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THE GAZETTE Crable and Forte in Court, Monday, Ask a Continuance of Their Cases IN UNION IS STRENGTH THIRTY-FIFTH YEAR. No. 20 Crable and Ask a THE DIFFERENCE between a profit and loss on your Cleveland real estate may be only one thing—just the question of management. Now, management of property is our particular business and has been for a long time. We have secured a profit many owners. Will you consult us? THE MATHER REALTY CO. 3065 CENTRAL AVENUE CENTRAL SHIRT SHOP A RACE ENTERPRISE G. J. TATE, Proprietor. GENTS' FURNISHINGS Hosiery, Underwear and Arrow Collars and Shirts, Hias, Caps, etc. 2922 CENTRAL AVE. Phone Prospect 441-J. Wilson's Poultry Yard 2201 East 33rd St. Chickens, Turkeys &, Ducks for Sale Prices Reasonable Cent. 1929-W PATRONIZE JOE HEDGES' POOL ROOM 3048 Central Ave. One of the Best in the city. Everybody Welcome! Rosedale 1800 Quality Service SLAUGHTER BROS. Funeral Directors and Embalmers Office and Funeral Parlors 3023 CENTRAL AVE. Autos for All Occasions. 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Order by the box from any drug-gist, grocer, confectioner or soda fountain — or phone Harvard 730. Prompt delivery service to any part of Cleveland. The Leisy Company Cleveland Cuyahoga, Central 5727 Edward Doctor's Dining Room This is the popular, non-intoxicating beverage that is good in everyway. Every drop is healthful, strengthening and PURE. Order by the box from any druggist, grocer, confectioner or soda fountain — or phone Harvard 730. Prompt delivery service to any part of Cleveland. Wm. Brack, Prop. Frank Doctor, Manager James Mabel, Chef The Speaking Likeness SMITH'S name insures this on all PHOTOS. Make no mistake in the Choice for QUALITY, Style and Satisfaction! ..... ESTABLISHED AUGUST 25.1883 And Issued Every Week on Time Since What Our People Are Doing Each Week—Church, Personal, Social, Lodge, Literary and Musical—Marriages, Deaths, Etc. HULLSBORO.—Mr. Wm. Alsop has returned from Loveland—The Baptist S. S. will have an entertainment and Xmas tree. Tuesday evening—Lincoln school play, Monday evening.—Mr. Thompkins is no better—Order The Gazette from the local agent. SANDUSKY — Both churches well attended, Sunday. Rev. E. Burton preached a good sermon at the Second Baptist church.—Mrs. Mary R. Dorsey of Boston, dramatic reader, gave a fine entertainment at Welfare League hall, the 13th.—Jas. R. Davis has been ill a week.—Parents and sweethearts are looking for our soldier boys at Camp Sherman Chilicothe, to come home for Christmas. Rev. G. D. Smith expects his son, Roy, who is at Camp Houston, Tox. The Red Cross is sending boxes to all from Erie county—Prayer meeting, Xmas, at 7 a. m., or earlier, Rev. G. D. Smith announces. The second Afro-American officer training camp is be established at Pt. Eileen, Karie, twenty students of Willisfor, University have been no copied. The university recently re- CORRESPONDENTS must mail all letters for publication at their main postoffice sufficiently early on Monday (or Sunday) of each week to have them reach The Gazette office on Tuesday morning, and always write also, their names and that of their city or town on the outside of the wrapper about returned copies. Unless this latter is done, proper credit cannot be given you. Lists of name, wedding presents, etc., obituary notices, inquiries for relatives and advertisements of all kinds, including items announcing entertainments to be held in the near future, must be paid for in advance at the rate of 20 cents a line, six words to a line. Our rates for display advertisements will be sent on application. MARIETTA--Mrs. Wm. Burke returned, last week, from her parents, in Williamsport, W. Va.-Mr. Robert Scott, former resident, Mrs. Thelma J. Scott's brother, is first corporal of his company at Petersburg, Va.-The bazaar held recently by ladies of St. Paul M. E. church, proved the best ever held here--Mr. and Mrs. Davis, Singer and Tompkins of New Orleans have located here.-- The muscular lodge has an interesting St. John's day program for the 24th.-Mrs. Thos Fletcher has prepared for a splendid Christmas entertainment in St. Paul church. The S. S. children and others will participate. -Ladies Aid society will give a musical festival, New Year's eve. A fine program has been prepared. -Please phone Mrs. Thelma J. Scott (560 M). your news for The Gazette. CADIZ—Miss Grace Newby has returned to Mt. Pleasant—Mrs. Alberta Madison and Mrs. Ian Rowles visited the latter's daughter at Bridgeport—Mr. Esau Johnson; one of our aged citizens, died last Thursday after a short illness.—A reception will be given Rev. Marbly at Simpson M. E. church, Friday evening.—Mrs. French Thompson, who died at Lorain, was buried from the A. M. E. church. Mr. and Mrs. Melvin Davis, Abraham Thompson and sister, Miss Katherine and Paul Thompson of Lorain accompanied the remains.—Woman's day exercises at the A. M. E. church were well attended. A splendid paper by Mrs. A. B. Young and a quartet by Mesdames Myrtle Bill's, Emma Tyler, Misses Gracie and Eona Panks were highly appreciated.—Mrs. Elinora Murrell and Edger Brown of East Liverpool are visiting Mrs. Mary Brown.—Mrs. Robert Pettress and Miss W. Graves have gone to Brown Summit N. C. to spend the holidays. SUCCEEDS WHERE OTHERS FAILED Kansas City, Mo.-The Thomas Railway Track Appliance Co., of this city, put in an oil burning system for melting ore; but failed to get results. After several white experts failed, they tried L. P. Quinn an Afro-American expert, of F. Field, In., who produced the desired effects in a few hours. He is on the job and is proving his efficiency as a smelting expert of the highest type. Mr. Quinn has had many years' experience in this line of work. THEY WANT 14 MORE OF 24TH Ft. Bliss, Tex.—Fourteen more members of the 24th Infantry, who have been held here, were last week Thursday, taken to San Antonio to be tried for alleged complicity in the Houston riot. DOINGS OF THE RACE The second African American officers' training camp is to be established at Ft. Killor, Kan. University students' of Wilberfoots University have been accepted. The university recently received $20,000 from the Avery estate of Pittsburgh The endowment purposes. Mrs. Nannetta Lowe and Mrs. Annie West of Springfield, Mass., won a civil rights suit against S. S. Kriegso and 10 cent store for a refusal to serve them, and were awarded $25 damages. Our regiments, the Eighth Illinois and Fifteenth N. N. have been constituted and are now known as the 18th brigade. Authorities at Washington have always held (o the way that Negro officers were unable to control their men, but this Houston affair has set that contention beyond all dispute. If either Col. Chas. Young, Col. Denison, or Col. Johnson, all Afro-Americans, had been in command of the 24th U. S. Infantry at Houston, that August, no such trouble would have occurred—Chicago (Ill.) idea. Alexander King, for more than twelve years assistant superintendent of Wall Street Station, New York, has been ousted and is now a clock. It is thought that Postmaster General Burleson's attitude on the Negro question has had something to do with Mr. King's removal. That is clearly the policy of the southern democratic Wilson administration. Miss Dorothy Hill, age 19, a member of the race, was the first of ten women appointed as mail carriers in Chicago recently because of the scarcity of men for that work. Of all organizations of the army as large as a regiment, the Tenth U. S. Cavalry stands pre-eminent in its per capita subcription to the second Liberty loan" writes Col. DoR. C. Cabell, of that regiment. "With an aggregate of 1,329 officers and men, the Tenth Cavalry subscribed for over $200,000 of the bonds, more than $151 per man. It is a fact that this amount would have been materially increased had I not ordered that no man be allowed to pledge his pity to an extent that would not leave him with $10 on pay day. Such patriotism from this regiment of Colored men is worthy of publication."