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THE STYLES OF THE SEASON DEBUTANTS' DRESS OF WHITE PRETTY FASHION FOR NINON LE SOIL SWEET SEVENTEEN Japan has conquered the world of fashion. Evidently to conquer is the privilege of this country—anyway, now it seems its metier. The world of dress is in arms to receive it, literally up in arms, for every sleeve bears traces of the Japanese in its extensive width and limited length, and all the cloaks hang kimono-wise from the shoulders, while embroidery runs riot on garments of every description. Not necessarily Japanese in design, I admit, but still the world of fashion takes immense pride in its embroidery of many colors, caring little from which country its patterns may be inspired, and amongst many successes in cloaks I would chronicle one of black net lined with soft silk and chiffon, trimmed with embroideries of many colors, alternating with designs of cut cretonne, worked round with ribbons and gold thread. A gorgeous garment of much elegance—and much expense. are in the path of the cutter's sleeves; and the present fashion in skirt is so much for trimming, or otherwise varying the fall of the lines, that it is comparatively easy to get a chic effect. In many cases, the striped fashions are used so as to produce the effect of a trimming; and that the can be readily done is one of the visuals of such a material. For example, you may have a tabler or pane of the same stripes as the rest of the gown, but cut on the cross instead with the lines running down; or, better still, the trimming or insertion may consist of stripes so cut, and the rejoined as to form a series of V-shaped lines. Or yet again, the stripes may run downwards from the waist to the lower third of the skin and there a flounce is set on of the same stripes running round the figure, slightly gathered on; or may Nearly all of the short-waisted dresses worn last winter were made in a sort of princess style. The bodice portion was tight-fitting and the skirt half-corset, half princess. Now quite a different outline is in favor; the waist line is placed about three inches higher than it really ought to be, and the skirts are, for the most part, slightly gathered. I am now speaking of afternoon and evening dresses. Happily for the tailor-made morning, costume, our waists are still permitted to retain their correct place and outline. It is hardly necessary for me to point out that a gathered skirt, arranged in a short-waisted manner, is capable of making its wearer decidedly bunchy. Only an exceptionally slender figure can carry off one of these costumes with perfect grace, and one trembles to think of the possibilities of the future. The mitten sleeve is rapidly coming into favor, and Redfern must be given the credit of reviving this charming fashion, and he is now making the best use of it. It is quite surprising to note the rapidity with which this particular revival has dashed into favor with the Parisiennes. A month or two ago the sleeves on all the best dresses were quite short, rarely covering the elbow. Now we are rushing to the other extreme, and are gladly welcoming sleeves which extend well over the wrist. For summer blouses semi-short sleeves will still be very fashionable, but for volle and crepe de chine dresses we shall adopt sleeves arranged in soft puffs from shoulder to elbow and finished off with a tight under-sleeve which extends right over the wrist in a graceful curve. On some of the smart little lace and cloth coatées I have not noticed exceedingly short sleeves, so short that they only reach half way between the shoulder and elbow. But the intention is that these coatées shall be worn over an elaborate blouse which boasted the sleeves which I have described, the small puffs and tight tight falling over the wrists. Striped materials are very much a la mode this spring. Gauze striped with silk—peekin is the French dress-making term—are the smartest of things, but the reign of striped fabrics extends through the whole list, and fine woolen materials and silks are likewise thus fashionably designed. Now, the stripe presents some difficulties to the dressmaker. Well-arranged, nothing can be smarter—ill placed, nothing more dowdy—than a striped fabric. The more broken-up the design is, however, the fewer pitfalls Suicide Followed Peculiar Whim. In London a photographer was called to the house of a wealthy man, whom he found dressed in the costume of King Lear. He posed and ordered several pictures to be sent to friends. Later the photographer learned the man had committed suicide. Meal That Lacks Salt. "What is the dullest, and dreadless thing on earth?" asks M. A. P., and then it answers the question thus: "It is the crown and climax of London In Union There is Strength. are in the path of the cutter's scissors; and the present fashion in skirts is so much for trimming, or otherwise varying the fall of the lines, that it is comparatively easy to get a chic effect. In many cases, the striped fabrics are used so as to produce the effect of a trimming; and that this can be readily done is one of the virtues of such a material. For example, you may have a tabler or panels of the same stripes as the rest of the gown, but cut on the cross instead of with the lines running down; or, better still, the trimming or insertion may consist of stripes so cut, and then rejoined as to form a series of V-shaped lines. Or yet again, the stripes may run downwards from the waist to the lower third of the skirt, and there a flounce is set on of the same stripes running round the figure, slightly gathered on; or maybe A Visiting Gown. In, biscuit-colored material, decorated black cloth and Russian braid. The sleeveless coat is one of the newest features of this spring. In bissuit-colored mattresses decorated black cloth and Russian brid. The sleeveless coat is one of the newest features of this spring. it is a flounce en forme; or the several widths of the material are cut on the cross and rejoined, to obtain a waved effect on the lines on the flounce or flonces. There are ever so many variations possible given the fundamental idea, a clever, ingenious modiste to consider the various possibilities of the striped fabric. Then, again, what is more easy than these little tricks of cutting? And yet almost as effective is to run up some of the material with the scissors into strips, and apply these as trimming bands, and stripes, of course, being made to run in a different way from those on the ground to which they are applied. Wide bretelles, with the stripes from edge to edge, and a vest, with the stripes joined herring-bone fashion, suffused (with cuffs at the elbow matching the bretelles) to trim a blue-and-gray striped muslin and silk model gown; while on the skirt the cross-lines of the vest were continued as a tablier; and the sides were cut so as to carry the stripes in a graceful curve round over the hips, and the back of the skirt again fell in straight, long-falling lines. But it is needless to multiply detailed descriptions; you can do anything with stripes at present that will produce a smart effect; and striped materials, self-trimmed, are making many of the best gowns this spring. gayety. It is the peak and pinacle of London amusement. It is the most English invention in England. It is dinner!" To Be Brought Out Once a Week. A good many people have an idea that religion isn't worth while unless it is worn with Sunday clothes.—Chicago Record-Herald. To Make Study of Foods To Make Study or Foods. The department of agriculture this year will make a study of foods which make fat men lean and lean men fat. CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, MAY 11, 1907. "BUCKEYES" Letters from Many Ohio Towns Sent by OUR OWN WRITERS Personal, Social, Lodge, Church, Literary and Other Notes of Interest. Norwalk—Cottage prayer meeting was held at I. G. Wallers' Monday evening.—The Church Aid society met at Mrs. E. A. Easley's.—Mrs. G. W. Easley and daughter, Ruth, were in Berlin Heights to visit Alpha Day, who is ill.—Mrs. Arthur Smith, of Sandusky, is visiting Bettie Albright. Mrs. Mary Albright has rheumatism.—Mesdames Greene and Porter, of Berlin Heights, were here Thursday. Mointyre—Mamie Smith visited Ines Smith Monday and Tuesday.—Ethel Freeman and "Aunt" Ann Cooper are ill.—Mrs. Lucy Smith died May I. Funeral Friday. Rev. D. E. Lewis officiated.—Mrs. Mary E. Adkins and son, Oscar an wife, visited the Cycle year. Youngest Rev. D. D. Lewis preached ably Sunday. The W. M. M. rendered a program. A good collection. Arrangements for the convention were made. Wellsley—P. E. Spires and B. F. Lee spent Sunday in Cleveland.—Mrs. Frank Thompson has gone to Kansas. Dr. White spent several days in Steubenville.—Mrs. Mary Butler is ill.—Alice Payne, s. S. delegate to the convention, left Thursday for St Clairsville—Annie Sheppard and Jesse Phillips, Chas. Benford, Ira Okey and Mrs. May Spires were in Steubenville Friday.—The Y. M. C. A. will give a play soon.—Bertha Snowden was bitten by a dog. Cadiz.-Susie Mason and Ada Jackson entertained the Household of Ruth Monday evening.-A number spent Friday in Steubenville.-Rev. White, P. E., spent Monday and Tuesday here.-The Tawawa literary's entertainment, "The Enchanted Wood," at the A. M. E. church Thursday was a success. Much credit is due the Misses Strother, Mason and Mrs. Rosa Mason for their skillful training of the children.-Susie Davis and Martha Biggs, of Bellaire, visited Lizzie Davis last week. Mrs. Laura Olmstead entertained them Saturday evening. Marysville—The social last Saturday evening was a success. Carter Beecham, of Broadway, was here Sunday.—Lacy Wallace, of Toledo spent Sunday with Mary Wright.—Mr. Shields, of Columbus visited Grace Vaughn Sunday.—Elise Freeman has returned from Springfield.—Wash. Calloway left Saturday for Bellefontaine.—Earl Allen and Bessie Glenn were in Columbus last week.—Andrew Calloway and James Chavis were in Milford Center Sunday.—Mr. and Mrs. Will Wright, of Mechanicsburg, and Mrs. Lillie Taylor, of Upbana, were here last week Painesville—Mr. Robert McBroom of Nashville, will locate here.—Mrs. Tom Gordon and Kenneth are convalescing.—Mrs. Samuel Collins is caring for her mother in Meadville.—Mrs. Calvin Wooten and daughter Josephine, were in Cleveland Sunday and Mrs. Horace Richard Monday.—Mrs. Geo. Gordon, Teresa and Dwight of Cleveland, are here.—Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Gordon entertained at dinner Sunday their father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Eledge, Frank Eledge and Mrs. Anna Saunders.—Ransom Gordon was in Cleveland last week. Dayton.—Hon. Harry C. Smith gave one of the greatest lectures here Friday night that we have heard for years.—Rev. T. W. Woodson's sermon was thoroughly enjoyed Sunday.—Sadle Washington has returned from Hamilton.—Chas. Washington died last Saturday and was buried Tuesday.—Cora Smith visited Sadle Washington last week.—Mr. Lucas, of Columbus, visited Phoebe Ecton.—Mr. Hunt visited Maud King Sunday.—Mr. Hunt visited New York, in Cora Gillespie's guest.—Ed Banks reviewed the S. S. beautifully last Sunday.—Mr. and Mrs. Peyton are rejoicing over the arrival of an eight pound girl.—The mission and Zion churches are progressing. Mt. Vernon—Mesdames Simmons and Edith Kelley returned from Youngstown—Mrs. Newble was in Cleveland the 28th uilt.