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2 One Year..... 81 59 Five Months..... 1 00 Three Months..... 50 Subscribers are requested to remit by post once money order or registered letter. Entered at the post office in Cleveland, Ohio second-class matter. All communications should be addressed; B. C. SMITH. TRADE STOCK COUNCIL 22 MELBOURNE THE GAZETTE is the oldest, and has the largest bona fide circulation, double that of any newspaper in the interest of Afro-Americans, published in the state of Ohio, and comparison with any will immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWSIEST AND BEST in the country. The Columbus (O.) Standard's republication, without giving proper credit, of an editorial headed "Prof. Washington Favors Disfranchisement," taken from a recent issue of The Gazette, was doubtless an overright which we feel sure it will hasten to rectify in its current issue. Southern democracy, the controlling element in the national democratic party, even if one is inclined to forget its past history, has in recent years promulgated too many disfranchisement acts, "Jim Crow" car laws, convict lease systems, and howls too loud and too long against the proper political and all other recognition of the Afro-American, to permit of even a serious consideration of the suggestion of ex-Gov. Boutwell or anyone else, that our people affiliate with the party of Ben. Tillman. The story going the rounds of the race press to the effect that the whites in the congregation of the Euclid Avenue Baptist church of this city jeered, laughed and otherwise made fools of themselves while an Afro-American Evangelist who had been granted the use of the church pool for baptismal services was immersing his converts, is rot, pure and simple, which originated in the foo fertile brain of an Associated Press representative in this city, or some cheaper individual (white) employed on the same daily paper. The Washington Post's despicable effort to cater to southern prejudice gives us that "tired feeling," and causes that sycophantic sheet to publish editorially many very ridiculous things. In its foolish effort to "stand straight," (from the prejudiced southerner's view-point) on every question of especial interest to our people, it is "bending backwards." The Post's argument against the appointment of Afro-Americans in the south and in the north is as silly as it could possibly be. President Roosevelt in recent weeks has certainly made "monkeys" of the Post and its southern ideas, the Crum and Lewis appointments "doing the business." Our esteemed confrere, Editor Mitchell, of the Richmond (Va.) Planet, ought to stop throwing "cold water" on the very commendable effort of our people of his state to test the constitutionality of the new Virginia constitution or at least certain sections of it, in the United States supreme court. Our good friend seems to have grown very pessimistic in recent years. It is true that a majority if not nearly all of the decisions of that court, of especial interest to our people, has been against us. It is also true, however, that as long as its personnel even in part changes from time to time, with the retirement of members past the age-limit and the accession of their successors, there is hope that right, even from our standpoint, will ultimately prevail. The new constitution of the state of Virginia is the work of an alleged constitutional convention and has never been ratified by vote of the people. The result is, that it has not a single legal leg to stand on. The appointment of Hon. W. H. Lewis as assistant United States attorney for the district of Boston, Mass., completely eliminates the alleged force of the argument of southern prejudiced whites against the appointment of Afro-Americans to prominent federal positions in that section, because members of the race in the north were not honored in a like-manner. Give them and us a few more of the same kind, north and south. Mr. President. The New York Tribune voices the best sentiment of the country when it says that "dignity of government and respect for the principles of its constitution call for an emphatic stand, not for Afro-American office-holders in general, but for the government's right to appoint Afro-Americans to office when it sees fit." Extremely pertinent this. The Springfield (Mass.) Republican adds, "when the objection has no other source than the official's color, the federal power ought to stand by its representatives." The Buffalo Express says, anent the Indianola postoffice affair: "President Roosevelt's course will be approved by all who believe in law and order." The N. Y. Evening Post: "President Roosevelt has simply done an act of justice in closing the postoffice at Indianola, Miss., but for it he deserves great commendation." The N. Y. World says that the appointment of Mr. Lewis, of Boston, "must be accepted as a sign of progress." Of course. The Indianapolis World heartily approves of a plan proposed by Representative Crumpacker for the prevention of lynching. This measure fixes a penalty of $10,000 against a county in which a lynching occurs. The World thinks that it will have the effect of interesting all taxpayers in the prevention of these outbreaks of lawlessness and not throw the responsibility solely upon the officials. —N. Y. Age. The principle of Congressman Crumpacker's anti-lynching bill is the same as that of our Ohio law, which has been practically a perfect success since its enactment in 1896—seven years ago. Our esteemed contemporary, The World, is right in its approval and thought, as indicated in The Age excerpt, published above. The Ohio anti-lynching law has certainly interested the taxpayers of all the counties of this state to the extent of practically wiping out lynching and bringing