The Gazette

TWENTY-EIGHTH YEAR. NO. 41. In Hat Trimming THE HAT IN UNION THERE IS STREN 1774 TWENTY-EIGHT In Hat T By JULIA BOTTOMLEY. WITH a remarkable vogue in black and white in ribbons and straw shapes the liking for flowers to provide color, follows "as night the day." But flowers are everywhere used, whether the hat is quiet or gay. A group of three models shown here portray what may truthfully be termed the three leading ideal shapes and their popular and tasteful trimming. In Fig. 1 a French sailor with a decided upward roll to the brim and a low dome crown, is pictured. The shape is in white chit, but any other white braid will give good effects. The bow across the back is of white satin ribbon having a border of black velvet ribbon stitched on one edge. The loops are wired. There are four of them making a wide double Alsatian bow, extending across the back of the hat, mounted against the crown. Small, full blown garden roses are massed over the crown, concealing it, and a few glossy leaves peep out about the base, outlining the shape and making a good finish. One of the hats on the helmet order is shown in Fig. 2, made of rough braid in tones of bronze and purple. A bronze velvet faces the brim and is laid in a flat plated bow at the left. Here a spray of wild flowers in shaded colorings in which dark red, purple and green tints appear. This hat may be designed in almost any color. In amethyst shades, with deep Mulberry-Colored Cashmere Would Make Up Well for This Pretty House Dress. Here is a smart little dress made up in mulberry-colored cashmere. The under skirt is of lining, to which it is attached a deep kiling; the tunic is wrapped over at left side and stitched, and is trimmed then with passementerie. The material of bodice is tucked 1910 each side, and is then crossed over a vest of tucked cream ninion; the over- sleeves are cut in with the bodice and are trimmed like edge of fronts to match unic. The tight fitting under- sleeves are of tucked ninion. Material required: Six yards 46 inches wide, six yards lining, one and one-half yard ninion 40 inches wide, three yards trimming. Heavy gray linen is much used for the background for embroideries which are to be employed as house decorations. Bedrooms and living rooms for country houses are furnished in gray in many instances, and the linen is used for bed hangings, cushion covers, tablecloths and window hangings. Ambitious needlewomen are embroidering these articles in quite elaborate designs in several colors. For one bedroom a set of hangings for the bed and window is being made of the gray linen embroidered with designs of wood faties and fuchsias in tons of violet, green, pale yellow and fuchsias red. THE GAZETTE purple facing, and cerise flowers, it is very handsome. It is a good model in all black. Shapes which flare off the face have captivated many fancies and are apt to lead all others for summer wear. Fig. 3 shows a smooth straw in leg-horn color, in which the brim droops abut the head but lifts abruptly at the front with a sharp turn upward. Two bouquets of roses and moss joined by a band of black velvet ribbon, which extends about the crown, make this a hat which will harmonize with almost any costume. This shape is to be had in many colors as well as black and white. It is pretty in black hemp or tagal, and in good black chip will prove serviceable. The color of the roses is a matter of taste, which the wearer may settle to suit herself. Simple and Easy Method That Will Preserve the Much-Prized Headgear. The season for traveling is once more nearly upon us, and our hats, if not broader, are higher than ever. Of course you may ask the porter for a paper bag to hold your hat on the train. But how often will it fit? Try, instead, laying the hat on a sheet of stout brown paper, so as to get the correct size. Then make the paper into a large envelope by gathering the two sides in the middle and pasting them down. Slit up the sides about two inches and turn these down to form the closed ends; but before pasting them cut away the inner part of the turned-up ends and snip the corners to give a neat edge. Do the same with the top of the big, but, of course, do not paste down the flap. Sew to each side of the bag cord or plaited twine handles by which to hold the bag. The whole may be folded and tucked in a corner of your suitcase. Explosive Neckties. There are several processes of manufacturing artificial silk which are based on the use of ordinary cellulose, reduced to a plastic condition so that it may be drawn into threads. These are woven into various forms whose chief difference from real silk, to the eye, is that the material is glossier. All but one of these processes yield a "silk" that is as safe as cotton. The other employs nitro-cellulose, or soluble guncotton, from which the threads are drawn in ether or alcohol. After the thread has been drawn and is ready for weaving it is supposed to be denitrated. If it is, then it is entirely safe. Otherwise it may be exceedingly dangerous, for it then remains nothing less than guncotton spun into a fabric. Small Girl's Hobble-Skirt There is a apparently considerable diversity of opinion as regards the correct position for the belt on the small girl's frock. Many of the smartest little French dresses show the sash in practically normal place, while on other frocks the belt is so far down as to hamper the tiny wearer. In her walk almost as absurdly as does the hobble-skirt of the moment inconvenience her elders. The abnormally long-waisted effect obtained by placing the belt almost at the hem of the frock is charmingly quaint on some children, but is not becoming to every type.—Harper's Bazar. The Boy's Outfit. Severity must mark the outfit for a small boy. In the morning a Russian-blouse suit of natural-colored linen, worn with a wide patent-leather belt, is practical. To complete this dress should be brown boots and stockings. Low shoes and socks are fashionable for all children, leather leggings being worn out-of-door until the weather is really warm. This fashion should not be kept up after the boy has grown big, any more than he should be forced to keep to his knickerbockers when he is tall enough to wear long trousers. *Harper's Bazar.* ESTABLISHED AUGUST 25, 1883 AND ISSUED EVERY WEEK ON TIME SINCE. HOWARD UNIVERSITY WINS IN DEBATE HOWARD UNIVERSITY WINS IN DEBATE SECOND ANNUAL CONTEST RESULTS IN VICTORY FOR THE VIRGINIA SCHOOL. FISK SCHOOL GOT SECOND The Initiative and Referendum Was the Subject Discussed This Year. Washington (Special).—The Triangular Debate league, composed of Attanta, Fisk and Howard universities, held its second annual contest recently, when representative teams of the three universities met at Atlanta, Ga.; Nashville, Tenn., and Washington, D. C. The subject for debate was; "Resolved, That the initiative and referendum should be made a part of the legislative system of our states." Each university was represented by two teams, one of which argued the affirmative side of the question at home, and the negative away from home. The judges returned a decision in favor of the affirmative, when Howard-Atlanta teams met in Rankin Memorial chapel, Washington, D. C. Messrs S. T. Kelly, 1911; Frank A. Wimberly, 1913; Charles B. Washington, 1912, composed the Washington, and Sillas S. Abrams, 1911; Robert B. Jefferson, 1911, and Thomas J. Henry made up the Atlanta team. In the main arguments both sides were evenly matched, but Howard excelled in the rebuttal. The Howard-Fisk debate took place in the Memorial hall on the latter's campus, which in spite of bad weather was filled with enthusiastic students and alumni. Fisk and Howard are long-time rivals and the two teams were the best of their respective schools. Messrs. A. B. Lovette, 1911; J. E. Stamp, 1911, and C. H. Wesley, 1911, made up the Fisk team, and C. B. Aubrey, 1911; J. H. McMorris, 1911; J. M. Jackson, 1911, represented Howard. The latter team proved themselves the better forensic disputants and won the decision. Duplicating the performance of last year, the Washington school thus argued and won both sides of the question debated. The Atlanta-Fisk teams met in Ware Memorial chapel on the former's campus. The Georglan school has not won a debate in five years, and this year the same hoodoo is with her. Atlanta was ably represented by Messrs. King, 1912; F. W. Turner, 1912; L. Jordan, 1911, and Fisk by J. Robertson, 1911; C. H. Payne, 1911; W. G. Upshur, 1911. Both sides showed conclusively that the initiative and referendum should or should not be made a part of the legislative system of our states, yet the Nashville team carried away the victory. The results of this year's debating in the league are identical with those of last year and show Howard to have two wins and no losses; Fisk one won, and one lost; Atlanta two lost and none won. For the two years, Howard leads the league with four victories and no defeats. Fisk has an even break, with two victories and two defeats; Atlanta has four defeats. That the Triangular Debate league has successfully conducted the work for two years speaks well for the management and insures it a permanent place among the intercollegiate organizations. It marks the just successful attempt at organization and co-operation among colored colleges and shows what can be done with proper enterprise and spirit. Victory or defeat are no great matters; the essential things are the manly striving to excel and the feeling of friendliness engendered by the intercourse between colleges of different sections. HOME FOR AGED AND INFIRM SENATOR LODGE INTRODUCES A BILL TO CREATE A HOME FOR COLORED PEOPLE. Washington. — (Special.)—Senator Lodge of Massachusetts has introduced a bill for the establishment of a national memorial home for aged and infirm colored people and working girls, and of an industrial farm for boys. The measure provides that the "two hundred thousand dollars due the estates of deceased colored soldiers of the Civil war which was in the hands of the commissioners and Freedmen's Bureau, and has been repaid into the treasury of the United States," shall be appropriated for the establishment of the "home" and the industrial farm. The home is to be in the district and the farm will be located in Virginia. Rev. James L. White is vigorously pushing the bill. A FEW SCIENCE NOTES. A large Hamburg restaurant is housed in a building of compressed paper. A book dated 1795 contains a description and illustration of a fountain pen. A Russian wedding feast sometimes covers a period of three days. Tribes inhabiting barren lands of vast distances are said to have the best sight. An India rubber gatherer of Brazil averages sixteen pounds of juice every day. NINTH CAVALRY PLAGED NEGRO REGIMENT WILL BE USED FOR PATROL DUTY IN Washington.—(Special.)—The flurry over the disposition of the Ninth cavalry is at an end. By order of Gen. Leonard Wood, chief of staff, the colored troops will take their turn at patrolling the Mexican border and will replace the Third cavalry, relieving the latter in order that it may have a chance to receive instructions in the maneuver camp at San Antonio. General Carter, in command of the maneuver division, will have charge of the distribution of the Ninth cavalry, and while Sam Fordyce, Laredo, Eagle Pass, Marathon, Presidio del Notre, Marfa, Hancock, Manora and other points on the Rio Grande will be covered, it is expressly stated that under no circumstances will they be sent to Brownsville, of 25th infantry fame. The Ninth will be the divisional cavalry of the maneuver division. The war department will pay no serious attention to the howl raised by a few of the border towns, which do not want a Negro regiment "in their midst." Even the Washington Post has had the generosity to say that "it goes against the grain of a Texas white man to see a Negro in military uniform, manipulating a gun," adding sagely, that "it has the same effect upon them as the waving of a red flag in the face of a bull." The matter of placing the colored troops is always a delicate problem, north or south, and in this particular instance it is evident that the president and the war department are determined to do their level best to preserve the peace, maintain the dignity of the army establishment, and use the gallant Ninth according to the needs of the service, independent of the whims and absurd fears of the bourbons along the Texan frontier. No one here believes that in stirring up this racial embroglery, Representative Garner has chosen "the better part." MISSISSIPPI'S PREPARATIONS CITIZENS OF MERIDIAN WILL ENTERTAIN SUNDAY SCHOOL CONGRESS IN A LAVISH MANNER. Meridian, Miss.—(Special.)