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Dancing Every Thursday Evening at Barksdale's Academy; THIRTY-FIFTH YEAR. No. 49 FRESH OLD Written by 'The Old Reliable Throughout What Our People Are Do Personal, Social, Loc cal - Marriage FAST LIVERPOOL.-The Union Missionary Society has its third annual celebration at Sheridan Ave. A. M. E. church, Sunday after noon. A fine program was reheated members from each church, in the Union taking part.-Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Tate are moving to Wellsville. We are sorry to see them leave.-Sewral from here attended the lunar party given by the Minister's Aid society, Wellsville, the old reliable race newspaper and advocate and get a copy of it every week. CORRESPONDENTS must mail all letters for publication at their main postoffice sufficiently early on Monday (or Sunday) before week to have them reach the Gazette office on Tuesday morning, and always write also, their names, and that of their city or town on the outside of the wrapper about returned copies. Unless this latter is done proper credit cannot be given you. Lists of names, affidavits, etc., of obstetric notices, inquiries, relative paid verifications 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. SANDUSKY—Hunned by fireworks, little Paul, Thompson, at this writing, (Monday) lies at Good Samaritan hospital very ill.—Four of our boys will leave, July 16, for camp.—Sergeant A. Alexander was home, Sunday, visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alexander, and their sisters are here for a few days. They are—a great attraction.—Rev. Washington will preach at the Second Baptist church, Sunday, as Rev. G. D. Smith, the pastor, has been called before the association at Ashtabula, on church matters.—Friends, you are making a mistake if you do not take care of the hospital, was able to leave this week.—Mrs. Cora Thompson of Pittsburgh, attended Jas. Pagenon's funeral.—Mr. Burke and daughter of Metzer, Pa., were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Jos, Coleman, last week.—Mrs. Queen Robinson and Amanda Hawkins are ill.—Pete Clark and Mrs. John Moore are better.—The K. P. Odd Eldings, Elks and band made a fine showing in the patriotic parade, July 16. Also the Red Cross ladies, Mrs. B. B. Benson and Edward Fields of Pawtown, W. Va., is visiting his nephew, Henry Richardson.—Logan Lodge will meet, July 25. HILLSHORO—Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Mitchell visited relatives in New Vienna, Saturday night.—Mr. and Mrs. Pearl Zimmerman and niece of Columbus are visiting the former's mother.—Rev. J. J. Burr preached at Biehn, Sunday.—Mrs. Marie Easton of Washington C. H., visited Mr. and Mrs. Annie Young, this week.—Mrs. Annie Smith is no better.—Mr. and Mrs. Owens, Misses, Irmna Anderson, Helen Baker and Mrs. Clarence Hudson, cindy and Mrs. Cindy Cindy, Mrs. Oma Peyton of Columbus visited her mother, Mrs. Alline Burton, a few days.—Walter Wilson is no better. He was baptized. Sunday evening: His brother, Mortimer of Cleveland, is here to see him.—Mr. and Mrs. John T., Williams, and daughter, Ada, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Ames, Mrs. Millie Waters, Mr. and Mrs. O. Young spent Mr. and Mrs. O. Miles of Columbus. New Vienna has returned to Detroit.—Mr. McKinley Rollins of New Vienna was here Sunday.—Starlie Hareck of Camp Sherman spent the 4th here.—Edward Watkins of Columbus was here, Saturday and Sunday. CADIZ—Mrs. Emma Tyler, Miss P. Gracie Bank and Mrs. Sarah Dossell attended Samuel Skinner's funeral at M. Pleasant, Sunday.—Quarterly meeting, Sunday, at the A. M. E. church. Rev. Chas, Bundy, P. E. preached in the morning, and Rev. C. M. Hogans in the evening—Rev. and St. Mrs. C.H. Young motored to St. Clairsville, Sunday afternoon, to assist in the rally there—St. James A. M. E. church debt rally of June 23 has grown to greater proportions than anticipated. The following is the completed list. reported June 30, by classes: No. 1. Charles Christian $80.75; No. 2. Hattie D. Lucas $164.35; No. 3. R. P. Ballard, $160; IN UNION IS STRENGTH ODD DISCOVERY IN HOLLOW TREE MYSTERY OF CURIOUS KNIFE IS STILL UNSOLVED Big Wind Levels Giant Elm and Lad Ventures Into Interior—An Old Landmark Gone. Hesperia, Mitch.—When the giant alm tree on the corner of the Waterman farm, three miles north of this village, recently fell, one of the old landmarks or the vicinity plunged away. The most remarkable thing about this tree, however, is the fact that a curiousilio was found embounded inside it. During a windstorm ten or twelve years ago the top of the tree blew off. A small hole soon appeared at its base. The next year this hole increased to a foot or more in diameter, and the following year was large enough to admit a man's body. The cavity, however, having become the home of numerous snakes, nobody took the trouble to look into it. The hole kept increasing in size from year to year until, in the summer of 1014, a man of the neighborhood, named Mansfield, who had always wished to explore the hole, screwed up courage to investigate. Living on his back, he pushed himself into the opening and looked up. The tree was hollow its entire length, and he could see the sky above. But what surprised and delighted him was to see the knife sticking about ten feet up across the hollow. Both ends were embedded in the decaying wood. Greatly excited at his find, he secured a slender pole, and, after much maneuvering, got it into the tree and dislabeled the knife. The knife is about fourteen inches long, and gave evidence of having beer made from a saw blade. It was evidently never finished, as the edge is very dull. The wooden handle must have decayed long since, as no wood was found clinging; to the rivets. When the first white men settled in the neighborhood an Indian trail, evidently centuries old, passed under the old elm tree. A few rods to the north a spring bubbled out from a hill, and around this spring the Indians encamped. After the white men came a State road was built, which followed the old trail for miles. The Indians still continue to use the road in their yearly migrations from Grand Haven to the north country. A cleared space of an acre or two in the Waterman woods shows where they camped. The ground there is so hard that, even at this date, the grass refuses to grow. When the farm was cleared the old cm was allowed to stand. And there it stood, a memento of the Indian days, until a short time ago, when a heavy windstorm sent it crashing to the ground. In its fall across the road it demolished four rural mail boxes which stood on the opposite corner. All that remains of the old landmark is a pile of stove wood and the old knife which was taken from its heart, and whose history probably never will be known. QUITS TYPING FOR WASHTUB Former "Stenog" Earns $68 a Week a Laundress Norristown, Pa.—A satisfactory way for a stenographer to meet the high cost of living was disclosed in court here. All she has to do is to abandon the pothooks and typewriter keys for the washub. The case that brought forth such a revelation was that instituted by Miss Georgiana Cuthbert against Mrs. Marie, Lausson, a neighbor, to collect a bill for washing. Miss Cuthbert formerly made a fair wage as a stenographer, but conceived the idea that she could make more by washing clothes. She told the court that she now was making $68 a week and had to handle only five washes a week to do it. One "client," as Mrs Cuthbert termed her, paid her $30 a week, another $12, two $9 each, and the fifth $8. She can get these rates, she said, because she serves only families figuring in exclusive society. Knoxville, Tonn.— Although/ they had lived as neighbors, for seven years, Mrs. Henry Grady, 54 years old, and Mrs. Annie Hickman, 38, did not know they were sisters until Mrs. Hickman mentioned her father's name one day. "Why, that was my father's name, too," exclaimed Mrs. Grady, and very soon they established their identities. The women had been separated more than 20 years ago. Neither knew where the other had gone. —Buy War Savings Stamps— THE GAZETTE FRESH OHIO NEWS What Our People Are Doing Each Week -- Church, Personal, Social, Lodge, Literary and Musical -- Marriages, Deaths, Etc. WELLSVILLE -- Miss Alberta Ma. No. 1 and 6 Mary Brown $107.99 son gave a "Camp Sherman" drill at No 5, Won Tiery $22. No. 7, Job the City Hall, Tuesday -- The society Doubt. $11.51; No. 8, Francis Chidona, entitled, "The Fruit of His Life." No. 9, A J Brookly, given by Mrs. Joseph Johnson's 75; No. 10, Flora Lucas $183.50 club, was a success. Miss Jean Red. No. 11, Parthenia Johnson, $199; No. 12, Dejah Johnson, $209.67. Governmental Sunday School League meet, church societies and the held in Buffalo. The Municipals $191.98; making a total of $182.96 Aid Society gave a lawn fete, last Considering the strained financial week. Thursday evening, at Mrs. I conditions and the many demands for E. Spiris. Suppor was served from war contributions, etc. this is one of the most remarkable calls in o ESTABLISHED AUGUST 25.1883 And Issued Every Week on Time Since No. 1, and 6, Mary Brown, $107.98, No. 5, W. Tyler, $22; No. 7, John Doubt, $11.25; No. 8, Frames, Cl $107.51; No. 9, A J Brooks, $70; No. 10, Flora Loras, $138.50; No. 11, Parthena Johnson, $100; No. 12, Dora Johnson, $260.67; from church societies and other sources $109.95, making a total of $122.50 of the church's financial contributions, and the church's war contributions, etc., this is one of the most remarkable tales in the history of the church. The main character has been degrased from nearly $600. The pastor, Pew C. H. Young, and the leaders of the church and contributing friends, are to be conservated for their splendid ac- cess. In one year, Bandy gave a philanthropic gift to E. S. Louis, H., at the A. M. E. Church, Monday evening A collection, $102.62, each, and $21 in pledges, was given him to assist him in his trial. WILLSVILLE, R. W. B. W. Bison, pastor of First Baptist Church, preached a very interesting evening Sunday morning Subject, "The Beginning of a Christian Life." Lois A. M. E. Chapel was well attended all services, Sunday. The pastor, Rev. J. H. Mason, spoke in the morning of Mary Magdalene, and at night of Joseph and Power. Several from benefactors attended the third anniversary of the Union Missionary society in Enk Liverpool. Sunday. Several of young men are expecting to leave camp soon. Sunday is rally day in the A M. E. church. All clubs will report—Mrs. Ten serviced upper floor. New Brighton. Saturday. Mrs. Gladys Woodson will visit her father Rev. W. B. Woodson, and other relatives, this week. Mrs. Null and daughter, Virginia, of Cleveland, are guests of Mrs. W. Lewis, Mrs. Clim Jackson and children are in Pittsburgh—Twin City lodge, No. 18 K of Pinnacle, a fine shooting in the doggie dog with 292 stars, an annual Ms. Bassett is entertaining her mother Mrs. Nancy Bryer of Memphis City, Pa. The Silver Leaf club of A M. E. church gave a fine musical Tuesday evening at Kelly. The members of the First Baptist church gave an enjoyable garden party at the New Brighton Townsend club July 6 and the East Liverpool Crescents, July 8—Quarterly conference this week Friday evening. Communion, Sunday morning, Rev. Charles Bandy, P. K. of Cleveland, will be attending this conference year. The reception committee for dearfriends met Thursday evening, in the A M. E. church. Give, the local representative, The Gazette your order for it and receive a copy every week, promptly. THE NEW REGIMENT Some of Its Officers Should Be Members of The Race. Did He Speak2 St. Louis, Mo.