The Gazette

TWENTY-NINTH YEAR. NO. 36 THE NEEDED IN EVERY WARDROBE | NOVEL DINNER PARTY IDEA IN UNION THERE IS STUDENTIA TWENTY-NINTH Winter Millinery Contin SMALL hats for spring are to be seen in all the French millinery stores of note, launched upon their adventures in the world of fashion; that world has evidenced a growing appreciation of certain shapes which proved too good to pass with the winter. These shapes, held over and slightly modified, made up in spring materials, are simply enticing. The day has come when women demand hats that are "good" from all view points, that is, becoming to the wearer from any angle. If a shape is especially good in a full front view and not just right from the side or back, either a new shape must be made, with little alterations in outline, or the trimmer must effect changes by placing the trimming clev One-Piece Linen Dress an Absolute Necessity During the Warm Days of Summer. The one-piece linen dress is found in nearly every girl's wardrobe. It is so necessary in the warm summer days, and being washable may be made up in daintest colors. Kid finished linen having a suede effect is the season's novelty in linens, and there is also a basket weave, a striped crash, etamine crash, cotton Bedford cord, granite crash and the basket weave with a wide border of drawn work. The model sketched is of pink linen. The upper part is covered with a simple design in eyelet embroidery. White lawn collar and cuffs finish the neck and sleeves. A pink straw hat with a large wired bow of taffeta is perhaps the most appropriate to wear with such a frock. Deceptive Color. Yellow is a most deceptive color for evening wear, electric light usually turning it into pink and causing some disappointment in the case of those to whom true yellow is a most becoming color. Built on Quaker Lines. The latest in negligees will appeal to all femininity. This novel is built on the popular Quaker girl model, with a dainty fichu of lace, and comes in all colors. There are also charming Quaker girl boudoir caps to match. THE GAZETTE erly. These points are so well taken care of by artists in millinery that even the simplest-seeming hats are really amazingly well thought out and adapted to their wearers. The lines of the Dutch bonnet, the dear Wilhelmina, have been managed in all sorts of ways. A pretty adaptation is shown here, having a crown of purple violets and brim covered with purple velvet. A similar hat, in soft hemp, shows a decided point at the front and a small, rather pointed crown, which would be insignificant except for two ears of silk perched at the front. The shape in navy blue had a wide flange of velvet in the same color and the loops, or ears, were of taffeta silk, also in plain navy blue of a rather bright shade. A hoc 1 of turcan laid over a capshape, covered with black silk, is also an unusually clever development of simple lines and handsome materials. The rolled-up brim is covered with two folds of black satin and a bow of ribbon in black satin finishes a band which apparently holds the point of the hood in place at the back. The liking for qualt shirrings, quillings and ruchings came in with the return of fabrics with which they were used almost a half century ago. A shirred band of changeable tafetta finishes the soft straw bonnet shape shown here. Two rosettes of the tafetta look like big, full-blown roses; they are placed at each side of the brim. A short broad plume, in the colorings of the silk, finishes the hat. The hats shown in the illustrations are very practical models. Although each hat, it must be conceded, is chic (to the French degree) yet each is simplicity itself. JULIA BOTTOMLEY. "Progression" Does Away With Minor Annoyance That Sometimes Mars the Occasion. A girl who is looking for a way out of the common to entertain some of her young friends will find a "progressive dinner party" a jolly affair. There is nothing better for helping along new acquaintances, and it also works wonders in another way—in not allowing old friends to talk too exclusively with each other. Often the fun of a small entertainment is spilled because one or two couples spend almost the whole evening in talking to each other, neglecting every one else. The young hostess has not always experience enough to prevent this mistake gracefully. The progressive dinner party is managed as follows: Each young man is told to take a certain girl in to dinner, as at any dinner party. The places at table are shown by the usual cards with names. During the first course they sit in these places, but as the plates are being changed each young man takes the place of the next one to the right (or left). This is repeated after each course, the change being always in the same direction. The girls do not move, so young men have an opportunity to talk to each girl. Sandals for S. All Children Sandals for Sail Children. If children wear sandals until they are three or four years old, they will have a natural-shaped foot, strong, ankle muscles and will stand and walk properly. We are all taught to point the toes out when walking. This, however, is an unnatural position, and only adds a greater strain on the inside muscles of ankle and foot, causing, in many cases, weak ankles and other foot troubles. Let the toes point straight in front when standing or walking, allow the feet to have plenty of room to grow, select broad, flat-heated shoes for your children, and start them toward manhood on womanhood with normal feet, strong ankles, thus lessening the danger of corns, bunions and all other foot troubles. Dainty Garters. The curious fancy for mingling black with the adornment of lingerie and other more personal articles is finally manifested in a pair of garters. On the shirred black band that forms the solid part of the garter are sprinkled silk roses in pastel shades; the same flowers ornament the lace rosettes, from which dangle smaller roses on ribbon ends. The lace frilling is lightly embroidered with black silk. ESTABLISHED AUGUST 25, 1883 AND ISSUED EVERY WEEK ON TIME SINCE. CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 1912. HENSON'S BOOKS ON TRIP TO THE POLE One of the most interesting of the spring's authors from many points of view is Matthew Henson, whose book, "A Negro Explorer at the North Pole," contains the only personal account other than Peary's that will ever be written of the climax of the expedition. It is significant, as Peary has said, that several races were represented on the day of the discovery. "It is an interesting fact," he said, "that in the final conquest of the prize of the centuries' not alone individuals but races were represented. On that bitter brilliant day in April, 1909, when the Stars and Stripes floated at the north pole Caucasian, Ethiopian and Mongolian stood side by side at the apex of the earth in the harmonious companionship resulting from hard work, exposure, danger and a common object. "Henson, son of the tropics, has proven through years his ability to stand tropical, temperate and the fiercest stress of frigid climate and exposure, while on the other hand, it is well known that the inhabitants of the highest north, and hardy as they are to the rigors of their own climate, succumb very quickly to the vagaries of even a temperate climate. 'Is it a difference in physical fibre or in brain and will power or is the difference in the climatic conditions themselves?' Henson, the author, who throughout his good luck shows a love and knowledge of good books surprising when one considers his limited advantages and the restrictions imposed by his 20 years of hardships in exploration, does not in appearance show an evidence of extreme hardship. Though virile enough to reach the pole with Peary, he is no huge Jack Johnson nor anything resembling him, but a smallish, quiet, observant sort of man. He is well knit, cut of movement and clear of eye—like a trained runner. He wears eyeglasses, carries himself like a competent though modest man of affairs and she a efficiency and ease come from long association with big men. There were always a few books along on the exploring expeditions, and no one made better use of them than did Peary's Negro companion. He tells of the little library on board the Roosevelt during the last polar journey. "Out on the ice of the polar ocean," he says, "as far as reading matter went, I think Dr. Goodsell had a very small set of Shakespeare, and I know that I had a Holy Bible. The others who went out on the ice may have had reading matter with them, but they did not read it out loud, and so I am not in a position to say what their literary tastes were. "But on board ship there was quite an extensive library, especially on Arctic and Antarctic topics, but as it was in the commander's cabin it was not heavily patronized. In my own cabin I had Dickens's 'Bleak House', Kipling's 'Barrack Room Ballads', and the poems of Thomas Hood; also a copy of the Holy Bible which had been given to me by a dear old lady in Brooklyn. I also had Peary's book, 'Northward Over the Great Ice', and his last work 'Nearest the Pole.' "During the long dreary midnights of the arctic winter I spent many a pleasant hour with my books. I also took along with me a calendar for the years 1908 and 1909, for in the regions of noonday darkness and midnight daylight, a calendar is absolutely necessary. But mostly I had rougher things than reading to do." In his book the English used by this Negro, who had only six years of schooling in his life, shows the influence of his constant reading of classical literature. It has been said that there is no better cultifier of a literary style than the Bible, and the work of Henson would seem to bear the statement out. Shakespeare is there, too, seemingly unconsciously on the author's part. For instance: "We forced the dogs," he writes, "and they took it on the run, the ice undulating beneath them the same as it does when little wanton boys play at ticket benders, on often with serious results, on the newly formed ice on ponds and brooks down in civilization. Our ticket benders were not done in the spirit of play, but on account of urgent necessity." "He died alone, he passed into the great unknown alone, bravely and honorably," he writes with Biblical simplicity and repetition of the death of Prof. Marvin. "He is the last of earth's great martyrs; he is home, his work is done, he is where he longed to be, the sailor is home in the sea. It is sad to write this. He went back to his death, drowned in the cold black water of the Big Lead. In unmarked, unmarbled grave, he sleeps his last, long sleep." "Having no poetry in my soul," he says in a description of northernmost Grant Land, "and being somewhat hardened by years of experience in that unhospitable country, words proper to give you an idea of its unique beauty do not come to mind. "Iimagine gorgeous bleakness, beautiful blankness. It never seems broad, bright day, even in the middle of June, and the sky has the different effects of the varying hours of morning and evening twilight from the first to the last peep of day. Early in February, at noon, a thin band of light appears far to the southward, heralding the approach of the sun, and daily the twilight lengthens, until early in March, the sun, a fanning disk of fiery crimson, shows his distorted image above the horizon. "The south sides of the lofty peaks have for days reflected the glory of the coming sun, and it does not require an artist to enjoy the unexamined spender of the view. The snows covering the peaks show all of the colors, variations and tones of the artist's palette and more. Artists have gone with us into the arctic and I have heard them rave over the wondrous beauties of the scene and I have seen them at work trying to reproduce some of it with good results, but with nothing like the effect of the original 'It is color run riot.' "To the northward all is dark and the brighter stars of the heavens are still visible, but growing fainter daily with the strengthening of the sunlight. "When the sun finally gets above the horizon and swings his daily circle the color effects grow less and less, but then the sky and cloud effects improve and the shadows in the mountains and clefts of the ice show forth their beauty, cold blues and grays, the bare patches of the land rich browns, and the whiteness of the snow is dazzling. "Above us the sky is blue and bright, bluer than the sky of the Mediterranean, and the clouds, from the silk cirrus mare's tails to the fantastic and heavy cumulus, are always objects of beauty. This is the description of fine weather." The closing paragraph of the Negro explorer's record is particularly interesting, for into it he weaves two of his favorite authors, Shakespeare and Kipling. "And now my story is ended; it is a tale that is told," he writes. "Now is Othello's occupation gone." I long to see them all again, the brave, cheery companions of the trail of the north I long to see the lithe figure of my commander and to hear again his clear ringing voice urging and encouraging me onward with his 'Well done, my boy,' I want to be with the party when they reach the untrodden shores of Crocker Land. I yearn to be with those who reach the south pole; the lure of the arctic is tugging at my heart; to me the trail is calling. "The old trail!" The trail that is always new!" Matt Henson was born in Charles county, Maryland, in 1866, and his mother dying when he was seven, he attended the N street school in Washington for six years while making his home with his uncle in that city. He began life as a cabin boy on an ocean steamship and before he met Peary he had already made a voyage to China. He was eighteen when he met the arctic explorer and he has been his companion for twenty-three years. During that