The Gazette

THE GAZETTE THIRTIETH YEAR. N NEF NEWS NOTES WORTH READING ERAL SUMMARY OF HAPPEN- INGS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. INTO PARAGRAPH FORM anything of Importance That Has occurred in the Past Week Has a place in These Classified Items that Can Be Read at a Glance. washington engress, when it reconvenes, will a rival in the capital, for it devi- plays plans have been made to estab- l in Washington an organization to A. N. Perry, his wife, three daugh- ters and a son were frozen to death on Box Elder Divide, 16 miles east of Rapid City, S. D. Leslie Perry, an- other son, was found delirious on the prairie by W. R. Gearson of St. Paul. Frederick Kohler is no longer chief of police of Cleveland. The civil serv- ice commission found him guilty of gross immorality, and straightway discharged him from office. Gordon Woodbury, who was a candidate for United States senator from New Hampshire in the recent contest, charged before a legislative investi- gating committee that a member of the legislature had offered to sell his vote and deliver three other votes for $1,000. Rear Admiral Stanford, chief of the bureau of yards and docks, has com- pleted plans for the construction of the second set of great naval wireless towers, which will be erected on the canal zone at Carinto, practically duplicating the initial plant on the Arlington reservation near Washington. Husbands who fail to don clean shirts Sundays received little sympathy in the divorce court at Waukita, Okla. Mrs. Mary Sutton has won a degree after testifying that it had been impossible on her part to induce her husband to change his shirt on Sunday. Nonsupport also was alleged. Josephine Kittick, thirty-five years old, of Buffalo, N. Y., was swept over the American falls while sightseeing in Luna park at Niagara Falls. President Charles M. Schwab has issued strict orders that there shall be no more Sunday/work at the plant of the Bethlehem (Pa.) Steel company. Richard Oliney of Boston, to whom President Wilson offered the post of ambassador to Great Britain, has declined it. An East side burglary, perpetrated by shrewd cracksmen some time, netted the thieves the largest haul obtained in New York city in many years. Martin Simons & Sons, pawnbrokers in Hester Street, were the victims, and the property stolen includes $250,000 worth of jewelry, diamonds and other precious stones and $50,000 worth of negotiable securities. Justice Joseph Morschauser issued an order permitting Harry K. Thaw's counsel and his mother to consult him privately at the Matteawan asylum, New York. The government appealed to the Supreme court at Washington from the decision of the commerce court in the oil pipe line cases. A motion to advance the cases will be filed. * **According to G. W. Canfield, a retired farmer who was going from Mooreshill, Ind., to Franklin, Ind., two unknown men picked his pocket of a purse containing $11,000 in cash, drafts, checks and certificates of deposit while he was boarding a train at Anderson, Ind. Canfield was going to buy another farm. * **A verdict of guilty was returned in New York against Julian Hawthorne, Dr. William J. Morton and Albert Freeman, who were charged with having used the mails for fraudulent purposes. Josiah Quincy was discharged.** Foreign The Belgium national committee on universal suffrage, which recently called off a threatened national strike as a result of the promise of the principal mayors of Belgium to do their utmost to induce the government to take up the question of revision of the constitution, has voted again for a general strike, which is to be called April 14. Eighty ships, mainly small craft, were sunk off Hamburg, Germany, in a southwesterly hurricane. Twelve deaths have already been reported, and it is thought that the death list may reach 50 persons. Streets of Neuvo Laredo, the Mexican town opposite Laredo, Tex., were the scene of a battle in which twenty Carrancistas and fifteen federales were killed. Nearly fifty soldiers were wounded. With copies of the Referee, a journal devoted to sport and the drama, in their hands, in which was exposed an alleged plan to kidnap David Lloyd-George, chancellor of the exchequer, 10,000 persons mobbed the advocates of equal suffrage who attempted to hold a meeting in Hyde Park, London. The women were pelted with clods of turf, oranges and other missiles. Grand Duchess Tatiana Nicolaeva, a daughter of Czar Nicholas, is ill with typhoid fever in St. Petersburg. Her condition showed improvement, but she is not yet out of danger. King George of Greece was assassinated while walking in the streets of Salonika. The assassin was a Greek of low mental type, who gave his name as Aleko Schinas. He shot the king through the heart. Despite the ostensible optimism of the royal physicians, it is generally known that the health of King Alfonso is causing the gravest anxiety in the Spanish capital. It is feared that the lungs of King Alfonso are seriously affected. --- AMERICA BRIEF NEWS NOTES WORTH READING GENERAL SUMMARY OF HAPPEN- INGS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. PUT INTO PARAGRAPH FORM Everything of Importance That Has Occurred in the Past Week Has a Place in These Classified Items That Can Be Read at a Glance. Congress, when it reconvenes, will find a rival in the capital, for it developed plans have been made to establish in Washington an organization to be known as the Indian congress. The arrangements were approved at a meeting of several tribal Indians and their representatives. The United States Supreme court granted an injunction asked for by the Journal of Commerce of New York city, restraining the postoffice department from enforcing the newspaper publicity act, pending a decision as to the constitutionality of the law. President Wilson issued the formal proclamation convening congress in extra session at noon on April 7. Secretary of State Bryan and Ambassador Jusserand of France formally signed the general arbitration treaties between this country and the French republic. This is the first public official act of Secretary Bryan since taking office. Domestic George B. Cox, former political leader and one time president of the Cincinnati Trust company, together with ten other officials and directors of the trust company, was charged with having violated the state banking laws in indictments returned by the Hamilton county (O. ) grand jury. Twenty-one persons were injured, three of them possibly fatally, when a passenger train on the Minneapolis & St. Louis railroad, known as the "Twin City Special," was derailed six miles north of Marshalltown, Ia. With only four more states needed, Delaware refused to join the affirmative states in ratifying direct election of United States senators. Woman's suffrage is dead in New Hampshire, at least for a year. The house of representatives turned down the suffrage bill by a vote of 239 to 98. C. S. Boswell, conductor on a Southern railroad freight train entering Belleville, Ill., was shot and killed by two boys who fired at the caboose. The explosion of the boiler at the sawmill of B. C. Wilson killed Charles McCrady and Ben McCrady and injured Frank McCrady and Wilson of Owensboro, Ky. Frank Gotch, wrestling champion of the world, has signed articles to meet George Lurch, for ten years the undefeated champion of Europe, at Kansas City April 1. It is said Gotch will receive $15,000. After having deliberated nearly 87 hours, the jury in the case of Dr. B. Clarke Hyde, on trial for the murder of Thomas H. Swepe, millionaire philanthropist, in Kansas City, reported a disagreement and was discharged. The jury stood nine for acquittal and three for conviction. After writing a telegram to a friend in Kansas City, asking for assistance in returning to that city, and learning that the message could not be transmitted because the telegraph office had closed, Miss Nettle Tabler went to the beach at Venice, in Los Angeles, Cal., and sent a bullet through her heart. The Union Pacific board of inquiry, which investigated the cause of the wreck at Gothenburg, Neb. March 14 has given out a statement holding John Weinberger, engineer of train 12 responsible. Weinberger failed to observe the block signals west of Gothenburg, it is said. Jim Hall, who on April 9, 1893, fought Bob Fitzsimmons at New Orleans for a purse of $40,000, died at a tuberculosis sanitarium near Stevens Point. Wis. In a message sent to the Wisconsin legislature Governor McGovern recommends the passage of a bill establishing a state market commission to enable farmers to sell their products to better advantage and at the same time lower the cost to the consumer. Henry Hermanson, who fell into a buzz saw, which ripped out most of the left lobe of the brain, and who lived and retained consciousness most of the time for four days, succumbed to his injuries at Mason City, Ia. At least ninety people were killed, scores severely injured, and great property loss was sustained in the disastrous electrical storm which swept parts of Georgia, Tennessee, Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. ESTABLISHED AUGUST 25, 1883, AND ISSUED EVERY WEEK ON TIME SINCE. DR. BEVERLY T. GALLOWAY Dr. Galloway, formerly chief of the bureau of plant industry, has been ap pointed assistant secretary of agriculture. COWBOY CAUSES PANIC ENTERS MAYOR'S OFFICE AND OPENS FIRE ON CLERKS. Buffalo Policeman Who Grapples With the Man From Montana Is Wounded Four Times. Buffalo, N. Y.—Joseph Stefunski, 35, a cowboy from Geyser, Mont. apparently demented, threw the city hall into a panic when he entered the mayor's office and opened fire on clerks and a policeman. Charles E. Lang, policeman, who grappled with the man, was shot four times. Stefunski called twice at the office, asking for Mayor Fuhrmann or his secretary. Later he called again. Addressing Charles Eglott, license clerk, he asked for the mayor. Eglott told him the mayor was out. "Well, I want $100," said Stefunski. Eglott tried to parley with the man while Lang, who had overheard the demand for money, walked toward him. The sight of the officer apparently alarmed Stefunski, who stepped back and drew a revolver, yelling "I'll get that hundred or know the reason why." Lang closed with Stefunski, but was unable to seize the revolver. Stefunski fired five shots, four of which lodged in Lang's neck and shoulder. Stefuski shook off his wounded antagonist and began to reload his revolver. Detective Sergeant Burkhardt rushed in and overpowered the man. At police headquarters Stefuski declared he was an anarchist and had gone to the city hall to "shoot em all." In his pocket was a curiously worded document, which the police regard as further evidence of the man's unbalanced mind. It was written on the stationery of a Great Falls (Mont.) bank and purported to be an order for $100 GAIN LITTLE THROUGH STRIKE The Textile Workers Who Recently Walked Out Get Small Boost in Wages After Settlement. Albany, N. Y.-The report of the state labor department on its investigation of conditions among Little Falls textile workers, brought to public attention by the recent strike, was just made public. "Certainly it is a matter of grave public concern," the report says, "when a considerable body of wage earners are found in such living conditions as are revealed by this report. There is reason to suppose that more or less similar conditions are to be found elsewhere." The investigators state that prior to the strike half of the men workers received a weekly wage of $9 or less, while half of the women received less than $7.50. "The settlement of the strike," the report adds, "made but little change." III Luck Follows Wedding Tarrytown, N. Y. -Ill luck has followed at Lyndhurst since Mrs. Finley J. Shepard was married on Jan. 22. Her superintendent, Archbald Robbie, caught cold at the wedding and died recently. Wednesday Martin Connolly, 65, the oldest employee on the estate, who was engaged by Jay Gould, fell from a ladder and broke his neck. Connolly celebrated his 42nd year as an employee on the estate Tuesday. Wednesday morning he was working on a ladder trimming a wistaria vine when he was seized with a fainting spell and fell to the ground. College Box Drowns. Ithaca, N. Y.