The Gazette
Saturday, December 25, 1909
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THE FASHION OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
VIRGINIA
TWENTY-SEVEN
Two Pret
One phase of the moyen age princess is demonstrated in our first illustration, the style being suited to either house or street wear. As illustrated, the dress is made of pale gray cloth, with a yoke of more in the same tone, and a yoke of fancy net. The cuffs are also of the moire, but the buttons and piping used are of gray velvet in a slightly deeper tone. For theater or other evening use this gown could be of white, or cream, or pale blue, or dull rose cloth, or serge. The evening serges are very handsome and within the means of most home sewers. For street wear, serge or cheviot would be good choices, and with these the yoke and cuffs could be of the same with a braid finish.
For a medium figure $5\%$ yards of double width serge is enough for this gown. The second model gives one of the evening dress aspects of the moyen
Milliners Work Hard Thinking Up Designations for That Form of Headgear.
Evidently the turban is to take on as many kinks and curls as the milliner can devise. And with each new kink comes a new name.
We have had Turkish, Uhlan, Russian, Cossack, Sultan; now we are to have Rembrandt, Henry III., Hussar, De Stael, Drum Major and Napoleon.
Some of the furs of which they are made are of the ultra-fashionable ringtaff; also ermine and sealskin, Australian opposum and moleskin. The drum major turban is trimmed with a cirlet of antique gold and bronze set with jewels.
The latter are very new and smart and will not stir the wrath of the Audubon society. A thick quill is used; then the long, coarse fur of the monkey is put in it at each side. It is amazing what influence the Audubonists are having on milliners and these fur quills are one outcome of it.
Bronze lace is widely used for trimming, and ermine and sealskin without trimming are among the most distingushed turbans of the season.
Another model that has startling distinction is of moleskin trimmed with an heroic pansy made of blue and violet bugles with a gold center.
OF CLOTH OF GOLD.
A beautiful but costly turban for evening wear or formal afternoon occasions is made from cloth of gold. It is artistically and beautifully draped and has for its sole decoration a gorgeous paradise aigrette in natural coloring.
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age. It is made of all-over and bordered fancy net. Any bordering sufficiently wide, however, to cut the top of the garment could be used for it, as well as a pretty figured silk, Swiss, or dotted or checked muslin, with all of which materials the lace-entree deux and ribbons here employed go charmingly.
With a thin white material, such as net, lace or Swiss or barred muslin over a tinted slip and with ribbons in the same color, this gown would be charming for any of the holiday functions soon to come. If a low effect is desired, the line of the neck could be made round and the gulpe left off, in which case the line at the bottom of the bodice, and those of the sleeves, should be cut plain.
For the medium misses' figure four yards of all-over net, and six yards of bordering would be required for this dress.
PROPER LENGTH OF SKIRTS
Fashion's Decree Makes Distinct Variations in Dimensions of the Garment.
There is confusion in the minds of many concerning skirts. There is so much talk about smart gowns being five inches from the floor for evening, and nearly six inches for morning, that women wonder if there is any hour in which the long, graceful skirt is worn.
The strict decree of fashion is this: Skirts five or six inches from the ground for street wear; skirts that sweep the floor in a round train for the afternoon, and skirts five inches from the floor for the evening.
This is the decree! Everyone does not have to abide by it, but numbers of women will accept it in part, if not in whole. They may not have every evening gown made short, or every afternoon frock made long, but they will assuredly have one of each kind to show that they know what is being done in the world of fashion.
Possibilities.
There are some women who are constantly utilizing old material, and then, again, others who discard a shirtwalst, skirt or dress merely because it is somewhat old style or torn in a few places.
A white linen shirtwalst, which was in very good condition, save for a few holes at the neckband and waist line (caused by constant pinning), was saved from extinction by one of the cautious, who converted it into stock collars and belts. The ends of the stocks were square, and on one collar five tiny clovers were embroidered.
There is a satisfaction in knowing that good material is never wasted. The half-worn linen skirt has countless possibilities.
Brocade Hats.
Brocade is much favored for bridesmaids' hats. Perhaps it solves the color problem as well, for it is always possible to secure just the right shade of blue or pink at the silk counter when the felt hats offer no assistance to eager buyers. Large shapes are popular, and plumes of the same color or contrasting tones are used. The design of the brocade seems especially ornamental and suitable for festive occasions. After the great event these silk hats are lovely for evening wear.
Black Flshnet
Black fishnet in coarse, heavy silk mesh is used for the all-black blouse and trimmed with black grograin ribbon of several widths, advancing from a quarter to an inch. The dullness of the ribbon and the extreme plainness of these little models proclaim them correct mourning for the younger woman. They are lined with hustlerless black silk, except their collars and wristbands, which are left transparent.
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PRESIDENT TAFT'S SOUTHERN TRIP!!
HIS PRAISE OF THE ARCH-REBEL, JEFF DAVIS, AND HIS "TRA-DITION" TALK CON-DEMNED!
ROOSEVELT AND TAFT'S SHAMEFUL ACTION!
A Loyal White American Who Can't Forget Libby Prison and Other "Hell-Holes" of South Where Union Soldiers Were Beaten, Starved to Death and Brutally Killed in Many Other Ways.
Editor Gazette—Dear Sir: It may be a little late to write anything about Taft's southern trip, but today I noticed, for the first time, in the independent of November 11 (I think that was the date), extracts taken from Taft's speeches in the south. In one speech he praises Jeff Davis, the arch-rebel, and in another he says that he don't want the south to give up any of her old treasures, because then that, the north doesn't want her to. He can speak for himself, if he wants to, but he is deceiving himself if he thinks that is the sentiment of the north. Two of those traditions were the right of the states to secede from the Union whenever they wanted to and the right of the south to hold the black reef as slaves. Two noble traditions to be preserved, surely; And to think that a president of the United States should utter such sayings as these, a president supposed to
President Test
reprecn, the whole people, not the south alone! President Roosevelt started the ball to rolling by having the name of Jefferson Davis replaced on the bridge at Washington where it was erased by order of Abraham Lincoln, if I am not mistaken. I commanded the officers of Jeff Davis take the place of Abraham Lincoln they are much mistaken. Already Lee's statue is placed in the capitol at Washington, and they are trying to get an appropriation through congress so as to put a statue of Lee in the city of Washington, as they have that of Sheridan and Sherman and others. They have the power to give the capitol to Jeff Davis as I understand, in Washington, and yet they want one of Lee, the rebel and traitor. President Taft may be expected to encourage this proceeding, judging from his speeches in the south. If those speeches were mere flattery, they were reprehensible, and if they were his honest sentiments, and if they were his Republicanism, as he thought he would when the northerners elected him, but southern Democracy. My uncle died in Libby prison, one among the hundreds who starved to death in that black hole, and Andersonville was worse, and my father's health was permanently shattered by four months in that terrible prison, so the doctrine of "forgive and forget" applies to our family. We might have forgiven the rebellion, but we can neither forgive nor forget the needless suffering of our loved ones in the worst hell-holes ever provided on earth by people either civilized or savage. Of course, I do not remember my uncle, but my father's crippled condition always aroused my resentment against the soldiers, that devotion of the northern soldiers seems to be in vain, at least it will seem so as long as we have presidents who feel toward the south as Roosevelt and Taft do. U. H. FRYE.
BOOKER'S CONSTRUCTIVE WORK.
The white man looked contemptuously down upon the black leader who smiled back affably. "Get out of here," yelled the white man as he kicked the black leader down stairs and tossed a quarter after him. The black leader pirouetted and bumped and rolled until he landed sprawling in the dirt. The dark and watching crowd were breathless, and one of his arms bared his arm. Slowly the black leader arose and his eager supporter assiduously brushed off his pants. Then the black leader squared his shoulders and looked about him. He cleared his throat and the throng hung upon his words breathless, eager, while the one man clutched his club tighter.
"My friends," said the black leader, "the world demands constructive work; it dislikes pessimists. I want to call your attention to the fact that this white gem/man—I mean gentleman—did not kick me nearly as hard as he might have; again he wore soft kid boots, and finally I landed in the dirt and I was knocked over. I assumed the black leader as stooped in the dust. "I am twenty-five cents in." And he walked thoughtfully away, amid the frantic plaudits
of the crowd. Except one man. He dropped his club and whispered: "My God!"-Washington (D. C.) Horizon, Prof. W. E. B. D. Bois, Editor.
John Brown and Robert E. Lee.
Fifty years ago (December 2, 1859) the name John Brown was inscribed on the roll of those who suffered under Pontius Pilate. He whom John Brown worshipped said, "Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends." The hero of Harper's Ferry laid down his life for those whose condition made it impossible at the time that measure at its worth, the sacrifice he made for them. Fifty years after the event this people, though deeply grateful for his deeds and memory, cannot honor his name if they would without incurring the charge of stirring up fear for the people who captured John Brown, Lieut. Col. Robert E. Lee, subsequently became an armed insurgent against the authority of his country and for four years baffled its mightiest army. Lee's statue now stands in the capitol, while John Brown's body lies mouldering in the museum at New York. Virginia placed the bronze statue of Robert E. Lee in the capitol. May not Kansas place the statue of John Brown there as the symbol of a completely re-umited country?-Washington (D. C.) Horiz
Seventy Years Old and Still Active.
Lima, O.—Joseph D. Morin, the veteran barber, who has been a resident of this city for a quarter of a century, celebrated his 70th anniversary Dec. 18. He is gray haired, but still active and competes with those who are many years younger. He is one member of the race that has qualifications and possesses the toughest position where color makes a count. He is a credit to the race, and to the community. Three children celebrated with him, his birthday anniversary at a sumptuous dinner. Mr. Morin has received the hearty congratulations of most of the leading men and the wish children of his grandchildren. The children residing here are Miss Morin and Mrs. Goldie J. Akers, who keep house for him at 151 South Jackson street, and a son, John Morin, the popular steward of the Lima club until recently, when he went into business for himself, as a gas fitter and plumber. The son and wife, formerly Miss Little Shaffer, daughter of Joseph Morin, the 1912 Elm street. One son, Joseph, died just three years ago and his vacant chair was the only sad feature of the home gathering on the 19th.
Says Johnson Will Triumph.
