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THIRTY-THIRD YEAR. NO. 8 IN WHICH HONOURS HONOURS HOLDS MINE SUNK LINER HESPERIAN Berlin Denies Destroying Vessel, Which Resulted in Death of Two Americans. ARABIC CASE DISCUSSED IN WASHINGTON An Authoritative Statement on Exact Status of Negotiations Between United States and German Government Obtained. Berlin, via London—The German government, in a note from the foreign office to Ambassador Gerard, delivered at noon Tuesday, made a qualified disclaimer of responsibility for the sinking of the steamship Hesperian, which resulted in the death of two Americans. On the face of the evidence this far at hand the government is satisfied the Hesperian was not sunk by a German submarine. The communication is a preliminary note, which may be supplemented when all the facts in connection with the Hesperian incident are established definitely. The German government states that on the basis of the information thus far obtained, the theory that the Hesperian was sunk by a German submarine apparently may be abandoned absolutely. Belove Mine Sank Hesperian. It is said that official records show no submarine should have been in the vicinity of the Hesperian at the time she was blown up. Furthermore, the point is made that the violence of the explosion and the place in which the steamship was struck, as set forth in the accounts of the disaster, indicate that it was due to a mine. The report does not protest to be final, but is based on evidence so convincing to the government that it feels safe in asserting the Hesperian could not possibly have been attacked by a German submarine. The German position, as semi-officially stated, follows: "As we are informed from a competent source, the news already received, taken in connection with facts officially known, seems to exclude almost absolutely the possibility that a German submarine could under any circumstances have been concerned in sinking the British passenger steamer Hesperian. "Firstly, according to the prearranged distribution, no German submarine should have been on Sept. 4 in that part of the ocean in which the Hesperian sank. "Furthermore, the explosion, according to descriptions received from British sources, was of such a nature as to indicate from its effects that it was rather that of a mine than of a torpedo. "The circumstances that, according to these descriptions, the vessel was struck near the bow and that the bow compartments filled with water goes to confirm this assumption." The note is a simple recital of the facts as the German government sees them, without any expression of sentiment or comment on the German submarine policy. Status of Negotiations. Washington, D. C. — An authoritative statement on the exact status of the negotiations between the United States and Germany was obtained Tuesday. It follows: The United States has made no demand on Germany that she must disavow theinking of the Arabic before her surgeson, or the mastery of fact, the United States had made no demand of any kind on Germany in connection with the Arabic case. It has made no reply whatever to the request that the German mission has been made, however, that Germany, after a review of the evidence in possession of the state department regarding the Arabic might, voluntarily disavow the commander. If Germany should desire to take this step, she would probably reply to the United States that upon consideration of the evidence which the state department has received, the conclusion that the commander of her submarine was mistaken in assuming that the Arabic was about to ram him. This would amount practically to the vessel, at least in the German view. In order to ascertain what position Germany would take, with the evidence on both sides, in hand, it was asked by Von Bernstorf, the German ambassador, and Secretary Lansing to cable to the German foreign office the evidence which this government has gathered, the matter to Count Von Bernstorf to ascertain just how far Germany is willing to go to reach an understanding, with the United States. It is probably nothing more important than that the commander from Berlin. It is apparent, however, that even if Germany should disavow the act of her submarine commander, she will insist that the question of indemnity be answered in theinking of the Arabic must be submitted to arbitration. It is now believed by officials best informed on the situation that the settlement of the controversy between Germany and the United States will be worked out along the lines suggested in the foregoing statement. Stork Frees Oltan. Handusky, O. — Joseph Ingolas is free because the stork is exected at his home. Ingolas tied his daughter Josephine, aged seven, to a chair and locked her in the cellar. The child was rescued by police and the father was found $40 and costs and committed to the workhouse for $0 days on entering a plea of guilty to a charge of cruelty. After sentence had been passed, Mrs. Everett of the Humane society whispered something into the ear of Mayor Dietz, who suspended THE GAZETTE Gustav Stahl is the German reservist who has been sentenced to the federal penitentiary at Atlanta, Ga., for 18 months for his self-confessed regiary in smoking affidavit that he saw four guns being mounted on the deck of the Lustania just before her last trip. TELLS U.S. AGENTS TO LEAVE MEXICO Washington, Fearing Uprisings, Orders Consuls on American Soil. SEES NO PROTECTION FOR ENVOYS Wishes to Forcest Difficulties Which May Arise Over Acts of Marauding Bands Which Are Threatening More Depredations. Washington, D. C.—American consuls and consular agents in northern Sonora and Chihuahua have been ordered by this government to withdraw to the United States because of the dangers in border uprisings and inability of Mexican leaders to protect them. The order to consuls followed action by the state department in repeating advices to American citizens in northern Mexico to remain away from that country for the present. The government, it is said, wishes to forestall difficulties which may arise over acts of marauding bands which are threatening more depredations in northern Mexico. In several instances, it is reported, Mexican military leaders have said they would not be responsible for the safety of American citizens or officials. The only American official who will remain in Villa territory, it was stated, will be Special Agent Carothers, who is with Villa. *Advisas from Laredo, Tex.*, stated Mexicans hidden in the brush on the Mexican side fired about 50 shots into the little town of Simon, 20 miles up the river from Laredo, and residents deserted the town. Workmen at irrigation pumping plants fled and a hurry call was sent for troops. Cavalry from Dolores was rushed to the scene, while all cavalry at Fort McIntosh was ordered out to patrol the border in every direction. THREATEN LOAN ENVOYS MENACING LETTERS RECEIVED BY MEMBERS OF THE ANGLO-FRENCH COMMISSION. New York City—Members of the Anglo-French financial commission, here to obtain a $1,000,000,000 war loan, have doubled their body guards as a result of threats. The campaign against the flotation of the loan in the United States to Great Britain and France appears to assume the proportions of a country-wide movement, threatening even the personal safety of the six members of the Anglo-French commission. Members of this commission, of which Lord Reading, lord chief justice of England, is chairman, have been requested by the police of New York not to announce in advance their plans for any day and in no instance appear on the streets without detectives guarding them. More than 50 threatening letters have been received by the commission. America's billion-dollar loan to Great Britain and France seems to be well on the way to actual accomplishment, according to bankers familiar with the pledges secured by members of the Anglo-French financial commission. Assall Twilight Sleep. Pittsburgh, Pa.—Twilight sleep was bitterly assailed by several distinguished surgeons at the annual convention of the American Association of Obstetricians and Gynecologists here. Prominent among the speakers who deprecated its use were Dr. A. H. Bill of Cleveland; Dr. Asa B. Davis of New York; Dr. E. Gustave Zinke of Cincinnati; Dr. J. H. Carstens of Detroit and Dr. H. S. Lott of Winston Salem, N. C. Dr. Lott said "the physician who goes into the home loaded with twilight sleep" is as dangerous as a bomb." ESTABLISHED AUGUST 25, 1883, AND ISSUED EVERY WEEK ON TIME SINCE. CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1915. REVIEW OF WORK AMONG WOMEN Interesting Story of What the Women of Our Race Are Doing Through Organization For the Elevation of the Masses—Foundation Must Rise Upon Character. By Mrs M. C. LAWTON. Brooklyn. Now that the various state federations of colored women's clubs have held their annual gessions and another year's work is to be planned it behooves the women to be up and doing. At no time in the world's history have there been greater possibilities of facilities for women's activities. The progress of races is determined more by the development of the women than by any other advancement. Women everywhere realize this and are spending and being spent for the uplift of the masses as never before. Colored women are keenly alive to their potentiality and are making heroic efforts in/the development of a stronger and more substantial womanhood. Instead of perceptions of the colored women discouraging them, they have strengthened them, so that those of culture and ability have constituted themselves into moral, mental and intellectual derricks for the purpose of pulling up the women farthest down. They feel if their imperative duty to stimulate the woman who lacks an incentive to give impetus to latent or slumbering talent. They no longer sit on the summit of fame overlooking the ruins of neglected womanhood, but realize as they ascend they must lift MISS ELIZABETH C. GARTER. as they climb. They believe that women are to be the lever with which the world must be lifted. Kingdoms will rise or fall in proportion as women uses her influence. Nations will ascend or descend in the scale of civilization in proportion as woman deports herself. The most hopeful sign of racial development is that which begins, within the race. Less than twenty years ago the colored women caught the vision, and it is leading them on to the perfect day. The National Association of Colored Women's Clubs, of which Mrs. Booker T. Washington is president, with an approximate membership of 50,000; the Northeastern Federation of Women's clubs, of which Miss Elizabeth Carter of New Bedford, Mass., is president, with its thousands of members, and our own Empire State federation, 5,000 strong. Mrs. M. C. Lawton of this city president, are all united in heart, concentrated in purpose and marching in a solid plank to the tune of advanced womanhood. The one thing which characterizes the women's organizations throughout the country and distinguishes them perhaps from some others is that they are more directly concerned about character building than any other feature. They feel that a woman of moral worth will experience no difficulty in becoming a financial factor. Besides, they feel that the morality of the women of any race must be its corporestone if succeeding generations are to build successfully on the foundation as laid. Unless the pedestal upon which the statue of the race must rest is properly constructed it will crumble and fall. The colored women all over this country have opened the drafts of their hearts that the fire of love may burn more brightly and that its rays may be a lamp to the feet and a light to the pathway of unfortunate womanhood. That their consciences have been quickened and their convictions deepened is evidenced in our great city by the establishment of the Empire Friendly Shelter for unfortunate girls in Manhattan and the proposed establishment in October of a home for delinquent colored girls. The constant infux to this great city from south and the immigration from foreign countries are placing before the women of New York a problem which must be reckoned with—one which, if not carefully studied, will become so intricate and complicated as to render it insoluble. Our social-problems are engaging the attention of the best minds in the country, and certainly must appeal to us if we are to be reckoned with as an integral part of this great and advanced civilization. EPISCOPAL CHURCHMEN TO MEET IN CAMBRIDGE, MASS. Conference of Workers Among Colored People Begins Sept. 21. Cambridge, Mass.