The Gazette

THE THE RUSSIAN REVOLT. The Czar Promises a Reduction in the Legal Number of Hours of Labor. RIOTS IN FINLAND'S CAPITAL. Thirty People at Heisingfors Were Wounded — Cossacks Charged and Dispersed a Crowd of 3,000 Workmen at Moscow—Many Arrests. St. Petersburg, Jan. 26.—Governor General Trepoff and Minister of Finance Kokovseff issued a proclamation last night which reveals the government's plan for breaking the strike not only here, but throughout Russia. The proclamation is conceived in a paternal tone, and points out that honest workmen who want to better their condition should have brought their demands to the government instead of being misled by agitators. It invites them to return to work, promising them in the emperor's name a revision of the general law so as to restrict the hours of labor, the institution of a plan for state insurance and otherwise to meet their demands so far as the law will permit and guarantees them protection against interference by agitators. This document will be followed either by an imperial manifest along the same lines, in the hope of preventing the spread of the strike, or by specific proclamations by the local authorities wherever strikes are in progress. By promising to yield the question of the hours of labor, which are now legally 11 in Russia, the authorities believe they will meet the main grievance of the workmen. This, together with the guarantee of protection, the authorities hope will induce those strikers who are indifferent to political demands, and which class they declare constitutes a great bulk of the men, to resume work. It is certain many strikers were forced out against their wishes, but the general effect of the proclamation is problematical. Though the strikes have been spreading to various towns, the stidation, while disquieting, is not acute anywhere. The great demonstration with an accompaniment of bloodshed which was anticipated at Moscow yesterday did not occur, and the strike in the ancient capital has not spread rapidly, only about 20,000 workmen being out, according to latest reports. Cossacks charged and dispersed a crowd of 3,000 workmen, and reports were circulated in St. Petersburg that many were killed, but advice direct from Moscow deny this, the best information being that only a few blank volleys were fired. In several Baltic province towns there has been considerable disorder, especially in Riga, where the military are in complete possession. In the streets of Helsingfors there was, last evening, a resumption of Tuesday night's rioting with bloodshed, some 30 people being wounded. If a general movement breaks out among the Pinns it is likely to take the form of an armed uprising, as almost every Finn has a weapon in his house. Sir Charles Hardinge, the British ambassador, last night received from Capt. Grove, the British consul at Moscow, confirmation of the Associated Press dispatch from Moscow announcing the public posting of a London telegram imputing the disorders to British and Japanese influences and he will ask explanations from Foreign Minister Lamsdorff. It is not expected, however, that the affair will lead to a serious diplomatic incident, and it is thought the Russian government will disavow responsibility for the course of Acting Chief of Police Roudenef. The dispatch to Ambassador Hardinge makes no mention of Roudenef's offer to meet Capt. Grove in a duel. Evidence accumulates that the strikers are supplied with money to meet their present needs. All sorts of stories are afloat as to the size and origin of the fund. Money is undoubtedly being supplied by the liberals. It is said that they have a fund of $2,000,000, some of which was supplied by German socialists. Trepoff, the governor general of St. Petersburg, has been given absolute authority over the military and police and even vested with the power of exile. Many persons have been arrested, among them being Maxim Gorky, the author and reform leader, who was taken into custody at Riga. Quashed the Indictment. New York, Jan. 26—John W. Fleming, the former assistant United States inspector of steam boilers who has been on trial in the United States district court before Judge Thomas on a charge of neglect of duty in connection with the burning of the steamer General Slocum last June, was discharged yesterday. Judge Thomas quashed the indictment against Fleming on the ground that it had not been shown that he had failed to perform his full duty. Henry Lundberg, an assistant inspector of hulls, who was being tried jointly with Fleming, still remains a prisoner. Passed the Alum Bill. Jefferson City, Mo., Jan. 26—The senate yesterday passed a bill repealing the law prohibiting the use of alum in baking powders. This is the old alum bill which was held up in the senate two years ago and out of which grew the indictments of state senators charged with having been bribed by Daniel J. Kelly, of the Royal Baking Powder Co. Senator Farris, who is under indictment on a charge of bribery in connection with this legislation, opposed the bill in a vigorous speech, saying he believed in purs food legislation. In Union There Is Strength. THE COILS TIGHTEN. Chicago Police Find More Evidence Against John Hoch, the Alleged Muti-Millionaire. Chicago, Jan. 25.—Information of more alleged victims of the supposed Bluebeard, John Hoch, has been given the police by John Frick, an employee of the Nickel Plate railroad. Frick reports to the police that his sister, Mrs. Mary Schultz, married Hoch, who then called himself Albert Mushburg, at Argos, Ind., in 1900. Mrs. Schultz had a child named Nettie, then 5 years old. "Shortly after they arrived in Chicago letters ceased coming to me," said Frick, "and I am under the belief that my sister and her little girl were done away with. My sister had about $1,500 at the time of the marriage." Relatives of six of the numerous wives credited to Hoch have expressed a belief to Police Inspector Shippy that the six women died from poison. The list of dead follows: Mrs. Marie Welker Hoch, died January 11, 1905. Mrs. Mary Steinbrecker, died 1894. Mrs. Mary Becker, St. Louis, died 1902. Mrs. Mary Schultz, Argos, Ind, died 1900; child also disappeared. Mrs. Lena Hoch, Milwaukee. Mrs. Sophia Hoch, Milwaukee. Inspector Shippy heard yesterday that in April, 1898, when Hoch was on trial for an alleged attempt to swindle a furniture firm, a minister from Wheeling, W. Va., was in Chicago and recognized in Hoch a man the minister had married some time before and whose wife had died under suspicious circumstances. A police officer may be sent to Wheeling to question the minister. AGAINST JUDGE LACOMBE. Charges Are Presented to Congress Asking for the Impeachment of a Federal Judge. Philadelphia, Jan. 25—George W. Watt, of the law firm of Watt & Dohan, in explaining the reasons for presenting charges to congress yesterday asking for the impeachment of Judge Henry Lacombe, of the United States circuit court for the Southern district of New York, stated that this action was taken because of the judge's failure to render a final decision in a suit brought in 1884 against the cities of New York and Brooklyn for an infringement upon a patent he held on a cofferdam. It is alleged that this device was used in the construction of the piers of the Brooklyn bridge. Dubois brought suit, and, according to Mr. Watt, was awarded damages in the sum of $605,000. The case was appealed and finally reached the United Court of Appeals which tribunal last November decided to the circuit court. Mr. Watt says that who's 12 charges are presented to congress, the main allegation is that Judge Lacombe has been instrumental in preventing a final decree being handed down in the litigation. Mr. Dubois died some time ago and the contest is now being made by John E. Dubois, executor of the inventor's estate. Tucker Is Convicted of Murder Tucker is convicted of murder. Cambridge, Mass., Jan. 25—Gullity of murder in the first degree was the verdict returned last night against charles L. Tucker, of Auburndale, who has been on trial since January 1, for abusing Miss Mabel Peltorde in her father's home at Weston on March 31, 1904. Death in the electric chair in the state prison in Charlestown is the penalty. Tucker collapsed utterly when the foreman read the verdict. He was led from the court room across the street to the jail in an exhausted condition and when locked in his cell revived somewhat. A Convention of Cotton Growers A Convention of Cotton Growers. New Orleans, Jan. 25.—By a unanimous vote at the close of its first session yesterday the southern interstate cotton convention, the largest and most representative that has gathered in the south, declared that reduction of acreage and commercial fertilizers is the paramount question to be considered at the convention and that it must be settled before any other business is undertaken. Eleven hundred and thirty-five delegates, representing 13 cotton growing states and territories, had registered when the convention was called to order. Mrs. Duke Is Arrested. New York, Jan. 25—Mrs. Alice Webb Duke, wife of Brodie L. Duke, was arrested yesterday on requisition papers issued by the Texas authorities. Mrs. Duke had been indicted at Nacogdoches, Tex., on the charge that she and Charles L. Taylor, of Chicago, made false statements on the strength of which a stockholder in one of the national banks in that place was induced to indorse their notes for $20,000. A. Mysterious Disappearance Portland, Ore., Jan. 25.—A sensation has been created by the mysterious disappearance of Carl Phelps, secretary of the federal grand jury which is investigating the land fraud cases. Phelps asked to be excused from the jury room for a few minutes on Friday. He has not been seen since by the members of the jury or by agents of the government. Murdered by 'Yagui Indians. El Paso, Tex., Jan. 25—Antonio Astizarian, a member of a prominent Mexican family with two servants, has been murdered by Yaqui Indians in the same vicinity where five Americans were slain, last Thursday. The family of M. Doane, a ranchman, was robbed, but they were allowed to go with their lives. Ladrones Attacked a Town. Laurieronis A Town Manilla, Jan. 25.—The town of San Francisco De Malabon, in the province of Cavite, was attacked by ladrones Monday night. Contract Surgeon J. O'Neil was killed. CLEVELAND, C., SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 1905. Written by The Gazette's Regular Correspondent—Personal, Political, Social, Church, Literary, and Lodge Notes of Interest. Lorain.—Mrs. Hattle Connor, who has been visiting here for the past two months, has left for Pittsburg.—Miss May Moore visited in Oberlin recently.—Mrs. Moody, of Cleveland, is the guest of her daughter, Mrs. A. Williams.—Mr. H. Pulley, of Oberlin, was here this week.—Mrs. Campbell, of Elyria, was here Sunday.—Mr. Robinson is seriously ill. M. Vernon.—Mr. John Green is able to be out again. John Payne had his hand mashed while at work last week. Revival meetings have been well attended and great interest is manifested. They will be closed Sunday.—Henry Thomas and his foot severely mashed while at work Thursday last.—Mrs. John Payne, who was called to Dayton by the death of a cousin, returned Sunday.—Mrs. Shields, of Knoxville, Tenn., is visiting her son, W. T. Shields.—Albert Roy is sick. Correspondents must mail all letters for publication on MONDAY of each week, and always place their names and that of their city and towns on the outside of the wrapper about returned copies. Unless this is done proper credit cannot be given to the correspondent. Mr. Lewis wedding presents, etc., obituary notices, speeches, resolutions, poetry and inquiries for relatives must be paid for at the rate of ten cents a line, six words to a line. Our rates for display advertisements will be sent on application. Ravenna—Mrs. C. Pigram, of Akron, was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Jackson a few days last week. Mrs. Jackson accompanied her home. —Mr. and Mrs. G. Golns' children have chickenpox—Masters I. Robin last H. C. Johnson was in Akron last W. C. Johnson was in Balsy Johnson, of Warrington, visited herents recently. —Mr. and Mrs. C. Parker are living with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Proctor.—The Murphy family are occupying Mrs. A. Stewart's residence—Ravenna Fountain will hold a bazaar and serve supper Saturday evening.—W. C. La Count and Oscar Lewis have been ill. East Liverpool.—There will be a debate Monday evening between Wellsville and E. Liverpool.—Little Gladys Goode is getting better.—John W. Howard died on Friday afternoon and was buried Monday morning from the A. M. E. church.—Mrs. Mosby is very sick.—Mr. John Smith has returned.—Miss Eydh Ormes is better.—Little Ralph Brown is sick.—Mrs. Lacey, of Chester, called on Mrs. W. H. Prior Saturday.—The officers of F. H. Loudin lodge, K. P. are: J. J. Goode, M. of M.; W. H. Prior, C. of C. Roy Tibbs, K. B. of S. C. Roy Troffero, of E. J. Heath, M. of A. W. Bloward prelate; H. Davis, inner guard; R. Bloward, outer guard.—The Choral society practiced at Mr. George Ormes Thursday evening.—The Missionary society met at Mrs. Georgia Lewis Friday afternoon. Findlay…Mr. Tom Allen, of Marion, died last week…Mr. Florence Stewart. Robertson died in Dayton…Rev Meadows, state missionary, held services Monday and Tuesday evening at Second church…The cottage prayer-meetings are very successful…Mr. Oliver Childers, of Kenton, was the guest of Miss Emma Powell last Sunday…William Robertson returned home last Saturday night…Mrs. L. W white and F. F. C. Brown are sick…Miss Bibbs is visiting Miss Jessie Williams…Mrs. Cory Adams is improving…The Missionary society met last Monday afternoon at Mrs. A. B. Woods' left, Eugene Bray and Luther White left, Thursday to attend a banquet in Toledo…Mrs. Nettle Thomas, who was called to the bedside of her husband, had returned home…Miss Bessie Jackson spent Sunday…An oyster supper was given by the young people at Miss Viola Bray's last Tuesday night…Findlay's Best club met at Miss Bray's last Friday night. Akron—Mr. O. Dixon died on the 9th and was buried from his aunt's, Mrs. E. Byrd's residence on the 11th—Mrs. Eliza Bell died on the 18th and was buried on the 21st. Rev. R. A. Jones officiated at the funeral—Mrs. F. E. Jackson, of Ravenna, accompanied Mrs. C. Pigram home and is her guest—Rev. Tucker, of Youngstown, is assisting in the revivals at Second church. Rev. Jones was confined to his home part of last week as the illness—Mrs. Archer has la gripe—Mrs. Morrison, whom Dr. F. Simpson is attending, is slowly convalescing. Walter Edwards, of Allegheny, Pa., the boy preacher, is at the Baptist church—Mrs. Mary Collins entertained recently at dinner Rev. and Mrs. Jones and daughter. Rev. Tucker, Mr. A. Edwards and son are entertained by Miss Wallace buttered by Mrs. C. Clayton the high prize for lady and man; Mr. F. Hamlin the gent's consolation prize. Warren—Miss Lena Johnson, of Washington, D. C., has entered the junior class of our high school—Mrs. Wallace Ormes has organized a children's choir for the A. M. E. church C. E—Miss Katie Millin was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Leece, of Youngstown, Sunday. A surprise was given Mr. Fenton Wanzo last week. He received many presents, one of them being a gold watch from his brother-in-law, Bennie Davis.