The Gazette

TWENTY-EIGHTH YEAR. NO. 52. Flowers and Feathers J HELP OUT THE WARDROBE | NOVEL BUT NOT SO USEFUL IN UNION THERE IS STRENGTH TWENTY-EIGHTH Flowers an JUST how far the designers can go in the fad for making children's hats like those for grown-ups, and yet unlike, remains to be proven. The two pretty bonnets shown here prove that ostrich plumes, and little roses in abundance, are perfectly all right in the hands of the trimmer who knows just how to mount them. The bonnet for the little miss is of a soft silk braid in blue with a border of silk on the underbrim. The brim is turned back and indented in a distinctly childish fashion and there is a little frill about its edge. Broad soft ribbon is threaded through the crown and extended into ties. June roses trim this sweet little model and Matching Sets of Separate Gulps and Underleeses Will Be Found Useful Accessories. Separate gulps and underleeses made up in matching sets, are great additions to a limited wardrobe, for almost all summer gowns and bodices are made for these. A cheap flat lace in a rich cream, covered with black or white chiffon, is one good choice for these useful accessories. Have the neck collarless, and with either black or white use a bliss of black satin for edges. Another set would be pretty in tucked white brussels net, and another set would be exquisite if made of cream batiste embroidered with white. Black and white striped calico makes the smartest and cleanest of practical petticoats. Get a good model, shape the skirt closely at the hips and trim it with a six-inch bias flounce, put on scantily. It must be laundered without starch. Gauze lisle stockings are the best substitute that can be had for silk stockings. They are cool, elegant and cheap—three pairs for a dollar. Changing the buttons of a ready-made coat suit sometimes alters its character entirely. Criticized buttons are much in favor, and they are large and round. There is nothing easier than to chochet covers for the wooden molds, or a cheap imitation Irish lace can be bought and put on. The molds must always be covered first with a thin silk. The Nightgown of Swiss. Quite a new and decidedly pretty innovation of feminine lingerie is the nightgown of sheer dotted Swiss and fine nailsook combined. Both fabrics are very appropriate for lingerie purposes and one wonders no one ever thought of combining them before. The dotted Swiss is used for the upper or yoke part and the sleeves while the plain cloth is utilized in the full skirt. This combination is especially pretty in making an empire style nightgown and the Swiss and nailsook are joined at the bust line by sheer ribbon run 'heading. The girl who makes her own undermuskins might vary a little by using allover embroidery in place of the dotted Swiss. And any clever woman will see numberless pretty possibilities in combining the two materials. New Breakfast Cup A pretty new shape for the girl who likes to make herself dainty caps is oblong in line. It is made from a strip of allower embroidery or lace—dotted muslin is pretty and cheaper—cut wider in the middle than at each end. It is finished with lace insertion about an inch wide and to this is overcast a ruffle of lace to match. The ruffle is wider in front, tapering slightly toward ends. The cap, when finished, falls low on hair back of ears, and is held there with a fluffy bow. To Renovate a Black Chip Hat. To renovate a black chip hat, brush the hat well to remove the dust. Bour some olive oil into a saucer, and well brush hat all over. Place in front of fire to thoroughly dry in the oil. This is all that would be done if sent to a cleaner's. Should the brim be somewhat out of shape, wring a cotton cloth out of warm water, lay on, and press with a hot iron before applying oil. THE GAZETTE a bouquet of them joins the ties. The tiny flowers captivate the fancy of the little girl and there is something irresistible about miniatures of all things. A bonnet with two short plumes is shown for an older girl. This is a lingerie model with little crochet balls, braid and motifs applied to the brim and crown. Batiste or swiss embroidery is used for the body of such hats. The brim facing is of thin silk laid on in plats. The two soft short plumes are mounted against the crown with a cluster of small pink buds and foliage. This is a specially good shape and would be pretty made up in light millinery braids. Pincushion for the Woman Who Does Not insist Upon Utility as Important Feature. A cushion for the woman who does not insist upon utility is made in the shape of a heart six inches at its widest part. It is cut from a heavy muslin, filled with wool or bran and covered with satin in any bright color. For the top make a much smaller heart from handkerchief linen or fine lawn, and work it with a delicate open design in Madeira embroidery. Use a fine white mercerized cotton, as the embroidery should be delicate. Sew a quarter-inch insertion of German Valenciennes to edge and join another strip of the insertion to lace an inch wide. Sew evenly without filling. Join the two sections by fagoting stitch in the same shade as the satin pincushion. This should be a half inch deep. The joining of the two parts must be done on a heavy paper, which has a heart the desired size of cover traced on it. PRETTY LACE WAIST. This most attractive waist is of white lace bordered with white satin. The corset is of the same lace headed by blue satin ribbon, prettily knotted at the side and ornamented with a little wreath of pink roses. The plastron and puffed under-sleeves are of white tulle. Black Lace Parasols Revived. If, covered with handsome Spanish lace, are never very moderate in price. Yet for $30 a style now comes that is reminiscent of our earliest girlhood. The exquisite pattern of the lace is set off to advantage by the lining of white dead chiffon cloth. A full, rippling ruffle of black chiffon and lace droops down over the frame. The handle is of black or black and white enamel combined with gunmetal. The same model may be had in all black, if desired. A black silk parasol with many ribs is finished along its edge with a deep silk fringe, giving much the same effect as the fuzzy lace ruffle described above. This, however, is $10 less in cost than the other style—Vogue. Two shades of blue, one very much lighter, are used on linen tailored suits. ESTABLISHED AUGUST 25, 1883 AND ISSUED EVERY WEEK ON TIME SINCE. A startling fact that is constantly revealed by the present fashions is the almost universal lack of grace in the modern girl. The short and narrow skirt so much seen is merciless in this respect. It boldly refuses to disguise the jerky, awkward stride of the average girl, and one is more and more impressed with the rarity of the girl who knows how to walk well. This is astonishing when one considers how much the modern girl goes in for all kinds of sport and calisthenics, yet one scarcely ever sees a girl who walks correctly, and the really graceful girl is unique. When she is seen she charms the eye and possesses an attraction that does not depend on youth or beauty. Every girl should strive to walk well and with patience and the observance of a few rules she can soon improve her carriage. And certainly it needs improving, for the hunched shoulders and protruding chin of the modern girl borders on the grotesque. An old-fashioned rule for attaining a graceful poise of the neck and shoulders, which many of our grandmothers practiced daily, is to walk with a book upon the head; and it should not be allowed to fall off. The heels, shoulders and the back of the head should all be level when starting to walk and the chest well thrown out. Swinging arms are never graceful. They should hang easily, but were never intended to help propel the body along. One should avoid the mannish stride as well as the mincing gait. There is a happy mean and the length of stride a girl can gracefully take depends, of course, upon her height and length of limb. Walk from the hip, not from the knee. Swing with steady rhythm, head well up. Don't meander almessly along or violently stride ahead. When you go for a walk have an object in view and pursue it steadily and smartly and you will find that your walking gains in poise and grace. Do not fall into the habit of looking down when you walk, but keep the eyes lifted and fixed steadily to the front. Looking constantly on the ground cultivates unsteadiness and insecurity. No girl with an atom of vanity will allow herself to cave in at the back. Nothing so quickly lands one in the middle-aged class. And just as much as the back sinks so much does the abdomen protrude, and that stamps one as hopelessly graceless. COLORS THAT LOOK WELL TO GETHER. The combination of white and dark blue is eminently becoming—white hats trimmed with blue velvet and feathers, or blue hats similarly arranged with white, being the predominant mode of the moment. Plumes, fancy feathers, fruit and flowers, adorn the latest Parisian shapes, the hats trimmed with a grettles having completely disappeared. Wood violet and navy blue cleverly combined look well but require the taste and artistic handling of a first-class dressmaker to stand out from the crowd as did a deliciously pretty frock worn by a prominent actress at the races recently. The skirt of the dark blue volle or satin enframed the svelt figure of the wearer, the upper portion of the corsage and sleeves made of cream white mousseline de soie. A mousme, or Japanese sash, of deep mauve moteur enzoned the waist, empire fashion, a big butterfly bow finishing the back, a much smaller edition in front figuring a buckle. A quaint little Henri II. "flower-pot" hat of dark blue straw, trimmed with beautiful ostrich tips shading up from a rich dark blue to mauve, completing the piquant little lady's costume, with which a rope of pearls and long white suede gloves were worn. NEW WATCHES. Every year watches become more beautiful and more to be compared with the exquisite ones of the eighteenth century. Enameling is an art which has been revived with great success, and now the most beautiful shades and blendings of color can be produced. Among many old wonderfully made watches reproduced this season is a French one, very thin, its undulating edge outlined with gold leaf. The back of the watch, and almost the entire face, is covered with rich black enamel, on which are painted tiny, but very natural, roses, convolvuli, and daisies with their foliage. FASHIONABLE COMBINATIONS. Some of the combinations of materials and trimnings in the new models are quite unusual, among which are the cotton voile, marquisette, and various styles of lingerie dresses with footbands, girdles and sashes of velvet, black being the most seen. Chiffon in black and colors is also combined with cotton fabrics for summer wear. Charmeuse and chiffon numbers in high-grade merchandise have finishing touches of fur, the most favorable for this purpose being skunk and mole-skin. Narrow bands are used to outline the decollette finish and touches of fur are arranged on the sleeves, waist front and girdle. FASHION'S WHISPERS. The popularity of the overdress continues unabated. This fad for a dress over a dress is very evident in the new evening gowns, the soft satin draperies of which are yelled in mousseline de soie. A noticeable feature is that the skirt of the evening gowns are fuller and longer, which of course means that they are much more graceful. The handsomest models are lightly embroidered about the hem of the overdress and have touches of this same embroidery on the corsage and the sleeves. Waists are short, finished with folds of the satin caught with jeweled buckles or with long tasseled sash ends. Among the most striking of the new evening effects are deep hems of velvet the same color as the dress. Over this velvet falls a velling which softens the bold design of beaded or silk embroidery on the velvet of the hem. Notable among the materials for evening wear is the soft silk with shiny surface dotted at intervals with tiny sprays of flowers. As these flowers are in a lighter tone than the ground of the silk, they seem to stand out in relief as if they were embroidered in the fabric. Beads continue to be exceedingly smart. One of the most wonderful of the recent French creations is a dinner gown of smoke gray chiffon over dull smoke crepe, the overdress almost solidly embroidered in glinting steel beads. A succession of jeweled peacock feathers formed the bandeau for the plain but artistic coiffure, and the wearer carried a daisy fan of peacock feathers. MOTHERS WITH GROWN-UP GIRLS Does any circumstances in her life change a woman so completely as having a grown-up daughter to chapen? To this point in her history she may have been a merry and careless being, thoroughly unconventional and happy-go-lucky, but now responsibilities are thrust upon her, and she must think for some one else as she has never done for herself. Hitherto the best and kindest of friends, taking people for just what they are, not for what they possess, she is suddenly obliged to acquire the ungracious knowledge of incomes and positions, as however unworldly her nature she cannot desire her girl to marry into poverty. Perhaps a childish gayetey distinguished her before she was forced to study character and grow discreet, for as a mother