—At no time within in the past ten years has more interest been shown by the people of this city in the coming of a religious gathering than that which manifests itself over the conference of workers in the Protestant Episcopal church among colored people to be held here from Sept. 21 to 24, inclusive. The sessions of the conference will be held in St. Bartholomew's church. The president of the conference is the Rev. Dr. Henry P. Delamy, and the Rev. George F. Bragg is the secretary. By previous arrangement the opening services of the conference will be held at St. Paul's cathedral. The annual session will be delivered by the Venerable Henry L. Phillips, D. D. archdeacon of Pennsylvania, and the address of welcome is to be made by Bishop Lawrence. This session is the thirty-first annual meeting of the conference. The list of speakers that far includes the Rev. Maximo Felix Jotty of Brooklyn, Rev. Harry O Bowles of New Haven, Rev. R. W. Bignall of Detroit, Rev. J. M. Matthias of Boston, Rev. N. Faitte, a burg of Brooklyn, Rev. E. H. Hamilton of Hampton, Va. Rev. W. B. Sutphen of Hartford, Comm. Rev. Emmett E. Miller of Petersburg, Va.; Venerable Archdeacon Middleton of Mississippi, Rev. J. W. Johnson of New York, Venerable Archdeacon E. L. Henderson of Harrisburg, Pa. Rev. Hutchens C. Bishop of New York, and Rev. H. A. Parris of Wilmington, N. C. The lay speakers will be William Lee, Dr. Hubert Carleton and Charles Covey, all of Boston. RACIAL ORIGIN OF AESOP. Learned Critics Disagree With Du Bois That Great Novelist Was Black. By JOHN E. DRUCE "GRIT" The learned critics and book reviewers or some of the metropolitan papers, who know a good many things that are not exactly so, have strenuously objected to Dr. W. E. B. Du Bois' characterization of Aesop in his book "The Negro" as an African. There are some books about African and the Africans which a good many of these ready reviewers and critics have not read and which, if they would read them in some leisure moment, would enable them to speak and write more convincingly about African and its people. These same critics and book reviewers go up in the air whenever my one asserts that Alexander Hamilton, Washington's secretary of the treasury, was a man with a large strain of Negro blood—the son of a quadron mother and a white father. None of his biographers, for obvious reasons, have gone into this phase of his history. But in the island of Novis, B. W. L., where Hamilton was born, the tradition will not down. All of the early writers contemporaneous with Aesop who have written about him describe him either as a "dark" or "black" man and repulsive in his personal appearance, with woolly hair and "pendent lips," etc. One of the Arabian poets, who must have seen him at some time or other or got a pretty good description of him from some one who had met him, speaks of him thus, "Brinful of wisdom; black as night." Now, whoever saw a white man "black as night," except he was a member of the burnt cork fraternity, a coat miter or a fireman, where soft coal is used? In the thirty-first chapter of the Korn, which is entitled Logman, says the learned Dr. E. W. Blyden. Rodwell supposes that Logman is the same person whom the Greeks, not knowing his real name, have called Aesop, or Aethiops. He is celebrated in secular Arabian poetry. Dean Stanley in his "Jewish Church" pays striking tribute to the character of Logman. "The mandates of Logman," "The wise maxims of Logman," are frequent phrases in classic Arabic literature to indicate the wisdom and judgment of the great African. Dr. Du Bois is on safe ground in claiming Aesop as an African, and he is supported in this by writers and historians, some of them contemporaneous with the mighty black, who knew what they were talking about. The testimony of these earlier witnesses is more dependable and valuable than that of moderns, who have acquired the very bad habit of reading history with their prejudices and interpreting it to meet the popular prejudices of their day and generation. How these critics are able to say with so much positiveness that Aesop was not an African, "black as night," doth not appear in the testimony they have addured. Until it does we must continue to believe the testimony of the writers and historians, some of whom saw Aesop face to face. His blackness and ugility made such an awful impression upon them that they were impelled to describe him in terms which cannot be twisted or distorted to mean other than what they intended—I. e. that he was an ugly, repulsive black, with spay feet, pendent lips, a large abdomen and all the physical characteristics of the African. He certainly was. Press Association Membership Scale Membership in the National Negro Press association is divided into class 1 and class 2. Class 1 includes owners, managers and editors who have financial holdings in the paper. Class 2 consists of correspondents and editors who have no money invested in the publications with which they are connected. MASONIC ORDER MEETS AT SELMA Thirty-eighth Annual Gathering of Wealthy State Organization Represents Membership of 15,600—New Education Movement Started—Eastern Star Receives Mrs. Dalascio. Selma, Ala.—The thirty-eighth annual communication of the Alabama grand lodge Ancient Order Free and Accepted Masons, recently held here in the hall of Selma university, was the banner meeting in the history of the order in this state. Grand Master Walter Thomas Woods of Mobile presided. The occasion also marked the twentieth annual gathering of the grand chapter, Eastern Star, Royal Grand Matron Jane H. Hibiscus of Mobile and Royal Grand Patron Rev. J. H. Rose were in charge as presiding officials. Reports were read from 58 local lodges representing a membership of 16,000. The official reports on the financial status of the two bodies as given by the Rev. A. E. Owens, official reporter for the order, show that Endowment Treasurer, Professor R. B. Hudson has received during the fiscal year $28,852.3, and that after paying all ex- penses there is a balance of $15,163.78 on hand. The receipts at the Selma session were $12,492.30, which was $2,000 in excess of the amount received at the 1914 meeting. Grand Treasurer Mrs. A. E. Douglass of the Eastern Star reported receipts amounting to $14,235.46, leaving a balance of $3,467.93. The total for both the grand lodge and the Eastern Star was $126,912.26. Grand Treasurer J. O. Diffray made a clear and accurate statement of all money received by him during the year from the various sources of the order. Resolutions were adopted by, the grand lodge thanking Dr. Stukely of Montgomery for opposing the Bonner bill prohibiting white teachers from Negro schools and indorsed the editors in the Montgomery Advertiser and other papers on the same subject. The Southern railroad was thanked for declining to place colored porters on its lines, also thanking the Louisville and Nashville railroad for special coaches for delegates to the grand lodge. A strong report on education was read by H. C. Denford of Huntsville indorsing the movement to reduce illiteracy in Alabama, calling upon each member of the grand lodge to teach at least one colored person to read and write. The report was adopted without opposition. The grand master in his annual address recommended the same. Grand Master Wood recommended also that any colored Masons convolved of "bootelegging" should be suspended from the order. After the officers were installed by Past Master James T. Gregory of Greenville the grand lodge adjourned. Among the lending men of the race in the state attending the grand lodge were: Dr. E. T. Belsaw, Mobile; J. O. Diffay, Birmingham, president of the Albana Penny Savings bank; James A. Bray, Birmingham, editor of the Voice of the People, the official organ of the grand lodge; Professor H. C. Benford, principal of the Huntsville High school; H. A. Loveless, Montgomery; Jeremiah Barnes, Tuscaloosa, the oldest colored Mason in the state; C. N. McDaniel, Hartsele; James T. Gregory, Greenville; Professor C. L. McWilliams, Professor R. B. Hudson, Selma; Dr. P. W. White, Georgian; E. W. Stone, Selma; Rev. A. F. Ownes, Selma university; Rev. W. H. Mixon, Selma, and others. The grand chapter, Eastern Star, reelected all the old officers with only one change—Mrs. D. Burwell of Selma as grand secretary in place of former Secretary Hassen. Grand Matroh J. M. Balasco of Mobile stated that 500 women attended the meeting of the grand chapter. The following named persons are the elective officers for the ensuing year: Walter T. Woods, G. M. Mobile; James A. Byrd, D. G. M. Mobile; Ham, J. H. Curlis, G. S. W. Dothan; Joseph Phillips, J. W. Pike Road; C. N. McDaniels, G. S. Hartsele; J. O Diffay, G. T. Birmingham; R. B Hudson, G. E. T. Selma; A. A. Peters, G. E. S. Girard. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS Capt. Franz Von Papen, military attache of the German embassy in Washington, whose connection with the Dumba conspiracy against the arms plants of the middle west may lead to a request from the United States to the German government that he be recalled. He has just gone to the Yellowstone park on a "vacation." BOAT, LOADED WITH WHEAT, GOES DOWN Ship Was One of Best Known Freighters on Inland Lakes and When She Came Out Was One of Duluth, Minn. The steamer Ono-ko, belonging to the Steinbrenner industry of Cleveland, loaded with 110,000 bushels of what consisted to infiltrate by the Capitol Elevator Co., sink while off Knife Island, about 14 miles out of Duluth, almost without a moment's warning. None of the crew was lost. When it was seen the steamer was sinking Capt. W. R. Dunn ordered the boats out and the crew left the ship. They were picked up shortly afterward by the Standard Oil steamer Renown and were, brought back to Duluth, reaching here about 5:45 p. m. Sinking Mystery, Says Captain. Capt. Dunn reported to G. A. Tomlinson, agent of the Ono-ko at this point, as follows: "We have no way of knowing what happened. The lake was smooth and we had no indication of anything being wrong until off Knife island. We were about nine miles out in the regular course when the engineer came forward and reported to me that the ship was leaking under the engines. By the time I got back there the water was spurting in and in a few minutes stopped the engines. There was no question that the ship was doomed, and I ordered out the boats. A few moments after we got clear the Ono-kow went down. The crew was in no danger, but we were glad to see the oil steamer." The Onoko was launched in 1882 and was the first of the large iron steamers on the Great Lakes. She was 287 feet keel and 38½ feet beam. Her capacity was 3,600 tons and gross tonnage 2,164. Best Known Freighter on Lakes. The steamer Onoko was one of the best known freighters on the lakes, and when she came out she was the largest carrier. The old ship, which was built at Cleveland in 1882, has paid for herself several times during the 33 years she was in operation. For many years she was operated by the late Peter Minch and was later handled by the late Capt. William Gerlach, who formerly sailed from Cleveland. For the last 10 years she has been operated by the Nicholas Transit Co., of which Henry Steinbrenner of Cleveland is manager. The Onoko was insured for $110,000 in companies represented by F. H. Osborn & Co. of Chicago. The steamer, which was bound for Toledo with a cargo of grain, was in command of Capt. W. R. Dunn of Cleveland. Banker's Daughter Kills Self. New York City, — Miss Elizabeth Fenley, 31, daughter of Oscar Fenley of Louisville, president of the National Bank of Kentucky, committed suicide by flinging herself from the roof of an eight-story loft building. One Slain. Another Shot. Toledo, O.—One Italian was murdered, and, so far as known, one wounded in what the coroner and police contend to be a typical Blank Hand affray. A spectator estimated there were 15 men in the two gangs that fought. Angelo, Lomorzeo, 40, was found lying on the sidewalk several blocks from the fight scene. He died before reaching a hospital. He had been shot in the shoulder, abdomen and near the heart. Angelo Superento, 32, was shot in the leg. Three suspects have been arrested. IN UNION WITH KEVIN FIERCE BATTLE RAGES IN BALTIC PROVINCES Germans, in Effort to Take Vilna, Are Being Met With Stubborn Resistance by Russian Forces. London, Eng.—The most furious fighting of the war is being waged in the Baltic provinces of Russia, according to all news reaching here, and the result of the gigantic series of battles still is in doubt. With forces estimated at more than 1,000,000 men, Von Hindenburg, the German military genius, is exerting every effort to take Vilna, Dvinsk and Riga and gain control of the Dvina river and the Petrograd railroad. The Russian defense has been so successful, it is reported semi-officially, that on a wide front the defensive has been turned to an aggressive in which-the czar's troops are striking at Grodno, the Polish fortress evacuated before Von Hindenburg's initial advance. The latest official advice from Berlin state that Von Hindenburg, with great masses of troops, is attacking the bridgehead positions before Dwiksk. A crossing of the river at this point would enable him to occupy Dwiksk and virtually seal the fate of Hisa. The Russians, however, with great stores of ammunition, are battling desperately against the German numbers and the German heavy guns, and Petrograd expresses confidence that Gen. Ruszky will be able to maintain his positions. The most surprising news of the day, aside from the reported Russian offensive against Grodno, is the fact that the Germans have lost their grip on the Petrograd railway, which they succeeded in cutting at Novo Svientian by the cavalry raid recently. Wednesday's session at Westminster was remarkable chiefly for the statement by Premier Asquith on the financing of the war and his position on recruiting, which was followed by a debate on the question of national service. Next in importance was the review by Lord Kitchener of the war in all theaters. No one who heard the prime minister speak of "this most supreme moment in our history" will ever forget either the emotion of the statesman who said these words or the profound solemnity with which they were received by the awed and silent house. The premier asked for $1,250,000,000 more to carry on the war. This was granted. "The German armies appear almost to have shot their bolt," said Earl Kitchener, secretary for war, summarizing the military situation in the house of lords. JAMES F. J. ARCHIBALD James F.