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THIRTIETH YEAR. NO. 12 CAN'T GET AWAY FROM THEM PENROSE CHANGE RUSSEL CHANGE ARCHBAD LITTER TENM GOAL & IRON CO. BALTIMORE MANHATTAN WE THE CHIEF THERE IS STRONG THIRTIETH YEAR CAN'T GET AW BALTIMORE AMERICAN "BY THEIR FRUITS" TAFT'S ADMINISTRATION HAS GIVEN PEACE, PROGRESS, PROTECTION, PROSERITY. FIRST IS OURS WITH HONOR Nation Has Gone Safely and Sanely Forward, Industry and Labor Have Been Protected and Abundant Prosperity Blesses the Land. What was the meaning of the exuberant enthusiasm displayed at the Republican state convention in Detroit this week? Grown men, coming from their daily routine of business details, do not leap to their feet and with enthusiasm proclaim unless they have a reason for their actions. These delegates from every part of Michigan were passionately in earnest about something. They were ardent, ablaze with desire—for what? When the name of the president was spoken they burst into vociferous acclamation. When they heard the suggestion that the Republican party continue its administration they indorsed it by the most emphatic utterance at their command. Why did they want another term for President Taft? What is it in the first term of this president that aroused these sensible, shrewd men of Michigan? Mr. Taft's first term has brought PEACE. The nation has had four years of tranquil relations with the world. It has been Peace with honor. America stands today pre-eminent on earth. Her diplomacy has been firm, conserving the due rights of the United States, infringing on the rights of none, defending with dignity what is our own, asking nothing that is not our own. Peace at home and abroad--that is one result of the last four years of Republican control of the nation's government. It has been a time of PROGRESS. In federal and state affairs there has been no backward step. Safely and anely we have gone ahead. The lot of the less fortunate has been improved. Our laws have been adjusted to bring more equitable distribution of burdens. Not in all the reckless demands of agitators but in every way that experienced and wise judgment indicated to be for the betterment of our relations with one another the course of events has been onward and upward. Progress is a second result of this administration's efforts. PROTECTION has been maintained. The industries of the nation have been safeguarded from disastrous competition with alien peoples. The laborer has been saved from disastrous reduction of wages to the level of foreign lands. He enjoys the highest return for his work that is received anywhere on earth. He has abundant opportunity for occupation, for our manufacturers are busy and their demand for workers is incessant. The employer and the farmer are equally content. They are making good returns on their investments. They find a market for all they can produce, and they can pay liberal wages to their employees and still satisfy themselves with their returns. The sum of all these is PROSPERITY. Throughout the land all are busy, all are content. There has never been a time in American history when men were get- Lincoln's Prophetic Words. There have been many third term parties before the present Bull Moose defection. They have died ingloriously and dropped into oblivion. Seventy-five years ago Abraham Lincoln, then only a country lawyer, while addressing an audience in his home town of Springfield, used these prophetic words: "Is it unreasonable, then, to expect that some man possessed of the loftest genius, coupled with ambition sur- --- THE GAZETTE ting more money, spending money and having more money to put by than in this very year of 1912. There is not another land in all the world where the conditions are as good as they are in this land of ours. Prosperity, abundant and distributed, blesses the nation. PEACE, PROGRESS, PROTECTION, PROSPERITY. Is it any wonder that the men of Michigan want these continued? Is it any wonder that they evidence enthusiasm for the man and the party that have brought these conditions? What did the opponents of this man and this party bring to the country? They try to bellittle the results of the present administration. What were the conditions when the critics were in the places now occupied by the Republicans? Have people forgotten the days of 1893? Too many of us remember when the common laborers who in this time of ours are getting $2.25 and $2.50 for eight or nine hours' work were desperately and often vainly hunting the chance to work twelve hours, any number of hours, for 90 cents, when they stood hungry in the Campus Martius and pitblitely pleaded for work of any kind to keep themselves and their families from starvation, when work was not to be had and the soup kitchen and potato patch were their only salvation. We saw scenes almost as distressing in 1907 right here in Detroit. Then the government of the city was stormed by a procession of idle men, demanding the inauguration of public enterprises that they might earn a few dollars to avert hunger. Has anybody forgotten the days of 1907? Is it strange that same men want to continue the conditions of the present time? This is the reason why the names of the Republican party and of President Taft brought the great assembly of delegates to their feet with shouts last Tuesday. They want Peace, Progress, Protection, Prosperity. They want no more Poverty, no more Prostration, no more Panics.—Detroit Free Press. LABOR IN GREAT DEMAND It Is Constantly Employed at Higher Wages Than Ever Before Have Been Paid. Facts and figures may not be more eloquent than words, but they are more convincing and much more pleasing to the man who toils for a living. When one trade journal after another, in discussing the present industrial situation, reports activity not manifested in many years, an insistent demand for labor and increases in wages, the laborer well satisfied, there is no need of a change in the head of our government, for President Taft and the Republican party have been instrumental in bringing about the era of prosperity. The steel industry alone is advertising and sending out calls for 5,000 needed men. The plants are being worked to full capacity of the present labor supply, stocks of pig iron are being reduced, and the demand by railroads and other consumers is large and urgent. In the furniture, automobile and numerous other industries a dearth of available labor is keenly felt. And then talk about electing Wilson or Roosevelt and change this? "Never," says the workingman. "Never," say the man and woman in the workday world. ficient to push it to its utmost stretch, will at some time spring up among us! And when such a one does, it will require the people to be united with each other, attached to the government and laws, and generally intelligent, to frustrate his designs. Distinction will be his paramount object, and though he would as willingly—perhaps more so—acquire it by doing good rather than harm, yet that opportunity being past and nothing to be done in the way of building up, he would set boldly to the task of pulling down." ESTABLISHED AUGUST 25, 1883 AND ISSUED EVERY WEEK ON TIME SINCE. CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1912. AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS No task within human power is impossible of accomplishment when concerted action is exerted; for that which is burdensome to the few, be comes easy to the many whose united efforts are utilized. Those mighty interprises which have benefited mankind in every age are the results of that combination outlined by human genius, and operated by numbers for the service of man. The agencies elicited for the exploration of earth's hidden treasures are the powerful inventions of human skill which the necessity of the times evokes to reduce to practical usage. Things of magnitude could neyer be operated without the existence of this combination, so necessary to the betterment of conditions. The prosperity of the world is dependent upon its practice; and civilized nations owe their greatness to having imbibed it into their racial customs. Individuals as well as races rise or fall in proportion to the manner in which they accept or reject this principle; and the least prosperous are those who exhibit their indifference to this vital issue. To stride upward is a prime consideration in human thought and although abundant fruit may not reward desires, it usually proves responsive to energy and persistence. The creation of comforts for our enjoyment emerges from the source of uplon, which backing endeavors enables the performers to achieve wonderful results. The noble deeds wrought in the interest of our fellow man are spurs to ambition along similar lines, the possession of which proves a blessing to all who fall beath their influence. In the march of progress, the laggard who falls behind the procession is wholly lost to view; and that little which his feeble activity contributes to civilization is overshadowed by the brilliant achievements of more daring spirits. The times are ever gliding forward to wider realms "Plant your feet firmly and squarely on the ground, throw back your shoulders, fold your arms and sweat in most emphatic terms that you are strong, healthy and well. Do this for a few minutes every evening, and even if this is not how you actually feel, maintain by your physical and mental attitude that it is your condition, and you will soon find that it becomes so and that you are not really telling lies." This was the advice given by Dr. J. Stenson Hooker in a lecture on "Torturing and Posing for Health," in connection with the opening of the simple life conference and exhibition in London. Phillias Gagne of Montreal claims the championship of the world at bricklaying. In a day of nine hours at Montreal he laid in a wall eight inches thick and 50 feet long 6,218 brick. In a wall 16 inches thick and 50 feet long his record is 7,162 bricks. In a wall 20 inches thick and 50 feet long he laid 9,015 bricks. This work, he says was approved by the architects and contractors. A new source of rubber supply has been announced to the French Academy of Sciences in a gum found in abundance in the Malay peninsula and archipelago. It is easily gathered and contains from 1 to 20 per cent. of pure gum. Plans for the new freezing plant at the port of La Plata, which is to