The Gazette

L. EVENING DRESS DESIGNS IN UNION THERE IS STRONGER TWENTY-FIFTH The Se EVENING DRESS The two most remarkable features of the present season in connection with the dress question may be said to be the very long, very plain, and very tight skirts—for afternoon and evening wear—and the tunics which are veritable overdresses. With regard to the long, plain skirts it is certain that they will be amazingly fashionable for many months to come; their charm is only just now making itself felt because at first sight they were so remarkable that many women hesitated about adopting them. It is not that we have not had long, untrimmed skirts with as before now, but it is that these particular skirts are designed to display the lines of the figure with such absolutes accuracy that the effect is, as I have said, startling—at the effect. Almost invariably these dresses are cut in princess-style, with a seam right down the front. In some cases several small pleats are made in this seam, giving the dress the effect of having been too long when sent home from the dressmaker's establishment and of having been "tucked up" by, more or less, amateur hands! This seems a funny description of a very new Parisian fashion, but "twill serve. Anyone who has seen the particular skirt I mean will understand. Happily many of the new evening and afternoon dresses of this order are made without these peculiar little pleats on the front breadth, for, though novel, they are not pretty! Supple satin and mirror velvet are the two favorite materials for such gowns as those to which I have just alluded, and though the skirts are for the most part untrimmed, a vast quantity of stuff is used in their construction. The trains are invariably long, and at the hem there is a wide "flare." Very soft silk is used for the linings of these dresses, and many wide-pleated frills of chiffon or crepe Chine are introduced under cath, to make the hem flou. With a satin or velvet gown of this order as a foundation the most beautiful and delicate over-dresses—half coat and half tunic—are introduced. These over-dresses are made of embroidered and pailletted chiffon, lace, crepe, tulle, or coarse Russian net, and frequently they are hemmed with a narrow band of sable, chinchilla or mink, and always they are delightfully picturesque and becoming. The ultra-fashionable evening gowns of the moment are made in three distinct parts, the long plain skirt of satin or velvet cut on encorseat at the back and showing almost a normal walstine in front. Then there is the tiny cross-over bodice of richest embroideries and most costly lace—colors and materials, most probably, forging a contrast to the skirt. Finally, there is the transparent over-dress or tunic—rich in paillettes and incrusted with lace and motifs of fur! The combination is marvelously effective when carried out by a masterhand, and in such gowns as these a pretty woman looks more than her prettiest! It must not be supposed that the dresses I am now describing at all re Peculiar African Animals. There is a group of African rodents, designated scaly-tailed squirrels, the members of which seem to have felt the necessity of additional aid for the purpose of tree-climbing. They have accordingly developed on the under surface of the tall certain structures which may be compared to the climbing irons used by workmen. These take the form of a few transverse rows of large, triangular, horny scales, with their points directed backward. These scales, when pressed THE GAZETTE semble tea-gowns, for they do not; they are pictureless without verging on the "artistic," and they are not in the least of the order neglige. A marked peculiarity of the tunic which are rapidly becoming so fashionable is the manner in which they are shaped down almost into a point directly in front. Sometimes this point makes its appearance at the back also, but as often as not the front is very long, while the sides and back are comparatively short. I have seen this outline making its appear- Tea-Gown Designed for Home Dinner Wear. ance in several of the new models for afternoon gowns in chiffon-cloth, the tunics fashioned after the manner of a sleeveless coat, only that they fastened invisibly on the left shoulder instead of opening in front. Pleats are sometimes cunningly introduced at the waist and stitched down to the line of the knees, where the material is allowed to fan out. Long sleeve coats of filet net—elaborately braided or embroidered—will be one of the features of the spring season, and it is difficult to convey in words the charm of these garments. Being transparent, they do not hide the lines of the figure, but they give to the whole costume an air of easy grace which is irresistible, and for women who have passed their first youth they are simply invaluable. With a perfectly cut gown of black peau de sole, a transparent coat—reaching quite to the knees—of black fillet trimmed with bands of Japanese embroidery and decorated with black silk braidings, might be worn with a certainty of success. against the bark of a tree, must afford material aid in climbing—Scientific American. Writer to Raise Mules. Thomas Nelson Page, the Virginian writer, has, it is announced, decided to go into the raising of mules on an extensive scale on a 1,000-acre plantation near Beaver Dam, Va. Women's Occupations. "Consulting fashion expert" is one St. Louis woman's occupation, white packing trunks is the trade of another. ESTABLISHED AUGUST 25,1883 AND ISSUED EVERY WEEK ON TIME SINCE. CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 1908. FRESH NEWS LETTERS FROM MANY OHIO CITIES AND TOWNS SENT BY OUR OWN REPORTERS. PERSONAL, SOCIAL, LODGE, CHURCH, LITERARY AND OTHER NOTES OF INTEREST. Troy.—Rev. Maxwell, of Plqua, preached at St. James' church Sunday afternoon.—Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hamilton, of Lina; Mrs. Geneva Cain, of London; Miss Dora Isaacs, of Springfield, visited Mr. and Mrs. F. Hammons during the holidays.—Mrs. W. H. Gibson entertained in honor of Mrs. Anna Coleman, who returned to Saturday.—Mr. and Mrs. Howard gave a 6 o'clock dinner in honor of Mr. and Mrs. T. Ridencaw, of Pennsylvania.—Mr. and Mrs. Simon Lewis entertained Mr. James Holtss and Miss Pearl Lewis, of Dayton, at a 5 o'clock dinner. Correspondents must all mail all letters for publication on Monday of each week, and always place their names and that of their city and town on the outside of the wrapper about returned copies. Unless this is done proper credit cannot be given you. Advertisements, lists of names, wedding presents, etc., obituary notices, speeches, resolutions, poetry and inquiries for relatives must be paid for by the company. Our rules for display advertisements will be sent on application. Send postal note and not stamps during the warm weather. Norwalk—Mrs. Dan Whettsel is convalescing. —The Church Aid society was entertained at Mrs. M. Johnson's, Refreshments. —Mrs. Thomas and daughter, of Granville, visited Mrs. Ballard last week. Mr. and Mrs. B. W. Ballard served a five course dinner to eight, New Year's. Those from out of town were: A. Smith, Miss Elizabeth Thompson, of Sandusky, and Mrs. B. Ballard, and daughter, of Fields, of Toelo, visited her parents, Mrs. and Mrs. J. Stoddard, recently. —Mrs. Geo. Scott and daughter, Iona, of Sandusky, visited Mr. and Mrs. H. Revels last week. Mr. and Mrs. Ballard were in Berlin Heights last week. —Mrs. Parker, of Cleveland, visited Mrs. Ballard and family this week. Piqua—Rev. J. F. Robinson, acting pastor of Park Avenue Baptist church, preached his farewell sermon New Year's to a large audience. The church was certainly been evening during his stay today—church's sacred concert Sunday evening was a success. Mrs. Emma J. Williams has been invited to deliver an address before the Missionary society of Wesleyan church, Dayton. The Court of Calanthe's New Year's reception was a success. Great credit is due the committee: Julia Meyers, Kate Bailey, Estella Bray and Ollie Pettit, Mrs. Kennedy was called to Dayton by his husband to have the sympathy of the community. —Andrew Kendall and Floyd Anderson are ill. Mansfield—Mr. and Mrs. John Green have returned.—Mr. and Mrs. David Dummore gave a year-end turkey dinner in honor of Mrs. Gibson.—Miss Lizzie Wilson, of Delaware, is visiting her cousin, Miss Thea Robertson.—The W. C. T. U. met at Mrs. Barker's Sunday, the county president and secretary, Mesdames Lefter and McElhinney, presiding.—Mr. and Mrs. Blair Dummore entertained at dinner New Year's.—Mrs. Gibson and daughter, have returned to Sandusky.—Miss Curtis Green Canton and Massillon.—Mr. Europe Crawford, who is ill at the Aultman hospital, Canton, is convalescing.—Little Kathryn Cline is ill.—Miss Hattie Duckett has returned to Cleveland. —Misses Grant and Pleasants entertained at a "slumbering" party, New Year's eve—Mr. Erwin Dunnore is visiting in Pittsburgh. Bellefontaine—Mrs. Stewart Mays and daughter left Saturday for Chicago to join her husband.—Hazel and Hattie Dempsey have returned from Chicago and Altie Boyd from Springfield.—Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Calloway entertained a large number on New Year's. The house was beautifully decorated and a three-course dinner was served. The out-of-town guests were Mary Wright, Oda Cooper, of Marysville, and Mrs. Bertha Kinchen, of Columbus.