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In Black and White THE HAT --- AN EXQUISITE hat for high occasions is developed in black and white. The shape, of rich white felt, is faced with black velvet, perfectly fitted to the broad brim, with its graceful curves and flowing lines. Such hats are covered in factories devoted to making hats of a high class, and the velvet is steamed and stretched to the underbrim, turning up around the edge in a tiny cordlike finish. Most hats of this character are very simply trimmed. A big spray of feathers, a curious novelty in gold, or a long curling ostrich plume are most often chosen. Big black hats with gold in a striking ornament and gold roses on the bandanu, resting against the hair, or such ornaments in tarnished brass effects, make superb millinery. In the model shown delicate gauze roses surround the crown and cover This very attractive waist is of old blue taffeta with sleeves cut in one piece with the body of the waist. Sleeves and waist are tucked and trimmed with bands and straps of black taffeta, and with buttons and silk embroidery matching the blue silk. Reversible Cloak. A useful and attractive garment, that can be made at home by any woman used to simple tailoring, is the reversible cloak, made semifitting, with kimono sleeves, and usually of broadcloth lined with soft satin. The broadcloth side is of some dark color or black, with plain light or white revers of satin; and it is used for afternoon wear. The satin side is in some light evening shade, with satin resers in a slightly darker color, and makes a charming wrap for the theater, etc. It is not nearly so hard to make as it sounds, and is extremely economical, being really two garments in one. Stripes In Millinery. New modes of using stripes—black and white and blue and white—in smart millinery are being devised as the season advances. The striped material is generally satin, and it may have as the outer covering of a hat or as facing over a border for a white brim. A fetching new model is a toque made entirely of black and white striped satin and trimmed with a little rose colored velvet ribbon. Numerous bows and other forms of decorations for hats are also shown in which a striped effect is produced by the use of alternate rows of black and white scouts. the bandeau. Heron aigrettes are used here, but, as these are likely to fall into disuse on account of the crusade against them, and a growing public sentiment adverse to their use, it is best to make another selection. The feathers of the goura or crown pigeon are equally effective, and may be worn, with a clear conscience, or a comparatively clear conscience at least. The wearing of heron, by the way, is prohibited by law in several states, and in July of next year it is said a law will go into universal effect prohibiting the buying, selling or wearing of these feathers. As they are very expensive, it is best not to invest in them. There are so many pretty feathers to choose from that cannot disturb the conscience or call down criticism, it would seem no hardship for a woman of taste to make another choice. JULIA BOTTOMLEY. Has Not a Good Word to Say for Frocks or Millinery of This Season. It is interesting to note the animation with which women, or rather some women, attack the present styles. It is invariably the woman of flesh who is the most emphatic in disapproval. Not a good word is to be said by her for frocks or millinery of this season. Hats are imprudently absurd, skirts immodestly cut, jackets trivial, and even the efforts of great dressmakers dubbed futile and unconvincing, as she tells it. It is a season, according to the woman whose hips refuse to remove themselves, of grotesque absurdities. The hysterical note is struck. So why argue? Whether we argue or not, certain things must be acknowledged. The present fashions in some directions have reached such perfection that to condemn them is ridiculous, to ignore them impossible. So let us forget the fact that our too comfortable contours refuse brazenly to confine themselves within the slim limits of the present silhouette and see if we cannot judge of the fashions of the day with an unblased eye, if not with entirely untrammeled hips. In spite of criticism and caricature they may alone be called epoch making. Line and drapery have clothed themselves in such artistic grace; color and fabric have attained such perfection of combination and weave that they take their places with famous fashions of other days. They are in a great measure revivals, yet revivals so skillfully adapted to our needs and environment that they are accepted with enthusiasm by the intelligent few. The lover of color and line rejoices in their existence, the beauty-loving eye revels in their softly woven and luxurious fabrics. The great dressmakers have gathered from the Greeks and Romans, from Egyptians and Orientals, from the Alexandrian and first empire periods fashions, fabrics, and colors which, when combined and crystallized, place the styles of this season uniquely apart. Beavers This Year. More fashionable than the long nap or furry beaver is the one that has shorter fur and is smooth and shiny These are called silk beavers and very beautiful indeed they are. Sometimes the under, part of the brim is of velvet, usually black, and the top part is another color, or may be black as one prefers. This top part, how ever, is of this lustrous silk beaver and the crown is usually composed of the same material. These hats make charming picture hats, and are exquisite when trimmed with sweeping plumes. ESTABLISHED AUGUST 25, 1883 AND ISSUED EVERY WEEK ON TIME SINCE. NEWS OF A WEEK IN CONDENSED FORM NEWS OF A WEEK IN CONDENSED FORM RECORD OF MOST IMPORTANT EVENTS TOLD IN BRIEFST MANNER POSSIBLE. Happenings That Are Making History —Information Gathered From All Quarters of the Globe and Given in a Few Lines. PERSONAL. By the terms of the will of Robert Bulst, the wealthy Philadelphia seedman, Roberta B. DeJanon, his grandchild, who disappeared with a hotel waiter last December and was found in Chicago, is given in trust the bulk of his estate, valued at $500,000. Maj. Gen. Leonard A. Wood, chief of staff of the United States army, in an address at a banquet of the Burnside post, G. A. R., in Washington characterized the so-called war scare as "silly." Associate Justice Edward Douglass White of the Supreme court of the United States became ninth chief justice of that august body when the oath of allegiance was administered by Associate Justice Harlan. The public ceremony of the installation was simple, the oath being taken in the exclusion of the robing room of the justices. Prof. B. C. Buffum has developed in the Big Horn valley, Wyoming, a new cattle-feeding grain by crossing Russian spelt with American wheat. He calls it emmer. John T, McNamara, secretary and treasurer of the American Dressed Beef and Provision company, dled at the home of his father in Kansas City, Mo. He was born in Kansas City thirty years ago. Mrs. R. R. Brown, a sister of Gen. Stirling Price, former governor of Missouri, died at her home in West Seattle of blood poisoning resulting from a scratch on her hand from a splinter of wood four days ago. Every wheel on the system stopped turning and every employee on the Central of Georgia road ceased to work for five minutes during the funeral at Macon of Maj. J. F. Hanson, president of the road. Governor-elect Frederick W. Plastated of Maline, who was unable to attend the dinner to the Democratic governors-elect in New York, is ill at his home at Augusta with bronchitis. GENERAL NEWS. John D. Rockefeller has given the University of Chicago another $100,000,000. Announcement of this fact was made at the university convoction by Martin A. Ryerson, chairman of the board of trustees. In making the gift, Mr. Rockefeller said that he retired from all connection with the university and would give it nothing more. His total gifts in 21 years aggregate $35,000,000. Frank Wilson was slain in New York with a jagged silvered stick made from a broken broom handle. The police have arrested Mr. and Mrs. August Miller, owners of the house in which Wilson lived. Forty members of a sect having headquarters at Benton Harbor, Mich., ignoring a tenet in their faith which forbids marriage, were wedded. Thirteen of the couples were united at one ceremony. Freddie Welsh, the lightweight champion of England, successfully, defended his title against Jem Driscoll, the English, featherweight king, at Cardiff, Wales, being awarded the battle in the tenth round on a foul. Driscoll deliberately butted his more hardy adversary. Desiring to see Santa Claus and tell him that he wanted an air rifle, Froddle Lauren, eight years old, secreted himself in a doghouse in the rear of his home at Trenton, N. J. for three days, and was found in the little structure badly frozen. It may be necessary to amputate both legs. Reports from Port Limon, Costa Rica, that as a result of a terrific earthquake un island in the Ilopango lagoon, in the interior of Salvador; had disappeared, with the drowning of many women and children, is without foundation. Only a slight earthquake occurred. Each of the four dreadnoughts—the Utah, the Florida, the Wyoming and the Arkansas—in process of building for the United States navy advanced about 3 per cent. toward the finishing point in November, the navy department at Washington announces. Queen Mary's accouchement is expected in March. This will be the first birth at Buckingham palace in 54 years. George L. Fox, a lawyer of Brooklyn, N. Y. in his will distributing $1,300,000, left $70,000 to domestics who had performed faithful service. The Farmers and Merchants' National bank of Anson, Tex., has been closed by its directors. Drought and bad crops are given as the cause. The Kentucky court of appeals has allowed a woman who defended and won her own case $5 as attorney's fees. United States Senator Nelson W. Aldrich underwent an operation at Roosevelt hospital, New York city, because of injuries received in an automobile accident, on the night of October 20. The chief operating surgeon was Dr. George E. Brewer, assisted by several other surgeons. One woman was drowned and five men narrowly escaped death in the waters of the old basin canal, New Orleans, when an automobile in which Jessie Smith and four male companions were riding plunged over the embankment into 29 feet of water. Burns received when her dress caught fire as she was showing her "Christmas shopping" to her little sister caused the death in New York of eight-year-old Ethel O'Connor, daughter of Judge K. O'Connor of the municipal court. Relations between western railroad managers and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers are becoming so strained that an open rupture may take place within the next few days. In spite of conciliatory efforts of Labor Commissioner Dr. C. P. Nelll at Chicago neither side has conceded a single point nor evinced a desire to yield a little to preserve