be erected in accordance with a concession by the Argentine congress to an American concern, have been prepared, and work on the building will soon begin. In his thirteenth annual address to the Negro Business league at Chicago, as reported in the Tuskegee Student, Dr. Booker T. Washington said, with regard to business openings in the south: "This is an era of specialization and organization. Our race should take heed of this and act. To be more specific, there are places in the south for 5,000 additional dry goods stores, and there are colored people enough to support them. In the south the negro merchant is not dependent upon the trade of his own race alone, but throughout the south, while there is prejudice in other directions, in business the negro has little prejudice to contend with along this line. Not only the colored man trades at the colored man's dry goods store, but the best white people are not afraid to patronize a first-class negro store; and the same thing is true of other business enterprises owned and controlled by colored people. "There are openings in the south for at least 8,000 additional grocery stores, for 8,500 drug stores. There are openings in the south for 2,000 shoe stores, 1,500 millinery stores; and there are communities in the south where 2,000 negro banks can be operated and supported. Further than this, there are places in the south where twenty-five self-governing, self-supporting, self-directing towns or cities may be established, where the colored people can have their own mayor, their own board of aldermen, their own self-government from every point of view. In the last analysis, local self-government is the most precious kind of government." Trade follows the demand at home as it does the fug afrab. There is no doubt or shadow of turning about that. For every trade opening in white settlements there are half dozen applicants for the available store space, and when it is once taken it is hard to get the owner out of it, as the longer he remains in the more valuable as a business place if should become to him, and, therefore, to others. This is true of large as of small available store space for business purposes. White men understand this principle thoroughly; negroes have not to learn it, having but recently made a beginning, but the sooner they learn it thoroughly the better for them. White men are neither ashamed nor afraid to go into negro communities, preempt the store space, and, beginning in a small way, gather to themselves the trade. When they have done it it is hard, very hard, for would-be belated negro tradesmen to get them out of the district and they often bankrupt themselves in the effort. If the negroes do not take advantage of the trade opportunities in the south Dr. Washington points out as waiting for them white men will do it. It does not matter if the opportunity is a small one; take advantage of it and make the most of it.—New York Age. Miss Anna Beggs of Memphis, Tenn. is now a deputy clerk and master of chancery. She now has the right to swear witnesses and sign court papers. She is the first woman in Tennessee to hold that position, following passage of recent legislation in Nashville extending the qualifications to include women. A fund of $100,000 has been placed at the disposal of the Scandinavian-American society by Nels Paulson, a New York manufacturer. Mme Lilli Lehmann, the German prima donna, has issued a stirring appeal to Berlin dog lovers. A new dog law is soon to go into effect at Berlin, whereby every dog for which the owner has failed to pay the dog tax must be turned loose, either to be captured by the authorities for slaughter or to become the prey of dog thieves. Writing to the newspapers, Mme Lehmann says that Berlin is likely to present "a picture of premedieval horror." The prima donna calls upon dog owners who cannot pay the new tax to do their pets at least "a last favor" by handing the animals to the Anti-Cruelty society, which will kill the dogs, free of charge, as humanely as possible. Mrs. Willis A. Lenard, who is employed in the treasury department at Washington, is said to have detected more counterfeit bills than any other person in the world. For 40 years she has handled the bulk of the suspected money. Examining 15,000 notes is considered a good day's work but Mrs. Leonard has become so expert that she easily handles 22,000. The Pan-American railway and the Vera Cruz to the Pacific railway have passed to the operative control of the National Railways of Mexico, thus giving the latter a continuous service from border to border, with the exception of a small break in the center of the republic. The next thing you hear about a man who has become famous is that he wants a divorce. After the wedding presents are exchanged—what? THIRD PARTY DYING ROCOGEVELT'S DEMOCRATIC AID SOCIETY IS RAPIDLY FALLING TO PIECES. VERDICT OF THE ELECTIONS Wherever Republicans Have Had a Chance to Vote Since the Convention They Have Shown That the Colonel Has Only Small Followings. Reports from all sections of the country indicate that the Roosevelt sentiment is steadily declining. Elimination of the third term movement is everywhere apparent. Thousands of Republicans who were for Roosevelt before the Chicago convention have refused to follow him into a bolting organization which has no intention than the gratification of one man's personal revenge or ambition. They are returning to President Taft and the Republican party. This statement is based upon actual polls made in Missouri, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Washington and every other state in the west. It is impossible in limited space to present the detailed information which proves the assertion of Roosevelt's decline. It is worth while, however, to emphasize the fact that in every state where the people have had an opportunity to express their sentiment since the national convention the verdict has been adverse to Mr. Roosevelt. In Vermont his ticket ran third; in Maline, the united Republican party transformed a Democratic plurality of 9,000 two years ago into a Republican plurality of nearly 4,000. Those were regular elections. In the primaries his showing has been poor. In Michigan the so-called Progressives were scattering, polling about 8,000 out of 150,000 votes; in Minnesota and Colorado the Republican candidates were successful over their third party opponents; in Washington the Republican votes outnumbered the Democratic and Progressive votes combined; and in California, the Roosevelt majority of 77,000 last spring dwindled this month to less than 3,000. Roosevelt is losing ground because he wildly denounces men and conditions without offering any program of constructive legislation; because he is a violator of his solemn pledge; and because Republicans are universally appreciating the fact that his third party is nothing more or less than a Democratic aid society. The eagerness with which he grasps at every wild and radical theory in the hope of gaining votes has alienated the thoughtful and sensible men who were formerly with him. His latest proposition, the recall of presidents, is an indication of his desire to have this country ruled by a man who shall remain in power in total disregard of the constitution until a majority votes him out. His colossal egalism is being continually manifested, the latest example being his proposition to have his birthday celebrated. There are only two birthdays celebrated in this country—Washington's and Lincoln's—and neither of these men ever entertained a thought of having his birthday observed while he was living. Only emperors, caers, kings and other crowned heads compel the people to honor their birthdays. Roosevelt's election is an impossibility. He will be a bad third in the presidential race. Every vote cast for him is worse than a vote thrown away, because it is a vote to aid in the election of the Democratic candidate. Should the Democrats come into power they would unquestionably enact free trade laws. Professor Wilson having testified before the tariff board some years ago that he was in favor of the repeal of all protective laws. Free trade legislation would be the rulination of this country. There would be a repetition of the distressing times which were experienced under the last Democratic administration. The values of farm lands would decrease, corn and wheat would sell at a price far below the cost of production, hogs and cattle would find no market and every farm would again be loaded down with mortgages. A vote for Taft and Sherman means a continuation of the Republican party in power with the beneficent policies which have given to this country during the last sixteen years a period of time absolutely unequaled in its history. A VOTE FOR TAFT MEANS: Business booming everywhere. Steady work and steady pay. The home market for home people. Just laws fearlessly enforced. A square deal for big and little. Dignity and sense in the White House. Peace and plenty in the land. Has Made a Good Showing. Mr. Taft has made a good showing in a troubled time.—Earlington (Wash.) Westerner. Growing Stronger Every Day. The administration is growing stronger every day.—Rockford (Ill.) Gazette. Thousands of wavering voters will come into the Republican fold when they fully realize the evils which are sure to follow Democratic accession to power. THEATRE WESTERN RESERVE CLEVELAND, O. HISTORICAL SOCIETY. SINGLE COP MRS. ETTA DURYEA JOHNSON. Champion Jack's Beautiful and Talented Wife—A Woman of Culture and Refinement—Sucidic While Ill and Mentally Unbalanced AS TO STATE'S RIGHTS, ETC Among the 42 proposals (amendments) to the constitution of the state of Ohio, submitted about two weeks ago to the voters of that state, and which was defeated was Proposal No. 24, striking out the word "white" from the suffrage clause of the Ohio Constitution, and so far as the constitution of that state is concerned, the case could be denied the right of suffrage. Of course, they are not actually denied the right because the federal constitution prohibits denial of suffrage because of "race, color or previous condition of servitude."