she is rightly accounted a failure should her lamb become the prey of any wolf in sheep's clothing. No longer either does she reign sole presiding goddess of her house to whom all comers render homage, as the younger woman will naturally resent it if she be not given her chance of winning social distinction. Though the English mother is not put upon the shelf quite as soon as the American mother, she, too, knows the pains and abnegations of that unenviable place, which only love can render tolerable to her pride. To be a successful mother is a totally different thing to being a successful woman, and calls forth an altogether different set of virtues. WELL TO KNOW. The following are different ways in which milk may be prepared for children who dislike to take milk: Beat the yolk of an egg light, add a teaspoonful of sugar and half a teaspoonful of lemon juice; fill the cup with milk, stir well and call the mixture snow lemonade. Heat a cupful of milk, but do not let it boil, sweeten it and flavor with a little cinnamon and pour from a tiny teapot, calling it cinnamon tea. Put a cupful of milk and the white of one egg into a glass jar; add a little sugar, screw down the top of the jar and shake until the ingredients are thoroughly blended; flavor with orange and serve as orangeade. Cocoa made with milk is liked by most children and is even more nutritious than the milk alone. When the eggs come from the grocer wash them and then when the eggs are used save the shells. Place them in an oven to dry and put away in a glass jar. Just before using crumble. These are fine for clearing coffee, soup or any kind of drippings. Sandwiches may be made by saving the best and firmer of the vegetables from the dinner of the night before Chop fine and add enough tomato catup to hold together. Set in ice box to cool and spread between dainty pieces of bread. QUEEN MARY'S EARRINGS. It is because Queen Mary is never seen without earrings that so many smart women of today are wearing them. Her majesty has a really fine collection of these ornaments, some of which are of great historic interest. Many fine pairs were bequeathed to the queen by her late mother, Mary, Duchess of Teck, who also had a great penchant for earrings. For day wear the queen usually favors short earrings, generally of single stones which rest on the ear, but in the evening she adopts the picturesque long shape. Her ear are pierced in old-fashioned style, and she will have nothing to do with the screw fastenings which are almost universally used today. A GREAT DAY FOR FISK UNIVERSITY Charles E. Stowe Delivered Annual Address to the Graduating Class. MANY PROMINENT VISITORS FIFTY-SEVEN GRADUATES RECEIVED THEIR DIPLOMAT AT THE NASHVILLE INSTITUTE. Nashville, Tenn.—The commencement exercises at Flak university this year were as interesting as any the famous old university ever had. Thousands attended the several celebrations, and many could not gain entrance to the hall on the day that Charles E. Stowe, son of Harriet Beecher Stowe, delivered the annual address. President Gates, who is making a determined effort to raise $300,000, needed to put the university on a good footing, was highly pleased with the enthusiasm manifested by both the visitors, students and citizens of Nashville. Prominent Visitors. Many prominent visitors were present during the week. Booker T. Washington, who stopped over on his way to Wilberforce, occupied a seat on the platform on commencement day. Others present included Hon. J. C. Napier, register of the United States treasury; D. R. Lin Cave, who made a comment on the address delivered by Mr. Stowe; Clinton J. Calloway, one of the commencement orators, and many of the distinguished townpeople. Every effort will be put forward during the summer to make a successful campaign among colored people all over the country to raise a large part of the money that the school needs. Several wealthy friends of the university are willing to lend a helping hand, but they want to see what the colored people themselves will do for their greatest university. Dr. Stowe's Oration. Chief interest centered in Mr. Stowe, not only because of his relationship to Harriet Beecher Stowe, but also because he has made a first-hand investigation of conditions in the south, and has a reputation as an observant student. In the course of his address he made many interesting statements and gave altogether an address out of the ordinary. At the conclusion of his address Mr. Stowe read two letters, one from ex-President Roosevelt and the other from President Taft. The president said after a long study of the matter he is "convinced that it is necessary to have a few high-class negro universities for those who are to be the leaders of the race," and further, that "nothing can do so much toward establishing a real nucleus for leadership among them as the maintenance of such a university as Fisk." Mr. Roosevelt sent the following letter: "I most earnestly commend your work. You do not need to be told how emphatically I favor industrial education for the colored man, no less than for the white; but I cordially agree with Booker Washington in his support of Fisk, because it is eminently undesirable that the negro should have only a chance to get technical education in industry and agriculture. "With the negro, as with the white, while such training is that of which there is fundamentally the greatest need for the greatest number, it is yet imperative for the sake of the fact that there shall be opportunity for training a different type of training or a certain proportion of the race. "Fisk has behind it a long record of proved efficiency, and its present work is of high merit, not only from the standpoint of the colored man, but from the standpoint of the good citizen generally." Fifty-seven graduates all told received diplomas, 23 receiving the degree of bachelor of arts, 9 the degree of bachelor of science, 20 diplomas from the normal department, 4 from the department of domestic science, and 1 from the department of music. Fisk never enjoyed a finer year. GROWING ASPARAGUS Asparagus may be started from seed and come into size for table use at the third year. Seed may be planted as late as midsummer. It requires about six weeks for the seed to germinate and come up. The young plants may be cultivated in rows as other garden vegetables and set in permanent rows or beds this fall or next spring. The asparagus plant is doubly useful. The young shoots can be used for food and the foliage branches for decoration. Sprays of asparagus are equaled by few other plants for their pleasing effect in decoration. The plants are very hardy, will stand all kinds of treatment, but will respond liberally to good treatment and will thrive in one place for ten to twenty years. NEW HAT IDEA. A pretty trimming for a large Leghorn hat is an immense bow of handsome Persian ribbon, each loop veiled with black malinnes. The edges of the loops should be wired with the finest milliner's wire in black silk. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. WESTERN RESERVE CLEVELAND, O. HISTORICAL SOCIETY. SINGLE COF AFRO-AMERICA The sturdy practicality of the education which Booker T. Washington is giving to the young men attending his Tuskegee Normal and Industrial institute was illustrated by the character of the exercises at the thirtieth annual commencement of that institution, which was held a few days ago. There were no essays on abstract themes, embellished with selections from volumes of elegant extracts. There were no speeches on the race problem or current political topics. The students discussed their everyday life, and brought upon the platform material illustrating different intensely practical subjects taught in the school. One number of the program dealt with the care and feeding of cows for milk production. A scrub cow and a high-grade jersey were brought on the platform. These cows were fed, groomed and milked. The cost of feeding each cow for a year was shown, also the amount of milk that each gave in a year. It appeared that for the same expenditure for feed and care a profit of $69 was made on the Jersey cow, while $14 was lost on the scrub cow. A young woman discussed "The Negro Dressmaker in the Community." This especially caught the audience. The student told how the dressmaker might help the people to wear more becoming and less expensive clothes, and to illustrate she brought in a girl who wore a good dress which was somewhat out of fashion. The dressmaker committee proceeded to change this out-of-date pattern, a transformation accomplished by a little cutting and stitching. The colored pedagogue who is at the head of this excellent school for people of his race is a man with a hard head who keeps both feet on the ground. He does not believe in "trills" or in "hifafutin." The young people who come under his influence learn that "Life is real, life is earnest," and when they have completed the course at. Tuskegee they leave their alma mater equipped with ability to take a useful part in the world's work. There are many white pedagogues who with advantage to themselves and to those coming under the instruction and influence night well make a detailed study of what is going on at Tuskegee.—Editorial: Milwaukee (Wis.) Evening Wisconsin. There is a type of negro which is a constant menace to society and with no decided or evident criminal leanings. there is in mind a woman who has three daughters, two of whom work regularly in the factory and thus furnish the only support of the family. All live in one room and the mother, a strong, buxom woman of forty-five, stays at home and does nothing but work for the family. Three-fourths of her day is spent either in rocking and fanning herself or sleeping. This is a type, and though not actually criminal, she is potentially so. Idleness is a crime. The failure to use one's powers of mind and body up to the full measure of their capacity is to invite the most deadly enemy to one's peace. Such people supply in their children food for the chain gangs, workhouses and the tenderloin. It would do this woman good if some one had the direction of her energies and, though slavery is repugnant to every noble instinct, we say without hesitation that slavery would be better for such a woman than the freedom which she has but to abuse. "An idle brain is the devil's workshop," and an idle, slothful, shameless mother befords the most sacred name among any people.—Durham Reformer. There is a statement going the rounds of the negro press to the effect that much of the money now spent in the erection of churches might well be diverted to the building up of business enterprises. It is stated by some, implied by others, that the future of the race depends upon its economic well-being. Some go so far as to instance the Jewish race as an exemplification of this dictum. We wonder if they have ever stopped to think about the cause of the existence of that race today, when its earliest compers are resting so quietly in "oblivion's swelling tide"—Star of Zion. --- Not since the days of Marshall, the famous colored Harvard athlete, has fair Harvard, one of the greatest colleges in the world, been so amazed as recently at Theodore Cable, the hammer thrower, also colored, who won the spring meet when he threw the sixteen-pound hammer 144 feet and 10 inches. Coaches declare him the greatest find developed this season. Cable is a great favorite and well liked by his fellow students. Colored men, quit neglecting your family for the "wild" woman. You who are guilty, when you read these lines, please neither get mad nor confess; further, it will not help matters to say that the Dallas Express has nothing to do with it; just quit—in Bible language: "Cease to do evil and learn to do well." William A. Howard, a member of the Negro Business League in New Orleans, is the inventor of a sugar cane loader that is meeting with great success, not only in the state of Louisiana but in Mexico, where the cultivation of sugar cane is one of the staple products. The Howard Cane Loader Manufacturing company is composed of three members—two white and one colored, William Howard. Mr. Howard informed us that why the whites were taken in as co-partners was due to the fact that, not having sufficient capital himself to start a plant to manufacture the machines, and not being able to persuade members of his own race, who had the money, to co-operate with him, he consequently was obliged to resort to white capitalists. The factory is located at Berwick, La. The Howard loader is a great labor saver—especially to the Mexican plant, where labor can be procured at a low cost. With this machine three persons can now do the work which required from twelve to fifteen persons formerly to accomplish within a given time. With this machine buyers one or more loaders at their own expense. We are advised that not one of these machines has been returned, but, instead, orders were given for more. This loader during the last season is claimed to have proven itself to be the greatest cane loading device in the world. It was worked alongside of the cane loaders claimed to be the best on the market, and after some days' test the other loaders were said to have been discarded and the Howard loaders adopted. Mr. Howard last season spent three months in Mexico, superintending