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TWENTY-SIXTH YEAR. NO. 41. THE FASHION OF THE EASTERN WOMEN. The first costume is both smart and useful and is a style well-suited to sorge. Our model is in navy blue. The plaited skirt is cut in comfortable walking length, and has the plaits sitted down about halfway. White cloth is used for the waistcoat fastened down the center by small buttons and buttonholes. The fronts of coat are cut away and semi-fitting, fine braiding completely edges coat, while buttons and cords add further trimming. The sleeves are elbow length and quite loose, they are trimmed to match. Hat of stretched satin, trimmed with beads and feathers. Materials required: 8 yards serge 48 inches wide, 3 dozen buttons, 1 dozen yards cord, 4 yards coat lining. The second is a princess shape; cloth or serge might either be used, straps of material trim the front of skirt part, two box-plaits are arranged under the strap in front. Braiding trims the back and sides of bodice part, also the revers and cuffs, which are of some light cloth, the buttons are of the same. Hat of light felt trimmed with ribbon and roses. Materials required: 6 yards cloth, 46 inches wide, 4 buttons, 4 yards lining, 1 dozen yards braid. UNION OF THE STATE OF MASSACHUSETTS The first costume is both smart and seorge. Our model is in navy blue. Walking length, and has the plaits suit is used for the waistcoat fastened down tonholes. The fronts of coat are cut a pleately edges coat, while buttons and coat are elbow length and quite loose, they satin, trimmed with beads and feathers. Materials required: 8 yards serge 4 yards cord, 4 yards coat lining. The second is a princess shape; straps of material trim the front of the under the strap in front. Braiding tri also the revers and cuffs, which are the same. Hat of light felt trimmed with Materials required: 6 yards cloth, ing, 1 dozen yards braid. HIGH COLLARS ARE HARMFUL Permanent Dark Mark Made If the Neck Garniture Is Worn Too Hard. The fad of wearing extremely high collars will have a hurtful effect upon the flesh of the throat unless special care is given to prevent it, because through stoppage of circulation, a condition brought about by high collars, a permanent dark mark comes, and some remedy to obviate the trouble must be employed. It is not expected that a girl will select a neck dressing that is a misfit. But she may take the happy medium of one that is not too close to her throat. For example, if 13 is the usual size, it is the part of wisdom to take 13½ when the height of the linen is excessive. It is precisely the same theory that causes one to wear longer boots when the toes are excessively pointed. In order to preserve its roundness and softness the throat must have undoubtedly an aid to freshness is occasionally to change the style of collar worn and for a day to use one that is not extreme. This relaxes and tones muscles that may have become cramped. SUITABLE IN MANY MATERIALS Cashmere, serge or any cloth, as long as it is the same as used for skirt, would make up well for the overbodice. Three tucks are made on each shoulder both back and front; they are stitched down a few inches. A material strap stitched at each edge and trimmed with embroidered spots edges the opening and is also taken down the front over the fastenings. The oversleeve is trimmed in the same way. Materials required: 1½ yards 46 inches wide, 2 buttons. Even the Veils Have Fringe. The craze for fringe has reached veils, and all the big new ones are heavily bordered, sometimes with one row and sometimes with two. If the veil is of the changeable chiffon a stunning effect in color is produced by the border of fringe having precisely the same hues. On the fraller net veils, which cover a wide range in color, the fringe matches in shade. THE GAZETTE ALTERING AN EVENING GOWN. Scheme Very Much in Fashion and One That Is Quite Easy to Carry Out. If the girl who indulged in a scanty, slimly cut sheath gown last winter wants to change it a bit to give more of the classic suggestion, she can do this by using two veils as drapery. The idea is very much in fashion and is easy to carry out. The veils themselves are often used by high-priced dressmakers instead of buying chiffon cloth and hemming it. The veils have a selvage which makes them quite effective. One of the attractive ways of draping them is to catch one at each shoulder, drawing it up under the arm and fastening on with a paste buckle. The edges lower down may be lightly caught together over the arm a little above the elbow. This gives filmy but straight drapery from shoulder to hem which puts one in the picture this season. Again, an extra long veil is drooped across the back and caught at the back of each shoulder with a buckle and the ends left to hang straight. SKIRTS WIDER AT THE HEM. Are a Distinct Improvement on the Tight Garment That Extremists Favored. The absurdly narrow skirt that one could hardly step in and that was only worn by the extremists, fashionable or otherwise, has had its day. All the new skirts have width at the hem. Even the street ones are three and four yards wide, and the house ones are from six to seven yards at the hem. They are not lined or stiffened or worn over petticoats, but they have a graceful fullness. They are not held back by elastics, and give no appearance of the grotesque. They are quite ample, easy to walk in and more graceful on every figure than the extra tight ones. There are all sorts of rumors that the new skirt at the Paris races will be ten yards wide, but if one listened to all rumors these days no one would buy a gown with any feeling of security. Linen and Canvas for Book Covers. Attractive adjuncts to the living room are magazine covers made from heavy linens and craftsmans canvas. For the postcard albums the latter fabric is preferred. Both materials can be had in a variety of colors, and an applique of cretonne is a popular form of decoration. Book covers in a cool gray linen, adorned with a spray of purple orchids cut from cretonne, are pretty, and so are those in terra cotta crafts man's canvas, displaying a swastika cross cut from cretonne in dull oriental colorings. To Keep Rugs Flat. Girls who have a habit of shuffling their feet, thereby incurring frequent scoldings for kicking up rugs, will find life pleasanter if they cut triangles of medium weight cardboard, and sew them on the under side of rugs at each corner. ESTABLISHED AUGUST 25, 1883 AND ISSUED EVERY WEEK ON TIME SINCE. REV. QUINCY EWING, A WHITE SOUTHERNER, DISCUSSES "THE HEART OF THE RACE PROBLEM." A THOROUGH EXPOSITION He Wipes Away the Charge That Laziness, Criminality and Ignorance Make the Southern Negro a Problem and Explains What The So-called Negro Problem Is. It has remained for a southern white man of southern ancestry, to make a clear, true, complete and thoroughly democratic exposition of the Negro question. We allude to Rev. Quincy Ewing's discussion of "The Heart of the Race Problem," in the March Atlantic. One by one, Mr. Ewing takes up the white man's objections to the Negro, and gently but mercilessly tears them to shreds. Is the Negro lazy, and does that make him the white neighbors? The facts are against it. In southern communities Negroes are choice workmen, workmen of highest efficiency, workmen who are so much in demand that he who should "attempt to inveigle a few dozen of the laziest away from any southern community, would be likely to take his life in his hands or the usual warning is disreserved." Is the Negro peculiarly criminal, and does that make him a problem? No. What if the white man's statistics of the white man's administration do indicate it? The fact is otherwise. Although Negroes of the south occupy a majority of the population, else supplies the jail, the penitentiary, the gallows, with the greatest number of their victims," yet "in every other community the doors of society's rough work, the recipients of its meager rewards, are chargeable, relatively, with the greatest number of economic condition that brings him into the ban of the criminal law, and not any racial trait. Indeed, "it is abundantly certain that no race of people anywhere are more easily controlled than the Negroes by the guardians of law and order. Nor do the facts support the claim that Negroes' worst crimes partake of a brutality that is peculiarly racial." One need but observe for a week the crime reports of any cosmopolitan newspaper to see that "the Negro's worst crimes, with all their shocking accompaniments, are not seldom but often, and are not so horrible." Is it the Negro's ignorance then that makes him a problem? "Hardly!" answers Mr. Ewing; "for, almost to a man, the people who most parade and most rail at the race problem in private conversation, on the political platform, and in the pages of newspapers, are not so horrible, posed rather to lament, to than assist, the passing of the Negro's ignorance." Neither does Mr. Ewing find "the heart-throb of the race problem," in personal aversion. There is no such thing in southern communities. "How could there be?" exclaims the writer, "where from infancy we have all been allowed to play white; where many of us fell asleep in the laps of black mammals, and had for playmates Ephrom, Izik, Zeke, black mamm's grandchildren; where most of us have had our meals prepared by black cooks, and been waited on by black house servants?" What, then, is the Negro problem? Simply that it "is the white man's determination to make good this conviction, coupled with constant anxiety lest by some means he should fall to make it good." This is evident from general considerations alone. "Everywhere in the south friction between the races is entirely absent so long as the white man's opinion of him as an inferior, is