mob violence demonstrations and lawlessness to a minimum. We hope soon to note its adoption in West Virginia, our birth state. The Charleston Advocate is leading the movement, and we know the Martinsburg Pioneer Press will do all it can to assist. WORSE THAN SLAVES Is the Treatment Accorded Afro-Americans of Many Southern States. The democratic party in Alabama has representation in congress based upon and embracing a citizenship that has to submit to taxation, although deprived of representation, and the right of representation of this citizenship was unconstitutionally made void by a democratic state government that usurps representation of those who bear taxation and have no voice whatever in either local, or national government. The slave has no taxes to pay and no vote; the disfranchised Negro has taxes to pay and public road service to perform. He is a taxed slave. What has become of the ringing declaration of Abraham Lincoln that "The nation cannot endure half slave and half free." Even now we find the poisonous fangs of bourbon democracy reaching into very councils of the republican party, where Lincoln and Grant once stood, and in this lily-white movement we have a recognition of the annuling of the fifteenth amendment, and it is a glaring proposition for the republican party to acquiesce in slavery for the south and stand for human liberty in the north. The whig party could not live and hold to this attitude, and neither can the republicans tolerate such a position. No national republican convention can afford to seat a lily-white delegation, and this organization in Alabama even went further than to annul the fifteenth amendment—it excluded legal delegates because of color, and boasted that not even Booker Washington could sit in the gallery in the convention hall! The great, liberty-loving heart of the north is now, even now, crying out for representative government for the Philippines, and here, within our own shores, we have annulled the fifteenth amendment; and to such an extent is this provision and vicious doctrine gone that within the lines of the republican party itself is being organized a movement to resist the very principles that gave existence to the republican party. This lily-white departure is a rebellion against the republicanism of Lincoln and Grant, and it must be treated as such, or the republican party will deserve to go the way of the whig party. The arm of the federal government is long enough and it is strong enough to protect its protectors and to defend its defenders, within our own shores, and it is great enough to uphold the federal constitution against traitors within, as well as enemies abroad. Alexander City, Ala. SOLDIERS' ADDRESSES WANTED A Public Appeal for Information that Will be Very Helpful to Worthy Families. Henry N. Copp, attorney-at-law, Washington, D. C., wants the addresses of the below named colored soldiers who served in the civil war; if dead, their heirs. Information will be paid for: John W. Dent, Third cavalry; Jerry Smith, Third artillery; Daniel Banks, Albert Bates, Peter Broddy, Paton Giles, Anderson Hoffman, George Nally, George Nichols, William Robbins, Joseph Roney, Rowan Samuels and Willis Stone Firth cavalry; George Bibb, Charles Cantwell, Jesse Darnell, Louis Darbney, John Gault, Frank McFarland, John Price, Dennis Roberts and Washington Smith, Thirteenth artillery; Charles Browne; Georg W. Harmon and Simon Smith, Eleventh infantry; Huston Baileess, William Brodwell, Henry Clay and Elias Smith, Twenty-seventh infantry; Edward Washington and John C. Lewis, Twenty-eighth infantry; William A. Bates, George Cooper, Henry Crouch, Henry Harrison, Patrick Henry and George Sizemore, Forty-third infantry; Granville Elliott, Matthew Felts, David Hunt, Albert Jackson, William King, Peter Tardy and William Winn, Fifty-ninth infantry; Roger Edwards, One Hundred and Seventh infantry; Moses Abel, Moses Ballard, Harrison Butler, Robert Burdete, John A. Cecil, Simon Cook, David Wilmot, Moses Etherton, Squire Garrison, Henry Hamilton, John W. Hopkins, Jerry Morris, Grandison Smith, Beverly Taylor and George Washington, One Hundred and Twenty-third infantry; Timothy Filan and Patrick McCormick, One Hundred and Thirty-afth infantry. Ministers of the gospel and secretaries of lodges, and others interested, may help worthy families by giving public announcement of the above list and posting it in conspicuous places. Appointed Portmaster New Orleans, La.-The mayor of New Orleans recommended and secured the postmastership of Bay St. Louis, Miss., for an Afro-American over two white women candidates. $4.00 to $8.00 a day guaranteed to every person sending name and address to Scott Remedy Co., Louisville, Ky. Write at once. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 1903. COAL STRIKE COMMISSION. Sessions Enlivened by Some Interesting Testimony - Chairman Gray's Comments. Philadelphia, Jan. 21.—When the anthracite coal strike commission adjourned yesterday the four hundredth witness summoned before the arbitrators was being examined. Of the four hundred, 174 were called by the striking mine workers, 144 by the non-union men, 63 by the operators and eight by the commission. The Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad Co. concluded its case Tuesday and the Temple Iron Co. began the presentation of its side of the controversy. Philadelphia, Jan. 22.