peace. A. Gilbert Wheeler, seventy years old, consul for the republic of Panama and, a decade ago, a professor in chemistry in the University of Chicago, was arrested at Chicago on orders from Assistant United States District Attorney Hulbert, charged with misbranding and adulterating headache powders. S. Cohen, twenty-six years old, son of P. Cahen, a wet-to-do retired merchant, was beaten to death by three men with clubs in a vacant lot at Los Angeles, Cal. Forty-two wounded government soldiers have been brought in at Chihuahua, Mexico, confirming reports that the troop train which left there December 17 was shot to pieces in the mountain trap known as Malpuso, a few miles east of Pedernales. The official report states, that the federal lost 21 killed and that ten are missing and 42 wounded. Italians of Newbury, N. Y., have received circulars from Erie, Pa., in which they are invited to buy special territory for the distribution of counterfeit $1, $5 and $10 notes. United States Senator James B. Frazier of Tennessee emphatically stated that the report on the election of Senator Lorimer prepared by the subcommittee of the senate committee on privileges and elections did not incorporate his views of the case. Senator Frazier said that the testimony presented before the investigating committee was conclusive proof to him that the office was obtained for Mr. Lorimer by corrupt influences. The general British elections have come to a close, with every indication of a net gain of or for the government coalition. The elections have upset entirely the calculations of the unionists, who had seriously expected to gain not less than 20 seats. On the contrary, the unionists are likely in the end to suffer a net loss of one. The heart of New York was shaken by a terrible explosion of illuminating gas in the auxiliary power house of the Grand Central station. Nine persons, two of them women, were killed, four others who are missing are believed to be dead, 125 were injured and property damaged to the extent of $500,000. Col. Theodore Roosevelt's traveling expense while president are to be investigated by a special committee of the house for the purpose of asserting whether Col. Roosevelt paid for the transportation, if a resolution introduced by Representative Rainey of Illinois is allowed to pass. Mr. Rainey promises to press the resolution. The Chinese throne has issued an edict refusing to create a constitutional cabinet in compliance with a memorial recently presented by the national assembly, and also declining to accept the resignations of the grand councilors. The Ohio river is practically closed to navigation from Gallipolis to Pittsburgh. Pa., because of ice. Gorges have been formed at a number of places. Former Minister of Justice P. A. Alberti of Sweden, the revolution of whose banking frauds in 1908 scandalized the country, was sentenced to eight years' penal servitude. The Farmers' and Merchants' bank, a private institution at Watkins, N.Y., failed to open its doors. A general assignment for the benefit of creditors has been made. The republic of Portugal has sent a cruiser carrying a force of marines and a corps of physicians and supplies to combat the cholera epidemic in Maderla. No more chickens may be kept at West Point. Heretofore the officers and soldiers have kept a few of the fowls for eggs and broilers, but General Barry has directed that they shall not be permitted after a certain date. Three jurors saved Attorney Charles E. Erbstein from conviction on the charge that he bribed Grant McCutchen, juror in the second trial of Legislator Lee O'Nell Browne, to vote for his client's acquittal. The first bail stood nine for conviction to three for acquittal. At the finish the division was six to six and the jury was discharged. Famine threatens more than a million Chinese in the northern part of the province of Anhui, a section of the country subject to destructive floods from the Hual river and its tributaries. Helpless in the face of a powerful foe, with its standing arm about one-third as large as it should be, supplies lacking and military organization defective—this is the alarming picture of the situation of the United States drawn by Secretary of War Jacob M. Dickinson in his secret report to the house. At least 70 families, variously estimated at from 150 to 170 men, women and children, were drowned following the sinking of their island home. The island is in the center of the liloapo lagoon, off Salvatore, disappeared, after a series of earthquakes. THE FEDERAL NAVY LONDON. The visit of Admiral Murdoch's division of the American battleship fleet to England has been made the occasion of a remarkable demonstration of good will and friendship on the part of the British people. Everywhere the officers and men have been entertained royally. The corporation of the city of London voted a large sum of money for the entertainment of the visitors and the lord mayor gave a banquet in honor of the officers of the fleet at which were present many men prominent in public life in Great Britain. Admiral Murdoch has kept open house on the flagship Minnesota where he received visits of respect from all the leading officials. The squadron visiting France has received a welcome from the French people no less enthusiastic than that given by the British to Admiral Murdoch and his men. SOLVE BIG MYSTERY Kindness to Aged Repaid London Times Thinks It Has Found Out Why Dress Is Made Such a Serious Matter—Takes No Interest in Any Sport. London. It has remained for the London Times to solve one of the great social mysteries. Amazement is a mild term to apply to the feelings of Englishmen when they found in the editorial columns of the Thunderer a leading article entitled "The Problem of the Big Hat." A joke in the columns of England's most dignified journal would scarcely have made a greater sensation. Friability, lightness, the human touch, are things taken in Printinghouse square. And yet suddenly, without warning, comes this startling sign of juvenation — not rejuvenation, for the Times never was young. There is only one thing to account for it. That awful burden, the preparation of a new edition of the British Encyclopaedia, has recently been transferred from the Times to the Cambridge University Press. The relief from responsibility has brought too great a reaction. It has gone to the editor's head. It has led him to tackle recklessly and lightheartedly a problem which has baffled the masculine half of humanity since beyond the memory of man. Without further delay, here is his solution: "It is commonly said that women are more unselfish than men. And so they certainly are in the home. They will sacrifice themselves utterly for particular men and particular children. Yet they will not sacrifice an inch of hat brim or feather for the common convenience, and they will not tell us the reason of this seeming inconsistency. "Men demonstrate, and they smile and continue to wear the hats and the feathers. Therefore it remains for us to guess at the reason of this behavior so strange to us, and we can only Young St. Louis Woman Gets $5,000 Legacy—Attention Given to Old Woman Neighbor. St. Louis.—Little kindnesses which Elina Klein, as a girl of 14, did for her aged neighbor, Mrs. Ellizabeth L. Devinney, caused the young woman, now 20 years old and a stenographer in Muskogee, Okla., to receive a bequest of $5,000 from the Devinney estate. The estate is being settled, and Miss Klein, who is an orphan, received her share a few days ago. She has announced that she intends to invest the money in a home. Six years ago Miss Klein lived in the next house to Mrs. Devinney's residence at Grant and Big Bend roads, near Glendale, St. Louis county, Mrs. Devinney, who was then 22 years old, became very fond of the girl, and the latter showed an unselfish willingness to perform such services as reading to the aged woman and going on errands for her. Mrs. Devinney died nearly two years ago. The girl had in the meantime gone to Oklahoma to make her own living. She was notified, some time after the death of Mrs. Devinney, that she had been remembered in the will, but she did not suppose the remembrance was more than some article of personal property. A few days ago she opened a sec --- Explorers Eat Dead Whale guess that it is the result of a sense of the relative importance of things different from our own. "When a man goes to a lawn tennis tournament he goes to see the play and he assumes that women go for the same reason. Some do of course, but they are not representative of their sex. They are women who have adopted the man's point of view, who are overpowered by the influence of their fathers or husbands or brothers. The woman whose natural instincts have free play does not consider that any game is important. "She is not, as man is, a game playing animal. But since man always will be playing games she has arrived at a kind of compromise with him. She will go to watch his games and profess an interest in them on condition that she may attend to her own business all the while, and her business is to wear a large hat or whatever else it pleases her to wear. "It may seem a frivolous business Explorers Eat Members of Stefansson-Anderson Expedition Suffer Many Hardships In Far North. New York.—Latest reports received by the American Museum of Natural History from the arctic expedition sent out two years ago under Dr. R. M. Anderson and V. Stefansson indl cate that the explorers will be back in New York within a month. The expedition has gathered a mass of valuable information and thousands of specimens to illustrate the manners and customs of the little-known Eskimos of the Mackonzie delta. The scientists, in order to study to best advantage the customs of one of the tribes, literally turned "Kogmollik," or adopted the life of the Kogmollik tribe, living as they do, eating the same uncooked food and in every other way adhering to the Kogmollik customs as far as possible. Their latest report tells how they Aged Repaid and letter from Morris D. Clary, executor of the estate, and was surprised to find a draft for $5,000, with the statement that it was her share of the property. Mrs. Devinney left her $75,000 estate largely to church and charitable objects. Paris.