the starting of the machines. As a result of this visit he anticipates quite a considerable demand for the cane loaders during the coming season, as they will be used in nearly all the cane fields in Mexico—Tuskegee Student. A great many people borrow their neighbor's paper instead of taking it themselves. We know this is true in Abbeville county for a great many people have told us they borrowed the paper from their neighbor. If everybody that borrowed the paper would subscribe for it themselves it would increase our circulation considerably, enable us to publish a better paper, and perhaps enable us to publish it oftener. In borrowing the paper you get something for which you pay nothing, and if you thing of it a little you will realize it is a pretty small thing to do. It worries your neighbor more or less to have your send for his paper. Of course your neighbor is not going to admit it, but suppose some of your neighbors came over to borrow something from you every week, don't you believe it would annoy you just a little, and the cost of a paper for a whole year is so little that it really does seem a small thing to worry your neighbor about. We believe you will agree with us after a little reflection, and if you do, hope you will come in and give us your subscription—Pledmont Voice. The next president of Liberia will be Daniel E. Howard. Mr. Howard has been in the political life in the republic for some years and is at present the secretary of the treasury. His sympathies towards the United States are well known and there is, accordingly, little apprehension left as to the probable effect which his election will have on the established relations between the two countries. Many of the well wishers of the struggling republic should feel rejoiced because of Mr. Howard's nomination for the headship of the Liberian state—Exchange. Colored labor will have nothing to lose by sticking a little closer to business and by putting a little more interest and enthusiasm into the work assigned. The Dallas Express is the friend of colored labor, and because it is a friend takes the liberty to speak plainly. Our advice is to do better or the job you have now will soon know you no more forever. Plans have been inaugurated by the trustees of Fisk University to raise $300,000 to be used in paying indebtedness of the school and for the establishment of an endowment fund. They now have pledges for $100,000. The trustees hope to have the people of Nashville, Tenn., make a gift, as it will show the workers in the north they mean business. There should be a closer union among negroes in all their business affairs. Don't be afraid to put your money in a negro bank and to buy your every day necessities from negro merchants. Mothers and fathers should make every preparation to have their children enter school next winter. THE GAZETTE PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY One Year. $1.50 Six Months. 1.00 Three Months. .50 Subscribers are requested to mit 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 1898; 1900 to 1902 THE GAZETTE is the oldest, and has the largest bona fide circulation. double that of any newspaper in the interest of Afro-Americans, published in the state of Ohio, and comparison with any will immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWSIEST AND BEST in the country. Bishop Alexander Walters says he is as bitterly opposed to President Taft and his "new Southern policy" (against the Negro) as ever, reports to the contrary notwithstanding. With this issue, The Gazette closes its twenty-eighth year of continuous publication—every week on time since August 25, 1883. How many (if any) of our contemporaries can equal "the old reliable's" splendid record? Speak up, confreres! To sin by silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men. The human race has climbed on protest. Had no voice been raised against injustice, ignorance and lust, the inquisition yet would serve the law, the guillotines decide our least disputes. The few who dare must speak and speak again to right the wrongs of many.-Ella Wheeler Willex. --- A writer in a Chicago newspaper, in speaking of racial prejudice, says, and very pertinently too, that "individuals, no matter how influential can remove this barrier. The church must start (the effort to remove) it, the home influence must follow, the press must keep it up, in teaching those who are not enlightened on the subject, pointing out the virtues and not finding fault with the entire race for the shortcomings of an individual." The other week two Colored men went into a certain restaurant of Washington, D. C. One was real dark, and a South American Negro. The other was about three-fourths white, and an American Negro. The proprietor refused them both. The brighter one two-thirds applied, but the foreigner, demanded his rights in strong French language, and the clerk looked at him strangely for a time, then went back to the proprietor and said what we know not. But any way, the proprietor and the clerk returned, and the black man was served, while the almost white one two-thirds went to Martinsburg (W. Va.) Pioneer Press. The above is a sermon in a few words that is bound to impress the thoughtful of the race. Further comment, unnecessary. the Amsterdam News, say. "Wilberforce University, Xenia, O. was not only an appropriation by the Ohio legislature, but the Normal and Industrial departments were remembered." It further says that: "Many race papers do not understand it. Well, it is this: the donation from the legislature will be divided by 3, and the University will have its quota." —Editor Yonkers (N. Y.) Standard-Journal. The editor of the News is right and the editor of the Yonkers Standard-Journal is wrong. There will be no division of the appropriation as the Normal and Industrial department of Wilberforce University is one department—"the State Department." A WHITE SKIN WORTH $3,750. Here is one of the consequences and "beauties" of the American brand of "democracy": Because she was taken for a mu matto on account of her dark complex ion, and made to ride in a "jim-crow" car, Miss Belle Richell of Kokomo, Ind., was awarded $3,750 damages against the L. & N. Railroad—Chicago Evening American, July 19, 1911. On the third page, and published without flaring headlines, this item suggests several considerations and thoughts: One being the high price set upon the "white" skin, by the jury; the other, of more practical bearing—whether the southern railroads will not get chagrined at the "jim-crow" car laws, when they may be thus touched in a sore spot by incidents like the above not unlikely to occur again and again. We may assume, that in time some white sharper with a very dark skin might make the thing a good speculation, seeing the profit the "degradation" will bring him. Who is next to try? WALDRON TO TAFT. Some time ago, in an open letter to President Taft, Rev. J. Milton Waldron, pastor of Shiloh Baptist church, Washington, D. C., wrote: "We cannot believe that you mean to be a army to race prejudice in the U. S. Army, nor do we believe that in the four Regiments of Colored soldiers in the U. S. Army there are no enlisted men who are capable of passing the examination for second lieutenant. It must be that your failure to order such men before the Examining Board of the Army for promotion is an oversight and we believe you simply need to have this matter called to your attention, and you will in the future give Colored soldiers, as well as soldiers of Jewish or Hebrew extraction the same opportunity afforded white soldiers. I am yours for equal rights and opportunities for all American citizens," etc. President Taft has had plenty of time to answer. Therefore, we ask Rev. Waldron for a copy of the reply to his very reasonable communication. President Taft made so much "politi- cal noise," a few weeks ago, anent the discrimination against the Jewish private who desired to be fairly examined for a second lieutenancy in the army, that surely he will be consistent and do something for the Afro-American as suggested in Dr. Waldron's letter. This would be another wise political move. Anyhow, we want to know if the President deemed Negro voters of sufficient potency in the party to be entitled to some "light" as to where he stands, along the line of the suggestion in the Waldron open letter. How about it, Rev. Waldron? WHOA HAW IN MISSISSIPPI Back now into the spotlight comes "Jim" Vardaman of Mississippi, once governor of that great state and once defeated as a candidate for United States senator. It is in making another campaign for the Senate that he again looms against the horizon, still running as the candidate, before the Democratic primary, of what he is calling the "white man is in absolute control of Mississippi." There is no other race contending with him for the government of that state. His supremacy in Mississippi is nowhere challenged. If Vardaman's foolish and fantastic proposition to amend the federal constitution in a way to disfranchise the Negro could be adopted, the fact that he is not being defeated in Mississippi a particle Vardaman knows this, and knows, in addition, that there is not the slightest possibility of such work being done at Washington as he is proposing. His appeal is again to the lowest, most ignorant and most vicious of the whites. He is of that breed of Southern white politicians whose constant inflammation of race feeling incites them to exhibitions which disgrieve the South and are resented by every man of blood-kin with the South of better days and higher ideals. The campaign he has set in the field this year is more hideously grotesque and ugly in its defiance of common sense than any he has hitherto made. Wednesday night he drove into Meridian, drawn by eighty span of white oxen, drawing a white charlot surmounted by a white throne, on which Vardaman sat. On the back of each ox was a man, the Vardaman, in white walk at the head of each of the animals. The "White Man's party" was signalizing its advent into Meridian as it had previously signalized it into many other Mississippi cities and towns. Vardaman is canvassing the entire state in this crazy fashion. Three years ago, when he raised the question against Congressman John Sharp Williams, he was asked to give his rights of the ruling caste in Mississippi would be lost or sacrificed by Mr. Williams. And it is noticeable that Mr. Williams now in the U. S. Senate, has made no proposition to amend the federal constitution for doing things which Mississippi is too easily doing without such amendment. Senator Williams is without desire to needlessly inflame race passion and hatred in the Vardaman is without desire to stay out of office. Accordingly he affirms his campaign to stir the whites against the blacks, no matter what may be the resulting loss of life and loss of prestige for Mississippi Vardaman is for Vardaman. This campaign of Vardaman's "White Man's party" is grotesque and ridiculous besides being dangerous, but in one thing it is finely consistent. The ox is a living symbol of the "way-back." He stands for all that is slow and unprogressive in movement, wherefore he offers the most mature motive. He Vardaman movement against education, against peace, against enlightenment, against humanity, against material development, against progress of every kind, in Mississippi. We concede to the Hon. John Sharp Williams and Southerners of his type that, were they driving oxen, they would, according to their political lights, show jealousy. They would turn their spirit as they Vardaman's voice, accompanying the loud crack of Vardaman's slave whip, is always heard in ejaculation of a "who haw." For he not only cries halt, but he turns always to the left.-St. Louis (Mo.) Globe-Democrat (Repub.) Leaves $100,000 Estate. Alexandria Bay, Thousand Islands. —In the death July 13 of A. J. Berry, Colored porter for 35 years at the pier here, a familiar figure in this region has passed away. Berry was strong in voice and size, making himself easily heard above the score of other porters that throned the pier with the arrival of each steamer. He left an estate of about $100,000, which he had obtained by saving his tips and investing them. K. OF. P. ANNUAL MEET. The Grand Lodge Closed An Interesting Session After Electing New Officers. Newark, O.-The grand lodge, Knights of Pythias, ended a three-day session here last Thursday evening after an exhibition of fancy drills in the public square, concluding with a military ball in Assembly hall. Visitors were present from all parts of the state, the number being estimated at 4,000. The following grand lodge officers were elected: Grand chancellor, Rev. E. L. Gilliam of Columbus; grand vice chancellor, W. A. Chinchin; grand prelate, W. A. Kennedy; Zaneville; grand keeper of records and seals, W. A. Burke; Columbus; grand master of exchequer, H. M. Higgins, Cincinnati; grand master-at-arms, J. A. Good, East Liverpool; grand inner guard, A. C. Scurry, Xenia; grand outer guard, M. F. Clark, Ironton; grand medical registrar, Dr. W. C. Gordon, Springfield; grand lecturer, H. T. Elliott, Dayton; grand lodge attorney, M. H. Jones, Dayton; members endowment board, John C. Columbus; supreme representatives, William Ferguson, Columbus; S. T. Sneed, Cincinnati; grand marshal, Maj. Morris, Dayton. Dayton and Springfield were in the race for the next grand lodge meeting and the former won. It will be held in July, 1912. Don't throw away your copy of The Gazette when you have done with it, but give it to some appreciative person whom you feel would be likely to subscribe or take it regularly, if they had a copy to look over and read carefully. Oblige the THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1911. DOINGS OF THE RAGE Oklahoma has 77 K. of P. Lodges, with a membership of 2,500. Albee, S. White, the well-known Louisville, Ky. lawyer was shot and killed last week. 