—Attorney Homer G. Phillips, candidate for justice of the peace in the Fourth district, left last week, Tuesday sight. for Youngstown, O. where he was scheduled to make a speech touching some of the legal issues in the case of Michael L. Ross, a education last summer, and the course justice has taken since. He was for a long time counsel for the local branch of the N. A. A; C. P. and was in touch with every phase of the first, as well as the harrowing scenes the victims made. Walter Wills, Jr. was in the city. Sung from a camp, near Chicago. Miss Roberta James spent July 4, with Miss Mary Edmondson, in North Canton. 10550 EUCLID AVENUE --- The Afro-American has fought, with valor for this country in every war it has had. Here are a few tributes from men who have led him in battle. Gammonotome Ferry, after the battle of Lake Erie. "They seemed to be absolutely insoluble to danger." Gen. Jackson, after the battle of New Orleans. "You surpassed my hopes." The nation shall applaud your valor. Grant, breaking of our soldiers in the Civil War. "All have fought bravely." Theodore Roosevelt, speaking of our troops in the Spanish-American war. "No troops could behave like civile) better than the colored soldiers. Gen. Porking. "I cannot command too high the pristine standards of our colored battles, who exhibit fine competency for quick training and eagerness for the most dangerous work." SOLDIERS PUT IN CLAIN GANGS Athens, GA. The farm through proposition at Camp Glorion has become a master of real energy in cultivated authorities, as many of our drafted new granted throughs have been to their farms. have been added by local officials on some charges and been opposed to others on energy in pumping. L. S. Army has not protested against farm operations of the county. There are certain concerns in which district throughs allowed in a uniform form of the U.S. Army, have returned to their home on leave only to be arrested on aumpumped up charge of "barn" in controlled weapon, with firearm, and confined to clauses in the applicable law. It is possible that the farm will be its rightful commission, but at a cost of urging and amalgamating of red tape, for which officials at the camp have the time to spare. THE SEVENTH WONDER OF THE WORLD. "Wonders will never realize." The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, a represented by Dr. W. E. B. Dallas, in the Booker T. Washington idea, is represented by Dr. K. R. Motion and Bon. Emmett J. Scott, supplemented by Dr. C. S. Smith, edition of The Cleveland (O) (Gazette, "a free lance," so to speak, and as unbridled in his thoughts and ideas as a Texas mustfighter on his native health is free, all meeting together and teaching a harmonious conclusion relative to affairs affecting the race and agreeing upon a basis of laws and surprises of present day happenings — Editor John Mitchell, Jr. in Richmond (O) Planet. DREW VS. LOOMIS One of the possibilities that the future holds for athletic fans is a possible speed duel between "Joe" Loomis, the crack spinner of the Chicago Athletic Association, and Howard P. Dewey, the great AFL-American sprinter. This even may come off at the national championship, which will probably be Philadelphia Loomis, who is now a beatten in an artillery regiment stationed outside of Philadelphia, and who has several national championships to his credit, is expected to be a candidate for one or more of the events of this year's meet. He has staged a sensational comeback this season, winning conference college sprint championships in fast time after he had been thought by many to have seen his best days. It is said by his friends that he has decided to compete in the national championship. In the 100-yard dash, and right there will be renewed the speed ducks which marked the meetings of these two champions during 1915 and 1916. The Ray Jewelry Company, one of the largest jewelry installment houses in the City, recognizes the fact that we are all doing our bit buying Liberty Bonds and Thrift Stamps, that we still have a few dollars left for our mild pleasures and that their announcement in this issue are making it possible for us to own that diamond ring, watch or other piece of jewelry that we have always longed for and by their liberal offer of a substantial discount on a down payment together with their store most popular with our people. This company bears the enviable reputation for selling the best grade of diamonds, watches, broaches, cavaliers and other attractive articles of jewelry that you may see on display in their store located in the heart of the city. Euclid and Prospect Aves. The outstanding feature in the minds of those who are dealing with The Ray Jewelry Company, is the courteous treatment accorded to them, in connection with their liberal credit plan, which convinces us that this store will be a very popular one.—Adr. Born to Mr. and Mrs. George Saunders (nee Ella Sheldon) of 2265 E. Edt. St., June 4, a fine girl Editor of the Great Monthly, "Pending Issues" Tells Why He Appreciates "The Old Reliable"—"Pending Issues" for July S Hon Harry C. Smith. Editor Gazette. Cleveland, Ohio. M. Dee Mr. Smith: I am writing to thank you for your editorial mention of "Fending Lies," my monthly, and I appreciate this. You have always encouraged my work for human justice. Whether fighting in the 1914 in morbegy south or in the indifferent and stupid north, all the white of jez I might give the facts about southern political conditions as they are in all the people of the civilization, you have work I could not have held in and the you can for the city about colored and white like yourself. This is why I appreciate the Gazette and why I appreciate you in addition to the esteem every American ought to have for you because of your in- ociation as to right principles. You have never sold out to any grafter. DOINGS OF THE RACE Between July 16 and 20 a total of 15,000 of our young men are ordered to entrain, and 25,001 more between July 29 and 31 Justice Wauchope Lynn, of the Municipal Court of the Seventh District, N. Y. City, recently awarded 500 each to Shipman N. Edmonds and Valery V. Oo-Amama and to Louisianan and Rory Muschews, whites, for discrimination against them by Edwin Hotz, owner of a restaurant and cafe at 780 Eighth Ave. Hotz charged them 50 cents each for 15 cent drinks. During the 10 years Georgia Texans was second with 89, Mississippi third with 67, Florida fourth with 57 and Louisiana fifth with 52. If there is any ground for the complaint of Colored trained nurses that they are unjustly discriminated against, the Red Cross should remove at once. This is a maps fight as well as a white man's and the Red Cross should be the first of all bodies to recognize the fact. New York World. A contingent of our infantry, commanded by Col. A. Dengum, of the New York World, holding a front line sector under command of the French near St. Mikel. The remarkable athletic reckless back of Howard Drew, the Afro-American shrimp, running in the colors of Drake University, at the recent college championships, is unobstructed the outstanding feature of the inter-collegiate track season. By winning both the 100 and 220 yard dashes from the fastest fields that the middle western colleges could boast, Drew demonstrated that his victories were not due to other accidents or lack of formidable opposing players. The time needed, the time would amply attest the high standard of Drew's sprinting, as he ran the 100 in 10 seconds flat and the 220 in 22 2-5 seconds. Now come details of the new play M in whieb Bert Williams, having left H Flo Ziegfield's "Follies," is soon to get at Barks VUE Please advise your readers that the Jeme number of "Pending Issues" has been taken up by Americans who want the truth. I delegate the July number largely to the most shameful lynchings over the South. I put the responsibility where it belongs. Those who wish copies of this July number should or 5 decow, at the rate of twenty-five cents, costs the copy. Northern dough-face indifference; the "get theirs-as-they-girls" graffitters and the "let the south alone" problem-solvers are dealt with the usually. I give my opinion, too, and the another-same talk on way and the another-same national Association" crowd, for example, if I tell the whigh truth and point the way out of this condition. been it it is the story of a trainer of a baseball club, and is the work of Mentigua Glass and Ring Lardner. The script is completed. Condemnation of city and county officers of the Illinois National guard marked the report of the special congressional committee which investigated the East St. Louis, III, riot and massacre. Col. Tripp of the Illinois National guard, is severely criticized by the soldiers sent to East St. Louis is characterized as a "blot on that part of the Illinois militia that served under Col. Tripp." In the big July 4 celebration, track and field meet, at Camp Gordon, Ga., the 157th depot brigade, our boys took third prize. A BOOK FOR YOUR LIBRARY. We acknowledge the receipt of a copy of "An Appeal to Conscience," neatly bound and well typed, from the press of The Macmillan Company, New York City. It is a bound copy of Don Kelly Miller of Howard University, who directed by Albert Bushnell Hart. The