The Gazette

THIRTIETH YEAR. NO. 24. THIRTIETH YEAR IMPORTANT NEWS NOTES OF A WEEK LATEST HAPPENINGS THE WORLD OVER TOLD IN ITEMIZED FORM. EVENTS HERE AND THERE Condensed Into a Few Lines for the Perusal of the Busy Man— Latest Personal Infor- mation. Washington Charges that Martin B. Madden of Chicago obtained his re-election to congress from the First Illinois district by expenditures in violation of the law were made in notice of contest filed with the house of representatives by Andrew Donovan, Democratic and Progressive candidate from that district. Manuel L. Quezon and M. Earnshaw, delegates to congress from the Philippines, who will renew fight for the independence of the Philippines, are en route to Washington. "There are in the Philippines 8,000,000 natives," they said, "and of these less than 400,000 are uncivilized." Although the Pribilof islands fur seal herd has decreased from 2,500,000 in 1867 to 215,000 in 1912. Prof. David Starr Jordan and George A. Clark, who were commissioned to report to the department of commerce and labor on the subject, recommend the repeal of the act which suspends land killing for five years. President Taft has concluded his inspection of the Panama canal and is on his way home aboard the battleship Arkansas. He expressed great pleasure over his visit. The United States signal corps has announced that aeroplanes can be used to discover the whereabouts and movements of submarines. It is believed this discovery may advance the plan of having aeroplanes as part of the navy's equipment. * * * Ernest Baumann, secretary of the Swiss legation in Paris, has been transferred to Washington. Henri Martin, who holds the post at Washington, has been transferred to Montreal as consul general. Domestic The jury in the labor dynamite conspiracy trial at Indianapolis, Ind., returned a verdict declaring guilty all but two of the forty defendants. Those are Herman G. Selfffert of Milwaukee and Daniel Buckley of Davenport. Those convicted were found guilty on all counts. *** While Clarence L. Marsh was on the operating table at the Maryland University hospital in Baltimore, his twin sister Clara was undergoing the same sensations of nausea and pain in her home at Frederick, MD, sixty miles away. The twins are eighteen years old, and from birth the sensations felt by one invariably have been shared by the other. O. W. Powers of Salt Lake City will be one of counsel for the defense in the second trial of Clarence S. Darrow at Los Angeles. The annual report of the Michigan state fire warden, William R. Oates, says forest fire swept 40,039 acres in 1912, with a total loss of $7,649 and an expenditure of $2,556 for fire-fighting. In 1911 the loss was $3,470,258, and $10,432 was spent in fire-fighting. The department has record of 139 fires in 1912, compared with 191 in 1911. Locomotives caused the greatest number of fires. The United States Steel corporation, pursuant to its profit sharing plan, adopted in 1903, will offer to its employees in January the privilege of subscribing to preferred and common shares on the basis of $109 for the preferred and $66 for the common. A year ago the subscription prices were $110 and $65 respectively. The Kellogg Toasted Corn Flake company is alleged to be violating the Sherman law, in a putition in equity filed in the United States district court in Detroit, Mich., by order of Attorney General Wickham to settle for all time the extent to which a manufacturer may control retail prices. About 125,000 cutters, machine operators, pressers and tailors employed in the manufacture of men's and boys' clothing in factories of New York and vicinity, including Jersey City and Newark, have gone on strike for increased wages and better conditions. Matt Stoeffer, an aged hermit, who occupied a hut on the outskirts of Hartford, Mich., was found dead of hunger and cold, with $20 in gold in a pocket and considerable money hidden in the room. Tired and footsore, but enthusiastic, the little band of "Suffragette Pilgrims," who walked 174 miles from New York to present a message to Governor-elect Sulzer advocating votes for women, reached Albany, their destination, two days ahead of schedule. THE GAZETTE The annual meeting of the American Association for Labor Legislation opened in Boston, the topic for discussion the first day being factory inspection. --- Governor Clark of Alaska in his annual report urged the speedy enactment of legislation permitting the working of the Alaskan lands. The population of the territory is decreasing rapidly, owing to the falling off of placer mining and the inadequate land laws. --- Clad in the garb of a laborer, Count Max Von Buelow, a descendant of the famous General Von Buelow of Prussia and a seion of one of the oldest families of Europe, was struck by a Southern Pacific freight train near the California-Nevada state line, and died shortly afterwards. With a gay party gathered in Taylerville, Ill., for the wedding of Miss Elsate Bates to Ora Redfern, John Belder a carpenter, who is said to have been drinking heavily, drew a revolver just as Rev. M. G. Coleman was about to unite the couple, shot his mother-in-law, Mrs. Erma Fisher, aged sixty-eight, in the abdomen, and was himself shot near the heart in battle with the police. The American Society of Agricultural Engineers met in Chicago and discussed the advisability of having in this country a gas tractor contest. Henry Luke, while employed as a truck man on the Santa Fe at Streathor, Ill., was engulfed when the earth under his feet gave away and he was precipitated into a bed of quicksand. Luke's companions were near by, but he disappeared before they could reach him. Foreign Emilio Campa, Mexican rebel leader, who disappeared just before he was to be arraigned in the United States court at Phoenix, Ariz., on the charge of being a fugitive alien, he telegraphed to friends he has joined the insurrectos in Chihuahua. * * * An official bulletin concerning the condition of the viectory of India, Baron Hardinge, who was severely injured by a bomb thrown by an Indian fanatic Monday, describes his progress as satisfactory. --- The kaiser's fifth grandson was born to Princess Auguste Wilhelm at her palace on Wilhelmstrasse, in Berlin. The event was announced by salutes of 72 guns in both Berlin and Potsdam garrisons. Nearly a score of athletes plunged into the freezing waters of Dorchester bay to compete in 25, 50and 100 yard swimming races. Although the men had to combat floating ice, every contest finished Personal The wedding in New York city of Miss Maude F. Ingersoll, the only remaining unmarried daughter of Col. Robert G. Ingersoll, to Wallace McLean Probasco, a member of an old Ohio family, devoted to the Episcopal faith, was celebrated in strict conformity to the teachings of Mr. Ingersoll. Representative W. W. Wedemeyer of Michigan, formerly American consul at Georgetown, B. C., is in a hospital at Ancon, Panama, suffering from a mental breakdown, which is thought to have been produced by worry over his defeat for re-election. Joseph Pope of Belleville defeated Paul J. Smith of Marion for Illinois state president of the mine workers, according to semi-official figures. William H. Shinn, secretary, announced Andrew Carnegie had made a $100,000 gift to the library commission of the Carnegie library at Carnegie, Pa., as a Christmas offering. Virginia welcomed home Gov. Wood row Wilson, the eighth of her sons to be chosen president of the United States. From the moment the president-elect crossed the state line at Alexandria until he reached the little parsonage in Staunton where he was born fifty-six years ago, the reception given him was one of great enthusiasm, noisy demonstration and spectacular display. John R. Keene, who has not been in good health for a long time, is reported to be sick in his apartments in a New York hotel and was unable to visit his country home on Long island. The fact that Mr. Keene was confined by his illness became known after the suicide of his valet, Frank Fissler. --- Vincent Astor, the new head of the wealthy family, has ordered an increase of wages for employees of the Astor estate at Rhinebeck, N. Y., to take effect the first of the year. There are more than 1,000 employees on the estat., known as Ferncliffe, and every class of workman is to benefit by the increase. "Save your pennies," was the advice given by John D. Rockefeller to a number of school teachers, to whom he gave a sleigh ride about his estate at Tarrytown, N. Y. At the age of seventy-nine years, Probate Judge John Kennethy of Idaho Falls, Idaho, probably will learn that he has established himself to be half-brother of William A. Kinnelley, who died in 1868, and sole heir to the latter's estate, which has been held by New York state over forty years. The estate is valued at $100,000. ESTABLISHED AUGUST 25, 1883 AND ISSUED EVERY WEEK ON TIME SINCE. 