyria, attended the charity ball Monday evening; also, Miss Sadie Hawkins, of Oberlin. { Mrs. John Fairfax, of Calvert Btreet, has as her guests this week ‘Miss Dode Bell and Mrs. Meredith, of Toledo. Mrs. J. Blanchard and Mrs. Harriet Hawkins, of Lancaster, are guests of Mr, and Mrs. Louis Jones, of -Ster- ling avenue. ' Rey. E. D. Dandridge’s youngest brother from Mt. Pleasant, Pa. a blacksmith, arrived Friday and stay- ed till Tuesday. | 100 much crime being committed here lately in this city by Afro- Americans. Something must be done to stop much of it. ' The bottom seems to have fallen out of the Douglass Straw Binder Company. Those who have the “stock” are trying to unload it. . It is reported that Holland Hodges, of Oberlin, and Miss Ida Anderson, Maughter of Dr. E, H. Anderson, were married in Oberlin U—ristmas even- ing. Harry West has been appointed messenger to the rivers and harbor committee, house of. representative, Washington, D. C., by Hon. T. E. Bur- ton, its chairmam -~ 4. «=> iss Maude Johnson and Mr. Wal- ter Lawson Were married in Akron Christmas eve. They arrived in Cleveland the following day and will reside permanently at 704 Sterling avenue. ‘Rev. F. Rice has been conducting a series of meetings at No. 627 Broad- way for the past two weeks, and as a result has @5 candidates for bap- tism. He will organize a church in the near future. ‘The Jewett Anti-Lynching League Emancipation celebration .at Shiloh ehurch Thursday evening was a splendid demonstration, Mr. Robert Drake, the peaker of the evening, making a fine address. The league has every reason to feel proud of the celebration. Morning prayer at St. Andrew's Episcopal mission to-morrow at 10:30 o'clock. Holy communion will be celebrated. Evening prayer at 7:30. Rey. Edward Doan, the ‘rector, will deliver the next of his series of ser- mons on the Apostle’s Creed. Special musie by the choir of 20 voices, W. H. Watson, 27 years old, of 6 Sago street, was badly cut in the ab- domen and geross the chest from arm to arm by another Afro-Ameri- eanthemorning of the 19th and taken to Charity hospital. The trouble originated over a woman by the ‘game of Annie Nelson, Both men ap- peared to be in love with her. The cutting occurred while Watson was in bed. The charity concert at Grays’ arm- ory Monday evening was an artistic success. The participants: J. G. Tyler, pianist, and Franc D. Glenn, tenor, of Oberlin conservatory; J. Walter Wills, whistler; Mrs. Beaulah Griffin-West, soprano; 5%. Andrew's choirs Dr. G. H. Wilson, reader, and Fred D. Hackley, tenor, were all en- thusiastically received, some scoring encores.) Quarterly: jing at Shiloh church Monday ey iz. By an unanimous vote the salary of the: pastor, Rey, E. D. Dandridge, whs raised from $800 fo $1,000 a year.. The treasurer's report showed that the church was in ‘a splendid financial condition, having all debts paid. and over $100 balance fn the tteasury. The Christmas ex- ercises at the church were better “than they have ‘been for years. The cantata was very good. s-e S. S. of- - ficers were re-elected Sunday for the ensuing year. _, Wm. H. Sherwood, of Chicago, one of the foremost American pianists, and a concert artist of world-wide Tepute, will be the soloist at the first Sunday “pop” concert at Grays’ arm- “ery Sunday. In other places his re- eltals are given at $1 and $1.50, Mr. ‘Conrad Mizer has arranged for 14 “"pop™ concerts. aney will be given every Sunday, beginning January 4, save February i and 8, when Grays’ “armory will be in use by the auto show. The Gesangverein will sing. at “the second concert. Johann Beck and Emil Ring will conduct the or- _ehestra, Beck giving the first concert and alternating with Ring thereafter. . Mr. Freeman H. Morris, the vete- “gan tailor, and one of the oldest of our citizens—60 years a resident— “died last week and was Juried from his residence on the corner of Cedar oie and Grant street. He was a ‘oldest member of Plymouth Con- 4 ehurch (Rev, Dr. Morgan pastor), corner Perry and Pr street. He was fairly well : do, owning some valuable Prop: etn a THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, 0., SATURDAY, JANUARY 3, 1903. erty. He left a wife, a son (Henry)! and daughter (Mary) to mourn his demise. Mr, Morris was originally a North or South Carolinian, ‘the fam- ily have the sympathy of many friends: Inmates of the Old Folks’ Home are complaining of the food given them—both as to quantity and qual- ity,.This ought not to be. Let the (proper person wake up and do better by the aged inmates. Our best people, especially:the ladies (the vast majority ‘of them) were conspicuously absent from the charity ball for reasons ob- vious. It is to be hoped that the Old Folks’ Home association will exer- cise better judgment in the future when persons offer to assist the home through the management of public affairs of any kind. On last Tuesday evening at 7 o'clock at the residence of Mr, and Mrs. Edward Daw, of Beechwood street, the former's sister, Miss Eva Bertha Daw, was married to Mr. Har- yey Johnson Wythe, of Baltimore, by Rev. Edward Doan, rector of St. An- drew’s mission. The wedding recep- tion that followed was one of the most brilliant social