The Gazette

THIRTY-SECOND YEAR. NO. 36 IN MATCH BETWEEN STRENGTH DEFINES PRESIDENT WILSON'S POSITION Attorney General Gregory Files Brief in the Harvester 'Trust Case'. LAVS IDEAS BEFORE SUPREME COURT Most Striking Feature is the Distinction - Made Between 'Growth From Within' and 'Growth Through Combination.' Washington, D. C.-Attorney General Gregory's brief in the harvester "trust" case, which was expected to define the present administration's working policy toward all combinations, has just been filled in supreme court and fulfilled expectations. Its most striking feature is the distinction it makes between "growth from within" and "growth through combination." It says the brief, "against the brief, says the congress saw no substantial danger through the growth of a single business from within, no matter how large it might become in that way; even though, for example, through greater efficiency, energy or resources, and consequent ability to offer a better, product than its competitors or the name grade of product at a lower price, a corporation might come to trade the trade to the very point of controlling the market for the time being. Such Monopolies Rare. "Monopolistic power so attained could be so rare and its field so limited that it might safely be ignored." But, he says, congress intended that every combination which interferes or may interfere with normal and effective competition should be prohibited. The International Harvester Co. says Gregory's brief, is not the result of the normal growth of a single business, but is a combination of able competitors, the McCormick, Deering, Champion, Cano and Milwaukee companies. The contract requires a proportion of the trade brought together by George W. Perkins of J. P. Morgan & Co. banker and promoter. By a single stroke, says the brief, valyrs was extinguished and a virtual monopoly achieved. Later other big companies were taken in. Says Figures Contradict Trust. The attorney general sites figures to disprove trust's arguments that this combination was necessary to promote foreign trade. On the contrary, says the government, the trust probably has retarded foreign business growth. In conclusion the attorney general says: "If corporate combinations, how can they not come in the俯身 of the warrior so far as they demonstrably 'abuse' their power, the inevitable result will be the continuance of the great rush toward concentration." HITS ICE CREAM MAKERS HITS ICE CREAM MAKERS COMMERCE COMMISSION'S DECISION IS A VICTORY FOR THE EXPRESS COMPANIES. Washington, I. D. - Ohio ice cream dealers are hit hard by a decision which the interstate commerce commission handed down. The decision is a victory for the express companies against the ice cream manufacturers composing the National Association of Ice Cream Manufacturers, in which Ohio is largely represented, and suit was brought to secure a classification rating on ice cream not in excess of second class, without minimum charges. The commission had but a minimum charge in the third class but had a minimum charge of 29 cents for a package of 100 pounds. The commission finds that present rates on ice cream are not unreasonable. PRESIDENT IS GUEST OF HONOR ON NEW ARGENTINA WAR. SHIP MORENA. Annapolis, Md.—President Wilson sent all, presidents kitting when he broke an old rule that no president of the United States shall leave American soil and was the guest of honor on the new Argentina dreadnaught Moreno, under the Argentine flag. In his address President Wilson predicted a day when the Americas will be bound not merely by political ties but by mutual ideals and ideas. "We are rapidly approaching a day, he said, when the Americas will be together as one nation and that it will be a united and of political ties, but of understanding and mutual happiness." War Veteran is Found Dead. Salem, O.—Neighbors found the body of Seth A. Cook, 70, Civil war veteran, lying on the floor beside a partially packed suitcase at his home here. He died from heart failure a week ago while preparing to leave for a visit to the home of his daughter. His friends thought he had started and his body was discovered by accident. Mr. Cook was in the grocery and laundry business in Canton and Salem for many years. His son, Earl W. Cook, is a broker in Cincinnati. THE GAZETTE Princess Henriette, duchess of Vendonge and sister of King Albert of Belgium, is making her temporary home in England with other members of the royal family. TWO SHOT TO DEATH IN REVOLVER BATTLE Cincinnati, O.—Two men were killed and three others wounded, one probably fatality, in a revolver battle Sunday morning between, six game wardens and three fishermen who had been seized in the Little Miami river, just outside the city limits. James L. (Tip) Lemmon, 55; a peddler, was killed in a wagon which the fishermen and Charles Fabur, 41, also a peddler, died after being taken to the City hospital. Ed Kleinfelter, the other fisherman, is not expected to recover. Game Warden Louis Kuertz was shot in the right hand and Deputy Game Warden Dennis Derris was shot in the left arm. Neither injury is expected to prove aerials. Warden Kuertz said he had been trying to trap Lemmon for a long time; he would kill the game warden if he attempted to arrest him. Late Saturday night Kuertz received information that the men had placed a large seine in the Little Miami. The warden rounded up several deputies and sped in an auto to the river. Just before his party reached the river he passed three men in a wagon. He drove past them and ordered his deputies to walk back through the bushes to the wagon. The men were stopped by the warden and asked what barrel in the vehicle contained. One of the men pulled the cover from it and it was found to be full of fish. Game Warden Kuertz then told the men they were under arrest. One of the men, believed to have been Lemmon, was on the seat of the wagon. He opened fire through the cover over his lap and a bullet penetrated the wagon. Two men and the two men and the game wardens then opened fire simultaneously. BODY IS FOUND IN ICE CORPSE OF WOMAN MISSING FOR FOUR MONTHS DUG FROM FROZEN TOMB. Cleveland, O. — A four months search for Mrs. Marcus Morey, 24, who disappeared Nov. 13, ended March 28 when her body was found imbedded in the ice in Rocky river at the foot of Sloane's Lakewood. The finding made certain the fears of her relatives that she had thwarted the threat made in a note she left to end her life. "I don't know anything of a mother's care and wife's duties in a household," Mrs. Morey had said in the letter addressed to her husband, Marcus Morey, salesman for the J. M. & L. A. Qsborn Co. "The baby must have good care," the note went on. "Oh how I have loved her." Since the birth of her baby, Ralph Morey, ten months before she disappeared, Mrs. Morey had been ill, her relatives say, and had constantly expressed the fear that she was incapable of caring properly for her little one. Two hurt as Auto Hite Bridge, Springfield, O. — and Mrs. C. C. Grutick of Dayton were injured here when their automobile collided with a guide rail on a bridge on the Valley pike, seven miles west of this city. Three Killed by Live Wire. Los Angeles, Cal. — Three persons were killed and two badly shocked and bruised by current from a high voltage wire which broke and the body of Capt. Valhoff, 40; Mrs. Helga Valhoff, 38; his wife; Harris Skinner, 60. The 2.200 volts in the broken wire set fire to the fence across which it fell. Valkhoff and Skinner were killed when they threw buckets of water on the fames. Mrs. Valkhoff seized her husband's hand and fell dead. ESTABLISHED AUGUST 25, 1883 AND ISSUED EVERY WEEK ON TIME SINCE. WELL QUALIFIED FOR LEADERSHIP Success of Inman E. Page at Langsion University. BEGAN WITH FORTYSTUDENTS Notable Achievements of the President of Leading Educational Institue in Oklahoma—Worked His Way From Private School Through College—Active in Many Good Movements. Langston, Okla., Thirty-eight years in the schoolroom training boys and girls, with hundreds of graduates from his school all over the United States, some filling positions of honor and trust, others ranking high in the professions and trades, is the president of the Trustees of E. P. Price, president of Langston university, Professor Page is one of the best trained men of the race, as well as one of the best known educators in the United States. He was born in Warrenton, Faquaj county, Va., Dec. 28, 1853. His early education was begun in the University of Washington, taught by George F. T. Cook, the son of the most noted educator in his day and the man who really started the first INMAN E. PAUR school for the race in Washington, which was destroyed and the teacher forced to flee to Pennsylvania for safety, but returned after a year and started his school on a larger scale. It was in this school, although private, that young Page got his first taste of education. In the fall of 1868 he entered Howard university, where he soon began to realize the importance of his undertaking. He had learned that in order to become educated he would have to study diligently. He did not have weekly percents to meet all his bills when due, so he had to do some hard work to earn enough money to pay his school bills. He had heard of Yate and Harvard and of Brown university, at Providence, R. L. and decided to continue his education at Brown, which he entered in the fall of 1873. He had decided before going to Providence that he was going to remain there, but he had decided to carry the education to the letter, graduating in 1877. Now, with his diploma—and not only the diploma, but a well-trained mind—he decided to enter the busy world, with a view of serving humanity. Graduating from a college in Rhode Island, he felt that his duty was to go where he most needed, so he moved to position in the University, Natchez, Miss., in the fall of 1877. As a teacher he made a good record, and it is not surprising that he was elected vice president of Lincoln institute, Jefferson City, Mo., the following fall. It was in this position that his ability as a leader, as a school president, as a staff member, as a school officer itself, and at the close of the second year as vice president that he was elected president of Lincoln institute. It was then that Lincoln took on new life. It was then that the growth of the institution started. It was then that it became known outside of Missouri. In this position of president he served many times when he resigned from the president and Normal university, called Langston university. The school was then young and needed such a man as President Page to build it up, and this he has done. Of course the school had been voted into life by the legislature of Oklahoma, and in the fall of 1898 it was opened by the new president with his faculty and forty students. It now has an enrolment of 1,200 students, a well trained faculty. It has required the work of a master mind to build the school up to where it is. Brown university conferred on him the degree of master of arts because of the literary work he had done, and several years ago the faculty and trustees of Howard university recognized his worth and ability and learning by conferring on him the degree of LL. D., and the same honor was conferred upon him by Wilberforce university. He is active in the State Teachers association, as well as in the College of Colored Youth. His wife, Mrs. Inman E. Page, takes great interest in his work and has been of much assistance to him. She is a graduate of Wilberforce university. HAMPTON'S SUCCESS NOTED. Constructive Work of General Arm- ament. The De-Sharecard. strong Theme of Dr. Sheppard. Hampton, Va. General Armstrong's constructive work at Hampton institute, in this town, and the excellent results of training, Negro and Indian youth for service were highly presented by the Rev. Dr. William H. Sheppard of Louisville, Ky., in a most helpful address, which he recently delivered to the Memorial church here. "Under the leadership of General Armstrong," said Dr. Sheppard. "Negroes and Indians active men, Picking up the adz, they began to hew; taking up the brush, they began to paint; bitching up the horse, they began to plow; opening the book, they began to read; assembling in chapel, they confessed