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. Jeannette New York New Jersey (white) the third round round bout. Athletic c knockout put to the jaw, back, but only to be a Kublak war. The Afro-America the "big be the second and Kubla counter, Je in the ninth. CORRECTION The old active age every city neighborhood of Afro-America. The 31st annual session of the Grand Fountain, True Reformers, will convene Sept. 12 at the Home Building, Richmond, Va. Dr. Lucy Brown, the first Afro-American woman physician, died recently in Charlotte, N. C. She had a large practice and was well thought of. The only complete electric light and power company in the U. S. owned, installed and operated by our men, is located in the town of Boley, Okla., an Afro-American town. Mrs. Will of Mrs. Joseph Brinkworth, which was filed in the St. Louis Probate Court recently, gives the Oblate Sisters (Colored) of Providence, $5,000. A series of mysterious murders has been going on in Atlanta, Ga. Not long since, for eight consecutive nights, an Afro-American woman was murdered. In each case her body was horribly mutilated to be getting in his work. Bert Williams is the world's greatest comedian; Jack Johnson, its greatest fighter; Major Taylor, its champion bicycle rider; Tanner, its finest painter; Cable, its greatest hammer thrower; Mendez, its best baseball pitcher; Wildegeon, among its greatest foremost patentees; Dr. Blyden, among its ripest scholars; Negro soldiers, its best and bravest, and the race its best interpreters of music. If fifty years following slavery can witness the above, what a marvel?—Marrinburg (W. Va.) Pioneer Press. Nothing in Taft: Preliminary to the campaign for the renomination of President Taft preparations are going forward to "square" the "man and brother," who has been so ruthlessly and inexcusably thrown down by the present administration. Announcement has already gone forth that Lawyer Lewis, recently placed in the Attorney General's Department, is making to make a plea for breeches, while promotion that Bishop Walters has quit the Democratic party is being circulated with avidity. In all this blow and bluster there should be some way to make the safe and the same Colored elector remember that the Taft administration is not a dog-gone thing that ever happened to this race of ours. In the coming struggle to nominate and elect a president, if Taft and Hitchcock and Roosevelt are to be the commanders, the Negro may expect to be crucified on the cross of perdify and politicize the nation, to brow a crown of thorns. The present administration is responsible for the lily-white organizations which disgrace the Republican party in every Southern State. It has made Republican growth and activity impossible and Republican triumph undesirable. Thousands of Colored men have been driven from the party by the unholy alliance between the administration in the North and men like Lyon, Capers, and their kind, in the South, thereby making Republican advancement in the South. The open enmity of the bourbon Democratic party is to be preferred to the hypocrisy and bumboe of the so-called Republican party as at present constituted in the South. Taft's re-election may be a good thing, but we are from Missouri—Dallas (Texas). Express TRACES $300 IN HER DREAM? Woman Produces Money and Her Hus band Is Arrested. MOUND BAYON NOT SAFE! The Mississippi Negro Town Said To Be at the Mercy of White Ruffians. (Colored Citizen, Memphis, Tenn.) Hot Springs, Ark.-J. C. Johnson of Mound Bayou, Miss., is here taking treatment for his health. He is a barber by trade. When asked about the future of this Negro "burg," he said: "I am a barber of the mercy of Negro-haters. It is liable to be wiped out any time. "A white bully came in the town not long since and shot five times into a Negro barbershop, he was not even arrested for it; two respectful Colored men who own a farm not far from the town, in their field; no arrests have been made although the men are said to be well known. Negro officers don't arrest white men when one violates the law, they must phone to Cleveland, the county seat, for an officer therefore you see that life and tropism is not what you like this is only a matter of time before the town will be wiped out." When your Gazettes are not delivered on Friday mornings call at your Central Postoffice General Delivery Window for them in the afternoon of the same day. —Editor. FRESH OHIO NEWS OUR OWN WRITERS' WHAT OUR PEOPLE ARE DOING IN MANY CITIES AND TOWNS OF THE STATE. Social Functions—Church and Lodge Items—Marriages and Deaths— Literary, Musical and Other Notes of Interest. Mt. Pleasant—Miss Pearl Jackson has returned from Steubenville—Rev. and Mrs. Lewis and daughter are home from Wellsburg—Mr. and Mrs. Owens spent a few days here past week—Mrs. Leona (Miller) Burton of Chicago is visiting her parents—Mrs. D. Jackson and daughters Pearl and Crothia, were in Dillonvale—Mrs. Frank Skinner spent Sunday night in Coleraine—Mt. Pleasant and Emerson S. S. held their Saturday, day at, Clark's grove and a social at Jackson was home Sunday from Cleveland. Mr. Walter and Mildred Carey are home from Steubenville. Urbana.—Mrs. Martin Cleveland and children are spending their vacation in Detroit.—Prof. and Mrs. Jones of St. Louis, are spending their vacation with his sister, Miss Laura Jones, of St. Louis, and spending their vacation, Tuesday to presch the annual sermon for the S. institute. St. Paul's choir will accompany him and furnish music for the service.—Mrs. Louisa Hockins and Mrs. Jones of St. Louis, spent Saturday in Springfield.—The Misses Gilbert of Pittsburg are spending their vacation with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Gatewood.—St. Paul's guild will render a drama ennobled by the Lord.—Friday evening at the A. M. E. church Washington C. H. — Mrs. Maude Ross-Brooks of Kentucky, has been visiting Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Ross. Following a visit to Springfield she will return to her school work—Mr. Samuel Terry will move into his re-entry program, and modern next week—The A. M. E. church will celebrate its 44th anniversary next week. There will be splendid programmes the entire week—Miss Lorena Woodson, who attended the state federation meeting in Dayton, reports an enjoyable time—Mrs. Taso Pettiford of Sabina is visiting her sister, Mrs. H. Wilkinson—Mr. Morrison of the Christian school, an elite citizen, was buildup to the Second Baptist church, July 21, Rev. Burley officiating. Correspondents must mail all letters for publication at their main postoffice sufficiently early on Monday (or Sunday) of each week to have them reach The Gazette office on Tuesday morning, and always write, also, their names and that of their city or town on the outside of the wrapper about returned copies. The Gazette office cannot credit cannot be given you. Lists of names, wedding presents, etc., obituary notices, speeches, resolutions, poetry, inquiries for relatives and advertisements of all kinds, including items announcing entertainments to be held in the near future, must be paid for in advance at the rate of ten cents a letter. Inquiries for display advertisements will be sent on application. Send postal note and not stamps during warm weather. Smithfield.—Rev. S. W. White preached an excellent sermon Sunday morning, and Rev. Geo. Davis, in the evening.—The church clubs and S. S. plinc, Aug. 5 in W. H. Veney's grove, east of Smithfield. All are cordially invited.—The S. circle was entertained by Mrs. W. H. Veney, last Friday.—Mrs. Jordan Powell dawn and Mrs. White午后, and Mrs. D. Bigsby午后.—Mrs. D. Bigsby entertained, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Harris, and Mr. and Mrs. Rufus Smith in honor of her sister-in-law who are visiting her.—Mrs. Carrie Fitzgerald and children, were Mrs. Ed. Smith's guests, Saturday, and Mrs. J. Smith's guests, Sunday.—Mr. John Harris and Miss Sarah Beall were married Saturday in Steubenville, and are at home in Bradley.—Mrs. W. H. Veney and daughter, Julia, spent Wednesday and Thursday in Wheeling.—Mr. James Harris of Cadiz, is visiting his mother, Mrs. Fred Carrier, and G. D. Blims visited in Mr. Pleasant, Harrisville and Flushing, Saturday and Sunday.—H. G. Hiller of Mr. Pleasant, spent Wednesday here and Mrs. M. Bigsby of Hopedale, spent the following Monday here. Youngstown.—Chas. Berry is convalescent.—Mrs. R. Burton has returned from N. Y. state—Mrs. C. Williams is visiting in Louisville, Ky., and Memphis, Tenn. —Mr. and Mrs. Brown of Harrisville, Williams —Mrs. Mildred Flood and two daughters visited her daughter, Miss E. Watkins, two weeks. — Buckeye lodges a "smoker," in honor of its ex-officiers, will be held Monday evening. All members are requested to be present.—All persons indebted to the agent for copies of The Gazette will please pay promo. —Sam Latham is in supervising the building of a house and barn on his farm in Nova Scotia. Sam is now in training in a gymnasium which he rigged up in one end of a pasture, on the same farm. Shortly, he will start on a grand tour of Canada, meeting all comers.—A South Atlantic writer to "The Newcastle Soulardy" is truly too: "The important question here is the most difficult obstacle in the way of progress. Race prejudice, created by the capitalist press, and fostered by the trades unions through their policy of excluding Colored workers, is the great stumbling obstacle in the revolutionary propaganda. Indications are not of the white workers are becoming alive to the fact that their real enemy is not the Colored laborer, and that it is only by combining and cooperating irrespective of color that the standard of life of the whites can be maintained and improved." same is true in this country. What a pity it is that organized labor (white) everywhere cannot be made to see this. It is the solution, largely, of the labor problem. The Harvest Moon. The term "harvest moon" is applied to the full moon which happens on or nearest to the 21st of September, because it rises on several consecutive nights more nearly after sunset than any other full moon of the year, and is especially favorable for harvesting work in the evening. Jeannette Knocks Out Kubik. New York City—Joe Jeannette of New Jersey knocked out Al Kubika (white) the Michigan Giant, in the third round of their scheduled ten-round bout at the Twentieth Century Athletic club Tuesday night. The team won the game, but to the jaw, Kubika rolled over on his back, but arose at the count of nine only to be knocked down twice again. Kubika was no match for Jeannette. The Afro-American was too clever for the "big bear" from Michigan. It was the second meeting between Jeannette and Kubika. In their previous encounter, Jeannette knocked out Kubika in the ninth. CORRESPONDENTS WANTED. The old reliable Gazette desires an active agent and correspondent in every city and town in Ohio and neighboring states having a number of Afro-American residents. Only a little time on Fridays or Saturdays is required. We are especially desirous of hearing from persons in the following named cities: Zaneville, Newark; Clarksville, Clarksville; ledo, Troy, Akron, Springfield, Plaqua Columbus, Cambridge, Steubenville Bellaire, St. Clairsville, Wilmington Portmouth, Dayton, Canton, Oxford Sabina, Gallipolis, Oberlin, Sandusky Delaware, M. Vernon, East Liverpool Wellsville, Hamilton, Midport Bellefontaine, Lima, O., and other places where we have none. Write to the editor of The Gazette Blackstone building, Cleveland, O. and terms will be sent promptly. Our will be sent greatly by sending at once the addresses of persons in the cities named above, or others, to whom we can write relative to the matter. THE ANNUAL MEET. Of The W. M. M. S. of the N. O. Dis trict. A Grand Success. Hamilton, O.