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THIRTY-SECOND YEAR. NO. 44. THE UNION WHERE ESSENTIEL PROGRESS NOTED AT OLDEST SCHOOL Christiansburg Industrial Institute Ends Term Briskly. GRADUATES NUMBER TWELVE Government Demonstration Agents Attend Graduation Exercises and Prominent Educators Deliver Inspiring Addresses to Students—Conference on Plans For Social Betterment. Christiansburg, Va. The closing exercises of the Christiansburg Industrial institute will be held beginning May 16, when the annual sermon will be preached by the Rev. M. L. H. Bateley of Washington. On Wednesday, the 19th, a conference will be held at the school, uniting in a movement for social betterment all sections of southwest Washington. At this conference the president of the Normal school for white people and representatives from the Polytechnic institute will be present. Representatives of the United States government in the persons of demonstration agents will also be in attendance. The graduating exercises will be held Thursday, May 20, at which time Dr. R. E. Jones, editor of the Southwestern Christian Advocate, New Orleans, will deliver the annual address to the graduating class. The class to graduate numbers twelve persons, eight girls and four boys, all of Virginia. All the girls have been trained in dome science, needlework and millinery. Each one will make her own graduation dress and the hat to match it. One of the boys has completed the course in blacksmithing and one in carpentry; one will study for the ministry, and the other one will teach school. All of the graduates will receive certificates entitling them to teach in the public schools of Virginia. The Christiansburg Industrial Institute was founded by Captain Charles S. Schaefer as a primary school for colored children and was one of the first schools in the south to offer instruction to enamelled slaves. With many schools in the south were added by the Friends Freedman's association just after the close of the war. As the southern states began to assume the burden of the Negro education the Friends Freedman's association gradually withdrew its support from the other schools, turning its property over to the counties in which the schools were located and concentrating its efforts on Christiansburg. The success of Hampton, followed by that of Tuskegee, led the management to believe that Christiansburg should direct its energies toward the training of the hands as well as the head. Accordingly the Christiansburg Industrial institute, was provided with the necessary equipment to make it an industrial school. The property of the school consists of a farm of 165 acres and eleven buildings, which, with the tools and equipment, are valued at $75,000. The present principal, Professor A. A. Long, has been connected with the institution since 1897. He was treasurer until 1900, when upon the death of the former principal, the late Charles L. Marshall, he was elevated to the principalship. Under Professor Long sixty-five persons have graduated from the institution. A state summer school, which has given instruction to more than 600 Virginia teachers, has been operated. Where he took hold of the school $50,000 has been raised and put into permanent improvements, an endowment of which amount Andrew Carnegie gave $10,000. Besides this there has been an average of $10,000 a year raised for expense of maintenance and operation, making $140,000 which has been raised for this school during Mr. Lengere term as principal. The Christiansburg Industrial Institute is fortunate in having as its manager a strong board composed of prestigious business and professional men of Philadelphia and vicinity, one of whom is Dr. Isaac Sturphle, president of Haverford college. This board meets once a month during the school term. An evidence of their appreciation of the services of Professor Long the following resolution was adopted at one of its meetings: "Edgar A. Long, who has been associated with the work at Christiansburg for ten years, has been appointed principal. Under his efficient guidance the work of the school has made gratifying success. We consider it very fortunate that the school should have had one at hand who has its interest so thoroughly at heart." On another occasion the following reference was made in the annual report of the secretary: "Finally, but by no means least in importance, we are fortunate in having a principal who takes a broad view of Negro education. He is a disciple of Booker T. Washington and thoroughly believes and constantly teaches that his people, like all other people, can only rise by doing well the tasks open to them." Brown Passes Law Examination. Lawyer C. W. Brown of Elizabeth City, N. C., recently passed a successful examination to practice his profession. The examination was held by the state supreme court. Mr. Brown is industrious and well versed in legal lore. THE GAZETTE MISS AGNES HART WILSON Miss Wilson, daughter of Secretary of Labor William B. Wilson, is in San Francisco as special representative of the department of labor to supervise its exhibit at the expoition. BECKER LOSES IN COURT OF APPEALS JUDGE'S OPINION. ANALYZES TESTIMONY Former Police Lieutenant Must'Die in Electric Chair Unless He Can Obtain Executive Clemency' From Gov. Whitman. CHRONOLOGY OF BECKER CASE. The following is the chronology of the Becker case: July 19, 1912—Rosenthal murdered. July 29, 1912—Rose, Vallone, Webber accuse Becker of instigating murder. Becker arrested. Oct. 7, 1912—Becker placed on trial for first time. Oct. 24, 1912—Becker found guilty of murder in first degree. Nov. 19, 1912—Four gunmen, Lafayette Gryn, Gryn the Whitey Jewels and Dago Frank convicted of murder in first degree. Feb, 24, 1914—Becker granted new trial, Gunmen's appeal denied. April 13, 1914—Four gunmen executed May 6, 1914—Becker's second trial, begun. May 22, 1914—Becker again convicted of murder in the first degree. of murder in the first degree. May 25, 2015—Becker appeal for new trial denied. Albany, N. Y.—The second conviction of former Police Lleut. Charles Becker for instigating the murder of Herman Rosenthal, the New York gambler, was upheld Tuesday by the court of appeals. Becker now must die unless he can obtain executive clemency from Gov. Whitman, who, as district attorney of New York, prosecuted him, or can obtain a reversal by the United States supreme court. Judge Bartlett's opinion is a long one and analyzes in the closest and most comprehensive way every feature of the enormous mass of evidence. It was contended by the prosecutor that Becker, who had differences with Rosenthal, wanted to get rid of him, as Rosenthal was about to relate a story to the then district attorney, Charles S. Whitman, concerning gambling in New York city. The prosecution at both trials and during the arguments on the appeal made strong points of this, alleging that Becker had the best motive in the world for wanting to close the mouth of Rosenthal. The case was argued in the court of appeals the second time on March 24 last. It took two days for the court to hear it. Mrs. Becker sat in the courtroom throughout the appeal listening to the arguments that were put forth in behalf of her husband by Martin T. Manton, as well as the contentions of Assistant District Attorney Robert C. Taylor, that the second conviction of Becker should stand. Judge Bartlett held that although the first judgment of death against the defendant was reversed because he did not have a fair trial, the second judgment "is not assailable on that ground. The opinion held that the testimony of "Bridgle" Weber and "Bald Jack" Rose regarding the so-called "Hurlem conference" at which the murder of Rosenthal was said to have been planned, was true and that it was corroborated on the second trial by James Marshall, a negro. Foe of Fresh Air Dles Marietta, O.-Mrs. Martina L. McCormick, who had been out of her house in this city only twice in 40 years, died here at the age of 88. She was a convert to a theory that fresh nid was injurious and was only prevailed upon to leave her home when her son, a former prosecuting attorney of Washington county, was buried in 1895. She also followed the body of her husband to the grave in 1897. The deceased was the mother of Col. Lloyd S. McCormick, retired army officer of this city. ESTABLISHED AUGUST 25, 1883 AND ISSUED EVERY WEEK ON TIME SINCE. CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, MAY 29. 1915. AMERICAN SHIP HAS HOLE TORN IN BOW Vessel Is Either Torpedoed or Strikes Mine Off the Coast of Ireland. NO LIVES LOST, BOAT STARTS FOR PORT Officials of Administration in Washington Are Gravely Concerned Over Disaster and Are Waiting for Definite Information. London, England.—The American steamship Nebraskan, owned by the American Hawaiian Steamship Co. of New York was either torpedoed or struck, a mine 48 miles off the south coast of Ireland all 40 o'clock Tuesday night. No lives were lost and the steamship, listed badly at the how, proceeded to Liverpool under her own steam at eight knots an hour. She was convoyed by a fleet of small ships. Captain Sends Message. Capt. J. S. Green, her commander, sent the following wireless message to the company's offices in New York: "Struck by either mine or torpedo 48 miles west of Pastnet. Am steaming under convoy to Liverpool. Water in lower hold. 'No one injured.' It is declared here that the Nebraskan was outside the zone of mines, but it is also admitted she might have encountered a floating mine. According to a dispatch from Liverpool the name and nationality of the Nebraskan was painted in large letters across her side and she flew a large American flag. Consul General Skinner, stationed here, sent the following message to the state department in Washington "Admiralty reports American steamer or Nebraskan, Liverpool to Delaware breakwater, torpedoed 48 miles south by west of Fastnet. Crew and boats standing day. Weather line. No direct reports." The Nebraskan left Liverpool May 24 in water ballast for Delaware breakwater. She was proceeding under full steam Tuesday night in a smooth sea. The weather was clear and twilight giving way to a bright moon. Explosion Shakes Ship. Suddenly there was a terrific explosion which shook the ship from to stern. She began to list almost immediately, and Capt. Green, believing she had received a mortal blow, ordered the lifeboats lowered. Meanwhile the wireless operator began sending out the "S, O, S," call. There were no passengers aboard and the boats were filled with the members of the crew, 47 in all, who rowed away for some distance, expecting to see the steamship go to the bottom. The Nebraskan remained afloat, however, and when Capt. Green saw there was no immediate danger he returned to the ship. A hurried investigation revealed a great hole in the bow below the waterline. The bulkheads held tight, confining the flood to the forward part of the ship. Although the steering gear had been damaged, Capt. Green was able to turn around. Within a short time a large number of trawlers and several tugs were on the scene, Capt. Green refused the offer of a tow. The Nebraskan is an oil burning ship and her fuel supply was not damaged. Accompanied by the feet of small ships the Nebraskan started for Liverpool, hugging the coast. Washington Officials Concerned. Washington, D. D. - Officials of the administration are gravely concerned over the alleged attack on the American steamship Nebraska, coming as it does so soon after the president's note to Germany demanding a cessation of her submarine warfare. Pending the receipt of definite information as to whether the vessel struck a mine or was torpedoed, officials here decline to comment on the situation, but in the event it develops that the attack was by a submarine and no extinguishing circumstances exist, it will be accepted as foreshadowing the nature of the German reply. Officials are aware that the full account of the attack on the Nebraskan, which will come from Ambassador Page and Consult General Skinner, may show that the act was one which was absolutely included in the prohibitions of the president's recent note. If this happens, they say, the action of this government will be determined at the White House, and they express themselves unable to, prophesy the outcome. There is an official hope that it will be shown the Nebraskan struck a mine which had broken away from its moorings. Navy department experts are inclined to the belief that the Nebraskan was torpeded, despite the captain's statement that his ship may have been struck by a mine. Their opinion is based on the fact that the nearest known mine field to the spot where the Nebraskan was struck is more than 200 miles away. Governor Wields Shovel. Harrisburg, Pa. — Wednesday was good roads day in. Pennsylvania. Reports sent to the Capitol indicated that volunteers by the thousands had laid aside their own affairs and had done their share in helping to improve the highways. In some districts the workers disregarded the light rain and piled shovels vigorously in the mud. Gov. Brumbaugh left the city early and at Camp Hill, near here, shovelled dirt with delegations of citizens. The governor made a good roads speech. THE CHICAGO EXPOSITION. Among the notable gatherings scheduled for Chicago in August and the early part of September the Lincoln Jubilee and national half century expoition, commemorating the freedom of the Negro race in America, occupies first place. The commission appointed by Governor Edward Dunne to armage for and manage the affairs of the celebration is making splendid progress in getting exhibits of various kinds suitable for the occasion. The Hon. Oscar De Priest, alderman from the Second ward, offered on April 30 the following resolution in the aldermanate chamber, which was passed MAYOR W. H. THOMPSON AND BISHOP SAMUEL FALLOWS, PRESIDENT OF THE COMMISSION. by that body and signed by his honor Mayor William Hale Thompson. The resolution: AMUEL FALLOWS, PRESIDENT OF THE COMMISSION that body and signed by his honor yor William Hale Thompson. The Whereas, This celebration is to be the actual demonstration of the extraordinary advancement achieved by the race freed by the act of grenomination. Warrantment of the act of grenomination is the education of the great masses of Americans and to demonstrate the possibility and promise of the future of this people. Whereas, This movement, has received the substantial indorsement of our citizens through the management of the commission created by act of the legislature and that its patron, the president of the United States has accepted the institution and open the exposition; therefore, be it Resolved. That said council set aside Monday, August 2, as Chicago day for said exposition and that same be declared a law. The cut shows Mayor Thompson signing the bill and, Bishop Samuel Fallowes, president of the commission. Besides Bishop Fallowes, others who witnessed the signing of the bill were Alderman Oscar De Priest, Commissioners A. J. Carey, R. R. Jackson, Thomas Wallace Swann, secretary of the commission and Edward D. Green. HAMPTON GRADUATES HOLD BIG REUNION CELEBRATION Class of 1890 Presents Alma Mater With Purse of $400. Hampton, Va.