The Gazette

THE TWENTY-THIRD YEAR. NO. 43. With phantom tread our martial dead are passing in review, Their scarred battle flags commingled like their forms of gray and blue, Sweeping by old doubts and hatreds as the sun dissolves the dew; Their faith goes marching on. They are leading, like the shepherds led their flocks of long ago. To the pastures green with brotherhood, where blooms of kindness blow; Let us follow 'them and lay us down where streams of mercy flow; Let faith go marching on. There are hoary heads and halting feet amidst the shapes of youth; See, with shoulder set to shoulder, now they're marching for the truth; With their eyes bent on their heavenly goal and banners flying loose, In faith they're marching on. In the dark hour of replining and the triumphing of wrong, Let us think upon these martyrs, be courageous and be strong. And keep step with hope and duty, though the way be drear and long; For faith goes marching on. There are guards who never carried arms except our Saviour's word; There are soldiers of humanity who never wole a sword— Undecorated heroes of the battles of our Lord— All faithful, marching on. In the dim, unfathomed future now benighting you and me, We shall 'wake to see the glory of man's perfect harmony, With his heart and hand devoted all to love and charity, And faith still marching on. —JOHN IRVING PEARCE, JR. DAY OF SENTIMENT. Ceremonies in Cemeteries School of Patriotism for Both Old and Young. On every national anniversary, except Memorial day, we deal with things of life, rather than of death. On Independence day we celebrate the nation's birth; on Washington and Lincoln days the birth anniversary of its immortal patriots; on Thanksgiving day the fullness and blessings of national prosperity. On Memorial day alone we give pause for tears; on this hallowed anniversary we weave chaplets for the nation's glorious dead. And how glorious they are—these myriad sleeping soldiers—and how the glory of their deeds magnifies with the years! We, the living, add not at all to their immortality in history with our flowers, our prayers and our tears. But we do add something of priceless value to our own lives by the customs of Memorial day. We turn these sacred hours into a symphony of patriotism. The benediction of to-day's flowerstrenn mounds is for the living; it is an oasis in the storms of life; a leveling occasion when the finer sentiments greep into the souls of American men and women. And the nation's cemeteries are today the greatest school of patriotism for old and young that we have. For true patriotism counts not death, if through death the nation shall find life and health. No nation is in peril that has such a Memorial day as we have. The living will carry on the work that these heroes gave their lives for. On Memorial day we come back from forgetfulness to the realities. We know why these soldiers died, and we vow that their sacrifice shall not be in vain. This nation has been carried through all its real perils by a citizen soldiery, as distinguished from the mercenary militarism of other nations. American patriotism is something apart. The simple flag that is more than ever a world emblem of liberty has no parallel as an inspirer of heroic deeds. There are those who place sordid gain above sentiment, and care for our prosperity only for individual profit. But the heart of real America beats true in every crisis. No foe, open or secret, can successfully measure swords with the national conscience. And this is the real lesson of Memorial day. So long as we honor our soldier dead we will honor our country. Memorial day gives perspective. The toterting Grand Army veteran, and the lisping boy with cap and drum and flag, are the visible extremes of a common unity of patriotism. Passionless, the remnants of former contending armies unite in a common sorrow and a common hope. The blue and gray are not less hallowed because time is blending them. The season of nature's renewal is fittingly the season when this and future generations will yearly decorate the graves of American soldiers. And though none of these sleeps bears the bugle call, each takes again to the national past in his "windowless palace of rest." ARE ONE IN BROTHERHOOD Christian Work Rejoices That the Disappearance of Sectionalism Seems at Hand. Yes, two Memorial days—and both are ours—those of the Blue and the Gray. Here we stand nearly half a century removed from the closing days of the great conflicts of our civil war—a war between Americans at the north and Americans at the south— In Union There is Strength. -JOHN IRVING PEARCE. JR. "Americans all;" can those now living ever forget them, or will future generations ever cease to read of those times from the pages of history? Two Memorial days—one for the north, one for the south, and again "All Americans." No other nation has concern in these memorial times but our own. It was a war between brothers; the war has passed, the brotherhood remains. Or, if there still are those whose hearts are fermenting rooms for sectional hatred, we pity that man or woman; surely there is a time to put aside—if not forget—a time to regard the best of the present, not the worst of the past; a time to cultivate aentities and loves, not antagonisms and base passions. Yes, there are two Memorial days; may the sun shine clear in the heavens on the days that commemorate the valor and the losses of both the north and the south; nor let either section fail in the thought of awarding equal sincerity and valor to the other. These days as is eventually the case with all memorial days, have measurably lost their early characteristic—that which clusters around the affectionate nature and recalls the father or the son who fell in that great struggle. It is not in man always to mourn; and now that which was born of the affections becomes monumental and historic, and it is well that it is so. In recent years graves of the northern dead have been decorated by the brethren of the south, and the blue have loved to lay their floral tributes upon the graves of the gray. So may it continue to be, as in future years our two Memorial days come around with each recurring spring. Pass a few tardy years and monuments to a Lee or a Johnston or a Gordon shall find a resting place at the north as well as at the south, and so the oneness of the people and the forgetfulness of old antagonisms shall find expression in bronze in or marble as it already dwells in the hearts of those who are both broadly patriotic and strong. Festina diem!—Christian Work. DEBT OWED GRAND ARMY. Highest Principles of Patriotism and Citizenship Inculcated by the Order. The old soldier, veteran of the civil war, is a "living epistle, known and read of all men." His presence among us is a reminder of the war, an inspiration to duty, a living exponent and illustration of patriotism. The Grand Army of the Republic is made up of the honorably discharged union soldiers. None others are eligible to membership in it. It is a nonsectarian and nonpartisan, politically; organization, and yet its fundamental principle is loyalty to the government. It is a bulwark against treason, and everything else that menaces the welfare, prosperity and safety of the nation. To the children and young people the old soldier is ever an object of interest, and his relation of his experience in the struggle for the preservation of the union and the government is more interesting and impressive than the printed page. The creation of an intelligent citizenship and the establishment of institutions necessary to the preservation and perpetuation of our republican form of government lie in the development and extension of our public schools. Social order, exalted views of life and appreciation of our privileges, and the promise of our future as a nation are secured by an intelligent and careful use of our opportunities. These things the Grand Army of the Republic seeks to secure and foster No greater service can be rendered to our country than to promote and establish her interests in the welfare, intelligence and high moral quality of her people. The veterans of the civil war see all this, and for them they stand.—Rev. J. J. Woolley. CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, MAY 26, 1906. Personal, Social, Lodge, Church, Literary and Other Notes of Interest. Oberlin...Rev. B. K. Smith preached for Akron True Reformers Sunday, Rev. Alexander Moore, of Wellington, preaching here for him...Leave your order with the agent for The Gazette and have it delivered at your home every week. Uhrichsville...Miss Kizzie White and Mrs. West, of Cadiz, were guests of Mrs. Olmstead...Chas. Washington died Saturday night...Mrs. Jos. Palmer, of Fernwood, was called here by the illness of her father...T. E. Peterson was in New Philadelphia on Monday...Mr. Henry Olmstead is ill. London...A memorial sermon for Harry Tousley was preached by the pastor of the First Baptist church...Miss Kittle Robertson, of Columbus, visited here recently...Wilber Wicker, jr., was very sick...Mr. Hargo's mother and others gave a surprise party...Mrs. Ed Lewis had a birthday surprise...The baptising at Coatsville Sunday was a success. Rev. J. W. Brown preached in the morning and Rev. Smith, of Greenfield, in the afternoon. Circleville...Mr. James Holt, enroute to Niagara Falls, spent a few days with his sister, Mrs. Ephraim Hyman...Mr. James White spent Sunday in Portsmouth with his family, Mr. William Pope, of Hillsboro, visited his niece, Mrs. Irene Redman, last week...Mrs. Maud Howard, of Columbus, visited her mother, Mrs. Nooks, last week...Miss Fanny, Clara Rochester, N. Y.—While a parade of Rochester lodge, No. 24, B. P. O. Elks, was passing through Main street last week Wednesday Exalted Ruler Dr. Richard J. decker Saw H. D. Murray, an Afro-American, on the curb wearing an emblem of the order. He stepped from the line and placed the man under arrest. A section of the New York state penal code says one shall not wear the emblem of an order that has been established more than ten years, unless it is with the consent of that order. Afro-Americans here organized a lodge of Elks about a month ago. The white B. P. O. E does not recognize it. Afro-American Elks are known as the "B. P. O. E of the World." and Mrs. Wyant are improving.—Mrs. Arthur Dickerson is quite ill.—Mr. Elmer Cooper and Miss Mina Hudson spent Sunday afternoon in Kingston. McIntyre—Mrs. R. M. West entertained ladies Wednesday at tea in honor of Miss Wilson, Miss Nannie and Mr. Clark Frenk visited their sister Saturday and Sunday. Mr. Alvin Smith and Mrs. Clara Toney were in Smithfield recently. Mr. Rezon West is sick. Mr. William has purchased a fine farm. R. R. Cooper preached an interesting sermon Sunday. Mrs. Alice Washington, of Steubenville, spent Saturday with her sister, Lizzie West—Clarence Linear and John Livingstone, of Steubenville, visited William Linear this week. Martins Ferry—Alec Weir, Fannie Cunningham, Eli Jackson, Pearl Seipio, Ella Giles, Mrs. Ida Seipio and daughter spent Sunday in Mt. Pleasio. Rev. W. J. Johnson, of Cadz, was the guest of W. H. Seipio this week. The Misses Lawson were guests of Mrs. Dora Milicent this week. Rev. Lowe preached two able sermons at the A. M. E. church Sunday. Mr. Aurie Burfield, of St. Clairville; Mr. Samuel Burton, Mr. Brown of Steubenville, and Mrs. Howard Jackson, of Glenn Run, were here Monday. Sandusky—Rev. Dr. Chas, Burdy, P. E., delivered a very interesting address to the A. M. E. literary society on the 17th. -Mr. and Mrs. Walter Jones, of Delphcs, are visiting his mother, Mrs. Johnson—Miss Elizabeth Thompson went to Toledo to attend the marriage of her sister, Winfred, to Mr. Ernest Ferguson—Mrs. James Davis went to Toledo to join her husband—Mr. Frank Washington of Castilla, was here Sunday—Mr. George McGee and Mr. Hall, of Norwalk, were guests of Mrs. George Scott—Mrs. Ralph Gilkerson is visiting her parents. Van Wert—Mrs. Wheeler, of Detroit, has returned home after visiting her daughter, Mrs. R. A. Evans—Mrs. Hester Washington is critically ill—Mrs. Alonzo Guy and Miss Mary Thompson spent Sunday in Lima—Mrs. J. W. Jackson was called to Mechanicsburg to the bedside of her mother—Mrs. Alberta Hill attended the Baptist convention at Lima Saturday and Sunday—Messrs. Lewie and Elisha Wethington, John Underwood, Misses Bessie Wethington and Rosz Nelson spent Sunday in Lima—Rev. Dr. Chas, Bundy, P. E., will hold quarterly meeting Sunday. The GAZETTE. children of the A. M. E. church are preparing a program for children's day. Correspondents must mail all letters for publication on Monday of each week, and always place their names and that of their city and town 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 paid for at the rate of ten cents a line, six words to a line. Our rates for display advertisements will be sent on application. Send postal note and not stamps during the warm weather. Mechanicsburg—Prof. Clark, of Willberforce, will proach at Bethel church Sunday and lecture Monday evening. The interior of the church has been beautifully papered and painted. Rev. and Mrs. D. S. Galloway spent Friday and Saturday in Springfield. A number attended the Odd Fellows' sermon at Marysville School. At a high school commencement next week we have one Afro-American graduate, viz., Mr. Bert Rese. Mrs. Hannah Embry and Miss Lizzie Clark entertained the "Excelsior club" at Mr. and Mrs. James Waugh's Friday evening. Mrs. Clara Clark has returned from Springfield. Piqua.