Christ." Dr. Sheppard raised the question. What have been the results of Hampton's work? "Homes have been established, and homes are the foundation of the community," she said. "The marriage vow has been introduced and made sacred; the family altar has been set up; Scripture reading and family prayer have become a delight, and Sublumb schools have been everywhere established." "The Negroes, who owned only a few acres of ground, inspired by their leaders, from Hampton, now own and cultivate 20,000,000 acres, worth nearly $1,000,000,000, and a near future they will have doubled and troubled the community. General Armstrong says: 'Stick to the soil. Sacrifice everything but life and honor, but get land.'" "The timid group that went down in the valley to pray that has come into the open and built spires which point toward heaven to the amount of $70,000,000. Schoolhouses have been built everywhere, in which are gathered 10,000 students and these houses build the ordinary houses, but their inspiration has led them to large and beautiful normal, industrial and agricultural institutions. The old slab houses and cabins have been torn down and now yeah, beautiful - structures have taken their places." Dr. Sheppard, a former student, paid a warm tribute to General Armstrong when he was born and said that through the influence of Hampton's founder thousands have gone into hard places filled with inspiration and life giving power. He said that General Armstrong inspired boys to be men who would look up, look out and face the world bravely. Armstrong visited labor. Negress who were found degraded, ignorant and superstitious by Armstrong were helped to higher and more profitable lives. Dr. Sheppard referred to his long years of missionary work in the Belgian, Kongo and to the results which had come to Africa through the inspiration of Armstrong and Hampton. He was also a missionary to native who are living Christian lives and are being helped by well-trained native evangelists. HOW LYNCHING ENDANGERS SAFETY OF UNITED STATES Illegal Taking of Human Life Only Practiced by Univilized Persons. BY BRUCE "GRIT." Lyphning is defined by the texecraphers as that form of lawlessness which defies the regularly constituted authorities and nullifies their powers to act by depriving them of the opportunity to do so whenever and wherever a person has violated a written or unwritten law of those states in which Judge Lychn is supreme. It does not apply to all crimes, nor is it now operative in all the states of the Union. In a majority of the southern states and in eleven northern states, it has assumed dangerous proportions and become a menace rather than a protection to society. Its methods are too drastic and brutal and savor too much of the alleged customs and practices of uncleviled and barbarous peoples to command the favor of those who love justice and righteousness and who necessarily hate all forms of lawlessness, of which this form is the most repreensible and most dangerous, in that it affects the character and the moral standing of those who tolerate or encourage it. There never was and there never can be, while there are courts and judges to administer the law, a valid excuse for the lynching of an human that excuses, condones or encourages this detainable method of punishment real or imaginary' violations of the criminal and moral law can justly lay claim to being civilized. A people are great only when they are willing and ready to yield respect, obedience and homage to the laws by which they have consented to be governed. When irresponsible men in the heat of passion defy these laws and become a law unto themselves, as in recent lynchings by mobs, the danger to the safety of the republic is not past. Oldest Business Enterprises Unite. The Union Mutual association, with home office at Attntha, Gn., has been combined with Attntha, Gn., and the Union Mutual Insurance association, of which A. F. Herndon is president and T. K. Gibson secretary. These two companies are among the oldest and largest in the state, and the combined organization represents one of the strongest enterprises conducted by the race. RESULTS OF ORGANIZATION. Well Known Osmaning Citizen Appointed to Important Position Through Influence of the Westchester County League—Leader In Many Good Movements For Advancement. By N. BARNETT DODSON. The benefit in influence, due recognition from and grateful livelihood derived from the success of the organizations among our people is emphasized strongly in the achievements of the Westchester County League, composed of colored men and women, with headquarters at Yonkers, N. Y. The league was started about six years ago at the instance of Paul H. J. Bray, the president of the league extends over the county, but its influence is more than state wide, for it numbers among its friends meed of prominence in many sections of the country who share in its efforts along all lines of its notable work. The most recent constructive work of the league resulted in a appointment to the position of John W. Hoffman of Osmington to the position of deputy sheriff of Westchester county. The announcement of Mr. Hoffman's appointment was formally made at the recent annual dinner of the organization held at Phillipsburg hall, Yonkers in the presence of hundreds of persons from all sections of the county, including many of the county and city offi- Mr. Hoffman was born at Ostlinga forty years ago. He received his early education in the public schools and later graduated from the Palmer College and Business institute in his home town.' He has been an active member of the lague since its inception and be one of the best known men of the race in Westchester county on account of his work in several JOHN W. HOFFMAN. educational, business and civic institutions in the county, where he has been a permanent resident. In military circles the new deputy sheriff is a leader, being the past commander of Camp No. 144, Sons of Veterans. His activities and worth were recognized by the Colored Men's Business league, which made him its president. He is known for his dignity and an eagerness to advance the interest of the public as well as that of the members of the organization. Perhaps Mr. Hoffman's most brilliant efforts have been in the musical line. He has taught music in the following institutions in Ossining successfully for a number of years: St. John's Young Ladies, Irving institute, the Dr. Holbrook school and the Mount Pleasant academy, where he was employed for a period of twelve years. He was recently elected president of Local No. 388, American Federation of Musicians, with headquarters at Ossining. The members of the league are greatly encouraged by the recognition which the organization has received from the community. Mr. Hoffman's deputy county sheriff and also for other substantial recognition of a body of intelligent citizens working for the good of their respective community in particular and the people of the county in general. President Paul H. Bray puts the thing in a nutshell with reference to race progress, individually and collectively, when he says: "We are, organized to work for the good of our towns and the county. We realize that the highest service any man can perform is service for others. This is the secret of the success of the Westchester County league." Tennessee Baptists to Meet April 8. The Rev. A. L. Bartlett, president of the Tennessee state Baptist convention, has called, an extra session of that body to be held at the Salem Baptist church, Jackson, Teen, for three days, on April 8th. A few needs of the work in the state are given as reason for holdin' an extra session of the convention so early in the rear. GENERAL VON BERNHARDI Gen. Count von Bernhardi, whose writings are believed to have done much toward bringing on the great European war, declares that a war between Germany and the United States is impossibly, physically and economically. TWO BRITISH VESSELS SUNK, ONE DISABLED England, England.—The Teunon sea campaign against her 'enemies has added two more to the list of vessels sunk, while a third has reached port seriously damaged. The British steamer Flamlin, with a general cargo from Glasgow, to Cape Town, was sunk by the German submarine U-28 off the Selly Isles Monday, it was officially reported Wednesday. The members of the crew of 39 were saved. This is the same vessel that was reported sunk by full speed. The ship to the boats and were picked up by the British steamer Flamlinia and landed at Holyhead. The Flamlinia sighted the U-28 the Monday afternoon. The crew at once prepared to lower the boats and at the same time the vessel was sent ahead of full speed. The ship easily overhauled her, however, and fired three shots, signaling her to stop. The Flamlinia was stopped. The submarine then fired 10 shots at the steamer. These appeared to be ineffective, and accordingly, a torpedo was discharged. This sent the Flamlinia to the bottom. The Flamlinia was fired. The crew of the British steamer Crown of Castle, which was sunk by a German submarine off the Selly islands Monday, was landed at Barry, Wales, by the French steamer Magellan. Members of the crew said the submarine was a much faster boat than the one which had previously been sunk, but that it took her over an hour to overtake the Crown of Castle. It was also stated by members of the crew that the Meamer was sunk by the shell fire of the submarine and by a torpedo. After the crew not into the boats of the steamer the German commander handed the men cigars. The Crown of Castle was engaged in the trans Atlantic trade, traded from St. John, N. B, March 19 or Europe. She was 333 feet long, 2,262 tons net and was built and owned in Glasgow. The British liner City of Cambridge also arrived at Liverpool Wednesday badly damaged as a result of an attack made on the vessel by a German submarine Sunday evening. In the land fighting Wednesday the battle of the Carpathian passes now rivals the bombardment of the Dardanelles in political possibilities. German experts assert the effort to maintain the importance politically that the supreme command of the Teutonic allies is justified in exerting every effort to check the invader there. After a brief hull in the fight for possession of Dukla pass, the Russians have brought up reinforcements and resumed the attack. At Vienna it is said the Russians have not been able to gain their objective at any point along the Carpathian front, and that they were defended in Bukowina Tuesday. Dispatches to Swiss newspapers, however, say the Austrians have suffered losses in northwestern Hungary. Cocoshton, O.-Joseph Sawyer, aged 90, last surviving veteran of the Mexican war in the county and one of the last few in Ohio, died at his home here of pneumonia. Bandits Bind Chasier, Take Cash, Pittsburgh, Pa.