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BALLOU'S BLUNDER NOT TO BE CONDONED! Dancing Every Thursday Evening at Barksdale's Academy, THIRTY-FIFTH YEAR. No. 43. IN UNION IS STRENGTH BOY MINES SHOT MAKES BIG MONEY BOY MINES SHOT MAKES BIG MONEY DIGS UP METAL DROPPED FROM SHELLS AT GUN CLUB Earns $200 in Three Months Working Before and After School and Saturdays. Denson, Texas.— Bruce Sandford, a 15-year-old boy, earned nearly $200 in the last three months—and is still earning money at the same rate in an odd manner. The boy lives near the shooting grounds of the Red River Gun Club. He made, and is still making, this money by digging bird shot out of the ground there. The queer "mine" that he is working is situated on marshy ground near Red River, where there is plenty of water for placer operations. The ground has formed a part of the property of the gun club for about forty years and in that time no less than 300 tons of bird shot have fallen into the mud of the marshy ground. Sandford goes to school. Before and after school and on Saturday he goes to the grounds to hunt for the leaden shot, which he sells for 5 cents a pound. It takes a great many of the small shot to weigh a pound, but there are many of them in the ground. Bruce's mining outfit consists of a pair, of rubber boots, a large iron apoon, two washtubs and a number of stout burlap bags. The method of mining is very simple. The mud is dipped into the tubs where it is stirred with the apoon. The shot separate from the mud and sink to the bottom of the tub. The thin mnet is then skimmed off, the shot is dipped out, rewashed in another tub, then placed in the seaks. It is not an easy job, standing in the mud and working stooped over all the time, but Bruce has stuck to it and is doing well. Other boys have begun to mine the shot also, and some of them are making as high as $15 a week. BIRTH. REGISTRATION U. S. Department of Labor Children's Bureau Department of Labor Wash., D. C.-Why has the United States lagged behind other civilized countries in the care and completeness with which births are registered? All the States fall to provide for some of their children the official record which may become to any citizen at any time for the protection of his property rights, or even of his life. The Children's Bureau of the U. S. Department of Labor has taken up the question because the recording of births affects children immediately and in various ways. Complete registration is indispensable to any comprehensive work for the welfare of babies. Without it, regulations for the prevention of blindness in babies can not be enforced; the public-health nurse can not be sure of reaching every baby in the congested districts; and the death rate among babies that most sensitive index of social well-being—can not be reckoned either for the community a. whole or for districts within the community. The Children's Bureau, in co-operation with the Census Bureau, has therefore devised an informal test which is carried out by local committees and which brings home to the parents of young babies the importance of accurate and complete birth registration, for after all, it is upon the interest and understanding of parents that an absolutely complete record must. In this country, depend. Of course a good State law is necessary to provide the machinery for registering births in each community and forwarding records to the State Registrar. A good law is necessary to give authority for the fining of physicians and mid-wives, who habitually fail to report the births they attend, and such fining has proved essential for securing registration in some communities. But even with a good law and officials who honestly try to enforce it, there will always be some unregistered babies unless parents insist upon having their children's births recorded. Interest in birth registration is constantly growing. Many State and city health departments are systematically working for better registration in their respective districts. Volunteer committees in 282 communities in 27 States have already reported to the Children's Bureau on local tests, and over 250 committees are now at work. And Baby-Week campaigns include a birth-registration day or some other special publicity for the subject. THE GAZETTE What Our People Are Doing Each Week—Church, Personal, Social, Lodge, Literary and Musical—Marriages, Deaths, Etc. CORRESPONDENTS must mail allish West Indies. Those in the top north letters for publication at their main who protest against the spoon! postoffice sufficiently early on Mon- day (or Sunday) of each week to have of the north's business, and in the them reach The Gazette office on same breath the spoon is urged to in- tuesday morning, and always write vest its capital where mob law rises also, their names and that of their brazenly superior to the law of God city or town on the outside of the and civilization. But Georgia, it wrapper about returned copies. Un- should be said, has not yet protested less this latter is done, proper credit against permitting our soldiers to cannot be given you. Lists of names, wedding presents, etc., obituary notices, inquiries for relatives and ad- vertisements of all kinds, including items announcing entertainments to be held in the near future, must be paid for in advance at the rate of 20 cents a line, six words to a line. Our rates for display advertisements will be sent on application. CADIZ.—Mrs. A. B. Young was called to Baltimore, Md., by the death of another sister within a month. Miss Edna Freeman is visiting in Steubenville. —Several from here heard Rev. D. E. Skelton, district suit, of the M. E. church, at M. Pleasant in an interesting lecture, subject, "The Nation's War," of the Christian has purchased the Thomas Mason property on the St. and Mr. Mason is bringing on Melvin Christian property preparing his farm.—Mrs. Bossel royally entertained at dinner, Reys, Skelton, E. A. Driver; C. H. Young and family, and Mesdames Emma Tyler, Mina Alexander and Laura Olmstead.—One of the prominent blahs of the A. M. E. Church will preach at St. James A. M. E. church rally in June. YOUNGSTOWN — Ralph Thomas bill May 29 for Boston.—Mrs. Samuel Wilson of Chicago is the guest of Mrs. Jes. Jones.—Mrs. Harriet Brown died at Springlake Santarillon, Thursday. She leaves a son and daughter. —J. W. Arnold died, Thursday. He leaves three daughters and three sons.—Nathan Seales and W. C. Blake visited Nathan Seiles, Jr., at Camp Funton. Ft. Riley, Kan. They should send him The Gazette.—Buckeye lodge will meet. Thursday evening. The National "Equal Rights League has sent the following letter to President Wilson: "At time that the Red Cross is asking every American worker to give one day's wages, for its community work, five Colored Americans are fiscally murdered by a white American mob, one of the families being a woman, Simultaneously General Pershing and two Colored soldier heroic actors in bloody combat over 20 Germans. France gave them the Croix de Guerre. Will you, their President, recognize their heroism by publicly exerting your personal and official influence against lynching of their women? HILLSHORO.—Mr. George Tatum had a serious attack of heart trouble, Monday morning. —Mr. and Mrs. White of Indianapolis visited Mr. and Mrs. Charles Day, recently.—Rev G. W. Maxwell, P. E., held quarterly meeting at the A. M. E. church, Sunday.—G. M. Atchison has purchased a Chairman car.—Miss Dorothy Young visited relatives in Cincinnati.—Mrs. Williams of Seaman visited her daughter, Mrs. C. M. Gregeston, Sunday.—Mr. Wm. Alsop and Mrs. Bennett were married, last Monday.—Rev J. J. Burr attended the First District S. & Convention in Hinghamport, Saturday and Sunday.—Mrs. Asa Jackson is visiting her sister Mrs. Wm. and Mrs. Amie Jackson and Mrs. Carlisle visited Mrs. Sherman, Sunday.—Mr. Roed Frazier of, Wilmington was Mrs. Faith Delley's guest, Sunday.—Mrs. Jennie Polly of Cleveland is here visiting relatives.—The Missionary society held a meeting, Sunday. Rev Op preached the sermon.—Mr. and Mtg. Adam Tuer of Georgetown, Mrs. Curtis and daughter of Blenn were here. Sunday.—Mrs. Ed. Greene stopped here en route home from Sabina. SANDUSKY—Tell your friends that the city papers do not give the race news like The Gazette. They will tell you of every lynching but very little else of prime race interest. "The Old Reliable" Gazette brings to our people's homes every week all they wish to know of race interest as well as our Ohio news. Give your order for it to the local agent, D. Smith—tell them. B. Stephen Wallace, after a long illness, died May 26. He is the last full member (denon) of the Second Baptist church which mourns his loss greatest—Rev. S. H. Brown of Elmwood, Cincinnati, was the guest of Rev. and Mrs. G. D. Smith here. He preached an excellent sermon, Sunday. Dr. Brown was en route to his native home, Kingston, Jamaica, Bril ESTABLISHED AUGUST 25,1883 And Issued Every Week on Time Since CLEVELAND, O., SATURDAY, JUNE 1, 1918 PROFESSOR J. E. SPINGARN. New York City; Maj. J. E. Spingarn, chairman of the board of directors of the N.A. A., C. P., who until recently has been in command of a battalion of the 211th Infantry, has been transferred to the General Staff of the Army and will be stationed Washington, N.C., for three or four months. He then hopes to the regiment overseas. During his stay in Washington, he will be on a position to look after the interests of our soldiers. Major Spingarn is delighted with the progress made by our officers who graduated from the training camp at Fort Desert. His brother, Captain J. S. Spingarn, is committed with the Sanitary Corps, and has done excellent work in association with the camps in which our soldiers are stationed. A third brother, Lieut. S. Spingarn, is stationed at Camp Joseph E. Johnston Flu. PUTS WARLEY UP THERE! The Cleveland Giżette Calls Local Man Big Figure (Special To The News) Cleveland; Ohio, April 13. Today's Cleveland Gazette, one of the place's foremost papers-standing for the things that count, carries on its front page a write up of the "Moorfield Storery Drive" by the N. A. P., and places William Word of Louisville, Ky., as one of the "Two Big Figures in the All-Secretary Legal Battle Last Fall" along side of Mourfield Stores. He means to show that the W. Story擅获 6 cases; "It Wade" turned the case to be acquired. Editor Gary C. Smith does not think Warley has gotten the credit he ought to have gotten for his part in this fight, and loses no opportunity to praise the young editor of The Louisville News. He ends the article by quoting an editorial, "This, off to Wm Warley," written by Editor Phil Brown of the Hopkinsville (Ky.) Saturday News, when the news was flashed over the country that the Supreme Court, had unanimously declared segregation invalid. Louisville (Ky.) News. Buy War Savings Stamps HOLD VERDUN LINE **HOLD VERDIC** "With the American Army in Louisiana, France, America is a company are holding a portion of the west in conjunction in conjunction with French forces; it is now permitted to announce. Headquarters says these America are "making an exceptionally good showing in the tranches." For some time unofficial dispatches have mentioned Amorion forces operating in the Argentine region. It is an important feature, includes a large forest and the city of St. Menchold, which is about six miles back of the line. WILLIAM H. HON. PRISON E. THOMAS Columbus, O. May 22. John E. Inginger, (white) serving a fifteen-year sentence in the *Oregon penitentiary*, will go to Carson Sperman without guard tomorrow to aid good-by to his son who expires to leave soon for France. The boy wrote a letter to his father in which he explained that he had been in a prison. Warden Thomas agreed to permit the prisoner to make the trip to Chillicothe on condition he return before darkness Friday expiring. Characteristic of Warden Thomas who is