—Stella Bradford is in Akron—Mary Croston and Addie Going were in Newark recently. Mrs. Henry Nelson entertained the sewing circle Thursday evening—Mesdames Hill and Shields are ill. Mrs. Rosa Johnson left Saturday for Newark—Local Odd Fellows and Household are preparing for their annual sermon the 12th. Mr. and Mrs. Will Robinson are moving to E. Chestnut street. The Court of Calanthe will hold a lecture at the A. M. E. church the 17th. Bed is was in Columbus Tuesday—Mrs. Kate Green is ill. Belieffontaine—Mrs. Anna Johnson, Mrs. Warrick's guest, returned home Saturday. Mrs. Eliza Williams has returned home and preached ably at the Second Baptist church Sunday. Rev. Clay, his relative, was brought here Friday to the Old Ministers' Home. Mr. A. Bass has pneumonia. Mrs. James Clark entertained about 20 Thursday in honor of Mrs. Anna Johnson of Columbus. Thomas Calloway and Annabelle Hurd are delegates to the S. convention and 'eorgie Kersey an Nora Ratleff, delegates to the mis- GAZETTE. slonary convention, which meets in Sidney—Mary Ladd entertained Helen Benford and Margaret Bray at dinner Sunday. Prof. Clark and wife are visiting his mother—Ervin Jackson is convalescing. Blanche Fox and Lina Moore are visiting Mrs. Elizabeth Moore. The Second Baptist church Ladies' Aid society will meet Friday afternoon at Mrs. Rebecca Moore's. The Second Baptist S. S. and home missionary gave a green supper Thursday evening. Urbana. Some of our leading citizens are members of our industrial club. B. F. Dickerson, president. Rev. Dr. J. M. Glimere, P. E., was at St. Paul's church Sunday. Great preparations are being made at the Baptist parsonage. Rev. Hart is expected to bring home his bride this week. May 12 will be a great day for the Odd Fellows. Chas. Johnson died Saturday. Consumption. Funeral from St. Paul's Tuesday. Minnie Reynolds will read a paper for the B. Y. P. U. Sunday evening. Sandy E. Freeling is ill. Mrs. Jennie is a sweet singer and a good church worker. Class No. 6 of the Baptist church won the banner Sunday. They will be benefactors on Monday night. Solo by M. Waunden for feature. Mr. Chavers, manager. Our people are for Senator Foraker and for right and fully endorse The Gazette's noble stand for recognition, right and fair play. We hope soon to hear Editor Smith's famous lecture, "The Black Battalion." The demand for The Gazette is growing each week. You cannot afford to miss a single copy. St. Clairsville—Rev, Montgomery was in Uhrlichsville Sunday—Mr Wm. Crowder preached Sunday—Mr and Mrs. W. H. Sciplio and daughter, Bessie, spent Sunday with her sister, Mrs. S. L. Jackson—Minnie Montgomery and Maryland Rodgers were in Wheeling Saturday—Essie Syms and Walter Goode, of Wheeling, visited her sister, Mrs. Lea Golinga, Sunday—Mary Montgomery is ill—Jannie and Margaret Castianem entertained Edgar and Arthur Tapsicom Saturday evening—James Harris, of Maynard, was here Sunday—Mr. Albert Jones and daughter, Rebecca, were at church Sunday evening—Hazel Jackson and Quill Johnson were in Martins Ferry and Wheeling Sunday—Clarence Rickman, of Springfield, and Edna Cochran were married Thursday. They left for Springfield—Lewis Wooten has returned from Wheeling—Lucile Jacks son spent Saturday in Wheeling—Viola Goinga and Margaret Castianem visited Eva Swanagan Sunday—All who owe for The Gazette, please pay promptly—Convention meets here the 9, 10, 11 and 12th. Sandusky—The I. O. F.'s anniversary services will be held at the A. M. E. church Sunday at 2:30 p. m. Rev. W. W. Grimes will preach. The Household of Ruth's entertainment Monday evening at Odd Fellows' hall was a success. Audience large and an excellent program: Instrumental solos, Mrs. J. W. Johnson and Blanche Shackelford; vocal solos, Lottie Smith and Ella Richards; addresses, Rev. Grimes and Frank Washington; recitation, Lucile Gibson. Refreshments—Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Dixon, of Toledo, have located on Reece street—Maud Armstrong was in Cincinnati recently—Mrs. Anson Jones is ill Her son, Abraham, and wife, of Chicago, are with her—Mrs. Lottie Smith left for Sunday for Norwalk—Mrs. Ernstine, of Fremont, Dolly Gardener's guest, has returned home—Rev. Chas. Bundy, P. E., will hold his third quarterly meeting at the A. M. E. church May 16. All are cordially invited—Isaac Williams, of Cottage I, Soldiers' Home, died Monday. He leaves to mourn his loss, Mary Williams and five sons and five daughters. Piqua.—A number attended the grand rally at Troy Sunday. Rev. W. H. Coleman preached an excellent sermon in the afternoon. Over $200 realized. Quarterly meeting at Cyrene church Sunday. Thanksgiving services of the local Odd Fellows will be preached at Park Avenue church by Rev. P. Alston, of Lima.—Mrs. Turner, of Newport, Ky., visited her sister, Mrs. Gillespie, Sunday.—Mr. Sandusky, of dayton, visited Leona Reese Sunday.—Mrs. Matilda Gillespie joined Cyrene church Sunday.—Mr. and Mrs. Louis Collins were guests of Mr. and Mrs. A. Collins last week.—Mrs. Anna Williams, of Detroit, is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Holloway.—Mr. James Layton, of Lexington, Ky., is visiting Mr. and Mrs. A. Collins.—Mr. Robt. Williams is ill.—Mattie Fletcher, of Troy, visited Inez Jones Sunday.—Mrs. Clemens and family have moved to Troy.—Rev. Wm. Gibson, of Troy, will preach at Cyrene church May 19.—Mr. Fred Huggard spent Sunday in Springfield.—Mrs. Rogers is visiting in Athens.—A large number from here will attend the lecture on "The Brownville Rlot." to be delivered this (Friday) evening in Troy by Han, Harry C. Smith.—Rev. Coleman has the grip.—J. C. Williams and Frans Delaney are contesting for a prize given by companies that raise the most money for the grand rally.—Company B's magic lantern entertainment at Mrs. Josephine Johnson's Thursday night was a success. Delaware—Mr. and Mrs. King, of Woodstock, are visiting Mr. and Mrs. H. Jackson—Mrs. Williams is visiting her mother, Mrs. Bell—Mr. Franklin is ill—Charlie Day was in Columbus—Howard Gillard is Cordella Jackson's guest—Mr. Jones, of Marion, was here Sunday—The A. M. E. church's sacred concert Sunday evening was a splendid success. The following program was enjoyed: Hymn, choir and congregation; Lord's prayer; choir; welcome address, Mrs. E. Tate; solo, John Madi; son; violin solo, Viola Fleming; solo Mr. Hessagression; reading, Mrs. Carr Highwarden solo, Mrs. Austin; solo, Cordella Jackson; recitation, Mrs. J. C. Lyons: Violin solo, Master Continued on Second Page. IN RESOLUTIONS That Cannot be Misunderstood—Will Oppose Those Who Support Him—An Enemy of the Race. Dayton, O.—In spite of the miserably inclement weather of last week Friday evening Eaker Street A. M. E. church was well attended, the occasion being the editor of The Gazette's lecture on The Black Battalion." Rev. T. W. Woodson, the pastor, presided and introduced the speaker, who for quite an hour and a half stirred the audience to a degree of enthusiasm such as has seldom ever been witnessed in the church. Senator Foraker's name was greeted time and again with rounds of applause which showed unmistakably his great and deserved popularity with our people of this community. On Tuesday evening of this week the lecture hall was repeated at Enterprise hall, under the auspices of the Baptist churches of this city. The large hall was filled to the doors. Rev. W. O. Harper, who presided, introduced Mr. Arthur J. Riggs, of Springfield, after the band had played a selection and Prof. W. P. Dabney's very appropriate song, "You Will Miss the Colored Soldiers, etc." had been sung by one of our young ladies, who is in the possession of an exceptionally fine soprano voice. She was heartily encored. Mr. Riggs made a brief but decidedly strong introductory address which roused the audience to great enthusiasm. As usual, the mere mention of Senator Foraker's name elicited the heartiest applause. The Lincoln league, an organization of old soldiers from the Soldiers' Home, attended in a body, headed by and made possibly the most interesting part of the large audience. Both speakers having introduced the editor of The Gazette in most flattering terms, he began his lecture on "The Black Battalion" at once upon the conclusion of Mr. Riggs' address, and for an hour and a half enthusiastic demonstrations of applause were so frequent as to delay the conclusion of the evening's entertainment until the end of p.m. The history of the Afro-American riot and the alleged "Brownville riot and kindled subjecibles, including a thorough discussion of the political condition existing in this state, as pertains to Senator Foraker, President Roosevelt and Secretary Taft, were thoroughly alreded by the speaker, the audience gaining a perfect understanding of all. To say that the large crowd present was most agreeably surprised, is putting it entirely too mildly, and can in no way be better made clear than by the announcement that the following resolutions were unanimously adopted amid cheers that could be heard two blocks away: The Resolutions Whereas, The Hon. W. H. Taft, secretary of war, is being announced as a probable candidate for the republican nomination next year for the presidency of the United States, and is being widely heralded, especially here in Ohio, as the one most eligible for that exalted honor and position, and Whereas, The Hon. W. H. Taft, in his speeches at Greensboro, N. C., and Tuskegee, Ala., in 1906, viewed without protest the deplorable discrimination against our people, the undisguised violation of the constitution, in the matter of distranchisement of colored citizens, at least condoning the same, and Whereas, The Hon. Wm. H. Taft, after the dismissal without honor of 167 innocent civil servants, result of the alleged Brownsville riot, branded them as criminals, though they had not been tried, and though the entire military machinery of the government had been unable to prove them guilty or justify their unmerited punishment, therefore be it. Resolved, That we, as law-abiding American citizens, loyal first to our families and race, next to our country and the republican party, do hereby voice our protest against a consideration of the Hon. W. H. Taft as a republican presidential candidate, for his speeches condoning constitutional violations, notwithstanding the special plank in the republican platform of 1904, indicate a lack of republican principle, courage, integrity, and because his indorsement of the dismissal without trial of 167 brave and meritorious soldiers, many of them grown gray in the service of their country, in Indian wars and the Spanish-American war, shows weakness and prejudice rather than that broad spirit of impartiality, conservatism and justice which should characterize an assistant for the greatest honor and part of our party. Furthermore, Be it resolved, that we call upon our brethren throughout this great state, particularly, and the country to join in our protest and warning to all republicans who support the Hon. W. H. Taft for anything at this time, that they are thus forfeiting the good will and support for the future of all loyal members of our race. Rev. Harper dismissed the large audience with a few appropriate remarks. Those present then filed for ward to greet the speaker of the evening. In addition to those al ready mentioned Prof. W. P. Dabney of Cincinnati, and Mr. Wm. Henry Young, of Springfield, were seated up on the stage. MINISTERS AND LAYMEN Active in the Recent Conference Meet —Many faculty Readers by the Forms The Springfield district conference of the North Ohio conference convened at 9 a. m. April 24, 1907, in the A. M. E. church at Mechanicsburg with Dr. J. M. Glmere, P. E., in the chair, Rev. J. M. Tate, B. D., conducted the devotional services, after which the conference organized by