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ARE YOU GOING TO THE EXPOSITION? Millions Thronging to Most Marvelous of World's Expositions, the Great Panama-Pacific International Exposition at San Francisco IN UNION WE ARE STRONGER THIRTY-SECOND ARE Y Millions The Great Pa TY-SECOND YEAR. RE YOU ons Throng eat Panama THIRTY-SECOND YEAR. NO. 34 Low Railroad Rates and Privileges of Routing Never Before Possible Are Included In the Many Inducements to Visit America's Great Panama Canal Celebration. $50,000,000 Invested; 80,000 Exhibitors Represented. It is estimated by the traffic experts of the great transcontinental railways that the travel movement westward during the present year, with the great world's Exposition at San Francisco as the goal, will be the greatest in all history. There are but few persons anywhere who have not felt the longevity to visit California some time, and with the attraction of the world's greatest and possibly its last universal Exposition to draw them westward those who go traveling in 1915 will "see America first," with San Francisco as an objective. Some indication of the interest taken in the Panama-Pacific International Exposition is found in the pre-Exposition attendance, the greatest in the entire history of expositions, amounting to an average of 10,000 persons a day. These visitors carried away with them to all parts of the country, and of the world accounts of the beauties and the marvels they had seen, and as a result the remark has become common throughout the United States and abroad, "It's not a case of 'Can I afford to visit the Exposition?' but 'Can I afford to MISS it?'" The Panama-Pacific International Exposition has more foreign national pavilions than any exposition ever held—this in spite of the European war. No exposition ever was situated as this one is where such a large number of the scenic wonders of the world can be visited at no increase of cost while en route, going and coming, and it is the only great International Exposition to be ready on time! The rates agreed upon by the great transportation companies, of approximately one-half fare for the round trip, with a ninety day limit, have never been equaled. Certainly not in this generation, and probably not for generations to come, will such an opportunity be offered to combine in one trip visits to the scenic wonder spots of the continent, with the education and entertainment to be had in the dazzling-wonderland that has risen on the shore of the Pacific. Colossal Colonnades of the Greco-Roman Wings to Palace of Fine Arts. Colossal Colonnades of the Greco-Roman Wings to Palace of Fine Arts. THE GATE OF THE GREAT WESTERN STREET Corring 1,100 feet around the foliaged shore of the Fine Arts lagoon, Panama-Pacific International Exposition, these mighty pillars are-reflected, mirror-like, in the limpid waters of the lagoon, affording one of the prettiest views at San Francisco's great Exposition. ATTRACTIVE BOOK ON THE PANAMA-PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION AND PANAMA CANAL MAILED FREE. A HANDDONE book of sixty pages, profusely illustrated in colors and giving detailed descriptions of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition to be held in San Francisco from Feb 20 to Dec 4, 1915, and of the Panama canal and canal region, will be mailed by the Exposition tree of charge to all inquiries. The booklet is intended for prospective visitors and will also contain information concerning which the Exposition is to celebrate. Write to the Manager, Bureau of Publication, Panama-Pacific International Exposition. Exposition Building, San Francisco, for booklet THE GAZETTE ESTABLISHED AUGUST 25, 1883 AND ISSUED EVERY WEEK ON TIME SINCE. PALACE OF THE WINDS Mighty Arches Mark Huge Court of the Universe. Arch of the Rising Sun, Court of the Univ. so, Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco. This is the grand central court of the Exposition, 900 by 500 feet, with a companion arch, the Arch of the Setting Sun, at the west portal. Each arch, with its sculptured groups, symbolical of the nations of the east and west, is 188 feet in height. ALL UNIVERSAL EXPOSITIONS STAND FOR PEACE. ALL UNIVERSAL EXPOSITIONS STAND FOR PEACE. By R. B. Hale. Vice President of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, Who First Suggested the Holding of the Great Exposition to Celebrate the Opening of the Panama Canal. THE following interesting article by K. B. Hale, vice president of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition of San Francisco, expresses the keynote of this greatest and most wonderful celebration of all time. Mr. Hale is one of the foremost public men of America, and his thoughtful article shows a marvelous grasp of the subject and will prove of value and interest to every reader of this paper. Most Interesting in History. The Panama-Pacific International Exposition, which is now finished, stands revealed as the most interesting Exposition in history. Those who have not yet visited the Exposition should make early plans to visit San Francisco. The railroads are granting low round trip rates, and one can see the United States under more favorable conditions than have ever before obtained. Forty-three nations are participating in the Exposition upon a vast scale. Read Mr. Hale's wonderful article and you will gain an idea of the purpose that inspired the builders of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition. He says: Universal expositions, of which the Panama-Pacific International Exposition is the fourth in the United States, have always stood for peace. In Philadelphia in 1876 the Hon. Joseph R. Hawley, president of the Centennial Exposition, in his opening remarks said: "From the association here of welcome visitors from all nations there may result not alone great benefits to invention, manufacture, agriculture, trade and commerce, but also stronger international friendship and more lasting peace." "Acquaintance Softens Prejudice" "Acquaintance softens prejudice" has been ringing in my ears ever since those three words were uttered by a foreign graduate of one of our American universities in a speech delivered some years ago. The learned states man, Hon. Ellin Root, voiced the same sentiment when about to leave the high office of secretary of state in substantially those words: "it was impossible for any nation to be at war if the peoples of the conflicting countries understood each other." Universal expositions soften prejudices, remove commercial antipathes and settle political differences by bringing the people of all nations into friendly intercourse, for the discussion of bleas, the exchange of commodities and for the advancement of mankind socially, morally, intellectually and commercially. They reflect the thought and action of peaceful; presents and reach their greatest successes during or following long periods of national and international peace. Their exhibits are the product of the arts of peace, and their object is the promotion of peaceful activity in thought and word and deed. They are the antithesis of war, the embodiment of peace. Their grounds are set apart as extraterritorial, devoted to the use of all nations and all peoples on a parity and equality. The Panam-Philippine International Exposition grounds today are common to all. No creed or race is barred; all have equal rights and privileges. It is neutral ground for warring or tranquil militias alike. It is one great democracy where all unite in contributing to an expression of gratitude for the present and inspiration for the future, and because the exposition is really the child of peace do we deem it a privilege-ary, even a duty- to enter our protest against the terrible conditions now prevailing in Europe. "Peace—Peace For Humanity." It is idle to presume that anything that we can do here today will have any material influence in the immediate settlement of the greatest war in history, involving more than half the people of the civilized world, but we can raise our voices in earnest protest against conditions in Europe too terrible to contemplate in loss of life. in the destruction of property, in the suffering of homeless women and children and in the effect upon the world at large. Commercial activity is checked, industries are paralyzed, civilization is being forced backward, human impulses are being supplanted by the brutal practices of war. The cries of the innocent have sounded a call for relief, and with dynamic force that call is generating a sentiment through the length and breadth of this country for peace. Every one seems sollened and serious and determined. That one word has taken on a new significance a new morning-peace for humanity, peace to pursue the unwielded and enward course of civilization, peace and rest and tranquility for the millions who suffer suffering in soils Rich Ornamentation In Court of Abundance at San Francisco. View showing section of colonnades, Court of Abundance, Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco. The lavish oriental embellishments of this court are well portrayed in this photograph. those unfortunate soldiers are suffering in body, royalty and subject together in the present awful European conflict. They desire a caesaric forever of the super-cruel methods of warfare as a means of settlement of international contention. Each-closing day hope looks forward to the morning, longing that word shall come that our brothers in Europe shall have laid aside their arms. That glorious day must come, and when it does will it not be possible to respond to the world's wall that the sword of anger and of hate be sheathed forever? Then shall come the time for international convention and treaty. Great statesmen will be engaged in negotiating the tremendous document. Speaking out of inexperience and from afar quong myrial minds, we ourselves hope that in this treaty there shall be established such a basis of defense on land as is alone necessary to protect local peace and that such armed ships as are necessary to police the sea shall alone be permitted. each nation contributing its quota to this international naval police, which shall be controlled in its movements by an international admiralty, whose whole duty shall be to preserve peace instead of prepare for war. Site of Peace Conference. The Exposition in San Francisco will have reached its highest purpose if it can in any way assist in the settlement of the terrific conflict which is now being waged with such tittile fierceness, hellish weapons and awful consequences. The Exposition being set apart on extraterioral grounds, SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS dedicated to the use of all nations on terms of equality, could fittingly, without prejudice or embarrassment, be used for a peace conference designed to settle the differences of the warring nations and bring about the signing of a treaty of peace for which the world is praying. New Cycle of Brotherly Love. One effect of the war now in progress will be to emphasize the importance of and intensify the interest in the great international peace congress projected by the management of the Exposition. Let us hope that this war may be recorded history before this event. The horrors of present day warfare will be fully appreciated, and those most directly affected may be available with their experience and advice to assist in preparing a code of international law, police powers and provide such other recommendations as may be best fitted to insure lasting peace. And when we look into the future may we find the new cycle of brotherly love supersoiling the discord of today. May the settlement of international strife by war and blood and suffering and devastation be supplanted by conference and negotiation and arbitration; then will follow rest and peace and contentment for the everlasting enjoyment of mankind. As John G. Whittier beautifully expressed it in his Centennial hymn in 1STG. Oh, *makes you us through centuries long in peace-secure, in justice strong.