—Charleston (W. Va.) Mountain Leader. The federal constitution provision, to which our conferee calls attention, is effective only in federal elections—where candidates for presidential electors and for congress are to be voted for—and is not effective in state elections, where all candidates from Governor down to the constable are to be voted for. This, the state has absolute control of (states' rights), according to a decision, many years ago, of the United States supreme court. Over one million Afro-American voters in the south are thus legally disfranchised in the state elec- 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. --- THE UNION INDEPENDENCE PY FIVE CENTS. banks of flowers. there shone one tiny white candle. Rev. Mr. Robinson announced that the mixed choir would sing the favorite song of Mrs. Johnson, "Take the Name of Jesus With You," which she learned to love when a member of the congregation of St. Mary's N. Y. Mrs. Johnson mother and sister, Mrs. David Terry and Miss Elaine Terry, of Brooklyn, N. Y., appeared in the doorway, the former supported by her son-in-law. She was sobbing bitterly and as she descended the stairs the pugilist half supported, half carried her. They entered a limousin, its gray curtains drawn. At the close of the services the casket was opened, and an opportunity given Mrs. Johnson for the last time. Johnson himself was the first to pass the blier, and as he did so the crowd became hushed, and the movement in the aisles ceased. Johnson bent down and turned away, his great frame shaking with emotion. He sobbed as he did so the crowd passed in review before the casket. Others who wept unashamed as they passed, were "Tom" Flanigan, Jack Barry, Barney Furey, Abe Harris, Jack Curley and a score of lesser pugilists, Colored and white. There were many white people in the line. The pall bearers were Johnson's intimate friends of both races and included his trainers, Afro-American detectives from the city force, and businessmen, twenty mounted police found themselves hard put to it to found a path for the cortege to wormed its way through the thousands. Burial was at Graceland cemetery, where brief services were held. The throngs pushed eagerly forward as the casket was carried to the vault by six pallet bearers. In the crowd the whites greatly outnumbered the blacks,ushing the crowds nearly separated members of the mourning party. It was with difficulty that Jack Curley, formerly Jack's manager, was able to keep his feet as he helped to support Mrs. David Terry, mother of the dead woman. tions and illegally restrained from voting for candidates for presidential electors and for congress (federal elections). With the word "white" in the suffrage clause of the new Ohio constitution, the Afro-American voters of Ohio will stand as they always have under the present or old state constitution, without the legal right, or to be technically correct, without the legal privilege of voting in state elections. The present or old Ohio constitution was adopted before the war of the rebellion and, consequently, before the emancipation, Jan. 1, 1863. Continuing, our esteemed contemporary, the Mountain Leader, says: Ohio must be numbered among the other Negro-hating commonwealths of this country. After carefully studying the attitude of the various states as to their Colored citizens, we have reached the conclusion that West Virginia is the garden spot of the world for the boys in black. The "other Negro-hating states," in this country, means all of them, including our birth-state, West Virginia, where a notoriously innocent Afro-American was lynched, a few weeks ago, by a mob of white brutes, lynch-murderers. Thought Worth Remembering. So long as we love we serve. So long as we are loved by others. I would almost say we are indispensable; and no man is useless while he has a friend—Stevenson. Absent-Minded Profesor A certain university professor was noted for his absent-mindedness. One morning as he sat at the breakfast table with a scientific magazine propped up before him, his wife was astonished to see him reach out for the maple sirup, pour it down his, back, and lean over and scratch his pancake. 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; 1900 to 1902 THE GAZETTE is the oldest, and has the largest bona fide circulation; double that of any newspaper in the interest of Afro-Americans, published in the state of Ohio, and comparison with any will immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWSIEST AND BEST in the country. In the hall in which Col. Theodore "Brownville" Roosevelt spoke in New Orleans, a few weeks ago, there was only one person who even looked like an Afro-American and he was, of course, a foreigner. Our people (in the south) were refused admission, as they were in the Third or "Cure-all" Party's first national convention at Chicago some weeks ago, by the "Bull Moose" candidate, and still he wants our votes on election day! The alleged "Progressive" party is the prejudiced white man's party, in the south and will ever, remain such, as the result of an edict issued at Chicago by "King Theodore." And in the face of this fact and all it means as a hindrance to racial progress, not only in politics, there are some Negroes in the north who are so lacking in manhood, self and race respect as to be able to support the Roosevelt candidacy and party SHAME! In connection with the foregoing, do not fail to read, carefully and thoughtfully, Senator Foraker's splendid letter to our people, the country over, published elsewhere in The Gazette. "WHERE WE STAND." After careful thought and review of the triangular political situation in the present presidential campaign, we have decided to remain in the ranks of the republican party and support its candidates, or as many of them as we can, in this fall's campaign. Our reasons for this, are: First: There is absolutely nothing for the Afro-American in the ranks of democracy. This is as it always has been, excepting that this fall, for the first time since the war of the rebellion, southern democracy is "in the saddle," not only controlling the party's candidate for the presidency, a native southerner, but also dominating the organization to such an extent as to make perfectly clear what the condition will be, as far as our people are concerned, after election in November, in event of the elevation of Gov. Woodrow Wilson, of New Jersey, to the presidency. It is hardly necessary to explain to our readers, or our people generally, what "domination of the solid south" means. They know entirely too well that about all the ills of our people, in this country, are directly traceable to this very same domination. Wholesale barbary lynching, mob violence, disfranchisement, "jim-crow" railroad and street cars, a general assault upon our citizen's rights and privileges, and hundreds of other ills that time will not permit us to enumerate, are not all by a great deal, but are quite enough to make it simply impossible for The Gazette to support the candidacy for the presidency of Gov. Woodrow Wilson. Second: As to Col. Theodore "Brownville" Roosevelt and his Thirtec or "Cure-All" party which, in one breath, bleats so loudly of "its cause being the welfare of humanity, of being the foe of every form of injustice and oppression, of advocating social industrial and human liberty, of being imbued with the ideals of human rights and wishing to serve their fellow beings," etc., and in the very next breath bars from representation in its first national convention in Chicago, the 6,000,000 Afro-Americans of the southland who have suffered, and are suffering in every way, more than all other elements (combined) of the cosmopolitan population of this country, in addition to Roosevelt's lynchmurder and subsequent persecution of "The Black Battallion," more need not be said to the average, thoughtful member of the race who has a spark of loyalty, manhood, self and race Americans; if southern Afro-Americans' votes for delegates to "Bull Moose" national conventions are refused, as they are by that party, no member of the race, north or south, should so far forget himself as to cast a vote for its candidates, especially its candidate for the presidency, on election day in November. The many "human ills" which our people throughout this country, particularly in the south, suffer, do not materially concern Col. "Brownville" Roosevelt and his party. Therefore, race loyalty, manhood, self and race respect make it absolutely impossible for The Gazette to leave the ranks of the republican party to espouse only the white men's cause, being so eloquently pleaded by the Progressive (?) or "Third Party." Third: While the major portion of the first term of President William Howard Taft has been a bitter disappointment to our people in several respects, nevertheless, he has said and done some good things for us which are of such recent occurrence as to make it unnecessary for us to particularize at this time. We are free to confess that he has made some serious mistakes. He frankly admits them and gives assurance that he will rectify them as far as it lies in his power, should he be re-elected. While this condition may not suit all, the question recurs, where are we to turn in the present presidential campaign, to find as good assurances or better? Surely not to the democratic party nor to the socalled progressive party. Neither the socialist nor the prohibition parties' candidates for the presidency are positive factors in the contest, this fail. Therefore, are not to be considered. Here, in Ohio, at the head of the state republican ticket, we have in the person of Gen. R. B. Brown of Zanesville, a veteran of the war of the rebellion, a life-long friend of the race, and a republican of the "old school," such as is his comrade and long-time friend, our great senator, Joseph Benson Foraker. The rest of the state ticket and nearly all the various county republican candidates in Ohio, this fail, are so infinitely preferable to those of either the democratic or so-called progressive party that it makes it much easier for others, as it has for the Gazette, to reach a conclusion such as it has, after a little careful thought and review of the political situation in nation, state and county. SOME RACE DOINGS. There are in and around Brownlee, Cherry County, Nebraska, forty-seven individual and family landholders of the race. Forty are living on sections which comprise 640 acres of land and occupies ranges range from 280 to 480 acres. Their total number of acres is 28,000. Edna G. Weaver, twenty