The Gazette

TWENTY-EIGHTH YEAR. NO. 44. Dainty and Modish Hood THE LADY OF THE WEST IN UNION THERE IS STRength TWENTY-EIGHT Dainty and M THIS new, pretty and modish hood is made of white chiffon mulh, shirred as shown in the photos. The hood is made of Persian liberty silk. The hood are New Froak of Fashion Altogether Charming When Carried Out With Due Consideration. The touch of velvet near the face, matching the color of the eyes, has long been popular with the women who study their own good points, and this has been easy to manage in these days of quaint little bows and pipings. Of late, however, the women of the smart set have taken to wearing flowers which carry out the color, too. There are pansies that are for the brown eyed girl, forget-me-nots for blue eyes and orchids for the maid with hazel eyes. The girl with gray eyes is the only one who has any trouble, for all she can find to match her eyes is the humble dusty miller leaf. Sometimes she fancies her eyes, however, are "gray blue" or "green gray," so she varies her color scheme with orchids, mignonette or a dull blue blossom. If she is quite convinced that her eyes are really "matchless" she contents herself with the feeling of superiority arising therefrom and lets the jewels of her face sparkle unrivaled or wears the modest violet, which would never presume to resemble the eyes above them. When natural blooms are not procurable the woman with an eye for flowers buys artificial ones of the required tint. Parisian ingenuity has gone one step further in this art and provides for its leaders of fashion real flowers dyed with chemical dyes in any desired color or shade. Hardy flowers, such as camellias, carnations and all varieties whose stems are good absorbers, are placed in the liquid and allowed to stay there until exactly the right amount of color has been absorbed. To Keep Furs. Every housewife knows what a great worry furs and woolen garments are during the summer months, when moths are so ready to destroy any within their reach. Take a five gallon crock and after sunning and brushing the furs place them in a the crock, then cover with a heavy piece of wrapping paper which is glued fast to the crock, making it absolutely air tight and there are no cracks or crevices for moths to enter. This can be kept in a dry cellar all summer, or if you have no cellar or clothes press get a large tin lid to fit the crock and make a cover of cretonne and use for a corner seat in any room, and save all worry over moths for the summer. Novel Breakfast Cap. The new nets, flowered in colors, are being turned into fetching breakfast caps for the girl who loves the picturesure. One of the new models has a deep Tam O'Shanter crown fitted into a crinoline band an inch and a half wide covered with folds of gold tissue ribbon. Over each ear is draped a pointed jabot effect of lace to match the net that fell to the shoulders and framed the face on each side like a sixteenth century headgear. Over each of these points was a single pink rose or a bunch of pink apple blossoms. Popular Trimming. Lace is one of the most popular trimmings on the new spring styles, being used on hats, frocks for any time of the day and even the suit of cloth, and of all the laces Irish is perhaps the favorite. Irish lace coped from Venetian designs is a new factor in the fashions, and has been widely taken up for the collar and cuff sets for either blouse or cost. THE GAZETTE is a fetching means of protecting the hair from the dampness of the seashore or lakeside. It is particularly charming when worn with a lingerie frock. Boon to Those of Stout Figure Are the New Corsets of Very Long Hip Cut. Elastic side gussets are introduced on corsets of very long hip cut, as shown in our illustration, and stout figures especially can be assured of added slimness in those shapes, which particularly give flat hips. A reduction in the circumference of the figure of from three to five inches is an important consideration to the smart woman, even if she now does not exceed an average build; every garment, as she well knows, looks and wears so much more advanta- 20 geously on a slim figure, provided that the rounded lines are preserved and the whole is well proportioned. There is no reason in these days why grace, increased support and comfort to the figure, extra slimness and consequent additional smartness should not all be achieved at the same time by the wearing of good though not necessarily expensive up-to-date corsets. The big, heavy woman, however, will do well to wear the special belt corsets which have reached such perfection this season. These are most comfortable to wear, besides making the figure inches smaller; therefore they will be found invaluable to those of corpulent or inclined to that build. The particular feature of this season's corsets, however, for ordinary figures is, as our illustrations show, their straight fit over the hips and abdomen, but their construction and style of stitching make them "sit" most comfortably, while affording extra abdominal compression and support. Pins Handy. Many dressmakers have a long, narrow pinch cushion fastened around the waist on a belt; but a better plan, says a Ladies' Home Journal, is to have a small round cushion and attach to an elastic band from one side to the other, just large enough to slip comfortably over the hand and hold on the left wrist. The pins are always in sight by this method and easy to take out. Anthracite Beads. New beads are made of porcelain, wood and even rubber, but latest of all is the black anthracite bead, which is the most beautiful of all, says an exchange. As the light glances on these, one sees flashes of blue and red. ESTABLISHED AUGUST 25,1883 AND ISSUED EVERY WEEK ON TIME SINCE. NEW YORK HAS AN UNIQUE CHARITY NEW YORK HAS AN UNIQUE CHARITY LINCOLN DAY NURSERY FOR COL ORED CHILDREN IS DOING A GOOD WORK. ENDOWED BY WHITE CITIZENS ESTABLISHMENT OF THE HOME DUE TO THE ACTIVITY OF MRS. ERNEST F. WALTON. New York.—(Special.)—What is considered one of the most unique charitable institutions in Greater New York is the Lincoln day nursery, located at 202 W. Sixty-third street, where colored children ranging in age from six weeks to five years old make merry daily between the hours of seven o'clock in the morning and 6:30 in the evening. At present the nursery is accommodating thirty-five inmates, and Mrs. Emma E. Green, matron, while admitting that she is no debater, asserts that she is confident that she would be able to prove in a public discussion that the Lincoln day nursery is one of the most useful charitable institutions in New York. Among other distinctions claimed by the nursery is that it is the only endowed colored charitable institution in the city. Each year the Lincoln day nursery receives $5,000 from a white citizen who is deeply interested in the work, and who has, within the past year, given $16,000 for improving and maintaining the home in Sixty-third street. He has been very liberal in his donations, and quite often calls at the nursery to see how it is being conducted. The Lincoln day nursery was founded a little over a year ago, due to the activities of Mrs. Ernest F. Walton, a white woman, who is deeply interested in the welfare of the race. It was through the efforts of Mrs. Walton that the public-spirited citizen endowed the institution and paid over $8,000 for remodeling the twelve-room brick structure occupied by the nursery. Institution Has Many Features. A little over a year ago Mrs. Walton learned of the burning to death of a colored infant and investigated the accident. She found that the child met death while its mother was at work. Fearing that accidents of a similar nature would occur in the neighborhood, Mrs. Walton set about securing funds for the establishment of a day nursery for colored children whose mothers were compelled to work during the day, leaving them alone at home. Today the thirty-five children are given motherly attention, receive three meals during the day, and good substantial meals at that, and the mothers only pay five cents a day to the institution. The infants who are not old enough to be fed chicken, beef, potatoes, etc., are supplied with modified milk. Six persons are employed at the Lincoln day nursery, prominent among whom are Mrs. Emma E. Green, who is in charge, and Dr. A. S. Reed, the attending physician. Then there are two nurses, a cook and a houseman. A rental of $125 monthly is paid for the use of the building. On the first floor is located the Mary F. Walton kindergarten, which is attended by children from four to six years of age between the hours of nine and twelve o'clock. Mrs. Masing is principal and is assisted by two teachers. Another feature of the nursery is the Child's Welfare association, which is composed of mothers, who meet weekly and discuss ways and means to improve their homes and the proper method of rearing their children. Mrs. Anna Holloway is secretary, and Mrs. Mary Carraway, treasurer of the association. Although the institution was founded as a nursery, girls from six to fifteen are taught housekeeping, music, etc., between the hours of two and six in the afternoon, under the direction of Miss Helena Emerson. Quite a number of the pupils give promise of becoming expert housekeepers. The Lincoln day nursery has every facility for furthering its work. NO NEGRO BAILWAY PROJECT BOOKER T. WASHINGTON'S PRI VATE SECRETARY DENIES TEXAS REPORT. Tuskegee, Ala.