* Around the gift of freedom draw the righteous law. And, cast in some divine law. Let the new cycle shame the old. IN UNICH THIS ESTERNUM President of Organization Society of Virginia Plena Big Work. Hampton, Va.—At a meeting recently held at the Hampton institute called by Major Moton, president of the Negro Organization Society of Virginia, there were present about ninety representatives of the various societies, organizations and settlements in Elizabeth City county, Va. as well as the ministers of various denominations, teachers in the schools, other leading men and women of the race and the officers of Hampton institute. Great interest was shown in the aims of the Negro. Organization society, and a determination to co-operate in every way possible for the betterment of the colored people in the county. It was decided to call a mass meeting in the Hampton institute gymnasium in the early part of April to consider definite measures for reducing the present large death rate among the colored people in this vicinity. The meeting will be followed by a "clean MAJOR R. B. MOTON. up week," which will be generally observed throughout Elizabeth City county. A committee was appointed at this meeting consisting of ministers, teachers and other representatives from all the various districts in the county, whose duty it will be to work up an interest among all the colored people of their localities. It was suggested that the societies formed among our people to visit the sick and bury the dead co-operative for the purpose of hiring district nurses who will visit the homes for the instruction of housewives in sanitation and for the care of the sick. One of the objects of the April meeting is to raise $2,000 toward a new schoolhouse. The school superintendent, Mr. Willis, having promised the colored people that a satisfactory school building shall be erected if they raise $2,000 during the coming spring, great interest is manifested in the raising of this sum. BIRMINGHAM, BANK MERGER. Penny Savings and Prudential Concerns in Alabama Metropolia Unite. Birmingham, Ala.—The consolidation of the Alabama Penny Savings and the Prudential Savings banks in this city, announced the first week in February after a joint meeting of the boards of directors of the two institutions, has been met with instant favor on the part of leading white and colored people of Birmingham. Colonel Tom O. Smith, vice president of the Birmingham Trust and Savings company; W. A. Porter, president of the Merchants and Mechanics Savings bank, and W. W. Crawford of the American Trust and Savings bank and other leading white bankers have indorsed the step as one that will bring to the Negro race in this section increased good. The Alabama Penny Savings bank was established twenty-five years ago by the late Dr. W. R. Pettiford, J. O. Diffay, B. H. Hudson, two of the present officials are: others and is the oldest and strongest Negro bank in this country. It has a paid in capital of $61,000. The Prudential Savings bank, established four years by Dr. U. G. Mason, W. W. Hadnott, W. J. Echols and others, is the only Negro bank to have begun operations with a paid in capital of $23,000. The combined institution under the new merger will have a capital stock of $100,000 paid in. A strong indorsement of the step was wired to Dr. U. G. Mason by Dr. Booker T. Washington. The consolidation will go in effect within thirty days from announcement. Lucy Nichols of Civil War Fame Dies. Perhaps the only woman of our race holding membership in a Grand Army of the Republic post of white persons, was the late Mme. Lucy Nichols, who died on the last day of January at New Albany, Ind. She was a member of the Twenty-third Indiana regiment, having joined the regiment in Tennessee in 1861. Mme. Nichols was a member of Sanderson post, G.^A. R., and was pensioned by special act of congress several years ago. She was a nurse in the civil war and became famous for the cure and sympathy which she displayed in attending sick and wounded soldiers on many battlefields. Christmas Club Adds New Members. The Christmas club of the Wage Darners, bank-at Savannah, Ga., for 1915 has recently added to its membership 500 persons. Included in the number are many energetic newsbots, who are saving their pennies. PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY SUBSCRIPTION RATES (In Advance) One Year.....$1.50. Six Months.....1.00 Three Months......50 Subscribers are requested to rem- mit by postoffice money or- der or registered letter Awared at the postoffice in Cleveland Ohio, as second-class matter. Address all communications to HARRY C. SMITH Editor and proprietor, THE GAZETTE, Blackstone Building, Cleveland, O. Member Ohio Legislature: 1894 to 1896; 1896 to 1898; 1900 to 1902 THE GAZETTE is the oldest, and has the largest bona fide circulation, double that of any newspaper in the interest of Afro-Americans, published in the state of Ohio, and comparison with any will immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWSIEST AND BEST in the country. 10,000,000 Afro-Americans.. 160,000 in Ohio. 20,000 in Cleveland. SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 1915. The Wilson administration is only half over but it already has made mis-takes enough to defeat it for re-election. With its issue of Mar. 20, the Hon-kinville (Ky.) Saturday News enters its third year. Its editor and publisher, Phil H. Brown, the veteran journalist, has a live race paper. We wish him continued and even greater success. Elections in municipalities in Maine, last week, show that the Progressives voted for the candidates of the old parties so that the state will be reliably Republican in the presidential election. We wish "Hunter C. Haynes" of N. Y. city, would answer some of the business letters we have been sending him for quite a year. An exchange heralds him as "the foremost motion picture producer of our race." He was "the promoter of our foremost advertising agency," some months ago, according to the same contemporary. Recently there appeared in some paper a statement that Detroit had a new law compelling restaurants and lunch counters "to cater to one race solely, build partitions in the places of business, or go out of business entirely" and that "Judge A. D. Lane, city commissioner in charge of the police department, announced that the owners of these places (in that city) would be given a week or two in which to conform to the law." The same contemptible newspaper article wound up with the statement that Judge L. "thinks the law will be obeyed without resistance." Mayor Oscar B. Marx's private secretary, Edward T. Fitzgerald, in a letter to George L. Lang of this city, under date, March 9, 1915, wrote that "no such regulation (law) has been adopted in this city, Detroit, and we have no Commissioner Lane here." That settles it. Editor Wm. Monroe Trotter kept the largest audience, he has (on his recent tours) outside of New York City and Chicago, waiting from 7:30 p. m. to 10:30 p. m., last Monday evening, in this city, and failed to give any good reason for so doing. The result is he has left a "feeling" in this city, we regret greatly, because The Gazette did all in its power to secure the attendance upon the meeting, he characterized as we have in the opening sentence of this leader, His absence compelled those in charge to hastily substitute a "speaker" who failed utterly to rise to the occasion and only helped to make "bad matters worse" in that he was neither wise in the selection of what he said, nor consistent. Mr. Trotter arrived just as the pastor of the church was about to dismiss the large audience which had given an exhibition of patience, etc., that was simply wonderful. STILL WATCHING, WAITING AND FAILING. The Cincinnati Enquirer (dem.) under this headline prints a leading editorial on the Mexican situation which follows: "Having intervened in Mexico so as to compel the abdication of Huerta, so as to overthrow the Government recognized by the Congress and the Supreme Court of Mexico; having raised the embargo upon arms and ammunition so that the bandit bands might organize armies to contend for the supremacy of their respective factions; having witnessed the ruin of American, British, French, Spanish and other foreign interests in Mexico, the Administration continues to congratulate itself upon the success of its Mexican policy. "Senator Full, of New Mexico, in a recent address in the U. S. Senate, made public some plain truths as to the Mexican situation and the responsibility of this Administration for the horrible conditions now prevailing in every state and territory of that most unfortunate country. "The majority of thinking men and women agree that religion of any kind exerts a more beneficial influence upon mankind than no religion; the majority are also of the opinion that any form of government is better in its influence upon the destinies of a people than chaotic conditions, productive of crime of all grades, the demoralizing effects of which render men monsters and turn masses of the people into the walks and ways of barbarism. "The present Administration of the United States, however, struck down recognized authority in Mexico, and by that act of authorized and organized chaos, authorized and organized criminals to rule the country, authorized and organized the ruin of all foreign interests there, authorized and organized the factions it permitted to arm, to burn, to ravage and to destroy. "Two years of that boasted watching and waiting policy have ruined the people of Mexico, humiliated and shamed the people of the United States and demonstrated to the world the weakness, folly and incapacity of those charged with the responsibilities of our foreign relations." A TRICK SURPLUS. The charge of a Democratic newspaper that Governor Willis while on the stump made a false statement in regard to the condition of the state's finances, and that the treasury balance at the year's end proves that he did, is based on its own misstatement. The figures used by Mr. Willis showed the amount of the state's income from taxes compared with the amount of the appropriations of the Cox legislature. He could not then know, and no honest man could surmise, the trick used to show a false treasury surplus. The house finance committee found the public institutions depleted their stocks of supplies, and postponed betterments for which there was urgent need, and even provided insufficient clothing for their wards, to the end that they might turn back to the treasury unexpended balances and then show urgent need for large appropriations. Mr. Reighard, chairman of the finance committee, said for publication, "The last administration directed that appropriations be lapsed in order to make a showing in the surplus account and to shoulder on to the present administration the necessity of appropriating more money." It is true, too, that to show a surplus no provision was made for the care of the increasing number of defectives who have claims as wards of the state until the number committed to state institutions for whom there is no room exceeds 2,000. Franklin county alone reports 20 persons found to be feeble-minded by the probate court, who cannot be cared for in the school for them at Columbus because of lack of facilities. Who Go to Church? The facts about church membership are contained in United States census bulletin No. 103, and the percentage of church membership in the total population is given for the year 1906, 26 years after Kansas