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IN UNION THERE IS STRONGER TWENTY-EIGHT TWENTY-EIGHTH YEAR. NO. 34. The Hair Band X A BAND for the hair every hour of the twenty-four is the latest fad to which milady is devoting herself heart and mind. Apparently we have just discovered the neatness and beauty of bands for the hair, which should have been brought home to our intelligence long ago. For wear in the daytime, the plain band, of black velvet or other ribbon, harmonizes with hair of every color, and lends a sparkle to gray hair which is particularly beautiful. Manufacturers are making bands of many varieties to harmonize with most of the shades of hair, of which there are innumerable gradations. These bands are for daytime wear, all about two and a half inches wide. They are finished with a flat bow and fasten with hooks and eyes. For evening, wide lustrous ribbon, tulle net and spangled fabrics are used. The rosette is fastened just above the tip of the ear. Velvet ribbons in vivid shades of green—in coral and cerise, as well as black, are used with ornaments of rhinestone. Even at night, wide soft ribbons are worn when the hair is put in rollers or on pins, to conceal them and render the head slightly. The back hair, braided in two loose braids, is tied at the end. with a yard length of wide, soft ribbon. The braids are brought about the head with one length of the ribbon. The other ribbon is tied in a small bow a little to one side of the center of the brow. The band in the Idea That Makes for Comfort and Adds to Appearance of Room. Brass beds look charming and at attractive and often brighten an otherwise dark bedroom, but many people complain that they are far colder than an ordinary wooden bed that has a high head and footboard to protect them from drafts. To overcome this objection a clever woman devised a scheme which not only corrected this defect, but also added a decorative note to the room. The hangings and window seat were made of gray chintz, having garlands of pink roses scattered over the surface. She bought more of this material and made covers that slipped easily over the brass rods at the head and foot of the bed. These were finished at the bottom with dainty frills of the material. A frill was also fastened around the mattress, which showed beneath the bedspread. The covers were found not only to add much to the physical comfort, but were also useful in protecting the brass from the usual dents and scratches that are apt to come with the daily wear and tear of a much used room. They were made to be removed easily if required for special occasions. NIGHTDRESS. This dainty nightdress might be made in nailscook or fine Indian calico; the fullness at neck is drawn up and set to a narrow band of beading edged with lace; ribbon is threaded through and tied in front. An insertion band is taken round below bust and ended off in points each side. The pulled sleeves are drawn in with insertion bands and finished with lace-edged frills. Materials required: 4½ yarda 36 inches wide, 1 yard insertion, 1¼ yard beading, 1½ yard wide, 1½ yard narrow lace. THE GAZETTE J hair, finished with bow or rosette, is universally becoming. From babyhood to old age the ribbon in the hair is a feminine privilege of which we should make the most. It is not a matter of fashion, but a permanent institution. The adjustment, the width of ribbons and styles in the hands may vary, but the band, like the hair, is always correct. It is a finish to the collure, useful and beautiful. New Undergarments That Can Be Laundered Quickly and Easily Anywhere. When you see some of the soft, clingy, and entirely adorable crepe lingerie which is shown in the French shops now you will simply throw discretion to the winds, take out the bill you were fondly cherishing for something or other and have the temptress—who in this case is the little sales lady with the queer accent—wrap up your pet piece. Then you'll hurry home to "try it on," revel in the possession of it and linger over the luxury of its dainty laces and fascinating ribbon bows. And really you won't be so indiscreet after all, especially if you are a girl without the privilege of a home, because the crepe lingerie doesn't require a laudress to be made fresh and clean. Usually it is combined with real torchon or Irish crochet, both of which can be pulled into shape without the aid of an iron. Many a girl who travels has found it impossible to gratify her longing for dainty underwear because of the uncertainties of laudering. After having it returned a few times torn and spoiled, she has settled down to plain garments devoid of any of the irresistible little feminine touches. For her the silk crepe idea will be a positive joy, for she can retire to her hotel bathroom and, with the assistance of a cake of good, pure soap, may restore her lingerie to its pristine glory and loveliness. The new garments come in every weight from the heaviest silk crepe to the filmselts crepe de chine, built into nightgowns, chemise, corset covers, combinations and patticoats. They are shown in white and colors and many are elaborately embroidered in self-tone silk. Another idea for the traveler or the girl away from home is the Italian silk undergarment. It is most familiar as an undervest, but so popular and practical has it proven that it has been extended to cover the entire lingerie wardrobe.—Washington Star. How to Choose a Teapot. The real secret in choosing a teapot, be it made of silver, crown derby or even the humble but useful brown "mug," is this: Never buy a teapot with the root of the spout low down in the body of the pot. Let the spout be set high in the body, then you can fill the pot well up, without the tea dribbling over, as it never fails to do when having a lowbuilt spout close to the teapot's foundation. Far too many fancy articles are made and sold more fit to stand among chimney piece ornaments than to brew and pour that welcome beverage which cheers, but does not inebriate. Smocking on Girls' Dresses Smocking is being done generously on the frocks of little children, the pink and blue threads on white are lovely. One wonders why they have been so slow getting here. One smocked in yoke in points is scalloped in the neck and finished with baby Armenian lace. JULIA BOTTOMLEY. ESTABLISHED AUGUST 25, 1883 AND ISSUED EVERY WEEK ON TIME SINCE. No Knot Holes Stone walls do not a prison make, Such is the poet's claim, And I, for one, saall never take Exception to the same. They may not make a prison, but This much I bid you mark: Stone walls are awful things to put Around a baseball park. Washington Herald Just the Same. "Yes, we all get the benefits of mountain climbing here," says the man with the fringed whiskers. "Mountain climbing?" asks the man who has just arrived. "Why, there isn't a hill ten feet high within twenty miles." "I know; but we sleep on the fifth floor and there is no elevator."— Judge. Restraint. "So you think a woman has a sense of humor." "Yes," replied Miss Cayenne. "But she has schooled herself to suppress it. Common politeness forbids a woman to laugh every time her husband says or does something ridiculous."