funetions our people of this city have seen for many years. The costumes of the ladies in attendance were excep- tional and a splendid tribute to the happy couple and their relatives. A large number of yaluable presents were received by Mr, and Mrs. Whyte. They left later in the evening for Bal- timore, where they will ‘be “at home” at No. 523 Prestmain street, after January 1. She was one of the most beautiful brides ever seen in Cleve- land, and carries with her to her new home the best wishes of a host of friends in. this community. Mr. Whyte is a fine looking, intelligent and companionable gentleman. A statement in one of the daily pa- pers the past week announced that the Old Folks’ Home association agreed to pay $3,500 for the property occupied at No. 186 Osborn stret; paid $1,000 down and gave a mort. gage for the balance; that the $1,000 referred to was part of the $1,800 re- ceived for the Giddings avenue prop- erty, and that the $800 balance was used to remodel and renovate the Os- born street home; that the $300 re- ceived from the insurance company as a result of the fire was a “pres- | ent,” as the insurance policy had not been transferred with the deed; that the close of 1902 found the Old Folks’ Home association confronted with } the mortgage and debts, aggregating }:$3,000. ‘This is regarded as a re- ‘|markable statement of mismanage- ment and questionable conduct of the affairs of the Old Folks’ Home. It {is said that there is. practically no |record of all the receipts and ex- penditures for many months past. | Before giving $500 or any more |money to the association Mr. John | D. Rockefeller and other friends of ‘the home disposed to help it, should require the publication of a report of the last two or three years’ receipts Jand expenditures of the institution. There has been a looseness in the management and conduct of the af. fairs of the home that is almost in- Jexcusible and generally admitted. Sonie months ago in a daily paper Jinterview Trustee John L. Bolden slaimed that between $600 and $700 hhad been spent for repairs, ete., as the ‘result of the fire; that $600 was ‘paid to one carpenter alone. Accord- ing to the recent statement in a daily | paper referred to above, $300 were used. This and Bolden’s statement do not seem to harmonize. Let the | publie have a printed report covering the last few years. There can be no | good reason for the further- with- holding of the same—if it is obtain- tata.” = as! A SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY! 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 ure especially desirous of hear- ing from persons in the following named cities: Zanesville, Springfield, Cadiz, Urbana, Marion, Troy, Gallipo- lis, Xenia, Jamestown, Dayton, Cam- bridge, Portsmouth, Steubenvuile, San- dusky, Hamilton, Piqua, Toledo, Iron- ton, Marietta, Bridgeport, Chillicothe, Rendville, Circleville, 0.; Allegheny, Pittsburg, Washington, Sewialey, New Brighton and other western Pennsylvania cities and towns; Wheel- ing, Parkersburg and other West Virginia cities and towns; northern Kentucky and eastern Indiana cities and towns. Address a card to the editor of The Gazette, Blackstone Block, Cleveland, O., and our terms and instructions to agents and correspondents will be sent at once. Send us the name of any good person or persons in any of the cities named above or others, to whom we can write relative to the matter. A Duel to the Death. Huntington, W. Va., Dec. 31.—James Chambers, a young man living in Bar- ‘boursville, is dying, and George Thompson, ‘of Huff Creek, Logan county, is thought to be mortally wounded, the result of a duel with knives, fought near Logan yesterday. The men quarreled because both loved the same young woman. NOTICE. CAs. JONES, colored, late of Cleveland, ‘Ohio, departed this life Uctobcr 21, 1902. Albert Bernard was duly appointed admini.- trator of the estate by the Probate Court of ‘Cuyahoga County, Ohie. All persons who are of kin or in any way interested as heirs at law either of Samuel Jones or of his wife, deceased, ‘will immediately give notice to W. 7. 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Twenty-Eight Persons Lose Their Lives-All Injured May Recover- Coroner's Jury Says Accident Could Have Been Averted by Competent Operators. London, Ont., Dec. 29.—There were no deaths yesterday among the persons injured in Friday night's collision at Wanstead on the Grand Trunk railroad between Pacific express No. 5, westbound, and an eastbound freight, in which 28 persons lost their lives. While several of the injured are still in a serious condition, it is expected that all will recover. The body of Fireman Ricketts, of the express train, which was believed to be buried under the wrecked engines, was found Sunday covered with snow in the ditch beside the track. One arm was completely torn off and the body was otherwise mangled. Death must have been instantaneous. There is but one unidentified body at the morgue here, that of a woman who was ticketed from Toronto to Duluth. Andrew Carson, the operator at Watford, the first station east of the wreck, whose failure to deliver orders to Conductor McAuliffe, of the Pacific express, to