price is only 60 cents and no library should be without it. People who have purchased Liberty bonds can do themselves and the nation a good service by maintaining those bonds at par value. Don't offer your bonds for sale unless absolutely compelled to do so. If you fear of any of your friends who are embarrassed and who contemplate disposing of their Liberty bonds, offer them a discount by counting their sale at less than par. Thus you will maintain the value of your own bond and support the credit of the government. George T. Smith, 2431 E. 40th St., charged with contempt of court, was fined $800 and sentenced to ten days in county jail. June 27, by Judge Levine in criminal court. Smith was summoned into court to explain his connection with attorneys who had collected over $200 in fees from Cincinnati Hawke, 2831 Orange Ave., a prisoner in county jail. When Smith abused the court, and made threatening remarks, Levine charged him with contempt and imposed the fine. Hawke was sentenced to the penitentiary. June 26, on a charge of cutting to kill. Judge Levine again is entitled to the thanks of our good people of this community for his action in the case of George ("Tibbits," "Whispering") Smith. The latter has, at last, received only a part of what he has long been entitled to. Mrs. L. H. O'Neal, of E. 38th St., Msg. Goo, Sampson, Sr., and Mrs. Hattie Sampson Dale, who have been seriously ill, are slowly convulsing. IN-UNION IT IS STRONG SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS GIVES POINTERS ON HORSE BUYING SPORTSMAN SAYS FIVE YEAR OLD ANIMAL MAY BE HAD FOR $150 UP All Round Horse. Should Be. Fearless and Well Broken "All games, pastimes and sports worthy of the name are artificial work," said the late well known author and sportsman, *Prince Collier*, according to the New York Tribune; "what our ancestors did from necessity, we do because we find that vigorous use of our powers, physical, mental and moral makes living more agreeable. Our ancestors, shot, fished and rode, walked, cut down trees, paddled canoes, sailed boats, fought wild beasts, etc., because they were obliged to that they might live. We do many of these same things—we call it sport. In reality it is artificial work. The quality and value of all 'games and sports may be tested—and graded as to their respective merit according as they develop in their patrons the qualities that hard work develops. Health, courage, serenity of spirit, good manners, good nerves, tenacity of purpose, physical strength, were—the reward of the hard worker; those same qualities ought to be the alm of the good sportsman." Now it must be acknowledged that good horsemanship is capable of, inbreeding some of these qualifications, besides which, riding-is one of the best sports that has come down to us through the ages. Not only is it imitating and health preserving, but the indefinable fascination and sense of exhilaration in being asstride of and mastering a lively and powerful beast, did he but realize his own strength, could go wherever he willardness of any-rider, make a strong appeal to the real sportman. To a skilled rider the very act of keeping an active horse under complete control, and at the same time having the knowledge how to exact a willing and friendly submission lends an added pleasure to the game. Many horse lovers feel themselves deterred from riding, on account of the expense. But there need not be an overlarge appropriation, and very good sport may be had with an all-round horse, in the country suitable for both driving and riding, where time can be spared for feeding, watering and his general care. A horse about 5 years old, sound, gentle and willing, may be had from $150 up. The important point is where to find him. So for the encouragement of the doubtful it may be confided that such horses are being sold every day by dealers in our large cities. Go, however, to the reliable dealer (most of them, by the way, being fully as reliable as their "more holy than their" neighbors) and state the full requirements and the price to be paid. And just a mild suggestion here: Never approach a dealer as, though you were a Diogenes and he a full-fledged swindler, or try to beat him down on his fugure, or take a too knowing, friend for added, protection and to help regulate prices! For this in the eyes of a self respecting dealer will relieve him in large measure of an otherwise sense of responsibility, and quite justly so. Before starting in to search however, have a distinct idea as to the sort of beast wanted, and here the standard set by he United States army for remounts will serve as an excellent guide. "The beast should be a gelding, in good condition, about four years old, weight from 950 to 1,000 pounds; height 15 to 15.3 hands; head small and well set on neck; ears small thin, erect; forehead broad and full; eyes large, prominent and mild, vision perfect, muzzle small and fine; mouth deep; lips thin and firmly compressed, nostrils large and fine, and brancher of under jaw wide apart where: they join the neck; neck light, moderately long, and tapering toward the head, with crest firm and longer than undersides withers elevated, well developed and well muscled; shoulders long, very deep, moderately broad, and plump in front; forelegs vertical and properly placed with elbow large, long, prominent and clear of chest; knees neatly outlined; wide in front and well directed; back short, straight and muscular; barrel large, increasing in size towards the flanks, with ribs well arched and separated; hind quarters wide, thick, full, muscular and rounded externally; tail fine intact and firm; hocks lean, large, wide from front to rear; feet medium sized, circular in shape, sound, with horn dark, smooth, fine in texture; sole moderately concave and frog well developed; sound, firm, large, elastic and healthy." In addition to the measuring up in a general way to this standard, the all around horse should be gentle, well broken to harness, willing, fearless and a good health feeder. The GAZETTE one year ..... $1.50 Six Months ..... 1.00 three months ..... 50 Subscribers are requested to return Entered at the postoffice in Cleve land, Ohio, as second-class mail matter. Blackstone Building, Cleveland, O. Member Ohio Legislature: 1894 to 1896; 1896 to 1898; 1900 to 1902 THE GAZETTE is the oldest, and has the largest bona fide circulation double that of any newspaper in the interest of Afro-Americans, published in the state of Ohio, and comparison with any will immediately establish its rank as one of the NEWS LEST AND BEST in the country. 10,000,000 Afro-Americans. 300,000 in Ohio. 25,000 in Cleveland. SATURDAY, JULY 13, 1918. Our recent great race conference, at Washington, D. C. has already produced results of importance to the race and will undoubtedly continue to do so. When the American soldiers marched through London the English crowds cried: "They're a husky bunch." "Look at the huskies." Why not call them "Huskies?" Anything is better than the "Sammy" piffle. In the Washington Star of recent date we read that Speaker Clark had received word of the safe arrival in France of his son, Lieut. Col. 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. Again it has been announced that Capt. E. C. Rowan, a Mississippiian, has been dismissed from the service for insubordination at Camp Dix, Ark., some months ago, having refused to obey an order issued for troop formation because colored and white soldiers were included. He is a native of Georgia. Some weeks ago it was announced that President Wilson had reviewed Rowan's sentence and "saved his official scalp." We would like to know which of these two Washington announcements is correct. U. S. Senator Ben Tillman is dead, it is true, but Congressman Heflin Senator Vardaman and other "Negrohaters" are still with us and in public life, too. That man Blease, former governor of South Carolina, and Tillman's opponent in the campaign; for re-election he was conducting when stricken, last week, will in all probability succeed him in the U. S. Senate. If any one could be a greater enemy of the race than Ben Tillman, it is the unspeakable Blease. After the government's training camp for the training of mechanic for war, similar to that at Camp Sherman, Chillicothe, now at the State A. & M. College, Orangeburg, S.C., Prof. R. S. Wilkinson, president, is ended, Aug. 31, another will immediately be opened for two months. For this a teacher of wireless and one for the Morse telegraphy is wanted at $150 per month. Here are splendid openings for competent members of the race. Pass the word along, please. Address President Wilkinson. Already it is being said by Democrats that if the elections go Republican this fall it will encourage the Kaiser! The Kaiser is easily encouraged if he cheers up because the party that receives the votes of the people favors bigger and quicker armies more and bigger guns, more and more machine guns, airplanes and ships. The Kaiser's information agents are certainly failing him if he does not know already that the Republican party favors winning the war now, not in the future, and believes in fighting on every front. Our attention has been directed to the candidacy of the Hon. L. H. Scott, of Cadiz, Harrison Co., this state, for renomination as state representative. We are acquainted with Mr. Scott and noted carefully his attitude toward our people when questions arose in the State Assembly in which we were concerned. We found that we could always depend upon him to do all in his power to see that fair play was granted the race in legislative matters and were proud to have him there. There are a large number of our people in his district whom we would be glad to see support Mr. Scott for renomination and re-election. THE SHAME OF IT. Our troops in Picardy as in the Revolutionary War, the War of 1812, the Civil War and the war with Spain, are rendering a good account of themselves; and the stories of individual bravery, which their exploits are causing to be sent back home, should stir American thought to the wrongs as well as to the valor of our race. Afro-Americans in Flanders fight the Huns and win the Croix de Guerre. Afro-Americans in the south cannot even cast a ballot and are frequently lynched on the filmiest of charges before trial. By the way, a number of southern states are still behind in furnishing their quotas of volunteers for the present war. CONDUCT OF THE