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THE HAT WIDE CHOICE OF MATERIAL | NEW STYLES IN LINGERIE IN UNION THERE IS SINISTER TWENTY-EIGHT For Ear THE two small hats shown here are designed on novel frames, made of shirring wire. The frames are covered with mull first and then with a light silk fibre braid in a fancy weave. The braid is sewed to the shapes, beginning at the top of the crown, in the simplest manner. As the crowns and brims are separate, they are covered separately, the crowns set on and sewed to place after both are covered with braid. In Fig. 1 the braid is sewed row after row with silk thread matching it in color. It is sewed to both upper and under brim following the lines of the wire frame. This is one of the few shapes which can be successfully covered by the home milliner. As a rule, hats are difficult this spring and require the knowledge of the professional milliner to make them successfully. As the braid is very light in weight, a heavier braid requires that the facing be of another material, such as chiffon or light weight silk or ribbon, which should, to get the best effect, be shirred on. Fig. 2 shows strips of ribbon and braid alternated about the brim. The Many Charming Textures in Which This Costume for Spring Would Be Effective. There are many charming materials among those prepared for spring dresses that would make up successfully in this style. The skirt is slightly full at the waist and is trimmed effectively at the lower part by silk strapping and scallops formed of silk, which gives the effect of an added and wrapped over lower part; a silk-covered button is sewn in each scallop. The bolero is cut like a Magyar blouse, and is trimmed to match the skirt. The underall is of crepe-de-chine, tucked for the under-sleeves. Hat of fine straw trimmed with a handsome catrich feather. Materials required for the dress: 5 yards 48 inches wide, 2 yards silk 22 inches wide. The Overdressed Woman. By the way, Parisians are now declaring that the conservative woman is the only really well-dressed woman: that those who rush to the front with the latest eccentricity of hat, or coat, or skirt, in order to attract attention, are not only not smart in its fashionable acceptance, but over and objectionably smart. They have invented a term, a contemptuous one, too, by which to express their disapproval. Unfortunately, the term itself is objectionable to English ears, and loses its point entirely in translation—Harper's Bazar. Stitching. When sewing on the sewing machine, if the thread breaks easily, soak spool and all in water for about two minutes. This rule applies to any quality of thread. THE GAZETTE ribbon is a light weight, satin surface, in the same color as the braid. Short lengths are shredded over the upper and under brim, alternating with strips of the braid sewed row on row together. A length of ribbon, and a length of braid consisting of three rows sewed together in a strip a yard long is used as a drape about the hat. A big rosette made of loops of ribbon at the side, toward the back, finishes a smart and practical hat for general wear. In Fig. 1 a hand of velvet ribbon or of crushed silk is draped in a sash over the place where the crown sets on the brim. This shape admits of quite a variety of finishes. For youthful wearers the single long jaunty quill has a lot of dash and go. It is the best solution for the simplest and smartest effects, but not appropriate for any one except young wearers. A tuft of upstanding plumes or fancy feathers for older women, or loops of lace or ribbon, or any of the mountains of flowers which form a complete trimming ready to adjust, will help out the home milliner in making her Easter headwear. JULIA BOTTOMLEY. Underwear Takes on More Attractions Than Usual in Offerings for This Season. In the struggle for life this season, for at some time the lingerie has been reduced to a minimum, underwear has taken on more attractions than usual. The well-fitted models, the exquisite embroidery and the fine materials of which lingerie is now made are convincing to the woman who is searching for bargains. For brides especially has the new lingerie decided attractions. The fine muslins without stiffening are as varied as the morning hours are from the evening. They should be kept so, too, which point is worth remembering. They are most durable when lace is absent. In other words, if you are planning a sensible outfit to last more than one year, use embroidery. Even the finest swiss and batiste embroidery outlasts lace. It can be used a second time in many cases. Flouces should not be too full for the spring and summer. The straight skirt is slightly fuller, but does not flare. Its straight legs must not be interfered with by any underfurce. Corset covers of allover embroidery or wide flouncing are very sensible for the dressy kind. They should be cut with little length at the waist, for the same reason that bulk has been eliminated from the petticoat. The fitted corset cover with the circular peplum is the most satisfactory. Nightgowns made on empire lines are probably moving toward first place. The short upper portion is gathered into a straight band of embroidery or beading. Flowing or puffed sleeves are quite short. As usual, the handmade lingerie has a value not to be galasaid. The French importations will always be favored by the woman with money to indulge her longings. The extremely plain lingerie with tape drawing strings and a plain scalloped edge is the kind that should appeal to practical minds. They combine daintiness with excellent wearing qualities, and they are inexpensive. Demand a good-fitting model and a high quality of material, and your lingerie will always be in good style. A Novel Rallah. Guests at an informal luncheon were at first puzzled by a dainty-looking relish brought on with the meat. Not until tasted was the secret revealed, when they discovered that the crisp, brown little tubes, about two inches in length, were of celery. Large, firm stalks were chosen, and after being cut were dipped in egg and cracker crumbs, fried in deep fat or sautéed in butter, and were served with a brown sauce. In the original instance this vegetable was served with fowl. It is also nice with fish creamed in the chafing dish, with oysters, etc. The Spring Blouses With the influx of new waists of sheer cotton material, the velled blouse has not been forgotten. These, in simple lines, are made to have a new air and a suggestion of warmer days by a relieving touch of embroidered batiste or linen used in place of laces. A yoke and cuffs, with an insertion in the front and back, give a springlike air. The lovely new bordered chiffon, marquésette and crepes are also pressed into blouse service with excellent reuils. ESTABLISHED AUGUST 25, 1883 AND ISSUED EVERY WEEK ON TIME SINCE. PRESIDENT TAFT SPEAKS TO NEGROES OF ATLANTA PRESIDENT TAFT SPEAKS TO NEGROES OF ATLANTA PRESIDENT OF THE U. S. AYS THINGS ARE LOOKING BETTER FOR THE RACE. LAUDS VOCATIONAL TRAINING President Taft Thinks That White Race Is Anxious That Negro Be Given a Chance. Atlanta.—(Special)—President William Howard Taft, speaking before the Central Avenue M. E. church, colored, expressed the sentiment that the salvation of the colored race lies in vocational training, especially along agricultural lines. President Taft was preceded to the platform by Capitain Archie Butt and accompanied by Postmaster Hugh McKee, Collector Henry S. Johnson and others. After the rendition of "Down by the River" by the choir and "America" by the entire audience J. A. Rush pastor of the church, introduced President Taft. "In presenting the president," said Doctor Rush, "I do not present the president of the north, nor of the south, nor of the rich, nor of the poor, but of the entire country. I take pleasure in presenting to you the greatest ruler in the world, William Howard Taft, president of the United States." The president's speech follows, in part: "I am very much complimented to have you come here in such numbers to greet me. I am glad to be here. I never lose an opportunity to express my intense interest in the welfare of the colored citizens of the United States. "I know the hard road you have and to travel and I know the hard road that lies before you, but I believe in my heart that things are looking brighter for you from year to year. "You do not ask alms, you do not ask the government for help, you do not ask anything more than other people. All you ask is an opportunity, and that I believe all good men, north or south, are most anxious that you should have." "I have heard it said that your lot in the south is a hard one. I do not believe it. You are now in the south and you look reasonably happy. I have frequently heard my good friend, Dr. C. T. Walker, pastor of the Augusta Methodist church, tell of the friendly relations existing between the whites of that city and the members of his congregation. "One of the tendencies of public speakers is to tell the public what they ought to do; it is so much easier to tell it than to do it. You have here in the south a splendid soil which gives a material response to labor, intelligently applied. The members of your race have shown that they fully realize the great wealth stored away in it, and are beginning to understand the methods of getting this wealth out. "Statistics tell of the splendid $1,000,000,000 cotton crop and show that you have helped to raise it, and have done your full share in delivering it across the ocean. "If you are going to save enough to make a name you have laid the foundations of happiness for yourselves, your wives and your children. If you make yourselves useful in the community, they are bound to value you, because they can't help it. It is only when you are shiftless and waste your time in saloons that you cease to be useful. "The secret of the solution of the problem of the south is education, primary and industrial." (Voice, "We don't get it.") "You say you don't get it. You must realize that it takes time and money to perfect systems of education. A good government is an expensive government. It must have money to educate the children and it must have time in which to arrange the schools. It is one thing to have statistics and another thing to have schools, properly supervised and with a corps of efficient teachers. "I am a trustee of Hampton institute and one of the trustees of the seanes fund, devoted to rural colored schools in the south. Education is steadily improving throughout the country. Conventions are taking the matter up and public opinion has been aroused. The whites of the south know that the education of the black is as essential as the education of the white. Those who have examined statistics must be blind if they do not have sympathy for a race which, in slavery forty years ago, now number over 50 per cent of its members in the literate class. And now, friends, goodby and God bless you." THE PHILOSOPHES. False pride has deprived many a man of an honest day's work. He who profits by the experiences of his fellows is the experienced man. The workman who watches the clock is the one who is watched by the boss. It is a husband's duty to praise his wife's cooking, even if it is carrying him to an early grave. When a man is in love he never knows whether his heart is in the right place or not. REFORMER'S LEADER. J. H. The man who is now the cynosure of the eyes of those interested in fraternal and commercial movements of Negroes; the present head of the Order of True Reformers. News of the Nation's Capital New Appointees to Soon Move to Washington—Vernon Undecided As to Future. Washington.—(Special.)