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One Year..... 81 89 Six Months..... 1 09 Three Months..... 89 Subscribers are requested to remit by post office money order or registered letter. Entered at the post office in Cleveland, Ohio, the spoond-class matter. All communications should be addressed: H. C. SMITH. Editor and Proprietor THE GAZETTE, Blackstone Building, Cleveland, Ohio Member Ohio Legislature, {1894 to 1896. {1896 to 1898. {1900 to 1902. 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. ROOSEVELT-CRUM-COX. The action of the government in the case of the Afro-American postmistress of Indianola, Miss., but indulges the policy of the president so clearly enunciated in his now famous Dr. Crum letter and his more recent appointment of that gentleman as collector of customs with headquarters at Charleston, S. C. The abusive editorials of scurrilous southern sheets like the New Orleans States, while they are to be deplored by all honorable citizens of this country, serve a purpose, and that is to show that in spite of the correctness of the president's and the government's position and policy, the rabidly prejudiced white people of the south are still not only grossly intolerant, abusive and wrong in the position they assume, but that they also insist upon flaunting the fact in the faces of all law-abiding and honorable citizens, including the president and the government. The Roosevelt policy referred to is the only correct one under the law, is fair and honorable, and while we do not always agree with the president in all things he does that affect our people, we cannot but honor and give him full credit for the stand he has taken in the Crum and Cox matters, as well as for the principle and policy enunciated as a result of the same. The prejudiced southern jackass can bray to its heart's content, but it will be in vain, because there is at least a man in the White House as president who has the courage of his convictions, right or wrong. PROF. WASHINGTON FAVORS DISFRANCHISEMENT. The disposition to enslave the Negro or the tendency to oppress him in any way, was and is all a matter of wrong and injustice. It was wrong from the very beginning, and any action on the part of the American people or the southern whites to circumscibe or discriminate against him as an American citizen is a criminal violation of law. Our federal constitution is pledged to the cause of liberty and provides for the equal protection of citizenship under the laws of our country. "Of law," says the learned Hooker, "no less can be acknowledged than that her seat is the bosom of God, her voice is the harmony of the world, all things in Heaven and earth do her homage, the very least as feeling her care and the greatest as not exempt from her power." We therefore express the opinion that any measure on the part of the state abrogating any part of the fundamental law is an encroachment upon the rights and liberties of the people. It places one class in an unequal attitude under the laws and subjects that class to insult, abuse and outrage with no means of redress. It blights the sensibilities, degrades manhood and cripples our aspirations to assert our rights as men. The southern whites who oppose the new constitution, thereby shutting out colored men from the suffrage, have committed a crime not alone against the race, not alone against the federal constitution as well, but against the progressive spirit of the age, the constitution of our government and our new civilization. The individual, who apologizes for such a crime, proves himself none the less a party to the crime. The southern whites who oppose a fellow man in the exercise of his God-given birthright privileges, simply imply that the stronger element may dominate the weaker. They justify the act of any superior power forcing themselves into unwilling subjection. But the Negro leader who finds himself and his race goaded and beset under the galling yoke of oppression, yet presumes to condone such a condition, is either void of human sympathy or is actuated with motives sinister and insincere. Prof. Booker T. Washington commits the unpardonable blunder in a recent address to the public when he says that "every revised constitution throughout the southern states has put a premium upon intelligence, ownership of property, thrift and character." In such fawning does the professor comprehend the force and significance of his words? Does he realize the fact that he is stabbing his poor, bleeding race unto certain death? Has it ever been known in the history of races that any white man espousing the cause of his own race has risen and made issue against them? But this Mr. Washington has done. Wishing his people a Godspeed in their THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1903. struggle to rise in the scale of being yet in sheer moral weakness Mr. Washington surrenders the righteousness of his cause to a morbid ambition of the southern white man who persistently refuses to acknowledge the humanity and claims of the black man. Blind to those sublime and ennobling impulses which serve as a guiding magnet to all races, Mr. Washington offers himself as the champion of those who would oppress the Negro, and that, too, in bold defiance of the mandates of law and justice. Ignoring the demands of the law and the immunities accorded white men, he disclaims the very rights and principles for which he contends. The southern states have placed no premium upon intelligence, none upon ownership of property, thrift and character. On the contrary, they have imposed the grossest and most intolerable burdens and have basely circumscribed the Negro in the right of American citizenship; circumscribed him in rights which are not denied the illiterate and equally dependent white man. Mr. Washington is fully conscious of the infamy of the deed, yet as though Afro-Americans were all dumb or asleep, he lends sanction to the villainy, while he obsequiously constructs phrases to soften the asperities of the southern whites in mitigation of the mighty wrong perpetrated against the race. Let Mr. Washington remember that though the Negro possesses not in the same degree that intelligence, ownership of property, thrift and character as the whites, the southern states had no constitutional authority to abrogate the law. It was a deed of robbery against which American justice revolts. The masses of our people are fast gathering unto themselves intelligence, wealth, and the elements of a nobler manhood. To-day we compare favorably with the best citizens of the republic. Will Mr. Washington give himself as a party to this disgraceful crime against the race? The Mobile, Ala., Weekly Press has at last turned up an out-and-out anticritic and goes off on its new-fangled mission after The Cleveland Gazette and the Boston Guardian with an old-fashioned bucket of pine tar. The Press says: "The Cleveland Gazette will let up on Booker T. Washington; the man in Boston who has been throwing mud is regarded as a fool and our good friend Smith must not get into bad company. It is a bad idea to abuse our great men. Men like Councill and Washington do not agree with us always in method but they do the race infinitely more good than the race gives them credit for. We are in a position to know of what we affirm." In its praises of Mr. Councill the Press should not neglect to give the Conservator credit for having whipped him into the attitude of enjoying and cherishing a respect for men and women of his own race. He doesn't go around lecturing and poking fun at Negro women for not having hair like that of the white women now.