The Gazette

IN UNION THERE'S ENUMERATION THIRTY-FIRST WEEK'S NEWS Summarized for Very Busy Readers By a majority of 86 votes the house of representatives at Washington passed the Sims bill to repeal the provision in the Panama canal act exempting American coastwise vessels from the payment of toll for passage through the canal. In enacting this measure the Democrats of the house followed the suggestion of President Wilson. The bill was sent to the senate by a vote of 247 yeas to 161 nays. Speaker Clark bitterly opposed the bill in a speech to the house. President Wilson has promised Miss Mattie Tyler, granddaughter of President Tyler, to investigate her case personally and to do what he can to continue her as postmistress at Courtland, Va. Postmaster General Burleson recently appointed B. A. Williams, who has his commission, but has not taken charge of the office. Competitive examinations for fourth-class postmasters will be held in six states during May, it was announced by the civil service commission at Washington. Beginning May 2 and continuing to the 16th, examinations will be held in New York, Iowa, Nebraska, Kansas, Utah and Montana. That the discharge of 25,000 employees by the New York Central railroad and of 15,000 by the Pennsylvania lines may be part of a plan devised to arouse popular support for the five per cent increase in freight rates sought by the carriers was suggested by Clifford Thorne, Iowa railroad commissioner, who is in Washington. Domestic Seven hundred trees will be planted along seven St. Louis streets as the result of a tree planting campaign conducted by the Civic league. Presentation of evidence was completed in New York in the government's suit for the dissolution of the United States Steel corporation under the Sherman law. Counsel for both sides will prepare briefs and arguments will be heard in the federal court at Philadelphia in the fall. The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research at New York announced that John D. Rockefeller had added $1,000,000 to the general endowment fund of the institution, to be devoted to the study of animal diseases, and that James J. Hill had pledged $50,000 to be used specifically for the investigation of hog cholera. With few exceptions every coal mine in Ohio was closed down for an indefinite period at the close of work. Coal operators estimate that 50,000 miners are thrown out of employment. The Burley Tobacco society, whose membership list held the names of more than forty thousand farmers in Kentucky, Indiana and Ohio, and which was organized five years ago, has practically ended its existence when checks for $316,000 were distributed among the members. The Mississippi Valley Equal Suffrage association may split into two sections and a separate southern association may be formed. This action was prophesied during the conference at Des Moines, Ia. Suffragists from the southern states say conditions peculiar to the south make the banding together of southern states advisable. A movement to get a Carnegie hero medal for Mrs. Bertha Magill, who saved more than thirty lives in the recent Missouri Athletic club fire at St. Louis, was launched. She refused to let her husband, manager of the club, carry her out of the building un til she had awakened many guests. Seven armed men entered the Elma National bank at Elma, in southwest Washington, made a prisoner of the cashier and escaped with about three thousand seven hundred dollars. Spring floods have set in through the valleys of the state of New York and already much property damage is reported. Two persons have lost their lives. The Massachusetts house of representatives has refused to plate a ban on the tango. A bill, which would make dancers of the tango, or so-called animal dances, liable to arrest, fine and imprisonment, was overwhelmingly defended. Charging the Quincy (Ore.) school house at the head of a mob of Socialists, Mrs. Flora I. Foreman, deposed by the school board, smashed the doors, routed her successor and resumed her position until arrested. Mayor James R. Hanna of Des Moines, Ia., was re-elected to his third term, defeating Zell G. Roe by 5,678 votes. At Sioux City Mayor A. A. Smith was re-elected for a third term. At Waterloo Mayor R. C. Thompson was re-elected. THE GAZETTE Opposition to the passage of administration antitrust bill and particularly the federal trade commission bill, is voiced in the report of a special committee of the chamber of commerce of New York. The report recommends that no legislation likely to disturb business conditions be enacted at the present session of congress. The Illinois miners will remain at work until a new scale of wages is fixed or until the referendum vote of the union accepts or rejects the policy outlined by the committee of the national organization. This was decided at the meeting of the Illinois district, United Mine Workers of America, at Peoria, Ill. The New York Chamber of Commerce has received the draft of a resolution asking the president and congress to move slowly in the matter of trust legislation. A lone robber looted the express safe of the Seaboard Air line train No. 2, Tampa to New York, at Columbia, S. C., taking one package said to be of small value and jumping from the train as it slowed for a crossing. The safe in the Coilins (N. Y.) post office was blown open by yeggmen and $400 in stamps taken. Mexican Revolt American ranchmen who arrived at Eagle Pass, Tex. from the Mexican interior reported that the constitutionalists under General Murgia had repulsed federal reinforcements under Colonel Acosta trying to enter Torreon. Colonel Acosta is said to have commanded about nine hundred men. General Francisco Villa has been wounded in his bitter attack on Torreon and forced to retire from the battle line, according to a report from Chihuahua. Torreon has not yet fallen into the hands of the rebels, but it is doomed. Col. Victor Huerta, son of President Huerta, was among the federal dead. Personal "Handsome Jack" Koetters was found guilty at Chicago of the murder of Mrs. Emma Kraft, sixty-year-old Cincinnati widow, killed in the Saratoga hotel by blows from a heavy hammer. The jury fixed the punishment at life imprisonment. The murder of Mrs. Kraft was one of the most brutal in the annals of the Chicago police. Hugh T. Miller, formerly lieutenant governor of Indiana, announced that he would be a candidate for the Republican nomination for United States senator. Tito Mattel, noted Italian pianist, composer and conductor, died in London. He was pianist to the king of Italy and wrote many popular ballets and songs. Gen. Daniel E. Sickles is reported to be near death in his New York home. It became known that the veteran soldier and diplomat suffered a stroke of paralysis three weeks ago, following the death of his housekeeper, Mrs. Wilmerding. Former Judge Nathaniel Ewing, chairman of the public service commission, is seriously ill at his home in Uniontown, Pa. Randolph McCoy, nonagenarian and leader in the famous McCoy-Hatfield feud, died at the home of his grandson at Pikeville, Ky., of burns received last fall. While cowed with a revolver by a burglar, Mrs. William Wylie of Minneapolis, Minn., was forced to watch the man's companion take jewelry and family heirlooms valued at more than one thousand dollars from a desk in her home. Prof. Thomas R. MacBride, head of the botany department, was elected acting president of Iowa State university by the state board of education. The board previously had formally accepted the resignation of President John G. Bowman. Frank Tannenbaum, the leader of the Industrial Workers of the World, who led a crowd of 200 unemployed men into New York churches, where he demanded food and shelter, was found guilty of participating in an unlawful assemblage and given one year in prison. Foreign Premier Asquith took over the duties of minister of war in his cabinet in addition to those of the head of the ministry and has resigned from the British parliament to stand for re-election. This dramatic culmination of the army and navy crisis was announced by the premier in the house of commons. Generals Ewart and French refused to reconsider their resignations. The killing in Korea of Dr. Edgar de Mott Stryker, formerly of Raritan, N. J., is being investigated by United States Vice-Consul Raymond S. Curtice. Doctor Stryker was killed by a Japanese ex-convict. Three uniformed Ulster volunteers were attacked near Garrick Hill, in Belfast, by nationalists. The police dispersed the attacking party and there were no further disorders. One of the volunteers was injured seriously. ESTABLISHED AUGUST 25, 1883 AND ISSUED EVERY WEEK ON TIME SINCE. CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, APRIL 4, 1914 ACTIVE WORKER IN MANY FIELDS Eventful Career of Major R. R. Jackson Noted. Man Who Sold Newspapers on Streets of Chicago When a Boy Wins Distinction as a Legislator, Promoter of Big Business Enterprise, Secret Society Leader and Soldier. Chicago.—Foremost among the young men in Chicago who are making good is to be found Major R. R. Jackson of the uniform rank of the Knights of Pythons of North and South America, Europe, Asia, Africa and Australia. He is a charter member of the Eighth regiment, national guard, and is at the head of the largest printing establishment operated by the race in this city. Major Jackson was born in Chicago Sept. 1, 1870, and received his early education in the public and high schools. He obtained his early business training by working as a newspaper merchant. He sold papers at Harrison and State streets nearly forty years ago, and by this he was able to care for his grandmother for a number of years and at the same time attend school. He also worked as an eleva- 110 MAJOR R. B. R. JACKSON. tor conductor. Jackson only used his elevator position, however, as a means to an end, because while in this position he met many of the leading men of the city. He took the civil service examination, made good marks and was appointed to a clerkship in the Chicago postoffice, where he made a good record, serving twenty-one years. For twelve years Major Jackson served as assistant superintendent of Armour station, the highest position held by any member of his race in the Chicago postoffice system. While in this position in the postoffice Major Jackson proved his interest in his people. He was instrumental in having appointed 124 men and boys as clerks, carriers, janitors and special delivery messengers and has assisted over 100 men in securing positions in the various railroad offices in Chicago. For a young man he has a splendid record as a soldier. During the Spanish-American war when the Eighth Illinois regiment was ordered to the field Major R. B. Jackson was ready for duty. He made many friends in Cuba and showed while there his military ability. He is now working to secure for his regiment a military home and hopes to see this realized at an early date. Major Jackson was elected a member of the Illinois legislature, but was counted out by the machine. He contested his election and was seated just a short time before the legislature adjourned sine dime. He made good use of his opportunity. Immediately upon being seated in the house of representatives Speaker McKinley recognized his worth by appointing him on the following committees: Chicago charter, fraternal and mutual insurance, federal relations, military affairs, miscellaneous subjects and municipal courts of Chicago. The first thing to claim his attention was the various jimcrow legislation pending in the house, and he went about the matter immediately and used his influence to check this unfair legislation. The intermarriage bill was brought before the committee on miscellaneous subjects, and Major Jackson, being a member, right there and then helped to bury it in an unknown grave. Then followed his good work on the "full crew bill," which would have put many of the men of the race out of the railroad service. This, like the other bill, was killed after the major had got in his work. In this he served his race and the state at the same time. The fifthth anniversary of the emancipation of the slaves claimed his attention, and he introduced a bill appropriating $25,000 for that purpose, which went through without opposition, receiving a unanimous vote. WASHINGTON IN CALIFORNIA. Noted Educator Keep Busy Delivering Addresses While on Pacific Coast. The schedule for Dr. Booker T. Washington's speaking dates in Los Angeles, Cal., and vicinity was arranged by Dr. John Willis Haar, president of Occidental college, Los Angeles. Mr. Baar was formerly secretary of the Christian Endeavor society, with headquarters in