The Gazette

THE Modes of the Moment To those who have caught a foregam of the fashions of the coming season it is apparent that the keynote is to be simplicity. The very great simplicity which has for some time been the characteristic note of the tailor suit is gradually invading all descriptions of outdoor toilets except those specially designed for visiting, weddings and fashionable gatherings. Afternoon walking dresses are trimmed to a very moderate extent. Fabric trimmings and silk soutache, both self-colored, are more favored than any other sort of garniture. The dress is generally of princess cut, the skirt rather long, or merely touching the ground, and frequently a three-quarter-length semi-loose coat of the same material serves to complete the attire. But in the evening it is totally different. Never have toilets been so handsomely trimmed, or of higher grade of material. To go back no further than last winter, dresses were most voluminously and even overtrimmed. This is no longer the case, but the type of adornment is richer and more artistic. The ready-made dress and costume in silk, volleff chiffon and washable materials is giving strong indications of becoming popular. The use of the novelty striped fabrics is most pronounced, and from Two Handsome Outdoor Costumes. present appearances the success of stripes is assured. Combinations of silk and cloth are noted, and these bid fair to be a strong factor this coming season. Many beautiful costumes are seen in the new striped chiffons. The black and white brown and white, and navy blue and white are in about equal favor. These printed chiffons are also seen in border designs, the Pompadour, as well as the Persian patterns, being used in some of the most attractive models. The most striking novelty in the costumes is the introduction of what is known as the Japanese robe effect. This is a distinct Paris novelty, which has been brought into some promi- An Attractive Coiffure. nence through the high-class dress-making trade. The manufacturer of ready-made costumes finds it a new feature to introduce into his lines. Many of the Paris models now on exhibition for the first time are showing this peculiar shoulder and sleeve effect. An interesting model from Drecoll, brought into this country within the month, is in this new effect. This model is a suit, with short jacket and very full, circular-cut skirt. The jacket is a very short Eton effect, with the body of the jacket and sleeve cut in one, which gives the very long and drooping shoulder. The sleeves are very short and fall in straight, full caps over an under-sleeve of taffeta. The skirt accompanying this is a very full circular-gored effect, quite in contrast with the domestic plaited styles. It is also very long, as are most of the French models, regardless of the time and occasion for which they are to be worn. Although the season for light types of hats is still somewhat ahead, very pretty toques are composed of mousseline and crepe, especially of those delicate shades of suede and wood now so fashionable. They are of Empire or turban shape and rather large and quite low. Their sole trimming is a huge rose, either pink or yellow, these being, as in the case of gray, the two best contrasting colors. There is sometimes a self-colored ostrich plume as well, sweeping around one side of the toque and coiling or reposing on the opposite shoulder. Of such extreme length are these feathers in some cases that after falling over the side of the head they partially encircle and form a protection to the throat. No limitations of fashion can ever restrict the manner of my lady's coifure. No two women seem impressed by the desire to dress their hair in the same form. Personal inclinations determine the style largely and decorations for the hair include every kind of fruit and flower, spangles, jewels, even to the diamond, and the always delightfully simple ribbon bow. No matter how fine a head of hair nature may have accorded, false curls are eagerly desired, and placed in positions more or less elegant on the crown of the head or the nape of the neck. When the curls are good they ```markdown ``` are very good, but, like the little child of history, when they are bad they are horrid, and naturally the enormous demand for them has resulted in a cheap and inferior quality of curl being placed on the market with more prodigality than discretion. When you do your hair in the strictly Empire fashion, a bunch of ringlets at the top, tied with ribbon, is an indispensable adjunct, but I pray you be sure the ringlets match your own hair, and that they be of fine quality, and above all things, that they do not reveal the method of their adjustment with too great frankness. Let us "spect they growed." Parting the hair in the center is specially attractive to the mere masculine, but should not be attempted unless nature has been generous, for a thin parting is not a sweet sorrow, but a sad sight. Far far the false fringe when well applied. I am always tempted to wish women would not color their hair, since I find, in this instance, at least, that nature knows best, and the wrinkles of time, or even the lines of middle age are less clearly marked under the influence of dull locks than bright ones, but this I know to be a gospel which there is no use in preaching, and the fancy for red or gold hair obtains perennially in the breast of lovely, if unreasonable, woman. Compressed Flour. In England much interest has been shown of late by the army and navy authorities in a new method of preserving flour by means of compression. With hydraulic pressure apparatus the flour is squeezed into the form of bricks, and experiments are reported to have shown that the pressure destroys all forms of larval life, thus preserving the flour from the ravages of insects, while it is equally secure from mold. Three hundred pounds of compressed flour occupy the same space as 100 pounds of flour in the ordinary state. Familiar. In a city kindergarten one morning the children were asked to choose the next song. One little boy said: "Please sing 'Jimmy McNichol.'" "You don't understand," said the kindergartener, "you are to choose a song." He repeated "Jimmy McNichol," and with the aid of the children it was discovered he meant "Jolly St. Nicholas." In Union There is Strength. Familiar. CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1907. Washington,D.C.—Tourgee, Lincoln, Grant, Summer, Levi P. Morton and all of that school of republican statesmen, not to go beyond their time to stir up Whittier, Holmes, Garrison, Fremont and the soul of John Brown and others, would stand speechless and amazed could they look on the men who to-day profess to stand for the grand principles and policies which formed the foundations upon which the great republican party was founded in 1856 as a national organization and which swept Abraham Lincoln and the president of the United States in 1860. Alas! where is that party? Where the principles and policies it believes in and stood for? It freed the slave and transformed and reconstructed the Union upon a basis of freedom and equal citizenship. Its intent was to leave as a legacy to every man, civil and political liberty and the right of the ballot, conditional only upon citizenship and allegiance to the flag, the constitution and the Union. While the achievements of the party have been great and unparalleled in political and civil history, yet its bed rock principles have been savaged by the great majority of that party to-day. It has suppressed savage and brutal outrages in Cuba, China and choked Hawaii and the Philippines into submission and shook the sword at other nations, but it has been powerless to stop molluscs, shameful and brutal outrage at home and to preserve the civil and political rights of our own citizens in our own country. It is a sad picture. It marks the notorious distant downfall of the Republican party, the truth into a life and deserted the greatest code of principles and policies ever formed in any age of the world by any party or class of men. Theoe