The Gazette

Dancing Every Thursday Evening at Barksdale's Academy, IN IRON H STRENGTH To The Loyal! To The Loyal! Five of our soldier boys are at Fort. Sam Houston, Texas, awaiting death as a result of the recent Court Martial proceedings growing out of the Houston riot. 'Though these men have been sentenced to die, their cases will be reviewed by President Wilson, and he has the power to commute their sentences to life imprisonment, if he will. He can even pardon them, if he desires so to do. These men were victims of rank prejudice. They were forced to take the law into their own hands by reason of the oppression and insults offered them by southern whites. Their cases are not ordinary ones, and they deserve extraordinary consideration. Their comrades who died a few weeks ago were hanged without executive intervention. These five boys have a chance to live, if the President says so. 'The Gazette' urges our people to fill out the appeal to the President, to be found on this page and also to write a letter to his or her U. S. Senator and Congressman asking that the President be urged to save these boys. They are victims of peculiar circumstances and conditions born of prejudice and hatred. Write today; help to save them. A MOTHER, A FATHER, AND A BOY I happen to know a family of three—a mother, a father, and a boy. For twenty years the mother and father nursed the boy along—fed him and clothed him and educated him—happy all three of them, in each other's society. Then came the war. The day it came, the boy volunteered. He was under draft age, and was not compelled to go into the service of his country. But he volunteered. It was the first time he had been away from home—the first time for twenty years the little family had been separated. For eight months the boy had been sleeping beneath a tent, drilling, working, training, learning to be a soldier, a thousand miles from home. For eight months the mother has been gazing at a picture of the boy, and waiting for the postman to bring her a letter from the child. Only the God above knows the anxiety of her heart, the mother-longing for the presence of the babe of her breast, the anguish which she undergoes. For eight months the father has gone about his work, thinking of his boy, helping for him, praying for him, providing for his simple wants and for the simple wants of the mother and himself. For the boy draws no pay from the government. Every cent that is offered to him is returned to the government for Liberty bonds. The father supports the lad so the government can have the use of the money it would otherwise pay to him for being a soldier. It has now come to the point where the boy needs food. He needs blankets to keep him warm. He needs a gun to fight with. He needs transportation to France, where he is eager to go, and have the thing over as soon as possible, so he can return to his mother and father. He needs everything a soldier needs — and he has no money, and his father has reached the limit of his ability to provide. The government tells the boy, in substance, he will have to borrow the money to support himself until the war is over. That is, the government will have to borrow it for the boy. Will you lend this boy a quarter? He promises to give his life for it, if need be. He is ready to fight for you, if you will but equip him. He wants to go to France, to meet the enemy face to face, if he can borrow the quarter... The government says it will go the boy's security. It will issue you a stamp, or bond, or guarantee that the quarter will be repaid. The mother and father have an humble home. They will pledge that home as security if you will lend their boy a quarter to buy food and clothing and blankets. A hundred million other people in this country will pledge all they have if you lend the quarter to the boy. You who sit in comfort; you who have three good meals a day, and warmth in the house; you who go about your daily tasks; cheerful and happy, your wants provided for—are you willing to see this mother's boy underfed, unarmed, ragged in the trenches and the camp? The family has been broken up—for you. The grief of the mother is your grief, or should be. The struggles of the father should be your struggles. The hardships which the boy is undergoing in the training camp—the coarse food he is eating, the hard bed upon which he sleeps, the wet clothes he wears and the exposure which he suffers, are all your affairs, the affairs of every man and woman and child in the United States. Will you lend this boy a quarter? You can do so by buying War Savings Stamps it your store. The undersigned respectfully requests you to disapprove the sentence of death imposed upon the Colored soldiers in the court martial at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. THE GAZETTE ESTABLISHED AUGUST 25,1883 And Issued Every Week on Time Since FRESH OHIO NEWS FONTY MORE SOLDIERS ON TRIAL It Is Time This Persuction Should Cease San Antonio, Texas—Forty onlisted men of the 24th Infantry went to trial before a court martial here, Feb. 19, on charges of murder and mutiny. It is the third court martial growing out of the Aug. 23 riot at Houston, when 17 members of a white mob were shot to death and others injured. At the first court martial 63 men were convicted. Thirteen were found guilty and fined, and seven as soldiers have always been) and all the others were found guilty" and sentenced to imprisonment, many of them for life terms. The five acquitted were restored to their organizations. At the second trial 15 were tried and all convicted. Five were sentenced to be hanged and are now in the cavalry guard house at Fort Sam Houston awaiting action by the President, who is reviewing their cases. The other ten were sentenced to prison. "There are four charges against each of the defendants—mutiny, murder, assault to murder and wilful disobeying orders. A movement has been organized to send an appeal to the President asking clemency for the soldiers. Charges Discrimination Washington, D. C.-According to a statement by Timothy Shea, acting president of the Brotherhood of Firemen and Enginemen, more than 4,600 members have either volunteered or been drafted into the military forces of the U. S. and Canada. In many of the northern and western states the vacant places have been filled by colored men who receive lower wages. In its appeal to the commission for an increase in wages the organization attacks the railroads for this discrimination on account of color. Even One of Our Bands Win New York City-A man who recently returned from France and the same vessel that brought General Kuhn, commandant at Camp Monde, Md., says that the band of the former Fifteenth N. Y. regiment is being lirized in France. It gave a concert in the public park at Lyons and the populace surged around James Reese Europe, the conductor, and carried him about on their shoulders. When the American soldiers arrived at their leave center at Aix Le Bains, France recently, they paraded through the streets of the town, led by this band. GREENFIELD—Revival services began, Sunday, under the auspices of the B. Y. P. U. S. S. services will be conducted by Rev. B. W. Mitchell. Mrs Bessie Payne of this city spent a few days in Cincinnati recently. The Gazette desires an agent and correspondent here at once. Write the editor at Cleveland. 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, wedding presents, etc., obituary notices, inquiries for relatives and advertisements of all kinds, including amounts paid to 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. FINDLAY—Mrs. Emma Gulliver, age 81, died, recently, leaving 2 sons, 3 daughters, 6 grandchildren, 11 great-grandchildren and a host of friends to mourn her loss. The Willing Workers will meet at Miss Dorothy Gulliver's, March 14. A lunchon will be served. Mrs. Mary Jefferson and Miss Dona Williams have returned to Chicago. They attended Mrs. Gulliver during her illness.—The W. T. C. Y. will meet March 3 at Mrs. Burton's. A luncheon will be served.—The Y. C. Y. will meet the living Mrs. Gulliver's illness.—Jess Burton Gulliver is employed in a hotel at Postoria—Floyd Mitchell, Ralph Wiley, Gail Price and Levi Tucker, draftees; will leave soon for Camp Sherman, Chillicothe. HILLSBORO—Sunday, Rev. Carrol held quarterly meeting. Rev. Maxwell, P. E., of Xenia, preached.—Mrs. Geo. Taylor and Mrs. Streets of Columbus visited their sister, Mrs. C. M. Gregston, this week Tuesday. spent the day Tuesday at the events of bringing their mother's birthday.—Mrs. Milton Day, one of our leading cooks, is in Gopenfield for a few weeks' stay.—Mr. Wpoe of Columbus spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Blinton.—Mrs. Jas. Anderson was called to Cincinnati by the death of her sister, Mrs. Bessie Kittrill.—Mrs. Mac Young spent Saturday and Sunday in Jamestown.—Garret McGinnis and Arthur Whithey have arrived safely in France.—Mrs. Fred Williams has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. Tiffin Powell, in Chillicothe. SANDUSKY—Both churches and S. S.'s were well attended, and it made us recall the good old days of last fall when they were crowded. Four joined the Baptist church. Rev. McCoy preached at 7:30 p. m., and Judge HQN. J. C. NAPIER Leads in Splendid Work for the Race Two Thousand Men of Tennessee March to State Capitol. Nashville, Tennessee,—Two thousand been representing brain, intellect and voting power, of Tennessee, Terrace parade, last week, and marched to state capitol, and presented grievances brought about by outrages, recent lynchings and burnings, in Tennessee. Addresses were made to the governor in legislative Hall, after a committee had been sent to Ballt Springs, Tennessee, the scene of the recent burning and lynching and brought back the facts. C. Napier, exporter of U. S. Tennessee; D. W. Billington, national secretary of the National Baptist Publishing Board, and Rev. J. H. Grant, representing the International Alliance, spouse, Gov. Thomas C. Rye responded, declaring he was without authority, but would exercise the power in his hands to suppress further lynchings and violence. No such demand has been made before in history. Williams gave a fine talk. About 10 gave their names and money to the support of the Lirion missions convention to be held at the Congregational church, March 12 and 13. J. R. Davis, Matthew Smith and Samuel Scott are busy committees, registering the church. Mrs. White, of Campbell St., is ill. Mrs. J. R. Davis and Mrs. G. D. Smith gave a delightful entertainment for the Sewing Club, last Thursday evening. Mr. Davis and chorus gave the program. Tell your friends to read the Gazette. SMITHFIELD.—Large crowds attended revival services, last week at St. Paul's A. M. E. church. Also the afternoon prayer meetings, held at different homes, conducted by Mrs. E. Johnson, evangelist, who is very capable. While the meetings have spiritually gone forward, he had success and made a start. Greater success is expected this week. Rees, Stewart, and Wixen of the M. E. and Friends' church (white) and quite a few of their members were in attendance, Sunday, Rev. C. A. Harvey, pastor of Mt. Pleasant A. M. E. church, and a few of his members, and many from McIntyre, also attended.—Messames Adams and V. Oliver, of Steubenville, visited their mother, Mrs. Palmer, Saturday and Sunday.—Miss Lillian Beal, Messies, S. West, F. Carter, John Furis and others were in Steubenville, last week.—Mr. R. Cooper was here recently.