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Decoration Evening Promenade! At Dreamland Dancing Academy McAFEE'S FULL ORCHESTRA Dancing Every Thursday Evening at Barksdale's Academy, THIRTY-FIFTH YEAR. No. 42. Decorati MINTS TO MAKE MORE COIN IN DAY NEW CASTING MACHINE WILL. TURN OUT INGOTS FOR FIVE CENT PIECES HILLBORO, --Mr. Hawkins, who recently moved here from Williamsburg, died last week. Funeral services conducted by Rev. J. J. Burr. He leaves a wife and several small children. --Ms. Lena Rickman, taken ill suddenly, last Friday night. is still home. Cincinnati, and grand-son, Gilbert Kittrell, visited relatives here, Sunday and Monday. --Mr. Walter Wilson is no better. -Alverdus Kittrell is at Camp Grant and not Camp Shorman. -Charles Colter and Glenn Bolden are our high school graduates, this year. -K. P. sermon postponed, Crum of Chicago were called here to their mother's bedside. --Mr. William Pope of Columbus was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Blanton, Sunday. -Miss Maryle Kittrell of Norwood visited her parents here, last week. Born to Mr. and Mrs. Harley Rickman, a girl. -The Missionary society noon, at the Baptist church. -Gad to note such a great victory of "The Old Reliable" Gazzette. SANDUSKY,—Mrs. Amanda Taylor is very ill at her daughter's, Mrs. Mary Jones, Henry St.—Mr. and Mrs. Middlebrook's daughter died. Thursday and was buried. Saturday afternoon, from the Second Baptist church, the pastor officiating. The latter preached the K. P. annual sermon at the A. M. E. church, Sunday afternoon. The services were fine and largely attended, the day being an almost ideal one. Both churches and S. S. were well attended, Sunday. Many new persons are again coming in. Rev. G. D. Smith is baptizing, every Sunday. Our men and women earning more and more to fear him. He earns more and more to fear Mrs. H. Clark of Hamilton is visiting her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Stephen Wallace, Rev. E. Burton and Mrs. Carlos Salce are convalescing slowly. —A rally, Sunday, at the Baptist church,—Read "The Old Reliable" Gazette and tell your acquaintances to do so also. I cannot do without it. If your copy of it does not come to you promptly and on time, please notify the local agent as he is in- Dancing UNION IN STRENGTH Demand Each Year for 100,000,000 One Cent Pieces To provide ingots for making one cent and five cent pieces, which are being coined in larger quantities every year, a new casting machine that turns out ingots weighing more than five times as much as those heretofore, has been placed in service in the United States mint at Philadelphia. In connection with this machine large rolls for forming the plates from which the coin blanks are cut are also being used, the whole purpose of the improved equipment being to turn out more coins in a day. How important this is is shown in the fact that each year there is now a demand for approximately 100,000,000 one cent pieces and 60,000,000 five cent pieces or nickels. The new ingot casting machine consists of a turntable mounted on ball bearings, on which are eleven vertical molds, ranged equidistant on a circle five feet in diameter. Each mold is made up of a first plane fixed vertically to the turntable and a removable channel, the two, when placed together forming a mold which casts an ingot of the coin metal that weighs about twenty two pounds and is twenty four inches long, four and one quarter inches wide and three quarter inch thick. With the removable channels clamped into place, the turntable is rotated and the molds are brought in succession into position for filling from the crucible, which is charged with just enough of the molten metal to fill the eleven molds. The molds are filled by two melters, each equipped with a graphite dippler cup of such size that the two cupfills fill the mold. The second meltter starts his pour just before the first empties his cup. With this arrangement the eleven molds are poured in about five minutes, and in this period of time there is no danger of the molten metal in the crucible becoming chilled—Popular mechanics. PAY FOR EXPLOSIONS Companies Assume Burden of Loss In Adjacent Plant Property Explosions in powder mills are frequent, as every one knows, but they occur not nearly so often as formerly, owing to greater precautions, and when they do happen there is little or no direct liability on the part of the manufacturers in them, being purely accidental. Despite the fact, however, the powder companies assume the burden of paying for the damage done by the explosions to private property in the vicinity of the mills, which property, in New Jersey, at least, by law can be no nearer to mills to the powder mills. Naturally the articles most easily broken are glassware and crockery, with an occasional breaking of plaster. The leading powder company has the name of paying for such damage without delay and with considerable good grace, which fact is taken advantage of by certain householders with a curious idea of thrift or with its idea of putting one over on the corporation, who according to the agents of the powder makers, store up all the householdware broken in ordinary domestic use until there is an explosion in the mill and then send the bill to the powder company. It is claimed that a few people desirous of having the house newly plastered, have deliberately torn down a shaky part and then, wait for the next explosion, which is duly blamed for the damage. Despite that knowledge, the agents say the powder company pays the bill. Recently the Letsa Explosives paid $,000 on account of one explosion for window glass breakage in the city of Gäry, Idd., which is near its mills—Wall Street Journal. His Fatal Mistake Mr. Pugnose—What? You will not marry me? Sweet Girl—"Impossible." "But you seemed to love me once. Your eyes brightened at my approach; and often when I sat silently gazing at you, I am sure you were greatly agitated." "Yes, I know; but since you have cut off your side wrinkers you don't look so much like poor, dear, dead and gone Fido." THE GAZETTE 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. CORRESPONDENTS must mail all letters for publication on all their main postoffice sufficiently early on Monday (or Sunday) of each week to have them reach The Gazette office on Tuesday-morning, and always write also, their names and that of their city or town on the outside of the postoffice. 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 20 cents for each person. A line for station for display advertisements will be sent on application. CADIZ. Mrs. Georgia Duling Payne of Steubenville is here visiting. E. S. McNamee will address the Payne Brotherhood at the A. M. E. church, Sunday afternoon, followed West of Carson, called the Mother of Camps. Lizzie West. Rev. D. S. Skelton preached at Simpson M. E. church, (communion) Friday evening. The young ladies of the Missionary society and Boy Scouts each gave successful entertainments, the past week. Net receipts $27.50. Miss Mary Burke of Steubenville is the guest of Miss Helen Duling. A. M. E. church, called the Emerson, Sunday. F. P. Ballard will spend the summer vacation at Lorain. The Boy Scouts, our ladies and the Payne Brotherhood were in the Red Cross parade, Saturday. CIRCLEVILLE...—Mrs. Elizabeth Farrow of Chillicothe visited her parents here last week; we want all of our people in Cleveland to read "The Old Reliable" Gazette because it not only brings to you the race news, every week, but also because it is ever loyal to the race—Mrs. Ed Dalton has received a letter from her son William, of Co. F, 372d Nf, "somewhere in France." She had not heard from him, for a long time. He has written her not to worry and that he likes the people in France very much. —Miss. Viola, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Rev. Brown, died last Monday afternoon of double pneumonia. She is mourned by a host of friends and relatives. Burial at her home in Greenfield—Miss. Roberta Dalton spent the last four days at the Sunday School convention and district conference. Mrs. L. B. Hyman also attended it. ESTABLISHED AUGUST 25, 1883 And Issued Every Week on Time Since CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, MAY 25, 1918 stalling a new delivery boy for the paper.—Rev. Washington preached ably at the Second Baptist church, Sunday evening. MARIETTA. — Weskyan church communion services were held, Sunday. Rev. Thompson, pastor of the A. M. E. church, Parkersburg, W. Va., preached a soul-sifting sermon and the attendance was large. Rev. and Mrs. Geo. Jackson of Parkersburg and Rev. Tonkins also attended—Mrs. Rome Justice returned from Columbus, last Saturday. She visited her sister, Rev. and Mrs. A. P. Mayle entertained the Ladies Aid society at Westynan M. E. parochy, last Friday afternoon.—The S. S. convention of the first district of the church here, July 27, 30 at Westynan church. Rev. Adam Mayle, pastor, Mrs. Mullica Scott Burke and relatives have been notified that her son and brother, Sergeant Robert Scott, have arrived safely. "Oversevers," — (Correspondent must mail news on Mondays—never later in the week for publication in current issues of The Gazette.—Editor.) YOUNGSTOWN—The K. P. annual thanksgiving services at the Third Baptist church, Sunday, were largely attended and very interesting. Rev. W. O. Harper prescheduled an able sermon? The members made an excellent impression in their parade and from the church.—Mrs. Garland Smith left for Samore, N. C., last hospital after M. Missie, who hospital after M. Missie, who Miller was in Pennsylvania, two weeks.—Jouda Edison court will meet, June 12 and Logan ledge, the 13th.—About 75 couples from here attended the Elkef party in Sharon, the '16th.—General Pershing, after his dash into Mexico on the trail of the elusive Villa, was on the way to Paris for France. His train was to stop only a few minutes at Lacade, Mo. where he was born, and the General sat up morning in order that he might get another glimpse of the town. No one in Lacade knew he was passing through, and the only one on the station platform besides the agent was Jordan Parks, an aged coupe him to keep hours, duttes owls. He saw the General, and ran toward the train with a cry of "It's Mr. John!". For fifteen minutes a sympathetic platform kept the train waiting while the army general and the aged Afro-American sat on a barge truck and talked, the soldier sending messages to his old friends. RONORS AN AFRO-AMERICAN Lord Northlife Gives Record Holder $125 Prize Washington, D.C. The first international prize for riveting was transmitted today by Chairman Hurley of the shipping board to Charles Knight, at the request of Lord Northlife, who offered £25 (about $125) for the best store above previous records. The prize is for the shipbuilding Corporation, Sparrows Point, Md. At the same time Mr. Hurley cabled Lord Northlife a new challenge for British workmen and called on American shipbuilders to beat Knight's record. An increase of five rivets per gang per hour would be the building of a steel freightroom or to join together ten weeks, he said. Announcement A movement has been set on foot to supply our soldiers with race books by our authors—books of a race which they greatly desire. We request our readers who are in sympathy with this movement and wish for full particulars to send a postal card containing their names and addresses to the United States Military Movement, 61 Bible House, New York City. Candidate for Re-Election Clineharti, O. H., Hon. Géo, W. Hays, former member of the Ohio Legislature from this county, and one of the earliest and best friends of the institution, is again a candidate for trustee of our local Orphan Asylum. He will undoubtedly be