—J. C. Napier is in Washington to take charge of the office of the register of the treasury after being banqueted in Nashville and along the route to this city. He will occupy with his family the Langston residence adjoining the Howard University campus. Mr. Lewis will come down permanently from Boston about the same time, but will not remove his family from Boston at the present. Hon. W. T. Vernon, the retiring register, has not as yet determined on the course which he will pursue after leaving the Thesaury. While he will engage in business if the proper opportunity offers, he will more propably go on the lecture platform for a time continuing his residence at Washington in preference to returning to Kansas. Eldredge Hawkins, a young colorado man of Washington, recently received an appointment at Monrovia, Liberia, as assistant secretary of the legation there. He is a graduate of the Business High school of this city and his appointment was greatly assisted by the faculty of that institution. He will be the second graduate of this institution at the Liberian legation. Lieutenant Benjamin Oliver Davis being the other, Mr. Hawkins will receive a $1,000 salary. Prof. R. R. Wright of College, Ga., is expected at Washington within a few weeks in interest of some form of semi-centennial celebration of the enancipation of Negro slaves in 1863. The capital city has been thoroughly organized for the local celebration and committee composed of members of various colored citizens' associations are conferring weekly on the plan which must be matured at this early date. The leaders in tails movement have made a careful study of the recent semi-centennial of the enancipation of the serfs in Russia and have come to the conclusion that a similar form of jubilee is the most desirable for the colored citizens of America to hold throughout the nation during one week in the fall of 1913. SIXTEENTH NEGRO "COLORED". According to Kentucky Court Term Colored Applies to Any one With Negro Blood. Frankfort, Ky.—(Special.)—That the term "colored" includes all persons "wholly of Negro blood or having any appreciable admixture thereof," was the way in which the court of appeals of Kentucky construed the state school down here. Suit was brought by one Troy Mullins against the school trustees of a district in Pike county, demanding the admittance of some children of whom he acted as guardian. The Pike county court denied the children admittance to the school holding that they were "colored," being of one-sixteenth Negro blood and under the state law prohibiting "colored children" from attending a white school, were there fore debarred. The case was carried to the court of appeals and the decision of that court has the effect of upholding the Pike county court and the school trustee who refused to enroll the children as pupils. Decision Against Pythians Montgomery. — (Special.) — About 20,000 Negro Pythians in Alabama will either have to change their name, emblems and rituals or quit business under a decree issued out of the court sustaining a bill filed by the gland lodge, Knights of Pythians, of Alabama (white), declaring that the Negro lodges were infringing against the white Pythians in adopting a similar name, emblems, etc. The Negro organization is the Knights Pythias of Europe, Asia Africa and North and South America. ```markdown ``` We would not give the snap of our fingers for a man with manhood and without courage, and we would give less for a man with courage without manhood, the same of the young old woman. There should be at least manhood and courage in every Negro of this age. What we mean to say is that the race should not be satisfied with the title of having accomplished something; they should not be satisfied with obtaining a diploma or obtaining great praise from some great act of theirs. The main and happy thought of man and womanhood should be to achieve not only for themselves, but for those with whom they come in contact and let this be felt by doing some good act to help others. The man who is encouraged to reach, to pray and to sing, and to no pride, to reach forth his hands to the fallen, down trodden and outcast. His courage means but little to him and less to the community in which he lives. The ruling races of this country rule because they administer as well as to control. The great mistake of the average Negro who has been put in a position to help his race has been to deceive his race, while we must admit as a rule that there is notademit adam as a rule, neither worthy of self-government. With all of this training and teaching, it is hoped to get him to think otherwise for his race than that it is inferior. Our best learned men who have gone through school look at their race with an eye of suspicion. Until the Negro makes up his mind to suppress idleness, crime and wickedness, he cannot expect the respect and comforts from other races. We have been alarmed at the little interest paid to our leading men especially those who are doing something that can be seen. Negro leaders who have given life and blood denied themselves of happiness in their homes and other social pleasures, have been less thought of that class of men who cope in society and the leaders in the ball room and from that to the open houses. They are as well thought of and sustained in decrying the pulp, as the men who preach. The real Negro preachers should stop themselves from criticizing the weaker members of their race and lend him his hand and make him a strong man instead of weakening him.—Charleston Messenger. ▲▲▲ The Edmonton, Alaberta, Canada Board of Trade has called the attention of the Interior Department to the infux of Negro settlers into the districts surrounding Edmonton, asserting that they are driving out white settlers. During the last three years there has been a steady infux into Edmonton of colored people from the south, principally from Oklahoma. This year they are starting to come in increasing numbers, and it is said that hundreds of them are heading northward. ```markdown ``` The Negro masses are making it very plainly understood that they want no "vest-pocket leadership." We can trust the "common sense of most" to guide us aright. Let us have counsel together.-Florida Sentient. --- Wagino City, a town designated exclusively for Negroes, is being platted near Althoimer, Ark. A local paper says it is believed a village of at least 500 population will be built up there within a year. Lots will be reserved for schools, churches, lodge halls, depot, and other public buildings. Adjoining the town site a half-mile race track is being graded and a grand stand and other buildings will be erected to hold an annual fair. ▲▲▲ The Rev. W. W. Landrum one of the most prominent white clergymen in the South, says: "I don't doubt that in the course of time—500 years, 1,000 years—the Negro may be absorbed. I believe in time that the race in America will be a composite one—African, Asiatic, European all combined. But what may be expected in a future so distant, does not affect the problem we have to deal with today. Let the teachers everywhere teach the Negro pupils how to think rather than to "guess" and we will soon have a vigorous growth of colored Americans that will have to be reckoned with right.—Western Stat. The colored citizens of Chicago are still buying property. The most thoughtful citizens are now considering plans to purchase a castle of their own. With the coming of spring, indications are that this year will register a larger per cent, than ever in the number of homes bought by colored people.—Illinois Chronicle. It is as true today as when recorded in the Great Bood: "No man can serve two masters."—Georgia Broad axe. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. Race segregation is reaching St. Louis. These waves of proscription follow the lines of longitude. They start South, then heave, roaring and splashing, towards the North, like the breakers breaking themselves along our ocean coast. Richmond and Barnmore and still farther south have been experimenting on having "Nigger" streets and "white" streets, and "Nigger" city districts. But in Baltimore it has fallen through and pronounced unconstitutional. Now St. Louis, being somewhat afraid that it is laggin behind its southern sisters, is going to try on this old ragged garment of segregation. The real estate exchange is taking it up through its president, Mr. A. O. Rule, and recommends to the Council the passing of a law preventing Negroes from moving into blocks where whites are more numerous than Negroes. However, if the experiment of race segregation is tried in St. Louis they will find, like in Baltimore, that real estate men will be the first to cry against it. St. Louis Advance. ▲▲▲ Because of the present tendency of this age towards the wholesal practice of unrighteousness the warning of the Prophet Isaiah to Judah on account of its unholy alliance with Damascus can be quite appropriately called to the attention of the people today. Hear him, learn a lesson and be wise: Because thou has forgotten the God of thy salvation. And hast not been mindful of the Rock of thy strength. Therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants. And shalt set it with strange slips: In the day shalt thou make the plant to grow. And in the morning shalt thou make thy seed to flourish: But the harvest shall be a heap in the days of grief And of desperate sorrow. Isiah 17: 10-11. God severely rebuffed national Israel for entangling itself with strange nations. He seemed all along to favor race unity—Western Star. ▲▲▲ D. L. Jackson (popularly known as "Deal" Jackson, "the first bale man") has raised, ginned and marketed the first bale of cotton for thirteen consecutive years. He has in one year raised and marketed as many as five bales of cotton before any other farmer east of the Mississippi river raised one bale. He has by his own efforts in farming become the third or fourth wealthiest man in his county; and in a county, too, which before the war had the distinction of being the third or fourth wealthiest county in the United States per capita of white population. Mr. Jackson lives five miles out far Albany in the county of Dougherty, Georgia. He owns 2,000 acres of land, for which he has refused $25,00 per acre. He personally cultivates 1,000 acres and rents the other half to members of his own race, who pay him two bales to the plow, netting him $3,700 years. He having for the past thirteen years been successful in delivering the first bale on the market, has decided to pass the glory on to some one else. Mr. Jackson, doubtless, feels that he has accomplished enough for one man. He is now about sixty-six years old, well provided for, his life insured for $10,000 and has to his credit in the bank $100,000. ▲▲▲ Although we spend our lives looking for results, but few of us realize that tomorrow results are more vital than those of yesterday. Perhaps you are in school and the carelessness got a zero yesterday in your lesson. Is that any reason for so brooding over your failure today that tomorrow's marks will also fall down? Forget it, determining that never again will you so slip up in your average. Learn to let yesterday alone in your youth and you will have a happier life. There is nothing more miserable than to be perpetually aaving a parade of yesterday's misdolls. Countermarching is never satisfactory; even the things we felt passable at first sight are disappointing when rehashed. If you have things to regret do it once for all. You realize you could be sorry forever after some of the acts of your life; but what's the use? Far better is it to hold your head high, with your eyes so tightly glued to a bright future than there is no time for mournful, backward glances. Don't spend your energy and ruin your peace of mind over what cannot be undone; don't rehash your yesterday; give them a decent burial. SNAP SHOTS. Work honestly for what you get, be satisfied with the same. Don't envy any man for his progress, for some men have more pluck than others. As we grow older, every line of our faces should tell a story of loving deeds, for we are making for ourselves in youth the masks that we shall wear to the end. IN UNION THERE IS STRENTH FORTUNE FOR CHEROKEE FREEDMEN Heirs of Indian's Slaves Will Be Given Share of Land Chicago — (Special) — "Attorney Henry D. Laughlin, together with Attorney Robert H. H. Hern of St. Louis, will receive a fee of $1,000,000 as a result of a decision just rendered by the United States court of claims in Washington in the Cherokee land suits, which have been in litigation for twenty years, according to recent dispatches. The successful outcome of the suit revealed the strange story of the enrichment of Negroes, former slaves of the Cherokee Indians, as a result of this litigation, and of the rise of President Grant's former body servant to riches and his equally sudden descent again into poverty. Mr. Laughlin went at once to Washington, on learning of the outcome of the suit. It gives large tracts of land in Oklahoma and elsewhere, formerly held by the Cherokees, to the Negroes who once were their slaves. As oil has been discovered in these fields the amount of the awards runs into many millions of dollars. "In the absence of Mr. Laughlin, his son, Rand Laughlin, told the story of these remarkable claims." "There is no truth in the dispatch that my father would receive a $1,000,000 fee, said he. "The amount is greatly exaggerated. The litigation, however, is important and this decision means much to about 2,000 Negroes." "The beginning of the story is in General Grant's terms as president. He had an old body servant, Milton Turner, who was the son of a prince in Morocco and a Negro of great dignity and ability, who had been stolen in infancy and sold into slavery. He appointed this Negro minister of the Liberian republican in Africa. "He found that the courts had recidenced that the freed Negro slaves of the Cherokee Indians were entitled to the same rights as the Indians, and this litigation, which my father conducted for twenty years, was to establish that the rights were not only political, but material—in other words, that the freed Negro slaves of the Cherokeees were entitled to their share in the Cherokee lands. The court of claims has just decided in the affirmative." NEGRO COMMISSIONER WANTED. Washington Public Schools May Have Commissioner of Education. Washington, D. C.