—Washington Star. Metaphorically Speaking. "What do you think of these new palaces I have been rearing!" asked Mr. Dustin Stax. "Magnificent." replied the cynic. "Magnificent," replied the cynic. "Yet," he proceeded, with a visible effort to be modest, "this early pump reminds me that all the world is a stage." "Right. And the modern tendency is to make up with fine scenery for bad acting." A Suspicion. "So you lost your watch. Did you report it to the detectives?" asks the friend. "Yes. Just came from headquarters," answers the man. "Got any suspicions as to who took it?" "I didn't have until after the sergeant got through questioning me about it. Now I suspect myself of stealing it."—Chicago Post Full House—Thiplets and twins. Bluff—A clerk at a summer resort. Two of a Kind—Old maid and a stepmother. Queen of Hearts—A girl wearing an ace of diamonds. Royal Fluch—The titled husband of an American heress. Good Hand to Draw To—That of a wealthy and pretty young woman—Judge's Liberary. Had Yachts of Their Own. McCarthy was boasting of the prominence of his family in bygone ages. "But there were no McCarthy's in Noah's Ark," said O'Brien. "No," said McCarthy, "our family was very exclusive in those days and had yachts of their own."—National. Observation "Don't you think a man ought to admit it when he is wrong?" admit it when he is wrong: "As a matter of theory," replied Senator Sorghum, "I do. But I've observed at basebald contests that the public would rather see the game go ahead than wait for the umpire to straighten out a poor decision."—Washington Star. He-And you are the only one I've kissed this evening. Terrible Mistake. The Stranger—Are you quite sure that that was a marriage license you gave me last month? The Official—Of course! What's the matter? The Stranger—Well, I've lived a dog's life ever since. Boston Globe. Eve Again. "A woman is a baiter by her very nature. Adam would never have wanted anything better than a plain potato. It was Eve who beguiled him with a pipin."—F. C. Phillips. Nothing Omitted "Waiter!" called a diner, at a local club, "come here at once! Here's a hook-and-eye in this salad!" "Yesshe, yesshe," said the waiter, dressin, seh."—Cleveland Plain Dealer To Stay With the Old Man "Come in doors immediately!" called a nurse to a small boy whose father was going out. "You won't go to heaven if you're so naughty." "I don't want to go to heaven," was the aggrieved reply: "I want to go with father!"—Philadelphia Inquirer. The Limit. The man who wants the earth probably never stopped to consider what the taxes would amount to.-Puck. A Great Help. "I look forward to having a great garden this year." "You do? Bought some new varieties or seeds?" "No, but I've found a man in the neighborhood who owns a wheelbarrow, and that will be a great help."—Detroit Free Press. LIFE'S DISAPPOINTMENTS ANTICIPATION (Copyright, 1910.) TUSKEGEE TEAC ANTICIPATION (Copyright, 1910.) REALIZATION In "Chapters from My Experience" which Booker T. Washington is contributing to the World's Work, he furnishes a sequel to his "Up From Slavery." The latter is a story of a struggle to escape from the repressive conditions into which he was born. The former takes the public into his confidence with respect to his life work, and shows the paths he has followed, sometimes necessarily devious, but finally bringing him to the goal of success. In the current installment he points out that one of the advantages that his race enjoys as new to the higher privileges and responsibilities of civilization is that it is not hampered by tradition with respect to educational methods. It has had to break through none of the restraints of line-spun theories, but can avail itself of any of the processes for mental development that seem best adapted to its particular needs. When he has completed has story it will make a valuable addition to any educational library. It will benefit those who teach white students as well as instructors of these of his own color, because there is no radical difference in the most effective methods of approach to the comprehension of the two races. In his service as a teacher he has had to learn as well as to instruct. He has even had to grope his way at times, and has frequently profited by hints from the most common happenings and things. One sultry day, when just before the recess hour he had been conducting a rather unprofitable lesson in geography, he released his charges for a play spell, which they improved by scampering off to the cooling marshes nearby, as he going with them. The dullness of the school room with its study atmosphere was replaced by enthusiasm in the freedom of the open and as they waded into the cooling water with vague ideas of what they had been trying to learn, they suddenly became discoverers, finding capes, islands and peninsulas navigable streams along which they sent their own argosies, sites for cities and location for manufacturing plants, and in one play-hour they acquired more real knowledge than they could have gained from their books in weeks. This was in his groping days, but he never lost the inspiration received from that revelation, and has used it ever since as a key to unlock the interest of the dulest pupil. The commencement oration of one of his students last May was upon cabbages. it was a subject that he understood and made interesting. He had the product with him on the stage, cabbages of exceptionally fine quality The annual lumber cut in the coast forests of Alaska is about 27,000,000 board feet, mostly spruce. Domestic exports in 1909 were: Corn, $24,299,000; wheat, $48,978,000; cotton, $41,777,000; oil, $99,749,000. The President's mail amounts to about one thousand letters a day and four thousand newspapers and books. Chicory, used to mix with coffee, is the oldest known adulterant of food. In some cheap restaurants the coffee is often half chicory. Sylvester Babbitt, of Enfield, N. H., who is $2 years old, husked 407 bushels of corn this fall. Hiram Young, 90 years old, of West Lebanon, has been slating the Dartmouth College roof, 90 feet from the ground. Joseph Hodgdon, of Dover, 90 years old, drives about the streets of that city alone. Stephen J. Roberts, of Claremont, 99 years old, is making his annual visit to Nek York city, unaccompanied. Kansas City announces an innovation in police equipment. It has provided its motorcycle "cops" with first aid to the injured kita. Lady Juliet Duff, the tall and handsome daughter of the marchioness of Ripon, has taken a gigantic task of charity on her shoulders—that of raising $500,000 for the London Charing Cross Hospital, which because of its heavy debts is practically closed. There are invested in industrial enterprises in Cochin-China $19,300,000, of which France has furnished about $8,299,000, and foreigners, Chinese chiefly, the balance. An All-Russian Anni-Tuberculosis Association has been formed, with headquarters at Moscow REALIZATION CHING METRODS which he had raised himself, tracing the various stages of progress from preparing the soil and selecting the seed to the object lesson presented for the inspection of his audience. In his story he made use of what he had learned in composition, grammar, mathematics and agriculture. He know his subject throughly and handled it so well that an applauding audience rewarded his effort. A whimsical definition of cauliflower is "a cabbage with a college education." The Tuskegee boy showed how he could receive that and still remain a cabbage, though a king of its class. It is with such homely illustrations that he takes the reader with him over the new paths that he has been blazing through what has helped to make very promising territory. He believes in making the foundation strong, trusting to the rearing of the superstructure in good time.