WAR In a recent debate in Congress Senator Reed said: "Germany has today, even with 1,000,000 Americans on the front, an advantage in men, according to information I get. I am very sure she has an advantage in metal. I am also sure if the war is won it must be by the United States putting forth so great an effort that we have not begun to dream of it." If at the end of four years of war, Senator Reed is correct in his statements that Germany leads in men and metal, then should indeed American put forth her supremest efforts and at once. Wars are seldom won by feeding in armies piece-meal. One big gun, one combat airplane in 1918, will be worth two, three or four in 1919 or 1920. Now, and not later, is the time for America to do her mightiest. Increased prices for railroad tickets have been in effect for nearly a month, increased prices for freight transportation a shorter period. Who pays the additional money? In the first instance of course, those who travel or who ship or receive goods. Those who travel for pleasure or on their own personal business must stand the increase themselves—but in almost every other instance some way will be found for passing the additional cost on to the general public and the ultimate consumer. These classes of the population will seek to solace themselves with the thought that when they pay more for an article and are told that it is because of the increased cost of railroad transportation they are contributing to help the government which is carrying on war and running the railroads. But in reality they are paying the additional money in order that a few, comparatively, of the people of the country may receive higher wages, which Mr. McAdoo has granted to them and which he is making all the people pay. RENEW FOR TWO YEARS Geo. L. Lang, for many years headwaiter at the Country Club, Lake Shore Boulevard, and Frank A. Thompson of Blaine Ave., walked into The Gazette office last week Friday afternoon and Monday morning respectively, and paid their subscriptions for two years because, as they said, they want the truth and ALL of t—anent race matters—and know they will get it from "The Old Reliable" Gazette in the future as they have in the many years of the past hat they have been subscribers. Thanks! for the material compliments Brothers Lang and Thompson. Such men (and women) as you and our good friend, F. L. Barnett, of Omaha, Neb., and many other subscribers and weekly patrons of our paper, are the ones who have kept it on the firing line, so to speak, all these thirty-five years, battling in season and out for our people, neither individual nor party interests swerving us in the least from that line of duty. That we thoroly appreciate them one and all, there can be no question. SOUTH LYNCHES THEM. Henry Johnson, a colored soldier, of Albany, New York, has been cited and decorated by the French military authorities for what the French general of division terms "a magnificent example of courage and energy." With him was Needham Roberts, another colored man. "Both men fought bravely," says Pershing in his official report of the exploit. On the same day that the cables from France brought the news of Johnson's and Roberts' heroism, the wires from Valdosta, Ga., brought the story of the lynching of five colored men and a colored woman, Mary Turner by name, because she had attempted to resist the lynching of her husband. The following week, six colored men and one colored woman were lynched in Texas. And this was not all for the South in that period of time. This coincidence has moved the New York World to inquire: "With tens of thousands of American Negroes fighting for civilization in France under the American flag, how much longer are the American people to tolerate Negro lynchings?" The answer is easy. Lynchings will be tolerated in the South—where they occur almost exclusively—so long as the political party to which the New York World adheres is permitted to deprive citizens of their right to vote and thus, through the exercise of their civil rights, to protect their rights to property and to life. Buy War Savings Stamps THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, OH 10, JULY 13, 1918 Office Ph Main 2912; Cen Residence, 614 Phone, Eddy JOHN P. Attorney-a Room 510, Blacks 1426 West 3p Notary Public Polish Interpreter King er de Roos' Ol Squire 'Tater 'low he goin' to be mighty nigth king or de reo' 'mong garden sass folks. We all kin eat him as a 'tater boiled, baked, fried, stewed, cooked wid cheese on de getin' so de make im in de owe kin 'tutet-tut' him o wheat flour. He's de 'gubtenitest' of all de vittles, he sev. De udder garden sass folks lak inguns, tomatues, cabbage en turnips en sqhash don't need to git pevel, 'cause de's goin' to be room in de pot of de wkin 'tutet-tut' Eey, lad one on 'em can he p' save wheat en meat fer de boys dat's doin' de fight-in' over yander. FOOD WILL WIN THE WAR "Brer Tater" and garden grass save fat save sugar save meat will help feed you wheat is for soldiers Brer Tater ain't skecin' up a ghen' he say we he alls mus' cut less wheat en less meat en save ail de fat en sugar we kin. 'o he jits af de fat en sugar we kin. arm or arm solo boys en we do kin by eatin' right smart mo' taters en garden sass eatin mo' mo' fish en game 'stid en pork en meat 'stid en fish en feed dem soirs right now we'll be feedin' somebody 'to long en it won't be us. LET POTAIOES FIGHT They Save Wheat. When you eat Potatoes dont eat Bread Eat game Ol 'Brier Rabbit better make hise't mighty skercee en not go projickin' roun' whar dere's cookin'goin' on, on' cause a rabbit in a pot is er goln' ter look mighty good to mos' er gain' ter look mighty good to mos' havin' ter save on meat. 'Sides folksk' kinder have ter save gave wheat flour ferr compny en eat bread made outen dix vere "substitute flour. Dat wise of owl dale saw dat boys cats doth de fauhn' sojer boys cats doth de fauhn' Dats wats sakin' d wheat en roat A teaspoonful means nothing You say Yet a heaping teaspoonful saved each meal for 120 days for each of the 100,000,000 persons in the United States makes a pile as big as the Woolworth building through to supply the entire armed forces of the nation. t hoot-t hoot t- hoo Arter de wise o' owl spit on de bait he say, sez ee—"I wghe ter sprize you all wid a mess er tishes 'cause you ails mus' save de meat en eat sumpin' else insidn en les jes out dat o' game bag en make it work, too" sez ee. Den he kotch a big fish and say, sez ee. "t-hoot—t-hoot—t-sub—t-mus dat when you ails make riz biscuits does don't make 'em—use corn meat tare save wheat flour for de solers. Office Phones: Main 2912; Central 1424-R Residence, 614 E. 107th St. Phone, Eddy 2318-J JOHN P. 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Our Trade-Mark "Skin used by others, evidently to dec Let them BEWARE; we shall p the fullest extent of the law For over eighty years, Palmer's "Skin Success" Ointment has made a great name for itself, as a cure for most forms of skin troubles. It is the Original Skin-Brightener. WARNING! Our Trade-Mark "Skin Success" is being used by others, evidently to deceive our friends. Let them BEWARE; we shall prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law. Look for our name and address on every package of Palmer's "Skin Success" Ointment and Soap. The Morgan Drug Company 1512 Atlantic Avenue Brooklyn, New York 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. 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. Roy Smith's Orchestra Louis Murray, Director Parties and Receptions a Speciality ROY SMITH, Manager Central Ave., Cleveland, C 'Phone, Rosedale 787-7 BUG STORE Avenue CEES TREATMENT Uses for Preparations ARDWARE CO. CUTS & GLASS Knock and Gas Fitting Gren Hose and prices right Dark Skin dark or ashy skin. Your concern ist by applying Giner's GENER ER SOAP and leave the skin soft and beautiful. A. Jones, of Crystal Springs, Mif, and am writing for some more of L. Hilbert Powder. Send me this notice your druggist's, or sent direct upon m RMACY CO., Atlanta, Ga.. AFTER EVERYTHING! her's "Skin Success" name for itself, as troubles. It is the Mark "Skin Success" ntly to deceive our we shall prosecute law Cleveland, O. C. A. Cowley Tailoring Co. 4611 Central Avenue CLOTHES MADE TO ORDER IN THE LATEST STYLES FOR LADIES AND GENTS CLEANING, REPAIRING AND PRESSING ALTERATIONS A SPECIALTY Cent. 7998-R EVERYBODY READ THIS! If you are not satisfied with your glasses or vision see JOHN S. 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Price 250 by mail on receipt of stampa or coin. AGENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE. Write for particular. EXELENT MEDICINE CO., Atlanta, Ga. Mme. C. H. Jones' HAIR Invigorator and Grower A Stop, Look, Read! When I started using Mme. C. H. Jones' Hair Invigorator and Grower, my hair was but one inch long. After using it only one year, my hair is to my shoulders. Charlotte Smith The C.C.C.Hair Co. 353 WOOLAND AVENUE Home Phone, B7218 TOLEDO, OHIO AGENTS WANTED—Stamp for reply Where to Purchase The Gazette J. S. Hall's 3121 Central Ave. J. E. BRANHAM'S 4219 Central Ave. *ERNEST P. JACKSON'S 3969 Central Ave. JACKSON'S, 4401 Central Ave. NOTICE TO SUBSCRIBERS Subscribers not receiving The Gazette regularly should notify us at once. We desire every copy delivered promptly. Send or bring locals and all business matters to The Gazette's office, 214-215 Blackstone Bldg. If you wish to see the editor call there, please. 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, for Monday night, at their hall. 3103 Scovill Ave. and pres., pres., 4000 Central Ave. L. V. Watson, see. 2687 E. 40th St. Milton Wakinson, chairman. 