—Army and Navy Journal. The Boston branch of the N. E. R. league asks all of our churches to set Dec. 23 for funeral services, and to hold "In Memoriam" silent barricade on Jan. 1, 1988, and to wear blue mourning badges for 30 days for "the murders to grace prejudice" hanged at Ft. Sam Houston Tex. last week. IT COST NEARLY $25,000 To Raise and Then Disband the Nint! Ohio Regiment, Some Months Ago Columbus, O.—Only $40,190 of the quarter million war emergency appropriation made to Gov. Cox by the legislature last winter remained unspent on Nov. 30, according to report of State Examiner, John A. Bliss file with State Auditor Donahue, Saturday. The total already spent was $209,809.92. The adjutant general's office is charged with having spent, also, $24,488 to recruit the Ninth battalion to a regiment. This money was the same as wasted, as the war department later ordered the regiment disbanded, preserving only the original Ninth battalion, which left Montgomery, Ala., last week. According to Adjutant General Wood, the war department promised to bear all the expense of recruiting these troops, consequently the federal government is expected to refund the amount spent by the state. Col. Charles Young was at the head of the "mecorite" Ninth. COMPREHENSIVE PRESS Chicago, Ill., Dec. 10.—Hon. Jas. L. Curtis, late Minister to Liberia, was buried from Oqg Bebet A. M. E. church, Tuesday of last week. A great number of prominent race men and women were present. The Flag Goes By," a patriotic March Song. That Leads Them All The editor of The Gazette has just received a copy of this view and exceptionally fine musical production, the work of Richard Berry Lynch, son of our long-time and highly esteemed friends, Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Lynch of Youngstown, O. It has the "smp" and "go," is pretty and "tuneful," requisite, absolutely necessary to make such a production "take" and sell, especially in these stirring times of many somewhat similar musical productions but lacking these essentials as a rule. Everybody, among our people, who has ever visited Youngstown for any length of time, even for but a few days, in the last twenty five years, has not "Dick" Lynch, the author's father, an enrolling clock of the Ohio Senate, years ago, and generally acknowledged to be one of the very best to ever fill that important position. This is possibly the most popular and best known member of the race Youngstown has claimed in a quarter of a century: Genial, clever, capable in an exceptional degree and an "all around good fellow," and a gentleman, too, all the time. Mrs. Mamie Berry Lynch, since a girl an exceptionally fine pianist and musician, is a woman of intelligence whom one has only to meet once, to be thoroughly impressed most favorably and to be numbered among her hosts of warm admirers. It will require no stretch of imagination for any one who reads this to understand the kind of parents Richard Berry Lynch, the author of "Hits Off! The Flag Goes By!" has and why the young man has been able to produce a composition that surpasses anything of the kind to come to our notice during the past few years of World War and the greatly increased patriotism it has aroused within the year in this country. Kaiser's Music Store, The Arcade, Cleveland, O., has it on sale and The Gazette advises every one of its readers to purchase at least one copy while they can. You will certainly be more than pleased with the sterling patriotic march-song. Price, fifty cents. FROM CAMP SHERMAN Camp Sherman, Chillicothe, O. Editor of Gazette, Dear Sir; I thought would write you a few lines to keep in touch with the boys here in camp. The cold we ther-does not can much to them as there is plenty of heat in all of the departments and only one hour "hijes" a day, of the boys are in the hospital, and some are a little dissatisfied with their food and clothing but some of them would "kick" if they were playing foot-ball. On the whole they are pretty well cared for. Later: Two thousand of our "secrets" here are under quarantine for small-box. About a half dozen cases have been reported. "FATHER" DEMBY ELECTED A Suffragan Bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church—His Wife a Cleveland Girl Holman-St. Mary's Industrial Institute Koeling, Tenn. My Dear Mr. Smith: Just a line to tell you that Father Denby has been unanimously elected "Suffragan Bishop of the Southwestern Province," but has not as yet announced his acceptance. You will hear from us again. With many thanks for your kindness, I am, Yours sincerely. NETTIE RICKS-DEMBY When the criminal libel cases known him to associate with prostitute against Charles H. Crable and Ortutes, either white or black, and I demand A. Forte were called, Monday not believe he does, as a man of his afternoon, in Squire Brenner's court prominence could ill afford to so assail in the Superior building, their attor- society, and I venture to say, that ifney asked for a "continuance," until he is ever seen in the company of Jun. 21, 1918. This was his right (to white people, either men or women, ask for a continuance), and it was they are his equals in every respect granted by Squire Brenner after Hen. and the equals of all other colored L. Thomas, Esq. attorney for the people either in Ohio or elsewhere, editor of The Gazette, had agreed to morally or otherwise. When the criminal libel cases against Charles K. Crable and Ormond A. Forte were called, Monday afternoon, in Squire Brenner's court in the Superior building, their attorney asked for a "continuance," until Jan. 21, 1918. This was his right (to ask for a continuance), and it was granted by Squire Brenner after Henry L. Thomas, Esq, attorney for the editor of The Gazette, had agreed to it. The sentiment of the community frankly outspoken, condemns, and in no uncertain tones the writing, and publication of the vicious, malicious and unwarranted Crable attack, even Crable and Forte expressing themselves as being "sorry for it" to Attorney Thomas in the hearing and presence of Dr. J. K. Nickens, Monday afternoon, immediately on leaving the court rooms. The clearly evident intent to injure, and the great harm and injury done the editor of The Gazette by the misbeant diatribe cannot be wiped out now by expressions of sorrow over its writing and publication. Opportunity for this was promptly given them on Nov. 30, 1917. They failed to accept it. Therefore, since the cases have been started it is now a matter to be adjudicated in the courts and it is with them Crable and Forte must deal from now until the punishment the law of the state decrees for such vile offenses is finally meted out to them. Then will come the promised civil suits for damages, not less than ten thousand dollars in each case. Meantime, our people of this community are patiently waiting to see that action the officers and other members of Antioch Baptist church, Lano Memorial C. M. E. church and Mt Haven Baptist church are going to take in the cases of their pastors (Bailey, Bayliss and Crable), who merely admitted on the witness stand before the Cuyahoga County Liquor License Commissioners, Nov. 16, 1917, that they had accepted ten dollars each from "Starlight" Boyd, a saloon-keeper, after signing a protest and petition to said commissioners asking that his license be refused (not renewed). At this writing "Star's" place is still closed, although it has been currently rumored, repeatedly, during the past two weeks that he was to re-open in "a few days." Members of Lane Memorial - C. M. E. church formulated charges which they said, last week, were to be filed against Bayliss, their pastor, at a church conference which was to be held, the first of this week. His removal was also to be asked, they said. Officials of Mt. Haven church also told The Gazette, last week, that their pastor's case was to be considered in a church meeting. What action the members of Antioch have taken or are to take, The Gazette has not learned, at this writing. Persistent to the foregoing is the following communication from one of the most successful and best known Afro-American