The Gazette

TH1RTY-FIRST YEAR. NO. 24 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA INDICATIONS OF MUCH PROGRESS CO-OPERATION THE KEYNOTE Interesting Account of the Thrift and Industry of Afro-Americans In Various Cities and Towns In the Bluegrass State—Both Races Working Together For Advancement. By RALPH W. TYLR. Lexington, Ky.—One who makes a trip through Kentucky and observes the homes of colored people, their thrift, the evidences of progress and the rivalry existing between some of the towns is at once impressed with the fact that there has been a great awakening among the colored people of this state. A wonderful stride forward is being made in business as well as in education. In this city, which is best known by the meeting of the annual Negro fair, there resides a clever and progressive lot of colored people, not surpassed by the like in any state. Individual progress has been made here, and now members of the race are beginning to recognize that co-operative progress must command their attention if they expect to maintain the success already achieved. One thing that is very helpful to Lexington colored people, and especially throughout eastern Kentucky, is the good feeling existing between the two races. No better feeling exists between the races in any city of the north than exists here in Lexington. Perhaps this is due to the very high type of colored men and women, and possibly it is due to the high class of white citizens who reside in this section, or it may be it is due to both. There are many very successful business enterprises conducted by men and women of the races here, and the degree of harmony existing within the races argues well for the establishment of other and larger and different business establishments in the very near future. Lexington is also fortunate in having such splendid race men—such aggressive, progressive and efficient men. C. Jackson, Dr. P. D. Robinson K. H. Ballard Dr. J. A. Hunter and many others who are constantly alert to the interests of that race along every possible line. Lexington possesses a fine charming, cultured circle, and the colored schools, under Professor Faust, are thoroughly up to date. These contribute greatly to make Lexington a real garden spot in the Blue State. Included in the local Negro Bust-up plan of residence. No city can boost of a larger and better pharmacy than the one over which Dr. Ballard presides as proprietor, and not in all Kentucky is there a more skillful surgeon than Dr. Hunter, or a better business man than J. C. Jackson. One thing which impressed me most favorably as a sign of racial harmony was the strong feeling among our people that it is their duty to patronize one another in business. They realize that such action is necessary in order to provide places, as clarks, bookkeepers, etc., for young colored men and women who each year are graduated from the schools in this city and state. Usually the legal profession is the hardest in which men of our race can achieve the success their ability commands. Here in Lexington the colored lawyers are succeeding, and they receive every consideration due a lawyer from the city courts. Within a distance of one or two hours' ride from Lexington are the towns of Danville, Frankfort, Paris, Georgetown, each of whose colored population is one-third or one-half of the total population. In Danville, a town which reminds one greatly of the New England towns, because of the atmosphere of culture and its many beautiful residences, the colored people have a very excellent school, with one of the most earnest and best equipped educators, Professor Bate, as principal. Danville colored skilled mechanics are kept busy. The most successful contractor is a colored man, the leading veterinary surgeon, Dr. Doran, is a colored man, and Dr. Jones is readily acknowledged by both races as one of the very best physicians the town beats of. The Colored Baptist church, whose pastor is the widely known and popular minister, Rev. J. E. Wood, stands second to none in the city for size and beauty. Frankfort, Ky., is kept very much on the map by such energetic, capable and unselfish uplifters as Dr. E. E. Underwood, Thomas K. Robb, T. L. Brooks, Rev. Silva, the very efficient principal of the colored schools and the president of the state normal school, and some others of Frankfort's splendid colored men and women. As in Lexington the feeling existing between the two races is most congenial. One only has to observe a little to learn that the condition of the race in Frankfort is rapidly improving, due to the co-operative efforts of part of the race and the evident desire of the whites to give the Negro a fair chance. THE GAZETTE CHARLES H. MOYER © INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE This photograph of the president of the Western Federation of Miners was taken after his arrival in Chicago wounded, as he asserted, by agents of the Citizens' alliance of the Calumet copper region in northern Michigan. EXPLAINS LOSS OF SHIP AND 32 LIVES CAPTAIN OF SUNKEN STEAMER SAYS THAT VICTIMS HAD NO CHANCE TO BE SAVED. Giant Sea Sweeps Away Smokestack and Pours Into Engineerroom and Sleeping Quarters of the Crew. New York City.—Alfred F. Gunther, commander of the sunken steamer Oklahoma, explained the loss of his vessel and the lives of 32 men to the Gulf Refining Co. in a cipher radiogram sent from the Hamburg-American liner Bavaria which rescued them and seven other of the Oklahoma's officers. From this message it was learned that while the steamer was hove to in Sunday's hurricane a giant sea swept away the smokestack—placed in the after part of the vessel—and poured into the engineerroom and sleeping quarters of the crew. The weight of the sudden rush of the sea was too much for the Oklahoma and her stern literally dropped out of sight, carrying with it the chief engineer, his assistants and the seamen who were below. Capt. Gunther, First Officer Bert I. Verson, Second Officer Knute Dahle, Third Officer Karl Eklund, Wireless Operator William Davis, Beattawan William Rausumse, Carpenter Herman Erickson, and Courteymen In his radiogram to the owners of the Oklahoma, Capt. Gunther stated that there had been no explosion, and that after his rescue by the Bavaria the last he saw of the Oklahoma was her bow slowly sinking; in a horizontal position. He added that there was no possible chance of the lives of the chief engineer and the crew being saved as all channels of escape were blocked by the volume and force of the sea that poured through the hole made by the carrying away of the smokestack. $10,000,000 FOR FORD CO'S 26,000 EMPLOYES Detroit, Mich.—The greatest melon ever cut in Detroit was sliced Monday for the benefit of the Ford Automobile Co. Henry Ford, president of the concern, announced that $10,000,000 would be distributed among every one of the 26,000 persons in the employ of the concern in this and other cities. Beginning Jan. 12 and continuing monthly the wages of rn men over 22 years old will be doubled, regardless of the length of time they have served the corporation. According to officials of the company Henry Ford has expressed himself as being against the unequal division now existing between capital and labor. The officials of the company have made arrangements for 1914 whereby employees will work but eight hours per day instead of nine and receive the larger wages. Rev. Billy Sunday vs. Bartenders. Pittsburgh—When Rev. Billy Sunday came here recently to "clean up Pittsburgh" the Bartenders' union grew excited and offered $5,000 for the privilege of having its business secretary debate with the evangelist on the question: "Who is Getting the Colin—Billy Sunday or Us?" Mr. Sunday declined the challenge. Wife and Husband Found Dead. Sharon, Pa.—The bodies of Harry Husband, 45, and his wife, Elizabeth, 41, were found at their home on Wilson-av by neighbors. A revolver with two exploded shells was found near the body of the woman. That the two had been dead 24 hours was the opinion of Coroner S. A. Woods. Bullet wounds in the bodies showed how they met death. The police believe it to be a case of murder and suicide, but so far as can be learned no motive is assigned. The map was a steel worker. ESTABLISHED AUGUST 25, 1883, AND ISSUED EVERY WEEK ON TIME SINCE. CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1914. Business and Social Duties of Mayor Auction of Battersea, England Archer or Battersea, England. The high honor of being received by the king as an official is always an item of more than ordinary interest to those whose good fortune it may be to preside over any of England's possessions or the various boroughs of London. John Richard Archer, who was recently elected mayor of Battersea, will receive all the consideration and courtesies usually accorded to an official of his rank. Mrs. Archer wife of the mayor, will also share with her husband the honors of his office. They will be received by the king and queen at social functions on equal terms with other officials. The social functions given at the Mansion house by the lord mayor of London are among the most important. That Mayor Archer will measure up to the dignity of his office is not questioned, as he is known to have splendid ability and fine social manners. Then again, he is well versed in the requirements of his office. A remarkable feature of the campaign which Mr. Archer won was the fact that no contestant for the office mentioned Mr. Archer's color in a stump speech. But since the election Mayor Archer said in a speech: "It is a victory such as has never been gained before. I am a man of color. Many of the things that have been said about me, however, are absolutely untrue. I have been charged with not being of the superior race, and it behooves you to show that you do belong to the superior race. "I am the son of a man born in the West Indian islands. I was born in M. England, in a little, obscure village probably never heard of until now—the city of Liverpool. I am a Lancetian bred and born. My mother—well, she was my mother. My mother was not born in Rangoon. She was not Burmese. She belonged to one of the grandest races on the face of the earth. My mother was an Irishwoman. “So there is not so much of the foreigner about me, after all. They have said I am a man of color. I am. I am proud to be. I would not change my color if I could. Is it true that ‘east is east and’ was so much never the twain shall meet?” Why, not so long ago you were breaking your necks to put the wedding ring on the upper chest—to make an alliance with Japan. “You were very glad to ally yourselves with Japan, and you only enter into an alliance with people you think your equals. Just ten years ago Allan Glaser Minns, a full blooded colored man, was elected mayor of Theford, County Norfolk. Both his parents hailed from the West Indies, and he was born and educated there.” New Jersey Women In Uplift Work. Under the auspices of an organization known as the Women's congress, an effort is being made to raise funds with which to build a house for orphans and aged persons in South Plainfield, N. J. The congress is composed of women from the various churches of the state, with Mrs. P. H. Brown as president. The organization recently held a successful series of meetings in Newark in the interest of the project. Mrs. P. H. Brown is one of the most widely known missionary workers in the northern and New England states, having been for many years president of the woman's branch of the New England Baptist Missionary convention, of which the Rev. W. Bishap ep Johnson, LL. D. of Washington is president. Business Men Start New Organization. The business and professional men of Dallas, Tex., held an interesting meeting Tuesday evening, Dec. 16, for the purpose of organizing themselves into a league to be known as the Business, Professional and Laboring Men's league. The movement is headed by Joseph Austin, E. W. D. Welch, E. J Crawford and J. E. P. Gunther. MISS ALICE PURINGTON. Miss Purington passes upon the patentability of children's toys in the patent office at Washington. Her desk is always loaded with new devices for the amusement and instruction of the little ones. 'WILD MAN' TAKEN INTO CUSTODY BY OFFICERS HAD ICICLES DANGLING FROM HIS HAIR AND BEARD WHEN ARRESTED. Gutteral Speech Could Not Be Understood by the Court Interpreter, Who Knows Ten Languages. Philadelphia, Pa.—On the complaint of several women of Manayunk a man was brought into police court of that place and after Magistrate Grelis declared him to be the wildest looking specimen ever brought there, sent him to the house of correction for six months. The man had been living in the woods a winter, according to the police, and, when arrested had icicles dangling from his hair and beard, which hung down on his breast and back. His shoes were thud on and his clothes consisted mostly of burlap bags held in place by strings. His guttural speech could not be understood by the interpreter, who knows 10 languages. PENNSYLVANIA STATE SENATOR PROPOSES TO BORROW Philadelphia, Pa. — State Senator James P. McNichol, the Republican leader, has just made known tentative plans for the constructive advancement of the city involving the expenditure of millions of dollars. It is planned to have a special election in the spring for the people to vote on the proposition to borrow $10,000,000 or $15,000,000 needed in the work. Senator McNichol said that he thought this money should be expended principally in improving the outlying districts of the city in anticipation of the extension of rapid transit facilities to all sections through subways and elevated lines. WANTS PHOTO IN PAPERS GIRL RUNS AWAY IN ORDER TO IMITATE DOROTHY ARNOLD. Sandusky, O.