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THE GAZETTE. TWENTY-SECOND YEAR. NO. 28. 170 Those Dainty Lingerie Blouses 'ERE is no costume, morning or afternoon, more generally becoming than the neat shirtwalt suit; and it promises to be more than ever to the front the coming or afternoon, more generally becoming than the neat shirtwait suit; and more than ever to the front the coming season. Dressmakers are now making up the new weather frocks for the wanderers that seek the south at this time of year and the plucky home dressmaker is planning and thinking about the sort she shall have when the weather allows of taking off the winter toggery. Better wait till warm days are upon us, but in the hours one is imprisoned indoors in late winter get ready suits needed at the first approach of real spring. Checked light-weight woodens we shall find none too cool in a few weeks, and these can be worn all through the season and into the fall. Such a costume would serve well for traveling and also for innumerable other occasions during the summer, for outing and morning gown, for shopping, picnics, for almost any occasion the freedom of summer would permit this to be suitable. Linen shirtwait suits are to have great vogue in London and Paris, but over here we doubtless shall continue to be satisfied with the pretty cottonts that cost with us so much less—abroad lines are little more expensive than cottonts. The designs here given are typical of the fashion; a pleated skirt, a waist with short yoke, sleeves full at the top, a simple girdle; or, another yoke waist, a skirt fitting smoothly at the hips, but full at the hem. White linens are to be much worn, tan ones may be even more popular, and one cannot go far wrong that chooses any becoming color, selects any washable material that lends itself to the approved styles. To carry out the scheme of simplicity, the hat must be as trim and lightly ornamental as the frock. Constant "tubing" spills the looks of the best of goods, and the chemisette and undersleeve fashion is a happy one for the shirtwaiist; the wearer being able to have these small accessories LL winter we have been wearing in the overheated city houses the lingerie blouse, that French invention, or rather adaptation. The h French find it difficult to ad- LL winter we have been wearing in the overheated city houses the lingerie blouse, that French invention, or rather adaptation. The French find it difficult to admire severe cut and make for women's waists, and they compromise by offering the fancy thin blouse. In the country, where generally houses are not heated as in the city, not an even temperature throughout, one should consider carefully before taking to the lingerie waist in the cold weather; but TYPICAL WAISTS nothing could be prettier for summer wear. The French waists of this sort are hand-made, the handwork on some worth a pretty sum. The effect is often one of simplicity, but the initiated know the simplicity is of an expensive order. What could look more unpretentious than a small trimmed only with small hand tacks, and yet such a waist washed mucu mo frequently than she would care to have the whole suit. Tucked mull collars and guipmes are especially dainty. Ginghams are raising, their heads once more, and have returned in very attractive form. When fine and soft they are decidedly worthy of favor, and we do not remember a season when the shops had pretier ones to show. The small checks are seen in many lovely shades, offering a variety to the buyers; and every one that needs much repleinishing of her summer wardrobe should not fail to include at least one gingham suit. They perhaps make more attractive house dresses than street suits, being rather too soft for the severe air licked for the latter; and speaking of chinging material reminds that it is almost impossible to give to thin, soft stuffs the square look at the upper arm, one must be content with drooping sleeve when these materials are used. Many of last season's waistls can be remodeled by changing the sleeves, be sure to remove the baggy look about the wrist, which seems utterly to have vanished. The shirtwist suit is a very democratic garment, appeals to rich and poor alike. Not always can we say of the rich dame's dress that it is superior to her poor sister's in what constitutes right principles of dress, for so often her's is overtrimmed, so often it is unsuited for any real usefulness; now, however, she, too, has a frock sensible, trim, simple, to stand wear and tear. The shirtwist suit should be at least two inches from the floor, and for those that want a real "rotting" costume it can be raised two inches more. The heart-burning question is up, shall we or shall we not have occasion to indulge in separate waists again; are they utterly out? We are told so repeatedly, and yet every season they bob up serenely, are worn by women of decided fashion. The shirtwist makers are now displaying some very hand-some ones, but they deserve mention at length. sent over to America from Paris would bring a larger sum than one much more befurbelowed. These exquisite waists usually have frill at neck and wrist of lace, and on the front of the waist, just at the bust line, sometimes there is embroidered a bunch of flowers. One design of delicate grace was made of white crepe, with small hand tucks, the collar and cuffs of thin lace, and the bit of embroidery at the bust line was a bunch of violets. One still sees the patchwork lace pieces spotted here and there on the lingerie waists, but they come on the cheap, elaborate sort. The modest, hand-made kind are the best to try for; and if the purse will not allow of their purchase, why not endeavor to build one up oneself? It is a matter of patience and a little ingenuity, and now that Lent approaches of course society will lessen her demands and give worn ladies hours of quiet leisure, in which to turbish up belongings, get ready for another campaign. Belis for the lingerie blouse should be of ribbon, these being much more appropriate than the ones of leather. Girdles get higher and higher, remind of the "bodices" of days gone by. Flowered ribbon is liked very well, although the girdle may be of the same material as the waist itself, in which case it is fastened to the waist, forms a part of it. Girdles are stiffened with featherbone, and for wash waists this is a very sensible thing, the featherbone standing laundry wear and tear better than whalebone or horn. Again we are told the collarless blouse will be worn, but we rather doubt it; it is tried so often, and so often found unbecoming. ELLEN OSMONDE. CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1905. ARE THEY BARRED Presley Holliday, Sergeant Major of the Famous Tenth Cavalry. Writes a Strong Communication or Army Promotion-It Is Really a Lecture that All of Our People Should Read. The article headed, "Army Doom Closed," published in the issue of The Age of December 8, is in many ways misleading. In it occurs this statement: "If we may except Capt. John R. Lynch, of the pay department, there was not a single other Afro-American among these hundreds of officers who found their way into the army by virtue of this act of congress and the favor of the war department. But, he it said to the credit of the Afro-American officers who had served in the Philippine campaign, they did not sleep on their right; but put forward every laudable effort to obtain the commissions in the regular army which they had gained by every form of good service as men and soldiers." I am personally acquainted with a large number of men who were commissioned in the volunteers from the two non-commissioned officers of the army that far met one-other—who felt that he was treated unjustly by not securing a commission in the regular army. Inquiry developed the fact that he asked for a commission, and a close acquaintance further convinced me that he lacked the necessary education to perform the full duties of a commissioned officer, and he knew this as well as I. Then why this indignation about not receiving an appointment he never sought and which he not capable of holding? It was sham, mere sham, and I fear this is the case with many of those volunteers from civil life. We frequently hear of how unjustly these men were treated, but we never hear of a single specific instance where one of them tried to get the commission in the regular army which they claim to have won so faithfully and which was so rigorously denied them. I fear their tales of injustice are similar to those of the soldiers—and that the "laudable" efforts that put forth are only in the imaginations of those who tell their stories for them. Had these men come from the best educated of our race I would not make this statement. I know there were a few exceptions, but we never hear of them complaining about not receiving what they did not ask for. The writer goes on to say: "Though they (the volunteer officers) had won admiration and commendation to a man, those who had the power to give them a chance to wear the shoulder straps...turned a deaf ear to their request." This statement is absurd. And any such off-hand statement of almost any volunteer regiment which has just finished one and a half years of foreign service without active campaigning against an enemy is absurd. Those regiments had court-martials and dismissals for drunkenness and corrupt practices, resignations "under cloud," and discharges on account of being "unswitched to the service" (a remark used for about the same purpose as the remark "for the good of the service"), just like other volunteer regiments, and the above statement, like the statement that those colored men, if given an opportunity, would have given an opportunity to the examination, are like the imagination of the majority of our people that Santiago cannot have been won for the Americans had the four colored regiments not been there, and that the colored troops are therefore superior in every respect to allow intelligent men should not allow themselves to be so easily misled. The winner by our colored regiments from their officers was for doing what was expected of them—their duty, no more no less—the same as was expected of the white regiments, and which they did equally as well. The praise they won from civilans was for doing more than was expected of them. It was simply a matter of difference in the estimates placed upon us by our officers, and the reward for saying that colored men would not have the same weaknesses as white men. Of the 11 colored officers who have been commissioned from time to time in the regular army two have been dismissed by sentence of court-martial. That is a high percentage. The inaccuracies of the article quoted from display and unfamiliarity with the regular army which should not be exposed in print, especially by one the tenor of whose writings would tend to induce young men to aspire to military honors, or who points out the wrongs of other aspirants. And this unfamiliarity is noticeable in all of our race except those who have come in actual contact with the army. It should be known by all that to be an ideal officer in the regular army some of the necessary requirements are, to be a gentleman, to possess a first class education, to be dignified, to be able to command the respect of both inferior and superior, and above all to have a good stock of common sense. Our people should know that the gallant old sergeant with years of honest and faithful service to their credit of whom so much respect and great care commissions in volunteer regiments, and who go east upon muster out to tell of their unfair treatment cannot be commissioned in the regular establishment because they lack the education and culture so essential to an officer of the army of a great na- tion like the United States, notwithstanding the gallantry and long service. If our people want colored officers, since they cannot get our young men sent to West Point, they must send to the army the best they have and let them take their chances in the ranks. They must not expect officers of the regular army educated at the finest educational institution in the country to be content to meet as their social and official equals men whose occupations in civil life are waiters, barbers and messengers (for these 1 understand are about the average of the occupations of the officers of our most prominent militia organization). Not that dishonor is in any way attached to these occupations, but because the man who in civil life can command nothing higher cannot command the respect of his cultured brother officers and of his men. It was with chagrin that I read in the Washington Post an editorial in which it stated that the officers of the colored Connecticut company sent to the maneuvers last September were mainly composed of the waiters at Yale college. I will say again this is not from any feeling of abhorrence for the work these men do, for I consider all labor honorable, but because of the thought of how regular army officers, and any representative militia officers (all white), for that matter, would feel should they be called upon to meet these officers as their social and official equals and learn their station in life. I think their first mental question would be, "Can the colored people find men of a higher station in life?" and "Can they know?" and I think who knows and has a generous feeling for our race would answer, "Yes, but those fitted by ability and education do not know or do not care enough about the military to seek command." I believe that would be a true answer. The apathy and ignorance of our people as regards the army is almost