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IN DUTTON FORTRESS ESTINTE ADMITS MURDERING GIRL WITH HATCHET Former Rubber Worker, Out of Job, Confesses Crime to Police Officials. Prisoner Declares He Thought Victim Recognized Him, So He Used Ax to End Her Life—Slayer, After Being Arrested, Trips to Kill Himself. Akron, O—Through the arrest and confession of Harry Poomer, a former rubber worker, the police Tuesday night solved the mystery of the murder of Miss Minnie Becker, found dead with an ax imbedded in her head in a rear room of her brother's tea store in Bartges-st. Boomer ain'tited that he killed the young woman. "I made a wooden mallet with the intention of stunning her so I could rob the store," he said, according to the police. "When I hit her she recog-nized me, so I killed her with a hatchet I found on the floor." Boomer was arrested in East Akron by Detectives Ackerman, Goerler and Macdonald after the police and detectives had spent a day and a night in a fruits endeavor to solve the mystery of the murder. When taken to his room, Boomer attempted to kill himself. He reached for his bloodstained coat hanging on a chair and then fum-bled under a couch, where he had hidden a revolver. Tries to End Life. "Let me die," he screamed as the police struggled with him and forced him to give up the weapon. Miss Becker was killed early Monday afternoon. Mrs. Elmer Brown, a friend who intended to make a purchase in the store, found the young woman's body in the back room with the ax in her head. It was found that $67 had been stolen from the cash register, and it was thought that robbery was the motive. Later a note was found on the counter, but it was determined that this had been written a year ago by an admirer of Miss Becker and nothing more. The police had about given up the robbery theory and were working on the assumption that the victim was slain by a demented man, when the detectives arrested Boomer and the confession followed. When given the third degree at police headquarters Boomer told of the crime. He is 24 years old and a rubber worker. For the last six months he had been employed at various times by Fred M. Becker, the murdered woman's brother, running errands and delivering goods. Robbery Was Motive. "I had been out of work the last few days," he said in his confession, according to the police, "and I needed money, so I determined to rob the Becker store. I made the mallet out of wood I picked up and hid it under my coat. I went to the store at a time when I knew Miss Becker would be alone. I didn't intend to kill her. I just wanted to stun her, take the money and ret away. "I walked in the front door and there was nd one in the store. Miss Becker was in the back room and did not see me. I hit her on the head with the mallet, but she turned and I thought she recognized me. I was afraid she would tell on me so I picked up the hatchet and killed her. "After I had gone to the cash register and taken out the money I walked out of the front door just as I had come in." Later the police placed a charge of first degree murder against the man giving his name as Harry Boomer. He lives in Akron now and formerly lived in Marietta. GIRL IS SLAIN BY UNCLE EIGHTEEN-YEAR-OLD MISS KILLED IN SAVING HER MOTHER FROM BEING SHOT. Doylestown, Pa.—Florence Cope, eighteen, a pretty girl of Buckingham Valley, near here, was killed by her uncle, John Cope, at her home at night while she was trying to save her mother from being shot by the uncle. The uncle had been visiting at his brother's home and at night he and the girl's mother quarreled over his alleged drinking habits. The girl had gone to bed and when she heard the quarrel she rushed downstairs in her night clothes and stepped between her mother and the uncle, who had a shotgun in his hands. Whether the girl was deliberately shot by the uncle or received her death wound accidentally has not been determined. She died two hours after midnight. Collisions Send 18 to Hospitals. New York City—Three collisions of subway and surface cars sent 18 persons, more than half of them women, to hospitals Tuesday. Adding to the difficulties of the situation was the stubborn fire that blazed up when the trains crashed for 10 blocks along Lenox-av every manhole belched billows of black smoke. Firemen tried to fight the blaze by placing their hose through these 30-inch openings, but made little headway. The underground fire raged fiercely for more than two hours. THE GAZETTE ALLIES STILL PUSH ENVELOPING MOVE 'The General Situation Is Satisfactory,'Says Paris Official Report. Germans Try Again and Again to Break Through French Lines but Are Repulsed on Every Occasion—Severe Losses Suffered by Both Sides. Paris—Complete success appears to have attended the great flanking movement designed to encircle and cut off the right wing German armies under Gens. Von Kluck and Von Boehm. The center of activity has been the Somme where the enveloping movement is being pushed with the greatest vigor. The war office statement that in this region "the action continues to develop more and more towards the north" is weighty with significance. The later official bulletin issued at midnight says: "The general situation is satisfactory." Base is in Precarious Condition. The French and British troops have now advanced to positions north of the Somme, which effectively cut off Von Kluck's retreat to the northeast and Juniville. Von Kluck's sole remaining immediate base of supplies, with its single line of railway, is in a precarious situation. The allied line to the south of Juniville is pressing the German line inward and northward and the French and British, operating from a northwesterly direction, is closing in on this position. Further appreciable advance by either of the allied armies will force Von Kluck and Von Boehm either to retreat by way of Rhetel, the only road left open to him toward Belgium, or make a stand with every prospect of the allies turning his admitted defeat into disaster. The latest reports from the front received by the war office show steady advances by the French wing operating in the southern part of the Woevre region. Here, seven days ago, the Germans held a line extending from Ricourt-ce Lironville, interacting the town of Selcheprey. Heavy fighting with severe losses on both sides has continued for six days and Wednesday the French succeeded in occupying Selcheprey and also have succeeded in gaining a foothold on the slopes of the Rupt de Mad in Muerthe et Mosele. In spite of the fact that it is officially announced that there "is no other appreciable change at the front," the population of Paris will not be denied its celebration of the second great victory over the German army of invaders. German Attacks Are Repulsed. The vigorous attack delivered by the Germans on Tracy Le Mont, between the Oise and the Alsace, which was repulsed with heavy losses to the enemy, taken in conjunction with the resumption of the offensive by the invaders to the northeast of the forest of Laligne, also a disastrous attempt, was accepted generally as the final effort of the Germans to break through the French lines. Despite the demoralizing effect which the simultaneous attacks of the allies have had upon the German line, it is not believed even by the most sanguine military observers that the German retreat will end in a rout. French aerial scouts have already reported that the enemy has been active in preparing new positions, and it is believed that when the retirement enmase begins it will be executed in an orderly fashion and that the entire German army will reform on the new line of fortifications prepared for it in Belgium between the Meuse and the Scheldt rivers. The supreme effort of the allies is now directed toward penetrating the line of the armies constituting the German right wing in an endeavor to cut off at least a part of the enemies' strength, or that failing, to continue the attack with such energy as to reduce its effective strength and put it out of the fight on the new line. Experts are a unit in declaring that the end of the battle of the Aisne and the Oise is in sight and that this, like the battle of the Murge, will prove a decisive victory for the allies. Report Electrifies London. London, Eng.—London was electrified by the publication of a dispatch stating that the advance guards of the French forces had reached Orchies, near Valenciennes, and only five miles from the Belgian border. This dispatch, which purported to have been transmitted from 1-rlin, via Amsterdam, attributed the statement to a no less important official source than the German general staff. The report stated that the French were in sufficient force to administer a defeat to the battalion of the German landwehr, which contested its advance. French sharpshooters, according to the dis- Pickle Signs Pledge. Chicago, Ill.—"Your name is Dill and you have been before me before," said Fry Gry in the court of domestic relations when a man stepped up to the bar. "No. My name is Pickle, John W. your honor." Intoxication and non-support was the charge. "What do your friends say when you have a lot of drinks?" asked the pre-sliding judge. "Pickle, your pickled." Pickle signed a pledge for a year. ESTABLISHED AUGUST 25, 1883 AND ISSUED EVERY WEEK ON TIME SINCE. CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, OCT. 3. 1914 High Rank of the Arkansas Baptist College. Brief Account of Some of the Achievements of President Joseph A. Booker of the Arkansas Baptist College in Little Rock—Successful Educator, Organizer and Leader. Little Rock. Ark. — Dr. Joseph A. Booker, president of the Arkansas Baptist college in this city, is not only teaching the young men and women of the race the doctrine of self help, but is at the same time getting into their hearts and into their very being the lesson of the survival of the fittest, so that when they leave the school they are prepared to make good in any avenue of industry into which they may enter. Dr. Booker himself is a living example of the doctrine he preaches and teaches, because he started at the bottom floor, so to speak, and worked his way up to the presidency of one of the largest schools conducted by the race in this section of the south and is foremost among the race leaders of the country. He was born during the days of slavery and at the close of the war was of school age, having reached his sixth year. He is a native of Portland, Ark., and was reared on the farm. He learned his "A B C's" in the town of Portland at an early age. Having obtained a good foundation for an education, in 1881 he entered Roger Williams university, Nashville. And remained there until he finished the college course in 1886 and returned to his native state to accept the work of colporteur under the joint appointment of the state Baptist con- DR. JOSEPH A. BOOKER vention and the American Baptist Home Mission society. In this posi- tion he made a good record and won many friends. His ability as a leader of men and a great organizer was demonstrated, and he was selected to the presidency of the Arkansas Baptist college. At the time Mr. Booker was elected president of the school it simply existed on paper and required the services of a man to bring it into life. This has been accomplished, because the institution today ranks with the best of the country. During its real life the school has graduated 250 students. There are men and women from the institution making good in and out of the United States. Dr. Booker has dedicated his life to the work of education. His family, consisting of eight children, have been born in and about the college, have received their fundamental training there, and three at least have attended other colleges and universities for special work. In making up the faculty for this year care has been used in selecting some of the best prepared men and women available. They come from some of the best schools in the country. Miss Grace J. Thompson, A. B., a graduate from Shaw university, will be the instructor in Latin: Professor J. F. Jones, A. B., Th. B. of Roger Williams university, Bible and history; Professor M. H. Eldridge, a graduate of the Arkansas Baptist college, will