—The Hampton institute class of 1890 held its twenty-fifth reunion celebration recently. In the Hampton gymnasium, where nearly 2,000 representative white and colored people assembled to hear a folklore concert. Major R. R. Moton, 90, commandant of cadets at Hampton, presided. He announced that the class of 1890 had collected $400, which he was commissioned to place in the hands of Dr. H. B. Frissell to be used for Hampton in any way that the principal saw fit. The class of 1890 numbered forty-four—twenty-seven men and seventeen women. Three men and five women have died. About fifteen members attended the reunion. Several others sent telegraphs and checks. William J. Clayton of Washington spoke on the class motto, "Finished. Yet Just Begun!" Thomas B. Patterson of Downingtown, Pa., read the original class commencement program: William B. Scott, pastor of Pilgrim church, Red Bank, N. L. told about Dr. Frissell's sermon to the class; Mrs. Estelle M. Evans read the class song; Mrs. Thomas W. Turner called the class roll; Mrs. George A. Melyn, Mrs. Edward H. Spence and Mrs. John Edward Smith read interesting extracts from the "Southern Workman." Major Moton outlined the story of his recent trip with Dr. Booker T. Washington through the state of Louisiana and his campaign experiences during the middle west tour, where he spoke in the interest of Hampton and the Negro race. More Honors For Mrs. M. A. Clark. The work of the Women's Christian Temperance union among our people in Marlon county, ind., is being able represented by Mrs. M. A. Clark, county superintendent. In further recognition of Mrs. Clark's ability she was recently appointed assistant to the county superintendent of rescue work. At the State Sisters of Charity hospital in Indianapolis Mrs. Clark recently hold a series of successful meetings. BRITISH WARSHIP IS VICTIM OF TORPEDO English Battlecraft Triumph Is Struck and Sunk in the Gardenelles. MOST OF CREW AND OFFICERS SAVED Destroyed Fighting Vessel Has Been in Operation in Both Far Eastern and European Waters Since European War Broke Out. London, Eire. The British battleship Trumpet was topped and took in the Dardanelles Tuesday. The majority of the crew of 700 men and officers, including the commander and captain, were saved, according to an announcement by the admiralty. The Trumpet, when she was attacked by the submarine, was supporting the Australian and New Zealand and forces on the Gallipoli peninsula by bombarding the Turkish positions. She is reported to have gone down in seven minutes. While several of the ships of the allied fleet were rescuing the crew and officers, of the stricken warship a fleet of allied destroyers and ammunition was raised the submarine, which queued for eight nights. The battleship Trumpet was built at Harrow in 1902 for the Chilean government, but was purchased by Great Britain in 1903. She was laid down under the name of Libertad and was a sister ship of the Constitution, which also was purchased from Chile and reconstituted Swifture. Helped Bombard Tsing-Tau. Since the war broke out the Trumpet has been in operation in both far eastern and European waters. As flagship of the British Asiatic squadron, she participated in the bombardment of the German base of Tsing-Tau, China, last October and was reported to have been damaged by the shell fire of the German forts. After the fall of Tsing-Tun the Triumph returned to European waters and early in the present year began operations with the other units of the allied fleet against the Dardanelles. In the latter part of April the Triumph bombarded the Turkish trenches on the western end of the Gallipoll peninsula and afterwards went into the Dardanelles to search the straits from a different angle. Here she came under the fire of a Turkish howitzer battery on the Asiatic shore, which dropped 16 shells around her and threw three missiles on board. Little damage was done by the shells, however, and only two men, a stoker and a bluejacket, were wounded. The battlefield silenced the Turkish battery before retiring. A few days later, while landing operations were proceeding, the Triumph with other warships, in addition to covering the landing, bombarded the forts in the Dardanelles to prevent reinforcements reaching the Turks from the sea of Marmora. The Triumph was credited in the official reports with having set fire to the town of Maidos during this bombardment. Triumph Was 436 Feet Long. The Triumph, which was commanded by Capt. Maurice E. Fitzmaurice, was a vessel of 11,818 tons. The vessel carried four 10-inch, fourteen 7.5-inch guns and fourteen 14-pounders and four 9-pounders. In addition she carried two 18-inch torpedo tubes. The Triumph was 136 feet long and had a speed of about 20 knots. While the Triumph was sinking the allied British and French armies on the Gallipoli peninsula were slowly advancing against the stubborn opposition of the Turks, says the official report. With the sinking of the Triumph five allied battleships have been accounted for in the Dardanelles by Turkish gunfire, mines or torpedoes. Of these losses the British have sustained four, the Triumph, Ocean, Irresistible and Goliath. One French ship has been sunk, the Bouvet. In addition several other allied battleships have been struck by Turkish shells and forced to retire from the fighting in the waterway. Italiane Continue to Advance. Rome, Italy—Advance of the Italian army all along the Austrian frontier from Lombardy to the Adriatic, in which offensive operations several more towns have been captured, and the establishment of a blockade of the Austro-Hungarian coast marked Wednesday's war operations by Italy. Italian troops have seized towns in the Trentino and forced their way through mountain defences. On the lower Isonzo attacks were continued to gain the line of the river. The Austrians are reported to have retired, destroying bridges behind them. Italian aviators bombarded Monfalcone, near the Gulf of Trieste. Paris, France—There are persistent rumors of a naval action has been fought in the Adriatic. An Italian cruiser is said to have torpedoed and sunk two Austrian cruisers. London, England. — The British, smashing forward with grim persistence, have pierced the German lines east of Festubert on a front of more than three miles. In close relation to this gain the French to the north of Arras have made good all the gains which they previously registered. Meanwhile fresh stores of ammunition, apparently having been brought up Gen. Von Mackenzen's Austro-German legations have resumed a violent offensive in the region of Przemysl, imperiling the fortress. LIEUT. COM. ROBERT L. BERRY Lieut. Com. Robert L. Berry is the president's new naval aide and also is commander of the president's boat the Mayflower. He was born in Kentucky and was graduated from the naval academy in 1890. FATAL CRASH ON SCENIC RAILWAY One Person Is Killed and Many Are Injured When Trains Collide. VICTIMS ARE PINIONED IN WRECKAGE Roller Coaster in Amusement Resort Fails to Top Summit on Trestle and Dashes With Great Force into the Car Behind. Youngstown, O.—Collision between two trains on the scenic railway course at Idora park here resulted in the death of one man, the serious injury of nine others and minor injuries to several others in a party of 25. Two of the victims at once were removed to hospitals here, where one of the number died a few minutes after admission. Others of this group are suffering from broken limbs and severe lacerations and bruises of the body and head. Several are in a serious condition. The nine suffering lesser injuries were able to go to their homes unassisted. A few of the pleasure seekers crawled down from their perilous position on the trestle and disappeared without giving their names. Daniel Denchny, 20.—telegraph delivery clerk, fractured shell, is dead. Those seriously injured and taken to hospitals are: James Brody, both legs broken and hurt about the body. Joseph Doleak, right leg broken and bruised. Cecil Dunn, dislocated shoulder and lacerated head. Clara Patterson, injured limbs. James M. Trahey, severe injuries to arms. Etta Jenkins, bruised limbs and about body. Anna Brody, injuries to feet. Henry Kersell, injury to face. Lewis Gerlach, bruised knee and body. The authorities furnish the names of nine others who went to their homes. They are: Mr. Kyberg, Henry Cardell, Miss Pollack, Mr. Galette, Jane Currey, John Gallagher, Blanche Collins, Earl Morely and Jai Stuffie. More of these are said to be seriously injured. Failure of one of the three-car trains, bearing a party of about 10, to pass over the second summit of the railway, caused it to slide back the incline which it had failed to mount and meet the other on-coming train bearing about 15 people as it dashed down at terrific speed. The helpless victims in each train, with shouts and screams of anguish, made known their appreciation of the danger but were powerless to avert the crash. The heavy trains came together with such force that one virtually was demolished and men and women were pinned in the wreckage or thrown out upon the runway. Of the entire number but one fell through to the ground, about 20 feet below. She is Hazel Dunn, who is suffering from a dislocated shoulder and lacerated head. hundreds of people in the park were attracted by the shouts and saw the crash. Women and children were overcome by the spectacle and their condition added to the excitement aroused in the big crowd that filled Idora park on the opening day of the season. Roosevelt Is Given Verdict Syracuse. N. Y.