as unaccountable as it is remarkable and unfortunate. It was my sad experience to hear a colored man known pretty well throughout the country say that immediately after the war with Spain he visited many of the leading educational institutions of the south for colored people giving talks to the students, and tried to persuade some of those with the necessary education to enter the army with a view to competing for commissions, and that he was almost invariably met with this remark: "If you will assure me that after two years' service I will be given a commission I will enlist, but I will not run the risk of having to serve three years and then not get a commission." Throughout the whole south there was one, only one, a student in one of the prominent colleges, who accepted his advice and enlisted, and he is to day a commissioned officer. I think the experience of this man has its counterpart in many cases. I think many of those who become indignant over the fact that the army door is closed against those who served as volunteers would consider their sons, their young brothers or their relatives, who have had the advantage of a first class education, too good to enter the ranks and endure the hardships and privations of a private soldier as did Gens. Chaffee, Wint and many other general officers, and thousands of field and line officers, and as numbers of white men are doing every year, in order to secure the privilege of competing for the right to wear the shoulder straps. In 1991 an act of congress added five regiments of cavalry, five of infantry and the equivalent of five or more regiments of artillery to the army. Although the right to say what per cent, of these organizations should be white and what per cent, colored is vested in the president, they were all organized as white, and we have never heard that any man of our race even as much as intimated to the president that the colored people would like to have a part of those troops made up from their race, this notwithstanding the fact that an increase of colored regiments would mean not only an increase of opportunities (howsoever lowly), for many an unemployed man of color, and an increase of lucrative positions for non-compromised staff officers. Also, in his last annual report Gen. Corbin recommended the enlistment of colored men for the artillery. He knows we should be represented in that branch of the service and the president: we should have us represented there, the state-ment that an act of congress is necessary to the contrary notwithstanding; but we have not heard that any of our race leaders have intimated that we would like to have a few colored batteries; this, too, when colored artillery would mean a higher class of colored soldiers, for to enter the artillery men must be exceptional, fairly well educated. This would induce educated men to enter the service. The apathy or the ignorance of our people as regards the army is remarkable. Fort Robinson, Neb., Dec. 16, 1904. — N. Y. Age. Beaver Valley, Pa., Brevities. "Woman's Day," Sunday at St. John's church, W. Bridgewater, was a success. The $25 raised will go to aid the trustees. Rev. Willies, pastor, preached in the morning; Rev. Skinner, of New Brighton, at 3 p. m.; and in the evening the ladies gave a very interesting program. The young people gave the cattatta, "The Two Ways." Thursday evening. The Young People's Progressive club, of New Brighton, will give a reception and supper at Wayman chapel Thursday evening. Wm. Porter, president, and Mary Beam, secretary. Master John Wagner has in gripper Maj. Chas. Robinson is not improving fast. — Mr. R Gibbons, of Beaver Falls, is still ill. — Revival services are still being held at Second church, Rochester. — A number of young people of the valley have been skating on Beaver river. — Mrs. Ruth Webster was in Salem last week. Written by The Gazette's Regular Correspondents—Personal, Political, Social, Church, Literary, and Lodge Notes of Interest. Correspondents must mail all letters for publication on MONDAY of each week, and always place their mail on the outside of the envelope on the outside of the wrapper about returned copies. Unless this is done proper credit cannot be given you. Advertisements, lists of names, wedding presents, etc., obituary notices, speeches, resolutions, poetry and inquiries for relatives must be sent for at least ten weeks line, six words to a line. Our rates for display advertisements will be sent on application. Massillon.—Miss Cora Johnson was in Akron Wednesday.—Mrs. Robert Emery and daughter, of Cadiz, have returned, after a week's visit with Mrs. E. Emery.—Jas. Goins, Wm. Tibbs, Fred Scott, Messrs. Culpher, Gilmore, Chas, Robinson and Jas. Myers, Jr. "waited" at the McKinley banquet at Canton Wednesday.—Mr. and Mrs. Morris Holley lost one of their twin babies by death Saturday. Funeral at 2:30 p. m. Monday. Interment in Massillon cemetery.—Mrs. Robt. Ford was in Cleveland Saturday. Ravenna. —Mr. Frank Robinson visited Miss Ada Rogers Sunday evening.—Messrs. N. Collins and J. Dixon of Akron, were here Sunday.—Mr. R. Sinclair spent Sunday with his family. No proceeds from the reformers' support was to Mr. G. He is very ill with pneumonia.—The "Cee" club will give one of their series of dances soon.—Miss Leota Henson has joined the L. H. Reading circle at Akron.—Mrs. R. Johnson, of Lorain, spent Monday with his mother. He expects to make his home here. Mansfield.-Miss Ross, of Cleveland, is here. Rev. and Mrs. B. A. Powell are ill.-Little Arabell Fisher is convalescent.-Henry Green is at the Southern hotel, Robert Spencer at the Buckingham and M. Cole is back at the Hotel Vonhof.-Mr. Hicks was ill last week., Mr. and Mrs. White and daughter, Irene, of Delaware, were here last week. The latter has a bad disease of rheumatism in her feet.-W. R. Pointer is able to be out again.-Grand rally on the 19th. It is hoped that everybody will do their best. Sidney.-The revival is progressing at Mt. Vernon church. Nine for baptism and eight at the mourners' bench Sunday night. Elder Bailey preached an able sermon in the morning and Rev. Burney an excellent one in the evening.-Mr. Ed. Aramber, aged 56 years, died recently while eating dinner at the infirmary. He was well-to-do at one time. There are 44 inmates of the infirmary, 11 girls and 33 men. Three are members of the race. They are: James Johnson, William Hills and Shadrick White. There are eight employees, one an Afro-American from Cincinnati. Lorain—Mr. Alfred Copes, of Oberlin, is here—Miss Lillies Crawford and Sadie Wright, of Elyria, were here Sunday—Mr. Smith, of Buffalo, visited her son, A. P. Smith, recently—Miss Eulalia Winfrey is seriously ill—Mrs. Nettle Williams visited in Oberlin last week, Mrs. E. Robinson, of Wellington, is visiting her mother, Mrs. L. Holt, Mr. Chas. Redmond is ill—Mr. Robinson and Mrs. Tates are improving, Mescames Bertha and Luhu Redmond and W. H. Redmond have la gripe, Mr. Chas. Young met with an accident recently while working at the steel plant. M. Vernon—Miss Ada Houston, of Cleveland, was the guest Sunday of her sister—Mr. William Jones, of Newark, visited his parents here Sunday—Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Simmons and Mr. and Mrs. Elias Byrd's homes were visited by the stork recently—Mr. and Mrs. Lon Hammonds entertained last Monday in honor of Mrs. A. B. Tate, of Zanesville, Cards, music and refreshments, Mr. Ned Myers, of Newark, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Chas Hamilton, The Literary society held a very enjoyable session last Wednesday. An "old fashioned spelling-down" will be a feature of the next meeting. Oberlin—Mrs. Lottie Richardson and Mrs. Ethel Williams were guests of Mrs. Carrie Mitchell Sunday—Edward Hodge, who was injured by the falling of a scaffold, is able to be out again—Misses Raphel and Louisa Alexander have la gripe—Mrs. John Jones' little son is quite ill—The Robinson orchestra gave a concert at Rust church the 1st. The program was well rendered and the audience was large. It was a financial success.—Mrs. H. Champ gave her sister, Miss Bertha Champ, a surprise Thursday evening. Games, dainty refreshments, etc. Miss Champ and her sister, Mrs. A. Kenney, will leave for home, Wheeling, Monday. Findlay—Mr. Andrew Johnson and Mrs. F. C. Brown are sick.—The revival meeting at the A. M. E. church is very successful.—Last Saturday a donation was given Rev. Collins. He and his daughter are ill. Rev. Morgan, evangelist, assisted him in the revival.—Mr. and Mrs. Benson have moved into the Marvin block.—Rev. Woodard 'held services at the Baptist church Sunday.—F. D. Adams has started a new stand.—Mrs. K. Stevens was the guest of Mrs. George Baker last week.—Mrs. Eugene Bray gave a theatrical party last Saturday evening.—Miss Alice Simms entertained several at tea Saturday evening.—Miss Ethel Phillips visited Dunkirk SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. this week.—Mrs. L. W. White is rapidly convalescing. Mrs. Russell was called to Kenton. Her sister is very ill.—Mrs. C. H. Johnson met with an accident last week. Nothing very serious, however.—Miss Ina Bray is visiting a cousin in Gallion. Marysville.—Miss Elsie Freeman spent Sunday in Columbus. Also Earl Allen. Bessie E. Glenn is there visiting her uncle.—Mrs. Mays, of Bellefontaine, is still assisting in the revival here.—The dramatic club is preparing for an entertainment about the 14th.—Merritt Bros. Brown factory is running full time.—Miss Dora Evans, of Columbus, visited her parents Sunday.—Miss Lydia Freeman is still in North Lewisburg. Mr. Wash Calloway is visiting his son in Bellefontaine.—Rev. Watson, of Mechanicsburg, delivered an able sermon last Sunday at the A. M. E. church. Miss Brown, of Brushlake, is here at the bedside of her mother who is seriously ill. East Liverpool—Mrs. Sarah Johnson is in Steubenville visiting her son—The Stewardesses' entertainment was a success—Mrs. Mary Maryland fell on the ice and hurt her head—Miss Mazie M. Gant and Mrs. J. C. Dorsey were ill last week—The educational branch of the L. L. of L. will give an entertainment Monday—Mr. John Venny, while sleigh-riding last week, had a collision and was upset—Mr. and Mrs. William Ormes are playing over a baby girl—Lit. Gladys, a good man many were at the park skating last week. You can not afford to miss a single copy of The Gazette. Much interesting race news in it from all parts of the country. Warren.—Rev. Upsthegrove has returned from Springfield, after a two weeks' visit. While there he had la gripe.—Edward Ridley, formerly of this city, died recently in Nebraska.—Invitations are out for the marriage of Miss Mary Boggess and Mr. T. Lonesome.—Mr. Morgan left Saturday morning to be gone one month. He is engaged the first part of this month to preach in Akron and the latter in Cleveland.—Mrs. Washington is slowly convalescing.—Mrs. Green has recovered.—Mrs. George Johnson entertained the H. A. F. P. club last Thursday.—Mrs. Nellie Sterye and Ed Burd for a reunion of Miss Olive Ormes Sunday.—Miss Inscott was in Youngstown Monday.—Mrs. Will and Mrs. Wallace Ormes attended the Ormes funeral in Salem Wednesday.—Mrs. Wynn is sick.—The Ohio State Band orchestra will furnish music for the K. of P. ball on the 14th. Kenton.—Rev. J. W. White, of Rushsylvania, O., is assisting Rev. J. W. Lewis in the revival services at the A. M. E. church—Rev. E. J. Woodard, of Columbus, is conducting revival services at the Second Baptist church.—Mrs. Joe Henry is very stick.—M. J. Toles is to be around after several weeks' illness.—Price and Hassel, the well known contractors, have just completed some extensive cement paving for the Kenton Gas Engine works.—Chester A. Childers, one of our most brilliant young men, has entered the street paving business and is winning success. During the summer season he gives employment to several members of the race.—Mrs. C. A. Childers returned last week from a visit to Toledo.—Mr. and Mrs. Meadows have moved to East Summit street.—Oliver W. Childers, student and all-round race man, expects soon to resume study at Ohio Northern university.—Alta Bonton is agent for The Gazette. Lockland and Wyoming. — Rev. Chas. Payne, a local minister of the A. M. E. church, died in Hamilton on the 3d and the remains were brought here for interment. He was one of the oldest citizens of Lockland, highly esteemed here, in Cincinnati and all over the county. For many years he was also a class leader, a member of the King's Messengers and the W. M. M. society. They also sent a beautiful floral design. Rev. Loney, of Oxford, preached the funeral sermon and Miss M. Johnson read a beautiful paper. The deceased leaves a wife, two brothers and a host of friends to mourn his loss. The senior choir of the A. M. E. church rendered beautiful selections and Miss Malina Smith presided at the organ—Mrs. Webster and Mrs. McCarthy, at dinner Sunday, Mrs. Joanna Poste and sons and Miss Mamie Odren. —Monthly communion at the A. M. E. church last Sunday evening—Rev. C. M. Thomas, of Avondale, preached at Mt. Zion church last Sunday. —Quite a number from Hamilton attended the Payne funeral, one of the largest ever held at the A. M. E. church. —An entertainment was held at Maple Street Christian church last Saturday evening. It was a success. Salem.—The funeral of Mrs. Julia Ormes was held last week Wednesday, Rev. Combash officiating, Interment at Greene. Mrs. Wm. Ormes, of Warren, was in attendance.—Revival services at St. John's church beginning Monday evening.—Mr. Aaron Jackson, of Pittsburg, is visiting his wife.—Mr. Clarence Bell, of Columbus, is visiting his aunt, Mrs. Henry Venerable.