The Gazette

TWENTY-EIGHTH YEAR. NO. 37. Some New Designs Some New Design IN WICH HAS SUSTAINED TWENTY-EIGHTH Some New 1. A costume of mustard colored cloth, with lace jabot and silk rever with blurred pattern. Black satin sash edged with silk fringe, satin cuffs and high stand-up collar. At the neck the costume is finished with a cameo and NEW USE FOR THE OLD SHAWL Summer Wraps and Matinees Are Being Made From Delicate Finery Worn Long Ago. Any girl whose mother or grandmother has a silk shawl, no matter what the size, should endeavor to have it given to her. Just now the loveliest summer wraps and matinees are being made from them, and the fact that the delicate material need not be cut is apt to make the owner more willing to transfer it to the younger member of the family. As the shawl is large or small, it is manipulated pointed or square. The best effects will be gained in the latter, if the wrap is of the small variety. It is taken for granted that the shawls have fringed edges, but should this not be the case a silk fringe as wide as one can afford should be carefully sewed around. If it is impossible to match the color, white may be substituted, although a black fringe on a white shawl is especially effective. If the square is a small one the top is turned over wide enough to form a deep border, twelve inches at least. With this still back, the shawl is folded squarely in two; up and down. Then twenty inches from the middle the top border is tacked together. This may be done with a pin to try the best proportion. The wrap is then put on, the pin or tack coming at the middle of the back of the neck. It is then necessary to have another tack put at the bottom of the V formed at the back, and the wrap is complete. It requires no lining of course. Ribbons or a fancy clasp may be put on, to hold it together over the bust. Variety is given by making the tack a little to one side of the middle. The fastening then laps over in front when the wrap is worn. When the shawl is wide, it should be folded first three corners, regulation shawl fashion, except that the top is not turned over quite so far. Tacking is the same as with the other shane. Rompers. Just a few words in favor of rompers for the little girl's summer wardrobe. It is well to plan children's outfits with an eye to saving laundry bills. Rompers are easily made or cheaply purchased, afford wonderful protection during play hours. The little linen bloomers to match the dresses do away with the petcats—another laundry saving. One mother who is considered a good manager announced that all "nighties" and pajamas in her family would be made this year of cotton crepe, so nurse can wash them out in a bowl. As they need no ironing, another item is knocked off the laundry bill. Little Taffeta Coats. About to They have big revers and a frill. This is a small 4-inch ruffle at the bottom. An inch belt of braided silk or soutache taches the top of the frill. They are trimmed in heavy lace, big bullet buttons or velvet ribbon. young girl will want one to wear over muglin frocks. THE GAZETTE black velvet tie. Black hat, with mustard satin crown trimmed with black osprey, fastened with a cameo. 2. Sage green crepo do chine, with black satin and black and gold embrodery. COAT FOR SMALL BOY. This useful little coat might be made in serge or cloth; it is a double-breasted reefer, and is worn with sailor or collar of drill or the same material if preferred. Man-o-War hat of same material is worn. Material required: 1 yard 46 inches wide. WIDE CHOICE IN HANDBAGS All Designs and Materials Have the Sanction of Fashion This Season. The handbag is now the inseparable companion of woman. A beauty is made of seasilk with a gold top, the owner's initials in gold adorning the side that is generally presented to the gaze of the public. Oxidized silver is sometimes seen, but gold is more favored. No longer is a handle of modest length allowed. Long cords of leather or silk are supplied, occasionally several are plaited together, and finished where they join the bag with tassels. The black suede and the velvet bag also have their devotees, white leather worked in the Venetian manner is much in evidence. In Paris, and on the continent generally, great liking is evidenced for the bag of fairly modest proportions with long cords that are slung across the shoulder—in the same way as one carries field glasses—perhaps because this method displays its beauty to the greatest advantage. Pseudo Silk Hose. The woman who loves silk stockings, but who cannot afford them, will find those of mercerized sea island cotton a very good substitute, as they have the look of the real silk. Their luster is excellent, their weave fine and even, and they, of course, wear out any number of silk stockings. They are made with all the latest improvements, ample sized tops and reinforced heels and toes. Not only black and white and tan are procurable in them, but a good range of colors as well. ESTABLISHED AUGUST 25, 1883 AND ISSUED EVERY WEEK ON TIME SINCE. WHAT SHALL WE HOPE FOR? Hard Labor and Pluck Will Win Where Other Things Fall. It is true that we have seen the dawn of a new century and of course we have seen the age of progress; yet the greater majority of the race to which I am identified is far away from being progressive. If we fail to unite ourselves, if we fail to work for the common good or interest of each other what shall we hope for? Progress does not come by luck, neither by leaning upon corners of streets or by gossiping, but it comes by hard labor and pluck. Stratagem is not the method for a poor race to reach the topmost pinnacle. We should remember that time lost is never regained; it is best to always be up and a doing. Do something that is good and helpful to bring about reformation among our people, especially in our city. We cannot expect to be progressive and the majority of our people are yet in the slums. We want work, real work; work that after it done we can see righteous fruit. Is the outlook brighter for a better day among our people? Can the leaders of the people truthfully say that they are doing all they can to bring the race up from the slums? How many young men and women have you recued and led up to a higher life? Progress does not come by talking, but it comes by continual work in the right direction. If progress must come by work, true work, then to make effective our labor, prejudice among us must be wiped out, especially among the leaders, or also our labor will be in vain. We cannot go up the ladder of progress when the leaders, or a part of them, are doing such things that will impede the progress. If the educators will allow prejudice to override their intelligence, what will become of those who have never rubbed their heads against a college wall. Facts are brought to light each day by the work and action of our people. The majority of our people must be reformed or else progress is hampered. Shall we hope for a thing when we are not working for it? We are living in a city where there are thousands of children who need to be reformed. Each one has a soul to be saved or one to be lost. Can we reach them? Yes. We can do so by uniting our efforts. Let every leader examine himself and ask the question. Have I played well my part? The race will go up when we reach down and help our brother out of the gutter. "He first findeth his own brother Simon, and saith unto him, we have found, the Messiah which is being interpreted, the Christ." The orphan and destitute children must be redeemed before the leaders of the people can truthfully say that they have performed their righteous duty. It hurts the heart of the ambitious ones of our race who are looking forward to a better day, to see the many thousands of Sabbath breakers among the race. What shall the race hope for when the supreme command has been omitted?—Charleston (S. C.) Messenger. NEW ORLEANS PROGRESSIVE Race Owns Property Valued at Over $4,000,000 in the Creole City. New Orleans (Special)—An interesting negro business directory has just been put on the market here. The directory brings to light some arithmetic columns very flattering to the negro population of the Creole city. The directory declares that there are not fewer than 90,000 colored people in the city; that their property is valued at $4,000,000. They, pay more than a half million dollars in taxes. This is contrasted with the situation 50 years ago, when the negroes owned practically nothing here. Then again the Advertiser shows that the colored people are educating their children, that 75 per cent. of them can write their names and 60 per cent. can read and write. In the industries in New Orleans, the negro is very largely master. Sixty per cent. of the hard labor, the Advertiser declares, is done by negroes; 80 per cent. of the bricklayers are negroes, 60 per cent. of them carpenters, and most of the caterers and butlers of the city are negroes. The property figures are also encouraging. There are individuals, says the directory, whose checks would be honored at $75,000. The church property is assessed at $300,000, while the colored people own a private office building valued at $200,000. Paved the Way. The Father—he was a noble deed, young man, to change into the raging water, after his daughter. I suppose you realized the awful risk that you were running? The Hero (modestly)—Yes, sir. I did, sir. The Father—Good. Then you will readily appreciate the necessity of having a policy in the life insurance company for which I am the chief solicitor.—Puck. Tommy's Logic. Mother—Just run upstairs, Tommy, and fetch baby's nightgown. Tommy—Don't want to. Mother—Oh, well, if you are going to be unkind to your little sister, she'll put on her wings and fly back again to heaven. Tommy—Then let her put on her wings and fetch her nightgown. CLEAR SAILING FOR LIBERIAN REPUBLIC LITTLE AFRICAN REPUBLIC WILL NO LONGER BE BOTHERED WITH FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES. REHABILITATION IS ASSURED Floating Debt Within the Republic Determined and Liquidated by Finance Commission. Washington, D. C.—(Special.)