—Laura Reed, fifteen, missing from the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Reed, for several weeks, was returned to her home Wednesday by Police Lieut. John Robert, who found her in Akron. The girl explained she sought to imitate Dorothy Arnold and others of whose disappearance she had read. She was unable to understand how it happened her departure failed to bring her into the limelight and that her picture was not in the newspapers. In Akron, the girl says, she found employment in a restaurant. Biography of Great Evangelist. Winina Lake, Ind.—While Rev. Billy Sunday, the noted evangelist, was resting here recently, after a strenuous campaign in Johnstown, Pa. he received word that the new biography, "The Spectacular Career of Rev. Billy Sunday" was off the press. It is the work of T. T. Frankenberg and the evangelist says it is a truthful account of his life. Establish Farm Bureau. Philadelphia, Pa.—Steps toward the formation of an agricultural service and farm bureau to obtain co-operation between the farmer and the consumer in this city were taken here at a conference of prominent transportation officials, agricultural experts and representatives of co-operative organizations of consumers. By assisting co-operative bodies of producers to get in touch with similar organizations of consumers it was declared the cost of farm products in this city could be materially reduced. INFLUENCE OF THE PRESS. Noted White Men Join Race Journals In Fight Against Wrong In Fight Against Wrongs Washington—The recent newspaper reports that the Democrats had relaxed in their policy of segregating colored employees at Washington shows that the widespread criticism of the effort has had the desired effect. Not only did race journals join in the campaign against segregation, but representative journals like the New York Evening Post, the Springfield Republican, the Boston Advertiser, the Chicago Record-Herald, the Chicago Tribune, the Christian Science Monitor and the Congregationalist entered emphatic protest. The New York Age, the Boston Guardian, the Chicago Defender, the Afro-American Ledger, the Amsterdam News, the Freeman and the Crisis were among the race publications that exposed the scheme. The utterances of such white men as Senator Clapp, Moorfield Storey, Oswald Garrison Villard and J. E. Spingarn also had a telling effect. It must be said, however, that colored men and women are themselves largely responsible for the turning on of the light. One colored man here, who prefers that his name be not made public, enlisted several leading dailies in fighting the scheme. J. C. Napier, who gave up his position as registrar of the treasury rather than submit to segregation, is entitled to praise for focusing attention on the un-American plan." Bishop Walters, whose attitude was grossly misrepresented, was also an insistent and consistent foe of segregation. In his talks with President Wilson and other Democratic leaders here he always voiced his disapproval of the plan. He declared that Oswald Garrison Villard was grossly misinformed when he charmed that he (the bishop) favored segregation. After the bishop wrote Mr. Villard that he was greatly in error and that President Wilson, Secretary McAdoo and others would back him up in this statement Mr. Villard wrote the bishop as follows: "In regard to the recent happenat at Washington I stated to the audience that it had been said to me by high authority that a bishop had favored segregation, that I should not mention his name because he had denied it and that I would not make an issue between him, a president of the United States and a bishop. Since you wrote me that you have been informed by the White House and the treasury department that no such statement was made to me there is nothing left for me to do but to infer that I was misinformed or misunderstood and to express my regret to you that such an pears to have been the case." Though the administration is reputed to have change, its attitude regarding segregation, there has been no public announcement of that fact. W. Monroe Trotter and others, who placed a monster protest into the hands of the president, are, it is said, still waiting a reply. BIG PROTEST MEETING HELD. National Association Continues Campa- nion Against Race Segregation. The first of a series of public meetings planned by the National Association For the Advancement of Colored People to protest against race segregation in the national government service and also in local affairs was held in the Mount Olivet Baptist church. In New York, Thursday evening, Dec. 18. The local committee was headed by the Rev. Hutchins C. Bishop, rector of St. Phillip's Protestant Episcopal church. The presiding officer was the Rev. Dr. William P. Hayes, pastor of the Mount Olivet Baptist church. The meeting was well attended and enthusiastic. Both white and colored people are among the leaders in this movement to check what is at present the most shameful, unfair and cruel attack upon the civil rights of the colored people of the United States that has been attempted since the days of reconstruction. White men and women of wealth and influence are among the most aggressive workers, and they are bringing good results from their efforts in connection with this humanitarian movement. The disregard for the constitutional rights of the colored citizens as shown by the enactment of unjust laws is pointed out as a menace to the welfare of the body politic as well as a direct personal handicap to those who are deprived of their right to share in the privileges of a free government. That the force and influence of the recent investigation made by the National association into the conduct of the various government departments in Washington have struck a responsive chord in the minds of those in charge of the work in the departments is acknowledged. The speakers at the meeting Dec. 18 were Attorney Arthur Spingarn, chairman of the legal committee of the National association; Mrs. Mary C. Lawton, well known in women's club work and as reporter for the Brooklyn Dally Standard Union, and Attorney Wilford H. Smith. Music for the occasion was furnished by the Barnett quartet. Each speaker received the closest attention of the audience, and each was earnest and forceful in the presentation of facts, which cannot be truthfully denied by those responsible for the existence of race prejudice in places where each person holds his position on his merit shown in civil service examination. AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS New York has a society whose purpose is to fight against the development of a negro "ghetto" in the American cities. It is the National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes, whose membership includes many persons socially prominent in New York, together with a company of serious-minded colored people. The headquarters are at No. 110 West Fortieth street. Mrs. William H. Baldwin, Jr., was recently elected chairman of the executive board. Other members of the league are: Mrs. Haley Fiske, George McAneny, Sillas McBee, William H. Maxwell, William Jay Schiefel, Isaac N. Seligman, George W. Seligman, Charles D. Hiles, the Rev. William Adams Brown, Paul J. Sacha, Theodore M. Taft, Albert Shaw, Judge Joseph F. Mulqueen and Major R. R. Moton. The league has affiliated organizations in Philadelphia, Chicago, Louisville, St. Louis, Richmond and Norfolk, Va.; Augusta, Ga., and Willington, Del. Its biggest work, however, is in New York, where the negro population is now more than 90,000 being more than in any other city in America, except Washington. "Our work here includes many branches of activity," said Eugene K. Jones, associate director in charge of the local work. "We have a committee for improving industrial conditions, which seeks to organize workers in the various occupations, and by this means help our people to better things. For instance, we have organized one group into the Colored Public Porters' association, for the purpose of guarding the public against unscrupulous porters. The organization is raising the standard of reliability and efficiency among its members. Workers in other occupations are similarly organized. "Then we have a vocational exchange, operated in connection with the housing bureau, at No. 127 West One Hundred and Thirty-fifth street, in the thickly populated negro section of Harlem. This exchange is being made a clearing house through which applicants for help and for positions may be referred to reliable philanthropic and commercial employment agencies. Positions have been secured for 197 persons." It takes three seconds for a cable message to cross the ocean. Of the material success of certain colored men in the south, the Crisis contains this: operation. There is a cotton factory considerable exporting of moss and velvet beans, while colored men have numerous stores and are supporting professional men. Recently the Metropolitan Realty and Investment company has been organized and has erected a $20,000 building. In this a bank with a capital of $25,000 has been located. The president of the company, George Giles, is a large holder of real estate. The vice-president, Joseph L. Wiley, is the founder of Fessenden academy, and the cashier, F. P. Gadson, is the owner of the largest dry goods and notion store owned by a colored man in the United States. Other directors are Dr. Williams, a well-to-do physician; A. S. Richardson, D. W. Goodwin, Charles Stewart, J. S. LaRoche, N. T. Brown and S. H. Hadley." By a deal which was closed last week and in which a consideration of $30,000 was involved, a tract of land near Thornton, Ill., to be used for the purpose of a negro cemetery, and to be known by the name of Mount Forest cemetery, was acquired, reports a Chicago correspondent. In a communication to the Kansas City Star a correspondent, "Lacey," writes as follows: "Africa is not the place for the American negro. As yet we have not heard enough to warrant our going there. I don't think the negroes of the United States should sacrifice our fifty years of success here to start all over in a barren, half-civilized country. Here we have our own churches, schools and colleges. Now comes Chief Sam and asks us to break these up, leave all we have worked for and go back. If Africa is as rich as Chief Sam suggests it will not want for others who will seize its riches." It is said that descent can be traced from only 49 passengers that came over in the Mayflower, the rest having died without issue. When George Schwartz, a farmer in Scranton, Pa., cut down an oak tree he found imbedded in its heart a pine tree shilling dated 1652. As a universal danger signal, a Denver firm has designed and copyrighted signs bearing a human hand, across the palm of which appear the words "Safety First." In London a motor bus proprietor has to comply with between 50 and 60 conditions before he can obtain a license. PY FIVE CENTS AN CULLINGS Writing in the Baltimore American, the Rev. J. U. King, pastor of the Union Methodist Episcopal church at St. Michaels, Md., has this to say: "To be successful in the development of the soil we must have scientific training; thus well-equipped agricultural colleges for the negro are indispensable. The day of the ignorant and superstitious farmer has passed. Superstition is being replaced by science, ignorance by knowledge, inefficiency by efficiency. "If the white man, who is nearing the top of the hill of our great material endeavor, needs the advantages of a well-equipped agricultural college, how much greater are the needs of those who only yesterday, like goods and chattels, served as a medium of commercial exchange; who stand at the very foot of the hill struggling to ascend? This efficiency will not only be of benefit to all of those whose racial identity I bear, but more far reaching than the average person would imagine will be the benefits derived by the white people as well. Observation alone has evidently taught every thoughtful white man that the increase of mental, moral and material efficiency on the part of the negro means the decrease of ignorance, iden-ness and crime. We live side by side with our white neighbor, and be our contribution to this great social fabric helpful or baneful he is affected accordingly and commensurately. "Is it not, therefore, the highest wisdom on the part of every constituent part of a community to welcome cordially every means that will permanently establish the criterion: All men up, and not some men down?" More's been accomplished with a good set of nerves then by the fellers what gits by on their nerve. Organization of an Omaha branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is now being