The Gazette

TWENTY-NINTH YEAR. NO. 52 W IN HONOR OF THE UNION OF AMERICA TWENTY-NINTH Single Feather for Midsu The single ostrich feather, uncurled and more or less heavy, is mounted very cleverly on the smartest of midsummer dress hats. Two models worth studying are shown in the pictures given here, one of them in two views. The beautiful Leghorn with upturned brim is covered on the upper brim and crown with chiffon in a color like that of the straw. Pompadour chiffon, by the way, is highly favored for this purpose and is useful where one wishes to remodel a straw hat that is solled. A single long plume with unusual width of fue is mounted at the right side and stands almost perfectly straight until the natural bend of the rib tilts the end downward. (Some plumes are bent in the Soft, Reclining Garments for the Hours When Ceremony Is for the Time Forgotten. Pale tinted china silk kimonos embroidered in self tones are charming and soft, for they, like so many of the season's garments, are made of the thinnest of thin china silk. These have a collar which turns flat flat and very short sleeves, the back of the robe is plain, and the entire garment is unlined. In pink they suggest spring blossoms. In this very thin china silk may also be purchased dainty waistals made sailor fashion, the collar, tie and pocket are of striped gray and white china silk. At about the same price come plain white china silk waistals with high collars. Marquiselet waistals for "separate blouse" wear are still very high in price; they are made of high neck and others Dutch neck. Much Cluny lace is to be seen in the wash shirt waistals of inexpensive mode. These also come both Dutch neck and high. WITH THE PANIER EFFECT One of the gowns worn by Miss Mary Moore in "Mrs. Dane's Defense," at the New theater, London. It is of plum glace, shot with hellotrope. One of the gowns worn by Miss Mary Moore in "Mrs. Dane's Defense," at the New theater, London. It is of plum glace, shot with hellotrope. Small, Flat Jabots. Small and rather flat plaited jabots, which are only sufficiently large to fill in the neck opening of the coat, are being worn, and there is a fancy fer flat lace bows with fan-shaped falls of lace. THE GAZETTE rib into curves along their entire length.) Two large muslin and chiffon roses mounted at the base of the plume finish the model, which is an excellent example of what may be done with a single plume. One of the most beautiful hats shown this season is portrayed in the Rembrandt model with short upstanding ostrich feather. It is a double hat of the softest and finest Milan braid, and is cleverly shaped into its outlines by means of ribbon laced through slashes in the straw. Such a hat needs almost no trimming, but the single standing plume with curled flues is especially fitting on a hat with so much dash and style. JULIA BOTTOMLEY. Traveler Is Wise Who Provides Herself With Materials for Making the Cheering Beverage. In traveling both at home and abroad, there is great comfort in your own cup of tea. On the steamer, particularly, you miss your own brand, and the well-versed traveler who is wise in the lore of creature comforts never wanders far from home without her tea caddy. It adds greatly to her popularity, too. "Oh, if I only had a good cup of tea" is the general cry on shipboard, and then this far-sighted woman produces the cheering leaves, and she becomes the center of attraction, and has her little coterie every afternoon. There are some who prefer it for the morning meal, too, instead of the usual microlene coffee with condensed milk. For this poignant need of the traveler, a charming little tea box of mongay containing a small silver tea caddy and a little tea ball, reproducing in miniature a tea kettle, has been put upon the market. It is very simple in arrangement, compact, and easy to pack and makes a really practical gift. There are many places on the continent where good tea is a real luxury, and many an unsophisticated American is astonished when she pays her bill for what she considers a very simple repast. She finds that her cup of tea costs more than a very elaborate dessert, and so it is a great economy as well as comfort to carry your own tea with you. --- White Net and Colored Batiste. Some of the newest dresses for mid- summer show combinations of white net and colored batiste. The sleeves and under-arm sections of the waist are made of net, as well as the upper portion of the skirt. Embroidered panels of light blue batiste in English eyetie pattern are used from the walst yoke to the bottom edge of the skirt. Narrow flouces of embroidery appear in three successive rows in the sides of the skirt, and are joined to the panels. Other dresses showing a similar combination have pink embroidered batiste in solid pattern combined effectively in both waist and skirt with the white net. Another colored model is made of pink volle with embroidered patterns worked out in white linen floss. Bureau Scarfs The white linen embruidered scarfs with eyelet work, punch work or designs in satin stitch are always in good form and wear pretty well. For a scarf that is a little out of the ordinary one may find most attractive affairs made of bands of cluny lace and openwork scrim. These, especially when over a color or figured cretonne, are especially nice for cottage use. They are finished with an edging of the cluny. ESTABLISHED AUGUST 25, 1883 AND ISSUED EVERY WEEK ON TIME SINCE. CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, JULY 20, 1912. COMMENCEMENT AT WESTERN UNIVERSITY Thousands Witness Best Exercises School's History. MUSIC, SONG AND ORATORY ANNOUNCED THE DEBUT OF THE SEVERAL BOYS AND GIRLS INTO THE WORLD OF ACTIVITY —ARMED WITH TRADES AND PROFESSIONS, ARE AMPLY ABLE TO WIN IN THE RUGGED BATTLE OF LIFE. Topeka, Kan.-The sixteenth annual commencement of Western university occurred and was by far the best in the school's history, both in point of attendance and intellectual advancement. The Western university of today and that of 16 years ago, are as different as daylight and darkness. The institution has kept abreast of the times and now stands well up in the ranks of the country's foremost institutions of learning, and a leader among schools of its kind. Western university is strictly Kansas—a home-grown product that has made a reputation in the nation's educational life. Each year scores of boys and girls are sent out into the world, ably fitted to meet every demand along all lines. They are sending forth teachers, preachers and mechanics of all kinds who are an honor and credit to themselves, and to the race to which they belong. They are contributing much to society, and convincing the world that the negro needs only a chance. At the appointed hour the procession formed, headed by the university band and the school officials, followed by the students and visitors, marched to a large tent that had been pitched on the campus, where the exercises were held. Thirty-five hundred eager souls packed the tent and after listening to an overture, "The Sky Pilot," Dr. Coleman of Ohio offered the invocation and the exercises proper. "Lifting the Vell," salutatory oration by Aurelia Hayden (normal), Kirkwood, Mo., was a gem, sparkling with wit and good, wholesome advice. It showed careful study of conditions and that her time had been well applied. Miss Effie Grant in "Oer Forest, Oer Mountain," was fine. Supported by a splendid chorus, she delighted the large audience with her rich voice. Truly Miss Grant is a sweet singer, and from the hearty applause of her hearers, she made good. James Bates (commercial), Lansing, cared for himself admirably, and his oration, "What Knowledge is of Most Worth?" was well received and made a good impression. His presentation, diction and grammar plainly told that he had been a good student, and above all, a close observer of conditions. He will make good if he continues to pursue his present course. "The Nurse of Today and the Nurse of Yesterday" was ably discussed by Ida May Jones (nurse training), Olathe. Her comparison of the old way of caring for the afflicted proved that she knew wherehe spoke, and that she had grasped every point pertaining to this most needed of all professions among the colored people. Her conception is clear and the ease and grace with which she presents a matter commands the closest attention. Clarence Parker rendered a piano solo that was very entertaining. Edna May Smith (commercial), Kansas City, Kan., told "How to Learn by Doing." It was a well told story, proving the advantages of practice over theory. She is very intelligent and will make a mark in life. The valedictory oration fell to Mary Beatrice Woolnell (normal), Carthage, Mo. She told of "Relations of Home and School," and convinced her hearers that she was thoroughly familiar with the subject and her oration was well rendered and highly instructive. The address to graduates was delivered by State Superintendent E. T. Fairchild, and it can be truthfully said that it was the most highly instructive and contained more good, wholesome food for thought than any ever before delivered to the student body of the institution. It was far from the usual stereotyped talk employed by the average white man when addressing colored people. He impressed upon them that they had a place to fill in the world, not as a colored people, but as men and women, that he longed for the day when justice would be meted out to all alike and blacks would be measured according to their ability and moral worth. He said that Kansas spent $10,000,000 yearly for education—two and one half of which went to Kansas university, Emporia State Normal and the State Agricultural college in which benefits all citizens shared alike. Mr. Fairchild is one of the squarest and best men in all Kansas. As state superintendent of public instruction he has elevated the schools of the state and placed them on a higher standard than ever. He has advanced ideas on education and it is a pity that Kansas is so wrapped up in politics that a good man like Mr. Fairchild cannot remain at the head of our schools for a number of years and straighten all the kinks in our educational system. This cannot be done in a half dozen years, and some day we hope the people will awake, cast aside politics and again honor Mr. Fairchild. the best educator Kansas has ever had. President H. T. Kealing with a few well chosen remarks, presented a number of prizes as follows: The J. C. Embry memorial medal for scholarship, given by Mrs. W. T. Vernon, awarded to Miss Marie Wood, The B. F. Watson prize for composition to Miss Alma Bass, The W. D. Cook medal for oratory awarded to Mr. Thomas Horg Many valuable additions have been added to the industrial department which makes it one of the best equipped institutions in the country. A student can enter this institution and complete a course in any trade or profession. During the past year harness making, cabinet making, dress making and blacksmithing have been added. The exhibits were fine and a credit to all parties connected with their creation. NOTED COOK DEAD Mrs. Emeline Jones, Original Maker of Saratoga Chips, Expires After Lingering Illness—Caterer Gross Tells of How Services of Cook Was Sought by Presidents. New York—In the death of Mrs. Emeline Jones, who died at her residence, 314 West Fifty-second street, after an illness of several months' duration, the country loses a cook widely known for her culinary art, and whose services were greatly sought after by presidents of the United States and wealthy citizens. She enjoyed the distinction of first bringing Saratoga chips to the attention of the public. Mrs. Jones attracted attention because of her appetizing terrapin stews, croquettes and mince pies. Both President Cleveland and President Arthur after having eaten food prepared by this celebrated cook, sought to engage her services as head cook at the White House, but to no purpose. The funeral of the deceased was held from the Church of St. Benedict the Moor, the Rev. Father O'Keefe officiating. In speaking of Mrs. Emeline Jones as a famous cook and caterer, W. E. Gross, one of New York's oldest caterers, comments as follows: "One of the best female cooks of New York City passed away. The Rev, Father O'Keele celebrated a solemn requiem mass for the repose of her soul. Mrs. Jones came from Baltimore, MD., about forty years ago. A very little is known of her early life, but she soon launched out as a professional cook, succeeding Mrs. Murray, and in a few years became famous among the wealthy families of this city as president of the Public Walters of New York, when I became acquainted with her. She was of a cheerful and sunny disposition and endured herself to all who came in contact with her. Many of the caterers of those days sought her services, and the demands upon her were so great that she immediately procured and taught assistants to help fill her orders. One of her apt pupils, Mrs. Fannie C. Jarvis, gives her credit for the skill she acquired and is today her worthy successor. "Mrs. Jones was the originator of the Saratoga chips, which became a staple article of food at the various business resorts. The late President Arthur, through Aleck Powell, sought her services to cook at the White House, but she declined the offer. John Chamberlain secured her services at a large salary at his club houses in New York, and at Point Comfort, Virginia. The steward of John Daly, Nowell Newman, later succeeded in giving her a position at John Daly's house at Long Branch. Mrs. Jones was famous for her terrapin stew, croquettes and mince pies. "Wall, the baker of Sixth avenue, in the winter season engaged the services of Mrs. Jones to make his mince ples and rolls. At that time cooks had to make rolls and bread for their parties and dinners. Most of the wealthy families procured their ples and rolls from Wall, who kept a bakery down town. "Mrs. Jones' assistants were kept busy filling orders. Colored cooks and caterers did most of the work in those times, and she took delight in making successful such caterers as the Van Dykes, John Lucas, Hiram Thomas, Nathaniel Johnson, Moses Lewis, Horatio Butler, Wm. Smith, James W. Mars, T. McCarthy, Wm. Hydiger, John Brown, Vernon C. Murray, myself and many others. Most of the colored cooks came from Baltimore and Philadelphia and settled in New York. "A prominent wealthy merchant of this city gave me an order to procure a cook to serve a dinner at his home, and to get the best, as he wished to entertain the late President Cleveland and his wife. Money was no object. I engaged Mrs. Jones. She served President Cleveland so well that he offered her a large salary to cook for him, but she had to refuse the offer. There was a tradition at that time before the advent of the French and Italian cooks that colored cooks were the best. "Mrs. Jones always received her orders carte blanche, and made up her menus. "Cooking is a fine art, and if many of our young women of today were to take it up we would have many more than we have and not depend upon delicatessen stores. Mrs. Jones lately suffered so that she could only take orders and send out assistants. I will miss her greatly. "She leaves, I learn, a sister and a nephew. The French Cooks' Society faithfully cared for her during her illness, and had charge of her remains for burial." FISK CLOSES Annual Address from De W. F. Tillet. NINETEEN COLLEGE GRADUATES —SEVEN FROM EDUCATIONAL COURSE, THREE FROM MUSIC—PRIZES AND CERTIFICATES AWARDED. Nashville, Tenn.