—Mr. Lincoln Price and Mrs. Wm. Clark are convalescing. Myrtle Kerser has returned from New York Exposition society was nicely entertained at New York Harry Patterson's.—Rev. Toney has returned after a visit with his family. He preached two able sermons Sunday.—Rev. Wm. Goens left Saturday for Youngstown.—The Second Baptist church member, are contemplating the building of a new church.—Rev. Robinson is doing good work. McIntyre.—A number attended the skating rink in Smithfield Tuesday night.—Miss Delila Linear visited Miss Florence West Wednesday.—Coy Bex is progressing in the grocery business.—Miss Blanche Bex was here Friday. Gable and Eddie Bex returned from Maynard, where they visited their sister, Mrs. Vinie Hawkins.—Miss Elaine Smith and family visited their daughter Thursday. Mrs. Neola Lyttle, Mrs. Mary E. Aikins and Daisy, and Mrs. Pleasant Smith visited Mrs. R. M. West the same day.—Rev. D. D. Lewis preached ably Sunday, and to the W. M. M. S. in the afternoon.—Eva and Leona Smith visited their brother, Walter, last week Saturday.—Miss Lora Farley died Sunday morning.—Mr. James Ross, of Cincinnati, was here recently.—Miss Margaret Ross returned from Cincinnati Sunday.—Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Johnson entertained New Year's. The house was beauti- fully decorated. Miss Pearl Anderson and others furnished music and lunch was served. Cambridge.—Miss Vivian Carr, Miss Grace Pinkett's guest, has returned to her school at Huntington, W. Va.—Mrs. Joyce entertained Wednesday night. Miss G. Howey of Cincinnati, Miss Mitchell of Milford, Hazelwood, of our Parkersburg school, visited his parents recently.—Mrs. Caroline Ford is seriously ill.—The Old Folks' concert at the A. M. E. church Saturday evening was a success.—Miss Ernestine Knox is ill.—Miss Angie Loggins pleasantly entertained Tuesday evening at a watch party. An elaborate luncheon was held. Miss Howey of Cincinnati the Misses Carr, of Huntington; Odessa Grimes and Prof. Hazelwood.—Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Lowe entertained Thursday evening in honor of Miss Howey, of Cincinnati.—Miss Grimes has returned to Wilberforce.—Mr. Granville Ford and Mrs. Jackson, of Oystersburg, and Mrs. Highwarden, of Oystersburg, and Mrs. Highwarden, of mother's serious illness.—Fred Betts was in Springfield several d♦s this week. Lima.—Rev. Alston assisted Rev. Grimes, of Marlon, with his revival meeting. Rev Brown is holding a revival meeting. Daisy Moss, Daisy Bynum and Edith Grace have returned to Wilberforce.—Little Beatrice Ruffin was here this week.—Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Raymer visited in St. Marys this week.—Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Sanders were here New Year's. The Household of Kuth gave a social to its friends. Florence Cumberland entertained the club the 2d.—The K. P. lodge gave a smoker Tuesday evening.—Miss Althea Brown was here New Year's and Rev. C. D. White last week.—Mrs. Boyd, of Urbana, accompanied by Mrs. Johnson, of Upper Sandusky, visited her brother, Mr. M. Redman, last week.—Miss Grace Byrd was in Toledo New Year's.—Miss Ethel Johnson, of Van Wert, is here.—Rev. Primus Alston was unable to preach Sunday on account of illness.—Mr. and Mrs. Bynum, of Van Wert, Sunday.—Rev. and Mrs. Alston entertained Mrs. Palmer, of Pittsburgh, and her father, Mr. Thomas Crowder, at her father. Mt. Vernon, Mrs. Walter Mayo entertained in honor of Miss Maud Walden December 30.—The W. M. M. S. gave an entertainment at Mrs. Roy's Tuesday evening.—Mesdames Stevens and Dickerson entertained very elaborately New Year's eve in honor of Miss Jessica Hale, eve of the Hopewellport Christmas week of preparation preparatory to Wyman chapel's revival meetings.—Mrs. Henry Nelson entertained New Year's night.—Mr. Willard and Harry Simmons returned to Oberlin and Western Reserve colleges respectively, Thursday, to resume their studies.—Mrs. John Richardson gave one of the finest parties in Massachusetts week of honor of out-of-town guests. The Elks gave a social the 3d for home.—Mr. George Turner returned to Cleveland Saturday.—Mr. Joe Bradfield left Saturday to resume his studies at O. S. U.—Miss Beulah Jones spent the holidays in Cincinnati and Springfield.—Miss Charlotte Highwarden is visiting her home.—Mrs. Keo Keys is ill.—Mrs. Hamilton of Lima, visited Miss Bonnie Sharp, Xmas. Steubenville—Meetings are in progress at Quinn chapel—Mrs. Ambrose Kent was buried from Simpson chapel last Friday. The funeral was largely attended—Mrs. Amanda Fletcher, of Chicago, spent the holidays here with relatives—Mrs. Edward West, of Chicago, spent the holidays here with parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Christian.—Mrs. Anna West, nee Christian, is convalescing—Mrs. Xenophon Walker and daughter, Hildegarde, have returned to Uniontown. Pa. They spent the holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Spencer Banks—Mrs. Josephine Asbury, of Washington, Pa. visited her sister, Mrs. A. J. Guy, New Year's. She returned home with her sister, Mrs. A. J. Guy, Helen Cook left Sunday for Washington, Pa. to spend the winter—Mrs. Harry Bowman returned Sunday from Lorein. She visited her sister, Mrs. Howard Doutt.—A number attended the Nicholson dance, New Year's. Mr. Clarence Hunt, of Burgetown, visited Miss Bessie Banks, New Year's.—Mrs. Milton Brown, Sr., is convalescing—Mrs. Clarence returned from Clast, Sunday.—Mrs. Bessie Banks was called to Smithfield by her sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Carter's illness. Canton—Rev. H. F. Fox of the A. M. e. church, who has had the grip, was able to preach Sunday evening on "Facing the New Year." The truths were forcibly impressed upon his hearers, Mrs. Vigal, of the Baptist church, preached her farewell sermon Sunday evening on "I Will See You Again."—Mrs. Susie Parker is visiting her parents, Mrs. and Mrs. Alfred Early—Mrs. W. A. Lewis returned to Cleveland the 2d. Mr. Stewart Crawford, of Delaware, and Mrs. Fannie Taylor, of Allegheny, who here New Year's visitation has been held at the Autumn hospital. W. R. Smallwood was called to Zanesville to attend his cousin, Mr. Earl Brown's funeral. Rev. H. H. Uplhgrove was here this week repairing St. Paul's parsonage. He left December 31 to open meetings in Alliance.—Miss Etta Walker has gone to Wheeling to locate—G. P. Titus, sr. was in Cleveland Saturday. Mrs. L. Kane has returned from Pittsburgh—G. P. Titus and family were entertained by Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Brooks of Massillon, Sunday—Mrs. W. H. Adkins and daughter, Gladys, have returned from Scio, where they visited their mother. W. H. Adkins has been quite ill—Mesdames Anna Pemberton and Naid Snipes has been returned from Elyria—Chaatman left Temp day for home, Philadelphia. Mr. John Hughes has returned from his holiday trip. Smithfield.—The A. M. E. second quarterly conference the 16th and quarterly meeting the 19th were presided over by Rev. Dr. Chas. Bundy, P. E. "The Passion Play (moving pictures) prepares the students'awk ins, Burgess and Lacey was a success the singing was highly appre Continued on Second Page. ARE AFRO-AMERICANS PURCHAS- ABLE LIKE AGE STOCK?—THAT IS WHAT TAFT PEOPLE SEEM TO THINK. The letter from that noble sage, T. Thomas Fortune, published in last week's Cleveland Gazette, furnishes a complete answer to all the truck- ling editorials pub- lished in the New York Age since his retirement as its editor. week's Cleveland Gazette, furnishes a complete answer to all the trucking editorials published in the New York Age since his retirement as its editor. Just how the New York Age can call the Guardian a "mud scow" and in the very T. Thomas Fortune, same number sing the praises of the disreputable Cleveland Journal can be explained upon no other ground than that the Age is doing what it is paid for, with the Age and the Cleveland Journal as blind supporters of Booker T. Washington, while the Guardian opposes him almost as blindly as the former support him. But The Informer has never seen so much "mud" in any newspaper as the Cleveland Journal printed during the recent campaign, and it was sloppy mud at that—Detroit Informer. Chicago, Ill., Dec. 7, 1907. Editor Indianapolis Freeman.