—Plans are completed for the entertainment of the National Baptist Sunday School Congress and Chautauqua which is to be held here June 7 to 12, and will be the greatest convention of Sunday School workers ever held in this country. The plan of calling together the Sunday School workers for the purpose of doing better and more efficient work toward reaching the young people was inaugurated several years ago through the Home Mission board and the National Baptist convention. Interest in the work has grown each year and the delegation has increased unitle now almost every state in the union is represented by strong men and women who are directly interested in the salvation of the young people. There will be many new features this year of interest to teachers and superintendents of Sunday schools which will add to the large crowd. Departmental meetings will be conducted by expert Sunday school workers which will include superintendents conference, men's Bible class meetings, advanced, intermediate and primary teachers' meeting, missionary and educational conferences. Some of the very best men of the race will take part in these special meetings. Rev. Ford, pastor of Bethel Institutional church, Jacksonville, Fla., who is a graduate of the University of Chicago, will conduct a Bible conference from 8 to 9 each morning during the congress. NEGROES ARE STILL MOVING EXODUS FROM OKLAHOMA TO POINTS IN CANADA IS SAID TO BE INCREASING. Guthrie, Okla. — (Special.) — The exodus of negroes from this state to Alberta, Canada, which started several months ago, is continuing despite the fact that it is not encouraged by the Canadian government. Twenty negro farmers from near Fallis, Lincoln county, left here to join the colony in Alberta. They expect to take claims and immediately build homes and start their crops, after which their families, numbering in all about 200 persons, will join them. It is said here that a colonization company is financing the negroes during the first season. SIGN SEGREGATION ORDINANCE MAYOR OF BALTIMORE AFFIXES HIS SIGNATURE TO NEW LAW AFFECTING NEGROES. Baltimore, Md. (Special).—Mayor J. Barry Mahool has again signalized his hostility to the race by signing the new segregation order. The new measure does not allow any colored people to move into white neighborhoods, and for churches and other places of public assembly to be located therein in the future. It does not affect existing conditions, and as a pretense of being fair, the law is made to apply to the whites also. A penalty of $50 a day awaits any who violate its provisions. BRYAN ADDRESSES COLORED Y. M. C. A. BRYAN ADDRESSES COLORED Y. M. C. A. "PEERLESS LEADER" DELIVERS INTERESTING TALK TO NEGROES IN WASHINGTON. Eloquent Nebraskan Exhorted the Race to Adhere to Y. M. C. A. Ideas. Washington (Special). — William Jennings Bryan, orator, editor, statesman and sometime candidate for president of the United States, was the chief attraction at a monster meeting of the colored branch of the Y. M. C. A. Spacous and beautiful Howard theater was packed to the doors with one of the finest audiences of Afro-American gathered anywhere between the oceans. The Y. M. C. A. has never held a meeting that rivaled this one in point of numbers or enthusiasm, save that addressed last year at the Belasco theater by Dr. Booker T. Washington. The "peerless leader" of the militant democracy was cheered to the echo at frequent intervals throughout the half hour covered by his address, and although nothing of political or racial nature was brought out in the talk, Mr. Bryan was visibly pleased with the tumultuous and sincere ovation accorded him by an audience of colored citizens in this cosmopolitan capital. The address of Mr. Bryan to the colored Y. M. C. A. was the first of the four speeches delivered by him in Washington. His theme was "Civilization," and the immeasurable influence of the Y. M. C. A. movement in advancing the highest type of civilization was dwelt upon in an entertaining and convincing fashion. He was a charter member of the organization in his home community, and regarded his card of identification as one of the proudest possessions. The eloquent Nebraskan exhorted the men to adhere strictly to the Y. M. C. A. idea, to support it with their voice, their influence and their money. It is cheaper, he said, to prevent crimes by remedial policies than to repair the evil consequences growing out of vice. He stated that the heart should not be neglected for the training of the mind; that a strong body is essential to a strong heart and a strong mind. He said that man had been able to measure the breadth of a message in telegraphy, but that no man had yet been able to measure the breadth of a message of friendship and brotherly love which emanated from the heart. The Y. M. C. A., the speaker said, affords a general training which no other organization can give. It trains the heart, the soul and the physical body. Mr. Bryan was happily introduced by Mr. Lewis E. Johnson, the capable secretary of the colored branch. At the close of the address of the distinguished guest, Mr. Bryan was whirled away, in the high powered automobile of Dr. C. W. Cavaniss to Continental hall, where another immense audience awaited him. At the Howard theater, following Mr. Bryan, a magnificent address was delivered by Dr. C. F. Barbour of New York, international committee man of the Y. M. C. A. The Elks Glee club, led by Mr. Louis Ambier, sang, and the Wilberfordian orchestra rendered a number of selections under the direction of Prof. J. Sherman Hunnicutt. ALABAMA LEGISLATURE GENEROUS LIBERAL APPROPRIATIONS MADE FOR NEGRO EDUCATION AND INSTITUTIONS. Montgomery, Ala. (Special).—The Alabama state legislature, which has just adjourned, surprised the colored people by its liberality toward colored education. The Federation of Women's Clubs in Alabama has for a number of years been supporting a reformatory at Mount Meigs, and aside from that other colored citizens have been supporting another reformatory at Tuscaloosa, Ala. To the surprise and gratification of every one in the state, the Alabama legislature passed a bill making a liberal appropriation to both these reformatories, taking over both of them as state institutions, and making annual appropriations for their support and government in the future. So Alabama in the future, instead of having a reformatory will have two reformatories for delinquent colored youth. Aside from this liberality, the state legislature made an especial appropriation for $15,000 for repairs and improvement to the state normal school in Montgomery, and doubled the appropriation for the state normal school. Besides all this, the state appropriated a liberal sum to be used in conducting colored summer schools. Your correspondent gives these facts to the public, not forgetting that the state makes regular appropriations to the Tuskegee institute and to the Institution at Normal, Ala. It is the consensus of opinion that to Rev. A. F. Owen is largely due the credit for the action of the legislature toward negro uplift in Alabama. While Rev. Owen is not a member of the legislature he was present most of the time the legislature was in session and was consulted freely by members whenever the subject of colored education or colored interests came to the front. AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS Fisk university, at Nashville, not a local but a national factor in possible solution of the negro problem in America, was founded by the American Missionary association, and is a missionary agency in every sense. The general education board has just granted to it $60,000 upon condition that a further sum of $240,000 be secured toward enlargement of facilities and endowment. Trustees of the university declare that not $300,000 only, but half a million dollars, must be had to properly equip and advance the institution. Fisk has about 500 colored students and since, its foundation immediately following the close of the Civil war, it has sent out 775 graduates. Most of the teachers are teachers in schools of the negro race, and many are men and women of influence in the communities. It is estimated that at the moment 15,000 negro children are in classes taught by graduates of Fisk. The trustees say that white and colored men, most familiar with race conditions, and needs, are convinced that education, chiefly industrial, under trained leadership by men and women of the colored race, alone will solve the problem of the races, now looming large. Fisk and the American Missionary association, which is Congregational home work, co-operate in the largest sense with Tuskegee, Hampton, Lawrenceville, and other industrial training agencies for colored youth—Dallas (Tex.) Express. We note with a degree of displeasure that for some time a large number of exchanges have been using matter cut from our columns, without giving us any credit at all. This is wrong. Credit to whom credit is due. A colored editor is quite unlike a white editor. The white editor occupies all his time in writing; the colored editor not only has to do all the writing on the editorial page, but he has to hustle up new business, take subscriptions and advertisements, collect and circulate the paper, as well as to look after the financial end of the business, and in many instances he has to work all night setting up most of the type, and hence has little or no time to write editorials. All we ask is that credit be given us when you draw upon our columns, as our matter is free to all journals, of whatever faith.—Memphis News. A colored woman was brought before a West Virginia magistrate, charged with inhuman treatment of her child. Evidence was clear that she had severely beaten the youngster, who was in court to exhibit his marks and bruises. Before imposing sentence the magistrate asked the woman if she had anything to say. "Kin Ah ask yo' honah a question?" His honor nodded. "Well, then, yo' honah, I'd like to ask yo' whether yo' was ever the parent of a puffeyle wuthless culled chile?" The new minister in a Georgia church was delivering his first sermon. The darky janitor was a critical listener from a back corner of the church. The minister's sermon was eloquent, and the prayers seemed to cover the whole category of human wants. After the services one of the deacons asked the old darky what he thought of the new minister. "Don't you think he offers up a good prayer, Joe?" "Ah, mos! simply does, boss. Why, dat man axed de good Lord f'o things dat de odder preacher didn't even know he had!" — Every negro man in the south ought to buy a home, and the great majority of us should buy our homes in the rural districts, and undertake to grow a strong and intelligent class of wealth producers. The south is badly in need of a trustworthy servant class and if the negro does not substantially improve the efficiency and reliability of his service, he must, as a natural consequence, lose out. After a long illness, John Trower, probably the wealthiest negro in the United States, died recently at his home in Germantown, a suburb of Philadelphia. Trower, whose fortune is said to amount to $1,500,000, was prominent in church work, and founded a Baptist seminary in Dowingtown, Pa., near Philadelphia. He was 61 years old—Charleston (Va.) Messenger. They are on very excellent terms with President Taft in Africa. A publication of that country recently referred to him as old, big-hearted Bill Taft. Strange how we use those the commonest that we think the most of. Take Teddy for instance, why it made Mr. Roosevelt president—this common way of taking him—Charleston (S. C.) Messerger. You negroes who are harking on race support and enterprise, and are not doing your duty toward the cause advocated, should cease your howling and join in with the right crowd, who means to abide by what they preach.—Paleseite (Tex.) Plaindealer. THE FIVE CENTS. AN CULLINGS The following news item sent out from New Orleans shows how solicitous the authorities down there have become regarding the morals of Negro girls: New Orleans, La.