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Dancing Every Thursday Evening at Barksdale's Academy, THIRTY-FIFTH YEAR. No. 26 FRESH OHIO NEWS Written by 'The Old Reliable' Gazette's Correspondents Throughout the State What Our People Are Doing Each Week—Church, Personal, Social, Lodge, Literary and Musical—Marriages, Deaths, Eto. FILL THIS OUT AND SEND IT IN UNION IS STRENGTH THIRTY-FIFTH YEAR. N FRESH O Written by 'The Old Reliab Throughout What Our People Are De Personal, Social, Loca cal—Marriage CADIZ—Mrs. Joanie Davis and Mrs. Olive Lucas are sick—Sick. Chas. Bundy, P. E, held quarterly conference, Tuesday evening—Mr. Frank West's infant son buried, Sunday afternoon—Revival services will begin early in March, at the A. M. E. church. John Miller is seriously ill.—Rev. J. D. Singleton, former local pastor, superannuated, has located at Delaware. The Circle leaders are preparing entertainments to begin in a few weeks. GREENFIELD—Mrs. Anna Brown, a Baptist S. t. teacher, is very ill. Her speedy recovery is hoped for.—Esther and Leroy Seldon entertained Sunday, with music and light refreshments. The church was full of visitors, Sunday evening, to hear the program. It was a wonderful sold-out show to run away snakes. Odd and strange things are happening this winter. The weather has been making bodies for small-snow-men.—Miss Josephine Reins seriously fractured her shoulder when she fell into the cellar. We hope she will recover soon. ST. CLAIRSVILLE—Rev. C. W. Greene returned from Michigan, last week. Mrs. Greene and little son, Lawrence, are ill—Miss Vlena Stewart of Flushing visited Mrs. J. C. Stewart, last week—Mrs. Frank Johnson was called to Indian Rock, Va., by her illness—Mr. Bonnie Jordan continues quite ill—Mrs. John McAllister and Mrs. Gaines of Wheeling visited here, last week. Please pay for your copy of The Gazette when it is delivered and oblige greatly, the local agent. Tell your friends to take the paper also and get the race news. SANDUSKY—Mrs. Sloan Jones died, Saturday, 6 a.m., at Good Samaritan hospital. Mr. S. Wallace has had another "back-set" and is quite Mr. Charlow. Jones is suffering from a broken arm. Monday we could not get to the grave yard with the dead. Some of the churches are partly closed on account of the weak gas pressure. Their survey of the city, to find out how many church goers and non-church goers, is on, as we are preparing for Lent. They is considerable sickness. A. M. Skelton's son is sick. Mr. W. Burns has returned to work after several weeks' illness. 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 names, city names, and other information, 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. YOUNGSTOWN—The interior of Mr. and Mrs. Will Jones' home and their household goods (partly covered by insurance) were bully damaged by fire. Monday. They have the sympathy of many friends—Louisa Edwards court will meet, Feb. 13. Mrs. Addie Burton and Jas. Fagan are better—Logan Lodge will meet, Feb 14, and Buckeye Lodge will meet, Feb 7. J. D. Holmes is improving. The official, even when not present in St. John's lecture room, under the auspices of St. Augustine's Altar Guild, was a success. Miss Davis is an excellent entertainer and gave a fine program, assisted by leading local talent—Paris Hall and Mrs. J. H. Moore are ill—Rev. J. M. Gilmore will lecture in Odd Fellows' hall, Feb. 7. BRIDGEPORT—Mr. John Wright, age 81, one of the most highly esteemed residents of this small town, died at his daughter's in East Liverpool, recently. Mr. Wright was the father of Dr. William H. Wright of N. FILL THIS OUT TO THE PRESIDENT, White House, Washington, D.C. The undersigned respectfully sentence of death imposed upon the marital at Fort Sam Houston, To Name..... Street or Box address..... City or Town..... Date.... THE GAZETTE Baltimore, Md., one of that city's most progressive physicians of the race. Mr. Wright is survived by two sons and one daughter, his wife having died some years ago. Dr. Edward died some years ago. Dr. Edward died in Baltimore, several years ago, was another son. Funeral from the old home in this city. ON BEING BROUGHT FROM AFRICA. By Phillis Wheatley. "Twas merry brought me from...ny Pagan land, Taught my benighted soul to understand That there's a God, that there's a Saviour, too; Once I redemption neither sought nor knew; Some view our sable race with scornful eye, "Their color is a diabolic die." Remember Christians, Negroes, black as Cain, May be refined and join th' angelic train. St. James A. M. E. church, Hudson Ave, was well attended, Sunday. The revival, which continued thru three weeks, enlivened the church and benefited in many ways. Several were converted and a number added to the membership, "Sister" Johnson, the evangelist, endured herself to the congregation, was evidenced by the spiritual contribution given to her. The church has begun a mission of the East. End to learn how many newcomers and non-church goers are there. An effort will be made to interest them in some church. The Sunday school is growing in numbers and interest, also the Allen League. The Adams-Ramey Men's guild, with the S. S. and Allen League, will celebrate "Founders' Day." Sunday, Feb. 10. An excellent program has been arranged. The pastor, Rev. O. W. Childers, has arranged a series of Sunday morning sermons on the subject of prayer; also a series of "special days," to be held at the church. Rev. Jesse Bass of Oxford presided over sermons at Sunday evening services. J. T. Turner, George Edwards and Miss Estella Gainer are slick. The recently elected trustees will be installed, Sunday evening. A junior chair has been organized and tender splendid service. East Mt. Zion Baptist church revival is "in full swing." Rev. I. V. Bryant is proving an exceptionally able assistant, preaching some "powerful" seismics. Sunday afternoon 20 of our soldier boys went forward for prayer. Monday evening, ten joined the church, four professing religion. Tuesday evening, 18 went, forward and 20 joined the church. Never in its history has there been such an outburst of the Holy Spirit; the pastor, Rev. B. K. Smith, and the members of "East Mt. Zion," are looking for even greater results, especially since Dr. Bryant has agreed to remain next week; or as long as he is needed. Robert Fippin has been appointed storekeeper for all Pullman equipment in the Big Four, Pennsylvania, Nickel Plate and B; & O. yards. The appointment came from the general office in Chicago through recommendation of J. E. Hill, district superintendent; was recently made assistant foreman mechanic in the Pennsylvania yards. Andrew Jackson is foreman of the night car cleaning force. Harry E. Thompson, Cleveland's favorite baritone, is filling a temporary engagement with J. A. Myers' Fisk Jubilee Singers. His wife, Mrs. Grace Willi. Thompson, soprano and teacher of voice, is directing Cory choir until Mr. Thompson's return. Both are popular. Charles J. Crawford and Mrs. Essie Yankee are quietly married, Monday, by Squire Gurney of the Engineers' Bldg. Both have been married before. Vivian Smith. the fourth girl in that family to do so, graduated from Central high school, last week Thursday, and will also attend normal school. CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1918 BITE FATAL TO GIRL PREACHER SOUGHT TO SHOW SNAKE WOULD NOT HARM THE PURE. With Coils Wrapped Around Her Rattler Sank Its Fangs Into Her Arm. SARASOTA, Ela. — Mary Murray, 18 years old girl preacher of a mysterious cult which is strong near here, is dead here, a victim to her belief in her own saintification, a sancification which she believed made her immune from even the deadly bite of a rattlesnake. Mary Murray, bright eyed, attractive and eloquent, had chosen as her subject "Sanification." She proposed, she told her congregation, to demonstrate most forcibly and fully how one who had attained the state of holiness and purity was immune from evil. Her own person would furnish the object lesson. No harm could reach her, she said, no sin contaminate, no evil assault. A great box was brought forward to the edge of the pulpit. From it the girl produced a monster rattlesnake and calmly proceeded to wrap its deadly folds three around her body and shaped neck. The congregation shivered. The huge snake seemed charmed nor made an effort to strike the step of a young woman, who handled him as she might the most innocent pet. A little later Bob Mixon, a Holy Body for exhorter, brother in law to Mr. Murray, caged before the sword throne, and went then somewhat the same performance, only he handled the serpent more gingerly, and only lightly led it about his shoulders, where his clothing was thickest. Fascinated, the crowd in its excitement called loudly for the, the preacher again. They would once more, the Miss Murray handle the mound, to be forever convinced of her perfect sanctification! Blated by her former sincerity, the girl caught up the reptile and wound it about her throat. "He will not strike pre" she cried. "Even the Arch-Fail does not as one whose heart is pure." And even should the snake strike me, it bit could in no wise harm me." But the high rattle drew teeth, and darted at the girl's left arm. The cremation gag, bumbed with horror. Mary, Murray quietly put the scorpent back in the hay. "The bite will do me no harm," she said. "Do not think of it again. The moving services are now over, and you may dispense for your dinner." Refusing all medical attention, the girl went about as if nothing had happened. in an hour she had to acknowledge great pain, which deepened into agony. At 5 o'clock she died in horrible convulsions, and next day they buried her in the little home cemetery at Elleton, on the Manatee River. The snake had been captured in the nearby woods only a week before, by boys, while out hunting. WRATHFUL MULE "TREES" BOOK AGENT Calf Eats Up Outfit While Long cared Guardian Patrols Orchard Prison. WHEATVILLE, N. Y. --- Late Tart, a farmer living near here, has a mule and a calf. The mule has shown affection for the calf and is acting as its guardian. Every morning Mr. Tart leads the calf to the orchard, followed by the mule, where they feed during the day. The other day Mr. Tart released the calf and went to a nearby field to work. About 11 o'clock he heard someone calling him. He looked toward the orchard and saw the mule standing under an apple tree and a man sitting on a limb of the tree fifteen feet from the ground. Mr. Tart went to the tree and learned that the man was a book agent, who informed him that he saw Mr. Tart in the field and started the orchard to 'interview him, that he stopped to pet the calf and while stroking its head heard a terrible braying. He looked up and saw the male ten rods away coming toward him with ears laid back and mouth wide open. The agent said he had no time to lose so he dropped his canvassing outfit and climbed a tree a few feet away. He stated that he had been in that tree an hour and had called many times without attracting Mr. Tart's attention. Mr. Tart led the calf to the barn and the male followed it. The agent left the tree and discovered that the calf had chewed his canvassing outfit so that is was