The Gazette
Saturday, April 5, 1913
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press companies of the country been hit hard by the operation of new parcel post system, according statements submitted to the inter- commerce commission in Wash-
The known dead in Omaha tornade totals 136, the injured number 402, while many sustained minor bruises; 1,700 homes were entirely destroyed or badly wrecked.
Every portion of the flooded district of Dayton, Ohio, has been penetrated by the government life savers and trained newspaper men, who place the number at 200. From $15,000,000 to $20,000,000 property loss has been sustained in damage to business blocks, factories and dwellings. The property loss by fire will not exceed $1,500,000.
Floyd Allen and Claude, feudists, who shot up the Hillville (Va.) court-house, killing the judge, the prosecutor and three others, were electrocuted in the penitentiary here. Floyd Allen was first to die. He was placed in the chair at 1:26. Claude's execution followed within a few minutes.
Forty-four eastern railroads closed their case and the firemen put on a witness in rebuttal in the arbitration proceedings over the firemen's demand in New York.
Patrick J. Moriarty, a stone mason, saw a little girl about to fall from a third story window of a building in Boston, and, rushing across the street, caught her in his arms before she struck the sidewalk. The girl, who was Helen J. Hutchinson, five years old, was not hurt. "I would rather have lost a year's pay than have missed her," said Moriarty.
The list of known dead as a result of the Peru (ind.) flood totals 23. The list will probably run much higher as scores of aged men and women who for hours were forced to undergo terrible exposure and later to endure horrible insanitary conditions are certain to die.
Efforts to enforce "blue laws" in the District of Columbia on Sundays is to be combatted by the twenty-five societies comprising the United German alliance, according to an announcement made in Washington. A committee was named to outline a campaign against the application of "narrow-minded policies."
When told that a movement was on foot in Cincinnati to ask President Wilson to pardon him from the sentence of one year in jail on conviction of violation of the anti-trust law, John H. Patterson, president of the National Cash Register company, of Dayton, O., said: "I don't want a pardon. All I want is a fair trial in a higher court. I am not guilty of anything. If I am, I want to go to fall just the same as any other man."
Foreign
Provisional President Huerta in his first message to the Mexican congress predicted the speedy pacification of the republic, and said that the relations between Mexico and all foreign nations were most friendly.
The Turkish government decided that it unreservedly accepted the terms of peace proposed by the European powers.
The 150 passengers were safely landed from the British steamer Agadir, which went ashore near Mazagan, Morocco.
Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst, leader of the violent suffragettes of London, was indicted for conspiracy to destroy property maliciously. The specific charge against her was the inciting of women to burn down Cancellor Lloyd-George's home in February.
Abraham Gonzales, constitutional governor of Chihuahua and former minister of interior under President Madero, was thrown beneath the wheels of a train at Mapula, a small station south of Chihuahua by Diaz-Huerta army officers in charge of the escort conducting him to Mexico City.
A full state funeral was accorded the late Field Marshal Viscount Wolesley when his body was interred in the crytp of St. Paul's cathedral, London, alongside those of Nelson and Wellington.
Four men, J. Carrier, R. Thiehault,
M. St. Louis and J. Morin, were killed
and others injured as a result of an
explosion at Scottown, Quebec. The
dynamite exploded while the men
were thawing it out.
The Duke of Montpensier was pro-
claimed king of Albania by the
provisional government of that country.
Personal
J. Pierpont Morgan, who became ill some weeks ago in Egypt, came to Rome to recuperate and took to his bed at the Grand Hotel Easter Sunday, died here. His physicians—Dr. Starr of New York, Dr. Bastellani of Rome and Dr. Dixon—and his son-in-law, Herbert T. Satterlee, and his daughter were at his bedside.
It was reported that United States Senator Edwin C. Burleigh of Maine has been a patient at Johns Hopkins hospital at Baltimore for several days. The nature of the aliment from which the senator is suffering was not disclosed. He is seventy years old.
Sallie Fisher, actress, was married in Memphis, Tenn., to Arthur J. Houghton. Miss Fisher says the rest of her engagement will be a honeymoon.
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Express companies of the country have been hit hard by the operation o. the new parcel post system, according to statements submitted to the interstate commerce commission in Washington by counsel for the companies in their final arguments against the reduction in express rates proposed by the commission.
When John Burke, former governor of North Dakota, took oath of office prescribed for the treasurer of the United States it was a signal for an army of clerks to begin the task of counting Uncle Sam's board of wealth stored in the treasury valuits amounting to $1,500,000,000.
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President Wilson's offer of ambassadors to Great Britain was accepted Monday by Walter L. Page of Garden City, L. L., editor of World's Work, and a member of the firm of Double-day & Co. publishers.
Representative Neckley of Kansas, a member of the money trust invests gating committee, gave out a statement hotly denying that Morgan's grilling by that committee was the cause of his death, directly or indiRECTly.
Domestic
The drainage district containing 7,000 acres north of Cairo, Ill, which was flooded last year, causing a loss of over $5,000,000, is again inundated by the angry waters of the Ohio.
Governor Sulzer called State Senator Stephen Stillwell into the executive chamber at Albany, advised him that he had been accused of accepting bribes, and ordered him to resign his seat as senator. Senator Stillwell denied the charges, refused point blank to resign and appealed to the senate for an investigation.
Democratic candidates for judge of the superior court, city treasurer and city clerk made a clean sweep over the Republican and Progressive candidates winning by plurality of 50,000 to 75,000 in Chicago. In every instance the Democratic candidate had a majority of 15,000 to 30,000 over the combined totals of both the Republican and Progressive candidates.
Clarence Darrow was placed on trial in Los Angeles, Cal., for the third time on the charge of bribing a juror at the trial of the McNamara brothers.
Several large oil tanks exploded in Henrietta, O., and the oil overflowed the streets.
Two persons were killed and five passengers were injured, when a passenger train on the Chicago & Northwestern road jumped the track and went into the ditch near Bagley, Mich.
Eleven Chinamen were taken to New York from Chicago by bailiffs for deportation. The eleven are part of a group of forty Chinamen who were arrested in Chicago some time ago on charges of being illegally in this country. By a court ruling twenty-nine of the forty were permitted to remain in this country.
Henry M. Coudrey, former representative in congress, and Harry B. Gardner began their defense in the federal district in St. Louis, where they are on trial on a charge of using the mails to defraud in the promotion of the Continental Life Assurance company and the International Fire Insurance company.
Plans for the shipment of cargoes of beef and mutton to the United States from Australia received a setback, at least temporarily, when the first cargo of beef arrived in San Francisco on the liner Sonoma and was held up by the federal authorities. The beef is held in cold storage here, pending action to be taken at Washington.
Despite the fact that George Lurich, the Russian grappler, gave him a good argument while the contest lasted, Frank Gotch, the world's champion grappler, won in straight falls over Lurich in a finish catch as catch can bout in Kansas City.
The arbitration board which has been hearing the grievances of the 35,000 railroad firemen against the 34 eastern railroads in New York and nounced it will hand down its decision April 23.
A big fire swept a large section of Parkersburg, W. Va., across the Ohio river from this city, according to telephone reports here. The situation there is critical. The city is still under several feet of water.
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Federal Government Plans to Cope With Situation in Other Places.
CAIRO STILL FACES PERIL FROM FLOOD
Illinois City Prepares for Crest Which Now Is Near Evansville.
Cincinnati, O.-Despite the fact that the Ohio river waters at Cairo, Ill., up to a late hour Wednesday showed only a slight tendency to rise, no relief is felt concerning the situation. The condition is accounted for by the passing of the crest in the Wabash high water. The crest of the Ohio river flood is still to come and, with levees weakened by continued high pressure, Cairo trembles as the worst trial approaches. The crest of the Ohio river flood is expected to reach Evansville, Ind., soon. The Ohio flood, having reached its crest at Cincinnati and started to recede, Maj. Normoyle, in charge of the relief operations at that post, Wednesday made further plans to cope with the situation as the crest moves into the lower Ohio valley to the Mississippi.
"We are looking for trouble in the lower 'Ohio valley,'" said Maj. Normoyle in a report received at Washington, D. C., by Maj. Gen. Wood, chief of staff of the army, who returned to the national capital Wednesday with Secretary Garrison from a trip into the flood area.
Prepare for Flood's Coming.
In order to keep relief measures ahead of the flood, Maj. Normyley said he had ordered provisions, tents and army flood relief experts into Carruthersville, Charleston and New Madrid, Mo.; Hickman, Columbus and Wickliffe, Ky.; Dyersburg and Tipponville, Tenn.; Helena, Ark.; as well as Memphis.
"Maj. Logan as advance scout." Maj. Normyley's report added, "will get all possible information and we will throw officers and noncommissioned officers where they can do the best work in anticipation of trouble which will soon come throughout the valley."
Lower river points continued to experience rising water. Paducah, Ky., with water standing more than two feet deep in the lower sections, faced the menace of a useless lighting plant.
At Wickliffe, where are gathered more than 3,000 refugees from Hickman, Cairo and Columbus, Ky., the shelter situation is becoming acute.
Hears Belated News.
Completely cut off from the outside world for seven days, hemmed in by swirling currents at the junction of the Ohio and Muskingum rivers and almost wholly inundated, in many places the flood waters being at a depth of from 10 to 18 feet. Marietta, Jr., throughout, through the Associated Press, learned that J. P. Morgan is dead; that Adrianople had fallen; that the Allens had been executed; that Columbus, Dayton and even the entire state of Ohio had and is emerging from the worst flood disaster in its history.
It also learned that the flood waters which had wrought such havoc, death and destruction were still sweeping south, where a score or more of cities and towns are in dire straits. These and other things that literally tumbled over each other in the occurrence of events during the past week were real news to the Marietta Register-Leader, which finally succeeded in establishing brief telephone communication with the Associated Press office in Columbus Thursday.
According to the Register-Leader, the city has been completely submerged for a week. No lives were lost at Marietta, but the damage to property was heavy.
INDIANAPOLIS NEEDS MONEY
Several Hundred Thousands Dollars Are Required Immediately to Relieve Suffering Among Flood Victims.
Indianapolis, Ind.-Several hundred thousand dollars are required immediately to relieve suffering among the flood victims in this state and city, according to the report of the general relief committee just rendered. Three thousand families have lost all or a large part of their household belongings and it will require an average of $100 a family to restore in part only their furnishings. Hundreds of men are required to clear away the filth and debris which now fills the streets.
Torture and Bob Sick Woman
Sharon, Pa.—Tortured, robbed of $388, and endangered when bold thieves set her house ablaze, Mrs. John Darrow of Earrell was rescued by members of the fire department. Mrs. Darrow's husband is proprietor of a small store. He had been unable to make bank deposits since the flood and his wife, who was ill in her room, had charge of the money. Darrow had occasion to leave the house for a short time. Mrs. Darrow says he had hardly departed when two men entered the house and tortured her.