time he acquired a knowledge of books and got a practical understanding of everything that is a necessary part of daily life in the icebound wildernesses of polar exploration. He was at times a blacksmith, a carpenter and a cook. He became thoroughly acquainted with the life, customs and language of the Eskimos. He himself built the stedges with which the journey to the pole was successfully completed. He could not only drive a dog team or skin a musk ox, but was something of a navigator as well. He made himself not only one of the most trusted but also the most useful member of the expedition. JOHNSON FIGURES FLYNN A SOFT MARK St. Louis-"A good little man can't beat a good big man," chirped Jack Johnson, the heavyweight champion, when we asked him how he sized up his coming battle with Fireman Jim Flynn. Johnson picks himself to win. He believes it will be via the knockout route, although he claims he can't predict how far the contest will progress. But while he admits that he classes himself as a better man than the Brooklyn fighter, he says Flynn may be able to put up a good argument. "Flynn, to my way of thinking, is the best of the present crop of white hopes," continued Johnson. "I believe he has it on Morris, Palzer, Wells and Kennedy. That's because he has had more experience than the other men I have named. "But the man whom I regard as the most dangerous of the entire field is Sam McVey. McVey could wallop any of the men in the heavyweight class today, outside of myself, I believe. "I have seen Morris, Palzer, Kennedy and Wells work. Morris and Palzer may develop into dangerous men in the heavyweight division. But today they are in a crude state. It will require lots of experience to make them finished fighters, and then I believe Morris will be too slow." "Palzer, they tell me, isn't a quick thinker, which is a big handicap for a first-class fighter. The trouble with most big fighters, though, is that when they get tired they wabble. They are top-heavy and can't hold up. After you get them in that condition a stiff wallop will finish the bout." DEFINING HER CORRECTLY. Father and son were walking the streets and passed a large park in which were many statues. One of them—the largest of all—was of a woman. "Father, what is that?" asked the son, pointing to this particular one, which was inscribed, "Woman." "That is not a statue, my son," answered the father. 'It is but a figure of speech."—Life. WHAT PART DOES NEGRO WOMANHOOD PLAY IN THE CIVILIZATION OF THE RACE? There are three great factors of civilization. The first, the greatest, and the most potent of these agencies, is the home. What is home? We are taught by lexicographers that it is one's house or country; place of constant residence, etc. However, we recognize it as more: it is a spirit God has given to wayfaring man, called woman. Children pronounce the word mother, husbands pronounce it wife, lovers and soldier boys call it Annie Laurie. But it matters not by what name it is called it means the same. Home. Woman is the ruling power of the home, the maker of destiny and of nations. She is the thermometer of civilization. To her is assigned the formation of character, the teaching of self-reliance, the instilling of religion and the work of refining. What may be said of women in a general way may be said of the women of any race. What part does negro womanhood play in the civilization of the race? The part it plays is a three-fourth part. The other fourth it leaves to man. Here and there, there and here, over yonder, in this place and that, we can point with pride to men of eminent renown who have done and are doing much for the civilization of the race, but they are only a few. The few college graduates in this age are not as valuable as the masses with the common school education. Because the former usually seek the larger cities and those communities where they come in touch with people of their kind. The masses, then, of the negro race must be reached. That part that has not been touched by intelligent motherhood must be reached. Then the second of these great factors of civilization, viz.: The school. The part the negro womanhood plays in the civilization of the race is clearly seen in the schools. Women teachers fill most of country schools, three-fourths of the graded school positions, three-fourths of the high school positions, and they draw three-fourths of the money paid to teachers by denominational schools. Three-fourths of the race's civilization that is developed by school training is accomplished under the tutelage of the women of the race. The church, the third great factor in the growth of racial civilization, is as dead to the people as their homes; it arouses the best in their natures. We have made wonderful strides in civilization along religious lines. We have risen from log cabin churches to frame ones, and from frame ones to brick, and from brick to cement stone, brown stone and granite stone. The architecture is of the most beautiful. We have our pipe organs, pianos, orchestras and vested choirs. Who is most responsible for the great marks of civilization? The women, of course, who make up nine-tenths of the church. What would become of the churches if it were not for the women? Let's not answer. Sum up the progress of the race. What has it accomplished? It is noted for literary, business, commercial, religious and home-making growth. The hand of woman is seen clearly all through. Phyllis Wheatly, the first poetess; Ida B. Wells Barnett, who aroused England and America on the lynching of negroes; Fanny Barrier Williams and Mary Church Terrell, linguists and scholars; Nannie Burroughs and Dazle Dean Walker, humanitarians; Maggie Walker, bank president and real estate owner; Lucy Laney, college president; Mme. C. J. Walker, philanthropist; Black Patti, actress, Mme. Hackley, artist and musician. What part does negro womanhood play in the civilization of the race? I said at first three-fourths, but I retract that statement and count again. Women make the home whatever it is; they dominate the schools, there are almost always three times as many girls in our rural and graded schools, high school, colleges and seminaries as there are boys. These girls, then, are trained and sent out as home makers, lawyers, doctors, teachers, preachers, linguists, musicians, artists, addresses, deaconesses, cooks, dressmakers, laudresses, millers, real estate owners, agents of all kinds, hair dressers, nurses and business women of every calling, both good and bad. This wonderful army of workers go forth every year and take their places among the makers of civilization. The effect of their influence is more powerful than all the books written on "How to Solve the Negro Problem." They are living examples of the solution, thus lifting the race to a higher plane of civilization. They do their part well and conscientiously. Each year is an improvement on the last in the army of workers. Yes, instead of three-fourths of the work of Negro civilization being done by the women, all of it is done by them. What part does the negro womanhood play in the civilization of the race? The same part that the clod of clay played in the growth of the rose. Negro civilization grows out of the negro womanhood. Then let the womanhood of this dwarfed race work. work. work till the last beam fadeth—fadeth to shine no more. RETORT COURTEOUS: Mrs. Gnaggs—You are not a man. You are a—a worm. Mr. Gnaggs—Well. I notice you played the part of the early bird. Philadelphia Record. AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS Ex-Governor Northern of Georgia, in his appeal to the southern people for religious help in behalf of the negro, uttered some very sane remarks in reference to the activity of religious bodies, favoring the salvation of Africa; but, apparently, unmindful of the dense heathenism residing in our midst. There is something peculiar in our efforts to cultivate the field of others in a distant clime, when our own territory, under direct supervision, is suffering from neglect. It would be better by far if our energies, in support of domestic missions, were doubled. The fruits derived therefrom would present themselves in realities, such as could be sen and appreciated by those with whom they come in contact. The most thorough preparation is required to perform successful duties in the department of heathendom; and this preparation should be perfected before an undertaking is attempted. It is true, perhaps, that Africa, the greater part, stands in need of redemption; but it is true, likewise, that America, as a whole, cannot boast the intelligence of angels; and if the inhabitants of the Dark Continent are more deeply stupid in ignorance and superstition than many of these surrounding us, their condition is pittable indeed. The gospel is effective only to those who are sufficiently enlightened to understand its mission—the regulation of conduct between man and man, and a willing obedience to the commands of God. Whatever might be the zeal which prompts activity in missionary pursuits, little of importance, in religious elevation can be accomplished in the absence of intellectual cultivation. Religion may be begotten of belief; but it must be nurtured by practicing the things which savor of righteousness, ere we are properly entitled to lay claim to its possession. This is a point of vital consideration which very many of our Southern neighbors appear to overlook. We believe that ex-Governor Northern is sincere in his advocacy of the spiritual uplift of the negro. We believe he has given his services in earnest endeavor to improve the situation of the race; but there are errors to be corrected and powerful agencies to be combated ere the period of his desired consummation is attained. An educational campaign is necessary as the forerunner of wished-for results; and if those gentlemen who are benignly interested in the welfare of the negro would bestir themselves on this particular subject, much of the opposition which he now encounters would lose its force. There is something of a mystery in our desire for the bestowal of spiritual blessings without the materials necessary to their usage. Benighted souls can better realize the benefits of light after darkness shall have been dispelled. All methods utilized in the regeneration of any people, except those which pass through the channel of enlightened understanding, will avail very little towards uplifting the racial standard. These are our opinions concerning ing more of the zeal with which we are affected, regarding those we term our brethren in despair. Should the enthusiasts modify their tactics respecting the negro in Africa and the negro in America, radical changes for good could be wrought into a decade, and wonders now undreamed of would be the reward of labor. We welcome, however, the sympathy and old of such as the ex-governor's type; for influences such as theirs can do much to lighten the weight of our burdens. "Rev. Dr. Edward Wilmot Blydon, who has just died at the age of seventy-nine, was one of the most distinguished members of the negro race, a scholar of notable attainments, a wise statesman and a successful diplomat," comments the Springfield (Mass.) Republican in an informing reference to this eminent personage. "He was born in the Danish island of St. Thomas in the West Indies, of pure negro blood. His early ambition for a liberal education received a setback by the refusal of several American colleges to admit him as a student. This was just after the passage of the fugitive slave law, in 1850. He had intended, after a course of study in this country, to go to Liberia. As it was, he went without waiting, entered the high school in Monrovia, and in the course of time became president of Liberia college. He resigned in 1884 and took up independent work among the Mohammedans of Sierra Leone. He was somewhat proficient in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Hebrew, Greek and Latin, but his special field was Arabic. He had the acquaintance of many distinguished scholars and other famous men and was the author of several books and many magazine articles. Hamilton college conferred upon him the degree of A. M. Lafayette the degree of D. D., and Lincoln university the degree of LL. D. Dr. Blydon had served as secretary of state and secretary of the interior in the cabinet of the president of Liberia, in 1862 was commissioner to the United States for Liberia, in 1877-79 was minister to Great Britain, and at one time served the British government as diplomatic agent to make treaties with the powerful Mohammedan and pagan chiefs of central Africa. Dr. Blyden was opposed to a general exodus of American negroes to Liberia, but believed that the migration of skilled workmen and men capable of intellectual leadership would be a good thing. He took a liberal view of race prejudice against the negro in the south, believing it to be due to a natural and proper desire of the whites to keep their racial stock pure." "Governors and other leaders from several southern states recently conferred in Baltimore on labor and industrial conditions in that section. The reawakened south, industrially and agriculturally expanding at a rate unknown since the Civil war, needs labor. There is insistent demand that European immigrants be steered to the south to supply this demand. "The negro is almost ignored in this demand for immigration. He is set down as hopeless, trifling, futile, impossible. But is it safe to rush to that conclusion? "Though the white population of the south is increasing more rapidly than the black, and though every decennial census makes it more clear that there is no possible danger of the black, as once was feared, coming to predominate—despite all this, the fact remains that there are some eleven millions of colored people in the country, and that they cannot be got rid of. There stands the hard fact. "It may be that the negro is not so desirable a worker in factory or field as the immigrant; but if the immigrant takes his place the negro will be left on the hands of society, demanding the means of livelihood, a menace to the community in greater and greater degree just in proportion as the hopelessness of his condition is made more apparent. "If the south's eleven million negroes could be traded off for eleven millions of whites, that would be a solution. But they cannot be. The negroes are there and will stay there. They must be provided for; made as useful as possible; made to support themselves. "To make the most, the best, of its negro workers is the first big duty of the south. It is the most difficult problem before the nation. "It cannot be solved by the effort to drive the negro out; he will not be driven out. He must be looked after, educated in the right way, given a chance to self-respecting, encouraged to improve his condition."