ruined. Mr. Tart has posted notices in the orchard warning people to beware of the mule. MRS. MARY E. TALBERT The homestead of the Hon. Frederick Doughard in Amnesia, D. C., has been reopened. In less than one year the president of the National Association of our Women, M. Mary B. Talbert, of Bristol, N. Y., has been enabled to join the stock wiping out the indole ores on the Marsh Hill. An effort was made by the 2660 a year earlier to the Cure in its February issue, to obtain a little credit for this good work for the N. A. C. P. Not a dollar has come from "white people. Eventually, the N. A. of C. W. will preside to the original beauty and the pot, and the oven will work weeks and ten. In a poor country, the bread will be made of the bread matters of the organization, and everything pertaining to the city of the Americas can be offered and the w A. B. DR. W. F. B. DUPONS The Nodule, Lepidostome and Lusell- tich C1 Edition of The In that I deliberately gave written a brief explanation of my life to those who were interested in them. In "Storm Eye" "I am the one who is to tell you my biography, my career, my personality about my life, my life to my young years. I find it growing tiring to tell the important stories with my children, to tell them about their adventures to complete, and to tell them about their life in prison. In this time I have been most deeply interested that. I can give you more than I can know about my simple life. I am a birthday boy." REV. CARL W. HASKELLS New Year's Message to the Christians Particularly to Cleveland, O. Columbus, O. June 3, 1915. Henry H. C. Smith. Edgar Gazette. School of Ohio. Learn Mr. Smith: The Gazette is very much appreciated. You certainly are in love, some time with those Cleveland progenies. I glory in your pupil to defend yourself and the Christian ministry, from approach. You can be depended on to "clarify the atmosphere." All Christians should give power to their moral support but their financial support. One thing that I would place in every Newer's hand, with the bible, is "The (4th Ed.) Gazette, which I shall always do in whatever degree the opportunity affords." Wishing you a prosperous and happy New Year, I am. Yours for the race. CARE W. HASKELL. The East End Social club will give a grand masquerade at Barkside Dancing Academy, Thursday evening, Feb. 1. Be sure to attend and have a good time. The dome hall is the art gallery and the auditorium is able to our people, and Mr. Barkside a real dancemaster and director. The K. E. Social club committee of arrangements, in charge of the Feb. 14 masquerade consist of Misses Helen Yates, Lutes, Cleague, Mrs. Sarah Holloway; Messrs. Richard Chlege, Eugene Wilkins and Fred Berry... Ada. Charles Huff is in receipt of an interesting censored letter from his brother, William Henry, Company H. 302d Steveodert Regiment, dated "American Expeditionary Forces, Somewhere France," Dec. 25, 1917. Mrs. Chlege, Class A, teacher, Mrs. Frances Hampton, teacher, elected the following named officers, recently: Mine, Kibby-Nedel press; Mrs. Mine, Hawkins, vice press; Mrs. Essie Kidgely, fin press; Mrs. Pearl Myers, ree, sec; Mrs. Margaret Gales, treas. 10550 EUCLID AVENUE CENTURY OLD OAK ONCE WAS GIBBET HORSE THIEVES DANGLED FROM ITS STURDY LIMBS. Spreading Branches of the 'Aged St. Paul Landmark Often Sheltered Indian Camps. ST. PAUL, Minn. - For a century or more an ancient Jark oak tree has raised its cane head, and bade defense to wattle and weather. It has witnessed the coming of the white man, the passing of the nomadic red man, the extinction of the great herds of buffalo and the conquest of the wilderness, and it remains, not a painful wreck of what it once was, but sheer, storying in its vigor. Almost within the shadow of the great cathedral it stands, before a flat at 223 Bayton avenue, spreading its great army star, and making of its shade a horizon, for which passbyer, who have no idea of its interesting history, are exceedingly grateful. Long, before Bayton avenue, was even a trail, the tree gave shelter to hands of painted Sloux on their visit to the great mounds where they held their councils, save their sacrificial dances and buried their dead. They tread under the huge tree, even again, and drew water from a spring near at hand now destroyed. When civilization came and built, it created, sewers dug or street laid, many interesting roles, beads, wampan, arrowheads, earlinen pearls, copper gorges, elk and bear teeth, quant bits of pottery and half charred bones of animals were found. All the land in that vicinity was part of the farm of C, K. Belt. The homestead stood under the friendly arms of the grand old tree. The only land still remaining in the family is the lot on which the modern flat building stands, which replaced the old home and the little lawn in front which the tree still claims for its own. When the flat building was erected the limbs of the north side had to be cut off. It is said that Mr. Belt stood by and quivered with each stroke of the axe so the each blow was penetrating the flesh instead of innumerable good. When the old trail broadened into a highway and shone canes were wading by, the wheels would oftimes move the side of the old tree until a deep path was worn on the southern exposure. Nature, the great physician has held the wound to that part has not the symmetry an ordinary tree Once the tree lore bitter fruit longs before the homestead was cre erated some men were captured in the net of stealing horses. The "country seat was many miles away in what is now the State of Wisconsin. There was a hasty informal trial under the old tree and when morning dawned two bodies swung over the huge fimb that now stretches so protectingly over the north side walk. It was days before he was one had the hardship or the intention to cut their down. The old tree exists, not a relic, a shadow of its former self, but erect, violent, with no indication of decay or disease and blids fair to live for fruits or necessities to come. WIND DISOBEYS Ignores Court's Order and Blows Down Big Trees. OXNARD, Cal. It remained for the wind to disobey an injection of the Superior Court by blowing down two immense black walnut trees in the center of Fifth Street. The trees were part of two rows a half block long, which the city had for more than a year been trying to remove by legal processes. Mrs. Aranetta Hill, who owned much of the land on which Oxnard is located, had the trees planted on her ranch many years ago, from nuts obtained from her home place in the East. When the land on which they stood was needed for a continuation of Oxnard's main street she deed it to the supervisors with certain provisions restraining the cutting down of the trees. Just now binding these restrictions are the courts have been endeavoring to decide for more than a year. In the meantime, disregarding the temporary restraining order in effect during the litigation, a sudden and robust windstorm took matters in its own control as regarded two of the trees. HE EATS THIRTY BANANAS Then Prepares to Consume a Regular Meal BELLINGHAM, Wash.—John Frye, a woodman, has not heard of the Howeer food conservation plans. He ate thirty bananas and then went to a restaurant where he ordered a double portion of hambut, a steak, and all the extras. He says it is nothing for him to eat a dozen pies at one sitting. THE NORTH TIRING OF SOUTHERN DOMINATION Makes Prediction that "Chickens Will Come Home to Roost" The South Is Warned Mistreatment of Negro for Forty Years The South Has Robbed the Negro of the Right of Ballot, Etc. U. S. Constitution Regarded Merely as a Scrap of Paper by Southerners: Declaring that both northern Demo- United States, and practically all of crates and Republicans find southern, the southern legislatures are expected domination at Washington, D. C., dis- to ratify it. Declaring that both northern Democrats and Republicans find southern domination at Washington, D. C., disagreeable, and confessing that, the amplification of provisions in the Constitution, of the [U. S. and the fifteenth amendment, relative to giving the Negro the right to vote in the south, has been made possible, for many years due to the help given the south by northern democrats, the New York World, in its issue of December 23, 17, published an editorial which is generally regarded as the bitterest attack against disgrieve conditions existing in the "south that has been published by an influential daily for many a day, under the heading: "Democracy Retrayted by the South," the World Says: "Section 2 of Article XIV of the Constitution of the United States provides that: "Apparitions shall be apportioned among the several states according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each state, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote is constitutionally elected for President and Vice-President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a state or the members of the Legislature thereof be denied to any of the male inhabitants of such state, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such state. "This provision of the Constitution, together with the Fifteenth Amendment, declaring that the right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied and the penalties provided by the Constitution have never been enforced. No southern state has suffered a suffrage in the proportion through its reapportionment to vote, although the provision of the Constitution is mandatory upon Congress." "The over-representation which the south has held for more than a generation it owes to the northern Democrats who have protected the southern states from a punishment which Democrats in general have deceived a gross infringement upon the sovereign right of the people and its own affairs. But the southern states are now preparing to sequestrate in such infringement and to nullify the principle of local self government to which the Democratic party has emotionally adhered since the time of Jefferson. Their senators and representatives in Congress, have already forged such nullification in the recognition of the several states the prohibition amendment to the Constitution of the (Original Poem) It is not so much what you say. As the manner in which you say it; It is not so much the language you use. As the tone in which you convey it. The word may be mild and fair, And the tone may pierce like a dart. The word may be soft as the sum- mer air. And the tone may break the heart. Whether you know it or not, Whether you mean or care, Gentleness, kindness, love and hate, Envy and anger are there. Then would quarrel avoid; And in peace and love rejoice. Keep anger not only out of your words. worries But Kaitlin out of your voice. Miss Eileen Green, Coffeeface, Miss. —Philadelphia (Pa.) Christian Recorder. Illinois 175, Texas. 