The Gazette

TWENTY-EIGHTH YEAR. NO. 36. For Belt Making 1 2 3 4 5 THIS design for a belt may be done belts are more popular, however, and very simply in linen with colored much more practical, as they may be threads or a silk material. The linen laundered easily. FASHION HINTS FROM PARIS HOME DRESS. IN UNION THERE IS STRONGER For Belt THIS design for a belt may be done very simply in linen with colored threads or a silk material. The linen FASHION HINTS FROM PARIS Some Ideas of Styles Which Are to Be Popular in the Next Few Weeks. From Paris comes the announcement that the new spring lines will show trimmings. Although up to the present time no extreme novelty in trimming has developed, the new lines will at least have some braid and cotton trimming. The new spring ribbons are expected to be especially beautiful and artistic, and there is certain evidence that they will be very popular and much worn. Tea gowns will be built entirely of lace and ribbons and gauzy evening cloaks will be poems composed of the same airy stuffs. The daintiness and richness of the materials make them especially pleasing to the eye. There is a simple evening cloak made of three yards of rose pink brocade, with one side of the square caught together in the middle to form a false hood effect. An edging of gold embroidery on net and two gilt tassels complete an evening cloak that is everywhere admired and that can easily be made at home. To Wash Flannels: Flannels should be washed in warm uuds that have had a little ammonia added to them. The flannels should be rubbed between the hands, not on a board, and dipped up and down in the suds until they are free from dirt and stains. Squeeze them with the hands until as much water as possible is moved, and then rinse in water. The same temperature as that in weth they were washed. Wring out again, hang in the shade, and press them out on the wrong side while still damp. Flannels should never be placed in the sun to dry or they will shrink. Special care should also be taken when rubbing the garments to see that all the dirt is removed before they are wring out and hung up to dry. Simple Frecks for Small Girls. Shepherd plaids in black and white, and blue and white, are always good for children's frocks, when enlivened by a bit of color, and when properly handled have a delightfully childish and simple air. Some smart little models in this material have belt of patent leather, and the accompanying scarf of these dresses, which are nearly always made up in Russian or sailor effect, either black or red. B THE GAZETTE FASHION Any fine woolen material would make up admirably in this design, which is dainty in its simplicity; it has a panel taken down front of skirt, and an added piece arranged at the foot of sides and back; this is piped with satin of a contrasting color. Summer Dresses. In making dresses of silk or any light weight material, instead of French seaming them simply baste the seams up in the usual way, then hem them on the foot. hemmer. This makes a smaller, neater finish than French seaming, and you have the seam sewed up and finished with one stitching. When one has a number of dresses to make, especially skirts with many gores, this will be found to be an immense saving of time and energy, and will be much nicer than French seaming or overcasting, as the seam will not draw. ESTABLISHED AUGUST 25, 1883 AND ISSUED EVERY WEEK ON TIME SINCE. CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 1911. MONEY FOR NECRO SCHOOLS Willesley, Mass.—(Special).—The will of Alice Marton Curtis, missionaire, was allowed by Judge Chamberlain in Norfolk probate court. Public bequests in the will are New England institutions for women and children, $20,000; the town of Hanover, Mass. $15,000; Radcliffe college and Museum of Fine Arts, $25,000; each for public libraries at Tuskegee, Ala., Hampton, Va., and Atlanta university, and the tae Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and the Women's Educational and Industrial union, and other Alabama, Virginia and Georgian institutions, $5,000 each. The undisposed principal of the $50,000 trust fund be equally divided between Radcliffe, Hanover library, New England hospital on the death of Olivia Y. Bowditch, of Milton, and Sarah J. F. Johnson, of Boston. The first Presbyterian church of Brookline, is the benefactor in the will of Annese Edger, of Brookline, to the amount of $2,700. The Second Congregational church of Weymouth, and Rose Frizzelle, of Randolph, left in equal amount to the mission church. NEGRO TEACHERS TO MEET. National Association Accepts Invitation of St. Louis Convention Bureau. St. Louis.—(Special.)—The National Association of Teachers in Colored Schools has accepted an invitation of the Convention's Bureau of the Business Men's League to hold its eight annual convention in St. Louis this year. The date of the meeting will be July 26-30. The sessions of the convention will be held in the auditorium of Sumner High School and the delegates will be entertained by a local committee of Negro teachers and citizens, of which Prof. Richard H. Cole, principal of the Simmons school, is the chairman, and which will open permanent headquarters at Douglas hotel, Beaumont street and Lawton avenue. The association is composed of a large number of the leading educators of the Negro race and all of its past sessions, which have been held in cities farther South have been attended by several hundred delegates, and th St. Louis meeting is expected to attract an unusually large attendance on account of the city's accessibility. Dr. Booker T. Washington, president of Tuskegee Institute, will be one of the principal speakers. The officers of the association are: President, W. T. B. Williams, agent of the Slater fund, Hampton, Va.; vice presidents, Inman E. Page, president A. and M. college, Langston, Okla.; N. B. Young, president A. and M. college, Tallahassee, Fla.; L. S. Clark, president Baton Roe college, Baton Rouge, La.; F. L. Williams, principal Summer high school, St Louis, and I. M. Terrell, supervisor of schools, Fort Worth, Tex.; secretary, Ida C. Blummer, city schools, Washington, D. C.; assistant secretary, Mrs. J. E. Porter, city schools, Okmuglee, Ok.; corresponding secretary, J. R. E. Lee, director academic department, Tuskegee institute, Tuskegee, Ala.; treasurer, J. A. Martin, principal city schools, Jackson, Miss.; registrar, G. H. Gavin, principal city schools, Winchester, Ky.; chairman executive committee, M. W. Dogan, president Wiley university, Marshall, Texas. Certainly Not It the new trousers skirt starts near riots in New York, Paris, and Madrid, there is every reason to believe that it would cause earthquake and volcanoes in a town like Charleston, S. C.-Manchester Union. IS LEWIS A PHILANTHROPIST? If He Takes the Job as a Recex Ap pointment he may Pay Ell Certifed. Boston.—(Special—To what extent William H. Lewis, the Negro lawyer from Boston, named to be an assistant attorney general in the department of justice, is a philanthropist will be determined during the recess of congress. After rumors of his appointment dating from two weeks before election day, the president sent the name of Lewis to the senate a few days before it adjourned. It was not confirmed. Since the vacancy due to the resignation of John G. Thompson took place before the adjournment of congress, Mr. Lewis must serve until confirmed without salary, if at all. He has not reported for duty at the department. The salary of his office is $5,000.—Boston Transcript. Chaffing Reggy. "What's the matter with Reggy?" "Oh! some rude girl asked him if he was a suffragette." Optimistic. "What do the reports from the Southern training camp indicate?" "That we'll have eight championship teams in each league." He Knew Human Nature. Stranger—"Here is a little poem which I submitted to a number of my nearest and dearest friends, and they all said it was worth printing." Editor (who has friends himself)—"I am delighted to get it. sir. A thing which a man's bosom friends fail to criticize must be about perfect." NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL IS DOING GOOD WORK DOCTOR BROWN SCHOOL AT WIN TON, N. C., WAS STARTED WITH $10.00. WHITE CITIZENS ENCOURAGE White Citizen Says School is Worth $100,000 to the City of Winton, N. C.—(Special.)—Many years ago this was a poor country village and the Negro population did not have the environments which would make them a wholesome factor in the activities of the community. During the summer of 1884, there came to this community a young man, a graduate from the college department of Shaw university. Doctor Tupper, the founder of this great university saw the needs of the people in Hertford county, of which this town is the county seat, and commanded Dr. C. S. Brown to come to this town and build a school, where educational facilities were sadly neglected. Doctor Tupper gave Doctor Brown $10, which caused him to interrogate the note educator as follows: "Are you serious Mr. President? What can be done with $10?" The president replied, "It is exactly $10 more than I had when I came to Raleigh after the war and began to build this great institution." Young Brown decided to go and after his first visit to the town he found that he had a vexatious proposition, so he returned to Doctor Tupper, to receive another command which was "Be a man, stay!" Because of this command today the citizens of this section of the state which is a tribute to the founder of Shaw university, and Doctor Brown, its principal and factor in the higher development of his race. The influence of this educational work is felt throughout the state. Today the majority of the Afro-American residents heer own comfortable homes with well kept yards and beautiful gardens and they are imbued with civic pride. They are thrifty and prosperous and they are interested in a number of fraternal, religious and educational movements which show them to be splendid citizens. This excellent condition is due to the work of the school. Rev. Charles T. White, D. D., LL.D, who resigned the presidency of Colby university, Maine, to accept the present position as assistant secretary of the American Baptist Missionary Society, in addressing an audience in the North in part, said: "A long story is briefly told when we remember that the school," referring to Doctor Brown's institution, "has been built and that $10 was the first of many offerings which made possible its fruitful growth. There hundreds of students are in attendance. Many of them go to higher institutions to complete their education and to become lawyers, physicians, teachers, bankers and ministers to their race. The principal of whom we are speaking was offered a very large salary a few years since, but declined that he might serve his people in a humble capacity. He now presides over school of 200 pupils." He continued by saying: "It you should take a ride of 20 miles from this school and return, you would find that most of the land is owned today by negroes, and they live in comfortable houses. This school not only sends forth boys and girls each year to be the leaders of their people, but also prepares the greater number who stay on the farm and become intelligent tillers of the soil. With rare exceptions these pupils become active and earnest Christians in the rural districts and city churches Doctor Brown is an uniring worker among his rural neighbors. He is a graduate of this college and theological departments of Shaw university and since has received the degrees of A. M, and D. D. He has toured Europe twice and traveled extensively in this country and Canada. His ability and sane leadership has made him one of the race's most conservative and progressive leaders, and he is regarded as a deep thinker and a forcible speaker. His utterances are such that thousands of couples of his speeches have been printed and distributed through the country. He is correspondent secretary of the Baptist State Convention; president of the Lott Carey Baptist Foreign Mission convention, which is one of the most influential religious bodies in the race; secretary of the Grand Lodge of Masons' for North Carolina besides filling his pastoral duties. The man who has a place for everything thinks his wife ought to stay at home. Prejudice will never look reason in the face. Clocks do a lot of soldiering—they mark time. If a fact is too material it is apt to be distorted. A cheerful spirit will lighten the load of any burden. Selfish motives have a way of getting a strangle hold on conscience. Some men alleviate pain by laying on of hands, while others inflict it in that way. Satan is blamed for many things he would not stoop to do. Every time some men get blue they want to paint the town red. Imagination is the imp that tempts men to attempt to deceive their wives. A NEW INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL Savannah, Gc.