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Dancing Every Thursday Evening at Barksdale's Academy, 10550 EUCLID AVENUE IN STROTH BLUE LAWS OF COLONIAL DAYS Penalties Provided for Swearing and Sunday Drinking—Death for Horse Stealing. Council Bluffs, Iowa.—Among the archives of the D. W. Keller family, one of the pioneer families of this city, is the complete codification of the laws of New Jersey from the surrender of the old colony to "Queen Anne on the 17th day of April, in the year of our Lord 1702, to the 14th day of January, 1776," according to the title page. It embraces all of the laws and royal ordinances for seventy-four years, and the book is not as bulky as the compiled ordinances of the City of Council Bluffs. The compiler, Samuel Allison, remarks in his preface, "a few good laws, well understood and executed, must be a happiness to a people, and are much to be preferred to a large code, which by their very number become intricate or soon forgotten, and, of consequence, are often yolated. "Legislation is the greatest act of superiority that can be exercised by one being over another, and how few can be supposed to be qualified for such a momentous task?" The old volume, bearing the marks of its nearly 150 years, but sturdy as a piece of granite, contains about all of the old blue laws of the Puritan colonists, as well as all of the statutes found necessary to be enacted from the second year of the reign of Queen Anne on thru the kingships of George I, George II, and George III, beginning when the capital of New Jersey was located at Perth Amboy and later at Burlington. A law passed at the first session of the General Assembly at Burlington, Dec. 12, 1704, begins with the declaration that: "Wheeless, profaneness, and immorality have too much abounded in this province, to the shame of Christianity and the great grief of all good and sober man, a prohibition law is enacted prohibiting 'cursing, swearing or breaking the Lord's day.' The penalty of Sunday violation is a fine of "six shilling or four hours' confinement in the stocks," half the amount for "cursing" and a shade less for plain swearing. For getting drunk six hours in the stocks was the penalty. A special section regulates drinking, but only on Sundays, and says that if "any public-house keeper permits any person to tipple or drink in his house on the Lord's day, especially in the time of divine worship" the hotel man was cinched for a six-shilling fine. The old boys fixed it all right for the favored fowr by insisting the clause, "except for refreshment," making it certain that it would not be bone dry. But they wouldn't stand for a red light district, and both men and women who were caught were given the option of paying thirty pounds or being "whipped at three several courts, and each time they shall receive thirty lashes on the bare back rite each of the several courts." They commenced to get rid of the harsh laws half a century later, for on December 6, 1769, the Assembly repealed the death penalty, for petty thieving, but directed that it should be "lawful to pronounce the death sentence upon any person convicted of the atrocious crime of horse stealing." The greater part of the time of the legislatures seems to have been devoted to repealing laws, for at the end of the sixty-four-years an index of three pages named all of the laws in force. The old volume came down to the Keller family thru Mrs. Keller, who was a Sellard, a name that appears several times in colonial documents. It has descended directly from one generation to another. BURGLARS CAPTURED THRU PARROT'S TALK "That'll Do, Boys," Says Bird—Masten, Takes Men by Buse Grand Rapids, Mich.—When Arthur Simmons' parrot, "Peck," was awakened from slumber by the flashlights of two burglaries the bird quietly said: "That'll do, boys: that'll do." The burglaries, surprised, dropped cloth bags with silverware taken from a sideboard, threw aloft their hands and said they would submit to arrest without resistance. Simmons, investigating, after arming himself with an alarm clock, switched on a light and ordered the burglaries to face the wall as he allowed the light to fall for a second on his timepiece, and turning to Mrs. Simmons he instructed her to call the police. New the burglaries are behind the bars, while "Peck" is being dined on the best pet food money can buy. THE GAZETTE FRESH OHIO NEWS Written by 'The Old Reliable' Gazette's Correspondents Throughout the State What Our People Are Doing Each Week—Church, Personal, Social, Lodge, Literary and Musical—Marriages, Deaths, Etc. YOUNGSTOWN—Mrs. G. M. Fagan and Mrs. Wm. Saunders remain about the same—Garfield Butler is very ill—Mrs. Rosie Lewis is doing after an operation—Charles Clark and J. Taylor are sick—James Albright left, Sunday, for Virginia, hoping to improve his health—Louisa Edwards court and Logan lodge will meet, March 13 and 14, respectively. CADIZ—Mrs. Mayme Hall, who visited her mother, has returned to Cleveland—Mrs. Hattie Epps is visiting in Akron—Mr. and Mrs. Robert Pettress have moved to Steubenville—Miss Mcdessons Tomma and Martha and Miss Manille Tyler were in Pittsburg, last week—Mrs. Wesley Duling attended the funeral of a relative in Youngstown, last week—Rev. Myers has located in Pittsburgh—Tell your friends to order The Gazette from the local agent. son, visiting relatives.—Mr. Wyaa Young is very sick at this writing. SANDUSKY—Local Odd' Fellow celebrated Peter Qgden day, Sunday at the Second Baptist church. Mr John Shadd read the proclamation from the fountain head and Mr. Wm. Alexander was master of ceremonies. ReGeo. D. Smith preached a fine sermon to a goodly number and the solo choir furnished music. Mr. Battle with his cornet fills the vacancy made by the absence of a soprano singer. Stephen Wallace is getting weaker. Mrs. Amanda Taylor is in proving. The committee, J. R. Davis, J. McSmith and Mr. Samuel Scott's called meeting at the church at 4 p.m., was a success. With the Second Baptist church second in registration, there are 12 churches—Mrs. H. Richard was out Sunday and looking better. She has been very ill CORESPONDENTS must mail all letters at their 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 items announcing entertainments to be held in the near future, must be paid for in advance at the rate of cent per week, so owed to a line. Our rates for display advertisements will be sent on application. HILLSBORO—Mrs. Charles Greene returned to Cleveland, Friday, after a visit with her father, Mr. John Captain—Corporal Carey Zimmerman of Camp Sherman spent Sunday with his mother. Mr. and Mrs. Johnson of Ky., are visiting the latter's grandmother, Mrs. James Nelson—Mrs. Samantha Saunders, called by the serious illness of her daughter, Martha.—Burt Williams, of Columbus was here, last week. Mr. and Mrs. John T. Williams entertained Rey, J. J. Burr and family at dinner, Sunday.—Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Ellis of Cincinnati spent Sunday with the latter's mother, Mrs. N. Christy.—Mr. Walter Wilson is no better. Mr. and Mrs. John Hudson entertained Mr. and Mrs. Frank Blair of Bridges, Saturday.—Mrs. Frank Brace spent Sunday at Camp Denni- CAPTAIN CHARLES FILLMORE Former Major of the Ninth Ohio Baptalion Is With This "Somewhere in France." Feb. 25, 18. New York City — Following is a letter written to Hen. Wm. H. Pitten of Nebraska City, Neb., by Col. Hayward (white) of the former 15th N. Y. regiment, Afro-Americans except some of its commissioned officers. "I hardly know, what to write you about, ourselves not canonizable. We took a twenty-hour journey that would have given any north pole expedition on record my life. We detained so cool my life. We are at about 3:00 o'clock a.m. The ground was frozen a foot deep and covered with snow. When the double doors at either end of the barracks swung open and the companies started to march into them after their hiker from the trains to the camp, they did look a great deal like barns, and of course all of my boys began to whinny and gallop and say 'Giddad' and 'Whoa' to each other. Their good humor arises above every difficult situation apparently, am knocking at the door that they doing great, and that I have had only one prisoner assigned to the guard house since arriving here. "The first week we were here it was cold, cold, cold; everything frozen up but the ice. The second week we were more moderate but brought dessert rain, resulting in lakes, gulfs and oceans of mud with no beton on. Last Sunday, however, God sent us a perfectly beautiful lake with wonderful ice which dried off enough high ground for a ball game between the second and third battalions. The French population, civil and military were much excited—the long flies and the curved ball being peculiarly astonishing to them. "Since we were on the ship the common topic of discussion among the boys is why they didn't enlist in the navy where one gets as much for riding as the soldier gets for fighting. The topic of discussion is 'I am realizing more than the tremendous responsibility of being on this great and wonderful adventure in command of 2,000 singing, laughing fighting children—for after all, ESTABLISHED AUGUST 25,1883 And Issued Every Week on Time Since son, visiting relatives.—Mr. Wyatt Young is very sick at this writing. SANDUSKY—Locod. Old! Follows celebrated Peter Ogden day, Sunday, at the Second Baptist church, Mr. John Shadd read the proclamation from the fountain head and Mr. Wm. Alexander was master of ceremonies, Rev. Geo D. Smith preached a fine sermon to a goodly number and the select with furnished music, Mr. Battles by the absence of a soprano singer, Mr. Stephen Wallace is getting weaker—Mrs. Amanda Taylor is not improving.—The committee, J. R. Davis, J. McSmith and Mr. Samuel Scott's called meeting at the church at 4 p.m., was a success. With the Second Baptist church second in reg. there are 12 churches, H. R. Johnson and looking better. She has been very ill.—Read The Gazette, friends. It is your home paper and its editor a "home boy" who has been doing for the race for nearly 35 years, all the time, every day. Why not take care of home interests first? Sign for The Gazette, Rev. G. D. Smith, agent. SMITHFIELD—Mrs. E. E. Johnson delivered her farewell discourse, Sunday evening. She preached at Meltwyre, Monday evening, and left Tuesday, for Cleveland. While here she was entertained by Mesdames C. H. Harris, R. Veney, E. Powell, G. Binns and others. Miss A. D. Davis and Mrs. Nina Bowman of Steubenville, visited relatives here, Saturday and Sunday. Mr. Fred Carter spent the week-end in Wheeling and Bellaire. Rev. J. M. Williams and many others attended an entertainment in Mt. Pleasant, Saturday evening. --The Misses Newsome and Bruce, E. H. Hiles and others of that city attended services here. Sunday evening. G. Binns, Wm. Williams, Jas. Harris, Jr. G. Cross, R. Beall and W. Davis were out of town, last week. Mr. Hiles attended church in Meltrieu Sunday. Miss N. Harris and Mrs. J. Davis spent several days in Steubenville and Wheeling, last week. Mrs. Abe Dorsey, of Homestead, Pa, accompanied Mrs. L. L. Hairgraves home, last week, for a few days' visit. --The free will offering for Mrs. E. Johnson, evangelist, netted $73.85, $67.85, raised here and $6 in Mentrieu. We are sorry that she had to leave us so soon but we hope to have her again. Rev. Johnson of Steubenville was here, Saturday and Sunday, and preached, Sunday evening. that is what they are, and I presume that is the reason I love them every one—good, bad and indifferent. I feel more and more certain, as the days go by, that they will give a tremendously good account of themselves when the big crisis comes. I will feel more sure of them in some lines of work than others. I am positive they will be the greatest shock troops ever known, and personally have no fears of the tremendous noises of heavy artillery and bombs destroying their nerves, as has been the case when the colored troops from Asia, so we and am informed, those those boys on the battlefield alongside the noisy elevated roads. All of them have dodged traffic most of their lives. They stood the protracted firing on the range extraordinarily well, and I don't believe any new strange noises will produce anything more than funny remarks about stage thunder, etc. Perhaps I am more sanguine than I should be. I must say they were the calmest and most stoical lot of men on the ship in the hours of peril—real or forced—that I could imagine. I wish I could letter to the captain of the transport in which he pronounces them the cleanest, most dignified and best disciplined soldiers he had ever seen on a transport; which, of course, was very gratifying. All of them are learning French, and, of course, have started in on the biggest word: first. Trenton, N. J.