—A cablegram from Roland P. Falkner to the state department states that the outlook for Liberia is bright, and that the rehabilitation of the little republic is assured. The visit to Monrovia of Roland P. Falkner, financial representative of Liberia, during the recent session of the legislature brought this about. In 24 days he removed all the local obstacles to obtaining the much needed loan. There were three main barriers—the Kanre Lahun question with England, the new boundary delimitation treaty with France and the judicial system. Settlement of the first and second problems was necessary to get the consent and co-operation of England and France. Judicial reforms were needed to guarantee the security of capital invested in the country. There was strong opposition to yielding the Kanre Lahun district to England and to ratifying the new boundary with France. At a luncheon given by President Harcay, at which many senators and representatives were present, Mr. Falkner spoke some plain, unpleasant truths, especially about Liberia's lack of credit. In the world's money markets. There was no further hesitation on the part of the legislature, as there was no alternative for Liberia should the proposed loan fall through. The delimitation treaty was signed and Kanre Lahun passed to Great Britain in consideration of $20,000 and a strip of territory southeast as about as Kanre Lahun itself. The act reforming the judiciary was tabled because the session of the legislature was too near the close to give the measure due consideration. This act would provide a simple system of circuit courts, with districts, and the judges of the supreme bench to act in conjunction with these circuit judges. The result of Mr. Falkner's visit to Monrovia was the appointment of an internal debt commission to ascertain the amount of the floating debt within the republic and to classify this, with a view to its liquidation. GET THROUGH WITH IT Give the Negro Children Longer School Terms in the South. The educating of negro children especially in the country is congested in a great measure. It is doing almost as much harm to the child as it is doing good. The little short term given to children in the country serves as a means of increasing 4ders, loafers, bums and vagabonds. Children should be taught to go to school and stalk to it until they have finished the course they are expected to complete in preparing themselves to take up various responsibilities. There should be a lined out policy in the mind of the parent or guardian as to what kind of work their children should do after finishing school and they should be educated only for these various positions in life. The child should be placed in school at six years of age and made to get through with it and go to work. This going to school two and three months and running over the community nine months is a menace to the country and is but the seed that broeds lilars, cutthroats, murderers, idleers, loafers and vagabonds. If the children were put in school at six years and kept there at least nine months each year there would be some hope in the educating and training of them with in five of six years when at the press system it takes 20 years to put some education in their heads. This lack of education in the country has forced many farmers into the cities where their children could get the benefit of eight or ten months schooling, leaving the farm to grow up in weeds and briers, depriving the city of the increase products from the farm and thereby forcing higher prices of living in the city. We say to the people in the country and every community where there is a country school running only three months, organize by private subscription and raise sufficient funds to run the school for nine or ten months getting through with your children's education and putting them to work—Charleston (S. C.) Messenger. Ten Commandments Condensed. Apropos of the recent agitation touching the movement in England to shorten the ten commandments, a writer in the New York Evening Sun revives the old rhyme, known to many older people, and which years ago was popularly known: "Thou shall have some other gods but me. Before no old bred I lend the knee. Take not the man's knee in vain. Take not the man's day proclaim. Give 10th your parents' honor day. Take bred I think that for you. Abstain from words and deeds unpleasant. Nor仕您, though art proof and Told not a wolf that her loot it, and what is thy neighbor it do covet. SEEN FROM ALL SIDES American, Jew, Japanese and a Negro Express Opinions on Immigration. In a recent issue the Outlook had a symposium on Immigration in which the writers differ from recent interferences of the editor of that well-known magazine, An American of the west, a Jew, a Japanese and a negro (Prof. Kelly Miller), are the contributors. The American wants an open door to all who desire to come to these shores and thinks we have no right to keep out the foreigner. He continues: "You say that we should select the Immigrants we want! What moral right have we to raise a moral test as to who shall come here and who not? We send men abroad in the attempt to have one missionary convert 25,000 heathen. Is our Christian religion so delicate that it cannot stand the introduction of one heathen among 50 Christians in this country? Shall we say that we are righteous and that others must not come to a land which God has prepared for his children because they are not as good as we are? Who gave us a title deed to every foot of land. In this hemisphere, with charge to keep everybody 'else out whom, forsooth, we disliked?' Professor Miller takes exception to the Outlook's contention that the races cannot, be held together, under one government. He answers: "If peoples of different blood cannot be held together by a common, political government, then England, France, Germany and the United States, in their colonial policy, are merely fighting against nature, after a manner of the ancient giants. If your doctrine be sound, then Hawaii is not large enough for native and American occupants; various South American states are not large enough for the Indians, Latin and Spanish components of their population; and the United States is too small for the European and the African. What is to be the outcome of the race problem if this doctrine is to prevail?" "Have American institutions lost the great assimilative power at one time attributed to them? Do you mean to infer that Christianity has lost its proclaimed power to allay the frictional strife among men, and thus usher in the reign of peace and good will on earth? Is this a concession that Christianity is inferior to Mohammedanism in enforcing the concrete brotherhood of man? Mr. B. L. Putnam Weale, in his recent book, The Conflict of Christianity, declares that Christianity has no influence or effect upon the race question. "I am sure it will not be considered unmanly to call attention to the inconsistency of your position. It is universally understood that"the Outlook is a firm and enthusiastic "supporter of Dr. Booker T. Washington, whose policy is based upon the harmonious adjustment of the races in the United States, each maintaining its separate and distinct racial identity. How can this be hoped for, if no nation is large enough for two races?" Speaking for the Orientals, Mr. Seuchi Takeuchi makes out a strong case in these pointed words. "Where were Christ, Budda, Socrates, Mohammed, Confucius: born? They were all Orientals, and the so-called Occidentals are worshiping and obeying their theories and doctrines. They never promulgated the principle of human prejudices and racial exclusion. If Kipling's principle is true, the principle of these men would vanish away from the earth. (2) "Against the twentieth century is the opech of the Intermingling of races. The United States has a great opportunity to mix races up and amalgamate them in one melting-pot. The American Indian excluded the European previously, and, without knowing them, older people have hate newcomers. If Americans of today show the same tendency, the leading journals should teach them not to do this. If this is a creed of the so-called civilized nation, the civilization of this nation is one century behind and is worse than that of the old Indian. In this connection some foolish individuals of America are hungry for war, led by the yellow journals. The idea will cause unrest. Where is the leader of the nation?" Certainly the Jews would be expected to oppose the Outlook pronouncement for restricted emigration since of all peoples they are the ones most without a country. Scattered everywhere and among all nations they find the United States an inviting and profitable field. Writing from Birmingham, Ala., a Jew thus expresses the opinion of his people. "Recall your speech, Dr. Abbott, 'The Religion of Service,' delivered at the Ethical Culture hall second dedication, in October last, in which you quoted your 'Leader and Master' as follows: "The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the broken-hearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised." "I want to know whether these words of your 'Leader and Master' are reconcilable with your views on the commission's report? Are you preaching 'deliverance to the captives'? What are you doing 'to set at liberty them that are bruised?' Advocating the closed door? "In closing the Dodge lectures at Yale you declared that the object of life should not be 'acquisition and self-aggrandizement, but mutual service and social welfare.' What is the latitude of this mutual service and social welfare?" NEGROES ON THE OF S Their Religious Customs and S picted by One of O Been Amon Their Religious Customs and Superstitions Interestingly Depicted by One of Our Race Who Has Been Among Them. (BY RICHARD CARROLL.) As the Jews do not change their old-time custom in their worship—adhering strictly to their fathers and Mosaic ceremonies—so negroes on the islands and on the coast of South Carolina hold to their old-time customs. Some of their practices and superstitions were brought over from Africa. Many of them believe in "Root doctors" or "Hoodoo doctors." On last Sunday I met one of these old "Hoodoo" doctors on the public road with his satchel filled with a liberal supply of herbs and herbs. These "physicians" claim they can cure all diseases, give you good luck, tell one his future, tell who are your enemies, tell how long you will live; they keep off "witches;" they can punish your enemies or bless your friends for you; they can tell how many deaths you are going to have in your family; they can give you a certain root or rabbit foot to carry in your pocket to give "good luck." Many of these people believe in "ghosts or spirits." to get something to cat. Lunch houses are kept open all night at these "pralse houses" as a rule. One of the old women started a song entitled, "Sinner. You Better Get Ready." The young men, boys and women who had been standing on the outside of praise meeting" came in, and, catching each other by the hand, began to march around in a ring. One fellow who could sing well got in the middle of the ring and led the singing. I was informed that half of them in the ring wore "sinners" and not members of any church. To me this shouting resembled an old-time "cake walk" or dance. The old men and women, being stiff in the knees and not active in the legs, did not participate in the shouting, because they could not move around fast enough; but they cheered those that were in the ring. Occasionally one would get high spirited and lift his voice above the usual noise and could be heard saying, "Trow dat foot, gal, don't let dat boy outshout Superstitious Practices. Superstitious Practices. Hearing of the superstitious practices of some in the graveshifts, I went to a cemetery to investigate. When persons in a burial one can see many of glass, bottles, china and other earthen vessels on the top of the graves. On one I observed several spoons, out of which the sick person took medicine. Here were the glasses, the pitcher, cup, and on some of the graves I found medicine and I was informed that this was the medicine left in the bottle after the death of the person. On Sunday morning I went to considerable trouble to find some of the pastors on the island. I succeeded in finding some, of whom the most prominent were Revs. J. Brown and Washington. These preachers could not give me any reason for placing these articles on the graves, and they claimed that it was impossible to get any reason out of those who practice this superstition. One old woman, about seventy-five years old, told me that she came into this world and found the people "doing that," but she did not know for what reason. The people do many things without giving a reason for so doing. There is one thing remarkable about colored people everywhere, they seldom go to a graveyard, unless they go to bury come one. No individual goes there alone, unless he goes to seek religion. Bellious Worship on the Ieland. Belligious Worship on the island. There is as much dignity, decorum