—In the Freeman to-day I find an paragraph, the sentiments of which are misleading and which, like the editorial in The Age referred to, are likely to work me mischief. The Age states POSSIBLE facts when it declares that Dr. Washington does not own a dollar's worth of stock of The New York Age Publishing Company. You say, "Mr. Washington insists that the charge (that he owns stock) is a falsehood, which has been circulated by those who know what such a charge means." Who circulated the "charge"? What does such a "charge" mean? That it is or was dishonorable for Mr. Washington, or anybody else, own stock in the Age when I was president of it. What is "the tempest in the teapot" about? Is somebody "after me"? That way that way. Is somebody after Mr. Washington? Is somebody after him is somebody after President Fred R. Moore, of the Age corporation? It looks that way. Now if somebody is after somebody, who is it and what is the object of the chase? Now, if the chaser is after me, here am I. I have no dirty linen to wash in private or public. My dirty linen is entirely a personal matter, between God and me. Mr. Washington is my linen. Why did not President Fred R. Moore tell the whole truth? While Mr. Washington was "insisting," why did not he "insist" as to the whole business? What is there to conceal? Nothing but the facts. Will they hurt Mr. Washington or Mr. Moore? They appear to think so. Will they hurt me? So if I know it. Will sold me? Mr. Washington has just September and TOOK HIS PER IN PAYMENT FOR MOST OF IT, Jerome B. Peterson owned 1,250 and BOOKER T. WASHINGTON OWNED 950 SHARES, EMMETT J. SCOTT BEING STOCKHOLDER OF RECORD, THE SHARES BEING OF THE PAR VALUE OF $10. A few shares of the total capitalization were held by other parties, MOSTLY Mr. Washington. If Mr. Washington has disposed of his stock I don't know it and I don't care about it. HOW DID MR. WASHINGTON SECURE HIS STOCK? That is his business. Why does he "insist" that holding such stock, or having held such stock, would "work him mischief"? That is his business. Why did I sell my stock? Guess. Why do I not state the facts? Because some heap, and seek by evasion and iteration to confuse the facts and tend to make me appear crooked. Am I? Not if I know it. WHEN PRESIDENT ROOSEVELT AND HIS PEOPLE ARE ENDORSED BY ME I WILL BE A DEAD MAN. AM I DEAD? HERE AM I. (Detroit Informer) It has become quite customary nowadays to buy what one wants by way of newspaper influence provided one has the wherewithal price with which to purchase the particular influence desired. The instance of this kind most interesting to colored Americans is the recent purchase of the New York Age by persons vitally interested in boosting the Roosevelt-Taft political combination as against a decided and growing sentiment against them among its readers. The incident that made it necessary for the author to purchase this step was the presidential branding of over a hundred of known innocent men as accessories to the crime of murder under most cowardly circumstances. The motive for thus purchasing the Age influence is of course to regain colored American confidence in the persons responsible for the outrage above referred to. The medium through which the purchase is made, while not made public, is undoubtedly the bosom friend of President Roosevelt, Prof. Booker T. Washington, who was made in the Age a few weeks since Fortune was to retire to give him more opportunity to pursue literary work, we believed that to be the case and that the paper would continue its erstwhile manly and righteous course on all questions affecting our people. but it soon became apparent that the Fortune interest was purchased for a vastly different purpose than that of Mr. Fortune's desire to voice. Since that time the Age has been working its editorial column overtime in its praise and eulogy of Roosevelt and Taft. It has vilified all who have opposed these men and attempted to draw attention from its own grafting propensities by charging the righteous opposition to the administration with being "shouls" and "grafters," intimating that our honest protest is bought and paid for by some vague interests that it fails to point out for the very good reason that it cannot point to any person or interest who would pay anybody a cent to oppose the administration during the past year. The purchase of the Fortune interest and the passing of his control of the Age was in effect a rape of its past veneration. The victory of its truckling and degrading attitude since Fortune left the helm, it is becoming rapidly despised by honorable men. Its attempts to besmirch the character of all Negro gentlemen who dare protest against executive calumnies hurled against their race and who have the manhood to fight back on the District of Columbia to the cago convention. The Cannon Cortelyou people are in the field it is rumored that they are backee ANTI TAFT A NATIONAL MOVEMENT THE INTEREST OF SENA TOR FORAKER'S GRAND CANDIDATE FOR REPUBLICAN NOMINAT FOR PRESIDENCY — DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA'S DELEGATES ALSO FOR HIM. (Special to The Gazette.) Washington, D. C.—It is clear there is to be a lively contest for selection of the two delegates to the District of Columbia to the cago convention. The Cannon Cortelyou people are in the field it is rumored that they are backee Its support and approval of the course of the self-confessed grafting Cleveland Journal is a sufficient self condemnation to forever damn it in the eyes of all decent men until the end of its repentance and regeneration. ESCAPED DEATH Badly Bruised—Raised Nearly $140 Kept "Open House"—Elected Officers—Personal, Social, Church and Lodge Notes. ODD FELLOWS MEET. Major Riggs for Representative-Champion City Personal, Social and Church News. Springfield, O.—Mrs. Joseph Harris and daughter, of Columbus, are visiting Mrs. Richard Pettiford.—Mrs. Carter's many friends will be shocked to hear of her sister's recent death.—The Big Four orchestra gave a matinee dance last week at K. P. hall.—Arthur J. Riggs has been announced as a candidate for representative from Clark county.—Mr. and Mrs. Harry Custer are visiting in Sharpburg Pa.—Mr. Edward Robinson, Mr. and Mrs. Dixon's guest, has returned to Kentucky.—Mr. and Mrs. Chester Nelson have returned from Cincinnati.—Mr. Norris has announced his candidacy for county informant, doctor. Also H. M. Singleton.—Mr. and Mrs. Frank Oglesby have returned from Indianapolis.—Rev. Dr. J. M. Gillmore, P. E., held quarterly conference at the Second A. M. E. church, Sunday.—The semi-annual meeting of the Ohio state executive board of O. F. was held last week at W. F. Speaks.—The reception given by the Willing Workers at the C. Y. M. C. A. was an enjoyable affair.—Dr. and Mrs. Lloyd Cox, of Dayton, visited Dr. and Mrs. W. C. Cordon last week.—Mrs. Lloyd Cox is ill. Mrs. W. Robinson and daughter, Mrs. W. Robinson, then Mrs. George Ramsey visited her for a club will give a smoker next week. Bradford, Pa., Locals Rev. W. W. Maybe is convalescing. Also Mr. Smith, Mrs. Alexander, Mrs. Brown and Miss Ida Adkins.-Mrs. Ragland is ill.-Mrs. Curtis has returned from New York, where she visited her daughter, Gertrude.-Mrs. Johnson, of Chicago, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Wright.-Mrs. Myers entertained the Silver Link club. Mes. dames Johnson and Matthews were guests of honor.-Mrs. Douglass has returned from Pittsburgh.-Mr. and Mrs. Kean and baby will soon leave for the south to visit. IN UNION THERE IS STRENGTH ANTI-TAFT! A NATIONAL MOVEMENT IN THE INTEREST OF SENATOR FORAKER'S FOR REPUBLICAN NOMINATION FOR PRESIDENCY — DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA'S DELEGATES ALSO FOR HIM. Olean, N. Y., News. Master Geo. Barnes has returned from Kane. Mr. George Holmes, of Hornell, is here. The old folks' concert was a success. Mrs. Geo Brooks sang a solo and W. W. Virginia quoted Shakespeare. Miss Ada Mills, of Oakville, Pa. has returned home. Miss Estella Brooks returned to Philadelphia, Saturday. Rev. Coffey was presented with a new overcoat and a turkey dinner. Chris, Jackson, Messrs. Lawson and Lawrence have returned from Buffalo and Rochester. Rev. Coffey was in Bradford, Saturday. Charles Moore has a sprained ankle. Mrs. O. T. Barnes and children are attending the ceremony. Mr. Barnes and Harry are working at Vandella. Mrs. Hazel Barth and daughter, Gerneth, have returned to Bradford. Mrs. Barbara Byrd, of Massillon, visited Mrs. Foster Moore. Master Raymond Haltcock has returned from Bradford, accompanied by Corneius Logan, who returned home Sunday. A surprise party was given in honor of Master Herbert Snowden's birthday. Mr. Syd. Peterson is working at Shinglehouse. Mrs. Scott, of Cuba, was here Sunday. The Oklahoma republican state committee endorsed Taft for president. One Year ..... $1.50 Six Months ..... 1.00 Three Months ..... 5.00 Subscribers are requested to remit by post- sice money order or registered letter Entered at the postoffice in Cleveland, Ohio as second-class matter. All communications should be addressed: HARRY C. SMITH. Editor and Proprietor THE GAZETTE. Blackstone Building, Cleveland, Ohio. Member Ohio Legislature, ..... 1980 to 1985. ..... 1980 to 1985. ..... 1980 to 1985. Cleveland, Saturday, Jan. 11, 1908. 