may yet change and sing a sweeter song and profess just principles and policies, then will fall the great republican party by its own hypocrisy, like Luciifer, the son of the morning, never to rise again. Amid this gloom and darkness and trembling hope, in the distance can be heard the mighty shouts and applause of the American people rallying around the standard of that greatest of republican statesmen and leaders, Senator Joseph Benson Foraker, of the state of Ohio. He is a true republican in whose mind and soul still live the principles loved and admired by the immortal Lincoln and the grand men who upheld the banner of republicanism just after the civil conflict which shook the manacles of slavery from four and a half million slaves and freedmen to civil rights and political rights. He contends to-day for every right guaranteed every citizen who stands for the flag, the constitution and the perpetuity of our glorious American republic. Mr. Foraker is the most illustrious character of his party in the United States senate and in his party to day. His fame is as extensive as our country. He has simply stepped to the front rank and stands foremost. The eyes of the nation and the civilized world are on him. He is a born leader. Petty jealousy, envy and treachery may do their dastardly work and show their hands, but despite all of their efforts to block his way, he must come to the front as the ideal leader of a great political party. Though the combined money powers should combine against his coming greater triumphs, the liberty loving masses of the republican party should name him for still higher honors and sweep him into the presidency of the United States in 1908. No American is more deserving nor better qualified for this high and important trust. He possesses every essential qualification for chief executive of this nation. His record as governor or of Ohio, his record in the United States senate, his great patriotic address to the Society of the Army of the Cumberland militia, his Tenn, and his contention for justice to the army or navy as shown by his fearless stand in the Brownsville soldier-citizen affair, before the president, the senate and the country raise him to the highest pinnacle of fame and entitle him to universal confidence. This friend of justice, the citizen and the soldier. Eleven million colored American citizens should stand united for and demand his nomination for president in 1908. JAMES W. POE. My Dear Mr. Smith: When I looked over your paper this Friday evening my heart was filled with gratitude, first to Almighty God for the great effort that was made by our U. S. senator in our behalf upon the floor of the senate. I consider him as the mouthpiece of truth. There is none like him in all the United States—first in wisdom and in speech. My prayer is that God will add more and more to his wisdom. I have been reading the speeches of other senators, but our Porakeris the greatest of all. He is our second William Lloyd Garrison. I also read his speech at Chattanooga. Teenus in detail what brought on our hate, and in detail what brought on our soul happy, for there and he founded the wisdom of the south. He struck them a mighty blow. Therefore I think every black man in America cushu to lift their voices to God in GAZETTE. thanksgiving. I have watched his career since he was first made governor of Ohio and have said within myself that he was the greatest man in this nation. He can at any time turn down Senator Tillman. I only hope that he will be spared to do a more wonderful work. For my part, I hold his name in great respect. Every loyal Afro-American in this state should send congratulations to him, because he is quick to discern and his voice will honor the man he hid deen secret of our environment. I don't suppose that Senator Tillman would like to have "a Negro broiled for his breakfast." If he did, the taste would be so obnoxious he would there and then cease from trying to destroy him. He never makes a speech unless the Negro is mixed up in it. He is a southerner of the "first water." There are many bright Negroes in South Carolina who are gentlemen were the cause. How many hate our own* Yours for the race. WILLIAM C. JONES Dayton, O. AS TO RACE TRAITORS! Despicable Individuals Who Are Most Harmful—Worse Than Tillman. ... "Kill the niggers, kill the niggers." "The Cleveland News, fourth edition, column 10, page 3." "All coons look alike to me." "The Cleveland Leader, page 3, column 5, January 30, 07. How do you like it?" (Special Dispatch to the Bosto Hervald.) Washington, D. C., Feb. 1, 1907.--There is likely to be a lively time as a result of the president's alleged decision to appoint a Negro to office in Ohio. It is reported that when Senator Foraker was asked what he was going to do about it he replied: "AS SENATOR MYSELF NOR SENATOR, DICK WAS CONSULTED YOU WILL HAVE TO ASK THE THIRD SENATOR FOR OHIO" "WHO IS THAT?" HE WAS ASKED "BOOKER T. WASHINGTON." THE SENATOR IS SAID TO HAVE REPLIED And still those are members of the race who swallow, such outrageous mistreatment, argue against them, pies' protesting against it, endeavor to justify it and make excuses for advertising the News, and the Leader and recommending them to our people of this community! Such Negroes ought to be drummed out of the city. They are "wolves in sheep's clothing," traitors to the race and far more harmful than brutal enemies like Tillman and Vardaman, who fight "in the open," because they (the Negroes) depend upon their race connection or color or both, to screen them in their dirty, contemptible work. They are the bane of the race, North and South, and do more to hinder racial progress than our bitterest enemies among other Anichie Baptist church members, mass meeting in President Roosevelt's unfortunate discharge of companies B, C and D, Twenty-five infantry, and to assist Senator Foraker in his grand effort to rehabilitate our soldiers; also to consider the contemptible insults currently heaped upon Afro-Americans of this community by the Cleveland Leader and the Cleveland News, organs of the Cleveland Electric Street Co. "a was a grand success in every way as late in the know, and for the "knockers" and disgruntled beings to "bust you" with personal explanation, abuse and "baby act" crying to justify an indefensible position in that the church for them for all they were members of any other class of people than our own. The statement that "Rev. R. W. Bagnall and George Johnson admit that they got in wrong" in participating in the mass meeting, both gentlemen brand as an UNMITIGATED LIE, worthy of its source—the same that alleged that the church's trustees wanted to turn out the lights the night of the meeting, etc. Simply malicious and willful lies, that's all. Mr. Johnson did not refer to race traitors in half severe enough terms at the meeting, but O, how he has made the sleeps squall "Twas ever thus, however. Then, too, there has been near so much to the church and the Leader since the Antioch and the ingining. Have you noticed this? Great and lasting good was accomplished as a result of that meeting. So say Revs. Bundy, Gilmore, Bagnall, Doan, Bailey, Sissle, Collins, Jackson, Maxwell, Dandridge and all other loyal, right thinking and honorable Afro-Americans. Money for Lawson Heirs Columbus, O.-Jerry Lawson, a fourth term Afro-American from Cuyahoga county, recently died in the state prison. No relatives called for the body and it was surrendered to a medical college. But he had $18 due him from the prison and Warden Gould has written to the attorney general asking what to do with it. Mr. Ellis advised him to hold it a reasonable time, and if no one proved title to it, it would revert to the state. A White Brute Newark, O.-Jas. Cleming (white) 35, was arrested last week Wednesday night at Dry Creek, four miles north, and lodged in jail here to avoid lynching at the hands of neighbors. Cleming is charged with assaulting his 7-year-old daughter, and then knocking down his protesting wife with a club. Crestline, O.