—New Jersey has taken a step in advance of the other states of the Union by establishing in its. Department of Labor a Negro Welfare Bureau. In 1934, the National City, director; Thomas Fortune, of Trenton, assistant and secretary; Dr. J. R. Hawkins, of Atlantic City, medical inspector; Mrs. Pauline B. Baxter of Newark, uvenile delinquent inspector. Elected Magistrate Lawnside, N. J.—For the first time in the history of this state an Afro-American has been elected magistrate for the Small Cause Court (of Camden County). This honor falls to the business man, who was urged to run for the office by both races, and was elected by an overwhelming majority. COL. CHARLES YOUNG "The Cat Out of the Bag at Last"—Some Pertinent Questions Which Explains His Case! We would like to ask the Adjutant General of the United States Army a few questions: 1. Did not the examining board before whom Col. Charles Young appeared, recommend that he be retained in the service and not retired? 2. Are not the findings of the examining board, with this recommendation, on file at your office? 3. Is it legal to retire an officer of the United States Army before he appears before a retiring board? 4. Did Colonel Young ever appear before a retiring board? 5. Do not your records show that he did not appear before a retiring board because the examining board, decided not to recommend him for retirement? 6. who, who, "retired" 'Colonel Young? 7. Was he ever legally retired? 8. Who was it in your office who sent him to Ohio to do a job which your office he立刻 let him do? 9. Is there any connection between the fact that Charles Young is black, and you were born in Louisiana; and does that connection explain the extraordinary truth, one of the best officers in the United States Army, whom Porshing Rosevelt, Ballou, and a dozen others have recommended and still recommended to command a regiment, is rewarded for a quarter century of service to his country by being virtually a prisoner in Ohio on his return with his do? 10. Who is it in this case, that is hindering and obstructing the office of the United States Army and its work in this mighty and righteous war—black colored or a white general?—Denver (Cd) Star. CRIMINAL NEGLIGENCE By G. C. Brewer, Evangelist, Winchester, Tenn., in Nashville Banner, February 18, 1918. As a constant reader of your editorials I have noticed that you always deprecate lynchings in the strongest terms and that you also lament the stigma which these manifestations of savagery and heathemism bring upon our beloved South. I approve the sentiment and jacently endorse your words. But in view of the recent lynching at Estill Springs and in considering our attitude—the attitude of the Banner and of all the rest of az. toward this shameful crime so shamelessly perpetrated right in our midst I cannot overcome the feeling that our preachments against these things after they happen is more or less of a camouflage; a sort of defense against the criticisms of states that these outreformers will be there by any genuine effort made to apprehend and punish the members of the Estill Springs mob? We know there will not be any such effort. There never is. Was there any effort made to prevent mob violence in this case? No! CONVICT LEASE SYSTEM Florida Governor Lees Convict's Labor at $360 a Year. Tallahassee, Fl., Gov. Gatts, and six members of his cabinet, sitting as the board of state institutions, have leased 769 state convicts, nearly all Negroes, to the highest bidders. The state will receive or the those of these $360 a year each prisoner, Stan C, Swearingen, the new attorney, general, who was a blacksmith until long after he became 21, made a strenuous fight against the board's disgraceful and shameful action, declaring the state was taking blood money and that the "prisoners after all are men and not chattters." BUNDY'S BOND REDUCED Special to. The Gazette St. Louis, Mo., Dr. Leroy N. Bundy's attorneys have succeeded in having his bond reduced to $24,000. The bond will ensure his freedom (temporarily if friends come to his rescue with Illinois property, which will schedule $28,000). Local express companies are crying for Afro-American help. Many are driving auto trucks and doing other work than clerical. is the first Afro-American clerk to be employed in the U. S. quartermaster's corps here. CRABLE FOUND GUILTY! FORTE AWAITING TRIAL! That Was the Situation When THE GAZETTE Went to Press on Thursday. Crable Made an Excellent Witness for THE GAZETTE--The Other Witnesses Were Mr. Wm. Brack and the Editor-- Judge Hadden's Surprise FILAT EAST ST. LOUIS MASSACRE BOB SCANLON NO "SLACKER." As The Gazette went to press on Thursday afternoon the attorneys on both sides of the case of the State of Ohio against Charles H. Crable, pastor of Mt. Haven Baptist church, this city, were arguing in Probate Court a legal technicality to which Judge Alexander Hadden had called their attention at the conclusion of the trial, Monday. The case (criminal libel) was the one instituted, last December, against Crable by the editor of The Gazette as the result of the publication of his vile letter, Dec. 1, 1917. It was opened about 10:30 a. m. and came to the surprising close at 2 p. m. (no noon recess) when the judge announced the defect in drawing the information on which the case was based and said that the case would be continued until this Thursday afternoon, when he would hear attorneys on both sides on it. This alone apparently prevented him from pronouncing sentence as against every one of the defendants (Crable), a minister, for writing and causing to be published so a letter "about any one" the worst parts of which he (Crable) admitted when on the witness stand he knew were not true when he wrote them. The other persons to appear as witnesses were Mr. Wm. Brack, proprietor of the Edward Doctor Cafe & Bring Room, formerly known as the Kaufman office for whom Mr. Brack appeared. The malicious Crable letter was thoroughly canceled and sifted by Mr. Rothkopf, a lawyer, and seconded by attorney, Henry L. Thomas, Esq., and it was the information gained as a result of this that caused him to "handle Crable without gloves" in his opening and closing arguments Some Inside Views as Given Congressmen Investigating the "Riots." Washington, D. C.—The following are parts of statements of Congressman Dyer and Congressman Rodenberg made before the House committee regarding the East-St. Louis riots: Congressman Dyer said: One man in particular who spoke to me is now an officer in the United States Army Reserve Corps, Lieut. Arbuckle, who is here in Washington somewhere, he having come here to report to the adjutant general. At the time of these happenings he was not in the employ of the government, but he was there on some business in East St. Louis. He said that he saw a part of this killing, and he saw them burning railway cars in yards, which were waiting for transport, filled with interstate commerce. He saw members of the militia of Illinois shoot Negroes. He saw policemen of the city of East. St. Louis shoot Negroes. He saw this mob go to the homes of these Negroes and nail boards up over the doors and windows and then set fire and burn them up. He saw them take little children out of the arms of their mothers and throw them into the fires and burn them up. He saw the most dastardly person in the outstretched perpetual in this country, and this is undisputed. And I have talked with others, and my opinion is that over 500 people were killed on this occasion. Congressman Rodenberg said: Now, the plain, unvarnished truth of the heresy as in *Joye* told Secretary Baker that the government in East St. Louis completely collapsed at the time of the riot. The conditions there at the time begged description. It is impossible for any human being to describe the ferocity and brutality of that mob. In one case for instance, a little ten-year-old boy, whose mother had been shot down, was running around sobbing and looking for his mother, and some members of the mob shot the boy, and before his life had passed from his body they picked the little fellow up and threw him in the flames. Another colored woman with a little two-year-old baby in her arms was trying to protect the child, and they shot her and also shot the child, and threw them in the flames. The horror of that tragedy in East St. Louis can never be described. It weighted me down with a feeling of depression that I did not recover from for weeks. before the court. The first person to take the witness stand was the editor of The Gazette who denied the vile and vicious and very harmful charges contained in Crable's letter. He was followed by Mr. Brack who made an excellent witness, substantiating the statement of the editor as to his conduct, etc., when patronizing the Edward Doctor Dining Room, and refuted the miserable statements in his letter having misrepresented the editor, and that place of business. They were followed by Crable who proved a better witness for the editor than he did for himself. When asked by Mr. Rothkopf how rawe he had paid for the publication of his libulous letter he replied $10. Later on he claimed to have paid but $5 of this amount. Then when asked whether he had paid five or ten or any part of the money for the publication of the letter, Crable said that he had not paid any of it but that he had promised to and would so as it was a debt of honor" which he included in the case against him was clear that the trial really seemed unnecessary for a conviction. Ormond H. Forte's trial for the publication of the vile, malicious and exceedingly harmful letter was to follow that of Crable's and undoubtedly would have done so on Monday" but for the discovery by Judge Hadden of the defect in the information filed in the Crable case. At this writing (Thursday), it is impossible to say whether Forte will be placed on trial this (Thursday) afternoon immediately following the Crable case or come later in the week, next week, or later in the same two successor officers were in attendance Monday, as were present when the cases were called for their preliminary hearing in Squire Brenner's court, several weeks ago. Throught the trial Mr. Rothkopf was ably assisted by Mr. Henry Thomas, attorney for The Gazette. See next week's Gazette for further particulars of both cases. Ordered Surgeon to "Chop Of" a Finger—It Was Finally Done. Paris, France—After having been taken out of the trenches because of his stiff index finger, and fearing that he would be involved in the entirely, "Bob" Scanlan, the Afro-American prize fighter, who has been in the French Foreign Legion for nearly three years, recently went to London and ordered the surgeon of a military hospital there to "chop" his finger off. The surgeon demurred. "Chop it off," demanded Scanlan. Then, seeing the doubtful look in the surgeon's eyes, Scanlan added quickly: "Oh, I'm no slacker. I don't want that finger off so I can't pull a trigger again. My middle finger's still good and they won't have me around with my fore-finger stiff. I can convince them I've used my middle finger from childhood and then they'll me go back to the boys in the legion." Scanlan was led into the operation room. He refused to take an anesthetic. He said: "I've seen enough blood in this war, and some of it's been my own. I guess I can stand a little more of it. Get out your cleaver." While Scanlon locked on without glance, the forefinger was cut off as glance, the knuckle. A young American volunteer nurse attached, she held the basin, and Scanlon grinned in amusement as a young doctor picked her up and carried her off. Seanlon arrived in Paris last week and is now back with the 1700 regiment. His finger has completely healed. He writes that he now has a machine gun of his own and that all is "hunky dory." Seanlon doesn't care whether he is transferred to the American force or not. He writes: "I want to be where there's something doing. When things start up on the American front I want to come over, but things ain't as lively there now as they are