—Messames J. M. William, Mattie West and M. E. Veney are ill. CADIZ—Memorial service in memory of Fredrick Douglas, was held at the A. M. E. church, Sunday afternoon, by circle No. 11. The funeral of Mrs. Mary Ann Clemency, who died in Pittsburgh, was held, Sunday afternoon, from Mr. George Rudolph's. Rev. A. Moyer officiating. Among the relatives in attendance from a distance were Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Nuly Dungue, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Green of Zanesville, Francis Taylor of Wilberforce and Herbert Johnson of Zanesville—The revival service will begin, Friday evening, at the A. M. E. church; Rev. S. C. Crutcher, evangelist. The choir, under the leadership of Mrs. A. B. Young, is preparing special songs—Noble R. Mason has returned from Columbus. Rev. Redy C. Ransom, editor of the A. M. E. Church Review, nominated for Congress in New York City and to be voted for at a special election to be held March 5, to fill a vacancy, was born at Flushing near here, and is well known by our older citizens. He also pattern churches in Springfield and Cleveland. YOUNGSTOWN—Mr. Gordon, of W. Fed. St., is better after a week's illness—Buckeye Lodge will meet, March 7, and Louisa Edwards court, March 13—Mrs. Adelia Stewart Burton, 533 W. Park Ave., died last week, after a long illness. The de 10550 EUCLID AVENUE MUST FIGHT DISCRIMINATION! A Federal Bureau's Color-Line—"Jim Crow" Y. M. C. As and W. Y. C. As Wrong, Etc. St. Louis, Mo.—There has never been a time since the Negro was emancipated when it was more important for him to stand up for his rights, in the way of refusing to recognize and bow to discrimination, than now. The present war is fast pushing opportunities, in his way which would never have been offered were it not for the fact his services are absolutely indispensable. The nation is crying for men for all sorts of positions, skilled and unskilled, and there is not the response which should come were not the supply much more limited than most persons are willing to believe. Praising the color line is attracting more attention than in normal times, possibly because the Negro and opportunity are meeting more often in unfrequented paths, and the situation has to be worked out on the spot. For this reason, the Negro should be aggressive, go the limit and meet the situation, if possible, more than half way. Recently the Nation has been asking for Colored mechanics to fill all sorts of positions. Those who have adaptability, yet lack something of being expert, will be trained at government expense—some will be given training in the largest establishments in the United States, in France—and given work no Afro-American would have been permitted to do under other circumstances. In the midst of crying opportunity for service of the kind, for which we have thirsted since the rebellion, there are members of the race who are ignorant and blind to the stand which we will have to assume if we are to hold the position of a member of a meat relative to matters which pertain to our welfare as a people. Recently the Federation of Federal Employees approached the less discriminating Colored men, seeking to induce them to form a branch organization among the employees of the United States Arsenal in the city. At this time the thing is in embryo and in a fair way to fail, as it should, because some of the men had the foresight to demand that their becoming members was dependent on their joining the existing organization of (white) employees, with the rights and no discrimination because of color. Some of the less thoughtful were strong for a separate body with "our own officers, etc." The man at this place, for a number of years, even under R.publican administrations, have been subjected to discrimination in a restaurant team operated by private parties. They have not protested against this form of discrimination, and it is not remarkable that some are willing to permit the habit to grow. The Efficiency Bureau (Civil Service) of this city has three lists of eligibles; one of whites, one of Negroes and one mixed.A Negro is at the top of two of the list—the mixed and Negro. There has been no protest, to amount to anything, against this discrimination though the city administration is Republican from one end to the other, practically, and the Negro vote is dangerously near a balance of power. Our engagement to this separation propaganda in everything in which we come in contact with the white man is largely responsible for this situation. The line has grown because we have assisted in its growth. "Jim Crow" Y. M. C. A.s., Y. W. C. A.s. Episcopalian churches, M. E. churches and countless other organizations in which we contribute funds to "Branches(?)" operated and controlled by white men are wrong in conception. We patronize restaurants, etc., operated by white men for Negroes only in many instances instead of giving our trade to those operated by Negroes and whites catering to Negroes. Since we should possible we should discourage all forms of racial discrimination, help our white fellow citizens whip the Germans, and after the thing is over we will enjoy more of each other's confidence and respect. ceased was born in this city and educated in the local schools, finishing in New York City. She was the daughter of the late Lemuel Stewart. A husband, Mrs. Mary E. Stewart, her mother; 3 brothers, Attorney Wm. R. Frank and Charles B.; two sisters, Margaret and Mrs. Gee, J. Jefferson, all of this city, survive her. Mrs. Burton was popular and much interested in religious and civic affairs, and assisted in organizing St. Augustine E. Mission of which she was an officer. She with her last illness She was also a charter member of Consulch Stewart-Court of Calanthe, which attended the funeral services in a body. A host of friends also mourn her demise.-Mrs. Grant Raney gave a luncheon, last Thursday afternoon, of her son, Clifford, a recent graduate.-The home for our girls at the corner of Belmont and West Rayen Aves., was formerly opened, Monday evening. THE TIME EXTENDED FOR FILING SOLDIERS INSURANCE The time for filing applications for insurance policies by men in actual service has been extended to April 12. February 12 had been fixed as the time for filing applications but through a resolution of Congress, approved by the President, the time was extended to April 12. M. Resisting the Southern Autocracy and Crying Out Against Its Wrongs, the Life Work of Joseph C. Manning, of Alabama. William Lloyd Garrison, Phillips, Summer and other opponents of human slavery, who spoke out in the North against the inhuman institution of bondage in the South, were fearless and are worthy of every tribute which history records to them and their unselfish activity. It was not so difficult, however, to fight human slavery in the South. It has been for Joseph C. Manning to fight political slavery, peonage, disfranchisement, race hatred and lynching from the forum of Alabama and the heart of the South. Yet, in the face of overwhelming odds, right to the teeth of the mob, Mr. Manning has kept up the fight for all these years and every now and then, coming North to warn the North that the cause of free government in the South is an important thing that will all the people of the entire nation. And now the whole country is awakening to the justice of his contention. Mr. Manning was a leader of the Populist-Republican fusion movement in Alabama and the South. He served in the Alabama Legislature and led the movement which exposed the black DOINGS OF THE RACE Porter Bros., contractors, want 5,000 Afro-Americans to help erect a great army depot at Norfolk, Va. The Officers' Training Camp at Schofield Barracks, near Honolulu, Hawaii, will turn out 33 members of the 25th U. S. Inf., as officers in March. A detachment of about 100 soldiers of the Twenty-fifth Infantry passed through Omaha recently, from Schofield barracks, Honolulu, Hawaii, 'en route to Halifax, Nova Scotia. Phil H. Brown editor of the Hopkinsville, Ky. Saturday News, was accidentally shot in the left foot, recently, by the discharge of a 32 caliber automatic pistol, which he dropped. It is definitely decided that "Afro-American chaplains are to be named for all of our regiments. The number is roughly estimated at seventy. An effort will be made to apportion the appointments equitably among the several faiths. Isis Phillis W. Waters, of Charleston, W. University, cannot accept the position as instructor of French in Howard University, Washington, D. C., offered her because she cannot get away from her position as a teacher in the high school and night schools of Gary, Ind. Oscar B. Polk of Dallas, Tex., has passed the required examination and has been assigned to the U. S. Naval Station at Key West, Fla., as an aviation machinist. He took his trial flight under the tutorship of Pilot G. I. White, son of Stanford White, of the famous Thaw-White scandal. President Wilson has heard a N. A. A. C. P. delegation making a plea for clergy for the five members of the 24th Infantry of the 26th Infantry sentenced to death for complicity in the Houston not of Aug. 23, 1917. A petition containing thousands of names asking clemency was filed with him. Lieut. Col. Allen J. Grier, chief of IN UNION W IS STRENGTH SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS PH. C. MANNING belt fraud system of the South through contests in Congress. He has continued his warfare on the disfranchise system until the astute Republican leaders of the nation are taking up this Southern question. Exposure of the peonage practices in the South is only a part of the marked fearless record of a career given to resisting the wrongs perpetrated in the autocratic South. Recognized by foremost thinkers of the North as the best informed man in the country, Southern condition having a national voice, a writer and an orator of distinguished ability, Mr. Manning has thrown the full power of his manhood to the end that free government might be enjoyed equally by all citizens, in every state, both South and North. Immediately following the re-election of President Wilson, Mr. Manning predicted the wholesale emigration of colored people to the North, and his articles on this subject in the New York Sun created widespread interest. Events substantiated the fact that he knew what he was writing about and that his statements were founded upon a masterful knowledge of the conditions. In other American citizen North or South, has spoken of any stronger for equal justice to all, of every race, than has this native white Southerner, who was born in the hill county of Clay, in Alabama in 1870. Camp Funston, Kansas, who recently visited Camp Sherman, Ohio, where several thousand Afro-American select men are in camp, paid a high tribute to the way they have taken to military work. He said our soldiers are unexcelled in bayonet fighting, stating that "they are the greatest bayonet fighters in the world." In Chicago, Dennison of Chicago, commander of the 370th Inf., formally the 8th Illinois Reg., now at Camp Logan, Texas, is the only Afro-American colonel on the active list of the C. S. Army, Col. Charles Young of Ohio, the other, is on the retired list, we regret to say. Tennessee burned her human being as a closing feature of her 1917 "civilization." Mississippi opened up her bid for "recognition" by a fire at the stake in the early days. 1918 Tennessee, now be outdone once more, now fows up another Afro-American as a burnt offering in the second-month of this year and Georgia has just duplicated it. cademy, PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY One Year ..... $1.50 Six Months ..... 1.00 Three months ..... 5.00 Subscribers are requested to remit by postoffice money order or reg- istered letter Entered at the postoffice in Clever- land, Ohio, as second-class mail matter. Blackstone Building, Cloreland, 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-TEST and BEST in the country. 10,000,000 Aftro-Americans. 