—Editorial; Boston Transcript. BOSTON LOSS. For now nearly eight years a group of colored people in the city of Boston have kept up a constant and often a senseless agitation of the "color question." The white people of Boston have been reminded almost daily, in season and out of season, that they have colored people in their midst who are treated differently from the rest of the human family. The agitators have stuck to their job. What is the result? What has Boston gained through this senseless and unwise agitation? Let us examine the facts. Twelve or fifteen years ago the colored people of Boston were represented in the city council by at least one colored man. Now, unless we are greatly mistaken, they have none. Twelve or fifteen years ago the colored people usually and at least one colored man in the lower house of the Legislature. Now they have none. Ten or twelve years ago the colored people were represented by having one of their number a member of the city school board; now they have no representation. A few years ago the colored people were even honored by having one of their number a member of the Governor's Council; now they have no such representation. Formerly the colored people of Massachusetts were honored by having one of their number sent as a delegate or alternate to every National Republican Convention; now they are not accorded such representation. We ask again, what has this insane and blind policy of perpetual agitation gained for the colored people of Boston.—New York Age. PROVERBS AND PHRASES. I am not the rose, but I have lived near the rose.—H. B. Constant. Life let us cherish while yet the taper glows. And the fresh flowers pluck ere it close; Why are we fond of toll and care? Why choose the rankling thorn to wear? —Usteri. Great thoughts come from the heart.—Marquis of Vauvenargues. Who in life's battle firm doth stand Snail bear hope's tender blossoms into the silent land! —Von Salis. By Jove the stranger and the poor are sent. And wrat to those we give to Jov is lent. —Alexander Pope. I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba and cry "Tis all barren!"—Sterne. Ask me no questions and I'll tell you no flbs.—Goldsmith. O'er her warm cheek and rising bosom move The bloom of young Desire and purple light of Love. —Gray. Time still, as he flies, brings increase to her truth, And gives to her mind what he steals from her youth. The groves were God's first temples.—Bryant. How much the life is dearer than the bride!—Lord Lyttleton. AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS In one of his masterly studies of "the wreckage along the sunken ways of life," Balzac pictures a domestic scene in which the husband, goaded to desperation by which has befallen him, wreaks vengeance upon the despoiler of his home, but does not harm the guilty wife. One of the characters is surprised at the husband's self-restraint in not killing the wife also. And then the author observes through another character that "only a Negro would do a thing like that." I was stung at this finding in the higher reaches of literature such a thrust as that against the Negro. I know the remark was not born of race prejudice because the author was a Frenchman—not an American, Nobody but a Negro would do a thing like that— that is, murder his wife along with her paramour. The remark haunted me for months. I tried to demonstrate its falsity by collecting examples from classic literature in different languages and of all ages. But the facts were rattier against me. I found that even Shakespeare was forced to paint Othello a black man in harmony with the fact that only a Negro would do what the hero of that great tragedy finally does do; strangle the life out of his beautiful Desdemonia whom he foolishly believes to be untrue to him. I know all of Shakespeare's characters, and know that for sheer brutality that murder surpassed anything found anywhere in his writings. And in order not to shock the sense of fitness on the part of his public it was necessary that his hero should be a black man. I turned for arguments with which to controvert Barzac's statement to current history. About that time what the author drew as fiction was being duplicated in real life. Husbands in different parts of the country were discovering the fathlessness of their wives. In every case the guilty man would be punished—shot or cut—but the wife would be spared. The frequency of late with which newspapers recount the brutal murder of their wives by Negroes has caused me to ask myself if that rascally Balzac were not right after all? We hope not, but so far the facts seem to be dead against us. Of course we do not mean to say that white men do not kill their wives under the circumstances supposed, but it is the exception rather than the rule. And unfortunately it seems to be the rule with Negroes rather than the exception. Is it a racial trait indicating out close kinship with the man of the jungles? We know that white men sometimes kill their wives—by means of poison. But this is done usually to accomplish some ulterior object—the acquisition of wealth or for love of other women. But it is always calculated, premeditated murder. When Shakespeare was writing his Otello he must have known of a case then notorious of a man who is believed to have poisoned his wife in the hope of marrying Queen Eliza beth. But the cases under consideration have reference to times when the husband is carried away, over whelmed in a torrent of jealous rage. The white man confines his wrist to the despoiler of his home, but spares the wife of his bosom, though fallen Is the Negro capable of such restrain or does he become a throwback, a wild man of the jungles? Recent his tory seems to score heavily against us on this point. It is a racial trait—Old Hickory in Dallas (Tex.) Ex press. ▲▲▲ The following test of education was formulated by a Chicago professor who accounted those of his pupils who could answer these fourteen questions in the affirmative as being educated in the very best sense of the word. Here are the questions: Has education given you sympathy with all good causes and made you espouse them? Has it made you public spirited? His it made you a brother to the weak? Have you learned how to make friends and keep them? Do you know what it is to be a friend to yourself? Can you look an honest man or a pure woman straight in the eye? Do you see anything to love in a little child. Will a lonely dog follow you in the street? Can you be high-minded and hoeing corn just as compatible with high thinking as piano playing or golf? Can you be happy alone? Can you look out on the world and see anything except dollars and cents? Can you look into a mud paddle by the wayside and see a clear sky? Can you see anything in the puddle but mud? Can you look into the sky at night and see beyond the stars? Can your soul claim relationship with the Creator? ```markdown ``` I wonder will the color line be drawn in heaven? I guess so. The whites of the Salvation Army are protesting against their black brother in the same cause in the Southern states. They do not want him is that religion?