Here." He has been wounded three times. THE TIME EXTENDED FOR The time for filing applications for war insurance policies by men in actual service has been extended to April 12. February 12 had been fixed as the last day for filing applications, but through a resolution of Congress, appended to President, the time-was extended to April 12. IN UNION LAY IS STRKKIN SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS OLD PAPER MONEY IS SOLD BY U. S. First Goes Thru Machine Process of Destruction—Bought to Make Souvenirs. Uncle Sam is never too busy managing the Government to pick up an honest dollar on the side. Part of his income is from rent of a Chinese restaurant, which operates in a Government owned building, and he constantly is doing business with second-hand furniture dealers and buyers of junk. That the government never gives away anything it lawfully can sell is shown by the fact that it sells the refuse of the money it destroys. Of what use is the pulp of macerated paper money? Of no use whatever. That is what officials of the Government said for many years. But that it has value is shown by the books of the Treasury Department, which show that last year Uncle Sam disposed of his stock of macerated money pulp for more than $25,000. There were many bidders for it and it finally was disposed of to a New York manufacturer. This is what he does with it. Have you seen in a souvenir shop gray designs of the Capitol, the White House and the-Washington Monument, which the galesman informs you are "made of money?" If you have pursued your investigation you have been told that the Washington monument, for example, is made of macerated money, which once had value a circulating medium of so many thousands of dollars, the amount being determined largely by the way the salesman sizes up the prospective purchaser. Sometimes he will attempt to "get away with" the statement that the souvenir represents what once was a million dollars. It can be had for a dime. Paper money is never macerated so long as the Government can keep it in circulation. When the bills grow so thick that they are becoming indistinct and are looked upon suspiciously as possible germ carriers, the banks send them to the nearest sub-treasury or direct to the Treasury Department in Washington. At the treasury a man washes them with a view to making them again presentable, by putting them thru a machine which gives them a chemical bath and washes and irons-them. If they cannot be cleaned by this method they are condemned and delivered to a commission-created by law for destruction. This commission consists of a representative of the Secretary of the Treasury, of the United States treasurer and a civilian, who represents the people of the United States. In the presence of these commissioners the worn-out bills first are placed in a chemical solution which extracts the ink. Then the paper is fed to a machine which has a system of knives, which cut it into bits. These bits are run thru rolls, emerging as sheets which are delivered to the manufacturer, who converts them into souvenirs of Washington. The value once possessed as money by the souvenir exists only in the imagination. No estimatable valuation can be placed upon the pulp of which it is composed for the reason that bills of various denominations are macerated together. A thousand dollar bill and a one dollar-certificate may enter upon the macerating process at the same time. Besides, with these bills may be sheets of defective bills which have come from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing and which, according to law, must be destroyed the same as worn-out money. It will be warm next summer, notwithstanding the fact that the sun is steadily cooling off. The great heat radiator is already old and past its prime of life. In 15,000,000 years it will be stone cold—dead, in fact. So declared Joseph McCabe of London in a lecture before the Pittsburgh Academy of Science and Art. He also told his audience that any unusual disturbance throwing the earth off its balance would mean-collision for all living things that inhabit it. If the earth should deviate in the slightest degree from its accustomed pathway as it revolves around the sun, it would be "all up" with this world, he said. He quieted the audience, however by declaring that if such a calamity should occur, that will have plenty of time to settle their affairs in America, but their affairs in some other countries might have to be canceled, he ventured to predict. The GAZETTE SUBSCRIPTION RATES (In Advance) One year ..... $1.50 Six Months ..... 1.00 Three months ..... .00 Subscribers are requested to remit by postoffice money order or reg- istered letter Entered at the postoffice in Cleveland, Ohio, as second-class mail matter. Blackstone Building, Cleveland, O. Member Ohio Legislature: 1894 to 1896; 1896 to 1898; 1900 to 1902 THE GAZETTE is the oldest, and has the largest bona fide circulation, double that of any newspaper in the interest of Afro-Americans, published in the state of Ohio, and comparison with any will immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWS-TEST AND BEST in the country. 10,000,000 Afro-Americans. 300,000 in Ohio. 25,000 in Cleveland. SATURDAY, MARCH 9, 1918 The "world war" may be the cause but the fact is we did not "hurt ourselves," this year, celebrating Douglass or Lincoln's birthday. And these are wonderfully prosperous times, too! Again we arise to remark that a U. S. supreme court decision of long standing makes it impossible for Congress to legislate against lynching. It is a matter for the legislatures of the various states to handle. That is why lynching cannot be made "a federal crime." 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 signal 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. --- Since Col. Charles Young was "retired," officers of the same, and even of a lower grade, in the army entitled to promotion after him, have been appointed Brigadier Generals. Therefore, if he has not been legally retired, as stated in an article published elsewhere in this paper, he is entitled to promotion to at least that grade and to the command of more of a unit than merely a regiment. Col. Franklin A. Dennison of the 370th Inf., (formerly the 8th Ill. Reg.), now stationed at Camp Logan, Texas, is apparently the only Afro-American colonel on the active list in the U. S. army, and our highest officer. Let us make an organized effort to have justice done Col. Young, regardless of what he may say or think as to the wisdom of such action, and secure to him, and the race, still higher rank in the army. It is worth fighting for! If the Negro grocery keeper, the doctor, the newspaper man, the preacher, et al, were asked who is responsible for their existence, nine eases out of ten they would answer in one voice, "the common or little Negro," as he is often styled. It seems that when the Negro goes to school long enough to scan a little Greek and translate a few simple phrases everything done by his race is of a depreciated value. The groceryman's goods are too stale, the dentist can't extract teeth painlessly the drugs are of an inferior quality handled in our drug stores, the Negro paper never contains any news to his liking and the preachers sermons are stale and lacking in homoletics and logic. In fact, he finds nothing good enough for him to patronize among his own people, so he sallies forth allowing failure, so far as he is concerned, to knock at every professional man's door. This seems exaggerated but it is self evident and cannot be gained. Almost every profession and enterprise among our people depends for support almost exclusively upon the so-called "little fellow." If there are any "knockers" they most frequently come from a combination of "professionals" who of all others should be the pushes, who of all others know what it means in sacrifice for a race man to launch a business and build it to such proportions that he may give employment to a few members of the race. But they are the Brutuses that are saying: "Caesar is too ambitious," and thus they thrust their spears, aiming a death blow to the few who are helping to raise and sustain a standard for the race's capabilities in business activities. These men of push, pluck and determination have undauntingly looked the foe in the face saying: "And thou too, O. Brutus?" Yet, pushing onward have gone to the top, lifting others as they climb.—Denver Star. John R. Shillady (white) the new secretary of the N. A. A. C. P., seems to be a "live wire." He has held office but 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 burning 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 clementy 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. BUT THEY TORE OFF HIS UNIFORM There was a young captain named ' Pereless. Whose performance of duty was fearless; With a patriot's zeal. He exposed a big steal. So now let us change it to "Peer less." Captain Pereless, as all will recall, looked into the Base Sorting Company contract, the Kaplan family affair engineered by Mr. Samuel Kaplan, one of the "dollar a year" members of Mr. Eisenman's committee. The captain's activities so disturbed Mr. Eisenman that he threatened to "show Captain Pereless "where he got his orders from." But the officer continued his investigation, with the result that the Kaplan contract was canceled, or supposedly so, and the United States was said to have been saved $300,000 that would otherwise have been paid to the Base Sorting Company in excessive profits on army cloth scraps. Being subpenased before the Senate investigating committee, Captain Pereless went and told the senators the facts. Whereupon he was presented with his undesired "honorable discharge" from the army. The senate committee sat up and took notice. Major General Goethals, who was put out of the shipbuilding business and put into the quartermaster department when Major General Sharpe was put out, denied that Captain Pereless was discharged for having testified before the senators, regardless of any threat Mr. Eisenman might have made. It was also explained that it was a question of Captain Pereless's efficiency. But now General Goethals rises to remark, in a memorandum addressed to Secretary Baker, that "it is desirable to remove the impression that any charge of general inefficiency was made against Captain A. E. Pereless!"—Cleveland Daily News. THE NEGRO'S BRIGHTER OUTLOOK One of the most notable actions taken by the American Federation of Labor at its Buffalo meeting has practically gone unnoticed. We refer to its decision to organize the Negro workingmen, notably in the South. By this vote it struck down race prejudice in union labor circles, and, it is to be hoped, put an end to the bitter antagonism which has prevailed among organized workingmen against the colored American. We are, of course, not so blind as to believe that this action was due to any purely altruistic motive. It has been forced by the growing power of the Negro workingman, his rise in the social and industrial scale and his recent migration in such large numbers to the North. At East St. Louis there is pretty convincing evidence that union labor engineered or instigated the horrible riots which equaled some of the worst German crimes in Belgium, as by the deliberate burning of Negro infants and the shooting of absolutely innocent men, women and children. At Buffalo, there was, fortunately for the good name of labor, a realization that a different policy must prevail. Curiously enough the white southern delegates were reported as favoring this move. Perhaps this is wholly due to the fear of unorganized competition and the use of Negroes as strike breakers. Whatever the motive, it is such a long step forward towards recognizing the industrial equality of the Negro as to cause much rejoicing among the colored people. North and South the color line has rigidly been drawn against them by the very men who preached the equality and solidarity of labor. Here and there in the North Negroes have been admitted to unions, but in the main the color line has been as rigidly drawn against them as on the railroads of the South. It was an untenable position for the Federation of Labor, and enlightened (or unenlightened) self interest has now led the way to a reversal of its historic and unfair position.