Boston. Dr. Washington's first public address in the series of speeches which he will make in California was delivered at the First Congregational church in Los Angeles Sunday morning. March 8. The Rev Morris E. Turk was in charge of the meeting. In the afternoon of the same day Dr. Washington addressed a large meeting at the First Methodist church. The meeting held in the interest of the Y. M. C. A., at which Dr. Washington spoke later, was in charge of Mr. T. A. Green. On Tuesday, March 10, Dr. Washington spoke at the high school auditorium in Pasadena and also delivered 1 lecture under the auspices of Throop College of Technology, in the same town. These meetings were in charges of Mr. James A. B. Scherer. The meeting held at Pomona college, in Claremont, Wednesday, March 11, was in charge of Mr. James A. Blalsdell, president of Pomona college. On Thursday night, March 12, Dr. Washington was the guest of honor at a banquet at the Hotel Virginia, Long Beach, Cal. This banquet was one of the big social functions given in connection with the meeting of the state Y. M. C. A. convention and was directed by Secretary Sprunger of the Y. M. C. A. In Los Angeles. Dr. Washington returned to Los Angeles and delivered a most highly instructive address at the First Presbyterian church, of which the Rev. Dr. Robert Freeman is the pastor. At the meeting held in Redlands, Cal., on Tuesday, March 17, at which Dr. Washington spoke, Mr. Egger Williams presided. Friday morning, March 20, he is scheduled to be the guest of the Friday morning club in Los Angeles, and Mrs. Seward Simons of South Pasadena is to preside. On Sunday, March 22, Dr. Washington is to visit Riverside, Cal., and will be at the Mission inn, of which Mr. Frank Miller is the proprietor. TOUR OF PINEY WOODS COUNTRY LIFE SCHOOL What Lawrence C. Jones Is Doing at an Institution in Mississippi. Principal Lawrence C. Jones of the Piney Woods Country Life school, Branton, Miss, will begin his annual educational campaign in the interest of the school at Laurel, Miss, Friday, March 27. Mr. Jones will be accompanied on his tour by the band and the Piney Woods school's brass band and glee club. The program of the meetings will consist of countryside by the band and an address by Professor Jones on the general subject of "Turning Up the Pina Barrens of South Mississippi." The tour will include the following cities and towns in the state on dates mentioned: Ellisville, March 28; Collins, March 30; Hattiesburg, April 1; Wiggins, on the 2d Gulfport on the 3d and Columbia on the 4th. The annual tour through the southern part of the state is a part of the extension work of the school. The work is in splendid condition, which speaks well for Mr. Jones, who founded the school just a few years ago in a log cabin which at the time was a shelter for sheep. The institution now has one large substantial building and several smaller ones, in which are taught more than eight industries. Mr. J. R. Webster, a prominent citizen of Branton and a good friend of the Piney Woods school, says of Mr. Jones and the work which he is doing for our people in Branton and vicinity; "I am moved by a spirit of deep interest and a knowledge of the importance of an industrial education to say a few words in commendation of Lawrence C. Jones, who has identified himself with the colored people of our community by establishing a training school where the boys and girls can be taught and made to see the practical points of life and more clearly realize their duty as citizens to themselves and fellow men." Methodists to Meet In St. Louis In May The general conference of the Colored Methodist Episcopal church will be held in St. Louis, Mo. Among the important subjects which will claim the attention of the bishops and delegates will be the question of changing the publishing house from Jackson, Tenn., to Nashville, Tenn., or some other more central location than it is at present, how to broaden the work of the denomination so as to reach a larger constituency and the election of bishops. The recent quadrennial meeting of the church was held in Jacksonville, Fla. Bishop C. H. Phillips of Nashville, Fla. presided. O. G. Villard to Speak in Brooklyn. Mr. Oswald Gartillon Villard. Senator Moses E. Clapp and Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois will speak at a public meeting to be held at the Concord Baptist church in Brooklyn. Tuesday evening, March 31. in the interest of the National Association For the Advancement of Colored People. The meeting will be held under the auspices of a committee of citizens headed by Mrs. Alice W. Seay, a well known clubwoman and social settlement worker. The Rev. Dr. William M. Moss, pastor of the above named church, will preside. HONORS MEMORY OF PETER OGDEN NATION WIDE CELEBRATION. Prominent Speakers Deliver Inspiring Addresses at Annual Gathering of Influential Secret Order—Former District Grand Master Robert J. Nelson Encourages Household of Ruth. BY GEORGE FRANCIS KING. Harrisburg, Pa.—The observance of Peter Ogden day by the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows recently was general among the members of the order throughout the country. The celebration held in this city was noted for the timeliness of the program of exercises and the prominence of the speakers, among whom was District Deputy Grand Master Robert J. Nelson of this state. Mr. Nelson's address was listened to with close attention throughout its delivery. He was warmly greeted by the brotherhood, and he in part said: "That illimitable, silent, never resting thing called Time, rolling, rushing on, swift, silent like an all embracing ocean tide, has spanned threescore and ten years since Peter Ogden planted the banner of Odd Fellowship on the soil of this country, and to its principles we again affirm our allegiance as we assemble at this shrine. "As I stand before you on this occasion to assist in memorializing the founder of our great and splendid fraternity I am impressed at the obligation resting upon us, the followers of Peter Ogden, who reared on this soil the great organization that has been of incalculable benefit to our race. "Peter Ogden was of American birth and was self educated. He early felt the importance of an honorable life and was desirous of leaving a name that would command respect. We have no record that he spring from a house ancient and noble. He sprang from a race, impoverished, which had been a race lacking advantage and which was in need of an uplifting influence, when he called on the brethren across the sea to give it the hand of fraternal fellowship. "He was not a proud, cynical man, a scorner of his people, nor was he implacable in his vindictiveness of spirit. Everything points to the fact that he was gentle, but firm—a virile character whose vigorous life had the elements of true greatness. There may not hang about his life the perfume of either the spelling book or the lexicon—his deeds were living, seedful fruit. Divine Providence guided his actions and his title to fame will rest securely upon the grand and noble fraternal structure reared by his own efforts. Naturally of a generous spirit, he was distinguished for the strength of his intellect. As we meet to memorize Peter Ogden we do it with a sense of appreciation of his real life. We bestow upon him that full measure of praise his deeds, his foresight and many character demand we should as the years come and go. "The order he founded, the Grand United Order of Odd Fellows in America, is one of the most potential organizations of which our race can boast and the good it has done and is doing in the cause of humanity and for the general uplift of our race is not equaled by that of any organization extant. As we read the history of our order we will find that its deeds are so bright and its achievements so fruitful that it stands forth in every community as a beacon light beckoning the good men, women and children into its ranks. "One of the agencies that has contributed so materially to our steady growth as well as our influential status was the opportunity we gave the women to become a part of our order nearly sixty years ago. Known as the Household of Ruth, their branch was taken from the most beautiful book of the Bible-Ruth. I want to go on record here and now as favoring a larger recognition for the Household, and you may be assured that I will at all times lend whatever aid I can in that direction." DANIEL F. MOONEY C. HARRIS & EWING Daniel F. Mooney, 8c. Marye, Oo has been appointed United States minister to Paraguay. He is the first resident diplomatic representative accredited to that country since 1870, when the diplomatic posts of Uruguay and Paraguay were combined. FORMER PROSPEROUS SALESMAN IS SLAIN BODY IS FOUND IN SORDID, DISMAL BASEMENT BENEATH CAFE IN GOTHAM. Victim's Skull Is Split Open and Part of His Right Ear Cleaved Away—Short Handled Ax is Found. New York City—Arthur J. Sleevan, aged 26, a graduate of St. Francis college, Montreal, and formerly star salesman of the Cudahy Packing concern in Chicago, was murdered in the sordid, dismal basement beneath the Costello and Boles cafe at 637 6th-av just above 37th-st. The police were able to discover neither motive nor clue for the crime. About the dead man's throat was found his own belt, which had been drawn so tightly that it had sunk into the flesh. His skull was split wide open and part of his right ear had been cleaved away. Hardly a yard away from his body was found a short handled ax with blood stains upon blade and handle. The names of two women crept into the mystifying tangle, both of which the police refused to reveal. One was of a woman living in Boston, postcards and letters from whom were found near the dead man's body, and the other was that of a trained nurse living upstate, said to have been infatuated with Sleevan in his more prosperous days. WIFE SPANKS HUSBAND WOMAN ADMITS LAYING MAN WHO SPENDS MONEY FOR DRINK OVER KNEE. Sunbury, Pa.—John Berger, who weighs only 90 pounds, called at the office of Squire M. P. Tierney and had a warrant issued for the arrest of his wife for assault and battery. When the woman appeared in his office the squire saw that she weighed all of 300 pounds and had a chin that was square. "Did you whip your husband?" asked the squire. "I surely did," was the reply. And she continued, "I will do it again. We have six children and he earns $12 a week. Last week he got out and spent two of it for drink, and when he came home I laid him over my knee and, furthermore, he ate breakfast standing up." COURT WARNS MOTHERS SAYS WOMEN WHO ATTEND FILM SHOWS TOO OOFTEN WILL LOSE PENSIONS. Canton, O.—Mothers who frequent the movies can't get a pension under the new state law as interpreted in Stark county. "Do you attend moving picture shows?" will be one of the questions Probate Judge Charles Krichbaum will ask every applicant for a pension. "We would not refuse a pension just because the mother goes to a picture show once in awhile, but if we find that she goes often, she probably neglects her children and is not deserving of help," says the court. Booster Attacks Girl. Washington, Pa.—Seriously injured by the vicious attacks of a game rooster Mary Booher, four, daughter of Dr. T. M. Booher of Bethany, W. Va., near here, was saved from probable death by the timely arrival of Don Mann, student at Bethany college. The little girl was on the ground and the maddened rooster was leaping on her, striking her with his long spurs when Mann, passing, saw the situation. Leaping the fence the youth beat the rooster off. IN UNION UNION AT STRONG YOUTH CONFESSES SLAYING TEACHER Lad, Whom Woman Was Trying to Reform, Gives Details to Authorities. Boy Tells How He Led Victim Through Lonely, Unfrequented Road, Beat Her to Death With Monkey Wrench and Stabbed Her. Herkimer, N. Y.