The Gazette

TWENTY-NINTH YEAR. NO. 12. Small Hats For Fall : IN UNION THERE ESTRUMENT TWENTY-NINTH Small Hat There is no gaalsaying the popularity of the small hat for general wear. When it fits the head properly it fits satisfactorily, without doubt, the first office of a hat, because it really covers and protects. Most of the fashionable shapes also afford some shade for the eyes, although there are many which set close to the forehead. These are chic and pretty, but sacrifice comfort for the eyes, in a measure, to a certain dash and "go" in poise and style. The poke bonnet shapes, ranging from the real bonnet of 1880 to merely a hint of the type, has been a strong influence in the season. The turban and bonnet ideas have been combined and some entirely new models like the Alpine hat with folded over crown give a wide range of choice to the seeker for something becoming. The hats shown here illustrate three entirely different types—all practical and all pretty. They are made on buckram frames, covered with satin, satin or velvet, and their staple materials are used in the trimming. The Alpine hat is of black velvet with hand of bright green, laid in narrow and shallow plaits. A silk cord, with knot and tassel, and a nar New Tailored Costumes Are Fascinatingly Youthful and Fetching on Slender Figures. Fascinatingly youthful and fetching or slender figures are the new tailored costumes, with a short, straight hung skirt and a coat cut on straight sack lines, with ordinary coat sleeves and a severe flat collar finish. Made of the dull hued woolens that are in favor, of velvet and rich silk, they are equally swagger, and serve alike for morning or for afternoon wear. The hat only is changed to suit the time of day. While the outside is kept quiet in color, the lining of such a coat may be as gay as desired. Many short skirts still show the flat, plain back breadth, but women who prefer a change order their new tailored skirts made with two or three small, flat plaits arranged in the middle of the back. A recent skirt showing this back effect has the front made in three tiers, each one edged with narrow fringe made of the material, a soft rattine cut in slender strands. The large, flat collar of the accompanying coat is trimmed to match. New Dress Box. There are shirtwait boxes galore, innumerable dress chests and many improvised receptacles for use in the woman's room, but the latest novelty is the result of an ingenious brain which conceived the possibilities of having a dress box, full length, to match the hardwood floor in her room. A cheap frame was constructed of pine, lined throughout with white oil-sloth, the edge glued on the outside. This was covered with linoleum, a clever imitation of oak in two shades. It was glued to the outside and the raw edges were covered with tan leather strips, held in place with brass studs. The hinges and lock were of brass. Two stout straps were tacked to the inside of the lid, making a good receptacle for holding two parasols, says an exchange. Ball-bearing casters completed the dress box and the owner paid much less for this treasure than a fancy one would cost at any store. The Age of the Fork. Knives and spoons are of very great antiquity, but the use of the fork is really, comparatively speaking, modern. Indispensable as these adjuncts of the table may now appear, their use not become at all general at the beginning of the eighteenth century. THE GAZETTE row silk finishing braid complete the decoration. Silk cord and fancy silk finishing braids are growing in favor on two quite distinct types of hats, the street hat and the evening cap. For the former silk cords in black or the darker colors and for the latter, gold, silver and light colored cords provide a charming finish. Gold and silver lace, with fur, show the influence of the coronation more strongly than any other new feature in millinery. In gowns and coats military buttons are more in evidence than for many seasons, and cords are "a part of the play" on many gowns. All of the hats shown here are suitable for black or for the rich colors which usher in the winter bronze and purplish reds, deep browns, all shades of purple, deep clear blues and dull dark greens are the colors for ordinary wear. There are some rather startling and vivid tints in plain broadcloth, like old gold, delft blue, and light rose color, for cloth gowns designed for high occasions. Such gowns require millinery designed especially to be worn with them, or the big black velvet hat with trimming of showy white ostrich or marabut may be worn with their usual colors. CHILD'S DRESS. Striped zephyr makes up very well in this style. The material is arranged in one wide box-pleat; each side back and front, and is set to a square yoke, in which the stripes run horizontally. The turn-up cuffs and collar are of white lawn, hematised at the edge. A band of the material is worn just below the waist-line. Material required: 2 yards 40 inches wire. Garnet Revival. Every little while sees a revival of some old-fashioned gem or style and now it is the garnet that women are wearing once more. Many forms it takes—and one may wear this pretty red stone in many ways. The finest garnets are the Bohemian variety, and one may have them in rings, in necklaces, in pendants or wear them in brooches. There are barpins, too, of garnets, and collar pins, slides and buckles for the belt. Use Einer Thread. Instead of using forty or fifty thread when sewing calicoes, etc., on the machine use sixty or seventy and it will look better and wear better. The two threads give sufficient strength and the finer thread imbeds itself in the material and becomes almost like a part of it, while the coarse thread, being raised above the egface, is subjected to more wear. ESTABLISHED AUGUST 25, 1883 AND ISSUED EVERY WEEK ON TIME SINCE. CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1911. SUPPORT THE PRESS RACE PAPERS SHOULD BE BET TER PATRONIZED BY NE- GROES In the modern commercial world there is perhaps no more striking example of the power of the press for developing an enterprise than that given by H. J. Selfridge in his London department store. London a century ago had her own standard of commercialism and exploitation and the method was quite as un-American as London is. The merchants believed in dignity at all times; they did not encourage idle curiosity. Then Mr. Selfridge, very American and afame with nerve and ideas, entered the staid city, and one morning all the papers were alive with his advertisements. He told what his store contained in three-inch headlines, he gave the policy of the institution in long columns, he whetted the public curiosity, and then lived up to the expectation of the people. truly, London was surprised and London was indignant, but London was also curious, and today as a result of the Selfridge idea the big stores are advertising and becoming more of a public institution than they have ever been. In America we need no example of what the newspaper does for the department store. It has built the loop district, and so potently is this recognized that stores in other parts of the city desiring additional trade are beginning to use the paper columns extensively. All are seeking patronage because without the