—(Special)—A. M. E. ministers of this section of the state, which composes the Georgia conference, have organized themselves into an educational association and have secured in the suburbs of this city 22 1.2 acres of land, on which an industrial institute is being established. Rev. P. W. Greatheart, of St. James' Tabernacle, and Rev. R. H. Singleton, pastor of the leading negro Methodist church here, are president and secretary. Rev. R. D. Stinson, of Atlanta, an earnest, industrial advocate, has been offered the full control of the project if he will take charge and develop the plant. It is not known here what position Stinson will take in the matter. He held two or three educational mass meetings a year ago in the negro churches of the city, when Judge Samuel B. Adams, leading white minister, and other citizens took part. COLORED FIRE HERO DEAD. Honored Colored Man of Haverhill, Mass., Who Was Policeman and Then Fireman. Haverhill, Mass.—(Special.)—Sidney Mason, the best known colored citizen of the city, died at his home on Elm street, Bradford district, after a several months' illness. His demise marks the passing of a man who has won unusual honor in the field of his labor, for when the town of Bradford was annexed to the city of Haverhill in 1897 he was appointed to the permanent staff of the fire department, the first and only colored man ever so honored. About forty years ago when colored people had found the North a free home for themselves, young Mason was inspired to come and he followed others to Bradford. He was several times elected by the town as a constable and served in the town fire department as well. As a horseman he was an expert in care and control. He drove hose 5 until about three years ago, when he retired to become a coachman for William B. Klimball, his advanced age making the more arduous duties of a fireman too great for him. During his service as a firefighter and policeman, he gained distinction for courage and fairness. AGAINST SEPARATION OF RACES. W. P. Dabney Thinks It Is Not a Well-Advised Scheme to Divide the Races. Cincinnati.—(Special.)—Not all of the colored people of the city are in favor of separate public schools for colored children, and one of the more prominent opponents of the plan is Prof. W. P. Dabney, paymaster in the city treasurer's office and editor of the Republican Union. To the Times-Star Professor Dabney said: "I can see no more reason for the separation of colored children than I can for having separate schools for Hungarians, separate schools for Italianes or any other race or color of people. We are all citizens, all taxpayers, directly or indirectly. Instead of establishing schools that will still further promote race antagonism let us rather bring the races together. If a colored child, any particular colored child, is unfit to attend a school, let that particular child be excluded, just as you would exclude any particular white child. I am most decidedly against the separate school plan. It looks to me that it is a clever scheme for some colored men to get a job for themselves and is not for the purpose of promoting the welfare of the race." MOVE TO HONOR LANGSTON Plan to Raise Money for Oil Painting to Be Hung in Howard University. Washington, D. C. —(Epecial).—A number of prominent residents here have started a movement to raise subscriptions for an oil painting of late Congressman John Mercer Langston of Virginia, the same to be bung in Howard university. Mr. Langston was at one time dean of the law department of the university, and his widow is now living in a residence near the university. Mr. Langston was graduated from Oberlin college, and was one of the few colored men to receive a collegiate training before the Civil war. He was the only colored man that ever represented Virginia in the national house of representatives. Elinor Glynn's play *Three Weeks* did not last three hours in lithaca, N. Y. The Cornell students would not stand for it. There's a style of censorship that works.—Spracuse Post-Standard. A Brooklyn preacher declares that at some distant period of eternity all earthly families will be reunited in heaven. Think of what the celestial paragraphers will do to Nat Goodwin and his herd of wives then.—Houston Post. One of the hardest things in this world for an inexperenced lover to do is to distinguish between blush tints and brush tints—Dallas News. It is a little early for any cry of "Champ Clarmism," but in the course of events in which animosities are inevitable it is almost sure to come.—Albuquerque Journal. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. Booker Washington has said that all the bad deeds of the south are widely advertised, while but few good deeds ever get into print. That is true in a measure. The other day one of these postal banks was opened in Middlesboro, Ky. A wealthy white citizen, J. H. Bartlett, opened an account in the bank for every school child in the town, white and colored, penny and penny alike. This fine exhibition of genuine interest in the coming men and women of this particular community ought not to go unnoticed. Mr. Bartlett is a type of a rapidly increasing number of white Southerners who have sense enough to see that their section is doomed unless all the people come up together.—New York Age. ```markdown ``` Doctor Taylor, health officer of Columbia county, Kentucky, reports that in the first year of his administration he fumigated thirty houses where deaths from consumption had occurred and in the following year performed a similar office for twenty-eight houses. In the first year nine of the thirty were the dwellings of colored people. Doctor Taylor says he gave talks to the Negroes on ventilation and sanitation, told them to put windows in their houses and to live much in the open air. He thinks this did some good, as in the succeeding year he was called to fumigate only three houses where colored people had died of consumption. △ △ △ What would a community be without its schools, is not easy to answer. The communities without any schools are living examples. There was a time in our history when the white people objected to the presence of Negro schools, but their wholesome influence has been so potent that they are now welcomed and many times encouraged in financial ways. There can be no doubt about the wholesome influence shed on the community in which a Negro school may be established. Negro teachers feel the responsibility of moral training more than any other, and it is in this direction their efforts are turned daily.—Atlanta Truth. ▲▲▲ Principal Booker T. Washington of the Tuskegee institute has received from King Frederick and Queen Louise of Denmark autographed photographs of their majesties in acknowledgment of his work, "Up From Slavery," which they have had the pleasure of reading. King Frederick and Queen Louise entertained Mr. Washington at the palace, when he was in Copenhagen, Denmark, last summer. Queen Alexandra of England was present on that occasion. ▲▲▲ Dr. Willis E. Sterrs of Decatur, Ala., is the proprietor of the Cottage Home Infirmary and Nurse Training school. The building contains eighten sixteen toooms, wards and parlors. The arrangements within are modern, saintary and complete. Exceptional advantages are offered to young women to take nurse training free of cost to them. There were over one hundred-fifty (150) cases treated during last lear and not a single death. The Memphis Park Commissioners are having trouble trying to select a location for a Negro park. Although the opinion throughout the city seems to favor such a park, every location suggested is opposed by property owners. ```markdown ``` Ministers who can find time to devote to politics and every worldly scheme gotten up and who is more treacherous and vindictive than charitable evidently missed his calling. There was a time when ministers did not engage in such pastimes as horse racing, prize fights, etc. But those were other days and better days—othr ministers and purer ministers. it would be refreshing to witness a genine effort on the part of this class of Bible smashers to save some souls. ▲▲▲ Our people here and elsewhere must more than ever value their earnings and live for results that will tell in the interest of the race as a mass, and appreciate those who will not only consider them in words, but deeds. Let us not be so narrow as to feel that because we are made to feel blue over some ill things that there is no hope as we are not the only people who have the bitters of life as well as the sweets. Patronize your own people's business if you would rightfully expect them to provide a place for your boy or girl. ```markdown ``` As a Negro opens up any kind of business, other Negroes will stand ground and say to each other, "That Negro had better go to work." Thus, our enterprises are stalled to begin with by those who ought to encourage them. ▲▲▲ When the Negro business and professional element learn and practice the get-together elements of strength and quit the "if I can't you shouldn't foolish our business and professional life will have a healthy and fruitful growth."-Western Star. IN UNION THER 57TH MARTH Y FIVE CENTS. AN CULLINGS The suggestion that the National Negro Press Association take steps to hold exercises in connection with the regular program of the session of the National Negro Business League at Little Rock is an excellent one, and will be acted upon by the officers of the Press Association. The N. N. P. A. is an organic part of the N. N. B. L. and a demonstration of its plans and policies will be a very proper and highly interesting feature of the open session of the Business Letague. The Press Association was given a hearty endorsement by Doctor Washington at the New York meeting last August, and has the united support of the newspaper men of the race.