—(Special).—if congress considers favorably the suggestion of President Taft that a commissioner of education be appointed to assume charge of the public schools of the District of Columbia and control them without the assistance of a board of education, as now constituted, several colored members of the board would be affected by such a change. In considering the question of economy in the business administration of the schools, complaint is now being made through the public press of the heavy expense due to the existence of a dual system of schools here composed of white and colored officials from the assistant superintendent down. There are many persons who believe that congress is about to make legislation which will do away with several of the colored official positions and that the colored people of the capital are about to lose thereby much of their prestige in educational circles. Others think that the agitation through the press at present is but to prepare the public in a measure for some few slight but important changes. EDUCATORS VISIT TUSKEGEE. White Educators From All Parts of the Country Impressed by Work at Institute. Tuskegee, Ala.—(Special.)—The department of superintendence of the National Educational Association held a meeting in Mobile, Ala. Prior to the meeting and afterwards, Tuskegee Institute was visited by a considerable number of educators. They were met by officers of the school and guides, who conducted them all through the academic classes of the school, through the mechanical shops, through the office building, through Dorothy hall and through most of the agricultural department. Pythlans Dedicate Home Pythians Dedicate Home. Indianapolis, Ind.—(Special.)—Tae local Knights of Pythias of this city formally dedicated their new treestory building and hall at the corner of Senate avenue and Walnut street. The exercises were conducted by Supreme Chancellor Green and Grand Chancellor Tidrington, assisted by supreme and grand officers. MESSENGER MESSAGES Ignorance in many cases, has over ridden what little educational advantages some people accumulated, and cause them to be drunkards and liars. If the church could get some way to eliminate the class of hypocrites and pretenders that constitute a part of its membership, more true souls would be added to the christian church. Misery may love company, but it objects to company airs. ————— PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY Mefearsritatotaier sh Plot SUBSCRIPTION RATES (in Advance) OMe Year... cseeeeeeee ence 81.80 BIX Months. ..ececeeececcees 1.00 Three Monte... ce. 60 Bubscribers are requested to re mit by postoffice money on der or registered letter. Entered at the postoffice In Cleveland, ‘Ohio, a8 second-class matter Address all communications to HARRY C. SMITH Editor and proprietor, 1 \ THE GAZETTE, Blackstone Building, Cleveland, 0. Member Ohio Legislature: 1894 ‘to 1898; 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, publishoc In the state of Ohio, and comparison with any will Immediately establish Me rank as one of the NEWSIEST AND BEST In the country. ‘That Dr. Booker T. Washington- Albert Ulrich case seems to grow more mystifying with each suceeed- ing week. The former must not fail to prosecute the latter to the fullest ‘extent of the law. ‘The Civil Rights law of Ohio, and nearly every other northern state, Is effective and good law when used. ‘The trouble is, our people will not, as a rule, contend for their citizen rights in the courts. No law is effective or good, unless used. ‘The Negro in the south, and in the nomh too, for that matter, “is awfully down-trodden” when it comes to his citizen or civil rights, It is infinitely ‘worse in the south, however, and the possession of “high-powered automo- biles” does not alter this fact in the Yeast, ‘To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out, of men. ‘The human race has climbed on pro- test, Had no voice been raised against injustice, ignorance and lust, the in- quisition yet would serve the law, the guillotines decide our least. dis- putes. The few who dare must speak and speak again to right the wrongs of many.—Ella Wheeler Wilcox. 1 honor the man who in the con- sclentious discharge of his duty dares to stand alone; the world, with igno- rant, intolerant \jydgment, may con- demh, 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 counten- ances of relatives or the hearts of friends —Charles Summer. I am convinced myself that there 1s no more evil thing in this present world than race prejudice; none. at all. 1 write deliberately—it is the ‘worst single thing in life now. It fustifies and holds together more base- ness, cruelty and aborimation than any other sort of error in the world. ‘Through its body runs the black blood of coarse lust, suspicfon, jealousy and persecution and all the darkest poi- sons of the human soul.—G. Wells in the New York Independent. Chief Edward Lee, the Afro-Ameri- can Tammany (Democratic) leader of ‘New York City, was recently tendered fine banquet which was also attend- ed by leading Afro-American Repub- Yicans of the “Empire City.” A few weeks ago Editor Murphy of the Bal- timore (Md.j Afro-American was also ‘anqueted and the toastmaster, on this ‘occasion, was a member of the race who edits a rival local race paper. Here are two very rare and encourag: ing evidences of a kind of race prog- fess too seldom in’ evidence. ‘The Lyceum Club of London, Eng- land, recently indefinitely postponed ‘the banquet in honor of Prof. W. E. B, DuBols as a result of the protests ‘of the prejudiced American members of the club. Dr. DuBois is author of “Phe Souls of Black Folk,” which ‘Henry James, one of the world’s great- est literary men, pronounced the greatest contribution’ to literature from the pen of a southerner. Eliza- beth Robins (white), a novelist, who was born in Louisville, Ky., was also an invited guest. Being a writer her- self, the praise of Dr. DuBois by Henry James has, perhaps, prompted her reseritment. Be that as it may, “Truth crushed to earth shall rise again.” For some years, now, preju- diced Americans in England have Sought diligently to get the people over there to adopt their colorine Ideas in the treatment of Afro-Ameri- cans there, but with very poor or rather no success at all. May it ever ae According to the dispatches from the front, soldiers (white), of the 15th and i44th companies of coast artillery started a riot in Galveston, Texas, re- cently and before quiet was restored one policeman was stabbed, one Mex- Jean and four Afro-Americans were se- verely beaten, one house was burned to the ground and the police and fire departments of the Texas city were forced to work in the face of a belliz- erent mob, Col. Bailey, commanding the provisional regiment to which the companies mentioned are attached, hss ordered an investigation, with a court-martial as a probable conse- quence, Here begins an interesting speculation, ft being an unwritten law among enlisted men the world over that no soldier shall bear witness, true or false, against his neighbor. Two or ‘years ago enlisted, men ae Gabe D companies, wits Bleck Battalion,” Twenty-fifth infantry, were charged with » strikingly similar out- break, which became famous as the elleged “shooting-up of Brownsville,” Tex, Not knowing, these soldiers could not name persons responsible for the alleged riot. Whereupon, Col: Roosevelt, .commanderin-chief, and Judge Talt, secretary of war, .dis- charged from the army, without, honor the entire enlisted personnel of B, © and D companies. President Taft should be called upon to act in similar summary fashion in the case of the 15th and 144th companies of coast ar- tillery. He could hardly ignore the precedent—particularly as the coast artillerymen are white men, while the Infantrymen of the —Twenty-fifth chanced to be colored. We shall see. William Henry Lewis has been com- missioned as Assistant Attorney Gen- eral of the United States. The Atlanta Independent lowers its standard as a journal of quality when it makes the statement that he is to be “only a Jaw clerk in an obscure department,” and that “he will never be permitted to appear in court.’—Pensacola (Fla.) Sentinel. Hold on, Rrother Lewey; not so fast. It is barely possible that our esteemed confere of the Atlanta (Ga,) Independent has, like ourselves, heard very strange rumors of the way special deputy U. 8. District Attorney Cobb of Washington, D. C., is alleged to be treated. If there is any truth in the rumors, our Atlanta contempo- rary Is, In a large degree, justified in his expression of so pessimistic a view! We must confess to growing impa- tence over the delay in the trial of that Booker T. Washington-Ulrich case. The peculiar statements, al- leged (by daily newspapers) to have been made by the Messrs. Smith and Dr. Washington, together with those of other persons, to be found else- where in The Gazette today, only add to it. ‘That man Ulrich should receive the limit of the law for his malicious and unwarranted aseault. He-certain- ly was not “right” in what he did. We cannot believe that Dr. Washington has been quoted correctly in saying 80. And yet several days have elapsed since the publication was spread broadcast over the country, and no denial from him, have we as yet seen or heard of, This Washington-Ulrich affair, in some respects, is one of the most peculiar that has come to our notice in all of our many years’ ex- perience in journalism. “ULRICH WAS RIGHT.” Dr. Washington Is Reported as Say- ing—Auditor Smith's Repudiation —Agent Abbott's Interesting Letter—May Drop ahs ;Cane. New York.