-Cayuga lake claimed another cornell student victim on Wednesday afternoon. Walter Scott Richards, a junior in the university, whose home is at Cortlandt, O., was drowned when a canoe in which he was paddling capsized about 30 feet from the lighthouse pier at the head of the lake. Young Richards pluckly tried to swim ashore, but the ice water soon benumbed him and he sank. Richards was a junior in the arts college. He was photographic editor of the Cornellian. KING GEORGE SHOT DOWN BY ASSASSIN Greek Ruler Is Killed by One of His Own Nationality. Slayer Is of Foreboding Appearance and Is Believed by Those Who Have Seen Him in Prison to be Insane. Salonika—King George of Greece was shot and almost instantly killed by a man of his own nationality, while walking the streets of the city late in the afternoon, accompanied by a companion, Col. Frangoulis. The king, who received the bullet from a pistol fell to the ground and with the simple exclamation: "I am shot" became unconscious. Gentle hands picked up the prostrate monarch and hurried him to the Papafon hospital, where he died inside of a half hour. The murderer of the king was a man named Alexko Shinase, who stated that he was a Greek. The assassin is of foreboding appearance and is believed by those who have seen him in prison to be insane. Accompanied by an aide-de-camp, the king was proceeding leisurely along the street. He had passed an ordinary looking house when two men emerged and started to follow the monarch and his aide. Their proximity first attracted the attention of Lieut. Col. Frangoulis who called the attention of the king to the two men. The king turned and had just faced the man when the assassin, who was now within a few feet of him, drew Late King George of Greece. a pistol and fired. The weapon was a seven chambered revolver and the king received the shot in the heart. The assassin and his confederate started to run, but were quickly overpowered and hurried to prison. The new king, who was at Janina, rushed to the city with all possible speed. The Crown Prince Constantine, who will succeed King George, is the generalissimo of the Greek army in the field in the balkan war. Constantine. New Greek Ruler. Schinase is about 40 years old. He refused to explain the motive for his crime, except to say that he had shot the king because he refused to give him money when he asked for it. The king's aide disputes this, as he says the assassin held no conversation with the king before drawing his pistol. Later he snarled that he had no sympathy for any government and this has given rise to the belief that the assassin is an anarchist. Hypnotic Power Aids Woman. North Adams, Mass.—Exercising the most wonderful hypnotic influence which he has obtained over his wife, Guy H. Hemenway reduced her to a state of unconsciousness without the aid of a single drug, enabling her to have a live nerve extracted from a tooth without feeling the slightest twinge of pain. Four years ago, when the couple was living at Pittsfield, Mrs. Hemenway was hypnotized by her husband and gave birth to a boy without the slightest pain. [Name] Prince Ernest Augustus, who is to marry the kalser's only daughter, Princess Victoria Louise, is the only surviving son of the duke of Cumberland, whose grandfather was deprived of the throne of Hanover by Prussia in 1866. Thus began the Guelph-Hoenzoilenn feud which this marriage is to end. EXTRA SESSION APRIL 7 CALL IS ISSUED FOR CONVENING OF CONGRESS BY WILSON. President Leaves It to Lawmakers to Determine What Measures Should be Considered. Washington, D. C.—The text of President Wilson's call for the extraordinary session of congress to meet April 7 please members of both houses. He leaves it to congress to determine what measures shall be considered to meet the requirements of the "public interest" that necessitate this extraordinary session. Submit Bill to Wilson. Submit Bill to Wilson The president's announced policy of taking an active part in the framing of legislation will prevail in the drafting of the tariff schedules which will occupy the attention of the coming extra session of congress. It be foreseen that the committee and means committee, which is preparing the tariff schedules, is willing to submit the completed bill to President Wilson before it is even laid before the Democratic caucus and all he has to do is to indicate his wish that such a course be followed. This has been decided on by the committee to give the president an opportunity of considering the provisions of the bill before the expected fight in the house develops. If the president objects to features of the bill the committee members themselves will thresh them out with him and if necessary will change the bill to meet his views if he refuses to yield. It is the intention of the committee to offer to the house a bill which the president will approve when it is sent to him for his signature. Don't Know Wilson's Views. Several other tariff developments of interest were disclosed. In the first place the committee is almost completely in the dark as to President Wilson's views on the tariff and is giving serious consideration to the necessity of formally requesting him to tell it just where he stands. The committee intends to have the bill completed in plenty of time so that it can, if called upon, submit all the schedules to the house as soon as congress convenes. The question whether this shall be done, or whether the bill will be offered schedule by schedule, will be up to the caucus to decide. In preparing the tariff schedules the committee is making the biggest cuts on necessities, while the duty on luxuries will be comparatively high. SENATE COMPLETES ITS WORK Washington, D. C.—The extraordinary session of the senate completed its work March 17 and adjourned sine die. All of the president's nominations were confirmed with the exception of that of Charles P. Neill as commissioner of labor. Senator Ashurst introduced a resolution charging collusion among armor plate manufacturers in connection with the contracts for armor plate for the dreadnaught Pennsylvania and asking the secretary of the navy for a report on the matter. Therapeutic Foot Care 'Turpentine Trust' Quits Business. Savannah, Ga.—Announcement of a suspension of business was made here by the Naval Stores Co., better known as the 'Turpentine trust.' The liabilities of the concern are about $4,000,000. The paper of the company held by the banks is said to be first class and an official statement accompanying the suspension announcement gives assets that are nearly double the liabilities. Criminal charges against the company are now being argued in the United States supreme court SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS. AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS Of the one hundred counties in the state of North Carolina, as a report of the tax commissioner shows, there are fifty-one in which Negroes pay taxes on more than one quarter of a million dollars of real and personal property. In several other counties the amount is over two hundred thousand but does not reach the quarter million mark. Wake county heads the list with $1,330,705, while Halifax is a close second with $1,225,756. They are the only counties in the million class. Several others are far up toward the mark but do not quite reach it. Negroes own the largest amount of land in the following counties: Bertie, 61,414 acres; Halifax, 53,803 acres; Warren, 50,006 acres; Bladen, 48,463 acres; Wake, 40,096 acres; Columbus, 30,222 acres; Sampson, 38,267 acres; Pender, 37,438 acres; Northhampton, 36,142 acres; Craven, 36,092 acres, while there are eight other counties in which from 25,000 to 35,000 acres are owned by Negroes. In town lots Craven leads with 1,808; Wake next with 1,665; Forsyth with 1,372; Mecklenburg with 1,345; Gulford with 967; Rowan with 853; Durham with 822; Beaufort with 811; Pawquotstown with 746; New Hanover with 720. Other counties make a good showing, this being especially true of Wilson with 669 and Rockingham with 528. In valuation of town lots Wake leads with $521,989; Craven comes second with $520,095 and Mecklenburg third with $400,231. Negroes own 1,424,943 acres of land not counting town lots and pay taxes on a grand total of $29,982,238 of real and personal property. It should be known also that the rate of assessment it about forty per cent. This will indicate that Negroes own seventy million dollars of real and personal property in North Carolina. The report shows that in some counties, among them Madison, where the Negro population is small, no separate list is given. There are a little less than a million Negroes in this state. We see as a result of recent agitation among thoughtful and prominent whit women favoring woman's suffrage that it is proposed to memorialize congress asking for the immediate passage of a bill pessioning every woman who shall become a mother, allowing her out of the United States treasury the sum of $25.60 for each child born, thereby dignifying in a national way motherhood and giving it the proper kind of inspiration. We as a race are a little slow in coming to the belief that the function of motherhood is a high one, and that the rearing of healthy sons and daughters is the greatest service that can be rendered the state—The Mobile Press. Only the educated and well-to-do among us are slow in realizing the high function of motherhood. A very large per cent of the less fortunate Negroes are still doing their duty along this line. It is the Negro in the professions who has gone out of business in this matter. We recall the fact that in a certain near-by city there are twenty Negro physicians, all of whom are in good circumstances, and only one of whom is the father of children. They keep reasonably busy in the matter of accouchement for other people, but when it comes to themselves, there's nothing doing at all—Exchange. Sidestep the man who talks much and says little. The Los Angeles Liberator contains a glowing account of the activity now being displayed by well-to-do negroes out there in the matter of building business houses for negroes. It mentions one man who will invest $40,000 along this line. The colored people in that city are the best housed of any negroes in a city of like size in the United States. They are gradually awakening to the sense of an economic error made by negroes everywhere. Says the Liberator: The negroes of this city have some $200,000 invested in church property, which not only furnishes them no financial income, but is a source of continual drain upon their limited resources. Should an amount like the above be invested in office buildings and other real property it would not only furnish employment for scores of negroes, but would pay the stockholders at least 10 per cent. on the investment. Books let us into the souls of men, and lay open to us the secrets of our own. They are the best and last, the most home-felt, the most heart-felt of all our enjoyments.