9. Alabama 3, Louisiana 6, Georgia 7, Arkansas 3, Tennessee 4, Oklahoma 2, Pennsylvania 3, Florida 2, Kentucky 2, Mississippi 1, West Virginia 1, South Carolina 1, Virginia 2, Wyoming 1; total, 222. This is the 1917 record. Dr. J. F. Suggs, formerly of Florence, Ala., has received a certificate from the State Board of Medical Examiners and will locate here to practice. Mrs. Suggs is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Shook. Dr. Suggs is a member of the Army Medical Reserve Corps. IN UNION FOR IS STRONG SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS TIRING OF BURN DOMINATION on that "Chickens Home to Roost" Mistreatment of Negro for th Has Robbed the Negro of Etc. U. S. Constitution rely as a Scrap of Southerners: United States, and practically all of the southern legislatures are expected this to ratify it. Without the votes of the southern senators and representatives this resi- solution could not have been submitted, without the votes of the southern legislatures the amendment cannot be adopted. Non-wide prohibition. If the law will be imposed by state, which have turned their backs squarely upon their ancient principles of government as the Russian Bolsheviks have turned their backs upon the obli- gence of democracy. "When that day arrives the south can expect no more help from northern Democrats in resisting the enforcement of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. The cry, No Force Bill! No Negro domination! will fall upon deaf ears. If the south is determined to have a centralized government that regulates the personal habits of the American people, it must accept a centralized government that regulates Negro franchise and all that pertains thereto. "Before many years have passed the inevitable swing of the political pendulum will bring about a Republican Congress—a Congress that is Republican both in the House and the Senate. When that Congress convenes it is certain that another attempt will be made to reduce the representation of the south. Southern domination of the present Congress has not been agreeable to anybody in the north, Democrat or Republican. Men like Cinder Kittin have been treating the country of the country like a contemptuous province, imposing outrageous burdens of taxation and giving as little as possible in return. The price of defeat for the northern farmer is fixed by the process of law, but the southern farmer is allowed to charge for his cotton all that the traffic will bear and is demanding more. All those chickens will come home to roost some day." "Nobody can object to the southern states imposing the most drastic prohibitory laws upon themselves, but when they undertake to rule New York and Pennsylvania and Massachusetts and say what the people of those states may eat and drink, then the southern Democrats have again cut themselves off from the body of the people they did in 1860 when they demanded that the northern democracy must objectly surrender to their views on the institution of human slavery. Northern Democrats will no sooner think of surrendering on the issue of personal liberty than on the issue of slavery. "If the south is determined to go ahead with this insensitive policy—if this new sectionalism of prohibition is to be imposed upon northern and eastern states by the south and west, this new sectionalism of prohibition again taken themselves out of the Democratic party and must abide by the consequences, whatever these may be." Chambersburg, Pa.-Frederick Baltimore, 205, West St., a brother of Corporal Charles W. Baltimore, who was one of the thirteen soldiers of the Twenty-fourth Infantry executed in Texas for complicity in the Houston riot, has a letter which he received from Corporal Baltimore a few days before he went to his death. The Letter, mailed at San Antonio, Texas, on the same day it was written—Dec. 10, 1917, reads: Fort Sam Houston, Texas. December 10, 1917. Dear Brother: I write you for the last time in this world. I am to be executed tomorrow morning. I know this is is shocking to me, but to touch as it is God's will. Meet me in heaven. I was convicted at the general court-martial held here last month; was tried for mutiny and murder! It is true I went downtown with the men that marched out to camp. But I am innocent of shedding any blood. But it is God's will; so don't worry. "For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son, that who-sover-believe in Him shall not perish, but have everlasting life." I am going to meet father and mother and all the rest of the family gone before. Goodbye; meet me in heaven. Goodbye; meet me in heaven. Ralph W. Hawkins, musician, recently returned from a month's tour through Michigan, Indiana and Ohio, with the Parker Players. The GAZETTE PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY SUBSCRIPTION KATES * © im Advance) tome HORE Sines cep ene SLB WHE MONI es sence... 100 TEMFCG-MONUS™s..eeeeeceseeeees OU Subseribors are requested to remit py postoRice money order or reg istered letter Entered at the postoiiice in Cleve land, Ohio, as second-class mail matter. Address all communications to HARRY €. SMITH Balitor and proprietor, THE GAZETTE, Blackstone Building, Cleveland, 0. Member Ohio Legislature: 1894 to 1896; 1896 (0 1893; 1900 to 1902 THE GAZETTE ts the oldest, and has the largest bona fide circulation, Aouble that of any newspaper in the interest of Afro-Americans, publish ed in the state of Ohio, and compar- ison with any will immediately es- tablish its rank as one of the NEWS- JEST AND BEST in the country. 10,000,000 Afro-Amerteans. 300,000 in Ohio. 25,000 In Cleveland. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY, 2, 1918 pa ete a Sime Tg eee PREJUDICE 4 ; “Any prejudice whatever will 3 < be, insurmountable if those who 3 3 do not share im it themselves 4 % truckle to it and flatter it and ¢ $ accopt it is: a law of nature."— 3 3 John Stuart Mill. 3 : 3 deceessecsecciessesoeecse: sroreeteresssresereeeesees PARE TO DO YOUR DUTY 3 —— 3 “Let us have faith that right 3 makes might, and in. that 3 faith let us-to the end dare to: do our duty as we under- } stand ft.’—Abraham Lincoln. 3 eee eee! Representative Carter, an Oklaho- ma Democrat, tried to dump Prof. Harry ‘Garfield, national fuel admin- istrator, with this question: “Isn't Garfield a Republican?” And’ Congressman “Nick” Long- worth, of Cincinnati, shut him up with just seven words: “He worked ear- nestly for Wilson last campaign.” And he might have added that State Fuel Commissioner Johnson, of Cleveland, was another Wilson Republican. Arrangements for\the early trans- portation of 50,000 common laborers to this country from Porto Rico are being made by the employment ser- vice of the Department of Labor. As soon as tonnage is available 60,000 others will be brought from Porto Rico and the Virgin Islands (St. ‘Thomas and others), sufficient, the department has announced, to take care of any shortage in the domestic supply of railroad and agricultural workers. The Afro-Americans, who emigrated to the North in the last year and a half, caused the “shortage in the domestic supply of agricultur- al workers.” The South is “in the saddle” alright, at Washington, D. C. ie “4 RAY OF SUNSHINE” The New York World is angry at the “Solid South.” It is not angry at the South because it is an organized conspiracy for government spoils. It is not-angry at the South because it has ensérfed many millions of humar beings. It is not angry at the South because it has blithely crucified north- ern business whenever the spirit mov- ed it, It has seen it doing these things over many years. During these years it never once’ lifted up its voice against the practices of the South. Now it is breathing vengeance, retri- bution “and justice upon the South. ‘The cause for this breathing of an- athema on the part of the World is that the southern senators and rep- resentatives voted to fasten prohibi- tion and.woman suffrage on their fel- low Demoerats in the North. ‘The World, on behal® of the northern Democrats, resent this, and promises the South in return that Afro-Amer- icans in that section of the country shall also be given the right to vote. And it wants to know how the South will like’that! When the professional southern Democracy and the profes- sional northern Democracy fall out, it looks like ‘there might be a chance for this long-suffering race. of ours in the South, getting justice done it. WAR RISK INSURANCE. Washington, D. C.—To safeguard America’s gallant soldiers and sailors and their families, it is imperative that our fighting, forces avail them- selves of the full privileges conferred by the Military and Naval Insurance ‘Act. For his own benefit and for the benefit of his family, every enliste: man and officer in the Army and Navy should take the full $10,000 of insur- ance. Insurance of almost $4,000,000 000 has already been applied for, but this great total iz only a beginning ‘America's Army and Navy should b 100 per cent insured. The necessity of prompt application can not be em: phasized too strongly. Persons in service before October 15, 1917, must dae or before February 12, 1918. ose who joined after October 15, 1917, have 120 days from the date of ‘enlistment in which to apply. All ‘that is needed now is vigorous pub- lieity to speed up applications before february 2. Everybody can help ix this, Q pe f ves a 6 Baas WS ays KS Uae S Sacred Z wi BSE L SS a RS Ne SSNS | WS pa es 6 ( lees” 27 | DOINGS BRATS TS for Ww Tae ‘ ENE @ THE PSN < VSN 3 ec nace i pee Owing to war conditions our Odd Fellows B. M. C. will’ meet in 1920 and not next year as planned. N, Y, Afro-Americans disappointed. ESTAS RAO Peay i espnlaiate Louis S. Hicks has been appointed ‘an assistant Corporation Counsel by Acting Corporation Counsel Henies- sey, of Boston, Mass, | Wynston Brown, a graduate of ‘Hughes high school, Cinemnnati, is that ‘city’s first Afro-American sanitary in- ‘speetor in the health department. | Miss Helen L. Milton of Philadel- phia, Pa. has been appointed to a $1000 clerkship in the U.S, Medical Supply Department at Washington, Dc. Bishops of the A. M. E, Chureh, Zion A. M. B. and C. M. E. ‘churches, will meet in Louisville, Ky., in {joint session, Reb. 14, to tty to find a ‘basis on which they can unite. ___ A court martial can not take away ‘that part of a soldier's pay which has ibeen alloted to his dependents... 