-J. Archibald; the American war correspondent who was caught acting as a messenger for Ambassador Dumba, is in danger of prosecution by the United States for violation of the neutrality laws. KAISER REPUDIATES EFFORTS OF DUMBA TO CAUSE WALK OUTS IN AMERICA. Washington, D. C.—That the kaiser repudiates the effort of Ambassador Dumba to cause strikes in American munition plants was indicated if a message sent out by the Oversea news agency, Berlin, the official mouth piece of the German government. The message reads: "German newspapers which arrived recently in the United States contained pamphlets advising the destruction of American munition factories. Such a practice is designated officially as stupid and dangerous. Evidently this, was the work of misguided and hothaded private citizens, who attempted to conduct an agitation in this manner. No newspaper office was re sponsible." Ben Hur Tribe Electa Lima, O.-W. W. Hoppe of Hamilton, O., was elected district chief of the Tribe of Ben Hur for western central Ohio at the close of the 15th annual district convention here. Hamilton was chosen for the 1916 meeting place. Other district officers elected were: F. S. Schinckler, Dayton, judge; Deborah Mitchell, Hamilton, instructor; Mrs. C. E. Heath, Springfield, captain; W. E. Lloyd, Springfield, scribe; J. T. Glentzer, Lima, aid, and J. E. Ross, Findlay, inner gate keeper. The GAZETTE SUBSCRIPTION RATES (In Advance) One Year.....$1.50. Six Months.....1.00 Three Months......50 Subscribers are requested to mit by postoffice money or der or registered letter Entered at the postoffice in Cleveland Ohio, as second-class matter. Address all communications to HARRY C. SMITH Editor and proprietor, THE GAZETTE. Blackstone Building, Cleveland, O. Member Ohio Legislature: 1894 to 1896; 1896 to 1898; 1900 to 1902 THE GAZETTE is the oldest, and has the largest bona fide circulation, double that of any newspaper in the interest of Afro-Americans, published in the state of Ohio, and comparison with any will Immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWSIEST AND BEST in the country. 10,000,000 Afro-Americans. 160,000 in Ohio. 20,000 in Cleveland. SATURDAY, SEPT. 18, 1915. DARE TO DO YOUR DUTY. "Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it."—Abraham Lincoln. Can Willis be governor of Ohio in fact while Cox commissioners control the state's institutions and flout his expressed wishes? In spite of war orders, the production of the factories of this country has been decreased from 30 to 50 per cent by the Wilson tariff. Omaha, Neb., churches (white) refused to admit our church choirs to their "Billy Sunday" meetings' chorus, after sending them invitations. What kind of Christians(?) must the white church-members of Omaha be? The New York Age's and Chicago Defender's "Columbus" correspondent, who sometimes writes "Cleveland" and "Cincinnati" letters, was "at it" again last week and the week previous. Much that he writes is NOT true. When will the editors of those papers "tumble"? The bipartisan board of administration of public institutions which screamed abuse of the governor because he wanted a Republican commander placed in the Sandusky Sollers" Home when General Burnett resigned, took advantage, on Friday, of the new civil service law and fixed permanently in position every one of the Cox political appointees, refusing every one certified under the merit system. "The Birth (Dirt) of a Nation" is being shown, daily, in Chicago and in many parts of New York, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. Our people of the two states, last named, are still fighting Tom Dixon's maliciously harmful photoplay, and vigorously, too. We are sorry we cannot say the same of those in Chicago, New York City and other parts of their states. What is the reason? Surely our New York and Chicago newspapers can answer. EDITOR J. R. CLIFFORD, THE DEAN. With its issue of July 31, 1915, The Gazette entered upon its thirty-third year of continuous publication, every week on time. Having been in the editorial "harness" so long we feel like the dean of the Afro-American press. —Cleveland (O.) Gazette. If the deanship goes to age, this paper, established March 2, 1882, and entered on its 34th year, last March, it belongs to us, but since you have been so faithful and done so much at your editorial desk and in the Ohio legislature, we are willing to cast the first vote that you have and hold the deanship, no for age, but butter, for age, protected and that nobody —Martinsburg (W. V. Pioneer Press). Having spent thirty-four continuous years in the editorial harness, Editor J. R. Clifford is undoubtedly the dean of the Afro-American press, and it is with great pleasure the editor of The Gazette salutes him as such. A thorough race man—one of the few best—no member of the race's editorial corps is more deserving of the honor. THE MISUNDERSTOOD CIVIL SERVICE LAW. A great hue and cry has been made about the new civil service law by Democrats who hold positions in which they were placed by Gov. Cox without a competitive examination. As the dust raised by these patriots in an effort to hold their jobs clears away the following facts are recognized and appreciated. First, the new civil service law continues and protects in office all persons who took and passed a competitive examination and were appointed under either the Cox or the Willis administration. There has been and there will be no disposition to disturb appointees who have taken and passed competitive examinations, the only kind recognized in the constitution. Second, the new civil service law legislates out of office all in the classi- --- fied service who have not taken and passed a competitive examination. Neither the Governor nor the heads of departments have "nor forced" such appointees out of the offices. The law which went into effect Aug. 29th, puts them out because they had never passed a competitive examination. They were appointed to their positions by the spoils method under Cox and blanketed into the civil service of the state by the Cox law of 1913. Third, to these Cox appointees who have not the shadow of a constitutional title to their positions the new law is lenient to the limit of generosity. It provides, in the first place, that they may be continued temporarily in their present positions but the appointing authority must by specific act designate them as provisional appointees before they can draw further pay. In the second place, it further provides that in each and every instance, whether they continue provisionally or not, they shall be certified without examination along with those who have taken a competitive examination for permanent appointment to the positions they held when the new law went into effect. When any one of them is so certified, it is up to the appointing authority to determine whether he or someone who has passed a competitive examination shall fill the position that he formerly held. The new law gives a square deal to everybody regardless of political affiliations and will ultimately be recognized as the most advanced legislation enacted in this country for the establishment of a genuine merit system in the public service. CONTINUED TO USE OLD BLANKS From several sources the editor of The Gazette received complaints, last week, that the secretary of the State PETER H. Medical Board was still using the old "color-line" blanks, and asking that we call Gov. Willis' attention to the fact. This we did, in the following communication. Cleveland, O., Sept. 11, 1915. Gov. Frank B. Willis, Capitol, Columbus, Ohio. Friend Willis:—The loss would be very small, and I think it would pay, to destroy the old blank applications "to practice a limited branch of medicine and surgery" still being used by the secretary of the State Medical Board. If this cannot be done, let me know and a few of us will stand the cost of the same so they can be destroyed and new ones printed and used at once. The continued use of the old blank applications by Dr. Matson, secretary of the Board, is very irritating as you will see by the encloses, and is nullifying the effect of the good work you did in securing the promise of a change. ON TUESDAY of this week we received the following communication from the Governor, which is self-explanatory: Cleveland, Ohio. Dear Mr. Smith:—Your letter with inclosure received. I shall at once take this matter up with the State Medical Board and see if it cannot be adjusted in a manner entirely sat- factory. I understood that such an arrangement had already been made and that the new blanks were to be used. I shall take this up with Dr. Matson at once and urge that the change be made in accordance with our agreement. Very truly yours, Frank B. Willis. THE FORTY-THIRD SESSION Of the Eastern Union Baptist Association—Officers Elected and Members of the Same. Columbus, O—On the 27th utl. at Bethesda Baptist church the E. U. B. association closed the most successful meeting in its history. For the work, $410.44 were raised. The officers elected and installed: Moderator, Rev. J. L. E. Burr, B. S. L. Hillsboro; vice-moderator, Rev. J. W. Carter, D. D. Columbus; clerk, Rev. B. A. Mitchell, Athens; statistical sec., Rev. C. T. Isom, Coshotton; cor. sec., Rev. P. H. Hill, Jamestown; treas., Deacon Banks, Chillicothe. Associate members, Rev. B. D. Phillips, D. D. Columbus, and Rev. J. M. Thompson, Washington, C. H. The next meeting will be held in Hillsboro, Tuesday before the fourth Sunday in August, 1916. NEXT TO THE BIBLE Wilmington, O., Sept. 7, '15. Hon. Harry C. Smith. Dear Sir: -Please continue the good old reliable Gazette. It is good for the body and good for the soul; it is a teacher and a history next to the bible. I will send money for the renewal of my subscription in a few days. Yours for the race, PETER F. McDONELTH. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1915. DOINGS OF THE RACE A fool-southerner (white) insulted E. W. Henry, a Philadelphia headwaiter, last week, was slapped in his foul mouth and knocked down. The hotel proprietor upheld Henry. FRESH OHIO NEWS WRITTEN BY "THE OLD RELIABLE" GAZETTE'S CORRESPONDENTS THROUGHOUT THE STATE What Our People Are Doing Each Week—Church, Personal, Social, Lodge, Literary and Musical—Marrilages, Deaths, Etc. GEORGETOWN—Rev. T. W. Johnson preached his final sermon, Sunday, and will leave soon for conference. son, Coshocton.