—New York Evening Post, HE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, OHIO, MARCH 9, 1918 MAN Jan. 4, 1918. Uri—Please for the fol- respondent To The FROM CAMP SHE RMAN Chillicothe, O., I. War, 4, 1911 Editor Gazette, Dear, Er:—Please give space in your paper for the lowing letter and obfite a responder select: To any lady of Ohio who may have a son, brother, husband or beau I some army camp: Please write me letter of cheer as I have not hear from home since I have been in camp Every boy receives news, except me A card or letter will be apreciated I am from Shreveport, La. Respectfully yours. ALBERT E. BERS, 325 F. Sig. Bn., Co. C, Caz up Sher mpp. Chillicothe, O. Gives College $63,504 GIVEN Orange, S. C.—The leg is met Jan. 7 and appropriated $ for the erection of an Academic chapel at State College is the largest single appropriated during its history. Two stories for girls were erected in at a cost of $36,000 each and a factory for boys was erected last summer at a cost of $37,000. Prof. R. S. kinson, president, has made immeasures during his administration, college has representatives of so far the leading schools of the county's faculty, such as Oberlin and heret colleges. University of Chicago and Fisk universities other schools. Wealthy Planter Dead Pecan Point Ark—Brown McCadden, a member of the race, one of the wealthiest plantation owners in Mississippi county, Ark., died here, Feb. 24. Pneumonia. McCadden was born in Yanceville N. C., Dec. 25, 1860, and had been a resident of Arkansas for more than thirty years. He owned a large plantation of more than 260 acres, with an enormous amount of stock, store buildings, etc., and bore the good will of every one of his neighbors and associates. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Su McCadden, two brothers and one sister. The Way "Down Sooth." Montgomery, Ala. -Forty-sight colored and white men were examined here, last week Tuesday, and forty-two were accepted by the county draft board. Only fourteen of the forty-two accepted were white, the remaining twenty-eight acceptances being colored men. Although the county's present quota of the first draft is only 98 men, 130 have been physically qualified for general military service. The larger majority are colored men, of course! After Lynch-Murderers After Lynch-Murderers Columbia, S. C.—After a conference with Sheriff Morris of Barnwell county and Attorney General People, Gov. Manning announced Sunday, that he is determined to bring to justice the persons who lynched Walter Best, last Saturday. Seventeen white men are under bail. Organize to Suppress Lynch-Murder Nashville, Tenn.—Feb. 24, at Wilson Auditorium of the Y. M. C. A. there was organized by leading white citizens of this city a Law and Order League for the suppression of Lynch murder. The meeting followed a preliminary meeting held Feb. 17 when a committee of seven was appointed to draft resolutions and to submit a plan of action to the meeting of the 24th. Lynched Three This Time! Rayville, La.-Jim Lewis, Jim Jones and Will Powell were lynched by a mob of white brutes near Delhi in an isolated section of Richland parish, last week Tuesday, as the cutgrowth of trouble, Sunday, when a white farmer and a Negro were killed. WILD DOG PACK IS FOUND IN ARIZONA Famished Canines Pounce Upon Cow and Kill Her—They Flee When Leaders Are Shot. PHOENIX, Ariz.) — Then dare wild dogs in Arizona, dogs that are repaired once to have been high in the ways of civilization, but that grew tired of the conventions of polite dog society and wandered off to become pandas and outlaws after the fashion of the coyot. A good-sized pack of these feeble canines, led by a big brindle bulldog, was encountered in the Phi Alps mountains, between Globe and Ray, by H. C.Malloy, a Los Angeles mining engineer. In a letter received by A.I.Sebey, Malloy writes that William Haggerty, engineer for an Arizona copper company, was treed by the pack and only prompt action on the part of Malloy in shooting the leader saved the situation. Both men were interested in a mining property located in a wild timbered country, writes Malloy, and started out to look over the claims. They reached the camp on horseback and Hagerty left Malloy in order to bring in some horses from a nearby pasture. Malloy soon heard calls for assistance from his friend and on going into the pasture saw Hagerty effectively treed by a pack of yelping dogs, led by the frost vicious bulldog Malloy had ever seen. The famished brutes had been attacking the pane-streaked horses when Hagerty warded up to be attacked in turn. He took to the trees. Malloy rushed back, procured a rifle and returned in time to see the pack hard on the trail of a terror-striken cow, the brindle bulldog clinging tenaciously to her nose and another brute clutching the flank. The cow fought a game fight, shook off her enemies several times, but they returned to the struggle and finally brought her to earth and to death. Haggerty was still taking in the situation from the tree-top. Malloy attempted to shoot the two leaders, but the brush prevented him from doing so until they discovered and made for him. Within fifty feet he brought down the leaders with two shots and the rest of the pack, scampered off. Roxanne Rox—"Harold, may I ask the clergyman to omit from the marriage service the word 'obey'?" Harold Hardup—"Certainly, darling. Just tell him to make it 'love, honor and supply,'"—Puck. 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. Wake House, Washington, D.C. 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 WEEKEND DOINGS OF THE RACE Joe Walcott, one-time welterweight champion of the world, is a fireman on an Atlantic freighter. Prof. H. T. Kealing, president of the Western University, Quindaro, Kan., died Feb. 26 at Kansas City, Mo. Dr. C. N. Garland of Boston, Mass., was recently elected a director of the Tremont Trust Company of that city. Mr. Charles Scott is the councilman of the third ward of Worcester, Mass. Only 33 Afro-American voters in his ward. The disgrace of permitting the infamous "Birth of a Nation" to show in Boston, Mass., in 1915, was wiped out, last week, by its newly-elected treasurer, Andrew J. Peters. Maple H. J. Jackson, elected a alderman in Chicago, last week has served two years in the illinois legislature. He defeated former Alderman Oscar De Priest. Priest, about 30 President John Mitchell Jr. of the Mechanics Bank of Richmond, Va., and also editor of The Planet of that city has been notified of his election to individual membership of the Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America by the board of directors of the organization. Albert Harris and Sanford Caldwell of Denver, Colo., have secured a patent from the U. S. government for the improved airplane and have improved the Harris-Caldwell Engineering & Aircraft Co., capitalized at $190,000. Mr. Harris the inventor of the motor is an expert mechanic. Negro leaders must not depend upon white people. They must come from the bosom of the race; they must think the thoughts of the race; their hearts must beat in unison with the hearts of their people. They must be responsible to their people and their people alone for their leadership. No race is good enough to pick leaders for another. As much as we like our white friends they cannot pick our true leaders; for leaders are more suitable to and work for the people who pick them.-Prof. R. R. Wright, editor of the Philadelphia (Pa.) Christian Recorder, organ of the A. M. E. Church. ATTACHMENT NOTICE In the Court of Charles Brenner, J. P., for Brooklyn Twp., Cuyahoga Co., Ohio. Elizabeth Dennarle, pltf.及 Ida Gordon, San Francisco, Calif. deft. Notice is hereby given that on the 21st day of Feb'y, 1918, an order of attachment was issued in the above entitled action for the sum of $42.00 and $20.00 probable costs. Said case is filed on the 31st day of April, 1918, and 7 wcked a ELIZABETH DENNERLEL 3t PROTEST AGAINST WEONG. 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 not would serve the law, and guillotines decide our least disputes. The few who dare, must speak and speak again to right the wrongs of many. —Ella Wheeler Wilcox. Editorial in the Des Moines Register, daily publication (white), of Des Moines, Ia., February 22.) The third court martial growing out of the outbreak of the Negro soldiers at Houston is now in progress at San Antonio, Tex. Without question some more colored soldiers will be found guilty of a breach of discipline and shot. This is well enough so far as it goes, for discipline must be maintained in the army, no matter what the provocation to violence may be. But in the course of three court martial trials ought not the real facts of the outbreak at Houston to be disclosed, and the provoking causes rebuked? Everybody knows that the colored soldiers did not run attack of their own accord, nor invite the firing squad for slight reasons. Something happened to make the situation intolerable. Why is not that something brought to the light of day? Why are not the citizens of Houston who provoked the riot at least subjected to mild censure of official publicity? The United States is commissioning colored men as officers in the army. There are places in the United States where a colored officer wearing his uniform and observing the citigroup of his position would not be safe. An assault upon an officer of the army is a serious offense. Why is all the punishment meted out to the colored soldiers? Why are other citizens of this free country not instructed officially concerning the rights of officers and enlisted men, and informed, officially what will and will not be tolerated in the way of insult or assault? Now that we have our minds on the general subject of democracy for the world, why should we not iron out the difference between democracy and democracy of government, here at home, 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 destruded of hearing from persons in the following named cities: Springfield, Dayton, Piqua, Mt. Vernon, East Liverpool, Akron, Lima, O., and other places, particularly in Ohio, where we have none. Write to the editor of The Gazette, Blackstone building, Cleveland, O., and terms 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. 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If you wish to see the editor call there, please. We advise our readers to carefully examine The Gazette's advertisements before making purchases. Business men who advertise in this paper should have the patronage of our people. The fact that they advertise is assurance that they want it. All matters for publication in current issues of The Gazette must be in the office by 4 p. m., WEDNESDAY of that week, at the latest. Classified Advertising ... Department ... FOR RENT—Nicely furnished room for rent at 2305 E. 86th St. WANTED—An elderly woman who desires a home and small salary. Call at 2363 E. 87th St. FOR RENT—Furnished rooms with gas range to cook on; extra kitchen, at 2385 West 41st St. This is a splendid opportunity. CLUB NOTICE — The Working Men's Social and Literary club meets, every Friday evening, for business and gives a dance, every Monday night, at their hall, 3103 Scovill Ave, H. P. Williams, pres., 3040 Central Ave. L. V. Orton, see, 2667 E. 40th St. Milton Watkins, chairman, 2524 E. 30th St. 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 R. J. Callaham, of 2249 E. 38th St. is quit ill. Mrs. Mayme Hall has returned from a visit with her mother in Cadiz. Mrs. Chas. Greene returned, Friday, from a visit with her father in Hillsboro. Mrs. Jessie Thrower was called to St. Louis, recently, by her father's illness. A storm seems to be brewing in that "Nat'l. Comfort Committee" local movie contest. Rev. B. K. Smith, 2279 E. 101st St., pastor of Mt. Zion Baptist church, in convalescing. T. C. Foster returned, recently, from an extended visit in Watertown and New York City. Mrs. Susie Taylor, Arthur Ave., is convalescent. She entertained Mrs. Delia Offer at tea, recently. BEST FOR THE BLOOD — Puro Herbs. Sold only at Brown Drug Co. or E. 28th St. and Central Ave.