—The following ladies of Alliance attended the Ormes funeral: Mrs. Emma Moore, Miss Jessie Barrett, Mrs. Fred Hart, Mr. and Mrs. Ellis and children.—Mr. Wm. Ormes, of Warren, G. D. K. P., installed officers here last week.—Mrs. S. C. Alexander and Mrs. John Green were in Alliance Friday, guests of Mrs. John Minor.—Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Bingham are rejoicing over the arrival of a fine daughter of Coleman of C. Pittsburg, is here.—St. John's College was well attended Sunday evening and was led by Mrs. Alexander. Mr. Gatwood, pres, and I. L. Newsome, see—Mr. and Mrs. Joe Galloway entertained Mr. and Mrs. Phil Platlor and Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Burke last week Wednesday evening. Music games and an elegant lunch—Little Samuel Smith and Mrs. Mary Green are sick.—Mr. Wilson Lacy will be sent to the Soldiers' home on Monday A STRONG APPEAL Of Southern Afro-Americans in His Inaugural Address and to Urge the Enactment of the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments. Boston, Mass.—An appeal to President Roosevelt requesting him to include some mention of the status of the southern Afro-American in his inaugural address in March and to urge upon congress the necessity of legislation to enforce the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments to the constitution was forwarded to Washington last week by the New England Suffrage league. The petition was formulated at a meeting of the league held Wednesday night at the People's Institute, and at which other important business was done. A constitution was adopted by the league a committee appointed to draft and present to congress at its next session a bill providing for aid to education in the southern states by the national government, and another committee was appointed to forward to congress a protest against the Tillman amendment to the statehood bill requiring separate schools for our children in Oklahoma and New Mexico and Arizona. The Appeal transmitted to Washington reads as follows: "We respectfully beg leave to call your attention to certain conditions affecting the welfare of millions of colored Americans in this country. "In most of the southern states colored American male citizens are subject to wholesale disfranchisement, being practically deprived of all voice in the local, state and national governments, and this in several states under the guise of organic state laws. The public school facilities for colored children are inferior and inadequate, unequal to those for white children, the annual school terms in rural districts averaging less than $^4$ acre months. The colored population is subject to discriminations in public conveyances and other public utilities that are insulting, humiliating and injurious. Penal laws of the most degrading, demoralizing and cruel kind are on the statute books and are made to operate chiefly against the colored people. These latter receive but scant justice in the courts as against white persons, and are victims of the punishment of the law. They have no protection of property, are taxed without representation, are often driven from their homes and compelled to abandon their property by lawless bands of white men. Nether are they guaranteed trial by jury when accused of crime or legal punishment if found guilty, but are frequently murdered with shocking barbarity by blood-thirsty mobs. Over large areas colored persons are to-day held in peonage, a brutal form of human slavery. "These and other equally terrible conditions, which are a disgrace to our common country, a menace to its welfare and a crime against humanity, exist largely as a result of the violation of the 13th, 14th and 15th amendments of the federal constitution, which were incorporated into the law of the land at the cost of billions of treasure and of the lives of nearly half a million of the flower of the country's manhood. We, therefore, appeal to you as the head of the nation, to the people of the hegde grievous wrongs existing in violation of fundamental law in your forthcoming inaugural address, thereby awakening public sentiment to the crying need of their redress. "We especially appeal to you, in the performance of your constitutional perogative, to recommend in your next annual message to congress such legislation as will insure the full and speedy enforcement of first, the 13th amendment of the constitution, that peonage may come to a final end; of second, the 14th amendment, that unfair advantage in congressional representation may not be longer had by one state over another, that citizens denied the ballot may not be compelled to increase the congressional power of their oppressors, and that loss of representation by disfranchising citizens may be an incentive to states to restore the suffrage; of third, the 15th amendment, that the denial of the right to vote on account of race or color shall be forever abolished and the colored men of our country may no longer be deprived of the only weapon of self-defence in a representative republic. "We further appeal to you to enforce the inter-state commerce law, as it affects inter-state passengers now discriminated against because of race and color; and to recommend legislative action for federal aid to public education to the end that all citizens of the United States may have adequate educational opportunity. "W. H. Scott, S. W. Smith, Rhode Island; I. D. Barnett, F. G. Stedman, Connecticut; L. W. Carter, Henry T. Morris, committee." Will Receive $1,005 Back Pension. Cadiz, O.-Rey, S. Edward Prior has resigned the pastorate of the Baptist church.-W. H. White has returned from Carnegie.-Mr. George Nuby has bought property on Warren street.-Mrs. Susan Brown has returned from a month's visit in Wells-ville.-A very successful revival has just closed at the A. M. E. church. A number of conversions.-Mrs. Sarah Freeman is improving.-M. Lemuel Poutz has been notified that he paid him with back pay amounting to $1,000. Young people are preparing to give a box social at the A. M. E. church. 2 One Year ..... $1.50 Six Months ..... 1.00 Three Months ..... 50 Subscribers are requested to remit by post- office money order or registered letter Entered at the postoffice in Cleveland, Ohio as second-class matter. All communications should be addressed: HARRY C. SMITH. Member Ohio Legislature, 1884 to 1886, 1886 to 1887, 1887 to 1888 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. Editor A. N. Johnson, of the Mobile (Ala.) Weekly Press, is also an undertaker and embalmer, and a very successful one, too, as indicated on a very pretty calendar received recently. The upper part of it has a portrait of our friend and confere, and an excellent picture of his fine ambulance ready for service and standing in front of his beautiful residence and place of business. Brother Johnson is one of the leading men of the south. William Jennings Bryan endorses Editor T. Thos. Fortune's and Booker T. Washington's stand against the enforcement of the fourteenth amendment to the United States constitution and seems to feel that the mere fact that they oppose such a step upon the part of congress, settles the matter. He and they, as well as all others, do not seem to realize the fact that the section of that amendment having direct bearing upon disfranchisement, mandatorily provides a penalty proportionate — reduction of the offending states' congress representation—which if the fundamental law of the land is to prevail and be obeyed, must be meted out. Under that section of the fourteenth amendment, congress must act and as indicated. The senior United States senator from Ohio, former Governor Joseph Benson Foraker, won a splendid victory for Arizona the past week when the statehood bill was on its passage, that calls the attention of the country to the fact that the Buckeye state is again represented in the upper house of congress by a master mind that deserves to rank with that brilliant galaxy of Ohio statesmen of which the Hon. John Sherman was the last. This reminds us of the fact that Senator Foraker by an exposition of exceptional ability, made just such a wonderful impression on the last national republican convention, and also on the one held in the same city (Chicago) that finally nominated Benjamin Harrison. As we said many months ago, the next president of these United States will be the Hon. Joseph Benjamin Foraker, of Ohio. A FRIEND TO NATIONAL GOV- ERNMENT, AN ENEMY TO LAW. Senator McLaurin, of Mississippi, not long since, took a desperate chance in defending a client on trial for lynching an Afro-American—accused of murder. In defending his man, he went so far as to justify mob violence and thus as the nation's law maker proves himself guilty of treason, strategies and of one of the highest crimes against the constitution of the United States. For a paltry fee, he compromised himself in utter disregard of a solemn oath to obey the constitution of his country. Ignoring the obligation of a sworn pledge to support the constitution, like a politician, a gambler and a traitor, he espoused the cause of lawlessness, rebellion and disintegration more for a price than for any prospective good to the country. Not broad enough to put the seal of condemnation upon the growing and threatening evil, and too selfish to denounce the crime which so greatly disgraces the whole south and her boasted chivalry, he gave himself as the tool of blackens the damn villain that day blackens and damn our government. Like an imbecile and a slave, he bowed to the will of a master, to the ideas of southern ruffianism, and plead the cause of riotousness and insurrection. Few men in congress would have dared assume an attitude so contradictory and reprehensible and none except Tillman and Carmack could like a harlot have given the lie to their own declared purpose to serve their country. But McLaurin in shameless apostasy, with one hand in the national treasury, with the other stabs his government to the very heart. Arnold sought to betray West Point into the hands of the enemy through sheer resentment, but Senator McLaurin without resentment but in the spirit of vile venerity of heart goes into the court of the national sisterhood and pleads for disruption and the most notorious crime of modern times. Has it come to this that the nation's congress must have within its walls, men who seek to dethrone popular government? Shall a few daring bad men prove themselves mightier than the people, and has not the time come when the true and the brave of the nation shall institute proceedings for impeachment against any congressman who shall be known to identify himself with the mob? Such men have no right in congress and the American people shamefully stifle themselves in tolerating such a prostitution of the nation's honor. It is a crime in the national capitol to tolerate crime against our federal constitution. The cause of the government is too sacred to be tampered with by men in high places. Not for drunkenness, nor for embezzlement nor for unlawful and foul-handed extortions, but for an offense more deadly, more blasting; for an offense that means a gradual taking of the life of the republic. Senator McLaurin has been defending lynching and burning of American citizens contrary to the cardinal idea of all civilized governments. He sits in the senate, the chosen embodiment of law; he holds his seat upon his honor, as a true patriot and safe counsellor, yet like Cataline of Rome, he skulks away to plot treason and to strengthen the lifted hand that strikes at the national hand. He should have staid that hand and beat back the hordes of bad men who have taken the place of anarchists and mobocrats. In confronting the awful crisis, the voice of President Roosevelt is heard calling upon our albeit and best men to lead in the effort to secure proper supervision and regulation in governmental affairs. He demands that safeguard shall be the right of every class. What a contrast in the face of an appeal so imperatively essential that the prophet's warning has little bearing in arousing our leaders from the almost "sleep of death." As friends and advocates of free government, loyal citizens if they would prove their devotion to the constitution and the union must insist upon the supremacy of the federal laws as the sure and only safeguard of our national union, our national liberty and the equal protection of all men irrespective of race or color. The Edwards-Greason Petitions. Editor Gazette. Dear Sir:—Will you kindly allow me space in the Gazette to state to the public the action taken in the Greason Edwards case by the Ladies' Aid society, of St John's A. M. E. church, said action having been indorsed by the church in general, we, being cognizant of the fact that petitions were being circulated in the interest of Mrs. Kate Edwards, who had been proven guilty of murder and sentenced to be hanged asking that she be commuted on account of circumstances familiar to the public. Carefully examining this petition we found that no mention was made of the man, who had never been proven guilty of the murder, but was sentenced to be hanged. We, as Christian women, were broad enough, Christian enough and just enough in our views to draw up a petition asking the governor of the state of Pennsylvania to not only commute the sentence of Mrs. Kate Edwards, who had been proven guilty of murder, but also to commute the sentence of the man who had never been proven guilty of the killing. In this we feel, aye, we know that we are asking for that which is right and just, and not one-sided. This petition was signed by St. John's entire congregation and by a number present at the mass meeting, held in the interest of this man, Monday evening. It is now being circulated and in due time will be forwarded to the governor. Mr. Coffinberry, in a letter to the City Federation of Afro-American Women's clubs informs us that we are making a mistake. If it is a "mistake" to ask that which is humane, just, right and Christian, God grant that we may make a few more "mistakes." We are not asleep, nor do we intend to allow others to put us asleep. MRS. J. M. GILMERE, President Ladies' Aid Society. White House Doorkeeper Shifted. Washington, D. C.