300,000 in Ohio. 25,000 in Cleveland. SATURDAY MARCH 2, 1918 Hog Island was appropriately named. We can't get it out of our mind that a just Providence has been heaping "coals of ice" upon the heads of the people for the way they voted in 1916. It is about time that the volatile element in our voting population should wake up to the fact that effect usually treads upon the heals of cause. Senator Kenyon has introduced a constitutional amendment requiring all persons who vote for members of Congress and Presidential electors to be American citizens. There are seven states now permitting aliens so to vote. The comment has no special pertinence, but exactly six out of the aforesaid seven states voted in the last presidential election "to be kept out of war." The Republicans who objected to the erection of a statute of James Buchanan in a Washington park on the ground that Buchanan had rendered no signed service to the nation, possibly made a mistake. The administration of Buchanan was an object lesson in the evils of unpreparedness for war. A monument to perpetuate the memory of his unreadiness might prove an object lesson, a warning, to his successors. The Senate now consists of 52 Democrats, 42 Republicans, and there are vacancies in Wisconsin and in New Jersey. There are six states, not in the South, represented by Democrats and the Republicans have the best chance in nearly all of them. There is also a possible change in Colorado. Rainbow chasers think the protective tariff issue may elect a Republican senator in North Carolina. It is quite possible that the next Senate will show a Republican membership of forty-nine Republicans to forty-seven Democrats. Former President Taft, in a recent address to the soldiers at Camp Sherman, very sensibly said: "It is suggested that a peace is possible through Austria. I have no objection to those dreams except that they may arouse false hopes as to where peace will have to be won. It is with Germany we must fight." Only through the rigors of successful warfare will peace come. Germany is a warlike nation. Crushing military defeat is the only argument that will prevail upon it. We deceive and weaken ourselves when we do not accept the facts as they are. This is no time for dreams. Republicans May Be Called It is said that President Wilson is to call Republican Congressmen into conference. This will be the first time since Bernstorff was handed his passports, February 2, 1917. During this period of a full year the Republican Congressmen have loyally supported every movement for the advancement of the war. When the members of the President's own party failed him, or opposed him, Republicans took their places and put the war legislation through. Now that a full year's devotion has demonstrated their loyalty beyond cavil and dispute, Republican Congressmen, if actually called into conference, should do their full share of the conferring. They should speak with candor and courage, not upon certain preferred legislation but upon all war matters. But little benefit will arise from piece-meal conferring. That Hog Island Scandal. The Senate Committee has found a colossal waste of government funds at Hog Island. Estimated expenditures of $21,000,000 have exceeded $12,400,000. $1000 acreage suddenly sold at $2000 an acre. President Wilson has ordered the department of justice to see if criminal prosecutions are to be entered upon. The Hog Island development was reasonably to have been ex- pected from the time the proposition to create a Congressional Committee on the Expenditures of the War was set aside. Grafters and wasters felt a sense of freedom from then on. Unfortunately for themselves they overlooked Congressional investigations. Congress should keep on its good work everlastingly. Why not also look into some of the cantoment contracts. BUT ABE PRESERVED THE UNION Those good people who are fond of likening President Wilson to Abraham Lincoln will concede that there is one notable difference between the two men. This difference is illustrated by a story told of Lincoln during the Civil War. A man of unquestioned loyalty went to the White House to persuade Lincoln to give him a pass through the lines so that he might visit his brother. Mr. Lincoln suggested that the man see General Halleck, but was informed that Halleck had already refused a pass. "Then you had better see Secretary Stanton," was suggested. "I have tried him and he refused," said the petitioner. "Then I am afraid I cannot do anything for you," replied President Lincoln, "for the fact is that I have very little influence with this administration." In this administration the members of the cabinet are completely under the influence of the President. They wouldn't be there otherwise. A Bad Decision Speaking of a recent unique decision of a New York judge which claims that a saloon-keeper does not violate the laws of that state when he refuses a man a drink in his place of business because the laws of New York say that public places should be operated for the benefit of all irrespective of race or other conditions; and that to refuse a man a drink was not to his disadvantage, but to his advantage, an exchange says it heartily agrees with the judge, etc. Our confere, as well as the judge, is wrong. The decision ignores the all important fact that said refusal violates a civil right as well as a principle and is not always "to the advantage" of the person denied the exercise of such a privilege or "right," because the individual's physical condition may be such as to make a stimulant, the drink, necessary for health reasons. We do not believe that decision would be upheld in the highest court of that or any other state. "A LIVE WIRE" John R. Shillady (white) the new secretary of the N. A. A. C. P., seems to be a "live wire." He has held office by a very short time and yet has sent two strong appeals to President Thomas Woodrow Wilson calling on him to "speak out in condemnation of burping and lynching"; telegraphed the governor, U. S. senators and others of Tennessee on the same subject; sent a delegation of the organization to see the President and present him a petition signed by 12,000 citizens of New York City, asking executive clemency for the five soldiers of the 24th Infantry under sentence of death, and requesting the President to have placed before him a review of the cases of the forty-one soldiers of the same regiment who were sentenced to life imprisonment by the first court martial. He has received courteous replies to his appeals and telegrams and the delegation had a satisfactory meeting with the President. Secretary Shillady has made a very favorable impression on The Gazette. That is the kind of action we like. The War Cabinet Senator Weeks, of Massachusetts, gave a strong but temperate address before the Senate on war matters. After praising many things that were well done he said that the deficiencies were in a great degree due to a lack of centralization in directing. Showing that it was physically impossible for the president individually to coordinate with and direct every function of government, he believed the remedy was a war cabinet to be appointed by the president. He said: "Can it be possible the president will be embarrassed by such a cabinet? It would seem as if he would be embarrassed to a greater extent by a perpetuation of the disjointed system which now exists, a system which failed to produce ships notwithstanding the shipping plans; which has failed to deliver coal, notwithstanding the unbounded coal supply we have; which has been responsible for a failure to protect our soldiers against sickness and furnish them with suitable clothing. "We are the inventors and leaders in airplanes and yet we have no airplanes. We have the greatest steel works in the world, and yet we have few guns. We lead the world in automobile manufacture, and yet we are just commencing to obtain motor trucks; and, worst of all, the system we have is responsible for camp hospitals not having heat, water or sewerage." Just why senators are to be censured for desiring to better conditions like these will not be understood by the people. They are striving to bring about a system which will materially increase the efficiency of our war administration and which will safeguard the health and lives of our soldiers. As it is now there are many, many departments, all supposed to report direct to the president, who cannot give them direction. They therefore act independently and irrespective of each other and some do well. Some do not. A war cabinet, to centralize, co-ordinate and direct is needed. As this cabinet is to be appointed by the president and is responsible to him, wherein is it wrong? THE KU KLUX KLAN Seventeen of Them Arrested S. Authorities. Paris, Texas—Seventeen Red River county were recently, and lodged in the county jail on federal charging them with violatioral defence act. The whie results resulted from an extending over several wucted by the U. S. district office in conjunction with agents of the department acting under instructions f ANOTHER ANDERSON VICTORY! Hon. Charles W. Anderson of New York City has just won another splendid victory! When he learned that none of ours oldiers were included in the 10,000 selected to parade the streets of that city on Washington's birthday, he "got busy," with the result that a battalion of the 367th Infantry was finally included. Not, however, until he was burdened with the responsibility of housing and feeding for one day so large a number of M. B. GOV. CHAS. S. WHITMAN men.With the assistance of many of the leading men of both races in the city and some of our women, led by his wife, he succeeded nobly in doing this for 600 of our soldier boys who at the conclusion of their evening meal gave him three rousing cheers. Of course it was Mr. Anderson's prompt and stirring appeal to Gov. Charles S. Whitman that made it possible to have the battalion in the parade More power to both of them! Congratulations, Charlie! CANADA'S COLOR LINE Bonnett Gone to France—Nearly 200,000 Slaves Freed Kingston, Ont., Can.—Queen's College has officially announced that it will no longer matriculate students of color. This decision is largely due to the efforts made by the students most of whom are from the West Indies, to segregate themselves from the educational body and activities of the institution. The whites are said to have protested against the establishment of separate wards for the medical students to participate in clinical work. There are fourteen medical students at Queen's, this year, who will be allowed to finish the fourth year, but will not be allowed to continue with the fifth. Even here in Canada we are burdened with the "jim crow" Negro. Lord, have merely! Chas. M. Bonnet, attached to the Canadian Army Service Corps, Mechanical Transport, left for overseas service, recently, having finished his course at the C. A. S. C. M. T. Training School in Toronto. Previous to his transfer to the above named Corps he was clerk to the commanding officer of No. 2, Western Ont. Pegiment, C. E. F. in St. Thomas, Ont. He is the only member of our race in the distinguished unit. On Dec. 3, it was reported that the British had driven the last of the German forces out of German East Africa into Portuguese territory. Thus Germany has lost its last colonial possessions. The Sudan Times reports that 185,000 slaves were found by the British in the German East African Protectorate. Patronize those who advertise in The Gazette. They ask and are entitled to your trade because they want it and will treat you better than others who do not advertise in this paper. Subscribe for "The Old Reliable" Gazette and get all the news of the race, each week. If you see it in The Gazette you can depend upon its being reliable news and not camouflage as is the case with much that you read, these days, in race papers that are "aping" the seasonal daily press. THE KU KLUX KLAN AGAIN Paris, Texas—Seventeen whites of Red River county were brought here recently, and lodged in the Lamar county jail on federal warrants charging them with violating the national defense act. The whoisle arrests resulted from an investigation extending over several weeks conducted by the U. S. district attorney's office in conjunction with special agents of the department of justice acting under instructions from Washington, D. C. The prisoners are jenant farmers living in the northern portion of Red River county along the river. They are charged with having organized a ku klux klan for the purpose of terrorizing our farmers of the country and driving them from their farms. Their operations extended clear across the county and resulted in the burning of many dwellings, churches and school houses and other deprudations. "White Cap" notices were posted through their operations and resulted in the abandonment of many farms under cultivation by our people. It is expected that many other arrests will follow as a result of the investigation. "MAY GOD HELP BOTH" Portland, Oregon, Feb. 14, 1918; Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor Gazette, Cleveland, O. Dear Sir--Enclosed find a P. O. money order for three dollars, for two years subscription to The Gazette. In this connection let me assure you of my regard for you and The Gazette. May God bless both! Sincerely yours, MRS. PATRICIA ROBISON. P. S.