-Mr. John Martin and Miss Julia Pieris, of Burlington, Ia. were married at Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Martin's on the 2d. Foraker Defends Soldiers As Administration Should. "Senator Foraker, in taking the dismissed Negro troops as his clients, so to speak, is doing only what the administration should have done from the first. It has always been the general rule hitherto. Whenever there has been any trouble in any regiment, the government, as in the recent Ohio case, has first of all done everything possible to bring out every fact tending to exculpate the accused men. Towards the colored soldiers at Brownsville, however, the official attitude was accusatory. More pains were taken to find evidence against the men than to defend them from possibly false charges. In the first hearing before the senate committee on military affairs yesterday, significant facts were adduced which the war department and the president appear wholly to have overlooked. It was shown that it would not have been possible as alleged, for the soldiers to have cleaned their guns hastily in the dark, so that they having been fired. Highly important rigid inspection, show no traces of having been fired. Highly important men were made that the records of ammunition issued, fired in practice, and after the trouble, revealed that not a cartridge was shot off by any man of at least two of the companies on the fatal night. We do not say that these facts are conclusive, but why did Secretary Taft and President Roosevelt look for them? Why should it have been left to a senator to be more zealous and painstaking than the government in defending its own?"—New York Evening Post Editorial. WHO DID IT? The Shooting in the Brownsville Riot. MINGO SANDERS! The Brave Old Sergeant of Co.'s B, C. and D, Twenty-fifth Infantry, Tells the Truth. --- Washington, D. C.—Five witnesses were examined last week Thursday in the Brownsville inquiry before the senate committee on military affairs. All were members of Company D of the discharged battalion except the last on the stand, former Sergeant Luther T. Thornton, of Company B. He testified that when aroused by the firing on the night of August 13 he believed that the barracks were being fired upon by people of the town. He said the reports sounded like revolvers and shotguns. He said he had not heard that bullets from army ammunition landed in the town until after the arrival of Mr. Brown som to make an inspection for the war department. The next witness called for by Senator Foraker was Winter Washington, and Senator Overman asked if he had said Booker Washington. "No," said Mr. Foraker, "Booker Washington is too busy attending to his senatorial duties to come here." He referred to the alleged interest of Booker Washington in the question of having an Afro-American appointed to a federal position in Ohio, patronage which has always been regarded as belonging to the senators from Ohio. Winter Washington's testimony was not unlike that of his former comrades. His idea of the Brownsville aviary, howowing, and "Texan cowboys" had done the shooting in order to make trouble for the soldiers. Former Sergt Jerry Reeves, of Company D, said that the inspection of guns the morning after the Brownsville riot was thorough and all Company D guns were found clean and in perfect condition, proving he Foraker Defends As Admin. Sho "Senator Foraker, in taking the clients, so to speak, is doing only have done from the first. It has erto. Whenever there has been a government, as in the recent Ohio thing possible to bring out every caused men. Towards the colored the official attitude was accusatory evidence against the men than to charges. In the first hearing before tary affairs yesterday, significant department and the president appea was shown that it would not have soldiers to have cleaned their guns would the next morning, on rigid being fired. Highly important the records of ammunition issued after the trouble, revealed that no man of at least two of the company say that these facts are conclusive and President Roosevelt look for left to a senator to be more zealous in defending its own?"—Nev declared, that this company had nothing to do with the affray. Former Corporal Albert H. Roland and Reeves both said they had heard our soldiers complain because they were obliged to enter saloons by the back doors and that the men had agreed "it was better to boycott the saloons than break them up." Sharp cross examination followed, but both men insisted they had not heard anyone suggest "breaking up" the saloons. Sergeant Mingo Sanders Testifies. Sergeant Mingo Sanders Testifies. "The shooting up" of Brownville, Tex., was in the form of an attack upon the garrison at Fort Brown, according to the testimony given Monday by Mingo Sanders, former first sergeant of Company B of the Twenty-fifth infantry. His story created something of a stir in the committee. He said that while running from his quarters to Company B barracks, after being awakened by the firing on the night of August 13, the shooting was going on, and it came from the town, and was toward the hospital on the military reservation. He said bullets were whizzing over his head. This is the first direct testimony given by any of the discharged soldiers that the firing came from the town. Sanders said he had served in the army over 25 years. He said he had been under fire a number of times and was familiar with the reports of the various makes of arms. On that night it was "mixed fire," he said. I heard someone yell "Fall In." Sanders said, "then someone shouted to get the guns, and another person answered that they could not get the guns, as the rackes were locked and the man with the keys could not be brought back. Greer—knew voice—said break "the rackes open." There has been a great test of testimony given concerning the broken rackes of C company, but no person had testified positively before as to the manner in which they were broken. The Testimony of Sanders indicated that the rackes were in good condition before the shooting and were broken open by the command of one of the company officers. He declared that he had not withheld any information and that there was no conspiracy of silence. Sanders was cross- --- examined by Senator Warner. He repeated that many of the shots fired on the night of August 13 came from the town, and said that he had reported this fact to Maj. Penrose, although it did not appear in his evidence taken by Capt. Lyons. Indeed, he said, he had not stated this to anyone else until this time. He had not been asked about it, and did not volunteer information. "I am looking after Sanders first," said he. OHIO NEWS Sent from Many Bucke Cities and Towns by REV. JAMESPOINDEXTER The Silver-Haired Veteran Passes Away After Many Years' Effort for the Race—Offices Held. Columbus, O.—After a nine days battle with the grip and pneumonia, Rev. James Poindexter, possibly the oldest and best known minister of the race in this section of the country, died last week Thursday evening. The funeral Sunday afternoon was bargely attended by many men of both classes in and out of the state being present. Rev. Poindexter came to Columbus from Richmond, Va., when a boy of 19 and was 87 years at the time of his death. For many years, ages ago, he conducted a barber shop and for 55 years was REV. JAMES POINDEXTER. pastor of the Second Baptist church of this city. He was a member of the school board for nine years, a city councilman for four years, a trustee ends Soldiers Administration should. the dismissed Negro troops as his what the administration should always been the general rule hither any trouble in any regiment, the case, has first of all done every-fact tending to exculpate the ac- soldiers at Brownsville, however, more. More pains were taken to find defend them from possibly false are the senate committee on mil- facts were adduced which the war war wholly to have overlooked. It been possible as alleged, for the hastily in the dark, that they inspection, show no traces of hav- also, was the statement made that, fired in practice, and turned in a cartridge was shot off by any sites on the fatal night. We do not be, but why did not Secretary Taft them? Why should it have been and painstaking than the govern- new York Evening Post Editorial. of the state school for the blind and at the time of his death a member of the state board of forestry and a trustee of Wilberforce university. His nearest blood relatives are two granddaughters, Miss Della Poindexter, a teacher in the state school for the blind and at the time of his death Poindexter Scott wife of Rev. Oscar J. Scott, pastor of Metropolitan A. M. E. church, Washington, D. C. PRAISE SENATOR FORAKER The principles of Thomas Jefferson will save this republic.