certainly an exceptionally broadcaster and capable man, a friend of the race, too. Well done the writing remember the occasion of his first meeting with Mr. Thouas, as some years ago, and the splendid impression he made upon him. I had come to the Ohio pentumentary for a dependent and deserving mother, an invalid, who desired and greatly needed the services of a son who was incarcerated therein. About a dozen years previous the son (then bit a more lad, irresponsible by gaze of a weak mind), two boy "bottles," one "white," the other, a member of the race, too, and all three "dime novel victims," had held up a local storekeeper (white), and shot him. For this "cold bloody" murder, the boy was sentenced to life, the other two kids getting lighter sentences. Warden Thomas escorted me about the grounds, showing and explaining to my taking to the object of my wife who led grown up manhood in the institution and who had but recently been cured of the drug habit he had incurred while an inmate. While he was escorting me about the grounds, among the things the Warden showed me were some embossed postal cards in, which persons secreted drugs and sent them to inmates who would pass them to one another. This was how the lad had contracted the drug habit, and did not take the Warden any longer, after hearing the mother's plea, which I presented her, to reach a conclusion to recommend the boy for a parole than did him to decide to favor John Edinger. The invalid mother got boy, "Color or race cut no figure with Warden Thomas. H. C. S." ON THE HONOR ROLL France Awards the Cross of War to Two Brave Afro-American Soldiers Washington, D. C. • Gen. Pessling sent the following, in his May 29 report to the government, from France: "Reports in hand show a notable instance of bravery and decoration shown by two soldiers of an American Negro resistance in a battle in Bokor. Before daylight on May 14, Private Henry Johnson and Private Roberts, while on sentry duty at some distance from one another were attacked by the German raiding part, estimated at 29 men, who advanced in two groups attempting at more from flank and rear. Both men fought bravely in hand, hand enough... one resorting to the use of a斗牛 rope after his pitch with wounded and wounded butt became impossible. There is evidence that at least one and probably a second German was severely out. A third is known to have been shot. Attention is drawn to the fact that the two Negro servants were first attacked and continued fighting after receiving wounds, and despite the use of armades by a superior force they should be given credit for preventing by their bravery, the capture of one men, and the wounds wounded by two grenades. All are recording, and the wounds in tax were slight." Private Henry Johnson and Neal Honob Roberts have been awarded the crown of war by France. This is for distinguished bravery. The award was made by the French commander of the division in which our regiment is brigaded, some distance from the American sector at Toul. Johnson and Roberts were each wounded six times, but continued to fight with such enemy were killed and the rest were put to flight. In addition to the war cross, a second war decoration is to be awarded Private Johnson. The names of these two will live long on the honour roll of America. HIS "BULLETIN, NO. 35" AN INSULT MUST BE RESCINED! PLEADING IN EXTENUATION WILL NOT SUFFICE NOW THE BEST TIME TO CONTEND FOR OUR RIGHTS AND PRIVILEGES! BALLOUS BLUNDER AND INSULT to the number of nearly two hundred and that of those thirteen soldier Major General C. C. Ballon was wrong when he issued his now potorious order, "Bulletin, No. 35," in which he virtually asked our soldiers at 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 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, eriege to high heath for justice and right. There should be no effort "to gloss over" the flagrant insult gratuitously given our soldiers of the 92d division and thus them all of our people of this country in the Ballon 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 properly value their citizen rights. state 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 thorny too, the motive underlying such an effort. Gen. Ballon's statement that the insulting order, *Bulletin, No. 33*, 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 result to soldiers of color and their people throne the country. He would not have dared to issue such an order to the first *Joseph M. or American soldiers of any other class* and it is a duty we our own matter to carry this Bulletin, No. 33 matter to the President and do everything in our power to have, the order rescinded just as possible. In this way only can we make all understand that are loyal American citizens and soldiers are entitled to and must be treated by Gen. Ballon, 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 "maltitude attempt to stir up race feeling by misrepresentation" that we can call to mind at this time that can do more to do that very thing than his Bulletin, No. 33, and he should be made to understand this. Then that aggravatingly insulting threat in the order that "white men made the G24D division," and they can break it just as easily if it becomes a trouble maker. "Good Luck! Let them break it. If they dare, and learn who or what will be the loser. This threat was wholly unnecessary and inexcessable, 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 written and promise of it. Gen Ballon 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 billions of loyal people. Americans to care and native born, who knew and value their rights to citizens just as highly and accurately as all others should; and that these millions of "black" people to the age of the chapter. Another thing the general should know that that one people understand thorny and so a result are very tired of relations always to but one side of such art as the East St. Louis, HI, and Houston, Texas,漠 demonstration and that we serve notice on all that is now high time that proper punishment be visited on the "white" account, brutes and murderers primarily responsible for them. Let there be not only criticism but some of the criminal and military prosecution of them that has been visited on many of those of our race they goaded in striking back at both places. The blood of their innocent victims at St. Louis—men, women and children. STAIN ON DEMOCARCY There is so many sideights to our national character that we turn automatically hot and cold with self pride, but fortunately the thermometer registers high. We stood on the streets only a day ago and witnessed a remarkable spectacle in our own city when 5,000 colored men and women led by bands, a soldier organization from a cantonment, march through the city streets in a patriotic demonstration. The brilliant display in which at the best is fighting under a great handicap was dampened by a sense of shame we felt when the papers carried a news item of another lynching outrage in the south where a crazy mob of white men perpetrated another outrage on the Negroes. There can be no extenuating circumstances for lynching. The fact that a major crime had been committed is not license, a reflection upon the lynchers, illiterate, ignorant, prejudiced as they are in most instances. There can be no defense for any crime committed by a Negro or white man, but the law provides for punishment, and the execution of this law is rested in authorities, not in the mob. This mob spirit is still confined, almost exclusively to the south, where a population is still ignorant, and that the fact that the law it has is compulsively cheap labor which lies in the hands of its colored population. The race problem is still confined to the south, which resents any attempts to suggest a solution. The oxydus from bixie of the Negro would soon awaken the south to an appreciation of the fact that it takes just such labor as that of the Negro to plant, cultivate and plant crops. Any other use of labor would put the south in a position of cotton prohibitive, given the south is still trying to kill the goose that laid the golden egg. The race question in the south is an economic one and the south would do well to try and clean some of its dirty lines in its attitude toward the Negro. The great area of the south is fitted for nothing except the production of cotton, and despite every effort to diversify its crops cotton is still king and will remain so, although a diversification could be a fact but for eliciting other concerns, natural barriers which cannot be overcome. $\varnothing$ The Negroes of the nation are giving the world a fine example of patriotism. One banner which was carried in the parade here the other day contained the motto: "We never had a traitor. This is to the credit of the Negro race, and encouragement should be given, and not to manishment in lynching them for the public is getting tired of this hoth law which seems to rule in the south. The indictment should not be returned against the better element in the south, where there is a sincere effort to stamp out the evil, but this better element must express its disapproval of lynch law and no better way to give vent to this expression could be imagined than making an example of lynchers by conviction and the extreme penalty of the law for taking a life. We are talking a good bit of democracy now, but there is a sneak it when we permit such outrages as the ones that are common in the south. The Negroes who paraded through the streets here on Monday were really doing their part for liberty, and the white people are proud of them. It is time we express our pride in a general insistence against the mob, as it operates in some of the southern states. It is up to the south to clean its robes—Charleston (W Va.) Daily Gazette IN-UNION IS STRENGTH SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS DOINGS OF THE RACE J. W. Berry of Decatur, Ala., has invented and patented a U-boat that is a success. Mrs. Mary Turner, age 20, was lynched near Barnei, Cal. on the afternoon of May 19, for making "unwise remarks." This is the limit. Miss Irene Davis has finally been given a clerkship in the Detroit post office she won some time ago in Civil Service examinations. Miss Martha W. Barkstale of W.chester, Mass., has been appointed a biographer in the Department of foreign affairs at Washington, D. C. William Lamprod, a Greek proprietor of a restaurant in Norristown, Pa., will have to pay a fine or go to jail for refusing to serve food to Reyn. J. Pinson of Jenkinstown, Pa. Prof. John R. Hawkins, financial secretary of the A. M. E. church, reports $215,523 in dollar money raised. This is an increase of $32,000 over the previous year. The New York Times reports that A. S. Burlison, Postmaster General, and C. R. Johns, of Austin, Texas, are joint owners of a large plantation in Central Texas on which work "Negro" convicts (lenced). If you have not read, "Balloon's Blunder and Tinsult," do not fail to do so. Many of our newspaper publishers were "crawling on the balloons," last week in this "Balloon" matter. Lord, he money on them! Rabbi Joseph Goldberg, the only colored person in the world, is in this picture lecturing on "The Universal Brotherhood of Man." He was born near Jerusalem, Palestine, was educated at Oxford, England, and speaks twelve different languages. The fifth Afo-American to be appointed to the police department in New York City—Officer Dellancy N. Scroggins—has been assigned to the Fenth Precinct, after serving six months as a detective. Newton Sib of Bod Valley district, near Shreveport, La., owes 1,000 acres of valuation land, and is rated by bankers at $300,000. He employs about 75 families on his plantation; Last season Mr. Smith sold 286 bales in Bodton, which together with the roof, notched $50,000. A large steamship in command of a colored-capital, Custodia Rocha, of Portuguese ancestry, arrived at Newport, News, Va., recently. The ship, which is plying between that port and England in carrying munitions and food to the Army named "Damage," Capt. Rocha has an entrance to the crew from the wireless outpost down. President Thomas Woodrow Wilson marched in a Red Cross parade in N.Y. City on May 18, immediately in front of our band of the 350th Field Artillery of Camp-Dix, N.Y. Word from Montreal, Capt. Nelly of the placings, of coloredooks and waiters on the Canadian Pacific railroad. According to the (Cleveland) (O.) Gazette, Attorney Francis H. Warren of Detroit-states that a white jury decided that this was a white man. The trouble about this is that the decision will not be observed outside of the jury room in which the decision was reached. For brilliancy of object and farsightness, Attorney H. we need him on the colored folk's side of the line and the Negro haters will keep him on our side.