—A most remarkable legal farce has just terminated here. Eleven years ago Mme. Allegre, a widow, died and left $400 to the French Society for the Protection of Animals for the care of her favorite dog and cat. Her heirs contested the will, and after eleven years' legal contest they have at length been defeated—the court deciding in favor of the dog and cat. Neither dog nor cat will, however, benefit, as both have been dead for many years. Court Under Apple Tree Yardley, Pa—Justice of the Peace Robinson of this place tied his horse and milk wagon to an apple tree on the skirts of the borough, and, de- claring court in session, effected a re- conciliation between Mr. and Mrs. John Jones of this place, who were on their way to the office of the squire when they came upon the guardian of the peace serving his milk route. to the earnest lawn tennis player, but then his lawn tennis seems frivolous to her. It is just a peculiarity of his sex to make a fuss about it; she accepts his peculiarities without fretting about them, and expects him to accept hers. "And after all dress to women is something more than a game. It is one of their means of expressing themselves. Fine clothes make them feel happy and as if they were in a glorified state of existence, freed from the wear and tear of its life; in fact as if they were true birds of Paradise, with all the splendor of Paradise in their plumage." There you have it. There is more of it, wherein the editor admits that only Tolstoi and himself have a sufficiently true insight into woman's nature to be able to solve the riddle. But the women have yet to be heard from in their opinion of the Times' resolution. We may be sure they will speak up promptly. It is safe to say the times mall bag is already swelling with feminine remarks on its judgment of feminine character—possibly not all of them in contradiction of its view. passed Thanksgiving day a year ago. They were trekking across the country and had exhausted their supply of food three days before. Starvation seemed facing them when they came across the carcass of a whale on the beach. The whale had been dead about four years, but, says Stefansson in his letters, they were glad to cull over the remains and found the selected portions "delicate and satisfying." They feasted on frozen whale and blubber for 15 days and then resumed their travels. The Stefansson-Anderson expedition differed materially from the usual expedition which is sent into the arctic wilds. Usually such expeditions provide themselves with a complete outfit for avoiding the rigors of the frozen north. But Stefansson and Anderson traveled light. It was planned that, as the main purpose of this expedition was an ethnological one, it would be best to live with the natives in their houses and gather supplies just as they get them. One of the tribes encountered is the island tribe of Nunatata. This tribe has never traded with the white man and little or nothing beyond its name is known to scientists. It is likely that the large collection descriptive of this tribe's mode of life will be added to the museum. THEIR HORSE MEAT IS FRESH Eaters of Equine Flesh Are Carefully Protected in Belgium—Preferred to Beef. Brussels—Upwards of $1,500,000 worth of horse flesh is imported into Belgium from England alone in the course of a single year. All of this comes in on the hoof, for the importation of dead horses is prohibited by law. There was a time some years back when the condition of the horses imported from England aroused comment, but there has been a steady improvement both in the quality of the horses and the treatment, accorded them here. The consumption of horse flesh is of course very large among the poorer classes. It is declared to be beneficial by doctors and is even preferred to beef in some quarters. A great deal of it goes into the manufacture of sausages. It is sold by dealers who are compelled by law to sell nothing else and is under the strictest supervision. THE GAZETTE PUBLISHED EVERY BATURDAY SUBSCRIPTION RATES (In Advance) One Year.....$1.50 Six Months.....1.00 Three Months......50 Subscribers are requested to remit by postoffice money or order or registered letter. Entered at the postoffice in Cleveland Ohio, as second-class matter Address all communications to HARRY C. SMITH Editor and propoerlor, THE GAZETTE, Blackstone Building, Cleveland, O. Member Ohio Legislature: 1894 to 1896; 1896 to 1898; 1900 to 1902 THE GAZETTE is the oldest, and has the largest bona fide circulation, double that of any newspaper in the Interest of Afro-Americans, published in the state of Ohio, and comparison with any will immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWBEST AND BEST in the country. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all! Judge Nathan Goff of the U.S. Circuit Court for Eastern Virginia, has certainly "put a crimp" in Baltimore's recent outrageous segregation, city council legislation, by his decision noted in our "Doings of the Race' department. Good! --- Gov.elect Hiram Johnson of California is right! Commercialism has this country by the throat and is subordinating manhood rights to property and corporate rights. That is one of the things that is slowly killing the republican party. The democratic party has been dead nearly all the time for forty-five years. The "contract-labor laws" of the south make possible peonage (slavery) and an effort is being made in the U. S. Supreme Court to knock out Alabama's "law" of the kind and thus kill those of other southern states. It is to be hoped that the effort of the U. S. Attorney General will be successful. Afro-Americans, and German, Hungarian and Italian immigrants suffer as a result of peonage. A Negro wrongly accused of a crime, suffers just as much humiliation as a white man; says the appellate division of the N. Y. supreme court, which affirmed a $1,000 judgment for George W. Griffin, Pullman porter, against Daniel M. Brady, who accused him of stealing a pocketbook. This same case attracted wide-spread attention some months ago by the ridiculous decision to the contrary of a judge of a lower court who is evidently a prejudiced southerner who had settled years ago in New York and had been elevated to the bench but who had not lost his unreasonable prejudice against the race. --- Joseph P. Elton of Hillsboro, financial officer of the Ohio Soldiers and Sallors Orphans Home, has been appointed superintendent. Mr. Elton last August replaced Capt. E. D. Sawyer, forced to resign largely because of his segregation of Afro-American inmates of the Home. Something never before attempted in the history of the institution, and an insult to every intelligent and loyal Afro-American in the state of Ohio, which amounts to an outrage. Several of the trustees of the Home with one or two of whom we talked or had, correspondence, felt the same way about it. Superintendent Elton's duty in the matter is clear and we sincerely trust that he will be brave, manly and prompt in restoring the old and better condition which existed prior to Supt. Sawyer's, outrageous segregation scheme. When the editor of The Gazette was stumping the state during the last national campaign, warning our people particularly against both Taft and Bryan because they both stood on practically the same platform as far as our people and the south were concerned, we were confronted several times with the statements of traltorous or misguided "Taft" Negro spellbinders who were pleading with Afro-Americans to vote for Taft on the ground that his defeat would mean the appointment of southern democrats and ex-rebels to membership on the U.S. Supreme bench, and as a result, a successful assault for the south on the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the U.S. constitution. Now comes Mr. Taft, as president, and appoints three (out of four recent appointments) of this very kind to the bench and placed him in charge of doing this and other things, to please the democratic south, in many speeches before and after his nomination. So even the dull and servile "Taft" Negro ought to have been able to have "seen it." In time to have assisted in the effort to avert the "impending crises." But they either didn't or wouldn't see. Most likely, the latter. ALL "Fine Touches" That was a fine touch, when in passing the statue of Jefferson Davis, the president raised his hat to the great bronze figure of the matchless leader of a lost cause, not with the show of one trying to ingrate himself with an applauding multitude, but in sincere admiration of the immortals. This little incident, must have reached the heart of the gallant old confederate captain, William Gordon McCabe, who rode with the president on the run to Yellow Tavern where Stuart fell, and fought over the fields once more where men died "facing fearful odds for the sights of their fathers and the temples of their gods."—Richmond (V. Times-Depatch) President Tavern's "new southern policy" (refusal to appoint Afro-Americans to office) and his appointment of southern ex-rebels and democrats to positions on the U. S. Supreme Court bench, in his cabinet and elsewhere are all "fine touches," the result of "sincere admiration" no doubt—from a southern democratic and ex-rebel viewpoint, but not from a loyal republican point of view. And how these "little incidents" must "reach the hearts" of the thousands of loyal-old soldier republicans who still believe they fought on the right side in the war of the rebellion! Afro-Americans are not the only ones who feel, and deeply, too, the outrageous "little incident" and "fine touch" acts these days of President Taft. Thank the Lord! there will come a time of reckoning for him; year after next. There is not much more time to wait, thank goodness. Would that it were next year. A BRUTAL MURDER! Comment on Dr. Booker T. Washing ton's "Doctrine of Surrender"—We Must Resist! Mob Forced Lynching Speech. Newark, O.-Montella Watha, a Haitian Negro, on last test week for alleged complicity in the lynching of Carl E铁ington, a "dry" detective, took the stand December 14 and testified that he was the speaker from the jail steps on the night of the Newark lynching, the growd threatening to throw him in the canal or shoot his head off if he did not comply with their wishes. He was subjected to a severe gruelling by the prosecution and after being on the stand the entire day, gave testimony that he was guilty by the jury on the 17th. Fourteen more are to be tried on the same charge. All are white. Man First Says Gov Johnson New York—"We seem to have gone crazy in this country the last ten years in protecting property and corporations. The individual has been a minus quantity. This is to be changed. Hereafter in California at least the individual is to be considered and not the machine. And California will so lead that all the other states may follow," said Gov. elect Hiram Johnson; California, in New York to see Roosevelt. Stork Visits Family 28 Times. Richmond, ind.—The twenty-eighth child has arrived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jason Bonner (white) at Newcastle, ind. Twenty-one of the children are living. Mr. Bonner is 49 and his wife is four years his junior. There is not a reader of The Gazette, "the old reliable," but who will agree that the "Doings of the Race" department alone, is worth several times the price of the paper. Submit a sample and advise your friend and acquaintances to do likewise. That is the way to help improve the paper as we are always desirous of doing. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1910 FRESH OHIO NEWS OUR OWN WRITERS WHAT OUR PEOPLE ARE DOING IN MANY CITIES AND TOWNS OF THE STATE. INTERESTING PERSONAL NOTES Bocal Functions—Church and Lodge Items—Mariages and Deaths Literary, Musical and Other Notes of Interest. Belfontine—Douglas Robinson assisted in the Christmas exercises at Dayton. Dr. Robinson has gone to Philadelphia to assist at "Mother" Bethel. Mr. and Mrs. Alta Nelson have returned to Springfield. They did good work at Grace church in assisting in the rally. Steubenville—Everybody is looking forward to Christmas and the holiday festivities. The churches have made extensive preparations for their Christmas trees for the children and entertainments for them and the older persons. Next letter will contain the interesting account of the various Xmas doings. Lima. The churches were well attended Sunday and the outlook for the Christmas services, and exercises is good. Patronize The Gazette. It is the only race paper that gives you the Ohio news and all the best race news, the country over, every week. Give the agent your order for it every week. Washington C. H.—The Christmas exercises at the church promises to be the best in years. All are looking forward to them. Our next letter will contain a good account of all the holiday affairs.—There are few social doings this week for reasons obvious.—You will receive your friends to order The Gazette. Cadiz.—Mr. Harry Jackson has returned from Martins Perry.—Mr. Lesley Fields was in town Saturday.—Mr. Wm. Wallace is very ill.—Mrs. Alice Tyler has returned from Kenwood.—Mr. F. West is convalescing.—Mr. J. Tyler dined Master W. White. Sunday.—Miss A. Henford has returned home.—Mr.alph West entered the Greek week and a delightful evening was spent. Sandusky.—Rev. C. A. Carson's son died in Columbus last week.—Mr. N. Williams is at the hospital for an operation.— Mrs. E. Rodgers has secured a divorce. She got the children and the property on Nell St.—Mr. and Mrs. D. Anderson dined Rev. Smith and seated. For Sunday, Rev. Smith and seated in a lavish at Norwalk. Christmas services and trees at both churches. Dayton.—Rev. and Mrs. Primus Alston's postcard shower in honor of their pearl anniversary (wedding) was a splendid success.—Eaker St. and Euclid A. churches are doing nicely under the guidance of Elders Alston and Hogans. Their wives are attending and are helpmates, indeed.—Give the agent your order for The Gazette and keep in touch with the progress of the race. Xenia.—Rev. J. G. Ross will have special services at Zion church, all day Sunday; Mrs. Ethel McGee of Wilberforce will sing.—President Scarborough of Wilberforce is ill.—Some one broke into Jordan Robb's grocery Saturday night.—Mrs. Calvin's prince party for husband's pride party Tuesday evening.—The original Lime Kln club will serve its third annual dinner Tuesday evening and it promises to be a swell affair. Bellare,—Mrs. H. Chambers of Baltimore, visited Mrs. Bennett,—Rev. John Farley of Wheeling, formerly of Toledo, raised $112 at his rally, Sunday—Sherman Morrison will spend the day with the family who has been local agent for The Gazette for the past three months, left Sunday for Columbus, and will locate in Youngstown. His successor is Vaney Murray who wishes all a merry holiday, respectively urges all to take The Gazette the race news and keep up to date. Smithfield.—Rev. and Mrs. S. W. White were tendered a greatly appreciated donation 'Monday evening by the members and friends' of the A. M. E. church. They send their sister-in-law, Mrs. P. W. White, dined at the M. Jordan of N.Y., who is visiting her sister, Mrs. M. Harris, dined with Mrs. E. Powell, Sunday. Several attended the Misses Faithful and Becks' party at Harrisville, Saturday evening.—Mr. C. Christian and brother of Hopedea visited their grandparents on Monday.—J. E. Bigsby, Mr. Joe Beall, Mrs. E. Powell and Mrs. L. Hargrave were in Steubenville last week.—Mr. J. Ford and daughter Myrtle and Mf. J. Davis of that city, were here Sunday. Correspondents must 'mail all letters for publication at their 'main postoffice sufficiently early on Monday (or Sunday) of each week to have them reach The Gazette office on Tuesday morning, and address letters above a certain address that their city or town on the outside of the wrapper about returned copies. Unless 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 by the postmaster. On the line, six words to a line. Our rates for display advertisements will be sent on application. Send postal note and not stamps during warm weather. S. J. Simons, P. S.; Benj. McGee, E. S.; John Richardson, advocate COTTRILL APPOINTED. President Taft to Send Him Out of the Country—Ohio Can Spare Him. Washington, D. C. ---President Taft Staff nominated Charles A. O'brien of Foley to serve as internal regeneral for Hawaii, and thus J. B. rewards him for his work on the stump in Ohio in Taft's interest when the latter was a candidate for the presidency, two years ago last fall. Cottrill held for years, until recent elections, a candidate one of the county offices. Toledo and been active after a fashion for years there in politics—a follower of Walter Brown (white), the Republican boss of Toledo. During the last national campaign Cottrill made several speeches in Ohio and on each occasion he spoke of his role as a vote for William Jennings Bryan, because, if elected president, he would appoint southern Democrats and ex-rebels members of the U. S. supreme court and endanger the 14th and 15th amendments to the U. S. constitution, because he was done in recent weeks. So, now he is rewarding Cottrill for assisting in misleading the few Ohio Afro-Americans who voted for Taft, who, as a matter of fact, as recent events prove beyond all question or doubt, was and is as bad as Bryan if not worse, as far as the Afro-Americans can afford to lose Cottrill and some more of his kind politically. MAKE SOM= MONEY The old reliable Gazette desires an active agent and correspondent in every city and town in Ohio and neighboring states having a number of Afro-American residents. Only a little time on Fridays or Saturdays is required. We are, especially desirous of hearing from persons in the following cities: Zanesville, Newark, Lancaster, Jackson Chillieville, Colton, bane, Troy, Akron, Akron, Piquau, Columbus, Cambridge, Martins Ferry, St. Clairsville, Wilmington, Portsmouth, Canton, Oxford, Sabina, Gallipolis, Dehware, M. Ternon, East Liverpool, Wellsville, Hamilton, Middleport, Lorain, O. and other places where we have none. Write to the editor of The Gazette, Blackstone building, Cleveland, O. and ternus will be sent promptly, sending the address of any good person or persons in any of the cities named above or others, to whom we can write relative to the matter. She Know Her Own Father. There is a dainty five-year-old girl who is the delight of a fashionable apartment hotel in West Philadelphia. Much association with grown people has given her many serious little ways which contrast strongly with her tender years. Of late she has been saving her pennies to buy a birthday present for her father, and as the time draws near she has been much in debt as to what she should get. Recently she was in a street car with her mother when an inspiration came. "I know what I'll buy father for his birthday," she said. All the passengers smiled at her eagerness and listened indulently to hear what she might say. Looking at her mother she said, so audibly as to be embarrassing: "I'll buy him a bottle of beer." First Find of Gold in America. North America has counted as a gold-producing continent only since the late forties. But it might well have done so for nearly two hundred years. According to the history searchers, in the voyage round the world which began in 1719, the privateer, Captain Shelvocke, found in certain California valleys a rich black mold which, as you turn it fresh up to the sun, appears as if intermingled with gold dust." "Though we were a little prejudiced," he adds, "against the thought that it could be possible that this metal should be so promiscuously and universally mingled with common earth, yet we endeavored to cleanse and wash the earth from some of it, and the more we did the more it appeared like gold. In order to be further satisfied I brought away some of it, which we lost in our confusion in China." known as a "donkey" when can be burn by water, steam, electricity or other motive power. The stake, a auto-worthy feature of Jack's invention, consists of a large metal disc that rotates on a shaft and drives a machine proper. Against this this disc are fitted small, flat metal pieces covered with leather. A slight turn of a hand-works the leather faced contrivance, and it closes on the large disk from both sides, getting a vise-like grip. It is something far out of the ordinary for a machine like this, and will soon have an invention that will startle the auto world, too. Hall stood as not unless, as the man stood on an oak. A man will show someone with a swatch of the lips, a roll of the eyes, or, if in no other way, with his hands; but I was just behind him, and not a finger of his bound hands moved. The sheriff was a very tender hearted man and a very perverse one, and the arrogant genius for the execution were awkward. Two sight beams had to be knocked, from under the taped door, so that it would not on the plight nose that had to be cut before the door would fall. As each of these was known and the same was terrible, the poor wrench must have thought that each was the one that way to send him to eternity, but not a muscle moved. All was ready, and last, and the sheriff eried, in loud voice: "May God have mercy on this poor man's soul!" and struck the rope with a combat hatchet. The black-capped apparition shot down and the sheriff run, weeping, out of the door of the box.—From "Blue Grass and Rhododendron" by John Fox, Jr. Whitewater Reld tells a story about two friends of his who removed from New York and purchased a home in a Massachusetts village. One of their first visits was to the cemetery. "We must select a burial lot," the husband remarked. "Life is uncertain, and we had better attend to it at once." The wife agreed, and chose a site on a bill overlooking a beautiful lake. But the husband objected. "No, Ann; it's too much of a bill to climb. Let's look down toward the lake." These less pleased Ann even better than those more elevated. Todd agreed. Todd decided upon one of these: Frederick looked at her in some surprise. "Why, Ann," he replied, "I did think you had better judgment. 