and quietness in a colored congregation in' the cities of Charleston, Georgetown and Beaufort as one will find in the average white assembly. One would be surprised to see a congregation of, colored people on the islands assembled for worship in their temples. They make no demonstrations while preaching is going on; they make no noise; they do not even shout in the churches, as negroes do in the upper part of the state. You will not bear a groan or a sigh, for they are not moved by "fiery eloquence" or stormy preaching. Before the service begins they are as quiet as Quakers. There is little or no whispering in the congregation. One old preacher said to me, "dat you cud preach till you bust, you wudent gift a groan." Where They Do Shout. Where They Do About The colored people have on each plantation on St. Helena's island a "praise house." Here they meet for prayer and praise every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday nights. This custom has been kept up on the islands and plantations for nearly 200 years. If one desires to see shouting come with me to one of these "praise houses." There are about thirty of these places for "praise" on St. Helena's island. Learning that there was a "praise meeting" going on last Saturday night and wishing to see how these people worship, Prof. J. E. Blanton and I left our bedroom after 12 o'clock and went off to the meeting. Many earnest prayers were made from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. interspersed with old spiritual or plantation melodies that made me feel that I was at the very gates of Heaven. Here were many old-time women with the old-time "bandana" handkerchiefs (still used in Africa) and gray-headed men. There was nothing strange in this mode of worship; but strange things happened later on. One of the leaders of the meeting noticed that the writer was in the audience, and he demanded that I "jine in and do sumtung to show wedder I was for do double or God." He requested of me a speech or a song or a prayer. After making three or four demands, I decided to give "them a little talk. After my speech, and the benediction was anbounced, then "shouting" began and lasted till five o'clock Sunday morning. Sinner You Better Get Ready Sinner, You Bet or Get Ready. I shall here relate what happened. The benches were moved from the building or put in the loft. The old people sat on a line of benches, close to the wall or up in a corner; many of them lit their pipes and baked to smoke. Some went to a nearby house WESTERN RESERVE CLEVELAND, O. HISTORICAL SOCIETY Y FIVE CENTS. COAST SOUTH CAROLINA Superstitions Interestingly De- Our Race Who Has ng Them. to get something to eat. Lunch houses are kept open all night at these "praise houses" as a rule. One of the old women started a song entitled, "Sinner. You Better Get Ready." The young men, boys and women who had been standing on the outside during "praise meeting" came in, and, catching each other by the hand, began to march around in a ring. One fellow who could sing well got in the middle of the ring and led the singing. I was informed that half of them in the ring were "sinners" and not members of any church. To me this shouting resembled an old-time "cake walk" or dance. The old men and women, being stiff in the knees and not active in the legs, did not participate in the shouting, because they could not move around fast enough; but they cheered those that were in the ring. Occasionally one would get high spirited and lift his voice above the usual noise and could be heard saying, "Trow dat foot, gal, don't let dat boy outshout you; * * * mind, boy, dat gal is kuming at you." Many of them were patting their hands and stamping their feet, while the shouting was going on. Many of them shouted till they were exhausted, "while others were washed down in perspiration." Stripping for Action. After the first go-round the shouters "stripped for action." The men pulled off their coats, and plied them up in the corner of the house. The women took off their cloaks and burdensome nothing. One old fellow cried out, "Now, Brudder Carral, you took some shouting." As late as 2 a.m. people were coming to the "prala house," while a few of the originals left during the night. It is strange that the pastors do not attend these prayer meetings. The majority of the preachers do not approve of this mode of worship. One can preach "till he busts" against this practice, but it will go on just the same. There is no people in the state that I delight more in being among as these members of my race on the coast. They are exceedingly polite; they-respect persons who are in authority and they are far superior to the country negro when it comes to the divine worship in the church. In churches they act like "white folks," but in "praso houses" they are "cake walkers." OF INTEREST TO MEN With the coming of the pretty days, men are beginning to think of their spring and summer clothes. Uppermost in their minds are the kind of suits to wear. Chevots, worsteds, cashmere, Scotch suitings, will all be used to a greater extent. This season will do-ote the passing of the wide stripes and the narrow stripes will be in fashion. Tans, blues, grays and canary shades will be the fashion. The Chantlert is still the rage among the well dressed men. No summer passes without the fancy vest. They are always worn by the well dressed man. There are a number of samples shown by the leading tailors of the city. Dark vestings will be the style, while the gray silk waistcoat is among the array of patterns. Summer will bring flannels and will be worn by the fastidious dresser. A man is said to be "genteel" when he is elegant in mien, appearance and dress. Fashionable clothes of today make a man look as though he was worth millions, when his clothes are cut to fit and are in the height of fashion. A good tailor can bring out a man's individualities and make him look as though he was "just from a bandbox." Most all men are thinking, keenly about their haberdashery; this is because they see the windows filled with the latest styles and fashions. Men are equally as curious now about their dress as women. They look with joy to the coming approach of summer when they can wear their low quarters, neglige shirts and pretty neckwear. In neckwear, the Alice blue, the musk, watermelon and gray, will be among the colors worn. "Girls and sweethearts" will play a big part in the making of neckties for men. No knitting machine can beat the delicato hand of the woman in making and knitting neckties, and the young meu will no doubt be pleased to receive a tie for a birthday remembrance. Earliest derbya are black, brown and gray. Alpines are in good form. Shapes in all beacage and generals, crowns and brins bespoke an amplitude of material, althic in this liberality is not overdone. The chamoisette glove is cool and will be worn a great deal this spring. Lisle, in gray and black, is cultivated and will be worn by the "well dressed" man. THE GAZETTE PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY One Year. $1.50 Six Months. 1.00 Three Months. .50 Subscribers are requested to mit by postoffice money or der or registered letter. Entered at the postoffice in Cleveland, Ohio, as second-class matter Member Ohle Legislature: 1854 to 1858; 1868 to 1898; 1900 to 192 THE GAZETTE is the oldest, and has the largest bona fide circulation, double that of Afro-Americans, published in the state of Ohio, and comparison with any will immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWSIEST AND BEST in the country. President Taft's democrats from the south, he loves so well, are certainly in full control of the lower house of congress as well as his cabinet. The Gazette is indebted to its esteemed contemporary, The Cincinnati (O.) Union, for the excellent portrait of Dr. Booker T. Washington given in our last issue. Col. Henry. Lincoln Johnson, "of Georgah, sah" (as Col. W. A. Pledger used to love to say), recorder of deeds of the District of Columbia, has done something that weighs heavily on the mind and heart of the editor of the N. Y. Age. Wonder what it is? Rev. Richard Carroll, head of an Industrial and Agricultural School for our people, and editor of the Ploughman, a weekly race publication, is possibly the best known Afro-American in South Carolina. His article, elsewhere in this paper, on "Negroes on the Coast of South Carolina," will be found to be very interesting. We are pleased to be able to publish those two telegrams from Dr. Booker-T. Washington, to be found elsewhere in this paper today. They go far toward clarifying the "Washington-Ulrich atmosphere." Now, for an aggressive prosecution of your vicious assailant, Doctor! We are all patiently awaiting that New York City court trial. Let it come soon. If this government was founded on the assertion or doctrine "that there should be no taxation without representation," thousands upon thousands of southern Afro-Americans ought to refuse to pay tax! If a country cannot be half free and half slave on a republican basis, neither can it disfranchise millions of its citizens to suit an economic and political oligarchy. Lincoln would not have sanctioned this fraud. It was he who proposed the Negro's enfranchement very early after the emancipation. (See his letter to Gov. Hahn of Louisiana, in Curtis' "Life of Lincoln.") "Rev." Tom Dixon's miserable "play," the Sins of the Father," on the order of his "Clansman" which was written with a view to increasing profidence against the race, and proved a financial and artistic (from a stage or play viewpoint) failure, proved a flat failure in Chicago last week. A Chicago daily, in speaking of Tom and his latest "play," said: "He departed with the record of having performed before one of the smallest audiences assembled in a local playhouse for many seasons." Good! This is very creditable indeed to Chicago's very miscellaneous population. The general manager of the San Antonio, Texas, Traction Company did not support the statements of Congressman Garner to President Taft recently. He said that there had been very few complaints made by conductors against our soldiers for refusing to heed the "jim-crow" law, and that the most flagrant disturbance on the street cars had been committed by a white soldier of the Fourth Field Artillery who was not allowed by the conductor to sit in the seats reserved for Negroes, and thereupon began to fight. Chief of Police Newman of San Antonio has heard only one complaint against our soldiers. If the dispatch to the daily papers of the state, of April 8, is true, some of our people of the little town of Oxford who have petitioned the local board of education for separate schools, are to be pitted. They were doubtless misled into doing so by prejudiced white people of that little city. The board has announced, says the dispatch, that it first will give over two rooms for the exclusive use of Colored pupils and may later construct a separate building. There is this consolation for those of our people of that community who do not wish their children to be made parishs of in any such fortunate manner, and that is, the laws of Ohio will protect them from such an indignity if they object to the silly, foolish and harmful separation and segregation. Just remember this, please. Pres. Wm. Howard Taft has "fielded" to the "protest" of the Texas rabble against the placing of Afro-American soldiers on the frontier. The "reason" assigned by the "protesters" is the "shooting up" of Brownville, Texas, an affair which never took place in reality, so far as United States