The Gazette

TWENTY-EIGHTH YEAR. NO. 43 For Vacation Time A IN UNION TREVEZ EST TRUSTEZ TWENTY-EIGHT For Vaca NOW that vacation time approaches the heart begins to long for a little journey and the mind busies itself with preparing the way. Traveling in America ought to be a pleasure, and is, to those who know how to make the most of all our modern traveling conveniences, writes Julia bottomley in the Illustrated Milliner. What with parlor cars, dining cars and sleeping cars, good ventilation, just-shielded windows, comfortable chairs and competent service, a journey is a recreation and rest. People no longer burden themselves with a lot of luggage, but think out how they may get along with as little as possible. This is especially true if the trip is to be a long one and sight-seeing its object. The first thing that engages the mind of the feminine traveler is, of course, the matter of her traveling costume and this article will concern itself with something of that. Although we can't grab ourselves, like Miss Phoebe Snow, "all clad in white, etc." we can count upon as little dust on our journey as on the average shopping excursion. Our millinery is thoroughly protected, because paper bags are provided by the porter and hats consigned to the rack from start to finish of the average trip. No dust can reach them. For travelling, a plain, well-tailored cloth gown of serge, mohair, covert cloth, fancy suiting or other hard- This simple waist is of light blue armure silk, trimmed with bands of white silk set on with fagoting and ornamented with little gold buttons and loops of cord. The collar and cuffs are of embroidered linen finished with little ruffles of the same. Millinery Help. To rejuvenate last year's violets, shake all the dust out of the discarded bunches which adorned last year's hats, and even the most forlorn and faded will respond to the magic touch of the paint brush. Separate them and apply a touch of water color to each petal. The result is highly satisfactory. When dry mass them together with several green leaves, which also have been "touched up," tie with a strand of tulle or a cord of purple silk and the violets are as good as new. Old Night Gowns for Dress Covers. I have for a long time used old muslin night gowns as covers for my best dresses when they hang in the closet. They are easier to get off and on than bags, and cover the gown quite as well. Hang the dress first on a coat or skirt hanger, then cover it with the night gown, buttoning the latter to keep it from falling. —Chicago Inter Ocean. THE GAZETTE finished fabric, is the proper garb. It cannot be too plainly made and must be well tailored—that is it must have good lining and interlining and be correctly fitted and finished. Such a gown cannot be outclassed. The fabric should be shrunk before it is made up and it is obviously better to select a waterproofed material than any other when buying. If circumstances compel you to economize on your outfit, remember that it is economy to buy good material for your tailored dress and to have it made right. It goes without saying that the hat should be pretty because all millinery should be that. It should be large enough to shade the eyes and small enough to keep out of other people's way. It need not be severely plain, and may even indulge in the charm of flowers for a moderate amount of traveling. It must have style. Three fine examples are given here of street hats suited to this purpose. Street shoes and gloves made for service and well fitted are in keeping with gown and hat. Tan is the best color and one may wear a veil to match and carry a bag of the same useful and bright color. The shirtwaist or blouse may be either of silk or a wash material. A light-weight silk is most economical for long journeys. Fresh jabbs and stock collars make it possible to look immaculate at the end of the journey. TO WEAR ON TAILORED HAT Quill Trimming, Arranged Artistically, Is Sure to Find Favor With Smart Dressers. Coming back into prominence and feminine again after an absence of several seasons, is the quill or feather trimming. It is very stunning when properly used on tailored chapeaux and gives its wearer a very trim and jaunty appearance. One stunning model noted recently was of rough black straw, with the fashionable high crown and the equally fashionable rolling brim. It was quite plain and bare of any adornment, save two great quills which slanted upright, starting from the back. These were of the new coral shade, changing from a vivid coral in the center to deeper, almost black hue on the edge. And they gave just the note of color and air of jauntiness which the hat needed to make it distinctly chic. Use Men's Shirt Sets Girls are turning to account the smart shirt buttons in colored enamels that come for men's shirts. They are usually six sold to a set. These buttons have a link to thrust through the eyellet and are held by a patent fastener. When a girl uses them she works eyelets instead of button-holes in front of her waist and in the cuffs. Sometimes the buttons are all used at the back. Some have colored enamel centers with a rim of striped two-toned gold; others of solid enamel in delicate tones with a design of gold; again there are centers of barred enamel with a plain rim in a deeper tone or of a deep ecru enamel with a colored rim. The Mannish Blouse The manish blouse is not to be dispensed with in the wardrobe of the well-dressed girl. It is well to have some of silk, and remember that it is economy in the end to get a good quality. Get a china silk that is really good and it will outlast three shirts in an inferior quality. There is an excellent variety that comes at $1.25 in a thirty-six-inch width. It is light and cool and yet of enough substance not to be transparent. ESTABLISHED AUGUST 25, 1883 AND ISSUED EVERY WEEK ON TIME SINCE. INFLUENCE OF LOCAL LEAGUE NEGRO BUSINESS LEAGUE OF SELMA RESPONSIBLE FOR MANY MOVEMENTS THROUGHOUT ALABAAM—INSTRUMENTAL INPUT PUTTING COLORED PORTERS ON TWO RAILROADS—SOME OF THE MEMBERS. Selma, Ala. (Special.)—Much of the success attending the recent session of the Alabama State league is due to the flourishing condition of the local Negro Business league of this city, of which Prof. R. B. Hudson is president. At Selma the Negro Business league is regarded by the negroes just as any other commercial organization is regarded by the white people. The Negro Business league, under Professor Hudson's direction, has to do with all progressive movements, inaugurates many of them and sees to it that any other movement is carried to a successful culmination. The league here has been instrumental in placing colored porters on two railroads running out of Selma and is now at work on the third one. It succeeded in securing an extension of time, when necessary, on the payment of the extra tax on a sewer system for negro citizens, and has encouraged and aided many other laudable undertakings. One sees in Selma a greater spirit of co-operation than in most towns of the size, even where there is present quite as many negro business establishments. Among some of the leading spirits of the local league are E. W. Stone, who is a blacksmith and large planter. Mr. Stone owns a large tract of land, which has recently been included within the extended city limits, which portion has become a fashionable residence district. The land is conservatively estimated to be, worth about $70,000. He is an active member of the A. M. E. church and has been a delegate to several general conferences. No man is more popular with the masses than Duncan Irby, who, like Mr. Stone, runs a large blacksmithing establishment. Mr. Stone is a slave to his work; works night and day and as a matter of course, has reaped the attendant reward. He holds the contract for carrying the United States mall, runs a half dozen of the finest carriages in the city for public hire, and owns, right in the heart of the downtown region, a three-story brick building valued at $15,000. He has other real estate holdings running up to at least $30,000. Prof. R. B. Hudson is the one negro living in Selma who has attained a national reputation. He is the only layman holding office under the National Baptist convention. He has been secretary of that large body for five years, his election being always accomplished by acclamation. Professor Hudson has been principal of the Clark school in Selma for 21 years, and holds the confidence of the entire people. He has valuable real estates, lives in one of the handsomest homes in the city, and is the proprietor of the only coal and wood yard managed and controlled by negroes. He is untiring in his efforts to make the Negro Business league a factor in the development of the people. In considering the value of property downtown, it is well to call attention to another three-story brick structure owned by a negro, just across the street from the city hall. Professor Hudson owns this property, and it adjoins the stree-story structure owned by Mr. Duncan Irby. Both these buildings, at about $15,000 each, and stand rented all the time. LARGE DONATION FOR NEGRO EDUCATION MISSISSIPPI PLANTER GIVES LAND WORTH SEVEN THOUSAND DOLLARS TO SCHOOL. Jackson, Miss. (Special)—A negro planter in Mississippi, who does not wish his name disclosed, has just given to Campbell college, a large negro institution here, maintained by the African Methodist Episcopal church, a large tract of land in Coahoma county, valued at $7,000, the income of which is to go for the maintenance of poor but worthy students. This is probably the largest gift made by a southern negro for the education of his people. President M. M. Ponton, prominently mentioned in connection with the bishopric of his church, expresses the hope that this is but the beginning of similar liberal donations on the part of negroes who are able in some manner to contribute more to the education of their own people. TO ERECT TRADES SCHOOL Washington.