--I wrote this a week ago but lacked time to secure the post-office money order and send it. I have signed and mailed your petition for those five men at Fourth Hous- ton, Tex., and hope it will help to save them. P. B. (Possibly ten years ago, Mrs. Robinson, a native Ohio, wrote to Senator Joseph B. Foraker and asked him to name a good race paper she could subscribe for and he recommended "The Old Reliable" Gazette, which she has been reading every week since. As her letter above indicates, and many Robinson is one of the race's most loyal white friends,—Editor.) WILSON DELAYS HANGING Grants Respite to Five Condemned Houston Rinters Washington, D. C., Feb. 27—An indefinite respite has been granted the five soldiers of the 24th Infantry sentenced by court-martial to be hanged for participation in the Houston riots. The number and character of the appeals for clemency reaching the president from clergymen and organizations caused the respite. The president has notified the war department that he will suspend action on the cases until he has received the record of the court-martial proceedings in the cases of forty other members of the regiment, now being tried at San Antonio. Thirteen of the rinters already have been hanged (not shot). HAS CORRECT IDEAS! Yellow Springs, O. Editor Gazette. Dear Sir: I thank you for continuing my paper. I send you $1.50, for another year's subscription. I am building a store-room, because I have children in the high school and when they come out I want to have something for them to do. We must look forward—for our children. We spend too much of our money in white people's stores and should have some of our own in which to train our children along business lines. This war has opened up an avenue that heretofore has been closed. So let every Afro-American stamp improvement on the "wings of time." I feel lost without your paper. The Gazette. If all of our people would take it, and be inspired to higher things, we would soon count for very much more. Yours truly, J. H. WILLIAMS. In Flanders Field In Flanders fields, the poppies grow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing fly, Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow Loved and were loved; and now we lie In Flanders fields. Take up our quarrel with the foe! To you, from falling hands, we throw the torch. Be yours to lift it high! If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep though poppies Must Admit to Dance Halls Albany, N. Y.—Admittance to a public dancing pavilion is open to Afro-Americans on equal terms with all other people, the N. Y. Court of Appeals has recently decided. The decision was rendered in affirming judgment of $150 obtained by Carroll H. Johnson of Auburn, in a suit to recover, for discrimination, brought against the Auburn and Syracuse Electric Railroad Company. Recently the N. Y. Court Appeals held that saloons are not places for public entertainment, which, of course, is not true in Ohio or any other northern state. "Any prejudice whatever will be insurmountable if those who do not share in it themselves truckle to it and flatter it and accept it is a law of nature."—John Stuart Mill. 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. OBITUARY Mrs. Pierce passed away in Bridgeton, N. J., on January 22, 1918. She was born in St. Catherine, Ont., April 19, 1878. Mrs. Pierce was married in London, Ont., ten years ago, and made her home in Bridgeton until her death. She is survived by a mother, far her, three sisters and four brothers, who are left to mourn the loss of a loving daughter and dear sister. Following is the text taken by Rev. H. Harris, pastor of Tinty A. M. E. Church, Bridgeton, N. J.: Ecclesiastes 7,1: "A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death than the day of one." The words "the many strange are the words of my text, but having been uttered by a wise man of experience, they carry with them a force that must be deeply considered. "A good name is always desirable, it helps so much at any stage in life. A good name gathers within its compass all the essential things necessary to a life of recititude. A good name carries with it love, sympathy, dignity. A good name wins the plaudits of man and the approval of Heaven. This sweet, quiet, reserved and simple life that has just recently been called to the higher life has left its impress for good. She possessed patience in the superlative degree, and was able to say amid bodily afflictions: "I know that my Redeemer liveth." That peace that passes all understanding filled her soul. She loved her home, but like the poet could say: "I would not live alway. I ask not to stay Where storm after storm arises, Dark o'er the way." "Mrs Pierce was the daughter of good Christian parents, whose lives were stamped upon this dear one. This sweet life will be missed. Her voice was sweet in song, but is hushed forever on earth. "Husband and wife were very devoted to each other, and he will sadly miss her in the home. But he must look to God, Who is the Author and Finisher of our faith. "The church, home and community have lost one of God's noble women. "Born under the protecting folds of the British flag and reared on Canadian soil, she was called from labor to rest from beneath the Stars and Stripes while the land of her nativity the band of her adoration are standing shoulder to shoulder for a world peace. Rev. Mr. and Mrs. Ball and family wish to thank their many friends for their sympathy.—Canadian Observer, Feb. 23, 1918. CLEVELAND. O. Mt. Zion Congregational Church Whereas it has pleased our Heavenly Father it to remove by the hand of death our friend and former co-worker in this school, Mrs. Minnie Ball Pierce; Resolved, that we do hereby make formal expression and record of the high regard and great esteem in which she was held by the members of our school for her high character and faithfulness with which she did her part of the work for the Master while she was a member of the Philathea class; Resolved, that we extend our deepest sympathy to her bereaved family, and resolved that we recommend them for comfort in this hour to Him, our Father, Who death all things well; Resolved, that a copy of these resolutions be transmitted to the family of our brother, Mr. Seelig, and that the same be spread at large upon the minutes of this day's proceedings of our school—Candian Observer, Feb. 23, 1918. Owned Over 9,000 Acres Albany, Ga.—Barton F. Powell, a leader among our people of South Georgia, died at his home here recently. He was for years in charge of river improvement work on Flint river, holding the place through several administrations, and has engaged extensively in farming operations. He owned one unbroken tract of 9,000 acres of land in Baker county and operated more than 200 plows on his farms. He was one of the largest taxpayers in that county, and owned considerable property in Dougherty. He was about 55 years old. CORRESPONDENTS WANTED The old reliable Gazette desires an active agent and correspondent in every city and town in Ohio and neighboring states having a number of Afro-American residents. Only a little time on Fridays or Saturdays is required. We are especially destrous of hearing from persons in the following named cities: Springfield, Dayton, Piqua, Mt. Vernon, East Liverpool, Alcon, Lima, O., and other places, particularly in Ohio, where we have none. Write to the editor of The Gazette, Blackstone building, Cleveland, O., and terms will be sent promptly. Our readers will oblige us greatly by sending at once the addresses of persons in the cities named and others in the state, to whom we can write relative to the matter. "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 is awakened from the applause of the world, the countenances of relatives or the hearts of friends."—Charles Summer. PROTEST AGAINST WROG. To submit in silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men. The human race has climbed on Protest. Had no voice been raised against injustice, ignorance and lust, the inquisition yet would serve the law, and guillotines decide our least disputes. 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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. 40th St. Milton Watkins, chairman, 2524 E. 30th St. Wonderful opportunity for a good class of our people to establish themselves in a very choice neighborhood; all suites have been attractively decorated; heat and light is furnished. Call at apts between 3 and 5 p. m. or call Prospect 2108. CLEVELAND Social and Personal Mrs. John M. Mann, of E. 29th St. is still very ill. Fred D. Sampson escorted his little niece and nephew home to Jacksonville, Fla., recently. Miss Laura Lee is still quite ill and Mrs. J. S. Jackson is slightly improved. Mrs. E. Seelig, who suffered a relapse after her sister's death, is improving. 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 stressful and bitter. BEST FOR THE BLOOD — Puro Herbs. Sold only at Brown Drug Co. c E. 28th St. and Central Ave.—Adv. Geo. W. Johnson's cases against the police who arrested him, last year, was scheduled to come up in common pleas court, this week. He has sued for damages. 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. Noble Siesle, a sergeant in the former 15th N. Y. regiment, is in France with it. Likewise Captain Charles Fillmore, former major of the Ninth Ohio Battalion. 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. Miss Lou Francis, sophomore at Central high school, has been presented with a reward of honor for attaining the highest average in her class. Good! Do not 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. Mr. John Fairfax has been suffering from blood poisoning in his left hand. He sustained injuries while working about a hoisting machine at Tremont school. Rev. and Mrs. George V. Clark left, last week, for an extended visit with their son Dr. Clark, dentist, Memphis, Tenn., and with their daughter in Charlotte, N.C. Miss Helen M. Scott, well known manicurist who has been making her home with Mr. and Mrs. Phil Dennie, E. 90th St., for several years, and Thomas L. Bass, E. 101st St., were married, last week. St. John's W. M. M. society celebrated Bishop Payne's birthday, with special services and on Monday evening celebrated its 25th anniversary with a banquet in the church porch. Among the callers at The Gazette office, Thursday morning, were Dr. and Mrs. Oliver A. Taylor, Dr. Taylor has offices at 3743 Central Ave., over the Owl drug store. Call again, friends. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Seeging and family and Mrs. E. Parker wish to thank their many friends for sympathy in in their recent bereavement, the death of their sister, Mrs. M. E. F. Pierce of Bridgeham, N. J. The editor of The Gazette acknowledges the receipt, last week, of an invitation from Mr. J. Patterson, welfare director of The Hydraulic Pressed Steel Co. to attend the formal opening of the company's new welfare building, Monday. Thanks! The Apostolic Faith Assembly, formerly at 3325 Central Ave., will begin a special meeting. Sunday, at their new home, E. 40th St. and Orphanage, the Woodford dianapolis will be - present. Pastor, Rev. Alex. Schooler. The Crable and Forte criminal libc cases are scheduled to come up in probate court. Monday. These are the THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, OHIO; MARCH 2, 1918 *S. LEVIN, 3102 Central Ave. W. T. GRANT, 3512 Central Ave. *OPEN SUNDAYS. ones instituted by the editor of The Gazette, last December. Attorney Henry L. Thomas, 512 Superior Bldg., is representing "The Old Reliable." Chas, S. Sutton, Esq., announced Tuesday, that he had secured "a default judgment in Squire Brenner's court against the Reality, Housing and Investment Co., for J. E. Cooper, janitor of "The Forest" and others of its buildings during the month of January. 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. The Young Men's Sedulous club gave a splendid concert at Cory church, last week Wednesday evening, and inaugurated a live campaign for members. Samuel Perry spoke on "The Conservation of Manhood. Chairman of committee, P. L. Williams. Officers of the club: L. M. Mason, pres.; A. M. Stokes, Sec. Star Calanthe Drill Corps has installed the following officers: Mrs Anna Saunders Little, captain; Mrs Luulu Bead Brown, first lieutenant and Mrs. Marie Williams, second. Addresses were made by Grand Deputy Randolph and Lieut Duncan of Co. D Dance music was furnished by Mrs Celia R. Thurman, pianist. Some copies of The Gazette, of last Saturday, were not delivered until Monday morning owing to last Friday being a holiday and consequent congestion of mail the following day. last Saturday. All of our "heart of the city" mail seems to have been delivered promptly, last week Friday and Saturday mornings. There was only one delivery of mail, last week, Friday, Washington's birthday. Replying to a letter received, Saturday, by Mayor Davis from the Chamber of Commerce of Dawson, Ga. stating that transportation would be furnished to any number of Cleveland Afro-Americans who would go there to work. Public Service Director Beman stated that owing to the dearth of labor here in the city as far as possible would be retained. Over 500 are employed in city departments. Frank Preston, porter in a barber shop at 4602 Scovill Ave. is in the City hospital with a fractured skull, sustained when he was struck by Patrolman Canfield as the policeman was making an arrest, late Saturday night. During the scuffle the policeman was wielded by Preston. Preston is not expected to live. Patrolman Canfield and Kooms had entered the shop to place Harold Foy under arrest as a suspicious person. Preston interfered and started after Canfield with a razor, it is claimed. Foy, who lives at 2419 E. 49th St., was arrested. The local branch of the N. A. A. C. P. should investigate this case. Mrs. Goo, S. Mason and Mrs. D. F. Ferguson of Belle Vernon, Pa., who visited their daughter and son, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bryant of 2202 E 33rd St., for ten days, left, last Friday morning, for home. On Thursday evening, a reception was tendered them by Mr. and Mrs. Bryant which was largely attended and proved very enjoyable indeed. Among those in attendance were: Mr. R. Bundy, and a gentleman friend, of Chicago; Messrs. Frank Doctor, B. Stewart, the editor of The Gazette; Mrs. Jos Hodges, two daughters; Mrs. W. French and Frank Berkun and a trombone solo was superly played by the hostess. Light refreshments were served. Wm. R. Irving of 9515 Gibson Ave., one of our oldest residents, died Feb. 9, 188, and was buried in Woodland cemetery on Feb. 12. Formal services, at the residence, Mrs. Belle Smoot officiating. Three daughters, Mrs. Lotte Gordon of Gibson Ave. Mrs. Ester G. Cooper of Ft. Myer, Va., and Mrs. Josephine Pankey of Little Rock, Qa., and a son, Mrs. Quinquefield, to survive the deceased and have the sympathy of the community. Little Esther Gordon, age 10 has been very ill. Pneumonia. Mrs. Pankey, who arrived before her father's death, will visit her sister at Ft. Myer on route home. Mismesdames Gordon and Pankey visited The Gazette sanctuary, last week. Tuesday afternoon. Mr. James Roller, 2352 E. 28th St., possibly our oldest citizen and resident, died, Feb. 19, after about one year's illness, doubtless due to old age. Funeral from Shiloh Baptist church, last week Friday afternoon, and interment in Woodland cemetery. There were two other funerals from that church the same day. Mr. Roller was born at Clarksville, Tenn., and as near as can be learned about 1816, making him 102 years old, but is thought to have been older. For many years he was a deacon of Shiloh church. He is survived by four children—Horace J., and Margaret, of this city; Arthur W. Roller and Mrs. Harriett Coward of New York City. Mr. Roller was a plasterer, working at his trade, years ago. The recent meeting of the Optimistic club at Mrs. M. J. Nelson's, W. 110th St. was exceptionally interesting. Mrs. Charles Waddell recited several Dunbar selections; Mrs. Nelson gave a piano solo; Mrs. Thomas, a visitor, read several humorous selections; Miss Mamie Rose and Mrs. Victoria Allen gave short talks and Mrs. Willa Randall spoke on puré food. The hostess served refreshments. The meeting at the president, Mrs. Della Offer's, Pine Ave., Wednesday evening, proved equally enjoyable. This club is doing splendid work for charity. It has volunteered to furnish coffee for the Old Folks' Home, and has recently furnished a family of nine children with provisions, and clothed three other families. This is the kind of charitable work that counts. St. James A. M. E. church, Hudson Ave., was well attended, Sunday. The pastor, Rev. O. W. Childers, spoke in the morning on "The Spirit in Which Christ Faced the Future"; and in the evening on "The Migration Movement." Quite a number of persons have recently joined this church. The stewards are planning to celebrate the 19th anniversary of the organization of the church, April 12, and the W. M. society will give a reception to the new members. The Sunday school, under the direction of Supt. F. E. Young, is making preparation for Easter and the Adams-Ramey Men's Guild is preparing for a mother's banquet and service in May. Mr. D. Boggess spent last Saturday in Ravenna. Mrs. O. W. Childers is spending a few days in Akron. Mrs. Emma Childers, mother of the pastor, is seriously ill in Kenton. The pastor will shortly begin a series of Sunday evening sermons on "Great Examples." Mrs. R. Koiner was recently elected president of the stewardess board, and Mrs. Wm. Jones, its secretary, Mr. Henry Reed and Miss Estella was aill. The infant son of Mrs. and Henry Harris was buried, Rev. T. F. Harper is assisting Rev. J. C. Turner in his church work at Ravenna. Food administration rulings affecting hotels, restaurants and boarding houses, received by the county food commission, Wednesday, do away with all further observances of wheatless days in these establishments. Instead such places are required henceforth to serve "Victory" baked products every day of the week. One of the rulings requires that all pastry cakes, cookies, cakes and other forms of this product be used with at least 33 1/3 percent of wheat substitutes included in the mixtures, and that cake cakes, waffles, and the like carry at least 75 per cent substitutes. Cleveland restaurants belonging to the Cleveland Caterers' Association (white) will go the food administration one better on this ruling, H. W. Willcox, secretary of the association, told officials of the county food administration, Wednesday. He said members of his association are anxious to place Cleveland in the lead over all other cities in this matter and that henceforth they shall produce only cakes, pastries and cookies containing 50 per cent of substitutes. 2324 AN IDEAL WORK DRESS 2324—Striped seersucker, checked gingham, chambray, khaki, drill, percale and lawn are good for this style. Both fronts are cut alike, so they may be reversed, if one front should become soiled. The fulness is held by a belt. The Pattern is cut in 7 sizes: 34, 36, 38, 40, 42, 44 and 46 inches bust measure. Size 38 requires $6\frac{1}{4}$ yards of 44-inch material. The dress measures about $2\frac{1}{2}$ yards at the foot. A pattern of this illustration mailed to any address on receipt of 10 cents in silvery or stains. 2340 A SIMPLE BECOMING DRESS FOR THE GROWING GIRL 2340—Serge or gabardine are good for this model. The skirt and waist could be finished separately and of contrasting material. The waist is finished with coat closing. The skirt is a straight plaited model. The Pattern is cut in 3 sizes: 12, 14 and 16 years. Size 14 will require 55% yards of 44-inch material. A pattern of this illustration mailed to any address on receipt of 10 cents in silver or stamps. FINDS WAY TO SAVE MEN FROM U-BOATS Sailors Equipped With Oxygen Apparatus Can Leave Divers at Great Depth. A method of saving lives from wrecked submarines has been invented by a German engineer named Drager. It is in use not only in the German, but in other navies. The method is described as follows: The damage to the U-Boat will not always be so extensive that the midships cannot give refuge to the crew. In this case there need be no despair of rescue, even if great depth of water makes the work last several days, or if the lifting of the wreck is impossible. The screw is protected against death thru suffocation for several days by an air purifier, which is always in operation when the craft is under the water. The Draeger disinfector separates automatically the air which has been breathed from the injurious carbonic acid and other foul gasses and freshens it again with the new oxygen for rebreathing. If a submarine is unable to come to the surface by its own power it sends a buoy up on a cable. The glaring red buoy indicates to searching rescue ships the exact position of the suken U-boat. Furthermore, a phone from the submarine is connected with the buoy. If, after a few days, the regularly repeated air examinations show that the purifying apparatus is not going to hold out, the crew must leave the boat to escape suffocation. Rescue from a great depth is made possible by means of a lifting and respiration apparatus. The device not only makes it possible for the wearer to breathe under water for at least an hour, but it also carries him up to the surface from a depth as great as 180 feet and helps him to swim on the surface for hours. The most important part of the apparatus is an oxygen respiration device with automatic disinfector. Then there are the respiration sack carried on the back like a knapsack, and the mouthpiece with nose clasp for closing the nostrils and the necessary connecting hoses. The air which has been breathed passes thru the hose into a so-called potassium case, where it comes in contact with grains of potassium hydrate and sodium hydrate, which absorb the poisonous carbonic acid and eventually are converted into potash. The purified air then mixes with oxygen from the oxygen tank, flows to the respiration sack and is ready to be breathed aferesh. When the moment comes to leave the boat the bottom valve of the submarine is opened, so that the boat entirely fills with water, for only then can the windows be opened. The windows are opened and the first man grips the boycue bag and is carried upward by the driving power of his tightly filled respiration sack and his swimming vest. South American Says They Have Made Him and His friends Well. Now the way to health is declared to be the lowly banana—and authority for the statement is none other than Thomas A. Edison. When Gen. Rafael Reyes, former president of Columbia, South America, arrived in Washington, D. C., a few days