peoples' co-operation no institution can exist. Now the newspaper itself is also a business proposition. Run along different lines perhaps, but with the same fundamental principles governing its well being. Perhaps no other business gives so much for so little. The best brain of the country is called for its columns. No branch of life is left unnoticed. It is a history, a literature, a dictionary of everyday life, and it is absolutely dependent on the populace for its existence. Other institutions supply physical needs that are constantly recurring, but the newspaper supplies the mental need which is at all times uncertain in its demands. Crimes are prevalent, but were it not for the newspaper and its ever watchful eye crime would perhaps be the rule rather than the exception. Moreover more movements toward right living and right thinking are directly traceable to the press than to any other public organ. To the cities the papers are like the raplids to great bodies of water, ever cleansing and readjusting them. The local news organ watches over the community, points out the immoralities, brings to light those things which are for the public good and which, were it not for the paper, would often be overlooked or silenced. As an evidence of progress the paper is a monument to the race. To our race this is especially true. This only in very recent years that we have recognized the need for records and histories of our daily occurrences, but the negro newspaper all over the country has for years been watchful of an interest to which the race is but just awakening. Moreover, our papers have given incentive to brain development, and through them we have found free expression for our Fred Douglases and T. T. Fortunes. With a voice that can be heard from coast to coast, they bring before the land the needs of an often neglected portion of its citizens. To the paper the race owes reforms which the pulpit often cannot reach. it influences politics, watches the school systems, guards the social centers, in fact keeps the good of the community ever before negligent people, besides giving a healthy tone and clean understanding of literary matters and pastime interests. It is the weapon of the oppressed and the mouthpiece of the race at all times. And the voice speaking through it is usually that of Destiny. By keeping things forever in the limelight it acts as a great moral factor. Those in power are slower to act without justice when they know that a paper stands ready to announce the evils that they do to a listening and correcting world. But in the final analysis, the paper is the direct medium of the advertiser and the subscriber. To them it gives its best and closest attention. And from them it must draw its sustance. And, since the paper fulfills in its entirety its duty to its patrons, an obligation is imposed on them toward it. Our race papers should be patronized at all times when possible. They can only prosper as we answer their needs, and their progress means ours. Financially, the patrons of a paper cannot be too prompt. It is an institution where, because of its very nature, large expenses are always accruing. We norseurs set the standard for any enterprise, and we ourselves measure its progress. The newspaper will prosper despite individual shortcomings, but every person should feel it his duty to help toward that progress. Advertisement means larger business, an increased interest, a larger outlook, and our interests demand that we keep that which we are offering the public everywhere before them. The newspaper is the surest, swiftest measure for accomplishing this. We must recognize our interests in our enterprises and live up to them if we ever measure to the full stature of a nation—Illinois Chronicle. SCIENTIFIC MYSTERIES A most remarkable state, condition or point of nature, the absolute zero of temperature, has been reached to within three degrees. This is considered to be a great scientific achievement. Hydrogen gas was solidified into pure white ice, and this was employed in the process of cooling helium, and all works of the hand of man were surpassed. The temperature sank lower and lower until a point only three degrees from absolute was reached, but the obdurate helium did not even liquefy. The imagination, however vivid, cannot encompass what this intense cold implies. It may be the death of the activity of matter—that is, a state of rest so far as chemical reaction is concerned. Thus if the true zero of nature can be reached it may obtain that matter will put on new aspects and hitherto unknown properties, or it may expire, become chemically inert, totally devoid of heat and lifeless. Still even then the standing mystery ever confronting man, always awaiting explanation, gravitation, will act. Nothing known can affect the universal attraction, forever directly as to mass, whether hot or cold. However, the three degrees may never be overcome, or, indeed, they may, for it is now thought that science has no limits, the scientific mind being capable of solving all problems—so saith some mentologists. The capital problem is first to discover what mind is, then life, next gravitation, next electricity, and reach a climax in finding how it is that gaseous masses glow and issue light when existing in frigid yields at zero absolute. There is no solution in sight for any of these perplexing problems and harassing. No progress whatever has been made in finding what mind is, the reason being doubtless that mind is unable to think of itself. On trial it will be soon discovered that one is unable to set up a train of reasoning regarding his own or another's mind. "His own" implies an owner, but no fact as to who this owner is has ever been discovered. Humans are not perfect. —Edgar Lucien Larkin in New York American. FEES FOR ITS FLASHES SAN SALVADOR USES A LIVE VOLCANO AS A LIGHTHOUSE. The republic of San Salvador is the only government on earth that collects lighthouse fees on account of a volcano that it owns and without the slightest cost of upkeep. The volcano beacon is about eight miles inland from the port of Acajutla, and its pillar of cloud by day and its fire sky by night are visible for many miles out at sea. It bursts forth every seven minutes and is just as accurate as any revolving light that warns mariners of danger in any part of the world. This volcano has been keeping up this seven minute series of eruptions ever since anyone can remember. It is a favorite amusement of visitors to sit by the hour during the lazy afternoons, and watch in hand, to time the eruptions till they tire of the occupation and fall asleep. No one has ever caught the volcano napping, however. Every vessel that puts in at Acajutla has to pay its lighthouse fee. There is no other lighthouse than the volcano, but that is sufficient excuse for the government of Salvador to make a charge for its services. The explosions that accompany the eruptions sound like detonations of a heavy charge of dynamite, but fortunately they are not sufficient to shake the ground perceptibly more than about a mile or two from the summit of the crater—Pearson's Weekly. ALWAYS THE WAY Tommy had been invited to dine at a learned professor's house, and his mother was anxious for his good behavior at table. She gave him elaborate instructions. "Well, Tommy, how did you get on?" she asked on his return. "You are quite sure you didn't do anything impolite?" "Well, no, ma—at least nothing to speak of." The mother's anxiety was aroused. "Ah, then, there was something wrong. Now, tell me all about it, Tommy." "Oh it wasn't much. You see, I was trying to cut my meat when it slipped off the plate on to the floor." "Oh, my dear boy, what did you do?" "I just said sort of carelessly, That's always the way with tough meat, and went on with my dinner."