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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! SUBSCRIPTION RATES (In Advance) Year $1.50 Six Months 1.00 three months 2.00 Subscribers are requested to return Subscribers are requested to remit a postoffice money order or registered letter. Entered at the postoffice in Cleveland, Ohio, as second-class mail matter. Blackstone Bullding, Cleveland, O. Member Ohio Legislature: 1894 to 1896; 1896 to 1898; 1900 to 1902 THE GAZETTE is the oldest, and has the largest bona fide circulation, double that of any newspaper in the interest of Afro-Americans, published in the state of Ohio, and comparison with any will immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWS-EST and BEST in the country. 10,000,000 Afro-Americans. 300,000 in Ohio. 25,000 in Cleveland. "Over here, democracy is a theoretical preachment," says the Houston (Tex.) Observer. Agreed! Down in Louisville, Ky., our men are "boating up" white soldiers who try to flirt with our girls. A ray of sunshine from out of..... The Kentucky Court of Appeals has decided that our schools of that state shall share in its Corporation Tax Revenues. Good! 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 Louisiana have each lynched eleven persons in the last fourteen months! The N. Y. News is wrong when it announces that Hon. E. A. Johnson of that state was the first Afro-American legislator to preside over a branch of a State Assembly. Ohio Afro-American legislators, Dr. Rickets of Nebraska and others enjoyed this honor many years ago. What became of the case of the 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 company because it would have been placed next to Afro-American soldiers? He should have been court-martialled and punished. 'b isn't it a bit strange that any member of the race would have the temerity to tell us at this time that "this is not the time for us to contend for our rights" when many of the leading papers (white) of the country are daily doing that very thing for us as a result of our soldiers' brave and heroic work in and out of the trenches over in France? A few months ago when five hundred of our best young men, soldiers, were being badly treated at Camp Lee, Virginia, Prof. Wm. Pickens visited the camp, slept and ate with them. Then gave publicity to their mistreatment that had more to do with their removal to a camp (Upton) in New York state than anything else. Give him the credit he so richly deserves, confères. We have not many of his kind of fearless and truthful writers. We acknowledge the receipt of a copy of the first issue of "Pending Issues," Hon. J. C. Manning's splendid monthly publication, well illustrated. Mr. Manning is one of the race's few aggressive white friends a southern Republican by birth and long residence. The Gazette's readers know and we feel sure fully appreciate him. Those desiring "Pending Issues," and all should, can address him at 208 W. 37th St., New York City. Price: $3 a year; 25 cents a copy. If President Wilson can commute the sentence of an officer that abused Afro-American troopers we may be able to get the President to do the same thing for those five unfortunate members of the 24th Infantry who are condemned to death. Do not get tired so quickly, but continue to fill out the blank application published elsewhere in this paper and send it as instructed. The verdict reached in the cases of the last thirty-nine members of the same regiment, charged with the same "crime," has not as yet been made public. Speaking of the Major Gen. C. C. Ballou "Bulletin, No. 35," Dr. R. R. Wright, Jr., editor of the Christian Recorder, says: "Personally, we do not take much stock in theatricals, but we believe that a Negro who is good enough to die for this country is good enough to go anywhere any other soldier properly goes, and that there should be absolutely no difference between Negroes and whites when it comes to soldiers." "The Lord works in a mysterious way," oft-times. It took the lynching of a "white" man, and during "World War" times, to make an Attorney-General of the United States speak out against lynch-murder! Said Atty-Gen. Gregory: "No greater wrong can be done to our soldiers in France than that of lynching Germans in America." Such acts as the lynching of Robert Praeger in Illinois, will be seized upon by our enemies as jutifying severe reprisals on our soldiers in the prison camps. It is possibly well for the Afro-American that "lynching is no respector of persons." 