—The Rev. Father C. F. Sheckleiz, priest in the Coplio Church at Abyssinia, graduate of Oxford, student at Cambridge, former president of the University of Valina at Gondar, East Africa, fellow of the Royal Scientific society, educational and ecclesiastical envoy of King Menelik II. to the United States at the St. Louis exposition, is in jail. He is likely to stay there awhile, for Justice Dale of Gulfport says he is no better than a Mississippi plantation Negro in his eyes. The black lecturer has addressed letters to Bishop Turner of Atlanta, hoping for assistance. He has been speaking and preaching throughout Eastern Canada and the Eastern States, and in the South, as his scrap book of clippings shows. The charge is that he made improper advances to a little Negro girl at Howlson. In a recent address at Atlanta, Georgia, Colonel Theodore Roosevelt said: ga. Colonel Theobore Roosevelt said, "The agricultural college is one of the best influences at work in the country today. A great deal of alarm has been shown when cities grow at the expense of the country. This is bad for the whites, but infinitely worse for the Negroes. I have seen too many sons of respectable farmers move to the city and become worthless loafers. It is for this reason that I have taken such interest in Clark university, which is doing excellent work along this line. It is for the good of both the whites and the blacks that the Negroes should be competent farmers." It looks very discouraging to see our young men lounging around on the streets, at stables, etc., on Sundays, while the churches and Christian institutions of the other race are filled with their young men. You young men should awaken from that spirit of inertness and slothfulness, and stand up as a moral example for our race. The young negro is the one being watched, and he should lead a life that would be appreciated and recognized by both races.—Palestine (Tex.) Plaindealer. Canada is becoming scared over the large influx of negroes into the Dominion, and the fear is expressed that if the immigration becomes too great in volume, a negro problem will develop there. The freedom from restrictive laws renders Canada a very inviting region for the colored people of this country, who are growing dissatisfied with the increasing prejudice existing in some sections of the United States. Once upon a time a lonely little boy began praying for a baby brother. Finally he suggested that he had waited a long time and hoped the Lord would hurry up matters. In a few days the "little brother" arrived. Looking at the baby the little boy said: "see! He's a great looking think! Can't talk, can't walk, can't got any hair and he ain't got any teeth—he ain't finished! Wish I hadn't been in such a darned hurry!" Whenever our representative men and women of our race who are able to take care of themselves and are touring parts of the country in the interest of giving instruction and advice, etc., in the way of uplift, etc., the commonmasses should not be ridden so much in their local communities of admission charges. The masses of our people even in Galveston should give this matter attention—Galveston (Tex.) Times. Stop spending your money with the shoe store, the drug firm, the furniture house, the grocery, the dry goods store, the dye shop, the tailor, the undertaker or banker that is afraid to advertise in this paper. Tell your dealer if he expires the support of the colored citizens he must advertise his goods before he can have any claim on the trade.—Memphis (Tenn.) Times. The city authorities of New Orleans are contemplating the passing of an act segregating the Negroes to certain districts in the city. These segregating ordinances do not apply to Negro servants. From that it would appear that the head and front of the Negroes offending is the fact that all of them are not servants. And this is a gospel land and a Christian country too—so they say. Some of our people delight in standing around in clusters on the streets, arguing and debating over frivolous affairs. Carry your arguments home or somewhere else to settle them. Stop blockading the sidewalks. Remember there are other people who have rights to the sidewalks. Booker T. Washington has been completely vindicated, and the most useful and helpful possibility of the race has been assured. In Mr. Washington's trials we are all on trial, and in his vindication the race triumphs. --- 2 One Year.....$1.50 Six Months.....1.00 Three Months......50 Subcribers are requested to rem mit by postoffice money or der or registered letter. Entered at the postoffice in Cleveland Ohio, as second-class matter Address all communications to HARRY C. SMITH Editor and proprietor, THE GAZETTE. Member Ohio Legislature: 1894 to 1898; 1898 to 1898; 1900 to 1902 THE GAZETTE is the oldest, and has the largest bena fide circulation, double that of any newspaper in the interest of Afro-Americans, published in the state of Ohio, and comparison with any will immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWSIEST AND BEST in the country. The death of Col. Thomas Went worth Higginson of Cambridge, Mass., soldier, author, historian and minister, removes an active, life-long friend of the race just when it can least afford to lose the assistance of so positive a force. Col. Higginson was a grand soldier and a grand MAN! To sin by silence when we should protest makea cowards out of men. The human race has climbed on protest. Had no voice been raised against injustice, ignorance and lust, the inquisition yet would serve the law, the guillotines decide our least disputes. The few who dare must speak and speak again to right the wrongs of many—Ella Wheeler Wilcox. The Afro-American needs and must have all the "equality" that all other classes of Americans need and enjoy. Here in the north, he DOES demand it and to some degree exercises it and will continue to do so more and more with each succeeding year just as all classes broaden with a more general intelligence and better knowledge of each other. This "equality" in cludes the so-called "social equality." Up to date the Newark courts have made a most creditable record in the cases of those alleged Etherington (white) lynching mobocrats. Of six prosecuted and tried for murder, to date, only one has escaped conviction and sentence to a long term in the penitentiary. Sixteen more under arrest and in jail, are to be given their day in court soon. Good! We sincerely trust that they, too, will get all that is coming to them—if proven guilty. There is no place in Ohio for mobocrats and lynch-murderers, and the majesty of Ohio law must be upheld. Thus will mob violence, and particularly lynching, get another "body-blow" that will about "put it out of business" "in the Buckeyes State." In an address at Hull House, Chicago, some time ago, Jane Addams, the well-known social settlement worker, contrasted the rivalries of races and creed which existed in Washington's day with those we have today, and said among other things: "Self-government is not a thing that could be bestowed but had to be worked out, just as one has to work out his living. It was the immigrant vote that elected Lincoln, and it was the immigrant vote that prevented the disfranchisement of the Negro in Maryland only lately. To the Germans and Bohemians, Russian Jews and Poles, the idea of slavery was by inheritance abhorrent. It is well that national ideals be preserved, but all citizens unite to work out universal ideas." In a speech, Professor, now Gov Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey, a prominent candidate for the Democratic nomination for President, next year, said: "God defend us against compromise. I would rather be a knave than a coward!" The Professor is much concerned about the presence of business interests in politics and his prayer to God emanates from fear of his corrupt influence. But Prof. Wilson, Democrat, come now, be a man. Answer truthfully before the Lord: Are you or are you not in favor of the compromise regarding the execution of the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments to the U. S. Constitution, so that the Afro-American shall not be discriminated against on account of his race, as he is, in all some Americans' knowledge, in most southern states? The "new" Democracy is no more just on this point than the old one was. The "Republican" administration and party spat in its spite of its distinct endorsement in its last campaign. Professor, now Gov. Wilson, how do you stand on this "compromise"? SHALL SENATORS HAVE POWER TO DISSOLVE THE UNION? Under the above head, the Chicago Daily Inter Ocean published, recently, an exceptionally strong editorial which we fully indorse and of which the following is the most important part: Senator Sutherland of Utah announces that he will again insist upon his addition to the proposed constitutional amendment for the "direct" election of Senators to which the loss of that measure was ascribed at the last session of Congress. As put forward by its advocates at the last session, and as it has now gone from the lower House of Congress to the U. S. Senate, the proposed constitutional amendment not only substitutes for the present method of electing Senators, an election we members of the House are elected. It also strikes out of the Constitution the words capitalized in the following clause: The times, places, and manner of holding elections for Senators and Representatives shall be the Legislature thereof; BUT THE CONGRESS MAY AT ANY TIME BY LAW MAKE OR ALTER SUCH REGULATIONS, except as to the places of choosing Senators.—Constitution, Art. 1, Sec. 4, Cl. 1. The fourteen words capitalized have a very definite reason for being in the Constitution. That reason was in the causes of the unbearable situation which the Constitution was framed to end. The makers of the Constitution met the difficulty and made a nation by "an arrangement at once bold and simple scientifically sound and eminently practical." What they did was so well described by Senator Lodge in his speech on the subject last February that, though we have quoted his words before, we quote them again: They established a government which dealt not with the states but directly with the people. They brought the central government into immediate contact with the individual man. * * * It is not too much to say that among all the great solutions which these men presented for the difficult problems they were called upon to meet this was the most remarkable. It certainly was the most vital. It breathed the breath of life into the government of the Constitution. To preserve this contact of the national government with the people—with the individual man—it is absolutely indispensable that power should be reserved to Congress to make, if it should become necessary, such regulations for the election of its own members as will preserve the equal right of citizens of all states to participate in those elections. Without this reserved power it would be possible for a state to withdraw its people from touch with the national government—to require the national government to deal, not with the people, but only with the government of the state, and thus bringing back all of the unbearable situation that the Constitution was adopted to end. Under the proposed constitutional amendment as it stands, providing not only for "direct" election of Senators but also withdrawing from Congress the power, under any set of circumstances, to provide the means of its own existence, it would be possible for a moiety of states, with a minority of population, having plenary power to bind Senators, as a condition of election, in any manner that local interest or prejudice might suggest, simply to tie the hands of the national government and bring all its operations to a full stop. The proposal as it stands simply opens the door to a dissolution of the Union whenever a mere majority of states find it to their interest so to arrange their elections to Congress as to stop the operations of the national government. That is one reason why we call upon all thinking Senators, and all patriotic Americans, to insist with Senator Sutherland, if the worst comes and this amendment passes, that the national government shall continue to have that reserved power whose possession is so evidently necessary to self-preservation. STOOD HIGH IN BIBLE TIMES. Jews Are Really Colored People—A Negro Gave Moses His Ideas of Law—So Says Book by Dr. That a Negro gave Moses the principles of the Mosaic law, and by the marriage of his daughter to the world's greatest law-giver, proved the intimate relations and high standing of the Negro in the affairs of the Bible is given historical proof according to a work just published by the vian Falls, N. C., and written by Dr. Arthur T. Abernethy. Dr. Abernethy, who is the author of a three volume history of New York, and several other historical works of international recognition, was, during the life of King Leopold, a personal friend of the king and is the author of a book on the Congo Free State, dealing with his extensive study of the conditions of the Colored races in various parts of the United States, and of the historical work just issued by the Dixie Publishing Co. is increased by the fact that it is written by a white man who is famous on both sides of the water and who deals with the subject without fear or favor. Dr. Abernethy is one of the one hundred American authors elected by the American Association for the Admeenment of Science, and of the Society of American Book, which is entitled "The Jew a Negro," proves by Jewish historians and copious quotations from the Old and New Testament, that the Negroes occupied the highest positions in Bible times, and are the direct descendants of Moses, Abraham, David, Solomon and the other patriarchs. It goes farther and declares that these great Biblical characters were Colored men, and reasons it out with the historical daring and the heavy ambitious Colored person want to read the book. This book is printed on the best book paper, bound in cloth and can be procured from the above mentioned publisher by mail for 50 cents. Another Lyncher Pleads Guilty. Newark, O.