—(Special).—The contract for the erection of the first of the trade schools of Washington has already been let with the understanding that the trade school building will be completed within five months, and will be ready for occupancy in September. The new school will be erected on the grounds of the present Cardozo building and about half of that structure will be used for the same purposes as that now being erected. A canvass among the schools to discover those who desire to enroll themselves at the new institution reveals the fact that the present plans will very shortly have to be expanded to accommodate persons who wish to learn the trades to be taught at the new institution. PRINT WITHOUT INK Englishman Makes Remarkable Discovery by Accident. By Means of Electricity Inventor Can Print a Newspaper in All Hues of the Rainbow With One Contact. London. About two years ago a fugitive paragraph drifting in the English press had for its subject a possible "printing without ink." Just now a semi-technical London publication has succeeded in running down the author of the discovery and from him it has the story of the experiment up to date. The man is Cecil Bembridge, London address not given. It was an accidental lead which Mr. Bembridge picked up in his discovery of inkless printing. It was about 12 years ago that, working in his laboratory with an electric battery, he had spread a sheet of tin on the table and on the tin plate he had laid a piece of moist paper. The bare ends of the copper wires from his battery trailed over this sheet of wet paper which had stuck fast to the plate of tin. His experiment originally was to discover a certain electro-metallurgical action in connection with gold and for the purpose of the experiment he reached into his pocket for a gold coin. As he brought a handful of miscellaneous coins from his pocket, a gold piece slipped through his fingers, rolled upon the table and in catching at the coin, he clamped the sovereign upon one of the connecting battery wires and in firm contact with the moist paper. In the effort at stopping the coin, too, the other wire was pushed over until it lay in contact with the sheet of tin. Then cane the accidental discovery. He reached for the coin and in picking it up was surprised to find upon A Gold Piece Slipped Through His Fingers. the moist paper an absolutely clear imprint of the coin in a brownish black. He describes the print as even clearer than if he had inked the coin and applied the inked surface to the paper by careful pressure. Following his questionings he procured a few linotype lines of print, assembled them, and placed the type, face down, on a like sheet of moist paper resting upon a like sheet of tin. When the battery wires were connected with the type metal and with the tin sheet and current applied, every letter showed from the type lines without blur or blemish. Taking a sheet of zinc in lieu of the tin, again the electrical influences brought the same general effect though the crudest of hand methods were used in applying the type to the paper. Dry paper was not affected; moisture was required for the proper conductivity. After proving to his satisfaction that, regardless of the pressure upon the paper in contact, the clearness of the lettering was satisfactory, Mr. Brembridge sought to discover a chemical moistener for the paper which would give the jet black effect of ordinary printer's ink and at the same time preserve the whiteness of the paper. The great trouble was to secure permanency in the electrical imprint. For ten years Mr. Bembridge wrestled with the solution of his problem. Today he announces that everything is accomplished and proved, not only in the matter of a jet black print without ink, but assists that he is able to print a newspaper in all hues of the rainbow and with the one contact. As explained by Mr. Bembridge, his long searchings into chemical combinations for producing jet black prints led him on into electro-pigmentary combinations producible by oxidizing processes. More than all of this, however, the assertion is made that in treating the white paper some of the cheapest of chemical elements serve the purpose admirably and at a cost far below that of the costly printer's inks. As for the presses for turning out the newspaper, they are greatly simplified, the ink troughs, and rollers disappearing altogether. The stereotype plate is used and in position on the press is thoroughly insulated below, while the roller surface which guides the moist paper also is insulated. The paper rollers are connected with the positive magnetic pole, while the stereotype plate is linked with the negative and from the electric power that runs the press the electrochemical action is set up, making the imprint as desired upon the paper. NEGRO TRAINING SCHOOL PLANS SUMMER CHAUTAUQUA Durham, N. C.—Special.—That the southern white man is greatly interested in negro education is evidenced in the activities of Judge Peter O. Pritchard of the United States circuit court and ex-Governor Glenn of North Carolina, who on a recent tour in the north made a strong plea for the uplift of the negro, for the National Religious Training school, this city. Judge Pritchard is now on a northern tour and is making the tour for this institution without any charge to the school. He is chairman of the advisory committee of the school. Never before in the history of the race has a school with the various departments which is giving this institution such a wide scope of training, become in such a short time the cynosure of the noted educators and philanthropists, as the National Religious Training school. The summer school and chauquaau, which will be held from July 5 to August 13, will be the greatest event of the year among the race. Both races will furnish some of the most prominent lecturers in the country, among them being Prof. Kelly C. Miller, Rev. Dr. D. Webster Davis, Rev. W. N. DeBerry, Rev. E. H. Hunter, LL. M., Bishop George W. Clinton, D. D., Dr. James B. Dudley, Hon. John C. Dancy, Maj. R. R. Morton, Dr. W. Y. Chapman, one of the greatest white preachers in the country; Hon J. Y. Joyner, superintendent of public instruction of North Carolina; Prof. M. C. S. Noble, University of North Carolina; Miss Josephine Pinyon, Normal, Ala. The faculty is composed of specialists from the best institutions of learning in the country for the race. Prof. Kelly Miller will lecture on mathematics and several other subjects. The standard of the school will cope with a number of higher educational institutions of the white race, and will reveal a great awakening on the part of the race for the kind of training which helps the race in reaching the highest plane of usefulness. By the school being on the plan of Winona Lake and other well known Bible schools, affording unusual training and inspiration for country pastors and ministers, a large number of them will attend the summer school and chautaqauq this summer. In an interview with a representative of the press, Dr. James E. Shepard, the founder and president of the school, when queried about the department preparing workers for settlement work and the basic principles of the school, in part, exclaimed: "The underlying principle of the work of this school is that character is the basis of good citizenship. That if a man's religion be sound and based on the right ideas instilled into him he will be industrious, and of his own accord do what is right and just. This school trains the leaders and the leaders go among the people to teach them. Every city should have three or more women in an organized society *or club to help along this cause; to take charge of matters, interest and promotion, should we send a lecturer to that town." GEORGE F. KING. ITEMS FROM THE ODD: Inside the newest mine rescue helmets are telephones with which a wearer, when entering a mine, can keep in touch with the outside world. Twelve parts tin, two parts zinc, one part aluminum and one per cent chloride of sodium makes an alloy with which aluminum can be soldered easily. Slinking pipes a few inches into the ground and applying microphones at the upper ends, French scientists have located many subterranean water courses. Bronze is replacing brass for passenger car fittings on several railroads, as it is less affected by weather and local gases and is more easily kept clean. Experts have decided that a mummy brought from Egypt to the Royal College of Surgeons in England in 1892 is the oldest known, dating at least 3000 B. C. UNWELCOME ADVICE "Kind friend," whined a beggar, "I'm trying to get to Glasgow, and I've got the price of a ticket all but sixpence. Will you help me out?" "No; but I can give you some excellent advice," replied the gentleman addressed. "Take the train to within a sixpenny fare of Glasgow, and then walk."