—Palestine (Tex.) Plaindealer. ```markdown ``` Negro bank presidents are getting as common as pig tracks. ▲ ▲ ▲ "Rise by your own efforts," is a good motto for every man—Dallas Express IN UNION THERE IS STRENGE PY FIVE CENTS. AN CULLINGS You can preach race problem until you fall over, but until you preach the unadulterated gospel of "Back to the Farm," your time is lost. Being in town is very nice, but it will not make black John D. Rockefellers. The poverty-stricken Negroes in the country are bad enough, but a penniless Negro in a city or town is the most pitiable and helpless object in the world. Povery makes object a mean man out of a good man. It makes thieves of thousands of naturally honest men. It makes many a truthful man a dirty sneak. It makes a man unfit for any thing but the devil, and the devil don't want him. Honest poverty sounds all right, but it is about the poorest asset on earth to try to exchange for peace of mind and a full stomach. Outside of education, the hard cash is the only thing recognized in this world. As a rule the young country Negro, who moves to town has nothing to do, and in six months you had just as well try to elect Brian President of the United States as to try, to get him to work. As a rule you can't do anything with the young Negro who hangs around towns and cities. You can't correct him, but he won't come to church; you can't learn, and if by chance he gets an education he uses it for his worst. All men were not cut out for business, and all men were not cut out for farmers; but the Negro is more suited it seems to the farm. And the young Negro that gets it into his head to leave the farm and go to town should stop and think what he would say to a man from the city or town going out in the countrtry to get rich in a few months or even in a year. He would say that he was crazy. Well, the town man thinks the same thing when he sees a man from the country come to town with money, it does not last long, for the town man knows as much about how to get the farmers money as the farmer knows about how to plant corn and cotton—Christian index. The executive committee of the National Negro Business league which met in Tuskegee January 10, 1911 and 12, decided to and does recommend that instead of a central exposition in 1913 that the first week in October, 1913, be set apart and known as fifteenth anniversary week and that each community plan for its own local exhibition. That the schools, churches and other societies and organizations of each locality unite and co-operate for the purpose of holding such exhibitions. The principal reason given is that the time is perhaps too short to make such preparation as would be necessary for a central exposition and again congress has not as yet acted upon President Taft's recommendation that some appropriations be made for the Central Fifteenth Anniversary Exposition. The committee urges that the Negroes everywhere begin at once to organize and set in motion plans to the end that each community might have such exhibition—Western Star. ▲ ▲ ▲ The religion of the average colored man is nothing more than hypocrisy in a most concise form. It is emotional, and lasts as long as he is within the walls of the church. Afterwards, he will rip his brother up the back and do many other things contrary to his obligations in religious rites. We must be a little more devoted and true to our God.—Palestine (Tex). Plaindealer. ▲▲▲ While we do not in any sense oppose what is called the higher education for the girls and boys of our race, yet we think that the trades offer large opportunity for successful lives to many who will never have an opportunity to go through a college or a university. Let some of the boys strive and become first class brickmakers and masons, some good stonecutters and carpenters, some tailors, others farmers. Let the girls learn in addition to grammar and arithmetic how to roast a piece of meat, bake a loaf of bread, wash a window and scrub a floor. In other words, let them learn how to do common things of home life. Let our schools teach the true dignity of labor, as well as the sciences and polite literature. ```markdown ``` Bad manners and repulsive ways have been the greatest hindrance to thousands of our people who have been struggling for years to get above the common level of poverty, misery and ignorance. If you wish to succeed let no man be more polite to you than you are to him.—Charleston Messenger. ```markdown ``` Does the white man know what he wants. He has control of the law, money and everything else. Yet he is not satisfied. It is a great pastime for some of them to cure a poor helpless Negro around, whom he knows wouldn't raise a hand against him.—Palestine (Tex.) Plaindealer. ```markdown ``` To see what the race is doing you must read literature written by people who care most for you. The deep thinker is never a very polite man. 2 (In Advance) One Year.....$1.50 Six Months.....1.00 Three Months......50 Subscribers are requested to re- mit 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 proprietor, 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 NEWSIEST AND BEST in the country. I honor the man who in the conscientious discharge of his duty duties to stand alone; the world, with ignorant, intolerant judgment, may condemn, the countenances of relatives may be averted, and the hearts of friends grow cold, but the sense of duty done shall be sweeter than the applause of the world, the countenances of relatives or the hearts of friends.—Charles Summer. To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men. The human race has climbed on protest. Had no voice been raised against injustice, ignorance and lust, the inquisition yet would serve the law, the guillotines decide our least disputes. The few who dare must speak and speak again to right the wrongs of many.—Ella Wheeler Wilcox. I am convinced myself that there is no more evil thing in this present world than race prejudice; none at all. I write deliberately—it is the worst single thing in life now. It justifies and holds together more baseness, cruelty and abomination than any other sort of error in the world. Through its body runs the black blood of coarse lust, suspicion, jealousy and persecution and all the darkest poisons of the human soul.