completed. Over 25 people, most of them colored, have joined the local movement, which has for its purpose the economic, political and social advancement of the American negro. John H. Grove of the Grove-Wharton allied business interests, was one of the white men who helped the association to establish a branch in Omaha, and he has been elected treasurer. The officers, all colored, urged William L. Bishop, pastor of St. John's African Methodist church, president; Thomas Reese, 2723 Miami street, vice-president; Samuel L. Patton, 2420 Patrick avenue, recording secretary; Jesse Merchant, 1723 North twenty-eighth avenue, corresponding secretary. Meetings have been held monthly at St. New York national organization, association, helped to promote the new branch in Omaha. Rev. John Albert Williams, rector of the colored church of St. Philip the Deacon, is also an active member, and says that membership is open to all persons, either white or colored, who wish to participate in the national move for the advancement of the black man. Hereafter meetings will be held every two weeks, and an executive committee will be chosen to assume active charge of the association's work in Omaha. It shore would be a fine thing if this rest cure business was for them as really needs it. An interesting story of how prejudice against a race can be removed by learning to like one of its members comes from the Provident hospital, in Chicago's "Black Belt." It began as a negro enterprise and has graduated 118 negro nurses. A white boy was recently hurried to the hospital terribly ill with pneumonia. His mother, a southern woman, telegraphed from the east, urging his removal to some other hospital. It was too late for that. The doctors gave him up. But the negro nurse did not. For thirty-six hours with not a moment's rest she fought for his life, and won. The boy's mother is no longer prejudiced against negro trained nurses. Fuel oil consumption this year by the United States navy is estimated at 30,000,000 gallons. More than 10,000 boys under sixteen years of age were injured in mines in Great Britain last year in such a way as to disable them for more than a week. There are about a million coal mine workers altogether, one worker in every seven being killed or injured last year. Carlsbad by law requires all buildings to be as nearly fireproof as possible, with the result that the city's firemen earn most of their wages as chimney sweeps. A Norwegian company has patented a secret process for producing 98 per cent, nitric acid from the 30 per cent, acid it has been making from atmospheric nitrogen. Ain't it funny that ther hens lay ther most at a time when eggs is so cheap? PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY SUBSCRIPTION RATES (In Advance) One Year.....$1.50 Six Months.....1.00 Three Months......50 Subscribers are requested to re- mit by postoffice money or- der or registered letter Entered at the postoffice in Cleveland, Ohio, as second-class matter. Address all communications to HARRY C. SMITH Editor and proprietor, THE GAZETTE, Blackstone Building, Cleveland, O. Member Ohio Legislature: 1894 to 1896; 1896 to 1898; 1900 to 1902 THE GAZETTE is the oldest, and has the largest bona fide circulation, double that of any newspaper in the interest of Afro-Americans, published in the state of Ohio, and comparison with any will immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWSIEST AND BEST in the country. Cleveland Stock City SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1914. Secretary of War Garrison has decided to investigate the charges of discrimination and mistreatment of our soldiers in the Philippines. This is good news, something sadly needed and already too long' delayed. The aid of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People should be invoked for Robert Harris and his aged parents, and as many of our readers as can do so should write the president of that organization, at 26 Vesey St., New York city, to that effect. Have you ever noticed how the moving pictures show the South and southerners as triumphant over the North and northerners in every case, and how the white man or woman is always similarly shown in every contest with the members of the red, yellow and black races? If a somewhat similar course is persisted in, it will not be long before the young people of the North will also be taught that the South was right and the North wrong, in the war of the rebellion. The Gazette unqualifiedly endorses the effort of the Allied Printing Trades Council of this city, endorsed by the Cleveland Federation of Labor, to have enacted by the State Assembly a law that will put a stop to the frequent change of text books of the public schools of the state, and thus save to the many thousands of poor families a needless expense which often amounts to a heavy strain upon their slight resources. We sincerely trust, that Senator Joseph Benson Pensioner, our great and good friend, will decide to again stand as a candidate for the United States senate. The Lord knows, it ever there was need of such a strong man in the upper branch of the Congress, it is now. And no class of American citizens are in such great need of his presence there in such great need of his presence there in the Afro-American. We have no outspoken, fearless friend in either branch, nor have we had since Senator Foraker's retirement few years ago. With thus, the man, a great skier, of that body was lost, and no one, not even the great Senator Elifu Root, has been able to fill his shoes. That "jim-crow" Industrial School effort, in M. Pleasant, has proved such a miserable failure, just as it should, that the promoters are now endeavoring to turn it into a Children's Home for the segregation of our dependent and other children. The city and county have been caring for these without any discrimination on account of race or color, should continue to do so, and will, if this latest "jim-crow" effort is promptly throttled as it should be. We understand that Dr. E. A. Smith, and a Mr. Thaxter Eaton, of the Cleveland Humane Society, and T. C. Wellsted, an assistant secretary of the Chamber of Commerce, are the whites encouraging the local Afro-American promoters of the "jim-crow" Children's Home. Again we call the attention of our City Federation of Women's clubs, our Ministers' Alliance, and all intelligent and sensible people to this latest, miserable segregation effort. APPRECIATES "OLD RELIABLE.' A Cleveland "Boy" in the U. S. Army Hospital Corps in the Southwest Writes "The Gazette," Interestingly. Hachita, New Mexico, Culberson's Ranch, Dec. 27, 1913. Editor, Gazette, Dear Sir: The Gazette reaches me, regular and I must say that I am always very glad to get it. I am glad to know that it is doing well and to see that you are still fighting for our people as a race. do hope that you will keep it up. the race needs more men that know how to fight. like that and that will stop of nothing. I do hope. Mr. Smith, that you will be in the race for the next legislature and that you will win. At present there is not much doing out here where I am stationed. The troopers are doing well. Most of them have gone out hunting today to get deer for the New Year's dinner. But I staid back because I belong to the hospital corps and have to look after the sick. Troop C of the Ninth Cavalry, and the signal and hospital corps are there. I hope to have a better one New Year's. I looked for my photos in today's mail; also pictures of the hospital, but they did not come. I will mall you one of each when they do come; also one of this camp. My examination for embalmer for the canal zone is over and I will not know how I came out for some time yet. called out for some time yet. In closing, I wish to thank you for your past kindness and favors and hope that I may always claim and make your Friendship. I hope that your Christmas was a merry one and that the incoming year will be a brighter one for you and your paper than any yet. I shall try and get some subscriptions for your paper out here among the boys if you wish me to. Respectfully yours, CHARLES A. THOMPSON, Hospital Corps. FATHER AND SON, BECAUSE THE LATTER TRIED TO PROTECT HIS AGED PARENTS—LET US ALL HELP FINANCIALLY. Hon, Harry C. Smith, Dore Siris. I am enclosing with a copy of a decision handed down by the Supreme Court of Colorado in regard to my case which was hastily tried in District Court of Otero County at La Junta, Colorado, in July, 1911, where I was instantly convicted and sentenced to death and my aged father, a man of great courage, who an accomplice and sentenced from 30 to 50 years at hard labor in state penitentiary. I was sentenced to death for protecting my aged father and mother, in their own home, and my life at the cost of the lives of the two brutal, inhuman, prejudiced, Negro men, policemen who were assaulting my mother and father, and seeking to murder me. But after being denied a new trial by the judge trying my case, my attorney, Ek Judge Lyman I. Henry of Pueblo, Colo., assisted by W. B. Townsend, attorney-at-law of Denver, Colo., aided at great expense by good counsel. I was the judge my lodge, the R. T. Coles lodge, No. 86, A. F. and A. M. Kansas City, Mo., and my father's, Prudent lodge, No. 6, A. F. and A. M. Kansas City, Kan. I succeeded in getting our case to the Supreme Court, which readily reversed the judgment of the lower court, and me a new trial which will soon come. Now, dear sir, the fight has just commenced as the prejudiced class in that community are determined that the sentence imposed on my father and myself be carried out, and they will use every means in his power to give me the lands, and hands, thwart all in their desire to see me get justice. I appeal to you for financial aid, if you can assist me in any way through the columns of your paper, or otherwise, to meet the financial demands involved, it will be greatly appreciated. My reason for trying to attempt to defy the Court's decision and comments, is for you to see clearly it was not an act trying or attempting to defy the law in any way, but one of protecting my parents and my life. I again beg to state that I am a worthy member of R. T. Coles lodge, No. 86, Kansas City, Mo., and my father, Joseph Harps, or Prudent lodge, No. 6, Kansas City, Mo., and my mother, Joseph Harps, 33 degree gentleman. So I appeal to you most earnestly, that you may do for us what you can. You may refer to your respective lodges as to our standing. Should you feel disposed to aid us, forward same to my mother, Mrs. Clara Harris, No. 1319 River St., Canon City, Colo., as she is striving to help her to be paid for any expense incurred in helping father and me. Please acknowledge receipt to me dropping for your assistance. Pam. Yours respectfully and fraternally in A. F. and A. M. L. Lang—His Contribution—Who Will Be the Next? Cleveland, O. J., Jan. 3, 1914. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Dear Friend: I take the privilege of calling you "Dear Friend," not only to me and others that know you, but also to those who never heard of you, for the columns of your paper applies to all, I do say a man that has worked as many years, early and late, as you have, to help his race and bring and keep them to the front, a friend a man that is dead, if not a reader of your paper, I would not of known thousands of things, good and bad, that are going on among our people that we all should know. Are we men, or are we fakers? Can we be trusted, or can we not? Will we be men and help to bear the burdens of our people that are being cast on them, or will we laugh in our hearts at those defeated? Are you selfish or have things always gone with you, my brother? Well, if they have harmed us, we are two among us that are in trouble. Will you help a man that will defend his mother? How could you refuse and be a man in your heart? And will you help a father who will protect his home? What do we make a home for? Did Robert Harris do right or wrong when he defended his mother as all sons should? Did his father do wrong to try to protect his Home and wife as all husbands should? When her turned to her son and husband for protection, are they in trouble; the son to die and the father 'condemned to life in prison. They have asked for a new trial. Shall we help them, or shall they die and the mother be taken away with grief? Are we men or are we fakers? We are men! In cases like the 'Harrises, our brothers' troubles are our troubles and our mothers' troubles are the troubles of the whole race. Please send the enclosed $2.00 to Robert Harris' mother. FORAKER SEEKS BURTON'S TOGA Cincinnati, O. — That former Senator Joseph Benson Foraker is a candidate for U. S. senator to succeed Senator Theodore E. Burton, was anounced Tuesday by the former's friends. In a statement he practically admitted it. It is claimed Senator Theodore Burton, a former member of the Republican leagues of 32 counties to start with. A formal announcement will follow in a few days. Senator Foraker issued the following statement Tuesday: "If I should decide to become a candidate it will be because I shall have satisfied that the Republicans of Ohio desire me to become a candidate." THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1914. WRITTEN BY "THE OLD RELIA BLE" GAZETTE'S CORRE- SPONSENTS. THROUGHOUT OKIO What Our People Are Doing Each Week—Church, Personal, Social, Lodge, Literary and Musical — Marriages, Deaths, Etc. CADIZ—Rev. and Mrs. O. W. Childs spent last Saturday and Sunday at Stillwater—Mrs. Ella Hill and Mr. John Bolden were married, recently.