years old, who took examinations for seven different civil service positions open to women at Kansas City, Mo., holds first place of them and second place in the other. Jack Johnson when asked whether he would fight again, answered: "You bet your life I will. I want to get away from Chicago and will take a trip to England and France if Mcn忠 does not accept my terms for some bouts in Australia. Jack says of his life that he completely upset him and will shake the Chicago dust off his clothes. If a suitable offer is made him he will dispose of his new cafe in the Windy City. Anything to get into some other part of the world seems to be his aim right now. In his talk, Jack does not appear backward about meeting Sam Langford or Sam McVey in Australia with proper inducements he will take on either one in the Antipodes this winter. Jack says it will make no difference to him which one of the pair he meets first. July 5, 1912, Dean Sanborn (white) wrote his paper, the Muskogee (Okla). Dale Phoenix, from Las Vegas, New Mexico, as follows: "Is today perhaps not a family in the delta? Do you have a diplomatic air. And it is because of Jack Johnson that there is none. A hotel keeper told me that during his stay in the New Mexico city the black champion had given $8,000 to the poor of the city. To one old woman suffering from tuberculosis Johnson gave a gasoline runabout that she might have used to the official air. Not only did he buy the machine for her, but he hired a chauffeur to teach her to operate it." BUFFALO, N. Y., BRIEFS. Political, Personal, Church, Literary and Social Notes. The "Uncle Sam's" have asked our men to join their marching club—Rev. and Mrs. E. N. Brooks, and Mrs. Richardson of Auburn, N. Y., visited here, Saturday.—The Christian Culture Congress was largely attended Sunday. Dr. W. J. Howard of Washington, D. C., is an able speaker. He lectured Monday evening on "Rome and Continental Europe," when a reception was tendered him—Mrs. Ramsey of Springfield, O. N. and Mrs. Richardson of Vass. of Denver, are visiting the latter's cousin Mrs. Harris of this city—Mrs. Johnson is here while her husband is in the Phillippines.—Mrs. Harris of Michigan St., while visiting in Pittsburg, was taken with smallpox—Mr. Joe William's cafe, 79 Clinton St. had a small fire last Monday. The building is owned by W. H. Talbert and is covered with insurance—Mrs. Brown was taken to Sister's hospital, Sunday. Her daughters have our sympathy. Mrs. Richardson still sympathizes poorly—Miss Maria Smith of Pittsburg visited Mrs. Jackson, this week. A theater party and lunch at Mr. George Simpkin's cafe were given in her honor—Miss C. DuBois of New Orleans, was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. H. Lewis, this week.—Last Thursday evening, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Wimp entertained in honor of Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Wimby of Chicago, who are enjoyment their trip to Buffalo. Mrs. is a clerk in the Chicago P. O.—Friday evening, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Lewis entertained about forty in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. St. Clair of Albany, N. Y. Mr. St. Clair is an old Buffalo "boy" and visits here annually. Music and dancing. CORRESPONDENTS WANTED The old reliable Gazette destres an active agent and correspondent in every city and town in Ohio and neighboring states having a number of Afro-American residents. Only a little time on Fridays or Saturdays is required. We are especially desirous of hearing from persons in the following named cities: Zan, esville, Newark, Lancaster, Lebanon, Lebanon, Woodland, Springfield, Piqua, Columbus, Cambridge, Steenbenga, Bellaire, St. Clairville, Wilmington, Portmouth, Washington, C. H., Oxford, Sabina, Gallipolis, Rendille, Urbana, Delaware, M. Vernon, East Liverpool, Wellsville, Akron, Dayton, Middleport, Bellefontaine, Lima, O., and other places where we have none. Write to the editor of The Gazette, Blackstone building, Cleveland, O., and terns will be sent promptly. Our readers will oblige us greatly by ingoring our articles and persons the cities named above, or others to whom we can write relative to the matter. Silk Umbrellas. Umbrellas when not in use should be left open. Never put away while damp, and do not allow them to stand in a dusty place, as this rots the silk more than any other cause. When a small hole or cut appears in a silk umbrella it may be mended with a piece of black court plaster or mending tissue. Embarrassment of Riches "Wealth doesn't always bring happiness." remarked the youngster with the large spectacles. "Naw." asserted the other kid. "Look at me cousin yonder. He's got two cents and he can't decide between lollipops and ice cream."-Pittsburg Post. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1912. SENATOR JOSEPH B. FORAKER. OUR GREATEST AND BEST WHITE FRIEND, SAYS THE "BULL MOOSE" IS FLIRTING WITH THE "LILLY-WHITES" OF THE SOUTH, AND THAT OUR HOPES FOR THE FUTURE ARE CONCENTRATED IN THE REPUCLICAN PARTY--THE TRUTH--HOW WE SHOULD VOTE! October 7, 1912. Hon. Harry C. Smith, editor Gazette —Dear Mr. Smith: In accordance with your request I herewith send you a copy of my letter to the Colored Baptist Ministers of this City, as published in the Commercial Tribune and the Cincinnati Journal, to know that you think of reproducing it in the columns of the Gazette. I do not like to take upon myself the responsibility of being "my brother's keeper," but under all the circumstances I am able to suggest in for me the suggestions in the book to the inquiry sent me. With kindest regards, I remain. Oct. 1, 1912. The Baptist Ministers' Union of Cincinnati, O; Gentlemen—I have before me a copy of the resolutions adopted by you yesterday in which you recite that the Hon. Theodore Roosevelt has injected into this campaign "an issue of vital importance to the Negro race, and the Negroes generally are in a confused state of mind as to the meaning and effect of said issue on their race and as to their duty in the coming election," and asking me "to advise you as to what in my opinion is the meaning and effect as applied to the Negro race of the issue thus raised and the duty of the Negroes in the coming If you had asked me to state without qualification the meaning of the issue you mention I should have declined to undertake to give an answer to your inquiry, for no matter what I might have thus said as to its meaning I would probably have been charged with misrepresentation. But imasmuch as you ask for only my personal opinion of what it means I presume I am safe, at least from the charge of misrepresentation, in saying that in my opinion it means to make of the Progressive party in the South a white man's party for the purpose of representing party with the white people, especially the white Democrats of the South, and thus make it possible to break up the solid support of the Democratic party by the Southern states. So understanding this new issue as you term it, it has no novelty. From time to time of late years of forts have been made in a number of Southern states to organize among Republicans a so-called "Lily-White" party. The well-known "Lily-White" pose of the movement of this move have been to overcome the prejudice on account of the Negro, of the white Democrats of the South against becoming Republicans and thus make it possible for the Republicans to capture from the Democrats some of the Southern states. I have never had any sympathy with this Lily-White movement among the Republicans because it involved denial to the Negro of his political rights, and for the same reason I have no sympathy with Mr. Roosevelt's proposition. Obnoxious Proposition. Obnoxious Proposition. It does not help the matter to conine the proposed rule of the South nern states "The White" Republican dues to the same. On the contrary it does the proposition more obnoxious since it sectionalizes the country and denies that equality of political right under the constitution and the laws of the country that it is justly the proud boast of the Republican party to have conferred. Besides it would, in my opinion, be but an entering wedge to further denial right to the Colored people only in the North. You have only to recall the vote in Ohio at the recent constitutional election (whereby an overwhelming majority was registered against striking out the word "white" from the Ohio constitution—a word that has been a dead letter ever since the war amendments to the constitution of the United States were adopted—to see the extent of the prejudice that can be aroused against the Negro here in our own state, where we are sure to have outlived everything of such unenforced prejudice. The degree of prejudice thus manifested here indicates how easy it would be to extend the denial of equality of right to the Negro of the Southern states, that is now proposed, to a denial of that same equality of right in the Northern states. The whole proposition is in conflict with Republican sentiment, and Republican principles, and Republican achievements, and Republican beliefs, and should not, in my No Good Thing is Ever Lost No Good Thing is Ever Lost. Remember that truth, the most important and encouraging of all truths. Your life may not seem worth while, the sacrifices that you make for others may not seem worth while. But no good thing is ever lost. And he who does his duty contributes forever to the sum total of that which is good in the universe. Ask the Unsuccessful Which is the easier—popping the quest? $ ^{2} $—Judge His Reply. She (for the 'steen-hundredth, more or less, time) "Oh, darling, do you really and truly love me?" He (a trifle grimly) "Now, look-a-here, Gladys! Do you want me to put up a cash bond?"