— Miss Verna Proctor, of Ravenna, visited her sister, Mrs. Geo. Johnson. —Mr. Samuel West spent Sunday with his daughter, Olive West. —Mrs. Hiram Mountain and Mrs. T. Crawford are ill. —Mrs. Penny has had lairpiece. —Mr. Currier, of Wellsville, and Miss Edna Jackson, of Glauca, were guests of Miss Wynne Sunday. —William Ormes, D. D. Tuesday morning to install the officers of F. J. Louflin lodge at East Liverpool. Twin City lodge, Wellsville; Roosevelt lodge, Salem, and Lisbon lodge were expected to be in attendance. Smithfield. — Quarterly meeting, held here Sunday, was well attended. —Mr. Samuel West and wife, of Georgetown, visited his mother Saturday and Sunday. —Mrs. Powell and Mrs. Beall were guests of Mrs. Thos. Jackson Sunday evening. —Resin West, of McIntyre, preached here Sunday. —Mrs. James Carter was the guest of Mrs. H. Veney Sunday. —Rev. E. H. Harris preached the communion sermon Sunday afternoon. —Mr. Harry Lewis and Miss Alba Hargrave were guests of Miss Viola Carter Sunday evening. —The series of meetings closed Sunday night with 20 accessions to the church. Rev. Wm. Munts preached Sunday evening. —Miss Emma Carter was called to Steinbenville by the illness of her aunt, Mrs. Alice Doggit. —Rev. D. D. Lewis and family were guests of Mrs. Cary Hargrave and family Sunday. **Salem.**—The C. E. society of St John's church met Sunday evening. A good crowd was in attendance. The meeting was led by Mrs. Ada Smith —Eastern Star court surprised Mrs. Katie Harve with a china shower Saturday evening. Quite a number of beautiful pieces. It was her birthday —Mrs. Mays, of Pittsburg, is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Bingham —Mr. and Mrs. Harry Wilt, of Unlontown, are guests of Mr. and Mrs. William Kelley —Mrs. Myrtle Miller, who has been visiting her sister, Mrs. S. C. Alex, and was called to Patmos last Friday by her father's serious illness. —Mr. Granville Wood is seriously ill. —Mrs. Harper, Mrs. Sommerville and Mrs. Lacy continue very ill. —The dance at Greene given by some of our young people was well attended. About 18 couples drove over from. Dancing from 9 p. m. to 2 p. m. During intermission an oyster supper was served —Rev. P. H. Edwards, of lronton, formerly of Fostoria, was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Burke last week —Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Webster entertained at dinner Thursday Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Burke and daughter Ruth, Miss Caddie Anderson, of Lorain; Mr. Arthur Howard and Rev. P. H. Edwards. Miss Anderson returned home Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. T. H. Cyrus entertained in her honor on Saturday evening. —Rev. B. F. Combash went to Lisbon Saturday —Mr. Foster returned to Pittsburgh last week Thursday. LOTTIE WAS LUCKY. She Won the Gold Prize—Her Answe and Those from Others—Perso nal Mention—Church News Sidney, O.—The revival meeting is progressing. Elder Balay preached a touching sermon Sunday night.—Jennie Stewart and Martha Denmark visited in Bellefontaine—Mrs. Julia Lee was called to Plaqua to see an aunt who was dying—Mrs. Creth is better. Mr. and Mrs. and Miss Adams spent Sunday at Anna Station.—Elder Balay and Elder Burney were entertained Friday.) Rev. A. L. Balar. Rev. Burney returned to Van Wert the next day.—Miss Lottie Alexander, of Ripley, received a ten-dollar gold piece given for answering the question, "Why a woman's head is stamped on silver dollars." "Money talks, and so does a woman," was the correct reply. W. H. Turner received 32 letters as the result of the publication recently of the question in the Sidney letter of The Gazette. Now he would like to know how many men are in jail as the result of woman's talk and how many, money will talk out of confinement.—Miss Ella Hunter and C. Simmons, of Indianapolis, were here Saturday and will visit Rev. and Mrs. J. C. Turner, of Middletown. The Jacques Wedding. Massillon, O.—Mrs. Jas. Wisdom went to Akron Saturday. J. G. Alen's niece, Lola, was married on the 7th to Joseph Jacques, of New York City.—Jas. Harvey left on the 25th for his home in Cincinnati to spend a few months.—The juniors' supper Saturday evening for the benefit of the Baptist church was a success. $9.82 —Mrs. Jas. Hall, who visited her cousin, Mrs. Chelsea, has returned to Alliance. Mrs. Mc. Gruder, of Canton, entertained them Sunday.—The Ladies' Auxiliary met last week at Mrs. Jno. Hood's. Bought Property and Will Build. From Cincinnati or Louisville via Pennsylvania Lines. Convenient transfer to trains South at Ohio River gateways. Special low fares to all resorts. For information about sleeping car reservations in advance, consult Pennsylvania Lines ticket agent or Geo. Weedon, D. P. A., Cleveland O. W. "TO BE KILLED! Some Day, Mark My Word,' Said the Brutal Tennesean. Angered Because Booker T. Washington occupied a section in a Sleeper—An Exhibition by Some of Our "Best Friends" as Mr. Washington Would Say. Ormond, Fla.—Booker T. Washington was a passenger on the 20th on the Kansas City Jacksonville sleeping car of the Frisco line, which arrived here on the 21st. The educator did not leave the car until he reached Birmingham, where he took a train to Tuskegee, but he remained in it against the vigorous protest of two or three southerners, who at one time seriously debated taking hold of him and throwing him bodily from the train. One of the men who objected strenuously to Washington's presence came to Jacksonville and was still greatly "stirred" over the matter. Declares Booker Will be Killed. "On my return home," he said, "I shall see that proceedings are begun against the railroad for permitting this violation of the law. This is the only time in my life I ever had to ride in a car with a n—. As for myself, I am a man of peace, but there's one thing sure, this Booker Washington is going to be killed one of these days, mark my word." Mr. Washington boarded the car in Kansas City. There is no law in Missouri forbidding Afro-Americans from riding in cars occupied by white persons, and Washington's presence attracted no attention until in the forenoon, when the train was well along on its journey through Tennessee. Southerner Startled Then a young Tennesseean stepped into the other section of the sleeper and espied Dr. Washington in one corner. "Well, I'll be ——" exclaimed the southerner, looking directly at the educator. Washington made no reply. Then the Tennesseean hunted up first the Pullman conductor and then the train conductor and made his complaint, but both declared Mr. Washington had secured a ticket at Kansas City calling for accommodations on the sleeper to Birngham, and they had no right to eject him. The complainant returned to the sleeper and explained the situation to other occupants of the car, which was sparsely occupied. He found one sympathizer, who agreed that the proper thing to do was to take hold of Washington and throw him bodily off the car. Unable to Get Help in Ousting. They appealed to a couple of other men to assist them, but one declared he was a stranger in a strange land and did not want to get into trouble, while the other declined outright to interfere. The southern men then decided that, not being sure of the law on the subject, they would telegraph the facts to the sheriff of a county ahead, but the opportunity did not come until they reached Birmingham, where the cause of the trouble left the train. With him went the "white" man who had refused outright to join the proposed ejection proceedings, and he proved to be Washington's secretary (Afro-American.) Plans Students' Farm. Mobile, Ala.—Booker T. Washington has an option on 150 acres of land five miles from Montgomery, and it is said he will establish on it a school farm or experiment station for Afro-Americans. Since this has become known the white residents of the vicinity are "aroused." Every resident of the vicinity has signed a petition addressed to Washington, asking him not to close the purchase. WEDDING BELLS Bob Stewart and that Boat—Lodges to Meet—Church Society Doings—Personal and Social News. Youngstown, O—Mrs. Joseph Kemp fell and sprained her ankle last week. —George Washington was called to Warren Monday. Her mother has typhoid pneumonia. —Rev. Morgan, of Warren, preached at Mill Street church Sunday afternoon. —The L. L. Choral society met Sunday afternoon at P. R. Berry's for the last rehearsal before the concert. —Oak Hill Avenue church J. M. band met at Mrs. Angie Rose's Saturday afternoon and laid plans for a concert on Valentine day. —The West Side Whist club was entertained Friday afternoon by Mr. and Mrs. James Saunders. A delicious luncheon was served. —Mrs. C. B. Stewart has pneumonia. —Miss Nora Eccles is still very ill. —Mrs. Herbert Bacon, Mrs. William Logan and daughter, Dorothy, returned Thursday evening from Erie. —Mrs. Cynthia Gordon is rapidly convalescing. —The ladies of Mahoning Avenue Church Missionary society met Thursday afternoon to reorganize the sewing circle and elected the following officers: Pres, Mrs. Mary Willis; vice Mrs. H. P. Parker; sec, Mrs. ella Tucker; H. P. Parker; whille Mrs. Whille; moretrees, treas, Mrs. Jennie Tucker. The getting day was changed from Thursday to every other Friday afternoon. Mrs. Emma Proctor, of Ravenna, visited her parents. —Ms. Thomas Johnson is convalescing. —Mrs. Kate Heath has pneumonia. —Mrs. Nettle Coleman is very ill. —Oscar Smith and John Richards have la gripe. —Mrs. Boston Tillery has heart trouble. —Wedding bells will ring again soon on Glenwood avenue, Edward street and Walnut street. A couple of additional SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. ones will be located later. Keep your eye on The Gazette — Mahoning Fountain is requested to convene at 7:30 p.m. Monday evening and Logan lake Wednesday evening at 7:30 p.m. Business of importance — The Gazette agent and a number of others received invitations to the eighth annual ball of the De Trop club, Akron, February 22.—Bob Stewart, proprietor of East Boardman pool rooms, is very anxious to see summer time, so he can go fishing in the large Mahoning river. He requires an extra large boat. Watch him.—Mr. and Mrs. Christ Hamilton are better. The editor of The Gazette desires to hear from him.—Joseph Hull returned from New York last week.—Mr. and Mrs. Walter Rose were sick last week.—The revival at Mill Street church is meeting with great success.—The funeral services of Rev. J. H. Hardin were held Sunday at 3 p.m. at St. Mary's church. He was at one time his pastor. Rev. S. L. Newby was in charge and the choir sang a number of beautiful selections. Floral tributes were numerous and the attendance very large. Interment in Oak Hill cemetery.—Word was received Monday that —Mrs. Lianna Thompson was critically ill with typhoid pneumonia. She is a sister of Mrs. Cynthia Gordon, who, with Mrs. Thompson's daughter, Miss Georgia Washington, left immediately for Warren.—Mr. Joseph Hill, steward of the Rayen club, has returned from New York City. His aunt is much better.—Mrs. Paris Hall went for Warren Tuesday.—Mrs. Nettie Coleman and Mrs. Charles Stewart are still very ill. Olean, N. Y., News. W. H. Nandville presented the A. M. E. church with a seven light gas pneumonica—After four months' illness Mr. Jerome Snowden is able to be out again—Master Raymond Hailthock has been sick for a week.—Mr. William Gilbert entertained in honor of Miss Halliday. Refreshments were served to 12 persons. Cards—Mrs. Robert Alexander, of Bradford, Pa., visited her mother, Mrs. Kelly, and Mr. Fred Collins Sunday.—Miss Irene Hornbeck, of Ithica, is visiting her mother.—Wedding bells will occupy soon.—Constable Gay will occupy his new home in February.—Mr. Marvin Norris, of Smithport, was here last week.—Miss Ida Randall has returned.—Mr. William Johnson, of Emporium, Pa., was here to see his brother, Alvin, who is ill.—Mr. N. Marshall, of Portville, was here Sunday.—Mr. N. Johnson was in Portville last week.—The A. M. E. Church Aid society met Thursday night.—Mrs. Sarah Hill entertained the L'Ouvverture club last week. Mrs. Randall will be the next hostess.—Mrs. Leta Collins is ill. Left Her "Hubby" and so Soon? Mansfield, O.—Rev. B. A. Powell closed the meetings Sunday night and may open them again—Mrs. John Barker, of Norwalk, is visiting Mrs. G. W. Barker—Tom Wilson burned his foot last week.—Mrs. A. Fisher is better—Mrs. William Bright, nee Miss Laura Johnson, of Cleveland, who was recently married, has left her husband, it is said.—Mr. and Mrs. Henry Green are here—Mrs. Joe Hicks had the grip.—C. Beaumont is home for the winter.—W. R. Pointer is able to be out after six weeks of illness.—A. B. Poindexter was in Cleveland to hear Booker Washington. A report has it that the K. of P. telephoned to him to come and lecture here. He will come, of course ("nit." Well, we have abler men right in Ohio who can make bet. ter speeches. Why not send for some of them? The Johnson Marriage and "Shower." The Johnson Marriage and "Shower." Sharon, Pa.—Mrs. James Allen, of Mercer, was the guest of Mrs. W. G. Hill last Friday.—Mr. and Mrs. Fred Pullman, of Dillionville, O., have moved here. The Ladies' Industrial club held a business meeting at Mrs. H. D. Hawkins' Monday evening.—Mrs. Joseph Chinn is recovering. Miss Ella, the accomplished daughter of Mr. Washington Coleman, and Mr. William Johnson were married last week. The L. I. club gave a linen and china shower Tuesday evening in honor of the bride. Lunch was served and a very pleasant evening spent. Mrs John Burke is slick. Mrs E. F. Flemons is conversing. Grand rally Sunday at Zion church. A good collection—Miss Lizzie Coleman has a very sore foot. Will Give Her Home to the Church, Lockland and Wyoming, O.