—Jean Gianini, the seventeen-year-old boy arrested for the murder of Miss Lida Beecher, the pretty school teacher who was found beaten to death near Poland on Saturday, broke down and confessed Monday. The confession, which is in the hands of District Attorney Farrell, shows that the killing was carefully planned and carried out in the most cold-blooded manner. Gianini, whom Miss Beecher was trying to reform, invited the young teacher to call upon his parents and urge them to allow him to return to his studies in the Poland high school. The youth had left the school last summer when he was committed to St. Vincent industrial school for incorrigibility. Believing that the boy really desired to mend his ways, Miss Beecher volunteered to accompany him to his home last Friday evening. Gianini armed himself with a monkey wrench, hiding the weapon in a piece of burial in his pocket. Led Her Through Lonely Road. When the Gianini home was nearly reached the youth informed Miss Beecher that he suddenly remembered that his parents were not at home, having gone to visit a neighbor named Holcomb. Miss Beecher promised to accompany Gianini to the Holcomb residence, the road to which lies through lonely, unfrequented country. Suddenly Gianini drew his weapon from his pocket and struck his companion upon the head, knocking her unconscious. He continued to rain blows upon her and then drew a dirk and stabbed her. Gianini said that he talked calmly to his companion about his plans to reform until they reached the summit of Cold Brook road, a quarter of a mile from the nearest dwelling, where the attack was made. Hides Body in Swamp. "After I beat the girl to death I dragged the body across the roadway through a barbed wire fence and hid it behind a clump of willows in a swamp," said the boy. "There was snow on the ground and the blood from the cuts on Miss Beecher's head and breast left stains, so I turned some fresh snow over the red marks. The murder took place about 8 o'clock Friday night. It was dark and lonely, but I did not feel afraid. After hiding the body I hurried home and hid the weapons in a cupboard and went to bed." Gianini said he arose early Saturday morning and carried the wrench and knife, to the stable of Samuel Hutchinson, a neighbor, where he hid them. The youth fled from Poland on Saturday and was arrested in the village of Newport, five miles away. "How did you sleep Friday night after killing Miss Beecher?" asked the district attorney. "I slept fine, for I had had my revenge," replied the boy. OHIO COAL MINES CLOSE FIFTY THOUSAND MEN WILL RE-MAIN IDLE PENDING WAGE AGREEMENT. Cleveland.—Six hundred coal mines in Ohio, employing approximately 50,000 men, suspended operations at 3:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon and will remain closed until miners and operators effect a satisfactory wage agreement and the constitutionality of the mine-run basis payment law is tested in the courts. This action was taken by Walter R. Woodford, president of the Eastern Ohio Coal Operators' association, as dispatches arriving from Pittsburgh told of the signing of wage agreements on last year's payment basis between western Pennsylvania operators and miners. Tariff Expert Dies. Montclair, N. J.—William Dewart, prominently identified with the first Canadian protective tariff act and for many years a writer of articles dealing with tariff questions in the United States and Canada, died at the home of his son here. Man. 72. Hae First Bath. Sandusky, O.-According to Sergeant S. N. Cooke of Cottage Mack, State Soldiers' home, a veteran from near Urbana, admitted the other day, sighed when ushered into the receiving barracks ante-room to await his turn in the barracks bath, and remarked: "Well, I'm 72 years old and this is going to be the first time I ever took a bath." The old man made no effort to conceal a feeling that if he survived the first operation he might try it again, according to Serst Cooke. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY SUBSCRIPTION RATES (In Advance) One Year.....$1.50 Six Months.....1.00 Three Months......50 Subscribers are requested to rem- mit by postoffice money or- der or registered letter Entered at the postoffice in Cleveland Ohio, as second-class matter. Address all communications to 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. SATURDAY, APRIL 4, 1914: The Gazette agrees, heartily, with Mr. Andrew F. Hilyer, whose communication will be found elsewhere in this paper. Judge Robert H. Terrell's confirmation should be made a race matter by all of our people, in a position to do so, urging their U. S. senators to vote to confirm the appointment of Mr. Terrell as a judge of the Municipal Court at Washington, D. C. BRYAN AS SECRETARY OF STATE No Secretary of State in the history of the country has been so generally condemned by friends of the administration in power at the time as William Jennings Bryan is being condemned. The New York World, a firm supporter of the present administration, declares that "public confidence in the State Department has ceased to exist," and that there would be a panic were it not for the general belief that the President acts as his own Secretary of State. "Many great men," says the World, "have been Secretary of State and not a few small men have been Secretary of State; but no other man, great or small, ever trifled with the first office in the cabinet as Mr. Bryan has trifled with it." "THE SOUTH IN THE SADDLE." The Philadelphia Press draws attention to the fact that "more Southerners are in charge of the big executive departments of the Government than since back in the 50s." There is a distinct emphasis given to this fact by the insulting discrimination and "crowding out" policy against Colored employees in the departments. In Congress it is just as bad Southerners hold the chairmanships of practically all of the committees, in both the House and Senate. The effect of this is seen in legislation. The Tariff law itself is an evidence of this. While the general tenor of the law is one for revenue only, whatever protection to agricultural products is given applies to those raised in the South; northern farm products must meet keen competition from Canada and South America. DR. FESS ON THE PROGRESSIVE PARTY. "The future of the Progressive movement as a third party must wholly depend upon whether its autonomy is necessary to secure needed reforms." Starting out with this as a postnate, Dr. Fess, one of the trio of Republican Representatives in Congress, recently delivered a speech of unusual interest and of historical value. It contained a philosophical and keen analysis of the elements which have formed the aggrigate in the composition of new political party movements; and it also was a review of the careers of third-party organizations. Reasoning by analogy, Dr. Fess plainly indicated the collapse of the Bull Moose party. He claimed that the vote of the Progressives in 1912 "was an expression of personal attachment to a leader rather than dissatisfaction with their party (the Republican) or opposition to its principles." After a forceful statement of protection and an illuminating exposition of the present unsatisfactory industrial condition owing to its abandonment by the Democratic administration, Dr. Fess prophesied that whatever might be the decision of the leaders the rank and file of the Progressive party will re-unite with their old party to restore that policy. LEFTWICH AND SEGREGATION. Our advice to President John C. Leftwich of the Creek-Seminole College, Bley, Okla., who is in the city soliciting funds for his school, and a communication from whom will be found elsewhere in this paper, is to "cut out" of his addresses to white audiences of the North, his "explanation" of why he is a "separationist", and what most white people in this section who hear him would very naturally construe as advocacy of segregation, will be eliminated, and the harm he is now doing with his unnecessary "explanation" will be discontinued. Unless he desires to promote segregation in the North, he will do this, too. Relative to the two concluding paragraphs of his letter, we wish to say that several of our people present at the Second Presbyterian church and in the theater to which he refers, inform The Gazette that there were others of our people seated in other parts of the church and theater on the evenings in question, than those mentioned by him in his communication. DR. SUTPHEN'S EXPLANATION. Editor Gazette:—Will you kindly allow me to correct certain statements made in your last issue by a correspondent who signs himself, "A Hearer," relative to my address on "The White Man's Duty Toward the Afro-American." I certainly made no such statement as that "the white man of the North owes the Afro-American nothing." What I said was, that the Northern LESS than the Southern white man owes him much to the Afro-American developed the South by his labor. I particularly stated that the whole country, North as well as South, reaped whatever benefits there were in slave labor, while the South profited by it more than the North. I should be sorry to believe that the Afro-American feels no debt to the white people of the North who fought the battles of the Union which resulted in giving him freedom, and I should doubtedly fought as you state—to preserve the Union—but it was slavery alone that put the Union in danger, and the preservation of the Union meant freedom for the slaves. Speaking of Afro-Americans being oppressed by the Union, formerly held by them and attributing this to the fact that other men were doing the work better, I was simply quoting representatives of the race who have said so themselves, the point being that it is the white man's duty to give all possible aid to the Afro-American who him to secure a training which will fit him to compete with others. I emphasized the importance of industrial training at the present time above classical training, but not to the exclusion of the latter where there are individuals to whom a classical training would be of greater service. I believe the same statement would apply to the majority of immigrants, to this country, and to most white young men of American parentage. It is strange to me that your correspondent should have so completely misapprehended my reference to the "heroes" who settled the West. The illustration was used to show that the South owes to the Afro-American, and the whole country as well, the same debt of appreciation and honor for his work. I am not sure that we owe to the pioneers in developing the West. The remark was a distinct tribute to the Afro-American. No reference was made to the part which he also took in that western development, because it was overshadowed by his still greater work in the South. PAUL F. SUTPHEN. Pastor Second Presbyterian Church. In commenting on the foregoing—Dr. Sutphin's interesting letter—it is only fair to say to our readers that he has been a good friend of the race, as far as we have been able to see and learn, ever since his coming to the city, many years ago. Therefore, any errors he may have made or may make in references to our people are, we firmly believe, only those of judgment, the result of incorrect information, and not because of any unfriendless toward the race. We must, however, confess a little astonishment at the good doctor's persistence in clinging to the erroneous idea that "the white people of the North fought the battles of the Union" in the war of the rebellion. Come, dear friend, what about the thousands of loyal whites from Kentucky, Tennessee, Missouri and other Southern states, as well as the two hundred thousand "Negroes" who took part in that war, on the Union's side, with Northern "white" men? What about Ft. Wagner, Ft. Pillow, Petersburg, Milliken's Bend, Port Hudson, Morris Island, Nashville and dozens of other battles on land, and sea, either fought or participated in by Negro soldiers? The "debt the Afro-American feels to the white people of the North for giving him freedom," which, by the way, he himself helped to give, is the same as the "debt," the "white people of the North" owe the Afro-American for so materially assisting them in "saving the Union." Also, "the preservation of the Union meant freedom for the slaves" only after Jan. 1, 1863, and not before that date. The war of the rebellion started in 1861—two years before—with it thoroughly understood and "proclaimed from the housetops," that the freedom of the slaves was not and must not be made an issue; or would the enlistment of Negroes as soldiers be permitted, &c., &c. It was the South's intolerant insistence upon the extension of slavery rather than the existence of the thing itself, that "put the Union in danger" and brought on the war which was not fought primarily, or even secondarily, for the freedom of the slave. As to the fourth paragraph of Dr. Sutphen's letter, we can only repeat what we said in The Gazette, last week, anent it, and that is, that race and color-prejudice has crowded out and continues to crowd ninety-nine of every one hundred Afro-Americans out of positions formerly held by them. Those who "lose out" because of inefficiency and for other reasons than the one stated, are represented by the one out of every one hundred, and that is a generous allowance, too. "Representatives of the race" who give other information are not only misleading our friends in most instances, but are greatly harming the race. Comment on the other paragraphs of Dr. Sutphen's letter is unnecessary, because they are in the main, good and satisfactory. A MONUMENT TO MOTHERHOOD. Aunt Rachel Blue, an aged Negro woman who was born in slavery, died the other day at Uhrichville, O. People of that town are going to erect a monument to her. They are to honor the memory of a woman who was one of the humblest among them all. Most contributions to the fund are dimes and quarters, yet the total already is more than $160. Aunt Rachel Blue was found dead in a chair in the smokestack while her little house. The chair was upside down on bedside of her crippled son, a man of 40. She had been unable to move him in time to escape the flames, and she would not leave him to die alone. But the monument is not for this. Her neighbors of the town are remembering how this humble woman lived. It's less her death than her life among them they are honoring. Older residents look back over the 40 years she wheeled the crippled son in a wheeled car made helpless by scarlet fever in infancy. She had accepted with simple, cheerful courage the burden this misfortune placed upon her life. It takes only a moment or two of sacrifice and courage to die well. This woman's courage of loyalty and sacrifice had lasted unshaken for 40 years. Love had lightened the burden on her bent shoulders. Love and faithfulness are the qualities commemorated in the monument the people of Uhrichville will erect in honor of an humble Negro woman, who was once a slave.