—The report which originated in Dallas, Tex., that Dr. Booker T. Washington and a number of wealthy northern negroes would try to gain control of the International & Great Northern railroad was denied here today by Emmet J. Scott, private secretary to the negro educator. According to the report, they were to try to buy the controlling interest in the road at the receivership sale in Palestine, Tex., on May 15. LOUISVILLE ON THE MAP It is true that there are not many creditable business establishments here owned by colored people, but on the other hand hundreds of them own beautiful homes, the cost of which ranges from $1,000 to $8,000. There are some individual colored men in Louisville owning real estate ranging from $10,000 to $40,000, and their monthly rentals give them a neat income—Louisville (Ky.) Columbian G. F. KING BANQUETED WELL KNOWN COLORED CORRE SPONDENT GUEST OF HONOR AT A HAPPY AFFAIR. Norfolk, Va. (Special)—One of the most prominent events of the season among the professional and business men of this section was a "stag" given at Mt. Vernon hotel by the newspaper fraternity in honor of George Francis King, a benedict and Norfolk boy. This affair was quite auspicious and was promoted by P. B. Young, the brilliant editor of the Journal and Gulde, and one who has been a great factor in bringing about a number of reforms for the uplift of the race in Norfolk; J. Finley Wilson, advertising manager of the Journal and Guide, having the distinction of being among the leading advertising solicitors in the country. Editor Young was toastmaster and presided with his usual grace. Among the brilliant galaxy of professional men who spoke were Dr. J. E. Mills, Rev Dr. George Jones, Dr. Byrd, Attorney W. H. C. Brown, who has just resigned a lucrative government position in Washington to enter the banking business in this city with E. C. Brown; Chethem Young, who is rapidly becoming a well rounded newspaper man. In his introduction the toastmaster paid a tribute to each speaker, and he reviewed the struggles of King and spoke of the obstacles the colored man has to surmount in trying to "make good" in the journalistic realm, especially in the field occupied by the ambitious men of the other races. In response to the various toasts, King related various instances where he had suffered in trying to make his aspirations concrete achievements. He cited occasions when he was filling assignments for Associated Press papers where attempts were made casting reflections upon the race, and by him having assignments he presented facts which reflected credit upon the race. The menu for the evening was fit. This affair will lend impetus to a number of movements for the uplift of the race in this section. Catherine Howe, who became the bride of George Frances King, April 19, is from one of the leading families of Wilmington, Del. NEGRO GIRL WINS EMMA WEATHERSBY CARRIES AWAY FIRST HONORS IN AN ORATORICAL CONTEST. Jackson, Miss. (Special)—Representing the Utica Normal and Industrial institute, of which William H. Holtzclaw is principal, Emma Weatherby, a young girl in the Normal department, won first prize in an oratorical contest in this city, over seven other contestants, all of whom were male students of the most prominent schools in the state. Emma Weatherby was the only representative of an institution under college grade, all the other contestants being members of college classes. Her subject, "The Salt of the Earth," was treated with reference to the negro's work in the civilization and upbuilding of the world, and was well delivered. The contest was held under auspices of the Paragon club of this city, of which Attorney W. J. Latham, M. S. Stuart, cashier of the American Trust and Savings bank, and Benjamin P. Newman were the leading spirits. The other contestants were Jackson college, Jackson, Tatsy Huddleston, "Compulsory Education;" Campbell college, Jackson, Charles B. Hayden, "The Negro's Place in American History;" Southern Christian institute, Edwards, Eric W. Hunt, "The Liquor Traffic Opposed to Civilization;" Rust university, Holly Springs, Wilbur Thirkield Williams, "Pitt, the Statesman;" Alcorn A. and M. college, Alcorn, Moses Williams Wilson, "The Industrial Future of Mississippi;" Natchez college, Natchez, John A. V. Owens, "The Afro-American's Imperative Needs!" Tougalou university, Tougalou, Nelson W. Willis, "The Call of Missions." Hon. W. J. Latham acted as master of ceremonies. Music was furnished by the Jackson college quartette, the brass bands from Alcorn and Utica institute. AN IMPORTANT CONFERENCE THE TUSKEGEE RACES CONFERENCE WILL BE THE FIRST TO BE HELD ON THE COLORED MAN'S TERRITORY. Booker T. Washington's call for an "International conference on the negro" next year is being widely commented on. It is the first effort to place before the world for its consideration the whole negro problem. Thus far only one Negro question has been recognized—our own. Still, it is a British problem or question in Africa and Canada and the West Indies; a French question in northern Africa; a German and Portuguese one in East Africa; a world problem in the case of Liberia. Already there is assurance that the attendance at the conference will be representative of the broad field which reaches from the cape to Vancouver. It is well that the meetings are to be held at Tuskegee, where those coming from abroad will be able to see the greatest and most effective student of the problems of his race in the surroundings of the highest developed efforts to cope with them. PREFERS GIRL TO THRONE Prince Luitpold Renounces Claim to Kingship to Marry San Francisco Glrl. San Francisco.—Miss Maude Fri of this city is in Paris scouring the Rue de la Paix for a trousseau her approaching wedding to His Roy Highness Prince Henri Lultpold o Bavaria, lieutenant of Bavarian catary, grandson of the prince regal and cousin of the mad King Otto o Bavaria. As the mad king is chil Miss Maude Fay. less the right of succession rests in the regent's line. The San Francisco beauty will not become a morganatic wife, saying "Either Caesar or nobody. You may keep your title of bareness; I want to be the equal of my husband or not nothing." As a result of her ultimatum the prince has decided to renounce his royal honors and kingly expectations so as to marry the girl of his choice. The prince met Miss Fay at the Grand Opera house in Munich, where she sang principal roles. After a brief but ardent courtship their engagement was announced. "BQBBIES" WILL HAVE DOGS Individual Officers, Traveling Certain London Beats, to Be Allowed Canine Protection. London.—In the future London policemen, in the outlying and suburban districts of the city are to be accompanied by dogs, if they so desire. Hitherto individual officers have been granted permission to take their own dogs with them on making application, in the same way as permission is granted in suitable cases for them to carry sticks or revolvers. This practice will now be extended, having been tried as an experiment and found successful. It is not proposed to organize a system of dogs owned by the police, but the men will be allowed to take their own dogs though they will have to satisfy their superior officers that the circumstances warrant the application. There will be no one type used, and in any case the police authorities will not control the selection, but simply watch the experiment. The dogs will doubtless be used for the double purpose of protecting the police officers if attacked and holding a man whom he may desire to arrest. The advantage of using dogs which are the personal property of the officers, is that they will probably be more obedient and docile than dogs taken from a general police kennel. BLEAK HOUSE TO BE SOLD Dickens Wrote Most of "David Copperfield" in Old Place—Once His Favorite Home. London.—Bleak house, made famous by Charles Dickens and once his favorite home, is to be sold at auction. Dickens wrote almost the whole of "David Copperfield" in this house. Bleak house is the scene of Dickens' novel of the same name. The novel deals with the endless delays occasioned by a suit in the British high Bleak House, the Scene of Dickens' Novel of That Name. court of chancery. The real Bleak house, which furnished the description for the one in the novel, was a tall, exposed house near Broadstairs, in Kent, and it was the author's favorite home in the summer for many years. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS A man who stands around in barber shops and in saloons slandering and blackguarding absent friends, who wish him no ill, will never amount to much with the people. His big position, if he holds any, cannot add to him. On the other hand, he be-littles his big position, if he holds any. The common street gossip, no matter what his other virtues were, has ever been the contemptible cur among real men. We know of only one case where he has risen above his crowd, and this was due to the tardiness of strong men in going to the people. A two-faced man is more to be despised among real men than a serpent.—New York Age. The southern white man has always claimed that we are an unrelible race of people, and we care nothing for our word. There is a class of us who practice such, but it is gradually disappearing you must value your word as a treasure, for once put down it is never up again. Be reliable in every transaction, no matter how small.—Palestine Plaindealer. Down in Jackson, Miss., Horace D. Slater reports a Negro gave a tract of land valued at $7,000, the income of which is to go for the maintenance of poor, but worthy students. This Negro belongs in the class of James H. Jilghman, who gave $1,000 to the colored Y. M. C. A. here.—Illinois Chronicle. Never let us be discouraged with ourselves. It is not when we are conscious of our faults that we are most wicked; on the contrary, we are less so. We see by a brighter light, and let us remember, for our consolation, that we never perceive our sins till we begin to cure them. The colored man is suffering not so much from not knowing, but from not doing. Do and teach the same is a doctrine which never falls to bear fruit. There are entirely too many who content themselves with mere knowledge—Dallas (Tex.) Express. One of the weaknesses of certain of our people in business is that they will not conduct their affairs on a high basis. This is too flagrant to be a fact in the present age of progressiveness—Sevannah Tribune. While the country and the city are in a state of intense commotion, let the negro get money, and build dwellings. Let him husband his resources and continue to build character—Raleigh Baptist Sentinel. Out of fifteen applicants for internships at the city hospital and city dispensary of Indianapolis, Ind., Mr. L. Aldridge Lewis of Nashville made the highest average -92 5-8 and will be given preference as to place. Mr. Lewis is a Negro and the majority of his competitors were whites. It may not be generally known, but nevertheless it is a fact that a colored man presides at the throttle of an engine that pulls one of the fastest trains on the Pennsylvania lines west of Pittsburg. His name is Wm. G. Burnes of Indianapolis, Ind. He runs between that city and Columbus, O. Mr. Burnes has been in the employ of the company for over thirty-five years. He began as a section hand and was advanced from one grade of service to another as he increased in skill and efficiency until he was promoted to a passenger engineer about twenty years ago. It is said that some of the most successful white engineers of today owe their training to the careful teaching of this man. Moreover he has the reputation of being quite a student and is well informed on subjects of general interest. Mr. Burnes is a citizen of Indianapolis and he owns considerable property as well as being interested in some good investments It has taken many years for men to discover that the health and welfare of the child lies in 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-sighted. 