'This “has just been announced at depart- ment headquarters, San Antonio, Tex. It is said that 2000 Mississivpi Af- ro-Amerieans of the first draft were formed into a stevedore regiment and [sent at onee to France and that their chief employment is the loading and unloading of ocean vessels. In South Carolina, a few weeks ago, a “white” man was sent to jail for ‘thirty days for stealing an auto- mobile, and an Afro-American was sent to jail for three years for steal- ing a bieyele. Southern “justice!” Mrs, Catirie Burton Overton, of Wy- oming, who was refused a pocition in the office of the Council of National Defense, Washington, D. C., has been appointed to a position as’ stenogra- |pher in the Agricultural Department, ‘paying $1000 2 year. |" “Frederick Stock, conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, has an- inounded Henry . Gilbert's “Comedy [Overture on Negro Themes,” and Ot ‘terstrom’s “Negro Suite” among. a lnuinber of American works to be giv- en on the program this year. Dr. E. P. Reed was recently ap- pointed a notary public and magis- trate for the second. district, Center ‘Township, Camden, N. J., comprising the towns of Lawnside, Nunnymeade, Wood Crest and Mt. Ephraim, with main office at White Horse Pike, ard Browning Lane, Lawnside, N. J. ‘The Carnegic Hero fund commis- sion, headquarters at Pittsburg, Pa., has awarded Christopher L. Williams, lof Dayton, a.bronze medal and $500 for saving Marie Mocabee, “white,” age 4, from d@ath in a runaway acei- dent, Aug. 26, 1916. Williams fougint 17 gruelling ‘rounds with “Battling” Nelson in 1902, A Kansas City, Mo., undertaker re- ceived this note and a bank book with $190 made over to him: “Come and take Peter Johnson for your business, please.” Investigating, he found “Peter Johnson” hanging by the neck from a rope, dead, in a room in the year of his cobbler’s shop. Yes, he was a member of the race. Recently at the Church of Engiani Congress at Southampton, Sir Sidney Olivier, who was governor of Jamai- €a from 1907 to the end of 1912, put forward the claim that no solution of the American color question was pos- sible except by a resolute disclaimer of the color line and the race differ- ention theory. Catherine D. Lealtad,-a native of Cleveland, 0., was graduated from MeAlester College, St. Paul, Minn, ‘with first honors in a class of twen- ty-five in 1915, completing her course fa three years. She made the best scholarship record in. the history. of the college and received: the Noyes’ mrize. Afterward she was graduated from the Normal school ‘of St. Paul, and in the fall of 1917, was appointed 2 teacher in one of the schools there. Calling attention to the fact that the N. A. A. C. Ps-printing bill for the Crisis is $18,000 a year and that that amount of money is paid to the white firm in New York city that prints. the magazine, the Baltimore (Md.) Afro-American, which calls. at- tention to the fact that no N.Y. Af- ro-American firm is equipped to print the Crisis, says: ‘In. thet interest of race advancement, the Afro-Amer- ican hopes that the Crisis will speed- ily develop its own plant or else suf- fer the slight ‘neonvenience of corn ing to Philadeiphia, Baltimore or Washington to be printed.” We visited Camp Funston (Kan- sas) the past week and found every- thing moving smoothly in the 92nd Division, of which Major General Bal- jou is in command. ‘The colored sol- diers seem to be in fairly good shape. except they. sxe short of uniforms, ‘and. we think the government should rush up uniforms for these soldiers, as so many are doing guard duty, and we saw men shivering during the recent cold spell because they were 50 poorly clad. We do not see why they have not heen clothed before this time, as most of the white soldiers of the 89th Division are clothed—To- peka.(Kan.) Plaindealer, Jan. 18, "18. Colored men and women, way down in their inmost soul—sometimes not admitted even to themselves—are awaiting the appearance of a real Jeader—not a leader made by the white press, whose policy is a cross between the closed fist and the open hand—not 2 man who rises on the crest of temporary ambition and is then willing, to sell out for a post in Haiti ov the honor of putting his sig- natare on the currency of the'U. S., but a leader who will crystalize the yesentment of twelve million human beings, and organize this resentment into an active “Black Crusade” against the worst caste system the world has ever known.—Louisville (Ky.) News. . i ecar : Opinions. Every man is entitled to “his opin- Jon, but not every man is entitled to tmpose his opinion on his neighbor— Buffalo Times, THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, OH 10, FEBRUARY, 2, 1918 ~ MUNITION WORKERS GET CORDITE HABIT Explosive. Drink is not the only temptation to whicl over strained munition workers are exposed. Quite recently it has Leen discovered that a good deal of the “drunkenness” altributed to wo- men and comparatively young kirls is due to another and hitherto unsuspect- ed cause—the chewing of cordite, the smokeless explosive used in the shell of cannon and the ammunition of small arms, ‘The fact that cordite, has a pleas- ant taste tending to sweetness has been a real discovery to many of the women workers and the primary source of their danger. “1 did not know at all what the stuff was made of," said a woman who had been handling cordite for six months or more. “But one day 1 hap- pened to put a 1ittt® bit of it into my mouth and to begin chewing it. Tt felt nice, ‘Then I began to be a bit lively, I could not understand what the thing meant. After tex I chewed a bit more and it was nice, too. Next day 1 did the same thing, and then I got a fright. I began to feel headachy and —well, drunk, ‘That was the end of its ves, for me it was. Bat my mate, well, she just laughed; but when she took a bit home with her and chewed it.hard she gave us a time and a hail, that she did.” ‘The explanation of all this is, of course, simple ssough. Cordite, when chewed has all the exilarsting ef fects of a highly stimulating druss and cannot be tampered with except st great risk. Its effects on the nervous system are immediate and ultimately deadly. Besides, like all such drues, it has to be taken in increasing quan titles of the exhilaration is 10 be maintained, And herein lies the grea peril of the worker in cordite who forms the chewing habit, i How far the habit bas spread it is difficult to say. Equally difficult is it to ascertain whether the authorities have become alive to the fact that the peril exists. In the north it is under stood that several cases have had to be sharply dealt with, But quite ob- viously there Is need for greater ea tion on the part of workers and strict er supervision on the part of factory managements. ‘The ministry of munitions should nip the evil in the bud if it is not al ready past that stage. On its action much may depend not only for the worker, but for the maintenance of an essential feature of national offic eney. ‘The effect of cordite as an “intox icant” was first discovered during the South African war. Some British sol diers found to their surprise that by eating eordite they could get all the excitement of the most powerful nar- cotit—and all the terrible effects, too. Curdite consists roughly of about _ 58 parts of nitroglycerin, 37 parts gun- cotton and 5 paris of mineral jelly. "Each cartridge contains 60 cylindrical strands of cordit and when Majo: Jennings, D. S. 0., learned that the men were eating these he experiment ed on himself by sucking a strand. Ho found that it tasted sweet, pleasant and pungent, but it resulted in giving him the most racking, splitting head. | ache: and. it lated for thirtesix. hours. Hun Brutality. Stories of German brutality have heen printed with a great deal of prominence all over the country, and yet many do not believe them yet. We urge them to read the following from the lips of a Freneh soldier, invalided home from a German prison camp. It is translated from a Paris paper Lillustration: “Our prison camp at Gustrow wa clean, and that's about all. ‘The Ger mans are very brutal, and if our let- ters to our people would not have been censored many, a pitiful story would have seen daylight. Worst treated among them are the British. One day one of the British Prisoners got round the lack of the cookhouse where the refuse is kept, to fish a piece of bread out of a barrel of seraps that were being sent to the pigs. Up came the chief cook, knock- ed the legs from under the English- man, and while on the ground beat him unmercifully. The poor fellow Gare not defend himself for fear of be- ing punished for insubordination. The food we received here was not only bad, but it was not even enough to keep body and soul together. “When we received Swiss bread or other things from home we gave the black bread to the Russians, or some- times would sell it to the Germans. In many camps the commandants were really good and human, but: unfortu- nately we very seldom came in con- tact with them, and if s0, no notice would be taken of any complaints for generally the German under officer would have the first word, and the matter would end. “But not alone the soldiers, the elv- Sifan population is just as bad. When marching through or working in the streets we have been pelted with stones and mud ‘By men, women and ctisldren under the eyes of the soldiers who guarded and should have prote:t- ed us. There was not one who sympa- thized with us. Tt almost looked a it these people were bereft of all human febling. “Here, before we were released, we had to sizn papers to the effect that our treatment was without reproach. When we reached Switzerland what a wonderful change! It was like comin out of hell into heaven. In Germany we were treated like dogs. ‘The eynt pathetic Swiss people treated us like hhuman beings.” More Useful If Less Poetic. “A poetic contributor recently suly mitted to a northern weekly an efw Subscribe Now ! SORCERY GIVING WAY TO: CiVI- LIZING INFLUENCES. Missionary Tells How King of Fakers Was Made Laughing Stock ‘of dumeites LOS ANGELES, Cal. — The Congo. witeh doctor's sway of life and death over iniilions of African natives by “satanic right” is today toppling We- fore the envoys of civilization and the Gospel. This fs the word recently brought here by Dr. Joseph Clark, noted mis- slonary, who has spent 33 years in the Jungle country, and whose life has. been a magnifictent adventure, “We have always found the witeh doctor our greatest opponent,” said Dr. Clark. “His faculty of condemning men, women ad children to death without compunction; his craft, ahd bis ability to lie, elevated this monster to grin. power for his personal henefit, “The medical and surgical work of the missionary is proving a big {actor in shattering this evil influence. “Sometimes the witeh doctor has been ridicnled into the diseard. “One of the most cmusing agd far- reaching episodes of this nature was a clash between one of our women mis- sionavies and « powertal witch doctor in whieh the lady's Slse teeth won the day for civilization. “The native had been boasting that his powers were far sreater than those of this missionary Iady, and he boldly came into the mission station to make such a statement before her, and in the presence of highly interested Blacks. “she asked him, ‘I presume, since you are so clever, you can remove your teeth?” 