soldiers were concerned. Thus the shamelessness of the Roosevelt, Culbertson, Taft and Overman clique is made an excuse for another shamelessness! But does it not occur to the mind of the Commander-in-Chief of the army and navy of the United States, the President, that the civilized nations of the world will view with very much mixed feelings this backdrop of a government before the chillabaloo" of a "people," a mobo cratic spirit that defies discipline and insurps the place of orderly administration of laws and regulations? The spectacle is indeed humiliating. Thinking whites cannot and do not approve of it any more than thinking Colored people. And in time, reason and justice will prevail!! THE "SHAMLESSNESS" AT HOME. Evidently relishing the situation presented, many American daily newspapers recently announced the news regarding the shabby treatment of American soldiers because of the prejudice against their color by people whose antecedents are not of a nature to inspire the hope that they are at heart really "good citizens of the Republic." Some of them may have been rebels in their day, trying to perpetuate the sin and shame of slavery in the American Republic, and taking up arms against their country as rebels on account of the tendency toward true democracy which demanded the abolition of slavery and all the consequences attendant upon liberty. The majority of the negrophobic element in Texas and elsewhere in the south is made up of ignorant whites, so callous to the demands of justice and humanity, and so stupidly ignorant of the morally and economically wrong and perverted position they assume in fighting the battles of an oligarchy (as undemocratic as was that of the slaveholders) that they are actually inflicting injury upon themselves and the rising generation a blind man shaking a knife right and left, and to think of it, that to such a non-progressive element, aye to such retrogrades, the government of the Republic yields under a President so "optimistic" as to come within the designation of a philosopher who asserts "that a wise man is not a pessimist all the time, but a man, who is at all times optimistic, is a fool." It's enough to bow the hearts of real friends of a democracy in the dust and to cause the fire of righteous indignation to burn in the faces, of all true men. We are protesting in and out of Congress against Mexican and Russian outrages. When will our "patriots," our "democrats, republicans, socialists" and other "humanitarians" learn to attend to home-affairs first and attend to them earnestly and honestly. It is time they should, and time for the people to make them do it. The people—white and Colored! BEWAILS JEWISH SITUATION. New York Rabi Says Israel's Condition Throughout the World Never Was Worse. New York City—The Rev. Stephen S. Wise, bishop of the Free synagogue, speaking at Carnegie hall, said that "The situation of Israel was never worse than it is today. Half of the world's Jewry dwells in lands of persecution in the Middle East. Europe is concerned there is the impotence of, or worse still, the indifference of the strong. "The very fact that things can be so terrible for half the Jews of the world, while some Jews have grown powerless, and strong, and powerful, and now powerless powerful Jews can be, and help helpless is the Jew in caring for his own." Dr. Wise, again spoke bitterly of Russia's refusal to recognize passports of Jewish-Americans and declared that it "morly remains for us to hold the courage to defend the denunciation of the Treaties which the conduct of Russia has terminated in fact." Want to Him Crowd School Oxford, O.—Some of our misguided people of this village, who constitute one-third of the population, have petitioned the board of education to provide a separate school for their children. Since the passage of the Armed Forces Act in 1972, many children have been attending the same school, as they should. CORRESPONDENTS READ! All correspondence for our next issue must be mailed early on MONDAY so as to arrive on TUESDAY morning, or it will be too late for publication in next week's Gazette. ALL correspondents will please re- member this. Wm. B. Direys of 7918 Quincy avenue does all kinds of mason work and plastering, lays cement sidewalks, drives and cellar bottoms, contracting and jibbing. All work guaranteed. Bell E. 1995-X. HER WHITE HUSBAND Caused Something of a Commotion—Probably Jealousy. Warrensburg, Mo.—Warrensburgers who gathered at the Missouri Pacific station last week Tuesday afternoon were surprised to see a white man and a black woman walk arm in arm into the station to buy a ticket to Sedalia. Questioned about his coman, the woman was John Turner and that the woman was his wife, Mrs. Turner, if you please. He said they were married in Kansas City, Kan., last October and had resided there since. He stated that he was on his way to Sedalia, Mo., where he had a position as cook and seemed surprised that some foolish people should have been there when he had black wife. A crowd surrounded the pair and an officer advised them to leave town immediately to prevent trouble. They left for Sedalia on the train. The men in the crowd were evidently jealous of Mr. Turner. Want Colored Soldiers Now. Atlanta, Ga.—The Twenty-fourth Infantry Regiment, composed entirely of Colored soldiers, is to be recruited to full war strength before sailing for the Philippines some time next month. Instructions came to the local Department today from the War Department to make every effort to obtain recruits for this regiment. This is the first time in three years that the department has called for Colored recruits for the army. 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 than for particulars write to the Cleveland Protestant Protestant Asylum, No. 5000 St. Clair Ave., Cleveland O. J. herewith copy of telegram which I immediately forwarded to Hon. John S. Durham (a good portrait of whom we give herewith) as soon as I saw the dispatch to which you call attention. There is not the slightest truth in the statement either that I justified the attack made upon me by Ulrich, or that intimidated that he would not be prosecuted. Yours very truly, BOOKER T. WASHINGTON. (Telegram.) March 27, 1911. Hon. J. S. Durham, 4816, Florence Ave., Philadelphia, Pa. Please see counsel of the Dr. Talcott Williams, editor of the Philadelphia Press, tonight that his paper has done me a serious injustice in printing the interview which I am informed appears in Monday's paper. I have not intimated to any one that Ulrich was justified in attacking me, or that the prosecuting of the case would be dropped. (Signed). BOOKER T. WASHINGTON. Succeeds Ex-Congressman Thos. E Miller-Will Take Charge in June. Columbia, S. C. The board of trustees of our State College at Orangesburg, met here recently in Gov. Blease's office, and elected Robert S. Wilkinson, president of the successor, succeed it. Miller, whose position is hereworth given, and who resigned following a resolution by the board several weeks ago, Prof. A. B. Wilkinson is vice president of the institution, and will take charge in June. When asked how the vote stood Gov. Blease said: "The name of Wilkinson was the only one presented for the place. The vote was four to two and I moved to make the election unanimous, which was done. Besides electing a president, the board reinstated N. C. Nix to a full professorship. Prof. Nix was discharged-last fall. following an alteration with President Minor. The new president, Prof. R. New Wilkinson, was in Charleston. He passed the examination and was admitted to West Point, but was rejected on account of his physical condition. He later graduated from Oberlin College, Ohio, and was given two degrees. He is the only Afro-American electrical engineer in the state. The position pays a salary of $1,800 a year. For several years, his college vacations were spent in the office of the Cleveland (O.) Gazette, and one will be more pleased to learn of Prof. Wilkinson's good fortune and elevation than its editor, the Hon. Harry C. Smith. Correspondents *must* mail all letters for publication on at least one postoffice sufficiently early on Monday (or Sunday), of each week to have them reach The Gazette office on Tuesday, morning, and always write, also, their names and address outside of the wrapper about returned copies. Unless this latter is done, proper credit cannot be given you. 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Jones has been appointed to Dayton—Mrs. G. Randolph entertained, Monday evening, in her sister, Mrs. C. Green's honor. —Mr. N. Dulling is in Belmont. —Mr. Tom Carter was in town Sunday. —H. H. Daling is convalescing. —Mr. Ottie Brown has returned to Adena. —Miss B. Fox and Miss M. Doug are ill. —Order our best race paper. The day Dees met at the church, Sunday, and the U. S. club, at Mrs. A. Redmond's, Thursday evening. Luncheon. Smithfield.—Rev. S. W. White preached two excellent sermons, Sunday. Easter exercises in McIntyre in the afternoon and here in the evening, Rev. D. D. Lewis and family have moved into their residence on Tanner St.—Mr. T. West and E. Smith spent Saturday here.—Mr. M. Washington is slowly improving, but his son is no better.—Mrs. I. Adkins was here last week.—Mrs. Emma is improving, Mrs. D. W. West of Hopedale, spent Sunday and Monday with her mother, Mrs. Carter. Mt. Pleasant—Several conversions at the A. M. E. revival which closed Monday evening owing to the sudden departure of Rev. Randall—Mrs. M. E. Moore entertained the W. W. society, Thursday afternoon, at a course dinner—Rev M.脏 preached at the M. E. church, Sunday, Rev, and Mrs. White left, Sunday, for his new charge in Cadiz—Mr. Alvin Moore of Wheeling, visited his parents—Mr. and Mrs. B. Smith are rejoicing over the arrival of a fine son—Miss Edith Jackson spent Sunday in Steubenville—Mr. D. Dean has returned for a few days, Mr. L. Jackson last month in Steubenville, last week. The Fancy Work club met at Miss E. Webster's. Mrs. J. Smith preached at the A. M. E. church, Sunday evening Newark—Lewis J. Bolton (white) was taken to Mt. Vernon Monday to answer a first degree murder charge in connection with the lynching of Carl Etherington (white), the dry detective, in this city last July. The case was taken to Knox Co. on a change of venue. Bolton is well-to-do, a polite man, and an ex-saloonkeeper. His brother, City Solicitor Frank A. Bolton, will assist in his defense. The prosecution will endeavor to prove that Bolton was the instigator of the lynching, and that the plot was hatched in his saloon, which was operated on the court house square in open defiance of the law. He left the city the Monday following the lynching, and officers captured him over a half dozen states, capturing him at haware, this state, July 31, as he was ready to board a train for Detroit. Akron. — Bethel A. M. E. church stewardess' musicale. April 4, was a grand success. —Mr. Washington of Pittsburgh, was here the past week. —R. D.ixon is ill. —Mr. J. Hargrave of Uniontown, —n. spent it. —Mr. J. Hargrave of Greenwade — Mrs. Jesse Greenwade and children have returned from Lima. —Mr. H. Johnston is working for the Pullman Co., on the B. & O. J. S. Clark and a few friends celebrated his birthday with a delicious dinner at his home. —F. P. Lawson, jr.'s fellow, followed by the teacher has returned to his old position. —Give, the local agent your order for The Gazette and keep up to date. Youngstown.