—After binding Alvin Ball, the teller, four taxicab bandits stole $5,000, mostly in gold, from the Hayes National bank, Haysborough, and made their escape. The bandits entered the bank, shortly before closing time, and covered the teller with their revolvers. Ball was alone. He obeyed commands to make no outcry, he said, and the men went behind the counter and bound him. After he had been bound, Ball reported, the men obtained the gold and left. IN WHICH BETTER THEN EVERYTHING AMERICA BECOMES BANKER OF WORLD U. S. Declares Its Financial Emancipation From the European War. STANDS ON OWN FEET WITHOUT CRUTCHES Antebellum Status Quo Restored by the New York Stock Exchange Is of National. Not Merely Wall Street Importance. BY B. C. FORBES New York City, the United States declared its financial emancipation from the European war Wednesday evening. The antebellum status quo was restored by the New York stock exchange. In other—and plainer—words, the props, fixed, minimum prices placed under American securities when the war broke out, were all removed after the market closed Wednesday and all restrictions on bond dealings also were lifted. This is of national, not merely Wall-st importance. Our Banking Position Strength. It means that the financial guides of this country are confident the nation can stand on its own financial feet without crutches. It means that all fears of overwhelming selling of European owned American investments have passed. It means that our banking position is so strong that it can take care of any eventualities. It means that American stocks and bonds have been tested and not found wanting. It means that European investors have more faith in the worth of American securities than those of their own countries. It means that there has been such a recovery in values here that no artificially inflated prices are necessary. It means finally, a proclamation to the whole world, that sound, normal financial conditions rule here and that any person, no matter what his nationality, can enter our security markets and buy and sell to his heart's content or his limit. The New York stock exchange's was made the official announcement made Wednesday. Of equal moment was the formal statement of the state department that "this government has not felt that it was justified in interposing objections which have been brought to its attention." This is another testimonial to the strength of our position financially among the nations of the earth. When powerful New York bankers approached the government on proposed loans to belligerents early in the war, the reply was that Washington would look with distainer upon the exertion of arms in war, the police and the giant fighters—a stand which was generally commended in economic circles; as Europe was then trying to drain America of gold. United States Keep Cash Today America threatens to drain European countries of gold if preventive measures are not taken—either that or our enormous sales of merchandise to Europe will be cut off. The financial assistance now being granted Europe is very different from the good prospects it has made for goods or more months ago. Current loans do not entail shipments of American gold, but facilitate and stimulate shipments of American goods. The borrowers are simply given credits, that is, drawing accounts solely for use in this country. We keep the cash. Europe devotes it to buying goods and our factories to make profits and our workers to make wages. The largest credit of all was formally ratified Wednesday, namely, $50,000,000 to France. England will be given a drawing account of probably $100,000,000 to start with, the amount to be increased if necessary. America has just placed $10,000,000 short date notes among financial institutions and investors here. Russia got $25,000,000 in one block, also for use within our shores. Italy, Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland, Argentina and Canada are among the other nations which have come to the United States for financial success. America, in short, has become the banker for the whole world temporarily. Bishop Dubs Passes Away. Harrisburg, Pa.-Bishop Rudolph Dubs of the United Christian evangelical church died last month after an illness of several months, aged 78. Bishop Dubs was the oldest active-bishop in the United States, having been re-elected for a four-year term at the general conference of his church last October. Noted Banker Is Dead. London, England.-Baron Nathan Mayer Rothschild, head of the greatest banking firm in the world, died here at the age of 74. Baron Rothschild was the oldest surviving member of the great family of bankers of the country, and for many decades has dominated European and world finance. He was grandson of Baron Nathan Mayer de Rothschild of Frankfurt, and later of London, perhaps the world's greatest financier, who exerted through the power of money tremendous influence upon European political history. One Year.....$1.50. Six Months.....1.00 Three Months.....50 Subscribers are requested to re- mit by postoffice money or- der or registered letter mered at the postoffice in Cleveland Ohio, as second-class matter. Address all communications to Blackstone Building, Cleveland, O. Member Ohio Legislature: 1894 to 1896; 1896 to 1898; 1900 to 1902 THE GAZETTE is the oldest, and has the largest bona fide circulation, double that of any newspaper in the interest of Afro-Americans, published in the state of Ohio, and comparison with any will immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWSIEST AND BEST in the country. 10,000,000 Afro-Americans.. 160,000 in Ohio. 20,000 in Cleveland. A FEW MILLIONS DON'T MATTER. Whether the deficit in the national treasury shall be $103,000 as Mr. Fitzgerald, chairman of the finance committee declares, or twenty-six thousand as Senator Simmons claims, is immaterial so far as the reelection of President Wilson is concerned for the party will be punished for inefficiency and extravagance, which are the only possible reasons for their being any deficit at all. A REFERENDUM ON CIVIL SERVICE. If, by threats of a referendum or otherwise, 7,000 or more Democratic state and city jobholders can be perpetuated on the public jay-crool through preservation of the noncompetitive feature. Democratic chieftains hope to re-elect Democratic administrators in the cities in which they are now intrenched by the power of patronage. With their present municipal units intact and the assistance of the army of Democratic state employees retained under the present law, Democratic state leaders see chances for a return to power in 1916 despite the continued dissension in the rank and file. Republican adminISTrative and legislative leaders be lieve, however, that the referendum threats are only bluffs. Although the Democrats would have a sufficient or organization of noncompetitive jobholders to secure the necessary number of referendum petition signers, they think that former Governor Cox and Democratic State Chairman Finley are too crafty as politicians to give the voters of the state a chance to pass judgment on the present discredited noncompetitive "merit" system—Cincoinnati Commercial Tribune. DESPAIR AND HOPE The political situation that faces President Wilson in the affairs of his party in several States is desperate. In New York Senator O'German and Congressman Fitzgerald threaten to make an irreparable breach with the administration. And it is a character of warfare that will make itself felt in the present Congress in which the Democratic majority is meager. In New Jersey Senator Martine, whom Mr. Wilson forced upon the people of his State, has turned against his former benefactor and precipitated an additional fight in that ancient cockpit of Democracy. Pennsylvania is another commonwealth where harmony among Democrats is a vague memory. The situation is proving an aged maximum—that the Democratic party in its hour of success invariably sows the seeds of its failure. It is a party of opposition, opposition that will not be quieted by constructive opportunities. Meanwhile the Republican party, after the seismic disturbance of 1912, is proving that it is the same party that administered the affairs of the country for sixteen years. It was entitled to a vacation and it got it. And it is now recuperating for the day not long to be deferred when the American people will ask it to go back on its old job—Cincinnati Times-Star. MR. TROTTER'S TOUR. Editor William Monroe Trotter has evidently gotten on "the blind side" of Hon. Harry O. Smith, editor of The Cleveland Journal. That journal issue says: Editor Wm. M. Trotter kept the largest audience he has had (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 attention 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 who only helped to make "had 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. What does all this mean? Has Editor Smith interviewed the committee of arrangements to see if the financial part of the bargain was all right in advance? If there was no "hitch" in money-matters and then Mr. Trot- ter disappointed his audience, we can but exclaim, May God have mercy on Brother Trotter, when his wife meets him. It was a cruel punishment to require Mr. Trotter to speak to an audience in Cleveland, when that audience had been waiting for him three hours. Even a woman's love will grow cold at such treatment and he must have found himself within an ice-house the night that he ascended the rostrum.—Richmond (Va.) Planet. Editor Trotter got on "the blind side" (didn't know we ever had such a "side") by arriving so late. "The committee of arrangements" and Mr. Trotter claim that the financial and all other parts of the bargain were "all right in advance" and otherwise. There was absolutely no "hitch" in money-matters. All the blame for the audience's long wait rests upon Mr. Trotter, who instead of leaving Cincinnati for Cleveland on an early morning train, as he should have done, waited for a near-noon train and then missed that one; so he informed members of the local committee of arangements. "Brother Trotter's wife has our best wishes when she "starts something" on his return home and an accounting of his Cleveland engagement is asked for. His late arrival practically wiped out his receipts for the engagement here. So, there un doubtedly will be "something doing" on his return to Boston, if the domes tic conditions there are as indicated by our esteemed confrere, Editor John Mitchell of the Planet. The "cruel treatment" was visited on the audience, only, and in the shape of that long wait and the "speech" of the individual who was expected to entertain it in Trotter's absence. In spite of all this, no speaker could have been more enthusiastically greeted and more magnanimously treated than he was on his late arrival and during his hour's talk. It certainly is about time he was thanking that audience of which, luckily, we were not one. See letter elsewhere in this paper. THAT MI$ERABLE PHOTO-PLAY The local Ministers' Alliance adopted a strong set of resolutions, Tuesday morning, at its meeting, against the exhibiting of that miserable photo-play "The Nigger", at the Standard theater, Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday, and followed them up with a visit to Mayor Baker, Tuesday, which was the best and most effective thing for them to do. The editor of The Gazette held conferences with the Mayor and Chief of Police Rowe, last Saturday morning, and had the assurance of the former that the miserable play would be banished from the city if it was as represented by us. The chief was to and did send officers to see and report on the play, Monday morning. In spite of its several mob-liciting scenes, they could not see enough in it to order its suppression, largely because the State Board of Censors had "passed the play", they said. Local moving picture men, interested in the presentation of the miserable play in this city and state, said that it had not only the endorsement of the State Board of Censors but that Gov. Frank B. Wisden had given it his approval. We did not believe this and felt positive that whatever the State Board might have done in the matter, the Governor had not done anything of the kind. Therefore, immediately after our conferences with the Mayor and the Chief of Police, we wrote the Governor fully and frankly relative to the matter and on Tuesday of this week received the following characteristic communication which not only pleased greatly, but gives us reason to feel that he will do all in his power to aid us in our effort to bar the miserable, mob-liciting photo-play from the great state of Ohio; State of Ohio, Executive Department Columbus. March 29, 1915. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor Gazette Cleveland, O. Dear Harry: -I am in receipt of your letter with a copy of the letter writ ten by you to your Cleveland minis. GOV. FRANK B. WILLIS ters, relative to a certain picture that it is proposed to be exhibited by certain moving-picture people. I want to say to you positively that I never heard of this picture before and that it has never received my approval directly or indirectly. I shall take immediate steps to bring this to the attention of the State Moving Picture Consor Board in order that this film may not be exhibited at any point within the limits of this state. I assure you of the most prompt action by this office in this regard. Very truly your friend, Frank B. Willis. On Monday, after receiving several reports from persons of both races who had witnessed the play, that day, we sent the following letter to Mayor Baker which he received Tuesday Morning; Cleveland, March 23, 1915. Mayor Newton D. B. Baker, City Hall. Dear Sir:—I am sure that if YOU will see that miserable and vicious photo-play at the Standard theater, you will stop it, as you promised, Saturday. See it yourself and do not take any one's "sayso". That scene where the Negro grabs the little white girl, and the "race war", as presented in the play, are positively nauseating, promotive of the mob-feeling and spirit and vicious in the extreme. There are positively nothing elevating or wholesome in the thing. It is the most harmful thing to the 20,000 Colored people in Cleveland that has ever been brought to this city in the nearly 50 years of my residence. Any man who can see it and not feel the same way about it, must be hardened to crime or thoroughly surcharged with a baneful prejudice that finds a vent in witnessing such a very low order of things, even pictures. I trust that you will take (or make) the time necessary to view the disgusting spectacle at the Standard theater, tomorrow (Tuesday), so as to make it impossible to have it presented in other moving picture theaters of this city. FRESH OHIO NEWS WRITTEN BY "THE OLD RELIABLE" GAZETTE'S CORRESPONDENTS THROUGHOUT THE STATE What Our People Are Doing Each Week—Church, Personal, Social, Lodge, Literary and Musical—Marriages, Deaths, Etc. OBERLIN.—Mr. David Heavener of Wilberforce, was called here, Tuesday, by the critical illness of his brother. dent of the s see; Mrs. J. I April 23, the Richard Lynne Mrs. Sarah Winston, N. News, Rideout are Pennington wa, Pa, by his nell's death- on, Frid is convalescent was buried Baptist church organizer, 35 and eight day Mr. and Mrs. are convalescent promising ca The foregoing communication was received by the Mayor in time to be of assistance to the delegation of our local Ministers' Alliance who called on him the day (Tuesday) of its receipt by him. Mayor Baker informed the pastors that if the drama was presented longer than Wednesday he would confer with Police Chief W. S. Rowe relative to stopping it in this city. That our readers throughout Ohio may thoroughly understand how thoroughly vicious the miserable photo-play is, we append the following, furnished The Gazette's editor, last Saturday, by B. S. Driggs, (white), of this city, a long-time friend of the race and the writer. It is from "The Moving Picture World" of New York City, March 27, 1915, the organ-of the moving picture industry in the United States: "A Picture to be Suppressed." "Repulsive, harmful and void of any moral lesson worth pointing, is a picture purporting to be founded on Edward Sheldon's play, 'The Nigger.' It is a production of the play by the author, it presents the worst sores in American civilization without any decency or restraint and without suggesting a remedy. A drunken Negro, frothing at the mouth, is shown in a close-up as he hides behind a tree, waiting to assault a little (white) girl wandering through the woods. The child dies from the effects of what a man has done, and after that we have a man-hunt with blood-hounds, a lynching and the spectacle of a Negro being burned at the stake. Nothing so nauseating as 'The Nigger' has been shown on the screen. As seen by a representative of the Negro community, it is a brutal appeal to the most dangerous human passions and prejudices". While it is true that the State Board of Moving Picture Censors caused about "ten feet of play" to be cut from the vicious photo play, it still contains enough and more, as will be seen in our letter to the Mayor, to condemn it a thousand times over when it is remembered that children of tender years are also admitted to all moving picture shows. Then, too the very name is as objectionable to our people as the objectionable scenes (and others) to which the Mayor's attention is called. Let our people of the state write Gov. F. B. Willis, at once, and let him know how they feel about it. Prompt action is what is needed and wanted. THE MAYOR HESITATES. Cleveland, March 30. 1915. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor Gazette City. My dear Mr. Smith--I have your letter of March 29. Immediately after your visit to my office the other day I called up the Motion Picture Censor Bureau and was told that the film in question had been officially approved by that body and that one more of the disgusting and inflammatory details described in the copy of the Motion Picture World which you showed me. Evidently these objectionable things had been eliminated before the film was exhibited to our Censor Board. I notice that the Chief of Police has sent one of his officers to view the picture and that in the opinion of that official it is not subject to interference under the existing law. And I also note that an effort to enjoin the production of the picture has been made and that Judge Pearson has devised a method of indemnification. If scarcely seems in view of these facts as though any further interference of a merely executive character could be made. One of the great difficulties about any kind of censorship is that we are constantly confronted with offenses against good taste and good citizenship which are neither criminal nor indecent. This particular picture may be one. Certainly the contents of the film were otherwise unobjectionable. Yours very truly. Newton D. Baker, Mayor. Before reading the following, read again our letter to Mayor Baker, published earlier in this leader. Senator Bauer of Cincinnati, late Wednesday in Columbus introduced a bill which, if it passes, will prevent the production or display of any film or play calculated to incite race prejudice or to ridicule any race, and stops the publication of pictures or articles bringing about that effect. Ominous Sign. As the Statue of Liberty hove in sight one of the passengers rushed in to the captain's quarters. "Say, cap," he hiccoughed, "can't ye wait around out here until dark? My wife's wait ing for me with a club in her hand."—Exchange. DON'T THROW AWAY 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. FRESH OHIO NEWS 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 Musical—Marriages, Deaths, Etc. OBERLIN.—Mr. David Heavener of Wilberforce, was called here, Tuesday, by the critical illness of his brother, Geo. David Heavener. Marriage Lawson has returned. Rev. R. Delaney will leave for conference in Chicago, April 13. The annual dinner has been postponed. Miss Mable Ormes of Kent, and Mrs. Carrie Jackson of Cleveland, were here, last week. Wed. W. B. and an angelic girl Rust M. E, and Mt. Zion S. S. are practicing for Easter services. Excellent programs will be rendered. CADIZ—Local K. P. went to Steubenville, Sunday. The B. E's met at the parsonage, the same day—Gee Miller and Dwight Mason have returned from E. Liverpool—Easter services, at Simpson M. E. church Sunday at 7 p. m. Georgia Duling and Bertha Carter were in Steubenville, Sunday. Shilah and Sila Blank were married, last week. Palm Sunday was observed at the A. M. E. church. The services and decorations were in charge of Medames West, Redman and Childers—The sick are convalescent. SPRINGFIELD. — Miss G l a y d s, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. T. W. Burton, is convalescing and expects to return to Wilberforce University, Monday. — Mrs. C. A. White and Mary Johnson spent Sunday in Piqua. — Miss Myrtle Thomas is visiting her parents near Urbana. — Mrs. Malinda Byrd is seriously ill. — Mrs. Thos. Green entertained the 20th. Century Embroidery club, Friday afternoon. Sewing and light refreshments. — We are pleased to have "the old reliable" Gazette, again. Other race newspapers come and go but only The Gazette remains with us always. Give the local agent your order and get it every week. SANDUSKY. — Arthur. Alexander spent Saturday and Sunday in Cleveland. —Miss W. Harris has returned to Youngstown. She visited her aunt, Mrs. W. Holmes, for two months. — "Jitney day," day, at the Second Baptist church. Rev C. C. Hart is the teacher. We will be the pastor has a gripe. He will be baptise at 11:30 a. m. Sunday. Sacrament, at 7:30 p. m. Old and young are requested to be present at 10 a. m. sharp if they wish to witness the baptism. —Mr. L. Brown and A. L. Williams are very ill.—Rev J. A. D. Singleton, pastor of the M. E. church, is doing nicely on the church for a month. Easter exercises are to be exceptionally interesting, this year. CORRESPONDENTS must mail all letters for publication at their 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 relatives, in the envelope wrapper about returned copies. Unless this latter is done, proper credit cannot be given you. Lists of names, wedding presents, etc., obituary notices, speeches, resolutions, poetry, inquiries for relatives and advertisements must be sent out announcing entertainments to be held in the near future, must be paid for in advance at the rate of ten cents a line, six words to a line. Our rates for display advertisements will be sent on application. Send postal note and not stamps during warm weather. DAYTON.-Miss Mary G. Evans the successful young evangelist closed one of the best revivals, at Euclid Avenue A. M. E. church, ever held in this city. She held the crowds in wrapped attention. Scores were turned away because they could not get into the church. There were fifty-six conversions. Her many admirers showed their appreciation of her great work by giving her $80.90.-Mrs. Robert Thompson and daughter, Miss Louise, of Maysville, Ky., arrived recently for a visit with the former's John J. Walker and Mrs. Herman Lewis. They will be in the city for about three weeks.-Our guests at the recent Central Y. M. C. A. dinner were segregated, and not one word of complaint has been heard from them. Editor Trotter's recent speech here seems to have had no effect on them. MANSFIELD—Mr. Fred Thomas was found dead sitting up in a chair, heart-failure—Mrs. S. Blaire and Mrs. D. Peyton of ———, were Mrs. A. Poindexter's guests, last week.—"Mother" Beaumont is convalescent.—Elustine Espy has been quite ill.—Mr. Wm. Lewis and Mr. Harry Blake of Mt. Vernon, spent Wednesday and Thursday with Mr. Ray. Banks. Misses Mary and Helen Simpson of Marion, were guests of Miss Pearl Banks. Miss Ruby Brooks of Cleveland, is the week-end guest of Mrs. Hattie Banks and family.—Mrs. M. Spencer led services, Sunday. The Juvenile society met at Miss Carrie Ford's. It is doing excellent work. Rev. C. W. Ford wishes to thank the K. P. for their generosity during his illness. Many have called to see him and let her know. Mrs. Ford was surprised, on returning from prayer-meeting, to find in her home members and friends with well-filled bakets for her and her husband. The latter are very thankful for the same. Sunrise prayer-meeting, 5 a. m. Easter. A program in the evening. Men's day, April 18. The men should "out-do" the ladies. YOUNGSTOWN—Mrs. P. Downing of Cleveland, was the guest of Mrs. Wm. Payter, last week—Mrs. W. Farrice and daughter, of Cleveland, are visiting her mother, Mrs. Robert Kerr—Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Sharp entertained in honor of the bride and groom, Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Bolden. An elaborate luncheon, the Swinton Bros., furnished music—Co. C of the Ever Ready club, of Oak Hill Av. A. M. E. church, rehearsed the cantata, Tuesday evening, to be given in May, and organized the Ervin Dramatic society, Mrs. Carrie Ervin is captain of the club: Mrs. Hazel Harper, presi- dent of the society; Mrs. W. Barnes, sec; Mrs. J. Espy will direct the play. April 23, the Co. will present Master Richard Lynch and other local talent. —Mrs. Sarah Roberts was called to Winston, N. C., by her mother's ill-health. —Mrs. J. Espy and Mr. George Rideout are convalescing. —Morris Pennington was called to West Chester, Pa., by his sister, Mrs. Maud Pennerl's death. —Mrs. W. Gardner, operated on, Friday, at the City hospital, is convalescing. —Rev. Pleasant Tucker was buried, Sunday, from the Third Baptist church of which he was an alumnus. —Mr. and eight daughters survive him. —Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Berry of Leetonia, are convalescing. —Jos. T. Tarver is a promising cartoonist. DOINGS OF THE RACE Franklin H. Wright was elected a member of the City Council of Cambridge, Mass., on March 9. Mrs. Virginia Kennedy gave birth to twins in the state's prison at Auburn, N. Y., recently. The