—Rev. Smith, of the A. M. E. church, preached a very interesting sermon at 11 a.m., and Rev. Lankford the evangelist, at 7:30 p. m. "Mother" Jennie Merritt died last week and was buried from Predestinarian church. She was faithful and it is said she was a hundred years old. "Mother" Merritt left several sons, many relatives and a host of friends to mourn her loss. Communion at the Baptist church. Zion church has purchased a fine $65 stove. A pound social was given in honor of Mrs. Corlian Lucas last week. She has willied her home to Bethel church. Mr. John Cornish is improving. 365 Happy Anniversaries The American Baptist, published at Louisville, Ky., by William H. Stewart, has completed 26 years of continuous publication. Mr. Stewart is one of the strong representatives of the race and we wish him and his excellent paper at least 365 very happy returns of their anniversary day. Good Time to go South. Lowest Fares Now Via Pennsylvania Lines. Winter tourist excursions via any route from Cincinnati or from Louisville to Florida and all resorts of the south. Get details from Pennsylvania lines ticket agents, or communicate Geo. W. Weedon, D. P. A., Cleveland, O. COLOR PROBLEM In This Country Interesting: Iy Discussed by Mr. Daniel Murray. Many Leading Statesmen Had "Colored Blood" in Their Veins—An Intensely Interesting Narrative for Fiction—Singer Than Fiction." PART III. In the early years of Washington, or before 1861, this color question and the charge of having an African strain of blood in one's composition were often the cause of no little bitterness of feeling, since some of the first families charged it up to others in their own set, as a parting shot in their quarrels. Most people remember how Henry Watterson, the Kentucky editor, made, through his paper in 1903, a similar charge about the first families of New York. "The 400," one of whom Mr. Robert Hargous invited a colored couple, Mr. and Mrs. Walker, as guests, to a swell function given by him at Delmonico's and the company in seeming contempt of southern sentiment on the "color question" vied with each other in choosing Mr. and Mrs. Walker as partners in the waltzes. This recalls that there is current now a statement that some time shortly before the 1900s, Mr. McBlair, president of the Washington, D.C., common council, sued in court a Mr. McBlair for saying, "Dove has African blood in him." The affair caused no little stir, since Mr. McBlair was also prominent, being the son-in-law of the United States senator, Ten Eck, of New Jersey. Treating further on this interesting subject, I recall an article in the Philadelphia Tribune, December 14, 1901, entitled "Southland Amalgamation of an Enforced Kind." The writer seeks to add to the force of an article a few days previous in the New York Tribune by Mr. Lewis H. Douglass, this drawn out anent the Roosevelt-Washington episode. The writer says "Indeed when we look at some of the portraits in Independence hall, and other galleries, (referring to Alex Hamilton, Judah P. Benjamin, Henry Nimrod, etc.) facial likenesses have been preserved in all the previous removes. It is nothing to be proud of, but the fact remains. To show the littleness of knowledge—it the littleness of knowledge—two great officers of the Confederate army had Negro blood in their veins. (The late United States Senator Randall Gibson was a quadroon.) The northern army had a number of such, and the writer personally knew at least a dozen who wore at least a straps and were as brave as the bravest. It is not to be supposed that these people would throw away their preferment and distinction when to preserve them they had simply to keep their lips sealed. Miscegenation is much greater than people suppose, and thousands have sunk their identity and it will never be known. In New York state the old Dutch settlers commingled their blood freely with thengrego, and the prefix 'Van' is not an uncommon thing among the colored. In Rhode Island it was common enough. A remarkable marriage was that of a native African married to the daughter of a Scotch earl over a hundred years ago. The wife bought land in southern Jersey and the issue from the marriage have run into thousands. Their descendants still hold the land and though many have scattered, numbers remain. In this case there was not a vestige of slavery."—Colored American Magazine, New York City. WALTER H. STOWERS Resigns a Position as Deputy County Clerk to Enter Business Life. Walter H. Stowers, who, after breaking in the new force under County Clerk Himes last week, retired from politics to accept the position of business manager of one of the largest business houses in the city of Detroit and the largest of its kind in the state, the Metropolitan steam dye and cleaning works. The confidence Walter H. Stowers. thus placed in Mr. Stowers by Mr. Peters, principal owner, who has become very wealthy in his present business, is a marked compliment to the fine abilities and uncompromising integrity of the man. Mr. Stowers is yet a young man and we feel that he has done well to eschew politics for an active business career that will surely land him high up on the ladder of fame and fortune.—Detroit (Mich.) informer. 2 THE GAZETTE. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. (IN ADVANCE.) One Year ..... $1.50 Six Months ..... 100 Three Months ..... 50 Subscribers are requested to remit by post-office money order or registered letter Entered at the postoffice in Cleveland, Ohio as second-class matter. All communications should be addressed: HARRY C. SMITH. Member Ohio Legislature, 1894 to 1898. 1896 to 1898. 1898 to 1898. 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. Today is the editor's birthday and he is enjoying it to the fullest extent. Good health is indeed a great blessing, it is difficult for one to fully appreciate who has enjoyed it nearly all his life. We are grateful, however. Prof. W. E. B. DuBois is not the man to refuse to give more information anent that "$3,000 hush money used to subsidize the Negro press in five leading cities" mentioned in his "Debit and Credit" article, when he thinks the time ripe for it. Howls and abuse will not have any effect upon DuBois, because if there is a man among our people who will "consider the source," that man is the professor. Our genial friend, Phil Waters, of Charleston, W. Va., known throughout that state as the "silver-tongued orator of the Kanawha," writes the editor of The Gazette that he has been elected to his old place, clerk of the committee on taxation and finance of the West Virginia house of delegates, over twenty white applicants, and that he has one of that class as his assistant. This is the most important committee in the lower house of that state's assembly, and it is an honor, as well as most creditable indeed, to any man to hold the position. Our native state does itself proud in honoring capable and aggressive Phil Waters. Accept our earnest congratulations, dear friend. KANSAS AND TENNESSEE. Karsans certainly can not feel proud of Wichita's leading hotel-keepers. Their shameful treatment recently of Booker T. Washington shows the advance in the north of prejudice against the race, as the result of the southern propaganda of the last five years exploited in the press of the country (the north particularly) and with the assistance of such "lecturers" and public speakers from the south as Senators Carmack and Tillman, Congressman Champ Clark and Tom Haffin, Gov. Vardaman Lieut. Hobson and John Temple Graves. Those Wichita hotel-keepers are but little better than the Tennessee brute whose contemptible conduct in the sleeper in which Mr. Washington rode recently has been published throughout the length and breadth of the land. Miserable indeed is the condition of any section of a country that produces such hybrids as that Tennesseean and then stamps with its seal of approval such downright ruffianly conduct, and in public places, too! AUTHORIZED POWER. There should be no caviling as to the purpose and right of the federal constitution to assert its authority and carry out its provisions to the full extent of the law. It cannot go beyond its limit and it should not fall to act within its own jurisdiction. Every amendment to the constitution must be interpreted and enforced according to the law as it is prescribed. Whenever two-thirds of both houses shall deem it necessary and shall propose amendments to this constitution, or whenever an application of the legislatures of two-thirds of the several states is made, a convention shall be called for the proposed amendments, which in either case shall be valid to all intents and purposes as part of this constitution when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several states, or by conventions in three-fourths thereof, as the one or the other mode of ratification may be proposed by congress, an amendment adopted under the above conditions must remain good. The same powers which make an amendment strictly lawful can alone repeal them. This be not true, then the creating power becomes null and void. But until recourse is made according to the methods of adoption, these amendments are a. valid and legitimate as the constitution itself. Each is a pillow upon which our great governmental system is based and cannot be repudiated except according to the prescribed terms of the law. They stand as the pledge of the nation in the time of its greatest agony and fiercest struggle for life and existence. Each stands as a distinct feature of the constitution adopted to meet a trying emergency and in the hour when the occasion demanded a sure remedy and the best statesmanship to repress the mad spirit of disintegration and ruin. They were the logical sequence of revolution and rebellion. They were the outgrowth of a lofty patriotism and of human justice. They were essential at the time of their creation, and they are as essential now. The enforcement of one cannot abrogate the other. They mutually conform to the support of each other, and it proves the merest folly to argue that the enforcement of any part of our federal constitution means the subversion of any principle of right and justice to the citizen. Every measure of our constitution is a bulwark of liberty, and to maintain and enforce the cardinal propositions of the constitution is the only way to preserve and perpetuate American liberty and American justice. To secede from any part of the compact would be to substitute compromise, hamper the cause of justice and to defeat among Americans that better and more progressive spirit of equal liberty and fair play among the masses. The merest dream of a repeal of a single measure of the fundamental law but bespeaks a backward movement of free government. The national honor must be maintained. TILLMAN'S "POINT." Senator Ben Tillman is at it again but in a little different way. Let our readers note carefully the Washington. D. C., letter elsewhere in The Gazette today, and then write a strong protest, forwarding it at once to Washington, D. C., to the United States senators from their state. Our newspapers should protest promptly and vigorously, sending marked copies of their papers to every republican member of the United States senate. If the two new states, Oklahoma and New Mexico, can not be "admitted" without a provision compelling the separation of the whites and Afro-Americans (all others save our people being classed as "whites") then they should forever remain territories. The matter of the classification of races in the schools of a state is purely a local (state) matter, one to be regulated by the commonwealth and not by the federal government. Tillman is stabbing the south's greatest pet hobby "state's rights" to death and no one down there seems to notice the fact because in so doing he is riding another of his hobbies, a sort of a later-day one and the one that is now the hobby of hobbies in the eyes and mind of the south; and that is, humilize and degrade the Afro-American in every way that has any relation whatever to equality of rights, privileges, etc., even in public places; begin with our children of tender age in the new states as is done in all other southern states and in some parts of northern states where the southern prejudiced sentiment is strong. That is the all absorbing hobby in the south these days. Therefore Tillman's strenuous effort to "gain a point." Let us get into the fight before it is too late. It is our duty. INSTINCT AND EDUCATION There is a manliness in human nature that lifts humanity above the sordid things of earth and asserts itself against the worst environments. It is the impulse of heart instinct, prompting the soul to conscious duty. The most enobling qualities of the mind are inspired mainly from a well ordered and high moral sentiment that accepts no compromise with forbidden wrong. The slightest indigency or the merest injustice to a brother man finds no sanction with the individual of pure, instinctive honor. Prompted from the holiest impulse of the soul and the heart's purest emotions, it becomes at once the most amiable and pleasing virtue of our intellectual and moral being. It is that which allies us to the breath of deity of which we are a part and renders us the noblest of all created beings. It is that which lifts the mind away from things mortal to an unfading immortality beyond earth and sky; which brings the soul in sweet communion with nature and nature's God and blends the mental powers with things both spiritual and divine. It remains then with all men of whatever race or nationality to even up their accounts with each other. It remains with them to keep it in mind that instinctive nature knows no difference in its dealings with men. We cannot escape the injunctions of heart instinct and we cannot elude its just impeachment. Recognizing the truth of this principle, does anyone hope to justify the spirit of caste and discrimination which every day faunts itself so defiantly in the glare of our Christian civilization. Despite our best education and finest culture, we cannot relieve ourselves of the good-dignes, the pangs and the constant admonitions of the nobler element of ourselves, which ever and anon appeals to our reason and whips the conscience to a sense of its duty. We must therefore educate aright and in all our training of the mental powers, we educate in vain unless we emanulate the soul from every opposing influence of our better natures. Unto God every nation and tongue must bow, and it must be done in obedience to conscience, the best instinct of the heart which bids us cling to the higher law, despite whatever we may plead in ignorance of the truth or in weakness of purpose. The moral law is instinctive of every impulse of duty. And it is this which bids the races to go forth to duty's call. There is an awful responsibility which ever confronts men who know their duty, yet do it not. In a thousand ways we are confronted by this never-varying and eternal law of right. Yet we see men in high places trample this law under foot, and that, too, without justification and without excuse. But even if we had no ten commandments, no prophets' warning, no new civilization, yet the instinct of heart and soul releases no man of his obligation to his fellows and his God. Around us and on every side we are brought in touch with people of the highest were criticism es-sion. Theigate man to en-title that our sub-undation and secure of kief intellectual attainments who heed not the sanctions of that better japulse of our own being. An instinctive sense of right and justice is the property of all men, and when sustained by education and learning it becomes a con-quering power among the fallen and benighted of men. Guided by that in-born element of our being, the ever-impelling force which bids us do the right, we could find no cause to doubt the ultimate triumph of truth over error, of right over wrong, did men but heed its teachings. SHREDDED NEWS. HAPPENINGS OF THE LAST FIVE DAYS BRIEFLY TOLD. DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN. items Arranged for the Readers in This Busy World So that They Two bachelors known as "Cain Brothers," who own valuable mining property at Tamarack, S. D., have been murdered near the mine. The boiler at Whitehead's mills, near Houghton, Ont., exploded. Four men were killed and three were seriously injured. President James B. Angell tendered his formal resignation to the board of regents of the University of Michigan. The regents refused to accept it. Patrolman Eugene L. Dovanna was convicted in New York City of man-slaughter for killing George Dorwick Mrs. Alice Brodie L. D. York City on by the Texan. An indefinite bribery was in Newer Moses J. A blizzard ern Iowa. A roads have titles. It was Moines. Charges were asking for the Many Officers Elected Steubenville, O.