grateful for privileges, and lays no claim to rights." The specific evidence with which, layer upon layer, Mr. Ewing further establishes his contention that "the race problem is the problem how to keep the Negro in focus with the traditional standpoint." And so would Mr. Ewing right under the southern white people to give place to white people from any other section of the United States. The question is not sectional in any profound sense. It is a question growing out of the traditional status of the Negro in this country. In our words, to Negro it is something like the old problem of Jew and Saxon and peasant—the same old problem, but with an ebony setting. Mr. Ewling does not undertake to say whether the policy of the whites at the south is "expedient or inexpedient, wise or unwise, righteous or unrighteous. That is why Mr. Ewling himself. Mr. Ewling merely explains—and this he proves—that the Negro problem of the south does not, in fact, hinge upon the alleged laziness, criminality, ignorance, or repulsiveness of the Negro; but upon the conformity of the Negro is inferior, and their determination to verify this conviction—Chicago Public. Bake Fish in Paper. The following method does away with fishy dishes, disagreeable odors, etc.: Clean and wash the fish thoroughly, salt, pepper, and flour it inside and out (sparingly), then roll in manila paper at least three times. Pinch the ends of the paper together, then fold back, and pin securely, to prevent the escape of the juices. Bake in a moderate oven, and allow fifteen minutes more than if baking the same fish in a pan. When ready, remove the fish from the skin will adhere, and place the delicious, juicy meat upon the platter. Garnish as desired.—Woman's Home Companion for May. THE FORAKER SCHOLARSHIP. Mrs. Robinson Starts a Fund for the Same—Who Will be the Next—President Taft. Moro, re. April 26, 1909. Editor Gazette—Dear Sir: I see by The Gazette that one person has offered to start the subscription for a Joseph Benson Foraker scholarship, with one dollar. Here are two more dollars. Can't you act as treasurer? If the colored papers would take it up and each receive subscriptions, it would soon be a reality and not a dream. Can't we get it by next fall? How much money must be raised? What will it cost a year to support a scholar at Wilberforce? Tultion, books, board, clothing and incidentals, for there should be some allowance for recreation. What amount of recreation is necessary if the body is not to give out, or the brain do its best work, and we want the very best of the race. And, Mr. Taft is doing just what thoughtful, logical people expected if he were elected. Yet, the papers tell us a delegation of southern Negroes called on him and thanked him for his southern policy. I may be wrong, but it seems to me an Afro-American who could do such a thing is unaware of the need to maintain them," sang Lowell long ago. Is it true to-day as then? I have been told all my life that the American rule was: "Every man as good as every other, and every woman better." Taft is a sham Republic. If you don't despise him, at least ignore him. BE MEN! Don't kiss the hand that strikes you like a dog. If you must be a dog, be a bull. If you must be a whale, be a attacker." Social equality" is a dream. As Senator Foraker said, "It does not exist among white people. Political equality, you are entitled to." Don't surrender at the word of a coward and demagogue. Rev. Corrothers' poem is very good Yours sincerely. MRS. PATRICIA ROBISON. AMERICAN INCONSISTENCY. How Native-Born Citizens Are Discriminated Against to Favor Foreigners. Philadelphia, Pa.—Rev. Dr. John Watchhorn (white) of this city said in a sermon recently, among other things: "The lowly Irish immigrant of two decades ago, engaged to labor of the most menial type, is our politician and office-holder to-day. The English mining immigrant of 20 years ago is our prime time for education on even the day, and the textile immigrant is our manufacturer. The Italian laborer of 20 years ago is our master mason. Only to the Afro-American have we denied these unparalleled opportunities for advancement. The unemployed Afro-American must pass by such huge establishments as Cramps shibyard and -Ladwin's locomotive kinks. We have had a magnitude, unable to claim the privilege of pushing even a wheelbarrow therein, whereby to earn his daily bread. Is it consistent to charge him with indolence and lack of ambition when we persist in imposing upon him industrial restrictions that would stifle the ambitious of sturdiest (composite) Anglo-Saxons? The Afro-American is charged with immorality; but if those frightful stories coming to us from the cloak of polite ears, to be true, the white man should be the last to make the charge, for from him the Afro-American got his example and instruction in the art of vice." THE SPLENDID REPORT Of the A. M. E. Financial Board Rev. Dr. Charles Bundy, P. E., a Member. Washington, D. C.—The thirty-ninth annual session was held here April 21 at the headquarters. Rev. Dr. John Hurst, who is finishing his first year as financial secretary, reported that $167,397.14 from 61 of the 68 annual conferences during the fiscal year ending March 31. This money is raised by subscriptions of one dollar a head. Eight per cent of this money goes towards educational purposes, 10 per cent to the Church Extension Society and 36 per cent to the support of wildows in the various conferences. The remainder is used to pay the salaries of bishops, general officers, etc. Secretary Hurst reportd a cash balance of $25,259.56, the largest in the history of the department. It was reported that $3,509,399.16 had been raised by the different conferences during the year for church purposes. Awarded $25,000 Each. Paducah, Ky.—No defense was offered in the federal court to the suits of Lee Baker and Nat Frizzell, members of the race, for damages on account of the Birmingham night-rider raids, and the jury awarded them the full amount, $25,000 each, as instructed by Judge Evans. Baker and Frizzell were driven to the Birmingham and the jury awarded 30 miles from here, by the raiders on March 9, 1908, after being whipped until, according to the testimony of Dr. Robert Overby, the lash cut into the muscles of their legs. On this raid John Scruggs, an aged Afro-American, and his infant daughter were arrested, which also brought Isabel, April August, which also brought them, quarantined in Metropolis, Ill. with smallpox, and their cases were continued. Thirty-one defendants compromised for $2,000, and the suits against them were dismissed. **Wanted—Copies of The Gazette.** The Western Reserve Historical society of this city needs copies of The Gazette of the volumes and dates given below, which also firmly trust that any of our readers who can send one or more of the copies desired, will forward them promptly, addressing them plainly to the Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, O. Vol. 7, No. 20, January 11, 1890. Vol. 12, No. 48, July 6, 1895. Vol. 14, No. 24, 24, 1895. Vol. 14, No. 2, August 15, 1896. Vol. 14, No. 21, December 26, 1896. Vol. 14, No. 25, January 23, 1897. FRESH NEWS CHRONICLED LETTERS FROM MANY OHIO CITIES AND TOWNS SENT BY OUR OWN CORRESPONDENTS. Personal, Social, Lodge, Church, Literary and Other Notes of Interest. East Liverpool—Mrs. James Mann of Chester, W. Va., and Mrs. S. B. Jackson of the East End are visiting in Monongahela City, Pa.—Mr. Frank Ormes is visiting in Steubenville. Co. B. entertainment last Monday evening was quite uneven. Rev. W. W. Smith lectured Sunday afternoon to the S. S.—Mrs. P. T. Brown and Miss Lula Heath returned Sunday from Youngstown. They attended the funeral of the latter's aunt, Mrs. Hall. Wellsville—Mrs. Margaret Snowen is very ill and Mrs. Thomas Richerson has been—Rev. Hogans preached two very able sermons Sunday. Mr. Brown, employee, railroad shop owner, has family from Cleveland to this city. Mr. John Mashon was ill Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Peachy were visitors at the A. M. E. church Sunday evening. Mrs. M. Whiting has rheumatism. Mrs. Katherine has rheumatism has returned. Mrs. Walter Mackey, Miss Inez Spires and little Geraldine Lewis are improving. Washington C. H.—Second Baptist church is doing excellent work under the new pastor, Rev. Thomas.—Mrs. William Cunningham of Newark is here attending her father-in-law, who is Mr. Milton Marchant of Columbus, public school. Mrs. Nancy Moss has rheumatism. She is at her daughter's. —Mr. James Weaver, who has been a guard at the O. P. (from Fayette county) for several years, died at his father's in Bloomingburg Sunday. —Hattie A. Wooldridge of Chicago, G. R. M. of the Eastern Star, Mount Vernon, E. H. Eudoum grand representative for "the grand east of Ohio." This is an honor. Xenia. — Mall Carrier George I. Gaines is preparing to build a new house on East Market street.—Odd Fellows' annual thanksgiving services at Zion church tomorrow afternoon.—Dr. H. R. Hawkins has enlarged his drug store.—May festival at Zion May be married next summer.—W. S. Shackleford is branching out in the truck farming business. In addition to his own, he has rented E. T. Edwards' farm, which he will put in potatoes and corn.—George McClure is ill. —Rev. H. L. Marque, a Porto Rica native, will be Tuesday night.