state must support them for two years. Dr. James R. Norrell of Indianapolis, Ind., has recently been appointed a deputy coroner of that county. Mrs. Louisa Smoot, (white), who died at Milford, Del. Mar, 7 left Herman Graham whom she reared from 6 years of age to manhood, $10,000 and a fine residence on West Front St. Philadelphia, where Graham, a member of the race, resides at 1225 S. 16th St. Editor W. P. Dabney of the Cinema-nat Union, is busy day and night, these days, fighting segregation and all other forms of discrimination in the "Queen City". This is noble in him, too, and especially so when it is known that Mr. Dabney is in an official position. Men of that sort are generally as mum as a claim, but this is not so in the case of Mr. Dabney. He is a man—Martinsburg (W. Va.) Pioneer Press. The ranking patrolman in Oakland, Cal., is an Afro-American, but the chief will not promote him because of his cage dentist, made the second highest average in a recent civil service examination held there. "The Birth of a Nation", a nefarious production, a subterfuge for "The Clansman", has defied the law by a continuation of its performance in N. Y. City. "The Clansman" was driven from the American stage because it was "rotten", and now we are confronted with its worst features on canvass. Harry E. Burris, a mail-carrier of Rock Island, Iowa, was given a banquet recently by the mail-carriers of his postoffice, on the completion of twenty-five years' continuous service. The postmaster and his assistant were present. Mr. Henry Mock of Mingo Junction, O., has invented a fender which when attached to a ship can be telescoped or detached at will. It has five features: Mine destroyer, locater and cannon, from stalking or burning vessels, fender for reefs and rocks, fender for icebergs and lighterager for freight, etc. Jack Johnson who is to fight Jess Willard, (white), in Havana, Cuba, Monday, has earned approximately $550,000 in the last six years—nearly $60,000 a year. Monday, he will cash a check for $30,000 before he steps into the ring—for that fight, and was given $5,000 for training expenses for it. In addition, he will have motionless legs and a right arm that worth $75,000. He is in excellent physical condition and is expected to whip Willard. Jack is easily worth $200,000 today. Other race papers come with "the old reliable" Gazette remains with you. There is no race publication in this part of the country that compares at all favorably with it, in circulation or otherwise. You can easily satisfy yourself as to this. if you are interested. Subscribe for and advertise in the Gazette if you want the BEST. The North Carolina legislature, last week, for a second time, refused to enact a rural land segregation bill, entitled the Raleigh (N. C.) Progressive Farmer, and a pet hobby of the Farmers' Union of that state. The N. Y. Age endorses a "jim-crow" Y. M. C. A. for "Harlem," a part of that great city. It is said that the paper is controlled by Booker T. Washington. Chicago's "jim-crow" Y. M. C. A. has intensified race prejudice in that city, and Illinois, tenfold. Even the latter's "Soldiers' Home" now has separate doors for our old veterans—something unheard of in that state before the establishment of Chicago's "jim-crow" Y. M. C. A. A Card of Thanks. Our many friends and especially the members of Cuyahoga lodge, No. 95. I. B. P. O. Elks, will please accept our sincere thanks for their kindness to Robert L. Turk during his illness and at his funeral. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Turk. Portraits on Emeralds Emeralds have often been made use of for the cutting of portraits. They are among the hardest of stones, and so stand the work better than their fellows. The Roman Emperor Hadrian had his likeness engraved upon an emerald, as well as many other great persons; and the portrait which perhaps many have seen advertised as the only true portrait of our Savor is said to be a faithful copy of one found engraved on an emerald of very ancient date. ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Main 806 $12-314 Superior Building QUINADE GROWS HAIR REMOVES DANDRUFF SEND FOR SAMPLE QUINASOAP THE IDEAL SHAMPOO SOAP THOROUGHLY CLEANSSES THE SCALP QUINACOMB HAIR STRAIGHTENER SHAMPOO DRYER QUINADE 25¢ QUINACOMB 50¢ QUINASOAP 25¢ AT ALL DRUGGISTS SEEBY DRUG COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY, N. Y. Is absolutely guaranteed and is bottled under Government supervision by The Cleveland & Sandusky Brewing Co. West 785 Central 3933 TAYLOR'S SPECIAL ALCOHOL HEATER is the handset and most convenient method of heating the Comb, and can be closed up so that you can put it in your hand-bag. 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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 as once to James B. Dudley, President, or D. J. Jordan, Director, A. & M. College, Greenboro, N. C. THE PEOPLES' DRUG STORE 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. 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We advise our patrons to carefully examine The Gazette's advertisements and notice patrons, thus encouraging 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 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. Mrs. S. C. Johnson was greatly and very agreeably surprised on her birthday. Mar. 25, by many friends. Refreshments etc. The evening proved thoroughly enjoyable. Have you noticed how some of the local daily papers ridicule the race and harm it by a senseless caricature of Jack Johnson? This has been kept up, too, for weeks, and especially this week. Send or bring locals and all business matters to The Gazette's offices, suite 2, Blackstone Bldg. If you wish to see the editor in office there, please contact for information on the issues of The Gazette, must be in the office by 4 p. m., WEDNESDAY at the latest. Mr. Henry Campbell of E. 32d St., one of our oldest residents, died, Tuesday evening, after an illness of a few weeks. Pneumonia. A widow survives him, and has the sympathy of the community. Mr. Campbell had been in the employ of the Corning family for many years. Mrs. Mabel Holmes Jackson of Hudson Ave., is on a pleasure trip which will include Richmond, Va., Washington, D.C. and many interesting points in the history of the city, with Mr. and Mrs. Robert T. Frackelton of Euclid Ave., the latter former Miss Constance Chandler. The night-waitress placed an attachment on the New Keystone restaurant, last week, and John Fairlax, Jr., was named as keeper by Squire Will Brown, under the same. The Gazette is one that the proprietor did not unclearly left the city, last week. The Boothian class of St. John's S. S. which was to have banqueted at "The New Keystone", last Friday evening, was served at the Old Dominion restaurant, on very short notice, and was splendidly cared for by Mrs. H. C. Jones proprietress, and her efficient The DuBois Literary club will receive application from students, who wish to take a college course and desire assistance. This is the object of the club and it wishes to have some worthy girl or boy in view and ready for the September term of school. Only applicants desirous of completing a course need apply. The club's work, this year, was retarded because it did not know until too late that its former student was not going to return school. Applications should be set the president of the organization. Mrs. Blanche Glmere, 2821 E 74th St. Mrs. Carrie W. Clifford, of Washington, D. C., former resident of this city, will speak for the club, in April. Common Pleas Judge A. J. Pearson, Monday, refused an injunction to restrain Mrs. Ruth L. Grossman, manager of the Standard殿剧, Proesch Ave. S. E., near E. 8th st., from exhibiting the film drama, "The Nigger," adapted from Edward M. Sheldon's play, "The Duschess Managers of the Duchess theatre, 5708 Euclid Ave., sought to enjoin its production, claiming the Duchess management had rights to first runs of all films furnished by the Box Office Attraction Co., and the Fox Film corporation of New York. Police had been notified that "The Nigger had not been but Lieutenant of Police Charles Woodhill found the state board had approved of the film. He later said he found nothing objectionable in the production. Good Lord!" CORRESPONDENTS WANTED. The old reliable Gazette desires an active agent and correspondent in every city and town in Ohio and neighboring states having a number of Afro-American residents. Only a little time on Fridays or Saturdays is required. We are especially desirous of hearing from person in the following named: Zanesville, Newark, Lebanon, Lobster, Chillicothe, Toledo, Troy, Canton, Springfield, Plaqu, Columbus, Cambridge, Steubenville, Bellaire, St. Clairsville, Portsmouth, Washington C. H., Oxford, Sabina, Galipolis, Rendville, Urbana, Delaware, Mt. Vernon, East Liverpool, Wellsville, Akron, Dayton, Middletown, Bellefontaine, Lima, O., and other places where we have none. Write to the editor of The Gazette. Blackstone building, Cleveland, O, and terms will be sent promptly. Our office will help us greatly by sending at once the addresses of persons in the cities named above, or others, to whom we can write relative to the matter. A giraffe immediately after it birth measures six feet from its hoof to the top of its head. J. S. HALL'S, 3121 Central Ave. *O. C. SCHROEDER'S, Guyahoga Bldg. 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.—Houses and Rooms. If you have them to rent or if you want to rent, advertise in The Gazette. It brings results. NOTARY PUBLIC.—For such services call at The Gazette office, No. 2 Blackstone building, No. 1424 W. Third Street, near Superior Ave. FOR SALE.—Houses or lots. If you have either or anything else to sell, or if you wish to purchase, advertise in The Gazette. If anything can bring you results, it can and will. FOR SALE—House and lot, close to Kinsman car line, 3 cent fare, water, gas, sewer, sidewalk, etc. Also fine building lots. Call or address J. M. Kinner, 3521 E. 143rd St. 'Phone, Broadway, 1298 R. Cleveland Sixth City Miss Blanche Johnson is spending the Easter vacation in Akron. Miss Anna Mottley has entered St Anne's hospital and is studying to be come a trained nurse. Mrs. John Cowan and little daughter, of Oberlin, will join her husband in this city, in a few days, and locate Rt. Rev. W. A. Leonard visited St. Andrew's Episcopal church, Monday evening and administered the rites of the holy confirmation. The Gazette has been "house-cleaning", this week. Next week our many patrons will find a much nicer, neater and cleaner office. Call! Our advertisers want your trade. Those who do not ask for it in The Gazette certainly care little, if at all, for it. Therefore, we urge our readers and all of our friends to patronize those who ask for your trade in this paper. Mrs. Martha Early of Pittsburg, is visiting her son, Marcellus, of 5509 Quincy Ave. The latter's wife gave a five course dinner, Sunday, in her honor. --- Will the lady who recently looked at some rooms for rent in E 82d St. please return, as soon as possible, one of the keys (she carried away by mistake) to Mrs. J. M. Naylor, 2419 E 82d St. Mr. Parker was in the city, this week, and promised to send the very best that he had; for Monday evening's great Easter ball at the Dreamland Palace, given by the Ivy Leaf Dancing Class.—Adv. Mr. A. Doston of Hamilton, Can., and Mr. T. Binga, Sr., an old citizen of Detroit, died recently. The deceased were relatives of Mrs. Ella Turner of Detroit, former resident of this city, and Mrs. F. Dandridge of Central Ave. We are showing a big line of Easter baskets, novelties and candy. Also ladies' and children's Spring hats and trimmings. Sterling 5 and 10 cent store, cor. Central Av., and E ... Get ready for the Metropolitan club dance, Easter Monday evening, at the Federal Athletic club auditorium, one of the finest dance floors in the city. Beaumont's Society orchestra of ten pieces (singers and instrumentalists) will furnish you a charge. Do not miss this social function.