-The W. M. M. S. of the North Ohio Conference of the A. M. E. church, met in Payne Chapel, July 13, 16, with the president, Mrs. Rosa Johnson of Cleveland, presiding. There were delegates from the entire district and fraternal delegates from the Ohio branch. Revs. J. D. J. Dingleton, John Dickerson and Whelan, a bishop of the church, took to this great movement. Many of the ladies discussed, and ably too, questions of interest. The Juvenile Society also made an excellent showing. Mrs. Carrie E. Jack of the 9th Episcopal district, and Mrs. Kinslow, evangelist, participated in the evangelistic services. Prof. J. Dingleton, Gow, a native African and also Mrs. Anderson, a returned missionary, made good speeches and were well received. Mrs. Rosa Johnson's address was full of information and encouragement. There were many sweet singers, and the choir was especially good. The attendance was good from beginning to end, and the ladies of the church are to be commended for their support about the convention. Mrs. Johnson was unanimously re-elected president. She is to be complimented for her fair and impartial ruling, her untiring zeal and sacrificing life. The reports showed a prosperous year. TO TAKE PLANT IMPRESSIONS Two Methods That Result in Pictures Which Closely Resemble Good Steel Engravings. Here is a way to take impressions of plants which will resemble steel engravings. Two of them, in fact; take your choice. The first method is to take half a sheet of fine woven paper and cover its surface with sweet oil; let it stand a moment or two, rub off the superfluous oil and hang it in the air. When it is fairly dry, move it slowly over the flame of a candle, lamp or gas burner (caution) until it is quite black, lay the plant or leaf on it, place a clean piece of paper on top and rub equally with the fingers for about half a minute; then take up the plant and place it on the paper on which it is desired to leave an impression. Cover it with a piece of blotting paper and rub as before. The engraving-like impression will then appear. By the second method, burn a common cork until it is reduced to a powder, add a teaspoonful of olive oil and mix into a thick paste. Next paint the under side of the leaf with a camel's hair brush, lay the leaf carefully, painted side down, upon a piece of clean paper, press it in a book under a strong and even weight for about a quarter of an hour and remove the leaf carefully from the paper. As before, the impression will appear thereon. Two Educations. We all have two educations, one from others and another, and the most valuable, which we give ourselves. It is the last which fixes our grade in society, and eventually our actual condition in this life, and the color of our late hereafter. All the professors and teachers in the world cannot make you a wise or good man without your own co-operation; and if such you are determined to be, the want of them will not prevail.—John Randolph. MISS L. E. WARREN'S HAIR GROWER Miss Warren is one of the FIRST and BEST in her business in Cleveland, and Positively Can Grow Hair With Each Treatment. She gives a sample box of Hair Grower. 3927 Central Ave. CLEVELAND, OHIO. LADIES! LADIES!! LADIES! Call your lady friends' and acquaintances' attention to our up-to-date fashion and pattern departments and thus encourage them to subscribe or take The Gazette regularly. Oblige the Editor. --- HOWARD UNIVERSITY WASHINGTON, D.C. WILBUR P. THIRKIELD, LL. D., Located in Capital of the Nation. 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He often objects, but he's usually too wise to say anything." ```markdown ``` in English, Mathematics, Latin, Biology, History, Philosophy, even in the best approved colleges, Dean. COLLEGE. Regular college courses in Psychol- of A. B.; Pedagogical courses courses in Normal Training, Music, graduates helped to positions, Lewis EMY. Four years each. High grade pre- M. Dean. COLLEGE. Commerce, Commercial Law, History, Civ- education combined. George W. AND APPLIED SCIENCES. Offers four-year courses in Architecture. SCHOOLS. Theology. Broad and thorough courses, university. Students' Aid. Low ex- MEDICINE. Medicalical Colleges. atories and equipment. Connected half million dollars. Clinical fa- randate School and Polyclinic. Ed. V. Sts. N. W. W.C. McNell, M. D.. Of Law. Years, a thorough knowledge own building opposite court Dean, 420 5th St. N. W. address Dean of Department. H." 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Sailing and Fishing galore. surrounds the hotel, which is un-er. W. E. Wale, one of the most of our race. His experience as a rough knowledge of details in bringtion. Hotel Dale is easy of access vania or Reading railroads. Litera-mailed upon request. Address E. W. DALE Hotel Dale Cape May, N. J. SS & CO., PRINTERS The Ave. PRINTING. THE BEST REASONABLE RATES. Cir of the Colored Association, OCTBER 12,13,14 15 & 16 Cir of the Trotting Association. UMS, more free Attractions me for everybody. Reduced Lexington. A. L. Harden, Sec'y Are You in Arrears on your subscription? You know WE NEED THE MONEY Bell East 2601 J. Local News PURCHASE THE "GAZETTE" AT J. S. HALL'S, 3121 Central Ave. L. SCHWARTZ'S, 2921 Central Ave. Open Sunday. O. C. SCHROEDER'S, Cuyahoga Bldg. Open Sunday. ELMER F. BOYD'S, 2604 Central Ave. F. VALENTINE'S, 2130 Central Ave. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS:—Subscribers not receiving The Gazette regularly should notify us at once. We desire every copy delivered promptly. We advise our patrons to carefully examine The Gazette's advertisements before making purchases. Business men who advertise in this paper should have the patronage of Afro-Americans. The fact that they advertise is assurance that they want it. Local reading notices (advertisements) ten cents a line (six words in a line.) FOR SALE—Brand new, Imperial Encyclopedia and Dictionary, 40 volumes, finely illuminated, easily to handle. Unexcelled for reference purposes. A library in itself—one that will last a life-time. Contains everything you may wish to know. Call or address, The Gazette, Blackstone Building, 1422 W. 3d St., Cleveland, O., near Superior Av. This is an opportunity of a life-time for those who love good books. NOTARY PUBLIC—For such services call at The Gazette office, No 3 Blackstone Building, No. 1422 W. 3d street, near Superior avenue. Mrs. Edw. Daw spent Sunday in Columbus. Gussie Eubanks' condition is pathetic and critical. Miss Beatrice Thomas is spending her vacation at Pen Yan, N. Y. Our local churches, union picnic was held at Chippewa lake, Thursday. Chas. S. Sutton, Esq., is candidate for a Republican nomination for Councilman at large. A. H. Martin, Esq., is a candidate for a Republican nomination for Municipal Judge. Good! The Z clu successors, on High Ave, have closed the place, so Walter McDowall informs The Gazette. Mrs. Winsted, an evangelist from Petersburg, Va., preached at St John's church Sunday morning and evening. Mrs. Wm. McIntyre of E. 71st St. left Wednesday morning for a two weeks' sojourn, in the country near Toledo. Mrs. Gale of E. 31st St., formally Mrs. L. S. Jones of E. 30th St., returned Saturday from a pleasant visit in Youngton and vicinity. Mrs. Alberta Wills returned Sunday evening from a week's visit in Urbana and other southern Ohio cities. One white and one Colored, were appointed by the court, recently, for the People's Drug Store. Mrs. John T. Morris died Saturday evening. Her husband died about a year ago. Mrs. Morris' funeral was held Tuesday afternoon. Advertise your entertainments, etc., in Gazette and have success. No advertising newspaper advertising; nor is it as good. A bright, hustling boy or girl can easily sell from one to 200 copies of The Gazette on Fridays and Saturdays every week and make "good money." Mrs. G. A. Sissle returned from Indianapolis, last week, and has instituted proceedings for divorce. Rev. Sissle is not inclined to contest the suit W. Lloyd Bowman of Chicago, a former resident of Cleveland, came from Massillon, Sunday, to visit relatives at Mr. and Mrs. Wm. McIntyre's. Wm. B. Direys of 7918 Quincy avenue does all kinds of mason work and plastering, lays cement sidewalks, lays metal bottoms, contracting and jobbing. All work guaranteed. Bell E. 1955-X. Wanted: 300 or more men to meet at Lane Memorial Church, Sunday at 3 p.m. Praise services are to be held under the auspices of the Law and Order Reform League. Everybody welcome. Jno. T. Tuck & Co., did fine jobs of house-painting, recently, for Mrs. Hicks, E. 74th St. Walter Douglass, 10111 Quebec Ave., and Mrs. Ell Lucas, E. 37th St. Their work speaks for itself. G. C. Askew of Washington, N. C. is the guest of Mrs. Elizabeth B. Kane of 2227 E. 43d St. He and Rev. W. G. Webster called on The Gazette, Monday. There are many school boys and girls who are doing nothing this summer who can make from $3 to $5 easily, on Friday and Saturdays of each week, selling copies of The Gazette, between E. 9th St. and E. 55th St. on Central Ave. Mrs. "Caddie" Clifford of Washington, D. C., wife of Hon. William I. Clifford, resident residents of this city written a brochure which she given the title of "Race Rhymes." it contains a number of good poems. The brochure is neatly printed. Miss L. E. Warren wishes to announce, through the columns of The Gazette, that she is still in business and will continue. Also that she is abundantly able to give all full and complete satisfaction as heretofore. See advertisement elsewhere in The Gazette. Send you local items to The Gazette on Mon lay or Tuesday of each week. This paper is published for ALL of our students and "plays no favor." Everybody is treated the same, fair and right. Take The Gazette and tell your friends to do so also. Babies' Day at Lane Memorial church was a success. Thirteen were baptized and entered upon the Cradle Roll Revival. The church will leave for Louisville, Ky. Wednesday, to attend a missionary convocation of the Fifth Episcopal Diocese of the C. M. E. Church. The convention will be in session from July 26 to 30 and Bishop C. H. Phillips, D. of Nashville, Tenn., will visit. When the Jewish store-keepers up Central Ave., particularly, ask you "how much money you got," when you are making a purchase or about to pay them for something, do not tell them. So instruct your purchases or to pay them. If you neglect to pay this, you and your children particularly, will often be charged more. Remember this and pass the word along to your friends and acquaintances. Monday morning, the wife of a Jewish store-keeper, near White's restaurant, took an Afro-American hat and followed an arrow to the Clayton bloody street on Central Ave., quarrelling. Here of late, considerable has been shown our people in this class, along Central Ave. It is time our people were taking more interest in the matter of the selection of delegates this fall to the State Constitutional Convention to be held next year. A good, strong, raceman is needed as a delegate from this city who is a good talker and wellgrounded in the matter of adherence to principles. Afro-Americans who are easily influenced by a white man of wealth etc., will do. Such individuals are the trusted, especially where our rights and privileges are concerned so vitally as in such a convention. Miss Beatrice Thomas is spending her vacation at Pen Yan, N. Y. Our local churches' union picnic was held at Chippewa lake, Thursday. Chas. S. Sutton, Esq., is a candidate for a Republican nomination for Councilman at large. A. H. Martin, Esq., is a candidate for a Republican nomination for Municipal Judge. Good! The Z chu successors, on High Ave. have held the place, so Walter McDowell informs The Gazette. Mrs. Winstead, an evangelist from Petersburg, Va, preached at St. John's church Sunday morning and evening. Mrs. Wm. McIntyre of E. 71st St., left Wednesday morning for a two weeks' sojourn, in the country near Toledo. Mrs. Gale of E. 31st St., formally received, on Monday evening, in honor of her sister-in-law, Mme. Lucas of Detroit. You have houses for rent or wish to rent, call at The Gazette office and make your wants known, and we will do the rest. Miss Bertha Blue entertained, Monday evening, in honor of her guest, Miss Embry of Columbus, a Virginia school-teacher. Mr. James Jackson is to be given a place under County Clyce-lect Chas. He will take office Aug. 1. I. were schooled. Do not fail to read Dr. Walter S. Biggs' advertisement elsewhere in this paper. He is a first-class dentist and a member of the race. Mme. Lucas of Detroit sang delightfully an offertory song, "I heard the Voice of Jesus say," at St. John's church, Sunday morning, that S. C. Green is to build a moving-picture and vaudeville theater nearly opposite the Oriole theater, on Central Ave. The Silver Leaf club of St. Andrews church will give a lawn party at Mrs. Davis', 2318 E. 86th St., Thursday evening. Refreshments will be served. Mr. Chas. Susberry of Middleport, and Undertaker and Mrs. C. S. Jarrigall of Knoxville, Tenn., are visiting Mr. and Mrs. James M. Tilley of E. 4d St. Mr. Weaver of Newark, will be the guest of Mr. and Mrs. T. O. Queen of Cedar Ave., next week. They spent a delightful week in Newark and Mt. Vernon, recently. We should that there will be neither shooting nor cutting at the Luna Park emancipation celebration, this year. Last year many lives were endangered by a bad Negro and his gun. Rev. G. V. Clark of Mr. Zion church, preached interestingly, Sunday evening, when Mr. Norm form, needed most at this time, however, is a concentrated movement headed by our ministers' union. Shiloh church grand rally, last Sunday, netted over $2,000. The mortgage has been burned, the church is free from debt and the property is now in possession for negotiation. This is very creditable indeed. A musical will be given by Antioch's choir, assisted by Prof. William Bradley, pianist, of the Knoxville, Tenn., conservatory, and local talent, at the church, Tuesday evening, for the benefit of a fund to place power plants. Rev, and Mrs. Ira A. Collins and daughter of Columbus, arrived in the city last week. The elder left yesterday for home. All are in excellent health and were greatly pleased to again meet their hosts of warm friends in this city. Mrs. Ira B. Maxwell, a former pastor of St. James church, sent the Gazette last week an