—The sessions of the coal strike commission yesterday were enlivened up by some interesting testimony. The feature of the sessions was Chairman Gray's strong remarks in commenting on an incident where District President Fahey, of the Miners' union, would not grant "permission" during the strike to erect a boiler house at a colliery, which was necessary to preserve the mine from damage. The president of the commission said he hated tyranny, no matter whether it was practiced by an operator, a miner or any one else. The Lehigh Valley Coal Co. placed a union miner on the stand to testify about what seemed a trivial matter and on cross-examination he proved a good witness for the miners. He said there would be trouble in the anthracite regions as long as the coal companies insist upon paying the contract miners by the car instead of by weight. This opened a discussion between counsel for both sides and the commissioners which consumed much time. The result was that the commission will devote an entire day to hearing arguments on both sides of the question. R. S. Mercur, a district superintendent of the Lehigh Valley collieries in the Mahanoy and Shamokin district, gave some interesting testimony which livened the proceedings considerably. The men in his collieries worked on an average, he said, of about seven hours a day. The miners, he continued, did not produce any more coal as a result of President Mitchell's "hurry up" order. They claim there is no coal shortage, and that it was a scheme of the operators to show the men are earning larger wages. Chairman Gray remarked that the miners should come to Wilmington, Del. (his home), and see poor people standing around waiting to buy a bucket of coal at 17 and 18 cents a bucket. Mr. Mereur closed his direct examination by saying that during the strike the miners compelled a man to cease hauling feed to mine mules, Judge Gray did not believe it until a letter showing that such a thing was ordered by a local union was shown him. MILITIA BILL Its Signature by the President Is Made the Occasion for Speech Making. Washington, Jan. 22.—President Roosevelt yesterday signed the militia bill recently passed by congress. The final act in the making of the new law was attended by a pretty ceremony. Gathered around the table as the president appended his signature to the measure were Secretary Root, Secretary Shaw, Assistant Secretary Sanger, Representatives Dick, Parker, Stark, Wiley, Conroy, Gaines and Bristow, all of the house committee on military affairs; Gen. Bird S. Spencer, adjutant general of New Jersey, and Col. Dimmick, secretary of the National Guard association. After the president had signed the bill Secretary Root delivered a brief speech of congratulation to the committee on the enactment of the measure. General Dick, the author of the bill, and the president of the National Guard association made a fitting response. President Roosevelt then spoke on the merits of the bill. He said he regarded the citizen soldiery of the nation as a most important factor in the protection of the country. President Roosevelt gave the pen with which he had signed the measure to Col. Dimmick. SCUDDER'S SCHEME. It Brought Large Returns Until the Police Checked His Operations. New York, Jan. 22.—By the arrest of a man who the police say is William G. Furlong, an alleged scheme to fleece the public was brought to light yesterday. The police say that Furlong has been advertising in New York and Philadelphia papers for "a gentleman who would be willing to marry a lady he has never met, and from whom he would be expected to secure a divorce as soon as possible after the marriage." The advertisement said it was necessary, in order to settle an estate, for the lady to marry and the man accepted would receive $20,000. As soon as an answer was received a circular would be sent in which the applicant was asked to send $1 for a picture of the lady. The police say 5,000 answers were received and that Furlong also received money by advertising for applicants for a position. Furlong had handsomely furnished offices on Wall street. When arraigned the prisoner gave his name as J. V. Scudder. He was remanded for 48 hours as a suspicious person. Murdered Her Assailant. Kittanning, Pa., Jan. 22.—Mrs. Carmato Lituana, a married woman who lived with her husband and children at Yatesboro, on Tuesday night shot and killed Santo Marzis, who entered her home and assaulted her. Mrs. Lituana is a beautiful woman, 30 years old. Before she came to this country she met Marzis, who fell in love with her, but she would have nothing to do with him and came to this country with her husband. The couple located at Yatesboro. Marzis followed and kept up his suit. The affair ended in a tragedy. Stone to Succeed Vest. Jefferson City, Mo., Jan. 22.—The general assembly met in joint session Wednesday and formally declared ex-Gov. William J. Stone elected United States senator to succeed Hon. George G. Vest, whose term expires next March. Will Investigate Coal Famine. Topeka, Kan., Jan. 22.—The legislature yesterday provided for investigating the coal famine. A bill passed both houses providing that a commission be appointed at once to investigate all the traffic conditions and the output of the mines. A MOTLEY OUTFIT. An Englishman Describes the Equipment of the Army of the Sultan of Morocco. Tangier, Morocco, Jan. 22.—No courier reached here yesterday from Fez. The roads between this port and the capital are flooded. An English drill sergeant in the service of the sultan has given the following interesting details of the composition of the sultan's army. He says the imperial forces total about 25,000 men, including a bodyguard of 2,000 picked men, all of whom are armed with Martini-Henry rifles. Of the remainder 30 per cent, are armed with imitation Martini-Henrys manufactured in Fez, and the balance of the sultan's soldiers carry old flintlocks and muzzle-loaders. The artillery consists of 20 breech-loading Krupps, 23 brass muzzle-loaders, 12 Maxims firing Martini-Henry cartridges and 21 other machine guns. 