has become a prohibition state. According to this tabulation, which is the latest obtainable, the lowest percentage of church membership was in Oklahoma, including Indian Territory, the rate being 18.2. The rate in New York was 43.7; in Pennsylvania, 43; in Illinois, 38.3; in Nebraska, 32.4; in Maine, 29.8; and in Kansas, 28.4. Forty-three states had a larger percentage of membership than had Kansas. Since this tabulation was made up of two of the four states that had a lower rate of church membership than had Kansas, namely Oklahoma and West Virginia, have joined the ranks of the prohibition states. Of the six states, therefore, having the lowest rate of church membership in the United States, four are prohibition states—Royal E. Cabell in Leslie's. The Order of Merit In the whole of the Almanach de Gotha there is no decoration so exclusive as the Order of Merit which has just been personally conferred on Sir John French by King George. The commander in chief of the British army in the field shares this distinction with only one other British soldier—Lord Kitchener—and three admirals, Lord Fisher, Sir Edward Ho Bartsey Seymour and Sir A. K. Wilson. Marshal Oyama, Admiral Toga and Marshal Yamagata are the only foreign members of the order. Instituted in 1902 by King Edward for those preeminent in the fighting services, in literature, art and science, the order is essentially democratic and confers no special title or personal precedence on the holder—London Chronicle. Worry and Adrenais. Every time we are excited, every time we worry a reflex action is sent to the adrenalins, which causes a pouring into the system of adrenalin, the latter increasing the heart action and the arterial tension. This fact explains why worry and excitement so often lead to arterio-sclerosis, heart disease and nephritis.—Dr. Edmund M. Pond, surgeon to the Rockland Hospital, before the Vermont Dental Society. Mrs. Benfield's Decoration Mrs. Frederick C. Penfield, wife of the American ambassador at Vienna, has been awarded the grand cross of the order of St. Elizabeth by Emperor Francis Joseph for her kindness to the soldiers. This is the first time that the order has been conferred on a lady not connected with the imperial family. Mrs. Penfield was the widow of a wealthy Philadelphia before she became the wife of Mr. Penfield, and has always been noted for her charity. Your copy of The Gazette after reading it, but give it to a friend or an acquaintance who might subscribe after reading a copy of the paper. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 1915. FRESH OHIO NEWS WRITTEN BY "THE OLD RELIA BLE" GAZETTE'S CORRE- SPONDENTS THROUGHOUT THE STATE What Our People Are Doing Each Week—Church, Personal, Social, Lodge, Literary and Mu SANDUSKY—J. R. Davis, Mrs. Mary Jones, Mr. Chas, Taylor, Mrs. Ely, Mr. E. Brown and Mrs. Eccles have la grippe. Mrs. Walton is no better. Mrs. Geo. Scott is improving. The S. S. were well attended. The Second Baptist church will baptize and hold communion. Easter Sunday. A special effort will be made to have the members attend, especially the age group. Rev. G. D. Smith preached ably, Sunday. The Autumn Leaf Sewing society was visited by Mrs. Chas. Taylor and Mrs. Luncheon—Rev. W. H. Hicks of Lo rain, preached to a good congregation. Sunday afternoon, at the A. M. E church. Rev. J. D. Singleton, the pastor, preached in the morning. OBERLIN,—Mr. Benj. Smith of Cleveland, was here, here. Sunday—Mr. Heavenner has erystiplas—Mrs. Lawson's little daughter was seriously burned.—A missionary society has been organized at Mt. Zion Baptist church. A total of 50 joined Rust M. E. church. Fifteen were immersed, Wednesday evening. Baptismal exercises for those joining Mt. Zion church, this Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings. Rev. and Mrs. Washington and Rev. and Mrs. Delaney attended the reception in honor of Rev. C. W. Williams, the new pastor of the Second Cong. church, Mar. week for the fathode method Men's convention at College Church church's annual supper will be held in the Second church's parlors, April 9, preceding the close of the conference, and 200 covers will be laid. The Mutual Improvement club will observe club women's day, in April. 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 or on the outside of the wrapper. The copies, unless this latter is done, cannot be given you. Lists of names, wedding presents, etc., obituary notices, speeches, resolutions, poetry, inquiries for relatives and advertisements of all kinds, including items announcing entertainments to be held in future, must be paid for in advance at a rate of line, six words to a line. Our rates for display advertisements will be sent on application. Send postnote and not stamps during warm weather. MANSFIELD. —Mrs. R. Davis will visit Mrs. E. Dumore and Miss Edna Davis in Franklin, Pa. She entertained the sewing circle, Friday afternoon. —Mr. W. Espy has improved his building for fowls. —Mr. E. Blaine went to Fostoria, Saturday. —Mr. and Mrs. W. Thompson are occupying the property. Mrs. D. Payton visited friends in this city Thursday afternoon. —Rev. and Mrs. Ford are pleasantly located in the Davis property and thank the friends for their kindness. He was too ill to preach Sunday, but will preach the K. P. annual sermon. Mar. 28. Mrs. R. Davis led the class-meeting and song service; Mrs. F. Alexander, the S. S. sing the Polindexter entertained the Juvenile School after refreshments. Mrs. S. Love, entertained the Fancy-work club. Thursday. Prayer-meeting, on Thursday evening. YOUNGSTOWN—Mrs. C. Ash of Cleveland, visited her mother, Mrs. Jas Kelley.—J. F. Patterson is ill.—Mrs. Thos. Lonesome entertained Oak Hill Ave. A. M. E. church Ladies' Aid society. Thursday afternoon.—Mrs. Eiffle Quinn of Cleveland, spent two weeks with Mrs. Jack Anderson.—Mrs. Rosa Morgan of Wheelsman, who has been a teacher at Marks', is convalescent.—Mrs. Frank Harris entertained, Friday afternoon, Mesdames Will Collins, Hattie Harper, C. A. Jackson, Clarence Norris, Gaines Williams, Marie Green, J. S. Galloway and M. Jiles of Lowville.—Mrs. Rhoda Holmes and Mrs. Jos. Finney are convalescent.—Mrs. Jas. Finney are convalescent.—Mesdames M. Jenkins, Mrs. C. A. Jackson of Cleveland and John Coleman of Pittsburg, were guests of Mrs. Jack Anderson and Mrs. Marshall Garnes, and were tended a reception by the hostesses, Monday afternoon.—Buckeye lodge is arranging for a special car to New Castle, April 8, to attend the 13th annual party.—Mrs. Hearn has entertained a Research club. Tuesday evening.—Mrs. Prisby is ill.—Buckeye lodge's tenth annual social function. Thursday, in Excelsior parlors, was attended by 200 couples. There were many out-of town guests. CUBAN PRESIDENT SEES JACK WORK. Havana, Cuba.—President Menocal accompanied by his military staff. Cols. Hevia and Hernandez, and several members of his cabinet, on Monday paid a visit to the training camp of Jack Johnson, the world's heavy champion pugilist, and spent an hour training him in the training program. Jess Willard, who will fight Jack here, April 4, for the championship, has arrived from Key West, Fla. The fight will take place at the race track. More "easy" money ($30,000) for Jack. Moving picture equipment and creepers, for this fight, to near $100,000. He is expected to have another easy victory. Children's Bureau. The children's bureau at Washington has appointed a social service expert, to make sure of having a generally equipped person to take up effectively such topics as juvenile courts, broken family relations, feeble-minded children, with an understanding of the importance of their industrial, civic and social inter-relations. All of these topics are touched upon in the act establishing the bureau. Influential Southern Paper Lauds Work of a Traskee Graduate. The following editorial from the Tampa (Fla.) Morning Tribune tells of the success of one of Tuskegee's graduates, who is putting into everyday practice some of the things which he learned while in school: "The Tribune has had occasion several times to refer to the good work that is being done by the colored people of Marion county, which is the center of a movement on the part of members of that race to set higher standards of usefulness for their people. At a recent meeting held in this city under the auspices of the Afro-American Civic league George H. Mays, Jr., one of the men who are leading in this work in Marion county, was the speaker of the occasion and told his people in Tampa how they might join in the movement and do something for themselves. "Mays is himself an example of what a hardworking, intelligent and respectable Negro can do with his opportunities. He is a graduate of Tuskegee, taught in schools in the north and is now the head of a banking investment institution at Ocala organized and managed by Negroes. He believes that the south is the best place for the Negroes and that their future lies in this section of the country. Mays so enjoys the confidence of the white citizens of Ocala that many of them have deposits in his bank. He is always urging members of his race to strive for industrial independence, and it is due to him that those of Marion county have taken account of their opportunities and have begun to work toward better ends." PLANS FOR OBSERVANCE OF NATIONAL HEALTH WEEK. Business League's President on Importance of Checking Death Toll. Under the call of the executive committee of the National Negro Business league, Dr. Booker T. Washington president, preparations are going forward in all parts of the country, in the south particularly, for carrying out the suggestions which have been outlined by Dr. Washington and the executive committee for the observance of national health week among our people. The particular reasons for asking the colored people of the country to observe national health week are set forth in a bulletin statement issued and which follows. Dr. Washington says: First—We are asking the colored people of the nation to unite in observing a national Negro health week in the belief that in carrying out the suggestions outlined below they will be doing the best possible service to themselves and to the race. Many diseases are spread from the sick to the well by means of germs that come from the sick person. These germs find their way into fifth and waste and reach the bodies of well persons, to whom they give the disease. Second.—"Diseases Most Fatal to Negroes." The following are the diseases most fatal to Negroes: Diseases of infancy, from which 27 per cent of all deaths among Negroes occur; tuberculosis, from which 18 per cent of all Negroes die; pneumonia, 11 per cent of all their deaths; diseases of the heart, 8 per cent of all their deaths; Bright's disease, 7 per cent of all their deaths; diarrhea, 8 per cent of all their deaths. Third.