WOMAN JUDGE HEARS HEART-TEARING TALES
HOHENZOLLERN - GUELPH UNION ENDS OLD FEUD
HOHENZOLLERN - GUELPH UNION ENDS OLD FEUD
CLOSEST DESCENDANT OF FATHER OF COUNTRY
CLOSEST DESCENDANT OF FATHER OF COUNTRY
JAMES H. BRADY OF IDAHO NOW A SENATOR
There is a new and striking force at work in the army of sociology since
the establishment of the branch of the Chicago Juvenile court over which Miss Mary M. Bartelle pre-associate judge and Judge pinckney
MARY BROWN
The new court hears all cases involving girls in the presence of women court officials only. Only a few cases have
been heard so far, but the result has been astounding in that little girls who sullenly refused to talk of their experiences before a man judge and in the presence of men court officers, have unhesitatingly revealed to Judge Bartelme information which has already landed several men in cells to await action by the grand jury. Judge Bartelme did not sit on an levated bench when she began her session. She sat in a chair at a table so that the little white-faced babies brought in charged with all sorts of incorrigibility could creep up close.
Poor Jennie is only thirteen. She had no mother and her father is missing. She has no regular home. Jennie is all this true" inquired Judra.
in a battle with god practically has banished the war god in the German and British mind. But it can hardly be said even by a stretch of the imagination that the engagement of Princess Victoria Louise, the only daughter of the kaiser, and Prince Ernest of Great Britain and Ireland, duke of rg, son of the duke love match
Cupid has won in a battle with Math. and the love god practically has banished the war god in the German and British mind. But it can hardly be said even by a stretch of the imagination that the engagement of Princess Victoria Louise, the only daughter of the kalser, and Prince Ernest of Great Britain and Ireland, duke of Brunswick-Lueneburg, son of the duke of Cumberland, is a love match. Despite the often reported statement that the kaiser's daughter would follow the dictates of her heart, and would never be sacrificed on the political altar, the impression prevails that the alliance is largely. If not entirely, political. It is a typical German "practical marriage," an alliance wherein the heart's inclination may not be excluded but where love probably figures less than high politics, just as many marriages in other strata in German society were practical questions in regard to property, society and business are usually considered first and are regarded as the soil on which love will sprout later. The alliance of the young couple will bring a practical solution of the
The one living American to whom the anniversary of Washington's
american to whom of Washington's birthday means more than any other is Bushrod D. Washington, in whose veins, according to the generally accepted verdict of genealogists and the opinion of many of the Washington family, flows more of the blood of Gen. Washington's father than to be
more than any other is Bushrod D. Washington, in whose veins, according to the generally accepted verdict of genealogists and the opinion of many of the Washington family, flows more of the blood of Gen. Washington's father than is to be found by any other individual.
Mr. Bushrod Washington, who is well past middle age, is living quietly near Goodman, Mo., on a modest scale, he is living, in so far as country surroundings are concerned, much the same life passed by his famous relative, though his life is by no means either so luxurious or so primitive as that of the old plantation. He served in the Union army during the Civil war, and in the campaigns in the far south conducted himself with signal bravery. As with so many of the branches of the Washington family, this particular one will come to an end with the life of Mr. Bushrod Washington, for he has but one child, a daughter.
James H. Brady was the other day sworn in as United States senator
from idaho to fill out the unexpired term of the late Weldon B. Heyburn. He succeeds immediately Senator I. K Perky, Democrat, who was appointed to serve until the idaho legislature elected.
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Mr. Brady is a Republican and has been chairman of the Re-
publican state committee and governor of the state of Idaho. He is a native of Pennsylvania, from which state also came his predecessor, Senator
The child shivered as though with cold. The judge took the little girl in her arms and cuddled her. Jennie burst into tears. Judge Bartelme whispered into the little girl's ears and crooned over her. It was a most unjudicial proceeding.
Then Jennie sobbed out her story. It was a story that ought to get half a dozen rascals of the South side whipped with a lead-tipped cat and then imprisoned for life.
"Thirteen years old," commented the judge, as poor Jennie was taken away to a place where there are some more motherly women—"just a babe in arms, that's all."
Then there was Mary—Golden-haired Mary with the frightened eyes.
"I want to be good—I want to be good," the child sobbed. "Just give me a chance and see if I don't."
A few minutes later Mary had related another story of the way that little girl fell over into evil women before they are twenty and Judge Bartleme was quietly lasing papers that may land some of the girl's tutors behind bars.
"And are you telling me the truth, Mary?" Miss Bartleme asked.
"Every word is true," answered the child—"You are the first person I have ever told all the truth to since I was old enough to tell a life."
"There is no doubt of the efficacy of the new plan," commented Judge Bartleme. "Girl children will not tell their troubles to men. Most of these poor children have no conception of the horrors they relate."
Guelph question and will end the 40 year feed between the English Guelph house and the house of Hohenzollern.
Prince Ernest is the grandson of the English king of Hanover, blind George, who was deposed in 1866 by Prince Bassarack and the kaiser's grandfather. Hanover was annexed to Prussia, because King George refused to join Prussia in the war against Austria. Prince Ernest's mother is a sister of Queen Alexandra of England.
The death of Prince Ernest's elder brother in an automobile accident in 1912, when the kaiser expressed his condolences in an unusually sympathetic manner, was followed by Prince Ernest calling on the imperial family at Petsdam to thank the emperor, which was one of the first steps in closing the gulf between the Hohenzollern and the irreconcilable Guelph duke of Cumberland, who still maintained his claim to the Hanoverian throne.
Princess Victoria Louise will be 21 in September. She has been much petted, but has not been spoiled. She is a favorite with the imperial family. She cannot be termed beautiful, but is attractive, and has a certain charm. She is a favorite with the German people, because of her girlish simplicity, her unaffected manners and dress and her close attention to her mother, the empress. This fondness for her mother has always appealed to German women.
Mr. Washington's closeness of relationship to the founder of Mount Vernon is due to the fact that he traces his descent from Augustine Washington, the father of George Washington, along three lines. Twice in the line of his ancestry the Washington blood has been strengthened by the marriage of cousins, who were also descended from Augustine Washington. This, it is thought, is true of no member of the family other than Mr. William De Herturb Washington, and it is said that in his case one of the cousins was more remotely descended from the common ancestor. The whole subject of Washington's relationship is in dispute, however, and no dogmatic statement can be justified.
In the city which bears his name, three, at least, of Washington's relatives are known to reside, and there may be others. Those known to live here are Lawrence Washington, librarian of the house reading room in the library of congress; Thomas Cunningham Washington and T. B. Washington, both connected with the navy department. mr. Lawrence Washington has eight sons and four daughters to carry on the blood of Augustus Washington. Mr. Lawrence Washington and all the brothers and sisters were born in Mount Vernon, and this often causes them to be considered the nearest relatives of George Washington.
Heyburn. For several years he was a resident of Kansas and he attended school in that state. He went to Idaho in 1894.
Senator Brady is chairman of the advisory board of the National Council of Women Voters and is an honorary vice-president of the Panama-Pacific International exposition, and other organizations.
Before he had served in the senate 15 minutes his vote as a Republican was of material assistance to the Republicans of the senate. He voted with the other Republicans in favor of an executive session. The motion was carried, 36 to 34. Had Senator Perky still been serving he, as a Democrat, would have voted with the Democrats and the motion for an executive session would have been lost by a vote.
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AFRO-AMERICA
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AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS
Take up the Black Man's burden—
"Send forth the best ye breed."
To tell the world you're rising
To you plead, to stand,
Let the glory of your people
Be the making of good men;
Then the raising of the lowly
To noble thought and aim.
Take up the Black Man's burden—
"Black freemen" stand alone
If need be! Gird your armor
For conflicts yet to come,
When waged to war, wanting,
But first or make your way
To honor, fame and fortune,
To God and destiny.
-J. Dallas Bowser.
Kansas City, Mo.
Scout, spy, war nurse, "underground-
railroad" manager, a memorable figure of
the Civil-war period has passed away in the death of Harriet Tubman
Davis at Auburn, N. Y.
Harriet Tubman was born a slave in
Maryland, O. Ashantee blood, descendant of tribal chiefs, she possessed an unconquerable spirit and immense physical strength, surpassing that of most men. To avoid being "sold south" in her youth, she followed the north star to freedom, but soon was back teaching other negroes the road she had trod. Rewards amounting to $40,000 were offered in Virginia and Maryland for her arrest.
Harriet Tubman was invaluable as an "underground-railroad" agent in the north. While in this work she led the mob that rescued Carole Nalle, a fugitive slave, in Troy. Though beaten upon the head by policemen's billions, she thrashed two of them and aided the rescue with her mighty muscles. In her station of the underground at Auburn, with the financial support of William H. Seward she sent away many a refugee to Canada. Appointed as a nurse to Colonel Shaw's famous negro regiment in 1863, she soon appeared in a new capacity as a scout for the Union troops. In 1896 she founded the Harriet Tubman Davis Home for Indigent Aged Negroes, where she herself died at the supposed age of ninety-eight.
Why despair of the future of a race that can exhibit such courage, devotion and capacity for leadership in one of it lowliest members?
Though fashions may come and go, though weaves vary and dress goods of many and various kinds be adopted by that whimsical personage, Dame Fashion, broadcloth is always in favor. It is one of the aristocrats of the dress goods realm, and its place is always assured.
This year the tendency in broadcloth is towards those with a very high luster—the more brilliant and satiny the sheen, the better madame will like her cloth.
Smart autumn salts are of broadcloth, elaborately trimmed—frequently with handsome silk braids, often with rich and deep-toned velvets.
But not alone for suits and tailored costumes is broadcloth in demand. For handsome wraps, street coats, evening garments and afternoon toilettes, broadcloth will be fashionable.
The National Benefit association of Washington, District of Columbia, headed by Samuel W. Rutherford, employs upward of 500 colored persons.
In Beaufort, S. C., the postmaster, clerks, carriers and other postoffice employees are all colored.
A preacher who is not little and narrow, a preacher who is upright and does not lie, a preacher who does not backbite and practice deceit, a preacher who is not envious and full of dirty tricks, is an honor to both his church and the race and will always be respected by men.—The Tri-State News.
Precedents continue to be established. One worth noting was that set by the absconding bank cashier, who took his wife, instead of another woman, when he ran away.
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The real labor and problem for the negro in the south is not getting opportunities to work, but in making the most of the opportunities that he has for working. A striking example of this recently took place in the Newport News shipbuilding yard. There are employed in this shipyard about 4,750 persons, almost half of whom are negroes. There are twenty-nine different trades and occupations, in all of which except two, bell hangers and electricians, negroes are working in greater or lesser numbers. The distribution of white and colored workmen in the various trades at this shipyard are as follows: As anglesmiths, white 23, colored 84; as blacksmiths, white 46, colored 80; as bell hangers, white 63, colored 0; as boiler makers, white 43, colored 0; as shear iron workers, white 69, colored 4; as brass machinists, white 101, colored 10; as copersmiths, white 36, colored 6; as drillers, white 20, colored 115; as electricians, white 76, colored 0; as焊ers, white 273, colored 118; as hull repairers, white 91, colored 24; as joiners, white 150, colored 14; as lumber yard laborers, white 11, colored 11; as common laborers, white 12, colored 125; as engineers, White 196, colored 91; as outfitters, white 50, colored 11; as painters, white 94, colored 233; as pattern makers, white 42, colored 4; as plumbers, white 188, colored 15; as power house workers, white 12, colored 22; as riggers, white 103, colored 260; as riveters, white 150, colored 563; as ship carpenters, white '168, colored 160; as ship shed workers, white 61, colored 156; as steam engineers, white 174, colored 51; as teamsters, white 1 colored 25; as yard men, white 9 colored 9; as foundrymen, white 65, colored 80; as civil engineers, white 36, colored 24. Total employed, white 2,522; colored 2,138. The weekly pay roll for the company is $25,000.