—Twelve men chosen as a jury to determine whether Theodore Roosevelt labeled William Barnes when he charged that Barnes worked through a "corrupt alliance between crooked business and crooked politics." and that, he was "corruptly allied" with, Charles F. Murphy of Tammany Hall," returned a verdict in favor of the former president. In the belief of the jury everything. Col. Roosevelt said concerning the plaintiff" was true and, therefore, Mr. Barnes was not labeled. IN VATICAN HEAVESTROUGH SWAM THROUGH SEA COVERED WITH DEAD First of Lusitania Passengers to Reach United States Tells of Horrors. NO PANIC WHEN SHIP WAS TORPEDGED One Victim Was Caught in Blades of Liner's Propellers, Screamed Norris for Second and Then It Was All Over. New York City. Dr. Carl E. Foss, a physician of Harlem, Mount James Smith and Edward Skay, the first survivors of the Lusitania disaster to reach this country, arrived May 24 aboard the American Liner New York. Smith and Skay were stewards on the Lusitania, but are now at work on a ship that flies the American flag. Says Everyone Was Calm. Dr. Foss was standing with some other passengers looking toward the Irish coast an hour before the Lusitania was torpedoed. At that time they sighted the perigee of a submarine and declared its nationality must be British. Then they went for lunch on and were in the saloon when the Lusitania was struck.... "The explosion that followed brought home to us all what had happened," said Dr. Foss. "But there was no panic. Everyone was calm, I think we all realized the ship was going to sink and we made our way, to the deck quickly and without serious confusion. "There we saw a crowd of stewards frantically putting on life belts without offering them to the passengers. I pushed in, grabbed one and jumped overboard. I did that because I saw the lifeboats were being filled with women and children. Man's-Blood Stains Form. "I hit the water not far from the propellers, which were threshing the air as the bow of the liner started to plunge. One poor devil who was near me was caught in the blades. He screamed horribly for a second and then it was all over. His blood stained the foam. "Bear of being drawn down by the sledge caused by the sinking vessel caused me to swim away with all my strength. A hundred yards distant I came across a woman with a W1 preserver about her body. Her baby was in her arms. I took him to a lifebelt and they were saved. "The heat was well crowded and feeling that I had strength enough to keep aloft for some time, I swam away again. But it was the most gruesome swim man ever had. The sea was literally covered with floating bodies. A tigtoat picked me up two hours later, and then I gave up and knew no more for some time." Dr. Foss said that passengers on the New York were very nervous about the chance of meeting submarines. PAYTRIBUTE TO FROHMAN New York City. — Every familiar figure of the New York Rialto was to be seen May 25 paying a last tribute to the memory of Charles Frohman in Temple Emanu-El, Fifth av and 42d st. Throughout England and America the Frohman theaters and attractions remained closed as a mark of respect. The funeral of the Louisiana victim, who was America's foremost play producer, brought together such a gathering of notable stage folk, authors and persons prominent in the intellectual and artistic life of the metropolis as is seldom to be seen. The excruciates were simple, as Mr. Frohman had wished. They followed an earlier private service at the home of Daniel Frohman, Rev. Dr. Joseph Silverman was the preacher at Temple Emanu-El. The honorary palibearers comprised authors, actors, managers and associates of Mr. Frohman. HAS CURE FOR TETANUS DOCTOR SAYS SIMPLY INJECT JUICE OF CACTUS LEAF INTO INFLICTED PERSON. New York City.—Positive cure of tetanus by the simple injection of the juice of cactus leaf was a discovery related to members of the American Medico Pharmaceutical league at the Astor by Dr. D. B. De Waltoff. The amazing properties of the cactus leaf fluid, the speaker said, have effected a complete cure in at least six cases which have recently come under his observation. "No doctor need hesitate." Dr. Waltoff said, "in treating tetanus by this method." Kills Two and Himself. Richmond, Mich.—Herman Erdman, a farmer near here, strangled his wife and eight-year-old stepdaughter to death with his own hands and then, when he feared capture, cut his wrists and throat so badly that he died some time later in a Fort Hiron hospital. The man was in fairly good circumstances, and it is thought that he was temporarily deranged. He was of a violent temper and it is believed he had a quarrel with his wife and lost control of himself. 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 centered at the postoffice in Cleveland Ohio, as second-class matter. Address all communications to HARRY C. SMITH Editor and proprietor, THE GAZETTE, Blackstone Building, Cleveland, O. Member Ohio Legislature: 1894 to 1896; 1896 to 1898; 1900 to 1902 THE GAZETTE is the oldest, and has the largest bona fide circulation, double that of any newspaper in the interest of Afro-Americans, published in the state of Ohio, and comparison with any will immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWSIEST AND BEST in the country. 10,000,000 Afro-Americans. 100,000 in Ohio. 20,000 in Cleveland. SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1915. The "bottom" seems to have fallen out of the Leo M. Frank pictures. We hear no more of them. Not one of the so-called "Administration" measures in the Ohio Assembly failed to become law—that is to say, every bill required to keep platform pledge or campaign promise, was enacted, and state salaries have been decreased $400,000. People of Ohio who are interested in the struggles of "the under dog" will hear with interest news of the governor's approval of the Lloyd anti-loan shark bill. This is the bill which forcibly takes the hand of the illicit money lender out of the pocket of the working men and women who have no credit in the banks. Our people in the Central Av. district should not make it harder for the police who are trying to improve conditions there, but should help them. Everyone of us who reside in the 11th ward know that it is simply flooded with undesirable characters, male and female, and all of us earnestly desire improved conditions. --- Our contemporaries should not lose sight of the fact that the Ohio Assembly does NOT appropriate money for the use of Wilberforce University but for the use of the STATE DEPARTMENT of that institution, known as the COMBINED NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL DEPARTMENT. This does not seem to be understood by many even in Ohio. SHOULD FEEL ENCOURAGED The Pennsylvania State Senate, last week, before passing it, all but ruined the Civil Rights' bill which had gone to it from the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, a few weeks ago. A joint conference committee (of both branches of the Assembly) agreed on the emasculated measure and it was accepted by both houses of that august body. The law, thus enacted, prohibits, under penalty of a fine, not exceeding $100, the proprietor of any hotel, restaurant, cafe or place of amusement from excluding any person from his establishment because of race or color. The law has no minimum penalty, and that will be the thing that will rob it of any effectiveness, just as it did the old "Madison Tilley Ohio Civil Rights' law" which the writer replaced with the present Ohio Civil Rights' law, in 1894. It was practically useless because it was devoid of any minimum penalty and its maximum penalty was only $100. And there were other vital defects in the "Madison Tilley Ohio Civil Rights' law," so similar to Pennsylvania's new law. However, our people of the "Keystone" state have made a beginning and should feel encouraged, even if "about all the teeth were pulled from the bill" by their State Senate after it had been passed in the House. POOR OLD JOHN, STILL "KNOCKING." John P. Green is still "knocking." He says Judge Albion W. Tourgee drew Ohio's Anti-lynching bill, now a law. Sure he did and at our request, as we have always said. This, he cause the judge was a fine jurist and great friend of the race, and a specialist in his knowledge of remedies for lynching. He also came to Columbus and addressed not only the judiciary committee of the House but also an audience of Columbus people that filled the Legislature's large auditorium. This, the writer arranged for, and paid the judge's expenses (out of his own pocket) on the trip. The judge came from a point in Indiana where he had lectured. But we introduced, and had to appear before the House and Senate judiciary committees, several times, to get the bill out of those committees, and also did the burden of the work that secured its enactment. This everybody, including John, knows. Hon. Charles W. Snider (not Linder) followed the writer, in the house, in a (short) speech (at our request) when the bill was on its passage. That is all he did. Yes, we did introduce the anti-lynching bill in 1894 and did not secure its enactment, that year, because a similar bill (in name only), introduced by another Colored member, gave the white members of the House just excuse enough to siderect both bills. This gentleman of Color failed of election to the next Assembly (in 1896), and we re-introduced the anti-lynching bill and passed it, that year. In 1898, the Hon. W. R. Stewart did introduce and secure the passage of an amendment to the law which we sent to him for that purpose. Much to our regret, however, its amendment did NOT strengthen the bill as we hoped. For this Mr. Stewart was in no wise responsible because he did only what the writer thought absolutely necessary at the time. Of the few persons who did anything to help us pass the bill in 1896, Mr. Stewart did more than all the others combined, and we have always been frank to say so. But we introduced and did the burden of the work for the passage of both Ohio's Civil Rights' law and Ohio's Anti-lynching law, and everybody at all familiar with the facts in both cases knows this—even "John, the knocker." In the language of the latter, "the law will be found in Ohio laws, volume 33, page 161, 1898." We of Ohio sorely needed a Civil Rights' law, an Anti-lynching law, one to stop the insurance companies from discriminating when it came to paying benefits to our people, etc. Years after John was a member of the Ohio Assembly, the editor of The Gazette introduced and secured the enactment of the first two laws referred to in the preceding sentence, and the Hon Jere A. Brown, (deceased), the last one. The record of work done by The Gazette and its editor for our people, which brought material results to them during the past thirty-two years, is an "open book" and so well known to our masses, not only in Cleveland and Ohio but throughout the country, that it is not necessary for us to refer to it at greater length at this time. Has Established a Colony in a Fertil Valley With the 300 He Took to Africa and is Coming Back for a Second Shipplad. Muskogee, Okla.—Chief Sam, who took a boatload of Southern Afro Americans to Gold Coast, Africa, last fall, has written, to others at Weeteka, Okla. who are interested, that the colony in Africa has been started and that he is coming back for another ship-load. The new colony is in a river valley 75 miles from Salt Pond, West Africa, where he has obtained sixty-five square miles of territory, which is owned in common. At township Bohio on two hills which rise out of the river valley, and it is called Asubio. The land is described as being wonderfully fertile and he says that 15 acres is all the land of this kind that one family can possibly handle with profit. Chief Sam established the Oklahoma camp at Weeteka several months before he got away with his first ship-load of colonists. At one time more than one thousand Afro Americans were in his camp, all six of them, in which he only about 300 finally sailed from Galveston. However, an organization is maintained. Most of those who agree to go put up $25 a family as a guarantee of their good faith and to pay for their transportation on the chief's ship. Sewing Broken Hearts A Russian surgeon named Zedelian reports 31 patients who recovered from stab wounds of the heart in the hospital at Obuchow. Prompt and rapid operations is the probable reason for this good showing. The patients were all put under the influence of ether very soon after the injury, part of the chest wall was removed, the heart lifted from its bed and the stitches quickly introduced between pulsations. The bony chest wall over the heart was not put back in place, that organ being left covered only by skin and muscle. This was done to give the heart room to expand and to prevent adhesion from embarrassing the heart's action. Several of the patients are at their daily work after seven years since the operation. "Tommies Were Jilted" A strange romance of the battlefield is mentioned by Sergt. T. Bay ley: "A man of the Gordon 'listed five years ago', he says, 'because the Greenock girl he wanted preferred another chap who was earning a few more shillings a week more. One day when wounded he noticed another British soldier belonging to a Scottish regiment whose face seemed familiar. He crawled over and found it was the chap for whom he had been thrown over. He bore no ill-will, and started talking, when he found that this chap in turn had been thrown over for another man, who also was lilted and was actually serving in the same regiment as the first man, though they didn't know each other. Isolate Gangrene Germ. Doctor Roux, head of the Pasteur institute, communicated to the Academy of Sciences an important discovery in the form of gangrene antitoxin recently made by Doctor Weinberg in examination of fifty cases of gaseous gangrene—the most deadly complication in wounds, according to statistics, Doctor Weinberg succeeded in isolating the causative microbe. With a series of cultures experiments were made on guinea pigs, dogs and horses, and an antitoxin was obtained which produced favorable results when a dose was injected in a gangrenous patient Doctor Weinberg, however, will not admit that his discovery is yet beyond the experimental stage. Advance in Australia. The expansion of the post office business in South Australia has necessitated increased provision for the requirements of the public in many places throughout the state. Included in the amount provided in the federal estimates to be expended on public works in South Australia during the current financial years is $100,000 for additions to existing and the erection of new post office buildings. A large proportion of this expenditure will be incurred on works in various country towns. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1915 FRESH OHIO NEWS FRESH OHIO NEWS BY "THE OLD RELIA GAZETTE'S CORRE- SPONDENTS THROUGHOUT THE STATE What Our People Are Doing Each Week—Church, Personal, Social, Lodge, Literary and Musical — Marriages, Deaths, Etc. FINDLAY.