teach Greek and higher mathematics; John A. Hibbler, A. B., is secretary to the president and has charge of the commercial branches. These are but few of the able men and women who will do the work during the year. There is a first class music department connected with the college. At the head of this department is Miss Martie A. Booker, daughter of the president. Miss Teecumseh Morris of Corsicana, Tex., was admitted to Oberlin college on the recommendation of the Arkansas Baptist college. The following letter was sent to President Booker: "We are in receipt of certificate filled out by you to show Miss Teecumseh Morris' preparation in the Arkansas Baptist college, and I beg to report the acceptance of full rank in the Oberlin conservatory of Music. There are no entrance deficiencies." Franklin A. Loveisey is in the University of Chicago. Dr. Booker is assisted in his work by his wife, who is also a graduate from Roger Williams university. She has charge of rhetoric and English literature. RACE PREJUDICE NORTH. Roscoe C. Giles Barred From Course In New York Medical Institution. New York—Another case of disgard and unwarranted race prejudice has come to the torre in this city. Roscoe C. Giles of Brooklyn, a Cornell graduate and a student of medicine at the Manhattan Maternity hospital and dispensary, has been requested by the directors of the institution to resign from the course of instruction for which he contracted and paid for. Young Giles, who is twenty-four years old and has an excellent record in the Boys High school, Brooklyn, and Cornell university, is said to be at the head of his class in Cornell Medical school and will receive his degree in 1915, provided he completes his course, one of the requisites for the completion being the care of six maternity cases. It was for this purpose that he registered as a student in the Manhattan Maternity Hospital and Dispensary. He paid the tuition fee, received his instruments and went daily to the institution, but was not assigned to any case. He complained to the medical board of the hospital, but was not definitely informed until Saturday, Sept. 10, that he would be requested to withdraw. The request came in the form of a copy of the letter sent to Dr. Richard Aurel Brown, secretary of the medical board, by Lewis Islin, secretary of the board of directors. It is as follows: Dr. R. E. Brown, Secretary Medical Board: Dear Sir-At a meeting of the board of directors the following resolution was Resolved. That the action of the medical board in requesting Dr. Roseco C. Giles to withdraw from the institution he applied and that his fee to the LEBIS ISELIN, Secretary Board of Directors, Maternity Hospital and Dispensary. The only explanation of the action that could be obtained by the young man, and even that was of an unofficial nature, was that his white associates objected to him. One of the young man's associates is his classmate, a young man named Buchstein, who has been a frequent caller at Giles' home and often has dived there, so it is said. The Manhattan Maternity Hospital and Dispensary is an institution chartered by the state of New York and is supported by private contributions. Many prominent New Yorkers were among the original incorporators, including Cornelius Vanderbilt, Frank L. Polk and Moses Taylor. The young man's father, who is an attorney, refused to say what action he would take in the matter, although he proposes to fight "to the bitter end." He claims that the institution has made itself liable to a suit for damages. The National Association For the Improvement of Colored People has interested itself in the case and will conduct an investigation and advise regarding action to be taken. Congressman Metz of Brooklyn, who is interested in young Giles and assisted him in obtaining his education, wrote to the institution in regard to the matter, but without result. TASK FOR THE NATIONS. Ray Stannard Baker's Plea For Human Brotherhood. Ray Stannard Baker is a recent issue of the American Magazine has the following to say about prejudice of one race against another: "Why will men not see that there can be no true civilization while any men in the world are left out of it and that no race and no nation can go far forward while other races and nations lag behind? "Let the white person again tread the black person under his heel. (Say, which is trodden under heel after all?) "It is not enough that we give the alien nations our learning, our religion, our science. What signify all these things? Are we hurt by giving them? Are we not, on the contrary, the material gainers? No; we must be prepared to go further than that, else we have not learned the fundamental concept of religion. "It is not the great task of any nation that it shall remain pure or white or learned or that it shall assure to its posterity the possession of land and comfort, though this has been the belief and the doom of every aristocracy from the beginning of time. The great task of every advanced race or nation is to bring more love, more light, into the world." "A stand for racial aristocracy means war, hatred, barren exclusiveness and finally degeneration and failure; a stand for racial democracy and brotherhood means love in the world, friendliness, sacrifice, new fertility, a wider sweep for faith and final triumph. Individuals may suffer in the process, nations may perish, but civilization, the kingdom of humanity, will grow, will become more beautiful. "We are willing to do everything for Chinamen or Hindus or for our own poor, except the one essential thing. Yes, educate them a little; yes, teach them the relation of redemption; yes, give them shoes and coats, but do not disturb us in our luxury. "It won't work; it won't work. So long as we refuse to give our selves we have failed utterly." MAKES HIS MARK IN LITERATURE Scholarly Attainments of Dr. James D. Corrothers. AUTHOR AND LEADING FOET Contemporary and Friend of the Late Paul Laurence Dunbar Receives Genius Recognition From Men of Letters—Believes in Possibilities of His Race and is Optimistic. Philadelphia. - Perhaps since the death of Dunbar no other Afro-American writer has been more successful in placing his literary productions in high class white magazines and daily papers, as well as in our leading race publications, than the Rev James D. Corrothers, D. D., of this city. Dr. Corrothers is the only colored minister in the entire history of the race who has had his productions accepted by the Century Magazine, to which he has contributed for sixteen years. His poems have appeared in the same numbers and on the same page with those of the late Paul Laurence Dunbar. In November, 1912. Dr. Corrothers was chosen by the Century's editor as the race's representative in poetry in a special number of the magazine in REV. DR. J. D. CORROTHERS which Dr. Booker T. Washington represented the race in prose, Henry O. Tanner in painting and Will Marion Cook in music. Three of his poems appeared in that issue of the Century, editorial comment being made upon the work of these four members of the race, in various lines. In the American Magazine for March, 1914, appeared an illustrated short story by Dr. Corrothers entitled "At the End of the Controversy." His recent sketch of Dr. C. Albert Tindley, the popular lyric writer, and M. e. pastor of Philadelphia, sold 1,000 extra copies of the Associated Sunday Magazines, in which the sketch appeared. But little of Dr. Corrothers' work is in dialect. A poem of his entitled "The Dream and the Song," which appeared in the, Century last January, was extensively copied by both white and colored papers. The Philadelphia Press referred to this poem as "a classic," and published a column sketch of the author with his photograph. Before entering the magazine field Dr. Corrothers was a newspaper man, having "done space" on several daily papers in Chicago. He has also done occasional work for daily papers in New York, Philadelphia and St. Louis. He is the author of two books and has contributed frequently to race publications. He is the only Negro who has ever had a whole page article appear in a metropolitan daily and has had his poems and stories illustrated by such famous white artists as R. F. Outcault, the creator of "Buster Brown," and Frank Schoonover. His story, "A Man They Didn't Know," published in two numbers of the Crisis last winter, was widely discussed by race leaders. He has now in press a new volume to which an introduction has been written by Ray Stannard Baker, associate editor of the American Magazine, and author of the noted book, "Following the Color Line." Though not at present engaged in an active pastorate, Dr. Corrothers is an ordained Baptist minister and the grandson of a Baptist minister. He was born in Michigan forty-five years ago and was educated in Northwestern university and in Bennett college. He was a personal friend of Dunbar and of the late Miss Frances E. Willard; is an athlete and has always been a total mistaker. He has organized and built one church and has rebuilt two others. He believes in race development and in a ministry of service rather than in one of mere emotion. He has never allowed his literary work to interfere with his work as a minister and pastor. He is blessed with a wife and two sons. Mrs. Corrothers ranks with the leading pianists of the race and is quite successful as a music teacher. In view of the great demand at the present time for men of Dr. Corrothers' type in the active ministry, it would not be surprising to hear of his being called to fill the pulpit of some Baptist church before the very long. Dr. Corrothers' home, at 600 North 'Tirthy nine street, is the mecan for literary and musical personages. By close attention to duty and by his pleasing manners he has won many friends, who admire him for his ability and many bearing. ITALY SERVES NUTICE ON AUSTRIAN NATION Protests Against Planting of Mines Which Have Wrought Havoc to Fishing Boats. Rome, Italy.—War between Italy and Austria became a possible Wednesday because of Austria's act in planting mines in the Adriatic, which have wrought havoc among Italy's fishing fleets. The Italian government ordered formal protests of *Austria*'s procedure to be made by its ambassador at Vienna, who also was instructed to demand that Austria at once cease planting mines in the Adriatic. Inasmuch as the mines are the only thing which has permitted the Austrian fleet to remain within the protection of the Pela fortifications, it is not believed here that Austria will agree to stop planting them. Then it will be up to Italy to enforce her decree by her army and navy. In the official statement sent to Vienna it is pointed out that many Italian fishing vessels have fallen victims to the mines. It is stated that hundred already have been picked up, that many others have floated ashore on Italian territory, and that the fishing craft are in grave danger every time they put out to stretch their nets. An Italian torpedo boat was sunk Wednesday by a mine between Venice and Commacchie, in the Adriatic sea, according to report. Another floating mine, according to advises received here, has exploded near Rimini, Italy, blowing up a fishing boat, killing nine of its crew and injuring a number of others. Details of the destruction of a fishing boat off Rimini show that the fishermen mistook the mine for a wine cask, which they sought to recover. Throwing out a line, they drew the supposed cask toward them and when it touched their craft an explosion occurred. The boat was blown to pieces and all the nine men on board were killed. Members of other fishing crews in the vicinity were wounded by flying splinters. patch, had fired upon the military hospital in Orchies and the Germans had destroyed the town. If this report is to be credited (and there is no information of an official character in the war office to confirm here) it would indicate a surprisingly rapid advance of the French troops in their enveloping movement to cut the German line of retreat and prevent the Germans from occupying Valenciennes. SAYS NOTHING DECISIVE BERLIN CLAIMS FRENCH ATTACKS FROM VERDUN AND TOUL HAVE BEEN REPULSED. Berlin, Germany, via London.