53 # ‘No, people cannot move their teeth, he replied. , “She said, ‘Yes some people can, and if you axe so great you ought to be able to move yours.” Again he de- nied that this feat, was possible. “Looking bim in the face she sald: “phis is the way to do it? and with a slight touch of ber tongue spon her upper plate, she caused her false teoth visibly to descend. “the witch doctor seied the edge of a door to support Irimself. “Oh, they moved! ‘They moved!” he cried. ‘Then like, an arrow he “darted past the good Indy and. thru the laughing erowd of natives who understood the secret of the moving teeth, “It can easily be seen why these witch doctors are our greatest ene- mies. It must be remembered that whether we wish It or,tot our texeh ing must enter into very definite op: | position to theirs,” WHIPPING DISCARDED IN DENVER SCHOOLS Shaking and Boxing of Ears Must ‘Also Cease. DENVER, Colo, — "Thou shalt not whip” Is to be the eleventh command ment for Denver school teachers here- after, An order to this effect was iasued by Charles M. Cole, superinten- dent of public schools. It is, in part, as follows “After this dite teachers may not administer corporal punishment to chil- dren without the written consent of the parent or guardian, and then only thra investizution by the principal Corporal punishment shall always be administered in the presence of the principal and one other wimness. “Shaking, boxing of ears, slapping of children are ali considered corporal punishments and will not be tolerated. Compelling children to stand upon the floor oF in ihe hails is not an indiea- tion of good control.” FINDS COSTLY RING IN FISH IRD Sime eave en rea hake oS eee ae Lost. DANVILLE, I. — ‘That truth ts stranger than fiction was demonstrat ed at Hoopeston the other day when Ray Tilton, a young farmer, received a letter from Peoria saying a diamond ying, valued at $250, had been found in the stomach of a fish whieh had been caught in the Ilinois river. When Tilton was at Peoria, and while rowing on the river the ting dropped off his finger. He never ex- pected to soe it again, and was much surprised to receive the letter, ‘The writer said he caught the fish and, while dressing it, saw something bright fal! out of the stomach. ite also said he would be glad to send the ving to Hoopeston if Tilton would send the reward offered in a Peoria news: paper. The owner sent a check for $50 fo the Peoria man. LAZIEST MAN 1S DISCOVERED Makes Phonograph Do Work of whistling for Birds. SAN FRANCISCO, Cal. — F. B. Bat: turs, general passenger agent at San Francisco for the Southern Pacittc has found the laziest man, ‘The “1. m.” lives In New York, where his wife ral ses canary birds. ‘phe wite works all day and far into the night. The husband's duty hither: to has been to sit in an arm chair and whistle to the birds, encouraging them io develop their vocal talents. ‘This finally became too strenuon’ and he now has a phonograph to do bis whistling. Daily Thought, If we are indeed here to complete and perfect our own natures and grow larger, stronger and more sympathet- fe against some nobler career In the foture, we had alt best hestir our- selves to the utmost while we have ee ee ee ee ae eRe ie on oe Tt ea When Business Centers Shift } We are often able to help owners adapt their property to new : conditions. Our knowledge of Real Estate currents, and our varied y experience in Real Estate management have often enabled us to : suggest economical alterations to a buiiding that made it attrac- y tive to g new class of tenants. : x <tr . THE MATHER REALTY CO. : 3955 CENTRAL AVENUE SR LOL MIE De RE OE ITE POCKET IN WALNUT LOG 1S RACER SNAKE'S TOMB Mummy Chamber 20 Years. BRISTOL, Tenn. — Imprisoned in a vacuum in the heart of a walnut log 2 feet in diameter for 15 or 20 years is the most unusual expevience of a black shake of the racer type, accordimg to autheniie information youched for by M. L. Scifers, a milan of Johnson City, Tenn. ‘The diseoyery of this reptile was made when the saw in the veneer plant suddenly uneapped the yacuamn. An ex- amination of the unexpected: chamber in the heart of a sound lox of walnut reveated the oot racer coiled in what had up to that moment been a herme- Mically sealed prison, the ehnmber be- ing as large as a man’s head, The snake, which had probably been dead for many yeers, was still perfect in form and retained its shape uncil lifted from its snus position. “Phig is mot a snake story in the ordinary sense of the ter,” said Seif ers when steked abont it, “It is a fact attested by all employes of our mill ‘he tog, ns nearly as Iam able to tell “came to ua in « shipment from Way: nosville, N.C. from which locality we have recived some exceptionally choiee logs of walnut, ‘The sapyoaition is (hat (he snake elimbed the tree and slid down inty a hole caused by a de cayed lim), How long the reptile may have wed this chamber as a home, ‘one can only imagines but it seems to me natural to presume that by the droppitie of a bit of bark, which dark- ened the sinall opening, the snake found itself iy a prison from which f wan never able to escape. “Death may have followed by suffo cation." Mr, Selfers theorizes. “Na- ture then begnn its process of sealing over the opening with new Tayers of limber, ‘The depth of these Tayers fn Aieates that the sneke may have been imprisoned 20 years, if mot longer, It ‘mummy chamber’ was beautifully. po- lished within, indicating that the snake misht Have traversed its wall for days or weeks before succumbing.” SERRA RORE EES eRe eee | 7 | CENTRAL SHIRT SHOP : ' A RACE ENTERPRISE 1 : G. J. TATE, Proprietor. : 7 GENTS’ FURNISHINGS, NECKWEAR, J Hosiery, Underwear and Arrow Collars and Shitts, Hats, Cap’, ete” ‘ 1 2922 CENTRAL AVE. a | Phone Prospect 441-1. , DANGERS ee RR eS OASAR ewe bt Gea oa oS Me SME . ee j PATRONIZE : . : JOE HEDGES’ POOL ROOM ; 3048 Central Ave. ; * One of the Best in the city. Everybody Wel- : . come! pb sobbed doreeco eb obo ody Seti de ete de older to ete esele nine oa en ns pes eel Buy A Home and Stop Psying Rent See or Call : A, ], GORDON, Real Estate Dealer Wilson’s Poultry Yard 2201 East 33rd St. Chickens, Turkeys & Dueks for Sale Prices Reasonable Cent. 1929-W i aitpiaainkeahinnhed Aa ba ba ep ae ae HIS CORN EXPERIMENT GETS AN EARLY SETBACK Mother Fen Waiks High Wire and Steals for Chicks. ST. ALBANS, Vt-—Maicoim Hersey, who conducts a truck farm near this eliy, heard of a method of preserving ewe! corn by drying it on the cob in lie sunshine, He utrung a itstoot wire Clothesline hetwoen two posts in his buck yard twelve feet from. the svonnd. ‘Two hundred ears of choice sweet com had been fastened to the Hine be: fore it wax hoisted Into postiton, Her: “hey believed the corn was out of the way of birds and that it would not be disturbed: One morning Mersey went to. the book yard to see how the corm was preserving and waa sneprised to find that twenty ears next to the south post had been strénped af their kern lq. Just before dark he went to the hack yard and found the corn gone fram fifteen more ears, Determined to eateh the thief, Hor ny arose Vetere daylight and eon: coated hitnselt in the back vard. At boat 6 o'clock, ho vay, a large Rhode Inland Red hen came to Ure back yard, followed by a seore of her ehickons flow: up to the wire, walked along the Ine until the good ears of corn were reached and began picking the kernels from the cob, Hersey avers that the hen shelled the corn from the ear and that § dropped to the gvound where it was greedily devoured by her chickens. He says hoe watehed the hen until she had sizipped'two ears of the corn from the cob ant then interfered and. drove her and the chickens into the hen- house, wheng they will he kept unti he ean ascertain whether his corn: preserving process is a success oF fall: ee Rosedale 1800 ‘Quality Service SLAUGHTER BROS. Funeral Directors and Embalmers Office and Funeral Parlors Cuyahoga, Cential OFZ. Se Edward Doctor’s Dining Room 3035 Central Avenue Wm. Brack, Prop. 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In a short time one belons- ing (oS. T, Marshall of Temperance, Va., came buazing along. ‘Pho mule stood on her front feet. Maud fashion, and directed a fustlade of vixorous Kicks into the front of the machine, making two large holes in the radiator, In order 10 get home, Mr, Marshall had to have the machine repaired, The mule came off without a serateh. 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Rosedale 1073 W. 2346 E. 65th St. 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, see, 2667 E. 40th St. Milton Watkins, chairman, 2524 E. 30th St. Signor Pureza Rico left the city, Tuesday, for Detroit and the western vaudeville circuit. In the French system there are no inferior peoples.' All the peoples of all the lands where the French flag waves are free, equal, and brothers. They are citizens of the French Republic exactly like all other citizens. — Vicksburg (Miss.) Evening Post. "Jimmy, the sport from Chi." is again making it hard for local "sports." They "touched" him for about $5,000, week before last and early last week, but it was "not for long," it seems. More anon! "Gamblin's goin' again, big." Mrs. Mimie Ball Pierce, of Bridgeson N. J. sister of Mrs. Edina Seelig, who was operated on, last Thursday week, died last week Tuesday. A sister, Mrs. Edna Ball, left this city, last Friday, to attend the funeral. They have the sympathy of the community. Mrs. Seelig was too ill to go. St. John's W. M. M. S. will celebrate Bishop Payne's birthday, Feb. 24, with a special program. On the following (Monday) evening the society, of which Mrs. Marie T. Perkins is president (Mrs. Ella White, honorary president), will hold a banquet celebrating its 25th anniversary. Next meeting of the society at Mrs. Havelow's, Feb. 28. The Gazette acknowledges the receipt of a copy of the twenty-first annual report of the board of trustees of the Agricultural and Mechanical College at Orangeburg, S. C. Proof, R. S. Wilkinson, a graduate of Oberlin College and well and most favorably known in this section of Ohio, is president of this educational institution, one of the best in the South. The Race Co-Operation club, which was organized from Golden Leaf club, Daughters of Sphinx, for the purpose of aid relief work for soldiers and any other charitable work, will meet for knitting on Monday evenings (of each week) at 2352 E. 40th St. Ladies and gentlemen are welcome. A lunch, for three cents, is served, to benefit its treasury. Next Tuesday afternoon, Forte and Crable, who were admitted to $500 bail each, must appear in Squire Chas, Bencner's court in the Superior Bldg., for their long deferred hearing. It is expected that they will be bound over to the probate court where they will be tried by Judge Alexander Hadden on the charge of criminal libel preferred, in December, 1917, by the editor of The Gazette. J. A. Tolbert, a member of the Royal Aviation Corps, headquarters, Hamilton, Ont., Can., and a native of Johannesburg, S. Africa and wife, who is a native of Brazil, are stopping at W. W. Edmondson's, E. 46th St. He was injured in a fall at West Point, N.Y., last year, while demonstrating, and since has spent his time in Canada and this country, recuperating. Having spent much time in England and France also, he has a number of interesting experiences, telling of some of which proved exceedingly interesting, Wednesday afternoon, when he and Mr. Edmondson called on The Gazette, Mr. Tolbert will leave the city, on Feb. 10, for "somewhere in France." The "Smarter Set" at the Prospect theater, has played to capacity houses each evening and at the matinees, thus far this week. This tuneful musical comedy, "My People," is capably written, staged, costumed and acted by our folk. The music, especially, is melodious and of a high order and its faithful interpretation by finished soloists and chorus could hardly be improved upon. Given Ziegfeld's money and his disposition to lavisiness in both scenery and costumes, just double the number of performers, an entre on Broadway and his premier organization before the public would undoubtedly be equaled if not elicited by the excellence of the presentation of "My People" Whitney and Tutt, the "stars" of the company, "made good" and were able assisted by a number of singers and dancers far above the ordinary, Man- ager J. W. Lyons, of the Prospect theater, is to be congratulated on the wisdom displayed in the selection of the "Smarter Set" company for at least one week at his theater. They could "pack it" for two weeks and easily, too. About 300 gathered at St. John's church, Sunday afternoon, to listen to the program prepared for the mass meeting of young people's societies and adopted a motion to perfect a permanent organization. Eugene F. Cheeks of Allen C. E., St. John's church, was chairman, assisted by Charles Lee. The pastor of St. John's delivered the welcome address. Antioch Baptist Y. B. P. U., was represented by John Smith; W. R. McCallister represented St. Paul's A. M. E. Zion; Cory M. E. had Mrs. Wm. Sellers as speaker; St. James, Miss Etta Geller; Lane Memorial, Rev. B. A. Beachman; Second Emmanuel, Miss Smith; St. John's, Robert Crowler the usher; Second Emmanuel, Jas Smith; St. James, John Boggess, Cory, William Sellers; St. Paul's Frederick Crowler; Antioch, Fred Smith. Music by a male quartet from St. John's—Messrs. Crowler Scott, Hicks, and Tabtow; quartette from Second Emmanuel choir; Miss Emma Robinson and William Smith soprano and bass soloists, respectively, from Cory. Prayer was offered by Rev. Brooks, St. Paul's church, C. M. Dabney of Antioch was master of ceremonies. If you owe the Gazette, do not wait for the collector to call on you but come to the office and pay. It is so much pleasant and better. 