—Halle Q. Brown will return soon from a lecture tour of several months, to remain until after Wilberforce commencement. Dayton. — Mr. Mose Moore has opened a park for our people. It promises to be a success. Our Women's Christian association has purchased a lovely home on the West Side and is doing good work. —Mr. T. Wheeler, a promising young business building and opened a moving picture show down stairs. —Our Women's league is arranging for a rally in June. —Rev. W. O. Harper of Zion church has resigned. —A Swift is preparing an industrial convention at Enterprise hall May 23, for the benefit of the women. —A large program is desired as one of the honor guests. Give the local agent your order for the Gatherie, the oldest and best race newspaper and advocate published in this section of the country. Lung-Town. —The last exercises at school (Friday afternoon) were largely attended and every one was interested in the speeches, dialogues and songs. At night several went over to the theater about a large program was rendered about. The Long-Town choir furnished music and also sang at Spring Hill Thursday evening. —An entertainment was held at the A. M. E. church Saturday night. —District school No. 3's vacation began on the 28th. A grand closing. Palestine high school was out Friday. Commencement was held in P. H. Mason school. It is progressing nicely. It is preparing for children's day. The Y. P. C. I gives very interesting programs. H. O. Mason, president; Chester Geens, vice, and Earl Clemens, secretary. Correspondents must mall all letters for publication at their main postoffice sufficiently early on Monday (or Sunday) of each week to have them reach The Gazette office on Tuesday morning, and always write, also, their names and that of their city or town of residence, and what about returned copies. Unless this letter done, proper credit cannot be given you. Lists of names, wedding presents, etc, obituary notices, speeches, resolutions, poetry, inquiries for relatives and advertisements of all kinds, including items announcing entertainments to be held in the near future, with his letter rate of ten cents a line, six words to a line. Our rates for display advertisements will be sent on application. Send postal note and not stamps during warm weather. Cadiz.—Revs. W. J. Johnson and J. D. Singleton, and Mr. Wallace Austin, delegate, left Monday for district conference at Wellsville.—Mrs. Cora Verse of Wheeling is visiting her brother, M. B. R. Slee, and family. Mrs. B. R. Slee is visiting class and returned home—Miss Effie Green of Pittsburg was called here by her sister, Mrs. James Green's illness. The latter is slowly improving.—Mrs. Susie White and daughters, Katherine Viney, Mrs. Lillian Harris and "Aunt" Bettie Lunas attended district conference.—Theodore Veney is in Washington, Pa.—Mrs. Gertrude Rudolph is visiting in Kanesville—Mrs. Elizabeth Viney is visiting in Kanesville last week.—Class No. 1's attainment Thursday evening at the parascience was quite a success.—A. J. Brooks is working in Bellevue. Marked Copy. SAMANtha.—Walter Garnett has a fine poultry farm of 16 acres.—H. H. Garnett has sold his fine 200-acre farm to John T. Ridgway at $60 an acre.—Peter Campbell visited his son, Theodore, recently. The latter is in the hog business. John Nooks has been quite well and George Nunn was in Hillsboro recently. Jacob Evans is plastering the Baptist church. Charles Rolands, the best horse buyer in this section, is worth about $10,000.—Miss Lucy Campbell has exceptionally fine sheep and cattle on her farm.—Mr. S. Nunn is convalescent. Mr. Paul Edwards' school was closed recently by sickness. Leonard Edwards visited his father's farm recently. Small-pox is in Hillsboro. A black snake in John Evans' poultry house made it very uncomfortable for him recently. BURDEN OF THE SCHOOL NOT ALL BEING BORNE BY WI TAX-PAYERS OF THE SOUT BY A GOOD DEAL. SUPERINTENDENT C. L. C. Fostoria.—Rev. Smith preached his farewell sermon Sunday and left with his niece, Miss Katie Hodges, for Indianapolis on Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. G. Burke entertained his niece'soes' birthday. —Mrs. Minnie Collins returned to Upper Sandusky after an extended visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Sibers.—Mrs. Fred Johnson of Fremont visited her mother, Mrs. Mary Rushall, Mrs. Hugh Wright, Olia, Mrs. Jannie McDaniel, the Misses Hurley, Messrs. Vern Porter, Roy Shaffer, James and Albert Scott and Elmer Keys attended an entertainment in Findley last week Thursday.—Miss "Caddie" Anderson of Lorain visited her sister, Mrs. William Jackson and Mrs. Ethel Bunch visited in Findley Sunday evening. Smithfield. — The W. M. M. entertainment at Mrs. John Ford's Saturday night week was a success. — A festival Saturday for the pastor. The family was tendered a surprise-donation the same evening. Rev. Randall has not used to teach. Mom Kelsee was Monday with the grip, and was not able to be at church on Sunday. Mrs. Randall and baby are convalescing. — J. M. Veney is slowly improving. A bad attack of tonallitis. — Mr. and Mrs. George Davis have a new son. She is not high school student. She visited children spent Saturday and Sunday here. — Mr. George Harris and family dined with Mrs. G. Veney. — The McIntyre school closed Friday afternoon. A good program was rendered. The Misses E. Beall and O. Washington were there from Friday to Sunday evening. — Miss Mary Cooper was in college in dale. — Mrs. Ed. West and mother were here from Steubenville Village. — Miss Lulia Jackson of Pittsburg was here Sunday. Martins Ferry.—Mr. and Mrs. Jackson of Bridgeport spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Louis Scipio.—Alberta Jackson and niece of Adena are here visiting her brother.—The oratoricantata "The Building of the Temple" will be given at Sixth Street A. D. Jackson and a undisclosed direction of H. H. Lucas.—Rev J. D. White returned from Flushing Monday.—Ella Giles and Lulu Grandison were in Elm Grove Sunday.—The church entertainment Saturday evening was well attended. The J. M. gave a "pink tea at Dora Lucas" Thursday evening and a splendid reception of H. H. Lucas. The little folk acquitted themselves creditably. The supper at Mrs. Williams' was a success.—Mrs. Robert Allen, who has been visiting in East Liverpool, arrived last Friday to spend some time with her husband.—Mr. L. Rivers has built a new veranda to his house, and materially improved its appearance. Mrs. Lucas and Bellaire were here Monday evening to attend the reception given Rev. and Mrs. White. Bellaire.—A. M. Howard of Steubenville was here Sunday, and Messrs. Redmond, Capito and Alston were in Wheeling Saturday evening.—Miss Lille Bradford died last Thursday evening at her mother, Mrs. Williams, after four months' illness. Tuberculosis. Funeral Saturday at 2 p.m. from St. Paul's/church, Rev. P. Alston officiating.—The bus chair was in the church Thursday evening. The pastor left Tuesday for district conference at Wellsville. The choir's sacred concert Sunday evening was excellent. The ladies are preparing to give a military drill.—Mr. and Mrs. White of Cadiz were here, and Mrs. Elizabeth Couch in Wheeling, Sunday.—Milton and Clayton Brown of Steubenville visited the Albright family Sunday.—The M. E. W. gave a reception Tindall and family evening. An excellent program was rendered. The district S. S. convention held its sessions here this week.—Miss Lacy Redmond was here Sunday. Springfield—The Art Needle club met at Mrs. Clarence Rickman's Thursday. An elaborate lunch was served—Mrs. Clarace B. Clark of McKenzieburg visited Mrs. Samuel Cochran Tuesday. Miss Katie Conway spent a few days with her sister, Mrs. Rhoades—Mrs. Philip Hatcher is quite ill. Miss Daisy Hall of Columbus will sing Thursday night at Second Baptist church under the auspices of Mrs. Lucy Seals. Thursday. Mr. Lloyd Howard of Vicksburg, Miss, came here to bury his aunt, Mrs. Belle Evans of Wilberforce—Miss Helen Beard is very ill. Mr. Edward Kemp of Columbus is visiting his brother, Charles. Tell your friends and acquaintances to give their order for the Gazette to the local agent. Steubenville—Miss Carrie Miller of Cleveland was here Monday on route home from Trenton. She was Miss Jettie Winters' guest. Mr. A. A. Jackson of Wheeling was here day. Mrs. Minnie Kaiser and Thomas Reynolds were married Sunday night by Rev. J. S. Jackson. Mr. Lewis Thornton of Wheeling was here Sunday. Mr. Frank Ormes of East Liverpool visited the Misses Guyder Sunday. Mr. A. B. Reed is convalescing. Mrs. William Ross is ill. James Baltimore was in Bellaire Sunday. Quartermaster of Wheeling Sunday afternoon was largely attended. Rev. Kinchen preached. Rev. Dr. Bundy, P. E., occupied the pulpit in the morning. Al. Roberson of Wheeling was here Sunday. Ella Washington, Myrtle Ford and Mary West visited Smithfield recently. Mrs. A. J. Continued on Second Page. IN UNION THE LEGISLATURE BURDEN OF THE SCHOOLS NOT ALL BEING BORNE BY WHITE TAX-PAYERS OF THE SOUTH, BY A GOOD DEAL. SUPERINTENDENT C. L. COON Says a Small Amount of Money Is Spent There for Negro Education Considering the Population—Another Remarkable Statement from a White Atlanta, Ga.—One of the principal addresses of the Twelfth Annual Conference for Education in the South was delivered on the last day of the session by C. L. Coon of Wilson, N. C., who spoke on "Public Taxation and the Negro School." In his address the speaker took the position that the present cost of the Negro public schools is not a burden on the white taxpayer of the south, and made the assertion that the white public school in the south is between six and seven times as expensive as the Negro public school, figuring on the basis of population. Superintendent Coon's address in part: "The south is spending $23,068,851 on her public schools. Of this amount $23,856,914 is paid for teachers, white and colored. 