—Mrs. Robbins from Monroe home for an extended Brooks spent Sunday in John Smith was visited on Sunday. Mrs. E. Brought the remains of tin, home from Pittsburg Funeral service, last Friday residence. Rev. Child Floral tributes were proclaimed. Those present from Wayne, Dr. Chas. Hanworth Smith, Mrs. Ch. Pittsburgh; Mr. and M. and Mrs. Myrtle Freeman Ernest Wallace, Clever Mrs. J. Smith and daughter; Mrs. Laura Freemer, Steubenville. HILLSBORO—Miss of Columbus, is the guar Thomas Wallace Swann, secretary of the Half Century Exposition commission, (Chicago), is under arrest on a charge of misappropriating a thousand or more dollars. Our Old Fellows of Georgia have in successful operation a model demonstration farm near Macon, which consists of 281 acres, 110 of which are under cultivation. F. T. Brawley of Durham, N. C. has been appointed as a carpenter on the roll of mechanical experts at the Washington navy yard, and is the only member of the race to hold a position of the kind in this branch of the federal service. The condition of Roscoe Conkling Emmanuel assistant superintendent of the Washington D. C. public schools, is admitted to be exceedingly serious and his friends fear the injuries growing out of the automobile accident of several weeks ago, may permanently unfit him for educational service. Our Supreme Lodge of the Knights of Pythias which recently met at Columbus, O., reported some very substantial, financial and numerical advenance. Over half a million dollars have been handled through the executive officers since the last meeting and the enrollment of members now stands 250,000 of the Pythians and 87,000 of the Courts of Calanthe. J. C. Edwards of Atlantic City, special representative of the U. S. Government wireless station, New Jersey was sent to the Lincoln Chinook to be involved in the bridges research. The operator is Alonzo E. Thomas, Jr. 20 years old, of Jersey City, one of the best in the business, having success fully passed the U. S. Government examination at the Navy Yards, Brooklyn, N. Y. The Elks' officers elected at Chicago last week, for the ensuing term, are: T. G. Nutter, Charleston, W. Va., G. E. R.; Geo. E. Bates, Jersey City grand secretary; James T. Carter Richmond, Va., treasurer; C. W. McMechen, Baltimore, Md., G. E. leading knight; Geo. W. Holbert, Minneapolis, Md.; W. Holbert, New York City, G. E. lecturing knight; grand esquire, J. E. Cheshire, Atlantic City, N. N.; W. Hopkins, Johnson Minn., grand inner guard; Dr. Stevens Norfolk, Va., grand outer guard; J. J Jones, Chicago, grand trustee. TWO MORE BELIEFS ENDED Science Says Rattlers and Antlers Have a Role in With Worms, Matter of Age. A couple of more fond beliefs have been knocked in the head by the un sentimental scientists—that the age of a rattlesnake can be told by the number of his rattles, and that a deer's span of life is accurately recounted by the number of points in his antlers. As the Zoological Society Bulletin says: "The largest rattler may have few rattles and a small one twice the number of the big one. "He grows three a year. At birth the rattlesnake has a tiny button where his rattles are ultimately to be. Therefore at the end of the first year—if he should live—he would be, according to theory, three years old; or perhaps three and a half, if one considers the button as the nucleus of another rattle. "It is quite probable that the rattles increase in number for a certain number of years; remain that number during another period of years and then degenerate as the snake attains its longevity. "The degeneration of the antlers of a male deer presents a less bewildering problem, inasmuch as it is possible to prove beyond doubt that the points on his antlers have no bearing whatsoever on his age. "In the first place several species may be reared in captivity with as much certainty as domestic cattle, and therefore the recovery of the shee antlers before they are destroyed either by decay or the teeth of rodents is an assured fact. "With such means no other testimony need be presented than two series of antlers, one from an American wapit and the other from an axis deer. "The first antlers of the wapit bear eight points, which, according to the popular theory, gives him the age of eight years. In reality, as he was born in June, 1906, at the time his first pair of antlers had attained their maximum size—in September, 1907—he was exactly seventeen months old." RING WENT THROUGH WINDOW Believed to Have Been Thrown By Someone Who Desired to Disturb Services Being Held. A large brass ring hurled through the plate glass window of the West Side Gospel mission at 265 West Forty-seventh street, New York, while a service was in progress temporarily broke up the meeting and inflicted a slight wound on the head of one of the congregation. Mrs. Anna A. White, who was conducting the service, reported the matter to the police. Mrs. White said she believed the ring was thrown from the window of a house across the street, and that recently someone in a building opposite had used an air rifle on the place. Two of the congregation narrowly missed being hit by the bullets. Broken glass from the window was thrown among the 100 or more persons assembled in the place. When baking apples prick the skim with a fork and they will not burst. FRESH OHIO NEWS FRESH OHIO NEWS WRITTEN BY "THE OLD RELIABLE" GAZETTE'S CORRESPONDENTS THROUGHOUT THE STATE What Our People Are Doing Each Week—Church, Personal, Social, Lodge, Literary and Musical—Marrigues, Deaths, Etc. GEORGETOWN—Rev. T. W. Johnson preached his final sermon, Sunday, and will leave soon for conference.—Miss Pora Black of Higginsport, is visiting Prof. Morton opened school, Monday.—Rev. Albert Grayson of Mt. Vernon preached here, Sunday. SANDUSKY—Rev. and Mrs. Chas Hart of Cleveland, were here, Sunday. He preached two fine sermons at the Second Baptist church—Mr. Akins is better—Mrs. Hall of Lorain, is here visiting. R. B. Shelton and Harry Pulder of N. City, were here, Sun- dur the form, the guest of his uncle, Rev. Geo. D. Sund. He is playing in Cleveland, this week—Mrs. N. B. Molling has received a fine bass ket of apples from her mother in Greencastle, Ind.—Both. S. S. were well attended. Sunday—The Second bapist B. U. held its first meet in season. Sunday. The B. S. & T. C. is doing fine. Mr. James Davis, teacher. 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 to the address of that of their city or town on the outset of their wrapper about returned copies. Unless this latter is done, proper credit cannot be given you. Lists of names, wedding presents, etc., obituary notices, speeches, resolutions, poetry, inquiries for relatives and advertisements of all kinds, including items announcing entertainments to be held in 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. YOUNGSTOWN.-About 125 went to Columbus, Sunday, on the excursion.-Ella Cleggert is convalescent. Mamie B. Gordon of Uniontown, Pa., visited her aunt, Mrs. Dora Malone, a few days.-Mrs. J. W. Conrad spent Sunday in Columbus.-Mrs. Wm. Saunders and niece, Miss Sidie Bog. are in college in Bollerville, in Bollerville, Pa.-Mrs. Dan Greene visited Mrs. J. Danks in Sharon, last week.-Mrs. John Shaw and son of Pittsburg, visited Mrs. C. A. Jackson, Sunday.-Frank Miller, who had a foot injured, is getting on nicely. No bones were broken.-Mr. Robert Hemming and Frank Reynolds of Pittsburg, guests of Mrs. Geo. Flining, a week, were tendered an enjoyable stargate party. Mr. Geo. Flinde was on vacation. Mrs. Geo. Flinde is convalescent.-Mrs. C. Bannister is at home and rapidly recovering from an operation.-Dr. J. H. Gilmere is attending conference in Cincinnati, this week. ZANESVILLE—Miss. Mary .Tony left, Friday, to resume her domestic science work in our schools of Baltimore, MD—Miss Virginia Nolan is convalescing. Typhoid fever. Wm. Hunnicutt returned, Monday, to Ohio University at Athens. He has won two oratorical prizes, each $20 (gold), and has been a friend and friends hope he will be equally as fortunate this year. Mr. Harris, our local undertaker, has added a funeral car to his equipment and is going on to success in spite of the local undertakers' association's efforts to boycott him. Our people are united in their support of Undertaker Harris. It is a new enterprise—Mr. Chas. Ransom is now been remodeled into a very cozy bungalow—Mr. Chas. Adams has recovered—he can hit the groundhog trail. Mr. Jas. Croops and son, who have resided in Galveston, Tex., sometime, have returned. He is giving some very interesting accounts of the flood. Dr. Scott preached his farewell symposium at the A. M. E. church, Sunday evening, to a large congregation. He has gone to Cincinnati to conference. He has been busy with us. Mr. Ramsey's auto is in service again after a slight fire. SMITHFIELD.—Miss L. B. Hargrave is visiting in Steubenville.—Rev. Chas. Green and son, Mr. and Mrs. West of McIntyre, Misses O. Palmer and F. Adams of Fernwood, attended the picnic here, Sunday.—The stewardesses' entertainment, Mrs. West of McIntyre, had dinner whenaya were the pastor preached two excellent sermons, Sunday. Mr. D. Freeman of McIntyre, attended the former.—Mrs. Frank Smith is quite ill.—Mr. D. West of Hopedale, Mr. Harvey Wright of Fernwood, Mr. and Mrs. R. Carter and several young friends of Cadiz, were here, Sunday.—Mr. D. Church, in parish in D. and underwent an operation in Steubenville, is convalescing.—Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Guy, sons and a friend, of Steubenville, motored here, Saturday evening.—John and James Harris, Fred. Carter and others, attended the Wheeling fair, last week. The Silver Leaf club's picnic in G. Bunn's grove at John's successor, in John Carter of church here, Sunday, and dined with Mr. and Mrs. G. Powell.—Mr. Wm. Lee of Pittsburg, visited his mother, Mrs. Pearl, Saturday and Sunday. CADIZ—The A. M. E. S. S. picnic, the 2d, at the Chautaqua grounds was largely attended. Many out of town persons were present—Mr. Ed Brown of Atlantic City, N. J., and Mr. and Mrs. Burke of Newark, are visiting their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Allen Brown—Mr. Henry Broadus has returned from Pittsburgh—J. P. Lucas is out again. Rheumatism—The funeral services of Mrs. Carrie Mason were held the 9th from the residence. Rev. O. W. Childers officiated, assisted by Prof. W. H. Lucas. The tendance from out-of-town were: Mr. and Mrs. John Thomas, Mrs. Sara and Mr. Thomas Brown of Cleveland; Mrs. Brown and daughter, Miss Madja, Steubenville; Mrs. Claudia Dorey, E. Liverpool; Mrs. Lizzie Mosely and Mrs. Alna Boggs, Wellsville; Mr. and Mrs. Frank Murle, Tippeancoe; Mrs. Blanche Scroggins and 1865 1915 Half Century Anniversary Exposition and The Lincoln Jubilee The Most UNIQUE EVENT of Modern Times. The Tribute of a United People to the SAVIOUR of Their NATION. OHIO DAY was a Grand Success Opens August 22nd, 1915 Closes Sept. 16th, 1915 COLISEUM CHICAGO son, Coshotoon...Mrs. Irene Johnson Robbins from Monrovia, Africa, is home for an extended visit.—A. J. Brooks spent Sunday in Oberlin.—Mr. John Smith was visited by his brother, Sunday.—Mrs. Elvira Wallace brought the remains of her son, Ausin, home from Pittsburg, for burial. Funeral service, last Friday, from the residence. Rev. Childers officiated. Floral tributes were profuse and beautiful. Those present from out-of-town: J. Wheyne, Dr. Chas. Hargrave, J. Ernest worth Smith, Mrs. Charles Wallace Pittsburgh; Mr. and Mrs. Ira Wallace and Mrs. Myrtle Freeman, Lorain; Mr. Ernest Wallace, Cleveland; Mr. and Mrs. J. Smith and daughters, Emer son; Mrs. Laura Freeman and daughter, Steubenville. HILLSBORO —Miss Louise, Greene of Columbus, is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Jones.—Mrs. Eliza Blanton has returned from a visit with her daughter, Mrs. Charlie Ellis, at Lucasville.—The Mesmesdams Permelia Weathers, Alice Day, Millie Page, Clara Evans, Mr. and Mrs. Chas Day and John Crabtree visited Mr. and Mrs. Ben Greene in Bailhbridge, last Monday.—Mr. and Mrs. Chas Day and Indianapolis. She visited relatives.—Mr. Vivian Hudson has returned from a three weeks' visit in Columbus.—Mr. John Crabtree returned to Indianapolis, last Thursday.—Mrs. Lizzie Gregson of Fairfax, spent two weeks here.—Mrs. Hattie Pleasant of Columbus, is here visiting relatives.—Mr. Chester Anderson has returned from Indianapolis.—Mr. Chester Anderson has been re-employed as teacher of our school in Penn township.—Ed Jones, Ben Pleasant and Clarence Johnson visited Detroit, last week, and returned in Mr. Jones' six-passenger Hudson car.—Mr. and Mrs. James Smith of Cleveland, Mr. and Mrs. White, Mrs. Goode, Leman Smith of Cincinnati and Miss Pearl Smith of Cincinnati, has been re-employed as teacher of Mrs. Philip Smith. The latter is better.—Mrs. Laura Speech and son, Glenn, Mr. Todd Johnson and Mrs. Stella Gales visited in Williamsburg, from Saturday to Monday.—Mr. Otho Pleasant of Chicago, is visiting his mother, Mrs. Hannah Mildred Waters and daughter, Miss Jennie, spent a few days in Cincinnati.—Mr. Otho Pleasant of Cincinnati, has undergone an operation.—Mr. Wm. Dickerson of Cincinnati, spent Sunday with his cousin, Mr. and Mrs. A. Holland.—Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Jones and son, Glenn, motivated to Sinking Springs, Sunday.—Mrs. Rosetta Gildings has returned to Cincinnati after an extended visit with relatives.—An all-day emancipation celebration will be given by New Hope Baptist church at the fairgrounds. A barbecue dinner, with the entire music by the choir and Lincoln School, Prominent speakers: Rev. J. J. Jackson of Belfontaine and others.—Rev. and Mrs. W. S. Becks are attending the A. M. E. conference in Cincinnati, this week.—Lincoln school opened, Monday, with an enrollment of 120 pupils. In the assembly room, impressive exercises were held. Pastors representing our three local churches deserved recognition. Having spent much time in various summer schools, seemed eager for the school's opening, and we are looking forward to one of the most profitable school-years in the history of Hillsboro. Prof. S. G. Hough is the principal. STEUBENVILLE—The services at the Second Baptist church, Sunday, were well attended. The membership, while not the largest, is among the most loyal in the city. Rev. E. M. Grandison, its progressive pastor, is keeping his flock busy preparatory to building. - Simpson M. E. church's convent is being renovated and is appreciative. The S. S. was also largely attended. Rev. H. G. Erby of Chicago, preached ably at 10:45 a.m. The congregation is increasing at every service. Thornton Brown died at the Infirmary. Mrs. Jane Stephanie, a resident of this city for 50 years, died. last week. 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FOR SALE.—Good restaurant on Central Av. A bargain! Doing a good business. S. E. Woods, 2828 Central Av. 'phone, Prospect 996. 