32 DYNAMITERS GO TO THE PEN UNION HEADS CONVICTED IN CONNECTION WITH CONSPIRACY HEAR THEIR FATE. ALL ARE DENIED NEW TRIALS Sentences Vary From Seven Years' Imprisonment in Federal Jail to One Year and One Day and to Suspended Sentences. THESE ARE SENTENCES Indianapolis.—Terms of imprisonment in the dynamite cases imposed were: Frank M. Ryan, president of the ironworkers' union, seven years. Butler, Buffalo, vice president, six years. Herbert S. Hockin, former secretary and for a time vice president. Olaf A. Tevitmoe, San Francisco, secretary of the California Building Trades Council, six years. Eugene A. Clancy, San Francisco, six years. John H. Barry, St. Louis, four years. Paul J. Morrin, St. Louis, three years. Henry W. Legeltner, Denver, three years. Charles N. Beum, Minneapolis, three years. Michael J. Cunnane, Philadelphia, three years. Richard H. Houlihan, Chicago, two year. William Shupe, Chicago, one year and one day. Edward Smythe, Peoria, III., three years. James E. Ray, Peoria, Ill., one year and one day. Murray L. Pennell, Springfield, Ill., three years. three years. William C. Bernhardt, Cincinnati, one year and one day. Wilford Bert Brown, Kansas City, Mo, three years. Fred K. K. Palmer, Omaha, two years. Peter J. Smith, Cleveland, four years. George Anderson, Cleveland, three years. Michael J. Hannon, Scranton, Pa., three years. Edward E. Phillips, Syracuse, N. Y., one and one day. Charles Wachtmister, Detroit, one Fred Sherman, Indianapolis, two years. Frank C. Webb, New York, six years. Kim W. Koehne, Dutuit, one year and one day. William J. McCain, Kansas City, three years. William E. Reddin, Milwaukee, three years. Sentences on the following were suspended: On motion of the government, Edward Clark, Cincinnati, confessed dynamiter, who testified for the government, was given a suspended sentence. *** Indianapolis, Ind.—sentences varying from seven years' imprisonment in the federal prison at Leavenworth, Kan., to one year and one day and to suspended sentences were imposed upon the 38 labor union officials convicted in the dynamite conspiracy cases. Frank M. Ryan, president of the International Union, was given a sentence of seven years. Olaf A. Tweitmoe of San Francisco, convicted on charges of aiding in plotting the destruction of the Los Angeles Times building, and Eugene A. Clancy, also of San Francisco, were given six years each. Ryan, as head of the union, received the heaviest penalty—seven years. Peter J. Smith of Cleveland drew four years, and George (Nipper) Anderson also of Cleveland was given three years. A remarkable scene in the struggle of the wives of the prisoners to reach their husbands, attended the sentences. It was ordered that all the spectators should be cleared from the room and the prisoners be allowed to talk with members of their families. Some of the men made pleas for mercy; others wept in the arms of their wives. But the court pronounced the sentences one by one regardless of the pleas. Six men were given their liberty through suspended sentences. These included Edward Clark of Cincinnati, the dynamiter who confessed to blowing up a bridge with the help of Hockin. He had been used as a witness for the government. Ortle E. McManigal, another confessed dynamiter, was not sentenced at this time. In some cases sentences of one year and one day were imposed so that these might be confined in a federal prison. Prisoners with terms of less than one year are kept in county jails. All motions for new trials were overruled by Judge Anderson when court opened. Motions for arrest of judgment in behalf of all the men also were overruled. Noted Portrait Painter Dies. New York City.—Robert Lee MacCameron, the noted portrait painter, died in his apartments here. Death was due to disease of the heart. Mr. MacCameron was a native of Chicago and was born Jan. 14, 1866. His grandmother was a first cousin of Robert E. Lee. He was educated at home and abroad and studied under Whistler, Gerome and others. Some of the greatest persons who posed for him were Chief Justice Harlan, Justice Brewer, Presidents McKinley and Taft, and E. H. Harriman. MISS VIOLET ASQUITH Mary Miss Aquilith, daughter of the English premier, is making her first visit to America.. She accompanies the countess of Aberdeen, wife of the lord lieutenant of Ireland. CAT PREVENTS ESCAPE CAT PREVENTS ESCAPE GIVES A LOUD HOWL, WHICH THWARTS CRIMINAL'S PLAN. Man Who Would Make Dash for Liberty Had Murdered Two Boys and a Girl. Boston, Mass.—His score or more of daring but futile attempts to escape would have probably been crowned with a successful dash for liberty, had not Jesse Pomeroy, life prisoner in the state prison at Charleston, been betrayed by the prison cat. Officer Brassil had just made his rounds of Pomeroy's section of the prison when the cat gave a loud howl. Turning quickly Brassil saw Pomeroy crouching in a corner of the corridors outside his cell. The prisoner was locked up and search made of the cell he had occupied. It was found that Pomeroy had obtained possession of some pieces of steel, one of which he fashioned into a saw and another into a drill. With these instruments he had severed the three lower bars of the steel door of his cell and then slipped the bolt of the wooden door. Pomeroy has spent 37 years in prison. He was sentenced to death in 1874, when 14 years old, for murdering two boys, but his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment in solitary confinement. The boldest of his many attempts to escape was allowing his cell to fill with gas, which he ignited in an effort to blow out the walls. He narrowly escaped death in the explosion. Pomeroy was only 13 years old when he was first taken into custody, charged with torturing boys of from 4 to 6 years old. He was sent to a reform school in Massachusetts but was soon released. Very soon afterwards he killed a five-year-old girl after torturing her with barbaric cruelty and buried her body in the cellar of his father's store. Inside of a few monts he killed a five-year-old boy. WOMAN EXPOSES BAD GANG WOMAN EXPOSES BAD GANG Tells How Desperate Crimbals Have Been Operating Throughout Ohio and Parts of Indiana. South Bend, Ind.—With the finding of enough nitroglycerin in the Peverett rooming house to blow up the entire city, a complete confession from Mrs. Albert Peverett, wife of "Whitey Black," was secured. Black and "Indianapolis Billy" Joyce are held for a half dozen daring crimes. Five men composed the "Whitey Black" gang. They are accused of at least four bank and diamond robberies and a half dozen other desperate crimes. Mrs. Peverett told how a desperate gang of criminals has been operating for weeks throughout Ohio and portions of Indiana. In her statement the woman also confirmed the suspicion of outside detectives from Cleveland, Toledo and Chicago that Black and the other four men, claimed to have been responsible for the blowing of the Munn bank in Portage, O., the morning of Nov. 19, were also concerned in similar robberies at Spencerville and Paulding, O., and Middlebury, Ind. Atlantic City, N. J.—James Duncan, 24, engineer of the ocean going tug Margaret, sacrificed his life in a daring attempt to swim ashore with a line from his boat when it went aground in a 36-mile gale two miles northeast of Tathams Inlet, 21 miles down the coast from Atlantic City. His shimmates, Capt. John E. Scott, and nine members of the crew were brought ashore by the crews of the Avelon and Tathams federal stations. The tug is hard aground and will probably be a total loss. IN LINCOLN'S HONOR Memorial Building Costing $2, 000,000 to Be Erected. Congress Expected to Approve Plans for Construction of Gigantic Hall—Scheme to Build National Road Rejected. Washington. As a result of a meeting of the Lincoln memorial commission held at the White House the other day a memorial hall cost $2,000,000 is to be erected here in honor of Abraham Lincoln. A number of suggestions as to the form of the memorial were considered. They included a roadway from Washington to Gettysburg, a roadway from Mount Vernon, the home of Washington, to Gettysburg, and a roadway from Richmond to Gettysburg. The commission decided, however, in favor of the plan presented by Henry Bacon, a New York architect, and urged by Senator Cullom. The commission is composed of President Taft, Senators Cullom, Wetmore, and Martin, Speaker Clark, former Speaker Cannon, and Congressman McCall. In the act creating the commission these men upon retirement from public life will continue to supervise the erection of what is expected to be the handsome memorial in the United States. A technical description of the design is as follows: "The memorial to the memory of Abraham Lincoln is to be erected in Potomac park and on the axis of the capitol