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. For President Senator J. B. Foraker BROWN THREATENS REPUBLIC CAN RULE. If State Chairman Walter Brown, of Toledo, ascends the political throne in Ohio future republican victory at the polls in this state will be very doubtful, according to a very significant editorial by ex-Leutenant Governor Warren G. Harding, editor of the Marion Star. In commenting on the state call for republican primaries Mr. Harding brands the committee's proceedings as hypocritical and unfair and raps Chairman Brown in no uncertain terms. He says: "The call is proclaimed an appeal to the people, and in the same breath it is said to be the creation of Walter Brown, the Judas of Toledo. Brown is the odious Toledo boss, who is an affront to decent politics in Lucas county. He is shrewd, no dispute about that, but his record of accommodation is that successful nominations and repeated failure at the polls. He has dominated the republican organization in Toledo, and used it to his selfish ends, until the party is all shot to pieces in that heretofore republican stronghold. As a leader in going directly to the people of Toledo, he has zinged irony of the campaign. Brown has driven the grand old elephant up a dozen alleys, in the dark, to haul freight to his corporate warehouse. He has prostituted the great party for the purposes of corporations in Toledo which he represents." Continuing in a similar vein, Editor Harding declares Brown has no reason to be a republican success in Lucas county took flight when Brown became dictator. "Brown is reaching for the scepter in Ohio," he says. "The warning suggests itself. Brown may dictate nominations in Ohio, but if the Toledo expérience is widened as Brown's field widens republican success in Ohio is likely to become a matter of history and no more. There is no inconsistency in finding fault with the state call for republican primaries. It is so lacking in clearness that republicans ordinarily counted as a highly intelligent, hardworking group hours to know its exact meaning. It is burdensome and expensive. It takes over $2,000 from our county fund for an utterly needless proceeding. Held universally over the state the expense approximates $250,000. "The term 'primary' the Taft committee has taken with strained emphasis on the literal meaning. The idea of Senator Foraker and his friends was to take the matter of a presidential preference to the people, according to the preference in each county. The thing to be avoided was the selection of delegates by committees which could in not be an expression of public preference." And Editor Harding is entirely right in all he says about Chairman Brown and his almost incomprehensible "state call." He might have added, however, that as one has been so signal a failure in Toledo, as far as republican success there in recent years is concerned, so will the other "state call," prove to be through Ohio before many weeks have elapsed. And Mr. Brown will never become "republican dictator in Ohio," either. Absolutely no danger of that Mark our prediction. He is only becoming a second Harry Daugherty. About a year ago the National Cash Register Company discharged all of its Afro-American employees, some of whom had been connected with the large plant of the concern at Dayton, Ohio, for twenty or more years, giving as the only excuse for its contemptible action, that it was desirous of replacing these old and trusted employees with young white men who could work their way up in the business. With possibly the exception of one or two, all of the discharged Afro-Americans were employed as porters, laborers and the like. The fact that young white men could work their way up easier and better from the positica immediately in advance of those held by our men, did not seem to appeal to those in control of the National Cash Register Co. To soften the feeling among the Afro-Americans of Dayton, cash donations were made to some of THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, JANUARY 11. 1908. our pastors and churches of that city and other efforts were made to pacity our fairly large portion of the "Gem City's" population. For some weeks the company's drastic and reprehensible action caused a local sensation, and was not only criticised severely and condemned unqualifiedly by our own people, but also by many of the best white residents of Dayton. In due time, however, things quieted down and apparently all became reconciled to a condition in a big but private business enterprise they could not change. Many months have elapsed. Emboldened with the success of its first contemptible step and vital attack upon the home life of a number of the race, striking also innocent women and children who must wait at the fireside for the return of the bread-winner of the family, the prejudiced southern sympathizing power of the National Cash Register Co. which struck the race such a fearful body-blow with its malicious and contemptible treatment of its Afro-American employees a year or more ago, has recently sent word to its agencies in all of the cities of the country, and presumably elsewhere, that no member of our race is to be given employment, giving as a reason the same miserable excuse it issued in compliance with this latest order, the agency in this city, which employed one of the race on Saturday, but did not receive the instructions from headquarters until Monday morning of this week, discharged him later the day, frankly giving the Afro-American the alleged reason as quoted above and as first announced at headquarters in Dayton about a year ago. Relentless is this warfare of the National Cash Register Co. upon our people, hundreds of whom throughout the country are weekly or monthly pouring thousands of dollars of hard earned money into its well-filled coffers for the rental and on the purchase of its cash registers. They are promoting the prosperity of a firm that is trying to drive them to starvation and death, or out of the country, also punishing innocent women and children, all for the sole purpose of gratifying a miserable prejudice and hatred for which there is absolutely no excuse and for which they do not attempt to offer any. Here is a splendid opportunity for any one of our several so-called national organizations to do effective work for the race. Every Afro-American, and especially those who are doing business with the National Cash Register Co. should be made to believe that it is a crime against the race of the very worst character and nature to contribute a single cent in any way, at least in any direct way, to the business of the National Cash Register Co. is any section of this country. THREATS TO BURN BUILDINGS. They are Sent to Owners of Tenements in New York City—Rent Strikers Delay Evictions. New York City. — Threats that their buildings would be burned if they evicted the tenants flooded East Side landlords Tuesday. The warnings were supposed to have come from the rent strikers and in general were on postals worded as follows: "We will move, but after you, house has been vacated the fire department will visit you. "The RED FLAG." Point was given to the threats by a fire at a Madison street tenement where the demands of the occupants for lower rents had been refused. Applications for dispossess papers have been so heavy that several of the courts were forced to refuse to consider any more until Thursday. Many of the strikers are delaying eviction by keeping the stoves in their apartments red hot. When the marshals arrive they are compelled to wait until the stoves cool before they can put them in the street. Bennington Monument Is Unveiled. San Diego, Cal.-In the presence of thousands, including the officers and sailors of the Pacific squadron and citizens of San Diego and other cities, the memorial monument of the fallen is located Tuesday at the national cemetery on top of Point Loma. The plain shaft stands within the plot where are buried the most of those who lost their lives in the explosion on the gunboat Bennington July 21, 1955, and whose remains are roughly dressed and towering 60 feet above the concrete base, capped by a pyramid of polished granite. Union Men are Barred. Erie, Pa.—The Germer Foundry Co., one of the largest industries of the city, issued an order Tuesday that henceforth only non-union men will be given employment. The company has been weeding out members of labor organizations until only the polishers and buffers remained organized. Tuesdays, the artisans in labor branches were notified that they must surrender their union membership or their positions. The union men walked out. The company, anticipating such action, had non-unionists waiting to take the places of those who quit. Sunday Shaves are Not a Necessity. St. Louis. — A decision handed down in the St. Louis court of appeals Tuesday sustained the decision of the court of criminal correction in which Frank J. Schatt, propriator of the Shaves, was convicted of the violation of the Sunday closing law by shaving a customer on the Sabbath. The decision holds that shaving of men on the Sabbath day is not an act of necessity or charity, and is therefore a violation of the law. To Prevent Women Smoking in Cafes. New York City.