—The Allen League holds its semi-annual meeting, Sunday. The program consisted of vocal and instrumental music, an address by Mrs. B. S. Lee and a paper by Mrs. Elvira Wallace, Installation by Prof. W. H. Lucas.—Mrs. Susan West is visiting in Massillon.—Earl Linder has returned home. SMITHFIELD.—Miss Fern Flowine, high school graduate, last year, was one of the clerks in G. Bargar Co. store during the holidays.—Miss M. Beall visited in Harrisville, last week.—Miss Crola Ramsay of Hopedale, was Miss Thelma West's guest, last week.—Miss J. Washington was stationed in Harrisville and Mrs. Ben Palmer have a baby boy. New Year's gift.—Mesdames G. Beall, L. Hargrave and E. Powell have returned from their holiday visit.—Mr. and Mrs. Finley Davis and son spent Xmas with her parents.—Miss Susie Leekins visited her parents during the Holidays.—Miss M. Beall entertained the Embroidery club. Friday evening week.—Mr. John Christian, who has been very sick since his return from Massillon, is surrounded by his priest at the A. M. E. church.—The S. T. treat and entertainment was largely attended.—Rev. J. D. Singleton was in Steubenville, last Friday. —Mrs. Emma Parker of Wintersville, visited her mother, Mrs. Mitchell, during the holidays.—Mrs. H. Harris entertained Rev. and Mrs. Singleton, Wednesday evening at tea, and Mrs. Hays Harris, at Xmas dinner. SANDUSKY—Mr. and Mrs. Geo Taylor of Battle Creek, Mich., are visiting Mr. and Mrs. Charley Taylor—Mr. Nelson Bolling has started a blacksmith shop on Hancock St—Mr. Samuel Davis is ill—Miss Harrjett Alexandre and Mrs. Geo Jackson Indianapolis; Mrs. N. Williams, her sisters in Columbus; and Miss Georgia Rhodes of Minneapolis, her sister, Mrs. Hockines. The Second Baptist church was well attended, Sunday evening—Mr. Harrison Bartlett is ill. He is very aged. Misses Mary and Aila Dixon spent Sunday evening at Mrs. R. Davis, visiting Misses Garrett and Elston of Indianapolis. Miss Georgia a Sebastian of Battle Creek, was called here. She is an excellent trained nurse—Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Davis entertained young people, watching the old year out, and Thursday kept "open house" from 3 to 6 p. m. for old and new visitors. Misses G. G. D. Smith entertained the Misses Garrett, Elston, C. and Ella Dixon, Mr. Chas. Jones and Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Davis, at 6 o'clock luncheon, Friday. —Watch-meeting —at both churches were interesting and enjoyable—Mrs. M. Washington has been Mrs. D. S. Anderson has been Mrs. —Mrs. John Anderson visited relatives in Cleveland, last week.—Bert Evans returned to Akron, after a few days' visit with his wife, Mrs. Bella Evans.—Rev. W. O. Harper has started a revival at the Third Baptist church. A number of evangelists will participate.—Mr. and Mrs. Charles Jackson entertained at dinner, Sunday week, in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Miles of Cleveland, Mr. and Mrs. C. Newsome and Mrs. Bundy of Mt. Pleasant.—Mrs. Anna Hudson was hostess for the "Num" club, Monday evening.—Mr. and Mrs. C. Newsome and Mrs. Bundy of Mt. Pleasant, too.—Mrs. Wm. Bolton visited relatives in Columbus, last week.—Mr. Chas, Berry Angie West and Mrs. Agnes Luees were ill, last week.—(The correspondent must mail his local newsletter to The Gazette on MONDAYS, and not later in the week.) Editor.) Correspondents must mail all letters for publication at their main postoffice sufficiently early on Monday (or Sunday) of each week to have them reach The Gazette office on Tuesday morning, and always write, also, their names and that of their city or town on the outside of the wrapper about returned copies. Unless this latter is done, proper credit cannot be given you. Lists of names, wedding presents, etc., obituary notices, speeches, resolutions, poetry, inquiries for relatives and advertisements of all kinds, including items announcing entertainments to be held in the near future, must be paid for in advance at the rate of ten cents a line, six words to a line. Our rates for display advertisements will be sent on application. Send postal note and not stamps during warm weather. CORRESPONDENTS WANTED The old reliable Gazette desires an active agent and correspondent in every city and town in Ohio and neighboring states having a number of Afro-American residents. Only a little time on Fridays or Saturdays is required. We are especially desirous of hearing from persons in the following named cities: Zanesville, Newark, Columbus, Cincinnati, Toledo, Troy, Canton, Springfield, Pluquer Columbus, Cambridge, Steubenville, Bellaire, St. Clairville, Portsmouth, Washington C. H., Oxford, Sabina, Galipolis, Rendville, Urbana, Delaware, Mt. Vernon, East Liverpool, Wellsville, Akron, Dayton, Middletown, Bellefontaine, Lima, O., and other places where we have none. Write to the editor of The Gazette, Blackstone building, Cleveland, O, and terms will be sent promptly. Our sending at once the addresses of persons in the cities named above, or others, to whom we can write relative to the matter. SOMETHING TO SAY FOR MULE Traveling Tobacco Man Made a Study of Spanish With a Distinct Object in View. "Before returning from my first trip to Cuba I improved my Spanish by diligent study in order to inform a mule in his own language just what I thought of him without any confusing equivocation," said a traveling tobacco man. "This mule was one that I rode on a tour of some tobacco plantations. The people from whom I borrowed the mule said that it was an animal of tireless energy, tenacious disposition, and marvelous speed. "I had no sooner mounted the beast than it showed a disposition to canter far in advance of my party over hills and through fields until I realized suddenly that I had practically lost the others. "I spoke sharply to the mule and tried to rein it in. Instead of slacking pace the animal went faster. "I spoke more sharply still and "I spoke more sharply still and reined harder. Same result. "Faster and faster went the mule. It galloped on through forests, open country and skirted villages. I might have been galloping yet, a kind of permanent John Glipin, had I not uttered, wholly by chance, a word of Spanish profanity that the mule might understand. "What I yelled was the Spanish for 'Whoa!' It stopped the mule like magic. Throughout the trip I had been yelling 'gilt' without knowing it, while sawing at the reins. "But that mule heard a lot of unintelligible Spanish from me before I left Cuba." NOTES A MYSTERY OF MONEY Difference in Unit of Values Between Belgium and Holland is a Puzzle to the Traveler. There are a good many mysteries of money and tariffs, and the wayfarer through life is often puzzled. Why is it that in the little step from Belgium to Holland your whole financial outlook on life is altered? They live close together, the Dutch and the Belgians. But in coinage they are far apart. Belgium thinks in francs. Holland thinks in florins. And when you step from the one little country to the other you find they are thinking the same thing. Goods in terms of money. You have but to cross the frontier between these small countries to find the difference: Belgium lives on francs, Holland reckons in florins, and the amazing thing is that every one acrons the frontier will pay about twice as much for the mere luxury of taking the florin as a unit instead of a franc. Now I should like to know what is the economical reason of this, says a writer in the London Chronicle. For Belgians and Hollanders appear equally prosperous. And the Hollander lives on the florin, while the Belgian lives on the frame. The Englishman who crosses the frontier finds the extraordinary difference when he changes his sovereign. Ceremonial Bath. Considerable pomp used to attend the entrance into the water of the Duchess de Berra, who close on a hundred year ago. First made sea bathing fashionable in the late 18th century, the knees, when he retired with three profound reverences. The duchess, who was an expert swimmer, then proceeded to enjoy herself. Character Actors Passing Character actors, according to producers, are becoming scarce. Not, however, in the sense of "character" acting as it is known today, for all comedians and near comedians have listed themselves under the head of "character" people. But the real old timers, who could change grease paint with costumes and do "Brutus" one act and "Uncle Tom" the next, are disappearing. This condition is due, actors say, to the managers insisting that men and women specialize in one line of acting. It has resulted in thousands of "At Liberty" ads being published every season. Frederick the Great. Frederick the Great was a freemason. He joined the order in May, 1788, very much against the wishes of his father, Frederick William, who, it seems, had no love for the craft. When Frederick William died, in May, 1740, Frederick celebrated his freedom by holding a great Masonic meeting. The young king appears to have taken great interest in the order, and the stimulus given Freemasonry by the great sovereign and soldier is still felt by the order throughout the Germanic countries. Turkey Gobbler. It was the day before Thanksgiving and the teacher was reading an ap propriate story to her class of small children. She paused. "Now, children" she asked. "who has ever seen a turkey gobbler?" There was a thoughtful silence Then a little girl in the third row of seats raised her hand. "Well, Mary?" Red with embarrassment, Mary stammered: "My brother Willie." Girl's Miserable Death. Suffocated in mud was the terrible death of Maud Kirby Cornwell, a factory girl, of Cambridge, England. She was out walking with Arthur/Mead, a barkman, on Coe Fen, an open space between the river and Peterhouse college, when, according to a statement by the man, they walked into a ditch which has scarcely a foot of water in it. He says he sank to his hips immediately. His cries for help were heard, and two men pulled him out but the girl was not found until some time afterwards. She was then dead having been suffocated by mud. DOINGS OF THE RACE Rev. John F. Moreland, age 64, a native of fronton, died at Charlotte, N.C. recently. He was a Gion A. M. E. minister, building a church in Cincinnati about 20 years ago. Col. John R. Marshall of the Eighth infantry, Illinois N. G., Chicago, has resigned. This is the only complete Afro-American National Guard regiment in the North. It was reported that a recent investigation of charges that he had drawn pay as deputy state game warden while he was receiving fines had some bearing on the matter. A campaign against political and industrial segregation of Afro-Americans will be the purpose of a speaking tour through the Middle West which Prof. Joel E. Spingarn (white), president of the New York Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, is soon to begin a tour of Newbolismia. Prof. Spingarn, for twelve years professor of literature in Columbia University, and author of many books, some of which have been translated into foreign languages, is well known as a scholar and in public life. Peter J. Smith has been appointed a deputy corporation inspector with headquarters in Boston by Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo. The position nets $1,800 a year. A Chicago policeman (Irish) was dismissed and will be criminally prosecuted for outraging a woman of the race, on Christmas night in a hallway. With his revolver he drove away her brother, who was notified the nearest police station. NUPTIALS. A beautiful wedding took place on New Year's day at Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Cook's, 2331 E. 29th St. Their daughter, Margaret, was united in marriage to Mr. Russell Hyde. Rev. H. C. Balley officiated. The bride was exquisitely attired in a gown of silk chiffon over crepe de chine, trimmed Venus sleeve. She wore a vardon adorned with hints of the valuable and carried a bouquet of white roses. Miss Ossella Moore, bridesmaid, was also most beautifully gowned. Mr. Roscoe Davis was best man. Miss Sadie Wilkinson and Miss Marie Green were the delightful and dainty little flower girls. The house was made beautiful with palms. An excellent and bountiful garden was set up for the ceremony. Many valuable gifts were received and there were many guests in attendance, including some from out of town. The couple are at home in Mt. Pleasant. TOO HIGH-FLOWN FOR KING Frederick Vll. of Denmark Unable to Appreciate Sentiment That Was Part of Violinist's Being. In writing of her experiences in America, Madame de Hagermann-Lindronne tells of the arrival at Cambridge of Ole Bull, the famous violinist: "Ole Bull (the great violinist) has taken James Russell Lowe's house in Cambridge. He is remarried and lives here with his wife and daughter. He has a magnificent head, and that broad he geminis. Lies had one lie it. "He and Mrs. Bull come here often on Sunday evenings, and sometimes he brings his violin. Mrs. B. accompanies him, and he plays divinely. There is no violinist on earth that can compare with him. There may be many who have as brilliant a technique, but none who has his feu sacre and the tremendous magnetism which creates such enthusiasm that you are carried away. The sterner sex pretend that they can resist him, but certainly no woman can. "He is very proud of showing the diamond in his bow, which was given him by the king of Sweden. "He loves to tell the story of King Frederick VII. of Denmark, who said to him: 'Where did you learn to play the violin? Who was your teacher?'" "Ole Bull answered, 'Your majesty, the pine forests of Norway and the beautiful fjords taught me!' "The king, who had no feeling for such high-flow sentiments, turned to one of his aldes-d-camp and said, 'Sikn ken vrovl!'