-Judge. Likely to Keep Him Busy Mrs. Bacon—I never saw a puzzle my brother couldn't do. He's really a wonder. Mr. Bacon—I wish you'd take this timetable down to him and see if he can make anything out of it. —Yonkers Statesman. judgment, be given any countenance at all by any one who calls himself a Republican. A good deal has been said recently about the battle of Armageddon. In view of this proposition, if I were a soldier I would want to hear less about Armageddon and more about Abomination. Deeds That Count The greatest of all the achievements of the Republican party was the abolition of slavery and the enfranchisement of your whole race, and the planting of them on the same plane of political equality with the white people of this country in the presence of the constitution and the laws. To go back now to undo that in whole or in part is not progress, but retrogression, and retrogression of a character that is wholly inconsistent with the facts, all are actuated who are "battling for the rights." Nobody knows more than I do or feels more keenly than I do the fact that the Republican party has not at all times done its full duty by the Negroes, who have almost without exception been so steadfastly loyal to our government and institutions and everything the Republican party has represented; but notwithstanding all such shortcomings, the fact remains that the Republican party is the only hope the Negro has of fair political representation; but the party that has actually and practically done anything to better his political status and to improve his opportunities. I need not cite any testimony to support this statement as to the Democratic party. The leaders of that party not only admit, but they justify all that is said and suggested. So far as the Progressive party is concerned, whatever they may say or propose is neutralized by the proposition you mention, which cannot be otherwise than the beginning that would lead on to results far more disastrous and exasperating than any one has yet sug- Ship and Sea. Much, therefore, as the Republican party may have fallen short of what it should have done in this or that or the other instance, it remains that it is the only political organization to which the Negro can look with hope for the future. In other words, it is as true now as when first stated by (bay) Precedent (1822) that for the Negro "the Republican party is the ship; all else is the sea." I regard the approaching election as one of the most important ever held in this country in time of peace. It involves for all of us the very life of the protective tariff policy under which we have had such great prosperity. It involves also the very form of government. We are gibly told that the constitution made by Washington and Hamilton and Madison and their associates is a "stage-coach constitution," not suitable to modern conditions; and our distinguished mayor is reported in the newspapers to have told the law class he was addressing a few nights ago that our written constitution should be so amended as to prohibit the courts from setting aside as unconstitutional enactments. Others tell us of the same fact. The English constitution because acts of parliament are beyond question in the courts. Such talk is dangerous. For more than 100 years our personal liberties and rights, as well as our property rights, have been protected and guaranteed by the bill of rights that is a paramount part of every written constitution made in this country. We would be in vain if the courts were, as suggested, stripped of their constitutional power and duty to protect us in their enjoyment. Bill of Rights. In addition to these great serious questions for the Colored man there is involved in this approaching election the additional question to which you have called my attention. The tariff and stable government and bills of rights are as important to the Colored man as they are to the white man, for what affects the one affects the other. But over and above all else the Colored man has the further question to consider, about which you have asked me to express an opinion, and that question is sufficient of itself, as I have tried to indicate, to make it the duty of every loyal, self-respecting Colored man in the nation to rally the support of the Republican party and vote its ticket, from President Taft at the head of it down to the last man on the county ticket. Very truly, etc., J. B. Foraker. Wishes Ever Unsatisfied We can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.—George Ellot. Let Us Do Our Duty Let us do our duty in our shop or our kitchen; in the market, the street, the office, the school, the home, just as faithfully as if we stood in the front rank of some great battle, and knew that victory for mankind depended on our bravery, strength and skill. When we do that, the humblest of us will be serving in that great army which achieves the welfare of the world.—Theodore Parker. Broud of Title of "Bulldog" It has been said of Prince Leopold of Anhalt-Dessau, one of Frederick the Great's most able generals. "In everything a soldier and an oddity, he was a prince in nothing, save in his love of power." His soldiers called him the "bulldog." He liked the name, for it set forth the traits on which he prided himself—tenacity, courage and toughness. WILLIAM HOWARD TAFT. President of the United States. I am fully alive to the heart pangs that a colored man endures when suffering from the contemptuous insults of white men not at all his equal either in point of intelligence or devotion to duty. I know the sense of injustice that has oftentimes burned itself into his breast when he realizes that his rights have been trampled upon and his claims to fair treatment rejected solely because of the color of his skin—President William Howard Taft. "I KNOW THE BURDENS YOU HAVE TO BEAR." I know the burdens you have to bear. I can understand the disadvantages under which you labor. I know of your sufferings, mental and otherwise, and humiliations. I can understand what they are and how hard they are to bear, but I want you to know that there are a lot of good people in this world who sympathize deeply with you and are anxious to help you in your hard course.—From Speech of President Taft at Georgia Industrial School, Ga., May 1, 1912. THE DOOR OF HOPE—1902. I cannot consent to take the posi opportunity—is to be shut upon any n the ground of race or color—THEODO t to take the position that the door o se shut upon any man, no matter how or color"—THEODORE ROOSEVELT. take the position that the door of hope—the door of upon any man, no matter how worthy, purely upon —THEODORE ROOSEVELT. I cannot consent to take the position that the door of hope—the door of opportunity—is to be shut upon any man, no matter how worthy, purely upon the ground of race or color'—THEODORE ROOSEVELT. TEN YEARS LATER—1912. It would be much worse than us party in these southern states, where pealing to the Negroes or to the men standing from leading and manipulating VELT. THE OF PROGRESSIVE NATIONAL such worse than useless to try to build certain states, where there is no real Repo- ses or to the men who in the past ha- ing and manipulating the Negroes.—TH PROGRESSIVE NATIONAL CONVENTION It would be much worse than useless to try to build up the Progressive party in these southern states, where there is no real Republican party, by appealing to the Negroes or to the men who in the past have derived their sole standing from leading and manipulating the Negroes.—THEODORE ROOSEVELT. PROGRESSIVE NATIONAL CONVENTION THE OPEN DOOR Adapted from the Philadelphia Ledger. THE OPEN DOOR Adapted from the Philadelphia Ledges. "Lady," said Meandering Mike, "would you lend me a cake of soap?" "Do you mean to tell me you want soap?" "Yes'm. Me partner's got dice hiccups an 'I want to scare him.' The People Supreme I repeat that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs and all must exist. —Benjamin Disraell. O O His Reason. Hope and Aspiration in Man. It is not for a man to rest in absolute contentment. He is born to hopes and aspirations as the sparks fly upward—Southey. Said More Than He Meant The Candidate (having quoted the words of an eminent statesman in support of an argument) "And, mind you, these are not my words. This is not merely my opinion. These are the words of a man who knows what he's talking about." AFRO-AMERICANS AT WHITE HOUSE Race Fares Well Under Taft Administration. ANNUAL SALARIES $20,000. Twenty-seven Colored Employees Place of Custodian Created. For Major (New Lieutenant Colonel) Arthur Brooks, National Guard of the District of Columbia—His Commission Signed by President Taft. When Mr. Taft became president, March 4, 1909, there were six colored messengers and laborers employed in the executive office. In the reorganization of the office in 1911 two were transferred to positions in the departmental service. One was afflicted with tuberculosis, and the president had him transferred to a good position in the war department in New Mexico on advice of his physician. Since the president's inauguration three colored employees have been added—Major Arthur Brooks, commanding First Separate battalion, N. G. D. C., for whom the place of custodian was created; William Pannell and Harry L. Mickey. In the executive mansion the following Afro-Americans, in addition to several others who are still on the rods, were employed at the time the president came into office: Messrs. Duncan, Amos, Brent, Reeder and Pinckney, Mr. Duncan was transferred to the treasury department at an increased salary. Mr. Brent was transferred as a clerk to the city postoffice at an increased salary. Mr. Reeder was transferred to the state department. Mr. Pinckney was given a good place in the executive office, and Mr. Amos was given a good place in New York. All of these places were filled by the president with colored men. In addition the president appointed the following Afro-American employees at the executive mansion: W. W. Brown, J. W. Mays, S. C. Jackson, L. C. Peters and Miss Annie Brooks. When the president came into office there were five colored coachmen and hostlers at the White House stables. On account of changing from carriages to automobiles, chauffeurs and footmen were employed, but places were found in the departments for four of these coachmen and hostlers and the other voluntarily accepted a position in New York. There are on the regular payroll of the executive office six colored employees whose salaries aggregate $5,300 per annum. On the regular payroll of the executive mansion there are twenty colored employees whose annual salaries aggregate $11,562. One colored employee in the White House garage receives a salary of $780 per annum. A number of colored men and women are employed for duty at functions during the social season and their pay in the aggregate amounts to more than $1,000. The total amount paid to Afro-Americans at the White House is nearly $20,000 per annum. After twenty five years of faithful service as the commanding officer of a battalion of the national guard of the District of Columbia. Major Arthur Brooks has recently been retired with the rank of lieutenant colonel. His commission was signed by President Taft. Lieutenant Colonel Brooks is still on duty as custodian at the White House. FOR HIGHER EDUCATION President Taft Sayt It Is Essential so Full Development ter to Fun Development. Once in every awhile you will meet a man whose vision is a bit clouded, who talks about the waste of money in teaching men of your race the curriculum of an academic institution. Instead of sending them to the university, the claim is made that they should be seat to manual training institutions. Such a man has never thought deeply on the subject and does not understand that as a race which is striving onward and upward you need many who shall be leaders—men who shall figure in the learned professions, many of them as physicians, as lawyers and especially as ministers. Race Has High Ideals. I believe in the higher education of the race so that the leaders of the Afro-American people may have high ideals, and I believe they have. I believe that they subscribe, as perhaps some others in our community life do not, to the majesty of the law and have respect for constituted authority [hearty applause] and for our institutions as they are. [Great applause].