The Gazette

TWENTY-EIGHTH YEAR. NO. 42. For Little Misses 西 IN ORIGINAL PROTESTATION TWENTY-EIGHT For Littl BY JULIA BOTTOMLEY. O prettier millinery can be found for the little little than is pictured, here. Children's hats are N for the little miss than is pictured here. Children's hats are more elaborate than for many seasons, but the choice of materials saves them from losing their childishness. Simple laces, light and transparent straws, small flowers and soft lightweight ribbons, with high luster, take away every suggestion of grown-up styles and leave us and the little ladies equally delighted with the season's offerings. The first hat shown is the familiar corday model with puffed crown of lacy braid and brim facing of the same. The upper brim is covered with two rows of side plaited chiffon or mull edged with lace. A collar of ribbon is finished with a rosette at the side, made of two ruffles of the ribbon. Small rose buds and foliage finish the trimming. Children from six to sixteen years can wear a design of this kind. The odd little hat in Fig. 2 is designed for a little youthful wearer. It is made on a wire frame of a lacy silk braid. The side crown is made of rib- Of All Kinds and Descriptions, and Generally More Elaborate Than Ever. Marabout and ostrich scarfs are more elaborate than ever. There is no end to the possibilities that lie within the fluffiness of the feathers, combined with folds or shirring of chiffon. An edging of black and white marabout completes a bit of feminine daintiness that would add charm to any costume. A fancy bow of cerise velvet combined with chiffon in the same shade has long ends that would be especially effective on a white frock. The most popular scarfs have bodies of shirred chiffon with edgings of marabout that either match or are in striking contrast. They are so simple in design that any woman even passably clever with the needle can fashion one in an afternoon. A muff to match is a smart acquisition and the set looks well with an evening coat or for theater wear. MADE UP IN DARK BLUE FASHION Charming costume in dark blue striped silk with revers and cuffs in plain silk. The skirt is high-waisted, and with it is worn a blouse in blue ninon. THE GAZETTE bon shirred at each edge on a wire. The brim is finished with the braid laid in boxplaits. A childish wreath of small daisies and forget-me-nots, with bows of ribbon at each side, trim the hat. A single tie (which may be omitted) falls from the left side and is fastened to the shoulder with a little collar pin under a pray of flowers. Smartly Dressed Girls Have Returned to the "Clock"—Silk Stockings Always the Proper Thing. "Clocked" hosiery, such as was worn years ago, has become the newest fad for smartly dressed girls. All the stockings for day wear show this embroidery on the side, sometimes in self-colors, but more often in one contrasting. Red or white on black is beyond doubt the best. This form of decoration has already displaced openwork for the carefully dressed woman. It has finally been decided that lacy effects are not good for the street, but that they should be reserved for the house and evening wear. Therefore, elaborate as is the hosiery for dress use, it is very plain for street wear. Severity in out of doors dress has led to adopting an entirely different quality of hosiery for that time. Girls who can afford to, wear silk stockings always, but they have now at least three different qualities. When walking, the thin transparent, though plain, kind is given up. This is now reserved for the house in the morning, or when paying visits in a motor in the afternoon. A New Silk. Among the newest and elegant silken fabrics which the season has called into prominence is satin feutre, a very lustrous weave, heavy of weave, beautiful of finish, but soft and graceful despite its heaviness. It is quite wide, as are the finer silks, and is to be had in plain colors in the new and fashionable tones, as well as striped effects—the ground one shade and tiny hair line of contrasting color crossing it. The stripes are single and not too far apart to be unduly conspicuous. For elegant afternoon or more simple street dresses satin feutre is very effective and will make very striking toilettes. Hint for Traveler One girl, who is something of a traveler, has for her trunk a large sheet of blue muslin. This is put in the bottom of the trunk before the packing is started. When everything is in it is folded over the top of the clothes and firmly plinned with safety pins. With this precaution the girl is sure to find her garments as smooth at the end of a trip as at the start. Making Over Hemstitched Linen. Having a lunchcloth and several traycloths that were beginning to break at the hemstitching, I found that by sewing a piece of lace or fancy open finishing braid over the hemstitching I could make them last much longer, and also look as well as new—Harper's Bazar. Effective With Gold. Gloves of the natural yellow doe skin will be found effective with a costume which has gift buttons or other decorations of the most precious metals. ESTABLISHED AUGUST 25, 1883 AND ISSUED EVERY WEEK ON TIME SINCE. CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, MAY 20, 1911. $201,753.26 RAISED IN DOLLAR MONEY $201,753.26 RAISED IN DOLLAR MONEY REV. JOHN HURST OF A. M. E CHURCH MAKES FINAN- CIAL REPORT. BIG INCREASE OVER LAST YEAR Annual Session of Financial Board Presided Over By Bishop Parks—Amount of Money Raised Washington, D. C. (Special).—Reports submitted by Rev. Dr. Hurst, financial secretary of the African Methodist Episcopal church, at the thirty-eighth annual meeting of the financial board of the denomination, held here, shows that $201,753.26 was raised in dollar money during the nasal year ended April 1. This is an increase of $3,000 over last year's report and of more than $34,000 for the year previous to the last mentioned. The meeting was presided over by Bishop H. Blinton Parks of Chicago, who is chairman of the board, vice Bishop Abraham Grant, who died several months ago. In a touching address Bishop Parks referred to the life and service of the deceased prelate, as did a number of members of the board. The late Bishop Lampton, who, for six years served as financial secretary, was also eulogized by Bishop Parks and his colleagues. The report of Secretary Hurst was an exhaustive review of the work of his department and contained recommendations for the more efficient carrying on of the work of the denomination in this country and Africa. He also spoke feelingly of the late Bishop Grant, who, at the time of his death, was serving his second consecutive term as chairman of the board, and of the late Bishop Lampton. Dr. Hurst was highly commended for his painstaking and the business-like way in which he conducted the department since his election to the post at the general conference, which met in Norfolk, Va., three years ago. How the Money is Raised. The money that passes through the department is raised in subscriptions of one dollar each from members of the various A. M. E. churches. The amount raised this year brings the total amount raised through this channel to over $3,000,000. For church maintenance, etc., the proceeds of which do not pass through the financial secretary's hands, over $4,000,000 was raised by churches of the denomination during the past year. Of the money reported by Dr. Hurst $ per cent. ($16,140.26) was used in in furthering the educational work of the denomination; 10 per cent. ($20, 175.33) turned over to the Church extension society; 36 per cent. ($72, 631.18) retained by the various annual conferences for the support of su- perannuated ministers, widows, orphans and widows and for mission work, and the remainder ($20,800.50) used for general church needs such as the payment of the salaries of the bishops and other general officers and for other contingencies. The amounts reported by each Episcopal district follow: First, Bishop Wesley J. Gaines in charge $13,526.65; second, Bishop Levi J. Coppin $15,521.85; third, Bishop W. B. Derrick $15,635.60; fourth, Bishop C. T. Shaffer $15,035.48; fifth, Bishop Parks, vice bishop Grant B. $13,783.41; sixth, Bishop Chales S. Smith $28,948.01; seventh, Bishop B. F. Lee $18,878.01; eighth, Bishop H. M. Turner, vice late bishop Lampton $19,934.43; ninth, Bishop J. S. Flipper $15,967.13; tenth, Bishop Evans Tyre $11,201.25; twelfth, Bishop Parks $24,100.65; thirteenth (West Africa) $24,100.65; H. Heard $156; fourteenth (South Africa) Bishop J. Albert Johnson $2,985 Besides a large number of visitors at the meeting, the following members of the board were present: Rev. A. L. Murray, Atlantic City, N. J.; Rev. J. T. Jenifer, Chicago; Rev. Charles Bundy, Cleveland, O.; Rev. A. J. Carey, Chicago, Ill.; Rev. R. J. R.桑m, topea, Kan.; Rev. N. B. Stert, Charleston, S. C.; Rev. W. J. Strong, Jackson, Miss.; Rev. J. M. Conner, Little Rock, Ark.; C. J. Hunt Palestine, Tex.; Rev. A. J. Kershaw, Tallahassee, Fla.; Rev. C. H. Shelto, Memphis, Tenn. TOO WELL KNOWN "Is the guv-nor in?" asked the visitor. The office boy, with his chair tilted back and his legs stretched out upon the desk, made no reply. "I asked if the guv-nor was in," said the visitor. The office boy threw him a disdainful glance, blew a cloud of cigarette smoke down his nostrils, and resumed his reading. "Didn't you hear?" snapped the visitor. "O course, I 'ear you," answered the office boy, scornfully. "Then why the dickens don't you tell me if the guv-nor's in?" "Now I ask yer," retorted the office boy, as he recrossed his legs upon the desk, and prepared to resume his reading. "does it look like it?" WHEN A JOKE IS NOT A JOKE. To the joker who writes jokes for a living it isn't much of a joke when the editor can't take a joke.—Lippin-cott's. OBSERVED EMANCIPATION DAY NEGROES OF RICHMOND HELD CELEBRATION ON FREE- DOM ANNIVISARY. Richmond, Va.—Special. The 3d of April was the day the Afro-Americans of this city observed as their Emancipation day. The orator of the occasion was Rev. E. H. Hunter, L.L. M., who resigned a lucrative government position to enter the ministry and is now pastor of Third St. A. M. E. church, this city. He eloquently and comprehensively discussed the obligation of citizenship and in part said: "The obligations of citizenship, therefore, require recognition of the fact the benefits of citizenship fix proportionally responsibilities. Men are both cowardly and selfish when they try to escape the burden of responsibility which attaches to the superior position attained through wealth, position or influence. The special gifts and graces, favors and accumulations of what kind soever are entrusted to men to be used for the common good and not to be squandered in idle pleasures, vain conceits, avaricious schemes and miserly efforts for future protection. The good citizen believes in the doctrine of 'All men up and no man down.' The obligations of citizenship, therefore, call for us to lift as we climb. "There must be no cessation in urging the gospel of work to the utmost of individuals and organized capacity. Correct ideas as to the dignity and character of labor must be instilled," said this brilliant young lawyer and preacher. The following utterances elicited hearty applause: "We hear much talk about the need of race leaders, but the permanent need is men. Enough strong, thoughtful, unselfish, God-fearing men will not be long finding a proper leader whenever and wherever one is needed. Nor, in unhorsing one who misleads them or misrepresents their highest inspirations, loftiest ambition and fondest hopes in efforts to secure himself and his pet schemes, in a place of favor, with unjust, unholy, self-constituted lords of creation. Those who are willing to compromise or barter away the God-given manhood rights of their people for place, self or temporal power are not worthy of the confidence of their fellows and thereby they hinder the cultivation of true manhood. The surest guarantee of a proper and effective assumption of the obligations of citizenship is the cultivation of true manhood." "The surest protection of the home, with all its sacred memories and charming environment, is the establishment of just, fair, honorable community life; and such adjustment of the social fabric as will recognize the right of the highest, the lowest, the proudest and humblest, the richest and poorest, the wisest and most unlearned, as being on a common level. Men must learn that no final settlement of the question of rights between man and man can ever be reached until the principles of the Golden Rule shall have found their rightful place in the making and administration of society's laws. Class legislation cannot bring to pass the ideal in this regard, and manhood suffrage is the only offset against class legislation, in a democracy," were among the significant utterances of the speaker. GEO. F. KING. VIOLATION ALLEGED OF "JIM CROW" LAWS CHARGES THAT BOOKER WASHINGTON'S WIFE WAS SMUGGLED IN PULLMAN. Memphis, Tenn. (Special.)