—'the Danish for 'What rubbish!'—'Harper's Magazine. Eastern Fanaticism. A French statistician wrote to the vall of Aleppo and asked these four questions: "What are your imports? What is the water supply? What is the birth rate? The death rate?" The vall replied: "It is impossible for any one to know the number of camels that kneel in the markets of Aleppo. The water supply is sufficient. No one ever died of thirst in Aleppo. The mind of Allah alone knows how many children shall be born in this vast city in any given time. As to the death rate, who would venture to ascertain this, for it is revealed only to the angels of death who shall be taken and who shall be left. O son of the west, cease your life and pre-sumptuous questionings, and know that things are not revealed to the children of men!" Simple Remedies. For sick headache apply a hot-water bottle to head and one on stomach. This gives relief in a short time. For tired and aching feet put two tablespoonfuls of salt in two quartes of hot water; when cool add two tablespoons of alcohol or camphor. Let feet soak in this for 15 minutes. This is also good for sore throat. Dip compress in the warm mixture and bind on throat. For burns, use butter; it takes the fire out quickly. For cuts peroxide will stop bleeding. For colds take a cup of milk and add a level teaspoonful of red paper; stir well and drink very quickly. 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BROWN DRUG CO. Brown and Reyfert, Prop's. 2742 Central Ave. Selling Agents. The New Keystone RESTAURANT. The Best Meals Quick Service. Open Day and Night. Theodore B. Green, ATTORNEY AT LAW. 508-510 Superior Building. Office, Main 3076. Residence, Eddy 2086-R. CLEVELAND, O. G. G. REED'S A Complete Line of LADIES' READY-MADE APPAREL. Double Stamps on Tuesday. Cuy. Central 6661-L. 3222 Central Ave., Cleveland. A Complete Line DRY GOODS, LADIES' AND GENTS' FURNISHINGS Double Stamps on Tuesdays and Fridays. Good Bargains In Realestate! LARGE MORTGAGE LOANS! RENTALS--COLLECTIONS. CLAIMS ADJUSTED. S. E. WOODS, 2828 Central Ave. 'Phone, North 996. Ohio Dry-Cleaning and Dyeing Co. Established in 1911. Cleaners of all kinds of Ladies and Gentlemen's Garments. Also Expert Cleaning and Blocking of All Kinds of Hats. We Call for and Deliver! 3858 Central Av. Cuy. Phone, Central 2201-L. Where to Purchase The Gazette NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS Subscribers not receiving The us at once. 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Third Street, near Superior Ave. FOR SALE—Fine residence; lot 46x150 on E. 105th St., between Wade Park Ave., and Superior Ave., Phone, Main 1848, for information. Cleveland Sixth City Mr. Adams of Canton, spent Sunday week in the city. Fred D. Sampson' left, Thursday, on the Florida Special. Mrs. J. W. Pettiford of Oberlin, spent a day in the city recently. Mrs. Cora Brock visited Miss Ida Beaumont in Mansfield this week. Welcome T. Blue was in the city, last week, from Columbus and Spring- field. Rev. W. G. Webster, P. E. of this Zion A. M. E. Church district, was in the city, last week. Walker of 2262 E. 86th St., fell down stairs, recently, injuring herself slightly. A Mr. Huggins of Boston, died early Thursday morning at Mrs. Anna West's, 2442 Central Ave. Mrs. C. A. Evans, evangelist, Moreland, Ind., is holding protracted meet in St. Vernon, the young son of Mrs. Raymond Thomas of E. 46th St., who has been quite ill, is much improved. If you want to purchase a fine piece of property, see our "for sale" advertisement elsewhere in this issue. Mrs. Engene Daniels returned from a visit with her mother in Washington, D. C., and a short stay in Pittsburg. Mrs. Lulu B. Cox has returned from an extended visit with her brother, Dr. and Mrs. Leroy Bundy in E. St. Louis. Elmer Cheeks of Chicago and sister, Ella, a teacher in the public schools of Winchester, Ky., were in the city during the holidays. Rev. P. A. Cunningham of Homestead, Fa., is the new pastor of the new Bethel Baptist church, Scovill Ave. and E. 13th St. Mr. Henry Cash came a little late with his cream for the coffee at the Sunday election of officers, Monday eve. Hurry up, Henry. The Misses Hendricks and Lee of N. Y. City, at the Ogden Theatre, this week, are stopping at the Central Hotel, O. B. Moss, prop. Clinton Fowler passed the examination for railway mail clerk and worked in the Cleveland postoffice during the Christmas rush. The friends of Miss Roberta ("Tutsi") Queen sympathize with her as the result of the death of Chas. S. Hart in London, Eng., recently. The Boy Scouts of America, troop 72, is an organization of boys in the East End. C. H. Young is scout-master, and Wm. Carter, assistant. Mrs. L. V. Jones and son, of E. 30th St., returned, Sunday evening, from youngstown and Lowellville, where they visited relatives, New Year's. Mrs. Ballard of E. 46th St., is convalescent. L. Grippie. Also Mr. Wm. Cash of E. 36th St., Little Wm. Anderson of E. 43d St., and Mrs. Rosa Brooks. A Lilliputian (Tom Thumb) wedding, under the direction of Mrs. Olive Laster, will be given at St. James A. M. E. church, Hudson Ave., Thursday evening. Graff, Lynch, one of our oldest local residents, died, Monday 5 a. m., and was buried in the Wills and Co. morgue. Tuesday at 3 p. m. Rev. Chas Bundy officiated. --- The Gazette regularly should notify by delivered promptly. finitely examine The Gazette's adver- sions. Business men who advertise in place of Afro-Americans. The fact that they want it. tirements) ten cents a line (six Personal The Federation of Missionary societies will install officers at St. James A. M. E. Church, Hudson Ave., E. C. Sunday at 3 p. m. Pres., Mrs. I. Scott; asst. sec., Mrs. Rose. We want you to subscribe for The Gazette as well and send it personal for publication. Come friends, be a fair with "the old reliable" as it is with you. That is all it asks. The Cleveland Benevolent Association will meet, Monday evening, at Mrs. N. Harris's, E. 106th St., and the Old Folks' Home Association this week, Friday evening, at the home. Mrs. Anna Walker, 3882 Central Ave., is displaying some of the finest millinery to be seen in the city in her neat and cozy store. This is another race enterprise. Patronize her—adv. Mr. D. C. Fisher of Lorain, was in the city, Tuesday evening, to meet his daughter, Miss Ruth Fisher, who came from Toronto, Canada, to make an extended visit with her parents and brother. I. W. St. Clair of Louisville, Ky., graduate of Fisk University, Nashville, Tennessee, arrived in the city recently and is stopping with Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Gilliam, 10897 Quebec Ave. Mr. St. Clair is an architect. Pay your subscription promptly, please, so we can continue sending you The Gazette, this year. Send or bring your money to the office and do not wait for the collector to call. It is pleasant and better. The Globe Dry-cleaning Co., A. W. Williamson, prop. 4207 Central Ave. ought to be patronized by our people because it is a race business enterprise. Show your race pride and loyalty in a practical way—adv. Mr. Frank Williams, age 65, died at 1241 Parkman Ave., Jan. 1. Funeral services the 3rd at 2 p. m. at Boyd's chapel, conducted by Nov. Chas. Bundy. Interment E. Cleveland cemetery. E. P. Boyd, funeral director. Do not forget the Alvin Tea Co., the advertisement of which will be found in the book in this paper. If you want the tea in the city, also spices, extracts, baking-powder and laundry supplies—adv.. Mrs. Clifford Jackson, (nee Miss Cora Johnson) of Akron, visited her aunt, Wrm. Wm. E. McIntire, two days last week. About seventeen ladies spent Saturday evening with "Miss Cora". All report an enjoyable time. Luncheon was served. Mrs. Levi T. Schofield, president of the Phyllis Wheatley Working Girls' Hired last week. The program for the home's reception was Newton D. Baker was rendered in St. John's A. M. E. church, Tuesday evening. Mrs. Schofield was buried, Monday. Our advertisers want your trade. Those who do not ask for it in *The Gazette* certainly care little, if at all, for it. Therefore, we urge our readers and all of our friends to patronize those who ask for your trade in this paper. * * * * George East drew the holiday pardon from Gov. Cox returned to Cleveland, Jan. 1. He was incarcerated in 1900 for murder—on the west side. His life sentence, Gov. Harmon committed to fifteen years. He has been a waiter for Warden Thomas for months. * * * * Mr. and Mrs. John Tuck of 3325 Central Ave., entertained about 20 friends in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Moore and son, Ralph, of Toledo; Mrs. McIntyre of Kentucky, and Mrs. Talbert, a member of the Columbus quartette that is singing and playing in the city. A local branch of the National Association for the advancement of Colored people was organized Monday. Officers: R. K. Moon, pres.; F. E. Young, sec., and C.F. Hunnicot, trous. Executive committee: Chas. Leatherman, Albert Miles, Samuel Keeble, Fer Perkins, N. Bonaparte and T. Cole. ...The Gazette acknowledges the receipt of "Lesson IV in Voice Culture" issued recently by Madam E. Azalia Hackley at the A. & M. College, Normal, Ala. Also the receipt of a large number of pretty Christmas and New Years souvenir postcards, and a number of Christmas presents, many of which are useful. The "Talbert" concert at Cory M. E. church, last week, for the benefit of the Old Folk's Home resulted in $22, door money, and netted $62, $31 going to the Home and the same amount. M. Talbert Eight dollars more was netted the Home from the supper or refreshments served, making its total, "in round numbers," about $40. --- Attorney R. R. Cheeks elected president of the C. A. of C. M. Mondeau evening, has determined to raise the budget of that organization in spite of the fact that the retiring president did so well last year. He has The Gazette's best wishes. There are some things he can and should do that will go a long way toward assisting him in his inaugural ambition. Current rumor has it that the bar-tenders' union has secured the dismissal of the Afro-American bar-tenders in Ben Srolutovitz's salon, Central Ace St. and Joe Harris's saloon, Central Ave. and E. 37th St. which we understand is really owned or controlled by a Jew, also. If this is true, our people should shun these two places just the same as if there were small pox within. afternoon he co-operated in Cleveland to the troops is very unusual, never taken instr in music, he has its instruments used hands. He is a m land and Boston Six songs Hughes written words for righted. Local "Take Me, Dearie Baseball Game" in it and prophesy "A Southern T play in two acts, a building service like Lam Taylor Soning a business me Mutual Benefit as room on the four The Brotherhood of St. James A. M. E. church, last Tuesday evening, presented Chas. W. Kiley, reader; Camille L. Nickerson, pianist, and Emma Jones, singer, of Oberlin; and Archilean L. L. V. Jones, J. W. Noble, A. Ford, R. Brice, H. L. Noble, Walter Myers and Master Howard Fields of this city. Great credit is due Harley J. Smith, program committeeman of the Woodhock. F. I. Ballard is president, F. W. Adist, sec., and H. H. Harris, treas. * * * The Cleveland Association of Colored Men elected officers for the year. Monday evening: Roy Cheeks, pres, succeed Theo. B. Green, Esq; Sam. T. Boyd, vice; T. W. Fleming, sec; J. H. Jackson, assist; G. A. Morgan, treas. Executive Committee: Will H. Hunley, chair; S. T. Boyd, Robert K. Hodges, Garrett A. Morgan, Woody D. Joe, Jones Harry E. Davis, Duffy C. Serr, art. Its charity ball will be given at Chamber of Commerce hall. Jan. 26, 8:30 p. m. to 2 a. m. *** "The Jolly Twelve" entertained their husbands and a few friends, New Year's eve, at Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Cole's, Morrison Ave. Covers were laid for twenty-four. The ladies were beautifully gowned, and the gentlemen in evening dress, Mrs. Cole, Mrs. E. J. Lucas, Jr. Mrs. J. A. J. Audrey, Mrs. E. E. Elwin Bell, Mrs. Thos. Christopher, Mrs. Napoleon Bonepart, Mrs. F. J. Kitzmiller, Mrs. Walden, Mrs. Cooper, Mrs. Randolph and Miss Moore are very fine entertainers—so their husbands and the friends say. An entertainment given at the "jim-crow" Mt. Pleasant "Industrial School", in November, 1913, netted $17. This all but precipitated a fight between several of its officials, at least two of whom wanted "that money". Now the "school" has been turned into a "Children's Home" and elaborate missions are being made to get money. The school is now "jim-crow" Home of the kind in Cleveland and our people should not waste their money by contributing or giving to this movement. We should stamp or starve it out just as soon as possible. Rev. Sterling N. Brown of Washington, D. C., after a service extending over many years, has resigned the pastorate of Lincoln Temple Congregational church and will devote his entire time to his work as a professor in the Theological Department of Howard University. Recently Dr. Brown read a scholarly paper before the Bible College and institute for Civic and Social Betterment on "Some Sociological Conditions at Washington. How Best to Meet Them." The Industrial Center is at 2422 K St. Washington, and has been established about six years. Prof. Jesse Lawson is the head of the movement. "The Church with the Jewish organization, will give the play, the Nigger, at the Metropolitan Theatre, the Moskvy taking the leading role. It would be just as consistent from a racial prejudice standpoint for one of many situations to give at one of the local theatrical a play, called "The sheehan." We do not believe, however, that there of this community that would be guilty of such an insulting act to the Jewish or any other class of people in this community. What do you think about it, Editor Weildenthal of The Jewish Independent? One of the prettiest of the many souvenir post-cards received, the first of the new year, by The Gazette, was one from little Nadine Beldeelman and her mamma, Mrs. Wm. F. Beidelman of Quincy Ave. Another, was from Mrs. S. A. Wright of Santa Monica, Cal.