—Chicago Conservator. If our esteemed conferee of the Mobile (Ala.) Weekly Press will modify his statement a little and say that men like Councill and Washington do those of the race IN THE SOUTH infinitely more good than the race gives them credit for, we will agree with him. The reverse, however, is true in the north, much as we regret to say it. According to a trustee of the Y. M. C. A. of this city, Booker T. Washington's talk is responsible for the closing of that institution to our people, as far as admission of new Afro-American members are concerned. This is only one of many barriers set up in this section of the country as the result of the northern whites' understanding of the Wizard of Tuskegee's*teachings, in speech and print. Like Editor Johnson, "we are in a position to know of what we affirm." "I AIN'T SEEN NO MESSENGER BOY." An Ohio Boy, "Shep" Edmunds, Formerly of Columbus, Recognized as a Composer of Merit. New York City.—The Focus, a new local weekly publication devoted to the musical and theatrical world, has the following interesting notes relative to Afro-American composers: The great success of "I Ain't Seen No Messenger Boy" established Nathan Bivins in the front rank of writers of his race, his latest output being "She Certainly Looks Good to Me." Another colored writer who knows how to write something good is Shep N. Edmonds, who has a desk with F. Mills. His last success, "I'm A Going to Live Anyhow Till I Die," is undoubtedly one of the quaintest coon dittties written in many a day. James Brymm, the colored writer and composer, is a genius in his way. Four of his best pieces are "My Little Zulu Babe," "Josephine, My Jo," "Please Go 'Way, and Let Me Sleep," and "Those Tantalizing Eyes," the last of which is going like wild fire with good coon song singers. Robert McPherson, who writes the lyrics for all of Brymm's songs, is also a well known figure in the popular song field. A Race of Black Jews. London, Eng.-The Jewish Chronicle, an influential organ of the race in this city, publishes an account by Sidney Klein of the discovery, in western Australia, of a tribe of black Jews. Klein is a Jew and left London years ago to settle in Australia. Klein says that about 1,000 miles beyond the Leopold mountain range his party were received by a tribe of blacks. They observed Saturday as a religious holiday, refused to eat swine's flesh, offered burnt offerings of goats and birds and had a place of worship, with two tablets at one end. Klein showed them a Hebrew prayer book. One old man could read parts of it, and said it was the language of their forefathers. Klein says this tribe are undoubtedly Jews. The Chronicle says that Klein's narrative must be regarded as lacking confirmation. Several years ago a story of the finding of such a tribe in Africa was published. FELL DEADI Broke His Leg-Work on Church Stopped-Jett-Dunks, Etc. Sharon, Pa.—Mr. Jos. Walton, plasterer, formerly of Cleveland, fell dead at his boarding house December 28 and was buried from Zion church, Rev. N. L. Young, of S. Sharon, officiating. Death was due to heart failure. The Plasterers' Union defrayed the funeral expenses. Burial in Oakwood cemetery.—Mrs. Jas. Rose, who was shot in Youngstown by her husband, is at her father's much improved.—Miss Flossie Glore has returned from several weeks' visit to her father in Portland, Ore.—Mrs. Fred Maxwell has returned home.— Chas Hawkins is at his brother's suffering from rheumatism.—Foster Liles has accepted a position at Danse's barber shop as boot porter. Mr. Cassius Brooks has returned from Pittsburg. —Mr. H. Byrd spent Sunday with his sweetheart in Oberlin.—Rev. Dorper, of Youngstown, called here last Wednesday.—Mrs. S. E. Jackson will move her boarding place to $47\frac{1}{2}$ Railroad street.—Miss S. M. Davis spent New Year's in Pittsburg with her uncle, W. L. White.—Mr. Jno. Jett and Miss Gertrude Danks are to be married soon.—Misses Maude and S. Davis attended the dance in Youngstown the 5th.—Rev. N. L. Young spent New Year's with his family at Monongahela City.—The work on the church has shut down owing to the cold weather.—Mr. E. Van Damp, of New Castle, formerly of this city, fell and broke his leg.—Rev. Daniel Moore, of New Castle, fell dead recently.—Misses Ollie and Amelia Coleman, of Pittsburg, spent the holidays with their parents.—C. E. Davis, jr., is working in Mr. Fuller's barber shop in Sharpsville.—Miss Maude Davis is ill. THE MASON'S ANNUAL BANQUET. Valuable Presents - Fletcher-Emery Nuptials - Other Local Notes of Interest. Cadiz, O.—On New Year's occurred the marriage of Miss Jessie Fletcher to Mr. Robert Emery, of Massillon, attended by Mr. Jas. Meade, of Barn Hill, and Miss Anna Redman, of this city. Many valuable and useful presents were received. Those from a distance in attendance were Miss Cora Emery and Mr. Calvin Perkins, of Massillon; Miss Burke, of Flushing, and Mr. and Mrs. A. Moore, of McIntyre.—The Masons held their annual banquet on New Year's night. Welcome address, Mr. Isaac Strother; response, Miss Gene Ballard; Emancipation address, Prof. W. H. Lucas; select reading, Miss Dora Stewart; "union," R. F. Ballard. Mr. and Mrs. Peterson, of Pattsburg, were Mr. and Mrs. W. H. White's guests.—Mrs. Emma Powell, of Smithfield, and Mrs. C. Waters, of Bloomdale, were Mrs. Geo. West's guests.—Mr. Richardson, of Braddock, Pa., is Miss Miller's guest.—Miss Maude Brown, of Pittsburg, is visiting her sister, Mrs. J. Redman.—Mrs. Pearl Green, of Newcomerstown, is Mrs. Tyler's guest.—Mr. Keves, of East Liverpool, was in the city over Sunday.—Mr. and Mrs. J. Thomas and Mrs. Hunter, who have been visiting their sister, Mrs. Theodore Mason, returned to Cleveland last week. PRAISE FOR ROOSEVELT. Emancipation Day Resolutions Passed at a Celebration in North Carolina. at a Celebration in North Carolina. Raleigh, N. C.