—Hazlitt. After spending about $500,000 for road improvement and equipment a Swiss company proposes to carry passengers over the Alps in electric automobiles. If you have built castles in the air your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them—Thoreau. Every optimist moves along with progress and hastens it, while every pessimist would keep the world at a standstill—Helen Keller. Nearly all the old generation of preachers have passed to the great beyond, and their places are now being filled by younger men, who have had superior advantages to those old men, but in all seriousness we ask, "What has been the improvement on their fathers?" The Vanguard. A pertinent question, and one that provokes thought. The old time preacher had some disadvantages and some advantages, which are absent in the work of the preacher of today. The preacher of the former was limited and so was that of his audience. His work was to appeal to and stir the emotions—a comparatively easy task among primitive people. He was sincere, earnest, and zealous. Getting money for a variety of "causes" was not then the chief business of church activity. He had no passion for riches for himself. He was content to preach the Word. The preacher of today faces a complex situation. Circumstances force him to dwell to some extent upon the intellectual side of Christianity—a phase of religion not adapted to the average Negro at his present stage of development. The preacher is sadly limited in intelligence nearly all of them have the veneer and are thereby unfitted to the task of stirring up the emotions in the old way—because he can't feel it himself. He can't reach the emotions through the reason. Now the emotion of a part of the audience has to be stirred if at all in the old way and by old methods. The veneer of intelligence on the part of the minister unfits him for meeting that demand. Another part of the audience has to be reached through reason. The minister's lack of thorough culture handicaps him here. The result is when services are over both sides of the audience feel disappointed. Further, the Negro has feasted so long on highly flavored religious dope that he can't digest or appreciate plain, simple, nourishing food. The religion of Christ was meant to be a joy, a delight, and not a burden. It has come to be a burden to a surprisingly large number of people. The thinking minister is up against a serious proposition. He has a man's job if he only knew it.—Exchange. A reverend gentleman said not long since that he was going to break up the beer drinking clubs among his membership. The question was asked, "how will you do it?" The answer was, "I will have my deacons to watch for it." This startled us and we thought of the story of the woman in red, and Christ's command to the accusers: "He that is guillotless let him cast the first stone." We were told that the pastor's deacons were presidents of the beer clubs, and we feel sure they will not accuse themselves. We don't have any faith in a Christian who shouts and sings in the amen corner and the same one has just emptied a gallon of beer—The Scimiter (Ennis, Texas). The feelings that gather fervor from novelty will be of little help toward making the world a home for dimmed and faded human beings; and if there is any love of which they are not widowed, it must be the love that is rooted in memories, and distils perpetually the sweet balms of fidelity and forbearing tenderness—George Elliot. It scarcely pays to associate with people who make you feel cheap. There need not be any fear that when the negro finally abandon his policy of putting more money in his churches than he does in all his other business enterprises combined that he will be any less religious than he is now. His religious life will be just as abounding, just as fruitful as if not more so than it is now. Religion cannot be injured by stripping it of extravagant foolishness, and thereby making it less burdensome and more agreeable.—Exchange. A society of negro farmers known as the Native Farmers' Association of South Africa, Limited, consisting entirely of native shareholders, has been formed in the Wakkerstroom district of the Transvaal for the purpose of purchasing three farms of about 13,000 acres in extent. The capital of the company has been fixed at $90,000. A phonograph has been especially designed to record observations taken by an army officer in an aerospace, where writing would be almost impossible. Always vote for a principle, though you vote alone, and you may cherish the sweet reflection that your vote is never lost.—J. Quincy Adams. Pleasure must first have the warrant that it is without sin; then the measure, that it is without excess.—H. G. J. Adam. Nervous women bite their lips; nervous girls chew gum. A burned child is shy about striking when the iron is hot. 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 1908 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. The "Separate Marriage" bill fight again demonstrates the need of The Gazette in every progressive Ohio Afro-American home. The Ohio Afro-American "got busy" last week and has "kept it up" ever since. Good! It was certainly high time. Keep up the good fight and we will surely win. That "Separate Marriage" laws are failures, is a well-known fact. But how they promote immorality, is not so well known. White men in the south (where such laws exist only), know that the anti-intermarriage laws of their states make marriage, with the Colored girls or women they see duce, impossible, and that the usual responsibilities, outside of marriage as a result of the law, are not forced upon them. Naturally, they regard every good-looking Colored girl or woman, particularly, as their prey, "governing" their passions accordingly. Just how bad moral conditions get in any state, north or south, that is cursed with so vicious a thing as a "Separate Marriage" law, and to what depths many white "men" fall, from a moral viewpoint, under it, can be readily seen when one has read carefully and thoughtfully the following letter sent recently from the south to Mrs. Ida B. Wells-Barnett, editor of the Chicago Fellowship Herald, by a Colored woman who has for many years served as a nurse and cook (and is still doing so) in the best white families of that section, the south; "Perhaps some might say, if the poor pay is the only thing about which we have to complain, then the slavery in which we dally toll and struggle is not so bad after all. But the poor pay isn't all—not by all means! I remember the last time from which I was dismissed. I lost my place because I refused to let the madam's husband kiss me. He must have been accustomed to undue familiarity with his servants, or else he took it as a matter of course because without any love-making at all, soon after I was installed as cook he walked up to me and last week he took me in the act of kissing me when I demanded to know what he meant, and shoved him away. I was young then, and newly married and didn't know then what has been a burden to my mind and heart ever since: that a Colored woman's virtue in this part of the country has no protection. I at once went home, I had a husband went to the man who bad insulted me, the man cursed him and slapped him, and This is the miserable condition "Separate Marriage" laws make for every state that enacts one. Do we wish he be in Ohio? No member of his dhikhul-legislature who has a wife and daughter, or either, can fail to have so little regard for those of his Colored brother as to vote for such a hopelessly vicious and miserably immoral promoter as the Reppert, House Bill, No. 27. The mere introduction of it, in the Legislature, was a disgrace to the state of Ohio and decency in general. " 'TWAS EVER THUS! " He Can Organize and Spend Money for Everything "Under the Sun" Except to Protect, Defend and Retain His Citizen Rights, Etc. Washington, D. C.—The following, from a local race publication, is too good and true to fail to republish in "the old reliable" GAZETTE, there fore we forward it: TO "WIPE OUT" COATESVILLE, PA Senator Samuel W. Salus of Philadelphia has introduced a bill in the Senate providing for the annulment of the charter of Coatesville. We hope that Senator Salus will have the co-operation of every Senator in passing this bill; that this Legislature will endeavor to please the people by carrying out the recommendations of Governor Tener, who asked to have the charter of Coatesville relied upon by the Senate was unequivocally weighed the situation carefully. He has endeavored by all means to ferret out the guilty parties so that they might be punished, but has failed utterly in having convicted those who have confessed that they were a part of the mob. There is probably no one who felt the sting and pang of shame and disgrace resulting from this barbarous, cruel blood-thirsty murder more than did Governor Tener. It was no wonder that the civilized world; and the citizens of Pennsylvania excepting those at Coatesville are anxious to have this one blot wiped off the fair name of the State—Pennsylvania Advocate-Verdict. A LYNCHING HITS BARS. Westchester, Pa.—The borough of Coathester has lost all its liquor licenses as a direct result of the lynching of an Afro-American there in August, 1911, for which crime no one has yet been published. JACK JOHNSON'S TRIAL. Chicago, Ill. — The trial of Jack Johnson on a charge of violating the Mann white slave act has been set for May 5. His trial on a charge of smuggling will begin April 23 instead of April 7, the date originally set. LORGE NOTES By C. P. Lancaster. Glenna Temple, No. 21, D. of E., will soon resume their popular bi-monthly social sessions. Western Reserve lodge, No. 42, K. of P., served a banquet, furnished by Caterer Hansbury, in their Castle Hall, at their last regular session, in honor of the large class of new members. Ezekiel Commandry, Knights Templar, will be the guests of Red Cross Commandry at their Easter morning service in St. John's church. A reception and banquet was given in honor of Col. E. Spurlock and staff, of Columbus, by Cleveland Patriciarch Co. A, 1st Battalion, 4th Regt. Ohio; Capt. J. H. Beckwith, commanding on the staff, of Cleveland, furnished by Caterer Charles McPherson at Beckwith's cafe. Covers were aided for 30 guests. Color decorations were red, white and blue. After the reception and banquet the guests went to Ideal Hall and the company gave an exhibition drill and was inspected by Col. Spurlock and staff. The patriarch is to be congratulated on its plush dress, on its plush first inspection and exhibition drill. Mr. Lucien Armstrong, manager of the ideal cafe, died suddenly, Monday. The funeral was held from St. John's church, this Friday, at 2 p. m., under the auspices of Cuyahoga lodge, No. 95, I. B. P. O. E. of W—Read The Gazette brethren. Old Man Had Been Thinking. "What did her father say when you asked for her hand?" "Said he'd been wondering what I had been passing him two-for-a-quarter cigars for so regularly of late." "Detroit Free Press. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1913 THAT "SEPARATE MARRIAGE" BILL Ohio Afro-Americans Finally Wake Up And Make a Very Strong Fight AGAINST THE VICIOUS MEASURE Delegations of Leading Men and Women of the Race From Various Parts of the State Arrive Cleveland Delegation Leads in the Practical Work—Three Ohio Race Papers Silent. EMPRESS TAI TOU FREED Addis Adeba, Abyssinia. — After three years of being interned in Ghebeli, Empress Tai Tou, the wife of King Menelik, has been granted her freedom. The rightful heir to the throne has also been granted his freedom. The empress' domain will be in the vicinity of Addis Adeba. It is known definitely that the heir to the throne has been designated in the person of Lig Yassu, the granddress of Empress Tai Tou. BUGKEYE LETTERS WRITTEN BY "THE OLD RELIA- BLE" GAZETTE'S CORRE- SPONDENTS. THROUGHOUT OHIO What- Our People Are Doing Each Week—Church, Personal, Social, Lodge, Literary and Musical — Marriages, Deaths, Etc. SEKITAN.