—A report just given out at army headquarters says: "There has been general fighting on our right wing in France, but nothing decisive. The center is quiet. The French advances in the vicinity of Verdun and Toul have been renewed." According to another version of the report from the German headquarters, the French attacks from Verdun and Toul have been repulsed. In the east the Germans continue their advance and the Russian army of Gen. Renenkampf is being driven back in the Suwaki district. The Germans are now moving eastward along the main railway line, and it is stated that they have captured numerous prisoners and taken a number of guns. The general situation is announced to be satisfactory, both in the eastern and western theater of war. RUSS REPORT CHEERFUL SAYS PROVINCE OF GALICIA IS NOW COMPLETELY FREED OF AUSTRIANS. Petrograd, Russia.—It was officially announced here that the Austrian province of Galicia is now completely freed of Austrians, the last remnants of their troops having sought refuge in the Carpathians. The Russian ambassador at Rome announces that an Austrian army fleeing before the Russians has been surrounded near Doukio and that its defeat is complete. All the food, ammunition and war material which was being conveyed back to Austria has fallen into Russian hands. The capture included 500 military automobiles. Dispatches received here from Lemberg, Galicia, declare that all the prominent Austrian provincial and city officials, together with the judges, the archbishops of all the churches and the rabbis attended the establishment of Russian civil government over eastern Galicia and the assumption of the office of governor general by Count Bobrinsky. Make Serious Charge Portland, Ore. — Wholesale traffic in school girls between the ages of 14 and 16 was charged by the police against an alleged ring operating here when four arrests were made. Those apprehended were Elmer Lober, outfielder, and Robert Davis, third baseman of the Portland Coast league team; Bert Roach, leading man of a theatrical stock company, and Joseph Berger, a jewelry store proprietor Lober and Davies were held to the grand jury in $2,000. The police said they confessed. IN UNION THEIR ESTINENCE GEORGE F. BAKER, the noted banker of New York, who returned recently from Europe, declares emphatically that "we need have no fear for America and her future" because of the great war. THREE ARE KILLED IN A SERIES OF EXPLOSIONS Chicago, Ill.-H. B. Thearle, president of the Paine Fireworks Display Co. of America, and two employees were killed here in a fire and series of explosions which destroyed the one-story brick building occupied solely by the company at 1320 S. Wabash-av. Two missing employees also are believed to have lost their lives. Three persons were injured and taken to hospitals. Identification of the dead was made by R. J. Byrnes, manager of the company, who owes his life to the fact that he had just stepped into the street when the first explosion from an unlocked cause occurred. The dead: H. B. Thearle, president of the company; E. M. Conn, salesman; Florence Costello, stenographer. Missing: John Costello, R. F. Wolf. The victims had scarcity a chance to stir out of their tracks so rapidly did the explosions follow, and the building became wrapped in flames. The north wall of an eight-story building on the south was blown in, causing a panic among the occupants, who, however, reached the pavement safely by fire escapes, the women being assisted by firemen. Across the street similar scenes were witnessed when flamming debris shot by the explosions shattered the windows, but there was no loss of life. Monetary damage is estimated at $50,000. ERECT HOTEL DE SUIGIDE COUNT'S OBJECT IS TO KEEP PEOPLE FROM ACCOMPLISHING SELF DESTRUCTION. Rochester, N. —Count August de Castellane Seymour entered his room off the stage in which he had been displaying fashions to visitors in the industrial hall at the exposition, and went straight to the point. "I'm going to build in Rochester a very large hotel, costing probably $3,500,000 with a staff told wealth. "It will be in the shape of a great cross. The hotel will be named the Hotel de Suicide. The object, however, will be to keep people from suicide. "Guests will have the choice of the pill, gun or gas routes. There will be a room for each. The guest comes in, I say, 'Which will it be?' He answers, 'Pill and cremation.' I take him to the pill room and give him a wonderful pill, one of my inventions. He takes it and sits down in a chair. The springs in the chair start motion pictures on the wall opposite him. He sees beautiful girls at Atlantic City, pleasures of the world—life, life, life! No, he must not leave this. He jumps up and calls for help. Result: He leaves the hotel wanting to live and he has $150 or $250 for the room. It is working successfully in my great Hotel de Suicide in Melbourne, Australia. "Then comes a man who wants a gun exit. I have a boy show him in. Boy gives him gun with rubber bullets. He raises the revolver, so. The rubber ball hits harmlessly; no nasty blood to clean up. Man will sit in the chair as he shoots. Result: Here, too, the movies start and he sees another man die, be embalmed, buried—whole ghastliness of death. He doesn't like the undertaker. He won't die. I have saved him." To Aid Cause of Labor. New York City—John D. Rockefeller, whom some assail as the enemy of labor, is preparing to spend a goodly share of his wealth for the cause of labor. It has just been learned that the Rockefeller foundation, endowed with $100,000,000, has chosen Mackenzie King, former Canadian minister of labor, as a special investigator of labor conditions. The scope of the work is understood to be as wide as the continent of North America. Labor troubles in all other countries of North America are to be studied carefully. SUBSCRIPTION RATES (In Advance) One Year. $1.50. Six Months. 1.00. Three Months. .50. Subscribers are requested to re- mit by postoffice money or der or registered letter Entered at the postoffice in Cleveland, Ohio, as second-class matter. Address all communications to Blackstone Building, Cleveland, O. Member Ohio Legislature: 1894 to 1896; 1895 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 companion with its own publications establish its rank as one of the NEWSIEST AND BEST in the country. 18,000,000 Afro-Americans. 180,000 in Ohio. 20,000 in Cleveland. The socalled burlesquing of our people by our own performers in Colored theaters is often worse than insulting. It too frequently merits a fusilade of rotten eggs. If the Republican party is to win, at the polls, in November it is absolutely necessary that the services of Senator Foraker be secured. He is decidedly the ablest and best speaker Ohio has. We are satisfied that Chairman Jones is alive to this fact and will see that the matter is attended to promptly. It is refreshing to see the Waverly, (O.) News print in large, bold type across its front page: "This is a Republican Newspaper." Political partisanship is ten times squarer and more in the interest of the people than the selfish personal partisanship of so many alleged "independent" newspapers these days. If the Democratic party loses 72 members in the fall elections, it will be ousted from power in the House of Representatives. The Republican and Progressive party vote combined, two years ago, was greater than of Democratic Congressmen elected in 79 districts. In fourteen congressional districts, Democratic Congressmen were elected by majorities of less than a thousand votes. Judges C. W. Collister and Thos. M. Kennedy are two of the very best our Common Pleas court has ever had. Our people know this as well as the additional fact that they are sterling friends of the race. The Gazette calls attention to these facts at this time because we want our voters to "pass the word along the line", so that when election day arrives there will be no question about our supporting them, solidly. "Tell it, brother!" We doff our cap to the Hon. A. Rustem Bey, the Turkish ambassador. He told this country, "in so many words", to stop lynching a hundred or more Negroes yearly, on the average, before it undertook to help reform his country along a similar line. AMEN! What is "more and better", he refuses to recall the statement or "alter his views", on the suggestion (indirect) of President Wilson and Secretary of State Bryan, and says he is going home "in a fortnight" rather than do so. "More power to his kind!" A VITAL MATTER The election of Hon. Warren G. Harding as the successor to Senator Theodore E. Burton is a matter exceedingly vital not only to the Republican party in the State but in the nation as well. If in the coming elections, the Republicans sustain a net loss of only three United States Senators, the Democratic membership in the Senate becomes so increased that it will be impossible for the Republicans, under the most favorable circumstances, to secure a majority in that body until March 4, 1919. This means, should a Republican President be elected in 1916, that he would be confronted with a Democratic Senate for at least the first two years of his term, a Senate not in sympathy with his policies, doubtless antagonistic to his administration, and blocking the way of all affirmative legislation. No tariff law protective to American industries, could be enacted until after March 4, 1919—over four years hence—and the business and labor interests of the country for that period of time could receive no relief from the injurious effects of the present Democratic tariff law. The necessity of electing Hon. Warren G. Harding as the successor of Senator Burton is thus seen to be most vitally essential to the welfare of the Republican party. MORTALITY AND HOSPITALS. Some of the Southern newspapers are sounding an alarm over the ominously high mortality among our people in the chief Southern cities, as revealed by a recent census bulletin. Afro-American mortality exceeds that of the whites in the proportion to population from 60 per cent in Richmond to over 100 per cent in New Orleans. Some of the figures follow, the ratio being to a population of 1000: Memphis, white, 15.2; ours, 28.2; Richmond, 16.7, ours, 26.8. New Orleans, white 15.6, ours, 31.2; Baltimore, white 16.2, ours, 31.2; Birmingham, white 12.3, ours, 25.2; Nashville, white 14.7, ours, 24; Atlanta, white 13.5, ours, 25.2; Washington, white 14.4, ours, 24.4. The wide variations n the cities indicate that there is something besides racial weaknesses involved. Afro-Americans of New Orleans, for example, must have more unsanitary surroundings or habits than those of Washington. Over twenty years ago our high mortality figures in cities attracted wide attention. It gave rise to a theory that the race was dying out. Several magazine articles were written in speculative support of the theory. But the censuses of 1880, 1900 and 1910 showed this conclusion was baseless. The low birth-rate and the high death-rate were alike restricted to the cities, our rural population having steadily grown. Our total population between 1880 and 1910 increased 49.3 per cent, though our percentage of the total population dropped from 13.1 to 10.7. The native white population during the same period increased 85.3 and the foreign white population increased over 100 per cent. City life evidently kept our increase down. The causes are numerous and have been the subject of many interesting speculations. But the fact that so many of our people are housed in poorly ventilated places and their general surroundings are unsanitary, has been most emphasized as responsible for the increased morality rate. The Federal Government has just made a large appropriation for the building of eleven hospitals for the Indians. "This work is purely humanitarian," observes a leading Southern daily newspaper. Continuing it says: "The Indians lead isolated lives and are not thrown into contact with white people. On the other hand, while they live in their own quarters the Negro laudresses, cooks, maids, waiters, barbers and porters come into intimate contact with white persons. They may carry deadly germs from the Negro quarters. In fact, servants in the