The New York Evening Post, in charging that the barrier of race has kept colored musicians, with but few exceptions, in the music halls, and in its effort to induce the public to give the negro music of today serious consideration refers to the observations of Kurt Schindler on the compositions of Will Marion Cook, which follow in part:
This revelation came at once at the concert given under 'the auspices of the New York Musical Settlement for Colored People. There were a great many representative white musicians and the entire New York musical press present, and there was a stir when the orchestra started to play the fascinating rhythms of Cook's "Swing Along," followed by a storm of applause; there was no one in that audience that did not feel that for once he had heard the "real thing," the true southern nero idiom, worked out with clever muscianship and genial verse into a truly artistic manifestation.
This pleasurable surprise was equaled if not surpassed when the second part of the program brought another composition of Will Marlon Cook, "The Rain Song." To this delightfully quintet and naive dialect poem the composer has found a melody well-nigh perfect in its idiomatic charm and in its close adaptation to the vocal inflections of the colored dialect. The musical form given it (calling for six solo-singers to rise from the middle of the orchestra and say their little verse in turn with the full chorus responding) was as happy in its effect as it was natural and appropriate. This is music very close to nature indeed in its sources.
Newport News, Va.-Members of the race are accustomed to think of labor problems among negroes as arising where there is a lack of opportunity for work, or where there is a threatened reduction of wages, or where, because of prejudice or other reasons, they are prevented from getting or holding positions. One also hears a great deal about the negroes being denied opportunities to work at skilled trades. As a matter of fact, the opportunities for negroes to work at skilled trades in both the north and the south are increasing. In all parts of the south negroes are being sought for to work at skilled trades. Labor unions are becoming more friendly to negroes, and are doing more than they have ever done to organize negro workingmen. Out of the over 100 labor organizations, only about nine or ten, principally connected with the railroads, now bar negroes.
The feat of the New York actor, who has just married his eleventh wife, doesn't constitute a record. The only way an actor can establish a matrimonial record is to marry one wife.
This is an age in which efficiency is demanded in every avenue of endeavor. The man who can accomplish with one step or one motion of the hand what requires three steps or motions in another is the sort of man the world is looking for.
A new negro undertaking firm has been chartered, at Los Angeles, Cal. Its name is Smith-Williams & Company.
A married man often starts to tell a story, after which his wife finishes it.
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dancing.
Hon. L. H. Scott, the good member
of the lower house of the State As:
sembly, from Harrison County, has a
fine tribute to Hon. H.T. Eubanks (de-
ceased), in this issue of The Gazette,
which it is @ great pleasure indeed to
publish, It ts not often such volun-
tary testimonials are given ‘members
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Seven carloads of southern Ohio
mail were held at the Union depot,
Cleveland, until Thursday of this week
because the high waters in that sec-
tion of the State “tied up" the rail-
roads for from a week to ten days.
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Important legislation (bills) that
preceded H. B. 27 on the calendar, and
emergency legislation in connection
with the Ohio flood, etc., have delayed
{ts consideration from-week to week.
‘Action may be looked for any day
now. Our’ fight on Ohio’s miserablé
“Separate Marriage” bill must not be
discontinued for a day. Keep up the
‘good work all along ttie line, brethren.
' ‘The bill in the Oklahoma legisla:
ture, providing that a voter should be
required to show a receipt as evidence
that his poll-tax had been paid before
being allowed to vote, which was
aimed at the Afro-American voter in
that state, was killed last week, a
mujority of, the democratic members
of the House refusing to vote for it.
‘To date not one of the many bills, di
rected against the racey introduced ip
the various state legislatures and the
lower house of Congress since last
fall, has become a law. This is” at
Jeast encouraging.
GIVING THE. SHADOW FOR THE
ara eerie
‘The National Association for th
Advancement of Colored People ha
opposed antvintermarriage legislation
in the following States: District. 0
Columbia, Ilinots, Wisconsin, Nev
York, Oliio, Michigan, Kansas, Cal
fornia and Towa. The bills in Wiscon
fin and In Kansas have been defeat
fd Jargely through the efforts of th
focal branches, Assurances hav.
hoen received that tt fe highly im
probable the billy will pass in the
District of Columbia and in New
York State. The Chicago branch re
ports that they are organizing for
Vigorous work against the Illinois
Dill, In Ohio but one vote is needed
to defeat the measure, and Dr. Mason
is to appear in person before the lex
h4siative committee which has it in
charge. A letter from a friend in
Gloveland sass that members of the
Ohio legislature advise him that the
ogisiature has been flopded with let
tera from some “National Negro As:
sociation” In New York urging the
passage of the antlintermarriage bil
knd saying that the Colored people
desire it—N. Y. Crisis for April.
‘The above from the “organ” of the
National Association for the Advance.
ment of Afro-Americans is misleading,
to say the least, as far as-Ohio is cou-
corned. This state's “Separate Mar-
riage” bill had sixty-three votes on
second reading (three or four weeks
ago), TWO MORE THAN ENOUGH
TO PASS IT on ite third reading
which is kely to take place any day
now. The bill came out of the “ieg-
falative committee which had it in
charge,” some SIX OR EIGHT
WEEKS AGO. :
‘We haye yet to hear from any other
‘source except the Crisis that the Na-
tional Association for the Advance-
ment of Colored People (or Afro:
Americans), our only “National Negro
Association with headquarters in New
York, has flooded the legislature with
Jetters urging the passage of the anti:
intermarriage bill and saying that the
Colored people desire it”; or of its
doing anything MATERIAL to help
defeat the bill. If the organization is
doing no more in other states than {t
has done or Is doing in Ohio, to as
sist in ax anti-intermarriage
bills, we wdvise the editor of the
Crisis to stop making such empty
claims for its “loca! branches,” as he
‘makes in the editorial note reprinted
above. There are many of our people
who pave given and are still giving
to the support of Dr. Du Bois and bis
Association who are tiring of these
empty claims of doing and having
done; and tiring.of those they mse
of having done small good.
when the two large and by far the
moat important “nations!” problems of
he rece remain untouched and uo
olved. It igh time an eft was
peing made by the N. A. AgC. Py to.
nave the U. 8. Supreme Court pass
upon the rights of Interstate passen-
gers of color travelivg 10 the south,
aud on the disfranchisement laws of
Ghat section based on the “krand:
a ad
ened on the so-called educational
fest. Give us something of the real
Substance and not so much of the
shadow, Dr. Du Bois and Association,
for all the monies you are getting, in
several ways, from our people. But
ten days ago a few of our people of
this city gave, Dr. Mason over seven
tytive dollars ‘for you and your work
when they themselvas needed it more
to assist in the effort to kill Ohio's
miserable “Separate Marriage” bill
Other cities of the state had already
done the same thing in recent weeks,
too.
PROPERLY REBUKED!
Because the manager gave in to
prejudiced waiters of the Hotel La
Salle, Chicago, last Saturday, two hun.
dred’ members of the Cook County
League of Woman's Clubs filed out of
that hotel, refusing to partake of their
annual luncheen because the Ideal
Colored Woman's Club was to be re
{nged service. ;
Mrs, Charles H. Betts, president of
the League, declares the hotel man
agement acted in a “snobbish man
ner,” and that Manager Stevens. o
the hotel had broken his word whet
he gave in to the waiters. "Mr, Ste
vens,” she said, “was told that the
Ideal Colored Woman's club woule
be represented. He knew all abou
it and made arrangements for it, Ye
when the waiters refused to. serve
the Negro women he gave int
them,”
“It's very unfortunate,” said Mrs
Bishop. “The intelligent white per
son has no race prejudice. It wat
the unintelligent and ignorant wail
ers who eaused the trouble, The3
thought they were better than th
Negro women, when they do not be
gin to compare with them in morals
intelligence, manners, or anythin
else”
Mrs, lL. Brackett Bishop: “Thi
league will demand that the hotel re
imburse it for the expense of prepar
ing the Iucheon and make. suel
other reparation as is clearly due un
der the law.”
Good! That's the proper spirit:
make It cost that hotel management
dearly for “giving in" to a few preju
diced “pin-heads.””
U
ON THE MORAL, SOCIAL, MATER:
IAL AND POLITICAL CONDITION
OF OUR PEOPLE.
Southern Afro-Americans Lazy and In-
different, He Intimates—Splendid
Business Showing There, However
—Lack of Numbers in the North
Etc, Prevents it Here—Enjoy
Life and Property and Lib-
‘erty in the North.
Washington, D. C., April 2, 1913.
Special to The Gazette.
‘The letter of Dr. Booker ‘T. Wash:
ington, published in a local race paper.
Mar. 32, in which are contained the
Doctor's observations upon the moral
vocial, material and political condi
tion of our people of the far West, es
pecially in Montaana and North Da.
Kota, has caused considerable com-
ment here among friends and critics
alike. As to the former, they can see
ho reason why the Doctor’s compari:
sons, if It were deemed necessary to
make any, were not more favorable to
the position which he has all along ae.
serted and persistently defended, to
the effect that the South is the section
most conducive to the highest develop:
‘ment of our people. They say that he
‘might have left unuttered the intima.
tion, that southern Afro-Americans
were lazy and indisposed to, if not in-
‘capable of, adapting themselves to new
conditions, should exigencies arise te-
‘uiriig large numbers to leave the
South and settle th the far West. Af-
ter describing how whites sete “on a
few hundred acres which they get
from the government or buy at a cheap
rate,” how they “suffer for months all
kinds of privations,” how in nearly
every portion of that part of the coun-
LEED
Seay
on x ©
o , Ae
ae wh
_ ee od
O Se
a Sera —
Se TRS
RE sr
try the farmer does not depend upon
rain but, irrigation and how, notwith
standing after ten or fifteen years
they Wecome “prosperous, inteiligen
‘and independent farmers,” the Doctor
says:
“Irvigation fs something strange tc
the Colored man, and this makes me
question whether Colored people will
ever settle in this part of the wor'd
in large numbers, The average Negre
farmer likes for the water to come
down from heaven, not from undes
him or from a hill, and then the aver
age Negro farmer lkes'to lay off and
take it easy during a shower of rain.
‘The only crumb which fell from his
pen tending at all to appease the bun:
ary Lesh pes Doctor's friends was
"it, would be Mand here for Colore
people to realize thet in a city like
; Colored mer-
chants haye Is stores, do
business ae aecupy brick
business houses three stories
nigh and that they trade with. both
white and Colored people.”
But the substance was in a great
measure extracted from this morsel
when be wisely accounted for the dit
ferance in these words:
“So far, I have found practically no
Colored team: Gneul > Woniness of 2
THE G:ZETTE, CLEVELAND, 0., SATURDAY. APRIL 5. 1913.
against them In the matter of conduct-
ing commercial enterprises. First,
large capital is required to begin bus.
ness Secondly, there are not enough
Colored people in any one community
fo support any large business, and the
white man here has not accustomed
himself to trade with the Negro. |The
result is that he is practically ont of
the commercial world. If the number
of Colored people increases, things
may grow better industrially, but that
is problematical,”
And further: “A good many of our
people, however, 1am glad to say, are
far-sighted enough to see that now is
the time for those who mean to live
in this country to accumuldte some-
thing that may be handed down to
their children.