2t NOTARY PUBLIC—For such services call at The Gazette office, No. 2 Blackstone building, No. 1424 W. Third Street, near Superior Ave. FOR SALE—Houses or lots. If you have either or anything else to sell, or if you wish to purchase, advertise in The Gazette. If anything can bring you results, it can and will. Cleveland Sixth City Rev. and Mrs. Chas. Hart spent Sunday in Sandusky. Miss Mattie Dexter has returned from a visit with her parents at Mineral Ridge. Mrs. Wm. Lee of Evanston, Ill., is visiting her sister, Mrs. Wm. Burton, 10515 Arthur Ave. Mable, daughter of Mr. and Mrs Joshua Brown of E. 30th St. and Mr Wm. Crosby were married, Tuesday * * * * J. A. Milliner, E. 71st St. and W. O. Brown, Quincy Ave., spent three days this week, hunting squirrels near Willoughay. * * * * Mrs. J. Edwin Dunjill returned from Portland, Ore., last week. Mr. Dunjill met her in Chicago and accompanied her home. * * * * Mrs. Hattie Carroll, Arthur Ave., gave a very pleasant reception, last week Wednesday, in honor of her guest. Mrs. Wood of Columbus. * * * * Wanted—1,000 men to trade regularly at the Central Shirt Shop, 2922 Central Ave. Hats, caps, neckwear underwear, arrow collars and shirts, etc.—Adv. The Tuesday Afternoon Thimble club will meet at Mrs. Ed Johnson's, next week. The Independent Banking club holds its first meeting of the season at Mrs. Henry Minter's, E. 37th St, this Friday. / * * * * * Mrs. Lillian Anderson of Detroit, who visited her sister, Mrs. Lucy Mathews. E. 95th St, returned home, last week. She was royally entertained by Mrs. William Wiggins, E. 68th Place; Mrs. Fannie Stewart, E. 33rd St; and Mrs. Ellen Jackson, Hudson Ave. / * * * * * "Surprised," a comedy drama, was given with success at St. John's church, Wednesday evening. The participants were: Mrs. Amanda Taylor, Miss Laura Nelson, Mrs. Harry Maxwell, Mrs. Margaret Anderson, Mrs. Marto Brown, Miss Gladys Wells, Miss Frances Slims and Mrs. Grayson. / * * * * * Misses Dorothy Cowdry, Helen Banks, Amy Rogers, Cora Scott, Inez Richardson, Olive Hale, Lauretta Taylor and Mrs. Madeline Lightfoot are the members of the Normal senior class, this fall. Thirty-five of our girls have been assigned as teachers in the local public schools of the city. The Harmony club of St. John's choir gave a fine concert at the new Collinwood M. E. church (white) last week Friday evening. Among the participants were: Mr. and Mrs. Harry Thomson, the Harmony Trio, composed of the Misses Olive and Gladys Wells and Mrs. Pearl Cleage, Miss Bessie Cook, accompanist. Mrs. Francis Fitzhugh Wisdom has returned to Toledo, Iowa, where she has resided since selling her property in Oberlin. In this section of the country she visited the Half Century (Lincoln Jubilee) Exposition at Chicago, Akron, N. Fairfield and Norwalk. Mrs. Wisdom has composed several lyrics one of which she has copyrighted and which is being demonstrated in N. Y. City. While in this city, she was the guest of S. K. Fitzhugh of Scovill Av. 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. arrisements) ten cents a line (six Personal Miss Catherine Clark of Steuben- ville, has located here. R. R. Cheeks, Esq., has decided not to become a candidate for the City Council in his ward. Mrs. Annabel Tucker, 7918 Cory Ave., returned Tuesday from Niagara Falls, New York and Brooklyn. Little James and Lucille Taylor, E. 37th St., have returned from a very pleasant visit with relatives in Xenia and Dayton. Mrs. Benj. R. Dunn of E. 39th St., after being bedridden and critically ill for eleven weeks, was able to attend church, Sunday. Chas. S. Sutton, attorney-at-law, is now ated at No. 520 Superior Bldg. Central, 1472 L. Residence phone, Garfield, 2808 R.—Adv. E. 25th St. between Central and Cedar Aves., looks better already. Score another (with the many victories) for "the old reliable" Gazette. Major and Mrs. W. T. Anderson of Lakewood, left the city, the first of the week, on extended visits to several cities west, and south in the state. Elder H. M. Perry of Central Av., last week, to visit a niece, Mrs. Tisdale of Pittsburgh, and to visit the Church of God and Saints of Christ there. James C. Alexander, former manager of the Lincoln Drug store, Frankstown Av., Pittsburgh, is in the city and may open a drug store in Central Av. Mr. and Mrs. John T. Tuck who moved their residence and store to 3705 Central Av., some weeks ago, are thoroughly re-established and doing a splendid business in their new location. Mrs. H. J. Embry of E. 43d St., who visited relatives in Seattle, Wash. left the first of the week, for Louis Mo., where she will conclude a three weeks visit before returning home. Daniel S. Young, secretary of the Ideal Social & Athletic club, 152 Exchange St., Buffalo, announces its formal opening, Monday. Wm. J. Banks, pres.; Geo. Banks, vice-pres.; Daniel A. Montgomery, treas.; Wm. R. Claw, steward are the other officers of the club. Mr. and Mrs. Sydney Thompson of E. 43d St., entertained, Sunday, at dinner. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Jones and other relatives, in honor of Mr. Thompson's father and a niece of McKeesport, Pa., their guests for several days, last and this week. Mr. Thompson, sr., left, Tuesday, for home. If Mr. and Mrs. Burt, or their child, Essie Turner, will write at once to Miss Susie Turner, 2512 Fillmore St., San Francisco, Cal., they will learn something of value to them. Anyone knowing their address will oblige Miss Turner by sending it to her or to The Gazette office at once—Adv. The revival service conducted by the City B. Y. P. U. at Mt. Haven Baptist church has been a splendid meeting, thus far. The young people also conduct a street service at E. 31st St. and Central Ave., every evening at 7 o'clock. Rev. Wm. Page will preach, Sunday, at 3 p. m.; also three evenings next week. Mrs. C. M. Williams of 2298 E. 90th St., will have charge of the local demonstrations of Madam C. H. Jones' exceptionally fine hair tonic and invigorator, advertised elsewhere in this paper. Mrs. C. H. Blake, of the same address, will have charge of the local agency for Madam Jones. Persons desiring to demonstrate and sell the splendid tonic and invigorator should call on Mrs. Blake at 2298 E. 90th St. at once.—Adv. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1915 --- Mrs. Cordella Mosley of E. 31st St., is visiting her aunt in Pittsburgh. Miss Irene Kersey and sister of Detroit, were guests of Mrs. John Kelough of E. 35th St., last week. Mrs. Wm. McKenzie of E. 30th St., has returned from a week's visit with her sister, Mrs. Coles, in Grand Rapids, Mich. Mrs. D. W. Shaw of 4219 Central Ave., has as guests, Miss Lueille Burks and sister, Mrs. Harry Morgan of Bellefontaine. The president of the Old Folk's Association (Mrs. C. F. Nickens) informs The Gazette that that organization is paying Mrs. Essie Brown's funeral expenses, and that reports to the contrary are not true. The editor of The Gazette is in receipt of a copy of "The Electrical Times" (of London, England, Aug. 19, 1915) in which there is an excellent illustrated article on "Railway Track Circuits" by William H. Dammond, C. E. F. P. W. I. Mr. Dammond is an old Detroit boy who has won his way to the front. John T. Nocks, after many months' illness (tuberculosis), died. Saturday, A wife and little daughter survive him and have the heartfelt sympathy of the community in their great loss, Mr. Nocks came to Cleveland, many years ago, from southern Ohio, was a compary husband and father, was well known and had a host of friends. --- Major Allen S. Pearl of Chicago whose parents will be remembered by the older residents of this city and Columbus, where they lived many years ago, has accepted a position to teach in the Bluefield, W. Va., Institute. He was connected, for several years, with Western University in Kansas and is a splendid addition to the faculty of any institution of learning. The Gazette wishes him every success in his new field of labor. Miss "Mickie" Cook of Baltimore Md., who has accepted an important position as a member of the faculty of the Combined (State) Normal & Industrial department of Wilberforce University, left. Tuesday, for her post of duty. She will be joined there on Wednesday by Miss Anna Williamson of Philadelphia, who also joins the faculty force of the department. Both ladies have for years taught in our department, and both are Baltimore, and are leaving D.C. did positions in the latter-named city to go to Wilberforce. They will prove valuable additions to Prof. Joiner's teaching force. Both ladies have spent much of the summer in Lakewood, guests of Mrs. Della Eubanks. The funeral of Frank LeRoy, age 19 son of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Walker of E. 77th St., was held, Monday afternoon, from Slaughter Bros. chapel, 3923 Central Ave., Rev. S. C. Harris officiating, assisted by Rev. L. W. McCoy. The funeral was largely attended. Mr. Walker was very popular with the younger set. There were many family desires to thank all for kindness and courtesies. John W, Nooks age 48, who died, Sept 11, was buried, Tuesday, from St. Andrews P. E, church the roctor officiating. Interment in Woodland cemetery. Slaughter Bros. had charge of this funeral also, as well as that of Kenneth Rogers, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jas. A. Rogers, last week, and gave service to the community, with volumes of praise from all sides. They are undoubtedly one of the very best equipped undertaking firms in the city, and this, too, without reference to class or nationality. The St. Paul (Minn.) Appeal says: "The fact that three Jews have bought the rights for the state of Massachusetts for the production of 'The Birth of the Nation', the infamous and false film, and that Jewish capitalists are exploiting the play-play all over the country, should cause our people to see that many of their most bitter enemies are Jews. A Jewish attorney general was responsible for the Maryland disfiance charges against the state's constitutional. A Jewish senator and a Jewish congressman have become notorious because of their tirades against the race. In many localities Jews aided the passage of the segregation laws. A Jew worth millions is giving thousands of dollars to aid in the establishment of 'jimcrow' Y. M. C. A. s, and is actually aiding the alleged Christians in their efforts to segregate their believers of darker hue. All this is queer work for a people with a history of years and who are still massacred in many parts of Europe. All Jews are not enemies of the colored people, but those who have power and money seem to take a special delight in striking the colored man and also—gathering in the coin." Don't be a "nigger." Don't dub other people as "niggers." You don't know what it means—and nobody else. Those who use it are about as near a definition for it as we can conceive. The white man who uses it is about as much a "nigger" as the "nigger" he "niggers." See? And a Negro who "niggers" a Negro is less than a white man who "niggers" a Negro, because the Negro is "niggering" his own. Whatever you are about as that's your. People are not in the habit of valuing things above market price, and market prices are generally placed upon goods in proportion as needed. Again, large, showy apples bring better prices than small ones, however good the little ones may be. So there is something in appearance. People want good-looking things. Put a proper estimate upon yourself. Be a high-priced article. If "nigger" brand is supposed to be inferior, do away with yourself and that will help you do away with it. You can't be more than what you know; and what you are to a large extent is in your hands unless you're in jail. Let's cut out "nigger," whatever that is. If you don't do it—listen—you're a "nigger"—whatever that is. See us? Hope so.—Nashville News. Women as Soldiers. A distinguished teacher of physical culture at Harvard has declared that there is no reason why women should not make as good soldiers as men. As a matter of fact, in endurance of pain and hardship the average woman is man's superior, and perhaps there is no physical reason why they would not make as good cannon fodder as men. But upon moral grounds and the considerations of the race perpetuation there are many reasons why this proposed brutalization of woman should be condemned. It is an idea repugnant to the minds of savages. "THE BIRTH OF A NATION." George H. Thomas Post, G. A. R., Ap propriately Denounces it. Chicago, Ill.