—G. Wells in the New York Independent. The Gazette intends to suspend its judgment of the Dr. Booker T. Washington—"Albert" Ulrich case, noted at length elsewhere in this issue, until it is tried in the courts of New York City, or settled out of them. However, we would utter just a word of warning to the famous educator, and that is, a failure on his part to prosecute his assailant to the fullest extent of the law, and especially a settlement of the case out of court, will leave his side of it open to much question in the minds of the great mass of our people, at least, the country over. It will materially injure his standing with them for years to come, if not for the remalder of his life. And we say this, too, in all kindness because that terrible assault seems so unprovoked, inexecutable and malicious as to make absolutely necessary, from every sensible viewpoint, the most aggressive and persistent court prosecution of "Albert" Ulrich. THE INSURGENTS AND DEMOC RACY. "The American people are not controlled by prejudice or passion," said Senator Bristow of Kansas, in an argument for a change of our form of Government from the representative form of its "founders" to a system, which, in the opinion of many is liable to "founder" the republican form of government in a way they feared in their days it would—by ANARCHY. It is not our purpose, at this time, to argue the correctness of either assertion, but to inquire from those who wish to make the change whether they do not deem it necessary to preserve in theory—for a coming enactment in practice—that form of government which the Constitution of our land (as it was perfected through the results of the war for the preservation of Government by the people, through the people, for the people, to use a Lincoln phrase) guarantees to the people, ALL the people, which of course includes the Afro-American. It seems the insurgents are not concerned about the rights of these citizens. WHITENED SEPULCHERS IN CLASSIC. On the Mexican affair, Ex-President Roosevelt in his speech at El Paso, Texas, March 15, said: "Honest dealing between man and man was the only certain foundation of prosperity. The same thing was true of the relations of communities to each other." Pausing, as though to select his words, he then said he thought he spoke for all Americans when he said that all the United States demanded of Mexico was "order, justice, independence." He said, further, that this country only demanded of its neighbor, that "order should reign within its borders; and that order should be established upon justice." Great, isn't it? And now, suppose with lynch-anarchy stalking through too many of our states, mob violence being rather common, corruption stinking to heaven, dishonesty (if T. R. is to be believed) being a kind of trade brand with us, suppose Mexico should turn the tables on us and demand of the United States that we live up to these requirements of civilization, first, our selves, before we demand them from others? Great, isn't it? Whitened snipers in classic. A BIT OF CAN'T DRIVEN HOME! This country stands before the world as the chief exponent of the principle that citizenship is not a matter of birth or blood, but of free allegiance. Thus a blow struck by an American in a foreign country be- cause of his race, is a blow at the fundamental principle of our American democracy—Chicago Examiner of March 15, on "American Jews in Russia." Now come—and please, what is it but a blow administered at home because of his race, when this blow is struck at the Afro-American—a citizen, full-fledged under the Constitution? And if this is not a blow at the principle of "our democracy," what is it? American protests against Russian massacres of Jews, have been futile.—Examiner. True; but the Russian Government can point out with some degree of satisfaction that it never has displayed the hypocrisy of protesting against American lynch-murder and massacres of Afro-Americans, and while this does not justify their own massacres in the least, it at least protects them against the charge of hypocrisy and cant; and that is something. The "American" Examiner, also our Government and many other people, please take note. SHALL WE BEGIN TO DISSOLVE THE UNION? Senator Lodge's recent argument before the United States Senate against the "direct" election of Senators did not receive the general attention it deserved. It was delivered amid the uproars of the Lorimer contest and few paused to read it. Yet it was so eloquent, clear and true that it merited universal attention. What really was the proposal for "direct" election of Senators? The average man will say that it was merely to substitute for the present method election by the people as members of the House are elected. It was that, but it was more. It proposed to strike out of the Constitution the words capitalized in the following clause: The times, places and manner of holding elections for Senators and Representatives shall be prescribed in each state by the legislature may AT ANY TIME BY LAW OR KNOWLEDGE SUCH REGULATIONS, except as to the places of choosing Senators—Constitution, Art 1, Sec. A, Cl. 1. Now, the fourteen words capitalized in the above have a very definite reason for being there. That reason is found in the inbearable situation which the Constitution was adopted to end, as the Founders of the Republic saw its causes, and as Mr. Lodge thus accurately describes it and them: The makers of the Constitution * * * also dealt with certain questions in regard to which they had a peculiar and expert knowledge. This was emphatically so with the question now before us for consideration. * * * They had seen the Continental congress, which had declared independence, raised armies and made alliances, decline in helplessness and burden to Washington than the enemy in his front. They had seen the Confederation which the Continental Congress had established come into being, into a sickly life and finally sink into imbecility, while the states quarreled among themselves and domestic disorder began to rear its ugly head. And by all these disasters and misfortunes they became convinced that the fundamental cause of the failure of the Continental Congress and of the Confederation alike as causes of government failure, the central government had relations only with the states and was absolutely at their mercy. The states were discordant and with them their people. The central government had no contract with the people and no claims on their loyalty. There was no Nation, there was only a group of jarring states. The makers of the Constitution met the difficulty and made a Nation by "an arrangement at once bold and simple, scientifically sound and eminently practical," as Senator Lodge well says, and which he thus describes: They established a government which dealt not with the states, but directly with the people of the states. They brought the central government into immediate contact with the individual man. They created a real citizenship of the United States. * * It is not too much to say that among all the great solutions which these men presented for the difficult problems they were called upon to meet the needs of the people. It certainly was the most vital. It breathed the breath of life into the government of the Constitution. In accordance with that policy the fourteen words emphasized above were inserted in the Constitution. It