Negro quarters have traced to such a source. This fact takes consideration for the health of Negroes out of the realm of pure humanitarianism and makes it a problem of self-interest to the people of Southern cities. The first law of nature demands that the subject be given immediate attention and that the most modern sanitary methods be introduced. No city is more healthful than its worst plague spot when that city is threatened. It is freely in the best homes and the chief business houses of the city." All of which is very true—and could be said of the same class of whites in the South and be equally true, were it not that they enjoy hospital privileges denied Afro-Americans of that section of the country except where our people themselves have made such provisions, along the hospital line, as they are able to. It is sincerely to be hoped that the agitation, now on in the South, will result in the various municipalities, especially the larger cities, providing the hospital service for our people they are clearly entitled to, under the law, as tax-payers and citizens It is a good thing that something is at hast, compelling them to open their prejudiced eyes and to do their duty even if it is to be done solely "as a matter of self-preservation." WHY MR. ROSENWALD GIVES. Editor Gazette, Dear Sir: In The Gazette of the $6th sentiments, Rev. G. W. Brent's statements coincide with my God-fearing sentiments toward the "Division of Mankind." May I answer his question, unreservedly, regarding Julius Rosenwald Esq., of Chicago, and at your convenience, if you deem it necessary and helpful, publish this "fact." Julius Rosenwald Esq., is president of a mail-order house in Chicago and has to pay the largest tax on the United States for heavy cargo. His returns recently filed during the 30 days' extension of time, showed an income of $1,100,000 for the ten months ending Dec. 31, 1913. This would be on a basis of $1,320,000 for twelve months. Mr. Rosenwald's income for three weeks exceeds the amount paid to the President of the United States as a salary for a full year. Rev. Brent and all thoughtful men can readily understand this main underlying principle of giving away heavy income tax; thereby paying for the national advertising of his firm. In the form of a "Pretender to Uplift." Many a woman will take his mail-order book and order goods with the atrocious spirit of thought, "Oh, I may get inferior goods or seconds, but the money Mr. Rosenwald will give 'Charitably' to keep the 'Division of Mankind' from entering the swimming pool with my husband at the M. P. for the Spirit, isn't in their hearts. Spin-garn. Villard and others should lecture to their "Division" at intervals, telling them of their inhuman and sacrilegious growths. J. Herbert Gray, 3002 Cedar Av., Cleveland, O. Sept. 27th, 1914. STATEMENT OF OWNERSHIP, Management, Circulation, Etc., Required by the Act (of the Congress) of August 24, 1912. Of The Gazette published weekly at Cleveland, O., for October 1, 1914. Name of editor, managing editor, business manager, publisher, Harry C. Smith, Cleveland, O. Owners: (If a corporation, give its name and the names and addresses of stockholders holding 1 per cent or more of total amount of stock. If not a corporation, give names and addresses of individual owners) Harry C. Smith, Cleveland, O. Known bondholders, mortgages and other security holders, holding a per cent or more of total amount of bonds, mortgages, or other securities. (If there are none, so state.) None Average number of copies of each issue of this publication sold or is tributed, through the mails or other wise, to paid subscribers during the six months preceding the date shown above. (This information is required from daily papers only.) Sworn to and subscribed before me this the 20th day of Sept., 1914. (Seal) L. J. Dean. Notary Public. (My commission expires —) THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1914 BUGKEYE LETTERS WRITTEN BY "THE OLD RELIABLE" GAZETTE'S CORRESPONDENTS. THROUGHOUT ONIO What Our People Are Doing Each Week—Church, Personal, Social, Lodge, Literary and Musical—Marriages, Deaths, Etc. MARIETTA—Following a quarrel which had been almost continuous since his wife joined him in Marietta recently, George Irvin, a foreman employed on Dam 17, in the Ohio river Saturday evening week, shot his wife Emma, twice through the breast, killing her instantly. He then turned the revolver on himself and fired three shots. One of the bullets entered a chest and his death is expected. Irvin is about 40 years of age and is said to come from Georgia. The woman who is Colored, while Irvin is white, was seven years younger than he Irvin had been drinking, and opened fire on his wife without warning when he entered the boarding house where they were stopping. SANDUSKY.—Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Davis are spending their vacation with relatives in Indianapolis.—Rev G. D. Smith preached an exceptionally interesting sermon, Sunday morning, and the S. S. was well attended. He advised his hearers not to confound politics, prohibition and religion, and advised against mixing them.—Rev J. D. Singleton, the new pastor of the A. M. E. church, will begin his work here. Sunday. He and his splendid wife will be a decided acquisition to our local life.—Mrs. Grace Miller entertained Rev. and Mrs. G. D. Smith and Mrs. Anne Crouch, Sunday at Mrs. Crouch, Celtic Lift, Monday, for Cincinnati.—Read The Gazette and get the truth (without fear or favor) about matters of interest to the race. YOUNGSTOWN.-Jas. A. Southall returned, Monday, from a two weeks visit in the East and at his former home, Washington. Pa.-St. Augustine E. Mission will have special services. Sunday. The rector, Rev. John Ogburn, will go East, next week, to attend a church meeting.-Grand rally at Tabernacle Baptist church, Oct. 11.-Lillian Berry is very nice. Dike on Sharon and Sungee on Abo. Also attended M. Clemens Mich. spent a week with his sister, Mrs. Mary Jefferson. The latter entertained in honor of Mrs. Florish of Oil City, Pa., her guest for two weeks. There were a number of social functions given in honor of Mrs. Christ.-Miss Addle Stewart is ill.-Mrs. Eta Lacy and son, have moved to Farrell, Pa.-Mrs. Tandy of Chillicothe, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Robert E. Stewart.-Logan lodge "smoker", Oct. 22.-Buckeye lodge's social, at the "Rest", Monday evening, was a success. Next one, Oct. 12.-Mrs. Anatole Van Waregem, who attended, from Oak Hill Ave. A. M. E. church, of which she was a member. A husband, daughter, two sons and a number of relatives mourn her demise. CORRESPONDENTS must mail all letters for publication at their main postoffice sufficiently early on Monday (or Sunday) of each week to have them reach The Gazette office on Tuesday morning, and always write also, their names and that of their employer, out 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 certain entitlements to be held in the near future, must be paid for by the post office. Our rates for display advertisements will be sent on application. Send postal note and not stamps during warm weather. FORAKER AND WASHINGTON. President Wilson, Mexico and His "Peace" Treaties With Other Countries. Hermiston, Oregon, Sept. 25th, 1914. Editor Gazette, Dear Sir:—I feel like an apology is due from you for not writing before, after your kind notice of my last letter. Will you forgive me? I'm a little like a Quaker, and wait "for the spirit to move me." It is too bad Mr. Washington persists in preaching the doctrine of cowardice to the Afro-Americans. No man get his rights if he fails to demand a wage. We are a people in this U. S. A and prone to take people at their own valuation. It's less time and trouble than to stop to investigate and find out their merits. Respect other people's rights and insist on their respecting yours. I see the campaign is about to begin. I hope the friends of our dear Senator (Foraker) will see to it that he is given a very prominent place. I'd like to hear of numerous insistent demands from all parts of the state. I have heard that the senator He was defeated by the dirtiest trick one can imagine. How the people could be so deceived after knowing him so long. I cannot conceive. When God calls him to Himself, the very ones who opposed him, or failed to take the time to go to the polls and vote for him, will be the first to demand that Ohio rear a monument to him. I think his heart can feel rejoiced at their appreciation of his having given the best years of his life to their service? The peace, which President Wilson forced on Mexico is about to be broken. One can depend upon a Democratic administration to muddle everything it handles. And we are tied up by a lot of treaties not to fight other nations—a party to them till after a year's investigation. If the American people ever have cause to think they have cause to use a year? Hard! They would cause Congress to impeach the President, if he would not do their will. He has simply placed us in a position that may cause us to follow Germany's example and break our pledged word. You will tire of reading this and consign it to the waste-hasket. If don't stop. With all good wishes, am. Yours sincerely. Sept. 28-14. Editor Gazette, Dear Sir!--The letter sent to The Gazette, last week was a mistake and did it, myself and wife, Mrs. Teresa Gordon Dunjill! a great injustice. Signed. Geo. E. Dunjill. DOINGS OF THE RACE Bert Williams, the comedian, has purchased a fine home in N. Y. City. He is again with Zegfeld's Follies. Howard University has a faculty of 125 in all branches. Its appropriation this year from Congress is $101,000. No one with a spoonful of sense will take any stock in the charge of the alleged complicity of Bishop C. R. Harris in the firing of the Zion church at Ashville, N. C. Benjamin H. Locke of Baltimore, has been appointed principal of one of the schools of Ypsilanti, Mich. The school has an attendance of about eighty per cent Colored pupils. The faculty, aside from Mr. Locke, is white. William A. Tarby of Everett, Mass., has been appointed a senior impostor or in the office of Surveyor Joseph A. Maynard, a Democrat, of Boston. He is the first Colored man to hold the position. In the recent primary held in Chicago two Colored men were nominated for State Representative, Major R. R. Jackson, for re-election, in the third district, and Adelbert H. Roberts, from the first district. If the Colored veterans of Cleveland had done their deed, three Aro-American would have been nominated for the same position. Rise out of your stupor and apathy, black men and women; brush aside leaders who cannot or will not use their opportunities to win for you new freedom and choose new leaders, if need be, who dare and know how, in this new world epoch—the European war to win your rights for you be the world._Prof. Joel E. Spinaghan Charles W. Scrutchin is a leading lawyer in the white community of Bemidji, Minn. He figured in a greater part of the cases tried in the last district court of Beltrami county, Minn., where our population is very small, where we are unimaginable. Negro extraction, and he has accumulated considerable property. His wife is a cultured Caucasian woman, a leader in church and civic work. During last month over two hundred men, women and children have quietly left the various plantations and country side of Louisiana for Martinique, one of the French West Indies. This has been going on because of better treatment given our people there. When we think of what Dr. Booker T. Washington advised that the Colored people cease fighting segregation laws and devote themselves to acquiring wealth and intelligence, our memory recalls Douglas, Langston, Lynch, Bruce, Gaglison, Phillips, Lovejoy and hundreds of others, most of whom worked for the very things worked and fought for the very things that Dr. Booker T. Washington is helping to tear down.