74.4 per cent of the total. Negro teachers are receiving about $3,818,705, or 12 per cent of the total expenditures for all purpose, white teachers are being paid 64.4 per cent. The amount being spent on Negro teachers is by far the largest item of expense of the Negro public schools. In addition to the expense of Negro teachers the south is paying about $917,670 each year, making the total aggregate cost of the Negro schools near $4,738,375. These figures relate to the states of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas, which contained 81.4 per cent of the Negro population in 1900. The Negro population of these states is about 40 per cent of their total population. Hence, the Negro school teachers who have charge of about 40 out of every 100 of the children of the south, are being paid only 12 per cent of the school expenditures. The total cost of all the Negro schools is only 14.8 per cent of the $22,068,851 expended. In words, the white public school in the south which takes care of only 60 per cent of the population, is between six and seven times as expensive as the Negro public school which takes care of 40 per cent of the population. The Negro's Contribution. "It is not possible to ascertain accurately what the Negro contributes to his own education, except in some of these states. In Virginia, North Carolina and Georgia, it is possible to find out approximately whether the Negro school is a burden on the white taxpayer. If in these states, we take ownership of the Negroes actually on property and polls, their part of the taxes imposed on railroads and other corporations, their part of the permanent school funds and their part of the license taxes devoted to schools, it will be found that the Negroes' part of the school fund raised in Virginia is $49,228. North Carolina in 1908, $429,197; Georgia in 1907, $474,852. These states spent the following sums on Negro schools in Virginia, 1907, $489,228; North Carolina, 1908, $402,658; Georgia, 1907, $506,170. Thus it will be seen that when any fair division of the school funds of these three states is made, the Negroes will fare well as they are now faring in the absence of such rare division. "It has been generally assumed that the white tax-payer is now bearing nearly all the burden of the Negro public schools. But the figures, for North Carolina, Virginia and Georgia seem to indicate clearly that this is not the case. If we divided the present school funds of the south on the race basis, how would we divide the funds raised by taxes on railroad and highway taxes, not listed as either white or black? How would we divide the license taxes and the income from the permanent school funds? It seems fair to assume that all such funds would have to be divided according to population. If that is done, then it is not likely that the present cost of the Negro public schools is a burden on the white tax-payer of the south." 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 in the following cities: Mt. Vernon, Zanesville, Dayton, Lancaster, Akron, Lima, Lorain, Chilicothe, Toledo, Urbanna, Oberlin, Cambridge, Sandusky, Hamilton, Bellefontaine, Wimmington, Portsburgh, Sandusky, O. and other places where we live now. Write to the editor of The Gazette, Blackstone building, Cleveland, O. Blackstone building, Cleveland, O. and terms will be sent promptly. Our readers will oblige us greatly by sending the address of any good person to us, and we will be named above or others, to whom we can write relative to the matter. A White Missionary Ordered Out. A White Missionary Ordered Out. Lagos, British West Africa.—It is reported here from Oyo, in Nigeria, that the navy of the foreign missions board of the South Baptist convention, has been ordered to leave Oyo by the native chief. Oyo is located 120 miles north. Lagos has a native population of 40,000. NXGCS { THE GAZETTE. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY, SUBSCRIPTION RATES, (IN ADVANCB.) enc re oe ae ede oa Liew acksas eee toast: crare ote yea gape Piece ficn tenouris a oo ac neteeek timer ome Onto Lact | 3 et eae leg ay Cleveland, ©,, Saturday, May 1, 1909. oe a a ee Mane Gos i ste ta a letter from that city, published else- where in this paper. He tells the ee Read carefully — Superintendent Goon's And Rey, Ewing's statements, published on our first page today. They are So out of the ordinary and contain 80 yery much truth (too seldom seen im print) that they are especially val- uable at this time. Coming as they do from native southerners, gives them ‘additional {mportance in the public mind. It 1s well that this is so in this instance. VERY UNFAIR. Se eee areas ay See ee eee ment for the obligated friends of a race to hand over its political or civil destinies into hands of those who haye formerly held it in cruel and abject bondage. Yet President Tatt’s policy is that the Negro's eligibility to office and his enjoyment of citizen- ship and its enfranchised ° dignities must depend upon the opinions of the mien in the community where Negro Office ‘seeker lives. This seems. to be fair enough on the first sight, but when we reflect that the Negro gains his freedom, his citizenship and all his rights against the opinion of the people in midst of whom he was enslaved, we ean see how absurd it must be to trust to the opinions of any of these people for anything: like fair play for the Negro, In this President Taft draws the line not on polities, but on color; not on merit, Dut race, and: encdurages the develop- ment of bitter race feeling. ‘This policy of the president not to appoint Negroes to office in com- munities where white citizens protest against them goes farther, in its in- fiuences than presidential appoint. ments. Its final tendeney must be the elimination of the Negro from even subordinate places in the federal serv. ice. If it is right to concede to these race antipathies in the appoint: ment of Nogroes, it js equally. right to consult them with regard to. the right of the Negro to own property, fo get an education or retain his right to testify or plead and be impleaded in the courts of justice. Here comes an alarming bit of news from Washington, D. C. It says that President att tnistracted Mr. North, the secretary of the census, that in his appointments, “not to draw. the Hine on politics,” but draw it on color; to appomt a few, if any, Negroes as supervisors or emimerators of the cen- ‘sus and thus carry out the president's Negro policy. No Negro will be ap- pointed anywhere, where white men tare to protest. This is popular sov- ereignty' with a vengeance that Stephen A. Douglass never dreamed of. The right of the white man to ‘own the Negro as a slave depended only on whether the white man want- ed the Negro as a slave, and his want made it law, Dut this law was confined to territories and could not assert it- self in states. President ‘Taft's Negro policy may extend to any or all the states, and at any time, anywhere in the United States a bunch of white men, gan- grened with a race hate, may get to- gether and protest against Negroes carrying their letters or driving a mail wagon, and their mere protest makes the Negro. inelligible, Of course that such protests will be eagerly made is evidenced in the con- tinued and Ditter denunciations heaped upon the Negro's head by these men who form the community whose voice our president seems in- Clined to listen to on the Negro ques- tion. ‘The bare announcement of this pol fey has already started the ball roll- ing, and .in many of the southern communities the work of weeding the Negroes out of subordinate federal places is going on, and, what tre- fmendous impetus Mr. Taft will give to this movement when he directly and practically gives us his first ex- Ample, it would be hard to calculate. St. Louis (Mo.) Advance. Every line of the above is so. per tinent and so true that we endorse it most heartily indeed. Editor Mur- ray of the Advance is one of our oldest and ablest writers, and, last fall, surprised us greatly in his per- sistent advocacy of the election to the presidency of William Howard Taft, in the face of the latter's Greens- boro, Tuskegee, Lexington and Grand Rapids speeches, particularly, All that he, the editor of the Advance, now complains of, and more too, was. plainly foreshadowed, even outlined, at different times, in those speeches. That is why The Gazette, even at great eaérifice, refused to support Mr. Taft's candidacy, and we have since, to date, seen or heard absolutely nothing to cause the slightest regret. Indeed, just the opposite is true. How- ever, wp are pained, and we see sdf, as a result of the condition of affairs, from a racial standpoint, complained of by our esteemed coffrere of the Advance, as he is and every other joyal member of the race must or should be. If it will result in moving even the real leaders of this people af ours to wise and concerted AC- TION and less talk, even it, the sad eondition of affairs brought about by che shameless att southern policy, will not prove wholly harmful and without any encouraging effect. —-_—_oo De sete to-read our Advertisements: 2 A NATIVE WHITE SOUTHERN RE: PUBLICAN LEADER ON DISFRANCHISEMENT. LIBELING SOUTHERN MASSES Nearly 200,000 Afro-Americans in Ala bama Alone Robbed of Their Vote. —Booker T. Washington Blamed. —“The Stolen Presidency.” Mighty Interesting Semillon Although there is this vast distinc: ton, as between the illiterate (white) people of the north and those of the South, there are those of the south, among the Democratic party leaders, who appeal to the people of the north in palliation of the wholesale disfran- chisement laws, that these laws are proper for the reason that the illiter- ate are eliminated from the voting ‘Thia appeal has strong weight with the north in that there is somewhat of an actual problem in the north in its dealing with an illiterate and un- Americanized foreign element. In the north, however, they are reaching this problem by’ educating these masses, In the south there is the uoual building up of the educational facilities of the classes and the neg: lect of the hill country white masses. ‘These