and the Washington monument. This axis was planned more than a century ago. "The Lincoln memorial is to be placed in the center of a terrace eleven feet high and 1,000 feet in diameter and will rest upon a rectangular stone wall fourteen feet high. 256 feet long, and 186 feet wide. On this rectangular wall will rise the memorial hall, which is eighty-four feet wide and 156 feet long. This memorial hall will be surrounded by a colonnade composed of thirty-six columns forty-four feet high and seven feet five inches in diameter at their base, thus increasing the dimensions of the memorial to 188 feet long and 118 feet wide. The total height of the structure above the present grade will be 122 feet. Entrance to the memorial will be by a colonnaded entrance forty-five feet wide and forty-four feet high. "The four features of the memorial will be the central hall, sixty feet wide, seventy feet long and sixty feet high, in which will stand the Lincoln statue; two halts separated from the central hall by columns of the tonic order, thirty-seven feet wide, fifty-seven feet long and sixty feet high, in which will be placed memorials of Lincoln's Gettysburg speech and his second inaugural address, and surrounding the walls inclosing these memorials will be a colonnade forming a symbol of the union, each column representing a state—thirty-six in all—which existed at the time of Lincoln's death. "Above this colonnade and supported at intervals by eagles will be forty-eight memorial festons, one for each state existing at the present time." The proposition for the construction of a roadway was rejected because such a memorial would lose much of the simplicity necessary to recall the nobility of the rallisplitter. Moreover, few traveling over it would associate it with the life and deeds of Lincoln, and the lesson which a monument to his memory should teach, and for which it will be primarily erected, would be destroyed. It is expected the memorial will be constructed within three years. SHE WAS A DEBUTANTE That Washington has a well advertised social life and an up-to-date colored population is illustrated by the following: Young Mrs. H—required a nurse for her children and advertised to fill the position. From among the applicants she selected a neat and attractive young colored girl, soon arranging most of the preliminary details of hiring. "You may have two nights a week out," Mrs. H. said, kindly. "That wouldn't do foh me," the colored girl answered quickly. Ah must hab ebery night out dis wintah. "Out every night!" replied Mrs. H. in astonishment. "And why this winter? "Well, yo' see,"—the colored girl hesitated a moment—'yo see. Ah'm a deberatante dis yeah, an' Ah must be out at night."—Judge. SMOKES AS TOE IS CUT OFF. Senator Benjamin F. Shively of Indiana had one of the toes of his right foot cut off recently in a local hospital. The toe had become irritated and blood poisoning was feared. Senator Shively refused to take ether or chloroform. During the operation he smoked a cigar. Grocer (who has lately joined the militia, practicing in shop)—Right, left, right, left; four paces to the rear, march! (Falls down trapdoor into the cellar.) Grocer's Wife (anxiously)—Oh, Jim! Are you hurt? Grocer (savagely, but with dignity) —Go way, woman. What do you know about war? —Everybody's. REMARKABLE PUBLICATION. The publication and mailing of the daily Congressional Record is an impressive spectacle, even to publishers used to rapid printing on a big scale. Here is a publication which sometimes for weeks at a time will average daily 130 pages of solid printed matter, a staggering number of words, much larger than is printed in any daily newspaper or weekly or monthly magazine. The Congressional Record is often printed in feverish haste in the small hours of the morning, yet it is remarkably free from errors, either of English, composition or of make-up, or in the government's "style." The stutterings of the linetype never get into the Record. The proper words are capitalized, or left uncapitalized, and spellings are uniform. Although written, printed and delivered in 12 hours, it compares very favorably in accuracy with the best specimens of bookwork. The printing officials declare it is the most remarkable publication in the world in this respect. The Record has an editor, a staff of reporters and contributing editors. The editor is John R. Berg, the superintendent of work in the G. O. P.; and he is probably the most unloved man in the halls of congress. His sympathizers will be the members of the fraternity of newspaper managing editors and "makeup men" everywhere. Many is the senator and representative who has burned the midnight oil revising a speech he was particularly anxious to have appear in the next day's Record, only to get his copy of the publication the next morning, and find instead the sentences: "Mr. X. of Oregon addressed 'the house.' His remarks will be printed later." On such occasions Mr. X. has expressed his opinion of Managing Editor Berg in language he wouldn't care to have a constituent hear. But midnight is the absolute "dead line" for "copy" to go into the next day's Record, and while the forms are sometimes held open a few minutes after this hour, this does not often happen, and when his copy is late the delinquent contributor finds the to-be-printed later legend instead of his speech. U. S. EXPORTS INCREASING. An astonishing and wholly unprecedented increase in the export trade from the United States to South America occurred in October, though the acceleration has been going on with steadily increasing ratio for the past ten months. The state department, which is compiling the figures, is disposed to attribute the increase to the great activity of the American consuls, who, under the department's instructions, are constantly seeking trade opportunities for American manufacturers. During October the trade exports to Argentina reached the total of $4,320,050; to Brazil, $3,144,336; and to Uruguay, $483,948. In the case of Brazil the increase in trade amounted to 56 per cent. compared with October last year. For the ten-month period ended October 31 the Argentine exports totaled $41,997,043, the Brazilian $3,938,755, and Uruguay $6,129,023. That amounted to an increase of 110 per cent. in the case of Uruguay, compared with four years ago. The export trade with Japan during the same ten-month period rose to a total of $45,025,125, which is an increase of 15 per cent. in one year. The state department officials point with satisfaction to the fact that, especially in the case of Argentina and Uruguay, this American export trade is composed, not of raw material, but generally of manufactured products which compete with European goods. BLIND MEN TO PRINT BOOKS. The national library for the blind, equipped with a printing press, a reading room and four other rooms designed for the comfort of the unfortunates, has settled down in new quarters within a few blocks of the White House. The printing press will be operated by blind printers and pressmen, and the output will be books and pamphlets designed for those whose sight is gone. One of the objects of the organization is the education of the sightless in the art of setting Braille type and in printing and binding their own books, which are read by the "touch" system. The books will be placed in circulation and sent throughout the United States to other societies for the blind. The national organization's new home is the gift of Mrs. R. McManes Colfell of Philadelphia. The circulating library has been begun with a collection of books presented by the Perkins institute of Boston and by the School for the Blind at Halifax, N. S. In addition, Baroness Von Schenck, in Mexico, has promised to send the institution one book each month. Modified Request "Could I see your husband, ma'am?" asked the tramp at the door. "What do you want to see him for?" demanded Mrs. Henpeck. "I am the head of this house." "Oh, excuse me, I didn't know," replied the tramp, courteously. "In that case, could you spare me a pair of your trousers, ma'am?"—Harper's Weekly. Oh. You Cap. Captain (spinning a yarn)—I was for eight days a prisoner among the cannibals. Lady—And how was it they didn't eat you? Captain (calmly)—Well, the troop was, the chief wife had mislaid her cookbook—Bay City Times. WILLIAM CORCORAN EUSTIS Mr. Eustis has been appointed chairman of the inaugural committee by Chairman McCombs of the Democratic national committee. He is a Washington banker, son of a former United States senator and son-in-law of former Vice-President Levi P. Morton. YOUNG MAN SAYS HE HAS NATURE OF A MOUSE. Confesses Forging Check for $90 but Declares He Was Not Responsible for the Crime. New York City.