invitation to attend the opening exercises and grand rally of Bethel church, Middletown, July 23. He and his congregation are doing excellent work. Antioch church's B. Y. P. U. annual services will be held Sunday at 7 p. m. The program: fifteen minute devotional service, a Dr. H. Washington, sermon by Dr. H. C. Bailey, and another solo by Mrs. Jeannette Allen. All are welcome. One of the most distasteful features of moving picture shows is the imposition known as "screen advertising." People who go into these theaters do not pay their money to be "used" in any such way, but do pay to be entertained and not imposed upon them lot of cheap advertising. The few theaters that do permit this nuisance and imposition are better appreciated and more largely appreciated. Mr. and Mrs. Benj. Shook Jr., of Detroit, motored to Cleveland last week and spent some days with his parents. Accompanied by his sister, Miss Willey M. M. Shook, they motored to Buffalo, Saturday and returned to this city, Sunday. Mr. Shook shipped his car to Detroit, Mrs. Shook and himself returning there by boat. Monday evening, an engagement with men (musicians) for Tuesday evening, assisting his return to direct them. Harold Tucker has brought suit before Justice of the Peace Kabatchnick for $300 damages against the Humphrey Company, which he claims refused to allow him to go swimming at Euclid Beach because he is an Afro-American. The judge who is a minor, the suit brought through his mother, Mrs. Annabel White. He claims that on July 2 he was sold tickets at the bathhouse at Euclid Beach and then was refused permission to go in bathing. The case was to have been tried Monday. Always Legal Tender. As a legal tender, the standard silver dollar is unlimited, unless otherwise stimulated in a contract. THE GAZETE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, JULY 29, 1911. This Ad Good For ONE TREATMENT FREE Of any of the following diseases. Rheumatism, Indigestion, Constipation, Kidney, Liver, Heart, Asthma, Prostatitis, Lung, Locomotor Ataxia, Cartrash, Neuralgia, Female Trouble, Bronchitis, Pleurisy, Piles, Insomnia, Obesity, etc. NO CUTTING OR PAIN. CURE GUARANTEED. DR. F. D. WEBSTER, M.T. (Mechano-Thespapist.) Phone North 1082 J. No. 813 Superior Ave., Cleveland, O. WHO MAKES YOUR CLOTHES? Rufus S. Justice 4316 Central Avenue, Fine Custom Tailoring, Cleaning, Dye- ing, Repairing and Pressing. All work guaranteed. H. BRYANT FREEMAN, 2371 E. 30th, St. . Paper Hanger --AND-- House Painter. Phone Bell, North 1075-X Cuy. Cent. THOS. P. Mc PHILLIPS Plumbing and Sewer Building All Work Given Prompt Attention 2079 E. 30th St. Cleveland, O. Bell, Doan 1398-J. Residence East 791-L. Office Dr. Walter S. Biggs. | Dentist. 4715 Central Ave., Cleveland, O. Hours: 8 to 12 a. m., 1 to 5 p. m. Sundays and Evenings by Appointment JOHN T. TUCK & CO. Dealers in Wall Paper and Paints. Decorators, Paper Hang- ers and House Painters. 3325 Central Av. 'Phone, North 1153 and Cent. 6661-R. HE OWL DRUG STORE Cor. East 38th St. Central Ave. For the best in DRUGS, SUNDRIES CIGARS and CANDIES AT CUT PRICES We fill PRESCRIPTIONS from all Physicians. Telephone Booths. Courteous treatment and prompt Service. 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Price 25c. for the Largest and Most Complete Lines as Bangs, Wigs, Puffs, Switches, Pon- LOR, Howell, Mich. in this paper. T. W. TAYLOR, Howell, Mich When writing please mention this paper NEGRO'S STATUS EXACT AND SURE In Eloquent Address to Washington High School Congressman Taylor Takes High Position. READING THE STIRRING RECORDS OF ADVANCEMENT, STATESMAN BIDS THE YOUNG TO TAKE COURAGE—DO NOT SPURN THE SOIL. Washington, D. C.—A class of 85 was graduated this afternoon from the four-year academic course offered at the M Street High school, the exercises taking place at the Howard theater before an overflow audience which had gathered in large numbers, not only because of the inspiring spectacle, but also because the commencement address was delivered by the Hon. E. L. Taylor, at present a member of the house of representatives from Ohio, and recognized as one of the greatest friends of education effort in behalf of the negro in the country. It had recently been made known that it was very largely through the efforts of Mr.-Taylor in congress that the sum of $80,000 was 'appropriated for the purchase of a site for a new M Street High school for colored students, and that the congressman had exerted himself to such good purpose for two years that appropriations had been made on more than one occasion based on the ratio of colored population in Washington as compared with the white population which is nearly one-tenth. The congressman was given an ovation when he stepped upon the platform and another when he had concluded his eloquent remarks. The exercises were presided over by Mrs. Mary Church Terrell, and the diplomas awarded the graduates by Rev. W. V. Tunnell, both members of the Washington board of education. Congressman Taylor's address is still the chief talk among the people. Mr. Taylor said in part: "I consider it a distinguished honor to have been invited here today by the officers of this school, to meet with and address for a few short minutes the graduating class and so many of the representative colored citizens of the District of Columbia. An audience like this is an inspiration to any one, and particularly one who, unlike myself, may be inclined to be pessimistic as to the progress and future of the American citizen of negro persuasion. I am further honored by being permitted to speak to a class graduating as it does today, from the oldest high school in the city of Washington. The M Street High school has compelled my interest from the time I took up my duties as a congressman, representing as I do a district in which a large and intelligent negro population reside. I was gratified to learn that there are now more than 15,000 young colored people enrolled into the various grade schools of the District of Columbia, and more than 1,000 enrolled into the high and normal schools. SCHOOL TYPICAL OF RACE. "The growth of the M Street school typifies the development of the race Starting as it did with but one teacher and forty-five pupils, today it is represented by thirty-five teachers and an enrollment of seven hundred and forty young American citizens, determined to prepare themselves properly to take up life's duties according to the bent of their individual ambitions, and this not including that splendid institution, the Armstrong Manual Training school, the outgrowth of the old business course of the M Street High school. The effects of a high school education upon your pupils seem to have been to inculcate courage, ambition and a desire to rise as educators, ministers, business men, lawyers and every other avocation to which you are individually suited. For I find that out of the class of 1910, at which time eighty young men and women graduated, 25 per cent are now pursuing a higher education in colleges or professional schools, and about 55 per cent are furthering their usefulness by a course in the normal school. PURSUING HIGHER THINGS. "This total of 80 per cent who, not content with the education resulting from a course in the high schools, proposes to still further fit themselves for useful lives in an effort, not only toward self-protection, but a more laudable desire to help better the conditions of others who will follow them. It has been my good for them to have kept in close touch with the nero citizenship, of a native state in particular, and having from boyhood known many of the both in school and in business, I have been at all times, even when others, both colored and white, were discouraged and inclined to pessimism, ardently optimistic as to the future of that portion of our citizenship, whose ancestors came to this country under the unfortunate circumstances of servitude. EXAMPLE OF GOOD FAITH. "One has but to look back a very short cycle of time, less than half a century, to see that the negro has accepted his duties of citizenship in good faith, with true courage, and The construction of the English language must appear most formidable to a foreigner. One of them looking at a picture or a number of vessels said, "See what a flock of ships!" He was told that a flock of ships was called a fleet, and that a fleet of sheep was called a flock. And it was added for his guidance in mastering the intricacies of our language that "a flock of girls is called a bevy, rising above more obstacles than any other nationality, has cheerfully and patiently progressed in education, business and other honorable pursuits as rapidly as any other race was ever known to do. When we consider the evolution of the negro from a bond-sman to a citizen, we have a chapter in history which should stand as a beacon of encouragement to every one of us. EDUCATION THE GREAT SOLU TION "You have realized as a race that education is the great solution, the basis essential, of good citizenship. Education and Christianity go hand in hand. To carry to the less fortunate the light of wisdom more than 30,000 of your people, men and women, have earnestly striven through secondary schools and colleges, to obtain a certificate which would entitle them to do their share in the splendid work of a people's uplift. I understand that practically all of the teachers in the district schools, training the minds and morals of more than 15,000 school children, are graduates of this splendid M Street High school. I have said that education leads to good citizenship. Education is the very keystone to individual success and racial advancement. You as a people, as soon as the opportunity was given you, eagerly sought the advantages of an education. The colored schools rapidly advanced from the old Freedman's Bureau to include in their number such splendid schools as Hampton and Tuskegee, Howard university, Fisk university, and other great parts of the educational machine which today throw open the door of opportunity to every colored child to receive an education fitting it to cope in every walk of life with their white neighbor. MUST GO INTO BUSINESS. "These are only necessary incidents to successful racial progress and development. While you have more than a thousand able lawyers practicing throughout the United States, two thousand or more physicians, and hundreds of banks, brokers, architects, musicians, and other professional men, do not for a single minute think that it is not equally as honorable to go into business, into farming, into mechanics, into any honorable labor, and do it well. THE SOIL IMPORTANT. "I hardly need admonish the negro of the great importance of tilling the soil. It is an acknowledged fact that the real future of this country, its very backbone, depends upon agriculture. You as a people have recognized this as readily as have the whites, and today more than 2,000,000 negroes are engaged in agricultural pursuits, and ten years ago owned over $200,000,000 worth of farms. And in the great state of Virginia, looking at a report from the auditor of the state for 1904, the negroes of the state increased the value of their property more than $1,000,000 in nine years, thus making their total property holdings in that state alone $19,500,000. ALL SIDES NEED ATTENTION I fear that I weary you with these statistics, but I am trying to impress upon you the fact that I am as proud of the fact that millions are engaged as farmers, as I am that thousands are engaged in professional pursuits. Both classes of citizens are needed to properly solve the future of your race. I am proud of the fact that over 275,000 negroes are engaged in mechanical and manufacturing pursuits. Too many are prone to the mistake that education is not necessary for manual labor, agriculture, and occupations other than professional. Let me say at this point that the best teacher is the one best educated. The best lawyer, doctor, professional man or woman is the one who has the best trained mind, and this rule applies with equal force, for wherever you find an educated farmer, mechanic or laborer, there will you find the best equipped of his class. HANDS AND BRAIN. The hands are but the instruments of the brain, and a well developed brain will produce the more skillful manual labor. One cannot pursue any vocation successfully with his brain dormant. One can reach a high degree of proficiency in his chosen line only by a high degree of development of his mental processes. We cannot all be teachers, we cannot all be lawyers. If such were the case it would be a great calamity/ COURAGE AND FAITH. And now the one thing that I believe we must remember most of all. It is naturally customary with young people, going out into the world as you are today, no longer guided, instructed and aided by your preceptors, entirely dependent upon your own abilities, courage and resources, to feel that the world is at your feet, when in fact unless you clothe yourself in an abiding faith, an undying courage, and ambition that will not falter when face to face with difficulties and discouragement, you are at the feet of the world, and will be trodden upon unless there is in you the stamina which will force recognition of your merits, be those the merits of a teacher, doctor, lawyer, minister, business man, mechanic, farmer, nurse, laborer, or