-Florida Sentinel. ▲▲▲ Henry Mitchell of Georgia, starting out with practically nothing, has by hard labor, done what very few could accomplish, with only the help of a little red ox to do his ploughing, hauling and everything else of the kind he has within five years paid the principal and interest that he owed for fifty acres of good, fertile land. He is now the owner both of the land and a near dwelling house which he has built thereon. The Atlanta Constitution, speaking of Mr. Mitchell's activity and perseverance says that he is an example of industry to both white and The Texas Medical association has just closed a very successful session at Austin. When the time came for giving clinics, the Austin sanitarium, white, opened its doors to the colored physicians, Dr. I. C. Westmoreland, eye, ear and throat specialist, of Nashville, Tenn., performed three operations. Doctors Blultt, Crary, Bryant and Hamilton also performed operations. The officers of the Texas Medical association are Dr. J. R. N. J. Atkinson of Greenville, president; Dr. W. F. Crawford of Austin, vice president; Dr. R. T. Hamilton of Dallas, secretary, and Dr. A. E. Hughes of Clarksville, treasurer. It is often too true that the very strongest among us become ennared and weakened by apparent prosperity and business popularity, which, if the real truth is known, the apparent prosperity and popularity are more imaginary than real. Many a time the wily Americans, because of environments that makes publicity and popularity convenient, march off triumphantly with laurels rightly belonging to the Columbus of honest toil, sacrificial privations, mental strain, obscure personal worth brought about by less favorable environments. ▲▲▲ True friendship is shown more by what we do than what we say. For one to feign friendship with his lips, but seek, under disguise of friendship, to impede the progress, impugn the motive, depreciate the worth, overlook the good, magnify apparent faults, and disregard the rights of another—such a friend (?) is the most despicable enemy with whom to contend—Western Star. ▲▲▲ A selfish person should be shun for the same reason you would shun a man with a paint pot in each hand; you may not be afraid of the man, but you don't want to sell your sloths Shun a selfish person, dear reader; for there's no trick too low to be played by them under any effective garb to bring about your downfall if they consider it (your downfall) a stepping stone to their greatness. ▲▲▲ It is was as easy to do business as it is to talk business, most of us would be commercial kings. However important you may think yourself to be, remember there are others. There is one great lesson that should be learned and remembered by the Negro—punctuality. Few they are among us that know what it is to be on time.—Charleston Messenger. Edward Price of Dothan, Ala., who is said to be the largest Negro merchant in the state, has recently built in the heart of the business district a substantial brick structure, 50 by 125-feet, two stories high. The cost of the building and ground is $10,000; the yearly volume of the business amounts to $30,000. ```markdown ``` The Colored Teachers' Association of New Orleans has subscribed $250 to be used in tuberculosis prevention work. It is proposed to make that amount the nucleus of a fund for the erection of a sanitarium for colored consumptives. The Negro business and professional men of Selma, Ala., seemingly are doing well in nearly every line of business. ```markdown ``` If one colored man in business won't treat you right a. r. "fall out" with all the other Negro; business men, another colored firm. ```markdown ``` There is always room at the top for the ambitious and faithful; nevertheless, in attaching to such height, it is not necessary to pull your brother down—Georgia Breadaxe. One Year. . $1.50 Six Months. . 1.00 Three Months. . .50 Subscribers are requested to re- mit by postoffice money or- der or registered letter. Entered at the postoffice In Cleveland Ohio, as second-class matter Address all communications to HARRY C. SMITH Editor and proprietor, THE GAZETTE, Blackstone Building, Cleveland, O. Member Ohio Legislature: 1894 to 1896; 1896 to 1898; 1900 to 1902 THE GAZETTE is the oldest, and has the largest bona fide circulation, double that of any newspaper in the Interest of Afro-American, published in the state of Ohio, and comparison with any will immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWSIEST AND BEST In the country. Dr. Booker T. Washington is going to have an "International Congress" of his own, down at Tuskegee, Ala., in April of next year. Therefore, those who will attend the one to be held in London, Eng., this summer, needn't get "chesty" as a result of the fact. The Cleveland Journal, which died the week of March 11, was resuscitated the following week, just long enough to hold its "eighth anniversary celebration at Mt. Zion Congregational church, this city, on March 21, 1911," and then promptly laid down and died again, missing its issues of March 25 and April 1. "Nother "break down," we suppose. That Chicago model (white) who was induced to refuse to pose, by a prejudiced white student, because an Afro-American student was present, apologized to the faculty, saying she had doubtless made a mistake and that she would not do so again. The prejudiced student was "fired." "Some" faculty, in that Art Institute, isn't there? Good! To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men: The human race has climbed on protest. Had no voice been raised against injustice, ignorance and lust, the inquisition yet would serve the law, the guillotines decide our least disputes. The few who dare must speak and speak again to right the wrongs of many.—Ella Wheeler Wilcox. I honor the man who in the conscientious discharge of his duty dares to stand alone; the world, with ignorant, intolerant judgment, may condemn, the countenances of relatives may be averted, and the hearts of friends grow cold, but the sense of duty done shall be sweeter than the applause of the world, the countenances of relatives or the hearts of friends.—Charles Summer. I am convinced myself that there is no more evil thing in this present world than race prejudice; none at all. I write deliberately—it is the worst single thing in life now. It justifies and holds together more boseness, cruelty and abination than any other sort of error in the world. Through its body runs the black blood of coarse lust, suspicion, jealousy and persecution and all the darkest poisons of the human soul.—G. Wells in the New York Independent. The Associated Press of this country seems to be working over-time trying to stop the emigration of our people from Oklahoma and other southern states, to northwest Canada. All Afro-Americans who land there with $50 or more and their railroad and other transportation, cannot be barred from that country. This is the Canadian law and our papers in the south particularly should spread the news as quickly as possible. The Associated Press is trying to discourage the emigration. Three of President Taft's cabinet members, Messrs. McVeash, Dickinson and Fisher, have residences in the twenty-first ward of Chicago, and all three are democrats, says the Chicago daily Inter Ocean. Secretary of War Dickinson claims Tennessee as his place of residence and calls Missisippi his home state. He "glories the fact" that he was in the rebel army during the war of the rebellion, and advocates "segregation for Negroes." Now, "Hurrah, for Taft," if you can It is really astonishing to what extent learned men of the race will go, at times, to court the favor of their superiors, especially if these latter be white men of ability and power to be stow favors of value. The Literary Digest (N. Y. City) of a recent date, quotes Dr. R. E. Jones, editor of the S. W. Christian Advocate (New Orleans, La.), and Rev. M. C. B. Mason (Cincinnati), first secretary of the Freedmen's Aid Society, both members of the M. E. Church, as saying that the reason why no "Negro" has been elected a bishop of the Protestant Episcopal and Methodist Episcopal churches is "that the race has produced no preacher of preeminence." As if every white bishop of the two church connections mentioned, and all others for that matter, were or are even now, "preachers of preeminence." Stop it! Drs. Jones and Mason. The typical American of the future will be of the Indian type, dark-eyed, black-haired and dark-skinned, according to Dr. A. E. Jenks, head of the department of anthropology of the University of Minnesota. Continuing, he is among other things: "Evolution is caused by two factors, environment and the injection of new A blood types. Both factors are now at work breaking down the extreme blond. Without the injection of new blood, the environment alone should produce the change to the Indian type." The "new blood" is being "injected," alright, and if the whole truth were known at astonishing rapid rate. While many it may come from "the Italians, Jews and other immigrants from southern Europe largely Slavonic," no inconsiderable amount (and it is on the increase) comes from the Afro-American. Of course, Dr. Jones could hardly be expected to bring out this point in a daily newspaper interview. The latter would hardly permit it. THE WHOLE TRUTH. No, the South is not without Negro officeholders, reports to the contrary notwithstanding. The government payroll is adorned by the names of Joseph E. Lee, Collector of the port at Jacksonville, Florida; Gen. Robert Smalls, collector at Beaufort, S. C.; Bush Recorder at Public Moneys at Laird Roar Art Museum under, Receiver of Public Moneys at Montgomery, Ala.; T. V. McAllister, Receiver of Public Moneys in Mississippi; J. M. Holland, a $3,000 man in the federal service at New Orlans, besides a number of postmasters, many letter carriers and a goodly number officeholders and other employees. The truth will be no who is "on the level."—Pensacola (Fla.) Sentinel. Very true, confere; but some more truth, in connection with the above, would be to say that President Taft has "let out" of the federal service, in his two years' incumbency of the executive office, many more Afro-Americanes than are referred to directly and indirectly, in the Sentinel's editorial note republished above. Then too, it occurs to us that, as compared with what the South had before the advent of President Taft and his almost democratic cabinet, and what it has now in the way of Afro-American representation in the federal service in that section, one is almost if not quite justified in feeling that "the South is without-Negro officeholders," so few remain "to tell the tale." And another thing, dear confere, it will be just as well for us to discontinue the publication of the above list, or it will not be long until most, if not all of them, will be "let out" also by the President. You know that is his "new Southern policy." and he has never been a bit backward in proclaiming it, either before or after his election. In this case, our people need the whole truth and not only a part of it. Therefore, all, the Pensacola Sentinel included, should be "on the level" and not mislead, even indirectly. THE NEGRO, THE JEW AND CIVIL SERVICE. A Civil Service examination was held in this City on February 23rd to fill a vacancy in the position of law clerk, stenographer and typewriter at $1600 per annum in the office of William L. Day, U. S. District Attorney. About ten candidates took the examination. An Afro-American stood first and third, and a Jew second on the list. James G. Bachman, (white), who on Saturday last was appointed as Assistant U. S. District Attorney, and who was at the time temporarily employed in the office of District Attorney Day, was among those who took the examination. Bachman failed to qualify in the competitive examination for the place, and as soon as this was known the Department of Justice at Washington, D. C., acting on Mr. Day's recommendation, abolished the position of law clerk, stenographer and typewriter, and in lieu thereof appointed Bachman an Assistant U. S. District Attorney for Mr. Day's office, thereby ignoring the three persons, Messrs. Henry L. Thomas, Nathan Rappaport and Edward Dunjill, who stood highest on the eligible list, and who were certified for appointment to the position for which they had qualified in a regular competitive Civil Service examination. The candidates are now wondering, if the examination was not held for the purpose of filling the position of law clerk, stenographer and typewriter, as advertised, for what purpose was it held? District Attorney Day, who is a candidate for Federal Judge, might be able to answer the question. The Civil Service laws require one of the first three names on the eligible list to be selected by the person seeking to fill the Government position for which the examination is held. This made it necessary for Mr. Day to select an Afro-American or a Jew, had he filled the position, conveniently abolished, from the list of eligibles mentioned above. All of which is of more or less interest, from at least two racial viewpoints, that of the Afro-American and the Jew. 