attorneys in this section of the country—Francis H. Warren Esq., former editor and proprietor of the Detroit Informer: AS TO CRABLE AND FORTE Ormond A. Forte, 412. Superior Building. Cleveland, Ohio. Dear Sir: I note a communication in your issue of Dec. 15, signed by "Rev. Chas. H. Crabble," which appears to be a paid advertisement, but nevertheless constitutes a gross label on the tract and one of its most prominent members. Even if the acts contained in the article were true what would it profit our race to parade that fact before a white public already prejudiced to the highest pitch against the association of black men with white women. When this same charge was brought against Booker T. Washington by the Boston Guardian I pointed out to it the greatness of the danger to all of our race, even if it succeeded in fastening up n Washington the vile charges made, for if the white man once gets it into his head that black men want only association with white women, life will hardly be worth living in the United States for Negroes, and the less you parade the feature against a brother of the race the better it will be for all concern! As for the Honorable Harry C. Smith, who is father of some of the laws that protect our race in the state of Ohio, and several times a member of the Ohio legislature, I have known him more or less intimately for more than thirty-five years; have visited with him in Cleveland and he has visited my home, and while he does not object to honorable marriage between white and black people, I have never SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS lay, Cases Francis H. Warren ble's Vicious and Mali- s Attack ion of It. He Recalls the . Washington episode. known him to associate with prosti- tutes, either white or black, and I do not believe he does, as a man of his prominence could ill afford to so as- sociate, and I venture to say, that if he is ever seen in the company of white people, either men or women, they are his equals in every respect and the equals of all other colored people either, in Ohio or elsewhere, to morally or otherwise. Then what can be said in favor of ministers of the gospel who accept contributions from such sources as Rev. Crabble confesses he accepted them. In Detroit ministers who would accept such contributions would not last here over night, if it were known by their congregations. One of our large churches, the Second Baptist, had a minister some years ago who accepted contributions from a white house of prostitution which occupied the building next door. I understand he got $50 as a Christmas present every year. The result was he never complained about the presence of the house of prostitution and that was undoubtedly the reason the present was forthcoming. But when our present pastor of the Second Baptist church took charge, seven or eight years ago, together with the trustees he began to seek ways and means of removing this pest hole from the doors of his church. First he thought of moving the church, but in a conversation with the writer he found he could move the house of prostitution and the writer was employed by him for that purpose. My retainer for filling bills against the houses of prostitution, two in number, was $100. The proprietor of the largest of the two houses involved offered $5,000 if I would drop the charges and permit the houses to operate, and I know that they offered Rev. Bradby the usual present to begin with, and later a sum probably equal to what they offered me. But we both insisted upon the removal of the prostitutes and they went. Perhaps you need a few Bradhys in Cleveland, if you want to get rid of the abominable conditions I found in the immediate vicinity of Rev. Bailey's church. I do not know so much about the others mentioned in the articles I have read. Vice is like 'weeds'—it grows and thrives without special cultivation. While culture, morality and right living need the encouragement of not only Christian leaders but also of lay-leaders as well. And instead of trying to be mimic the character of Hon. Harry C; Smith, it seems as though the proper thing for a minister to do, who has made the mistake of accepting contributions from such a source, for which there is and can be no excuse, is to turn in and assist any layman who is brave enough to fight the sources of evil. What manner of Christian is Rev. Crable, anyway? Your truly, FRANCIS H. WARREN. CONTINUE TO STAND FOR THE RACE As Well as the Flag and the Country and We Are Yours to Command, Brother Scott War Department Washington, D. C., Dec. 12, 1917. Hon. Harry C. Smith. Editor Gazette Cleveland, Ohio. My Dear Sir: To me it is a source of very great pleasure and satisfaction to make note of the splendid support you have been good enough to accord me in connection with the recent appointment as Special Assistant to the Secretary of War. I cannot tell you how much I value and appreciate the wholesouled support given by your valued newspaper and by the members of the Negro press generally. All that I can say is that I shall seek to be of the greatest possible service to Secretary Baker, to the Negro people, and to our country. May I not count upon you for frequent counsel and suggestions? I am serving merely in a representative capacity and I want you and all other loyal and patriotic Americans to know that I earnestly desire your closest possible co-operation. With thanks and best wishes, Sincerely yours, EMMETT J. SCOTT, Special Assistant. Do not allow your landlords to take advantage of you in the matter of rentals, etc., but come to The Gazette office when you have troubles of that kind. The GAZETTE One Year $1.50 Six Months .1.00 Three Months .50 Subscribers are requested to remit by postoffice money order or registered letter Entered at the postoffice in Cleveland, Ohio, as second-class mail 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 NEWS-EST and BEST in the country. 10,000,000 Afro-Americans. 300,000 in Ohio. 25,000 in Cleveland. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1917 These are the days of fuel relief a la frappe. Doctor Garfield says the coal situa- tion in Ohio has been relieved. Again? Nero fiddled when Rome was burn- ing. The coal authorities are fiddling around in Ohio when nothing is burn- ing—or to burn. Fuel Administrator Garfield says the fuel situation has been relieved. Now if there was only some way of relieving the relief what a relief it would be. Says Robert K. Thompson, newspaper man, in an interview in the Commercial Tribune, "The South is paralyzed with wealth." It certainly is not paralyzed from spending it for liberty bonds or war taxes. Too many dealers try to play "Hail Columbia" on the cash register.—To ledo Blade. And it would serve them right if some plan could be put in force that would make them play "Over There." All other government agencies having proven futile in handling the coal question, the weather bureau finally came to the rescue and ordered the coal wave away. It has indeed to be some problem that our Washington talent cannot solve. A hypnotist held the boards in a Columbus theatre, last week. Signor Blanco, not Bunco, said in an interview: "Ohio audiences are the best I have come across in a long time. I find little trouble in getting all the subjects I need for a pleasant entertainment, and a large percentage of those who come forward are splendid subjects." No doubt true and possibly elucidated by the fact that large numbers of Ohio electors proved equally excellent subjects to hypnotic influence in the campaign of 1916 and so were reasonably broken in. Senator New, in a statement advocating efficient national preparedness, said these true things: "Unpreparedness never kept anybody out of war. Unpreparedness did not keep us out of this war. We went along here complacently for two years and made no preparation for what a wise man must have seen was inevitable, but our failure to make ready for war is now costing us tremendous sums of money and very great loss of time, which is the most important consideration of all." And