-Tit-Bits. A CLEVER RUSE. Wife—Please match this piece of silk for me before you come home. silk for me before you come home. Husband—At the counter where the sweet little blonde works? The one with the soulful eyes, and— Wife—No. You're too tired to shop for me when your day's work is done, dear. On second thought, I won't bother you. HER DIPLOMACY "You could make my future brighter," he said, looking at her longingly. "I could say the same," she replied, looking down. "How?" he asked eagerly. "Well, an engagement ring with a diamond in it would help some," she admitted—Boston Herald. AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS As a whole, are the cities producing any more men? Not one city in the state, or the country, could clearly or justly answer this question. The majority of our young men are going daily, blindfolded, into the pits of disease and immorality in the large cities. The life of the use-to-be young man has been changed by the modernizing of vice in a greater form with the ways of the world. The average young negro leaves the small towns for the city; he looks to nothing but enjoyment and what he calls high living, as he has already been impressed that his small home town is not in it with the ways of the large city, where fun and sport could be had continually, something new to see daily, etc. Going in with these intentions, he continues this haphazard way of living until it is too late, then he dies, most times from the dreadful white plague. These erring beings die without ever accomplishing anything that would be creditable to the race or himself. Young men, you should look for brighter things in life; there is nothing in sporting and fast living. Many young men are occupants of untimely graves on account of these sins. Do your best to ward them off, for they mean the worst for you.—Palistine (Tex.) Plaindealer. "There are some directions in which no colored line can be drawn. Disease draws no color line; flith draws no color line. If a negro, by reason of his ignorance of the laws of health, carries about in his body the germs of consumption, of smallpox, or of the disease known as the hook-worm, these germs will spread from his body to that of the white people by whose side he lives. Negro women prepare and serve the food of white people. Negro women launder the clothes of the white people; negro women nurse the babies of the white people. In a word, negroes touch the white man at almost every vital point in his life." If the negro is ignorant as to the laws of health she can convey disease to the white man's family through her uncleanned hands, her unwashed body, or the most deadly germs can be taken to the house of the white man by reason of the flith of the cabin in which the white man's clothes are laundered."—Report of part of public speech by Booker T. Washington. A recent writer said of Henry Ossawa Tanner: "He should no longer be classed as the foremost negro painter, but rather as one of the greatest artists that America has produced."—Milwaukee Free Press. It has taken many years for men to discover that the health and welfare of the child lies at the foundation of national greatness. A people which deliberately allows, as most peoples have always allowed, an enormous proportion of its children to die in infancy, is criminally fatous and short-tighted. Modern science has shown that it is feasible to save many of these little lives, and by the exercise of only simple honesty and common sense. Take the matter of pure milk for example, upon which more than upon any other one detail depends the health of young children. Yet it is only lately that the proper standards have been set and laws made to secure this necessity to infant health. The cry, Save the Children, now ringing from every quarter of our land, indicates that we are waking up to our responsibilities, and none too soon—The Christian World. Aunt Mirandy, the old colored mummy, says she could settle the divorce question with one hand tied behind her. And there is philosophy as well as fun in her solution. "In de dust place, I stop hit befo he趴 begins. I'd make it so hard to git married dat only dem dat had taken de thirty-third degree, 'an' dat could prove dat dey had lovely dispositions, an' no parents nor near relations to visit 'em, and dat dey had a health certificate, an' a good business, an' dat dey was so neme-sighted dat dey couldn't see no other man or woman but the one dat was right under deir elf, could git a license to te up with another pusson, an' dat knot would stay tied." Firman C. Brown, Charleston, W. Va., has recently received notice of allowance of patent on his food-warmer and will now introduce an emergency service. Cooked meals can be sent out any distance from one block to two miles, hot and in a sanitary condition at destination. The warmer will take up space of an ordinary grip and can be easily carried in street car without inconvenience to passengers. Mr. Brown, the inventor, has given 20 years as head waiter in the leading hotels north and south and has observed the need of service as above named. A negro editor has a hard time trying to satisfy all the people. We are doing our best in this office to fulfill our obligations to publish the news. We should not be expected to publish advertisements free, though we are often "cussed out" because we do not. Ingrudience is a base sin—many there are who are guilty—Orangeburg (S. C.) Recorder. IN URICA THE 65TH ANNIVERSARY Y FIVE CENTS. AN CULLINGS The Mobile Press brings us the distressing news that colored men have been turned out of a hotel in that city and white men have been put in their places. The management of the hotel, it is reported, said that it was simply a matter of getting "satisfactory help." Which implies that the colored help was not satisfactory. We wish we could share the faith of the Press and see through the eyes of it these men returning to work within a month or two. But we cannot do that. Everywhere, in the north and in the south, with particular reference to places of service, there are too many colored men being turned in the street. No cry of prejudice can justify the Mobile happening, for if there is one thing a white southerner cherishes more than his "superlority," it is a colored servant—call the job by any name. There is something wrong somewhere, and those who may speak with authority ought constantly to point out the danger to reputation and to the pocketbook colored people will be called upon to sustain if there is no effort to improve the situation. Instead of a newspaper like the Press half-excusing the dismissal of colored men from good positions, it should be warning them that they must become efficient workers or else get off the field of competition—New York Age. The "social equality bugbear" is the basest humbug that can be used as an attempt at argument to justify the curtailment of the negro's rights under the law. Every sane man knows that there can be no social intercourse and comradeship unless all parties to it are willing. The negro alone cannot fellowship with others. They, too, must be willing. The time has come when there need be no mistake in this matter. The more of self respect the negro has the less he likely to intrude upon the privacy of others. A gentleman, he be white or be he black, will not go where he is not wanted. To hold up the scarecrow of race intermixure is no longer permissible, for all know that there is nothing to it. So far as the negro is concerned all he asks is to be left unmolested with an opportunity to show himself deserving of a man's chance. His ignorance demands better school provision, his poverty can be overcome by economy and thrift, his vices are the result of both of these, and their decrease will mean a better era for him.