—The following named persons were elected officers and teachers of Quinn Memorial S. S: Supt., Andrew J. Guy; assist, Emmia Brown; sec., John Matthews; treas, George Simpson; organist, Della Walker; librarians, Norman White and Howard Higgins. Teachers: class 1, Cora Johnson; 2, Mrs. Phillips; 3, Emma Brown; 4, Sophora Clement; 5, Elmer White; 6, O. B. Walker; 7, George Simpson; 8, Spencer Banks. The following were elected officers of the Y. P. S. C. E: Pres., Elmer White; sec., Daily Guyder; treas, A. J. Guy; librarian, Mary Duger. The following were elected officers of the Literary society: Pres., Addison Reed; sec., John Matthews; treas, Madeline Viney; chorister, Emma Brown. Executive committee: Elmer White, Emma Brown, Wm. Vance. Rev. C. D. White is conducting a very interesting revival. Up to date there have been six conversions, eight accessions to the church and several are at the altar—Dr. E. W. Dale is a candidate for coroner—Rev. Ferguson, of Simpson church, held his last quarter meeting Sunday and will leave for conference at Louisville, Ky., in March. Ben. Tillman Gains a Point Washington, D. C—Owing to strong opposition which developed among southern democrats against the republican managers of the statehouse bill have agreed to an amendment to that measure, providing for separate schools for whites and blacks in the two proposed new states of Oklahoma and New Mexico. Shame! Senator Tillman, of South Carolina, after conferring with his democratic colleagues, engineered the opposition to the proposition as contained in the bill. He discussed the subject in conference with Senator Beveridge, who is chairman of the committee on territories, and served notice that the southern men did not propose to agree to the mixed school proposition, and that it ought to be changed. After considerable argument between the two, Mr. Beveridge agreed to a proposition for separation of the races in all school affairs in the two states, and the amendment is to be adopted by the senate. How Our Ball Players Were Side tracked. "Did you ever hear the story of the way the Colored ball players were sidetracked?" asked Bud Fowler the other day. "There were six of us in the International, back in '77, and the white players sent in a protest to the league directors, who passed a rule that in the future no colored players other than those then under contract should be signed. That fall Binghamton dropped Renfrow and myself off its reserve list, and Newark let out Fred Grant, but chained him before the season opened. That left Fleet Walking Bighins with Syracuse, and they didn't last the season out. That is how the color line was sprung by a lot of bootlegs. Walker is now keeping hotel in Steubenville, Stovey is a barber at Jimmy Sebring's home in Williamsport, Pa., and Renfrow is still playing with the Chicago Unions." News of the Week of Beaver Valley Pa. Alex Webster, Jr., of Beaver, was in Pittsburgh Saturday — Rev. C. M. Tanner, of Allegheny, visited his uncle, A. W. Tanner, of Rochester, last week Friday — The installation of the stewards and stewardesses of St. John's church, W. Bridgewater, took place Sunday evening — Mrs. Chas. Robinson, Beaver Falls, is ill — Mrs. Florence Miller is in Pittsburgh attending her aunt, Mrs. Anna Patterson, who is ill — Those assisting in the revival services at St. John's church last week were Rev. Crockett, Rev. Puller, "Father" Bruien and Mr. Swesey. They have been well attended. — Miss Flora Webster, of Rochester, is ill. — A number of young people attended the dance at Massillon last week — J. W. Butler, of Beaver, is ill. Toronto's Colored Comptroller Toronto's Colored Comptroller. The friends of Comptroller William P. Hubbard, of Toronto, Canada, will be very much pleased to know that after having served his native city for ten years as a member of its aldermanic board and two years on the board of control, has again received a very substantial endorsement of his services by being returned January 10, 1905, to the honorable position on the municipal government by a majority of over 6,000 greater than last year. Comptroller Hubbard was chairman of the board in 1904, and was acting mayor of the city, two days during Mayor Urquhart's tenure on his vacation in Europe. Toronto has a population of about 260,000.—Boston Guardian. Terrible Tim and the "Hush Money." Uncle Timothy, Thomas Fortune rages like a roaring lion about Prof. Du Bois' charge of "hush money" used in five leading cities. He wants to know particulars. Now, Uncle Thomas, take our advice, you are already under suspicion for always being hushed up when the Tuskegeean needs criticism. If you keep on sputtering people will think you are one of the beneficiaries. For, remember, Uncle Tom, it is the "pinched child that screams." It is the "wounded bird that flutters." By the way, nobody seems to accuse the Guardian of getting any of that "hush money." Funny, isn't it?—Boston Guardian. HOME-SEEKERS' EXCURSIONS West, Northwest and Southwest via Pennsylvania Lines. Excursion tickets will be sold via Pennsylvania Lines to points west, northwest and southwest, account Home-Seekers' Excursions, during January, February, March and April. For full particulars regarding fares, routes, etc., write or call on Geo. Weedon, D. P. A., Cleveland, Q. SHREDDED NEWS HAPPENINGS OF THE LAST FIVE DAYS BRIEFLY TOLD. DOMESTIC AND FOREIGN Items Arranged for the Readers In This Busy World So that They Can Digest the Contents in a Few Minutes. CONGRESSIONAL On the 20th the house passed the army appropriation bill and then spent the remainder of the session in debate of the Indian appropriation bill. The senate considered the statehood and fur seal indemnity bills. The house on the 21st passed the Indian appropriation bill and then devoted several hours to paying tribute to the late Senator John J. Ingalls, of Kansas. The day in the senate was devoted to eulogies of Senator Ingalls. The senate on the 23d passed the fortifications appropriation bill. The session of the house was devoted to consideration of bills relating to the District of Columbia. The senate on the 24th organized for the impeachment trial of Judge Charles Swayne by swearing the senators, the oath being administered by Chief Justice Fuller. The statehood bill was discussed. The house debated the District of Columbia appropriation bill. On the 25th the house passed the District of Columbia and military academy appropriation bills. The senate passed a number of bills of minor importance. Two men and a woman, Italian rag-pickers, were burned to death in a fire which destroyed the hovel they occupied in Harlem, N. Y. The grand jury which has for two months been investigating the election frauds in Pueblo county, Col., reported the discovery of a conspiracy, with its head in Denver, to control the election in this county by corrupt methods. One hundred new indictments were returned. Through Chancellor Whitlaw Reid, a petition has been presented by wealthy Jews to the regents of the university of the state of New York asking for the removal of Melville Dewey, state librarian. A sleigh load of 20 young men was struck at a grade crossing at Big Rapids, Mich., by a Grand Rapids & Indiana freight train running 40 miles an hour and four men were seriously injured. The team was killed and the sleigh was thrown 60 feet. A joint debate between the University of Michigan and Northwestern University at Ann Arbor, Mich., was waged by Michigan. Seven experts, who had examined the ballot-boxes in as many Denver precincts made their reports before the joint legislative committee hearing the Peabody-Adams contest. They reported that out of 2,041 ballots found in the seven boxes 994 were fraudulent. Passengers on an elevated train in Chicago were thrown into a panic when George H. Gould, cashier of an insurance company, shot and fatally wounded A. R. Hammond, a guard employed by the road. Hammond was accused of alienating the affections of Gould's wife. Mr. McCasken, of Illinois legislature, wishes a committee appointed to investigate the railroad commission for its failure to relieve freight conditions and report back its findings to the legislature. The investigation now in progress in Washington Senator Smoot said he had not taken any oath that would interfere with his loyalty to his government. R. G. Dun & Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade says: Progress is more rapid in manufacture than in distribution. Failures this week numbered 335 in the United States, against 358 last year, and 24 in Canada, compared with 33 a year ago. Information reaching Washington from Caracas, Venezuela, says President Castro has decided to give a negative reply to the representations of the United States. S. B. Roath, a Chicago millionaire, who a short time ago distributed $1,000,000 among his relatives in Norwich, Conn., is making another distribution of the same amount. The boiler at Godby's sawmill in Barnetta, Ky., exploded, killing two men and seriously injuring three others. Edward Payson Cone, prominently identified with many patriotic organizations, died suddenly at New York City, where he was working. For 70 years Mr. Cone was associated with the late Robert Bonner, in the publication of the New York Ledger. A clever bill raises, who, if is said, has made $8,000 since last January, was arrested in Chicago. Jacob Ridgeway Wright, who claimed he shot himself by accident in a New York City hotel, died a few hours after being taken to a hospital. Three men are dead and two others critically ill as a result of an outbreak of spinal meningitis or "spotted fever," in a lumbering camp at Lakeview plantation in the state of Maine. In the wreck of an Illinois Terminal railroad train near Alton, Ill., 30 passengers narrowly escaped death in a turned over coach. Fireman A. G. Chaplin was killed. Ten deaths in the steerage of the Vaderland were reported when she arrived at New York from Antwerp and Dover. Eight were men between the drivers and two were boys aged 15 years. With 26,000 tons of freight, the largest cargo ever carried by a ship, and 1/1 passengers the Great Northern Steamship Co.'s new liner Minnesota has left Seattle, Wash., and started on her initial trip to Manila. It has been proposed to dam Port Arthur harbor at the entrance and pump out the water, preparatory to salving the Russian war vessels. At New Ulm, Minn., the jury which had for two days been considering the case of Dr. G. R. Koch, charged with the murder of Dr. L. A. Gebhardt, reported that they were unable to agree. Because her husband unbraided her for smoking cigarettes, a habit which had undermined her health and which was conquer, Mrs. Saddle Thompson, wife of Robert Thompson, sexton of the Oak Park, Ill., Episcopal church, swallowed a dose of corrosive sublimate and died. Two bachelors known as "Cain Brothers," who own valuable mining property at Tamarack, S. D., have been murdered near the mine. The boiler at Whitehead's mills, near Houghton, Ont., exploded. Four men were killed and three were seriously injured. President James B. Angell tendered his formal resignation to the board of regents of the University of Michigan. The regents refused to accept it. Patrolman Engene L. Dovanna was convicted in New York City of manshaughter for killing George Dorwick in November. Sentence was not imposed. News was received at Washington from Mexico that J. J. Kemzie, a well known mining engineer, of Chicago, had been killed by Indians in the state of Sonora, 65 miles from Hermosillo, Mexico. The postoffice department has withheld the issuance of the commission of N. S. Walpole, whose nomination as postmaster of Pueblo, Col., was confirmed a few days ago and against whom 32 indictments have been returned in connection with election frauds. The gendarmer were called out at Buda Pest, Hungary to quell a disturbance following a meeting of local militia in the village of Gondor. The gendarmers fired on the mob, killing four men and wounding one. Dr. Thomas H. Norton, American consul at Harput, Turkey, makes a report concerning the recent massacres in Armenia, in which he estimates that n the Sassoun district 5,000 lives were lost in last summer's massacres, including 2,771 children. An engine attached to a Baltimore & Ohio freight train exploded near Mountain Lake Park, Md. Several cars were derailed and Brakeman F. Johnson and Fireman J. L. Simpson were killed. Engineer Stranhan was seriously injured. A head on collision between two freight trains, one a double-header, on the Louisville & Nashville railroad at Tennessee, resulted in the death of four firemen and the injury of six others, three of whom may