pass the freight at Wanstead is said by the Grand Trunk officials to have caused the wreck, on Sunday made his first statement since the wreck. He says he received the order for No. 5, the express, to pass the freight at Wanstead at 9:48 o'clock, but declares positively that a few minutes later Dispatcher J. G. Kerr, at London, called him and ordered him to "bust" or cancel the order. He said: "About 9:54, after calling Wyoming and ascertaining that the freight was there the dispatcher called me rapidly a half dozen times. When I answered on the wire he told me to 'bust' this order. I wrote 'bust it' across the order just as No. 5 was coming in. Conductor McAuliffe came in and asked me what the express board was out against him for. I told him that we had had an order for him, but the dispatcher had 'busted' it. He asked me to hurry and write him a clearance order, which I did. After the train had started and was out of my reach the dispatcher learned that the freight had left Wyoming. I told him I could not stop No. 5 as it had left. He immediately began calling Kingscourt Junction, the station between Watford and Wanstead, on the railroad wire and I tried to raise them on a commercial wire. We both failed to do this, however, until after the express had passed the junction." Carson admitted that he knew it was against the rules of the company to cancel a train order without sending a substitute for it, but said that the dispatcher was his superior officer and he disliked to question his order or dispute his authority to take this action. Dispatcher Kerr's order book in the local Grand Trunk office does not show that the order was "busted" or cancelled as Carson claims. Division Superintendent George G. Jones, of Toronto, says that the rule against cancelling or "busting" train orders is the strictest in the company's code. "I do not believe," he said last night, "that it has been violated since the standard dispatching rules went into effect. Dispatcher Kerr is one of the best dispatchers in our service. I have every confidence in him." Wyoming, Ont., Dec. 30.—The inquest into the cause of the death of the victims of the recent accident on the Grand Trunk railway at Wanstead was begun here Monday. Montreal, Que., Dec. 30.—Mr. McGuigan, manager of the Grand Trunk railway, explains that had it not been for the blinding snow storm, the Wanstead accident would have been averted, as the road between Wanstead and Watford is perfectly straight for four miles. The material loss to property will not exceed $10,000 or $15,000, but the company expects it will have to face a loss of a quarter of a million by the time all the claims have been settled. Wyoming, Ont., Dec. 31.—The coroner's jury which has been investigating the wreck at Wanstead last Friday night, in which 28 lives were lost, brought in a verdict shortly before midnight last night. The verdict is as follows: "We find that Arthur W. Ricketts was killed in the collision at Wanstead on the evening of December 26, 1902. That said collision was caused by wrong orders being given No. 5, at Watford. Responsibility for the issuance of wrong orders we are not agreed upon as between Operator Carson and Dispatcher Kerr. That after No. 5 had left Watford by the issuance of wrong orders we consider that the accident could have been averted by the operator at Wyoming or Kings Court Junction, had the railway company had more experienced operators at those points (one being but a boy of 16 years), at each of which places the dispatcher having had ample time to do it and endeavored to get the opposing trains stopped." Great Storms in Europe. London, Dec. 29.—There have been further gales along the coast of Great Britain and a renewed fall of snow in Scotland. A number of vessels were compelled to run for shelter and there were some exciting rescues off Holyhead and Cornwall. A hurricane has raged for three days at Vienna and gales elsewhere on the continent are causing considerable damage. The unusual inclementy of the weather in southern Russia is causing great destitution and every day brings reports of people being frozen to death there. A Mine Disaster. St. Petersburg, Dec. 29.—A fire has occurred in a coal mine at Bachmut, Ekatorinoslav province. A hundred miners were underground when the fire started. Twenty of these have been rescued, but it is feared that the others have succumbed. Dow Academy Burned. Littleton, N. H., Dec. 29.—Dow academy, at Franconia, named after the late Moses A. Dow, of Charlestown, Mass., has been burned. Mr. Dow presented the academy to the town 25 years ago and at his death, in 1986, he left it $80,000. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, JANUARY 3. 