bourbon leaders not only neg. lect these white people, but they join in with Booker T. Washington and uphold disfranchisement as not objec: tionable when both races are hewn down. ‘The people of the north are led to believe that these whites of Alabac ma, who are out of the voting, are comparabie to the vicious of the un- desirable foreign element of the north. It is an unjust and cruel inference that these people get from this Dem- ‘ocratie party leadership and press of the ebutl.: Booker T. Washington knows the situation, talk all that he may about not objecting to disfranchisement just 80 it cuts into both races alike. No man knows better than he that the motive. the spirit and the enforee- ment of these so-called laws is parti san in design and that this design is not merely the distranchisement of the Negro or of the illiterate white man, but the obliteration of the very possibility of opposition to the oll- garchy by and through the strategy and subterfuge and cunning of this pecullar political system. In the bolstering up of its political chicanery, in the beclouding of the Actual conditions that it environs, this oligarchy in the south has no better or abler ally in its work of keeping the eyes of the country from looking right into the facts than is Booker ‘T. Washington. And Booker 'T. Wash- ington knows that he is eternally damning the political rights of the Negro in the south as he commits the future of the Negro to the oli- garchy. He knows that the Negro was disfranchised because he was and ig a Republican more than for the reason that he was and is a Negro. He knows that the Negro is not going to be let into the voting again by the oligarchy that let him out and that the same reason that let bim out will keep him out, Out of the nearly 200,- 000 Negroes of voting age in Alabama there are not over 2,000 Negroes who vole or who can vote. Away with this foolishness of Booker ‘T. Washington! What most Concerns the Southern American 1s that Booker 'T. Washing. ton, his tremendous influence, has gone far to help fasten this distran- chising slavery on white citizens. It were enough that this Negro should carry his own race back into this new confederacy. Here, however, we have a Negro, a former slave, exer- cising a mighty power of world influ- ence to help keep submerged the white as well as the black masses of ak cae ‘The Republican machine politics in the south has been pretty well gone into by the investigating committee of the National Civil Service Reform Teague. It has gathered up a mass of information which every earnest Re publican in the south is glad for the entire country to be in possession of and the facts presented in the commit- tee report will have a most helpful effect in arousing the nation to this southern condition. ‘As the New York Evening Post points out, the report of the commit- tee is not “in either intention or ef- fect” a whitewashing of the last ad- ministration, The readers of the Southern American are aware of the fact that no one was contending that the classified service was belng per- niciously lined up in the fight to se- cure the nomination of Mr. Taft, but the Southern American and other’ pub- Heations did contend, at the time, that the unclassified ‘service in the south was converted into a veritable political army. Tiis vast political horde was working under orders. In each southern state the acknowledged Fepresentative of the Roosevelt ad- ministration, the known patronage dispenser, was the leader and the di- rector of ‘this horde. Tn the language of the New York Evening Post.—“whatever the expla- nation, the thing is an outrage and, a danger.” ‘The explanation of this infamous procedure of last year in the south, the reason for it, this is not at all difficult of understanding. | It was realized far in advance of the active fight for delegates.to the national Republican convention ‘ust about how the lineup would be in the states of the north and west. As the sentiment a"? : Cy pi Riemann ‘The Stolen Presidency. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, 0., SATURDAY, MAY 1, 1909. and various forces began to crystal. Ine, it was then that It was foreseen by the administration that in order to secure the nomination of Taft it would require the control of the ni tional committee and the seating of ‘Taft delegations from the states in the south. This was. the specific game agreed upon and the point worked to from the very beginning to the end, ‘Theodore Roosevelt was the appar. ent chief in command of this conspir acy. Frank H. Hitchcock was the mere clerk carrying out his orders Ormsby McHearg was “the learned lawyer aud legal light” whose duty it was to nose around over the south and to advise the dirty political henchmen of Hitchcock as to how te whip into presentable and legal form ‘the mess and mass of padded contests and perjured statements which went to form the basis of the wholesale scheme to swindle through the nomt- nation of the Republican candidate for \the presidency. ‘Taft delegates were seated from every state and district in the south. Of course Hitchcock could name, to the ery gnat’s heel, the number of delegates Taft would have. He knew that he had a fixed national commit tee and he knew that he had his given number of dummy delegates from the south. Roosevelt evidently was in all of this. So was Taft aware of the general plan. While the “steam roll er” process was working out the cll max of this theft of the presidential nomination at Chicago there was Roosevelt in high glee at the Wash- ington end of the Chicago convention hall telephone. ‘This the country ab ready knows.—Alexander City (Aln) Southern American. Burns’ Favorite Word. A contributor has had the curiosity to look ‘up Mr. J. B. Reid's “Burns Concordance,” and measure the amount of space devoted to certain words. In the rest he found that Burns used the word “heart” more than any other word, the quotations under this word filling no fewer than six of the closely printed columns, “Lass,” “friend” and “heaven” come next, each having about two columas. fon: receded Wire Lees. A dog was the first to raise the ‘alarm of what might have proved a serions fire at Bradiford, Barnstaple, England, A lamp had burst in the upper room of a dwelling house, and the animal ran frantically downstairs to its niaster and mistress and by its persistent antics drew their attention to the fire, which was soon extin- guished. Remedies for Open Cut. ‘To heal an open cut apply alum wa- ter twice a day. Powdered rosin ts also good, Pound {t well in a clean mortar or wooden bowl. When well pulverized place in a sterilized pepper pot and sift it upon the wound. Put @ soft cloth over the cut and: occaston- ally wet it with cold water. This will prevent inflammation and soreness. In Praise of Kind Words. Kind words produce their own image on men’s souls; and a beautiful image it is. They smooth, and quiet, and comfort the hearer. They shame him out of his sour and morose and unkind feelings, We have not yet be- gun to use kind words in such abun- dance as they ought to be used.—Pas- cal. a a ec aed wo Tn a western home, Lynne, four years old, was kneeling on the car- pet before a low window, intently watching the falling snow as it was rapidly covering the prairie. He turned ‘and. saifl reverentiy: “Aunt Lizzie, God sends it down, and he spreads it so smooth.”—Delineator, A Woman's Revenge. A Connecticut woman, dying, left $40,000 to her horses, dogs and cats, instead of to her husband. Well, if legacies were based strictly on moral equities, there'd be a lot more doss with gold collars and a lot more men with celluloid ones. — Washington ‘Times. Had Lived Life of Savage. At an inguest held recently at Read- ing, England, on the body of William Earl, a well-known local “character,” it was stated that the deceased had not slept on a bed for 14 years, and that when he was laid on a bed in the hospital he eried like a child. Varying Sugar Consumption. The Australians eat an aycrage of 129 pounds of sugar each, every year, the United States 89 pounds, Germany 86 pounds, France 32 pounds and Great Britain 1 pounds, but in the fatter country the ratio is going up. Ellijay’s Big Day. Monday was a right important day in town. The court of ordinary had lot of business and the justice trial court was the center of attraction for - tite cowd-—iiliiiay Courier. Debtors’ Punishment. In some parts of China, if a man falls to pay his debts, his croditore carry away one of his doors, tnus per- mitting evil spirits to enter. New York's Women Clubs, New York city has 200 women's clubs. Ras Sees In great attempts it js glorious even to fail—Longinus, ‘The Cleveland Daily News and Plan Dealer continue their contempt. able treatment of, and references to, our people. Their sporting page writ. ers are the chief offenders. Do not purchase these xewspapers as long as they continue to insult, deride and injure us. ‘A Good Chance for a Good Barber. Any good barber wishing an excel lent stand for a one, two or three. chair shop at a very low rental, should address Box 2, The Gazette, Cleve- land, O. a THE GAZETTE is the oldest, and has the largest bona fide circulstion, double that of any newspaper in tho interest of Afro-Americans, pualished In the state of Ohio, and comparison with any will immeciately establicn its rank as one of the NEWSiEST AND BEST in the country. (Continued from First Page.) Guy was called to Gallipolla by a cousin's death:Sara Cooke and Mable Madison. returned to Youngs: town Sunday.—Dan. Bolden’s back was injured last week.