—The commencement exercises of Flsk university were witnessed by many visitors and friends who attended all the programs beginning with the Baccalaureate sermon and concluding with the exercises of the college department. The annual address delivered to the members of the graduating class by Dr. W. F. Tillett, dean of the theological faculty of Vanderbilt university, was a timely, masterful and instructive appeal to all present. Nineteen candidates received diplomas from the college department. One a degree of master of arts; three from the department of domestic science and nine received certificates equal to the normal grade diplomas. The first merit prize was won by Mr. Chase, Kelley of Columbia, Tenn.; the second contest was so close that a committee had to be appointed to pass upon the same. It was finally awarded to Miss Hattie E. Hodkkins. At the conclusion of the program all members of the present Mozart society and the members of former years joined in singing the Hallelujah chorus, and the commencement of 1912 passed into history. Following is the program: Class Motto: "Educati Sumus ut Servemus." Organ Solo—Nuptial March ..... ..... Gullmant Miss Grass. Prayer. Song—"In Our Boat".....Cowen Girl's Glee Club. Problems of Women.....Hattie E. Hodgkins. The Goal of Education.....Ruth L. Jones. Poverty Through Maladjustment.. Charles W. Kelly. Muscle—Inflammatus from "Stabat Mater".....Rosnii Miss Ward and Mozart Society. Advancing Democracy and the Negro Albert B. Lovett. Social Inequalities, Annetta E. Mosby Song—.....Fisk Glee Club Commencement Address—Rev. Wilbur F. Tillett, D. D., LL. D., Dean of Theological Faculty, Vanderbilt University. Song—.....Jubilee Club Presentation of Certificates and Diplomas. Conferring of Degrees. Presentation of J. C. Merrill Commencement Przes. Department of Music—Cora Lillyy Carr, Adelaide Mary Towson, Sylvia Alice Ward. CANDIDATES FOR CERTIFICATES. Department of Domestic Science—Mary Eliza Stanford, Alice Canton Woodson. ALLEGED AXMAN SET FREE. Columbus, Tex.—One of the most noted criminal cases of recent years before the district courts of this county was brought to a close when the jury in the noted "axman" case brought in a verdict of not guilty. Jim Fields, a negro charged by indictments returned by a special grand jury called on April 13 with the murder of a family of six negroes near Glidden, was the defendant. It was charged that Fields on the night of March 27 entered a house near the Glidden railroad station and with an ax killed Lyle Flinucane, Ellen Munroe and four Munroe children, all negroes. A special session of the grand jury was convened on April 13, and Fields was indicted under six counts. He was tried on the charge of killing Lyle Flinucane. After deliberating one hour the jury returned a verdict of not guilty. The verdict was greeted by cheers, especially among the negro spectators. The courtroom has been filled with an interested crowd throughout the trial. AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS It is peculiar to note to what extent the inordinate lust for gold will lead mankind; and many a lapse of character is directly attributable to this cause. There are reasons which often impel individuals for the sake of self-protection to closely husband the resources which come within their grasp, but such may be the outcroppings of upright purposes untainted by greed and avarice. In that there is nothing of unrighteous conduct on the part of him who seeks for honest gain. It is indeed meritorious when such exists, because it creates a wholesome influence in the betterment of conditions. Human desires out-strip accumulations honestly wooped and won; and whoever fails to recognize this particular fact oversteps all many privileges and evokes for himself a well deserved rebuke. Sometimes the avenues through which we must journey to accomplish our earthly missions are blocked by the pursuit of questionable methods which often shelter bad practices and expose us to the contempt of honest men. Evil deeds are the fruits of evil conceptions, which find a lodging place in the depth of our minds and attain proportions because nurtured there. All the loud professions which emanate from the lips and seek shelter beneath the garb of religion, count for naught in the habits of every man whose rating is not based upon the eternal rule of right. It is degrading to stigmatize by careless and indifferent handling the virtues which we manifest; and, we trample beneath our feet the things which should govern life. The recognition of mutual right as a duty imposed upon man carries with it a force divine in the creation of worthy ideals and the perpetuation of a noble and honored name. Irresponsibility sometimes scatters such brilliant rays as to dazzle the sight of the unwary; but in due course of time, the skillful and practiced eye will penetrate this thin veering and expose the nakedness of all wicked designs. Much of the hardships, woes and disappointments which afflict mankind may be traced to injustice between man and man. Encroachment when able to act with impunity never hesitates to take advantage, and though acting by contraries would have you believe its sincerity. He who deals in obedience to the promptings of his conscience, will steer his barque aright even if the waters upon which it sailed be troubled. Unsullied as to the thoughts which possess his soul the endeavors exercised by the upright are ever in quest of loftier ends. Considered in generalities, the majority of mankind is by nature knaves, and seeks every available opportunity to usurp the rights of others. There are no defined limits through which our thoughts may wander; and, in disregard to the warnings of the better elements in our natures, we war against that portion of the divine spirit which should choose and direct our steps. The world grows wiser as the age in which we live advances; but grows better only as it becomes free from the banal influence of unholy things. Leadership should exert itself for exaltation upon lines of improvement in the interest of the masses; but should first seek self-exalation; because, leadership itself is woefully deficient in this particular sphere.—Atlanta Episcopalian Phalanx. If the strike of the International Association of Hotel Walters in New York should result in reopening the hotel service to blacks as well as whites, and if, that being accomplished, it should teach the association that to make no discrimination on account of color in its constitution and yet to brutally enforce it as a policy is a subterfuge of fact that resents falsehood and events up in the end, the strike will not have been in vain. It should also teach hotel proprietors that hotel workers should receive decent wages, and not have to depend upon the "tip system" foisted upon hotel patrons for their support, and that they should have reasonable and not unreasonable hours of service. Whatever the outcome may be, it is of the utmost importance that negro hotel workers organize and maintain an association for business and for pleasure. Their interests need to be protected and promoted, and this cannot be done if pleasure and not business is made the primary purpose of the association. A slogan with that ring. In it is worth while having in every community. We need such a one in New York, Brooklyn and Jersey City, with an automatic arrangement that will keep it ringing all of the time. We need dry goods, laundry, shoe and grocery stores of our own in all parts of the big city where the people are mostly the tenants, on the east, west sides in Harlem and in the Bronx. We need these business enterprises in order to accumulate money values to give the race financial consequence, and we need them to furnish employment for our sons and daughters, who have small chance to secure employment with white concerns of like character.—New York Age. The extravagant person is one who is wasteful of emotion, opportunity or income. Habitually to spend more than one earns and to mortgage the future for the pleasure of the present is to be extravagant. He of she who abridges health by making unwise drafts on physical capital is extravagant and will one day pay the price of folly in sleepless nights and ill-adjusted nerves. There may be extravagance in the line of its opposite. The miser who hoards as the crow does for the mere satisfaction of accumulating and hiding away his spool is as extravagant as the spendthrift who takes no thought for the morrow in the indulgence of today. We are extravagant in speech when we plee one adjective on another and use italics in vehement assertions when we might much better restrain ourselves and not push language to the breaking point. The student who burns the midnight oil or uses his eyes in the small hours of the morning is extravagant and may rue his folly in days of darkness. Extravagance simply means wandering from the safe road in any direction, and though the price be long delayed. Nature will be sure to exact the payment—Margaret E. Sangster. In the Christian Herald. (The above definition for extravagance covers the case. The information therein contained should be laid close to heart and the colored man above all other peoples should ponder well the advice. Of a truth, the poor colored man (average) is extravagant along all lines, and to the limit. The falling health of the negro youth, the fatal effects of tuberculosis and other deadly diseases are all traceable to physical extravagance. His ignorance, arrogance, superstition and bigotry are the effects of his extravagance of opportunity to learn, while his poverty-striken condition, all over and everywhere with rare exceptions, are but a part of the program of extravagance in matters where he should practice a rigid economy. There is a cause for all this extravagance, and while we may not take the time to enter into a discussion of the same, it is the bounded duty of every friend of the colored people to cry out against this great and awful crime.)—Dallas Express. The presidency of Howard University is an all-absorbing problem. The kind of a man he should be is forming the subject of learned papers in the press and is a leading topic on the street corners and in the church, the school and the barber shop. Shall he be white or colored is also a burning issue, and there are able and aggressive champions of both sides of the question. Sentiment favors the appointment of a colored man, but it is the general feeling that the trustees will find it expedient to choose a white president. It is insisted upon by all that the man chosen, whether he be white or colored, must be a great big man, one who measures up to the exacting demands of the situation and who "looks the part," as well as reaching the intellectual and executive standards expected. Prof. Kelly Miller is far and away the favorite of those who urge a colored president. No white man has yet been mentioned who appeals to the popular imagination of our colored citizens. A suggestion has been made that the colored candidates caucus and find some method by which the strength of the pro-negro element can be focused on a single negro candidate. This is regarded as the only means by which a colored candidate can inspire serious consideration. There are eight colored trustees on the board, but they as well as their white colleagues are non-committal as to their attitude. The colored trustees are Dr. C. B. Purvis, Dr. Booker T. Washington, Dr. J. E. Moorland, Rev. F. J. Grimke, Dr. Marcus F. Whiteland, J. C. Napier, Dr. J. H. N. Waring and Dr. John R. Francis.—Illinois Chronicle. The Charleston News and Courier, the South Carolina white man's guide, philosopher and friend, makes the sweeping statement that "not ten per cent. of the negroes in this part of the world do a full day's work a month." It claims that the negro will "not pick cotton unless he needs the money for actual bread," and "so it is with the cooks, the draymen, the entire race." Now, what are the facts, what is the real truth? Educated negroes on the spot should make it a business to get the facts and place them where the News and Courier and the rest of mankind can get at them. The Columbia Southern Indicator enters a general denial and protest, saying "ignorant men of all races work only when they want bread and that intelligent negroes, like the intelligent people of any other race, are working for more than bread." If everybody would keep courage until they have either won a victory or have been defeated, there would not be so many failures. Most people get discouraged at the first hard place they encounter, and as soon as a fellow becomes discouraged, unless some one with a strong heart is near to encourage him, he is sure to fall. The Interstate Reporter. One Year.....$1.50 Six Months.....1.00 Three Months......50 Subscribers are requested to remit by postoffice money order or registered letter. Entered at the postoffice in Cleveland Ohio, as second-class matter Address all communications to HARRY C. SMITH Editor and proprietor, THE GAZETTE, Blackstone Building, Cleveland, O. Member Ohio Legislature: 1894 to 1896; 1896 to 1898; 1890 to 1902 THE GAZETTE is the oldest, and has the largest bona fide circulation, double that of any newspaper in the interest of Afe-Americana, published in the state of Ohio, and comparison with any will immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWSIEST AND BEST in the country. With this issue, "the old reliable" Gazette completes its twenty-ninth year—published EVERY WEEK ON TIME since its birth in 1883. We have witnessed the making of much history, during all these years at the helm of The Gazette. DO NOT GO TO LUNA PARK, AUGUST 1. This public place of amusement has been drawing color-lines for many months. Only recently three or four hundred of our people were grossly insulted and humiliated before hundreds of whites in that park. There is hardly a member of the race, in this city, who does not know this. Then how in the name of common-sense, self and race respect can the Cleveland Association of Colored Men, supposedly intelligent members of the race, justify their action in attempting to hold an "emancipation celebration" in Luna Park on August 1? It is not enough to say that on that day our people will be granted all the prvllegues of the place, except possibly the bathing or swimming pool, because on the other three hundred or more days of the year the park is open, they are barred from the dance-floor, skirting rink, and possibly other places, when whites, matters not are using them. What makes this all the more irritating and aggravating is the knowledge of the fact that our people have it in their power—because they have the law—to put a stop to all such unlawful action and are making absolutely no effort to do so, in at least, this Luna Park case. We here and now call on all of our local ministers who have the race's vital interests at heart and who have the courage to do so, to do their CLEAR DUTY, and that is to advise their congregations and all of our people they can reach, to retain their self and race respect by staying away from Luna Park on August 1, 1912. It does seem strange, passing strange, that any people, under such circumstances, could be outside of an asylum, who would carry hundreds of dollars of their hard-earned money and lay it in the laps of people, on any one day of the year, when they are so unjustly, unlawfully and insultingly discriminated against on all other days of the year the place is open. Every other class, citizen or foreigner, low or otherwise, is welcomed in that park and permitted to enjoy all of its pleasures &c., if they but pay the price, and too, every day in the year that the park is open,—except others. And, there are Negroes who would submit to all of this and then go to that park, August 1, and spend their hard-earned money. GOD FORBID! WILSON AND TAFT The Age does not see how it will be possible for a single self-respecting Negro in the United States to vote for Woodrow Wilson. He was born in Virginia and lived a good part of his life in Georgia and Alabama. Both by inheritance and absorption, he has most of the prejudices of the narrowest type of Southern white people against the Negro. This is a bold assertion, but we can prove it. While Mr. Wilson was president of Princeton University stated that it was the reason that Princeton kept Negroes out of that institution. As a result of his policy and influence, Princeton is the one large institution in a Northern State that closes its doors against Negroes. This is not all. Everyone knows that without the vote of the Negro people in the State of New Jersey Mr. Wilson could have never been elected governor. In spite of the fact that his election as governor was due to the Negro vote, he has not by a turn of the finger recognized a single Negro in New Jersey since he has been Governor. He has treated the race in New Jersey as if they were foreigners and outcasts. It is reported on seemingly good authority that when a delegate of the Governor was hired after he was inducted into the office of Governor to request him to retain a Colored man who had been messenger in the Governor's office for a number of years, Mr. Wilson told the committee of Colored people that he would retain the Colored man not because of their political influence but because the man was a 'good darky.'