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Houston University, W. D.C. Fred C. Payne of Cincinnati stood highest in a recent civil service examination at Columbus for a position in the treasury department at Washington, D.C. Twenty per cent. of the voters of Morristown, N. J., have petitioned the appointment of Oliver Shaw of the American, a chief of police. He is a porter in a drug store and stands high on the civil service eligible list. At Atlantic City, N. J., recently, Jessie Curry secured an interlocutory judgment of $100,000 (damages) against Mrs. Catherine E. Carter (white), a wealthy Philadelphia widow and heiress, on the ground of allenancing the affections of Mrs. Curry's husband. Dispatches to daily newspapers last week Thursday announced that President Taft would not appoint William H. Lewis of Boston U. s. assistant attorney general and that the wishes of General Wikersham in the matter press it was asked just before the election that Lewis would be appointed. A decision of far-reaching importance to property owners who would prevent their property from passing citizens by, in classes of citizens, by inserting a deed preventing such transfer was handed down in the U. S. court circuit for eastern Virginia recently, when Judge Nathan Goff announced a decision declaring such restrictive classes as being illegal. I judge the Dept. of Justice Bois circular appeal to Europe, I was favorably impressed with it, and I said so publicly. It appealed to me because the statements it made were true. I have not changed my opinion. I still believe that the statements are true, and the statements for complaints are just. Bruce-Griff Martinburg W. W. Paucer Press. A Negra was accused of attempting to commit a heinous crime on a white woman. He was apprehended and placed in the custody of the jail in a Georgia town. A mob gathered and threatened to breach the Negra, but the police intervened. The one who approached the jail would be shot. 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Nearly one thousand years ago a Jap, enryty with such knifes and tools as existed at that time, carved a wom as existed from a solid piece of sandalwood four feet long and a foot square. Today that carving stands in the office of Albert Y. Huth, county tax assessor. It belongs to Ernest Fiddle. A history, written in quint Japanese characters, twisted tipped torque in a shout of equally curious rice paper goes with the carving. This shout is still in possession of the parry from when young Jillie bought the antique even if it were in his possession, a linguist, would be needed to translate it. This, however, is going to be done in the near future, when the real history of the old carving will be known. Many have puzzled to say exactly what is sought to be shown. There is a sight of a turbulent sea, with waves mountain high, two big prowed sampans locked together and the crews fighting in grim style. A man is overboard, but the combatants are paying no heed. One sampler is almost, rall deep in the sea, but the sturdy defenders are fighting as though on terra firma. Traditional history says the carving was done in the year 954. During the Boxer uprising, when the strong arm of Britain was needed to subjugate uncontents bent on destruction of life and property, the quiet old relic saved a human life. A British soldier, sent on a mission whose end was death to anyone he found, within a certain house, entered, but found all absent except one. This one he placed on the front of his attention was caught by the old carving. Stopping for a moment to examine it, he was surprised upon turning toward his captive to discover that he had flown. Had the man been taken to headquarters he would have been shot. The soldier confiscated the relic and carried it with him. Later he presented it to a commanding officer and the latter sent it to a friend in the American army at Manila. Then it was finally brought to the United States when the Philippine insurrection was subdued. It went from San Francisco to New York and then drifted south, reaching San Antonio several years ago as the property of an American officer. Recently there was an auction of old things and this went with the balance—San Antonio Light and Gazette. His Peckless Views. "Wrong idea of life, has he?" "Yes. He thinks a five-dollar bill was made to be changed." "Harper's Bazaar." Philosophy. Philosophy is nothing but discretion.—Sodep. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS:—Subscribers not receiving The Gazette regularly should notify us at once. We desire every copy delivered promptly. We advise our patrons to carefully examine The Gazette's advertisements before making purchases: Business men who advertise in this paper should have the patronage of Afro-Americans. The fact that they advertise is assurance that they want it. Local reading notices (advertisements) ten gents a line (six words in a line.) 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Mr James Boone has been appointed night turn-off man in the waterworks office in the City hall, by Leslie C. Smith, superintendent of the water. Miss Addie Hackley is able to attend to her school duties again. Send The Gazette for a year to a friend. It will be a Christmas gift that will be thoroughly appreciated. J. B. Stephens of 3641 Central Av., is quite ill at the City hospital. Miss Cox of Ravenna returned home Wednesday. Miss Ida' M. Brown will spend the holidays in Chicago, visiting her cousin, Mrs. Sadie Closco Bolden. Mr. and Mrs. John G. Larry of Oil City, Pa., have located here and are stopping at 1213 Central Av. J. H. Cisco left Thursday for St. Louis, St. Joe and Kansas City, to be gone until after the holidays. Mrs. William C. Fowler left Monday for her former home, Tifflin, to spend the holidays with relatives. Miss Willa M. Shook will leave the last of this week for Washington, D. C., and the south, where she will visit her sister. Miss Dorothy Chestnut will visit her sister, Mrs. Edward C. Williams and other activities in Washington, D. C. during the holidays. When you want the real thing—a good, clean and wholesome home-cooked dinner, go to Mrs. Anita Lee's restaurant, 3663 Central Ave., corner E. 37th St, about 6 p. m. Mr. L. H. Chesnut and bride of two weeks, nee Mrs. Rosabelle Canneville, are located in their cosy new home on E. 85th St. near Superior Av. Congratulations. If you owe The Gazette call at the office any pay, please, promptly, and don't wait for the collector. It is pleasanter all around. Bass & Travis succeed Harvey Armstrong as proprietors of the cafe at the corner of Central Av. and E. 30th St. Messrs. Armstrong & Dickerson retain the one on the corner of Central Av. and E. 37th St. Wm. B. Direys of 7918 Quincy avenue does all kinds of mans work and plastering, lays cement sidewalls, dips metal curbstones, contracting and jobbing. All work guaranteed. Boll E. 1995-X. J. W. Hair of Jackson, Miss., writes The Gazette that he knows of no one by the name of Anderson. Afro-American attorney, who claimed when here a few weeks ago to have been run out of that city for representing an Afro-American in a peonage case. St. John's Twentyth Century Rally Club will give a novelty reception for New Year's callers 2 to 8. McIntyre No. 2285 E. 71st St. Wm. McIntyre's, No. 2285 E. 71st St. Light refreshments. Leave your calling card and bring a friend. The "old reliable" Gazette is in its twenty-eighth year. Subscribe and tell your friends and acquaintances to do likewise, and keep up to date in a knowledge of the subject. It is a valuable and encouraging. The Gazette acknowledges the receipt of a copy of Prof. Kelly Miller's excellent pamphlet, "The Political Capacity of the Negro" (reprinted from "The Nineteenth Century" of England). Send ten cents for one mime or $1 for two. For more at Howard University, Washington, D.C. Wouldn't you rather live in a nice, cosy, brick cottage containing five nice rooms, including two bed rooms, large cellar, and an attic (the entire length of the cottage) with a good, high ceiling and a good fireplace. Excellent cottage for a small family, or three. Rent, $15 per month, $249. E $2.50 m. Rev. R. W. Bagnall leaves Monday for Detroit, to succeed Rev. George Bundy as rector of St. Mathews' church. A rector for St. Andrew's church has not as yet been decided upon. Bishop Leonard preaches Sunday evening. A reception will be tendered Rev. Bagnall. Wednesday evening. The Orloie theater has done away with its one central isle and has made two side isles. This not only facilitates seating and emptying the theater, but also gives the audience the appearance of being less invovved in these seated. Mr. and Mrs. Harris are certainly alive to the interests of their many patrons. Two pamphlets that ought to be read by all of our people are: "Secondary and Higher Education in the South for Negroes and Whites," by Dr. Horace Bumstead, former president of Atlanta University, and "The Disfranchisement of Negroes," by Rev. John Haynes and ten cents for the National Association for the Advancement of Afro-Americans, 29 Vesey St., N.Y. City. St. John's Choir will render a beautiful Cantata on Christmas evening entitled "The Manger Throne." The piece will describe in detail the time from the Annunciation until the birth of Our Saviour. Mr. Carroll will direct and Mr. Carroll Minter will present it at the organ. The program will start at 7:45. The after collection will go to the choir and should be a good big one. Every line in a newspaper costs the proprietor something. If it is for the benefit of the individual alone, it should be paid for. If the grocery was asked to contribute groceries to one abundantly able to pay for them, he would refuse. The proprietor of a newspaper must pay for the free advertising, if the beneficiary does not; but it is one of the hardest, things to be learned by many that a newspaper has space to rent and must rent to live. To give anything for less than living rates is as fatal to a newspaper as for the landlord to furnish rent free—Ex. Mr. James Boone has been appointed night-turn-off man in the waterworks office in the City hall, by Leslie C. Smith, superintendent of the waterworks department. Smith is the man who refused to permit Dan Fairax to take the clerkship in the waterworks department, appointed last January. It is said, No Afro-American has been permitted to hold a clerkship in that office or will be, so report has it. Certainly none are in the City hall or elsewhere under the Bachr-Masche administration. The Cleveland baseball club is to have a new trainer next season—Doe, the city of Nashville, Tenn., who has been appointed manager of Bill Bernhard, manager of the Memphis club. Bernhard became acquainted with White when the latter was trainer of the Nashville A. C. and Bernhard was manager of the Nashville baseball club. White, like "Doc" Payne, who was trainer of the local ball club season before last and seventh season, is an African American. Payne committed suicide here some months ago. Mary V. Fletcher, and Edward Franklin Coleman were married last Thursday evening at the bride's sister, Mrs. Terenice E. Blair's, No. 210 E. St. by the sea; she were beautifully decorated, and the bride and ladies in attendance were elegant gowns. Miss Idla Morgan of Columbus presided at the piano, and a number of ladies assisted in welcoming the guests. Mr. Blair was with the bride and Mrs. Blair and are at home to their many friends. Rev. R. C. Ransom, a former pastor of St. John's church, now located in New York City, wired Mr. Walter B. Wright on Wednesday of the death that day in that city of Mr. John P. Lightfoot. Pneumonia. The deceased was for many years a resident of this city and was one of the original published books. The author president of the community. He visited Cleveland last summer, the guest of Mr. Wright, and until a few days prior to his death enjoyed the best of health. Mr. Lightfoot was very popular and had hosts of friends throughout the country, having traveled extensively as a result of his employment with some of the leading rail road men. For years he had held a responsible position with one of the largest railway companies in N. Y. City. We are unable to learn-before going to press whether the remains will be interred here or there. His wife and two daughters died years ago. "St. John's church was well filled Sunday evening to hear the address of the editor of The Gazette on "The Moral and Social Uplift of Our People of this Community." Dr. Bundy introduced the speaker and at the conclusion of a large audience came forward to the altar to congratulate him, many, including the pastor, asking him to come again, soon."