—An ordinance forbidding women to smoke in cafes, restaurants or other places of public entertainment was introduced at the first meeting of the new board of aldermen Monday. It was referred to a committee and ordinance placed in public hearing. The ordinance places an annual salary of $25 upon ten days' imprisonment upon cafe proprietors who permit women to use tobacco in their establishments. FRESH NEWS. ciated. He also rendered a number of selections at church Sunday morning and evening. These young men were Rev. Randall's guests. —Mesdames Jane Smith, L. Hargrave, E. Carter, Etta Harragh, Rev. W. H. Veney, Myrtle Ford, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Davis, Mrs. Mrs. Harragh, Rev. W. H. Veney, Mrs. Jordan Powell are ill. —Mrs. Orris Munts and children returned Monday from Flushing. —Miss S. Benford, Mesdames K. Washington, M. Mitchell, A. Jackson and M. E. Veney are convalescing. —Mr. Ben Freeman visited Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Veney last week, and Miss Laura Harris visited J. M. Veney. —Mrs. E. Beall entertained at dinner in honor of brother, Mr. W. Veney. —Mr. H. Lewis entertained Monday in honor of her son, Harry. —R. R. Hawkins, W. H. Lacey and Rev. Randall visited Mrs. E. Jackson Friday evening and M. E. Veney Sunday. Mr. Veney entertained Monday evening in honor of visitors. —Miss Emma and Roy Carter entertained Monday evening in mother's illness. —Lula Jackson returned to Pittsburgh last week. —Miss M. Harris will visit her parents. —Mr. Wm. Harris is in Hopeald. Akron—Mrs. Julia Smith, our loyal race worker and agent, is convalescing—The program rendered at Zion church, the 1st, was a success—Mr. and Mrs. Green, of Canton, visited Mr. and Mrs. Datcher—Rev. J. M. Wheeler, the energetic pastor of Zion church, preached two able sermons Sunday. The subject of the evening lecture was the sermon of The Second Church's Young Men's club was highly entertained at Rev. R. A. Jones', the pastor's residence. He was in Columbus last week—Mr. and Mrs. Jackson, of Ravenna, were here last week. A number have the grip, Mr. Hal. Evans was in Cleveland last week—Mr. Lawson, who was painfully injured last Thursday evening, is convalescing—Mrs. Wooldridge is visiting in Boston, Mass—The young men have opened a skating rink on East Market street—Zion church is in full operation. The efficient presidency of F. M. Hailstock, Mrs. J. S. Clark's mother is visiting her—Mr. Richard Jones is still doing a good business at the old stand. he was in Cleveland the past week—Messrs. Elake and Hadnock have opened a large barber shop and pool room on North Howard street. Youngstown—Gold Leaf Co. D. elected officers Saturday evening. J. A. Jones refused a fifth election, therefore B. S. Haywood was made captain. The former was elected marshal at the grand lodge meeting last July. Co. D. voted Captain Jones a javel of honor—Heart and Hand Rosebud Nursery. True Reformers, met Saturday afternoon and the officiates for the ensuing year, two inductees and members of the board of managers.—Mrs. William Franklin and Charles Stewart are convalescing—Miss Violet Robinson is ill.—The Widows' and Widows' club met at Mrs. Rose's Monday, and decided to attend Mr. and Mrs. Arnold's wedding anniversary at Poland January 22. They will go by street car to Struthers and by bus to Poland. The next meeting at Mrs. Widows' club will include arrangements.—Word has been received from Buffalo that Will Akerns is very ill.—Rev. W. C. Goens, evangelist, will address men only January 12 at 3 p. m. Boys under 15 not admitted—Mary Belle Robinson, age 12, died Monday night. Funeral Wednesday at Oak Hill Avenue church, Rev. Blackburn officiating. The Sewing circle will meet at Mrs. Hannah Bogges the day before John O'Connor will attend Friday evening in or Miss Goode and Eva Porter, of Massillon.—Mr. Coleman, of Pennsylvania, spent the holidays with his daughter, Mrs. Nancy Finney.—Mahoning Avenue Baptist Church Literary society opened Tuesday evening. Foraker Will Prevent Taft from Getting Ohio's Endorsement "If Foraker keeps up this fight Taft will not be able to secure the Ohio delegation in his efforts to capture the presidential nomination," said Hon. John H. Clarke, of Cleveland, a prominent attorney of that city, and who, three years ago, was the democratic candidate for United States senator. Mr. Clarke is staying at the New Willard and is representing railroad interests before the inter-state commerce commission—Washington (D. C.) Herald. Gans Knocks Out Rival Baldimore, Md—At a benefit held here on the 3d for Herman Miller, Joe Gans, the champion, knocked out Bob Blackburn, who is no relation to Jack Blackburn, of Philadelphia, in the middle of the third round. Willie Fitzgerald was to have been Gans' opponent, but failed to appear. From the start it could be seen that Blackburn was outclassed. He showed cleverness, but Gans was his master. Married Six Times. Oberlin, O.-Mr. Fenderson Copes, age 75, was recently married to Mrs. Lucy Stannard, age 62 years. This is she and Mr. Copes' sixth venture on a kind. TRAIN WRECKED ON A TRESTLE COLLVER'S EXCURSION MET DIS ASTER ON SOUTHERN ROAD. Nearly All Those Hurt Were Ohioans —The Engineer Is Dead and Others Will Probably Die—Five Pullmans Smashed. Atlanta, Ga. — The second section of what is known as the Collier special, running from Cleveland to St. Augustine, Fla., was wrecked Tuesday afternoon between Dallas and Hiram, Ga., on the Southern railroad, on a treadle 25 feet over the nearly dry bed of what is known as Copper Mine creek. Five of the seven coaches went into the mud and as a result two score or more passengers, most of them residents of Ohio, were injured. The trainmen hurt are Engineer Edwards, who was caught beneath the cab of his engine when it overturned after clearing the trestle, and Road man of Engines Snapp and the negroman. Engines died; the fireman probably will die. Snapp will recover. The Collver special is an annual excursion run from Cleveland to Florida points and Cuba, under the direction of General Passenger Agent Collver, of the Big Four system. It started from Cleveland and Monday in two sections. The team consisted of Pullmans and a dining car, and the second of five Pullmans, a diner and a baggage car. The train was being run on the schedule of what is known as train No. 6 and the sections were 15 minutes apart when they left Chattanooga. The train was late at Dallas and it was well along toward 3 p. m. when the second section slowed down for the trestle crossing Copper Mine Creek. On the south side of this trestle is a curve. The engine passed the bridge in safety, then left the rails and turned on its side. The baggage car turned over on the banks, the five heavy Pullmans following, crashing through the trestle and falling to the bed of the creek. The last car, an observation coach, rested with one end raised and the other lowered above. One car in the middle of the train cracked in the middle through the strain and plinned down Jacob Roth, of Erie, Pa., and his wife. They were not seriously injured, however. A COPPER MAGNATE IS INDICTED. F. Augustus Heinze la Charged with Over-age customers Ag- gregated $400,000. New York City.—Indicted by the federal grand jury for the over-certification of 15 checks, representing in the aggregate over $400,000 and drawn by the firm of Otto Heinze & Co. on the Mercantile national bank, F. Augustus Heinze, the copper magnate of the national bank, the national bank, surrendered himself Tuesday to United States Commissioner Shields and later was released on $50,000 bail. Heinze will be arraigned to plead to the indictment before Judge Chaffield in the United States circuit court. Heinze was later lambach counsel for Heinze, stated last night that his client did not willfully over-certify the checks, as he had drawn a check to the credit of Otto Heinze & Co. to the amount of $500,000 which the bookkeeper of the bank possibly failed to enter on the books until a day after certification of the checks in question. The indictment of Heinze by the federal grand jury, which has been investigating the Mercantile and other banks identified with the Heinze and Charles W. Morse interests, is the aftermath of the collapse of the Heinze pool in United Copper and which brought about the suspension of Gross & Kleeberg, stock brokers, and subsequently resulted in the resignation of F. Augustus Heinze from the presidency and the retirement of the directors of the Mercantile national bank after an examination of the institution had been made by the clearing house committee. He declared at the time that he had been betrayed by his friends in the United Copper pool. Dead Men Were on the Pay Rolls. St. Joseph, Mo.-Walter C. Stewart, superintendent of the municipal lighting plant, with which he has been connected 21 years, was indicted Tuesday by the grand jury, charged with obtaining money by false pretenses. Charles Waller, foreman, was indicted by the mayor in charge and under indictment. The grand jury states that men long dead are still on the pay rolls. In one instance a school boy, who worked a few hours at the plant on Saturdays, was drawing $50 a month, it is charged. The jury states that St. Joseph has been defrauded out of thousands of dollars. Congress. Washington.—The financial bill framed by republican members of the senate committee on finance was introduced in the senate on the 7th. In the house Mr. Willett, of New York, made a speech in which he placed all the blame for the recent financial panic on President Roosevelt. The Mount Royal Is Safe. Queenstown. — lie long over due steamer Mount Royal steamed into Queenstown on Tuesday. The Mount Royal left Antwerp December 7 for St. John, N. B. She had on board 300 Hungarian emigrants and a crew of 100 men. Trouble with her boilers was the reason the Mount Royal had to put back. Big Decrease in Diamond Imports. New York City.—The report of the diamond imports for New York during 1907, filed by the customs authorities, shows a decrease of nearly $12,000,000. Part of Vesuvius' Cone Sinks. Naples. — Following a number of heavy detonations on Tuesday a portion of the cone of Mount Vesuvius sank within the crater, causing great internal eubulitions. An enormous column of smoke rose from the crater and spread out for miles. Whitmore is Charged with Murder. Newark, N. J.