ago on a diplomatic mission, a friend remarked that he was looking much better than when he was in the capital two years previous. The general is 65 years old. Then the former Colombian president revealed the secret of his health. Bananas, he asserted, were responsible for his condition. He said Mr. Edison had advised him to eat them, and quoted the inventor in explaining the nutritive value of the food. That Mr. Edison held such a view previously had not been generally known. "General," said Mr. Edison, in giving his simple health formula, "the stomach is like the boiler of a steam engine. It must be kept clean to work with regularity. Chemical analyses have been made of all the fruits and vegetables of the temperate and tropic zones, in search for one which would give strength to vital cells by containing the three elements essential thereto — norrishing food and tonic to purify the blood, phosphorus for the brain, and, what is more important, an efficient and mild laxative for the stomach. "Every morning, two hours before rising, eat one or two very ripe bananas—the peel must be black — and masticate them carefully. Immediately afterward drink one large glass of very cold water. For two hours afterward lie in bed, which facilitates the cleansing of the stomach and the assimilation of the phosphorus and nutritive substances." "I have not failed one day in the last two years to follow this beneficial regime," said General Reyes," and it has given me back my health. Numerous friends in Patagonia, Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Panama and other countries where I have traveled and to whom I gave this remedy have affirmed its efficacy. "Unfortunately, it is difficult to change one's habits, and out of perhaps one hundred individuals there will only be two who possess the energy to follow the banana course of treatment. The treatment relieves or cures dyspepsia, heartburn disorders of the liver and kidneys, and even obesity. For children it is excellent, also for weak and enemic persons. I give this great cure to the world, that everybody may profit by the wise advice of Mr. Edison." Every man is entitled to his opinion, but not every man is entitled to impose his opinion on his neighbor.—Buffalo Times I have an important confidential message for you. It is written in a very formal, professional, and polished script. Write to Bob, a well-respected, professional writer. Write to Bob. 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Officer Falls in a Bog and Suffers Agonles Until Rescued by . ‘Band of Natives, LONDON, England.—Horrible expe- Hences of a British aviator who came down in an East African jungle are described by him in a letter just se- ceived by a relatives here. The aviator, Lieut. G. Garwood, went ap to bomb a German ambush on the Rufji river, but through en- gine trouble had to descend in the bush, the machine landing with 9 broken propeller in a bog. It took him four days to make his way to a Place of safety. He tells how in the dusk he was eonfronted with an ugly black animal about four feet feet high with vicious tusks. He climbed a tree and prepar ed to put in the night there. Later he opened bis eyes and saw something like two green electric bulbs about thirty feet from the tree. They moved round in a circle. This continued for forty-five minutes. “The tension was unbearable,” he writes. “I wanted to scream, shout and yell all in one, but instead I burst out with “The Admiral’s Broom,” and with a full-throated bass I roared out the three verses. No applause, but a reward—the leopard slunk away. Why had I not thought of it before? “I went through my repertoire. 1 Iaughed as I finished ‘Two Eyes of Graw. It seemed so ridiculous. Then 1 got on to hymms, remembered four verses of ‘O God, Our Help of Aces Past,’ and sang the ‘Amen, too. The whole thing had its ludicrous side.” Next morning while swimming a river he passed seven yards from a erocodile's mouth, but just reached the bank in time, Without food or arms—his only weapon of defense his nail scissors—his progress through the awful bush was about one hundred yards an hour. His clothing was in tibbdns, and his flesh exposed to the thoras, Word grass and flies. He swam seven more rivers that day and sank down exhausted against @ tree. He could hear a lion roaving about 500 yards away, and, somewhat Reerer, the grunting of a hippopota- mus. “Being exhausted, I more or less Jost consciousness for perhaps half an hour or so. Nothing short of a hippo charging could haye made me ciimb & tree. Am afraid life had little to offer about that time.” It was while lying here that the Heutenant had the annoying experi enge of surveying two large baboons, the size of a small man, quarreling over his trousers, now in threads, and among the tops, of forty-foot trees. ‘It was not until he had passed an- other horrible day and equally terrific ‘night in the bush that he at last was picked up by some natives. “Their eyes seldom left me” he adds. “Undoubtedly I was a strange sight—my legs bare and bleeding, my short vest sodden, dirty and torn, no trousers, of course, just a dirty sun helmet, a short stick in my right hand and with four day's growth of beard ‘on my dirty face.” SWEET WEDDING GIFT FOR ST. LOUIS PAIR. Given 10,000 Pehnies in a Bucket of Molasses. ST. LOUIS; Mo—The wedding pres- ent which Guy Wright, manager of the Wright building, gave to F. E. Wainwright, superintendent of the building, was just too sweet for any- thing. It was $100 in pennies, 10,000 of them, ail in a five-gallon bucket of milasses. ‘Wright had to have help in carry Ing his gift into the office of the build- ing, where the formal presentation took place. Wainwright declared that he and his bride, who was Miss Ethel Kayser of Semple avenue, would surely find some way to sift the coppers out of the sorghum. PIGS DRUGGED WITH OPIUM. ‘They Eat Some Poppy Stalks and ‘Siean Thires Daye. JERSEY SHORE, Pa.—Ashur Tomb of Oriole, a nearby village, thought hhis pigs had some kind of a sleeping wickness when, not without prodding, they came up to the trough with eyes half shut. ‘They were too drowsy to eat, leav- ing their corn half finished, quite con- trary to hog usages. They remained ‘im this condition three days, and then got well. ‘The explanation came when it was remembered the pigs had been fed the talks from a bed of poppies, which xs been mowed down. The poppy ‘the origin of opium. His Reagon for Leaving. He had come in answer to the ad- vertisement of 2 position open for a bookkeeper, when the following con- versation took place: ‘Manoger — “The last man we had here had the place for forty-three years.” ‘Applicant—“Why did he leave?” Manager—“Oh, he was one of those fellows that's never happy ux:less he's ‘on the go.” “Does your wife neglect her home ig making speeches?” “Not @ bit of it,” replied Mr. Meer. ton. “Sho always lets me bear the speeches first.” MAROONED ON ISLAND IN RIVER 22 DAYS. Meny Persons Passed, but Couldn't Hear His Ca!lo-Bark and Water His Food. CODY, Wyo—That he was maroon- ed on a small island in the Shoshone river for twenty-two days—constantly in sight of a bridge across which trgffic was streaming, unable to reach either bank of the river because of n inability to swim and unable to make those on the bridge who saw his sig- nals comprehend that he was doing more than waving them a friendly greeting to them—was the rather fan- eiful but apparently true story told lo- eal authorities by Dave Gootch, a sten- ographer of Jonesboro, Ark., who Is now under the care of # physician heve. { Gootch asserts that near the end of last mouth, after taking dinner at a restaurant here, he went out on the street. The day being exceedingly warm ho wandered toward the river, He says that as he neared the river he Decatne dizzy from the heat and sat down wnder a tree, from which point he professed that his memory was a blank: until he awoke in the night, to find himself on the island in’the river How he happeaed to get on the isiand and couldn't get off by the same means he gained the spot of land is point overlooked in his narrative. Gooteh claims to have remained on the sland for twenty-two days, each day signaling to those passing on the bridge, and always unable to make them understand that he wanted aid because the roar of the river drowned his voice. He aznerts he had nothing to eat but the bark of shrabs growing on the is- land, that he was almost crazed by his situation and that he frequently thought he would die. He was event- ually rescued by a deputy sheriff after @ small boy had reported seeing his body lying on tho island. While the features of Gootch’s story tally, as to his having been in Cody recently disappearing after registering at a hotel, and having been found on the island. there are a great many who wonder why he did- n’t make some attempt to reach the mainland, Many a man has learned to swim in less than twenty-two days, particularly when he had all day in which to practice. MINERS’ SUPERSTITION CAUSES ARREST OF 18, They Bury Two Comradss Kilied by Lightning to Revive Them, ELLSWORTH, Pa—The supersti- Hoa that 2 man struck by lightning will recover if he be buried at once caused the arrest of eighteen miners employed near here, but . later they wore roleased by order of Deputy Cor- oner Clifford 8. Patterson of Ells worth. ‘Twenty miners were in a cabin on Pigeon Creek when a bolt of lightaing struck John Smith of Bentleyville, Pa. and Mike Simon of Marianna, Pa. Both were instanuy Killed. Without the formality of a coffin, the eighteen men dug a hole in the back yard and buried the men temporarily. When Dr. A. 1, Kammer and Con stable James Gilmore reached the cab- in on a remor of the accident, they Saw to trace of the dead bodies and asked for them, ‘The men pointed to & new mound and refused to dig up the bodies because they “would lose thelr life.” Constable Gilmore arrested the men and brought them here, after exhum- ing the bodies. When Deputy Coroner Patterson made an examination, he assured the constable the men had been killed by a lightning bolt and the prisoners were released. GROUNDHOG AND WIND BUILD SAND MOUNDS. Unusual Sight at Midway, N. Y.4 Arouses Interest of Travelers and Visitors. MIDWAY, N. Y.—When strangers enter this village by automobile or railroad trains they observe numerous mounds in North street at the corpor. ate limits, and often see little ant mals disappear in them. When they reach the village hotel the majority of strangers are sure to inquire about the mounds, ‘The mounds are the work of ground- hogs—woodehucks, as they are known here—and the wind. ‘The earth sur- rounding the mounds is a light sand. Years ago woodchucks appeared in the sand lot and dug holes. After a time it was observed that mounds had appeared jn the sand lot. ‘The woodchucks had packed the sand so hard around the holes that the ‘wind had no effect, but blew it away from the oles for several feet, thus forming the mounds. ‘At the approach of persons the woodchueks climb the mounds and disappear in the holes. Many of the mounds are very steep and the wood- chucks often slip back several times before they are able to reach the summit and disappear. APPLES SEPARATE A COUPLE. Man Says Wife. Was Suspicious of His Greath. DETROIT, Mich.