domestic servant. I place no one of these occupations above the other. ALL LABOR HONORABLE. They are each equally honorable and an honest ambition to be the best of your kind will make your life a success. for success is not measured by the greatness of the individual, but if a man or woman can say that he or she is the best, or equal to the best, in their chosen life's work, their ambition is as well rounded out as is the ambition of the greatest man or woman of your race. You cannot all be leaders. One must excel the other. that a bevy of wolves is called a pack, and a pack of thieves is called a gang, and a gang of angels is called a host, and a host of propises is called a shoal, and a shoal of buffaloes is called a herd, and a herd of children is called a troop, and a troop of partridges is called a cove, and a cove of beauties is called a galaxy, and a galaxy of ruffians is called a hord, and a hord of rubbish is called a heap, and a heap of oxen is called a drove, and a drove of blackguards is called a mob, and a mob of whales The same standard applies to the colored people that applies to the white, that all work is honorable and necessary. There must be manufacturers as well as senators. There must be good business men as well as politicians. There must be fine artisans as well as litterateurs. There must be good laborers in the field as well as millionaires. And I wish to impress upon you that the success of your race, the future of your race, does not lie in the success of a chosen few, but in the success of all. Work with the hands is just as honorable as work with the brains, and the best workman is the man who has his hands and brain both trained. WHY MANY PERSONS NEGLECT RELIGIOUS DUTIES A Sermon A certain man made a great supper and invited many. But they all began to make excuse—Luke XVL 16-18. Our Saviour's parable or homily to which these words form the introduce minds, heed the plea, hearts, and interpret our own reason, we we learned when the minds to understand made to know God. Whatever else manligious; whatever virtities, his first aim must be a worship, respect, of And howsoever great in other lines, his relation to God must be When we forget business distract us of pleasure lure us, the enthrall us, the "EXCELSIOR." A good rule to follow is to foster an undying ambition to excel all in so far as your abilities will permit, and while the men or women who constantly endeavor to excel in all things will find others who by natural ability and adaptability, pass them in the race, yet the one who strives to excel the others is certain of excelling the great majority. We are too prone to measure success by wealth. As a rule, the wealthy man is termed the successful man, and yet this is absolutely sophist. A man whose entire success is an accumulation of money, and who has given tribute to posterity, has paid small tribute for the privilege of having existed. I do not mean that the accumulation of wealth is not a thing to be proud of. But there are other things which spell success in more brilliant letters. I believe in all persons being thrifty, but do not lose your better self in a wild race for wealth alone. We must have producers of wealth. We must have scholars, divines and thinkers. GOLD IS NOT ALL. The man who with his brain and the skill of hand and muscle, can contemplate a beautiful structure of which he took part in the building; the woman who can look upon hundreds of the youth of the nation, and realize that their minds and their morals have been under her control, that she has taken part in their training for a future life of usefulness, even though both draw a mere day's wage, and live in comparative obscurity, can be just as proud of their achievements as can the millionaire who gazes gloating upon his accumulated millions in stocks, bonds and gold. Each has been a producer. Each has contributed to the development of his country and to the betterment of his people. It is wrong for a person to willingly live in poverty simply through lack of ambition to rise above it. But a man or woman who devotes his or her life to the betterment of the people and falls to accumulate a fortune, yet industriously labors throughout his life need feel no pang if he should be counted among those who lack in wealth. On the other hand, the man or woman with talent, either undeveloped or latent, who sluggishly sits by and lets opportunity take wings, and falls to lift a hand or use his or her intellect to benefit the people, or produce something of value, is a sluggard and should be treated with utter contempt. KNOW THYSELE First let me urge that you commune with yourselves. Do not foster an ambition to be that which you cannot be. Be brave enough to map out your life within the scope of your abilities. I urge an unfaltering ambition to succeed and progress, but misplaced ambition to attempt that in which you cannot succeed, is not an ambition, but a delusion. Follow the admonition of Shakespeare, "The vaulting ambition which oft o'erleaps itself and falls on the other side." And another old philosopher says that "He who hews above his height may have chips in his eyes." I do not say this by way of discouragement, but I have seen too many good men and women fall through misplaced effort, through thoroughly misunderstanding their own limitations, and the man and woman is assured of success who is courageous enough to analyze himself and frankly acknowledge his shortcomings. You will find much of discouragement, but that only gives zest to the great delight of living a successful, upright, future life. BE PROUD OF YOUR RACE. Let me admonish you, and I speak from the bottom of my heart, never be ashamed that you were born of col- lor and Go into the world full of pride of race, and you race prejudice and race hatred. Pride of race is proper, but one of the greatest obstructions to the pro-gress of your race has been race hatred and prejudice, both among the whites and the negroes. You are here by right. You are entitled to equal rights under the law. This is guaranteed you by the Constitution. You cannot unmake in a day secessional prejudice, but you can by patiently striving toward good citizenship, by industrious working to create something of the brain or the hand that the people want, bring about more rapidly than by any other means, a proper understanding with the people of other races and nationalities, living under the same flag. You have no cause to be ashamed of the past history of your race. The record of the last fifty years should send you forth full of encouragement and enthusiasm of the future. When you take up your life's work, do so as American citizens. OUR EXACT STATUS. This is your exact political and economical status in this country. Every man, woman and child born under the flag of our country, is an American citizen, and it should be your ambition, and will if I read your faces right today, to by American citizens that other American citizens, regardless of race or color, will be compelled to take pride in. is called a school, and a school of worshippers is called a congregation, and a congregation of engineers is called a corps, and a corps of robbers is called a band, and a band of locusts is called a swarm, and a swarm of people is called a crowd." "I wonder if these ruins are very ancient," murmured the professor. "Not so very," said the experienced member of the party. "They have been put up since I was last here."—Pittsburgh Post. --- WHY MANY PERSONS NE- GLECT RELIGIOUS DUTIES A Sermon A certain man made a great supper and invited many. . . . But they all began to make excuse—Luke XVI 16-18. Our Saviour's parable or homily to which these words form the introduction commentators take as illustrative of the conduct of some people toward the church, or faith, or grace, or what is included in religion. Very many heed not the call or offer various excuses for not attending to the demands which religion makes on their time and energies. Men and women with draw themselves from the influences which religion would exercise on their lives and from the ideals which it furnishes. They are struggling to maintain an independent attitude and trying to convince themselves that religion is a luxury which they can well do without, or is not a necessity of their being. There are, of course, individual reasons which some hold up to justify their neglect and serve as foundations for the absence of any religious element in their lives and actions. But more deep-seated and general is the lack of appreciation in them of the benefits of religion and its claims. Religion—and by that I mean, not a mere ethical culture or moral standards, but revealed religion, a holding on to the unseen, verities of the supernatural and spiritual, the substance of things hoped for and the conviction of things that appear—is its urgent and of vital interest. Even natural religion is based on what is above the senses. Though much is done to destroy belief in the traditional teachings of Christianity and the waves of agnosticism and materialism leave a sentiment noisome and disastrous, yet the soil is not swept away in which grow the ideas of God, creation, the soul, eternal life. The human race cannot all be weaned from the abiding confidence in the truth and actuality of these fundamental teachings. Mankind is immovable in the things which are written on the tablets of our hearts and indelibly imprint on our beings. Human life is more than plant life, more than animal life, and must be led in subjection to and in dependence on the Supreme Being. For not only do we bear about us the image of the creating God, but we hug securely the anticipation and longing for a sharing in the divine, when this mortality puts on immortality. "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God," "The Lord thy God shalt thou adore and him only shalt thou serve," are written in the traditions and works of every nation and tribe. It is of primary importance "to behold the power of the height of heaven, to seek the Lord who knoweth all knowledge and declareth the things that are past and the things that are to come, and revealeth the traces of hidden things; for all men are vain, in whom there is not the knowledge of God or who by the good things that are seen cannot understand him that is." This is: "the highest wisdom, the vapor of the power of God, a certain emanation of God's glory, the brightness of eternal light, the unspotted mirror of his majesty, the image of his goodness." When we understand the nature of our own As water is the means of circulation of plants as well as of animals, therefore it is of prime importance that water be present in the soil, in order that the plant food in the soil may be taken up by the trees. Many orchards have sufficient available plant food, but lack water at that critical period while the tree is fruit making. If a soil lacks water some form of fertilizers are a positive detriment if they are present in abundance. The chief elements of success in preparing an orchard soil for the best results, may be summed up as: Removing surplus water from the soil. The conservation of plenty of moisture. The judicious use of manure and cover crops. The use of potash and phosphoric acid in available forms. Cultivation to keep a mulch. Reducing the number of trees per acre. By withholding nitrogen, and increasing the amount of mineral matter. By the use of wind breaks. By mulching. By keeping the soil in the best physical condition possible. It is not wise to stick to the exclusive use of any one practice, but to employ various methods to maintain the fertility of the orchard soils. GOOD AND BAD EGGS. All people do not agree on the definition of a good egg, and even some do not realize the conditions that sometimes affect its quality. In order to meet any demand for first-class eggs, the eggs should weigh one and one-half pounds to the dozen, be uniform in size, naturally clean, not washed, strong shelled and fresh. A fresh egg is one that was laid by a healthy hen. is only a few days old and has been kept in desirable surroundings. A fresh egg is not one that was allowed to stay in the nest for a day or two until it became convenient to gather it, or was taken from a stolen nest, or an incubator, or from under* a setting hen. Age causes an egg to become stale and shrunken, and it can never be TIGHT WIRE FENCES. End posts to fences should be put in often enough to insure a thorough stretching of every lengthwise wire in the fence, and built in such a substantial manner that they will not give away in two or three years, which marks the first big step in the deterioration of most wire fences. Line post should be near enough together to hold the cense in a perfectly erect position without any sag. Every fence owner shou' be con- minds, beed the promptings of our hearts, and interpret the capacity of our own reason, we value the lesson we learned when first we opened our minds to understanding, that we are made to know God and to love him. Whatever else man is, he must be religious; whatever engages his activities, his first and all-absorbing aim must be divine adoration, worship, respect, obedience and love. And howsoever great may he rise in other lines, his development in his relation to God must be the greatest. When we forget this, the claims of business