2521 E. 30th St. CLEVELAND Social and Personal Mrs Null and daughter, Virginia, are visiting in Wellsville. Mrs. Leroy N. Bundy, guest of M. and Mrs. Clifford Bundy of Cedar Ave., left, this week, for Washington D. C., to join her husband. John H. Berry, real estate dealer, reports the sale of the Christian Reform church to Zion Hill Baptist church, of which Rev. C. C. Aller is pastor. Mrs. Cornelia B. Highgate has re-received a life certificate to teach in Ohio, has been re-appointed a teacher in the local public schools and given a raise in salary Good! Mortimer Wilson is visiting relatives at Hillsboro. His brother, Walter, is very ill. Mrs. Howard Slaughter, son and daughter, have been visiting in Springfield, her native home. Noble Sissle is a sergeant and the drum-major of the old "15th N. Y., now the 363th Inf. reg., in France. Mrs. Florence Taylor (mother of Mrs. Marie Perkins), who sustained a paralytic stroke, recently, continues to improve. The Gazette acknowledges the receipt of the Payton Apartments Corporation, N. Y. City, publication, which is well illustrated and very interesting. Wonder if President Francis E. Young, of the local branch of the N. A. A. C. P., has started a civil rights' cast against that color-line east end restaurant keeper? Ask him when you meet him. Completing the course, Mrs. Cora Gilbert received her certificate as a trained nurse from the American National Red Cross, Elementary Hygiene, Home Care of the sick, issued at Washington, D. C. Oct. 26, 1917; by Jane A. Delano, chairman National Committee Nursing Service Mrs. May Bunch Nickens, wife of Mr. Luther Nickens, was killed by an automobile collision at Ravenna, last week Tuesday, Burial, Friday, there. Mr. Nickens has the heartfelt sympathy of many friends and acquaintances here. Mrs. Nickens was a native of Garretsville, O., if memory serves us correctly. Dr. O. A. Taylor, through his agent, John H. Berry, real estate dealer, has just purchased Mrs. Alberta Lee Will's beautiful residence in Crawford road. John M. Anderson, Esq., real estate dealer, represented Mrs. Wills. Dr. Taylor proposes to reside there in the near future. It is said that he is seriously considering the advisability of moving his office also. Mrs. Julia Burdine and three grandchildren, from Washington, D.C., called on The Gazette, last week. They were en route to their summer home at Vermilion. Miss La Verne Gregory, one of the three, was the youngest member of her graduating class, June 19. Her mother, formerly a native of this city, for many years taught in Cleveland's public schools. Dr. Lawrence is said to have started to purchase the block, cor. E. $88 St. and Central Ave., from M. Krause Karasinskoy. The price of the property is said to have been $30,000; down payment $3,000. Some of the tenants are already complaining of the raise in rent under the present agreement. The property is ready paying high rents. Sam Woods is agent for the property, it is said Robert Jackson, Knoville, Tenn., and Miss Helen Yates, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. James A. Yates, 9007 Blaine Ave., were married, recently. Other well-known young people, newlyweds, are John Scott and Miss Florence Hall, who are stopping with Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Coleman, and Richard Williams and Miss Nettie Mason, daughter of the late Mrs. Lina Mason, E. 29th St., who will reside in Geneva. St. James A. M. E. church, thru its Men's Guild, is bringing to Cleveland one of the ablest, most brilliant and strongest Negroes in America. On Tuesday evening, July 30, Prof. Wm. D. Pickens, a graduate of Yale University and Dean of Morgan College, Baltimore, Md., will speak on the Negro Question in relation to the great war and after-war problems. Every one should hear him. A reception will be given in his honor and refreshments will be served free. This will be a treat that our people of this community cannot afford to miss. Tell your friends.—Ady. Mr. Frank Doctor, who returned recently from an extended trip in the northwest, speaks in glowing terms of the success of several former Clevelanders now in the city, and of other large cities in that section of the country. One notable --- instance is that of Mrs Laura Fairfax Colby, a native Clevelander, of the first named city. She and her husband are building the substantial residents of Duluth and very progressive Mrs. Colby is about to direct a building on some of his property in a nearby town which the government is to lease for use as a postoffice. At the recent commencement exercises of the New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, Mass., Louia Vaughn Jones of this city was one of the soloists, accompanied by a large orchestra, at the class-night exercises and won exceptionally enthusiastic and splendid encores, just as he did the evening of his graduation. His parents have returned to the city justly proud and highly elated over the success of their son. Many people of the community including The Gathering rejoice with them. We are indulged in a fine film, a photographic photograph and several invagements. BEST FOR THE BLOOD — Puro Herbs. Sold only at Brown Drug Co. cor E. 28th St. and Central Ave. Ady. Climax Lodge, No. 70, K of P, recently elected the followed named officers to serve six months; James A Rogers, C. C.; Geo Ross, K of R and S; Harry L. Kersey, M of F; J. C Hudson, Master of Exchequer; Marcellus Early, Trustee. Delegates to the grand lodge, which meets in Akron, July 22 to 24; H. W. Burrell, Marcellus Early and Jurian C. Hudson, Western Reserve Lodge. No. 42 elected the following: K. C. Billard, C. C.; Monton, V. C.; C. C.; Holland, Master of Exchequer; Walter Matthews, K of R and S; C Craighead, Prelate; C. J. Ramsey, Master of Works; Robert Crowler, M of F; Walter Pitman, Master at Arms; W. A Johnson, Trustee Delegates to the Grand Lodge: Regen N. Dillard, William L. Holland and C. S. Royal, Edwin Cowles Lodge, No. 17, elected the following delegates: A. L. Barnard, W. L. Milligan, Thomas Butler, J. W. Jones and William Clark The following Rank, K of P, procured at Puritas Springs, N. C., located over his recent election as colonel of the Second Ohio Brigade at the meeting in Columbus, recently. You should take PURO HERBS, the great blood purifier and system cleanser. You buy sale-only at the Brown Do. Co., 274 Central Ave., cor. E. 38th St.-Adj. 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 destruous 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. Our readers will oblige us greatly by sending at once the addresses of persons in the cities named and others in the state, to whom we can write relative to the matter. "Let us have faith that right makes might, and in that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it."—Abraham Lincoln. "Any prejudice whatever will be insurmountable if those who do not share in it themselves truckle to it and flatter it and accept it is a law of nature."—John Stuart Mill. THE MAN WHO DARES. "I honor the man who in the conscientious discharge of his duty dares to stand alone; the world, with ignorant, tolerant judgment, may condemn, the countenances of relatives may be averted, and the hearts of friends grow cold, but the sense of duty done shall be sweeter than the applause of the world, the countenances of relatives or the hearts of friends."—Charles Sumner. PROTEST AGAINST WRONG. To submit in silence when we should protest makes cowards out of men. The human race has climbed on Protest. Had no voice been raised against injustice, ignorance and lust, the inquisition yet would serve the law, and guillotines decide our least disasters. The few who dare, must break the ones again to right the wrongs of many. - Kila Wheeler Witcoy. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, OH10, JULY 13, 1918 Void after that date. THE RAY JEWELRY CO. 2059 E. 4th St. $25.00 $37.5 NO MATTER WHAT PRICED DIAL ALLOW YOU 6 PER CENT PROFIT NO MATTER WHAT PRICED DIAMOND YOU BUY HERE ON OUR EASY PAYMENT PLAN, WE ALLOW YOU 6 PER CENT PROFIT WHEN EXCHANGED FOR A LARGER STONE. PROF. WM. D. PICKER DEAN OF MORGAN COLLEGE. BALTIMORE Noted Negro Orator at St. James A. M. E. Church ROBERT FISHER Attorney and Counselor at Law 819 American Trust Building Cleveland, Ohio Tel. Central 1400-W. LEMON JUICE IS SKIN WHITENER Tuesday Evening, July 30, 19 Admission, Thirty-five cents Refreshmen Under the management of The Adams-Ra Men's Guild HAVE YOU CO Anything to the National Colored Soldiers Com do so at once, and in that way do your bit in hei of our Colored soldiers at the front, and for the ored soldiers who met a tragic end last December to every appeal for aid, but to continue so doin of Colored people in every city and town. This work, is incorporated under the Federal laws, an ization, and any contribution you make, no matter you have not contributed, do so at once, sending Committee, 1105 You St., N. W., Washington, D. Anything to the National Colored Soldiers Comfort Committee? If you have not you should do so at once, and in that way do your bit in helping to provide relief for needy dependents of our Colored soldiers at the front, and for the sorrowing and needy families of those Colored soldiers who met a tragic end last December. The Committee is promptly responding to every appeal for aid, but to continue so doing it must have the loyal and hearty support of Colored people in every city and town. This committee that is doing such a great relief work, is incorporated under the Federal laws, and has no salaried officers—it is your organization, and any contribution you make, no matter how small, makes you a full member. If you have not contributed, do so at once, sending it to the National Colored Soldiers Comfort Committee, 1105 You St., N. W., Washington, D. C. CATARRH of the BLADDER relieved in 24 HOURS Each Capule bears the (MIDY) name #87. Beware of counterfeits Try Our Box Back Tailor-Made Suits THEY FIT NEGRO SOLDIER IN OUR WAR Published in June (new book) Tells all about the war; it is far to edulate people; every one buys a temporary soldier; once price $1.99, with 25% discount; then 35% discount; then 35% discount; again making $7 to $25 per day. Send 25% mail for each complete outfit. Washington, D.C. EYE SPECIALISTS Bell Phone, Prospect 333-J Miss Bessie B. Cook TEACHER OF PIANO Hours 10 a. m. to 6 p. m. Evenings by Appointment 2331 E. 29th Street Cuyahoga, Central 5727 Edward Doctor's Dining 3035 Central Avenue Wm. Brack, Prop. Frank Doctor James Mabel, Chef WHEN YOU ARE THIRSTY AND WANT A REFRESHING DRINK—ORDER 's Dining Room ral Avenue ank Doctor, Manager bel, Chef All orders ser "THE GA Blackstone Blo will have the p of its Wm.Brack,Prop. Frank Doctor, Manager James Mabel, Chef This is the popular, non-intoxicating beverage that is good in every way. Every drop is healthful, strengthening and PURE. Order by the box from any druggist, grocer, confectioner or soda fountain — or phone Harvard 730. Prompt delivery service to any part of Cleveland. The Leisy Company Cleveland This is the popular, non-intoxicating beverage that is good in every way. Every drop is healthful, strengthening and PURE. Order by the box from any drugist, grocer, confectioner or soda fountain — or phone Harvard 730. Prompt delivery service to any part of Cleveland. is good for two and a half dollars as a down payment on any new account of $25 or over opened on or before July 20, 1918. If you can buy cheaper for cash, we'll refund your money. What's More, It Has Two Of Them. Little Eva lived in Brooklyn. When her father told her he would take her on a trip up the river she was delighted, she had heard so much about the beautiful Hudson. As they were nearing New York on their return he asked her what she thought of it. She replied, "Way, pupa. I think the river just like any other river, but the rides are pretty."