-W. J. Bryan. To the Editor: "Senator Foraker is entitled to the commendation of all lovers of justice for his able championship of the abused colored soldiers who were convicted and sentenced without proof of guilt. It should be remembered that a noted personage once said: 'Inasmuch as ye did it unto the least of these, ye did it unto me.'" The above correct statement is from "Unity," of Chicago, over the signature of "Quaker." The editor of "Unity" is the distinguished scholar, lecturer and reformer, Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones, worthy successor of that great prophet, Wendell Phillips, ignoring the legislative and judicial branches and centralizing them in the executive, thus ignoring the fundamental law of the nation, is under mining the foundations of this republic. Great Lincoln declared: "All honor to Jefferson, who announced an abstract application to all men and all times, so it shall be a rebuke to reappearing tyranny and oppression. The history of humanity shows that tyranny comes from executive power, and from parametric dictum "whatever the executive stands for dominates," indicates that the hoard imperialism of the stone age erupts approaching. Prominent among those who have the wisdom and courage to assert their rights as members of the legislative branch of the government is Senator Foraker. —Lincoln Republican President Alfred Walter, of the Sea-board Air Line, is dead at his home in New York City. OHIO NEWS. Sent from Many Buckeye Cities and Towns by OUROW WRITERS Personal, Social, Lodge, Church, Literary and Other Notes of Interest. Newark.—Mr. Oliver Norman is comp valeing.—Mr. C. Craig is ill.—Mr. Archie Riggs has gone to Harrisburg, Pa.—Miss Eugenie Jones was called to Millersburg by her mother's illness.—The K. of P. lodge concert Feb. 14. Cincinnati.—Prof. W. P. Dabney was called to Richmond, Va., recently by the death of his mother. Mrs. Dabney was very prominent and quite wealthy. Her son will inherit large real estate holdings. He has returned via Washington, D.C. Beliefinecine.—Mrs. Callaway gave an excellent concert Wednesday night. A large crowd attended.—Mrs. Daniel Moss is very ill.—Missionary meeting at the Second Baptist church Sunday.—Miss Fliten Denmark and Miss Stella Stewart, of Sidney, were here Sunday.—Rev. Jackson and Rev. Burwere here last week. Maryville.—The Jolly Six gave an entertainment Thursday evening.—Mr. and Mrs. Gustus Depp's son and Mr. and Mrs. Louis Patterson's little daughter are ill.—Mr. Frank Depp and sister will spend the rest of the winter with their parents on account of their brother's illness.—Mr. John Lawson, of Columbus, is here visiting. 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, obtinary notices, speeches, resolution notices, quiries for relatives must be paid for at the rate of ten cents a line, words to a line. Our rates for display advertisements will be sent on application. Send post note and not stamps during the warm weather. McIntyre.-Mrs. Ima Adkins is consulted.—Miss Ethel Freeman, of Steubenville, was home.-Rev. and Mrs. D. Lewis were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Calvin West last week. Revival services are progressing. Rev. and Lewis entertained Mrs. Keziah Smith, Mrs. Margaret Smith and Mrs. Wm. Smith Saturday. Rev. Lewis spent Saturday night with Mr. and Mrs. Ezekiel Smith.-E. J. Smith is doing a great work in the coal bank-Fred and Frank Toney spent Saturday and Sunday in Scio, and Coy Becks spent Sunday in Mt. Pleasant. Dayton.—Mrs. Ed Morgan died Sunday and was buried Wednesday.—Messrs. Merrilwethers and Hamilton were in Hamilton Sunday.—Boone commandery banquet: Thursday was quite a success.—Mr. Davis, of Kirkham street, has the grip.—Dr. Hampton is convalescing.—The Ladies' M. S. celebrated its thirteenth anniversary last Sunday. The program was excellent.—The Phi Gamma Theta met at Mrs. Willis' Friday and there was a stirring debate by four young ladies: Resolved, that the Afro-American needs industrial training as well as educational training.—Read ```markdown ``` DISCHARGED SOLDIERS. Senator Foraker is desirous that all the "discharged without honor" soldiers who want a hearing in their own defence at the senate investigation have the opportunity. As some of these men may not know of this opportunity or may not understand that the government will pay their expenses to and from Washington and while there, to testify and that they will meet friends there who will inform them thoroughly as to their duties, it will help the cause very much; therefore, every friend of the soldiers will please send their addresses to Senator J. B. Foraker, Washington, D. C. Mr. Wm. Jones' letter on Senator Foraker on Page 1. Mt. Vernon—Mrs. Hallstock, of Columbus, was here last week—Mrs. Clara Ralls has returned from Dayton—Mrs. Jas. Ralls is here. The debate Friday evening was enjoyed by all—Miss Daisy Morrison, of New Castle, Ind. is here; Mrs. S. J. Simmons was called to Cleveland again—Mr. Willis Jackson was painfully injured last week—Miss Auna and Mr. Joe Johnson was guests of Mr. Simmons. On Tuesday—Mr. Gordon Bernolds was in Newark Wednesday.—A. H. Simmons is ill—Mr. Reddicks is visiting relatives in Virginia and Tennessee—Mrs. Hollandsworth and Mrs. Newman are visiting in Circleville.—Rev. Meadows is still holding meetings. Steubenville—Covenant meeting at the Baptist church Sunday. Preaching by Rev. J. W. Crosby, of Wheeler.—The Coleridge Taylor Choral society gave a social Friday night at Director McColough's.—Revival services at Quinn chapel—James P. 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Have you written Senator Foraker, at Washington, D. C., and told him how thoroughly you appreciate his noble and most effective efforts in behalf of our discharged soldiers? If not, do so at once. Show appreciation in this way. Last and this month the editor of The Gazette sent one or more copies of Senator Foraker's great speeches in December, 1906, and January, 1907, on the Brownsville, Texas, riot to every one of his confesses of the race press and many of The Gazette's subscribers. The activity of the National Afro-American Council and the Niagara Movement in behalf of the discharged soldiers of the Twenty-fifth infantry is encouraging. Now let our National Federation of Women's Clubs and the National Business Men's League "get busy" along the same line. We'll wager a "cookie" that the Feb. 7 New York Age's "Cincinnati" letter under the date, Feb. 6, was written in Columbus, O., and mailed from there by one Ralph W. Tyler He is "up to" his old tricks again. The Age should not permit its columns to be used in that way and too for such a contemptible attack on Senators Foraker and Dick, among the few good friends of the race in congress. We urge our readers to respond liberally and promptly to the call of Dr. Booker T. Washington elsewhere in this paper. It should be felt a duty as well as a matter of race pride that the Douglass home at Anacostia, D.C., be made the memorial intended and that it should be. There is much that can be said in favor of such a result and nothing against it. Therefore help raise the small amount asked for by Mr. Washington and the Douglass association's officers by contributing freely whatever you feel able to. Jefferson City, Mo., dispatches to daily newspapers early last week announced that the assembly of that state would surely