“Regardless, however of the char-
is engaged in, almost without excep:
tion I find that our people receive a
high wage. In some cities they are
permitted to be hod carriers, and in
that case they receive from $5 to $6 2
day. For common labor and hotel la
bor the price received by them is mueh
higher than in the East or South.”
‘As to educational advantages the
Doctor proceeds: “In North Dakota
and Montana I have seen na evidence
of diserimination between the races in
public schools or in the higher institu
tions of learning.”
‘The following is self-explanatory, his
critics say: “The discriminations in
hotels, eating places and places o
amusement in the larger cittes of Mon:
tana is rather marked. I am told that
Most of the saloons have a sign up
stating that Colored patronage Is 0
wante
“The white man that one finds in
Montana presents a curious subject
for study. He is not an Eastern man,
nor a Southern man, but a kind of
cross between the two. A large part
of the white population it seems orix
inally came from the State of Mis
souri.”
‘The Doctor's observations lead him
to assert that, “From a moral point
of view, in proportion to their num
bers, I am led to believe that the Col
ored people conduct themselves as
well or better than Is true of the same
type of white people. In a country
where the opportunity to degrade one’s
self through drink and other vicious
habits. is constantly about him, it is
surprising to note that such few Col
ored people yield to the temptation of
Grink and other vicious habits. From
this point of view the white people
speak well of them.”
On the subject of the elective fran-
‘chise he says: “The Negro here votes
freely; that seems to be about the only
thing ‘he can do unhindered and un:
trammeled, but in some way the ballot
does not seem to be able to eure the
Aifficulties to which 1 have made ref
erence.”
‘And concludes as follows: “As I
write this letter 1 still have an open
mind, and 1 may be led before 1am
through with this trip to change the
opinion which Thave rather hastily so
far formed. One thing ts sure, and
that is the Negro everywhere is proud
of his race and is determined to suc:
coed if success be possible.”
Ont of all this, Dr. Washington's
crities claim to\discover a “loosening
up,” If not a reversal at least a ‘squar
ing” of his previous ambiguous state-
ments relative to comparative advan:
tages North and South. ‘They say that
he is compelled to admit that, while
at the North, “the Colored brother”
has not “gotten on the ground floor
of industrial activity,” “talks more
about racial difficulties and racial dis
¢riminations than one hears inthe
South,” and is the “odd-job man,” as a
rule, in the’cities an@ towns (and
where, they say, do you find It other
wise), yet he is enjoying the perfect
protection of his life, his property and
his LIBERTY, and the benefits of non:
proscriptive schools; receives better
Wages for all kinds of labor, is moral
and sober beyond the degree practiced
by his white brother and exercises
his right of franchise “unhindered and
untrainmeled” the like of which, they
say, hag not yet been said of his south:
ern’ brother.
‘The partisans are at loggerheads,
but the rank and file regard the letter
as an-encouraging expression of race
Progress, and are content with that
“GHAR.”
Our postat vlerks in the south ‘are
much stirred up over a petition that
is being circulated among the white
railway mailclerks, requesting Post-
master General Burleson to put all
the Negro clerks on lines to them-
selves and not allow any Negro Mail
clerk to be in the same car with a
white clerk. ‘The petition was started
by Robert, Prather, a mail-clerk run-
ning out of Little Rotk, Ark, Pra-
ther was flattered recentiy by having
his name called to the attention of
the postoffice department becatise he
prevented a holdup on his line. He
figures that since he is temporarily
“popular” that he will win fame with
this “Jim-<row” proposition. A few
years ago the same scheme was pro-
posed and several white clerks were
dismissed on account of their activ.
ity in thus trying to cripple the mail
service.
DOINGS OF THE RACE.
|_ Two white men were hung at Bir-
mingham, Ala, for the murder of an
Vasco merieax 48 months ago. A rare
occurrence in the south.
"Ben, Bowzer won the Dennison
[prize for oratory, recently, at the Sy.
lracuse, N. Y. college. He is the
|“erack’ sprinter of the schoo), t00,
Russtan authorities still refuse to
admit American Jews to that country
without passports and announce that
they will continue the custom in spite
lof our government's protest of a year
oF 80 2K0. ¢
Major Charles Young was only
[slightly wounded in that recent en-
[gagement with natives in Liberia, Af
rica, He has recovered.
Bishop W. B. Derrick’s physicians
announce that there is not much hope
for improvement in his critical cond
tion for at least a few months. The
outlook is not encouraging.
© Our Odd Fellows’ Hall Association
of Wasbington, D. C., which owns a
{$100,000 building, recently declared a
5 per cent. dividend which totaled
42.479. Unusual.
‘Jerome B. Peterson, of N.Y. City,
Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue,
has been appointed and confirmed by
‘See. McAdoo, deputy collector _i
charge of the revenue office at San
‘Juan, Porto Rico. Salary $2,500
‘Bishop M. B. Salter of the A. M. E.
‘church, died, “Mar. 24, at his home in
Charleston, S. C. The funeral, the
“ARhoush ee sPaaeay cosiatvo
many Pennsylvani
Americans are members of that state's
militia, some misguided individual has
introduced a bill in that state's legis-
Vature providing for the organization
of an Afro-American regiment. “Twas
ever thus.
Permit us to again remind you,
reader, that, unless you are a sub-
Scriber to The Gazette, You are mak
ing a mistake that is costing you some.
literacy test for immigrants. Presi-
tensibly,—Chicago Fellowship Herald.
theater, last week, Tuesday evening.
seas ee
‘THROUGHOUT O10
What Our People Are Doing Each
_ Week—Church, Personal, Social,
Lodge, Literary and Mu-
‘sical — Marriages,
Deaths, Ete.
CADIZ.—Miss Elizabeth Ramsey of
Hopedale, was the guest of Miss Eloise
Ballard, Mar 23.—Herman Wallace was
home from Dillonvale.—The B. B.'s
were entertained, Mar. 23, by Thos.
Mason.—P. T’. Brown of E. Liverpool,
visited his family, recently.—Mrs, Ru-
fus Johnson's funeral was held from
the residence, Mar. 22, Rey. Blackburn
offieiating.—Henry ‘Thompson spent
Easter in Smithfleld.—Mrs, Carrie
Kent and nephew of Steubenville, were
guests of Mrs. Ella White.—Jas. Cour-
sey was buried, Mar. 24.—Kastern Star
lodge’s, annual’ sermon was preached
by Rev. Oliver W, Childers, Mar, 23.—
(This letter was delayed too long for
publication, last week, by the high
Waterea—intite)
WILBERFORCE—Mrs, Frances V.
Clay, age 62, wife of Henry C. Clay,
postmaster here, died Mar. 22, after an
illness of six months, Acute Bright's
disease. She was greatly beloved by
all and is survived by a husband, one
daughter by a former marriage, ‘Miss
Tula Gee, a brother, Mr. John Wood
son of Seima, and a sister, Mrs. Sadie
Cochran of St. Louis Funeral services
were held at the residence, Mar. 25, In-
ferment at Yellow Springs, Mrs. Clay
was the widow of Mr. John Gee (a
brother of Rev. Chas, Gee and Mr. Wm,
Gee) prior to her marriage to. Mr.
Clay. “Mr, Wm, Gee (deceased) was
in the undertaking business in Cleve-
Jand, some years ago, with J. Walter
Wins of that elty who had charge of
“Mrs. Clay’s funeral, Miss Julia Gee
‘ig a teacher in the Normal and Indus.
trial (State) department of Wilber-
foree University,
Correrponcents must mail all tet:
ters for publication at their main
postoffice sufficiently eatly on Monday
for Sunday) of each week to have
them reach The @azette office on
Tuesday morning, and always, write,
algo, thetr_names and that of their
eisy’ or town on the outside of the
RTwoper about returned copies. Un:
lese this latter ig done, proper credit
cannot be given you. Lists of names,
Wedding presenti, étc., obituary no-
Mice: ilies eee ort
mirles for relatives advariise
RRR Pan Wid utnane eae
announcing entertainments to be held
in the near future, must be paid for
in advance at the fate of ten cents a
line, six words to a line. Our rates
for ‘Gisplay advertisements will be
sent on application, Send postal note
and not stamps during warm weather.
SANDUSK V=-2irs. Wm. Jones Ut
derwent an operation at the hospital,
Saturday—Both churches were well
attended, Sunday. ‘The Second Baptist
8, S. is doing nicely with their new
piano, Mrs, Blanche Thompson and
Mr, Arthur Alexander, organists; J. S.
Davis, choir director. Miss Harriet
Alexander has been elected delegate to
the N. 0. B. A. which convenes in
Shiloh Baptist church, Cleveland, Apr.
24. Miss Libbie Gilkerson will’ take
the children’s band there that day.
Rev. J. C. Turner, pastor of the A. M.
E. chureh, preached to a large congre-
gation, Sunday evening. The 8. 8. was
well attended, also.—Mrs. H. Richard
fs convalescing. Mr. Wilson,’ an old
citizen, has returned and is boarding
there. “Mr. Jos. Lane, and S. E. Woods
of Cleveland, dined with Mrs. Richard,
last. week—Mesers. Geo. Scott and
Mrs. Jefferson have beep quite ill,
game time,
SMITHFIELD—Mr and Mrs. Ernest
Smith’s oldest child was buried, re
cently.—Mrs. Sadie Jackson visited in
Steubenville, week before last.—Mr. C.
‘West, who is employed in Pa., was here
recently visiting his wife, and expects
to locate there soon—Mrs. W. H. Ve-
ney spent soveral days, the first of the
week, in Pittsburg, visiting her daugh-
ter, Mrs. F. T. Davis—Mr. and Mrs.
J, Beal's baby girl and Master Rob-
ert Harris aré convalescing—Mrs. E.
‘West and daughter, Mattie, Miss L. B.
and Mrs, C. Hargrave spent Easter In
Steubenville—Mrs, E. H. Harris and
Mrs. Rhody Veney spent a day with
Mr. and Mrs. D, W. Christian —W. H.
Veney sold a fine hlack horse to Mr.
Burns Vermillion —Miss | M.__ Beall
spent a day in Steubenville —The A.
M. E. Easter exercises and services
were fine, The former were conduct.
ed by Mrs. W. W. Grimes and Miss V.
Carter—Mrs. Chas. Thompson royally
entertained the sewing circle, recently.
—(The high waters delayed this letter
‘one week.—Bditor:)
PAINESVILLE.—Mr, Arthur Simme
who visited his parenté in Atlaata, Ga.,
has returned to Fairport.—Mr. Jones
Gordon whe spent the winter in Cleve-
land, has returned.—Mr. Vie Ross, of
Geneva, was here twice last week and
he and pis sister, Miss Lovinia, were
here Sunday.—Mre. Ade Williams was
here Easter.—Mr. and Mre. Will Free-
man were here, Sunday. The latter
was the guest of Mrs. B. Y. Crooms,
Wednesday.—Our men got up » peti
tion to send to the Legislature, pro-
testing against the “Separate Mar-
Hage” bill. They’ should also have a
Gelekation call on the local members
of the State Assembly as S00N aS Pos
Sloe and state our objections to the
pernicious bil.—Miss Minerva Fowliss
@ trained nurse, died, Tuesday, at the
Cleveland German hospital, where she
underwent an operation. She was bur-
ied, Thursday, in Evergreen cemetery.