—Quincy Sutley (white), 23, who had been on trial for six days charged with murder in being one of the active participants in the Car trolleys attack, lunching, Tuesday chag- ed his plea to guilty of manslaughter, Judge Nicholas sentenced him on Thursday. Of the six men tried only one, Louis J. Bolton, has been ac- quitted. Four are in the penitentiary serving long terms, and the fifth will join them soon. Doubtless the others will follow ere long as Prosecutor P. W. Bolton will accept a similar plea from the ten other men in jail on the same charge. One Of Many! Lima, O., May 3, 11. Editor Gazette, Dear Sir:—Find enclosed P. O. money order for $1.50 for another year's subscription to "the old reliable" Gazette which we like so well for the fearless way you speak and stand for what is best for our people, through its columns. The Gazette ought to be in the home of every race-loving and self-respecting Negro in the United States. With best wishes, 1 remain Ever your true friend and admirer, Wm. Foy. British Agriculture. Nearly sixteen per cent. of the people of Great Britain live by agriculture. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, MAY 13, 1911 DOINGS OF THE RAGE Bishop I. B. Scott of the M. E. Church, has returned from Africa, on a visit. Curry Institute, at Urbana, has been offered $5,000 if it will raise an equal amount. FRESH OHIO NEWS OUR OWN WRITERS' WHAT OUR PEOPLE ARE DOING IN MANY CITIES AND TOWNS OF THE STATE. INTERESTING PERSONAL NOTES Social Functions—Church and Lodge Items—Marriages and Deaths—Literary, Musical and Other Notes of Interest. attended the K. P. banquet at War Wednesday evening.—All the church held special May services, Sunday Mrs. Mayfield is improving.—Rudlodge, Elks' social session, Sunday was a grand success. One of special features was the address, J. H. Johnson of North-Side lodge, Pittsburg.—Covenant lodge, Ma appointed committees, Monday evening, to arrange for its entertainment on the 22d. The Coleridge-Ta choral society will render the poem.—Consuela Stewart Court of lanthe met Monday evening.—Jos. Williams was called to Hstead, Pa., Saturday, by a relat illness.—Read "the old reliable zette" and keep up to date with race's news. Correspondents must mall all letters for publication at their postoffice sufficiently early on Monday (or Sunday) of each week to the nearest Tuesdays. The Gazette Tuesday morning, and always will also, their names and that, of. Rev. Chas, S. Morris' Baptist church revival at Norfolk, Va., recently resulted in 2,500 conversions. Harry S. Cummings Esq., of Baltimore, Md., has been re-elected to the city council. He is the only Afro-American minister. Benj. F. Hubert won first prize, a gold medal and $20, recently, at the Massachusetts Agricultural College. John M. Wright has been chosen City Treasurer of Topeka, Kansas. He is a member of the race, says an exchange. Master Edward Winhrop Robinson, the White Colored member of the graduating class of the Weymouth, Mass, high school won the first prize, scholarship for Amherst college. An Afro-American physician won the position of physician to the Kansas City, Mo., workhouse, in a competitive Civil Service examination. Now they will not let him treat the white prisoners. Missouri has been a African-American (southern) state in recent years. James B. Clarke, student at Cornell University, Ithaca, N. Y., has been awarded the Prix d'Honeur in the annual competition in French essay writing and translation held under the auspices of the Society of French Professors of America. Clarke is a junior in the arts college and comes from the West Indies. Among the awards laureates of the College of Hero Medal Commission, was the following: To Boyce Lindsay, 16, saved E. Reynolds Smith (white) from train at Spartanburg, S. C. May 26, 1910. Bronze medal and $2,000 as needed for educational purposes. Rueben T. Hill, the missing cashier of the True Reformers' Bank, Richmond, Va., was indicted on five counts of grand larceny May 1. The total cash involved in the counts amounts to more than $2,500. Indicted separately from Hill, Agnes B. Reese, a bookkeeper in the bank, on six counts for making false enquiries enabled the bank to an amount in excess of $2,500. Rev. Reverdy C. Ransom, pastor of Bethel A. M. E. Church, New York City, has the unmitigated nerve to condemn colored newspapers because they did not speak out against the lynching down in Kentucky. The chronicle dislikes it, and a faction he did tell an untruth, for the Illinois Chronicle's first editorial last week was on the Kentucky lynching at Livermore. — Chicago Chronicle. And there were others. W. Stewart Robertson (white), a wealthy, retired insurance broker of Montreal, Canada, and his daughter, Linda, died in a car crash. W. Stewart Robinson, Jr., who eloped from Montreal with Gertrude Townsnd, a member of the chorus of Cole & Johnson's "Red Moon" company. Young Robinson said, to a N. Y. City reporter: "My father and sister were here three weeks ago and stopped at the Manhattan Hotel, visited us here at our home and appeared very well satisfied with our marriage." Rabbi Samuel Sale of St. Louis, president of the board of directors of the Dunbar Normal, Agricultural and Industrial Institute for our boys school, and the university's contribution of $2,500 from Julius Rosenwald, the millionaire Jewish philanthropist of Chicago. The school which is being promoted by Rev. W. D. Venerable, has an option on 1,560 acres of land near Jonesburg, Mo, where it is to be established. Adolph Busch gave $1,000 toward the cost of the school last week, and many other St. Louis capitalists are subscribers. For forcibly ejecting an Afro-American can from a seat in his theater in Detroit, a judge recently fined the manager, a Jew, $10 and costs, or ten days in jail, and served public notice on all such that "discrimination against Colored people in public places in that city must stop." We agree with him. And they will stop to the minimum when our people will evoke the aid of the civil rights laws of the various northern states, a little oftener when discriminated against in public places. "It is up to us," now. "CHORDS AND DISCORDS." A Fine Book of Poems By Walter E Hawkins, Author of "Sweet Dreams of You." "After a careful reading we regard his book the best poetic appeal for manhood and race rights we have ever seen. Mr. Hawkins puts into poetry what Douglas put into oratory and what DuBols puts into prose." The Brooklyn (N. Y.) Eye. I have dipped in his book with great pleasure Oswald G. Villard, Editor, Y. Post. "Much the same in quality as the poetry of a white man of the same ambition, education and experience might be—probably better on the whole." The Public (white), Chicago. "The question of Dunbar's successor seems to be answered in Mr. Hawkins. His poetry well might have been the production of an older and more experienced head." The Lagos, West Africa, Standard. "Chords and Discoords" costs only one dollar and it appears it is nearly bond (cloth) book of many pages with title in gold on the cover. We advise our readers to secure a copy, or more, of it at once, addressing W. E. Hawkins, 1105 Red Cross St. Wilmington, N. C. The Gazette is indebted to the author for a copy. When your Gazettes are not delivered on Friday mornings call at your Central Postoffice General Delivery Window for them in the afternoon of the same day. —Editor. FRESH OHIO NEWS OUR OWN WRITERS WHAT OUR PEOPLE ARE DOING IN MANY CITIES AND TOWNS OF THE STATE. INTERESTING PERSONAL NOTES Social Functions—Church and Lodge Items—Marriages and Deathe—Literary, Musical and Other Notes of Interest. Oberlin—Miss Ruth Fisher of Lorain a graduate of Oberlin college, and an Associate Degree, Ala., Normal and Industrial School, and at the Manassas, Va., Normal and Industrial school, is now teaching in our "public" schools of Indianapolis. Give your local news to the agent, please. Martins Ferry—"Rally day" at the M. E. Church, Sunday, was quite a success. Mrs. Will Selpio's brothers from Cleveland visited her, Sunday. Missella Cochran is better. The M. E. Ladies' Aid society will meet Tuesday evening, Mrs. Bessolle's The A. M. E. Ladies' Aid society will meet, Thursday evening, at Mrs. Geo. Williams'. Sandusky.—Mrs. Victor Jones was called to Cleveland, by her mother's illness.—Mrs. Amy Taylor has returned from Henderson and Louisville. KY.—Odd Fellows' day at the A. E. School. Sunday, Special services at 2:30 p.m. at the A. E. School and S. S. were well attended, Sunday. Class 5 was the banner class at the Second Baptist S. S. Sacrament in the evening.—Mrs. H. Richards has returned home.—Order The Gazette. Akron.—Mrs. Clark and Isabelle Jackson of Coosport visited Mrs. Wm. laxley M. Wm. in cacao, the music writer, was here last week.—J. S. Clark was in Columbus last week.—Mrs. Wm. Tillman visited her daughter in Cleveland last week.—A. Rosebrowr of Louisville, Ky., was here last week.—Miss Rosa Johnson of Cleveland, spoke at Bethel Hospital.—Miss Viola Morris was located here.—Miss Viola Morris was in Youngstown last week. Mt. Pleasant—Jack Bundy was buried Monday afternoon—May fair at Emerson Baptist church, the week of the 14th—Walter Carey and Mahlon Jackson of Emerson, were in Cadzid, Sunday—Miss Blanch Becks has resigned from the same some, Edith Jackson and Eleanor Proctor visited in Dillonville, Thursday. Mrs. Jackson and daughter were there. Saturday—Catherine Nelson was here, Wednesday—Will Fields is our paper-hanger—Margaret Skinney is employed at Mallon Hills—Gee Powell of Emerson, was here, Thursday evening. Dayton.—Rev. and Mrs. C. M. Hogans have been enjoying a two weeks' vacation in their old homes, Smithfield and Cadiz respectively. He preached in both places. Give your local news to and order The Gazette.—Rev. and Mrs. C. M. Hogans Rev. J. G. Robinson passed through Dayton the first of the week en route from Bellefontaine to Little Rock, Ark, where he is to deliver an address tomorrow at an A. M. E. College commencement.—The editor of the Gazette will visit Dayton again in October.—Rev. and Mrs. C. M. Miss Troy, is now compelled to teach only Colored pupils. This is a new "stunt." Steubenville.—J. W. Mathews is adding another room to his seven-room residence.—Mrs. A. J. Guy was called to Chicago, by a brother's illness.—A base-ball club is to be organized.—W. R. Mathews is the only Afro-American H. S. graduate this year.—Virgil and Ethel Howard have returned from Claflin Univ., Orangeburg, S. C., for the summer vacation.—Mrs. M. J. Brown is convalescent.—The supper at Mrs. L. R. Mercer's was a success.—B. J. Guyder is a member of the Stanton Memorial Committee.—Mr. Chester Gaynor is a member of the Grand rally at Quinn公园, June 4. The pastor preached eloquently to the K. P., Sunday. Subject: "The Importance of Possessing a Decided Character."—The Gazette wants an agent here. Write to the editor in Cleveland. Smithfield.—Mrs. Etta Harris of Warren ridge and Mrs. E. Jackson who have been unable to attend church since last summer, were present Sunday morning.—Mr. and Mrs. D. Christian spent Sunday with her mother, Mrs. E. H. Harris.—Miss J. M. Veney dined with Mrs. White, Sunday. —Mr. G. Binnis was Miss A. Faithful's guest, Sunday.—Miss E. Beall spent Saturday and Sunday in McIntyre.—Mr. G. Beall spent Sunday here. He preached in the evening.—Miss M. Beall spent Saturday and Sunday in Steubenville.—Quite a number participated in the donation at the parsonage, last Friday evening. The stewardesses sewing circle was delightfully entertained, the same evening, by Mrs. G. Beall.—Mrs. C. West and daughter of Hopedale, visited her mother, Sunday. Miss M. Cooper and Mr. H. Harris spent Sunday there.—Miss E. Bargrave has been the first school which has been very successful, and will spend the summer with her parents.—Mr. E. Smith, I. Toney and S. West were here last week. Youngstown—Under the heading "Is This a Joke," the New Castle (Pa.) Solidarity published the following recently: "Chief Justice White, in addressing the Supreme Court in memorial services in honor of the late Chief Justice Fuller, made a statement which attracted the attention of the bar. He prophesied that the right of the right to protection of justice, a preservation of our constitutional government, the fructification of all the activities of our vast country for the benefit of the whole people, the abiding of tranquility and happiness in all the homes of our land, and the continual enjoyment by all our countrymen of individual liberty restrained from full disclosure to society in repression."