-Christian Herdahl Cheap home-made beauty lotion to bleach the skin white At the cost of a small jar of ordinary cold cream one can prepare a full quarter pint of the most wonderful lemon skin whitener and complexion beautifier, by squeezing the lemon fresh lemons into a bottle containing three ounces of orchard white. Care should be taken to strain the juice through a fine cloth so no lemon pulp gets in, then this lotion will keep fresh for months. Every woman knows that lemon juice is used to bleach a darkened skin. Just try it! Get three ounces of orchard white it any drug store and two lemons from the grocer and make up a quarter pint of this sweetly fragrant lemon juice into the face, neck, arms and hands. It is harmless to witen a dark skin. MAIN THEATRE Scovill & 25th St. Friday, July 12th LOIS WILSON and GEORGE FISHER in "On Trial." RUPERT JULIAN and RUTH CLIFFORD in "Midnight Madness." Also "Eagle's Eye." No. 15. JACK LIVINGSTON in "Who Is To Blame," "House of Hate." No. 19, and, a Mack Sennett Comedy. Roy STEWART in "Wolves of the Border" "Bull's Eye," No 16 and a Mack Sennett Comedy. BEVAERA Own a Diamond YOU'LL NEVER MISS THE SMALL AMOUNT NECESSARY EACH WEEK TO PAY FOR IT. 50c A WEEK WILL MAKE YOU THE OWNER OF A SPARKLING, BLUE WHITE, PERFECTLY CUT DIAMOND. SPECIAL VALUES AT RAYS 2059 EAST 4th STREET Between Euclid and Prospect PROF. WM. D. PICKENS DEAN OF MORGAN COLLEGE, BALTIMORE, MD. Noted Negro Orator at St. James A. M. E. Church PROF. WM. D. PICKENS DEAN OF MORGAN COLLEGE, BALTIMORE, MD 10527 Hudson Avenue Sunday Evening, July 30, 1918 . Thirty-five cents Refreshments Free! the management of The Adams-Ramey Men's Guild Tuesday Evening, July 30, 1918 Admission, Thirty-five cents Refreshments Free! Under the management of The Adams-Ramey Men's Guild Stafford Williams, Pres. Rev. O. W. Childers, Pastor YOU CONTRIBUTE Colored Soldiers Comfort Committee? If you may do your bit in helping to provide relief for the front, and for the sorrowing and needy for magic end last December. The Committee is not to continue so doing it must have the loyal city and town. This committee that is doing the Federal laws, and has no salaried office, on you make, no matter how small, makes you so at once, sending it to the National Colo- l. L. W., Washington, D. C. HAVE YOU CONTRIBUTED? Try Our Box Back Tailor Made Suits THEY FIT Men's Suits pressed, 30c. Cleaned, $1.00. We do all kinds of alterations. Cox Dry Cleaning & Tailoring Co. Tailors and Dry Cleaners. 2728 Central Ave. 'Phone, Central 4069L. "A Busy Life" By HON. JOSEPH BENSON FORAKER The Most Important Autobiograph Mr Foraker has given us his experiences on the Bench, as Governor of Ohio and in United States. Political and public events of great imply many national characters are dealt with lightening manner. The work will prove of special interest political history whether they are public or spirited Americans, interested in the present tutions. Mr Foraker has given us his experience in the Union Army on the Bench, as Governor of Ohio and in the Senate of the United States. Political and public events of great importance and incidentally many national characters are dealt with in the most enlightening manner. The work will prove of special interest to all students of political history whether they are public officials or only public spirited Americans, interested in the preservation of our institutions. 2 VOLS. NET $5.00 All orders sent direct to the "THE GAZETTE" Blackstone Bldg., Cleveland, O. will have the personal direction of its Editor TEAR OFF HERE The GAZETTE Blackstone Bldg. CLEVELAND, O. Please send me eop "Notes of a Busy Life" BY J. B. FORAKER Net $5.00 for which I enclose Name Address MONTANA BEVERA BREWED THE LEVY COMPANY --- A. B. IBUTED? ee? If you have not you should ide relief for needy dependents and needy families of those' Col- mittee is promptly responding to the loyal and hearty support that is doing such a great relief rried officers—it is your organ- makes you a full member. If National Colored Soldiers Comfort y Life" FORAKER Antobiography In Years experience in the Union Army Ohio and in the Senate of the of great importance and incident- are dealt with in the most en- special interest to all students of are public officials or only public in the preservation of our insti- The Most Important Autobiography In Years World's standard make guaranteed Watches for ladies and gentlemen 50c A WEEK A. 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 FAMILY CURSE FOR GENERATION ALWAYS SOME MEMBER WITH A DRAGGING FOOT Sign of the Taint, Invoked by a Wronged Girl, Even on Betrayer's Monument. Boston, Mass.—This is the story of a family curse, a curse that even time and death have not served to erase, and which put its evil mark on every generation for a century and a half. In the little cemetery at Buckskport, Maine, stands a granite monument to Col Jonathan Buck, founder of the town back in 1762. On one side of the stone, quite apparent, is the mark of a dragging foot, the curse which followed the Bucks until the last member of the family died some years ago. An old time resident of the town, a man who had lived there many, many years, told the story of the curse. "Now you've seen it," he began, "the leg and the foot that drags. I helped set up that monument years and years ago. Then the granite was smooth and gray and unmarked, save for the inscription. Old John Buck, the grandson of the man whose grave it marked, was there. "He had hobbled slowly up the hill; slowly because of his foot that dragged; that was the mark of the curse—every masculine member of the Buck family had a withered leg and a foot that dragged. Queer, wasn't it? But not the queerest part of the story. The dragging foot might be laid to a taint in the blood, but how about the mark on the sone? "But let's get back to the beginning of the *story*, nearly 175 years ago. Then Jonathan Buck was a young fellow in Haverhill, good looking and rich and not any too good. There was a girl—the story doesn't tell her name. She also was young and she was beautiful, but she wasn't rich and she didn't stay good. "No use telling the details—the girl was wronged. Buck soon tired of her and wanted her out of his sight. As I have said, he had plenty of money and the town officials could be approached. A judge and a doctor were mixed up in the affair; they said she was insane and were sending her off to the asylum. "They had her in a carriage and the road led past the Buck home. There on the veranda sat Jonathan Buck, dressed up freshly barbered; young rich and arrogant. Just as the carriage passed the place the girl broke from her guards and ran to the gate. "May a curse be upon you!" she screamed as the guards tried to wrench her hands from the pickets. "May it follow you and your sons forever and ever. May your feet drag, may your—" "She hadn't time for the rest of the curse; a guard slapped a hand over her mouth and she was borne struggling back to the carriage. "The very next day young Buck fell and broke his hip, and his foot dragged until he died. Later he was married and had sons and each had a foot that dragged. "But that's not the queerest part of the story. As I was telling you, we set up this monument—not because we liked his memory, but because the Bucks paid for it. The stone was clear and unblemished; a beautiful product of the gritter's art. "And then this thing came on the side nearest the street, open to the view of all who passed. First it was but an unformed and faint outline, but it grew plainer and plainer, day by day, and soon we could see what it was—it was the dragging foot of the Bucks; the mark of the curse that was upon them. "Old John Buck came up and saw it, and then he sent for the man who had cut the stone. Get that thing off, was the instruction he gave, and the cutter set to work with his mallet and his chisel. Soon the monument was smooth and unblemished again. But not for long; the sign came back. Four times the cutter effected it, and four times it came back. Then old John, the last of he Bucks, was dead, and nobody cared whether the mark stated." HOUSE "HAUNTED" BY SNAKES "Ghost" Mystery Disspelled by Woman's Investigation. Barboursville, W.Va.