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 mislead 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 for their rights and privileges, ours only is the race that is admonished, and too by members of the race, to ignore for the duration of the war our mistreatment, wrongs and denials of rights of every kind and description, and look to the righting of the same after the war! This, too, in the face of past experience that makes such advice an insult to our loyalty and intelligence. Good Lord, have mercy! NATIONAL ANTI-LYNCHING LAW An anti-lynching bill has been introduced in the House of Representatives by Congressman Dyer of St. Louis. The bill provides that each person in a mob committing a lynching 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 the county responsible for loss of life caused by a 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, like our Ohio law, but we fear that it will not do so 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, Congress, like the other two co-ordinate branches of our government, 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 offer some loop-hole and create a determination upon the part of all branches of the government to put a stop to lynching because of the recent lynch-murder of that German in Illinois and the international complications such unlawful and barbarous acts may entail upon our government. So if there is a national anti-lynching 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 Army been discovered? If the reward of meritorious service is promotion, it would appear that he has, in the person of Bennett Clark, son of Speaker Champ Clark, the great opposer of the draft law. In the Washington (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 lieutenant to lieutenant colonel in less than nine months is certainly 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 Congress his father fought it with all the bitterness of his tongue and influence. It was enacted, nevertheless, and then came the problem of taking care of Bennett. He was appointed to the first training camp for officers at Ft. Meyer, within easy riding distance of his Washington home, and with that marvelous energy which characterized 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 command the U. S. army. He graduated as a lieutenant in August THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, OHIO, JUNE 1, 1918 since which time his rise in the red firmament of war has been nothing short of meteoric. Not one member of his camp class has made suen a record as this. Those who were identified with the Republican party prior to their entrance into the army, are still humble lieutenants or captains, while those whose Democratic connections are not quite so notable, must now yield precedence to Lieutenant Colonel Clark, Sir. It is not reported whether the lieutenant colonel was accompanied by the celebrated Houn' Dawg, panoplied as a War Pup to scent out "deserving Democrats" for orderly duty, but Champ Clark's militant Democratic speech at Fort Wayne' the other day would indicate that in the war zone the dawg has found surcease from being kicked around. Possibly he, too, has been camouflaged as a bull jurp. Oh, no! Political pull has nothing to do in this war of all the people to make it safe for Democrats! TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THESE Splendid Opportunities to Get Good Positions in the State's Service Columbus, O.—More than a score of examinations for state service positions are called in the June issue 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 examinations which will be held on the same day in Columbus, Cleveland, Toledo, Dayton and Cincinnati, follows: June 4—Corporation accountant, for state tax commission, salary $2700; dredge engineer for the department of public works, $1680; junior messengers for all state departments, $50 to $60 per month; guards for state penal institutions, $80 to $90 per month; punch machine operators for industrial commission $540; and soil physicists for agricultural experiment station $1000 to $1400. June 5—Electricians for state departments and institutions, $780 to $960; junior assistant engineers, for state highway department, $940; actuary for insurance department, $2250; and assistant actuaries for the same department, $1200 to $1500; dredge fireman, board of public works, $1080; clerks for all state departments, $840 to $900. June 6—Deputy food inspectors, board of agriculture, $1200; penal matrons (female) for women's reformatory, Marysville, $45 and full maintenance; stationary engineer's helper, state departments and institutions, $200 to $1800; chemist for agricultural station, $1200 and claims referee industrial commission, $2000. June 7—Boller inspectors for industrial commission, $1800; probation officers for Franklin, Hamilton Cuyahoga, Lucas and Montgomery counties; civil engineer for department of public works, $1800; associate chemist Experiment Station $2000; safety engineers, stationary engineers and chief stationary engineers. The last three examinations will be non-assembled. Prospective applicants for any of these positions should send for a free copy of the official bulletin. SOME PERTINENT QUESTIONS Of Historical and Racial Interest to Our People Madison, N. J.