enact a "Jim Crow" steam railroad law. This is doubtless the result of Missouri's only republican senator's support of the president in the Brownsville, Tex., riot controversy in the United States senate. Mr. Warner, a veteran of the war of the rebellion, is hardly to be congratulated. Wonder how his Afro-American constituents feel about it? The St. Louis Advance and other Missouri race publications will please answer. Some very bad reports have occasionally reached The Gazette during the past year relative to one Geo R. Nevels and wife, who claim to be "president and secretary of the Afro-American Humane Labor league and trustees of the Holloway home, with offices at 277 Baxter street, Dayton; 534 5th street, Cincinnati, and 2471 E. 12th street, Cleveland, O." Who knows anything about them? Will some of our readers in any of the three cities named, especially Dayton and Cincinnati, make it their business to look them up there (as we are here) and writing us? Act promptly, please. We hear that Mr. and Mrs. Nevels have been soliciting money throughout Ohio for many months past. The house, as was expected, has passed the service pension bill, and the signature of the president will make it a law. A soldier who was 16 when the civil war began, or 20 at its close in 1865, is now 62, the age at which a pension of $12 a month is allowed, to be increased to $15 a month at 70 and $20 a month at 75. Pensions heretofore allowed at a lower rate will be increased to these figures, but if larger will not be reduced. The new system practically applies now to all surviving Union soldiers in the civil war, and age alone gives a claim to the pension. One of the wise provisions of the new act is that the soldier himself can directly obtain the allowance due without the assistance of agents. Germany and Hayti Soar Port Au Prince Hayti—The relations between the government of Hayti and Germany are strained owing to the refusal of the German bankers, Hermann & Co., by direction of the court at Port au Prince, to return to the Haytian government large sums of money. Among the alleged transactions of Hermann & Co. with the Haytian government was one which is said to have proved favorable to the government. This was concluded by the Haytian minister of finance, the German legation and Hermann & Co. The German minister demanded that this transaction, as well as others, be annulled, but the Haytian government, in terms that the German minister demanded offensive, refused to acquiesce. The German minister at the same time demanded the withdrawal of the phrase objected to. This also was refused. Fears are entertained here of grave complications ensuing. CONTRIBUTE FREELY! To This Fund for the Douglass Home —Dr. Booker T. Washington Asks it. Tuskegee Institute, Ala. —It is now nearly 12 years since Frederick Douglass, to whom the Negro people owe more than to any other man of our race, for the part he took in securing our freedom, died in Washington. His home at Anacostia, in the suburbs of Washington, still remains, however, and an effort is now being made to preserve and traditions and make it a permanent memorial to Douglass and the Negro people. An association, known as the Frederick Douglass Memorial and Historical association, has been formed to effect this purpose. The people of our race have a rare opportunity to honor the memory of Frederick Douglass and to show their reverence and love for the man, who during the trying times before and after the war, embodied in his own life, more than any other man of our race, the aspirations and the cause of the Negro people. I have been asked by the officers of the Memorial association to assist in securing the comparatively small sum of money amounting to some $5,400 and interest necessary to clear off the mortgage on the property of Frederick Douglass and the Negro people of the United States. We should make Cedar Hill to the Negro people what Mount Vernon is to the white race. All of this can be accomplished if every member of the race would contribute, at once, a small sum of money and send it to me by post office order, check, or otherwise, as soon as this communication is read. I am making this appeal by the authority of the officers of the Frederick Douglass Memorial and Historical association, and of the Honorable and of Mr. Douglass. Immediate family. Now is the time, when Mr. Douglass birthday is being celebrated and talked of in all parts of the country, for the race to show its love for Douglass not only in words, but in deeds. I shall hope to receive, with in the next few days this money, which can be sent in sums of 25 cents up. Each contributor will receive a receipt for whatever he sends. After the receipt has been received off the orders, an sure steps will be taken to put the place in condition to serve the purposes mentioned. The following letter, written to me by the officers of the Frederick Douglass Memorial and Historical association, will make the situation clear: Washington, D. C., Dec. 17, 1906. Washington, D. C., Dec. 17, 1906. Dear Mr. Washington: There is an encumbrance of $5,400, bearing 6 per cent. interest, payable semi-annually against the Douglass property. This property consists of about 14 acres in the heart of Anacostia, on a hill giving a beautiful view of the Potomac river and city for several miles. It is the opinion of experts that when the government completes the new bridge and the reclamation of the flats, this property will be worth at least $5,000 an acre. Its actual worth is now $1,500 an acre. It is exempt from taxes by the act of congress incorporating the Frederick Douglass Memorial and Historical association. The association needs at least the $5,400 to lift the mortgage. In the course of time about nine acres of the property could be cut up into building lots and sold, and with the proceeds of such sale Cedar Hill could be endowed with ample funds to meet the wants of the Douglass Memorial association in perpetuity. Archibald H. Grimke, President Whitfield McKinley, Secretary Francis J. Grimke, Treasurer. The following pledges have already been received: Booker T. Washington, $150; J. Douglass et almett, $100; James Peyton, jr. Rosamond Cole John, $20; Peyton, jr. Rosamond Cole John, Mrs. Booker T. Washington and Hon, John C. Dacey, $25 each; Wilber force graduates, $25; Washington Negro Business Men's league, $20; J. A. Lankford, Julius R. Cox and Attfield McKinley, $10 each; Archibald M. Grimke and 28 others, $5 each, making a total of $620. I hope that much additional money will be sent at once. All money will be acknowledged with proper receipt. The heads of churches, Sunday schools, literary societies, and other organizations are urged to raise and forward collections for the aobive purpose. I shall be glad to furnish such additional information as may be desired. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON, Tuskegee Institute, Ala Olean, N. Y. Items Olean, N. Y., items. Rev. Joseph Styles preached ably Sunday night. Three arose for prayers and one was added to the church. Horn quarterly was preached ably night. Rev. Norris will assist Rev. Coffey this week in his revival.—Meno Marshall and Archie Clemons were here Sunday.—Mr. Farr spent Sunday in Bradford with his wife, who is Rev. Norris' guest. He will be here another week.—Mr. Homer Peterson has returned home.—Mr. Lee Clemons has returned from Horn-ill.—Mrs. Feyt will entertain the Sewing circle.—Mrs. Frank Jackson sprained her ankle.—Mrs. Geo. Brooks sprained her ankle.—Mr. Greenfield and Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Tompkins are ill.—Mr. John Collins, of Bradford, was here Sunday.—Mrs. Sarah Hill will be next hostess of the L'Ouverture club.—Grand rally March 3rd for trustee's benefit. A Beautiful Song All who have race pride will order at once the great march song. "You Will Miss the Colored Soldiers," with which we give a famous battle picture of them to hang in the home. Price only 25 cents. Dabney Publishing Co. (F) 420 McAllister street, Cincinnati, I. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1907. OHIO NEWS. (Continued From First Page.) Cooke, Mrs. Steward, Birdie Guyder, Blanche Ford, Mrs. Pleasant Brown and Mr. Thomas Robinson are quite ill—Mrs. Gertrude Jennings, of Pittsburg, here visiting relatives, is the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Walker, was buried Monday at 4 p. m.—Simpson chapel gave a fine muscale last Thursday night. It was well attended. Mansfield—Mr. Frank Washington and Miss Maud Armstrong, of Sandusky, spent Saturday and Sunday with Miss Daisy Barker—Rev. A. E. Simmons' protracted meetings have closed—G. W. Barker has returned to Tiffin—Mrs. Joe Hicks was in Cleveland last week having his eye treated—Miss Daisy Barker returned from Hamilton, Ont., recently—All were sorry to bear of Miss Alice Howard's death—Miss Cora M. Pointer has returned from Forest and near Arlington, after a very pleasant visit with Miss Nora Bolden and Mrs. Emily R. Newman—Mr. and Mrs. S. Wiggins have moved to Chicago—Mrs. Robt. Spencer is ill—The W. C. T. U. met Thursday evening at the A. M. E. church. St. Claireville—Rev. Montgomery preached an excellent sermon Sunday evening. Mrs. W. J. Cochran led prayer meeting—Ethiel Brown and Edward Gantt were married Tuesday—Bessie Capito, of Bellaire, spent Friday here with her sister—Mrs. Catherine Fields and Mrs. Jane Golges spent Friday in Bridgeport—Mrs. Lina and Clara Cochran were in Wheeling Saturday—Margaret Walker, of Washington, Pa., is visiting her grandfather—Lucie Jackson was in Wheeling Saturday—Eva Swanagan is convalescent—Mr. Robinson, of Maynard, was here Saturday—Mrs. Jessie Wilson spent Wednesday with her mother and aunts; Mrs. S. L. Jackson and daughter spent Thursday in Martins Ferry. Sandusky.—Mrs. Alfred Williams has returned from a several weeks' visit with relatives in Elyria and New London.—Mr. Frank Washington and Miss Maud Armstrong spent Sunday in Mansfield.—Mr. William Alexander clipped off the end of his finger last week while operating machinery.—The condition of Mrs. Lewis Gibson remains unchanged.—Lincoln's birthday day was fittingly celebrated Tuesday evening by the A. M. E. Literary society. Speeches and patriotic songs were the main features of the program. The church was beautifully decorated with pictures, flags and mottos.—Rev. Charles Bundy, P. E. will hold quarterly meeting Wednesday day evening. All are cordially invited to attend. Urbana.—Mr. F. Griggsy, of Dayton, who visited here, with Miss F. J. Jennings called on Mr. and Mrs. D. R. Jones.—Rev. W. N. Allen has a very bad hand.—Mr. John Bush is confined with a rising in his head.—Mr. John Cobbs is improving.—Lucy Evans and — Buncan are having success with their ten cent suppers at the parsonage.—Mrs. Maria Boyd is sick.—Rev. J. L. Burr was here preparing to move to Columbus.—D. C Lowery, grocer, is doing a good business.—Rev. Dr. J. M. Gilmere. P. E. will be at St. Paul's church Sunday Bishop Lee will lecture Wednesday evening—President Curry has been assisting in revival work at Zanesville.—Find The Gazette every Saturday at Dudley's barber shop, or look for our newsboy, Master Melwood Stanhope. Wellsville—Mr. Arthur Riggs, K. P. G. L., lectured to Twin City lodge Tuesday evening—Mrs. W. P. Lewis, and little Edith, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Smith, are ill. Mrs. Mary A. Payne was called to East Liverpool by Mrs. S. Blackson's illness—Miss Pearl Manley has returned from Cleveland, Mr. Tom Richardson, James Joyce and Mathew Smith formed a skating party Saturday—Rev. J. H. Collins was here Friday—W. P. Lewis, James Brown and James Manley will debate with E. P. Spires, William Payne and W. Lewis Thursday evening—Mr. James Payne was to Pleckway Sunday morning—All who failed to get a copy of The Gazette last Saturday missed a treat. It was one of the best issues. Leave your order for a copy with the agent. Troy.—A. M. E. quarterly conference Friday evening was a success. Rev. Dr. J. M. Glimeir, P. E. held quarterly meeting Sunday. He and Rev. Watson and wife were entertained at dinner Friday by Mr. and Mrs. Hunt; Revs. Glimeir and Watson at dinner Saturday by Mr. and Mrs. Harrison, and on Sunday by Mrs. Willis and Rev. Harrison, intertwined them, Mrs. Watson and Rev. and Mrs. Fletcher at dinner. W. H. Hunt was elected delegate to the district conference at Mechanicsburg in April. Mr. and Mrs. Medley's little grandchild died Saturday morning. Funeral Monday at 2:30 p.m., Rev. Watson officiating.—Mrs. Mary Jones was taken to Dayton Saturday by her daughter. She is still ill. Also Mr. Hall. Indications point to a grand success for the A. M. E. church rally in May.—The Gazette can be had at the A. M. E. parsonage.—Mr. and Mrs. Harrison intertwined.—Sewing circle Thursday.—Abbie Tucker's baby has an abscess its neck.—The pastor some of the stewards and stewardesses of the A. M. E. church took sacrament to Mothers Stotts and Lyons Monday. Norwalk.—Rev. W. W. Grimes, of Sandusky, was here on the 5th officiating at the funeral of Mrs. David Noble, of Cleveland. She leaves a husband, mother, two children, Harry and Ollie, and a host of friends to mourn her loss. She was buried at Woodland cemetery. The chair rendered lovely music. Those who attended the funeral from out of town were: Mrs. Cooper, of Findlay; Mrs. Washinton, of Lancaster; of Akron, and of Burton, of Akron—Mrs. Mary Albright has rheumatism—Mrs. Washinton and Mrs. Pettiford are sick—Mrs. Frank Noble is still ill—Mrs. Wilson, of Toledo, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Nelson Johnson—The church social at J. G. Waller's was an enjoyable affair—Mrs. C. Noble was called to Cleveland by the death of her son's wife—Mrs. Bettie Albright entertained at dinner Sunday Mrs. Mason, of Berlin Heights—Mrs. Johnson, Revels and Waller attended a funeral in Cleveland—Miss Charlotte Noble is much improved in health since her return from the visit—The Church Aid society will meet at Mrs Waller's Monday night. Smithfield.—The pastor and trustee helpers will give an entertainment the 22nd. The J. M. festival Saturday night was a success. Rev. Randall preached Sunday morning and Rev. Wm. Munts in the evening. Mr. Jackson left for Pittsburg Sunday to bring home his sick daughter, Lula.—Mrs. Cole has returned home.—Messas. Munts and B. Toney are covalesales. —E. J. Smith and Rev. R. R. Cooper were here last week—Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Smith were in McFutry, and Florence Palmer was home Sunday. —Mr. Carey Hangrave was in Washington. Pa. last week. —Annis Cole, of Baltimore, was here last week. Mary West, of Dillonville, and Mrs. Walter Smith and friend, Mrs. Palmer, of Fernwood, are visiting their parents. —Rev. Munts has returned. —Mr. and Mrs. Jordan Powell spent last Thursday with Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Harris. —Monroe Helm and brother, of Pinefork, were here last week. —Sallie Harris, James West and M. E. Veney are sick. —Mr. and Mrs. Fred Ramsey are rejoicing over a new baby house and Mr. McFutry has purchased a house and will have a busier shop in the same. —Gertade Jackson is out of town. Delaware—Mrs. Tate and Mr. Booker are ill—Mrs. M. Eslick, of St. Louis, was buried here Thursday. The Misses Eslick and father accompanied the remains. The younger sister will remain here—Mrs. Abe Wilson and Mrs. Ross have been ill.—Miss Hulda Young is a high school senior—Mr. Vivian Mitchell, of Columbus, was the guest of Miss Cordella Jackson—Mrs. Jerry Austin has a la gripe.—Hazel and Gail Alstone attended a concert in Marion last Saturday—Hattle Crowder, of Marion, visited here—Mrs. Barney Morris has returned. Cleveland—Miss Mildred Crawford, of Brown were in Columbus—Miss Janie Wilson has returned from St. Louis —Messrs. Llonei Alston and Ernest Settles were in Columbus—Mrs. Greene's daughter, of Cleveland, was here Sunday—Mrs. Martha Clark has returned home—Mr. Young, of Springfield, was here Sunday—Mr. Tilson is barring in Mr. Wheeler's shop. The latter has a broken arm—Mrs. Vining will give a recital in Circleville soon—Mr. Ed Johnson is ill—Mrs. Agnes Wilson has moved to South Liberty street—The three churches are holding union revival meetings at the Baptist church. The afternoon prayer meetings are a great success. Rev. J. F. Hamilton conducted the revival meeting Friday evening. Pentacost meeting was held at Trinity church Sunday afternoon. Rev. E. White will be here Tuesday. Lorain.