—Human versus "Property" Rights: Very significant is the recent utterance of the Joint Commission of the Protestant Episcopal Church on the Relations of Capital and Labor: "Property is a trust held for the benefit of the community. The church must throw her chief emphasis to the value of human life. The property is the individual by the community. Morally it exists only in return for social service. It must in every case yield to the needs of humanity. No business interests, no profit, however great, can warrant the deliberate deterioration of human life."—A large number of our people CORRESPONDENTS WANTED. The old reliable Gazette desires an active agent and correspondent in every city and town in Ohio and neighboring states having a number of Afro-American residents. Only a little time on Fridays or Satdays may be necessary of hearing from persons in the following cities: Zanesville, Newark, Lancaster, Lebanon, Chillicothe, Toledo, Gallipolis, Troy, Springfield, Piqua, Columbus, Cambridge, Steubenville, St. Clairsville, Wilmington, Portsmouth, Delaware, M. Vernon, East Portsmouth, Hamilton Midport, Lima, O., and other places where we have none. Write to the editor of The Gazette, Blackstone building, Cleveland, O. and terms will be sent promptly. Our readers will oblige us greatly by sending the address of any good person or persons in any of the cities named above or others, to whom we can write relative to the writer. WON A CIVIL RIGHTS' SUIT. Let Our People Keep Up the Fight for Their Rights in All Public Places. Lima, O.—A case which involves the right of our people here to attend a moving picture show, was tried in the local courts last week, resulting in the fining of the proprietor, W. L. Backentoe. Wallace Poldow, started to enter his theater when he was refused admittance on account of his color, and at once brought suit under Hon. Harry C. Smith's Ohio Civil Rights' law governing discrimination against persons in public places before amounting to $50 were allowed. Costs and fine, aggregate over $100. Good! Let our people keep this good work and it will not be long until much of the present day color-line hysteria in public places will be wiped out. Reception. For Dr. J. M. Gilmere. Urbana, O.-On May 31, the local A. M. E. church, Rev. W. T. Watson, pastor, will give its Presiding Elder, Dr. J. M. Glimere, a grand reception in honor of and to indorse the action of the recent District Conference in indorsing and urging him for a delegate to the General Conference, and also as a candidate for Secretary of the Church Extension Department Mrs. W. W. Watson is chairman of the reception committee. Cambridge, Mass. — Col. Thomas Wentworth Higginson, historian and author, minister and soldier, one of the last of the group of famous scholars and abolitionists of half a century ago, died at his home here Tuesday night, aged 87. Col. Higginson was almost the last of that New England coterie which included Longfellow, Lowell, and Emily Dickinson. He was also one of the anti-slavery abolitionists with Garrison, Wendell Phillips, Edward Everett Hale and Julia Ward Howe. He held the honorary degree of doctor of laws, conferred by Harvard and Western Reserve universities. Mr. Higginson was oboless of one of Mass. colleges to oboless of restful rements during the war of the rebellion and an active friend of the race to the day of his death. And if any toil or pleasure or reputation or the loss of it be laid upon thee, remember that now is the contest, there is no deferring any longer and that in a single day, and in a single trial ground is to be lost or gained.—Epictetus. Great World TO YOUR HOME address on the coupon below—that you as your name and address is required will be sent to you prepaid. Never offered—an opportunity at least half per cent from large new type, issues and plans, 700 full page and over 5,000 pages of the publishers, theses of this work have every cent of it, but we price of only 500 after ex-lipps. It is impossible to ex-lipps in this less than mail the out the few remaining to examine this work in all of charge, and allow you to easily request you to ex-lipps and children see it. 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You assume no obligation to us or any one else by making this request, you simply ask for a free examination in your own home without paying any extra charge, and remember you can thank those backers. An Aged Abolitionist Dead. Life's Penalties. MUST WEAR DARK CLOTHES An Absolute Requirement in Factories Where Work Is Done With Gold. Light suits of clothes are not favored in factories where work is done on gold. In fact, in many such factories a dark suit of clothes is absolutely required and even a light waistcoat may lose a man a job. The reason for this is that any stray grains of gold that may get on the clothing can easily be caught on a dark suit, while they might get away from the establishment if light clothes were worn. That such a rule was enforced among gold workers one man learned recently when a Bohemian gold beater applied to him for a helping hand. The Bohemian said that he had only recently come to this country, that he had had a chance to obtain a good job at his trade, but that the place had been refused him because he turned up with a light coat and waistcoat on, and they were the only clothes he had. The man whom he approached was struck by the story and offered to help him out if it proved true. He went to a down town factory with him and found out that the man could have the job if he presented himself within an hour with the proper clothes on. Two dollars enabled the man to rig him out in the dark coat and waistcoat to go with his dark trousers, and sure enough he got the job. "You may think this strange," said the man at the factory, "but it means quite a little to us. Every man's clothing is carefully examined when he leaves here at night, and the gold brushed off whenever we see any on his clothing. "It is impossible to hide even tiny grains on a dark background, but take a mixed or a light suit, and we might easily lose quite an amount of gold, and gold isn't anything you want to lose, even in small quantities." Chicken Bones for Children. Monday morning marketers learned through a sign in the delicatessen store window that the proprietor had choice chicken bones for sale. "For soup?" some one asked. "No; babies," he said. "It is not easy to find a nutritious bone for the baby to graw. What he wants is a drumstick of a young, juicy fowl. It must be fresh and free from tang. Even the family that prides itself on setting a good table may buy a chicken whose drumstick is too old for the child. Every Saturday I cook wholesome celery-fed roasters. Their bones, when stripped, make excellent tooth sharpeners for the babies, and any mother of a fretful brood can have them for next to nothing." Our Doctors. "The late Count Tolstoi loathed physicians," said, at a dinner in Washington, a Russian diplomat. "You remember how Tolstoi ridiculed physicians in 'War and Peace?' Well, I heard him ridicule three of them to their faces over a vegetarian dinner at Yasnaya Polyana. "Physicians," he said, bitterly, looking up from a plate of lentils, "may be divided into two classes—the radicals, who kill you, and the conservatives, who let you die." Local News PURCHASE THE "GAZETTE" AT J. S. HALL'S, 3121 Central Ave. L. SCHWARTZ'S, 2921 Central Ave. Open Sunday. PUSHAW'S, Cuyahoga Building. Open Sunday. ELMER F. BOYD'S, 2604 Central Ave. F. VALENTINE'S, 2130 Central Ave. C. C. JOHNSON'S, 3315 Central Ave. Open Sunday. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS:—Subscribers not receiving The Gazette regularly should notify us at once. We desire every copy delivered promptly. We advise our patrons to carefully examine The Gazette's advertisements before making purchases. Business men who advertise in this paper should have the patronage of Afro-Americans. The fact that they advertise is assurance that they want it. Local reading notices (advertisements) ten cents a line (six words in a line.) FOR SALE.—Brand new, Imperial Encyclopedia and Dictionary, 40 volumes, finely illustrated, handy to handle. Unexcelled for reference purposes. A library in itself—one that will last a lifetime. Contains everything you may wish to know. Call or address. The Gazette; Blackstone Building, 1422 W. 3d St., Cleveland, O., near Superior Av. This is an opportunity of a life-time for those who love good books. For Rent.—Furnished front room. All convenience; suitable for one or two gentlemen. 2325 E. 49th St., near Central Ave. "Mother's Day" program at Corp Chapel next Sunday afternoon. Dr. J. M. Gilmore, P. E., spent the week in the city with his family. The Law and Order League meeting at St. John's church, Monday evening was interesting. Ralph W. Tyler of Washington, D. C., was in the city last week Monday and Tuesday, guest of Geo. A. Myers Co. D. gave a dance at Woodliff Hall Wednesday evening, and the Victor Athletic club an entertainment on Thursday evening. Cuyahoga College, Elks, hopes to have their building on Central Ave. cor. Atkinson place, remodeled and For Rent.—Furnished front room. All conveniently; suitable for one or two gentlemen. Inquire 2337 E. 49th St., near Central Ave. "If you see it in The Gazette, it's so!" Mrs. Rosa Johnson spoke in Akron, recently. Mrs. Victor Jones of Sandusky, was called here by her mother's illness. Mrs. Wm. Tillman of Akron, was in the city last week, visiting her daughter. Mrs. L. S. Jones of 2180 E. 30th St. visited relatives in Youngtown and Lowellville, the past week. Current rumor has it that Henry Taylor is slated for a job in the County Clerk's office instead of Charley Sutton. The Gazette is a household necessity. Subscribe now. Every intelligent member of the race, in Ohio particularly, ought to get; a copy every week. Mr. Abe. Stevens came to The Gazzette office and requested the announcement (made in The Gazette recently) of his appointment as receiver of "the Boodiff hall building." The Boodiff hall revenue does all kinds of mason work and plastering, lays cement sidewalks, drives and cellar bottoms, contracting and jobbing. All work guaranteed. Bell E. 1995-X. Mrs. Edwina Seelig who has been visiting her parents and other relatives in Toronto, Windsor and London, Canada, and Detroit, has returned and supports a delightful visit of six weeks. When you want a real "home dinner," about 5 or 6 p. m., go to Mrs. Anita Lee's restaurant, cor. Central Ave. and E. 37th St. Always fricased chicken dinner on Sundays from noon on. Mrs. Emma Freeman died at her residence 2367 E. 29th St. May 7. Fungal services at Antioch church, Tuesday afternoon, Rev. H. C. Bailley officiating. Interment in E. Cleveland cemetery, E. F. Boyd, undertaker. Messrs. Henry and Frank Minter and sister were called to Gallipoli, last week, by the death of their mother who had been ill some time. They have the sympathy of a host of friends in their hometown, James, New York Site club will give a recital and bazaar, next Friday evening, at Orkin's hall. The Drama Study club, composed of the East Lynne Co., will give "An Evening in Dixie." Committee on program, Mrs. Blanche Gilmore. Mrs. Edward Daw of E. 86th St, served an elaborate luncheon, Tuesday morning, honor of Mrs. Anna Williams of Washington, D. C., (guest of Mrs. Sam. T. Boyd) and Mrs. B. W. Paxton wife of the new rector of Andrews Church. Covers were laid for eight. Send your local items to The Gazette on Monday or Tuesday of each week. This paper is published for ALL of our people and "plays no favorites." Everybody is present in same—fair and right. Take The Gazette and tell your friends to do so The Oriole Theater benefit for St. Ann's Infant Asylum netted $19.50 and the one for the Old Folks Home realized about $30. This was the second within a year the theater has given the Home, the first one netting nearly $50. Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Harris are entitled to great credit. Mary I. Fleming, wife of Tom Fleming, councilman, was granted a divorce from her husband in Judge Collister's court last week Thursday the grounds of grossness of duty. The plaintiff was granted $1,000 annuity he paid at the rate of one week, and was given the custody of her youngest child, aged eight years. The couple were married on July 9, 1895, and have three children, aged fifteen, fourteen and eight. They live at 2555 Central Ave. S. E. Mrs. Ida Walker Hackney of Philadelphia, Pa., a former Cleveland girl, writes a friend in this city that she has finally secured the arrest of her husband who it is alleged deserted her years ago, leaving her with two little children, a boy and a girl, the former dying about two years ago. Mr. Hackney, it is alleged, was living in Washington, D. C., with a girl he is said to have married eight years ago and by whom he has had four children. Hackney was taken to Philadelphia last week and failed pending trial. Don't throw away your copy of The Gazette when you have done with it, but give it to some appreciative person whom you feel would be likely to subscribe or take it regularly, if they had a copy to look over and read carefully. Oblige the Editor Chapel next Sunday at Cory Dr. J. M. Gilmere, F. E. spent the Dr. J. M. Glmere, P. E. spent the week in the city with his family. The Law and Order League meeting at St. John's church, Monday evening, was interesting. Ralph W. Tyler of Washington, D. C., was in the city last week Monday and Tuesday, guest of Geo. A. Myers, and the staff of the dillhall hall, Wednesday evening, and the Victor Athletic club an entertainment on Thursday evening. Cuyahoga Lodge, Elks, hopes to have their building on Central Ave. cor. Atkinson place, remodeled and in shape for dedication, June 1. In New York City and other northern cities where there are branch Y. M. C. A.'s, Colored members are harried from the Central Y. M. C. A. Robert I. Drake, a sanitary patrolman, and Henry Wilson of E. 65th St., took the local civil service examination for sanitary patrolmen last week. Mrs. Charles Goode returned recently from southern Ohio where she went to her mother's funeral. Mrs. Goode has the earnest sympathy of many friends. Mrs. Payne of Mt. Vernon, Grand Lecturer of the Courts of Calanthe of Ohio, addressed Damon and Hermoin Courts, Thursday afternoon at Clayton hall. Wednesday, Mrs. Payne spent in Lorain. Mrs. Emma Green, 2245 E. 43d St., a copiest in the County Recorder's office, arrears her weekly wage a couple of clandestine migrated against her by Mrs. Kittle Skeene Mitchell, was discharged in police court last week Wednesday after she had testified she repeated simply what some one else had told her. In fact, she said the words she used about Mrs. Mitchell were gossiped about for some time. The story was short and sweet. According to the testimony Mrs. Green had connected the name of Mrs. Mitchell with that of Mr. Wills, for same time referring to an alleged scene at St. Andrews Episcopal church. The Care of the Hair. A. D. Ramsey of Akron, whose advertisement can be found elsewhere in The Gazette, will put you in possession of necessary and valuable information as to the care of the hair, if you will write him; and at a very small charge. So very many people are too careless in this respect, doubtless because they do not fully appreciate the importance, in many ways, of properly cared for hair. This latter has everything to do with one's proper appearance. It will pay you many times over to write Mr. Ramsey. "MIND YOUR P'S AND Q'S" One Theory Is That the Old Saying Originated in the Printing Office. Several explanations have been given of the origin of the phrase "Mind your P's and Q's." One is that it is derived from an old custom of hanging a slate up in an alehouse on which was written P or Q—that is, pint or quart—against the name of each customer according to the quantity which he had drunk; to be paid when the wages were given on Saturday night. Another explanation given in the Dietetic and Hygienic Gazette is that the sentence originally was "Mind your toupees and queues." The toupee was an artificial lock of hair and the queue the pigtail of olden time. A riddle used to be in vogue as follows: "Who is the best person to keep the alphabet in order? Answer: A barber, because he ties up the queues and puts toupees in irons." Charles Knight gives the most plausible explanation, as follows: "I have always thought that the phrase 'Mind your P's and Q's' was derived from the schoolroom or the printing office. The forms of the small p's and q's in the Roman type have already been puzzled to the child and the printer's apprentice. In the one the downward stroke is on the left of the oval; in the other, on the right. "Now, when the types are reversed, as they are when in process of distribution they are returned by the compositor to his case, the mind of the young printer is puzzled to distinguish the p from the q. In sorting pl or a mixed heap of letters, where the p and the q are not in connection with any other letter forming a word, I think it would be almost impossible for an inexperienced person to distinguish which is which upon the instant." Truth, like cork, will be uppermost at one time or another, though kept down in the water. -Isaac Taylor. Call your lady friends' and acquaintances' attention to our up-to-date fashion and pattern departments and thus encourage them to subscribe or take The Gazette regularly. Oblige the Editor. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, MAY 13, 1911 WOMEN DOCTORS NOT NEW In the Eighteenth Century There Was a Lady Student at Hospital in Florence. Women as doctors is not, a Paris contemporary observes, a product of modern "feminisme." It seems that in the eighteenth century there was a lady student at Florence. She came from Malta under the patronage of the Knights of the Malta. The administrator of the Majeur hospital was somewhat embarrassed with his new pupil, but he found a means out of the difficulty. The chief of the Order of the Knights of Malta in introducing his lady protege to the professors of the Florence School of Medicine wrote: "It seems to me that the matter could be arranged without any great inconvenience if the young lady were boarded during the period she was studying at your medical school with the nuns in a neighboring convent, for which we would pay five crowns a week. In regard to her instruction she should assist in operations at the women's hospital, notably those performed by Professor Mannoni. He should also give her some private lessons at the convent, for it appears to me that she should not be present in classes with young men." The council of the hospital, being well disposed to the Knights, adopted the suggestion. More than a century elapsed before another lady was enrolled in the schools of Florence. 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The negroes of Oklahoma now seeking homes in Canada must do one of two things or they will find out in time that they have fed nothing. They think to have fed prejudice and discrimination in various forms. The poet speaking of the Pilgrim fathers asked "What seek they thus afar? Bright jewels of the mine? They sought a faith's pure shrine." Nor is the cause of those present day pilgrims less sacred—they seek a sphere of inviolated right and privileges making for man in his best estate and in consonance, we would think, with the will of the Master—and with surety if the Master's will is equal to the highest aspirations of men as we are taught and as we now understand them to be. If the colonists would mantain their freedom as well as their land, they will have to "sow" with the end in view. The much-hated segregation idea will have to take on new meaning, becoming the very bed rock of their municipal corporations. These corporations will have to become vivid with industry, the same as characterizes communities of white people, where are heard the shuffle of many feet at the behests of industrialism. Stagnated spots, will, as we think, be counted eye-sores, and which unlike that — spot of Macbeth's will. The white man's all-pervading example is felt. There is no reason why such communities should not be white in everything excepting in name. There is a way! It is for resolute people to find. Will they do it? The end of such communities should be seen from the beginning, a very impossible thing one will say—all will say. The very next best thing, however, is not impossible, and that is to have the end well in mind and be thus governed. If the segregation idea is not strictly adhered to, then it follows that the colonists must distribute themselves in small lots among the settlers, of their new homes. They need not expect to go so far as to escape the white man's inquisitive nose. He will be there with his prejudices which are a part of him just as his eyes and ears are parts of him, and which he can no more throw down than a leopard can dart his skin of spots. The smaller number of negroes, as it is known everywhere, do not call for the feeling of opposition that is noted where the race is in great numbers. This opposition is borne, because, if avoided, much of the things that make for life would be lost. This means the advantages of the height of civilization, good situations and wages, things and conditions not to be had when blazing the way in a trackless wilderness. Those of the exodus seek "a faith's pure shrine," that ultra democracy of citizenship where the individual is measured by his worth and not by the pigment of his skin or the texture of his hair. This they will receive—enter into the higher citizenship if they are true to the lessons that point the way. Their birthright is about to be established, and which should not be sacrificed for bable or caprice. Life is the resultant of death; the forerunners will scarcely expect to see their promised land—their land in its glory. But they need not for evidences; they are about them. The terms are given; the result is assured in the event of correct processes—The Indianapolis Freeman. CICERO ON WIT. There are witty sayings which carry a concealed suspicion of ridicule, of which sort is that of the Sicilian who, when a friend of his made lamentation to him saying that his wife had hanged herself upon a fig tree, said: "I be seech you give me some shoots of that tree that I may plant them." Of the same sort that is Crassus said to a certain bad orator who, when he imagined that he had excited compassion at the close of a speech, asked our friend here after he had sat down whether he appeared to have raised pity in the audience. "Very great pity," replied Crassus, "for I believe that there is no one there so hard-hearted but that your speech seemed pitable to him." -Clecro's Oratory. A STRANGE LIKENESS. An extraordinary resemblance has recently been discovered at the London Natural History museum between a specimen of the huge African elephant and the pygmy shrew mouse. Sir E. Ray Lankester suggested comparison of the two, and the result has been that practically every bone, muscle, blood vessel and nerve of the giant beast has been found identically produced in the little animal, which is scarcely two inches in length. In the museum a stuffed mouse has been placed between the forefeet of its enormous mounted prototype for the purpose of showing the curious likeness. NOT AT ALL NECESSARY. "What was the cause of the quarrel with your husband?" "I want you to understand, judge, that when we want to fight we don't have to have a cause."