—N. Y. Age. The foregoing may be true. We do not question it, at this time, because we have no information to the contrary to give. However, it seems to us that the greatest objection to Candidate Wilson is the fact that the party behind him is at last thoroughly in the control of southern democracy; and he, too, a southerner, apparently at least, in all that means to our people. On the other side, for there is but one other "side," even if Col. Theodore "Brownsville" Rosevelt and his alleged "third party" does present a political angle only to it, we have President William "Brownsville" Taft and his un-American, insulting, degrading, vicious and infamous "new southern policy," that not only debars Afro-Americans from federal appoint- ments in the south and many parts of the north, but also has caused hundreds of Afro-American office-holders in the south, and many in the north too, to lose their positions in the last three years, in many instances democrats having been appointed by Mr. Taft to succeed them. Even worse is Candidate Taft's turning the U. S. Supreme Court over to the still rebelious south, the arch-enemy of our people when it comes to their exercising equal rights under the law, as American citizens "to the manor born"—the south of disfranchisement, lynching, "imcrow" cars and a general denial of equal citizen-rights in nearly all public places—far worse than in the color-line north. From a race viewpoint or standpoint, there is mighty little difference when it comes to the presidential candidates and the parties back of them, today. Truly, politically, the Afro-American is "between the devil and the deep blue sea" as far as this fall's campaign is concerned. We have always subscribed to the original principles of the republican party—those that made it great, strong and powerful as long as it adhered to them—but the republican party of today is but a mere shadow of what it was, because almost every republican president from Garfield down to and including Taft, as leaders of the party, have led it steadily away from its "moorings" until now it is almost wrecked upon southern democratic "rocks" toward which they have almost constantly inclined it, sacrificing its once grand principles and its faithful Afro-American contingent. There is absolutely no encouragement, for our people, in the candidates of either Wilson or Taft, or in the threatened candidacy of Roosevelt. "OJJE" IN AFRICA Explorer Finds Lake of Dead and a Strange People. P. A. Talbot, Who Located Sacred Body of Water, Describes Weird Scene of Place Never Before Seen by White Men. Cape Town, Africa—Mr. and Mrs. P. Amuray Talbot have just returned to London from Central Africa, where they had spent two years in an anthropological, botanical and zoological survey from the Gulf of Guinea eastward across the continent. In a statement issued to the London press, Mr. Talbot declares that certain territory he and his wife traversed had never been visited by a white man before. He said that in the Southern Nigerian bush he found evidence of the origin of the witchcraft panic, which swept over England, New England and southeastern Europe in the middle of the seventeenth century. Said Mr. Talbot: "The bush, with its soft green twilight, dark shadows, and quilver lights, is popped by many terrors, but among these 'ojle,' or witchcraft, reigns supreme. Should the suspicion of witchcraft fall upon any one, only trial by ordeal can free them. The most usual one is that of eating eater, a poisonous bean which almost invariably kills the suspected person. The ordeals of boiling oil poured upon the palms of the hands and of peppercorns inserted in the eyes are far less dreaded, not only because their results are practically never fatal, but because the physical anguish entailed is acknowledged to be less intense than that caused by esere. One of the most interesting discoveries was that of the Lake of the Dead in the Oban country. "The name of this lake," said Mr. Talbot, "occurs in many of the tribal songs, but for a long time I could not discover the meaning of the word, and all inquiries failed to elicit information, and when I believed I was in the neighborhood of this haunted spot and altered my course my carriers begged to be allowed not to proceed, and were left behind. After a struggle through dense bush we could see the edge of a sheet of water, along the banks of which were the holes of crocodiles, whose tracks covered the shore. The Typical African Magician. scene was a wretched one; the surface was absolutely still, and round about were ten-foot high bushes, with what were apparently great tufts of creamy flowers. These, however, proved to be nests of tree frogs. "The place is a sanctuary for all wild things, for no hunter would dare to penetrate the bush to this dreaded spot. As we stood at the edge ginger out over the water its quiet was suddenly broken by a broad ripple, and little fish were seen to spring agitated above the surface. A great python was crossing, and this, we learned, shared with the cracodiles the guardianship of the Sacred Lake." Describing a visit to a district where all the houses were built of ebony, Mr. Talbot said: "The side of our tent almost touched a little ebony hut built over a large and grusome looking pot, the sides of which were pramened with iron hooks. Before this, about breast high, and the length of a man, was a kind of altar, made of stout ebony blocks. In front of our tent door was a tall carved pillar, ornamented with strings of human skulls. The people all had the filed teeth and thin. shrunken appearance which are always associated with cannibal rites, and although they one and all stoutly denied knowledge of anything of the kind, every one of our carriers said that not only was the pot in the little hut meant for the sacrifice of human victims, but the two hideous mud figures of a god and goddess in another shed on the further side of the carved pillar had had their heads worn away by the constant libations of human blood poured over them." BUCKEYE LETTERS WRITTEN BY "THE OLD RELIABLE" GAZETTE'S CORRESPONDENTS. THROUGHOUT OHIO What Our People Are Doing Each Week—Church, Personal, Social, neighboring cities are ceased will be grieved Adeline Blue of Dorssey of Columbyney Davis of P in attendance. The Saturday evening, ment of Mesdame Palmer and M. Success, The S. arranging for the 27. A cordial invi Mamie McMechen Wheeling gramm guest of Mrs. M Fred. Ramsey of P to Steubenville, in her father, Mr. F Chas. Adams, so Palmer of Ferny Special Car to Cost Fortune. Special Car to Cost Fortune. New York.—A part of "Lucky" Badwin's many millions is to be devoted to the construction of a novel private railway car, with which his daughter, Mrs. Clara Baldwin Stocker, will tour the world. The principal novelty will consist of an apartment to house her airplane. On the roof of the car will be a landing stage that can be extended when the car is on a siding. A fortune will be expended in the building of the car. DOINGS OF THE RACE Mrs. Minnie Cummings, 50 years old, of Elberon, N. J., will give her home worth $20,000 for an Afro-American Orphan Asylum. Jack Johnson opened his swell cafe in Chicago last week Wednesday evening and 3,000 tried to occupy space for 500 persons. With this sue, "the old reliable" Gazette completes its twenty-ninth year of CONTINUOUS publication; ON TIME EVERY WEEK. How is that for a record? The war of independence both races fought shoulder to shoulder, and afterward both lived side by side in peace and with no question as to the rights of either being raised. The present insurrection is based upon Government discrimination in favor of the white Cubs. Hon. Harry C. Smith, editor of The Gazette, Cleveland, has been appointed a Commissioner of the National Emancipation Commemorative Society, for Ohio. The society will hold a "national jubilee" at Washington D.C., Sept. 22, in celebration of the fifteenth anniversary of the emancipation proclamation, by Abraham Lincoln, which went into effect on Jan. 1, 1863.—Ex. New officers of the National Independent Political League: J. R. Clifford, Martinsburg, W. Va.; president; Rev. J. H. Wiley, Rhode Island; W. D. Johnson, Massachusetts; Rev. W. Hibernan, Oklahoma; J. M. Summers, Ohio; J. G. Burrell, vice president; Abel P. Caldwell, Philadelphia, corresponding secretary; Jas. L. Neill, Washington; J. M. Doolittle, secretary; Rev. James E. Churchman, New Jersey, national organizer, and John Clinton, Jr., sergeant-at-arms. Howard P. Drew, the Springfield (Mass.) High School boy, who won the 100 meters race and thus became eligible for the Olympic games went to Stockholm, Sweden and won the same race over Craig in a trial dash the day before the races came off. By so doing he sprained his ankle and could not run when the race was called. Craig, whom he had beaten in the trial race, was in the courtroom and is therefore safe to say that had Drew not sprained his ankle he would have brought back the world's championship for fast running from the Olympian games for the race. James W. Steele, an American consular officer in Cuba for a number of years, has predicted that "at some time the Greater Antilles will come under the dominion of the African." Of the Afro-Cuban he has written: "He thrives here, and he alone. The Caribbean is a place of great tribe increases; he is healthy, active, strong. These shining seas are his natural surroundings, and he basks beneath a blazing sun where others wither and decay. There is a limit of adaptation beyond which men cannot go. I believe the Cuban as he is to be as much the outgrowth and product of climate as he is of Spanish ancestry. We are the Cuban their wool and their color for the hair and spots of the goat. Where the banana grows men do not grow, unless they are black." St. Louis Afro-Americans are making great progress. They have owned and managed by members of the race: 10 groceries, 5 drug stores, 5 large coal dealers, 5 funeral establishments, 1 splendid haberdashery, 7 merchant tailors, besides 30 or more pressing parors, 4 newspapers, 2 insurance companies, 2 shoe stores, 2 handmade stores, 2 photographers, 3 landscape gardeners, 2 manufacturers, steam laundry equipped at $12,000. They have 5 halls—the Masonic, U. B. F. Pythian, Odd Fellows and Douglass. They own and occupy the finest of our churches in the U. S. The original cost of one was $1,000. There are 9 dentists, 9 lawyers, scores of carpenters, bricklayers, plasterers, paper hangers, plumbers, electricians, gasfitters, etc. It is estimated that they have $1,000,000 in real estate. Waved "The Bloody Shirt." BLOODY New York City — Gon. Daniel E. Stickles waved the "bloody shirt" at the first meeting of the new "Bull Moose" party July 11. He declared in unmistakable language that Gov. Woodrow Wilson was not fit to sit in the presidential chair, because he was "born among rebel surroundings" and because "his family had fought in the Confederate Army." He added, "We don't want a repetition of the secession movement." The beneficial effects of sulphur as a plant food have been shown by A. Demolon, a French experimenter, on such plants as cabbage, turnip and radish. It seems to favor the development of chlorophyll, retarding the yellowing of plants in drouth. BUCKEYE LETTERS WRITTEN BY "THE OLD RELIA BLE" GAZETTE'S CORRE- SPONDENTS. What Our People Are Doing Each Week—Church, Personal, Social, Lodge, Literary and Musical — Marriages, Deaths, Etc. Sandusky.—Both S. S. were well attended, but not the churches. Many of these latter are without pastors because they are too often compelled to preach to empty benches. Rev. G. D. Smith gave a fine talk, Sunday evening.—All of our young boys have summer jobs and are "making hay" during their school vacation.—The A. M. E. and Baptist S. S. will picnic at Rye Beach, July 18 and Aug. 1, respectively.—Mrs. S. Davis has been elected as M. S. Delegate to the Youngstown state meet. Aug. 9—Mrs. Jefferson is ill.—Take The Gazette and tell your friends to do likewise. Keep up-to-date in the matter of race news. Have your money ready when the agent calls with your copy of the paper, please. Toledo—The north Ohio branch of the Woman's Mite Missionary society of the A. M. E. church convened in Warren church last week Wednesday evening with Mrs. Rosa Johnson of Cleveland, presiding. Evangelistic exercises were conducted by Mrs. Cora Brock, also of Cleveland. Thursday morning's program opened with song and praise service, led by Mesdames and Alma and Aides of Tolio Thursday evening the local society tendered the visiting delegates a reception. A welcome address was given by Mrs. Wm. E. Clemens, president, and by attorney Albertus Brown in behalf of the citizens. Responses were made by Mrs. Savannah Allen of East Liverpool. The annual address was made by Mrs. Rosa and attorney Claude closed the address by Dr. J. M. Glmille, P. E. of the western district of the NorthOhio conference. --- Correspondents must mall all letters for publication at their main postoffice sufficiently early on Monday (or Sunday) of each week to have them reach The Gazette office on Tuesday morning, and always write, also, their names and that of their city or town, and the location of the supposed return of copies. Unless this latter is done, proper credit cannot be given you. Lists of names, wedding presents, etc., obituary notices, speeches, resolutions, poetry, inquiries for relatives and advertisements of all kinds, including items announcing entertainments to be held in the near future, must be paid for in advance at the rate of ten cents for each item for display advertisements will be sent on application. Send postal note and not stamps during warm weather. Lorain.—Rev. Geo. W. Washington of Oberlin, preached at the Second Baptist church, Sunday afternoon.