—That a mouse running up his mother's skirt two months before he was born left him with a birthmark of a rodent's figure on his leg and an irresistible impulse to steal was the unique defense offered in court by Edward H. Huppe, after confessing to forging a check on the Corn Exchange bank for $50. He said he had also served a term in the Elmira reformatory for theft. Huppe is a well to do young German who came to this country from Oldenberg, Germany. He said he became converted to Christian Science last fall and after overcoming his prenatal influence to steal resolved to confess to the forgery and start life with a clean slate. "I could not help being a thief," he declared. "I have no need to steal. I have all the money I want, but the desire to steal came on me and I could not resist it. The influence is a prenatal one. Two months before I was born my mother was terribly frightened by a mouse running up her skirts. It left its mark on me. See, here it is." The young man rolled up his trouser leg and showed a birthmark on his right calf which closely resembled a picture of a mouse. "My crimes were like those of a mouse, always stealing—sealing things I did not need," said Huppe. "But I found it interesting that, once tended to tendency through Christian science." CAR PLUNGES OVER BRIDGE CAR PLUNGES OVER BRIDGE Crew of Cincinnati Conveyance and Seven Passengers Are Probably Fatally Injured. Cincinnati, O.—A street car carrying a crew and seven passengers plunged over the Cincinnati approach to the Central bridge here, falling 40 feet and probably fatally injuring every occupant. The car, one of the Momouth-st line, left the tracks at a sharp curve, crashed through a railing on the bridge and, after turning a somersault, struck the earth with terrific impact. The wood work of the car was splintered, its steel beams and rods twisted and the passengers were buried in a mass of debris, where they lay stunned and silent until taken from the wreckage by firemen, who had answered an alarm turned in by a witness. WILSON SLEEPS IN BIRTHPLACE President-elect Is Welcome by Ringing of Bells, Tooting of Horns and Cheering of Thousands. Staunton, Va.—Amid the ringing of church bells, the tooting of horns, the explosion of fireworks and the cheering of 25,000 persons, President-elect Wilson was welcomed back to his birthplace and at night he slept in the room in which he was born in the mansse of the First Presbyterian church, of which his father was the pastor. Staunton has never had such a holiday. Visitors from every part of the old dominion were here. Woodrow Wilson was the hero of the occasion. Loved to Watch Flames. New York City—Grace Trimble, 16, was arrested as the firebug who has set fire seven times to the building at 214 Kingston-av, Brooklyn. Her suspicious manner while the seventh fire was being put out led to her arrest. Questioned by a policeman she confessed to starting all the fires, adding: "I don't know why I did it only I just loved to watch the flames. The blaze is so pretty. But I do not meet any harm by it and we do." THE GAZETTE PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY 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 Afr-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. A Happy New Year, to all of our readers. May it be a beautiful, successful and joyous year, for each and every one. Please, blate, ba-ah! South Carolina seems proud of it. We do not hear of any impeachment proceedings. We would like very much to have a large increase of readers during the ensuing year, five thousand more at least, and we will appreciate it if each reader of The Gazette will encourage his neighbor, who is not a subscriber, to become one. Great problems confront the race, and it needs now more than ever before a loyal newspaper like The Gazette to reflect its hopes and its aspirations and to gauge for it the sentiment for or against it in the Nation. --- Some prejudiced Washington, D. C. correspondent (white) of the daily newspapers, has resurrected and sent out the old "annual" story that the Afro-American soldier is to be mustered out of the regular army, and many of our gullible newspapers are republishing it. Referring to the story, Major E. B. Gose (white), commanding two battalions of the famous Twenty- fifth infantry (Afro-American), at Ft. Geo. Wright, near Spokane, Wash., said, last week Monday: "I have served eleven years with Negro troops and eleven years with white troops. I have found the Negroes the better behaved, the more amenable to discipline, and more inclined to be interested in their work as soldiers." "Nuff sed!" After visiting the separate schools for our pupils, at Washington, D. C. Mrs. Ella Flagg Young, superintendent of Chicago's public schools, said, in a recent newspaper interview: "I am opposed to segregation of races in public schools. How could I be allowed to segregate?" I cannot align myself in opposition to segregation of the sexes and favor separate schools for the whites and blacks." Ever since our people in Chicago made the great mistake of accepting a "jim crow" Y. M. C. A., there has been an organized clamor, by prejudiced whites of that city, for separate or "jim crow public schools" for Afro-American pupils. They have kept our people there, might busy in recent months, combating the baneful efforts in favor of such segregation. Therefore, the great satisfaction and encouragement derived from Mrs. Young's frank, honest and correct statement, quoted above. It shows her to be a broad-minded educator, a credit to her sex, city and the country. Would there were more, in such positions, like her. We call the attention of the few nigshiguid "jim crow Y. M. C. A." Negroes in Cleveland and elsewhere in the north, to our people of Chicago's experience in this Y. M. C. A. "business" and trust they will see the point and realize the great harm they would do the many of the race in their community, in order to benefit a very few! "THE SOUTH IN THE SADDLE." Legislation, necessarily, is formulated in committees. The chairmanship of each committee is given to the member having had the longest service in the committee. This being true, in the new Democratic Congress every committee of the Senate, except that on irrigation, will be controlled by a Southerner. Here is the list: Finance—Simmons of North Carolina, or if he is not elected, Stone of Missouri. Appropriations—Tillman of South Carolina. Claims—Martin of Virginia. Conservation—Newlands of Nevada. Foreign Relations—Bacon of Georgia. Fisheries—Overman of North Carolina. Immigration—Jeff Davis of Arkansas. Indian Affairs—Stone of Missouri. Interoceanic Canals—Simmons, with Johnston of Alabama next. Naval Affairs—Tillman, with Smith of Maryland next. Pensions—Gore of Oklahoma. Postoffice—Bankhead of Alabama. Public Buildings—Culberson of Texas. Public Lands—Newlands, with Davis of Oklahoma next. Not a man in the list is from a state having large manufacturing interests, or that shows any real friendship for or interest in the Afro-American. When God thought of mother, he must have laughed with satisfaction and framed it quickly—so rich, so deep, so divine, so full of soul, power and beauty was the conception—Sheryl Wood Becher. PENCHANT FOR THE TELEPHONE. Of the 22,000,000,000 telephone calls that passed through the central offices of the world during 1911 no less than 14,500,000,000, or 60 per cent., were from Americans. In other words, Uncle Sam took down the receiver just about twice as often as all the rest of the world combined. With this fact in mind, it is not at all surprising to learn that of the 12,455,000 telephones in the world the United States has no fewer than 8,362,000, or that the American telephone investment is $1,025,000,000, compared with a world's total of $1,729,000,000. Most of these things should occasion no astonishment. The telephone is an American invention, its utility was first appreciated by Americans, and Americans have been most persistent in employing it and making it an important factor in their everyday lives. Everybody knows this, says the Cincinnati Times-Star. But one thing not so generally known is that the wide use of the telephone in this country has been accompanied by corresponding neglect of that other and earlier American invention for eliminating distance—the telegraph. When the figures concerning the world's employment of the telegraph are given it is a different story. Only 17 percent of the 579,000,000 telegrams sent in the world in 1910 were forwarded in this country. COMFORT AND INSPIRATION COMFORT AND INSPIRATION. There are very, very few persons in all this wide world who do not need "comfort and inspiration" at different periods of their lives. Just as the young organist, alone in his blindness, groped in his uncertain way for encouragement which no one thought of giving him, so, too, we who labor in our temporal blindness not only hope for, but really need the kindly