—"Diseases Exact Their Greatest Toll From the Young." The diseases which annually sweep away such large numbers of our people exact their greatest toll of babies and children and of our youth men and women, who, being in the very prime of life, constitute, economically and intellectually, the most valuable asset for the future progress of our race. Instead of these persons living and doing service as leaders of the masses of our people they give their lives a useless toll to death. Our only remedy for this fearful drain on the pick and flower of our young womanhood and manhood is a widespread inculcation of the habit of clean surroundings and clean living. A suggestive or outline program will be issued very soon, the purpose being to ask various communities to take copies of this outline program and have it reprinted in their various communities, under the auspices of the several co-operating agencies so that a definite program for getting results may be followed in each community where National Negro health week is to be observed beginning on Sunday, March 21. NEW PRESIDENT OF FISK. Alumni of Noted Tennessee School Pledge Dr. McKenzie Hearty Support. At an enthusiastic meeting of the Fisk club held recently in Washington the election of Dr. Fayette Avery McKenzie to the presidency of Fisk university, Nashville, Tenn., was heartily commended. Practically every member of the Fisk club of Washington was present, and Dr. McKenzie, who attended the meeting, expressed himself as highly pleased with the reception accorded him by this gathering of representative alumni. Resolutions were forwarded to the board of trustees commending its action, and Dr. McKenzie was assured of the hearty good will and loyal cooperation of the Washington alumni in all the efforts which he may make for the upbuilding of the noted institution of which he is soon to assume charge. WHERE IS KATIE FOSTER? Miss Katie Foster, my sister, was separated from me in Fort Scott, Kansas, when but a child. She has since married. I heard she was a school teacher in Ohio. Any one knowing her whereabouts will kindly write Sam Foster, Adv. 344 E. 41st St., Chicago, Ill. Erects $10,000 Office-Building. Charleston, S. C.—E. G. Harleston, a well-to-do Afro-American undertaker, has erected a $10,000 office building in this city. DOINGS OF THE RACE On Lincoln's Birthday, Feb. 12, the Oregon legislature passed a bill that will eventually do away with the remnants of the obnoxious black laws of that state which have so long disgraced the constitution of Oregon. It would appear that the great Henry Ford, auto manufacturer, made a mistake when he began to import cast off convicts from other cities. Especially so, would it seem to the colored citizens of Detroit. For to be held back for the sake of law-breakers is to hard blow to a striving people.—Detroit Leader. Harry Thacker Burleigh, the bartone of the choir of St. George's Church, New York city, and composer of sacred music, has recently written a song, "His Word is Love," which is being highly commended by critics. George W. Perkins, former partner of the late J. P. Morgan and chairman of the executive committee of the Progressive party, was rescued from drowning, last week, by an Afro-American fisherman, when the fishing smack in which he was sailing caped him, the same alone, of The Gazette, is worth more than price of the paper. Isn't it so? Tell your friends and acquaintances, please. sized in St. Lucie inlet near Stuart, Florida. Howard Medical School is the only Afro-American school rated in class A of the American Medical Association. Meharry is in class B. In 1911, of the 38 graduates of "Howard" examined by medical boards, only 3 failed. This is practically the same percentage as that made by Harvard graduates. Of particular interest to the race, are the brilliant achievements of the colored troops fighting under the French flag. At this time, there were men in those veins that are more of less blood, valiantly helping to defend the overseas republic. Ere the close of 1915 twelve more of the same kind of regiments will be in the service. Mrs. J. A. Lindley of Greenville, Tex., was recently awarded a verdict for $8,000 for injuries sustained in an M. J. railroad wreck in that state. William M. Grégory, a state legislator, has been selected by the State Board of Education to succeed Prof. James M. Grégory as principal of the Industrial School for Colored Youths at Bordentown, N. J. Prof. Valentine was born in Montclair, N. J., and was graduated from Harvard. The Legislature has appropriated $95,000 for the rehabilitation and maintenance of the school. The largest gathering of music lovers that has attended the unique receptions at the Music School Settlement, N. Y. City, was present Sunday evening, Mar. 7, to listen to David Bisham, America's celebrated baritone soloist and the Music School Settlement string quartet. Will Marlon Cook's "Exhortation" was rendered by Bisham only as he can, and received the rapturous applause of the audience. Haiti has had three presidents in four months, but that's not equal to the record in Mexico where three or four presidents in one day is nothing much to be concerned about.—Cleveland Daily Plain Dealer. While it is outre universally known that Phyllis Wheatley was the first Negro poetess in America, and that the first volume of her poems was published in 1773, she was by no means the first of the race to write poetry of acknowledged merit, which fact is attested by the preservation of the works produced. The Abbe Grescoire, In his "Inquiry Concerning the Intellectual and Moral Faculties and Literature of Negroes," cites the case of Francis Williams, the son of Negro parents, born in Jamaica toward the end of the seventeenth century, dying at the age of 70. Another case is that of Caesar of Caracal, who was a slave in 1701, who died about 1734. Williams was trained at the University of Cambridge, England. While in England he published poems which had wide popularity and imitations. North Carolina had a slave, George Horton, whose poetical effusions were printed in book form by the well-known printer of Raleigh, who subsequently became famous as one of the most prominent and distinguished simply show that we should sparingly indulge in such a use of the superlative as "first" and "only" unless we are sure of our facts.—Washington (D. C.) Sun. ONE OF LIFE'S GREAT TASKS Showing Boys and Girls Their Work May Be Properly Described as the Divine Profession. "There are no men nor women alive, of too deep vision, nor of too ustrous a humanity, for the task of showing boys and girls their work. No other art answers so beautifully. This is the intense cultivation of the human spirit. This is world-parenthood, the divine profession. "I would have my country call upon every man who shows vision and finess in any work, to serve for an hour or two each day, among the schools of his neighborhood, telling the child- nies the mysteries of his daily task—and watching for his own among them." "There was an old priest who served men in Siberia. Around him, in that bleak winter land, were the best and worst of the Russian empire. He tended the sick, and prayed with them; brought food, cut wood, procured medicines, watched with the dying, prepared the dead. A certain young Red came out to the colony and observed the priest's manner of life "'Father,' he said, finally. 'I should think you would lose your soul in the midst of such misery and evil and darkness—as our life here is made of.' "The old man leaned back and looked at the ceiling, shutting his eyes. "'Well, now, that's queer,' he said, presently. 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Price 25c. Instrating the Largest and Most Complete Line e, such as Bange, Wipe, Puffs, Switches, Pom- TAYLOR, Howell, Mich. mention this paper CONEY ISLAND VALET SYSTEM Men's, Ladies' and Children's CLOTHES CLEANED, REPAIRED AND PRESSED First-class Work Only GARMENTS PRESSED BY THE MONTH. Wm. J. KENNEY, Mgr. 2738 Central Av., Cleveland, Ohio. SWOOPE'S Soup and Coffee House A bowl of soup, a cup of coffee and bread for FIVE CENTS Pigs' feet, Baked beans, Stews, etc., etc. 2908 Central Ave. WILLIAM SWOOPE, Prop. A Complete Line DRY GOODS, LADIES' AND GENTS' FURNISHINGS J. LOMSKY 3816 and 3820 Central Ave. Double Stamps on Tuesdays and Fridays. 2742 Central Av., cor. E. 28th St. Cut this ad. out and present it at the Brown Drug Co., and receive a liberal trial size of B. AND M. HAIR DRESSING AND TONIC. This dressing is especially recommended where the hair is stubborn or curly, as it not only makes the hair soft, glossy and straight, but also easy to dress. B. AND M. HAIR DRESSING is elegantly perfumed, has a very beneficial effect on the scalp, and is a splendid hair-grower. DON'T FORGET THAT WE HAVE BUT ONE STORE, AND THAT IS at E. 28th St. and Central Ave. How to be Beautiful By Using Walker's Toilet and Hair Preparations It is necessary to have hair, smooth skin as well as hair to be beautiful. Walker's Black-No-More A CREAM FOR BLEACHING AND BEAUTIFIXING 50c Brown-Face Powder 25c 25 other Toilet and Hair Preparations AGGREGATE also travelers to ap- partment representatives and commi- sion. Exclude stamp for full information. No samples sent; cash with each order. Goods sent by mail 10c extra Mrs. Matilda Walker Box 44 So. Orange, N. J STERLING 5 and 10 Cent Store 3003 Central Ave. Watch Our Windows For Bargains Colored Salesladies Arlington Pharmacy WE WILL ACCEPT THIS ADVERTISEMENT FOR FIVE CENTS IN TRADE, TO APPLY ON ANY PURCHASE OF TWENTY-FIVE CENTS OR MORE. E. Rabenstein, Ph. C., Prop. 8. W. Cor. Central Ave. & E. 55th St. The Fifteenth Annual Session of the State Summer School for Colored TEACHERS OF BOTH SEXES at the GREENSBORO, N. C. will begin June 29th, 1914, and continue five weeks. In addition to the regular work, an attractive lecture course has been arranged, in which will appear some of the most distinguished white and Colored educators in the country. Board and lodging for the entire session $12.00. Tuition 25c per subject unless other arrangements have been made. Limited accommodations. Send $1 and have room reserved in advance. For further information write a once to James B. Dudley, President, or D. J. Jordan, Director, N.C. F. H. WEAVER, PHAR. D., Prop. Cor. Central Ave. and E. 33d St. Agent for "HIGH BROWN FACE POWDER." WE GIVE TRADING STAMPS. MONEY ORDERS, NEWSPAPER ADS, TELEGRAMS. PRESCRIPTIONS A SPECIALTY Open late at Night. R. R. CHEEKS ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Main 806 Main 806 312-314 Superior Building THE OLD DOMINION Lunch Room at 3652 Central Ave., Serves THE BEST AND QUICKEST MEALS at Popular Prices. Give it a Trial. Open Day and Night Mrs. H. C. Jones, Prop. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 1915 Where to Purchase The Gazette *DR. WEAVER'S, 3315 Central Ave. *A. GORDON, 2928 Central Ave. *SAM FERTMAN'S, 3608 Central Ave. *ELMER F. BOYD'S, 2604 Central Ave. *S. A. LUCAS, 3943 Central Ave. *NEWS STORE, 2249 E. 105th St. cor. Arthur Ave. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS The Gazette regularly should notify fully examine The Gazette's adver- s. Business men who advertise in image of Afro-Americans. The fact at they want it. tirements) ten cents a line (six Personal Subscribers not receiving The Gazette regularly should notify us at once. We desire every copy delivered promptly. We advise our patrons to carefully examine The Gazette's advertisements before making purchases. Business men who advertise in this paper should have the patronage of Afro-Americans. The fact that they advertise is assurance that they want it. Local reading notices (advertisements) ten cents a line (six words in a line). Social and Personal Our Classified Ad Department For Rent—Five nice rooms newly papered, up stairs, at 2417 E. $82d St. ear Quincy Ave. Water, gas, etc. key next door. Apply Room 2, Black- stone Bldg., $12 per month. FOR RENT—Houses and Rooms— you have them to rent or if you J. H. Morton of E. 36th St., left, last Thursday, for Watch Hill, R. I. called by the serious illness of an aunt. There is only one way to get our race's news, local and general, and that is by taking "the old and reliable" Gazette, every week. Editor Wm. Monroe Trotter left the city, Tuesday 4 a. m., for St. Louis, Mo., to fill a lecture date. AGENTS WANTED: Two young ladies to canvass. Apply, 2555 E. 73d St.—Ady. Master Stewart, son of Mr. and Mrs. James R. Snyder of E. 105th St, celebrated his sixth birthday Friday, Mar. 12, by entertaining a few of his little friends. "Pa" Snyder impersonated "Little Lord Fawtertro" for the edification of his son's guests.