—President Taft at Howard University Meeting. President Taft has denounced lynching in more vigorous terms than any other president. He advocated the rope for lynchers. President Taft appointed an Afro-American to the highest appointee office as ret attained by the race. Varying Life of Plants The ivy outlives 200 years; the elm, 300 to 350 years; the linden, 500 to 1,000 years; the locust tree and the oak, 400 years; the fir, 700 to 1,200 years, and palm trees, 3,000 to 5,000 years. Naturally. "We are very sorry," said the Trust, as it forced a competitor out of business. "We have nothing against you personally. It is merely a matter of principle. We are firm believers in the closed shop." Ray Pfanschmidt was arrested at Quincy, IL, on a charge of murder in connection with the quadruple killing near here a week ago. The victims of the tragedy were Charles Pfanschmidt, his wife, their daughter, Blanche Pfanschmidt, aged sixteen, and Miss Emma Kaempen, aged twenty, a school teacher. Pages from the careers of the McNamaras and Ortie E. McManigal, as leaders of the "firing squadron of dynamiters," with conversations in which they were said to have plotted to send McManigal to Panama to blow, up the locks of the Panama canal, were read by District Attorney Charles W. Miller before the jury at the trial of the accused "dynamite conspirators" at Indianapolis. Edward Clark of Cincinnati changed his plea from "not guilty" to "guilty." Nine persons are dead as a result of a collision between three automobiles on the edge of Fairmount park. One of the cars, running at high speed, struck another, which was hurled against a third. The "wild" car, containing six men, crashed through a railing of a bridge and fell 10 feet, killing all the occupants. Three men in the second car also met death. The dead are all residents of Philadelphia. Six persons were injured, two probably fatally, when a street car collided with a coal wagon at Selby avenue and Kent street, St. Paul, Minn. Prosecution of the Kansas City Fruit and Produce exchange as a "food trust" ended when Judge Seehorn in the district court assessed a fine of $18,000 against the exchange and its 16 members. Later he reduced the fine to $5,000 and an injunction restraining the exchange from meeting and fixing prices and ordering its charter forfeited. The defendants filed a motion for a new trial. John Cook, chief of police of Marlnette Wis., was exonerated by the fire and police commission on all charges preferred by Sheriff A. E. Schwittay, with the exception of one in which the chief was charged with pointing a revolver at the sheriff. On this charge he was found guilty and suspended for thirty days. Sporting Boston Red Sox went into the lead in the seventh inning of the opening game with New York in the world's series. Boston scored three runs in a hitting rally that resulted in routing Tesureau, New York's star pitcher, Crandall took Tesureau's place. The Red Sox won the game by a score of 4 to 3. The aviation field with all its attendant dangers was a fruitful one financially to Wilbur Wright, the deceased aviator, according to an accounting filed in the probate court of Ohio, which discloses the value of his estate to be $279,298.40. The account was filed by Orville Wright, brother and co-worker of the deceased, and who gets the Lion's share. Ralph De Palma, in a desperate effort to win the Grand Prix race at Milwaukee. Wis., was seriously injured when the Mercedes car he was driving crashed into Caleb Bragg's machine, travelling 100 miles an hour, and overturned. Bragg's car leaped from the tangle and carried its driver to victory. Foreign When the American marines and bluejackets under Lieutenant Colonel Long marched into the city of Leon, Nicaragua, to take possession they were met in the streets by an irresponsible mob, which opened fire. Three Americans were killed and four wounded. The marines returned the fire, killing 50 of the mob. A massacre of Turks has occurred at Turtukal, in Bulgaria, near the Roumanian frontier. It is reported that armed Bulgarians attacked the Turkish quarter at night, pillaged the houses and massacred the inhabitants, not sparing even women and children. Montenegro has declared war on Turkey, and already there is sharp fighting going on between Montenegroins and Turkish troops on the border. The battle opened in the afternoon and continued all night. American marines and sailors assaulted and captured the insurgent fortresses of Masaya on Barrancas and Cayotepea hills, in Nicaragua. Four marines were killed and several wounded. The federal government force afterward defeated the insurgents in the city and drove them out. Word was brought into Toluca, Mexico, of the slaughter of a detachment of rural guards and a number of women and children in a fight with Zapatista rebels near Suitepec Saturday. Vines valued at millions of dollars have been destroyed by frost in the Rhine valley and vicinity in the last few days. Many of the wine growers are ruined. Personal Mrs. J. B. Harriman, head of the Woman's National Democratic league, is seriously ill and may have to undergo an operation. Mrs. Harriman has spinal trouble as a result of an automobile accident in which she was injured last spring. Frank G. Bostock, the foremost of animal trainers, died in London. Bostock, besides training animals with great success, managed many animal shows in various parts of the world. He had many narrow escapes from death, once being so badly torn by Rajab, his noted Bengal tiger, that it was said he could not recover. Senator Heyburn of Idaho, who was taken ill with heart trouble during the filibuster in the senate in the closing hours of the recent session of congress, suffered a relapse. SUMMARY OF A WEEK'S EVENTS Latest News of Interest Boiled Down for the Busy Man. Washington Duplicate lists of all contributions received by the Republican national committee during the campaign of 1964 and copies of reports made to Cornelius Bliss are locked away in a packing case in a Chicago ware- house. This information was given out by Elmer Dover, formerly secretary of the national Republican com- mittee, to Senator Jones. * * * Acting Secretary Cable of the de- partment of commerce and labor in- structed the immigration authorities at Ellis island, New York, to admit to the United States Prince Ludovic Pig- natiell d'Aragon, son of Don Jaimie, pretender to the Spanish throne, held since last Friday and threatened with deportation. Charles R. Crane told the senate investigating committee at Washington that he gave $26,684.10 to Senator La Follette's campaign and $19,000 to Governor Woodrow Wilson's fund before the Baltimore convention. Evacuation of Nicaragua by all American troops within thirty days was the private prediction of prominent naval officials at Washington. They consider the revolt ended. Admiral Southernland, in command of the American forces in Nicaragua, reports to the navy department another night between marines under Lieutenant Long and rebels at Chimagalga, in which 5 maries were wounded and 13 of the enemy killed. Domestic Professor Polacchi and his wife were killed by electricity in bed at Chiotti, Italy. It is thought that Sigmar Polacchi reached out of bed to turn on the light and caused a contact of high and low tension wires. Hamlin Garland, the author, narrowly escaped death in the destruction of his home at West Salem, Wis. when an explosion of gasoline injured a maid and set the house in flames, which spread so rapidly that Garland was forced to leap from an upstairs window. --- As a result of an investigation of the hookworm disease it was announced that 1,750 cases had been discovered in Bell county, Kentucky, alone in the last 28 days. Hundreds of spectators were thrilled when Hugh Robinson, a professional aviator, while flying over the Washington monument, Washington, at a height of 1,000 feet, suddenly dropped approximately 400 feet, aiming directly for the apex of the shaft. Heighted his machine when within a few feet of the monument and few gracefully off to the army hydroaeroplane station at the Washington barracks. Her, John Horton, former Beecher pastor, left the Will county jail in Illinois a free man, to return to the woolen mill district of Bolton, England, and for the first time in many years engage in manual labor to support his wife and three children, whom he once was willing to disown for the love of a country schoolma'am whom he bigamously married. Two young women employed as waitresses in a restaurant at 25 Park row, in New York city, were suffocated to death in a fire that started on the fifth floor from a defective flue and spread rapidly to the other floors. Two other waitresses are in a serious condition. The second international conference of Scottish Rite Masons opened in Washington, 26 out of 29 supreme councils of the world being represented. Several passengers were hurt when a Pore Marquette passenger train from Chicago to Grand Rapids, Mich., struck a broken rail five miles east of Michigan City, Ind. The one hundred and third annual meeting of the American board of commissioners for foreign missions has begun at Portland, Me. Officers of the organization will report the Board free from debt for the fourth time in its history. Mount Holyoke college will observe the rounding out of three-quarters of a century of life this week at South Madley, Mass. The completion of a $600,000 endowment fund will be reported by a committee. Mothosia Kondo, a Japanese aviator, was killed near Savona, N. Y. The aeroplane he was trying struck the derrick of a large windmill and the aviator fell about forty feet, fracturing his skull. All records for milk and butter have been shattered by Creamelle Vale, a Holstein cow owned by Earl Couse, Brockton, Mass. The cow has given 26,930 pounds of milk, with a monetary value of $1,300, since November 16, 1911. Eight privates of Battery F, Third United States field artillery, were injured by a premature explosion of a shell at Tobyhanna, Pa. The company was returning from the Connecticut maneuvers and had stopped at Tobyhanna for target practice. . . . . . . THE GAZETTE. CLEVELAND. C SATURDAY. OCTOBER 12. 