—Emancipation was celebrated New Year's day and was made the occasion for the adoption of resolutions. One of them said: "At this time and in this presence it is proper that we give expression to our hearty indorsement of the position taken by President Roosevelt in behalf of equal civil and political rights of every class of American citizens. The president but adheres to and upholds the great principles underlying our free institutions, and out of which came emancipation and the thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the constitution of our country. "There can be no two classes of citizens in this country. The organic law of the public prescribes the qualifications necessary to invest one with privileges and powers of citizenship, and we hold that all complying with said requirements are citizens of the United States. "We further recommend that a copy of this action be forwarded to President Roosevelt as the sentiments of the Negro citizens of North Carolina." THAT KANSAS LYNCHING! Strong Words from a Fearless and Noble White Minister. Following is a passage from a sermon delivered by Rev. Ulysses A.Foster (white) of Bemidji, Minn., to a large audience on December 28, and kindly sent The Gazette by Attorney Chas. W. Scrutchins, of that thriving little city. In these trying times, when white ministers, press and representatives are so cowardly, the above is encouraging. Would that we had more men like Rev. Foster: "This business of lynching is the worst blot upon the body of our society, and is a burning disgrace to the American people. And if I were governor of Kansas I would have the perpetrators of that dastardly deed of lynching that innocent colored man on Christmas eve run down and justice meted out to them if it cost every dollar in the state of Kansas. I believe in absolute equality before the law for every man, regardless of race or color, and the fact that President Roosevelt is broad enough to recognize that principle and to invite Booker T. Washington to dine with him in the White House is a sufficient reason in itself why he should be nominated and re-elected in 1904." Trouble Brewing in Honduras. Trouble Brewing in Honduras. Panama, Jan. 8.—News has reached here that the threatened revolutionary movement in Honduras is becoming more serious. Manuel Bonilla was elected president of Honduras by a big majority last October. President Sierra, however, refused to turn over the presidential power to Bonilla and is trying to persuade congress to declare the election of Bonilla illegal. Bonilla is on Amalpa island, where he awaits the decision of congress. He has a quantity of munitions of war and his partisans declare they will protect their leader in his rights by force if necessary. 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CLEVELAND, SATURDAY, JAN. 10. 1803 PUSHAW'S News Store, Cuyanoge Building opposite the Post Office. Opens Sunday. N. HEXTER's News Depot, City Hall Building, cor. Wood and Superior streets. Open Sunday. S. H. MOODY's News Store, No. 387 Superior street, second westof Boad street. Open Sundays also. GOODMAN's News Depot, No. 585 Central avenue, cor. Sterling avenue. Open Sunday. HATCH & GREEN's Barber Shop, N 544 Central Ave., cor. Greenwood St. Miss Maud Waldon returned last week from Bucyrus. Miss Nettie Evans, of Oberlin, visited Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Price last week. Clifford Bundy is suing under Hon. H. C. Smith's Ohio civil rights law. Miss Addie Stewart, of Youngstown, is the guest of Miss Marie Taylor. Miss Gertie Goins, of Massillon, is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Scott, 513 Central avenue. Minnie B. Woods, of 47 Jackson street, will be married to James M. Kemp on Wednesday January 28. Mr. Frank Hatter and Miss Frances Nichols of Harmon street, were married by Rev. F. G. Brookins last week. It is Rev. H. C. Bailey, of Springfield, who has accepted a call from Antioch Baptist church and not Rev. Balay. W. R. Harris, for many months headwaiter at New Hotel McKinley, Canton, has resigned and is at his home at No. 155 Central avenue. Mrs. Frank Terry, who is now studying at Wilberforce university, was in the city the past two weeks. She returned Wednesday to resume her studies. Mr. and Mrs Charles Lee. of Sterling avenue, lost their youngest child, a baby, last week. It was buried Saturday. They have the sympathy of many friends. It was a very promising child. The W. C. T. U. will meet Monday night at Mrs. Dunjill's, on Hackman street. "The members will please come prepared to pay the semi-annual dues," writes Mrs. R. Johnson, president. Mrs. Vincent, of Harmon street, has as guests two very pleasing ladies from Niagara Falls. Mrs. John Poindexter entertained in an informal manner in their honor last week Friday evening. Miss Mattie Curtiss, of Maple street, entertained about 20 friends Saturday evening in honor of her 21st birthday. Games were played and refreshments served. Miss Mattie and her brother, Lonnie, proved most successful indeed as hostess and host. The Women's Guild of St. Andrew's mission was reorganized Tuesday evening with the following named officers: Mrs. J. W. Nooks, president; Mrs. Amelia Walker, vice president; Mrs. L. Cooper, treasurer; Mrs. Arnold, secretary. The following named trustees were elected to serve St. John's church the ensuing year: Messrs. Hooker Page. J. Crawford, R.G. Long, George Carroll, I. E. Oliver, T. J. Berryman, Nelson Jones, Peyton Lemon and George Buchanan. Clifford Bundy began a $500 damage suit last week Friday against J. B. L. Clark, restaurant keeper at 349 Erie street. Bundy says he, with three others, went into Clark's restaurant last November and that on account of their color they were refused service. Good for Bundy! Fight in the courts for your rights! That's the only and proper way. Big "Jim" Parker, of Georgia, who stopped Czolgolz from firing the second bullet into President McKinley and overpowered the assassin, was in the city last Wednesday evening and called on the editor of The Gazette. He was the guest Wednesday night of Mr. and Mrs. Morgan, of Maple street, leaving early Thursday morning for Cincinnati. At the Bachelor club's ball at Woodliff hall last Monday evening, Mrs. J. H. Stewart was dressed in pearl gray lansdown, aplique trimming over nile green silk; Mrs. L. Lobert, green velvet with aplique trimming. These two ladies' costumes were not received in time to permit of their publication last week. Rev. F. Rice baptized 16 converts in Rev. Eaton's church on Euclid avenue Sunday, between 2 and 4 p. m. The whites filled the gallery and also part of the lower floor. About 75 of our people were present. Rev. Rice was dressed in a plain white robe. He is pastor of the People's Gospel Mission, 627 Broadway, now has about 50 members, and will organize a church in the near future. Mrs. Sidney Thompson has returned from Pittsburg, where she visited her mother and attended the marriage of her sister, Clayder Beatty, to a Mr. Williams, of that city. The ceremony took place at East End kindergarten. Mr. Thompson has returned from an extended trip through the southwest, being entertained at St. Louis by Mr. and Mrs. Scott. Rumor has it that only about $370 was made at the charity ball at Grays' armory. The Old Folks' Home association paid $1,500 on the home indebtedness of about $3,000 last Saturday. John D. Rockefeller gave the $500 he promised. The matron of the home is being bitterly complained of by inmates who claim mistreatment. They also say the food is short and bad oftimes. To-morrow will be observed as missionary day throughout the entire Episcopal diocese. At St. Andrew's mission the rector will preach a special missionary sermon at 10:30 a. m. No evening service. A special union service will be held in St. Paul's Episcopal church, corner Case and Euclid avenues, at 7:30 p. m. Bishop Leonard will visit St. Andrew's on Sunday evening, January 25, to administer THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1903. the apostolic rite of confirmation. Rev. Edward S. Doan has moved from 38 Beechwood street to 294 Sibley street. Horace E. Gibbs son of ex-Judge M. W. Gibbs, of Little Rock, Ark., and former U. S. consul at Tamatave, Madagascar, has arrived in the city for a few days and will canvass for a new book entitled "Shadow and Light," an