—Dr. Booker T. Wash- ington's lawyer, Wilford Tt. Smith member of the race, said « few. dave ago that he had digeovered ‘what he called the teal motive for the aseaut on Dr. Washington. in front of 114 West Sixty-tird. Bt. Sunday night week, He declared that “fra. Albert Ulrich,” the woman who says Dr. Washington sald “Hello, sweetheart," to ner, mistook. him for'a Negro, who Had’ ified 1 steel, ‘ber’ Weearoia daughter two or three Weeks aco, Ste told her husband, so Lawyer. Simith LSE fe ee oe /)'/ eee fT 3s. eM Samra i or ae Pee Mae soe §\ ee eee LM® Sd WY } > AND Beefs \ SSN — =i RE = SMTA “AS Be MIRE NS jsays, that “that same Negro” was hhanging around the apartment house Sunday night week and the beting followed. ‘The lawyer also asserted that on the strength of new evidence he has gathered regarding the episode, he will ask District Attorney Whit: man'to try to have Ulrich indicted on a charge of felonious assault. Mrs. Unrieh’s girl, ‘80 the story goer, Is Dolores Alvarez, the daughter of Airs. Ulrien’s former husband, a. man of Spanieh birth. Iti alleged Alvares, withthe aid of a Negro, has attempt: ed to get the wit] away from Ulrich. ‘Dr, Washington, who spoke in Mad- Ison! N. J. last week Wednesday even. ing, recelved on that day, from Presi. dent Taft, in the president's own handwriting, a/letter expressing con- fidence in. bin. Daniel C. Smith (white) of this city, an auditor for Tuskegee (Als) Nor. mal-and Industrial Institute, returned to N.Y, City from Tuskegee on Mar. 24 ‘and sald when asked if he had an appointment, Sunday night Week with Dr. Washington at 113 W, 63d St: “No, T certainly did not. 1 was in ‘Tuskegee that nigt and had ‘no in: [tention of being in. New York,” “Then it was not with your knowl edge that the appolitment spoken of fand which led indirectly to Mr. Wash- fagton’s beating, was made?” St was not.” replied Mr, Smith “rbe letter whlch Secretary Scott wrote to Mr, Washington: must have come from the secretary's own hand Sit\eertainty did not come from me.” “pid you ever mect Mr. Washington at the addrese mentioned?” “Never. We usually meet at one of my offices, for Tam concerned with Some 20" corporations. A. careless blunder has been made on the secre- faty's part in sending that address, of on Mr, Washington's part in mem orizing 1" Me, Smith asgerted bie belief In the version of the trouble Afr, Washington gave to the newspapers. philadelphia, Pa—Dr. Booker T. Washington, the educator, who was iat: tacked and beaten ‘up in New. York City last Sunday night week, and for which alleged attack Albert Ulrich, 2 resident of the apartment house, has waived a preliminary hearing, Sunday, white nore, emphauicaly, de Glared. that he belleved Ulrich was fortified in attacking him under the Zireumstances. After making this ad- mission Mr. Washington intimated that all future proceedings against Ul- Heh would be dropped, but. declared this Was @ matter to whic his law- Yers, would attend, and he could not Be eure that they would allow him to Tetire from the prosecution, THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, 0., SATURDAY. APRIL 1, 1911 a “In looking upon the attack after | day evening, under the ausplees of th seven days from its occurrence,” said |Dashaway ciub, for the church build St, Washington, i elleve that Ut Ing fund—Hev. ‘Burton of FItth rich was justified attacking not church his gone to conference sta Ci only ime, but any other man under clonal, Mr Yates, young: membe Similar circumstances, Twas in the | of nis congregation, proseutad Mi hall of the house and was peering at | y with a $35 suit.—Eliza White, Fento’ he mame plates on the dane ne ae | Jackson, Lucy Lynn and tila ‘Thomas effort to Aud ont my busines ae: relatives, were called to Pittsburs, Ins aoalntances: After the charges had | ret | week Eerie F. Jackson's death een brought learned that’ ines | | Clauaiue Union of Barnesville, visite had a daughter and that several ct) WHAT OUR PEOPLE ARE Doma |fiouuun Vnlon of Hamesvile, vist forts had been made to kidnap her. MANY CITIES AND, TOWNS [Lincoln High School entertainment There seems to be little doubt that ‘OF THE STATE. lust Friday evening, was attended b: Ulrich thought T might be a kidnaper, soyeral from hero If he did he was perfectly justified in | SS ‘ sn oungstown. Mrs. Chas, Jacksor attacking "me. No man, could have 2 Mrs. Hattie Jefferson and tre, Cha tone othermize “under the circum | INTERESTING PERSONALNOTES, !nvotn'are imposing "ateav, Stes stances. I have no personal feeling | jart and daughter, Miss Hattie Collin: against Uirieh. “To my mind he did | — Visited in’ Pausburs. Gold Leat Co “But will you continue the prosecu- | MM Functions—church and Ledee pit ti at fil p. me. tford Dal tion?” was asked. wma— Marriages and Deathe— | and Albert Edwards are ill.—Mrs “Wat ts something 1 cannot’ an-| Literary, Musical and Other Lydia Craiz of Girard, was in Clev avert" he rertien. “tne whole’ mat | Notes of Interest. Hand at week eek cu eae ats pee aly five’ a daeing party i Delble. bal ee Biptedl Gee Gia eens Gent | Akron—Golul@mpllih aed 10, dias |tucins' aemeinee atiee atyed [go to the end to prove that f won not | recently” of tubstetloaik: “George. W. | Bulti'e-tunetal aa. held” trom’ he Goering itvush keviolet ae hee bees | Liles. was roosntly macciea. to, Lillien | parents: in Bentiere Bway. Shans Pease Fields by ev. C.'D. Belle-F. P. Law: | 81 years od and a graduate of Raye sige son, ies! a ovaleee) on bus ee Interment in poe ceme os z N. y,| Ress, FHday and Saturday-—Richard | tery. Miss Smith was an aetive met he ee era ate te NS %| Johnson tatt tor Columins, Saturday. [ber of Oak HI Ave. ehurchesttn Here isa part of the letter which | Sandusky.—Mrs. Micken bas re. W. H, Taylor has returned from Pitts [exarges tne Ptoman "who saya’ ibe, tured to Cleveland. She has ‘been ure: Her siete. Mire Mf Anders Wasktetone wae ainuine with her, a| stlonding her “nother, Mre. Te Rich. sho’ was” operated ‘upon, is dol Weshingjon | Ards, who hau been ill'over six weeks, | nicely. “The Chevsanthemm elu me pele wideets Ald and Protective |The social, Friday evening, at Mrs (at Mts, 8. B. Jackson's, last. onda area's Ald and, Protea |S. Wallace's, was « success.—Mrs, B. afterncon; and’ will moet at Mmm Je ‘Soctety of the Oranges. | Taylor will leave today to visit in. Hen. | kins’. April 2-—The mother. three ais Society of the Oranges, ‘Office, 24 Eesex Ave,, Orange, N. J. Dr, Booker T. Washington, New York City. My Dear Dr. Washington: The at- tention of this society has been called to newspaper clippings with regard to an assault made upon you on Sun- day night, March 19, by a man whose ame appears in the paper as Albert Ulrich, 11% W. 63d St, New York City. We understand that this man's right name is Henry Adam Ulrich, and besides being a carpenter he is proprietor of the West Side Dog Ex- change, 779 11th Ave, New York City, ‘This man at the’ present time fs not living-with his wife, as she is residing in Orange, N. J., with her two children, Estelle and Dorothy, aged 9% and 2 years. We are given’ to un. derstand by Mrs. Ulrich today that the woman with whom her husband is living at 11% W, 63d St., was married to a Spaniard named Alverez, her maiden name being Laura Page, and the girl who is living with them is this woman's daughter and not Mr. Ulrich’s daughter. Her name is said to he Dolores Alverez, about 10 years old. At the request of this society Mra, Ulrich appeared against her hus- band in the Domestic Relations Court, New York City, on February 21, 1911, charging him with desertion and non: support of herself and two children, and he was ordered by the magis- trate to contribute $5 per week to- wards the support of the children, and also to pay the rent, amounting to $23 per month, He is sending his wife the $5 per week, but so far has not paid any rent, ‘If the statements made in the New York papers are true, then Mr. Ulrich is leading a double life, because he is not married so far as We know to the woman living with him at 11% W. 634 St, and he also gave a fictitious “Albert” instead of Henry A. Ulrich. ‘The right Mrs. Ulrich would be willing to face her husband in court, and probably would be willing to bring charges against her husband for living with a woman who is not his wife. We thought that, perhaps, the information con- tained in this letter would assist you or your counsel in the prosecution of your case for assault against this man. Mrs. Ulrich's name fs Mrs. Mary J. Ulrich and she resides at 224 High St., Orange, N. J. If you desire her quickly at any time, you could reach her at that address by telegram, or by telephone through this society, our number being Orange 1347. We sball be glad to be of any further service to you in this matter if you so desire. Yours very truly, f. Mrs. Mary J. Ulrich was in court in New York City, with Dr. Washing- ton, one day, last week, as announced in The Gazette of Mar. 25, 1911, A failure to prosecute Ulrich to the full- est extent of the law, will prove most unfortunate, and Mr. Washington should see that he is prosecuted and ‘vigorously, td. "Dr. Washington's injuries were such ‘that he was taken to the Flower Hos- pital, (N. ¥. City), for treatment. After his wounds were dressed he returned to his room in the Manhattan Hotel and on the next (Monday, Mar. 20), morning gave out the following state- ment which we republish only in con- nection with the foregoing: “[ left the Hotel Manhattan after inner last evening to look for a cou- sin of Mr. Smith, the auditor of Tus- Kegee Institute. "I had a letter from ‘Mr, Smith in which the name and ad- dress of this friend was given, but after making an address in the Mount Olivet Baptist church, in West 53d St. yesterday, I changed my’ clothes at the hotel and left the letter in those clothes at the hotel. I remembered that the name was something like ‘Moore’ and that the address was in West 63d St. When I reached that street I began to look at the names over the letter boxes in the apartment buildings in search of the name. As Iwas bending over the letter box in the vestibule of No. 11% West 63d St. T was confronted by a man who de- manded to know what T was doing there, and who, before giving me an opportunity to reply, attacked me. I tried to remonstate with him, and then defend myself, but he was too power- ful for me and beat me severely. A policeman who had heard the noise came in and on the statement of my assailant that I had been peeking or trying to peek through keyholes in the building, arrested me. As soon as 1 explained ‘matters to the lieutenant in the West 68th St. station house I was released and Ulrich was ar rested.” Mr. Mooré, attorney for Ulrich, said last week: “AN T-can say is that I am ready to try thé case any sime that it is called. I shall not consent to my client pleading guilty under a suspended sentence, nor shail I con- gent to let the matter drop. 1 am ready to defend him against the charge of simple assault, as was agreed Tuesday, any time that Dr. Washington cares to appear against him.” Henry A. Ulrich will be called to plead in the court of special sessions hext Monday to the charge that he assaulted Dr, Booker T. Washington, the educator. ‘The papers in the case from'the police court, which reduced the police charge from felonious. as- sault to simple assault, were filed with the higher court by the district attorney. Wednesday of this week. ‘This action, {t was commonly under- stood among Dr. Washington's friends, was taken to deny rumors that the prosecution would be dropped. FRESH OHIO NEWS QUA: OWN WRITERS' INTERESTING PERSONAL NOTES Fields by Rev. C. D. Bell.—F. P. Law. son, jr, was in Cleveland, on busi nest, Friday and Saturday —Richard Johnson left for Columbus, Saturday. | Sandusky-—Mrs. Micken has re turned to Cleveland. She has been attending her mother, Mrs. H. Rich: _ards, who has been ill over six weeks. ~The social, Friday evening, at Mrs. 'S. Wallace’s, was @ success—Mrs. E. Taylor will leave today to visit in Hen: ‘derson, Ky.—Mt. Olivet lodge, K. P.. held {ts thanksgiving services at_ its hall. ‘They were well attended. Rev. G. D. Smith preached—Easter_ pro: grams at the chitrches,—Mrs. J. 8. Da. vis is il “Washington C. H.—The Cincinnati district of the Ohio’ A. M. E. confer “ence convened here in Rogers church, the 28th to 30th, inclusive. A fine lit: erary and musical program was ren- ‘dered. Attorney J.T. Oatneal deliv: ered the address of welcome and Dr. ©. 8. Gee, P.. E., responded. ‘There Were a number of distinguished visit ors. Rey. Dr, Mills of Cincinnati, the ‘Misses Lorena and Mamie Woodson and Mable Taylor, Messrs. Rollo Step: toe, Harry James and the Rickman brothers, Mrs. Rose W, Strange and the church choir, had splendid num: ders on the program, which Rev. John Irvan opened with prayer. | Uhrichsville—Mr. Wilson Smith of ‘Mt, Pleasant, visited his mother-n: law, Mrs. Mary Clark, recently —Miss Dorothy Miller visited in Cleveland, last Week.—Mrs, Precious Christian has returned from a visit in Maynard. —Miss Bessie Scott has returned from Pittsburg —Mr. William Palmer ot Fernwood, who has been attending School at’ Wilberforce, was the guest of Mr. and Mrs, G. W. Smith en route home—Mrs, Lizzie Morris has gone to Washington, Pa, for an extended visit Mr. George Holds of Cadiz, was here last week.—Mrs. Mary’ Lee, claiming to be an ordained pastor be longing to the A. M. E. conference, has left for parts unknown.—If you Want a good race paper subscribe for ‘The Gazette. Notify the local agént. Smithfield.