—O. L. * * * * 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 assignment of The Gazette, must be in the office by 4 p. m. WEDNESDAY at the latest. * * * * The editor of The Gazette acknowledges the receipt of an invitation to attend the wedding of Mrs. Mamie A Willis and Mr. Wm. Hawkins who are to be married, April 7, 5 p. m., at 2171 E. 43d St. Only a few intimate friends of the contracting parties are to witness the ceremony. Mrs. Willis is an active member and official of Antioch E. B. Y. P. U., and has a host of local friends who wish her and Mr. Hawkins, long life, happiness and prosperity. Slaughter Brothers, funeral directors, are members of the race, experienced and deserving of the patronage, particularly, of all our people. Remember them when the occasion requires such service. They render the best, and at the most reasonable prices.—Adv. Examinations of applicants for the position of patrolmen will take place March 27. The height requirement has been increased from five feet eight inches to five feet nine inches. Applicants must be between 25 and 33 years of age. Take advantage of this opportunity. Patrolmen receive over one thousand dollars a year. "The Cleveland Letter Carriers" band gave a concert, Monday evening, at the Cleveland Protestant Orphan asylum, 5000 St. Clair Ave. N. E. "Tipperary" was the favorite selection. The concert was the third given at the home by the band." The foregoing appeared in a local daily paper, and did not do justice. The organization renders more of this kind of commendable service, gratis, every year, than any or many other local musical organizations, and this fact should be impressed upon the "Sixth City's" business men, particularly, by our daily newspapers, in order that full credit be secured the Cleveland Letter Carriers' band, one of the best in the city. Thursday evening, Mar. 11, Mrs. Olive Laster of Frank Av. entertained in two shows at the guests were: Mrs. Ida Brown Cash, Miss Rachel Walker and mother—J. R. S. Mrs. Sarah Hryre, clerk of the board of education, last week Tuesday, declared that unless applications are received soon for the position of school enumerators the board will have to carry on an advertising campaign. With the day the appointments are to be made less than a month away, not more than a dozen applications have been received. Mrs. Hryre says that she has a time to investigate the qualifications as to their character and qualifications. Enumerators with experience and who can speak a number of languages will be given the preference. The enumeration will begin in May. Amos Wesley Carter, through his attorney, this week entered suit for $1,000 damages against Garrett A. Morgan, 5202 Harlem Ave., president of the Morgan Hair Refining Co., 312 Superior Bldg.; he so informs a representative of The Gazette. Carter secured judgment, last October, for $800 against the Morgan Co., and Moses Dixon, agent, the judgment being equally divided against him and the membered at Carter's scalp was so badly burned by an application of Morgan's hair refiner, in Dixon's barber-shop, Feb. 3, 1914, that he (Carter) was threatened with blood poisoning and compelled to spend eleven days in Eddy road hospital and suffer greatly nearly five weeks in all. He was under the care of Dr. O. G. Glass, a leading local physician, who has proved himself more than a friend to Carter, from the time he was born. The suit against Morgan is the outcome of the ineffectual efforts of Carter's former attorney to collect the $800 judgment or any part thereof. --- F. VALENTINE'S 2130 Central Ave. J. E. BRANHAM'S 4401 Central Ave. PUSHAW The Arcade. Superior Entrance. *OPEN SUNDAYS. Our Classified Ad Department For Rent—Five nice rooms newly papered, up stairs, at 2417 E. 82d St. near Quincy Ave. Water, gas, etc. Key next door. Apply Room 2. Black- stone Bldg. $12 per month. 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 servi- ces call at The Gazette office, No. 2 Blackstone building, No. 1424 W. Third Street, near Superior Ave. FOR SALE—Houses or lots. If you have another 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 Attorney L. H. Godman of Columbus, was in the city, last Friday, and was entertained, at dinner, at the New Keystone restaurant, by the editor of The Gazette. When you want a good meal and fine service go to The Old Dominion, the popular restaurant of Central Ave. See advertisement elsewhere in this paper.—Adv. Five nice rooms newly papered, upstairs, at 2417 E. $2d St., near Quincy Ave., for rent. Water, gas, etc. Key next door. Apply at room 2, Blackstone Bldg. $12 per month. W. M. Orr, special agent for the American Product Company of Cincinnati, carries a fine line of facial creams and extracts. Call, Cuy. Princeton, 2452 K.—Adv. * * * * Our advertisers want your trade. Those who do not ask for it in The Gazette certainly 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. * * * * We call attention to the advertisement, elsewhere in this paper, of Wm. Swope's new lunch room at 2908 Central Ave. He is a member of the race, one of the best chefs in the city, and someone nothing but clean, wholesome, well-cooked food—the best. Give him a trial and be convinced.—Adv. "Sonny" Brown in Paris, France. Police Prosecutor Francis W. Poulson, last Friday, issued a warrant for the arrest of Martin Printz, ticket seller, Knickerbocker theater, E. 83d St. and Euclid Av., charging Printz with violation of personal rights, section 12940. According to the warrant, Printz violated the law when he refused to sell Clarence E. Brown, 3603 Quebec Ave. N. E. two tickets for the main floor of the theater. Two Central Ave. gambling "jointes" were "pulled" early Sunday morning by the police; one over West's barber shop and the other in the rooms near E. 1st St. formerly occupied by Fred. Gantt's "speak-easy." Fred. is in the workhouse. Between 30 and 50 persons were apprehended in these two raids. The hurry-up wagon was brought for booking and the "unfortunate" in the "cooler." Their cases were continued (in the Police court) from Monday morning until later in the week. ```markdown ``` 立 承 承 ```markdown ``` Fred D. Sampson, W. H. Smith and R. Tyler are en route to the Panama-Pacific Exposition via Los Angeles and San Diego, Cal. Dr. J. Reynolds Lee is slowly improving; Samuel T. Boyd is still confined to his home, and Mrs. Boyd is indisposed. Mrs. Carrie Crawford of Blaine Ave., entertained the Hiawatha club, last Monday evening. Seventy-three more were added to St. John's church, Sunday, and the pastor preached two able sermons. The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. S. Johnson, 2341 E. 29th St., died, last week Wednesday, and was buried, Friday. The baby was the grandson of Mrs. Lina Mason. The pastor of Shiloh Baptist church is in Toledo conducting a series of revival meetings. Mrs. Cora Jackson, matron of the Phyllis Wheatley home, spent the first of the week in Akron. Miss Eleanor Alexander addressed the ladies of the Association at vesper services, Sunday afternoon. The DuBois Literary club held a very pleasant meeting at Mrs. E. M. Gordon's, E. 70th St., Wednesday evening. The Old Folk's home trustees paid $1,000 more on their mortgage, last week. This reduces the debt to $3,000. Dr. J. G. Frazer preached at Mt. Zion Cong. church, Sunday morning, in the absence of the pastor, who left for Springfield, Columbus, and Louisville, Ky., on a short visit. Rev. W. A. Pringle, P. E. of the Ohio district, A. M. E. Zion Church, preached, Sunday, at Harris' tabernacle. Quarterly meeting day. The services were very interesting and well attended. S. P. Keele, secretary of the N. A. A. C. P. local branch, has been notified by Assist. Supt. Eldridge of the local public schools that the teacher who, at Fairmount school, offended her Afro-American pupils has been reprimanded and will not teach again in Mr. Eldridge's district. Neither he nor Supt. Frederick approve of any discrimination. B. C. McGinnis of the Ohio Specialty Sales Co., royally entertained few friends at a musical and luncheon in his bachelor apartments, 2928 Scovill Ave. last Wednesday evening. Among his guests were: Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Swoope of 7100 Euclid Ave. Mr. and Mrs. Theo, Houston of E. 31st St. Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Saunders of 1410 W. 117th St. the editor of The Gazette and others. Guy Williams, age 26, 2314 E. 14th St. was found, Monday, lying in the roadway at E. 12th St. and St. Clair Ave., with three bullet wounds in his body. James Murray, age 39, 1307 Scovill Ave. was arrested and charged with shooting to kill. The shooting followed a quarrel between the two men, witnesses say. As Williams is the man in the street Murray fired at him three times. Two shots struck him in his right leg and one bullet lodged in his right side. Mr. and Mrs. Eustice Henderson of Cambridge, Mass., are guests of J. Herbert Gray, 2159 E. 30th St., arriving in the city on Tuesday. Mr. Henderson last heard from Mr. Gray on a card mailed at Ashtabula. He at once endowed the college but found his old chum at the Gleim & Selzer Drug store, this city. Mr. Henderson is a graduate of the Cambridge Latin school and the Massachusetts College of Pharmacy. Rev. Sterling N. Brown of Washington, D. C., former pastor of Mt. Zion Cong. church, this city, will preach there, Sunday morning, and at Antioch Baptist church, in the evening. He will address the mass meeting at St. John's church, Monday evening, and our Ministry's Alliance, Tuesday day morning. The mass meeting will be under the auspices of the local Howard University club; Dr. F. H. Weaver, see. BIG EASTER BALL. At the Dreamland Place, Cleveland, Ohio, Easter Monday, April 5, 1915. All invitations will go out by Saturday. If you should fail to receive yours, then you should make inquiry about it. You cannot afford to miss this opportunity to hear this great orchestra, for Mr. Parker is going to send the best as he desires to book music in this city, hereafter, and he feels this engagement will give him the chance. Mr. Turpin, by being in Columbus, knows what the best is and of course picked the best. --- The Howard University club, a local organization composed of former students of that institution, will banquet Dr. Stephen M. Newman of Howard, and Dr. Sterling N. Brown, dean of the Theological department, at the New Keystone restaurant, Monday evening, from 7 to 8. Dr. Newman will speak at St. John's church, Sunday morning, and Monday evening. The Boethian class of St. John's S. S., will also banquet at "The New Keystone". Mar. 25. Sunday's dinner, at this popular dining hall, will be held on Monday. Spring onions, baked white-fish, oysters a la Plulet, broiled sweet-breads with mushrooms, lamb-fries with Rashal bacon, chicken en casseroll, prime rib roast beef a just, corn, mashed potatoes, tomato-lettuce salad, strawberry short-cake, coffee, tea. Autos for All Occasions Calls Answered Day and Night A Big Cut in the Price of the Masterpiece of Negro Eloquence NEVER BEFORE SOLD FOR LESS THAN $2.50 A COPY-EDITed by Mrs. Alice Moore Dunbar—A LIMITED NUMBER HAS BEEN PLACED AT THE DISPOSAL OF THIS PAPER AS AN ADVERTISING PROPOSITION AND THE READERS CAN HAVE A COPY FOR $1.50. Postpaid. The Masterpieces of Negro Eloquence has neither a predecessor nor a companion. The most brilliant man and one of the race's leading newspapers of the time recommend it. To read it is a liberal education, a treasure trove of valuable information accessible in no other form, a reference book, a history, a library in itself. No intelligent Negro home can afford to be without a copy as it is an inspiration to the old and a help to the young. It contains 51 of the greatest speeches and the most important articles of American Africa, England and France from 1818 to the present time. Each address