—Miss B. Jackson, Helen and E. Davis of Elyria, and Mr. Brown of Wheeling, were here. Sunday, and Mrs. H. T. H. Stevens and daughter, Mary, are visiting in Cleveland. Harry P. Jackson was there, Saturday.—Mrs. Michael Miller is ill.—Rev. G. L. Hicks preached in Oberlin, Sunday morn, for Rev. Delaney of the Second M. E. church.—Mrs. Chatman and son have located here. A number will attend Thursday.—Miss Clara Stevens was elected delegate to the N. O. S. S. institute at St. John's A. M. E. church, Cleveland, July 23-28.—Riley Thompson has left the shovel works.—Ervin Thompson of Cleveland, is visiting his parents, Mrs. Hogan, Mrs. Pomont, her husband, Mrs. Irene, her grand-daughter, Mrs. Irene Robinson. Mrs. Cain is visiting her mother, Mrs. Robinson. --- Xenia.—At its forty-ninth annual Commencement this year Wilberforce University conferred degrees upon seventy-six graduates. In addition the degree of LL. D. was conferred on Bishop J. Albert Johnson of the South African Dioceae, Bishop Levi J. Copeland of the University of Napier, register of the U. S. Treasury. The degree of M. A. was conferred upon Dr. A. H. Hathaway, president of the Edward Water College of Florida, and William Stewart, a brother of Chaplain Stewart of Wilberforce. Two degrees of D. D. were conferred upon Dr. A. H. Hathaway its work by re-electing Professor W. S. Scarborough president of the university, and re-electing all of the old teachers and providing for two or three new ones, who will be named later. The university is still at work on a fund of $25,000 for a new science building. Its efforts in this campaign have just received the commendation of university administrator Dr. S. Scarborough is spending his summer vacation at the eastern summer resorts. --- Youngstown.-Will Jones was able to leave the City hospital, Saturday, but will be on crutches for a while.-Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Lonesome, Mrs. Hannah Boggess, Mrs. Chas. Jackson, Willis Collins and Jas. Saunders will attend the K. P. grand lodge at Dayton, next week.-Mr. and Mrs. Will Green's little daughter is very ill.-Miss Mary Peterson of Columbus, is visiting her cousin, Elmer Harvey, Burns Harvey of Pittsburgh, spent Sunday with him, also.-Morris Lyons's Wellsville, is Miss Mary, parties at Mrs. Thos. Robinson's, and Mrs. Rayford's, Wednesday and Tuesday evenings, respectively, given by St. Augustine's Women's Auxiliary and the Household of Ruth, were successes.-The Era club has issued invitations to its first dancing party, in Connell's hall, July 25-Dr. and Mrs. C. A. Pettiford and Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Thomas are rejoicing over the recent arrival of a baby boy and girl, respectively, doctor Frank, Ind., Saturday, to attend his father's funeral.-Chas. Lincoln is convalescing. Smithfield.-Mrs. Elizabeth Carter's funeral services were conducted here, Wednesday, 11 a. m. at the A. M. E. church, by Rev. S. J. White. The funeral was with asthma and heart trouble. The funeral was largely attended from neighboring cities and towns. The deceased will be greatly missed. Mrs. Adeline Blue of Cleveland, Mrs. R. Dorsey of Columbus, and Mrs. Julia Veney Davis of Pittsburg, were also in attendance.—The church lawn fete, Saturday evening, under the guidance of A. Palmer and M. Harris, was quite a success. The S. S. and church are arranging for the annual picnic, July 27. A cordial invitation to all.—Miss Mamie McMechens, preceptress of a wheeling grammar school, is the guest of Mrs. M. E. Veney.—Mrs. Fred Ramsey of Fouchall, was Wednesday, by her husband, Mr. Fouchall's death. D. Chas. Adams, son and Mr. Harry Palmer of Fernwood, and Mrs. V. Oliver of Richmond, visited their mother, Saturday and Sunday.—Mrs. Fred. Singer delightfully entertained, last week, covers being laid for 40. Mr. S. West, Mr. and Mrs. J. Singer, invited guests.—Mrs. J. V. Davis returned to Pittsburg, last Friday.—Mrs. F. Carter accompanied his cousin, Mrs. R. Dorsey to Steubenville, Sunday. NEGRO AND INDIAN MUSIC. Availability for Higher Musical Use- Some Compositions Named, &c. Writing to the Literary Digest (N. Y., City) of June 29, "12, Mr. Arthur Farwell says: 'The field of Negro music reveals 'some noteworthy achievements.' In addition to the great Antonin Dvorkar's symphony 'The New World,' Maurice Arnold has a violin sonata of much beauty and research works, including the 'Plantation Dances.' These were the direct outcome of personal contact with Dvorkar as one of his American pupils. There has also been a pervasive influence of Negro music, sympathetically and poetically treated, in the compositions of Harvey Loomis who was also in personal touch with the Bohemian master. His song, The Dancing Girl, was one of the most exquisite and gracious reflections of Negro musical influence extant. "Henry Schoenfeld won a prize with a violin sonata, very sturdy work, which touches upon the Negro idiom. Ernest Kroeger touches it also, delicately, in his 'American Sketches.' Henry Gilbert took a Boston symphony audience well-night, met the Comedy Overture on Negro Themes, perhaps the most modern, colorful, and vitalized 'Negro work' yet produced. And a few years ago Ernest Schelling played an ingratiating work of his own composition, with orchestra, strongly reflecting the influence of Negro music. Harry T. Burleigh, who aided Dvorak in his studies of Negro music, has written songs of very musical quality. He has also written that I have touched the matter slightly in harmonizations of two 'Negro Spirituals' and a 'Plantation Melodies.' “In artistry and in the musical quality of the results obtained there is nothing to indicate a superiority of one of these departments of development its best. It makes little difference with what a true artist flavors his work, so long as he cooks it in the fire of his distinction. But in extent, in the interest and activity shown by composers, and in the degree of persistence and energy involved, the degree of seemingly directed toward the Indian.” FROM THE "OLD DOMINION". A. New. Fraternal. Organization- Clarke-Forester Marriage—Gee. W. Bragg Secures a Divorce. —Dr. Phras. Called North. Richmond, Va.—A. W. Holmes, Dr. A. Tennant, W. L. Anderson and S. W. Johnson, grand officers, have organized the "Supreme Fountain of the National Ideal Benefit Society" (incorporated). The first named was G. W. M. of the True Reformers—E. Stanley Clarke of Farmville, and Miss Jeannettle L. Forrester, one of this city's most popular Afro-American teacher teachers, and the Tuesday school. The wedding was a swell social function. Geo. W. Bragg has secured a divorce from his wife Lulu Pearl Bragg, on statutory grounds, and has been given the custody of their son. Mrs. Bragg has been debarred from all property rights she secured by her marriage. Endon, elder son of Prof. and Mrs. J. E. Jones, is ill, the result of an injury received nine years ago in a foot-ball game between Va. Union and galege K. secretary of social settlement work in N. Y. City, is visiting him and their parents—Richmond delegates who attended the Sixth Biennial Convention of the Juvenile Department of the Department Order of St. Lukes, held in Atlantic City last week, have returned. Those who made the trip were Mrs. Maggie L. Walker, Mrs. Emeline Mrs. Mrs. Eros E. Watson, Misses Julia I. Stephens, Lula Watkins, Mrs. Dawson, Mrs. Mattle Graham, Mrs. Mary Grisham, Miss Julia Grisham, Mrs. E. C. W. Watson, Misses Bagley Anderson and Mrs. Lella Williams—J. C. Carter Esq., of Houston, W. M. G. of Virginia, A. F. & A. M., was in the city last week on business. Miss Maud Mundin who is taking a course in professional nursing at Freedman's Hospital, is visiting relatives here.—Rev J. B. J. Pharr, of Virginia University, who is with his bride on the honeymoon at Asbury Park. N. J., has received a call to the pastorate of the Second Church of Ann A. bor, Mich.—Rev W. Johnson, leave, Monday, or Sagittarius Beach, meet the Executive Board of the International Endeavor Convention. Geo. S. Julien Stephens. CORRESPONDENTS WANTED. The old reliable Gazette desires an active agent and correspondent in every city and town in Ohio and neighboring states having a number of Afro-American residents. Only a little time on Fridays or Saturdays is required. We are especially desirous of hearing from persons in the following Lewan Lancaster, Lebanon, Chillicotto, Teloedo, Troy, Canton, Springfield, Plaqu, Columbus, Cambridge, Steubenville, Bellaire, St. Clairsville, Wilmington, Portsmouth, Washington, C. H., Oxford, Sabina, Gallipolis, Rendville, Urbana, Delaware, M. Vernon, East Liverpool, Wellsville, Akron, Dayton, Middleport, Bellefonte, Lima, O., and other places where we have none. The Gazette, Blackstone building, Cleveland, O, and terms will be sent promptly. Our readers will oblige us greatly by sending at once the addresses of persons in the cities named above, or others, to whom we can write relative to the matter. Avery College Training School Avery and Nelson Streets. Pittsburgh, Pa. North Side Pittsburgh, I CHARTERED AND ENDOWED JANUARY 17th, 1849. DR. G. G. TURFLEY, President. WILLIAM MANLEY, Vice Pres. JOS. D. MAHONEY, Sec.Treas. BOARD OF TRUSTEES AND OFFICERS OF ADMINISTRATION. JOHN D. CHERRY W. K. McGINNESS DR. HERMAN HECHELMAN WILLIAM MANLEY *WILLIAS AUSTIN DR. G. G. TURFLEY DR. ROBERT BRADY JOSEPH D. MAHONEY ALBERT P. WALLACE *Deceased. JOHN D. CHERRY W. K. McGINNESS DR. HERMAN HECHELMAN WILLIAM MANLEY *WILLIAS AUSTIN DR. G. G. TURFLEY DR. ROBERT BRADY JOSEPH D. MAHONEY ALBERT P. WALLACE *Deceased. The Avery College Training Schools for Young Colored Women: The interior of all the buildings have been remodeled and decorated. The institution offers free of any expense to every young Colored woman, skilled knowledge to become self-supporting in the following gainful occupations: Dressmaking, cutting and drafting and designing, nurse training, mili- lary services, tutoring for tailoring for young and an intermediate English course, using the same books as are used in our Public Schools. No Colored institution in this country offers such an opportunity to young Colored women —FREE OF ANY EXPENSE. LINCOLN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL AND TRAINING SCHOOL FOR NURSES. Organized November 16, 1906. Chartered April 8, 1909. The only Colored Hospital in Western Pennsylvania, free to any nationality, that is modernly equipped to do such work. Located in a quiet and clean neighborhood, surrounded with a beautiful lawn and shade trees. We reach all points of the city, day or night, with our own Ambulance. Doctors and Nurses in attendance day and night. This department of Avery College was organized to meet the urgent necessity of caring for the physical side, as well as the mental and industrial. The facilities for Nurse-Training are excellent and the standard of admission high. The course of study covers three years, but it is so arranged that those who are able, can complete it in two years. TUITION IS FREE. Board furnished Room, Laundry and Uniforms are Furnished Free, and Salary of $36 yearly. We give you PROFESSIONAL TRAINING under competent white and Colored physicians. Telephones: Bell 1464 and 9513-R Cedar, 2296 Cedar. P. & A. 1174 North. Night Telephone: 6 P. M. to 6 A. M., Bell 1464 Cedar. Private Exchange Phone Booths. The rapid growth of the institution has rendered necessary the addition of a dormitory. It is heated throughout by hot water, lighted by its own electric plant, in charge of a competent matron. This building is for girls only. For catalogues and other information address JOSEPH D. MAHONEY, Secretary and Treasurer, N. S. Pittsburgh, Pa. SPLENDID W. M. M. S. MEET. THAT RANDOLPH ESTATE. Famous Case of Years' Standing in the Hands of a Jury—Slavery Days Recalled. Officers for the Coming Year of this N. O. C. B. of the W. M. M. S. of the A. M. E. Church—Some of the Participants. Bellefontaine, O. — The Randolph case, in which descendants of the slaves freed by Randolph just preceded the civil war, seek to obtain possession of many rich farms in Mercer county, will go to the jury this week. The case is the biggest legal event that has ever taken place in benefiting for eleven years and the slaves who bought and settled the rich farm lands aggregating several thousand acres are battling desperately for their homes. It is claimed by the array of legal talent representing the plaintiffs that the lands were originally deeded to the Randolph slaves when they were freed and sent northward. The slaves have been denied their rights to the property. It has been brought out during the trial that the famous John Randolph, of Roanoke, Va., did not live in the city or county of Roanoke, but that he took his title from the fact that the Roanoke River flowed through his plantation. Every Virginian day had his title. A certified copy of Randolph's bequest that his slaves be settled in a free state was found at Petersburg, Va., as were the records of the proceedings made by legacy to his slaves on the ground that he was insane. Attorneys for the man asserted that the man so possessive as to desire the manumission of his slaves was looked upon as crazy. It is believed that the case will be carried through all the higher courts of Ohio before a final decision is reached. Toledo, O.—The North Ohio Conference Branch of the W. M. M. S. of the A. M. E. Church has just closed one of the most successful conventions in the history of the organization. A large delegation of enthusiasts, women composed this convention, and women with mission-recorded great impetus and strength. Mrs. Mary F. Handy of Baltimore, Md., wife of the late Bishop Handy, and president of the Parent Mite Missionary Society of the A. M. E. Church was present and encouraged the work and inspired the workers of the branch. The president, Mrs. Rosa Moore, the founder of the excellent annual address, full of information relative to both the home and foreign work. Mrs. Drusie Clemens and her earnest committee gave to the convention excellent service. Rev. W. B. Lee and his kind wife made every effort to make their visitors comfortable. Miss Estella Gainer, our daughter, was assigned on her work in the South. The music was the best ever rendered at any of our W. M. M. S. conventions. Mrs. McWilliams, wife of Rev. McWilliams of this city, captivated the people with her song. The papers and recitations were of a high order, especial for the Bells' rendered by Mrs. F. G. Shaw, and the amount raised for the year by the Branch was over one thousand dollars. Mrs. Rosa Johnson was re-elected president for the seventeenth time, and received a large bouquet of roses, and other valuable presents. The other officers were as follows: Mrs. Emma Williams of Plqua, first vice president of the Epoch Cleveland, second; Mrs. Ransom Newark, sec.; Mrs. Hannah Boggess of Youngstown, assistant; Mrs. Rosa Smith of Springfield, corresponding sec; Mrs. Mary Singleton, Hamilton, treas; Mrs. Ella White, Cleveland, contingent treas; Mrs. A. B. Young, sup.t, children's work; Mrs. Savan, treas; Mrs. Lizzie Alston, sup.t, mule box; Mrs. Lizzie Alston, sup.t, aid fund; Mrs. Fannie Coleman, Dayton; Mrs. Gertrude Bell, Springfield, and Mrs. Cory Adams, Findlay, executive board; Mrs. Addie Lee, sup.t fancy work. THRASH BEATER WITH HOSE Pennsylvania Masked Men Wallop J. W. Bowman in a Park for Strik- ing His Wife. Beaver, Pn-7-Thirty-five masked men dressed as women took J. W. Bowman from Policeman Baker after tying the officer to a fence and escorted Bowman to a park, when they beat him with a rubber hose. Bowman had been arrested, charged with wife beating. After hearing the case a justice instructed Officer Baker to take Bowman home, and, if Mrs. Bowman told her husband to return to release him. On the way to the Bowman home the prisoner was taken by the vigilance committee. Sacrilegious English Boys. Attracted by the tolling of the bells of the parish church of Denby, Derbyshire, England, a bellringer the other day entered the church and found that the candles on the Communion table had been lighted and a bonfire made in the chancel, apparently by boys, the vicar's Bible, hymn books, and loose papers being used as fuel. Poundmaster to Make Job Pay. Oroville, Cal.