eventually will add to the cost of life, he might have added. Surely the people when they reflect upon the unwisdom that they were taught relative to preparedness, must he able now to separate wise leadership from unwise. In a recent interview in the Commercial-Tribune, Robert K. Thompson, a former newspaper man, who has been in the South for three months in the work of the National Food Administration, says: "The South is paralyzed with wealth * * * when one considers the sudden leap from the panic cry of 'buy a bale' to the demand for 'thirty-cent guarantee for cotton,' one has a vision of the sudden fortunes that have been made and the old estates that have been rehabilitated. So it is surprising to go to a community where an American flag is a curiosity as a display on stores and buildings and the service flag unknown, but the riddle is answered by too much prosperity." We had an idea, from the draft ratios, that service flags in the South might be expected to be rarities, except in colored settlements, but we were hardly prepared to hear that the American flag was a curiosity. A DESERVED TRIBUTE As our readers and many others well know The Gazette has always placed race interests above personal and party interests, and has remained a "Republican" in politics thrust its almost thirty-five years of life because it subscribes to the original principles of the party, 'though at times refusing to support and even opposing some of the party nominees because it felt that they were not true to our people or because it believed them unfit candidates. This same sane independency in all matters of importance has always made it easy and proper for us to recognize, and publicly too, the race's real friends of other races and parties, and as far as we were able to do so, to give them to the hands they were clearly entitled to at the hands of our people. Several years ago, we were a little surprised to learn that a democratic attorney general of Ohio, without the "flourish of a single trumpet," had appointed a member of the race a special assistant in his office—a position filled for the first time by an Afro-American. Later on, when the latter got into serious trouble, the attorney general "stood by" him until he had proven his innocence of the charges preferred against him. The assumption of a different attitude at that time on the part of the attorney general would in all probability have caused the downfall of a promising young attorney of the race, a resident of Columbus at the time but now a lieutenant or captain in the new National Army by grace of the Officers' Training School, conducted a few months ago at Ft. Dodge, Des Moines, Iowa. When this Ohio democrat was re-elected attorney general of the state he promptly re-appointed his Afro-American "special assistant," frankly praising him for good work done in and out of the courts of Columbus and elsewhere in the state. A few weeks ago, with Dr. Leroy M. Bundy's faithful father and wife, and others, we were fighting his extradition to East St. Louis, Ill., finally succeeding in "holding it up" until the mob spirit quieted down to the point that enabled him to be returned to that notorious town without being lynch-murdered. When the probability of securing even this concession seemed least and the outlook darkest, into the fight was drawn this same democratic friend and former Ohio attorney general, who entered with an enthusiasm, characteristic of his and our race when thoroughly interested and aroused; promptly turned the tide in our favor with an eloquent appeal and thorow discussion of the legal technicalities involved in the Bundy extradition case that "won the day" and capped it all with a refusal to take a cent for his extraordinary and invaluable services, again showing in a quiet but forceful way real, practical friendship for the race that must not be forgotten. The Bundy case is not and never has been anything else but a race fight—never merely a personal one, and our democratic friend was quick to see this and give us more evidence of his carnest desire to do all in his power to help a struggling people, unfairly handicapped in hundreds of ways by the dominant race of this country. Recently he delivered an address to our people of Columbus, saying among other things: "I hope to see the day when your people will be represented on the faculty of the Ohio State University," and what is more, this man really meant what he said. Continuing he also said: "The men south of the Ohio (river) who would attempt to pass laws contradictory to the constitution think they have a higher right than their fellow-men. It is a belief in that sort of thing that made the kaiser bring on the present world conflict." Since the days of the "Ku Klux Klan" and the "Red Shift Brigades," the south has not only attempted to pass laws contradictory to the constitution but in effect has succeeded. In the south our people have all the liabilities of American citizens and are deprived of its greater rights. There democracy, or rather the democratic party, "reigns supreme," enacting disfranchisement, "jim crow" railway, street car and segregation "laws," condoning if not encouraging lynchmurder and all forms of mob violence, and fearfully oppressing our people in many other ways, to well known to mention. Our good friend, the former attorney general of Ohio, tho a member of that party, knows this and yet dares to condemn it publicly in spite of the fact that he is and has been for some years a leader of the democratic party of Ohio. His independence of speech and action has been his most marked characteristic ever since his entrance into public life. Therefore, it need surprise ob one in this state, where he is so well and favorably known, to learn that he has referred to the prejudiced southern "Shylock" as he did in that recent Columbus speech to our people of that city. To whom we refer? Why to the HON. TIMOTHY S. HO-GAN of Columbus, former attorney general of Ohio. 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. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, OH IO; DECEMBER 22, 1917. REMOVES DRAFT BOARD Atlanta, Ga.—The entire board of exemptions for Fulton county was removed from office, Sunday, upon complaint of Maj. Gen. Crowder that the board was applying the exemption from the requirement to Afro-Americans than to whites. A TIMELY NEW BOOK. The Gazette acknowledges the receipt of "The Negro Migrant in Pittsburg; A Menace or a Social and Industrial Asset?" by Abraham Epstein of 1835 Center Ave., that city. Fifty cents a copy. We have not as yet had an opportunity to read and review it. "SOUTHERN CHIVALRY" Norfolk, Va.—At a hearing in the police court of this city, Dec. 7, Dr. Wm. A. Strobe (white), who conducts a drug store at the corner of Church St. and Princess Anne Ave., was held to the grand jury und r $1000 bill bond, for criminally assaulting Argyle Scott, an 8-year-old member of the race. CONGRATULATIONS, 'LESTER A.' New York City.—Lester A. Watton has been named as a member of the military entertainment service commission which will provide entertainment for the various cantonments throughout the country under the direction of Mare Klaw, the famous theatrical manager. Mr. Watton is managing and dramatic editor of "The Age," of this city. DIES DEFENDING WOMAN Memphis, Tenn.