—Rev. D. W. Butler, preached morning and evening, Sunday, at the A. M. E. church, and Mrs Rosa Johnson, president of the North Ohio Conference Missionary society, spoke interestingly.—Mrs. Malvern Mitchell visited her mother, Mrs. John W. Childers, and in mother-in-law, Mrs. Major Mitchell, in Kenton, Tuesday.—Mrs. Oscar Burton of Fostoria, visited Zion Baptist church, Sunday.—Give the local agent your news for this letter. OBERLIN—Mrs. Roy Godette left, recently, to visit in Detroit—Rev. D. McCall of Indianapolis, spoke, Thursday evening at Mt. Zion church. He was passing through the city—Misses Emma and Elizabeth Gilkerson of Sandusky attended the May festival, Monica has returned to each Coleman has returned South to each logical Seminary commencement excercises were held, Thursday. Among the graduates were Mr. C. Kelly, and Post-graduates Gregory and Collins—Woman's day program, May 23, by the Women's Progressive club, was fine, the ones being spent, in rehearsing. The Phi Beta Gamma Entro Neuros Girls, for Tuesday, and the May festival, Friday evening—Miss Bessie Boyd of Selma, Ala., was the SANDUSKY—The A. M. E. rally was a success. Rev. L. H. Dodd preached in the morning and Rev. George D. Smith at 2:30 p.m. when the Second Baptist choir, J. R. Davis, director, did the singing—Mrs. M. Harris, an old resident and a member of the A. M. E. church for 40 years, was buried in Bloemingdale cemetery Saturday afternoon. The pastor, Rev. R. W. Russell, field secretary this week, at the Second Baptist church, and "missionary day" rally, 3 p.m. Sunday. A program will be rendered. All are invited. Rev. Wm. Russell, field secretary of home mission work, was at the church, two evenings, last week. Remember "the old reliable" Gazette is our Ohio pride, as a newspaper a home production that is a real news and data all the time for our people. Remember too, it has done this for 32 years. Therefore, don't leave an old, tried and true friend for a new one. It never pays to do so. CORRESPONDENTS must mail all letters for publication at their main postoffice sufficiently early on Monday (or Sunday) of each week to have them reach The Gazette office on Tuesday morning, and always write the names and that of their city or town to the wrapper about returned copies. Unless this latter is done, proper credit cannot be given you. Lists of names, wedding presents, etc., obituary notices, speeches, resolutions, poetry, inquiries for relatives and advertisements, announcements of entertainment 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. SMITHFIELD.—The S. S. teachers held a very pleasant board meeting at the parsonage, Friday week. They met at Mrs. Georgia Beaill's, Friday evening. Intyre attended church here Sunday evening.—Rev. Chas. Greene of McIntyre, was here last week.—Dr. Chas. Hargrave and niece, of Pittsburg, are visiting his parents.—the Wallace brothers, I. Davis and Mr. Redman of Pittsburg, are visiting his parents.—Mr. H, and Mrs. J. Harris and others, were in Steubenville, last week —Mrs. Faithful of Harrisville, is visiting her daughter, Mrs. G. D. Blinns. “The "Busy Bee" club gave an enjoyable program and social at the church, last Tuesday evening.—Mesdames J. Harris, Alice Henderson, Haze and James Harris Jr., motored to Cadiz, Sunday, and spent a delightful day.—Rally day, Sunday, at McIntyre. Plat from meeting in the afternoon. Business men of Smithfield and vicinity McIntyre, attended St. Paul's A. M. E. Church, Sunday, and were Mr. and Mrs. F. Smith's guests. Miss Frances Adams of Fernwood, is the guest of Mrs. Abby Palmer.—Mr. and Mrs. John Christian have moved to their old home in McIntyre.—Miss Lavina Lewis was Miss Lacy Smith's guest, Sunday. YOUNGSTOWN. The annual services of Mahoning Valley Lake, Odd Fellows, and its Household of Ruth were held, Sunday, at Oak Hill Ave. A. M. E. church. A splendid program was rendered and Dr. J. M. Gillmore preached a very interesting sermon. There was a large attendance—Mrs. Sarah Rush of New York was called south of her parent's illness a week. He died, May 10. Mr. Robt Mackey is still very ill.—Rev. W. O. Harper returned from Philadelphia, last week. A number of K. of P. "Calautes" and friends will leave for New Castle, Pa., Sunday at 1:30 p.m. in a special car—Nathaniel Young spent the winter at Palm Beach, Jacksonville, St. Petersburg, Fla., and other southern cities—Mrs. Edna K. Calautes, a civil rights attorney, Pa. with relatives. Mrs. Lella Walker Robinson of N. Y. City, was Dr. and Mrs. W. P. Burton's guest, last week, and was elaborately entertained at dinners. "auto" parties, etc.—James Southall spent four months in Los Angeles, Cal., and visited the Panama-Pacific exposition. You can always get the truth as well as news in The Gazette. You can sit with her and accept no other paper as a substitute for "the old reliable"—Attorney W. R. Stewart recently secured a $9,000 verdict, in a damage suit against the Republican Iron & Steel Co., for a client (white.) Willard Still a "Frost." New York City—As far as new New York is concerned, Jess Willard has disappeared from the spotlight. Rarely is his name mentioned by the general public, and even the fight fans about him are less aware of the pseudo champion. DOINGS OF THE RACE F. D. Morton of Washington, D. C. is the new principal of the Manassas, Va., Industrial school. The bill to bar Afro-American lawyers, from practicing in that state, has passed the Florida House and may not meet with success in the Senate, report says. At the U. S. Army Mounted Service school at Ft. Riley, Kan., two Afro-American troopers gained honors in swordsmanship. They are Sergeant Ernest G. Washington, Troop E, Tenth Cavalry, stationed at Fort Huachua, Ariz., and Corporal Hezekiah K. Ariz., stationed at North Kahle, stationed at Douglas, Arizona. Illinois House of Representatives has passed Major Jackson's "film" bill which seeks to bar such infamous photo-plays as "The Nigger" and "The Birth of a Nation." We hope the bill becomes a law. Abram E. Smith has been appointed a member of the Legislature of the Danish West Indies by Denmark. He merits掌柜 at St. Thomas, D. W. I. The colored citizens of Boston are raising a fund of $1,000 to help the Guardian, the paper for which Editor Trotter has made every sacrifice for many years. In keeping it on foot his houses have been sold and every cent he or she family could raise have been for that purpose. Cincinnati (O.) Union Tell your friends about this department of The Gazette. It, alone, is worth the price of the paper. Then too, there is the department for "the woman of fashion" on our last page. Ladies call your friends' attention to it. The South Carolina Supreme Court affirmed the judgment of the circuit court in awarding $2,000 exemplary damages to Madison Cantley against Clarendon county for the lynching of his son, who was arrested last February on a slight charge, and while in charge of the constable. Sam McVey won from Harry Wills of New Orleans, in a ten round contest in N. Y. city recently. Nine colored men will graduate from the various departments of Yale university this commencement. This will be the largest number to come out of this institution, and is encouraging. The Wilberforce University baseball team defeated the Chinese University ball team from Honolulu, Hawaii, May 17, 14 to 3. The Wilberforce team then went on a seven day trip, visiting Institute Montgomery, and Charleston, W. Va., and New Concord, O. Attorney William R. Stewart of Yokohama O. secured a $9,000 verdict in his client, of that city, James Hines, from the Republic Iron and Steel Company, in the Federal court, recently. The two vicious photo-plays, "The Nigger" and "The Birth of a Nation," were barred out of Ohio, over a month ago. The latter has never been shown in this state. Gov. F. B. Willis did this, on the request of the editor of The Gazette, early in April. Some of our exchanges (race publications) do not seem to have learned this yet. In 1910 there were in the Southern states 1,191,351 Afro-American homes, of which 430,449, or 22.4 per cent, were owned including 314,949 or 16.4 per cent of all Afro-American homes, which were all Afro-American homes, which were free of incumbrance. Farms operated by Afro-Americans in 1910 numbered 833,700, and were valued at $1,142,000,000. The total number of farms, in that year, was 6,361,502, and their value was $40,991,449,000. Mr. Cook is dangerously ill with tuberculosis. He is the well-known musician and composer of Washington, D. C., and N. Y. city. Years ago when a boy, he lived some years in Cleveland, O. Howard Drew, world champion sprinter, and chief point-winner for the University of Southern California, has announced that he has decided to play at college for a year at least and to go to work, either in San Francisco or Springfield. Mass., his former home. He also said that he probably would not compete in the amateur athletic union championship field meet in San Francisco this summer. Capt. Walter Loving and his Filipino constabulary band are at the Panama-Pacific Exposition. It is one of the world's finest musical organizations. There were 36,770 Afro-American church organizations with 3,685,997 communicants or members. Between 1890 and 1906 the number of our church organizations increased by 56.2 per cent and the number of communal churches increased by 46.9 per cent in our population during the same period being 26.1 per cent. In Mississippi and South Carolina the Afro-American population was more than 50 per cent of the total in 1910–56.2 per cent and 55.2 per cent, respectively; and in Georgia, Louisiana, Alabama and Florida the percent ages ranged between 40 and 59–45.1, 42.5 and 41 respectively. According to the U. S. census there are 39 Afro-American lawyers in Ohio; 59 in the District of Columbia; 60 in Illinois; 58 in New York; 43 in Tennessee; 33 in Texas; 37 in Virginia, and a lesser number than those in any of the states named, in the others. Pullman car porters pay more in a day for their meals on railroad tracks than for a company for their day's work; it was recently asserted before the U. S. Commission on Industrial Relations. The Afro-American population increased from 751,728, or 19.3 per cent of the total population, in 1790, to 982,773, or 10.7 per cent of the total, in 1910. The increase between 1900 and 1910 was at the rate of 11.2 per cent, while during the same period the white population increased by 22.3 per cent. The largest Afro-American population in any year in 1910 was that of Georgia, 751,987. Mississippi was with 1,009,487 and Alabama with 908,982. Of the 9,827,763 Afro-Americans in 1910, 7,777,077, or 79.1 per cent, were reported as of pure blood, the remaining 2,050,688. or 20.9 per cent, being classed as "mulattoes." The average death rate among Afro-Americans in 33 northern cities, each having an Afro-American population of at least 2,500 in 1910, was 25.1 per cent per 1,000, as compared with 15.7 per cent for the whites, a decrease of 2.0 per cent for our people and 2.5 per cent for the whites. A similar comparison for 24 southern cities shows a rate of 29.6 for Afro-Americans, a decrease of 4.0 per cent; and 16.9 per cent for whites, a decrease of 2.9 per cent, when compared with 1800. THE BIG CIRCUS HERE! The Barnum and Bailey greatest show on earth will exhibit in Cleveland, today and tomorrow, Friday and Saturday, May 28 and 29, and this good news from the biggest and foremost amusement institution in the world. The Barnum and Bailey Circus has always been the largest that travels and this season the management has found it necessary to add many more cars to their train in order to reach the city. It requires 85 double length railroad cars to transport the big show, 1280 people are employed, there are 700 horses, 40 elephants and a menagerie of 110 cages, 480 world famed artists take part in the greatest circus program this world has ever known. A fitting introduction to the wonderful performance this year, is the presentation of the new, management spectacle, the hippodrome and the dome of the largest tent ever erected, 480 performers from every nation in the world take part and present a vast array of foreign features enriched by an animal exhibition is given by the Marvellous War Elephants, Pallenberg's Wonder Bears, Madam Bradam's Angel Horses, Thaleros' Dogs, Ponies and Monkeys, and the Barnum and Bailey Statue Horses. Great interest is already being shown in this neighborhood and great crowds will come to Cleveland for the biggest and most enjoyable holiday of the year. Every enjoyment of the circus is ordered to be there in time for the parade which starts promptly at 10 a.m. and which is said to eclipse anything of its kind ever before attempted in the history of the circus business. REMEMBERS HIS OLD LOVE In His Will—A Leading New Jersey Dentist—A Member of the Race. Jersey City, N. J.