—John Rich, newly elected poundmaster sees a fortune in the job. First, he will get 50 cents a dog from the city. He intends to skin the animals and sell the hides. The meat he will crush and extract the oil, which he declares is a genuine cure for consumption. The flesh is to be used for chicken feed and the bones for fertilizer. He intends using everything but the bark. Strange as it may seem, some medical men have recently taken to recommending the smoky parts of Sheffield, England, for sufferers from asthma. Lengthy Cough. WONDERFUL RESULTS ON SHORT NOTICE The tiger came toward me, bellowing and grunting, and when he got opposite the screen he gave one of those fearful coughs which only a man who has been close to such a beast can appreciate. It was eleven feet long.—London Standard. I have used your Pomade. Its the best thing I ever used for making curly hair lie smooth. I have not finished my first bottle, but can see wonderful results, writes Mrs. Louise E. Hayee of Pineville, S. C. Cultivate a Gentle Voice I would say to all: use your gentlest voice at home. Watch it day by day as a pearl of great price, for it will be worth more to you in days to come than the best pearl hid in the sea. A kind voice is a joy, like a lark's song, to a hearth at home. Train it to sweet tones now and it will keep in tune through life.—Elilu Burritt. Try Ford's Hair Pomade for harsh stubborn and unruly hair and Ford's Royal White Skin Lotion for the complexion. Ask your druggist for them. Be sure and get the genuine (Ford's) manufactured by the Ozonized On Marrow Company, Chicago, Ill. PURELY PERSONAL PURCHASE THE "GAZETTE" AT J. S. HALL'S, 3121 Central Ave. L. SCHWARTZ'S, 2921 Central Ave. Open Sunday. O. C. SCHROEDER'S, Cuyahoga Bldg. Open Sunday. ELMER F. BOYD'S, 2604 Central Ave. F. VALENTINE'S, 2130 Central Ave. SAM. FERTMAN, 3608 Central Ave. J. E. BRENNEN, 4401 Central Ave. MILLER'S, 2249 E. 105th St. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS:—Subscribers not receiving The Gazette regularly should notify us at once. We desire every copy delivered promptly. We advise our patrons to carefully examine The Gazette's advertisements before making purchases. Business men who advertise in this paper should have the patronage of Afro-Americans. The fact that they advertise is assurance that they want it. Local reading notices (advertisements) ten cents a line (six words in a line.) FOR RENT—Houses—If you have places to rent or if you want to rent—notify The Gazette. For Sale.—Fine lot, and will build a cottage or bungalow—all for $300 down. S. E. Woods, 2828 Central Ave. For Sale.—S. E. Woods of 2828 Central Av., has several good homes. Prices ranging from $1,700 to $3,500, on easy terms. FOR RENT—Two furnished rooms, upstairs, (with use of kitchen and bath) for light housekeeping. Very cheap. Applied at 2311 E. 59th St. The Triede Baptist church is looking for a new pastor who will help them redeem their property. Rev Yewell has resigned. Mrs. E. Woods, Mrs. E. Miner, Mrs. Wm. Cash and Mrs. Hollingsworth at tended the W. M. M. S. convention in Toledo last week. Deputy Sheriff F. E. Minter's wife and children are spending the sum in Gatesville, N. C., with her father and relatives. Stay away from Luna Park, August 1, and show your race and self-represent. That is the manly and womanly course to pursue. NOTARY PUBLIC—For such services call at The Gazette office, No 3 Blackstone Building, No. 1422 W. 3d street, near Superior avenue. FOR SALE—Eight room house in the East East, hardwood finish downstairs, all conveniences, bath, gas, beautiful yard and street, c. & Apply at The Gazette office, 3 Blackstone Bldg. FOR SALE—Elegant eleven room house in the East End, all conveniences; electric light, steam heat, baths, garage, beautiful yard, c. & A splendid opportunity and cheap, too. Apply at The Gazette office, 3 Blackstone Bldg. FOR SALE — Bran new, Imperial Encyclopedia and Dictionary, 40 volumes, 10,000 illustrations, handy to handle. Unexcelled for reference purposes. A library in itself—one that will last a life-time. Contains everything you may wish to know. Call or address, The Gazette, Blackstone Building 1492 38 St. Cleveland Superior Ave. This is an opportunity of a life-time for those who love good books. $25. If you are indebted to The Gazette pay promptly, please. Mrs. F. Corum of E. 43d st., is visiting in Windsor, Ca. Miss Ellen Thomas of E. 28th st., visited in Oberlin, recently. Hatcher's barber shop will be moved to 3115 Central av., about July 22. Messrs. Warren and Cortez Hatcher spent Sunday in Detroit, guests of Mackenzie, Wm. J. Wilson and Miss Amelia A. Mickey were married last Thursday, by Rey J. L. E. Burr. Persons in the East End can purchase copies of The Gazette at Miller's Cigar and News Store, 2249 E. 105th St. Mrs. Jas. A. Handy, wife of the late Bishop Handy of the A. M. E. Church, is best of Mrs. Heury Taylor of E. 77th st. Do not overlook Alexander the Optician's advertisement, elsewhere in this paper. Something of interest and value to YOU. Dr. C. I. Mottley, who has been located at 3112 Central Ave. for many months, has removed 2371 E. 46th street in every respect for him and his many patrons. He is one of the best physicians in the city. Persons in the vicinity of E. 36th and E. 37th streets and Central av., can purchase copies of The Gazette at Sam. Fertman's newstore, 3608 Central av., and those further east can find them at Brennen's newsstore, 4104 Central av. Tell your Friends and acquaintances. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. H. Randolph have opened a neat and attractive lunch room and confectionary at 3020 Central Ave. Fine candy, soda water, cigars, tobacco, and the best home-cooking "served in a home-like way." Do not fall to go in and be convinced "see for yourself." Thos. B. Akridge who returned last week from a two week's stay in Chicago, has moved to family there on the private car of the president of the Chicago & Alton R. R. Five children, a nurse, Mrs. Betty Toller, and Mr. and Mrs. Akridge made up the party. Dr. J. A. Kinney, medical director of the Nurses' Training School and Charity Hospital at Tuskegee, Ala., Institute, arrived in the city day morning, for a visit of the various local hospitals. A new hospital soon to supplain the old at Tuskegee. W. O. Vaughn, superintendent of the state free employment bureau, Superior av. N. W. and W. 6th st., said Tuesday that he has jobs for 300 men. Laborers are mostly in demand but there are a number of positions for skilled men. There are more trouble in handling men than jobs, Vaughn said. Miss Jennie Gray of Detroit, after spending a week with her sister, Mrs. Ada Young, returned home, Sunday. Mrs. Ellen Gray of that city, was called here, last week, by her sister, Mrs. Young, the latter. The latter will be for appendicitis at the Glenville Hospital, last week, and is convalescing. Of all the Negro editors, not one is truer, or really more interested in the solid development of the Negro race, than the Hon. Harry C. Smith. The fearless John Mitchell, jr., "hell raiser" is false to himself; hence how can he be true to others? Tie to Harry C. Smith and you'll end up with a friend.—Martinsburg (W. Va.) Pioneer Press. Again We Say Subscribe for THIS PAPER2 The Triedstone Baptist church is looking for a new pastor who will help them redeem their property. Rev Yewell has resigned. Mrs. E. Woods, Mrs. E. Miner, Mrs. Wm. Cash and Mrs. Hollingsworth attended the W. M. M. S. convention in Toledo, last week. Deputy Sherri F. E. Minter's wife and children are spending the summer in Catesville, N. C., with her father. Stay away from Luna Park, August 1, and show your race and self-respect. That is the man and womanly course to pursue. Fifteen young men of St. John's bible class, with the teacher, S. A. Lucas, spent Sunday in Detroit and had a delightful time. Our ministers by all means keep the men out of that alleged emancipation celebration at Luna Park, Aug. 1. S. E. Woods, manager of the Central Business Exchange, is also manager of the Clayton block, 2828 Central Av., on appointment of H. J. Nord, attorney for the Anna Howard estate. Mt. Haven Baptist church, 3725 Cedar Av., on appointment to 10:45 a. m., "God's Covenant of Grace," 12:30 p. m., Sunday-school; 6:30 p. m., B. Y. P. U.; 7:45 p. m., "The Church's Banners." Last Friday evening, Mrs. J. L. Seelig of E. 71st St., gave an enjoyable reception from 8 to 11:30 p. m., in honor of her guests, Miss Agnes Cedar Av., Miss Ballinville Pierce and Mrs. Minnie Ball Pierce of Bridgton, N. J. Quarterly meeting at Lane Memorial C. M. E. church, E. 31st St., and Cedar Av. Sunday, Rev. D. A. Walker, P. E., will preach morning and evening, and Rev. G. A. Sisle of Cory Cedar Av., Sunday, 8 p. m. The public is cordially invited. Jos. A. Powell of Danville, Va., a clerk in the railway mail service, and a niece, Miss Odella, are visiting his sister and her mother, Mrs. John W. Jackson of 1661 Hudson avd. Mr. Powell will visit in Pittsburg, a few days, the last of this week. The Union Club of St. Andrew will "trolley" to Puritas Springs again, Monday afternoon and evening, August 5th. The July 11th adult when inward standing the best in weather. Stewart's best orchestra will be in attendance, Aug. 5. Do not fail to attend the Union Club assembly. EACH ONE IS A SUCCESS. EACH OR SHINE! The Alpha Theater benefit for the Old Folk's Home, under the management of Mrs. Geo. G. Jones, Mrs. Jas. A. Rogers and Mrs. S. C. Green netted about $30. The trustees of the Home have started a campaign to raise $2,000 for a home as a present. There are about 2520 homes in the area to even accommodate those desiring to enter and on the Home's "waiting list." Cards are out asking contributions and all should help who can. The conduct of the Home under the presidency of Mrs. Cornella F. Nickens is excellent and never has been better. Former Councilman Thomas W. Fickens asked common plea court to modify alimony he was ordered to pay his former wife, Mary Ingels Fleming. He admitted that he is in arrears since June 9 on his semi-monthly payments of $12.50. He says he has no regular income, his law practice amounting to only $60 a month; that he is taking care of a wife, aged eight and two sons, and has been able to obtain a regular position. From Grand Canyon, Arizona, last week, came an interesting letter, from Washington T. Ragland, who is touring the west again, this year, with the Cleveland Grays, containing a copy of their "paper," The Whoop which had many amorous personalities (too), two beautiful card pains with scenes in that vicinity. One was labeled Mt. Vista, Arlz, and the other, "Scene near Bright Angel Cove." In the letter, "Wash" wrote that all of our "boys" with the Grays were well and joined him in sending "best" cards to see "the old reliable." Guette. They are all having "a grand time." Good! The sub-district (M. E.) convention was held in Oberlin, this Thursday and Friday. Mrs. J. H. Nelson, Mrs. Rufus Justice and Mrs. J. S. Thomas were Cory's Epworth League delegates, and Mrs. Clare's Beatty Jones' J. S. delegates. Discuss conference at Bellaire, Aug. 9 and 10. Quarterly communion, July 28. Rev. Courtney, dist. sup., will be present. Ladies' Aid, No. 1. will give "a banquet of states" in the lecture room, soon. Epworth League program every Monday evening. The reader of this is cordially invited. The league is trying to raise, this year, $100 "The Mountain" Mrs. Nelson's club, will serve refreshments, Monday evening. The pastor, Rev. G. A. Sisplee preached ably, Sunday, to large and appreciative congregations. Call your lady friends' and acquaintances' attention to our up-to-date fashion and pattern departments and thus encourage them to subscribe or take The Gazette regularly. Oblige the Editor. James E. S. Ellulian, the U. S. Commissioner to the Olympic games held in Stockholm, Sweden, recently, in a letter to American newspapers, last week, said: "We found Howard D. Prew, SPEED MARVEL, in out-of-the-way New England High School." Walter W. Sampson, an old Cleveland "boy," for many years a resident of Boston, Mass., and an uncle of Mrs. Hattie Walker of this city, and Lyde W. Benjamin of that city, were in Cleveland, Wednesday, renewing old acquaintances and called on The Gazette. Come again, gentlemen. They were en route east from Chicago. Tom Fleming asked Judge Lawrence to modify an allynn order made against him some time ago on the ground that he had had no regain of his rights since retiring from the city council a year ago. The judge refused Tuesday, Mrs. Fleming, the divorced wife, testified that her husband agreed to pay $25 a month, but failed to live up to the agreement. FORD'S HAIR POMADE MAKES HARSH, KINNY OR CURLY HAIR GLOSSY, SOFTER AND MORE PLABLE, EASY TO GAME AND PUT IN ANY STYLE THE LENGTH WILL PERMIT UNEXCEELED FOR PREVENTING HAIR FROM FALLING OUT, DARKROUFF AND FIXING OF SCALE BEWARE OF INITIATIONS, GET THE GENIURE, PUT UP IN 25+ AND 50 BOTTLES WITH CHARLES FORD'S NAME ON EVERY PACKAGE. TRY FORD'S ROYAL WHITE SKIN LOTION FOR THE COMPLEXION. MAKES THE SKIN WHITER IMEDIATELY UPON APPLICATION. WILL NOT IRRITATE THE MOST DELICATE SKIN. UNEXCEELED FOR ECZEMA, SALT RHEUM, PIMPLES, ROUGH SKIN AND PRECKLES. COLD BODY DOUGROUS. IF YOUR DRUGSTORE CANNOT SUPPLY YOU, WE WILL SEND YOU TO YOUR DIRECTOR OF THE FOLLOWING PRICES. SMALL SSEED BOTTLE, 25 LARGE SSEED BOTTLE, 25 THE OZONIZED OX MARROW CO., 232 LAKE ST. DEPT., 297 CHICAGO,ILL. AGENTS WANTED. Rufus 4316 Central A Highest Grade Men and Women Suits, Coats Order. CLEANING, DY Goods called for parts. Thomas B. Akridge of 10507 Arthur Av., for nine years chef of a Wheeling & Lake Erie private car, is preparing to move to 6501 Rhodes Av., Chicago, where he will hold a similar position with his employer, Mr. B. A. Akridge. Mr. Akridge will be president of the Chicago & Alton Railroad. Mr. and Mrs. Akridge have been interested in social and religious matters, and their departure from the city will be regretted by a host of friends who, however, extend best wishes for their continued success. The Oakland (Calif.) Pacific Times of June 28, contained the following: "T. B. Akridge, the Pacific Coast and who for years was in the buff service for the celebrated Fred Harvey Company on the famous California Limited, is preparing to leave Cleveland, Ohio, and establish headquarters in Chicago. In Cleveland he was with the Lake Erie and Company. He has been identified with small corporations since 1903. Mr. Akridge is an ardent advocate of anti-race suicide. Congratulations, Tom." SUMMER AT THE MATTERHORN Monster Mountain Has Claimed Many Victims Who Attempted to Scale Its Summit. Zermatt—High up the mountaintop, above Zermatt, in full view of that dread outline which is the wonder of the world, we spent the long lays of summer. From the small natural platform, directly in front of the hotel, it was possible to include both