New York City—Jack McCloskey, trainer of the ball team at Harvard, not very long ago handled Jack Johnson for three or four fights. He thinks Johnson will surely beat Jeffries. Johnson drinks a little, but not enough to hurt him," said McCloskey. "He has been fighting all along, and that has kept him in great condition. He told me the other day he never lets a day go by now without doing some work for the Jeffries fight. He will keep right along working from this time until he gets into the ring, and he will be knocked out did condition. I don't think hell knock Jeffries out or even knock him down, but he'll wear him out and beat him sure." "Tex" Rickard, who bid $101,000 for Jeffrey Johnson and got it, says that at the best, motion pictures bring $500,000, of which he will get one-third.
The Wonder Comb-50 Cents
We have a pomade called "WONDER UNCURL." If you will heat a WONDER COMB and use it to draw this WONDER 'UNCURL through your hair, your hair will dress better than evir before, and grow thick and low.
A Wonder Comb Will Last A Lifetime. If you send 60 cents, we will send the WONDER COMB, a trial jar of WONDER UNCURL, and two samples of COMPLEXION WONDER. The latter will make your skin lighter colored even if it is used.
Burger & Co, 2 Rector street, New York City.
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Portland, Ore., Dec. 14, 1909.
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Yours sincerely,
MRS. PATRICIA ROBISON.
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Another Victim for Langford.
Wilkesbarre, Pa.—"Big Tom" Overby,
a heavyweight Afro-American
pugilist of this city, has received an
offer from the matchmaker of the
Armory Athletic club of Boston to meet
Sam Langford there in a twelve-round
out. Overby has been fighting for a
year, has never been defeated and has
won all of his fights by knock outs,
the longest going only four rounds.
He weighs 210 and is six feet tall.
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INTERESTING PERSONAL NOTES
Social Functions—Church and Lodge Items—Marriages and Deaths—Literary, Musical and Other Notes of Interest.
Fostoria—Rev. P. A. Boswell has returned from Ironton, where he visited a church and preached for it.—Mrs. Sarah Alexander is visiting in Piqua. Mr. E. Blain of Mansfield visited his parents last week.—Mr. Frank Brooks of Wrightstown. has arrived and takes charge of the Norris & Co. poultry house as manager, succeeding J. W. Eckerly (white).
Steubenville—Mothers' meeting at Quinn chapel Sunday. — Simpson church has been nicely remodeled and the congregation is preparing for the Christmas program will be rendered Sabbath evening.—Miss Mary Beall has returned to Smithfield to spend the holidays.—S. W. Banks is sick.—Misses Belle Curtis and Lulu Grandson passed through the city en route to Martins Ferry from Lorain.—Miss James Boods Mill is learning to be a tailoress under the direction of Mr. Romona.
East Liverpool—Mr. David Smith is improving from a fall received last week. —Miss Pauline Cooke of Leetonia visited her sister, Mrs. J. Veney, Sunday. —Mr. Robert Brown of New Brighton. Pa. visited his sister, Mrs. A. Mrs. L. She visited his sister in that city Friday. —St. Luke ledge entertainment Friday evening proved enjoyable. —Harold Dorsey, a Wilberforce student, is spending the holidays here. —The Gazette wishes an agent and correspondent in Wellsville and Martins Werry. Whom can you contact Wilberforce the editor in Cleveland at once. —Cadiz. —Miss Beatrice Tyler entertained Miss Ida Brown and Miss Irene Johnson at lunch Sunday evening. —Messrs. W. L. Johnson, C. H. Christian, H. F. Fox, W. F. Tyler, A. Strother, W. Johnson, W. F. Walker, I. L. Strother, W. F. Walker, I. L. Canton Sunday to take the commendary degree in Masonry. —Beatrice M. Fox is sick; also laula Mason. —Mrs. F. W. Walker spent Sunday in Steubenville. —Misses Susle and Leola Mason entertained the H. H. club Friday. —Miss Susle and Leola Mason has returned to Oberlin. —Mrs. Geo Alexander and Mrs. Mary B. Carter and son, Edmund, visited in Uhrhschville last week.
Xenia—Zion church entertainment on the 31st. It was the good work of Hon. C. L. Maxwell in the Commercial club, that directed attention to the S. E. corner of Main and Collier streets, the seats selected by vote for the original hostess building. The original Lime-Klun club will serve its annual dinner on the 28th at Zion. The P. H. Flynn & Co. tobacco factory will open soon. If you want work apply to the timekeeper, W. S. Rogers, at once. Lincoln Morris of Indianapolis is here visiting his mother. A happy Christmas to all. Call on J. M. Summers for medical and health inquiries. The old reliable Gazette — Ask Phil Lewis ("Kentuck") when he is going to start for Africa.
Correspondents must mall all letters for publication at their all-members 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 on the outside of the city, or on the inside of the city, less this latter is 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, must be paid for in advance at the rate of ten cents a minute for display advertisements will be. Lorain—The entertainment given by the O. G. club Saturday evening was very enjoyable and well attended. Several from Oberlin were present. Revival services are still in progress at the A. M. E. church—Mrs. Gladys Anderson, Mrs. Wm. Lewis and Mr. H. Tates are much improved. Mrs. B. H. Tapsico visited her daughter in Toledo last week.—Mr. E. Copes is pleasantly located with Mr. and Mrs. Cooley. Quite a number attended the meeting.—Mrs. Grace Mason has joined her husband in Pennsylvania.—The Dollin club met for rehearsal at Mr. Ernest Lewis' Wednesday evening.—Mr. Johnson of Van Wert is in the city—Mrs. Eva Thompson is ill.
Smithfield.—Chas. Bigsby spent several days last week on a driving tour to Virginia.—Please settle for Gazette promptly as the agent wishes to have her name on the bulletin board and Mrs. Henry Smith visited her parents Sunday—Rev. Carter preached eloquently Sunday to large audiences and every night last week. While the meetings have been good there have not been many conversions.—Mrs. Harris, the father of Miss N. Munts, attended Mrs. Jennie Harris' funeral in Cadiz, and Mrs. Dave West and daughter, Thelma, were here last week.—Mrs. Emma Price and three sons of Dayton are here visiting her father, Rev. D. D. Harris, the father of Mrs. were called to Cleveland to attend the funeral of their sister, Mrs. Bart Smith.—Miss Mary Cooper was the lucky contestant for a fur hat.
Washington C. H.-Hattie Chapman of Columbus spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Ben. Crosswhite.- Bertha Smith of Columbus has returned home.- She visited Miss Emma Burke, her Mr. last week. Burke buried last week. His body was brought from Columbus. Consumption.- Mr. Wayman Ross accompanied
Will and little daughter to Cincinnati, where she will visit three weeks. He returned Sunday night. The Mozart orchestra gave an entertainment in Bloomingsburg last Saturday night. A large number from here attended.—Walter, Ellis and Helen Cole and Santford Evans will play for a dance at Cherry Hotel Christmas night.—Misses Glenna Emmons and Tivah Edward, from Witherforce, university, spent Thursday with Helen Cole, en route home to Wilmington to spend the holidays.—Rev. Tony of Sabina preached here Sunday morning in the A. M. E. church.
Sandusky—Mr. George Taylor has returned from Battle Creek, Mich., with his bride and is at home on Henry street. The new pipe organ and carpet have been placed, and the work church. Mr. Luther Jones is organist; Mr. Jas, Davis, chorister. Grand rally Sunday. The pastor will preach in the morning and Dr. Rev. Givler at 2 p. m. At 7 p. m. a general review of the church work. The Parlor club will meet Jan. 3 at Mrs. T. Williams' Christmas tree in the evening and on Monday evening a social.—The M. A. Church is held at Mrs. Katie Gibson was a success.—Mr. James French and Mrs. J. Thomas will spend Christmas in Oberlin.—Although Rev. Goines was in Norwalk Sunday his church was well attended. Rev. Dr. Pugley preached at 3 p. m. for Rev. G. D. Smith. The latter praised his members for harmonious work. Give the your order for The Gazette and get all the race news the country over.
FOUGHT HIS WAY TO THE THRONES
"KING OF KINGS OF ETHIORI
Interested in Mining, Too—Pr Fortune of the Negus is Est at $25,000,000—Distinguished His Success as a Financier, Well as a Soldier and Diplomat—Keeps Up With European Literature.
New York City.—Baron de Burg, the Belgian explorer, gently returned from Abyssinia much to relate about Emperor Iik, whose serious illness has been conquered "Monalk" the Baron in an interview, "has since his sion to the throne 20 years ago, formed Abyssinia from a semibious power to a state modeled on lines of European constitutional archy. The sovereign n, who himself, Conquering Lion of the
72 LYNCHINGS IN 1909.
The Most in Four Years—Census of the "American Crime for
the Year"
Washington, D. C. — Lynchings in 1909 have numbered 72, the highest number recorded since 1904, according to statistics made public Tuesday. The victims numbered 11 whites and 59 Afro-American. The lynchings occurred in 12 states and one territory. One case, occurring in Cairo, Ill., resulted in the placing of the city under military control for several days. The Cairo lynchings, one white and one Afro-American, were the only cases the head of the city murdered north of the Ohio river during the year. Several double lynchings occurred at various points in the south, and Oklahoma furnished a quadruple lynching, with four cattlemen as the victims.
In the following record the word "lynching" has been held to apply to the summary punishment inflicted by a mob or by any number of citizens on a person alleged to have committed a crime. By states the 72 lynchings case here recorder are classified as follows: Georgia 11, Texas 11, Florida 8, Louisiana 7, Mississippi 1, Alabama 7, Oklahoma 5, 5 Arkansas 3, Illinois 2, New Mexico 2, Missouri 1, West Virginia 1.
Must be careful for the rest of this month to mail their news earlier than usual on MON-THEN on their postoffices. Correspondence arriving late will not be published.
Sixteen World War Jambes.
Belleville, IL. - Sixteen members of a mob of 100 people left East St. Louis in a stolen street car to storm the Belleville jail and lynch Will Clark, the Afro-American who is charged with killing Motorman E. V. Goudy and dangerously wounding Conductor M. P. O'Brien, were captured by the police and placed in cells themselves Tuesday.
Until January 1, 1910, we will send The Gazette and "Wom-
man" to one or all who send us $1.50, and wish both papers, EDITOR.
WESTERN BENEVE
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FOUGHT HIS WAY TO THE THRONE!!
ABYSSINIA'S RULER, MENELIK, A HEAVY INVESTOR IN AMERICAN STOCKS.