illustrated autobiography of his father with reminiscences, etc. Judge Gibbs has had an exceptional career (public) for 40 years. The book is highly commended by the press and reading public. In the New Year's day contest at the Vincent street bowling alley, Mr. Rose made the highest score and Mr. Frank McGhee the next highest. The winner secured a cash prize and Mr. McGhee some fine cigars. John Stinson won the contest Tuesday evening and Mr. Rose was second. Valuable prizes were again given the successful contestants. To-night will decide this week's contest, which bids fair to be the most hotly contested one of he series thus far. Mr. Simmons intends having these weekly contests, giving out prizes at their conclusion on Saturday evening. A special prize will be given every Tuesday evening to the person bowling the highest. All contests are open to all persons desiring to bowl. The result is that there is a lively interest in the game. Persons desiring to witness the bowling are welcome without any charge. The poor, misguided individuals of color who, at the requestof certain prejudiced individuals connected with the Y. M. C. A. of this city, are running about encouraging the organization of a colored Y. M. C. A., do not seem to realize that we have the color-line drawn on us often enough by the whites without drawing it against ourselves and, too, at the request of persons who have already so insulted us. If the intelligent Afro-Americans of this community permit any such movement to prosper it will not be long before the prejudiced whites of this community will take the cue and force out from our public schools every one of the colored teachers, whether separate schools for our people are established or not. This was the result of the establishment of a colored Y. M. C. A. in Springfield, O., in recent years. Other backward and hurtful steps of a similar nature would follow as surely as the night follows the day, with the result that in a few years the color-line would be as generally drawn in Cleveland as it is in Cincinnati. It seems that some of the newcomers of color to our city in recent years are anything but desirable additions to the Afro-American population of Cleveland. This is to be regretted. CHARITY BALL REMINISCENCE Great was the fall At the Charity Ball On last week Monday night, When it's march, 'twere leading. With breast high and heaving, Goodness gracious! What a sight! The cake was not in sight, The' twas "Rag Time" march night. The festive banana peel! do tell! Oh! humiliation and expense! When exhilation was most intense The "mighty" leader reared and fell. An Emancipation Jubilee. An Emancipation Jubilee. Lockland and Wyoming, O.—Rev. Orr has returned from Nashville.—Mrs. Hyatt and mother, of Xenia, assistant matron of the Avondale orphan asylum, are Mrs. M. V. Roberts' guests.—Rev. James Baker, of Paris, Ky., preached at Christian church last Sunday. 'He was also Mrs. Roberts' guest.—Mrs. Overstreet is ill.—Mrs. Poindexter died last Monday. Funeral services conducted by Rev. Orr from Mt. Zion church. The deceased leaves four sons and one daughter.—Mrs. Bessie Lunsford lost her infant daughter. Funeral services from Christian church.—Bethel church held an Emancipation jubilee January 1. Music by choir and orchestra. Prayer, Mr. Chas. Poston; paper, Mr. Geo. Alred and Mr. Jno. Sanders; recitation, "The Negro In It," Miss L. M. Johnson; oration, "Forty Years of Freedom," Rev. I. N. Ross. 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 are especially desirous of hearing from persons in the following named cities: Zanesville, Springfield, Cadiz, Urbana, Marion, Troy, Gallipolis, Xenia, Jamestown, Dayton, Cambridge, Portsmouth, Steubenville, Sandusky, Hamilton, Piqua, Toledo, Ironton, Marietta, Bridgeport, Chillicothe, Rendville, Circleville, O.; Allegheny, Pittsburg, Washington, Sewickley, New Brighton and other western Pennsylvania cities and towns; Wheeling, 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. BABY LASHED TO A TRAIN. Mulatto Girl Infant was Dead After Thrilling Ride-Mother Supposed to be White. Columbus, O.—The body of a 2 months-old girl baby was found lashed to the rear end of the rear car of a B. & O. train that arrived here from Cincinnati Monday morning. The discovery was made at Derby, near this city. The baby was dead when found, but there are indications that it was alive when tied to the train. The baby was a beautiful mulatto, very light, and, from its features, it is believed its mother was white. Conductor S. P. Burris, of Columbus, and Brakeman Orin Welch, of Newark, say they are certain the body was not tied to the train when the stop was made at Washington C. H. Between Washington C. H. and Derby two stops were made, at Bloomingburg and Mt. Sterling. $8 A DAY easily made handling our line. Special offer closes in ten days. Write to-day. BOX 570. Louisville, Ky. To Shoot Members of the Tenth Cavalry While in Cuba - Personals, Etc. Mrs. Daniel Letts' mother, Mrs. Marcissery, of Columbus, is seriously ill—"My Friend From Home" turned over to the church $22.10.—Mr. William Evans, of Columbus, is visiting Mr. Henry Hawkins.—Miss Flora Moss is sick.—This is week of prayer at the A. M. E. church.—Mr. Charles Huster has returned from London.—Mr. James Parker lectured at the A. M. E. church January 2. Mr. Homer Bunch has accepted a position as his advance agent. JOHN E. LEWIS, Corporal Tenth Cavalry. GANS HOLDS HIS TITLE. Gus Gardner Makes Poor Showing In Fight With Lightweight Champion- Defeats Seger. New Britain—Before a holiday audience of 1,500 sports gathered from all parts of the state, Gus Gardner (white), of Philadelphia, New Year's day made a weak and ineffectual attempt to wrest the lightweight championship from Joe Gans. Gardner played to stay ten rounds and on this possibly there was heavy betting. He succeeded in doing so. In the 11th he grasped Gans tightly about the waist and threw him heavily upon his back. As he had been cautioned repeatedly against holding, Referee John Wills promptly ended the bout and awarded the honors to Gans. Gans could not get Gardner in a place large enough to allow him to strike a blow until the fourth round. Gardner avoided his leads by clever foot-work and puerile clinching. Gans' left went to the jaw repeatedly in the rounds that followed and several times Gardner took the count. The bell saved him from being finished in the eighth round. Boston.—Joe Gans made Charley Seger (white), of Brooklyn, look like a counterfeit in their bout at the Criterion A. C. New Year's eve. The men were scheduled to go 12 rounds, but Referee Daly gave Gans the decision in the tenth. Still Leaving Louisiana. New Orleans, La.—In spite of the recent compromise agreement, our people continue to be terror-stricken by lawless bands in Amite county and are leaving in droves. They leave mostly at night and take the train chiefly at way stations. The farmers and business men are sleeping on their plantations with shotguns vowing to kill any night raider (white) who molests their tenants. Great and good are the actions done by many whose worth is never known.—Hans Andersen. A Passenger Train Crashes Into a Freight. The Vetims Were All In the Smoking Car. Two of Them Were Literary Roasted to Death. Pittsburg, Jan. 8.