—Pittsburgh News. WHY SHOULD WE EDUCATE OUR CHILDREN? --- AN ABLE EDITORIAL BY R. D. JOHNSON OF EMMETT, ARKANSAS While passing through a rural district a few Sundays ago, we noticed this motto on the church wall: "We must educate." This motto gave us reflection over quite a number of reasons for education and gave us a stimulus to think along that line. You have no doubt heard of the word education quite a number of years, and maybe you have heard it explained in the sense that we are to use it in this discussion it means to train the mind or to conduct the mind or to lead the mind out to its fullest extent. There are possibly many ways in which the mind may be trained; in the schoolroom by the teacher, at home by reading, in traveling by observation. We will not question which of the many ways of training is the best. The question is, why should we educate our children? might be asked any of you, and there is not one of you that could not give some reason why. We say educate them because it makes them accurate observers of the things around them. The child's mind is plastic and very easily molded in the way in which the trained mind sees fit to shape it. Nothing in human nature is more open to impressions than the child's mind. The little babe sees a beautiful rose and stretches forth its chubby hands to grasp it. It no sooner has the rose but that it begins to pick it to pieces, sometimes noticing each petal. This keen observation in the child, if rightly developed, means more to its after life than you might now think. In the schoolroom the child observes the teacher and more or less imitates the teacher. The teacher's actions live in the life of the child. Constant attention to the teacher and her work makes the child an accurate observer in the schoolroom. The ideas of the teacher inculcated in the child teach it to observe things on the way home from school to home. It takes notice of the many things around in its circle of activity and reports its new discoveries to the teacher. This exercise gives it a great opportunity to observe the things at home and in what way many of them are used. We often look at the locomotive as it passes us with its train of cars and wonder how much power is stored up in it. Human intelligence delights to contemplate powerful things. Just as we admire the exhibition of power in the great mechanical creations of man, so we like to see children with power of the will, the power of thought and the power of action. Education gives the child the power of will. The child, in coming in contact with our children, gains a power of doing things that it would not get otherwise. This power makes it exercise its will more or less, thus giving it will power. The child's study of conditions around itself gives the child certain conclusions; these conclusions are reached by the exercise of thought power. The execution of ideas and deductions of the child give it the power of action. Thus it is that we should educate the child because of the above facts. Our minds are somewhat agitated when we hear or read of some toulde committed in our community or in our county or state. Did you ever think that the man or woman who committed the deed was a grown-up child? Give the child a chance to learn something and it will create in the child the love for beautifying the home. It will stimulate its passivity into activity so that the child will take an interest in the community life. As the child develops its circle of interests grows larger until it takes in the welfare of the county and state. Since the man or woman is a developed child, let the child get the proper training and you will have better citizens. Thinking people are those people who make progress along all lines. Even the laborer, if he does not think will find himself using his best strength in vain. The farmer who does not think in seed time will stand very little chance of reaping when harvest time comes. The teacher, it he or she does not make the best preparation possible while training themselves for their work, will fall short of realizing their cherished ambition of helping the child's life. Thus it is that we should educate our children to make them better in every way. We should educate our children because it gives them a better grasp on a practical Christian life. Our race of all races needs to learn, yes, not only learn, but put into practice our Christian principles so that our daily lives will measure up to our Sunday testimonials to our Christian steadfastness. This can be best accomplished through the means of education. Send your child to school. Let it get mental power in the great storehouse of knowledge and the exercise of his mental powers will greatly aid him to rightly interpret God's Holy Writ, and from this interpretation his life will be built up in that high atmosphere of usefulness, not only to himself but to the community and to the Creator of the universe. From our observation of children and their habits, we say train them while they are young. Let them have a chance. Is the cultivation of a cotton crop more valuable than that training which the child receives in the schoolroom? Are the few dollars you save by keeping them out of school SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. WESTERN RESERVE CLEVELAND, O. HISTORICAL SOCIETY. making you any richer? Do not some of you crave for the chance your children now enjoy? Then give them a chance. Since education maker the children accurate observers of conditions around them, and since it cultivates the mind to love the home, to be active in the school and district, and since it develops the power of will, thought and action, and since it makes better citizens and leads them into a life of usefulness, we say, if you would maintain your place in the present civilization; if you would compete with other races in this struggle for existence, educate your children. MONEY AND CHARACTER YOUNG MEN OF THE NEGRO RACE ARE AROUSED TO THE BLESSEDNESS OF THE ALMIGHTY DOLLAR. Whatever the older men among negroes might have thought of the value and power of money in its relation to the problem of the American negro, it is a very certain fact that the younger men, those who are about getting the whip hand in race affairs, are thoroughly aroused to the blessingness of the almighty dollar. They are not only aroused in this respect, but they boldly crown the American dollar not only as almighty, but as the only thing that is mighty at all. We do not like to have our strong young men feel this way about money, but that is the way they do feel, and that is the only way they can feel about it, for the dollar mark in American life is the only mark that spells power and position. We have all of