—There is no hope for a happy married life for Charles R, Griwatseh as long as he eats ap- les. BiAceorling to bis bill for divéree, ev: exy Umi his wife, Gladys, smelled the odor of apples on his breath, she mis- took it for the aroma of hard Mquor. As a result, Charles, asserted, she Seolded and nagged him until often she “became inarticulate.” Charles admitted that he occaston- ally Ulew the foam off a glass of beer etter a hard day's work, but he resent: i the injustice of an apple breath be fag construed so cruelly, THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, OHi0, MARCH 2, 1918 VERY FEW SURVIVE THE CENTURY MARK year and contain all manner of statis: tical data on the engrossing subject of life and death, Few of the actuarial tables go be yond the age of 104 years—not be: cause no one ever lives longer than that—put because bona fide cases are too great a rarity to be included in the calculations. ‘The arithmetictans are inelined to the belief that most re- ports of modern Methuselais have a few extra years tacked on for good measure, particularly when the num: ber of birthdays gets past the 110 mark. It is generally necessary to leave the actuarial compilations of insured persons for broader tables based on the entire population to find records fof cases beyond the age of 103 or 104 years. But even those complete tabu: lations seldom pass the 110 point. Ex: amination of records based on official census data showed that out of ap proximately 40,000,000 population In the eastern part of the United States there was only one report of life until 110, and that was in the case of a ne- gro woman. In her own little circle she was doubtless credited with being at ieast 120, omly a matter of ten years and not really so important when the century mark bas been passed. Actuarial inquiry, however, does not bring the conclusion that all reports of extreme longevity are in error, In- sured persons, for example, are requir- ed to prove their age, und in such cases documentary evidence could be obtained. But the majority of the in- surance cémpanies, except for annulty policyholders, offer to wind up their Dusiness when avelient reaches the ripe age of 96. If a policyholder is still in the ring at that age the larger companies usu- ally call quits and pay the policy Just as if the client were dead. ‘That is, the companies stand ready to do that, al- though it must frequently occur that ihe policyholder retorts with a curt re fusal, a8 it would not be particularly comforting thought to know your in surance company considered you good as dead: ‘he actuaries have accepted the general rule that women outlive men. Their investigations and calculations have established this fact clearly. Comparison of sex mortality tables time and again shows the lease of life to be on the woman's side, Taking that particular comparison the ease of the negress of 110 “official years” led all comers, the nearest approach on the male aide fell two years short. A tabulation of whites reported one case of 107 years and another of 106. Again the elder was a woman. These two cases—and doubtless true ones— of unusual iongevity were the only ones recorded in census figures deal- ing with millions of, persons, thereby emphasizing tie contention that bona fide cases even under 110 are rarities. Since it is the practice to wind up all contracts, with the obvious excep: tion of annuity policies, at the age of 96, the Insurance companies do not maintain a detaifed record showing the oldest policy. Sine» many of those which might ran into record breakers are wound up at $6, those tabulations that are kept are necessarily incom plete. Mortality tables based on a lange portion of papiiation in the northwest- ern states showed that 104 years was the greatest age, Por purposes of eon venience these tables are put up in 100,000 form. In this particular rec- ond the age started at zero with 100, 000 persons. ‘The first year—infant mortality, which is ordinarily high— there wore 12,581 deaihs, but at the end of twenty years 78,519 were still living. ‘The change in the next thirty years was not unusual, with 61,210 surviving, but by the time the three- quarter century mark was reached the tabulation showed that only 22,593 of the 100,000 were still alive. From that point on there was a steady decline until the last died at the age of 104. While the foregoing table had to do with general population figures, there is a considerable betterment in the tabulations of insured persons. In tite ‘ease of the insured persons there is the general rule of approved pliysteal condition to start with, and the Amer ican experience table of insured per sons. for example, shows 69,804 out of 100,000 surviving at 50 years, as against 61,210 in the general tabie. ‘The American experience table shows the highest mortality in the sev- enty-third year, when 2,505 deaths oc- curred. Only three out of the 100,000 were left at 95 years, and they all dropped from the record in the next twelve months, either through death or otherwise closing their contract with the company. A British annuity experience table show its longest life at 103 years, amd this for a race whose people averaxe slightly longer on earth than their American cousins. Again this isa se lective, insured group of persons pre- sumably tikely in normal times to out- live the general run of population. NED AN RES 2 I Ta, FEMALE TURTLE PROVES TRUE TO DEAD MATE. In Her Grisf She Lays 21 Eggs Be side the Dienatehod Snapper. GRISWOLD, Conn—No faunal fa: ble is this tale of the devotion of a big snapping turtle to her mate, but it is vouched for by two good mea and true, Frank Geer and Clifford Barr of of buroush of Jewett City. Tho two young men were riding along the roed near Buti’s ridge re- cently when they spied an enormous turile blocking the way. In order io prevent the forty-pounder from sip: ping back into the swamp the young fellows held him by the tail ill they could decide what to do. As they had notiing ia the shape of @ weapon, It was planned that Barr shouid stand upon the turtle's back while Geer wont to a farmhouse haifa mile away to borrow an ax. ‘These measures suited the young mon but the urtle objecieyreniously and set off toward the sWamp. However, Barr was able to retain his footing on the shell until Geer returned, when « few blows of the ax ended the big fet low’s career. ‘The young men were going on a business errand, so determined to leave the cadaver of the turtle in a scala sack beside the rgd until their return. fi ‘When they came back a few houre later they were amazed to see the tue to's mate gliding off, after having laid twenty-one big, white eggs in a hole which she had dug beside the suck containing her consort’s “remains,” 1 was evident by her actions that she realized in some instinctive way that gomething was wrong. She man- aged to escape, but Greer and Barr have the twenty-one eggs and the do- funct Papa Turtle. WALKED $7 YEARS IN 10-FOOT CIRCLE, Obsessed, Would “Travel” to North Pole in Summer and Equator In Winter. COUNCIL BLUFFS, Ia.—Watking in g circle never more than ten feet in diameter, Hugh White, an aged in- nite of the Jobnston county infirm- ary, who died in that institution re- cenily, had‘traveled, according to the officials, 162,060 miles in thirty-seven years without stepping outside the boundaries of the farm—a distance of more that six times around the world, When White entered the infirmary he was possessed of an obsession 10 walk in a circle, and day in and day out he walked, always inta circle. In gcod weather he made his path in the yard; in bad weather his circle lay ‘within the walls of his little room, “Guess Vl make a trip to Paris to- morrow,” he would say. And the next morning he started on the Journey. Hour after hour he walked, day ater day. Every night he stopped, always at some imaginary city. Rivers, lakes, oceans cut no figure; if they were In his way he walked over them, nover taking the trouble to do any swim- ming. Some days he would announce to the other inmates that he had reached Peris and for a day or two he would rest. ‘Then he started on the back track for Jowa. On the outbound trip he cyays kept an accurate count of the ru. der of days the journey took, and [» ulvays tried to beat his “time” on the seturn trip, In hot weather White usually went north—sometimes as far as the north pole. And wo matter how torrid the weather, when he crossed into the arc- tic regions he always put on all the clothing he had. On the return trip he gradually discarded the extra gar: ments, When winter came he took a trip south. Sometimes he stopped in Flor- ida or southern California. At other times he went all the way to the trop- ics, In the latter he had small use for clothing, and upoa those occasions he wore the minimum permitted by jaw. CAPTURE LOST PARROT; DIVIDE $50 REWARD. Bird Resists Two Farm Hands Who Pind te Carehela PETERS CORNERS, N. Y.—Several weeks azo a parrot belonging to Ber- nard Roop disappeared from the Roop home. A thorough search was made for it, but it could not be found. ‘Then Mr. Roop offered a reward of $50 for its recovery. ‘Tuesday afternoon Ashton Fleck and George Piper were working in a corn field near here, ‘The men were attracted by a chattering a few rods away, and believing there was an in- sane man in the field, started an in- vestigation. ‘They walked to the center of the Jot and found two crows perched upon a stalk of corn and heard oaths utter. ed. The crows flew away at thelr ap- proach. ‘The men were about to aban- don their search when they saw a large green bird hopping around a Hill of corn. ‘The bird saw them and greeted them with a “hello.” It was Roop's lost parrot. ‘The bird chattered at the men a few minutes and then flew to a tall stalk of corn. Fleck and Piper followed the parrot and were surprised to find that it had built a nest in a corn shock, and had made a comfortable home, ‘The par rot offered resistance on being dis- turbed and swore at the men, repeat: ing the words, “D—n it, quit.” over and over. It was ¢aptured and returned to its owner, who paid them the promized reward, Before you call on your best girl al- ways send flowers to her to tell her the things you are too stupid to say. If the average woman had to choose between brains and beauty she would- n’t hesitate long. EVER HEAR OF THE ISLAND OF MARE? The chances are that you have never been to Mahe, ‘The tours of Conleguow it nots no P, and O. liners rattlo@own their anchcra chains in its turquoise bay; there are no hotels marked with significant stars in Bae- deker to be found in Mahe, Yet it is quite incorrect to speak of Mahe as ut off from the world. A steamer togches there regularly every two months. Besides that, seven or eight other ships a year put into the bay on one errand or another, Mahe looks like the second act tropical setting in a musica’ comedy. ‘The sea is a deep sky blue, the land is green as emerald with palms and tropic bush. ‘The waves rise smooth and lazy before cresting over in a sheeny curve to break in cottony white foam. Behind the belt of tall pals rise rocky hills, looking de- ceptively blue and distant in the damp air. The sky is flecked with soft white clouds, that can bank and darken in the turn of a hand, to blow up one of the sudden tropic rain squalls, Mahe lies almost on the equator, in the largest island of the Seychelle group. The Seychelles are exclusive sorvof islands. ‘They have withdrawn 4s far as possible from all other land- masses, They are about half way be- tween Zanzibar and the tip of British India, in the Indian ocean. ‘There are a few European families living in Mahe; St. Simon Stylites qu his pillar had little or no advantage of them in the way of isolation and loneliness, ‘They differ from the good Saint however in that they have no natural love for a hermit existence, and the traveler who has spent his time and efforts in reaching their far away little hamlet is assuced of a royal welcome. ‘hoy may take away all his old newspapers and magazines and drain him dry of all information and gos- sip about world affairs, but he will gain a new feeling of importance from the manner ot his reception. The mere fact of coming from the outside is the greatest possible distinction. Life in Mahe is hard to bear; the visitor wonders how the inhabitants put up with it, ‘The equatorial heat is frightful; there is no difference be- tween summer and winter in this city on the line. The oppressive damp heat that we know on a few summer days prevails in Mahe 365 days in the year, ‘They speak of a