—As a result of charges in railroad circles that the "jim crow" laws of Texas, Arkansas and Tennessee had been violated, officials of the Cotton Belt railroad and the Pullman company will be prosecuted. The wife of Booker T. Washington, the noted negro educator, alighted from a Pullman car. Charges are made that she had been smuggled through from Paris, Tex. in the drawing room. An effort to get a taxicab here failed. Every white chauffeur refused to take her. ITEMS FROM THE ODD Wireless apparatus for transmitting correct time direct from observatories to offices, stores and residences on land and to vessels at sea has been invented by two Frenchmen. The sense of smell in man is able to detect the one 300,000,000th part of a grain of musk. The scent of the lower animals and insects is even more acute. A cannon ball travels at the rate of 2,000 miles an hour. The danger of a wagon pole breaking is lessened by a Kansan's invention of a system of rods, chains and springs, to be fastened to the front of a wagon to distribute the strain. Geologists estimate that the great German deposits of potash salts, practically the only important ones in the world, will last at the present rate of exploitation 600,000 years. If paint brushes be suspended in cleansing liquid by clamps which may be made of clothespins, they will not be deformed, as may be the case if the weight rests upon the bristles. COLORED WAITERS HOLD CONFERENCE COLORED WAITERS HOLD CONFERENCE WELFARE OF "KNIGHTS OF THE TRAY" DISCUSSED IN ATLANTIC CITY, N. J. B. T. WASHINGTON ENTERTAINED Negro Walters Inspired by Advice of Educator at Notable Banquet. Atlantic City, N. J. (Special)—Dr. Booker T. Washington was the guest of the colored citizens of Atlantic City at a banquet given in his honor. The banquet was an elaborate affair in every particular; many appetizing dishes were served and numerous toasts were made during the evening eulogizing the noted guest and his work. Yet it would not be inconsistent to refer to the occasion as a conference rather than a banquet, as matters were discussed around the festal board which will have an important bearing on the future welfare of the colored waiters and other members of the race closely associated with hotel life in Atlantic City and throughout the country. The Tuskegeean was entertained under the auspices of the Negro Business league of Atlantic City. In attendance were the prominent business and professional men of that place. The presence of the leading colored headwalters of the famous resort, who took an active part in the conference, was significant. In his talk Dr. Washington sounded the keynote when he advised the members of the league to direct its energies toward making the colored waiters more efficient and up-to-date in order that they might successfully compete with the white waiters who come from abroad and secure employment in many of the principal hotels of this country, displacing colored waiters. The educator declared that an effort should be made to bring about a condition wherein the colored waiter would demonstrate that he was not only as good as the white waiter, but a better workman than his white competitor, and that he would not secure work from a standpoint of sympathy, but because he had created a big demand for his services. Professional People Depend on Masses Another statement made by Dr. Washington that occasioned no little applause was when he told the professional men present that it was foolhardy for the doctors and lawyers to isolate themselves from the ordinary negro. "It is on the masses—on the ordinary working men, or women, of the race—that the doctors and lawyears depend for a livelihood. I have found that what is considered the ordinary negro is loyal as long as you treat him with the respect and consideration he thinks is due him; on the other hand, I have noticed that he is quick to resent any attempts to mistreat him, and usually so in no uncertain tones. I suggest that the professional and working people of the race work hand in hand together, for one is in great need of the other." The headwaiters present heartily agreed with the keynote sounded by Dr. Washington for efficient colored waiters, and promised to do everything in their power to bring about better conditions. Some of the headwaiters declared after the banquet that the movement inspired by Dr. Washington is bound to prove more than a local issue, and that it is highly probable that many headwaiters throughout the country will co-operate with the various local business leagues with a view to making the colored "knight of the tray" more efficient in his work and more sought after. CONDUCT OF NINTH CAVALRY NOT DISORDERLY CONDUCT OF NINTH CAVALRY NOT DISORDERLY REPORTS IN VINDICATION OF GOOD BEHAVIOR OF COLORED SOLDIERS RECEIVED AT WAR DEPARTMENT FROM TEXAS. Washington, D. C.—Further reports bearing on the conduct of the Ninth cavalry negro brigade at San Antonio were today received at the war department. They bear out previous reports that the negroes were unjustly accused of general disorder in the city. W. D. Cuttle, vice-president and general manager of the street car lines of San Antonio, and Mayor Bryan Callaghan of San Antonio say the conduct of the negro troopers has been good. SUNFLOWER PHILOSOPHY. A man's house is his wife's castle. A man who shaves himself is rather boastful of the fact. When it comes to dividing the blame we are all socialists. There is a good deal of talk about heppeaked husbands, but did you ever really know of one? You may have observed that the man with a fool idea gets a lot of encouragement from his friends. You may have observed that the ties of friendship slip a good deal when you begin pulling on them.—Atchison Globe. AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS It is a notable fact that church attendance is falling off, while people flock to a good show at the theaters or the halls. The church people and the pastors feel the effect keenly. There are two major causes, namely: a, we have so many trivial things at the churches, i.e. too many small entertainments, where people are charged too high a price for the production; b. we do not have as good decorum and discipline as we should have, and we fail to let our light shine; we stay too long at church and do nothing; our "religion" is too emotional and the sermons are not intellectual enough. We harp too loud on "Old Time Religion." We fail to teach the people from too many of our pupils, and our ministers do not live such lives as are worthy of emulation. The people have a poor opinion of the church. This is the indictment that the people have brought against the church. A church must not be used for a market place, and above all, we must teach the people sound intellectual gospel. We know that there are too many negroes who do not call preaching "preaching." They want the old style of holding the fingers in the ears, and yelling and jumping and shouting (on Sundays), but that "stuff" called "wahdole" must be stopped and the people who do it sent to the farm. Study and approve yourself worthy—give the people something. Colored women stay off the streets looking like you look in the back yard. Clothes do not make the woman, but they oftimes declare the woman.—Dallas Express. Many a scoffer belittles the idea of church going, thereby dampening the ardor of many young men. Well, going to church is a good habit. It is better than going to Sunday base ball. Keep to a good habit, boys.—Ex. While you are walking and talking carelessly about colored business and colored business men, your sons are around asking these same men for employment. Remember, if your son or daughter is to have employment outside of the position of a menial, it must come at the hands of a colored man. The so-called bad negro, whose heart delight is to cut up, fight and raise all manner of disturbances is the negro who must be looked after by the law. The negro who is progressive and wants to be something and have something, in most cases is quiet and law-abiding. A selfish person should be shunned for the same reason you would shun a man with a paint pot in each hand; you may not be afraid of the man, but you don't want to sell your clothes. Shun a selfish person, dear readers; for there's no trick too low to be played by them under any effective garb to bring about your downfall if they consider it (your downfall) a stepping stone to their greatness.—Charleston Messenger. True friendship is shown more by what we do than what we say. For one to feign friendship with his lips, but seek, under disguise of friendship, to impede the progress, impugn the motive, deprecate the worth; overlook the good, magnify apparent faults, and disregard the rights of another—such a friend (?) is the most despicable enemy with whom to contend.—Ex. The good press is widening throughout the country. The negro press should organize and work together, for in union there is strength. Young negro men should save their money or invest it in real estate. It will pay you. A foot of land or a dollar is worth something to you. Every negro teacher, doctor and professional man of the negro race should advocate race patronage and support. We need it. Every farmer should learn the value of his soil, no matter how small the plot may be. There's always a ready demand for his produce. What would some white men do if they didn't have the negro around to cuff and do about with? The True Reformers are making a great struggle for existence, and there is a way to succeed. The white people of Richmond are doing much to save the order for the good it has done and for its good intents. This is very encouraging. High-salaried officers have no place in benevolent or fraternal institutions. If these salaries are cut materially it will mean both money and confidence to the organization, either of which is expected if an enterprise is to succeed.—Charleston (S. C.) Messenger. If a man's foresight were as strong and accurate as his hindsight there would be much less sorrow in the world.