—As a result of a collision between a passenger train and a freight train on the mononga. Mela division of the Pennsylvania railroad last night at Cocarane station, just above Duquesne, seven men are dead, one is dying and five others injured. The dead: C. E. Stroud, baggagemaster of Elizabeth accommodation, Homewood. C. M. Boehner, brakeman of accommodation, Pittsburg. John S. Stewart, passenger, residence unknown. Two unknown foreigners killed outright. Two unknown foreigners, died on their way to hospital. The passenger train in the wreck was the West Elizabeth accommodation, which left Pittsburg at 3:20 p.m. It was on time and had a clear track, according to the signals displayed. At the siding at Coebrake it ran into the rear car of an extra freight which had taken the switch, but failed to clear the main line. The officials of the road attribute the disaster to the failure of Patrick Quinn, the rear brakeman of the freight, to see that his train had cleared. Quinn has not been found. When the passenger train came along the caboose of the freight train overlapped the main track enough to catch the tender of the passenger engine, which was forced back upon the combination baggage and smoking car with terrible force. The 13 passengers were jammed against the rear end of the car into almost a solid mass. Three of the victims were apparently killed outright, two of the other four were literally roasted to death and the two who died on the way to the hospital were so badly burned that recognition is impossible. Almost immediately after the impact, fire from the stove in the smoker communicated to the wreckage and the imprisoned victims were tortured beyond description. All of the victims were badly burned. Conductor Cook was found unconscious under the charred body of Baggagemaster Stroud. Strange to say not a truck except the tender left the track, the passengers in the coaches being thus protected from harm. No one outside of the smoker was injured. When the passenger engine struck the rear end of the last car of the freight, the beam of the cowcatcher knocked the cylinder on the left side off and then dug into one end of the tank of the tender and shoved it from the trucks. This tank was driven back through the combination baggage and smoker. The tank cleaved through the shell of the combination car like a knife. It passed through between the roof and floor of the crowded car. In the front end of the car was a stove which was shoved back among the confused jumblg. Any fire that might have been caused by the shock could easily have been extinguished in a short time. But when the tank came through it brought with it a 15-gallon can of gasoline. This was ignited by the coals of the stove fire. There was an explosion and the wreckage commenced to burn furiously. A SEVERE BLIZZARD. It Makes Its Presence Felt Over a Vast Extent of Territory. Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 7.—The blizzard in the Dakotas and northwestern Iowa is one of the most severe ever known. One death is reported, that of Michael Butler, of Deadwood, S. D., who was killed by a falling tree. The loss at Sioux City by wind is estimated at $10,000. At Luverne, Minn., roofs were blown down from buildings through plate glass fronts on the opposite side of the street. Railway cuts were drifted full and wagon roads blocked over an extensive area. Stock is suffering and there will be many losses. The wind had a velocity of 60 and 70 miles an hour in many places. Brown's Valley, Minn., Jan. 8.—The worst storm that has occurred in the last ten years has been raging since 6 o'clock Tuesday evening. A heavy fall of snow and a northeast wind, blowing about 40 miles an hour, make travel of all kinds impossible. All trains are abandoned on account of the storm. Omaha, Neb., Jan. 8.—The railroads were seriously affected by the storm and nearly every train arriving in the city yesterday was from one to six hours late. Several instances are reported where engineers stopped their trains entirely during certain spasms of the storm, while they were on high or exposed ground, being afraid to run because there was danger of being blown off the track while rounding curves. Louisville, Ky., Jan. 8—Reports from portions of the southwest and from nearly all parts of Kentucky indicate that the effects of the blizzard are being severely felt. Failed to Rob the Mail Watertown, N. Y., Jan. 8.—An unsuccessful attempt to rob the United States mail was made on a Rome, Watertown & Ogdensburg train near Gouverneur last night. Two men who boarded the train at Gouverneur, forced an entrance into the mail car and commanded Clerk Stack to surrender the postal valuables. The clerk called for help and the express messenger responded, when one of the robbers jumped from the train, which was moving at the rate of 20 miles an hour. The other was captured. Asked for an Injunction Chicago, Jan. 8. The fight between the Pennsylvania railroad system and the Western Union Telegraph Co. was carried into the federal court here yesterday, the telegraph company filing a bill for an injunction to restrain the Pittsburg, Cincinnati, Chicago & St. Louis Railroad Co. from carrying out an expressed intention to prevent the operation of the complainant's telegraph business on the railroad lines after June 2 next. The telegraph company asserts that such action will cause great injury to its business and to the public. WONDERFUL DISCOVERY Curly Hair Made Straight By ```markdown ``` OZONIZED OX MARROW (Copyrighted.) This wonderful hair pomade is the only safe preparation in the world that makes kinky or curly hair straight as shown above. It nourishes the scalp and prevents hair from breaking and causing dandruff. It makes the hair grow long and milky. Sold over forty years and used by thousands. Warranted harmless. Testimonials free on request. 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She clearly indicated the place and then she vanished. A kidney warning should be promptly heeded for dangerous diabetes — Bright's disease—are only a step away. Read how the dan- ger can be averted: CASE NO. 15,741.—Rev. Jacob D. Van Doren, of 57 Sixth Street, Fond du Lac, Wis., Presbyterian clergyman, says: "A man or woman who has never had kidney complaint or any of the little ils consequent upon irritated or inactive kidneys knows very little about what prolonged suffering is. I had attacks which kept me in the house for days at a time, unable to do anything, and to express what I suffered can hardly be adequately done in ordinary Anglo-Saxon. As time passed, complications set in, the particulars of which I will be pleased to give in a personal interview to any one who requires information. I used plenty of remedies, and, ever on the outlook for something that might check or benefit my condition, I began taking Doan's Kidney Pills. This I can conscientiously say, Doan's Kidney Pills caused a general improvement in my health. They brought great relief by lessening the pain and correcting the action of the kidney secretions." "Before it was light I was on my way to the spot and found it without any difficulty. I took my son with me, and we began to search for the gold, and I found this lump. My son found several smaller lumps and also