-George H. Thomas Post, this city, appointed a committee to investigate the play "The Birth of a Nation." The report, which gives well-deserved censure, was unanimously adopted and sent to department headquarters. It reads: "The play is a remarkable work of art, but is meant to reproduce in substance the book of Thomas Dixon, entitled, The Clansman, whose chief purpose is to glorify the cause of research and intimately hated against the Negro and make it appear that the infamous Ku-Kux-Klan was an organization of chivalrous white men, to defend the people. "In the moving picture show there is one scene that represents a company of United States soldiers in uniform, commanded by a white officer, in possession of a town, shooting and burning and acting like flies. History does not record a single instance of the kind. It is a base slander on the men who wore the blue. The Negroes represented in the picture are down-down criminals, and totally debased. To people ignorant of the threat make the impression that Colored people are a deprived and criminal race governed only by brutal lusts. It has no suggestion as to the great advance made by the Negroes since emancipation, in religion, education, in property and usefulness as citizens. "The main point of the play seems to be to show that as to slavery and secession the south was altogether right, and that in the civil war and reconstruction the men who defended the nation were a whole influence of the exhibition is to excite sectional feeling and bitterness, and its representations are utterly false to history. "We recommend the adoption of the following resolution: "The George H. Thomas Post, No. 5, Department of Illinois, G. A. R., protests against the exhibition called 'The Birth of a Nation.'" "First—Because it contains slanderous representations as to the soldiers who fought to preserve the Union and caricatures the history of the war." "Second—It represents the infamous Ku-Ku-Xlan as a society of patriotic chivalrous men." "Third—Its whole influence is to excite and intensify hatred of the Negro race and intensify sectional criticism. Steel—Ditcher C. Milner, George C. Barker, E. G, Ingersoll, W. J. Liberton, committee." AS TO E. 25TH STREET! Last year, when The Gazette announced to our people of the Eleventh ward, this city, that it intended to have a street cut through from Central Av. to Cedar Av., between E. 22d St. and E. 28th St., in the face of the many failures of efforts, projected by various members of the race, for seven foolkockers "got busy". So did we, as Councilman FitzGerald can and will attest. The result: East 25th (dead-end) court or "Place" is now and has been for many months, a street, from Central Av. to Cedar Av. Thanks are due also to Ex-Director Springbong, Director Sidlo, Director Cedar Av. and Mr. FitzGerald. When Director Sidlo saw the foregoing in a recent issue of "the old reliable" Gazette, he wrote the editor a very nice letter of thanks for the deserved reference to him it contains. To this the editor of The Gazette replied, and incidentally called his attention to the present sad condition of the new street. E. 25th, between E. 28th St. and E. 29th St., that it be improved. The following is Director Sidlo's very satisfactory reply: Sept. 7. '15. Dear Mr. Smith:—I have your kind acknowledgment of Sept. 4th, and shall endeavor to have E. 25th Street, from Central Ave. to Cedar Ave. placed in a more passable condition. Mr. W. S. Springborn's present address is care The New Bedford Extractor Company, New Bedford, Mass. Yours very truly, THOMAS SIDLO, Director of Public Service. S'more Southern "Social Equality." Florence, S. C.-Capt. Paul Whipple was the father of several Colored children. He died recently at Riverdale, S. C., leaving an estate of nearly $100,000. His will provides that two of his Colored children, Sam and George Moses, in association with a white man, shall administer his estate. The children will have no trouble in securing the inheritance. ANOTHER SPEEDY VICTORY. When the Governor's letter, republished herewith, arrived, Thursday, Aug. 26. The Gazette was going to press. We just had time to insert the letter. That is why no explanation appeared with it. It was the culmination of a short, hot fight to put a stop to the effort of the State Medical Board to "Alabamaize" or "Mississippiize" our people of Ohio along a certain line. In its forms, furnished those who made application for certificates to practice "a limited branch of medicine or surgery" (chiropody, etc.), among other things the State Medical Board required the applicant to state his or her 'race, nationality (or race) and complexion." What for, the Lord, the State Medical Board and some others know. It will not be necessary for us to tell our readers, because they know. Early in the month of August our attention was called to this matter by Ralph W. Tyler of Columbus, who requested that we take up the matter with Gov. Willis and, if possible, have stopped at once a practice that savored too much of "Alabama" and "Mississippi" and the Wilson administration (southern) democratic civil service requirements which also insist that a photograph, of the applicant for a federal job,' be sent. Well, we wrote the Governor on Monday, Aug. 23, explaining the matter to him and asking that he take it up promptly with the State Medical Board and, if possible, put a stop to the insulting practice referred to. His letter, which follows, was his answer. Yes, Governor, the action meets with our approval and that of every self and race respecting Afro-American in the state of Ohio, and all thank you for it just as we have been more than pleased to do on several other like occasions since the first of the year when you took office. August 25, 1915. Hon. Harry C. Smith. I notice the reference you make to the forms which have been provided by the State Medical Board under the Platt-Ellis bill. I took this matter up at once with Dr. Matson, secretary of the board. After quite a full discussion the doctor agreed to eliminate the objectionable provision. The new blanks will say nothing about race or complexion. Neither will photographs be required. I trust that this action meets with your approval. NOTE DATE OF THIS LETTER. Aug. 31, 1915. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor, The Gazette, Cleveland, Ohio. Dr. Mr. Smith—I am in receipt of markings of newspaper calling attention to the objectionable film ("The Birth of a Nation") regarding which we have had considerable correspondence. I shall place this communication before the State Board of Film Censors. The law must be enforced and so far as I have been informed, it will reflect upon any class of our citizens will be exhibited in this state. Is the Motion Picture Manager who thinks the great state of Ohio should do away with censorship and let him select and run any kind of a picture he wishes without molestation. Robbery, prize-fights, or anything that will draw in a dollar would suit him, and some of the managers that ask this right are impure men. I know one whose wife sought divorce on account of her husband's acts with another woman. Another manager was mixed Quality Service LAUGHTER BROS. DIRECTORS & EMBALMERS and Funeral Parlors 3923 Central Av., Occasions Calls Answered Day and Night Cuyahoga, Central 5727 Doctor's Cafe (THE Z) 035 Central Avenue rop. - - Frank Doctor, Manager James Mabel, Chef GOLD BOND THE CREAM OF TABLE BEERS Rosedale 2770 SLAUGHT FUNERAL DIRECTOR Office and Fu 3923 Cent Autos for All Occasions Cuyahoga, C Edward Do (T H 3035 Cent Wm. Brack, Prop. - James Ma W.785 C.3933 The Cleveland and Sandusky Brewing Co. Cuy. Central 6661-L G. G. REED Dry Goods Ladies' and Gents' Furnishings Sole agents for the AMERICAN LADY NEMO R. @ G. CORSETS 3222 Central Ave. ADVERTISE IN THE GAZETTE. 2922 Central Ave. The State Agricultural and Mechanical College of South Carolina Orangeburg, S. C. Next session begins September 29th and ends May 25th, 1916. No Tuition, no Room Rent, no Charges for Water, Lights or Fuel. Entrance Fee $10.00. Board $6.00 per Month in Advance. Books, Laundry and Personal Expenses Extra. Every Modern Facility. Standard Equipment. A Faculty of 57 Officers and Instructors. For Information and Catalogue, Write R. S. Wilkinson, Pres. Orangeburg, S. C. --- State of Ohio Executive Department Columbus Cleveland, Ohio. Dear Mr. Smith: ANOTHER FOOL HOG FOLIEN The Pride of Carolina up in a girl scrape and had newspaper notoriety. Another has the reputation of whipping his wife. Another one has been keeping a woman not his wife for years, so this proves that these managers can not be trusted, Ohio should not also them free from the burden of the Board of Censors" is a big farce. Ohio should keep its board of Censors and add to its numbers, making it much stronger and better, so as to shut out filth from the state. B. S. Driggs. WHAT THE HORSES CARRY French, German and Austrian Animals Are Taxed More Than English and Russian. Cavalry are playing an unexpectedly large part in the war, and the weight carried by cavalry horses in the various armies is of interest. The British cavalry is armed with the short Lee-Enfield rifle, the magazine of which holds ten rounds; the sword, which is carried by .ll ranks except signalers; and the revolver, carried by warrant officers, staff sergeants, sergeants, trumpeters and rivers. Each trooper carries 100 rounds of ammunition in a bandolier over the left shoulder. Lancer regiments carry the lance. Each cavalryman (like the infantryman) carries an emergency and the "iron" ration and a ration for his horse. Then here is the kit. Altogether the British troop-horse carries about two hundred and eighty pounds. The regular Russian cavalry are armed with sword, rifle and bayonet, and each man carries 40 rounds of ammunition. There are the two days' cuts and hay ration, a cloak, and an entrenching tool. The cavalryman's kit, two days' rations, spare horseshoes, horse blanket, canvas bucket, and a mess-tin go to form the complete equipment, and weigh altogether about one hundred and nineteen pounds. The Cossack pony carries about two hundred and thirty-eigh pounds. The average weight carried by the Indian troop horse when ready for war is about two hundred and sixty-six pounds. The Austrian troopers carry a weight between two hundred and eighty and two hundred and eighty-six pounds, and the average in the French and German armies is about the same—Manchester Guardian. Where do you buy your Collars, Shirts, neckwear, etc.? is the place to get Everything in the Haber dasher line. STOP, READ AND THINK How do you invest your money? Why not in real estate? Something no one man or two can carry away. I have lots from $150 up, on easy terms. Also a few lots left in Mt. Pleasant. Call or address. R. W. WINBUSH 2192 E. 35th St. Prospect 1043-J NAMES U.S. NAVY ADVISORY BOARD Secretary Daniels Approves List of Names Submitted by Scientific Societies. FIRST MEETING WILL BE HELD OCT. 6 Powder, Aeronautic, Auto, Electrical, Gun and Steam Master to Be Headed by Edison—President Will Support Proposals. Washington, D. C.—The membership of the naval advisory board, the organization of experts nominated by 11 great engineering and scientific societies to contribute their inventive genius to the American navy, has just been announced by Secretary Daniels. The first meeting will be held at the navy department Wednesday, Oct. 6, with Chairman Thomas A. Edison presiding. "Desiring to make available the latent inventive genius of our country to improve our navy," said Daniels in making his statement about the requested Thomas A. Edison to become chairman of an advisory board of prominent men who would make up the board. Mr. Edison, with the patriotism character of American inventors, accepted the call. Selection Plan. "The plan adopted for selecting the members of the advisory board was as follows: I requested 11 great engineering and scientific societies to select by population and to represent them on the board. "The results has been most gratifying. I have received the nominations of all the members of the board and it only remains to have a meeting, organize and determine the method of procedure to utilize to the best advantage the talent and genius of our great country. "The members of the board and the societies which nominated them follow: American Aeronautical society—Hamilton Museum of Science—American expert and maker of the first smokeless powder adopted by the United States government; Matthew Bacon Sellers, Baltimore Museum of Science—first to determine the dynamic air pressure on archived services by means of the "wind tunnel." Society of Automobile Engineers—Howard E. Coffin, Detroit, Mich. and Andrew J. Riker, Bridgeport, Ct., inventors, automobile builders and now vice presidents of large automobile manufactu- Electrical Expert. The Inventors' Guild—Dr. Peter Cooper Hewitt, New York, inventor of appliances for telephones, hydroplanes, aeroplanes, balloons and electric lights; and Thomas A. McCormick, inventor of mechanical devices, including the belt conveyor for coal and ore, served in the New York naval reserve and observed military conditions at the front in France during World War II. American Chemical society—Dr. W. R. Whitney, Schenected, N. Y., creator and director of the research laboratory of the General Electric Co.; L. H. Backelan, Tonkens, native of Belgium, particularly for the invention of a photographical paper. American institute of American Engineers—Frank Jahlan Sprague, New York, inventor of the Johnson telescope the building of the first electrical telecable railways in the United States, Italy and Germany and equipped the first electrically trained gun for the construction of the first nuclear weapon, inventor and head of a committee which passes upon all Westinghouse inventions. American Mathematical society—Robert Simpson Woodman, president of the Carnegie institute at Washington, D. C., and professor of mathematics at the University and mathematical physics, Dr. Arthur Gordon Webster, Worcester, Mass., professor of physics at Clark University, inventor and the leading authority in America on sound. Society of Civil Engineers—Andrew Murray Hunt, New York, graduate of the United States Naval academy and experienced in development of hydroelectric steam and gas plants; Alfred McGraw, professor of rear admiral and now chief engineer of the New York public service commission. Explosives Expert. The American Institute of Mining Engineers—William Lawrence Saunders, New York, inventor and engineer, former newspaper and magazine editor and forerunner of the American Society of Engineers Jamin Bowditch Thayer, New York, metallurgist and explosive expert and now president of Anaconda Mining Co. The American Electro-Chemical Society, the American Society of Engineers, South Bethlehem, Pa., professor of metallurgy at Lehigh university; and Lawrence Addicks, Chrome, N. J., metallurgical engineer, the American Electro-Chemical Society. The American Society of Mechanical Engineers—William Roym Emmet, Scheinsecty, N. J., engineer and inventor and metallurgist, having conducted the recent epoch-making series of experiments on the naval collier Jupiter; and Spencer Apparatus that has simplified coiling of ships and of the breeches buoy device now used by the coast guard service in shipwreck rescue work. The American Society of Aeronautic Engineers, Charles Wise Wood, engineer and manufacturer, student of naval aeronautics and regarded by many as the world's foremost authority on the engineering features of the art of print engineering and manufacturer, electrical Inventor and manufacturer. Alfalfa King Is Dead. Marysville, O.