—Our people here are very much distressed over the attitude of some of our leading men in opposing the appointment of Mr. Ralph Tyler to the federal position in Cincinnati. We fail to see that a hearty indorsement of this appointment can be construed as antagonizing our best friend, Senator Foraker.—(Tyler's alleged candidacy was promoted by Mr. Wolfe, (white) his employer, publisher of a Columbus daily paper, the bitterest enemy of Senator Foraker in the state and country.—Ed.) We are pleased that our most representative journal, The Gazette, is trying to engage with this issue. Negro fair at Columbus and is also opposing the plan of having the leader of the nation drawn to such an affair in order to give fourth clans Negroes a chance to discredit the better element of the race.—Revival services at the Second M. E. church were a success. The Second Baptist church begins a series of meetings this week. Rev. Prince, of Cleveland, will conduct the meetings.—The A. M. E. church will begin revival meetings next week. Rev. Jackson, of Michigan will conduct them.—Mr. Davis, of Ellyra, one of the oldest residents of this county, died last week. Mrs. F. W. Corbin is convalescing. The remaius of Miss Malinda Elders, who died in Chicago, were brought here. Mr. and Mrs. Carr were here. The remaius of their deaths of their grandmother.—Our young people met at the A. M. E. church on the 25th ult., and organized the Silver Star club, the object of which is to stimulate an interest in literary studies, and also to be of general help to all the churches. Mr. Ollie Harden, president; Miss Clarabelle Stevens, secretary, and Elmer Robinson, treasurer. Oil City Pa Items Mr. Emanuel Patterson, of New Castle, was here last week. Mr. Joseph Gray went to Rochester last Thursday. -Persons desiring copies of the Gazette must pay for the same when purchased. -Quarterly meeting Sunday, Rev. W. A. Tucker, of Franklin, preached in the morning, our pastor in the afternoon and Rev. D. S. Bentley, P. E. in the evening. -Clara Poe is visiting in Emington. -Edith Ashby and Temple Gray visited Bertha and Velaria Johnson Sunday. -Mrs. Jennie Jackson attended her mother, Mrs. Scott's funeral in Cleveland Gans le Fair. Says Joe Gans: "As to the conditions of another go with Nelson. I think that all fair-minded people will back me in this: That I get 60 percent of the purse, win or lose, and that I weigh in only once at 133 pounds. Everybody knows that I had to take a much smaller end in my fight with Nelson than I am offering him, and that I had to submit to annoyances in the matter of weight. Well, if he wants another meeting, it will be on much different terms. Otherwise I guess I will have to retire." BAR COOLIE LABOR Conference Between San Franciscans and the President Results in a Satisfactory Agreement. Washington, D. C.—The Japanese school controversy is settled insofar as President Roosevelt, Mayor Schmitz and the members of the San Francisco school board are concerned. An amicable adjustment of the question now rests with congress. If the amendment to the immigration bill, proposed by Secretary Root, excluding foreigners who use their passports to secure admission to the United States "to the detriment of labor conditions in this country" is accepted by the senate and house and the immigration bill is passed at this session of congress, the San Francisco board of education will respect its order establishing the Oriental schools, unless the Japanese government agrees to a proposition for separate schools which will provide equal facilities for Japanese children. Mayor Schmitz and his associates had a conference with the president Wednesday afternoon and assured Mr. Roosevelt that the amendment to the immigration bill was entirely satisfactory to them. Secretary Root participated in the conference and made a report on his negotiations with the republican leaders in congress and the Japanese ambassador. While Mayor Schmitz and the members of the school board are still hopeful that Viscount Aoki, the Japanese ambassador, will agree to separate schools in California, they stand willing to rescind the order establishing the Oriental schools and again admit Japanese children to the white schools. THE SHORTAGE GROWS. Bank Treasurer Walker's Defalication Is Now Estimated at $655,000. New Britain, Conn.—More than $560,000 worth of securities were taken from the vaults of the Savings Bank of New Britain by the missing treasurer, William F. Walker, according to a statement issued by the board of directors of the institution late Wednesday afternoon, following the examination of the collateral in the bank by State Bank Commissioners Kendall and Noble. There is left a deposit of $143,000 above the amount due to depositors, the actual shortage being $65,000. As the bank commissioners were preparing a statement to give to the directors, Mayor George M. Landers sent a letter to Gov. Woodruff asking that Commissioner Kendall be removed from office on the ground of neglect of duty and incompetence. He pointed out in his letter that when Mr. Kendall began an examination of the affairs of the bank last Thursday, Treasurer Walker, on a plea of illness, left the bank and Kendall did not continue his work, but returned home to await Walker's convenience. In an interview, Mayor Lander says he is prompted also to take this action because he was ng examined as a rule until after an appointment had been made by the commissioners with Walker. LOCOMOTIVE EXPLODED Two Men Were Killed and One Fatally Injured. Middletown, N. Y. — The boiler of the engine pulling an Ontario & Western passenger train which left here Wednesday afternoon exploded near Luzon. The train at the time of the explosion was running at the rate of 40 miles an hour. The fireman, Martin Mullen, of Middletown, and an unknown man who was riding in the cab of the engine were mortally injured and several other persons were seriously injured. A dozen of the passengers were hurt, but none of them dangerously. The body of Fireman Mullen was blown a hundred feet into a field, the head being torn off. The unknown man in the cab was blown to pieces. He is believed to have been Engineer J. D. Valquette, who was learning the road and was seen to get on the engine here. The engine was blown to pieces and the baggage car was badly damaged. Four coaches left the rails and went into a ditch. Congress. Washington. On the 13th the senate passed the District of Columbia appropriation bill and the bill giving the government the right to appeal to the supreme court in criminal cases. The house spent the day in consideration of the naval appropriation bill. A Conscientious Judge Lexington, Ky. — In the circuit court at Georgetown Wednesday, Judge Stout decided that he could not consciously try the case of Caleb Powers, charged with the assassination of Gov. Goebel in 1900, because he had been connected with the trial of James Howard on the same charge. Three Men Killed. New York. — Three men were killed and one man was mortally injured as the result of a collapse of a scaffold on the third floor of the new New York public library building. Says Saloon Business is Illegal. Lebanon, Ind—Judge Samuel R. Artman, of the Boone county circuit court, on Wednesday held that the saloon business has no legal existence and, therefore, cannot be licensed by the state. He quoted many authorities. Telegraphers' Wages to be Reised. New York.