—Dr. J. H. Jones, P. E, fs Improving. La grippe—ANl are cor dially invited to attend the young peo: ple's meetings at 6:30.—Mr. and Mrs. -H, Christian's little son, Clyde, was ‘buried Monday from her mother, Mrs A. H. Palmer's home. Mrs. K. Smith, Mr. and Mrs, Adams of Fernwood, at tended the funeral, and Rev. 5.” W. White officiated—Rey. D. D. Lewis preached for Rev. Butler, Sunday.— ‘The trustees’ social at the A. M. E. ‘church, under the management of Mrs. ‘M. E. Veney, was quite a success.— ‘Miss E. Carter and Mrs. C. West are convalescing—‘Miss “Sarah Beall is ‘visiting in New Brighton. —Mr. and ‘Mrs, Harrison of Pittsburg, Misses D. Braxton, Christian and. friends of Steubenville, spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. E, West—Mr. Paul Fletcher of Steubenville, visited Mrs, BE. H. Harris and family—Mr. D. Christian was here Saturday and Sunday.— Messrs. Thomas and Sanford West of Melntyre, were here Monday. Steubenville, — Quarterly | meeting services at Quinn church, were con: ducted by Rev. Lewis of Smithfield, Rey. Williams of Wellsville and Rev. Yancy of Wellsburg, Dr. J. H. Jones, P. E,, was ill, Over $20 was raised during the day. Rev. Butler was in Bellaire, Sunday evening —Rev. E. W. Kinchen will attend conference in Kentucky, this week. He has been pastor of Ninth St. M. EB. chureh for two years and is wanted here for a longer perlod—Mr. and Mrs. Witcher became full members of Quinn church, Sunday, Rev. Williams preached elo- ‘quently, Sunday afternoon. ‘The finan- cial clubs met Monday evening. Mr. Jas. Guy entertained his club. Mrs. Mercer's, has) organized a “thimble bee."—1, N. MeCullough has composed ten songs which he is selling for ten cents—Club @ will hold an April-fool social at the church, Monday evening, Mt. Pleasant—Mre. Winston of Pittsburg, evangelist, is helping Rev. Randall in his revival meeting, Also Rev. Harris—Rey. White, of the M. E. church, had quite a success on Sat- urday night with his entertainment. A fine program was rendered. He preached his farewell sermon, Sunday night and left for Springfield to at- tend conference, Monday—Mrs, Sarah Harris dined with Mr. and Mrs. Logan Jackson, Sunday.— Pearl Neusome, Blanche Becks and Mildred Calaway visited Mrs. Jackson and family, Sun- day evening —Mrs. W. and Miss M. Carey were gifests of Miss P. and B. Jackson, Sunday—Rev. Harris left Saturday to help Rev. Montgomery in his church work, Sunday.—Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Bundy were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Leroy! Freeman, Sunday.— Mr. Logan Jackson was in Steuben ville, Friday.—Mrs. Mary and Mr. Al: bert’ Wren dined with Mr. and Mrs. L. Fields, Sunday. Cadiz.—Mrs. Alice Tyler is visiting in Adena—Mr. Geo, West has _re- turned home from the hospital—Mrs. Zella Strother and daughter, Emma, ined at Mrs. E. J. Tyler's, Sunday— Mrs. Rideout and her niece are visit- ing Mrs. Sadie Christian—P. 7. Brown has returned to East Liver pool—Mrs. Lena Bonds and daughter, Beatrice, are visiting Mrs. H. W. Fox. —We ali congratulate Beatrice Tyler, Grace Banks, Ida Harris and Hattie Lucas for the excellent quartet, they sang at the High school Friday’ even- ing—Mr. Harvey Duling, who has been working in Steubenville, has re turmed.—Mrs. A.D. Jones. has re- turned from Columbus. Rev._Jones preached his farewel! sermon, Sunday evening, and left for conference.— Mrs. Oliver Ramsey delightfully en- tertained the H. H. club, Friday even- ing. Its entertainment, last Tuesday evening, netted $19.80.—Rev. H. F. Fox was called to Canton, on business, last Week.—Fidelity Court of Calanthe Kave a successful entertainment, Thursday evening. Martins Ferry.—Quarterly confer- ence and meeting at Sixth St., church Sunday and Monday evening respec. tively, were conducted by Rev. D. W: Butler, acting P. E. The Ladies’ Aid society. entertained at lunch, last Tues- day, Madam Alice C. 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Burton of Fifth St. church has gone to conference via Cin: cinnati, Mr. Yates, a young member of his congregation, presented him With @ $35 suit—Eliza White, Fenton Jackson, Luey Lynn and Ella ‘Thomas, relatives, were called to Pittsburg, last week by Chas. F. Jackson's death. Claudius Union of Barnesville, visited his cousin, Mrs. L. Lynn, Saturday.— Lineoln High School entertainment, lust Friday evening, was attended by several from here. Youngstown.—Mrs. Chas, Jackson Mrs. Hattle Jefferson and Mrs. Chas. Lincoln are improving.—Mrs, V. Stew: ‘art and daughter, Miss Hattie Collins, visited in Pittsburg.—Gold Leaf Co., Will hold its next regular meeting, April 13. nt 7:20 p. m.—Clifford Davis and Albert Edwards are 4Hl,Mra. Lydia Craix of Girard, was in Cleve: land, last week.—The Bureka club will give’ a dancing party in Deible hall ‘Tuesday — evenings.— Miss Myrtle Smill’s funeral was held from’ her parents’ in Struthers, Friday. She was 24 years old and a graduate of Rayen school. Interment in Poland ceme- tery. Miss Smith was an active mem- her of Oak Hill Ave. chureh.—Mrs. W. H, Taylor has returned from Pitts. burg.” Her sister, Mrs, M. Anderson, who was operated upon, is doing nicely.—The Chrysanthemum club met at Mrs. 8. B. Jackson's, last Monday afternoon, and will meet at Mrs. Jen- kins’, April 3.—The mother, three sis- ters and three brothers of Miss Myrtle Smith (deceased) have the sympathy of the community.—The K. of P. thanksgiving services at Oak Hill Ave: church, Sunday afternoon, was a bril- liant affair, participated In by Logan and MeKinley lodges, Gold Leat Co., Louisa Edwards and Consuela Stewart Courts of Calanthe. MeKinley lodge came from Warren. Mahoning Valley band furnished excellent music. At- torney Thomas E. Green, Jr., master of ceremonies, presided and addresses on Pythianism were made by the fol- lowing representatives of the various lodges: Gaines Williams, C, C., Miss Rhoda Holmes, Major J. A. Jones and Mrs, Elsie Williams, S. D. D._ Rev. J. A. Smith, pastor of Oak Hill Ave. church, preached the annual sermon and 1 was a fine one. Special music Was rendered by the choir. Miss Louisa Holmes sang a beautiful so- Drano sold. “Empire City” News. New York City—The monthly ea- ered concert of the United Christian Memorial church, No. 33 W. 132nd St., was held on the 19th ult., Councillor S. Frank Edmead of Brooklyn, pre: siding. ‘The most interesting “num- bers on the program were: Recitations by Mr. Wilfred Edmead, Mics Vivienne Ward and Mr. A. Jeffries: solos by Miss Virgil, Mr. Reggie Edmead, a reading by Miss Bessie Pike, colo and quartette by Miss Lanoma’ Edmead and others. ‘The organist, Mr. Profit, was assisted by Mrs. R. Edmead. ‘The church orchestra was also greatly in evidence in the congregational sing- ing, A short and brilliant address by the chairman brought the program to a close. The pastor, Rev. 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Open Sunday 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 cents a line (six words in a line.) For Rent—Furnished room for two gentlemen, or man and wife, with housekeeping privileges, in a private family. Nice location. Gas and bath. $8 per month. 2911 Saratoga Ave. off W. 35th St. For Rent—At 2417 E. 82d St, near Quincy Ave.; five nice rooms (down stairs), with bath, nice gas, large cellar and yard; all in excellent condition. Take Scovill Ave. car. Splendid location and near to three car lines, Scovill, Central and Woodland Ave. The Chauffeurs' club "smoker," Monday evening, was its usual success. The K. of P. made an imposing appearance, Sunday afternoon, headed by a band, enroute to Shiloh church where Roy E. H. Smith, the pastor preached their annual thanksgiving sermon. A large attendance. Former Mrs. Mamie Bush, derma toologist, of 1315 Scovill Ave., writes The Gazette that she "was recently granted a divorce from Harry Bush cement-worker, and the restoration o FOR SALE.—Brand new, Imperial Encyclopedia and Dictionary, 40 volumes, finely illustrated, handy to handle. Unexcelled for reference purposes. A library in itself—one that will last a life-time. Contains everything you may wish to know. Call or address. The Gazette. Blackstone Building, 22 W. 3d St., Cleveland, O. N. Superior Av. This is an opportunity of a life-time for those who love good books. The police raided the "club" in what was formerly the "Philadelphia House," the first of the week and are rested 11 young men, it is said. Cory church gave its pastor, Rev G. A. Sissel, a send-off reception, Monday evening. He went to the M. E conference at Springfield, this week Mr. Henry West and Miss Julia F. Strange were married at Dr. Bundy's residence, Monday morning, and left the evening for Sacramento, Cal. to locate. Fostalla Guselin, 3527 Central Ave. aged 12 daughter of Mrs. Eliza Dona-hugh, died March 23. Funeral, the 25th, from the residence, Dr. Bundy officiating. 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. 1955 X. W. Warfield left Tuesday for Philadelphia to visit her mother and sisters, and a cousin, Rev. C. H. Fareira. She will spend Easter there and then leave for Boston and New Bedford, Mass., where she will visit sister, Mrs. Lawyer Dade, returning to Cleveland the last of May. The editor of The Gazette will deliver an address in Columbus, on the evening of April 20; in Dayton (to the western district, North Ohio Conference, A. M. E. Church), on April 21, and lecture in Bellefonte, on April 22. The next meeting of the eastern district of the North Ohio Conference of the A. M. E. Church, Dr. J. H. Jones, P. E., will be held at Sandusky in May, Dr. Chas. Bundy will attend. The Cincinnati district, Dr. Gee. P. E., met at Washington C. H., this week. The revivals at Antioch and St. John's churches are progressing very satisfactorily indeed. Rev. Woods and Mrs. Mary Smith, evangelists, are doing splendid work for Drs. Bailey and Pundy, respectively. Over 30 haveolved St. John's, as a result of the revival. Laurina Maud Clark, aged 27, died March 24, at her grandmother, Mrs. Hackett's, E. 36th St. Funeral services at St. John's church, Monday afternoon, conducted by Dr. Bundy, assisted by Rev. Ballsy and the Bailey and Pundy members of the largest numbers for many months. Harvey Armstrong, Earl Parker and Sam. Pentacost, who recently went to Los Angeles, Cal., sent the following on a very pretty souvenir card which arrived the first of the week: "Having just returned from a sightseeing trip about the city, we send you a card of one of the beautiful parks. It is nice and warm here. All are well." Sunday afternoon Cleveland will have an opportunity of hearing one of the finest Spring Musical Festivals that it has been the good fortune of local lovers of music to enjoy. The Spring Festival will be given jointly by the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra and the Singers' Club and will give many an opportunity of hearing the accompaniment bridal to the Cleveland Symphony Orchestra at popular prices. This will be the first time the Singers' Club has been heard outside of its own three musical affairs in Cleveland, in some time. With the fine acoustics of the Hippodrome, the ensemble of the orchestra and the club should prove exceptionally pleasing, as nearly 200 people will take part in the affair. The club will offer at its disposal, in the Harris and Madison, and James P. McMahon, while the Symphony Orchestra will present Mr. Sol Marcousin in the role of orchestral soloist. The festival has been arranged with the idea of trying to find out whether Cleveland lovers of music are sufficiently enthusiastic for a spring festival. If the present concert proves everything that is expected of it, next season the orchestra and soloists taking part in the event. An unusually attractive program has been arranged and every enthusiastic Cleveland should make it a point to attend this initial festival. 