—Theodore S. Whitmore, the alleged wife murderer, was brought into court Tuesday and arraigned before Justice Branegan on a charge of murder. His hearing was set for Thursday. The prisoner was committed without ball. RECEIVERS ARE APPOINTED BY FEDERAL COURT FOR CHICAG GO GREAT WESTERN ROAD. Inability to Meet Maturing Obligations and a Recent Strike of Employees Were the Causes. St. Paul, Minn. — Judge Sainborn, of the United States circuit court, on Wednesday appointed A. B. Stickney and Charles H. Smith, both residents of St. Paul, receivers for the Chicago Great Western Railroad Co. A. B. Stickney is president of the road. The firm of Kellogg & Severance, of St. Paul, was appointed attorneys for the receivers. The appointment of receivers followed the inability of the company to meet obligations falling due in 1908 and the failure to secure an extension of obligations. Loss as a result of the boilermakers' strike last fall is given as a partial cause for the financial straits of the road. It was also pointed out in the proceedings that during the last ten years the road has spent $19,000,000 in reconstruction. The petition for a receivership was filed on behalf of the stockholders and the finance committee. Mr. Kellogg said that the Great Western, which owns $454,137.1 now due or falling due within the next four years, of which notes to the amount of $545,400 have gone to protest. The sum exceeding $10,000,000, said Mr. Kellogg, is part of the the $19,000,000 spent by the Great Western in the last four years. New steel has been laid, double tracks have been built, grades have been reduced and new bridges and terminals have been constructed. There were due last month notes to the amount of £50,000 and will be due during the next four years. New steel has been constructed. The total amount of obligations due during 1908 is $334,545. Mr. Kellogg said that the Great Western, which is an Illinois corporation, owns in fee without mortgage, lines of railroad in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Kansas and Missouri. It also owns lines of railroad in a line from St. Paul to Minnesota. In addition the Great Western owns all the stock of and operates the Mason City & Fort Dodge railroad, a line about 400 miles long. This line is mortgaged for $12,000,000, or 62 per cent of its cost. The Great Western owns a number of terms of which the Great Western is to guarantee the interest on the bonds. TUNNEL UNDER EAST RIVER Between New York and Brooklyn la Opened for Road Traffic. New York City.—The first of the series of tunnels under the waters that divide Manhattan from Brooklyn on the one side and from New Jersey on the other was opened for traffic in 1889. The larger train left the Bowling Green station of the Interborough subway, randown the inclined tracks to the Battery, far below the surface of the East river and went the length of one of the long steel double tubes which paralleled other under the river to Brooklyn. The opening of this tunnel, which is in effect the extending of the present subway system to Brooklyn, is regarded as a long step toward the solution of the rapid transit problem of New York—one that brings New York and Brooklyn closer together and gives an alternative to the traditional bus bringing the comparatively thinly populated territory of Long Island within easy reach of the center of business. The opening of the Battery tunnel will serve to relieve to some extent the Brooklyn bridge "crush," by deflecting thousands from the human tide that rushes each day in and out of the funnel entrance of that big station. No official ceremonies marked the opening of the tunnel. An express train picked up a crowd of Brooklynites eager to make the first trip and then darted away through the brightly lighted tube to Brooklyn, where it stopped at the Borough hall station, the present terminus of the line in Brooklyn. Later the Brooklyn section stationed at the Brooklyn railroad station of the Long Island railroad, thus affording connection with all points on Long Island. The Battery tunnel is equipped with a series of unique safety devices designed to make traffic under the East river absolutely safe. Experts believe that these inventions, which are on time, will revolutionize the movement of traffic in subways and at the same time preclude the possibility of serious accidents. One man will be complete master of the tunnel at all times, with the aid of an illuminated electric diagram, which will show the movements of trains. While train crews will not take orders from him, it will be within his power to stop any or all trains within the tunnel by touching a button, and in the same way he will be able to shut off the currents and control the movement of any particular train. A telephone system has been installed in the tube and there are alarm boxes from which passengers, in case of accident, can themselves shut off the electric current. Congress. Washington.—No business of importance was transacted during the short session of the house on the 8th. The senate was not in session. Is Deposed from the Ministry Salt Lake City, — Dean James B. Eddie, convicted by an ecclesiastical court of immorality a year ago, was on Wednesday formally deposed from the ministry of the Protestant Episcopal church. The sentence was imposed publicly by Bishop Spalding. All the Injured Will Recover. Atlanta, Ga. — Of the nearly 100 persons who suffered injuries in the wreck of the Colliver special on the Southern railway near Hiram, Ga., Tuesday, nearly a score are confined to hospitals, but it is expected all will recover. Wilcox Wins in Higher Court. Syracuse, N. Y. — The appellate division of the supreme court at Rochester on Wednesday decided that B. Z. Wilcox, of this city, could be reinstated as a member of the Royal Arcanum. Wilcox was expelled for criticizing officers of the organization. A New Deal in Frisco San Franctisco, Cal. — The last remnants of the Schmitz labor administration, under which this community lived for six years, were cleaned out of the city government Wednesday. OHIO AFRO-AMERICAN LEAGUE "We are republicans from principle and not because of office or emoument. "As republicans, we demand and insist that equal and exact justice shall be granted to all integral parts of the great body politic. "As loyal and faithful members of the republican party, we have made it possible for the victors to be appointed when defeat seemed imminent, without any resultant advantages to ourselves. "We are as loyal and as true today as ever, but have grown tired of being considered as pawns in the great game of party politics and are determined to call a halt. "The presidential embroglio in Ohio affords us the opportunity of announcing to the world our convictions and aligning our forces for a triumph, enabling our armies of hatred, prejudice and indifference toward us within the party ranks. "President Roosevelt has not been uniformly just and square in his dealings with the Afro-American and cannot be deemed a loyal and true American since his speech in the south where he said that he was proud of the fact that his two favorite uncles had fought under the stars and bars during the rebellion. If he was proud of the fact that they fought hard, he had age and shoot to death the glorious emblem of our country, the stars and stripes, he is not in a position to recommend to loyal Americans a candidate on the republican ticket for president to succeed himself. "We are faithful to our friends and defenders. We have not forgotten that grand galaxy of heroes, Wendell Phillips, Owen Lovejoy, Garret Smith, William Lloyd Garrison, Charles Summer, Henry Ward Beecher, Judge Albion W. Tourlee, Benjamin F. Wade, Salmon P. Chase, the immortal John Brown, the sainted Lincoln and thousands of others who suffered in our behalf; and we know that not one of them, if called back to life, would express a feeling of pride that any of his relatives had fought to dissolve the Union and against human freedom. "We declare that henceforth and forever, so long as we remain identified with the republican party as firm believers in its principles, and active workers for its success, giving to it our numerical support without which, in many counties, districts and state—and even in the national elections—republican victory would not be possible, the practice of our white republican brethren of getting themselves together, holding chamber sessions, selecting candidates, deciding questions, etc., and then looking to us to furnish votes, shall no longer be submitted to us, but instead thereof we demand the full recognition in all the councils of the party that our numbers and intelligence represent. 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 disfranchisement of colored citizens, at least condoning the same, and Whereas, The Hon. Wm. W. H. Taft, after the dismissal without honor of 167 militiamen colored soldiers as a result of the alleged Brownsville riot, publicly 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-binding 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. Wm. 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 damselfish notion in 167 were耐寒士兵, man 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 aspirant for the greatest honor of our party and nation. 