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ONE OF MOST POWERFUL Considering the fact that a large number of men will soon be going through the motions of the manual of arms and learning how to shoot the Army rifle, I believe that a short talk on the rifle which is in use by the United States government at present may be of interest, writes Alfred P. Lame. The United States rifle, calibre 30, model of 1903, as it is officially designated, is a bolt action repeating rifle. The action is an improved form of the regular Mauser action. It consists of a bolt which contains the firing mechanism and made with a handle at the rear end and locking lugs at the forward end. To work it, lift up on the handle which rotates the bolt and unlocks it, then pull it straight back and empty cartridge will be ejected if you have fired the rifle. Pushing it straight forward carries a new cartridge into the chamber and turning the handle down to its original position seats the locking lugs in their recesses and finishes cocking the firing mechanism. The safety is a thumb piece at the back end of the bolt marked on one side "ready" and on the other "safe." Turning it all the way over so that "safe" appears locks the action, and the mechanism; putting it in a vertical position locks the firing mechanism but permits the action to be worked. This position is useful in unloading the magazine if it is not desired to shoot the cartridges. The sight consists of a folding slide which, when in the upright position, gives sightings for distances up to 2,850 yards. When folded down in the so-called "battle sight" position, it is sighted approximately correct for 510 yards. Practically all military rifles are made with the barrel well covered with wood nearly to the muzzle. This is done to protect it in rough usage and also to protect the hand of the soldier in continued firing, as the barrel gets very hot. Here is a condensed table of interesting facts about our national arm: Length over all, 43 inches. Weight of rifle without bayonet, 834 pounds. Caliber, 30 inch. Length of barrel, 24 inches. Speed of bullet, 2,700 feet per second Maximum range, 4,891 yards Maximum height, 400 yards. The government rile will penetrate over one-half inch of boiler plate at 50 feet and at 100 yards will penetrate 5½ inches of brick wall or over 20 inches of solid oak, and will drive through 10 inches of white pine at 1,000 yards. BRITISH PEERESSES NOW HOUSEMAIDS "By Jove, I never felt more like an ass in my life, old chap." It was an old British colonel speaking to he. He had just returned from a government mission to the colonies, and seated before a great open fire of his London club, he was relating to a crony some of his experiences while away. "It was while I was in Sydney. Knew a chap out there and thought I'd drop in on him. Walked up to the house and rang the bell. Deceased pretty maid answered, and, by Jove, so strong was the force of habit, don't you know, I up and kissed her before I realized she was my own niece." And don't think for a minute that the old colonel's experience was unique, except in a few minor details. Others may not have developed such osculatory habits, but many an officer has come back from the front and found his women folk working as domesticies in London. The pretty young women one sees polishing the woodwork of the hospital waiting room or busily dusting the furniture of the club parlor may be a duchess or countess or the daughter of a millionaire wine merchant. There's no telling these days, and the English public is so accustomed to being waited upon by its gentlewomen that it has come to accept it as a matter of course. Not so the Sammy, though. He'd be the first to resent the charge of being undemocratic, but still the thought of being served by one of the "Four Hundred" is almost too much for him. He was a pretty fresh young man when he first hit England. He had a reputation for breeziness to uphold and by the spike of Heinle's hat, he was going to live up to it. But when he learned that the young woman servant was the daughter of one of the peers of the realm he wilted. For one may find the English gentleman any place, and doing any kind of mental labor. She isn't the petted and pampered hothouse product popular novelists would have one believe. Instead, she's a mighty sensible, industrious, patriotic person. Her brothers and sweetheart are "out there" doing their bit, and she is working—plying the dust cloth and mop, washing dishes, answering doors and doing the thousand and one other things that have to be done. Giving Him a Scare. A young soldier had gone to the theatre with a friend. The play dragged and he fell asleep. An hour later he was awakened by the voice of an actor, saying: "We have been here five days." "Blass me! and I had only leave to stop out till midnight." Gorilla Closely Resembles Man Gorilla Oursley instructs man. The gorilla is man's nearest relative on the earth today. He is so much like a man that in all likelihood, according to Doctor Gregory, he would in the course of ages develop into a very human sort of creature, if his species were permitted to survive. Unfortunately, he will not enjoy the opportunity, because his race is being rapidly exterminated. HEROIC ACTS BY ARMY CHAPLAINS PRIESTS OF MANY CREEDS WORK AS ONE IN KHAKI Undaunted Bravery of a Rabbi—An Irish Pricet's Story—A "Good Samaritan." Braving the perils of life on the battlefield, the army chaplains of Europe are going about among the troops daily administering to their spiritual needs. Jew and Gentile, Catholic and Protestant, working together in khaki for the common good. The heroic deeds of these churchmen, who many times face death to give comfort to stricken soldiers and live usually in the trenches with the men, have gone unsung, but when the great war is over the world will learn of the glorious sacrifices the "padres" have made for the cause of humanity. Many chaplains among the Allied troops already have received decorations for conspicuous gallantry. A correspondent at the Western front tells of an incident which came to light recently in which a Jewish rabbit figured. A British soldier was dying. He lay in front of the trenches quite close, but too far to reach; the Boche took good care of that. The rabbit happened to be in the front line trenches. Some one told him that the lad who lay dying in No Man's Land was a Jew. Deaf to all protests, regardless of almost certain death, the rabbit crawled out over the top and among the wire. Boche bullets zipped around him and spat up little angry clouds of dust, but the padre crawled on until he reached the boy. With infinite tenderness, he raised the fired head and whispered consolation. But the paling lips began to move and the head to shake wearily, for the lad was not a Jew but a Catholic. Fumbling hurriedly in his pocket for the time was short, the Jew produced something which he held aloft before the fast closing eyes. A smile broke over the soldier's face, then the head rolled over and he lay still. Every one in the front line could see quite distinctly, for it was only a few yards to where the boy lay. His smile meant peace—peace purchased at a price, how great only the rabbi knew, though the others could guess; for that which the Jew held up on high was a little silver crucifix. That the Boches had seen the act was evident from the fact that the snipers ceased firing when the crucifix was raised, and all was silent along that stretch of trenches until the rabbi had reached the safety of the Allied trench. Another story is recorded of an Irish Catholic priest, told in a railway coach by a robed Celt, who was in England on a leave of absence from the front. "Twas a praste of an Irish division," he said. "They were next in line to the Ulsters at the time. That praste was an ignorant, hard-breaded old man, and he hated all Orangemen as if they were the civil. Many's the tome he preached fire and bristmite again 'em back before the war. "Out yonder in the trinches he took quite a fancy to a Protestant lad from Belfast. And sure 'twas little wonder, for 'tis dead he would have been but for that same lad, who flattened him out in the trinch just as a shell dropped handy. "There was a day that fool of a bhoy wint bonbien' along with several other biops; brave lads they were, be the powers, though they were Orangemen. And he wint and took a shot in the leg and could not get back. "The ould praste saw it and he wint and carried him in, whin in the ould days he would likely as not have given the devil his due. "Twas a midy they gave him for him, and he's mighty proud of it, is that ould praste—I have it here in my pocket." Unexcelled opportunities are offered by the position of chaplain for giving a churchman a broader outlook on life and otherwise completing his education every day the war rages and they are embracing them. NEW WAR ENGINE SHOOTS 100 MILES Would Gives Allies Fighting Apparatus Which Destroys All Life Within Rest of Mile A new engine of war has been invented by a Minneapolis, Minn., man which is said to have greater powers of destruction than any gun or other device now in use, according to Victor F. V. de Brauwere, who is standing sponsor for the inventor and is presenting the invention to the Allied war inventions board. "Of course accurate description of the invention is not to be permitted, but I may say that the machine is of a size that heretofore has been regarded as a fit subject for wild fiction of the Wells type," he said. "The machine is 135 feet long and its effective range is between 75 to 100 miles. At that range it will destroy all life within a radius of a mile. When I say all life I mean all plant or animal life. The machine is capable of infinite variety of ranges and removes one serious drawback to all machines of similar type which have been experimented with before and makes the idea practical. At last we have discovered why a woman doesn't keep a secret. She is afraid that some other woman will tell it first. Optical Illusion. A freshman in a New York university who was asked to write a theme on his first impressions of the city began with this: "The most amazing sight I ever saw was the skyscrapers of New York crossing the Hudson river on a ferryboat." Such optical illusions of relative motion are not uncommon. E. E. Slosson, in New York Independent. "I honor the man who in the conscientious discharge of his duty dares to stand alone; the world, with ignorant, tolerant 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. PROTEST AGAINST WRONG. To submit in silence when we should protest makes co-wards out of men. The human race has climbed on Protest. Had no voice been raised against injustice, ignorance and must the injustice yet would serve the law, and guillotines decide our least disputes. 