-The death of Thomas T. Wilkerson, a dentist whose offices were in this city, occurred. May 5 at Avon, N. J. The probation of his will, May 18, brings some interesting developments to light. He came originally from Northampton County, N. C., and was said to have been an Afro-American, although his practice and associates were among the whites. About four years ago, he met Miss Elizabeth Rector, but the marriage did not take place. It was thought by people who knew, that it was because of the race identity of the doctor. The young lady later became Mrs. Peterson and now lives in Jersey City. In his will Dr. Wilkerson bequeathes one-half of his estate, which is reported to be valued at about $20,000, to his former finance, and the New Jersey Title and Guarantee Company of New Jersey is named as the executor. A bequest of $500 is made to Henderson Tucker of Henrico, N. C., for a monument over the testa of the family burial place in Northampton County. All of his books are bequeathed to St. Augus tine Institute, Episcopal school for our children at Raleigh, N. C. Nancy W. Edmunds and Henderson Tucker of North Carolina are named among the residuary legates. Alma Boone Little. Detroit, Mich.—Mrs. Alma Boone Little, whose sensational challenge of her husband that she is an Afro-American, attracted nationwide attention, has withdrawn her suit for divorce and will permit her husband, Charles A. Little, a local druggist, to obtain an uncontested decree on his cross bill. The Littles have signed an agreement whereby Little will be given a divorce on grounds of extreme cruelty, and the question of Mrs. Little's parentage will not be an issue. Well, well, well! A GOLDEN OPPORTUNITY OPEN TO ALL We cordially invite Colored people to invest in the most desirable and valuable real estate at RICHLAND, N. J., "The Rapidly Growing City", only 45 minutes' ride from Philadelphia, "The Big Metropolis", and 25 minutes from Atlantic City, the world-famous all year round seaside resort having the largest and finest hotels in the country, where thousands of people are employed and earning big wages. Extremely desirable town lots, containing 2500 square feet, $50.00 each and up, Garden Plots, containing 16 City Lots, $125.00 up, and farms, containing five acres and over, $350.00 up. Payable $3.00 monthly until paid for. No interest and no taxes charged to purchasers. 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Miss Georgia Fields is training the eighth-grade pupils of Murray Hill school in their commencement music. Mrs. W. H. Fields and daughters, Misses Georgia and Cora, attended the "May day" exercises of the Kent Normal school, Saturday. Nearly $300 were realized from the recent concert given under the auspices of the Phillips Wheatley association at Y. W. C. A. hall. Fifteen presidents of Cleveland women's clubs met recently and organized, Mrs. Harriet K. Price was elected president. The Minerva Reading club held a "stunt" meeting at Mrs. Cornelia F. Nickens, E. 85th St. Saturday afternoon. Moedames Edwina Seelig, Leila Fleming, Harriet Price and F. E. Young were the principal participants on the very creditible program. The next meeting will be held at the Sterling Branch library. O. E. S. No. 28, gave a very enjoyable "smoker", last week Wednesday evening, to about 60 Masons and friends. A splendid quartette, a Spanish dancer and Dr. F. H. Weaver, the clever mandolinist, a delicious repast was served. Mr. Walter Stratton, Imperial Potentate of the order, is a "star" entertainer. The editor of The Gazette acknowledges the receipt of an invitation from F. P. Prentiss, chairman of the Advisory Committee of the local educational survey, to attend the luncheon at the "Hollenden", Monday noon, when Prof. Charles H. Judd, director of the School of Education of the University of Chicago, addressed the Advisory Committee and those interested in the local educational survey. The Young Men's Baraca class announces that the speakers at the patriotic and memorial service to be held at Mt. Zion Cong. church, Sunday evening, will be A. H. Martin, Esq., Mr. M. Johnson, Harry F. Greene and Geo. C. Sutton. A chorus of thirty voices will lead the high hour performance (from 7:30 to 8 p.m.) to Miss Cora Fields, will precease the services, which will start promptly at 8 p'clock. The rally at St. John's church, Sunday, resulted as follows: Club No. 1, Mrs. Bottle Jackson, captain, $68.29; 2, Mrs. M. Anderson, $158.16; 3, Mrs. Mollie Green, $105.12; 4, Mrs. C. Crawford, $67; 5, No. 5, Mrs. Ida Owens, $46; 6, No. 6, Mrs. A. E. Smith, $17.50; 7, No. 7, Mrs. Ella White, $22.50; 8, Miss Mary Arnett, $32; No. 9, Mrs. H. Humble, $36.30; No. 10, Miss J. E. Hunter, $7.25. Rev. Wm. Dawkins of Payne Theological seminary, preached two excellent sermons, Sunday, returning to Wilberforce, Monday. Quarterly meeting services tomorrow. Rev. Maxwell, P. E., will preach in the morning. Quarterly conference, Monday night. The Gazette regularly should notify delivered promptly. fully examine The Gazette's adver- sions. Business men who advertise in image of Afro-Americans. The fact that they want it. tirements) ten cents a line (six The baby son of Mr. and Mrs. "Buddie" Queen, died recently. Mr. Jackson, 2247 E. 39th St., who died, Tuesday, was buried, Thursday. Mrs. Marie T. Perkins leaves this week for Michigan to recuperate, after a recent operation. Mrs. Phil. S. Dennie, 2285 E. 90th St., left Thursday for Clarksburg, W. Va., to visit her sister. A Mr. Jackson on 1241 E. 39th St., who conducted a barbershop on the West Side, died the first of the week. Do not fail to read carefully the editorials (in Cols. 1 and 2, page 2). You will find much of prime interest to you. 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. G. Herbert Walker and Miss Freda Cleo Davis were married, Sunday morning by Rev. G. V. Clark. At home, June 6, at 2180 E. 36th St. Mr. Wm. Johnson, E. 43rd St., was called to Kittanning, Pa., last week, by the serious illness of his mother, Mrs. Mary C. Johnson. His wife preceded him, four weeks ago. Mrs. Lillian Rogers Thompson has a dramatic soprano voice of exceptionally good quality, a fine stage presence and a most agreeable personality. Her future, as a singer and soloist, is very promising indeed. This is very gratifying to her host of friends and admirers. Other race papers come and go while "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 contact yourself as to this, if you are interested. Subscribe for and advertise in The Gazette if you want the BEST. Send or bring locals and all business matters to The Gazette's offices, suite 2, Blackstone Bldg. If you wist, to see the editor call there, please. All matters for publication in current issues of The Gazette, must be in the office by 4 p. m. WEDNESDAY at the latest. C. H. Jackson, a N. Y. Central R. R. office clerk who came here a few months ago from Buffalo, when a part of the general office force here moved there only to be replaced by clerks of the city, with bringing his wife and two children to this city, to reside, this week. Mr. and Mrs. Jackson are fine people and The Gazette welcomes them to Cleveland. Mrs. Hattie L. Matlock has won five cash prizes offered by daily papers of this city. Her essays were on ecological and homophilic topics. Matlock also won the third prize at the local Flower and Garden Show, some months ago. The Afro-American Federation, organized to work for the bettering of conditions of the community, elected the following named directors at St John's A. M. E. church, last week Wednesday evening: Revs. H. C. Bailey, E. A. White, G. V. Garrett, A. White, A. M. H. Martin, R. Stalke, and R. K. Moon. What has become of the local branch of the N. A. A. C. P. St. John's S. S. Boethan class held its "May walk", last week Friday evening. A delicious menu was served at four different homes along the route as follows: Miss Amy Rogers, Mrs. Melissa Mabey, Mrs. Saul Lucas, E. F. Montgomery's, and Miss Bertha and Mabelle Blue's. Mr. Sou Lucas is teacher and Mr. Jack Smyles, president. Chairman F. F. Prentiss has added the editor of The Gazette and Roy R. Cheeks, Esq., to the Advisory Committee of the Survey Committee of The Cleveland Foundation, the other Afro-American members of which are George A. Myers and Charles W. Chessman, Esq. This committee was organized to assist Dr. Leonard A. who was the principal apprehensive of the public education problem of Cleveland, and to keep the leaders of thought of this community closely in touch with the educational survey. The Advisory Committee takes lunchon, at noon on Mondays, with Dr. Ayres in the Assembly Room of the Hollenden Hotel, where there is a mutual discussion of the problems of the Educational Survey and Prof. Chas. A. Judd, director of the School of Education of the University of Chicago, addressed the committee and others interested in the Educational Survey, Dr. Ayres is conducting. Prof. Judd, who is directing the local survey of teaching efficiency, is one of the country's leading academics of education, called attention, particularly to several vital weaknesses in the conduct of Cleveland's High Schools, particularly the technical institutions. --- Gazette BER'S, Central Ave. N. Central Ave. MAN'S, Central Ave. BOYD'S, Central Ave. AS, Central Ave. ORE, Sh St. thur Ave. Mrs. James Kelly of Youngstown, is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Ella Ash of 2534 E. 29th St. The Tuesday Afternoon club will meet, next week, at Mrs. Alex, Stan- ley's, cor. E. 24th St and Central Ave. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph R. Simmons have moved to their new home in Englewood Ave. (Glenville), from E. 59th St., which place they have rented. After an absence from the city, since the first of the year, Mr. Edward Chaffin of E. 69th St., returned home. Sunday. He spent the time in the West and South-west, and says his clean cloth" for polishing silver, gold and plated metal, easily and quickly, is selling fine, and that he expects this to make it necessary for him to remain in the city for some time. THE ALPHA MU An audience that seat, while many st must auspicious de- Mu club, at St. John nesday evening, in teresting and very anese play, "The P Hot Su." This was the fir- ance of the organ composed of our ne- college students an school teachers. The guage of one of its "was not organized cial pleasure, but r virtual improvement o for usefulness in this body of serious-minded Good! And well o ```markdown ``` You cannot blame us for calling attention, repeatedly, to the fact that John P. Green served THREE terms (six years) in the Ohio Assembly. He served in the Senate and DUTELY NO EFFORT TO DO THE THINGS OUR PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OHIO WERE IN SUCH SORE NEED OF. This too, in spite of the fact that HE WAS IMPORTUNED BY MEMBERS OF THE WRITER AMONG THE NUMBER) TO INTRODUCE A CIVIL RIGHTS' BILL Mrs. Rosa Boyd's gold watch is to go to Agnes Heasley, according to her will. Martin L. Sweeney, Esq., of 2336 Cedar Ave. is, noted in the same as the person who wrote it, and Frank B. Carpenter, R. B. Whitney and H. J. Holden, all white, have been appointed by Probate Judge Hadden to appraise the Boyd property. It is said that Mrs. Edward Daw and Miss Emma Tolbert who have claims against the boyd have been sent to court, file them at an early date, if indeed they have not already done so. Relatives of Mrs. Boyd, on her mother's side, are said to reside in Wayne County, this state. The estate will, in all probability, be tied up in court for many months if not years. . . . . The "Revelers" have been having a great laugh, all week, at "Dode" Green's expense, it seems. When the organization announced its dance of last week, it notified all of the male persons issued invitations who intended to attend, to send a dollar before May 15 as no money was being given to the event, the affair, "Dode" did not do this but appeared at the ball-room door with two ladies who were admitted. But he was "turned down flat". This would have ended the matter but for the fact that "Dode" aired his feelings, late last week, as a result of his treatment, in a lengthy letter to several of his friends, which has afforded them no end of amusement, even though it is to be ignored as far as a reply is concerned; so report has it. Ask "Dode" what his father said to him about it. Geo W. Johnson can tell you. Patrolman Nesbit Gooderl of the E. 37th St. station was in Charity hospital, last Friday, with a dozen cuts on his head and brushes about the body, received in quelling a disturbance among a dozen gangsters at Central Ave., and E. 20th St., last week Thursday night. The patrolman captured the ringleader and was leading him to a patrol box when the prisoner's friends came to his rescue. Gooderl was knocked down, stripped of his coat, helmet and gloves, and sent to Sertz Schlegel and a wagon load of patrolmen responded to a telephone call from a citizen and arrested nine suspects. They were taken to the hospital, Friday, to be identified by Gooderl. The policemen of the Third Precinct are "cleaning up" Central Ave., again and deserve to be encouraged and assisted by all good citizens. Conditions had grown so very bad again, on the avenue and in its immediate vicinity, that something had to be done, in order that they can be in trouble doing the best they can to improve conditions and, in the main, are doing well. Last Saturday night about midnight, a revolver-shot startled the people in that corner of E. 29th St. and Central Ave., had fired at an Afro-American who had thrown a brick through one of his windows which broke a large pane of glass and struck him. Three policemen promptly assisted him and tried to give him to give up a knife he had. For fully twenty minutes they pled with the man to give up the weapon. He refused and shoved them from him. The result was that they were compelled to club him severely in order to get the revolver. All the next day various persons in the avenue were complaining because the man was given a beating, and circulating all kinds of stories that were calculated to arouse our people against police. This is a rule and not the exception, and it lasts only to investigate the incidents before abusing the police who as a rule are only trying to do their duty, protect the good people of the community and arrest the law-breakers, dangerous and undesirable persons. Personal. Columbus, Q.