distract us, the attractions of pleasure lure us, the lust for power enthralls us, the passion of sin controls us, and we lose sight of the face which we should constantly recognize that unless we join in praise and prayer to the Most High and unite in adoration of His Supreme Majesty who are an anomaly to the face of the earth. For all things that exist render praise to him. What we need is more reflection; deep pondering will reveal to us the necessity of religion to give proper dignity to our lives, impulse to our endeavors, strength to our weakness and support to our sorrows. A little knowledge may lead from God, but more knowledge drives us back to him. When the thought of his sovereignty takes possession of us and we realize our dependence on him, we shall appreciate religion's claims and acquit ourselves of its duties. Some refuse to accept and abide by the teachings of the supernatural, alleging that they are beyond the scope of human attainment, and therefore should have no abiding force. But the foundation on which those teachings rest is as sound and solid as human reason or human judgment; and faith gives play to a perfectly legitimate function or operation of the human mind. And no student of natural philosophy or earthly science proclaims the conclusions of his study or the facts of his realm with any more confidence than the truth of faith. Conviction of the truth and actually of the supernatural is possible, obligatory, indispensable and not so very difficult, and will direct and impel to earnest and loving practice of religious virtues. Unwillingness, too, keeps many away from the church of God—unwillingness to accept and fulfill the obligations which religion imposes. For religion is a system of duties and laws as well as of inspiration and hope. It comes to us and says emphatically: Thou shalt not. It declares some human actions lawful and some desires illegitimate. It puts us under restraint and would have us exercise self-control. We have to check our passions and overcome evil tendencies. And there are standards—exact, strict and positive—according to which our conduct must be ruled. We are not allowed to think as we please or to do as we like. And we must one day render an account of our stewardship. We do not relish anything that puts us under restrain or makes it hard for us. We do not read "Rules and regulations" with pleasure, and do not spontaneously place ourselves in the way of laws and their action. We observe laws under protest. Therefore as religion may not have any immediate and present sanction for its laws and cannot secure earthly penalties the observance of its commands and injunctions, mankind takes advantage of the case with which it can avoid the obligations, and walks away with perfect composure and indifference. Only they who are possessed by the importance and filled with the spirit of devotion will obey when religion calls and do what it directs. classed as a fresh egg. Heat seriously affects the quality of eggs, and in warm weather they should be gated daily and marketed as often as possible to florist causes molds to develop and certainly causes a quality of the egg. Muddy weather means dirty nests, and consequently dirty eggs. Nests built upon the walls of barns and henhouses are often used as roosting places, causing fifth to accumulate, resulting in dirty eggs. Dirty eggs must be handled as second grades; washed eggs are just as bad. Eggs deteriorate in quality if they are left behind the kitchen stove or are stored in damp or musty cellars. —Indiana Experiment Station. We had excellent success with a crack filler made by taking some rather dry putty, moistening or softening with some of the floor varnish—a lift at a time, as it hardens rather quickly—and to obtain correct shade we used yellow ochre for light floors or burnt umber for dark. Use only a small amount of color at a time and compare until the exact share is reached. We tried some of the prepared filler, but it was not as satisfactory as the homemade. Press into cracks with putty knife and scrape off all that comes above the surface—Mrs. C. R. MAKE OWN WATER FILTER. A homemade filter can be made in this way: Take a large flower pot, insert in the hole in the bottom a sponge, fill the pot with alternate layers of sand, charcoal and small pebbles. The flower pot thus filled may then be placed on jar or other convenient vessel into which the water can be received as it filters through. STRENGTHENING PILLOW-SLIPS. Pillow-slips made from tubing may be given a longer lease of life by reversing the end seam. Rip seam and turn half way around, so that the former side folds meeting in the center, and stitch up again. This gives a new surface for the heavier wear. stantly making repairs. Whenever a trip is made to any part of the farm a hammer, wire stretcher and some staples should be taken along with which any fence repairs can be made. —Inland Farmer. When a great wave of sympathy for a fellow being surges through one's heart, it is then, if one look with knowing eyes, that the thin veil which separates the spiritual from the material world may be penetrated. The Sunday School Lesson Golden Text—"Thy word have I hid in mine heart, that I might not sin against thee."—Ps. 119:11. 2 Chron. 34:14-21. Commit v. 21. Time—621 B. C. Place—Jerusalem. Exposition—I. The power of the word. 14-21. The manuscript of the law of the Lord found by Hilkiah in the temple was presumably the very one written by Moses (cf. Deu. 31:24-26). The supposition of the destructive critics that the so-called law of Moses was invented at this time and that it was not a discovery of the manuscript before existing is without foundation in fact. Their theory would turn Hilkiah, the great reformer, into a great liar and fraud. It speaks badly for one's own heart to be so ready to suspect every one else of falsehood. This is the constant temper of "the higher criticism." Why? There are fifteen places in the Old Testament that mention "the Law of Moses," "the Book of Moses," and only this one place which mentions the book of the law by the hand of Moses. Presumably there were other copies of the law in the land and probably Josiah had seen such copies but had never read them with any fullness of care. How "the law of God" could become a forgotten book will be very easily understood by anyone familiar with the history of the Bible in the dark ages and how it became a practically forgotten book. Jehovah had given charge that each king should have a copy of this "law" and should read therein all the days of his life (Deu. 17:18, 19). But the kings had forgotten both Jehovah and the law by the hand of Moses. Prosperity and success depends upon meditating upon the word of God day and night and to observe to do according to all that is written therein (Josh. 1:8, 19). Ruin awaits the one who casts away the law, passed it on to others and gave rise to a great reformation. One of the many proofs that the Bible is the word of God is the effect that a new study of it has upon religion and morals. No one has a right to keep the word of God to himself when he finds it. Every great religious reformation has arisen from a new study of the word of God. The money gathered for the house of the Lord was handled with care and appropriated to its proper use. Shaphan had an important part in the reformation by reading God's word to Josiah. There is more of wisdom in God's book than all the books of man (Ps. 11:98, 99; 130; 2 Tm. 14:17). The first effect of the reading of the word of God upon Josiah was to produce conviction of sin (v. 19). Having been convicted of sin by the word, Josiah next seeks to know the will of God. In those days the prophet of God was depended upon to discover and reveal the mind of the Lord (v. 22; cf. Ex. 18:15, 1 Sam. 9:9; 1 K. 22:5-7. Jer. 21:2; Ezek. 14:20; 10:17). In this dispensation it is our higher privilege to be directly taught by the Spirit through the word (John 14:26; 16:13, 14; 1 John 2:20; Jas. 1:5:7). The great wrath that came upon Judah was because they did not keep the word of the Lord and had not done after "all that is written." II. The great revival in Jerusalem and of Judah, 29-33. Having learned the will of Jehovah and the certainty of his word, the king with all his heart undertook the execution of that will. He began with the leaders of the people (v. 29) but left none out. "Both great and small" must hear the word. Josiah began his reformation where all proper and lasting reformation must begin, by teaching the whole people "all the words of the Book." What a sight! a king reading "all the words of the Book" to his assembled people. Having acquainted the people with God's law as revealed in his own word, he first of all himself made a covenant before the Lord in the presence of the people. He covenanted to do three things: (1) "To walk after the Lord." (2) "To keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes;" no part of the word was to be neglected. Furthermore, he agreed to do it "with all his heart and with all his work." (3) "To perform the words of the covenant which are written in this book." Having first got right with God himself, he caused the whole people to get right—The inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God." When the rulers get right the people will soon get right. It was no new God with whom they were entering into covenant, it was with "the God of their fathers." He made a clean sweep of all abominations throughout all the countries over which he had power. That is the kind of revival that is needed today. But they not only put away sin, they went to work "to serve." True salvation is a salvation to service. The results of the revival remained as long as Josiah lived, every new generation needs a new reformation (v. 33; cf. ch. 36). Manager—We have a boy in the office who whistles at his work. His Wife—Doesn't it drive you mad? Manager—Oh, no; you see, he's so seldom working—Red Hen. "He's getting on in the world." "Yes, indeed. He's rich enough now so that he can hire a man to do his amateur gardening for him."—Chicago Post. Stella—"Men are queer." Bella—"Yes; they are delighted when you forget how to swim, and mad when you forget how baseball is played."—New York Sun. Many a great invention has been found by a man who was lost in thought. A DRESSY SHIRT WAIST. 4678 Adding a touch of fancy to a plain shirt waist we have a very pretty model, shown in the accompanying illustration. The waist is built on the well liked Gibson lines, with the deep tuck extending out over the shoulder, short in front and full length in the back. The closing of the waist is in the back. In front there is a small pointed yoke at the neck, edged on each side by small revers. Below this there is a panel, formed by two outward turning tucks. The sleeves have a small cap at the top and a deep cuff at the wrist with a puffed section between them. This waist may be developed in any soft silk, such as mesmelline or ponge and equally well in gingham, madras, challis, etc. The pattern (4678) is cut in sizes 32 to 42 inches bust measure. Medium size requires 37 yards of 87 inch material. To procure this pattern send 16 cents to "Pattern Department," of this paper. Send the pattern to the size, size and number of pattern. 5522 This very smart little jacket is made with panel effect in front and back, the fitting being accomplished by French darts and seams. A smart shawl collar finishes the low cut neck and a high waisted effect is obtained by the placing of trimming, but there is no seam beneath it. Satin, serge, cheviot, linen or pongee can be used for this coat. The pattern (5522) is cut in sizes 14, 16 and 18 years. Medium size requires 1 3/4 yards of 50 inch material. To procure this pattern send 10 cents to "Pattern Department," of this paper. Write name and address plainly, and sure to give size and number of pattern. NO. 5522 SIZE..... NAME..... TOWN..... STREET AND NO..... STATE.... In their outlook on life most Chinese are rank materialists, says a writer in the Century. They ply the stranger with questions as to his income, his means, the cost of his belongings. They cannily offer paper money instead of real money at the graves of their dead, and sacrifice paper images of the valuables that once were burned in the funeral pyre. Yet no one who comes into close touch with the Chinese deems this utilitarianism a race trait. They are, in fact, capable of the highest idealism. Among the few who have come near to the thought of Buddha or Jesus one finds faces saintlike in their depth of spirituality. The materialism is imposed by hard economic conditions. It is the product of an age long anxiety about tomorrow's rice and is not to be counteracted by the influence of the petty lift them above sordid anxieties. The Suffrage Flag. Mrs. James Lee Laidlaw has presented a suffrage banner that was used in the May parade in New York, to be taken to London very shortly. It will float over the American decommissioned Mra. MPAurkhurst is planning. There will be 40,000 in the parade, as she has planned it. A Polite Request. "Madam, may I ask you to remove your hatpin?" "Sir, you are rude!" "Doubtless, madam, doubtless; but the discomfort of standing in a swaying car with your hatpin through the rim of my car must be my excuse. Perhaps my ear is too large, anyhow."