—Rev. Dr. C. H. Parrish, the well known educator and head of one of our schools at Cane Springs, Ky., said recently; when passing through this city: "While in German, I stopped with a family whose household was very shy of a Negro. I spoke to the host for the cause, and he said that from the frequent publication of outrages, many, who read American papers were afraid of colored people. Our conservative day people are guilty of crimes against women. Ella Wheeler Wilcox says that Mr. Minkking, after examining all the statistical reports from all the states regarding crimes against women, for which so many lynchings have taken place, says it will be a surprise to the white people to read the following: "Among the 620 men convicted for this crime and serving sentences in Colored, which term includes Japanese, Chinese and Indians. At least 450 were white, or 73 out of every 100. Only 157 were credited to the South, while there were 160 convictions in Connecticut, New York and Pennsylvania. Fifteen former states and the District of Columbia had but 11 convictions for the major crimes against chastity out of the 100 convictions of the South are included among these 171; yet these Southern States contain 89 per cent of the American Negroes and nearly a third of the country's population. They furnished but 18 out of 534 cases of adultery for which convictions were obtained, or 3 per cent. Only 7 out of 55 cases did not furnish even one conviction. These facts should be widely known, but who cares enough for the Negro to speak in his defense."—Oak Hill. Av. Sewing Circle's Easter entertainment, Monday evening, promises to be an exceptional affair.—Gold Leaf Company's meeting, Thursday evening, was well attended. Considerable business was wasted, if its trust, best and oldest race advocate and newspaper. 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Michael, she has been kept in the round, and was on top to home to spend her vacation, retired here last Friday, the guest of Mr. and Mrs J. J. Hall of St. John N., Mrs. Anna Hall of Oberlin, was the guest of Mrs. M. Jackson, recently, Mrs. Hall and Mrs. Melvin Jackson of this city, were in Findley, Sunday, guests of Mrs. Williams.—John Eubanks was shot on the way to the American War After American. He is improving. *Martins Ferry* —The Madam Winston reception in Bridgeport, at Mrs. Blackwell's, was largely attended, many being from here and Wheeling. She left Friday for N. Y. City to assist Rev. Winston in a revival: Rev. Burton and family were dined Sunday at Mr. and Mrs. Fitzhushn.—An entertainment will be given at Fifth church, this Sunday. The Mrs. Burton and Mrs. Wheeling will meet in joint session at Mrs. Randall's Thursday evening.—A social will be given this Saturday evening at R. B. Allen's restaurant, under the auspices of Dishawney club I. ORDERS OUR GIRLS ADMITTED. The President of Cornell University Wipes 'Out a Color-Line--Good! Ithaca, N. Y. — President Jacob Goulder Schurman of Cornell university on Monday brought to an end the controversy which has been in progress for a few weeks over admitting Afro-American girl students to Sage college dormitory. In a statement issued to Mrs. G. S. Martin of the women's advisory council, he says that all Afro-American women students are to be admitted to the privileges of the women's dormitories; they are not permitted admission Vassar and Miss A. Ray are the young ladies whose request for rooms, precipitated the "newspaper rumpus." Miss Vassar is a junior, whose home is in Lynchburg, Vn., and Miss Ray is a sophomore from Genova. Both are in the arts course. They applied for rooms in Sage last year and were refused by the adviser of women, Mrs. Martin, who said she had talked the matter over with Treasurer Emma. It had been the university that it was not expedient to allow them to room in Sage. 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Unexcelled for reference purposes. A library in itself—one that will last a life-time. Contains everything you may wish to know. Call or address, the Gazette. Blackstone Library, 1492 W. 2d St. Cleveland, O. near Superior Ave. This is an opportunity of a life-time for those who love books. Mr. Henry Minter was called to Gallipolis, last week, by his mother's illness. Mr. Isaac Fuller of E. 31st St. who, will ill for several weeks, is convalescent. Rev. and Mrs. G. D. Smith of Sandusky, were guests of Mrs. Lewis, 2327 E. 31st St., recently. Miss Lizzie Hazel, one of our oldest residents, was found dead in her home in E. 9th St., last week. Dr. E. W. Dale is no longer a medical inspector. Dr. A. J. M. Howard is the leading candidate for the place. Our collector will call on those indicted for the case early on Monday and Monday evenings. Be prepared for him, please. W. E. Wilson left yesterday for Rock Island, Ill., and Davenport, Iowa, to visit sisters and brothers whom he has not seen for 20 years. He will be gone ten days. Every one will be pleased to know that Mr. Edward Daw will be re-appointed to his former position under Judge Tayler deceased messages to the U.S. Navy, W. E. Forest, The Forest City Athletic club is about to be organized. Its promoters held a smoker in Woodfilt hall, Monday evening. It is their intention to occupy rooms in the Forest St. rink. Mrs. Gregory, mother of Prof. James Monroe Gregory, principal of the Normal and Industrial School at Morristown, N. J., is very ill, it is said. Her son should be notified. It is said, Sherman H. Moody, manager of the Mission restaurant, left the city, the first of the month, that his Vac. former proprietor of the Philadelphia House, will manage it. Absolutely the best dinners "on the avenue" are to be found at Mrs. Anita Lee's, cor. 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Entirely separated from the upstairs. Most desirable—for good tenants who do wish to move when well loved. Branch No. 2 of the Christian and Missionary alliance formally opened its free library and reading room on Woodward avenue last week Thursday. The new institution is for the use of Afro-Americans. The exercises of the opening were featured in the concert by W. H. Cramer and music by the Mission orchestra and Ladies' quartet. Charity hospital needs $210,000 to retire an old indebtedness of $60,000 and to build a men's surgical ward that will boost the capacity of the hospital from 2,500 to over 4,000 patients a year. A citizens' committee, composed of men of every creed and every profession, has been organized to get subscriptions. It was to meet Friday to formulate final plans. No one can do a better service than help in bringing the fun 'to' the amazed audience." Chairman F. H. Goff, president of the Cleveland, Trust Co., said Friday: "The 'Institution has shown in its 40 years that it is worthy.' No color-line in this institution. So our people MUST help in this movement. Give your mite; it will be very acceptable. It is our DUTY to do so. 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 J. H. Cisco, who is at Hot Springs, Ark., will return the last of next week. There is a letter at The Gazette office for Prof. Leslie Pinkney Hill. Call his attention to the fact if you see him. Our Ministers' Association adopted resolutions at their meeting Tuesday at Mt. 'Haven church, commendatory of Ex-Mayor Tom L. Johnson, recently deceased. Prof. W. H. Johner, a member of the faculty of Wilberforce University, was in the city, the past week, en route to Oberlin where he was to deliver a lecture, and to Washington, D.C. The accessions to St. John's church, Sunday, numbered 40. The total number converted and reclaimed to date, as a result of the revival, is 124. The services are still in progress with the evangelist, Mrs. Mary Smith, and Dr. Chas. Bundy in charge. Mr. Brown, father of Mr. Walter Brown, is here from and/or write, Pa. evangelist, and laureate business, and the only Afro-American in the town. He is visiting his wife, son and two grand-daughters. Mr. H. W. Cash and Miss Ida M. Brown were quietly married, Wednesday evening, at Mr. and Mrs. Wm. McIntyre, E. 71st St. Mrs. Brown is one of our first young ladies and one of our best local public school teachers whose hosts of local friends can be found. Mrs. Brown is a excellent gentleman, every success "life" At home after May 1, at 2189 E. 36th St. This is one of Ell Perkins' favorite stories: "I was on a train going East one summer night," he says, "when there was a wreck. The train was derailed and all the passengers were more or less shaken up. Everybody in the sleeping car tried to get out as hurriedly as possible, and in the confusion our clothing got considerably mixed, and worn a pair of trousers, a rouser, a couldn't find them. Finally I did find a pair of trousers. I put them on quickly, but I couldn't leave the car! You see, they were not men's trousers—" It was real encouraging to note, the past week, the many very complimentary and deserved local newspaper notices of the work of James A. Tyler, Ex-Mayor Tom L. Johnson's father, more than one. The Tyler announcement that he will take his family to his old home in Virginia for a rest and that he is undecided as to whether to remain there or return to Cleveland. One thing sure and that is, Mr. Johnson's death is a distinct loss to this city. If Mr. Tyler leaves Cleveland to locate in the "Old Dominion," he will be a host of friends here. Speaking of Mr. Johnson just prior to his death, Mr. Tyler said: "There's nothing I can say that is half expressive enough to show, my high regard for him. He's been more like a father to me than an employer. He always has treated me more like one of the people I know, and never seen a man so patient in illness. He's always hopeful—always, looking on the bright side. He never complains. I love him as I never loved another man on earth." The Gazette of March 4, 1911, If you have a copy of The Gazette of March 4, 1911, please send it, to us at once, and oblige greatly the EDITOR. DOINGS OF THE RAGE Baltimore's only Afro-American Councilman, Harry S. Cummings, Esq., of the 17th ward, has been renominated. John S. Trower, age 61, of Philadelphia, Pa., said to be worth $1,500,000, is dead. He founded a Baptist seminary at Downington, Pa. He was the wealthiest member of the race, it is said. The Republican members of the lower house of the Pennsylvania Assembly refused last week to pass an amendment to that state's Civil Rights law submitted by Hon. Harry W. Bass, its only Afro-American member. For the second time in the history of Columbia University, N. Y. City, an Afro-American student has won the Curtis prize for excellence in public speaking, one of the most scholarly honors in the gift of the faculty. This year's victor is George W. A. Scott. Send in your subscription for The Gazette at once and keep up to date with the race news. This department alone is worth the price of the paper. If we haven't an agent and correspondent in your (Ohio) city or town write The Gazette at once and suggest some good person. The American Negro asks no favors from any man; he only asks a man's chance to earn a living for himself and family. How in the world can the Republican, or any other parer, expect to get the fullest support from any people who are half starved and in want one-half the time! Chicago (ill.) Idea. Sam McVey, the Afro-American heavyweight, located in Paris, France, for some years, has just awarded a verdict of 2,000 francs, $100 in American money, against the Society for the Promotion of Boxing of Paris. McVey sued the society, for 2,000 francs, claiming that amount for not being matched to fight a man. St. Phillips (Colored Episcopal church of New York City) has purchased a block of twenty six-story apartment houses, at a price estimated at $610,000. The property is now occupied by 220 white families, and it is proposed to dispossess them and rent the apartments to members of the congregation and others of the race. WHO MAKES YOU CLOTHES? Rufus S. Justice 4316 Central Avenue, Fine Custom Tailoring, Cleaning, Lino, Repairing and Pressing. All work guaranteed. Ladies! Save Money and Keep Stile by Reading McCa Louis Casaway, a school junior, his white wife and several pretty children, of San Antonio, Texas, were murdered with an ax recently. Their bodies, cold in death and besmirched with blood, were found in their home, Mr. and Mrs. Casaway were married in Mexico years ago, but returned to San Antonio to live. The murderer has not been apprehended. "Some of the courts of this city have recently established a day for trying colored diyere cases only and the people are wanting to know," it more convenient to Mr. Knapp said. The establishment such a rule or is it more convenient for the colored people of this city to attend court on certain days. It may be, say citizens, that the color hysteria has reached the house of justice. Who knows?