electing Rev. J. M. Tate secretary and Rev. A. E. Simmons assistant. The writer was elected reporter. The P. E. appointed the various committees. After some timely remarks by him the conference entered upon a splendid program. The following brethren read papers: Rev. J. M. Tate, "The Importance of Church Activity." Rev. T. W. Woodson, "The Requirements of the Sunday-school;" Rev. W. H. Toney, "Immercialism Destined to Dominate Practical Christianity." Rev. J. C. Turner, "What Is the Duty of the Church in Solving Race Problems?" Rev. T. W. McConnell, "What Progress Has McConnell Made in Promoting Brotherly Love Between the Races." A paper was also read by C. C. Poston, of Lockland. All were of a high order and fully met the expectations of the brethren. Rev. G. W. Maxwell preached a good sermon on Thursday evening. The closing sermon was preached by Rev. C. W. Dwyer, and the highly appreciated the annual dress by the P. E. was attended and so full of good advice and suggestions that the good advice and suggestions him to have it printed in pamphlet form and distributed through the district. He was endorsed by the conference for election as a delegate to the general conference. The conference was largely attended, 32 members enrolled. The reports from the churches were encouraging, showing progress along all lines of the church work. The district is doing better work under Dr. Glmere than ever before. Green Derrickson and C. Armfield were elected lay delegates to the annual conference. The following members were present: Revs. W. H. Coleman, J. M. Ross, H. W. Toney, J. F. Hamilton, G. W. Maxwell, M. M. Culpher, J. H. Smith, A. E. Simmons, C. Turner, J. M. Tate, C. D. Young, E. I. Turner, C. D. Young, J. N. Turner, C. McConnell, P. W. Watson, J. D. White, G. C. Scott, T. W. Woodson, Green Derrickson and W. C. Coins. Delegates: Tate, Harrison, Wm. Hunt, Ray Huffman, C. C. Poston, J. H. Day, Jas Lyman, J. T. Hornday and C. Armfield. All the brethren took an active part in the discussions. Rev. Culpher and the good people of both churches entertained the conference royally. There passes into history a splendid and profitable conference session. President Jones on Senator Foraker. Wilberforce, Q.—The editor of The Gazette's brilliant lecture on "The Black Battalion," or the Brownsville riot, in the beautiful, new Galloway hall on Monday evening attracted between two and three hundred persons, nearly all students of the university and many of the faculty, including President Jones and Vice President Scarborough. Prof. Stewart's large school orchestra and Prof. Simpson's splendid chorus furnished excellent music before and after the lecture. Rev. J. P. Maxwell introduced the speaker and for an hour or more, the audience was kept at the very highest, pitch of enthusiasm, thoroughly enjoying the lecture. At its conclusion President Jones made an impassioned indorsement of our great and good friend Senator Foraker that is only equalled in Mr. Smith's tremendously interesting and valuable essay. At the went forward to the lecture at the of the exercises to greet the speaker of the evening Many and warm were the thanks expressed for the very valuable and pleasing information gained. The editor of The Gazette was the guest of Rev. and Mrs. Maxwell while here and the guest of Hon. and Mrs. C. L. Maxwell while in Xenia. Bradford Pa Locals Mr. Smith, of Cambridge Springs, visited Ida Alkins last week—Mrs. J. Hatfield and Messrs. Virginia Clemons, Kelley and Barnes, of Olean, were here the past week. The Cuban Giants played two ball games here. Myrtle Logan entertained the American Beauty and the Silver Link club met at Gertrude Stives' Thursday evening—Rev. J. J. Norris will serve as the annual seminar of local Odd Fellows and the Household of Ruth Sunday—Gertrude Stives visits her mother in Duke Center—Mrs. A. G. Wright has returned from Massillon. She attended James Johnson's funeral. Made Her His Heir. Bridgeport, Conn.-By the will of Nehemiah O. Gorman, a member of the race, Ann C. Wright, of Stratford, for many years his faithful servant, falls heir to the bulk of his property, valued at from $25,000 to $40,000. When Mrs. Gorman was brought to her home a bride, Mrs. Wright was employed by the family, and for the fifteen years relieved her of the burden. At her death Mrs. Wright assumed active care for Mr. Gorman's material comforts with watchful and unfaltering devotion. Mr. Gorman frequently said he did not know what he could do without her. ARTHUR J. RIGGS, Another K. P. Leader, Declares for Senator Foraker and Talks "Right Out in Meeting" on Local Politics. Springfield, O.—"We colored people cannot afford to see Senator Foraker thrown down," said Arthur J. Riggs, a well known local race leader recently. "I, for one, am for Foraker and will do all I can to foster his candidacy for president and senator. Foraker has been good to the colored people and we are not going to forget him. Long before the Brownsville affair he was our friend. You remember how he stood by the colored people in his speech down at Chattanooga. Tenn. The colored people of this city don't like Taft nor the way they have been turned down by the friends of the republican party in Clark county. We don't like the manner in which Joan Wilborn was thrown out by Wraight and McGrew. Wilborn is one of the most prominent colored men in this county. He has always stood high among the people and is prominent in secret society circles. He is a Mason, an Odd Fellow and a Knight of Pythias. Commissioned a Wright instrument in getting Willborn out. I understand it was because John McGrew wants us to put one of his men in as janitor. We will fix Wright when he comes up for election again. We will fight him at the polls. I understand that he is coming out agafor the nomination for commissioner. He intimated that Willborn was not competent. Why, there is not a better man in the country. Republicans are claiming that Clark county is solid for Taft, but that they will find out that they are mistaken before many months." Mr. Riggs was instrumental in securing the editor of The Gazette for the two recent lectures on "The Black Battalion," given in this city, and announces the early organization of a Foraker club. He presided at the great mass meeting held in Dayton on Tuesday evening and is most entailastic in his support of Senator Foraker. This is true of about all the Afro-Americans in Ohio and the entire country. Mr. Riggs is a former president of the Ohio League of Republican Clubs and is well known throughout the state, being a K. P. grand lecturer. He has been a central committeeman and was an ardent supporter of M. L. Milligan for mayor. Olean, N. Y., News. Rev. Joseph Styles held his last quarterly meeting Sunday. Six members were added. Conference, Monday night. He will visit the mission at Friendship Tuesday. The steward took up a large collection—Mrs. Ephraim Johnson was called here by Mrs. Manda Middleton's illness. Mrs.Geo Brooks returned from Scio with Mrs. Ed Peterson—Mrs. Dora Peterson gave a 6 o'clock dinner in honor of Revs. Styles, Coffey, Mr. Mchane and Alf Collins—Master Sewoll Jackson's limb was scaled. Melyvin Johnson was buried from the A. M. E. church Wednesday afterocn, Rev. Coffey officiating. He leaves a wife, seven children, a brother, Mr. Albert Baker, of Cagada, two sisters, Mrs. G. H. Burghardt, and Mrs. i. J. Palmer, and mother, Mrs. Jane Peterson, to mourn his loss. Interment at Mt. View—Mr. and Mrs. Wm. and Albert Johnson have returned to Coudersport—Mrs. Wm. Mead was called to Allieghem by her sister, Mrs. Boston's illness. After Championship of England. The fact that Sam Langford, the colored middleweight from Boston, knocked out Tiger Smith, of England, in the National Sporting club, of London, takes some of the shine off Gunner Moir's performance. Moir knocked Smith out in the first round, however. If he had outclassed him 10 times as much he could hardly have won more quickly. Langford will probably be able to force Moir into a fight, in which case it would be no surprise at all to those who have seen Langford in action to hear that he had annexed the championship of England. Wellsburg, W. Va., Brevities. Mrs. Salleil Alfred has fever. Her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Ayers, is caring for her—Rally at the A. M. E. church Sunday week. Rev. Fields Fields prescheduled. Rev. S. P. West P. E., of the Wheeling district, held quarterly meeting Sunday. Conference meets at Charleston on the 7th, and will adjourn the 9th—Charlie Mashon one was here Sunday—The A. E. Church is preparing to build a parsonage. The recent flood damaged it. Thousands Starved to Death Cape Town. — Finding it useless to further resist the German troops, 15,000 Herero tribesmen decided some time ago to move northeastward with the object of establishing a settlement in the Lake Ngami region, but only 4,000 of the natives reached their destination after terrible sufferings, the remaining 11,000 having perished from starvation. 2 THE GAZETTE (IN ADVANCE.) One Year. $1.50 Six Months. 1.00 Three Months. 50 Subscribers are requested to remit by post- office money order or registered letter Entered at the postoffice in Cleveland, Ohio 86 second-class matter. All communications should be addressed: HARRY C. SMITH. Editor and Proprietor THE GAZETTE. Blackstone Building, Cleveland, Ohio Member Ohio Legislature, 1904 to 1908. 1908 to 1908. 1908 to 1902. Cleveland, Saturday, May 11, 1907. 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. J. Eimer Spyglass, of Toledo, O., the tenor, writes us from Frankfort-on-the-Main, Germany, under the date of April 21, 1907, as follows: "I have an engagement to sing Dom Pedro in Meyerbeer's grand opera "Africanerin" next October in the Lortzing theatre, Berlin. I am told that this honor has never before been accorded a Negro." He also writes that he may possibly spend August in America, stopping in Cleveland to call on The Gazette. Anent the discussion relative to the appointment of Sergeant John D. Norton as band leader (chief musician) of the Twenty-fifth infantry, we are informed by one who is in a position to know perfectly wherein he speaks that Musician Thomas, of the Tenth calvary, was promoted to exactly the same position under exactly the same conditions ten years ago. Thomas died in Laredo, Tex., last February and was buried with full military honors by members of the Twenty fifth infantry. Also that E. V. Williams held the position of chief musician of the Tenth calvary for several months until his time of enlistment expired. Furthermore it was known over a year ago that Sergeant Norton was to be given the place referred to above. He is indebted to the colonel and adjutant of his regiment for the promotion. They are certainly growing desperate down in Brownsville, Tex. Read the following dispatch from there to the daily newspapers of the country recently: "A movement has been started here to raise by popular subscription $10,000 for any officer or member of the Twenty-fifth infantry who will confess to having participated in the raid on Brownsville, or who will give the names or produce the evidence necessary to convict the guilty." Let them offer the reward without restriction to soldiers and they will get from the white riff raff of Brownsville what they evidently do not want, and instanter, too. The soldiers are innocent of the charge of "shooting up" Brownsville as every one familiar with the facts brought out in the testimony before the senate committee on military affairs knows full well now, but there are