elected as he is casually one of our best known and most popular citizens. For many years he worked in the church and Sunday School work, and has been U. S. court order ever since 1871. Mr. Hays has also served as a trustee of the State School for the Blind. PERSHING'S COLOR-SERGEANT What Became of That Last Piece of Bacon. Washington, D. C. - The American expeditionary force in Mexico had moved ahead of its supply train and was running short of provisions. The coffee already had been cooked twice, and the grounds were being saved and dried for a third boiling. The orderly of the commanding general had boarded a little piece of bacon and the grounds were being fitted. In the grenades that he planned to fry a few pieces of hardback for the general. Evening came and the orderly set about preparing supper. He looked for his measured bacon rind, but it was gone. He was still rummaging around in the mess kit searching for it when the general appeared. "Supper ready?" he inquired. "Not quite, sir," the orderly answered. "I had a bit of bacon rind here, sir, but I can't find it." "Oh," said the general. "I gave that bacon, to the color sergeant of the 24th Infantry (African-American regiment) to 20b on his heels. His feet are body blistered; and there's nothing like bacon grease for casing sore feet. He needed it worse than I did." The officer who gave up the last bit of bacon from his mess, ease one of his soldier's sore feet, and who drapes his hardback dry in order that one of his men might be saved suffering, is the same officer who today is commanding the American expeditionary force in France. "Black Jack" Pershing. FORTUNE SMILES ON THESEG Minors of Mixed Indian and African Desert New Millionaires [ ] Muskogee, Okla. - When the U.S. government made the allotments of 160 acres of land to members of the Five Civilized Tribes or Greeks beginning in 1899, and continuing about five years, the older Jordans and half-breeds or "Negroes," as they were classed, picked the fertile cattle lands. The rougher lands were left to the minors, mostly colored boys and girls. Some of the guardians of these minors offered their holdings at absolutely low prices for them, now fourteen years old, and of the richest of the colored minors, could not get $400 for her 160 acres, though anxious to sell in 1903. They came the discovery of oil beneath this "weightless soil" and Bertha Reector now has an income of $6,000 to $8,000 per month. She will be a millionaire. Many of these colored minors will attain their majority this year. Edith Durant will be 18 in July, and her joint guardians, Lee Hays and Monday Durant (white) will hand over to her leases and cash, and her mortgages aggregating more than $100,000. Salle Reed, a married minor, wife of Jurtis Reed, of Mukogee, a business man of the race, has been struggling along on $150 per month allowance, but will have little legs than a million when she reaches her majority in September. Many legal rights have been waged with white business men and lawyers over the control of these properties, and more trouble may be expected, as they hate to see our people come into millions. ARUSED OUR SOLDIERS President Wilson Commutes Sentence of Ap Officer Who Did So. "Camp Lee, Va." Presidential intervention gave First Lieutenant James N. Dean, quartermaster's corps, national army, of Belair, Md., from dismalism from the service. On February 4, according to evidence introduced before a general court, Lieutenant Dean used abusive language towards Afro-American troops whom he was working. He was found guilty of violating the ninety-fifth article of war, conduct unbecoming an officer and gentleman, and give the man of dismalism from services. This was warranted in general, but it is required by the forty-eighth article of war that a dismissal of an officer must also be approved by the president of the United States. The Following telegram was received from the war department indicating the president's action: "Sentence of dismissal, imposed by general court martial in case of First Lieutenant James N. Dean, quartermaster's corps, national army, confirmed by president, but commuted to confinement for three months to the limit of camp of rest, at which he may be sent and be permitted to be administrated by commanding general of organization with which he may be serving. As thus commuted sentence will be executed. Accused will be released from arrest and restored to duty." ```markdown ``` Mrs. Evelyn Lindner, of Central Ave., died after an operation at Lakeside hospital, last week Thursday. She leaves a husband, mother, daughter, Mrs. Madge Wright, and sister, Mrs. Alice Alexander. The deceased was well known here and in Akron, her former home. 10550 EUCLID AVENUE The Real "Live Wire" of the N. A. A. C. P.—His Activity Has Awakened Du Bois. Secretary John R. Shillady, of the N. A. A. C. P., makes public the following resolutions passed, last week, by the Tennessee State Conference of Charities and Corrections: Whereas, the excitement connected with this stupendous war appears to have undermined the self-control of some of the American people to such an extent that lynchings seem to be occurring with increasing frequency; and race and of blood among our own people and will inevitably increase the length of the war and the cost in dead and wounded we will, have to pay for victory and thus give aid and comfort to the enemy; and Whereas, we do not believe those guilty of this lawlessness realize the reasonable effect of their act; Now, therefore, the Tennessee Conference of Charities and Corrections in convention assembled does Whereas, such occurrences are incompatible with the principles of justice and democracy for which we are fighting, and Whereas, the lynching of men of one blood or race by those of another is not at this time an ordinary act of lawlessness which may be left to the local authorities but stills at the very root of our national solidarity and efficiency, by raising issues of DOINGS OF THE RACE Mr. and Mrs. Edward Armstrong of Westfield, Jud., have five sons in the New National Army. Fourteen of our Ohio non-commissioned officers and one private were recently sent to an officers' training camp. The spectacle of a democratic mayor telling Afro-American soldiers "to go and save democracy for our country" was presented at St. Augustine, Florida, on a recent date. The A. M. E. Book Concern, of Philadelphia, owes $18,000 two years ago. The debt has been reduced to $8,500. R. W. Right, Jr., editor of the Christian Recorder, is the business manager, to "turn the锑." King George of England has conferred the title of Companion of the Most Gracious on His Royal Highness King Daniel of Uganda, a famous achievements being the abolition of polygamy and the establishment of Christianity in his domains. It is reported that Peter Gilbert, a private in the Canadian army, captured twenty-five Germans, single handed. He says that the German officer, who was among the twenty-five, wore an iron cross on his breast, but so admired the bravery and courage of his Colored captor that he handed the decoration over to him. Rey, J. F. Peck, philosopher of St. John's A. M. E. church, Toplek, Kan. has been elected president of West Virginia University. All the vacancy caused by the death of Prof. H. T. Keating. Rev. Peck is a graduate of Storier College, Harpers Ferry, Va., and Oberlin College. The infamous photophy, "The Birth of a Nation," was barred from Lynn, Maqs, recently. Three of our boys have been commissioned lieutenants in the Signal Battalion at Camp Sherman, O. H.; Homer Roberts, Charles S. Smith, Jr., and Butler Wilson. They are our first ever commissioned in the Signal Battalion, and are brarian at the camp says our soldiers there: "I have been greatly impressed by the studiousness of the Colored soldiers here. With one accord, they worn fliction and devote themselves to wireless and other topiples bearing on the work of the field signal battalion to which most of them belong." We sure to read carefully and call your friends' attention to the editorial on page 2 of this paper headed "indifferent Non-Progressives." race and of blood among our own people and will inevitably increase the length of the war and the cost in dead and wounded we will have to pay for victory and thus give aid and comfort to the enemy; and Whereas, we do not believe those guilty of this lawlessness realize the treasonable effect of their act. Now, therefore, the Tennessee Conference of Charities and Corrections in convention assembled does hereby respectfully petition the President of the United States to issue a proclamation to American people for liberty and liberty; Whereas, much acts do in fact amount to crimes against the nation, we do petition Congress to pass an act so declaring and giving federal grand juries and courts the right to indict and try those charged therewith. Jackson Military Band Statement The statements, published and made otherwise, last week, that our band, Jackson's Military Band, Local No. 550, A. F. of M., "refused to play for our local Old Fellows, Sunday week, for less than $175" is untrue. Our band submitted figures ($145 for two bands and two leaders, $100 for three, then on request submitted figures ($65) for a band of twelve men. These figures are the union rates—$5 per man and $10 for the leader. Two white bands of twelve men each, twenty-four men in all, were employed by our local Old Fellows on the day mentioned. They, too, are members of the union and should have submitted the same rates that our band did. Jackson's Military Band desires to meet that it wants more (more or less) than what is fair and right, and feels that it was not only clearly within its rights but also that it did only its duty when it submitted union rates to our local. Old Fellows for the number of musicians they named for service, Sunday week. The band was asked for figures on twenty-seven (not 24) men and for figures on 12. It is well to keep this in mind when discussing this matter. Clarence Dekker. Secretary, Jackson's Military Band, Local No. 550. — Adv. War Department, Washington, D.C. April 3, 1918. My dear Friend,—I cordially appreciate the Friendly interest which you have so frequently demonstrated, and wish to commend the splendid spirit of patriotic service which your paper, The Gazette, (along with others of the Negro press) has so generously shown in this period of national emergency and need. Sincerely yours, Emmett J. Scott, Special Assistant, Secretary of War. The Gazette received, recently, an excellent article from a Flushing, N. Y., newspaper, written by John A. Johnson, serving as offer on the U. S. steamer, Wakiva, in which he denounced certain southern newspapers that were dislodged. Mr. Johnson in a native of Flushing and was a resident of Cleveland until he entered the U. S. service. His wife is Mrs. Lola Miles Johnson, 3012 Central Ave. He resided in the U. S. Navy in May 1909, served in the Philippine campaign, at Vera Cruz in 1914, at Haiti 1915, at San Domingo in 1916 and is now serving in France. Two of his chums were lost on the Alcedo when it was sunk. He has been in several engagements with enemy ships, in recent months. Aug. 25, 1916, he was given an honorable discharge button for splendid service on the U. S. Navy. He has been a good conduct man from the U. S. Navy department. He re-enlisted in 1917 at Monte Cristo and was assigned to the U. S. S. Ohio at the Philadelphia navy yards. IN UNION IS STRONG SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS STRANGE STOMACH MIRACLES NOTED Man Swallows Egg and Cup at Same Time Easily There is a whimsical story of the wild and woolly man who had always eaten a couple of ostrich eggs for breakfast, and having an ordinary nursery