—Star of Zion. Among the vocations of men, farming is the most needed one. It stands tip-top above all, for in it is the life and subsistence of the human race. Men are becoming more independent and wealthy by farming, on a general average, than any other occupation, and we as a race need to turn our hands to this great work. On account of the increase of the dependents in the city from various sources, by posterity and those leaving the rural districts, the increase of the food producer must continue to swell, to supply their wants and needs. People are pouring into the cities yearly, leaving their farms. This is an awkward step. You are leaving your independent homes to go and barely live in the overcrowded cities. Live on your farms, for you are looked upon by all for bread—the rich, the poor. We see the difference between "negro" and "nigger" was defined in the district court in Abblene, Tex., recently by Judge Thomas L. Blanton, presiding, when they fined Attorney Harry Tom King $5 for the use of the word "nigger." The Carter murder case was on trial and King was defending Carter and persisted in calling negroes "nlggera" despite the court's warnings not to do so. The attorney said he did not know the difference, that he supposed they were interchangable terms. Judge Blanton said the fine would be $5 whenever that term was use in his court. Jim Carter was found not guilty of the murder of Berry Cooper—Charleston Messenger. Probably the most delighted man in the country over the successful outcome of the Lewis matter outside of Mr. Lewis himself, was Commissioner Emmett J. Scott, who stuck to his guns throughout the long struggle, and who was largely responsible for the good luck of the talented Bostonian. Mr. Scott has that all too rare habit of standing by his friends. Florida Sentinel. There are a set of negro men going through the country doing what they call grafting—stealing and swindling the people out of their money under false pretence. We are too poor to be robbed, as we need our money for other purposes. You robbers take notice and let the people live—Palestine Plaindealer. More negroes own real estate between One Hundred and Thirty-third and One Hundred and Thirty-fifth streets and Fifth and Seventh avenues, in New York city, and of greater value, than in any other section of the same size any place else in the world.—Charleston (S. C.) Messenger. Local News PURCHASE THE "GAZETTE" AT J. S. HALL'S, 3121 Central Ave. L. SCHWARTZ'S, 2921 Central Ave. Open Sunday. PUSHAW'S, Cuyahoga Building. Open Sunday. ELMER F. BOYD'S, 2604 Central Ave. F. VALENTINE'S, 2130 Central Ave. C. C. JOHNSON'S, 3315 Central Ave. Open Sunday. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS: - Subscribers not receiving The Gazette regularly should notify us at once. We desire every copy delivered promptly. We advise our patrons to carefully examine The Gazette's advertisements before making purchases. Business men who advertise in this paper should have the patronage of Afro-Americans. The fact that they advertise is assurance that they want it. Local reading notices (advertisements) ten cents a line (six words in a line.) PURCHASE THE "GAZETTE" AT FOR SALE.—Brand new, Imperial Encyclopedia and Dictionary, 40 volumes, finely illustrated, handy to handle. Unexcelled for reference purposes. A library in itself—one that will last a life-time. Contains everything you may wish to know. Call or address, The Gazette, Blackstone Building, 1422 W 3d St. Cleveland, O. near Superior Av. This is an opportunity of a life-time for those who love good books. J. H. Cisco has been quite ill for ten days. Miss Elizabeth Long and Mrs. Stinson are visiting in Youngstown. Mrs. John P. Green and Miss Nellie Hansen spent Sunday in Oberlin. Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Jackson visited his mother, in M. Pleasant, recently. Z chole has been moved from High Av. to the Elks' building on Central Ave., between E. 30th and E. 31st Sts. Do not fall to read the Frederick Douglass Life Insurance Company's advertisement, elsewhere in this paper. It is of material interest to you. Geo. C. Sutton, a member of the faculty of Hains' Institute, Augusta Ga., is home for the summer vacation. Ga, is home for the summer vacation, Judge Foran, Tuesday, fined Alexander H. Martin, Esq., $10 for contempt of court for failure to take the oath of office and order him to do so. He remitted the fine, however, when Mr. Martin apologized. The editor of The Gazette acknowledges the receipt of an invitation from the "Fown" club to attend its informal dancing party, June 6, at Tiffany's Euclid auditorium. Wm. B. Direys of 7918 Quincy avenue does all kinds of mason work and plastering, lays cement sidewalks, and lays plaster on bottoms, contracting and jobbing. All work guaranteed. Bell E. 1995-X. The editor of The Gazette acknowledges the receipt of an invitation to attend the Howard University Alumni reunion, May 30, on the school campus, Washington, D. C. Mrs. Laura Brannum of Flushing, sister of Lewis G. Adkins, died Monday and was buried, Wednesday. Mr. Adkins was too ill to attend his funeral. He was a little better Wednesday. 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. The Cleveland Association of AfroAmerican should assist in the prosecution of the Italian, Rocco, who encouraged the mob Tuesday and so badly beat with a club the AfroAmerican (in the East East) whose wagon struck Rocco's son when he ran into it. An organ recital will be given by M. Morrison B. Johnson, assisted by H. Edwyn Thompson barrister, Dr. J. D. Washington, tenor, at Antioch Baptist church, Tuesday evening, at $ o'clock. Admission free. Do not miss it because the participants are certainly worth hearing. The Central Law School of the AfroAmerican State University, Louisville, Ky., has conferred the degree of LL, D on John P. Green, Esq., of this city, to address to the graduating class on May $ and the degree was conferred the same evening. The Mission restaurant was closed last Friday and Saturday. It has changed management again and reopened. The lunch room opposite E. 34th St. on Central Ave. was closed recently. Another has been opened in the Clayton block. There are entirely too many saloons, barber shops and restaurants on Central Ave. Send your local items to The Gazette on Monday or Tuesday of each week. This paper is published for ALL of our people and "plays no favorites." Everybody is treated the same—fair and right. Take The Gazette and tell your friends to do so and Mrs. Jesse Roberts' elder daughter (Jessie) is critically ill at her residence in E. 43d St. Tuberculosis. Her other daughter, Mrs. Alida McFarland recently lost her youngest child after a brief illness. Several others of the family, including Detective McFarland, have been quite ill in recent months. Inscriptions on pasteboard signs were tacked on the house of Mrs. Maher, 2037 Central Ave., next to the Els' building. James Coleman, 2355 E. 24th St., and John McNerney, 2311 E. 20th St., and John McNerney, 2311 E. 20th St., were accused of placing the signs and of breaking windows and a screen door in the Maher home. Coleman was fined $10 and costs and McNerney fined the costs and given 15 days by Judge McGannon. St. Andrews church was well represented in the annual convention of the Woman's Auxiliary at St. Paul's church (white) on the 22d. The delegates were: Daw A. G. Stanley, Mrs. Edward Daw, Mrs. Wallace Bolden, the pastor's wife, Mrs. B. W. Paxton and number of other ladies, number eight. Miss Addle Stewart and Mrs. Hicks of Youngstown, were the delegates from St. Augustine Mission, that city. F. D. Webster, M. T. a graduate of the American College of Mechano-Therapy, Chicago, Ill., and a resident of Beaver Falls, Pa., has opened offices at 3349 Central Ave., and is prepared to properly treat persons suffering from indigestion and the many other ill result therefrom, as well as kindred troubles of the stomach and body. Give him a trial and be convinced of his skill and effectiveness. Jacques Faitlowitch, French Jewish scholar and scientist, is coming to Cleveland soon to tell the Jewish people of this city the story of the Falsahas, or black Jews, of whom there are more than 50,000 in Abyssynia. These subjects of Emperor Menelik are not racial Jews, but Jews by conversion of many centuries ago. In the reign of King Solomon he was visited by, the queen of Sheba, who was accompanied by many hundreds of Ethiopian slaves. When the queen returned to her native Africa she was accompanied by a retinue of thousands of these former slaves, all of them Jews by adoption, all of them Christians although all of these thousands of years, according to their own story of their origin. Dr. Failowitch says that they observe all the Jewish holidays commanded by the five books of Moses. 