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 ranging from every quarter of our land, indicates that we are waking up to our responsibilities, and none too soon—The Christian Herald. Judging from the tone of the Canada newspapers, it is not improbable that the government of that country will adopt measures forbidding Negro immigrants to enter that country. Our neighbors to the north seem unwilling to share what has been picturesquely if not correctly called the "white man's burden." This seems all the more unreasonable when it is recalled that many of the ancestors of those who now protest against the coming of the Negro were active a few centuries ago in bringing him from his native home and selling him in those regions from which he now seeks to escape. The incident illustrates the old doctrine that neither individuals nor nations can escape their destiny and that "chickens do come home to roost." The Negro race has invested almost all of its net earnings in churches and other religious organizations and we think that for about fifty years to come the Negro should turn attention to business. We need to spend our funds in the material interest of the race. Heaven is all right, but let us try and make the earth a good place for our race. Here, we must work, solve problems and leave a record as a race—Atlanta Press. It was thought some time ago that no effort would be made to increase the number of Negro soldiers in the regular army, but that has been refuted by the opening of a recruiting station in Atlanta, Ga., for the enlistment of members of the Ninth cavalry, one of the two colored cavalry regiments. Colored people should continue to be polite and obliquing to white people and to each other. Though it may not appear to be so at times, yet there are many white people who are friendly towards us and who will do all in their power to aid us, the Negro haters to the contrary notwithstanding.—The Planet. It is announced that the legislature of Kansas at the recent session appropriated $105,000 for Western university. This is $25,000 more than the school got last year. Recently H. T. Kealing, a distinguished editor, was elected president of the university to succeed W. T. Vernon, a former register of the United States treasury. Don't go into places of business owned by your own race and order things like a millionaire and when the bill comes, cut out the whole race and refuse to pay. Don't let your gentlemanship play out every time you have dealings with your own race. The preacher, doctors and those who depend wholly upon the! own people for a livelihood, should consider things. Spend a few dollars with your own grocer, dry goods man and every available enterprise operated by your people. 2 THE GAZETTE PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY One Year. $1.50 Six Months. 1.00 Three Months. .50 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, Blackstone Building, Cleveland, O. Member Ohio Legislature: 1894 to 1896; 1896 to 1998; 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. Nearly ten Negroes were lynched in the "civilized" South, last week. A careful reading of the editorial, "The President Approves Caste," from the Odd Fellows' Journal, published elsewhere in this paper today, will repay you many times over. Call your friends' and acquaintances' attention to it, also. 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 so-called "grandfather clause" of the Oklahoma constitution, an amendment, was held to be void by Judge Cotteral of the Federal District Court in Oklahoma City last week Monday, when he overruled the demurrier of defendants in the government case against four election officers who had used the law against Afro-American voters. The judge said that to make the subjection of certain individuals to the educational test dependent on their condition before 1866 was equivalent to making it dependent on their race or color, and of course in violation of the Fifteenth amendment to the federal constitution. This is very encouraging indeed. Now let this same court fight be made in the other southern states having "grandfather clauses"—amendments to their state constitutions or legislative acts. Nearly a million Afro-American voters in the south are disfranchised by "grandfather clauses" and other unconstitutional state legislation. WASHINGTON ON LYNCHING IN THE SOUTH. That interview of Dr. Booker T. Washington in the Montgomery (Ala) Daily Times, a portion of which we republish in our "Doings of the Race" department, today, is the best thing he has done in a long, long time, and The Gazette, with thousands of others, thanks him for it. In closing the interview, Dr. Washington said: "Let this truth never be forgotten—that whatever a man or a nation sows that they shall also reap. The white man who murders a Negro to day and goes unpunished is 123456 to murder a white man tomorrow and go unpunished. There is but one rule that will stand the test of the centuries and that is the enforcing of all laws in every section of the country without regard to race, class or color. I especially commend Mr. Booker T. Washington has taken with regard to lynchings and efforts he is now making to put down mob violence in this state. "These outbreaks on the part of the mobs result not only in the moral degradation of the people, but they serve as a set-back to business in an alarming degree among both races. I plead everywhere for the exact enforcement of the laws not only in the interest of the colored race but in the interest of the white race. I have said elsewhere there are in my mind two remedies for mob injustice. First of all, let us unite in a determined effort everywhere to see that the law is enforced; let all people at all times and in all places see that the man charged with crime is given a fair trial. Secondly, let all good citizens unite to rid the community, especially the large cities of the vicious and gregarious races. "Such an effort should have the heartiest co-operation of the better class of Negroes. They should use their influence, especially in the cities, to see that the idle element that lives by its wits, without permanent or reliable occupation or place of abode, is either reformed or gotten rid of in some manner; that commits the crimes for which the entire race has to suffer." Referring particularly to the lynching of six Negroes, Sunday week, in Florida, Dr. Washington said: "It is such lynching outbreaks as this that give the people of Europe the impression that we (of the south) are an uncivilized, barbaric people. Every one of these lynchings is widely reported in foreign papers. In this statement, the persons lynched, I would state that I have no right to condemn any human being for a crime until the law says he is guilty of a crime. The United States is placed in a very awkward position just now in attempting to lead the matter of bringing an internment in one day—the Sabbath—eight persons are put to death without any semblance of a trial." This splendid interview and the vigorous prosecution of that man Ulrich who so mercilessly beat him recently in New York City, and too, apparently without any cause whatever, will commend Dr. Washington to thousands of our most intelligent people and to an even larger number of those of other classes or races, who have been alienated from him because of his failure to say and do just such things as these, and also because of his advocacy and practice of his extremely harmful "doctrine of surrender." Now let him urge the Afro-American, especially here in the north, to contend for his citizen and other rights like any other loyal and many American, and not "surrender" simply because of his race-connection or his color, or both, and Dr. Washington will be the leader some seek to acclaim him now. SHALL SENATORS HAVE POWER TO DISSOLVE THE UNION? Under the above head, the Chicago Daily Inter Ocean published, recently, an exceptionally strong editorial which we fully indorse and of which the following is the most important part: Senator Sutherland of Utah announces that he will again insist upon his addition to the proposed constitutional amendment for the "direct" election of Senators to which the loss of that measure was ascribed at the last session of Congress. As put forward by its advocates at the last session, and as it has now gone from the lower House of Congress to the U. S. Senate, the proposed constitutional amendment not only substitutes for the present method of electing Senators, an election as members of the House are elected. It also strikes out of the Constitution the words capitalized in the following clause: The times, places, and manner of holding elections for Senators and Representatives shall be prescribed in each state by the Legislature thereof; BUT THE CONGRESS MAY ATTEND THE LEGISLATURE LAW MAKES OR ALTER SUCH REGULATIONS, except as to the places of choosing Senators.—Constitution, Art. 1, Sec. 4, Cl. 1. The fourteen words capitalized have a very definite reason for being in the Constitution. That reason was in the causes of the unbearable situation which the Constitution was framed to The makers of the Constitution met the difficulty and made a nation by "an arrangement at once bold and simple scientifically sound and eminently practical." What they did was so well described by Senator Lodge in his speech on the subject last February that, though we have quoted his words before, we quote them again: They established a government which dealt not with the states but with the people. They brought the central government into immediate contact with the individual man. * * * * It is not too much to say that among all the great solutions which these men presented for the difficult problems they were called upon to meet this was the most remarkable. It certainly was the most vital. It breathed the breath of life into the government of the Constitution. To preserve this contact of the national government with the people—with the individual man—it is absolutely indispensable that power should be reserved to Congress to make, if it should become necessary, such regulations for the election of its own members as will preserve the equal right of citizens of all states to participate in those elections. PRESIDENT APPROVES CASTE. “There is a white Young Men's Christian Association and a Colored Young Men's Christian Association. You are more comfortable to have your own club (l) limited to your own white young men and your own white young men are more comfortable in having it limited to their race.” These are the words used by President Taft in speaking to an audience of Colored men who crowded Howard Theater on last Sunday afternoon. The object of the meeting was to further the undertaking to finish the Colored grandson of the C. C. Granger (or rather relegate) the Colored young Christian men. The President was there to lend his great influence to this un-Christlike manifestation of the white Christian spirit. Just whether it is more comfortable to have a white God, a white Christ, and a white heaven for white young Christian men and a colored God, a white God, is not more comfortable for colored young Christian men, is perhaps left for inference. At any rate, the President's great influence has been brought to help the "great white god" establish his white kingdom. The President, however, does not speak as a worshiper of Christ and therefore ought not to have Christian grandson of the C. C. Granger. It is fessedly a Unitarian. But that makes little or no difference, when the ends to be accomplished are considered. The sentiments uttered by President Taft are but the reflections of the propagandists of caste. President Taft's own sentences have been publicly expressed on former occasions. At Greenboro it was more comfortable to have a white party; at Lexington it was more comfortable to have a white electorate; at the South it was more comfortable to have white office- holders; in Washington the colored man is "a segregated race;" throughout the United States, it is "make of the colored men mere blacksmiths." To all of these un-Christian and un-American sentiments President Taft has given public utterance on former occasions, and now the realms of the Almighty have been invaded and perhaps it is more comfortable to have a white Young Men's Christian Association and a colored branch Young Men's Christian Association! Perhaps it is. President Taft has said so. But there are at least a few colored men who do not see through such spectacles, and it may gradually dawn on others that they will be humiliated by being thrust into a "colored man's BRANCH CHRISTIAN Association."