—The Gazette, Dec. 17. Somewhere it is written that "self praise is half scandal." Perhaps not. Be your own judge on the above. The Tp. isn't this an annoying comment? The Tp. of "very 'sour grapes?' There was no "self-praise" in The Gazette's local given above. Nothing but a brief and very plain statement of facts, to which Dr. Bundy and about every other person in the congregation, that evening, will willingly bear testimony. Jy all means, dear readers, that I am proud to say, "On" is good, very good! Lay on; go of the Alabaster brow (nlt), etc. From Haydn to Brahms is the gist of the Sunday afternoon concerts which have been planned by the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra. These will be given in Grays' Armory and will begin Jan. S. The idea is a new one and will prove of exceptional educational value. The orchestra will form the prominent part of the program. From the first concert at which a symphonic work of Haydn will be presented, the last at which Brahm's work will be the feature, the hearer will be carried through the various symphonic periods which have played important roles in the development of their of musical writing. Only the best known and most interesting of the works of the various composers will receive presentation. All of the features which have made the Symphony concerts popular have been retained. The best of local talent has been engaged, the orchestra has been under way until the committee has decided upon a definite plan to be carried through the entire series the prospects are most pleasing. While the music presented will be much the same as in past seasons the educational feature will be one that should receive attention from every lover of music. The seat sale opens January 15. The educational institution should be communicated with when the same seats are desired through the series. Alfred L. Davies, white, 6712 Dunham Ave. N. E., bondman for Appio Johnson, under arrest for foraging a city pay owl receipt, was himself arrested for embezzling $87.27 from the Arustine Bros. Co., Jewelers, at 553 Rose build- THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1910 ing. Davis was released on bail and had a preliminary hearing Tuesday morning. The case was to be settled, it was understood. Tuesday, Davis' rest brought out the fact that he has not one cent of property. When asked as to this and his signing a bail bond for Johnson, Davis said: "I gave a personal bond for $500." Johnson and his wife are now living at the Davis home on Dunham Ave. Davis was formerly secretary of the Aristine Bros. Co. While acting in this role, Davis was also secretary, Johnson, after leaving the employ of the jewelry firm, entered the employ of the city in the street cleaning department. Davis' arrest, disclosing as it does the fact that Davis merely signed a personal bond for Johnson, was the chief development Monday in connection with the case against the three men charged with unleashing the city by means of padded pay rolls. Johnson equate to Cleveland shortly after his marriage to Miss Jennie share of this city, years ago. He has relatives in that city and Willem Johnson in that city, and our best public school teachers and is a daughter of Mr. Parker Harfe, a retired ten pension) policeman. She has also taught at the Woodland Ave Jewish, Orphan Asylum. W. Appo Johnson, a bookkeeper, in the city employ eleven months, charged with forging the name of W. A. Johnson to street cleaning department pay roll and obtaining $23 on Oct. 17. A Republican ward worker. He is married and lives in the Gary apartments, Hough Av. N. E. and E. 66th St. in Chicago, and a.m. and bailed out by Alfred L. Davis, 6112 Dunham Av. N. E. at 5 a.m. Wallace Stokes, a member of Co. B. 9th battalion, employed in city harshey six years. Charged with forging the name of Fred Tomko to street cleaning department pay roll receipt and obtaining $33 on Sept. 21. Lives with his parents at 2391 E. 360 St. He was arrested by LoGrand French, 6723 Quinby Av. N. E. at 1 p.m. Wallace confesses that he did sign the fictitious voucher by which it is alleged that $33 were paid to him, but he professes that he did it at the request of Appo Johnson and turned the money over to Johnson directly after receiving it. He further claims that he drew the money, but in signing the name of Fred Tomko he did not receive any jurisdiction show who had received the money. He says that he then took the money to Johnson and never converted a cent of it to his own use. The two juniors of the Central market house, one of them being John Clifford, are being investigated for charges made for service to workers and others selling outside the market on the curb and sidewalks. He is also accused for their action. Monday evening's press said: "Johnson confessed to Supt. Mundinger of the street cleaning department to getting $214.75, and gave a check for $200, signed by his wife, to Mundinger. STENOGRAPHERS IN OLD ROME Even Poets Had Them in the Early Days, but They Were Slaves. Most of us are accustomed to think of the stenographer as a product of very modern conditions. As a matter of fact, however, the profession was followed as long ago as the days of the Roman empire. Poets, who are laughed at nowadays for having private stenographers, had them in the fourth century of our era, and Professor Cole of Columbia university, in a paper on "Later Roman Education," now translates into English for the first time the very complimentary address of the poet Ausonius to his stenographic assistant. Many a modern business man might say the same thing, although in less poetic diction. "Slave," says Ausonius, "skilful master of swift notes, come hither. Open the double page of thy tablets, where a great number of words, each expressed by different points, is written like a single word. I go through great volumes; and like dense hall the words are hurled from my noisy lips, but thine cars are not troubled, nor is thy page filled. Thy mind, scarcely moving, files over the surface of the wax. "I wish my mind had as swift a flight as thy right hand when it anticipates my words. Who, pray, has betrayed me? Who has teased you what I was just meditating about saying? 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It is estimated that this newest addition to New York great skyscrapers will cost $5,000,000. From the sidewalk to the top of the tower there will be 45 stories; the total height being 625 feet, exceeding the height of the Singer tower, just five blocks below, by 12 feet. Only one building in New York will be higher, the Metropolitan, whose tower rises 700 feet and 3 inches above the street level. The only other loftier structure in the world is the Eiffel tower, 953 feet, making the Woolworth building the third highest café in the world and the second highest in America. The frontage of the building on Broadway will be 105 feet and on Park Place 197 feet. The main building will rise to a height of 26 stories. The tower beginning at this point will contain 19 stories. The tower at the pinnacle will be 66 feet square, larger in dimensions by about 20 feet than the Singer tower. Below the street there will be three stories. Counting these, the building will actually have WOOLWORTH BUILDING 45 STORIES GOSFET HIGH The Woolworth Building. 48 stories. The cost of the site was $2,000,000, so the total investment will be $7,000,000. It is expected that the Woolworth building will be completed by January 1, 1912. AWFUL RECORD OF MURDER Estimated That We Now Have an Average of 200 a. Week in This Country. Chicago.—A well-known statistician makes the statement that we now have an average of 200 murders a week, or 10,000 every year, in this country. In Chicago there are 118 murders a year; in Paris, 15; in London, four times as large as Chicago, 20; while in three years the number of lives taken in this way in this country equals the total number lost by the British army in the Boer war. The number of murders in the United States has increased four and half-times in the last 20 years. The murder spots of the world seem to be Italy and Mexico. The number per year in Italy is 96 to the 100,000 Much of this killing comes from our polygot population, gathered from all the countries of the world, jostling and crowding each other; the loose habits which people take on, and the natural passions that, in a moment of excitement, give rise to the taking of life. To kill and malm seems to be an American ambition. The railroads of the country are killing 10,000 people a year on the average. The steel mills in many places have been great slaughter houses. The autos, too, are piling up their lists of victims, the sports are adding theirs, and other factors are entering in to swell the total. Malice and passion are the causes of crime and these ought to be curbed. Only two per cent. of the homosexuals in the country are brought to punishment, and the reasons are aversion to capital punishment and the miscarriage of justice. Capital punishment is necessary, however, as a deterrent. Where it has been abolished murder is on the increase. Going Up. Peninsula, Fl.—The tallest tree in the world so far as has been accepted is an Australian gum tree of the species eucalyptus regnans, which stands in the Cape Otway range. It is no less than 415 feet high. Gum trees grow very fast. There is one in Florida which shot up 40 feet in four years, and another in Guatemala which grew 120 feet in 12 years. This corresponds to a rise of 10. feet in a year, or nearly one foot a month. THE GAZETTE. CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1910. THROTTLES PROGRESS UNIFORMITY OF TEXT BOOKS' OPPOSED BY EDUCATORS. Fixed Standards and Prices Mean Lock-Step—Farmers Do Not Want Cheap School System. Marlon, Ind.