die. The residence of George Barnes was burned at Iron River, Wis. Four persons perished. While speeding his racing automobile on the beach at Ormonede, Fla., Frank Croker, second son of Richard Croker, of New York, collided with a motorcycle chair. Mr. Croker and his chauffeur are dead. The chair driver had both legs broken. The federal grand jury at Portland, Ore., has returned an additional indictment against George Sorenson, charging him with perjury in connection with the land fraud cases now under investigation by the government authorities. There have been three distinct earthquakes of increasing force at Santiago, Cuba, causing considerable excitement. No serious damage was done. The police, of Columbus, O., have been asked to locate $4,000 worth of government bonds stolen from the rooms of Mrs. Grace Trautman, matron of Grant hospital. After a conference of less than an hour's duration between General Manager Attbury, of the Pennsylvania railroad, and Grand Master Morrissey, Vice Grand Master Lee and the board of adjustment of the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen the differences between the company and the men have been amicably settled. A Russian admiral, who has just joined the prisoners in Tokio from Port Arthur characterizes the surrender before the garrison had reached its extremity as a disgrace. The dead body of a young woman who came to the Blatz hotel in Milwankee, Wis., with a man who registered "E. S. Terry and wife, Chicago," was found on the bed in the room the couple occupied. The woman had swallowed carolic acid. Elmer E. Hardy, a dancing teacher from the state of Washington, is under arrest and his wife is dying as the result of a shooting that occurred at the home of Mrs. Hardy's father, William Hall, a merchant of Marion Mich. William J. Bryan was the guest of honor at a dollar banquet given in New York at the Amos, with things he said: "I want the democratic party to forget itself and to help President Roosevelt carry out whatever is good." At Indianapolis in a brief address to the miners' convention just before adjournment, President Mitchell referred to the co-operative store movement which will be a development of the miners' organization during the coming year. Gov. R. M. La Follette was nominated for United States senator to succeed Senator J. V. Quarles by a caucus of republican members of the Wisconsin legislature. At New York in the Munroe and Munroe investigation the receiver was notified that the most important property of the Montreal and Boston Copper Co., known as the Dominion mine, bad not been paid for and that $400,000 was owed to Canadian capitalists. All hope of rescuing two miners who were entombed at Mount Hope colliery, Potsville, Pa., has been abandoned. A rush of coal imprisoned three miners in the colliery, but after working for several hours one of the men was rescued. It is thought the other two were crushed to death. The $200,000 in debris stolen from the rooms of Mrs. W. S. Edley at Pasadena, Cal., have been found and returned to their owner. Chief of Police Freeman, of Pasadena, and Capt. Austin, of the detective force, found the box of jewels where they had been buried in the grounds of the Raymond hotel. During the past year the Japanese have captured 23 blockade runners, of which 13 were Russian and seven British. The recent captures of coal amount to about 25,000 tons. In the Missouri senate Senator Avery has introduced a resolution amending the state constitution by providing for the levying of a tax on all incomes of over $5,000 per annum. The Corr cotton mills at East Taunton, Mass. reduced wages 12½ per cent., affecting 400 hands. About 250 operatives walked out as a result and the entire plant with the exception of the spinning department, is idle. Mrs. Alice Webb Duke, wife of Brodie L. Duke, was arrested in New York City on requisition papers issued by the Texas authorities. An indictment charging attempted bribery was returned by the grand jury in New York City against Coroner Moses Jackson. A blizzard is sweeping over northern Iowa. At Mason City four railroads have abandoned train schedules. It was six below zero in Des Moines. Charges were presented to congress asking for the impeachment of Judge Henry Lacome, of the United States circuit court for the southern district of New Orleans. Eleven hundred and thirty-five delegates, representing 13 cotton growing states and territories, bad registered when the southern 'interstate cotton convention was called to order at New Orleans. Guilty of murder in the first degree was the verdict returned against Charles L. Tucker, of Auburndale, Mass, who has been on trial since January 1, for stabbing Miss Mabel Page to death in her father's home at Weston on March 31, 1904. At Portland, Ore., a sensation has been created by the mysterious disappearance of Carl Phelps, secretary of the federal grand jury which is investigating the land fraud case. The suspect in the province of Cavite, was attacked by ladrones. Contract Surgeon J. O'Neil was killed. Antonio Astizarian, a member of a prominent Mexican family, with two servants, has been murdered by Yaqi Indians in the state of Sonora, Mexico. The family of M. Doane, a ranchman, was robbed, but they were allowed to go with their lives. Reports from many cities in the west and northwest show that the most severe cold of the winter is prevailing, and in the majority of places the low temperature is intensified by a high wind. The trustees of the Peabody educational fund held a meeting in Washington and voted to dissolve their trust. A vote also was taken on the proposition to appropriate $1,000,000 for the George Peabody school of teachers at Nashville, Tenn., and it was carried. At Chicago information of more alleged victims of the supposed Bluebeard, John Hoch, has been given the police. It is stated that he had at least 16 wives, six of whom are believed to have been poisoned. The editors of four Russian newspapers, the Russ, the Vledomosti, the Novosti and the Grashdanin, declare their intention, as soon as the printers return to work and they are able to resume education, openly to defy the government in the matter of strike news and the recent trouble. The Santo Domingo republic, after mature consideration of existing conditions, has formally and freely invited the government of the United States to assist it in the administration of its customs revenues and to aid it in establishing its fiscal system upon a firm and businesslike basis. Mary M. G. Stone, whose nomination as postmaster at luka, Miss., has been sent to the senate, is the widow of the late J. M. Stone, one of the most popular executives Mississippi ever had. He served as governor for 12 years—a longer term than that of any other occupant of the office. The president has directed the appointment of a board of army and naval officers to counsel and report on the advisability of the introduction of the study of jiu jitsu in the United States military and naval academies. Plans announced three weeks ago by Henry Philips for the use of $1.,00,000 to erect model tenement houses in New York will be extended into a triangular enterprise by including the cities of Philadelphia and Allegheny. A strike on the New York subway system is threatened unless some basis of settlement of the demands made by the workmen can be agreed upon. The men have drawn up a list of grievances for which they ask redress. In attempting to capture an automobile party for overspeeding, Police policeman Ennis, of New York City, who wears a score of medals for bravery, was seriously injured. He was liberally run down by the authorities. William Sellers, head of the firm of William Sellers & Co. of, Philadelphia, manufacturers of machine tools, is dead. He was 80 years old. His formula for screw threads and nuts is the standard for manufacturers in the United States. Thomas A. Edison, the inventor, is recovering rapidly from a surgical operation performed for a mastoid abscess behind his left ear. Owing to a similar trouble a few years ago the operation was difficult, but the doctors declared it was entirely successful. Charged with counterfeiting, Henry Welsh and Joseph Connors, of Philadelphia, were held in $2,000 bail for trial by Commissioner Craig, and Sarah Williams, who was accepted with the men, was required to furnish $1,000 bail. The prisoners were captured in a raid conducted by secret service men. An alleged den of counterfeiters at Philadelphia was raided by Secret Service Agent Griffin, aided by local police. Henry Welsh, Joseph Connor and Sarah Williams, who were in the house, were arrested. More than 500 counterfeit dollars were found. Two little children of Mrs. John Longworthy were burned to death in their home on Onawa, Mich., and the shock made their mother a maniac. The Texas senate and house of representatives met separately and bailied for United States senator, Charles A. Culberson, the present incumbent, was elected without opposition. Recipe in sufficient quantities to kill a hundred people has been found in a can of baking powder that was used in cooking for the patrons of the cafe in the Alhambra flats at Detroit, a dozen of whom were taken seriously ill. The New York stock exchange seat of Daniel J. Sully, the cotton operator who failed over a year ago, has been sold to Stuyvesant Fish Morris, jr., the reported price being $76,000. After making a request on the scaffold to "please hurry things along," John Johnson, colored, was hanged in the county jail at Chicago. His crime was the killing of a policeman. A little gruff grief over the loss of a mother, another gave her touched the hearts of three Chicago burglar. The ring came back through the mails, barely 24 hours after it had been torn from the fingers of 15-year-old Vera Fowler. WORST IN 17 YEARS. A Blizzard Ragged with Great Fury Over a Wide Expanse of Territory. LIVES LOST. IN NEW YORK. Railroad and Steamboat Traffic Is Almost at a Standstill in the Region Around New York — Bitter Cold Came with Storm. New York, Jan. 26.—Not since the blizzard of 1888, by which all storms are estimated as great or small, has New York been so completely snow-bound as it now is. The city itself is lying under a foot of snow, that in many places has been banked by the wind to a height of several feet. Surface travel early yesterday was abandoned, overhead transit was irregular and slow, and it remained for the underground roads to carry home, so far as they could reach within the city limits, the hundreds of thousands of workers from the down town districts. The entire coast line from the Delaware capes north has been in the grasp of a storm which, because of the heavy fall of snow, the intensity of cold and the force of the gale has exceeded in severity anything experienced in years. Inland from Maine, throughout the New England states and the middle Atlantic states, all reports indicate a most complete winter tieup. Far into the west there is snow and a remarkably low temperature. Everywhere railroad traffic is delayed; reports of disasters to shipping are coming in, and with the rapidly falling thermometer much suffering must ensure. So severe was the temperature that in days hours several persons were frozen to death or died from exhaustion. The hospitals, the police stations and the house of refuge are crowded to their full capacity. More than once police reserves were called out to take care of the crowds that were struggling around the entrance to some belated ferry-boat, which was soon to attempt another trip. Long before sundown the homeward bound workers learned that trollies everywhere throughout Manhattan had been abandoned, that cable cars were stalled in many places and that for those who lived in the suburbs nothing remained but to take up quarters somewhere near at hand if they hoped to return to work the following day. Soon after 7 o'clock last night a bulletin was posted in the Grand Central station that no more trains were expected to arrive over the New York Central road during the night. The notice referred to both local and express trains. Upon the New Haven system very few trains were dispatched. Not a vessel of any kind has sailed from or arrived at this port in more than 24 hours. This city is facing a condition unequalled since that of March 17 years ago, when it was cut off from the rest of the world by a record snowfall. Last night the mercury went down to about ten degrees. Chicago, Jan. 26.—Practically every town in the Mississippi valley and the lake region had its weather troubles yesterday. In some places it was extremely cold, but was snowing heavily, and in a great many others it was both cold and snowing. Hardly a place in the middle west and north-west was comfortable during the day. The extent of the cold wave can be estimated by the statement that with the exception of Helena, Mont., and some points in Texas there was not last night a city between the Rocky and Allegheny mountains that reported a temperature as high as the freezing point, and in all places the mercury was falling. UNDER FALLING WALLS. Five Firemen Were Caught and Injured During a Fierce Blaze in New York City. New York, Jan. 26.—While the worst storm of many winters howled around them, a dozen fire companies under the personal direction of Chief Croker for eight hours yesterday fought a stubborn fire in Kip's Bay brewery at First avenue and Thirty-eighth street. All the men suffered intensely from long exposure to the chilling blasts and five of them were seriously hurt by being caught beneath a wall of the high brick building which toppled over into the street. That many more of the men were not caught beneath the mass of falling brick and killed outright was due entirely to luck, as the whirling clouds of snow and dense smoke in which they were working made it impossible to observe the danger. The firemen worked under most discouraging conditions. Flying spray froze the moment it touched their garments and long before the fire was controlled many of them resembled huge icicles. Chief Croker was obliged to discard his helmet because of the fire. He was forced to 15 pounds when he exchanged it for a fur cap. The financial loss is about $150,000. A. Eight with Ladrones Manilla, Jan. 26.—In a battle this morning near Silang between a detachment of scouts and constabulary and 100 ladrones, who attacked the town of San Francisco De Malabon last Tuesday night, ten ladrones were killed and 100 constabulary officers. There have been no casualties among the scouts and constabulary. Fifty Houses Ablaze New York, Jan. 26.