—New York Press TOO MANY NERVES Dentist (after examination)—And will you have gas, madame? I'm going to suppose I'm going to let you tinker with my teeth in the dark, do you? PROTECTION FOR FROGS. William Dickmann, Madison county's representative in the lower house of the Illinois legislature, has declared his intention of obtaining a revision of the state game laws which will make built-togs game. At present frogs are not protected, and hunters kill them. Dickmann says, at all seasons of the year, thus preventing rapid multiplying. He purposes to forbid the killing or capturing of green frogs until after June 1 each year. By W. E. SHAW, M. D. People of African descent throughout the world, and especially in America, have watched with deep concern the negotiations recently concluded, which promise the rehabilitation of the Republic of Liberia. As a race we should be cold and dull indeed if we were unmoved by the heroic struggles of this little Republic to maintain her independence; and right well has she done to keep herself from being swallowed up by European government's doings. On this big continent, the black man's continent, with its 12,000,000 (twelve million square miles, the black man has only 31,000 (thirty-one thousand) square miles (Liberia), but great are his possibilities even here. Notwithstanding the late financial misfortunes of the Republic much credit must be given her leaders who have weathered the storms in the sea of state-craft for eighty-eight (88) years. The establishment of the Republic of Liberia has been a remarkable thing in itself. In 1822 a handful of American Negroes were landed on the savage shores of West Africa. They had nothing and, practically no aid has come to them since. In 1847 they declared their independence, and announced their government a republic. From that day they have maintained an orderly, peaceful government, and the only internal disturbances have been those that were inspired by European governments whose territory borders Liberia. The march of events has been wonderful. Think of the past, the sad pages in the history of Liberia and then think of the present. Today she is recognized as one of the world's republics, successfully performing the great duty she has imposed upon herself of playing a noble and righteous part in the redemption of a race and demonstrating that race's ability to stand alone. She has long since passed the age at which it was prophesied she must die, and, thanks to Earnest Lyons and Emmett Scott, her social and political regeneration is at hand. Not only is Liberia helped financially by the recent negotiations, but she is better off because her boundary lines have now been settled in a manner that can permit of no controversy regarding them in the future, and this means much when we know how Great Britain and France have heretofore been chopping off great blocks of her borders as it pleased them. France is now in possession of the rich Ivory Coast which formerly belonged to Liberia. But Liberia is now on surer footing than ever before and it is to be hoped that capital will now turn towards this rich country. The long years of struggles and their attendant miseries of blood and tears have united the people and they are now bent on giving earnest effect to the recent diplomatic achievement of their statesmen, and are joining in prayer to Almighty God to set his seal upon their work. Here we have a territory about the size of the state of Ohio. The climate is healthful and differs but little from that of Florida. Liberia is the only part of West Africa where diamonds have been found, and it is not known what the mountains of her unopened country contain. The soil is fertile and suitable for all kinds of crops, but many improvements are demanded to ensure a reasonable standard of comfort in daily life. With the building of railroads and the coming of other economic necessities, great will be the industrial changes. Already there is cable communication with the outside world. There are forests of rubber, ebony, rosewood, mahogany, acacia, and many other woods which the markets demand. Cotton, rice, sugar cane, coffee, tobacco, corn, cocoa and kola all find favorable soil, as do vegetables. Indigenous to the country are oranges, bananas, pineapples, lemons, mangoes and ground nuts. Chickens, turkeys, guinea fowl, hogs, sheep, cows and goats are found everywhere. It is hoped that the American Negro will be attracted by the wonderful opportunities in this undoubtedly rich country. A company, or persons possessing sufficient working capital, setting out to exploit the resources of Liberia would earn enormous profits in a very short time. There are excellent business opportunities in other parts of Africa, outside of Liberia Africa is now a "white man's country," and as Dr. Lyons recently stated a handful of white men boss the whole business. The "experiment" in Liberia has contributed a chapter to the history of the race of which we have every reason to be proud. For happiness and security and the opportunity to make profitable investments, Liberia offers opportunities to the American Negro that are not to be found elsewhere. Quittah, Gold Coast, W. A. SCHOOLBOY'S STORY OF JONAH. A school board boy, competing for one of the Peek prizes, evolved this confusion of widely different events. He had to write a short biography of Jonah, and he produced the following: "He was the father of Lot and had two wives. One was called male and the other Hagher. He kept one at home and turned the other into the dessert, when she became a pillow of salt in the daytime and a pillow of fire at night."—From Wheatley's "Literary Blunders." LOST HIS BAIT. "Yes, sir; the fish was so big it pulled him in the river." "And he was drowned?" "No; but he might's well have been fer he lost his grip on his gallon jug and it floated downstream, and he lives in a dry country." TREE 1,200 YEARS OLD. The German village of Remborn has a linden tree which is said to be more than 1,200 years old. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, MAY 13, 1911. The housing of negroes is attracting the attention of the larger cities, east and west. The negro of the better sort is prospering; he demands and can pay for a better home with more favorable surroundings than he could afford a few years ago. Hence the negro "invasions" of neighborhoods hitherto white such as have disquelled parts of Chicago and have led to drastic endeavors at regulation, as in Balti more. Conditions being as they are, interest attaches to the recent action of a negro church in New York. Its plan is to colonize comprehensively yet compactly in the vicinity of the church edifice. The organization has purchased a block of 25 six-story apartment buildings; it will dispossess the 220 white families now in occupancy, and provide for its own parishioners suitable accommodations at fair rentals together with a satisfactory and harmonious environment. The church looks beyond the social, religious and humanitarian phases of the understaking and sees an investment that is calculated to bring a good six per cent. This particular example doubtless shows a greater command of financial means and of financial ability than many colored congregations possess. But the trend is, on the whole, upward, and this method of solving a vexed problem may profitably engage the attention of prospering negro communities in other cities. The above editorial appeared in the Chicago Record-Herald to which we wish to add, that the effort on part of the "Better Set" of colored people to get into better homes is not due to that haunting fear of the ordinary class of whites, a desire for "social equality," or social intimacy, but a desire on part of the colored people to have their families live under the most favorable moral influence possible. The colored people have long ago realized that they are not the social equal of some races, but the moral equal of any race, and just so long as the municipal authorities make colored communities the dumping ground for the vice and immorality of all races; just so long will the colored man cause "disquiet" to some white men. Colonization will not solve the problem. Enforcement of law, and the same maintenance of the same moral conditions in and through the cities are the only things that will stop invasion of neighborhoods hitherto white.—New York Age. THIRKIELD NOT TO BESIGN PRESIDENT OF HOWARD UNIVERSITY HAS NO INTENTION OF QUITTING HIS POSITION. Washington (Special).—There is absolutely no truth in the rumor circulated by certain irresponsibles to the effect that President Thirkelk is to resign the headship of Howard university. Dr. Thirkelk says there has never been such a thought in his mind and that no talk of a successor has ever been brought to his attention. He says he will continue to perform his duties as usual. No member of the board has heard of any such rumor from any reliable source, and are paying no attention to the gabble of chronic enemies of the school. The story of the alleged resignation of President Thirkield is said to have had its foundation among some of the friends of Messrs. Gregory and Washington, who vainly imagined that it will do the young men good to thus attempt to embarrass the president of the university by circulating this falsehood. Attorney Cobb gives no countenance to these puerile tactics, and purposes to fight the battle on its merits. It is generally felt that the two teachers were punished in excess of the demands of the situation, and they have a host of level headed admirers who would be glad to see them reinstalled; but they say that the determination of the case is a matter with which the president, the faculty and trustees, together with the counsellors, are more qualified to deal than more laymen, with meager knowledge of the facts. No good purpose is served by inviting a malicious warfare on Dr. Thirkield the spreading broadcast a fake "resignation" story, with the wish the father of the thought. Shakespeare—It's none of your bush ness how old Ann is! * Tantalus—They told me to come on in—the water was fine. Robinson Crusoe—Gee! Baedeker must have missed this! Romulus—I'm building a chicken house. Remus; you keep away from it! Solomon—Young man, let me give you a few words of advice. Ixion—Don't talk to the man at the wheel! James Monroe—Keep off the grass. Man in the Iron Mask—That's one on me. WHAT BOTHERS HER. "But is it not embarrassing," we ask of the naive damsel, "to say so many unsophisticated things? Do you often not realize immediately that you have made a terrible break?" "Yea," she answers frankly. "Lots of times, after I have studied up a particularly shocking innocent expression, I use it at entirely the wrong time." The Venus of Milo refused to tell how she lost her arms. "If I should say I broke them off while trying to button my dress up the back," she said, "you'd ask me what has become of the dress." Relapsing into stony silence, she paid no further attention to the questioners.—Chicago Tribune. He is a friend who in dubious circumstances aids in deeds when deeds are necessary.—Plautus. NEGROES SHOULD BE PATIENT PESSIMISTIC VIEWS HAVE NEVER DONE ANY RACE ANY GOOD. Thomaston, Ga. — (Special.)—Rev. Richard D. Stinson of Atlanta, by invitation, spoke to the colored people here on "Practical Education for the Masses—How It Will Adjust Conditions, Ald Amicable Relations and Develop the New South." Stinson said, among other things: "If history and the version of good people are to be regarded it takes a long time to lay the foundation of a race. Whatever irregularities exist among us, there is no question but that the conscience of the best people in every community, as well as the high-class and honest press of our section are fully cognizant that righteousness exalteth a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people." "An unselfish, honest, pure and intelligent leadership, backed up by a practical schoolhouse where we live, is the greatest asset of the negro race for fifty years to come. "The south is the home of the large numbers of our race for years, and an optimistic leadership will mean everything good to our children. Pessimistic views and unwise preachments can but add gloom and depravity." RELIGION AIDS THE NEGRO SO DECLARES RICHARD D. STINSON IN A SPEECH AT LITTLE DROCK, ARK. Little Rock, Ark.—(Special.—Rev. Richard D. Stinson of Atlanta, Ga., preached the Easter day sermon in Bethel A. M. E. church here. Rev. J. O. Iverson, who is a prominent leader of his race in this city, and is building a $40,000 church, is pastor. Among other things, Stinson said: "The celebration of Easter should mean more to us, as a race, than display of fine clothes and a jolly good time. We were brought to this country some years ago with nothing that we could call our own; in fact, we were heathen, and when we recount the progress we have made we should be the most grateful of all people on the earth. The religion of Jesus Christ, the American schoolhouse and good people have done everything for the negro. I wonder if we are capable in large numbers of appreciating it, and if we may keep sober, and practical education is given a chance, with a Christian leadership, it has not yet appeared what the conservative, honest members of our race are to be." COLORED WAITERS LOSE JOB WHITE MAN AND WIFE TAKE PLACE OF NEGRO WAITERS ON DINING CARS. Sioux City, Ia.—(Special.)—The Chicago and Northwestern railway has recently been trying out an innovation in its dining car service which thus far has brought most successful results according to officials of the road. Negro waiters have been eliminated on the cafe-parlor car operated between Chicago and Sioux City, Ia., on trains No. 20 and 17 for the last six months, and in their places a white man and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Garnier, have been placed in complete charge of the car. Mr. Garnier dispensed with the colored waiters and has himself acted as conductor and assistant waiter while Mrs. Garnier has served as waitress. NEW WHITE MAN'S HOPE BOSTON IS TOUTING A MAN TO TAKE CHAMPIONSHIP AWAY FROM JACK JOHNSON. Boston, Mass.—(Special.)