the opposite peak and the village far beneath, in a single glance. The Matterhorn reared his fearful form in menacing attitude against the heavens, an object of worship nevertheless, for all his aspect of grim cruelty. Every morning very early he accepted my homage from our tiny dormer window through which we obtained a ALPINE At the Foot of the Matterhorn. marvelous view of the entire valley and its colossal guardian, and by degrees there developed a silent but thorough, and I might even say, psychic sympathy between us. We were not so fortunate as to see the Alpine glow at any time, for it was not the proper season; only a tinge of rose appeared sometimes on the rugged sides of the Matterhorn. After all it was enough to breathe the air of that high, free place; to run over the grassy rolling knolls behind the hotel, to lie down in the sunshine, near some weather-stained chalet, and to see the shining of the evening star, apparently quite close to the dark crest of the mighty mountain opposite. One day we talked with a retired guide, whose fingers and one foot had been frozen off in the Andes, and who, in his day, had made many ascents, among them that of the Matterhorn. He seemed to consider the latter easy simple enough, and really very safe with due precautions. He was a fine-looking specimen of manhood, harring his pathetically maimed condition; an almost gigantic, thoroughly genial mountaineer, who seemed to take pleasure in showing us his remarkable museum, with its interesting charts, relief maps, and photographs. Also, its painful relics of the numerous victims of that mountain-conquering madness, which I, for one, cannot condemn, since it seized, to some extent, on my own imagination, while in sight of those strenuous that call and beckon with a mysterious enchantment, from their frozen solitudes. There were nailed shoes and caps, knapsacks and ice-picks, all marked with the names of their owners who had lost their lives in snowstorms, from avalanches, or from some treacherous misstep on the edge of a precipture. There were an appalling number of causes enumerated, but the chief reason for most of these catastrophes seemed to spring from human rashness—complete indifference to the proper season for such undertakings, as, for example, attempts to scale the Matterhorn or the Lyskamm or lofty Monte Rosa as late as October, at which time the chances of blizzards and avalanches are very great. FORD POMADE HAIR POMADE MAKES HARSH, KINNY OR CURLY HAIR GLOSSY, SOFTER AND MORE PLIABLE, EASY TO COMB AND PUT IN ANY STYLE THE LENGTH WILL PERMIT UNCLEVEL FOR PREVENTING HAIR FRACTURE OF SCALE BEWARE OF IMITATIONS. SET THE GRAINUE. PUT UP IN 25* AND 30* BOTTLES WITH CHARLES FORD'S NAME ON EVERY PACKAGE TRY FORD'S ROYAL WHITE SKIN LOTION FOR THE COMPLEXION. MAKES THE SKIN WHITER IMMEDIATELY UPON APPLICATION. WILL NOT IRRITATE THE MOST DELICATE SKIN. UNEXCELLED FOR ECZEMA, SALT RHEUM, PIMPLES, NOURISH, SWIM, AND FRECKLES. SOLD BY DRUGGIST IF YOUR DRUGGIST CANNOT SUPPLY YOU WE WILL SEND IT TO YOU DIRECT AT THE FOLLOWING PRICES. SMALL SHEET BOTTLE, 25% LARGE SHEET BOTTLE, 50% THE OZONIZED OX MARROW CO. 232 LAKE ST. DEPT. 297 AGENTS WANTED. $5.00 EXAMINATION of your Eyes and Eyeglasses or Spectack. Complete for $1.00 a Pair For Saturday, July 13, 1912. Why take risks with imperfectly fitted or improper Glasses, when you can be sure of getting the right kind from me and for less than you could get them anywhere else? And remember, this is for Saturday. Don't fail to ask for certificate of exchange with each purchase, entitling purchaser to privilege of exchange any time within 2 years at my store. ALEXANDER'S OPTICTIANS 907 Euclid Ave., Lennox Bldg., Cor. E. 9th and Euclid Ave., Opposite Cleveland Trust Co., Cleveland, Ohio. BARBER, HAIRDRESSING AND MANICURING SCHOOLS. By our method everybody can learn the trade in short time; expenses small, and you can earn money while at school. Send for information. A special invi- tation is extended to prospective colored students. NOSSOKOFF, 1405 PENN AVENUE, PITTSBURG, PA. Theodore B. Green, ATTORNEY AT LAW. 508-510 Superior Building. Office, Main 3076. Residence, Eddy 2086-R. CLEVELAND, O. B. & M. HAIR DRESSING. A delightfully Perfumed Hair-Pomade for making harsh, stubborn, curly hair soft, pliant and glossy. It it not only an ideal dressing for the hair but a wonderful hair-grower. It works directly on the scalp and roots of the hair, relieving dandruff and other diseases of the scalpskin, thereby causing it to grow rich, long and luxurious. B. & M. Hair Dressing is becoming more popular every day, and is sold strictly on a guarantee. 2742 Central Ave. Selling Agents. HOME-MADE BAKERY Cor. E. 37th St. and Central Ave. Where you can get all kinds of FRESH BREAD, FANCY CAKES PIES & BUNS. Birthday and Wedding Cakes. GIVE MANDEL A CALL. Public Stenographer MISS LUCAS 3710 Scovill Ave. Office hours, 2:30 to 6:30 p. m. Committee, Lodge and all meeting notices on postals or otherwise, as desired. THE CENTRAL HOUSE 2507 Central Av., Cleveland, O. O. B. MOSS, PROP'R. New, Clean and Neat Rooms, Bath &c. Terms Reasonable. THE BEST MEALS Breakfast from 7 a. m., to 10 a. m. SPECIAL SUNDAY DINNER From 12 noon, to 8 p. m. Phone, Central 2433 W. AGENTS! READI 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. 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. ELECTRIC MASSAGE H. A. GAINES TONSORIAL ARTIST 3131 Central Ave. ELECTRIC MASSAGE H. A. GAINES TONSORIAL ARTIST 3131 Central Ave. 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 Quinacombs are sold in Cleveland by Brown Drug Co., 2742 Central Ave., cor. 28th St.; The People's Drug tSore, cor. Central Ave. and E. 33rd St.; Spenzer's Pharmacy, 2146 2150 Central Ave., S. E.; Zedler's Drug Store, 2511 E. 9th St.; cor. Scovill, and druggists in general. EVE. SQUARE GLASSES THE GRUF THAT HOLDS GRACE THE FACE. Optical Specialist. Eyes Examined Free. Satisfaction Guaranteed. 11 The Tray Arcade. Bell, Doan 1388-J, Residence East 791-L, Office Dr. Walter S. Biggs, Dentist. (A member of the race.) 4710 Central Ave., Cleveland, O. Hours: 8 to 12 a.m., 1 to 5 p.m. Sundays and Evenings by Appointment DRY GOODS, LADIES' and GENTS' FURNISHINGS. J. LOMSKY 3816 and 3820 Central Ave. Double Stamps on Tuesdays and Fridays. THE MANHATTAN 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. W. H. MRS. A. M. PORE-PTURNBO PROPRIETOR "Poro" College 3100 Pine St. St. Louis, Mo. THE "PORO" SYSTEM of Scalp and Hair treatment is based on the latest scientific and sanitary methods, effecting a healthy scalp thus promoting a growth of beautiful hair. The "Poro" preparations used in connection with the treatment are made and sold exclusively by myself, having the exclusive right to that name and. I know the secret of the composition that bears that name. Our claim has always been that when the hair begins to grow as the result of the use of "PORO," it will continue to do so if only the scalp and hair be kept clean. This sanitary method of treatment is also having the desired effect in helping to prevent hair loss, for it is a fact that hair in an unsanitary condition carries the germs of disease which often prove fatal to innocent persons coming in contact with them. For treatment, call on or address: MISS KATIE B. COLLIER, 4812 Payne Ave., Cleveland, Ohio. McCall's Magazine and McCall Patterns McCall's Magazine and McCall Patterns PRINTERS AND STATIONERS. 1397 East Ninth Street Have More Friends than any other magazine or patterns. McCall's is the reliable Fashion Guide monthly in one million one hundred thousand homes. Besides showing all the latest designs of McCall Patterns, each issue is brimful of sparkling short stories and helpful information for women. Call at G. G. REED'S Dry Goods and Gents' Furnishings, A Complete Line. Cuy, Central 6661 L 3222 Central Ave., Cleveland, O. 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After a shampoo or bath the Magic dries the hair, removing the dandruff; and it will straighten the curliest head of hair. The Magic will not burn or injure the hair, because the comb is never worn inside, and when the hair is taken out, into the flame of the alcohol or gas heater. The Aluminum Comb is easily detached from the heating bar, then, after the bar is headed the comb goes back into place and is held by a turn of the handle. The Magic Heater is also suitable for curling irons, has a cover and can be carried in a handbag. Fill with alcohol and lightheart Magic Shampoo Drier $1.00. Magic Alcohol Heater $5.00. Liberal terms to agents. Write for literature today. Magic Shampoo Drier Co. Minneapolis, Minnesota. Pure Beer Bottled at the Br. wery THE CLEVELAND & S BREWING COMP Delivered at the Home. CLEVELAND & SA BREWING COMPANY at the Home. Be a New Shampoo or Straighter just in the palky at every stroke and cause a re t send $1.00 today and get the Com D & SANDUSKY COMPANY ome. 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Illustrating the Largest and Most Complete Lime pie, such as Bange, Wige, Puff, Switches, Pom- TAYLOR, Howell, Mich. to mention this paper. TAYLOR'S SPECIAL ALCOHOL HEATER is the handiest and most convenient method of heating a box, can, and can be closed so that you can not put in your band bag. Price $2c for Best. test results and use all the easy requirements of the Comb Straightener, but promotes a luxurious growth of the hair. Price $2c. SEND FOR MY FREE CATALOGUE! Illustrating the Largest and Most Complete Line of this country for colored people, such as Bangs, Wigs, Puffs, Switches, Pompadours, Sairf Pina, Combs, Brushes, etc. Agents Wanted. T. W. TAYLOR, Howell, Mich. When writing please mention this paper. ```markdown ``` is one in which the merchant himself has implicit faith—he also would not advertise it. You are safe in patronizing the merchants whose ads appear in this paper because their goods are up-to-date and never shopworn. Price of Hair Straightener and Alcohol Heater complete $1.50. BOYS MAGAZINE MAY ENTERTAINED BY WALTER CAMP (From the Lagos, South Africa, Weekly Record.) The movement on the part of the native of South Africa, to unite in their own welfare and for safeguarding their interests and rights in the face of the problems and perplexities confronting them under the aegis of the activities of present day civilization, is rendered as indispensable as it is inevitable. And inevitable because of the plain and undisguised character of the treatment meted out to the black man everywhere, involving a policy of invidious discrimination which excludes none but embraces all, and not only recognized universally as the measure to be meted out to the black man, but proclaimed as the one condition upon which the black man is to live, move and have his being. With such an outlook confronting him, the black man would be less than human if he failed to realize the situation and take counsel with himself as to the ways and means he should adopt for meeting the omnious outlook. The very exigencies of the circumstances in which he finds himself, compel the black man as a rational being to do so. Reservation, which is only another name for self-preservation, is as important for him as for any other human being. And whatever may be said against the black man endeavoring to unite and formulate a national policy from his own standpoint as a act off against the national problems he is compelled to face, he is but acting upon the dictates of reason and common sense such as would actuate any other people placed in like circumstances. Whenever such an attempt of the kind is made by the black man or even where the attempt is suggested, it is generally met with soft sophisms something like the following: "He (the black man) should always persist in looking rather at the bright than the gloomy side of their position; that he should see how they advanced; that he should know and beieve that nothing could check their advance; that he should teach that the darkest cloud had a silver lining; that he should frankly recognize and highly value the services and co-operation of thousands of Europeans in the cause of justice, and he should strengthen their hands and their work and not make it more difficult; and that he should abstain from expressing doctrines which imparted to the larger section of the European people a spirit of general injustice and general hostility to the advancement of the native." The foregoing represents the time-honored advice tendered the black man by his European well-wisher. Those who tender the advice lose sight of the important question which it postulates. Such question relates to the reason why the grumblings of the black man under the acknowledgment burden of distress and ill treatment meted out to him should arouse "a spirit of general injustice and general hostility" with the European, both friends and foes, toward him, and that, too, in spite of the well-known fact that of all men, the black man has given the least cause of offense to the European. This shows the existence of a bottom feeling of ill will towards the black man, and which because of its lacking any justification, invests both the advice and friendship professed with a speciousness which is too plain to be overlooked. And the shadowy character of both is further exposed by the equivocal suggestion that the native should keep his eye or faith pinned to "the bright side" of his position while that position is of overwhelming darkness and despair. It would indeed be interesting and enlightening as well if Mr. Schroeler or any other well wisher of the native would indicate where the light or South Africa lies, when the intolerance and persecution which had already been brought to bear at the hands of white communities has been legalized by his being disfranchised by the act of union, and the same efforts and services of the thousands of Europeans advocating the cause of justice did not avail to prevent. And while the African is bound to appreciate services in the cause of justice and humanity, at the same time he recognizes also that such services are specially directed to arrest injustice with the European himself and have him to conform to the rule of life and to acquire the character which becomes him as the civilized and Christian man which he claims to be. The treatment of the native in the Congo emphasizes the need of the services of many thousands of Europeans still as apostles of righteousness to their own people in the cause of justice—a cause which while indirectly bringing relief to the victims of injustice, has for its substantive object that of redeeming the character of the European and making him more truly an enlightened and Christian man. As regards "the advance" which it is alleged the native has made, we can only say that so far as material things are concerned, it has been an advance which has deprived him of everything as he moved along the path of advancement, and besides leaving him destitute, has extirpated him from both his kindred and patrimony. As regards advance in morals, unhappy evidence exists abundantly to show the kind of advance this has been, while it would be distinctly to the native to advance to a moral stage which should require him to be taught the elementary principles of justice, righteousness and humanity. We have alluded BEETLES GROW MUSHROOMS. Scientists have known of mushroom growing ants for a long time, and it was generally believed that the ant was the only insect possessing sufficient intelligence to make a successful mushroom farmer. Prof. J. Bourier, the French entomologist, has found that a certain wood-boring