—Hampton's Magazine. There's a man in the world who is never turned down, wherever he chances to stray; he gets the glad hand in the populous town, or out where the farmers make hay; he greeted with pleasure on deserts of sand, and deep in the aisles of the woods; wherever he goes there's the welcoming hand—He's the Man Who Delivers the Goods. The failures of life sit around and complain; the gods haven't treated them white; they've lost their umbrellas whenever there's rain; and they haven't their lanterns at night; men tire of the failures who fill with their sighs the air of their own neighborhoods; there's the man who is greeted with light-lipped eyes—he's The Man Who Delivers the Goods. One fellow is lazy, and watches the clock, and waits for the whistle to blow; one has a hammer, with which he will knock, and one tells the story of woe; and one, if requested to travel a mile, will measure the perches and roods; but one does his stunt with a whistle or smile—he's The Man Who Delivers the Goods. One man is afraid he'll labor too hard—the world isn't yearning for such; and one man is ever alert, on his guard, lest he put in a minute too much; and one has a grouch or a temper that bad, and one is a creature of moods, so it's hey for the Joyous and rolllicking lad—for The One Who Delivers the Goods!—Old Hickory. In an editorial on "French Exclusion Law," the Washington Post endeavors to show, that when a nation becomes exclusive it ceases to grow, but strangely closes with this paragraph: "It is to the benefit of the United States, certainly, to keep her doors open to all healthy white immigrants, of good character." The Post ought not be so exclusive as to use the word "white." Perhaps some day the people of the United States will awaken to the fact that color prejudice has been of incalculable injury to the country—The Appeal. There are 25,000,000 negroes in the new world, distributed as follows: Thirty thousand in the Dominion of Canada; 10,000,000 in the United States; 5,756,000 in the West Indies; 117,000 in Central America; 60,000 in Venezuela and Colombia; 225,000 in the Guineas; $300,000 in Brazil and 90,000 in the remainder of South America. A man's reputation is what his fellow-men think of him; his character is what God knows of him—Anon. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY | SUBSCRIPTION RATES (in Advance) One Vear.secceseeseeseee es 1:50 Six onthe... ec eccs ee. 1.00 Three Months........0.c0... 60 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, 0. 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 Ohlo, and comparison with any will Immediately establish ite rank as one of the NEWSIEST AND BEST In the country. ‘It may be of interest to our many readers to know that the “L. M. John- son” who wrote that excellent Coium- Dus, Ohio, letter, published in The Gazette last week is a woman ( white.) It is one of the very best criticisms of Rey. Herbert 8. Bigelow, president ‘of the Ohio Constitutional Convention (whose unwarranted attack upon Sen- ator Joseph Benson Foraker is inex cusable,) we have yet seen in print. It certainly is an exceptionally well- written communication, from every viewpoint—one of the best The Ga- zette has published on any subject ina ong, long time. Pessimistic views on ‘the present order of things were expressed yester- day by Rev. H, C. Bailey, pastor of the Antioch Baptist church, at a meeting ‘of the Baptist. ministers’ conference. ‘The meeting was held at the Euclid Avenue Baptist church. Graft obtains in the political parties, he said, and vice prevails in daily life. His ‘topic was "Some Prominent Forces in present’ day living.” —Tuesday’s Plain Dealer. And Elder Bailey is right, too. ‘The conditions are bad enough, the Lord knows, to make any one w¥o knows them, ‘even more than “pessimistic.” The world, which includes the local world, of course, is certainly growing “wiser and weaker.” Anyone who questions this statement, has only to study conditions to be convinced of its truthfulness. THE PROFESSIONAL SOUTHERNER. ‘The following editorial from the Chicago Daily Inter Ocean fs too good to forfelt republication in The Gazette at this time: A writer In the Saturday Evening Post devotes several entertaining col umns to a study of 2 well-known bust ness type—"the professional South- erner.” For the benefit of those who may never have met this species in the flesh he explains that the pro- fessional Southerner does not seem to flourish down South, as one would naturally expect. On the contrary, whether born North or South, he is a product of the North—and particular- ly of New York city, which, incident ally, is exactly fitted for the develop- ment of the type, being “bounded on one side by a bluff of some size and ‘on the other by @ large sound.” A few Years ago, we are told, this remary: able type would seldom venture out without his low, black, rakish string tie and his low, black, rakish slouch hat and his strong Southern accent— an accent which he generally had ac- quired at considerable trouble. But the newspaper humorists poked so much fun at him that he discarded the trappings—all but the accent. However, he may still be identified by the following description: As a general proposition, it may be said that, the professional Southerner in New York is a per- son with the kind of a Southern Accent that an actress born in East Rome Center, Vt., uses when she is playing an Ingenue South- em part; and that he opens the éonversation with a stranger by telling who his grandfather was “and closes it by trying to borrow $2, Very frequently he gets the two dollars, too, because the Southern pose is Femunerative in New York.. Unfortunately, some of the protes- sional Southerners are not as well up in their parts as they might be. The writer mentions several cases of seri- ous mishaps due to carelessness about accessories. Here 1s one of the most touching and one that should certain: ly warn all gentlemen in that line to have a care: Recently: there was a young per: son of the male sex pirouetting — round in and about New York, who would confess without being unduly pressed, that his family was probably the oldest and the best and most aristocratic family {in the whole Eastern Shore coun: try—where the terrapins also ome from. One happy day, fur- | ‘ther to Impress a couple of friends ——who were from Michigan or Masaachusetts—he hauled out a photograph of an impressive larke ‘colonial mansion, with a pillared — portico, and passed it round, stat- ing casually that it was a picture — of the family domicile down in Maryland. One of the aiidience turned It over and saw the name — of the architect who had designed it, im 1909, for a rich woolen manufacturer! The professional Southerners are ‘not all men, by any means. We are told that ladies on the music hall stage are much given to billing themselves modestly ax the “Southern Blossom" ‘or the Southern Something-or-Other. ‘They are also prove to confess for Publication that they belong to “old Southern families.” But, in spite of oveesional mishaps, the professional Sontherner survives and, in New York #1 Jeast, seine to foarish. Some Umes he Ss young and long-baired Sometimes be is elderly, has an jron- gray mustache and a breath like « hot mince ple, You can always count on finding bim in some shape or other. QUILLIN’S SILLY STATEMENTS, Frank U. Quillin’s article on “The Negro in Cleveland, Ohio,” published recently in a Sunday edition of the Cleveland Plain Dealer, in the Chi | cago Fellowship Herald and possibly other daily and weekly papers in vari-| ous parts of the country, is so full of errors and mis-statements that the few antiquated facts it contains, tak-| en from the N. Y. Independent of | Feb. 24, 1910, are almost overshad: owed. The miserable article was writ ten for a purpose that is made per- fectly clear in the following excerpts: “There is no social equality be- tween the races in Cleveland.” ‘That is not so. The opposite is, however, and has always been true, “The Negroes live by themselves in Central avenue, Cedar avenue and Doan street. The two races prefer to live by themselves in their home life, As the Negro population increases and new land is needed to accommodate it, adjacent property is always ready for sale at a cheap price. “Men of the two races may meet as friends on the streets or in business, but it is never carried to the home life. ‘The white man will not think of such a thing as introducing a Col- ored person to his wife and have them meet on the same social plane.” ‘These Quillin statements are not only untruthful but positively silly and harmful, ‘There is not ‘a large city in the country where the social inter: mingling of the races is carried on to a greater extent, or where the two races live less to themselves, ‘That “adjacent property” reference, is ri Aiculously untrue on its very face, We do not know Frank U. Quillin, and have never even heard of him be- fore, but the following additional quo- tation, equally as silly end preposter- ous as the others given above, will come pretty near indicating his trend of thought and his southern-prejudice leaning. Speaking of a mythical post. ponement of an alleged leading local literary club banquet because a very light complexioned Afro-American member might have been accompanied by his wife, Quillin wrote: “The whole thing was. then quietly dropped, the members of the club tak- ing the following view of the matter expressed by one of them: ‘Although 1am a Southerner, 1 am broadminded enough to admire Mr. A. for his work, F like to talk with him and to shake hands, but for my wife to meet his Wife in social equality is a very differ- ent thing. She would tiot agree to it, and I couid not blame her." Equally as foolish and untrue as the foregoing, is his statement that “a few years back some young Negroes tried to attend a public dance along with whites,” and that Colored people of this city do not frequent “the white man’s” publie eating places or restau: rants, &¢. Quillin must have been paid for the effort (in his malicious article) to boost the color-line in public places, Our people of this community can enter a vigorous and proper protest against the publication of such dia- tribes, by local daily papers, simply by discontinuing their patronage of them, and they must do this, too. Brown Bread Baker. Mayor Gaynor was talking to an advertising agent about advertisement writing “I like the literary style of the average advertisements,” be said “Even when advertisements exagger: ate, they are written in good style. The best advertisements don’t exag- gerate; but there are some few adver tisement writers who seem to think that in their line of work, a little ex anes eae ee mind me, in their mistaken ows, of a miner. ‘The miner was passing a bakery with a friend, and in front of the bakery stood a very untidy baker ‘Gee,’ said the miner's friend, pointing Lis pipe at the baker disgustedly— ‘gee, what a dirty looking chap to be a baker, eh?” But the miner explained with a smile: ‘Oh, that’s all right. He'e just the fellow, you know, that makes the brown bread.’” Four te Their Limit. ‘A close observer has definitely es- tablished the fact that magples and Tooks cannot count further than four ‘A rook never returns to its nest un Ul it ts quite satistied that there ts no danger near. Wher four heaters or less departed in succession ‘rom @ near by log cabiz the rook would return to its nest after the last had gone out of sight But whenever there were more the bird lost count and returned to its nest even while some were still in the hut. Similarly, apes do not count further than four, and the Boers of the Transvaal, when they want to bunt these animals, hide in numbers exceeding four. four de- part in succession in such a manner s to be noticed by the apes, no then come forth and are easily cap- tired. Politeness Little Thought of. Tn all ages the gentleman Las been crucified or violently killed tn some other way, ,'Tiiis shows that we recog: nize a strength other than our own. but we are little disposed to tolerate it Manners, too, have been brought Into disrepute by the circumstance that they are the first cloak to which hypocrisy files. But courtesy and manners are very different things in a certain sense. The heart of courtesy may coexist with the husk of “Sireme rudeness. Courtesy can ever be taught, though deportment can But om the day when King George finds himself ruling over a “polite” nation he will nd himself ruling over # decadent nation—London Truth. Cultivate Self-Reliance. To be self-reliant Is to look to one’s self for help in all the affairs of life, not to be forever leaning upon those about you. There is great satisfaction in