—Portland (Ore.) Advocate. Jacob Ploxin & Bros. filed a petition in bankruptcy last week in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, and Judge Julius M. Mayer, of this court, paid Counsellor E. A. Johnson of N.Y. City, a member of the race, a compliment by appointing him receiver of this bankrupt estate, which involves several thousand dollars. Counsellor Johnson has been appointed receiver in the U.S. District. Court of that district before by Judge Halt, and sometime ago he also put through that court the first Colored bankruptcy case—that of Miller & Kass, who, up to the time of their going into bankruptcy, did a good furniture business on Eighth Ave., near 133rd St., N.Y. City. It was this business that Counsellor Johnson closed up for them through the bankruptcy courts. Race papers come and go, but "the old reliable" Gazette ever remains with you. Why not subscribe now? You will need and want it greatly during the long winter months now upon us. Subscribe: The present conditions of the West Indian islands are bad, and it is due to this fact why so many of our people there are compelled to migrate to the United States and elsewhere. Time was when things were flourishing and the various sugar mills were busy with capacity, working some time day and night to demand for West Indian products. But today things are practically at a standstill throughout the whole of the British West Indian Islands. All this is due to the fact that since the death of the beloved and much lamented Queen Victoria the mother country has been mother in name only, and has been neglected in the support of her children, and possessions, of which she so proudly boasts—James L. Harris in N. Y. City, Amsterdam News. Among the wounded brought to Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt's hospital last week was a Sengalee infantryman. Two of his front teeth were missing. 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Local reading notices (advertisements) ten cents a line (six words in a line). Our Classified Ad Department 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 will. Cleveland Sixth City Mrs. Jane Walker of E. 90th St., is quite ill. Mrs. Crazetta Gordon has moved to 2389 E. 31st St. Mrs. Benj. Dunn was critically ill, as The Gazette went to press. Dame rumor has it that Harold Taylor is soon to marry Miss Eva Allen. The attendance at St. John's S. S. Sunday, was 821. A very fine showing. Mrs. Robinson of the Winona Apta, has as her guest, a sister from Cincinnati. Mr. M. King, 2149 Central Ave, spent Saturday and Sunday, in Pitts- burg. Oscar Lewis of Ravenna, is here attending the embalmers' training school. Miss R. Robinson, 2404 Central Ave, left, Sunday, for a week's visit in Pittsburg. Mr. Charles Alexander of N. Y. City, visited Miss Anna Moore, 2316 E. 29th St. recently. M. J. Ellis of Pittsbuzurg, arrived, Sunday, and is the guest of Mrs. Man- ly, E. 31st St. Mr. W. Hull, 2705 Central Ave., was called to Scottdale, Pa., by his father's serious illness. The Biggs brothers, in the East End, lost heavily as the result of fire early Wednesday morning. Little Hazel Hardy of E. 85th St. is visitor Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Johnson of Forestville Ave., Chicago. Dr. A. J. J. Howard and former wife are in the courts contesting for the custody of their child, a girl of nine. Miss W. Brown of Sewickley, Pa. arrived Saturday for a two weeks' visit with Mrs. Duffy Smith of South Euclid. Wm. H. Hagley respectfully requests The Gazette to deny that he has severed his newspaper connections with Ormond A. Forte. E. L. Rasper, who has been in Hot Springs, Ark., for a month, spent Tuesday, in Cleveland enroute home to Wilkesbarre, Pa. Mr. N. Newman, 1712 E. 68th Place, was called to Washington, D.C., to his father, who was stricken with a paralytic stroke, Sunday. Arthur Richardson of Jacksonville, Fla., has returned to resume his studies at East High school, after a visit with his mother. President H. C. King of Oberlin College will speak at Cory M. E. church, in the interest of the N. A. A. C. P. work, Oct. 11 at 3 p.m. The Ministers' Alliance has decided to meet, regularly each Tuesday, 10 a.m. at Cory M. E. church, Rev. E. A. White, pres. Mrs. Chas. Goode and family of 43d St. have returned from Brown County, where they spent two months, with relatives, on a farm. Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Brown and daughter of Niagara Falls, who have been visiting Mrs. Gav. 2172 E. 36th St. returned home, Saturday. Mrs. R. Meyers of Ravenna, after a week's visit with Mrs. G. Barber, --- The Gazette regularly should notify by delivered promptly. finitely examine The Gazette's adver- ses. Business men who advertise in image of Afro-Americans. The fact that they want it. pertirements) ten cents a line (six Personal 10807 Quebec St. left, Saturday, Mrs. Barber returning with her. Misses Sadle and Josephine Tolbert have returned from a three weeks' visit with their sister, Mrs. Geo. Adams, in Meadville, Pa. There is a letter at The Gazette office for Mr. Bert Ward, former resident of E. 46th St. Call his attention to this if you know him, please. Miss G. Brown, after a few days' visit with Mrs. Edna Turner of Central Ave. left, Saturday, for Youngtown, enroute home to Columbus. Theo B. Green, Esq., and Mr. William Wheeler who sustained a sprained ankle and a fractured arm, respectively, are convalescing slowly. Miss D. M. Nichols, a student of Oberlin college, after spending the summer with Mrs. E. B. Tenny of E. 101st St. returned home, Saturday, to Wilmington, N. C. Mrs. Anna Walker remodels and blocks hats, and cleans, dyes and curls feathers, at reasonable prices at her up-to-date millinery store, 3965 Central Ave.—Adv. Mr. Moses Hawkins returned to Charleston, W. Va., last Saturday, having been called here by the death of his brother, Mr. Wm. Hawkins' wife, 2238 E. 43rd St. The Alpha Theater will give the Old Folks' Home a benefit, Tuesday. Mrs. Olive Laster's benefit for it, at the Home, Monday and Tuesday evening, netted about $20. Do not fail to read Madam Groom's advertisement, elsewhere in this paper, and patronize her. She is a member of the race, intelligent and exceptionally proficient—Adv. Mrs. Narcissa Hunter of E. 30th St., Ridgeward Apts, visited Mrs. B. Grant in Pittsburg for a week. The latter returned with her. Thursday, to visit the same length of time. Mrs. Katherine Byrd and family of 9414 Union Ave., has as guest, her brother-in-law, Mr. Wm. Johnson of Pittsburgh, who also visited Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Naylor of 2419 E. 82nd St. The annual meeting for the election of trustees and other officers of our Old Folks' Home will be held at the Home, Monday evening. All members of the association urged to be present. Mrs. Cora P. Jackson, nee Johnson, of Akron, wishes to thank the two clubs and the many friends of this city, also of Akron, for their tenderest sympathy and beautiful floral tributes in her recent bereavement. If you owe The Gazette, pay the collector promptly, please, when he calls; or call at, or send the amount to the office at once. If you desire the paper continued, as all delinquent subscriptions are being discontinued. Mr. William H. Hawkins and family, 2238 E. 43d St., wish to extend their sincere thanks to the neighbors and friends for their kindness and sympathy, and for the many floral offerings, during his recent bereavement. Our advertisers want your trade. Those who do not ask for it in The Gazette certainly care little, if at all, for it. Therefore, we urge our readers and all of our friends to patronize those who ask for your trade in this paper. If you have not given the Rosedale face cream a trial, do so at once and be agreeably surprised at its superior over over again for the face cream on the market. Ask your druggist for it and accept nothing else. Only 25 cents.—Adv. Rev. Wm. Taylor, who held a ten days' revival at Lane Memorial church, has returned to Kentucky. The pastor, Rev. C. L. Howard, is securing places for about 100 descients to the C. M. E. conference which is to meet in this city, opening Oct. 21. Dunbar Co. K. U. R. K. P. headed by the Phillieans band, made quite a creditable showing on its march to and from Shiloh Baptist Church. Sunday afternoon. Rev. E. H. Smith, pastor, preached the annual sermon and there was a large attendance to hear him. Send or bring locals and all business matters to The Gazette's offices, suite 2, Blackstone Bldg. If you wish 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. Mrs. Joseph Seelig entertained in honor of her sister, Miss Lena Seelig, Columbus, Mrs. J. C. Clark of Memphis, Tenn., and Mrs. Will Langston of Detroit. Miss Seelig returned returned home, last Friday after a pleasant visit with her brother. She --- THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1914. 12 will spend the winter at Sea Breeze, Fla. Mrs. Chas. Jackson of E. 110th St., also entertained in her and Mrs. Clark's honor. After an argument in the street at Central Av. S. E. and E. 300 St. early Sunday Milton Ewing, 25, 2340 E. 43rd St., was shot and seriously wounded. The man who did the shooting escaped. Ewing is at Charity hospital. There was another "shooting scrape" in the same vicinity, Sunday about midnight. . . . Charging he was refused admittance to the Hippodrome, J. T. Williams 2740 Central Av. S. E. last Friday, filed in common pleas court suit, under Hom. Harry C. Smith's Ohio Civil Rights' law, against the Hippodrome damages. The petition says the tickets sellers refused him a ticket Sept. 9. --- Rev. Daniel W. Shaw, former pastor of Mt. Zion Congregational church, and pastor of an M. E. church in Baltimore, Md., until in recent months, died. Monday in Oberlin, where he had gone hoping to improve his declining health. A wife and a large family survive him. Funeral. Wednesday, in Oberlin, Rev. E. White officiating. Mr. and Mrs. Phil, Dennie of E. 90th St., were summoned to Minneapolis, Sunday night, by the death of the latter's brother, Mr. Robert Sehon. Telegrams to friends received, Tuesday, stated that they would leave with the body, Wednesday, for Clarksbury, a, the native home of the deceased. Who will remain known here where he lived so many years, had a host of friends in Cleveland, who will sincerely mourn his death. Rev. R. E. Brown of Pittsburgh, who has been collecting money to bring his wife's remains here from Philadelphia and bury them, has received $20.30 from St. John's A. M. E. church; $4.30 from the M. Haven Baptist church, and $20.29 from the First Baptist church S. S. cor. Prospect Ave, and E. 46th St. The money has been banked and the bank-book turned over to J. W. Wills, so Rev. Brown informed the Ministers' Alliance. Tuesday morning at its meeting in St. John's church. He claims to have been a teacher of Shiloh Baptist church, years ago. Rev. W. T. Anderson of Wilberforce, a trustee of the university, a retired chaplain of the U. S. army, and pastor of St. John's A. M. E. church, this city, years ago, was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. A. Myers, and pastor of St. John's an route home from conference meets at Columbus and Lima. He has a P. host of old friends in Cleveland who were greatly pleased to meet him again and find him in better health than for years; also to hear his splendid report of the rapid improvement in the university, especially its state department. The Major paid The Gazette sanctum a pleasant call, Monday afternoon, he and the editor having been friends for many years. Hon. Harry C. Smith, a veteran in Ohio politics, several times a member of the Legislature, author of Ohio's Civil Rights and Anti-Lynching laws, and owner and editor of The Cleveland Gazette, a paper which has been published for thirty-two years and has never missed coming out on time, every week, into the city. He was the banquet in Columbus, Tuesday, Sept. 22. He made a strong plea for the race, and showed most eloquently the necessity for giving it more recognition if the full voting strength was to be obtained for the Republican party. The Colored representatives present were: Hon. Harry C. Smith, editor of The Cleveland Gazette, and W. P. Dabney of Cincinnati, editor of The Union—Cincinnati Union. The following is from the London City Christian World: "Rev. E. L. Tippett, a former Congregational Church Cleveland, Ohio, was given a month's extension of his vacation to visit England and attend