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That it can not be doubted when the fact is remembered communications from the wisest and best mind FOR THE PEOPLE it represents, and can be re colored man, though his face may be of ebony hue demonstration of what can be done by the y editor is a young man who, by dist of INDUSTRI DEALING, has succeeded in giving to the co-country a PAPER WORTHY THE PATRONAL reader of THE GAZETTE, since its first appearance course, I feel that in justice to the paper, the edi upon the people generally, to support the p identified with the COLORED people, and is in success of all without regard to Complexion. at a Leading Minister, Rev. J. W. G. of Springfield, O., says: THE GAZETTE healthful signs of life and a highly useful career are of the above-named paper. That it is a paper of Brain-tubed when the fact is remembered that in its columns from the wisest and best minds of our race. People it represents, and can be relied upon as a friend, though his face may be of ebony hue. The Gazette is of what can be done by the young man of our king man who, by dint of INDUSTRY and ECONOMY is succeeded in giving to the colored people of O'PAPER WORTHY THE PATRONAGE OF ALL. The Gazette, since its first appearance, and having that in justice to the paper, the editor and the race, people generally, to support the paper that is PRINTED the COLORED people, and is in harmony with the without regard to Complexion. J. W. GAZETTE Read what a Leading Minister, Rev. J. W. Gazaway, of Springfield, O., says: THE GAZETTE. The most healthful signs of life and a highly useful career are indicated in the existence of the above-named paper. That it is a paper of Brain and Culture can not be doubted when the fact is remembered that in its columns are found communications from the wisest and best minds of our race. It is a paper FOR THE PEOPLE it represents, and can be relied upon as a friend of every colored man, though his face may be of ebony hue. THE GAZETTE is a practical demonstration of what can be done by the young man of our race. The editor is a young man who, by dist of INDUSTRY and ECONOMY and FAIR DEALING, has succeeded in giving to the colored people of Ohio and the country a PAPER WORTHY THE PATRONAGE OF ALL. Having been a reader of THE GAZETTE since its first appearance, and having watched its course, I feel that in justice to the paper, the editor and the race, I should urge upon the people generally, to support the paper that is PRACTICALLY identified with the COLORED people, and is in harmony with the interests and success of all without regard to Complexion. J. W. GAZAWAY. THE GAZETTE A LEADING REPUBLICAN NEWS Devoted to the Interests of the R DING REPUBLICAN NEWS evoted to the Interests of the R A LEADING REPUBLICAN NEWSPAPER Devoted to the Interests of the Race. IT ADVOCATES AN IMPROVEMENT IN OUR EDUCATIONAL. 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Local reading notices (advertisements) ten cents a line (six words in a line). Purchase "The Gazette" at PUSHAW's News Store, Cuyahoga Building opposite the Post Office. Open Sunday. N. HEXTER's News Depot, City Hall Building, cor. Wood and Superior streets. Open Sunday. S. H. MOODY's News Store, No. 387 Superior street, second westof Bond street. Open Sundays also. GOODMAN's News Depot, No. 586 Central avenue, cor. Sterling avenue. Open Sunday. HATCH & GREEN'S Barber Shop, N. 544 Central Ave., cor. Greenwood St. F. VALENTINE's Grocery Store, No. 387 F. VALENTINE'S Grocery Store, No. 360 Central Ave. Miss Gertrude Griffin is very ill with lung trouble. Mr. James Meredith, of Toledo, was in the city the first of the week. in the city the first of the week. Miss Amelia Fowler, of Dallas street, has been quite ill the past week. Waring, the little son of Rev. and Mrs. E. S. Doan, has been quite sick with congestion of the lungs. Mr. Henry Davis, of Quebec street, was called to Mansfield last week by the death of his mother. It is rumored that Harry Talbert will wed a certain young lady of Forest street in the near future. Mrs. Vincent, of Harmon street, entertained Wednesday evening in honor of her guest, Mrs. Young, of Niagara Falls. N. Y. Mrs. Nannie Fox and Mrs. Cora Brock thank their friends for kind assistance rendered during the recent illnes and death of their mother, Mrs. Mary King. Services at St. John's church tomorrow. Preaching by the pastor, Rev. W. J. Johnson, morning and evening. Revival services will continue through next week. The mother of Miss Willa Frazier, who has many friends in Cleveland, died in Winchester, Ky., recently, Miss Frazier, before her return south, was a teacher in St. John's Sunday-school. Madam O. E. Jeys, who lectures on Haiti, and we believe is a native of that country, or of the West Indies, and desires to go to Africa as a missionary, is in the city, stopping at No. 623 Sterling avenue. Dennis Fowler, of East High school, easily carried off the honors in the debate between Lincoln High school and East High school last Friday evening. Newton D. Baker, esq., was one of the judges. Mrs. Mabel Holmes Jackson was granted a divorce from Clayborne Jackson in Judge Strimple's court room on Monday afternoon and was given the custody of their minor child, Wesley. Mrs. S. K. Bolden, mother of Mrs. Abner Smith, of Newton street, arrived in the city recently from an extended visit down east and will reside here. Her former home was Niagara Falls, N. Y. The Young Men's Progressive club of the Twelfth ward, recently organized, held a meeting on Friday evening at No. 620 Central avenue. Geo. Copes is president; Chas. W. Henderson, secretary; Chas. Diehl, treasurer. Funeral services of Rev. Morrison's wife, of Orange street, occurred from the Red Cross mission, No. 32 Pittsburg street, on the 15th, Revs. F. Rice and W. R. Wilson officiating. Mrs. Morrison was a loving wife and a devoted Christian woman. Mr. Rennie H. Selvey has taken the position as head butler in Mr. Carnegie's family at Fernandina, Fla., where William N. Alexander is employed as chef. They have made arrangements for a trip to Cuba and southern California before returning east and north this summer. Of Grand Treasurer J. E. Reed we have already spoken. He has been our friend and the order's faithful servant. We are sure that all the brethren wish him as we do, all of the fruits and joys of a life which has thus far been well spent and work that has been well done.