is a separate and uniquely the standpoint alone is priceless. The regular price is $2.50—thousands of dollars at that price but to introduce it in as many new neighborhoods as possible we will send any reader of this paper a copy at almost HALF PRICE—$1.50. A COPY IS HERE 10 Great Serials full of life and action, filled with the fire of fine inspiration and followed by 250 short stories of adventure, will make Then the Family Page, a rare Editorial Page, Boys' Page, Girls' Page, Doctor's Advice, and "a ton of fun," Articles of Travel, Science, Education. From the best minds to the best minds, the best the world can produce for you and everyone Jacket 6144 Skirt 5989 Bolero 6158 Skirt 6149 Costume 6130 Vaist 6156 Skirt 6137 The Elyria Progressive club has opened five new rooms at 2556 E. 22d St. and intends to make its formal opening, next Wednesday, a grand atrium with a large, well-lit, vaulted. Any one wishing to become a member of the club should make application to either E. W. Shreve, chairman of the executive committee, or J. A. Travis, chairman of the house committee, who will explain the requirements, read the rules, by laws, Additional members are desired. -Ady THE TROTTER MEETING. Editor Gazette. Dear Sir: - The auditorium of Cory M. E. church was well filled by 7:30 p. m. Monday evening and by 8 p. m. chairs were being placed in the aisles to accommodate the audience assembled to hear Editor Wm. Monroe Trotter of Boston. About 9 p. m., the announcement was made by Roy R. Cheeks, Esq., president of the Cleveland Association of Colored Men, who presided over the meeting, that Mr. Trotter's train was late and he would not arrive until 10:30 a.m. for the marks, and prayer by Rev J. E. Davis, pastor of the Church of God and Saints of Christ, John Green was presented and announced that he had been called from his home just before retiring "to supply in the emergency" - this after those in charge of the meeting had learned that the speaker of the evening would be so late in arriving (and the editor of The Gazette could not be secured to the Green's remarks concerning segregation, his expressions of disapproval of the same, were well received and applauded, but as usual lost their effect by the too Rosedale 2770 EDITOR WM. MONROE TROTTER much "T" and bring in his personal grievances, as an attorney, of color. The greater part of his speech was confined to advertising the Phyllis Wheatley home (a segregation movement) of which he is the only Afro-American trustee. He even went so far to "take a vote" on the question as to the wisdom of the establishment of the home (segregation), and announced that a majority vote had favored it, when as a matter of fact the negative vote was not asked for, and of course no one really knew the matter. He was not as many of the spectators realized, was entirely out of order and in direct conflict with the position all knew Mr. Trotter would and eventually did take in his speech. The Association had asked the latter to come to the city and talk against segregation (even that at Luna park, we hope.) We know Mr. Trotter and have every confidence in him because, like The Gazette's editor, he does not denounce segregation. He has proved of it in another, but is consistent and therefore has the respect and confidence of all thinking people—people who are NOT carried away by noise and whining but who weigh every word and accept it for what there is in it. Mr. Trotter arrived about 10:30 p. m. and at once began his remarks, telling in detail about his conferences with President Woodrow Wilson, prior to and after his wholesale segregation in some of the Wilson administration on the last conference with the Massachusetts, when petitions were presented, by a delegation from Massachusetts which he segregation which he was ordered under the Wilson administration and materialized in the first time during any administration, he eliminated. His final appeal to our Cleveland was to be consistent and not to disapprove of segregation in Cleveland (at the Phyllis Wheatley home, Luna park or elsewhere). "If you disapprove of segregation in one place," said he, "you must disapprove of and fight it in and at all places, and vote against President Wilson in 1916; if you approve of this huddling together of yourselves and being pushed there by the other race, locally, then you do approve of it in other places, and therefore should vote. Denil Wilson when you vote a candidate to the white house." This part of Mr. Trotter's speech was very pointed, especially to thinking people who had listened to the talk that preceded his. In his hour's talk, the editor won the confidence of all present by his straight-forward, fearless remarks against segregation. Manhood is what the people respect and such men as he and the editor of The Gazette are the ones we wish to hear, who come to us to enlighten us, to vance their personal ambitions along a professional, business or other lines. Signed. An Interested Hearer. One Manly Judge. St. Louis, Mo.—In a contest case in this city, recently, a jitney car driver refused to haul some half dozen Afro-Americana unless they paid $5 each. They refused to pay such an exorbitant price, and refused to unload, and in the meantime were hauled to the police station. When arraigned before Judge Granville Hogan, he stated that as the cars were being run for the public, our people had a right to ride in them, if they were as orderly as others were, and said that "You cannot "jim-crow" Negroes while I am on the bench." Good! Lieut. Davis Goes to Wilberforce. Douglass, Ariz.—Firz. Lieutenant Benjamin Davis of the Ninth cavalry, who left here recently, under orders of the war department to assume his science and tactics at Wilberforce university, is one of the only three Afro-American commissioned officers in the U. S. Army. The others are Major Charles Young, now stationed in Liberia, and Lieut. John Green, Twenty-fifth infantry. RIGHTER BROS. 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She is English and came to this country to earn money to complete her musical education. BRANDS OWN CHILD WITH RED-HOT COIN Father Who Sears Infant Son Is Sentenced to Three Months in the Workhouse and Fined by Ohio Judge. Cleveland, O.—He did not have a mark on his body so I branded him so we could identify him if he ran away." That was the explanation William Rechard, 27, clerk, offered in police court Wednesday to Judge Bernstein when he was arraigned on a charge of assault and battery. He branded his $2\frac{1}{2}$-year-old son James with a red-hot 50-cent piece. Doctors said that the boy will bear the brand on his right hip all his life. Four years ago, according to Mrs. Rechard's story, she met Rechard, who was then a professional wrestler and boxer. She was a nurse at Mount Sinai hospital. After a short courtship, in which her admiration for strength played a large part, on the morning of Oct. 25, 1911, she came home from the hospital, packed her suitcase and joined Rechard, who was waiting in a nearby street with an automobile. They were whisked away to the courthouse, got a license and a few minutes later were married by Justice Brown. Soon after the marriage Mrs. Rechard began to fear the strength she had at first so admired, she said. She told Bernstein her husband became brutal and beat her frequently. Usually he became angry, declaring she was spending too much money running the house. On the night of March 16, according to her testimony, her husband came home while she was washing the baby. He was angry because the baby had ran away in the afternoon and brooded for some time over the fact that because his body was without a mark or blemish it would be difficult to identify him in case he were lost or ran away. "He asked me for a half dollar," Mrs. Rachard told Bernstein. "He then went out in the kitchen and came back in a few minutes with the coin redhot. He said he was going to brand the baby so we could identify him. I at first thought he was joking or trying to frighten. Jimmy so he wouldn't run away any more, but when he touched the coin to the flesh I grabbed his arm and tried to pull it away. He, however, pushed the coin down on the baby's soft, pink flesh despite my protests and Jimmy's screams." Then, Mrs. Rechard said, she put some soothing oil on the burn and bandaged it up the best she could. Her husband then put the money in his pocket and went out. When he came back and tried to get in the door was locked. "When I refused to let him in he plied newspapers against the door and tried to burn it down," Mrs. Rechard said. "I threw water under the door and put the fire out." "I'm not sure whether you are insane or not." Bernstein told Rechard in court. "I think you are sane, though, and your brutality that of the stone age." Bernstein sentenced Rechard to three months in the workhouse and fined him the costs. Sunday Again Hits Ball Philadelphia, Pa. — Although he had not been in the professional baseball field for 24 years, Rev. Billy Sunday stood up at bat before Ben Shibe, owner of the Athletics, on the diamond on the Phillies' grounds and knocked out a "homer" the first crack. "I've still got some of the old time 'pep' left," he said after it was all over. At Shibe's invitation, Sunday took a whirl out to the Phillies' field while his-assistants conducted the routine prayer meeting in the tabernacle. Milk Saves Buildings Milk saves Buildings. Canton, O--Milk was used to save several of the barns on the dairy farm of Mrs. Ida Mummaw, north of Canton, early Wednesday, when an explosion of gasoline caused a blaze that did damage estimated at $3,000. The explosion which started the fire put out of commission the gasoline engine in the dairy pump room and no water supply was available. After several barrels of water had been hauled neighbors threw hundreds of gallons of milk on the flames, which were spreading. AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS If permanent results are to be secured, the Negro who actually cultivates the land must be reached and trained into growing a good producing crop. How can this be done? My answer would be, by putting a Negro farm demonstration agent into every county of the South where there is any considerable number of Negro farmers. This Negro demonstration agent should be a man of good common sense. He should be a man who knows the characteristics of the colored people, who knows how to reach them in and through their societies, their churches and their various organizations of one kind and another. He should be a man required to travel from one farm to another throughout the country training the Negro farmer how to produce a food crop. Wherever these demonstration agents have already been at work in the South they have done work which has been most helpful and commendable. If this important work is to be done, no time should be lost in selecting these demonstration agents. The cost should not be large. Either through county appropriations or from some part of the state funds appropriated for agricultural purposes, a portion of the money for the salary perhaps could be provided. Appropriations are also being made by the United States government to encourage and promote various kinds of agricultural work. Some part of this money, I feel sure, might be secured from the Smith-Lever fund, or from the United States demonstration fund administered through Dr. Bradford Knapp. While I am not in position to suggest just where the money may be secured, I think if an earnest effort is made some portion of it can be secured from some of the funds or agencies here mentioned—Booker T. Washington. On the night of Lincoln's birthday, February 12, at the annual meeting of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, in Ethical culture hall, New