"KING OF KINGS OF ETHIOPIA"
Interested in Mining, Too—Private Fortune of the Negus is Estimated at $25,000,000—Distinguished for His Success as a Financier, as Writer and as a single mat—Keeps Up With European Literature.
King Leopold and the Kongo.
A stock jobber on a throne is not an inspiring spectacle. Therefore the death of King Leopold of Belgium inspires no general regret. There are many reasons why man bones in the Kongo which reproach the practical methods of this mighty dealer in red rubber. Leopold was given a great trust. He wring it dry for profit, to a chorus of human shrieks and groans. Leopold was an abominable husband and father. He sought his own pleasure. Some of his children did the same, so he quarreled violently with them. This dead man was a court etiquette requires, dry eyes and sardonic smiles being the true measure of the sincerity of the mourners.
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Roosevelt Sends Africans' Skulls.
Washington, D. C. The Smithsonian African expedition, headed by former President Roosevelt, had up to December 10 taken 6,663 skins, of which less than one-half have been received at the institution here. The collection consists of 243 large mammals, 1,500 small mammals and 1,356 birds. In the collection are many human skulls picked up along the line of the ancient slave trail.
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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
ite rank as one of the NEWSIEST
AND BEST in the country.
‘THERE IS A SANTA CLAUS.
‘Once a little girl wrote this letter
to the editor of the New York Sun:
Dear Editor: I am 8 years old.
Some of my friends say that there
fs no Santa Claus, Papa says:
“If you see ft in the Sun, it’s so.”
Please tell me the truth. Is there
a Santa Claus?
VIRGINIA 0. HANLON.
And the editor of the Sun, mighty
man of invective and sarcasm, be
eame “even as a little child,” and
wrote the following charming reply:
VIRGINIA: Your little, friends
fre wrong. They have been af-
fected by the skepticism of a
skeptical age. They will not be-
Meve except they see.
‘Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa
Clavs. He exists as certainly as
Jove and generosity and devotion
exist, and you know that they
abound and give to your life its
highest beauty and joy. Alas,
how dreary would be the world if
there were no Santa Claus! It
would be as dreary as if there
were no Virginias. There would
be no childlike faith then, no
poetry, no romance to make tol-
erable this existence. We should
have no enjoyment except in
sense and sight.’ The eternal
light with which childhood fills
the world would be extinguished.
You might get your papa to
hire men to watch all the chim-
neys on Christmas eve to catch
Santa Claus, but even if they did
not see Santa Claus coming down,
what would that prove? Nobody
sees Santa Claus, The most real
things in the world are those that
neither children nor men see. No-
‘ody ean conceive or imagine all
the wonders that are unseen and
unséeable in this world. You
may tear apart the baby's Tattle
and sce what makes the noise in-
side, but there is a yell covering
the unseen world which not the
strongest that ever lived could
ever tear apart. Only faith, fan-
ey, poetry, love and romance can
push aside that curtain and view
the picture, the supernal beauty
and glory beyond. Is it all real?
Ah, Virginia, in all this world
there is nothing so real and abid-
ing.
No Santa Claus! Thank God,
he lives dnd lives forever. A
thousand years from now, Vir
ginfa—nay, ten times ten thou
sand years from now—he will
continue to make glad the heart
‘of childhood.
Merry Christmas!
While you are enjoying the holiday
season, do not forget that there arc
several Iong and cold winter months
due, commencing next Saturday, New
‘Year's day.
Booker T. Washington, principal of
‘Tuskegee, Ala., Normal and Industrial
School, receives a salary of more than
$4,000. His private secretary, Emmett
J. Scott, receives more than $2,000 a
year, Pretty good, isn't it?
“Jack” Johnson talks as good Eng-
lish ax a majority of the cheap sport-
‘writers on the dally newspapers of the
country who would have people be.
Neve otherwise, trying to write the
‘Negro dialect and attributing to him
statements he has never made.
os
President Taft's appointment of
Judge Lurton of Tennessee, as an as-
sociate justice of the United States
supreme court could hardly have been
worse, Mr. Lurton was a rebel during
the war of the rebellion, and is a rock-
ribbed Democrat of the Secretary of
‘War Dickinson kind. The president
certainly does love southern Demo-
crate.
(A SEGREGATION PROTEST.
‘The following letter was sent to
Gov. Harmon to be read by him and
then forwarded to Mr. Webb at Dela
ware and a copy of it was mailed to
‘Mr. Webb at Delaware:
December 18, 1909.
& D. Webb, Care Girls’ Home, Indus
‘trial, Delaware, Ohio.
Dear Sir: Just a line to tell you
that you have put another nail in
the political coffin of Gov. Harmon if
he ever stands again for governor of
Ohio, or any other state office, just so
‘surely as your outrageous segregation
of the Afro-American girls at the Del-
aware State Home for Girls is not
‘abandoned promptly. You know the
principle of such action is wrong, in-
‘fulfing, vicious and malicious. That
some few ignorant, sycophantic, selfish
or short-sighted Negroes indorse such
& “move,” does not make it right in
principle; nor will it excuse the gov-
efnor, who is responsible and will be
held responsible for your reprehensi-
ble action, referred to above, and that
Fepestedly complained of (to him) at
the 0. 8. & 8, 0. Home at Xenia,
which you are doubtless making the
mistake of patterning after. There is
nothing you can do at the present
time that will enable Gov, Harmon to
THE GAZETTE. CLEVELAND, O.. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1909.
give greater offense to the great maés
of self and race-respecting Ohio Afro
Americans) at least fairly intelligent
and thousands of others who are’ not
than segregating as you are, in 1
state institution. Why are not the
Irish, German and other girl-classes
(races) thus segregated? YOU DARE
NOT Do IT! Must we teach the sam¢
Tespect for our class, to you an
others, at the next state election? We
will surely do it if you persist in mak
ing it necessary.
Yours, ete.
HARRY C. SMITH.
JOHNSON-BROWN-BAEHR.
Walter L, Brown, former city hall
employe, whose right leg was ampu-
tated some time ago, was presented
with a cork leg last Saturday. The arti-
ficial leg cost $100, which was contrib-
uted in part by city hall employes. A
very graceful act upon the part of
Mayor Tom's suberdinates which the
great majority of our people of this
city, as well as Mr. Brown, appreciate.
Mr. Johnson's insistance that Walter
be nominated as a Democratic candi-
date for justice of the peace and his
(the mayor's) refusal to listen to a
Prejudiced Democratic demand that
Walter be taken off the ticket after he
was nominated, will not be soon for:
gotten, either. Our people showed
marked appreciation at the polls in
November, not only of Walter's nom.
ination for the best paying position
any Afro-American in this city ot
county has ever been nominated for
but also of Mayor Johnson's leading
part in that important (to us) act, by
giving both the mayor and Walter
more votes than they have ever giver
any Democratic candidate In the pas
and by materially assisting the latte:
to run ahead of the other two defeated
Democratic candidates for justice o
the peace. The whole truth is thai
Mayor Johnson received more Afro
American votes last month than h¢
ever did before and apparently mor:
than ‘were cast for the Republicar
candidate, Mayorelect Herman C
Baehr. This was a very natural resul
of two things: First, the latter's re
fusal for seven years to keep th
promise he mage our people of thi
city through the editor of The Gazett.
to give them representation in th
clerical force of his office, the count;
recorder's, and secondly, because o
the fact that Mayor Tom had giver
us more and better appointments thar
any other local chief executive in the
‘latory of this city.
THE GOVERNOR WILL BE HELD
RESPONSIBLE.
“Replying to your letter regarding
separate cottage occupancy by colored
and white children, 1 beg to advise
you that to the knowledge of this of.
fice there has been absolutely no dis-
crimination of treatment. We under-
stand that separate cottage occupancy
was begun two years ago at one in-
stitution and that there and in other
places it was done for no purpose
other than the benefit of all con:
cerned."—Gov. Harmon's secretary.
‘This is not so, and Mr. Long ought
to know it, Supt. Edward Sawyer of
the 0. 8. & 8, 0, Home at Xenia, in:
augurated segregation at that institu
tion several months ago, and has
maintained it in spite of the protests
of our people from all parts of the
state, and too, in the face of the re
fusal of the Republican members of
the board of trustees of that institu:
tion to indorse it—so one of them told
the editor of The Gazette in recent
weeks.
Another Republican member of the
same board made public protest (in
newspapers) against Col. Sawyer's
outrageous, insulting and shameful
segregation in a STATE institution.
Now comes one, 8. D. Webb of Dela-
ware, who follows the 0. S. & S. O.
Home segregation—lead, and estab:
lishes disgraceful discrimination in
the STATE Girls’ Industrial Home in
that eity. Gov. Judson Harmon's ef-
fort through his secretary to make it
appear that his administration is not
responsible for this iniquitous and out-
rageous — segregation—discrimination
against our people only, in STATE in-
stitutions, wi}l not and shall not suc-
ceed. More than that the more than
forty thousand Afro-American voters
of Ohio, will hold him responsible for
it and square accounts with him at
the next state election just so surely
‘as there is a God in heaven, unless he
orders the immediate discontinuance
of the shameful and outrageous segre-
gation—diserimination at Xenia and
Delaware. We have protested to him
Jong enough!
He and every other intelligent man
knows that the PRINCIPLE of segre-
gation in STATE institutions for any
class of Ohio's residents (citizens) is
WRONG and will not be tolerated.
Our children in the institutions at
Xenia and Delaware, are not crimin-
als, nor any worse than the Irish, Ger-
man, Bohemian and other girls in the
same institutions who are not segre-
gated. Governor, we will not submit
to such contemptible treatment at
your hands without a protest at the
polls next November that will most
materially assist in defeating you and
putting your Democratic presidential
‘nomination aspirations to sleep. With-
out the thousands of Afro-American
‘yotes given to you last year, you
never could have been elected, and
you know it. Without them, next year,
‘the Republican plurality in Ohio will
be as usual, one hundred thousand or
more. Had President Taft had their
united support, he, too, would have
had the usual Republican plurality of
late years. We very much fear that
Gor. Harmon's close political friend
and visitor of some months ago, Sena-
tor Ben, Tillman of South Carolina,
has had something to do with the seg-
regation innovation he is introducing
into Ohio’s institutions. For several
months now, The Gazette and the best
of our people of this state, have de-
manded the abolition of this unjust,
unfair and outrageous discrimination,
Will Mr. Harmon heed? We shall
haa
London, England.—Frederick Green-
wood, the author and journalist, is
dead. He founded the Pall Mall
Gazette, of which he was the first ed-
. itor.
| Cleveland, O.—Fanned by a brisk
wind, fire’ destroyed a Svestory
Drick bullding occupied by the Kings
ley Paper Co, doing damage of $250;
AN EXCELLENT OPPORTUNITY.