us fell to preaching money here of late with eloquence and zeal, stressing, as we ought to do, the need of money in the terrible battle we are called on constantly to wage, but we have unfortunately omitted to preach the need also of character. From the lips of one of the most successful of young colored men we heard that the only solution to the vexations that trouble our hearts was money, money, and more money. He spoke no idle speech, but the belief that was in him. He is a type. With his growing kind arguments in support of character as also a necessary element in the solution for which we all of us labor are words wasted. This is bad, bad for the race, bad for the children and worse for the future. No money-changer can of himself live, and no money chancing people can of themselves develop the power of a permanent growth. Behind the dollar is the man, and if behind the dollar there is neither man nor hope of him, of what use is it? Hand in hand with our material growth, a growth upon which we do well to dwell, must go also the moral and spiritual growth of us; the determination that we shall merit all that the dollar can buy, and the preparation that will enable us to enjoy in no superficial sense whatever is bought. What is character? The ancients were up against that question, and came out the worse for the battle. There are, however, certain fundamental principles in correct living, and, therefore, in correct development, that are debatable not even among those who at the drop of the hat are ready to debate upon the color of longitude or the shape of water. These principles are not alone for the preacher, nor the learned, but are at the hands of all who may seek them. Honesty, honor, determination, patience, toil, temperance, self-control—upon these as stepping-stones men may rise to higher things. "If we can give the French character we can make France free," remarked a statesman who had seen the revolution turn France from a madhouse of blood into a state of free men. The French, one of the wealthiest of peoples and the intellect of Europe, needed character, according to one of them, to make them a well-rounded people. The American negro needs money, and he needs much of it. He needs more than he can get hold of honestly in the next century, but he needs character more than money. His friends, in the race and out of it, will tell him this whether he likes it or not. The theme of the preacher, the subject of the writer, the command of the leader, and the word of the teacher, in season and out of season, ought to be money and character, today and tomorrow. But the greater of these is character HIS CHRISTMAS CHECK. Al Ryan, the hospital flint glass worker of Lockport, N. Y., and formerly organizer of the Socialist local at that place, was being congratulated by the boys at the glass factory. "Yes," said Al, "my uncle out in Tiffin is mighty good to me. The day before Christmas he sent me a check for $100, just as a little Christmas gift." After the usual congratulatory comments had been duly made all around, Al added: "Yes, he certainly is a fine old fellow. In the postscript if his letter containing the check he said: "Dear Al, if you manage to get this check cashed, please send me $4. I need a pair of shoes."—Coming Nation. A GREAT RELIEF. "Gee, aint it a great relief when you've been suffering from a toothache to summon up your courage and go to a dentist and have it over with?" "I guess so. Did the dentist relieve you?" "You bet He wasn't in!-"—Toledo Blade. IN UNION THERE IS STRENGTH FACTORS IN THE CRISIS OF THE LIBERIAN REPUBLIC ADDRESS DELIVERED BY GEORGE W. ELLIS OF CHICAGO BEFORE THE CONFERENCE ON AFRICA. We have before us a reprint from the Journal of Race Development of an address delivered by Mr. George W. Ellis of Chicago before the Conference on Africa called by Dr. G. S. Hall and Prof. George H. Blakeslee of Clark University. The subject of Mr. Ellis' address is entitled: "Dynamic Factors in the Liberian Situation." The address is significant because of its review of the conditions which led up to and which involved the political crisis through which the Black West African Republic passed. The address opens with a brief recitation of recent European discoveries which led to the partition of Africa on the part of certain European and colony holding powers. It is significant that the Black Republic of Liberia on the west coast and Abyssinia on the east are the only two African sections which have not come under the political sovereignty and jurisdiction of European nations. The speaker next describes the population of Liberia, which is about 2,500,000—about 65,000 are Americanized colored people and the remainder are aboriginal Africans who are governed by their civilized kinsmen across the sea. The territory of Liberia is mentioned as being healthful, rich in natural resources, gold and silver and in a varied flora and fauna. One of the strange things about conditions in Liberia is that American colored people seem to be indifferent to the financial opportunities offered to them by the Liberian republic and who seem to take little or no concern beyond a sentimental interest in the Liberal republic. It is pathetic to read the speakers' description of the alarming nature of social and political conditions in Liberia which finally moved that people to appeal to the American people for aid and assistance in their international struggle. It was very wisely pointed out by the speaker that Liberia had played an important part in the abolition of the slave trade, had rendered important and valuable international services to the nations, and therefore in this crisis was entitled to the sympathy of the civilized and liberty loving world. The first difficulty with the government of Great Britain is succinctly described, in which it was disclosed how European traders had been sent down from Sierra Leon by British firms with the support and sanction of the government at Sierra Leon and later of the British government at London, with the evident purpose of violating Libarian revenue laws and affording the British government a pretext to rob the Americanized republic of some of its terri tory. There follows very rapidly difficulties between Liberia and Great Britain over the territory in which British subjects were mailed trouble by refusing to recognize and obey the laws of the Liberian state. The government of Great Britain began the controversy by claiming the Liberian coast territories from Sherbro islands to the Mafa river in exchan- for a few thousand pounds. The controversy lasted for more than twenty years, the United States giving to Liberia the warmest and most ardent diplomatic support, championed its cause with the deepest concern and zeal, but not to the recognition of her contentions—avail. Great Britain finally forced the recognition of her contentions, Liberia was compelled to yield her northwest territory, upon the advice of the United States and under the force and pressure of the military and political power of Great Britain. The speaker then took up the Liberian difficulty with France. France, jealous of Great Britain, who had taken some valuable territory on the northwest, began at once to plan how she should take as much from Liberia on