—Washington (D. C.) Odd Fellows' Journal, May 27, 1911. 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 staged 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 quoted as saying to his colored Christian audience: "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 graced the word of the Ambassador have the ring of sincerity throughout, but was he conscious that while lamenting and offering atonement for the sins of the (white man's) progenitors that he was lending forceful aid to the infliction of a grosser infamy to 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 of the way he house, was helping by his address in the child, that has for its sole purpose the caste 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 missionaries, who lead in the Bible the army of the see 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 man's branch of the white Y. M. C. A!' Their very professions are lies to their living. 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 maintain by having all others conseience of some who attended the meeting. The question comes direct to every colored man. Are you willing to invite and have fastened upon yourselves and upon your progeny this caste proscription through the sop of segregation, coming as it does from your youth, by having all other 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 youth, in institution, let them themselves, and no restrictions of color, else when the Saviour comes he might doubt His welcome. The proposition, in analysis, is whether you will create a building, with doors open to all comers regardless of color, or whether, in humiliation, you will allow yourselves to be put into a building, with doors open to all comers regardless of "main show"; whether you will sell your manhood for a pile of bricks—Washington (D. C.) Odd Fellows' Journal. Dr. Robinson's Denial Springfield, O.—Just as we predicted last week in this letter, Dr. Robinson denies 'phoning, as Restaurantur Baker charged. Memphis, Tenn. May 25, 1911. Dean Editon Smith. I do not, nor could you be filled. Baker and propose a compromise. I have been in the south all May. I am writing Gen. Keffer also in this mail. There is talk of a mass meeting at an early date, under the auspices of our local business men's league, which is to be addressed by Dr. Robinson and the editor of The Gazette. It certainly ought to materialize. Negro Crown Wins Honors. Paris, France—An extraordinary ceremony in the old clown, "Chocolate," He will be decorated with the purple ribbon, which will make him an officer of public instruction, "Chocolate," a philanthropist, has made old and young Parisians laugh at the Nouveau Cirque and other places for 27 years, and in his spare time he has acted for nothing for the amusement of sick children their elders in every hospital of Paris, Two Negroes in the Chamber of Deputies, MM. Legitimus and Gasparin, will soon preside at a great meeting in "Chocolate"'s honor, and will pin the purple ribbon and the silver palm leaves to his coat. He is to retire from public life, and M. Steeg, the Minister of Public Instruction, has promised him a decoration for philanthropy. A Sample Daily Paper Lie. Albany, N. Y.—While attempting to quiet Novelty, a race horse owned by William Hines, which had become fractious, Jack Smith of Brooklyn, a colored jacket, was kicked in the head by the animal. Smith was uninjured, but the hoof of the race horse was split so that it is feared the animal may be trained for trick purposes. Smith stepped from the scene, accident to his training quarters a few feet away and continued his bug punching as though nothing had happened. Well Meant A description of a wedding explains that "the bride was charmingly though becomingly dressed." It reminds us of the reporter's note, "The patient is much better, though Doctor Brown is still in attendance." DOINGS OF THE RACE Dr. DuBois is great; Kelly Miller is great; but Booker T. Washington is infamous. St. Louis (Mo.) Adjacent. If President Taft "lets out" Fourth Auditor Ralph W. Tyier he will certainly please the great mass of Ohio Afro-Americans. Cashier R. T. Hill of the defunct True Reformers' Bank, Richmond, Va., left a shortage of $30,000. He has not been apprehended as yet. West Virginia's republican Ex-U. S. Senators and Congressmen are pushing Phil. Waters of Charleston for appointment as minister to Haiti. The appointment of Hon. J. C. Napier has been confirmed by the U. S. Senate and he is now Register of the U. S. Treasury for a term of four years at least. Our citizens of Arkansas are organizing to fight the proposed disfranchisement amendments to the State constitution soon to be voted on by the people of that State. It is understood that the N. Y. Age has arranged its financial embarrassments out of court, and thus averted the threatened receivership—Washington (D. C.) National Union. He appropriated $100,000 for a new armory in Chicago for the 8th ill. Regiment, John R. Marshall, Colonel. An Afro-American Catholic school will be opened in their present armory, July 5. Mehary Medical College of Walden University, Nashville, Tenn., has been promised a donation by Andrew Carnegie, of $10,000 if it raises a similar amount reported to have been raised already. Our Waco, Texas, bank opened its doors four months ago. More than $60,000 have been deposited, and $30,000 of this is still on hand. Its resources last week amounted to $40,000. Its loans amount to $9,000. Our soldiers of the U. S. Army will be presented by the Association of King George's College in London, England, by nine picked men who will take part in the great parade between June 12 and 24. All these men are expert marksmens, and wear medals won in contests of skill. The number of students enrolled at Tuskegee Normal and Industrial School, this year, was 1,702—1,144, while 588 students had left to the U. S. States and Territories and 15 foreign countries. Of these, Alabama contributed 623, or more than a third of the total. There were 170 graduates. William H. Clifford, a clerk in the Treasury Department at Washington, D.C., while a member of the Ohio legislature some years ago, is accredited with having cast the deciding vote on the nomination of the U. S. Senate—Pensacola (Fla.) Sentinel. He didn't do anything of the kind. The Negro of this generation must stand upon his own feet. The white man is not always against us. He is simply indifferent, and looks upon us as he does upon everything else—measures us by the amount of good we can do him. If we have anything he wants we are ready to do our business. If we have nothing he has no time to waste upon us. We are "up against" the law of the survival of the fittest, and must rise or fall, according to our ability to stand the test of service—Pensacola (Fla.) Sentinel. "The lynching of eight human beings on the Sabbath was a disgrace to Christian civilization. It is hard to understand how any nation of people can be held accountable for the confidence and respect of the world when such occurrences are permitted to take place in our midst, especially on the Sabbath day. In connection with the men lynched, it should be understood that in no case was anyone charged with an assault upon a woman. There was not the slightest reason why every person lynched might not have received a fair and just before or after the lynching. T. W. Tawnton in Montgomery (Ala.) Daily Times of May 25, 1911. Our people of Boston, and particularly the members of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, are to be commended for their attitude toward the establishment of a "branch Y. M. C. A. for Colored people." They have gone squarely on record as being opposed to any such establishment and unequivocally repudiate the activity of the hired Colored agent of the General Association, who makes his living by fostering this caste prejudice. They emphatically repudiate the association that Colored people have to live themselves segregated, and challenge the Y. M. C. A. officials who had made the assertion to name the persons alleged to have so petitioned. The manly stand taken by the Bostonians should be an object lesson to other communities. They don't propose to barter their manhood for a pile of bricks—and they are absolutely right.—Washington (D. C.) Odd Fellows' Journal. "The Funny Little Fellow With the Bin, Big Head." Our brilliant little friend who writes "pieces" for the editorial page of the N. Y. Age mistakes flippancy for wilt, and succeeds in making himself supremely ridiculous—when he attracts attention at all. If the management of the once-famous N. Y. Age is satisfied with the present puerile output of "gray matter" that exudes faintly and painfully from its opinion department, the Sentinel is "tickled to death." The country at large is not so pleased with the backward voicing its regret that a golden opportunity to serve the race along substantial and beneficial lines is thus fritted away by a paper that ought to stand for the highest and best thought of this generation. Where we have a right to look for solidity of reasoning, singleness of purpose, broad humanitarianism, consistency, dignity and editorial poise, we too often find frivolity, shiftiness, insincerity, empty bombardment and downright abuse of individuals standing and influence, without tangible cause.—Pensacola (Fla.) Sentinel. Another Lyncher Sentenced. Newark, O.—Arthur Dover, charged with first degree murder in the Newark lynching of last summer, was sentenced by Judge Wickham, Monday, to three years in the penitentiary, the sentence being suspended during the pleasure of the court. The next lynching case will be heard June 10. Giler of Mt. Pleasant, was Miss Julia May Veney's guest, Wednesday evening. 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Larue of Elizabeth, Pa. was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. John Davis, Jr., Saturday.—Jesse Lewis of Uniontown, Pa. who is here working, is stopping at Mr. Richard Boggess.—Chas. A. Boggess of Ashtabula, visited Miss Minnie Boggess and his relatives. Tuesday—Wesley is visiting his mother. Wednesday is visiting his mother. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Boggess were in New Castle, Pa. Tuesday—Monroe Thompson is at Ferncliff hotel, Ohio Pile, Pa. for the summer. Mr. Miller of W. Fed. St., is ill—Miss Emma Cheatham is convalescing. The memorial services at Mahoning Ave. church, Sunday afternoon, of Logan lodge, Gold Leaf Co., Louisa Edwards and Consuela Stewart Courts of Calanthe were well attended and very impressive. The lodge and Co., headed by Mahoning Valley band, marched to Oak Hill Ave. cemetery, where services were held and graves decorated, forge going to church. The organization made a splendid showing for the K. P. order.—Read The Gazette if you wish the news of the race the country over. 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THE UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS FRESH OHIO NEWS OUR OWN WRITERS WHAT OUR PEOPLE ARE DOING IN MANY CITIES AND TOWNS OF THE STATE. INTERESTING PERSONAL NOTES Social Functions—Church and Lodge Items—Marriages and Deaths—Literary, Musical and Other Notes of Interest. Mt. Pleasant—Mr. Randall Jackson left for Cleveland, Sunday—The A. M. E. church baptized, Sunday. Quite a crowd attended—Rev. J. Wain of Bridgeport, visited Mrs. Fannie Johnson of Person, Decently Wain Faithful and John Fleiss were Edith Jackson was Margaret Skinner's guest, Catherine Nelson and Pearl Jackson were Mildred Carey's guests, and Miss Nelson, Miss Eleanor Protor's guest—Katie Webster is home, Cadiz—Mr. L. Ford of Steubenville, came through here Sunday, on his new motor-cycle—Laura G. White, Mrs. B. Strother dined with Daisy Davis and a lady friend of Steubenville, are visiting Mrs. Peter Davis—Miss Beatrice Fox dined with Miss Elizabeth Davis, Sunday—Mr. and Mrs. B. Strother dined with Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Tyler, Sunday—A. J. Brooks has returned from Oberlin—P. T. Brown is visiting his family—Miss Lawrence has returned to Kendall and Mrs. B. F. Tyler, singing a pretty solo, Sunday evening, at the Allen Endeavor League. Washington C. H.—Mrs. Hattie Anderson, who suffered a paralytic stroke in the face, is much improved.—The young A. M. E. church people prepared a play for Thursday evening.—The young Margaret Anderson's guest, has a history of visiting Stewart visited his sister in S. Charleston, Thursday.—Thursday. Mrs. Chas. Blaney, delegate, left Saturday for the M. S. convention at Xenia. Isaac Peterson has an ice cream parlor on Rawlings street. The Baptist S. convention held on June 22, 1928, well and Janet Grant were the local delegates, Mesdames E. Wilson and A. Taylor also attended.—The Second Baptist sewing circle met May 26 at Mrs. E. Jones'. Refreshments.—Mrs. Rose Strange conducted the excellent workshop. June 1.—Order the Gazette from R. C. Vivens, the local representative. 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PURGIASE Focus cores cits Ss'tna ty + gy ELMER F. BOYD'S, 2604 Central Ave. GAZETTE” AT F. vaLeNTINE’s, 2120 Central Ave. . ©. JOHNSON’S, 3315 Central Ave. Open Sunday. larly should notify us at once. We desire every copy delivered promptly. We advise our patrons to carefully examine The Gazette's advertisements ice ana ating ie Local reading notices (advertisements) ten cents a line (six words in a line.) FOR SALE—Brand now, Imperial| Everybody is going to the Phill Encyclopedia and peteeary. 40 vol-|gans’ picnic. Get ready! umes, finely illustrated, handy to han-| Rev. H. M. Lowrey’s resignation, a: die. Unexcelled for reference pur- | pastor of Mt. Haven church, was reac poses. A library in itself—one that | and accepted at the evening service will last a life-time, Contains every-|on Sunday, May 21. thing you may wish to know. Callor| On Decoration day we stood pa address, The Gazette, Blackstone | tiently in the entrance to the Black Building, 1422 W, 3d St., Cleveland, O.,| stone Bldg. and watched the parad near Superior Av. This is an oppor-| pass by. Not one Afro-American vet tunity of a life-time for those who love | eran of the war of the rebellion, di good books. we see; nor any of our children Mr. Edgar Lee has returned home, convalescent. Mr. Randall Jackson of Mt. Pleas ant, arrived in the city, the first of the week. Neval H. Thomas of Washington. D. ©,, wellknown here, will go abroad this summer, Hampton, Va, N. & A. Institute Just graduated 64 Afro-American and Indian students. Prof. W. S. Scarborough, President ot Wilberforce University, was in the city last week and called’ on The Ga zette. St. John’s choir will sing in St Paul's chureh, Columbus, Sunday and will be Rey. and Mrs. Ita A. Collins guests. ‘The Buffalo Giants and the Maroons, @ local Afro-American team, played ball at the League Park yesterday af ternoon. ‘The train leaves the B. & 0. depo at 8:30 a, m. Are you going? Tc the picnic at new and greatly im proved Chippewa Lake Park, June 19 In New York City and otlier north gern cities where there: are branch Y. M. ©. A's, Colored members only are, barred’ from the Central Y. M D. W. Shaw has opened a fruit an¢ notion store at 3643 Central Ay., and should be liberally patronized by our people, especially those in that section of the city. We must help one an- other if we are to succeed. ‘We Wish to call the attention of ov1 readers, particularly, to the Fred. Douglass Lite Insurance Company ad- vertisement because it is of special interest and importance to our people ‘throughout the country. Wm. B. Diteys of-7918 Quincy ave. ‘nue does all kinds of mason work and plastering, lays cement sidewalks, @rives and cellar bottoms. contracting ang. Jobbing. All work guaranteed Bell #. 1995-X, Send your iocal items to The Ga- zette on Monday or Tuesday of each Week. This paper is published for ALL of our people and “plays no fa Yorites.” Everybody is treated the same—fatr and right. Take The Ga zette and tell your friends to do s0 also, Si Andrews’ concert at Woodlift hall, Monday evening, was fairly well attended, Also the dances at Halt ‘north’s and other halls, the past week. Mr, and Mrs. Wm, Carroll of Chi. cago, arrived the first of the week to visit his father, Mr. Geo. Carroll. Will, &n/ old Cleveland boy, returned west, Tuesday night. His’ wife will visit awhile longer. ‘We feel sure that the State Colored College at Orangeburg will do well under the efficient management of President-elect Robert Shaw Wilkin- son, for he has been with the college since its beginning and is acquainted ‘with all of its workings and its needs. Profestor Wilkinson is popular with -all the leading men of his race in the State as well as with the student body. —Columbia (S. C.) Ploughman. ‘The editor of The Gazette acknowl. edges the receipt of an invitation from the board of managers of the Fred- erick Douglass Hospital, of Philadel- phia, Pa,, to attend the graduating ex- erelges of its class of 1911 of its Train- ing School for Nurses, held Wednes- day evening in the auditorium of St Peter Claver's church, that city. There were four graduates, two being from the Bermuda Islands. A fine program was rendered. Dr. Wm. A. Sinclair, fhe author, 1s secretary of the Hos- pital. ‘A local dally paper announced last week, Friday, that Appo Johnston, star state's witness in the Mundinger ease, had left Cleveland. His where- abouts is known to Mrs. Johnston and Prosecutor Cline. Mrs. Jennie Hare Johnston has prepared to follow her husband, and on Thursday she secured & refund of a deposit with the East Obio Gas Co. “My busband has left town,” Mrs. Jobnsin sald. “I wanted ‘to get this money before going along.” Prosecutor Cline will not say where Johnston is, but says he will be back when the Mundinger case is again taken up. ‘Mrs. Amanda Smith, founder of the Orphans’ Home at Harvey, M, will Tecture at St. John’s church, Wednes- day evening, June 14, on the 100th ‘anniversary of Harriett Beecher Stowe. She will have the assistance ‘of eome of our best local talent. T. H. Hicks will have charge of the musical part of the evening's program. ‘The Affair is under the auspices of the W. MoM. S. Mrs. Smith, a grand ‘woman, and undoubtedly our most re- markable one, has traveled exten- fively—in Africa and South America “in the interests of the race. Many Pelleve ber divinely inspired, It will certainly pay you to see, hear and meet her. PPR hs Se PR RED ® soarreNTION, READERS! Don't’ throw away your copy ; ‘ot The Gazette when you have | done with it but give it to some 3 Gppreciative person whom you ee sould be likely to subscribe or take it regularly, if they bad } 2 copy to look over and read } Carefully. Oblige the Eaitor. | |_Everybody is going to the Phille: gans’ picnic. Get ready! Rey, H. M. Lowrey's resignation, as pastor of Mt, Haven church, was read and accepted at the evening services on Sunday, May 21. ‘On Decoration day we stood pa. tiently in the entrance to the Black: stone Bldg. and watched the parade pass by. Not one Afro-American vet- eran of the war of the rebellion, did We. see; nor any of our children, among the hundreds of Jewish and Gentile children in the wagons. May- be there were one or more, but if there were any in the parade, we fatied to see them and we were try- ing our best to do so. ‘The local Atro- American company of/the Ninth Bat- talion, O. N. G., made a good showing Dut. certainly ‘appeared “lonesome” without one of our bands. The parade ‘was, on the whole, excellent. ‘There isn't a member of the race in Cleveland, Ohio, or the North, for that matter, able to read, who should not Toad carefully the Odd Fellows’ Jour- hal editorial, “AT THE PRICE OF MANHOOD,” republished elsewhere in The Gazette today, Call your friends’ and acquaintances’ attention tot. It is “from the seat of war,” too, It is excellent. 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. Representatives from Antioch, Mt. Haven, Shiloh, Mt. Zion, Cory, ‘Lane Memorial, St. James and St. John's Sunday Schools, participated in the chorus of the Eighth May Festival concert, at the Hippodrome, given by the S. 8. of Cleveland and ‘this viein- ity. ‘Those of the race listed as being members of the chorus of 1,000 voices were: Mrs. U, G. Evans, J. H. Grant, A. Mason, J. R. Maxwell, Melvin Pat’ rick, Mrs. L. Rolland and Mrs. L. Tay- lor, from Antioch; C. Buchanan, M. Green, 8. L. Hill, H. Jefferson ‘and Lovesta Strange, ‘from Mt. Hayen; Mrs, L. Brown and Susie Tucker, from Shiloh; W. H. Fields and T. H. Gibbs, from Mt, Zion; John Dean, from Cory Chapel; ‘Mrs. L. George and Mrs, M. F, Shy, from Lane Memorial; J. Cald- well, H. Johnson, V, Jordan and E. Wilkins, from St. James; Frank and Robert ‘Crowler, ‘Mrs. A. Fowler, C. Jackson, Mrs. E. James, Mrs. P. E. Marshall, Thos. Mattie’ and’ Abert Reid, from St. John’s. Mr. Carroll Scott, chorister of the last named church ,tested the voices. Each church selling ‘50 or more Festival Concert tickets, was presented a flag. None of our churches recelved one. ‘Those that sold a number “worthy of men- tion,” were on a list read to the large audience. St. John’s church was on this list. All_things considered our churches and Sunday Schools made a good showing and are to be compll- mented on the same. ‘A new butcher shop on Central Ave., near B. 30th St., employs an Afro: American porter. ‘This is so unusual fa thing for the whites in business on “the Avenue” that it attracts consid- erable attention and causes no end of comment. Although from 75 to 9% per cent 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-Amer- fean any steady employment and we cannot say how long that will last. In spite of this our people make no de- mands of them for employment for their 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 can- not get employment and so little re- gard and respect are paid them and their people by white men in business, ‘especially on Central Ave., from 75 to 95 per cent of whose trade is given them by our people? Here is an op- portuuity for our ministers to properly advise their congregations along a cer- tain line. It is also a glorious oppor- tunity for the Cleveland Association of Afro-Americans to do something in addition to giving entertainments dur- ing the winter season. By the way, why didn't this organization support Dr. Howard for the city school exam- inership position that Dr. Dale lost? He, too, is a member of the Associa- tion, Will some one, please, inform the public? DW SRR SY OS Cincinnati, O.