-The mystery that has for many years surrounded a house near here has been solved as a result of Green Simkins, a miner, his wife and six children moving into the house. Peculiar voices have emanated from the building at nights and weird stories have been told on the wraiths holding high carnival there. Simkins didn't know the house was "haunted." The family had occupied the place only a short time when the mysterious sounds terrified the wite. She took a gun and went upstairs where she found the cause of the noise in the maneuvers of a dozen blacksnakes. Mrs Simkins was so frightened that she dropped the gun and screamed for help. Two men passing heard her and entered the house. It was an hour before all the snakes were killed with clubs and stones. "SPUDS" WILL TASTE The day is coming soon when potatoes dug from the ground will taste like cantaloupes, grape fruit will be plucked from the trees like cherries, and the Sahara Desert will bloom like a rose garden. Such was the prediction made by Howard Dean, professor of chemistry at Park College, Parkville, Mo, speaking before the Missouri Valley Horticultural Society. Professor Dean said he already had succeeded in reducing the starch of a potato to sugar through chemical treatment. He asserted that by feeding certain plants on formaldehyde they can be made to develop sugar and starch. He said that investigations now being made by chemists show that plants manufacture compounds that are not normal to them. These investigations, he said, are being continued and chemists are diligently searching the leaves of plants in an attempt to find the agent which converts the carbon dioxide in the air and the moisture into plant products. When the secret is discovered—and of its early discovery he is confident—he said he would possess an unlimited source of energy. The point he brought out was that the possession of that secret would enable man to convert the sun's energy to his own use in any way he desires. Then it would be possible, he inserted to fill the Sahara Desert with plant life; to grow any plant so that it would taste exactly as its grower wished. He also said, in answer to a question, that it would be possible to raise grapefruit with the bitterness removed. Fruits, he added could be raised so they would taste just as the grower desired. TREAT HEART NEW WAY Surgeons Have Daring Method for Valvular Disease Dr. Tussier, a collaborator of Dr. Carrel, recently described a bold and original attempt to treat valvular disease of the heart by surgical methods. While we admire the skill and daring manifested in this and similar surgical exploits, it is well to remember that they have been made possible by the researches of the infamous sectionists who are held up to the public execution by certain supersensitive souls. These researches have enabled us not only to modify the natural conditions of the heart's action, but even to revive a heart that is apparently dead. This resurrection of the heart is shown in the following striking experiment: A frog's heart is excised and, after it has ceased to beat, an artificial circulation is established in it, either with defibrillated blood or with a wobbly artificial serum. In a few seconds the heart begins to beat again, if the heats of this "isolated" heart are recorded on a rotating cylinder by appropriate mechanism the record shows that they exactly resemble the beats of a living frog's heart in rythmic frequency and amplitude. A highly refined and perfect apparatus of this kind devised by Panshon, permits of the study of the effect of various solutions on the heart of warm blooded animal. The heart is electrically stimulated and performs its functions as though in the body. The solutions are passed through the heart as the blood when the heart is performing its offices in the living animal. In this apparatus the arrangement of the two pressure tanks is particularly ingenious. The pulleys permit them to be raised and lowered as necessity demands and the connection of an air pipe through which the solution flows insures a practically uniform pressure. IDEAS ON CATS FALSE Animal Cannot See Better at Night Than Dava There are two false ideas regarding the cat which are held by many people—one that the feline can see better at night than in the daytime, and that it is able to see in perfect darkness, the other that a cat, if given the opportunity, will draw the breath from sleeping children. Though a cat cannot see at all in perfect darkness it is able to move about with some agility with the assistance of its whiskers, or feelers, and its surefootedness. Because a cat's eyes are sensitive to the ultra violet ray of the spectrum, and the pupil is capable of great expansion it can see better in the dusk than a human being. The cat uses its whiskers to feel out objects before and about it. Because of its remarkable sure footedness it is able to avoid striking objects when but a few inches away from them through the warning conveyed to its brain by the feelers. Thus a cat can outwit and avoid the most valuable trained dog in the darkness. Scientists say the idea that a cat will draw the breath from sleeping children is absurd. Liking a warm clean place in which to sleep, a cat will often slip into a child's crib, and if the crib is narrow may happen to take up a position on top of the baby. The weight of a good sized cat is ten pounds, while the weight of the average baby is eight pounds, and at four months only twelve and a half pounds. If we imagine a proportionate weight in warm flesh and soft fur on top of our own bodies we necessarily imagine serious consequences. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, OH 10, JULY 13, 1918 DEVICE MEASURES HEAT OF STARS LATEST MACHINE HAS MOST DELICATE THERMO ELEC-TRIC BATTERY Extensive Experiments are Conducted by U. S. Officials Perhaps the most delicate thermo electric battery ever constructed is that used by the W. W. Coblenze, a physicist of the United States bureau of standards, in the radiation pyrometer with which he has succeeded in measuring the heat that reaches the earth from 112 celestial bodies i cluding 105 stars. These measurements are the first extensive series of the kind ever made, and the work was done by Mr. Coblenze in the Lick observatory at Mount Hamilton, Cal., last summer. As an example of the amount of heat that the earth receives from the stars, Mr. Coblenze estimated that if the rays of Polaris, or the North Star, were focussed upon a gramee of water it would require 7,000,000 years for the temperature of the water to be raised one degree centigrade. The sun's rays will accomplish the same work in about one minute. The distinctive thing about the parameter devised by Mr. Coblentze is its extreme delicacy, which makes it sensitive to a change in temperature of a millionth of a degree. With the aid of a three foot reflector, his instrument will register the presence of a candle fifty two miles away. The vital part of the instrument is a thermal battery made by joining two wires of different metals—either platinum and silver or bismuth and silver—and covering the junction with a heat absorbing surface painted with lamp black. The wire used is so fine that it can scarcely be seen without the aid of a reading glass, and the absorbing surface is about the size of a pinhead. This battery is inclosed in a glass cell with a window of flourite. A vacuum is maintained in the cell, and it is placed in a telescope so that the light of the star to be observed is focused upon the flourite window. The tiny battery or thermo couple is connected with a tangent galvanometer which is inclosed in an armor of soft Swedish iron to protect it from extraneous magnetic influence. Thus the amount of current generated in the thermo couple by the heat of the sar is measured by the galvanometer. Within the galvanometer, a mirror smaller than a pinhead is suspended upon a fine thread of spun quartz. Some distance from the front of the window in the galvanometer a scale is set up with a strong light upon it. This scale is reflected in the little mirror, which is observed through a microscope. There is a tiny dot upon one side of the face of the mirror. The generation of current in the thermo couple causes the quartz thread to twist, turning the mirror from side to side; and this deflection is measured upon the reflected image of the scale. Dr. Edmund Ols Hovey of the American Museum of Natural History has recently returned to New York after completing the first expedition undertaken with the aid of the Heilprin exploration fund established last year in memory of Anglo Heilprin. In view of the late Prof. Heilprin's well known work in connection with the eruption of Mount Pelee, it was especially appropriate that the first work under the fund should have been an examination of the active volcanes of the Lesser Antilles. Dr. Hovey visited Caudeloupe, Martinique and St. Vincent. In the American Museum Journal he reports the present condition of the famous volcanoes in those islands. From the cone of Mount Pelee considerable steam is still issuing, though much less in volume and lower in temperature than at the time of Dr. Hovey's previous visit in 1908. The activity of the volcano has steadily diminished since the eruptions of 1902-03, and apparently there is no present danger of recrudescence. On the windward side of the volcano new vegetation has fully established itself, and even the forest is being renewed. The famous spine or obelisk, which once rose more than 600 feet above the cone, disappeared nearly ten years ago. One the site of the ruined city of St. Pierre there are 20 new buildings and two hundred people. Successful attempts have recently been made to manufacture a substitute for rubber tubing out of masses solidified glue. These tubes, whose trade name is "Sonjatan," are even better than those of rubber for certain purposes according to Technical Monatshefe, since they are more impervious to gases and more resistant to heat. It is also claimed that they do not grow rotten so quickly as rubber, and that when increased in a suitable envelope they will withstand high pressure. Moreover, they are very cheap, gas tubes of the new material costing out 60 pennings per meter. The inventor is Prof. J. Taube and he states that they are peculiarly suited for conductors of petroleum and gasoline as well as gases. However they are attacked by water, which obviously limits their uses. The rolling stone isn't a mossback. CLAIMS MUSIC AFFECTS HAIR OF PLAYERS Flowers of Horns Likely to Become Prematurely Bald—Action of Strings Less Severe If you want to escape baldness don't play the cornet or trombone, but combine your musical efforts to the piano, violin, harp, violoncello or double bass. This advice sums up the increasing and extremely important d'iscoveries which science has made about the effect of different kinds of music on the hair. Prof. Henri de Parville, the eminent French physicist, is the man responsible for these discoveries. He declares that the well known action of music on the nervous system affects the nutrition of the bodily tissues and thus has an influence on the hair. To support this novel theory he has a great array of facts collected from observations of the heads of a large number of musicians. The influence of music upon the hair is not always the same. The growth of the hair is stimulated or checked or stopped entirely according to the kind of musical vibrations to which it is exposed. Playing the piano or the violin, according to Professor de Parville, is especially beneficial to the hair. This, he says accounts for the luxuriant masses of hair which almost invariably cover the heads of male pianists and violinists. The music of the violoncello, the harp and the double bass is also stimulating to the hair, but to a less degree. Players of the flute and clarinet get only a small amount of hair stimulation and consequently their locks are quite likely to show a very perceptible thinning