-Arthur Simmons, who for many years was doorkeeper for secretary to the president at the White House and who probably is more widely known among public men than any Afro-American in the country, has been relieved of his duties at the White House and transferred to the interior department. He is succeeded as Secretary Loeb's doorkeeper by William B. Dulaney, who has been on the White House roll of messengers for several years, Secretary Loeb explains that the change was made for "the good of the service." Simmons was a messenger at the White House for about thirty years, his service being continuous in that capacity except for a period of nearly four years during the administration of President Harrison, when he served as a messenger in the treasury department. Dugan Has $15,300 of Hannah Ellas Money. New York City.—When the motion to punish Hannah Elias, the affinity of aged John R. Platt, for contempt of court came up before Justice Leventitrond on the 1st, Terrence McManus, from former Gov. Black's office, presented affidavits to show she had not been in contempt, but had done all in her power to obey the order of court resisting to abolish Gilbert Montague the balance of $15,000 she had placed in the hands of Patrick H. Dugan, but that Dugan could not be found. Hannah is "smooth." The Board Abolished—Cohen Reap- pointed Washington, D. C.—The sequel to the appointment of Dr. R. Leen Hill, an Afro-American, to the position of pension examiner at Boonville, Mo. came on the 27tb uft. when an order was issued by the acting commissioner of pensions, Mr. Davenport, abolishing the board of examiners for Cooper county, Mo. Hon. Walter L. Cohen will be re-appointed as register of the land office at New Orleans, La. Notice. By mutual consent on Jan. 28, 1905, the firm of King and Gee (F. W. King and W. W. Gee) funeral directors, located at 21 Newton street, Cleveland, O., was dissolved. The firm of Gee and Wilts (W. W. Gee and J. W. Wills) funeral directors, has been organized and is doing business with headquarters at the same address, 21 Newton street, this city W. W. GEE. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1905. BOGGESS-LONESOME. Ruth's Birthday Celebration—Moth ers' and Church Workers' Representatives—Church, Social and Personal. Youngstown. O.-Miss Minnie Boggess and Thomas Lonesome will be married on the 29th at her father's. Mrs. Hannah Boggess, Minnie Johnson and Mrs. Q. Robinson are better. -Messrs. Henry Porter and Pearl Brangshaw spent Sunday in Warron. -Frank Hall continues very ill with the quisay. -There is a slight improvement in the condition of James Johnson, of Connorsburg. -A number attended J. F. Williams' dance Wednesday evening. -William Honesty had the grip. -Ruth Newby entertained in honor of her 10th birthday at Mrs. Leah Smith's on Thursday afternoon. -Games, etc. Luncheon was served. -A number of the L. H. Reading circle met at Mrs. T. D. Berry's Thursday afternoon for the purpose of gathering names to be offered as nominees in committee as representatives of the mothers of the society and also the church workers. The following will be voted upon: Mothers—Mrs. P. R. Berry, Mrs. T. P. Rerry, Mrs. Chas, Williams; church workers—Mrs. H. P. Parker, Mrs. Walter Rose and Mrs. J. H. Finney—Miss Nellie Sterye has gripped. -Miss Nora Eccles is improving slowly. -Revival meetings at Oak Hill wedding anniversary, the 23d, from 8 to 11 p. m.-Prof. A. H. Berry has issued invitations for their 25th wedding anniversary, the 23d, from 8 to 11 p. m.-Prof. A. H. Berry has issued invitations for his "rube" dance, the 15th, at Y. W. C. A. hall. -Wm. Saunders was in the house Monday as the result of a frozen coffee break however. -The Junior Mission that was to be given on the 13th has been postponed indefinitely on account of the revival services which were resumed Monday evening, to be continued until the 19th. The children will continue their rehearsals, however, and expect to give the concert at an early date. -Covenant lodge, No. 59, F. A. and A. M. will give an entertainment on the 14th. COLLINS-SWADER MARRIAGE The Operation Successful—Miss Hen son Speaks — Hamilton Obituary Akron, O.—Mr. R. Pigram is speedily recovering from an operation performed in Columbus on the 29th ult. He was removed to his home last Monday—Mr. and Mrs. Morris Hanley's infant daughter died last Saturday evening—Mr. G. Swader and Miss Agnes Collins were married at Rev. R. A. Jones on the 1st. The young couple have the best wishes of a host of friends—Mr. and Mrs. W. Parker have moved to Mr. Lewis Parker's residence—Mrs. W. E. Matthews returned Sunday from a two weeks' visit with her mother, Mrs. B. Rogers—Mr. F. Robinson, of Ravenna, was the guest of Miss Ada Rogers Sunday evening—Mrs. Mary Collins entertained Mrs. L. A. David, of Ravenna, at dinner Sunday—The L. H. Reading circle met at Mrs. Llzie Hallstock's last week Thursday afternoon and rendered a short but interesting program. Miss Foat F. Henson, of Ravenna, joined the organization and rendered a short but interesting address. The funeral of Mr. Isaac Hamilton last week Wednesday, from the residence, was conducted by the True Reformers. Western Reserve gilds. G. U. O. of F. Cleveland, sent O. S Fox as its representative. There were many beautiful floral gifts. The choirs of both churches furnished music. Among those in attendance from out of the house were Mrs. Mary Marr, Days Mrs. Robert Dennile, Mrs. Louise Waters, Mrs. Estella Robinson and Mr. Fox, of Cleveland, and Miss Cora Johnson, of Massillon. The Pedro club was entertained last by Wm. Williams at Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Dyson's. John Clark won the gentleman's prize and Mrs. Millie Mann was the successful lady contestant. Garfield Dandridge secured the booby prize. The next meeting will be held at Mr. and Mrs. Levi Pinn's. The L. L. Choral union met at Mr. and Mrs. Alexander's Monday evening. There was a rehearsal with Director Cash in charge—Protracted meetings are in progress. Z. W. Mitchell had a second attack of la gripe. Parmer-Hardin. Smithfield, O.-Mr. Nelson Howard, of Steubenville, addressed the K. P. Pledge on Saturday night. His talk was an inspiration. The social was a success.-Mr. Albert Cole, of Flushing, spent Sunday night here.-Mr. Ed Washington, of Hopedale, was here last week.-Rev. D. D. Lewis and family visited Mr. and Mrs. Jordan Powell, of Hammonds Addition, Sunday.-Miss Nannie Harris, of Steubenville, is visiting her parents.-Edgar Flitzgerald is sick.-Miss Bertha Leeklin returned home Saturday.-T. C. Adkins, of McIntyre, had his house destroyed by fire on the 2nd.-Mrs. H Hams has rheumatism.-W. W. Hams has rheumatism meeting Sunday at 6 p. m.-Messrs. Dave West, of Hopedale, Samuel Ramsey and Fred Christian were here Sunday.-Mr. Thomas Hardin and Miss Vina Parmer, of Hopedale, were married Thursday.-Mrs. James Carter and daughter, Emma, and son, Fred, were guests of Mrs. Dave West Saturday. Sharon, Pa., Siftings. Mr. Hiram Wheeler, Mrs. A. J. Jackson, Mr. W. Y. Hill, Mr. Edward Davis, Mr. Thomas Robinson, Mrs. John Burke and Mrs. Josie Coleman are sick—Miss Laura Merrills is here last week—Misses Etta Hill, Mary Burke, Messrs. Burgess, Geo. Burke, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Burns and quite a number of young people attended the Twentieth century club party at Youngstown Wednesday evening.—Mr. Charles Johnson makes fancy calling cards.—Some of the young people will attend the K. P. party at Warren on the 14th.—The P. E. arrived Saturday evening and spent Sunday morning with Rev. Hicks. Good Time to go South. Lowest Fares Now Via Pennsylvanian 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 with Geo. W. Weedon, D'P. A., Cleveland, O. IN WINTER'S GRASP. Many Ships Are Stuck in the Ice that Covers Chesapeake Bay for Miles. DISASTROUS SLEET STORM Telegraphic Communication in the Southern States Was Almost Paralyzed—Ohio River Is Icebound from Pittsburgh to Its Mouth. Baltimore, Feb. 7.—The ice embargo in Chesapeake Bay on coastwise shipping is now complete, only the heavy draught ocean steamers being able to make their way through the dangerous channel to the capes. It was announced yesterday that until further orders the steamers of the Old Bay Line and the Chesapeake Steamboat Co. would send out no steamers to Norfolk. Not only is the thickness of the ice a cause for uneasiness among ship owners, but the sudden rise in temperature makes a break up and running of the ice fields a thing to be expected at any time. More than 50 small vessels are frozen in at the Caton wharves in 15 inches of ice. Battling with the ice in the bay between Cove Point and the Seven-Foot Knoll are four big steamers from sea, Crisfield. Md., Feb. 7. The state police boat Governor Thomas, commanded by Capt. Howard, which arrived here Monday, landed at Deal's Island in the morning and put ashore 20 oystermen, the crews of vessels that had been frozen up in the Patuxent river for three weeks. The men had suffered greatly from long exposure to the cold and lack of sufficient food. Capt. Howard reports many boats frozen up in Patuxent river, including five tug. Louisville, Ky. Feb. 7. -Telegram communication in the central south was perilous Monday to a degree of seriiness unknown in late years by a steel storm of many hours' duration, extending from Georgia over into Texas and as far north as the Ohio river. Many newspapers appeared in the smaller cities yesterday without a line of telegraphic news. The Ohio river is icebound from Pittsburgh to its mouth. In Louisville dynamite was used Monday to break a gorge which threatened damage to many boats. Pottsville, Pa. F,eb. 7.-Search is being made for two Philadelphia & Reading section hands who, it is fearful, were frozen to death in Sunday night's storm. The bodies of Joseph Haak and Frank Eckert, railroad employees who lost their lives in the storm on Sunday, were found Monday, Memphis, Tenn., F. 8.-With a blizzard raging in north and east Texas and rain and sleet falling in many districts in southern Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee weather conditions are decidedly worse than at any time since the present storm began. A blizzard has been sweeping over the cattle ranges of western Texas for two days and shows no sign of abatement. Thousands of cattle are reported to be suffering and in many cases totally deprived of water. Telegraphic communication is demoralized all over the southwest. Evidence of Bribery. San Francisco, Feb. 7.—Evidence of police corruption was shown Monday when the foreman of a grand jury deposited $1,350 in gold on the deck of Judge Lawler, of the superior court, and reported the work of the police committee of the grand jury. A police sergeant, it was alleged, had received the $1,350 from Chang Chung, a Chinaman now under indictment, as a bribe to guarantee Chinese gamblers against arrest. It was further said that the sergeant in charge of the officers detailed to the Chinese quarter was paid from $250 to $400 a month to let gamblers alone, while members of his squad got from $30 to $40 a month each. The Only One of Its Kind. New York, Feb. 7.—A strange craft is nearing completion at the New York navy yard. It is in fact a miniature floating navy yard and will take its first plunge into the waters of the East river in about six weeks. When the craft is completed the United States navy will be in possession of a floating repair shop the like of which the world has never seen, and one which, according to the officials of the navy yard, will make it possible to repair second class cruisers, gunboats, torpedo boats and torpedo destroyers wherever there is water enough to anchor. The Investigation Is Ended Springfield, Ill. Feb. 8.—The investigation of Representative Frank D. Comerford's charges of corruption and attempted bribery against n members of the Illinois legislature was concluded yesterday. The report to be made by the investigating committee will be that Mr. Comerford has failed to substantiate his charges against members of the present legislature and that the gravity of these unsupported charges warrants his expulsion as a member of the house. Killed a Woman and Suicided. Louisville, Ky., Feb. 7.—A dispute over a lease led to the murder of Mrs. Rosa Chambers by Benjamin Byers yesterday. Byers then killed himself. The walls of three rooms were spattered with blood and the belongings torn up, showing that the woman fought desperately before her head was partly severed with a razor. A. Millionaire Tanner Dies. Allentown, Pa., Feb. 7.—James K. Mosser, a millionaire leather merchant, the largest owner of tanneries in Pennsylvania, died last night, aged 75 years. Postmaster Embezzled $27,000 Postmaster Embezzled $27,000. Honolulu, Feb. 7. - 7. Manuel Rego postmaster of Koloa, island of Kauai, was arrested Monday, charged with the embezzlement of $27,677 of money order funds. He was brought before United States Commissioner Judge and committed for trial to the April term of the federal court. Was Once a Blockade Runner. New York, Feb. 7. - Joseph Bram- well, who amassed a fortune in the cotton trade by running the blockade of southern ports during the civil war died at his home in Flushing, L. L. Monday, aged 89 years. META VAUX WARWICK. "My Child, You Are a Sculptor," Said the Great Master, Rodin, to his daughter. Philadelphia, Pa.