—The outlook for woman's day rally under it, auspices of women's auxiliaryes of Cyrene church is very good. Rev. L. R. Harvey, of Richmond, Ind., preached an able sermon Sunday evening to a large and appreciative congregation. Four persons were baptised by Rev. W. H. Coleman Sunday.—Miss D. Green, of Cincinnati, is visiting relatives.—Mrs. E. Williams is visiting Rev. Moore and Mrs. Lewis Lindsey.—An enjoyable birthday party was given Esther B. Wilson by her mother.—Mr. Watts visited Dayton Sunday.—Mrs. E. Williams and others attended woman's day exercises at Troy Sunday.—if you want to get the latest race news read The Gazette. Mt. Vernon.—About 40 couples attended the dance Friday evening.—Mrs. H. C. Curry attended the banquet given by Mansfield K. of P. Fri day evening.—Shining Light, C. of C. entertained the Knights Saturday. It was their first annual. It was the Male Male Measures. Dickens and Carr visited in Frederickstown Sunday.—Mr. Arm, stead, of Columbus, was here Sunday.—Mr. Thomas spent Sunday in Chn. ```markdown ``` 5 1/2 POUNDS, WILE LIVE. St. Louis, Mo.—Twin girls, weighing 2½ and 3 pounds, respectively, were born on April 30 to Mr. and Mrs. Felix O. Poston, who reside at 5067 Spalding avenue. The babies, while very tiny, are well-formed and perfectly healthy, apparently, and Mrs. Poston believes she will be able to rear them. She keeps them in a basket, with hot water bottles placed about them. She says they take nourishment readily and have never been sick a moment since their birth. Her husband is a lawyer and has an office in the Rialto building. cinnati—Mrs. K. Green and Miss Pointer returned Monday from Columbus.—Maud Waldon spent Sunday in Cleveland.—Wayman Chapel Literary society met Wednesday evening and extended an invitation to all to attend the picnic on the 30th, bringing their dinners.—Lightning struck Mr. Chas. Turner's residence Friday. It did not do much damage.—Mrs. Keys, of East Liverpool, was entertained by Mrs. John Richardson Sunday. Steubenville—Mrs. A. J. Guy was called to Washington, Pa., by the illness of her mother, Mrs. Morris—Mr. Chas. Davis is seriously ill at Mr. Geo. Snowden's—Mr. Robert Barksdale is quite ill. A. P. Williams, wife and son, of Freedom, Pa., were guests of Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Guyder—The Odd Fellows have secured a fine hall at the corner of Sixth and Market streets, that will be ready for occupancy this week—Mr. Pearl Boughe and family are visiting their parents at Clarksburg, W. Va., where the editor of The Gazette was born—Mr. and Mrs. John Walker, of Wheeling, visited her sister, Mrs. Fred Thompson—Mr. Geo. Vhey was in Washington, Mrs. Vhey was in mother I. Howard and Miss Sarah Harris were in Toronto Sunday—Miss Jess Braxton is improving—Rev. Wm Johnson, of Cadiz, was the guest of S. W. Banks and family Tuesday—Mrs. Late Mercer collected $56 during the church rally instead of $56 as stated. St. Clairsville.—The A. M. E. S. S was well attended Sunday.—Mrs. Phoebe Gravit is ill.—Mrs. Lucas and daughter, Catherine, are convalescent.—Little Harvey Wilson fell from a second story window last week and was not seriously hurt.—Mrs. E. R. Bazler and little daughter, Ruth, attended services at the A. M. E. Church Sunday morning.—The T. C. L. S disappeared suddenly and the church suffered a great loss in consequence.—Mrs. Ella White and Mrs. Ruth. Coinies purchased two planets Mrs. Alfred Reed has recovered from asthma.—Little Caryl Carey and Leola Davis are improving.—Johnnie White attended S. S. Sunday.—Mrs. and Mrs. Joseph Gardiner and Mrs. Will Brown visited Mrs. Lucas last week.—Mrs. Swanagan and son, Clarence, were at Mrs. Nancy Tapsico's last Thursday.—The Ladies' Ald society has made an excellent financial this year and well deserves (Continued on Third Page.) "JIM CROW" CARS. Senator Foraker on Warner Amendment. It Works No Injury but Secures Great Good. Rev. H. H. Key, of Tennessee, States the Position of Our People in the South. Rev. H. H. Key, of Tennessee States the Position of Our People in the South. United States Senate. United States Sectile, Washington, D. C., May 19, 1906, Hon. Harry, Editor The Gaze Gazette, Cleveland, O.: Deer Sir.-For your information, I enclose herewith a copy of a letter I wrote Mr. Ford, an Afro-American of Boston, Mass. It explains fully my idea in offering my amendment. Except only from Boston and Washington, I have not heard of any objection to the amendment. From all over the south I have been receiving letters like the enclosed copy of one which reached here this morning from the Rev. Mr. Key, of Nashville. I was thinking of the people of the south who are subjected to this kind of trouble and from which there is apparently no excuse, except such legislation as this, and not of Afro-Americans in the northern states, where there is no such practice and, in all human probability, never will be. I am sorry to hear that you are in ill Des Moines, Ia. — A baby which lives in three nationalities every 24 hours is a curiosity in Des Moines. It is Eil Rami, 14-months-old son of Count Natho, who married an American girl in Quincy, Ill., three years ago. It is the first baby of Hindoo parentage ever born in America. When the little fellow awakens at sunrise he is a pretty pink, fair-complexioned boy. At noon he commences to slowly change color, and within an hour is a dark ginger color of his princely ancestors. At night the little sinks into slumber and becomes an alabaster white. The mixture of bloods is said to be accountable for the strange phenomena. health. Take good care of yourself I hope you will soon be fully recover ered. Very truly yours, etc., J. B. FORAKER. May 15. 1906. Charles P. Ford, Esq., Boston University Law School, Boston, Mass. Dear Sir—I write to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of May 12, and to assure you of my proper appreciation for all its kind expressions. I infer from the way you write that you are familiar with all that the Record discloses as to the amendment offered by me May 7, which was, on the vote taken that day, defeated, but which was two or three days later offered by Senator Warner, of Missouri, and with an amendment I proposed then adopted substantially in the form in which it was originally presented. The subject is too important and difficult to be discussed in the compass of a letter, especially when I am compelled, as I am now, to write most hurriedly. I was undertaking to deal with a condition rather than a theory. The condition presents the fact that in almost every southern state the legislatures have by law, not only authorized, but required separate coaches, and the supreme court of the United States has held that these statutes, so state-state passengers are concerned, are constitutional. As to state-state passengers there never has been any legislation, and, of course, no judicial determination as to the limitations of the powers of congress, or as to the rights of the states to interfere with any regulations the congress may prescribe. It occurred to me that inasmuch as the government was now for the first time assuming to regulate the rates that are to be paid for the transportation of freight and passengers, we should explicitly provide that there should be equality of treatment for equality of pay, in order that the commission might have an affirmative provision of law on which to base an enforcement of equal service and accommodations. I offered this amendment because I had some letters from colored men throughout the south, as well as from a few colored men in the north, informing me that in the states where separate coaches were provided the coaches provided for the Negroes are always inferior, and in most cases SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. grossly inferior in quality; in some cases being of such inferior quality and kept in such bad condition as to be almost unfit for the transportation of passengers. I do not know what the facts are, but assuming these complaints are well founded, I thought there was a duty resting upon congress to provide against such mistreatment, at least to the extent of requiring equally good service and accommodations, which is all any co-operative such has ever demanded, for they all seem to regard the provisions made by the state legislatures for separate coaches as not only likely to be continued indefinitely, but as something they have made up their minds to accept. However all this may be, it is common knowledge that the conditions in this respect obtaining in the southern states could not be disturbed short of a resort to radical legislation, which would be impossible in connection with the rate bill, and which, if perchance it might in some way be adopted as a part of the rate bill, would probably defeat it. From considerations of this character I sought to avoid raising the "Jim Crow" car question beyond putting into the bill a requirement that where such practice obtains the so-called "Jim Crow" car shall be as good and its accommodations as good as others receive. Of this was not alone to secure equality of treatment in and of itself, but to give the United States authority through the commission to enforce equality of treatment and to give the courts of the United States jurisdiction to entertain complaints of discriminations in that respect. I think the amendment all that could be expected under the circumstances. The vote by which my amendment as originally offered was defeated shows that conclusively. We must either, therefore, accept the Warner amendment, which has been adopted, or do nothing. I am unable to see how the amendment can work the sightest in that case. I am confident that the contrary it secures great good. I am sure I do not wish to make matters worse. A day or two ago I had a letter from Mr. Clement G. Morgan, an attorney at law, 39 Court street, Boston, whom you probably know. I never met him, but from what I have been told of him I have great respect of his judgment, I would be glad if you would confer with him and write me again, for the subject is one you and he are more directly interested in than I am and which you understand better than I do. The bill is likely to be voted upon before you have time to write me, but it will doubtless be some time in the conference committee, so that if you write me again I can have the benefit of your views before it is too late. Very truly yours, etc., P. S.; In considering this matter you will bear in mind that the law of congress will, of course, be supreme, and that no state law or authority can conflict with it as to inter-state passengers. 