beetle known as the Bostrychide is as familiar with mushroom cultivation for home consumption as the ant. Prof. Bourier discovered that the to these matters in order to show how dark and dismal is the outlook as it appears to the black man, and who while surveying all slides for some ray or hope, is pondering seriously on the trivial matter of self-preservation. And the movement for the native to become united in his own interest in South Africa is the inevitable and natural course which the native must take everywhere, as being forced upon him by the inexorable conditions with which he is menaced. "Let us get together" is the step suggested by his awakened consciousness, and the widespread character of which is denoted by a like echo from the gold coast. And while, as is accurately expressed by the editor of Tsaalde Beoana, "the native is not in any way looking for antagonism," he desires to get together in order to discuss the outlook for him, social, political and economic, and to render it possible for the formulation by the native himself from his own standpoint of the stand he should take under the exigencies of present-day life and activities UPRIGHT LEADERS AND SAFE (From Charlotte Evening Chronicle.) The three weeks' conference of the A. M. E. Zion church, which closed at Clinton Chapel, brought to Charlotte the most representative gathering of colored citizens that perhaps was ever in the city at one time. Men from Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Alabama Texas, Tennessee, and from nearly every state east of the Mississippi, have been engaged from day to day in the most important work of the church, a church that represents a membership of ever a half million of the best colored people in the country and in the south, upright and law-abiding men and women, who are an honor to their race. The dignity and conservatism with which the venerable bishops of the church have presided from day to day in regular rotation kept the conference deliberations on*2* a high plane and during the three weeks of the conference many sentiments, opinions and views have been expressed relative to the future welfare of the colored race that would be heartily seconded by every conservative white citizen perhaps in the entire country. The conference was one of harmony and peace, representing the spirit of the great church which it represented as the highest official body of that church. There was never a word of rancor or of race strife uttered, but on the contrary the whole occasion was marked by a spirit of brotherhood and of desire for the best relations possible that might exist between the races while the great subject of the moral welfare of the colored man was always given the leading preference over all other considerations. The assemblage of such men in any city is calculated to draw the attention of the white race to the fact that the brother in black is not only capable of but has already accomplished his sphere the development of men of brains, of deep spiritual insight and of wise and practical counsel, men who can see deeper than the ordinary man into the problem of the black man in America, and who do not hesitate to express those convictions in a manner that carried with it power to impel the concurrence of fair and open minds everywhere. The one act of the candidates for high office of bishop in throwing aside as so many childish trinkets their personal ambitions for the good of the great church which they have sworn fealty to, and thus declare to the world that the service of the master is paramount in their minds and their deliberative bodies, has convinced their white friends that these men are not time-servers or politicians, juggling with the offices of the church. When a score of men said they would get out of the race for bishop in order to maintain the fair name of the church and to keep the peace, they perhaps unconsciously brought upon themselves a higher mead of true honor than they could have achieved in many years as bishop in the church. It was an honest, upright gathering of the best colored men of the country, devoted with one united alm to the furtherance of the cause of that kingdom whose subjects they are. The colored people have safe and sane leaders in these men, if those who attended the Charlotte conference are even average examples of the preachers and church officers of the great institution which they represent, and with the whole country's colored population dominated by such men as these, God-fearing and even sticklers for the tested and tried doctrines of their church, there would be no race problem—such would have no meaning to these men. And yet had it not been for the requests of the newapers for reports of the proceedings, the whole conference might have met, worked and adjourned, and the world remained uninformed of such a gathering. They exemplify the classic quotation that shallow streams murmur but the deeps are dumb. SPICED RED CABBAGE. Shave a medium sized head of red cabbage and soak for half an hour in cold water, then drain as dry as possible. In a saucepan melt one heaping table-poonful of butter and add one tablespoonful of sugar, one teaspoonful of salt, one-quarter teaspoonful of pepper, one half cloves and one-half cup of good vinegar. Add the drained cabbage, cover and cook slowly, then simmer gently for fully an hour and a half. beetles bore holes in wood and half fill them with a prepared fungus, which makes an ideal mushroom bed. The garden is carefully spawned and tended, and in course of time the mushrooms appear. In this way the beetle provides itself with a food sufficiently tender for its feeble jaws. When a man hasn't sufficient sand in his craw to propose, let him sit on the sand at the seashore with the girl and he'll be engaged before he knows what hit him. THE GAZETTE. CLEVELAND. C. SATURDAY. JULY 20. 1912. WHO WROTE THE B'BLE? No, the Bible did not drop down from heaven, gilt-edged and morocco bound. Some persons are under the impression that because all the books which go to make up the Bible are bound in a single volume, therefore they were produced at one time, or at least put into the present shape within a few years. But if you stop to think about it you can not fail to understand that the Bible is an entire library; it might be called the spiritual transcript of the Jewish people for more than two thousand years. The historical part of the Bible begins with the twelfth chapter of the book of Genesis, where Abraham receives his mission, for it must be remembered that the purpose of writing the Old Testament was to set down the entire record of the progress of the Jews from their very beginning. The first eleven chapters of Genesis embody traditions then current among the Babylonians, and they hind place in the Bible to show the descent of Abram from Adam. The period assigned to Abram (afterward called Abraham) is 2100 B. C., now established by the discovery of cuneiform tablets bearing the names of kings mentioned in Genesis as contemporary with Abraham. This proves that the beginning of the writing of the Bible, as we have it, can not antedate 2100 B. C., but it is uncertain who first wrote down that early record. While Genesis is loosely spoken of as the first book of Moses, it should not be forgotten that the record of the birth of Moses is begun in the early chapters of Exodus, the second Biblical book, so that if Moses did receive or shape the book of Genesis it was from records and traditions existing when he was born. The old theory that Moses and other Biblical writers received the Bible in the form of dictation from God has long been abandoned, as it would lower Moses and Isaiah, as well as the other inspired writers, to the grade of mere stenographers. It is plain that Moses could have written the books attributed to him, for he had the benefit of princely tutelage at the court of Egypt, and no nation was further advanced in science and literature at that time than Egypt. Some critics held that Moses could not have written these books because of the poor state of literary composition of that time, but discoveries within the last twenty years have proved that writing was very common in his day, and he certainly had every opportunity to learn. After the time of Moses the record is more or less continuous, though the writers are anonymous, with the exception of the prophetical books. After the Babylonian exile, which ceased with the permission by the Jews by Cyrus to return to Palestine (538 B. C.), considerable literary activity took place, the speeches of the various prophets who had spoken before and during captivity being collected and more or less shaped under the hand of Ezra, the famous scribe, A Jewish tradition states that he decided which books were to be accepted as sacred and which rejected as unworthy. But many scholars agree that some of the Psalms, the book of Daniel and other books, like Ecclesiastes and Job, were either written or added to as late as the Maccabean period (167 B. C.). The facts seem to indicate that the Old Testament was not closed until after that time, so it took some two thousand years to write all that is contained in its books. The composition of the New Testament covers a very much shorter period, for it has to do with the life of Jesus and the doings of his immediate apostles only, so not more than a century is given to its composition. The four Gospels were written by Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, probably toward the end of the first century, although the earliest date assigned to the completion of any of them is now given as 120 A. D. It was at least a century later (220) before the canon of the New Testament was at all fixed by the church, but this was not made really definite until 367, when the church decided which were to be accepted as sacred books and which had no divine authority behind them. It is plain now that something more than 2,200 years was required for the writing of the whole Bible, and that therefore it is necessary to take this into consideration when studying the Bible, as it was natural for different ideas to prevail at such widely separated points of time and in the minds of such very different men.—Selected. SPRAYING POISON IVY. In sections of the country where there is much poison ivy it often becomes very annoying and ranks among the greatest pests. Anyone who has much work to do around the ivy should keep on hand a lotion made by dissolving sugar of lead in 60 per cent alcohol, which is said to destroy the poison if applied soon after coming in contact with the vine. Spraying with a common salt solution made by dissolving common salt in water at the rate of three pounds to a gallon is very effective. It is recommended that spraying be repeated every three or four weeks till the vines are dead. Another method recommended consists in putting a teaspoonful of concentrated sulphuric acid on the stems every week or so in the spring. If a man can be found who is not affected with the poison it will be worth white to pay him to thoroughly grub out the plants. There is a strengthening tone emanating from these sensible words so full of wholesome advice: "Be a brave, true, honest man. If you know a thing is right, do it. If you have a solemn conviction, dare to utter it in the fear of God, regardless of the wrath of man." It takes sometimes more than ordinary moral courage to be heard self-concelt, weakness, bullyism, and a soft of self all-sufficiency in its entrenched lair. Too many indifferent cooks spell the meals. BISHOP THIRKIELD AND HIS GOOD WORK It is a matter of the greatest concern to the 250,000 Negro members of the white Methodist Episcopal Church that the dominant sentiment of the church has its teeth set as firmly now as twenty years against the election of any of its Negro membership to the office of bishop resident in the United States. Some years ago Dr. Isaiah Benjamin Scott was elected a missionary bishop and assigned to West Africa. This was a concession even that was made grudgingly. Beyond this the General Conferences of the past twelve years have refused to budge, despite the tremendous efforts put forward by influential preachers and laymen. During the past year the subject has gone over from every point in The Age editorially and by Rev. S. H. Norwood, Dr. Ernest Lyon and others. There is a strong sentiment in the church that the blacks should separate themselves from the white parent body, and the sentiment is shared by many whites as well as blacks. The stronger sentiment, however, among negroes is, at this time, that they should remain with the parent body and hope and labor for the development of a healthier brotherly sentiment in the church. That was the regnant sentiment before the recent meeting of the general conference at Minneapolis, at which eight new bishops were elected; what the sentiment now is it would be very interesting to know, as men don't feel the same out of a contest with defeat as they do when going into it with the hope of success. But it is not conceivable that so large a body of negroes will stand many years longer for the attitude of charitable toleration that the church has taken and maintained toward them. Men want a square deal nowadays, whatever work they co-operate with others in; if they can't get it in one way they will get it in another, but they get it, or keep striving to get it. At the Minneapolis conference, during the balloting for the election of the eight bishops there were times when it looked as if Dr. R. E. Jones, the accomplished editor of the Southwestern Christian Advocate, would be elected by accident, as it were; but the "Thou shalt not" sentiment of the dog in the mule's stable blocked the way. When there was but one more bishop to elect the negro delegates concentrated upon the best white man, for them, in the situation, as a compromise, and succeeded in having Dr. Wilbur P. Thirkield, president of Howard university, elected. It was the best course for them to pursue under the circumstances, as Dr. Thirkield has been connected with them, and their works as an educator, thoroughly in sympathy with them, during the past twenty years. He is a man of the broadest Christian scholarship and fitness and experience. He has not been a time-server, a selfish self-seeker in the negro work and uplift; his soul and spirit have been in the work, and that which he has accomplished has not only been great but good as well. He could have accomplished as much and attained to the office of a bishop if he had labored with his own rather than with "the strangers" in his church denomination. In this respect he in a class with Bishop John W. Hamilton, whose great heart and intellect were so long dedicated to the negro work of education and uplift. The race honors itself when it honors such men. With Gen. G. O. Howard, Gen. Samuel Chapman Armstrong, Dr. J. S. Mullock, Gen. John Eaton, Dr. Hollis B. Frissell, and others. But what Dr. Thirkeld gains personally in his election as bishop, Howard university and the work of negro education and uplift losses. That he did not expect to be a bishop, that he loved the negro work more than personal advancement, was shown when he accepted the presidency of Howard university, which is a Congregational school, and thus put himself out of line of promotion in his own church. Such sacrifice of personal interest is sufficiently rare to be emphasized as often as possible, for the inspiration in the example, by those for whose work and uplift it has been made. It is sufficient to say that Thirkeld will leave Howard university a hundred per cent. stronger and better than he found it; it is not too much to hope that his successor will continue to build upon the sure foundation he will inherit and not destroy it in striving to build upon a foundation of his own.