feeling that you have the ability to do for yourself—Clara K, Bayliss. ‘Wtinn thin Sen la Qhatlioweet. ‘The shallowest place in the Atlantic Ocean between England and North America is about two hundred miles east of Newfoundland, where the wa- {er is only fifty-eight feet deep. Evil of Modern Life. ‘There is Justification for the unrest of today, for multitudes of people spend thelr time in making « living and pever having time to live. wHE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, 0, SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 1912. (ees o> Fae rye | “are j ae sil Ms © Ba i aes a a i ee eer The Easter Festival By sane HE world itself keeps Faster Day,” begins an old carol in recognition that Easter is a festival of spring. While the Christian faith accepts it as a movable feast de- pending on the time of the Paschal moon, it is always within the period when na- ture is awaking from win- ter to a renewal of life, Each day the sun rises earlfer, its warmth drawing the frost from the ground. Preset eae ae lag hemear ) be ea 5 fields are veiled in tender green and the flowers bud in the sheltered Places. : In the first days of human history the cave man rubbed’ dry sticks to- gether to steal fire from the sun. When the spring melted the ice of winter, he bowed more profoundly to the great luminary in the sky as it appeared in the east, and later when he built his altars he renewed the fires when the sun turned northward. ‘The word Easter 1s from the Saxon “Bostre,” the name of the goddess of spring. “Hoster” lived in the east with the rising sun. She was the most gentle of all the deities of the pagan world. As she tripped across the meadows the grass came out, the flowers blossomed, the ice was broken in the brooks, and the streams sang merrily. All ‘the earth rejoiced, for ‘the fairer seasons of the year were at hand. Significant of Resurrection. Each year Eostre was born again significant of the resurrection from the dead of the Christian faith. ‘The young plants awoke to life from dry seeds, the chicks from the eges, and everywhere in nature the springtide under the spell or Kostre became lovely after the winter's sleep. ‘The Romans adopted the Saxon Fostre as their goddess Aurora. When the Christian fathers were naming the feasts of the church it was a wise thought that brought the old nature worship and the Easter resurrection into harmony. ‘The Emperor Constantine, at the beginning of the fourth century, re- solved to fix the time of Faster that it should not conflict with the Jewish Passover. To prevent disputes, he made the rules which were accepted at the Counell of Nice in $25 A. D. ‘The twenty-first day of March was known as the Vernal Equinox, the next full moon was the moon of Nisan, or the Jewish Passover, and the Lord's Day following was Easter Day. But if the full moon happened on a Sunday, Kaster Day was the Sunday after that. Old Easter customs, while differing widely according to religions and lo- calities, had some things in common. ‘The Easter flower has always been sacred to altars. Today we speak of the Easter lily, meaning the St. Jo- seph ily, and in other parts of the world the daffodil, \or the narcissus, or the calin lily may be regarded as the Easter lily ‘The colored Easter eggs, as gay as the Easter flowers in the fields, are universal, In Russia and in Paris, and in fact today in all large cities of the world, tmitation eggs are made of confectionery, and jewelers go 50 far as to make eggs of gold and sil- Yer and to set them with gems for the Eastor trade. Easter Symbols Universal. The. Christian church introduced the most beautiful celebrations of all Easter is the inspiring feast of the year and its celebration means a re- newal of faith, Even in remote parts of the world, where priests and their Uttle flocks assemble, the Easter lights burn on the altars and faithful congregations sing Easter carols with Fyne most solemn celebration of all fs that held in the Church of the Holy Sepulcher at Jerusalem. Pilgrims as- semble from every corner of Christen- dom, and ascend the Via Dolorosa chanting prayers. Many attend the feet-washing ceremonies, and throngs haste to the church where devotion Keeps them waiting from Good Friday until Saturday afternoon, when the Patriarch with unlighted torch enters the gloom of the sepulcher. ‘They watch with bated breath for hia return. No light flickers in the ie: Silke Men oc hha flames up, the torch is on fire and with a shout of thanksgiving the mul- titude breaks into singing a glorious hymn of thanksgiving. Those nearest the altar eagerly snateh fire from the torch, candle after candle is lighted until every taper in the church is burning. ‘The worshipers rise, the gloom 1s dispelled, and they go forth into the gray of the morning greeting one another, “Christ is arisen!” meet- ing the reply, “He 1s arisen Indeed!” Ceremonies at Rome. The festal ceremonies at Rome are most splendid. ‘The Pope officiates at mass on that day ond St. Peter's is filled with cardinals, prelates, and aig. nitarles from all parts of the world. ‘The day 1s ushered in by firing can- non from the Castle of St, Angelo. The magnificent basilica is richly decorated, altars are newly ornament- ed, the lights around St. Peter's tomb are burning, and the Pope in seated in his chalr of state in vestments ablaze with gold Beautiful Easter Carols, Faster carols are sung in all Chrls- tian lands. Some of the most beauti- ful are those from the Tyrol, whero singers go from house to house. Spain gives way to joy in fetes, and gifts are made to the Virgin, who 1s adorned with her best robes and jewels at this time, Russians enjoy a gift tree, like our Christmas tree, while jew- eled , Faster eggs are exchanged in the fmperial household, There Is a mystery about the orl- gin of the Easter rabbit of Germany. Fgghunting In the forest, where grown people have hidden the colored eggs, is a8 popular as eggrolling Is on the White House grounds in Wash- ington, In some places doves are lib- erated at Easter, and it 1s quite gen- eral to fill Easter baskets with flow: ers, oF cakes, and to make visite to renew good will among friends. A great deal of beautiful music has been written for the Easter services, which have become elaborate occa- sions in the churches. Many carols that are sung have been handed down by tradition and repeated from father to son. They frequently tell the New Testament story of the frat Christian Easter morning when Christ tus from the tomb, and gave all human be- ings faith in immortality, 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 2 Tittie time on Fridays or Saturdays i required. We are especially desirous of hear ing from persons in the following named’ cities: Zanesville, Newark Lancaster, Lebanon, Chillicothe, To ledo, Troy, Canton, Springfield, Piqua Colimbus,, Cambridge, » Steubenville Bellaire, St. Clairsville, Wilmington Portsmouth, Washington, C. H., Ox ford, Sabina, Gallipolis, Hendvilie, Us bana, Delaware, Mt, Vernon, East Liv expool, Wellsville, Akron, Dayton, Mid Gleport, Bellefontaine, Lima, 0, and other places where we have none. Write to the editor of The Gazette Blackstone building, Cleveland, 0. and terms will be sent promptly. Our readers will oblige us greatly by send ing at once the addresses of persons in the cities named above, or others to whom we can write relative to the matter. —————— THE ONLY ONE IN CLEVELAND The Gazette Is and has been, for many months, the only paper pub- lished in Cleveland and northern Ohio for the Colored people, all re- ports to the contrary notwithstand ing. Do not be misled. ‘EDITOR. Timelessness of Rome. Few of us ever ask ourselves where Im the eternity of Rome consists. It does not consist in a physical eternity, for Rome was not without beginning nd she sball surely not be without fend. It Is rather a pailosophical eter- aity. it ts eternity as Kant has taught it to us, the eternity of time: lessness It is the timelessness. of Rome, rather than the actual extent of time which makes the eternal, and this timelessness shows itself in noth ing more clearly than in Rome's eter- nal youth. She who today might well be an old lafy with her three thou sand winters! is only the incorporation of young Italy, this modern young woman, with her head full of social Istic theories and her garments orna- mepted with the gridiron pattern of tramways.—Jesse Renediet Carter, ta the Atlantic Recon sacha peace ie ace hg ‘The men who have not realized the responsibility of wealth are imperiling ‘the social system of the present time. Exchange. IT GIVES 160 ACRES Of Fine Wooded Land, Which Is Very Fertile and Easily Cleared. EDMONTON, Alberta, Canada— ‘This isa fine country where our people Ret equal rights in every business or pursnit. ‘Those who have come are doing Well; they stand the cold as well as anybody else. But it fs necessary to plant carly in May and not later than June 20, The amount of money Lecessary to cross the line is $25. We simply aye to show this amount; there are no charges for inspection. Our people should bring with them everything that they have; all of thelr stock and enttle, also farm implements, such as plow, harrow, disk and Georgia stock. | Bring ciekens and ‘hogs. ‘The hogs are inspected by the ‘Kovernment Inspectors, which takes 40 days, after that they are slipped to owners, Little charges for feeding. ‘They should bring all the seed and feed that they can get, as everything fs high; if they bring these things with ‘them they will find it very easy to get “along. ‘The government gives vou 160 acres, easily cleared, to the man that [Sill work industrious. The Canadian |governiment wants them to come, ‘They should bring some money with them |and be careful about spending it too freely. ‘The sun shines 16 hours and the weather is healthy. ime Wma mae! President Gomez of Venezuela is a mixed blood Franco. plate, with: Halts help, to profit big commercially asa resilt of the opening of the Panama canal eG REN : Oh, ks) Zoe bn Sl we HE PBUENY AG ig Sasson Hi | RET Ney ri Mande. Madam Marie Selika (Mrs. Sampson Williams) was given a fine benotit by N.Y. and Brooklyn friends, recently Do not delay but subscribe now for “the old. reliable” Gazette if you want the truth, without fear or favor, and All the encouraging race news every week. HAG or’ nM \\ i ap te! Ae 7) >>. Pe A ZN es A ZZ BS “CZ Bsc ne ee we. Hon. Geo. H. White, ex-member of Congiess from’ North’ Carolina, who has heen living in Philadelphia for some years, has announced his candi- dacy to succeed the “father of the House.” Hon, Henry H. Bingham (white), recently deceased, in the first Pennsylvania district, Rev. Richard Carroil, the well-known South Carolina clergyman, writing of his state's race colleges, has the fol: lowing to say of Prof. R. S. Wilkinson, president of our State College ai Orangeburg, 8. C,, in. the Columbia (South Carolina) "Daily State: “In traveling over the state 1 find that Prof. Wilkinson ives perfect satisfaction, and even in Orangeburg, I contd find no complaint, He is a member of the Episcopal chureh, a de- nomination that has a small constitu: ency among the Negro people of South Carolina, “He seems to be popular among ail.” ‘The Negroes idea of loyalty to the enterprises of his race runs entirely too much to the mouth and entirely too little to the pocketbook, What Colored men want who have taken their money and invested it in business Is not 80 much sympathy and praise but pat ronage—Dallas (Tex.) Express, Wael aan eae. Notice is hereby given that the ‘Trustees of the Second African Meth- odist Episcopal Church have filed in the Court of Common Pleas a petition wherein said Trustees are plaintifts and The Second African Methodist Episcopal Church, otherwise known as St. James African Methodist Episcopal Charen, of Cleveland, Ohio, a rellg. fous corporation under the laws of Ohio, is defendant, being known as No. 128546 on the docket of said court, praying for authority to exchange or sell the following described. premises: Situated in the City of Cleveland, County of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, and Known as being part of an orfs: inal 100 Acre lot No, 410 in said City, and bounded and descrited as follows: Beginning at a point on the northern line of Hudson Avenue 325% feet east erly from the easterly line of 105th Street, thence northerly on a line par- allel with the easterly line of 15th Street $1 feet to the Southerly line of C. C. Baldwin's allotment, thence easterly along the southerly’ line of said Baldwin's allotment 45. feet, thence southerly on a line parallel with sald easterly line of said 105th Street $1 feet to the northerly line of said Hudson Avenue: thence west along said northerly line of said Hud- son Avenue 45 feet to the place of be- ginning, said lot being 45 feet front on said Hudson Avenue; and that it also. purchased on the 27th day of April 1908 a certain parcel of real es- tate hereinafter described as follows, to-wit: Beginning at a point on the norther- ly line of Hudson Avenue, 370 5-10 feet from the easterly line of 105th Street: thence northerly on a line parallel with the easterly line of said 105th Street 81 feet to the southerly line of ©. C. Baldwin's Allotment: thence easterly along the said Baldwin's southerly line 40 feet: thence souther- ly on.a line parallel with the said east- erly line of 105th Street 81 feet to the northerly line of Hudson Avenue: Thence Westerly along said line 40 feet to the place of beginning, be the same more or less, but subject to legal highways. Said petition will be for hearing at 1 o'clock a. m. om the Ist day of April, 1812 in Court Room No. 1 or No. 3, or as soon thereafter as the Court can hear the same. B. F. Ramey, Jobn Thompson, Stafford Williams, Thomas H. Johnson, William J. Wiggins, Morgan L.. Junior, Francis I. Ballard, Trustees, WRITTEN BY “THE OLD RELIA. BLE” GAZETTE’S CORRE- SPONDENTS. What Our People Are Doing Each Week—Church, Personal, Social, Lodge, Literary and Mu- sical — Marriages, Deaths, Ete. Hamilton—Mr, and Mrs. Thos. Works were very agreeably surprised by neighbors, Monday evening.