—In the first real high school field ineet held in Cincinnati in years, and one of the best ever, Wood- ward High School ran away with the field championship Friday afternoon in the Harvard Club's track meet at the Cincinnati Gym grounds. Wood- ward High School made a total of 57 points. Harry Martin, Woodward's Colored wonder, ran to his former great form and counted in every event he entered. His total of 17 points won for him the individual championship. Martin broke the inter-scholastic record in the 120 yard hurdle, clipping a full second off the former 18 second mark. The Mads gave Woodward a ran in the relay race. Penn's spurt in the final lap won the race for Woodward. Ambrose Penn is also Colored, and one of the crack athletes of the city. He won three medals last Friday. Theodore B, Green ATTORNEY ATLAW 515 American Trust Building Office...........Main 176 Residence....East 1030-L CLEVELAND - - OHIO THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, 0. SATTTROAY JUNE 3. 1911 nape rec nesaseeisteemteaari re Okema,” Okla—Laura, "Nelson, 2 ACCIDENT LIFE HEALTH member of the face, and her son, 16 1 Ee years old, were lynched here May 25. eR They are said to have shot a deputy Sheriff who had gone to search thelr he red Douglass shanty Yor stolen goods | ANNUAL MEDICAL MEET. | . ‘The seventh annual convention of | the Ono branch of the National Medt-| cal Association will be held in. this A ‘city, June 7, 8-and 9, 1911, ee rogram. AUTHORIZED CAPITAL, $1,000,000 Vednesday, June 7, at 2:30 p. m., at cia ea ol PROPOSED SURPLUS, 2,000,000 address, by Dr. HF. Biggar, sr am public Pacepticns to. visitors” *n, Home Office--Suite 828 Engineers Blg m,, literary program and address. of | the state president, Dr. W. C. a Cleveland, Ohio of Springfield. i as Thursday evening, Jane 8, dancing 7 ; party for visitors at Bedford Glens. 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There is no trouble between the races; there is no maladjustment between the weak and the strong, which cannot be lessened by following the teaching of Confucius: "Do not unto others that you would not have them do to you," or the positive statement of the same truth by Christ: "Do unto others, that you would should do to you." "The university and the pulpit," he declares, "are the hope of the world." This is true. Civilized men are, after all, but cultured barbarians, and the old proverb: "Scratch a Russian and find a Tartar," is true in spirit of the great majority. We boast our enlightenment—pride ourselves upon our intellectual and moral excellence, yet in the final analysis, things are largely in the hands of the brass-buttoned gentleman who stands on the corner with a club or a black jack in his hand. "True it is, that we have taken the rings out of our noses and we no longer paint (that is, most of us), yet in our treatment of the weak and the helpless we still believe in that good old rule, the simple plan: "That they may take who have the power. We have just received the third of the series of monographs being published by the American Negro Monograph company, Washington, D. C. Its theme is the life of Benjamin Banneker, the great negro mathematician, who did so much to dispel doubt of the negro's mental capacity in the eighteenth century, and who was not only a recipient of letters of admiration and encouragement from Thomas Jefferson, but also an honored guest at the executive mansion during the administration of that great man. Without any of the numerous tables and other astronomical data, which must go so far toward lessening the difficulties of such a task, Mr. Banneker compiled an almanac for the year 1732, which feat won the applause of many of the leading scientists of the day. He later sent a copy in the original manuscript to President Jefferson and accompanied it with a letter from which we quote: "Sir—I am fully sensible of the greatness of that freedom which I now take with you on the present occasion, a liberty which seemed to me scarcely allowable, when I reflected on that distinguished and dignified station in which you stand, and the almost general prejudice and prepossession which is prevalent in the world against those of my complexion. I suppose it is a truth too well attested to you to need a proof here, that we are a race of beings who have long labored under the abuse and censure of the world; that we have long been considered as brutish rather than human and scarcely capable of mental endowments. Sir, I hope I may safely admit, in consequence of report which hath reached me, that you are a man far less inflexible in sentiments of this nature than many others; that you are measurably friendly and well disposed toward us, and that you are ready and willing to lend your aid and assistance to our relief from those many distressed and numerous calamities to which we are reduced. Sir—I suppose that your knowledge of the situation of my brethren is too extensive to need a recital here; neither shall I presume to prescribe methods by which they may be relieved, otherwise than by recommending to you and all others to wean yourselves from those narrow prejudices which you have imbied with respect to them, and as Job proposed to his friends, 'Put your souls in their souls instead,' thus shall your hearts be enlarged with kindness and benevolence toward them, and thus shall you need neither the direction of myself nor others in what manner to proceed therein. This calculation, sir, is the production of my arduous study in this my advanced stage of life; for having long had unbounded desires to become acquainted with the secrets of nature, I have had to gratify my curiosity herein through my own assiduous application to astronomical study, in which I need not to recount to you the many difficulties and disadvantages I have had to encounter." We have quoted the letter at length that the reader may get an idea of the very intelligent way in which this self-taught negro expressed himself. Banneker died in 1804, and no marble shaft marks the site of his resting place; we mention the fact with shame. A people's character is interpreted in terms of its appreciation for its great men, and we hope the day is not far distant when our people, in whose Benjamin Banneker lived and wrought, may in some TOO MANY IDLE NEGROES. There are too many young negro men loafing the streets the year around. They ought to be forced to go to work and earn an honest living. There are a large number of young white men also loafing the streets, many of whom are responsible for as many trimes (or more) as the idle negro, but those white loafers can more ally afford this, because they get more consideration from the police force, and the courts are far more way show their gratitude by distinguishing the spot of his burial. The ten best-selling books in fiction for 1910 were the following: "The Rosary," "A Modern Chronicle," "When a Man Marries," "John Marvel," "Thruxton King," "The Silver Horde," "Lord Loveland Discovers America," "The Kingdom of Slender Swords," "Simon the Jester," and "Nathan Burke." It is interesting to note that of the thirty "best sellers," nineteen were written by men and eleven by women. Of course, being a "best seller" does not make a book literature, yet popularity does not imply a lack of merit and most of the above-given list will repay perusal. . . . In one of the magazines we read an article on "The New Japan," in which was expressed great concern over the rapid growth in power and prestige which the island-empire has made in the last half century. Occidental nations are justified in their speculations about Japan's future. Suppose, for instance, that she finds it possible to arouse the Chinese from their sleep of centuries, and to inspire them with their own dynamic energies—think, reader, what a power this yellow empire might become! Some idea of the enormous population of China can be formed when we remember that if we could place all the men in the world side by side in one long line, first an Englishman, then an American, etc., every fourth man would be a Chinaman. One of the sources of Oriental strength is their impenetrability—the occidental mind cannot see behind the mask, or as Kipling puts it: "It is not good for the Christian race To worry the Aryan brown, For the white man riles, And the brown man smiles, And it weareth the Christian down; And the end of the fight Is a tombstone white With the name of the late deceased, And the epitaph clear, "A fool lies here Who tried to hurry the east." Or as another writer who also knows his subject, puts it: "The brooding east with awe beheld Her implious younger world; The Roman tempest swelled and swelled, And on her head was hurled. The east bow'd low before the blast, in patient, deep disdain; She let the legions thunder past, and plunged in thought again." The recent magnificent showing by the negroes of Chicago in raising so great a sum of money for the Y. M. C. A. movement simply proves conclusively that in this city the brains and wealth of the race is to be found. This one incident has done more to raise our people in the estimation of the world than all the editorsials ever written. A people who can in ten days secure $66,000 for any given purpose must be reckoned with. When we remember that our people are wage earners largely, and often, for policy's sake, are deterred in making large contributions to public enterprises, even when able so to do, the result of this effort is all the more commendable. We thought we were doing a great thing here in Louisville in attempting to raise $15,000, but we take off our hats to Chicago, promising to be in the future. BISHOP ISAAC LANE ON RACE STRIFE. In his address at the dedicatory exercises of the Lane Tateaberc Colored Methodist Episcopal church in St. Louis recently Bishop Isaac Lane is reported as having said that race strife was the greatest work of the devil because it poisoned his hearts and minds and instigated conflict. He said, however, that light was breaking through the darkness of ignorance and sin and that the dawn of a new American civilization was at hand when men would acknowledge the common brotherhood of man and the fatherhood of God. PRIZES ARE OFFERED TO NEGRO FARMERS. Vice-President Winburn of the Central of Georgia, in order to encourage the production of corn in the state by colored farmers, has offered to the negro producing the largest number of bushels of corn $100, and to the colord boy of eighteen or less producing the largest number of bushels per acre a scholarship in the Georgia State Industrial college for colored youths. These prizes will be presented at the colored state fair in Macon November 8 to 18. AND GROWING EEVERY DAY Dr. Booker T. Washington is a stronger man with the best thinking people today than ever before. His past life and behavior during all these years makes for him a record and standing that cannot be marred by false accusations made by irresponsible characters—white or black. Rock Hill (S. C.) Messenger. Liberal and sympathetic toward them, hence there are five times more negroes disfranchised by serving in the penitentiary than there are whites, although the white loafer deserves equal punishment for his multitude of crimes. When will the conditions change? Not until the masses of negroes go to work. Florida Standard. GOLD SHOD MULES. Nero's wife had her mules shod with golden shoes. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 1911. 40 YEARS A BANDIT Old Bill Miner, Stage Coach and Train Robber. Has Left a Criminal Trail Over the West—Now Faces Long Term in Prison for Georgia Hold-up. Gainesville, Ga.—Far back in the '60s drivers of stage coaches making trips back and forth across the state of California began to come in from their lone-mountain journeys with cash boxes riffed of their contents, sometimes a horse shot, and in every case with the same story. A lonely spot on the road, sometimes in the daytime, sometimes at night, a single highwayman and the magic words, "Hands up!" The tale never varied. For want of a better name the lone highwayman came to be known, far and wide, as "California Billy." The exploits of "California Bill" continued for several years. All efforts at his capture were in vain. Many posses hunted the lone outlaw, tempted by offers of generous rewards. But he seemed to bear a charmed life. It was not until 1869 that he was caught. The driver of a stage that ran in from the hills back of Sacramento jumped from his seat in front of the office early one morning in the spring of that year and breathlessly told how he had been held up but a few hours before. The strong box of the stage had been heavy with gold dust sent in by miners. Never before had "California Bill" dared to attack a coach so close to a town. In 20 minutes from the time the driver told his story a heavily armed posse was riding hard back over the trail. It was not difficult to pick up traces of the bandit. Before nightfall his hunters were close upon him and as the sun sank behind the hills they surrounded him. The posse expected S. Old Bill Miner. a fight. To their surprise the outlaw offered no resistance, but surrendered at their command. His trial was speedy and less than a week after his capture he began serving a term in San Quentin prison. When Miner was released he left California as rapidly as possible. The wilder country of Colorado offered greater attractions. In this new field of operation his methods were the same as in the old. Miner and two others on November 7, 1881, reappeared in California after an absence of twelve years, held up the stage that ran from Sonora, Two-lumne county, to Milton and secured $22,000 in cash and gold dust. Two of the gang were quickly caught. Miner managed to elude the officers for several weeks, but was finally run to earth. The trial was brief and justice severe. The three robbers were sent to San Quentin prison for 25 years. It was 1901, 20 years later, before "Old Bill" Miner could again breathe the air a free man. By good behavior he cut his sentence five years and the authorities believed that when he walked out of San Quentin his days as an outlaw were ended. But they were mistaken. Toward the close of 1903 the authorities of Oregon were startled by the hold-up of an express train on the Oregon Railway and Navigation company's line at Milepost No. 21, near Corbett, Oregon. A year later the Canadian Pacific's transcontinental express was stopped at Mission Junction, British Columbia, by a lone bandit, who with cold and deliberate nerve compelled the express messenger to open the safe, which contained close to $10,000. Less than two years later, on May 10, 1906, at eleven o'clock in the night, Miner and two pals robbed the transcontinental express of the Canadian Pacific railway near Durrer, B. C. For this crime he was sent for life to the penitentiary at New Westminster and at once began planning an escape. With two companions, who were confined in the brickyard of the prison, he tunneled to freedom and nothing more was heard of him until last February, when one night a train on the Southern railroad was held up and the Pinkertons at once concluded from the nature of the job that Old Bill Miner was at work again. They were not mistaken and a few days later Miner and two companions, his pals in the hold-up, were taken prisoners. Miner, now sixty-nine years old, will be eighty-nine when his term of service expires, and it is probable that the end has been reached in his stormy and picturesque career. Bargains in Bright Dollars Trenton. Because many foreigners in South Trenton were parting at hal' price with bright, new silver dollars bearing the date of 1879, it has been necessary for some of the banks to announce that these dollars are not counterfeits. The cry was raised among the small tradespeople that money of this particular date was no good, and several strangers have been going about collecting; them MEN'S PLUMED HATS APPEAR Downy Adornment for Masculine Attire Is the Greatest Departure in a Century. Chicago—Plumed hats for men are the latest. They have made their appearance in Chicago and have caused a great wave of excitement among the fashionable men of the city. They are the biggest departure in masculine adornment made in a century, and are so decided a change from the conventional that leading hatters declare that a complete transformation in men's formal attire will be the result. The extreme styles in men's plumed hats will not become popular at once, say experts. Extreme styles never do. But observant persons have noticed that for several years many of the better dressed men of Chicago have The Plumed Hat. worn a ruffed feather just above the bow of their dress hats. Recently this feather has been made a trifle larger until the leaders of fashion have accepted it as permanent feature of the thoroughly up-to-date hat. The most striking of the new hats are in the shape of the foreign Alpine hat which comes in all colors and can be bead with any style of trimming desired. One shown is of a light pearl gray and trimmed with a dark green plume, with a light border of rich yellow. A Paris milliner would call it striking. The same style with a long green quill makes another combination becoming to many faces. The Alpine hat admits of almost unlimited changes and will permit well-dressed men to show as much individuality in the matter of hats as women do now. The dent-crown imported soft hat shown, with a novelty wing, is of dark gray and comes in many pretty shades of brown, which will harmonize well with the newer fabrics which the tailors have been importing for spring suits. Wearers of the always formal silk hat will also be able to take advantage of fashion's latest caprice and will not be denied the privilege of ornamenting it. Dignified white and gray slogettes and other more conservative feathery effects can be added to the latest French style with the flat brim without defying the mandates of Dame Fashion. FOR CROSS-COUNTRY FLYING Aviators Gradually Turning Their Attention to More Important Phase of Sport. New York.—Cross-country flying is gradually attracting more and more attention on the part of aviators. This is, of course, as it should be. Mere racing around a track, for hours at a time, goes for nothing in indicating Pierre Vendrine of France. the value of the aeroplane. Gradually the short trips, so uncertain and dangerous, have been stretched out, until now 150 miles in an air line is a common occurrence; made in a single nonstop flight. One of the most daring cross-country飞ers is Pierre Vendrine, whose feats have astonished France. In one of these cross-country journeys he flew 181 miles and in another 212. Recently he flew from Paris to Pan, a distance of about 500 miles. Mexican Climate. City of Mexico.—The climate of Mexico is from tropic to temperate. On account of the latitude there are three climatic levels known as the hot lands on the coast; the temperate lands, from 3,000 to 6,000 feet above the sea, and the cold lands 6,000 feet high. But these, except the steaming southern coast lands, are to some extent relative terms; "cold" meaning one thing on high ground at 32 degrees north, and quite another at 15 degrees. The hot lands have a mean temperature of about 80 degrees; and a summer heat often of 100 degrees; the southern cold ones rarely go below 20 degrees, and have a mean temperature of 60 degrees. In the Valley of Mexico, the "perpetual spring," the range is usually 65 to 70 degrees the year through. There is no true winter, but a rainy season from June to October; the dry one November to May. Malarial fevers are prevalent along the coast, and have been somewhat in the damp Valley of Mexico; but the great drainage tunnel finished in 1903 has much improved the sanitary conditions. Christopher Columbus Wilson, president of the United Wireless Telegraph company, and four of his associates were convicted in the criminal branch of the United States circuit court at New York of fraudulent use of the mails to solicit subscriptions to wireless stock. They were sentenced to from one to four years' imprisonment. With a heavy hammer, Jim Fielder, a farm hand, battered out the brains of his employer, D. A. McVittle, a farmer, living near Pawnee City, Neb. killed in the same manner Mrs. McVittle and her two little boys, kildnaped the seventeen-year-old daughter, and when overtaken by the sheriff and pass shot and killed that officer and then committed suicide. Harry Nixon of Dayton, O., was killed and three other motorcyclists injured at Chicago when Nixon's rear tire burst and all went in a heap while speeding at the rate of 60 miles an hour. A score of persons were seriously injured, two probably fatally, when a cyclone overturned a baseball grand stand at Granite City, Ill. Most of the injured were ball players. It is officially announced that the post office department is now self-supporting for the first time in 30 years and has a surplus of $1,000,000. Because his love was unreciprocated John Meyrick, aged twenty-eight years, shot and killed Miss Freda Beck, aged eighteen, at South Bend, Ind., and then committed suicide by jumping into the St. Joseph river. The murder was committed in the rooms of Miss Beck, after Meyrick broke down the barred door. Rev. Dr. William D. Grant of