1912 FACTS FEATURES and FANCIES for WOMEN PARIS—When a manikin walked through the salons of Callot the other day in an abbreviated Pierrot costume of white satin, the vendeuse said: "It is only for comedy, Madame." This neat little phrase could be applied to so many of the season's clothes! The comedy frock was made up of a pair of full white charmeuse satin trousers, gathered well above each ankle into a ruffle of wide lace, and the tunic waist was straight, unbelated and finished with a white ruche at the neck. Can you imagine a debutante in it at the first wedding of the autumn? When the American buyers shouted over it, the vendeuse gave the explanation quoted. "The buyers look so serious and their faces are so peckered, Madame, that we invent a gown to make them laugh." This may explain the reason for a great number of modern Paris gowns, and it is not at all improbable that such an act would appeal immensely to the French sense of humor, writes Anne Rittenhouse in the New York Times. They have a refreshing, if sometimes naughty, childlike delight in daily life, these Parisiennes, and, even though they angle for our money with every bait, they regard us as a nation and as individuals with a good deal of amusement. Callot tried a "comedy" frock last season that went too far, and she was requested to withdraw it, which she did on the second day, for her sense of humor and the American sense did not harmonize. This year her Pierrot luncheon costume is harmless, if eccentric. Callot Models in Demand. Many of our dressmakers are so antagonized they don't want to buy there, but they must, for their smart clientele at home who dress in the extreme fashion demand Callot models. She accentuated the narrow skirt line at her exhibition more than any one else, and unlike any of her competitors, she failed to drape them voluntarily from waist to ankles. The skirts of her walking suits were absolutely plain and extra short, always showing the slash at the side or back or front. She has remained true to this, and now everyone uses it. However, that is not new, for the smartly dressed Americans adopted it for evening gowns last winter. It makes for grace in a narrow skirt when it is done in moderation, and gives one a chance to show a well-covered foot and ankle, but Callot does not do it in moderation. The word is not in her sartorial dictionary. Amazing Fashion The most amazing fashion she exhibited is to slash an afternoon tailored skirt straight up the back, then lace the edges loosely together with thick cord, the color of the cloth. This opening has no panel beneath it from the knees down. You can imagine the effect. We won't wear skirts opened to the knees in the back, but watch for that line of drapery going up in the back and the cord lacing, instead of a seam or a plait. By the way, that ubiquitous plait, loose or fitted, which has been appearing at our backs for two years, has disappeared. Callot skirts, the walking ones, were often gathered to the high waist belt at sides and back. The skirts of house gowns were gathered in the front; so are many of the afternoon and evening gowns at other houses. At this place one saw the first of a new kind of evening gown which looks like nothing so much as a mermaid draped in floating sea weeds, painted by Maxfield Parrish. Satin is the foundation, and streamers of vari-colored sequins or metallic gauze are draped loosely over the surface in straight lines caught in only at the knees. The effect is enchanting, queer as it sounds, but it needs to be done—oh! so very carefully. Premet is a new sartorial star who has created the sensation of the season at her house on the fashionable Place Vendome, not only by her narrow skirts and transparent drapery from the knee down, but by the mastery she shows over colors. She uses much red. Brilliant red; none of your wash tones. American Beauty rose, jacqueminot and geranium are built into gowns, into wraps and used as sashes. Oh! the sashes! If you could see them all over Paris in every form and variety. Premet makes them play the color scheme. When she cannot do this well with one color she uses Indian beadwork on gauze in variegated stones to give a dash to the gown. She has one theatrical gown of American Beauty rose satin with the voluminous skirt drapery turned up here and there with patches of blue satin. The waist is, well, really the regret of a bodice; a negligible quantity, indeed made of pink tulle. Artichokes on Gowns. She introduces many artistic capes in various graceful designs of chiffon in colors. Some of it is gaudily and splendidly interwoven with butterflies "Your fare," said the conductor to the maiden. "What if I am?" snapped the latter. "You needn't be announcing it as a discovery, I am sure I don't keep it dark." Fact. "My wife was treated shockingly at the hospital." "You don't say so! What did they do to her?" "Used an electric battery on her." or wheels or metal in several tones; others own their charms to artichokes of sath. By the way, fix your mind on artichokes. The French are using them now as much on their gowns as of fuchsia purple. These are exceedingly useful adjuncts to a wardrobe that is not at tea best. By their use an evening gown can be made presentable for the theater or a restaurant dinner. Tulle and rhinestones, chiffon and metal gown that has become tattered and torn in the social battle can be covered up by a cape of night blue or geranium red of fuchsia purple. Last season these coverings were introduced for house wear to give the air of a tea gown to whatever was beneath, and were intended only for five o'clock. None but the yellow rich wanted one, but these new ones appeal especially to the woman whose limited purse compels her to entitle her best gown multum in parvo instead of e pluribus unum. It's difficult for the Americans who are here to talk of anything but the exceeding narrowness of skirts shown at the various houses; but in the last two days the surprise has deepened to consternation because there skirts are actually worn on the street and in the houses. This looks as though they were really to be accepted. Conservative women are ordering them or various occasions, and even debutantes are having skirts only 22 inches wide slashed for four inches in the middle of the front. Smart Skirts. We show two smart skirts, suitable for serge, Shantung, or linen. The first is slightly high-walsted, and fits plainly round the hips; it has a panel taken down front, and is trimmed 2 from knees downwards by narrow material straps; between these at edge of panel tabs of material are sewn; a button and loop trim each. Material required: 3 yards 44 inches wide, ½ dozen buttons. The second is a gored skirt, and is trimmed above the hem by a band of plaid silk, or this might be braid or insertion, according to material used for skirt; three rows of braid are sewn above the trimming. Materials required: 2½ yards 46 inches wide, 4½ yards braid, 1 yard silk 20 inches wide. When Dining. The dining room, its decorations, and the general arrangement of the table have much to do with the pleasure of dining. The room itself should be light, cheerful and simple. The service at table, even for one's own family, demands an absolutely spotless linen tablecloth. If this cannot be had a polished table with plain, hemstitched dolllies should be used. These are cheap and easily laundered. There are fashions in linens as well as in other things, but the laws governing them are flexible enough to satisfy the tastes and purses of people in all walks of life. If you cannot afford a tablecloth sufficiently heavy to be slightly without starch, use in the last rinsing water a little rice water or a very thin corn-starch—enough to give body without actual stiffness. This rule applies also to napkins. Neither, however, must be stiff. The cloth should never be laid on a bare table, but over a piece of double width cotton flannel or an old blanket that has been thoroughly cleansed. Let it fall gracefully over the ends of the table. After the tablecloth is spread place in the center a mat, which may hold a banquet lamp, or candelabra, or a small vase filled with flowers, or a tall vase holding a single rose, or for everyday use, a small pot of ferns. Pompadour Silk Waists Among the popular-priced walstis which are being taken up by visiting buyers are the flowered taffetas with changeable background, says the Dry Goods Economist. A brown and gold changeable, for instance, has the design brought out in yellow shades with a touch of color, such as green, rose or blue, to accentuate the pattern. Blue and black changeables have red, green or lavender in the pattern, and other two-toned silks have the bright contrasting tones in the flowered designs which best harmonize with the ground-work of the silk. These walstis are made in semitallored effect with low or high collars, crushed ties, long sleeves and side-front trimming, usually of fancy buttons. These models wholesale are designed to wear with the early fall suits. To Prevent Baldness Rub vaseline into the scalp every night for at least six months. The hair will stop falling out and new