—Ady. Mrs. E. Johnson, who has been doing evangelistic work in northern Ohio, returned to the city, last week. Robert K. Hodges, foreman at the Cleveland Hardware Co.'s plant, returned from a trip to St. Louis and Chicago, recently. Help save those five soldier boys of the 29th Infantry by writing to President Wilson as suggested elsewhere in this paper. "Do your bit!" If you owe The Gazette, do not wait for the collector to call on you but come to the office and pay. It is so much pleasant and better. Mrs. Thomas Cook, mother of Miss Bessie Cook, who took special treatment at St. Luke's hospital, has returned home greatly improved. Sunday week was celebrated as conference day by local missionary societies at Triedstone Baptist church, E. 25th St. and Orange Ave. Do not allow your landlords to take advantage of you in the matter of rentals, etc., but come to The Gazette office when you have troubles of that kind. Miss Vivian Davis, a talented reader, was in the city last and this week, the guest of Mr. and Mrs. James G. Offer, of Pine Ave. She spent Sunday in Akron. The civil rights suit, against a local restaurant keeper, instituted many months ago by Geo. Jones and twice won, was carried to a higher court recently and lost, we regret to say. You should take PURO HEIBES, the great blood purifier and system cleanser. On sale only at the Brown Drug Co., 2742 Central Ave., cor. E. 26th St.-Adv. The officers of the Y. M. auxiliary of the P. W. A., for the ensuing year are: H. C. Jenkins, pres.; P. Bolt, pres.; F. W. Wien, pres.; Alfred Stewart, assist.; Adrian Henn, tres. It is said that the former Ninth Ohio Battalion, one company of which is from this city, will leave Camp Stuart, Newport News, Va., next week for "somewhere in France." Delinquent subscribers, especially those in the East End, will please save our collector the long trips to their residences by sending us a post office money order, AT ONCE, and oblige The Gazette, greatly. Our advertisers want your trade. Those who do not ask for it in The Gazette certainly care little, if at all, for it. Therefore, we urge our readers and all our friends to patronize those who ask for your trade in this paper. Mrs. Lottie Crosby, Ann Arbor, Mrs. visited her cousin, Mrs. David Jackson, Central Ave, recently. The latter's daughter, Mrs. George Marshall, was able to save the hospital last week greatly improved. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, OHIO, MARCH 9, 1918 Mrs. Reba Doctor—who has been visiting relatives in Duluth, Wis., will return to this city, next week, and possibly visit her husband at Camp Stuart, Newport News, Va., before he goes "over there." Roscoe C. Simmons of the South, is to lecture at Y. M. C. A. hall, Monday evening, under the auspices of the Y. M. C. U. a banquet to follow the lecture. It will be held in the rooms of the Y. M. C. U. Mrs. Ina Perkins Hawkins, vice president of St. John's S. S. Dehorbh class, was presented with a beautiful cut glass vase at the class' recent meeting at Mrs. E. Wridgely's, E. 49th St. After being out only two hours, a jury before Judge Vickery, Tuesday, returned a verdict of guilty of robbery against Frank Stewart, 1030 St. Clair Ave. driver of the auto used by the Garfield bank bands. Rev. C. R. Jones, pastor Second Emmanuel Baptist church, 79th and Quinney Aves, preached at Mt. Haven Baptist church, Sunday afternoon, and his choir sang. This is the church that "spit" when he left it. The Olive Leaf club, lrene Burkett, press, gave a concert at Cory church, Wednesday evening, for the benefit of the Red Cross. Harry T. Ford, cornet imitator and Howard Carey, dramatic reader, and others were the participants in the program. Harry E. Thompson, our popar baritone, returned recently from a successful three months' tour with the Fisk Jubilee Singers and resumed his position as director of Cory M. E. choir. His wife, Mrs. Grace Willis Thompson filled the position most acceptably during his absence. Sergeant Jackson Foster was married to Miss Mildred Wiggins of this city at Camp Sherman, recently. Miss Beatrice Foster, his sister, accompanied the bride by way of Columbus and Indianapolis. The latter will remain in Chillicothe indefinitely. Mrs. Amanda M. King, of 2805 Central Ave. (up stairs), is an instructor for Pattern's Lightning Salve, and Liver and Blood Tablets, two of the best remedies on the market. She is the widow of the late Capt. Thos King and has many friends and acquaintances in the community. "The Dixie Four," composed of Arthur Ford, J. T. and H. T. Emmett and Harry Lindsay, arrived from Detroit last week Monday, and left the first of the week for Pittsburgh and the East for work on the Keith U. B. O. circuit. Mrs. Fannie Ford, mother of Arthur, John and Harry Ford, has been sick. Mrs. Fannie Chestnut, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles W. Chestnut, who graduated from the dental department of Northwestern University, Chicago, opened beautiful offices in the new Jordan Building, 36th and State sts, that city, several weeks ago, and is doing nicely. Mrs. Mary Dichl Richardson, of Hudson Ave., has been confined to her home all winter, suffering from pains in the nerves that was almost unbearable at night, breaking her rest and sleep. Nurse experts say the cold weather irritated her weak nerves causing the pain, and that her illness is incurable. Grant Vanderpool, employ at the Cleveland Hardware Co.'s plant, a student of architecture, is in receipt of many complimentary expressions for an excellent fac-simile of Kaiser Wilhelm, designed at the request of the official printer at the plant for use on a poster to be distributed in a war savings stamp campaign. The Pleasant Company club held a very interesting meeting at Mrs. Dorsely's, last Thursday evening. Following the business session, came the social hour and a food conservation program, real "Hoover" samples being indulged in. The hostess was at her best. The club's next meeting will be held at Mrs. Lovesta Smith's, 2307 E. 86th St. St. John's W. M. M. society celebrated its silver anniversary, last week. Monday evening, 170 lady guests being present to partake of the feast. Mrs. Margaret Anderson read an interesting history of the society and Mrs. Ella White honorary president, read a financial report covering the past twenty-five years in which she stated over $5,000 had been raised by this branch. Mrs. Marie T. Perkins is president. Rumor has it that a new movement to start a "jim crow" Y. M. C. A. movement in this city, is soon to be inaugurated. Our public school-teachers will do well look into the because, as soon as such movements are started, a similar effort to get rid of most, if not all of them, will be started by prejudiced whites in the community. Either this or those left will be segregated in "jim crow" schools. This has been the case in many other northern cities, like Columbus, Dayton and Philadelphia, in recent years. Mrs. Mary A. Evans, age 52, 216 E. 71st St. died, last week Thursday evening, after several years' illness, being confined to the house for a year and to her bed for five months. A husband, Mr. Henry Evans; two daughters, Mrs. Carrie Pickell and Mrs. Bessie Cowan; two sons, Leon and Henry, a number of other relatives and a host of friends survive the deceased and have the sympathy of the community. Funeral, Monday, at 2:30 p. m., from the family residence, M. Evans was active in church and civic affairs when in good health and was a splendid wife and mother. Mrs. Samuel E. Williamson of Hillsboro was called here, last week, by a daughter's illness. A banquet was tendered Lloyd Bercford Gales, last week Thursday evening, at 2198 E. 39th St., which proved thoroughly enjoyable. He was formerly a resident of England, where he was educated, and his traveled extensively throughout Europe. Mr. Gales will visit and Columbia on route to Philadelphia. The dinner was a five course affair and the table was beautifully decorated. Miss C. Belden Jackson was the lady of the evening. A dance at Oster's Dancing Academy followed. THE LYNCHING ATROCITIES By the Rt. Rev. Thos. F. Gailor, Bishop of Tennessee, in the Nashville Banner, February 15, 1918. I am sure that I express the opinion of thousands of the citizens of Tennessee when I hereby record my solenm protest against the horrible lynching of a Negro man which took place at Estil Springs day before yesterday. I realize that it is futile to attempt by any written word to stem the tide of what seems to be the popular will; but a man can at least declare his abhorrence of such atrocities. This kind of lynching seems to be becoming epidemic in our state. About two years ago a Negro from Fayette county was lynched most barbarously near Memphis, and parts of his body according to the newspapers, carried away as souvenirs. Many citizens of Memphis protested, but they were ignored. Last winter a Negro man near Memphis was burned at the stake, gasoline was poured over his body, and his head was cut off and taken through the city streets as a trophy. Last fall a Negro was burned to death in Dyersburg and thousands of white men in charge first tortured the miserable creature with a red hot iron, "to break his will," while the victim, already shot nearly to death, with one eye hanging近ly, screamed for mercy, and a thousand white men with hundreds of women and children, looked on and were not ashamed. The cruelties practiced in the first instance were designed, it was said, to prevent further crimes; but they were sadly failed of their purpose. And then, in nearly every instance, the officers of the law, having taken a solemn oath to enforce the law, seem to have tamely acquiesced in the law's violation. It is noteworthy that in only one of these four cases was the Negro charged with assaulting a white woman. We therefore protest against these lynchings, first, because they are a plain violation of the constitution of the United States and make a mockery of our boasted freedom. Whether we like it or not, the Negro is an American citizen and has a right to a trial before he is punished for a crime. Indeed, the constitution does not limit this right to "citizens," but declares that any "person" accused of a capital crime shall have this right. This is one of the fundamental principles of our government for our civil society, for which our fathers fought and died; and for us to go to war with Germany in defense of liberty and then calmly permit such violations of the common rights of humanity is a monstrous inconsistency. And, secondly, we protest against these enemies of brutality because they are barbarous, indecent and degrading. A Christian woman said to me yesterday: "Please do not mention that lynching at Estil Springs before my little boy. It would damage his soul even to hear about it." And just think of a human being, a man made in God's image, with his eye shot out on his blood spitting under the tortures of a red hot iron, and boys and girls looking on and rejoicing in it. There is an old French proverb, noless oblige, and it means that superiority of station involves obligation. The noble man is gracious to his inferiors. The "superior" race proves its superiority by its refinement of feeling and by its courage to be merciful. Noblesse oblige—the superior race damns itself when it adopts the manners and shows the passion of the savage. So we make our protest, and appeal to the men and women of Tennessee who profess to be Christians and believe the Bible, "Cursed be their wrath, for it was cruel," and "He that is cruel trouble his own flesh;" and Christ says, "He is kind to the unthankful and to the evil; be therefore merciful." "MAY GOD BLESS BOTH" Portland, Oregon, Feb. 14, 1918. Hon. Harry C. Smith, Editor Gazette, Cleveland, O. Dear Sir:—Enclosed a p. A. 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 my petition for those five men at Fort Houston, Tex. and hope it will help to save them. P. R. (Possibly ten years ago, Mrs. Robinson, a native Ohioan, 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 of our readers will recall, Mrs. Robinson is one of the race's most loyal white friends.—Editor.) 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 fly In Flanders fields. Take up our quarrel with the foe! To you, from failing hands, we throw The tore. Be yours to lift it high! If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep though poppies grow in Flanders fields. NEGRO PROTESTS AGAINST ATTENDING OWN FUNERAL Tell's Police He Can't Convince Friends He's Alive. LITTLE ROCK, Ark.