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 if they come from the seat of war," too. It is excellent. Everybody is going to the Phillegans' picnic. Get ready! The train leaves the B. & O. depot at 8:30 a. m. Are you going? To the picnic at new and greatly improved Chippewa Lake Park, June 19. Fishing, boating, bathing, bowling, dancing, baseball, emancipation and at Chippewa Lake Park, Monday, June 19. Don't miss this, the first picnic of the season. A new butcher shop on Central Ave. near E. 30th St, employs an Afro-American porter. This is so unusual a thing for the whites in business on "the Avenue" that it attracts considerable attention and causes no end of comment on the business of the trade of the places of business on Central Ave., conducted by whites is given them by our people, the butcher, mentioned above, is about the only one who gives an Afro-American any steady employment and we cannot say how long that will last. In spite of this our people make no demands on the boys and girls, but continue to flock into their places to the exclusion of those conducted by members of our own race, and spend their money. Is it any wonder, our boys and girls cannot get employment and so little regard and respect are paid them and their people by white men in business, and we are not their organization, 95 per cent of whose trade is given them by our people? Here is an opportunity for our ministers to properly advise their congregations along a certain line. It is also a glorious opportunity for the Cleveland Association of Afro-Americans to do something in addition to giving entertainments during the winter season. By the way, Dr. Howard is the organization's head. Dr. Howard for the city examiners' position that Dr. Dale lost? He, too, is a member of the Association. Will some one, please, inform the public? One Of Many! Lima, O., May 3, T1. Editor Gazette, Bear Creek, unclosed P. O. key order for $1.50 for another year's subscription to "the old reliable" Gazette which we like so well for the fearless way you speak and stand for what is best for our people, through its columns. The Gazette is a race-loveing and self-respecting Negro in the United States. With best wishes, I remain Ever your true friend and admirer, Wm. Foy. Green Tie Costs Man's Life. New York City.—As the result of a fractured skull John White, an Afro-American, aged 40, died Tuesday morning. White was attacked by a brute (white) who took exception to the green tie he was wearing. Wrecks His Home. Kansas City, Mo.—A dynamite bomb explosion wrecked the house of W. E. Griffin, principal of the Booker T. Washington separate (public) school, early Tuesday. Prejudice because of his race is believed responsible. 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, 9111. 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. Local arrangements are in charge of Western Reserve Medical Council; Dr. E. A. Dale, pres; Dr. A. J. M. Dr. E. A. Dale, Dr. A. J. M. Scott, sec; Dr. J. R. Phil, treas; Dr. B. H. Lawrence, librarian; Dr. W. S. Biggs, C. 515 American Trust Building Office.....Main 176 ```markdown ``` THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY. MAY 27. 1911 DR. J. H. JONES ENDORSED By His Conference for the Bishopic — A Splendid Meeting — Ex-Chapplain Anderson Lectures. Sandusky, O. — The western district of the North Ohio Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ where the 17th, 18th and 19th, was a glorious success. The reports from the churches show a greater number of conversions, this conference year, than ever before, with advancement along all lines. The conference was presided over by Dr. Joshua H. Jones, the pastor of the church, thus artistically indorsed by it for bishop, and the delegates to the general conference which meets in Kansas [Illustration of a man with a mustache and glasses, wearing a dark suit with a white collar. The background is a textured pattern of light and dark shades.]] City, earnestly petitioned to do all in their power to elevate him to the high office of bishop. The conference believes that Dr. Jones' ability fits him to fill a place on the bishop's bench which is not filled properly by any other man. Dr. Chas, Bundy delivered a masterly address and Rev. W. T. Anderson, a retired U. S. Army chapel, lectured on his travels in Palestine, Egypt and Japan. Miss Ida Ransom and Miss Anna Waugh rendered valuable service as secretaries. All the ministers and lay-delegates who were present rendered valuable service and were greatly inspired in this session. Dr. J. H. Smith, the successor of the late Miss Ida his delegate, who has an excellent voice for singing, inspired all with his melody. Mrs. Rosa Johnson, the aggressive and successful missionary worker, held an enthusiastic meeting with the women of the church. Mrs. B. H. Carson, the first woman in the A. M. E. Church at Sandusky, came from Columbus, and rendered excellent service to the conference. She is from one of the best families in the state. Last but not least, was the praiseworthy entertainment by the speaker, H. Carson, and the good people of Sandusky, who made the conference's stay in this so delightful. We would like to mention the services that all rendered in this most pleasant session, but space will not permit us. (REV.) E. FORTE, Reporter. Ladies! Save Money and Keep in Style by Reading McCall's Magazine and Using McCall Patterns McCull's magazine will help you dress style and expense by keeping you posted on the latest fashions in the New Fashion Design in each issue. 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J., has telegraphed a protest to President Taft against the acceptance by the navy department of the silver service for the battleship Utah because the coffee tray has upon it an etching of Brigham Young and a view of the Mormon temple at Salt Lake City. A scout sign language is being evolved by the officers of the boy scouts. After studying the erode signs of many peoples, particularly the American Indian, a code of signs embodying many points in which all the sign languages are allike is being formulated. Two strangers are dead and a brakeman, Dare Platek, is in a hospital in Fargo, N. D., as the result of a wreck one and a half miles west of Stockwood, Minn., when 15 freight cars rolled down a forty-foot embankment. President Taft has signed a proclamation establishing the Harney national forest in South Dakota. It embraces 83,820 acres, formerly in the Black Hills forest, and 58,727 acres taken from the public domain. Through hypnotic suggestion Melchior Lusierborg, a man of giant stature, who for more than three years has been completely paralyzed from the waist down, was able to raise himself from the operating table in St. Mark's hospital, New York city, and walk around the room. Fire which for an hour endangered the entire Kansas City stockyards and the Live Stock Exchange building, destroyed sheep pens covering a square burned 1,000 sheep and partly destroyed two mule barns. five daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Roach of Utica, Kan., ranging from seven to sixteen years of age, were burned to death. The mother had filled a lamp with gasoline by mistake. Six negroes held for the murder of a white man were lynched at Lake City, Fl., after a party of more than a dozen men, masquerading as officers, appeared at the county jail and got possession of the men by presenting a bogus telegram to the sixteen-year-old son of the sheriff, ordering the release of the blacks to the alleged posse. Beginning July 1, the Wells-Fargo Express will displace the Pacific Express company on the Missouri Pacific, St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern, Texas & Pacific, and Wabash railroads. Postmaster General Hitchcock, impressed by the reports of the successful operation of the postal savings system, has decided to designate hereafter, for a considerable time, 100 additional postal depositories each week instead of 50, as announced a month ago. In a collision between a motorcycle and an automobile at Redlands, Cal. Gerald Purvis, a chauffeur, was killed, and Porter Adams, son of Charles A. Adams, a wealthy Bostonian, was severely injured. Impressive ceremonies marked the unveiling of the memorial to Major L'Enfant, the French engineer who laid out the plans for the city of Washington, at Arlington. President Taft, Senator Root and the French ambassador, M. Jusserand, delivered brief addresses. The Boston Wood Carvers' association will send $1,000 to the 150 wood carvers