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. 1985-K. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 1911 ULRICH DEFIES WASHINGTON. ULRICH DEFIES WASHINGTON. Pleading Not Guilty of Assault, Will Fight Charge, But Dodged an Important Question. --- New York City.—Albert Ulrich pleaded not guilty in court Monday to the charge of assaulting Dr. Booker T. Washington. The trial may be held next week. Ulrich was in a distinctly defiant mood. He asked for a speedy trial that he might "prove his innocence." He said: "I will insist on my defense." He vindicated." Dr. Washington was not in court. When Ulrich was asked regarding the charge brought by a woman now residing in East Orange, N. J., that she is his wife, and whether he is married to the woman who has appeared in the present case as Mrs. Ulrich, he "ducked" by referring the questioner to his lawyer. The latter also "ducked" answering the question directly and said: "We are going to have the entire matter settled in court and will not help the doctor very much. This case is going on to a finish." On his arrival in Tuskegee, Ala., on the 29th, ult., from his recent trip through the east, Dr. Washington is reported as saying that he would not drop the prosecution of Ulrich, but that it would be pushed. Good, if true. Everybody expects this to be done and Dr. Washington will make the mistake of his life, if he permits the prosecution to be dropped. "What One Silly Woman Did." The following from the Cleveland Daily News and written recently by Miss Edna K. Woolley, a staff-writer of that paper, is so fair and out of the ordinary, that it is entitled to republication in the Gazette at this time: "A senseless woman's suspicion, and a senseless man's sudden use of his fists engendered by that suspicion, have put into a New York hospital one of the best-characterized men in the United States. Booker T. Washington is a Negro. At the same time he is a gentleman, and his whole appearance bears out the term. He carries himself as a teacher and character are stamped on his face. No person of reasonable discernment would brand him, even at first glance, as a skulker or a "Jack the Peeper." But because he is a Negro, and because some women are silly, and because some men are easily moved by silly women, Booker T. Washington was beaten up by a muscular individual twice his size, the husband of a woman who had hysterically informed him that a Negro was lurking about the hall of the flat building in which the couple lived. The woman had been out exercising her dog. Upon returning to the house, she peered at the names under the letter boxes in the hallway, where he was waiting for a man in the building, with whom he had an appointment. The woman immediately jumped to the conclusion that, since the stranger was a Negro, he could be no good. Having so informed her husband, he sailed forth and, with out asking an explanation, he moved down. Washington claims that his assailant had some kind of a stick with which the attack was made. At any rate, the celebrated Negro, who has perhaps done more to morally and industrially elevate his race than any other single man, was so badly beaten that he had to be sent to a hospital. This happened in New York, where race feeling runs high. Perhaps it could not happen in Cleveland, but perhaps in any place, anywhere. Because a man's skin is not white, has too often been made the excuse for assaulting and even killing Negroes. There is too much prejudice against the Negro because of his color. He is, as a rule, the most peaceable and gentle of individuals, a good citizen, and usually an example of courtesy, which many white man would do well in. There is no reason of course. But that is no more reason why we should suspect every Negro on sight, than every white man because there are many—very many —bad white man. The colored man has his faults. But when you start matching his faults with those of the white man, you will find that the Negro hasn't begun to learn. And, nine times out of ten, you will find that the 'bad nigger' is what the white man has made him into, and he has as his brother, as nearly as he can. And whether he is good or bad depends largely upon the example which is set before him. In the just-cited case of Mr. Washington—had he been a white man, and so evil that he polluted the atmosphere about him, he in all probability would have passed muster with the foolish woman who incited her husband to go forth. And more than one race riot has had just as unreasonable and unjust a beginning. More than one lynching of a Negro has covered the crime of a white man. In the south the race problem has to be handled differently than in the north, it is true. But it is also true that here in the north the average Negro, in spite of his often evident sense of importance is a slave—that is, a slave—the average white man of his station—and should be given just as good treatment as any other citizen. We have no right to suspect him of evil or maltreat him because of his color." FRESH OHIO NEWS OUR OWN WRITERS' WHAT OUR PEOPLE ARE DOING IN MANY CITIES AND TOWNS OF THE STATE. INTERESTING PERSONAL NOTES Social Functions—Church and Lodge Items—Marriages and Deaths—Literary, Musical and Other Notes of Interest. Hamilton.—The residence of Dr. E. S. Dickerson of Cairo, Ill., was almost totally destroyed by fire on the night of Mar. 30. Loss nearly $5,000. Mr. and Mrs. Dickerson barely escaped. Cause of fire unknown. Dr. Dickerson, a son of Mary. Dickerson of this city, is a graduate of Western Reserve Medical College, Cleveland, and has a good practice. Sandusky.—Mr. and Mrs. V. Jones, Mrs. Scott's daughter, Mrs. S. Taylor and Mrs. Watson are ill.—The social given at Mrs. S. Scott's by the Misses R. Garrett, H. Alexander and L. Gillkerson was a success.—Parlor club social at Mrs. P. Pates' on the 11th.—Eastern church churches. Mrs. M. Williamson has rheumatism. —Order The Gazette from the local agent Uhrichsville. — Mr. Frank Merrill has left for Tippecanoe, where he will engage in the barber business. — Mrs. Richard Boone of Massillon was the guest of Mr. Merrill. — Mrs. Hauley Cooper of Cadiz, was the guest of Miss Bessie Scott. — Mr. James Harris of Cadiz was here last week. — Mrs. Mary Clark is able to be out after a severe attack of the grip. — Mrs. Lida Hill visited Massillon and Mr. Clark and sent of New Philadelphia, have accepted positions here. Mt. Pleasant—Mrs. W. M. Randall and two daughters, of Martins Ferry, spent Sunday here—Mr. and Mrs. Harris have returned home and Mrs. Winston, evangelist, has gone to N. Y. City—Miss Pearl Newcome entertained on Sunday evening; Mr. and Mrs. Harris have returned home and Mrs. Blanche Becks and Mr. W. Randolph—Rev. Butler of Steubenville, held quarterly meeting, here, Tuesday evening—Mr. A. Wren, Miss E. Moten and Mr. R. Jackson were in Dillonville, this week, Miss J. Klizzer on Monday, Miss K. Steeman's goat—Several conversations at the revival.—Mr. H. Goins has returned to Chicago. Akron—Mr. Richard Douglass, an employee of the N. O. T., had an extensive trip through northern Ohio and Pa. in the interest of the company, the past week.—Mr. Charles Lewis of Cleveland, is here visiting his mother.—Mr. Holly of Cleveland, is here visiting relatives.—Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Holmes have located on Hill St.—Miss Ollie Ramsey and Mr. Cooper of Cadz are here visiting relatives.—Mrs. Hattle Douglass is visiting relatives in Cleveland.—A.D. Ramsey was never recently on call with your friends and acquaintances to read The Gazette, giving the local representative their order for the same.—Mr. Richard Jones was in Cleveland last week. Martins Ferry.—Madam Winston's lecture was a decided success. Great credit is due the president, Miss G. Grandison. Dr. and Mrs. Snelson of Bellaire, and Miss Blackwell of Bridgeport,关心她, lain her attendance, Monday evening in honor of Mrs. Winston, Rev. and Mrs. Randall, Revs. Jackson and Young.—The revival at Mt. Pleasant has resulted in five conversions and several additions to the church thus far. Mrs. Randall and Madam Winston, returned to Mt. Pleasant on May 14. E. Burton has been returned to the M. E. church for another year.—Mr. Frank Worthington of Flushing, has purchased a farm near here and has located his family on it.—Prof. S. K. Bruce and other graduates of the High School, Rev. W. M. Bruce, and Rev. W. M. Randall in the church forward movement here. The outlook is excellent. Smithfield.—Rev. S. W. White conducted quarterly meeting and conference, Sunday and Monday, in Cadiz, Rev. W. H. Veney and G. Davis officiated at Sunday's service here, the program —Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Guy and sons, Mr. and Mrs. D. Bolden of Steubenville, dined with Mrs. E. H. Harris, Sunday, and Mrs. S. White with Mrs. W. H. Veney.—Miss M. Cooper has been quite ill. Mrs. A. J. Guy and Mrs. here.—Mr. C. Bigsby spent Saturday and Sunday in Hopedale.—Mrs. H. Harris entertained Miss M. Beall, Sunday. Mr. Harris recently sold a fine pacing horse.—Mr. F. Ramsey has moved his family back to Hopedale into their own house.—Mr. D. Christian moved to the Valencia town. Mr. D. Wash-boy has moved to the north end of Main St. Cadiz.—Miss Daisy Davis was in Steubenville this week.—Miss B. Fox is ill.—Miss A. White is visiting in Steubenville.—Mr. Walter West of Scio, is here visiting.—Mr. Geo. Neubey is visiting in Youngstown.—Mr. Walter West of Cansburg.—Mr. G. Neubey received 30 birthday cards.—Mr. W. Duling was in Carrollton, a few days. Mr. H. Duling is convalescing.—Miss M. Ransy was called to Akron.—Mrs. C. W. Green and children have located in Zanesville.—Mrs. G. Rudolph was out of town a few days.—Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Green.—16 Bufalo Mrs. W. Saunders has moved to her residence at 641 Deersville Av.—Miss E. Davis dined with Miss Ida Brown. Sunday.—Irene West is visiting Miss F. Smith.—Rev. Patsy Lewis, expasor of the M. E. church, spent a few days here.—Dr. J. H. Jones, P. E., being ill, sent Rev. White to hold quarterly conference at the A. M. E. church. The latter presented a work to the Correspondent must mail newsletter earlier on Mondays. Ed.) Youngstown.