word of cheer to help us through the burdens of our days, says the Charleston News and Courier. The men who administer large affairs, the men who are vitally concerned with the shaping of public issues and the men who hold positions of high trust need encouragement throughout all their lives, and it is the word of encouragement spoken at just the right time, when perhaps a weighty decision hangs in the balance, or a new responsibility is to be undertaken, which helps more than anything else could. If the men who control in large affairs require praise and encouragement how much more do the men who work under them long for the word of approbation. The earnest man, the man who takes an active interest in his task and can see beyond the dollars and cents for which he works, cannot be expected to labor indefinitely without knowing whether his labors are appreciated or not. It is argued, of course, that the man who does not give satisfaction does not, naturally, retain his position, but to many finely tempered natures the fact of giving satisfaction is not everything. Appreciation means much to them and when rightly expressed goes a long way toward encouraging their best efforts. Women are indignant over the statement of a German expert at Washington tonally that cooking is a lost art. in view of the cooking schools and the housewives' leagues, both so popular now, and in the way which women are earnestly trying to raise cooking in the eyes of their sex to a science worthy of respect and attention, the statement is rather a sweeping one. In fact, the average moderate mind takes all the broad assertions concerning the general deterioration of the world with more than a few grains of allowance for the zeal of the speaker on special occasions when broad statements seem to be in order. A western railroad will order that discharges may be the result of domestic troubles among the employees arguing that such troubles cause a worry strain and often loss of necessary sleep. From now on every employee who wants to keep his job must have a happy home. Even the millennium seems possible in view of this mandatory domestic happiness. The employees, however, may delicately suggest that a perceptible increase in pay may go far toward promoting this desirable happy peace of mind. The cable car displaced the horse car, the trolley put the cable out of commission, and now the storage battery comes to succeed the trolley. And with this last one's arrival will disappear the disfiguring overhead wires still remaining in the streets and public thoroughfares. It is, indeed, the age in which the useful and the beautiful are combining forces, instead of one's demanding a sacrifice of the other. One or the worst instances recorded of hard luck is that of a man in Rhode island who has just discovered that he would have inherited a fortune had the British courts not decided he is official dead. And all lovers of the Gilbertian opera know the unyielding force of a British official utterance. When it declares a man defunct it is in dead earnest. Why He Healtatad. "Why didn't you go to the assistance of the defendant in the fight?" asked the judge of a policeman. "Shure," was the answer, "an 'Ol Didn't know which av them was gain" to be 'th defendant, yer honor." Caustic. "What a lot of style the Brown are patting on!" "Yee; and what a lot of creditors they are putting off!"—Tit- Bits. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, JANUARY 4, 1913. BUCKEYE LETTERS WRITTEN BY "THE OLD RELIA- BLE" GAZETTE'S CORRE- SPONDENTS. THROUGHOUT OHIO THROUGHOUT OHIO What Our People Are Doing Each Week—Church, Personal, Social, Lodge, Literary and Musical — Marriages, YOUNGSTOWN—Mrs. Chas. Smith and Miss Christine Lomax are ill. Missionary workers should call on the latter.—Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Jackson are visiting relatives in Chicago, Springfield and Indianapolis. They will return about Jan. 15.—Dr. J. M. Gilmore's evening lectures are a success. The next one, Jan. 6, at Oak Hill Ave. church.—Mrs. W. M. Saunders and Mrs. Jas. Kelly are convalescent.—Mrs. Jas. Kelly is dead on me, "Wednesday Jesse Bessie Warner" recently.—Mr. and Mrs. V. Stewart's daughter is convalescent after a week's illness.—Mrs. Edith Creamer and son of Shepardstown, W. Va., visited her sister, Mrs. Geo. Warrick. Do not forget that "the old reliable" Gazette is our best newspaper and our most loyal advocate, "in season and out." ZANESVILLE—Rev. M. F. Sides of Baltimore, and Miss March Hill of this Gee is dead on me, Xavier, Mr. Geo, L. Simpson of Wilberforce, and bride, a Chicago, are here visiting. Also Mr. Wm. Hunnicutt from Ohio University, Athens. J. B. Reynolds spent the holidays in M. Vernon.—Miss Irene Shelton of Rendville, Worthy Simpson of Cumberland, Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Harper of Columbus, Miss Ester Colston of Parkersburg, Mrs. Francis Moss of Tennessee, Mr. and Mrs. John McDay of Pittsburg, Mrs. Alberta Preston of Rendville, Miss Anna Hutchinson of Charleston, Mrs. Francis Moss of Lille, Mr. Harris and Green of Mt. Stevens, Mrs. Nancy Harris of Columbus, Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Carlisle and Mr. Robert Speaks of Springfield, were here during the holidays. OBERLIN.—Our people here ought to do more buying of those lots advertised in The Gazette by D. C. Fisher of Lorain, and do less talk. All freely admit the lots value, the reasonable charge for them he is making, and their desirableness as an investment how hesitate to invest. They had better be doing so while they can and have such an excellent opportunity. Non-residents are purchasing them faster than we are, and are getting land that is rapidly increasing in value which later on we will have to pay much more for, in order to have houses in which to live. Another imperative of our ought to take The Gazette regularly. It is the only way we can keep up-to-date, from week to week, with the race news. Goodness knows we need this knowledge here in Oberlin more than any place I have ever been. WILBERFORCE.—Work is being rapidly pushed on Embry Hall, the new dormitory for girls at Wilberforce University, and it is expected that the university will be the next month. The new building will cost about $40,000, of which sum nearly $55,000 has been raised by Miss Hallie Q. Brown and Dr. W. S. Scarburgh, president of the university. The latter says: "We must urge our boys and girls on to all this higher training possible for them to obtain, to work of themselves the world can respond and honor—to make life worth living—to build up ideals that will be guiding stars in many a dark hour and on many a stormy road—to serve the race —to be leaders for the race—intellectual, ethical, religious, civil leaders, so that the whole level of human society may be lifted to broader and clearer opportunities. This is the success we seek as a race. This should be held steadily before our youth, inciting them to such preparation for the future." **PAINESVILLE**—Miss Edna Wooten entertained at luncheon, Sunday, in honor of Miss Carrie Evans who returns to Oberlin, Monday—Born to Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Johnson of Andover, a son, Dec. 25. Mrs. Johnson was formerly Miss Nora Jordan of Windsor, and hatcher of Cleveland, spent Sunday at Mena Lena Randolph is better—Mrs. Christy, Mr. and Mrs. Roy Johnson, Misses Perle and Viola Smith, Messrs. George and Levi Livingstone, and Leroy Green attended the Xmas dance at Ashtabula—Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Smith of Ashtabula, spent Christmas, here with Mr. Smith's parents. Mrs. C. A. Wooten entertained relatives at Christmas dinner—Mrs. S. R. Collins is ill. Mrs. J. L. Wooten is better. Mrs. J. L. Wooten is better. days in Ashtabula. Mrs. Frank Burnedley and Mrs. Mary Waytes of Cleveland, are here visiting relatives. Mrs. John Lee is convalescing. Do not fail to read and take advantage of The Gazette's splendid McCall's Fashion Magazine offer in the advertisement on page 2. Tell your friends and acquaintances of it, also, please. Woman Given High Position. In Switzerland a woman has been appointed to the chief inspectorship of factories, a coveted position hitherto held only by men. This appointment is the outcome of a special commission which met to inquire into factory conditions of the various cantons. Owing to the great increase of women in industrial life the desirability of a woman as chief inspector was unanimously agreed upon by the commission. Why Jocko Failed In Business. "I'm sorry to hear," said the Lion, "that poor little Jocko has failed in his laundry business." "Yes," replied the Wombat, "he undertook too large a contract by washing the Giraffe's collars for two cents each." FOR SALE Houses and lots in Oberlin, Ohio, and in a most desirable