—Mr. Henry Fitzpatrick, an old citizen, died recently. His funeral was a large one, the Odd Fellows participating in it.—Mrs. M. J. Brannum visited in Westwood. Richard R. Real, who has had a number of accidents, is very ill at this writing. JEFFERSON.—Mrs. J. Blaine and children, and Mr. Jas, Douglass of Ashtabula, were here, Saturday. Walter Crooms put on successful specialties, Thursday and Friday evenings, with the "Irish Rebel," a dramatic play. PAINESVILLE.—Born to Mr. and Mrs. J. Ship, a son, on March 10. J. L. Wooten returned from Tiffin, Sunday.—Mr. Fred Howard of Salem, was here, Thursday, and Perle Smith entertained in his honor—Mrs. C. A. Wooten, of Salem, and Mrs. Land, Friday and Saturday.—Mrs. Winn, Smith is slightly better.—Miss Mary Moxley of Fairport, was the guest of Miss Josephine Wooten, Friday and Saturday.—Messrs. LeRoy Greene and Bridgford were in Cleveland, Sunday.—Mrs. B. A. Kelley of Mary Wednesday.—Mrs. B. B. A. Kelley of roy, was the guest of Mrs. J. L. Wooten, over Sunday.—Mr. Vie Ross of Geneva, was here, Sunday. SANDUSKY.—Mrs. W. Jones, "Faer" Stephen Wallace and M., M. N. Washington are ill.—Mrs. B. Clemens is better.—Mr. Garrett Shadd was buried, Monday, from the Second Baptist church, the pastor officiating. A wife, three children, two brothers and a sister mourn his loss.—Rev G. D. Smith returned from New Castle, Pa., last week and preached, Sunday. H. C. Gorman, M., M. N. church, and Mrs. Smith, are holding a revival at Norwalk—Rev L. H. Dodd left, Sunday, on evangelistic work.—Young peoples' prayer-meeting, Tuesday evenings. Sunday at 7 p. m. the Decatur St. S. S. will render a special program. Baptizing, Easter. CADIZ. — Miss Mary Smith was home from Coxhoston, recently. — Earl Brown of Columbus, is here. — The "Trip Around the World" at the A. M. E. church, last Friday night, given by the ten classes, was a success. — Theo. Veney is visiting his mother, Mrs. Susie White. — A chicken-supper was given at Mrs. Gertrude Rudolph's on the 15th for the benefit of Simpson M. E. church. — The B. B's were entertained, Sunday, by Mr. Theo. Mason, Mrs. B. S. Lee and Mrs. Mason, Mrs. B. S. Lee and in Stubenville, recently — Read The Gazette every week. — Mr. and Mrs. Chaplin of Washington, Pa., visited Mrs. Ida Bowles, last week. — Miss Lizzle Davis was called to Steubenville and was accompanied home by her sister, Miss Daisy, who was sick. ASHTABULA—Mr. June Sanders and the Misses Crooms of Jefferson, were here. Sunday—Mr. Hiram Keyes has added a new chair and case to his new barber shop, making it one of the finest in the city; all white emerald. He expects to move into his new home soon. It was purchased at Sandy Lake. Mr. Keyes at home at Sandy Lake. Pa. will all be cordially invited to attend the bible class from 2 to 4 p. m. at Henson and Brown's. Mrs. Fred. Burk leaves, Thursday, for Franklin, Pa. to attend an aunt who is ill. T. E. Green spent Sunday in Youngstown with his son, Atty. Green—Mrs. Ina Keeler has gone to Teen and Va., for a month's visit. Mrs. Green is neaut, visited here. Mrs. D. Williams and Mrs. G. McCurdy of Conneaut, visited Mrs. C. H. Green and sr.—Messrs. D. Williams and C. Smith were in Cleveland, Sunday. Correspondents must mail all letters for publication at their main postoffice sufficiently early on Monday (or Sunday) of each week to have them reach The Gazette office on Tuesday morning, and always write also, their names and that of their relatives, and their wrapper about returned copies. Unless this letter is done, proper credit cannot be given you. Lists of names, wedding presents, etc., obliterary notices, speeches, resolutions, poetry, inquiries for relatives and advertisements of all kinds, including items announced for appointments to the near future, paid for in advance at the rate of ten cents a line, six words to a line. Our rates for display advertisements will be sent on application. Send postal note and not stamms during warm weather. SMITHFIELD.—Miss Bessie Peterson of Steubenville, is visiting her aunt, Miss S. Benford.—Mrs. D. Christian entertained at dinner, Sunday, Mr. and Mrs. J. Jackson, Mr. and Mrs. H. Harris and Mr. C. Thompson.—Mr. and Mrs. V. Beall spent Sunday with Miss M. Beall at Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell's.—Mr. J. Harris visited last week in Cadiz.—Patronize Mrs. B. Thompson, Mrs. C. Thompson, Mrs. Freeman and Miss E. Wills are soon to be married.—The W. W. Sewing Circle was delightfully entertained last Friday afternoon, at Mrs. E. H. Harrison's.—Mrs. M. Bigsby is ill.—Mr. E. Davis, who fell from a wagon a few days ago, and was badly injured, is improving.—Mr. Arthur Ramsey of Pittsburg, visited here, Sunday.—Mrs. M. Harris and Mrs. S. Jackson shipped there Monday.—The A. M. e choir is much improved by the addition of Mr. J. Christian and Mesdames Jackson and Thompson—John, who has been here Hardware ware in Steubenville, last Thursday.—Mr. M. choir is ill.—Mrs. Mary Smith, who has been ill all winter, is having much trouble with her eyes.—Mr. R. Jackson of M. Pleasant, spent Saturday night here. WILMINGTON. — Frank Johnson has recovered from a severe attack of the grip—Ethel McDonald has had an original poem set to music. Her talent for writing verses has already gained her an enviable local reputation, and competent authority believes she has been taught to sophomore student in our High school. —Friends of John Culberson, who a few years ago lived here, will be glad to learn that he and his family are located at Sabina—Mrs. and Mrs. John Hughes have purchased a home on Douglas St.—Mrs. Minnie Taylor has returned from Hillsboro—Annette Peyton has checked in at the barber shop—Mrs. J. A. Burris entertains the Baptist Ladies' Aid society, this Friday. The Burris home is a most hospitable one on such occasions.—Reginald Bass of Marion, Ind, is here visiting relatives. Mrs. John Lewis continues ill. Mrs. Ed. Wright is improving by the Alonzo Cowan was destroyed by fire, last Friday, and much of the furniture was consumed. The annual dinner was served at the A. M. E. church, Sunday. The church instituted these annual free dinners several years ago, many baskets are set up to attend the dinners.—Mrs. Rupert Duggar is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Bates of Chillicothe.—Misses Delia and Bertha Anthony and Mrs. Mayme Gilkey have returned from Columbus YOUNGSTOWN —Rufus Eckles, age 45, died last Monday. Tuberculosis. He had lived here for 15 years and was a member of Smith Memorial A, M. E. church. A mother, a sister Eckles had been blind for some years. —Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Jones and son, of Cleveland, en route home from Pittsburg, visited Mrs. Susan Holmes and family, last week, returning home the first of the week —Mr. Holmes, sr. entertainer, in entertainment of Miss Elizabeth Anderson of Jamestown, N. Y., and Mrs. L. S. Jones of Cleveland. Covers were laid for eight. All thoroughly enjoyed themselves. Mrs Jones was also entertained at dinner by Mrs. M. Ragland, in Mrs. M. Ragland, and Mrs. A Rayford —Dr. J. K. Nickens of Cleveland, who has traveled exten Dr. J. K. Nickens. sively in this country, the islands of the seas, and Canada, will deliver his celebrated lecture in the interest of religious and educational institutions, illustrating the same with strikingly realistic and beautiful stereoptical views, at Smith Memorial A. M. E. Church, Oak Hill Ave., Monday evening. This is not only an elevating, interesting and intensely pleasing illustrated lecture but one of real race and color, with a sense of pride. Do not miss it—Mrs. Chas Jackson was in Mt. Vernon, last week—Oliver Grimes of Beaver Falls, Pa., visited his daughter, Miss Carrie Grimes, last week—Misses Sarah Mitchell and Rose Woods of Bradford, Pa., were here, last week, guests of Miss Belle Walker who has been Ill—Mrs. Taylor is convalescing—Mr. Archie-Thomas is very ill—Mr. John Donning of Cleveland, was here, Mrs. Donning of Elk River, was lescent—Mrs. Florence Smith Washington, formerly of Struthers, died, last Friday, in St. Clair Hospital, Cleveland. She was operated on two weeks ago. The remains were brought here for interment. She leaves a number of friends, and relatives to mourn her demise—Mr. and Mrs. Earl Stewart have a fine new girl—Mrs. Geneva Stincer of N. Y. City, was called here, Sunday, by her husband A. Thomas Illness, J. M. Glimper, former of O. Hill Avenue, A. M. E. church, will go to Washington, A. M. C. in April, to attend a meeting of the Financial Board of the church, of which he is a member, representing this the third episcopal district—Read The Gazette. THE FAMOUS TILTON ON Among the sonnets written by the great Theodore Tilton, American resident in Paris, France, to the memory of Frederick Douglass appears the following fine lines: I know the proudest giants of my day, And he was of them—strong amid the strong. But gentle too, for, though he suffered wrong. Yet the wrong doer never heard him say, Thee also do I hate. * * * A lover's lay—no dirge, no doleful requiem song— Is what I owe him, for I loved him long. As dearly as a younger brother may. Proud is the happy grief with which I sing. For, O my country, in the paths of men There never walked a grander man than he! He was a peer of princes—yea, a king. Crowned in the shambles and the prison pen. The noblest slave that ever God set free! ROSENWALD'S MONEY "TAINTED." Cincinnati, O. — The Young Men's Hebrew Association has refused a donation of $50,000 from Julius Rosenwald, of Chicago. The donation was offered toward a fund to erect a building. "The foundation of the building was $100,000 offered by the Chicagoan," said Attorney Nicholas Klein, representing the association. "Rosenwald stated to me in a letter that he would be glad to subscribe to the fund now being raised with which to erect the building. We would Rosenwald's money, nor will we accept any money accumulated by a system of keeping down the wages of poor working girls." WEIGHED 613 AS SHE DIES. Savannah, Ga.—Melissa Cooper died March 16, at Grayson and it took 14 men to put her in a coffin. She weighed 613 pounds when her heart stopped beating. Five months ago she, apparently recovered from a serious illness, and had never weighed more than 150 pounds. She began to take on weight at the rate of almost 100 pounds a month. 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We are especially desirous of hearing from persons in the following named cities: Zanesville, Newark, Lancaster, Lebanon, Chillicothe, Toledo, Troy, Canton, Springfield, Piqua, Columbus, Cambridge, Steubenville, Bellarne, St. Clairsville, Wilmington, Washington, C. J. Ford, 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 terms will be sent promptly. Our readers will oblige us greatly by providing us with persons in the cities named above, or others, to whom we can write relative to the master. Industrious Navajos The Pawajos, numbering 30,000, live in northern Arizona and northwestern New Mexico. They occupy an area about as large as the state of Pennsylvania, most of which is a desert. Here for centuries they have made their own living by raising sheep and goats. 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A Complete Line DRY GOODS, LADIES' and FURNISHINGS! Double Stamps on Tuesdays and Fridays. Good Bargains In Realestate! LARGE MORTGAGE LOANS! RENTALS--COLLECTIONS. S. E. WOODS, 2828 Central Ave. Turn Over a New Leaf By subscribing for THIS PAPER PURELY PERSONAL NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS:--Subscribers not receiving The Gazette regularly should notify us at once. We desire every copy delivered promptly. We advise our patrons to carefully examine The Gazette's advertisements before making purchases. Business men who advertise in this paper should have the patronage of Afro-Americans. The fact that they advertise is assurance that they want it. Local reading notices (advertisements) ten cents a line (six words in a line.) Our Classified Ad Department NOTARY PUBLIC.