—Rev. Geo. Wilson Brent (white) in a magazine article a few years ago asked the following pertinent questions: “Where is the white man’s record of his ancient gods, where are ruined towers, the buried cities, the crumbling monuments of his departed glory? Why does he always refer to other races for examples, whether it be to the Spartans for courage, Romans for nobility, Egypt for mystery, India for wealth, the American Indian for treachery and the American Negro for fidelity? Why is all known history centered in the black, yellow or brown man’s and country if white race is so ancient. Why do have been where no white man had ever been before? Why are the most inspiring legends, love stories, etc., the finest art work, the oldest records of man’s labor on earth, the Egyptian Pyramids, the tower of Babel, the Sphinx, etc., all found outside of the country the white man claims as his own? Why is that the Caucasian alone has undeniably all the characteristics formerly ascribed to the leprous? Why is he so religious and yet so worldly minded, and avaricious? Why is it that he alone remains unaccounted for when the earth was divided between the yellow, black and red races, the ancient had the brown brother or neighbor brother. What is the race anyhow?” Comment unnecessary. COMPLETE VINDICATION Portland, Ore., May 27, 1918. Editor Gazette, Dear Sir:—Let me congratulate you on your complete vindication in the courts of your county, this spring. Of course, none of your many friends would for one moment credit those infamous (Crable) charges. I should have written before but besides being very busy I had an attack of a gripe, this spring. So rather neglected my friends. The mails are and have for some time been in very bad condition. As a result I have missed an occasional copy of The Gazette and other papers. Guess we must "grin and bear it" till the Republicans can get control again. (Yours truly, (Mrs.) Patricia Robinson. THE MAN WHO DARES. "I honor the man who in the conscientious discharge of his duty dares to stand alone; the world, with ignorant, intolerant judgment, may condemn, the countenances of relatives may be averted, and the hearts of friends grow cold, but the sense of duty done shall be sweeter than the applause of the world, the countenances of relatives or the hearts of friends."—Charles Sumner. To The Loyal! Five of our soldier boys are at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, awaiting death as a result of the recent Court Martial proceedings growing out of the Houston riot. 'Though these men have been sentenced to die, their cases will be reviewed by President Wilson, and he has the power to commute their sentences to life imprisonment, if he will. He can even pardon them, if he desires so to do. These men were victims of rank prejudice. They were forced to take the law into their own hands by reason of the oppression and insults offered them by southern whites. Their cases are not ordinary ones, and they deserve extraordinary consideration. Their comrades who died a few weeks ago were hanged without executive intervention. These five boys have a chance to live, if the President says so. "The Gazette" urges our people to fill out the appeal to the President, to be found on this page and also to write a letter to his or her U. S. Senator and Congressman asking that the President be urged to save these boys. They are victims of peculiar circumstances and conditions born of prejudice and hatred. Write today; help to save them. ```markdown ``` FILL THIS OUT AND SEND IT White House, Washington, D. C. The undersigned respectfully requests you to disapprove the sentence of death imposed upon the Colored soldiers in the court martial at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. A Deserved Tribute from a Race Paper at the Nation's Capital One of the most satisfying expressions of the growing popularity of Hon. H. I. Emerson, of Cleveland, O. consists in the splendid unfoldment of the legislative and judicial instinct of that gentleman as exemplified by his untiring committee work and his vigilance in anticipating any untoward moves on the part of the enemy, the Democrats, which might savor of injustice or disfavor toward any class of his constituents. Mr. Emerson is a comparatively young man who has won laureats at the Ohio bar and been selected as a fit successor of such brilliant lawyers and legislators as A. G. Riddle and ex-Senator T. E. Burton, each of whose record stands out in championship of human rights and the time-honored principles of the Republican party. It must be a source of deep gratification to the colored constituency of Mr. Emerson to know that on the watch-tower stands a sentient whose sense of right and duty is such as to guarantee successful opposition to any and all efforts on the part of democrats to disturb our constitutional rights. With a phalanx such as that composed of such brave and good men as a Maid, Emerson, Drer, Mann, and a few others, the race is suddenly hope for a little rest that pestiferous aggression of "fire-caterer" whose only hope of notoriety, or even mention in the Record, is based upon their opportunity of belying their colored benefactors. It is hoped that Mr. Emerson may represent the republicans of the 21st District of Ohio until he is called to occupy a height up, in the Senate of the U. S.