—Richmond (VA.) Pinet. 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): Baylis, pastor of Lane Memorial C. M. E. church, vice-president of the organization; Cagle, pastor of Mr. Haven Baptist church, secretary, and J. S. Jackson, pastor of St. John's A. M. E. church, treat that is 'an official combination' that is 'It. It was Jackson and Crable who later on the 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 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 No wonder that Ministers' Alliance cannot be forced to desist of the City (Davis) Alliance that it improves (furiously imperial conditions) (certainly 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 merry! ait, SS a oe Seg ert ‘Phe GAZETTE Praise “eyEiy sarcnpay fp SOGSCRIPTION RATES in Advance) SERMONS. Ls. esse eee MUO wore MONEE 6.2. cece ceee 00 Subscribers are requested to remit oy order oF..Feg- sen aed ee Brite the postoffice Im Cleve- tata miner it matter. ' Address aN Communications to ~ HARRY C, SMITH Ealtor and proprietor, THE GAZETTE, (Cay, Central 513-5) Blackstone Bullding, Cleveland, 0. Member Ohfo Legislature: 1894 to 1896; 1896 to 1898; 1900 to 1902 ——————— THE GAZETTE fs the oldest, and Was the largest bona fide clreulation; doable that of any newspaper in the faterest of Afro-Americans, publish- e@ in the state of Ohio, and compar- ison with any will immediately es- tablish its rank as one of the NEWS: TEST AND BEST in the country. 10,900,000 Afro-Americans. 390,000 in Ohio. 5,000 in Cleveland. aa eR aN ig sales “Over here, Gemocracy is a theo- ret{cal preachment,” says the Hous- tén"(Tex.) Observer. Agreed! ; eee “Down in Louisville, Ky., our mon are “beating up" white soldiers who try to flirt with our girls. ae A ray of sunshine fromout of. ...: ‘The Kentucky Court of Appeals has deéided' that our schools of that state shall share in its Corporation Tax Revenues. Good! eer Four of our men and a woman were lynched in Georgia, last week, and one (man) each in Tennessee and in Alabama. Comment unnecessary. Georgia and Lovisiana have each Iynehed eleven persons in the last fourteen montis! : 4 i ——— “The N. ¥. News is wrong when It afmourices that Hon. E. A. Johnson of that state was the first Afro-Amer- fein legislator to preside over a ranch of a State Assembly. Ohio Alro-AMiericiin legislators, Dr. Rick- etts of Nebraska anc others enjoyed this honor miny years ago. What hetametof the case of thet southerner, Capt. E. C. Rowan, of the 162d Depot Brigade, stationed at Camp Pike, Ark., who some weeks ago refused to obey the orders of Maj. Gen. S. D. Sturgis to drill his ebthpany because it would have been Plated hext to Afro-American sol- diérs? He should have been court- mértifled and punished. Soa ~asit't It a bit strange that any mem- Ver of the race would have the te- merity to tell us at this time that “tHils 18 not the time fdr us to con; thiid for out rights” when many of the leading papers (white) of the Sbithiaplsate. Whils dias “thats! very tliing for us as a result of our sol- diers’ brave and herofe work in and ottt of the trenches over in France? il A few months ago when five hun- dréd of our best young men, soldiers, wWére being badly treated at Camp Lee, Virginia, Prof. Wm. Pickens vis- iteH! tHe ‘Siti, apt and’ ate with thém. Thien gave publicity to their miistreatment that had more to do with thotr removal to a camp (Up- toh) inl New York state than anything eld: Give him the credit he so rich- ly deserves, confreres. We have not tiny of his. kind of fearless and truthfol writers. {We acknowledge the receipt of a COBY of the: fitet issue of “Pending Igpites,’ Hfon. J: €. Manning's splen- die’ miotiftily’ publication, well ihis- tfated. Mr. Manning is one of the raée's few Aggressive white friends, @ southern Republican by birth and IHe residence. The Gazette's reud- ets know ‘and We feel sure fully ay- Breciate lim. ‘Those desiring “Pend- if Issues,” ahd all should, can ad- feed Hitit'dt 208 W. 37th St., New York City. Price: $3 a year; 25 cent a copy. . ,——>"|||| —— 4 If Preside’ Wilson can commute ee of aii officer that abused Ainéricai troopers we may be ablé to get the President to do the shiti thing for those five unfortunate Mérbbers or fie 24th Intantry who Are condemned to death. Do not get tired so quickly, but continue to fill otit the’ blank application published eldewriete in this paper arid send it ‘6 fasttudied. The verdict reached in thd cases of the last thirty-nine mem- bers Of’ ttie sammie regiment, charged with the stime “crime,” has not as yet been iniadé putilic. Sheaking of the Major Gen. C. C. Baliou “Bulletin, No. 35,” Dr. R. R Wright, Jr., editor of the Christian Recorder, says: + “Personally, we do not, take much dock in theatricals, but we believe that a Negro who is good enough to dhe. ior this. country. is good. enough {0 go anywhere any other soldier properly goes, and that there should be absolutely no difference between Negroes and whites when it comes to soldiers.”” | Right you are, Brother Wright! “The Lord works in a mysterious way," oft-times. It took the lyneh- ing of a “white” man, and during “World War" times, to make an At- torney-General of the United States speak out against lynch-murder! Said Atty.-Gen. Gregory: "No great- ‘er Wrong citi ‘be done to our soldier: in France than thit of lynching Ger- méos in Amerfea. Such acts as the lynehing of Robert Praeger in Ulli noié, Will be seized upon by our ene ‘mies as jutifying severe reprisals or four soldiers in the prison camps.’ “It is possibly well for the Afro-Amer [ican that “lynching is no respector 0 | persons.” eae | SUCH ADVICE AN OUTRAGE! Do you hear even one Irishman or one Jew saying to his people, these days, “This is no time to discuss race problems. Our duty now is to fight and to continue to fight until this war is won. Then we will adjust the problems that remain in the life of the colored man.” ‘This is the same line of talk that was indulged in to delude and mis- j}ead our people before the Spanish. American war and we presume will continue to be used until our people rise in righteous indignation and put a stop to it, It is not only a shame | but an outrage! While the Irish, Jews | and all other “downtrodden” races in |the new and old world are fighting jfor their rights and privileges, ours only is the race that is admonished, lignore for the duration of the war \our mistreatment, wrongs and denials |of rights of every kind and descrip. tion, and look to the righting of the | same after the war! This, too, in the lface of past experience that makes stich advice an insult to our loyalty and intelligence. Good Lord, have | merey! NATIONAL ANTI-LYNCHING LAW | An anti-lynehing bill has been in- troduced in the House of Representa- tives by Congressman Dyer of St Louis. The bill provides that each ‘person in a mob committing a lynch- ling shall be guilty of murder. The {family of the person lynched would ‘be compensated by a fine imposed on ‘the county in which the crime takes ‘place; ranging from $5,000 to ($10,000. | This principle of holding tle coun- ‘ty responsible for loss of life caused [bya mob was first embodied in the law of this country when the writer's Ohio Anti-Lynching bill was made a law in 1896, It was found in old English law, the basis of American law. @ Of course, in common with all of our people, we would certainly like to see Congress enact an effective Anti-Lynching law, lke our Ohio law, but we fear that it will not do 80 for two reasons: First, the U. S. Supreme Court long ago decided that mob violence was a thing for the several states to deal with—that it was a matter of state concern, pure and simple. Second, Congtess, like the other two co-ordinate branches of our gov- ernment, is hopelessly In the control of southern democrats. Our only hope, therefore, rests in the fact that these are unusual times —<war times—and that fact may of- fer some loop-hole and create a de- termination upon the part of all branches of the government to put a stop to lynching because of the re- cent Iyneh-murder of that German in Mlinois and the international compli- cations such unlawful and barbarous acts may entail upon our government, So if there fs a national anti-lynch- ing law it may be well to remember that a member of the race was the one first to introduce to American law its most vital principle. SEVEN-LEAGUE STRIDES Has the Napoleon of the American Ariny Deert discovered? If the re- ward of meritorious service is promo- tion, it would appear that he has, ‘in the person of Bennett Clark, son of ‘Speaker Champ Clark, the great op- poser of the draft law. In the Wash- ington (D. C.) Star of recent date we read that Speaker Clark had received word of the safe arrival in France of his son, Lieutenant Colonel Bennett Clark. From Heutenant to lieuten- unit colonel in less than nine months is certaifily going some. At this rate he should rank with Pershing in a very few months. Bennett Clark is said to be about 28 years of age. When the draft law was before Con- gress his father fought it with all the bitterness of his tongue and influ- efce. It was enacted, nevertheless, and then cathe the problem of taking tare of Bennett. He was appointed to the first training camp for officers fat Ft. Meyer, within easy riding dis- tance of his Washington home, and with that marvelous energy which vharatterized his work in the House of Representatives as clerk at the Speaker's table, (salary $3,600 plus $1,000 for publishing the precedents, which were never published), he set out to learn the business of war and to commant-the~t.-S:-army. He graduated as a Meutenant in August THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, OHIO, JUNE J, 1918 ee ernie since which time his rise in the req| a aoe ores firmament of war has been nothing Short of meteoric. Not one member |g oO of his camp class has made sucn alll record as this. Those who were iden- : tifled with the Republican party prior A to their entiance into the army. ave @ Five of our sol still humble lieutenants or captains, @ Houston, Texas, while those whose Democratic con- ie the recent Court Beslehe oie it guile io noble out of the Hous! Must now yield precedence to Liew : tenant Cote Cats sins ie no | AVE Deen senten Feported whether the Heutenant col g reviewed by Pres onel was accompanied by the ccle- m power to commut brated Hown’ Dawe, panoplied as aM prisonment, if he Doom out “denerring thom, of he desire Democrats” for orderly duty, bet ww Champ Clark's miliiant Democratic These men we speech at Fort Wayne’ the other day : They were forcec Would ind.cate that in the war zone | own hands by rez the dawg tas found surcense from M@ sults offered the! being Kicked around. Possidly he, too, has been camouflaged as a ii @ Cases are not ord : puiltical paittian a di 0. Purp. Oh, no! Political putt has noth- g extraordinary ¢ ing to do in this war of all the people Ml who died afew w to miake it sate for Democrats 4 executive interv = i = chance to live, if TARE ADVANTAGE OF THESE i WADVANTAGHOFTIINSE JM Glas urges « Splendid Opportunities to Get Good | Peal to the Presi Positions in the State's Service og and also to write Columbus, O.