the PRAISE FOR JACK JOHNSON. "Big Ed." Dunkhorst Has a Good Word for the World's Champion Heavyweight Pugilist. "Big Ed" Dunkhorst, well known in Cleveland "as the human freight car" in the days when Jeffries, Fitzsimmons, Sharkey, etc., were fighting for heavyweight honors, is at present doing a vaudeville turn in the West. Dunkhorst, who weighed around 300 in fighting shape, has packed up another hundred pounds since he retired in 1995. He is talking of the old days when he acted as sparring partner to both Fitzsimmons and Jeffries, the big fellow expressed a very poor opinion of those worthies, particularly Jeffries. He is quoted as saying: "Jeff' got what was coming to him when Johnson whipped him. He hasn't a friend in the world among the bowers. In the middle John bounced back skin is a fellow at heart. Once I loaned him a dollar to get a place to sleep. He was down and out. The next time I met him he handed me $100. The next day he asked me the address of a Russian tailor who had befriended him. He not only paid what he owed but staked the tailor to enough coin to have family back to Russia. You'll never catch 'Jeff doing anything like that.' The fact is Johnson has given away more money, in this way, than any other champion pugilist, including John L. Sullivan, who squandered several fortunes. Prejudice and his own carelessness along moral lines, compelled Jack to leave this country and settle in France near Paris. The fact is that he was taken from a photograph taken in the north west several years ago when he was traveling with a theatrical company "doing a boxing turn". All of our readers have heard of the great trees of that section of this country. Jack is shown standing in front of one of them. World's Champion Heavyweight Pugilist Jack Johnson is the arena for the greatest show in spite of American prejudice. The Gazette is indebted to the Seattle (Wash.) Searchlight for the excellent portrait. The Searchlight is our best paper in the Northwest. National Brotherhood Conference. He is taking a leading part in the organization of the Brotherhood Movement in the States. He is an Englishman, trained for the ministry in Canada, where he held the pastorates of Calvary Church, Montreal, and the Hamilton Church, before crossing the border. He has spoken and preached in connection with some Brotherhoods on Saturday and on public on Saturday. On Tuesday a number of Brotherhood leaders met Mr. Tlipnett in a social way in London, and wished h'm 'Au revoir,' with the expectation that his presence at a National Conference is only deferred." Mrs. Wm. Wade (who is the house guest of Mr. and Mrs. L. J. Dean of Orinoco. Ave. E. Cleveland, for two weeks, returned to Detroit, Sunday evening, accompanied by her husband, who was here for the day. Mrs. Walter B. Wright of W. 85th St. was the hostess of a delightful dinner-party. Friday evening. Covers were laid for fourteen, to-town guests, and Mrs. Wade, D. Deen, and Mr. Lewis Johnson of Washington D. C., the brother of the hostess. The evening was spent in cards and dancing. Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Thomas of Dix Ave. entertained, at dinner on Thursday evening, in honor of Mrs. Wade. Among those who also entertained in her honor were Miss Mattle Dexter. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. 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LIBRARY SCHOOL PROFESSIONAL SCHOOLS SCHOOL OF THEOLOGY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE College of Medicine College of Dentistry College of Pharmacy All Courses begin Sept. 30th, 1914. For Catalogue, address Howard University, Washington, D. C. G. G. REED Dry Goods Ladies' and Gent's Furnishings Sole agents for the AMERICAN LADY NEMO R. @ G. CORSETS 3222 Central Ave. J. W. WILLS & CO. The Leading Funeral Directors Chapel In Connection. Service First Class. 2529 Central Avenue North 474 Central 7562-L ROSEDALE FACE Greasy-CREAM-Greasless 25 cents At all Druggists. ```markdown ``` FFMAN Money in Sheet Metal, and Slating Short Notice AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS In innumerable perplexing cases of community and extension work the correct understanding of the situation and the way to meet it is dependent upon the colored members of the forces. The same need is often felt in the inner life of the school, and in the relations of parents to it. The homes of the colored workers, which are unpretentious, comfortable, beautiful and admirably kept, are accessible to the institution of the surrounding community. The negroes who are ambitious for better things feel that these intimate friends of theirs came from conditions like their own, and possess habits and standards which they also can attain. These colored workers understand also how to organize for practical benefit the devoted gratitude of the community to the school. They are the mediators to their own people of the best white influence, and bring the white members of the faculty into helpful relations. To this influence they are continually opening their own lives, that they may convey to their people nothing less than the best things. Their attitude to the white members of the faculty was expressed recently by President Amiger, whose sister is one of Caloubh's colored teachers, in an address to the pupils and negro workers. "You can never apreciate too highly," he said, "the influence of those who bring to you the finer things gained by their inheritance of generations of culture." It was a superb thing for such a man to say, and only a superb man could say it. This word is often repeated by the colored force. "What we value above all else," they say, "is the continual inspiration from our white leaders to richer thoughts and more efficient service and larger life." The appreciation does not end with words. An eminent friend of the school affirmed at a critical moment in its history, that he had never seen a finer and more practical devotion than was proved by the action of these colored workers. Yet this grateful recognition is not dependent imitation. The negro who has found himself is receptive but not imitative. He transforms all that he receives into his own genius, where it becomes a new contribution to civilization. Are these people exceptional? Such a school attracts and develops exceptional qualities. But some have come from the plainest cabins and from most repressive conditions. They are representatives of results generally possible to the spirit which safeguards every valuable quality of both races, and so attains their most workable cooperation.-Charles Henry Dickinson, in charge of religious and extension work. The city federation of negro women's clubs met at Quinn chapel, Chicago. There were 275 women, representing fifty-two colored women's clubs. The organization voted to join the United Charities. A committee was appointed to ask Governor Dunne to appoint Mrs. Mary Warling to the commission for the celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of negro freedom. Out of the 280,000 farms in Missouri approximately 3,753 are owned by negroes. They range in size from three to 280 acres, and are worth, land, buildings, live stock and everything else on them, $27,758,750, using the average value of a Missouri farm as the basis for computation. The negro population of Missouri is 157,452. Woman suffrage was indorsed and a plea for representation in congress of the 10,000,000 negroes in the United States was made in the annual address of Rev. E. C. Morris, president of the national Baptist convention, at the session of the organization at Philadelphia. "The suffrage movement had its foundation in the fact that taxation without representation is unjust, and no class or race is better prepared by experience to sympathize with such a movement than the colored people." "The capital of our nation," he said, "is a hotbed of race hatred, and from there it will continue to spread to all sections of the country until the negro men shall be elected to congress and speak for themselves. "As Christian workers," the speaker added, "we are for peace and we pray for the time to come when nations shall study war no more, and yet as true Americans in the face of all discriminations we stand ready to defend the flag of our country against any foreign foe." More than 5,000 delegates from nearly every state in the Union were in attendance upon the convention. Absent-minded persons are continually leaving their packages and umbrellas in the street cars, but the limit was reached the other day when the car from Warren, Me. into Thomason was found to contain a baby which had been left behind in the rush. Experts have estimated that if the forests of the world were scientifically operated they would yield the equivalent of from 30 to 120 times the present consumption of wood annually. Because a page in a hotel brought him a telegram which did not belong to him, F. C. Waldman of Sydney, Australia, looked up the man whose name resembled his. He found that it belonged to his brother, who had been given up as dead many years before. Following an old custom, most of the monuments in a cemetery in a Maline town bear on one side photographs, suitably protected against the weather, of the persons buried beneath them. There has been another biennial convention of women's clubs, but this time the press has not kept the public informed as to its program, its scope or its aims. Therefore when Zona Gale and I were privileged to receive an invitation to attend this convention through our fellowship with the Frederick Douglass Center, we accepted, expecting possibly to see some good reason why this group of 400 delegates, representing 50,000 other club women, should be isolated to do their work unaided by groups of white women doing exactly the same work simply, because there was some fancied racial characteristic or a difference in the complexion which keep them apart. The convention met at Wilberforce university, one of the oldest schools for colored people in the country. The school was opened in 1847 and was incorporated as a university in 1856. It is co-educational, is well equipped, has its trades building with nine auditorium in Galloway hall, where the convention met. The thirty university buildings are ideally situated three and a half miles from Xenia, among splendid oak trees. We arrived with many others and were duly registered and assigned to one of the dormitories before our racial difference was discovered, and one of as might have gone through the entire session without discovery based upon physical characteristics had we not said that we were there upon invitation of the president of the association. We were then taken to the home of the president of the university, where we were cared for with generous hospitality by Professor and Mrs. Scorborough during our entire stay. The reception to the delegates in the evening was marked by nothing to distinguish it from any other well dressed, well mannered body of club women except perhaps that there was a modesty and fitness of dressing not often seen in similar assemblies. The regular session opened on Tuesday morning with Mrs. Booker T. Washington in the chair. The program included men who did not differ from men in other groups who failed to keep within the time limit of speaking and who sometimes forgot that they were not speaking to intellectual inferiores or to children. They were indulgent dealt with by the president, an indulgence which was never shown to women, for no paper was allowed to go beyond the time assigned to it. The program contained reports from nearly every state in the Union, showing an amount of charitable and welfare work hardly realized by those not in touch with the work. Such subjects as "Suffrage," "The Negro in Literature," "How May the Club Spirit Best Serve the Community Life of Which We are a Part," "The Cause of Temperance," "Health and Hygiene," "Tuberculosis," etc—Unity. The Negro Farmer, a bi-weekly published at Tuskegee, Alabama, under the able leadership of Isaac Fisher, whom the readers of Unity first knew as principal of the Arkansas Industrial College for Colored People, lies before us with an attractive frontpiece and suggestive pages. "Book farming" is no longer the scandal of the hard worker in the fields. His sneers have been suppressed. It has been demonstrated that science is practical; machinery, labor saving; and brains, good fertilizers.