egg set before him for the first time, swallowed at one gulp, both the egg and the cup. Whether these are the circumstances under which an Englishman recently swallowed a cup there is no available information. However, he is classified as one of the star exhibits in the display of what might well be called the achievements of human ostriches, an interesting assembling of data concerning the strange things swallowed by men, women and children. It is amazing the amount of strange burden the ordinary healthy stomach is capable of bearing. Besides some of these things plum pudding, mince pie, lobster and peanut shell and sawdust food are mere trifles not to be considered. There appeared in Europe and America several years ago a Hindu juggler named Alexander, who among his great variety of stunts used to swallow four two pound iron balls and then cough them up again, one after another. His swallowing of them, let it be said, was no trick or illusion, for he appeared before the clinics of several hospitals, and amazed the physicians by his demonstrations. The X-ray showed that the actual weight of metal was in his stomach. But had he swallowed only one and been unable to cough it out he would have died, just like most of the human oatrites concerning which we make this most unusual exhibit. Had the English juggler, who performed at a public house at Carlsleigh in 1823 had the abdominal and cough talent of the Hindu he might have been spared for many years longer. As it was he died, an impressive sacrifice to his art. The knife was accidentally swallowed by him—let no irreverent knave, suggest that it was while eating—during a performance where mouths were simply agape. He lived for two months and when the knife which was now when it went traits unintended destination, was removed from his body, it was found that the acid of the stomach had digested the bone handle and much of the blade. Medical men aver, therefore, that had he been able to carry it long enough the entire blade would have been digested. But think of the boy of 16 years who on a bet, swallowed twenty marbles and blithely survived. IS TOOTH ACHING? GRIP HOLD OF TOE Hang on Tight and You Won't Feel Pain says Zonetherapic Expert If the next time you visit your dentist to have a tooth extracted he orders you to sit in an ante room, remove your right shoe and stocking and hold your toe joint while he prepares his forces, why don't be alarmed. He can't crazy a tail! Your dentist is merely giving you the benefit of the discovery of Dr. William H. Fitzgerald of Hartford, known as zonethorapathy, and you are producing an anesthesia about the tooth so the operation will be painless. Dr. Fitzgerald's discovery of the nerve centers or zones of each other enables him, he contends, to produce a local anesthetic in almost any part of the body by exerting pressure on other parts; usually joints of the fingers and toes. Because of the simplicity of the discovery it is often possible, the doctor contends, for the patient to do the pressing himself with his free hand, thus saving time and giving him confidence. Dr. Fitzgerald told the dentists it is not always possible to produce local anesthesia by his method, but in more than 80 per cent of dental operations it is effective he said. To make painless parts on the right side of the body, he exerts pressure on that side. In making painless dentistry possible pressure nearly always must be exerted on the finger joints, according to Dr. Fitzgerald's system, but sometimes the toe joints are used. The right thumb joint governs the right front tooth and the second finger the first molar. One year ..... $1.50 Six Months ..... 1.00 truce monies ..... .50 Subscribers are requested to remit by postoffice money order or registered letter Entered at the postoffice in Cleveland, Ohio, as second-class mail matter. THE GAZETTE is the oldest, and has the largest bona fide circulation, double that of any newspaper in the interest of Afro-Americans, published in the state of Ohio, and comparison with any will immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWSIEST and BEST in the country. 10,000,000 Afro-Americans. 300,000 in Ohio. 25,000 in Cleveland. SATURDAY, MAY 25, 1918. Entirely too often, for the good of the race, do we have heartrending exhibitions on the part of "time-serving" Negroes who it seems will stoop to almost anything in order to curry favor with persons of the other race. The thoughtful, intelligent and loyal of the race must do more to make the masses of our people better understand this kind of "stabbing the race in the back" from within our ranks and, too, by members of the race, so it will become really dangerous for such sycophants and traitors to "ply their trade." MINISTERS' ALLIANCE OFFICERS Our people, generally, in this community are not aware of the fact that Bailey, pastor, of Antioch Baptist church, has been elected president of our local Ministers' Alliance (or what is left of it): Bayliss, pastor of Lane Memorial C. M. E. church, vice-president of the organization; Crable, pastor of M. Haven Baptist church, secretary, and J. S. Jackson, pastor of St. John's A. M. E. church, treasurer. What an "official combination" that is! It was Jackson who "uncovered" Bailey, Bayliss and Crable who later on the same day admitted on the witness stand, some months ago, when being examined by the Cuyahoga County Liquor License Commission, that they had accepted ten dollars each from "Starlight" Boyd, saloon-keeper, AFTER they had signed a (protest and) petition to the Commission, which Jackson had presented to them for that purpose and which asked the Commission to refuse to issue "Starlight" a license to re-open and continue his saloon in Central Ave. No wonder that Ministers' Alliance cannot be forced to demand of the City (Davis) Administration that it improve the fearfully immoral conditions (rapidly growing worse) in ward 11 and vicinity where most of our churches are located and a majority of our people of this community live. Lord, have mercy! "INDIFFERENT NON-PROGRESIVES." In reply to a letter, sent The Gazette last fall, by a member of our local Ministers' Alliance, the editor of this paper wrote the individual in question (and the Alliance) as follows: Your letter of the 17th, received, I hasten to write you because I am sure that had you been reading The Gazette regularly for the past year, as was your custom prior to that time, you would better understand the publication to which you refer in the communication just received. You ask me what more could the Ministers' Alliance do than "preach the gospel and exhort men to Christianity and civil righteousness." This very question has been so frequently answered in the paper, during the past year, that it ought not to be necessary to make formal reply at this time. You add: "We can only ask and entreat the powers that be to make ordinances and to enforce the law." You are mistaken! There is more that you can do and should have done, and The Gazette has repeatedly pointed the way to this very thing, during the period referred to. Trying to "persuade men to follow the teachings of the Holy Spirit" is not enough. This is proven by the fearfully immoral conditions in the Central Avenue district which have been steadily growing worse (while you were doing this) under the Davis administration. And the majority of our churches are in that district! So you see "preaching and exhorting," without the ACTION, upon the part of our ministers as leaders in a moral uplift movement in that section The Gazette has repeatedly called upon them to give, are not enough and have accomplished little, if anything at all. Words without ACTION, in this case as in many others, have failed utterly to accomplish results. They neither have moved the Davis Since the above was written, conditions in Ward 11 and the "Central Ave. district" have steadily grown worse and there has been no effort upon the part of our local Ministers Alliance to lead in a movement to improve them. Murders are numerous lesser crimes of various kinds are almost daily heralded in the local daily press; gambling and all sorts of immoral resorts in that section of the city are flourishing as never before in the history of Cleveland. BALLOUS BLUNDER AND INSULT Major General C. C. Ballou was wrong when he issued his new notorious order, "Bulletin, No. 35," in which he virtually asked our soldiers of his command to surrender civil and manhood rights upon the altar of American racial prejudice for the purpose of promoting harmony with prejudiced whites in the various sections in which they are located. Calling attention to his prosecution of a theater manager for unlawful discrimination against one of his soldiers on account of color or race, or both, does not alter in the least or wipe out this fact; nor does it mitigate in the slightest degree the grossness of his offense. On the contrary, it has a tendency to increase the feeling of indignation and resentment toward him upon the part of the thoughtful and loyal of our people who understand, and thorouly too, the motive underlying such an effort. Gen. Ballou's statement that the insulting order, "Bulletin, No. 35, was one of advice and had nothing to do with any policy of segregation, or with any policy outside of the military establishments," does not lessen in the slightest the enormity of his insult to soldiers of color and THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, OHIO, MAY 25, 1918. their people throne the country. He would not have dared to issue such an order to the Irish, Jewish or American soldiers of any other class and it is a duty we owe our own to carry this Bulletin, No. 35 matter to the President and do everything in our power to have the order rescinded just as soon as possible. In this way only can we make all understand that as loyal American citizens and soldiers ours are entitled to and must be treated by Gen. Ballou, and all others in authority, with the same respect and consideration as other American soldiers if we are to be expected to render the same measure of loyalty and service to our country and its government. We assure the General that there is no "malicious attempt to stir up race feeling by misrepresentation" that we can call to mind at that time that can do more to do that very thing than his Bulletin, No. 35, and he should be made to understand this. Then that aggravatingly insulting threat in the order that "white men made the (92d) Division, and they can break it just as easily if it becomes a trouble maker." Good Lord! Let them break it, if they dare, and learn who or what will be the loser. This threat was wholly unnecessary and inexcessible, an increased insult not only to our soldiers but to all of us and shows better than anything else in the Bulletin the true animus prompting the writing and issuance of it. Gen Ballou seemed to lose sight entirely of the very important fact that he was writing to men, citizens, and not children; that he was also addressing millions of loyal people, Americans to the core and native born, who know and value their rights as citizens just as highly and sacredly as he and all others should; and that these millions of "black" people to a man are back of our soldiers "to the end of the chapter." Another thing the General should know and that is that our people understand thoroly and as a result are very tired of references always to but one side of such affairs as the East St. Louis, III., and Houston, Texas, mob demonstrations, and that we serve notice on all that it is now high time that proper punishment be visited on the "white" soundrels, brutes and murderers primarily responsible for them. Let there be not only criticism but some of that criminal and military prosecution of them that has been visited on many of those of our race they goaded into striking back at both places. The blood of their innocent victims at E. St. Louis—men, women and children to the number of nearly two hundred—and that of those thirteen soldier victims, not shot as soldiers condemned to death always had been heretofore but hanged near Houston, some months ago, cries to high heaven for justice and right. There should be no effort "to gloss over" the flagrant insult gratuitously given our soldiers of the 92d Division and thru them all of our people of this country in the Balloon Bulletin, No. 35, but a determined effort on our part to have it rescinded and the General reprimanded for issuing it. That is the only proper course open to a self and race respecting people who know and property value their citizen rights. 