on strike at Grand Rapids, Mich. A strike begun in New York four months ago by a union of bank clerks employed in private banks on the East side has ended in a victory for the strikers. They win a 52-hour working week and a 15 per cent. advance in wages. Personal The thirty-eighth annual convention of the Woman's General Missionary society of the United Presbyterian church closed at Greeley, Colo. Chicago was chosen as the next meeting place. Mrs. John L. (Jack) Gardner, one of Boston's wealthiest society women and owner of a noted collection of art treasures, is seriously ill at her famous marble residence in the Back Bay, Boston. Miss Gertrude Emily Gaynor, eldest daughter of Mayor Gaynor, was married in Wilmington, Del., to William Seward Webb, Jr., son of Dr. and Mrs. William Seward Webb and a grandson of the late W. H. Vanderbilt. Foreign The actual fall of the Diaz regime in Mexico became a fact when Ramon Corral, vice-president of the republic and actual if not titular leader in most of President Diaz's policies, resigned. Lord Lansdown's bill for the reconstitution of the British house of lords passed its second reading in that house without division after the war secretary. Lord Haldane, announced that the government would not divide against it. Forest fires in Hokkaido, the northernmost of the islands of Japan, are devastating a vast territory. A number of villages have been destroyed. Troops have been called out. The fire line is almost sixty miles in length. Officially designated representatives of the Mexican government and the revolutionists signed a peace agreement at the customs house, Juarez, Mexico, intended to end the hostilities that have been waged in Mexico for the last six months. Lord Lansdowne's bill for the reconstitution of the British house of lords passed its second reading in that house, without division, after the war secretary, Lord Haldane, announced that the government would not divide against it. EPITOME OF A WEEK'S NEWS Most Important Happenings Told in Brief. Washington The joint resolution admitting Arizona and New Mexico to immediate statehood, but withholding approval of the constitution of both states until the people have voted on certain proposed amendments to them, passed the national house of representatives by a viva voce vote. Senator Martin of Virginia, minority leader in the United States senate, acting on behalf of a majority of that party, introduced in the senate a third resolution to reinvestigate the Lorimer case. It provides that the entire privileges and elections committee shall hear the evidence and that a special investigation shall be made of the "jack-pot" in the Illinois legislature. Information as to what steps had been taken for the criminal prosecution of the officers of the Standard Oil company under the recent decision of the Supreme court was demanded of the attorney general by the United States senate, which adopted without debate a resolution of inquiry offered by Senator Pomerene. A minority of the members of the United States senate committee on judiciary in a report filed oppose the withdrawal of the right to supervise the election of United States senators, as contemplated in the plan for their selection by direct vote of the people. Senator Nelson of Minnesota before the senate finance committee asserted that President Taft was evading the Constitution "when he tried to force the action to accept the Canadian reciprocity agreement without amendment and that he is trifling with the senate." Domestic The Lake Mohonk Peace and Arbitration conference opened at Mohonk Lake, N. Y., with a large number of distinguished men present. Nicholas Murray Butler announced that the $10,000,000 Carnegie Endowment for International Peace would be devoted mainly to a world-wide campaign of education. --- After he had killed Judge David F. Barry, of the Sumner county (Tenn.) bench and the Barry cook, James Sweat, a negro, was taken from officers who captured him by a mob, and lynched. Judge Barry interfered in a quarrel between his cook and Sweat at the Barry home near Gallatin. --- A strike of firemen on all lines of the Southern railway is threatened unless a recent demand for a ten per cent. wage increase is granted. * * * * Unless otherwise directed by congress, all that remains of the ill fated battle ship Maline, after it has been raised from Havana harbor and stripped of all parts of value, will be towed out to sea and sunk in deep water. * * * * Driven temporarily insane by an accusation of theft, a woman at Brambach, Saxony, killed her five children and committed suicide. * * * * Foundry men and their friends, at least 6,000 strong, are in Pittsburgh for the sessions of the sixteenth annual convention of the "American Foundrymen's association, which was opened in the Exposition building. A dynamite explosion, charged to members of the "black hand," destroyed the grocery and meat shop of Bellisario and Orazio Mariana, brothers on Lorigan avenue, Pittsburg, and 12 persons narrowly escaped death. Federal Judge Gottrell decided the "grandfather clause" amendment to the Oklahoma state convention was invalid because it is in violation of the fifteenth amendment to the federal constitution. B. H. Connors, and a former structural iron worker, and James Hendricks, a labor leader, are under arrest at Los Angeles, accused of entering into a conspiracy to dynamite the million-dollar Hall of Records in that city last September. William ("Dutch") Gentleman, labor union "slugger" and known as the "gun man," was shot to death in a Chicago saloon by two unknown men, making the third murder in a few months that are directly traceable to labor feuds. Frank Costello, a farmer, and Frank Dorsey are dead at Little Falls, N. J., as the result of a revolver battle between a farmer and pinchers, whom he endeavored to eject from the vicinity of his home. Fifty shots were fired by the disputants. Two school boys, Harry Perry and Leslie Reardon, are in the hospital at Yonkers, N. Y., after a 70-foot fall down the face of the pallisades along the Hudson. Perry has a fractured skull and Reardon a broken arm and internal injuries. Although the navy department want on record officially two years agc as opposed to the marriage of graduates of the naval academy before they had received commissions as ensigns, four members of the present graduating class have gained permission to marry. --- --- THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O.. SATURDAY, MAY 27, 1911. DUKE PLAYS FA!RY PRINCE In Disgulse Ernest of Hesse Goes Among His Poorer Subjects Doing Good. Darmstadt—The Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig of Hesse delights to go among his people in disguise. He was strolling alone in the city park, clothed almost shabby, when he fell into conversation with a young clerk out of employment. The grand duke sympathized with him. The stranger, taking his companion for a fellow clerk, asked for a little loan. "You need not be afraid," he said. "If you will lend me the 'tin', I can Grand Duke of Hesse. buy a suit and I will repay you out of my first wages, because I certainly can get a job." The grand duke without replying led the way towards the palace gates. A gorgeously uniformed official appeared and asked: "What are your highness' commands?" The grand duke replied: "Take this young man to my tailors and see that he gets a suit and have the bill sent to the palace." Then he said a hearty good by-by to the out-of-work clerk. TO STAY SINGLE TEN YEARS Los Angeles Business Woman Will Win Fortune by Sticking to Agreement. Los Angeles.—Miss Lella M. Devine of this city, auditor of a big retail business house, has agreed not to marry for ten years, the consideration being a large block of the corporation stock. Although the contract was signed four years ago, when Miss Devine was twenty-four years old, news of the agreement was not made public until now. If Miss Devine is unmarried when she is thirty-four, the stock will be turned over to her. Show! She marry before the agreement expires the stock reverts to the company. Miss Devine insists there is not the slightest danger of her losing the stock. A Miss Leila M. Devine. member of the firm recently said that the young woman's services were of such value to the company that this method was taken to retain them. MISTAKES OF FRENCH MISS Shy Little Creature Has Gone and Replaced by Monkey With Pigtail, Says Noted Lecturer. Paris—Monsignor Bolo, the talented lecturer, who possesses a fame in Paris only comparable with that of Father Bernard Vaughan in England, has lately been devoting his attention to the French young girl. In the course of an article in the Matin on this subject he remarks: "The little creature with a shy laugh has disappeared from our natural history; another species is attempting to replace it, one which Schopenhauer would have called the 'monkey with a pigtail'. This young girl of today takes liberties like an American, flirts like an English girl, reads like a Norwegian, is omnivorous and versatile as a Russian, uses her eyes like a Spaniard, and dresses like a Turk." Bird Purrs Like Tiger Comanche, Tex.