—An increase of 10 per cent. in the salaries of the telegraph operators at the company's principal offices throughout the country was announced Wednesday by the Western Union Telegraph Co. CAUGHT BY THE GRIP-- RELEASED BY PE-RU-NA. Nice Claps on Wells Mr. J. Barnett Mr. Peter Needside MRS. JANE GIFT Robert H. Madison The Medical Profession Recognizes The Grip as Epidemic Catarrh. EFFECTIVE MEDICINE FOR LA GRIPPE. EFFECTIVE MEDICINE FOR LA GRIPPE. Robt. L. Madison, A. M. Principal of Cullowhee High School, Painter, N. C., writes: "Peruna is the most effective medicine that I have ever tried for a gripe. It also cured my wife of nasal catarrh. Her condition at one time was such that she could not at night breathe through her nostrils." LA GRIPPE AND SYSTEMIC CATARRH. Mrs. Jennie W. Gilmore, Box 44, White Oak, Ind. Tern, writes: "Six years ago I had la gripe, followed by systemic catarrh. The only thing I used was Peruna and Manalina, which have been in better health the last three years than for years be fore." Mrs. Jane Gift, Athens, Ohio, writes: "Six years ago I had la gripe very bad. My husband bought me a bottle of Peruna. I was soon able to do my work." THE GULF COAST OF TEXAS THE GULF COAST OF TEXAS A LAND "FLOWING IN MILK AND HONEY." Semi-Tropical Climate; Vast Yields of Vegetables and Fruit. Corpus Christi, Tex., Feb. 12.—— The lower Rio Grande Valley is sometimes erroneously referred to as Southwest Texas, and so is El Paso, but THEY ARE EIGHT HUNDRED MILES APART. It is Winter in Northern Texas while the Gulf Coast country is enjoying sunshine like that of May. In fact the Gulf Coast knows no Winter—every month is a growing month. Texas produces wheat like Minnesota, corn like Illinois, and more cotton than any other two Southern states combined. And no part of this great State surpasses in opportunity and possibilities the Gulf Coast Country and the region down by the Rio Grande. Artesian water was discovered five or six years ago on the great King Ranch, near Corpus Christi. As time went on the Artesian Belt was extended until it now covers the territory from Robstown, sixteen miles west of Corpus Christi, to Raymondville, and is being extended monthly with every indication that a satisfactory flow will be obtained in all territory not covered by the systems of irrigation on the Rio Grande. One of the most successful planters on the Rio Grande is Mr. John Closner, who owns six thousand acres near Hidalgo, on the S. L. B. & M. Ry. From thirty-three acres of Bermuda onions Mr. Closner last year (1906) shipped thirty-five carloads of fine onions as were ever grown. This crop alone netted him $15,000. Two crops of corn can be grown on the same land each year along the Rio Grande. Rice, cotton and numerous other crops, as well as a great variety of fruit can be grown just as successfully. At a dinner recently given some visitors, a Gulf Coast agricultural set fifteen (15) different varieties of vegetables before his guests. A comprehensive book of eighty pages, profusely illustrated and fully descriptive of the Texas Gulf Coast may be obtained by addressing John Sebastian, Passenger Traffic Manager, Room 1, La Salle St. Sta., Chicago, or Room 1, Frisco Bldg., St. Louis. A. Precious Heritage. Sweetness of temper is a precious heritage. It gives beauty to everything. It keeps its windows open to wards the spice country, and fills the home with perpetual delight. The fortunate possessor of a sunny soul is God's evangel in a dark world. He is a living Gospel, which no one will ever repudiate, and the blessedness of which all men will appreciate. The body will grow old and the smooth brow will be furrowed, but a happy disposition is an aureole to the grey crown of age. Blessed is he whose life looks out upon the land of Beulah, and whose soul is responsive to the outlying vision."—Exchange English Tongue-Twisters. The English language has its own peculiar terrors. Who would not pity the foreigner attempting to understand such sentences as "It was put in case in case it should rain." "The first one won one sovereign." "I will come by-and-by and buy a bicycle?" And how could you expect a German to get at the real meaning of the metaphors in the following sentence—"Being unhorsed he begged his man and soon had him cowed?" It's a waste of time to cut the acquaintance of a man who is insult proof. SUFFERED TWELVE YEARS FROM AFTER EFFECTS OF LA GRIPPE. Mr. Victor Pataine, 328 Madison St. Topeka, Kan., writes: "Twelve years ago I had a severe attack of la gripe and I never really recovered my health until two years ago. I began using Peruna and it built up my strength so that in a couple of months I was able to go to work again." PNEUMONIA FOLLOWED LA GRIPPE. Mr. T. Barnecott, West Aylmert, Ontario, Can., writes: "Last winter I was ill with pneumonia after having la gripe. I took Peruna for two months, when I became quite well." PE-RU-NA — A TONIC AFTER LA GRIPPE. Mrs. Chas, E. Wells, Sr., Delaware, Chio, writes: "After a severe attack of la gripe, I took Peruna and found it a very good tonic." ONE DAY BEHIND SCHEDULE. Boston Business Man Wanted to Take Time to Catch Up. Several years ago, when the University of Chicago held its decennial celebration, John D. Rockefeller was its guest for several days. A bewildering succession of functions followed one another in such quick succession that each affair was from one to four hours late. At the great banquet on the closing day, Mr. Rockefeller, in his after-dinner speech, told the following story: "I have felt for the past 24 hours like the Boston business man who lived in the suburbs and came in to his office every day. One winter afternoon he took the train for his home, but a terrific snowstorm was raging, and about half way to his suburb the train was snowed in. All night the passengers were imprisoned, but early in the morning they managed to reach a near-by telegraph station, and the Boston man sent the following dispatch to his office: "Will not be in the office to day. Have not got home yesterday yet."—Montreal Herald. Handy. Young Poet (to creditor who presents a bill—Oh, how good of you! I was looking everywhere for a piece of paper upon which to write a wonderful thought which has just come to me, and you drop down like an angel from heaven! STILL MORE PROOF That Dr. William's Pink Pills Have Cause of Blubber Cause of Rising Respiration "When I was a boy of sixteen," says Mr. Otto H. Rose, a retired grocer, of 1226 Lexington Avenue, Indianapolis, Ind., "I met with a serious accident which injured the bone of my head over the right eye. I recovered from the accident to all appearances, but not many years after I began to have intense pains in the injured bone, which came on every year and would last from a few days to several weeks, consulted doctors who told me that I was suffering from neuralgia. The sight of my right eye was affected, so that at times I could scarcely see out of it, while both eyes watered constantly. During these attacks I was dismayed by the terrible pain. The pains came from the morning and passed away in the afternoon. I never suffered from the pain at night. "I tried without success to get relief until a friend told me to try Dr. Williams' Pink Pills. When I had taken a few boxes I felt the pain growing less intense and in a much shorter time then I had hoped for I was entirely curled. I have recommended the pills to sorbate persons, who are ill with the medicine, with them good with it." My wife uses Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for nervous headaches and funds them the best medicine she has ever used as they give relief where all others fail." Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are sold by all druggists or sent, postpaid on receipt of price. 50 cents per box, six medicine boxes. The Nervous Medicine Company Schenectady, NY. An instructive booklet, entitled "Nervous Disorders" will be sent free on request to anyone interested. ELY'S CREAM BALM CARNITINO COLD BANANA LOAD MAY-FEVER CHRISTMAS WINTER 50 CFT CREAM BALM ELY BROS A Positive CURE FOR GATARRH Ely's Cream Balm A Positive CURE FOR GATARRH Ely's Cream Balm Gives Relief at Once. It cleans, soothes, heals and protects the diseased membrane. It cures Catarrh and drives away Cold in the Head quickly. Restores the Senses of Taste and Smell. Full size 50 cts. at Drunkists or by mail. Trial kite 10 cts. by mail. Ely Brothers, 56 Warren Street. New York.