Northumberland, Pa. was found guilty of heresy by the Presbyterian General Assembly at Atlantic City, N. J., and suspended from the ministry until "he has renounced his errors." Mrs. Laura Farnsworth Schenk, who is being sued by her husband, John O. Schenk, the wealthy meat packer, for divorce, is declared by her friends at Wheeling, W. Va., to be suffering great anguish, which is affecting her health seriously because she is not allowed to see her children. Her attorneys will ask a modification of the court order. Ned Farrell of Lausung, Mich., was drowned when he dropped with his parachute into the Grand river on his first balloon ascension. Several hundred people saw him start from an amusement park. Personal Following a custom of many years, the five Earling brothers, known all over the country as financiers and railroad men, journeyed to the old home at Rugby, Wis., on Memorial day to place a wreath on the graves of their father and mother. In an address before the graduating class of the Washington (D. C.) College of Law, Senator Cummins of Iowa predicted revolution unless refroms are speedily worked out through the law. Governor Colquitt of Texas has been expelled from the Methodist church, of which he has long been a member, because he is campaigning for the anti-Prohibitionists. He will fight for restatement. Mrs. Charles W. Morse, wife of the former New York banker, whose petition for pardon was denied by Presl dent Taft this week, will go to Atlan ta to be near her husband and ald in his early release from the penitentiary there. Sporting For fame, fortune and the glory of the automobile, one life was sacrificed and seven men injured in the first 500-mile race on a speedway at Indianapolis, Ind., the greatest test of skill and endurance in the history of the sport of motor racing, being won by Ray Harroun, driving a Marmon car, in the time of 6:41:08. Ralph Mulford in a Lozler was second. Forty cars started and ten finished. Ad Wolgast, lightweight champion, forced Franklin Burns of Oakland, Cal., to hoist the white trowel of surrender as the gong rang for the beginning of the seventeenth round of their fight at San Francisco. Foreign Fire burned the town of Silverton, B. C., to the ground. With the exception of a few outbuildings nothing was left standing. Five persons were burned to death and seven others are missing. Fifteen houses have been destroyed and many persons are homeless as the result of a forest fire raging in Shelburne county, Nova Scotia. Consul General William H. Michael, representing this country at Calcutta, India, stands charged before the national house committee on expenditures in the state department with collecting $2,450 on a voucher from the state department for a picture of ex-Secretary Day that was painted for the government for $850. Sir William Schwenck Gilbert, the British author and writer of comic opera librettos, died suddenly of heart disease in London while in his bath. An uprising which resulted in the killing of forty persons and the sacking of stores, government offices and private homes occurred at Cholula, a town with a population of 10,000, eight miles from Puebla, Mexico. The rebels set fire to the town. In the arrest of Daniel De Villieres of Mexico City and an American named W. F. Dunn, Francisco I. Madero, the leader of the Mexican insurrectors, believes he has discovered a plot to assassinate him and start a new revolution. EPITOME OF A WEEK'S NEWS Most Important Happenings Told in Brief. Washington William Jennings Bryan took exception to the program of his party in the national house of representatives, and criticized the majority of the Democrats who have agreed to support the revised tariff schedule on wool and woolen goods. For the first time in the history of the service the deficit in the post office department has been wiped out and $1,000,000 surplus for the current fiscal year, ending June 30, is in the treasury. Testifying before the committee investigating the "Steel Trust" at Washington, John W. Gates, the financier, admitted that the corporation was formed to throttle competition and through fear of J. Pierpont Morgan that Andrew Carnegie would invade the railroad field. Domestic The Columbia, the new steel passenger train on the Chicago, Milwaukee & Fuget sound railroad, was detailed at a sharp curve near Marengo, Wash. The engineer was killed and the fireman and several passengers were injured when the engine and six of the eight heavy cars left the rails. The department of justice at Washington is giving careful consideration to the possible criminal prosecution of individual members of the tobacco trust which the Supreme court on Monday ordered to be dissolved. All of his possessions will be given by Rev. Thomas Grieves, pastor of the Methodist Episcopal church of Greenwich, N. Y., in payment for the life of a child which was ended by his automobile. Theodore Roosevelt was the principal speaker at the unveiling of a bronze statue by Gutzon Borglum of Abraham Lincoln at Nowark, N. J. The colonel accepted the statue in the name of the Lincoln post, G. A. R. of that city, and turned it over to the municipality with an appropriate eulogy. --- Frank Mahan, a fourteen-year-old mill operative, was shot to death by Samuel Pruett, a fellow operative, thirteen years old, at Danville, Va. Mahan had reported Pruett for some neglect of duty. Petitions started for the recall of Mayor A. C. Graves of Pittsburg, Kan., were canceled, when the mayor promised to discharge the new police force and appoint a new civil service commission. Michael Korlath, formerly president and manager of a bank of foreign exchange at Windsor and Scalp Level, Pa., was arrested at San Francisco on information that Korlath stole $20,000 from the bank he conducted. Fire destroyed a large part of the business district of Snouholm, Wash., causing a loss of $150,000. Thirty-five establishments were burned. The yacht Virginia, belonging to E. C. Benedict, a New York banker, went ashore 120 miles west of Havana. All on board were saved. A shoe factory at Brockton, Mass., is finishing a pair of golf shoes that are to grace the feet of President Taft. Their size is 11, EE width. The United States Supreme court declared the American Tobacco company, commonly called the tobacco trust, is an unlawful combination in restraint of trade. Applying the "rue of reason" laid down in the decision of the Standard Oil case, the court stamped the tobacco trust as a gross example of offense against the Sherman anti-trust law and ordered its dissolution within the next six months. --- In a head-on collision between two fast Burlington passenger trains near indianola, Neb., ten people were killed and twenty-eight wounded. Failure on the part of the engineer of the east-bound train to obey orders is supposed to have caused the wreck. A special federal grand jury will be impanched before Judge Landis in the United States district court at Chicago June 5 to investigate certain phases of the lumber business with a view to prosecutions under the Sherman anti-trust laws. While driving his motorcycle on the wrong side of the road near Rochester, N. Y., George H. Ellsworth was struck by an automobile and killed. Mr. Ellsworth was head of a painting company and president of the Rochester Motorcycle club. Military field mess for the Spanish war dead was celebrated in the shadow of the Washington monument at the capital before 25,000 people. President Taft, members of the cabinet, of the diplomatic corps and of congress were among the participants. The gasoline fishing schooner Edric of Seattle, was condemned and confised by the British government for fishing within the three-mile limit off Lanz岛, at the northwest end of Vancouver island, where it was seized in February. . . . . . . . . . GORE EMPIRE SKIRT. 5426 In this skirt we have another of the favorite Empire models. The pattern is perforated so that the skirt may also be made with the normal waist-line, for those who prefer it so, and it is also arranged so that the finish of the back may be made in habit style or with a reversed box plait, if preferred. These skirts are made up in every material, satin, messaline, marquise, linen, pongee and some of the most transparent of silk and cotton materials over a colored lining. To keep the skirt in place take a piece of plain belting and fit it snugly to the waist, bone it and attach the skirt to its upper edge only. The pattern (5426) is cut in sizes 22 to 20 inches waist measure. Medium size requires 3/4" yards of 26 inch material. To procure this pattern send 10 cents to Pattern Department, of this paper. Write a letter of recommendation and give to sure give size and number of pattern. GIRL'S APRON. A963 Little aprons are not only a necessary article to the small girl, they are also a very pretty part of her toilette, and the one shown in the illustration is among the most ornamental of all. A simple sacque cut is used for the garment, but it is cut out in a deep V in the front and back at the neck, and the outline of this opening is trimmed with a wide collar arranged like brettes across the shoulders. The fastening of the apron is in the center of the back and there are ties from the side seams backward and also small patch pockets. Lawn, cambric, gingham, percale and other wash materials are suitable for this apron, and cross bar is also pretty. Lace or embroidery may be used as trimming. The pattern (4963) 's cut in sizes 4 to 12 years. Medium size requires 3 yards of 27 inch material. To procure this pattern send 10 cents to the Pattern Department, of this paper. Write "Pattern Department" on the back to give size and number of pattern. NO. 4963. SIZE..... NAME..... TOWN..... STREET AND NO..... STATE.... Two of a Kind Ripley Hitchcock, the noted critic, was talking at the Authors' club in New York about a well-known publisher. "He took up with a young writer last year," said Mr. Hitchcock, "who, as it turned out, missed fire. But he expected great things of the young man, and, while his first book was in press, he made him a present of a cheap motor car. "Some months later the two met in Broadway. They shook hands cordially. Then the author said: "Look here! You know that car you gave me? Well, it won't go." "Neither will your book," hissed the publisher, as he hurried on. Clubs Not In Accord Some clubwomen seem to have a hard time keeping the peace, and this seems to be especially true of New York. Two theater clubs met recently at the Hotel Astor, and each denounced the other as having stolen the name and perquisites of the other. One club was asked to show cause why it should not be restrained from using the name by order of a justice in the supreme court. The club then was declared adjourned, and immediately the president asked those belonging to remain as her guests, which coup was altogether successful. Political Debt and Bills It is all right to pay political debts, but it is pretty hard on the public when it has to foot the bills.—Charles- ton News and Courier. Natural Result. "Miss Starine gave quite a striking performance, I hear." "Yes; she made a big hit."