—Indianapolis' (Ind.) Plain-dealer. Speaking at Ft. Davis, Macon Co. Ala., on April 2, Dr. Washington said, among other other things: "To the white people present I wish to speak frankly concerning the education of the colored people. Do not be afraid to give education to the colored people, and I do not have any body. By this I mean the kind, that teaches people how to do useful things—the kind that teaches a person how to be able to farm, to be a good machinist, a good blacksmith or a carpenter." In New Jersey not long ago a child was mistreated and done to death. Brian was within half a mile of the crime the cry of "black brute!" was raised, and he barely escaped the lynching that would have been his fate in many Southern state. There were innumerable white men nearer the scene of the crime than this Negro, but he was picked out solely because of his color. And now a white man has conceived the crime and is in fall awaiting Standard-Union (N. Y.) Dally Standard-Union. Within a stone's throw of where the Duchess of Marborough made her summer home on Long Island, N. Y., and in the midst of the homes of many families of wealth and prominence, Dr. Booker T. Washington, educator, has purchased two and one-half acres of land and a house that will occupy the rooftops and hereafter will occupy the place as his summer home. The place is at Fort Salonga, N. Y., in the town of Huntington, and commands a beautiful view of a long, stretch of Long Island Sound. It was once the property of J. Cornell Brown, who purchased it some years ago because of the picture sequence of the site. The land is a beautiful woodland committing a sound view, has an outlook over Smithtown Day and Crane Neck Point. In addition to many prosperous Afro-American doctors, lawyers, preachers and men of other professions, Durham, N. C., has some of the most flourishing drug, grocery, and dry goods stores anywhere among our people it has also the largest Afro-American insurance company with assets ample enough to build a large three-story structure, and being operated with nothing but Afro-American clerks and agents; the Durham Textile and Whited Wood Working Company, manufacturers of door, window-frames, mantels and all kinds of building materials; the Union iron Works Company, which manufactures general foundry products and allows flows low costing laundry heaters, grates and castings to domestic purposes; and the Durham Textile Mill, the only hosiery mill in the world also owned and operated by our people. Regularly incorporated, they, operate eighteen knitting machines of the latest pattern, working regularly twelve women and two men and turning out seventy-two dozen pairs of hosiery each day. They are for the first test in the market, being equal in every way to other hose of the same price. R. W. Compton and J. R. Campbell, prejudiced white students, and Mayme Blahan, the Chicago Art Institute model whom they induced to refuse to pose before an Afro-American student, were "fried." The two men were forcibly ejected. Good! The superintendent complimented the Afro-American students of the Institute. The 3,000 acre farm belonging to the Tuskegee (Ahn.) Normal and Industrial School, 2,000 are under cultivation and this is cultivated by the supplies food for the student body as well as lumber and brick for construction of buildings. Forty trades are taught in the school, twenty-eight for boys and twelve for girls. Each of the trades is taught by corroling classroom work with actual practice. The Daughters of the American Revolution recently purchased the site of Peter Salem's home in Salem Road, Mass, beautified the spot and erected a commemorative boulder. The Sons of the American Revolution, have erected a monument above his grave at Farmingham, Mass. Thus remembered is one of the Negro soldiers, only one of many, who gave brave and meritorious service in the American struggle for freedom. Three weeks ago every Colored clerk in the Postoffice, Department at Washington, D. C., who received a salary above $1,000 per annum was reduced to $1,000 but one; and that in a lot of promotions aggregating 150, not a single Colored employee was included. Those reduced were in the same division. It is alleged that this department of a school of ornamental departments at Washington, D. C. It is further alleged that no Colored clerks are being drawn from the eligible Civil Service Register, and those who are being drawn as laborers and who afterwards pass a clerk's examination are never appointed to clerkships. We are reliably informed, too, that this rule as to clerkships is being followed in the Postoffice here in Richmond. It is further alleged that all of the Departments at Washington, D. 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We Grew 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 hundreds, rapidly work is that we are be- calr we have actually frequently mentioned us is the same" or "just to use, only "PORO" that the name "PORO" used only by MRS. A. M. ations to PINE STREET F. LOUIS, MO. The "social equality bugbear" is the basest humbuck that can be used as an attempt at argument to justify the curtailment of the Negro's rights under the law. Every sane man knows that there can be no social intercourse and comradeship unless all parties to it are willing. The Negro alone cannot fellowship with others. They, too, must be willing. The time has come when there need be no mistake in this matter. The more of self-respect the Negro has the less is he likely to intrude upon the privacy of others. A gentleman, be he white or be he black will not go where he is not wanted. To hold up the scare crow of race intermixture is no longer permissible, for all know that there is nothing to it. So far as the Negro is concerned all he asks is to be left unmolested with an opportunity to show himself deserving a man's chance. His ignorance demands better school provision, his poverty can be overcome by economy and thrift, his vices are the result of both of these, and their decrease will mean a better era for him. ▲ ▲ ▲ A coterie of church brethren urged as much by race pride as by business considerations, we hope, have "adapted" the picture of Christ to the exigencies of the Negro race! That is to say, they are getting the picture up in a way that represents Christ as a Negro and selling it at so much per! Good business—but how about the effect from the standpoint of religion? Well, a lady acquaintance of ours (and who by the way is a good Christian) recently visited the home of another good sister who had bought one of these pictures and hung it up on the wall. Our acquaintance scrutinized the picture carefully and then asked: "Whose picture is that — seems like I have seen the original somewhere?" "That's the picture of Christ," replied the hostess, "Well, If Christ is a Negro I'm done praying." Wherefore, we repeat that the coterie of Negro business men who are getting out the picture may be making good financially, but aren't they jeopardizing somebody's chances for heaven? ```markdown ``` "Agriculture, the tilling of the soil; is not only the real title to the soil, but the only" means of permanently holding it, thus if the Red Indians had learned agriculture from the first European settlers in North America, they would have soon been numerous enough to bar off all progress west, and conversely through the Indians of Mexico, Central America, Peru and other South American states were atrociously treated, they could not be exterminated because of the numbers which the pursuit of agriculture had won for them."—Weale's "Conflict of Color." These are pregnant words and deserve to be studied by every colored man in America. We shall lose our birthright if we leave the soil; if we sease to cultivate the soil; if we cease to teach our children to cultivate the soil. The race that cultivates the soil will own the soil and can never be exterminated.—New York Age. ```markdown ``` If the Negro wants to succeed in the commercial world, he must employ his people in every way available to gain confidence in his dealings. When he does he will, in a great degree, receive his support. There are millions of dollars that the Negro spends the Negro in business never sees. ```markdown ``` Now is the time to move, while the burden of the race problem is creeping into a mighty crisis. Every thinking colored man and woman should consider the grave situation and empower those tendencies that serve to substantiate the Negro race. in the eyes of the white man. ▲ ▲ ▲ Report comes from Montgomery, Ala, that a harvest is being reaped in the Scout by selling Bibles in which Christ, the angels and various Scripture characters are "colored." The Bible, usually sells for from 15 cents to $1, but with the illustrations pasted in they are selling for $10 on installment. So far we have been spared this new-fangled "nigger Bible." Some time ago a young Negro presented us with the picture of a black Christ. The first agent who darkens our door with a "nigger Bible" had better have under him a pair of stout legs, for the speed he will be called on to make will do honor to the Twentieth Century Limited. ```markdown ``` The Negroes of California, favor the "back to Africa" movement. But there is hope in America for us yet. Let us try and live here. "Be law-abiding citizens, progressive, loyal to your people, and I think we will have a better showing here with the white man. We are speedy and anxious for equal recognition on all lines by the white man. It takes time to unfold to us those attributes that will put us on a level with our white brother." ▲ ▲ ▲ A writer on athletics in the Army, in. Collier's Weekly, mentions this queer fact: "It was very interesting to witness the enthusiasm of white men and black men over their representatives in the ring. A striking commentary on the good effect of athletics among enlisted men is the fact that no race or color question entered these contests. The black man and the white man competed against each other and received the loyal support of their followers, but no bad blood whatever was caused by this." ▲▲▲ The names of the colored people who preach the doctrine of race pride and race support are legion, but when it comes down to practice, that is a horse of another color. While running wild, in the effort to support white institutions, let us not forget that charity hath her beginning at home.