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. Hon. Harry C. Smith, of Cleveland, was elected chairman of the state executive committee and head of the Ohio Afro-American league. Other members of the committee: Rev. J. M. Glmere, Cleveland; Prof. W. P. Dabney, Cincinnati; A. J. Riggs, Springfield; D. W. G. Wren, Columbus; C. D. White, Steubenville; Rev. W. O. Harper, Dayton; Dr. S. J. Jordan, Chillicothe, and Hon. C. L. Maxwell, Xenia. State central committee: Walter S. Thomas, chairman; Rev E. L. Gillam, of Columbus; J. S. Atwood, Ripley; Rev H. H. Hatcher, Dayton; (the four from the state at large) Rev T. W. Woodson, Dayton; J. E. Brown, Zanesville; Rev Primus Alston, Lima; Rev M. M. Culpher, Mechanicsburg; Prof. Horace Talbert; Wilberforce; Dr S. S. Clemens, Rev C. S. Williams, Washington C. H.; Rev H. W. R. Stewart, Youngstown; A. G. Moore, Richard H. Jones, Akron; E. C. Berry, Athens; W. E. King, Columbus; Rev J. M. Gilmur, Cleveland; D. C. Fisher, Lorain; Rev W. W. Grimes, Sandusky. Advisory committee: Mr. Clifton Loudin, Columbus; Rev John W. Gazaway, Zanesville; Col. Samuel S. Clements, Steubenville; Mr. Jesse Turner, Mt. Vernon; Rev W. E. Watson, Troy; Mr. Francis Poston, Dayton; L. O. Harris, Circleville; Dr. T. W. Burton, Zanesville, and others. All Foraker and other republican clubs and political organizations among our people in the state should affiliate with the Ohio Afro-American league. Read its "declaration of principles" and resolutions elsewhere in this paper and if they meet your approval, write to the editor of The Gazette, chairman of the executive committee and head of the league, and he will enroll your organization with those on the list. Let us work in union and harmony with an eye single to results of the kind desired and made plain in the state conference of our leading men of Ohio in Columbus on May 15. AN EXCELLENT OPPORTUNITY. 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: Dayton, Zanesville, East Liverpool, London, Ravenna, Piqua, Sidney, Kenton, Newark, Chillicothe, Springfield, Urbana, Sandusky, Youngstown, Hamilton, Wellsville, Toledo, O.; Pittsburg, Allegheny, Oil City, Titusville, Newcastle, Sewickley, Sharon, Pa.; Clarksburg, 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 will 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. PLEASE notify us at once if your Gazette fails to arrive as regularly and satisfactorily as it should. We do our best to give per- fect service but unless The Gazette's subscribers co-operate by keeping us informed of any dif- ficulty they may have, we cannot give the perfect service that we try to. Everybody Reads The Old, Reliable GAZETTE ARE YOU One of Its Many Subscribers? Mary MISS ANNIE CATRON 92' Main Miss. Cannaney, Ohio writer. "As I have found Peruna a blessing for a severe case of catarrh of the head and throat which I suffered from for a number of years, I am only too pleased to give it my personal endorsement. Catarrh, such as I suffered from, made me sick. My throat was offensive, stomach bad, and my head stopped up so that I was usually troubled with a headache, and although I tried many so-called remedies, nothing gave me permanent relief. I was treated with antibiotics when Peruna was suggested to me. "However, I did buy a bottle, and before that was finished there was a marked change in my condition. Much encouraged I kept on until I was completely cured in a month's time, and I knew that my general health is also excellent." People who prefer solid medicines should try Peruna tablets. Each tablet represents one average dose of Peruna. Men-a-lin the ideal Laxative. Ask Your Druggist for Free Peruna Almanac for 1908. DEAR LITTLE CHAP. Bob—Say, ma, were men very scarce when you married pa, or did you just feel sorry for him? Duty Towards Others Not long ago a kindly disposed lady endeavored to quiz a small boy regarding his Sunday school lesson. "Who is your neighbor?" she asked. "The fellow who lives next door," was the ready response. "But what is your duty toward your neighbor?" persisted the lady. "Oh, to keep an eye on 'im,' replied the boy cautiously. "Keep an eye on him? What for?" "Just to see that he doesn't take what don't belong to him," was the confident answer. The lady gave up. No Knocker. "Do you think the scheme of Amundsen for reaching the north pole by using a team of polar bears is feasible?" The returned Klondiker looked doubtful. "I don't like to queer the game of a scientific gent," he said, "and I'll say the scheme is at least as feasible as crossing the seal with the arctic snow goose and harnessing the result to a sledge." To Be Clear of the Coffee Troubles. "Husband and myself both had the coffee habit and finally his stomach and kidneys got in such a bad condition that he was compelled to give up a good position that he had held for years. He was too slick to work. His skin was yellow, and I hardly think there was an organ in his body that was not affected. "I told him I felt sure his sickness was due to coffee and after some discussion he decided to give it up. "It was a struggle because of the powerful habit. One day we heard about Postum and concluded to try it, and then it was easy to leave off coffee. "His fearful headaches grew less frequent, his complexion began to clear, kidneys grew better until at last he was a new man altogether, as a result of leaving off coffee and taking up Postum. Then I began to drink it, too. "Although I was never as bad off as my husband, I was always very nervous and never at any time very strong, only weighing 95 lbs. before I began to use Postum. Now I weigh 115 lbs, and can do as much work as anyone my size, I think. "Many do not use Postum because they have not taken the trouble to make it right. I have successfully fooled a great many persons who have drunk it at my table. They would remark, 'You must buy a high grade of coffee.' One young man who clerked in a grocery store was very enthusiastic about my 'coffee.' When I told him what it was, he said, 'why I've sold Postum for four years but I had no idea it was like this. Think I'll drink Postum hereafter.'" Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read "The Road to Wellville," in pkgs. "There's a Reason." THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, JANUARY 11, 1908. ALMEDA'S FAD (Copyright.) It is almost too commonplace to describe, that low-browed cottage, where Miss Almeda Brown lived alone. Miss Almeda herself was the least commonplace of all, a bright-eyed, imperious little woman, with the dearest, brightest smile and the warmest, kindest heart as its motive power. On this particular morning she was eating her breakfast—a hearty, comfortable one, with the various courses within easy reach of her ten active malds, the fingers. "Pa sent up the letter, seein's you don't come to the office very often," said a small voice, following a timid knock, which Miss Almeda had not heard in her absorbed attention to her breakfast, and little Tommy Tinker laid an official looking letter, addressed in typewriting, beside Miss Almeda's plate. "Well, well!" she exclaimed, taking it by the corners and peering at it auspiciously, as if suspecting dynamite. "Who can have written to me in machine writing?" Miss Almeda read the letter, her brows knitting and her lips puckering with the surprise of the most remarkable communication she had-ever received. "Well, I do declare!" she said at length in a bewildered tone. "Who'd ever a-thought it?" The letter told of the death of an eccentric old relative, who had not only died, but had left her sole helen of a large property. There it was in plain language, the copy of the will. "I will and bequeath to my step-niece, Almeda Brown," but the interesting clause followed later, "convinced that she will make of it a good and humane use, instead of throwing it away on fripperies and nonsense." She went about in a dazed sort of way all day, and not until evening did a definite action suggest itself to her bewildered mind. "I'll go down to New York on a visit to Cousin Anson. I've always wanted to see the city, and Jane and I used to be real chummy together when we were girls. Anson is my cousin on pa's side, and there can't be any feeling about the will, because Uncle Jeffries was connected by marriage on ma's side of the house. Anson is a real good business man I've heard, and I need his advice." A week later and Miss Almeda was taking her breakfast in New York, at a most unearthly hour, according to her country notion, and with unaccustomed splendor, though when the elegance was sifted it consisted mainly of silver and cut glass, with several very prim servants, who eyed the visitor's "up country" ways and dress with curious interest. "Of course you will come to town now and enjoy life," said Cousin Anson, after the last course was served and the three were alone. "You have been mewed up in that little country town altogether too long." "When we have urged you so, again and again, to visit us," added Jane reproachfully. Cousin Almeda with a fortune was a very different person from plain, penniless Almeda, although Jane herself did not realize the distinction which had so suddenly arisen, and believed herself really sincere. Miss Almeda smiled, after a knitting of the brows for an instant in an effort to remember; after all it was pleasant to be so warmly welcomed, and she would not harbor a critical thought. "I have not quite decided yet," she said, sipping her coffee and wondering if she could ever become reconciled to city cream. "It is what I have come to consult you about, Anson. I want to look around and make up my mind leisurely as to my future course." Cousin Jane was skilled in the art of polite entertaining, and she gave a tea and a musicale, a correct and stately dinner party in honor