-Attho the last sad obsequies may have been performed for R. T. Townsend, a derivative of darkest Africa, the rites were celebrated over R. T.'s vigorous protest. R. T. began receiving reports of his death early in the afternoon, but took no stock in them. Later, as the reports became more circumstantial and details concerning his last words and the dissemination of his property became current, R. T. entered his denial. His big protest was made when four of his friends came to "mesaasha him to' d.cawfin," and the altercation between the corpse and the mourners became so heated that R. T. called on the police for protection. He located himself in a pressing shop at Second and Rock streets, pending terminal arrangements. "I keep uh tellin' dese yeah niggush i ain' daid," he掀 the police over the telephone, "but seem lak ain't none of um put no 'pen'ence in mah wubd. Dey to' of um got me heah an' dey low how I hartuh be daid, fo' d' reason evuthbody say so. Kain't algy wid dese keen haid nigghuhs to do no good, an' less' some you gemmen has'en ovuh heah dey gwine be d'makin' of uh fun' all right, but hit ain' gwine to be R. T.'s. A rescue party put out from police headquarters upon receipt of R. T.'s S. O. S., but no pressing shop was found at or in the vicinity of, Second and Rock. It is the opinion of the police and R. T.'s dissolution may have progressed from the eyebrows up, or that his friends are simply holding a rehearsal on him to see if he can perform with the decorum and dignity of the principal actor of a high class culld funeral. JIMMIE, AGED SIMIAN, GETS WISE BY HIMSELF Many Years Monkey Studies Human city from Perch in Window. CLEVELAND, Ohio. — In a second-story window at 1119 St. Clair avenue sits "Jimmie." He watches the people on the street below. For fourteen years Jimmie has sat in the same window, growing old and wise. Jimmie keeps his wisdom to himself. It is the one nonhuman trait about him. In every other respect Jimmie is like any fastidious old man. He sleeps on feathers and rises to a breakfast which must be prepared in just a certain way. Jimmie demands an egg scrambled to a light brown turn. He shakes hands with callers and raises his voice in protest when the callers leave. He prefers company to being alone. If life becomes lonely Jimmie goes downstairs to visit the barber of grocer. At dinner and supper time he sits in his own high chair at the table. The butter on his bread must be of the freshest creamy make. He eats the soft part of bread and leaves the crusts. But Jimmie is humored on account of his age. He is a South American ring-tail monkey. Mrs. Hattie Burkholder, Jimmie's owner, has raised him from his infancy. "I do not want to think of ever giving him up," she says. COP AIDS THIEF BAND START A STOLEN CAR Helps Raiders While Jit Driver Is Getting Mail. KANSAS CITY, Mo. — If you have difficulty in stealing a motor car, call a policeman to help you. That is the method of three young men who got away with a jitney car from the postoffice stand here. The jitney driver, R. E. Fallis, was in the postoffice getting his man, when the three men seized his Ford and tried to start it. But the Ford was cranky, and they endeavored to push it into the gravel in Eighth street and turn the engine by coasting. Stalled in the traffic way, they were approached by a policeman, who said they couldn't leave the car there. They explained their difficulty in getting it started and the policeman gave them a hand. The four succeeded in rolling the jitney car into Eighth street. "Much obliged to you, sir," said the three men as they rolled down Eight street. When Fallis left the postoffice he found vacancy staring him in the face, where had reposed his faithful jitney. He told the officer about the loss, and got the facts. NEW POTATO YIELDS FOOD AND FLOWERS Spud Crossed With Dahlia Is Latest Garden Plant. EUREKA, Cal.-A. Hickman, an aged gardener, of this city, has succeeded in crossing the familiar Irish potato with the dahlia, the combination producing a species of potato which is believed to be far superior to that found ordinarily on the market. With the new potato one may have flowers for the decoration of his home and, when the plants have reached maturity, potatoes for his dinner. The main value of Hickman's potato-dahlia comes from the fact that the plant follows closely the dahlia type and hence should be immune from the blight, the great potato scourge of the Northwest. The new potato is said to have a flavor far superior to that of the ordinary potato. It bears heavily. 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. Subserve 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 the news and not camouflage as is the news of the race. In these days, in race papers that are "aping" the sensational daily press. 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Sold by Drug Store or SEND 25 CENTS (stamps or coin) for a big buy HEROLIN MEDICINE CO., Atlanta, Georgia AGENTS WANTED Write for Terms yLife" ORAKER biography In Years experience in the Union Army Ohio and in the Senate of the Don't Throw Away Your Copy of THE GAZETTE After Reading it, but Give It to a Friend or an Acquaintance who Might Subscribe after Reading a Copy of It FEDERAL EMPLOYE AT CAPITAL TELLS LIFE-STORY Attributes Health and Energy to Simple Life—Reads Much, Sleepa Little. Washington, D. C.—Seated in a large leather arm chair in a big sit- ting-room lined with books in hand- some covers, surrounded with flowers, the tributes of friends, and a cozy lamp on a reading table, Miss Elizabeth R. Hyde, a clerk in the de- partment of the Comptroller of the Currency, told how she has struggled fifty-two years to get from $800 annually to $1,600, with never a com- plaint. "Before coming to Washington in December, 1864," said Miss Hyde, "I taught school in Brattleboro, Vt., where I was born July 3, 1831. I began teaching when I was 15 years old, and taught in several towns in Massachusetts, as well as my home town. At that time I had no idea of ever coming to Washington, but one day Charles H. Field, a prominent attorney, wrote telling me he had obtained a place for me in the treasury, and to come to Washington as soon as possible. "So just one year before the close of the Civil War, I came to this city to take up my work in the treasury, where I have been for fifty-two years. I started at $800." Miss Hyde remembers clearly the assassination of President Lincoln and the consternation it caused. "I saw President Lincoln's body carried into the White House from the windows of the treasury, after he had died in the house on Tenth street," she said. "I saw the grand review of the Northern troops by the President, which lasted two days." Returning to the topic of her progress in the treasury, Miss Hyde said: "It took me twenty years to get up to $1,200. I never asked for an increase, preferring my earnest efforts and good record to speak for themselves. At that time (1884) I was doing work which should have commanded a higher salary, and was told so by the chief of the division, but I did not get the higher salary." "Five years later," continued Miss Hyde. "I was promoted to $1,400. That was in 1889. As the years rolled on I expected an increase at any moment, but it never came. You can imagine my surprise when I was informed that I had been promoted to $1,600." Miss Hyde stopped a moment to answer a knock at the door, and a maid handed her a large box of caramels. She placed them on the table and smiled her appreciation." "Miss Hyde will be 86 years old in July. Her voice is still vigorous and her hand steady. "What do I attribute my good health and energy to?" Miss Hyde asked in response to a question. "Why I believe it is because I lead a most simple life. I never go out, preferring to sit here and read. You see what a large library I have." She pointed to bookcases filled with books. Another remarkable point Miss Hyde made was the fact that she never goes to bed before 10 o'clock and gets up at 5 in the morning. "I find that I don't need more than five or six hours' sleep, and never get up feeling bad," she said. When asked if she would like to retire and take a rest she said: "No, I would rather continue working. I have always loved my work, and it has always absorbed my entire attention. Now that I am all alone in the world, I would not know what to do without it. My niece in Boston has repeatedly asked me to give up my position and live with her, but I would rather stay here." Miss Hyde comes from a hardy family. Her father, she says, lived to be 88 years old, and her mother 83. WRITES LORD'S PRAYER SIX TIMES ON A STAMP man Puts Same Words Also on Paper One-eighth by Three-eighth of Inch in Size. Iron Mountain, Mich.—Ernest Gall of this city, it is believed, has established a new record for fine writing by transcribing the Lord's prayer on a piece of paper one-eighth of an inch by three-eighths of an inch in size. He also wrote the Lord's prayer six times on a two-cent stamp, 390 words in all. Mr. Gall says all that is required to write so fine is fair penmanship, a steady and light hand, much patience, a good drawing pen, which must be wiped after writing each word. In his first attempt at fine writing he wrote the Lord's prayer on a piece of paper the size of a two-cent postage stamp. This was beaten by a school teacher of Escanaba, who wrote 160 words and her record was beaten by Mr. Dulufour of Escanaba, who wrote 300 words. A few days ago Mr. Gall wrote the Lord's prayer on a piece of paper three-sixteenths of an inch by three-eighths of an inch and the Declaration of Independence on a piece of paper the size of a U. S. two-cent postage stamp. Both this record and his latest achievement in fine writing were written, without the aid of a reading glass and both can be read easily when placed under such a glass. Prof. Pulpin, Inventor, Will Keep Method Secret Until After European War. The man who made transcontinental telephony possible announced a few days ago that he had completed an invention that would free wireless telegraphy from static interference, much the same trouble that so long hindered the transcontinental telegraph. He is Prof. Michael I. Pupin, who came to America in 1874 a penniless Serbian immigrant. His inventions already have netted him almost $1,000,000 and his most recent one probable will bring him in a sum running it to the hundred thousands. Wireless transmission heretofore has been subject to one serious handicap, a composite of atmospheric and physical troubles known to scientists as static interference. Under such conditions it is often impossible to get a wireless message thru for days and during portions of almost every day transmission is out of the question. Professor Pupin announced nearly a year ago that he believed he had solved the problem. The other day he stated that he had perfected his device and now knew that it would meet all requirements. The value of the invention in time of war is tremendous, as it would give the side possessing it a great advantage over its foes. For that reason Professor Pupin asserts he will not make public the secret of his invention until the close of the war unless the United States should be drawn into the conflict, in which case he would reveal it to the government. In the former event, however, the United States would be the first Government to possess it. This one-time Serbian immigrant also i. the inventor of the present system of ocean telephony. He received $200,000 for that invention. The same "loading" coil that made ocean telephony possible also put an end to the difficulties of transcontinental telephony. He is rated as one of the world's foremost electrical scientists. It was to escape service in the army that Pupin fled to America. He had no dream of becoming a scientist then; he wanted only some peaceful occupation. When he landed in New York he did not have a cent. Drifting from one job to another he finally became a farmhand in New York State. The daughter of the farm owner interested the Serbian lad in education, and Pupin went back to New York City determined to acquire learning. He worked as a "rubber" in a Turkish bath house and in his spare hours studied at the night school at Cooper Union. He progressed so fast that when a friend obtained for him o scholarship at Adelphia College he was able to hold his own with the other students. From Adelphia College he went to Columbia University, then to Cambridge in England, and finally to the University of Berlin, where he studied under the German master scientists. He came back to America as a professor at Columbia University, a position which he still holds. The Serbian Government several years ago acknowledged his service