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For Miss Kelley, inspired by a desire to serve her country, had gone to Camp Stuart, where, disguised as a boy and under the name of "Mike" she worked as a water "boy" at $2 a day until she was crushed under a truck and her identity became known. Her story is that of many a little mountain girl. The girl grew up in a rough mountain district in East Tennessee. Her lot after the death of her mother was a hard one, so she obtained work as a domestic in a home in Greenville. Some weeks ago Florence disappeared from Greenville. A month ago she returned, but refused to tell where she had been. After a visit of a few days with friends she again left without giving notice. About three weeks ago the girl, wearing the clothes of a man, applied at Camp Stuart for work. She was given the job of water boy. She worked hard and received two increases in her wages, so that she was drawing $2 a day at the time of the accident. Given a bunk in a cabin with a "fellow" workman at the camp, she conducted herself as a boy, listening to the jokes of the men and taking part in their discussions. But her identity was never suspected until Dr. W. J. Knight, who attended the girl at the hospital made the announcement. The girl's roommate was so startled by the discovery that he started an investigation. The girl's hair was discovered in an old oil stove, where she had first cut off the long tresses. It was also learned that she sought the assistance of a barber to shape the hair up "man style." The most calloused workman in the camp was touched by the finding, in a small satchel owned by the girl, of a lot of little trinkets such as girls like to have about them. There were several well thumbed books in the satchel on what can be accomplished by women if they work hard to develop their minds and their bodies. In one book, found in the girl's room, was a torn page telling why women do not make as good fighters as men. It was attributed in the article to the fact that women eat dainty food and do not get the necessary training to equip them for hard work. Florence Kelley was a real girl in her last moments on earth. She lost her desire for war and called pitifully for her father. Just before she died she regained consciousness and pitifully begged her father be brought to her. The Work of Carrying On. What is woman's work, then, in detail, if it is not making surgical dressings and knitted garments solely and minding the house more carefully than ever before? asks Mory O'Connor Newell, writing in the Chicago Herald. It is keeping up the food production fight. It is keeping up the food, clothing and fuel conservation fight. It is keeping up industry and keeping up business. It is making munitions as never before. It is making war contract clothing as never before. It is financing the war. In all these things woman's aid has been asked by a government that never summoned its woman's power formally before. No government ever has. It is woman's great opportunity. War work for women is keeping up social structures of every sort. It is also sharing in the problems of reconstruction that must be considered during the war, to make them effective after the war. It is getting into council with each other and with men to plan for the re-education of the maimed and the redistribution of labor after the war. Hundreds of movements set on foot for war salvage will have to fall if women do not come to the front as they are invited and urged to do by the woman's committees in the various states. Our schools, our press, our pulpit, our jails, our poor houses, orphanages, settlements, baby welfare stations---they must be manned by women as never before. You may smile when pulpits are mentioned, but women all ready are preaching missions for the Church of England in the British Isles and the question of ordaining them is being seriously agitated among Church of England folk. How shall women know what to do or how to do it effectively if they sit at home--if they refuse to come out and mingle with other women on war work intent? Concerted action will carry the day. LOST WORLD FOUND, EXPLOREER DECLARES ARKANSAS CITY. Kan. — A lost world, inhabited by birds with leather wings and teeth, and thousands of other strange and weird creatures, has been found in the Osage hills, in a wild and only partially explored section of northwestern Oklahoma. The tale of the lost world was brought here by John Brune, a member of the Osage Indian tribe, who has a reputation as an explorer. The story told by Brune is as strange as that related by Sir Arthur Conon Doyle in "The Lost World," and it has the advantage of being possible of verification. Brune, himself, is now making plans to equip a large exploring party and next spring he will go again into the Osage hills determined to bring back concrete proof of his story. The lost world, according to Brune is located on a plateau about a mile high, the sides of which are so steep that it is impossible to climb them unassisted. He was alone when he found the plateau and was unable to scale the precipitous cliffs. But what convinced him that animal life on the plateau was the same as that which existed several hundred years ago was the result of a hunting trip. Brune saw a bird, of strange appearance, and he shot it. He found that it had leather wings without feathers and that its mouth was furnished with a complete set of teeth. Altho he did not know that the bird answers to the name of pterdactyl in science, he did realize that it was a strange species. So steep were the cliffs leading up to the plateau on all sides that the animals on the summit were unable to descend and the men below were so far away that they could not distinguish their characteristics except that they were different from all animals known to the hunters. So Brune decided to return to civilization and get an outfit which would enable him and his friends to return to the Osage hills, scale the cliffs of the mysterious plateau, and see at first hand the mysteries of the life existing there. The plateau is completely isolated from surrounding country. But Brune says that with the aid of ropes and plenty of men he believes the cliffs can be scaled. Heavy rifles will be carried by the men making up the party in the expecation that they may meet with some of the great animals described in books devoted to prehistoric animal life. Brune only talks of his experience to those who are intimate with him. He fears he will not be believed because of the strangeness of his story. But he swears he tells the truth and he is determined to prove to the most cynical that the lost world really exists. He is determined to bring back to civilization specimens of strange animal life, carecases, and skins. FLEEING FROM DREAM HE FALLS TWENTY FEET Mechanic Believed Four Thieves Were Battering Down Door. LOS ANGELES, Cal. — Dreaming that four men were battering down the door of his room, Thomas Brady, a mechanic, 311 Wall street, leaped from bed and tried to lower himself from a window while yelling for help at the top of his voice. Finding that the distance was too great to drop, Brady jerked the sheet from the bed, twisted the cloth into a rope and began to climb down the improvised fire escape. The sheet parted when Brady was twenty feet from the ground and he fell, landing on his back on the concrete pavement. Still imagining he was being pursued, Brady, clad only in his underclothing, ran down the street velling for help. A watchman attempted to intercept him, but Brady brushed the officer aside. Finally some person in the neighborhood telephoned to the police. Detectives who responded to the call overtook Brady and took him to the receiving hospital. There the police surgeons bandaged bruises and abrasions on his back and arms. After his injuries had been treated Brady appeared to realize that he was safe from pursuit. Is Found in Front of Doctor's Place, Still Suffering. BRAZIL, Ind. — Eugene Herron, a grocer, and R. H. Pierce, a veterinary, have a higher estimation of the term "horse sense" as the result of an incident which happened here. Herron, believing his horse was about to die, sent an urgent call for a veterinary. When the latter didn't come at once, he again called him. While Herron was gone, the horse got up and wandered away. The veterinary and Herron researched for many blocks over the city before the horse finally was found in front of the veterinary's office. The horse was still very sick, but was given attention at the office and was led home. Herron insists that his bill should include only "office practice" services. Finds Tooth of Mastadon M.CMINVILLE, Ore—Charles White has on exhibition in this city the tooth of a prehistoric animal, presumably a mastadon, which he recently found on his place. The tooth measures from front to back $8\frac{1}{2}$ inches, and weighs $13\frac{1}{4}$ pounds. It is well preserved. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, OH IO, FEBRUARY, 2, 1918 MILLIONAIRE'S WHIM WIPES OUT VILLAGE Coal Mine Is Closed Forever When Men Strike. — Owner's Warning Carried Out to the Letter. CARRIED OUT TO THE LETTER. BRIGHTON, Kan. — The days of Brighton are over—it's "swan song" now being swam. The whim of a millionaire and the misfortune of a coal miner's strike many years ago first caused the town to dwindle and dwindle until its inhabitants, one by one, had left. Now, with junk dealers quoting "war prices" for steel, iron and other scrap building materials, the last remaining vestiges of the once prosperous town have been sold, or are in the process of being dismantled. The machinery of the mine and the steel of the branch railroad from Brighton to Lansing, Kan., constructed in the heyday of boom development, have just been disposed of to a Kansas City iron and metal company. The sixty or more four and five-room houses still remaining on the incorporated site have been offered for sale, and reports indicate that they, too, soon may follow the departed inhabitants in the wagons of the salvage companies. Nearly everything on the old site is to be sacrificed, because of the war-time prices for junk and salvage. It is said that about $300,000 was invested in mines and buildings at Brighton during the early '80s and the town developed rapidly. But, within a short time, differences arose between the miners and their employer. The millionaire owner, from his home in the East, sent back the message that "if they struck, the mine would be closed forever." Doubting him, the miners walked out. But the owner made good his word—the mines have never been reopened. Since then the town has gone down steadily until, recently, only abandoned homes and buildings have marked its former location. **CIRL BABY FAMINE** **IS WORRYING KANSAS** Witchcraft Blamed for Scarcity of the Gentler Sex During Last Nine Years. KANSAS CITY, Mo.