—Rev John Dickerson is ill and Rey. J.D. Singleton, Mrs, Wilt Hampton and Ars. Jos. Alexander are improving.—Miss Marjorie Hogans is home from Wilber- foree for the Easter vacation.—Rev. Watson of Lockland, preached at Payne A. M, 1. church, Sunday.— Hand your local news for this letier to the agent when he delivers your pEpek Oberlin—Mrs, Otis Smith. formerly Miss Jeannette Snyder of Cleveland, who has been very ill, is slowly tm proving. Her sister,” Mrs. Louise Thomas, and father, James R. Snyder poaneneesunsnnsreeaeenene ATTENTION, READERS! 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 & copy to look over and read carefully. Oblige the Eattor, —— both of Cleveland, were here (0 see her, last week and Sunday. respective: ly." Mrs, Smith’s baby son is in ex: cellent health—M. N. Work reports that our people are operating 110.373 farms in Alabama, containing one-third of all the improved land in the State. ‘The total value of the products raised by Afro-Americans on farms in the State in 1910 amounts to $40,000,000.— ‘The Mill City Cotton Mills near Dallas, Tex., have started vork. They repre- sent an investment of something over 3100,000.—Among the other manufae- turing enterprises which our people more or less control, there are re- ported a silk factory in North Carolina, an ofl mill and hosiery mill in Missis- sippi, and a hosiery mill in North Caroina, “TIED TO AN APRON-STRING” AETER ALL. While the Ohio Afro-American per- sis‘ed in his long sleep of inactivity (in the Obio Constitutional Conven- tion, in session at Columbus) all other people having important interests cen- tered there have been properly repre- sented, even if they were not directly represented in it by Delegates. Only the Afro-American held aloof and he the one most. vitally concerned, or the one who should have felt and still feel, most concerned. His right or rather privilege of voting in all tu- ture state elections Is at stake—and yet he slept and continues to sleep regardless of this fact, While he slept the advocates of woman suffrage worked, with the result that they have secured the passage ef their proposal by the Convention which pro- vides for the elimination of the words “white” and “male” from the Ohio constitution, providing the proposal is voted on favorably at the polls by the citizens of this state when the new constitution is submitted for ‘their ratification or rejection. As matters now stand, every Afro-Amer- fean and every other voter who de- ‘sires to vote to eliminate the word white,” MUST vote also for woman ‘suffrage in order to do 80. ‘There 1s peal no assurance that even then will woman suffrage, carry in [Oblo, 60 strong to (he feeling against it, largely because of the very large ovelgn element among itn voters op Posed to the same, in addition to the thousands of others. Personally, we fayored and still continue to favor woman suffrage, and had the honor of being a member of the Ohio Legisla- ‘ture that first gave the women of this ‘state the privilege of voting (in ‘school affairs). But is it wise for us to have our trouble coupled with that of any other portion of the’ state's ‘population? In this particular in- ‘stance, there is absolutely no ques. ‘tion as to this, for the reason stated above and others. ‘The question is, ‘therefore, what should we do? That ‘is perfectly clear! Pass the Cunning- ham proposal, introduced in the 0. €. C. on Jan, 17 and designed to elim. ‘inate the word “white” only, This can be done now, easier than before ‘the passage of the woman suffrage proposal, if handled properly. ‘There Is no good reason why our matter should be coupled with any other, particularly a new one, even if it iS also a matter of suffrage. Let every proposition stand on its own merits, if it has any, and both of these have. While it was’ a wise and shrewd move for the woman suffrage advocates to try to make sure of the forty odd thousand Afro-American “voters” in ‘Ohio, and thousands of _ others, friends of the race, it certainly is not wise, shrewd or even good judgment for us to permit matters to stand as ‘they now are, We must secure, and promptly too, the passage of the Cun- ningham or Some similar proposal, if we woilld properly conserve our own suiftrage interests in this state for at least the next sixty years, Will the Ohio Afro-American continne “to sleep on his rights,” with such on im- portant matter pending and such dan: ger impending? WE SHALL SEE! JEWS NUMBER 11,625,656. ‘The Jews of the whole world now number 11,625,856. Of this world pope ulation, 1,903,926 reside in America. But one other country has a larger Jew: ish population and that is Russia, with 5,082,242, The popyilation of Jerusalem is now 55 per cent, Jewish and of Lon- don 2.28 per cent FREE INFORMATION SERVICE. BEST NURSERY STCCK IN THE UNITED STATES, Grown on the Shores of Lake Erie. Hard-wooded, Barly-bearng, — Long: lived. Compiete line of Fruit and Or- hamental Trees, Smail Fruits, Shrubs, Evergreens, Vines, etc, Propagated from. Prize-winning Orchards—truit brings highest prices. Beware of soft: wooded, cheaply-propagated stock. Write at once for full particulars: Pennsylvania Nursery Co., Girard, Pa, ATTACHMENT NOTICE. Before Wm, Brown, a Justice of the Peace of East Cleveland Township, Cuyahoga County, Ohio, Geo. B, Hare, PYtt., vs. EE. WIE jams, Dit. On the 13th day of March 1912, said Justice issued an order of attachment in the above case for the sum of $84.97 and $10 probable costs. Said case is set for hearing on the Jd day of May 1912, at 4p. m. GEO. B. HARE, By Chas, S. Sutton, his attorney. at ea ahi cates A bottle of ardent spirita floated across the Atlantic in a little over two years. And we can ‘maging there are men with sufficient patience and leisure to sit down on the pebbly strand and walt for the next one— Cleveland Plain Dealer. WONDERFUL RESULTS ON SHORT NOTICE [have used your Pomade. Its the best thing L ever used for making curls hair lie smooth, I have not flaishea aay first bottle, bat can see wonderful routlts, wrives Mra, Louise E. Hayes of Pineville, S.C. * ‘Try Ford’s Hair Pomade for harsh stubborn and unruty hair and Ford’ Royal White Skin Lotion for tLe cou plexicn, Ask your druggist for them, Be sure and get the genuine (Ford # manufactured by the Ozoniiod Ox sana ‘Company, Chicago, 1 PURELY PERSONAL J. S. HALL'L'S, 3121 Central Ave. L. SCHWARTZ'T'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. SAM COHEN'S, 2928 Central Ave. Open Sunday. JOHNSON'S, 3350 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 adductive is assurance that they want it. FOR RENT —Houses. If you have places to rent or if you want to rent —notify The Gazette. For Rent —Five rooms and bath. 2225 E. 97th St. Attic and cellar. Inquire at I. W. Porter's. 9703 Quebec Ave. NOTARY PUBLIC —For such services call at The Gazette office. No 3 Blackstone Building. No. 1422 W. 30 street. near Superior avenue. FOR RENT —Furnished rooms with gas and bath. Special accommodations for theatrical people. Room and board. Mrs. I. B. Ambrose, 2285 E. 46th St. Cuy. Phone. Central 2917 I. Miss Esther Mason of E. 29th St., is convalescent. Wm. McRoss was called to Philadelphia, Monday, by his mother's death. Mrs. Snowden of Pine Ave. has re turned to her former home, N. Y. City, Knights Templar will hold Easter services at St. Andrews' church, at 3 p. m. Mr. Daniel Fairfax, sr., is suffering from paralysis. He is one of our old residents. Miss Ariena Carpenter of E. 87th St. will spend Easter with relatives in Pittsburgh. C. P. Lancaster and Rev. F. G. Snelson were in Youngstown and Akron, respectively, recently. The Mission restaurant and Mrs. Anita Lee's, E. 37th. St., and Central Av., have been closed. The Cuyahoga Co. A.A. R. League met in Clayton block, Tuesday evening. Ar. H. Martin, Esq., pres., and P. E. Minter, sec. The De Trope club held a very pleasant meeting at Mrs. Dorsey's, E. 43d St., Thursday afternoon. Next meeting at Mrs. G. Land's. The bartender of the week that Vanbusen's bartender, he of the ghost-dream, cut some man in the saloon. Saturday evening. The editor of The Gazette will speak at St. James A. M. E. church, Sunday evening. There are to be special Easter exercises; literary and musical. The Spring term of the St. James club will be held in Harmon building, cor. Woodland and E. 20th. St. beginning Monday, Books and tuition free. The third assembly of the Union club of St. Andrew will be given, Easter Monday night, at ideal hall (formerly Woodliff hall). A short program and an orchestra. Mr. Louise Thomas of the East End University, visited her sister and the latter's other daughter, Mrs. Jeannette Otis Smith of Oberlin, last week and Sunday, respectively. Mrs. Smith has been very ill. When you want Chili con carne stop at the Manhattan restaurant, 3133 Central Av. A good chicken dinner served every Thursday and Sunday. The Manhattan has the best cooks in the city, J. W. Crawford, proprietor. Thos. B. Akridge sent The Gazette a very pretty souvenir-post card from Chicago, the first of the week, and wrote that he was en route to St. Paul, Omaha and Kansas City. He reported fine weather (while we were wrestling with Kansas City) and Rev. S. Douglas McDuffie, formerly of Washington, D.C., recently of St. Louis, Mo., M. E. traveling evangelist and a graduate of Howard University's Theological department, has charge of Cory church in the absence of its pastor. Mrs. George Morton Johnson died at the City hospital, last week, after several months' illness. Funeral, the next week, will be held at the derdtaker, Mrs. Chas, O. Martin deserves much credit for her unwriting efforts in this case. 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 Gilt Edge Needle club met this Friday evening at Mrs. Baldwin's, 2342 E. 38th. St., and at its last meeting elected the following officers: Press, Mrs. Wickline; vice-pres, Mrs. Thompson; sec, Mrs. Shavers; treas., Mrs. R. Scott; assist, treas, Mrs. F. Boydstein. The Gazette desires to ask its readers to remember, especially, its advertisers. Patronize them; they want your trade and will treat you far better in every way than those who do not ask for your patronage in these columns. Many of our people have noticed that "The Song Shop" at the corner of Ontario St., and the Public square, conducted by Jerome H. Remick & Co. N. Y. City and Detroit, has a notice in their Ontario St., window to all self-respecting members of our race to stay out of that "shop." There are 20,000 Afro-Americans in this city and all are "musical." Stay out of that "Song Shop," until it shows more for us. Pass the word along to all you meet. (New York and Detroit race papers, please republish this notice.—Ed.) Call your lady friends' and acquaintances' attention to our up-to-date fashion and pattern department, and to the ones to subscribe or take The Gazette regularly. Oblige the Editor. ten cents a line (six words in a line.) Special Easter services at the Mission of Branch 2, C. & M. Alliance, 1914 Woodland Av., by the S. S. at 130 p. m. Friends invited. Mrs. Ethel Moore Roberson wishes to announce that she is ready for business (millinery) at her residence, 10527 Arthur Ave. Call and see her before buying your Spring hat. She has some beautiful creations, just completed. 3t Rev. G. A. Sissle has been returned to Corv Church, for another year, by the Church's congregation of the M. E. Church, and the members are greatly pleased. He will preach, Sunday. Senator W. T. Clark and Attorney Alex. H. Martin were associated in a case in the U. S. Court which came up Tuesday morning and was postponed to the October term of the court. Rev. J. L. Burm of Mt. Haven Baptist church, will preach, Sunday morning and evening, respectively, on "The Way of God" and "What the Kingdom of God Is." Sunday-school and R. Y. P. U. at the usual hours. A reception will be held at Mrs. Richard Blue's, 2250 E. 99th. St. April, 11, from 2 p. m. to 10 p. m., for the benefit of the Old Folks' Home. Tickets only 10 cents. Everybody should go who can. While Rev. F. G. Snelson of St. James' A. M. E. church, was preaching the Elks' sermon at Cory church in Shrimim, was preaching the Smith of Shrimim church, was telling his congregation why he refused to preach the sermon. All on account of the saloon the Elks have in their building on Central Av., near E. 55th. St. The "Mannasseh" club held another one of its bimonthly dances at Clayton hall. Tuesday evening. Several of the women (white) present, with their Colored husbands and beaux, were young and very pretty. All were beautifully gowned, most of them being in evening dress, with a white wig. All were husbands and sweet-hearts, were conspicuous. The club's dances are unique in many respects. John H. Cisco of 1854 Central Av, returned the first of the week from a 6,630 mile trip of 15 days that included Albuquerque, N. M., Los Angeles, Calif., and southwest points in the extreme west and southwest. The party occupying his car included Mr. McBain, sup't of motive power of the L. S. & M. S. Ry, and his family. On March 29, Mr. Cisco's birthday, they presented him a gift of three pieces, genuine bone of which he is naturally very proud. Our local Ministers' Alliance has interested itself in the case of Louis H. Peck who was sent to the penitentiary from Akron, eleven years ago, on a charge of criminal assault on a little girl, and who was sent to the learning, that no assault was ever committed on the child or was she in any way harmed by Peck. A committee from the Alliance, consisting of Rev, W. G. Webster, spokesman, Rev. J. L. Burr and Rev. H. C. Bailley, had a conference Thursday morning with S. D. Dodge, Fsq. of this city, a member of the Justice Department, to Peck's parole or pardon. The Gazette will have more to say of this case in its next issue. Cry church's E. L. literary program every Monday evening is very interesting. The Sunbeam club served refreshments. The Willing Workers will serve, Monday evening. The Brotherhood is setting up a printing press and library, and expect to give a banquet for 100 men soon. They meet in the lecture room, Wednesday evenings, and on Sunday afternoons or at the close of the morning services, S. S. Easter service. The choir will render special music. Sunday evening. Mrs. Esther Thomas will give an Easter drill. Monday evening, for the E. L. benefit. Rev. S. D. M. Washington of Washington, two excellent alumnus, Sunday, and Mr. Richard Stisle, the church's delegate, gave an interesting report of the conference at Columbus. It was a clever idea to combine the Singers club and the Cleveland Symphony orchestra in an entertainment of vocal and instrumental melody. Likewise, it was a good and wise thought to use the Hippodrome, where acoustics and seat accommodation lend ease and comfort to the occasion. Such an environment stimulates and incites every one to do his best. For this reason the two organizations never gave a program with better finesse in tone shading and general ensemble. The Rienzi overture started the program spelled by the noisy lyrics, was almost spilled by the noisy seating occupers. The Chadwick wrote works, with orchestra, went with a vocal polish and unity of effort that showed what could be done when the combination is effected. The concert was grand, both club and orchestra doing exceptionally fine work. Old and New. The old-fashioned woman who wore red flannels and turpentine as protection for her chest now has a daughter who wears talcum and a bangle on hers. -Galveston News. 