—New York Age. TREATMENT OF LIVE STOCK. Horses and, in fact, all domestic animals, are very much more impressionable than they are generally supposed to be. Cattle which have had a kind master, a man of gentle but firm nature, show the effect of their associations as a breed or strain. Years of good treatment not only make an impression on the individuals, but are impressed with such force as to become a breed characteristic. In short, a keen judge can tell pretty nearly what sort of association a horse has had by his temperament. The importance of creating a good temperament in a trotting or pacing horse should not be underrated. The horse with a good temperament will do more work and do it better than one which has not got a well-balanced temperament. The things that come to the man who waits have generally been pretty thoroughly picked over before they reach him. Doubt! Doubt is an undesirable thing to inhabit the human mind, and to allow it to triumph ultimately is to wrap the soul in gloom of him who is its victim. To put this "undesirable citizen" out of the realm of your mind is the wisest thing to do to enable you to fulfill the highest demands of duty to yourself and world. A track in the mow, equipped with modern hay unloading tools, will save much valuable time during hay harvest. Pitching off the load by hand THESUNDAYSCHOOLCONGRESS The National Baptist Sunday School Congress, Dr. C. H. Clark of Nashville, Tennessee, president, and Mr. Henry Allen Boyd, secretary, held its seventh annual meeting at Tuskogee Institute beginning Wednesday, June 5, and closed the following Sunday night. When the special trains from Nashville, Tennessee, Montgomery and Selma, Alabama, reached the Institute depot Wednesday morning, the distinguished parties were greeted by Principal Washington, members of the Executive Council, teachers, the Institute Band, a very large number of students and prominent citizens of the community, Dr. Nathaniel H. Pius in charge of a trained chorus, and superintendents, teachers and pupils of three Baptist Sunday schools of the neighborhood, carrying banners, streamers and flags. The greeting was most cordial. A procession was quickly formed, and led by the band, marched directly to the Institute Chapel, where President Calvin called the Congress to order and the annual meeting was opened for business. Prominent among those who addressed the Congress were Mr. W. W. Campbell of Tuskegee, president of the Macon County Bank, who delivered the address of welcome in behalf of the white citizens of Tuskegee and the white Baptists of Alabama; Principal Booker T. Washington, who delivered the address of welcome in behalf of the Institute; Rev W. H. Moses, D. D., who made the magnificent response in behalf of the Congress, who was followed by Prof. J. W. Bell of Earlington, Kentucky, whose short address was a gem; Dr. Homer C. Lyman of Hamilton, New York, Superintendent of Teacher Training in the Negro Colleges of the United States, representing the International Sunday School Association with headquarters at Chicago; Dr. Sutton E. Griggs of Nashville, Tennessee, and Mrs. Booker T. Washington, as the first colored lady of the land'; Rev R. H. Bowling, D. D., of Norfolk, Virginia, who delivered the principal address of the work in words of eloquence the work in the present race, and paying a high compliment to the Principal of Tuskegee Institute and the work he is doing for the race, and Dr. Henry H. Meyer of New York, Secretary of the National School Council of Evangelical Denominations in the United States and Canada, who delivered a very helpful address on "Looking Forward," stating among other things that the best organized and equipped Sunday school of today shows what the average Sunday school will be in the near future. Continuing, Dr. Meyer said: "I have been profoundly impressed during my attendance at the sessions of the National Baptist Sunday School Congress by the higher ideals, splendid achievements and efficient leadership which the Sunday School work of the National Baptist fellowship represents. The place of meeting for the Congress this year was most fortunate. Tuskegee Institute stands before the American people as the one monumental object lesson of what industry, patience and state statesmenlike leadership can do in a strategic situation. It also appeals to me as the greatest practical demonstration I have yet seen of the possibilities of industrial progress among the Negro race." Principal Washington was enthusiastically received by the Congress. He spoke of the ten millions of Negroes in this country, 82 per cent of whom live in the rural districts and are engaged in agricultural pursuits. These teeming millions may be comparatively ignorant, but they are not degraded; they are worth saving. The organization that will reach out and take hold of these people in the rural districts, said Dr. Washington, and left them to a higher plane of Christian civilization is the organization that shall live and grow and abide. All the papers read before the Congress showed careful study and some of them showed thorough scholarship and deep insight into the concrete work of the organization. The personnel of the Congress was inspiring. Real workers were in attendance. There was a conspicuous absence of pyrotechnic oratory, except an occasional rocket. No time was lost in fulsome praise of mediocrity. It was neither a mutual admiration gathering nor an amateur debating society. It was an assemblage of Christian workers doing constructive work, solving some of the problems affecting the future of the race. Dr. R. H. Boyd, of the National Baptist Publishing Board, Nashville, supported and surrounded by his "Cabinet" in the conduct of that great enterprise, was a dominating personality in all the deliberations of the Congress. Delegates were present from every section of the country. The departmental meetings were especially helpful and instructive. The parade of the Institute Battallon, the young women here during the summer, the officers and members of the Congress, local Sunday School organizations, and church workers Sunday afternoon, headed by the Institute Band, was an inspiring sight. The Alabama Penny Savings Bank has been selected as the depository of the funds of the A. M. E. Zion church, which means that the headquarters of that great religious body will be transferred from Philadelphia to Birmingham and the money hitherto manipulated by white men will be under the management and control of colored men. With a race, like as with an individual, success depends in the largest possible sense on its own rightly steered efforts. Outside influences are adjunctive aid, but the real work that must count for the most in the greatness of its destiny must be done by its own directive energies. There is no flouting the truth that a race, like an individual, is the architect of its own destiny. If some men were to divest themselves of their prejudices they would appear unclothed. THE NEGRO CHURCH It happens that during this month, in the north, in the west and south, there are meetings the ruling Methodist ecclesiastical bodies representing a membership of 1,175,000 colored Americans. Later, in midsummer, the Baptist conventions, which represent 2,300,000 members, will meet. There three and a half million of people represent the great middle class of colored Americans. The lowest class of former merchant reached; the highest class of the educated and thoughtful are being gradually lost. The great middle mass remains, and in 35,000 churches holding 57,000,000 worth of property they form a peculiar organized government of men. Under some fifty powerful leaders and thirty thousand salaried local preachers they raise and expend over seven millions of dollars a year. Before such an organization one must bow with respect. It has accomplished much. It has instilled and conserved morals, it has helped family life, it has taught and developed ability and given the colored man his best business training. It has planted in every city and town of the Union, with few exceptions, meeting places for colored folk which vary from shelters to luxurious and beautiful edifices. Notwithstanding this, all is not well with the colored church. First, its fifty leaders are in too many cases not the men they should be. This is not peculiar to the negro church, but it is true to a larger degree than is healthful. We can point to pure-minded, efficient, unselfish prelates like the late Bishop Paine, the present Bishop Lee and J. W. White. We have men of scholarship and standing like Bishop J. Albert Johnson, and we have efficient men of affairs like John F. Hurst, M. C. P. Mason and R. H. Boyd. The trouble is, however, this: There are too few such men. The paths and the higher places are choked with pretentious ill-trained men and in far too many cases with men dishonest and otherwise immoral. Such men make the way of upright and business candidates for: the power extremely difficult. They put an undue premium upon finesse and personal influence. Having thus a partially tainted leadership, small wonder that the 30,000 colored ministers fall as a mass far below the expectations. There are among them hustling business men, eloquent talkers, suave companions and hale fellows, but only here and there does one meet men like Henry L. Phillips of Philadelphia —burning spiritual guides of a troubled, panting people, utterly self-forgetful, utterly devoted to a great ideal of righteousness. Yet this is precisely the type for which the church—the white church as well as the black church—is crying. This is the only type which will hold thoughtful, reasonable men to membership with this organization. Today the tendencies are not this way. Today the church is still inveighing against dancing and theatergoing, still blaming educated people for objecting to silly and empty sermons, boasting and noise, still building churches when people need homes and schools, and persisting in crucifying critics rather than realizing the handwriting on the wall. Let us trust that these great churches in conference, remembering the leaders of the past and conscious of all that the church has done well, will set their faces to these deeds: 1. Electing as bishops and leaders only men of honesty, probity and efficiency and rejecting the noisy and unclean leaders of the thoughtless mob. 2. Weeding out the ministry so as to increase the clean apostles of service and sacrifice. 3. Initiating positive programs of education and social uplift and discouraging extravagant building and mere ostentation. 4. Bending every effort to make the negro church a place where colored men and women of education and energy can work for the best things regardless of their belief or disbelief in unimportant dogmas and ancient and outworn creeds. MADE ALFALFA GROW "It won't grow here because it can't get its roots down to water," said every one, and "water" was in the creek at the base of the hill 150 feet high. The acre sloped gently to the east and was in eats, following a crop of about seventy-five bushels of corn per acre. The oats were cut and removed about July 10, stubble mowed and turned, and then disked four times. Once a week until August 15 the land was worked, harrowed, rolled and plank-dragged. August 19 we went to the schoolhouse yard, where a crop of clover grew, and got ten bushels of the top soil, mixed it with a wagon box full of manure and scattered it over the acre, harrowing it in well. On the morning of August 20 we sowed ten pounds of alfalfa seed north, south and cross sowed ten pounds east and west; then we put a boy on a horse, hitched the horse to a sixty-tooth harrow, set the teeth slanting backward as much as possible and let him run the harrow over the patch. The next June 1 we cut full two tons of cured alfalfa hay, July 15 a ton and a half, and September 12 another ton and a half. This was our first alfalfa; since 1906 we have repeated our success twice by the same plan; thorough soil preparation, inoculation, plenty of seed, and date of seeding August 15 to 25—C. D. Lyons in Agricultural Epitomist. POTASH FOR THE GARDEN Some vegetables and fruits, it is said, seem to thrive best on muriate of potash. Others give better yields when treated with sulphate of potash. Even the garden vegetables seem to have their preference, according to recent tests at the Maine experiment station. Thus rhubarb gives a much heavier yield with muriate of potash, while onions, cauliflower and asparagus give heavier crops, with sulphate. Orchard fruits, as a rule, seem to prefer sulphate. Practical Fashions LADIES' AND MISSES' COAT. 5818 The reign of the long coat is well established, and no women's outfit is really complete unless it contains one of these useful and stylish garments. There are countless occasions during the spring and summer months when a dressy protective coat such as is given in this design is a very desirable possession. This model is 55 inches long and conforms to the latest fashion standard. It is an easy design to follow, and the home dressmaker can undertake its construction without fear of encountering difficulty. Serge, whipcoord, pongee and linen are available fabrics. Contrasting material is used to trim the garment as illustrated. The pattern (5818) is cut in sizes 32, 36, 40 inches bust measure. Medium size requires 4% yards of 36 inch material and 1% yards of 24 inch contrasting goods. To procure this pattern, send 10 cents to "Pattern Department" of this paper. Write name and number of pattern. 5813 For a plain tailored waist a clever model is here offered. The waist is relieved from severe plainness by a group of tucks at each shoulder which give becoming lines to the garment, as these tucks run to the waist line. The back is perfectly plain. The sleeves are set in with slight fullness at the top and are finished with regular shirt cuffs. The neck is completed with a band to admit of various styles of collars being worn. Linen, madras, percale and chambray are practical materials. The pattern (5813) is out in sizes 32 to 42 inches bust measure. Medium size requires $2\frac{1}{2}$ yard of 36 inch material. To procure this pattern, send 10 cents to "Pattern Department" of this paper. Write the name of the pattern and be sure to give size and number of pattern. NO 5813. SIZE..... NAME..... TOWN..... STREET AND NO..... STATE.... A very pronounced rise in the price of cologne generally may take place as the result of the deficiency in the rose crop abroad. The yield of attar of roses for the Bulgarian district known as the Valley of the Roses, where some 7,000 acres are under cultivation, amounted in 1910 to 5,500 pounds, valued at $720,242, an average of $130 a pound, as against 11,000 pounds, valued at $95,436, an average of $81 a pound, in 1909. The 1911 crop has suffered from frost and the price of the petals has risen from 1½ to 4 cents a pound. Certain restrictions which have heretofore existed against the oil of geranium will be removed, and this will take the place of attar of roses in the compounding of the cheaper perfumes. His Start Visitor—So you were acquainted with the great financier who was raised hero? As usual, I suppose you gave him the first dollar he ever earned. Native—No; he took away from me the first dollar I ever earned.