—Miss Meta Vaux Warwick's exhibition of sculpture at the School of Industrial Art, in the rooms of the Alumni association, under whose auspices the exhibition was held, was closed to the public on the 4th, said a local daily paper recently. "Miss Warwick is of the race that has given to the world Henry Tanner, Paul Laurence Dunbar and Charles Waddell Chesnutt. She is of pure Negro blood as far back as the fourth generation, her grandfather, er at that removed being a Caucasian. Her mother is a Philadelphian, her father, born in Virginia, is a Philadelphian by adoption, and Miss Warwick herself was born here 27 years ago. "To the public schools of this city is due the credit of Miss Warwick's first art impulse, Mr. J. Liberty Tadd instructed her before she entered her teens, and a scholarship from the grammar school at Twelfth and Locust streets secured her three years' instruction at the School of Industrial Art. Her work here was extended for a further two years in the normal and post graduate departments, at the end of which time, with all the honors in the power of her alma mater to confer, Miss Warwick sailed for Paris in the autumn of 1899. "In the French capital she studied drawing for the first half year under Raphael Collin, the figure painter, and for the second worked in modeling under M. Charles. Then followed a twelfth month at the Academie Colarossi and lectures on anatomy at the Ecole des Beaux Arts under M. Injalbert. One day Miss Warwick took a bit of plaster, not eight inches long, after turning it around in silence, the teacher touched the young girl's shoulder and said: 'My child, you are a sculptor.' For a year after this Miss Warwick's work passed before the eye of the great French realist. "The present exhibition is a work of great importance, not because Miss Warwick is the only sculptor of her race or because she is one of that group of gifted ones who, from the embers of oppression, poverty, ignorance and caste exclusion are rising, and by the simple force of individual excellence, claiming the respect and admiration of their fairer countrymen, the exhibition is remarkable on account of the work. Never before, certainly not in Philadelphia, has such a showing been made. This is not saying that Miss Warwick is our greatest sculptor. She may and she may not be." Incorporations. Columbus, O., Feb. 7.—Incorporations yesterday: The Amalgamated Co., Youngstown, general brokers capital $1,000. The Elder & Johnston Co., Dayton, dry goods, notions shoes, etc., capital $300,000. The Ahrens Fire Engine Co., Cincinnati capital $100,000. The Klein-Helleman Co., Canton, increase of capital stock from $7,500 to $200,000. The McDonald Brothers Co. of Massachusetts permitted to obtain a license. The Bundy-Hardesty Co., Barnesville, capital $10,000. The Masonic Club, Warren. The Wm Ellis Co., changed its location from Bellevue to Cleveland. Morgan's Visit to Toledo Toledo, Feb. 7.—John H. Morgan, state inspector of workshops and factories, and his entire force of ten deputies, swapped down upon Toledo manufacturers and merchants yesterday to give warnings against violation of the child labor law and prosecute persistent violation. The inspector announced new laws instead of distributing his deputies through the state, he will concentrate his forces in the large cities for a week at a time. Dealers in Canned Goods Convene. Columbus, O. Feb. 8.—The point convention of the Canners' association and canning machine manufacturers of the United States opened Tuesday at the Great Southern hotel. The officials said there would be 2,500 delegates here when all had arrived. The president of the dresses. President A. C. Frazer, of the Western Canned Goods association, delivered the annual address. Typhoid Fever Epidemic Grows Columbus, O., Feb. 7.—The typhoid fever epidemic is growing. Since Saturday the record is 16 new cases and two deaths. Health Officer Smith says that the indications are for a still greater spread of the disease, as seemingly the people have grown careless in their use of the city water supply, to which he attributes the disease. Sustained the Will Springfield, O., Feb. 8.—The will of the late Rev. Charles Stroud, which left $125,000 to Wittenberg college, was yesterday sustained in a suit in common pleas court. The Stroud heirs attacked the validity of the will on the ground that another will was in existence. The case was compromised by the college agreeing to pay $9,900 to the heirs. A. Raid on Chinese Gamblers Columbus, O., Feb. 6.—A Chinese gambling house in a North High street building was raided by the police yesterday and 22 Chinamen from various cities in the state were arrested. The gambling paraphernalia and a large amount of opium and pipes were seized. Low Bates to the West Northwest, Southwest and South via Nickel Plate Road 1st and 3rd Tuesdays each month. For full information see Agent or address E. A. Akers, C. P, and T. A., Cleveland, O., 28 Pubt; Square. (514) Take a Sunday Trip via the Nickel Plate Road. One fare for round trip every Sunday. For full information see Agent or address E A. Akers, C. P. and T. A., Cleveland (515) Freight Cars Wrecked. Elmwood, O., Feb. 7—Seven cars on the C. H. & D, loaded with valuable freight, went over an embankment yesterday. $7.50 Cleveland to Chicago second class v. Nichel Plate Road. $5.50 first class. Call on agent or address E. A. Akers, C. P. & T. A., 28 Public Square, Cleveland, O. (510) SPYGLASS IN IT. The Cantatta, "The Holy City," Made a Distinct Hit—Clevelanders in Chicago. Chicago, Ill.—The fourteenth concert—fourth season and second concert—of the Choral Study club was given at the Institutional church Monday evening. Alfred R. Gaule's sacred cantata, "The Holy City," was the work rendered. It was given at one of the concerts last season with different solistos. This time the soprano was allotted to Mrs. M. B. Anderson; contralto, Mrs. Della B. Ridgeway; tenor, Robert H. Downs, and bass, J. Elmer Spyglass, of Toledo. Mrs. Anderson surprised her friends with her more than ordinarily animated and earnest rendition of the part and her lyric soprano showed to its best advantage. Mrs. Ridgeway has a fine contralto voice and her muscianly rendition of "Eye Hath Not Seen" earned her a recall. Mr. Downs, although suffering from a cold and slight embarrassment, revealed an excellent tenor voice and a good conception of the tenor voice. Mrs. Beecher did the small second soprano part acceptably. Mrs. Spyglass, who was brought from Toledo for the occasion, all that could be expected of him is hard to find in the air; "The audience burst into the room before the magnificent voice and majestic interpretation revealed, and when his full, rich musical yet powerful bass rang full the temple," a double appreciation had to be acknowledged, and in his last obligato solo with chorus, "I Heard the Voice of Harpers," it had to be repeated. The chorus work was the best we have heard in many a day, and much improvement is shown over the work in the last concert, even though the former music was lighter. It is well balanced, prompt in attack, quick to color and gave its numbers with an intelligence, volume and warmth that fairly carried the audience along with it. It fully shared the honors with the solistos, and Chicagoans may feel justly proud of it and her indefatigable and conscientious director, Mr. Pedro T. Tinsley. In his work the musicians were rendered by Miss Gertrude Jackson in usual faultless manner. She is more than the ordinary accompanist, and we can think of none in her class nearer than Harry A. Williams, of Cleveland, O. A large and appreciative audience was in attendance, every reserved seat having been sold. Among the musical people we noted H. Lawrence Freeman, Mrs. Carrie Dennie-French, Mrs. Manson and E. O. Orsburn. By some change of management in the Thirty-first Street theatre, Mr. H. L. Freeman's opera will not be presented there on the 20 prox., as arranged. Regular rehearsals are being held and a good presentation is expected. Mr. and Mrs. David Manson, of Vincennes avenue, entertained a few friends last Saturday evening, the occasion being the former's birthday. A number of presents from friends made the gentleman still more alive to the fact that he is a full year older. An entertainment (operetta) will be given at the institutional church on the 10th for the kindergarten fund, under the management of Miss Henrietta French. A testimonial to Prof Alphonso Johnson, the blind organist, is to be given at the same place, date to be announced hereafter. Morgantown: W. Va., Locals The A. M. E. sewing circle will give valentine social Tuesday evening. Allen day will be observed the same evening. An excellent program has been prepared. Mrs. C. G. Brown, pres—The union revival services have closed. Many were converted. The pastor, Rev. J. W. Brown, was assisted by Rev. T. H. Jennings and members of Jones chapel—Dr. Allen Levy, from Howard medical college, Washington, D. C. has opened an office at 115 Walnut street—Revival meetings in Jones chapel commenced Sunday evening. The pastor and congregation of the A. E. church activity to participate. Revival meetings, pastor—J. H. Hunt, Harrison Robinson, Rupert Brown, Mabel Washington and Ada Johnson are ill.—Rev. Brown was in Fairmont last week. Wednesday holding revival services. He returned Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Anderson moved recently to Beechurst avenue. Olean, N. Y., Items. The A. M. E. choir has been invited to sing at the Bradford church the 19th. Chicken pie supper Thursday evening. Slx silver knives and forks will be given to the one selling the largest number of supper tickets. The Sewing circle was entertained by Mrs. J. J. Palmer. Luncheon was served. Mrs. Martha Colson will be the next hostess.-Adelbert Palmer entertained young friends on the 10th in honor of his 7th birthday.-Miss Ethel emmens has returned to school. Jack Wellch was in Bradford last week.-Messrs. Foster Moore, Warren Peterson, Walter Ray and J. Snowden are sick. Mrs. Snowden was called from Belfast by the illness of the last named. Mercer, Pa., News. Rev, Holmes has la gripe—Mrs. Crosby Richards entertained the Sewing society Thursday evening—Mr. Plummer Henderson, of Franklin, is visiting his mother, Mrs. Tom Brown. —The Ladies' Sewing society will give a bazaar on the 20th.—Rev. Wallace Christian, of New Castle, lectured in the court house Tuesday evening Subject. "The Black Man's Burden." —The Canadian Jubilee Singers gave a concert in Mercer academy Monday evening.—Mr. Chas. Robinson's family are convalescing.—Charles Clark has the asthma.—John F. Ree has sold his restaurant to Mr. Chas. White.—Mr. Hamilton, of New Castle, was here last week. MARDI GRAS EXCURSIONS To New Orleans, Mobile and Pensacola Via Pennsylvania Lines. Excursion tickets to New Orleans, La., Mobile, Ala., and Pensacola, Fla. via Pennsylvania Lines, will be sold March 1st to 6th, inclusive. Apply to ticket agents of Pennsylvania Lines for information about fares, time of trains, and checking baggage through to destination, or write Geo W. Weedon, D. P. 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When asked by what mediums she had been able to so successfully preserve the attractiveness and beauty of youth, Miss Martin said, "Why it is very simple to me and every woman, be she white or colored, young or old, or as ugly as sin itself, can become pretty, shapely and graceful if she will only do as I advise. As a child I never was considered pretty, in fact I was not even thought to be good looking, and for this very reason ever since I was a girl of 16, I have made a study of such agencies and materials which tend to beautify and adorn the human person. In the glorious vegetable world which nature has so bountifully bestowed upon us, there are hundreds of innocent mediums, which, after my long life of study and investigation, I have been able to successfully blend and formulate into various preparations which enhance and preserve the life and beauty of the hair and skin. I owe my own good looks and youthful appearance to these preparations which are the results of my life long work. As to Glossine I have never known it to fail to cause the hair to grow long, straight, soft and luxurious. It matters not how harsh and kinky it may be and I care not if it be short, broken, splitting at its core, or if it is positively make it long, soft, straight and pliant. It will give to the hair luster, length of life and beauty, and no head of hair and refractory but that Glossine will make it so plant and wavy that it can be dressed with ease and in any prevailing style desired. It will restore gray hair to its former color, make the hair on the temples where the hair is usually thin and unsightly. Glossine is highly, sweetly and most delicately perfumed, and its color are all subsistence is very attractive to all." Seeing our great attraction to all. To fool the people into buying spurious and harmful compounds for the hair and skin, that cause the hair to fall, thus causing baldness, and ruin, mar and deface the delicate texture of the human skin. In their wicked desire to gain money, these people do not hesitate to sell the people many preparations which are dangerous to life itself. In order to discountenance and condemn such dishonest methods, Miss Martin has decided to give a full size package of Glossine to any reader of this paper, male or female, who will send their name and address. Do not delay. Write today. A postal card will do. We will also send our catalogue which describes in detail our hair tonics, face bleachers and other toilet requisites. Address, Miss Helen Martin, care of Continental Chemical Co., 9 Governor street, Richmond, Va. 