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. Mrs. H. Hollingsworth and son have been quite ill. The Cuxahoga Co. A.A. R. league, at its meeting this week, empowered its executive committee to draw resolutions for its April 16 meeting, which it is intended to forward to the O. C. C. at Columbus, asking that the word "white" be stricken from Ohio's constitution. This is the same old word that Henry T. Rubanka said in a talk at the Attacks club supper in St. John's church, some weeks ago, he had sent "glimmering from the state constitution" when in Columbus a few days previous. He certainly must have been dreaming. O. Henry, how could you? The league has enrolled over 100 members to date. Our people should have the good sense to "cry down" the school segregation nonsense some of our misguided ones are indulging in. The less we say about it here and to the O. C. C., the better it will be for us, as no one except the aforementioned misguided ones are agitating such a thing. ACME AUTO Auto Livery. All People 2340 East Ninth Street. 'Paines North 1231 a The Best Work Guaranteed! Rufus 4316 Central Ave. New One on Venus Mary, an older sister, had spent the morning shopping in town. Among her purchases was a square of dark red velvet which she intended to use as a background for a beautiful little statue of Venus de Milo, which had recently been presented to her. Just as she had temporarily fastened the velvet on the wall back of the Venus, her small brother Bobby, aged 5, walked into her room. "Well, Bobby," said Mary, "how do you like my Venus de Milo?" Would you leave the velvet there? Bobby looked thoughtful for a moment or so and then replied, "No, Mary, it wouldn't. I'd take it down and 'wap it a wound'—"Lippincottis Moderized. "That story of the building Tower of Babel should be need-ized." "But how would you acco-ral the confusion of tongues?" I suppose they had the tower nearly up and then somebody wrought Graft' and everybody accounted body else and the job we In Ancient Days The chimney corner was a favorite place for early settlers when they took their tobacco. Buckets were the chief reliance of the fire fighters. When an alarm was cried each citizen grabbed his buckets and ran to answer it. If he couldn't respond in an instant he threw his buckets out his window, and his neighbor picked them up and carried them along. Oriental Bug Maker. Rug makers in the Orient consider it an omen of ill fortune if a Christian looks upon them while they are engaged at their work. To conjecture the influence of the "evil eye," as they regard it, they weave a white spot in the pattern. The Central Business Exchange FINE 'HOMES-GOOD BARGAINS— $22.50 UP. ONE OLD LOTS. TERMS TO SUIT. Mortgage-loans, Collections, Bond. Insurance. Estimates given. S. E. 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'Pnones North 1231 and Central 4161. The Best Work Guaranteed! Rufus S. Justice Plumbing and Sewer Building All Work given Prompt Attention. 2079 E. 30th St. 'Phone Bell North 1075X THE MANHATTAN The Best Place on Central Ave., to get a Good Lunch and Quick Service J. W. CRAWFORD, PRO'R., 3133 CENTRAL AVE. Open Evenings for the Accommodation of the Theater Trade. Bell Main 3345. Cuy. Cent. 7597 L Globe Printing Co., PRINTERS AND STATIONERS. 1397 East Ninth Street 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 Dealer in First-Class Hair Goods. 3927 Central Ave. CLEVELAND, OHIO. Phone, East 2216X. IF YOU SUBSCRIBE AT ONCE YOU CAN STILL GET THE 52 WEEKLY ISSUES OF THE YOUTH'S COMPANION for the coming year for only $1.75. Thousands of our subscribers whose subscriptions run over the first of January into the early weeks of the new year have written us to ask if we will not accept subscriptions at the old rate of $1.75 for a little while beyond the time announced for the advance in price to $2.00. A Last Chance In fairness to these old friends and to new subscribers who were unable to result before the close of 1911 we have for taking subscriptions at $8.25 to March 30 The new rate of $2.00 will be put into effect promptly on April 1. No subscription at $1.75 will be accepted after that date. Subscribe now — to-day — so as not to lose any of the good things in the Volume for 1912. New Subscriptions Received at this Office. nothing to Worry About. "Are you not afraid that some of your children will fall into that open clistern?" asked the nervous boarder, looking over the picket fence in the back yard. "Oh, no, mum," came the complacent reply. "Anyhow, it ain't where we gets our drinkin' water"—Hampton's Magazine. Czarina's View of Education According to the czarina Russia's troubles are due to the education of women. All girls, says she, should be taught to sew, to care for their homes and to become helpful wives and good mothers, but they should never be taught history, philosophy or science, "because these studies, when offered to women, only result in such terrible times as Russia is now passing through." Rufus S. Justice 4316 Central Ave. Phone E. 2342-R Highest Grade of Tailoring for Men and Young Men. Ladies' Suits, Coats and Skirts Made to Order. CLEANING, DYEING & REPAIRING Goods called for and delivered to all parts of the city. BROWN DRUG CO. "THE MUTUAL STORE." 2742 Central Ave., cor. E. 28th St. Cut this ad, out and present it at the Brown Drug Co. and receive free sample of B. and M. HAIR DRESSING. This dressing is especially recommended where to hair is stubborn or curly, as it not only makes the hair soft, glossy and straight, but also easy to dress. B. and M. Hair Dressing is highly performed, has a very beneficial effect on the scalp, and is a splendid hair-tonic. BROWN DRUG CO. Exclusive Sales Agents. Call at G. G. REED'S Dry Goods and Gents' Furnishings, A Complete Line. Cuy, Central 6661 L 3222 Central Ave., Cleveland, O. QUINADE. (HAIR POMADE AND TONIC) Quinade will beautify, improve and preserve the hair. Will remove Dandruff. Price, 25 cents. Free sample sent on application. SEEBY'S "QUINACOMB," a comb made of specially tempered metal so as to retain the proper degree of heat. Used in conjunction with Quinade will remove the curl from and straighten the hair. Price, 50 cents. SEEBY DRUG CO. NEW YORK. Quinade and Quinacombes are sold in Cleveland by Brown Drug Co., 2742 Central Ave., cor. 28th St.; The People's Drug (Sore, cor. 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The state superintendent does not know what to make of this condition. He said today it either indicates an exodus of negro residents from Missouri or the race is decreasing. The large cities show no increase in negro children of school age, either, and the report for 1910 indicated none. The decrease for the school year ending July 1, 1911, is approximately five per cent. of the total number. The total enumeration of white children for 1911 was 934,873 of whom 475,163 were boys and 459,710 girls. The total enumeration, including negro children, was 975,504, against 1,003,434 in 1910. This decrease was largely due to the heavy slump at St. Joseph, where the enumeration dropped off approximately 23,000. St. Joseph received school money upon the basis of over 42,000 school children in 1910. The new enumeration gives fewer than 20,000. Mr. Evans held up money for St. Joseph to compel the authorities there to refund approximately $40,000 which the city received last year in excess of the amount to which it was entitled under the new school census. A suit to determine his right is now pending in the Supreme court. Missouri has 10,105 school districts of which 732 had an enumeration of less than 20; 1,584, an enumeration of between 20 and 30; 3,917, from 30 to 40; 2,542, from 50 to 80; and 1,320, an enumeration in excess of 80. These figures indicate the need of consolidation, Mr. Evans says. The small districts are able to maintain school less than six months and to pay teachers low wages. A law authorizing the consolidation of school districts was enacted last winter. Few districts have taken advantage of this law, however. Another measure empowering such consolidated districts to provide for free transportation of children was also enacted. Consolidation of districts and the transportation of children have been agitated by the State Teachers' association and superintendents for many years, but with little results. There was expended for teachers' wages for the school year ending July 1, 1911, $7,952,661.56. The total amount of money paid into that fund was $9,152,356.82. The salaries paid teachers is ridiculously low, when the increase in cost of living is considered. The average salary of male teachers in 1911 was $60.51 a month, while that for women was but $55.53 a month. The average earnings of male teachers annually was approximately $467 and that of women about $415. The poorest paid laborer would earn more than this sum if regularly employed. The total number of men employed at teaching in 1911 was 4,767, of whom 247 were negroes. There were 13,779 women employed as teachers, of whom 518 were colored. The average levy for school purposes was 56 cents on $100 valuation, as against 53 for 1910. There were 41 districts in Missouri which made no tax levy, 109 levy less than 20 cents, 785 levy between 20 and 40 cents, 3,181 levy 40 cents, while 5,989 levy over 40 cents on the $100 valuation. The average daily attendance last school year was 488,619. This is about half of the total enumeration. The average length of school term was 155 days. Sixty schools maintained less than four months; 746 between four and six months; 5,343 eight months or more. The average daily attendance was under 10 in 726, from 10 to 15 in 1,587 districts, 15 to 20 in 3,791, 25 to 40 in 2,464 and 40 or more in 1,395 districts. Nearly one-third of the teachers Missouri taught on third-grade county certificates in 1911. There were 5,257 with third grade county certificates, 4,078 with second grade, 3,850 with first grade, 817 with Normal certificates, 836 with Normal diplomas, 412 with limited state certificates and 505 with life state certificates. Some important changes were made in the certificates of teachers by the last legislature. Under a law the state superintendent examines the papers written before county superintendents by applicants for first-grade county certificates. These, when granted, are good in any county in Missouri, when properly indorsed. There was expended in Missouri for the school year ending July 1, 1911, $2,341,803.21 for new school buildings. How much of this sum was expended in the country is not known, but was probably less than 10 per cent. Estimated value of school property is $39,643,400. The public school districts have an aggregate bond indebtedness of $10,256,829. The low valuation of property for taxation, Mr. Evans says, is largely VOICED HIS PLEA. "Not guilty!" exclaimed the prisoner. "An 'Oi can prove it.' "That remains to be seen," observed the judge. "Whol' continued the prisoner, in aggrieved tones, "when the man was robbed, yer worship, what could Oi be doin' in the house when Oi wasn't there at all, at all, but was three doors down beneath the lampost mounting the baby? Shure, onyone in the state could have heard me sing! responsible for the unsatisfactory condition of rural schools. Under the system of assessing property in Missouri the small districts while voting the maximum of taxes are rendered unable to procure enough money to conduct a creditable school. The legislature enacted a law providing for state aid for weak districts, but this rendered but little service. The solution of the difficulty, he believes, to be consolidation. The figures compiled upon the number of schools with an enumeration of fewer than 20 is an eloquent argument for larger districts. Mr. Evans and the State