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 Editors The Chaufeurs' club "smoker," Monday evening, was its usual success. The K. of P. made an imposing appearance, Sunday afternoon, headed by a band, enroute to Shiloh church, where Rev. E. H. Smith, the pastor, preached their annual thanksgiving sermon. A large attendance, the manager, Mamie Bush, dermatologist, of 1315 Shilov Ave, writes The Gazette that she "was recently granted a divorce from Harry Bush, cement-worker, and the restoration of her maiden name, Mamie Clark, on the grounds of cruelty and neglect." Attorney J. M. Clark. The editor of The Gazette is indebted to Prof. A. S. Peal, principal of school district No. 53, Clarksville, Okla., a former Cleveland and Columbus boy, for a copy of the constitution and by-laws of the Colored Teachers Association of Wagner County, a friend is president of the organization. At the Mission Branch, No. 2, of the C. & M. Alliance, 1914 Woodland Ave., last Sunday, an organization to be known as the Cleveland Christian Men's association was organized with the following officers and directors: C. A. Briddell, president; G. L. Lang, vice president; John Jones, treasurer; Parker, secretary; J. C. W. Briddell, Jones, J. C. W. Briddell, Walter Richmond and W. O. Bowles. "Its object is to promote the spiritual, intellectual, social and industrial welfare of our young men. It will encourage patronage of the new reading room and library opened at the mission in the Orange Ave. end of the building, adjoining the public bath house, and will organize special study classes and conduct an information bureau to aid in securing work opportunities for our young men provide our young men the best features afforded along social lines." The meeting Sunday at 4:30 p. m. will be addressed by Rev. G. V. Clark. The Independent ice Cream Co., located at Nos. 2150-2156 Fairmount road, is a new and successful company and just what its name signifies—the only one in the city. Their product is the best in the city and is wonderfull popular wherever sold. Both Mr. Mulligan and Mrs. Mulligan E. 30th ST. have it on sale. Give it a fair trial and be delighted and convinced. First Annual Spring Festival. A program of unusual interest has been arranged for Sunday afternoon at the Hippidrome, when the first Annual Festival takes place. It is to be given by the Singers Club. The concert begins at 2:30 p. m. sharp. The program: PROGRAM. 1. Overture Tannhauer. R. Wagner Emil Ring. Conductor. 2. (a) Secret Love, Folk Song. ..... Arr. Wohlgemuth (b) Rose and the Gardener. ..... Alla Cappela, McDowell The Singers Club. Albert Rees Davis, Conductor. 3. Unfinished Symphony in B minor. ..... Fr. Schubert Johann H. Beck, Conductor. 4. Violin Concerto in D minor. ..... Wlenawski Romanza and Finale alla Zingara, Mr. Sol Marcosson, Johann H. Beck, Conductor. 5. Captain H. My Captain. ..... Henry H. Huss The Singers Club, and Orchestra, Albert Rees Davis, Conductor. 6. (a) Angeles.....J. Massenet (b) Fete Bohens, from Scenes Pittoreque. Johann H. Beck, Conductor. 7. "Aria" from Samson and Dellahill Saint-Saens. Mrs. Delta Harris Donelson. Emil Ring, Conductor. 8. (a) Keyes of Heaven.....Button (b) The Plainsman's Song, alla Cappela.....Paul Bliss The Singers Club. Albert Rees Davis, Conductor. 9. (a) Adagietto.....Bizet (b) Caprice Boheme, Chas Rychlik (c) Ella Song.....Flaubert Emil Ring, Conductor. 10. Landsighting.....Ed. Grieg The Singers Club, and Orchestra. Albert Rees Davis, Conductor. 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 hearing from persons in the following cities: Zanesville, Newark, Lancaster, Lebanon, Chilliphee, Tulsa, Tuba, Tulsa, Tulsa, Tulsa, Piqua, Ocumbus, Cambridge, Steubenville, St. Clairsville, Wilmington, Portsmouth, Canton, Oxford, Sabina, Gallipolis, Delaware, Mt. 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 with the senior counsel, O., and send the address greeted 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. 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 particulars write to The Cleveland Protestant Orphan Asylum, No. 5000 St. Clair Ave., Cleveland, O. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY. APRIL 1. 1911 GENERAL A. A. DODD. France's Greatest Army Officer, a Mu latto, Just Rifled. A Account of His Adventures. Paris, France.—The leading general of the French Army—the only one, indeed, who has covered himself with military glory since the days of the Franco-German war, and who has not only the Grand Cross of the Legion of Honor but also the so highly prized medalée militaires—is General A. A. Dodd, a mulato, his mother being a Negro woman and his father a French man. He was born in France, fished on the west coast of Africa. When he returned home to France after the conquest of Dahomey the entire nation, irrespective of party or M. politics, turned out to welcome him, and to such an extent did he become the object of popular enthusiasm that the government became alarmed, and managed to keep him employed on lucrative military missions in far off countries until the time for his recent retirement from active service on the score of age. Gen. Dodd was designated to command the French contingent of the allied forces in China 11 years ago, and had not the Kaiser appointed the late Field-Marshal Count Walderseir to proceed to China, it is this mulato French general who, as a member of other field-officers gaged in the operations ending in the capture of Peking, would have exercised the supreme command over the allied troops, including those of the United States. DOINGS OF THE RACE The third annual conference of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, was held in Park St. church, Boston, Mass., Thursday and Friday, March 30 and 31. The Legislature of Indiana at its last besponsed appropriated $35,000 for purchasing grounds upon which to erect an Industrial School, for our people. There are people who talk of the "colorless Administration" of President Taft. Some of his recent nominations fully disprove the gratuitous assertion—Philadelphia Record. Contracts were awarded recently in Kentucky. For an administration building, a boys' dormitory, a girls' dormitory, an industrial building and four homes for workers, for Lincoln Institute, situated near Simpsonville in Shelby county, Ky. The price is $100,000 and the work is to be completed by March 1, 1912. The mid-western division of the Negro National Anti-Taft League met in Chicago yesterday. He ex-Minister to Haiti Powell on the Advisory Board of the organization. The death of Bishop James Theodore Holly of Haiti, the First Negro Bishop consecrated by the American Episcopal Church, has been announced. He was born in Washington City in 1829, educated as a Roman Catholic, became an Episcopalian, and took a colony to Haiti in 1861 and was consecrated as Bishop of Haiti in 1874. Vigorous protest against the installation of a Chinaman in a room at the white Y. M. C. A. dormitory in Washington, D. C., recently before it was known that the foreigner in question was about to go abroad as international secretary of the association for China, caused officials of the organization considerable embarrassment. Despite their protests, the young men in the association assented to the presentation to the chenytinz T. Wang, a graduate of Yale, and a well known Y. M. C. A. worker, on the promise of Secretary W. K. Cooper that he would remain there only a few weeks. In a recent speech at Boston, Mass., Bishop Derrick said: "The A. M. E. church was not a Colored church; it had members of every hue;; that the white church was the Colored church; it had church stood not as a church based on religion; that principle of no race line in Christianity. Bishop Daniel A. Payne had that spirit, was a great ornament to the church, was a terror to ignorance in the ministry, was the pioneer educator of the church and a great man." Frederick J. Hemmings of Boston, for years since his graduation from the institute of Technology there, has been in the employ of Carmichael, the U. S. Navy yard at Charlestown, Mass. This position is under Civil service. Mr. Hemmings took the examination with a white applicant and won on his merit as a chemist. It ill becomes the editor of The New York Age, after saying so much in favor of the affiliation of the Negro with the Democratic party in order to prevent the Presidential nomination appointments of Negroes to fulminate against independent Negroes. Last week the editor was at the head of a dinner given in honor of Edward E. Lee, chief of the United Colored Democracy of New York City.—Bishop Alexander Walters. The Association of District No. 23, United Indian Workers at Henderson, Ky., recently went on record against the discrimination against union miners on account of their color. 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Miss—(Special.)—In his address delivered at the reunion of the surviving members of the Mississippi Constitutional convention of 1890, held in the state senate chamber of Jackson recently, the Hon. Isaiah T. Montgomery, the only Negro member of that memorable convention, and the founder of Mound Bayou, told his hearers that the cry of the alarmist of Negro domination had proved to be purely mythical. In speaking on the subject—"Mississippi, Fast and Present," Mr. Montgomery said: Mr. President and Gentlemen—It would seem proper that, as the single representative of a people so largely interested in the former work of this body, I should say a few words on this anniversary occasion. "Undoubtedly there was never a time within the history of Mississippi when such a superlative select body of her ablest citizens assembled to grapple with higher duties than those entrusted to the constitutional convention of 1890. "A calm and dispassionate review of the situation from the present point of elevated view will disclose the fact that that convention laid a foundation for the first real helpful and hopeful work of true reconstruction, upon a continually broadening and enduring basis, calculated to more and more bring our state into harry with her sister states of the union in seeking the highest and purist ideals of civil self-government. "Notwithstanding the many criticisms launched against the constitution (which are based mainly on methods of administration), its tenor is fundamentally just, and the wisdom evidenced in its construction renders trite the application of a world-renowned post, expressed in the following quotation: "There is a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them as we may." "The constitution brought order, the first law of the Creator out of chaotic uncertainty, and gave peace to a confused people; a peace that has gradually softened the asperites of those troubled times, and by the light of progress and the wisdom born of experience we can see further now than was possible during the day of the convention. "The complicated 'race problem', the problem of farming or adjusting practically and equitably, according to the constitutional theory of our national government; the relations between two races of diverse origin upon the ruins of established association, which had occupied nearly two centuries in building—admittedly the most intricate ever decreed for adjudication by a civilized Christian people. "In the day of the convention we could only see far enough to determine that this grave question should be dismissed from politics for one or two generations. "Now, after twenty years, the mists and uncertainties enshrouding all human endeavor have sufficiently cleared away for us to begin to understand that this great problem has been providentially divorced from politics for all time, notwithstanding vociferous assertions to the contrary by many of the ablest minds of the day. "This great cause has passed up on appeal to the supreme high chancery court of public opinion, ambracing not only the best and purest ideals of our own broad land, dedicated and consecrated forever to liberty, truth and justice by the blood and brawn of all her peoples, irrespective of race, creed or color, but all over the civilized world, wherever the gospel The problem confronting her as a race, a nation, is only the problem which confronts every people on earth, and it is a problem, not of color, but of conditions. Ignorance, superstition, lack of confidence and home training, eagerness to separate themselves from the race wherever they can, are among of the things which hinder them in their onward march. They can not hope to command a place in the world's history by dressing fine, taking well, reciting well-gotten up papers, appearing well before strangers, wearing fine jewelry—not at all. Every race, nation and individual in this world is weighed upon a scale, and the question asked