53 Maple street, Nashville, Tenn., May 15, 1906. To the Honorable Mr. Foraker, United States Senator from Ohio; Dear Sir,—Please accept our congratulations upon your position in discussing the rate bill and anti-free pass bill; especially do we endorse your stand taken in regard to that part of the bill relative to equal accommodations. We are sorry you did not get the support of other so-called republicans. They seem to want to drive us from the party of our choice by their actions. We are sorry that the ideas of Senators Tillman and Bacon seem to be the leading ideas of the majority. Senator Tillman impressed the majority that the accommodations here in the south are equally good for both races. The senator has either not made himself familiar with the existing facts here in this southland or he means to be misleading in his statements. The accommodations are not equal. The colored people are forced to pay the same fare and ride in a car infested with chickens, dogs and convicts. Our women are often compelled to submit to the abuses incident to treatment brought about by disasters. They are forced ride with drunkards and hoodlums. We readily accept Senator Tillman's proposition to invite the commission down here for a tour of inspection to verify the truth of our assertion. I myself had to resent an insult resulting from discrimination. On one occasion I rode a hundred miles in a baggage car rather than accept the humiliation of being with a mixed gang of white and colored convicts guarded by armed white officers. I would not be forced by the conductor to ride in such company. I hope that some day we may be in a position to help you to higher heights of honor for the noble stand taken by you. I am, yours for Christ, H. H. KEY, P. E. of the Cumberland River District of the M. E. church of the Penn Annual Conference P. S.: I trust you may see a way to secure protection in all lines of travel, including Pullman. VERNON EXONERATED Senate Committee Quashes Ugly Charges Alarm Roosevelt's Nominate Washington, D. C.-Prof. W. T. Vernon, of Quindaroo, Kan., nominated by the president to be register of the treasury, against whom charges were preferred, has been exonerated by Senator Burrows, Spooner and Bailey, a sub-committee appointed to investigate the matter. A school teacher of Lawrence, Kan., filed charges that Mr. Vernon, while attending a conference of the A. M. E. church, charged that he assaulted her. Her charges were supported by a unified of relatives. Vernon's appointment has been confirmed by the United States senate. He succeeds Register Judson W. Lyons. WALTER L. BROWN On Pretenders, Sharks and Fake Enterprises Really Owned by Whites—An Exposal At the race conference held in Antioch church last week, and noted at length in our last issue, the following resolutions were adopted and one other that we have been unable to secure, the first one we give being of Rev. W. T. Maxwell, pastor of St. James A. M. E. church, East End; and the second by Rev. J. S. Jackson, pastor Mt. Zlon Congregational church; Resolutions. Whereas, The late Judge Albion W. Tourgee was a life-long friend of the Negro race variety, and Whereas, He devoted the best energies of his life for the welfare of the oppressed, thereby endearing him off to the hearts of all lovers of liberty and justice, and Whereas, On the 30th day of the present month in the city of Mayville, in the state of New York, there will be unveiled a monument to his memory, therefore, be it Resolved, That as a testimonial of our appreciation of his service and devotion, the colored citizens of Cleveland send a floral or other tribute to be placed on the monument or its surrounding ground. Whereas, "Rev." T. Nelson Baker, Pittsfield, Mass., in a recent letter to the Congregationalist, Boston, Mass., made use of language reflecting seriously and unjustly on our women, and Whereas, We believe the statements are not only unwarranted by the facts but a slander upon Negro womanhood, and an insult to the whole race, and Whereas, We regard the struggle of Negro womanhood to rise from all the unfavorable conditions thrown around her by the slavery of centuries as one of the most noble and successful and inconvenient in the races upward progress, be it Resolved, That we denounce his statements as a vile slander upon Negro womanhood. Instead of encouraging, he stoops to defame. Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be sent to the "Rev." T. Nellie, the churchwarden, as is pastor, and the Congregational and our two local weekly papers. Mr. Brown Clears the Atmosphere. Mr. Brown Clears the Atmosphere. Mr. President of the race conference, ladies and gentlemen: I arise to speak upon the paper just read by Nahum Brascher, entitled "Our Business Interests and Race Enterprises." This conference was called to devise ways and means for the betterment of race conditions. In my opinion, we may achieve the best results by first understanding the true conditions and situations as they really do exist. It is sinful, degrading and unmanly for a man or set of men to take advantage of the negligence and weakness of the masses. When there is so much deceptive praise of unworthy enterprises as in the paper just read, there is danger of being misused in reaching the proper conclusion. The men who practise such methods are false pretenders and should be branded as unworthy rather than as leaders or as progressive business men. Yet it is a lamentable fact, that many of our people countenance their wrong actions, sounding their praises and forcing the court to enforce the expoising and ostracizing them. It is time for the race to awaken and investigate its so-called and self-styled enterprises. How long will you be taken by sharks who play upon your sentiments to enrich white men under the guise of race enterprise promoters? How long will you endure the policies of these false promoters? Have you not bought enough of the worthless stock of the Douglas Straw Binder, the Rover Safety Rack Co., and Loyal Legion of Labor? Will you continue to help maintain a set of real estate sharks by paying exorbitant prices for property and increased rates for rent? The county records show that the properties which they claim to own stand in the name of a white man, or others. So, when you deal with them in the spirit of race pride, you are sadly deceived, and are only paying an increased rate for rent and property through the agency of a white man's colored real estate dealers. Wherein lies their progressiveness? And just here I would like to ask if a white man does not own and control their official sheet which is managed by the gentleman who has just read the paper? In Continued on Second Page. 2 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. Ex-Congressman Geo. H. White and other prominent Afro-Americans, of Washington, D. C., who some weeks ago announced with a flourish of trumpets, that they had conferred with Senators Foraker, Spooner, Knox and others relative to so amending the railroad rate bill as to guard properly our interests, especially insofar as the "Jim Crow" car system of the south is concerned, should now arise and explain. If there is anything more than another impressed upon one after reading Senator Foraker's splendid letters, published upon our first page today, it is the fact that our people need a "crystalized" national leadership at Washington, D. C., especially during sessions of congress. That members of that body who are friendly toward the race and willing to help it all they can, as in the case of Senator Foraker, should be left in doubt a single moment upon any phase of our many needs in the way of federal legislation, is no reflection upon them but a fearful arraignment of the so-called and many headed race "leadership"—exemplified in a number of persons and "national" organizations. Isn't it about time we were doing something along the line indicated? Said Senator Foraker in his speech in the United States senate on his amendment to the railroad rate bill which was defeated, resurrected by Senator Warner, of Missouri, re-introduced and passed: "All I want is that they (Afro-American inter-state passengers in states having "Jim Crow" car laws) may have equally as good coaches if the carrier fits to provide separate coaches (as the result of "Jim Crow" car laws). I am not going to agree to an amendment that would require them to do the one thing or the other, but to require them to furnish equally good service if they see fit to make them separate (as the result of "Jim Crow" car laws)." * * * I only want to put under the inter-state commerce commission, for that board to stand upon, something that will give them authority to enforce equal treatment if there are complaints, and just complaints, that there is not equal treatment." PENSIONS AND BOUNTIES. Numerous demands are constantly being made for the uncleared for and idle money lying in the government department at Washington—especially the fund in the United States treasury, known as the "arrears of pay and bounty due estates of deceased Negro sailors and soldiers of the Civil war" which is again being attacked. Congressman Brownlow want $100,000 to establish a home for aged Negroes in Washington. Moneys thus due have laid in the treasury for years and nothing done with it. For years, millions of this unused money is shut up in the vaults of the national treasury without any likelihood of its outlay. Yet if stringent measures should be taken for its just appropriation, we have no doubt but that it might be applied to its proper use. We mean to say that with the necessary effort and care the parties to whom this money is due, might come in possession of the same. In some respects, Negro sailors and soldiers find it difficult to secure the fund to be applied to their benefit. We mean no unjust reflection upon the general government, but we may as well submit the case as it confronts us. The testimony that is offenses so necessary for the establishment of facts are not so readily forthcoming and the result of which is an indefinite postponement of the adjustment so much needed for a transfer of the funds into the hands of the proper parties. Indeed there is also a degree of indifference attending the transfer of this fund as compared with the white soldier and sailor whose needs are more readily recognized as being more justifiable and pressing. Congressman Brownlow asks that $100,000 be applied for the establishment of a Home for Aged Negroes in Washington City. To this proposition we offer no direct opposition. But let the treasury department exercise greater diligence in the inspection of Afro-American claims and see that every effort is exhausted in giving the fullest satisfaction before this money shall be distributed for other purposes. It is due the children and heirs of Afro-American soldiers that this money shall, if possible pass into the hands of the claims and nothing should be left undone to place that fund where it belongs. There are thousands of suf- fering and needy soldiers, who came out of the Civil war who are still without their pension or bounty and that too upon some more technicality of the law. But as a matter in equity, technicalities should not debar the soldier of his just claims. Thousands too have passed down to their graves without the relief provided for them by the law. We see them in every city, town and hamlet, who as soldiers of the war have borne upon their bodies the scars of veterans, yet for some inexplicable reason have gone without their just dues. Of course the government is in duty bound to guard well the moneys of the national treasury and it must upon its obligation and honor see to it that this fund is not unjustly given out and squandered. The government is responsible to the people. But no loyal son, no soldier or sailor should be debarred from or should his just dues. Malmed and helpless, the soldier is expected to share in the provisions of his government and the government cannot afford to be pernicious nor conniving in his penchant. To the soldier as well as to others, belongs the benefit of the doubt and it is an over exaction to require him to establish