-A tigersuma that purrs like a tiger and is said to be a habitant of South America was captured near Comanche. The bird is striped and about the size of a hen, has a small head and eyes and is of a vicious disposition. It is believed to have been blown to sea in a storm and found refuge in Texas. Bricks of Coal Dust Bricks made of coal dust are used in dust compaction, combined with screech and heat. Folly of Anger Consider how few things are worthy if anger, and you will wonder that my butools should be in wrath. Paradise for Beggars Vienna has fully 32,000 beggars, and their average income is more than that of most working men. THE NEGRO SHOULD BE PROUD OF HIS HISTORY That there is no inherent differences in the races of mankind, that the black race was the father of civilization and the negro should be proud both of the history of himself and the white man were among the assertions made by Dr. Henry J. Brown in an illustrated address on "The Races of Mankind, Scientifically Illustrated," before the monthly meeting of the Ministerial Alliance at Grace Presbyterian church in Boston, Mass. Doctor Brown has traveled all over the world and has given years of patient study to ethnology, psychology, phrenology and kindred subjects, and has lectured in this and other cities on subjects connected therewith. The address was illuminated by scientific charts, and contained references to such writers on the negro and ethnological subjects as Herodotus, Pritchard, Pickering, Volney, Brace, Weber, Baron von Humboldt and Sir Harry Johnston. First Civilization Black "Herodotus informs us," said the speaker, "that the Ethioplans of his day were the tallest and handsomest nation in the world, and that this branch was the Hamitic, from which the primitive Egyptian emerged, proving conclusively that black primeval civilization has been the mother of modern white civilization. Prior to this we look in vain to discover the white man who was in the jungles of Europe, clothed in savaged attire in the skins of wild beasts, living in holes in the ground, and tattooing himself. The Chinese regarded his white skin as a badge of inferiority. The primitive negro has been the molding factor in this world's eventful story. "In analyzing the great story of the world's eventful history, from the very depths of its childhood up to the present, what has this balloon-headed, swell-headed white man done of which to boast? Not only are his governments and his so-called reforms failures, but every effort of civilization under his management has been, up to this very hour, a most gigantic failure. In the past he has not only been enslaved himself by the millions, but he has, in turn, enslaved millions. He was for 2,000 years enslaved before black slavery began. His present status in war, conquest, plunder, subjugation, appropriation, massacre, the strong over the weak; the large swallowing up the small; the little trying to escape the grasping propensities of the big; injustice standing on the pedestal of violated natural law, destroying the innate sense of right. So accustomed has this so-called white man become in making his deceptive scheme agree with his perverted mind that he even invokes the Sacred Record to indorse his barbarous methods. And thus from the white man's so-called Christian civilization of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries we behold the unjust, humiliating spectacle of the whole continent of Africa appropriated between European nations just as cooly as robbing a neighbor of his pocketbook. "The brutality of modern Saxon civilization can be only explained on the principle that the white man seems to be abnormal in his evolution. "The black man has permitted the white man to write his history and paint it in the darkest colors, while he (the white man) writes his own in the brightest colors. We must in the future write our own history and that of the white man also. By that means we will be able to show the contrast between the two and thereby get at the truth." PEN POINTS By REV. J. M. STEADMAN. The people who say that they are too tired to go to church are usually tired of the services of the sanctuary. Envy not the religions that lives in words, but is dead in deeds. The plow of divine providence is constantly changing the position of the high and low strata of society, turning down one and turning up the other. The "Great Physician" still practices among men. God loves a living sacrifice far better than he does a dead one. Satan has never been caught napping. Talent is always buried alive. The close of each day should find our work ready for our master's inspection. Christian mottoes on the walls do not constitute a Christian home. The human heart is the soil in which the root of all evil grows. HANDY ANDY And these, according to the exam- ination papers in one public school- room, are what Andrew Carnegie is, was, and did: Invented the mower and reaper. Member of the president's cabinet. A British spy. Went to France to get help for the United States. Best after-dinner speaker in Amer- ica. A steel magnet. Invented wireless telegraphy. General in the Spanish-American war. Head of the steel trust.—Every- body's Magazine. THE POINT OF VIEW "You have such strange names for your towns over heath!" said the titled Englishman. "Wehawken, Hoboken, Poughkeepsie, and ever so many others, don't you know?" "I suppose they do seem strange to English ears," said the American, thoughtfully. "Do you live in London all the time?" "Oh, no." replied the Briton. "I spend part of my time at Chipping Norton and then I've a place at Pokestog-on the Hike." The Housekeeper. NEGROES ARE LEARNING TO SUP PRESS NARROWNESS, ENVY AND JEALOUSY, UNITING THEIR FORCES. The above quotation has been seen and heard by people so often until it carries very little meaning to many. But it is not merely an expression of this kind that can drive home the idea contained therein—it is the actual accomplishment of something by the people who are to be so impressed which will awaken in them a realization that united action most often is irresistible. There is now pouring in upon the reading public an abundance of evidence in the shape of news from various portions of the country, pointing to the fact that the Afro-American is joyously realizing by the harmonizing of forces the actual truth contained in the expression, "In unto there is strength." In the business world negroes are learning to suppress narrowness, envy and jealousy and unite their forces for larger business, less expense of operation and a stronger organization. As well in other matters are we learning to "get together." Organic union of the great negro Methodist denominations is more and more being looked upon with favor. Our most prosperous secret orders are beginning to realize that mighty forces are wrapped up in their organizations, as shown by the great Pythian temple in New Orleans and the one now being dedicated in Indianapolis, costing $40,000. The Odd Fellows of Georgia are moving systematically to raise $50,000 on a $100,000 office building in Atlanta. In the colored branch of the Y. M. C. A. the powerful giant of organization, so long asleep among our people is beginning to feel faintly the twitching of his muscles and the stir of iron in his blood. In Chicago, by a pull altogether, they are to have a building for their work to cost $150,000. Indian apolis is preparing to try her strength in a similar effort, and Atlanta has overshot the mark to raise $40,000 in ten days, by $27,000. These deserving Atlanta people are to have a $100,000 building. Let the giant of united action among the negro people arise and come into his own. WOMAN THE VICTIM. After watching the Easter parade one is prepared to report that recent frosts did no damage to the "peach" crop—Louisville Courier-Journal. If a woman knows she's pretty, it's not because some other woman told her so—Boston Transcript. "Woman is nearer the savage state than man" declares a Harvard professor. He'll be confirmed in that opinion when the women hear what he has said—New York Herald. It was a woman watching the Albany capitol fire who observed: "What a pity! The Democrats are burning up everything that the Republicans didn't take." There are certainly some women who understand politics—Louisville Courier-Journal. The St. Louis jury that has decided a man has the right to spank his wife has only partly solved the problem. How is he going to do it?