—Unity. An army of colored Odd Fellows attending the seventeenth session of the Biennial Movable Committee of the order was present when the sessions opened at the People's Temple in Poston. About 5,000 visitors and delegates were on hand. At the opening session addresses were delivered by Governor Walsh, Mayor Curley, Edward H. Morris, of Chicago, grand master; James F. Needham, Philadelphia, grand secretary; E. P. Jones, grand master for Mississippi; Dr. John B. Hall and others. The Past Masters' council, the Grand Staff council and the Household of Ruth, the latter the female auxiliary, also met during the week. A smoking tree is one of the natural wonders of Ono, Japan. Strange to say, it smokes only in the evening, just after sunset, and the smoke is issues from the top of the trunk. In the midst of alarms from the Bulkans the fact that the city of Tirna, the ancient capital of Bulgaria, has been nearly destroyed by an earthquake, passed almost unnoticed. For war purposes both the German and French governments are experimenting with wireless-controlled torpedo boats and the British government with one the movements of which are governed by sound waves sent through water. Collapsible baby carriages have almost gone out of use in Christiana, Norway, owing to the agitation against them started by a local physician, a specialist in children's diseases. The activity in the building industry and in the engineering works in the neighborhood of Bontay is reflected in the increase of nearly $200,000 in value of building and engineering materials imported during the year ended March 31, 1913. A solar physics laboratory is to be elected in New Zealand, at Nelson. The site will probably be on a summit known as the Fringe, which has an elevation of 2,500 feet above sea level. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O.. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1914. EPITOME OF THE BIG HAPPEN INGS OF THE WEEK. TO BE READ AT A GLANCE Items, Both Foreign and Domestic That Have Interest for Busy Readers, Arranged and Classified for Their Convenience. European War News The German cruiser Emden has sunk four British steamships and a collier. By order of the Belgian military authorities Alost, a town of 34,000 inhabitants, has been evacuated by its entire civilian population. This is the answer to the wrecking of Ternonde, seven miles to the north, which was wiped out with a completeness never known to history. After a sanguinary combat the Servian troops have retaken Semlin, in Slavonia. This assures them the advantage of being able to take the offensive. The German attack on the outer lines of Antwerp's defenses has begun in earnest. Heavy fire was continued on the forts at Waelham and St. Catherine, siege riffley being used. At Duffel many refugees, men, women and children, were killed by shells while waiting for a train in the station. Col. Frederick Gordon of the Gordon Highlanders, who was reported to have been killed in action on the continent, is a prisoner in Germany. James W. Gerard, the American ambassador in Berlin, sent word to the Gordon family that Colonel Gordon is alive, but is a prisoner in the German hands. The sixth German naval casualty list issued at Berlin gives the name of one man killed and 31 officers and 455 men missing. The Dardanelles have been closed to navigation. The duration of the closure is not stated. Russia is said to be ready to declare war on Turkey. The operators of a German dirigible dropped a bomb into a scholhouse at Bielostok, Russia, killing 11 children, according to a dispatch from Petrograd to the London Morning Post. For 48 hours the armies of the Germans and the allies have hammered away at each other at close quarters, as the climax of the battle of the four rivers, which has been in progress for over a fortnight. Thus far the struggle has not brought decisive results to either side. Both, however, claim encouraging if slight gains. The right wing of the Austrians has been driven back beyond the Carpathians into Hungary; where they are being pursued by the Russians. The Austrian debacle is complete and they have lost all their artillery. The left wing has retreated to Cracow. The Russians have captured 300,000 Austrians since the war began. An official dispatch from Berlin says that the response which the German nation has made to the government's war subscription of $1,250,000,000 has removed all anxiety over the financial condition of the empire. According to German military authorities the war is costing Germany $5,000,000 a day. --- For three long days without cessation the Germans have hurried their masses against the French and English along the entire front in northern French. The French official view is that these operations, the fiercest that have yet taken place, are by high command, meaning possibly direct instructions from the emperor himself. Their purpose has been to break through the allied lines, but both French and British official reports say they have failed. ... The commander of the Canadian expeditionary force will be designated by Lord Kitchener. After the troops reach England the war office will disclose the name of the general who has been selected to lead them in battle and the Canadian government will be asked to ratify this nomination. The German siege guns have resumed their destructive bombardment of Belgian cities, and Malines, Alost and some of the outlying forts at Antwerp have been shelled since Sunday morning. Mons is reported to be in flames. All German troops that have been in Schleswig, Prussia, have been sent hurriedly to France and Belgium or to protect Sytl, one of the North Fririan islands off the west coast of Schleswig. It is stated that the German right has been entirely broken and is now being pursued by the allies. All the automobiles in northern France have been requisitioned for the purpose of pursuit. More than five hundred members of the civil population of Reims were killed during the bombardment of the city by the Germans, according to official figures compiled by the French government. More than twenty-five thousand German naval reserves have been rushed into Belgium from North sea stations. Most of them are from Kiel and Hamburg. They will be used in German operations against Antwerp. The German general staff, by way of Berlin, reports that the allies are using their railroads in a general attack on the extreme end of the right flank of the German army. The general staff also reports slight gains on the center of the battle front and an engagement with artillery south of Verdun. ... The German casualty list, as officially reported from Berlin, numbers 104,589 up to date, of whom 15,674 are dead, 65,908 wounded and 23,007 missing. German Zeppelins have dropped bombs on Belgian towns, a German aeroplane has paid another visit to Paris, dropping explosives in its flight, while a Zeppelin also has appeared above the city of Warsaw. But not much damage was done in any of these instances. Ambassador Herrick had a narrow escape from death. Theodore Roosevelt's youngest daughter, Ethel, wife of Dr. Richard Derby, will nurse the wounded in the hospitals of Paris and her husband will be a surgeon in the French army. Washington Vice-President Marshall laid before the senate at Washington a telegram from 5,000 members of the Women's Christian Temperance union in Wisconsin protesting against the raising of any revenue from the further taxation of liquor, as proposed in the war tax bill. A joint resolution to express the appreciation of congress and to confer gold medals upon the A. B. C. medators, Ambassadors DaGama, Nacor and Suarez, for their services in the Mexican mediation, was introduced by Chairman Flood of the house foreign affairs committee at Washington. President Wilson declined to allow the Democrats of New Jersey to indorse him for a second term. He believes that such indorsement might look as if he were "taking advantage of the extraordinary situation now existing to gain some personal advantage through such an expression of confidence by them." The house at Washington passed the war tax bill which is intended to raise $105,000,000 annual revenue to make up the loss caused by the European war. The vote was 233 to 126. President Wilson sent from Washington the first message from the wireless station at Marshall, Cal., to the governor of Hawaii. The message follows: "May God bind the nations together in thought and purpose and lasting peace." Mexican War In his reply to the petition of Villa's generals asking him to resign in favor of Fernando Iglesias Calderon and thus avoid civil war, General Carranza says: "I will gladly take such action if it is ratified by the general conference; if not I will fight." Carranza demands that Villa resign as head of the army. Fernando Calderon declined Villa's offer of the presidency. --- Five more troops of American cavalry took up positions along the Mexican border to prevent any violation of United States territory in the battle now imminent between Carranzistas and Villaista at Neco, Sonora. Immediate resignation of Gen. Venustiano Carranza as first chief of the constitutionalists is the only basis on which Gen. Francisco Villa will agree to settlement of differences between himself and Carranza. Fernando Calderon is Villa's choice. Carranza forces under Gen. Benjamin Hill were routed by the troops of Governor Mayorena in the first engagement of the new revolution proclaimed by the state of Sonora in connection with General Villa's defiance of Carranza. Mayorena killed 78 of Hill's troops. Gen. Juan Cabral, Carranzas's general who was sent to Sonora to take charge of affairs there, said he had word from Mexico City that Carranzas had agreed to resign as first chief in charge of the republic and take his chances at the November election rather than plunge the country in war. Foreign The final results of the general election for members of the Swedish parliament at Stockholm show that the Socialists have 57 seats, the Conservatives 86 and the Liberals 57. The Liberals lost 14 seats to the Socialists. An epidemic of cholera has broken out at Triest and residents of the city are fleeing. Prince Burhan-Eddin of Turkey has been elected president of Albania. A dispatch last week reported that Muntaphe Bey had been elected by the Albanian senate at Durazzo. Domestic Martin H. Glynn, Democrat; Charles S. Whitman, Republican, and Frederick N. Davenport, Progressive, were nominated at the primary in New York. The senatorial race was settled in an equally decisive manner by the nomination on the Democratic ticket of Ambassador James W. Gerard, who was opposed by Franklin D. Roosevelt and James S. McDongh, and by the Republican choice of William M. Calder. A mother lost her life in c. fruitless effort to save the lives of her four children when their house caught fire as they slept. The dead: Mrs. Joseph Stone, thirty years old; Wilbur, four years old, Marella, three years old; Bernice, two years c. H. F. Meinhard & Brothers, wholesale dry goods merchants, failed at Savannah, Ga., for $48,000 with assets of $48,000. New York banks are involved as are a number of large manufacturers. BUILDING "CASTLES IN AIR" Proceeding That Seems Foolish, If Not Reprehensible, to Some, May Readily Be Explained. Those who build castles in the air are occasionally spoken of by more matter-of-fact persons with brutal and noisy derision, but oftener with a kind of tender pity which they find, not unjustifiably, far more exasperating. It implies so complete a misunderstanding of the builders' frame of mind. They are supposed to live in a vale of disappointments, but if they be out-and out workmen with a love of their art they do, in fact, nothing of the kind. Long before one castle has actually fallen, sometimes even before so much as a telltale crack has appeared in the walls, they are planning the foundations of another on a larger and more gorgeous scale. When the crash ultimately comes it is