fragments of gold-bearing quartz. I believe there is a valuable gold mine at this place, and I intend to have an investigation made." SAVED BY FAITHFUL DOG. Texas Man Escapes the Ravenous Wolves, But His Brute Companion Perishes. John Schenken, of Fredericksburg, Tex., was saved from death the other day by the fidelity of his dog. Schenken was camping in a lone spot 19 miles west of Austin, and early in the morning he was attacked by a large pack of ravenous wolves. He was overpowered by the animals and severely bitten. Schenken's dog came to his rescue and diverted the attention of the wolves while his master climbed into his wagon. The dog was killed and eaten by the wolves. Schenken will recover, though severely wounded. A FREE TRIAL of this great kidney medicine which cured the Rev, Jacob Van Doren will be mailed on application to any part of the United States. Address Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y. For sale by all drugists, price 50 cents per box. New London Club for Women. "Ladies' Field" is the name of a new club of London, which promises to be popular. As the name implies it will apply to women who are devoted to sport and country pursuits. The premises are to be in the immediate vicinity of Bond street and Piccadilly. Among the varied attractions will be billiard and card rooms, and during the season a club drag will be at the disposal of members who still prefer horses to automobiles. $3.00 W.L. DOUGLAS SHOES $3.50 UNION MADE W.L. Douglas makes and sells more men's $3.50 and $3.00 shoes than any other two manufacturers in the world, which proves their superiority; JOHN H. BURTON Humiliating. life than any other make. Because W. L. Douglas is the largest manufacturer he can buy cheaper and produce his shoes at a lower cost than other concerns, which enables him to sell shoes for $3.50 and $3.00 equal in every way to those sold elsewhere for $4 and $5.00. W. L. Douglas $3.50 A New York lady who sued for $25,000 for breach of promise has been awarded damages in the sum of six cents. That, says the Chicago Record-Herald, ought to take the conceit out of the fellow. A life of case means a life of discontent.—Chicago Daily News. Temptation is usually identified when it is too late.—Chicago Journal. but $5 shoes are worth $9 chaussettes or men who have been paying $4 and $3, not believing they can get a first-class shoe for $3.50 or $3.00. And wear of his $3.50 and $3.00 shoes is just as good. Placed side by side it is impossible to see any difference. A trial will convince. Notice Increase (1599 Sales) $2,262,863,211 In Business) 1192 Sales $5,054,340,00 It is all well enough to judge a tailor by his clothes.—Chicago Daily News. Friendship rises but with fortune and sets when men go downward.—Aaron Hill. Young men know it all, but old men have the coin.—Chicago Daily News. There is not in nature a thing that makes a man so deformed as intemperate anger.—John Webster. Many a man rises in life as a balloon rises in the air—by gas. A puncture, and that's all.—United Presbyterian. HAMLINS HAMLINS WIZARD OIL CURES ALL PAIN, SORENESS, SWELLING AND INFLAMMATION FROM ANY CAUSE WHATEVER. AT ALL 50 CENTS DRUGGISTS Softly—"Love makes the world go round!" Shortly—"Yes, there's no crank equal to a lover."—Harvard Lampoon. "No, no, he hasn't the heart to go automobiling. He's afraid he'll kill somebody, you know." "Funny reason?" 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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. CONGRESS. The senate reconvened on the 5th after the holiday recess and several resolutions bearing on the coal scarcity in the country were introduced, but no action was taken. The house transacted no business, there being no quorum present. On the 6th the senate listened to a long speech by Senator Hoar on trusts. He was followed by Senator Vest, who attacked the protected industries of the country. The house passed the bill for the creation of a general staff for the army. William A. Eddy has successfully experimented at Bayonne, N. J., with an aeroplane, similar to the one with which Alexander Graham Bell recently made the discovery that led him to announce that the flying machine of the future would be of this type. Mr. Eddy's experiment was in corroboration of Prof. Bell's statement that an aeroplane kite could be made that would carry the weight of a motor and a man, and thus solve the problem of aerial navigation. A search covering a period of 17 years has just ended in New York by Francis Rosborg, of Chicago, finding the daughter who was taken from him in 1885, when she was five years old. The daughter is Mrs. Alfred Boyles of Brooklyn. She is a bride of four months. An original copy of the "New England Primer," which is said to be even more rare than those possessed by George W. Vanderbilt and J. Pierpont Morgan, has been sold by Morris B. High, of Johnstown, Pa., to Dodd, Mead & Co., of New York. Mr. High purchased the primer for 12 cents at a public auction in a farmhouse in 1893. He received $2,500 for the book. That valentines are still popular is proven by a Worcester (Mass.) firm's shipping four freight cars of them. It was the largest order ever filled. There were 1,362,000 valentines in the consignment, which went to a big wholesale house in Chicago. About half of the town of Olla, La., on the St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern railway was destroyed by fire recently. During the excitement that followed, Town Marshal Everett Smith was killed by unknown persons. The city of Detroit is going into the coal business and will supply the people with coal at cost prices. The council appropriated $50,000 for the purchase of coal to be sold by the municipality and Mayor Maybury has approved the resolution. Brig. Gen. Eli Long, of Plainfield, N. J., is dead at New York City. He served in the civil war and was twice breveted for gallantry. He was for a time colonel of the Fourth Ohio cavalry. He was born in Kentucky in 1837. The statement of the coinage executed at the mints of the United States during the calendar year 1902, shows a total of $79,485,815, as follows: Gold $47,109,852, silver $29,928,-167, minor coins $2,247,796. Four miners were probably fatally injured and a number of others badly burned and cut by falling coal in an explosion of mine dust in the Chicago-Virden mine at Auburn, Ill. Richard Wagner's heirs received a total of $115,000 in royalties during 1902 from his operas, exclusive of the Bayreuth profits. "Lohengrin," the most popular, yielded $68,000. It was given 997 times in Germany, 420 times in Holland, France and Italy, and 812 times in America and Great Britain. Real estate assessments in New York City have been increased nearly $1,420,000,000 under the new system of taxation adopted by the fusion administration. The commissioner of navigation reports 627 sail and steam vessels built in the United States and officially numbered during the six months ended December 61, 1902. Increases in wages granted by the great railroad and industrial corporations show that during the coming year 656,800 employees will receive $38,350,000 more than they did last year. Negotiations are now in progress by which 110,000 employees of various railroads in the west and south will receive increases