is not what your color is, your dress or jewels cost, but what do you weigh in your neighborhood or community in which you reside? I advise in your home life to make it more attractive to husband and children, as near a paradise as you can, for a palace is a prison except where of Christ, the fatherhood of God and the brotherhood of mankind holds sway, year, even in the great Tribune Court of Infinity. "The intelligent Christian white people of the South and the intelligent Christian Negroes of the South must begin to give answer in equity to this great cause. "The race question," as we have it in our sunny Southland, at the bar of the greatest forum of the world, and finally at the bar of eternal justice. "In the measure we are able to build up confidence and good will between the two races, and conserve the elements of progress in sound conservative Christian citizenship, in that measure shall we be able to give fitting and acceptable answer to the greatest question of our day and time. "I want to take advantage of this impressive occasion to say on behalf of my people that we believe political genius, inspired by patriotism, has written in the constitution of our country the highest hopes and aims of civil liberty, and sacredly dedicated it to the uplift and development of mankind. "For a long period of time we were the brawn, the hands and the feet, while your people supplied the brains and energy in working out those ideals, but in due time, under God's wise Providence, it has become our privilege to patriotically employ the mind and heart in cultivating aspirations for higher service. "In laboring to perform this service we believe that whatsoever will conserve our permanent good will also conserve that of our white neighbor; and that whatsoever will conserve his lasting good will also conserve ours. "We believe that politics can do but little more for us than to consistently reaffirm the priceless and divinely inspired ideals already written, leaving the larger, more vital and intricate solutions to be worked out in the daily lives and accomplishments of our whole people, guided by mutual faith and good will, and as a realization of the helpfulness each race may be to the other in fulfilling the higher destiny fixed by the Almighty Arbiter of all human affairs in bringing to gether and intimately associating in the development of this fair land of ours the most progressive and the most backward people of the earth. "While conditions still lack much of being satisfactory, yet the twenty years elapsed since the adoption of the constitution of 1890 have brought marvelous progress-to our great state. I have not had the time to trace statistics, but recent official publications show that our state revenues have more than doubled our capacity for educating and training the rising generations and for maintaining the humane institutions of the state. "Contrast the old capitol with the splendor of this new and imposing edifice; contrast this marvelous and progressive capital city with the Jackson that we saw in the days of the convention, and you may grasp an idea of the wonderful development that has transpired all over our state. "And in these giant strides of progress my people have liberally shared. I have only been able to give casual thought to the subject; but it will suffice to say that in 1890 there was not a Negro bank in the state; now there are ten successfully managed, having an aggregate paid up capital of $100,000 and resources amounting to $750,000. "In 1890 our beneficial insurance and secret orders were collecting and distributing about $150,000 annually. At the present prid they are collecting and dispursing $1,000,000 per year, besides maintaining fair reserves. "We have also one regularly established insurance company doing business on the same basis as the stand live is enthralled, and the humblest cottage where love reigns supreme is transformed into a glided palace. However humble your home keep it clean. You can not hope for a future posterity who will command the attention and respect of the world unless they are nurtured in the right kind of homes. Much of the crime and immorality of us as a people may be traced directly to the influence of improper home life. Wao is she? She is either the foundation of purity or the foundation of evil. She alone has the power to shape the destiny of our boys and girls. She is the rock on which true woman and manhood is built. No influence in a man's life is better than that of a good woman's. Nothing in the world can produce more lasting effect upon the character of any man than a woman. Great men, who have won battles, met armies, stood unconquered, have been controlled by a woman. Let a man, no matter what his influence THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, APRIL 1, 1911. and disbursing $1,000,000 per year, be country. "Our people are the great agricultural mainstay of the state. They are beginning to respond favorably to the efforts of the United States agricultural department to promote improved methods of agriculture. While I am not prepared to present authentic figures, yet it is well known that they have increased their holdings in farms and homes fully in keeping with their progress along financial and commercial lines. "Speaking more particularly of the marvelous progress in our state during the twenty years that have passed, it may not be out of place for me to recall that I came to the convention in 1890, an amble representative from a Negro community numbering a few hundred, who had two years previously settled in the trackless wilds of the great delta county of Bolivar, the howl of prowling wolves was a familiar sound at nightfall and the yell of the agile panther was still commonly heard. "That community has now increased to over 2,500 people, a generation has grown up among them; two graded schools and half a dozen public schools afford instruction to 700 pupils; churches of various denominations have respectable buildings and large membership. The community owns over 30,000 acres of land, 30 per cent. of which is improved with many neat homes and thriving farms. "During this season on favorable occasions their farm products have moved to market at the rate of forty to fifty thousand dollars per week, and on one Saturday the daily business of our local bank amounted to over $10,000, which sum probably exceeded the aggregate business of the year 1890. "In conclusion I beg to quote a single paragraph from the remarks I had the honor of delivering before the convention: "I said to my distinguished colleagues on that memorable occasion: "Then, sirs, we are here to construct a new heart with its imperishable attributes, for the great commonwealth of Mississippi. Shall it be true? Shall it be fixed firmly upon the great principles of truth, justice and equity? I believe that the consensus of enlightened public opinion is now ready to concede that the great task was well performed." "Those who yet remain are reminded by increasing infirmities, and the immutable ravages of time that they too, must soon enter upon that journey from which none ever return. As they enter the shadows of the mystic beyond, may there abide with them tails consoling reflection: "That few men have ever been charged with greater responsibilities, and still fewer ever succeeded in discharging such weighty obligations with greater credit to themselves, and capable of conferring more abundant blessing upon generations to follow." Shape of the Tongue. The latest fad is delineating character by the shape of the tongue. Thus, the tongue that shoots out straight without turning or wavering indicates a solid, reliable man of affairs. Tongues that turn up indicate impractical natures. A downward, drooping tongue belongs to one born to poverty and a ready eye for the hopeless side of things. The cruel tongue flattens and broadens when extended. The delicate-speaking organ with curled-up edges is the property of an imaginative and artistic being. When the tongue issues forth as if gripped in a dental vice it signifies a love of life more than ordinary. come within the grasp of a strong-minded, bad woman, and all that he has or may be is doomed, unless he can shake himself loose. No nation can rise above its women. Hence, it is the duty of every woman who desires her nation's greatness, to live such lives as will help to make the nation great. Let us as men be careful whom we introduce into our families and homes. We are affected for better of worse by those with whom we came in close contact. Evil associations corrupt good manners. This has been an unusually good season in Maline for the trapping of fur-bearing animals. Not long ago a silver-gray foxskin sold in Lewiston for $800. Another, not so large or handsome, netted the lucky woodman $150 and a Franklin county man reports the capture of a Canadian lynx whose skin measured 45 inches in length. "YES, WIFE AND I ALWAYS DO A LITTLE CARDENING IN THE SPRING!" EXTRA BARN PEN Cartoon in the New York Press. SCOTT BOND AT HOME FOREWARNED-FOREARMED Several months ago the country at large got acquainted with the free speech of Scott Bond of Arkansas, who got his foot in it at the Business League by an imputed remark upon the women folk's dress and shoes. Mr. Bond does talk a great deal, but he is as harmless as Jude Klein. He does not talk many years Mr. Bond has been a chief talker at the Puskegee Negro Conference, and so careful a reporter as Dr Robert E Jones of the Southwestern, visited Mr. Bond a week or so ago at his Arkansas as home. Doctor Jones gives us a true account of Bond: With the country, we had had heard of Mr. Scott Bond, and through the courtesy of Professor Blount we were driven to Madison, Ark, the headquarters of the large interests of Mr. Bond. Here we found the gentleman whose success was heralded throughout the country at the last session of the National Negro Business League. Much was said at that time of his business activities and there was not the least exaggeration. We were first assembled into a department store. The building is a large and substantial concrete structure of three stories, and it is full from top to bottom, with groceries, hardware, agricultural implements, furniture, dry goods, shoes and everything that might be needed to make a village store complete. Not only was their stock, but the store was clean from the back to the front, and from the cellar to the third story. There was orderliness, strict attention to business, politeness and everything that one would desire in a well regulated business. Mr. Bond owns the largest gin in that section of the country, which has a capacity of a hundred bales of cotton per day. It is equipped with the best and latest machinery, and it is commonly understood that whatever invention is put on the market that is advantageous in the handling of the cotton, the Bonds will buy it. Here in the swamp of The complaint against the young colored man and woman as a worker is general. The charge is general incompetence and unreliability. The charge is true. The colored worker must purge himself of this charge or it will work his undoing. For centuries the colored man has formed a major part of the ordinary labor of the South. He has felled its forests, leveled its valleys, and cut away its mountains. To him the land owner has largely looked in time of need. That day is past. Millions of the pauper labor of Europe are headed for our shore and they are coming to stay. They will not only come to get a job, but they are coming to buy the land and square thereon forever. They will seek a place in our factories, on our farms and become a part of American civilization. If the colored man would make good he must get in the game now. He must stick to his job. He must notify his employer when he Samples of Bird Music. Henry Oldys, assistant biologist in the department of agriculture, has 1,000 samples of bird music written in popular form so that it is possible for the human voice exactly to imitate the songsters of the field and forest. He has recorded the actual tones, setting them in the proper key, and their reproduction is easy for anybody who can read music symbols. Mr. Oddys has been gathering bird language for thirteen years. REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR. A