—M. I. College Reporter. Nay, nay, brother; if our foresight were as clear and accurate as our Y FIVE CENTS. AN CULLINGS hindsight, most of us would turn round and go back now, and there wouldn't be anybody to sorrow. Or, as Shakespeare puts it: "If it could be seen how chances mock And changes fill up the cup of alteration The happiest youth, viewing his progress through. ress through. What perils past, what crosses to enue. Would shut the book and sit him down and die." For the second time in the history of Columbia university a negro student has won the Curtis medal for excellence in public speaking, one of the highest scholastic honors in the gift of the faculty. This year's victor is George W. A. Scott, whose subject was "Child Slavery." Scott's oration proposed a national law for the suppression of child slavery and the creation of a national children's bureau under the department of commerce and labor. "I stand here pleading for no race or creed," declared Scott, "but I say this: The nation which, forty years ago, was able to lift the shackles from 4,000,000 negro slaves, should certainly be able to free 2,500,000 children." The first negro student to take a Curtis medal was Pka Isaka Siml, the son of a Hottentot chiefain who was the winner in 1906. And thus the negro in countless ways continues "to frustrate prophecies and to raze out rotten opinion."—Dallas Express. The winning of another oratorial prize by a negro college student is instanced only as another example of the race's peculiar capacity for public speaking. The Indian's natural aptitude for oratory appears to be paralleled by that of the negro.—The World. Undoubtedly the most grievous result of the smash of the True Reformers' bank, the colored institution in Richmond, bank, the defaulency and the flight of Reuben Hill, the cashier, will be the tendency to destroy the confidence of the negroes in themselves and their own men. The people of that race in Richmond and in many parts of the state were very proud of the True Reformer enterprises, the bank and hotel and stores. They were proud also of the negro insurance organizations, apparently well managed and successful. All these seemed to prove the ability of the negro as a financier and business man, and his right to be trusted with the management of large affairs and money belonging to others. The Richmond white people rather glorified in the achievements of their negro neighbors. The True Reformers' bank, the negro bank, with its ninety-odd stenographers and clerks, was becoming one of the show places to which tourists were taken, and the negro hack drivers—poor fellows, probably with some of their own money in the institution—used to grin with conscious pleasure and pride when they pointed it out. Now there is a smash. Many hard working, thrifty, trusting negroes have lost their savings. Worse than that, they are in danger of losing confidence and hope in their own people. It is known now that the True Reformers' business has been muddled and jugged through years, and that some of the officials not only have been guilty of the wildest kind of financiering, but have been dipping into the money. Yet this is no reason why the negroes should be discouraged. The blow is cruelly hard on them because they have so little. But there should be some comfort for them in the recollection that white people with all their intellect, skill, experience and traditions, constantly are doing things just as bad. By neglect, by loose methods, by lack of knowledge and rascality, they wreck banks, ruin depositors and stockholders, give demonstrations of folly, incompetence and fraud as bad as can be. Therefore there is no reason why the negroes should lose faith in their own institutions or religious or business leaders. They must do as the white people do and try to learn from the hard jabs they get; they should try harder than ever to build up their race and its enterprises and next time watch things a little more closely and carefully. The fact that now there is a state official whose business is to supervise financial institutions like the True Reformers will be a great safeguard hereafter and guarantee of better management—Roanoke Times. The names of the colored people who preach the doctrine of race pride and race support are legion, says the Dallas( Tex.) Express, but when it comes down to practice, that is a horse of another color. While running wild in the effort to support white institutions which promise us nothing, let us not forget that charity —true charity—hath her beginning at home. Texas is about rid of those cursed social clubs operated by negroes. These clubs have served to wreck the lives of many of our boys and girls. 2 THE GAZETTE PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY One Year.....$1.80 Six Months.....1.00 Three Months.....5.0 Subscribers are requested to remit by postoffice money order or registered letter. Entered at the postoffice in Cleveland Ohio, as second-class matter Address all communications to HARRY C. SMITH Editor and proprietor, THE GAZETTE, Member Ohle Legislature: 1894 to 1896; 1898 to 1898; 1900 to 1902 THE GAZETTE is the oldest, and has the largest bona fide circulation, double that of any newspaper in the interest of Afro-Americans, published in the state of Ohio, and comparison with any will immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWSIEST AND BEST In the country. Read carefully, "At the Price of Manhood," elsewhere in this paper. It will pay you to do so. Russia treats the Jews even worse than our people are treated in the south and that is "saying a good deal." There has been an unusual number of valuable and useful inventions by Afro-Americans in recent years. And other good, stable sign of racial progress. To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men. The human race has climbed on protest. Had no voice been raised against injustice, ignorance and lust, the inquisition yet would serve the law, the gullotines decide our least disputes. The few who dare must speak and speak again to right the wrongs of many.—Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Our contemporaries are at it again—this time they are giving the "Outlook" entirely too much free advertising. That is why the great magazines, that publish articles of interest to our people particularly, do not spend a dollar advertising in race papers like they do with other weekly and daily publications throughout the country. We want all of our readers to understand, and thoroughly too, the resolution pending in the U. S. Senate for the "direct" election of Senators. The proposed constitutional amendment is a dangerous thing, particularly, from our standpoint. Therefore read carefully, if you have not already done so, the editorial, "Shall Senators Have the Power to Dissolve the Union," and call your friends' attention to it also. The resignation — from President Tat's cabinet — of Secretary of War "Jake," Dickinson, ex-rebel soldier, Tennessee-Mississippi Democrat, with a residence also in Chicago, undoubtedly indicates the President's intention to stand as a candidate for renomination. We are sorry, because Tat's renomination will surely mean the election of a Democratic President. Gov. Dix of New York state, is the logical candidate of the Democratic party, for next year. Judge Nicholas of Newark, is right: Whenever and wherever there is a lynching in this country, the "good citizens" of the community or vicinity, are really responsible for it. There is no getting away from this truth. That is why our Ohio Mob Violence or Anti-Lynching law makes it possible for the heirs of a person lynched to recover $5,000 from the county in which the lynch-murder occurs. We would have made the sum $10,000 but for the knowledge of the fact that it would have caused the defeat and death of our bill. "PROGRESSIVE" WEAKNESS Negroes are complaining of their treatment in Boston. Will somebody kindly see whether there has been any disturbance about the graves of Wendell Phillips and William Lloyd Garrison?—Chicago Record-Herald. So far as the above paragraph is not classed as silly, it may be classed as nauseous in its significance or timidity. Which? It certainly has no clear, true ring about it, as one should expect from a "progressive" (Republican!) journal. THAT WASHINGTON-ULRICH CASE The race press' demand that Dr. Booker T. Washington prosecute that man Ulrich, to the full extent of the law, grows. Many weeks have now elapsed since the case was last called in the Court of Special Sessions, New York City, and it was gravely announced that further consideration of it was "postponed for a week or so." We cannot forget that Ulrich was quoted as saying, that day, as he was leaving the court room, that "nothing will ever come of this case." Why? He certainly gave Dr. Washington a beating that the latter will never forget, and one for which he (Ulrich) should be severely punished unless he had good cause for giving the same. This we have up to date refused to believe. If Dr. Washington continues to refuse to have the case called and threshed out in court, there must be a reason, and a good one, for his refusal. If there is, then the public should have it, and at once. If no good reason is given and he continues to refuse to prosecute Ulrich, as he certainly should, then, in common with thousands of others, black and white, the country over, we have a right to draw our own conclusions, and Dr. Washington's position in the public eye and mind, cannot help but be seriously injured, and as a natural result harm will come to the race right where it can afford it, at this time particularly. It is consideration for this latter, more than any anxiety for Dr. Washington's future, that impels The Gazette and other loyal race papers and persons to continue our demand that Ulrich be prosecuted by Dr. Washington to the full extent of the law, if his presence in that section of New York City that night can be properly explained and he is in a position to push the case against Ulrich. OUR PROPERTY SHOWING OUR PROPERTY SHOWING. As a matter of fact, the American Afro-Americans pay taxes on about $60,000,000 worth of property; those in Virginia, $30,000,000, and those in North Carolina, $25,000,000. The census of 1900 shows that those of the country at large, own and control as tenants, 750,000 farms, containing 60,000 square miles, the value of which was $500,000,000, with annual products to the amount of $256,000,000. One fourth of the 750,000 farms were owned by our people. Today one third are owned by them. The 200,000 farms owned by them in 1900 comprised 150,000 acres on which was raised $60,000,000 worth of products. All our farm property was estimated by the 1900 census to be worth about $230,000,000. The American Economic Association took up the subject, and concluded that the total property of the race in 1900 was $300,000,000. If, however, the property has increased in the last ten years throughout the land in the same ratio as in Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia, then it would be fair to infer that the property of Afro-Americans should be assessed at $600,000. "Some showing," isn't it? Taylor Makes Record on Outside. J. B. Taylor of Pennsylvania, who holds the intercollegiate record of 48 4-5s for the quarter mile, is the only college man who has run this distance inside 49 2-5s. Maxley Long of Columbia and H. Hyman of Pennsylvania both did 49 2-5s. Taylor, who is an Afro-American, made his record in 1607 on the Harvard track. In that year, the entire distance on the outside to the point was Seventy-five yards from home he was running third, but a great sprint landed him in front with his record. In this race he beat Rogers of Cornell, the winner the year previous. Death of Mrs. Josephine Ellis. Helena, Mont., Josephine, wife of Mr. John Ellis, died last week after a short illness. She is survived by her husband and her mother, Mrs. Annie Banks. Mrs. Ellis had been a resident of Helena for five years. The funeral was held last Thursday afternoon from St. James church. To Expel the Jews. Yekaterinoslov, Russia.