saloon-keepers and loafers and others (all white) in Brownsville who are guilty and the persons offering the reward know it. Nevertheless they would part with $10,000, and if they could only fasten the alleged crime upon innocent black men among the bravest soldiers the United States army has ever known. Under the head "Fair Play, Not Appointments," the St. Louis (Mo.) Advance published the following (every line of which we endorse most heartily) in its editorial columns recently: "The appointment of Ralph W. Tyler, the Negro from Columbus, O., as auditor in the navy department is a pleasant surprise to many colored citizens of Ohio, and would meet with more commendation than it does if the understood animus didn't have a vindictive and malicious purpose. "Just at this juncture the Negro in Ohio and throughout the nation would much rather see President Roosevelt restore Sergt. Mingo Sanders, promote him to a captaincy and reinstate, with indemnity and apology, the entire Negro battalion so outrageously dismissed, than anything else Roosevelt can do. "The Negro is getting too many and intelligent for wool-pulling. He accepts with a grin and a curse the ointment which the man extends who has wounded him. The record of the Negro soldier is the Negro's pride; it lies closest to his heart, and, inasmuch as the president has viciously harmed the least of these, he has committed an almost irreparable of fense against the race. "Restore Sanders, make him captain, place back in the United States army the heroic battalion so unjustly dismissed, and it will do more than the appointment of a thousand Tylers to win back the lost admiration of the Negro." THE TAFTS. The Taft family has never indicated any good interest in the Afro-American and does not now. A few days ago it was announced that "The Clansman." Tom Dixon's fire-brand prejudice play, was scheduled to appear at the Grand Opera House, Cincinnati. Charles P. Taft, Secretary Taft's brother, editor and publisher of the Cincinnati Times-Star, and manager of his brother's alleged candidacy for the republican nomination for the presidency, owes the theater building. When leading Afro-Americans of that city called on him last week and asked him not to permit the dirty show to be put on in his theater, he refused to make any effort whatever to comply with their respectful, reasonable and very proper request. The result is "The Clansman" is being produced at the Cincinnati Grand Opera House this week and the minds of thousands of persons, already too thoroughly saturated with prejudice and hatred of the Afro-American, are being poisoned even more against our people, if such a thing be possible. No wonder the Afro-Americans of Dayton speak out so strongly against the alleged Taft candidacy and even those who are trying to promote it. With Brother Charles alding and abetting Tom Dixon's dirty work against the race with his infernal play, "The Clansman," and Secretary Taft out-Roosevelting Roosevelt in his effort to fasten the alleged Brownsville, Texas, riot crime upon "The Black Battallion," it is high time for others of our people beside those who live in "The Gem City" of Ohio to get busy along the same resolution line. More power to those Dayton Afro-Americans and their kind. NO TAFT IN OURS. Last fall, a year ago, the writer was a candidate on the republican ticket for a fourth term in the legislature from this county. With the entire local republican ticket, with one exception, and the republican candidate for governor, Col. Myron T. Herrick, we were all sent down to defeat as the result of a speech delivered at Akron by secretary of war, Wm. H. Taft, and the reform cry of graft, directed by him and other persons against Geo. B. Cox, of Cincinnati. In plain words the effort to eliminate Cox from Ohio politics resulted in the defeat for re-election of Gov. Herrick (who did much to help himself down to defeat, we will admit) and hundreds of local republican candidates throughout the state. Now comes, Mr. Cox, according to daily papers the past week, with a suggestion that this same man, Taft, be endorsed by Ohio republicans for the republican nomination for the presidency next year, that Senator Foraker be endorsed for re-election to the United States senate and that Gov. Harris be re-elected in the next republican state convention. His suggestion is alright as far as it has reference to Messrs. Foraker and Taft, but no amount of suggestions from him or any else will secure for Secretary Taft the endorsement and support of self and race respecting Afro-Americans, particularly of Ohio, and President Brownsville Texas Roosevelt and Secretary Disfranchisement Brownsville Taft, as well as Mr. Cox, might just as well know this now as later on. It will be easier to secure the united support of organized labor throughout the country for Taft than it will be to gain the favor for him of loyal Afro-Americans. JUST BY THE WAY. News Items Boiled Down and Condensed. William Gross, his wife and their two sons were found dead from inhaling illuminating gas in their home in Jersey City. Mrs. Joseph McKently, of Spring Valley, Pa., a bride of two days, committed suicide by inhaling illuminating gas. She was 48 years old. A woman and her two children were burned to death in a fire which destroyed a block of houses occupied by three families at Beaver Brook, Pa. The striking web pressman in St. Louis decided to return to work. The employees returned to work after agreeing to settle the matter by arbitration. William O. Rice, of 131 Hickman street, Washington, D. C., shot and killed his wife, mortally wounded his baby and then committed suicide by shooting himself. Three-quarters of an estate estimated to be worth more than $1,000,000 is left to Barnard college, New York, under the will of Miss Emily O. Gibbs, the wealthy recluse who died at Newport, R. I. President Roosevelt opened the National Schuetzenbund at Charleston, S. C., by pressing a button at the White House which electrically pulled the trigger that fired three shots at a target at Charleston. Seven battalions of Turkish troops have been annihilated during a battle with rebels in the province of Yemen, Turkish Arabia. The commander-in-chief of the Turkish forces is calling for reinforcements. The British government has decided to make a grant of $750,000 to Jamaica and to guarantee the island a loan of $5,000,000 to assist in its rehabilitation from the effects of the earthquake. Ernest W. Huffcut, one of the leading authorities on constitutional law in the United States and personal counsel of Gov. Hughes, hended his life by shooting on the Hudson river steamer C. W. Morse. John W. Gates, who is going abroad for an extended period and who recounts that he is firm would retire from Wall Street, is quoted as declaring that he has abandoned Wall street for good. William Parks, 47 years old, of Zanesville, O., an inmate of the National Soldiers' home at Washington, shot and fatally wounded James Leslie, of Chicago, 30 years old, also an inmate, and afterwards committed suicide. Racial animosity is becoming increasingly manifest in northern India. The Hindus, particularly the educated and student classes, are hostile to the Europeans, any unpopular act forming a pretext for attacks on unarmed A westbound Burlington flyer was wrecked near Manhattan, Mont., by running into a hand car. The locomotive, baggage car and smoking car were killed. More more was killed and 25 passengers were injured, many of them seriously. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, MAY 11, 1907. "BUCKEYES" (Continued From First Page.) Cyrus Austin; solo, Frank Gardener; recitation, Mrs. T. M. Viney; solo, Mrs. A. S. Conklin; selection, Orpheus quartette, Mrs. Conklin, Mrs. Austin and son, Mr. Hesselgesser and the Orpheus quartette are white friends of the church and are most talented persons. The Womens' club thanks them for their aid in the eneavor to raise a fund to beautify the church. Collection $61.20.—The committee on decoration meets at Mrs. Anna Alston's Thursday. Womens' Home missionary at Mrs. Moore's Wednesday—Women taking part in the old maids' convention met at Mr. Auria Harris' Thursday. Edith Washington, of Columbus, spent Sunday in Delaware.—We want to hear the editor of The Gazette's lecture on "The Black Battalion." Youngstown—Mahoning Avenue Baptist church's missionary circle met Thursday at Mrs. Clarence Moore's on the 9th. The junior board meets at the church Saturday at 2:30 p. m. Rev. R. L. Thomas, officers and members of the church are planning a rally for the 26th—Good Hope Baptist church's May-pole was a success.—Chas. Franklin, Mrs. Bacon's brother, has returned to Erie.—Mr. Harls, of Ashtabula, who has a fractured limb, is being care for by his sister, Mrs. Lizzie Cheney.—Louisa Edwards Four were in attendance progressing. Four were in attendance nodge, F. A. M. will do degree work this week—Lee Henderson, who is in a critical condition, was taken to his home, Georgetown, Ky., last Thursday—Lewis and Swinton are enjoying a liberal patronage at their pool room on Chestnut street.—A May party was given on the 5th in Excelsior hall under the direction of A. H. Berry.—The Choral society has been revived. Chas. Berry, director—The entertainment under the direction of Mrs. Queen L. Robinson at Oak Hill Avenue church on the 30th was a success. Mayor Baldwin's address was a gem. The choir did well and the musical numbers by Mesdames R. D. Lynch, Wilson Berry and Miss Joe Blackburn were well received. Mayor Baldwin's day, Rev. Dr. Chas. Bund preached ably. Attendance large Collection $60.56. This was voluntary.—Drs. Slimpson, Pettiford and Stewart are enjoying liberal practices. They are competent and courteous.—See Ralph N. Blackburn if you want The Gazette. Lorain—The editor of The Gazette could not be present as announced in last week's issue, but will lecture on or before the 24th inst.—The Second M. E. church's Ladies' Ald society's May supper at Pierce block hall Saturday evening was a success. More than $50 realized. The mayor and many other prominent citizens were present. Also persons from Cleveland, Elyria, Akron and other neighboring towns. The pastor desires to thank the members and many friends for their assistance and patronage. A number attended the baptizing Sunday visited the churches, Rosa Filler Miller and M. J. Dean is convalescing—Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Miles were in Elyria Sunday. By request, Rev. H. H. Hinton delivered an address in Berea on the 1st on "How to Help the Home Life of the Afro-American" before the Cleveland and north Ohio conference district home missionary convention (white) of the M. E. church. Rev. W. B. Lee, pastor of the A. M. E. church and Mrs. Mary Adda Smith, of Salem, were married last week Wednesday, Rev. Dr. Chas. Bundy officiating. They are at home at 501 Dexter street. Congratulations.—Rev. Hinton's lecture "Twenty Reasons Why I am a Methodist," has been postponed by request until the 22nd. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Manuel Ward, a daughter.—Rev. Hinton preached on Sunday and then went to Elyria Sunday afternoon. The local Odd Fellows' sermon will be preached by Rev. B. K. Smith, of Oberlin, at the Second M. E. church Sunday at 2:30 p. m.—Mrs. E. D. Hinton and children were in Elyria Sunday.—Mrs. Nettle Williams has returned from Delaware. Smithfield.