—Mr. D. Mackey of Kast Liverpool was here Sunday. — Mrs. C.D, Viney was here Sunday from Cadiz, Prominent Elke Fined. Hot Springs, .Ark—Charles F, Houges, secretary, and W. 8, Gardner, exalted’ ruler, of our local’ lodge of Elks, were ted $25 each here April 14 when the circuit court sustained 2 lower court's conviction on & charge of violating the state law which pre- Vents the wearing of an emblem or insignia of a secret fraternity of which one is not a member. The de- sign Js of much importance, ax, under the same statute, our Odd Fellows oF Masons may be proceeded against. Hodges and Gardner set up in defense that they were properly chartered as the “I. B. P, 0. B,," instead of the “B. P.O. E..” but the court and jury ruled that the difference was vague, and misleading. ieee Slee ede ahaa Quarterly meeting Sunday.—Sophie Brooks of Olean was E. Sheckles’ guest.—Modjeska Enty is visiting Mrs. Jefferson of Kane.—Mra. E.R. Logan was in Olean Sunday.—Mrs. Kean entertained a number of the young folk. Miss Brooks was the guest of honor.—A. J. Enty Is building an addition to his bouse,—Prof. Moore of the Saulsbury, N. C., college spoke very interestingly at the A. M. B. church Sunday and ts stopping at Mr. ‘Thornell’s.—Mrs, R. Kenney is in Rushford.—Farl ‘and Robert Ragland, Messrs. Tyler, Enty and Collins went to Kane with the High School band Sunday.—Edna Collins has returned from Philadelphia.—Master Johnston Moss is able to be out.—Mrs. Beasley is quite il is Se ean aeons eet oe a ae a) ERED Barnes ‘was found dead in bed Mon: day morning and is thought to have committed suicide, using chloroform, Mr. and: Mre, Charles Waldon of Cleveland have located here. He is employed in Hatfield's barber shop.— ‘The proceeds of the L/Ouverture club's dancing party were given to the A.M. B. trusteos—Mr. and Mra James Armstrong of Boston and Mr. and Mrs. James Malone of Bradford have located here. —Mr. Clayton Brooks is visiting In Phillipsbure.— Mr. and Mrs. Gooderel_and daughter of Little Genessee were here visiting, and Mr. George Jackson Is in Portviile. — Mrs. Carrie Johnson ts visiting in Lit te Genesee and Richburg.—Mr, and Mrs. Lester Clemons and daughter, Helen, are visiting his mother in Well ville.—-Mrs, John Logan and daughter, Leona, of Bradford were here Sunday” Ars, Erhest Clemons has returned, Mr. Clemons entertained at Tuncheon Sunday.—Mr. Charles Pields is. con- valescing and Miss Delige Is very il. St. Clairsville—Services were well attended Sunday. — Rev Balph preached a splendid sermon. — Rev. Montgomery has been seriously ill for two weeks and was unable to attend district conference. Mrs. Ella White left Monday morning for Wells- ville to attend it. She was elected delegate.—Mrs. Cora Swanizan Is stil seriously ill,—Mrs. Hattie Jackson of Wheeling, who came here some weeks ago for her health, is improving — Roger Jordan of Bellaire is visiting his parents.—Walter Jackson "and John Wilson were in Wheeling Satur- day, and William Hull Sunday—Ben ‘Davis held the lucky ticket at Pleteh- ers store again last. week. Gertrude Simpson was the guest of Odessle Jackyon Saturday.—Maryland Rogers and Nellie King visited in Bridgeport Sunday, and Mrs. 8. W. Cochran, Sa- die Castleman, Harry Wilson in’ Bel laire last week.—Mrs. Joseph Primus of Bellaire visited hor grandmother, Mrs. E, Taylor, last week—Dan Mt Gomery returned to Buffalo last week. —Charles Wilson is, visiting in Mt Pleasant.—Hazel Jackson, Miss Rog: ers and Lina Cochran were in Provi- dent last ‘Thursday, Misses Priest and: Mabel Jackson, were there. Sun day to see Anna Noels, who is very ll—Mrs, Grant Read of Bridgeport was the guest of Mra, Stella. Brown Tastweek.—A large crowd. attended the Tribe of Judea entertainment Sat- day evening, Mr. John Jackson, leader—Mr. Buckingham and Bra: met Brown of Bridgeport were here last week.—Mrs. Minnie Wilson. Is ‘convalescing.—Rosa Jackson enter- tained the L. A. 8. Tuesday afternoon. —Mary Mt, Gomery is attending con- ference at Wellaville this week. MAHONING VALLEY NEWS, Elks’ Club Opened—The Reuben Mu: sicale a Success—The Johnson Reception—Social, Person- al, Church and Other ‘Notes, Youngstown, O.—Mrs. Q.\ Robinson and guest, Miss Alice Green of Chi- cago, and Mrs. Lewis will visit ja Cleveland Sunday and Monday.—/a number from neighboring towns spent Sunday here—Mr. and Mrs. James Neal of Louisville, Ky., are at 534 Ma- honing avenue—IMrs. itattie Jefferson has_neuralgia.—The junior auxillary of St. Augustine Mission met at Mrs. Tocus’ Saturday afternoon. ‘Training, music and lunch—Messrs. Dave Bran- nock, John Eccles and John Holmes are ill—Miss Rhoda Holmes, Mrs. Lemuel and Mrs. Charles Stewart, Mrs. Josephine Finney and Mrs. Gaines Williams are improving —Mr, James Gibson of East Youngstown ‘was in the city Tuesday for the first time since last fall—The “Smart set” is at the Grand Opera House.— Messrs, Jones and White of Pittsburg, Mrs, Doudney of Barnesville, Mrs. Hattie Harper, ‘Miss Hattie. ‘Collins and Luella Pearl Lute were entertain- ed at dinner Sunday by Mrs. Charles Jackson —The Tribe of Reuben mum sicale in Oak Hill Avenue church last ‘Tuesday evening was a success. Mrs. Katherine §. Mitchell of Cleveland sang very acceptably a number of classical celections, and our local tal- ent made a splendid, showing also. Refreshments: served.—Mr, and Mrs. Henry Johnson entertained Thursday evening in honor of their daughter, Miss Geraldine, who is home from Pittsburg on a visit, Miss Nannie Heath gave a number of excellent piano solos and the house was beau- Ufully decorated. Lunch was served. —Mrs, K. 8. Mitchell and Mrs. J. W. Wills of Cleveland were guests of Mrs. T. D. Berry and Mrs. RA. Kerr, respectively.—The Elks’ club was for- mally opened Wednesday evening. — Mrs. Leana and Miss Georgia Wash- ington of Warren were in the city Sunday.—Mrs. Biddle, Mrs. Morrison and Mr. John Gibson of Past Youngs- town are il. SUBSCRIBE FOR THE OLD, RE- LIABLE GAZETTE. 00 NOT BOR. ROW OR SPONGE FROM YOUR NEIGHROR. 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 For. eign Items, WASHINGTON NEWS. Prospects for the president's pro- posed trip through the west during the coming summer assumed a brighter hue, Chairman Tawney of the house appropriations committee Announcing after a conference with Mr. Taft that he would offer a bill ap- propriating $25,000 for the president's traveling expenses, Senator Bailey of Texas denounced the «principle of protective tariff as unfair in a twoday speech in the sen- ate. . Senator Smith of Michigan, incog- nito, successfully defended a Detroit negro in the police court in Washing: ton, A resolution introduced in the sen- ate by Senator La Follette calls for data on duties imposed by the United States, Germany and France on sev- eral commodities. Senator Dolliver of Towa and Sena- tor Nelson of Minnesota attacked the tariff bill on the ground that its du- tles are too high. ‘The threo members of the Liberlan commission, who are to sail from New York for Africa on Saturday next to study conditions in the negro republic, had a final conference with President Taft, Satanic oe S: Raymond L. May, a rafiroad fireman of Evansville, Ind., was given a Car- negie medal for saving the life of a negro boy. Mme. Olive Fremstad, the opera star, was among 200 guests who fied in scant attire from the Battery Park hotel at Asheville, N. C., when it caught fire, Harvey W. Scott of Portland, Ore. who was tendered the ambassadorship to Mexico, declined the office in a letter recelved by President ‘Taft. Robert Watchhorn, commissioner of immigration at New York, tendered his resignation to take effect imme- lately, and it was accepted. Joseph Murray {s acting commissioner. Mrs. Matthew T. Scott of Blooming- ton, Ill, was elected president general of the Daughters of thé American Revolution. Yung Kwal, one of China’s special envoys to the United States, predicted his country will have self rule in the next ten years, GENERAL NEWS. Antonio F. Bonelli, Italian banker, was found guilty of embezzlement, in common pleas court at Cleveland, He fe alleged to have absconded with $30,000. Leonard de Long, a high sehool stu dent, injured while playing baseball at Lamoni, Ia., died. PA vwvesiah gland jury ordered. by Goy. Haskell to investigate the lynch- ing at Ada, Okla, on April 19 of James Miller Jesse’ West, Joseph Ar Jen and W. 7. Burrell, the cattlemen, for the murder of A. A. Bobbitt, a United States deputy marshal, con- vened. ‘Thomas C. Dawson, American mfn- ‘ister to the United States of Colom: bia, who has been transferred to Chile, has left Bogota for Washington for a conference before going to San- tlago. ‘The Ast official appearance of Mrs. Matthew Scott as president general of the Daughters of the American Revolution occurred when she pre- sided over the deliberations of the ‘national board of the management of ‘the D. A, R. Dudley F. Loomis of Tiffin, 0, tand- ‘ed at Southampton from Rio Janeiro ‘March 13, since when he has not been seen, His disappearance has created some alarm, and the American con- suls in England are searching for the missing man. Lieut. Calvin P, Titus of the Four- teenth infantry, who was the first man to scale the walls of the Chinese city at the battle of Pekin on August 14, 1900, has reconsidered his inten- ton to Ieave the army. ‘Maj. Gen. William P. Duvall ar rived at Manila on the transport Kil patrick and formally assumed com- mand of the military forces in the ‘Philippines. He relieved Gen. W. H. = The commission, which is to study ‘conditions in Liberia, sailed from New ‘York. Jack Johnson, champion of the world, and Jack’ O’Brien of Philadel- phia, signed articles of agreement to fight six rounds in Philadelphia May 19. With Hons prowling around his tent Theodore Roosevelt slept peacefully on his first night under canvas in Af- lea. Indictments were returned at Mer- cer, Pa., against James Boyle and his wife charging then with kidnaping Willie Whitla, ‘Two tons of dynamite were used fn a single blast to dislodge the