the southeast. At once Frenchmen were sent out to claim the desired lands and the French government notified the powers of the new assumption of sovereignty. The United States again protested, and gave Liberia every possible diplomatic support; but France, bound to equal England in the grabbing of Liberian land, forced Liberia again to yield up valuable territory for a few thousand francs. Great Britain was so successful in getting Liberian territory on the northwest that she was bold enough to attempt to take additional Liberian territory, after the Anglo-Liberian boundary on the northwest had been delimited in 1903. This Mr. Ellis terms the "Kaure Lahum Question" and constituted at the time of Liberian boundary difficulties with Great Britain. The takin' of this Liberian section of territory after the boundary had been fixed is one of the most pathetic and distressing incidents in Liberian history. The rivalry of France continues and she forces the cession of another section of Liberian southwest territory to match the new acquisition of Great Britain. The speaker describes the negotiation of the two loans secured by Liberia from Great Britain and the severe crisis which followed the loan of 1906, which came near erasing Liberia from the map. After enumerating the factors in the Liberian situation, the author describes the natural resources of the country and closes with a glowing picture of American commercial opportunity for expansion through the West African Republic. One Year. $1.50 Six Months. 1.00 Three Months. .50 Subscribers are requested to re- mit by postoffice money or- der or registered letter. Entered at the postoffice in Cleveland Ohio, as second-class matter Address all communications to HARRY C. SMITH Editor and proprietor, THE GAZETTE; 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-American, 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. It is with great sorrow that we announce the death of Mr. Sampson Williams, the "Signor Vebosko," husband of Madam "Marie Selika," one of the most estimable members of the race He died Oct. 9 in West Philadelphia Pa. His wife, Madam "Marie Selika" Williams, who is well known to all lovers of music among our people, our greatest soprano soloist, has the heart-felt sympathy of her many friends and acquaintances. Both Mr. and Mrs. Williams are well known abroad. He was a baritone. On October 5, Joseph Schwartz (white), the 19-year-old boy, who was an active participant in the Coatesville, Pa., lynching was acquitted. When his acquittal was announced the crowd cheered and went wild with excitement, patting the jurors on the back and congratulating them. Deputy Attorney General Jesse E. B. Cunningham labeled the verdict as a "travesty of justice" and declared that the disgraceful scenes around the court house when the verdict was announced are positive signs that mob government is preferable to law and order. Justice Harlan—Ever may his name be said in reverence. The death of Justice Harlan deprives the American nation of one of its trust patriots in the purest sense of the much abused term (that means a lover, a friend of one's country), and at a time when such real patriots are most bitterly needed. These men who adhere to principle without asking themselves for a moment whether those principles are "popular," "profitable," or not. Almost without regard of party affiliations, the better class of American journals pay the dead judge their tribute. His voice rang clear and loud in the battle for liberty and humanity, but never more cordially than in his dissenting view in the case of Beloit College where the majority of the supreme judges shamefully yielded to prejudice, truckling in a manner that made true Republicans hang their head in shame. Harlan also stood for the rights of the Negro. Blessed be his memory! PRESIDENT TAFT We ask our readers, whom we have often told that President Taft is the worst foe the Colored race has, to peruse the following editorial in the Crisis, organ of the N. A. A. C. P., edited by Dr. W. E. B. DuBois; "Mr. William Taft, President of these United States, shows a marvelous facility for getting on the right track and saying the wrong thing. The most glaring example of this is of course, the tariff, but his attitude toward the American Negro is a fatal second. Not only is Mr. Taft partie cepes criminis with the late Mr. Roosevelt in the crime of Brownsville, but he added to that the Taft Doctrine of recognizing race prejudice, instead of fitness, in Federal appointments. On top of this, and in the face of a record of murder, lynching and burning in this country which has appalled the civilized world and loosened the tongue of a man long since dumb on the race problem, in spite of this, Mr. Taft has blandly informed a deputation of Colored men that any action on his part is quite outside his power, if not his interest. Finally, Mr. Taft has several times expressed himself on Negro education. First he was quite enthusiastic for the education of the Negroes' hands. Then on the eve of his nomination to the presidency—he discovered at Fisk University a black brains that deserved cultivation, but sparingly sparingly. He would not overdo this sort of thing. Lately, on the eve of his campaign of renomination to the presidency, Mr. Taft has again declared that the Negro "ought to come and is coming more and more under the guardianship of the South!" This statement is, to speak mildly, extraordinary; and it will make thinking black men carefully considerate as to whether they are willing to enthrone this policy in the White House for another four years. Let us examine the dictum. When a guardian is appointed it is because he has shown in the past some capacity for the position. One would not usually ask a murderer to guard life, nor a slave driver to direct labor, nor a libertine to protect girls. Or if by chance such a one is so appointed, it could only be that despite a forbidding past he has shown unmistakable signs of repentance, and will and ability to do right. We ask now in all charity and calmness: Have the Southern States of this land in the past or in the present exhibited any desire or ability to When your Gazette are not delivered on Friday mornings, call at your Central Postoffice General Delivery Window for them in the afternoon of the same day. ---Editor. ettle the Negro problem in accordance with reason and justice? The answer lies in nine burning words: We submit to any unprejudiced person that a people that have shown no greater capacity for dealing with a great social problem than these fearful words indicate are not fit to be given sole and exclusive charge of ten million cattle much less ten million human souls. And we further declare that a man who in the light of the history of this land can stand up and deny to the conscience and ability of the North and West any right to help in the settlement of a problem which belongs to them just as much as it belongs to the South, if not more—we declare that such a man has no business to be President of the United States." CONSTITUTIONAL DELEGATE $15.00 to $50.00 per Week. Good opportunity for men of all ages. We want reliable agents to take orders for our "high quality" guaranteed nursery stock. Liberal commission paid weekly. Permanent year-round position. Complete course in salesmanship with free outfit. Experience unnecessary. All goods sold under positive ironclad guarantee to be as represented. Write quick. Pennsylvania Nursery Co., Girard, Erie Co., Pa. Madam Solika Writes Madam Selika Writes. W. Philadelphia, Pa., Oct. 17-11. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor, The Gazette, Cleveland, O. Our Dear Good Friend:—I write you this morning with a sad heart—almost too full and sick with sorrow, to do so, on the band passed away of the 5th of this month. I hope you will forgive me for not writing to you sooner, but I have not had the heart to do so. Marle Selika Williams. Daily Thought For the best and sweetest is not matter of circumstances; it is not even success and love. It is being tune—Anna Fuller Cotton Sunplants Poppies Cotton support in cotton. China cotton is supplanting poplies as a crop, because of the rigid laws against the use of opium. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1911. WOULD BE ATROCIOUS! The supreme court of Arkansas has affirmed the sentence of death passed upon a boy of fifteen years. That august body has declared that an uneducated, ragamuffin lad who killed a companion in a quarrel, shall be hanged. To be sure, the boy is black! If he were white, would such a sentence have been imposed by the highest court of the state? For a state to execute a boy of that age is not to prove that state is far advanced in civilization. Doubless the judges who affirmed the sentence can find precedents for their action. But precedents can be found for any atrocious crime—official or private. To hang a half-grown boy, even if he be an abandoned one, is not justice. It is pure bravado. And for the Supreme Court to have given him a less rigorous sentence would not have been mercy. It would have been mere decency, and a concession to the spirit of the age. Thousands of people of Northern and Eastern states appealed to the Supreme Court to show clemency. Perhaps the court took that as sentimental interference because the boy was black. If that is true, the court took an unholly way of showing its contempt for the opinions of mankind. The case of the Negro boy—fifteen years old—now goes to Governor Donaghey. He must fix the time for the execution. He may commute the sentence, if he will. Will he be as contemptuous of public opinion as was the Supreme Court?—Chicago Examiner. DOINGS OF THE RACE Bishop Jas. A. Handy, age 85, of the A. M. E. Church, died Oct. 5, in Baltimore, Mr., his home. Virgil H. Parks was recently appointed a deputy Internal Revenue Collector in New City. A Colored man has been nominated for the City Council by the Socialist party in Los Angeles, Cal. Chas. W. Fillmore, former major of the 9th Bat. O. N. G., is to be colonel of the New York Afro-American regiment, being organized. E. T. Blagburn, who served fifteen years as a draughtsman in the Des Moines, Iowa, civil engineer's office, is now a professor of the regiment. The stork has visited Minister W. H. Furniss'Hitan home and left a fine boy. Both mother (German) and son are doing nicely. His name is William E. Furniss. Dr. S. H. Harris of Nashville, Tenn., has been elected a member of that city's council. He is the first member of the race to be so honored in New York five years. Among the 1,700 letter carriers who attended the eighteenth biennial session of the National Association at Rochester, N. Y., there were 15 Colored delegates. Bennie Bower, a noted Colored spinner, has entered the University of Pennsylvania, where he will pursue academic course and assist in the athletic department of the institution. Dr. Booker T. Washington's case against Henry Ulrich (white) for severely beating him with a club, some months ago, was to come up in the Court of General Sessions, N. Y. City, this week. According to the most accurate record people in Texas own and pay taxes on $30,000,000 worth of property. In 1900 they owned and paid taxes on 70,000 farms. During the last ten years they have bought 4,000 additional farms. Negroes in Louisiana pay more than $1,000,000 in taxes. It is said that 60 per cent. of the hard work is done by them, 80 per cent of the bricklaying, 60 per cent of the carpentry, and most of the catering. In a new book written by Prof. Franz Boaz of Columbia University, the author describes the experience within one hundred years the Negro race will have turned white through inter-marriage and that the intermixture with advance civilization. Mr. Hunter Haynes, the well known razor strop manufacturer of 334 Broadway, New York city, has sold his business and accepted a flattering offer as foreman of the M. L. Grant Cutterly Company, located at 84 West Broadway. A Waynesboro (Pa.) newspaper contains among its society items a glowing account of a Sunday visit of one of its citizens to Coatesville and of his return, bringing several small bones dug from the debris where the maker, the Negro, was burned to death. Wm. L. Reed of Boston, Mass., who has been the Governors Messenger for a number of years, has been appointed Clerk of the Juvenile Court of that city by Governor Foss (Dem.) as a lawyer and has served as a member of the Massachusetts Legislature. Sometimes ago a friend offered to give $5,000 to Miles Memorial College and $11,000 to Church provided an additional $11,000 to G. W. Stewart was in charge of the campaign and recently a meeting was held at the College, Birmingham, Ala., when $15,000 was reported. This is a fundraiser for Alabama and the C. M. F. Connection. Gov. Cole J. Blease of South Carolina, attended the National Convention of the Independent. Order of Railway Mechanics recently in Cleveland, O. The Governor was at the Hollenblood Hotel with a number of other men to meet and discuss ways through the crowd. The boy yelled "gangway." Mr. Blease raised his cane and delivered a healthy swan on the bell boy's back and then made a grab for him to chastise him some more. "Down South, sah, they hang 'em for insultin' white people in that explained the charles H. Henry editor. Editor of the Spartansburg (S. C.) Daily Journal, said recently, in reply to a threatening letter from the individual, Blease: "We are little concerned about Mr. Blease or his acts or his talk, but when a man as ridiculous, as comical, as grotesque, as droll, as absurd as he is gets into the limelight he is sure to furnish better material for newspaper articles than for anorak, enunciation, much would prefer the latter style of treatment." EVERYBODY SHOULD READ THIS! A Strong Open Letter—Judge O'Rear and Democrats, the Same—No Difference—Neither Friends of Our Race—Much Truth. Louisville, Ky., Oct. 10, 1911. Editor The Gazette, Dear Sir: Herewith I send you "open letter," a copy of which was sent to the editors of the Louisville Columbian and the Louisville Defender, race papers. The latter promised to publish it, but both in the meantime came out for Judge O'Rear. Now I come to the "Old Reliable Gazette" asking space for the publication of my communication. Thanking you in advance, for compliance with my request, I am I. S. CHEATHAM. himself ruthlessly rejected. My hope and prayer is that you use your paper in the interest of the race, and not to forward the ambition of designing politicians who are heart enemies of the race. L. S. CHEATHAM. FRESH OHIO NEWS OUR OWN WRITERS' WHAT OUR PEOPLE ARE DOING IN MANY CITIES AND TOWNS OF THE STATE. INTERESTING PERSONAL NOTES Social Functions—Church and Lodge Items—Marriages and Deathe—Literary, Musical and Other Notes of Interest. Sandusky.