aggregating $4,000,000 annually. Scores of small corporations or business firms, each employing a few hundred men or women, have made wage advances. Dr. David Jayne Hill, first assistant secretary of state, will relinquish that post this month to become United States minister to Switzerland. He will be succeeded as first assistant by Francis B. Loomis, at present United States minister to Portugal. The month of December was a lively one for John D. Rockefeller and his immense wealth was increased by many millions. By the increase in the price of oil Standard stock went up $17 a share. This meant a gain in Mr. Rockefeller's wealth of $68,000,000. The price of Standard Oil stock has leaped since December 15 from $640 a share to $720. Besides it has paid a dividend of $10,000,000. Thomas Macpherson, one of the oldest shipbuilders in this country, who assisted in building the cup-winning yacht America, half a century ago, is dead at his home in Williamsburg, N. Y. Mr. Macpherson died of a broken heart, his family say, caused by the death of his wife. In a recent fight between Bulgarians and Turkish troops at the village of Drenovo, fifteen of the latter were killed or wounded. The Turkish commander was among the killed. The fire loss of the United States and Canada for the year 1902 amounted to $149,260,850. This is less than the figures for 1901 of $164,347,450. At Bath, Pa., a trestle bridge which the Bath & Northampton railroad is building, swung from its abutments with a locomotive and seven loaded cinder cars, together with laborers and carpenters. It collapsed in a moment and care and men were thrown to the ground, a distance of 20 feet. One man was seriously injured. The damage to the property is about $10,000. Announcement is made that the raising of the new $50,000 endowment for Shurtleff college, at Upper Alton, Ill., has been completed. Of the $50,000 the college raised $37,500 and John D. Rockefeller rave $12,500. According to an estimate made by a conservative physician of Louisville, Ky., the number of children wounded during the Christmas holidays with blank cartridges is 30. Of this number two have died and several are in a critical condition. Levi Eicher, aged 95 years, and his wife, residing near Connellsville, Pa., were tortured by masked thieves until they told where their money was hidden. The robbers held a lighted lamp to Mrs. Eicher's feet and burned them until the flesh fell off, before she would consent to show them the box where $225 was hidden. Then they bound their victims to their bed with ropes and left them. An anonymous gift of $10,000 to a proposed fund for a memorial to Rev. Henry Ward Beecher has been made. It is expected the fund will reach a total of $100,000. It is announced that the president shortly will appoint Rev. Dr. Lyons, a colored preacher of Baltimore, as United States minister to Liberia. At Maynard, Mass., the spinners of the American Woolen Co.'s Assabet mills struck as a protest against a new price list. About 120 hands quit, forcing a suspension of operations in several other departments. David Thompson, one of the best known prospectors in the Black Hills, over which country he had hunted gold for 17 years, struck a ledge of great richness, and after ten minutes of demonstrations of delight fell dead, says a dispatch from Rouboix, S. D. Dedication week of the Louisiana Purchase exposition, April 27 to May 2, will be signalized by the holding of the annual convention of the National Good Roads association and 50,000 invitations have been issued. It is estimated that 200,000 visitors will attend the dedication ceremonies and the convention. The New York court of appeals has handed down decisions affirming the constitutionality of the police reorganization of 1901, which legislated out of office the "bi-partisan" police commission of New York City and ex-Chief of Police Devery. The effect of this decision is to firmly establish the present police system of Greater New York. To be jammed under the pilot of a hog locomotive, as the ones Cornelius Vanderbilt invented are called, to have his legs curled over the axle of the coney wheels under the pilot and carried along for 100 feet, and yet, to escape without a broken bone, has been the experience of Louis Huysler, an electrician of Mount Vernon, N. Y. Richard Mansill, astronomer, scientist and author, is dead at Rock Island, Ill., aged 74. His annual manac of planetary meteorology was published in 1875 and appeared regularly until 1901. It circulated in this country and in England, and was accepted as standard everywhere. During the recent battle in Morocco with the government forces the rebels captured 12 of the sultan's cannon and his treasure chests. At Pottsville, Pa., the Eastern Steel Co. has begun work on four open hearth steel furnaces which will have a capacity of 150,000 tons per year and will be a part of one of the biggest steel manufactories in the country. Work will be rushed day and night. The new mill will be working by July 1. Five men entered the First national bank of Abingdon, Ill., bound and gagged the night watchman and leisurely blew open the vault, securing $4.800. Thirteen charges of dynamite were exploded before the cash was reached. Two of the robbers were afterward captured. The United States supreme court has decided the case of the Western Union Telegraph Co. vs. the borough of New Hope, Pennsylvania, in favor of the town. The case involved the validity of an ordinance requiring a license fee for telegraph wires and poles in the town. A great crowd of spectators gathered on the banks of the Connecticut river at Hartford to watch the process of dynamiting the ice jam to save the great temporary bridge. A piece of ice was blown high in the air and, falling 200 feet away, struck Frank Stavelo, aged 11, on the head and fractured his skull. It is announced in a dispatch from Sault Ste Marie, Mich., that an iron ore range, with 180,000,000 tons of ore in sight, has been discovered and that a number of New York capitalists are interested in developing the deposit. The sleep of Dora Meek shows no sign of awakening, says a dispatch from Centralia, Ill. She has been silent since September 28, sleeping soundly about 18 hours a day, and the remainder of the time sitting with her head drooping as though asleep, eyes half closed, apparently hearing nothing and seeing nothing. She takes a little nourishment and is in fair physical condition. Gov. Dockery, of Missouri, has announced positively that he will not be a candidate for United States senator in opposition to ex-Gov. William J. Stone With the possibility of becoming a countess and the heiress of an Italian nobleman, Miss Florence I. Bruton, of Alameda, Cal., 18 years old, has bartered her inheritance rights for $6,000 in American gold. The exchange took place in Judge Ogden's court. Miss Bruton renounced her adoption by Countess Rushol, wife of Henri Rushol, an Italian nobleman, and the decree of adoption was annulled. At Mt. Vernon, N. Y., Albert King, 25 years old, entered the home of John Finley, his former employer, and slashed the throat of Mr. Finley's 4-year-old daughter, Helen Marian, with a razor, nearly severing the head. The child died instantly. King then went into an adjoining room and shot himself dead with a revolver. The board which adjusted the claims of American missionaries for losses sustained during the Boxer uprising in China has adjusted all but two of these claims and the work of the board is practically done, all that remains to complete the settlement being the payment by the state department of the claims in 25 per cent, instalments semi-annually. Arrangements are being made to introduce next season a new style of trotting races for testing and developing the combined speed and stamina of the American carriage horse. The plan is to have trotting races in heavy harness at the leading horse shows where the tracks are large enough, and to make such races a feature of some of the principal trotting meetings. SYRUP OF FIGS Acts Gently; Acts Pleasantly; Acts Beneficially; Acts truly as a Laxative. 