—Cleveland Daily Press. BUCKEYE LETTERS WRITTEN BY "THE OLD RELIABLE" GAZETTE'S CORRESPONDENTS. E. church greatest church evenings lamps, piled CORR letters postoffice (or Sun) This Woman, A Martyr! Muskogee, Okla.—Marie Scott, a woman of the race, who Sunday night killed Lemuel Peace, (white), by driving a knife into his heart, was taken out of the Wagoner county jail, early Tuesday, and lynched to a telephone pole. She lost her life as the result of her effort to protect her virtue, and too, in this boasted "civilized country", Just think of it! O, God! how long, O, how long? husec2258. HttlH morning WHY TERRELL SHOULD BE Confirmed Made Perfectly Clear—His Confirmation Should Be Made a Race Matter. Washington, D. C., Mar. 29, 1914. Editor Gazette, Dear Dear:—U. S. Senator Vardaman has come out in a local daily paper and declared his eternal opposition to Colored men holding public office or taking part in a race grounded on race grounds, the confirmation of Judge R. H. Terrell. I do not know how you, with your larger vision, may see it, but I think we ought to make Judge Terrell's confirmation a race matter. That is, Judge Terrell's personality should be submerged, and we should only view the issue as an effort on the part of Mr. Vardaman and those who may stand with him, to close the "door of hope" to ten millions of loyal American citizens; to a moral laureate on an awful blighting color caste in this free democratic country. We should leave no stone unturned, avoid no duty, neglect no opportunity to PETER H. HARRIS bring to bear upon the country, the President and the U. S. Senate, our determination that this bold, heartless onslaught upon the hopes of a great race, shall not succeed. For if it does, mark my words, the forces of reaction will be set in motion, and how far back we will be thrown in this country, God alone, in his infinite wisdom, knows. The parihes of India, like us of Negro origin, suggest a parallel. Let anyone who wants to know what an awful fate portends the Negro, weighted down with color-caste, let him read the answer to the parihes of India in any encyclopedia, Judge R. H. Terrell must be confirmed. The interests of and the continued progress of the race, demand it. Very sincerely yours, ANDREW F. HILYER. LIKES "THE OLD RELIABLE." Xenia, O. Mar. 18, 1914. Editor Gazette. Dear Shr.: I find The Gazette to be one of the cleanest race papers I ever read. Your ex- cellent articles on the race and your stand for the rights of the American Negro, is what it takes to make a good Negro newspaper. Your editori- als can't be beat; that's all. Wishing you continued success as editor of The Gazette, I remain Yours truly. OSCAR PRICE WERE THEY SEGREGATED In the Second Presbyterian Church (White?)—Mr. Leftwich Says So—He Denies Advocating Segregation, in the North. Editor Gazette, Dear Sir:—Who ever reported that, I said in my speech at the Second Presbyterian church that I worked three weeks ago that I believed the Colored Cleveland or any place else should be segregated, such individual is mischievous, debased, ignorant—devoid of veracity and decent propriety. What I did say, on said occasion, was that what I had seen and experienced unhappily, those issues in my and many other sections of the U.S. driven me to believe that volunteer separation was the best solution of the race problem, and that, therefore, I was a "separationist." If this is what the small crowd of Colored ladies and gentlemen, that was present when I worked the U.S. speech in favor of segregation, then it can make the most of the same. The same evening I spoke, the ushers of said church bunched the little "distinguished" coterie of Colored visitors on one seat and in the far front. Why didn't they complain to you about this segregation? I observed, in one of the largest public play-houses in your city, that three of the same crowd in the church that evening, branched with other members of the race in the backyard of the house. Why didn't they complain to you against the manager of that playhouse? "Oh! thou hypocrites, ye gat at a gnat and swallow a camel." While speaking in the white churches in your city, my plea was not for my college alone, but for a fair treatment of the Colored people in general along all lines. Your paper stated that I had left the city. No, I am here and will be here a month, speaking in some of the best churches of your city. I am sorry it will be impossible to fill the many invitations, to amends to add or apologies to make appearances or conduct. I have my rise at heart. My life's work will prove this statement. Respectfully, JOHN C. LEFTWICH. WRITTEN BY "THE OLD RELIABLE" GAZETTE'S CORRESPONDENTS. THROUGHOUT OHIO What Our People Are Doing Each Week—Church, Personal, Social, Lodge, Literary and Musical — Marriages, Deaths, Etc. MECHANICSBURG.—Mr. Arthur Lowry and Miss Muriel Roberts of Miford Center were guests of Miss Ann Wyttert, The Song and Flower Service, Sunday evening, at Bethel A. M. E. church proved a decided success—Miss Glena Nichols was in Springfield, Thursday evening.—Mrs. B. Wilson of Springfield, is here visiting. JAMESTOWN.—Rev. W. L. Baley of Balay, Ark., died in Shreveport, La., recently, and his funeral was held in the Saints' Rest Baptist Church of that city. He was a son of the late Rev. Wm. Balay of this city and was well known in Ohio. Ken tucky Tetchellen, where he has spent years of his life. The older Balay died some months ago in Chicago. SANDUSKY.—Mrs. Sarah Stanley, who has been ill for two weeks, is better.—Mrs. Samuel Scott is still ill.—Little Paul Thompson is not much better.—Mr. Christopher Miller fell, last week, and painfully injured himself.—Roy Smith left, Monday, for South Bend, Ind, and Benton Harbor, Mich. to visit his sister, Mrs. Avery, and Mr. Verley Smith.—The churches and S. S. are doing fine. Mrs. J. R. Davis' class at the Second Baptist S. S. got the banner, Sunday. Rev. J. C. Turner of the A. M. E. church, Rev. G. D. Lenten prayer meeting, Rev. G. D. Lenten prayer face. Miss Green of Toledo is staring at his home, working in the interest of an orphan's home.—Remember the Easter prayer meeting at the Second Baptist church; SMITHFIELD—The S. S. and church are arranging for Easter exercises and a new carpet for the latter—Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Freeman's infant son died, Thursday. Funeral from the home, Friday, Rev. J. D. Singleton officiating—Rev. and Mrs. R. R. Cooper of McIntyre, visited here, last week. Mr. Sanford of Mrs. Cooper, visited Mrs. Chas. Smith have moved to turn off the Dillionville Road—Fifth Ley T. Davis of Pittsburgh, spent Sunday here with his wife and son, at her parents'—C. W. Parks of Wintersville, spent Tuesday and Wednesday here—Mrs. Cook of Steubenville, and Mrs. C. Foutz of Hopedale, visited relatives here, Saturday and Sunday—Messames Washington and Mary Smith of Gant, Earl Bissby, and Walter Davis, visited Steubenville, last week. Mr. Fred Faithful of Harrisville, visited Miss Minnie贝, Sunday—W. D. Bigsby left, Saturday, for Elwood City. He is looking for a location. Mr. Cory Becks of Meltyre, accidentally shot himself through the shoulder with a shotgun which he was already loaded—Miss L. B. Hargrave of Steubenville, visited her parents, Sunday. Mrs. Hargrave is improving slowly. CADIZ.-The B. Bs were entertained by Mr. Chas. Brown, Sunday.-Mrs. Alice Howard was called to Poland, O., by her sister, Mrs. Flor Arnold's death. Mrs. Joanna Duling accompanied her.-The Y. M. L. club gave its annual reception, the 27th, at Mrs. Myrtle Christian's. Over 50 guests.-Mr. Patrick Smith and daughter, Miss Jessie, are reported to be visiting Mrs. Jillianson, son of Sharpburg, and Mrs. Lizzie Mars of Pittsburg, are visiting relatives here.-Mrs. Nancy Wadkins and Miss Mary Smith of Coshocton, were called here by their father, Mr. P. Smith's serious illness.-Miss Ida Jackson entertained the H. H. club with Mrs. Jillianson, gave an entertainment, last week, for the trustees' benefit.-Master Ray Brooks entertained the B. Bs recently. Fifty were reported present.-Mrs. Lizzie West spent a week in Smithfield.-The "St. Patrick" social at Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Mason's, the 17th, was a success.-Mrs. Eva West fell into the grate, Sunday week, and Mrs. Jillianson reported her face.-Rev. Taylor of Wheeling, was here, last week.-Margretta and Theresa Emery of Steubenville, visited their grandmother, Mrs. Susan West, last week.-Mothers' meeting, Sunday afternoon, at the A. M. E. church. A branch of the W. C. T. U. work. Mrs. Alice Howard, superintendent and Mrs. Eva Strothers, assist. Mrs. Blanche Anderson, the L. C. club, recently.-Mrs. Mary Davis is able to be out again.-Mrs. Hettie Davis, who has been visiting her sister, Mrs. Jennie Davis, has returned to Salem. E. church, Elyria, and it has been the greatest of the kind among our people ever held in that city. The last two evenings, 28 were saved. Rev. Williams, pastor of the church, who visited relatives in Indiana, has returned. 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 or near campus. We 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 by the church. On 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 DOINGS OF THE RACE. Some good member of the race who understands thoroughly the moving picture business and has some money, will find a splendid field for investment in Cleveland, O., on Central the vicinity of E. 31st St. (Exchanges please copy the foregoing — Editor). B. General, the largest Afro-American farmer in South Carolina, owning 1,700 acres of land, sold, recently, at Marion, S. C., 105 bales of cotton, a year's last crop, netting him $5,000. Certain white men of the South boast of what they "would do" for the Negro. Why don't they do it? These men, who "would do more for the Negro than he can do for himself," are in the saddle. They have been in power for years. What have they done for the Negro? They have deprived him of the greater part of his school money and schools; they have made it a penalty for whites to teach Negroes; they have prevented the Negroes from being documented Negro office holders; they have "jim-crowed" the Negro in every way in their power; and more—they have hanged him, riddled him with bullets and burned him without trial, and sometimes without evidence of guilt. Occasionally, instead of burning him, they cut up his body to keep as "souvenir's" and "mementoes," as reported. Yet every time a measure is proposed that would benefit the Negro, these men who "would do" so much for the ..egro either oppose the measure or insist on managing it to suit them. The life liberty, no longer the Negro's life liberty, prepares happiness, but permit him to be intimidated and mobbed in order to make cowards of the remainder and "show them their place"—Albany (O.) Message. The National Biscuit Company, the cracker trust, turned out its Colored men. It is the trust which advertises the soda cracker put up in small paper box called "Unedea Biscuit." It employed a number of Colored men as drivers and norters. The manager called Gus Williams, who had been a professor of English for years, and told him that "Negro employs are not wanted any longer"; that there had not been any dissatisfaction, but that the policy of the company was to discontinue the employment of Negroes. Daniel L. Ferguson, a student at the Ohio State University, Columbus, O., suffered humiliation, Friday week when in company with six white students from the same institution he was refused accommodation at the State University. He was a member of the track team sound sent to participate in the "Big Nine" meet at the Northwestern University, Evanson, Ill. Saturday week. The U. S. Senate's judiciary committee has reported favorably on Judge Terrell's appointment but Vardaman and Tillman insist upon fighting the nomination. They can defeat confirmation. But whether inferior or equal, the .egroes are trying to rise. They are determined to rise. They have leaders who tell them it, is their duty. They have active leaders, some who are earnestly and positively demanding to be treated with absolute equal rights, with no discrimination, and who are ready in every possible way to fight for their rights; and other leaders who believe just as much as to the native ability and equal rights of the race, whether pure black or mostly white, but who are more concerned to lift the race than to fight the foes. Guided by leaders of both sorts they would rise from a rapidity, from a state of slavery through one of serfdom, to a state of free manhood and wealth. It was said that they would not be able to care for themselves, that they would be a pauper burden on the nation, but they have proved an asset beyond value.