—More than a score of examinations for state service po- sitions are calied in the June iasie of the official bulletin of the State Civil Service Commission. They are all kinds of positions from janitor and messengers to expert accountants and engineers. The complete list of ex- aminations which will be held on the same day in Columbus, Cleveland, ‘Toledo, Dayton and Cineinnati, tol. lows: June 4—Corporation accountant, for state tax commission, salary $2700; dredge engineer for the de- partment of public works, $1680; Junior messengers for all state de partments, $50 to $60 per month; kuards for state penal institutions, $80 to $90 per month; punch ma- chine operators for industrial comi- mission $840; and soil physicists for agricultural experiment station $1000 to $1400, June 5—Hlectricians for state de- partments and institutions, $739 to $960; junior assistant engineers, for state highway department, $940: ac- tary for insurance department, $5250; and assiatant actuaries for the same department, $1200 to $1500; dredge fireman, board of pub- lie works, $1080); clerks for all state departments, $840 to $900. Tune §—Deputy food inspectors, board of agriculture, $1200; penal matrons (female) for women’s re- formatory, Marysville, $45 and full maintenauce; stationary enzineer's helper, state departments and insti tutions, $900 to $1080; chemist. for agricultural station, | $1200 and Glaims referee industrial commission, $2000, June 7—Boiler inspectors for in- dustrial commission, $1300; proba- tion officers for Franklin, Hamilton, Chyahoga, Iucas and Montgomery counties; eivil engineer for devart- ment of public works, $1800; 2890- ciate chemist Experiment Station, $2000; safety engincers, stationary engineers and chief stationary engi- neers. ‘The last three examinations Will be non-assembled. Prospective applicants for any of these positions should send for a {ree copy of the ofF- ficial bulletin. ee STONE! at frien aaron tctcroe | ite People Madison, N. J,—Rev, Geo. Wilson Fo iccuetor Waa ae ere ca ue suet ee ae: ase moms of tie deyarted glory? Whe for examples, whether it be to the Bela egies eee ale ee aah ae i Bente aie suena nee for fidelity? Why is al! known his- eee tiie ase alee a Dr yee wesc Sie Wyn iem area atten nr ek a teen Dea meA al, Gin eee of ube a opal cee ail es crate o his own? Why is that the Caucasian alone has undeniably all the charac- teristics formerly aseribed to the lep- eee ane Why is it that he alone remains un- accounted for when the earth was di- mau trcan es aise wat aad brother. What is the race anyhow?” COMPLETE VINDICATION Portiand, Ore., May 27, 1918 Editor Gazette, Dear Sit!-—Let me congratulate you on your complete Vindication in the couris of you county, this spring. Of course, none of your many friends would tor one moment credit those infamous (Crable) charges. 1 should have wri ten before but besides being very busy {had an attack of la grippe, this spring. So. rather neglected” my friends. ‘The mails are and have for some time heen in very bad condition. As & result Ihave inissed an occasional copy of The Gazette and other pa- pers. Guess we must “grin and beat it” till the Republicans ean get con- trol again Yours truly, (Qilrs,) Patricia Robison gttesdessesseesesessoeeses THE MAN Wid “DARES. ; “I honor the man who in 3 the conscientious discharge of his duty dares to stand alone; the world, with fgnorant, ine tolerant judgment, may ‘con- demn, the countenances of relatives may be averted, and} the Hearts of friends grow cold, but the sense of duty 3 done shall be sweeter than the applause of the world, the countenances of relatives 3 or the hearts of friends."— Charles Sumner. 3 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 im- prisonment, if he will. He can even pardon them, if he desires‘so todo. ~ These men were victims of rank prejudice. They were forced to take the law into their own hands by reason of the oppression and in- sults offered them by southern whites. Their cases are not ordinary oues, 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 ap- peal to the President, to be found on this page and also to write a letter to his or her U. 8. Senator and Congressman asking that the Pres- ident be urged to save these boys. They are vic- tims of peculiar circumstances and conditions born of prejudice and hatred. Write today; help to save them. PEELE ELLE LEE LL CE FILL THIS OUT AND SEND IT TO THE PRESIDENT, 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, Street or Box address... Up revarrs vastande eve eeastaee City or Town....... Ren ey vee nt sesonh Sanle ce seaaws Date Bee coon ‘ y 4 ¥ HON. HENRY 1, EMERSON p A Deserved Tribute from a Race Tar a, per at the Nation's Capital fs One of the most satisfying expres- sions of the growing popitlarity of Hon. H. 1, Emerson, of Cleveland, 6. consists in the splendid unfold: ment of the legislative and jndicial instinct of that gentleman as exer- pitied by is untiring committee work and his vigilance in anticipat, ing any untoward moves on the juirt ‘of the enemy, the demoerats, which might saver of injustice or disfayor toward any class of his coustituents. Mr. Emersou is a comparatively Young man who has won laurels at The Ohio bar atid been selected as At successor of siich brifliant lawyers and legistators as A. G, Riddle and exSenator 'T. 1, Burton, each 0! whose record stands out in champion- ship of hnman rights and the tme- honored priuefples of the Repubilean party, It musi be a source, of deep ratification to the colored. const tiency of Mr, Emerson to know that ‘on the watcl-tower stands a seating Schose sense of right amd duty: is sitch as to guarantee silecessfulapposition to any and all efforts on the part of democrats to disturh our constiti- tional rights. With @ phalanx seb as that composed of such brave and kood men as Madden, Emerson, Dys er, Mann and a few others, the’ race may confidently hope for a Tittle rest from that pestiferaus agarexation 0 Sfire-eaters'” whose only Hope of no- oriety, or even mention in the Ree- ord, is based upon their opportunity of belying their colored benefactors. Tt is hoped that Mr, Emerson may represent the republicans of the 2tst District of Ohio until he is called to oceupy a seat higher up, in the Sen- ate of the U. S—-Washington (D. C.) Bagle. “The Old Reliable” Appreciated War Department, Washington, D. C., | sea Mon, Harry ¢, smith | Utrotaaty Ohi. aes fc eter consti ee and wish to commend the splendid siti" pattowe eovice whch ou Brously show In tis veri faa iad! euorzouey an uel CORRESPONDENTS WANTED ‘The old reliable Gazette desires an active agent and correspondent in every elty and town in Ohio. and fieighboring states having @ number of Afro-American residents, Only a little time on Fridays or Saturdays is required, We are especially desirous of hear ing from persons. inthe following named cities: Springfield, Dayton. Akron, Lima, ©. and other places particularly in Ohio, where we have none Write to the editor of The Gazette, Bleckstone building, Cleveland, 0. and terms will be sent promptly. Our readers will oblige us greatly by sending, at once the addresses of per sons in the cities named and other in the state, to whom we can write relative to the matter. potsesesescerccesseooreres PROTEST AGAINST WRONG. ¢ ee ; ‘To submit in silence when we should protest makes co wards out of men. ‘The hum- eee test. Had no voice heen rals- ed against injustice, Iznor- ance and Inst, the inquisition yet would serve the Jaw, and guillotines decide our “Teast disputes. ‘The few who dare, { must speak and speak again to right the wrongs of many, —Ella Wheeler Wilcox. 3 aR KY 4 i a. * tig Tale: Aes IN Jaf nl NTNS a CLD Su RAs kee: 4 SOFT.LONG,SILKY {id F9 veg cinnty anol t9your hate the wonder. i ihich'Ba bo eter of straiontening ow Mf fh Ste ati Bead Shaka, hecho [Seine | ( HEROLIN 92 | 9 fish arrest cast eee tne ji Soh foe’ 25 CENTS by Mall bees ae RIB Cocoa eee eee em Tae the el ae - For Cut Rate Patent | Medicines, Pure Drugs, . 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Wie en CLUB NOTICE — The Working Men’s Social and Literary club meets, every Friday evening,, for business and gives a dance, c¥ery Monday night, at their hall, 3103 Scovill Ave, H. P. Williams, pres., 3040 Central Ave. L. V. Orton, see, 2667 E. 40th St. Milton Watkins, chairman, 2524 E. 30th St. . A Social and Personal Mrs. Jennie Polly is visiting rela- tives in Hillsboro. "Tt was necessary to send The Ga- zotte to press, this week, on Wednes- day becanse Thursday was a holiday Mr. and Mrs. Richard Jones, Ak- ron, former residents of Clevelund Misited here Sunday week Have you noticed that Margery Wilson is at the Main Theater, June 6, and W. 8. Hart, on June 3 and 5? —ady, Major Otis B. Duncan, of the 370th infantry (formerly thé Kighth Ii nois), now in France, lias been made a Lichtenant-Colonel. The following are officers of Cory M_E. choir: Mrs, John Nelson, pres.; Mrs. James Ofer, vice-pres.; Mrs, Joe Louie Jackson,” sec.; srs, Louisa Sherinan, treas. Mme. Henrietia Vinton Davis, the noted traveler and talented elocution- ‘st, of Washington, D. C., gave fine entertainments at Cory and East Mt Zion Baptist churches, recently. Same old stony: Pittsburg’ Afro- Americans failed to support their two fandidates for the Lesislature as they shoul’ have, with the result that hoth were deveated: ‘The King of England has conferred the Order of the British Empire upon ‘the Hon, H, A. Simpson, member of the Jamaica Legislature trom Kings- ton, B. W. 1 Murray Jeffres owns and operates the Charlatte Milling and Power Co, ‘at Charlotte, Va. He lights our see- tion of the town and has been asked ‘to light the other. | Rey. Irving K. Merehant attended the sessions of the State Association of Congregational churches in Can ton and is our only member of the association. He preached at the Un- fon Cong. chureh, Painesville, Sun day night week, ‘illing an’ engace- ment for Superintendent Rothrick of the Cong, Union. Rev, Dr. Frazier preached at Mt, Zion Cong. church in Rey, Merchant’s absence.” D. F. Whitaker, of Duquesne, Pa., editor of the Penn. Leuder, is in the city prospecting for a new location for his paper and may “take over" the “Alien,” it is said, He called on ‘The Gazette, Tuesday, and dined with the editor. Amony over one hundred white and three of ovr applicants: in a Ciy- il Service examination for clerkships, in Atlanta, Ge., Mrs. M.S. Jackson one of o¥F applicants, ranked high est. Hor mark in mathematics was 49 per cent Recently a jury in Judge Stevens conrt, out only seven minutes, ren- dered a verdict of $2,080 in favor of C. R. Biliott, who sued the Black & White Taxi company for injuries sus- tained while footman at the Lindner Co.'s store on Huclid avenne. The Harmony trio, Mrs, Pearl Cleage, Mrs. Ollie Wells Ball and sis- ter, Miss Gladys Wells, furnished the program at a big Masonic (white) en tertainment at the temple, E. 105th strect and Euclid Ave., recently. Miss Bessie Cook, accompanist Willard A. Smith, of Auburn, N, Y., has just been awarded $100 dam: ages by a jury in the N. Y. Supreme Court avainst the Auburn & Syracuse Electric Railway Company based on the refusal of the company to sell tickets 9 colored people for the danc- ing pavilion. ‘Afro-American. registrants of the District of Columbia to the number of 300, including several lawyers, doc- tors and teachers, were inducted into the military agerice of Fhe country at the opening of the new Howard Uni- versity camp, May 17, following a parade in which the 300 new men were the principal digures, Hiawatha Taytor, son of the late § Coleridge Taylor, (deceased. Atro- English musician "and composer and director), is serving