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PILES ANAKESIS gives in giant to left and POSITIVELY CURES PILES For free sample address "AMANDA'S" Trade use building, New York BLAIR'S DIGESTIVE TABLETS Cure indigestion, flatulence, heartburn, etc. By mail on receipt of 25 cents in stamps. HENRY C. BLAIR, 5th and Wainut Streets, Philadelphia WHEN WRITING TO ADVERTISER, please state that you saw the Advertisement in this paper. PISO'S CURE FOR CURES WHERE ALL ELSE FAILS. Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use in time. Sold by druggists. The weary housekeeper paused beside the basket of eggs that bore the card labelled: "Fresh this morning--38 cents." "Give me a dozen of these eggs," she said. "I suppose you guarantee their freshness?" "Well, no," said the hesitating storekeeper, "we wouldn't like to do that." "But the card says: 'Fresh this morning.'" "Yes'm," the storekeeper reluctantly admitted. "But you see it's the card that's fresh—not the eggs."—Cleveland Plain Dealer. California, the State of Big Things. California produces 22 per cent. of the country's barley, 40 per cent. of the country's gold, 70 per cent. of the country's beet sugar, 99 per cent. of the country's raisins, and from 90 per cent. to 99 per cent. of a great many other important commodities. California is one of the largest producers of beans in the world and the only producer of Lima beans for commercial purposes in the United States. California yields more honey than all the rest of the Union. California supplies nearly all the vegetable and flower seeds to the markets of the world. California sends outside her borders 20,000,000 bushels of wheat every year. San Francisco, the metropolis of California, is now the sixth city in financial importance in the United States. His Little Scheme He was cutting an item from a newspaper. "It tells how a house was robbed, and I want to show it to my wife," he explained. "What good will that do?" a friend inquired. "A whole lot," was the reply. 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Get a bottle at once, before it is too late. Cost a Quarter.—Ragged Robert (with a mysterious air)—"I saw your, husband downtown, mum, an' ef you'll give me a quarter I'll tell you what sort of a place I saw him go into." Mrs. Greeneye—"Goodness me! Here's the quarter. Tell me quick! What was the place?" Ragged Robert—"The post office, mum."—N. Y. Weekly. Business Chances. The M. K. & T. Ry. has a well established Industrial Department, aiding in the selection of sites and locations for industries of all kinds along its lines. Write if you are interested. We will send book, "Business Chances," and any other information wanted, on request. James Barker, Genl Pass. Agent, M. K. & T. Ry., 501 Wainwright Bldg., St. Louis. Her Father—"So, young man, you want to fill my shoes?" Her Suitor—"I'll try, sir." Her Father—"Well, if you did, your first act would be to kick yourself."—N. Y. Sun. I am sure Piso's Cure for Consumption saved my life three years ago.—Mrs. Thos Robbins, Norwich, N. Y. Feb. 17, 1900. The man who endeavors to travel to fame or fortune via the airship of reverry is likely to hit the ground hard.—Judge. To Cure a Cold in One Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund money if it fails to cure. 25c. Unbecoming forwardness oftener proceeds from ignorance than impudence.—Guville. Like Oil Upon Troubled Waters is Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar upon a cold. Pike's Toothache Drops Cure in one minute. Lots of men tire themselves to death looking for an easy job.—Chicago Daily News. PROMINENT PHYSICIANS USE AND ENDORSE PE-RU-NA. C.B. CHAMBERLIN, M.D. OF WASHINGTON, D.C. "Many cases have come under my observation, where Peruna has benefited and cured. Therefore, I cheerfully recommend it for catarrh and a general tonic."---C. B. CHAMBERLIN, M. D. Medical Examiner U. S. Treasury. Dr. Llewellyn Jordan, Medical Examiner of U. S. Treasury Department, graduate of Columbia College and who served three years at West Point, has the following to say of Peruna: "Allow me to express my gratitude to you for the benefit derived from your wonderful remedy. One short month has brought forth a vast change and I now consider Dr. L. Jordan. An enthusiastic sightseer in London was telling her friend that she had been fortunate enough to get a good view of Lord Kitchener. "Ah!" said the friend, "I suppose he's a very bellicose man?" "Oh, no," was the reply, "quite slim, I assure you."—N. Y. Sun. Never Touched Him: Newed—Say, how long does a man have to be married to a woman before she agrees with him in everything? Oldwed—You'll have to ask some one else, my boy. I've been married only 37 years.—Chicago Daily News. Immaterial Politician—Congratulations, Sarah, I've been nominated. Sarah (with delight)—Honestly? "What difference does that make?"—Detroit Free Press. She—"A woman is as young as she looks." He—"Yes; but she ain't always as young as she thinks she looks."—Cincinnati Enquirer. myself a well man after months of suffering. Fellow-sufferers, Peruna will cure you."—Dr. Llewellyn Perdan. Geo. C. Havener, M. D., of Anacostia, D. C., writes: The Peruna Medicine Co., Columbus, O.: Gentlemen—"In my practice I have had occasion to frequently prescribe your valuable medicine, and have found its use beneficial, especially in cases of catarrh."—George C. Havener, M. D. If you do not receive prompt and satisfactory results from the use of Peruna, write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statement of your case, and he will be pleased to give you his valuable advice gratis. Address Dr. Hartman, President of The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, Ohio. "I think," said the doctor, "that you have positive beliefs." perityphilitis." "Oh, thanks," Cholly murmured faintly. "I almost hope that I may never get well. It will be so nice to die happy."—Chicago Record-Herald. The Season. There was once a fullback who hunted For trouble, and got all he wanted; For he started to fool With a government mule— His tombstone reads simply: "Outpunted." —Catholic Standard and Times. Very Likely. "Do you believe that egotism and genius go together?" go together: "Not always. There would be a lot more genius if they did."—Chicago Record-Herald. Auto Wheels. "Doctor, what do you think causes the noises in the head my wife complains of?" "Oh, that's nothing but an automobile going round in there."—N. Y. Herald.