—Dalia. Express. △ △ △ Iware of the man, high or low, who preaches honesty and exactness to others when dealing with him, but fails to practice these virtues in his dealings with other men. You may break, you may shatter a will if you will, and the lawyer comes in for his dividend still.—St. Louis Times. American damsels chew something beside the rag, judging from the fact that a new $9,000,000 chewing gum trust has been launched.—Oklahoma Capital. "But is a technicality an adequate foundation on which to fortify the Panama canal?" asks the Indianapolis News. Certainly. Whole empires have been founded upon them.—Dayton News. Miss. Gloria Morosini, who married a New York policeman, spends $200,000 a year for clothes, which is a lot of money, even for a prosperous New York policeman's wife.—Kansas City Times. Mayor Brown has vetted the multi-haptim ordinance, but there is still no law against women wearing the kind of bennetts that tie under the chin with ribbons, if they have the sense to do so—Kansas City Star. A course of study to develop the imagination has been arranged by the Progressive Arts League of America. Others besides doctors, who are witnesses in causes celebrities will now get a chance to learn the art. Cleveland Plain Dealer. Thanks to good Doctor Wiley. No sooner had he told us that in one million years the tropics would be frozen up than he assures us that by that time the winds of heaven will furnish motive power for all purposes, on farm or in factory, in country and in city, and that we will obtain plenty of heat by harnessing Aurora Borealis. Smart folks, these doctors.—Mempais Seewitt-Seimilar. Puccini, who tells the London critics that there is, no American music save the negro music, which is a combination of savage sounds, will probably hear a combination of savage rears from America.—Louisville Courier-Journal. Two highwaymen entered a leading El Paso hotel and carried off some $5,000. If this hold-up business continues there will soon be an entire readjustment and reappointment of the wealth of the nation.—Albuquerque Journal. Statistics as to 'ocevity show that married men live longer than single men. Girls interested in prolonging the life of some fellow should find a way of delicately hibiting to him that he should cut this out and paste it in his hat.—Wilmington Star. A Chicago woman certainly has a kick coming. She does not like the attentions of her husband's stenographer, and complaining, says: "She looks at him longingly, lovingly, sweetly and invitingly." But after all she might have used such tactics herself and out the stenographer out—Pensacola Journal. Government warns us of a new $2 counterfeit bill. Now that's something like it. Those warnings about bogus $100 bills didn't alarm us.—St. Petersburg Independent. There's still some doubt as to whether passionate patriotism, painful neonage or crizen pulque keep the spirit of revolution rampant in Mexico—Louisville Counter-Journal. A prominent physician tells us that silence is the only cure for nervousness in women. We fear that the remedy will prove worse than the disease—Louisville Plain Dealer. A Now Jersey justice has declaimed umbrellas public property. What do you think of that? We'll wager a Lincoln penny that he has been using some one else's all the time.—Nurhami (N. C.) Sun. A headline says: "Lines Being Drawn for Whiskey Flight." But after fighting the booze who will be able to walk the lines?—Atlanta Georgian. When women begin wearing those Paris trousers, will the right of searching the pockets revert to the husband?—Los Angeles Herald. St. Paul made it man's Christian duty to visit widows and orphans, but it seems that when the visit to the widow is over the orphans are asleep and it's time to catch the last car.—Houston Post. "From my own experience," said the man at the waiting room, "I should judge that a resolution to quit cursing the alarm clock in the morning can't be made strong enough to stand the strain."—Des Moines Tribune. A Wellesley student indignantly denies the charge that college women are not practical. She declares all the girls in that school can darn. No other woman can hand us that darning tale since Margaret Illington played us false the way she did.—Nashville Tennessee. To impress their earnestnes upon the viceroy Chinese students at Tien Tsin cut off their fingers and used the dripping blood as ink with which to write their demands. The viceroy would probably have paid more attention if they had cut off his fingers.—Birmingham News. Some of our jingoes cannot quite figure out whether that 100,000 tons of rice that Japan has ordered is for a wedding or a war.—Washington Herald. Champagne has been reduced from $4.95 to $4 a quart in a fashionable New York restaurant. The high cost of living is getting some concessions at last.—Durham (N. C.) Sun. When a woman wants to practice Greater Economy, she is likely to suggest that her husband buy less expensive cigars in order that she can pay more for her hat.—Athabson Globe. What to Eat and Why? is the title of an interesting newspaper article. Still, Nothing to Eat and Why is a matter of much more importance to many poor people this winter.—Portland Express. The United States court of customs decides that a hen is not a bird. It has also once decided, or its predecessor, that frogs legs are fowl. Rather, a bird of a decision with one appellant out on a foul—Buffalo News. That was a bright idea of the young couple who were reduced to a chafing-dish diet to call their new home Alcott—Maphis Commercial-Apeal. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O SATURDAY, APRIL 15, 1911. COMMENT ON CURRENT LITERATURE CONCERNING NEGRO. (James R. Harris,) Somewhere in the vast domain of Persian literature we once ran across "When the one man loves the one woman and the one woman loves the one man, the very angels leave their thrones in heaven and come and sing in that house for joy." The Persian writer herein simply voiced in a very beautiful way the sentiments of most of us with reference to the estate of matrimony—especially when the contracting parties are so mated that each sees in the eyes on the other that far-famed "light that "light that never was on land or sen." In these later days of sordid greed—in these wise, clever days when we know that money is the only prize worth striving for—marriage does not seem to be the divine and holy institution it was in the days of our fathers, and the world is poorer for the fact. Many a time and oft have we sat and listened in awe to the clergyman's "those whom God hath joined together, let no man put asunder," wondering whether the twain over whose heads the solemn words were uttered were really conscious of their fearful significance. We promise "till death do us part," and her hand seeks his hand in patient willingness to follow where he leads, that "his God shall be her God," — "his people, her people. It is all very beautiful, "all very splendid, and that is why we are universally interested as every matrimonial bark sails away from the moorings with its precious cargo of youths hopes, and pledges, promises and aspirations. And yet after all the "fireworks" are over, "the tumult and the shouting dies," and the aforementioned twain settles down to the very ordinary routine of the voyage—staticians tell us that forty-five per cent of the crews land their craft upon the rocks—praying pleasily to man to put asunder (and do it quickly) "that which God hath joined together." Aren't we funny, we men and women of the earth—he stealing the finite? Or was it His work after all? Elbert Hubbard in the Philistine, has this to say: "What is marriage, and "why" should it be controlled by priests and preachers? Marriage is the union of a man and woman for the purpose of enjoying companionship, making a home, and reproducing their species if desired. It is a matter that concerns them more than it does society or the priest, for on their fitness and adaptation, for each other depend their peace and happiness in life. If the wrong man and the unsuitable woman are caught in the matrimonial net, the result is hell of the worst kind, though their marriage was termed a "sacrament," and solemnized with all the pomp and splendor of religious customs and social conventionalities. But you cannot nullify the works of nature by form, ceremonies, and when she has placed, natural barriers between men and women, a marriage ceremony cannot remove the same. It is not always known at the time of marriage that such barriers exist, and this is one reason why mistakes are social conventionalities. Everybody knows that courtship is polite deception, and that sex passion in most cases is the impelling force that brings men and women together. So there is no good reason for sidestepping this fact, or turping from it with a false sense of modesty, for it is the master passion in human beings, and is excelled by only one other tail; and that is the love of life itself, or self-preservation. • • • "As youth is preeminently the period of passion, it drives the young life into marriage when experience in life is very limited and much ignorance prevails regarding themselves and the world; so There was a time, and that not so many years ago, when the house fly was mainly objectionable on account of its annoying, persistent familiarity and its predilection for dropping into things catable. But now, thanks to the recelations of modern science, it is recognized the world over as a most active, potential agent in the transmission and dissomination of deadly disease germs. Already the pestiferous insect has put in an appearance for its summer's work, and we therefore commend to our readers the careful consideration of the following timely warning given editorially by the Atlanta Journal, under the headline, "Our Six-footed Foe": A house fly has six feet. Human health is his door mat. Dr. Claude Smith, city bacteriologist, sounds a timely alarm of these pestilent insects, millions of which will swarm forth with the coming spring. When he declares that they are responsible for much of the sickness and Musical Tragedy Husband (to wife, who has returned from party in tears)—Mary dear Ethel, what on earth is the matter? Are you ill? Have they been rude to you? Musical Wife (sobbingly)—I never was so unhappy in my life. They—they asked me to sing, and of course I said I could not, at first, and—and—Husband—Well, dear, well! Musical Wife—and they bob-believed me!—Tit Bits. Completely Hypnotized. The dentist had not advertised himself as a "painless dentist," but the pulled a patient's tooth so quickly and dexterously that the man said: "How do you manage to extract woman's teeth without their 'screaming'? You don't give gas always, of course." "But my office," the dentist replied, "is, as you see, opposite a department store millinery display. When the women get absorbed in looking at hats, they're inseable to pain."