—The provincial governor of Yekaterinoslov has given orders for the expulsion from the village of the province of all Jews who are not possessed of permits of residence. AS TO WASHINGTON-ULRICH CASE Count of Special Sessions. City, May 16, 1911. Editor Gazette. Dear Sir: I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter of May 12th, inquiring as to the status of the case of People of the State of N. Y., on complaint of Booker T. Washington, vs. Urich, On April 3rd, 1911, the judicial and "judge" burden and the case was adjourned without date. It is impossible for me to state the date on which this case will appear for trial, as the calendar of this court is between three and four months behind. I shall be glad to furnish you with any further information, and remain. HANDLING LONDON'S LETTERS Some idea of the Big Force Required In the Great Post QRQ Sir Henry Tanner, principal architect in his majesty's office of works, gave an address before the Royal Institute of British Architects in London recently, describing in detail the new general post office to be known as King Edward's building. As giving some idea of the magnitude of the work there, he mentioned that the removal of provincial malls and of the parcels of Mount Pleasant railroad to the main building required 700 of the force of 2,850 men, leaving only 2,150 in the old building, but there were at the date of removal to King Edward's building 3,750 of all ranks, including 1,400 postmen. Meanwhile the force at Mount Pleasant had increased from 2,850 to 4,550. These numbers were exclusive of the temporary force employed at Christmas. The work dealt with per week was as follows. Eive and a half millions of letters, etc., delivered in E. C. district, and 3,500,000 to other districts of London and by certain provincial mails, and 3,500,000 dispatched to foreign countries and the colonies; in all, 12,500,000, weighing about 366 tons. With regard to the cost of the new building he found that if built in the ordinary way with steel construction the approximate cost, exclusive of fittings, etc., would be £355,000, but if in reinforced concrete £295,000 would probably suffice. The latter figure had proved to be correct, so that there had been an approximate saving of £60,000, and, apart from this, considerable space had been gained by the great reduction in wall thicknesses. The general post office has furnished statistics of the Vulletide traffic, showing that all records were exceeded in the huge 1910 Christmas "post bag." The great office is equipped with the very latest appliances, and all were working up to their fullest capacity during Christmas week. To suit the great length of the building electric "conveyers" have been installed. A new and ingenious system for sorting newspapers was also successfully tried. Macaulay Improved. "Let one man stair at my right hand." Horatius quoth, quoth he. "Let one ablade at my left side and keep the bridge with me. Three men, I wot, can make it hot for calift foes like these; and when we write about the fight, we'll share the royalties."—Pittsburg Post. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, MAY 20, 1911 DOINGS OF THE RACE Chicago's new Democratic mayor (Harrison) has appointed S. A. Watkins, Esq., a member of the race, an assistant corporation counsel. 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 Death—Literary, Musical and Other Notes of Interest. (or Sunday) of each week to kill them near The Gazette office. Tuesday morning, within always also, their names and that of the city or town on the outside of the wrapper about returned copies, less this latter is done, proper cannot be given you. Lists of new wedding presents, etc., obituary tices, speeches, resolutions, poetry queries for relatives and adverbs means all kinds of announcing entertainments to be in the near future, must be paid in advance at the rate of ten cent line, six words to a line. Our r for display advertisements will sent on application. Send postal and not stamps during warm wea Martins Ferry.—"Mothers' Day" fittingly observed at the A. M. church. Sunday evening. An initing program was arranged by ladies—Mrs. J. W. White of Co. visited Mrs. Randall, Sunday, ha What is the cause of the delay? Neither Recorder of Deeds Napier nor Assist. U. S. Attorney Lewis has been confirmed by the U. S. Senate. Dr. Frank P. Jones against the Rifkind, Va. Railway & Power Co., in that city's circuit court, recently returned a verdict for the plaintiff, awarding him $300 damages. The story that Mrs. Booker T. Washington was "smuggled" through Texas and Arkansas, in a Pullman car is denounced as false. She recounts in a drawing room, car, ate her meals in private. O. dear! The Metropolitan Mercantile and Realty Company, conducted by Negroes in New York City, collapsed recently. They had gathered in coin by the stock amounting to over 800,000 and now the mystery is, what has become of all that money.-St Louis (Mo.) Advance. Dr. Henry W. Furniss. The Hydro-Brush Manufacturing Company of St. Louis, Mo., is to put the Billiards Hydro-Scrubber on the market. This device, the invention of an Afro-American, both waters and frogs a floor at the same time, and its registration is the company. This company formed to push the invention is headed by a member of the race. F. O. Stratton, the only Afro-American resident of Hillside, the smallest incorporated village in New York State, 30 miles from Manhattan, up the Harlem valley, is its registrar of vital statistics, a member of the board of health and school board, secured by the improvement society, and village trustee. Dr. Henry W. Furnish, of Indianapolis, Ind., since 1905 the U. S. Minister at Port au Prince, Hayti, a week ago last Friday cabled the State Department at Washington, D. C., his resignation, to become effective about July 1. The place pays $10,000 per annum. Before being assigned to the Haytian Department, he served as consul at Bata, Brazil. His wife is a beautiful German lady. The good that will flow out of a severe sentence to Ulrich would come to the thousands of defenseless Negroes, who are apt to be assaulted in similar fashion at any time, and who, unknown and friendless, might have no redress. Let it be known that no man, however humble, can be brutally beaten without meeting with the iron hand of the law, and murderously-inclined people will be careful how they exercise their bulldozing proclivities. The poor, unprotected by every law, will be by making an example of Henry Albert Ulrich.—Pensacola (Fla.) Sentinel. One of our Negro exchanges says that there was no occasion for the assault upon Booker T. Washington. Agreed; but there is occasion for Washington prosecuting the scoundrel who made the assault. Will some one of Mr. Washington's disciples please him from the Advance who master will prosecute Mr. Ulrich, the man who so causelessly and cruelly beat him? The Sentinel, of Pensacola, Fla., says that Ulrich and not Washington is the defendant; then why does Washington dodge or delay the trial, or is it a case of indefinite postponement? Also, up to this writing our peerless leader(?) has not been reported as trying to bring the man to trial who so mercilessly beat him. Can the Sentinel bring him to trial? We will not call you a toady. Now don't, please, give us any appellation of malice.—St. Louis Advance. Dr. Sheppard, Afro-American missionary, who together in May, 1909, with a white missionary, Dr. Morrison, was tried in Leopoldville, Congo Free State, for sending an expose of the tyranny and unspeakable persecution of the natives by the agents of King Leopold, and for being the bas of Africa, the most advanced tribe on the Dark Continent, and who was consequently made a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society of England, arrived last week Monday in New York City. The giant missionary and hunter returns to his native land after a voluntary exile of twenty years in the heart of Africa with an account of his experience more tragic up by many a novelist. Through all it runs his clearly seen single purpose of saving the Babukas, which he did through the international difficulty that arose between the United States, England and Belgium over his arrest. Dr. Sheppard is a graduate of Hampton (Va). School, class of 1884, and of Loudin's "Fisk Jubilee Singers," years ago. He is visiting in Staunton, Va. When your Gazette 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. Meintrey.—Ezekiel Smith and daughter, Stella. were in Hopedale, Mr. David Westman, Fred Hanseem were here Anthony Lytle and wife visited parents near Richmond, Sunday. The men are busy planting corn. —Miss Minnie Beall and Miss Lottie B. Hargrave were here, Sunday. Several attended Mrs. Castle's funeral in Smithfield. Uhrichsville.—Bertha and Edwin Carter visited their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Haryl Oimstead—Mrs. A. L. Smith and children visited Mr. and Mrs. Frank Truman, last week. Miss Bessie Scott is visiting in Pittsburg.—Mr. James Meade of Barnhill has accepted a position here.—Mr. Brown of Dayton was here last week soliciting funds for a school at Nashville. It may be a worthy cause, but "charity begins at home."—Miss Marrison begins at home. —Mrs. Catharine visited last week.—Mrs. Catharine Smith was in Dover last week. Yellow Springs—Central Chapel's service, Sunday week, was very impressive, and the S. S. in the afternoon was also largely attended. Likewise the S. C. E. L. at 6:30 p.m., when "Lessons from Great Lives" was discussed by Messrs. Roy William Willis and Robert Madanay. At its close the pastor, Rev. P. R. C. Durden, delivered a strong sermon which wonderfully impressed the large congregation. J. C. Curl's interesting talk to the B. Y. P. U. the same evening, on "Good Behavior, caused much favorable comment. — The Odd Fellows' annual Thanksgiving services will be held Sunday afternoon at the Opera House, Rev. A. A. Hampton officiating. Dayton. — Miss Carrie Butler of Xenia, was the guest of Mrs. Wm. O. Mitchell, Saturday week — Rev. Alston and congregation of Eaker St. Church are preparing for a grand rally in May. The trustees purchased a parsonage room and congregation is assembled the foundation for the new edifice and hopes to have it finished by October. — Miss Hannah Robinson was removed to the hospital, Monday week. — Mrs. Nooks, an aged resident, is quite ill — Clara, the little daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ginney, was awarded a pension. One club gave a banquet at the W. C. A., Thursday night week — Miss Mamie E. Banks gave a recital in Lockland, Thursday night week. Miss Daisy Crawford accompanied her. The Odd Fellows had their annual sermon at Eaker St. church, Sunday at 2:30 p.m. Johnhose Park has opened its third season and is attracting large crowds. Mt. 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Green, Esq., of the The proprietors of three or four places, run by Afro-Americans, were arrested recently for selling liquor without a license. Mr. Andrew McSpadden celebrated his 63d birthday, Monday, and was hasus usual kindly remembered by a number of his white friends. Mr. Earl McCullough of this city and Miss Ollie M. Robinson of Columbus were married, Monday evening, at the residence of Dr. Chas. Bundy by him. In New York City and other northern cities where there are branch Y. M. C. A.'s, Colored members only are barred from the Central Y. M. C. A. Mrs. J. F. Ochard desires The Gazette to thank kild all who assisted her during the illness of her husband, and those who sent flowers during her recent bereavement. The Odd Fellows' annual sermon was preached at M. Zion church, Sunday, by Rev. E. H. Smith. They marched to the church preceded by Peterson's band. Harry E. Davis lost his suit in Common Pleas Court against the Euclid Ave. Garden Theater, recently, as the result of a former arrest in connection with the case. He ought to appeal it, and win. Mr. Richard Hazel and sister, former old residents of this city, were here recently to meet their sister, Barbara Hazel's former havy old friends were sorry not to have had an opportunity to meet them. Wm. D. Direys of 7918 Quincy avenue does all kinds of mason work and plastering, lays cement sidewalks, drives and cellar bottoms, contracting and jobbing. All work guaranteed. Bell E. 1995-X. 