—The important subject of uniform school text books is discussed in the current issue of The Teachers' Journal, one of the leading educational publications of the country. The paper takes an emphatic stand against uniformity on the ground that fixed standards and prices stand in the way of educational progress. The Teachers' Journal says: "The trend in educational thought today is away from fixed courses of study and rigid classification and toward greater freedom in everything that has to do with the development of the individuality of the child. For years, an immense amount of energy was expended in working out a system and perfecting machinery by means of which the child was fitted to the system—the lock step method. "During the reign of the idea that all children in Indiana ought to be doing the same thing at the same time in the same way, the uniform text book idea sprang up. How could all the children in Indiana of the same age be reciting the same thing at the same time in the same way unless they had the same books, hence uniformity. But, since we have awakened to the fact that the development of the child is the central purpose in education and not the maintenance of a particular system, a good deal of the elaborate machinery of former systems has been relegated to the scrap heap—the one prominent reticent remaining being the uniform text book. It is true that no city that pretends to be progressive in its work has much to do with the adopted books. They are purchased to satisfy the letter of the law, but not used to any great extent. "Cities escape by using supplementary books, those that are modern and up to date, the best in the market, those adapted to the needs of the child and adjusted to the kinds of work done in the schools. But in the country and smaller towns teachers and children are held to the adopted books, though some of them have been in the schools for almost a quarter of a century and others are in need and not adapted to our present needs." Farmers Not Cheap. "The Teachers' Journal points out that economy was the argument for uniformity, and adds: "But is the farmer clamoring for the cheap for his child? Not at all. He is not objecting to the concentration of schools, and yet that costs four dollars per year for each pupil more than under the old plan. A large per cent of the students in Normal schools are farmers. The farmers about cities are willing to pay the extra tuition that their children may receive, and the teachers' schools where they use the books that best suit their needs. Many farmers move to town to secure better educational advantages for their children, though the tax rate is twice as high as it is in the country. So the economy theory is without foundation. "Quite a bit has been said about 'personal liberty', the right of the individual to eat what he wants, drink what he wants and as much he wants, no matter what. We have had it proclaimed from the housetops that we should have government by the people, the unit being small, the township or the ward. "If the principle of local self government is so sacred that it must be safeguarded though it results in the establishment and maintenance of saloons in every city and town in the state, why is it not just and right that city schools should right to choose its own text books and attend its own local educational affairs? Why 'personal liberty' and the 'small unit' in the establishment of crime centers, and the 'state wide' idea on matters that pertain to education and the enlightenment of the people? "When the law requiring uniformity was passed there was some cause for it. But conditions that may have, in a small measure, justified such a law, no longer exist. There is keen competition among the book companies, enough to keep the price of good books as a reasonable rate. Under such conditions have had some good books and a good many inferior ones; and that is the condition now." "The absurdity of making a fixed price on an article, every element of which changes in value according to the law of supply and demand, is clear to any one who cares to give the matter any attention. Why not fix the price of bacon when hogs are low and use it to regulate the registration with hogs double in price." "Within the past few years, the county superintendents have petitioned for a change in the law and the city superintendents have recently expressed themselves as against certain changes in books made possible under the law. These men are in touch with these books and know their needs. The uniform law, with fixed price on books, stands in the way of educational progress." Cure for Scratches. Scratches are caused by exposure to cold and wet, local irritation or low condition, all of which should be avoided if possible. In simple cases apply cloth wet with a weak solution of sugar of lead and in winter cover to keep out cold. When cracks have appeared, apply a similar lotion with the addition of a few drops of carbolic acid. In case of discharge or pustules, make a lotion of chloride of zinc instead of the lead; finally powdered charcoal may be sprinkled over the cloths. Spiteful Thing. Patience—Do you remember my sis tar who was on the stage? Patrice—Oh, yes. Patience—Well, she's married. "Oh, got a speaking part at last, has she—Yokera Stateman." "This necklace, madam," said the man newly promoted to the curio department, "was originally made for the Duke of Buckingham, who gave it to Anne of Austria. We're giving a lot of them"—Everybody's. and save her or perish in the attempt. Such a heroic remark as that would-of course lead into a more passionate avowal, of his reasons for being willing to lay down his young life for her—and then, of course, he could easily skip right along to a request that, since he was willing to die for her, she might consider favorably a proposition to share his life with him, or words to that effect. But when she asked him, with a tremulous shake in her lovely voice, and with a world of faith and trust in her lustrous eyes: "What would you do if the boat capsized?" He never even stopped rowing. He just said: "It wouldn't matter much. The water writter over three feet does." tert isn't over three feet deep here." Prudence almost capsized the boat from sheer vexation then. When a woman becomes vexed with a man because he does not realize that he loves, her, you may go out and stake all your worldly possessions that sooner or later she will bring that man to his knees, or her foot, as you like to put it. Let us pass lightly over the glorious days of fall, when Prudence allowed Alfred to call several times and find her in the kitchen with an apron on helping her mother put up jellies and preserves and things. Let us oven pass lightly over the evening when she showed him the blister upon her, fair white hand made by a sputtering drop of apple butter. Yes, pass lightly over it. Any sane man, any man in possession of ordinary faculties, when a beautiful young creature held out a little white hand and showed him a blister thereon—not a big blister, just a sort of a beauty spot of a blister—would have taken that hand in his and all but wept over it. He would have asked her to give that hand to him and to come along with it herself, and would have sworn by high heaven and the marching stars and the sun and moon and sky that never again should that wonderful hand know the wearying stress of tell. What did Alfred do? He looked at the biller appraisingly—without taking those taper fingers in his—and he said: "Stick a needle under it from one side and let the water out, then put r The Inference. "Mamma," said the little girl in the poor family, "this dollie Santa Claus left for me has but one leg." "And, mamma," said the little boy, the bobby horse. Santa Claus gave LIVED TO SEE HIS IDEA GO Octave Chanute, Father of Aviation, Who Died in Chicago, Invented the Glider Years Ago. "Chicago—In the recent death of Octave Chanute, Chicago mourns the loss of the first heavier-than-air bird- man, known as the "Father of Aviation." Chanute perfected and flew in a gilder, which was practically the same machine as the present biplane without an engine. Chanute is cred- ided with being the originator of the OCTAVI CHANUTE heavier-than-air craft, which have now brought fame to scores of birdmen. Chanute was a native of France. In 1882, as vice-president of the American Association of Engineers in convention in St. Louis, he suggested that the development of the gasoline engine, which had then just been discovered, would make it possible for man to fly. Fellow engineers told him it was undignified and unprofessional for an officer of an engineers' association to take such a prediction. But he lived to see his prophecy fulfilled when he sat in his garden outside of Paris and the Frenchmen flew over his head to do him honor. Chanute was born in Paris, February 18, 1832, and came to America with his parents in 1832. He was a civil engineer on many railways, and had been an officer or honorary member of the British Institute of Civil Engineers, Canadian Society of Civil Engineers, American Society of Civil Engineers and Western Society of Civil Engineers. He was the author of many engineering papers. He made public his ideas on the conquest of the air in a volume published in 1894, entitled "Progress in Flying Machines." Chanute offered the Wrights financial assistance when they were making their experiments, but they declined it. It was at his suggestion in 1903 that they had their flying machines patented. The Wrights have made public acknowledgment of their indebtedness to Chanute for ideas plans and valuable suggestions. The flying machines of today are merely variations of the Chanute machine with power applied, but he was the first to suggest the application of power to the flying machine, although he did not do it himself. He made 2,000 flights in his gliders before the Wrights or any of the other heroes of the air began their power-machine experiments and escape without a serious injury. THE FIRST SEWING MACHINE One Pictured Here Waa Constructed During First Half of the Last Century. London.—The oldest original sewing machine we have is shown below. It is, as will be noticed, very roughly constructed, and was made during the first half of the last century by Charles Kyte, a native of Snowshill, near Evesham. It is built on a four-legged wood- A The First Sewing Machine. en stool, which supports the table on which the machine is carried. This curious and clumsy-looking forerunner of the delicate machine of the present day is now the property of the South Kensington museum. A King's Hobby. London.