—Joseph E. Wing, aged 54, known as the alfafia king, whose home was in Mechanicsburg, near here, died from pellagra at a sanitarium in Marion. Wing was the special agent of the United States in all its investigations through South America. He came back from South America suffering from pellagra. Disclose Big 'Arson Trust' St. Louis, Mo.—What detectives termed "the biggest arson trust that ever operated in any city" was disclosed Sunday, and, according to the detectives, capitalists are involved. The disclosures were said to have been made by one of four men arrested while they were delivering four barrels of gasoline to a factory which they were said to have agreed to burn. The four men arrested while conveying the gasoline, Chief of Detectives Allender said, were the "torches," or active incendiaries, of the arson trust. Hermit Leaves but $2,979,933 White Plains, N. Y.-John Gottleb Wendel, called the millionaire hermit of Fifth-av, left property worth only $2,979,933, according to an appraisal filed with the local state transfer tax appraiser by the attorney for the estate. It proved a surprise to the tax appraisers because it had been reported that Wendel's estate was worth between $50,000,000 and $80,000,000. The appraisal shows that Wendel, previous to his death, made conveyances of real estate valued at millions of dollars to his four sisters. EX-GOVERNOR HARRIS CROSSES THE DIVIDE Former Executive of Ohio, Civil War Veteran, Expires After Long Illness at Eaton, Aged 80 Years. Eaton, O.—Former Gov. Andrew L. Harris, who served Ohio as its chief executive from 1906 to 1909, died here Monday. He had been in poor health for a number of months. Gov. Harris served during the Civil war on the side of the Union army and rose to the height of a colonel. He was born in Butler county Nov. 17, 1835. He was a graduate of Miami university, Oxford, O., and later studied law, but before beginning practice the war broke out and he became a lieutenant in Co. C, 20th Ohio volunteer infantry in 1861. He was mustered out at the end of three months' service with the rank of captain. Three months later he recruited Co. C, 75th O. V. I., and became its captain. He was seriously wounded at the battle of McDowell, W. Va., but recovered and participated in the engagement at Cedar Mountain and the second battle of Bull Run. Gov. Harris was made a major in 1863, and the after battle of Chancellorsville was promoted to the position of colonel. On March 13, 1865, he was brevetted brigadier general for gallant conduct on the field of battle. Gov. Harris was later elected to the state senate to represent Preble and Montgomery counties, and later served as representative of Preble county in the 67th and 68th general assemblies. In 1898 he was appointed a member of the United States industrial commission by the late President McKinley. He was later chosen lieutenant governor when the late John M. Pattison was elected governor and succeeded to the governorship at Mr. Pattison's death. ANDREW L. HARRIS Many citizens among the lowly classes hailed him as "Uncle Andy." He roomed with his private secretary, Samuel J. Flickinger, at a quiet hotel and steadily refused to participate actively in social life of the capital. Mrs. Harris stayed at their country home near Eaton. U. S. TROOPS MOVE AS MEXICANS SLAY Cavalry Ordered to Rio Grande Following Attacks on American Soldiers and Mail Carrier by Bandits. Brownville, Texas. — Five troops of United States cavalry have been ordered to a point 10 miles below here on the Rio Grande following a telephone message to Fort Brown which said that large bands of Mexicans were crossing into Texas. Many of them came across the river in boats while others swam across on their horses. A United States mail carrier was attacked by a band of 20 Mexicans while delivering mail between Eddinburg and Delfina, 50 miles northwest of here. One bullet went through his hat and another struck him in the neck. Although seriously wounded, he made his escape by jumping into the heavy mesquite bushes along the roadside. Feeling is high here as a result of the cowardly attack on 10 American troopers by a band of more than 40 Mexicans early in the morning. One of the trooper was killed, another will die as the result of his wounds and two more are suffering from flesh wounds. Hits Dry Clergymen Mansfield, O.—Rev. G. A. Klente, pastor of St. John's Evangelical church, one of the largest churches in the city, resigned from membership in the Mansfield Ministers' association. He also denounced the other ministers for their action in passing a resolution in support of the prohibition movement. The resolution was introduced following the statement by eight ministers that they would resign if the association was neutral during the campaign. Ohloan Asks Bryan to Debate Columbus, O. — William Jennings Bryan has been invited to discuss state prohibition in a joint debate on the state house steps in Columbus with Harry R. Probasco, general manager of the Ohio Temperance union, in its campaign this year against prohibition. The invitation, a challenge for a joint debate, was sent Mr. Bryan at his home in Nebraska Aug. 27 with the provision that he had until Sept. 10 to make reply. No reply having reached Mr. Probasco, he has just made the challenge public. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1915. PRETTY CORSET COVER LATEST MODEL IS NOT AT ALL HARD TO MAKE. Flesh-Colored Crepe de Chine Recommended for the Garment Illustrated, Which Is One of the Best That Has Been Devised. A girl cannot have too many dalynt corset covers in the summer time, when the waistls are so thin as to be almost transparent. The latest model is one requiring so little time or skill in making that the girl who knows how to sew will not hesitate to make at least half a dozen. The camisole illustrated is a flesh-colored crepe de chine, embroidered in self color and trimmed with narrow clouny lace, but any thin material in a delicate shade may be used, as mull, chiffon cloth, nainsook, all-over shadow lace, net in white or flesh color, China and India silks. A strip of material 36 inches long and 18 to 20 inches wide will make one cover. The latter width is for a stout figure. A very tall person might use a yard and an eighth for the length, but one yard will be enough for the average woman. The material is doubled, laid flat, and a crescent taken out at the fold, creating an oval opening for the head to pass through. A second crescent is taken out at the raw edges, and the ends turned up to form a hem. The long ends are finished with a narrow hem and trimmed to suit the sower's fancy; also the neck. A frill of lace is also finish, with a ribbon run through eyelets an inch below the hem. If one can embroider, the front of the cover may be lightly decorated. Lastly, the hems are run through with an elastic fitted at the ends with hooks and eyes or snappers. The camisole is slipped over the head and the elastic brought to the front from the back. Then the front elastics are taken around to the back and closed there in like fashion to the front. A simple cover of China silk at 50 cents a yard, 36 inches wide, could be made in an hour at a cost of 25 cents. Val edging to trim, if desired, would come to about 20 cents, at five cents a yard. Another pretty model that the very thin girl would like because it is such a fluffy affair is made preferably ```markdown ``` from chiffon, though anything as thin as net or China silk will answer. You take a length of wash ribbon an inch or so wide, the circumference of the bust of the wearer-to-be. This supports a wide strip of fabric gathered several times, the first with a heading. Each row of gathers is sewed down to the ribbon. The lower edge of the fabric strip is gathered once and secured to a belt of ribbon two inches wide. This is just the kind of cover the vowel slender girl should wear under her empire frocks or baby waist of fects. It suggests only the much-desired natural fullness, the material being so very soft. Very narrow ribbon straps support this canisole. Cheap Dust Caps. There is no excuse for getting the hair dusty. For dust caps can be bought, in pretty prints in pink or violet and white, for 12 cents each. These are really pretty caps, with an elastic to keep them snug at the back, and a standing ruckellike frill about the face. They are useful not only for sweeping and dusting, but for cooking. They keep any possible dust from the hair safely out of the way and they also keep the odors of cooking from entering the hair—where they would cling tenaciously. When Travelling: Dust is inevitable with travel by train, and as it is not always possible to obtain the means of a face bath, and if left on long the dust will seriously hurt the skin, the face should NAVY BLUE HAS STRONG HOLD One of the Most Popular Colors for Any Kind of the Season's Garments. "It almost goes without saying," writes a well-known fashion authority, "that navy blue serge suiting is responsible for a goodly number of the new full-skirted models, whether these be of the coat and skirt, or the all-in-one "coat dress" variety, a trimming of black military braid being almost as inevitable as it is, certainly, and always, effective. "Sometimes the costumes will have a short and quite straightly-cut coat with a center fastening of braided edge buttonholes and braid-covered buttons, which can be used right up to the edge of the military collar, or left undone for an inch or two at the top, to show an underlining of white moire. "Then, just over the hips, the trim little garment ends its career in a series of braided-edged scallops, the skirt following this decorative example at the hem, where, by the way, its meas- POTHIST SKIRT UNDERWOOD UNDERWOOD The critic that said the futurist and oubist schools of art would in no way affect our normal life, has another thought coming. Miss Violet King, one of the most prominent of the younger set at Newport, where this picture was taken, has oiginated and is wearing this multicolored "futurist" skirt. It seems as if this novel design will take with her friends, from whom it will gradually spread into popular favor the gentler sex. Ms. King did not mention Ms. Public the theme which the design was supposed to depict, but an artist who happened to pass remarked that it was an inspiration for a cubist painting he was then planning. be cleansed at least twice a day with cold cream and a little of the wash carried along. For the last benzoin will be found excellent, a teaspoonful of this in half a cupful of water supplying quite a good face bath. Pour the diluted benzoin on a soft bit of rag and go over all the face with wiping movement, doing this after the skin has been first cleansed with cold cream. After the face has dried, powder as usual. In place of the benzoin it is possible to employ orange-flower water or alcohol—or any good cologne or toilet water—for taking off the grease after the cream cleansing, or even for the soil itself, but it is never wise to use too much of any of these things, as they scorch the skin after awhile. GARMENT TO MAKE AT HOME Negligee That Will Give Satisfaction Is an Easy Task for the Amateur —Simple Design. First make a straight, narrow slip of very pale blue pussy willow taffeta, with a tiny, bebe waist gathered into a belt just under the bust, and ribbon straps across the shoulders to hold up the little gathered waist. Attach a tunic of pale blue chiffon to this slip, about at the hips, and drop