Teachers' association and the county superintendents of county schools are advocating the adoption of an amendment for the state constitution, levying a tax of one mill upon all property, this to be divided equally between the public schools, normals, and state university. SCIENTIFIC FARMING BY NEGROES REPORTS OF RESULTS OF EXPERIMENT STATION IN SUMTER COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA, CONDUCTED BY R. W. WESTBERRY, COUNTY DEMONSTRATOR IN CHARGE OF WORK AMONG NEGRO FARMERS. Many different varieties of cotton and corn were planted on a farm at Horatio, S. C., to determine which would make the best yield. The several plots were planted in one field so as to give each about the same grade of land. Among the different varieties of cotton mentioned, the Bates is the most favored, the yield of lint was 41 per cent. The Moneymaker made the largest amount of seed cotton, but the lint was only 34 per cent. The Russell big boll makes the finest lint of any of the short staple cotton. The Columbia long staple was planted near the experiment station, June 1, after oats, a little more than two acres was planted, and the amount of seed cotton gathered from the same was 1,524 pounds, lint cotton 510 pounds. The amount paid for the lint was $73.50. The seed are being sold for $1.50 per bushel, which will amount to about $45.00, making a total of $118.50 for one bale of long staple cotton nand seed. It would be a good idea if the farmers plant a portion of their farms with the good varieties of long staple cotton. There are factories in South Carolina that use no other cotton but the long staple, and whenever South Carolina farmers cannot supply the demands, it is ordered from other places. Cotton coming in from foreign markets is very likely to bring pests into the state that would be very injurious to our cotton crops, such as boll weevil and diseases, that have been kept out of the state thus far. The names of the different varieties of corn were: Dr. Simms, Marlboro Prolific, Strawberry, Hurson, Aldrich Perfection, Sanders Improved, Jerry Moore and Charlie Sanders. The number of bushels made per acre by each were as follows: Dr. Simms, 45 bushels. Marlborough Prolific, 43½ bushels. Strawberry, 49 bushels. Hudson, 49 bushels. Aldrich Perfection, 40½ bushels. Sanders Improved, 49½ bushels. Charlie Sanders, 38½ bushels. Jerry Moore, 70 bushels. The Hudson variety is not a good seed for this section of the state, the weevils were in abundance on this plot. It is an early field variety, having matured nearly two weeks earlier than the other varieties. The Jerry Moore variety proved to be much heavier than the other, while Dr. Simm's was more prolific. Charley Sanders variety has a great deal of nutrition, it will not decay or rot, as easy as the other varieties, and the corn weevils do not affect it as much. The experiment station will be planted in the same plot this year with reference to the use of fertilizer. Yours truly, W. R. WESTBERRY, Sumter County Agricultural Agent, Sumter, S. C. HIS MANNERS. "You see that man across the way?" "Yes: what of him?" "Certainly. He was dressing their hair."—Baltimore American. away; for it's a moighty powerful voice Oh have, an' it's many a tome Ol've—" "Stop—stop!" cried the judge, angrily. "What on earth has your voice to do with it?" "He only means, your worship," explained Pat's counsel, smiling blandly, "that he can prove a lullaby."—National Food Magazine. Words are not sufficient to explain some things, therefore pugilism was invented. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, APRIL 6, 1912. CLAREMONT TEMPERANCE INDUSTRIAL INSTITUTE WIELDING A GREAT MORAL INFLUENCE—PRESIDENT SMALL-WOOD AND HIS MOST VIVID WORK. By GEO. L. M'GATLAUGH. Upon the ancient bank of the classic James seventy-five feet above its level, stands the great work of a single man, for the negro race, with no church or charitable society at his back, this one black man has done more work for his race and demonstrated a greater amount of negro individuality than any one colored man, single handed, in all the country. THE TEMPERANCE, INDUSTRIAL AND COLLEGIATE INSTITUTE. This institution was founded October 12, 1892. "With less than ten pupils, and much less than fifty dollars in American money," so I am told by President Smallwood. The institution is the outgrowth of an individual effort, made by John Smallwood himself. The institution is not a church nor a state school. It has no organization at its back. It gets not a cent from the state. It is supported by voluntary contributions and by the sublime energy of John J. Smallwood, who is acknowledged to have the greatest amount of will power, and personal determination. The institution owns 398 acres of the finest farm lands in the vicinity of Claremont, about one hundred of which lies along fronting "The James." Just how Dr. Smallwood ever succeeded in getting these river front lands, under the circumstances, is a mystery to his best friends. Upon the James river lands are situated the institution—proper, Rebuilt Old Bagley Hall, first built in 1622, and was until 1855. Rebuilt Old Bagley Hall is a most magnificent wooden seven hundred dollars, as the James gives a most pleasant and attractive view of the James. The John Hay Wharf, at the foot of the hill, is rebuilt, "John Hay Wharf," "Old Claremont John Hay Wharf," now known as the "John Hay Wharf," 798 feet long, 12% inch wide, with the best cost North Carolina and Georgia租金 costing three thousand seven hundred ninety-eight dollars, the United States mall steamer Pocahontas, or the Mob-Jack, stop at this wharf to land passengers and freight. This is the first time in the history of the ancient-classic stream, that negroes are privileged to flag a steamer to import and export, to receive and give out freight. This wharf is named in honor of Dr. Smallwood's great friend and benefactor the late Honorable John Hay, the American scholar, statesman, business man, gentleman and diplomat. The rebuilding of the "Old Claremont Wharf" (now known as the John Hay Wharf) is an example of Dr. Smallwood's business efforts and his remarkable dating business manhood. LINCOLN MEMORIAL HALL LINCOLN MEMORIAL HALL This beautiful brick and stone building sits upon the great beautiful hill surrounded with beautiful poplar, oak cherry and dogwood trees. This building is $133\frac{1}{2} \times 149\frac{1}{2}$ feet, four-story, which is costing thirty-seven thousand eight hundred ninety-seven dollars, for the erection without furnishing, and it is the first building ever erected upon Virginia soil by any individual negro. Dr. Smallwood's friends did not know that he contemplated building this most commandeered building until he had the contract. Just a few rods from the stateley Lincoln hall is the power house from which power house the heat and water supply for Lincoln hall and Bagley halls are supplied. Lincoln hall will be fitted up with all modern improvements, bath, hot and cold water, steam heat, electric light, cooking ovens and the improved class and bedrooms. The grounds around this building are now being beautiful. Lincoln hall is not only a blessing and an honor to the negroes, and especially to the brave Prof. John J. Smallwood, who is the very life and stability of the institution, but it is a great credit of the white people of Claremont. Claremont and Surry counties are both known, read of and thought of, just at this time in places and by good people who and where it never would have been thought of nor heard of, had it not been that this polite, highly educated and most practical negro came to this town nineteen years ago and with prayer, faith and determination began this great work. He has accomplished great things, most assured so. In Lincoln hall will be placed the bronze bust of the late John Hay, Dr. Smallwood's greatest friend. The President Abraham Lincoln, honest merchant, farmer, the lawyer, the politician, statesman, orator emancipator and America's greatest reformer, Fred Douglass, Amanda Smith, Frances E. Willard, and it is said that Dr. Smallwood's great good southern friend, the late "Zeb," ("our Zeb") B. Vance, ex-governor of North Carolina, and late United States senator, will have a bust in this hall. The brick work is completed, the windows are all placed, the fourth and third floors and second floors, are laid. The roof is on, the tin and iron men are at work, the grounds are laid with the sewerage pipes, the artesian well, $210\frac{1}{2}$ feet, flowing 50 or 65 gallons per minute of clear, pure water. The reservoir is built, the water flowing into it, and the pipes from the well to the top of the hill are already laid. FRUIT PUNCH. Make a sip by boiling a pound of sugar with a cupful of water for ten minutes. Have ready in the punch bowl the juice of oranges and four lemons, one orange sliced into a can of shredded pineapples and a cupful of fresh brewed tea. Pour the sip over the mixture and let it stand until cool. Then add a cupful of marachino cherries, two sliced bananas, a cupful of California grapes cut in halves and seeded, a quart of mineral The electric men (Mr. W. H. Jenkens of Richmond, the contractor) are at work placing the electric wires. THE POWER HOUSE. This building is $49\frac{1}{2}$ feet. In it will be placed a 75 horsepower engine and a 85 horsepower boiler, and a water tank, which will hold 3,600 gallons of water. The electric fixtures for lighting all of the buildings, the powerhouse, the sewerage and the water works are additional expenses that Dr. Smallwood did not consider when he began to rebuild the Old Claremont Wharf, and to erect to the memory and honor of his emancipator the most magnificent building. The powerhouse, the electric and steam plant, the water works and the general extensions will cost eighteen thousand nine hundred and forty-two dollars more than was thought one year ago when President Smallwood began his greatest efforts in this work OLD SAWYER HALL This, our building, is a plain and somewhat uncomfortable building built by President Smallwood and his pupils in 1893-94. It is a quaint wooden en structure, commanding in its appearance, and very graceful in its situation. In this building is found the president's office, entirely too crowded, but is one of the cleanest places I have ever visited. President Smallwood and his private secretary all work in the same office. In the building is also the dining room, the music room and the girl's bedrooms. Sawyer hall is named in honor of the late United States Senator Philletus Sawyer of Wisconsin, who, like the Hon. John Hay, befriended the institution in 1892, when slander and abuse thought to deter the brave negro educator. THE SCHOOL'S PROPERTY. The institution owns 328 acres of good land, the finest mules and horses in this section of the state, so far as I have seen in my travels. The most perfectly kept harness I have ever seen upon any school grounds, white or black, one of the st kept barn-stables in the country, almost every modern farming implement is found here and the law is "that they be kept clean and under the tool shed when not in use." The Holloway and Boyce farms, of course, are not yet improved, but Dr. Smallwood only needs a chance to show his hand at their improvement, that is needed to be made upon these two valuable farms. These lands will be improved and beautified as sure as President Smallwood has his health, and work to get the money with which to make the needed improvements. DR. SMALLWOOD AS A PATRIOT Dr. Smallwood was a slave in 1862. He is self-educated, having had in early life no encouragements to get above his plantation life. He is a plain, gentlemanly man, without ostentation or human bigotry. He is a most easy and fluent conversationalist, and is undoubtedly the best informed negro in the south upon all economical and political, social and religious subjects. NEGRO MUST SELL GOODS What a tame and commonplace heading is this, there is nothing suggestive perhaps and nothing novel about it. We repeat though that the negro must sell goods. This dictum, if such you deem it, comes to us after much travel and study of the industrial and commercial condition of our race variety. In the south especially we are the largest laborers, the leading wage earners. Every Saturday night hundreds of thousands of dollars come into our hands as wages for the mental services we render other people. Just as regularly before another Saturday comes the larger part returns to the very people from whom we have received it. Our weekly stipend is scarcely touched by us er it passes on. A mobile currency is the prize-honor which financiers contend for, but not the sort of mobility referred to above. To be mislyly to be selfish and unpatriotic. We are not advocating such a spirit, not at all. We would not suggest that negroes bcoott others; it would be folly, not to say suicide. What is needed is for enterprising negroes to open stores and shops of every kind wherever large negro communities obtain, so as to delay for a week or so at least the transfer of so much of our hard earned wages to other hands. Negro grocery stores, shoe stores, haberdashery and millinery establishments, etc., should succeed, and will, when properly managed. Right here in Charlotte, a dozen well ordered stores could thrive. The negro is busy home getting; in many southern towns one must own his home to be a reputable citizen; farms are being purchased, also, but far too little attention is given to mercantile affairs. Even Greeks and Italians, who never spend a cent with negroes and never even "have their washing done" are getting rich selling our people'lanes, popcorn, peanuts and brittle candy. Why can't a negro sell fruit? Why shouldn't a black man make good candy—he loves to eat it well