-Mr. and Mrs. John Davis Jr. are rejoicing over the arrival of a fine ten pound girl.-Mrs. Hannah Boggess, Mrs. Smiley, Mrs. Harris and Mrs. Jas. Fields are ill.-Oak Hill Avenue Sewing Circle will give an Easter entertainment Monday evening, the Chrysanthemum club of Canfield, entertained the Chrysanthemum club Monday afternoon.-Gold Leaf Co. D will meet April 13 in Foresters' hall. All members are requested to be present.-Miss Mamie Burdine of Bristol, Tenn. has returned home after a six weeks' sojourn here.-Mrs. Wm. Cooper is convalescent.-Mrs. Mary Taylor is In a Recent A. M. E. Conference- Ministers travelers-Personal- s, Eto. Washington C. H. Ohio.—The features of the district conference held here recently, and mentioned in our last letter, were interesting sermons by Rev. F. D. Day of Portsmouth, Rev. Walker of Chillcothe, Rev. Edwards of New Vienna, Dr. Mills of Cincinnati and Rev. F. H. Gow of Capetown, S. Africa; and the debate on mixed and separate schools. Revs. F. D. Scott and C. S. Williams made very good arguments in favor of the latter, but it remained for Revs. T. W. Hammond and F. H. Gow. The great majority of the large audience that mixed schools in the north, were far and away the better, from every good viewpoint, for all concerned and especially for our people. They were right too.—Misses Edith Rockhold, Elva Marchant and Ethel Watkins of Sabina, spent Thursday with Margaret Anderson.—Carrie Payne, 15 years of age, who died last Friday evening, was buried Monday. The Christian Ray Cromwell, Chris, Mason and Willie Anderson have returned from Athens and Parkersburg.—Jessil Warner has located here.—Mr. and Mrs. Harry James are in Jamestown to remain until fall. Mrs. Clark sent the new maid to her room to fetch a pair of scissors. When she returned, which she did after an unaccountably long absence, her mistress asked if she had any trouble in finding them. No maid*," replied the girl, "but what I did with him, they was that bint, no canw could use thim, so I took thim to the kitchen and straightened thim out wid a flatiron. Here they are, ma'am*," and she handed Mrs. Clark her much injured manicure scissors. DREHEN 200 New Upright $1.25 Terms: $1.25 w B. DREHER 502-4 E. Superior Ave. Great World TO YOUR HOME address on the coupon below—that soon as your name and address is re- dy will be sent to you prepaid. 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The Colonel, recognizing the peculiar work to be performed by his men who would go to the yellow fever camps, ordered out his regiment in line, and said to them: "Soldiers of the Twenty-Fourth, I want sixty volunteers to help nurse your white comrades who are suffering with yellow fever." Volunteers, three paces to the front," March!" Every man of that line stepped to the front. It was only a short time before word came to the Colonel that half of his men who had volunteered to nurse their white comrades had been taken down with yellow fever. A number of them had died of that terrible disease, and thirty more nurses were wanted to take their help in taking the Colonel called out his black soldiers in line. He told them what had happened, and again he commanded: "Volunteers, three paces to the front! March!" And again every man of that line stepped to the front. True Reformers' Bank Treasurer Gone Richmond, Va.-R. T. Hill, cashier of the defunct True Reformers' Savings Bank, has disappeared. He left his home here early one recent Friday morning, and his family looked for him all that day and until the following night when they reported his absence to the police headquarters. A diligent search for him in the city has been made and the only evidence pro- posed is that he was at Elba, a station of the B. F. P. railroad in this city, and it is thought, went to Washington. At To Colored Catholic Churches. At To Colored Catholic Churches. There is no color line drawn in the true house of God. Not only are Negroes freely admitted to the pews of all our sacred edifices, but, as occasion arises, they are welcomed to Adorable Sacrifice at the Altar. That are distinctively Colored Catholic churches in some of our larger cities in no way invalidates this contention. 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J." will repeat the question asked and sign his or her name (publication) to the same, The Gazette will try to answer the question Miss Marile Walker, of 9105 Blaine avenue, will leave Sunday for Indianapolis, to complete a course in the treatment of the hair and scalp under Madam C. J. Walker. Prof. Leslie Pinkney Hill, principal of Manassas, Va., Normal and Industrial school, has been in the city for about ten days in its interest. He called on The Gazette. The revival at St John's church community has been in interest and results obtained. Twenty converts joined church, Sunday. Mrs. Mary Smith of Zanesville, evangelist, will remain over Sunday. Wesley Crosby, 10614 Franklin avenue, N. W., was arrested one afternoon last week for failing to attend drill of Co. D, of the Ninth battalion, O. N. G. The complaint was made by Willie Green, captain. Peter Shy, twenty-five, of 1336 East 120th street, reported to the police that he had his pockets picked of $234 in a Chinese restaurant about 2 p. m. in the morning. He was by four men in the place he said. Prof. Isaac Fisher, principal of the Polytechnic Seminary of Danville, Ky., administrator of the Morris Barber estate, was in the city last week, looking into the affairs of Mr. Smith Bell (deceased) who was a brother of Mr. Barber. L. Thomas has returned to his position as a stenographer in the bureau of Yards and Docks, Navy Department, Washington, D. C., after a couple of months' visit with his wife and relatives in this city. Mrs. Thomas will return also, soon. There are five nice, airy rooms (down stairs) in good condition with bath, gas, toilet, and laundry at 2417 E. $24 street. Entirely separated from the upstairs. Most desirable—for good tenants who do not wish to move when well located. The Lincoln club met at Mrs. Blanche Gilmere's on the 31st, ult., and was served an excellent luncheon by the hostess after the regular business was disposed of. Next meeting at Mrs. C. H. Nunnicott's, E. 101st Jul. 14. The "Pekin Tigers," ball-team, managed by J. C. Morgan, formerly manager of a St. Louis team, will play at League park when the Naps are away, and be on the road when the Naps are at home. A dance, at an early date is announced, by the "Tiger" management. Mrs. J. D. Singleton of Hamilton, was the guest of Mrs. Rosa Johnson, while in the city; and Mrs. Cory Damage, of Mrs. Rosa Johnson, was Mrs. Chas. Rudd. Both were to attend the meeting of the executive board of the W. M. S. of the N. O. A. M. E. conference which was held in St. John's church, last Friday and Saturday. Mrs. Johnson returned last week from Marion and Baltimore, Md., where she attended an executive board meeting of the W. P. M. M. S. ATTENTION, READERSI 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 M. E. conference that met in Springfield, last week, has returned Rev. G. A. Sissle to Cory Chapel, for another year. The church at the corner of Scovill Av. and former Longwood Av. now a part of E. 36th St. and movements to purchase which were reflected time ago he remodeled before Corey's congregation occupies it. Mr. Walter Scott, age 35, died Monday morning and was buried Wednesday afternoon from his residence in E. 36th St., Dr. Chas. Bunday officiating. He leaves a wife and five children, the oldest but five and a half years old. Mr. Scott was a good husband and father, and his heart felt sympathy of the community. The Drama Study club, of which Mr. Horace Biggs is a member, and its friends gave him 'and Mrs. Biggs a miscellaneous "shower" on last Wednesday evening at Rev. and Mrs. J. M. Glilmore's. They received many beautiful and useful gifts. Games, music and refreshments during the evening. All left wishing Mr. and Mrs. Biggs a long and happy life. They are now at home on Quincy Ave., near E. 64th St. Sunday delivery of mail matter by carriers has been discontinued. Mail matter may be secured on Sunday, by those patrons to whom such delivery is a necessity, by renting a box at the main office, or at the station from which the week day delivery is made by carrier. Boxes at the Main Office will be accessible from 9:30 A. M. on; at stations from 9:30 A. M. to 10:30 A. M. only. Patrons desiring to secure on Sunday an occasional urgent letter of such intention will be notified of such intention with desirability including office of origin, at the Main Office or station from which delivery is made by carrier on week days, before noon of the preceding day. Calls for occasional urgent letters should be made, if at the Main Office, at the General Delivery men's window, from 9:30 A. M. to 10:30 A. M. and at stations from 10:00 A. M. to 10:30 A. M. The Charity Whist club, organized in the early fall for helping needy children, has been doing excellent work during lent, having made one dozen sheets and a dozen pairs of pillow-cases for the St. Clair Avenue Orphanage and a dozen little dresses for St. Ann's Asylum. This is most important because we cannot find words to properly express its great satisfaction as a result of the same. We are being properly treated in these two institutions and others of the city, and have been for years. What have we done for them to show appreciation? Other classes are alive to this sort of thing, but we always expect to receive, and never give in return. No wonder some local charitable institutions do not want our people in them. More power to the Charity Whist club than to the charity and all diligently place this city who see the point and rise and have risen equal to it. The club met at Mrs. Leatherman's, Saturday, and after the ladies had diligently plied the needle, were delightfully served. May their kind increase. Ladies, The Gazette salutes you. DOINGS OF THE RAGE Charles H. Smiley, the well-known Chicago caterer, is dead. Jack Johnson is serving 25 days in the San Francisco, Cal., county jail for automobile speeding. Rev. Ernest Lyon, who served as U.S. minister and consul general at Monrovia, Liberia, Africa, from the spring of 1903 until last June, has been tendered the appointment as consul general of Liberia at Washington, D.C. C. Phyllips of Alabama, numbering about 15,000, must discontinue the use of the Pythian name, emblems, banners and rituals, according to a decree from the Chancery Court of Montgomery, upholding a bill filed last May by the Grand Lodge, Knights of Pythias of Alabama (white) against our K. P. in that state. Booker T. Washington was very silent on the Peirce City massacre and the Atlanta mob murders and devastations, and it strikes us it would be better to continue the struggle to tougue on the dastard assault made upon him last Sunday night in New York—St. Louis (Mo.) Advance. Sister Mary Martha, 69 years old, and for fifty years a nun of the order of Oblate Sisters of Providence, died recently at St. Francis Academy, Normandy, Mo., where she has been for the last three years as prefect of the orphan asylum conducted by the Oblate Sisters, an Afro-American order. Sister Martha's name before becoming a nun was Miss Agnes Boyd. Complaints against the Metropolitan Mercantile and Realty Company, Brooklyn, have resulted in the arrest of Llewellen C. Collins, secretary. charged with having swindled Robert Stewart out of $475 in a real estate transaction. The company was incorporated under the laws of New Jersey with a capital of $1,000,000. It is alleged that during the ten years of its existence it has got considerable sums of money by fraudulent devices from our folk in New York and various parts of the country. Two clerks, Shelby J. Davidson, a Colored $1600 a year clerk in the auditor's office, and Edwin J. Dowling, (white), electrician for the Post Office Department, Washington, D. C., have collaborated in producing an electrical machine that automatically prints the money order fees as the amounts of the paid money orders are recorded for auditing purposes. It will reduce the work of listing, paid money orders 20 per cent, and leave twelve others available for other work in the office. 