—Odd Fellows' Journal. Credit to whom credit is due: At the recent meeting of the Old Folks' Home association George Myers, it is said, insisted upon a report of the home for the years 1900, 1901 and 1902 being printed. That is right. The public should know how a thousand or fifteen hundred dollars were gotten rid of. Print the report! At the corner of Perry and Broadway there will be a grand rally at 2 p. m. Sunday and an organization will be effected. It will be known as the Triedstone Baptist church. The public is invited. Rev. Rice has been very successful in his work and deserves the encouragement of all Christians. Sister churches have been invited. Emil H. Kraus (white), guardian for George A. Cisco, and James Hough filed a suit for each in common pleas court last week against J. B. L. Clark, an Erie street restaurant proprietor, for $500 damages in each case. The petition says that last November Cisco and Hough were refused a meal in Clark's restaurant upon the grounds that they were colored. The fourth "Pop" concert Sunday from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Grays' armory, promises to be exceptionally fine. Mr. Emil Ring will conduct the grand orchestra of 45 pieces, and the special attractions are the Ionic quartette and Mrs. R. P. Metzdorf, trombone soloist. The admission is only 10, 15 or 25 cents, and affords an opportunity our people should not lose. In a letter received Thursday morning from Rev. Dr. Chas. A. Eaton, pastor of the Euclid Avenue Baptist church, the daily newspapers' statement of about ten days ago to the effect that the whites in the audience at the church when Evangelist Rice conducted his baptismal service, jeered, laughed and otherwise made fools of themselves, is denied. Rev. Eaton's letter will appear in our next issue. At St. Andrew's mission to-morrow at 10:30 the holy rite of baptism will be administered by the rector, Rev. E. S. Doan. In the evening at THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 1903. 7:30 Bishop Leonard will preach and administer the apostle rite of confirmation. Special music by the choir. Mrs. Beulah Griffin-West will sing the soprano obligato of Shelly's great anthem, "Hark! Hark! My Soul!" The Men's club holds its social meeting in the basement of the church next Wednesday evening. T. H. Edmonds' father, Mr. Elisha Edmonds, aged 88 years, of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, died January 12. He was one of the oldest pioneers of that city, having lived there continuously for over 70 years; was a man of great sterling worth, high moral character, and was highly respected. He was a Christian and his end was peaceful. He left one daughter and three sons, of which Mr. Edmonds, of this city, is the oldest, to mourn his loss. We are in receipt of a souvenir calendar from the firm of Reitz & Reed, retail dealers in fish and oysters, of Cleveland, O. It is a thing of beauty and may be taken as an evidence of the enterprise and energy of these thriving merchants. Mr. Reed, of this firm, is our own Bro. Jacob E. Reed, who on Monday of this week laid down the burdens of the office of grand treasurer and turned over his accounts in perfect order. he has handled thousands of dollars belonging to, the order and accounted for every penny of it. He enjoys the confidence and esteem of our entire brotherhood.—Philadelphia Odd Fellows' Journal. Parents should pay more attention to the conduct of their children en route to and from the public schools as well as at the schools. This is particularly true in the case of Sterling avenue school. The street conduct of many of our children attending it is something fearful. This the editor of this paper has frequently noticed, that the language, even that of some of the girls (from 10 to 15) is shameful, and unless something is done there will soon be wholesale dismissals of colored pupils—something the editor of The Gazette prevented last year after a stormy conference with the then superintendent, Prof. Jones. According to a letter received the past week by the editor of The Gazette from the United States commissioner of patents at Washington, D. C., and written on the 16th of this month, Wm. Douglass has not secured a patent for his alleged automatic straw and grain binder. The Gazette understands that Mr. Dumjill, who for many months has been representing the scheme known as the Douglass Automatic Straw and Grain Binder Co., has been claiming recently that old man Douglass' alleged invention has been patented. Any person or persons desiring to see the letter referred to above will be granted the privilege if they will call at The Gazette office in the Blackstone building, at the corner of Seneca and Frankfort streets. A state warrant was served Monday for the arrest of Mrs. Mattie Mathews-Brannigan, of 63 Linden street, by Constable Mains. She was charged with obtaining goods under false pretenses and released on $200 bail. R. W. Miller, an employee of De Klynn's, claims that the woman declared she loved him and promised to be his wife. This she denies. Miller states that under the representation that she was single and would marry him, she obtained from him, among other things, a diamond ring, a silk dress, a bicycle, a gold watch and chain, etc., placing the total value of the goods at $250. Part of the property was found at her residence. Miller states that the woman is not single, but is the wife of "one Brannigan, first name - unknown." Mr. and Mrs. Brannigan were married a few months ago. PROBE IT. A Congressman Wants to Know About the Indianola Affair. Washington, D. C.