location; sur- roundings excellent; cheap and on easy terms. Address or see D. C. Fisher, 554 Broadway, Lorain, Ohio. Phone, residence 555; office 355. DOINGS OF THE RAGE Happy New Year! Jason Brown, age 90, second son of the immortal John Brown, died near Akron, last week. Dispatches to the daily papers anounce that Jack Johnson and wife will soon move into his newly acquired home on Lake Geneva, Wisc., an aristocratic resort. There are 1409 students at Howard University, Washington, D. C. The new president, Dr. S. M. Newman, is asking Congress for a larger assembly hall. Talking about Col. Roosevelt's brutal statement that the Republican party is such that "no honest man can be in it," the New York World says "the Progressive party has motive for existence except spite," and that "Mr. Roosevelt's place in history depends upon his ability to hold the new party together. There are 700 Colored farmers in Alberta, Canada, 200 out in British Columbia, 75 in Saskatchewan, 150 in Manitoba. All are doing well. Mrs. Lucille Francis Johnson was given a $6,000, built-to-arm, 1913-14 Chalmers' machine by Jack on Xmas day. His mother, sisters and brothers were given handsome gifts. He also gave two twospectacles, thick gold watch men in order to correspond with the one he has. The champ also gave $1,500 to the poor of his neighborhood, both white and black receiving many a nice basket. On his return to Columbia, S. C. from Richmand, Va., recently, Gov. Cole Blease said: "Those Governors who condemned me can go to the same place as the Constitution. I hope that those Governors have been repudiated by their people returning to private life—I told them they would be—that they will realize the fact that we Southern people are not Negro lovers, as some of them seem to be." Education is a process of assimilation and elimination. There is one trait peculiar to the Negro that every Negro has, and is eradicated. It is that ever prominent trait of boisterousness. Loud talking, loud laughing, loudness in all things vocal are characteristic of the race. He lives, moves, and has his being in loudness of his own making. This tendency to loudness originated in the days of slavery, and has been transmitted from generation to generation. Dallas (Tex.) Express. Mr. Alexander Mehary (white), one of the College of our Mahrhical Medical College of our Mahrhical Tenn., died at his home in Lafayette, Ind., recently, aged 68 years. Miss Ada Hyde, a talented girl of the race and a recent graduate of the Iowa State University, has been given employment at Ogden, Iowa, in a school in which pupils of the two races are allowed to attend. Editor Chris J. Perry of the Philadelphia Tribune voted in a recent mayoral election after he had moved out of the precinct. He pleaded guilty, and in view of his good character, sentence was suspended by the judge in the General Sessions Court, Dec. 20, 12. Joe Jeannette, and "Battling Jim" Johnson of Tennessee, fought ten rounds New Year's afternoon, at the Athletic Center. Geo M. Fox of Wichita, Kan., has a laundry, five delivery wagons and an automobile. Last year, he spent $4,000 on improved equipment. Kansas City, Kan., has 23,566 Afro Americans, 800 of whom own property assessed at $1,400,000. Fifty own property valued at $10,000 each; 100, between $5,000 and $10,000; 200 own property valued at from one to $6,000. The police recently publicized "a lie cut out of whole cloth" to the effect that a Chicago deputy U. S. marshall was discharged because he attended a dinner given by Jack Johnson and wife. Gov. Blease's Richmond, Va., "blate," recently, in favor of lynching, resulted in the lynch-murder of a South Carolina Afro-American for debt, week before last. On Dec. 14 he paroled a white planner of his state (South Carolina) who raped a 13 year old girl Gov. G. W. Donaghey of Arkansas, pardoned 360 convicts, last week, in an effort to kill the barbaric convict lease system of his state. For four years he has asked the state legislature to abolish it but in vain. Jack Johnson was fined $50 and coached for with assaulting a newspaper photographer when he front of the county jail in Chicago when, with a deputy U. S. marshall, Johnson's attorney filed notice of appeal. H. L. Lord of Keystone, W. V., died recently. He left a $200,000 estate and was the second wealthiest Afro-American native state. Sam Ivey, out of Sam McVey, Dec. 26, in the 13th round of one of the fiercest battles ever fought in Australia (at Sydney). As usual, it was a brutal and barbaric exhibition. 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 persons in the following named cities: Zanesville, Newark Lancaster, Lebanon, Chillicothe, Toledo, Troy, Canton, Springfield, Plaquemont, 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, Belfonteain, Lima, O., and other places where we have none. Write to the editor of The Gazette, Blackstone building, Cleveland, O. Warren will be invited. 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 them. VISION OF TITANIC LOOK AND LIVE Great Disaster Pictured by W. T. Stead in 1886. Enormous Loss of Life Predicted by the Distinguished English Journalist in His Own News-paper. London.—An investigator, searching for material for a biography of W. T. Stead, the Englishman who went down with the Titanic, has discovered a strange prediction of his own doom made by Mr. Stead in the Pall Mall Gazette on March 22, 1886. This article, written by Mr. Stead, was headed, "How the Mall Steamer Went Down in Mid-Atlantic." The article appeared a couple of days after the Oregon was lost, and purported to give a description of the scene of horror that ensued on the then biggest Atlantic liner, when at last the passengers realized the ship was doomed. In a footnote, Stead wrote: "This is exactly what might take place and what will take place if the liners are sent to sea short of boats. Here are some extracts from Stead's grim prediction: "From below there came a queer sucking sound, with an occasional long gurgle, and I saw that the ship seemed to 'hang' as the seas met her. "The boats were made fast to stand heavy weather, and only skilled sailors could launch them. "I calculated that, by loading all the eight boats down to the water's edge and by packing the children along the bottom boards, we might accommodate 300 peole. We were carrying 916 altogether." "A loud crack, followed by a wallowing noise like a thunder, rendered all other sounds insignificant, and a captain who was going out to New York, said: 'The bulkhead's gone. We must take our chance.' The ship stopped nearly dead, and began to tremble curiously, but it was only the river of water pouring aft, and we soon saw the firemen driven up like rats from a burrow. 'Stand by the boats.' "The order was given, and the boat-swain's call rose in a long, tremulous screech. One of the starboard boats was successfully launched, and the officer stood, revolver in hand. 'Women first here. Thompson, you will steer her. Take four men and no more.' The young English lady was lowered down, although she clung to her father and begged him to let her stay. "No darling, goodbye. Be happy," said, and then stood composed by shuddering hardly. By an extraordinary coincidence Stead describes the girl as "a dark beauty, about eighteen years of age." One could almost fancy that he saw as in a glass darkly the then yet unborn Mrs. John Jacob Actor. "At last only one light boat remained, and still there were over 700 of us jammed in the narrow space left by the awful list. The captain has dropped his hands—he could do no more. One sailor said: 'We've stood it long enough, Tom. Let's have our turn.' "And he, with three sturdy Swedes, managed to get at the davids. They were just in time, for the steamer began to asay as they floated, and they were all but swamped by the charge and leap of a crowd who fung themselves into the water. Then I was left with a great multitude, whose agonized clamor stunned me. "I felt a mighty convulsive movement, then the sea seemed to flash down on me in one mass, as if the wall of water fell from a high crag. Then I heard a humming noise in my ears, and with a gasp I was up amid a blackened, wriggling sheet of drowning creatures. "A boat came past me and I struck out justly. I raised myself to the gunwale. 'Shall I hit his fingers?' said a man. 'No, let him come', and I laid, sick and dizzy, on the bottom boards of a crowded boat. You know that we were picked up after a nasty time." The great journalist's friends would have wished that last sentence of his vivid forecast could have applied to his own case, when the mammoth White Star liner's "great multitude" were hurled to their ocean tomb. GOODS STOLEN 18 YEARS AGO While Loading Rock Near Cliff at Bar Harbor Workman Uncovers Loot Worth $1,000. Bar Harbor, Me.