proof which lies beyond a possibility. Ex-Pension Commissioner H. Clay Evans was a clear headed and fair dealing officer of the government, but he was over exacting and sometimes seemed to prefer to ignore a just claim to the soldier upon a mere technicality. But as the servant of the people, every public officer is expected to administer affairs in the interest of the people and of suffering humanity. With such a view of the situation, the people are more likely to be protected in what belongs to them than by any method of extortion on the side of a growing monopoly of the public funds. Finally, we conclude that when the government has exhausted every effort to place the funds where they belong and when it has done all it can do, in the way of giving out to the sailor and soldier what he claims upon fair and just terms, then let this money be given out in aid of educational purposes and Afro-American institutions. THE FORAKER-WARNER AMEND MENT. The "Jim Crow" car laws of southern states, as far as they effect inter-state passengers, are constitutional according to a United States supreme court decision, and therefore beyond the reach of any action of congress. The Warner amendment to the railroad rate bill which the United States senate adopted last week will, if adopted by the lower house of congress, give the inter-state commerce commission power to compel all states having "Jim Crow" car laws to furnish Afro-American inter-state travelers "equally as good accommodations" as those furnished the whites on the railroads in all states having "Jim Crow" car laws. There is absolutely no danger of the commission establishing any such discrimination in any state where none exists, for the very good reason that in many states, especially in the north, the civil rights' and other state laws would not permit it, and also because that body would hardly stoop to such reprehensible action, if it were possible in the face of the overwhelming sentiment of the people, whites and blacks alike, throughout the north and possibly in some few southern states. Therefore it will be seen that the incorporation of the Warner amendment in the federal statutes would be a distinct gain to the Afro-American inter-state travelers in southern states having "Jim Crow" car laws. Its only unfortunate effects would be to close the door to any legal effort to knock out the "Jim Crow" car laws of the south so far as they effect Afro-American inter-state passengers, and to give to a federal commission the right to separate (secure "equally as good accommodations") and thus "discriminate against inter-state passengers of color. In justice to Senator Foraker, it should be said that his course in favoring the Foraker-Warner amendment, which is causing so much discussion, was the result of numerous requests from more or less prominent Afro-Americans in Washington, D. C., and many parts of the south. The Foraker-Warner Amendment. The Foraker-Warner Amendment. Now, as to the Foraker amendment "jim-crowning" the Negroes of the entire country; It could not have had any such effect. The regulation of transportation lines within a state is a function solely residing in the state legislature—congress has nothing to do with it. The "jim crow" car is strictly a southern institution, because nowhere, except in the south is there a public, sentiment strong enough to demand that the legislature separate the races. "Jim crow" laws can be passed today in Illinois and Ohio, just as drastic as those in Georgia or Mississippi, if the people can elect a legislature committee to such a measure. The Foraker-Warner amendment would not affect the situation one way or the other, except to give the inter-state commerce commission the right to insist that the accommodations (in states having "jim crow" car laws) furnished one person (inter-state traveler) should be as good as that furnished another for the same money—that is all—Charleston (W. W.) Advocate. Lewis Has Better of Gans New York City—Willie Lewis, a welter weight puglist, who developed on the East Side of this city, met and outpointed Joe Gans, of Baltimore, in a six-round bout in Madison Square Garden concert hall last week Thursday. Lewis was about ten pounds heavier than Gans, whose weight was given at 135 pounds. Lewis was the aggressor from the start. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, MAY 26, 1906. (Continued from First Page.) my opinión, our most progressive men have accomplished something for themselves and race by their individual efforts. I notice that the author of the paper just read was particularly careful to omit the names of some such men as the Hon. H. C. Smith, editor and proprietor of The Gazette; A. H. Martin, attorney; Boyd & Dean, undertakers; Joseph Smith, barber, and many others who have established themselves by their own efforts. That portion of the paper which advocated a colored hospital and social settlement home is hurtful to the race and harmful to the community, in that such agitation is an entering wedge for the establishment of separate schools, "Jim Crow" cars and other hurtful race discriminatory. So, and many others careful with your applause lest it does not encourage the very distinction which the efforts of these men are supposed to wipe out. But, oh! where is the man who with courage will stand and condemn such men? They are ostracized, discredited and condemned. WALTER L. BROWN. GOT $10.482 AT LAST. House Awards Estate of Samuel Lee $10,482, Ending Fight that Has Lasted Through Nine Congre sessions. Democrat. Fill. Republican. Defeated. Washington, D. C.—Reminiscent of the stressful days of the Fort-seventh congress were the scenes in and about the house the other day. Hardly had the journal of the house been approved when the democrats, under the leadership of Williams, of Mississippi, began the first real filibuster in that body in a number of years, their object being to defeat the bill paying to the estate of Hon. Samuel Lee, an Afro-American, of South Carolina, $10,182 for allowances made by reason of his election, a contest for the presidency, and a congress. This bill has been reported favorably at nine congresses—six times by republicans and three times by democrats. The certificate of election, which Mr. Lee contested, was given to John S. Richardson. The committee on elections reported in favor of Mr. Lee. A vote was taken on the resolution to give him the seat held by Richardson, 124 voting in favor of the resolution, 114 against. Mr. Lee's contest progressed no further. The democrats began a noted filibuster, and the Fort-seventh congress voted to out a quorum being present. The recent filibuster followed along similar lines. Williams resorting to every known parliamentary tactic to encompass the defeat of the measure. There were numberless roll calls and still the divisions demanded and taken, and the bill was finally passed. OUTRAGED THE GIRL. White Overseers in Georgia—Father Killed, His Family and Other Relatives Continued in Slavery. Atlanta, Ga., R. L. Pittman, a farmer of Morgan county, was recently fined $1,000 for peonage by Judge Newman of the U. S. district court in Athens. Over 15 years ago, according to the charges against him, Pittman paid a fine which John Griffith had incurred for having disturbed public worship, and it was agreed that the Afro-American and his family would work for Pittman until the amount of the loan had been recalled. After a year passed the father concluded that he and his family had worked long enough to discharge the debt and told Pittman that he was going to leave. A dispute ensued in which Griffith was killed. Pittman then expelled the dead man's wife from his premises, but retained in servitude her children, John Griffith, Jr., three brothers and a sister, a girl about 15. They toiled on year after year, and suggestions of enforced and criminal relationships with the girl on the part of the mother, a girl about 15. At length the United States detectives were given a clue to this state of affairs and they secured evidence which resulted in the conviction of Pittman. Olean, N. Y., Items. The A. M. E. church Sunday school is rehearsing Children's day music.—Mr. and Mrs. Lester Clemons entertained the Pastor's club Thursday evening.—Miss Sophia Brooks entertained last week Thursday evening, Refreshments were served.—Mrs. Harvey Kelly is able to be out again.—Mrs. Jennie and Miss Irene Hornbeck visited in Bradford last week.—Mrs. David Kelly has returned from a visit with her parents in Rushford.—Mr. Otis Mofat was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Clemons last week.—Mrs. William Meade is convulsed.—Mrs. Mable Curie is ill.—Mrs. C. visited I. J. Palmer and Mrs. D. Irene Hornbeck last Friday, Mrs. Harome Chauquillea Lake—Mr. Joe Carter spent Sunday in Bradford.—Mrs. I. J. Palmer gave a four o'clock tea in honor of her aunt, Mrs. Jane Peterson's 80th anniversary. Sad, but True. Our Neighbor is in receipt of a communication of about three lines from a man who has always been a true friend of the race, namely, Mr. E. H. Doyle, of Detroit, Mich. He boldly asserts that when the colored people themselves stop calling each other by a term generally spelled with "in" and containing two "g's," they will command the respect of others. He further says, "that such a contemptible word makes a decent man vowel." Mr. Doyle is perfectly right; the word is so disgusting that we refrain from printing it.—Detroit (Mich.) "Our Neighbor." Titusville, Pa., Topics. Rev. H. L. Thomas has been quite ill—E. G. Riley has returned from Pittsburgh,—Miss Kate Milton, of Franklin, is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. David Ross—Mrs. Louisa Banka, Miss Ayler Mae and William Appleton, of Bradford, were guests of Mrs. A. B. Lord Sunday and Monday, Mr. Devoe Bassett, of Oil City, spent Sunday here. A WEEK'S NEWS IN CONDENSED FORM RECORD OF MOST INTERESTING EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFEST MANNER POSSIBLE. HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS Information Gathered from All Quar- ters of the Civilized World and Pre- pared for the Perusal of the Eusy Man. CONGRESSIONAL NEWS After 70 days of almost continuous deliberation the senate passed the railroad rate bill by the practically unanimous vote of 71 to 3. The three negative votes were cast by Senators Foraker, Republican, of Ohio, and Morgan and Pettus, Democrats, Alabama. The principal purpose of the bill is to permit the interstate commerce commission to fix rates. The legislative, executive and judicial appropriation bill reported to the senate aggregates $29,755,914, over the amount as it passed the house. The omnibus bill authorizing additional aids to navigation in the lighthouse establishments was passed by the house of representatives. The naval appropriation bill, the house passed the naval appropriation bill, carrying $99,764,000. The senate committee on Panama canal was influenced in recommending sea-level type by Frisco earthquake. Senator Knox gave notice of an amendment to raise the diplomatic post at Constantinople to an embassy. Under the regulations of the porte only ambassadors are permitted to seek audience with the sultan. Senator Patterson said, in reply to Senator Bacon, that but for the contract labor law, immigrant laborers would be brought into the country to take the places of the striking coal miners, and expressed apprehension that people allowed to enter as farm laborers would turn to other occupations which give more continued employment and better wages. MISCELLANEOUS The first legal victory in the fight between the warring factions of Zion went to adherents of Dowie. Judge Landis declared his investigators found no evidence of misappropriation of funds, that the assets exceed all liabilities, and that no receiver will be appointed. Judge Smith McPherson, of Iowa, sitting in place of Judge John F. Phillips, at Kansas City, overruled the demurrier of the Burlington railway indictments against that company, and it must go to trial. The local contest at Decatur, Ill., instituted to prevent the union of the