York city, Governor Whitman of New York state made an address and awarded the Spingarn medal. This medal, which is of gold, valued at $100, is offered annually by Dr. J. E. Spingarn, chairman of the board of directors of the National association, to the man or woman of African descent and of American citizenship who shall have made the highest achievement during the preceding year in any field of elevated or honorable human endeavor, whether that field be intellectual, spiritual, physical, scientific, commercial, educational or any other. The medal is awarded for the first time this year and the committee making the decision consists of Bishop John Hurst, chairman; ex-President Taft, John Hope, president of Morehouse college; Dr. James H. Dillard, director of the Jeanes and Slater funds, and Oswold Garrison Villiard, president of the New York Evening post company. In addition to Governor Whitman there were other distinguished speakers at the meeting on February 12: Moorfield Storey, the well-known attorney of Boston and president of the National association; Prof. William Pickens of Wiley university; Mirza Ali Kuli Kahn, representative of Persia to the United States, and Lincoln Bates, Jr., who told of racial progress in South America. Mr. Villiard presided. In commemoration of the memory of Frederica A. Douglass and John M Langston, a large number of Negro residents of Washington attended the meeting of the Bethel Literary and Historical association of Metropolitan A. M. E. church. The eulogy of both of these former representatives of the colored race was given by J. C. Napier of Nashville, Tenn., son-in-law of the latter, and an address dealing with the achievements and character of both was given by John C. Dancy, former recorder of deeds. Mrs. Lettie Langton Napier also talked of her father's life. Others who spoke were Rev. C. H. Stephens, L. C. Gregory, F. D. Lee, James H Marshall and Messrs. Smith and Maxfield. Frank Williams recited an original poem entitled "Fifty Years of Freedom." Music was furnished by the E. Azalia Hackley chorus, James A. Wright, director, and Mrs. Martha Ligons, accompanist. "Meens to me," remarked the Man on the Car, "there are times when we ought to stop praying for more blessings and ask for an extra consignment of gratitude."—Toledo Blade. Consul Felix S. S. Johnson of Kingston, Canada, writes that as a result of suggestions contained in a report on American wall papers in Canada new trade openings have been made. The consul reports that an American manufacturer who sent a salesman to the province is meeting with marked success. British Columbians are making gas from coal mine refuse. Ohio's minimum legal salary for school teachers is $40 a month. Soapstone production in the United States (26,562 tons in 1913) exceeds that of all other countries combined. In the rough, as quarried, soapstone is worth $2 a ton; sawn into slabs its value exceeds $15 a ton, and when manufactured into laundry tubs its value is about $90 a ton. Virginia furnishes about 95 per cent of the supply. Currency and copper "cash" were reduced in value as compared with the silver dollar in the large part of Central China during the last year. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, MARCH 20, 1915. The oldest Negro publishing house in the country is operated by the African Episcopal church at 361 Pine Street, Philadelphia. Here all the hymn books, church dipitches and other church literature are published. Here, since 1852, the Christian Recorder, the oldest Negro newspaper in existence, has been published. Here, since 1882, the oldest Negro magazine, the A. M. E. Review, also has been published. Here many of the books written by Negroes have been printed. The largest and without doubt best equipped Negro publishing house is also operated by this church. It is the Sunday School Union at Nashville, which supplies nearly 300,000 Negro children with their Sunday school literature, taking nearly 50 persons to do the work. This literature is written, printed and distributed by Negroes. Connected with this department is a Sunday school journal called The Young Allenite, a young people's journal called the Allen Endeavorer and a weekly paper, the Southern Christian Recorder. The church started 100 years ago, with less than 400 members; it now has three-quarters of a million; and raises annually about $4,000,000. Its property is worth $12,000,000. It has over 6,000 churches and 7,500 preachers. Its general financial scheme is based upon a tax of $1 for each member. This goes to pay the salaries of bishops, general officers, pensions of widows, retired bishops, orphans, superannuated preachers, etc. Other departments are church extension, young people's, the Western Christian Recorder. To rationalize education throughout the country has been and is the purpose of those making for the nation's progress. As the great majority of men are engaged today in constructive work—that industrial, technical, commercial and institutions of training for that are growing in number everywhere the note of progress is decided. The rationalization of the educational system for the Negro should find cooperative action now among intelligent people of both races. Just as the Beston School of Technology initiated in the country the practical form of education for which the nation's inventive and constructive forces made demand; just as the tidal wave bringing industrial training to the South came to save a social inertia, as well as one educational, Hampton institute, Virginia, has come as the prophet of that spirit of educational light which the Negro race may look to as their star of hope and guide to progress. Hampton institute trains men and women to lead the men and women of their race in avenues of usefulness. It inculcates the building up of the racial standards which home the basic principles, and the watchword of the school I would define as racial responsibility—the responsibility not only of individual development, but of the race's development. Ammonia bombs are being used in some of the national forests in America to extinguish forest fires, especially in connection with brush fires, where the fire fighters cannot get near enough to the burning area to beat out the flames. Too many men are expecting to catch a ride on the road to success.—Albany Journal. According to the preliminary report of the census bureau, just published, the colored population of the country has been making a good record of progress, measured by the returns of the decade with which development it deals. They have increased in number, though at a much lower rate than the native whites, and far below the record of the foreign born whites. In the ten year period the total value of the farm property operated by Negroes has more than doubled and now exceeds very considerably $1,000,000.00. But perhaps the most encouraging gain of all is the advance that has been made in education. In 1910 more than 57 per cent of the blacks were reported as illiterate. That has now been reduced to a little over 30 per cent. If the 1920 census shows as well for them, the white people may find themselves left behind, at least in elementary education.—Boston Transcript. The department of agriculture estimates that disease and exposure caused a loss in meat animals in this country amounting to $150,000,000. Charley Why, a wealthy Chinese of Stockton, Cal., enjoyed the most expensive turtle dinner on record when he dined off the only one of eleven turtles which survived a trip from China. He had ordered them specially from the only place where they may be obtained, and had to wait nearly a year before his order was filled. Belgium's national wealth a year ago was estimated to be $9,000,000,000 Bubbling fountains for horses are used in Tampa, Fla. Dr. R. Armstrong-Jones, chief medical officer at Claybury asylum, Woodford, England, in a lecture on the relation of genius to insanity, recently said that he knew a man who could recite the "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" from cover to cover, yet his mind continued to be of the nursery type, and he did not understand what he dramatically recited. Sugar exists not only in the cane, beetroot and maple, but also in the sap of about one hundred and ninety other plants and trees. FORMER PREMIER OF GREECE [Name] N. Venizelos, former prime minister of Greece, who, with the cabinet, realised as SEVEN MORE BRITISH VESSELS ARE SUNK One Cruiser and Another Boat Damaged in War On Seas, According to Official Reports Just Issued. London, England—Reuter's Copenhagen correspondent sends a story of the sinking of the German cruiser Karlsruhe, taken from the Stiftes-Tidende, which asserts that it obtained the story from an authoritative source. According to the story the crew of the Karlsruhe was at dinner one evening when a sudden explosion broke the cruiser in two. One half of the vessel sank immediately, carrying down part of the crew with it. The other half floated for some time, which enabled between 150 and 200 men to be rescued by an accompanying steamer. This steamer reached a German port with the survivors, who were sworn to secrecy concerning the sinking of the cruiser. London, England.—Seven ships sunk, one cruise damaged and another vessel seriously damaged is the toll Great Britain has paid in 24 hours in the war on the seas, according to official reports just issued. Three mine sweepers and one sailing vessel were sunk in the Dardanelles, another mine clearing ship was sent to the bottom and a British cruiser, the name of which is being withheld from the public, was seriously damaged by fire from the Turkish forts. One other vessel was sunk by a Teuton submarine off the Northumberland coast and a second seriously damaged off the west coast of Ireland, but managed to reach port. Still another Brit ship was attacked in the North sea by a German airplane and one of her crew killed. The official report on the torpedoing of two British vessels reads: "The British steamer Atalanta, 519 tons, owned by Messrs. J. & P. Hutchinson of Glasgow, was torpedoed by a German submarine off Inishturk, on the west coast of County Galway, Ireland, about noon March 14. The crew was landed on Inishturk island and the vessel is in the harbor. "The British steamer Fingal, of 1,562 gross tons, owned by the London & Edinburgh Shipping Co. of Leith, Scotland, was torpedoed and sunk at 10:59 a. m. March 15 off the North Shields, but six lives are reported to have been lost, including the chief mate and the stewardess." The survivors of the Fingal declare the casualties on board were due to the fact that the vessel went down before the starboard boat could be freed. The Fingal, as she sank, dragged this boat under with her, leaving the occupants, including the captain, struggling in the water. The port boat picked up the captain and several others, but six men lost their lives. The Fingal was proceeding in a northerly direction, with fine weather, when she was struck by a German torpedo. She at once began to settle and went down quickly. The Atalanta was badly damaged and was towed to port. Her captain is quoted as saying there was no doubt his vessel was struck by a torpedo. The crew of 16 men was driven off the ship by fire which started shortly after the explosion. The men took to the small boats and were picked up later. The steamer which was attacked by an airplane in the North sea was the Blonde. The aviator dropped a bomb on her deck, causing death to one sailor. Judge Decides Against Wife. White Plains, N. Y. — Everything that a wife earns belongs to her husband, according to a ruling handed down by Supreme Court Justice Morschauser in the case of Ludwig Kuenstler against his wife. It was charged that Mrs. Kuenstler saved money she earned by working in a carpet factory and bought property, which she had put in her husband's name. They separated and now she wants the property back. The court ruled that she could not under the circumstances. Suffragists Opposed to War Fremont, O.