—Another possible "white man's hope" was uncovered in the opinion of many persons at the national amateur boxing championship tournament at Mechanics' hall, when John Severino, a 200-pound member of the Armory A. A. of Boston won the heavyweight championship by disposing of Joseph Burk Cox, also of Boston, in fifty-six seconds with a sledgehammer right. It had required only two rounds for him to put away T. J. Dorsey of the Irish-American A. C. New York, in the semi-final. Both were knockouts. Warren D. Barbour, son of a New York millionaire, did not appear to defend his championship award gained in his class last year. A polo pony turns completely around 79 times during the course of a game. An electric fan has a much higher record than this. In falling downstairs a man barks his shins and barks like a dog. If the moon were made of Rougefort the stars would move away. When an automobile runs into a lamp-post something happens. There are 641 murders in Shakespeare. The moon is nearer to as than the sun, but so is a mother-in-law. A greyhound can run 1,000 yards in a pitbite but seldom does. in a minute, but so shallow. An angler is a fisherman who doesn't catch anything. Pearl necklaces should not be entrusted to strangers, unless a change of air is considered desirable. "A crafty girl is Elaine." "You think so?" "Yes, indeed. She knows 'domestic science' includes dish washing." PARTIAL ABSTRACTION. "He seems to be a very man." "That's true, but you will notice that he never forgets where he puts his pipe." SOLDIERS IN BRONZE THE SUN DEFENDS THE FAMOUS FIGHTING NINTH AND THE WORLD REBUKES THE UNI- FORMED SNOB. (Editorial: New York Sun.) (Editorial: New York Sun.) The Ninth cavalry flurry at San Antonio proves beyond the shadow of a doubt that there is no war crisis in Texas. If the people down there heard the bugles blowing for an advance to the Rio Grande to await developments the Ninth would be one of the most popular regiments in the army, for it is one of the smartest and most efficient. As regards discipline it compares well with any regiment of white soldiers. The negroes of the Ninth give a reader and more respectful obedience to their officers than the white enlisted men of any other command in the service do to theirs. As to general behavior of the negro troopers on leave, no matter where they are stationed, it leaves little to be desired by the most prejudiced critics. "The sentiment here is against them," says Chief of Police Newman of San Antonio, "but they are orderly." In the early days of the mobilization some of the troopers of the Ninth were inclined to resent the enforcement of the Jim Crow law on the street cars in their cases. While their attitude as soldiers wearing the same uniform as the enlisted men of the Seventh cavalry was logical enough, the law is law, and we have no doubt that Col. John F. Gulloyle told them that when they were in San Antonio they must do as as negroes do and keep out of the white compartment of the street cars. In Texas the color line is more stringently drawn than in other southern states, and San Antonio is no exception, although if the townsmen remember the Alamo it must occur to them that at least one negro shared the perils of Travis, Crockett, Bowie and Houston. Probably the men of the Ninth got it into their heads that war was imminent and that under the circumstances they would be allowed to have the same indulgences they enjoy in garrison in Wyoming and Montana, where there is no color line. They ought to have known better. At last accounts the negro troopers were submitting in a true military spirit to the discrimination of the Jim Crow law, and official San Antonio was going bail for them and pleading with the president not to order the regiment into the border district represented by the Hon. John Nance Garner. If the black soldiers were an incubus and a nuisance, would not this appeal to Mr. Taft be proof of unselfish and self-sacrificing spirit? We note that the Hon. James L. Slayden of the San Antonio district, a member of the house military committee, has taken a prominent part in rebuking Representative Garner for interfering in its affairs. In San Antonio everbody, Mexicans as well as Americans, votes for Jim Slayden on election day, and if the conduct of the Ninth were as black as Garner of Uvalde painted it. Mr. Slayden would have rejoiced to see the regiment transferred to Representative Garner's district. That gentleman now understands what a boomerang is. The clamor in Zapata and Hidalgo against the coming of the Ninth for patrol duty sent Mr. Garner on the wings of the morning to the White House to protest, and the regiment, which did not know but it might be dispatched to Death Valley, received a third and final order to stay where it was. The hysteria will now die down, we trust. There would have been none at all if there were anticipation of another Palo Alta or Resaca de la Palma. SOCIAL SEGREGATION PROBLEM Must we draw the line among us socially, or must affairs continue as they are? The present condition of social discrimination is gloomy and is drifting fast into a very objectionable condition, especially among the young people. We hardly know who's who. This situation must be remedied or the dissolution of the classes will prevail. The social gatherings now, except a few organized clubs for women, have gradually gone down and are still falling. You find them frequented by some very undesirable characters, who show their qualities by becoming under the influence of intoxicants and practicing other vices in the presence of refined people. These characters must be discarded, or the destiny of social affairs are "blown up."-Palesine (Tex.) Plaindealer. EUGENIE'S AMERICAN ANCESTRY The Empress Eugenie was the granddaughter of Mr. Fitzpatrick. American consul at Malaga during the early years of the nineteenth century. Mr. Fitzpatrick's wife was of Scotch descent and claimed to be connected in some remote way with the Stuart's. They had one daughter, a very beautiful and accomplished girl, who made a brilliant marriage with the Marqués De Montjoly, Comte De Teba. He died after a few years of married life, leaving her with two young daughters, one of whom subsequently married the Duke of Alba. The other, Eugenie, became empress of the French.—From the Memoirs of M. Claudie. A GIRL'S IDEA. A girl's idea of a trousseau is to have enough clothes to wear without buying anything new for at least three weeks.—New York Times. SHOULD BE INVESTIGATED: Chloff—Sia, allow me to present Count Nogoodski. Sister—Have you had his title examined by a title insurance company? HOW SWEET She—What do you mean by saying you'd like to see more of the world? You've traveled a good bit. He—I mean that I'd like to see more of the girl that's all the world to me, and that's you. WIT AND HUMOR I hate to see a problem play In which the leading lady Feels often called upon to say Her former life was shady. 1910. But to the modern problem play The old is not a marker. For now we hear the lady say Her future will be darker. —Club Fellow. CRAZY. "Did they succeed in breaking their rich uncle's will?" "Yes, inded. They proved that the old man was crazy." "How did they do it?" "They put three people on the stand who swore that he preferred ragtime to grand opera."—Detroit Free Press. "Yes, Ive stopped drinking." "I'll bet you did it to please some girl." "You win. It pleased four girls extremely, and three others are mildly gratified."—Louisville Courier Journal. SHE. Her curling locks were fair. She was a blond from birth. She had a wealth of hair— Say twenty dollars' worth. —Kansas City Journal Her hazel eyes had each An apple, so 'tis said. And, though she was a peach, Her lips were cherry red. —Chicago Tribune. EXERCISE. "I'm afraid you don't get enough exercise," said the physician. "That," replied Senator Sorghum, "is because you never saw me at home with my fellow citizens lined up to shake hands with me."—Washington Star. PROBABLY He—We should be very happy together. You're a brunette and I'm a blonde. You know opposites are considered suited to each other. She—Yes, and another point where we are opposite is that I have money and you haven't. I suppose that point appeals to you. PAEAN. Sons of rich men oft remind us What a host of blessings lurk In the exigence that finds us Poor enough to have to work. "Busted thou, and busted better," Was not spoken through the hat, Nor any wisdom leaves us debtor Quite so thoroughly as that. —St. Louis, Post-Dispatch WALLA WALLA Nat Goodwin was playing in the northwest once. Looking at the call board at the theater, he noticed that the next town the company was to play was Walla Walla. "Walla Walla," said the comedian "Walla Walla! What's that—a garagle?" A miss sat alone with her beau For hours, the light turned down leau When he said he must geau Boston Transcript. SPITEUL THING. Patience—Do you remember my sister who was on the stage? Patrice—Oh, yes. "Well, she's married." "Oh, got a speaking part at last, has she?"—Yonkers Statesman. NOT THAT KIND. "And would you die for me, my dear?" The gentle maid was sighing. He shook his head and said, "I fear My love it is undying." —New York Times. A FIXTURE. "I guess the airship is here to stay." "Why so?" "I see they have begun to quarrel as regards the advantages of the respective types."—Kansas City Journal. NO JEALOUSY. The announcement in the papers recently that Winston Churchill's baby's nurse was followed by policemen excited no jealousy in the breasts of the babies of Baham. Their nurses always have a policeman in attendance. —London Bystander. A PROBLEM. "There is one thing I wonder about acute indigestion." "What is that?" "If it is ever brought on by people being compelled to eat their own words." —Baltimore American. A STRIKING LASS. So striking is May. She strikes with delight Typewriter by day. Piano by night. —Boston Herald. A SLIGHT DIVERSION. "I have just been reading about a popular story writer who never takes any exercise." "No exercise at all? "Well, he rolls his own cigarettes." CHILD'S ROMPERS. 4842. When play time comes there is no better dress than rompers. It does away with the need of petticoats and it keeps the little wearers clean. The style which we show in the illustration is suitable for either a boy or a girl. There is a seam down the center of the front and in the center of the back where the closing is placed. The legs of the trousers portion are seamed in the regular way and there is an opening across the back at the waistline. This suit will take very little material and for real hard usage nothing is better than gingham. The pattern (4842) is cut in sizes 2, 4 and 6 years. Medium size requires $1\%$ yards of 36 inch material. To procure this pattern send 10 cents to 'Pattern Department, of this paper, to give us size and number of pattern. NO. 4842. SIZE..... NAME..... TOWN..... STREET AND NO..... STATE.... A PLAIN SHIRT WAIST. 1 The plain model will be found useful for the waist, which is to have real service and for this purpose there is no better material than percale. Madras, gingham, taffetas, satin and many other fabrics may also be employed with a greater or less degree of durability. This waist has two full length tucks on each side of the front and the closing band in the center. In the back there is a yoke, with a shallow point in the center of the back. The sleeves are plain and scant and end in a cuff. The neck of this waist is finished with a band and a turnover collar of linen, either plain or embroidered or some of the many pretty lawn and lace effects may be worn with it. The pattern (4990) is cut in sizes 32 to 44 inches bust measure. Medium size requires 3 1/4 yards of 27 inch material. To procure this pattern need 10 cents to *Pattern Department*, of this paper. Write to: Pattern Department, of this paper. To give sure to give size and number of pattern. NO. 4990. SIZE..... NAME..... TOWN..... STREET AND NO. STATE.... FINANCIAL GENIUS "Do you think there is any such thing as financial genius?" "I am sure there is. I know a young man who has it in a marked degrees. After he had persuaded the beautiful daughter of one of our most prominent jewelers to become his wife he went around and induced the old man to let him have an engagement ring at the cost price." "I don't see any indication of remarkable financial genius about that." "Wait. When he and the girl broke their engagement he took the ring back to her father and got him to pay eight per cent interest on the money that had been invested." French Parents in a Parade. Contrary to general belief, there are some large families in France, and they are being asked to parade in force, the Boston Transcript gave Fathers, mothers and progeny are to muster off the Place des invalides, which it is hoped they will fill to overflowing. They will then march with bands and banners, but "otherwise in complete silence," to the chamber of deputies, which they will not, however, invade with their children, but pass by, trampling on to the Place de la Concorde, where they will disperse. The "Popular League of Fathers and Mothers of Large Families," the president of which is Capt. Simon Mire, the sire of nine children, all living, wishes to obtain special legislation granting relief in taxation in prelative parents.