ice Jam in the lower Niagara river. Former Judge M. J. Gordon, who ‘was counsel for the Great Northern Railroad Company was arrested in Spokane, Wash., on a charge of em- dezzling the railway’s funds. ‘The nomination of Elliott Northcott of West Virginia to be minister to Colombia was confirmed by the sen- ate. ‘The resignation of George Lincoln Goodale, professor of natural history at Harvard university and director of the botanical garden, was announced. Former President Roosevelt left Mombasa for the African jungles to begin his big game hunt. Miss Rose Lambert of Elkhart, Ind., one of the five American missionaries at Hadjim, Asiatic Turkey, sent message asking for help and express. ing fear that they would be killed ascended the throne. Fears were expressed by the Ald: rich faction of tie senate that the de- bates on the tari bill will prevent final action.on the measure until late in the summer. President Tait, speaking at the Grant dinner in Philadelphia, praised the soldier-president and pleaded for closer ties between north and south. ‘The National Federation of Reli- gious Liberals held its first annual conference in Philadelphia, Indiana liquor forces got the hard- est blow they have yet received when Delaware county, of which Muncie is the seat, voted “ary.” Miss Murlel White, daughter of the United States ambassador to France, was married in Paris to Count Her tan Scherr-Thoss of Prussia. J. Ogden Armour is reported to be planning @ $1,000,000 gift for a perma- nent home for grand opera in Chi- cago. The Iilinois house of _representa- tives voted to make October 12, the Dirthday of Christopher Columbus, a state holiday. ‘An attempt to Kill the woman's suffrage bill in the Illinois legislature failed by five votes. The explosion of a boiler caused a fire which destroyed the plant of the Winnebago Furniture Company at Fond du Lac, Wis,, entailing $75,000 loss, The jury to try Capt, Peter Hains for the murder of William B. Annis was selected at Flushing, L. 1 Col. Roosevelt and his son Kermit, having recovered from thefr indispo- sition, returned to the hunt, bagging much small game, Isaac 8. Morse, a buisiness man of Nashville, ‘Tenn,, was slain by Ger- trude Douglas, who claimed he had Jilted her. ‘A. B, Rennie, a merchant of Pon- tine, TH, was killed and four com- panions hurt when a train struck their automobile at Elmhurst, 1. Adele Boas, daughter of a New York millionaire, who was belfeved to have been kidnaped, returned to her home after working in a Boston res- taurant, The International Kindergarten union began its sixteenth annual con- vention in Buffalo, Admiral ichi, commander of the training squadron of the Japanese navy, now at San Pedro, Cal,, told Admiral Evans war with the United States is impossible. Jackson and White counties in In- diana at option elections voted “dry” and put 27 saloons out of business. Centrahoma, Okla., was swept by @ cyclone and not a building in the town Was left undamaged, but no person was killed. Masons from all over Missouri at- tended the grand lodge meeting in Joplin. Mrs, Jessie Osborne, a bride of ten days, committed suicide at Peru, Ind. President Taft probably will not at- tend the meeting of the Yale corpora- tion on May 17, but he hopes to attend the commencement exercises in June. Henry 1, Wilson, the American minister to Belgium, has notified the state department that the Belgian gov- ernment is about to issue a decree removing restrictions against the im- portation of cattle from all sections of the United States, Hon. Ronald Ramsay, brother of Earl Dalhousie of England, committed suicide by jumping into the sea from the liner Cleveland, Former President Roosevelt, was threatened with smallpox when two of bis many porters were taken {il with the disease, J.C. Maybray, a prisoner at Des Moines, who was identified by a woman as J. J. MeCann, for whose murder “Lord” Barrington was. con vieted, denied that he is the man. ‘An attempt was made to destroy the famous St. Louis cathedral in New Orleans with a bomb. The huge icebergs which have gorged the lower Niagara river have broken and the danger is over. ‘The Japanese ercisers Soya and Aso arrived at San Pedro, Cal,, being the first of the Mikado’s ships to anchor in a Pacific port in ten years. Right persons lost their lives when the towboat Eagle sank in the Mis- sisippl river 40, miles, above New Or- leans. 8. N. D. North, director of the cem- sus, who has had trouble with Seere- tary Nagle, denied that he will resign, but it fs sald he will be ousted by the president, who intends to give the place to H. Dana Durand. Hal Chase, first baseman of the New York American league team, was dis- charged from the smallpox hospital at Augusta, Ga. ‘The Hungarian cabinet has resigned and the emperor-king, Francis Joseph, has asked Count Andrassy to form a new ministry. Fifteen thousand cripples, widows and orphans of New York, who hold Judgments aggregating — $2,000,000 ‘against the bankrupt New York City Ratlway Company, plan to hold a mass meeting in Cooper Union in an effort to collect thelr claims. James Boyle, kidnaper of Willle Whitla, attempted suicide in ail at Sharon, Pa, by taking polson. Surgeons at the Flower hospital in York have effected a remarkable cure of a patient suffering from a malig- nant tumor by the injection of gelatin impregnated with radium. 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FITS If you suffer from Fits, Failing Sickness, Spasms or have chafed joints, you will relieve them, and all you are asked to do is send for a FREE Bottle of Dr. May's Episthetic Cure. It has made thousands wherever it else failed. Sent free. Free Expedient. Guaranteed by May Medical and Drum Act, June 20th, 1906. Guarantey No. 1871. Please give AGE and full address. 548 Pearl Street, New York City, LAVENDER By LIZETTE WOODWORTH REESE (Copyright, by J. B. Lippincott Co.) Old John Davis came along Southern Lane in the early dusk and stopped in front of the house nearest the churchyard. He stood a moment and stared across at it. "I can smell them bushes out here," he said. "My, ain't they sweet!" He crossed to the gate and entered. A long, straight path led up to the little sloping-roofed, shutterless house. It faced the rich yellow west, and its windows were the color of those of a cathedral. "Is that you, Mr. Davis?" He came to a halt; "Yes, it's me, Mis' Field." been here a month, and we have seen a flower in it yet. How long has that hedge been growing, Mr. Field?" "Some of it's twenty year-old maybe more. The last I planted we eleven year ago." Mrs. Bowden drew a long breath. "How dear and old-timey and straightly it is! Now if my cuttings grow, and you must show me how to manage them, Mrs. Field,—I'll be the prodeuse woman in the world. And when you sit in church and smell the blossom they'll be so sweet you'll think your own lavender, and not mine A slender old woman came around the corner of the house and eyed him distantly for a moment. Her face was small and dark; her eyes were dark. A certain breathlessness, as though that of expectancy, hung about her. "I seen you coming," she said briefly; "I guess you come for the lavender." "Yes, Mis' Field, that what I want." He followed her back to a grassy space hedged in on two sides by tall lavender bushes, brimming with their June spears of exquisite bloom. "Here's your lavender," said Mrs. Field, as she put the blossoms into his outstretched hands. "You ask five cents a bunch for them stalks—you hear?" "We always do," said the old man. "Lord, ain't they sweet!" He thrust his withered face down into them. Mrs. Field looked at him with a curious hesitancy. "What kind—what kind of market did you have yesterday, Mr. Davis?" There was a secret and fatter eagerness in her voice. "Oh, middling, middling. Folks want stuff for nothing these days. They want you to grow it, and dig it up, and cart it to town, and then just throw it at 'em when you get there. M. H. H. "You Helped to Drive Her to It, John Field." And if you ain't willing, they're ready to sass you. They hucksters get all the profit." The woman's face grew wistful in the waning light. "Nobody could sell better'n me when I wanted to," she said. "That's so, Mis' Field. Susanna and me were just talking about it. We all thought it was a better chance for the rest of us when you give up your stall. How long ago was that, Mis' Field?" "Ten year and more, Mr. Davis." "It was that year we had them three hard frosts handrunning," said he; "it was when—when—" "You mean when my Jean went away," said Mrs. Field. "The old man was abashed. "I didn't mean to bring up any of your troubles, Mis' Field," he blundered on. She stood silent. The crickets seemed to grow louder and louder. "Well." He rose and moved slowly away out of the sweet-smelling space. "Mis' Field!"