hair will begin to grow. His Tune. "I see where the accused policeman in New York is going to base his defense of his bank accounts on a popular song." "What is it?" "Everybody's Doing It." American Made Car the Best American made in the race in the recent automobile race around Sicily the only car that endured the jolting over the bad roads without a broken spring or a loosened screw was of American make. CAP and BELLS ONE LESSON WAS SUFFICIENT Little Wille Wille Was Caught Swearing in Street and Father Sought Resignation When Willie's father came home to supper there was a vacant chair at the table. "Well, where's the boy?" he asked. "William is upstairs in bed," the answer came with painful precision from the sad-faced mother. "Why, w-what's up—not sick is he?" (An anxious pause.) "I grieves me to say, Robert, that our son, your son, has been heard swearing in the street. I heard him. "Swearing? Scott! I'll teach him to swear," and he started upstairs in the dark. Half-way up he stumbled and came down with his chin on the top step. When the atmosphere cleared a little Willie's mother was saying sweetly from the hall: "That will do, dear; you have given him enough for one lesson." Favorite Fiction. "I Thought I Needed a Little as a Tonic, and Unintentionally Took Too Much." "I Don't Like the Taste of the Stuff, but I Drink It Because I'm Afraid of the City Water." "It's Lucky for Him That He Didn't Say Another Word; I'd Have Smashed Him if He Had." "It's Only Reason for Selling the House: that the Neighborhood Is Getting Too Stylish and Exclusive." "Yes, Ma'am; It's This Morning's Milk." "I Can't Imagine How I Got That Corn; My Shoes Are Just as Loose as They Can Be." Optical Illusion "I must congratulate you on your boy Josh," said the old friend. "I thought from what you said he was inclined to put on airs and despise work." "Well," replied Farmer Corntossel, has anything happened to make you change your mind? "Certainly. He must be a great help to you. I saw him the other evening going down the road with a big straw hat and overalls and carrying a pitch fork over his shoulder." "Oh, yes," replied the farmer with a sigh. "Your mistake is only natural. Josh was going to a costume ball." A Busy Mother "I've been away for a whole month, and yet you didn't so much as drop me a line," said Mrs. Whofero in an injured tone to her friend, Mrs. Wipkins. "Oh, my dear," said Mrs. Wipkins, brushing her hair out of her eyes and shifting her youngest jewel to a more comfortable position, "before I could have dropped you a line, I would have had to drop the baby, and of course I couldn't do that." DIFFERENT VIEWPOINTS. The Optimist—Yes, I cast my bread upon the waters and— The Pessimist—Had it come back to you damp and moldy, I suppose? Masculine Memory. Jinks—My wife gave me a letter to mail this morning. "And you forgot it, eh? Well, it isn't too late. "No, but I mailed it. I kept it in my hand and fixed my mind right on it until I got to a box and then dropped it in. I was bound she shouldn't have anything to complain of this time." "Then what's the matter?" "It has just occurred to me that I forgot to put a stamp on it." Puzzled. "I am forbidden," said the campaign committee's treasurer, "to accept contributions from any man who is connected with a large and profitable corporate enterprise." That is as it should be," replied the idealist. "Yes. But I don't see how we can get anywhere if we must depend for funds on people who haven't any money." Division of Labor "Look heah, George Abram Washington. Lunkum, if you isn't gwine to help support you'h fambly. I'e gwine to get a divorce." "Who's suppo'tn't dis fambly? Didn't I solicit all dat laundry wuhk? You only wash and iron dem, dat's all"—Browning's. DON ALTERED HIS TACTICS Spanish Grandee Had Sudden Change of Heart When Heiress Decided to Give Money Away. An heiress was engaged to a Spanish grandee. "Don Guzman," the girl said, thoughtfully, one morning as they were walking in the Row, "Don Guzman, society declares that you are marrying me solely for my money." "They lie, my love," the young grandee answered, fixing a fresh cigarette in his long amber tube. "Nevertheless," said the girl, "their censure hurts me. I won't have them say such nasty things about you." "But how will you stop them?" he asked. "By giving my entire fortune to the missionaries," she replied. "I shall make my fortune over to the missionaries at once." The grandee settled his shining hat more firmly on the back of his head, and set off at a great pace in the direction of Hyde Park corner. "But, Don Guzman," cried the girl, "where are you going?" "I am going," he called back, "to see him," he called a missionary"—London, Ophion. Puzzle for the Expert A case concerning motor driving was on hand, when the chauffeur declared that when driving at 40 miles an hour he could, if necessary, pull up in ten or twelve feet. "Um!" said the judge. An expert was the next occupant of the box. Said his lordship: "If a motor car were travelling at 40 miles an hour, and the brakes could be put on in such a manner as to stop it within ten or twelve feet, where would the driver go?" "Depends very much on the sort of life he'd been living," said the expert. NO HORNS NECESSARY. Wickson—I wonder why nature developed the sense of smell so much stronger in animals than in man? Suppose a man had the scent of a deer? Dickson—It would be great. Then he could jump when he detected the scent of gasoline two miles away. The Confidence Game "Well, George," she called from the top of the stairs at 1 a.m., "what was it this time? Did your lodge meet or was it necessary for you to stay in town to discuss business with somebody who had to catch a midnight train, a friendly little game with some of the boys, or was it an extra rush of work at the office. He clung to the newel post for a moment and, blinking, looked up at her. Then he endeavored to molsten his lips and said: "Mary, if I didn't have confidensh in you, I'd think you were shushpictious of me—hones" I would." Where It Started First Colonial Matron (mother of fifteen)—These new fangled women's clubs doth make one laugh. Second Colonial Woman (mother of seventeen)—In sooth, you are right! The idea of Mistress Prudence, mother of only three children, presuming to make an address at the Dorcas society on how to raise a family!—Puck. Star Position Star Position. "What's become of Snappersby?" "The star sport writer?" "Yes." "Snappersby has the greatest job of his career." "Ah with the big leagues, eh?" Ah, with the big leagues, en: "No, he is helping to make out the batting averages of a fly-swatting club." With the Movies. Freedom, represented by a beautiful girl attired in classic draperies, shrieked when Kosciusko fell. "Don't strain your lungs," said the man who was operating the picture machine. "If you simply move your lips, we'll get all the effect we need." Prefers a Horse. Mrs. Flynn—They do be ather sayin' that old man Kelly has got lomother atxya. Mr. Flynn—Well, he's got the money to mry anthim thif he wants tern, but fer my par't,辽 rayther have a good horse anny day"—Judge. A Mladeal Weary Traveler—Say, my friend, there's no meat in this sandwich. Waltress—No? Weary Traveler—Don't you think you'd better give that pack another shuffle and let me draw again?—Judge. Unanimous. Lawson—What did the convention of barbers say when you addressed them? Dawson—Why, do you know, I hadn't been talking three minutes before they all began shouting "Next!" Getting Back. "All those nature fakers who get put into the Ananias class are finding something disparaging to say about the habits of the bull moose." Indications. "Did that singer ever belong to the national game?" "What makes you ask?" "I notice his voice is in such a base bawl pitch." 5839 This attractive costume represents one of the best styles of the season. It is very simple to carry out, even for the amateur needleworker. The waist can be made with high or low neck and with or without the plastron. The skirt is cut in three pieces and is quite a fashionable model. A pretty idea for development is offered in the drawing. Here we have batiste and all-over delightfully combined. The pattern (5839) is cut in sizes 32 to 42 inches bust measure. Medium size will require 4% yards of 36 inch material and 1% yards of 22 inch all-over, with 5% yards of banding. Made of one material, the pattern calls for 5% yards of 36 inch goods. To procure this pattern sand 10 cents to "Pattern Department," of this paper, and prepare sure to give size and number of pattern. CHILDREN'S SUN BONNETS. 1. 2. 3. This design offers four styles of sun bonnet for a child. All are easy to make and each one is a dainty protection from the sun. Plain baltic or lawn and all-over is used. The pattern (5900) is cut in one size. Bonnet No. 1 requires % of a yard of 36 inch goods and % of a yard of 22-inch all-over, with 1 yard of edging. Bonnet No. 2 requires 1 yard of 22 or 36 inch material. Bonnet No. 3 requires ½ yard of 36 inch goods, % of a yard of 22 inch all-over, or % of a yard of 36 inch goods only. Bonnet No. 4 requires 1 yard of 36 inch material and % of a yard of 22 inch all-over. To procure this pattern send 10 cents to "Pattern Department," of this paper. You will receive a free sample, and be sure to give size and number. NO. 5900. SIZE..... NAME..... TOWN..... STREET AND NO..... STATE.... Philosopher and His Cat When my cat and I entertain each other with mutual apalish tricks as playing with a garter, who knows but that I make my cat more sport than she makes me? Shall I conclude her to be simple that has her time to begin or refuse to play as freely as I myself have? Nay, who knows but that it is a defect of my not understanding her language (for doubleless cats talk and reason with one another) that we agree no better? And who knows but that she pities me for being no wiser than to play with her, and laughs and censures my folly for making sport with her, when we two play together?—Michael de Mon taligne. High Flyer. "Henry," said Mrs. Hornbeak, anxiously, "I ain't one of these people who worries very much, but I don't like the idea of our son, Arthur, becoming one of those bird men." be an aviator?" asked Mr. Hornbeak "Well, here, Cousin Bill writing that we'd better put a curb on Henry; says he's dying awful high for a youngeller." - Woman's World.