—Judge Crumpacker (Rep., Ind.) introduced a resolution in the house Monday providing that the postmaster general be required to transmit to the house, if not inconsistent with public interests, a copy of all correspondence and other documents in his possession relating to the recent resignation of the postmistress at Indianola, Miss., and to state why such resignation has not been accepted and a new appointment made, so that the people of the town may be provided with postal service. Mr. Crumpacker is the author of the resolutions of the last session, calling for a sweeping investigation of the conditions in the south, bearing especially on political conditions and the treatment of Afro-Americans. The Indianola resolution was referred to the house postal committee. Foot Badly Mashed. Bellaire, O.-The W. M. M. society met at the president's, Mrs. Lucy Severs, and the sewing circle at Mrs. Mary Moore's.-Mr. Caarley Smith had his foot badly mashed while moving a safe last week.-Quarterly meeting at St. Paul's church Sunday. Rev. Charles Bundy, P. E., will officiate.-Mr. John Taylor has resigned his position at Morgan's and is now employed by De Bois Co.-Mr. Jesse Henderson and Mrs. J. D. Singleton were sick last Sunday.-Mr. and Mrs. George Morrison left for their home in Denver Saturday.-Mr. Andy Turman has improved his residence on Union street by placing electric lights in it.-The condition of Miss Mary Rheubottom, Mr. George McPherson and Mrs. Sallie Peters is the same.-Mrs. Nellie Lucas is convalescent.-Mr. and Mrs. Robert Irvin are the proud parents of a baby boy.-Mr. John Presten is sick. A Coronation Medal. Liberia, Africa.—Dr. E. W: Blyden, one of the most famous men of the world, has been presented with a coronation medal sent to him by command of King Edward VII. from Buckingham palace, to be worn in remembrance of his majesty's coronation. This honor was conferred upon Dr. Blyden as the accredited minister of Liberia at the Court of St. James at the time of the coronation. Rah! for the Pope. Rome, Italy.—The pope has evinced much interest in President Roosevelt's attitude toward Afro-Americans, in the matter of appointments to public positions. Speaking of it on the 13th, his holiness said: "This speaks well for America. They have a head strong enough to overlook race prejudices." Cupid Kept Busy. Lockland and Wyoming, O.—The sacramental sermon was preached at the A. M. E. church by Rev. Masie, agent of Wilberforce college. Rev. Dorsey, of Walnut Hills, and Rev. Alexander, of Hamilton, were present. Love feast was held at 11 a. m. last Sunday.—Rev. Orr preached at 11 a. m. and Rev. Thomas, of Cincinnati, at 7:30 p. m. at Zion church last Sunday. Revivals every evening at the church. Last Monday evening Rev. Hawthorne preached an able sermon. Rev. French, of Paris, Ky., has accepted call to the Christian church.—Mrs. Della Johnson entertained the A. M. E. sewing circle last Thursday evening.—Rev. W. Coleman confirmed the officers of the S. S. board last Thursday evening at the parsonage.—Miss Malinda Smith and mother entertained at dinner last Sunday Mr. and Mrs. Poston and Rev. W. H. Coleman.—It is rumored that wedding bells are ringing for Mrs. Catherine Parker and Mr. Chas. Derrickson, Miss Milly Ann Wallace, and Mr. Geo. Alred and Miss Laura M. Johnson and Mr. Carpenter.—Mrs. Jane Redmon entertained Rev. Thomas, of Cincinnati, at tea last Sunday. Own Their Homes Lebanon, O.—The majority of our people own their homes. C. W. Donegan has a fine farm with a brick dwelling-house surrounded with good stock and cattle; C. I. Henderson, one of our best stonemasons, has a $2,500 public building, aside from his two-story dwelling and tenant houses on Pleasant street; C. W. Martin owns a two-story brick building with several acres of land, in connection with a sandbank, from which he receives quite an income each year; Mr. John Honley, one of our leading barbers, has a splendid two-story frame building with nine or ten acres of land (He is a widower). Others, I will mention in issues to follow.—Mr. Elmer Christian is home quite ill.—The Household of Ruth installed their officers Thursday night.—Sunday-school mass meeting of District D will be held in Zion church Sunday afternoon. Let Us Hear From You. The old reliable Gazette desires an energetic and honest agent, and a good correspondent, in every city and town in Ohio and neighboring states having a number of Afro-American residents. We are especially desirous of hearing from persons in the following named cities: Zanesville, Steubenville, Gallipolis, Cambridge, Wellsville, Portsmouth, Delaware, Springfield, Piqua, Urbana, Hamilton and Sandusky. Write to the editor of The Gazette, Blackstone building, Cleveland, O., and our terms will be sent at once. Our readers can oblige us greatly by sending at once the address of any good person or persons in any of the cities named above or others, to whom we can write relative to the matter. Found Gold. Wootan Wells, Tex.—An aged Afro- American struck a vein of gold ore while digging for a well. Government assayed sample at $100 per ton. Joe Goddard Is Dead. Camden, N. J., Jan. 22.—Joe Goddard, the pugilist, who was shot at the republican primaries in Camden county in July last, died yesterday in a hospital here. $4.00 to $8.00 a day guaranteed to every person sending name and address to Scott Remedy Co., Louisville, Ky. Write at once. 