—For such services call at The Gazette office, No. 3 Blackstone building, No. 1424 W. Third Street, near Superior Ave. For Sale.—A fine restaurant; good trade established. Leaving the city on account of ill health. A good bargain. Write or call at 282% Central Ave. S. E. Woods. Rev. S. C. Coleman of Farrell, Pa. is in the city. Miss P. E. Holmes of E. 43rd St., is still ill. Mrs. F. D. Lawson of E. 28th St. has recovered. Mrs. L. Hall of E. 38th St., who has been ill, is convalescing. Rev. J. R. Jackson of Quincy, Mich. is assisting Rev. Chas. Bundy in a revival at St John's church. Mr. Lucien Armstrong, proprietor of "2400," died suddenly, Monday heart failure. He leaves a wife, a fine woman, who has the heartfelt FOR RENT.—One large front room, furnished or unfurnished; use of bath, on E. 77th St. Apply or address, Mrs. R. Brooks, 2327 E. 90th St. FOR RENT.—Five rooms and bath; hot and cold water; $12 per month. M. Cohen, 2816 Central Ave. FOR RENT.—Houses and Rooms—If you have them to rent or if you want to rent, advertise in The Gazette. It brings results. Cleveland Sixth City Mrs. Dan. Fairfax of E. 35th St., is ill. The editor of The Gazette spent Tuesday in Columbus. Mr. and Mrs. John Fairfax's daughter, Laura, of Duluth, Minn., is visiting them. Rev. Proud of Cincinnati, was the guest of Rev. H. C. Bailey, the first of the week. Mrs. Ella Robinson of E. 27th Place, has returned from a cousin's funeral in Louisville, Ky. Be sure to read The Brown Drug Co.'s new advertisement. It contains something of interest and value to you. W. H. Thomas of Arthur Ave. has purchased two houses on Blaine Ave. and will occupy one of them, April 1. Good! F. D. Blackburn and a friend furnished the talent for a high-class musicale given in Ravenna, last Thursday evening. The Gazette is Indebted to The Cleveland Press for the excellent portrait of Hon. H. T. Eubanks given in these columns recently. Master Stewart Snyder, son of Mr. and Mrs. James R. Snyder of E. 105th St., entertained a few little friends, the 12th, in honor of his fourth birthday. Call at The Gazette office and pay your subscription. Do not wait for the collector. It is pleasanter and better in every way. If he does call, please pay him promptly. Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Jones and son, of E. 30th St., visited her sister and other relatives in Pittsburgh and Youngstown, respectively, last week and had a very pleasant trip. 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. Edgar Welcker age 35, died at Warrenville sanitarium, the 9th. Funeral services, the 12th, at Boyd's chapel, conducted by Rev. Harris; interment in E. Cleveland cemetery; E. F. Boyd, funeral director. If you wish The Gazette delivered to you, every week, by our carrier, send word, to Cyril Dandridge, 410 Cen. Local items for publication can be handed to him also. Only subscribers' papers are sent through the mail. The executive board, N. O. C. B. S. S. Institute will meet in joint session with the executive board of the C. B. S. S. Institute, April 2, 10:30 a.m. in Mt. Vernon Ave. A. M. E. church, Columbus. Rev. W. H. Coleman, president. All officers take notice. The editor of The Gazette acknowledges the receipt, last week, of an invitation from Mrs. Victoria Oatmeal of Washington, D. C., formerly of Washington, D. H. this state, to attend the graduating exercises of the Armstrong Night school. March 14. Dr. C. I. Mottley of E. 46th St., delightfully entertained a few friends at a six o'clock dinner, last Tuesday evening. The editor of The Gazette still regrets exceedingly that hasty preparations for a trip to Columbus in connection with H. B. 27 made it impossible for him to attend. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, MARCH 22, 1913. Rev. S. C. Coleman of Farrell, Pa. is in the city. Miss P. E. Holmes of E. 43rd St., is still ill. Mrs. F. D. Lawson of E. 28th St. has recovered. Mrs. L. Hall of E. 36th St., who has been ill, is convalescing. Rev. J. R. Jackson of Quincy, Mich. is assisting Rev. Chas. Bundy in a revival at St. John's church. Mr. Lucien Armstrong, proprietor of "2400," died suddenly, Monday, heart failure. He leaves a wife, a fine woman, who has the hearttell sympathy of many friends here and in Sandusky, her former home. George L. Lang, headwaiter of the Country club, L. S. Boulevard, paid The Gazette a pleasant visit Monday. Mr. Lang is a thorough race man and of those who are always interested in, and willing to help, his people. Mrs. Mary Stewart of Flushing, died, Sunday, and was buried Tuesday. She left two children; Mr. Lucius Stewart and Miss Ethel Stewart. Another daughter, Miss Clara Stewart, well known in this city, died a few months ago. Sunday morning, at Mt. Haven Baptist church, Rev. J. L. E. Burr will preach on "Christ, the Dynamic Force in the Christian Religion"; in the evening on "The Happy State of the Righteous"; at 3 p. m. on "The Life of Livingstone." S. S. at 12:30 noon, and B. Y. P. U. at 6:30 p. m. The Church of God and Saints of Christ was incorporated last week, the editor of *The Sacrette* representing them as he did in the purchase of the former Cory M. E. church property on E. 37th st. recently. Easter Sunday evening, under the direction of the pastor, Rev. J. E. Davis, a biblical recital will be given under the auspices of the "Tribe of Judah." Mrs. Maggie Jordan, captain. Rev. J. M. Glimmer, pastor of Smith Memorial A. M. E. church, Youngstown, spent last week at home. He had just attended the district conference at St. Clairsville. Dr. Glimmer reports his charge in a fine condition and hard at work with the brightest prospects for its "Gideon Army" rally in June. In April he will go to Washington, D. C., to meet the Financial Board of the A. M. E. church, of which he is a member. Next Wednesday evening at M. Haven church, the Canaan club will give a concert and supper that promises to eclipse former affairs of a similar nature. Among those on the program are: Mrs. Florence Washington, M. Jesse Mrs. Imperial President Smith, Mrs. Grace Hawley Dunn, Miss Mamie Yates and others. Mr. Letcher Dunn, a general promoter of this entertainment, is responsible for much good free advertising it is receiving. T. H. Johnson of E. 108th St. was pleasantly surprised on the 11th his birthday, by his wife and L. E. Williams, who served a fine six-course dinner to fourteen guests; Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Ramey, Rev. and Mrs. C. H. Younx, Jr. and Mr. B. F. Berry, Jr. and Mrs. Williams, Mr. and Mrs. H. Strothers, Mrs. Marie Hill, Miss Emma Harding, Mr. S. McNeil and Mrs. Annie Farrell. The table decorations were white and yellow. Mr. Johnson was the recipient of many beautiful presents. Nearly $800 of the $1,600 needed to establish the Phillips Wheatley Home for our girls has been pledged and Mrs. Levi T. Scofield, president of the board of trustees of the organization hopes that the entire amount will be in hand within two or three weeks. A tentative site for the home has been selected in Central Ave. in the vicinity of the school. The colored" girls, Mrs. Scofield, two other homes are being carried on for ALL working girls? Will one for Jewish girls, another for Irish girls and still another for German girls be started also, soon? An Easter offering and reception for the benefit of the Old Folk's Home fund for a new home will be held at Mrs. S. C. Green's, 3525 Cedar Ave. Mar. 24, from 3 to 11 p. m. A continuous program and refreshments. This fund received $25 from the Easley Co., last week. It was the May Co., that discharged about a dozen Afro-American program and hired men in their places, paying them $12 a week when our porters had to work six months before they were paid that monthly. Pullman Car Porters Wanted. We train reliable Colored men by mail to become Pullman car porters in 30 days; positions everywhere; big income in salary and tips; a chance to see the country; if you're making less than $25 per week write today for free booklet; learn during spare time. AMERICAN SERVICE SCHOOL, Dept. C., 80 Fifth Ave., New York City. Again We Say Subscribe for THIS PAPER About 300 persons heard Rev. M. C. B. Mason, a secretary of the Freedmen's Ald Society, Cincinnati, last Thursday evening at Technical High school, C. W. Chesnut Esq., presiding. Other speakers were Rev. H. C. Bailey, Rev. B. W. Paxton, Theo. B. Green, Esq., Prof. W. S. Scarborough and Hon. John P. Green. About $75 were taken for the National Association for the Advancement of Afro-Americans. Dr. Mason asked for $100. About one hundred persons heard Dr. Mason lecture at Cory M. E. church, last Wednesday evening. An announcement will soon be made of the coming to this city of one stellar aggregation of stars, that will surprise even the regular theatre patrons. In the last few years we have had several All-Star Revivals, the Lambs and Friars Star Gambols, the Jubilee will be seen here the week of March 24 at the Empire Theatre, Cleveland. This signal honor was tendered A. Reeves, who will head this big organization, as Mr. Reeves is considered without a peer in his line. When he consented to appear, it was agreed that this would be an important part of the refined Burlesque. Such well known stars as Andy Lewis, George Thatcher, Billy Durgin, George Scott, Johnny Walsh, Tommy Cochrane and others of note will be cast for important parts. Lucille Manion has been loaned to Mr. Reeves' company to play a leading role in a training class of Refined Burlesque, to say nothing of Laura Russell, positively the highest salaried woman in Burlesque, Sister DeGrat, Catherine Horter and others will positively appear. The Four American Belles, direct from three years' European success will be a special feature. The Big Jubilee Company will be presenting the more important large cities will be visited on the tour. There are two good reasons why patrons should get seats at once: First, this big cast will appear at regular house prices. Second, the sale will be so large that those waiting too long will get left. Orders will be taken at the Box Office, and the more people come, first served. No speculators will be sold any seats. The sale of seats will be limited to not over ten to any one person. Last Sunday afternoon's meeting at Shiloh Baptist church was a grand success in every respect. The church auditorium and S. S. room were crowded and the speakers: Theo B. Green, Esq., Mesdames Blanche Gilmore, Bessie Kitzmiller, Mollie C. Green, Rev. Harrison C. Bailey, Rev. K. Nickens, and the editor of The Gazette, pleased the great audience thoroughly as the frequent spontaneous outbursts of applause indicated. Mrs. Gilmore, president of the Du Bols Literary club, under whose auspices the meeting was held, called upon Deacon Walker of Shiloh to help prepare a speech to the object of the meeting and called on Hon. Harry C. Smith to preside and take full charge of it. The vicious "Separate Marriage" bill pending at Columbus, was thoroughly "aired" and explained by the speakers, and the great work of the Cleveland Green, Mesdames Gilmore, Green ap* Kitzmiller) against it, described in detail by them. A collection of be- Rev. H. C. Bailey. tween $16 and $17 was given to assist in paying off obligations taken on in sending the delegates to Columbus, last week. This helped materially. The meeting also authorized the