—Misses Blanche and Mary Moxley
and Evalyn Palmer of Fairport, were
here, recently—The mails were to
Blame for the recent delay in the ar-
rival of our copies of The Gazette,
which has been mailed on time, every
week, (on Thursdays) since its birth,
nearly: thinks weave aes,
YOUNGSTOWN.—AMrs. C. A. Pett
ford is ill at Mrs. M. Curtis—Rev. J.
M. Glimere left here for Cleveland,
and Washington, D. C,, where he goes
to attend a meeting of the A. M. B.
church extension board of which he
is a member. There were no sérvices
at Smith Memorial church, Sunday,
‘on account of the high waters. It wili
be renovated and ready for use, Sun-
day.—Mr. Archie Thomas was out
Sunday and his daughter is better
also.-Gold Leaf Co. D, K.P. will
meet in regular session, ‘Thursday
evening. — Mrs. Hattle Harper and
Mrs. Edward Smiley are convalescing,
—A number of our people were af
fected by the flood and lost household
furniture ete. Pianos were ruined,
too. Dr. Pettiford’s loss was heavy
and his auto and an office machine
were damaged. None lost lives, how-
ever, John Davis, liveryman, lost his
barn and a few rigs but saved his
horses.—Chas. Green of Ashtabula,
was here, last week.—Wm. Lincoln of
Cleveland, is. visiting his parents,
SMITHFIELD. — The A. M. &,
eburch is arranging for new lights,
‘They are greatly needed. The 8. 8.
fs being well attended and is doing
nicely.-Mrs. G. E. Beall ix not well
Her baby girl and Mrs.C, ‘Thompson
are convaleseing.—Mr. Samuel Free:
man and Miss Eifie Wilson were mar-
tied in Steubenville, last Monday,
Mrs. C. West left Monday for Elwood,
Pa, to locate. D. W. Bigsby accom:
panied her—Mr. D. West visited his
daughter, ‘Thelma, Sunday.—Mrs, H.
Harris entertained at dinner, Easter,
Mr. and Mrs. J, Jackson, W. I. Veney
and Miss G. Beasley.—Mrs. L. Davis,
G. Binn and Mrs. 8. Jackson, were in
Steubenville, recently. Mr, and Mrs,
Jackson are located with Mr. and
Mrs. H. Harris.—Mrs, 8. Lewis and
Mrs. F. Christian have gone to Steu-
benville, to work.—W. H. Veney ts
going out of business. He recently
sold 2 fine horses and has many farm-
ing ‘Implements, ete, to sell. Mrs.
Veney spent Easter with her daugh:
ter in Pittsburg, returning last Fri
day evening, being delayed by a land:
[slide on the “Wabash” between this
place and Mingo.-Mrs. It, West and
daughter, Mattie, spent Baster in
Steubenville, returning Tuesday
week.—Mr. Fred. Lawson is out. of
town tora few days:
AS TO DANCING
By Church Members—A Retired Cler-
‘gyman (white), a Gazette Reader,
‘Sends in a Strong Communi-
‘catia
Editor Gazette, Honored Sir:—In
The Gazette of March 8, an item under
“AfrorAmerican Cullings." caught. my
eye. It is clipped from an “exchange”,
and 1 crave space for a tow remarks
nent the same. It said: "Advanced
Feform and the white Christian chured
have concluded that dancing cannot be
stopped. They have therefore. taken
dancing and turned it into an uplifting
benefit to their communities.” It said,
also: "Many Colored pastors, who
pursue the fogy practice of condemn.
fig and expelling ail dancing members
find their pews are emptyrand. thelr
onetime. followers—old. and. young,
male aud femate, are dancing, to the
detriment of the “chureh finances.”
‘Then {t concludes: | "Let the Colored
chureh be progressive-let it turn
dancing to its own. account.”
Dear sin, ! have no brief to plead for
the Negro church, but allow me to sas.
the above example of the white Chris:
tian church and the advice of the wri
ter, are both undesirable and. danger-
ous precedents, for the following rea
Sons!
First, from the nature of the case:
Christ's call to. selfdental and. selt
Sacrifice ‘on the altar of loyalty. to
principle (St, John 15:944) and Paul's
command (Ist Cor, 10:31) to. Chris:
tiane: “Whether ye eat or drink oF
whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of
God:" these utterly prohibit the true
chureh from” incorporating dancing
among its consecrated utilities!
Second: because of conditions the
enureh 1s based on obedience to God's
‘word (2 Cor. 6:1418) being “called out
and separated. from the world” (St.
John 17:14-17); the Christian proinis-
ed to be “cheerfully governed by the
law of the church,” because the spirit
of Christ had made them “hate the
things they once. loved’ and. vice
Yerst: therefore (James 4:4) , the
Tnlendship of the world is enmity with
God, and. who-so-ever will be a dane
ing,’ drinking, eard-playing, theater
going friend of the world is an enemy
Ot God! See 24 Cor. 6:7.
‘Third, because of the contradictions
invalved, Ist John 2:1517 says: “if
any man love the things of the world,
the love of God is not in him! In.
this (Le, the things he allows, loves
and enjoy—Ro. 12:1-2( the child of
God is known from the child of the
devil,” and ft is the universal experi
ence’ of The Church that its worldly,
minded members are ‘not the ‘most
trustworthy advocates of religion nor
its best element in moral culture! The
duty of The Church is to. discipline
men, teaching them to observe and do
the things Jesus commanded! Dane.
ing, then, cannot be left to the indi-
vidual consctence, as it lies outside of
Church discipline and rules of salva-
tion.
Fourth; because of its past history
and. present evil influence: In. the
first known instance where the dance
Was introduced into church history
(exo, 32:19:29) three thousand were
killed as evidence of God's displeasure.
In the last, a drunken king, at the re:
Quest of a halfoude dancing girl, kil
ed the greatest prophet of the old dis-
pensation. How can such a pastime
(conceived in shameless, unmoral \dol-
atry and. crowed. with cold-blooded
murder) be made acceptable to GOD
or an “uplifting benefit” to a christian
community?
T have heard white ministers say,
“the dancing class has worked havoc
‘with our congregations-~four couples
Rave separated, and one family” is
threatened with divorce on account of
Sttending them." I have not heard
fone word about the beneft conferred
fon the chureh or its members by danc-
ne. If there be aps, pray make them
known.
Fifth and last; church membership
is based on the “whosoever will” plan.
Common sense would dictate - that
‘when a member, or a majority of mem-
ders, found the church-law inimical to
thelr permanent happiness and per-
sonal profit. instead of remaining as
Shypocritical worshippers.” they ought
to withdraw entirely from church com-
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THE ORIGIN OF INTERMARRIAGE.
Some Facts Gleaned From Careful
Biblical Research—A Member of
‘the: Reiceta Belein Latter.
|, Editor Gazette, Dear Sir: In look:
[ing over our valuable paper, The Ga
Zetts, of Tecent date, 1 noticed that
the Kansan: New Jersey, Michigan and
Towa, Legislatures. have “killed thet
anti-intermarriage bills, —_ Evidently
those lawmakers are fair-minded men
and not heathens. They knw from
thence intermarriage sprang. ‘Accord
ing to biblical records, it began with
[one of God's choten” vessele~Abrs
Shem was the progenitor of the pa
binvcus, “prophets mud et the Jews
fand also, of Christ. "And ‘on these
/aceounts,” says an eminent writer,
“the renown of the house of Shem
huts been great in.all the earth.” Into
{his renowned family, black Bhioplan
women were taken ab wives.
‘Abratiam, the father ‘of Jesus, mar
ried’ the frat one. Gen, a4.
‘Moses, the. great Hebrew legislator
and law-giver, marvied an. Ethiopian
woman, “Num, 12,
Judah, Sitneon and Joseph, the sons
of dacob, married black women also
Gen. 41-45,
SIudab had only Ave ehlldren. ‘They
byware males, 1st Chron, 2-4, Three, by
[hip at wite and two by his second, "2st
wife and two by” hie "seconds it
Chron, 224 And both of his. wives
were Cantanitish women. They were
descendants of Canaat, a black man:
and ‘Cangan ‘was’ the son of Hat.
Gen, 10:6,
“There were two classes of Jews dur
ing the time they had. kings Fuling
over tiem, ‘There was the royal Jew
find the common Jew. The royal Jew
was the black Jew and the ‘eommon
Jew was the white Jew. Solomon was
Certaluly ‘one of these royal. black
Sews, because biblleal history. shows
that he built the most costly and toy
alist temples that were ever erected,
‘And that he was blacksee “Songs
of Solomon,” iat chapter, sth and. 6th
erses, Solomon's most’ royal. guest,
After the dedication of the temple, was
a Negro woman—the Queen of Sheba,
Seo ist Kings, 101, “Now to, provs
tiatthe Queen’ was'a Nesto woman:
One of her ancestors whose name was
Sheba, was a grandson of Keturah,
the Eihloplan woman. who was. Abra:
ham’s second wife. See 25th chapter
of Genesis, Ist, 2nd and aed. veraes,
Now you can plainly see that” the
Queen of Sheba and Solomon had
Some of Abraham's. blood. in. thelr
vein, and also some of Ham's t00,
inthe United States of "America
there are ten_ millions of people who
are nelther white nor black, who are
called Negroes. Who {* responsible
for this? Will the white. man “fess
apr? We ste mot essing any favor
OF special privileges. from the Legis:
ature, but contend. for and. demand
our Mighis as’ American citizens,
TY Se esnanice:
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the application, and it is probable in
a short time Georgia will be the re
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Mrs. J. H. Stepney, age 41, of 2394 E. 36th Pl., died Mar. 26. Funeral services at M. Haven Baptist church, Mar. 25, conducted by Rev. J. L. E. Burr. Interment in E. Cleveland cemetery. E. F. Boyd, funeral director.
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THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, APRIL 5. 1913
Mr. Geo. Sampson, sr., who fell from a scaffold, recently, has practically recovered.
Wednesday morning's C. of C. flood sufferers' fund report credits Autloch Baptist church with giving $12.
The Needle club will serve refreshments at their next meeting at Mt. Zion church, E. 31st St. Friday afternoon.
Dr. J. K. Nickens finally succeeded in getting home from Youngstown, where he lectured, Mar. 24, to a large audience in spite of the inclement weather. He was asked to return in May. It was impossible to get out of that city for some days because of the high water.
According to Tuesday's report, our churches gave to the Chamber of Commerce flood-sufferers' relief fund as follows: St. John's, $20; Lane Memorial, $3.05; Shiloh Baptist, $10; Mt. Zion Congregational, $5, and East End Mt. Zion Baptist, $6.55. John M. Anderson, Esq., gave $2. Total, $46.00.