very fine recipe for a girl's complexion is to get kissed against her will. If a man sleeps 10 hours and wakes up 15 minutes before he has to get out of bed he can swear he never closed his eyes all night. New York Press. A woman never needs a reason for saving a man, nor does he, either, till after they are married. Children are very indulgent to be live in Santa Claus so as to humor our parents. Arkansas, between the St. Frances and the Mississippi rivers, Scott Bond owns, in all, four thousand acres of land. And we were told, in a confidential way by a reliable citizen in that section, that Mr. Bond has under contemplation the buying of another tract, comprising six thousand acres, with improvements and a saw mill at a cost ranging about two hundred thousand dollars. Mr. Bond's success is most remarkable. He is aided in his work by two sons, one of whom is a graduate of the Business Department of Oberlin college and the other a graduate of Atlanta Baptist college both of whom give themselves unreservedly to the development of the business their fathers so wisely and successfully began. Mr. Bond is a very amiable man, of large experience and of an unusual amount of common sense. He attributes his success to honesty, fair dealing, total abstinence economy, thrift and being everlastingly at it. TALES OF CITIES. Honolulu is distinctly American in all but its semitropical aspect. Take away the palms and the flowering trees and it is like almost any town of its size in the United States. Calais, Maine, is probably the only city in the world getting its water supply from a foreign country. For several years now the city has obtained its water from a large spring in the suburbs of St. Stephen, N. B. The reservoir is on the Canadian side. Panama city has a national school of music and elocution, one of arts and trades, a national museum and a municipal library. Habits of King Leopold. It is said that King Leopold of Belgium is the most fussy of all the royal dudes. His beard is his special delight and he has it done up in a silk bag each night to keep it from being mussed. destres to make his exit. He must save his earnings and own some of the earth, or for him in a few more moons there will be nothing doing. Forewarned, forearmed. The old habit, learned by the Negro in slavery, of table-bearing and tattling to the white people still clinging to the colored race. The average Negro is never so happy as when he is showing his fivories in the effort to make some mis-statement or statement which does not concern him, to a white man about a member of his race. We are getting away from slavery; let us throw off slave methods and manners. Be a man, attend your business. Let others alone. Walk the narrow path and all will be well.—Dallas (Tex.) Express. Too often moral flabbiness is taken for perfect good nature. Music hush charms, that are frequently most successfully hidden from the common ear. LINES OF THOUGHT. Most opportunities are manufactured by hard work. When a man breaks his word his ways need mending. Selfish men are loudest in their boasts of being self-made. Women would rather remain on a pedestal than have to bow down to the inevitable. Spring days suggest a reawakening and occasionally it comes after a winter nightmare. All men are selfish, if individual necessities are taken in account. Farce comely will never be popular as long as women enjoy a good cry more than a good laugh. Mental exercise gives mental force, just as muscular force is gained through exercise of the muscles. All men will be equal when they have the same advantages and when they suffer under the same disadvantages. The man who endeavors to carry on a business on the hit or miss plan usually mashes his own fingers every time he misses. As Reported by the National Negro Business League. James Leech of Passaic, N. J., has just invented an improvement on the phonograph which is said to have netted him a fortune. He is an expert mechanic and had been employed in a handkerchief mill in Passaic. Mr. Leech believed he could improve the tone of the phonograph, and set to work to making experiments. The Edison company heard of his efforts, and invited him to their works where he successfully demonstrated the feasibility of his new idea. The company was so impressed with the commercial value of Leech's invention that it is said they gave him $62,000 for it. He is very fortunate to make money out of his invention, for it is usually the rule that the man who invents does not get financial profit from his invention. Mr. Edison himself is a rare exception to this, for he has always been wise enough to obtain enough stock in the companies that manufactured his inventions to make him rich. The constant preaching to the farmers of the annual Tuskegee Negro conference that they should own homes and raise their foodstuff is beginning to produce excellent results. An example of this is S. P. Simmons of Luverne, Crenshaw county, Alabama, who owns one hundred and eighty acres of land. He made this year one hundred and fifty bushels of potatoes, six hundred bushels of corn, thirty-five hundred bundles of fodder. He will kill fourteen hundred pounds of meat. He also raised thirty bushels of peanuts, thirty bushels of peas and sold fifty dollars' worth of peaches and apples. He has a garden full of turnips, rutabagas, rape and collards. He has made ten dollars on vegetables since September. Mr. Simmons is looking ahead and is a great husiter. Reben Gaines, Sr., Hamilton, Iowa, is not bothered very much by what is called the "Race Problem," so far as it concerns himself, for during the last ten years he has been quietly forging ahead, until he has accumulated farm lands and city property, the value of which is from $50,000 to $60,000. Ten years ago, Mr. Gaines was digging coal in the Buxton mines, while his wife ran a restaurant near the scene of his labors. By economy, frugality and industry they were enabled to buy land, upon which they have had built a row of houses for business and residences three and a half blocks in length. In other words he has built a community known as Gainstown. Notwithstanding their great personal wealth they have time to give to the betterment of the settlement; for both Mr. and Mrs. Gaines are active in fraternal, business and social life, besides giving largely to charity. Not every colored farmer believes in living all his life in a one-room log cabin, even if his fore parents were disposed to do so. Zachariah Simmons, who is not only a farmer but a preacher, living in Mt. Gilead, N. C., has recently built a house with twelve rooms and has, also, purchased a small truck farm of six acres. Mr. Simmons is fortunate in having a wife who is truly a help-mate and at the same time interested in everything that makes for the higher life of the community. Through their influence the colored people in that neighborhood, have within the past five or six years bought land and thereon built homes to the value of $16,000. His wife is the principal of the public school in Mt. Gilead, and Mr. Simmons is a graduate of Hampton Institute. The Alabama Business League is one of the youngest of the state organizations; but it is gradually taking its place among the first in rank, because of the increasing interest in the league, which is in evidence when the Negroes in business gathers from the different sections of the state on such occasions as this one. The president elected by the convention for the ensuing year is Mr. Victor H. Tulane of Montgomery, a successful merchant and cashier of the savings bank, opened during the last year in that city. The outgoing president was Prof. W. J. Echols of Birmingham, principal of one of the city schools and a successful funeral director. Echols was elected as delegate to represent the State League at the twelfth annual session of the National Negro Business League to be held in Little Rock, Ark, next August. The other officers elected are: A. J. W. Wilborn, Tuskegee, first vice-president; A. M. Pope, Calera, secretary; Rev. H. N. Newsome, Mobile, treasurer. The fourth annual session will take place in the month of February, 1912 at Tuskegee Institute. "Back to the farm" appeals to some of our people quite effectively. Thirty years ago, John W. Thomas landed in Hutchinson, Kan., almost penitless. For a while he eked out a meagre existence by doing odd jobs here and there in the city. Being unwilling however, to rely together upon such a precarious chance for support, he went to the country and engaged in farming for a livelihood. Today, Mr Hohmas by hard work is the owner of two large farms and some valuable city property, the total value of which is said to be about $50,000. Messrs, W. P. Billups and W. N. Nesbitt of Birmingham, Ala., are regarded as two of its most substantial resident citizens. Each owns a few acres of land (fifteen and twenty acre respectively) within the city limits upon which he conducts a prosperous truck graden and fruit growing bushness. Real estate in this locality is very desirable for residential purposes for the whites, consequently they have been offered a high price for their holdings. Mr. Nesbitt has lately been offered $45,000 for his tract of land But he, like Mr. Billups, won't sell PURITAN SIMPLICITY. 5199 There is no plainer waist than this, and yet it has the latest novelty in the peasant cut of the shoulder, where body and sleeve are in one. To make the fitting of the waist easy a gore is placed under the arm in the waist and it also follows the under side of the sleeve to the very cuff. Thus there is no bunch of material under the arm. There is a seam down the center of the back and the closing is in the center of the front. Thus there are no very large pieces to cut and ordinary widths of material will suffice. Silk, satin, linen, pongee, madras, percale and other wash materials will be suitable for this waist. The pattern (5189) is cut in sizes 32 to 42 inches bust measure. Medium size requires $2\frac{1}{2}$ yards of 36 inch material. To procure this pattern, send 10 cents to the Pattern Department, of this paper. Write "Pattern" on the back and give to sive size and number of pattern. NO. 5189. SIZE..... NAME..... TOWN..... STREET AND NO..... STATE..... WITH NINE GORES. 4795 If a woman is at all stout, or if she is using narrow material, such as taffetas, for instance, she will do well to select a skirt of many gores. The numerous lines formed by the seams give an appearance of slenderness to the figure and the number of gores does away with pleasing in narrow width goods. The skirt pictured has the gores arranged so that each one laps a little over the one back of it, which has the edge drawn in a little, so that the effect is of a box-plaited skirt, stitched down at the upper part. This is one of the best liked of recent styles. Such materials as taffetas or other narrow goods and also linen, ponge, panama and gingham can all be used in making this skirt. The pattern (4795) is cut in sizes 22 to 32 inches waist measure. Medium size requires $5\frac{1}{2}$ yards of 44 inch material. To procure this pattern send 10 cents to "Pattern Department," of this paper. Write name and address plainly, and be sure to include the city and state. NO. 4795. SIZE NAME TOWN STREET AND NO. STATE Good Eating. Reginald De Koven, at his beautiful daughter's wedding breakfast in New York, praised the appetite of musicians. "Musicians, being fine, healthy fellows," he said, "always have good appetites. You know, perhaps, what Rossini once declared. "If I am to dine on roast turkey" said Rossini 'there should be only two at the table—myself and the turkey. If, however, it is a question of grilled chicken, then the company should number three—myself and two chickens." Treasured Trees Two trees to be seen in the main street of Thorshavn, the capital of the Faroe Islands, have an interesting history. Trees resolutely refuse to grow in these islands, except in some few sheltered spots, and the inhabitants therefore prize them greatly. When the road was made it was decided to leave the trees in the middle of the carriage way rather than be guilty of the crime of felling them—Wide World Magazine. In New York. "The woman across the hall from on is dead." "How did you find that out?" "Why. I happened to see it in the paper."—Life.