is true that the power thus reserved to the central government has not at all times nor fully been exercised. As senator Lodge truly says: That the United States should have this power, because was fundamental. NO GOVERNMENT CAN HOPE TO LIVE IF IT CANNOT PROVIDE THE MEANS BY WHICH IT LIVES. IF IT CANNOT PROTECT ITS OWN EXISTENCE. Senator Lodge holds that a mere change from indirect to direct election of Senators would, of and by itself, have been 'material'—a mere "change in the mechanism," which "does not touch the principles upon which the government rests." We disagree with him, for it is obvious that such a change would have impaired the entity of the state, as the change actually proposed would have destroyed the sovereignty of the Nation. And that would have been the effect of the revolutionary proposal happily defeated by the votes of patriotic Senators acting without respect to party affiliations. For it was proposed by change in the Constitution, as Mr. Lodge says: To put the United States government, so far as the election of Senators is concerned, at the mercy of the states—to take from the United States any power to protect its citizens in the exercise of their rights, no matter how great the need for such protection. * * * * TWENTYTHREE STATES, THOUGH INCLUDING A MINORITY OF THE POPULATION, COULD AT ANY TIME ARREST, THE MOVEMENT OF THE INSTITUTION OF GOVENMENT AND STOP ALL OPERATIONS. How a moiety of states, with a minority of population, having plenary power to choose Senators in any manner and to bind Senators, as a condition of election, in any manner that local whim, interest or prejudice might suggest, could tie the Nation's hands is self-evident. The power reserved to Congress to "make or alter such regulations" is an essential power, without which the national government cannot "provide the means by which it lives—cannot protect its own existence." "To call such a scheme as this progressive," as Senator Lodge well and truly says, "is mockery; it is retrogression and reaction of an extreme kind. If adopted it would carry the government back to the controversies and the struggles out of which its Constitution was born, and which beset and endangered the infancy of the United States." It would be, in very deed and truth, a step toward the dissolution of the Union by making it as unworkable—Chicago Daily Inter-Ocean. FRESH OHIO NEWS OUR OWN WRITERS' WHAT OUR PEOPLE ARE DOING IN MANY CITIES AND TOWNS OF THE STATE. INTERESTING PERSONAL NOTES father—St. Margaret's Sewing circle is being entertained by Mrs. F. Cox—(Correspondent will please in news earlier on MONDAYS—Edited Stueberville—The North St. drama was a success—Mrs. Curtis East Liverpool, was Mrs. G. Johnsse guest, Sunday—Friends from Mart Ferry visited Mrs. L. R. Mercer, Sunday—Prof. J. F. Mathews of Florida a Steubenville boy, married M Maud Roberts of Oberlin, recently Miss Pettiford gave a fine recital Quinn church, Friday evening, unleashed the supplies of A. A. Mrs. A. J. C. captain. The pastor, Rev. D. W. Ler, has organized the church into visions, each to raise a given an DOINGS OF THE RACE Bishop B. F. Lee denies the alleged anti-Taft interview of several weeks ago. Rev. R. C. Ransom of N. Y. City, a former Cleveland A. M. E. pastor, and a native of Cambridge, O., is a candidate for bishop. Dr. Booker T. Washington raised $315 for Editor T. Thomas Fortune of T. Thomas Fortune. Red Bank, N. J., in recent months, and the latter's many friends and dmplers. T. McCants Stewart has been appointed an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of Liberia. Mr. Stewart practiced law in New York for many years and was at one time a member of the Board of Education of Brooklyn. He then settled in Honolulu, where he served for over 40 years before locating in Africa. Assist. U. S. D. Atty. W. H. Lewis of Boston, Mass., and J. C. Napier of Nashville, Teen, received recess appointments from the President, and have sworn into the offices of Assistant U. S. Attorney General, and Assistant U. S. C. Treasury, at Washington, D. C. Pennsylvania announces that in the resignation of Ralph E. Brock, the Afro-American superintendent of nurseries at the State forest academy, it feels that it has lost a valuable public servant. Mr. Brock has been at Mont Alto, a number of years, and now how have a consulting and contracting forester at West Chester, Pa. Gale P. Hilzer, son of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew F. Hilzer of Washington, D. C., a junior at the University of Minnesota, which has over 5,000 students, was recently chosen by the Minnesota State Forum (Colored) to represent that state at the recent inter-state debate at Des Moines, Ia., and was also chosen by the faculty of the university after having gone through the usual elimination contests, to be one of the four final competitions for the Pilsbrough prize for oratory; $100 to the 1st, $50 to the 2d, $25 to the 3rd. The winner is to have the honor of representing the University at the Northwestern Intercollegiate oratorical contest, which will take place at Ann Arbor, Mich., in April. Thanks "The Old Reliable"! Cleveland, O., Mar. 18, 1911. Editor Gazzette—Dear Mr. Smith: Please accept our thanks for the notices you so kindly put in your paper concerning the colored children we have in our care waiting for homes. We appreciate very much your interest and readiness to help us to secure homes for these little ones. Again thanking you, I remain, Very respectfully yours, E. J. HENRY, Supt. The Cleveland Protestant Orphan Asylum. ALWAYS "RUNG TRUE." Richmond, Va., Feb. 16, 1911. Editor Gazette, My Dear Mr. Smith: I am much impressed with your self-sacrificing devotion to great principles, and though I may have at times disagreed with you upon questions of expediency and good judgment, I have always found out that you have "rung true." The policy of The Gazette has always been the same—unserving devotion to great principles and to the race with which it is identified. With sincere regard, I am, Very truly yours, JOHN MITCHELL, JR. (Editor of "The Richmond Planet" and President of the Mechanics' Savings Bank.) Gave Tuskegee $10,000 Battle Creek, Mich.—D. K. Cornwell, a retired Chicago merchant, who has been living here for the last ten years, presented Booker T. Washington with $10,000 on March 17, to be used at Tuskegee, Ala., university. Undisputed. "A man who allows his wife to have her own way," says a Boston professor. "is a philosopher and a diplomat." Ergo, millions of married men are philosophers and diplomats. The Idea. "Should you say 'Hello!' to the phone girl if she is a widow?" "Certainly, unless she is a grass widow; then you should say, 'Hay, there!'" FRESH OHIO NEWS OUR OWN WRITERS WHAT OUR PEOPLE ARE DOING IN MANY CITIES AND TOWNS OF THE STATE. INTERESTING PERSONALNOTES Social Functions—Church and Lodge Items—Marriages and Deaths—Literary, Musical and Other Notes of Interest. Akron—The Daughters of Jerusalem had their feast last Wednesday and sermon Sunday.—The K. of P.'s sermon will be preached Sunday by Rev. O. W. Childers.