—Mrs. Alston, of Lima, state organizer of the F. W. clubs, accompanied by A. Guy and Lutie Tuck, of Steubenville, were entertained at the parsonage by the F. W. C. Saturday night. They also rendered an interesting program at the A. M. E. church at 2:30. Recitations by Mesdames Tuck and Guy and a paper by Mrs. Alston. They were entertained by Mrs. James Carter and Mrs. M. E. Veney. Mrs. E. A. Powell entertained Mrs. Guy at dinner Sunday. They left for Steubenville.—Mr. Amos Johnson and Nancy Catherine, of Bradley, were married at the A. M. E. parsonage Sunday by Rev. Randall.—Mr. and Mrs. John Ford were called to Steubenville Saturday by her sister's illness.—James Beall was called to Barnesville Wednesday by her mother. Mrs. Wilson's death. Mr. Beall attended the funeral Friday.—Dr. H. M. Hargrave returned from battle Creek, Mich., not much improved—Annie West and Albert visited their parents Sunday.—E. J. Bigsby and Josiah Smith visited their parents Sunday.—Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Harris, M. and L. Cooper and others attended the funeral at McIntyre Friday.—Namah Harris of Woodsdaile visited her parents last week. Mrs. Geo. Davis entered Mrs. and Mrs. Chas. Thompson, Mrs. Washington and daughter Sunday.—Mrs. M. bigby visited her son, Daniel, last week.—Rev. Randall returned Tuesday week from the oustrict conference. He also visited Mr. and Mrs. Manse Hollensworth, of Limvaille, and Mr. and Mrs. Emery Moore, of Alliance, preaching in the A. M. E. church in the latter place. The new field is very promising with 30 members. The new edifice will be dedicated May 25. Much credit is due the P. E. and pastor. Two young men of Norfolk, Va., students at Mt. Union college, are superintendent and teacher in the S. S. By five lengths the rowing crew from the British ship Argyll defeated the tars from the United States battleship Illinois, thereby winning the Battenberg cup, which was the prize offered for competition by the navies of the world, at the Jamestown exposition. BRIEF NEWS NOTES FOR THE BUSY MAN MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS OF THE PAST WEEK TOLD IN CONDENSED FORM. ROUND ABOUT THE WORLD Complete Review of Happenings of Greatest Interest from All Parts of the Globe—Latest Home and Foreign Items. A pitched battle between strikebreakers in the uniforms of car inspectors and strikers and their sympathizers was fought in San Francisco for more than an hour. Eight men were shot, among them a policeman, and one of the wounded men died in the night. The will of the late James Henry Smith was made public in New York. The value of the estate is estimated at not more than $25,000,000. The widow is left $3,000,000 in lieu of her dower, all his nearest kin receive legacies and St. Luke's and the Orthopaedic hospitals, of New York, are given $100,000 each. His nephews, George Grant Mason and William Smith Mason, are the principal beneficiaries of the estate, receiving two-thirds and one-third, respectively, of the residue. The North Coast Limited, eastbound train No. 22 on the Northern Pacific railway, was held up by two masked men near Welch's Spur, a sliding 18 miles east of Butte, Mont. Engineer James Clow was shot and killed and Fireman James Sullivan was shot through 'the arm. Several suspects were arrested. Garland Moore, who killed Clara West at Springfield, Mo., because she jilted him, was found guilty of murder in the second degree and sentenced to 25 years in the penitentiary. Irvine L. Lenroot, of Superior, Wis., withdrew from the senatorial race without making any requests as to the future course of his followers. "Lyndhurst," the pretentious home of Mrs. William Thaw in Pittsburgh, Pa., has been mortgaged for $100,000. The mortgage was made some time ago. It is held by the Fidelity Title & Trust company and will mature in three years. Indictments charging violation of the Elkins anti-rebating law were handed down by a federal grand jury in New York against the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific railroad, the Ontario & Western railroad, the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad and the Western Transit company. Fire in the Woollensack building, Canal and Washington streets, Chicago, caused a property loss estimated at $275,000. Five men were injured by dropping from the lower end of a fire escape. William A. Clark, Jr., youngest son of former Senator Clark, was married at Butte, Mont., to Mrs. Alice T. Medlin, divorced wife of Marco J. Medin, a business man of Butte. The life insurance companies intimate that they will withdraw from Texas when the new insurance law of that state becomes effective June 1. Certain persons have voluntarily restored to the government between 1,000 and 2,000 acres of valuable coal lands in Colorado, acquired irregularly. Four trainmen were killed, four others were injured and three passengers were hurt in a collision on the Baltimore & Ohio railroad near Wheeling, W. Va. Excavation for the month of April in Culebra cut of the Panama canal amounted to 879,527 cubic yards, and at the Gatum lock site to 108,000 cubic yards. Walter C. Davis, a San Francisco carpenter, went insane and murdered a family of six persons with whom he resided. William O. Rice, a telegraph operator in Washington, after a quarrel killed his wife, shot his baby and committed suicide. Alex R. Chisolm, former paying teller, charged with having embezzled $100,000 from the First National bank of Birmingham, Ala., was convicted and sentenced to ten years in prison. The Irish bill, giving Ireland a certain measure of Self-government, was introduced in the house of commons by the chief secretary for Ireland, Mr. Birrell. The town of Bocas del Toro, Panama, was practically destroyed by fire. Charles Harris, a negro farm hand, who shot and seriously wounded Hayden Pearson, a farmer, at Dearing, Ga., was lynched by a crowd of 40 unmasked men. A supposed desperado who was killed at Willows, Cal., after a running fight with a posse of officers, has been identified as Count Otto von Waldstein, of Austria. The Overland limited on the Santa Fe was derailed at Tampas, Cal., but none of the passengers was hurt. P. Smiley, until recently editor of the Warren (O.) Tribune and for years a prominent figure in northeastern Ohio politics, died suddenly of acute indigestion. Gov. Deneen appealed to the people of Illinois for help for the starving peasants of Russia. Practically all of the operators of the Pacific States Telegraph & Telephone company struck for increased wages. John L. Routt, thrice governor of Colorado, was declared too insane to manage his estate and his daughter was appointed conservatrix. The British tank steamer Silverlip was destroyed by explosions of benzine in her cargo, five of her crew being killed. The bodies of 11 dead have been recovered from the Whipple mine, West Virginia, where an explosion of gas occurred. Sixteen survivors of the crew of the wrecked bark Oriente were rescued by a fishing smack north of Cape Hatteras after being afloat in a small leaking boat for 14 hours. The Hotel Carrolma at Durham, N.C., was destroyed by fire, all the guests escaping. The entire peri colony of D'Arcy Island, B. C., consisting of eight Chinese, has been sent back to China. Charles E. Halliwell, vice president of the American Tobacco company, and one of the heaviest stockholders in the corporation, died suddenly of apoplexy at New York city. He was reputed to be worth $20,000,000. Dr. John Watson ("Ian Maclaren") the noted author, clergyman and lecturer, died at Mount Pleasant, Ia., of an abscess in the ear, after an illness of two weeks. Eleven of the 13 Italians who had been on trial at Wilkesbarre, Pa., charged with "Blackhand" crimes were declared guilty. The other two defendants were acquitted. Seven battalions of Turkish troops, about 6,500 men, were practically annihilated in a battle with rebels in the province of Yemen, Turkish Arabia. Gen. Juan Estrada, of the Nicaraguan army, was appointed commandant of Peurto Cortez, in place of the Honduran commandant. Three thousand operatives of textile mills in the state of Orizaba, Mexico, went on strike and only a large force of rurales kept them from violence. Ernest McPherson, aged 26, son of a prominent cotton manufacturer of Ontario, Canada, was drowned in the plunge at Gregson Springs, Mont. George W. Sheppard, probably the largest man in the central states, weighing 535 pounds, died at Jacksonville, Ill., of paralysis. He was 51 years old. Counsel for William Haywood, at Boise, Idaho, argued for a bill of particulars that would disclose the state's case, and were opposed by Senator Borah for the prosecution A storm of wind and rain which was general throughout a considerable area in northern Texas and which at some places assumed the proportions of a tornado, resulted in the loss of at least three lives, the injury of many other persons and great damage to property and crops. Several villages were wiped out. A strike of 350 laborers in the Haveneyer Sugar Refining company's plant in Brooklyn was attended with some disturbance which the police reserves were called upon to quell. A sungulinary quarrel between a band of Kabyles and a number of phosphate miners from the Methoula mine in Algeria resulted in the killing of 15 men and the wounding of many more. Six men, alleegd to be the leaders of the mob that lynched a negro at Sterrett, I. T., on March 31, were arrested at Durant and Sterrett by the United States marshal and held for the grand jury without bail on the charge of murder. James Leftwich, a wealthy cattleman of Loco, I. T., and candidate for state senator on the Democratic ticket, shot and killed T. J. Clark, also a wealthy cattleman, as the result of a feud. Allie Beeson, 16 years old, daughter of a farmer living near Cassville, Mo., was rendered unconscious by falling hail, and may die. Rev. Henry Bryant, a colored preacher of Bridgeport, O., was killed in Grand Rapids, Mich., by a folding bed closing and breaking his neck. The street car motormen and conductors of San Francisco struck for an eight-hour day and a flat wage of three dollars. The company announced that it would operate its cars with nonunion crews, calling on the authorities for protection if necessary. Max Francis Klepper, artist and illustrator, died at his home at Flatbush, N. Y. He was an animal painter of note, 46 years old. Miss Harriett T. Haskell, for 40 years head of Monticello seminary for young ladies at Godfrey, Ill., died of heart trouble, aged 72. Dr. George Collins, a young physician of Cincinnati, on his way to that city to be married, died in a Pullman car of a north-bound train at Montgomery, Ala. A dispatch from Klamath Falls, Ore., says Count Otto von Walderstein, who was reported killed at Willows, Cal., is alive and well at Klamath Falls. Three children named Dominique were burned to death in Blind River, Mich. Fire in the printing plant of the Blanchard Press New York, did $125,000 damage. The trial of three former employees of the Shelby Steel Tube company, charged with conspiracy to defraud the government by supplying defective boiler tubes for war vessels, was begun in Pittsburg. One of the defendants pleaded guilty and turned state's evidence. Theodore Nemoyer brought suit against the Chicago-New York Electric Air Line Railway company in Chicago, to enjoin it from doing business in Illinois, and asking an accounting and the appointment of a receiver. More than 100 Italians in Buffalo, N. Y., attacked a motorman who ran his car through a parade, and were routed by a score of police after a bloody battle. Guatemala has apologized to the Mexican government for insinuating that the Mexican legation at Guatemala City was harboring the men who are suspected of attempting to assassinate President Cabrera, of Guatemala. The International Kindergarten union, in session at New York, decided to make a crusade against the comic supplements of Sunday newspapers. Monroe Salisbury, a well known horse owner and breeder of San Francisco, died in New York, where he had gone for treatment for cancer. Serious anti-European riots have occurred at Rawalpindi, in the Punjab. A Hindu mob burned two bungalows, pilaged the mission church, looted the post office, burned a garage and all the motor cars in it, destroyed the plant of a power house and smashed the windows in the houses of many Europeans. Ruth Nash, 16, of Flint, Mich., and her two little nephews were killed by a Grand Trunk passenger train. Peter Maytubby, for two terms governor of the Chickasaw tribe of Indians, is dead at his home in Caddo, L. T., aged 60 years. 