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 desirous of hearing from persons in the following named cities: Springfield, Dayton, Akron, Lima, O., and other places, particularly in Ohio, where we have many. Write to the editor of The Gazette Blackstone building, Cleveland, O., and terms will be sent promptly. Our readers will oblige us greatly by sending at once the addresses of persons in the cities named and others in the state, to whom we can write relative to the matter. PREJUDICE "Any prejudice whatever will be insurmountable if those who do not share in it themselves truckle to it and flatter it and accept it is a law of nature."—John Stuart Mill. PROTEST AGAINST WRONG. To submit in silence when we should protest makes co-wards out of men. The humourance has blinded on Protest. Has no vice been traisted against injustice, ignorance and lust, the inquisition yet 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. "I honor the man who in the conscientious discharge of his duty dares to stand alone; the world, with ignorant, tolerant judgment, may condemn, the countenances of relatives may be averted, and the hearts of friends grow cold, but the sense of duty done shall be sweeter, than the applause of the world, the countenances of relatives or the hearts of friends." — Charles Sumner. 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. FILL THIS OUT AND SEND IT White 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. Name ... Street or Box address...... City or Town..... BREADFRUIT BREADLESS, GRAPEFRUIT GRAPELESS And So Is Sponge Cake Spongeless, Horse Chestnut Horseless, Buttercup Butterless. Washington, D. C. — Paraphrasing Shakespeare's often quoted question. "What's in a name?" the question of "What's not in a name?" has been answered in the brief of a recent appeal from a decision of the United States Examiner of Trade Marks. This particular case hinged upon whether or not a word with a well-defined meaning could be divorced from that meaning. It was claimed that this could be done, and in support of this contention the following apparent misnomers were cited: "There is no cream in cream of tartar, in cold cream or in chocolate creams; no milk in magnolia or in milk-weed. These are all as remote from the cow as the cowship. "There is no grape in grapefruit or bread in breadfruit. A pineapple is neither pine nor apple; a prickly pear is not a pear; an alligator pear is neither a pear nor an alligator, and a sugar plum is not a plum. "Apple butter is not butter. All the butter is taken out of buttermilk, and there is none in buttermuts, or in buttermucks, and the flies in the creamery are not butterflies. "Peanuts are not peas, and it is doubtful if they are nuts. Sailors wear pea-jackets—peas do not, they have pea-cods, which, by the way, are not fish. "Monkey wrenches are neither made by nor of monkeys. Poles are not made from polecats nor badges from the badger. "A woodchuck is a groundhog, which is not a hog and is not ground—ground hog is a squirrel. "Angel food is eaten by everybody. There are no sponges in sponge cake, and the eating of ladygenders does not indicate cannibalism. "Chickenpox has nothing to do with chickens, neither has an eggplant—nor a cocktail. "A horse chestnut is as far removed from horses as a sawhorse, clotheshorse, or horseradish. A horse chestnut is a nut, so is the thing that goes with a bolt, and so is a doughnut. Sweetbreads are not sweet and are not bread. Catgut is no more feline than pussywillow and cattails and the firedogs are andirons and are made frequently of brass. "Whifflefeet, boot-trees, halltrees and family trees are as out of place in the woods as a railway frog, a fishplate, a fish story, a mackerel sky or a crabble in the water." Couldn't Josh Him Coming fresh from the country, a youth had just procured a position in a city grocery. As he had been warned that the city folks would josh him because he was from the country he was very cautious. One day a girl entered the store. "I should like to get some birdseed please," she said. Confident that he had detected a "josher," the youth answered with a smile: "No, you can't 'josh' me. Birds grow from eggs, not seeds." Easily Divided The following question was put to some young pupils in a Philadelphia public school: "There is a family of five children. The mother has only four potatoes to divide among them. She wants to give each child an equal share. What is she to do?" Silence pervailed in the classroom; every pupil was calculating diligently. Finally one boy put up his hand. "Well, Sammy, what would you do?" asked the teacher. "Mash the potatoes, ma'am." Date CAN RECORD HEART SOUNDS Professor Invents an Improved Auditory Device. The faintest sound becomes so pronounced by the aid of an improvement on the audion amplifier perfected by R. B. Abbott, instructor of physics at the University of California, that the fall of a feather makes a noise like the thud of a wrestler striking the mat. With the instrument attached to an ordinary photograph it will be possible to make a record of the sound of the beating of the human heart. Wealth from the Sea. Deep-sea fishing off the coast of Vancouver Island has been a thriving industry for many years. Most of the individuals and firms engaged in the business have devoted their efforts to catching halibut and other food fishes, although at least one big whaling company has paid huge dividends out of the profits in catching whales. From Vice Consul Galpin, at Vancouver, B.C., the Department of Commerce and Labor learns that a new corporation will engage on an extensive scale in the catching of sharks and other fish that are worthless for food purposes. The shark-fishing branch of the industry is something new on the Pacific coast. It is proposed to use sharks for oil and fertilizer. The new firm will build cold-storage plants at a number of points on the west coast of Vancouver Island and Queen Charlotte Islands and will handle the product of the fisheries in the most approved modern style. The halibut fisheries of the North Pacific have been mostly in the hands of American fisheries companies operating out of Seattle and Vancouver; the new concern is to be exclusively a Canadian enterprise. The success that has been attained by these companies again calls attention to a neglected field which might with profit be occupied by the Columbia River fishing concerns. The best halibut banks in the North Pacific are located north of the Columbia river. But a few miles off the bar there are vast schools of cod, grouper, flounder, sole and other excellent food fishes, with halibut obtainable in fairly good supply. For these fish there is a demand that is steadily increasing with the higher prices of meats. The royal chinook salmon is no longer so plentiful that it can be regarded as a cheap food, but the supply of deep-sea fish is 'nexhaustible. Establishment of a station at Astoria of some other point near the mouth of the river, with a steamer equipped with modern apparatus might prove the starting point for a great industry right at our doorr. Perfectly Right. We had experienced some difficulty in teaching the children to say "No, thank you." One day Aunt Maggie said to a sister, aged 3: FOOD WILL WIN THE WAR DARE TO DO YOUR DUTY "Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we under- stand it." Abraham Lincoln. THE MODERN TONIC FOR OLD AND YOUNG ALL YEAR AROUND P H A R M A C Y E. 55th ST. & CENTRAL AVE. SANTAL CAPSULES MIDY CATARRH of the BLADDER relieved in 24 HOURS Each Car sub hears the MIDY name &er Beware of counterfeits Roy Smith's Orchestra Louis Murray, Director Parties and Receptions a Speciality ROY SMITH, Manager 6319 Central Ave., Cleveland, O. 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After using it only one year, my hair is to my shoulders. Charlotte Smith The C.C.C.Hair Co. 353 WOOLAND AVENUE Home Phone, B7218 TOLEDO, OHIO AGENTS WANTED—Stamp for reply Where to Purchase The Gazette NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS Subscribers not receiving The Gazette regularly should notify us at once. We desire every copy delivered promptly. Send or bring locals and all business matters to The Gazette's office, 214-215 Blackstone Bldg. If you wish to see the editor call there, please. 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. 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., Burlington, VT 05424. Ave. L, V. Orton, see, 2667 E. 40th St. Milton Watkins, chairman, 2524 E. 30th St. CLEVELAND Social and Personal Sergt. Robert Smith is located temporarily at Youngstown with Gen. McMacklin. Be sure to read the "Indifferent Non-Progressives" editorial on page 2, of this paper. Mr. Edward Daw is steadily improving and is now able to take a short walk daily. Sergt. Wm. Dorsey of Camp Sherman visited his wife, Mrs. Ethel Moss Dorsey, last week. George B. Cooper chaperoned a fishing party of fourteen men (white) to Toronto, Sunday night. The Apollo quartette, A. L. Spencer, George Bizzelle, Harry and J. T. Ford, will go to Akron, Tuesday. James Asnes Harris and Eva Ransom will be attending St. Andrew's Auxiliary in Toledo, this week. Rev. B. K. Smith, pastor of Mt. Zion Baptist church, officiated at the funeral of a friend, Deacon Calvin Reed, at Oberlin, recently. Mrs. Clarence Williams is visiting her sister, Mrs. Ida Deaver Locatl, St. Paul, and visited Mrs. Clara Morris Wilson, of Chicago, en route. Mrs. Harriet K. Price and Miss Emma Fields have been appointed regular teachers. The latter had been substituting about eighteen months. Mrs. W. H. Fields, Elshore St., suffered a relapse but is slightly improved. Her children presented her with a beautiful five-passenger car. A large audience listened to Mrs. Butler R. Wilson of Boston at the mass meeting at Cory M. E. church. Her talk was very interesting and instructive. Rev. Irving K. Merchant's wife was called to Portsmouth, N. H., by her mother's illness. Rev. Merchant is the new pastor of Mt. Zion Cong. church. Mrs. Nancy Ponzo was removed from Mt. Sinai hospital, last week Friday, to her daughter's. Mrs. Sarah McCullen's, Scovill Ave., greatly improved. C. Ray Sinkford returned to Chicago, Saturday, after a pleasant visit with Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Reid, E. 48th Place. Mr. Sinkford is a clerk in the post office there. The U. B. F. and S. M. T. will hold their annual thanksgiving services at the Second Emmanuel church, Sunday afternoon, James Buchanan master of ceremonies. Be sure to attend the big dance and promenade at Dreamland Dancing Academy, Decoration day evening, May 30th, Admission, 85c. All soldiers in uniform admitted free. McAfee's full orchestra. Respectfully, Men's Club. Adv. Graham Deuwell, Esq., aged 70 Wednesday, was in the city, the first of the week from Columbus, on legal business. He is a cousin of Miss Carrie Brown of E. 85th St. and visited The Gazette sanctum. Mrs. Gee. Sampson, Sr., of E. 30th St., who has been very ill for several weeks and who was moved to her daughter, Mrs. Hattie Dale's E. 40th St., was a little better when The Gazette went to press. Thursday. The Gazette received a call, Tuesday afternoon, from Dr. Leroy Bundy and his father, Rev. Chas, Bundy, Dud and Mrs. Bundy are visiting his parents for a brief period before returning to Chicago. All are apparently in excellent health. 