—Mr. Frederick James died recently, of tuberculosis, Mr. Wm. Hertington of Boston, Mass. is here visiting, on route to California. Mr. Bran died Monday, Rheumatism of the heart. Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Clark have moved into their new home, 480 Arlington St. Sandusky.—The Parlor club's social at Mrs. J. S. Davis', Tuesday evening, and the Odd Fellows', on Friday evening, were successes.—Last Friday, Mr. Anderson of Cleveland, also visited law, Mrs. Johnson, who is ill. Mrs. Anderson of Cleveland, also visited her mother.—Easter rally at Second Baptist church, and winter picnic, at Mrs. Samuel Scott's, the 31st.—K. P. annual sermon, at their hall March 20th.—The improvement on pages 1 and 2 of Gazzette was great and pleased all. Springfield—The members of the Beacon Light club enjoyed a very interesting meeting at Central Y. M. C. A. The Shriners gave a fine banquet on the 21st. Glover and Carter's company of comedians will entertain at the west end of the city building the St. Paul's Church furnished music at the St. Paul's church and whistle at the Elks' hall. Saturday evening. Prizes were awarded the best waltz couple. 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Martins Ferry.—Revival services closed Sunday evening at Sixth St. church. Eight conversions and the church greatly revived. Mrs. Winston of Pittsburgh assisted last week and preached Sunday morning and evening. She is certainly good in both homestead and Fork in that she also assisted in the meetings here last week, is assisting at Mt. Pleasant—Mr. and Mrs. F. Worthington of Flushing, have returned home. He is an operator for the B. & O. road, but wishes to purchase a farm and retire—Mrs. Eva Ford of Steuart, Stendale and Mrs. Blackwell of Bridgeport and Mrs. Winston, last Friday.—Quarterly meeting and conference, the 27th. Dr. J. H. Jones, P. E. will be present.—Rev. Burden will soon attend his conference in Springfield. Cadiz.—P. T. Brown of East Liverpool, is visiting his family. Mr. Neal Stewart was dined by Miss A. White. Sunday was a celebration for a few days. Georgia and Hazel Lawson were in Steubenville. Mrs. L. Doubt and Mrs. S. Lucas are improving. Mrs. Alice Tyler is ill. Mr. and Mrs. J. Olmstead have a fat baby boy. Mr. M. Cooper was in Pittsburg, last week. The Easy Bees Miss Terrence of Dayton, died at her sister, Mrs. J. Dulling's, Sunday evening. Mr. H. Duling is very ill. Helen Duling is better. Prof. W. H. Lucas gave the second of a series of lectures on "Women of the Bible," "Mary, Mother of Jesus," being the subject discussed. The improvement in pages of The Gazette last week, was noted and praised generally. Smithfield.—Dr. J. H. Jones, P. E., held the second quarterly conference, Saturday evening, preached ably Sunday morning, and administered sacrament in the evening, assisted by Revs. Veney, Cooper and the pastor. He also preached and held communion at McIntyre, in the afternoon.—Mrs. G. Harris, Miss E. Carter, Mrs. C. West, F. Fitzgerald and J. Veney are canvassed. W. W. Veney, Carr and several men from McIntyre, were in Steubenville, Saturday. Miss Mary Cooper spent Sunday there—Mr. H. Harris was in Hopedale.—Mrs. M. Banks and Mrs. N. 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S. personnel, for stenographer's office. Splendid showing indeed. Be sure to read and call your friends' and acquaintances' attention to our advertisements. It will pay you and them to patronize those who ask for your patronage in The Gazette. The T.p'r says it was a "breakdown" that prevented its appearance week before last. Well, a "breakdown" is GOOD, like "Noomdy's" alled "resignation" from that City hall job. Wm. B. Direys of 7918 Quincy avenue does all kinds of mason work and plastering, lays cement sidewalks, drives and cellar bottoms, contracting and jobbing. All work guaranteed. Bell E. 1995-X. Homes are wanted for a bright, heat attractive, light-colored baby and for a little light-colored girl about four years old. For particulars write to The Cleveland Protestant Orphan Asylum, No. 5000 St. Clair Ave, Cleveland, O. Mrs. Sidney Barnes, 83 years of age, who died last Friday at the Old Folks' Home, was buried Monday from St. John's church, Dr. Bundy officiating. She was one of our pioneer residents, one of the oldest members of the church, and highly esteemed. The funeral Do not fail to attend the Old Folks' Home benefit, Friday evening, Mar. 24, at the Oriole Theater. Manager and Mrs. O. L. Harris have been very kind to the Home in the matter of these benefits and should be encouraged by an unusually large attendance this time. At 2417 E. 82d St. near Quincy Ave. there are nine nice rooms (down staircases) with bath, gas, etc. for rent; staircases and yard; all in excellent condition; $18 per month. Take Scovill Ave. car. Splendid location and near to three car lines, Scovill, Central and Woodland Ave. Really, friends, there is no good excuse for your going elsewhere than to John Tuck & Co., for wall-paper, paints, oils, etc. Have some race pride and patronize our own business enterprises as well as others. See entitlements and packages. They wield trade and ask for it in The Gazette, "the old reliable" race newspaper and advocate. There is an important communication at The Gazette office for B. C. Cobb, a former resident of E. 31st St. Persons knowing his address will do him a favor by calling at The Gazette at once. Tell his friends and acquaintances, if you know any of them. About the best thing in connection with the Federal building dedication exercises on Monday afternoon was the Letter-Carriers band's playing. That every one in the building enjoyed thoroughly while but a few could hear any of the other exercises, so large was the crowd in attendance. The excellent music was a credit alike to leader and band members. The leader was a half-ann and evening session last Sunday and conferred the third degree upon a class of ten young men. There were over 75 Masons present, some being from out of the city. Mr. McNaughton served a fine supper. The new members are E. J. Lucas, jr., Harry E. Davis, James J. Arnold, R. B. Davis, James J. Arnold, Maxwell, Harry Jones, J. Bignot, Walter M. Myers and Dennis W. Fowler. Secretary Johnson of the Automobile club addressed the Chaufeurs' club in the latter's cos rooms, Monday evening, and gave its members assurance that they had the moral support of his organization: also that it would assist them in securing employment, and to better their condition, and to ensure that they adopt an emblem, and gave much other good advice. He said that a position as chaufeur was worth at least $75 a month. They Want Good Homes! Homes are wanted for a bright, healthy, attractive, light-colored baby boy; for a little light-colored girl; about four years old, and for a very nice girl, rather light-colored, nine years of age. For particular write to the Cleveland Protestant Orphan Asylum, no 5000 St. Clair Ave, Cleveland O. OBITUARY Miss Lizzie Blackwell's recent death (noted in The Gazette several weeks ago) called forth the following publications which appeared in a recent issue of the Collinwood Citizen (white): Miss Lizzie Blackwell was born in Collinson Wood, 20, 1887. She was the younger of two