Cumberland Presbyterian church with the Presbyterian church, has been decided in favor of the unionists. The seventh annual meeting of the Illinois Congress of Mothers convened at Springfield. Gov. Deneen delivered the address of welcome. A resolution was adopted by the annual conference of the Structural Building Trades Ailance of America, asking the local unions to urge their members against the use of alcoholic liquors. The two rural guards who killed three of their comrades in a quarrel at Las Mangas, Cuba, May 17, surrendered to the authorities at Candelaria. Goaded by jealousy, John Stewart, of Eveleth, Minn., shot his wife dead. The woman had left her husband. Consequent on a petty dispute over the reception of Jacob Schiff, the American banker, the Japanese government has issued a regulation torbidding the Korean imperial household to entertain foreign guests without first consulting the Japanese resident general. The eleventh annual meeting of the Illinois Library association convened at Springfield. A decision of Judge Warren W. Hole in common pleas court, holds the penal section of the Ohio state banking acts to be constitutional. An underground Chinese colony, similar to that which once existed in San Francisco, has been discovered in Seattle. P. J. Farrell, member of parliament, will ask that American companies maintain a cash balance in Great Britain equal to one-third of value of policies issued. At the semiannual meeting of the executive committee of the National Life Underwriters' association at New York, it was decided that the next annual convention shall be held in St. Louis on October 23, 24 and 25. A court-martial at Riga sentenced eight workmen to death for the murder of three policemen. Dr. Arnold C. Klebs, of Chicago, at the meeting of the Association for the Study of Tuberculosis in Washington, urged government sick benefits for those suffering from the disease. George Morrison, road overseeer near Aetna, Mont., was shot to death by a boy named Charles Dennis. Fire, which started from a spark from the Northwestern mill, destroyed 100 residences and a dozen business buildings at Stanley, Wis. The loss is estimated at $200,000. Lionel E. G. Carden, British minister to Cuba since 1903, sailed from Havana by way of Mobile for his new post of minister to Guatemala. In the supreme court at Boston ex-Senator F. W. Dalliner, of Cambridge, was appointed receiver for the American Birth Insurance company. The town of Cobalt, one of the mining centers in New Ontario, has been completely destroyed by fire. It is also reported that several people were killed by an explosion. The British channel fleet, consisting of 16 battleships, will visit Cronstand; probably at the end of July. Wu Ting Fang, who was entrusted with the task of codifying the Chinese laws, is memorializing the throne for electrocution instead of the decapitation of criminals condemned to death. Ida Grove, la., won the state high school field meet with 43 points to 50 for West Des Moines. The much talked about debate upon the adoption of the "book of forms and services" recommended by a special committee of the Presbyterian general assembly, materialized. Not in many years has an assembly been so stirred as it was over this issue. Francisco Elizado, of Laredo, Tex., stabbed to death his 15-year-old step-daughter because she wished to marry against his will and then plunged the knife into his heart. The charges for automobile hire during the first two weeks following the Frisco fire is likely to develop into a scandal. There are not more than 1,000 machines in San Francisco and all of them could be bought for the amount charged for the hire of half the number. Alarmed over the prospect of a differential passenger rate war, members of the Trunk Line association and the Central Traffic association held a meeting in New York at which the entire dispute was finally adjusted. Excitement over having caught a big fish was the cause of Barney and Henry Lehman, 18 and 13 years old, at St. Cloud, Minn., losing their lives in Mahew lake. The boat was capsized. The American Red Cross received $30,000 from the Japanese Red Cross for the relief of San Francisco. This brings the Japanese Red Cross contributions to $80,000. The Missouri supreme court upheld the lower court's decision in imposing death sentence on Edward Botman, nego, convicted of having criminally assaulted Myrtle Digby, a white girl. The supreme court rendered a decision in the case of Senator Ralph Bushnell of Kansas, affirming the election of the United States circuit court for the Eastern district of Missouri, by which Burton was sentenced to six months' imprisonment in the jail of Iron county. Mo., required to pay a fine of $2,500 and deprived of the right to hereafter hold office under the government. W. H. Stuart, the American vice consul, was shot and killed from ambush near his country place at Batum. the assassin escaped. Mr. Stuart was a British subject and one of the largest ship owners and exporters of Batum. More than 600 marines will confront liberal leaders on the isthmus of Panama in case they attempt to promote riots and revolution at the time of the election in Panama on June 20. A noraml increase in the lumber industry of the United States is reported by the census bureau. Capital invested, $517,224,128, in increase of 29 per cent.; total value of products, $700-264,839, an increase of 26 per cent. A substantial increase in the carriage and wagon industry of the United States is reported by the census bureau. The Chilean government has accepted the invitation of the president to participate in the naval and marine exposition in Hampton roads next year, commemorative of the tercenennial of the settlement of Jamestown. Richard T. Greener, late commercial agent at Vladivostok, has received the order of the Double Dragon Third Class from the Chinese emperor for services rendered distressed Chinese subjects during the late war. Charles H. Graves, American minister to both Sweden and Norway, has been selected to represent the president as a special envoy at the coronation of King Haakon at Christianity June 28. Ambassador Cassus, for the Mexican government, and Secretary Root signed a treaty regulating the use of the waters of the Río Grande, which will remove what has been for 20 years a source of friction. At a dinner by the New York Civic Federation Supreme Court Justice William J. Gaynor made an attack on corporations to which August Belmont, who was also a guest at the dinner, made a spirited reply. Thela Debaugh, said to be connected with a wealthy Kentucky family, ended her life by taking poison in a Chicago leeve resort. With his wife a suicide by poison, Robert T. Paine, the sculptor, mallet in hand, quietly entered the studio in New York and chattered into fragments his masterpiece and life work—a heroic model in clay of Neptune and his mermalds. An effort to bring the coal operators and miners of Michigan into conference to reopen the Michigan coal mines failed. The estimates for all expenses incident to the construction of the Panama canal for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1907, are $26,348,281. Allan Dowell, 40 years a Masonic lecturer, died at Kansas City, aged 73 years. He was an authority on Free Masonry. According to a statement by S. H. Pearcy, a large landowner in the Isle of Pines, a revolt against Cuban authority in that island will occur in the near future unless the United States resumes control over it. Lawrence Muan, aged 30 years, shot his wife in the head and then shot himself. They had difficulty over money. The tipple of the Hazel Kirk coal mine near Bentleyville, Washington county, Pa., was burned. The 500 miners made their escape. The pope has selected a magnificent triptych, by a German painter of the seventeenth century, as a wedding present for King Alfonso. Five commissioners to the Presbyterian general assembly at Des Moines were bruised and injured by the collapse of the temporary stand which had been erected for the purpose of getting a large group photograph of the assembly. A large increase in the number of factories in Illinois and in the value of their output from 1900 to 1905 is reported by the census bureau at Washington. President Castro will assume control of his office May 23, and on that day he will grant a general amnesty to political prisoners. To about 25 officers and members of the merchant marine league, who called upon him, the president expressed himself as heartily in favor of the ship subsidy bill now pending in the house. The last imperial garrison in Canada, that of Esquimalt, which has been replaced by Canadian troops in accordance with the recent decision of Canada to take over her own defenses from Great Britain, left for England. The federal supreme court refused to entertain the suit of Joseph Naganab, a Chippewa Indian, against Secretary Hitchcock to enjoin the latter from setting off certain pine lands in the Lake Winnibigoshish reservation for a forest reserve. The British ship Feluca Consulelo has been captured off the Anghera coast by pirates. The sum of $2,000 is demanded as ransom. President Palma was inaugurated at Havana in the presence of the diplomatic corps in full uniform, cabinet officers, senators, congressmen, judges, heads of departments and the representatives of economic, agricultural and commercial associations. None of the liberal members of congress attended. Almost the entire business section of Abbeville, Ala., was wiped out by fire. A special census report on telephones and telegraphs for 1902 shows the telephone systems of the country operated more than three-fourths of the wire mileage reported for both telephones and telegraphs, gave employment to seven-tenths of the wage earners, and paid more than two-thirds of the wages, received more than two-thirds of the total revenue, and paid more than two-thirds of the total expenses. A note received by President Mourortseff of the lower house, from Peterhof, instead of making an appointment for an audience at which he and the deputation could present the address in reply to the speech from the throne contained the information that Emperor Nicholas would not receive the deputation and that the address must be presented through the ministry of the court. The worst forest fires since 1894 devastated over 400 square miles of territory in the northern peninsula of Michigan. Eight towns and villages were wiped out and many others were in peril. One negro dead and two others injured, one of them probably fatally, is the result of a shooting affray which occurred in Roslyn, Va. The report that the National Bank of Mexico and the Bank of London and Mexico were to be consolidated is officially denied. The mining chamber of Mexico has been formally installed. The chamber promises to be a great benefit to the mining interests. A new Hungarian crisis is imminent owing to the refusal of Emperor Francis Joseph to approve the Hungarian cabinet's demand for an autonomous Hungarian tariff. A strong association has been formed at Osaka for the purpose of supplying the markets of Manchuria with cotton goods, which constitute te most important item of trade with that country. The big steel companies have booked an aggregate of 1,000,000 tons of steel rails for delivery in 1907. Louis Juigbauer, the young bank clerk who pleaded guilty to having embzezzed funds of the State Savings banks of St. Paul, was sentenced to the state reformatory in St. Cloud. Michael Davitt, the Irish leader who was twice operated on for blood poisoning, is reported better. Ward Pentz, of Nicholasville, Ky., special policeman at High Bridge, while arranging his pistol under the buggy seat accidentally discharged the weapon, the bullet piercing the abdomen, causing death. A detachment of Turks annihilated a band of 12 Bulgarians at Lisolai, near Monastir. Constable Buck and deputy, Will Harris, attempted to arrest players of the Mansfeld and Sharon baseball teams at Shelby, O. Spectators surrounded the officers, who were beaten and cuffed. The plant of the Sanitary Utilization