—Washington (D. C. Eagle. "The Old Reliable" Appreciated War Department, Washington, D.C. April 3, 1918. My dear Friend:—I cordially appreciate the friendly interest which you have so frequently demonstrated, and wish to commend the splendid spirit of patriotic service which your paper, The Gazette, (along with others of the Negro press) has so generously shown in this period of national emergency and need. Sincerely yours, Emmett J. Scott, Special Assistant Secretary of War. CORRESPONDENTS WANTED The old reliable Gazette desires an active agent and correspondent in every city and town in Ohio and neighboring states having a number of Afro-American residents. Only a little time on Fridays or Saturdays is required. We are especially destroys of hearing from persons in the following named cities: Springfield, Dayton, Akron, Lima, O., and other places, particularly in Ohio, where we have none. Write to the editor of The Gazette, Blackstone building, Cleveland, O., and terms will be sent promptly. 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Send or bring locals and all business matters to The Gazette's office, 214-215 Blackstone Bldg. If you wish to see the editor call there, please. We advise our readers to carefully examine The Gazette's advertisements before making purchases. Business men who advertise in this paper should have the patronage of our people. The fact that they advertise is assurance that they want it. All matters for publication in current issues of The Gazette must be in the office by 4 p. m., WEDNESDAY of that week, at the latest. The Ohio State Telephone "Cuyahoga": Central 513-K Classified Advertising ... Department ... CLUB NOTICE — The Working Men's Social and Literary club meets, every Friday evening, for business and gives a dance, every Monday night, at their hall, 3103 Scovill Ave. H. P. Williams, pres., 3040 Central Ave. L. V. Orton, sec., 2667 E. 40th St. Milton Watkins, chairman, 2524 E. 30th St. CLEVELAND Social and Personal Mrs. Jennie Polly is visiting relatives in Hillsboro. It was necessary to send The Gazette to press, this week, on Wednesday because Thursday was a holiday. Mr. and Mrs. Richard Jones, Akron, former residents of Cleveland, visited here Sunday week. Have you noticed that Margery Wilson is at the Main Theater, June 6, and W. S. Hart, on June 3 and 5?—Adv. Major Otis B. Duncan, of the 370th infantry (formerly the Eighth Illinois), now in France, has been made a Lieutenant-Colonel. The following are officers of Cory M. E. choir: Mrs. John Nelson, pres.; Mrs. James Offer, vice-pres.; Mrs. Joe Jackson, sec.; Mrs. Louisa Sherman, treas. Mrs. Henrietta Vinton Davis, the noted traveler and talented elocutionist, of Washington, D. C., gave fine entertainments at Cory and East Mt. Zion Baptist churches, recently. Same old story: Pittsburgh Afro-Americans failed to support their two candidates for the Legislature as they should have, with the result that both were defeated. The King of England has conferred the Order of the British Empire upon the Hon. H. A. Simpson, member of the Jamaica Legislature from Kingston, and Murray Jeffres owns and operates the Charlotte Milling and Power Co at Charlotte, Va. He lights our section of the town and has been asked to light the other. / Rev. Irving K. Merchant attended the sessions of the State Association of Congregational churches in Canton and is our only member of the association. He preached at the Congion Cong, church, Painesville, Sunnybrook, filing an engagement for Superintendent Rotherick of the Cong, Union. Rev Dr. Frazier preached at Mt. Zion Cong, church in Rev. Merchant's absence. D. F. Whitaker, of Duquesne, Pa. editor of the Penn. Leader, is in the city prospecting for a new location for his paper and may "take over" the "Allen," it is said. He called on The Gazette, Tuesday, and dined with the editor. Among over one hundred white and three of our applicants in a Civil Service examination for clerkships, in Atlanta, Ga., Mrs. M. S. Jackson, one of our applicants, jranked highest. Her mark in mathematics was 99 per cent. Recently a jury in Judge Stevens' court, out only seven minutes, rendered a verdict of $2,000 in favor of C. R. Elliott, who sued the Black & White Taxi company for injuries sustained while footman at the Lindner Co.'s store on Eutelid avenue. The Harmony trio, Mrs. Pearl Cleage, Mrs. Ollie Wells Ball and sister, Miss Gladys Wells, furnished the program at a big Masonic (white) entertainment at the temple. E. 195th street and Euclid Ave, recently, Miss Bessie Cook, accompanist. Willard A. Smith, of Auburn, N. Y., has just been awarded $100 damages by a jury in the N. Y. Supreme Court against the Auburn & Syracuse Electric Railway Company based on the refusal of the company to sell tickets to colored people for the dancing pavilion. Afro-American registrants of the District of Columbia to the number of 300, including several lawyers, doctors and teachers, were inducted into the military service of the country at the opening of the new Howard University camp. May 17, following a parade in which the 300 new men were the principal figures. Hiawatha Taylor, son of the late S. Coleridge Taylor, (deceased Afro-English musician and composer and director), is serving in France with the British Red Cross. Colored soldiers from Trinidad, serving in Egypt, have recently won one military cross and three military medals for bravery. BEST FOR THE BLOOD — Puro Herbs. Sold only at Brown Drug Co., cor E. 28th St. and Central Ave.