to humanity by making him honorary consul general to New York. NEW ENGLAND CAPTAIN FISHES UP A FORTUNE Ambergirl Worth $40,000 Found Off South American Coast. A small fortune in ambergris, estimated at about $40,000, has been fished up off the coast of South America by Captain Joseph F. Lewis of the brig Viola. Word was received at New Bedford, Mass., by the owners of the brig that the Viola had found 150 pounds of the rare gray substance which is used in the manufacture of costly perfume. Captain Lewis reported that his catch was 150 pounds. Experts at New Bedford said that the current price for ambergris was $250 per pound and declared that a conservative estimate of the value of the discovery was $37,500. MUSIC IN MOVIE MAKING Phonograph Used to Bring "Mood" on Actors. Picture the sweet country maid of a motion picture studio dreaming of her lover in a far off land. A talking machine—yes, a real talking machine—is started and the strains of "I hear You Calling Me" are heard. "You see," says the director, "the important part that the talking machine can be made to play in the production of a motion picture. In the course of time directors will realize that the talking machine can play the part of 'assistant.' It is certainly an invaluable aid in creating emotions. "We know how music enhances the effect of the motion picture as presented in the theater. The audience does not often realize the importance of the musical accompaniment. But, omit the music, and the difference is felt in a moment. The effect that music, has upon the spectator is analogous to its effect upon the acrid. He responds readily to the musical stimulus." Only One Word "It says here that the longest sentence in the English Language contains 140 words," said the old fogy. "That's wrong," replied the grouch. "The longest sentence contains only one word." "What is that?" asked the old fogy. "Life," replied the grouch. didn't you?" THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, OHIO, MARCH 9, 1918 DRUMMER MAKES GOOD IN RUSSIA EARNS $497,820 SELLING U. S. SHOES IN RUSSIA Going on His Own Initiative When Denied Trip by Firm, He Shows Up "Old Heads." St. Louis, Mo.—The average "drummer's" life is just one "bum hotel" after another. When he isn't "jolling" the proprietor of some store, he has his feet on the cushions of the seat before him in the smoker of a passenger train, scattering cigar ashes on the floor for the porter to sweep up. Once in a while, about as often as a total eclipse of the sun is visible in this country, Romance signals out a "knight of the grip" and presses down a laurel wreath on his perspiring brow. But Arthur S. Biggerstaff, salesman for a St. Louis shoe firm, got tired of waiting for Fame to give him the nod. So he took things into his own hands, went to Russia on his own hook and booked $8,297,000 in sales in five months. His commissions amounted to $497,820 - $99,564 a month! Eight months ago Biggerstaff was sitting on the cane-bottomed seats of slow trains thru Mississippi trying to conceive an idea by which he could make shoe, more popular in that State. Down among the pine woods, where they hack the timber to get the turpentine out of it and feed big logs to buzzing saws, there is a natural aversion to shoes. A pair for church on Sunday is about the only need for footwear the Mississippi. of the hills can see. Biggerstaff had come to the company when 17 years old from Edina, Mo. He is 31 now, but in the minds of the "older heads" always was a country boy who had been a good stock clerk. After he had been put on the road he had been dangerously near the dead line in sales several times. It was on one of the few times in the year when Biggerstaff reported to the St. Louis office for new samples, and to see whether he still had a job, that he met Jack Ryan. Ryan is a salesman in Asia for the company. He always had a smile with him and seemed to find the shoe business in the Orient more prosperous than it is in Mississippi. Biggerstaff asked Ryan where a young chap with a desire to turn a little quick money in shoes could go. "Kid," Ryan said, "if you try Russia——" and stopped for words to express properly his feelings on the subject. It wasn't long until Biggerstaff urged up enough nerve to blurt out to the manager: "Say, I want to go to Russia." The manager laughed at him. "Biggerstaff," he said, "you'd never make a soldier." "I want to go to Russia to sell shoes." Biggerstaff explained unruffled. The manager opened his eyes quickly, then laughed. "Well, I guess you'd better stick to Mississippi a whide, Biggertzer he," said more kindly. The board of directors sent word back that selling shoes in Russia wasn't to be considered under present conditions. ARMLESS WONDER A STAR ON THE FARM Can Drive an Aute, Fire the Furnace and Write, but Cannot Milk the Cows. Joplin, Mo.—Frank C. Zerber is the "one and only armless wonder" in this vicinity. He lives in a nearby village, is a farmer, and, albo armless, ranks with the best of them. He lost both arms at the shoulder in a railroad wreck several years ago. Altho this great misfortune would have taker, the heart out of most men, Zerber merely declared he'd "come back." And he has kept his word. He decided farming was the most inviting occupation. So he mastered the problems it presented. What he is unable to do with shoulders and teeth he can do with his feet, and he is as dextrous as most people are with their hands. Here are some of the things that Zerber can do successfully. Drive a five-horse team to a gang plow; plant corn as well as any man; drive a cultivator; drive an automobile; fire the furnace; open any door of a house; write, and dress himself with the exception of attaching his collar. Practically the only things he cannot do on the farm are harness the horses and milking the cows. For such work and other small chores he hires a man. Zerber has a farm of about 100 acres and it is one of the best kept in the country. His house is a model of convenience, electricity being used in many ways to assure comfort and save labor. Zerber is married and has a large family, but none of his children helps him on the farm, all that are of age being engaged elsewhere. Forty-three years ago the first through train for California left Chicago. Now nine through trains leave Chicago daily for California over various lines. ARGENTINE RULER A MAN OF MYSTERY Shakes Country With Reforms, Tho He Went Into Office Without a Pledge Buenos Aires, Argentina. — Argentina is ruled by the strangest politician in all the Americas, Hipolito Trigoyen, the new president of this big South American republic, is a man of mystery and silence. His has been entirely a career of deeds, for he has never made a speech and never given out an interview. Since he assumed the presidency last October he has sent no messages to congress and has made no statement of policy. But he has struck hard an often at corruption. Trigoyen did not make a single pledge during his campaign for the presidency. He uttered just one statement, and that to a personal friend: "I will make an exemplary government." He went into office a profound enigma but a popular idol. He has been a leader of the radical or liberal party for thirty years, but they have been years of unbroken silence. He has always been regarded as a reformer, but he has never avowed such a role. Some observers believe his keen-eyed man with his iron gray hair and tightly closed lips is the super statesman of South America. When Irigoyen was inaugurated he went into office with the simplest ceremonies on record in Argentina. He wanted to ride to the capitol in a street car, but was prevailed upon by friends of take a taxicab. Outside of taking the oath of office, he spoke no word at the inauguration. Nor did he do any smiling or bowing. His first act upon becoming president was to turn over his salary of $40,000 a year to charity. Then he provided that the poor of Buenos Aires might be quartered in public buildings. After he started a slashing of the pubil. payrolls that brought shudders to the politicians. Next he began a policy of compelling the big land owners to contribute more to road building in the rural districts. It is said he will promote the breaking up of the large ranches, so that the poorer classes may become land owners and thus improve their—in many cases—wretched position. Irigoyen is 55 years old and a bachelor. He is of humble origin, but is said to be wealthy, owning several large estates. He is a studious man and for many years held a chair in the University of Buenos Aires. By many he is regarded as the foremost economist of South America. The Argentine president serves six years, so frigoyen has a long time in which to work out the reforms he is said to be planning. He has the firm support of chamber of deputies, or lower house of congress, members of which serve four years. The senate, however, is in the hands of his political foes, the conservatives, and the senators serve nine years. Not many in Argentina, however, expect the opposition of the upper house to prove of much avail against the prospects of the man of silence. HEIGHT OF BAKER LAKE LEADS A CHARMED LIFE Buried Seven Times by Snowslides but Has Escaped Death When Other Men Perished. Seattle, Wash.—Can some mysterious affection stir the cold heart of snow-clad Mount Baker, which has caused seven snowbikes to bury Joe Morovits, the hermit dweller on the mountainaide, and yet each time permits him to escape when the men with him were killed? Does the mountain appreciate the companionship of the man who scorns human ties of family and contradiship to dwellfor years alone in the mountain fastness? "The Hermit of Baker Lake" is the title given Morovits. Last week, for the first time in years, business brought the hermit to Seattle. "Old Joe," as he is called by those who have met him on the rocks and snowfields of the mountain, has lived alone with the snow-clad peak for his only companion for a quarter of a century. Only when some deed of heroism is required does Old Joe step in the forefront. A few years ago, when two Seattle attorneys went to the wilds of Mount Baker hunting bear, one of them was accidentally shot by his companion. It was then Joe Morovits, hermit, tracked thru miles of unbroken forest, carrying the wounded man on his shoulder, in a futile attempt to save his life. Morovits has been buried three times under snowslides, when the men sleeping in the same cabin with him were instantly killed. In speaking of the biggest slide, which carried him 2,000 feet and buried him and his dog twenty feet under the snow, Morovits said: "It was night and I suddenly heard a bissing rumble. Then there was a crash and all was darkness. I felt myself being carried beneath a huge weight, sliding and crashing along at a furious rate. I soon lost consciousness, and when I recovered I was so cold I could hardly move. Setting to work in the dry snow, I started to dig my way out with my hands. After half an hour's hard work I came to the top of the drift and twenty minutes later my dog, which was buried with me, came scrambling out." The Big Trees of California, some said to be 4,000 years old, are to pass into the hands of the government assuring their preservation. CLEEPS 20 HOURS OUT OF EVERY 24 Inmate of Infirmary, The Most All-Ways in Dreamland, Never Misses Meals. Niagara Falls, N. Y. — Niagara Falls has the sleepiest man in the country, according to the police. He is Charles Tallock, 66 years old, an inmate of the county infirmary. Tallock can sleep standing up as well as lying down. He demonstrated this when he was brought up in police court after running away from the infirmary. Tallock ran away from the infirmary, last month when officials there insisted that he work. The man presented any attempt to make him work, for that interfered with his sleeping, which required twenty out of the twenty-four hours each day. While most always asleep, Tallock never failed to awake, at meal time. After running away Tallock visited relatives here. After he had spent several days, sleeping twenty out of every twenty-four hours, his relatives suggested that he find work. Work, they said, not only would keep him awake and be healthful for him, but it would enable him to have money in his pocket. Their desire, of course, was not to get out of paying his board indefinitely; they just disliked to see him sleeping the best part of the day as well as all of the night away. But the idea didn't make a hit with Tallock. True, he was in good physical condition and able to work, but he preferred to sleep, so feeling that his presence among the relatives would be undesirable if he continued his snoozing, he went to police headquarters as a refuge. But the hard-hearted police refused to house him for long. They took him into the courtroom of Police Judge Piper. While waiting for his case to be called Tallock fell asleep. When his case was called he was awakened and taken before the judge. With one hand holding the judge's bench, he gave his name and age, then fell asleep again. An officer explained the case to the judge while the man slept. Then the judge gave instructions for Tallock to be taken back to the county infirmary, where he should be allowed to sleep all he wanted to, the evidence showing the futility of getting him to work. THE LESS A GIRL WEARS, THE MORE SHE MUST EAT Such is Law of Clothes, Woman Has Discovered in Probing "Folly of Fashions." Philadelphia, Pa.