1903. A FINE COUNTRY. Resident of Ohio Says Western Canada is an Ideal Land for Farmers and Ranchers. A delegate from Ohio to Western Canada says: "The whole of Western Canada seemed to me to be a very fine country, but I spent most of my time about thirty miles east of Lacombe, in Alberta, near what is popularly known as the coal banks on the Red Deer River, and I am very pleased to report that the country appears to be everything that the Agents of the Canadian Government have claimed for it. Good water can be obtained almost anywhere from 17 to 40 feet, and fed generally by springs. The natural hay and grass were magnificent in their growth and wild pea vines very heavy. I met some of my friends who moved there seven years ago and two brothers who had absolutely nothing on their arrival seven years before now own two and a half sections of land and 175 head of cattle. They told me that they did not feed their stock all winter, in fact, never saw them again until the spring, when they came home fat and without loss. I gathered oats 6 ft. 4 high and running from 75 to 100 bushels per acre. It appeared to me that all grasses, wild and cultivated, grow to perfection in any part of Alberta that I saw, and the farmers were cutting from two to three tons of wild hay to the acre. I found the climate very desirable in every respect, and I am told that the winter is the finest part of the year. There is plenty of coal and wood to be had near at hand for the hauling, and such is my satisfaction with the country that I acquired some land and have put a bunch of cattle thereon. I can confidently recommend Western Canada as a suitable place for farmers to immigrate to, and can assure them the kindest treatment by the people there, so much so that one does not distinguish the fact that we have left the boundaries of the United States." Hugh Spender, of the Westminster Gazette, one of the British Journalists who visited Canada this summer (1902), says: "We fell in with a young farmer from Somersetshire, England, driving a binder round a hundred acre field of wheat in Western Canada. In conversation I found that he came from within fifteen miles of my old home in Somersetshire. Here was the very man we wanted. He had come to Manitoba ten years ago, with a capital of $12 on landing. In England he had been employed on a dairy farm, and earned eighteen shillings a week. He now owns 320 acres of land, his horses, buildings and cattle, and expects to have 4,000 bushels of wheat this season. We had heard of such things in the old land, but they did not seem credible, until we came to this living example of the strides that it is possible to make in Manitoba. Had this man remained in England, it is pretty safe to say he would still be earning no more than eighteen shillings a week, while in the same period in Manitoba he has become a substantial and prosperous farmer." "I know a man who commenced in Assiniboia, 15 years ago, with no means; no capital. To-day this man owns 7,000 acres of land, some 30 horses, 30 or 40 bullocks, cows, etc. He has built a good stone house with his own hands, and has now married and is doing well, with every prospect of increasing his means in the future. Western Canada has the most exhilarating, bracing climate I ever knew. All that is required in the settler is perseverance, grit, patience and hard work. I will guarantee the country, if you will guarantee the man." From letter from a retired officer in the British army. 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Attorney General Hamlin's investigation, which may continue until Saturday, is aimed at discovering whether there is or has been any unlawful conspiracy to restrain trade in coal or to force up prices. Mr. Hamlin announced last night that he had made rapid progress and intimated that the greater part of the blame rests with the dealers and not the railroads. "If I find proof," he said, "that the thousands upon thousands of tons of coal which the dealers have in the yards, snow covered and untouched are not actually under contract but held for the purpose of increasing the price, those dealers will be prosecuted and compelled to relieve the suffering occasioned by the scarcity of coal." Before the railroad commission of the city council the fact was brought out that local dealers are holding vast quantities of coal merely to keep up the price. Their plan is to have loaded cars reconsigned. Train Master John W. Coneys, of the Pennsylvania road, testified that during the past few days one car has been reconsigned seven times. Other railroad officials said their rules did not allow cars to be reconsigned more than once or twice at the outside. Mr. Coney promises to do everything in his power to prevent the continuation of this practice in the Pennsylvania yards. CROP REPORT. A Table that Shows the Extent and Value of Farm Products for 1902. Washington, Dec. 31.—Final returns to the department of agriculture from the regular and special correspondents, supplemented by reports of special field agents, show the production and value of the principal farm crops of the United States in 1902 to have been as follows: Corn 2,523,648,312 bushels, value $1,017,017,349. Winter wheat 411,788,666 bushels, value $266,727,475. Spring wheat 258,774,742 bushels, value $155,496,642. Oats. $987,842,712 bushels, value $303,584,852. Barley 134,954,023 bushels, value $61,898,634. Buckwheat 14,529,770 bushels, value $8,654,704. Potatoes 284,632,787 bushels, value $134,111,436. Hay $59,857,576 tons, value $542,-036,364 Tobacco 821,823,963 pounds, value $80,472,506. Flaxseed 29,284,880 bushels, value $30,814,661. Veteran Editor and Jurist Dles. Valparaiso, Ind., Dec. 31.