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. W. Weedon, D. P. A., Cleveland, O. Choice of Any Route. From Cincinnati or Louisville via Pennsylvania Lines. Convenient transfer to trains South at Ohio River gateway. Special low fares to all resorts. For information about sleeping car reservations in advance, consult Pennsylvania Lines, D. P. A., Cleveland, O. W. Weedon, D. P. A., Cleveland, O. Florida and the South. 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. Winter Tourist Rates to Denver, Colorado Springs, Pueblo and the South via the Nickel Plate Road. Tours to California. Tickets on sale daily. Homeseekers' 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) Pennsylvania Lines Excursions. Return limit of tickets covers whole winter. Get them from Pennsylvania Lines ticket agents, or communicate with Geo. W. Weedon, D. P. A., Cleveland, O. To California, Mexico And the Pacific Coast At Reduced Fares via Pennsylvania Lines. Enjoy June weather all winter. Return limit good till summer. Ask Pennsylvania Lines ticket agent, or Geo. W. Weedon, D. P. A. $ _{2} $ Cleveland, O. California, Mexico, Pacific Coast Ex- portation, Vice President, Management currents Via Pennsylvania Lines. Rich fields for investors in west and southwest. Get details about fares from Pennsylvania Lines ticket agents, or write Geo. W. Weedon, D. P. A. Cleveland, O. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS - Subscribers not receiving THE GAZETTE'S regularly should notify us ONCE. We desire every copy delivered promptly. We advise our patrons to carefully examine THE GAZETTE'S advertisements before making purchases. Business men who advertise in this paper should have the patronage of Afro-America. The fact that they advertise is assurance that they want it. Local reading notices (advertisements) ten centa line (six words in a line). Cleveland, Saturday, Feb. 11, 1905. Purchase "The Gazette" at PUSHAW'S News Store, Cuyanoga Building. Open Sunday. GOODMAN'S News Depot. No. 580 Central avenue. cor. Sterling avenue. Open Sunday. L. B. BOWMAN'S Store. No. 580 Central avenue. Open Sunday. F. WALKER'S Store. No. 580 Central avenue, between Perry and Harmon St.'s ADAMS & HAWKINS' Barber Shop. No. 432 Erle St. N. HEXTER'S News Depot, City Hall Building. Wood and Superior streets. Open Sunday. S. H. MOODY'S News Store. No. 580 Superior street, second door west of Bond street. Open Sundays also. Buy Crown of Glory Hair Pomade at Stern's drug store, corner Central avenue and Greenwood street. Miss Booker, of Columbus, is visiting in the city. The date of the Youngstown "Rube" party is the 15th. Miss Holmes, 31 Sanford street, was quite ill last week. Miss Ada Houston spent Sunday in Mt. Vernon, and Miss Ross visited in Mansfield. J. H. Cisco and Mrs. H. C. Jackson, who have been quite ill, are nearly convalescent. "It is only to those who strike for it, that freedom is awarded."—Brooklyn, N. Y., Eagle. Mrs. W. J. Lawson, of 378 Central avenue, has been confined to the house for two weeks with la gripe. Doughless Revels, 17 years of age, of No. 7: Forest street, is critically ill as we go to press of tuberculosis and heart trouble. J. W. Crawford was offering Douglass Automatic Straw Blinder Co. stock at five cents a share on Monday, so H. "Aristides" Taylor says. The Brownnell club, which was closed about the holidays, may be reopened again soon at an early date by a couple of Cincinnatians. Miss J. Noell, No. 147 Scovill avenue, died on the 2d and was buried from the house on the 4th, in Woodland cemetery. The funeral was in charge of Gee & Willis. Rev. H.-C. Bailey's case against Cole, the restaurant keeper, for discrimination, came up in the courts too late this week for us to give additional information relative to it. Services at St. Andrew's mission Sunday as follows: Holy communion at $ a. m., sermon and prayer at 10:30, Sunday-school at 12, sermon and special music at 3 p. m. Rev. E. S. Doan, rector. Don't fail to attend the "Martha Washington tea party" on Friday night, February 24th at Cohen's hall 354 Ontario street, given by the G U. O. of O. F., and Household of Ruth Grand march at 11 o'clock. H. T. Eubanks and Walter Brooks are among the many candidates for the United States court messengership held by W. Roster Jackson, whose efficiency and experience will doubtless secure his retention under the new judge, Hon. R. L. Tayler. The ladies present at the recent local Booker Washington banquet seem to agree that Mabel Holmes Powell Jackson was the finest dressed of their number in attendance. Miss Emma Buchanan and others also were beautiful gowns. St. Margaret's Auxiliary wishes to express through the columns of The Gazette "the loss sustained in death of little lone Smith, the youngest member. She is missed particularly because of her sweet ways and sunny smile. But our loss is her gain." Director, Mrs. Louisa Cooper. A number of the party waiters of the city, under the lead of Mr. Luther Johnson will give an elaborate dinner Sunday at Adkins' restaurant and have as their guests several local friends. This promises to be the swellest of the season, because those in charge of it know thoroughly how such things should be done. The case of George ("Tibblits") Smith, who was arrested on a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses, was postponed from Wednesday, but the Mammal Plumber, and Smith are having a "mix-up" it seems. Since the former lost his city hall job, he has had a "pecular" career. This ought to be a warning to others. Mr. William Walden, of 748 Woodland Hills, avenue, who returned from North Carolina with his sister, Mrs. Julia Vane Sickle, about the 8th of January, was taken sick quite suddenly soon after their arrival, dying on the 13th. Mr. Walden was one of our oldest residents, highly respected and well known among the older citizens of color of this city. Mrs. Van Sickle, who has been critically ill for many months, is still in a precarious condition at the same address. Miss Hatch, of St. John's church, West Side, addressed the Woman's auxiliary of St. Andrew's mission last Friday afternoon in a very helpful and interesting manner. The auxiliary will hold all-day meetings at the church every Friday with luncheon at 12 c clock. Rev. Edward S. Doan, ty judge Bushnell's appointment, is now one of the probation officers in connection with the juvenile court. This is voluntary and free service on Rev. Doan's part, for the good he can do for boys, especially those of our race. In our last issue we incorrectly referred to Peter Witt as "ex-city clerk." He is still holding the position although his successor has been elected and will take office in the near future. As a matter of fairness only, we desire to say that our democratic friend, Albert Williams, called at The Gazette office Wednesday, denying the local we gave last week relative to what he said anent the recent Sociological banquet at the Hotel Encluc. What we published as coming from him he told the editor of The Gazette in person. As to the truth of William's statement, that is up to him. J. Walter Wills had an exciting experience with a money lender of the Household Loan Co. last week. It is said that the latter poked a gun under Wills' nose but did not apparently scare him sufficiently, so he sent for a politician who refused to SWEET CHARITY GRAND CHARITY ENTERTAINMENT 3 Cleveland Gray's Armory WEDNESDAY EVE., FEB.15,'05 For the Benefit of the Home for Aged Colored People Fine Program Fine Music ADMISSION $1.00 per PERSON interfere. It seems that Wills had called upon the money lender to settle an indebtedness made by Frank W. King, Mr. Gee's former partner in the undertaking business, now in Chicago. There was a dispute as to the rate or the amount of charge for the use of the money, resulting as indicated above. Mr. Wills had the money lender arrested, and the case was to have been heard yesterday (10th). Mr. Charles Griffin, the letter carrier, has never been regarded by The Gazette as being excessively polite although always clever, genial and quietly "smooth." But last Sunday he thoroughly convinced the editor of The Gazette and others who saw his gymnastic effort, that he was more than a "Chesterfield" as far as politeness goes at least, for he made a bow to Mrs. Arthur McFarland on the corner of Central avenue and Greenwood street as the result of a slip and fall on the ice, that made one believe he was trying to stand on his left ear Charlie got up with a theodore Roosevelt smile—one of those that they claim "never comes off." That is in part, doubtless, because he is employed in the government service A petition was presented Monday night to the council by Antioch church asking that Sked street be opened through to Cedar avenue. The first reason given is that it is quite a long distance from Greenwood to Perry street. As a second cause, however, the church sets forth that there is a saloon next door. The petition recites that about every moral means has been used to get the saloon out of the way and that the church has even offered to buy or lease the property, but without result. On the contrary, it recites that a brewery has secured a permit on the property. While the petition does not say so, it is probable that the condemnation of land for street purposes would obliterate the saloon. The council took no action on the petition. Next Wednesday evening at the Gray's armory there will be given the grand charity entertainment and promenade our readers will see advertised elsewhere in these columns. It is for the benefit of the Old Folks Home and as a result will naturally appeal to all sympathetic persons, especially those who have room for a well developed charitable feeling in their hearts. The fact that Prof. Harry A. Williams is in charge of the program, is in itself an assurance of a musical treat far above the ordinary. An extra large orchestra has been engaged for the terpsichorean feature of the evening. Our readers can rest assured that every dollar realized from this benefit will reach the Old Folks' Home management, because well known local members of the race are identified with the "Colored Citizens' association" arrangement committee. Mr. Daniel Fields, an old and highly respected citizen, who died the first of the week, was buried Tuesday from Shiloh church, Rev E. D. Dandridge the pastor, preaching the funeral sermon and Rev. H. C. Bailey and Rev Stillwell (white) assisting. Mr. Fields came to the city at the close of the war with one of our best known citizens, Capt. Levi T. Scofield, the architect, and has remained in his service ever since. As can easily be seen, he was the original of the figure representing the slave in the Soldiers monument in the public square. There is, there, a representation of Lincoln striking the shackles from the slave an illustration of the result of his emancipation proclamation of January 1, 1863. Mr. Fields is survived by a wife and one child. He was an Old Fellow and a Good Samaritan, as well as an active member of other secret organizations, several of which were in attendance at the* funeral. He was also a churchman. The Gazette extends heartfelt sympathy to the deceased's family. The funeral services were largely attended. Interment in Erie street cemetery. Undertaker Jas. A. Rogers had charge. A rather unfortunate incident occurred recently at the Cleveland theater which shows so well, at least in part, why many of our people are insulted and discriminated against in such public places, that we deem it advisable to allude to it. The pupilist, Fitzsimmons, was there with his company and during the progress of the play a female member of the race who impressed George W. Johnson, who heard her, as being pretty thoroughly under the influence of "booze," persisted in shouting encouragement to the pupilist-actor, winding up with the encouraging remark while standing up in her seat, "Give it to him, Fitz. Fitz is from my town and I am proud of him." Fitz didn't say how proud he was of her, nor did Johnson stop to tell her how disgusted he was. George says he grabbed his Given Under the Auspices of the THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1905. coat and "ducked." This sort of thing, in possibly not quite so marked a degree, is entirely too often in evidence in the street cars and other public places, and as a rule, comes from the loud-mouthed lower class of our people. Our ministers could take up this matter and discuss it to an advantage, as often as the opportunity offers itself. One individual like that woman in the theater can do all of our people of this community more harm in a few moments than all of the best ones of our class can counteract in as many months. The mass meeting at Mt. Zion church Monday evening under the auspices of the City Federation of Afro-American Women resulted in a decision to circulate petitions in behalf of Samuel Greason, the Afro-American who is sentenced to hang about the middle of the month in Pennsylvania. Greason was charged with being an accomplice of Mrs. Kate Edwards (white), the unfortunate woman who was convicted on the charge of murdering her husband, a dissolute individual (white). Greason is alleged to be the father of Mrs. Edwards' youngest child, a girl 3 or 4 years of age. The women of this section of the country are making a