—When Miss Josie Hamilton entered a car here, Dec. 10, on the local street railway she found it crowded in the year. Shg walked to the center and sat near a white woman who protested. A white brute cursed her and attempted to drag her from the seat. Wm. Butler) an Afro-American working man, defended her and in the riot that ensued was assaulted by a number of white brutes and stabbed to death. Miss Hallman was arrested and fined $25 for disorderly conduct. Good Lord! have mercy! A monument for Butler is being urged. Delinquent subscribers, especially those in the East End, will please save our collector the long trips to their residences by sending us a post office money order, AT ONCE, and oblige The Gazette, greatly. Our advertisers want your trade. Those who do not ask for it in the Gazette certainly care little, if at all for it. Therefore, we urge our readers and all our friends to patronize those who ask for your trade in this paper. CORRESPONDENTS WANTED The old reliable Gazette desires and active agent and correspondent in every city and town in Ohio and neighboring states having a number of Afro-American residents. Only a little time on Fridays or Saturdays is required. We are especially destroys of hearing from persons in the following named cities: Springfield, Dayton Piqua, Mt. Vernon, East Liverpool Akron, Lima, O., and other places particularly in Ohio, where we have none. Write to the editor of The Gazette blackstone building, Cleveland, O. Our terms will be sent promptly. Our correspondent will be sending at once the addresses of persons in the cities named and other in the state, to whom we can write relative to the matter. PREFERENCE "Any prejudice whatever will be insurmountable if those who do not share in it themselves truckle to it and disarm it and accept it as a law of nature."—John Stuart Mill. THE MAN WHO DARES. "I honor the man who in the conscientious discharge of his duty dares to stand alone; the world, with ignorant, intolerant judgment, may condemn, the countenances of relatives may be averted, and the hearts of friends grow cold, but the sense of duty done shall be sweeter than the applause of the world, the countenances of relatives or the hearts of friends." — Charles Sumner. Porto Rican Town Unchanged by American Rule. San Juan, the capital of Porto Rica, is the busiest, liveliest, and most American town in that island, the inhabitants of which have recently been owed with American citizenship; but an equally interesting one is the 11th5 known port of Ponce, on the other side of the island. San Juan has narrow, noisy crowded streets, while those of Ponce, are wide, shady and quiet. Although it is a city of some 40,000 people, the sugar fields crowd almost into it from all sides, and the street car runs between them and through the shade of tall palm trees on its way from the waterfront to the plaza. The houses are for the most part low, flat structures, built flush with the sidewalk, over which the balconies put out. They are painted the bright blues and greens and pink which the Latin-American loves. The people of the town are almost wholly Spanish. There is not only far less negro blood there than in San Juan, but Americans and foreigners are few. The wide and beautiful plaza, with its great trees, its statuary and fountains, is filled with strolling senoritas and observant caballeros every evening. The Spanish social life, with its decorum and grace and leisurely pleasantness, exists here undisturbed by the invasions of industry and foreign blood which are rapidly changing the aspect of much of Latin America. EVER HEAR OF TOWN OF WISBY IT'S A QUIET LITTLE CITY NEST LING ON ISLAND TO EAST It's Men Wore Traders From Beginning, Commerce Always King. To the eastward of Sweden, in the inhospitable Baltic, lies the great island of Gothland, with its capital of Wisby. Little visited and little known, Wisby is one of the most interesting cities of northern Europe. It is in the track of shaft the Russian and Scandinavian sea commerce, but few ships make the land today in what was once the busiest of northern harbors. Land at Wisby and you find a quiet little city, with ivy covered houses and gardens of roses, going about its important affairs in an atmosphere of plied calm. It takes a considerable effort of the imagination to call up a picture of the times when Wisby was to the Battle and the North sea what Venice in the height of her power was to the Mediterranean. Wisby in those days was the wealthiest and liveliest city of its size in Europe. The men of Wisby seem to have been traders from the beginning. Back to the ancient Norse chronicles there is mention made of Wisby gattles that went all over the known globe, and traded the treasures of the Levant with Norse kings. Today they are still digging about in a desultory fashion on the island, in search of historical relics, and the sheevels bring up coins of all the ancient nations—coins of old Britain, of barbarian Russia, of the nunberber German's states, off France and Spain and north Africa. Wisby gathered the gold of every land with her venturous trading koots, in times when a little business trip had as much romance and danger as the forays of a knight ornament fighting over his lady's eyebrow. Later Wisby, by virtue of her commercial supremacy, rose to be one of the leading members of the famous Hansa league. Her island became the property of different monarchies in turn, but in the capital, commerce was always king. Even today the life city is busy with trade, but its glory has deserved. The ivy that clings two feet thick, to the walls of the houses, seems to symbolize at once the long and prosperous past, and the placid, eventful present. KANSAN PRODUCES SEEDLESS CHERRY Says It Can Be Grown Commercially and Will Become Common. A seedless cherry has been produced by George McMann of Peabody, Kan. Mr. McMann says it can be grown commercially and will become common in a few years. - Another "plant wizard" has successfully crossed the garden variety of artichoke with the wild sunflower. His name is Alfred S. Rollo. He worked on this achievement for several years. The product is said to taste something like a jushroom, and is about the size and shape of an Irish potato. A third more of the new vegetable can be raised on an nere of ground than Irish potatoes, and they need scarcity any care at all—in fact, they grow better without any cultivation, it is said. Mr. Rollo also has produced a new hybrid, not yet named, made by the successful crossing of Johnson grass, broom cane and sugar cane. This new plant produces a good grade of broom straw and gives more sugar or sirup than the same amount of Louisiana sugar cane, it is claimed. The new plant will do well on land that is impossible for the raising of either broom or sugar cane. Mr. Rollo owns and operates an experimental farm near El Paso, Texas, where he has planted a large acre, 26 of the new cane. SHELTER BIRDS AT FEED New Table Device Expected to Meet With Approval Bird lovers will welcome a new idea in the construction of a bird-feeding table operated on the weather-vane principle. The device is made of white nine with a copper roof and is pivotally mounted on an eight-foot pole, so that it turns with the wind. In this way it is sheltered from storms and the birds have a dry resting place and dry food, whatever the weather. An automatic hopper for grain is provided so that there is no waste. A wire feed rack and inside of the shelter are also arranged inside of the shelter. Two arms at the sides furnish perches for birds and also aid in the swing of the feed-table. This arrangement answers the additional purpose of a weather vane. The little house has a sheltered feeding table underneath, and below that is a grill smaller one. The house is commissions and attractive and will furnish housing for a number of birds. —Popular Science Monthly. Seal Island, Me., 15 miles off Vinalhaven, Me., is said to possess a devil's den, which opens a pas sageway underground across the island. Daily Thought. For, of a truth, Love and Strife were afteored time and shall be; nor ever, methinks, will boundless time be emptied of that pair. And they prevail in turn as the circle comes round, and pass away before one another, and increase in their appointed time—thumbedocles. WORK IN THE HOME SEVERE ON HEALTH So Declare Labor Bureau Experts, Who Cite Statistics to Prove Their Statements. A girl who goes out into the world to earn her living does not have a shorter and stricter life than the girl who remains at home, or who marries, or who goes to work in some one else's home. The safest possible place for a girl who desires a long and healthy life is in the private office of a business man or in some gainful profession in her own office. This is on the authority of the