-aformer resident of this city. She wrote: "Kindest regards and best wishes for your health and happiness, and for your new year with the same spirit of right and uplift, you have always shown. We, from Ohio, are very proud of you and wish you success." Many thanks to all who so kindly remembered us, Christmas and New Years. The ordination services of W. G. Thurston, took place at Antioch Baptist church, Sunday afternoon, Jan. 4 at 3:30. Dr. Alonzo R. Stark, moderator of Cleveland Permanent Council, master of ceremonies. The following program was observed: Ordination by Rev. C. A. Brooks, pastor perive A. Baptist church; ordination prayer by Rev. J. B. Lemon of Wilson Ave. Baptist church; hand of fellowship by Rev. C. A. Brooks, Baptist City Mission Society; reading of the minutes of the Permanent Council by Rev. W. J. Zirbes; charge to the ordination by Rev. I. C. Gahy besediction by the candidate—Rev W. G. Thurston. Frank A. Bowman, editor and publisher of the Collinwood Citizen and several other small East End weeklies. Saturday launched a new publication, the East Cleveland Herald, a Republican, eight-page paper, supporting the administration of Mayor E. David E. the willow land. "We will boost for the administration just so long as the administration makes good and fulfills its pre-election pledges, and we will oppose the saloon or any other institution that would tend to degrade or jeopardize East Cleveland as a good, clean residential district," Bowman announces in an introductory editorial. Bowman has been interested in East End weeklies for the past 30 years, and an author of the book of East Cleveland to the city, as he is at present in Eucold village. Last summer when the Naps were playing at home one of their most enthusiastic fans, Manfred Byron Hughes, twenty-six, 1977 W. 105th St. couldn't get away from his work to attend the games. He was a member of the Great Old Baseball Game", a song about the Naps Hughes wrote and set to music on afternoon he couldn't get away, appeared in Cleveland stores. It is dedicated to the Naps and local fans, and is very tuneful. Although Hughes has never taken instructions of any kind in music, he has learned many wind instruments used in orchestras and bands. He is a member of the Cleveland and Chicago music scene. Six songs Hughes has composed and written words for are now being copyrighted. Local music dealers say "Take Me, Dearie, to That Grand Old Baseball Game" has unusual melody in it and prophesy its success. "A Southern Transformation," a play in two acts, was presented by the building service employees of the William Taylor Son & Co. store, following a business meeting of the Taylor Mutual Benefit association in the ball room on the fourth floor of the store, Euclid Ave., one evening last week. In the cast were Arthur Talbot, Harry Miller, William Austin, John Williams, G. F. Brenkman, J. Elsennegger, Ben Cohen, George Hector, James Munz, C. Vollmer, John Marshall, Edward Talbot, Frank Lewis, William Griffith, and Pred Hackbush. The play fulfilled the role of the members of the association at which O'Laughlin, instructor of dancing, and his assistant, Miss Emma Tilden, gave a demonstration of the Argentine tango, one-step, hesitation waltz and tango schottische. Wonder if any Afro-American employees of the "Taylor" store are "members of the association"? --- The editor of The Gazette entertained his long-time friends, Messrs. Andrew McSpadden and James R. Snyder at a sumptuous roast-chicken dinner, last Tuesday evening, from 7 to 9 o'clock, which the chef, Mrs. Anna West of the exceptional skill and good taste she is noted for. Thg "three old cronies" were in their element (as usual). Mr. Snyder's response to the toast, "The Color of the Editor's Hair" was extremely witty and telling, especially his references to its "clinging" and curling (?) qualities. Mr. McSpadden grew eloquent in the chicken in response to his birthday—so element that there simply was no use for the editor to try to respond as assigned. He was "too full" when his turn came. He promised, however, to make an effort to do on his birthday, the 28th of this month. Since Mr. Snyder insists that the editor was "on earth when Noah was the ark," he refuses absolutely to state that birthday it will be. Mr. McSpadden, however, intimated that Mr. Snyder was "a full-grown man when Noah went prospecting", and that the editor was only a little boy. MALE STENOGRAPHERS AND TYPEWRITERS IN DEMAND. The United States Civil Service Commission announces that while it has no difficulty in securing sufficient female stenographers and typewriters to meet the needs of the departments at Washington, D. C., the supply of male eligibles has not been equal to the demand. Young men who are at the forefront of the work willing to accept the usual entrance salaries, which are $440 and $500 a year, have excellent opportunities for appointment. While the entrance salaries are low, advancement is reasonably rapid to those meriting it. The examinations, which any competent stenographer should be able to pass, are conducted in the year, except December, at the principal cities of the United States. Full information in regard to the examination may be secured by addressing the United States Civil Service Commission, Washington, D. C., or the District Secretary, Post Office, Boston, Mass., Philadelphia, Pa., Atlanta, Ga., Cincinnati, Ohio, Chicago, Ill., St. Paul, Minn., Seattle Wash., San Francisco, Cal.; Customhouse, New York, N.Y.; Los Angeles, La.; or Old Boston屋, St. Louis, Md. Examinations for fourth-class postmasters will be conducted in Ohio in compliance with the order of the President-fourth-class post offices where the annual compensation is as much as $180 and where the present incumbent was not appointed in accordance with the civil-service regulations. GET THE PUBLIC INTERESTED Salesman Who Can Do That, and Has the Right Goods, May Be Sure of Success. "Attract the attention of the public," is the secret of salesmanship in virtually every line. Next comes the merit of the goods. Upon the latter depends whether the dealer holds his trade. Many ingenious methods are employed in salesmanship. The art becomes closely related to human nature. An Albany cigar dealer has demonstrated explicitly just how far the eye enters into the question. He discovered he was stocked with a brand of cigarettes that were proving "stickers." Instead of reducing the price and consequently losing money, or barely clearing at cost, he devised a new method. He ranged a half dozen boxes along the top of his show cases. Each was inclosed in a glass case of its own. Naturally the attention of the customer was attracted by their individuality. Those cigarettes were disposed of at a profit. That Albany cigar dearer discovered something that is making money for him. That little idea of individuality he is applying to every line of his goods that incline to "go slow." Cure for Mushroom Poisoning A cure for mushroom poisoning discovered by Dr. Louis Olivier, one of the most distinguished chemists of France, has just been presented before the Society of Comparative Pathology. After a demonstration that mushroom poisoning destroys the red corpuscles of the blood, he stated that his neutralizing agent was a serum from a sheep. The preparation was extremely simple. He drew the blood from a sheep and allowed it to coagulate, the liquid resulting being his serum. This he injected into the veins of a human being. In the country districts of France there are annually hundreds of serious cases of mushroom poisoning, which the society now hopes may be easily cured. Church and State. There is a very emphatic provision in the constitution of the United States against any union of church and state in this nation. Article I, amendment G. W. TURPIN'S School for Dancing Every Mon. and Thurs. Evenings ORKIN'S HALL, E. 36th St. & Central Ave., Cleveland, O. I will guarantee you that we will teach you All the Latest Dances, Direct from N. Y. We are dancing the tango, the hesitation waltz, fish walk, one step and others. 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TONEY Proprietors. 1, reads as follows: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for redress of grievances." Uncle Sam has his own religion and he is willing for everybody else to have theirs, but he will not enter into co-partnership with any religion—Chicago American. THE MANHATTAN The Best Place on Central Ave., to get a Good Lunch and Quick Service J. W. CRAWFORD, PRO'R. 3133 CENTRAL AVE. Open Evenings ter the Accommodation of the Theater Trade. THE PEOPLES' DRUG STORE Agent for "HIGH BROWN FACE POWDER." WE GIVE TRADING STAMPS. MONEY ORDERS, NEWSPAPER ADS., TELEGRAMS. PRESCRIPTIONS A SPECIALITY. Open late at Night. THE CENTRAL HOUSE 2507 Central Ave. CLEVELAND, OHIO. O. B. MOSS, PROP. New, clean and neat rooms. Bath &c. Terms Reasonable. The Best Meals Breakfast from 7 a. m. to 10 a. m. SPECIAL SUNDAY DINNER. from 12 noon to 8 p. m. HOME COOKING. 'Phone, Central, 2433 W. FOR SALE! small farms, in an aristocratic vicinity. This is a Splendid Opportunity to secure some of the best farms in the state--all within thirty miles of Cleveland. Address, JOSEPH LANE, P. O. Box 68, Willoughby, O. J. W. WILLS & CO. The Leading Funeral Directors Chapel in Connection. Service First Class. 2529 Central Avenue North 474 Central 7562-L --- MRS. LA FOLLETTE LAUDS AWAKENED WOMAN THE REAL BECKY THATCHER OF'MARK TWAIN'S ADAPTABLE PERSONALITY OF MRS. MARTINE MISTRESS OF ROBES FROM OPPOSITION RANK "The conventional woman of today needs more freedom; the emancipated woman more polise." PETER H. Thus epigrammatically spoke Mrs. Robert La Follette, wife of the senator from Wisconsin; in discussing her views of present-day affairs and conditions. She spoke alertly and enthusiastically of widely varied subjects in which she is interested, and she expressed the salient point uppermost in her mind, regarding various phases of modern thought, with the effectiveness of the person who knows what she thinks about what she knows. A vivacity born of physical and mental animation marked her every word. And then, after moments of earnest absorption in her subject, a ringing laugh that fairly shook her tiny frame would suddenly break forth to remind one of the presence of a mischievous love of fun lurking in the background of her nature. She has the youthful attitude which means liberality and desire for relaxation from "petty constraint. "We must get away from these old conventions," she said, "that govern and restrain our lives. So many of them now are dead that we find ourselves sometimes tacitly following laws for which the object has long since passed away. The fuller and freer life is the one to work for. Adjustment to For years the English reading world has regarded Mark Twain's noted heroine Becky Thatcher, who was Tom Sawyer's sweet-heart, as a fragile, gentle little piece of Dresden china, ready to break at the slightest touch. When lost in the big cave, Tom Becky was terribly frightened. MARY BROWN "Tom, Tom!" she cried, "We're lost! We're lost! We can never get out of this awful place! Oh, wha did we ever leave the others!" "She sank to the ground," the story says, "and burst into such a frenzy of crying that Tom was appalled with the idea that she might die, or lose her reason. He sat down by her and put his arms around her. She buried her face in his bosom, she clung to him, she poured out her terrors, her unavailing regrets, and the far echoes turned them all to jeering laughter. Tom