in France with tite British Red Cross. Colored sol- diers from Trinidad, serving in Exyvt. have recently won one military crox and three military medals for brav- ery. BEST FOR THE BLOOD — Puro Herbs. Sold only at Brown Drug Co., cor E. 28th St. and Central Ave— Adv. oe ee 7 mi cleanser. On sale only at the Brown Drug Co., 2742 Central Ave., cor. E. B8th St—Adv. Again we wish to say that The Gazette does not include the pastors of St. James A. M. E., East Mt. Zion Raptist, Mt. Zion Cong., St. Andrews H., and St, Paul's Zion A. M. E. churches in its criticims of the Min- isters’. Alliance. ‘The first two, Revs. O. W. Childers and B. K. Smith, are in the extreme east end of the city: : Vand not im “the Contral Ave. district” and like the other three ministers |mentioned: are practically “newcom- |ers” in their local pastoral work. Wilbur Campe, of Hudson, O,, twin vrather of Miss Piney Campe, wait regs in the Kdward Doctor Dining rooms, passed then the elty, recently, on route to Camp Shorman’ where he is now a private in Co. P. 317th Int He spent several days in the city vie- iting his sister. W. R. Conners, secretary of out local Welfare: League, and F.C. Law. rence of Chicago, en route from N. ¥. City and Chieazo to St. Louis, Mo to locate and do welfare work in con: neetion with our Urban Leaxite of N.Y. City, visited The Gazette sane- tim, Saurday, ‘The Surgeon General of the U.S. anny hag advised that nutses rhouid be used “in thelr own communities,” and that training classes for such aurses fs encouraged. As for send: ing nurses abroad “it is impossible (o tell where Afro-American troops Will be stationed, and therefore it ould be inadvisable to send Afro: American women abroad for mursins service,” he is reported to have said Well, well Last week Fells Worth, general secretary of the Young Men’s Chris- fan Union, announced a reunion, re- ception and banquet to be held, this week, in the Union parlors. to whieh AL members of 1917 and 1918, wives, sweethearts and frlonds were espe- ‘ially invited. A silver offering was to be lifted. Mr. Worth recently ten- tered Mr. and Mrs. Dennis D. Naylor, newlyweds, a reception. ‘This is & correct List of the srat- aating clase of the Ohio Collexe of hiropody— commencement and bitn- wet held at the Hollenden hotel, May (30: Miss Ruth Moore, Colunibus Arnold Shaw, Dayton; B. P, Brown- lies, Charleston, W. Va., and Hones G. Cox, Cleveland. Mrs. i. W. Moor soprano, mother of Miss Ruth, wa our only representative, outside of our graduates, on the prozratn Rev, Felix A. Crrtright of Poort: UL, visited The Gxzette sanctum Monday. He was in the city, repre- Senting relatives of “Aunt Fannie” Gray, mentioned at length in this coltimn of our last issue. She hw iaproved stiflicient!y to be returned to her home st 1022 Central Ave. “Aunt Fannie’s” hoardings amounted to aliout $7,000, according to the lo- cal daily press, Last week Mrs. Edw. Chaffin, St, and the mother of Dr. W. 8! Disks, visited their sons at Camp Sherman, recent] “Phe Harmony Kings," Chicago, niade a very devided hit af the Hippo- drome recently aud played w success ful engagement in Erie, Pa. The members are: W. B. Burns, first tenor; W. H, Berry, second wnor; ¢ f, Drayton, baritone, and W.” A. Habn, basso and manager. ‘They Ye- turned, Sunday week Loca! Odd Fellows and Household of Ruth, No. 7, are making prepara- tions for their fiftieth anniversary, 10 be held in Dreamland Emporium Jane 1). Offivers: Miss Bessio Thhur- man, M,N. G. Miss Pearl Mealey, R. N. Gl; Miss Mattie Thompson, 1 MN, G Committee, Pearl Mealey (chairman), Elia Moore and Angeline Hawkins; James A. Parker, oor manager ‘The annual thankssiving services of the United Brethren of Friendshin and Sisters of the Mysterious Tex land Juyentles, of Cleveland, were held Sunday afternoon at Second Kin- manuel Baptist church, E. 70th strect and Quincy avenue. James Buchan- an, master of ceremonies, read the annual proclamation; Miss Allen, « paper: Mr. Renfvo sang, and Rev. 8, ©. Harris, pastor, delivered the an nial sermon, The Navy Department announced last Friday, drat the U. 8. ship Wae Kiva, a converted yacht, was sink ii Buropean waters in x collision on May 22. Two of its crew, W. B. Hoyt, Gurpenter’s mate, Attleboro, Mase., and Joseph M. Fartey, fireman, 2714 N. Heeine Ave., Chicago, were lost The announcement says the Wakiva, formerly owned by H. S. Harkness, collided with a nayy cargo carries Jolin A. Johnson, of this city, hus- band “of Mrs, Lela A. Johnson, of 2012 Central Ave., was an oiler on the Wakiva and was referred to at length in our jast issue, on page 1 T ghould hesitate to pick out one feavire more than another which in- pressed me most strikinsly in the American Expeditionary Force, but certainly the spirit pervading the ranks of our colored soliers there is not least among the inspiring recol- lections which T have of iy visit to the American Expeditionary Force The sanitary condition of the camps seemed to be noticeably excellent; The men wich whom I talked told me that their food wes plentiful and pal- atuble; and their officers told me that their work was a credit to their or- sanizations.—Seeretary of War New- ton D. Baker. ‘The services, Sunday, at St. James A.M. E. church, Hudson Ave.. were Yery impressive.” It was Old Polk's day. ‘The attendance was good and the exercises most helpful. ‘The pas tor spoke on the subjects: “How the old folk used to hold up the propliets’ hands” and “How to live well.” ‘The class taught by Rev, 0. W. Childers, sang songs that used to be sung in the church. In the even- ing, Dr. L. N. Bundy made a talk on his experiences in East St, Louis, 1! and $20.50 was raised for him. The en's Gulld held a very profitable THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, OH, meeting at 4 p.m, They are arrane- ing to preset Prof. Win, D. Picken to the pubticte-daly. Mr. Collins ot Inutanapotis wilt give a recital av the haveh In dune. Rev. and Mes. Jol on, the latter Etim Bowman John- on, evangelist, and. several others joined St. dames. chureh, Sunday The church amebibetship. has fuse avout doubled. ation Léeenre and NEST ee ae ee eS ease PN ee Ne 4 hou ae ke, i er gu ks es eee Nek hk oe ee A Ee 7 ii : an AS al [oe Aw Bee CEA AR kgacs ats bee” fae ae ey Amy ee a Gila cael ition the Sunday-school are growing. Quar- terly meeting and conference, nest Sunday, Rev. J.C. Turner of Alli ance, a former pastor, paid us a short visit, last week. Mr. B. Harper and Mrs, Robert Koiner, president of the board of stewardesses, are quite il) The stewardesses held a delightful social and supper at Mre, A. Wilkins’, lust Thursday. Mr. Thos, Johuson, church treasurer, has opened a bank account for the church and pays its billy by cheek. “INDIFFERENT NON-PROGHES- SIVES.” A) PRN, SURE: | CUE BONE AO Gazette last tall, by a meniber of our local Ministers’ Alliance, the editor of this paper wrote the individual in Guestion (and the Altiance) as fol- lows: Your letter of the 17th, received. I hasten to write you because T ani sure that had you been reading ‘The Gazette reilarly for the past year, as Was your custom prier to that time, yoir would better understand the publication to which you refer in the communication Just received. You isk me What more could the Minis: ters’ Alliance do than “preach the sospel and exhort men to Christian ity and elvil righteousness,” ‘This very qviestion has been so treqwently auswered im the paper, during the past year, that It otght tot to be nec nesary to make formal reply at this time. You add: “We can only ask and gntreat the powers that be to make orilinances and to enforce the iw." You ate mistaken! ‘There is move that you eax do. and sould have done, and The Gazette tas re- ewtedly pointed the way to this vers thing, during the period referted to. freing to “persiiade men to follow the teachings of the Holy Spirit” is hot enough. ‘This is proven by the carfully immoral conditions in the Coniral Avenue district whieh have heen steadily growing worse (while vou were doing this) tndar the Day- ss adiilolstration. Amd the majority of our chusehes are in that district! $0 you see “preachine end eshort- ert of our ministers as leaders in a Gora) uplift movement im that sec- tion ‘The Gazette has reyentedly call- ed unoa them to give, are not enough aud have accomplished litle, i any- ins,” withont the ACTION, tnon the thing at ail. Words withont ACTION, in this ease as {2 many others, have failed utterly to accomplish results. vhdy neither have moved the Davis Aduinistration to action nor have they liad any shaterial effect upon the xrossly immoral condition of cur sec- tion of the eity. You are wrong again, my friend, wien you say The Gazette “never appealed to the Ministers! Al- Uunce right.” ‘This kas been done times without number, curing the past year and a hall, Parthermore, The Gazette never refused to “confer with the Alliance" on “any question which confronted the ehureh or this community." ‘Phe inaction of our minister, when it comes to the view condition of the Ceatral Avenue dis- inet, and other matters of vital race inmportance, has been such, for sever- ul yeurs, as to cutive not only the edi- tor of The Gazette, but many others, the lost of niuch taterest in them and the organizations (ehreh or othe: wise) they are directly connected with and are supposed to lead. ‘The editor of The Gazette is a very busy man, entirely (oo busy making a sue- Coss of the business Which he has eon- ducted for the past thirty-five years, to waste tine swith “spineless minis- ters" and otkera, and with so-called “uplift” organizations or societies which are notorious for “preaching and eshorting” and talk, without fol lowing it vp with the necessary AC- TON. How mich he (the editor) may Enow “of the clforts of the min- isters, of even what the social orgin- lastions are doing to correct the evils, or pet an end (0 vice, oF to wive ont crime” is something, dear friend, you lo not know; and for your infovma- tion Twill Say that 1 am kept in touch with what little they do by my Fepresentatives. Whet they do not do tat they should do iy 2 matter of common knowledge atonz onr prope of this community. When the Min- eters’ Alliance and other race organ- jvations have desired the presenee of the editor of The Gazette, in the past, their requests hare been complied with willingly and promptly. Permit me to assure you that we shall be glad ‘to have eatise to improve our opinion of ‘The Ministers’ Alliance” and “organizations with which our min- isters are connected," a5 well as al other race organizations, and that | have no objections to knowing better the members of your Alliance, How. ever, you cannot blame me or the rest of our people of this community in the face of our ministers’ inaction slong eivie and moral lines in the Ceatral Avenue distriet, for believing the Ministers’ Alliance “a set of in. different non-progressives.” ‘They boast. of being charged with “the moral welfare of our people of th community,” and yet make no mate rial effort beyond “preaching and ex conditions existing in the Centra | Avenue district under the Davis ad 10. JUNE 1, 1918. No, I have not “the wrong concep- tieh of your (uinisters’) vocation,” pnt do insist upon your being some- ‘thing more than merely “promulsn- tors of the Iaw of faith.” You should ead in a movement (a xeries of pub- He meetings, too, if necessary) to compel the local authorities “to exe- cnte tiie law’ aud materially improve the conditions referred to in the Cen- tral Avenue district, and not be sat- sailed with merely “admonishing myn (o be subject to the powers that be for conscience sake.” In conchision permit me to assure you that I ant perfectly willing to “Jearn more about tie inembers of your Ministers’ Ati pnee by contact and association” and with this in view Invite you, sentle- men, to eall at The Gazette office any Monday or Friday afternoon that it is convenient