—Judge Wm. C. Talcott, the oldest newspaper man in Indiana, died Tuesday, aged 87 years. For 50 years he owned and edited the Porter County Vidette. Judge Talcott came to Porter county 65 years ago when it was a wilderness, and only one small cabin marked the place where Valparaiso now stands. He surveyed the town, collected its first taxes, taught its first school, preached its first sermon, edited its first paper and was one of the first jurists in this part of the state. Several years ago the judge wrote a 4,000 words sermon to be read at his funeral. An Obloan to Succeed Richards. Washington, Dec. 31.—John H. Fimple, of Carrollton, O., has been selected as assistant commissioner of the general land office, to succeed ex-Gov. Richards, of Wyoming, who has been selected to succeed Binger Hermann, of Oregon, as commissioner. Both Mr. Richards and Mr. Fimple were slated for these offices by the late President McKinley. Mr. Fimple was law clerk of the general land office for four years; was assistant attorney for two years under Assistant Attorney General Vandvananter, of the interior department, and resigned two years ago to resume his law practice. Pensions for Standard Oil Employees. New York, Dec. 31.—The Standard Oil Co. has announced a general pension plan for the benefit of its employees. The plan is on the lines of those which have been announced by various railroad companies. Among the new features, however, is a provision to the effect that employees who have reached the age of 64 years, after 25 years in the service of the company, may retire on half pay for one year, after which the regular pension is, to be paid to them. The regular pension is to be one-fourth of the salary which the employee was receiving at the time of his retirement. To Fight the Tobacco Trust. To Fight the Tobacco Trust. Lexington, Ky., Dec. 31.—The executive committee of the Kentucky Tobacco Growers association met here last night and appointed a committee to draft articles of incorporation. This association proposes to fight the so-called tobacco trust, buying the leaf from the growers. Before incorporation it is necessary that 40,000 growers become members. It was stated last night that this number would be signed before January 29. Organizations have been formed in almost every county in the state. Morgan Denies Merger Story. New York, Dec. 31.—J. P. Morgan yesterday denied that it was intended to consolidate the Erie, Lehigh Valley and Reading railroads. Mr. Morgan said: "There is not the slightest reason for such a story. It is altogether without foundation." Mascagni Is Acquitted. Mascagni is. Signor Mascagni, the Italian composer, was arraigned in court yesterday on a charge of embezzling $5,000 from his former manager, Richard Heard, of Boston. After hearing both sides, Justice Hurley dismissed the case. CASTORIA DRUG HABIT GROWING. Sensational Report Made by the Interdenominational Committee for Suppression of the Vice. According to the report just issued by the interdenominational committee for the suppression of drug addiction, the spread of the drug habit is increasing at an alarming rate in this country. It is asserted that there are more than 1,000,000 morphine "fiends" in the United States, and that one person in every hundred is addicted to drugs. The vice is most prevalent among the wealthy classes and among physicians. Many of the latter, who have become victims of drugs, have become outcasts. Numbers of them have been reclaimed by the committee and put on their feet again. Doctors are blamed for the spread of the drug habit for prescribing drugs to alleviate pain, their patients often becoming "fiends." The offices of the committee are in the Presbyterian building, 156 Fifth avenue, New York, City. Rev. R. F. Sample, D. D., LL. D., former moderator of the general assembly, is president. "While the foreign field needs all possible attention, unfortunately the demands of our country are little short of startling," says the report. A plea is made for a sanitarium for victims of the drug habit. "There are shelters for drunkards, former convicts, and fallen women, but none for these victims of drugs. 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Boyer, Trinity Springs, Ind., Feb. 15, 1900 Hassett—"The way people rave over slender girls makes me tired. I think the plumper a girl is the prettier she is." Gesett—"Ah! I congratulate you, old man; so Miss Dumpling has accepted you, eh?"—Philadelphia Press. If you are coughing, take Dr. August Koenig's Hamburg Breast Tea. It is a good thing that talk is cheap. It is desirable that the necessities of life should always be within easy reach of the masses.—Puck. Every man reveals himself when he describes another—Ram's Horn. Every effort educates—Ram's Horn. All the political rogues are in the other party.—Chicago Daily News. Love may be blind, but chaperones seldom are.—Chicago Daily News. She that naggeth a man sitteth down to many a lonely meal.—Town Topics. That half the world are fools is only the opinion of the other half.—Ram's Horn. Our own heart, and not other men's opinion, forms our true honor.—Coleridge. 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