-Rev. and Mrs. F. G. Snelson attended Bishop H. M. Turner's funeral in Atlanta, Ga., last week, and incidentally, while there, celebrated the 25th anniversary of his graduation from Atlanta University. They are expected to return to the city, today. Duty to One's Brother Man As ships meet at sea, a moment together, when words of greeting must be spoken, and then away into the deep, so men meet in this world; and I think we should cross no man's path without bailing him, and if he needs, giving him supplies.—Henry Ward Beescher. --- Records in Deep-Sea Diving. That deep diving is a practical procedure not accompanied by great danger when the proper precautions are taken seems to have been demonstrated by tests carried out by the navy department during the fall of 1914 off the coast of New England. In these tests only such apparatus as is supplied with the diving outfits of all naval vessels was used. About one hundred dives were made, and although great depths were reached, no mishaps or difficulties were experienced. One diver went to a depth of 274 feet, and it is believed by the officers in charge that a depth of 300 feet or more can be reached without serious danger. THE ALPHA MU CLUB SCORES! An audience that occupies every seat, while many stood, witnessed the most auspicious debut of the Alpha Mu club, at St. John's church, Wednesday evening, in the intensely interesting and very pretty little Japanese play, "The Revenge of Shari-Hot Su." This was the first public appearance of the organization, which is composed of our normal school and college students and young public-school teachers. The club, in the language of one of its leading members, "was not organized primarily for social pleasure, but rather for intellectual improvement or broadening, and for usefulness in this community as a body of serious-minded young people." The club drives home this fact in the beautifully staged and splendidly acted play, as well as in their delightful Japanese fan drill on Wednesday evening, the music for the latter being furnished by Master Howard Fields, a most promising young pianist, and son of Mr. and Mrs. George Fields of Dunlap Ave. The play, "Shari-Hot Su," is in two acts with an equal number of scenes. These latter were beautifully staged, and the costumes of the seven characters of the play, exceptionally attuned to the setting, making good was the "make-up" in each case. The prologue was well read by Miss Mabelle Blue. Cherry Blossom.....Ruth Dean Nina Beaconstreet of Boston..... Wilberetta Hansbary Kloto, Cherry's lover. Myrtle Johnson Harold Armstrong, New Yorker ... Hazel Smith Directed by Genevieve Davis. Synopsis. Act I. SCENE: Cherry's home; Cherry and Kioto have just returned from America with Mrs. Beaconstreet and Nina—Harold in Japanese attire saves Nina's life in a jinricksha accident—Cherry's father Negayo plans to marry her to Shari-Hot Su.—Kioto's attempts to see her are frustrated. In order to save Kioto rom dang, which she knows will come to him if he harbours Negayo's plan, Cherry decides to declare that she does not love Kioto and will marry Shari-Hot Su. Act II. Scene: A Japanese garden; Cherry is held a prisoner in her home. Nina wishes to save her from a loveless marriage. Cherry comes secretly and tells her friends of an outrageous plot to accuse Kioto of treason to the Mikado. She beams Kioto to the floor. In despair Nina reveals the true situation to him. He revenues by wishing Cherry and Nina a happy life together. Between the acts, the beautiful sexette from the opera of "Lucia" was so satisfactorily played by four members of the club, Misses Wilberetta and Helen Hansbary, violin and 'cello, respectively. Misses Frances Sims and Helen Hansbary, who are to secure them an enthusiastic encore. Following the play, Miss Amy Rogers, who possesses a very sweet light soprano voice, sang beautifully, "Will He Come Again?" (from the movie *Miss You*), Dean accompanying her on the piano. Then came the Japanese tan drill, directed by Miss Blanch Johnson. It, too, greatly pleased the large audience and merited the splendid recall it received. The participants were: Misses Helen and Helen Wright, Susie and Loren Greene, Misses Mackenzie, Misses Lee, Mabelle Blue, Ruth Dean, Amy Rogers, Genevieve Davis, Hazel Smith, Wilberetta Hansbary and Stella Huston. Every one of the seven characters of "Shar-Hat Su" was exceptionally well played after the first few moments of nervousness wore off and the young ladies grew more accustomed to their poor perceptions. Considering the poor acoustic qualities of that part of St. John's church, their lines were very well read and their acting excellent. The play-m committee: Misses Genevieve Davis, Blanch Johnson and Moss Lee, and the decoration committee: Misses Mabelle Blue, Amy Rogers and Inez Johnson certainly helped give for the good work they performed. The Alpha Mu Club's debut was a distinct success of which every member has good reason to feel proud. FRANK PETITIONS FUTILE. They Won't Influence Governor-Elect Harris, He Says. Macon, Ga.-Goev-elect Harris, in a statement here, May 22, declared that only Georgia's interests would be considered if the question of granting clemency to Leo M. Frank was brought before him. The governor-elect's statement, which he said was many letters in Frank's behalf, was as follows: "You can just say for Nat Harris that if the matter of dealing executive clemency to the condemned man is to be considered by him, that the entire outside world will not be taken into consideration one bit. It is entirely a Georgia matter and if I am to consider from a Georgia basis, with the interests of Georgia and the interests of Georgia persons at heart." Harris will take the oath as governor on June 26. Turks' Sacred Tower Now the allies' feet is attempting to reach Constantinople, it would be interesting to know whether the Turks have made any fresh effort to support the toterting old column in Stamboul known as the Burnt tower. Many, many years ago a Turkish prophet announced that when the tower fell, so also, would the Turkish empire in Europe crumble with it, and his prophecy is whole-heartedly believed in Constantinople. So strong is this superstition that when the Young Turks dethroned Abdul Hamed some six years ago they immediately girded the tower with thick iron bands and stays that they might save their country from disaster. Leer Asylum In Siam The first leper asylum in Slam consists of six brick cottages, in Laos, which accommodate one hundred lepers. The Slamese high commissioner, the governor of Chiang Mai, the major general of the army and other officials were guests of the missionaries at the dedication. Rosedale 2770 Quality Service SLAUGHTER BROS. FUNERAL DIRECTORS & EMBALMERS Office and Funeral Parlors 3923 Central Av., Autos for All Occasions Calls Answered Day and Night KINKY HAIR CORRESPONDENTS WANTED. The old reliable Gazette desires an active agent and correspondent in every city and town in Ohio and neighboring states having a number of Afro-American residents. Only a little time on Fridays or Saturdays is required. We are especially desirous of hearing from persons in the following named cities: Zanesville, Newark, Lancaster, Lebanon, Chillicothe. Toledo, Troy, Canton, Springfield, Piqua, Columbus, Cambridge, Steubenville, Bellaire, St. Clairesville, Portsmouth, Washington C. H., Oxford, Sabina, Galipolis, Rendville, Urbana, Delaware, M. Ternon, East Lansing, Wellsville, Akron, 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 readers will oblige us greatly by sending at once the addresses of persons in the cities named above, or others, to whom we can write relative to the matter. Rosedale 2770 SLAUGHTER FUNERAL DIRECTOR Office and Fun 3923 Centra Autos for All Occasions P Atlanta, Ga. Excento Mortgage Geminium. I am send- ing you a picture to show you what I can QUINIE POMARA has done for my hair. It has grown to 32 inches long and wavy hair. It is now over the up my hair way I want to. It is considerably the tallest grows in the world; it also keeps the scalp very smooth. ANNIE JONES AGENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE. Write for particular today 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. R. R. CHEEKS ATTORNEY-AT-LAW Main 806 312-314 Superior Building J. LOMSKY 3816-3820 Central Ave. DRY GOODS LADIES' AND GENT'S FURNISHINGS Try Our Lomsky Special $1.00 Corsets, Also our Ladies' $1.00 Waists They are good The Elyria Progressive Club 2556 E. 22d ST., is neat and under good management. On the Club gives its WEEKLY SOCIAL SESSION, and accepts members for initiation. The Club has a NICE DINING ROOM. Cuy. Central 6661-L G. G. REED Dry Goods Ladies' and Gents' Furnishings Sole agents for the AMERICAN LADY NEMO R. @ G. COR-ETS 3222 Central Ave. Where do you buy your Collars, Shirts, Neckwear, etc.? The Central Shirt Shop is the place to get Everything in the Haberdasher line. 2908 Central Ave. --- 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. ANNOUNCEMENT Louis B. Rappaport Eye Specialist Has opened one of the largest and most complete Optical Pariors in the East End, in Room 7, the new Haltnorth building, E. 55th St., near Woodland Ave. Eyes Examined and glasses fitted. Central 3647 R Quality Service ER BROS. RS & EMBALMERS meral Parlors ral Av., Calls Answered Day and Night KY HAIR Don't be fooled by using some fake pres- cription which claims to straighten hair, kinky hair or make the model look you are just fooling yourself by using it. You have to have hair before you can straighten it. 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Also a few lots left in Mt. Pleasant. Call or address. R. W. WINBUSH 2192 F. 35th St. Prospect 1043-1 15 Has it ever occurred to you, your scalp needs medical attention for dandruff, eczema, falling and breaking hair and dry scalp? No one thing will reach every case. Mine, Thomas studied medicine in order to give to the public honest, absolutely guaranteed, money-back remedies for face and scalp. Describe scalp, enclosing piece of hair and 10 cents for sample of THOMAS' MAGIC HAIR GROWER; price, 50c and $1. THOMAS' BLEACHING CREAM makes you three shades fairer and is harmless; price 25c. THOMAS STRAIGHTENING CREAM, 25c. Start a business of your own. Mine, THOMAS will teach you to treat the scalp, treating hair, and give you three guaranteed hair, and promote formulas for $5.00. Liberal terms to agents. Fine hair goods always to stock. MME, ALYCE THOMAS. No. 3565 Prairie Ave., Chicago, Ill. FIG. 1. A view of the coast of the island of Crete. The island is surrounded by a narrow strip of water, and there is a small island with a small building on it. The building has a flag on its roof. FIG. 2. A cross-sectional view of a ship. The ship is a large vessel with a flat deck and a mast. The deck is made of a series of horizontal lines, and the ship is floating on water. The ship has a flag on its roof. As Far Back as 1758 Inventors Had the Idea. Frenchman Was the First to Approach the Subject With Anything Like Practical Model, Though It Failed. The first submarine was built in 1758. An interesting parallel lies between the histories of the airplane and the submarine, both accepted as intimately modern inventions of military science, but both the fruits of centuries of striving and experiment. In both devices the one obstacle which for so many hundreds of years presented success was the problem of modular power. This is shown as particularly true since the installation of a modern gasoline motor in the old Langley cellular "plane," proving the principles of the early inventor were correct. Thus we find that the underwater boat built by a Frenchman named De Sam in the early seventeenth century was a complete success except that it would not run. The De Son vessel, built at Rotterdam, was 72 feet in length, with a maximum height of 12 feet and beam of 5 feet, tapering to points at the end, being not unlike the modern submarine in many of its lines. De Son designed his boat to operate under water with a clockwork motor ```markdown ``` would to hold an air supply for the crew addition for three hours. The clock- work was supposed to turn a large paddle wheel and propel the boat for eight hours on one winding. This quaint submarine was armed with iron pointed at the ends, with which to ram ships and crush their hulls under water. The Son had unlimited faith