—The grave and learned authorities of Yynn County, School District No. 43, four miles north of Emporia, have appealed for more girl babies. That is to say, the school authorities crave advice—scientific or any other kind—having to do with such a situation as that which now confronts the district where, for nine years, there have been no girl babies born. The families within the boundaries of District 43 have supplied the birth records of the county with twenty-two entries within the nine years. But there are no feminine names on the list. Some persons, who admit they read certain literature upon New England witchcraft when they were very young, are of the opinion that a certain spinster has cast a spell upon the community to revenge Cupid's slight of her, and that until she is wed no other girls will be added to the neighborhood. These directors favor the appointment of an elderly bachelor to sacrifice himself for the benefit of the district, which proposition was voted down. Some one has submitted an argument to the effect that the scarcity of girl babies was merely in line with the trend of the times toward scarcity of all valuable crops—for instance, potatoes. However, the district as a whole requires instructions from authoritative sources as to what proceedings are necessary to more evenly divide the birth rate. FOUND INSIDE APPLE Silver Piece Spins to Tree and Lodges in Fruit. MALONE, N. Y.—Horace Short and Art Wells of Mechanic street, neighbors, placed a 25-cent piece in the rear of Short's house and shot at it numerous times with a 22 caliber rifle. The men could not hit the coin and were about to quit when Gilbert Parker joined them. Parker was handed the rifle and was told to hit the quarter. He took aim, fired and the coin went spinning into the air. The men searched for the piece, but could find it. Later Short went to an art store to pick some apples. He plucked large apple with an abrasion in its side and started to eat it. He had eaten nearly half of it when he bit into a hard substance. He cut into the apple with his knife and was surprised to find the lost quarter, which was badly mutilated. Short will keep the quarter as a souvenir of the remarkable incident. JURY GOES TO MOVIE, MAN GETS NEW TRIAL Film Showed Incidents Too Much Like the Real Case. MOBERLY, Mo.—An incident which establishes a precedent in criminal jurisprudence in this country gained for Rex Scobellie a new trial after he had been convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to ten years in the penitentiary. During the progress of the trial the jury attended a picture show and circumstances of a crime shown in the picture coincided to such a degree with the case on trial that the claim was advanced that the effect produced on the jurors prevented a just verdict. Judge Walker upheld the contention and granted a new trial. 2310 A SMART DRESS FOR MOTHER'S GIRL 2310 - Serge or garbardine is nice for this modl. It is also good for satin, velvet, poplin, mixed suiting, plaid or checked woolen. The peplum may be omitted. The skirt is gored and laid in deep plats. The Pattern is cut in 4 sizes: 6, 8, 10 and 12 years. Size 10 includes 3% yards of 44-inch material. A pattern of this illustration mailed to any address on receipt of 10 cents in silver or stamps. 2317 2313 A GOOD COSTUME FOR GENERAL WEAR Waist—2317. Skirt—2313. This model comprises Ladies' Shirt Waist Pattern 2317 and Ladies' Skirt Pattern 2313. The models may be combined in one material, or, the waist may be of linen, crepe, madras, satin or flannel and the skirt of serge, broadcloth, gabardine, mixed or plaid suiting. The waist pattern is cut in 7 sizes: 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44 and 46 inches bust measure. The skirt in 7 sizes: 22, 24, 26, 28, 30, 32 and 34 inches waist measure. A medium size will require for skirt and waist $5\frac{1}{4}$ yards of 44-inch material. The skirt measures $2\frac{1}{4}$ yards at the foot, with plats drawn out. This illustration calls for TWO separate patterns, which will be mailed to any address on receipt of 10 cents FOR EACH pattern, in silver or stamps. 2295 A SMART SUIT FOR BOYS 2235 This style is good for serge cheviot, flannel, velvet, corduroy and for wash fabrics, like linens, galatea drill and for khaki. The coat is single breasted and open at the throat. The cuffs are not omitted. The trousers are made with front closing and side and back pockets. This Pattern is cut in 4 sizes: 6, 8, 10 and 12 years. Size 10 requires 3½ yards of 44-inch material. A pattern of this illustration mailed to any address on receipt of 10 cents in silver or stamps. 2305 2305—This is a good "housekeeping" model, having no unnecessary fullness and yet affording ample protection for the garment worn beneath it. It is good for gingham, seersucker, lawn, muslin, camibric, drill and alpaca. The Pattern is cut in 4 sizes: Small, 32-34; Medium, 38-38; Large, 40-42; Extra Large, 44-46 inches bust measure. Size Medium requires 3½ yards of 36-inch material. A pattern of this illustration malled to any address on receipt of 10 cents in silver or stamps. 2283 SKIRT 2282 SKIRT A STYLISH COSTUME Waist. 2282. Skirt. 2282. This comprises Waist Pattern 2283 and Skirt. 2282. In navy blue silge with facings of gray or tan it will make a smart dress for calling or home wear. It is also nice for satin, velvet, broadcloth or velour. The Waist Pattern is cut in 7 sizes: 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44 and 46 inches bust measure. The Skirt in 7 sizes: 22, 24, 26, 28, 30, 32 and 34 inches waist measure. The skirt measures about 3 yards at the foot, with plains drawn out. To make this costume in a medium size will require 8 yards of 44- inch material. This illustration calls for TWO separate patterns, which will be mailed to any address on receipt of 10 cents FOR EACH pattern, in silver or stamps. 2287 A PRACTICAL, COMFORTABLE DESIGN 2287—Child's Night Drawers. Suitable for domet of canton flannel, flannelette, combric, minisook, or muslin. The garment will be found very desirable, as it affords protection and covering and is most comfortable. If desired, the foot portions may be omitted. The Pattern is cut in 5 sizes. 4, 6, 8, 10 and 12 years. It requires 2 yards of 36-inch material for a 6-year size. A pattern of this illustration mailed to any address on receipt of 10 cents in silver or stamps. 2308 WAIST 2291 SKIRT A SMART COMBINATION Waist—2308. Skirt—2291. For a practical, serviceable costume you will find a good combination in Ladies' Waist Pattern 2308, and Ladies' Skirt Pattern 2291. The waist of linen, satin or crepe, and the skirt of serge, duveten, Jersey cloth, broadcloth, shepherd check or plaid suiting. The waist pattern is cut in 7 sizes: 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44 and 46 inches bust measure. It will require 3 yards of 36-inch material for a medium size. The skirt is cut in 7 sizes: 22, 21, 26, 28, 30, 32 and 34 inches waist measure. Size 24 requires 3 yards of 44-inch material. It measures about $2\frac{1}{2}$ yards at the foot. This illustration calls for TWO separate patterns, which will be mailed to any address on receipt of 10 cents FOR EACH pattern, in silver or stamps. 2265 A PRETTY DRESS FOR MOTHER'S GIRL. 2265—Little dresses of this style are comfortable, practical and easy to develop. The model here portrayed, may have the long sleeve finished with a band cuff, or with the turnback cuff. The short sleeve has a cuff shaped to flare, which makes a smart finish. Lawn, batist, gingham, chambray, percale, cashmere garbardine, crepe, or flannetlette, are nice for this design. The pattern is cut in 4 sizes: 2, 3, 4 and 5 years. Size 4 requires 2% yards of 36-inch material. A pattern of this illustration mailed to any address on receipt of 10 cents in silver or stamps. 2294 A DAINTY DRESS FOR MOTHER'S GIRL 2294—This will make a charming and becoming dress and one that will be real comfortable. The front forms a panel with points that overlap a belt which holds the fullness of the dress at the sides and back. The sleeve has a neat cuff stitched over a straight band. This model is good for gingham, lawn, batiste, chambray, repp, pique, serge, cashmere, velvet or corduroy. It is nice, too, for plaid or checked suiting. The Pattern is cut in 4 sizes: 2, 4, 6 and 8 years. Size 8 requires 3½ yards of 44-inch material. A pattern of this illustration malled to any address on receipt of 10 cents in silver or stamps. 2292 AN ATTRACTIVE TOP GARMENT 2292—This model is good for chevlot, broadcloth, velour, vicuna, zibeline, double-faced cloakings, corduroy, velvet and pile fabrics, like plush or chinchilla. The coat may be finished without the cape and the cape may be worn separately, the coat cowl serving as a collar for the cape. The model is in box effect, with a belt at the waistline, which confines the fullness. The Pattern is cut in 4 sizes: 6, 8, 10 and 12 years. Size 10 requires $5\frac{1}{2}$ yards of 44-inch material. A pattern of this illustration malled to any address on receipt of 10 cents in silver or stamps. 2293 A NEW, PRACTICAL DESIGN 2235—This model is good for seer-sucker, gingham, percale, drill, jean, lawn and alpaca. The entire apron is cut in one piece, the belt ends being brought over the front from the back. The Pattern is cut in 4 sizes: Small, 32-34 inches; Medium, 36-38 inches; Large, 40-42 inches; Extra Large, 44-46 inches bust measure. Size Medium requires 3½ yards of 36-inch material. A pattern of this illustration malled to any address on receipt of 10 cents in silver or stamps. 22 A PRETTY FROCK-LADIES' DRESS 2296—Satin and lace will combine nicely in this model. It is also good for serge with Georgette crepe for trimming, lovely for cashmere, velour, velvet or corduroy. The waist and jumper portions are crossed in surplice style. The skirt is a two-piece model with gathered fullness and side closing. It may be finished separate from the waist. The Pattern is cut in 6 sizes: 34, 36, 38, 40, 42 and 44 inches bust measure. Size 38 requires 6½ yards of 36-inch material for the dress and 1½ yards for the jumper. The skirt measures a little over 2 yards at the foot. A pattern of this illustration malled to any address on receipt of 10 cents in silver or stamps.