for you to do 30. Since the above was written. condi tions in Ward 11 and the “Central Ave, district” haye steadily grown worse and therd has been no effort spon the part or our local Ministers’ \iltance to Jead ina movement to im- vove them, Murders are numerous, lesser orimes of various kinds are ai- ost daily heralded in the local daily press; xambling and all sorts of im- moral resorts in that seetion of the ity ave floucishing 2s never before in the history of Cleveland. Lond! have merey! For the first time in the history of Richmond, ind. an Afro-American, Walter H. Dennis, hag been appointed u clerk in the post offic: How Haaser. Bart Eros sr oners of war returning from Rqtssia told by the Agram Huvatekh Dnev- nik, Tt says: ‘Wivst they have to undergd # juerantine of fourteen days, and the? they are sent for four weeks’ military raining. During that period their of- iors tell them about the state of ings at home and how the war is coins, endeavoring meanwhile to_up- oot the revolutionary and radical ieas which they may have acquited a Russia, For that purpose Croat nd Servian officers of our supple- ventary regiments have already one %0, yariows concentration camps Vitor six weeks of such preparations i the veturned Croats. and Servians will he dispatched to two concentra- ion camps, at Agrart and Esseg, All hase who Were not captured by being ounded will be brought before a iil- itary commission composed of a staff viViees, two commissioned. and tyo non-commissioned officers tobe in- orrgonted as to the manner ef their captire, and they will be adjudged sciilty oe innocent accordingly. ‘Those ‘ound deserving liberty will be given our days’ Teaves the rest will be coin t-martitled.” seeeresenseesenseesenesees f pare To po youR puTY 3 2 —— ; 2 fet us have faith that right $omakes might, and in that $ faith tet us ty the ena dare 3 dt do our duty as we unders 3 3 stand Abraham Lincoln 3 + a aban adores : PREJUDICE 3 5 Hoey pretties whstevep oink Ee ircreoumicble ee ge $ do not share in it themsclves | ® iruckle to it and flatter it and ¢ accept it iy a law of nature.”— $ $ Sohn Stuart Mill Lescecerersscescesseessoes pS REA SER TTS RT Serer ee a : P. 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CATARR SANTAL YE Se o4 HOURS ach Ca IN oe an) IN Bey fala LADIES AND GENTLEMEN OF TASTE DESTROY DISAGREE- ABLE BODY ODORS BY USING © «PQ W DE RE A Highly Perfumed Deodorant QDORTLA ‘ts brtnlate pabarnee Tercera air zeepntcs stcotne near t Ate sbeken tothe ample om the tise “latent aeleciie bewaed eae lay deg eet ea Sean yee PURO CHEMICAL COMPANY Poosostiit ‘atlanias Gn, AGENTS WANTED fists,'*r, eer ROBERT FISHER <ltterney and Counselor at Law 819 American ‘Trust Building Cleveland, Ohio Tel. Central 1400-W. HENRY L. THOMAS Attorney and Counselor at Law 512 Superior Building Cleveland, 0. Central 2251-R 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 IT'S A SNAKE STORY OF THE SNAKIEST KIND Men Prospecting in Old Mine Find Strange-looking Bowlders Are All Reptiles. Carterville, Mo.—William Mitchell, superintendent of the Yellowstone-Cascade mine, and Sherman Smith, a merchant, had a strange experience in an abandoned mine near here recently. Both are veracious citizens and abstainers from intoxicating liquors, but every time one of them looks at the ground now and sees a crooked stick or a piece of rope he shies at it. They both swear that in one day they saw every snake that inhabits the mining region of Missouri in that old mine. Both men are ardent prospectors. In quest of zinc or lead "shiifs" they erected a windlass at the top of the shaft of the abandoned mine and had a man let them down with their mining lamps. Things had a spooky look from the start. Fifty feet from the bottom of the shaft they saw what looked to be small ragged bowlers. Smith held his lamp aloft, his eyes gled to one of the queer-looking "bowlers." All at once he saw the head of a snake rise and swing gently back and forth. Then he saw another and another. All the "bowlers" became twisting, writering reptiles. There appeared to be thousands. It seemed that every snake of the Ozarks had crawled in there and "denned up" for the winter. Doubtless the fresh air made them think spring at hand and they came to life. The men wasted no more time, but brooks for the shaft, where they soon were hoisted to the surface. The next day the men visited a spring below the level of the mine. They noticed a big blacksnake "sunning" itself. They killed it, then noticed two more near by. A few steps below were found two gartersnakes and on glancing back at the spring a cochwhip was wriggling around in the water, trying to make a landing. In less than two minutes two more snakes came floating out of the hill side. The two men stayed by the spring until noon, and in that time they disposed of seventy-six snakes of various kinds. Then the water stopped a few minutes, and when it flowed again it was thick with mud. No more snakes were visible. It is thought some of the roof of the old drift caved in, shutting off the escape of the reptiles. COSTLY FIRE IN TOWN PREVENTED BY DREAM Man Investigates and Blaze Is Put Out Before Gaining Headway. Unionville, Mo.—What might have been a destructive fire in the business part of town was averted a few nights ago by a dream, and quick action on the part of the dreamer, James Schooler. The I. O. O. F. hall was the scene of ceremonies which required a setting sun. To represent the sun a candle was placed in a hat box that had been covered with red tissue paper. This contrivance was propoed above a large picture on the west wall of the room and the effect was pleasing. It was after the ceremonies were over and the guests had gone that Schooler, now asleep in his own home, dreamed that the red sunset had turned into fire. So vivid was his dream that the moment he awoke he telephoned to the night watchman to see if the candle had been left burning in Odd Fellows hall. An investigation revealed the fact that it indeed had been left burning. The box and big picture were entirely consumed and some of the furniture was blazing. GOES 300 MILES TO GET $9 Man Takes Trip to Collect Debt "For Principle of Thing." Parsons, Kan.—Mack Eddy, an employee of the Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad, in a small Texas town near Denison, arrived here recently, having traveled, more than 300 miles to his own expense to collect $8 which he says is due to him for labor. When the men where Eddy worked were paid off, Eddy says, he found his check was $8 short. When the treasurer of the road told Eddy his accounts would have to be traced before he could get his money Eddy went to the county attorney and asked whether he couldn't bring quit against the company for the wages due him and also for his railroad fare and board. It has cost him $15 to come here to try and collect the $8, he said, but it wasn't the money he cared about so much as the principle of the thing. COUGHS: REGAINS HIS MEMORY West Virginia Man Finds Himself in Oklahoma. St. Louis, Mo.-John Gibbs of Spillman, W. Va., seeking medical treatment at police headquarters, told the police he left his home for a point in Illinois and after boarding his train lost his memory until a few days ago, when it was revived in a violent fit of coughing in Oklahoma. MAN'S CAREER CHANGED BY HOOPS OF A HORSE He Becomes Eccentric Thru Injury Received in a Civil War Cavalry Charge. Carlisle, Pa. — Standing unique among the picturesque figures of Carlisle is Henry Wilson, war veteran, poet, philosopher, student of the Bible and checker player. Skilled in scores of ways, he has get a record for eccentricity. Highly educated, as far as can be learned. William when a young man enlisted during the Civil War. In a cavalry charge he fell beneath the hoofs of the Confederate troopers' horses and received injuries which turned a brilliant career into lines of oldest personal eccentricity. Wilson now lives in Carlisle, having ceased the annual tours which took him to every part of the country. While apparently well supplied with money and scarcely ever seen without a quantity of gold coin on his person, he persists in dressing in the style and clothes of decades ago. He gives little attention to his personal appearance other than to cleanly shave himself at least once every other day. He is one of the most expert checker players in this section and keeps local draughts experts busy to obtain even draws. He lost his wife some years ago and has frequently expressed the wish to take another spouse. He has advertised extensively with this end in view. His knowledge of the Bible has astonished many local theologians and he can tell at a moment's notice where any verse or passage or peculiar quotation may be found. While owning property here, Wilson insists in passing part of his time in the vagrants' quarters of the local jail, exchanging reminiscences with those there of days on the road. His injury has affected his memory somewhat and he cannot tell much concerning his early life, but from investigation of friends here it has been stated that he came from a Virginia family and was educated at William and Mary College, presumably as a minister. Little Rock, Ark.— Judge James Gerlach of the Argenta Municipal Court, is making the law of Moses an element in his rulings equal in importance with the statutes of Arkansas. Further, he is opening that tribunal each day with the Lord's prayer, led by himself and joined by the court officials and others. The departure from the ordinary court procedure was decided upon. Judge Gerlach said, during the two months he was under ouster by an impeachment body after a trial on charges that he imbibed intoxicants with entirely too much freedom. Then, too, the Judge seems to have been impressed by what a local minister said of the duty of citizens in choosing office holders, his idea being that they should be Christian men. "I am going to show them," Gerlach announced, "that I am willing to carry out the laws of the Bible in my court. This court shall always be opened with the Lord's prayer, which I shall lead." In the course of his announcement of change of policy Judge Geldach said: "The laws prescribed by Moses, as well as those of the city and state, will be rigidly enforced in this court. Every case that shall come before me shall be compared with similar cases found in the Scripture, as much as possible, and the same mode of procedure will be followed. "When Moses' law says two witnesses shall be necessary to convict in a certain offense, the same policy shall apply here. I would have conducted this court on this basis from the beginning, but I did not know it was desirable. I am glad to deal with the Scriptures in the administering of justice to those who come before me." CROWDS EAGER TO SEE DETROIT "WITCH GIRL" Meanwhile the Maid Wonders at 20th Century Superstition Detroit, Mich.—Coming from every part of Detroit and from nearby cities, a thousand persons congregated in front of the humble home of Celia Wrobleski, Detroit's "witch girl," where they stood silently, apparently awaiting some visible demonstration of the girl's supposedly supernatural powers. Police were unable to disperse the curious throng. Inside the house, the girl laughingly introduced herself to reporters as a "bear," and wonderingly inquired what it was all about. The only bewitching influence noticeable was the laughter in her eyes and the smile that played upon her lips. How the rumor of witchcraft started no one seems to know, but it threatens to wreck the life of a 16-year-old girl living in an enlightened city in the twentieth century. Many in the crowd openly expressed fear to gaze upon the girl's face, lest they suffer some horrible penalty. "It sounds incredulous and I cannot understand," said the Rev. Felix Kierul, pastor of St. Francis Church. "The girl is one of my parishioners, and the whole story I false." But even with police, church and other rational forces of the community seeking to dispel the rumor, the crowds about the girl's house continue to increase in size, as the fame of the "witch girl" spreads. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, OHIO, JUNE 1, 1918. "DIAMOND JIM" BRADY PAYS FOR BEING GORMAND Instead of Gorging on Steaks, He Dines on Hot Water and Health Biscuits Now. Atlantic City, N. J. — Picture the plight of a man with $29,000,000 and no appetite! That is the sad situation of James Buchanan Brady, New York millionaire sportsman, whose diamonds and idiosyncrasies have kept him in the limelight for years. That he has been ordered to forego dancing, the stock ticker and all other exciting diversions until his nerves are restored and his heart is functioning as nearly right as it ever will, by the Manhattan specialist who sent him here for rest, is the least of the troubles of Diamond Jim." He cannot eat! That is the tragedy which overshadows all other considerations for James Buchanan Brady. He confessed it recently to a friend while the two breakfasted at a hotel here. The friend ate heartily. Brady's rising repast comprised a cup of hot water and two health biscuits. Time was when "Diamond Jim" Brady could sit down and punish a steak two inches in thickness, two or three dozen oysters, a great dish of chicken salad and various other things. And he did it for years, until the inevitable happened—his stomach went back on. "Diamond Jim" went to a hospital, where a surgeon extracted his stomach, pronounced the opinion that it had been worked, death, gave it such scientific treatment as he could and put it back in place again. It showed signs of being nearly as good as new and Brady was so grateful that he gave the doctor a fee of $100,000, three motor cars in successive years and finally a handsome mansion. But surgical science has lipitations. The Brady digestive machinery went on strike again, his nervous system is out of keiter and his heart is behaving so badly that the doctors have told him exactly what he may expect if their mandates are not met to the letter. Cutting out strong drink is one thing which is not worrying Brady. He never had any time for liquor, despite the fact that a great part of his life has been spent in New York with men who ranked as staff officers of Gen. John Barleycorn. He has never used coffee for other beverages, because he never could see any need for them. He would not care if the whole country went dry day after tomorrow, and he is quite certain that thing is going to happen in a few years at the most. He regards it as an inevitable economic development. Being without an appetite is another matter. It makes "Diamond Jim" in his rolling chair on the Boardwalk almost a pathetic figure, even while his immaculate person and his glittering array of jewelry spell prosperity with a capital P. IMPRISONED IN OVEN Polly is Saved From Being Roasted Like a Stuffed Chicken Haven, N. Y.- M. Sigmund of this village has a parrot which is a very intelligent bird. The parrot has access to the house and only occupies its cage at night. Owing to the scarcity of coal Sigmund has been obliged to burn green wood, which is placed in an oven and baked. Tuesday morning Sigmund was out earlier than usual. He started a fire in the kitchen range and went to the barn and did the chores. He then returned to the house and was warming his hands over the stove when he heard the words, "It's hot." He looked around the room, but could not see the parrot. When the words were repeated Sigmund opened the door of the oven and the parrot flew out. Sigmund says the parrot must have entered the oven during the night to get warm as the house was very cold. He closed the oven door when he started the fire, thus imprisoning the parrot. Sigmund avers that the parrot suffered no ill effects from the heat, but is not as talkative as before. MAN ASKS INSURANCE AGAINST "DAN CUPID" He Can't Afford to Wed, but Policy Cash Would Help. New York—No insurance concern will insure against matrimony. The risk is too great, they say. Insurance row was stattled the other day where a young man went from office to office trying to get an anti-Cupid policy. The young fellow explained at on-office that he was 22 years old and "liked the girls pretty well," but that he wasn't making enough money to support a wife. "The trouble is," he said, "I may meet a girl any day and get such a 'cruch' on that I propose without even thinking about how little my salary is. Then there would be the deuce to pay. This way if I take out an insurance policy and such a thing does happen I would have the money to keep going until I got a raise. If I shouldn't meet the right girl the insurance company would be ahead the premiums I had paid in." Performs Physical Fcats That Stump College Scientists and Students at Washington. Washington, D. C.—This way, gentleman. See the eight wonder of the world who has all the doctors stumped. He walks, he talks. He is normal in every way—except, he can stretch his neck six and one-half inches; he can stretch one arm from normal fifteen inches; he can dislocate his ankle, hip, arm, and even his vertebrae; he can stop all evidence of a pulse in his arm; he can twist and turn and puff and shrink himself out of all resemblance to a human being. Who is he? Why, Sailor Scotty, Otherwise known as Harry Griffis. Otherwise known as Harry Grims. Grills appeared before the students of George Washington University Medical School and offered to show them something out of the ordinary. He said that he is a sailor on furlough. During his time off, he delights to visit the medical schools near where he is stationed and astound the men of science. He first began to stretch his neck for the students. He stretched until he was nearly seven inches taller than before. Next he swelled his neck up until it increased five inches in diameter. Then he cut off the flow of blood to his wrists, merely by a muscle movement. The feature of his exertion was dislocating his vertebrae. After considerable contortion he announced that the segments were separated about a half inch. Scotty says he has been in the United States Navy for several years, proving that he is no freak, for the naval physical examination is not a thing of name only, Scotty says. He is a remarkably well-made man, with well developer muscles. He gave several strength tests that surprised his audience. The secret of his performance is the method in which he has trained his muscles, he states. The muscular control of the man is said to be wonderful by doctors who viewed his performance. Only by dint of constant practice is he able to continue with the exhibitions that he has been giving for years, he states. MONKEY TRIES TO "KID" ZOO'S NEW PORCUPINE "I Told You So," Said Omaha Keeper After the Simian Had Retired to His Perch. Omaha, Neb.-The advent of a porcupine to the happy family of pets being collected by Commissioner Hummel in the greenhouse at Hanscom Park caused quite a commotion Wednesday afternoon, when the monkey and the new member exchanged social amenities. This simian member of the zoo had been having things pretty much his own way. It jumped over the backs of the alligators without fear and played with the kitten and the Mexican ducks with impunity, but when it tried to kid the porcupine—that was a different story. When the porcupine was placed in the greenhouse it minded its own business, until the monkey started cutting up. The porcupine seemed to be quite a joke to the monkey, but the joke was short-lived. The monkey started in by putting the porcupine in a gentle manner, then it tried to get a scissors hold on the animal with the bristles. The result was the monkey let out a yell which could be heard all over the park. The bristles of the porcupine put the monkey hors de combat. Since that sanguinary experience the monkey climbs to the ceiling of the greenhouse every time it sees the porcupine. "I told that monkey to keep away from the porcupine," said Commissioner Hummel, "but it would not mind. When you monkey with the buzz saw you are liable to get into trouble." GIRL'S HAIR WHITENS AT SIGHT OF MOUSE Pan of Dough Falls on Her Head, Which Adds to Her Alarm. Rochester, N. Y.—This story may sound a wee bit "fishy," but it's true, every word of it. Miss Mary Riley of this city and a mouse are the principals. A few mornings ago Miss Riley finished kneading some bread dough and placed the sticky substance upon a shelf over the stove to raise. Later in the morning, while standing on a chair to test the dough, a mouse scampered across the floor. In the excitement which followed—all on the part of the girl, of course—the dough was accidentally knocked from its place of rest and landed with force upon Miss Riley's head. The girl is only 19 years of age. That fact is vital in the question of what caused her hair to turn perfectly white in the course of the "alarm," and to remain white from thence on. All Must Ignore Women Except in Business Matters. Grand Forks, N. D.—An "All bachelors Secret Order" has been organized among North Dakota unmarried men, headquarters in Grand Forks. Members are sworn to remain in single blessedness during the term of their membership, which is signed up for three years at a time. "No member shall look upon the face of woman and let his gaze linger there, or shall speak to a woman except in case of business," state the bylaws of the order. GIRLS OPERATE MINE IN ALASKA AND ONLY ASSISTANT IN TASK IS THEIR MOTHER. Shoeing Mule and Sharpening Steel I: Only Part of Day's Work for Them. At Pearl Harbor, forty miles from Juneau, Alaska, two young women, just out of their teens, have for the past four years, operated a paying mine. Their sole assistant has been their mother. They operate a two- stamp mill and their present ambition is to install a five-stamp equipment. These girls are the daughters of the late John G. Peterson, a pioneer who, with Mrs. Peterson, acquired an interest in some mining properties twenty-six years ago in the Pearl Harbor b district. The girls' names are Irma and Margaret. Both were born in Juneau. There is nothing in mining that the two young women are not capable of doing from sharpening a steel to shoeing a mule. These things are every day affairs with them—a part of the day's work. They built the neat four-room cottage in which they live, getting the timber out of the forest themselves. An inspection of their library shows works on geology, mineralogy, mining and milling, and mine management by the best authorities. A number of standard magazines come to them. The girls occasionally take trips. One of these excursions took on the proportions of a tour to Europe. Juneau, the town of their nativity, is proud of them. So is Alaska. THE GOLDEN DAY There are two days in the week upon which and about which I never worry. Two carefree days, kept free from fear and apprehension. One of these days is Yesterday. Yesterday, with all its cares and frets, with all its pains and aches, all its faults, its mistakes and blunders, has passed forever beyond the reach of my recall. I cannot undo an act that I wrought, I cannot unsay a word that I said, on Yesterday. All that it holds of my life, of wrong, regret and sorrow, is in the hands of the Mighty Love that can bring honey out of the bitterest desert — the Love that can make the wrong things right, that can turn weeping into laughter, that can give beauty for ashes, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness, joy of the morning for the woe of the night. Save for the beautiful memories, sweet and tender, that linger like the perfume of roses in the heart of the day that is gone, I have nothing to do with Yesterday. It was mine; it is God's. And the other day I do not worry about is To-morrow. I to-morrow, with all its possible adversities, its burdens, its perils, its