4 Mrs. Mary Dixon, who has been stopping at Mr. Luther Hall's, E. 36th St., several months, returned to Chicago, Sunday. She is the mother of the late Will H. Dixon, the N.Y. City music composer. Be sure to attend the big dance and promenade at Dreamland Dancing Academy, Decoration day evening, May 30. Admission, eighty-five cents. McAfee's full orchestra. Soldiers in uniform admitted free. Respectfully, Men's Club. —Adv. The Gazette acknowledges the receipt of a formal notice of the marriage, November last, of Miss Cleota, daughter of Rev. and Ira, IA Collin of Zanesville, and Lieut. Geo, C. Lace, and Mrs. Mrs. Cace are located at 103 W. 143d St., N. Y. City. She is a talented vocalist. Our people who are being asked EIGHT AND TEN DOLLARS A MONTH more rent for rooms and houses than white persons, or our people, paid for the same, a year ago or since, should promptly report the fact to Chairman Dittrick at the New City Hall. Stop complaining if you are not willing to do this much in the city. Now, the City of OAKLIGHT! Now is the time. Not next month, but the first of next week! St. Andrews' Dramatic club was organized, Tuesday evening, at Mrs. J. J. Arnold's, Mr. Arthur Spencer THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, OHIO, MAY 25, 1918 pres, and director; Miss Clara Dyson, vice-pres.; Mrs. Leslie Smith, sec.; Mrs. Carl Millan, treas.; Miss Ella Dyson, promoter and librarian; J. J. Arnold, business manager; Mr. Leslie Smith, disciplinarian. Refreshments were served and a very pleasant social session followed. Elsewhere in this paper 'will be found our local band's statement as to the two weeks' bitter controversy over the hiring of white bands for the Odd Fellow parade, Sunday week, something that has caused no end of discussion, criticism and vituperation. It is now up to our local Odd Fellows to make clear their side of the affair. At best, it is most unfortunate and the Gazette regrets that the differences between the two organizations have arisen because they seem to have encouraged a similar condition in the K. P. parade, Sunday. Again we wish to say that The Gazette does not include the pastors of St. James A. M. E. East Mt. Zion Baptist, Mt. Zion Cong., St. Andrews E., and St. Paul's Zion A. M. E. churches in its criticisms of the Ministers' Alliance. The first two, Revs. O. Childs and J. Childs, are in the extreme east end of the city and not in "the Central Ave. district" and like the other three ministers mentioned are practically "newcomers" in their local pastoral work. G. A. Jackson, leader of Jackson's Military band, sends The Gazette the following: "I notice in the last issue of a Chicago Colored paper an item, relative to the recent Odd Fellow parade on the occasion of their annual thanksgiving services, in which the statement is made that the white bands played for them $60 cheaper than the Jackson Military band figures. If such be the case, they played $60 less than the union scale. We have beeneny over the union scale and I would like for you to mention this fact in your next issue of The Gazette." St. James A. M. E. church was well attended. S. Sunday. The pastor spoke in the morning from the subject, "God needs us in the World," and in the evening on "Steadfastness an essential to Success." The Sunday School and Allen League held interesting meetings. Miss Margaret Koiner and Mrs. Gladys Watson were elected delegates to the Sunday School Institute, and Mrs. Corola Washington and Estella Gainer delegates to the W. M. m. Convention. The Adams-Ramey Men's Guild dissected the subject, "Dancing a social Fancy for the Old" or "For the Public." Special services on the Sunday, June 2, quarterly meeting. Rev. John D. White, of Findlay, spent Friday with Rev. O. W. Childers. He was on route to New Castle, Pa. to take charge of the A. M. E. church there. A very imposing and creditable showing indeed was made by our three K. P. lodges, Sunday, in their parade to and from Cory M. E. church where they listened to their annual sermon and held their annual thanksgiving services. Edwin Cowles, Western Reserve and Climax lodges were headed by two bands and were under the command of Marshall Jas. McAfee, aly assisted by Col. Fountaine and Major R. Dillard. The line of march was down Central Ave. to E. 30th St., from 2490 Central; thru E. 30th to Cedar Ave. to E. 46th to Central to E. 36th to the church. In the parade were more than 20 autos in which rode the Courts of Calanthe (women of the order) and companies B and C, U. R, K. P. The K. P. in company B rode the Courts of Calanthe. Fellow demonstration of the Sunday previous. Only one little incident occurred and that was when a Central Ave. motorman "lost his head" and tried to drive his car thru the parade at Central and E. 24th Br. "he was brought to book" so quickly and effectually that that particular motorman will hardly need another lesson of the kind. Charles Johnson, porter, of 1428 Woodland Ave., was finned $300 and costs on a charge of housebreaking and $100 and costs on a charge of assault and battery in police court, last week Friday. Johnson, police said, broke into the home of Mrs. Homer J. Ford, 2173 E. 84th St. and stole a watch. Mrs. Ford battled with the intruder and Joseph Kaufman, 2165 E. 85th St., who came to her aid was cut in the hand. John Roodman, 2316 E. 89th St., went to Kaufman's aid and felled Johnson with a picket from a nearby fence. A crowd, which had collected, threatened Johnson with harm, according to police, but he was saved by the timely arrival of Captain Van Orman and Traffic Patrolman O'Hare, who had commanded an auto when notified of the trouble. Just such things as this Johnson affair are what will eventually result in mob violence and possibly a lynching right here in Cleveland. Time and again the Gazette has called attention to this fact and at the same time called on our local Ministers' Alliance to demand of Mayor Davis a thorough cleaning up of the "Central Ave. district" where most of our churches are located. Declaring that justices of the peace have no jurisdiction in criminal matters outside their townships and asking for a grand jury investigation, Gov. Rick Snyder, during last week Tuesday, freed Alex Hall, who had been committed to the ```markdown ``` county jail by Justice R. R. Hawkins of East Cleveland. Hall, who lives at 1420 Oregon Ave., was arrested in March by George S. Winner, resident of Cleveland and special deputy of Hawkins' court. He was charged with having slapped a waister during a quarrel in a Chinese restaurant at E 9th St. and Hamilton Ave. He was given the alternative of paying a fine of $50 and costs or going to jail. Up to last week Tuesday, he had served 65 days and in serving his fine and costs amounting to $60.45, was due to remain in jail until June 18. Last week Tuesday, he sent for Attorney John P. Green, who obtained a writ of habeas corpus. When Hall was taken before Judge Levine, Hawkins was summoned to bring his books. Hall testified that in the trial before Hawkins, he was not informed that he was entitled to an attorney. He testified that he was induced to sign a paper without knowing its contents. He was summoned to wards found to be a waiver of the justice's jurisdiction. All of this was denied by Hawkins. In setting Hall free Judge Levine declared that Hawkins had no right to try him and that he had no right to fill the place of a constable elected in East Cleveland with a special copable living outside that township. Poverty and sorrow were pictured in the shrunken figure of the little old blind woman sitting day after day for many years at the Bolivar Road entrance to Central market. She sold shoe laces and pencils to sympathetic passersby. Even more desolate was the old house she lived in at 1022 Central Ave., where she seemed barely to elke out a poverty-stricken existence. Yet these are the things she produced when, lying sick in a ruin of a room, she summoned Mounted Patrolmen Matowitz and Kral into the house: A large bag of silver coin, hidden in the coal bin. A roll of bills, $820 in all, staffed into a bundle of rags. A bag of pencils, many hundreds of them, behind the stove. A bag book, showing the deposits of $2,069.97 under the mattress. The woman was Mrs. Fannie Gray. She is said to be more than ninety years old. Convinced she was about to die, she decided to go to City hospital, last week Thursday, and her last act was to summon the patrolmen to care for her boarded wealth whom she told to "Deposit it for me." "Aunt Fannie," as the neighbors called the aged woman, used to be a slave. She told, Thursday, how she was freed in 1861, the day President Lincoln was inaugurated: her owner down South committed suicide because Lincoln had won. Then she became a paid servant in the home of Major Samuel Price, a cousin of Lincoln, at Hopkinsville, Ky. Mrs. Gray came to Cleveland thirty-five years ago. She has been blind since she was nineteen years old, and yet for the past nine years she has taken her daily station at Central market. She has a niece, a namesake, in Indianapolis. BEST FOR THE BLOOD — Puro Herbs. Sold only at Brown Drug Co. cor E. 28th St. and Central Ave. — Adv. THE GAZETTE is mailed ON TIME EVERY WEEK and persons in this city should receive their copy of it on FRIDAY OR SATURDAY at the very latest. There is no good excuse for the delivery of your copy of the paper on a later date. Tell your letter-carrier so and insist upon prompt delivery on Friday or Saturday of your copy of "The Old Reliable." Can it be that we are satisfied with local conditions and some of our unfortunate brethren who have never been trained in the slightest degree in the school of public decorum? Are we satisfied with the conduct of some of our people in street cars? Can we not see a decided need for immediate improvement? Take a seat in almost any Central Ave. car, and without effort one can see or hear careless men and women of color attracting attention by reason of their loud talk and careless conduct. Yelling at each other from one part of the car to another, laughing louder than anyone else; discussing their service for the benefit of all aboard; making their presence felt keenly by reason of their ignorance or sad lack of awareness and politeness. These things hurt the feelings of or disgust people and are very harmful to all of our people of the community. It is high time our churches and other organizations interest themselves in this matter, since our "spineless" locat Ministers Alliance seems to fear to do so. You should take PURO HERBS, the great blood purifier and system cleanser. You should sale only at the Brown store. 2742 Central Ave., cor. E. 28th St.-Alley. BLOWN FORTY MILES Shovel Hurted Through Air in High Pressure Test During a high pressure test of a new pipe line which has been built into Waco, Tex, from an adjacent gas field, a shovel was blown through the conduit for a distance of nearly forty miles. During the construction work the tool was evidently dropped in one of the 12 inch pipes and not noticed before the connections were made. The Waco end of the pipe was open when the test was made and faced an embankment at the end of the ditch. The pipe line extends across a nearly level stretch of country and has hardly a rise or depression in the whole forty miles of its length. When the gas was turned on, the shovel, which weighs four pounds, was slot with such velocity that it buried itself nearly eighteen inches in the earth when it left the opening of the pipe. Several pieces of broken pipe connections and a pair of gloves followed in its wake.