A piano recital will be given by Mrs. Alberta L. Wills, assisted by Mrs. M. M. Allen, at Mt. Zion Congregational church, E. 31st St., Tuesday evening, April 8, at 8 p. m. Admission, 25 cents. Refreshments will be served. This will be a treat; don't miss it.
Miss Manson, one of the best cooks in the city, needs no introduction to our older residents of Cleveland, where she has lived so long. But we wish to call our readers' attention to her advertisement elsewhere in this paper and ask them to visit her neat and clean restaurant, No. 3350 Central Ave., cor. E. 34th St., and to tell their friends and acquaintances to do so also. Splendid cooking and the very best of meals at reasonable prices.
There is only one Church of God and Saints of Christ in this city and that is the one in E. 37th St., which was recently incorporated, and of which Rev. J. E. Davis is pastor. Injunction proceedings against a few disgruntled members, an "offshoot" of the church, restraining them from collecting moneys, etc., under the name of the church, were started in court, and the church was represented by the church. Publications to the contrary are not worthy of attention, at least until this injunction suit is finished.
The week of April 7 will see the formal opening of Mrs. Edith Woods' cozy and home-like dry goods and notion store, at No. 369 363 Central Ave. cor. E. 40th St. Every evening will be devoted to a display of goods that will gladden the eyes of all of our people who have race-pride and who per in business. Don't miss this, and tell your friends and acquaintances to go one or more evenings during the week and be made supremely happy by what they see. Mrs. Woods is a fine, energetic business woman who is a credit to us.
Everybody know that A. Gaines is one of the best barbers Cleveland has ever had. When he left for Toledo, some months ago, many of his old friends and friends greatly
"AL" as he is familiarly called by hosts of friends and acquaintances, has returned to the city and re-established himself in business at his old stand, 3115 Central Ave. See his ad insertion in this paper and give him a call when you want first-class work.
Rev. J. E. Davis, pastor and president of the Church of God and Saints of Christ, 2226 E. 37th St. Tuesday petitioned common pleas court to enjoin former members of the church from using its name. The suit is against Mrs. Mamie Auston, Mrs. Mamie Smith, Norris Johnson, Miss Maze McGans, Mrs. M. C. Brown and Mrs. Susie Williams. Rev. Davis states in his petition that his church organization has held religious services in Cleveland six years ago and that the church of the Church of God and Saints of Christ and that March 13 of this year the local church became an incorporated body. Since the inception of the church here and by permission of its bishop, the church has displayed a sign over its place of worship designating it The Church of God and Saints of Christ. It has established a goodly membership and has purchased valuable real estate, he adds. Three weeks ago, Rev. Davis alleges, the defendants opened a store with S. E. only a few blocks away from the church over which he presides, distributed circulars under the name of the Church of God and Saints of Christ, so used the name over their door and have solicited subscriptions under that name. The pastor further alleges that the defendants design to obtain money donations and affect the standing of the original body. He asks the defendants be enjoined from using the name anywhere in Cleveland. Judge Pearson set April 4 as a tentative date for the hearing on the motion for a temporary injunction.
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Columbus, March 26, 1913.
Editor, Gazette, Dear Sir: I notice in a recent issue of your paper that you give a short sketch and a portrait of ex-Representative Henry T. Eubanks of your city, recently deceased. This widened death came as a great surprise to me and I am in the Capitol building certainly not more than ten days prior to his death. At this time he looked the very picture of health and robustness. Mr. Eubanks and myself served together in the 78th General Assembly. He always impressed me as a manly man in the very highest sense of the term. He was frank, open and above-board in all his actions, approachable and sociable to those who would make the punches, but more or less reserved the man himself, acquainted with him. He seldom spoke on the floor of the House, when he did, however, he commanded attention. I would not be so carried away in my estimation of Mr. Eubanks, or so foolish as to compare him with Daniel Webster, or to compare any other living orator with this giant of the forum for that matter: but his oratory was of that class. By this I am convinced that he is well-versed and delivered with a convincing force that carried conviction. He had an unusually good voice, coupled with a physique to back it. I am glad to add these few words as a slight tribute to one who held my confidence, and I think this confidence was reciprocated. I had frequent talks with him on general legislative matters, and more particularly with any movement concerning the Colored people. On all these subjects he was fair and open-minded, and I think this confidence it is a pleasure to the question. It is a pleasure to the sighing token to his sterling merit as a citizen and as a statesman.
Yours very truly,
L. H. SCOTT.
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HON. JERE A. BROWN.
Twice a Member of the Ohio Legis lature—An Immigrant Inspector—Clerk in the State Insurance Department—His Rise from a Carpenter's Bench.
After an illness of weeks, Hon. Jere A. Brown, age 75, died last week and was buried, Sunday afternoon, from the family residence, 2345 E. 65th St. The funeral was largely attended. His career was indeed a remarkable one. If memory serves us correctly, he was born in St. Augustine, and lived there until his death, before locating in Cleveland. His mother and sister, Miss Hallie Q. Brown, the well-known elocutionist, his second wife and two small children survive him, and have the earnest sympathy of a host of Mr. Brown's friends and acquaintances throughout the country. He was one of our best known Masons and a thorough race man. He in Cleveland, a clergyman, then a letterer, for years. It was while thus employed that The Gazette brought him out as a candidate for the Legislature to defeat John P. Green, who at time was president of the "Social Circle," a local organization, nicknamed many years ago by W. T. Boyd. The Blues Society, John P. Green or in the Legislature, Mr. Brown was elected and re-elected, serving two terms. The Gazette's first political victory. His most conspicuous work as a legislator was the passage of bill which is still a state law and effective. While a member of the State Legislature, Mr. Brown of Senator John Sherman, who secured his clerkship in the state insurance department at the close of his legislation, career, and whose friends kept him in a political position of some kind until Senator Hannah secured him the appointment of immigrant inspector, some years ago. This he held until demoted and given a minor position in that office, under the direction of the State Legislature, who hurt Mr. Brown "to the heart," and many believe, played an important part in his rapid decline thereafter and recent illness. He served two terms as a deputy sheriff, many years ago, and was past grand master of our Masons of the state, at the time of his death. It is said of Mr. Brown that soon after the war of the rebellion, he served on the Mississippi river steamboats with "Mark Twain" (Samuel Clemens), and that he served on the Mississippi river steamboats with "Emesutaria," whose boiler exploded and caused the famous disaster which history records in connection with that great river. His first wife
was for many years an active member of Mt. Zion Congregational church, of which Mr. Brown was also the President of the church piloted at the (unsec)
INTER-RACIAL MARRIAGES
Why Southern Democrats Have Caused "Separate Marriage" Bills To Be Introduced in Northern Legislatures, Etc.
Columbus, O.—The following excellent communication was published, recently, in the Columbus Daily Ohio State Journal:
Mr, Editor, Dear Sir: It is reported that there is a bill before the Ohio House of Representatives to prohibit intermarriage between white and Colored persons, and to make it unlawful for those already married to continue the marriage relation. It seems that similar matters has been introduced into other northern legislatures, some of which have already turned it down.
This bill is evidently modeled after those prevailing in the south, and it is not difficult to guess the source of its paternity. The success of the Democratic party in the recent elections, state and national, has doubtless encouraged and stimulated the development of a degrading policy of Tillman, Vardaman and Blease toward the Negro. This is no sporadic movement; nor the work of some small faction under a monetary impulse; it is guided by method and pushed with a persistent and tireless energy. It is not, therefore, to be treated lightly. What the south surreptitiously at Appalachia did not not its policy or its purpose, though, of course, circumstances have necessarily changed its methods. Consider the successive steps in this process: Denial of civic rights; disfranchisement, first by violence and then under the disguise of various laws; Jim Crow cars; attempts to restrict educational opportunities to elementary and industrial education; schools by making the Colored common schools depend wholly on taxes paid by Colored citizens.
The bill now before the Ohio legislature is another step in the same process. What next? Will it be a proposition to repeal those amendments to the bill that require the use of indescribable trial, suffering and carnage? Is it any less true today than in Lincoln's time, that a house divided against itself cannot stand? Or is the harmony to be restored by the surrender of the north? If the measure under consideration should be allowed to now take its course to the supreme court, confident that it would there be put to sleep, but when it is considered a link in the chain which the south is steadily and persistently forging for the virtual enslavement of 10,000,000 citizens the question becomes far more serious.
The arguments advanced to support this bill, considered in themselves, do not deserve serious attention. But what would be the practical effect of this measure? It might prevent intermarriage to a degree, but would it prevent intermixture? If anyone doubts, let him go into those southern states where such a law prevails and learn the facts. The proper name for this bill—a name that would indicate the effects of its practical operation—would be the association of white and Colored in virtuous sexual relations, and to promote concubinage, bastardy and immorality."
As a matter of fact, there is very little intermarriage between the races in this state, and there is no evident tendency in that direction; probably the only effect would be to break up the happy homes of those already married, who have families, many of whom, if not all, are living in congenial companionship and are useful and honorable citizens. They entered the civil service of the laws of the state. Shall these happy families be torn asunder in obedience to the blind, cruel, racehating prejudice of those who, if they could, would make slaves of the Colored people because they are weak?
Mr. Editor, what do the God-fearing, Christian people of Ohio say to this iniquitous measure? Will they keep silent and allow this brand of shame to be fixed upon the character of our noble state? The laws of God chuse not; those who sow the wind will reap the whirlwind. No good can come out of this measure. Evil in conception and spirit, violation of the elementary rights of humanity, uncalled for by anything in present conditions, more unchristian than anything that can be found among heathen or pagan nations. I will simply constitute a shame of shame in a great state. CITIZEN. Wilberforce, O.
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SPORTS
WRESTLING
Jesse Westerguard of Des Moines won from Julius Nelson, champion wrestler of Montana, in straight falls, at St. Paul, the first in 16 minutes and the second in 26 minutes. Stanislaua Shyzsko, the Polish wrestler, won his match at Pittsburgh with Paul Samson, the German giant Zhyszko throwing Simpson first in 22 minutes and then in eight minutes. Both falls were won on body holds.
Oxford won the annual boat race with Cambridge on the Thames by a quarter of a length. Dick Arnst, ex-professional sculling champion, has challenged Paddon, who beat Felton, for the Australian title. The American regatta is scheduled to be held over the Henley mile and 560-yard course on the Schuykill river, Philadelphia, on Saturday May 31.
Yale men are deep in the problem of what has held back Old Ell's football team for the last two years. Not meaning to be feecious, but possibly they might inquire at Cambridge, Mass., and be enlightened. Candidates for line positions of the University of Pennsylvania football team have started practice under the direction of Gus Ziegler, the former All-American guard, who has been appointed assistant to Coach Brooke.
HORSE RACING
Indiana has passed a racing bill, but unless all sign fail Chicago gamblers will be persona non grata.
The American Trotting association has dropped the rule requiring drivers to weigh at least 150 pounds.
Robert K. 2:10½, is dead. Raced over the half-mile tracks, this trotter won 16 races in 1911 and 1912.
San Francisco horsemen plan two light harness horse meets in 1915 with purses aggregating $225,000.
Philip T. Chinn, a Kentucky horseman, has announced that he has sold to John E. Madden of New York the stallion Ballot for $20,000.
Except the grand circuit events at Fort Erie the richest harness racing fixture in Canada this year will be the $5,000 2:20 pace at Winnipeg.