—The police report that 50 houses are burning in Caldwell avenue in the Bronx bor- ness in the Bronx of persons were reported injured. A Very Fatal Explosion. Terre Haute, Ind., Jan. 26. Three men were killed and one fatally injured in a boiler explosion that wrecked the engine rooms of the Standard Wheel Co.'s plant yesterday. The dead are Levl Whittaker, Thomas Patterson and Horace G. Colvin. Yellow Fever on a Cruiser Panama, Jan. 26.—A bullion issued yesterday by the American legislation announced one death and six cases of suspected yellow fever on board the cruiser Boston. The sanitary staff is fumigating the ship. LOCAL DEPARTMENT. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS—Subscribers not receiving THE GAZETTE™ regularly should notify us AT ONCE. We desire every copy delivered properly. We advise our patrons to carefully examine THE GAZETTE™ advertisements before making purchases. Business men who advertise in this paper should have the patronage of Afro-America. The fact that they advertise is assurance that they want it. Local reading notices (advertisements) ten centa a line (six words in a line). Cleveland, Saturday, Jan. 28, 1905. Purchase "The Gazette" at PUBMAN'S News Store, Cuyana Building, Open Sunday. GOODMAN'S News Dep. No. 888 Central avenue, cor. Sterling avenue, Open Sunday. I. B. BOWMAN'S Store. No. 380 Central avenue, near Sterling Ave., Open Sunday. N. VALENTINE's Grocery Store. No. 366 Central avenue, between Perry and Horns St. ADAMS St. & HAWKINS' Barber Shop. No. 438 Erie St. N. HEXTER's News Depot, City Hall Building. Wood, Wood and Superior streets. Open Sunday. S. H. MOODY's News Store, No. 387 Superior street, second door west of Bond street. Open Sundays also. For Rent—Six rooms and bath, gas range, steam heat. Inquire at No. 55 Brooker avenue. WANTED—An active county agent, a respectable man or woman, to sell a practical machine retailing for $25 and needed in every home. With honest work you can make more than the average salary and be independent. We will treat you perfectly right. Send 6 cents in stamps for sample of work and full particulars. THE NATIONAL SPECIALTY CO., Nyack, N. Y. Buy Crown of Glory Hair Pomade at Stern's drug store, corner Central avenue and Greenwood street. Prof. John F. Ransom, formerly of Columbus and well known in this city, is now director of the chair of Zion church of Boston, Mass. C. N. Sellers, esq., arrived in the city Monday from Macon, Ga., and left Tuesday for Buxton, la., to locate. His family will go there in the spring. Nearly one present sincerely regretted that E. W. Crosby, of Buffalo, was not given all the time for his response to the toast, "The Press" at the Booker Washington banquet. Crawford & Foster's "Gem" restaurant, at No. 91 Sheriff street, is known as the "old reliable" because the best meals are secured there at the most reasonable prices. Do not forget the "Gem." The editor of The Gazette acknowledges the receipt of an invitation received the past week from Prof. Booker T. Washington, inviting him to be present at the meeting of the famous Tuskegee Negro conference, to be held on February 22 and 23. All persons who purchased tickets for the proposed Leroy Crawford benefit should return them to the persons from whom they purchased them and have their money refunded. Messrs. Walter Stewart, Joe Lucas and John Wilson were associated with Mr. Frank Perkins in this effort. The mission services last week at St. Andrew's were well attended by an earnest and interested lot of people. The Sunday services will be as follows: Early communion at 8 a.m. morning prayer and sermon at 10:30 a.m. evening prayer and preaching at 3 p.m. Note the change in the hour of the evening service. The, editor of The Gazette, will speak at Cory chapel next Thursday evening and will devote a portion of his time to the three exceptions to Booker T. Washington's recent address in this city at the banquet tendered him, noted in the Gazette of last week. He will also touch upon dischirrism, the thirteenth and fourth amendments to the United States constitution, etc. Soskin, the tailor, whose advertisement appears elsewhere in The Gazette each week, wants your trade. He is near—on Prospect street near Perry street—and not only makes the best fitting up-to-date clothes at the most reasonable prices, but does all kinds of repairing and pressing better and cheaper than other tailors. Go in and see Soskin. Joe is a gentleman and treats people right all the time. Messrs. Garland Jackson and J. W. Alexander, the former one of the best cooks in the city and thoroughly familiar with the restaurant business, will on Monday open the place at No. 1000. The chef, Lewis Buchanan until her recent illness, and ask the patronage of all who appreciate first-class meals and cooking at reasonable rates. They will make a specialty of their dinners. Go in on Monday and see for yourself. It is really amusing to note the howls that the deluded local Afro-American "Hannaites" are sending forth in recent weeks, over their turn down by Gov. Herrick and various other county republican officials elected in the last year or two. O. W. them many, many months ago that would have a few campaign dollars blinded their senses etc, and they would not listen. Howl on! It is amusing if not "music to the ears." One funny "angle" of the Booker Washington banquet was the fact that those in charge of it could not get an attorney, local or otherwise, to respond to the toast "The Profession of Law" but had to press into services "at the eleventh hour" James M. French, of Sandusky, who is not a lawyer according to his own statement. What is the matter with the three or four local attorneys? Czaz' any of them "turn the tricler?" Two of them were present at the banquet, too. It is said that Attorney Martin refused an invitation to speak because "he does not like some of Mr. Washington's methods," which, if true, is to his credit. After an illness really lasting years, but acute only during recent months, Leroy L. Crawford, age 28 years, of 31 Norman street, died rather unexpectedly Tuesday night, from acute pneumonia, though suffering with tuberculosis. A mother, sister and other relatives here and in Warren survive him. A benefit was being arranged for him by Mr. Frank Perkins and others, which was to have been given at Woodliff hall next Wednesday evening. Among those who were to participate: Miss Daisy Underwood, Mr. Fred Hackley, Mesdames Gertrude H. Jones and Anna Smith, Henry T. Eubanks, Dr. George H. Wilson, Robert W. Drake and others. Services were held Thursday at 2 p.m. from the home, Rev. W. T. Max- THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 1905. well, assisted by Rev. J. M. Glmere, officiating. Interment at East End cemetery. King & Gee, undertakers. The following is a list of the stockholders of the New Leonard Sof Bed Company: Mr. Sillas McElroy, Mrs. Mary J. Gardner, Wm. G. Turner, J. F. Gallagher, Jas. A. Rogers, S. C. Green, Timothy Brown, Welcome T. Pue, A. S. Sutton, Mrs. M. W. French, Henry Shirley, C. H. Brunson, Miss Grace Shirley, Mrs. Turner Hicks, Turner Hicks, Lucy Thompson and W.R.Green. Designing persons have given rise to a rumor to the effect that S. C. Green, manager of the company, is being backed by certain white capitalists. Mr. Green desires to state that this is untrue and of a malicious nature, because it is calculated to injure the sale of stock. He offers a reward of $100 for any proof substantiating the false rumors referred to. During his response, the evening of the Booker Washington banquet, Charles W. Chesnutt, esq., used the expression "this people" in referring to our people. Mr. Washington, when he arose, took issue with him and others who had made much the same expression. Mr. Chesnutt arose at the close of the guest of the evening's address and, as gracefully as possible under the embarrassing circumstances, made proper explanation and used the better reference "our people." This is all there was to that episode regardless of the many different versions that floated about the banquet. This is all there and this week. The Gazette did not consider the incident of sufficient consequence to note in our splendid account of the banquet published last week. By the way, copies of this paper were certainly "at a premium" from last Friday until the edition was exhausted. During Booker T. Washington's speech at the recent banquet given in his honor at Woodliff hall, he said there were 51 or 53 dry goods and grocery stores in the south owned and operated by the 8,000,000 Afro-Americans there and that they were forced to patronize one another, etc., etc. Continuing, he said he was sorry that his time would not permit his remaining in the city the next day to see the dry goods or grocery stores our people of Cleveland were operating, supporting, etc. This unfair and odious comparison caused a silly titter among the thoughtless in the splendid audience, who never stopped to consider the fact that our small grocery store effort (considering the conditions existing and the small number (8,000) of Afro-Americans living in Cleveland population 400,000) where they are not forced to patronize one another, but on the contrary where the trade competition is something wonderful, is vastly more creditable to us, proportionately, than the 50 or more dry goods and grocery stores Mr. Washington says exist in the south, are creditable to the 8,000,000 Afro-Americans there, all things considered. Figure it out and see if the Gazette is not correct as usual. Dr Booker T. Washington does not always "wrote" square in speaking of our people. That is what causes so much caustic comment to be showered upon him by our brightest and best minds the country over. Correspondents Wanted. The old reliable Gazette destres an active agent and 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 cities: Zanesville, Springfield, Troy Pla, Dayton, Washington C.H., Canton, Bellaire, Gallipoli, Cambridge, Lima, Toledo, Portsmouth, Circleville, Dawley, Hamilton, Sandusky and other places where we have none. Write to the editor of the Gazette, Bellaire, Washington, Cleveland, O., and terms will be promptly. Our readers can oblige us greatly by sending 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. Andrew Carnegie Gives $1,000. Rev. W. H. Waring received Wednesday, the 18th, from Andrew Carnegie, the great American philanthropist, $1,000 for Manassas Industrial school, and from indications this seems to be just a beginning. Mr. Oswald Villard, editor of New York Evening Post, grandson of Wm. Lloyd Garrison, has accepted the presidency of the board of directors, Hon. Carroll D. Wright, ex-United States commissioner of labor, having resigned to accept the presidency of Clarke university, Worcester. Mass. — Home News, Alexandria, Va. $5,000 to Her Coachman. Newport, R. 1—The will of Anna Hazard, a member of one of Rhode Island's leading families, was offered here for probate on the 16th. The estate is valued at upwards of $1,000,000. To James W. Johnson, her old Afro-American coachman, is left $5,000, and to each servant in her employ is left $100 for each full year in her service, and proportionately for any part of a year, etc. Winter Tourist Rates to Denver Winter Tourist Rates to Denver, Colorado Springs, Pueblo and the South via the Nickel Plate Road. Tours to California. Tickets on sale daily. Homeseeker's rates to points West, Northwest and Southwest on sale 1st and 3rd Tuesday each month. For full information call on agent or address E. A. Akers, C. P. & T. A., 28 Public Square, Cleveland, O. (509) The Armstrong Association New York City.—At the recent annual meeting here of the Armstrong association, interested in educational work among Afro-Americans, an increase of nearly 200 members, making the total 730, was reported. William Jay Schieffell was re-elected president. Pennsylvania Lines Excursions. Return limit cf tickets covers whole winter. Get them from Pennsylvania Lines tickets agents, or communicate with Geo. W. Weedon, D. P. A., Cleveland, O. California, Mexico, Pacific Coast Excursions Via Pennsylvania Lines. Rich fields for investors in west and southwest. Get details about fares from Pennsylvania Lines tickets agents, or write Geo. W. Weedon, D. P. A., Cleveland, O. PLATT NOT LIKELY TO GET IT. New York City—Carrying out the promise of ex-Gov. Black, chief counsel for Hannah Elias, made to Lyman E. Warren, who is looking out for John R. Platt's interests in the latter's endeavor to recover $68,500 given to her, the sum of $137,000 has been handed over to Receiver Montague. Mr. Warren was notified by Mr. Black's law firm that this would be done at once. This is the sum that Mrs. Elias admitted on the witness stand she had withdrawn from the bank in Manhattan shortly after papers had been filed in the present suit. Mrs. Elias swore that this money had been turned over at the time to Patrick Dugan, a salesman, and that she had used some of it for "necessary expenses." She drew $152,000 from the Lincoln bank and paid ex-Gov. Black $10,000 and her personal counsel $5,000. The balance, $123,000, Dugan admits having. BAR WASHINGTON AT HOTELS. The Color Line is Drawn at Wichita, Kas, and at Boonville, Mo. Wichita, Kas.-Booker T. Washington was denied admission to the Wichita hotels recently. He and Col. H.' G. Toler, manager of the Toler Auditorium, in which Mr. Washington spoke, made application to each of the leading hotels, and each in turn refused to entertain the lecturer. Boonville, Mo.-Following the appointment of Dr. Leon Hill, an Afro-American physician of this city, as a member of the pension medical examination board of Cooper county, by the pension department at Washington, the two white members of the board, Dr. John T. McClanahan and Dr. Smiley, tendered their resignations to the department to take effect immediately unless the appointment of Hill is withdrawn. Is Held to the Grand Jury. Cleveland, Jan. 24—John Sullivan, charged with being implicated in the burglary of Heiman's jewelry store on Euclid avenue, was bound over to the grand jury in police court Monday and his ball fixed at $2,000. Sullivan's twin brother appeared in court and sat near him. Court Officer Halloran, fearing that he could not tell the men apart, ordered him from the room. Sullivan was released from the workhouse by Director Cooley a few days before the robbery occurred. About $800 worth of jewelry was taken from Sullivan and two companions at the time of the arrest. As to "Stinkpots!" Because Prof. W. H. Council said that northern white labor brought the color line south, "Terrible Tim," in his New York Age, called him a "southern black stinkpot!" Not very choice language, indeed, but Uncle Tim has a special license. But he makes "Prof." R. C. Bruce immune, even though the latter declares northern Negroes are excessively criminal. Why is this? Is it "hush-money?" If Council is a "southern black stinkpot," what kind of a stinkpot is Bruce? Yellow? -Boston Guardian. A New Method of Punishment Toledo. Jan. 25.