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The terms of settlement of the firemen's strike on the Queen & Crescent Railroad are a distinct victory for right and the Negro. By the agreement entered into Saturday week, the strike is declared off at once, the men are to be rehabilitated with fifteen days of尊权 standing and rights, no prejudice; Negro firemen are not to be employed north of Oakdale, Tenn. The percentage of Negro firemen on the Third District, between Chattanooga and Oakdale, Tenn, hereafter shall not exceed that of the other districts, not to have more than half of the passenger or preferred freight runs, and are not to be assigned to these runs unless entitled thereto by seniority and fitness for such service, and any question that shall arise and cannot be settled by the road and the men can be appealed by either side to Judge Martin A. Knapp of the court of the strikers was that the services of Negroes as firemen should be confined to local and slow freight trains and on yard engines. PAUL DUNBAR TAYLOR Xenia, O.—The Paul Lawrence Dunbar scholarship of $2,000 has been voted to Wilberforce University and the first student to benefit by it will be a member of the Dunbar family, Paul Lawrence Dunbar Taylor of Dayton, a nephew of the deceased poet, Prof. W. S. Scarborough, president of Wilberforce University, has received notification from Dr. David W. Clark, president having the matter in charge. Other members of the commission are: William Dean Howells, James M. B. H. Whitcomb Riley, Col. Thomas Went worth Higginson, Mayor Brand Whit lock and Dr. Booker T. Washington. The portraits given here are those of the poet, Paul L. Dunbar, and President Scarborough. CORRESPONDENTS WANTED. The old reliable Gazette destres 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: Za'ahin, Lancaster Lebanon, Chillicothe, Toledo, Troy, Akkron, Springfield, Piqua, Columbus, Cambridge, Steubenville, St Clairville, 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 will be promptly prompt. Our readers will oblige us greatly 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. They Want Good Homes! Homes are wanted for a bright, healthy, attractive, light-colored baby boy; for a little light-colored girl, about four years old, and for a very nice girl, rather light-colored, nine years of age. For particular writes to Cleveland Protestant Orphan Asylum. No 5000 St. Clair Ave., Cleveland O. 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Call. or Address Mail to 3 We Grow Our Hair Now Let Us Grow Yours With "PORO" TRADE MARK Registered growing all kinds, all even to the growing of orned the idea that such for hundreds, rapidly work is that we are be hair we have actually frequently mentioned us is the same" or "PORO" to use only "PORO" that the name "PORO" used only by MRS. A. M. ations to PINE STREET T. LOUIS, MO. THE PERSONAL SIDE OF D. PORFIRIO DIAZ It seems strange in view of the fact that he has been in the limelight for half a century that not one man in a hundred has heard or could tell you a truthful anecdote about Diaz the man This, because of two reasons; one is that to the world at large Diaz the so-called Despot is so tremendous a figure that his inner personality is lost, in comparison; the other and more potent reason is that like most truly great men. Diaz's personal life is an own people really fear him more than they love him, and the fact that he has no "English," as the Mexicans express it, keeps at an unsurmountable distance those of our Anglo-Saxon correspondents and smellers-out-of-news who might otherwise attempt, (I repeat "attempt") to interview Diaz in "person." One might note here on passant that Diaz knows far more English than he is supposed to; either as a safeguard, or through a queer sort of shyness (and I leave it the reader to make a choice) Mexico's great President refuses to answer or understand a word of English. Diaz at Eighty. Externally, at the ripe old age of eighty, Porfro Diaz is the most well-groomed, upright, bright-eyed and physically-alert man of over fifty that any army of the day can exhibit. Slender, magnificently set-up, soldierly in his every movement, this octogenian could easily out-walk, out-ride, and out-shoot many and many a soldier of half his own age, at the "presidents meeting", of last year, in El Paso, it was enlightening to listen to the "odious camarisons" drawn between Diaz and our own fate, puff Taft. Any onlooker ignorant of the fact would have believed the latter older than Diaz by at least a decade, whereas, there must be at least thirty years in Taft's favor. By reason of his erect carriage, President Diaz seems taller than he really is, for he would not measure five feet ten. His hair is very thick and—prematurely so in comparison with his tanned and healthy complexion and deep-set dark eyes. He has a splendid strong nose (was it not Wellington who said "give me a man with a nose") and a stern, square fight ing chin, shaded by a short white mustache. All in all, when attired in generalis uniform, with its pimp and glitter of gold and lacings and many medals and Orders, (it is safe to state that Diaz has had conferred on him every Order under the sun), there cannot be a much more striking and powerful figure than that of Profirio Diaz, of Mexico. Simplicity. Itself. Many people have remarked upon the fact that Diaz "rarely ever talks and never smiles." But I have known him to talk at length; he is blessed with a great sense of humor; and to one who believes that this great man is too obsessed with cares of state to smile or otherwise unbend, I would suggest—"only see Diaz in the company of children—preferably his own grandchildren. Then you will see him smile, laugh—it may be romp, though this I have never witnessed." In his private life Diaz is simplicity itself. At Chapultepec, he does not use the luxurious apartments which suited Maximilian's imperial tastes; Diaz's own rooms, where he works far into the night while the humble of his people slumber and sleep comprise a "sala" or office room where many matters of general importance are disposed of; and another smaller apartment. The latter has the simple furniture of a soldier's bed room, and on a plain iron bed herein this hard-working "Dictator" takes his briefs night's rest, when his long day's work has been completed. And at this eighty. Our own nerve racked, short-lived American statesmen look upon Diaz's achievements SOUTH CAROLINA'S CORN CROP Jerry Moore, the boy farmer of South Carolina, raised 228 1-4 bushels of corn on one acre. The average yield of corn per acre in this country last year was 27.4 bushels. That is, it took about nine acres of land generally to produce what Jerry raised on one acre. This fact shows how far behind the possibilities is our fruitbib; and how The test of a pleasure is the memory of it. Happiness is not doing what we like, but liking what we do. Stop watching for chances to turn up. Hustle out and turn them up. Life is a book. Read it carefully, for you can read it only once. Everything comes to him who waits, save that which he is waiting for. Build castles in the air by all means—then put foundations under them. The girl who treasures up a compliment instead of using it as social coin discovers the dross when it's too late. Everybody is ready to lend a helping hand at a dog fight. It does not require agricultural knowledge to raise a row. Bought experience comes high, but it is usually a good investment. The man who is a joke to most people is a serious proposition to him self. The man who is freest in giving advice becomes resentful when others offer it to him. To make fun is human, to overlook, divine. The angular woman has nothing to conceal by a nobble. Some women will switch off praise of others but puff up their own achievements. Sincerity outwears lots of pretty, frilly attractions which have no staying qualities. Pitty that the insanities of a lover don't count as circumstantial evidence in the divorce courts. When we look at death over lifes precipice, only then do we realize the warmth of commonplace humanity. GENERAL D. PORFIRIO DIAZ, PRESIDENT OF MEXICO. at his age, much as Methusaleh's contemporaries doubtless viewed his cycle of years. Yet consider Díaz's antecedents and, above all, his mode of life. Of soldierly Spanish blood, with a preponderance of Oaxaca-in-dan, President Díaz's ancestors and relatives of today have attained, and still live to the ripe old age of 105 and 115! Terraza, the cattle lord Madwould be President, and many of the Mexican rich. Every one knows that I been twice married; first, man ago to an Indian girl of Oaxaca died. One of her children, a ter, is married to the end wealthy la de Torre while son. Porfirio Jr. is a well-e Like the Indians, an d Japanese, Diaz eats little meat, few sweets, with little if any wine or liquor. His diet is largely one of the corn products; rice, the bean (or frijol), with liquid diet of good, pure water and a good deal of the Indian "atole," which is an Indian mixture much like gruel. A great believer in the old English saying that "the outside of a horse is the best thing for the inside of a man." Diaz is an untiring and magnificent horseman, taking a special joy in troop inspection and exercises. He is moreover an active pedestrian, which is unusual for a cavalryman of his years; and is conceded to be one of the finest and steadiest shots in North American. In fact, shooting trips are Diaz's only relaxations, and he dearly loves to don a "traje de cazar" (shooting rig) of shabbiness so pronounced as to reduce to despair that vivacious lady, Senora Diaz — affectionately known as "Carmencita." In the winter home on Calle Cadena, Mexico City, Diaz lives far more private and unostentatious a life than do his rich subjects. As for his wife, the Dona Carmen—that is another matter! She was the daughter of rich old Romero Rubio, is absolutely devoted to Don Porfrio, whose junior she is by some twenty years, and she it is who has the fortune of the family. For few people are aware that Doz himself is comparatively a poor man—not worth a twentieth of the fortune possessed by men like Reves. slack in their efforts are skill and intelligence. It also assures us that though the farm lands of the country are all taken up, their capacity is scarcely touched. There are vast areas still untaken, vast yields in the intensive fields, where brain and big crops go together. It is a fine outlook for this country, where genius and enterprise unite in Not From Politness. This was heard in an overcrowded Boston elevated train: "Say, Dick," said the young man whose football tactics had won him a strap in the rush. "Say, Dick, I've been riding in on the L'every morning except Sunday and holidays for two years, and I've never given up a seat to a lady yet." "You're a polite one," sneered Dick. "Nothing of the kind," retorted the young man. "I've never had a seat to give up."