sending of the same delegates, or some of the same delegates, to keep tab on" and continue the work against the miserable bill. The editor of -The Gazette was delegated to go, Tuesday, and Theo. B. Green, Wednesday, by the delegates in meeting assembled, Monday morning, in The Gazette office. After prayer by Dr. Burr, the meeting returned to the meeting of the Gazette was one of the most enthusiastic and successful race gatherings ever held in Cleveland, and the Du Bois club and its energetic president, particularly, are to be highly complimented and praised for the same. Shiloh church is rapidly becoming the people of the Smith and his officers and congregation are to be praised for their liberality in this respect. Difficulties of Reform "Reform." remarked Farmer Corntosel, "is something that has to be approached with great caution an perspicacity." "Yet you must adi that we need reform." "Yes. But does that colt. Only every time start to reform him he lames himself, breaks the spring wagon and gives the whole family nervous prostration." We All Know the Kind. "It was an interestist game," said Bronco Cob; "but it had to break up." "Won't it perfectly fair?" "Yes. But it got irritatin. We had one of them protestin' fellers settin' into it. One of them fellers that can't hold less than three aces without thinkin' the deal nain't square." Wanted a New Sensation. Bald One—I would give anything for your splendid head of hair. Woolly One—Would you, really? Bald One—Yes, I would like to go to the barber shop just once and feel that I was getting my money's worth—New Orleans Picayune. Another Definition. "Pa, what is an optimist?" "An optimist, my boy, is a woman who thinks that everything is for the best, and that she is the best." -Judge. OUR REALISTIC FICTION. Some publishers have recently been saying that the novel reading public today wants books dealing in a serious way with serious aspects of life. The professional book reviewer is of the same opinion. The difficulty in making any general statement regarding what people want to read at any given time is that there are so many people who read books, in this country at least. To say that the trend at present is to the realistic novel does not mean that the trend is away from any other kind of fiction. Actually, we find that the different types can flourish side by side. Best sellers of the romantic, swashbuckling, quite inconsequent kind continue to be written. Perceptibly nearer to the truth of life are the short novels of homely sentiment whose remarkable popularity during the last few years has been one of the notable features of the publishing trade. Deading with the elemental subjects of home, motherhood, child life and the quiet ways of ordinary married folks, they are still too heavily steeped in the sugar-coat of sentiment for the discriminating taste or the robuster appetite. The needs of this last public are now being answered by a growing army of realistic writers who work in the line of one of two traditions, which may roughly be characterized as the native and the foreign tradition, with the latter more conspicuously in the foreground. The general belief that Friday is a day of ill luck had its origin in the history of Christ, the crucifixion taking place on that day. Friday, however, by many has been held to be a lucky day, as in Scotland it is a favorite day for weddings. Friday has been a peculiarly lucky day in the history of America. It was on Friday August 3, 1492, that Columbus set sail on his voyage of discovery, and Friday, October 12, that he first sighted land: Friday, November 22, 1493, that he reached Hispanica on his second voyage: Friday, June 13, 1494, that he reached the continent of America. Some other events taking place on that day in America were the battle of Bunker Hill, June 17, 1775; Saratoga currendered October 17, 1776, and it was also on Friday, October 17, 1776, that the motion was made that the United Colonies of America are and ought to be free and independent. The Chinese have changed their calendar, to conform with the Gregorian arrangement used by the people of the western world, and hereafter they will celebrate the New Year on the same day as the Americans. It is to be hoped that they will not adopt the custom which has been followed by the large cities during the past few years of spending the eve of the first day of the year in reckless carousing and marking midnight with a din of horns and bells and firearms. The money that is spent in drinking on New Year's eve would be better given to the poor, says the Milwaukee Wisconsin. Chinamen who are wise will exercise discrimination in copying American customs. The United States Geological Survey has gravely decided that the traditional divining rod points downward only because it is not pointed upward, and not because it has anything to find. Some people will be surprised that it requires the force of an official utterance to dispel such an old superstition, but so deepscaped is the ancient and honorable avocation of faking. According to statistics, Harvard students pay more for cigarettes than books. But, then, a man can buy books any time, while the majority of them outgrow cigarettes after their callow days. A Chicago man jumped into the lake to show he was not afraid. Fool-hardiness is no proof of bravery, although it is all the same to him now, as he failed to get out. Why is the world so arranged that afterthoughts don't occur to you until the chap who gave you an opportunity is half a block away? Because his wife has not spoken to him in eleven years a New York man wants a separation. Some men are hard to suit. That $5,900 dog weighing three and a quarter pounds probably never has the fun of running down his own fleas. Side whiskers are fashionable, but those who cannot grow them can get a comfortable muffler for 50 cents. There are 19 separately named grades of eggs sold in the market, not including good eggs cheap. "Why can't we look like Greek athletes and goddesses?" asks a New York clubwoman. Because we'd all get pinched. It is a wonder some foolish nation does not guild a fleet of the biggest possible battleships and get the agony over. China is said to want an American adviser for its president. America has plenty of advisers to spare. The germ of whooping cough is the bacillus pertussis, which in itself is enough to scare a child. Still, there is nothing to prove that woman will wear trousers in the millennium. This world from end to end holds 1,000 males to 920 females. --- A GENUINE McCall's Magazine The Gazette Any 15-cent M All For O McCall's Magazine is the Leading Fashion Journal in America. A GENUINE BARGAIN McCall's Magazine--one year The Gazette -- one year Any 15-cent McCall Pattern All For Only $2.00 In the matter of dress, McCall's is indispensable to every woman. There are over 50 of the newest designs of celebrated McCall Patterns in each issue. 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Blackstone Bldg., nd, Ohio Champoo Driver $3 SPORTS The Royal English Henley regatta will be rowed on the Thames river July 2, 3, 4 and 5. Henry Coulter, former world's champion oarsman, ex-coach of Cornell, and inventor of the sliding seat and spoon oar, is dead. Dr. B. F. Roller won his match at Lincoln, Neb., with "Jack" Taylor of Canada. Taylor got the first fall after a struggle of 18 minutes. The second and third went to Roller. Stanislaus Zbyszko had the hardest work he ever encountered in his many matches in Detroit in throwing Demetral, the Greek wrestler. Zbyszko won the first fall in 48:00 and the second in 8:30. Yodji Yamada, the Japanese masse shot wonder, will spend the coming summer in Berlin, but will return to America to take part in the title tournament next fall. Mortin Phillips set a new world's record at pocket billiards under the new rules, when he counted 74 in his match with Ed Jones in the Chicago amateur championship tournament. Alfred Dro Oro retained his title of pocket billiard champion of the world at the end of a three night's match with Thomas Hueston by defeating the challenger 600 to 386. In Philadelphia Preston Brown easily defeated Johnny Hogan in six rounds. London seems distinctly dissatisfied with the referee's decision of a draw in the Moran-Driscoll battle. At Columbus, O. Knockout Brennan of Buffalo defeated Hugh Ross of Syracuse in a ten-round bout. George Chip of New Castle knocked out Tommy Gavigan of Cleveland in the second round at Youngstown. Leach Cross admits having made and lost $27,000 in the ring. It was the stock market that landed the dentist-fighter for the count. Matt Wells, the English lightweight, won from Hughie Mehegan, the Australian champion, in London, at the National Sporting club. Billy McCarney is considering an offer to let Luther McCarthy fight Al Palzer in Paris. In the meantime McCarty will make a tour of the country and rather in the spare change. Luther McCarty is giving the boxing world a novelty. Though a near champion, he has put himself under Harry Gilmore's care to learn the finer points of boxing. Coast promoters are considerably worried over the law abolishing pugilism in California recently introduced into the legislature of that state by Senator Brown. The house of the Montana legislature passed a bill legalizing 12-round boxing exhibitions under state super vision. Ten per cent, of box office receipts is to go to the state. Ledoux, who sojourned on our shores some time last fall, is again in America, this time without his French manager. Ledoux will endeavor to arrange bouts with Coulon and Williams. The University of Chicago basketball team defeated the University of Illinois team 19 to 12. Yale's swimming team defeated Columbia 42 to 11, thus clinching the eastern intercollegiate championship. Cornell wins the intercollegiate basketball title, thus atoning to some extent for Al Sharpe's misfortunes last fall. Canadian criticism in the Thorpe case seems to be heartily in favor of the Indian athlete and averse to the strict rules of the A. A. U. Plans are under way at Georgetown university to bring together Pennsylvania, Virginia and the Catholic institution in a meet this spring. The majority of the eastern colleges inaugurated their track schedules by participating in the Boston Athletic association indoor meet at Boston. A serious breach in athletic relations between Harvard and Dartmouth is threatened, following the dropping of the Hanover team from the Crimson baseball schedule. Harvest got the best of the Prince-ton Hockey players after all, despite the brilliance of Hobey Baker. The Crimson won the deciding game of the series of three. Illinois' well balanced track team overwhelmed Chicago in a dual meet at Urbana, 50 to 27, in one of the worst routes ever sustained by the Marrows at the hands of the Illini. Ragmar Omtvedt, riding under the colors of Norge Ski club of Chicago, broke the American record of 152 feet made last year by Anders Haugen of Chippewa Falls, WIs., and also broke the world's record of 157 feet on the fronwood slide. The proposed invasion of England by the three American golf professionals, McDermott, McNamara and Brady, is exciting as much interest on the other side as did Travis' trip in 1804, when his super-human putting won the British amateur championship. Preparations are going on for sending a betty American challenger after the Harmsworth cup to be contested at Solent, near Cowen, this summer. This year the competition is to be really international in character, since both French and German motorboats will be entered. VIC SAIER. Clever young first baseman of the Chicago Cubs, declares that, despite the fact that some of the players on that team are sore because President Murphy