large promise and poor performance, its failures and mistakes, is as far beyond the reach of my mastery as its dead sister, Yesterday. It is a day of God's. It's sun will rise in roseate splendor, or behind a mask of weeping clouds. But it will rise. Until then, the same love and patience that hold Yesterday hold To-morrow. Save for the star of hope that gleams forever on the brow of To-morrow, shining with tender promise into the heart of To-day, I have no possession in that unborn day of grace. All else is in the safekeeping of the Infinite Love that holds for me the treasures of Yesterday. The Love that is higher than the stars, wider than the skies, deeper than the seas. To-morrow—it is God's day. It will be mine. There is left for myself, then, but one day of the week—To-day. Any man can fight the battles of To-day. Any woman can carry the burdens of just one day. Any man can resist the temptations of To-day. O friends, it is only when, to the burdens and cares of To-day, carefully measured out to us by the Infinite Wisdom and Might that gives them the promise, "As thy day, so shall thy strength be," we willfully add the burdens of those two awful eternities—Yesterday and Tomorrow—such burdens as only the mighty God can sustain—that we break down. It isn't the experience of To-day that drives men mad. It is the remorse for something that happened Yesterday, the dread of what To-morrow may disclose. These are God's days. Leave them with him. Therefore, I think, and I do, and I journey, but one day at a time. That is the easy day. That is the man's day. Nay, rather, that is Our Day — God's and Mine. And while faithfully and dutifully I run my course, and work my appointed task on that day of Ours, God the Almighty and the All-Loving takes care of Yesterday and Tomorrow. R. J. Burdette. One Exception Most of the world's emeralds now come from Gogota. The mining of them is a government monopoly and in a tumble-down old building in Bogota, once used as a bank, you may, if properly introduced and guarded, gaze literally on quartz of flawless stones, stowed away in bags as in some Aladin's cave.—Everybody's Magazine. Scientists Still Unable to Explain Fully These Startling Electric Disturbances The mystery of lightning, which so appalled primitive people, and which, for that matter, still does each year, as the season for lightning storms rolls around, and of which the ancients stood in greatest awe, confined itself not entirely to a nonscientific age. While this question has been studied extensively and undisputed progress has been made, there are phases of it that are almost as little known today as in the remote past. Savants very candidly confess that the subject of ball lightning, for instance, is still a deeply puzzling nature. Even the men who have specialized on the phenomenon of lightning are baffled. In text books a classification was long ago adopted discussing lightning under three headings—zigzag, ball lightning and sheet lightning. This classification is also followed in the elementary textbooks of today in spite of the fact that zigzag lightning was recognized long ago as a misnomer. Zigzag lightning is the artists' lightning, which is to say that it is conjured from the depths of fanciful imaginations, and is of an angularity wholly dissimilar to anything produced by nature. Dr. W. J. Humphreys of the United States Weather Bureau calls attention to many kinds of lightning, among them streak lightning, rocket lightning ball lightning, sheet lightning, beaded lightning and return lightning. Other authorities add to these ribbon and stellar lightning. Streak lightning according to Dr. Bumphreys, is an electrical discharge which to the eye appears as one or more sinuous lines or streaks of vivid white or pink. The camera registers a complete and detailed record of a stroke. The duration of a flash is frequently all of half a second or longer. It is now maintained that a discharge of lightning does not immediately flash from cloud to earth, but a feeble, initial discharge takes the lead and breaks the trail for a much more violent flash that closely follows. The flickering of lightning is due to the number of successive discharges which follow one another rapidly. Rotating cameras show the constituent parts of a flash with convincing clearness. In one photograph forty distinct discharges in a single flash can be counted. One authority on the question has stated that a flash of lightning a mile in length requires a potential of 4,000,000,000 volts. Rocket lightning is a slow but steady growth in the length of a line of lightning. The comparatively low speed of the progressive line of light is strikingly resembles the trail of light made by a rocket that the name rocket lightning was adopted. Sheet lightning, observed at night flashes in the sky like spectacular sheets of flame. Strangely enough, the beautiful lightning, which without exception displays itself in great sheets is only a reflection of sreak lightning which discharges in some invisible cloud portion. Beaded lightning is known also as chapeted or pearl lightning. Dr. Humphreys has serious doubts as to the reality of bead lightning, feeling practically certain that it is an optical illusion. Countless stories from all classes of people in every section of the country fear witness to lightning pranks. While no doubt imaginative and excitable people highly color many lightning stories, still there is a germ of truth in them all. Ball lightning has given rise to innumerable curious stories, and upon investigation there seems to be little to prove or disprove them beyond the word of the narrator. CURVED RIFLES USED Cuns That Shoot Over Parapets Now in Big War A rifle that shoots over the parapet while the user sits in comparative safety in the trench without necessity for exposing himself to the fire of the enemy is a late invention brought out by a well known sportsman and big game hunter of this country. The feature of this invention is that the rifle's held vertically while the projectile is fired horizontally. This is accomplished by a curved deflecting tube, fixed to the muzzle of the gun, that changes the course of the projectile from the cortical to the horizontal as it leaves the gun. In spite of the enormous friction that must accompany this change of direction the tube as shown by actual tests, is not subject to excessive wear, while the effective range of a rifle equipped with this device is between 100 and 150 yards. The rifle is aimed by means of a periscope consisting of two mirrors, one fixed to the upper end and the other to the lower end of a tube that is mounted on the rifle barrel. The device is adapted only to close range fighting and is particularly intended for use in repelling a charge, although it is evident that it can be used effectively for shooting from behind a building or other shelter.—Popular Mechanics. No Secret "Keep love a secret!" exclaimed Aunt Kezah. "Can you keep the tooth- ache a secret? Well, no more can you keep love or tight shoes a secret." No Encouragement Necessary "Do you believe in encouraging boys to fight?" "No more than in encouraging ducks to swim." ELECTRICITY TURNS DUST INTO MONEY DEVICES IN CHIMNEYS RECOVER PORTION OF PRODUCTS FORMERLY WASTED. Value of Various Metals Saved Pay Handsome Profit. Over the hills from a Vermont slate quarry there came, with "prospering winds," filmy clouds of reddish dust, settling down on pleasant homes and seeping in through unsuspected cracks. Quite a problem it became, and it seemed to be well nigh unsolvable, says World's Work. In a Pennsylvania town, mist from a sulphuric acid plant became an equally much discussed problem. Some folks even used the word "nuisance." Then electricity came, not only to stop the dust as well as the mist, but to extract from each—as well as from smoke—a money value which formerly no one received—and skipped the nuisance. Technical men called this remedy "electrical precipitation"—causing a valuable product to fall out of the dust and mist; putting a price, in other words, on things which formerly "went up in smoke." It is one of the unique examples of the many and varied uses to which electricity is adapted today on a commercial scale. Electrical precipitation works out in this way; given a mine or factory from which gases, mists, dust or smoke arise and settle over the community, they are confined in chimneys or caught by specially constructed pipes or cylinders. These pipelike chimneys are then equipped with a thin straight wire hung axially inside the hollow pipes or cylinders and charged with from 25,000 to 75,000 volts of electricity. It is known as the "discharge electrode." The pipe or cylinder, in turn, is "grounded" and is known as the "collecting electrode." Thus we have the gases, smoke or mist, led up through the specially prepared pipes or cylinders. Then the electric current is turned on The intervening air space becomes highly charged with electricity. All floating particles become electrified and are repelled by the charged wire over against the side of the pipe or cylinder, where they are collected. In the case of a liquid, as in the sulphuric acid mist, the particles which the electricity separates from the mist gather on the side wall and drip down to the bottom where there is a vessel ready to collect them, whence they are piped off for use, becoming the new element saved, as a "brand from the burning." In the case of the particles escaping in dust, as from the slate quarry, the electricity drives them to the side of the pipe and they either settle down to the bottom of the chimney or adhere to the sides and, when the current is turned off, a more or less light tapping on the sides will cause them to drop into the bins built at the bottom to receive them. There they likewise become another tangible element snatched out of the air. The diameter and length of the cylinders will, naturally, vary with the volume of the gas, dust or smoke to be treated. Several pipes may be joined in a set by a common header, each pipe having its own discharge electrode suspended axially within it. In this manner, not only smoke, which is nothing more than unconsumed particles of carbon, but also fumes and mists of various character, are now successfully treated, eliminating much damage to property, doing away largely with the "smoke nuisance", and enabling the recovery of much valuable material, which has hitherto been allowed to escape. In numerous installations of the electrical precipitation system, the value of the various metals and other products, such as silver, copper, iron, lead, zinc, sulphuric acid, arsenic and potash, pays a handsome profit on the cost of the "treater." Among the problems to which the system is being applied are collecting and recovering fumes and dust from gases given off by many kinds of furnaces; removing acid mist and fumes from gases given off by nitrating operations and sulphuric acid concentrations; cleaning gases arising from electric furnaces; cleaning producer gas and illuminating gas, recovering the tar and oils; cleaning iron blast furnace gas, recovering the potash and iron values; removing soot and other suspended materials from gases drawn from the smoke stacks in railway locomotive round houses; and numerous other operations. Thus, electricity comes in to create valuable by-products and to make the proverbial two blades of grass grow where only one grew before. High Morale. Henry Van, Dyke, the former Minister to the Netherlands, said at the Author's Club the other day: "The morale of all the Allied soldiers is always excellent. They joke about their wounds. "I met a wounded young American aviator from the Escadrille Lafayette at a tea. He sat in a bath chair, with his leg propped straight out, and his two crutches at his side. "How is the leg coming on?" I said. "Well, anyhow," he laughed, 'it isn't coming off.'"