—The late King of Siam had an extraordinary hobby—that of collecting empty match boxes of all nations. In this connection an interesting story is related. During one of his visits to London the King while passing down Bond street one afternoon accompanied by two members of his suite esplied an empty match box which had been discarded by its owner and thrown away into the middle of the thoroughfare. Without a moment's thought the monarch dosed into the middle of the crowded traffic, grasped the much coveted treasure and was nearly run over by a passing cab. The fact, however, that he was able to add a new specimen to his collection—gathered under such circumstances—more than compensated him for the risk which he had run. The Substitute Mistletoe by Wilbur D. Nesbit ? there is anything in the world more aggravating to a young woman than a young man who will not, or cannot, see that she favors him and that he favors it, has not yet been listed. If there is anything in the world more aggravating to a young woman than a young man who will not, or cannot, see that she favors him above all the rest, it has not yet been listed. Prudence Milton as much as a year ago discovered that Alfred Ruthen possessed all the qualities that go to make a man noble and splendid and brave—no, not brave! A brave man would have proposed to Prudence long since. But Alfred, Prudence knew, was handsome and intelligent, and prosperous. Just one thing he lacked—self-confidence. Alfred was bashful on the love subject. Why, Prudence had inveigled Alfred into long walks with her in the silvery moonlight of spring and the golden moonlight of summer, all to no avail. Once in August, she was boating with him, and she had pretended to be afraid the boat would capsize. "What would you do if it did?" she asked blim. Naturally she expected him to reply that he would plunge in after her A woman in a dress is stirring a bowl of flour. "In the Kitchen With an Apron On, Helping Her Mother Put Up Jellies and Preserves and Things." "In the Kitchen With an Apron On, Helping Her Mother Put Up Jellies and Preserves and Things." Pots-Hereth bwr D·Mesbit Alfred Polls-Herewe By William D. Mesbit 'Cause all our pas an' mas they said Of Santa Claus can always tell What boy has mischief in his head, Why, Alfred Potts he say to us: "It's nothin' but a lot o' fuss! Don't you builieve your pas and mas— There never was no Santa Claus!" An'nen we tell him 'tisn' so, 'At we heard Santa come last year An'see his sleigh tracks in th' snow— An'he has sleigh bells, 'cause we hear. An'where th' chimbley is we see Th' soot all scrapel off in th' back An'at shows where o' Santa, he Conied down th' chimbley with his pack. But Alfred Potts, he sniff, like this, An'say: "You don't b now what you miss By not a bein' bad, buncause There never was no Santa Claus!" Nen me an' Willie Smith an' all Th' other boys, an' Spot McKay, P'tend we hear somebody call Us to come home, an' slip away An' we won't play with Alfred Potts Bubcause we know 'at he is bad When we think of th' lots an' lots Of Christmases 'at he have had. I tell my pa what Alfred said An' he laugh some an' shake his head An' say 'at Alfred's chance is slim, 'Cause Santa won't bulldieve in him! --- Little peroxide on it tomorrow." three perceptions of it simultaneously. Shades of Romeo! *Memories of Dante and Beatrice!* Was it an wonder that Prudence brought her pretty lips together in a straight line and registered a mental vow that Alfred should rue this speech some day! Let us now pass lightly on again. Come we now to Christmas eve. Prudence had, by ways and means familiar to the female mind, conveyed to the bashful Alfred the intelligence that she had made for him a Christmas as remembrance. Never mind how she did this. You, if you are a man grown, will be able to bark back into your own past and bring up some instances of woman's diplomacy where she was able to tell you: something without saying anything in particular, just give your intuition a chance. Knowing this, Alice knew that it was his bounded a duty to reciprocate and to reciprocate in advance. Always, always, a man must reciprocate in advance to a lady. So Alfred might have been seen stepping hesitantly up the steps of the Milton home on Christmas eve. He carried a small package in one hand. It was his intention to deliver this to who ever came to the door, with a message that it was for Prudence. In answer to his ring no less a person than Prudence herself opened the door. Her eyes were sparkling, her cheeks were rosy, and in one hand she held a bunch of green stuff. "Why, Alfred?" she exclaimed. "Come right in. I'm putting up the Christmas greens." So Alfred came right in, shyly and shyly depositing the little package in a small table in the hall as he entered. Prudence led the way to the living room, which was empty of other people, fortunately, at that moment. "Won't you help me?" she asked. "I think it is such fun to decorate the house with the holly and stuff for the holidays. Now I've just been trying to tle this bunch to the chandelier." She mounted a chair and affixed the bunch of green sprays to the chandelier. Alfred stood in dumb admiration. He looked at Prudence, and he looked at the green herbage which she fastened to the fixture. She looked down at him, smiling, then put out her hand. "Help me down," she said. Alfred caught her hand to assist her to come from the chair. "Heroes are made in a moment. No A me has but one ear and three legs and no tail." "Yes, children," explained the mother, trying to smooth things over, "Maybe Santa took those parts of the toys to pay him for the trouble of coming away down hero to leave the presents for you." "Mamma," asked the little boy, in awed tones, "do you suppose Santa Claus has become president of some insurance company?" WHAT CHRISTMAS MEANS Christmas is far other and more than a vision, a poetic rendering of the facts of life; it is an event set deep not only in the history of men, but in their faith, their worship and their way of life. They have never risen to its level; they have never, by united effort, given its spirit the tremendous effectiveness of concerted action; but, even in their infirmity of intention and their feebleness of practise Christmas has given their life on earth a diviner meaning and a kinder habit. It has enormously in- maa knows in what faintest his soul may fame within him so that he will do and dare as he never dreamed of doing or daring. The philosophers call such times psychological moments. This was one. Alfred helped Prudence down, and it was quite natural and easy for her to find herself in his arms when she reached the floor. And then before she knew what he was about at least, so she said he had kissed her. "Mister Ruthven," she exclaimed. "How dare you." "I I you know—the mistletoe" he stunned, disengaging one arm and pointing to the decoration above her head. "I found that," she said, demurely. And then Alfred found tongue at THE "That Is, She Allowed Him to Put the Kiss Back Where He Got It." last and told her what she had wanted him to tell her all the year. And he asked her to be his Christmas gift, and she consented in what is so often called the time-honored way. That is, she allowed him to put the kiss back where he got it. Later that evening Alfred said to him, "Do you know, I don't believe I ever would have had the courage to propose to you if it hadn't been for that mistletoe." "That mistletoe?" who laughed. "Alfred, that mistletoe is smilax. I don't believe it would have worked at all if it had been real mistletoe." (copyright, 1909 W. W. Needle.) OLAY when me an' Willie Smith An' Alfred Potts an' Spot McKay An' some more boys we' playin' with creased the value of that life; it is increasingly enriching the spiritual content of the thought of life in the minds of men; it is giving it a sweeter savor, a softer grace; a warmer atmosphere as men more and more interpret life in the light which streams from Bethlehem. Splite. "Miss Putty is going to sing some of the old Christmas watts," says the man in the background. "You know the watts are the songs that were so popular many years ago." "Is she?" asks the woman in the background, who does not like the attention Miss Putty is receiving. "I see she is going to refer to the printed songs, too. I should think she could sing them from memory." "So Wooster discussed the tariff bill in his remarks last night?" asks the man with the serrated eyebrows. "Did he say much?" "No," explains the man with the disconnected whiskers, "but he talked a great deal." Practical Fashions 5223 This waist offers a compromise between the plain shirt waist and the dressy waist. It is cut on shirt waist lines, inasmuch as it has the sliding in trend in shirt style, beneath a band and the neck finished with a band for collar or stock. At each shoulder are two tucks, one near the neck, turning forward and one near the arm turning outward. The effect is that of a very broad plait put on as a trimming. Just across the bust there is an ornamental strap, which gives a further touch of fancy. The back of the waist is altogether plain, and the sleeve is in the regulation shirt style ending in a cuff. Not only wash materials, but satin, silk, crepe, and many woolens of lighter weight are appropriate for development by this design. The pattern (5233) is cut in sizes 32 to 42 inches best measure. Medium size requires 34 yards of 27 inch material or 17.5 yards 41 inch. To procure this pattern send 10 cents to "Pattern Department" of this paper. Write name and address plaintly, and be sure to give size and number of pattern. NO. 5233. SIZE..... NAME..... TOWN..... STREET AND NO..... STATE.... CHILD'S DRESS 5289 This pretty little frock has tucks at the shoulders of the wrist in both front and back and at the neck, which is cut round, there is a little yoke outlined by a frill. The sleeves are of the leg o' mutton variety and may extend to the wrist or be cut off below the elbow as shown in the illustration. The skirt has a small panel, in front of which the balance of the skirt continues in plaits to the center of the back. A plain serge, trimmed with plaid or striped silk would make a very useful frock, or a bright plaid might be trimmed with a plain silk. The pattern (5289) is cut in sizes 4 to 12 years. Mediumf size requires 2½ yards of 44-inch material, with 5¼ of a yard of 24 inch contrasting goods to trim. To prepare this pattern send 12 cents to "Eastern Department," of this paper. Write name and address plainly, and be sure to give size and number of pattern. NO. 5289. SIZE..... NAME..... TOWN..... STREET AND NO..... STATE.... Maxims for Golfers. Don't say to your opponent on the first tee: "I am afraid I shouldn't be able to give you a game," or "I am so frightened of playing a great swill like you." This kind of modesty, however genuine, imposes upon nobody. Don't decline to take your proper allowance of strokes; it's not fair on your adversary, who will get no pleasure or glory out of beating you, as he probably will do; whereas you will be able boast abominably of a chance victory over him. If you have a particularly cantankerous, member of your club put him instantly upon your committee. He will probably be flattered, fall into the trap and be muzzled for ever more.—Fry's Magazine. Exception to the Rule "You can prove almost anything by statistics," remarked the moralist. He redefined the democratizer "with the exception of the truth of the figures." A. Recommendation. "Typewriters ought to have no dif- nality in getting jobs." "Of course not, when they have their business at their fingers" ends."