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, Zanesville, East Liverpool, London, London, Ravenna, Akron, Sidney, Gallipolis, Cambridge, Portsmouth, Chillicothe, Lancaster, Kenton, Hamilton, Toledo, O.; Pittsburg, Alleghey, Sewickley, Sharon, Pa.; Wheeling, Wellsburg and Parkersburg, W. Va., and other places where we have none. Write to the editor of The Gazette, Blackstone building, Cleveland, O., and terms will be sent promptly. Our readers can oblige us by sending the address of any good person or persons in any of the cities named above or others, to whom we can write relative to the matter. Everybody GAZETTE YOU CONNECTING Cleveland and Buttalo WHILE YOU SLEEP One Of Its Many Subscribers? SEND ADDRESSES OF DISCHARGED SOLDIERS. Senator Foreaker is desirous that all the "discharged without honor" soldiers who want a hearing in their own defence at the senate investigation have the opportunity. 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They weigh no more than 10 pounds and are being given by several layers of thin, specially prepared fabric on the tread. That "Holding back Weave" tread which prevents all air from squeezed out between the tire and the road thus overcoming all suction. The regular price of these tires is $19.99, and the road tread to the rider of only $4.80 per pair. All orders shipped same day letter is received. Weship G.D.D. is a approval. You do not pay a cent until you have examined and found them strictly as represented. FULL CASH WITH ORDER and enclose the payment. We will also send one nickel plated brass hand pump and two Samsonite metal pump cushions these metal puncture closers to be used in case of intentional knife cuts or heavy gashes). Tires to be returned at OUR expense if for any reason they are not satisfactory on examination. We are perfectly reliable and money sent to us is as safe as in a bank. Ask your Postmaster, Banker, Express or Freight Agent or the Editor of this paper about us. If you order a pair of these tires, you will find that they will ride easier, run faster, wear better, last longer and look finer than any tire you have ever used or seen at any price. We know that you will be so well pleased that when you want a bicycle you will give us your order. We want you to send us a small trial order at once, hence this remarkable tire offer. COASTER-BRAKES, built-up wheels, saddles, pedals, parts and repairs, and prices charged by dealers and repair men. Write for our big SUNDAY catalogue. DO NOT WAIT but write us a postal today. DO NOT THINK OF BUYING a bicycle or a pair of tires from anyone until you know the new and wonderful offers we are making. It only costs a postal to learn everything. Write it NOW. MEAD CYCLE COMPANY, Dept. "L" CHICAGO, IL. MAKE MONEY! Reads The Old, Reliable ARE A. 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This is the first and only great Union Order in this country, holding an International Union Charter from the Courts, which gives a full Protection and Benefits to our race. There is no color, race or sex discrimination in this Order. The negro has an equal standing with the white members, and can be elected to hold any office. Every effort is made to advance the condition of the business by seeing equal opportunities to work with each environment, to learn the trades and to have steady work at high wages and Union hours. The Grand Lodge donates $100.20 for the burial of each deceased member. A fine monthly Journal is published. A Membership Book of the Order is recognized by all Lodges everywhere. Dedicated members are assisted. Each member and Subordinate Lodge has the privilege of buying stock in the Order, on low monthly payments, said stock paying 8 per cent interest, guaranteed. A Leading Negro Deputy is wanted in each locality, AT ONCE, to form Lodges, sell Buttons, take Journal Subscriptions, sell Stock and act an DISTRICT DEPUTY ORGANIZER. This work can be done in space hours, but many are devoting their whole time and attention to it. Big money is made by good hunting. Write at once. State name of this paper, and enclose 10 cents for full information and postage. Address THE I. L. U. GRAND LODGE, 34 to 40 Canbury Building, Dayton, Ohio. One Night Lake Erie The Twin Steps of the Lakes "CITY OF ERIE" "CITY OF BUFFALO" Both together in all respects the guests and fastest that are being run in the interior of the traveling public station. STATE TIME CAND. DAILY INCLUDING BUNDAY LEAVE ARRIVE CLEVELAND S.P.M. BUFFALO 6:30 A.M. BUFFALO S.P.M. CLEVELAND 6:30 A.M. CENTRAL STANDARD TIME Connections made at Buffalo with trains for all over and all points West for Toronto, Detroit and all points West and Southwest, and tickets remain. R, or N. L. $L. R. L. R. will be accepted on this Company's Steamer with extra charge. Species may be shipped to Buffalo and Nigaua Falls every Saturday Night, also Buffalo to Cleveland. Ask Kirk for $R. G. Lane. Send four cents for illustrated pamphlet. the Cleveland & Buffalo Transit Co. W. F. Herman, G. P. A., Cleveland, Ohio ONLY $4.80 PER PAIR Notice the thick rubber tread on the rubber strip. This and "b" also im strip "b" to provide him cutting. This make- it- easier ELASTIC and ELASTIC. 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, Collector and Solicitor. Bell 'Phone, North 1014 R. Cleveland, Saturday, May 11, 1907. De Hoff's News Depot, No. 581 Central Ave. near cor. Sterling Ave. Open Sunday. C. C. Johnson, 3315 Central Ave. S. E. F. Valentine's Grocery Store, No. 366 Central Ave. between Perry and Harmon Sts. J. S. Hail's Jewelry Store, No. 3121 E Central Ave. S. E. Mrs. J. T. Smith, 35 Blaine St. Dr. Boyd left Wednesday to visit relatives in Indian Territory. Leroy A. Douglass was confined to his home the first of the week with an attack of acute indigestion. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Lewis have moved in with Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Parker, of Greenwood street. Mr. and Mrs. Dorssey Moore and family have moved to 2463 Central avenue. He has purchased J. W. Crawford's restaurant. Chas. Jackson, Robert Drake, John Christian and James Rosenberg, of Akron, called on the Misses Ruby and Blanche Johnson recently. The local Odd Fellows and Household of Ruth's annual sermon will be preached at 2:30 p. m. Sunday at Shiloh church. All are cordially invited. Edith Jackson, of 1112 Scovill avenue, and Chas. Woods will be married Monday evening at the Christian and Missionary Alliance temple, Eagle avenue. Wm. Smith, enroute to New York City from Dayton, where he called to see his fiance, Miss Cora Gillespie, stopped in Cleveland Wednesday afternoon. Miss L. H. Hopkins is serving a splendid 15 cent business lunch from 11:30 to 2 p. m. and a 25 cent regular dinner from 5 to 3 p. m. daily upstairs over the Z club, 12 Hickox street. Try them and be convinced. Mr. Geo. Weaver, of 2338 E. 34th street, aged 40, died May 1. Funeral May 3, Rev. Dr. H. C. Bailley, officiating. The remains were shipped to Columbus. W. W. Gee, funeral director. The editor of The Gazette acknowledges the receipt of an invitation from the board of trustees and faculty, of Tuskegee, Ala. Normal and Industrial institute, to attend the 26th anniversary exercises May 30. The editor of The Gazette returned Wednesday morning from Dayton where he lectured on Friday and Tuesdays evenings, and in Galloway hall, Wilberforce, on Monday evening. Splendid weddings, all of them. G. Adkins, 2613 Central avenue, desires to announce that he is serving no time dinners daily as well as five o'clock dinners; also ice cream, ice cream sodas and cigars. The restaurant is open from 7 a. m. until 9 p. m. Mrs. Grace W. Brown so acquitted herself in singing illustrated songs before a large audience Sunday at the Cleveland theater, that the manager of the Lyric theater has engaged her to sing both Sunday afternoon and evening. The Gazette gives you all the race news the country over every week—not a lot of paper. Read the live paper—the "Old Reliable Gazette," and subscribe for it, telling your friends and acquaintances to do likewise. Have you kept posted on the Brownsville, Tex., controversy? Walter Brooks, Robert (Hoofey) Lawson, Nahum Brasher, Charles S. Sutton, M. W. H. Gardener are the Afro-Americans appointed school enumerators on Wednesday by Geo. E. Myers, clerk of the board of elections. Rah! for George. He's alright! This is the best showing for us made yet. The man of the church at this day knows scarce anything of heaven and hell, or of his own life after death, although these things are all described in Swedenborg's mission. Many who are born within the church even deny them, saying in their heart, who has come from that world and told us? Therefore, lest such denial prevail with those who have much worldly wisdom, and should also infect and corrupt the simple in heart and spirit, Swedenborg writes, "It has come to me to work in company with angels and to talk with them, to see what is in heaven and hell for 13 years. I can now describe these things from what I have heard and seen, in the hope that thus ignorance may be enlightened and unbelief dispelled." "Man Building," a treatise on human life and its forces, by Lewis Ransom Fiske, LLL., was originally brought out by Dr. Fiske in 1901, a private edition of only 1,000 copies being printed at that time. For a time the book was sight of sight. Recently it was republished for general circulation. One of the chief purposes of the book is to show parents their power to the fullest measure of capacity, and to teach them directing the work of his pupils in directing the work of their pupils in directing the work of their being for the higher good." The book is strictly scientific without being technical, and through it all there is sincere and broad religious spirit. "Man Building" is sane, wholesome and uplifting in every page, and above all it, is practical. It not only, tells why and what, but how. The Science Press, 209 State street, Chicago, Ill. The annual parish meeting of St. The annual parish meeting of Episcopal Episcopal Church held May 6 in parish rooms. The re- ports of the secretary and treasurer showed the most prosperous year on all lines in its history. At the conclusion of the reports from all the societies the rector announced the appointments of the various officers for the ensuing year: Vestry committee: T. W. Walker. Hon. John P. Green, Edw. Daw, secretary; Louis Jones, Jos. W. Smith, treasurer; J. Walter Wills, Jacob E. Reed and Chas. Leatherman. Woman's auxiliary: Mrs. L. H. Chessnut, president; Edward Daw, vice; Chas. Leatherman, secretary; Jacob E. Reed, treasurer. Woman's guild: Mrs. Frank B. Scott, president; John W. Nooks, vice; Louis Jones, secretary; Alex