—The Second Baptist church was well attended Sunday. The pastor preached ably—Club C. Mrs. Mary Jones, captain, will give a social at Mrs. Henry Richard's Oct. 7 lecture. Mrs. George Scott and Mr. Harrison Bartlett are convalescing—Rev G. D. Smith and Mr. William Jones were in Cleveland, last week, on church work. Cadiz.—W. W. A. Mason and Mrs. Susie White were called to Moneseau Pale last week by Mrs. Grace Mason's death—Mr. Chas. Brown and family spent Sunday in Hopedale—The C. I. club met at Mr. Howard Benford's. Great work is done by this club. It is organizing the "Boy Scout" Movement—Mrs. Bertha Ramsey of Hopee Lake, Mrs. Howard Brown—The "Buss Bees" met at the church. Sign of Wealth "That author must be very pro perous." What makes you think so? He may be makes notes on his shirt cuffs. But man could afford the laundry bills. Killed at His Sweetheart's. Ablene. Tex.-Standing on the porch of the house in which lived Stella Ramsey, a colored woman, Mrs. Charles Matthison (white) of Ablene early Oct. 8 fired half a dozen shots through the screen of a bedroom window, fatally wounding her husband, Charles Matthison (white). He succumbed two hours later. Mrs. Matthison gave herself up. Stella purposed the Matthison firing in times about effect. The white woman's bond was fixed at $1,000 at a preliminary hearing. The Ramsey woman is under arrest and a charge of shooting at Mrs. Matthison will be fled against her. 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 person in the following northeastern Zanesville, North Carolina, Lancaster, Lebanon, Chillicothe, Toledo, Troy, Akron, Springfield, Plqua, Columbus, Cambridge, Steubenville, Bellaire, St. Clairsville, Wilmington, Portmouth, Dayton, Canton, Oxford, Sabina, Gallipolis, Oberlin, Sandusky, Delaware, M. Vernon, East Liverpool, Wellsville, Hamilton, Middleport, Belfontein, Lima, O, and other places where we have none. Write to the editor of The Gazette, Blackstone building, Cleveland, O, and will be sententiously. 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To meet the good crowds attend DANCING SCHOOL every Monday and Thursday evenings. Private Lessons Given. Private Parties Taught. G.W.TURPIN, Instructor. 3620 Central Ave. Cleveland, O. 3022 CENTRAL AVE. ALL EYES ON CLEVELAND. Afro-Americans as a Result of Their Effort to Elect a Delegate to the Ohio Constitutional Convention. The following excerpt is from Mrs. Ida B. Wells-Barnett's paper, the Chicago Fellowship Herald of last week: "Next year Ohio is to have a constitutional convention and some of the far-seeing Colored people of Cleveland, notably the editor of The Cleveland to that convention to look after the rights of the race, and they are right. They are right also in wanting Harry C. Smith the fearless editor of The Gazette to be the race representative in that convention. As member of the Ohio Legislature he caused the anti-mob law and Civil Rights Law of Ohio to be enacted by the director of The Gazette has fought the race's battles unceasingly for the past thirty years. The Herald rejoices to see that over fifty persons worked day and night to secure signatures to petition to have Editor Smith nominated one of the candidates for president of the Congress. "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty," and with the right man on guard the best interests of the race are bound to be conserved." Steubenville, O., Oct. 14, 1911. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor Gazette, Cleveland, O. My Dear Harry:—I am more than glad to hear of the just recognition of you in its behalf at all times. I know what it means to get over 2,000 signatures to petitions. My earnest hope is that you may "land" in November, as the race needs such as you are in those places. I hope you are well. I have the honor to be Columbus, O., Oct. 16, 1911. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor Gazette Mear Dear Mr. Smith: I see that you have been named as a candidate for delegate to the constitutional convention. I am rejoiced in my heart to know this I recognize in you a true representative of our race variety. I shall pray for your success in the election. God will enable you to assist in breaking down the "middle wall of partition" by striking out the word "white" from the organic law of our state. God bless and keep you strong in the faith, is my prayer. I am as always, Yours for Christ and Our Race, Charles R. Higgenbotham, 262 S. Sandusky St. I have used your Pomade. Its the best thing I ever used for making curly hair lie smooth. I have not finished my first bottle, but can see wonderful results, writes Mrs Louise E. Hayes of Pineville, S.C. Try Ford's Hair Pomade for harsh stubborn and unruly hair and Ford's Royal White Skin Lotion for the complexion. Ask your druggist for them. Be sure and get the genuine (Ford's) manufactured by the Ozonized Ox Marrow Company, Chicago, Ill. 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WANTED—International bricklayers—long job for good mechanics at the Ford Plate Glass Co's plant, Toledo, O. by the Henahan-King Co. No objection to color. Mrs. E. H. Burke of 2170 E. 300 street, who has had bronchitis, is valescing. The Barca Class banquet at St John's church, Wednesday evening provides an enjoyable affair. Very few white business men or Central Ave. give any employment to Afro-Americans or patronize our business places on that street, and yet nearly all of their trade comes from our people. What are you going to do to change this sad condition of affairs? It is neither fair nor right and no other class of people, under the emperor would quietly submit such injustice and discrimination. The Cleveland Association of Co. 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Mrs. Manson of E. 34th street has been very ill this week. Mr. and Mrs. H. Brink of Collinwood left Saturday for Oberlin. Miss Lucie Fleming of E. 49th Saturday for Sardis, Miss. Mrs. J. W. Woods of Oberlin visited her daughter, Mrs. H. Brink, this week. Dr. Berger preached an eloquent sermon, Sunday morning at St. John's church. Mrs. Brown, daughter of Mr. Johnson of Central Ave., died Sunday morning. Mrs. Clark of Bellefontaine visited her daughter, Mrs. Richardson of Arthur street. Mr. and Mrs. I. Robison of New Castle, Pa., are guests of Mrs. Neal Finley of Whitcomb Ave. Do not tail to read our advertisements and patronize those who ask for your trade in the columns of The Gazette. The board of elections fixed October 5th and 21 as the regular days of registration for the fall election. All voters must register anew or they cannot vote. A small boy, Allen Fields, was robbed of $1.60 Saturday evening, by white toughs on the corner of Central Ave. and E. 22d St. Wm. H. Fields of E. 97th St., carpenter, was thrown from his wagon in an accident on Central Ave, near E. 43d St, last Saturday, and severely injured in the head. Mrs. L. J. et al. represented Mt. Zion church at the conference of the Cleveland Association of