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 role in the same—fair and right. Take The Gazette and tell your friends to do so also. Miss Georgia A. Washington of Warren, arrived in the city last week and may locate here. She is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Harry E. Thompson of 9310 Hough Ave. After the week, Miss Washington will be at 10710 Arthur Ave. The editor of The Gazette acknowledges the receipt of an invitation from the principal and faculty of Christians Ga. Industrial Institute, to attend its commencement, May 14 to the 15th. Also one to the Ft. Valley, Ga. school, the last of this month. Rev. B. W. Paxton of St. Andrews church, was one of the guests at the dinner given. Monday evening at the Euclid club, in honor of Bishop Leonard. A reception was tendered Mr. and Mrs. Paxton by its church, Wednesday evening. H. T. Eubanks and J. P. Green were elected delegates to the annual doeascon convention which met at Trinity Hall this week. Tuesday and Wednesday, Bishop and Mrs. Leonard give an annual reception to which the delegates are invited. The third quarterly meeting of this conference year was held Sunday at St. John's church. Rev. J. H. Jones, P. E. preached a strong sermon, in the morning, and in the evening, the choir rendered an adoration. The attendance was unusually large and there was the largest number in years to commune. Dr. Jones left Tuesday for Lorain and Sandusky, where he is presiding over his district conference. Dr. Bundy spent Wednesday in Sandusky and left there for Wilberforce to attend a meeting of the board of the department of health. He expected to be at St. John's, Sunday. The services, Sunday evening, are to be in charge of an Old Folks' Home committee and promise to be exceptionally interesting. An offering will be taken for the institution. Rough Passage. Indeed. "I hope and pray," remarked a gentleman, as he left the steamer, "that I shall never have occasion to cross the Atlantic again." "Rough passage, eh?" queried a friend. "Rough is no name for it. I had four kings beat three times." 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. Blue of Central High School established a book, May 13, when he threw the discus 11q feet, 2½ inches. This exceeded the former record held by Swift (white) of Central, by 9 tft., made in 1903. Local arrangements are in charge of Western Reserve Medical Council; Dr. A. R. O'Neill, pres.; Dr. A. J. M. Howard, vice-pres.; Dr. Dr. Arthur S. Scott, sec.; Dr. J. R. Philen, treas.; Dr. B. H. Lawrence, librarian; Dr. W. S. Biggs, C. An organ recital will be given by Miss Florence B. Johnson, assisted by H. Edward Thompson, baritone, and H. Edward Washington, tenor at Antioch Baptist Church, Sunday, at 9 o'clock. Admission free. Do not miss it because the participants are certainly worth hearing. The Central Law School of the Afro-American State University, Louisville, Ky., has conferred the degree of LL. D. on John P. Green, Esq., of this city. Mr. Green delivered the annual graduation class on May 8 and the degree was conferred the same evening. There isn't a member of the race in Cleveland, Ohio, or the North, for that matter, able to read, who should not read carefully the Odd Fellows' Journal editorial, "AT THE PRICE OF MANHOOD," republished elsewhere in The Gazette today. Call your friends' and acquaintances' attention to it. It is "from the seat of war," too. It is excellent. Everybody is going to the Philhlegan's picnic. Get ready! The train leaves the B. & O. depot at 8:30 a. m. Are you going? To the picnic at manhood impaired at Chippewa Lake Park, June 19. Fishing boating, bathing, bowling, dancing, baseball, tennis and many other attractions at Chippewa Lake Park, Monday, June 19. Don't miss this the first picnic of the season. Police were asked Saturday to locate Walter O. Lee, 34, of 2160 E. 30th St., a clerk in the main postoffice. The request was made by Mr. Lee's wife. He left home at 7 o'clock on the evening of May 9 to go to his work, but he was not there when his wife feared that he had met with some accident, but the police failed to find any record of him at any of the city hospitals. Postoffice officials were mystified by his disappearance. Mr. Lee found his way home Sunday after days of haziness several days later. It is thought that he was "doped" by some one. He could not remember where he had been or what had happened. 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 HR, the accounting, the 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 employees with one's proper appearance. It will pay you many times over to write Mr. Ramsey. "Good Citizens" Responsible "Good Citizens Responds." Newark, N.J., held in the county jail since last July under first degree murder charges, indicted for the lynching of Carl Etherington (white), anti-slaunce league detective, were disposed of last Friday. Three were set free and three were given indeterminate sentences in the Mansfield reformatory. Judge Nicholas discussed Sutley's case at length. "It can't be harsh in a young boy, like this." Judge Nicholas claimed, "He was merely carried on with the throng. The men who are really responsible are the so-called good citizens of this town who stayed in their homes and saw their city disgraced without raising a hand in defense." ANNUAL MEDICAL MEET The seventh annual convention of the Ohio branch of the National Medical Association will be held in this city, June 7, 8 and 1, 911. **Program:** Wednesday, June 7, at 2:30 p. m. at St. John's A. M. E. church, welcome address, by Dr. H. F. Biggar, sr., and public reception to visitors. At 8 p. m., literary program and address of the state president, Dr. W. C. Gordon of Springfield. Thursday evening, June 8, dancing party for visitors at Bedford Glens. Friday evening, June 9, public banquet. Convention headquarters, and morning and afternoon sessions, Thursday and Friday at Clayton hall. The public is invited. "Songs of the Soul." "Songs of the Soul." Here is a fine collection of a half dozen songs, including Sola's "Saved through Blood," the Joy of a Life," "Brother, Hold Your Light Up Higher," "Set Your Afections Above," and "Won't You Be Ready?" words and music by I. N. McCullough, a member of the race who lives in Steubenville, all arranged by J. W. Stewart of that city, which appeals with particular force to all our church-going people, those who live in one of an exceptionally striking nature. Cost 10 cents a copy, or $1 per dozen. Address J. W. Stewart & Co., music publishers, Steubenville, O. Why. of Course! Mrs. Chugwater—Josiah, what is Chinese junk?" Mr. Chudwater—"It's a dish of chop suey. Haven't I told you twice or twice before?"—Chipper Trubb THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY. MAY 20. 1911 Estep, Martin and Green. Judge Estep recently appointed Alex, Martin, Esq., to defend Charles Williams, under indictment for murder in the second degree, while John P, Green, Esq., says Williams sent for him to defend him. The following is self-explanatory: CORRESPONDENTS WANTED. The old reliable Gazette desires an active agent and correspondent in every city and town in Ohio and neighboring states having a number of Afro-American residents. Only a little time on Fridays or Saturdays is required. We are especially desirous of hear- One Of Many! Lima, O. May 3. Editor Gazette, Dear Sir:—Fir closed P. O. money order for another year's subscription to old reliable" Gazette which we l well for the fearless way you and stand for what is best for Cleveland, May 16, 1911. Editor Gazette.—Mary Dear Sir: With respect to the interview and complaint of ex-Senator John P. Green which appeared in a local daily paper recently, permit me to say: In my opinion Mr. Green is entirely wrong when he states that he was dealt with unfairly by the prisoner. The prisoner stated to me that upon Mr. Green's demand that he pay him for defending him, he told him he had no money. He stated to the court the same thing as to his ability to pay counsel, thus corroborating Mr. Green's statement to the court to the effect that the prisoner was indigent. This fact clearly appearing gave the court power under the statute to name some reputable names of the prisoner and charge him with the duty and burden of his defense. Mr. Green's attitude led the court to believe that he was soliciting that appointment. The practice of soliciting the privilege of indigent prisoners is considered undesirable and to not be encouraged because of certain well known abuses which flow from the same. For the valuation of the practice of soliciting business around the court house and in the jail, rather than through any personal aversion to Mr. Green or any favoritism toward myself, Judge Estep appointed me to defend the prisoner and refused to appoint Mr. Green. The appointment came to me unought. I went to Mr. Green and told him that would be better for the prisoner as the personal attorney of the prisoner, if his interest in him was great enough to cause him to desire to be in the case, at any rate. This the Senator refused to do, as was his right. Thereupon he came into court and offered to defend the prisoner free of charge. As soon as I was informed of said offer, I signified my willingness to get out of the case, and I received the prisoner rendered to this date, May 16th, in preparing the case, and was relieved from further service in connection with this case. Mr. Green will be permitted to defend the prisoner without cost to the county for fees. Thanking you for your kindness in the premises, I remain. AT THE PRICE OF MANHOOD. The Honorable James Bryce, the British Ambassador, recently made an address in Howard Theatre, this city, in the interest of what is called the "Colored Man's Branch of the (white) Y. M. C. A." The theatre, it was站ed in local daily papers, was crowded to the very doors—presumably by colored Christian men, as it appears the few white Christian men present were seated on the stage. Mr. Bryce, the quoted as saying to his colored Christian men, "Your progenitors were brought to this country as slaves by our progenitors and it is our duty to see that you have every chance for advancement and education." Now, there is no criticism to be attached to those words of the distinguished British diplomat. He makes both a confession and an apology. The question here is whether Mr. Bryce was fully appreciative of the auspices and deeper purposes of the meeting, and if he were, would he have greeted the progenitors. The words of the Ambassador have the ring of sincerity throughout, but was he conscious that while lamenting and offering atonement for the sins of his (the white man's) progenitors that he was lending forceful aid to the infliction of a grosser infamy upon the progeny of his colored Christian audience than the slavery which was imposed by his Christian progenitors of a few centuries ago? Was he aware that the very house he was helping by his address to buy was the sole purpose the castle degradation of the colored people, and that, too—shameful to say—it is paraded in the name of Christianity. And now, to the builders of this temple of infamy—this insult to God Almighty, this travesty and libel on the religion of the Lord Jesus Christ, Who are they? White men, calling themselves white men, who wrote the Bible the story of the Pharisee who was rebelled for thanking God he was not like other men; who read that of one blood all men are created; who read that an injury done to even the least is an injury to the Saviour whom they profess to worship—these are they that build this unholy temple, the temple of Christ's 'priest' the white Y. M. C. A!" Their very professions are lies to their llying. And now to the men who accept this infamy. It may be that the attendance at this meeting was more of a tribute to Mr. Bryce than it was an evidence of the acceptance of the debasement that the institution seeks to impose. If so, that may ease the conscience of some who attended the meeting. The question comes direct to every colored man. Are you willing to invite and have favored upon yourselves the progeny this description through the sop of segregation, coming as it does from a source, barring all others, from whence no such sentiment should even be suggested? Above everything else in this world the Christian religion should stand for Christian and brotherly equality—and not for the caste proscription of "colored branch Y. M. C. A.'s." If colored men must have any such institution, let them build it themselves, and place no restrictions of color, else when the Saviour comes he might, in the opinion, in analysis, is whether you will erect a building, with doors open to all comers regardless of color, or whether, in humiliation, you will allow yourselves to be put into a "branch," with no admittance to the "main show"; whether you will sell your manhood for a pile of bricks—Washington (D. C.) Odd Fellows Journal. Real Impediment. Ladies' Seminary Examiner—"Miss Jones, state the chief impediment to marriage." Candidate—"When no one presents himself."