Stanley, treasurer. Altar guild: Mrs. R. W. Baglain, directress; Miss Helen Brooks, vice; Miss Bertie Cossey, vice; Miss Isabelle Embrey, treasurer. Junior auxiliary: Mrs. Louise Cooper, directress; J. Walter Wills, choirmaster; J. Walter choir-mother. Delegates to the annual dicesan convention: Edw. Daw and J. Walter Wills. Superintendent of the S. S. Robert R. Cheeks; Miss Eleanor Alexander, organist. Rev. R. W. Baglain, rector. Bishop W. A. Leonard will visit St. Andrew's for Holy confirmation May 15 at 8 p. m. mrs. Kittle S. Mitchell will sing the offertory. As to Charles S. Sutton and T. E. Green. To the Editor: There was published in your paper Friday afternoon an article which in substance, charged the senior class of the law department of Western Reserve university of preferring cheating in the examinations given that institution against T. E. Green and Charles S. Sutton, the two colored members of that class. As class president and also as member ex-officio of the honor committee, I desire to say, both for the purpose of defending the class, as well as exonerating the two colored gentlemen, that no such charges were made or even intimated. The publication of such an article was certainly an injustice. It is true there was a class meeting over which I presided, but so far as the cheating charges are concerned they are erroneous. JAMES L. VAUGHAN, President Senior Class W. R. U. Railroads are Indicted for Rebating. New York. — Indictments charging violation of the Eikins antirebating act were handed down by a federal grand jury Tuesday against the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific railroad, the Ontario & Western railroad, the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul railroad and the Western Transit Co. All the indictments contain several counts, the largest number being in that against the Ontario & Western. The charges are said to be based upon payments alleged to have been made by the railroad companies to the American Sugar Refining Co. Will Withdraw from Texas. New York—Following a meeting on Tuesday of the Association of Life Insurance Presidents, a statement was issued in which it was intimated that the companies represented in the association would withdraw from Texas when the new insurance law of that state becomes effective, June 1. The new legislation, which provides that 75 per cent. of the reserve on Texas policies shall be invested in Texas securities, is declared by the association to be confiscatory in its effect. Small Riots Followed a Strike New York—A strike of 350 laborers in the Havemeyer Sugar Refining Co.'s plant in Brooklyn Monday was attended with some disturbance which the police reserves were called upon to quell. The men left their work in a body in the forenoon, demanding an increase in wages from 15 to 18 cents an hour. They waited about the doors of the refinery until noon. When the other employees of the refinery attempted to leave the buildings the strikers attacked them and small riots ensued. A Destructive Storm in Texas. Fort Worth, Tex.—A storm of wind and rain was general, throughout a considerable area of north Texas on Monday and at some places it assumed the proportion of a tornado. It resulted in the loss of at least two lives, the injury of many other persons, and great damage to property and crops. Several villages were wiped out, but because of the prostration of both telephone and telegraph wires, details are almost impossible to obtain. Minister was Killed in a Folding Bed. Grand Rapids, Mich.—Rev. Henry Bryant, a colored Baptist minister of Bridgeport, O., who came here on a trial call from the Messiah church, was found dead Monday in a partly closed folding bed at the home of James Boyd, where he boarded. The bed had closed on him during the night, breaking his heck. He was 37 years old and leaves a widow and eight children at Bridgeport. Feudists Renew Hostilities. Middlesboro, Ky.-In a fight on Sugar Run run creek Tuesday John Howard and Martin Green were killed and Elphen Howard is said to have been fatally shot. James and George Green were badly wounded. The fight was between the Greens and Howards and will probably reopen a bloody feud in the mountains of this county. All the men are widely connected. Eruption of Stromboli Continues. Eruption of Stromboli Continues. Messina, Sicily. — The Stromboli volcano has been active since April 28. Cinders and stones, accompanied by loud explosions, have been frequently thrown out of the crater. The vegetation in the vicinity of the mountain has been destroyed. The people continue to leave the island. Embezzled Chisholm Is Convicted. Birmingham, Ala.—The jury in the case of Alex R. Chisholm, former paying teller, charged with having embezzled $100,000 from the First National Bank of Birmingham, brought in a verdict of guilty and fixed the punishment at six years in the federal penitentiary. $300,000 Goes Up in Smoke. Chicago, Ill.—The seven-story brick building located at the corner of Washington and Canal streets occupied by Morley Brothers, wholesale dealers in saddlery and hardware, destroyed by fire last night. Loss $200,000. THE GAZE11E, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, MAY 11, 1907. THE Z CLUB 12 Hickox St., Cleveland, O. RALPH DOCTOR AND BILLY BRACK FIRST-CLASS WAITERS FURNISHED FOR PARTIES, BANQUETS AND BALLS HEADQUARTERS FOR RAILROAD MEN. ALL SPORTING EVENTS RECEIVED BY SPECIAL WIRE. Cafe AND Bar in cone BUSINESS LUNCH FROM 11:30 A.M. Music and dinner 5 to 8 p.m. 'Phone Cafe Stent Order of m, U. S. A. Dev. W. D. Woods, m, Roanoke, Va. Uzizer, C. M. Smith. Cafe and Barber Shop in connection. BUSINESS LUNCH EVERY DAY FROM 11:30 A.M. to 2 P.M., 15C. Music and dinner (short orders) from 5 to 8 p. m. daily. 'Phone Central 5727. JOHN S. HALL, WATCHMAKER & JEWELER. REPAIRING A SPECIALTY. Bell-North 1063 X. 629 Central Ave., CLEVELAND, 0. The only Afro-American jewelry store in the city. 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At many points throughout the three provinces the newcomers are busy unloading their stock and effects, working night and day in order to get on their farms and become active agencies in the effort to make the year 1907 the banner year in grain producing in Western Canada. As compared with districts many hundred miles further south than this, it will be seen that Western Canada ranks amongst the first in the line of seeding operations for the present year. It is safe to say that farmers who get in their crop before the 20th or 24th of May, will receive magnificent returns. A number of those coming in this spring, who had not their land prepared last fall, will break up enough land to get in a crop of oats and barley and probably some flax. This, together with the vegetables they will plant, will give them ample food for themselves and stock during the coming summer and winter. These early seeding operations are not confined to one district but are spread over a country 900 miles long by 400 miles in width. The agents of the Canadian Government, located at different points throughout the United States, are busy giving information regarding the many new districts that are being made available for settlers. Low railway rates, information and literature are given on application to the agent, whose name appears in advertisement elsewhere in this paper. WHERE WOMAN IS SUPERIOR. Vegetarian Springs a Few Facts on Astonished Companions. "Since the first of the year," he said, "I haven't had a smoke, and I haven't taken a drink." Everybody looked at him with amazement, respect and awe. How strong-willed he must be, they said; how ascetic, how spiritual! It was tremendous. "And yet," said a pale vegetarian, "all women, or at least 99 per cent of them, maintain this wonderful abstinence their whole life long. Why don't you praise them for it?" With his medicated handkerchief he brushed the sneer from his lips. "We men," he said, "beside women are hogs. We call our women silly; we won't give them the vote; but the average woman lives on a higher plane than the average man. She thinks of nobler things than money-crubbing, drink, tobacco, food. "Did you ever hear your wife growl about the cooking? Did you ever hear of a woman epileure? No; woman is above the hoglike pleasures of the table. She is above such a tobacco and whisky seance as is now going on here." "The vegetarian put on his cap of medicated flannel, and despite the warmth of the night, drew the flannel carts over his ears. "Give woman her due," he ended. "She is a finer-fibered, a more temperate, a more spiritual creature than coarse, gross, hog-like man."—Cincinnati Enquirer. No Cause for Alarm. The honeymoon had bumped the bumps. "You know, John," said the young wife, "that I used to be your type-writer." "Um—yes," grunted John. "Well," she continued, "I wish you would discharge the girl you have now and hire a man in her place." "Huh!" rejoined hubby. "I hope you don't think I would make a fool of myself twice in the same way." "Our Best Society." Governess (In Smart Set family)—Why, how loving you children are! Such affection between brother and sister is delightful to see. Clive—Yes'm. We're playin' grown-ups. I'm the husband an' Barbara she's the maid—Puck. FRIENDS HELP St. Paul Park Incident. "After drinking coffee for breakfast I always felt languid and dull, having no ambition to get to my morning duties. Then in about an hour or so a weak, nervous derangement of the heart and stomach would come over me with such force I would frequently have to lie down. "At other times 1 had severe headaches; stomach finally became affected and digestion so impaired that I had serious chronic dyspepsia and constipation. A lady, for many years State President of the W. C. T. 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Pattern No. 5789.—The blouse waist here illustrated is in charming style, and is one of the newest and snartest of the season. It is known as the "Marie Antoinette," and promises to be very popular. A blouse of this kind can be pretty developed in any of the cotton or light weight woolen materials. As shown in the illustration it was made of natural colored pongee trimmed with frills of brown taffeta. The sleeves may be full length or shorter, the short sleeves being finished by modish turned back cuffs while those in full length are gathered into straight bands. A turned-down collar over a standing band gives stylish neck completion. Madras, linen, pongue and silk are all appropriate for the making. For 36 inches bust measure three yards of 36-inch material will be required. Sizes for 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 and 42 inches bust measure. 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 number of pattern wanted. For convenience, write your order on the following coupon: No. 5789. SIZE..... NAME..... ADDRESS..... A SMART OVER-BLOUSE. 5756 Pattern No. 5755—No more becoming style has taken the popular fancy than the pretty over-blouse here pictured. It is made of plaid laffta, and is cut out in the upper part to show a dainty lace lace underneath. The mode is quite simple in construction, and may be easily and quickly made. Most of the seasonable waltings are adaptable as Henrietta, wool batiste, taffeta and the novelty silks. For 36-inch bust measure one and one-eighth yards of 36-inch material will be required. Sizes for 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 and 42 inches bust measure. 