—Boston Post. Modern Childhood. "Son," inquired the old-fashioned uncle, "do you know the story of Jack and the Beanstalk?" "These musical comedies have no story worth mentioning," replied the new-fashioned nephew. "They are mostly made up of ballets and that sort of thing."—Washington Herald. No Wonder. "I wonder why the Puffups have stopped inviting us to the gatherings." "I suppose it was because we all ways went."—Exchange. A Matter of Language "The new waiter of yours describes the bill of fare in a way to make anybody hungry." "He wasn't, always a waiter. He used to be a press agent for a circus." A Sign. "They must be very new to society." "Why do you think so?" "The sandwiches that were passed around at their reception last night were so thick one did not need to take more than three of them to get a bite." No Wonder. A Sign. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 1911. Terraza, the cattle lord Madero, the would-be President, and many others of the Mexican rich. Every one knows that Diaz has been twice married; first, many years ago, to an Indian girl of Oaxaca, who One of her children, a daughter, is now the enormously wealthy de la Torre, while the only son, Porfrio Jr., is a well-educated competent engineer, and ordinarily his father's attach. As before stated, President Díaz's second wife is very popular with the people of Mexico. It is largely owing to her goodness and practical plety that he has begun to somewhat relax has hitherto stern attitude toward the church and priesthood of Mexico. Far from being an atheist (as he is generally mistakenly believed) Díaz thinks a great deal of the sort of religion that does genuine good; he prefers the school house to the church when it comes to the uplifting and bettering of his ignorant people, and he has no sympathy with Masses, incense and candles, hysterically religious women and the priests. Outside of Mexico the comment most frequently heard anent this great Mexican is that "he is, while the greatest ruler of today, a man of iron" . . . "without human interests". "so lacking in the magnetism and elan of Reyes, for example." (Reyes, indeed, whose secret popularity with the "gente" or masses of Mexico is due entirely to his anti-forign policy and sentiments!) One must admit that Porfirio Diaz is stern and hard, and there is little of his heart visible on his sleeve. But he has warm human instincts nevertheless; he is a good father and a devoted husband, and there is doubtless no better, firmer friend (nor bitter enemy) than he. Among the writer's best friends are warmly reckoned a certain Spanish-pushing the productiveness of the soil to its utmost limits. In the problem are involved, not only great crops, but a true citizenship. Intensive farming provides the finest avenue for intellectual culture and a noble life than can be found in all the professions and positions of fame and influence in the country. The first citizen of the republic is not the president, or the governor, or the financial magnate, but the quiet modest man who raises 200 bushels of corn to the acre. All hall to him. WORTH KNOWING. The trees which are used in the government work of reforestation are grown at eight governent nurseries in the Western forest reserves. In Chicago, out of every one thousand women in the age period from 25 to 29, at the last count, there were 314 who were unmarried. In Denver there were 331. In Manhattan and the Bronx there were 358. In Minneapolis there were 369. In Philadelphia there were 387. Because he was afraid a former "master," to whom he had been apprenticed to learn farming, but from whom he ran away to go to war, would lay claim to his person and force him to serve out his period of service, Daniel Sheldon, a veteran of the civil war, threw away his discharge papers and assumed the name of George Smith recently in Belidere, N. J. That the Romans of old knew something of vintages in proved by the finding of a vial of wine believed to be 2,000 years old in an old Roman cemetery near Bordeaux. Canada bought $172,784 worth of toys and dolls from the United States and $372,332 worth from Germany during the eight months ended November 30, 1910. Iceland has a society for the prevention of tuberculosis and is 'building a $75,000 sanitarium to accommodate 50 or 60 patients. In view of the style in the general run of French plays to which the young people cannot be taken, a group of Belgian women, headed by Mile Margerite Van de Wiele author of renown, are organizing a theatre for girls in Brussels. Indian family of Oaxaca, a stately, whitehaired lady of 90 odd, being the head of the house. Her husband was killed many years ago while fighting at the side of General, (then Colonel) Diaz. He left a helpress young widow and three small children and no father nor male relatives. Diaz has for many years looked after the interests of this widow and her children, watching the financial affairs fairly, clearer than his own. And in this charming home it was the writer's pleasant fortune to meet many times the President of Mexico, who spared many badly needed hours from other monumental affairs to patiently discuss with the old lady (now a trie vociferous and borous) such trivial personal matters as (1) "how to keep Crisofero (a harum-scarum attache) from the baccarat tables; how much longer another son should be kept at Stonyhurst, and what would be the most fitting name for Teresa's baby, Marla or Carmen?" A Ride in the President's Coach. A friend tells a droll experience of hers in the City of Mexico: "At that time" (twenty years ago) "I was but newly arrived, and knew little of the country and people, and absolutely nothing of the language and customs. Therefore I provided great sport for my younger relatives and friends, who hesitated not to play for my benefit many varied and practical jokes. For example, upon one occasion, after a long stop in the Cathedral, I was dismayed to find that I had a bare ten minutes in which to reach home, change my clothes and rush to meet a luncheon party. Our carriage had been sent away; no car was in sight, but upon imparting these things to my friends they said, airily: "Nonsense, that's easy enough. Wave at that coach over there; say to its 'coacher' 'Calle Numero Tanto,' and he will get you home in five minutes, particularly if you show him a silver piece." No sooner said than done. Leaving them giggling (to some reason to me unknown) I dashed across the street in a vigorous bee-line for the suggested coach. I barely noticed as I ran that it was an unpretentious yet dignified coupe, the horses plain, long-tailed ones, the coachman in ordinary dark clothes and black Mexican sombrer. Him I did not wait to interrogate, but diving into the carriage, I pulled the bell-cord and called to him the legend as put into my mouth by my friends. He jumped and almost dropped the reins in his surprise. Then, shaking his head and agitatedly waving his hands, he began to argue—at least I judged from his expression that he was arguing, and that in no mild way. I could in answer only repeat the address and, to no avail, showing him a dollar. He merely continued, to argue vociferously, shake his head and wave his hands. At this propitious moment a quietly dressed Mexican gentleman appeared, coming hurriedly toward the carriage. He stopped short when he saw me seated within, then smiled as he saw what the situation was. Lifting his hat, he said courteously: "To what street would you wish to proceed, Mees?" I gratefully told him; he spoke a curt word or two to the coachman, and then lifted his hat, with a pleasant smile, as that functionary touched up the horses and the carriage swung rapidly away. Passing swiftly down the street, I caught a glimpse of my friends, who were staring, wide-eyed, with smiles seemingly frozen on their countenances. I wondered what could be the matter with them. I began to understand when I reached my domicile and beheld the household almost falling from the windows, so surprised were they over my arrival in this particular coach. Cook three meals a day unflustered and roasts all her friends with the same calmness. Survives every species of masculine ill-treatment, yet almost dies from masculine indifference. Stands three house at the mirror over a new coifulture, then stands for anything her husband will do. Sits at a sewing machine ten hours a day, then is perfectly willing to sit five more at the moving pictures. When you give hostage to worldliness, it's like tipping the porter—it's lots more pleasant going. Life is like a railroad journey; some get off at the near stations, while others travel as far as the terminus. Some fellows are content to get an upper berth, while others are not even satisfied with "hogging" a whole section. Man takes to the smoker, but every once in a while he promenades through the coaches to see how all the woman fare without him. Unbiased opinions are usually on the square. GEMS OF THOUGHT The stormy March has come at last, With wind and clouds and changing skies; I hear the rushing of the blast That through the snowy valley flies —Bryant. One small cloud can hide the sunlight; Loose one string, the pearls are scattered; Think one thought, a soul may perish; Say one word, a heart may break —Adelaide A. Proctor. Of all the paths that lead to a woman's heart pity is the straightest.—Beaumont. Health is the second blessing that we mortals are capable of; a blessing that money cannot buy.—Walton. For truth is precious and divine; to rich a pearl for carnal swine.—Butler. The gratitude of place-expectants is a lively sense of future favors.—Korace Walpole. With the Paragraphers ```markdown ``` Have heard some talk about reduction in the price of upper berths, but what we want is a seat in the bleachers at the same old price, with the privilege of cussin' the umpire—Pensacola Journal. "Down in Louisville," says the Cleveland Leader, "they call a girl's laugh a liquid gurgle." And no doubt it has a queer effect on the heads of her male friends who drink it in.—Des Moines Tribune. Marriage notice of a couple who were wedding in 1864 has just been published in a New York newspaper. it is an even bet as to whether a messenger boy was called to take the marriage notice to the newspaper at the conclusion of the ceremony or wifey gave it to the old man to mail.—Oklahoma Capital. Germany has a bullet that glows while hurting through the air. It we can't have universal peace we might arrange so that an enemy be given his choice of being shot with a dum dum, soft nose, noiseless or singing bullet or an illuminated one carrying fireworks.—New York Telegram. The Scotch idea that Texas is a land of bloody knives and scalped captives doesn't beat the Texas idea of Scotland. According to our "dope" the chief occupation of the male population is posing in knee trousers or little sister's skirts for photographs to be put on oatmeal packages; and their one good poet, Bobby Burns, nearly starved to death.—Austin Statesman. If the truth could be discovered, probably it would be found that there are people in heaven who talk about absent ones and say "I told you so!"—Dallas (Tex.) News. "Wanted a boy to walk errands," reads an "ad" in a New York newspaper. This advertiser is a philosopher and one who does not demand the impossible.—Chattanooga (Tenn.) Times. "All men are born honest," says the Chicago News "but it requires constant practice to keep that way." Yes, and the weather prevents practice about nine-tenths of the time.