—Fliegende Blaetter. Call your lady friends' and acquaintances' attention to our up-to-date fashion and pattern departments and thus encourage them to sequester The Gazette regularly. Oblige the Editor. THE ORIOLE DANGING ACADEMY Regular Dancing Class every Wednesday night. 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SEND FOR MY FREE CATALOGUE illustrating the Largest and Most Complete Line of Hair Goods in this country for colored people, such as Bangs, Wigs, Puffs, Switches, Pompadours, Hair Pin, Combs, Brushes, etc. Agents Wanted. T. W. TAYLOR, Howell, Mich. When writing please mention this paper. Chat on Current Literature Concerning the Negro James R. Harris in Illinois Chronicle Prof. Du Bols, speaking before the Society for Ethical Culture at Handel hall, says: "We must get rid of the provincial, off-hand way of trying to deal with the race problem, by talk of 'superior' or 'inferior' races, and of lesser breeds without the law." If the profound and scholarly professor means to decry the somewhat general tendency of half-equipped demagogues to make name and fame in debating societies, barber shops and other places where those fond of "hot sir" are wont to congregate, in loud-mouthed discussion of "the whichness of the is," we are disposed to utter a fervent "amen," for great harm can come, and has come, to our people through the blatant, ignorant utterances of men to whom the chance has sometimes given the ear of the multitude. However, we do not see the benefit in discouraging those who seek to inspire the negro to intolerent effort by having him become more fordibly conscious of his weakness. We are an "inferior people," all the assurances of the "I love my race and am doing a great juk "rostrum stalkers" and "pulpit jack-in-the-boxes" to the contrary not in culture, morally and intellectually; we are are inferior in wealth, and if statistics count for anything, we are fast becoming inferior in bodily vigor and vim. No journalist serves his people faithfully who would seek to have them believe otherwise. You cannot solve a problem by erasing from the blackboard. We challenge, and rightly, the assertion that we are inately inferior as a people, and can point with pride to a record of achievement to make the challenge good. Individual negroes have refuted for all time the assertion that the black brain yet our race as a whole is inferior in the that it has not yet got its hands upon the forces that make for power, and it would certainly be an indication that events have no logic were it otherwise. The problem cannot be settled, either by the professor's "off-hand" way of assuming that all of us stand with him upon the "Alpine Heights." As for "the lesser breed without the law," surely no better, nor more significant description of the negro's real status in the world was ever colined, and we owe Kipling a debt for furnishing it, though he was not thinking of us when it dripped from his pen. "Lesser" as the white races would have it—lesser in the sense that they have forced us to dwell "behind the vell" as the gifted professor has said in his "Souls of him." "back folk"—lesser in that, we have, well nigh since the first morning, been "hewing the wood and drawing the water." Without the law? "yes—for in what part of the country are we within its pale? The early Greeks, strong in imaginative faculty, represented the Goddess of Justice as blind—the American people have improved upon the Hellenic idea, and in addition to the first infirmity, have added another—"the divine lady" is now both blind and deaf. We view with horror the professor's conditional prophecy of an ultimate world wide race war. We had begun to think that civilization, in its essential principles, had progressed too far to permit the possibility of any such arbitration. If the professor can really "look into the future and say which grain will grow and which will not" and we are really doomed to resort to "club and claw," then this old globe has been the scene of 19 centuries of useless, wasted human effort. If you, reader, believe in the prophecy, why hereafter, when perchance you have the pleasure of listening to some hoary-headed, generous-hearted advocate of the gospel of human brotherhood, preaching in words of fire of that day when there shall be "Peace on earth and good will to men," just shrug your shoulder, and say with Caesar: "He is a dreamer, let us leave him." In the March McClures, there is a worthy character portrayal of Harriet Beecher Stowe, whose "pen was indeed mightier than the proverbal sword." The old Persian tent maker once wrote: We are no other than a moving row Of magic Shadow-Shapes that come and go Round, with the Sun-illuminated Lantern held In midnight by the Master of the Show.' But helpless Pieces of the Game He plays Upon this Chequer-board of Nights and Days; Either and thither moves, and checks and slays. And one by one back in the Closet lays. These verses came to our mind while reading the McClure sketch, "Magic Shadow Shapes!" What a wealth of truth in that delineation! Fitting hither and thither—jerked here and there like mimic dancers on the end of a string—spurred by ambition into a mad "chase of favorite phantoms," or contented in the lack of it, to be buffeted by the crowd, we simply play the part ordained by "The Master of the Show," and fortunate indeed and glad should we feel, if that part is one similar to Harriet THE BRAKE ON TIGHT. Out of the Grand Central station, in New York, the other day, came a couple evidently from up-state regions. The old man grasped his carpetbag and bulged green umbrella firmly and looked up and down the street, his mouth agape. "There's a heap o' sights in New York, I guess, Maria," he said. "I misdoubt if we see them all." The old lady's mouth set grimly. "Waal, Silas," she replied, and her Beecher Stowe's. The American people didn't know what they were fighting for in the Revolution of 76 until Tom Palme wrote his pamphlet on "The Rights of Man." Voltaire, Rousseau, Helvetius and Diderot, with their pens undermined the throne of Bourbon tyranny in France. Harriet Beecher Stowe, with the deft touches of a master hand, struck a chord of sympathy in the world's heart, and the sad wailing misere of slavery was hushed and stilled in the Jubilea of freedom. "So you are the little woman who wrote the book that made the great war," remarked the "Martyred Lincoln," as she took a chair at his fireside in the executive mansion. Philosopher that he was, he knew that this woman, like himself, was an instrument of Providence, "a child of destiny." He could see that "Uncle Tom's Cabin" had come like a dash in the night, revealing in all the simplicity of truth the tragedy of African bondage, and it is said that the great man was silent in her presence. At first the author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," every word and scene in which had its counterpart in her actual experience, was lauded and noted through the entire world. Her appeal had been made to men's hearts and those hearts had responded before their brains had chance to bring into play all that is sordid, selfish, satical. Amongst us now, Harriet Beecher Stowe is little more than a misty memory. "Tis at best a sad commentary—this modern tendency not "to render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and less frequently still, "unto God, the things that are God's." Men's thoughts turn back to the bright East—the source of every faith that has moved humanity;—at first, for faith's sake, men may retrace their migration to its source and give their blood for their holy places; after them a generation may give its money for the honor of its God; but at last, and surely, comes the time of memory's fading, the winter of belief, the night of faith's day, wherein a delicately nurtured and greedy race will give neither gold nor blood, but only a prayer or a smile for the hope of a life to come; and so, reader, the memory of Stowe and Lovejoy is crowded out of our hearts by the weeds of forgetfulness. Is it possible that the "still small voice" is about to make itself heard in the conscience of the nation? Here are a few important court decisions which would indicate that the bench is beginning to realize the danger of allowing passion and prejudice to influence the interpretation of the law. 1. The Supreme court of Washington refuses to allow that a contract for the sale of property can be broken on account of a black skin. 2. The Supreme court of the United States has decided unconstitutional a law which sought to compel a man to work out an alleged debt to another, or be guilty of felony. 3. The United States court of appeals has decided that a reservation in a deed precluding the sale of property to colored persons at any future time is null and void. 4. The appellate division of the su supreme court of New York has reversed the lower court, which held that the damages awarded a negro Pullman porter were too high because he was a negro and without feelings. FUTURE AMERICAN TO BE SWARTHY "The people of this country will gradually grow darker, and though the result will not be a copper-colored or Indian type, it will be much darker than the average today. "One great factor in preventing the approximation of this darker type has been found in the tendency of certain European immigrants to seek certain widely separated sections of the United States for their settlement."-Professor F. W. Putnam. 