of the guest, at all of which affairs Miss Almeda was introduced to so many people that she felt as if there was a wheel in her head, buzzing out names interminably. She was beginning to weary of city life, and to long for her little brown cottage, with its newly-shingled roof, and the simple companionship of her cat and dog. In the succeeding days Miss Almeda saw more of the city's poverty and suffering than she had dreamed of as a possibility, but somehow the wretchedness of the poor, touching as it was, did not appeal to her as did the dumb, animal life of the great city. The galled and goaded horses struggling along under loads far too heavy for them, which everywhere met her view, touched a very tender chord in her heart. She could have wept for very pity as she saw them hauling great vans, heavily loaded street cars, hucksters' wagons, with patient, gentle eyes too often turned toward brutal drivers in mute appeal, and she thought of them in the bitter treadmill of this rushing city life, with never a taste of the green pastures their natures were made for, never a roll on the cool, green earth, spread abroad so liberally outside this wilderness of brick and mortar. "What becomes of the horses when they are worn out, Anson?" she asked, as they passed one poor creature, struggling with all its strength to move an almost impossible load under the lash of an unfeeling taskmaster. "Oh, they are turned out to die, I suppose," Anson replied, with the indifference which a city-bred man too often acquires. "There are firms, I believe, who buy up the poor things for what they can get out of them." "You would better set up an infirmary for aged and decapitet horses," remarked Jane, with a shrug of her shoulders. She cared little for animals unless they were beautiful, and an overworked horse or a forsaken dog would find short shrift at her hands. "I believe I will," said Miss Almeda, thoughtfully. Why not use some of the money which had come into her hands so suddenly in making happiness for some of these poor, faithful brutes, after their hard life-work was done? Jane's idea did not seem in the least ridiculous to her; to the contrary, it commended itself to her tender heart more and more strongly as she saw the poor creatures that were galed and sore, some blind, and others lame with ringbones and spavin from long standing. "Will you help me, Anson?" "Help you what, Almeda? Run a glue factory? With all the pleasure in life, only I don't admire your taste in smells." "No, indeed," she replied, indignantly. "The poor things shall have decent burial when I have done with them. I want them sent up into the 14 "Who Can Have Written to Me in Machine Writing?" "Who Can Have Written to Me in Machine Written?" country, the sad cases I mean, Anson, for of course I cannot contract for a whole city full of horses. I shall buy a good tract of pasture, build some barns and have the horses cared for and given a taste of happiness while they live. You needn't laugh, Anson Brown. It would give me a dozen times as much happiness as I could find in trips to Europe or going into society, as Jane does." "Oh, of course, if you say so, I'll gather up the invalids and send them out to you," replied Mr. Brown, holding a smile in check which twitched the corners of his mouth, and trying to look interested as he reflected what a very queer compound female human nature is, anyway. Fancy a woman spending good money in the country, nursing sick horses, when she might live in town and have no end of a good time with her fortune. "The idea, Almeda Brown!" cried Jane, who already regretted the pains she had taken to introduce a creature so disappointing to the charmed circle of her city friends. However, Miss Almeda never came to her senses enough to regret the course she had taken. She hastened home and closed a bargain for a large tract of land which had long been on the market, and fitted it up with all the latest appliances for horses of elegant leisure. Cousin Anson really became interested in his share of the contract, as he carried it out, very unwillingly at first, it must be confessed, and through Almeda's "fad," as Jane contemptuously called it, became at last interested in other humane work in the city, which broadened his views and touched his heart as nothing had ever done before. "Almeda has done a sensible thing at last, Jane," he said to his wife one day, when the infirmary had been an active and beneficent fact for several years. "Well, it is high time." Jane replied tartly. "I never was so disappointed in anyone in all my days." "You know Benson, the head of the humane society of the city?" Well, he heard of Almeda's unconventional venture, and went up there to investigate and approve, and ended with falling in love with Almeda herself. They were married last week, and will be at home in Benson's fine home on Park avenue after the tent." "And never invited me to the wedding, after all we have done for her!" cried Jane, with surprised displeasure, but on later reflection she decided to overlook this crowning injury, for Mrs. William Henry Benson would doubtless be a figure in society whom it would be pleasant to know. Caught at His Own Game A certain well known bank in Buenos Ayres has reason to be very grateful to a clerk in its employ. At two o'clock one day a well dressed, prosperous looking man came in and, presenting a letter of introduction, opened an account with $3,000. Just before the bank closed the same man rushed in again in a tremendous hurry. He had been cabled for to go to New York. He must catch a boat first thing in the morning and must therefore draw out all his money. The clerk paid him—in his own notes, all of which were clever forgeries. Their Turn to Ride What would have been an almost inconceivable sight 20 years ago was seen a day or two ago on Broadway, New York. A handsome team of black horses was comfortably riding up town in a large delivery automobile. The wagon to which the horses evidently belonged was in tow of the motor, and the horses actually looked pleased. If talking were an equine accomplishment, they would probably have said, "Home was never like this." Our Pattern Department PLEASING COSTUME. 5988 5986 Patterns Nos. 5988 and 5986.—This modish gown of pale gray broadcloth has all the latest requirements demanded by fashion. The panel effect in front renders it exceedingly becoming. Deep tucks over the shoulders give the wide effect and produce a graceful fullness, that gives roundness to the figure. The skirt is given the fashionable close fit about the waist by the deep pleats being stitched to yoke depth and allowed to fall below that point in well-pressed folds, thus giving the necessary flare at the lower edge. The design is suitable for broadcloth, panama, volle, mohair and English suiting. For 36 inches bust measure $2\frac{1}{2}$ yards of 44 inch material will be required for the waist and $6\frac{3}{4}$ wards for the skirt. Ladies' Waist. No. 5988. Sizes for 32, 34, 36, 38, 40 and 42 inches bust measure. Ladies' Pleated Skirt. No. 5986. Sizes for 22, 24, 26, 28 and 32 inches waist measure. This illustration calls for two separate patterns for a waist and a skirt, which will be mailed to any address on the receipt of 10 cents for each in silver or stamps. This pattern will be sent to you on receipt of 10 cents. Address all orders to the Pattern Department of this paper. If we size and number a pattern wanted, please send your order on the following coupon: LADIES' KIMONO. 5963 Pattern No. 5963.—In this design for a kimono, we have an excellent model that is very easily followed. The long shoulder line lends an air of quaintness to the garment, and a girdle may confine the fulness at the waist, but that is optional, as many prefer the long loose front. The inexpensive materials are as well adapted to the making as the most costly fabrics. A 12.2 cm figured lawn will make up charmingly. As illustrated, cream white crepe cloth was used, trimmed with bands of figured silk. The medium size require 75% yards of 27 inch material. Sizes small, medium and large. This pattern will be sent to you on receipt of 10 cents. Address all orders to the Pattern Department of this paper. The pattern wanted. For convenience, write your order on the following coupon: No 5963. SIZE..... NAME..... ADDRESS..... Harmless Amusement. Many persons with refined minds are apt to depreciate happiness, especially if it is of "a low type." Broadly speaking, it is the one thing worth having, and low or high, if it does no mischief, is better than the most spiritual misery.—Mark Rutherford. Wise Advice. Without labor there is no arriving at rest, nor without fighting can the victory be reached. Be thou therefore always prepared for the fight if thou wilt have the victory.—Thomas a Kemuls. VIRGINIA MERCHANT RID OF A VERY BIG GRAVEL STONE. Another Remarkable Cure of Serious Kidney Trouble. C. L. Wood, a prominent merchant of Fentress, Norfolk Co. Va., was suffering some months ago with frequent attacks of hard pain in the back, kidneys and bladder and the kidney secretions were irregularly scanty or profuse. Medical treatment failed to cure him. rering some months ago with frequent attacks of hard pain in the back, kidneys and bladder and the kidney secretions were irregularly scanty or protuse. 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