children, a boy and a girl. Passed away on March 5, 1911, Sunday, at 2:40 p. m. She graduated from the Collinson High School, Class 1905. She attended the Woman's College one and a half years. After this she took a course at Oberlin College but did not quite finish. She attended Miss Blackwell studied music and painting. In all she became quite proficient and skillful. She joined St. Andrews' P. E. Church in Cleveland, 1906, and was the organist for a time. She was pianist for Mt. Zion Congregational S. S. one summer, and gave full satisfaction. Here as everywhere she was most highly esteemed. The past two years she was teacher of German, Latin and music in Morris Brown College, Atlanta, Ga. It was a pleasure to hear her play. She suddenly broke down in health. In all her relations with people she was most agreeable, and her influence was wholesome. She was fond of social pleasures;; not a slave to them. Among the organizations of which she was a member was the Athenea Club, social and literary. Here she was a leading spirit. Just before the end came she said: "Mama I am going to die, and if so it is well with my soul." Her favorite part of the Bible was Ps. 103rd. In her extreme weakness she was a great believer in Jesus." Saturday night, as the end was rapidly approaching, she sang and prayed continuously. Thus an exemplary, useful life, and dutiful child has passed from our midst. Mother, father, brother and many friends mourn her departure. Resolutions of Respect. Whereas, we have received by telegram the sad intelligence of the demise of Blackwell, of Colinwood, Ohio; and Whereas, by her unnatured character, her upright conduct, her faithfulness to duty, her eminent efficiency, she has endured herself to the entire faculty and student-body of Morris Brown College; and Whereas, the college has lost a teacher whose place will not easily be filled, and Whereas, it has pleased our Heavenly Father to take this dear, faithful servant from labor to reward, in the bloom of life; therefore, be it Resolved, that we bow in humble submission to the will of Him who doeth all things well; Resolved, second, that the faculty and student of Morris Brown College vouch their profoundest sympathy for the bereaved father and mother and brother. Signed for the Faculty: C. M. MANNING, chairman; Miss E. M. Jordan, Miss A. E. Collins, Committee. To the Memory of Elizabeth Blackwell There grows in memory's garden A beautiful flower so pure; By the dews of love it was fed. And the fragrance so sweet it shed Will remain with me evermore. And I know that beautiful flower Had a purpose in the great plan of God To teach the sons of a noble race, That they could conditions of evil erase By the wonderful power of love. And methinks in the Garden above Where our beautiful flower has gone, She's receiving her due. For her mission is through— And I hear, "Faithful servant, well done." FLORENCE WARREN. Collinwood, Ohio. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY. MARCH 25. 1911 BEATEN AS A "PEEPER." Pounded With a Club—An Outrage—Dr. Booker T. Washington the Victim. New York City.—So many different reports of Dr. Booker T. Washington's recent trouble here, have been sent from this city to the daily papers of G. "Were you badly hurt?" he was asked over the phone. "Not really hurt at all," was his reply. "May we ask where you are speaking from?" "From the Flower hospital." This is the only admission Mr. Washington made of his injury. The general feeling is that the case will be settled out of court. Attorney Smith, who represented Dr. Washington, told Magistrate Cornell that one of the wounds had caused a serious hemorrhage of the ear. Hon. Seth Low, Andrew Carnegie and other wealth New Yorkers, helped Institute, promptly offered Dr. Washington their assistance. Mr. Low is president of the school's board of trustees. Mr. Washington thinks a smaller man helped Ulrich beat him. Office..... Main 178 Residence..... East 1030-L CLEVELAND . . OHIO THE ORIOLE THEATRE Is Your Hair Beautiful Nelson's Hair Dressing is put up in handmade four-ounce square tix boxes, like the lady holds in her hand. Drugs and agents everywhere sell it at 25 cents a box. If you can't get it, send us 30 cents and we will mail you a full-size box postpaid. Go and buy it now, or at right down and write us. 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IF YOUR DRUGGIST CANNOT SUPPLY YOU,WE WILL SEND IT TO YOU DIRECT AT THE FOLLOWING PRICES,SMALL SIZED BOTTLE.25*LARGE SIZED BOTTLE.50* THE OZONIZED OX MARROW CO. 216 LAKE ST.DEPT. 62 CHICAGO,ILL. AGENTS WANTED. THE IDEAL BARBER SHOP 2408 Central Av. ---**-- THE FINEST EQUIPPED SHOP IN THE STATE. ---**-- Invitation extended to all. FOUR FIRST-CLASS BARBERS in att tendance with A MANICURIST. J. L. JONES, Proprietor. J. L. HUGHES, Manager THE ORIOL 3223 Cen High Class Vaudeville 3000 feet of film every day 5000 on Sunday. Entire change of program every day O. J. HARR Is Your Hair Sof WHO MAKES YOUR CLOTHES? Rufus S. Justice 4316 Central Avenue, Fine Custom Tailoring, Cleaning, Dye inq. Repairing and Pressing. All work guaranteed. CORRESPONDENTS WANTED. 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 hearers from persons in the following cities: Zionan North Lakes, Lebanon, Chillicothe, Toledo, Urbana, Troy, Akron, Springfield, Piqua, Columbus, Cambridge, Steubenville, St. Clairsville, Wilmington, Portsmouth, Canton, Oxford, Sabina, Gallipolis, Delaware, M. Vernon, East Liverpool, Wellsville, Hamilton, Middleport, Lima, O., and other places where we have none. Write to the editor of The Gazette, Blackstone building, Cleveland, O., and terms will be sent promptly. By sending the address of any good person or persons in any of the cities named above or others, to whom we can write relative to the matter. Don't throw away your copy of The Gazette when you have done with it, but give it to some appreciative person whom you feel would be likely to subscribe or take it regularly, if they had a copy to look over and read carefully. Oblige the Editor. Purchase Your WALL-PAPER, PAINTS, OILS, VAR NISH, BRUSHES and ALL WATER-COLORS 3325 Central Av. Cleveland. O. 'Phone, North 1153 and Cent. 6661-R Only Afro-American Paint and Paper Store in the City. OLE THEATRE Central Ave Seville and Moving Pictures every day * This coupon and 5c will admit * two to the theater any day except * Sundays and holidays. HARRIS, Manager. Fair Beautiful Soft, Silky and Long? Does it comb easily without breaking? Is it straight? Does it smooth out nicely? Can you do it up in any of the charm- ing styles, so it will stay, and make you proud of it? Is it long and full of life? If you cannot say YES to all of the above questions, then you need Nelson's Hair Dressing is the finest hair porame on the face of the earth for colored people. It makes your hair grow fast; it makes usbern, kinky and tangled hair so safe, supple and silky. It makes it healthy. It keeps it from splitting or breaking off. It makes it stich and gives it that charm so longed for by all true ladies. Nelson's Hair Dressing and you'll never have dandruff. You will keep clean. 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