over it a second tunic from the high belt. Slash each tunic up at the front in a deep point and edge both tunices with lace insertion. The upper tunic will fall below the hip in front and almost to the knees at back; the lower tunic will hang at the back; but slope up to reveal the feet in front. Tie a sash of peach-pink satin ribbon against the lace-edged upper tunic where the apex of the slope comes in front. Now make a kimono-shaped coat of net-top lace with the border at the bottom. This is to fall six inches below the satin belt over the upper tunic of blue chiffon. Edge the V-neck in the lace tunic or coat with lace insertion and trim the very short sleeves in the same way. Several little bows of pink ribbon will make the lace tunic gay and charmingly in keeping with the skirt. Buttonhole Hint. In making buttonholes in soft muslin it is a very good idea to rub a little paste, made of flour and water, on the wrong side. This will give a firm surface to work upon and obviates the possibility of cutting a buttonhole too large. Of course, the paste will not discolor the fabric. urements are exactly four and a half yards. "And sometimes, too, the navy blue will be provided with the latest Parisian contrast of mitraille gray, in collar facings and cuffs, and, possibly, too, in the shirt blouse, the popularity of this particular and pretty scheme being foreshadowed, indeed, by the display of quite a number of new boots and shoes carried out in navy blue glace kid and gray cloth or suede, some of the boots being made still more decorative by a device of black braiding at either side of the laced front." Jacket With Cane Back. Among the newest jackets for sports wear is a model of dark blue gaberdine. The front of the jacket looks exactly like a blouse. It is held in at the waist line by a narrow belt of the material. From the belt two pockets are suspended. A three-quarter cape is attached to the back and comes out to form the sleeve. The cape is unlined. A white crepe-de-chine collar is attached to the garment and relieves its otherwise somber appearance. --- PURPLE IS THE COLOR WILL BE HIGHLY IN FAVOR FOR THE WINTER. Color Scheme for Costumes Seems Already to Be Arranged For by Those Who Control the Fashions of the World. Purple in most of its many shades is to be in high fashion this winter. The frocks from the Paris openings show this. Pansy, violet, helotrope, orchid, cyclamen—by all these flower names is it called, and there are other shades besides. Doubless violets will be more worn than ever, because of this renewed vogue for purple. And orchids, too, will help to carry out the prescribed color scheme. The woman who really loves the purple shades will be quite in her element, and she can do no better than to make the color a hobby. There are all sorts of accessories that can be had in purple. Purple leather is one of the best of the colored leathers, and there are handbags, writing cases, toilet bags, manicure cases, all sorts of little conveniences for traveling, jewelry boxes and many other leather knitknacks already on the market in different shades of purple. There are beautiful things in purple for house furnishing, too, and the woman who wishes to have her boudor or bedroom redecorated can do no better than to have the walls covered with gray, with gray net at the windows and purple silk or velour car tins over the net or a cretonne showing purple on a gray or white ground. In the hand-printed cretonnes and linens there are some lovely purple designs of peacocks and parrots and flowers. Wicker furniture, enameled gray, and fitted with purple cushions, or gray enameled wood with purple cushions help to carry out the color scheme, and for the floor there are lovely rugs in two tones of gray, and Blue Velvet Toque With Blue and Champagne-Colored Wings. some in gray and purple or two tones of lavender. Be careful in choosing purple for the color in a room, to be sure that you like it. People usually either do or do not like these pansy shades. They seldom feel neutral on the subject. BROAD STRIPES COMING IN Fall Fashions Already Pretty Well Established, Although the Date Is Somewhat Early. Broad-striped patterns are being advanced for fall consideration. Sometimes they take the form of the skirt to be worn with a plain cloth or velvet jacket; and again, they are offered in skirts of the separate variety which a woman wears with the jersey shirt-waist or a taffeta coatee. An example of this is found in a garerdine skirt in gray and black combination, arranged in striped lines one and one-half inches wide. There is no attempt to make the model fancy, except for the line of buttons that fastens the garment down the front from band to hem. The woman whose last year's suit shows the coat in fairly good condition, but the skirt not so reputable, may find it a good plan to have one of the awning-striped skirts in cloth to combine with the coat of last season. Child's Bureau Set. Does your little girl have a bedroom all her very own? If so, reward her for some act of goodness by making a scarf and pincushion for her little bureau. Animals always appeal to children, so let the design for the two articles consist of a row of bunnies. The bunnies might all be in the same attitude, but, if possible, it would be better to have each one a different figure. You can use the figures in the body and use darning stitches of a dark color to simulate jackets on the DICTATES OF FASHION The sailor hat is returning. Striped quilts appear on millinery. Nets are most important of all laces. Strictly tailor-made suits appear once more. The crowns of the autumn hats will be higher. White corduroy is used a great deal for sports coats. New colors are army blue, Belgian blue and battleship gray. Small military capes will be worn in the summer and autumn. If the complexion is colorless avoid wearing delicate grays, greens and blues. Embroideries will be lavishly used now that the founded and full-skirted dresses have come in again. Tusikh Embroidery Did you know that embroidery which looks for all the world as if it had been smuggled from the depths of a Turkish bazaar can be done by machine? First of all your design must be eastern and conventional to carry out the idea, and then it should little rabbits. Hemistitch the ends of the bureau scarf and the sides of the pincushion. Needless to say, the cushion should be very small to correspond with the size of the bureau. FOR RECIPES WORTH KEEPING Simple Case in Which They May Be Kept Always Conveniently at Hand. From time to time, in various magazines and books, there are to be found useful and valuable recipes that are well worth cutting out and keeping for reference, and for this purpose some kind of little case should be pre- 7 1/2 INCHES 5 INCHES Recipes A B C D E pared into which they may be slipped and preserved in good condition. We give a sketch here of a very neat little case that can be easily made and that will hold quite a large quantity of cuttings. It is carried out in cream colored art linen and lined with thin white silk. It is cut out entirely in one piece of the shape shown in diagram A. the portion C forming the fold-over flap, which is bound at the edge with narrow pale blue ribbon. D forms the front of the case, and this portion is stiffened with a piece of card cut to fit and sewn in between the linen and the lining. The portion marked E forms the front of the pocket, and is bound at the edge, and ribbon strings of the same color are provided to secure the case when closed as shown in diagram A. In front, the case is bordered with feather-stitching worked with pale blue silk, and the word "Recipes" is embroidered with silk to match. The case when complete and fastened up measures seven and one-half inches in length and five inches in width. COMBINATION THAT IS GOOD Ribbon and Taffeta Effectively Joined to Make an Attractive Gown for the Afternoon. Ribbon and taffeta are effectively combined to form many attractive afternoon gowns. The ribbon is used as a trimming for the latter material. One unusual looking dress of dark blue taffeta is made with a plain circular skirt, very short and quite full. The skirt opens in front under a straight band of the silk, the line of opening being the same as the back ribbon. Arrange the bottom of the skirt twouffs of the ribbon appear. A girdle of wider ribbon is wide enough in the front to form a waistcoat. To relieve the somber effect of the ribbon it is beautifully embroidered with heavy wool in green and pink. The bodice meets at the neck line and from there it spreads apart to reveal a tucked chemisette of white linen. This is held taut beneath the waistcoat by means of snap fasteners. The sleeves are full and end in tight-fitting cuffs, which are trimmed with ruffles of the narrow ribbon. The sleeves are finished with fitted waist line and the well-rounded hip effect, it is receiving a great deal of attention, and is calling forth all kinds of criticism. ORIGINAL COAT J The coat is of black and white striped taffeta, patterned with pink roses. The collar and cuffs are of pink taffeta, and the belt is of black velvet. The coat is worn over a frock of white embroidered muslin. be filled in with row upon row of ordinary machine stitching in colored silks. The rows of stitches are placed rather close together so that the effect is that of a flat solid work or a covered silk figure. Dull reds, blues and greens with plenty of old gold are used profusely and all on one piece of embroidery. This work is seen mostly on "art squares" for pillow tops, table runners, etc., and might very well be repeated for portieres or inside hangings for the winter living room. The old-fashioned machine chain stitch is the one used, but a rather large, loose running stitch would be equally effective. Flounced Frocks For ordinary evening wear flounced frocks made of chiffon taffetas are very fashionable in Paris. Our great dressmakers are creating delightful models of this order and these gowns are practical and useful, because they are made of lightweight fabric as at night. It is now the fashion to wear quite low necked bodices in the afternoon under picturesque dchw wraps or loose coates. JUST A LITTLE SMILE Disclaimed Any Intention of Rubbing Off Caress of Noted Woman—Was Trying to Rub it In. Little Jimmy had reached the conclusion that everybody in the world had kissed him or wanted to very badly. He could not help being a boy that all the ladies wanted to pet and bestow their kisses upon. In fact, Jimmy longed for the day when he would have a say so in the matter of being kissed. One day a famous woman came to call upon his mother. Jimmy chanced to enter the parlor and was directed by his mother to come up and see the noted Mrs. So and So Jimmy knew what was coming, but he could not prevent the occurrence. The visitor took him by the hand and gently gathered him up into her lap, and as she let him down to the floor again she graciously bestowed a kiss upon his pouting lips. Jimmy jumped away from her and began to rub his lips in a vicious manner. "What, you are not rubbing my kiss off, my little man?" questioned the woman. Jimmy was puzzled for a few moments, then replied: "No, ma'am; I'm just rubbing it in," and then vanished through the door.—Louisville Times. Injured Feelings "When you married me you said I was the only woman in the world for Walt." "Why the skepticism, my love?" "I think you might at least take your pipe out of your month to say it!" Pleasing Conversation. "My dear, I know he says a great many things about your good looks." "What of it?" "It is mere flattery." "Well, maybe it is," said the girl, "but it sounds good. I'd rather listen to that sort of talk than literary conversation or opinions about the length of the war." NO DOUBT. Weary—Dere wuz one feller in de ark wot would made a good railroad president. Rugles—Who wuz it? Weary—Why, de feller wot watered de stock. Theory and Practice. First Able-Bodied Male—Woman's place is in the home. As I was telling my wife— Second Able-Bodied Male—By the bye, Bill, what's yer wife doin' now? First Able-Bodied Male—Workin' in the cannery.—Judge. Some Job. Gayboy '15—Struck a job yet, old top? Grinder '15.—Well—er—not exactly. I've been quite busy, though, trying to sell my prize thesis, "The Solution of the Great Problem of the Unemployed" to some magazine—Puck. Blind to the Biscuits "Do you believe the way to a man's heart lies through his stomach, Mrs. Pilcher?" "Certainly not." "You have other views, then?" "Most assuredly. Tickle his vanity, and he'll eat anything." A Luxury Denied. "Don't you think we give too much attention to the frivolities of fashion?" "Yes," replied the business man. "But the only way to make money is to follow the fads. I haven't any time to be serious." Pensonhurst—How do you know she is? "Because she never agrees with me." Standing for No Foolishness. "Don't you dare call me a liar, sir!" "I was merely going to question your veracity." "In that case, be sure you make it a hypothetical question." Odd Result. "That terrible old gossip, Mrs. Gabby, is not reliable in anything she tells." "Yes, I notice, what she says, goes."