—N. Y. Inde- CORRESPONDENTS WANTED CORRESPONDENTS WANTED. The old reliable Gazette desires an active agent and correspondent in every city and town in Ohio and many 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, Lancaster, Lebanon, Chillicothe, Toledo, Troy, Canon, Springfield, Piqua, Columbus, Cambridge, Stevensville, St. Clairsville, Portsmouth, Washington C. H., Oxford, Sabina, Gallipolis, Rendville, Urbana, Delaware, M. Vernon, East Liverpool, Wellsville, Akron, Dayton, Middletown, Bellefontaine, Lima, O., and other places where we have none. Write to the editor of The Gazette. Bristol, Cleveland, O, and terms will be sent promptly. Our readers will oblige us greatly by sending at once the addresses of persons in the cities named above, or others, to whom we can write relative to the matter. The Agricultural & Mechanical College for the Colored Race Maintained by the Governments of North Carolina and of the United States. Open all the Year Round. For Males Only. Fall Term Begins September 1st, 1913. Strong Faculty. Excellent Facilities. Successful Graduates. 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Claude L. Blanton, S. W. cor. Cedar Ave, and E. 36th St., who has a garage, repairs and rents machines, is one or FOR RENT.—Nicely furnished rooms; 10612 Arthur Ave. Call after 5 p. m. FOR RENT.—Two nicely furnished rooms for two or three gentlemen, at 6319 Central Ave. FOR RENT.—Houses and Rooms—If you have them to rent or if you want to rent, advertise in The Gazette. It brings results. NOTARY PUBLIC.—For such services call at The Gazette office. No. 3 Blackstone building, No. 1424 W. Third Street, near Superior Ave. FOR SALE.—Houses or lots. If you have either or anything else to sell, or if you wish to purchase, advertise in The Gazette. If anything can bring you results, it can and Cleveland Sixth City Mrs. Gregory, an inmate of the Old Folks' home, is very sick. Miss Dazala Underwood and company are touring Michigan. Mrs. Benj. Dunn, who has been very ill, this week, is convalescing. Mr. Wilson of the Caterers' club, has purchased the Manhattan restaurant, 3133 Central Ave. The Ministers' Alliance at a recent meeting voted not to endorse any candidate for political office. Mrs. Anna West, 2442 Central Ave. has closed her restaurant and contemplates a trip west for her health. Prof. W. S. Scarborough, president of Wilberforce University, was in the city, this week, and called on The Gazette. Mr. Ellsworth Wills, who is in school at Oberlin, is spending his vacation at home with his brother, J. Walter Wills, Jr. Rev. E. A. White, pastor of Cory church, has returned from conference at Owensboro, Ky. All the M. E. ministers, in this district, were re-appointed for another year. Mr. Wm. Stanton, a member of the K. P.'s, was buried Monday, Climax lodge having charge of the funeral. The organization, preceded by a band followed the remains to the cemetery. The Choral Study club met at J. Walter Wills', in social session, Wednesday evening. After laying plans for future work, refreshments were served and an evening of pleasure ensued. If you know the address of Mrs. Lydia Willis or Mrs. Lydia McKenney, please send it to her daughter, Mrs. Henrietta Nicholas, 209 W. Hume St., Aberdeen, Wash., and oblige her greatly. * * * 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 paner. * * * If you owe The Gazette, pay it promptly, please. Do not wait for the collector to call, or send what you owe to the office. It is pleasanter and better. Delinquent subscriptions will be discontinued on April 15, (this month). Pay at once, please. W. R. Dyson of 2359 E. 43rd St. well and most favorably known, and for years a railroad employee, died Tuesday morning, after some months' illness. His family has the sympathy of a host of friends here and in many parts of the country. Among those at the Second Presbyterian church, cor. Prospect Ave. and E. 30th St., the Sunday evening President John C. Leftwich spoke there, a few weeks ago, were: Mr. and Mrs. Wm. McNaughton and Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Fleming. Mr. Aaron Lewis of E. 30th St., an old and well-known citizen, died last week and was buried from Roger's undertaking establishment. Tuesday afternoon, Mr. the same ago, he was struck by a street car and apparently never fully recovered. Send or bring locals and all business matters to The Gazette's offices, suite 2. Blackstone Bldg. If you wish --- *DR. WEAVER'S, 3315 Central Ave. *A. GORDON, 2928 Central Ave. *SAM FERTMAN'S, 3608 Central Ave. *ELMER F. BOYD'S, 2604 Central Ave. *S. A. LUCAS, 3943 Central Ave. *NEWS STORE, 2249 E. 106th St., cor. Arthur Ave. the Gazette regularly should notify by delivered promptly. finitely examine The Gazette's adver- sises. Business men who advertise in inage of Afro-Americans. The fact that they want it. fertirements) ten cents a line (six to see the editor call there, please. All matters for publication in current issues of The Gazette, must be in the office by 4 p. m., WEDNESDAY at the latest. Claude L. Blanton, S. W. cor, Cedar Ave, and E. 36th St., has a garage, repairs and rents machines, is one or the very best practical, mechanical chauffeurs in the city. He understands automobiles thoroughly and is most skillful, indeed, in their control. Give him a call and be convinced—Adv. At Mt. Haven Baptist church, 2828 Central Ave, Sunday, Rev. J. L. E. Burr, pastor will preach at 10:45 a.m. on "The Proclamation of Cyrus"; at 7:45 p. m., "Meddling with God." At 12:30 p. m., S. S., and at 6 p. m., B. P. U. Work has been started on the new church to be erected on the old site. Mrs. Catherine Warwick, aged 83, who died, Sunday morning, was one of our oldest residents. Funeral, Wednesday, at 10:30 a.m., Congregational church, "Aunt Kitty Harris," as she was best known to our oldest residents, was born in Charleston, W. Va., and was twice married. She leaves a husband, Geo. P. Warwick, and a grandmother, Mrs. Ella Robinson, to mourn her demise. A very interesting meeting was held at Antioch Baptist church, Sunday evening, by the B. Y. P. U. The program was beautifully rendered by the missionaries. Mrs. J. G. Brown, chairman of the committee. The fourth missionary was Dr. William missionaries. The speakers were Mr. Ray Putt and Mr. Welch, chairman of the finance committee. A very interesting talk was given by H. C. Dabbs, chairman of the finance committee of the Far East. There was, a paper by Mr. Walker. All are welcome—Mrs. Willis, press committee of Antioch Baptist church. A month's campaign to raise the $6,000 needed to pay off its indebtedness, has been launched by the Old Folks' Home association. Mrs. Lethia Fleming is chairman of the committee; Wm. E. McIntire, treasurer and Mrs. G. G. Jones, secretary. The team captains are Mrs. Cornelia Blue, Mrs. Rosa Brooks, Mrs. Mollie Green, Mrs. Viola Burbridge, Rev. E. A. White, Mrs. Iris Burbridge, Mrs. Jette Fair fax, Mrs. Bess Kitzlauz, Mrs. son, W. E. McIntyre, Mrs. Cornelia F. Nickens, Mrs. Marie Perkins, Mrs. Effie Quinn and F. H. Perkins, Campaign headquarters at the Home, 4807 Cedar Ave. To segregate the Negro in schools, churches or otherwise, is detrimental to his best interests. The white enemies of the Negro race are trying to put Negroes to themselves by making them feel like they are part of communities in the country, and when this is done you will find that the Negro will suffer. In the city he will not get light, fire or police protection, etc.; in the country, roads leading by Negro farms will be neglected and the Negro will be forced by the white man's farm does. We hope the Negro will contribute nothing toward segregation and discrimination.—Rev, Richard Carroll, editor of the Columbia (S. C.) Ploughman. Rev. J. W. Hill, former pastor of Mt. Zion Baptist church, Frank Ave., died at Urbana, Ill., March 25th. Funeral services here at the church, March 28. Rev. Jones of Akron, assisted by Revs. Bailey, Smith, Page officiated. Interment in E. Cleveland cemetery. Charleston borne, age 22, died at Scranton Rd. hospital, March 29. Funeral services from the Wills & Co. parlers, March 31. Rev. Cotton, pastor of Corinthian Baptist church, officiating. Interment in Woodland cemetery. Baby Thompson, infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Raymondpson, pastor of Gt St. Paul, buried person of the resident. Interment in E. Cleveland cemetery. J. W. Wills & Co., funeral directors. The DuBois Literary club wishes to thank all who contributed to the success of the lecture by Mrs. Booker T. Washington. It was a grand success, Mt. Zion's auditorium and S. S. room being filled, and many standing. Short talks were made by Mrs. Arnold Becker, of the Mt. Zion board, and Mrs. Walter Schutt, president of the Cleveland Federation of Women's clubs (white), who occupied places on the platform with the lecturer and Mrs. Henry Linden of Springfield, who, on request, recited original poems. The club is indebted to J. Walter Willis for the music of the evening, and for carriage service during the lecturer's stay. Among the honors received by the club at Mrs. James Tilly, were Mrs. Linden, Mrs. Anna Hawkins, Mrs. Anna Hearn, Mrs. B. M. Shook, Mrs. John Fairfax and Mrs. Tilley. Mrs. B. M. Shook also entertained at dinner in her honor. Mrs. Washington highly appreciated the corsage bouquet sent by Miss Helen Chesnut, the roses by Mrs B. H. Law, and Mr. Charence ours and the beautiful bouquet by our City Federation. --- THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, APRIL 4, 1914 ```markdown ``` That "Jim Crow" Home A DISGRACE AND VERY HARMFUL TO CLEAR LAFRO AND FRO History of the Backward Step—How it Will Close Several Public and Charitable Institutions to Our People. 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 preparations are being made to get money. There is no need of a "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. —The Gazette, Jan. 10, 1914. 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.—The Gazette, Jan. 10, 1914. The two detention homes in this city, for boys and girls, are soon to be supplemented by a large one which Juvenile Judge Addams, Sheriff Smith and others are working for. It is this and other local institutions, supported by the tax-payers' money and charity, that prejudiced white persons hope to keep our children out of by the establishment of a "jim-crow" home such as that projected "home" in Mt. Pleasant which "jim-crow" Negroes are trying to help them establish. SHAME, O, SHAME! MINISTERS' ALLIANCE PROTEST! Denounce the Alleged "Mt. Pleasant Home" As Segregation, As Undemocratic, UnChristian, An Entering Wedge of Jim-Crowism, As Retrogression and a Wide Step Backward. Mr. President and Brethren of the Colored Ministers' Alliance: We, your committee, appointed Jan. 20th, 1914, to investigate the alleged organization of a Home EXCLUSIVELY for COLORED children, beg leave to submit the following report: We find that the Home on E. 1936th Street is a private enterprise and has been mainly supported by one Chas. E. Stewart. Relative to the care of the children or condition of the same, we express no opinion, and make no commendation since the institution is private, or, at the most, quasi public. 