—Adv. You should take PURO HERBS, the great blood purifier and system cleanser. On sale only at the Brown Drug Co., 2742 Central Ave., cor E. 28th St.—Adv. Again we wish to say that The Gazette does not include the pastors of St. James A. M. E., East Mt. Zion Baptist, Mt. Zion Cons., St. Andrews E., and St. Paul's Cons. A. M. E. churches in its criticisms of the Ministers' Alliance. The first two, Revs O. W. Childers and B. K. Smith, are in the extreme east end of the city --- Chase The Gazette *DR. WEAVER'S 3315 Central Ave. *A. GORDON'S 2928 Central Ave. *MRS. BESSIE KITZMILLER'S 3943 Central Ave. *S. LEVIN, 3102 Central Ave. W. T. GRANT, 3512 Central Ave. SUNDAYS. SUBSCRIBERS The Gazette regularly should notify by delivered promptly. Business matters to The Gazette's If you wish to see the editor call frequently examine The Gazette's ad- chases. Business men who adver- the patronage of our people. The rance that they want it. In current issues of The Gazette WEDNESDAY of that week, at the and not in "the Central Ave. district" and like the other three ministers mentioned are practically "newcomers" in their local pastoral work. Wilbur Campe, of Hudson, O, twin brother of Miss Pinya Campe, waitress in the Edward Doctor Dining rooms, passed thru the city, recently, en route to Camp Sherman where he is new a private in Co. F. 317th int. He spent several days in the city visiting his sister. W. R. Conners, secretary of our local Welfare League, and E. C. Lawrence of Chengzo, en route from N. Y. City and Chicago to St. Louis, Mo. to locate and do welfare work in connection with our Urban League of N. Y. City, visited The Gazette sanctum, Saturday. The Surgeon General of the U. S. army has advised that nurses should be used "in their own communities," and that training classes for such nurses is encouraged. As for sending nurses abroad "it is impossible to tell where Afro-American troops will be stationed, and therefore it would be inadvisable to send Afro-American women abroad for nursing service," he is reported to have said, Well, well. Last week Felix Worth, general secretary of the Young Men's Christian Union, announced a reunion, reception and banquet to be held, this week, at the University to which all members of 1917 and 1918, wives, sweethearts and friends were especially invited. A silver offering was to be lifted. Mr. Worth recently tendered Mr. and Mrs. Dennis D. Naylor, newlyweds, a reception. This is a correct list of the graduating class of the Ohio College of Chiropody—commencement and banquet held at the Hollendent hotel, May 30: Miss Ruth Moore, Columbus; Arnold Shaw, Davion; B. P. Brownley, Charleston, W. A. E. and W. Moore, Co. Charleston, M. R. W. seprang, mother of Miss Ruth, was our only representative, outside of our graduates, on the program. Rev. Felix A. Curtright of Poorah III., visited The Gazette sanctum Monday. He was in the city, representing relatives of "Aunt Fannie" Gray, mentioned at length in this column of our last issue. She has improved sufficiently to be returned to school. "Aunt Fannie" boardings amounted to about $3,000, according to the local daily press, last week. Mrs. Edw. Chaffin, Sr., and the mother of Dr. W. S. Biggs, visited their sons at Camp Sherman, recently. "The Harmony Kings," Chicago, made a very decided hit at the Hippodrome recently and played a successful engagement in Erie, Pa. The members are: W. B. Burns, first tenor; W. H. Berry, second tenor; C. E. Drayton, baritone, and W. A. Hahn, basso and manager. They returned, Sunday week. Local Odd Fellows and weekday householders are making preparations for their fifth anniversary, to be held in Dreamland Emporium. June 10. Officer: Miss Bessie Thurman, M. N. G.; Miss Pearl Meley, R. N. G.; Miss Mattie Thompson, P. M. N. G. Committee, Pearl Meley (chairman), Elia Moore and Angeline Hawkins; James A. Parker, floor manager. The annual thanksgiving services of the United Brethren of Friendship and Sisters of the Mysterious Teen and Juveniles, of Cleveland, were held Sunday afternoon at Second Emmanuel Baptist church, E. 75th street and Quincy avenue. James Buchanan, master of ceremonies, read the annual proclamation; Miss Allen, to paper; Mr. Renito sang, and S. C. Harris, pastor, delivered the annual sermon. The Navy Department announced last Friday, that the U. S. ship Wakiva, a converted yacht, was sunk in European waters in a collision on May 22. Two of its crew, W. B. Hopt, carpenter's