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With an "air-tight" monopoly of the oriental trade as the object of their endeavors President Eng Hok Fong and Secretary Leung Kam Ming, of the China Commercial Steamship Company, are working among their countrymen in Chicago for pledges to patronize only celestial bottoms in the importation of goods from the celestial kingdom. Messrs. Eng and Lueng arrived in Chicago the other afternoon at the Auditorium with their cicerone, Lyman S. Mowry, a San Francisco merchant, whose services they engaged to escort them on their tour of the country in the interest of the China Steamship Company. Encouraging interviews, it is said, have been held with leading Chinese and Japanese importers in San Francisco and New York, and, after a short stay here, the trip will be continued to Mexico to decide on a suitable port of entry for the company's ships in that country. The new steamship company is chartered under British laws, and is heavily backed, exclusively by Chinese capital. At the outset only one steamer monthly will be run in each direction between this country and China, but the number will be increased as fast as the trade warrants. The ships will start from Hong-Kong, touch at Shanghai, and several Japanese ports, and, on this side of the Pacific, either at Manzanillo or Matazlan, Mexico, and finally at San Francisco. Regular voyages will commence March 1, and all vessels will be manned and officered exclusively by Chinese. The steamers will be of size similar to the average engaged in the oriental trade under the United States or European flags. The company received the tacit encouragement of former Minister Wu Ting-Fang, and the officers are on most friendly terms with his brother-in-law, Ho-Yow, who announced some time ago his intention, to promote an interest among Americans in Chinese manufactures by the establishment of trade museums in San Francisco, Chicago and New York. Coeds and Kissing. The co-eds who object to kissing in public will be supported by a well-developed public sentiment. Kissing is, or should be, a private affair altogether, says the Chicago Inter Ocean, and it speaks well for the times in which we live that co-eds, who in the very nature of things are concerned in preserving the good old custom, are among the most vigorous opponents of any tendency toward making it common. Has Been Hit. An English critic complains of the "levity with which matters of the gravest importance are treated by the American papers." Some American paper, says the Chicao Record-Herald, has evidently had a paragraph or two about him. (1) Mrs. F. Wright, of Oelwein, Iowa, is another one of the million women who have been restored to health by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. "My trouble was with the ovaries; I am tall, and the doctor said I grew too fast for my strength. I suffered dreadfully from inflammation and doctored continually, but got no help. 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But if he should make an effort he would be called off in double quick time by the white planters, who want the best labor for themselves. "In my opinion, we shall make a great mistake if we turn again to wholesale colored labor. If colored families have the means to migrate on their own hook, and, if after looking the field over, they think this territory a good place to come to, let them come, and get down to the law of life, 'root hog, or die.' The planters sent their best representatives to the states to select colored labor, Mr. J. B. Castle, for example. He got church members with preachers to lead them. All Hawaii knows the result." The Evening Bulletin says, editorially: "Renewed discussion of southern colored labor for the sugar plantations of these islands brings up experiences not altogether pleasant which have served to shape public opinion. The experiments with colored labor have not oeen a success. If T. Thomas Fortune can open out a practical method which will give reasonable assurance of success, he will find plenty of support from planters and the American population of the islands. All the planters of the islands seek in their quest for labor is men who will work, who come here with the desire and intent of working, rather than gaining a passage to a new territory and then living by their wits and finally furnishing employment for additional police. From the theoretical standpoint the colored people from the country districts of the south should assist very materially in solving our labor problem. The practice involves getting these people here. In doing this nawail encounters the contentment that prevails with present conditions in the homes of the class that behaves itself and the vigorous opposition of the southern planter, who, notwithstanding racial prejudice and all the talk of Negro domination, wants to retain the colored man for field work. The result is that the enlistment of colored labor for awaii finds the average agent getting together a class that is not agricultural labor, but the rag tag and bobtail of the country with riffraff of the city thrown in. The south is only too glad to get rid of (this element, in fact, urges Hawaii or any other territory to take it, because eventually these "laborers" become a public expense. If it is possible, if it is practicable, to enlist a thousand, five thousand or ten thousand colored families who would come to Hawaii for the purpose of earning an honest living on the sugar plantations, the labor situation is such that these families would be quickly furnished passage to the islands and ample opportunity for a comfortable home and an honest living. Latrobe on Lincoln As to the actual abolition of slavery, ex-Mayor F. C. Latrobe, of Baltimore, Md., recently said: "Mr. Lincoln will probably go down to prosterity in history as the 'Great