—A large amount of silver tableware, stolen from George W. Vanderbilt's summer residence here eighteen years ago, was found hidden in the rocks at the base of a cliff by Simon Violete, a teamster. Violete went to the cliff for a load of rock, and in handling the stone came upon the silverware. It is worth $1,000, and is part of plunder valued at many thousands of dollars stolen from the Vanderbilt residence. A large sum of money and much valuable jewelry were never recovered. Failed to Get a Wife. Lima, O.-Dale Cary, forty, rura bachelor of Ada, was disappointed when he appeared at a newspaper co fice here and found no answers to an advertisement he inserted asking for a wife, a brunette preferred, on six months' probation. Cary admitted reading the story of Mile. Olga Petrova, who sought a husband for six months only. Cary has hopes of yet securing a bride on trial. Desperate Measure. Miss Laffin—"What has become of our friend Mr. Clay?" Mr. Rard—"He has taken employment in a powder-mill for 6 months." Miss Laffin—"How strange!" Mr. Rard—"Not at all, of smoking—to break himself of smoking." 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To stop following hostile vessels or even for purposes of attack when the conditions are right a German naval officer has invented a Greek fire that will burn while floating on water. His , bsence Explained. At Brentford, England, a woman complained that her husband stayed away from home for several days. She was talking volubly when the magistrate remarked that he was not surprised that her husband went away. "If you talk as gibly to him as you do to me," he added, "he would want a week's rest occasionally." Democritus, who was always laughing, lived one hundred and nine years; Heraclitus, who never ceased crying, only sixty. Laughing, then, is best, and to laugh at another is perfectly justifiable, since we are told that the gods themselves, though they made us as they pleased, cannot help laughing at us. AGENTS! READ! 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. 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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.-Large furnished room, furnace heat, Bath, hot and cold water. Bell 'phone, East 1690 M. 2249 E. 49th St. FOR RENT.-Houses-If you have places to rent or if you want to rent—notify The Gazette. NOTARY PUBLIC:-For such services call at The Gazette office, No 3 Blackstone Building, No. 1422 W. 3d Street, near Superior avenue. For Rent-Five rooms, upstairs, bath, gas, etc., $15 per month, at 2506 Central Ave. 'Phone East 3600 M or North 1172 R. Miss Serena Carpenter visited relatives in Pittsburg, last and this week. St. John's A. M. E. Sunday-School P. W. Lemon, superintendent, is our largest and most successful S. S., in the state. Nearly five hundred schools are in attendance every Sunday. This is a splendid showing. Be sure to read carefully The Gazette's McCall Fashion Magazine on page 2. Call your friend's acquaintances' attention to it, also. This is a splendid opportunity particularly for ladies who would be both well-dressed and well-informed. Cleveland Sixth City Happy New Year! Mr. Cortez Hatcher spent Sunday in Palnesville. Mr. Garrett. Morgan returned the first of the week from a three weeks' business trip through Kentucky. Clarence ("Sonny") Brown, jr., has a fine son, born recently. Mrs. Brown is still quite ill. Milton Lyon was arrested, Christmas eve, charged with cutting seriously a workman in West's barber shop, Central Ave. and E. 29th St. W. T. Blue who has been building houses in Columbus, for three months, spent the holidays with his family. Mrs. Carrie Dennie French's father died recently at her residence in Chicago. When a girl, Mrs. French lived here and in Oberlin, where she was a student in the conservatory of music. Elmer Cheeks and Frederick Seelig of Purdue University, Lafayette, Ind., visited relatives here, last and this week. Clarence Cheeks went to Lynchburg and Arlington, Va., for the holidays. Do not fail to read The Gazette's advertisements. All who advertise in this paper, want your trade and will treat you better in every way than those who do not advertise in The Gazette. Rev. Charles N. Williams who came here from Claremont, Va., last fall, to study in the National School of Manual, Physical and Suggestive Therapeutics, graduated recently. He will be heard in several of our local churches soon. Rev. J. E. Thompson, pastor of Mt. Zion Baptist church. East End, was called to Windfall, N. C., recently, by his father's illness. Rev. Thompson is also conducting, successfully, a grocery store in that section of the city. Mrs. Jas. McAfee of 2314 E. 28th St. who died last week after an illness of weeks, was buried, last Friday afternoon, from the residence. Jas. A. Rogers, undertaker. Mr. McAfee has the earnest sympathy of a host of friends. Rev. M. M. Ponton, years ago a resident of this city, and until recently president of Campbell College, Jackson. Miss. formally opened Lampton College, Alexandra, La., last week, and is president of it. Prof. W. O. Bowles went a portion of the holidays visiting his aged mother and other relatives in Columbus. He will be found at his post as principal of the Sterling evening school, Monday evening, where he hopes to meet many old and new pupils. Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Hansbary of 1702 W. 24th St., entertained at Christmas dinner, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Twine, Mrs. Taylor, Mrs. Leroy Jackson, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Water, Mr. and Philo Hexter, Misses Wilberretta, Helen and Ida Hansbary assisted. The S. C. Green Amusement Co. which operates the Alba theater, this city, has purchased the Dunbar theater, Columbus, and opened it. Monday, with the latest and best attractions—moving pictures and vaudeville. Mr. Green left. Sunday evening, for Columbus, returning, Thursday. The editor of The Gazette gratefully acknowledges the receipt of very pretty souvenir postcard Xmas greetings from Mrs. M., M. L. Tavlor of Youngstown, Mr. and Mrs. D. C. Fisher of Lorain, Miss Esther Irving of Washington, D. C., Mrs. Grace W. Brown of N. Y. City, Louis H. Peck of Columbus, Mrs. Jos. R. Simmons of this city, Miss "Mickle" Cook of Baltimore, Rev. F. G. Snelson of Steubenville and others. Cory M. E. church celebrated the fifteenth anniversary of emancipation, Wednesday evening, with music by a chorus of forty boys and girls, and an address by Samuel J. Barrett. Rev. Geo. A. Sissle, pastor of the church, presided. There were several excellent recitations. A similar celebration was held at Lane Memorial church, the same evening. Rev. W. G. Webster, pastor, presiding and Theo. B. Green, Egg, delivering the address. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, JANUARY 4, 1913. Miss Serena Carpenter visited relatives in Pittsburg, last and this week. St. John's A. M. E. Sunday-School, P. W. Lemon, superintendent, is our largest and most successful S. S., in the state. Nearly five hundred scholars are in attendance every Sunday. This is a splendid showing. Be sure to read carefully The Gazette's McCall Fashion Magazine offer on page 2. Call your friends and acquaintances' attention to it, also. This is a splendid opportunity particularly for ladies who would both well-dressed and well-informed. If you wish The Gazette delivered to you, every week, by our carrier, send word, or a postal card with your address, to Cyril Dandridge, 4710 Central Ave. Local items for publication can be handed to him also. Only subscribers' papers are sent through the mail. A big iron foundry in the suburbs of Chicago, want 200 Afro-Americans. Laborers are paid $1.70 a day to start with. Write to the Employment Bureau, 2830 St. Chicago ill., if you want work. OBITUARY. Athens, O—Mrs. Lillian Madrey Starks of Charleston, W. Va., widow of Mr. Samuel W. Starks, grand chancellor of our K. of P., at the time of his death, a few years ago, died here at her sister's home, 195 Lancaster St., Christmas eve, and was buried there, last Friday afternoon. Mrs. Starks, before her marriage, lived here and was one of the most beautiful, popular and lovable young ladies in the state of Ohio. An exceptionally large circle of friends, in this state, the country, will sincerely mourn her demise. Mr. and Mrs. E.C. Berry of this city, the latter Mrs. Starks' sister, attended the funeral, which was one of the largest ever held among our people in Charleston. They too, have the sympathy of a host of friends. According to the Scientific American of recent issue, a method of economizing electrical energy employed for domestic heating or cooking is to receive the energy continuously at a low rate in a resistance apparatus which transforms it into heat and then stores the heat for use as needed. In a new electric cooking apparatus operating in this way the heating