—Popular Mechanics. Youth is going to do things tomorrow that old age didn't do yesterday. Miss Bessie B. Cook TEACHER OF PIANO Hours 10 a. m. to 6 p. m. Evenings by Appointment 2331 E. 29th Street Blood Remedy Spring laziness is a condition caused by impoverished blood. 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The work will prove of special interest to all students of political history whether they are public officials or only public spirited Americans, interested in the preservation of our institutions. ROBERT FISHER Attorney and Counselor at Law 819 American Trust Building Cleveland, Ohio el. Central 1400-W. HENRY L. THOMAS Attorney and Counselor at Law 512 Superior Building Cleveland, C Central 2251-R Quality Service ER BROS. Directors and Limers General Parlors GENERAL AVE. Is Answered Day and Night central 5727 's Dining Room Central Avenue Bank Doctor, Manager Label, Chef A. E. Life" 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 BIGGEST FACTOR IN FORESTRY WORK SIMPLE EXPERIMENT MADE BY ENGLISH EXPERT WITH Results Called Interesting to Those Cultivating Gardens The very biggest factor in the forestry problem was strikingly exemplified in a simple little experiment by an English expert the other day. Ordinary soil from his garden was placed in three small flower pots, care being taken to see that there was as little difference as possible between the individual specimens that filled the pots. After sufficient time had elapsed to permit the contents of the pots to become thoroughly packed and dry, the soil in one of them was stirred until it became pourous, as cultivated ground. Thereupon water was poured gradually into all three pots in such quantities that their contents were as thoroughly saturated as possible. The results were interesting and significant. It was found in the first place that while the water entered the soil that had not been disturbed much more slowly than it did that which had been agitated, it passed through considerably faster. That is to say, the uncultivated soil not only derived less initial advantage from the moisture, but dried more quickly. The most accurate weighing brought the fact to light that cultivated soil retained fully eight ounces more of water than did that in either of the other two pots. The facts thus elicited from the bits of land in the flower pots apply, as the experimenter asserts, to the innumerable cares of the earth. When soil is closely packed, the water for the most part flows over it, imparting no benefits whatever. Such as succeeds in penetrating it, on the other hand, quickly sinks into a depth which renders it quite unavailable for the nourishment of vegetation. Now the roots of a tree penetrate the earth to a considerable distance over quite an area. Their constant growth and their activity is extracting nutriment from the soil, not to mention the motion caused by the strain of supporting the tree in an upright position, have the effect of stirring the ground more or less and keeping it porous. The result is that forest land not only absorbs a larger amount of water, but retains it longer. This is the secret of the agency on the forests in preventing floods. It reveals the fact also, that by retaining moisture for a greater length of time, they become tremendous natural reservoirs, standing always between humanity and the suffering and privation that attend extended drouth. THE LIFE OF PASTEUR Remarkable Private and Public Character of French Scientist Few better exemplars of the Carolian definition of genius ever existed than Louis Pasteur. Paintingstoll, that in two branches of science where it must needs be followed thru with mathematical exactiture, was the dominant trait in his character. Coupled with it were an idealism and an enthusiasm that would brook no bounds, altogether an equipment that played a logical part in the production of the splendid achievements with which Pasteur's name is associated. His life is the subject of a readable little monograph published recently by the Frederick A. Stokes company in their "Great Men" series (75 cents). The authors are Albert Keim and Louis Lumet, and the translation from the French is the work of Frederic Tabor Cooper. Born in 1822, Pasteur passed through boyhood and early youth without giving much evidence of future greatness. In 1842, a note attached to his diploma as candidate for the ecocide normale informed the faculty that in chemistry he was only mediocre. He first attracted attention by his explanation of the retary power of one of two tartaric acid forms to turn the plane of polarized light. The experiment once proved, was performed again for the benefit of Prof. Rhot, who cried, convinced: "My dear boy, I have loved science so dearly all my life that this sets my heart beating!" From this point forward Pasteur's career is a record of distinguished successes, culminating, as every layman knows, in his discovery of the germ theory and his investigators of hydrophobia and the founding of the pasteur institute. But before these results were achieved he had won fame from others of great economic if not so great humanitarian import, germ theory and his investigations of a ruinous silkworm epidemic which brought him in touch with the economist, Henri Fabre. He knew nothing of silkworms, shaking a cocoon near his ear he exclaimed: "Why there is something inside!" But he mastered the plague in such thorouga fashion that he preserved the silk industry for France. An epidemic of chicken cholera was stamped out with similar effectiveness. When the day breaks some men are too lazy to make use of the pieces. The fame of the little town of Rock-ester, Minn.—which had less than 8,000 inhabitants by the last census—has been made by two great surgeons, Charles and William Mayo. The Mayo clinic of St. Mary's hospital has been the mecca not merely of invalids, but of doctors eager to observe the method of the famous practitioners. With a generosity that is the tradition among the greater men and minds of their profession, the brothers have shown on unstinted hospitality to patients and physicians alike and they have been prodigiously busy and successful, and commensurately honored by learned societies here and abroad. Many medical institutions have been conducted merely for the selfish profit of the promoters. Just because the Mayo brothers have cared more for the advancement of science than for money, or repute, great wealth is treirs in an age that in both cases is close to the half century mark. The world would not begrudge them the enjoyment of their well earned wealth in the pleasant case of an honorable retirement. But that is not their plan. They are placing the University of Minnesota in absolute possession of a fund of $2,000,000 for medica research, free from the embarrassment of complicated stipulations as to the expenditure of the money. A more nobly disinterested use of affluence in the practice of one's profession it would be hard to find in the annals of any calling. MAKE GLOVES OF EGG SHELLS Vany Tone Required in Manufacture of Kid and Calico Many people imagine when an article is cast into the dustbin its days are ended. This, however, is not so, for all the contents of dustbars are carefully sorted as they are emptied, anything of value being put aside. Disregarding things such as scissors, anvies, etc., many corporations are making a big profit out of their dust. You wouldn't think that there would be any value in egg shells, set every year as many as 400 tons are required in the manufacture of so called kid gloves and also in printed calico. Corks too, are a value item, for they sell to manufacturers at the rate of nine cents a pound, and in a year no fewer than $500,000 worth are thrown away. Cycles suffer a number of hardships before they reach an absolute end. Old tires are bought at quite a good price by manufacturers for the rubber on them—inner tubes are especially valuable—and to go make rubber mats and cheap rubber toys. The frame supplies gas filters with short lengths of tube, and the rest of the machine is melted down to make fresh iron article. YES, RAZORS GET TIRED So Barbers Maintain and Back up As serious Barbers maintain a razor gets tired and is improved after a rest. Any razor, after constant use, while not exactly becoming dull, grows sluggish and fails to work as smoothly as when it has lain for a few weeks without work. Constant use and continued sharpening puts the molecules in a sluggish condition, and it is impossible to get the same edge as when the steel has not been in use for some time. When the razor lies idol and the electric current is passing off at the edge the particles are being tensed and tempered, and the edge actually becomes more smooth and really sharper. It is claimed a razor wrapped in rubber cloth and placed in a drawer away from any damp will not be benefited by the rest as will a razor that is simply laid away rather carelessly without any isolation. It is the same if the razor is enclosed in a glass case, for the insulation prevents electric current from passing thru the metal. —Tit Bits. Band Records Not Easily Produced Regardless of the fact that there are hundreds of men, who not only pass, but are accepted as competent band leaders, there are comparatively few who can direct a band so that it will make a suitable talking machine record. The great volume of sound must be carefully controlled so that each instrument will engrave its own impression upon the revolving disc without interfering with the other instruments. Sometimes a band piece for a record will take half dozen or more playings. Sometimes just once over is enough. The uncertainty of making a band record is due to the fact that not all instruments are alike in the recording quality and tone production. A sharp note will throw the entire record out of tune. The hall in which the band plays must be especially constructed to meet the acoustic requirements. The players are placed on a movable platform with careful attention to their positions from the receiving horn, carefully worked out. After the disc begins revolving there is absolute silence that the record may be free from side noises. A light flashes and the band begins. Several times the record is made in order that the result be faultless. Then the record is tested. It not just as it should be it is made over. Because of the numerous outside noises it has been almost impossible to secure the engraving of a good band or music record where there has been an audience. MAN PLAYS THE PIANO 65 HOURS, 14 MINUTES Wrests World Championship From Rival in Contest That Is Spread Over Four Days. Philadelphia, Pa.