unheard, for the din of cranes and hammers already are hard at work again. We have it on Sam Weller's authority that to take to build houses is "a medical term for being incurable." And very fortunately that is, a fortiori, still more true of castles. It is not, however, this implication of a life made up of disillusionments that is the most difficult to bear. Rather it is the suggestion that those who indulge in day dreams are so besseted as to believe that they will all of them come true. This is at once a surir on their intelligence and on their ability to play their own game properly; it shows that the sympathetic and stupid creatures who make it could never acquire the rudiments of the game if they are to try for a thousand years. As long as the player is trammeled by doubts and wonderings whether anything so beautiful could ever really be fall him, he must almost of necessity curb his fancy and turn sadly back from some glorious flight; but, once he has as much as half admitted to himself that he is moving in the realms of fantasy, he can soar away to heights unknown. Putting altogether on one side the delight that they give in the making, it may well be a question whether any material profit is to be derived from castles in the air. Is Tobacco a Drug? An interesting case of splitting hairs has arisen in Ireland in the administration of the national insurance act as to whether tobacco is a drug, a necessity or a luxury, all three views being taken by different authorites, says London Tie-Bits. It appears that the superintending medical officer of the Dublin district recommended that a consumptive patient coming under the provisions of the act be given tobacco for smoking to comfort him in his last days, offering to pay for the weed himself, but the insurance committee decided that the tobacco was necessary to the patient's treatment and sent in the bill to the insurance commissioners. Two weeks later the local authorities received a lengthy communication demanding an explanation of their action in charging the government with a shilling's worth of tobacco. Their reply was that tobacco was recognized as a drug in the British codex under the title of nicotiana tabacum and that it had been prescribed by a registered practitioner. Thereupon the commissioners consulted learned K. C.'s and they are still wrestling with the subject. Meanwhile the patient is dead, the tobacco has been smoked and the expense of the disputation has already reached a hundred times the cost of the original tin of shag. His First Thought A well-known athlete says that on entering a Turkish bath one night he found a stranger struggling in the swimming pool. There was nobody near, and the man was evidently unable to swim, having jumped in probably without ascertaining whether the water would be above his head. The athlete swam to the assistance of the struggling man. Grasping him by the hair, he towed him to the side of the tank and assisted him to hang on until he recovered his breath. What were the first words uttered by the rescued one? Did he stammer out thanks to his human preserver? No. The human mind is a curious affair. As the half drowned man struggled back to consciousness memories of an old jest seemed to flit through his brain, for he said: "Lucky for me I wasn't bald-headed!" No. Loafing Allowed. A well-known theatrical manager, more famous, if possible for the "breaks" he made than for his many successes, attending the rehearsal of one of his plays, noticed that a man in the audience who had to play the trombone was holding the instrument in front of him and doing nothing. Mr. Stetson at once called him to account. "Say," said he, "what do you mean by not working along with the other fellows?" "Why, Mr. Stetson," said the musician, "I can't play; I have 19 bars rest." "Not on your life!" replied the angry manager. "I don't pay anyone for resting. Either you play when the other fellows do, or you clear out. See?" Surgery in the Air. Sitting astride a steel beam on the highest section of a new theater under construction a doctor recently chloroformed a structural ironworker, and snapped into place the bones of a dislocated shoulder. When the accident occurred the workman was left helpless, as both arms were disabled, and there was no means of descent except a series of ladders. The doctor removed his hat, coat and vest, and began the dangerous ascent. A workman followed with the doctor's surgical case. After the operation the workman was able to make his way down the ladder and was taken to his home. Decrease In Hydrophobia Since the founding of the Pasteur institute in Paris, there has been a steady decline in the number of cases of hydrophobia, none at all occurring some years. WIT and HUMOR NOT QUALIFIED AS MUSICIAN Sambo Declined Place on Band Because He Couldn't Even Carry a Tune on a Mouth Organ. The conversation in the lobby of a Washington hotel the other night turned to charitable work, when Congressman William P. Borland of Missouri was reminded of an incident along that line. Some time ago Sambo Smith was watching the development of a watermelon vine in his garden on the outskirts of a southern city, when the esteemed Washington Snow rambled down the road and became a part of the immediate scenery. "Mistah Smith," began the esteemed Snow, trailing his way across the garden, "I hab come to see yo' on some 'ponchant bizziness." "Yes, sah," agreeably answered Sambo. "What kin I do 'yo' Mistah Snow." "We am gittin' up a mission band, Mistah Smith," impressively replied the other, "an' we would like yo' ter line." "Say, Mistab Snow," broadly smiled Sambo, "yo' make me laugh like great happiness! Yo' know berry well dat I kalm't eben carry a tune on a maut organ." -Philadelphia Telegraph Dying, Egypt, Dying "Cleopatra, my Egyptian deity, why is the local train from Rome to Cairo like a poor baseball league?" "Antony, my easy Mark, I confess I know not!" "Ah, Cleo, the local train from Rome to Cairo is like a poor baseball league because, Cleo, because of its many short stops!" Fanfare. Bus. Cleopatra reaches for favorite asp—Harrass Lampon. Not Worth Mentioning Snooker (fiercely)—Your fowls have been over the wall and scratched my garden. Chanks (cooolly)—Well, there's nothing extraordinary in that. It's their nature to scratch. Now, if your garden were to come over the wall and scratch my fowls, it would be extraordinary, and something worth communicating—Pearson's Weekly. What Next? The following, overheard on the subway, is offered to our readers without prejudice: "The women are now importuning President Wilson to establish a woman's independence day. Great Caesar! Are they never satisfied? They already have 365 such days."—New York Post. Financial Finesse "Has Burroughs paid you that $5 he owes you?" "Yes; and say, that fellow is a born financier." "What do you mean?" "What did the $5 in the morning and established confidence to such a degree that he borrowed ten that afternoon." OFFICE Wiggs—Courtesy helps business. Woggs—Yes, and good business makes a man feel a heap more polite, too. How It Happened "How did the accident happen?" asked the sympathetic friend. "Well, I'll tell you." replied the man on crutches. "The automobile was going pretty fast and all of a sudden we struck a wet place on the asphalt and there was a noise and the doctor said: "He'll be able to be around in about four weeks." No Consistency "I don't understand George," said the bride. "How so?" "He told me to sweeten his coffee with a smile, which I did. And then he went and put in two lumps of sugar, anyhow." A Quandary. "A great many of the people out our way think that you ought to come out and say something," said the adviser. "Yes," replied Senator Sorghum; "I am sure I am anything just as many people will say that I ought to have kept still." Greeting the Doc. "Roman gladiators used to address the emperor thus: 'We who are about to die salute you!'" "I feel like using the singular number of that salutation every time I climb into a dentist's chair." HOW HOPP LOST HIS MONEY Thrills and Joys Experienced by Amatour Stock Gambler Are Related by Railroad Man. Stuart C. Leake, the railroad man, who spends much of his time traveling between Richmond, Va., and New York, has all sorts of friends and acquaintances. One of these is a man named Hopp. "Hopp," said Leake, one day in Philadelphia, "what have you been doing with yourself?" "The biggest thing I've done," explained Hopp, "was to experience the joys of stock gambling. Take it from me, I'm some gambler in stocks." Leake asked him to tell the merry story. "I had saved up $1,000," Hopp narrated, and I decided to take a shot at the market. I picked out the stock on which I knew I could make a lot of money. I decided to buy, and I took ten shares. "Over in the corner of the bucket shop was a telegraph operator, and I could hear the instrument saying, 'Hopp's got a thousand!' Hopp's got a thousand! That sounded good to me. It was an omen of victory. Pretty soon a cold shiver ran down my spine, and then ran up again. The instrument began to say, 'Take it away from Hopp! Take it away from Hopp!' Talk about thrills and excitement! I was beginning with 'em right away. And the long cock dropped eleven points in about fifty minutes. They took it away from Hopp."—Popular Magazine. MUST BE. First Passenger—Beg pardon, but my name Is Bagga. Second Passenger—Baggs! Baggs! I once knew a man named Sax. Any relation of yours? Cracking a Joke A popular suburbanite, who is also a ready wilt, told some children in the neighborhood that as there were English walnuts on his place, he was going to invite them to his Nutty Castle, where he would furnish the expense of entertainment. "If your house is named Nutty Castle," said one of the children, "what are you called?" "Oh. I am the doughnut," answered the entertainer. Soon Decided. "I had two applicants for work this morning." "Did you have any trouble in deciding which one of the two you wanted?" "No. One said in a tenor voice, I wish to obtain employment, sir, and the other one growled, I want a job. so I gave one a slap on the wrist and the other a job." Right Size Too Large Belle-A French shoemaker has patented a machine that makes a plaster cast of a customer's foot and from it forms a last over which his shoes are made. Beulah-That would never do here. A shoe made like that would be altogether too large for a New York woman. Promoting Cheer. "Did you get any encouragement from the eminent official on whom you called?" "Yes, sir," replied the spokesman of the delegation; "he was right encouraging. He called attention to the fact that it's a pleasant day today, and he said he wouldn't be surprised if it was just as pleasant tomorrow." Modernizing Shakespeare Modernizing Shakespeare. Manager—I am going to stage a real novelty next season. The Star—What is it? "Shakespeare brought up-to-date." "Indeed?" "Yes; instead of King Richard yelling 'My kingdom for a horse!' I am going to have him call for an aeroplane."—Youngstown Telegram Handicapped. "You ought to be ashamed of yourself," said the sheriff. "Trying to hold up a train in the hope of getting a few hundred dollars." I know it! "said the train robber." "You time to work fast. I didn't have time to get hold of the directors and make them help me to hold up the stockholders." Costume. "Ive bought a silk hat and a frock coat," said the man who has decided to run for office, "but somehow I don't look like a regular statesman." "Let me look at you," exclaimed his wife, "I thought so! Men don't know how to dress themselves. Rub that hat the wrong way and put on a lay-down collar and a black bow tie." Fitness "Do you think the natives of the Philippines are capable of establishing a government?" "To a certain extent. You put a bolo in the hands of a healthy Moro and turn him loose on an unarmed community and the way he'll turn in and govern will surprise you." Dividing Up the Pay. "A man should have eight hours for recreation and then take the remainder of the day for work and sleep." "Perhaps. It depends on the kind of work you select. Sometimes a man goes after his recreation so violently that he gets too nervous to work or sleep."