unit, consuming 500 watts total or 12,000 watt hours per day of twenty-four hours, serves to keep a mass of cast iron hot enough to cook food in ordinary utensils placed in contact with it. The cast iron block is thermally insulated by being inclosed in a surrounding wall of lampshack or powdered silica, and a movable block is arranged to be raised above the main mass, so as to expose its upper surface when cooking is to be done. The small current consumption, less than that of an electric flatiron, enables the device to be operated on the ordinary electric light wiring of the house. A society of Gotham brides have organized an antinagging club, with rules denouncing the new woman who knows nothing of housekeeping, and prescribing that husbands shall have their breakfasts at any old hour, served by neatly dressed wives, that husbands shall be kissed duly on their return, and have an evening off every week to spend how and where they please. The praises of this club will be fervently sung throughout the land and its members will be held up as exemplars for their sex, but the pessimistic will recall that these members will not stay brides. Today the free lunch is one of the deepest-rooted trees in our forest of hardy conventions. Occasional efforts have been made to tear it up from the friendly American soil, but without avail, says the New York Sun. To be sure, some of its greatest luxuriance has been lopped off; such free lunches as some set forth in that Augustan age known as the "Jim Flisk Renalance" no longer stimulate the vitals of the casual visitor to even the most open-handed caterers to the public this st. The receipt of two cents for the conscience fund in Washington has been regarded in quite a humorous light, but if all were to act under the sense of obligation to the government shown by the sender of this infinitesimal contribution, the fund might be big enough to build a dreadnought. A Kansas City mother has earned the eternal gratitude of the general public by inventing a baby "silencer." Cry and protest as it may, the baby can make no noise. The idea of this "silencer" might be extended with profit to older shoulders. Turn Over a New Leaf By subscribing for THIS PAPER Statistics recently compiled at Washington show that the value of the American farm land is now over $41,000,000,000, an increase in value of $21,000,000,000 in 20 years. There are over 6,000,000 farms, covering close to 900,000,000 acres. A large majority of these farms are worked by their owners, the small farmers, who number in round figures over 5,000,000 voters, forming the largest single class of voters in the United States and the one that is least likely to be reached by socialistic appeals. Through the center of the mosque of St. Sophia runs the theoretical meridian which gave the Turks true local time -1 hour 66 minutes 53 seconds fast on Greenwich -until, two years ago, the new government fell in with the standard system of time zones, and came into the eastern European zone, exactly two hours ahead of Greenwich time. For religious purposes, however, 12 o'clock always happens at sunset, and noon thus wanders with the seasons all round the clock --- Greed is too curse of this country. Most of our reforms are directed at some manifestation of it, says the New York World. The hope that some day it shall be curbed, if not extirpated, must rest not upon the glutts of place and power, but upon those who are able to forget themselves in public service. The man who jilted his bride almost at the altar because she refused to promise to obey is hopelessly behind the times. He ought to know by this time that the American man's main characteristic is that he makes an obedient husband. Now a Chicago pedagogue wants girls taught cooking instead of the classics. They are all coming around to the theory so brutally expressed, that woman's work is "to feed the brute." Recent investigation brings out the fact that men began only 100 years ago to wear trousers. Some of the women have been wearing them ever since the dawn of civilization. The announcement that women no longer cook as their mothers used to do, does not seem to be having any effect on the fall weddings. A taste of the old-fashioned remedy of the rod might help some in the present outbreak of school wars. The women who see Christmas a coming are said to be wearing bigger stockings. "Amazing profits in mushrooms," reads an ad. Amazing is correct. Clogged Sewing Machine. When a sewing machine will not work, stand it near the fire so that the oil inside the machine with clean pura paraffin, putting it into every oil hole. Work the machine well, and then wipe every part with a clean cloth. When perfectly clean, lubricate with machine oil. Hindu Charm. "The God-given Almighty Power is moving within me to give health, success and happiness. I shall be shown the way to help bring about all these conditions. Love, Light and Kindness wait upon me. I shall be shown the way." EYE. SHUF-ON GLASSES GRACE THE FACE THE GRIP THAT HOLDS P. A. HOERET. Optical Specialist. Eyes Examined Free. Satisfaction Guaranteed. 11 The Taylor Arcade. HUNT BIG METEORITE Huge Mass of Iron Knocked Hole in Earth in Arizona Such Is Belief of Prof. Eiluh Thomson —Movement Started to Find Imme- mense Piece of Ore Believed to Be Worth Millions. Phoenix, Ariz.—About the origin of most of the craters of the earth's surface there is little dispute. They are of all sizes. We find them in the Sandwich Islands, with floors from three to four square miles in area. These have reminded Professor Pickering of nothing less than the ring craters on the moon. In Arizona, near Canon Diablo, is a crater-like depression 4,000 feet in diameter and 500 feet deep. The rim can be seen from a great distance, and, such rims being called "buttes," this particular rim is known as Coon butte. The irregular contour of the rim is marked by broken rocks, some as large as a house. The outer slopes down to the plain are covered with similar masses, pieces of many tons weight having been thrown thousands of feet away from the crater. But there is no lava about the butte, and this would seem summarily to dispose of the idea that Coon butte is the site of a volcano. Dr. G. K. Gilbert many years ago suggested that the ring-shaped pits on the moon's surface were caused by the impact of giant meteorites, and for some time he held the view that Coon butte must have been formed in a similar manner. This view has of late been revived. Prof. Ellihu Thomson, in a letter to the American Institute of Electrical Engineers, reminds us that the masses of iron flung down the outer slopes of the crater are sent to all parts of the world as meteoric iron. Mr. Barringe has spent considerable sums in exploration under the firm conviction that he will find a large amount of meteoric iron below the surface. So far he has been unsuccessful. It is calculated that 600 bore-holes, each costing about £400, will be necessary to make sure of finding the meteoric mass, assuming it to have been 500 feet in diameter. The mass of the meteorite is estimated to have been at least five million tons. Of this the greater part would be iron, but 8 per cent. would be nickel, and there would be three million ounces of platino-liridium, worth about twenty million sterling supposing the price to remain as at present, between £7 and £8 per THE ROCK Arizona's Natural Beauty. ounce. But this is not all. Assuming there is one-hundredth of 1 per cent. of diamond in the mass, one might count on the extraction of about 500 tons of diamond. Which may account for prospectors regarding the expenditure of a quarter of a million on boreholes with some equanimity. Professor Thomson tells us that the Navajo Indians have a tradition that three large bodies fell from the sky on the site of the crater and killed a large number of their tribe. They still repair to the crater for supplies of the white silica which they sprinkle around them at their ghost dances. Policemen in West Philadelphia who escaped electrocution the other night consider themselves exceedingly fortunate. In some way a police telephone wire had become heavily charged by a feed wire. One patrolman was killed by a shock which he received upon inserting the key into the patrol box. Another was knocked unconscious. A sergeant answering the telephone calls at the station house was thrown across the room. Many on the circuit who received only slight shocks attribute their immunity to the circumstance that they had on rubber boots. It was a very serious situation, and illustrates what may happen at any time when an uninsulated electric wire carrying a heavy current crosses a telephone wire. Hence the necessity for vigilance in the observance of precautions which will prevent that dangerous mischance. 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