‘The old reliable Gazette desires an
active agent and correspondent in
every city nd town in Ohlo and
neighboring states having a number
of Afro-American residents.
‘We are especially desirous of hear-
ing from persons in the following
cities: Mt. Vernon, Zanesville, New-
ark, Lancaster, Findlay, Lima, Ober-
lin,’ Chillicothe, Toledo, ‘Urbana, Day-
ton, ‘Springfield, Piqua, Columbus,
Cambridge, Martins Ferry, Wellsville,
Hamilton, ‘Bellefontaine, Wilmington,
Portsmouth, Sabina, Gallipolis, Dela:
ware, Ironton and’ Middletown, 0,
and ‘other places where we ‘have
none,
Write to the editor of The Gazette,
Blackstone building, Cleveland, 0.,
and terms will be sent promptly. Our
readers will oblige us greatly by send-
ing 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.
‘One Way to Avoid It.
When Carrie was three or four
years old she went with her grand-
mother to visit an aunt. The little one
ate very heartily of berries, when her
grandmother said, “Don't eat any
more berries or you will have a pain
under your apron.” Carrle regarded
the dainty apron seriously for a mo-
ment, then said, “Please take my
apron off, grandma.”—The Delineator
eee duciuary.
It you want to spend a pleasant
evening visit the Forest street roller
rink, It is under new management.
Messrs, Berry and Randolph say
‘there will no fast skating and no
dancing,
All roads will lead to the Z club
Between the hours of 1:30 noon and
5:30 p. m. on Christmas day, as a re-
sult of the accustomed free dinner
given by the enterprising, proprietors,
Messrs, Doctor & Brack. See adver:
tisement elsewhere in this paper.
Do not allow Christmas doings to
make you forget that on Tuesday
evening, December 28, Cuyahoga
lodge, Elks, assisted by ‘McAfeo's or.
chestra, will give at Haltnorth’s hall
& vaudeville entertainment and ball
that 1s to eclipse anything in that
line given in this city in years
Among the participants will be J.
Walter Wills, Fred D. Hackley and
others.
‘Once more do we remind our good
readers to remember during this holi-
day season The Gazette’s advertisers
—business enterprises that ask for a
share at least of your trade. Do this.
and oblige both them and “the old
reliable.” Tell them you saw their
advertisement in this paper and they
will be sure to give you the best they
have, and too, at ‘the very lowest
price.
Piet aun Bien:
Chicago, Il—Gen. Green Berry
Raum, 80, former commissioner of
pensions, is dead at his home here.
Gen, Raum was one of the best known
Ilinois men who took part in the ac-
tivities which preceded the civil war.
He was born in Goleonda, Il, in 1829,
and was admitted to the Illinois bar
in 1852. As a member of the national
Democratic convention he supported
Stephen A. Douglas for president in
1860, and after the fall of Fort Sum:
ter made the first’ war speech in
southern Illinois.
Mlegal to. Bar Children.
Chicago, I—It is held unlawful
for a landlord to refuse to rent an
apartment to a family with children
under 14 years old, is a decision hand.
ed down by Judge Himes in the
municipal court here, Judge Himes
also said that he considered the
barring of children from apartment
hduses as Incentive toward race sui-
cide, He added that hotels and lodg.
ing houses were not proper abodes
for young children and, if they were
barred from apartment houses, those
would be the only places left them.
‘Smaltae Fanilles:. Garner Chltdren.
Washington, D. C.—The immigra-
tion commission which was appointed
under the regime of that prince of an:
tirace suicide advocates, ‘Theodore
Roosevelt, has just submitted a pre-
liminary report to congress. Sand:
wiched in with a lot of interesting
facts about the effect of a free coun:
try upon the second generation of im.
migrant parents, is the remarkable
discovery that the tendency toward
small families, while causing a. de-
erease in the number of children, has
caused an increase in size of individual
Street Railway Loses.
Kansas City, Mo.—The Metro-
politan Street’ Railway Co. met
defeat here at the polls by an em-
phatic majority in its request for a
42 year railway franchise. Of 37,000
qualified voters 20,377 went to the
polis. The yote was 18,737 no and
11,640 yes, ‘The street car ordinance
carries down to defeat with it the
Democratic administration of T. 7.
Crittenden, mayor, son of the late ex-
Gov. Crittenden of Missouri. Critten-
den staked his political fortunes on
the success of the ordinance.
Sa ata
Chicago, Ill.—The municipal courts
have started a crusade to force
tubercular fathers and mothers to
ruard against subjecting their children
to the disease. Nine fathers who have
disregarded warnings will be prose-
cuted. Harry E, Smoot of the Juvenile
Protective association, at the head of
‘the work, says he will demand peniten-
tiary sentences. In the case of Stan-
ley Buras, the first to be arrested,
there are five children. Four of the
children have incipient tuberculosis.
The father cannot live long.
Chicago-St, Louis Trolley Projected.
Chicago, Ill.—Chicago and St. Louis
are to be connected by a new
electric railway system. At the same
time there will be a $7,000,000 merger
of the interurban lines now controlled
by the Fisher syndicate of Jollet, 11.
‘This announcement by H. A. Fisher,
head of the syndicate, followed the in-
corporation of the Chicago, Joliet &
Bast St. Louis railway. with power to
build ines from Chicago through
Joliet to East St. Louis, with
branches to Aurora, Ill, and Ham-
mond, Ind.
Ohio's Births for Year.
Columbus, O.—December 20 marked
the first anniversary of the oper-
ation of the Ohio law for collec-
‘ton of vital statistics, Reports show
that this year there have been 100,000
children born and 64,500 persous have
died.
- EPITOME
OFA
WEEK'S NEWS
ance
William A. Harris, former United
States senator from Kansas and thre
years ago Democratic candidate fo
Kovernor of that state, died at th
home of Mrs, Lydia M. Mackey, Chi
ecgo, of heart disease.
Spencer F. Eddy, who landed at
New York and is on his way west
says he resigned as minister to the
Balkan states because he has become
‘tired of living abroad.
Owca Kildare, the author and play
wright, is critically ill at a hospital in
New York. His physicians say that
hhis death may be expected at any
time.
Dr. H.W. Wiley, chief of the bu
eau of chemistry, critielsed the con
stitution in an address at Washington
Decause it leaves the government no
Jurisdiction over impure food unless
it enters interstate commerce.
|_Dr. Jose Madriz, former Judge of the
Central American court of justice at
Cartago, and Zelaya's candidate, was
elected president of Nicaragua by the
unanimous vote of congress. ‘The ses
ston was a stormy one, but. there
seemed to be perfect unanimity with
regard to the election of Mudriz,
Baroness Vaughan, whom Leopold
made his queen in fact, if not in name:
quietly left Belgium for France. ac
cepting the hint of the government
that If she did not depart voluntarily
pshe would be expelled from the coun-
try.
Brig. Gen, Green Berry Raum, for
mer pension commissioner, died at his
home, Chicago, at thé age of 84 years.
Themas J. Lynch, former umpire
was elected president of the National
Baseball league at its annual meeting
in New York.
Mrs. Horace B, Taft, wife of a
brother of President Taft, died at the
Johns Hopkins hospital, Baltimore,
where she had been a patient of Dr.
Harvey Cushing. At the hospital all
information relative to the case #as
refused.
George Parish, an English expert or
statistion, who is In New York, says
England. is,the greatest money-lender
{in the world and tho United States Is
the greatest borrower in the world
He places the wealth of Great Britain
at $1,775 per capita and of the Unites
States at $1,310 per capita.
GENERAL NEWS.
Isaac G. Harriman of Milwaukee, en-
gineer of the train, was held respon-
sible by-a coroner's jury for the wreck
of the Chicago & Northwestern rail:
road train near Evanston, IIL, Decem-
ber 12, in which two passengers were
‘dlled.’ Recommendation was made by
the jury that he be held to the grand
jury on a charge of manslaughter,
Secretary of the Interior Ballinger
has changed his attitude leading up to
the Ballinger-Pinchot controversy
wh{ch for the last six months has pre-
valled throughput the United States.
He has issued & formal statement that
he would weleome a congressional in-
vestigation. He sald further that he
believed if that body held an investiga-
tion the country would be fully. con-
Vinced that he had always conducted
the department with strict fidelity to
the law,
During 1909 Columbia university
has received gifts reaching nearly
$5,000,000, an amount believed to be @
record for educational institutions in
the east, ‘These Include the Crocker
gift of $1,500,000 and the Kennedy
Dequest of $2,600,000.
Eight million Red’ Cross Christmas
stamps have been sold in New York
thus far this year. ‘The officers in
charge of the, distribution hope to
double this number before the end of
the holiday season.
The battleship Utah, largest warship
of its class ever built in the United
States, Was launched at Camden, N. J.
being christened by Miss Alice Spry,
daughter of the governor of Utah.
After @ voyage of 2,100 miles up the
Amazon river the little steamer Napo
has returned to New York with 1,500
tons of raw rubber.
‘The. Western Association of Nursery:
men met in annual session at Kansas
City, with an unusually large attend:
ance.
West-bound passenger train on the
Chicago, St- Paul, Minneapolis &
Omaba railroad collided with a freight
train at Blakely, Minn. Fireman Joe
“Zinneill and Mail Clerk F. Torgerson,
both of St. Paul, were ‘killed. None
“of the passengers was injured seri
ously,
‘The senate practically decided upon
the inauguration of an inquiry into the
controversy between Richard Ballin
ger, secretary of the interior, and Gif
ford Pinchot, ehfef forester, by adopt
ing a resolution introduced by Senator
Flint of California, calling for all the
pepers bearing upon the case.
‘A million-dollar endowment fund
for the support of the Florence Crit
tenton missions throughout the
United States will be raised as a
memorial to their founder, the late
Charles Nelson Crittenton. The
movement has been started in New
York.
Five indictments on charges of con
splracy to defraud the government by
the sale of water rights were returned
at Boise, Idaho, by the federal grand
jury, which has been investigating the
affairs of the Great Western Beet
Sugar Company, a defunct corpora
tion.