in his vessel and expressed it in the follow- ing flow of ancient press agency, as transmitted from an old Dutch print: "The inventor of this ship will undertake to destroy in a single day a hundred vessels, and such destruction could not be prevented by fire, storm, had weather or the force of the waves, saving only that the Almighty should otherwise will it. Vain would it be the ships lying in harbor to be regarded as safe, for the inventor could reach anywhere unless prevented by betrayal. None but him could control the craft. Therefore it may truly be called the lightning of the sea. Its power shall be proved by a trip to the East indices in six weeks or to France and back in a day, for fast as a bird which can one travel in this boat." However, when the boat was launched it refused to move. The torque of the clock motor was not able to turn the paddle wheel propeller in water, although the air test had been misrevised. But from this seed of thought today the world has submarines which can run nine knots an hour under the sea many hours and which have a cruising range of nearly 3,000 miles. The Puritan Fallacy A modern young poet named Conrad Alken is versifying about a summer trip on Long Island sound, and he finds the night full of "Beauty so keen it seemed it must have sinned —" It is odd to encounter at this late day so perfect an expression of the great Puritan fallacy, the notion that loveliness and sensitiveness are more apt to be wrong, and somberness and hardness right; that joy in life is closely allied to wickedness, and that a spirit is almost necessarily righteous. This doctrine is part of the once general creed that life on this earth is less a spiritual experience than the carrying out of a hard technical contract—and that creed is wrong. The New England frame of mind has contributed some great qualities to our national character, but has failed to see clearly that the beauty of the earth is anything more than a temptation to the human soul. This failure has and the most serious consequences in discrediting religious faith and in imposing hypocrisy upon minerals. It is part of the real business of our day to shake off these dusts of doctrine and to see this world for what it is a home for the heart and soul of man, "serviceable for the life that now not, it may be, without promise of that which is to come." -Collier's. Why Should He? We never heard of a man who tried to free himself of a manslaughter charge by pleading guilty to murder, and an up-state man tried to prove he wasn't crazy the other way by claiming he was in love. Milwaukee Journal. When They Leave School. Estimates are to the effect that in Germany 80 per cent of boys and more than 40 per cent of girls leave school at the age of fourteen years in order to become breadwinners. BOOKS OF THE PAST Most of Us Can Remember Sun day School Favorites. Heroes of Most of Them Were Impossibly Good, but Their Influence as a General Thing Do you remember the books you used to draw from the Sunday school library—how many years ago was it? Those plops stories of impossible boys who died young, with a picture on the front page showing Little Willie being carried to his grave on the shoulders of his weeping friends? Then, at a later period, the books of E. P. Roe were standard Sunday fiction. This was a genuine relief, for they embodied some glimmering of interest. His first attempt was to write a strictly religious novel, and "Barriers Burned Away," by E. P. Roe, became a Sunday school classic. This was quickly followed by those truly uplifting books: "From Jest to Earnest; or Lost and Saved," and "Opening of a chestnut Burr." By this time the author found fiction paid so well that he dropped the "Rev," and went in for pure fiction. It was pure, and it might be called fiction, but it was awful slush. Closely rivaling Roe was "Pansy," and her books had a tremendous vogue back in the eighties, but none of them ever held a marker to the Elsie books. ```markdown ``` There was a heroine who would have delighted the orthodox soul of Billy Sunday. At the early age of eight she was a walking concordance, and her manner of shooting texts of Scripture at the unsaved was disconcerting to say the least. A lovely child, though, was little Elise. She refused to tell stories on Sunday to her playmates unless they would listen to Belshazzar's feast or that classic about the children in the fiery furnace. They took those or nothing. Monday or any other day was all right for fairy stories, but on Sunday, never. It was too bad that Elise didn't die young, but there was too much money in her. She went through twenty-eight awful volumes, her girlhood, her wifehood, her widowhood, and Elise as a grandmother quickly followed in succession. She is dead now Sometimes death is robbed of its horrs. Elise was a shining mark for years. It's a pity her end was so long postponed—Schenectady Union Star. GLASS AS BUILDING MATERIAL Architects in Increasing Number Are Favoring Structures Composed of Transparent Colors. Not a few architects are recommending that houses and apartment buildings be made of glass bricks. They GLASS want glass instead of brick or stone because it gives more light and is easily kept clean. The blocks should be made of good size. They should be made of pleasing color tints and be impervious to the weather. They can be worked in between pilasters, domes and friezes. Set under the veranda this glass should have a smooth upper side with prisms on the lower face that would direct plenty of light into the rooms. Kanok Waistcoat The British admiralty has given official recommendation to kapok, a Japanese material which, it is claimed, is five times lighter than cork. This material is being quilted into waistcoats, which may be worn as an ordinary garment, its buoyant qualities serving to keep the wearer upright in the water with head and shoulders free from immersion. It is claimed that if the wearer falls or jumps into the sea, head downward, it will automatically bring him right side up above water. Quite Natural. It is said that tetanus is resulting in many deaths in the Carpathians. We should think that an epidemic of lockjaw would be inevitable if the soldiers are called upon to pronounce those geographical names often. — Houston Post. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O.; SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1915. AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS --- The name Manassas conjures up in the minds of most people in this country the great struggle between the North and the South on the battlefield of Bull Run fifty years ago, in that brother-against-brother strife for the freedom for the Negro. It seems, therefore, peculiarly fitting that on this battlefield which witnessed such havoc and bloodshed for the emancipation of these people, there should spring up a school where they might learn the value and usefulness of the liberty won for them at so great a cost. Such a school—a school of everyday common-sense training with industrial work supplemented by practical academic studies—came into existence there twenty years ago, under the guiding hand of a colored woman, Jennie Dean. The founding of the Manassas Industrial School for Colored Youth is really the life-story of Jennie Dean. Her parents were slaves, but of the most intelligent class of Negroes, her father having been taught to read and write early in life. He was ambitious after the war, to own his farm, but died before he had finished paying for it. Jennie Dean, then a young girl, left home and went into service in Washington, her wages going to pay the balance on the farm, as well as to pay her younger sister's tuition at college. Jennie Dean's life in Washington brought to her full realization of the danger her people run in migrating to the cities, and she made up her mind to try to do something to keep them at home. Her first work toward this was the starting of a Sunday school one summer while on a visit home, which later developed, through her efforts, into the founding of a church in Manassas. During the time that she was conducting these Sunday school classes and working for the church, Jennie Dean was also holding Saturday afternoon classes in cooking and sewing, and through this work she realized the possibilities which might develop out of training of this sort for young colored people. She spent twelve years in this mission work before she determined to devote herself to the industrial education of the Negroes of northern Virginia and to found a school for that purpose. She knew the danger that lurked in the cities for these young people, but she also realized the discouraging situation which confronted them if they remained at home. She was mindful of the skilled labor of slavery days, and bemoaned the fact that nothing had come to replace that industrial side. By this time, Jennie Dean's influence had become very strong in the community, so that they were all ready to help her when she called the people together and said: "Keep your children at home. Don't send them to the cities. You must buy your land; become taxpayers. Make all you can and save all you can. Meanwhile, I will go out and raise the money to build a school where your children may be educated to trades. You do your part here, and I will do mine in the world." --- While Negroes have progressed, poverty still shows its handicap. The death rate of Negroes in thirty-three northern cities, each having a Negro population of at least 2,500 in 1910, was 25.1 per thousand. This was a decrease of 2 per thousand in a decade, but it was still very high in comparison with the white death rate of 15.7 per thousand, incidentally a It has been a practice in the recent past among our people to stand off and criticize the wayward young Negro and make no effort to help him. Many of us charged him with being responsible for his lost and ruined condition and fussed at him for not turning voluntarily to the paths of rectitude and for not healing his own ills. Others of us blamed our schools and educational institutions for these lamentable conditions, always seeming to excuse parents for their responsibility in the matter. All of which was wide of the mark. It is beginning to dawn now upon the majority of us that there is no effective substitute for good home training. Neither schools, colleges nor reformatories can do a work for the young as effectively as the home. The schools and colleges do all within their power for the morals of the young; the most of their time must of necessity be spent in technical or book instruction, which of itself may or may not better the morals. But conditions which compel fathers and mothers in Negro homes to become breadwinners to the neglect of the children, force The highest temperature ever known in a human being was recorded in the case of an Italian recently. A victim of lung disease, his temperature was 138. Some men who think they are dear are casly bought. No woman is safer than the length of her hatpin. There are 70,000 Indian farmers in the United States. Popularity of whale flesh in Japan is steadily increasing. For several years this meat has been used, both fresh and canned, extensively in that country. Twenty-five to thirty-five pounds of soot for every inhabitant in London falls during the course of a year, according to careful estimates. The copper mines of Cyprus, in ancient time among the richest in the world, may be reopened, backed by United States capital. lowering of 2.5 per thousand for the whites. A comparison for twenty-four southern cities showed a rate of 29.6 for Negroes, a decrease of 4 per thousand, and 16.9 for whites, a decrease of 2.9 from 1900. Malaria, tuberculosis, pneumonia and whooping cough seem to be more deadly among Negroes than among whites, while Negroes are better able to withstand measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria, cancer, appendicitis, diarrhea and violence. Also fewer Negroes commit suicide. Dr. W. F. Brunner, health officer of Savannah, Ga., shows clearly in the current survey, how much of a menace this high death rate is to both Negroes and whites in the South. In 1913 there were about 29,000 whites and 42,000 Negroes in Savannah. Deaths from natural causes to taled, 1,038 among the Negroes and only 442 among the whites. The in-famous housing upon city dwelng Negroes, North and South, account for this great disparity. Of course however, the city which permits a high death rate among Negroes pays the penalty among all its people. Bacteria are color blind. That the mortality rate among the colored population is vastly higher than among the whites has long been known. But efforts to learn the cause and to remedy the trouble have not yet gone very far. The New York department of health, however, is going into that task with an energy that promises good results. It is taking up the task with the cooperation of various colored civic organizations, all under an impulse given by Booker Washington and the National Negro Business league. It is generally understood that this heavy death rate is the result of ignorance as to the most sanitary methods of life and the care of alliments in their inception. For example, two types of disease are notable for