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 number of pattern wanted. For convenience, write your order on the following coupon: No. 5756. SIZE..... NAME..... ADDRESS.... WAS VERY NEAR DEATH. Sensations of Man Who Grasped Live Electric Wire. Otis Aultman, a photographer, was almost killed yesterday afternoon while attempting to turn on a 16-candle power incandescent light in his studio, says the Denver Post. He was badly shocked and burned and lay unconscious for almost an hour. The breaking of the electric wire from which he hung suspended is all that saved his life. Aultman's body shows the marks of his terrible experience. His chest is as black as if it had been painted, his right hand is swollen, and blue marks run up both arms. He says that when he seized the light the shook sent peculiar but not unpleasant thrills through his body, and later, as he began to lose consciousness, a sickening sensation came over him and the blood in his veins seemed to congeal. His heart action became erratic, and every beat gave him great pain. Suddenly all became black, and he did not know anything until he was revived by friends, who found him un- conscious in a corner of the studio, with the broken wire and lamp socket still clutched tightly in his right hand. One man in five and one woman in 30 are slightly color blind. TEN YEARS OF PAIN. Unable to Do Even Housework Be cause of Kidney Troubles. Mrs. Margaret Emmerich, of Clinton St., Napoleon, O., says: "For fifteen years I was a great sufferer I was a great sufferer from kidney troubles. My back pained me terribly. Every turn or move caused sharp, shooting pains. My eyesight was poor, dark spots appeared before me, and I had dizzy from kidney troubles. My back pained me terribly. Every turn or move caused sharp, shooting palms. My eyesight was poor, dark spots appeared before me, and I had dizzy spells. For ten years I could not do housework, and for two years did not get out of the house. The kidney secretions were irregular, and doctors were not helping me. Doan's Kidney Pills brought me quick relief, and finally cured me. They saved my life." Sold by all dealers, 50 cents a box. Foster-Milburn Co. Buffalo, N.Y. IT WOULD BE SIMPLE. Formalities Compiled with, Escape from Hotel Was Easy. In the days before the dawn of his fame it was the practice of a certain well known author to wander up and down the land seeking what he might devour in the way of suggestion and local color. In this way he had drifted down into Arkansas, "roughing it," and not, as he expresses it, presenting an appearance calculated to inspire a hotel proprietor with unlimited confidence. The only hotel in the town, a frame structure, seemed to have been built upon the theory that there was plenty of room straight up, but that ground had to be bought, and the wanderer was shown to a room on the third floor, reached through many narrow and winding passages. From the one window it was a straight drop to the ground. "Say, how would I get out of this place in case of fire?" he asked the landlord, who had brought up his grip. The other eved him coldly. "Wall," he drawled, "all yo' would have to do would be to show their night watchman—the one with the shotgun—a receipted bill foh yo' board an' lodgin', an' get him to tie up their bulldog-"Harper's Weekly. No Criticism to Make. Mrs. Hwfa Williams, the English society leader, talked at a dance in New York about the fashion of riding astride that has taken hold of English equestriennes. "Some of our young women," said Mrs. Williams, "dress out and out like men. They wear a long coat cut like a hunting coat, a cap, riding breeches and top boots. It is a handsome costume and it is not immodest, but undoubtedly it attracts a good deal of attention. They have been telling in London lately a story about an English girl who has adopted this riding rull. Pulling up her horse one afternoon she said to an artisan who was passing: 'Can you tell me if this is the way to Wareham?' "The man looked her over carefully. Then he touched his cap in a respectful manner and replied: 'Yes, miss, yes—you seem to 'ave got 'em on all right." Costly Cyclopedia. The revision of the great Korean cyclopedia called Munhon Pigo, which was ordered by the government softer months ago, is now completed, and it consists of an edition of 29 volumes, which will be published at an expense of 47,500 yen—Korean Daily News. MORE BOXES OF GOLD And Many Greenbacks. 325 boxes of Gold and Greenbacks will be sent to persons who write the most interesting and truthful letters of experience on the following topics: 1. How have you been affected by coffee drinking and by changing from coffee to Postum? 2. Give name and account of one or more coffee drinkers who have been hurt by it and have been induced to quit and use Postum. 3. Do you know any one who has been driven away from Postum because it came to the table weak and characterless at the first trial? 4. Did you set such a person right regarding the easy way to make it clear, black, and with a snappy, rich taste? 5. Have you ever found a better way to make it than to use four heaping teaspoonfuls to the pint of water, let stand on stove until real boiling begins, and beginning at that time when actual boiling starts, boil full 15 minutes more to extract the flavor and food value. (A piece of butter the size of a pea will prevent boiling over.) This contest is confined to those who have used Postum prior to the date of his advertisement. Be honest and truthful, don't write poetry or fanciful letters, just plain, ruthful statements. Contest will close June 1st, 1907, and no letters received after that date will be admitted. Examinations of letters will be made by three judges, not members of the Postum Cereal Co., Ltd. Their decisions will be fair and final, and a neat little box containing a $10 gold piece sent to each of the five writers of the most interesting letters, a box containing a $5 gold piece to each of the 20 next best, a $2 greenback to each of the 100 next best, and a $1 greenback to each of the 200 next best, making cash prizes distributed to 325 persons. Every friend of Postum is urged to write and each letter will be held in high esteem by the company, as an evidence of such friendship, while the little boxes of gold and envelopes of money will reach many modest writers whose plain and sensible letters contain the facts desired, although the sender may have but small faith in winning at the time of writing. Talk this subject over with your friends and see how many among you can win prizes. It is a good, honest competition and in the best kind of a cause, and costs the competitors absolutely nothing. Address your letter to the Postmum Cereal Co., Ltd. Battle Creek, Mich., writing your own name and address clearly. INDIANA PEOPLE IN WESTERN CANADA. What Shall We Do?—I've Got to Build Granaries. A letter written to a Canadian Government agent from Tipton, Indiana, is but one of many similar that are in the hands of the Canadian government agents whose privilege it is to offer one hundred and sixty acres of land free, and low railway fares. But here is a copy of the letter: "Tipton, Ind., Nov. 19, 1906. "At your earnest solicitation a party of us from Tipton left May 15 for Western Canada. Our interviews with you and a careful study of your literature led us to expect great things of your country when we should arrive there, and we were not disappointed. We went prepared to make a careful examination of the country and its resources, and we did so. At early dawn the second morning out of Tipton we woke in a new world. As far as the eye could reach was an apparently limitless expanse of new sown wheat and prairie grasses. The vivid green of the wheat just beginning to stool out, and the inky blackness of the soil contrasted in a way beautiful to see. An hour or two later we steamed into Winnipeg. Here we found a number of surprises. A hundred thousand souls well housed, with every convenience that goes to make a modern up-to-date city—banks, hotels, newspapers, stores, electric light, street railways, sewerage, waterworks, asphalt pavements, everything. With eyes and ears open we traveled for two thousand miles through Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, going out over the Canadian Pacific railway, via Calgary to Edmonton, and returning to Winnipeg over the Canadian Northern railway. In the meantime we made several side trips and stopped off at a number of points where we made drives into the surrounding country. On every hand were evidences of prosperity. The growing wheat, oats, rye, flax, barley, not little patches, but great fields, many of them a square mile in extent, the three, five and sometimes seven-horse teams laying over an inky black ribbon of yellow stubble, generally in furrows straight as gun barrels and at right angles from the roads stretching into the distance, contrasted strangely with our little fields at home. The towns both large and small were doubly conspicuous, made so, first by their newness and second by the towering elevators necessary to hold the immense crops of wheat grown in the immediate neighborhood. the newness, the thrift, the hustle, the sound of saw and hammer, the tents housing owners of buildings in various stages of completion, the pilots of household effects and agricultural implements at the railway stations waiting to be hauled out to the "Claims," the occasional steam plow turning its twenty or thirty acres a day, the sod house, the unpainted house of wood, the up-to-date modern residence with large red barn by, all these were seen everywhere we went, an earnest of prosperity and wealth to be. We talked with men and visited their places that four years ago was unbroken prairie. Their houses, barns, implements and live stock were the equal of anything in Tipton County, and why not, when they were raising five, ten and twenty, yes, in one instance, forty thousand bushels of wheat a year. The fact that such large yields of wheat are raised so easily and so surely impressed us very favorably. And when we saw men who four or five years ago commenced there with two or three thousand dollars, and were now as well fixed and making money much easier and many times faster than lots of our acquaintances on Indiana farms fifty years cleared and valued at four times as much, we decided to invest. So we bought in partnership a little over two thousand acres, some of it improved and in wheat. Before leaving Indiana we agreed that if the opportunities were as great as they were represented to be, that we would buy, and own in partnership a body of land, and leave one of our number to look after and operate it. This we accordingly did. Just before time to thresh I received a letter from him. "What shall we do?" said he. "I've got to build granaries. There's so much wheat that the railways are just swamped. We can't get cars and the elevators are all full. I never saw anything like it." In reply we wrote, "Good for you. Go ahead and build; your story sounds better than the letters we used to get from our friends in Kansas when they bewailed the fact that the hard wheat had been destroyed by the chinch bugs and the corn by hot winds, and that they must sell the stock for means to live on. Yes, build by all means." And he did, and our wheat put in by a renter made twenty-seven bushels per acre. (Sd) A. G. BURKHART. (Sd) J. TRELOAR-TRESIDDER. (Sd) WALTER W. MOUNT. In Northeast Australia. Northeast Australia develops very slowly. Farmers grow maize in the old-fashioned way. The maize crop in Queensland this year is a record one. Canning pineapples is becoming an important industry in Queensland. 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