‘At least three lives were lost and
many persons were seriously hurt in a
fire which destroyed the big drapery
store of Arding & Hobbs at Clapham,
2 southwestern quarter of London
England, The damage 1s estimated ai
$2,500,000. All the customers mad¢
their way to the street in safety.
great many were killed. One hundred
‘were wounded and 150 prisoners were
taken by the revolutionists.
A hundred or more scantily clad 1u-
natics roamed about the country after
Veing berated from imprisonment by
a fire which destroyed the north wing
of the Northern Hospital for the In
sane at Jacksonville, Il, Several fire
men were injured by falling walls In
the fight to prevent the blaze from
spreading to the main part of the build:
ing. No one was killed.
A country-wide "sleeper _ trunk”
smuggling conspiracy, through which
more than $2,000,000 worth of import
ed finery was smuggled into this coun:
try, was brought to ight when Mrs.
Mae K. Weber, known as Mme. Whit
ney, and Mrs, Kathyn Schwarz, fash:
ionable dressmakers, were arrested by
government officers at their establish:
ment in Chicago, charged with having
benefited to the extent of over $200,000
worth of Parisian gowns and laces
through the system.
Drastic changes in the law regulat-
ing transportation companies are
urged in the report of the Interstate
commerce commission transinitted to
congress. The report embodies the
changes framed by President Taft
Five of the suggestions made by the
special committee selected by the
president to draft changes in the ex-
isting interstate commerce act are of
fered in the report
‘The University of Copenhagen, the
first institution of learning to recog-
nize Dr. Frederick A. Cook as the dis-
coverer of the north pole, solemnly
declared that the explorer had failed
to prove his claim that he had reached
the north pote.
‘On the answer to the question
whether W. J. Laffargue or his wife
died first in an automobile accident
at Allain, N. J., depends the distribu-
tion of an estate of $100,000 between
Mr, Laffargue’s son and his wife's two
daughters by a previous marriage.
The Seminole Mmited, from Chi-
cago to Florida, over the Mlinois Cen:
tral of Georgia roads, was wrecked at
Weems, Ala, The chair car, the din-
ing car and one sleeper were over-
turned, No one was injured severely.
Under a decision of the New York
city grade commission the Astor és-
tate will lose a 16-year fight involving
$8,000,000,
Secretary of State Knox let it be
known that the attitude of this gov-
ernment toward Nicaragua would not
be changed by the election of Madriz
to the presidency as the successor of
Zelaya. Madriz will have to show that
he 1s capable of directing a responst-
ble government which is prepared to
make reparation for the wrongs which
it ts claimed have been done to Amer-
can citizens,
Capt. B. $. Osbon of New York, see-
retary of the Arctic club, announced
that Capt, August W. Loose’s story
that he had faked polar records for
Dr. Cook was concocted for sale with:
‘out regard to the truth. Capt. Osbon
declared Capt, Loose has admitted
his affidavit as published in a New
York newspaper had no foundation in
fact. Capt. Loose denies this alleged
verbal confession with the statement
that he was offered $4,000 If he would
contradict his affidavit. He says he
spurned the offer and stands by his
original story that he supplied fake
records to Dr. Cook.
‘The bonded debt of New York city
has reached $1,000,000,000, according
to a report Issued by the comptroller.
‘This amount, however, includes more
than $200,000,000 held by the city
sinking fund.
Leopold I, king of the Belgians, ts
dead. The end came as a surprise
even to the physicians in attendance.
‘The aged and wasted body of the mon-
arch was unable to stand the great
strain to which It was subjected.
‘The fishing tug Penelope of Cleve-
land burned four miles off Loraine,
©, ‘he crew of three escaped, after
a battle with ice floes in bitter cold,
which almost cost them their lives.
‘Some of the most prominent women
in Managua have sent a petition to
Henry Caldera, the acting consul of
the United States there. Their names
are signed to the petition, which sets
forth the tortures to which Zelaya’s
prisoners have been subjected, and
pitifully requests the intervention of
the American government.
‘A negro highwayman shot and
killed the motorman and fatally
wounded the conductor of an Alta
Sita street car near Fireworks station
in the southeastern section of East
St. Louis, Ill. The car bearing the
bodies of the dead motorman and the
unconscious conductor ran wild at
high speed for more than four miles
into the heart of the business district
after the highwayman escaped from It.
A telegram was received at. the
Anchor Line office in Buffalo stating
that the crew of the propeller Wis-
sabicken had been rescued from the
outer Duck Island, Lake Huron, and
are en ronte to Sault Ste. Marie.
‘Three elsters now occupy separate
cells at East Orange, N. J., charged
with the murder of Osey Snead, who
was found dead ina bathtub. Her
mother fs one of the accused, her two
aunts are the others.
‘The federal grand jury at New York,
which is investigating the sugar frauds
has handed down a number of new in-
|dictments directed against former em-
ployes of the Arbuckle company.
Hench warrants were issued and as
soon ns the men are arrested the
names will be made public.
Two women suffered serfous tn-
juries, 29 other passengers were
een Ca
The Littlest Boy
and Santa Claus
By
Edwin L. Sabin
Sa a
HE GREAT hall clock. sta
tioned opposite the foot of
the stairs, struck two.
From his bed the Littlest
Boy listened with a sense
of awe, Never before had
he heard tt strike so late an hour.
Once, indeed, he had heard tt strike
ten, but usually it had struck eight—
and when next he was awake it was
striking six ond morning had come.
‘The Littlest Boy lay and listened.
‘The house was impressively still. ‘The
only sounds audible were the stately
ticking of the monitor elock . below.
and the regular breathing of the Big:
gest Boy and the Biggest Girl in the
room adjoining.
‘The Littlest Boy's eyes were wide
‘open and gazing into the velvet black-
fess close above his face. When
he had gone to bed it had been Christ
‘mas eve. He was not fully certain as to
the line of demarkation, but it oc
curred to him that now it was Christ
mas day! Then be began to blink and
think.
He wondered ff Santa Claus had
come yet. Before the grate-fire, down
fn the library, were ranged three
chairs; a rocking-chair for the Biggest
Girl, a straightbacked, ordinary char
for the Biggest Boy, and a huge, roomy
arm-chalr for himself, In addition, he
had hung up his stockings to the
mantel
He tried to picture to himself how,
ff Santa Claus had been and gone,
that chair and those stockings must
ey Mao
ed oe oe
wo Se
ie e *
| 7 le ee =
look. At Intervals, as some particu:
larly alluring fancy stood out before
him, he gave an ecstatic wriggle and a
few blinks extra
Oh, the red wagon! And the silver
napkin-ring! Supposing he got them
both! It did not seem to him pos-
sible that he could exist without eith-
er, and yet—and yet—he mustn't ex
act too much,
If he might take one peep into the
Nbrary—just one tiny peep—to find
out whether or not Santa Claus had
He felt that he ought not to yleld
to this temptation; and he sighed hard
and twisted. But even In the midst
of his struggle he did yield, for first
his disobedient right foot stole from
beneath the blue coverlet, and next
his disobedient left toot; ‘and in a
moment all of him, enveloped in is
tong, pink-flannel " night-gown, "was
moving resolutely towards the door-
way.
At the landing the stairs turned
sharply. The Littlest Boy also turned
with them to continue his journey.
Now there ahead of him was the mon:
tor clock, staring him in the face,
and ticking loud. reproval. From the
brary, off the hall, came the remints-
cent glow of the gratefire with whlch
the Christmas eve had deen cele.
brated.
Down sped the Littlest Boy, boldly
ignoring the astonished clock, down
the remaining flight, and ucross the
square hall, whose rugs were soft and
comforting. On the threshold of the
Ubrary be stopped short, frightened
at what he had done,
He had caught Santa Claus!
Aye, therg was Santa Claus, bend-
ing over the big chair, which, the
Littlest Boy glimpsed, was overtiow-
ing with packages and things.
1 do not know but that the Littlest
Roy would have beat courteous re-
treat (although, of course, his farther
curlosity was simply tremendous) had
not Santa Claus suddenly glanced up
and deccried him—a small, pink fg.
ure, made still pinker by the glowing
coals, framed, wide-eyed, in the library
door-ease
“Hello!” said Santa Claus, not moy-
tng
“Hello!” responded the Littlest Boy.
“1 didn't know you ‘vere here,”
“Didn't you?” remarked santa Claus,
straightening up and slowly. stepping
backward.
“No,” assured the Litylest Boy. “Did
you get in through the chimley?”
During his whole life—that 1s, ever
since he could talk—the Littlest’ Boy
had been trying to say “chimney,”
but, sometow, that “I.” being so sitm
and hatebet-faced, always nimbly
slipped in and elbowed out the “n.”
“Did I get in througn the chim-
Dley!” repeated Santa Claus; and then
he opened his mouth in a. silent
laugh. “Yes, 1 clumb down the cbim-
ley,” he sald.
“You say ‘chimbley’ and I say ‘chim.
ley;" but my father says—says ch—
ch—chimneley is right,” informed the
Littlest Boy.
“You don't mean it!” returned, Santa
Claus, who, having backed to the win-
dow looking upon the side porch, now,
with his band behind him, was deftly
sliding it up.
“Please don't go, Santa Claus,” be
sought the Littlest Boy. “We'll talke
real low, so nobody'll hear. ‘That ts,
if you're not in too big a hurry to
stay," he added, poltely.
“Sure,” responded Santa Claus.
“It’s almost empty, isn't {t!” assert:
ed the Littlest Boy. “But I s'pose
you've lots more up in the balloon.
Had you got all through with me?
My chair is the middie one there.
and these are my stockings in front of
is
“Well, 1 was kinder foolin’ around
when you come in,” confessed Santa
Claus; “but 1 reckon I'm through.
Them other chairs are your ma’s an’
a's, 1 take ft?"
“Yes; mamma's ts the rocker and
papa’s is the other,” informed the Lit-
test Boy, hurriedly. "Did you bring
me a red wagon and a silver napkin-
ring?”
“Aren't they there?” queried Santa
Claus.
“May I look?" asked the Littlest
Boy, eagerly.
“Sure,” grunted Santa Claus, with
is favorite word.
‘The Littlest Boy was not slow tn
taking advantage of that permission.
in a twinkling he was at the chair,
‘and, oblivious to the rustling that he
was producing, was burrowing amidst
its contests,
He did not have to burrow to find
the red wagon. Its two front wheels
were sticking straight up against the
ebair’s back!