—Adv. The Elyria Progressive club, 2556 E. 22d St., filled a long-felt want. It is neat, well conducted and is succeeding. we are glad to say, that you are welcome to their hosts of friends are rapidly joining the club. It is conducted on a high plane and only desirable persons are accepted as members. In the hour of trouble and distress call Slaughter Bros., funeral directors. They are members of the race and are equipped to give you the best funeral service in the city and at moderate prices. For $75 they can give a complete first-class funeral which includes a beautiful cloth-covered casket with name-plate and six silver handles, embalming, burial-robe, door-wreath, outside-box, three carriages and all professional service. Their establishment is Ashburn, Ad, and their casket-display rooms are open to the public every day. Bell phone, Rosedale, 2770. See advertisement elsewhere in this paper.—Adv. --- --- Baby Giraffe. METHODIST CHURCH SOUTH. Broadens its Financial Policy Toward Our Educational Institutions. Nashville, Tenn. - As a result of a conference held in this city recently the M. E. Church South will in the future maintain a broader policy of aid to and co-operation with the C. M. E. church. This decision was reached in a conference of the secretaries of the various boards of the M. E. Church South with respect to the relations between the two churches and embraces particularly increased aid to the educational, church extension and Sunday school work of the C. M. E. church. By order of the recent general conference of the M. E. Church South the secretaries were to confer upon this matter and report their decision to their respective boards. Whether authentic or not, the opinion generally prevailed among the leaders of the C. M. E. church that in the future the work which the Southern Methodist church would do for Negro education would be confined to Paline college, Augusta, Ga., alone. For more than a quarter of a century the M. E. Church South had maintained this school and has also contributed to the mainte nature of Laine college, Jackson, Teenb. Dr. John M. Moore, secretary of the home mission department, was especially active in pushing forward a broader policy of larger support to the C. M. E. church. Rather than continue its policy of combining its efforts to aid Negro education to the support of Paline college alone the decision that was made to contribute to the support was five colleges maintained by the C. M. E. church, including to decision, the M. E. Church School will continue to care for the entire budget of expenses of Paline college and, in addition will make annual appropriations to Miles Memorial college, Birmingham, Ala.; Laine college, Jackson Tenn.; Mississippi Industrial college Holly Springs; Texas college, Tyler Tex. and Honore college, La. When the matter was up for discussion the secretaries of the Methodist Episcopal Church South asked Dr James A. Bray, general secretary of education for the C. M. E. church, for an expression of opinion, and he stated to them that a broader sphere of activity on the part of the white church toward the uplift of the Negroes in the C. M. E. church would not at all detract from Pame college, but would rather tend to help that institution, making it the central school for theology and for the higher training of teachers, deaconesses and other social workers, maintaining that the disposition to divide its interests in various sections would make possible better facilities and better work in schools that would reach a larger number of people than could be expected to attend the central school. This idea prevailed, and the several secretaries unanimously and enthusiastically made the broad recommendation that henceforth it is to be the policy of the southern Methodist church. Attending the conference were Drs. Stonewall Anderson, secretary of education; John M. Moore, secretary of home missions; W. W. Pinson, secretary of foreign missions; F. H. Parker, secretary Epworth League; W. M. McMurray, secretary church extension; J. A. Lamar, secretary or manager book concern; E. D. Chappelle, secretary Sunday school department. Representing the colored Methodist Episcopal church were Drs. James A. Bray and Rufus S. Stout, secretary of church extension. Dr. J. D. Hammond, president of Paine college, also attended the conference. IMPORTANT COMING EVENT. Commencement Week at Wilberforce University-Begins June 10. From present indications in the line of class work, large attendance and general public interest in Wilberforce university the commencement exercises at the university this year will be the largest in every way of any in the history of the school. The speakers for the special exercises thus far chosen outside of the students are Dr. H. H. Hart of the Russell Sage foundation, New York, commencement orator, Professor A. S. Jackson, commissioner of education for the African Methodist Episcopal church, orator for the literary societies. Commencement week begins Thursday, June 10, and ends on Thursday, June 17, with the observance of what is known as commencement day. The baccalaureate sermon this year will be delivered by Chaplain T. G. Stewart, D. D., vice president of the university. The faithful work of the president and faculty, the manly bearing of the students and the great interest shown in the welfare of the institution by its many friends of both races warrant the belief that Wilberforce university is able filling the great mission for which it came into being. --- Stalwart Friends of the Negro Race. The Hon. Harry C. Smith, editor of the Cleveland (O.) Gazette, in speaking of the great work in behalf of justice for the colored people, as shown by Congressman Martin B. Madden and Dr. Joel E. Spingarn, says: "Again we doff our cap to the Hon. Martin B. Madden of Chicago and Dr. Joel E. Spingarn of New York city. They are fighting friends—the very kind we so greatly need. May their kind increase rapidly, and more power to them." History Story Telling Association. To preserve the history of the Negro race and present it in a national and systematic manner is the purpose of the Afro-American History Story Telling association, organized quite recently in Washington. Airing the Plants How many people air their plants? This must be done on all pleasant days by opening the windows at some distance from them, never the window at which they are growing, and so mixing the fresh, cold air with the warm air of the room. This is especially necessary in winter. Politeness. Politeness appears to have been invented to enable people who would naturally fall out to live together in peace. [Picture of a young man in a suit and tie]. HOMES NEEDED FOR COLORED CHILDREN. "In these little faces, pinched with cold and hunger look. Lest ye miss Him. In these wistful eyes and on these mouths, unified with mother kisses. His precious image lies." The Ohio Board of State Charities is looking for good Christian homes in colored families for a number of bright colored boys. Among them are three fellows who have been transferred by the Ohio Board of Administration. They are waiting for some one to give them a "square deal." They have had a hard and checkered experience—their father is brutal and their mother neglectful. After the father threatened to kill the mother, the judge of the Juvenile Court of the County sent them to the Boys' Industrial School at Lancaster. They were not committed as delinquent or as incorrigible boys, but there was to Children's boys, in the County, where the children resided and the judge did not know what else to do with them. The Board of Administration, which has the control of state institutions, is maintaining a Bureau of Juvenile research to make a special physical and psychological study of children who are committed to the industrial schools. A great many of the children who are suffered from cold, hunger and abuse and have become delinquent because of childhood neglect. Many of these children who have later become delinquent would have responded to the kind and sympathetic treatment of a humane person. The Ohio Board of State Charities is organized. A Children's Welfare department, which among many other functions, is seeking to protect neglected and defenseless children. One of its duties is to seek homes in suitable families for children who are placed in its care by juvenile judges or by the Ohio Board of Administration. This is the reason why the children, lumbus, under the care of this new department, waiting for some one to take a personal interest in them. The Children's Welfare department is undertaking to create a sentiment throughout Ohio which will restore to homeless children the rights of which they have been unjustly robbed and abused. Children who live in facilities that normal children should not be kept for an indefinite period in institutions—that such treatment is likely to be expensive and dwarfs their individuality. God has given to them a great longing for individual care and parental love. Those who know most of institutional life can tell something of this unspeakable heart hunger of children in the department has already been able to place a number of these bright and promising children with some of Ohio's best people. The department is making a special effort to know that the children are in proper physical condition before they are placed in a home by having them subjected to a thorough examination, then they are placed on trial. They are not bound or indentured but must be provided with suitable social and religious advantages and trained to become useful citizens. If the placement is not satisfactory they may be returned to the Board at any time. A little homeless colored boy, who had been in trouble and who had no one who was very much interested in him, had been placed in an institution. The institution was well managed—the matron and caretakers were judicious and sympathetic to everyone in the room, was one the life just as normal as circumstances would permit, but something was lacking. He said to one of the persons connected with the Children's Welfare department, "I wish you would get me a home pretty soon because it is sad here. That state has been so poor and the yearning of a lonely and homeless boy for family life. Any person interested in providing a home for one of these children is requested to communicate with the Ohio Board of State Charities, Children's Welfare Department, 1010 Hartman Blvd., Columbus, Ohio. A person of the Board will call personally upon the family before the placement of a child. MR. TROTTER'S THANKS Indianapolis, Ind., March 29, '15. Dear Editor Smith:—Will you please permit me through your columns to thank the pastor of Cory M. E. church, the Cleveland Association of Colored Men, and the 1200 citizens of Cleveland who came out to hear me, for their great patience in waiting till 10:30 p. m. to see me and until midnight to hear me. Let me explain that I deeply regret my lateness, due to just barely missing connection at Cincinnati. I thank The Gazette for its kindness and trust the good people of Cleveland will forgive the lateness of my arrival. W. M. Trotter. 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 the best is and of course picked the best. Yours truly, Ivy Leaf Dancing Class. —Adv. MONDAY EVENING, APRIL 5th, 1915 In the Auditorium of the Federal Athletic Club 2491 E. 55th St., near Scovill Ave. Come out and enjoy yourself on one of the finest dance floors in Cleveland Music by Beaumont's Society Orchestra of 10 pieces F. S. Beaumont's Singers and Musicians GRAND EASTER BALL Monday Evening at the Dreamland Palace PARKER'S GREAT ORCHESTRA THE LEADING SOCIAL FUNCTION EVERYBODY WILL BE THERE YOU ARE WELCOME Ivy Leaf Dancing Club 2770 Quality SLAUGHTER BROS. 