bureau of Labor and Commerce, and the United States census, who tells us in prosaic but unmistakable terms that the business man's private secretary has the best possible chance among women for attaining a ripe old age, while the business man's wife (if she does her own work) or his servants have the worst. Here are figures. Among women engaged in the higher clerical occupations or in the practice of their professions the death rate is 2.7 per 1,000 per year. Among women employed in stores and offices the mortality is 5.6 per 1,000. Those employed in rails, tautdies and factories die at the rate of 5.1 per 1,000, while the death rate among domestic servants is 17.1 per 1,000 — a staggering jump, which places the risk of the girl who serves us almost on par with that of the soldier who fights for us. Quite without exception the women who are engaged in what we have always held as the most normal and the most healthful of occupations — women's age-old heritage of housework—run the greatest risk of disease and early death. This same ratio so far as data are available, obtains with women who are fulfilling the duties of wives and mothers—in addition to those of the domestic. NEW PORTABLE DISINFECTOR Government Buys Six for Use of U. S. Army. The Government has recently purchased for our army six disinfectors of a new portable type of purifying fifty uniforms and kits in forty minutes. Either steam or formaldehyde and ammonia are employed as germicides. The outfit consists of a five-horse power upright steam boiler and an airlight chamber, six feet long, mounted on a metal running gear. The rear end of the chamber is provided with a heavy door which can be hermetically sealed. Within is a rack mounted on wheels from which clothing can be hung, while small articles can be placed on an iron grating. After the chamber has been filled with steam from the boiler for the proper length of time, the garments are dried by currents of sterilized air and are then ready to be removed. REINDEER AS MEAT SUPPLY Secretary Lane Urges Wider Use of Venison by People. Reindeer meat to combat the reign of dear meat is suggested by Secretary Lane of the Department of the Interior, who is a strong believer in the future of the reindeer industry of Alaska. Right here at the gates of America, the Secretary points out, is a new source of supply, demanding recognition, with rapidly multiplying herds, which will in time develop into one if the most important sources of the meat supply of the United States, Secretary Lane believes. He expects that the phenomenal growth of the Alaska herds will continue in the future as it has in the past, and that, with the improved transportation facilities resulting from the completion of the new-Government railroad, reindeer venison will occupy a conspicuous place on the American dinner table of the future. MUCH FOOD IN SMALL BULK War Bread and Biscuits That Swell Like a Soapone The British "Tommy," when fresh bread is not available, is supplied with what he calls "dog biscuit." It looks just like that, being a thick cracker four inches squares and weighing three ounces. Of whole wheat flour pressed solid, it might be described as a condensed loaf of bread. The French have a "war bread" somewhat similar, which, when put into hot water or soup, swells up like a sponge. The famous German "pea sausage" is composed of pea meal, bacon and fat. It was the invention of a Berlin cook, who discovered a process whereby pea meal could be made proof against deterioration. One sausage, eight inches long, yields twelve plates of nutritious soup. BUYS LITTLE ENGINES! That the Russians have made extensive plans for establishing easily adjustable rail communication between various divisions of their fighting armies and between the armies and the supply bases, is shown by the fact that the Russian government has ordered 250 liquid fuel locomotives of a special type from a Philadelphia locomotive works. These tractors weigh seven and a half tons each and run on tracks approximately twenty-rive and a half inches wide. These narrow guage tracks can be moved about easily. Popular Mechanics. Value of Advertising. From a capital of $20,000 to $25, 000,000 in 12 years through advertising is the record of a St. Louis corporation. The doubter of the virure of printer's ink properly distributed and of the right quality will find a lot of food for thought in that fact.—St. Louis Star. Buy A Home and Stop Paying Rent See or Call A.I.GORDON, Real Estate Dealer 2363 E. 870h 8C. Pale Faced Women Take Phosphates to Make Rosy Cheeks and Beautiful Forms Men Need Phosphates to Make Strong Healthy, Vigorous Bodies. Athletes increase their strength, energy and endurance 200% or more by simply taking a few weeks treat ment of Argo-Phosphate. The Most Important Autobiography In Years Mr Foraker has given us his experience in the Union Army on the Bench, as Governor of Ohio and in the Senate of the United States. Political and public events of great importance and incidentally many national characters are dealt with in the most enlightening manner. The work will prove of special interest to all students of political history whether they are public officials or only public spirited Americans, interested in the preservation of our institutions. MACHINE KEEPS BOOKS New System Combines Cash and Credit Register. What might be described as an automatic bookkeeper is a new device which combines the cash register, credit register and adding machine in compact form. There is a series of compartments set above the keyboard of the machine, each of which contains a credit customer's account. This part of the device is built on the unit system so that it can be added to as the business expands and new accounts are opened. In a credit transaction the clerk must make a record of certain details by operating the keys before the credit compartment of a customer can be unlocked. When the handle is pulled forward, this compartment is automatically locked, and a complete and permanent record is printed upon the detail strip. Provisions are made by this device to record all credit, cash and supplementary transactions. It is said to simplify and expedite the accounting system of a retailer who does a credit business. The machine contains five totaling devices, steel type, ribbon and detail strip to record all business. Each clerk has a number or initial corresponding to certain keys to identify him in each of his transactions. Customers' credit accounts are also indicated by certain numbered keys; this key number also serves to establish their identity. At the end of the day's business the totals shown on the five totaling devices are transformed automatically to the detail strip and a permanent record is thus obtained of each transaction — Popular Science monthly. Grapes will grow almost anywhere and are sure to bear. Grapes can be trained on trellises close to fences or to outbuildings. Spring is the best time to plant, using either one or two year old vines. Frequent cultivation during summer will improve the fruit. Opera glasses, which reduce instead of magnify have been designed to permit persons in front seats of motion pictures theaters to view the pictures clearly. Buy A Home and See or A.I.GORDON 2363 E. 87th 86. Pale Faced Women Take Rosy Cheeks and Men Need Phosphate Healthy, Vig Athletes increase their strength, and simply taking a few weeks Atlanta, Ga, Dr. F. A. Jacobson say that Phosphates are just as essential to any man or woman who tires easily, is nervous, or irritable, worn out, or looksugard and pale to make a strong, robust, vigorous healthy body, as they are cotton to make it grow. The back of Phosphate is the cause of all enemic conditions and the administration of phosphates causes the growth of a grease the strength and endurance of weak, nervous, care worn men and women 300 per cent in two or three weeks in many instances, and their continued use will build up the whole nervous system and give new life, vim, vigor, and vitality to the whole body. I always prescribe *Argo*-Phosphate to patients who are pale and colossal, and it is surprising to see how quickly a few treatments will transform a pale man into a rosy cheeked, healthy, beautiful woman, without their system is sufficiently supplied with Phosphates. In recent interviews with physicians on the grave and serious consequences of a deficiency of Phosphates in the blood of American men and women. I have strongly emphasized the fact that doctors should prescribe more phosphates in form of Argo-Phosphate for weak men and women, and women can be no rosy cheeked, healthy, beautiful women, without their system is sufficiently supplied with Phosphates. In recent interviews with physicians on the grave and serious consequences of a deficiency of Phosphates in the blood of American men and women. I have strongly emphasized the fact that doctors should prescribe more phosphates in form of Argo-Phosphate for weak men and women, and women can be no rosy cheeked, healthy, beautiful women, without their system is "A Busy By HON. JOSEPH BENSON F The Most Important A Mr Foraker has given us his e on the Bench, as Governor of C United States. Political and public events of PINDS CHILD PLAGUE REMEDY? 