—he had halted and was looking back,—"Mis' Field, why don't you sell us one of them lavender roots." A flash like that of fire passed over her dark, tense face. And yet it seemed long before she spoke. "It's Jean," she said at last. "Jean!" he said hazily. "Yes, Jean, Jean!" She was fierce and remote and appealing all in one. Then she seemed to falter beneath his wondering eyes. "And when she comes back—when she comes back, Mr. Davis, I want things to look like they did when she weat." "Yes, yes, ma'm", he said. "I feel sure she's coming back, Mr. Davis." "Yes, ma'm, maybe she will." That flash came again. "She'll come back alive, or she'll come back dead, John Davis. I know she will!" He lumbered away through the dusk without another word. She returned to her little table, and, taking up the loosened lavender, handful by handful, began tying it into bundles of uniform length and thickness. She worked mechanically, her fingers trembling a little. The half light, the strict odor, the memory-throbbing hour, were filled with the daughter that had faded out of her meager life like the morning smoke. What mattered the rumor regarding her that still floated about among the narrow country folk after these long years? To her she was virgin still. "Oh Lord!" said Mrs. Field. It was half a cry, half a groan. She looked up. A glimmer of white struck her eye. "Who's that coming down through the graves?" she asked. "Mrs. Field! Mrs. Field!" called a voice across the palings. The old woman came slowly forward. "I've just slipped down to smell your lavender," said the minister's wife. "How I love it!" She held her gritish face towards the delicate illac bloom. "I wonder if you won't sell me just one little root, Mrs. Field. I'd like to try it in my garden." "I ain't going to part with one of them roots, Mis' Bowden. But I'll give you some cuttings, if you want me." "Oh, thank you. I'm just wild to do something with that garden. We've THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, MAY 1, 1909. been here a month, and we haven't seen a flower in it yet. "How long has that hedge been growing, Mrs. Field?" "Some of it's twenty year-old, maybe more. The last I planted was eleven year ago." Mrs. Bowden drew a long breath. "How dear and old-timey and strangly it is! Now if my cuttings grow,—and you must show me how to manage them, Mrs. Field,—I'll be the proudest woman in the world. And when you sit in church and smell the blossoms, they'll be so sweet you'll think it your own lavender, and not mine at all?" "I don't go to church," said Mrs. Field. On one side of the fence rose the graves, very distinct in the clear yellow of the west, and beyond them the church, distinct and dark. On the other stood the narrow old house, a side window one sheet of quiet radiance. The hedge looked dim and cloud-like, and seemed to float away into the softened space. Beyond the hedge stretched acre after acre of market-garden, whose already furrowed levels were filling with phantom mist, and out of this ghostiness was blown a primeval aroma that could be subtly detected under that of the lavender. "I don't go to church." repeated Mrs. Field. "I got tired of hearing preachers talk about Mary Magdalenes and the thief on the cross. You'd think there was only two kinds of commands that ever got broke." Mrs. Bowden looked rather vague. "I guess everybody gets tired of preaching sometime," she said. Then she laughed. It seemed easy for her to do so. Her neighbor gone, Mrs. Field stood a moment gazing out into the churchyard. If she had put her hand over the sunken palings, she could have touched her husband's tombstone. He had been a hard man. A certain rigidity of conduct had brought him an enviable reputation, which, after his death, had ripened and mellowed into that of the saint. Some fleeting recollections of their early youth, when they had both lived away from the neighborhood, came into his wife's mind. Then some later and keener ones that roused and stung her. All at once she spoke out sharply. "You helped to drive her to it, John Field, and then, just like a man, you had to go and die, and leave me to bear it." Her voice rang out, petting the air as though with stones. "Sinner, sinner, sinner!" Out in the lane each tree was a soft, blurred black, behind which stretched the distant and exquisite west. The road itself was a half-blotted track. There were the old, shrill noises in the hidden grass. Mrs. Field came out to her front door. "Jean," she called softly. It seemed to her, so sharp was her longing, that the girl must rise up before her out of the brooding dark. All hopes, her desires, her schemes, her ambitions, had resolved themselves into that one cry of her forlorn heart. She had given up church, market, friends, all the petty but absorbing threats of a country life, and lived eleven lonely years in a lonely house that she might be at home whenever Jean returned. Against that hour the chamber had been kept ready, the garden pruned and tended in the old fashion. There should be nothing new, nothing accusing and strange. "Jean," and her voice struck into the dusk with a passion that was like a flame, "if you're dead, come back!" A step came faltering along the lane outside. "Jean!" There was no answer. Old Mrs. Field went swiftly down the gravel path. The step began to draw nearer The step began to draw hearer. "I knew you'd come back, Jean, I've been waiting. There's only you and me now. Your father's dead." The guests came and rocked against the far golden sky. "Jean! Jean!" There was no answer. Mrs. Field ran out into the road, groping blindly before her with out-stretched hands. A halting figure came out of the pale darkness and swayed towards the garden gate. "Jean!" cried old Mrs. Field. Bird and Animal Tipplers Interesting facts about animals and alcohol were given at the southwestern police court when Capt. Frederick Palmer was accused of cruel to his dog. It was alleged that Capt. Palmer gave the dog biscuits soaked in alcohol in a public house, and that the animal fell dead. A. Pless, a veterinary surgeon, said most dogs liked biscuits soaked in alcohol. "Then it is not an acquired taste" the magistrate, Mr. Grey, remarked. "I thought it was." "This dog was not a total abstainer," stated Mr. Hanne, who defended. "It had taken stimulants for two years. Even birds like a little drop of beer or stout." "I have heard of a racehorse, named Caravan, which would not run unless it had a bottle of port wine," the magistrate observed. "And I know of a bantam cock which would have nothing but a bottle of Bass," said Mr. Hanne. The magistrate said there was no evidence of deliberate cruelty and dismissed the summons.—London Express. WHAT COLORS SHALL I USE? This Question is Important in Painting a House or Other Building. A proper color scheme is extremely important in painting a house. It makes all the difference between a really attractive home and one at which you wouldn't take a second glance. And it makes a big difference in the price the property will bring on the market. As to the exterior, a good deal depends upon the size and architecture of the house, and upon its surroundings. For a good interior effect you must consider the size of the rooms, the light, etc. You can avoid disappointment by studying the books of color schemes for both exterior and interior painting, which can be had free by writing National Lead Company, 1902 Trinity Building, New York, and asking for Houseowner's Painting Outfit No. 49. The outfit also includes specifications, and a simple instrument for testing the purity of paint materials. Pure White Lead which will stand the test in this outfit will stand the weather test. National Lead Company's famous Dutch Boy Painter trademark on the keg is a guarantee of that kind of white lead. COUNTRY IN MOVEMENT. Meeting of National Association for Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis Will Be Largely Attended. The fifth annual meeting of the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis will be held in Washington, D. C., at the New Willard hotel, on May 13, 14 and 15. Owing to the present interest in the campaign against tuberculosis, the meeting will be of unusual interest and importance. The membership of the national association now numbers nearly 2,000, and is distributed in almost every state in the United States. The national association has also a considerable membership in Canada, Cuba, Porto Rico, Philippine islands, and in several of the European countries. Ex-President Roosevelt and Dr. William Osler are honorary vicepresidents of the national association. Dr. Vincent Y. Bowditch of Boston is the president; Mr. Homer Folks of New York city, and Dr. Charles L. Minor of Asheville, N. C., are the vicepresidents; Gen. George M. Sternberg of Washington, D. C., is treasurer; Dr. Henry Barton Jacobs of Baltimore, is secretary, and Dr. Livingston Farrand of New York is the executive secretary of the association. ANOTHER BORING QUESTION. "I say, pa, is a man from Poland called a Pole?" "Yes, my son." "Then, pa, why isn't a man from Holland called a Hole?" Uncle Jim's treachery. "Pa, is it true that the good always die young?" "Oh, no, not always. I was a very good little boy." "Didn't you ever disobey your par- ents?" "No." "Nor fight with your little brother?" "No, I always was very kind to him." "And didn't you ever tell lies or play hookey?" "Certainly not." "Nor steal jam nor cookies out of your mother's pantry?" "Of course I never did such wicked things." "Gee, what an imagination Uncle jim must have. He was tellin' me, this morning, about when you and him were boys." Putting It Gently. The sages of the general store were discussing the veracity of old Si Perkins when Uncle Bill Abbott ambled in. 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"I was in such a low state that I had to give up my work entirely, and went to the mountains of this state, but two months there did not improve me; in fact I was not quite as well as when I left home. "My food did not sustain me and it became plain that I must change. Then I began to use Grape-Nuts food and in two weeks I could walk a mile without fatigue, and in five weeks returned to my home and practice, taking up hard work again. Since that time I have felt as well and strong as I ever did in my life." "As a physician who seeks to help all suffers, I consider it a duty to make these facts public." Trial 10 days on Grape-Nuts, when the regular food does not seem to sustain the body, will work miracles. "There's a Reason." Look in pks. for the famous little book, "The Road to Welfville." Ever read the above letter! A new one appears from time to time. They are genuine, Due, and full of humans. 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