—The less a girl wears, the more she must eat. This is the law of clothes, Miss M. Jane Newcomb, a State college lecturer, has discovered in her research work on the "folly of fashions." She lay down this law in a lecture before a group of women attending a three-day session of the extension school of Pennsylvania State College. Miss Newcomb said an inch cut off the skirt means an extra pound of beefsteak inside. But the worst of it all is that the girl who walks the streets with "skirts to her knees, silk stockings and a chest bared to winter winds," as Miss Newcomb described her, "must eat so much to keep warm that she becomes dyspeptic, nervous and irritable." "The girl with money can get enough food to keep her warm when she undresses for the street," Miss Newcomb went on, "but the working girl who spends all she earns on clothes to imitate the heiress has so little left for food that she becomes weakened and an easy victim for tuberculosis." RIVER PAYS INTEREST ON DEBT Restores Farm Which It Stole With Added Acreage Kansas City, Mo.—When Michael Rice, a former resident of this county, returned a few days ago for a visit after sixteen years in the State of Washington, he found the Missouri River had restored to him, with interest, a farm of which it robbed him before he went away. Mr. Rice said the little strip of land had grown by accretions, not only to the original size of 120 acres, but to 160 acres, or a full quarter section. CARD GAME LASTS SIX MONTHS Cribbage Contest, Played Far Underground, Finally Finished Woodrow, Minn. — A cribbage game played in the depths of the earth, and running up to 100,006 points has just been finished. It was played by Gus Raymond, miner, and William Gabriel, pump man of the Wilcox mine here. The sitting lasted six months. Raymond won by 207 points. The game was played in the pumphouse 250 feet underground. Gabriel once held a "29' hand, which cribbage mathematicians declare happens about once in ten years of continuous playing. HOW PICTURES TO KEEP MEN Ashland, Wis. — With wages double those a year ago, lumber camps are having difficulty in keeping men. Some camps are installing moving pictures. SAYS ROUNDHEADS MAKES BEST HUBBIES New York.—What? Look at your young man's business rating? Nonsense! Look at his head. Spend your time looking up his habits? More nonsense! Look at his nose. Worry about his bank account? Not at all. Worry about his chin, if you like, but never about his bank account, because if he has the right sort of chin the bank account will just naturally come, and if his nose is the right shape so is his family tree, and if he is a roundhead—well, if he is a roundhead, grab and wed him on the spot. This advice to young women with a lounging for matrimony is given by Dr. Katherine M. H. Blackford, the scientist. She has got things to such a fine point that she can look at a man and tell exactly what he will do in any given circumstances. And she has a tip for the Hand Holders' Society that ought to be worth fortunes. The horny-handed man isn't what poetry says he is. He may be noble and a pioneer and all that, but his heart is likely to be harder than the callous on his palm, and he can't be made to loosen up except with dynamite or a threat of jail. Dr. Blackford says the man with a soft hand is also likely to have a soft heart, and any girl knows what she can do to a soft heart. The only drawback is that the soft-hearted man is likely to be mushy and wants to spend his time in kissing when he should be hustling for the wherewithal to pay the landlord. Dr. Blackford says science has shown that the space in front of the ears is occupied by the brains that control the soul, the intellect and the esthetic things of life, while the space behind the ears is filled with animal instinct. Working on this theory she explains that the prefect man is the one with cars in the middle—and that generally means a round head. The flat head means he probably will develop into a deacon and a leading citizen, but have a leaning toward cantankerousness, while if his head is long on top he is going to thirst for monkey dinners and the privilege of sitting next to the smart set. And the man with the high head—that is, one whose dome slopes up from the eyebrows like a coconut—that's the man who writes "The snow that snows in the spring, let us sing," and maybe tries to interpret Greek emotions by means of Greek dances. He's ornamental, true, but instead of doing the feeding, he has to be fed. MUSICAL SAW IDEA BRINGS MAN RICHES Minneapolis, Minn.—There's a man in Minneapolis who has built himself a big house, bought a $15,000 farm and is raising five adopted youngsters all with the saw. And he's not a member of the sawyers' union either; neither is he competition with the rotary variety, or the rip-saw or the gasoline propelled sort that pulls up to your back door and saws cordwood for your winter fireplace. And what's still more, the saw hasn't any teeth. It's a musical saw that has brought riches to the man. Being properly urged by a small drumstick it sings "Yankee Doodle," "Old Kentucky Home," "Suwanee River" or any of the other old standbys. Fitch Cooper is "the man with the saw." The idea that a saw could be used to play on originated with Cooper when he was a small boy. He tells how he went to town with his father, who was a farmer, to buy one of these first aids to a woodpile, and his father in testing the saws hit them and listened to the ring of the steel. After the manner of the small boy Newton and the falling apple, young Cooper reflected on this, and later when a circus came to town and he got acquainted with the xylophone, he went about looking for twelve saws with which to make one of these instruments. Then came the further enlargement of the idea; if one note from a saw, why not all the notes. And this he achieved by bending the saw, producing the same effect as by loosening and tightening the strings of a violin. That same saw idea has played the dickens around theaters where Mr. Cooper has exhibited it. More than one "property" man has been missed and finally located below stage trying to drag melody out of a 50-cent discard from the stage carpenter's tool box. COUGHS UP TOOTH AND PLATE Speaker's Thorax Freed From Obstruction After Nine Months. Yonkers, N. Y.—In a violent fit of coughing Assemblyman George Blakely ejected from his throat a hard rubber plate attached to which was an artificial tooth, which had been lodged in his thorax nine months. While making a political speech Assemblyman Blakely's artificial tooth and the plate holding it in place became dislodged and slipped into his throat. All efforts to dislodge it failed, and the Assemblyman's voice was so affected that he could speak only with difficulty and had to abandon his campaign, altho he was re-elected for his fourth term. When the obstruction was dislodged Mr. Blakely recovered the full use of his voice. He and his family and friends are happy over the outcome. MADRAS CLINGS TO WAYS OF EAST Madras is the heart of the real India. There is a tendency on the part of travelers and writers to overlook the presidency, because it has few of the more striking and romantic features that are found in north—the dangers of the frontier, the intrigues of the native Rajput princess, the continually bubbling caddron of strife between Hindu and Mohammedan. Madras is pure Hindu, which is to say pure Indian of the oldest times. It is a tradition in India to treat the Madras province as something of a joke. Civil and military officials in the north wrestling with iterner problems of intrigue and revolt, are inclined to look down on them. It is an insult to tell a Sikh trooper that he drills like a Madrasi. All this, however, is simply the result of the setted prosperity of Madras. Things there are past the experimental stage. Agriculture, administration, education, transportation, have all been worked out to a fine point, leaving the officers and the progressive classes of natives to spend their time working out advance ideas and systems at which the rest of India laughs. Yet Madras is too rich and powerful in an economic way to be laughed at much. Here you touch the old Hindu east. Side by side with the grafted culture of Europe that the native picks up with a superficial facility, and side by side with his own thousands-of-years-old oriental civilization, still flourish a hundred old superstitions and customs that the west cannot but regard as barbarous. They are a part of the east, and the English are powerless before the passive resistance that the native opposes to any attempt to change them. There are tales of human sacrifice still carried out secretly in remote mountain districts; it is known to a certainty that the superstitious practice of swinging a man by hooks from a tree to insure a good harvest is still carried out. Women still kill themselves on the death of their husbands, the lines of caste are drawn as hard and fast as they were five centuries ago; a Brahmin is still defiled if the shadow of an outcast passes over him. Madras is not disorderly, but it is stubborn in these matters with an oriental stubbornness. And the disconcerting part of it all is the fact that these revolting practices are not the customs of barbarians, but of a highly civilized people who have gone as far on their own road as Europe has gone on hers. JERSEY WINTER 'FARMS' ENTIRELY UNDER GLASS In Great Greenhouses Three or Four Vegetable Crops Are Raised in Single Season. Winter farming under glass is becoming a thriving industry in New Jersey. It bids fair to be further stimulated by soaring prices and the general scarcity of fresh farm products such as can be successfully stored and held over after the regular season. There are a number of these "winter farms" in various parts of the State, but few of them have made greater growth or have so large an output as one operated in Deerfield township, Cumberland County, which has gained fame in recent years by reason of its extensive irrigation system, covering several hundred acres. There are six greenhouses. They are built of steel and glass and each is 300 feet long by 60 feet wide. Care has been taken in laying out this "winter farm" to take advantage of the sunshine. With the frigid winter world shut outside by the expansive glass roof, this snug "farm" has a succession of June days right in the midst of the bleak months of December, January and February. The "farming" under glass is done on a very extensive scale. Three or four crops of such vegetables as radishes can be raised during a single season and no space is permitted to go to waste. Cucumbers have special wire trellises to climb over, and, unlike those in the ordinary garden, the vines are not permitted to ramble about at will. It is the greenhouse-grown tomatoes that require the most attention. After the tomato plants are set in the ground each one is carefully staked. Lateral branches are carefully pruned off and the vine or plant is trained into an upright, single stalk. As the flowers develop they are pollenized carefully by a gentle shaking process. The leaves are cut away from around the clusters of fruit as they develop. As this process proceeds the green and ripening tomatoes hang in bunches along this single upright stalk. A Health Crank. "Have you any nice cocoanuts?" "Yes, mum. Here's one full of milk." "But is it sterilized?"