—Kansas City Times We do not, however, believe that nature meant it to be so, or that society could in any way be benefited by admitting as true the idea that it is right for men and women to mate like birds and beasts. Mr. Hubbard, many of the deaths in Atlanta, as in no degree exaggerates their menace. His statement is based upon science and statistics. Every household that fails to take precaution against the fly is exposing itself to disease and perhaps to death. One of the bravest expeditions that Hercules, ever essayed was the slaying of the hydra, a many-headed monster fabled to have made his hair in a stagnant lake in Greece. At frequent intervals this creature would swoop down upon a city and devour its inhabitants. So terrible were its depredations and such a blessing was its death, that the centuries that followed. Yet the ordinary house fly with its six feet is as much a curse and a peril to cities of the present day as was the storied hydra of old. Indeed, its invasions are even more dangerous because its seeming insignificance disarms our fears. The house fly is such a common carrier of typhoid fever AEROGRAMS The aviator who can at will rise above the clouds ought to be happy. Scattering handbills from aeroplanes will bring more profit than business. Aeroplanes will soon be so common that English sparrows will build their nests in them. Any normal invention must get safely by the stop-start stage before it becomes a success. Memory is the vehicle of pain. Memory is the vehicle of pain. Well directed effects are quite persuasive. The man who takes time from his work to do a kindness feels better for it all day. The man who thinks right never acts very far wrong. To correct the error of life one must take time to meditate. A man never realizes his own sinliness until he roads over his old love letters. Adjustable Building The St. Paul auditorium is an elastic sort of affair. According to the Bellman, the local architects have invented mechanical appliances by means of which a row of boxes and a balcony will swing toward the center and walls will drop from out the ceiling, cutting off about half of the arena of the building and making a good sized, well proportioned tanshaped room suitable for a concert room. The balcony and boxes are swung back and the partition walls climb to the ceiling again when any big event, such as a hippodrome or a convention or grand opera calls for the full size of the auditorium. Dragging a gun by the muzzle when you are out hunting is one of the fifty-seven varieties of suicide — Fernandina Record. The British mint is now turning a few out square coins for the use of the people of Ceylon. Inasmuch as the people of Ceylon do not have pockets to wear out since there is not room enough in their clothes for pockets, the shape of their money is imminent—Bayton (O.) News. that is has been named "the typhoid than "the all" in any other race; tryly." It breeds in uncleanness and bears the poison of its birthplace wherever it goes. And it goes everywhere. Two things are necessary to protect the community from this insect in the season now drawing near. All sanitary ordinances must be rigidly enforced and each individual must take extraordinary safeguards in his own home. There will be few or no flies in a neighborhood that is thoroughly clean. SUCCESS. One way to success is forever keeping happy. Mean successes are vastly inferior to noble failures. The greatest success is not to be a failure in one's own eyes. Success is the magical cap which takes one wherever one wishes. takes one wherever one wishes. Success juggles with prosperity, but entches it with ease, no matter how carelessly thrown. TRADITIONAL SLAVES. Women, though often hoisted on pedestals, are really the slaves of tradition. Thus, they are told that it is better to be pretty than clever, serve than consider, and most of them go about it kindly traditionally eager to please. They are a class, mostly, because they do not dare to be indulgentate. The few who have the least is of punish opinion get humas from them them can sex. They are told they are mysterious, therefore most of them assume an air of exoticness. The feminine infinitive, will come when all women follow the example of the unkind one who serves sex and thinly external, giving primary attention to perfection of sex and mental freedom. Then will result man's logical betterment. "Could Holton have it at the paralysis?" asks the Charleston News and Courier. Evidently not, from the way he is still able to talk. -Omaha (Nob. J.) Buttermilk is the best possible thing to clean linoleum and oileth. A brush dipped in salt water should be used in cleaning bamboo furniture. A coffee grinder may be used as a food chopper if the housewife does not happen to have the latter. White paint should be cleaned with warm water, using a trifle whiting on the cloth, then rinsing with clear water. A solution of one teaspoonful of peroxide into a teacup of water makes a sanitary wash to use in the mouth every morning and evening. When sweeping Turkish, Axminster or any thick-piled carpet always brush the way of the pile and it will look fresh and bright for years. Add a well-heated white of an egg to mashed potatoes, whipping the potato hard before dishing it. This makes it look well and taste better. Never put turpentine or paint or varnish, as it will dissolve it as soon as it touches it. Its volatile nature makes it cut grease in the same way. You can remove grease spots from wall paper with blotting paper and a hot flat iron. Put the blotting paper over the stain and press it with the hot iron. If you are distressed to find that some careless person has scratched the new white paint with a match try rubbing the darkened surface with part of a cut bonnet. Those who wear violets and desire them to last as long as possible should keep them in glasses of water slightly tinctured with salt and the glasses incised in airtight pads or jars. To set delicate colors in an embroidered handle-relief soak ten minutes previous to washing in a pail of toppled water in which a dessertspoonful of turpentine has been stirred. To clean jewelry wash it in hot soapsands with yellow soap, to which a few drops of sal volatile have been added. Do not rub the soap on the stones. Rinse off the soils with clean hot water. To prevent possible accidents from the chafing dish, wring a towel from water and just inside the rim of the tray and outside the fact of the dish. With this any sudden flaming pig can be readily extinguished. To keep a skirt placket from tearing out at the bottom sewn on a book and eye at the extreme end of the placket, fasten, and then crush flat. This is a simple but very useful thing to know as it saves many a stitch. If in need of anything to keep bips from clogging the sink, take a small butter or lard pall and pierce holes with a long nail and hang over corner of sink. It takes the place of strainer and also gives you more room. Damp rooms and cupboards are often caused by the house not being provided with air bricks. A little unshacked lime kept in a room will keep it fairly dry. The lime loses its efficacy after a time and then must be renewed. If members of the family come home with wet feet, they have them remove their shoes and stockings, spreading a turkish bath towel on the floor, and quietly rub the feet on it until they tingle and burn. A cold will be averted. A nice way to keep pillow ticks clean and avoid the disagreeable task of changing the feathers to new ticks is to cover the pillow, with old mushin, either old sheets or pillow cases made to fit snugly. Your 'pillow' will be snowy white, as this also keeps the stripes of ticks from showing through the cases. Girls and Housework Housework is not, by any means a matter of poverty, or even comparative lack of means. Many mothers feel that their daughters must be trained in the neatness, care and precision demanded in a well-kept house, so, though they can afford to have such work done, they require a girl to look after her own room, or she is given fixed household duties. The 'sensible girl will accept the inevitable and make these duties a pleasure instead of a burden. "It can't be done!" says the girl who hates housework. Yes it can. Try for a month and find out for yourself' Plain White Cake. Beat to a cream, two-thirds cup of butter and two cupfuls of sugar. Add one cupful of milk and three and one half cupfuls of flour, fitted three times with four even teaspoonfuls of baking powder. Lastly, fold in the whites of six eggs beaten stiff, flavor with a teaspoonful of vanilla or three-fourths teaspoonful of essence of almond, bake in a large pan and cover with a white ice. The New Foulards. The polka dot still holds sway as a favorite design in foulards. This spring finds some of these foulards with a narrow border of contrasting color. A sage green with a tiny white polka dot has an inch banding of old roses with a white design. The Funding is $4,444 Tommy (whose mother is a society leader) -Afternoon tea, ma'am -Exchange. WIT AND HUMOR THE WAYS OF WOMAN. With a quarter in her silver mesh purse, she can shop all day, buy nothing, and come home and tell you all about it. She'll narrate it all without a trace of regret at not having purchased at least half she saw, and she'll appear as happy as a lark over the mere pricing. She'll give you in detail the gown of every woman she met, added to its choice bits of personal history—no, not gossip—and snatches of conversation attached. At the same time, she will have stopped at the grocer's, the butcher's, the caterer, and she has a fluent acquaintance with everything the market affords. Yet in our blindness, we gravely state that genius is masculine. THE STUDENT I have learned that wise men always allow women, to think they're easily managed. There's only a step between recklessness and danger. Some girls first simply because it is expected of them. Wonders never cease while a man's in love—after that, he ceases to wonder. Women are only interesting' when they are personal, and yet some fool men find fault with that. There's a tragedy for every wrinkle in a woman's face, and a comedy for every coat of powder she smudges on to conceal it. UNFAIR WOMAN. Men tell the truth when in their cups; women, when in tears. A young woman believes nothing a flatterer says; an-old one, everything. A woman's justice is like her most fashionable wrap; fastened sideways. The wise woman gives careless advice, knowing that it won't be followed, anyhow. A girl would rather share her chum's sorrowful confidences than her confession. Most women run after the fashions so swiftly that they're too much out of breath to converse with them when they meet. When a woman recommends marriage to you, sometimes it's a sign of trouble. The woman who can fancy herself always in love gets real enjoyment out of life. The disillusions a woman has to suffer is nothing to the illusions she keeps on nourishing. The girl of many seasons generally has many reasons for not taking any man for granted. It's awfully sweet to sew on Baby clothes, if you can put aside thoughts of future trouser-patches or filmsy wedding gowns. THE CUD-CHEWER. Many are called and more are bluffed. Money never did do one thing we all want; bring back youth. Wit is pure when strained through the tissue of human kindness. Anybody that loses heart at the first heat isn't fit for a good race. Some people are accused of being thick-hided when they're merely doing their best to hide where the whip hurts. PROSPERITY. Prosperity is a lever. The man who is after a great fortune may not amass it; but he who is in search of progress generally finds it. When a fellow wants to make a good showing, all he has to do is to invest in gold bricks, but solid success comes only with deep digging. CYNICAL SAL. An after dinner proposal may be as sweet as dessert, but it is just as soon gone. The flirtations young man is never happy unless he's making many miserable. A man will tell you the most impossible things and yet you have to wear a plausible look. Aviator's—Onward and upward. Real Estate Man's—Deeds, not words. Blacksmith's—Keep forging ahead. Tallor's—Dun or they'll do you. Money Lender's—Never a day without an advance. Burglar's—Do your work quietly and without ostentation. and without obstruction. Politician's—Never give in till the office gives out—Ex.