—Resolutions adopted by the suffraghists' convention of the 13th Ohio congressional district here oppose war, the segregation of vice, universal disarmament and urge asylums for women rescued from the underworld. Miss Elizabeth Hauser, Columbus, presided, Mrs. P. M. Bendershott, Tiffin, was selected district manager. Delegates from Seneca, Wood, Sandusky, Erie and Huron counties, in reports, indicated increasing membership. --- SHOW MANY CHANGES COMING SEASON'S STYLES ARE TO BE "DIFFERENT." Seems Sure That the Straight Girdle is to Return—Empire Line for Evening Frocks—High Collar Is Not Coming Back. The sketches that have been sent over from Paris as forerunners of the spring and summer styles show a marked tendency to straight girdles passed around the figure directly at the line where the old waist used to be before we allowed the natural largeness of the figure to have its T Tea Gown of Yellow Chiffon and Silver Lace, With Girdle of Purple Satin. fullest development there. These belts could not be worn with the frock, or skirt and separate blouse that shows a small decrease of size between the bust and the hips. White or light muslin frocks have a belt of three-inch black velvet ribbon which is a decided return to the days when small waists were in fashion. The Empire line is also accentuated in evening frocks and short jackets, but one does not yet see it on day frocks; the individualist may try it out, but the average dressmaker is content to work out the return to the normal waist, which is no slight problem in itself. You may think that the problem of the women who must get a small waist is the more difficult one, as flesh has a way of remaining where it has gained a strong hold, but after all, the corseiere faces the worst of the work Unless she knows how to skillfully handle the shaping of a corset and can contrive to give it a flexible appearance at the normal waist line, the work of the dressmaker is in vain and the task of the woman who wants a small waist is almost impossible Again has a body blow been dealt the woman who is stout. The large waist line was her hope to be fashionable, and if it be taken away, what will she do to be rightly dressed? There is little insistence upon the fashion for the high collar. Some of the best-dressed women are returning to the rolling low one, and in Paris they are wearing a collar that is high at the back and cut away in front. There is no return to the shape that shows the entire back of the neck, but evidently women have thrust aside the enveloping band under the chin. That dire promise of an increased double chin worked wonders in gaining a refusal for an uncomfortable fashion New blouses have height at the back of the neck always, but they roll down to the bust in the accepted way of last summer The straight surplice is also accepted with its outline of white silk net or fine muslin. There is little disposition on the part of any of the new collars to lift at the side. They press flatly to the sides of the blouse, or are placed beath the fabric, showing as a softening piping. (Copyright, 1915, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) Sweet Simplicity. A child's empire frock of wash chiffon very simply made as gathered full A huge sash of ribbon is worn with it. WHITE ALWAYS IN ORDER Woman Makes No Mistake When She Supplies Herself With Many Gar- ments of That Color. In looking ahead for summer sewing, it is usually the white things which are undertaken first, partly because the materials for these do not vary so much from year to year and partly one has usually very definite ideas as to how many skirts and blouses and tailored linens one will need, whereas a little more thought is required before laying in colored cottonts. For morning wear out of town, be it at the seaside or in the mountains, there is nothing smarter and cooler looking than a white skirt and blouse. It may be more expensive to have them laundered frequently, but they do not soil so readily out of the city and even if they do launder so well and so many times that in the end they are far from being an extravagant luxury. For the woman of limited income the white skirt and blouse are invaluable and she can clothe herself for little cost if she has a good waist pattern Absence of Frivolity is the Distinguishing Mark of the Blouses of the Moment. The blouse of today carries with it just those new tops which are so typical of the moment, and which combine so well the freshness of novelty and the idea of utility For every garment at present makes a show at least of comparative simplicity and an absence of frivolity Sometimes this is only a show, and in reality the plainly and even severely cut garment requires more careful cutting and masterly handling, and is therefore really more expensive than its more frivolous predecessor. In the matter of blouses, however, this is not the case, and the best new models are most happy in a true simplicity, which is quite the newest note in fashion, and has no exaggerations so far! The most characteristic touches about these new blouses are the high, close collars and the long, tight sleeves, both conveving a cozy snugness. But we are becoming more sensible in the matter of dress. No more alry and transparent garments for winter wear and no heavy clothes and furs for the summer! Another seasonable note at present is the marked absence of transparent materials for morning wear, chiffon, lace and tulle being relegated to afternoon and evening models, excepting in the matter of collars and tiny vests. The high velvet blouse, with long sleeves and an upstanding frill or a very small turn-over collar of lace, is one of the best models It has a scalloped edge, buttoned over a vest of velvet, though this vest might be made of self-colored chiffon or net, and a tiny pointed collar of net turned down over the upstanding collar of velvet. The sleeves are set a lit full into the shoulder and terminating in a tight scalloped and buttoned cuff. The square shoulders are another very popular touch, and make a change from the kimono-cut sleeve, which, though becoming and easy to wear, does not fit under a coat with anything like the comfort of these sleeves fitted into an armhole. DICTATES OF FASHION The braiding on velvet gowns is most elaborate. A straight line at the base of the neck is decidedly trying. Orange blossom girdles are a feature on the new bridal robes. Sashes now often mold the hips, but require the greatest care in arrangement. Half and half stockings are new and striking. The upper part of these new stockings are in decided contrast to the lower part. In the coming season there will be a great deal of black millinery braid used, also neutral shades and shades matching the dress goods. IN LATEST FASHION MARY MAY Dress of White Silk With Black Lace Tunic Trimmed With Fur. Corsage of White Beaded Net With Black Beaded Flowers. A New Silk. There is a new silk out, by the way, in deep dark blue on which is a print ed border in deep red and a bright tone of blue. This aids the dressmaker in a most gratifying way to solve the problem of trimming. If we are to wear simple lines, and to depend on our original material for our efcts, then we may often be in desgrah as to how to get in our color. On an Old Hat. Put a ruche of maline in white or color on the hat—it will relieve the somber effect and make the hat seem like a new one. The ruche should be box-painted and higher at one side than the other. It is fastened about the crown of the hat with a band of ribbon. and can embroider her sheer waistes herself. With one or two fine blouses for better wear and a few tailored, or as near tailored waistes as they are wearing now, she can be suitably clad for almost an informal occasion that she may encounter provided that she is immaculate and is just as particular about her shoes and stockings. Voluminous Veils. One of the new vellies, of the voluminous sort, has a small embroidered flower in bright color placed so that it will come over one cheek. Another big vell is unusually voluminous and is a big, irregular circle, with a circumference of almost three yards. It is thrown over the hat so that the center of the veil and the center of the hat crown coincide and the wide edges hang unevenly down over the arms and back and chest. This sort of vell is edged with two narrow, bias folds of silk of a contrasting shade—white on black, black on brown. Value o. Aspiration Aspiration carries one half the way to one's desire—Elizabeth Gibson. CAP and BELLS ONE WOMAN WAS SUSPICIOUS Experience Taught Her When Husband Was Particular in Words He Was Up to Devilment. "My dear," said Mr. Timbull, impressively, "I—er—have an important conference with some of my business associates scheduled for this evening, and it is possible that I—er—may be detained until a late hour. Of course I shall not expect you to discompose yourself by sitting up and waiting for me." "But I shall wait for you, Henry," answered Mrs. Timbull, "and you had better not let me detect the least unsteadiness in your gait or thickness in your speech when you return. I've learned by experience that when you are particular in your choice of words you are nearly always up to some devilment." Logic "Your little girl is very pretty. Is she the prettiest one you have?" "Yes, she is the prettiest of my daughters." "How many have you?" "This one only. But that doesn't make any difference. If you should have many daughters, the one with you is always the prettiest."—Blanco y Negro (Madrid). Surprising. A lady, returning home unexpectedly, found her domestic using the drawing room for the purpose of giving a select party to her friends. "Ann, I am surprised!" she ejaculated. "So am I, ma'am," replied the unabashed girl. "I thought you wouldn't be back for a fortnight."—Chicago Ledger. Concerning Monuments "There is a cairn in honor of Thoreau at Walden. Every visitor adds a stone and thus quite an imposing monument has been raised." "Um." grunted Senator Wombat. "If I had all the mud that has been thrown at me collected into a pile, I have quite a sizable monument myself." Their Punishment. New Arrival (viewing room full of swiftly moving dancers)—Who are these people? Devil—Oh, those are the tango nuts. New Arrival—And do they dance that way all the time? Devil (with a chuckle)—Yes, they have to. We keep the floor so hot they can't stand still on it.—Puck. Driven From Home "I don't see why Charley spends his evenings at the club," said young Mrs. Torkins. "It's your fault," replied her mother "You will insist on buying him gorgette neckties and neckties and then inviting the neighbors around in the evening to see how funny he looks." "Beggars mustn't be choosers." "But they choose to be beggars." Keeping Up Custom. "I suppose you have grown too serious to play the games of your youth?" "No," replied Mr. Growcher. "Of course, I don't ring people's door bells and run away. I interrupt them at dinner by ringing them up over the telephone." Much Interested "When the British attacked Washington in 1813 all the congressmen had to leave the city. Of course they came back later." "Did they collect mileage both ways?" eagerly inquired the congressman addressed. And Did He, Then? Jack Timmid—I don't suppose it would be proper for me to kiss you on such short acquaintance. The Girl—No. I suppose not; but isn't it too bad we haven't been acquainted longer? "I always prefer to have business feelings or arguments with a bald man." "Why so?" "For the simple reason that he can't ipit hairs."