According to a ruling of the Supreme court, race track tickets may be revoked. Which is only another deterrent to those who still cherish the sport of kings.
The French Jockey club, with the idea of improving the class of horses in the army have decided to institute 26 special races, to be called Prix de Cavalerie, the endowments of which will amount to $24,000.
The new grandstand at the Vienna (Austria) race track, which cost nearly $1,000,000, is 1,000 feet long. The royal boxes in the center have the entrance lined with white marble, with gold knobs ornamenting the ralling on each side of the steps. Two other stands of 500 feet in length will be built.
Captain Bill Sweeney of the Bosston Braves will teach the youngsters how to slide.
It is reported that the major league clubs' training expense will reach something like $200,000.
For the first time in the history of baseball the Washington fans are claiming the pennant.
Dixie Walker, formerly with the Washington Senators, will wear a St Paul uniform this season.
Manager Griffith claims that Calvo, his Cuban outfielder, will be a sensation during the coming campaign.
The New York Glants seem to have a real hitter in Outfielder Burns. This fellow poles out homers nearly every day.
Jack Powell has experienced a change of heart about retiring, and has signed to pitch for the Louisville Colonels.
George Stovall, leader of the St. Louis Browns, believes he has enough material on hand for a first division team.
Bobbie Veach, the outfielder secured by the Tigers from Indianapolis last season, is regarded as a regular by the Detroit fans. Johnny Kling has issued a statement that Jimmy Archer is the best catcher in the big leagues and never has had a superior. Dick Padden, the old major league player, has a deal on whereby he hopes to get the Wheeling franchise in the Interstate league. In Jimmy Williams, Hobe Ferris and Rube Waddell, John Cantillon has three players who started out with Stoney McGlynn's old man. Lew McAllister, "Gaby" Street and Charley Schmidt, three old-time big league backatops, will work in the Southern league this season. Marty Walsh, a younger brother of Ed Walsh of the Sox, has signed a contract to play with the Ufca club of the New York State league.
Barney Dreyfuss claims there isn't a pitcher in the National league, with the exception of Mathewson, who is getting more than 35,000 a year.
Manager Hughele Jennings of the Tigers likes the way Outfielder High takes care of himself, and believes that the youthster will make good.
June 3 has been the date set for the American league championship flag raising day at Boston. The Sox will play the Bostonians on that day.
JOE BENZ
One of Manager Jimmy Callahan's recruits of last year, who proved himself worthy of a berth in major league company, is reported as having shown much improvement this spring.
BILLIARDS
During the 1912 billard parlor were opened in Texas at the rate of nearly one and one-third a day. Calvin Demarest is reported to have accepted a position as billard instructor at the University club, Chicago. New York made it three straight over Pittsburgh in the National Three-Cushion Billard league, winning the third contest by the same score as in the two previous games, 50 to 47. Pittsburgh increased its lead in the National Billard league tournament for the three-cushion championship when Charles McCount of that city defeated Allen Mason of Boston, 50 to 47. H. A. Coleman of Milwaukee is the new national amateur class B champion at 18.2 balk-line billards. In the play-off of the tie for the title he defeated Charles P. Conway of New New York. 300 to 243.
Teddy Maloney defeated Lew Tra
cey in six fast rounds at Philadelphia.
Matty Baldwin secured the decision over Ray Wood in a fast bout at Salem, Mass.
Johnny Marto outfought Harry Donohue of Pekin, Ill., in a ten-round bout at New York.
Ray Rison knocked out Leo Kelly in the second round of their bout at St. Louis.
Jake Abel of thattancora lost an eight-round match to Joe Sherman in the athletic club in Memphis.
Joe Thomas of New Orleans got the decision over Tommy KOkeefe of Philadelphia in ten rounds at Atlanta, Ga.
Frank Klaua, the durable Pittsburgh, secured the decision over Billy Papke in a fifteen-round bout in Paris.
Tommy Langdon of Phdadelphia was too clever for Terry Brooks of New York at Philadelphia in their ten-round bout.
Frank Moran, the Plittsburg heavy, weight, who had a successful fight campaign in California, is anxious to meet Luther McCarty.
Mickey Sheridan of Chicago was entitled to a decision on points in a fast ten-round bout at Jackson, Mich., with Patsy Drouillard of Windsor. Rudy Unholz has taken to the warpath. He wants to fight all the available lightweights and prefers to start out by exterminating Bat Nelson. Harry Donahue of Pekin, weighing 133, met Jimmy Jarvis of Yorkville, who scaled 143 pounds, and gave the latter an unmerrified beating at New York. Jess Willard, the Kansas white hope, knocked out Jack Leon, a former wrestler, in the fourth round of a scheduled ten-round bout at Fort Wayne.
MISCELLANEOUS
The 1916 Olympic games at Berlin will include golf.
Yale university has broken ground for its stadium, which will seat 60,000.
Columbia defeated Dartmouth at hockey in a very thrilling finish by a score of 29 to 21.
Georgetown is this year to be represented by one of the fastest relay teams in the history of that institution.
Miss Dorothy Ballantyne of Detroit defeated Miss Helen Barnett of New Haven in the final play of the annual club championship tennis tournament for women.
Walter Fairbanks, the Denver golfer, is the new Florida golf champion, succeeding R. H. McElwee, whom he defeated in the final round, 3 to 2. Mr. Fairbanks also took the qualification honors, with a card of 71.
In Epping Forest, one of the English athletic fields, there are playing pitches for 171 football teams and 130 cricket clubs have creases. In addition there are also in the forest two golf courses and 19 tennis courts.
One of the most severe losses to the Cornell track team as the result of examinations in recent years is reported in the Cornell camp. No less than 11 men of varsity caliber have been lost to the squad, which makes Coach Moakley's chances this year most uncertain.
Coach Jack Moakley, of Cornell university, has placed himself on record as opposed to the hammerthrowing players in the intercollegiate matches. Moakley prefers a three-mile run instead of a two-mile race and would like to see a walking event added to the program.
THE GAZETTE. CLEVELAND. O SATURDAY. APRIL 5. 1913
A
GRAND PROVOST MADE ERROR
Tristan L'Hermite Receives Private Sign From Louis XI., but Picks Out Wrong Man.
Louis Xl. of France one day, observing among the crowd who assembled to see him an officer whom he disliked, made a private sign to Tristan L'Hermite, his grand provost, to put him out of the way. Tristan, well accustomed to the signal, but unluckily mistaking the man alluded to, accosted a well-fed monk, who stood in the same time with the captain, allured him into the palace yard, thrust him into a sack and threw him into the Seine.
Next day Louis, hearing that the proscribed officer had been seen posting toward Flanders, reproached Tristan with this neglect.
"To Flanders!" said the grand provost; "your majesty must be in an error. The monk has got halfway to Rouen by this time. I sent him adrift tipped up in a sack."
"What monk?"
"Him your majesty, pointed at."
"Hah!" said the king, with his usual oath, "you have drowned me the best priest in the kingdom. It cannot be helped now, so we will have a half a dozen masses said for his soul; but it was that dog of a captain, not the poor monk, that I meant."—Life.
Hints for Housekeepers
If your husband is about to make a trip in a sleeping car it is a good idea to empty his fountain pen, quietly and unobtrusively, before he starts.
There are several ways of cooking cabbage, but you get about the same smell from all of them.
Experience has shown that unless the roof of an ordinary tenement house is reshingled as often as once in eighteen or twenty years it will leak in spots. It is hard, however, to make the owner or agent of the house liable.
If greatly troubled by the blackening of the mantles on your gas burners try shutting off the gas and using electricity for a while.
It is better to put your money into good books than to hide it away in cracked old teapots.
Muffled Knocks
"It's awfully kind of you to call so often, Mrs. Shykes, when it's so seldom that I have the leisure to entertain you."
"I liked your speech at the banquet the other evening very much, Mr. Glizzard, though all I heard of it was the last sentence or two."
"Doctor, we haven't had the slightest uneasiness about Hilly since you took charge of the case. In fact, he was nearly well when we called you in."
"So sorry we didn't meet you when we were traveling through Spain last summer. We stopped, you see, at the expensive hotels."
Bess—Excuse me while I dress for the theater. Try to amuse yourself some way.
Bert—All right. Send in that new maid.
Or a Mirror Before Her.
"Bobby," asked his maternal ancestor, "what did you learn at school today?"
"I learned," said Bobby, rubbing himself where it still seemed to hurt,
"that teacher's got eyes in the back of 'er head. Her face was turned th' other way, an' yet she seen me eatin' an ankle."
No Team Work
Barker—I wonder why Jarrocks and his wife are always at war with each other?
Parker—Lays it to the fact that he runs his house like the city government—formed a board of estimate and control, and made the initial mistake of choosing the estimating as his part of the combination—Judge.
His Secret.
"There goes one of the most successful dentists in this town, and yet he knows little about dentistry."
"What's the secret of his success, then?"
"He keeps the magazine table in his waiting-room strictly up-to-date."—Puck.
"She and pa have been arguing about something for four and ma
JOKE ON REALTY SALESMAN
Neglected to Ascertain Location of Farmer Who Wanted to Make Exchange for City Lots.
One of the best stories of the hustling real estate salesman we ever heard comes from one of the fraternity who isn't afraid to tell a joke because it happens to be on him.
This salesman heard of a man who was anxious to trade a farm for some city lots. So he jumped into his automobile, drove to the farm owner's town office and warmly invited him to come out and look at some fine suburban property. The prospective buyer seemed glad of the opportunity and they were soon speeding toward the subdivision in which our hero was interested.
Half an hour beyond the city limits the real estate man began to point out corner lots, prospective paving and sewer systems, locations for imposing residences and all that sort of thing. "The city is growing right out this way," he said. "Facts and figures prove that beyond the possibility of a doubt. In ten years these lots will be in the most fashionable part of town and will be worth five times what they are selling for today. While your farm will—by the way, where is your farm located?" "We passed it on our way out here from the city," said the prospective buyer. "Want to look at it?"—Cleveland Plain Dealer.
GOT ALL THEY HAD.
"Tom has broken with his rela-
tives."
"But he broke them before he broke with them."
"Is this Mr. Biggs' office?"
The clerk looked up.
"No, sir. Mr. Biggs' office is on the other side of the passage."
"Thank you," said the other, and stepped outside, leaving the door wide open.
"Hi, sir! You've left the door open." yelled the clerk after him.
"Dear me, so I have. You see, all the doors at my house are fitted with Bloch springs. Allow me to show you a specimen. Never wears out, never cracks or jams or needs oiling and ———"Tid Bits.
Turred Down.
W: Somerset Maughan, the English playwright, was praising the American girl.
"The independent American girl," he said, "will stand no nonsense especially from elderly married men. "Coming over on the boat there was a beautiful American girl, and one afternoon an elderly married man's wife was heard to say to him: 'I don't like the way you've been looking at Miss Blanc.' "Poor George frrowned and muttered:
"Well, she don't either!"
Eggs
"How much are these eggs?" asked Mrs. Younglove.
"Them are 35 cents a dozen, ma'm," the grocer replied. "They're fresh."
"And these in the next crate?"
"Them are 40 cents a dozen. They are strictly fresh."