“Ooooee!" jubilated the Littlest
Boy, turning with sparkling eyes.
“Will its sides fold over?”
“You bet!” assured Santa Claus.
“Just bushels and bushels of thanks,
Santa Claus,” purled the Littlest Boy,
rapturously, "I hope it’s bigger than
my Cousin James’ ist 1s it?"
“Sure!” sald Santa Claus. “Now,
about the ring? Ain't tt there?"
“I don’t see it?” replied the Littlest
Boy, rummaging.
“Mebbe it’s in the stockin's," sug-
gested Santa Claus.
And it was!—a beautiful, shiny, stl
ver napkin rig.
“Oooooo-eee!” gurgled the Littlest
Boy, unwrapping it. “I) bet it's the
very solides’ kind!"
“Lemme sea,” demanded Santa
Claus, “That's what I intended it to
be, anyhow, an’ I hope 1 ain't made
no mistake.”
“Yes, it's solid, all right enough.” he
said, weighing it in his hand, while
the ‘Littlest Boy watched him, anx.
fously. “But don’t you think that that
there wagon an’ this here ring, both
together, are too much for a kid like
you?”
“I don't know,” responded the Lit-
tlest Boy, abushed. “I've tried to be
awful good, I've pleked up kindlin
and went on errands and brushed my
teeth—and—and gone down cellar
after dark, and—and—and I've hardly
ever eried when I got hurt!”
“Still, seems to me,” persisted
Santa Claus, gazing at the shiny ring
in his "fingers, “that a wagou alone is
good enough for one kid, besides all
them other things you've got in yon
chair and socks. I dunno but what
Til take this: an” give it somfers else.”
“Well,” agreed the Littlest Boy,
gravely, “if—if you can find some lit
tle boy who ought to have it
more'n me, then you can—can take
it; and piraps next Christmas—"
“God! roared the Biggest Boy, ike
an angry lon, leaping through the ik
brary doorway.
With a slam up sped the window;
with an oath, out whirled Santa Claus.
“You've scared Santa Claus! You've
scared Santa Claus!” walled the Lit-
test Boy, in despair.
“I have, have I” exclaimed the Big-
gest Boy, gathering the waller into his
arms,
“And he took my ring,"“farther la-
mented the Littlest Soy. se
“He did, did he!" repeated the ion
—that 19, the Biggest Boy—in a com-
miserating growl, “Never mind; we'll
get another”
“But I told him he might, sf there's
some other little boy who'd ought to
haye it more,” explained the Littlest
Boy, truthfully. “Maybe he'll bring
me one next Christmas.”
Here the Biggest Boy shut the
treacherous window; and with the Big.
gest Girl, who by this me had ar
rived and was hugging and kissing
the Littlest Boy's two rosy fect, as
they bung down inside the Biggest
Boy's arms, close accompanying, car-
ried him upstatrs to bed.
What do you think! Svidently. Santa
Claus repented, or else he had only
been joking, oF else he could find no
other little boy who was more worthy;
for, after all, at daylight there was
discovered, Iying on the mat before
the sidedoor, that very same ring—
wrapped, it 1 true, not tn fine tissue
paper, but in coarse brown paper.
However, upon the paper was
serawled, in ragged but unmistakable
lines: \
“SANTY CLAWS.’
‘One: Worenle Chrichiten:.
ey ee,
Christmas. Money or lack of money
has nothing to do with Christmas,
says Appleton's. A poor missionary
on our western frontier once told his
wife It would be out of the question
for them to celebrate the approaching
Christmas. Two installments of his
pathetic salary were overdue. He had
Just received a letter from the sec:
retary warning him that he might
have to wait a long time for his
money, The soctety was “financially
embarrassed.” ‘The missionary had
six small children. The embarrass.
ment was mutual. His wife said
nothing, She did not agree. She cut
a Christmas tree in the wood lot back
of the house. ‘That was simple. She
melted down large candles and maie
small ones. She whittled pieces of
wood into wooden dolis, These she
painted and dressed up with odds and
ends.of colth. She got the little mis-
sionary surreptitiously to construct
ome tows and aoe ft the ral
boys. Thirty-five cents judiciously ex-
pended on luxuries at the general
|store, five miles distant, completed the
Christmas preparations. There was
plenty of “nonsense” in that family
on Christmas. When the joys of the
day somewhat subsided one of the
small boys, after the inquiring manner
of small boys, asked bis mother, “Why
did we have a better time this Christ-
mas than ever before?” She answered,
“Perhaps because we didn’t have any
ta make 16"
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Miss Georgia Fields and Mrs. J. W. Wilks are convalescing. Both have been very ill.
Mrs. Queen Ridout of Youngstown will be the guest of Mrs. Lucy Johnson during the holidays.
Messrs. Samuel and Edward West of Smithfield attended the funeral of their sister, Mrs. Bart, Smith.
the committee of arrangements.
The emancipation celebration program to be given at Mt. Zion church Jan. 3 will be the best of its kind ever given in Cleveland. Rev. R. W. Bassnall and Rev. Jas. W. Jenkins will deliver addresses. The musical part of the program will be participated in by Miss Queen Ridout of Mrs. Grace Browne, Mr. Frederick D. Hoechle, and S. John's male quartette. Miss Manolo Smith will read the emancipation proclamation. The public is invited. A mission free. Tuesday evening, December 28, Cushua lodge, Elks, assisted by M.A. Ace's orchestra, will give at Hainorth's a vaudeville entertaining.
Everybody is going! Where? Why, to Haltnorth's hall. Tuesday evening. The swellest affair of the season.
Mr. and Mrs. Walter L. Brown are spending the holidays in Vandergrift, Pa. with their daughters and his parents.
Mesdames Mary Hollister, Mary Robinson, Mary Ody and Messrs. T. H. Irwin and E. T. Williams died and were buried recently.
Mrs. "Jack" Johnson is in the city with her husband, Monte Cutler, "Bob" Armstrong and J. Hynan are buried also.
"Jack" Johnson is the guest of Mr. Jesse Bartlett this week. The former is appearing twice a day with a company at the Star theatre.
If the moon expects her eclipse to become a popular feature she must choose some other hour than $a. m.$ —Philadelphia Public Ledger.
Pandemium nigris in Nicaragua, but otherwise there does not seem to be government. —Philadelphia Public Ledger.
The mummy of Rameses has reached New York. In the good old days this would have meant another Tammany vote—Philadelphia Public Ledger. There is to be an exceptionally good time at Ravenna New Year's eve. Dancing from 8 p. m. to 2 a. m. Everybody invited. Harvey Johnson's orchestra.
An orchestra will assist in the Christmas services at M. Zion church Sunday evening, while St. John's choir will render a special program at that church to chorister. Possibly American college he playing an entirely dancerless football game about the year that their small brothers celebrate an entirely "safe and sane" fourth of July—New Orleans Times-Democrat.
Mrs. N. Banks, district M. 10 of the Household of Ruth, is on her annual tour of the state. She inspected the city while here and was the guest of Mrs. Benjamin Douglass of East Thirty-first street.
Mrs. T. M. Farlice and Miss Addie M. Hackley will keep open house New Year's day from 2 to 7 p. m. at the former's residence. No. 2558 East Sixty-third street, and will be glad to receive their lady and gentlemen friends. The employees of the city hall presented Walter L. Brown with about $40. Mr. Harvey Armstrong and others presented Joseph R. Simmons gave $2.50 toward the purchase of an artificial limb for Mr. Brown. Local Masons will listen to their annual sermon at Antioch church Sunday at 2 p. m., and hold a social on Wednesday evening in their temple. Several local Sir Knights went to Canton last Saturday to assist in the organization of a commander there. A literary society has been organized at Shiloh church. Officers: G. W. Gr. ce, president; Harold G. Young, first vice, and M. Surg, second; H. K. Clark, corresponding secretary; Ralph Smith, librarian; R. G. Rogers, treasurer; Mr. Dobbins, sr., chaplain.
Judge Strimple Saturday imposed a sentence of ten years in the penitentiary on Charles Jackson, who pleaded guilty to assaulting the residents of lower Cedar avenue by snatchting purses during the early evening hours last summer. Fourteen purses were produced in court as evil acts against "Little Jack, the short-stop."
Mt. Haven church has just closed a very successful three weeks' revival. Six additions, four of whom will be baptized, and a general spiritual uplift. Xmas services at 6 a.m., and a dinner from 1 o'clock to 5 p.m. A program will be rendered the evening. Rev. H. M. Lowery, pastor.
Representative Henry T. Eubanks is, at last, right in something. If he will go to Gov. Harmon and protest in person against the segregation of our girls in state institutions, as he promises to do, he will have done something praiseworthy. He is a little slow getting standing, making it for three months or more, but better a little late than not at all.
Special services at Mt. Zion church Sunday morning and "Christmas" exercises in the evening by the S. S. The M. S. ladies entertained the honorary members Monday evening at the church. After the installation of officers, a beautiful silk umbrella was presented to Mrs. Sides, who has served faithfully as treasurer of the society for ten years and was re-elected for the ensuing year. Music and refreshments.
Tuesday evening December 28, Cuyahoga Eells, assisted by McAfee's orchestra, will give at Haitnorth's hall a vaudeville entertainment and ball that is to eclipse anything in that line given in this city in years. Among the participants will be: J. Walter Wills, Fred D. Hackley and others. Mart. Johnston says "to miss this is to miss half your life's pleasures." He is chairman of
THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 25. 1909.
committee of arrangements.
The committee of arrangements program to be given at the Eleanor church Jan. 3 will be the best of its kind ever given in Cleveland. Rev. R. W. Bagnall and Rev. Jas. W. Jenkins will deliver addresses. The musical part of the program will be participated in by the Creeks, Creeks, Creeks, Grace Brown, Mr. Frederick J. H. John's male quartette. Miss Manola Smith will read the emancipation proclamation. The public is invited. Admission free.
Tuesday evening, December 28, Cavahoga lodge, Elks, assisted by McCormick orchestra at Northport's vaudeville entertainment and ball that is to collapse anything in that line given in this city in years. Among the participant will be: J. Walter Wills, Fred D Hackley, and others. Mart. Johnston is your life's pleasure. He is chairman of the committee of arrangements.