mate, Attleboro, Mass., and Joseph M. Farley, fireman, 2712 N. Racine Ave, Chicago, were lost. The announcement says the Wakiva, formerly owned by H. S. Harkness, collided with a navy cargo carrier, John A. Johnson, of this city, husband of Mrs. Lela A. Johnson, of 2012 Central Ave, was an oiler on the Wakiva and was referred to at length in our last issue, on page 1. I should hesitate to pick out one feature more than another which impressed me most strikingly in the American Expeditionary Force, but certainly the spirit pervading the ranks of our colored soldiers there is not least among the inspiring recollections which I have of my visit to the American Expeditionary Force. The sanitary condition of the camps seemed to be noticeably excellent; the men in them I talked to and their food was plentiful and palatable; and their officers told me that their work was a credit to their organizations—Secretary of War Newton D. Baker. The services, Sunday, at St. James, A. M. E. church, Hudson Ave. were very impressive. It was Old Folk's day. The attendance was good and the exercises most helpful. The pastor spoke on the subjects: "How the old folk used to hold up the prophets' hands" and "How to live well." The class taught by Rev. O. W. Childers, sang songs that used to be sung in the church. He made a talk on his experiences in East St. Louis, IU, and $20.50 was raised for him. The Men's Guild held a very profitable THE GAZETTE. CLEVELAND. OH meeting at 4 p. m. They are arranging to prescure Prof. Wm. D. Pickens to the public in July. Mr. Collins of Indianapolis will give a recital at the church in June. Rev. and Mrs. Johnson, the latter Emma Bowman Johnson, evangelist, and several others joined St. James church, Sunday. The church membership has just about doubled. Allen League and A. B. the Sunday-school are growing. Quarterly meeting and conference, next Sunday, Rev. J. C. Turner of Alliance, 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 ill. The stewardesses held a delightful social and supper. Mrs. Withlake, Mrs. Thomas, Mr. Thos. Johnson church treasurer, has opened a bans account for the church and pays its bills by check. "INDIFFERENT NON-PROGRES- SIVES." In replying to a letter, sent The Gazette last fall, by a member of our local Ministers' Alliance, the editor of this paper wrote the individual in question (and the Alliance) as follows: No. I have not "the wrong conception of your (ministers)' vocation," but do insist upon your being something more than merely "promuligators of the law of faith." You should lead in a movement (a series of public meetings, too, if necessary) to compel the local authorities "to execute the law" and materially improve the conditions referred to in the Central Avenue district, and not be satisfied with merely "admonishing man to be subject to the powers that be for conscience sake." In conclusion permit me to assure you that I am perfectly willing to "learn more about the members of your Ministers' Alliance by contact and association" and with this in view invite you, gentleman, to call at The Gazette office any Monday or Friday afternoon that it is convenient for you to do so. Since the above was written, conditions in Ward 11 and the "Central Ave. district" have steadily grown worse and there has been no effort upon the part of our local Ministers' Alliance to lead in a movement to improve them. Murders are numerous, lesser crimes of various kinds are almost heralded in the local daily press; gambling and all sorts of imperial resorts in that section of the city are flourishing as never before in the history of Cleveland. Lord! have mercy! For the first time in the history of Richmond, ind., an Afro-American, Walter H. Dennis, has been appointed a clerk in the post office. A CORDIAL WELCOME How Kaiser Karl greets his prisoners of war returning from Russia is told by the Agram Hrvatski Dnevnik. It says: "First they have to undergo a quarantine of fourteen days, and they are sent for four weeks' military training. During that period their officers tell them about the state of things at home and how the war is going, endeavoring meanwhile to uproot the revolutionary and radical ideas which they may have acquired in Russia. For that purpose Croat and Servian officers of our supplementary regiments have already gone to various concentration camps. After six weeks of such preparations all the returned Croats and Servians will be dispatched to two concentration camps, at Agrium and Esseg, all those who were not captured by being wounded will be brought before a military commission composed of a staff officer, two commissioned, and two non-commissioned officers to be interrogated as to the manner of their capture, and they will be adjudged guilty or innocent accordingly. Those found deserving liberty will be given four days' leave; the rest will be court-martialed." 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BEST OF BEVERA THE LABY COMPANY CALIFORNIA 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.'"