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Two of the most important features of the fall-in a scenic way, are the deflection of light through the water as it curves over the crest, and the rising spray from the impact of the water at the base of the cliff, and both of these features are to be preserved. This is to be accomplished by an ingenious arrangement of penstocks by which a portion of the water is caught as it falls from the crest, is led through the turbines, and is then discharged into the falling sheet of water at the foot of the cliff, care being taken not to divert enough of the water through the penstocks to impair the beauty of the falling sheet. The plan involves the building of a permanent concrete crest for the falls. ```markdown ``` The Water Is Caught by the Penstocks Below the Crest of the Falls, Led Through the Turbines, and Led Through the Turbines, and Led Discharged at the Foot of the Cliff. to prevent future erosion, as well as the construction of a tunnel across the river back of the face of the cliff. To divert the water from successive sections so that this work can be done, dams are to be made by building crises in the river above the falls, and then floating them down to a point near the crest and sinking them. After the work is completed, these dams are to be removed by blasting, or by unloading the crises and floating them to a new site—From Popular Mechanics. A dog is wearing out his life by starvation over the grave of another dog at Yeadon borough, and as a result the United States mail deliveries are late for the first time in ten years, says a Philadelphia dispatch. The living dog is Colonel. His companion, Collie, is dead and buried, and Colonel is showing his grief by refusing to eat. The postmaster is seeking a man to carry the mail the one mile from the Fernwood railroad station to the Yeadon post office. Colonel and Collie have been doing it for the last ten years. Jerusalem's Canal. Archeologists are manifesting much interest in the discovery by Baron Rothschild's excavating party of a water canal at Ophel, in Jerusalem, southeast of Temple place, which is older than the famous canal of King Hezekiah. It was also on a different land level. The discovery throws some light on the early water supply of Jerusalem. The Rothschild excavations are still in progress.-Indianapolis News. To Train for War Crawl through the trenches of an unfinished sewer excavation in the slush and cutting wind of a sleet storm. Touch off a few sticks of dynamite from time to time to keep you unaware of the lack of regular meals, and have an obliquing policeman empty his revolver occasionally in your general direction. Four of five early morning hours of this will make you forevermore a real neutral—Collier's Weekly. In the Newest Modes And those rippling skirts are even shorter than the tight skirts of the last few mouths, thereby disclosing Mily's feet and ankles. From five to eight inches from the ground hang the flowing skirts, while innumerable styles may be followed in fashioning the remainder of the costume. The corsack overdress is especially up-to-date, and in this the straight, plain lines are emphasized, some gowns being devoid of trimming. The Way It Came. "How did the authorities get wind of that illicit distillery?" "I guess it was through a still alarm." X Mme. Marie de Page, wife of the surgeon general of the Belgian army, is in San Francisco raising funds for the Belgian Red Cross. Members of Suffrage Union, to Battle Five Who Opposed 'Votes for Women' Amendment in House. Washington, D. C.—The Congressional Union for Woman Suffrage has just announced plans for a "back fire" campaign against the five members of congress from Ohio who at the last session voted against the Mondell-Bristow suffrage amendment. The five members thus marked are Representatives Gordon of Cleveland, Brumbaugh of Columbus, Gard of Dayton, Key of Marion and Ashbrook of Johnstown. In this manner the national suffrage organization expects to demonstrate it "means business in its fight for a federal amendment." The Congressional union will hold an Ohio state convention some time in the summer. Prior to this picked delegations will visit the home cities of the Ohio members voting against suffrage at the last session and remind these members "of the displeasure their votes gave women who would remove from the ballot the qualifications of sex." DIES, REVIVED, EXPIRES DIES, REVIVED, EXPIRES MAN DEAD NINE MINUTES IS BROUGHT BACK TO LIFE AND THEN COLLAPSES. Boston, Mass.-Dead nine minutes from cyanide of potassium, Willard Wallace of Chicago, alleged bank swindler, was brought back to life for 3 hours and 10 minutes by manual massage of the heart. Wallace swallowed the poison in his cell in the city prison. He had apparently been dead for nine minutes when Dr. William J. Brickley of the relief hospital staff made an abdominal incision about five inches long and placing his hand in the opening began to gently massage the heart of Wallace. Inside of four minutes heart beats again were evident and with the aid of a pulmotor the prisoner was kept alive 3 hours and 10 minutes, when he suffered a collapse and died. SEVENTEEN-YEAR-OLD MISS IS THEN BOUND TO A POLE BY UNKNOWN ATTACKERS. Bicknell, Ind.-Miss Corinna Hessman, pretty girl of seventeen, was found blinded with a powder and bound to a telephone pole. Soon after her parents discovered her a letter bearing the words, "A close call. Black Hand," was thrust into the Hessman home. The girl was gagged and unconscious when found. Frequent letters signed "Black Hand" have been received by her, and many times they have threatened death. She did not recognize her assailant because of the powder. Her parents said they knew no cause why the girl should be so hounded. Slayer Gets Life Sentence. Columbus, O.-George Meier, aged 27, butcher, pleaded guilty to the charge of homicide and was given a life sentence in the state penitentiary. He killed Mrs. Josephine Garner, 24, last October. Woman Kills Husband Blakeley, Ga.—Because of the popularity of her husband among his women patients, Mrs. T. A. Sheffield, wife of Dr. T. E. Sheffield, a leading doctor of this city, lay in wait for him and opened fire as he left his office. She fired five bullets from a 28-caliber revolver, all of which took effect. Dr. Sheffield was dead when his body hit the pavement. As Sheffield fell the woman, in a hysterical frenzy, fell upon the body, embracing and kissing it. Moaning, she was led to jail. Woman in Coal Business Akron, O.—Mrs. Henry Alden, who runs a retail coal business by day and leads in society by night and keeps her house between times, says she acquired her remarkable capacity for work in the "movies." Mrs. Alden was Miss Jane Nelda, leading Pathe character woman. She made good, but the movie work kept her away from her home and husband. Home life and society life failed to satisfy her desire to be doing something and she decided to go into the retail coal business. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, APRIL 3, 1915 AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS Three judges of the United States circuit court of appeals listened with profound interest to the plea of a Negro attorney, a one-time slave, who appeared before them in the Federal building at St. Louis. Probably few in the courtroom realized until he started his argument that a gray-haired Negro sitting near the front was a noted lawyer who has appeared before every United States judge in the central district in many famous trials. The attorney, Turner W. Bell, represented three men who are confined in the federal penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kan., serving sentences on convictions of conspiracy in the famous structural iron workers' dynamiting cases two years ago. Bell fingered his brief as he sat listening to the argument of Assistant United States District Attorney L. S Harvey of the eastern district of Kansas, representing the government. He had spoken but a few words, however, when the crowd knew that such incidents evidently were in the every-day life of the Negro lawyer. The men represented by Bell are white and were given sentences of six years at Indianapolis in December, 1912. They were convicted of being implicated in more than one hundred dynaming cases, including the destruction of the Times building in Los Angeles, in half of the states, of the United States. They were at one time officers of the organization of which J. J. McNamara was a member and who is now serving a life sentence in California. Bell represented the men in the United States district court in Kansas last July and was defeated. He appealed. Bell's chief contention is that the men could legally have been convicted on but one charge under the revised statutes of the United States, and that the maximum penalty should have been but two years in the penitentiary or a fine of $10,000. They were charged with having transported dynamite throughout the country, and with the blowing up of a bridge at Indianapolis. Bell has been a practicing attorney in Leavenworth 28 years. His "hobby," he said, is appeal cases. In 1914 he filed 61 appeals in the United States courts, and was successful in 41 of them. In but two cases were his clients Negroes. Bell was born a slave in Tennessee. He was taken with his parents to Oskaloosa, Ia., when young, and earned enough money to carry him through a course in law. The day he was admitted to the bar, at Leavenworth, United States Judge Hook was in the courtroom, and Bell considers Judge Hook one of his best friends. Among famous appeals in which Bell has been successful was the case of Charles A. Stevens, a wealthy Negro boy, of Kansas City, who stole a mall sack containing $55,800. Stevens' sentence was reduced from ten to five years. As his fee Bell received $13,000. For the first time in about a dozen years mackerel have been caught in the New Haven waters. In recent years porpoises are believed to have driven them away, but in the last month, thousands of mackerel have been caught. The Supreme court, speaking through the chief justice, denied the appeal taken by the state of Illinois in the case of John B. Gaskill against the Forest Home Cemetery company of Chicago, which has become historical. Gaskill is a Negro who purchased a lot in the cemetery, but was denied permission to bury a member of his family there by the trustees of the cemetery after they made the discovery that the purchaser was a Negro. A bill for the relief of Gaskill passed the Illinois legislature some years ago, but was vetoed by the governor on the advice of the attorney general. The case was dismissed by Chief Justice/White on the ground that no federal question was involved in the judgment rendered by the supreme court of Illinois, which found against Gaskill. In the opinion of an English scientist, the wear of macadam roads is not due to the suction of automobile tires, but almost entirely to the crushing effect of horseshoes and iron-tired wheels. In view of prevailing high prices for necessities in Santiago, Chile, it is planned to establish municipal provision shops there at an initial cost of $500,000. The neighbors say S. W. Featheringham's initial stands for "Southwest Wind." "The southwest wind," they explain, "blows nearly all the time." Every member of the family of Sir Roper Lethbridge of England has gone to the war or training for it—the men to fight, the women to nurse. There are times when it is easy enough to write a brief for honest toll. The last member of the party implicated in fixing the clock that blew up the Los Angeles Times was arrested recently. It seldom is necessary for the efficient workman to "double in brass." Versatility no longer is the achievement it once was. The most flagrant example of phraseological fiction is the one to the effect that men die by the sword. Eli Williamson (colored) ninety years old, for many years a licensed pilot, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs. W. B. Faire, in Washington, following an illness lasting only five days. For half a century Williamson had followed the sea before he retired and made his home in Washington. He served in the navy and in the merchant marine. He became a skillful pilot and was the first colored man to obtain a first-class license at the United States custom house at Norfolk, Va. Captain Williamson, as he was known to his friends, was born in Murfreesboro, N. C., December 23, 1824, the son of Trial and Winnie Williamson, and the grandson of George Williamson, who had been a noted showmaker and had bought his freedom from his master by making fine shoes. Eli Williamson's freedom came to him from his grandfather. When he was a youth Williamson went to live with a family of Quakers, who taught him to read and write, to the fishing nets and to rig seines for large fisheries. This gave him a taste for the sea which never left him. He enlisted in the United States navy and served faithfully. After leaving the navy Williamson entered the