—A long piece of heavy rubber hose, attached to a mop handle, was exhibited at Monday night's session of the board of education, sitting as a court in judgment upon charges preferred by four attorneys against Superintendent Chalmers, of the public schools, Mrs. Rose Castle, janitress at the Parkland school, testified that most of the teachers in that building, the kindergarten teachers excepted, used pieces of hose with which to inflict corporal punishment upon the children. Winter resorts brought within easy reach of health and pleasure seekers. Consult Pennsylvania Lines ticket agents, who will give information about checking baggage through to destination, and other conveniences, or communicate with Geo. W. Weedon, D. P. A., Cleveland, O. via Pennsylvania Lines. Enjoy June weather all winter. Return limit good till summer. 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Any person sending us one dollar in a letter or Post-Office money order, express money order or registered letter, we will send it through the mail postage prepaid; or if you want it sent C. O. D., it will come by express, 25c. extra. In any case where it fails to do what we claim, we will return the money or send a box free of charge. Packed so that no one will know content to except receiver. CRANE AND CO., 11 West Jackson Street, Richmond, Va. TRAVELERS' REGISTER Trains on all roads run on Standard Time. NICKEL RATE The New York, Chicago & St. Louis R.R. TICKET OFFICES: 28 Public Sq., 534 Pearl St. and Stations. Eastbound. Daily 2 4 6 Pearl St. Station... 8:15pm 1:50pm 7:30pm Broadway Station... 8:30pm 2:05pm 8:30pm Euclid Av. Station... 8:47pm 2:18pm 8:36pm Westbound. Daily 1 3 5 Euclid Av. Station... 6:04pm 11:34pm 7:29pm Broadway Station... 6:34pm 11:34pm 7:29pm Pearl St. Station... 6:04pm 11:34pm 7:29pm Cleveland Union Station. Pennsylvania Lines Foot of Bank Street. TICKET OFFICES at Union Station, Euclid Av. and New City Ticket Office, Euclid Av. Cor. Public Sq. THROUGH THE CENTER AT CENTER ALTIME. Daily. Daily except Sundays. From Cleveland to Pittsburgh & Bellaire.....+7 00 am Salem & Pittsburg.....+8 00 am Salem & Pittsburg.....+5 00 pm Philadelphia & New York.....+5 00 pm Baltimore & Washington.....+5 00 pm Pittsburgh, Bellaire & East.....+1 40 pm Baltimore & Washington.....+1 40 pm Alliance Accommodation.....+5 00 pm Pittsburgh, New York.....+1 30 pm Baltimore & Washington.....+11 30 pm Akron, Columbus & Cin.....+8 10 am Indianapolis & St. Louis.....+8 10 am Millersburg & Columbus.....+12 05 pm Col. Clin. Ind. & St. Louis.....+8 00 pm "THE ST. LOUIS LIMITED" Leaves—CLEVE LAND, 5:00 P.M. (Daily) Leaves—CLUB, 1:40 A.M. (11:45 a.m. 1:40 p.m.) Arrives—ST. LOUIS 3:30 Arrives—KANSAS CITY, 5:15 A.M. (11:45 a.m.) Arrives—DENVER, 11 A.M. (second morning) With Pine Vestibule Coaches, Drawing Room and Buffet sleeping Cart to Indiasnow and St Louis. One of the fastest and finest trains in the country. 5 Fast Trains to Columbus, 4 to Cinco Connares, Deeping and Dining Cars. Local sleepers to Columbus and Cincinnati on train No. 25, leaving at 9:20 every night. Trains from and to Cleveland. Leave Arrive. Col. Cit. Ind. & St Louis 1:30 a.m. 1:40 a.m. Gallon & Intermediate: 6:00 a.m. 1:15 p.m. St. Louis Ltd. Ind. Col. Cit. 7:25 a.m. 10:30 p.m. Connares & Deeping at 12:35 p.m. 2:00 p.m. Indianapolis & St Louis: 1:15 p.m. 2:30 p.m. Ex. Fl. Ind. Peo. St. Louis 5:00 p.m. 3:00 p.m. 20th. Cent. Ltd. Co., 7:20 am 7:40 pm. Gallon to Cleveland..... 9:20 a.m. To Gallon and Olumbus..... 4:00 p.m. Col. Springfield, Day. Cit..... 9:30 p.m. 6:40 a.m. Ex. Springfield, Day at 11 p.m. 1:15 p.m. Limited trains don't stop at the North Wales. Get Tickets at Big Four Office. 116 EUCLID AVE. Phone Main 916 right to use with this design. Long- cloth, cambric, or nainsook may be chosen for the fine nightdress, though they are too fine for common use and constant washing. "Did you ever attend a cooking school?" asked the Chicago girl. "I manage to keep my boarders longer than you do," said the first landlady. "Oh, I don't know," reloined the other. 1 PERSONAL PARTICULARS For a short time—a few weeks only Mark Twain served as a soldier. J. P. Morgan's greatest charity is keeping young boys off the streets by getting them work. M. Jean de Reskice is said to be the only professional singer who has ever sat at the czar of Russia's dinner table. M. Jules Verne is something of a local politician. For some years he was a town councilor of Amiens, the town in which he lives. W. J. Jones, a well-known citizen of Rome, Ga., intends to attempt to cross Behring strait on the ice from East Cape, Siberia, to Cape Prince of Wales. No white man has ever accomplished the feat. Elmer Dover, private secretary to the late Senator Marcus A. Hanna, is collecting data to be used in the official biography of the statesman. Mr. Dover has undertaken the work at the request of the Hanna family. "Eddie' Murphy, who had been a bellboy in Boston hotels for 40 years, is dead. For a long time he had been employed in the Parker house, and during his service there had come to be known by a great many prominent men. He never outgrew his youthful promptitude and civility. Lady Huggins, who is far and away the best and most celebrated woman astronomer in the world, interested herself in the stars when she was a tiny child. Her favorite toy was a cheap telescope. Then, as now, the heavenly bodies possessed an irresistible fascination for her. She lives with her husband in South London, and spends many hours of the night in the fine observatory in her garden. TRADE AND INDUSTRY. Hongkong rates fifth in the commercial reports of the world. Cubans are buying cattle in Venezuela at the rate of 100,000 head a year. Russia has a per capita investment in industrial enterprises of $4, while the United States has $125. Germany exported last year over $30,000,000 worth of books and works of art. England and the United States were her best customers. Cuban honey is shipped to Germany, the United States, France and other countries. The amount gathered in 1904 exceeded $600,000 in value. The importance of the glove trade to France is exampled by the fact that of glove buttons, fasteners and clasps, one French firm alone makes over 100,000,000 a year. Spain produced 175,109 tons of lead in 1903, exceeding the output of all other countries except the United States. Mexico is the third largest producer, and Australia comes fourth in order. Cigars exported from Cuba numbered 205,244,298, valued at $12,302,969, of which 45,769,422, valued at $2,888,111, went to the United States; 28,388,074, valued at $1,968,395, to Germany, and $2,559,817, valued at $5,197,785, to England, last year. Shakespeare up to date: Snylock—I do demand from thee a pound of flesh. Antonio—What! At present beef trust prices? Never!—Town Topics. A GREAT SUFFERER LAY HELPLESS AND SPEECHLESS FOR HOURS AT A TIME. Sinking Spells, Headaches, Rheumatism, All Caused by Poor Blood-Cured by Dr. Williams' Flick Pills. When Mrs. Williams was asked for some dote 's of the fearful illness from which she had so long suffered, she spoke as follows: "Ever since I had nervous prostration, about thirteen years ago, I have had periodical spells of complete exhaustion. Any excitement or unusual activity would throw me into a state of lifelessness. At the beginning my strength would come back in a moderate time, but the period of weakness kept lengthening until at last I would lie helpless as many as three hours at a stretch." "You were under medical treatment, of course?" "Yes, when I became so bad that I had to give up my housework, in May of 1903, I was being treated for kidney trouble, and later the doctor thought my difficulties came from change of life. I was not only weak, but I had dizzy feelings, palpitation of the heart, misery after eating, hot flashes, nervous headaches, rheumatic pains in the back and hips. The doctor did me so little good that I gave up his treatment, and really feared that my case was incurable." "What saved you from your state of hopelessness?" "In July of 1003 I had a very bad spell, and my husband came in one day with a little book which told of remarkable curses effected by a remedy for the blood and the nerves, Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. He bought a box for me, and that was the beginning of my return to health. My appetite grew keen, my food no longer distressed me, my nerves were quieted, and my strength began to revive." "How long did you take this remedy?" "For two months only. At the end of that time I had regained my health and cheerfulness, and my friends say that I am looking better than I have done for the past fifteen years." Mrs. Lizzie Williams is now living at No. 416 Cedar street, Quincy, Illinois. Her sister she praises so highly, all diseases she has faced, and powerless blood. If your system is all run down, Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are the very best remedy to take. Any drug-gist can supply them. THE KATY FLYER FROM KANSAS CITY The M. K & T. Ry has inaugurated a new fast train from Kansas City to Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas points. This train leaves Kansas City at 2:20 a. m., daily, arriving at all the principal Oklahoma, Indian Territory and Texas points the same day. There are now three daily trains from Kansas City Southwest via "The Katy" - 2:20 a. m., 12:36 noon, and 0:00 p. m. Ask the agent or write **MKT** "KATY" ST. LOVIS, MO. Gowns For Dressy Affairs Amager GOWN OF CLOTH AND OF CREPE DE CHINE. HERE is a certain `purplish` a gown worn at the ophe hue that gives, I am sure I don't know why, an air to a costume, a look of distinc tion. When the American Beauty rose came out, per ed from the effect desi grace and simplicity. haps it had influence to make this bloom one peculiarly distinguished; at any rate now if one is fortunate enough to get just the right touch of grape tone, whatever it is that bears the shade will be liked as long as it lasts. We suggest a costume that possesses a harmony of tints, and the tints of the kind alluded to. It is a mauve gown of cloth (the material exquisitely fine), trimmed with heliotrope velvet. The hat should be very carefully chosen, preferably matching the costume, although an all-white or an all-black one would not be at all bad with such a gown. The artist that designed the model selected a purple velvet hat with plumes of the same color. So often questions are made concerning the exact shade meant by mauve that we feel called upon to repeat that it is a delicate purple, lilac or violet. It is, to our way of thinking, one of the loveliest of all the numberless tones. A very pretty dress, but one that should never stand close neighbor to the above, save in a black and white picture, is of blue crepe de chine, that accommodating material that lends itself to so many occasions, so many styles. The model illustrated is perhaps a bit stiff, and yet the dress really does not so look when worn. A very pretty trimming for the blue crepe de chine is embroidery and ribbon, the ribbon matching the dress, the embroidery straw-color or black. Speaking of blue gowns, we lately were impressed with one worn by a pure brunette, a pale blue trimmed with the fashionable sequins, which were of shaded blue. The sequins formed straps for the shoulders of the low-neck bodice, and were cunningly used on net which fell from the shoulders to a deep point below the elbow. Gossip of the Wardrobe VERY woman wants at least one dressy nightgown, and we give a cut of one that looks quite fancy enough to serve as wrapper on a hot afternoon. The gown is long enough to lie on the ground a trifle, the sleeves are full and finished prettily at the hand, the neck is a little low, the bands of inserting that cross the shoulder are finished with bows. If one prefers the elbow sleeve, it would be all ```markdown ``` ONE FANCY NIGHTDRESS Short sleeves, oblow or three-quarters, make even an old waist look in style. The sleeves are often the top the top enough to hold them out well. Frills, single and double, finish them, or JEST AND JOLLITY Softleigh—I say, doctah, do you—aw —think I have the bwain feah? Doctor—No, indeed; but you have the fever, all right. "No," replied her Boston cousin, "but I graduated from a college of gastronomy." T 5 THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, JANUARY 28. 1905. A gown worn at the opera was a princess robe of black, literally covered with black sequins; and with this no jewels were worn, as they would have detracted from the effect desired, that one of grace and simplicity. A rival of the black sequin gown was a white princess with tiny silver spangles frosting it over. Silver is very fashionable just now, and one will not be apt to make a mistake if one employs a touch of it in stock or belt, or uses it for general trimming. One disadvantage is its tarnishing, but as everybody else's does also it makes less difference than if one were the individual sufferer. Red is trying very hard to lead, but as yet we cannot say it is the most fashionable shade of the winter. Green might almost receive this distinction, one sees it used on so many good costumes, and it is seen occasionally forming with fine effect the entire dress. One effective street costume of deep red redingote, skirt, and small hat of the same shade, and the hat was trimmed with a rosy plume. 