Congregational churches which met in Lorain Monday and Tuesday of this week. Miss Ferguson and sister, Florence, of E. 43d St. entertained last week Thursday evening in honor of their cousin, Mr. Rouse, and grandmother, Mrs. M. E. Turner of Mt. Vernon. Edwin J. Dunjill, whose position as stenographer of the Board of Reviews was secured for him years ago by the editor of The Gazette, was elected secretary of the Circuit Court Monday. Frank B. Scott, clerk in the central postoffice, recently referred to firing the mails, was sentenced Monday to three years with the Federal prison with the Kan. His family has the sympathy of the community. Send your local items to The Gazette on Monday or Tuesday of each week. This paper is published for ALL of our people and "plays no favorites." Everybody is treated the same—fair and right. Take The Gazette and tell your friends to do so also. The Junior League of Antioch Baptist church, Sunday afternoon, on motion of Miss Grace Brown decided to donate $5 to the treasury of the Citizen's Rights League for the Constitutional convention delegate fund Miss Ruth Brown is president of the Junior League. The annual ingathering of the Home for Aged Colored People, 2520 E. 39th St., Thursday, Oct. 26. A chicken dinner will be served from 12 noon to 9 p. m. Music will be furnished by Mt. Zion Orchestra and the Philligan's Band. Donations of all kinds will be thankfully received. Remember the Olk Folks. All are welcome. ATTENTION, READERSI Don't throw away your copy of The Gazette when you have done with it, but give it to some appreciative person whom you feel would be likely to subscribe or take it regularly, if they had a copy to look over and read carefully. Oblige the Editor. Mrs. E. H. Burke of 2170 E. 30th street, who has had bronchitis, is convalescing. The Barca Class banquet at St. John's church, Wednesday evening, proved an enjoyable affair. Very few white business men on Central Ave, give any employment to Afro-Americans or patronize our business nearly all of their trade comes from our people. What are you going to do to change this sad condition of affairs? It is neither fair nor right, and no other class of people "under the sun" would so quietly submit to such injustice and discrimination. The Cleveland Association of Colored Women, represented by Dr. Chas. F. Thwing, President of Western Reserve University, Oct. 22 at 3 p.m. at the new Cory church. He will speak on "Lessons from the International Races Congress." The church auditorium ought to be crowded, because President Thwing's tople is a timely one and of exceptional influence in all intelligent members of the race. A very interesting temperance meeting was held Sunday afternoon in the parlor of St. John's church. After addresses by Mrs. Alice Flarice, Mrs. J. A. Walker and Mrs. Rosa Johnson, and inspiring songs, the Francis Harper W. T. was organized in following officers: Mrs. J. A. Walker; first vice-pres., Mrs. Eliza Bundy; second vice-pres., Mrs. Francis Hampton; sec., Mrs. Ida Beaumont; assist-sec., Mrs. Lawson; cor., sec., Mrs. Cora Brock; treas., Mrs. Alice Flarice; supt's, of Flower Mission and Committee, Mrs. T. J. Hicks, Mrs. Hollinsworth and Mrs. Hamilton; jail work, Mrs. Francis Hampton, Mrs. Haverlow, Mrs. Cora Brock, Mrs. I. D. Hollinsworth, and Mrs. intermentals will be appointed at the next regular meeting, Nov. 7, at Mrs. Francis Hampton's, 2204 E. 43d St. Mr. Alexander Foster, a member of Shiloh Baptist Sunday School, has served as a teacher of the Metoka class very successfully. Since he is leaving this city this week (Oct. 8, 1911) to take up his duties there, that we the Metoka class of Shiloh Sunday school, extend thanks for his earnest labors with us as a class: that we earnestly pray for his success while he is away from us; that as members of this class we have worked earnestly for its success in the work of the church down by him in the "forwarding movement" for young men. Resolved that a copy of this resolution be spread on the minutes, and a copy sent to the leading papers of the city. Committee: Walter R. G. Ingram, teacher; Thomas H. Thompson, president of the class; Henry Thurman, vice-pres. The farewell reception at Lane Memorial church, Monday evening, in honor of Bishop C. H. Phillips, visiting delegates to the Ecumenical Conference at Toronto, Ca., and the pastor of the church, was an enjoyable success. The choir sang well and the addresses by Mrs. B. J. Malone, Mr, and Mrs. L. E. Shy, Rev. H. C. Balley, the editor of The Gazette, oppins a delegate to the conference, presented the bishop here, Rev. W. G. Webster and others, were excellent. Bishop Phillips wired his regrets, e was elected secretary of the Conference at Toronto, defeating a prominent southern minister (white) and was compelled to remain in that city by official duties, e wired that he would visit the church at a later day and make up for the disappointment. Others of our local ministers present were Revs. E. Porter, G. A. Stissle and J. A. Dowling to the supper at a late hour, which was thoroughly enjoyed. The pastor of the church left Tuesday for Conference at Indianapolis. All hope that he will be returned to Lane Memorial church for another year. There is a restaurant on Ontario St., between the square and St. Clair Av., which is patronized very liberally by some of our people, and in which one of our young men was refused the privilege of eating at the Grazette. The Grazette is informed by S. E. Woods who happened in the place at the time. It seems that our money is alright in that place if we sit at the counter. This ought to be enough for the self and race-respecting Afro-Americans who have heretofore patronized that restaurant; and that young man ought to promptly enter such a place, its purpose being the proper course to pursue, and it is the only way to stop such miserable discrimination. Assert your rights and have them vindicated in the courts when they are thus denied in public places. That is the manly way. Then too, citizen rights are dear to all worthy of them. Any one that is worth exerting one's worth contends that the courts when denied. Denot supinely submit to such misstreatment! The Citizens' Rights league had a grand meeting at Antioch church, Wednesday evening, and transacted much valuable business. Alex H. Martin, Esq., Drs. Lowrey, Smith and LADIES! LADIES! LADIES! Call your lady friends' and acquaintances' attention to our up-to-date fashion and pattern departments and thus encourage them to sequester the Qastee regularly. Oblige the Editor. HE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1911. Bailey made fine speeches, and Rev. Smith led in a financial rally that proved him an exceptional leader when it comes to raising money for any good purpose. In a few minutes nearly $40 was laid on the table for the league's treasury, under his direction. Next Sunday at $ p. m., a grand union meeting of all our churches will be held at Shiloh church, to explain the need of representation in the Ohio Constitutional Convention. Our suffrage in Ohio is at stake. The speakers will be Revs. Chas. Bundy, Rev. H. C. Balley, Rev. E. H. Smith, Rev. G. A. Sissle, Rev. G. V. Clark and the editor of The Gazette. 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