abnormal large death rates among the colored people. These are infant mortality and tuberculosis. But in both of them it has been shown that right methods of living and care in the treatment of the disease can produce a notable saving of life. The work of training the Negroes to the style of life that will lower mortality is eminently notable in itself. But it is even more so with regard to its effect on the whites. Living as they do, close to us, even when segregated, they cannot convert their quarters into breeding places for disease without enlarging the danger of infection for the white population. It is to be hoped that the New York effort to improve that evil will be successful and widely copied. --- The will of Lemuel Googins, a colored barber of Baltimore, who died recently, was filed for probate. Googins' estate is said to be worth $200,000. Letters testamentary were issued to the Colonial Trust company, executor and trustee. The will be queatha $4,000 to the Colored Masonic home to furnish two rooms in memory of Florence Googins, a deceased daughter. The residue of the estate is placed in trust with the Colonial Trust company as trustee, the income to be paid to Henrietta Googins, widow of the decedent, as long as she lives. At her death the estate goes to Granville Googins and Lemuel Googins, Jr., sons. upon the schools the impossible task of trying to counteract the evils planted by a lack of adequate hearthside instruction. According to a Negro publication, the Crisis, members of the darker race have gained recognition from scientific bodies in music, in art and also in the more commonplace walks of life. There is a colored man who is a man for in the United States regular army. Maj. Charles Young. He has passed all his examinations with flying colors, is a first-class soldier and fighting man and, as a matter of fact, army officers are rather proud of him in an official way. The colored American citizen is not an alien. Reaching this country unwillingly about the same time as the white man, he has demonstrated his loyalty in every war in his country's defense. He is a self-supporting, industrious, thrifty and useful citizen, and has as much right to equal treatment as those who have come later and rendered less service. "She is the sort of girl," said Ephy Wiley yesterday in discussing Genevieve Willoughby, "who will turn around to see if she has attracted your attention and then frown at you for looking at her." A man can't do justice to himself as an entertainer when his wife is around. The gold industry of the Rand is estimated to be worth $500,000 a day to South Africa. A woman always brings in a little news, which is more than can be said for most reporters. If a book agent didn't butt in, he'd never get in. The state of Washington shows the smallest death rate of any of the United States. We have good reason to entertain suspicions of the woman who is not attracted by the stores teeming with the spirit of spring. SAILOR HATS FAVORED PLAIN HEADGEAR IS FASHION'S DECREE FOR THE YOUNG. Sports Coats Have Not Yet Put the Popular Sweater Out of the Running—Modes Adapted for the Youthful Figure. In young girls' hats the wide Redoux sailor undoubtedly leads in favor. It is severely plain this year, worn rather tilted, and trimmed with a band and flat princess bow of striped or checked belt ribbon. Newer perhaps, is a heart bauka of black satin. This has a tight straw band around the head, and the satin is cut in four sections and pointed in front and behind and at each side. Charming are the woven silk caps, ending in a tassel, which are pulled over the crown of a sailor hat and dangle off the brim at one side. The cricket blazers are the newest of the sport coats, but the vogue of the sweater is by no means at an end. The variety of these useful garments is greater than ever. Some models are very clalorate affairs of knitting, combining two colors in stripes and squares. But the simpler the better for the young girl. A solid color with white edges, or a white with colored borders, or one of the new tapestry edges, may be worn for all kinds of occasions. They may be found to suit every purse in fine Jersey silk with tasseled sash, and wide collars, costing a small fortune, or in the humber but at the same time warmer wool in beautiful colors. The new ones open down the front for a short distance, close again with crocheted buttons and are put on over the head. Nearly all of them have pockets in which one can bury one's hands on a chilly morning. The one-piece gowns of linen and washable materials which the French houses are sending over all look as if they were designed for the jeune fille, so her American cousin should have no difficulty in suiting herself in these. Joanne Lauvin, the costumer of youth, is responsible for many of the best of them. They show the same salient characteristics, the same "milkmaid" effects as the more elaborate confections. Two materials are often combined for them. A white 1 Pink and White Checked Linen With Sleeves and Front of White Linen. linen, elaborate enough for an after noon occasion, of rather fine material, has a ruffled skirt and plain bodice, with trim belt and long sleeves, and all the edges everywhere are bound with a bias fold of colored linen, in a half-inch width. A checked linen is trimmed with plain, and a plain one with plaid, and so it goes. Plain white ones have buttons to enliven them; and colored leather belts are used with good results. Skirt pockets make such frocks practical and help to ornament them at the same time. Smocking has been revived as a trimming and delightful results are achieved by this means with washable colored threads. Also together it is the age of girls, and they have been honored as never before by the attention of the great French arbiters of fashion. Small wonder if they feel flattered by it, and important. (Copyright, 1915, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) Quite the newest are the broad collars and cuffs. Palest peach pink organdie makes a bewitching blouse. Prevailing Fashion Has Made Its Showing a Matter of Extreme Importance. There is every reason in the world why spring stockings should be consious. Since the oldest of us can remember, did stockings ever have things so much their own way? Did nine or ten inches of them ever before show? Of course, when our skirts were lashed to the knees occasionally the stockings showed. But those were fleeting glimpse compared with the inches and inches of stockings that are visible this year. Surely never before were stockings so well worth attention. Probably this is due to the fact that they are receiving attention. The newest thing is the black and white stocking. Sometimes it is striped in wide stripes, sometimes the stripes are so narrow that a gray effect is produced. Sometimes there are tiny shepherd's checks, sometimes big plaids marked with wide or narrow Copyright Underwood & Underwood The Longchamps races at Paris with their inseparable fashion shows being a thing of the past, due to the war, leading New York designers conceived the idea of having a Longchamps and Auteuil display of our own and at the opening of the racing season in New York state with the Rockaway Hunting club meet at Hewlett Bay, L. I., a novel fashion parade greeted the eyes of the society visitors. The picture shows a model by Hickson, Fifth avenue, New York. It is a riding habit of crash linen trimmed with black and white linen, black satin stock tie and black straw hat. RENEWING THE STRAW HAT Ways in Which Old Headgear May Be Freshened So That Is Will Appear New. You can freshen your colored straw hat with dyes. There are dyes which can be diluted in gasoline or water and which, if properly applied to a hat, will give the desired color. When it cannot be given its original color, it may be dyed black. To restore natural straw color, clean the hat with lemon juice and sulphur. Wash white straw with oxalic acid diluted with water. A leghorn hat may be cleaned with water or acid-dampened cornmeal. Brush it lightly and place it over burning sulphur to bleach the straw. The sulphur may be burned in a can in the bottom of a barrel, and the hat suspended at the top, where it will not scorch. A straw hat may be successfully bleached at home by first placing a piece of thick brown paper the width of the hatband around it, and tying it with a string to keep in place. Then cover the entire surface of the straw with a thick paste made of sulphur and water, and put the hat where the direct rays of the sun will beat down upon it. A sunny grass plot is just the place. When the paste has become thoroughly dry, brush well with a whisk broom, and a new hat will be the result. To clean a panama hat, wet some sulphur and make a paste of it, and rub it on the hat with a small brush. Put on enough to cover the hat thoroughly. Let it stand in the sun until dry, then rub more with a clean cloth. To renovate a black straw hat that has become old and rusty looking, go over it several times with a cloth saturated in alcohol. When dry, the straw will be as black and glossy as when new. If the crown of the hat has become loppy, dampen it with a cloth moistened with water and then press dry with a warm iron. Cover with small flowers, and the effect will be artistic. This method of trimming is fashionable as well as handy in concealing a limp crown. The smart little jackets, bolero in front and slightly longer in back, are no smarter than those that extend with an easy flare over the hips. lines, and sometimes there are white stockings embroidered with much black, sometimes black embroidered with white. A somewhat freakish form of embroidery takes the outline of a buttoned boot—the edge of the boot and the buttons and buttonholes are all indicated by embroidery. This, of course, is worn with a low shoe. Then there is clocking of all sorts, some of it very effective. There are stockings, too, with lace insets. One pair, for a recent bride, showed the leg portion entirely made of filmy but strong thread lace with a close, fine pattern. FASHIONS AND FADS Sailor hats are of many varieties. There is still a suggestion of fur trimming. A green sash will add dash to the white gown. Scallops are seen on skirts and jackets alike. There are charming frocks of checked taffeta. CAP and BELLS PERTINENT QUESTION OF BOY Willie Figures It Out How Father Is So Small and His Uncle Jim So Big and Tall. At a dinner party reference was made to pertinent questions, and Congressman James S. Parker of New York recalled the story of how something along that line was exploded by little Willie. William had an uncle on his mother's side who was a six-footer, while his father wasn't much bigger than a full-grown sparrow. Watching his uncle one day thoughts came into Willie's mind. "Mamma," said he, turning to his maternal relative, "how is it that Uncle Jim grew so big and tall? "He was always a good little boy," carefully explained mamma, "and because of that God permitted him to grow so tall and strong." "I see," thoughtfully used Wilkie and then added, "when father was a boy I guess he must have been some kidd of a sinner."—Philadelphia Telegraph. The Masculine Way. "It's a wonder old Adam didn't make a kick when he lost his job as head gardener of Eden," said Grounclle. "Oh, he was just like the man of today," rejoined his wife. "How's that?" asked the beginner of the trouble. "He waited until he got home," explained Mrs. Growells, "and then proceeded to raise Cain." Fully Qualified. Office Manager—So you want a job, or? What kind of work can you do? Applicant—Well, I hardly know. Until recently I was assistant instructor in a boxing school, but—Office Manager (interrupting)—Oh, I can use you all right. Come around in the morning and box our mail order shipments, and in the afternoon you can lick the stamms. "Just as Good." We gazed pityingly on the laziness drug store clerk leaning against the soda counter. "Haven't you any ambition?" we inquired, kindly and all that. "No," he replied, with brightening intelligence, "but I have something just as good."—Philadelphia Leader. Alas! Too True. Him—As a rule a man treats a woman as she deserves to be treated. Her—Yes, I suppose so; but there are exceptions to all rules. Him—What is the exception to this one? Her—Well, sometimes he marries her. "So you are busted again! Well there's a sucker born every minute." "Yes, and take it from me, old chap there's a shark born every second." "Here's a fellow eats a kump of coal on a bet." "Well, history mentions many cases of ostentations extravagance. Cleopatra, you will remember, dissolved and swallowed a pearl." Politician—Congratulate me, my dear. I've won the nomination. Wife (in surprise)—Honestly? Politician—Now, what in thunder did you want to bring up that point for? "Dick hugged me last night before I had the faintest idea of what he was about." "And what did you do?" "Why, of course, I was instantly up in arms about it." The Worst Way. "That man wrote a highly abusive letter about the injuries he had received." "Oh, that's not the proper way to write one's wrongs." Their Peculiarity. "Are Italian sunsets any different from other sunsets that they should be so called?" "Yes, insmuch as they make the day go."