merchant service, and when the Civil war broke out he was chief pilot on the steamer Curlew. It was pressed into the service of the Confederacy and later was sunk. Williamson was highly regarded by the officers under whom he sailed. He did much to aid in the uplift of his race, and was the founder of the Cool Spring church at Franklin, Va. He married Miss Emmaline Hunter of Virginia. Ten children were born to them, five growing to maturity. One son, the W. E. Williamson of Norfolk, Va., died February 1, 1910. His four daughters, Mrs. Curley Weaver, Mrs. Katherine Reid, Mrs. Sea Bird Fatre and Mrs. Emma Gray, survive him. For the last five years Captain Williamson had made his home in Washington with his daughter, Mrs. Faire. Burial was in Harmony cemetery beside the body of his wife, who died March 14, 1914. It is true, of course, that Professor Just is not the only colored man to do scientific work of a high order, nor the only colored teacher ready to labor for a pittance in order to aid the education of his people. But the honor bestowed upon him is worth while merely if it recalls to public attention once more the fact that no one can measure the contributions colored Americans are certain to make to our common civilization, and not merely in the fields in which their peculiar talents. It was a colored physician who first ventured an operation on the living human heart; a colored painter is in the front rank of his art as the delineler of Biblical scenes; no composer of recent years won greater honors than Coleridge Taylor, the negro. Any policy, therefore, which should limit the education and the opportunities of the race must be a grave loss to humanity as a whole. No one would think, in any country outside Russia, of refusing to Jewish genius the fullest play in every field. Yet we continue to hear, not only in the South, but in the North as well, repeated assertions that anything except common schooling is out of place for the colored people.—New York Evening Post. The highest determined point in Florida is Mount Pleasant, 301 feet above sea level, according to the United States geological survey. The approximate average elevation of the state is 100 feet above the sea. All-stel cars are being experimented with on several railways in India. Metal freight cars have long been in use, but passenger cars have usually been built of teak wood resting on steel under-frames. Mrs. Kate Penner and Gertrude Pendel, English nurses connected with the Constantinople hospital, have received Red Cross medals from the German emperor for gallant service during the Balkan war. If you wish to interest idle men circulate the story that the hull of a sunken ship is full of treasure. If you wish to excite them circulate the story that it is full of fine old whisky. The yellow poplar, or tulip tree, the largest broadleaf tree in America, has been known to reach nearly 200 feet in height and ten feet in diameter. During courtship a girl thinks marriage is a haven of rest in which she will be free from worry and care. After marriage she has another think coming. The new poison extracted from seeds of the castor oil plant by a German chemist is said to be so powerful that a single gram would kill a million and a half guinea pigs. Probably the speediest journey is that negotiated by a prize fighter who is on his way back to obscurity. In Stockholm the street car conductors sell hat pin protectors for a halfpenny apiece to all women who wish to buy. It is estimated that throughout the world blind men outnumber blind women in the proportion of two to one. There are 41,046 miles of electric railway tracks in the United States. The low down white man is the Negro's most severe critic. USE POSIES FOR TRIMMINGS | kid, firmly packed with cotton and DAINTY SLUMBER ROBE BELONGS TO THE CLASS OF FILMY, FRILLY LINGERIE. White or Colored Crepe de Chine or Very Fine Nainaook May Be Employed for Construction—Eyelet Work Used. This is the sort of alluring trifle that the heroine of a "best seller" would appear in, in the frontispiece illustration; propped up in bed, luxuriously languid, sipping at a cup of beated breakfast chocolate, writes Lillian E. Young in the Washington Star. They always do, you know, while clad in something mystic and lacy, with a young Matterhorn of dainty pillows as a background and—oh, we almost forgot the telephone, located just at the lady's elbow on a small stand, without which no boudour is complete—in fiction. This pendant of ours for dainty underthings may be induced by reading of such perfect creatures, though it is more than likely that they serve only as a stimulus for an inherent and already manifest love of filmy, frilly lingerie. The lovely "nighty" of the sketch may be made up in white or flesh-colored crepe de chine or in a very fine nainook. The little outside sack is not a separate feature, but is attached to the gown by the corsage ribbon, which is run through the two together. It is cut very short and circular, and A Glorified Gown for the Troussau-flares nicely over the gown. The lower edge and the wing sleeves are button-holed and eyelet-embroidered. The gown itself is sleeveless, being hairy over the shoulders by narrow strap, and a deftly applied water line appear, in brief sections across the front, back and sides, several close rows of shirring. The plain spaces between are ornamented with a touch of eyelet work. One Will Not Go Far Wrong if That Method of decoration is If you are in doubt about trimming the new evening frock, whether or not it is cut on the empire lines, place your minds on flowers. They have returned to favor out of the decades gone by. They are used to catch the drapery on skirt or bodice, or as shoulder straps, or as moyenage girdles, when they are fragile as orchids or rose-buds. The short full skirt has crept in. Gathered flouches are even used on the lower edge of underskirts. A tub frock that is as good an example as has been seen of the tendency of spring clothes has long, slim raglan sleeves combined with a standing collar and an exceedingly full skirt. The blouse, too, while it fits smoothly across the shoulders, is so circularly cut that it is fully gathered into the waistband. The circular skirt has as many gathers at the belt and a circular and gathered flouce is found at the bottom of the underskirt. This gown is a combination of cream batiste, pale blue or pink linen and cluny lece. Silk Fruit Silk fruit in pale colors, silk fruit in intense colors, or, for that matter, silk fruit in any color will continue to be a most popular trimming this spring. Purchased at a shop, the prices are prohibitive for many girls, but made at home the cost is proportionately nothing. Circles of silk or Some Designs in Hats Look as if They Might Have Been Copied From Family Albums. A great deal has been said anent the fact that many of the new fashions look as if they had been copied from the photographs in the family album. One is more and more impressed with this thought as the season, with its ever-changing fashions, advances. Certain it is that there is a decidedly old-fashioned look about many of our clothes. And have you seen the hats that look as if they were trimmed with wax flowers under glass? Surely you remember seeing some time, in some old-fashioned drawing room, waxed flowers under a little dome of glass? This new method of hat trimming is suggestive of the waxed flowers. The hats so trimmed have brims that curl or bend upward a little at the edge—perhaps half an inch is the depth of the bent or curled part of the brim. A layer of colored silk vole CORRECTIONS & ENCYCLOPEDIA Reminiscent of crinoline days, is this quaint frock of chiffon in a combination of bisque and Belgian blue. The corsage is traced in an embroidery motif. The sleeves are of the new tube type, gathered into a puff at wrist. The hat is a picturesque shepherdess of leghorn, covered with blue soldat chiffon, embroidered in contrasting shades. The streamers fasten under the chin. FOLLOW FASHION OF ELDERS Costumes for Small Girls Are More or Less a Copy of Those Worn by the Grownups. Faithful to tradition, the fashions of the nursery and school room are following those of the drawing room, and girls from seven to seventeen are wearing long-waisted dresses with frills or plats to give the basque or tunic effect. A very soft shade of red, like the wild rose, is popular for their tailor-made suits, and with it is worn black headgear in the form of pliable velvet-felt or chenille, black shoes and stockings and black gloves. Military overcoats are designed for little boys and girls, as well as for senior wearers. The collars and belts are distinctive characteristics of the models and on the collars are emblems of gilt or silver braid. When the Russian inspiration is not pressed unduly it is accountable for some very handsome effects in braiding and finger-width fur trimming upon open-air suits, and for particularly becoming collar bands, short and upright, or a roll of fur that clings closely round the neck. Pure colors are accepted now. It would seem that everything is to be simple. So we see a green that is the usually accepted dye, not olive, lime or pastel, but just a pure green, and a brown as honest. Both are called Russian, and the brown is the accepted tint of the leather that smells so sweet. kid, firmly packed with cotton and drawn up snugly, is the recipe. Add a french knot, drawing the silk thread all the way through the fruit so that it flattens it correctly, and fasten the thread tightly to the other side. Or, in gold or green silk or some contrasting color, work a tiny circle in chain stitch (before filling with cotton), then fill and draw up the cover. In the center of the circle place a French knot and tighten firmly to the opposite side. EGG ADDS TO EFFECTIVENESS Suggestion for Eight Shampoo—How to Coax the Eyebrow Into a Proper Haircut To make egg shampoo, take the yolk of one egg, hot rain water, one pint and one ounce of rosemary spirits. Beat the mixture thoroughly and rub it well into the roots of the hair. Rinse in several waters or use a bath spray, which greatly simpifies the work. It is well to moisten the hair with warm water before the shampoo is applied; this makes the work easier and the egg will not stick to the hair. Here is a treatment for those afflicted with pale, sparse eyebrows and lashes which make a face expressionless. They can be coaxed into a better growth by rubbing the eyebrows nightly with vaseline and applying to the roots of both the eyebrows and eyelashes a tonic made by mixing five grains of sulphate of quinine with one ounce of sweet almond oil. Apply this with a fine sable brush which comes for the purpose. or chiffon is stretched from the edge of the brim to the crown, and in the space so covered flowers are laid, rather flatly, around the brim. The color effects so gained are charming, for instance a faded violet volle is stretched from the edge of the curled brim of a peacock-blue straw hat, and the flowers under the volle are in various shades of rose and yellow. The color effect resulting is really charming. Hand Embroidery Hand embroidery plays a prominent part in the trimming of thin frocks. There are many lovely frocks of not almost covered with embroidery. Blouses of sheer fabrics, too, show much embroidery. Varied Waist Lines. There is a waist line to suit every type—the empire for the slight, youthful figure, the natural waist line for the conservatives and straight ones for the stout figure. The man who has no imagination never falls in love. CAP and BELLS Admitted Steele Mackaye Haa been Acknowledged Master of Dramatic Art for Twenty Years. Thirty years ago, when Wilton Lackaye first went upon the stage, he was rehearsing a part in "Paul Kauvar," under the direction of the author, Steele Mackaye, who, while admittedly a capable stage manager, was regarded as old-fashioned by the moderns. During rehearsal Lackaye and Mackaye had a slight difference as to how a certain part should be acted. "Do you argue with me?" Mackaye demanded with magisterial severity. "I have been an acknowledged master of the dramatic art for twenty years." "Yes," Lackaye retorted, "but not this twenty." Officer. Do Your Duty. 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