decided effort through the medium of petitions to secure a commutation of sentence for Mrs. Edwards, whose case is particularly sad, owing to the fact that both her father and husband, according to newspaper reports, thoroughly debased her, never giving her an opportunity to improve her condition. In our judgment, the proper thing for the City Federation to do would be to aid the petition movement in favor of the woman, rather than indicate a petition clash along race lines by circulating separate petitions for Greason, because the government of the "Keystone State" cannot well commute the sentence of the woman without doing the same thing for the man, who was charged only with being her accomplice. Then, too, the man was not a bad one because of influences over which he had no control. The entertainment given at Cory Chapel last week Thursday evening was an excellent one. The program included a prelude, instrumental solo, Mrs. E. Seelig; invocation, Rev. R. L. Dickerson; address, Hon. H. C. Smith; vocal solo, Harry Bush; paper, Mrs. Emma Williams; duet, Mrs. Shewcraft and Miss Richardson; vocal solo, Mrs. Mamle Bush; piano duet, Masters Fred Seelig and Calvin Stevenson; duet, Mrs. G. Jones and Carroll Scott; remarks, Rev. R. L. Dickerson, and a quintette by Misses Hackley, Fields, Sutton, Embry, Mrs. Seelig. The quintette selection, the solos and duets were very good, exceptionally so was the first mentioned, and Mrs. Jones and Mr. Scott's duet, though both accompanists (Miss Fields and Mrs. Miner) were a trifle too "fortissimo" at times. Miss Williams' paper was well written and well read, but a trifle lengthy. Rev. Dickerson and Editor Smith's addresses were generously received and up to the usual standard. In spite of the bitter coid, the church auditorium was packed with an audience that gave encores and applause that showed excellent judgment. A supper in the basement followed which attracted a crowd that filled all available space at the tables and elsewhere in the large room. The committee in charge and the versatile master of ceremonies Mr. Wm. Thomas, are entitled to much praise for the very gratifying success of the affair. Another like entertainment will be given at Cory late in the month, which will be followed early in March by a farewell reception to the pastor, Rev. Dickerson, who leaves shortly thereafter for conference. There seems to be a united sentiment in the church favoring his return by the bishop for another successful year's work at Cory chapel. This will doubtless be the case. The offer of the Bruno Mfg. Co. Boston, on another page of The Gazette is surely a great one and should be taken advantage of by all who take pride in their personal appearance. This company is not a new concern like many that have sprung up in a day, but was established in 1892, and has a reputation of which it is justly proud. It employs none but the best chemists to compound the preparations. The Bruno Co. not only manufactures the goods advertised in this paper but also a preparation suitable for any trouble with the hair, complexion or any other part of the human system. It also imports all of the finest brands of French, German and Spanish perfumes and sells to stores or agents, wholesale or retail, at prices which no ordinary wholesaler could possibly sell at. It will pay you to deal with them. COLORED CITIZENS' ASSOCIATION A Great Offer. ```markdown ``` Modern and in A-1 Condition. Nos. 11 and 15 Pine Street, Apply at No. 1037½ First Ave. Phone. Cuy. 6883. JOHN S. HALL, WATCHMAKER AND JEWELER. REPAIRING A SPECIALTY. 629 Central Ave. CLEVELAND, O. The only Afro-American jewelry store in this city. PATRONIZE THE "Gem" Restaurant, No. 91 Sheriff St. James W. Crawford, Proprietor. SPLENDID MEALS SERVED! One Meal, 20c.; Seven Meals, $1. You Can Save 10 Per Cent. A COUPON given with every purchase, redeemable in Cash, Merchandise OR PREMIUMS. Special inducements to out of town patrons Write for information. TOKIO TEA CO., 291 Central Ave., Cleveland, O. Garland Jackson. J. W. Alexander. JACKSON & ALEXANDER'S Cafe and Restaurant. DINNER FROM 11 A. M. to 2.30 P. M. A Specially Made of Short Orders and Home Boiled Dinners. Meals at all Hours. REGULAR DINNERS, 25 CENTS. 31 Chestnut St. J. A. ROGERS, FUNERAL DIRECTOR AND EMBALMER, 474 Central Ave. State License, No. A 304. Central 3399. Cleveland, O. CARRIAGES FOR ALL PURPOSES. Soft Straight Hair is what you want Crown of Glory Hair Pomade Will produce it for you Makes the Hair Easy to Do Up Large Bottles 50 Cents Trial Treatmently 10 Cents Quite Different to Any Other THE OSBORNE CO., Box 21 CLEVELAND, 0. --- SPECIAL 1905 OFFER $10.000 Given Away to Advertise Honest Goods •$5.25 Worth for only $1 $50 to Agent Selling Most Goods This Year. W Address BRUNO MFG. CO., 235 W C. L. L. WITH The Sigler Br $50 to Agent Selling Most Goods This Year. Write your name and address plainly. Address BRUNO MFG. CO., 236 Washington St., Boston, Mass. MFG. AND WHOLESALE JEWELERS. Will be pleased to have his friend on him when in Watches, Diamonds, Jewelry, ware, Table Cutlery, Opera Glasses and Testing and fitting difficult eyes a specialty. Witness notice by skillful workmen. Old Jewelry made to guarantee. All kinds of first-class Engraving products. Orders by mail promptly attended to. Will make prices on all goods as low as No. 29 Euclid Ave. Reduced Price AFTER THE Suits, Overcoats and The Best Up-to-Date and Perfect ALL Kinds of Repairing. Joe Soskin, 521 Clever THE Cleveland & Brewing Ernst Mueller, President. John N. Jacob Kuebler, First Vice-Pres. Heri Simon Fishel, G 1100-1118 America CLEVELA pleased to have his friends and customers on him when in need of Diamonds, Jewelry, Clock, Table Cutlery, Umbrellas, Opera Glasses and Spectacles difficult eyes a specialty. Watches and Jewelry no women. Old Jewelry made to look equal to new ones of first-class Engraving promptly executed. Mail prompts accepted to prices on all goods as low as the lowest. Reduced Prices for OVER THE HOLIDAYS Pants, Overcoats, Pants and Fancy Vest The Best Work. Date and Perfect Satisfaction Kinds of Repairing. Come In and Soskin, 522 Prospe Cleveland, O. Phone THE Cleveland & Sandy Brewing Co. cler, President. John M. Leicht, Second cler, First Vice-Pres. Herman C. Baehr, Señor Simon Fishel, Gen. Mgr. 1118 American Trust Bu CLEVELAND, O. have his friends and customers call him when in need of Hands, Jewelry, Clocks, Silver- tterly, Umbrellas, Canes, lasses and Spectacles. Specially. Watches and Jewelry sea iv repaired on show ery made to look equal to new. All goods and won Ergaving promptly executed. I kindly solicit you goods as low as the lowest. CLEVELAND, O. Red Prices for THE HOLIDAYS. Coats, Pants and Fancy Vests. Best Work. And Perfect Satisfaction Hiring. 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Ry. takes the days limit and privilege of escape on en route on both going and return trip. For literature describing "The Land of Fulfillment" the country along the K. C. S. Ry. or for further information information pursues, write to S. G. Warner, G. P. & T. A., K.C. S. Ry., Kansas City, Mo. The gift of gab will not do the work of the gab of God.-Chicago Tribune. AN OLD MAN'S TRIBUTE. An Ohio Fruit Raiser, 78 Years Old, Cured of a Terrible Case After Ten Years of Suffering. Sidney Justus, fruit dealer, of Mentor, Ohio, says: "I was cured by Doan's Kidney Pills of a severe case of kidney trouble, of eight or ten years' standing. I suffered the most severe backache and other pains in the region of the kidneys. These were especially severe when stooping to lift dirt. SIDNEY JUSTUS. ney trouble, or eight or ten years' standing. I suffered the most severe backache and other pains in the region of the kidneys. These were especially severe when stooping to lift anything, and often I could hardly straighten my back. The aching was bad in the daytime, but just as bad at night, and I was always lame in the morning. I was bothered with rheumatic pains and dropsical swelling of the feet. The urinary passages were painful, and the secretions were discolored and so free that often I had to rise at night. I felt tired all day. Half a box served to relieve me, and three boxes effected a permanent cure." A TRIAL, FREE—Address Foster-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N.Y. For sale by all dealers. Price, 50 cents. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1905. THE AGENT DIDN'T KNOW. Insurance Man Is Given a Job by an Editor That Proves Too Much for Him. An agent was trying to insure an editor on some new plan. The editor had a theory that any fact could be put into action, but the editor hind the fact really knew what he was talking about. 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"The fact is, I guess I can't do it the you want it, after all. Let's call it off. it is hardly too much to say that this is typical. It Was Good Chloe, our maid of all work, had the true Ethiopian's fondness for "good eating," and like so many of her race, she was a bit of a bitch. She is not a propriate. One day Chloe's mistress made an extremely good pudding for dessert. She put it in her mouth and pecked, smacked her lips and said with violent satisfaction: "I don't taste melodious." Limpkins's False Report "that your daughter has been being some wonderful things in her life," she not only applied to hostess, "she ain't been there at all. The last letter we had from her she was in Pittsburgh, and thought she'd go right through to Washington."—Chicago Record-Herald. 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The inventors are a very wonderful class of gentlemen—ladies, too, nowadays—but it really seems as if the twentieth century practiced people to utilize what they we do already—N. Y. Times. Earliest Green Onions. The John A. Salzer Seed Co., Le Crosse, Wis., always have something, something valuable. This year they offer among their new money making vegetables, an Earliest Green Eating Onion. It is a winner, Mr. Farmer and Gardener. JUST SEND THIS NOTICE AND 16C. and 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. In all over 10,000 plants—this great offer is made to get you to test their warranted Seasonal seed and ALL FOR BUT 16c 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 Seasonal seed. 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The ideal man is he who gives thanks that some people are as well off as himself and others better—Puck. Take Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. All drugists refund the money if it fails to cure E. W. Grove's signature is on each box. Many a mushroom of promise is a toadstool of fulfillment.-N. Y. Times. nesuch Remedy The old monk cure. strong, straight, sure. has for a large part of a century battled with and conquered Aches and Pains the world over. Price. 25c. and 50c. CSS DYES equally well and is guaranteed to give perfect results. MONROE DRUG CO. Unionville, Missouri TERRIFIC EXPLOSION. HER BLOOD TOO THIN Ten Thousand Pounds of Dynamite Let Go in a Mine Near Houghton, Mich. THREE MEN WERE KILLED Seven Workmen Were Injured — The Shaft Is on Fire and It Is Feared that All of the Missing Men Were Killed. Houghton, Mich., Feb. 9.—Three men are dead, seven were injured and three are missing as the result of an explosion of 10,000 pounds of dynamite in No. 3 shaft of the Kearsarge branch of the Osceola Consolidated Mines Wednesday afternoon. The dead: Kulpa, William Pollots and Matt Kaskala. Missing: Henry Missila, Peter Sarvala and John Karvala. The injured: Joseph Mice, arm broken; Wilfred Rumfry, face and hands burned; Gus Donald, Ben Orchard; John Nevore, William Wills and Peter Putela injured by gas. No explanation can be given for the explosion. The dynamite was kept in a drift at the eighth level and was used by the men in blasting. The shaft is on fire and it is feared the three men missing are dead. The searching party was unable to get down further than the fifth level. The shafts are being sealed. The relief party succeeded in rescuing several men who were taken to the surface as soon as possible, where they were revived. Six members of the rescue party and men were taken to the mouth of the shaft and resuscitated. Fortunately only two miners and a party of three trammers were working on the level at which the dynamite was stored when the explosion occurred, or otherwise the list of dead and injured would probably have been much larger. IN FAVOR OF UNCLE SAM. The Privy Council of England Renders a Decision in the Case of Greene and Gaynor. London, Feb. 9.—The privy council rendered its decision yesterday in the Greene-Gaynor case in favor of the American government. The council reversed the two judgments of Justice Caron, of Quebec, August 13, 1902, and ordered the respondents to pay the costs of the appeal. The council's decision causally criticizes the action of Justice Caron in releasing Greene and Gaynor and Caron's "extraordinary intervention." The decision reverses Justice Caron's judgments and leaves Greene and Gaynor under remand, as before Justice Caron intervened. Washington, Feb. 9.