enough. Our chief commercial concerns are drug stores and undertaking shops. True, we need these, but if we had more real high class grocery stores and cleaner and better restaurants our drug and coffin bills would be less. We again declare that the negro must sell goods—Star of Zion. SOME SHAPE. Customer-What have you in the shape of oranges? General Storekeeper—Well, we have baseballs—Harlem Life. water and cold water enough to make six quarts of liquid in all. Serve with a block of ice in a punch bowl. Mrs. Flubbub—Why shouldn't women serve on juries? Mr. Flubbub—I suppose the courts are afraid a husband and wife might be drawn on the same jury—Puck. The laughing girl sometimes keeps her laughter for special use. FURS AND THE COMPLEXION. A woman whose complexion is that of lilies and roses variety looks at her best when wearing white furs, while black furs are almost equally becoming, but she should as a rule avoid wearing furs of a brown color. A woman with red hair looks at her best, too when wearing furs of the white or cream variety, but she will be able to select brown skins as well, especially those with a dash of red in them, leaving severely alone pelts of a yellowish tinge. Gray-blue skins are, as a rule, becoming to women with red hair, but the girl whose eyes are inclined to take on a greenish tinge should never wear gray as these will then make her face appear hard and cold. She should also avoid pelts having a red or yellow tinge. A girl with blue eyes looks well wearing white furs but the woman whose eyes are violet should never wear any other fur than the chinchilla or gray squirrel. These soft grays are so very alluring, and chinchilla, all though the skin par excellence of the modish woman, is delightfully artistic, the delicate blue and pearl gray shadings defying imitation. A fair woman, whose skin is slightly inclined to sallowness can wear gray furs, as these tend to whiten the skin and also throw up any vestige of color she may possess. Sometimes sable and mink are becoming to sallow blondes, but when the eyes are light in addition to the sallow skin the brown-toned furs should be avoided. The brunette who has roses in her cheeks can wear all kinds of golden brown furs, also black fur, and the pelts of the light brown variety, but the brunette whose skin is inclined to be sallow should choose the silver-gray furs, red or yellow fox, or dark sable. A woman with a fresh, fair complexion can wear mink with safety, but she whose skin is sallow should avoid this fur. Sable, that most expensive pelt, can be worn by most women, but it does not mix well with other pelts except sealskins, and as a rule a garment consisting of sable and any other fur turns out unsatisfactory in the long run. Sable skin looks best when worn with brown, gray, black, cream, or white, but it will be found that a costume of green, red, yellow, bright blue or violet tends to rob the pelt of its richness. A woman whose face is somewhat hard in its outlines will find that by wearing fur these outlines become softened, and it is not always the most expensive furs which give this softening effect; KITCHENETTES Camels' hair and red sable brushes that have gotten out of shape or curled can be restored to their proper form by dipping first into hot and then into cold water. To make individual chicken pies, line gem pans with pastry, leaving crust enough to fold over a tablespoonful of rich chicken hash, and bake in a quick oven. If the cake flavoring has been forgotten when making the batter try sprinkling the required amount over the cake as it stands in the pan before baking. If brooms are to sweep clean they must be washed occasionally and freed from dust and dirt. To two quarts of warm water add four tablespoonfuls of household ammonia. Stand the brooms in this for a half hour. Rinse in cold water and hang in the sun to dry. House brushes of any variety may be washed in this manner. Ammonia will remove white stains from furniture. A pinch of salt added to the whites of eggs will make them whip easily. Wash fabrics may be set in color if given a thorough rinsing in salt water before putting into the wash. To keep suet, take out any skin there may be and then put the suet in a saucepan and place on a warm but not hot fire and let it melt gradually. When quite melted pour it into a pan of cold water. When quite hard wipe it dry, wrap it in white paper, and when wanted for use it may be rubbed on a grater. Cold water, with but little soap, should be used in washing colored silks. If the color runs, vinegar should be stirred into the water until the color sets. When coal is needed on the fire in the sick room it should be brought into the rooms in paper bags, which should be laid gently on the fire to prevent noise. A WINDOW GARDEN. People who like to replant and grow hyacinth bulbs indoors will find help in remembering that there is likely to be trouble if the pots are at once brought into a strong light, as many times the bud refuses to come out of the bulb until the flower-spike is formed, in which case there will be a deformed flower. You can prevent this by placing on the pot a paper cone, fitting the top inside its rim, made of any paper which is opaque, as blue, green or red. The cone should have an inch opening at the top, and the effect will be to make the bud draw up toward Take a round of beef, four or five inches thick. For a piece weighing five pounds soak a pound of bread in cold water until soft; turn off the water, mash the bread fine, then add a piece of butter the size of an egg, a half teaspoonful each of salt, pepper and ground cloves, and about half a autumn, two eggs, a tablespoonful of flour and a quarter of a pound of freshork chopped fine. Gash the beef on the sides and, together with half the the light. When it has cleared the top of the bulb remove the cone. There is no fertilizer to be given the bulbs when they are brought in for blooming, as any given would have no effect on this year's blooms. The flower is made, or spoiled, in the growing of the roots. If a fine, large mass of fine fibrous feeding roots are grown while the pot is in the dark there will be a large, fine flower; if not it will be in proportion to the mass of roots. This is why the addition of fertilizer, after it has been brought into the light, has no effect on the blooming of the bulb. However, there should be an abundance of water given the bulb, and it should be kept in mind that for the best effects we must simulate nature's way of growing them as far as we can. In a state of nature they bloom outdoors, early in the spring, when the ground is wet and cool, and the sun heat makes little impression on the temperature. In order to reproduce these conditions we give the pots plenty of water and keep them out of the direct rays of the sun. A north window is an ideal place for spring blooming bulbs when being grown in the house. IRISH HUNTING WOMEN. Hunting absorbs keen sportswomen in Ireland just now, says an exchange, and it is seldom that a frost drives the Irish follower to hounds from the countryside. Irish women are renowned for their fearless prowess in the hunting field, where the terrible obstacles to be negotiated call for nerves of steel, and it is neck or nothing in the distressful country. The fearsome stone walls, sometimes overgrown with turf and masking a brook, appall all but the stoutest hearts, and even the most hardened sportswoman is known to quall at the commencement of the hunting season, experiencing the sensation of the heart in the mouth when called upon to face the stiff going. She finds her nerve returning, however, after a day or so in the saddle. The late empress of Austria used to hunt regularly in Ireland, where her reckless and brilliant horsemanship is still spoken of. With the late Bay Middleton to give her a lead, she was always in the first fight and stuck at nothing. The famous happy-lucky hospitality that marks the Irish temperament is exemplified in matters sporting, and open house is kept by those having accommodation in a good hunting district. Every Irishman is a true sportsman, and the whole neighborhood turns out for a meet, those unable to raise a mount following on foot or driving in every sort of vehicle, some rare antidiluvian specimens seeing the light of day on such occasions. The Irish colleen will dance all night at a hunt ball and turn up at a distant meet as fresh as paint without going to bed at all, full of life and spirit, with wit and repatriate bubbling like a font. The Irish country brings out all the daredevil Irish nature, and there is little searching for gaps or gates when the blood of Irish horse and rider is up. Ireland is not overrepresented in the matter of hunting, and Irish packs are not by any means numerous, and may be reckoned to number a couple of dozen. Some only possess quite a restricted number of couples, and but few hunt four or five days a week, though an occasional by day may bring the total up. The Meath hunt lasts five days a week and is one of the famous hunts of the United Kingdom, and the county Galway; the Blazers four days a week. HOME SHOULD BE RUN ON BUSINESS BASIS "I don't see how Mrs. Brown understands housekeeping so well," said a curious matron the other day of a bride whom she had under observation. "You know, she was a teacher until she married." It did not occur to her that Mrs. Brown was just applying the same system which she used in her teaching to her home. She was always very systematic in her school work; consequently it was an easy matter for her to have the housekeeping wheels running without friction. There is an immense reward for the woman who will apply businesslike methods to the ordering of her home. Many a man knows that if his business were run as slipshod as his home he would go into bankruptcy. In a certain school of housewifery, where cooking and cleaning on the most modern lines are taught, a "housewives' creed" hangs on the walls. Here are some extracts from it. "I believe housekeeping and cooking are and should be, interesting and worthy work, and that the majority of women would enjoy them if they had the opportunity to know more of their science. "If a man is not ashamed of his profession or work, there is no reason why a woman should be of hers. "I believe before marriage every woman should show to the man whom she is to marry that she thoroughly understands the work of making and keeping the home in a perfectly systematic and business basis, as much as a man has shown her that he has a profession or business capable of providing an adequate income." dressing, place in a baking pan with lukewarm water enough to cover it. Cover the pan and put in the oven two hours, then cover the top with the rest of the dressing and put it back for an hour. Let it brown well. When serving the meat, if the gravity is not thick enough stir in a little flour and add a little butter. When packing tie in bottle corks well and put the bottles in the middle of the trunk. If carried solidly in this way they will carry around the world. MISSES' AND SMALL WOMEN'S DRESS. 5694 A pretty dress that is admirably suited for many purposes and possesses many features of the prevailing styles is pictured here. The dress closes at the front, a good point that does not require a recommendation to any woman. The use of the chemiseette is a matter of choice. The large sailor collar is an attractive feature of the waist and is effectively trimmed with velvet or satin. The skirt has the popular panel at back. Woolen or wash material can be used to equal advantage. The pattern (5694) is cut in sizes from 14 to 18 years. To make the dress in the medium size will require 5 yards of 26 inch material. To procure this pattern send 10 cents to "Pattern Department," of this paper, and an address of the same or a similar one in sure give a pattern of NO. 5694. SIZE..... NAME..... TOWN..... STREET AND NO..... STATE.... 5733 A skirt of smart appearance is pictured in this model, which will serve for separate wear or for Empire costume development. The design is a three-piece one and the closing is at the front. A fashionable panel adds to the garments attractiveness. Serge, cheviot, broadcloth, velling, cashmere, helentta, linen, poplin and other heavy cotton fabrics are suitable. The pattern (5733) is cut in sizes 14, 16 and 18 years. Medium size requires 4 yards of 36 inch material. To procure this pattern send 10 cents to Pattern Department, of this paper. Write "Pattern Department" to the same address to give size and number of pattern. To procure this pattern send 10 cents to Pattern Department, of this paper. Write name and address plainly, and be sure to give size and number of pattern. NO. 5733. SIZE..... NAME..... TOWN..... STREET AND NO..... STATE..... Continent That Was Lost. One of the wonders of the word that men hear little about is the Lost Continent. Sea-going men are familiar with the chain of little islands that extend from the continent of Asia down to Australia. Should the ocean go down five hundred feet this Lost Continent would be restored. It is believed that a few neons ago the Lost Continent really existed. Toleration Is Best Policy Don't go through life looking for trouble, for faults, for failures, for the crooked, the ugly, and the deformed; don't see the distorted man—see the man that God made. Just make up your mind firmly at the very outset in life that you will not criticize or condemn others or find fault with their mistakes and shortcomings.—Orlison Swett Marden. Again the G. P. "My greatest profanity provocation," writes J. S. L. "is to be taken to a church entertainment by my wife and have to remain calm while a gawky, six-footed thing which calls itself a tenor and has a face like a carp, warbles, "I Wish I Were a Rose."