—Baltimore Sun. When the International Child Welfare congress and the Mother' congress, close-knee organizations, meet here next week, we'd like to know who's going to take care of "the babies."—Washington Times. This suffrage movement, I'm convinced, will never become the rage. If book looms large, RATS CHEWED HIS BILLS. Chewed to small bits by rats, a bundle of bank notes was so badly mutilated that when the bills were presented for redemption at the United States sub-treasury the officials were unable to determine their denomination and had to send them to Washington, where the government experts will examine them and fix their value. Henry B. Krause, who keeps a stall in the Oxford market, presented the bills. He said he had kept them in a drawer in his desk at the market and did not know how much he had put in. He placed the bills in the drawer as a nest egg to draw upon when he needed money urgently. The other day the occasion arose and Krause went after his wad. When he opened the drawer a heap of green bits of paper met his gaze. At first he imagined he had been robbed, but closer investigation revealed the fact that the notes had been chewed to pieces and that the rats had built a nest of them. All the bits were carefully gathered up and taken to the sub-treasury. The officials endeavored to form a whole note out of the lot. It is expected, however, that the experts at Washington will meet with greater success. Meanwhile Krause must wait for his money—Philadelphia Record. **BITS FROM BEST SELLERS.** "A flame that was like ice made her temple throb." "His cat's eyes watched her as she walked narrowly." "I stumbled out into the street, a football at my ears." "The hound kissed the flower and thrust it in his coat lapel." "The color leaped to her cheeks like rose leaves tossed upward in a zephyr." SATURDAY SAVINGS Spring styles show the upward trend. Too many spring hats spoil in spring showers. The pay envelope is mostly the measure of a man. Wife's idea of economy is buying everything she sees at a bargain price. The wage earner rules half the world, but he hasn't fully awakened to his sovereignty. A great man is what he is because he was what he was.—Lippincott's. A newspaper or a magazine is the most difficult of all business enterprises one might undertake to establish and successfully operate among the negro people of America. A general lack of support from the reading public and a withholding of patronage by advertisers who in every other way bid for negro trade, are reasons why this is so. A lack of newspaper experience on the part of would-be publishers, is often another serious drawback to the successful carrying on of a newspaper venture. About the first discouraging difficulty met with by publishers of new race papers is the oft-repeated claim that too many colored newspapers have failed already. Is there any rationality shown in citing this fact as argument that no others should be started or helped to careers of success and influence by those who can afford to pay the subscription price? When a bank fails, does the sturdy, progressive Anglo-Saxon condemn and pass a death sentence on every other new banking enterprise at its birth? When a cotton mill or a factory or a railroad goes into the hands of a receiver, or goes entirely out of business, do the white Americans as a whole refuse to invest in or give support to any other new venture of the kind? Should, then, the members of our American child-race assume a discouraging attitude toward any legitimate classes of business attempted by well meaning ones of the race simply because there have been failures along the same lines? For negroes to follow blindly such an idiotic course of reasoning would put forever beyond the slightest chance of realization every rosette dream of theirs for future racial greatness; to enforce such a policy generally toward all beginnings along business lines by members of the race would mean simply commercial suicide for us, and as a natural sequence ultimate ethological oblivion, for these are to be our great future fortresses of finance that will furnish the primary perquisites for our self-perpetuation. No fair-minded, thoroughgoing race man or woman, young or old, should for a moment hesitate to welcome and if able assist a purposeful race journal with a backing of literary preparation, journalistic experience, intense race loyalty, and a necessary amount of capital.—Southern Life. WHEN A REVIVAL BEGINS WHEN A REVIVAL BEGINS A revival begins when the preacher has one in his own heart. A revival begins when the gospel message has alm in it. A revival that has in it that substantial element, that element of permanency so much needed, is a revival that is born of most earnest prayers. It is not a committee-made, manmade, money-getting affair, but in response to prayers is supernaturally bestowed by the Holy Spirit. This latter kind of revival will convert sinners, sanctify believers, build up the church and bless the world. My young friends, pray and work for the genuine, heaven-bestowed revival.—C. E. Cornell, in the Christian Witness. "He's improving right along, isn't he?"—Exchange. UP AGAINST IT. "In the days of the ancient drama," sald the pedantic person, "performances were given in the open air." "What a discouragement that must have been," replied Miss Cayenne, "to the man who insists on going out of the theater to get a breath of fresh air." MAKES HIGHEST AVERAGE St. Paul, Minn. (Special)—James E. Murphy of the mailing division of the St. Paul postoffice, in a recent test examination made the highest general average ever established by a government employee in the northwest. The negro's average was 99.75 per cent. The coming life-preserver for ocean liners will of course be a small airship that can be closed like a telescope and hung up over the bed. Lippincott's. Practical Fashions MISSES' JUMPER DRESS. S The jumper dress is as much in fashion now as it ever was, and it deserves its long period of popularity. The example illustrated in our model is suitable for a young girl or for a small woman. The waist is plain, but in the center of the front is a box plait, just folded in and continuing down the front of the skirt as a panel. The balance of the skirt is circular with reversed box plait in the center of the back. The yoke and long sleeves of this dress form part of the pattern, but a separate gulpe may be worn instead if preferred. Serge, chevot, ponge, linen and gingham as well as other wash materials may be used in making this dress, while allover embroidery is perhaps the best thing for voke and sleeves. The pattern (4675) is cut in sizes 14, 16 and 18 years. Medium size requires $4\frac{1}{2}$ yards of 36 inch material, with $1\frac{1}{2}$ yards of 36 for gulpe. To procure this pattern send 10 cents to "Pattern Department," of this paper, the name and address plainly, and be sure to include the address. EIGHT GORE SKIRT. 4926 When a woman has a number of skirts to make it is quite a problem to know how to vary them. The illustration shows one of the best eight gore models. The front forms a panel which has the appearance of a double box plait the forward one extending in a tab over the one toward the back. At the center of the back these tabs meet across the reversed box plait, where the closing is placed. Such materials as serge, cheviot, etamines, volle, tafetas, foulard, ponge, linen or other wash fabrics may be used to advantage in this style. The pattern (4926) is cut in sizes 22 to 32 inches bust measure. Medium size requires 5½ yards of 36 inch material. To procure this pattern send 10 cents to "Pattern Department," of this paper, and ensure that the fabric is sure to give size and number of pattern. NO. 1926. SIZE. NAME. TOWN. STREET AND NO. STATE. Knew Them. A dried-up old colonel and a very sentimental young lady were together watching the sunset. She inquired gushingly, "Oh, colonel, don't you love Longfellow's poems?" "Can't say I do," he replied. "Never read them, in fact. Consider all poetry absolutely drivel." "But," she persisted, "surely you cannot help admiring this verse of his out of 'The Day is Done,' you know: 'And all the night shall be filled with music, and the cares which infest the day shall fold their tents like the Arabs, and as silently sieal away." "By Jove!" he exclaimed, "there is something in that. I know those Arab beggars—they would simply steal anything." New Idea in Wills A Washington woman stipulated in her 'will that her parrot should be killed after her death. Seems strange that no one thought to do it before. That the earth goes round the sun is nothing against its supremacy or central status. The fire exists for the meat, though the spit revolves and not the fire.