—Lawrence Huntington of West Philadelphia holds the record as the champion ivory beater of the world. The title was accorded to him at 5:15 a. m. Clock Sunday morning when he dropped over at a piano which he had been ceaselessly pounding "or 65 hours and 4 minutes, drumming out a symphony in X flat. Huntingdon and J. M. Waterbury of Emporia, Kan., started a musical marathon on Thursday at noon at Fifty-second and Ranstead streets. Waterbury up to that time was the world's champion, having a record of 65 hours and 7 minutes. From Thursday until Sunday at 5:03 a. m., the pair kept up the contest. Then Waterbury went out, and Huntingdon was left to pound away on the keys alone. He insisted that he was goin' to distance Waterbury and he did, but when he was seven minutes beyond the Emporia man's record he faded away and had to be carried off where he could get a little sleep. SPOOKS GO ON-STRIKE AFTER A 3-DAY RE Quit Throwing Household Furnish and Pulling Hairpins From Woman's Head. Newark, N. J., Mr. and Mrs. S. laus Lysaj are getting weary of a haunt. After a three-day reviveible presences throwing house furnishings at Mr. and Mrs. S. laus have taken a day off and Lysajs are devoted hoping they have gone away to spend week in the country and they will come back. Mrs. Lysaj's sister died two months ago and on her deathbed she she would "get even" for a tape they had had, according to the told by the couple. The wildest yarns ever spun old sailors' home are outside but now circulating in the view of the "haunted house." Monday the narrative runs, a flock of myious footsteps run all around Lysaj's four-room apartment, and footsteps had no feet attached them. On Tuesday the invisible visi descended to no, slapstick con While the contest was on the players had to keep their fingers going ceaselessly. They were fed thru a hose. Their fingers were padded with little pieces of felt and the keys were covered with talcum powder. This assuaged in a great measure the effect of the constant playing upon their fingers. In the last hours, as he was near the record of his rival, Huntingdon showed signs of nodding to sleep, but the crowd around the place in which he was playing kept up an uproar of cheering so that he would remain awake. When he found that he had smashed Waterbury's record, however, he insisted on taking a rest, despite the urging of his friends that he keep on. "I'm off music for a while," he said after he had taken some sleep. "I've had all I want, for the time being. I'm what you might call fed up." NEW VEGETABLE GROWN BY BAYMERS IN SOUTH Washington, D. C. — The dasheen, a root crop introduced into this country from Trinidad within recent years by the Department of Agriculture, is now grown by a considerable number of farmers and truckers in the South. It promises to become a valuable member of the group of domestic vegetables such as the potato which furnish starchy foods. The new vegetable is closely related to the taro, which is an important factor in the food supply in parts of the tropics. The dasheen primarily's a tropical plant. It can be grown successfully, however, not only in the warmer parts of Florida, but in other sections of the South as far north as South Carolina. The edible portion of the plant includes a large central corm and a number of tubers of much smaller size attached to and around the corm. In food value the dasheen is comparable to the potato, the it contains a smaller proportion of water and a greater proportion of protein, starch and sugar. The new vegetable may be prepared for the table as potatoes usually are, or may be made into flour and used in baking. The tender shoots forced from the large corns may be be prepared like asparagus and make a pleasing dish in that form. STONE MONEY IN GRAVE 75 YEARS: JUST FOUND Mc Cray Gravel Pit, Near Cloverdale, Cali, Yields Relics of Early San Francisco, Cal.- Most important anthropological finds relating to California Indians have been unearthed by William Altman, assistant curator of the Golden Gate Park Museum, in the McCray gravel pit near Cloverdale. The find consists of the discovery of a burial ground which had been in use by the Indians of that part of the State for a period far antedating the arrival of the white men in California. Altman, who returned from there recently, has secured a vast amount of Pomo stone money, made from magnesite, and numerous other objects of Indian life and culture. One of the most important finds from the pit was the rude coffin of High Chief Masialacoon, the last high chief of the Pomos of that section. According to the details which Altman was able to get from the few Indians left living in that region, the chief, whose name meant Big Snake, was buried in the pit about 75 years ago. When he died the Indians were called from miles to attend the ceremonies, and just before the body was covered those present threw stone money into the grave. Most of the information was given Altman by an Indian named Charlie La Moon, who is said to be over 100 years old. He was present at the burial. Altman lacked the time to investigate the pit thoroly, but he was told by LaMoon that it contained at least 300 bodies, not including women and children. Quit Throwing Household Furnishings and Pulling Hairpins From Woman's Head. Newark, N. J., Mr. and Mrs. Stanlaus Lysa are getting weary of being haunted. After a three-day revel invisible presences throwing household furnishings at Mr. and Mrs. Stanlaus have taken a day off and the Lysajs are devoutedly hoping that they have gone away to spend the week in the country and they never will come back. Mrs. Lysa's sister died two months ago and on her deathbed she swore she would "get even" for a quarrel they had had, according to the story told by the couple. The wildest yarns ever spun in an old sailors' home are outdone by the tales now circulating in the vicinity of the "haunted house." Monday night, the narrative runs, a flock of mysterious footsteps run all around the Lysajs' four-room apartment, and the footsteps had no feet attached to them. On Tuesday the invisible visitors descended to low, slapstick comedy, and loose ornaments around the place jumped off mantles and tables and hit Mrs. Lysa's while her back was turned. A flatiron crawled off the back of the stove and knocked Mrs. Lysa down, she testifies, without leaving; a mark of any kind. Mrs. Lysajs, so the story goes, called in a priest, who is reported to have seen pictures fall off the mantelpiece and all the hairpins merrily jump out of Mrs. Lysajs' Payche knot. Wednesday Mrs. Lysajs also called in some of the neighbors, who were treated, they assert, to a regular Simon pure spiritual seance, in which the hairpin trick was repeated. The Lysajs then summoned two priests to view the proceedings. It is stated that the pictures, aided and abetted by a powder box, again performed their act of fitting around the place. The priests are said to have brought in half dozen more members of the cloth then, at which the bogies became bashful and refused to disport themselves. All was quiet Thursday also, much to the delight of the Lysajs and to the vast disappointment of crowds that have been blockading the house. Stanilaus and Mrs. Stanilaus are bravely holding the fort. They intend to keep right on living in the "haunted house," they say, and it is hinted that they don't even intend to ask the land lord to lower the rent. Hot Stove Gives Away Negro Who Had Hidden Ball of Stolen Butter in His Derby Hat. Serna, N.C. - Peter Carson, a negro of this place, having stolen a pound ball of butter in a store here, and having been observed to conceal the same in the crown of his big derby hat, in lieu of a more convenient hiding place, those who saw the theft hit upon a plan to punish the offender without resorting to the usual process of the law. While the conspirators, including the merchant, were whispering their plans Carson, believing his act had not been noticed, sauntered up and down in the store, softly crooning a familiar melody. Pretending to be very polite and considerate for the negro's physical comfort, one of the men present offered him a seat, which he accepted with good grace. And that, as they had planned, proved the undoing of the party with butter in his hat. Few minutes had passed when the negro began to move his chair away from the hot stove. When he had made his third move his face had taken on a pathetically uneasy look. At last he arose to go, but the crowd, gathered in a circle around the stove, detained him. Then big drops, which resembled perspiration, but which in reality were drops of melted butter, began to trickle from inside the battered derby. Wiping the even-increasing drops off with vigorous strokes of a large handkedchief, he finally insisted upon going. Before he reached the door, how ever, his hat fell off and the greatly diminished ball of butter splashed to the floor. ALIEN SINGS WAY INTO U. S Italian Proves He Will Not Become Public Charge Boston, Mass.—Dominic Pacifico can say he sang his way into this "land of the free and home of the brave." When he arrived here in the steerage of the steamer Cretic from italy he was held up by the immigration officials because of his imperfect physical condition. "Give me a chance," Pacifico said. "I am an opera singer." "Sing then," challenged an inspector. Before the board of special inquiry Pacifico sang an aria from "La Tosca." At its conclusion applaure echoed thru Commonwealth pier and the board of inquiry unanimously voted that it was not likely Pacifico would become a public charge. He said he would go to Philadelphia to join a brother, Glioio Mandole, a priest. Pet Mule Cause of Mine Strike Pet Mule Cause of Mine Strike. Shamokin, Pa.—Miners at the Bear Valley Colliery, a Philadelphia & Roading coal and iron operation, refused to work because a pet mule have been transferred to another working. An attempt was made to have officials return the mule, and upon their resusal the men went on strike. POLICE OF HAVANA IMPRESS U. S. "COP" What Cuban Officers Lack in Stature They Make Up in Efficiency, He Says. New York—The he believes the New York police department to be the best organized, the best governed, the most efficient and neatest body of men in the world, Police Captain William H. Ward, of the West One Hundred and Thirty-fifth Street station, a member of the force for twenty-three years, thinks the police of Havana are not far behind. Captain Ward recently returned from Havana, after being there nearly three weeks. Captain Ward had been in Havana only half an hour when he was welcomed to the city by Gen. A. Agramonte, chief of police, who assigned a guide Col. Michael Angel Duque de Estrade, his principal aid. "I found the national police of Havana a remarkable institution," said Captain Ward. "Their uniforms are of light blue, and the patrolmen wear caps which resemble the French army officers." The mounted and traffic men have spiked helmets. A cape is thrown over the shoulders of the policeman. The buttons of the uniform are shining, and the effect is pleasing. A revolver of large caliber rests in a hoister attached to a belt on the outside of the jacket. "The policemen there are only medium sized—ours inches above them. My six feet and some 225 pounds caused them to wonder. "One of the first things tha. impressed me was the politeness of the Havana 'cop'. If he is unable to understand your questions he will procure an interpreter. He will even go so far as to walk several blocks with you to a street car and see that you start aright to your destination. In an instance L recall I was escorted all the way to a building inquired about, and I had not said that I was a captain of police 'n New York City. "There is a policeman to be found on every corner. The traffic 'cop' is full of energy, and he has hi. hands full directing a maze of vehicles in some o. the narrow streets. Considering the thousands of automobiles and the narrowness of the streets, the work of the traffic squad is marvelous. "Captains of police there live with their families in the station houses. Of course, the apartments are separate from the station proper, but it is in the same building. I learned that the policemen there are seeking a pension fund. At present they have none. "I did not see a single person intoxicated or even partly so. I was out all hours of the day and night, too. It may be that the Cubans prefer coffee to intoxicating stimulants. The city of Havana is dotted with coffee cafes, and they remain open all night. "Another attraction of Havana