The Christian Missionary Alliance, branch No. 2, has started in to purchase for $25,000 the Cleveland General hospital property, 50 feet front on the property, by 300 feet deep, running through to Orange avenue. The buildings are in good condition, the dispensary with two store fronts being on Orange street. The property ought to be worth $100,000 in ten years, and in a few years will sell for twice the present cost price. If the Alliance can hold it, the organization has a good thing. Friesedams W. O. Hospital, in the head of branch No. 2. It is said that the former will live on the newly acquired property.
Nearly $150 in addition to the $75 contributed by the Cleveland Association of Afro-Americans have been given for the Christmas tree at Forest Park, where 100,000 children, Mrs. Lucy R. James is chairman of the committee of sixty women in immediate charge of the affair which is to cost about $200, and George A. Myers chairman of the association's general committee. Each woman is to be stocking cap or a pair of leggings, a dish of ice cream and some cake. Two automobiles will be furnished by the White and Studebaker companies to convey the crippled children to and from the rink. The affair is open to the public between 2 and 6 p. m. this week Friday. This is a very praiseworthy movement.
Judge Keeler last Friday dismissed the divorce petition of Thomas W. Walker and the cross-petition for alimony of his wife, Matilda Walker. Mr. Walker is custodian of Eagle Mountain, his home, and 15 years been in Europe with their daughter. The latter, under the name of Lucie Lenoir, "the Cuban Nightingale," etc., etc., has been appearing in concerts, in vaudeville, etc. Mr. Walker testified that he had mortgaged his home to provide for the mute singer, and that the wife refused to live with him. Mrs. Walker, her attorney said, is in such ill health in London that a journey across the ocean at this time would mean her death. For that reason it was sought to have the case dismissed by the court, but Judge Vickery, who heard the application, refused the request.
Monday, about noon, while the editor of The Gazette was busy closing the editorial on Gov. Harmon and segregation, on page 2 of this paper, Mr. Edward Doctor, manager of the Z club, called and invited him to dine with Arthur J. Johnson, the chameleon of the world, and his manager George H. Lytle, at Stein's cafe, whom we learned on arrival were, too, guests of Will H. Hunley and Mr. Doctor. A delicious five course meal, including champagne and other liquid refreshments and cigars, was served in fine style, and the dinner naturally proved a most enjoyable affair indeed. Just Johnson, unremitting and intelligent, unnumbing and perceptive, and his manager likewise, contributed largely to the social success of the dinner, and it was certainly a pleasure to meet them both. Group pictures of the diners were taken in Stein's private dining room and on the sidewalk in front of the cafe; also several individual ones of the diners by chance in the daily paper, to whom he was especially kind. After the dinner, Messrs. Hunley and Doctor took Messrs. Johnson and Lytle in a taxicab to the Z club and Star theatre.
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"We have been going ahead so rapidly in our own country that our heads have been somewhat swelled with the idea that we are carrying on our shoulders all the progress there is in the world. We have not been conscious that there is on the north a young country and a young nation that is looking forward, as it well may, to a great national future. They have 7,000,000 people, but the country is still hardly scratched."
Jas. J. Hill speaking before the Canadian Club of Winnipeg a few days ago said:
"I go back for 53 years, when I came West from Canada. At that time Canada had no North-West. A young boy or man who desired to carve his own way had to cross the line, and to-day it may surprise you—one out of every five children born in Canada lives in the United States. Now you are playing the return match, and the North-West is getting people from the United States very rapidly. We brought 100 land-seekers, mainly from Iowa and Southern Minnesota, last night out of St. Paul, going to the North-West. Now, these people have all the way from five, ten to twenty thousand dollars each, and they will make as much progress on the land in one year as any one man coming from the Continent of Europe can make, doing the best he can, in ten, fifteen, or twenty years."
It is evident from the welcome given American settlers in Canada that the Canadian people appreciate them. Writing from Southern Alberta recently an American farmer says:—
"We are giving them some new ideas about being good farmers, and they are giving us some new ideas about being good citizens. They have a law against taking liquor into the Indian Reservation. One of our fellows was caught on a reservation with a bottle on him, and it cost him $50. One of the Canadian Mounted Police found him, and let me tell you, they find everyone who tries to go up against the laws of the country.
"On Saturday night, every bar-room is closed, at exactly 7 o'clock. Why? Because it is the law, and it's the same with every other law. There isn't a bad man in the whole district, and a woman can come home from town to the farm at midnight if she wants to, alone. That's Canada's idea how to run a frontier; they have certainly taught us a lot.
"On the other hand, we are running their farms for them better than any other class of farmers. I guess I can say this without boasting, and the Chandians appreciate us. We turn out to celebrate Dominion Day; they are glad to have us help to farm the country; they know how to govern; we know how to work."
Another farmer, from Minnesota, who settled in Central Saskatchewan some years ago, has the following to say about the country:—
"My wife and I have done well enough since we came from the States; we can live anyway. We came in the spring of 1901 with the first carload of settlers' offals unloaded in these parts and built the first shanty between Saskatchewan and Lumsden. We brought with our car of settlers' effects the sum of $1800 in cash, to-day we are worth $40,000. We 'proved up' one of the finest farms in Western Canada and bought 320 acres at $3 per acre. We took good crops off the land for four years, at the end of which we and $8000 worth of improvements in the way of buildings, etc., and had planted three acres of trees. Two years ago we got such a good offer that we sold our land at $45 per acre. From the above you will see that we have not done badly since our arrival."
Prof. Thomas Shaw of St. Paul, Minnesota, with a number of other well known editors of American farm journals, toured Western Canada recently, and in an interview at Winnipeg said in part:
"With regard to the settlement of the West I should say that it is only well begun. I have estimated that in Manitoba one-tenth of the land has been broken, in Saskatchewan one-thirtieth and in Alberta, one-hundred and seventy-fifth. I am satisfied that in all three provinces grain can be grown successfully up to the sixtieth parallel and in the years to come your vacant land will be taken at a rate of which you have at present no conception. We have enough people in the United States alone, who want houses, to take up this land.
"What you must do in Western Canada is to raise more live stock. When you are doing what you ought to do in this regard, the land which is now selling for $20 per acre will be worth from $50 to $100 pre acre. It is as good land as that which is selling for more than $100 per acre in the corn belt.
THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1909.
"I would rather raise cattle in West-
ern Canada than in the corn belt of
the United States. You can get your
food cheaper and the climate is better
for the purpose. We have a better
market, but your market will improve
faster than your farmers will
produce the supplies. Winter wheat
can be grown in one-half of the country
through which I have passed, and
alfalfa and one of the varieties of
clover in three-fourths of it. The
farmers do not believe this, but it is
true."
Keeping pace with wheat production, the growth of railways has been quite as wonderful, and the whole country from Winnipeg to the Rocky Mountains will soon be a network of trunk and branch lines. Three great transcontinental lines are pushing construction in every direction, and at each siding the grain elevator is to be found. Manitoba being the first settled province, has now an elevator capacity of upwards of 25,000,000 bushels, Saskatchewan 20,000,00, and Alberta about 7,000,000, while the capacity of elevators at Fort William and Port Arthur, on the Great Lakes, is upwards of 25,000,000 more. Within the provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta there are flour and oatmeal mills with a combined capacity of 25,000 barrels per day, and situated along some famous water powers in New Ontario, there are larger mills than will be found anywhere in the Prairie Provinces.
Last year the wheat crop totaled over 100,000,000 bushels. This year the crop will yield 30,000,000 more. A recent summary shows that on the 1st of January, 1909, the surveyed lands of the three western provinces, totaled 134,000,000 acres, of which about 32,000,000 have been given as subsidies to railways, 11,000,000 disposed of in other ways and 38,000,000 given by the Canadian Government as free homesteads, being 236,000 homesteads of 160 acres each. Of this enormous territory, there is probably under crop at the present time less than 11,000,000 acres; what the results will be when wide awake settlers have taken advantage of Canada's offer and are cultivating the fertile prairie lands, one can scarcely imagine.
Bather Ambiguous
The Rev. Mr. Dozen had not gained the golden opinions of his congregation, who were unanimous in asserting that he was foolish and conceived. He considered himself greatly slandered, and, meeting an old German friend of his in the street one day, began to retail his woes, ending up by saying: "And the church warden actually called me a perfect ass. My cloth prevented me from resenting insults, but I think I shall refer to it in the pulpit next Sunday. What would you advise?" "Mine friend," replied the German soothingly, "I know not, but I tink at all you can do will be villous to bray for them as usual!"—Detroit News-Tribune.
Pathos Out of Place in Schools.
In an address at a teacher's institute Miss Martha Sherwood said that sad and psthetic stories should have no place in the public schools. She told the teacher that the most morous stories and the kind that make children roll on the ground with laughter. "Anything to make them laugh, and laugh loudly," she said. "If makes them grow, puts sunshine into their lives and develops contented men and women."
Home-Made Bitters.
Loss of appetite at this season accompanied by lassitude is a symptom of weakened vitality. Improve the appetite and digestion and nature will do man. The man is highly recommended and much used in some parts of the country. Ask any good druggist to mix one ounce compound fluid balmwort and one ounce syrup sarsaparilla compound and take a tablepoon of three to six times a day. Excellent too as a tonic system cleanser.
"Soft and Nice"
She—George, dear, do you love me?
He—Yes, darling, very much.
He—Yes, darling, very kind.
She—Say something soft and nice to me.
He—Oh, custard pie!—Judge.
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SEN. McLAURIN IS DEAD
END COMES AS MISSISSIPPIAN SITS BEFORE FIRESIDE.
The Senator Was Too Ill to Attend the Present Session of Congress in Washington.
Jackson, Miss.—United States Senator Anselm Joseph McLaurin died very suddenly of heart disease at his home in Brandon, Miss. The fatal attack seized Senator McLaurin while he was seated in a rocking chair in front of the fireplace in his library. He fell forward, without speaking a word, and life was extinct when members of his family reached his side.
Senator McLaurin, who was 61 years old, began his first term in the United States senate in 1894, but was elected governor of Mississippi in 1895 and served in that office four years. He was elected again to the senate in 1900 and served one term. He then returned for the term which began on March 4, 1907.
Senator McLaurin was a lawyer by profession and began the study of law in 1868, after he had served through the civil war as a private in the confederate army. He was born on March 26, 1848, at Brandon, Miss., and was raised on a farm. He entered the confederate army when he was 16 years old. When the present session of congress opened Senator McLaurin did not go to Washington because of illness.