2. We find that a public home for Colored children; exclusively, has been projected, and a tentative organization has been actually formed, with the elected a membership fee decided upon, and membership blanks printed 3. We also find that this proposed institution has the endorsement of Dr. E. A. Smith and Mr. Thaxter Eaton of the Cleveland Humane Society, and T. C. Wellsted, assistant secretary of the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce. We your committee, do hereby enter our most earnest and vigorous protest against the establishment of such an institution, for the following reasons, to wit:— Ist—There is absolutely no necessity for such an institution. The city, the county and the state have made ample and satisfactory provision for all of its dependent children, without to race, color, or previous conditions 2nd—The multiplicity of such institutions simply increases the public burden and must, ultimately, lead to the increase of taxation, now already heavy. 3rd—The initiation of such an institution will inevitably lead to the displeasing undemocratic and unchristian policy of segregation and therefore, become the entering wedge of "jim Crowism," so detestable to all self-specting Negroes, the world over. 4. Such a step is plain and unmistakably retrogression, a wide step backward toward slavery and proscription, and a practical annihilation of the African-American right for, and objection at the cost of much sacrifice, privation and bloodshed. 5. We are an English speaking people, thoroughly American, loyal to every interest of our government, and firmly believe in that perfectly democratic principle so long enunciated by Dr. Lyman Abbott, and our own Washington Gladden—"The Fatherhood of God and the Brotherhood of Man." Report No 2: We, your committee, recommend that this Alliance reaffirm its former declaration, that the only institutions and organizations, of color, in the city of Cleveland, soliciting from the community the Home for Aged Colored People, The Phyllis Wheatley Association, and The Cleveland Benevolent Association. The above report was unanimously adopted by the Ministers' Alliance, Tuesday, Jan. 27, 1914. THAT ALLEGED "HOME." Hon. H. C. Summ, Blackstone Building, Cleveland. Dear Sir:—I am very much interested in what the news items which you have sent me state and infer concerning the pressure of business in the office here does not permit me to call upon you. I would be glad to have you call upon me, but perhaps your business imposes the same limitations upon your time. Would you care, as an alternative, to write me a letter containing definite statements concerning the Mt. Pleasant home, its officials, purposes, etc? I will preserve what you say in confidence. Yours very truly, T. C. Wellsted, Assistant Secretary of the Chamber of Commerce. To the above the editor of The Gazette replied that both time and patience were wanting to write such a communication as was asked, and made the suggestion that there should be a conference, Monday, Jan. 28, 14, the time of which we will be writing, the writer would invite Mrs. Hattie Fairax and Mrs. Blanche Gilmere. At 3 p. m., that day, the persons named assembled at the Chamber of Commerce and their number augmented by the presence of Rev. H. C. Bailey, Chas. Stewart, Drs. A. J. Howard and J. K. Nickens, the last three named, being treasurer, president and secretary of the temporary organization in control of the invitation of Mr. Wellsted; and Dr. Bailey, on the invitation of Mrs. Gilmere at the suggestion of the editor of The Gazette. The conference lasted more than an hour and developed some important facts. The most important was, that Stewart, who was the promoter of the defunct "jim-crow" industrial School and is back of the "jim-crow home" movement, is unaware of the former white persons, Mrs. Louise Stegman of the Juvenile court, being among the number. Another is that all our people have to get rid of this latest shameful segregation movement, is to refuse to contribute to its support. Still another is, that all of our local ministers, indeed the great mass of our ministers of this community, are unaltered by our teacher, Mr. Stewart has caused to be certified certificates of membership with which he and his associates hope to raise money and his associates to make the "jim-crow" affair a success. Mr. Wellsted assures the conference that, unless the Colored people supported the thing, it could not hope for financial assistance from the Chamber of Commerce. There are a dozen or more churches and missions in the Old Folks' Church, which is Whitman Girls' home as well as Beaons' Working Girls' Christian home looking to our people of this community for support. It seems to The Gazette that the burden is heavy enough, as it is, to say nothing of adding an unnecessary "jim-crow", segregation children's home. Our dependent, incorrigible and orphan children have heretofore been well taken care of 'in city, county and charitable institutions, on them, and there is no need of any change now. As Prof. Joe E. Spingarn said in his splendid address at St. John's A. M. E. church, Sunday, Jan. 25, 14, we must be far more active and "radical"; and "fight" to the death all such "jim-crow" and segregation attempts. HOMES FOR BOYS AND GIRLS. As a result of Judge Addams' and Sheriff Smith's urging, the county commissioners are planning a large detention home for boys and girls, the boys' detention home on the west side and the one for the girls on this side of the city, being inadequate to meet the demand. An agreement with the Salvation Army Rescue Home and The House of Good Shepherd, in addition to the detention home at 2383 E 43d St., are not sufficient to provide places for girls. Pending arrangements for a permanent and large detention home for both boys and girls, Judge Addams has asked the commissioners to rent the premises adjoining the present detention home for girls in E. 43d St., and a house on the West Side to supplement the present boys detention home which occupies the two upper floors of the Detroit-West 29th St., police station. Supplementing the foregoing are, the home for boys at Hudson, and The Cleveland Girl's Home, opened this week at Warrenville, under the city department of public welfare, and immediately under the supervision of Miss Vera Schafer, 10214 Hampden Ave. N. E. In the face of the foregoing, will some one find the shadow of a good excuse for the existence of that "jim-crow" Mt. Pleasant children's home? 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AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS The American Missionary association is making a strong effort to raise $1,000,000.00 for the partial endowment of the following colleges: Fisk, Talladega, Tougaloo, Straight and Tillotson, for the education of our people in the south, writes Booker T. Washington. They are concentrating particularly on Talladega at present. I wish people might realize how farreaching the work of these colleges is in the development of the civilization of our country. I am constantly traveling throughout the South and other sections of our country, and wherever I go I meet strong men and women who have been educated at one of these institutions. The men and women from these colleges are succeeding as teachers and leaders in nineteen other occupations. Many of the strongest men in the pulpits of the large denominations, such as Methodist and Baptist, have been educated at one of these institutions. But for the presence and influence of such educated men and women it would have been impossible for us to maintain peace and order between the white and black people in the South during all these years. If anyone wants to help in changing the attitude of the white people in the South toward the education of the colored people, he cannot do it in a more effective way than by contributing toward the endowment of these five leading colleges for our race in the South. It was my privilege recently, through an invitation, to attend the meeting of the executive committee of the American Missionary association, and I have never met a body of men who were more unselfishly devoted to the welfare of the South than is true of these committeemen. I very much hope the appeal which they are making to the public will meet a hearty response. Those cities which have a large colored population show high death rates. It has long been known as a scientific fact that the mortality among the negroes is greater than among whites, and the returns from the various states and cities demonstrate this fact. For instance, while the death rate in Portland, Ore., is but 11.0 in Richmond, Va., it is 22.4; in Birmingham, Ham, Ala., 20.4; in Atlanta, Ga., 19.3; in New Orleans, La., 21.3, and in Baltimore, Md., 19.4. Here in Washington, where one-third of the population is colored, the death rate is 17.5, and in 1911 it was as high as 18.9. These figures for the national capital are more significant when it is remembered that conditions are vastly different from those prevailing in such industrial centers as Pittsburgh, Cleveland and Detroit, where the danger from violent death in the mills and factories is a feature to be reckoned with. Here there are no factories and death from accident is much rarer than in cities such as those named.—Washington Star. Coal is by far the most important mineral product of India. The value of the output of the coal fields in 1912 reached a total of $16,088,374, which represents an advance of more than $2 per cent. But it's better to be born great than it is to thrust yourself upon greatness. Chinese bought 1,000,000 Bibles the first six months of this year. For thirty years a work for colored mothers has been maintained under many difficulties at Haddonville, N. J. under the auspices of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. Mrs Isabel Shipley is the superintendent and has succeeded in bringing a great deal of comfort into the lives of working women of the colored race who have homes dependent upon them. These mothers are brought together in cheerful meetings and both helped and taught to better their lot. Arrangements are made to assist them in their necessary purchases and to help them in their earnings. This winter the work has been extended to take in a larger district, the need being great. Mrs. Shipley found herself confronted with many pleas for a larger circle of those who could enjoy the benefits of these mother-meetings, and in the face of the heavily increased expense has undertaken to meet the call. These helpful meetings are but one line of the excellent work among colored people conducted under Mrs. Shipley's direction. There are some 69,000 Asiatics employed on British ships. A strange instance of freak memory is recorded in the case of a servant girl in a Scottish manse. She was almost illiterate, yet, when delirious in fever, surprised those around her by repeating long passages of the Bible in Hebrew. The kitchen where the girl spent her evenings adjoined the minister's study. He was accustomed to read aloud. The girl had not understood or consciously taken heed of the reading, yet her mind had seized upon and stored the phrases. Hard to please—The stage villain. There are now 26 days in the year recognized as legitimate occasions for holidays in most cities of England. These are in addition to the weekly half-holidays observed on Wednesdays and Saturdays. An effort is being made to lessen the number of holidays and to bring those retained into more systematic order. Russian girls are not averse to long engagements. About 6 per cent. of Ohio's automobiles are electric cars. In an address before the Wabash Avenue Y, M. C. A., former Governor Charles S. Deneen of Illinois, reviewing the negro's activities in this country during the half century of his freedom, told the exact truth when he said that the record was one of which no member of the race need be ashamed The sudden stepping from a "paternal and protective" condition, where the negro was entirely a dependent and his individual efforts were repressed to the utmost by the very nature of his condition, to a status of freedom made his problem an unusually difficult one. When to the normal difficulties of such a condition were added the natural race prejudice existed and still exists, and the bitter prejudices engendered of four years of bloody civil strife, it is plain enough that the negro's problem was one of the hardest that history records. Thus, however, is the negro's record summarized by Mr. Deneen: "It was under these adverse conditions that the negroes of the United States began their uphill struggle for industrial independence. Fifty years have elapsed since that time; a very brief period in the calendar of racial or national progress, and yet in that time I think it can safely be said that the advancement made has been something which the American people, and those of your own race in particular, may well be proud." The conclusion reached by Mr. Deneen is that the negro has "made good." That must be be the conclusion of every unblased observer. This fact gives promise that, despite noisy and offensive agitators among the whites and the impulsive and frequently ill-timed and ill-judged utterances of some negro leaders, we shall ultimately reach a solution of the "race problem" through the fairness and tolerance of the majority of the dominant race and the industry and continued usefulness and progress of the great majority of the negroes.