—Dayton (O.) News. Andrew Carnegie says "most-millionaires' wives are not happy." It is probably due to the fact that the wife of nearly millionaire knows some other woman whose husband is a multi-millionaire.—Havana (Cuba.) Post. One look at some of the women waging a crusade against kissing will suffice to prove that they are not doing it in self-defense.—Richmond (Va.) Virginian. China will learn that it was all very well to cut its queues, but that it will have to cut a few eye teeth if it wants to start anything.—St Louis Times. Richmond Pearson Hobson is again beating his breast and seeing war with Japan within a year. Will somebody please step up and kiss the susceptible Alabamian? His old, pet remedy might do some good.—New York Telegram. Wireless messages have been received through the ribs of an umbrella on top of a moving freight car. Don't grumble hereafter when your umbrella is borrowed. It may be wanted for scientific purposes—Cleveland (O.) Plain Dealer. Attention has been called to a section of Greater Boston in which there are 14,000 people and but forty-four bathtubs. Perhaps most of the families in the section burn wood and have no use for a receptacle for their coal—Brockton (Mass.) Times. The decision of the Chatham county judge that a wife may work if she wishes, even though her husband objects, should go further, and compel father to work when everybody else does—Mason (Ga.) Telegraph. Guns have become so powerful that thicker armor must be provided. This will call for bigger guns, which will mean that thicker arms will come next. Then larger guns again. After this thicker armor and then heavier guns. All of which suggests that the dogs of war seem also to love the sport of chasing their tails—Birmingham (Ala.) News. Major Sylvester, chief of police of Washington, wants to establish a whipping post for men and women who bite policemen. Washington's "best" must be awfully handsome—Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle. To say "Oh, you kid," on the streets of Boston, Mass., will be a violation of the law. Those who engage in reminiscences can recall how there was something doing over such expressions as "Whoa, Emma! " "Ah There!" and "Go way back and sit down." All went by the board without calling forth village legislation—Wilmington (Del.) Star. The Baltimore Sun insists that it is perfectly proper to say "hello" to a telephone girl, unless she is a grasswidow, when the apt phraseology of telephonic address should naturally be, "Hay, there." "All the world likes a band wagon," declares the Washington Post. However, those who climb on it do so for all there is in it.—Wilmington (Del.) Star. It is stated that imported musical instruments are being undervalued. Never fear, they will declare (tameselves after they get in)—Washington (D. C.) Post. Maine, with nearly half a century of prohibition behind her, is going to start "a state farm for treatment of confirmed inebriates." Ain't it awful. Mabel!—Memphis (Tenn.) Commercial-Arpeal. We have not seen the new "aeroplane" skirt, but judge from its name that it ought to make a good sartorial companion for the balloon trousers.—Los Angeles (Cal.) Herald. Della Fox has gone back on the stage, which naturally raises the inquiry as to who left the door of the old lady's home unlocked? -Savannah (Ga.) Press. The Columbia State says: "Columbia is one of the few cities in the country where a quart is a quart." But not even the state will claim that, in Columbia, a drink is always a drink -Tampa (Fla.) Tribune. A CALL International Conference on the Negro Wednesday, Thursday and Friday April 17, 18 and 19, 1912. For some years past I have had in mind to invite here from different parts of the world—from Europe, Africa, the West Indies, and North and South America—persons who are actively interested, or directly engaged as missionaries, or otherwise, in the work that is going on in Africa and elsewhere for the education and upbuilding of Negro peoples. For this purpose it has been determined to hold at Tuskegee Institute, Alabama, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, April 17, 18 and 19, 1912, a little more than a year from this time, an International Conference on the Negro. Such a conference as this will offer the opportunity for those engaged in any kind of service in Africa, or the countries above mentioned, to become more intimately acquainted with the work and the problems of Africa and these other countries. Such a meeting will be valuable and helpful, also, in so far as it will give opportunity for a general interchange of ideas in organizing and systematizing the work of education of the native peoples in Africa and elsewhere and the preparation of teachers for that work. Wide knowledge of the work that each is doing should open means of co-operation that do not now exist. The object of calling this Conference at Tuskegee Institute is to afford an opportunity for studying the methods employed in helping the Negro people of the United States, with a view of education to what extent Tuskegee and Hampton methods may be applied to conditions in these countries, as well as to conditions in Africa. It is hoped that numbers of people representing the different governments interested in Africa and the West Indies, as well as representatives from the United States, and the countries of South America, will decide to attend this conference. Especially it is urged that missionary and other workers in these various countries be present and take an active part in the deliberations of the conference. It is desirable, in any case, to have any suggestions as to what might be done to make the work of the conference more helpful to all concerned. The names of persons who would like to be present, with whom you are acquainted, will be appreciated, and through you they are invited to be present and take part in the deliberations of the conference. Those who come to Tuskegee properly accredited will be welcomed and entertained as guests of the institution and will be under no expense during their stay here—Booker T. Washington, Principal, Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, Tuskegee Institute, Ala. He Nearly Remembered They were discussing a certain authoress at dinner, and a well-known critic raised a laugh by remarking, "Well, her hair's red, even if her books are not." The mild young man in the corner made a mental note of the sally for future use, and at another dinner party shortly afterward he carefully guided the conversation into literary channels. Fortunately, some one mentioned the desired name, and he triumphantly called out, "Well, she's got red hair, even if her books haven't." —London Tit-Bits. Exempt. "Yes, sir," said the trust magnate proudly. "I am the architect of my own fortune." "Well," rejoined the friendly critic, all I've got to say is that it's a lucky thing for you there were no building inspectors around when you were constructing it." The Peter Paul Game "What is your minister saying during Lent?" "Inconsistent, as usual—asking us to put on sackcloth and ashes and begging money to cloth the heathen." Plagiarisms of History. Henry Clay had just made his famous remark; "Sir, I had rather be right' than be President!" Imagine his chagrin when he found out that he had stolen the idea from Mr. Bryan—Baltimore Sun. The Reason. "Why did I ever leave home and mother?" sobbed his wife. "Chiefly because your family was too stingy to take in," he answered, bitterly—Life. Another Matter. "I tell you, my dear boy, I stand on my rights. I believe a man should to the master in his own house." "Of course, that's all right. But what I want to know is if you are allowed to smoke in the parlor?"—Baltimore American. A Bright Boy. "Now, Tommie," said the teacher, "you may give me an example of a coincidence." "Why—er," said Tommie, with some hesitation, "why—er—why—mecadder and me mudder was both married on de same day."-Harper's Weekly. Proposal in High Life. "But I cannot live without you." "Yes, you can. Run along. You're paying as much allmony now as you can afford." A. Sign for the Surgeons. "Of course," said the surgeon who had operated for appendicitis, "there will be a scar." "That's all right," replied the patient. "Leave any kind of a mark you like that will prevent some strange doctor from coming along and operating again." - Washington Star. Sensational Journalism. "The mayor has an ida," says a news headline. Such sensational journalism ought to be curbed.—Philadelphia North American. Practical Fashions 5696 The model pictured has a simple com- set cover, with the neck cut out quite deep in round outline. There are a few gathers around the edge of the neck and also at the belt in front. The back has none at the upper part, which is very flat. The lower part of the garment is cut in circular form and the seams may be joined to form drawers, or differently joined to form a short petticoat. Cambric, muslin, longcloth, lawn and wash silk are used for these combinations. The pattern (3696) is cut in sizes 32 to 46 inches bust measure. Medium size requires $2\frac{1}{2}$ yards of 36 inch material, with 5 yards of ruffine, $3\frac{1}{2}$ yards of narrow edging, $6\frac{1}{2}$ yards of insertion, $3\frac{1}{2}$ yards of beading and 4 yards of ribbon. To procure this pattern send 10 cents to Pattern Studio and this pattern Write name and address plainly, and be sure to give size and number of pattern. NO. 3696. SIZE..... NAME..... TOWN..... STREET AND NO..... STATE.... A NINE-GORE SKIRT. 5366 This skirt has many possibilities. It may be made with the waist line either high or normal, as preferred, and in either round or ankle length. The numerous gores are joined together by seams in the usual way and the fit about the body is as snug as compatible with grace of outline. This skirt is a splendid one for a separate garment to be worn with odd waists and it may be made of soft woolens, such as cheviot, cashmere, serge, etc., or of wash fabrics, linen, pongue, gingham, and the like. The pattern (5386) is cut in sizes 22 to 32 inches waist measure. Medium size requires $4\frac{1}{2}$ yards of 36 inch material. To procure this pattern send 10 cents to "Pattern Department," of this paper. Write "Sale" and be sure to give size and number of pattern. NO. 5366. SIZE..... NAME..... TOWN..... STREET AND NO..... STATE.... Ingenious French Woman A woman was recently convicted in Paris of infringing on the government monopoly of making cigars, cigarettes and tobacco by manufacturing imitations out of coconut fiber. She was fined 15,000 francs. The testimony showed that the woman had the extensive output each year of 1,500,000 "cigars," three million "cigarettes" and 25,000 pounds of "tobacco." Madame's defense was that her goods were not imitations of tobacco, but were meant for children, that they were difficult to smoke and that "exercable to the taste—even worse than the government concern's products." Some Influence. This letter recently was received by a southern congressman: "I'm in here in prison for moonshining, and I want to get out. Please arrange to have me released soon as I want to get out. I will give you the names of seven influential citizens who will co-operate with you toward getting me out. They are also here in prison with me for moonshining." Probably Would. "That sentence is not incorrect," said the professor, "but it sounds odd o the English-speaking ear."—Harrard Lampoon.