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CLUB NOTICE — The Working Men's Social and Literary club meets every Friday evening, for business and gives a dance, every Monday night, at their hall, 3103 Scovill Ave H. P. Williams, pres., 3040 Central Ave. L. V. Orton, sec., 2667 E. 40ft St. Milton Watkins, chairman, 2524 E. 30th St. CLEVELAND Social and Personal The Old Folk's home mortgage burning will be held at Cory M. E. church, Sunday afternoon, Dec. 30. A program will be rendered. Be sure to read carefully Attorney Francis H. Warren's letter, elsewhere in this paper, and call your friends and acquaintances' attention to it. The Crable and Forte criminal cases were continued until next month by Squire Chas. Brenner on the request of their attorney, Monday afternoon. Whether a libelous article is an "advertisement" (paid or otherwise) or not, does not alter or lessen the liability (under the law against libel) of the printer or publisher of it. St. John's Vashti class will meet at Marie de Perkins' "Come out ladies as we want to talk about our Xmas party, Mrs. M. Anderson, pres; Mrs. L. Hamilton, sec. Eta chapter of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority will present Miss Ada Crogman, a graduate of Emerson school of oratory, Boston, and Hawn school of speech and art, N. Y. City, in a dramatic recital at the Y. M. C. A. auditorium, Thursday evening. It has just leaked out that Ralph W. Hawkins, popular local musician, and Mrs. Ina Perkins, a charming young East End widow, "put one over" on their friends by quietly marrying in Columbus, Oct. 22 last. They are at home to their friends at 2307 E. 81st St. Rev. O. W. Childers, St. James A. M. E. church's new pastor, for many years upgrandor of a friend the editor of The Gazette, and one of the most successful of the younger set of ministers in the church, paid "The Old Reliable's" sanctum a pleasant visit. Monday. Mr. Charles Terry, who recently lost his wife, has returned from a trip to Bellaire, his old home, and other points in southern Ohio. He has the earnest sympathy of a host of friends. Mrs. Terry was ill for months prior to her death. Mr. Terry's aunt came from Bellaire, some weeks before his wife's demise, to attend her. Postmaster Murphy has asked Geo. W. Johnson to assist as a substitute clerk at the central post office during the holidays owing to the great lack of help incident to the draft and other war demands. He has started working on "a night shift." Good for George. Keep it up. "old man." The real swell holiday ball will be given at Barksdale's Dancing Academy, 10550 Euclid Ave., Tuesday (Christmas) evening. The floor, music and hall are the finest in the city available for our people and Mr. Barksdale, the dancing master, understands his profession thorny. He is familiar with theatrical art, instructing his patrons, all who may desire his assistance. Do not miss this Christmas evening dance.—Ady. Mrs. Nettie Ricks Demby's husband has been elected a suffragan bishop of the Protestant Episcopal church for the "southwestern province" and her hosts of old friends in this city, her old home, will be greatly pleased to learn this. When she married "Father" Demby she was not only one of our prettiest and "first girls", as our beloved Ernest Orsburn (deceased), used to say and write, but one of our very best friends in this issue of The Gazette. "Father" Demby for several years has been in charge of the Hoffman-St. Mary's Industrial Institute and other church work in and near Keeling, Tenn. Congratulations, Dr. and Mrs. Demby, long-time friends. Rev. J. L. Thompson, P. E., held quarterly meeting, Sunday, at Lane Memorial C. M. E. church. His attention was called to the testimony of its pastor (Bayliss) before the Cuyahoga County Liquor License Commission, on Nov. 16, 1917, in which he admitted having accepted ten dollars from a saloon-keeper after having signed a petition and protest to the commission against the renewal of the saloon-keeper's license. In the report submitted to the P. E. and the church, it appears that $565 was raised for the church building fund in 1916 and banked. In 1917, $192 was raised. Clubs now have $86 for the fund. Officers of the church had borrowed $300 from the bank securing this loan with the deposit, and using $100 of it to pay on pastor's salary; the remainder of the $300 being used for other purposes. For years our progressive people of Cleveland have longed for nice quarters, which to hold social gathings of a public nature would be a pleasure. Through the efforts of one of our young men Charles E. Barksdale Our young men, Charles L. Burns, THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, OHIO, DECEMBER 22, 1911 ette MILLER'S one of the best places in the city has been leased and is open to our people. Mr. Barksdale is conducting a dancing school in his new place, at 10650 Eacilid Aye., every Thursday evening. The high moral tone of this school merits the patronage of our race who enjoy clean dancing and good association. Mr. Barksdale teaches one of the new dances every Thursday evening and also demonstrates new positions and styles of dancing. The ball room may be rented for private parties and private lessons may be arranged for by special appointment. Remember that on New Year's night the "Jazz" will be taught.—Adv. A Welfare association was organized, last week Friday, at a meeting at the City Club, held with officers and members of the Cleveland Welfare Federation. Its purpose is to work for improved conditions and to advance our social and educational conditions. These problems have been presented by the large increase in our population in the last two years. The association is to be incorporated. Welcome T. Blue is president of the trustees. H. L. Geddis of the Cleveland Welfare Federation staff is treasurer. Commons New York. Afro-American welfare worker. Secretary beginning Jan. 1, Paul L. Leiss, James D. Williamson, Sherman C. Kingsley and Allen T. Burns are on the list of assisting officers of the association. Within the year, several organizations have been started, ostensibly with the same object in view. We hope this one will accomplish material results and soon. A female member of the Salvation Army came into The Gazette office, Tuesday, soliciting Christmas funds for that organization. We asked her what about the color-line in that organization's "hotel" in E, 9th St., and when she began trying to justify it we asked her also if there was any Christianity in that sort of misreatment and what about its violation of "the fatherhood of God and brotherhood of man" principle that Christians should recognize above all others. She placed the blame for the insulting and harmful discrimination on the officers of the Army in charge of the "hotel" and again undertook to justify it in the usual way but of course, failed, and dismally, too. There was no contribution for