—Chicago Inter Ocean. Addressing an audience of 500 negroes at Chicago, Judge Orrin N. Carter pointed out the real and gratifying progress made by the negro in America since the Civil war and, commenting upon the future of the race, said; "The future is largely in your own hands and must be provided for by education. It depends upon both the white and colored races if the Emancipation Proclamation is fully carried out." It is true that education is usually a solvent of prejudice. In that sense education is an excellent thing for the negro. Education to a certain degree is absolutely requisite. The negro should be able to read and write, should know commercial arithmetic and should have a fair knowledge of things in general. It is doubtful, however, whether what is commonly known as "higher education" will prove an unmixed blessing to the negro. One of the unhappiest persons in the world is the average highly educated negro. By supereducation he acquires a contempt for the ordinary activities of his race and the prejudice which still unhappily prevails prevents him from mingling upon terms of equality with the dominant white race, in which he would find in larger numbers his intellectual and cultural equals. There are exceptions to this rule, but their number is exceedingly small. Colored teachers of the District of Columbia public schools formed an organization looking to obtain closed relations between these educators. Officers were elected at the meeting which was held in the colored Y. M. C. A., as follows: R. A. Gillen, president; Miss May Cromwell, vice-breast; Miss Helen Moore, recording secretary; Miss Julia H. Smith, corresponding secretary, and Miss N' E. Gibbs, treasurer. A. U. Craig, Robert Mattingly, Miss Zela Dema, Miss L. G. Arnold and J. L. Chestnut were appointed a committee to frame a constitution and by-laws. The Italian supreme court has refused to allow Signorina Teresa Labriola to practise law in the country on the grounds that a woman cannot do anything in public life without the consent of her husband, and if she were allowed to practise law her husband might withdraw his consent. As an additional safeguard against icebergs one transatlantic passenger steamer is carrying a 72,000 candlepower searchlight with an effective range of five miles. The Texas owner of a large dairy herd believes he is the only man in the United States who cultivates the prickly pear, raising a 600-acre field of it annually and feeding his stock the pods after removing the thorns. The Swiss silk industry consists at present of more than 80 mills, nearly all of which are in the vicinity of Zurich. There are 14,000 looms in operation, and about 25,000 workers, chiefly women, are employed in this industry, earning from 60 cents to $1.20 a day. Holland's production of potato flour is increasing rapidly from year to year. Sweden is making efforts to revive its lobster industry. Nebraska's 1912 mineral output was valued at $1,490,582. Austria will soon spend $120,000,000 for new railway lines. There are 23,244 postoffices in Great Britain. BASEBALL Third Baseman Bill Hopke, who jumped the Utica team of the New York State league last year to join the Federals, has applied for reinstatement in organized ball. He played a few weeks with the Indianapolis Federals. SILK O'LOUGHLIN PEEVED. FLOWERS USED That Much May Certain of the for S PARIS IS TO Many Navelltis W Philadelphia was the abiding place last season of the two men who lead the major leagues in timely hitting—Frank Baker of the Athletics having led the Americans in this respect, just as Gavvy Cravath did the Nationals. Should Clyde Engle fall to fill out the first base position for the Red Sox, in George Wilson, who topped the New England with a .365 average, they have a player eligible to compete with any of them for the initial sack. Jimmy Johnston, Cub fielder, says he is going to do his utmost to stick with the Cubs and show the Sox they made a mistake in letting him go. The feet-footed ex-Frisco gardener is showing all his old-time speed. --- Larry Lajole, Hans Wagner and Bobby Wallace have had many a "last season" in baseball, but what we want to know is: Will one from this trio be missing when the roll call comes around in October. Maranville to Evers to Schultz is music to the ears of Boston fans. In Chicago it will be Tinker to Farrell to Kading, and if the P. L. gets into the game it will be Boone to Pecklinpaugh to Chance. More than $100,000 has been raised to put the Feds on their feet in Buffalo, according to official information. The stands will be wooden, it is said, is the necessary permit can be obtained from the city. In Bresnahan and Needham the Cubs have two of the heaviest catchers in either league. Both of these men are way above weight and have an ikrush task to get rid of the unnecessary poundage. George Graham, catcher of the Toronto (International league) Base Ball club, has been purchased by the Wichita club. Graham has played with the Boston, Chicago and Philadelphia National league clubs. W. R. Armour of the Kansas City club predicts that Jap Barbeau will not come anywhere near to filling the shoes of Shortstop Blackburn, hence he argues the Brewers cannot repeat for the pennant. Joe Birmingham has four first basemen trying for the position. Besides the veteran, Doc Johnston, there are Jack Knight, Gene Paulette and Roy Wood. The latter is making the best impression. --- Cobb, Speaker and Milan have been picked as the three greatest outfielders. Joe Jackson has been omitted because he is none too good a base runner, and covers but little ground in the field. --- "I don't want Cobb for any price," was the declaration made by Connie Mack, in regard to the annual freak yarn of Clarke Griffith that the latter would purchase the Tiger demon for $100,000. --- Branch Ricky has a young star trying for shortstop on the Brown nine. Hollander, the recruit, is one of Rickey's celebrated collegians and is the smallest member of the team. Pitcher Rudy Summers of the Chattanooga (Southern league) club has jumped to the Federal league, according to information received by Manager McCormick of Chattanooga. Bert Niehoff, now a Redleg, is capable of holding down third base this summer. So states Manager Charley Herzog, who has played that position for a lengthy period himself. Hughey Jennings, believes that George Moriarty, with his .275 batting average, is a more valuable player than any man who hit above the charmed .300 mark. Ralph L. Mattis, who led the Virginia league in batting last season, has signed to play with the Pittsburgh Feds. He is an outfielder and played with Roanoke. Manager Jack Wright says he has organized a stock company at Independence, Ky., and the fans are wild about the club going into the Spinney league. Whether or not the Federal league lives long enough to cash on its investment it will always remain a green memory with the ball players. A baseball manager's dream of heaven—Nap Rucker, Walter Johnson, Christy Mathewson, Wally Schang and Jimmy Archer on one team. Billy Bergen, for years in the National league, has decided to quit the game. He played with the Wilkesbarre team last season. Leo Wittelstetter has joined the Newark club in the South. The Federal leaguers lost one good ball player when Witter got away from St. Louis. Ping Bodle will run a hundred yards every day. Manager Callahan has ordered his players to run 30 minutes every afternoon. President Gilmore brands as false the report that Pitcher George Kahler has stopped back to the Cleveland club. ```markdown ``` An umpire must maintain a dignified attitude on the field, and if there is one thing peeves Umpire Silk O'Loughlin it is to ruffle his dignity. He courts an argument, provided he gets the decision, which is usually the result, writes Umpire Billy Evans. Catcher Krchell of St. Louis put one over on Silk last summer that drew a laugh from both teams and from the spectators within hearing distance. O'Loughlin failed to appréciate it. His countenance so plainly disclosed this that Manager Wallace feared his entire team might be sent to the clubhouse for Krchell's bon mot. In baseball, when a player meets the ball squarely with his bat, some of his teammates sing out, "That's putting the wood on it, old boy." During the game in question O'Loughlin was working the plate and a foul tip struck his mask, near the top, sailing into the grand stand with terrific speed. To everyone it seemed that the ball struck O'Loughlin on top of the head, and while he delayed the game momentarily to recover his wits, there came from the St. Louis bench Kirkchell's voice: "Nice work, Silk. That's putting the wood on it, old boy." In an instant O'Loughlin's expression changed from pain to astonishment. He glared at the St. Louis bench and Wallace was relieved when he failed to start a procession of athletes to the clubhouse. Charlie Doolin is trying hard to induce George Stallings to let him have Bill Sweeney, now that John Evers has consented to play with the Braves. Doolin is in need of a player like Bill to fill in at second base. The national commission has refused to reopen the case of the Otumwa club against the St. Joe club for the services of Player Parks. The national board has awarded Parks to St. Joe. Barney Dreyfuss, president of the Pirates, says the Evers sale will stand and the Cubs will not get paid for Johnny, but may be permitted to purchase some one to fill his shoes. Jim Shaw, the Senators' husky recruit, is so pigeon-toed that every time Nick Atrock looks at him he thinks the youngster is falling over, and runs to hold him up. The White Sox will be sorry to see Bob Groom go to the Federsals. The Washington pitcher never finished a game he started against them last year. Hugh Jennings claims the tallest pitcher in either league. His name is Miles Main and he is on the tooth-pick order, being six feet six inches. The Giants are said to have the tallest battery in either league. Rube Marquard and Larry McLean are called the Elfel tower twins. Now we know why Christy Mathewson didn't care to join the outlaws Matty wants to remain a real Giant. SPORTING WORLD University of Oregon's new athletic field at Eugene, Ore., will consist of two football fields, one of which will be used for soccer; three baseball diamonds, tennis courts and a quarter-mile running track with a 320-yard straightaway on one side. The Nebraska university football schedule as completed provides for eight games, beginning October 3. For the first time in many years Minnesota is not included in the list, Michigan Agricultural taking its place. The golf course at Montrose in Ireland, where the game has been played for some 300 years, is being reconstructed according to a plan made by H. S. Colt at a cost of $7,500. At the Lexington sale C. A. Valentine of Columbus purchased a two-year-old trotting colt by Morgan Axworthy (2:17), out of the dam of Farra (2:08½). Champion Johnny Kilbane has turned down a tempting offer from Promoter Snowy Baker to display his ring cleverness in Australia. Pontius, football star, has had to leave Michigan because he was back in everything excepting gridiron studies. Tom McMahon of Pittebugh slightly shadda Dan ("Porky") Flynn of Boston in a ten-round bout at New York. McMahon weighed 184½ and Flynn 195. Havis James will have Grand Opera and Colusa for the pacing stakes this year. year. Wisconsin will meet Marquette on the gridron at Madison on October 10. John J. Ryan will train the James Butler horses as usual this year. FLOWERS TO BE USED ON HATS That Much May Be Considered Certain of the Coming Modes for Spring. Many Novelties Will Be Introduced by the Time the Season Is in Full Swing—Revival of Jet as a Millinery Trimming One of the Features. NO SOONER has winter gowning reached its apex of achievement Near its apex, gowing reached its apex of achievement than the attention