company covering two acres on Barren island, in Jamaica bay, was totally destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at $1,000,000. Miss Blanche Ulmann, of New York, was married in the Russian church at Paris to Milenko Wessnitch, Servian misister to France. Trade between the United States and British America in the fiscal year 1905 aggregated $38,000,000, against $34,500,000 in the preceding year, $32,000,000 in 1900, and $14,000,000 in 1895. A work train plunged from the Western Maryland railway track into the Chesapeake & Ohio canal at Hagerstown, Md. Five men were drowned. Fifteen were injured. Fire at Duluth, Minn., gutted the building occupied by the Zenith Paper company, entailing a loss of $45,000. The tipple power house and generator of the Purslove coal mines, at Clairsville, O., burned with a loss of $300,000. The German mail steamer Roon, of the North German Lloyd China line, which ran ashore near Oki island during a fog May 18, has been floated. A bomb exploded at St. Chartres, France. Several persons were dangerously wounded and several others slightly injured. Edward D. Harber, of Bloomington, Ill., was killed by a train at Kenilworth. He had been a patient at the sanitarium. While out with his keeper he escaped and ran to the tracks just in time to be struck by a fast train. The Cuban house accepted the senate amendment to the bill providing for the amnesty of persons who have engaged in revolutionary attempts. A decision which is expected to result in releasing over $3,000,000 to the city of Philadelphia for use in building a museum and institute in memory of Thomas W. Evans, was handed down by the appellate division of the supreme court. Michael Davitt had a narrow escape from death as the result of a complication of blood poisoning and a mild form of lockjaw. The trouble commenced with a bad tooth. Beside the dead body of her father, Mrs. Anna Sheehy, of Cincinnati, notwithstanding the strenuous efforts of her husband to prevent her, drank carbolic acid, and died before help could be secured. "I charge that these three acts of the president are of the anarchistic socialism which now threatens the life of our country. I firmly believe that they are outside of law, subversive of law destructive of constitutional government." Thus does Chancellor James R. Day of Syracuse university close his latest screed against President Roosevelt. MAKE MONEYI The old reliable Gazette desires an active agent and correspondent in every city and town in Ohio and neighboring states having a number of Afro-American residents. We are especially desirous of hearing from persons in the following cities: Springfield, Dayton, Zanville, E.Liverpool, Wellsville, Urbana, Akron, Ravenna, Bellaire, Sidney, Gallipolis, Cambridge, Delaware, Lima, Portsmouth, Chillicothe, Lancaster, Kenton, Hamilton and Toledo, O.; Pittsburg, Alleghey, Sewickley, Sharon and New Castle, Pa.; Wheeling and Parkersburg, W. Va., and other places where we have none. 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Col. 12:3 h.m. 10:30 p.m. *Col. Springd's d. Day. Col. 12:3 h.m. 10:30 p.m. *Exp. P. Ind. Peco. St. Lloyds 5:00 p.m. 3:00 p.m. *St. Cen. Ld. Cn. Col. ... 7:3 h.m. 1:40 p.m. *St. Cen. Ld. Cn. Col. ... 7:3 h.m. 1:40 p.m. *To Galion and olumbus ... 4:00 p.m. *Col. Springd. Day. Col. ... 6:40 p.m. *Exposition Fyer 7:3 h.m. and m. LimiLim. *Exposition Fyer 7:3 h.m. and m. LimiLim. *Getickets at Big Four Office 118 EUCLID Gtt. Theaters at Big Four Office 115 EUCLID AVE. Phone Main 012 Notice to Subscribers. -- Subscribers not receiving The Gazette regularly should notify us at 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-Americans. The fact that they advertise is assurance that they want it. Local reading notices (advertisements) ten cents a line (six words in a line). Leroy A. Douglass, Local Reporter. Charles S. Sutton, Collector. Cleveland, Saturday, May 26, 1906. PURCHASE "THE GAZETTE" AT Pushah's News Store, Cuyahoga Bldg, Open Sunday. Thompson's News Depot, No. 581 Central Ave., near cor. Sterling Ave. Open Sunday. F. Valentine's Grocery Store, No. 366 Central Ave., between Perry and Harmon St. N. Hexter's News Store, No. 362 Bond St., between Euclid and Superior Aves. Open Sunday. Mrs. J. W. White, of St. Louis, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Edward Elsner, jr. F. E. Young went on regularly as a clerk at the central postoffice last week Monday. Mrs. J. Walter Wills and sons arrived Saturday from San Francisco and Los Angeles. Miss Julia Brown, who visited Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Akridge in Pittsburg, returned Wednesday. Mr. Edward Badger returned recently from Baltimore where he attended his sick father. Miss Mary Griffin, of Pittsburg, arrived last week to make her home with Mrs. Katie Summerville. The barrel contest and entertainment at St. John's church Monday, June 4, promises to be an exceptional success. Mr. and Mrs. Sanford Hodge and Mr. Albert Hodge, of Oberlin, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Fields Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Banks, of Chicago, arrived Monday and will make their home with her sister, Mrs. E. B. Porter. The entertainment at Woodliff hall last week Wednesday evening given by the ladies of St. Andrew's guild success. Miss Etta Bpa, formerly of this city, was quietly married in Detroit Sunday to Mr. Arthur Taylor. They will reside in Boston. Sunday Starlight's Champs defeated the Stellars. Score 19 to 11. They also defeated the Eberhards the same day. Score 6 to 2. the ex-Cuban Glants, of Youngstown, the expect to shut out Starlight's Champs in a series of games to be played here and in that city at an early date. The old "Gem" restaurant at No. 91 Sheriff street, renovated and new in every necessary particular, is singularly inviting these days. S. H. Moody, proprietor. Rich program of drills, readings and music at Woodliff hall, May 31, 1906, at 7:30 p. m. in connection with the Art, Crafts and Loan exhibit under the auspices of the Minerva club. Miss L. H. Hopkins is serving a splendid 15 cent business lunch from 12 to 2 p. m. and a 25 cent regular dinner from 5 to 8 p. m. daily upstairs or the Z club. 12 Hickox street. Try them and be convinced. The members of the Minerva club have secured articles from Egypt and Liberia, besides handwork from men and women of the race in this country. These things may be seen at Woodliff hall May 31, 1906, afternoon and evening. The True Reformers' annual sermon will be preached at Antioch church June 3 by Rev. W. L. Anderson, state chief, of Cincinnati. Union degree meeting at their hall Tuesday. All members are requested to be present. O. S. Fox, special deputy. Beautiful paintings, artistic embroideries, magnificent antiques and curties at the Art, Crafts and Loan exhibit at Woodliff hall, May 31, 1966, afternoon and evening. Admission 10 cents for afternoon and 25 cents for evening including program. Cooled by Lake Erle's balmy breezes with many new and exclusive attractions, the White City on the Lake, which opens Saturday, promises to be the ideal amusement resort of Cleveland this summer. The greatest, largest number and best attractions. Mr. Wilbur Morgan arrived in the city the first of the week, called by the critical illness of his mother, Mrs. Eliza Morgan, of 5202 Harlem avenue, who was taken to the hospital Wednesday to be operated upon for a tumor. She has been ill for many months. An excellent musical testimonial for the benefit of Mrs. Lucy Johnson, of Laurel street, will be given Tuesday evening at Clayton hall under the auspices of the Kings Daughters and Sons of Silver Cross circle. It should be generously patronized. Let every one go who can and urge others to do likewise. Mrs. Lottie Newell, age 58, died May 17. Funeral from the residence May 19. Rev. Prince officiating. Interment at Woodland cemetery. Mrs. Anna Weaver, age 26, died at Lakeside hospital May 22. Funeral from residence Friday. Rev. I. A. Collins officiating. Interment at Woodland cemetery. Gee & Wills, undertakers. The Lydians, a new order, made a splendid showing at the funeral of Mrs. West, of Hackman street, Saturday. Women acted as pallbearers, substituting for men who failed to appear. The organization looked well. Funeral services at Antoch church, Rev. H. C. Bailey officiating. Boyd & Dean, undertakers. The editor of The Gazette acknowledges the receipt of an invitation to attend the commencement exercises of the Lisbon high school to be held in Smiley Opera House June 1. The race is represented in the class by Miss Grace Irene Rollins, a former local representative of The Gazette. Miss Rollins and her parents will please accept our sincerest congratulations. Last week Thursday, after The Gazette had gone to press, we received the following from Rev. R. W. Bagnall, secretary of the recent local race conference: "Some one carried away the resolutions, promising to send them to me yesterday (Wednesday). I have not yet received them." Therefore our failure to publish any of the resolutions in our last issue and only two in this issue. There were three sets of resolutions. Our people ought to learn that to continually reproduce Williams and Walker, Dudley, or other comedians becomes wearisome. People like something better, more progressive and inspiring when they go to see amateurs. The two best numbers on the program at Gray's armory banquet hall last week Wednesday evening and the next week singing. The orchestra, under the direction of Mrs. Hattie Walker, did fairly well. The evening was hot and the hall well filled. Then too the entertainments should begin earlier. Rev. R. W. Bagnall, rector of St. Andrew's Episcopal church, secretary of the local Ministers' union's race conference held at Antioch church last week, wrote the following last week for The Gazette but it was received too late for publication in our last issue: "The speech of the Hon. Harry C. Smith was the event of the evening (Tuesday.) The gentleman spoke upon the subject 'Race Leaders, Who are They? Who Should They Be.' He very ably and most eloquently pointed out the one weak point of the race—lack of crystallized leadership. He told his audience of the great men of the past—who had all the qualities of leadership—but who could not lead because our people would not permit him. He pictured the danger today and in the future of lack of crystallized leadership and plead for it among his people. The wild enthusiasm with which his speech was punctuated 'show how well he reached his auditor's hearts.' "CHAMPS" VS. GIANTS. A Great Contest Promised—The Elks are Barred—One was Arrested Recently..Personal..Social and Other Notes. New York City.—Hannah Ellias, immured in her magnificent Central Park mansion, purchased and furnished for her by John R. Platt (white) wants to change her color. This fact has cropped out through a suit filed by Dr. E, P. Robinson (white) for $600 for work done on her face. The doctor alleges that he remodeled Hannah's nose and mouth into the very latest "creations" in Caucasian styles, smoothed out neck wrinkles, and plumped up shoulder depressions. He failed in an attempt to bleach her skin. Hannah refuses to pay any of the bill until she is made white. Hannah "wheedled" nearly a million dollars in real estate and money out of old retired business man Platt. George Boston, Mass. Dixon, the greatest leatherweight who ever lived and champion of the world for many years, has been matched to meet a lightweight at Gloucester, Mass. Monday night. The contest is booked for 12 rounds. George is working hard for the bout. THE GAZELLE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, MAY 26. 1906. OHIO NEWS. (Continued From First Page.) the patronage of the church and general public.-Mrs. Mattie Wilson is cosily domiciled on South street. Lockland—Lead Kindy Light lodge G. S. and D. of S. celebrated their second anniversary Sunday at Bethel church and made a very fine display. Over 35 children were with the order. Other local lodges and those in nearby towns were represented and the church was packed as usual. An appropriate sermon was preached by Rev. Orr, a member of the organization. The pastor of the church was greatly enthused and delivered a very pleasing address at the close of the exercises. Sunday will be ladies' day. A fine program will be rendered.