'A beautiful pink variation was noticed, the gown of pale pink trimmed with leaves of velvet of a deeper shade. A chou of pink tulle at the neck gave an airy look to this rose-colored creation; and one gazing at the whole would think he were looking through rose-colored spectacles. Just now it is hard to tell exactly what styles are to be, even the dressmakers seem undecided as to skirts - waists can take care of themselves; we are sure about the top shoulders, the fulness of sleeves at the top. But as to skirts; they cling, and yet they stand out; a few dressmakers have begun to put crinoline in up to the knees, though they may have to take it out before the dress is laid aside. There is a tendency to show fulness at the waist line on the new spring models, but as yet most of the skirts are close about the hips and part way down to the knees. Ruffles are to be used a great deal, both on skirts and waists. the trimming of the dress may determine the way in which they are to end. For a shirt waist suit of plain cloth, one may wear a belt and stock of plaid ribbon, the belt on the girdle order. For a blue dress the plaid might well be blue and green, and this would be especially good with a peacock hat, or a green hat. Almost anyone can concoct acceptable stocks and belts, and thereby save a pretty penny. Flowered ribbon is still in favor for girdles, and gives a dressy look to a costume. Choose colors harmonizing rather than contrasting. Coat-tails of all sorts and all lengths are appearing, slim tapes and flat, wide tails; they bid fair to be rushed to an extreme that soon will see their end. Although the exaggerated d belt does not now obtain, still the draped bodices are built on a pointed foundation that carries out the dip lines; and one makes a mistake if she thinks the belt is not to slope down in front. We hear repeatedly that separate blouses are quite out, but ever we find well dressed people appearing with more new ones. However, it is a wise choice to select a waist that will look as though chosen expressly for the skirt with which worn: With a suit it is a good idea to buy a waist the same color, but of a material different from the main body of the gown; with a broadcloth, silk is pretier than wool, and chiffon, for looks, best of all. We confess a great liking for the combination of wool and chiffon, velvet and chiffon; heavy stuffs appearing at their best when placed beside filmy ones, and vice versa. A Distinction Londoner—What birds are those waterfowl? Native oa; them's ducks.—Ally Sloper. "Isn't your husband dyspeptic?" "I rather think he is; I know he always disagrees with his meals."—N. Y. Times. "You keep them so thin that they look longer than they really are." "You are sweet enough to eat," said the very young man who imagined he had the love market cornered. "Thanks," rejoined the matter-of-fact matter. "There's a small restaurant just around the corner." Harry—When I grow up I'm going to be a soldier. Mamma — But soldiers are often killed by the enemy, my dear. "Oh, then I guess I'll be an enemy." ELLEN OSMONDE Because the Obliging Barber Gave Him Some Wise Talk About Gray Hair. The old young man found his gray hairs increasing in number faster than he liked. He hadn't minded a few scattering ones—in fact, he had been rather proud of them—but now he was getting to have quite a sprinkling, and he didn't like it at all, says the Chicago Inter Ocean. "Can't we pull 'em out?" he asked of his barber, the next time he went to have his hair cut. "Yes, we could," said the barber, "but I wouldn't if I were you. They say, you know, that for every gray hair you pull out two come in—" an old saying which the young man had heard before, though he never had heard another, apparently as old, with which the barber now concluded—"that if you pull out one gray hair another one comes to its funeral, dressed in white." "Is it true?" the old young man asked. And the barber wasn't so sure about that, but he had had experiences that seemed to prove it, and he wasn't in favor of pulling them out. But he said he could cut off each separate gray hair short, so that it wouldn't show. "Well, anything the matter with that?" asked the man in the chair. "No," said the barber, "except that they'll all come out again, and come out stronger and stiffer than they were before." "Why, we have our whole head of hair cut often. Why doesn't it all come out stronger and stiffer, then?" "It does," said the barber. "Everybody's hair would be finer and softer and silkier if it was never cut at all." "Then what are we going to do about 'em?' the old young man asked, coming back, as the barber knew, to those gray hairs in his own head. "Let 'em alone, I guess," said the barber. "Some folks dye their hair when it gets gray—some men dye their mustaches only; but pulling out and clipping off does no good; if the gray hairs come they come. And you haven't got enough to worry over yet, and gray hair is becoming to some young men, anyhow." And the old young man sighed—but doubled the tip. ALCOHOLISM IN RUSSIA. Inebriates in the Realm of the Czar Are Treated by Hypnotism. That alcoholism in Russia is widely treated with success by hypnotism is asserted by the writer of a note in Cosmos. The method has been adopted in government institutions, but it is believed that the peculiar adaptability of the Russians to this mode of treatment is largely responsible for its good effects. Says the writer: "The cure of alcoholism by means of hypnosis is the order of the day. Recently Dr. Legrain communicated to the Society of Hypnology and Psychology some very interesting information regarding the treatment of alcoholics by hypnosis in Russia. In the cities of St. Petersburg, Moscow, Jaroslav, Kleff, Saratoff and Astrakhan there have been established for several years, under government auspices, dispensaries to which the sufferers resort by hundreds, and where hypnosis is the principal, if not the sole, therapeutic agent. It is required of the alcoholics that they desire sincerely to be cured, and that they abstain from all spirituous liquors during the period of treatment. This is perhaps to ask of them a colossal effort, since their will-power has generally been destroyed; but they are obliged to accept a continual surveillance, and it is attempted to ameliorate their conditions of life as much as possible. These means succeed very well in Russia; but, as has often been remarked, the French drinker is much less tractable, and consequently the cure of alcoholics in France is much more difficult and much less durable than in Russia; with us, in fact, the alcoholic poisons himself with essences as various as they are injurious, and it is only exceptionally that he submits to treatment for a long enough time to effect a lasting cure. It is none the less true that at the present time hypnosis is almost the sole means of cure for alcoholic mania." Doubtful Economy. Irate Customer—Say, I'm worse off now than before you extracted my teeth! I can't bite a thing with this set you've made me. Dentist—Oh, you have no kick coming. Just think of the money you will be able to save. "How will I save money?" "By not having to pay it out for board."—Chicago Daily News. Posting Her. Husband—What makes you yell so through the 'phone? Do you think the machine is deaf? Wife—No, but I want that woman in the next flat to know that I have a box of American Beauty roses. She was out when they came.—Detroit Free Press. QUITE DIFFERENT. Asker—I suppose you could make a lot of money backing the winner in the races. Racing Expert—O. I could if I knew which horse would win. I'm only selling tips on the races, you know.—Philadelphia Bulletin. Bedroom Climate. On the tombstone of tens of thousands of those who have died from tuberculosis might appropriately be inscribed, "Disease and death were invited and encouraged by a death-dealing bedroom climate." To show that this is no exaggeration it is only necessary to call attention to the fact that fully half of the tubercular patients placed in outdoor consumptive hospitals make a satisfactory recovery. If fresh air will cure the disease it is certainly a wonderful preventive of it. Dr. David Paulson, in Good Health. Anything, Even "Dad," So Long as It Gave Them a Chance to Go to Paris. Chaplagnene Tower, the American ambassador to Germany, spoke of the Americans' love of Paris at a dinner that he gave in Philadelphia, says the Cincinnati Enquirer. he said, "but I am sure it is not so great, he said, "I love of Paris is, no doubt, great," he said, "but I am sure it is not so great as our European cousins would have us believe. We all, of course, have heard the European saying: 'When a good American dies he goes to Paris. In Berlin, from Paris he goes to Paris. In Berlin, from Paris he goes to Paris. In Berlin, last year a novel variant of this theme. "It was at a dinner party in Berlin. The French diplomat, regarding me with a smile, said he was sure I would sympathize with the young American girl whom he was going to speak about. She lived, he said, in a bleak western city. There were in those days no institutes for the treatment of rabies or threatened rabies in France. The young girl's life was ugly and monotonous, and one day she burst into a neighbor's house, almost beside herself with joyous excitement. "Her dark eyes flashed. Her cheeks had a delicate rose flesh. Panting a little, she "Thank goodness, we are going to Paris as last. Dad has been bitten by a mad dog HIS EXPERIENCE TEACHES THEM That Dodd's Kidney Pills Will Cure Bright's Disease—Remarkable Case of George J. Barber—Quick Recovery After Years of Suffering. Eitherway, Iowa, Jan. 22d—(Special)—The experience of Mr. George J. Barber, a well-known citizen of this place, justifies his friends in making the announcement to the world "Bright's Disease can be cured," and it developed into Bright's Disease. He treated it with Dodd's Kidney Pills, and to-day he is a well man. In an interweave he says, It was too much for Dodd's Kidney Pills. I had Kidney Disease for fifteen years and though I doctored for it with the best doctors he had, and in Chicago it dwarfed Bright's Kidney Pills. I then started to use Dodd's Kidney Pills, and two boxes cured me completely. I think Dodd's Kidney Pills are the best in the remedy that will cure Bright's Disease. Dodd's Kidney Pills never fail to cure Bright's Disease. With an abundant cabbage crop confounding us, it looks as if we were still a long time from our first encounter with the smoke nuisance—Indianaapolis News. 10.000 Plants for 16c. Salzer Seeds have a national reputation as the earliest, finest, choicest the earth produces. They will send you their big plant and seed catalog, together with enough seed to grow 1,000 fine, solid Cabbages, 1,000 rare, luscious Radishes, 1,000 gloriously brilliant Flowers. This great offer is made in order to induce you to try their warranted seeds—for when you once plant them you will grow no others, and ALL FOR BUT 160 POSTAGE, providing you will return this notice, and if you will send them 26c in postage, they will add to the above a big package of the earliest Sweet Corn on earth—Salzer's Fourth of July—fully 10 days earlier than Cory, Peep o' Day, etc., etc. [K. L.] Sweet 16 is famous, to be sure, but it is the average woman's twenty-fifth birthday, perhaps, that is most celebrated. Are You Going to Florida or New Orleans? Tickets on sale via Queen & Crescent Route and Southern Railway to Florida, New Orleans and other points south at greatly reduced rates, good returning May Bist, 1985. Variable route tickets good going to points in Florida and Cuba via Atlanta, and returning via Asheville. For rates and other information address: — W. A. Beckler, N. P. A., 113 Adams Street, Chicago, Ill. D. P. Brown N. E. P. A., 11 Fort Street, W., Detroit, Mich. W. Bob Mich. W. Bobnavant, T. P. A., Warren, Ohio. W. C. Rincarson, P. A., Cincinnati, Ohio. Says a Georgia philosopher: "It's a pity we are all more successful at digging bait than we are at catching fish." -Atlanta Constitution. A Guaranteed G cure for Files. Iching, Blind, Bleeding or Protruding Files. Your druggrant will refund money if Pazo ONTMENT fails to cure in 6 to 14 days. 50c. The philanthropist generally manages that some one shall catch him in the act. -N. Y. Times. Shake Into Your Shoes Allen's Foot-Ease. It cures pain, swollen, smarting, sweating feet. Makes new shoes easy. Sold by all Druggists and Shoe Stores. Don't accept an online Sample FREE. Address A. S. M. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. When Vanity enters at the front door Reason steals out the back way. -Chicago Record-Herdal. To Cure a Cold in One Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All druggists refund the money if it fails to cure. E. W. Grove's signature is on each box. 200. There never was any heart truly great and generous that was not also tender and compassionate. -South. Do not believe Pike's Cure for Consumption has an equal for coughs and colds. -J. F. Boyer, Trinity Springs, Ind., Feb. 15, 200. Cold cash, what a warm-hearted companion thou art! -N. O. Picayune. TRADE MARK. THERE IS NOTHING more painful than Rheumatism and Neuralgia but there is nothing surer to cure than St.Jacobs Oil The old monk cure. It is pene- trating, prompt and unfailing. Price 25c. and 50c. Women in Our Hospitals Appalling Increase in the Number of Operations Performed Each Year—How Women May Avoid Them. Miss Ruby Mushrush Mrs Fred Seydel Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Succeeds Where Others Fail. Going through the hospitals in our large cities one is surprised to find such a large proportion of the patients lying on those snow-white beds women and girls, who are either awaiting or recovering from serious operations. May they should be the case? Simply because they have neglected themselves. Ovarian and womb troubles are certainly on the increase among the women of this country—they creep upon them unawares, but every one of those patients in the hospital beds had plenty of warning in that bearing-down feeling, pain at left or right of the womb, nervous exhaustion, pain in the abdomen, fatigue, dizziness, fatulency, displacements of the womb or irregularities. All of these symptoms are indications of an unhealthy condition of the ovaries or womb, and if not heeded the penalty has to be paid by a dangerous operation. When these symptoms manifest themselves, do not drag along until you are able to mit to an operation—but remember that Lydia E. Phikham's Vegetable Compound has saved thousands of women from surgical operations. When women are troubled with irregular, suppressed or painful menstruation, weakness, leucorrhoea, displacement or ulceration of the womb, that bearing-down feeling, inflammation of the ovaries, backache, bloating (or flatulency), general debility, indigestion, and with such symptoms as dizziness, lassitude, excitability, irritability, nervous Lydia E. Dinkham's Vegetable Com A Wonder. Stranger-You advertise suburban lots "a stone's throw from the station." Agent-Yes, sir. Have you seen the lot? "I have. I am the manager of D'rmn and Gillie's side show and I want to see the man who threw that stone. tie can have any salary he wants."-Cleveland Leader. SORE HANDS, SORE FEET. Iching, Burning Palms and Painful Finger Ends-Complete Cure by Cuticura. One Night Treatment: A Soak the hands on feet on retraining, strong, hot, creme and moist skin, tough, naught and anoint freely with Cuticura Ointment, the great skin cure and purse of emollients. 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