her, she was told in a way that we trust impressed her properly and hone will be productive of some good along a Christian line. Since the fight (?) for the appointment of Attorney Roy Cheeks as a police prosecutor, early last year, and Mayor Davis' refusal, at the time, to even see Rev. Elam A. White, then pastor of M.C. E. church, and his delegation of members of the race who wanted to talk with him about the appointment of Cheeks, the place has been vacant several times, Marco, Irvine, Kohen and now Beckerman (one Italian, an American and two Jews) filling it, the last named having been appointed to the position but a few days ago. Why is it that no Afro-American was appointed to fill the place (or any other of any consequence, for that matter), and why is it that the Afro-American member of the committee have not made any effort to get it during the past two years? These two questions are pertinent and ought to be frequently asked. Meantime, do not forget how the Maschke-Davis faction "double-crossed" Alexander H. Martin, E. martin, and the people in the recent campaign. These things should not be forgotten for a single moment. A dispute over a dice game sent one day to Charity hospital, early last week Thursday, and another to the E. 1950 Central Ave., and Thomas the participants. Harris is held on a charge of murder was placed against - Robert Saunders, 2492 E. 37th St., following the death of James Washington at early last week Thursday. Police say Saunders shot Washington, a boarder at his home, during a quarrel, last week Tuesday. Heavy sentences were dealt out to gun-towers, last Saturday, Collins, 2418 E. 49th St., was finished 550 and costs for carrying a revolver concealed in her blouse. Mrs. Rebecca Shinnich, 1911 Scoville Ave., was in Charity hospital, Monday, with scalp wounds suffered when attacked by a Negro in the areaway beside her home, earlier in the day. The man, armed with a club, attempted to snatch her purse and struck her several times to silence her screams. These things, especially acts like the last one mentioned, are what will cause a wild mob to surge up Central Ave., some of these days and sooner than we expect, too. BEST FOR THE BLOOD — Puro Herbs. Sold only at Brown Drug Co., cor E. 28th St. and Central Ave.—Adv. You should take PURO HERBS, the great blood purifier and system cleanser. On sale only at the Brown Drug Co., 2742 Central Ave., cor E. 28th St.—Adv. "The Rose and the Star," a beautiful sacred Christmas cantata, will be given at the church, Tuesday, 8 p.m., by the Sunday School of Antioch Baptist church. Do not fail to hear it. —Adv. A fellow who tries to do business without advertising is like the fellow who throws his sweetheart a silent kiss in the dark; he knows what he is doing—but nobody else does.—William Jennings Bryan. Whenever that malicious lie—that the editor of The Gazette, received 5500, or any other sum, from a demagogue to defeat a Republican candidate or office at the recent election, or any other—is repeated in your presence, frankly tell the person "hawking" the lie that they are slandering the editor and had better not let the act get to him or there will be some more arrests and punishment in the courts. Please repeat the foregoing PROTEST AGAINST WRONG. To submit in silence when we should protest makes eagards out of men. The human race has climbed on Protest. Had no voice been raised against injustice, ignorance and lust, the inquisition ret would serve the law, and the justice would be least disputes. The few who do must speak and speak again to right the wrongs of many.—Ella Wheeler Wilcox. HERE'S TIP HOW TO DRESS BABY EVERYTHING EXPLAINED FROM KIND OF GARMENTS TO USE OF SAFETY PINS. Wrap Him Up Like Loaf of Bread, One Valuable Hint. It very often happens that the father is called upon to dress the baby. Sometimes he responds. In such cases it is as well to know the ground plan of "the little stranger" and the combinations whereby the various articles of clothing are made to adhere. In the first place, there is the basic upper garment, or "band." This is slipped on over the head like a shirt. In order to accomplish this hold the child between the knees (your knees), wad the band up so that the hole for the neck is on top. Then quickly slip it over the baby's head. You will then find that it is the arm-hole through which the head has been inserted which is obviously wrong. Take it off and try it again. This time it will be the other arm-hole that is the lucky aperture. This leaves only one other chance, and you can easily make it three. Inserting the arms in the arm-holes is more difficult than inserting the head in the arm-holes, but if you can do it without causing the baby to choke you may count yourself lucky. Then pull the band down singly in front and back and attach it to—well, if you started from scratch there isn't anything to attach it to yet. This leads us to the basic undergarment. You will find these in a pile on top of the baby's basket. Select one, and, taking it by the upper corners with the thumbs and four fingers, fold it into the approximate shape of a triangle. This will not look right. In fact, it will not be right. The next thing to do is to unfold it, and refold it into the approximate shape of a paper soldier's hat. This will look even worse. You may then fold it into any shape that strikes your fancy. They will all be wrong. Then take the cloth and spread it out on the bed. Pull the baby from the laundry hamper into which he has fallen in the moment and lay him on the cloth, about in the middle. Wrap him up in it like a leaf of bread. When all the cloth has been used up and the ends tacked in look for the safety pins. You will see them on the table across the room. Insert them at random, pinning the child to the bedspread. This will hold him safe until you can get his mother. NOSE IS SAFEGUARD TO ESCAPE DISEASE Offensive Odors Serve as Warning That Danger Lurks Near. Even a bad odor has its uses. Scientists say that the offensive smell which comes from decaying and disease-breeding matter is in reality one of nature's measures of preparedness and of prevention. Offensive odors indirectly prevent the spread of epidemics by calling attention to the breeding place of the disease. They give warning that something is wrong, and they persist in this warning by becoming more and more offensive until the wrong is righted. The odor does not convey the germ or communicate the disease, because in most cases direct contact is necessary to do this, or the infection is communicated by some substance taken into, or brought in contact with the body. But it does tell where the disease exists or is likely to exist. It also gives warning of tainted or unfit food, as the nose is attended by nature to be one of man's chief allies in his fight for health. The nose is not placed above the mouth by accident. It was designed is primitive man as a guidepost for the stomach, and it still a good guide. SAYS SHARK MEAT IS IDELICIOUS Expert Asserts Prejudice Alone Prevents Use as Food. The merits of sharks as food are set forth in a report to the American Museum of Natural History by John T. Nichols, who has just returned from a study of the big fish in Florida waters. His conclusions are that some varieties furnish fillets as delicious as swordfish steak. He declared the reason they are not favored as food fishseems to be due entirely to prejudice. Mr. Nichols said he had found during his investigations that there were fewer large sharks in Florida waters than for many years. CASTOR OIL PROTECTS EYES Every automobile driver has experienced the discomfort of dust in the eyes, and also from the effects of cold winds. A suggestion has been made that these discomforts may be greatly alleviated by applying castor oil along the eyelashes. This, it is claimed, will catch most of the dust before it can enter the eye, and also it protects the eyes from the chilling effects of the wind. "An Eye for an Eye." "Lex taliison" means "the law of retaliation. 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