ASSASSINS APPLY THEIR ART
British Magistrate Killed, Prime Minister Shot, Premier Stabbed and Police Chief Blown Up.
Washington, D. C.—After a day in which assassinations of three high foreign officials were reported the authorities here have just received word that a fourth victim had been reported from Roumania, the prime minister being shot. A remarkable series of political assassinations of persons high in office has been reported from widely separated points throughout the world.
In St. Petersburg, the chief of the secret police, Col. Karpoff, was blown to pieces by the explosion of a bomb, supposedly thrown by an anarchist, At Bombay, British India, the chief magistrate of Nasik, Arthur M. T. Jackson, was assassinated by a native, for revenge, and presumably as a part of the seditious movement against British official authority. In Seoul, Korea, the prime minister of the Korean cabinet was stabbed to death as the apparent result of the intense feeling against the Japanese.
"LITTLE TIM" SULLIVAN DIES
Gave Employment to Worthy Persons, Regardless of What District They Belonged to.
New York City.-Timothy P. Sullivan, the "Little Tim" of the Bowery and a power in metropolitan politics, is dead here. He had been in bad health for more than six months. Death resulted from Bright's disease and inflammation of the heart. "Little Tim" will ever be remembered by thousands throughout the city, where he was known as a man who gave employment to worthy persons regardless of what district they belonged to, and strange to say he did not ask whether the applicant was a publican, and it was the same regarding women who looked for jobs.
FOUR DEAD; TWO SUICIDES
Jealous Kentucky Miner and a Crazed California Man Commit the Terrible Murders.
London, Ky.-Jealousy was the cause of a triple murder and suicide in Pittsburgh, a mining village near here. William Murray, a miner, shot and killed his wife and her mother and Elbert Cole, manager of a general store there. He then shot himself. Attentions which Murray believed Cole was paying Mrs. Murray brought on the shooting.
Fresno, Cal.-Suddenly becoming violently insane, G. C. Cheuvrent, a rancher, killed his wife and one child, wounded three other children and ended his life under the wheels of a railroad train.
Warriner Gets Six Years in Prison
Cincinnati, O. "For the first time in ten years I am a free man; free in soul if still a captive in person. Through hundreds of sleepless nights and thousands of anxious days I have felt that every time I turned around somebody was liable to place me under arrest; to know that I was a thief—a thief who had stolen more than $50,000. But now I am free again. Thank God, I'm free." Charles L. Warriner, former treasurer of the Big Four offices had just been sentenced to serve six years in the Ohio penitentiary.
Oil Exports Drop
Washington, D. C.—Alarmed by a drop from $1,000,000 to $26,363 in mineral oil exports to France in a month, American oil exporters have begun a movement to induce congress to renew with the French government the reciprocity treaty that expired October 31. Exporters also hope for the renewal of the treaty with Spain, also a large importer of American oil, that will expire August 31, 1910. The falling off of the imports of champagne from France was most marked.
Thieves Work as House is Burning.
New York City—Sensational rescues, a semi-panic in an adjoining hospital, and operations of sneak thieves in near by buildings which had been abandoned by their owners featured an incendiary fire in an East Thirty-third street apartment building. Two men had a narrow escape from death, one being swung across an airshaft, dangling from a rope's end, and another plunging through the glass of a closed window several feet away to escape death by devouring flames.
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She—What do you mean, Lieut. Schmidt? You have known me only two days and want to kiss me? He—Can't help it! My leave is up to-morrow.
SORE EYES CURED.
Eye-Balls and Lids Became Terribly inflamed—Was Unable to Go About—All Other Treatments Failed, But Cuticura Proved Successful.
"About two years ago my eyes got in such a condition that I was unable to go about. They were terribly inflamed, both the balls and lids. I tried home remedies without relief. Then I decided to go to our family physician, but he didn't help them. Then I tried two more of our most prominent physicians, but my eyes grew continually worse. At this time a friend of mine advised me to try Cuticura Ointment, and after using it about one week my eyes were considerably improved, and in two weeks they were almost well. They have never given me any trouble since and I am now sixty-five years old. I shall always praise Cuticura. G. B. Halsey, Mouth of Wilson, Va., Apr. 4, 1908."
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Stamps of German Domestics.
Each week there is pasted in the little blank book that every servant girl in Germany must possess a postage stamp to the value of about five cents.
This stamp is a donation, compulsory under the German law, which the mistress must afford the servant.
Should the girl fall ill, the stamps are redeemed by the government, or the servant may retain the stamps indefinitely when she has attained ripe old age, the government pays her a premium for them—The Sunday Magazine.
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Perhaps So.
"Your wife does not appear to be satisfied."
"She ought to be, she always has her own way. Oughtn't she be satisfied when I always let her have her own way without opposition."
"She'd be better satisfied with it if she had to fight for it."
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A Test.
"Well," said Mr. Cumrox, "your party was a great success."
"How can you tell?" asked his wife.
"Whenever a crowd comes along that makes me feel like a stranger in my own house I know it's a brilliant occasion."
Some people suffer continually with tired, aching and swollen feet. Little do they know how soothing is Hamilas Wizard Owl. Lub it in it night and have thankful, happy feet in the morning.
Desperate But Effective.
Nickler—So Jones has a good scheme?
Bocker—Yes; he carries a little dynamite to blow up any auto that runs over him.
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Practical Fashions
GIRL'S AND CHILD'S NIGHT
DRAWERS.
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Paris Pattern No. 2682, All Seams Allowed.-Canton or French flannel, cambric, "flannelette or eiderdown flannel are all used for these garments, which are more practical for the restless child during the cold winter nights than the nightgown. The model is made with a centerfront or center-back closing. Bishop or plain sleeves and with or without feet, according to taste, the neck finishing in a high straight collar band. The model is a very simple one, and, therefore, extremely easy to make at home. The pattern is in five sizes—1 to 11. For a girl of seven years the night drawers require $3\frac{1}{2}$ yards of material 27 inches wide, or $2\frac{1}{2}$ yards 36 inches wide.
To procure this pattern send 10 cents to "Pattern Department," of this paper, to give size and number of pattern
LADIES' DRESSING SACK.
Paris Pattern No. 3144, All Seams Allowed.—The many beautiful and inexpensive flannel and flannel goods now being shown tempt a woman to make her own dressing sacks, which are certainly most easy of construction and most convenient to have on hand. The design shown is pictured made of pink-and-black-striped flannel and is finished with briar stitching in black floss. The fitted back makes it a garment becoming to either a slender or full figure. The pattern is cut in six sizes from 32 to 44 inches bust measure. The 36-inch bust size requires $3\frac{1}{2}$ yards of material 24 inches wide, $3\frac{1}{2}$ yards 24 inches wide, $2\frac{1}{2}$ yards 36 inches wide, or two yards 42 inches wide. To procure this pattern send 10 cents to Pattern Department, 616 Park Wide Drive, Philadelphia, PA 19105, plainly, to give size and number of pattern
To Cook Without Stirring.
To keep food that burns easily hot upon the gas stove, or to cook anything of the kind without constant stirring a simple device possible to any housekeeper helps out greatly. This is made by securing a small tin such as baked beans are sold in by delicatessens and grocers. Puncture the bottom of the can with several holes and invert it over the flame. Place the pan in which the food is to be cooked on this, turn the gas very low, and it will keep warm or simmer (according to the height of the flame) without scorching the contents.
The Latest Foundations
For sheath foundations of evening gowns the very newest idea is to use broaches of gorgeous hue and design or heavy watered silks. The princess underdress of these supple silks can be fitted perfectly to the figure, and the lovely colors, with their scrolls and flowers carried out in glistening silver or gold, form artistic backgrounds upon which chiffon, tulle or crepe de chine can be draped. These exquisite sheaths are generally made with narrow trains, square or round, and the draperies are arranged in semi-pannier fashion.
CONDUCTOR WENT TOO FAR
Diplomatic Step Was All Right, But He Didn't Know Just When to Stop.
A much-bothered conductor on an east-bound car was asked by a chilly lady passenger to close the ventilators. As he had already been importuned to open them by a half dozen other patrons he resorted to diplomacy.
"Madam," he said in a confidential tone, "I'd gladly close the ventilators, but unfortunately a health officer is aboard the car and he must that they must be let them. I'd make myself liable to a lot of trouble if I opposed him."
"A health officer?" said the lady.
"Yes'm," replied the conductor. And then intoxicated by the success of his scheme he unhappily added—"the one with the brown deby."
The lady looked and a change came over her face.
"The one with the brown derby?" she repeated. "Yes'm. They say he's quite an expert on germs and things. I believe he's a German gentleman." The lady stared at the conductor. "He's nothing of the kind," she snapped. "The man with the brown derby is my husband!" Whereupon the conductor beat a hasty retreat—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Much is being done in these days to stop the ravages of consumption, but probably nothing has been so effective as teaching the public how to break up a cold and cure coughs, bronchitis, tonsillitis, etc., with simple home-mixed medicine. In the case of whiskey as the prime need. A cough indicates inflammation and congestion and these in turn are due to an excess of waste and poisons in the system. A tonic laxative cough syrup rids the system of congestion, while relieving the pain of cough and mix at home: One-half ounce fluid wild cherry bark, one ounce compound essence cardiol and three ounces syrup white pine compound. Shake the bottle and take twenty drops every half hour for four hours. Then one hour or two more times daily. Give children less, according to age. Cut this out and save it for some friend.
Good Work Going Forward.
Following a whirlwind campaign against consumption in Charleston, the American tuberculosis exhibition of the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis recently opened another exhibition movement in Greenville, S. C. After January 1 the work will be continued in Columbia, S. C., in connection with the session of the state legislature. Efforts will be made to secure an appropriation to fight tuberculosis. Another exhibition of the National association has just closed a campaign in Colorado, and is now touring Oklahoma. A state-wide fight will be waged in this state. Later, this exhibition will go to Arkansas.
Diet of the Old.
A sane diet for a person of 70 or 75 should be made up largely of vegetables and fruit, some fish, some eggs, a little meat and simple cereals, if there is no inclination toward obesity.
Drinking with one's meals is not considered advisable, especially as liquids are apt to wash down the food before it is properly masticated. Two quarts of water, or more, should be taken between meals, however, during the day. Hot water is especially good for one who does not exercise much, as it flushes out the entire system. Stimulants, such as tea and coffee, should not be very strong.—Harper's Bazar.
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