Emancipator.' In one sense of the word he will and in another he will not. Erect your monument to Abraham Lincoln; write upon it, 'He signed the emancipation proclamation which freed the slaves in the United States,' but stop there. Do not say it was done for the good of the slave, or for the sake of humanity, or for belief in the principle that 'all men are born free.' These were its results, but not its inspiration. Mr. Lincoln's terms were the Union with slavery if we must have it, but the Union. He was never what in those days was known as an abolitionist. The slave in this country wore his own liberty, and you owe it to your valor and not to any emancipation proclamation or to any great emancipation. It was the prize you fought for and won on the battlefield. The hand that signed the proclamation was compelled by the necessities of the time to affix his signature, and the power that so compelled it was the need of the black slave's arm on the battlefield." Rev. Dr. Easton Complimented. Rev. Dr. Easton Complimented. Washington Pa. — The Louisville (Ky.) Courier-Journal thus speaks of the Rev. Dr. M. F. A. Easton, pastor of the local A. M. E. Zion church: "The Rev. Milo F. A. Easton, D. D. author of the 'Zebra's Stripes,' an answer to Thomas Dixon, jr"s, 'Leopard's Spots,' and pastor of the A M. E. Zion church at Washington, Pa., is in Louisville. The Negro minister is an eloquent race man. His sermons and lectures are widely published. He came to Louisville 74 years ago without a dollar, after having been mobbed at Metropolis, Ill., for telling the colored people that their future prosperity was not assured by their continued hostility to one-half of the white political 'voters' of the country. He will deliver his lecture on the race question, entitled 'Zebra's Stripes,' before leaving Louisville." Of Interest in the Kitchen. Those who exercise supervision over the family board will be interested in the suggestions for the menu appearing in The Delineator for February. Some dainty ways of serving midwinter fruits are described and illustrated, and the suggestions in regard to winter vegetables should be appreciated by those who find it difficult to present stored products attractively. Dishes renowned in Scottish history is a feature and offers some choice recipes. An apparently excellent assortment of recipes for cakes and fillings is also included. Wellsburg, W. Va., Gleanings. Miss Mary Myers left Friday for New Castle.—Mr. James Pryor was a Steubenville visitor Saturday. — Mr. Travis Dixon and Sam Childs were in Wheeling Sunday.—Misses Florence and Bertha Alexander were shopping in Wheeling Thursday.—The Busy Bee club met at Miss Mildred Brookens'. Next meeting at Miss Mollie Edwards.—There will be a social at the A. M. E. church Thursday evening.—Mrs. Fred Scott is improving. $4.00 to $8.00 a day guaranteed to every person sending name and address to Scott Remedy Co., Louisville, Ky. Write at once. 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"Well," said the eight-year-old with grave deliberation, "I've been thinking of that for some time and I think that when I'm a man I'll get heart disease and go on the retired list, just like papa."—Chicago Chronicle. The Seaboard Air Line Railway, of Portsmouth, Va., is advertising a beautiful, but comparatively little known, region on the West Coast of Florida in three booklets called "The Land of Manatee." They are issued by the Seaboard, but can scarcely be termed a railroad advertisement, as the only mention of the road is in a brief and modest note printed on the inside of one of the cover pages. They are, in fact, a description of Manatee County, Florida, with some account of its history and its many interesting features which will appeal equally to the general reader, the investor, the fruit and vegetable grower, and to the tourist and sportsman. The author is Mr. Morton M. Cassaday, a writer of experience. The beauty of the Manatee country is well described, and the marvelous fertility of the soil and equally wonderful healthfulness of the climate are told of in a way to leave no doubt in the reader's mind. Manatee county must be the garden-spot of all Florida, and the wonder is that it has not sooner been settled and the latent riches of its soil turned into good American dollars. A most charming feature of these booklets is their typographical appearance. They are printed on hand-made paper, and are delightfully illustrated with photographic half-tone plates and ornamented with decorative designs in flat monotones that make them really valuable brochures. Persons interested in Florida, and especially in the possibilities of orange growing and truck gardening below the frost line, will find these booklets not only interesting, but full of valuable and practical information. They may be had from representatives of the Seaboard Air Line Railway, or upon application to the General Passenger Agent, Portsmouth, Va. Woman's Inhumanity to Man Prominent note is made of the fact that a woman clerk in the post office department at Washington gave up her husband rather than lose her situation. The order of the postmaster general is cruel. No telling how many poor husbands will be driven out this cold winter to make their own living.—Cincinnati Enquirer. The Pe-ru-na Almanac. The druggists have already been supplied with Peruna almanacs. There is sure to be a great demand for these almanacs on account of the articles on astrology which they contain. The subject of astrology is a very attractive one to most people. The articles on astrology in the Peruna almanac have been furnished by a very competent astrologist, and the mental characteristics of each sign is given, constituting almost a complete horoscope. 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