—The state department received notice of the action of the privy council through the following cablegram from Ambassador Chatee: "Court decided in our favor in relation to Gaynor-Greene case. Opinion rendered by lord chancellor. Also in the case of the Kitty D. versus the king, the court granted leave to appeal on condition of return of vessel to custody." Gaynor and Greene are charged with obtaining government money under false pretenses, and the application for extradition was denied in 1902 by Judge Caron on the ground that no such offense was set out in the extradition treaty. If the renewed application is granted the men will be brought to Atlanta, Ga., for trial on charges growing out of the misuse of government money in connection with the river and harbor works on the Georgia coast under the administration of Capt. Oberlin M. Carter. Comerford Is Expelled. Springfield, III. Feb. 9—Frank D. Comerford, a representative from Cook county to the general assembly, was yesterday expelled as a member of that body by a vote of 121 to 18 and his name stricken from the rolls of the house of assembly. His expulsion was the climax of a series of sensational charges of corruption and attempted bribery made in a lecture January 31 before the Illinois college of law by Mr. Comerford against members of the Illinois legislature. The special committee of the house and which found that the charges brought by Mr. Comerford were unfounded. Signed a New Protocol. Washington, Feb. 9.—Minister Dawson has cabled the state department from San Domingo that the new protocol providing for the supervision of San Domingo finances by the United States was signed Tuesday. The document is expected here next week and will b. submitted immediately to the senate. An important feature of the protocol is the omission of the provision in the original memorandum of January 21 guaranteeing the integrity of San Domingo. The new document simply binds the United States to respect the integrity of Dominican territory. Taft Is Elected President Washington, Feb. 9.—In pursuance of the act of congress providing for the reorganization of the Red Cross, the incorporators of the American National Red Cross met at the state department yesterday. About two dozen persons were present, but Miss Clara Barton was a notable absentee Secretary c. War Taft was elected president. Ryan Is Acquitted. St. Louis, Feb. 9.—John J. Ryan charged with the embezzlement of $00,000 in a "get rich quick" scheme here, was last night acquitted. Elver Jumps the Track. Flyer John Little Falls, N. Y., Feb. 9.—The westbound southwestern limited on the New York Central jumped the track at St. Johnsville last night. The train was running at a high rate of speed and every car left the track, running a quarter of a mile on the ground before stopping. No one was seriously injured. Arrest of a Coiner. Houghton, Mich., Feb. 9.—Henry Rogers is under arrest here on a charge of making counterfeit nickels. Many counterfeit coins were seized by the officers. GENERAL DEBILITY RESULTS FROM IMPOVERISHED BLOOD. The Remedy That Makes New Blood Banishes Wenness, Headaches, Indigestion and Nervous Troubles. Hundreds of women suffer from headaches, dizziness, restlessness, languor and timidity. Few realize that their misery all comes from the bad state of their blood. They take one thing for their head, another for their stomach, a third for their nerves, and yet all the while it is simply their poor blood that is the cause of their discomfort. If one sure remedy for making good, rich blood were used every one of their distressing ailments would disappear, as they did in the case of Mrs. Ella F. Stone, who had been ailing for years and was completely run down before she realized the nature of her trouble. "For several years," said Mrs. Stone. "I suffered from general debility. It began about 1896 with indigestion, nervousness and steady headaches. Up to 1900 I hadn't been able to find any relief from this condition. I was then very thin and bloodless. An enthusiastic friend, who had used Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, urged me to give them a trial and I finally bought a box. "I did not notice any marked change from the use of the first box, but I determined to give them a fair trial and I kept on. When I had finished the second box I could see very decided signs of improvement in my condition. I began to feel better all over and to have hopes of a complete cure. "I used in all eight or ten boxes, and when I stopped I had got back my regular weight and a good healthy color and the gain has lasted. I can eat what I please without discomfort. My nervousness is entirely gone, and, while I had constant headaches before, I very rarely have one now. I cheerfully recommend Dr. Williams' Pink Pills to women who suffer as I did." Mrs. Stone was seen at her pretty home in Lakewood, R. I., where as the result of her experience, Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are very popular. These famous pills are sold by all druggists. A book that every woman needs is published by the Dr. Williams Medicine Company, Schemectachy, N. Y. It is entitled "Plain Talks to Women," and will be sent free on request. TICKLESOME TALES The late Dean Hole was fond of sports of all kinds, but when a report came to his ears that his groom had been engaging in a pugilistic set-to, the dean felt it his duty to administer a suitable rebuke, winding up with: "I hope you were separated" (severely). "Beg pardon, sir; when I finished, he didn't want no separating," said the groom. Col. Henry Watterson, of Kentucky, recently told a story of an old darky down south who was informed that if he was bitten by a snake and drank a quart of whisky the snake would die and he would go unscathed. "Dar's only one trouble 'bout dat cure," the old man said; "I know whar'd deere's plenty snakes, but what's I gwine ter git de whisky?" The London Globe relates that a lady from the country was visiting Westminster Abbey recently, with the particular object of seeing the tomb of King Edward II. Patient search failed to discover it, and at last she asked the verger or an attendant of some sort, to direct her to it. The explanation of her failure was instantly forthcoming. "I'm sorry, madam," he said, "but we 'avent' got Edward II. 'ere, as we only have the odd numbers." Big Sum in London. A total of $52,000,000,000 passed through the London clearing house last year. A FELLOW FEELING. Why She Felt Lenient Towards the Drunkard. A great deal depends on the point of view. A good temperance woman was led, in a very peculiar way, to revise her somewhat harsh judgment of the poor devil who cannot resist his cups and she is now the more charitable. She writes: "For many years I was a great sufferer from asthma. Finally my health got so poor that I found I could not lie down, but waiked the floor whilst others slept. I got so nervous I could not rest anywhere. "Specialists told me I must give up the use of coffee—the main thing that I always thought gave me some relief. I consulted our family physician, and, he being a coffee fiend himself, told me to pay no attention to their advice. Coffee had such a charm *of* me that in passing a restaurant and getting a whiff of the fragrance I could not resist a cup. I felt very lenient towards the drunkard who could not pass the saloon. Friends often urged me to try Postum, but I turned a deaf ear, saying: That may do for people to whom coffee is harmful, but not for me—coffee and I will never part." "At last, however, I bought a package of Postum, although I was sure I could not drink it. I prepared it as directed, and served it for breakfast. Well, bitter as I was against it, I must say that never before had I tasted a more delicious cup of coffee! From that day to this (more than two years) I have never had a desire for the old coffee. My health soon returned; the asthma disappeared, I began to sleep well and in a short time I gained 20 pounds in weight. "One day I handed my physician the tablets he had prescribed for me, telling him I had no use for them. He stayed for dinner. When I passed him his coffee cup he remarried: 'I am glad to see you were sensible not to let yourself be persuaded that coffee was harmful. This is the best cup of coffee I ever drank,' he continued; 'the trouble is so few people know how to make good coffee.' When he got his second cup I told him he was drinking Postum. He was incredulous, but I convinced him, and now he uses nothing but Postum in his home and has greatly improved in health." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Look in each package for the famous little book, "The Road to Welville." ISSUED A PROCLAMATION. Socialists Call on St. Petersburg's Republicans to Stop Plating in Poland Continues St. Petersburg, Feb. 8.—For the moment the startling crime in Helsingfors has withdrawn attention from the strike situation throughout Russia. Tuesday's events in Poland and the Caucasus, however, were quite serious. Disorders in the smaller industrial towns of Poland have added more than a score to the total of the killed and troops have been sent to Warsaw and Kutno (83 miles west of Warsaw) to quell uprisings there. The strike conditions in the Caucasus are becoming worse and traffic on the trans-Caucasian railway is interrupted. The central committee of the Russian social democratic workman's party has issued a violent proclamation which has been widely circulated in the factories of St. Petersburg, calling on the operatives to array themselves under the red flag of the social democracy and prepare for an armed renewal of the January demonstrations. The proclamation bitterly assails church and state and the higher classes and concludes: "In order to gain victory we must organize a vast workmen's array. Then again we will start for the palace to present our demands, not without weapons, not with ikons and supplications, but with arms in our hands under the blood red standard of the Russian social democratic party." Ordered the curator of education to instruct all professors in universities and teachers in the schools of St. Petersburg to inform their students that academic anarchy must cease. Students must resume their studies by February 28, and those refusing to do so will be expelled. If the majority refuse or the professors associate themselves with the movement the universities and schools, Gen. Trepoff announced, would close and educate in St. Petersburg would cease. Ordered the curator of the workmen of St. Petersburg in the affair of January 22, is now known to be in Switzerland. The police have discovered at the residence of Municipal Councillor Kedrine, of those who was arrested with Maxim Gorky, after the attempt to interview Minister of the Interior Sviatipol-Mirksey the night before the collision between the soldiers and workmen in this city, and who is still in St. Peter and St. Paul fortress, the draft of a proclamation inciting the army to revolt. Lodz, Poland, Feb. 8.—The manufacturers, at a meeting here Tuesday, decided to concede the men a work day of ten hours and an increase in wages ranging from 5 to 15 per cent. provided they all return to work forthwith. REV. G. F. BENTLEY DIES. Queer Circumstances Attend the Pass Event Was Vas Once Candidate for President, Los Angeles, Cal. Feb. 6.—Rev. C. E. Bentley, of Lincoln, Neb., candidate of the liberty party for president of the United States in 1896, died here Saturday night under mysterious circumstances. Rev. Bentley, according to a story told by Mrs. Douglass, proprietress of the lodging house where he died, applied for a room about 8 o'clock. He was accompanied by a stylish dressed woman who wore a thick veil. Mrs. Douglass showed them to a room and while she was turning on the light Bentley dropped to the floor unconscious. The woman who accompanied him left suddenly. Mrs. Douglass then went to seek assistance, but, returning a few moments later, found a man named Haines, a lodger, holding Bentley's head. He left, saying he was going for a doctor, but has not been seen since. When a search of his clothing was made it was found that his gold watch was missing and that his pockets contained only $1.05. An autopsy was held and it was found that death was due to heart disease. WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY. New York, Feb. 6.—A proclamation "addressed to the American people" will be promulgated to-day from the various state capitals under the auspices of the National Grange and various national labor and agricultural organizations declaring that Washington's birthday be observed as "farm, home and factory day." It advises that upon this day the people concentrate their thoughts upon the conditions for the betterment of the home and factory. The proclamation recites a number of reforms as the object of the movement. A Daring Raid. St. Petersburg, Feb. 8.—The lull in operations in Manchuria continues. Gen. Kuropatkin reports the continuation of severe frosts. A correspondent at Tskinketchen describes a darling raid by a small Russian detachment across the Tattsi river, threatening Yang and Feng Wang Cheng and causing a panic among the Japanese, who lost more than 50 men. Assassinated. Helsingfors, Finland, Feb. 7.—Senator Johnsson, procurator general of Finland, was assassinated in his residence yesterday. The murderer, who was disguised as an officer of the army, sent in a card bearing the name Alexander Gadd, and was admitted. After entering the room he faced the procurator general, drew a revolver and fired four shots. Each shot took effect and Johnsson died almost immediately. Johnsson's son came to his father's assistance and the murderer fired at him, wounding him slightly. The assassin was arrested. --- The best friend of M. Pierre Loti, the well-known French novelist, is not a man or a woman, but a dog. M. Loti is never better pleased than when he is making long journeys, but no matter where he may wander he takes with him his favorite spainel. The American Mechanic says that in railroad building the cross ties now cost twice as much as the rails. Jose Echegaray, the celebrated Spanish writer, has published more than 29 dramas. 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