of every chronicle quer des modes that reliably riveted on the first faint shadows can by the coming spring styles. The charms of the existing fashions are lost in view of the attractions, to come, and the interest of the whole fashionable world is keenly alive to the interesting possibilities of what will be. Sometimes the changes effected in these "between seasons" are radical and extreme. Startling novelties are thrust on the public without so much as "by your leave" and unless the protest against them is vigorous and unanimous they are likely to stay, whether they are creations of beauty or of actual hideousness. Again there may be few positive differences between the summer style and the one for fall or between the fashion of midwinter and that of early spring. This last state of affairs is more or less the existing one at the present moment and especially in the case of millinery. Hat models continue to be shown that are extreme in every way. A The Japanese collar, lined either with white or with black silk, is a very becoming note in this afternoon frock of blue and white striped serge. The skirt has the new shirred fullness at the bottom, with openings of fairly good size for the feet. The trimmings are extremely high or the brims excessively narrow or the shape decidedly stiff and unbending. But there is no distinctive change of style yet to be seen in the spring models from the models of the last few months. Flowers on Spring Hats. To be sure, there are several new features and several other features which are merely developments of the present modes. For one thing, flowers are going to be used widely on the spring hats. At the beginning of this last winter there was an effort made on the part of some of the most exclusive milliners and designers to bring in this floral popularity, but the attempt fell rather flat and was subsequently dropped. With the passage of the bill placing a duty on certain kinds of feather fantasies, however, the ultimate vogue of the flower was made certain. Paris accepted the inevitable, or rather she is accepting it. She did not do it willingly at first. It is a little hard to charge the same exorbitant price for a fantastic flower that one can charge for a fantastic feather. The value of the first is much more easily seen and realized by even the most reckless and extravagant woman than is the worth of the second. Now, though, since the arrival of flowers has become an established fact, milliners are considering the varied kinds and combining them in different ways and with different materials in order to obtain the prettiest and most becoming effects. And flowers are becoming, too. They are becoming to almost any type of woman and to women of all ages. There is something in their simplicity which never offends. They do not rise to the heights achieved by feather fantasies, nor do they stretch out to widths reached by plumes and pompons. Panamales are so far few flower novelties which start in any way. They may be found in almost any part of the hat, or on the sides nesting against the hat, or at the back caught in between bows of ribbons and jet, or again standing up directly in the front at the base of some uprearing algrette. These flower novelties are expected to show off to tremendous advantage on the Panama hats, which are already coming into favor. Most of these Panamas are elaborate affairs and when trimmed with stunning ruches which Highly Contagious Paying Teller—The stenographer seems to have a bad cold. Receiving Teller—Yes. I suppose she has been flirting with the draft clerk again. Spreading Welsh Language Spread out At the annual meeting of the Welsh Language society, recently held in London, Prof. J. E. Lloyd reported that the last decade there had been an increase of between 40,000 and 50, 000 in the number of people who stand high on one side and fall low on the other they are really incompatible as accompaniments to outing suits or one piece gowns. Among the novelties in the flower line are the charming Dresden china effects, which are to be had in almost all of the natural shades. It is said that they are made from bread and then glazed with a result that they are a perfect imitation of the wonderful Dresden porcelain which is popular the world over. Horse hair braid also bids fair to be much worn, especially on toque and turban styles, and it will take the place of the velvet which has been so enormously used this last winter, but which, of course, goes out now shortly. A striking revival of jet is also taking place as a millinery trimming. This winter it has played an important part as a trimming for gowns and wraps of all descriptions, but now that it has invaded the realm of the hat it is assuming added duties in the sartorial line. Sometimes entire crowns are made of this jet with fascinating little ruffles of tulle wired stiffly at the edges banding the head closely. Besides these jet ornaments there are other novelties in the way of cut steel, and amber, tortoise, and ivory of different grades that take an important place in the trimming world. Ribbons Used in New Ways. Many of the hats still incline most decidedly to smallness, with the high side roll that was once worn by the Empres Eugenie and which gives an effect which women in general always seem to admire. High horned effects that do not sound especially attractive start in round shapes and extend upward in points and angles that are still further accented by the smart adornments that are recklessly placed on them. The use of ribbons continues popular and is branching out in many new forms—for instance, toques which are made up entirely of broad ribbons in the coarse weaves such as gresgrain molres—and these same ribbons are much beruled and extensively draped. Small turban hats are completely covered with narrow bands of ottoman ribbons. The simple sailor shapes are also covered in this way. Extravagant ribbon hats also are brought into service for the adornment of tricorne shapes. Any number of these loops and bows stiffly wired or allowed to droop prettily, according to individual taste, figure on simple afternoon hats for everyday wear. Ostrich novelties in many new arrangements have come to the front. Exquisite demi-plumes in the new sweet pea colorings are going to appear as chic ornaments for the small black hat. Also the much in vogue nattier blue plume will be much used on the flue and black straws. Ostrich fringes are decidedly passe now, but in their places have come pretty open borders of ostrich which are wired at both ends. Then, too, there are smart ornaments in quill form which are made in the same way. Novelties in Ready Made Hats. Speaking of quilts, small wings in tan shape and also in the Mercury form are shown and they make up into pretty trimmings for the three-cornered hats and as well for the horned turban which is posed on the point. Wings of two colors may be used set in a pattern of the whirling form while in marked contrast to those tiny wings are those which are large and spreading and may be worn with the larger and more picturesque hat which is making such a brave effort to creep into public favor. As for novelties in ready made hats which have so far been sent across the Atlantic the great majority of them are trimmed with flowers or with ribbons, with tulle or with jet. And one little item of interest is that most of the flowers, imported ones at any rate, are of the vivid colors. Large camellias in gorgeous reds or dazzling whites vie with brilliant geraniums or startling hued roses. The yellow zinnias are not unattractive, and already have achieved considerable vogus. The new straw, which is known as the "Belgian split," is peculiarly enough the identical straw that was used for the empire bonnets a century or more ago. These hats may be trimmed with any of the modish trimmings mentioned above. One particularly novel product of the Rue de la Paix was a high turban of this same straw with a single black sigrette of huge height rising up directly in the front and against it a piece of jet which was fully eight inches long and the shape of a shoe horn. Sinning Tea Through a Vell. Sipping veil It has come to life again. it is already popular and will continue to be so as the season advances. This snugness of adjustment makes the taking off of the veil a nuisance, and more and more women are being seen in the restaurants slipping their tea or coffee through the meshes of a "jungle veil," and assisted therein by a glass tubing through the same mesh. A novelty which probably will be much worn is the new storm veil, which though made of chiffon, has been chemically treated, and though it is deluged with rain, the water runs from it as from a duck's back. Turkish veils, which differ from their predecessors in that they cover the entire face, with the upper part so thin that it can hardly be discernible, are already in the shop windows. Difference Between Would and Could. Ada and Beatrice had been exchanging condidences. "Why didn't you scream," asked Ada, "when he put his arms around you?" "Well," replied Beatrice, "you see, I wanted to, but couldn't, and when I could I didn't want to."—National Monthly. spoke Welsh in Wales and Monmouthshire, a fact which is attributed to the work done by the society, whose duty it is to see that the Welsh language secures its due place in the educational system of the country. Old Settler Gone. Mr. Henfusser—These Brahmas are a very old breed of fowl. Mr. Borden-Lodge—I know it. We had the founder of the family for dinner at my boarding house—Kansas City Star. CAP and BELLS NOT IN SAME SOCIAL CLASS Example of Snobbery That Should Bring Smile From Even the Unappreciative. The late Barton Willing, while a member of one of Philadelphia's most aristocratic families, detested snobishness, and nothing offended him more than the cruel snubs that the aristocratic world is prone to offer to such as it needs climbers. These society leaders who go into administering snubs and insults." Mr. Willing once said at the Rittenhouse club, "remind me of Greens. "Greens ran a little grocery in South Seventh street. He was tremendously proud of it, though it was in reality a wretched hole. He used to stride up and down in front of it all day with his nose in the air and his chestuff out. "A humble hud carrier passing Greens one morning, said affably: "How are you, Mr. Greens? It look as if we'd have some rain, don't it?" "We'd?" snorted Greens. 'We'd? Since when, young man, have you and I been partners?" Her Future Is Safe. "Judge Ben Lindsey says of his new wife: 'She's beautiful; she has a wonderful mind; she's a fine housekeeper; she's interested in humanity; she's the perfect woman.'" "Yes, and he'll say the same ten years hence if they are both living." "How?" "How?" "I have seen their pictures." "And you mean to tell me that you could read all that in her face?" "Not in her face, in her height. She's bigger than the judge." The Reason Why: "Father says he's going to kill a pig, and can you use a side of pork?" "Yes, my boy," said the postmaster. "Tell him to send it as soon as he can." A week passed away, and as the meat had not arrived the postmaster reminded the boy of his order. "I expect you forgot to tell your father, you young rascal." said the former, good humorely. "Oh, no, sir. I didn't," said the youngster. "My father hasn't killed the pig." "How's that, Tommy?" Oh Those Husband! Mrs. Muggins—My husband is the laziest man on earth. Mrs. Guggins—Dear me! I wonder if he is lazier than Mr. Guggins. Mrs. Muggins—Indeed he is. Why he even ordered soft coal for the furnace, because he thought it would be easier to shovel than hard coal! No Hindrance. Student—Would you, perhaps, buy this Greek dictionary? Antiquary—I am sorry, but I buy only whole libraries. Student—Just so. This book is the whole of my library.—Filsgende Blatter. DIME MUSEUM ADMINISTRATION 204 Assistant Manager—The "Strong Man" won't be able to work today. Manager—No; he tried to lift a cake his wife baked and strained his back. Caught a Prize. Father—I've just found out that the strange young man who comes to see you has been borrowing money right and left. Daughter—Isn't that lovely? He must be a nobleman in disguise.—New York Weekly. After Thirty "I never saw my daughter economical but once." "How did that happen?" "She was brying candles for her birthday cake."—Kansas City Journal Mean Man. "This is a beautiful book," said Mrs. Gabb. "This philosopher claims marriage is a remedy for loneliness." "It isn't a remedy," replied Mr. Gabb. "I found a case of auto suggestion in that family." "Insanity in the case!" "No; the young ones want their father to buy them a motor car."