—Maple Street church has closed its marvelously successful May fair. The pastor arrived from Louisville, Ky, just in time to witness its closing exercises.—The deaconnes' enterment on Saturday evening for the old folk bummed up the fair.—A. L. Stewart, a former principal of our school, was the guest of Miss L. M. Johnson. Many of his former pupils were delighted to see him. Mr. Stewart is now in the government service.—Baptism and confirmation at Bethel church the first Sunday in June. S. S. outing at Zoological gardens June 21. Dayton.—M. H. Jones, Esq., was elected a delegate to the republican state convention.—Mrs. Ida Wells Barnett, who gave two fine lectures at Enterprise hall last week, has returned to Chicago. Two receptions were tendered her by women's clubs at Mrs. Geo. Taylor's and Mrs. Bell Steward's.—Rev. Bowers, (white state evangelist of the Baptist church, preached at Eaker Street church in the morning and Rev. White, of Payne seminary, in the evening.—Zlon church rally Sunday. Collection #732. Rev. C. T. Walker, of Augusta, Ga., preached in the morning and evening.—Mr. Henry Bartlett, of Buffalo, has been the guest of Miss Lucy Hamlin this week.—Mr. Clarence Wood died at the hospital Saturday. Funeral services at the Baptist church conferred by Henry Hammond (his father) John Wood, of Indianapolis, attended the funeral and was the guest of Mrs. Chambers.—Miss Lizzie Martin, who died in the ambulance on the way to the hospital, was buried from Mrs. Shaw's. Funeral services conducted by Rev. Woodson.—The Gazette desires an agent and correspondent here. Write to the editor at once. Smithfield—Rev. Lewis and family were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Hargrave and family Sunday. E. W. Bigsby was in McIntyre that day. Mrs. Mariah Bigsby, of McIntyre, kept house last week for Mrs. Lida Bigsby. Miss Margie Mints left Sunday for Harrisville.—Mrs. Harris Munts and daughter, Virginia, and sister, Jessie, returned last week from Flushing.—Katie and Maggie Harris and Wm. West were guests of Mr. and Mrs. George Harris Saturday night and visited in Hopedale Sunday.—Mr. Charley Jones, of Pittsburg, was here Saturday and Sunday.—Dr. Harry Hargrave was called here Sunday morning by his sister's illness. Mrs. Helm and sons have opened a restaurant in Martins Ferry.—Rev. and Mrs. Powell dined with Mrs. Beall and family Sunday and were at Mrs. Purl's for supper. A large crowd attended Rev. Peavie's baptising at Trenton Sunday. Alberta daughter, of Mr. and Mrs. Care Hargrave, died Monday after many month's illness. was a friend of his churp's number and lived by all.—Rev. and Wm. Powell preached here Sunday. Miss A. Wilson and Mr. Wm. Smith, of McIntyre, were here Saturday. Mrs. Ed. West and children returned Wednesday from Steinbenville.—C. Linear and J. L. Westing, of Steinbenville, were here last week enroute to Boliver.—Mr. Loman Peterson, of Pittsburg, was here recently visiting Miss Katherine Benford.—Mr. James Harris was in Hopedale a while. Miss Carrie Christian has gone to Pittsburg to visit.—Rev. Powell presided over an interesting joint meeting of stewards, stewardesses and trustees last Tuesday. Bellefontaine.—The woman's concert at Grace Church Friday night was a success.—Mr. Harry Harper, Miss Altie and Hazel Boyd and Miss Pearl Scott were in Urbana last week.—Odd Fellows and members of the Household of Ruth attended the annual sermon at Marysville Sunday.—Mr. Elmer Newsome went to Lima Saturday night.—Miss Blanche Fox and Miss Nina Moore have returned from Springfield.—Mr. Raymond Moss is improving.—The literary society of the Second Baptist church rendered a fine program last Tuesday night. The fair opens May 28 and lasts all week. It is for the benefit of the church.—Mr. Fred Archer is visiting Mr. and Mrs. George Stewart, of Cleveland. Mr. Harry Stewart has returned there.—Mr. Lee Boyd was in Urbana Friday night attending an oratorical contest.—Mrs. Elmer Newsome went to Lima Friday to attend the Baptist Society meeting.—Mr. Allen Secretary, Mr. Allen Kersey responded to the Willow宴 held in Columbus. Rev. Dorsey returned Sunday from a week's visit with his family there.—Woman's rally last Sunday was a grand success. Mrs. Sarah Mays preached at 10:30 a.m. Sunrise prayer meeting was led by Mrs. Dave Newsome. The afternoon and evening was devoted to literary exercises and singing. Collection for the day $29.85.—Mrs. Homer Oda, the guest of M. K. Boyd Sunday.—Mrs. Lester Guy, Lester Allen, John Sullen and Oliver Fletcher spent Sunday here.—Rev. C. D. Young preached an able sermon for the Odd Fellows Sunday at Marysville, Collection $23.42.—Misses Maggie and Bertie Clark will make their home in Hamilton. They will be greatly missed in church circles.—Mrs. Harvey Patterson, Mrs. Samuel Vinson, Mrs. Ellen Burgle and Miss Bertie Clark were the collectors woman's day. General rally at Grace church Sunday. Toledo, O.-Grover Land, the Toledo catcher, is carrying an ugly wound as the result of a street fracas Sunday night at Milwaukee, Land, who is a Kentuckian, says that he was "insulted" by an Afro-American and in the fight that ensued he received a bad gash over the eye from a razor, Carriages and Ambulances Furnished for All Occasions. OFFICES: W. W. Gee, 662 Central Ave. Cuy. Cent. 2243. J. WalterWills, 425 Cent'l av Cuy. 1737 L. Bell Phone North 1185 L. 195 Minutes To Pittsburg 100 Minutes To Youngstown The New Flyer on the ERIE RAILROAD Leaves Cleveland 1:30 p.m. No Excess Fare. Parlor Car Seat 25c to Youngstown, 50c to Pittsburg. A POOL ROOM "Gem" Restaurant, No. 91 Sheriff St. EVERYTHING FIRST CLASS. S. H. MOODY, Proprietor. SPLENDID MEALS SERVED! One Meal, 20c.; Seven Meals, $1. 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BOUND IN EXTRA RED SILK CLOTH. 4 LIMB RAW AS PIECE OF BEEF: Suffered for Three Years with Itching, Humor—Cruiser Newark U. S. N. Man Cured—Speedy Cure by Cuticura. "I suffered with humor for about three years off, finally saw a doctor and he gave me what did me no good, so I tried Cuticura to limb below the knee to the ankle was araw as a piece of beef. All I used was the Cuticura Soap and the Ointment. I had it on my paw, kept it out, and used about six or seven boxes of Cuticura Ointment. I was thoroughly cured of the humor in three weeks, and haven’t been affected with it since. I use no other Soap than Cuticura now. H. J. Myers, U.S. N. U. S. Newark, New York, July 8, 1905." So Homelike. Some one said to Brother Williams: "They have a balloon fad now, and you can go up and cool off in the clouds." "Yes, suh," he replied. "En dar's so much thunder e lightlinn' up dar I reckon lots er 'um will feel lak' dey wuz right at home—specially de mar ried folks!"—Atlanta Constitution. Garfield Tea, the herb laxine, is better than drugs and strong cathartics; it cures, it's gasolene that makes the world go round.—Life. Mrs. Mittie Huffaker. 10 HAD GIVEN UP ALL HOPE CONFINED TO HER BED WITH DYSPEPSIA. Mrs. Mittie Huffaker. R. R. No. 3, Columbia, Tenn., writes: "I was afflicted with dyspepsia for several years and at last was confined to my bed, unable to sit up. I was afflicted with several different doctors without relief. "I had given up all hope of any relief and was almost dead when my husband bought me a bottle of Peruna. At first I could not notice any benefit, but after taking several bottles I was cured sound and well. "It is to Peruna I owe my life today." "I cheerfully recommend it to all sufferers." Revised Formula. "For a number of years requests have come to me from a multitude of grateful friends, urging that Peruna be given a slight laxative quality. I have been experimenting with a laxative addition for quite a length of time, and now feel gratified to announce to the friends of Peruna that I have incorporated such a quality in the medicine which, in my opinion, can only enhance its well-known beneficial character. "S. B. HARTMAN, M. D." If you think you have heart disease you are only one of a countless number that are deceived by indulgence to believing the heart is affected. the tonic-laxative, will get your stomach back into good condition, and then the chances are ten to one that you will have no more symptoms of heart disease. Sold by all dealers at 25c, and 50c. W. L. DOUCLAS '3.00 & '3.00 SHOES FOR MEN W. L. Douglas $4.00 Clit Edge Line cannot be equalled at any price. W. L. DOUCLAS SHOES ALL PRICES THE WORLD'S GREATEST SHOESHADES SOLE AGENTS FOR W. L. DOUCLAS SHOES ESTABLISHED JULY 8, 1876. CAPITAL $2,300,000 W. L. DOUCLAS MARKS & SELLA MORE NEW & $2.00 BIDDER THAN ANY OTHER $11,000 disprove this statement. It affirms that all shoes are made for Brooklyn, Mass., and show you the infinite care with which every pair of shoes is made, your shoes are made to be comfortable, your coat more to make, why they hold their shape, fit better, than any other $3.80 shoes. W. L. Douglas Strong Made Shoes for Brooklyn Grass Shoes, $2.50, $2.75, $7.85, $8.50. CAUTION!--no substitute. None genuine without his name and price stamped on bottom. For great shoes, see our online store for Illustrated Oakling. W. L. DOUGLAS, Brockton, Mass. SYMPTOMATIC OF SPRING. When the Awfully Tired Man Hies Kim to the Water for Tussle with the Fish. Yes, my dear; the man is very tired. He has been working Awfully Hard for the Past Year. Now he will pro- ceed to take a Rest. He will rest, I said. To-morrow he will shoulder a Fishinging, big a can of Worms in one hand and a basket of Lunch in the other and he him- self to the River for a Fishing Stunt. Will that rest him? He thinks it will, and that is Enough. Five days a week for the past year he has sat at a Desk three Hours in the forenoon and three hours in the afternoon, dictating letters and telling Other men what to do. This has been very strenuous, and he is Mot Fatigued. So to-morrow he will tramp 'steen miles through mud and send and brush, stand in the hot sun, drive river water, eat a Cold Lunch full of Ants and Bugs, and in the evening he will drag himself home, wondering all the way he will ever Get There. In the morning he will arise as stiff as a poker and as sore as a gum- boll, but he will be Rested. It was a day off from the strenuous busi- ness life, and that is Sufficient. But it is Funny, isn't it, that a man can get Rest out of that sort of thing? No, he will not get any Fish. No, he will not get any fish. He will get Sunburn, Malaria and Chiggers; but he will get no Fish. A single grain of pollen is found by Prof. F. W. Dunbar, of Hamburg, to contain enough toxin to cause intense irritation in a sensitive hay fever patient, and in the flowering time of the grasses the air may deposit as many as 4,000,000 grains on a square meter in 24 hours. This statement is made in answer to the objection that there cannot be pollen enough to account for hay fever. Pollantine, the anti-toxin, is now prepared on a large scale from the serum of horses treated with pollen toxin, and a drop in eye or nostril gives prompt relief. Of 505 patients, about 60 per cent, were kept free from attacks of hay fever during the entire season, while only 12.5 per cent, used the anti-toxin without any success. A Gentle Slam. Miss Jolly—Eddie Blank is an awful flatterer. You can't believe a word he says. But I always like to meet him. Kathleen—Must be a case of mutual admiration. I've heard him say the very same thing about you.—Detroit Free Press. Needed Study. "De man who really gits de worst of a curbstone argument," said Uncle Eben, "is de one dart might have been doin' somethin' better wif his time."