begged her to pluck up hope again, and she said she could not." So it was all the way through the book, so popular with young America An adaptable personality is one of the most desirable assets an individual must an individual possess an es- sence. Esse- men who aspire to public life, it is also desirable for the wife. MARY BROWN women and she considers it more of a compliment to be called a woman than a lady—is Mrs. James Edgar Martine, wife of the senator from New Jersey. The situation which tested her powers of adaptability and served as an acknowledgment of her mettle presented itself just prior to her marriage. Hear her tell of it, and mark the naivete with which she handled a molehill of contention that might easily have been magnified into a mountain of dispute. "I was taught," she said, "and long, too, before I had the power of understanding any such weighty subject, that the only profitable political opia- The present liberal government of agland has been compelled to confer the appointment of mistress of the robes to the queen, in former years considered highly political, on a political opponent in the person of the duchess of Devon-shire. Mary By precedent this post must go to a duchess, but as there are no liberal dukes or duchesses, it has of necessity for years fallen to those of the ob- The husband of Muscular Christianity found an exponent in the curate of a northern diocese of whom Mr. James Bryce tells in his "Studies in Cotemporary Biography." He "had once, under the greatest provocation, knocked down a person who had insulted him, and the blahsh wrote him a letter of reproof, pointing out (among other things, that, exposed as the Church of England was to much criticism on all hands, her ministers ought to be very careful in their demeanor. The offender replied conditions that will ever be ameliorated by the broadening scope of increasing knowledge is our endeavor. I cannot put up with the 'strendpatness' in the general attitude any more than my husband can in politics. So I am an advocate of investigation of all the new methods to release humanity from the shackles of old ideas. "The new awakening among women will be one of the strongest factors to bring about this condition. They will begin to be interested in the great democratic government under which we live. They ought to have been interested all along, since it affected them as much years ago as today. But now a wholesome interest is coming to bring about intelligent discussion in the home and provide a basis for fuller communship between man and wife. "Why, this old idea that woman should remain in the home has not the foundation that existed for it in our grandmothers' day. Think of the work manufacturers of today are taking from our minds and hands. Women do not have to spend time making candles or soap. These things and countless others are already done for them, and their attention should be directed to more enlightening pursuits. "But we still cling to these old ideas, even in regard to housekeeping. Why cannot we see immediately the effectiveness of co-operative buying? I do not go so far as to say co-operative housekeeping. No, we continue to think that a good housewife should go to market and finger over everything before she buys it; whereas if we would but spend a little time working out a practical plan for buying directly from the producer much of our expense and trouble would be eliminated and, what is more important, time for more interesting things saved." Tom, the brave, manly, young fellow, as he should have been; Becky, the timid, frightened little slip of a girl, as she was not. Becky Thatcher, it is explained by every authority at Hannibal, Mo., where they know all about Mark Twain and where they recently celebrated his birthday, was sketched from a pretty girl, who became the wife of Doctor Frazer, and who is now his widow. She is yet living in Hannibal, where she is known as Mrs. Laura Frazer, a kind-hearted woman. But the model for Becky Thatcher was anything but a weak, clinging heroine. She had the courage of a soldier. The trial came to her during the Civil war, and she stood the test. Her courage and diplomacy undoubtedly saved the life of her husband. Shortly before his death Mark Twain sent his photograph to Mrs. Frazer, and wrote upon it this inscription of tender recollection: "To Laura Frazer, from her earliest sweetheart." It should first be explained that 1862 was a terrible year in Missouri. Bushwhackers, guerrillas and some militia almost as bad terrorized the state from river to river. The officers in the service of the federal government sought by rigorous methods to put down outlawry and depredations, and some of them went so far that they brought upon their own heads greater censure than fell to the restless partisans. ion worth possessing was the Republican one. If the Republicans happened to be out of power, I was told not to be heartfainted or vacillating, but to believe that it was only the crude quantity of the Democratic Republican. "At the same time I managed to acquire and retain a bigged attitude of mind regarding the 'inferior Democrat' that was quite unwholesome. I was also brought up in the Episcopal church and became starch in my adherence to its practices. I therefore, found myself as a young lady with two firmly established predilections. "Then I met Mr. Martine. He was a Democrat and a Presbyterian; a Democrat who knew why he was one. "After a while we were to be married. But how could we ever agree when our opinions were so radically different! I was puzzled. I decided that we would each have to make a concession to the other, so I said to him, 'If you'll be an Episcopian, I'll be a Democrat.' That settled it. Each of us altered one of our views, but clung to the other; saved our self-respect and indulged in a little pleasurable capitulation, which was extremely satisfying." the present mistress of the robes, although coming from an old liberal family, which left the party over Gladstone's home rule policy and nearly came back to it when the unionists adopted Joseph Chamberlain's policy of tariff reform, is one of the stalwarts of the present opposition. However, the liberals have nothing to fear. In the old days, when queens really ruled, and even in the early days of Victoria's reign, the mistress of the robes was an important personage, and it was considered necessary that she should be of the same political party as the government of the day, so that she might bring the right kind of influence to bear on the sovereign. Now, however, her chief duty is to stand beside the queen at state functions and control the maids of honor. by saying, "I must regret that being grossly insulted, and forgetting in the heat of the moment the critical position of the Church of England, I did knock the man down." The bishop—it was Fraser of Manchester—retaliated by asking the curate to dinner. Paradoxical Ambition. "Why does Miss Daisy get such expensive bathing suits when she never goes in the water?" "She gets them because she has to be in the swim." THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, JANUARY 10, 1914 SPORTS Extensive changes to the casino grounds where the annual lawn tennis championships annually take place are being made at Newport, R. I. Australia will make a concerted effort in 1914 to wrest the Davis cup from America. Norman Brookes and Dunlop will, in all probability, compose the doubles team again. A. F. Wilding beat M. Germot, a Frenchman, in the final of the Stockholm lawn tennis tournament and now the New Zealand expert is champion of the world on grass courts, hard courts and courts courts. Cleveland golfers now have an indoor course to practice on. Umpire Silk O'Loughlin is an enthusiastic golf player. The Homewood Country club of Chicago has applied for the 1914 national amateur golf championship. The next open golf championship of France will be played over the Le Touquet course, near Boulogne, in July. The most modest chap in golf has been found in Chicago. He is Chick Evans, who mentions the 25 leading American golfers and omits himself. There is much discussion just now anent the idea of staging a series of matches between American home bred professionals and crack visitors just prior to the national open next season. There are plenty of hackers of the home bred talent's ability to map up. WRESTLING Americus refuses to believe Gotch has retired. Other wrestlers harbor similar fears. * * * The announcement that Youssuf Mahmout is not dead, but emphatically alive on his own admission, leads to the question of what they can get out of his heroic demise as a press agent affair. * * * Speed, cleverness and ability to shift from one hold to another gave Gus Schoenlein of Baltimore, better known to the followers of wrestling as Americus, an easy victory over Paul Martinson, the motorman. Gustaf Frietensky, the Bohemian heavyweight wrestler; Ivan Mamuteff, who is a member of the czar of Russias bodyguard, and Alex Alvarez, the island expert, who is reported not to have fallen in ten years, are among the wrestlers who come to this country seeking a match with champion Frank Gotch, who again recently announced his retirement from the mat game. Michigan wants to schedule two more eastern games next season. Dartmouth and Carlisle are considered as possibilities. Keith Jonee, left tackle of the Notre Dame squad of this year, has been elected to captain the team during the 1914 campaign. After four meetings had resulted in a tie, the Amherst football team elected Webster H. Warren of Falmouth captain for next year. The 1914 football schedule of the Wisconsin state university will have Illinois for the first time since 1910. William Howard Fritz, Cornell football star, recently underwent an X-ray examination and it was shown that his arm was broken in the Pennsylvania game. The Syracuse eleven will not meet Harvard next fall, but the graduate manager of athletics is trying to ar- tribute James with Cornell and Dartmouth. Four of the five dual meets on the swimming schedule of the University of Pennsylvania swimming team for the coming season are with teams in the intercollegiate league, closing on March 6 with the individual championships in New York. Henry Zimmerman and Lawrence Wright of the Washington university eight-oared shell crew of Seattle have surveyed a new four-mile racing course on Lake Washington. It will correspond to the eastern intercollegiate course on the Hudson river at Pougekeeple. The new course is straightaway. The next international yacht regatta has been fixed for July 18 and 19 at Horten, near Christiania. Capt. T. B. Denegre of the Yale crew has announced that Richard Armstrong, Yale '95, has been appointed head coach of the Yale crews. Ernest Barry, at present holder of the world's professional sculling title, has offered to row James Paddon, the Australian champion, for $2,500 a side on the Thames river, London, next September. ```markdown ``` Gov. John K. Tener of Pennsylvania, who was recently elected president of the National league at a salary of $25,000 per annum, in an interview said that the game must be kept clean; that it needed no doctor, and that umpires should rule the field. In an Interview Governor Tener pointed out, when he will try to do pointed out what he will try to do: "I will not try to assume the role of doctor," said Mr. Tener, a big, robust six-footer. "It will be my purpose to see that the game is kept sanitary and avoid the little things which might tend to bring on disease. Baseball is hard." "I would like to be a constructive leader. It is my ambition to build. The one great feature of the success of the American league is that President Johnson has taken a personal hand in guiding its destinies to keep it on an even keel." Buffalo will hold the annual American bowling congress championships next March. Philadelphia will stage the eighth annual national tournament in Atlantic City next Eastertide. Four members of the Cornell basketball team which won the intercollegiate championship last year are out for the team again. The squad also includes several of last season's squad. Robinson, the team's only active season spinner, will not rest up until the winter. He will hope of regaining spring time in the heat lost during his illness of the last summer. HORSE RACING Toronto will give 14 $400 purses for its light harness ice racing meet, which opens on Christmas day. San Francisco light harness promoters have begun the construction of the track to be used at the 1915 exposition races for big purses. During the horse racing season just concluded in Ireland, 698 races were run, worth $238,705, and the number of horses that run was 1,239. The amount of stake money is the best on record for Ireland, the previous highest total having been $317,780. PUGILISM Spike Kelly tapped his way to a 15- round decision over Billy Walters at St. Joseph, Mo. Bob Diry of Germany proved easy for George Ashe of Philadelphia in the main bout at New York. Benny Yanger, the old-time boxer, is a manager now. He is looking after the affairs of Young Crosby, a crack 116-pound boy. Rochester is to have a boxing club that will accommodate 3,000 spectators, while Brooklyn is to have a structure that will seat 2,500. Johnny Dundee of New York and Johnny Griffith, an Akron lightweight fought 12 rounds to a draw at Canton O. The bout was a savage one. Pitcher Zamlock of the Tigers will coach a college nine in California prior to his reporting to Manager Jennings. Binghamton of the New York State league has signed Catcher Lewis, who lived in Pottrville. Dave Fultz made the announcement that any players signing contracts with the Federals are liable to suspension from the fraternity, if members. Jack Leelfit, formerly with the Yanks, Senators and Naps, is slated for a berth with the Buffalo Federals, according to the latest rumor. Jack Elllott, amateur baseball player of Youngstown, O., has been offered a position as umpire with the New England league next year and will accept. --- SMARTNESS IN TAILORED SUITS SKIRTS AGAIN TO BE PLAIN Simple and Straight Lines Will Rule, According to the Present Outlook —New and Beautiful Fabrics Promised—Soft Shades Sure to Predominate. PARIS.