'The American of tomorrow, the citizen of the United States in the future, will be a much different person from the American of today, and he will in all likelihood be a swarthy man in contrast to the lighter individual of the present, according to Professor Frederick Ward Putnam, head of the Peabody museum at Harvard. As an anthropologist of international fame, Professor Putnam's observation is of interest in view of the many opinions that have been held as to the sort of American that will eventually develop from the great mixture of races brought here by immigration from all parts of Europe. In this connection an opinion has been advanced by Professor A. E. Jenks of the University of Minnesota, as follows: "In the immigration from southern Europe and in the Hebrew, we have the brunette. There will inevitably be an infusion of the dark strain in the blonde. Just what influence it will have will depend directly on the extent to which the races intermingle. "Race pride and prejudice will gradually weaken in America, I believe, and that will be a strong factor in the intermingling." manner was more than significant. "Bein's as I am with you, there's some, I expect, that you ain't gin' to see!" —Exchange. WHETHER THEY NEED IT OR NOT Farmer—Here's a letter from city folks answern' our ad, Mirandy. They want ter know if there's a bath in the house. What'll I tell 'em? His Wife—Tell 'em the truth. Tell 'em if they need a bath they'd better take it before they come—Exchange. THE. GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, MAY 20, 1911. MACON COUNTY, ALABAMA, A MODEL SECTION FOR THE NEGRO In a recent number of The World's Work, Booker T. Washington concludes the series of articles entitled, "The Power of the Short Story." We quote below a short extract. "I have long been of the opinion that the persons in charge of the Negro colleges do not realize the extent to which it is possible to create in every part of the south a friendly sentiment toward Negro education, provided it can be shown that this education has actually benefited and helped in some practical way the masses of the Negro people, with whom the white man in the south comes most in contact. We should not forget that as a rule in the south it is not the educated Negro, but the masses of the people, the farmers, laborers and servants, with whom the white people come into daily contact. If the higher education which is given to the few does not in some way directly or indirectly reach and help the masses, very little will be done toward making Negro education popular in the south or toward securing from the different states the means to carry it on. On the other hand, just so soon as the southern white man can see for himself the effects of Negro education in the better service he receives from the laborer on the farm or in the shop; just so soon as the white merchant finds that education is giving the Negro not only more wants but more money with which to satisfy these wants, thus making him a better customer; when the white people generally discover that Negro education lessens crime and disease and makes the Negro in every way a better citizen, then the white taxpayer will not look upon the money spent for Negro education as a mere sop to the Negro race, or perhaps as money entirely thrown away. I said something like this some years ago to the late Mr. H. H. Rogers and together we devised a plan for giving the matter a fair test. He proposed that we take two or three counties for the purpose of the experiment, give them good schools and see what would be the result. We agreed that it would be of no use to build these schools and give them outright to the people, but determined rather to use a certain amount of money to stimulate and encourage the colored people in these counties to help themselves. The experiment was started first of all, in Macon county, Ala., in the fall of 1905. Before it was completed Mr. Rogers died, but members of his family kindly consented to carry on the work to the end of the term that we had agreed upon, that is to say, to October, 1910. As a result of this work 46 new school buildings were erected at an average cost of $700 each; school terms were lengthened from three and four to eight and nine months at an average cost to the people themselves of $3,600 per year. Altogether about $20,000 were raised by the people in the course of this five-year period. Similar work on less extensive scale was done in four other counties. As a result we now have in Macon county a model public school system supported in part by the County Board of Education, and in part by the contributions of the people themselves. As soon as we had begun with help of the colored people in the different country communities to erect these model schools throughout the county, C. J. Calloway, who had charge of the experiment, began advertising in colored papers throughout the south that in Macon county it was possible for a Negro farmer to buy land in small or large tracts near eight-months schools. Before long the Negro farmers not only from adjoining counties but from Georgia and the neighboring states began to inquire. A good many farmers who were not able to buy land but wanted to be near a good school, began to move into the county in order to go to work on the farms. Others who already had property in other parts of the south sold out and bought land in Macon county. Mr. Calloway informs me that during the past five years he alone has sold land in this county to something like 50 families at a cost of $49,740. He sold during the year 1910, 1,450 acres at a cost of $21,335. I do not think that any of us realized the full value of this immigration into Macon county until the census of 1910 revealed the extent to which the dislocation of the farming population has been going on in other parts of the state. The census shows, for example, that a majority of the Black Belt counties in Alabama instead of increasing have less population during the past ten years. It is in the black belt counties which have no large cities that this decrease has taken place. Macon county although it has no large cities is an exception, for instead of losing population it shows an increase of more than 10 per cent. I think that there are two reasons for this. In the first place there is very little Negro crime and no mob violence in Macon county. The liquor law is enforced and there are few Negroes in Macon county who do not co-operate with the officers of the law in the effort to get rid of the criminal element. In the second place Macon county is provided not only with the schools that I have described, but with teachers who instruct their pupils in regard to things that will help them and their parents to improve their homes, their THE ENGLISHMAN'S PIPE. She—I think it's awfully nice of you to have erected a monument to your grandfather in the middle of your lake, Sir George. He—Yes, you see I had to have something to knock my pipe out on when skating. Occasionally the long pole gets the persimmon, and then again soft solder causes it to drop right into the outstretched palm. stock, and their land, and help them in other ways to earn a better living. When the facts brought out by the census were published in Alabama they were the subject of considerable discussion among the large planters and in the public press generally. In the course of the discussion I called attention, in a letter to the Montgomery Advertiser, to the facts to which I belong. In commenting upon this letter the editor of the Advertiser said: "The State of Alabama makes liberal appropriations for education, and it is part of the system for the benefit to reach both white and black children. It must be admitted that there are many difficulties in properly spending the money and properly utilizing, which will take time and the legislature to correct. The matter complained of in the Washington letter could not be easily remedied by the various county superintendents, and it is their duty to see that the causes for such complaint are speedily removed. Negro fathers and mothers have shown intense interest in the education of their children and if they cannot secure what they want at present residences they will as soon as possible seek it elsewhere. We commend Booker T. Washington's letter on this subject to the careful consideration of all school officials and to all citizens of Alabama." The value of the experiment made in Macon county is in my opinion less in the actual good that has been done to the 26,000 people, white and black who live there, than it is in the showing by actual experiment what a proper system of Negro education can do in a country district toward solving the racial problem. We have no race problem in Macon county; there is no friction between the races; agriculture is improving; the county is growing in wealth. In talking with the sheriff recently he told me that there is so little crime in this county that he scarcely finds enough to keep him busy. Furthermore, I think I am perfectly safe in saying that the white people in this county are convinced that negro education pays. What is true of Macon county may, in my opinion, be true of every other county in the south. Much will be accomplished in bringing this about if those schools which are principally engaged in preparing teachers should turn about and face in the direction of the south, where their work lies. My own experience convinces me that the easiest way to get money for any good work is to show that you are willing and able to perform the work for which the money is given. The best illustration of this is, perhaps, the success, in spite of difficulties and with almost no outside aid, of the best of the negro medical colleges. These colleges, although very largely dependent upon the fees of their students for support, have been successful because they have prepared their students for a kind of service for which there was a real need. GENERAL BUTLER FRIEND OF NEGRO. Read this statement related on the floor of congress and then say whether Butler was a friend of the colored people: "There it became my painful duty, sir, to follow in the track of that charging column and there, in a space not wider than the clerk's desk and three hundred yards long, lay the dead bodies of five hundred and forty-three of my colored comrades, fallen in defense of the country, who had offered up their lives to uphold its flag and its honor, as a willing sacrifice; and as I rode along among them guiding my horse this way and that way less he should profane with his hoofs what seemed to me the sacred dead, and as I looked on their bronzed faces upturned in the shining sun to heaven, as in mute appeal against the wrongs of the country for which they had given their lives, and whose flag had only been to them a flag of stripes, on which no star of glory has ever shown for them—feeling that I had wronged them in the past, and believing what was the future of my country to them, among my dead comrades there I swore to myself a solemn oath. "May my right hand forget its cunning and my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth if I ever fall to defend the rights of these men who have given their blood for me and my country this day and for their race forever, and God helping me, I will keep my oath."—Gen. Benjamin F. Butler, in the house of representatives, on the charge at Fort Harrison in '64. THE BIG NEGRO NOT A FACTOR The big negro, that is, one who has an inflated conception of his or her importance in society, is absolutely of no benefit to race enterprises. If he patronizes a colored institution at all it is only to the extent of the credit allowed him; then he goes back to the white shops with his tale of woe. The average big negro will not even support a colored newspaper, but will get all the white newspapers he can on credit. The churches, too, suffer from these vultures, who prey upon the good graces of the Christian element and yield no returns whatever. Down with this class of cattle, who are proving an impediment in the path of progress. HER IDEA "What is your idea of a satisfied wife?" "There is no such thing." "Oh, yes, there is." "What is it, I'd like to know?" "A widow." Chauffeur—I think that is your horse, sir, coming back. Deposed Rider (sadly, but firmly)—Coming back, is he? Ah, yes—yes. If you should see him, will you kindly tell him from me that it is useless—quite, quite useless?