released Frank Chance, none will "lay down" on John Evers, the newly-appointed manager; but, on the contrary, will play harder than ever to land the National league pennant. Walter Camp, writing in the Yale News, comments that the few changes in the football code indicate the entire satisfaction the revised rules gave in 1912. The appointment of W. S. Langford of Trinity to serve on the new football committee is a tribute to the merit of the man generally recognized to be the best referee in the east last year. Howard Jones of the Yale (1908) team was chosen coach for the Blue squad next fall. The appointment was officially announced by Captain Ketcham. The University of Georgia may have a real live Indian coach next fall, since it is reported that Charles Guyon, sometimes Carlisle star, will sign to tutor the Georgian football artists. HORSE RACING Horse "gyps" in California are termed "dinky's." Ed Geers celebrated his sixty-second birthday on January 18. James Everett of Trenton, N. J., has purchased Ida V. Dillon by Baron Dillon, 2:12. The last foal of Zambro in California has been christened Zomarie. She is out of Katherine S. 2:19. The Dorechester, Mass., Driving club is arranging to hold race meetings at the Readville track this year. Frank Parker of Trenton, N. J., will have to sell Carrie Dillon, pacer, 2:18%; by Baron Dillon, 2:12, to close an estate. Red Hall, 2:18% will be tried at the trotting gait by J. Wiley Norris of York, Pa., who will also race the pacer, Rublian, 2:14%. "Pop" Geers has received an addition to his pacing stable, woefully lacking last year, in Don Densmore (2:02%) with whom the star driver will campain himself in 1913. The magnificent race track at Mexico City, said to be the second finest in the world, has been leased by the Mexican government to a syndicate of Vancouver promoters for a term of 28 years. The American turf cannot stand many such losses as it has suffered this year. Hard on the deaths of James R. Keene and Major Dainer-field came that of Gen. Stephen Sanford, called the "Nestor of the Turf." BASEBALL Connie Mack has given the Memphis club first call on the services of Pitcher Harrell. Fred Clarke, leader of the Pittsburg Pirates, has bought another 160 acre addition to his Kansas farm. Baseball critics say that Washington has never had a cleaner-cut bunch of youngsters than those under Griff fifth now. Del Howard, who left St. Paul last season to join the San Francisco Seals, has been appointed manager of that club. Dick Egan will act as field captain for the Reds this season, according to the statement given out by Manager Joe Tinker. Nap Rucker, the star southpaw of the Dodgers, is strong for Johnny Evers, and predicts that the Cubs will win the pennant. Ed Walsh, the work-horse of the White Sox, has participated in something like 300 games since joining Comiskey's team. Joe Evers will have a hard job beat stock, Groh, Shafer and Fletcher out of the job of utility infielder on the New York team. The Phillies have signed Hugo T. Wedell, a former college player and at present a member of the faculty of the University of Kansas. Third Baseman Whitted, who topped the South Atlantic league last season in chances, averaging 4.1 chances per game, is after Mike Mowrey's job. Hal Chase, the crack first sacker of the Yanks, believes that Chance will have a very fast team. "The prospects are bright for a successful season," says Chase. The Chinese University baseball team of Hawaii will this season cover even a greater territory than it did last year. It is estimated that they will cover 50,000 miles. Owner Bob Hedges of the Browns says he will never cut Bobby Wallace's salary. When Bobby is through as a player the boss of the Browns will give him his release. Monte Cross, whose fame in the days of his prime and that of Brother Lave needs no introduction to random, has been offered the position of head coach of Michigan baseball. THE GAZETTE. CLEVELAND. C. SATURDAY MARCH 22, 1913 CAP and BELLS FLYNN'S METHOD OF TALKING A solemn looking man entered a business house and, walking up to one of the men employed on the lower floor, inquired: "Is there any chanst for a mon t get a job av wurrk here?" "I don't know," said the man. "You'll have to see Mr. Mills." "An' phwere is he?" "Up on the second floor," was the answer. "Shall I walk up and talk to him?" "No need of that. Just whistle in that tube and he'll speak to you" pointing t. the speaking tube. The man walked over to the tube and blew a mighty blast in it. Hearing the whistle, Mr. Mills came to the tube and inquired: "What's wanted down there?" "Tis Oi, Paddy O'Flynn. Are ye th' boss?" "I am," said Mr. Mills. "Well, thin," yelled Flynn, "stick yer head out av th' second sthory windy while Ol sheps out on th' sidewalk. Oi want to talk t' ye!"—National Monthly. He Meant Well. It was in history class. Teacher was saying "The declaration of independence was signed in—" "You lie," burst out the tow-headed new little boy. For a moment teacher gasped. But a look at the boy's face reassured her. He couldn't be telling her she lied; his face was gulleles; there was to be seen on it only enthusiasm for the point under consideration. "Yuly fourt," reasserted the tow-headed one. And then the teacher remembered: he was a little Swede boy, but recently come over. Favorite Fiction. "I Beg Your Pardon, Mr. Toastmaster; I Intended to Speak Only Two Minutes When I Got Up." "No, si; sir! I Haven't done a Thing to the Watch. It Stopped Going of its Own Accord." "Mamma, My Head Itches Someth'n Awful, an' I Hain't Been Outside on the Yard fur more'n a Week!" "Gentlemen, I Don't Make a Cent on It Myself; the Profits All Go to the Retailer." HIS SPRING VISIT. Bunko—Do you really want to buy a gold brick? Farmer—If I kin git one reasonable. The summer boarders were disappointed because I didn't have one. I don't want to make this mistake another year. London Fog. "We English are a prosaic lot." "So?" "We never build castles in the air." "Your air is so suitable for building purposes, too." opined the American. "You could chit it into blocks." He Knew. Mrs. Bacon-This paper says the latest craze of Berlin women is to have their portraits painted while they are asleep. Mr. Bacon-They must look funny with their hair all in curl papers! Not That Kind. "How could the ancient gladiators have been such good fighters if they were such drinking men?" "They were not drinking men." "Why, weren't they always taking Roman punches?" Nice Question "I don't see how doctors can honestly take people's money." "I'd like to know why not?" "Because, as far as the doctors are concerned, all they get from their patients are ill-gotten gains." Mercenary Mob. "What did the crowd do when you told them you had never paid a dollar for a vote?" "A few cheered, but most of them seemed to lose interest." Crafty Scheme "I guess that batch of bills will be opened," opined the tailor. "How, now?" "I'm pasting a crimson heart on every envelope." Young Journalist Was Sure of Quarrel With King When Prime Minister Said "King's Cross." A young American journalist who had recently come over from the States was taken on the staff of a big London newspaper. One day he dashed into the editor's room and pushed a few slips of "copy" under his nose. The started editor glanced through the report and was even more startled. It contained a vivacious account of a quarrel between the king and the prime minister. "Can you vouch for this?" asked the editor eagerly. "You bet I can!" was the confident reply. "How did you find it out?" the editor wanted to know. "Oh, you needn't be afraid; it's all right. I knew the prime minister had gone to Buckingham palace, so I waited outside and saw him come out to his motor car. I thought he looked worried, so I got as near as I could and heard him say the king was angry." "But to whom did he say it? To the chaufeur?" asked the editor. "Yes. I suppose was an old family retainer—a sort of confidential servant. Anyway, he said it plain enough." The editor looked puzzled. "Yes, but what did the prime minister say? Did he say it in so many words that the king was angry?" "No, not exactly," the American admitted. "He said 'King's Cross' and got in and drove away."—London Tit-Bits. A LITTLE FAVOR. Harry—Grant me just one little fa- vor before we part forever? Harry—Marry me, and part afterward. Quicker Than the Bellboy. A Newark lawyer on a visit to Atlantic City rang for a bellboy to take a telegram, but it was not until the fourth ring that the boy appeared. "You've been a long time coming," said the lawyer. "Yes, sir," said the boy. "You see, sir, it's our dinner hour. The Newarker smiled grimly. "I know why you bellboys are called 'buttons,'" he said. "You're always off." Her Bowwow. She held him in her arms and passionately crushed him against her breast. She gazed into his deep brown eyes and kissed him again and again. She stroked his soft, curly hair and patted his cheeks. "Speak to me, darling," she murmured. "Speak to me." "Bow-wow, W-r-o-foof," he barked, as he leaped from her lap to chase a stray cat. A Fire Fighter Mrs. Bacon—is your husband a fireman? Mrs. Egbert—Oh, no. Mrs. Bacon—But I heard you say he was a firefighter. Mrs. Egbert—Oh, well, he is. He fights hard every morning against getting up and starting the fire. And So Many Times, Too. Mr. Yeast—I see the most remarkable echo known is that in the Castle of Simonette, two miles from Milan. It repeats the echo sixty times. Mrs. Yeast—Oh, I'd love to go there. Mr. Yeast—Of course you would, dear. Any woman would who likes to hear herself talk. Lower Bidder. "By gorry," said Pat, as he read over the morning paper. "Here's Harry Doolan falling for half a million." The graspin "omadhaun!" cried Mike. "Sure, an 'Old do it for ter tini'."—Harper's Weekly. Wifie's Suggestion: "John, dear, it's too bad that we have to pinch, and save, and economize on everything we buy. Is—is there such a thing as a money trust?" "Yes, love; I think there is." (Pause.) "John, dear, why don't you join it?" A True Optimist. Vicar—Amid all your troubles, Mrs. Grundy. I am pleased to see that your gratitude to Providence does not fall. Mrs. Grundy—No, sir; rheumatis is bad, indeed, but I thank 'eaven I still 'ave a back to 'ave it in—Life. Dinner Thought "Does eating satisfy the appetite?" "Why, certainly, my boy." "Well, the more a man eats the more appetite he is said to have." Of Course He Could. Her Father—Do you think you can support her? "Yes, sir: I've already tried it." said the blushing boob, as he smoothed the wrinkles out of his trousers.—Pelican (California). "No; I gave up smoking to please my wife." "I kept on smoking and gave up $40 for a new gown." MUFFLERS IN VOGUE New Notion for Feminine Wear Is Popular. NEW YORK.