—Tailored suit styles are changing most every hour. These new developments are not radical, but they show a tendency toward going back to their real smart selves. No one can dispute the fact that during the last year some of the dress-makers have gone the limit to make suits as far from tailleurs as was possible, writes Marianne Lebrun in the New York Press. They created draped skirts and baggy coats that made all women, except professional mannequins, look like animated bolster cases. Of course, the smart Parisiennes did not adopt them, but the unsuspecting women from their states, Germany, Austria and other parts of Europe, accepted them—with the result that they stand and play in the styles. Please not that in criticizing all the models whose skirts were draped, for there were many that were charming—for instance, Callot's Zouave skirt. As long ago as August it was quite apparent that the draped skirt was gradually passing from prominence. At that time Premet introduced suits with perfectly plain skirts. They looked as though the fabric had simply been wound once around the fig- THE FASHION WEEKLY This Visiting Gown is in Cloth, With Embroidered Waistcoat—Fur Trimming is Abundantly Used. ure and finished with a bit of fulness in the back; the latter was pulled up a trifle for the sake of distinction rather than for a practical reason. These skirts were unhemmed, as the salvage of the fabric served as the finish. At the same time, the Callot Soeurs brought out suits with quite plain skirts and extreme short jackets. These petite coats have met with a tremendous success in spite of the fact that Mme. Paquin is advocating the rather long coat. Poiret's Suits Distinctive. Of course, Paul Poiret has again presented suits with straight skirts. One would not expect him to change his idea of the tailleur silhouette. But, nevertheless, one would be disappointed if he did not create straight skirts that were far from the usual plain kinds. To begin with, his skirts are always fashioned with the extreme high waistline, but his new models are designed with clever yokes, belts, peculiar strappings, inverted plains and so on, until they are unlike those of any other courtier. However, no less a person than Monsteur Poiret has been responsible for the suits with flared tunics and frilled skirts. I probably should say that he was indirectly responsible, for it was his minaret mode that introduced the silhouette with the flare. Although I cannot be positive, I am reasonably sure that Bernard introduced the suit with the deep tunic that repeats the lower part of the coat. Then he created tunicies with a more pronounced flare, and then the skirt with the double tunic. The skirt with the shaped tunic now has a fair rival—the one with double or triple shaped frills that suggest a tunic. These frills are generally mounted so that they give the effect of being drawn up high in the front, and thereby giving a long sloping line to the sides, and a deep, graceful curve in the back. These two styles are en- Healthy Yawn. Yawning is said to have an exceedingly healthful function besides having a salutary effect in complaints of the pharynx and the eustachian tubes. According to investigations, yawning is the most natural form of respiratory exercise, bringing into action all the respiratory muscles of the neck and chest. It is recommended that every person should have a good yawn with the stretching of the limbs morning and evening for the purpose of ventilating the lungs and tonifying joying quite a vogue, because they give such wonderful possibilities to the reigning silk and woolen fabrics. Lines Simple and Straight. The Chernit suit under discussion gained prominence through its straight lines. The skirt was absolutely plain, except for a wide lapped seam in the front and darts that lessened its circumference at the foot. The coat was a medium hip-length that was a trifle shorter in the front, with two set-on box plaits in the back and a narrow belt of plain material that defined the natural waist line. The fabric scheme was not distinctive, for it was merely the compose idea interpreted with a plain blue serge skirt and green and blue check serge coat, trimmed with a shawl collar and deep cuffs of clivet cat. Docuillet has also hearkened to the call for simplicity in suits. One of the newest models from that couturier was of black velvet, with a rather straight skirt, edged with a wide band of natural raccoon and topped with a shaped tunic of black satin; in the gulf where the tunic separated in the back a single sash hunch of satin was inserted. The coat, which was a medium hip-length affair, was curved to suggest a cutaway and was fashioned with rather large revers, which were distanced to a waistcoat of white silk; around the neck was a white shirt, high stock of the fur, which also edged the sleeves. A large barrel-shaped muff of the raccoon completed the costume. Peau depeche, which is woven to resemble the skin of a peach, is a novelty that has won much admiration for its beauty. Velours de laine in plain and cut (striped effect) weaves is very popular. Indeed, it is frequently substituted for duvetyne. The always reliable broadcloths and sergues are again coming back to their own. And they will enjoy a greater vogue when severely tailored suits reign supreme. Afternoon suits are mostly of velvet in plain and panne weaves, silk duvetyne, velvetteen, plush or brietschanzw—a latter is generally combined with satin or velvet. Such suits are most effective and elegant in black, Russian green, midnight and navy blues, tete de negre, prune, burgundy and egg plant purple. Colors Soft and Beautiful. The richness of the fabrics is greatly enhanced by the quiet beauty of the colors which are finding favor with the Paris elegante. Brilliant color combinations for street suits have been supplied by wonderfully soft shades, usually very dark, which are indeed a triumph of the dyer's art. The effect is not so somber as might be expected, considering that all black hats are so universally worn, for almost invariably there is a dash of brilliant color which livens up the costume. Sometimes this is accomplished by the glet, which has become so important a part of the coat and skirt; sometimes by a tiny bouquet of brightly colored artificial flowers. These little touches of color must be employed by an artist, for they can mar a costume quite as readily as they can add to its beauty. Furs never have been worked to the perfection the furriers have attained this season. They are as soft as fabric and lend themselves to draping. With the lively colors and the splendid furs used in street costumes the morning or afternoon promenade presents a most unusual spectacle, as all the women appear to be beautiful. Ritz during the tea hour, one can oo-certain that it is a notable costume, for here one sees the royalty of Europe, the best dressed Parisiennes and many prominent Americans. And to say that there was one particular toilet that dominated a brilliant assemblage the other day is paying it a decided compliment. It was a three-piece costume with gown of black charmeuse, whose skirt was simply draped to swathe the figure—with bolero jacket of broadtail, from which flared a tunic of finely plaited tulle, edged with a wide band of the fur. The tunic was a graduated affair that was quite short at the right side and extended almost to the knees at the left. Galliot's Eccentric Fur Trimming. A wide band of white fox was simply wound diagonally around the skirt just at the knees. If the skirt had not been gathered in and draped up (in front) under the fur it might have had quite straight lines. The short jacket of this suit of velvet, which was in a curious shade of brown, was rather plain, except that the back was about two inches shorter than the fronts, which it overlapped. A narrow banding of the fur edged its V-haped neck and the tops of its sleeves. Garters for the Slit Skirt Trouser garters, or as they are sometimes called, tango garters, are coming into quite general use. They are, as you doubtless know, a very tight garter trimmed with rhinestone buckles and chiffon flowers, from which hangs a plaited flounce of chiffon or crepe de chine. These are used with slashed dresses for dancing, and in some cases with regulation tailored suits. One Play "I wonder if aviators can play football?" "What makes you ask such a foolish thing?" "I don't think it is foolish. They ought to know all about the flying wedge." the respiratory muscles. An eminent authority asserts that this form of gymnastics has a remarkable effect in relieving throat and ear troubles, and says that patients suffering from disorders of the throat have derived great benefit from it. The Ideal. "I can't understand how Mrs. Jones can get along with such a husband as she has; so ugly and stupid." "He's all that, but she never has to ask him for money." WIT and HUMOR FIND PLEASURE WITH MONEY Being Too Busy in Hoarding Up Wealth, Americans Spend a Large Portion of it on Politicians. The objects of pleasure are two in number. First, to kill time, and, second, to keep us from doing something else which would make us more miserable. The pleasures of the American people, roughly speaking, are likewise twofold; namely, making money and spending it. Some people derive all their pleasure from making money, and others all their pleasure from spending it. Others combine the two. Being an inventive people, the Americans have created many ways of spending money. Being too busy making it, to spend any time on the drudgery of running their country they spend a large portion of it in supporting the politicians. This, indeed, is one of their chief pleasures. And their superb sense of humor enables them to enjoy intensely the accounts of what all the politicians are doing, which enterprising papers publish from day to day. The Americans have other pleasures, compared with this on they fly! A. Mild Diversion "My wife is treasurer at our house and it's difficult for me to hold out any money. However, she sometimes trusts me with a dollar bill and I controve to hold out the change." "Doesn't she remember to ask you for it?" "Not always. I relate some little diversion to occupy her mind and distract her attention." "How do you manage it?" "Last time I told her that her fa her had set fire to the house." A Heedless Husband. "They say that marriage is a community of interests, but my husband has no consideration for me. Yesterday he lugged a total stranger home for dinner. Not a word of warning. Is that any way to treat a wife?" "Oh, that wasn't so reprehensible. You could easily rustle up something for dinner." "But there wasn't a thing in the house. I had lost the market money at bridge." A Careful Couple. "Well, here you are in your cozy bride's ne t. The flat looks fine." "Yes; we buy a little something every week." "And have you ordered a piano yet?" "No; we haven't ordered a piano. We thought we wouldn't buy anything as expensive as that until we found out if the marriage is going to be per mazent." SAVING UP. Stenographer—The bookkeeper, think, is going to get married! Invoice Clerk—How do you know? Stenographer—He walks to work smokes a pipe and eats ten-cen lunches. Good Enough for Dad. "Madam, we had to amputate. Your husband will now require an artificial limb. A good one will cost several hundred dollars." "It's simply a case of a wooden leg, isn't it, doc?" "Well, madam, you might so specify it." "Dad ain't used to much. I'll just saw a leg from an old table we have in the garret." Meaningless. "Pa, what does it mean when a sign reads, 'Practical Plumber,' 'Practical Tailor' or 'Practical Printer'?" "It means, son, that a certain amount of space was to be filled on the signboard and the word 'Practical' was used for that purpose." "This seems to be an excitable community." "Right you are. I don't know of a town in the country where those well-known brainstormers, 'Hue and Cry,' have played more return engagements." Played Out. She—My dear, I haven't got a decent rag to put on. He—You needn't try that old ragtime tune with me. Her Little Joke. He (on plazaza)—The hum of these darned mosquitoes is getting monotonous. She—It is; they bore me dreadfully.