hot season and a cool season there, but you feel that they mnust have an exagerated power vt drawing fine distinctions, ‘The people sally forth at dawn; at 7a. m. houses are shaded and closed for the day, Until sunset everyone is a prisoner to the heat. ‘Their life is a striking example of the fact that the human organism can adapt itsett to almost any environment, COLLECTOR PAYS $900 FOR A POSTAGE STAMP it Is Relic of the First Series Issued by U, &. in 1847. A United States postage stamp which is seventy years old, sald to be the only copy in existence, sold in New York recently for $900, a price deciared to be the highest ever paid for an American stamp in this coun- try. A New York capitelist was the purehaser, In the Government archives at Washington this stamp was found among a package of dusty documents. It is one of the first series wich the United States postal authorities is sued, in 1847, after the discontin- uance of the practice of individual postmasters printing their special franaing labels. It :s a 10-cent blue, on bluish paper, bearing a portrait of Washington, Or- inary thls Ie not an sicatyaon siamp, bug this spechnen was dicoy- ered Used as a half-atamp and pre- paying only 5 cents, postage. In other wore:, the stamp was cut horizon tally and paid postage to only halt its face value, thus enhancing ite pilatelie worth many times over. ‘The sale of the stamp ineiuded the Joint disposal to the came purchaser, for an extra $450, of a Scent black stamp issued in 1845 for the Baltl- more postoflice by James Madison Buchancn, then postmaster there ‘This was the earliest date when stamps were used in the United States, PREHISTORIC. MONSTER LOST Bones of Dinosaurs Go Down With Torpedoed Boat. ‘Two skeletons of the duckbill dino- saur were lost to science with the sinking by a German raider of the ship Mont Temple, according ta Charles H. Sternberg of Lawrence, Kan,, who found the bones in the Red Deer country in Alberta, Canada. ‘The prehistoric monsters were thirty-two feet long and were on their way to the British Museum, Mr. Stern- berg said. They filled twenty-two boxes and weighed 20,000 pounds. When the shipments failed to ar rive in England an inguiry woe insti- tuted by Mr. Sternberg. He was in- formed of the loss. by\Canadian rail toad oficial,” CAN SCIENCE MAKE ARMIES INVISIBLE? Cannon Painted Many Colors Become Less Distinct and Suggest Vari- Glored Ualionine, colored; Uniforms. If a regiment of soldiers were 10 marci thru the streets of one of our cities in a uniform of checkerboard pattern, arranged in squares of bright Ted, gr¢en and yellow, it would create, to say the least, a popular sensation. Yel it is by no means certain that this style of gostume, or something ike it, may not be adopted by our fighting men in the next War—not, be it understood, that they may sttike the -ye; but, on the contrary, that they may not be seen at all. One of the oldest of the new depart- ‘ures of the present war Is ti. utiliza tion of optical illusions fo: cheating the everwatchful eyes of the enemy, and in this line the most curious ex: pedicnt is that of painting things out of sight. ‘Thus, for example, an effort is made to render the big guns invis- ible by scattering daubs of she pri mary colors oyer the weapons and their carriages. Our own War Department has re cently been making experiments of the same kind, the great guns of the sea coast forts, and thelr concrete em- placements as well, being painted red, yellow, green and Wluo in the same way. It is found that by tals means they are rendered much les: distinct as targets, ‘The guns and gun carriages of our field artillery have likewise been ex. perimentally painted in stripes of green, yellow and red; and, thus chro- matically adorned, they ere found to be actually iavisible at a distance of only 1,000 yards. ‘The experiment in question, in the European war, has had its most im- portant usefulness in making guns less visible to enemy aviators fying overhead—an all-important aint in up- to-date artillery work being to preven: the foe from ascertaining the location of batteries. A battery once located may be destroyed by concentrated gunfire. ‘The daubs of colors confuse the eye of the observer in the acro- “plane, ‘Such a method, however, is very crude. It represents only a first. at- tempt in the development of a new idea which is destined later on to be applied in a selentifie way, in accor- danco with certain well-inown prin- “ciples of optics. ‘The daubs of paint confuse the eye, but if the colors were ‘properly employed they would make the guns actually invisible. Daylight, of ‘course, is made up of ‘all the colors of the rainbow mixed ‘together. In other words, the colors ‘properly mingled make no color, It follows, that a gun and its carriage “correctly painted would have no visi- bility at all at any considerable dis- tance, Neither, for that matter, would -an aeroplane flying overhead, We may have before long invisible flying ma- "War planes and’ military ballons ‘nowadays are painted light gray, to harmonize with the sky and render thom less visible. But a gray object im the sky can be seen. If no color it “cannot be seen, because daylight is of “no color. ‘The only problem is so to arrange the colors that, optically, they shall iiss, miateaeee tears ‘ecomplished by a mere scattering of -daubs of paint. ‘The thing has to be done on scientific principies. Whether “it would be better to adopt for this “purpose a checkboard pattem or a series of horizontal, vertical or wavy | parrallel, narrow stripes, remain* to be determined by-experiment, LIVES TEN MINUTES AFTER HEART STOPS “ym Going,” He Tells Her, When Something Bursts and Pulse Getene. to Back: ‘That Gideon P. Brown of Chicago and Lake Bluff, inventor, lived te minutes after his heart stopped beat- ing was the statement made by his widow. Mr. Brown's office was at 326 West Madison street and his home was in Lake Bluff. Recently the American Navy adopted a device of his, He was a grandson of Gen. Gideon J, Pillow of the Confederate Army. “Mr. Brown had heart trouble for a year,” Mrs. Brown said. “At 5:50 O'clock Tuesday night he was sitting in a morris chair at a table ia the living-room. I was standing. “Mr. Brown was perspiring. With his watch in his hand, he felt his pulse. ‘Then he said, ‘I have no pulse. I felt his pulse, and found there was no beat. Then He’ said, ‘My keart has stopped beating.’ ““As he so spoke, I heard a bursting sound. I think his‘heart burst then. I listenee to his heart, and heard no deat. “Mr, Brown put his watch and his newspaper onthe table, and said, ‘Blanche, I'm going.’ I helped him rise, and ue kissed me and embraced me, and I helped him to a sofa, two feet away. “He told me to see his lawyer--that everything would be all right for me. “He gave three quick gasps, ‘Then he said: ‘It's terrible to smother to death; well, never mind, dear; you have meant so much to me.’ “Then he died. The wateh showed it was exactly 6 o'clock, He had lived ten minutes after his heart had stop- ped beating.” “Mr, Brown’s death was ascribed to hardening of the heart,’ said Dr. G. Withers, one of Mr. Brown's physi- cians, “I don’t think Lis heart stopped beating entirely before he died.” ‘“Brequently in heart disease cases, tho the heart 19 beating, the haat ta hard to detect,” explained D.. Eman- uel Friend, an expert. DIME CREEK CAMP" SCORNS ALL “LIDS” ALL .DOORS WIDE OPEN LIKE ALASKA OF OLD. One Place In Northland Where Gold- seeker Can Tear Loose and i ‘Whoop ’er Up. ee NOME, Alaska, — The’ only wide open carp in Alaska just now 1s Dime Crock. Reeking with consolidated drunkenness, gambling and dance halls the new camp has dug itself a nice little ulcer on the tributary of the Kayokuk. ‘A little log cabin shelters the game- stors, where the gamblers have a high old time and rakcoffs mount as high as three hundred a night. Currency runs short and checks—mudstained and tobacco odored—indorsed by a do... different people pass for the chips when the gold and silver fail. Pangiggi, black jack, poker or such other games as separate a man play- fully from his money, are to be had for the asking, ‘The camp is without a deputy, and when the commissioner shows up in the vtoinity everything is innocent looking. But that isn't all, Of course, Dime Creek has a dance hall. It is popularly known as the Monte Carlo, where a couple of high- stepping ladies have Jnitiated the leading lights of Dime into the terpsi- chorean and other bacchanalian mys~ tories that may be referred to only as generalizations. Here the willing tyro reaches that stage of sociability wherein he is willing to whoop it up, and whoop it up he does with the help of the steersman who later guides him to the cabin where the real games are played. fe ‘The delightful condition of things has raised the mischief with the camp, but some of the sharks are a lot rich- er by their visits and it is a pretty prosperous field, No gold mines along the deposits of Dime Creek have produced the wealth that the litile log cabin has returned to those who have operated the games, and the figures are prodigious as to the limits played. It is evidently no place for pikers. Tn a single sitting fone man lost as high as fourteen hun- dred, another a couple of hundred. If this keeps up the owners of the green cloth will be able to buy steam yachts and buzz wagons, So, too, with the dancing ladies. A recent fair one from the: direétion of St. Michaels is said to have amassed a fortune in the dance hall, and her diamonds and gay toggery put her sisterhood from oth- erwheres in the Cheap John class. Yes, Dime Creek is a pretty easy camp with the lid off and the limit thrown into the creek. That's the fatement of fact whieh returning Dimeites brihg to Nome. SEES MOUSE IN BEARD OF MAN IN CHURCH, Little Rodent Meets Death Between ‘Covare of Mums Boek. FLOWER, N. Y.—Sunday morning Lucius Gilmer entered the church here-and took his accustomed seat. A few minutes later Mr. and Mrs. De- los Quimby entered and seated them- selves beside Gilmer. During the services Mrs. Quimby observed a peculiar movement in Mr. Gilmer’s long, reddish beard. A few minutes later she noticed a mouse partly emerge from the man’s whis- kers and quickly withdraw into its “nest.” She told her husband what she had seen, but he only Inughed at her as- sertion. However, during the closing hymn the mouse jumped from Gil- mer's beard into the open hymn book he held in his hands. He quickly brought the covers of the book togeth- er, killing the mouse. Gilmore says the mouse must have entered his beard while he was sleep- ing, It was too sleek and fat to be a “church mouse.” MAN SMILES WHEN HORSE KICKS LEG OFF. Here's Latest Adventure of Con- etable's Durable Limb. PHILADELPHIA, Pa—While Con- stable “Jim” Martin of Darby, was currying a horse the animal suddenly let loose a terrific kick. With a snep the constable’s leg flew off, hitting the barn door, ten feet away. ‘Smiling benevolently, the constable hopped over and picked up tte mem- ber. He found it slightly in need of repairs, but still good for years of ser- vice, ‘The constable’s leg, whieh is of wood, is noted for its durability. Five years ago he took it out hunting with him, and when his shotgun exploded accidentally the leg got the full charge. About three years ago a dog at- tacked him, sinking his teeth in the knee joint. The constable sighed wearily and straightened out his leg, closing the joint on the dos’s teeth, When the animal went away he left two teeth in the joint. FINDS ROOSTER IN AUTO HORN. Honking Awakes Owner, but Not the Sleeping Fowl. WELLINGTON, N. ¥.—Late on a recent night Ambrose Putt was awak- ened by the blowing of an automobile horn in his garage. He hurriedly dressed end armed with a revolver went to the garage and found a roos- ter roosting upon the horn. Putt says tle rooster was asleep, and that the noise of the horn did not disturb: him.