—A pretty notion for feminine wear is a quilted silk muffler cut somewhat on the lines of the man's muffler. These are made of pink or pale blue brocade lined with quilted silk, or they may be ordered to match the opera cloak. They are perfectly flat, and are bordered their entire length with maraboot matching the brocade. Ready made they cost $2.50 each. Rhinestone banding is much in demand. Very narrow, with the rhinestones strung at short distances on the narrowest width black velvet, it may be had for 35 and 75 cents a yard. Tassels of gold beads about five inches long at $1.25 each, and of white beads with a few rhinestones are $1.12 each. An inch wide banding made with lavender bugles and white beads in Grecian pattern on a white net foundation is $1.65 a yard. Now that the silk evening cloaks are many of them fastened with the large silk frog, a very good assortment may be found in them at prices from 75 cents to $1.25 each. Most often but one ornament of this kind is used on a cloak, and it is placed slantwise, just a little above the knee line. Dainty candle shades of cream color or silk with hand-painted yellow dahlia, outlined in their own design in heavy gray paper applied as a reticulated shade. They are square in shape. Other candle shades may be had of wicker in green or white, lined 1 Simplified Russian Blouse Designed for the Darling of the Family. with cretonne, and round in shape. These are $1 and $1.25 each. Wicker candlesticks of the same color are also sold. These are appropriate for the cottage room only. Motoring in summer or in the south without a sunshade has proven a trial, but the ordinary parasol is too large and not sturdy enough for automobile use, so there have been devised litter the sunshades called "parasolettes." These are made in five tints, red, green, lavender, white and brown. The silk is plain taffeta, and the ribbing is heavy brass. They are tiny and fold down into a leather case of the taffeta color; this case forms the handle of the parasol when it is in use; when closed, it may be carried over the wrist by a leather strap. They are priced at $10.50 each. There is a new fluid for household use which is promised to remove all stains besides dirt and grease from either linens, rugs and carpets, gowns, floors and woodwork. It is even said to remove the heretofore obdurate ink and wine stains. It will not, however, clean kid, so that it is not possible to use it for glove cleaning. It is claimed to be quite harmless, and probably contains a quantity of borax. The price is 35 cents far a quart bottle. It may also be used on enamel tubs without scratching them, which is quite alluring to the mind of the housekeeper. With the present model in corsets brassieres are a necessity, and heavy linen ones cannot be worn with evening attire. But one that may be appropriately worn with the daintiest apparel is fashioned of deep cream net. Running around it are four large tucks with a space between each set of two. This successfully thickens the material without making it coarse. In a wavy line two inches below the top is a garland of pink chiffon rose buds with silver leaves. The shoulder straps are formed of a fold of the net about an inch and a quarter wide. The brassieres cost $7.95. Those who care to wear the little shirts may find some imported ones, 58 cents each. Strictly speaking, these are mercerized cotton, but they are really excellent for the amount. They are to be had in white only. The top is crocheted with two small flowers of Prof. E. H. Harper of the chair of biology of the Northwestern University, has been experimenting on the relative intelligence of the sexes in animals. He tried his experiments on pups and kittens. He found the females were brighter, more intelligent, grasped ideas quicker than males. It was the same with kittens. "The female in all trials displayed great quickness in grasping ideas," said the professor. "The female maintained - supremacy over her male white silk worked is. Sets of combination silk underwear in white may be had for $3.50, but those who wish the colored, that is, the pink or blue silk, must pay $6.50 for the most reasonable set. These have the perfectly plain top. With the fancy top they cost $7.75 a set. However, very few are worn, of the tinted silk, the white is the most in demand. There are many odd pieces of furniture to be picked up at this season at inexpensive prices, but careful shopping is required to secure the bargains. One store has recently displayed a French dressing case of mahogany which is quite attractive and most unique. The top folds over like a double portfolio, and when so closed looks like a small mahogany table; when open the inner side is found to be lined with green baize, and mahogany finished. The small, square mirror rimmed with mahogany folds down in the center of the case with sarcing hinges. For each piece of the silver toilet set there is a special suken place lined with the green baize. About thirteen pieces of silver are sold with the stand, including saive boxes and a hand mirror, and though the weight of silver is not particularly heavy, the pattern is pretty and would be charming for a guest room. Complete with the silver this dressing case is sold for $58. Book blocks are sold in the furniture shops. They are to be placed at each end of a line of books on the library table to hold them together. The Corinthian column set may be had in solid mahogany for $5. In mission wood they are but $2 a set. Of the ornate gilt wood they are especially appropriate to accompany the usual furnishing of the library. English lounging chairs are to be had for $60. These are upholstered in cotton tapestry in dark colors and a large pattern. This kind of a chair is designed for a man's den, or his own corner of the library. To appear well it should be placed only in a large room. It has a roll for the head at the back and an extra cushion seat. Ostrich feathers are to be popular for early spring hats, and will be worn in every size and color. Some in taupe have the effect of a canary bird, for the length of the feather, twelve inches, is tinted taupe, while the top and tip are bright canary yellow. Another ostrich feather 'ornament' is of two seven-inch long and two-inch wide closely curled yellow feathers with the ends of each flue tinted taupe. These are priced at $1.25 for the two feathers, and are worn without separating them. A new ostrich feather for evening hats is white, with deep, long flues and the quill slightly outlined in rhinestones. This is unusually lovely. It measures fully twelve inches in length. For the collure white marabar tips are worn in a cluster set in a circlet or bandeau of rhinestones. The tips are very full or fluffy, and several are worn together. Those who seek for small favors for luncheons and prizes for card parties will be able to gather several reasonable articles from the silver shops. At $1 each there are little memorandum pads of ivory leaves, with a silver top. For the woman whose home is her pleasure, salt and pepper shakers may be had for $1 each. These have a gilt gift and a cut glass body with an engraved design. They stand about four inches high. Girls always love a chain bracelet, and these may be had at the same price. They are fastened with a key and a heart-shaped lock, and the links of the chain are prettily chased. Tiny silver chain purses for the handbag and small change are $2 each. For the boy at Yale there are silver enamel fobs for $1, with the college seal, but only the seal of this one college may be had in them for this price. WHY DOES A KETTLE SING? A strenuous effort is being made to save the 'growing English boy from that objectionable insularity which made his father so unpopular on the continent in the colonies and on his first visits to the United States. With this end in view, says a London letter, schoolmasters of leading institutions are endeavoring to rub into the gons of the rich knowledge which is not—like "All Gaul"—divided into "four parts," viz.: Classics, mathematics, modern languages and theology. The most striking instance of this is the kind of "general knowledge papers that are now being set in English schools. For example, at one school the boys were asked to answer the following questions: Why is the Red sea red? Why does a bad egg smell? Why does a kettle sing? What causes echo? Why does water freeze on the surface? What causes fog? An astonishing series of questions regarding playing cards was included. The six queries will make the oldest poker player sit up and blink at his cards. Lock Fire Fighting Apparatus Like European countries, South America maintains very small fire departments, in proportion to the size and wealth of its leading cities. In Buenos Ayres, a splendid metropolis of nearly a million and a half population, there are only six steam fire engines and four run by gasoline motors. There is also one steam launch with a fire engine, on the La Plata river, to patrol one of the great ports of the world. companion in a rather militant manner, which is quite according to the ideas of sex supremacy. That the conditions revealed are illustrative in the case of men and women is not quite certain. But such a theory would find support in some quarters." A Distinction "Why don't you ever go to Europe, Mr. Banks?" "Because, young man, I am one of the people who can afford to stay home." GIRL'S DRESS. 6099 Something very attractive in the way of a frock for the small girl is offered in this design. The dress closes at the right side of the front and has five-gored skirt. It is a nice model for school or general wear, and may be developed in serge, mohair, cashmere or wash material. The pattern (6099) is cut in sizes 6 to 12 years. Medium size will require 3½ yards of 36 inch material and % of a yard of 27 inch contrasting goods. To procure this pattern send 10 cents to WATER DEPARTMENT' of this year. Write name and address plainly, and be sure to give size and number of pattern. NO. 6099. SIZE..... NAME..... TOWN..... STREET AND NO..... STATE..... LADY'S FOUR GORED SKIRT. 5993 In this model we have an excellent type of skirt for separate wear, costume development or for use as part of a coat suit. It is cut in four gores, closes at the front and may be made with Empire or regulation waist line. Any of the popular woolen fabrics may be used. The pattern (5993) is cut in sizes 22 to 30 inches waist measure. Medium size requires 3½ yards of 36 inch material, or 2½ yards of goods 44 inches wide. To procure this pattern send 10 cents to "Pattern Department," of this paper. Write name and address plainly, and ensure to give size and number of pattern. NO. 5993. SIZE..... NAME..... TOWN..... STREET AND NO..... STATE.... Four rare Japanese bantam chickens recently arrived in Kansas City from Japan. Their tail feathers are nine and one-half, eight, six and one-half and six feet long respectively, and each fowl cost $500. Two of the chickens are white and two are black. The tails of the white ones are the longest. They are said to be the only chickens of the kind in this country. The chickens were purchased from Lord Watari, who has a large poultry farm near Osaka, Japan. Lord Watari is said to be the only man who knows the secret of their breeding. The tail plumage of the bantam reaches a length of three feet the first year. After the feathers are eightinches long they are protected in a silk bag, except when the fowls are on exhibition. Originator of Parcel Post. James Cooper, the originator of the parcel post system, never saw the inside of a schoolhouse until he was fourteen, but so thoroughly has he devoted himself to study that he has a working knowledge of all modern languages. He was born at Nantucket, the home of a printer, and in course of time became a master craftsman himself. In fact, the greater part of his education was received in the printing office. At one time he was proofreader in all languages in the government printing office at Washington.—The Argonaut. Philosophy of Shakespeare. Shakespeare, who was one of the world's greatest philosophers, suggests the thought that there are degrees in the matter of false statements when he recommends to the injured or offended person a choice between three replies: "The Retort Courteous; The Lie Circumstantial; and the Lie Direct." And he adds, "Your IF is the only peacemaker; much virtue in IF." Expediting Business "You Americans are too preceptious. You have to drink at least twelve cups of tea with a London merchant before you can transact business with him. Say, old top, my time is limited. Bring on your twelve cups and let me drink 'em all at a clip, won't you now?"