—Washington Star. TWICE-TOLD TESTIMONY. A Woman Who Has Suffered Tells How to Find Relief How to Find Relief. The thousands of women who suffer backache, languor, urinary disorders of women who suffer r, urinary disorders and other kidney fills, will find comfort in Mrs. Jane Farrell, of 606 Ocean Ave., Jersey City, N. J., who says: "I reiterate all I have said before in praise of Don's Kidney Pills. I had and other kidney lills, will find comfort in the words of Mrs. Jane Farrell, of 606 Ocean Ave., Jersey City, N. J., who says: "I reiterate all I have said before in praise of Doan's Kidney Pills. I had been having heavy backache and my general health was affected when I began using them. My feet were swollen, my eyes puffed, and dizzy spells were frequent. Kidney action was irregular and the secretions highly colored. To-day, however, I am a well woman, and I am confident that Doan's Kidney Pills have made me so, and are keeping me well." Sold by all dealers. 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co. Buffalo, N. Y. Variety She—Don't you get tired of this modern life, with its heartburnings, its longings, its cruel disappointments, its unutterable inadequacq? He—Oh, yes. But always just about that time soem new girl comes along. —Life. Knob Too Busy. Somebody has discovered that church hymn books are full of microbes and likely to spread disease. Why is it that nobody has ever found any microbes around the doorknob of a saloon?—Chicago Herald. HE WENT ON CRUTCHES All drugstores sell Dr. Williams' Pills Pills or they will be sent by mail, postpaid, on receipt of price, 50 cents per package, 20 cents per pill. Williams Medical Co, Schenectedet, N. X. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, MAY 26, 1906. THE POINT OF THE PROVERB An old proverb advises the shoe-maker to stick to his last. It means that a man always succeeds best at the business he knows. To the farmer it means, stick to your plow; to the blacksmith, stick to your forge; to the painter, stick to your brush. When we make experiments out of our line they are likely to prove expensive failures. It is amusing, however, to remark how every one of us secretly thinks he could do some other fellow's work better than the other fellow himself. The painter imagines he can make paint better than the paint manufacturer; the farmer thinks he can do a job of painting better, or at least cheaper than the painter, and so on. A farm hand in one of Octave Thanet's stories tells the Walking Delegate of the Painters' Union, "Anybody can slather paint"; and the old lainter paints the paint salesman, "None of your ready made mixtures for me; I reckon I ought to know how to mix paint." The farm hand is wrong and the painter is wrong; "Shoemaker, stick to your last." The "fancy farmer" can farm, of course, but it is an expensive amusement. If it strikes him as pleasant to grow strawberries at fifty cents apiece, or to produce eggs that cost him five dollars a dozen, it is a form of amusement, to be sure, if he can afford it, but it's not farming. If the farmer likes to slosh around with a paint brush and can afford the time and the expense of having a practical painter do the job right pretty soon afterward, it's a harmless form of amusement. If the painter's customers can afford to stand for paint that comes off in half the time it should, they have a perfect right to indulge his harmless vanity about his skill in paint making. But in none of these cases does the shoemaker stick to his last. There is just one class of men in the world that knows how to make paint properly and have the facilities for doing it right; and that is the paint manufacturers—the makers of the standard brands of ready-prepared paints. The painter mixes paints; the paint manufacturer grinds them together. In a good ready-prepared paint every particle of one kind of pigment is forced to join hands with a particle of another kind and every bit of solid matter is forced, as it were, to open its mouth and drink in its share of linseed oil. That is the only way good paint can be made, and if the painter knew how to do it he has nothing at hand to do it with. A paint pot and a paddle are a poor substitute for power-mixers, buhr-mills and roller-mills. The man who owns a building and neglects to paint it as often as it needs paint is only a degree more short-sighted than the one who tries to do his own painting or allows the painter to mix his paint for him. A certain club, the name of which need not be mentioned, has strict regulations against gambling, relates the American Spectator. A quartette of club members decided to break the rule by a game of poker for small stakes, so they adjourned to one of the small rooms and told an old servant to bring a pack of cards. When he brought them one of the members asked: "John, I suppose it would be something utterly new in this club if we were to do such a thing as play for money with these cards?" The negro scratched his head and deliberated, finally answering: "Boss, I'se been wiy dis club a long time, and I'se seen many things." "Yes, but what have you seen?" "I've seen ebry rule of dis club vlated 'ceptin' one." "What is that one?" "Do rule 'gainst gibbin' tips to de servants." Merciless. He—I go to bed at night with gloves on to keep my hands soft. BREAD DYSPEPSIA The Digesting Element Left Out. Bread dyspepsia is common. It affects the bowels because white bread is nearly all meal, and starch is digested in the intestines, not in the stomach proper. Up under the shell of the wheat berry nature has provided a curious deposit which is turned into diastase when it is subjected to the saliva and to the pancreatic juices in the human intestines. This diastase is absolutely necessary to digest starch and turn it into grape-sugar, which is the next form; but that part of the wheat berry makes dark flour, and the modern miller cannot readily sell dark flour, so nature's valuable digester is thrown out and the human system must handle the starch as best it can, without the help that nature intended. Small wonder that appendicitis, peritonitis, constipation and all sorts of trouble exist when we go so contrary to nature's law. The food experts that perfected Grape-Nuts Food, knowing these facts, made use in their experiments of the entire wheat and barley, including all the parts, and subjected them to moisture and long continued warmth, which allows time and the proper conditions for developing the diastase outside of the human body. In this way the starchy part is transformed into grape-sugar in a perfectly natural manner, without the use of chemicals or any outside ingredients. The little sparkling crystals of grape-sugar can be seen on the pieces of Grape-Nuts. This food therefore is naturally pre-digested and its use in place of bread will quickly correct the troubles that have been brought about by the too free use of starch in the food, and that is very common in the human race to-day. The effect of eating Grape-Nuts ten days or two weeks and the discontinuance of ordinary white bread is very marked. The user will gain rapidly in strength and physical and mental health. "There's a reason." Our Pattern Department APRON AND DUSTING CAP. 6592 Pattern No. 5588—This practical apron is of generous size and well adapted to the various household occupations that require a complete covering for the dress. The garment is simply shaped by under-arm seams and is fastened in the back by a butt and buttonhole. The cap is made of the same material as the apron, but will also serve as a pattern for a bathing cap to be made of oil silk. Holland, denim, gingham and linen are all suitable fabrics for the making. The medium size will require four and one-quarter yards of 36-inch material for the apron and three-quarters of a yard for the cap. Sizes for small, medium and large. This pattern will be sent to you on receipt of 10 cents. Address all orders to the Pattern Department of this paper. You may request a copy of pattern衣要求. For convenience, please write your order on the following coupon: No. 5598. SIZE..... NAME..... ADDRESS..... LADIES' COSTUME. 6602 6307 Patterns Nos. 5602 and 5307.—Irish lace is employed with good effect in the development of this charming costume of old blue crepe de chine. A fitted lining supports the waist, which is laid in tucks at the shoulders, thus producing a graceful fullness that is gathered into a belt. A distinctive feature of the mode is an oddly shaped trimming band and collar combined, that is made of the lace. If full length sleeves are desired, the lower part should also be made of the lace. The skirt is one of the most graceful of the season's designs, and may be tucked, shirred or gathered at the top. Crepe de Paris, nun's velling, etamine, grenadine, chiffon, taffeta and cashmere are all available. The medium size will require two and one-eighth yards of 44-inch material for the waist and five and one-quarter yards for the skirt. Ladies' Waist No. 5602: Sizes for 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 and 42 inches bust measure. Ladies' Skirt No. 5307: Sizes for 22, 24, 26, 28 and 30 inches waist measure. The above illustration calls for two separate patterns. The price is ten cents for the waist and ten cents for the skirt. This pattern will be sent to you on receipt of 10 cents. Address all orders to the Pattern Department of this paper. Be sure to give size and material information and convenience, write your order on the following coupon: No. 5602 AND 5307. SIZE..... NAME..... ADDRESS.... Simple Life Yearnings Why, when we go to a hotel or our club, should we pay for immense mirrors and gorgeous marble staircases, and the rest? Our forefathers got much more pleasure out of an inn, and were much more "clubbable"—to use Johnson's word—with their sanded floors and pewter mugs—London Church Times. Illustrated. Mrs. Goode—She is a good nurse isn't she? Mrs. Goe—Splendid. Why, I need never see baby from one week's end to the other—Cassell's Journal. 900 DROPS CASTORIA A Vegetable Preparation for Assimilating the Food and Regulating the Stomacis and Bowels of INFANTS & CHILDREN Promotes Digestion, Cheerfulness and Rest. Contains neither Opium, Morphine nor Mineral. NOT NARCOTIC. Name of Old Dr. SAMUEL PITCHER Pumpkin Seed Alk. 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The agents of the Canadian Government, located at different centres in the States, will be pleased to give any further information as to rates, and how to reach these lands. "Just now there is a keener interest than ever before on the part of the outside world, in regard to the claims of the Canadian West as a field of settlement. At no previous time has there been such a rush of immigration, and the amount of information distributed broadcast is unprecedentedly great. "In the majority of the States of the Union and in Great Britain the opportunities for home-making and achieving of even a modest competence are at the best limited. Moreover, according to the social and industrial conditions prevalent in those communities, the future holds out no promise of better things. It is not strange, then, that energetic young men should turn their eyes to Canada's great wheat belt, where every man can pursue fortune without the blindance of any discouraging handicap. 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The Canadian prairies are teeming with opportunities for the honest and industrious of all classes, but they are specially inviting to the ambitious young man who seeks a field for the energy and ability which he feels inherent within him. The familiar cry of "Back to the soil!" is more than a vain sounding phrase when applied to Western Canada." Needed Study "De man who really gits de worst of a curbstone argument," said Uncle Eben, "is de one dat might have been donn' somethin' better wif his time."—Washington Star. How Luxury Relieves Fatigue. When traveling long distances nothing is more essential to comfort than exquisite decorations, elegant woodwork and pleasing effects in tapestries. All such detail, electric lights, periodicals, papers and the latest books make the trip to California via the Union Pacific a rare pleasure instead of a tiresome journey. For other effects in tapestries, rates or any information address W. G. Neimeyer, G. A., 120 Jackson Boulevard, Chicago, Ill. 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