is its hacking system. The city is laid out into zones for taxicabs, and it costs 20 cents for two persons in a zone and 25 cents for three. Outside the zone the cost is a little more." IT'S NOW IN COURT: "WHY DOES A HEN?" Does She, or Does She Not Cross to Lay or to Scratch? Rochester, N. Y. - When does a hen cross the road—and why? When it wants to lay an egg, two eggs, three eggs, or possibly four, is the explanation George C. Wikehart of this city gave in filing suit against Thomas R. Mitchell of Buffalo in Circuit Court here. Mitchell is alleged to have run down and killed one of Wikehart's hens a short time ago as the hen started to cross the road to a nest and—But what's the use of making a long story of it? Here's the point: While the hen's body was yet warm the owner, after obtaining the license number of Mitchell's car, dressed it for a stew. In the innards, he testifies, he found "the makings for four good eggs." In his suit Wikehart will endeavor to prove that the hen was crossing the road to lay an egg or possibly three. It was always a heavy layer, according to him, and with eggs bringing the price they do on the market—well, Wikehadt asks only $5,000 for the loss of his hen. SHOESTRING PEDDLER TAKES A LUCKY BITE Gets $10 Gold Piece Put Into Cake Thru Child's Mistake. Colosse, N. Y. — A few days ago Mrs. Pauline Huttglow made a cake for the ladies' guide for their 10-cent supper held at the church in the evening. The cake was ready for the oven when Mrs. Huttglow told her 6-year-old daughter to go to her pocketbook and get a 5-cent piece and they would bake it in the cake. The child secured a coin, buried it in the cake and the cake was baked. Mrs. Huttglow took the cake to the supper and announced that it contained money; that the one lining the coin in a piece of cake could have it. Basil Wass, a traveling shoestring peddler, took a piece of the cake, bit into it and discovered the coin, which he placed in his pocket. A few minutes later he left the church. When Mrs. Huttglow reached home she found that her daughter had placed a $10 gold piece in the cake. Mrs. Huttglow notified the village constable of the mistake. He made a search for Wass, but he could not be found. Probably there is nothing so meaningless as the kiss one woman bestows upon another—unless it is the large, expansive smile of a hotel clerk. Chicago Man Discovers New Process. Soon to Be Patented "When did you buy this bread? It's so nice and fresh!" "Oh, I bought it a month or so ago." Surprise! This will be the conversation of the future as soon as a certain patent is issued in Washington. A process has been discovered, it was declared by Arnold Wahl before the Illinois Master Bakers' Association, which will increase the life of a loaf of bread twenty days, possibly longer. Mr. Wahl, who is head of the Wahl Efficiency Institute for Baking, said that the new invention would make it possible for a housewife to put bread away in the same manner in which she stores preserves and potatoes. He also told of a discovery to prevent bread diseases in bakeries. "The new bacillus," said Mr. Wahl, "has been discovered in germinating malt. When placed with bran mash it grows and throws off a lactic acid which, when added to dough, will prevent the growth of any foreign organisms within the bread baked from the dough." The science of bread baking was declared by the speaker to be little understood in America, compared to the advancement made in Europe. "This fact is proved," he said "by the fact that 70 per cent of Europe's bread is baked in public bakeries, while only 32 per cent of America's bread is baked by firms that make baking their business." NEW TYPEWRITER APPLIANCE Does Away With Hand Method of Shifting The Carriage The day of the unhady hand method of pulling or pushing back the typewriter carriage and spacing the paper on the roll at the end of each line is to be ended for some people, for A. W. Wing, a court reporter, has just secured a patent on a machine which accomplishes both movements with a slight movement of the foot. Wing believes his apparatus will add almost as much again efficiency to a typewriter as at present, as the machine will save both time and strength. He has several models working. The Making of Masks The making of masks is no mean industry. It is said that millions of them are sold annually. The cheapest masks, it appears, come from Germany, these being the paper sort made by hand. The material of which they are manufactured, does not by reason of its brittleness, permit of their being made by machinery. Strips and patches of pasted paper are pressed into the curves and spaces of a mold to form the mask. It is then dried and finished and colored. These masks are made in homes or perhaps in little shops where a dozen persons work together. The cost of labor is small, and in the home the entire family may work on them. It is therefore possible to retail the masks for a cent apiece. The better sorts of masks are made of some kind of cloth, for the most part cotton gauze, although some other fabric materials are used, and in some cases the mask is made of woven wire. Gauze masks are also made in Germany. These may be made by mechanical processes, and are turned out in great quantities in the United States as well as abroad. Such masks are manufactured in practically an endless variety. A mask factory may have in use a thousand or more different moulds for shapes, and moulds are constantly being retired and new moulds added. The masks made include representations of great variety of race type and nationalities of both men and women, and these may even be made in various modifications of features, portraying moods. Aside from the clown, sailor, farmer, cowboy and jockey masks, there are character masks without end, which must be added the grotesques and animal and bird masks. There is no end to the varieties of shape; many may be finished differently as to coloring, and to many of them there is attached wool or flag or hair or whiskers. In addition, there are many masks of various kinds made with hats, and some masks completely envelop the head. Even in what might seem so simple, thing as the domino mask the variety is exceedingly great. Of curtain domino masks alone there are those made of cambric, of satin and of satien in various qualities, each made in many different colors. There are what are called luloups, domino masks with no curtain, covering only the eyes and nose, each in various colors, and also of velvet made in black only. There are lace luloups made with a lace curtain in black and in white. While the masks made of gauze or other cloth material cost, for the most port, more than the paper masks they are more flexible, more comfortable to wear and last longer. At wholesale masks are sold by the gross, and according to the sizes or kinds of masks. They are packed in boxes containing various parts of a gross up to some that are packed a gross to a box. Some masks are packed solid, of all one kind, while in the various sized packages in which they are put up many are packed assorted. Winter and the cooler periods of the year make up the season in which masks are most commonly worn, but in making up the goods the mask tactory keeps at work the year around. PEPPERMINT OIL TRAPS PANTHERS COAST HUNTER MADE RICH BY SCENTED BAIT Gets $32,500 for Slaying 1,300 Mountain Lions Aside From Sum Hides Bring. Maysville, Cal.—William Howard is sending his two sons thru a California university an essence of peppermint. Howard is 54 years old and has lived in the mountains of Plumas County all his life. He has a good farm, which makes a living for himself and family. But the essence of peppermint brings the extra coin that sends the boys to college. Howard is trapper. He is the best trapper in all Plumas County. His speciality is mountain lions, and as he gets $25 for every mountain lion scalp from Plumas County and sells every pelt for from $10 to $30, he makes pretty good money when he averages five lions a week. For five years Howard has averaged five lions a week. He has caught 1,300 in the last five years, and these captured animals have netted him $32,500 in bounty. This does not take into consideration the money received from hides. On an average, says Howard, he has received about $10 a hide. "I'm just about to retire," said Howard, while in Marysville the other day. "And I don't mind telling the secret of my success as a trapper. I've caught more mountain lions than any man living, perhaps, and it's all due to the visit to my home five years ago of a city dude college professor. "This college professor was a naturalist or whatever you call those fellows who go around sticking pins into butterflies and give knockout drops to grasshoppers and bugs. "He always carried a bottle of peppermint oil with him, and after he'd take a drink on the sly he'd put some of that perfume on his breath. "One day I took him to my traps and he was bending over watching me bait one for a lion when the bottle slipped out and broke on the trap. The peppermint spilled all over that trap and I couldn't get the odor off it. But I set it anyway. "The next day when I got there I had a big lion in the trap and there were three more lions around licking up the dirt where that stuff had been spilled. "That gave me an idea and I got a gallon of that stuff and put it on my traps. Lions just can't resist peppermint. They'll fall for it every time. So will mice and rats, but a coyote will run out of the county when it smells peppermint. Varmints are funny creatures. But if you want to catch a lion, just bait your trap with oil of peppermint. Bobcats and wildcats like it, too. "And by the way. That there college feller left without paying me my board, but I'm not worrying. Maybe he'll see this if you put it in the paper and he'll know he's made me rich by stooping over and dropping his bottle of breath destroyer." HAVE TO BLINDFOLD CHICKENS So Says Alaskan Who Opposes Daylight Saving Plan. New York—Residents of Alaska are opposed to the daylight saving plan. The New York Daylight Saving Committee, which is urging the adoption of the plan in this country, made public the following letter from the secretary of the Skagway Commercial Club of Skagway, Alaska: "I regret to inform you that the residents of Skagway could not possibly co-operate with you in this movement, from the fact that we would prefer to turn the clock back in the summer time, remembering that in the summer we have all day, all night, with a few minutes at midnight that is called dawn. "Residents in the northerly part of the Yukon report that there is so much daylight there that it is necessary to blindfold the chickens so they may go to roost." SKUNKS, COONS, BEES, HONEY All Found in a Basswood Tree Felled by Woodmen. Red Wing, Minn.—It was a profitable basswood tree that George Kline and Anton Christenson, pioneer woodmen of Pierce County, Wisconsin, cut down. The tree scaled more than 1700 feet of lumber worth $39.37. The stump was found to be hollow and in it they found fourteen skunks which they sold for $72. In one of the limbs was built a coon's nest. The woodmen captured four of the little fur-bearing animals, which netted them a goodly sum. In another limb they discovered a nest of bees which produced a good-sized tub of honey. In all, their day's work brought the woodmen about $150. STARVES ON 3-CENTS-A-DAY DIET Man Increases Allowance to Dime, but Too Late. Dover, Ohio—David Hartman, 63 years old, is dead here as the result of insufficient nourishment. Hartman, who is said to have won a prize for an article on how to live cheaply increased his daily allowance for food from 3 to 10 cents a day recently when physicians told him he was starving to death.