"How much are those at the end of the counter?"
"Them are 50 cents."
"But they are not marked fresh or strictly fresh."
"I know, ma'm. Them is some I picked out to take home."
Overdid It.
was the publisher. He was till he discovered that our edition of the Bible was our best selling book last year. Now he has spread broadcast pictures of the author, his wife, photographs of him shooting in the Rockies, jabbering with the neighbors and feeding his pets, and has even arranged a tentative lecture tour for him.—Puck.
Shifting Responsibility
A town character who had been in trouble with the police many times was arrested on a minor criminal charge. The arresting officer was amazed when the fellow appeared in police court with a lawyer, prepared to make a defense. Finally his case was called, and the judge asked the prisoner, are you guilty or not guilty?
"Let my lawyer plead not guilty for me, judge." was the reply. "I ain't got the nerve."
A Poser.
The curate of a large and fashionable church was endeavoring to teach the significance of white to a Sunday school class.
"Why," said he, "does a bride invariably desire to be clothed in white at her marriage?" and a woman was inscribed, "White," said he, "stands for joy, and the wedding day is the most joyous occasion of a woman's life."
A small boy queried, "Why do the men all wear black?"—Argonaut.
Uninterrupted Enthusiast
"How did you manage to learn so much in the brief time at your disposal for travel?" "I didn't use it up traveling. I stayed at home and studied the guidebook."
NEW SEASON STYLES
Zebra Effects Are to Take the Place of Stripes.
Make Up Smartly in Many of the New
Cotton Tissues—Plain Skirt, It
Is Said, Will Not Be a
Feature.
NEW YORK—Stripes of the or
dinary kind will not be made
into costumes for the new sea
Materials assist wonderfully to make any kind of costume. At present there are such light, clinging stuffs as crepes of all kinds, and there are the summer cotton goods, that are soft, yet not thick, such as batiste, cotton ratine, fine plique, cotton crepes, and chiffon, toile, cotton eponge, cotton brocades, and linens. All these materials will be modish, no distinct one leading, each fabric being used for a particular genre of frock. For tailor suits for early spring wear there are velour de laine, fine rep, and serge. Some women always like cloth, so cloth will be employed occasionally.
Changes in Trains.
Nothing meets the demand of the evening gown better than crepe, and with this material and charmeuse, also embroidered nets and tulles, these costumes will be richer than they have been for a long time. The evening dress is more dignified, too, the little tail that trailed the floor at the side or back having vanished. The train is there, but it now forms a part of the body of the dress, and, while it lies well on the floor, does not sweep. None of the skirts is plain. Long lines are there, but they are formed by the folds of the drapery. The breadth of the skirt is not changed, being never more than a yard and a quarter for a tailor suit. Yet the am-
MISS HENRY
MISS HENRY
Afternoon Gown.
ple drapery makes it appear, much wider. This is the case in afternoon and evening gowns, also. The tunic draping is severe, and it is what lends dignity, while at the same time making a wearer look youthful. Tailor skirts are good walking length, allowing the feet and ankles of the wearer to show. With afternoon frocks, effects are a trifle longer; with evening gowns the skirt barely covers the feet.
Very Short Coats a Success.
If one should find the tailor skirt too dignified, the short sackcoat that goes with it adjusts effects to suit the most exacting. This little coat will be a huge success, for it comes just an inch below the waist line and makes the waist appear larger and, consequently, the hips smaller. The short cut is coquetttish, too, and as the fronts are double-breasted without garnish in the way of revers, the effect is quite elegant. Bands of the goods on the bias sometimes trim both tailor skirts and short coats, and they garnish, and at the same time do not take from the flat, simple ensemble of the costume.
Some people call this new little coat an Eton jacket, but it certainly is not that, being longer and fuller in cut than the Eton. The fronts, lapping and crossing, makes a widely different arrangement, too. Some of these tall or suits are scalloped about the hem; and the coats have the same finish which is a pretty and unusual one. We are employing the scallop in a diversity of ways this season; to finish off volants of summer silks, for heavy toiles and plumes, sometimes bound with braid and sometimes only stitched or pressed flat. The sash, fastened to the back or to fall at the side of a coat or a summer frock, is a feature of the new dresses. Women seem to think the sash gives them long lines.
When the fronts of the little coats are turned back, white or yellow vests
The Voice a Pearl.
Ellhu Burritt says of the voice: "Watch it day by day as a pearl of great price, for it will be worth more to you in the days to come than the best pearl lid in the sea. A kind voice in joy, like a lark's song, to a hearth at home. Train it to sweet tones now and it will keep in tune through life."
Eve Photographs.
Nearly everybody knows that we see objects as pictures on the retina
are disclosed, making a very dainty and jaunty finish. Unlike the man's waistcoat, this is made with long tail or sleeves, and when the coat is taken off, the wearer is dressed for almost any kind of a function in the morning. The best of these vests are of figured plique or the kind that men's summer waistcoats are made of; while dark colored vests in reds, blues and browns are in solid taffetas embroidered in little flowers scattered wide apart. The vest is bound in white or whatever shade one wishes.
There was a call for big plaids last winter, so we now have a few examples of Scotch plaid in the prevailing dyes for tailor effects. The skirts showing the best and most serviceable lines are made with tiny groups of knife plaitings. The short coat is of a solid material bound or piped in the plaid. The clasps across the plain front are in enameled buckles of the dye of the coat, which is apt to be in one of the fashionable browns, such as tobacco, khaki, biscuit or fawn. The tailor suits of bright colors, such as reds, green, etc., are made with plaid skirts and coats of solid dyes. These are striking, but because of the vivid colors these suits are appropriate only for half-dressy wear.
Sult in English Pattern.
An effective white suit is in heavy lawn, embroidered in the English pattern. It is coarse and heavy, but at the moment these effects are more sought than light ones. The entire dress is of English embroidery, the ceinture to be used of old blue crepe de chine, swathed about the belt and falling at the side in a fringe. Many well-dressed women will have nothing but black for evening, and while white touches are not as popular as formerly, heavy gold finishes produce splendid effects. This is the case when a gaze de nicon, for instance, is embroidered in gold metal threads. A splendid example of this idea is of a black mousseline, embroidered all over in gold circles put wide apart.
Yellowes of all shades are fashionable. While yellow was extremely stylish during the winter, we had an idea that people would tire of it. But this did not prove to be the case. The most fashionable tint is that of lemon or even orange. These tones light up well at night and, when seen beside the old-fashioned pale pink or blue, put them completely in the shade. These tones also influence afternoon gowns, though effects are less brassy. For tailors a yellow that is known as khaki, and all nuances that gave fushes of gold are popular. Tilleul is not unlike lemon, and this is one of the new colors for spring, though it was used a bit last winter.
Foulard Not in Demand.
We are carrying over brilliant reds, such as watermelon, geranium and fuchsia, also shrimp and salmon. Among new combinations that of khaki and dark blue is fine, be the material a heavy one or of crepe or silk. Foulard has not been modish in Paris for some years, and there is no indication of its arrival for the summer. There are too many attractive goods to replace it. Solid dark taffetas, with widely separated stripes of gay color, will be used, but taffeta calls are not as dominant as formerly. Women prefer stuffs that are softer and more flattering, and the best taffetas are quite hard against the complexion. Taffeta, unless it be very supple, does not drape gracefully, either. It is brittle and people declare that folds of it wear out too quickly. This is not the case with crepes and soft goods.
The illustration shows an afternoon gown in slate color with stripes of old red, belt of gray suede leather, guipme of embroidered linen.
Collar Protectors.
While collar protectors, dainty as can be, may be bought at no great price, they are so inexpensive to make that the woman who sees bargains in lace insertions is prone to pick up the lengths for these dainty dress accessories. Three-quarters to a yard of lace insertion, six or seven inches wide, is required for one of the protectors. All that is needed is to gather the lace at either end and cover the gathers or fulness with a tassel or ball of crochet. These danglers may be picked up for a few cents in some of the shops at the clearance sales which now abound. No matter how careful one is with the fur or marabout neck piece, there is always a chance of its rubbing against and soiling the dress collar. One of these protectors will save the rubbing on the gown, and when soiled may be as easily washed as a handkerchief.
Embroidery Apron.
So absolutely simple that the wonder is that some woman did not design it years ago, is a little embroidery apron of half-oval shape, slightly curved at the waist line to fit smoothly into a band and directly in its center equipped with a half oval pocket about a third of the size of the plafore proper and affording ample shelter for a small piece of fancy work. The apron is dainty in white batiste edged all round with a scalloping in a pale color and with its pocket simi-early edged but carrying in its center an embroidered floral design.
Fringe Persists.
In hairdressing fringes, both straight and curled, still persist, but only a few strands of hair are cut up on the forehead. Puffs and curls are arranged from back to front instead of following the line of the brow, and the dressing is done very softly and with a strong blas in favor of the side parting. There are no longer any coils showing on the top of the head, but the back is covered with puffs so soft and flat that they look like waves.
of the eye. Out of this fact, doubt less, there sprang up the popular be lief, amounting in some quarters to superstition, that "pictures" may be seen in the eyes of dead men—Harp's Weekly.
His Position.
"What are your views on the great public problems?" "I haven't any views on public problems," replied the man whose interests are under investigation. "I'm one of them myself."
6137
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LADY'S FOUR GORED SKIRT.
G143
This skirt can be used to complete a coat suit, or it can be used for costume development. It can be made with either the empire or regulation waist line. The closing is made at the left side of the back. Serge or broadcloth can be used to make this skirt.
The pattern (6143) is cut in sizes 22 to 30 inches waist measure. Medium size requires 3¾ yards of 36 inch material.
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Mountain Fever.
Miss Dora Keene was talking at a tea at the Acorn club in Philadelphia, about mountainers' enthusiasm.
"The frezy to get higher, higher, higher," she said, "is quite incredible to those who have done no mountainering.
"There's a story, doubtless true, about a girl who climbed the Schreckhorn, a difficult rock-scramble. When the summit was reached the head guide, wiping his brow, panted:
"Well, here we are, men, up on the top at last."
"But the girl said, fretfully:
"Oh, guide, can't we go any higher?
"Not unless you climb this alpenstock, miss," the guide answered, thrusting it into the frozen snow."
Simple Remedy for Burns
Common whiting, mixed with water to the consistency of a thick cream spread on linen, forms an excellent local application to burns and scalds. The whole burnt surface should be covered, thus excluding the action of the air. The case it affords is instantaneous, and it only requires to be kept moist by occasional sprinkling of cold water.
Not Surprised.
· "What did her father say when you asked permission to marry his daughter?"
"Not much."
"Did he seem surprised?"
"No. I guess he knew that I hadn't been hanging around that house for the last two years just to get his political views."
Many Others Have Had Same Opinion.
Thomas Caryile had a bad opinion of the London zoological gardens, "I hate zoological gardens," he once remarked, "since I went to the Regent's park and there saw a beast walking round and round everlastingly, till it had made a white track round its cage, and it glared at me through the bars."
A surprising answer was elicited at a recent examination at a board school in London. "Who was David?" asked the inspector. "King of Israel and the son of Jesse," replied a bright boy. "Who was Jesse?" continued the inspector. "The Flower of Dunblane" said the scholar, after a slight pause.