—Liffe. From eight thousand to ten thousand coal slack and pitch briquettes are manufactured and consumed in the city of Belfast, Ireland, each year. Mrs. Elizabeth Barta, arriving in Boston on the steamer Marquette from Antwerp, was handed a sheaf of telegrams at the pier, saying that her father, a justice of the supreme court of Canada, was dead, her mother dying and her son in a precarious condition at San Diego. Elgin, Ill., and the entire country roundabout are aroused over the discovery of the unidentified body of a woman four miles south of Elgin brutally murdered, her skull battered in three places, her throat slashed and her clothing set on fire, resulting in the burning of her body. In going after a patient the Indianapolis city hospital ambulance was struck by a street car at East Tenth street, killing Dr. Andrew G. Cooper, an interne, and injuring Miss Gladys Freelund, a nurse. The wealth produced on farms of the United States was $8,926,000,000 during 1910, as estimated by the department of agriculture in a statement just issued. This is an increase of $104,000,000 over 1809. An auction sale by the government of 2,000 tracts of unallotted land in the Seminole, Creek and Cherokee nations was begun at Wewoka, Okla. Not more than 160 acres will be sold to one person. James A. Patten, the Chicago broker, who has given $250,000 to aid in the fight against tuberculosis, was dealt a second blow by the scourge in the death of his son, Thomas Beveridge Patten, seventeen years old. The boy's uncle, George Patten, died last September of the same disease. The national field council of the Volunteers of America, composed of seventy officers of the organization, opened its fifteenth anniversary convention in Cleveland. Gen. Ballington Booth addressed a mass meeting. The United Confederate Veterans and allied organizations opened their annual meetings in Little Rock, Ark. Eight men, including one member of the state legislature, big labor leaders, and a prominent attorney, are under arrest at Denver, Col., charged with conspiracy to commit perjury and abduction. The arrests are the result of the recent impeachment proceedings brought against District Judge Whitford before the state legislature several weeks ago. John Dietz, the "outlaw of Cameron dam," was found guilty of murder in the first degree by a jury at Hayward, Mo. for the killing of Deputy Sheriff Oscar Harp at the final battle at the Dietz homestead on October 8 last. He was sentenced to life imprisonment at hard labor. Dietz' wife and son Leslie, who were on trial with him, were acquitted. Personal After two years of life among the Bagobos, a little known Philippine tribe, Miss Laura Benedict of the staff of the American Museum of Natural History has returned to that institution with a collection of 2,100 specimens illustrating the life and customs of the tribe. At the annual meeting of the British Iron and Steel institute in London the Carnegie research scholarship of $500 was awarded to R. M. Keeney of Colorado. Miss Emile B. Grigsby, ward of the late Charles T. Yerkes, sailed to take up what is expected to be her permanent residence in London. Her magnificent home in New York has been virtually stripped of its art treasures and wonderful furnishings. Miss Phoebe W. Couzzins, in late years recognized throughout the United States as the leader of her sex against woman suffrage, is stranded at the Terminal hotel, in St. Louis, with scarcely enough money to buy her luncheons. Rear Admiral William C. Gibson, retired, is dead at his home in Brooklyn from a complication of ailments. He was seventy-two years old. Admiral Gibson entered the navy during the Civil war. Foreign Anna Besant, who has arrived in London from India, announces the impending reincarnation of Christ. Reports that 5,000 persons are starving on the Labrador coast are discredited by Captain Kean of the steamer Home, which plies between Curling, N. F., and Battle Harbor, Labrador. The American Academy of Art in Rome has purchased the Villa Aurella, on top of one of the historic hills near Rome, where American artists can work under the most favorable auspices. After a career of six weeks the Deutschland, latest of the models of Count Zeppelin's dirigible balloon, stranded on the roof of its shed at Duesseldorf, Prusia, a total wreck. Fortunately the crew and passengers escaped injury. It is reported in Mexico City that the government, by several arrests made, frustrated a plot to kidnap President Diaz and carry him in an automobile to Pachuca, 55 miles from that city, where the rebels are in control. Lady Decies, who before her marriage to Lord Decies was Miss Helen Vilven Gould, underwent an operation for appendicitis. The surgery was done at the London residence of her mother-in-law, Dowager Lady Decies, and the result was most satisfactory. Amendment to the Canadian copyright law, to affect American authors and publishers who are protected in Canada by only British copyright, was introduced in the house of commons at Ottawa, Ont., by Minister of Agriculture Fisher. EPITOME OF A WEEK'S NEWS Most Important Happenings Told in Brief. Washington Secretary MacVeigh invited popular subscriptions to the $50,000,000 issue of government bonds to reimburse the treasury general fund for expenditure on account of the Panama canal. The government's announced intention is to give preference to small bidders. Postmaster General Hitchcock has designated 47 additional savings depositories, making a total of 176 that have been created to date. The offices named will be made ready to receive deposits on Monday, June 12. Work will begin immediately on the construction of the new $1,000,000 temple for the Scottish Rite Masons in Washington. President Taft will lay the corner stone in October. Secretary of War Jacob McGavock Dickinson of Tennessee, the Democratic members of President Taft's cabinet, has resigned. Henry L. Stimson of New York, recently defeated Republican candidate for governor of that state, has been given the war portfolio. In the letters exchanged between the president and Mr. Dickinson no reasons, other than that of pressing private affairs, is given for the secretary's retirement. Through Secretary of State Knex, President Taft authorized United States Ambassador Lane Wilson in Mexico City to deny in the most positive terms "all foolish stories" of intervention in Mexico by the United States. --- A treaty between the United States and Canada to prevent the further pollution of the great lakes is proposed by a resolution introduced in the national house of representatives by Representative Sulzer of New York. Domestic The supreme court of the District of Columbia, on its own initiative, instituted proceedings for contempt against President Gompers, Vice-President Mitchell and Secretary Morrison of the American Federation of Labor. If adjudged guilty the men may be sentenced to imprisonment. Former President Theodore Roosevelt told about 1,000 New York clergymen that materialism and paganism are a serious means to the welfare of the United States. He declared that men who blow up the buildings of capitalists at the behest of labor leaders are murderers, and that unless something is done to remedy present conditions, the results will be dire. To decide the ownership between nations of $7,000,000 worth of property now on the American side of the RiC Grande river, in the southern section of El Paso, an international commission met at El Paso, Tex. Publishers, clergymen, professors, scientists and others signed a petition presented to congress asking for an inquiry into the manner in which D. C. Worcester has conducted his office as Philippine commissioner. The Supreme court of the United States set aside the sentences of imprisonment against President Samuel Gompers, Vice-President John Mitchell and Secretary Frank Morrison of the American Federation of Labor, imposed by the District of Columbia Supreme court for contempt in the Bucks boycott case. The court decided that the officials had been erroneously sentenced. The government won its case in the Supreme court of the United States against the Standard Oil company of New Jersey, it being held that it is a conspiracy and monopoly in restraint of trade. The decree of the lower court was affirmed, although the time for the combines dissolution was extended from one to six months. George Dryer, son of a New York banker, revealed his identity to officers of a boat at Seattle, Wash., on which he was working his way to Alaska, after it was rumored that he committed suicide, following his disappearing from home. John Ellerman, trusted employee of the Continental and Commercial National bank, has fled from Chicago in the company, it is said of Miss Grace Frost, a trained nurse. Ellerman is alleged to have stolen more than $1,500 from the bank. By the will of Walter E. Duryea of New York, the crippled athlete and broker, the bulk of his fortune, estimated at $2,500,000, goes to Miss Eleanor Peregrine, a trained nurse who acted as his housekeeper for the last twelve years of his life. Senator Edgar T. Crawford of Carroll county and Representative A. Clark Lowry of Lawrence county, Republicans, and Representative Owen J. Evans of Stark county, Democrats were Indicted at Columbus, O. by the grand jury for bribe solicitation. What was declared to have been the largest Lutheran devotional service since the days of Martin Luther was held in the Coliseum at St. Louis, 16,000 persons gathering to celebrate the one hundredth anniversary of the birth of Rev. Dr. C. F. W. Waither. --- --- CHILD'S DRESS. (5400) The busy mother will welcome this simple little dress. It has the body and sleeves cut in one piece, in the prevailing fashion, and in both front and back there are small tucks extending below the rounded band which takes the place of a yoke. The skirt is merely a continuation of the upper part and the dress may be worn with or without a belt. This, if worn, may be of the material used to trim the little frock, or it may be of leather. Batiste, lawn, fine gingham, pongee and cashmere are appropriate materials for this little frock, while figured surah or taffeta or patterned gingham or lawn will make a suitable trimming. The pattern (5400) is cut in sizes 4 to 10 years. Medium size requires 2 yards of 36 inch material. To procure this pattern send 10 cents to "Pattern Department, of this paper, to give size and number of pattern. - This waist offers us a slight novelty in the cut of the yoke which is in one with the back of the waist, thus giving us no shoulder seam. The yoke has also a fancy outline to the lower edge. The lower part of the waist is arranged in tucks, stitched their full length, and the closing band is placed in the center of the front, extending across the yoke to the very collar. The plain puff sleeves are finished with an ornamental cuff. Percale, madras, taffetas, satin and all the pretty newt wash material are suitable for a waist of this kind. The pattern (4893) is cut in sizes 32 to 42 inches bust measure. Medium size requires 2½ yards of 36 inch material. To procure this pattern send 10 cents to "Pattern Department," of this paper, write plainly, and be sure to give size and material. NO. 4893. SIZE..... NAME..... TOWN..... STREET AND NO..... STATE..... Up to Him. "Dr. J. H. Jowett believes it is the minister's, not the congregation's fault, if the church doesn't go." The speaker, a member of the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian church in New York, smiled and continued: "Dr. Jowett once told me that he sided with the old lady who always went to sleep during sermon time. "Why don't you take snuff during the sermon? the minister said to her. That will keep you awake." "Why don't you put the snuff in your sermon, sir?" retorted the old lady." Not What He Was Looking For. "Is this town closed on Sundays?" asked the traveling man. "Well," replied the landlord, hedging diplomatically, as he thought, "everything is supposed to be closed here on Sundays, but we have means of catering to the wants of our guests." "All right, then I'll go on over to Bingville. I understand that they strictly obey the closing law there. I'm an enthusiastic advocate of Sunday closing." Prejudiced. "I can't endure the Flimmers." "Why not?" "They always call a summer house a block."