by the age of fifty. The harm done to the hair by music, according to Professor de Parkville's views is among the players of brass instruments. Those who make much use of the cornet and horn advance rapidly to baldness. Players of the trombone—particularly those who play it for long periods at a time—usually lose at least sixty per cent of their hair with in five years after their use of the instrument begins. GIVES FACTS ON EELS Writer Says Eggs won't develop in Fresh Water The egg of an eel will not develop in fresh water. It took the naturalists a long time to make the discovery. Centuries passed, indeed, before any of the wise men knew that eels produced eggs. The fish were well known in the days of Aristotle, and prized a food, but that astute scholar taught that they were without sex and produced spontaneously from the earth's entrails. Pliny agreed with him as to their sex, but affirmed that they rubbed themselves against the rocks, thereby scraping particles of slime from their skins which developed into eels. It was not until 1877 that a naturalist, an Italian, by the way, identified a female eel. He taught that the young were born alive from their mothers. More than 100 years afterward, another man of science succeeded in detecting a male eel, then overthrowing at last the teaching of Kristolle. Knowledge of eels advanced so slowly for the simple reason that they were studied only in their summer homes, bodies of fresh water. They do not spawn there. An unerring instinct teaches them that their eggs need the stimulation of brackish water to develop them into activity. CONVERSATION METERED Telephone Device Automatically Measures Length of Talk By making use of an ordinary watch movement a telephone has been invented which is intended to perform much the same function as does an electric light or gas meter. The device is fitted inside of a receiving instrument. When a button, fixed in the side of the latter, is pressed, the meter is wound and started. Until this is done communication over a line is prevented. At the expiration of a specified period the meter automatically cuts off a conversation, making it necessary to again push the button, and thus reset the timer, if further use of the line is desired—Popular Mechanics. Repair Shop Portfolio The enormous use of aeroplanes during the European war has resulted in an extensive use of special motor airplane repair shops. These portable aeroplane factories were first used by the French, and are marvels of ingenuity, for, in addition to carrying propellers and wings for aeroplanes, they are fitted with lathes, drilling machines, fences and if fact, most of the apparatus necessary to completely rebuild an aeroplane, except, of course, the engine. Fitted with powerful engines these aeroplane motors can get up a tremendous speed despite their weight, and are quickly on the scene of any aeroplane smash. In the roofs of many of these motors, by the way, are windows or openings through which an observer can watch the flight of the aeroplanes. The man who thinks he is the whole thing doesn't waste and time trying to conceal it from others. Nearly every pretty girl is a piano thumper, and nearly every homely girl is a good cook. HEAD OF REPUBLIC GETS $10 YEARLY PRESIDENT OF ANDORRA, FARM ER, EARNS HIS LIVING BY TILLING SOIL Capital of Country Has 500 People Neutrality Stand Announced "The strangest Republic in the world," is what a writer in the New York Sun calls Andorra, which has 5,000 inhabitants, and which lies in the Pyrenees, between France and Spain. It is about eighteen miles wide and sixteen miles long, from north to south, and it is so difficult of access that no railroad runs near it. The early history of this small country is unknown. In 1805 Louis the Debonair laid siege to a city situated to the south of Andorra and the Andorrans, under Marc Almauga, aided the French. As a reward a charter was given them and they were allowed to work out their own destiny unmolested by their more powerful neighbors. The age of the country as a republic is thus fixed at 1,110 years. It is seldom visited by travelers, but those who have been there say that, as far as appearances are concerned, there is nothing to indicate that the customs of the people have ever changed. It is a republic which has never achieved anything in its long and vague history; a republic which has never produced a page of literature, nor a bar of music, nor a painting; a republic which has never had a place in the councils of Europe and has never asked for one; a nation which has never produced an ambitious man. The form of government is unique. There is no nobility, and there are no class distinctions, legal or other. The president of the country is a farmer who depends on his own labor for his living. Every four years the people elect twenty four representatives, whose business it is to govern the country whenever there is any governing to be done. These representatives choose one of their number for president. His salary is 80 pepotas a year, or about $10. Representatives get $2.50 a year. Although as a rule the people are honest, and theft is practically unknown, there is a disposition on the part of the poorly paid government officials to take advantage of the numerous opportunities for graft. Indeed, a very unscrupulous representative sometimes acquires $2.50 through a single year's grafting, thus doubling his income. The school system is regulated by the French, and French is taught in the schools, but the people speak their own language, Andorran. The total cost of the national school system is $180 a year, which Andorra rays to the French government. The capital is Andorra la Vella, with a population of 500, a city in which is located the house of representatives, which is also used for school house, jail, town hall, court house and hotel. There are no police, every citizen having the right to arrest. Aside from farming the main occupation of the Andorrans is smugglery, which is not regarded as a crime, though the French and Spanish governments think differently. Owing to the mountainous nature of the country there are very few prosperous farms, but since the forests have been cut away there is much land suitable for grazing. The only roads are bridle paths. One main highway leads from Andorra to the high road to Seo de Urgel. The main characteristic of the people, aside from their dense ignorance, is their lack of ambition. They refuse to use tools which were not used by their ancestors, and they have no idea of what is commonly called progress. A man who tries to get ahead is looked upon as mentally unbalanced. One native, who had traveled in France, undertook to attract visitors to Andorra by opening a hotel near a fine spring, but he could get no assistance for the people do not welcome visitors. A few weeks ago the little republic drew the attention of the world to itself when it announced a policy of neutrality, issuing a proclamation somewhat similar to President Wilson's. President Pedro Font of Aderora sent a letter to President Wilson, in which he praised his stand on the question of neutrality, and then spoiled the effect by displaying his ignorance in the concluding passage which is as follows; "Both of us are neutral. However, I know you have been generous and charitable to the Belgians and other victims of the war. Imitating your example, I have sent several cases of blankets and tobacco to the French soldiers." Little Flora's Prayer One day little Flora was taken to a dentist to have an aching tooth removed moved. That night while repeating her prayers before retiring her mother was surprised to hear her say: "And forgive us our debts as we forgive our dentists." And some people who are always prepared for the worst remind us of mourners at a funeral. Love may be blind, but the girl's father and the dog seldom need the services of an oculist. VALUABLE ANTIQUITIES Famous Collection Includes One of Napoleon's Cannons Brought Over the Mayflower In the little farming town of St. Louis, Mich., 150 miles north of Detroit, there is a collection of rare books, antiques, plates, guns, tapestries and armor that is famous among collectors nearly all the way around the world. It is the property of Louis E. Newman, of St. Louis, Detroit and New York and it cost almost $200,000 to get it together. Mr. Newman has traveled over Europe many times in pursuit of his hobby—once he lived there for six years—and some of the individual pieces it took two or three years of search and effort to locate One of the leading features of the collection is a Napoleonic cannon, which from 1801 to 1805 stood on the walls of the Tulleries and fired salutes for the small potentates who came to visit the Emperor, in that day gunpowder was extremely expensive, and during Napoleon's greatest glory, the number of kings, dukes and dukelets who visited Paris was legion. It was necessary to fire salutes to all of them. Another feature of the collection is a brass blunderbuss which was brought over by the Puritans who came in the Mayflower. Though steel was used at that time to some extent all of the guns the passengers of the Mayflower carried had brass barrels. Near the brass blunderbuss in the St. Louis house is a carbine carried by one of the soldiers who was on duty at the execution of Marie Antoinette. Then there are three military caps worn by General Scott and his aids at the City of Mexico, and there is a brass helmet given the collector by Prince Bismarck. Mounted on a pedestal in the armory are three cuirasses, one of Commonwealth steel which belonged to Oliver Cromwell, a very elaborate one owned by a cuirassier of Napoleon's old guard, and one of plain steel belonging to William of Orange and used by him in the Netherlands. A suit of Armor worn by the Duke of Alba, which is over seven feet tall, stands not far from a lot of Turkish armor of the fifteenth century. Among this is a shield, helmet and neck chain of Saladin. The hat has in it a receptacle in which a plume could be carried in the daytime and a torch at night to let everybody know where the leader was. Thirty instruments of torture used during the Spanish inquisition make that part of the collection very complete. "There is a very interesting story connected with a Hessian's gun that I have," said Mr. Newman. "It was used at the battle of Lexington, and after the battle the soldier, who was wounded by a sword blow on the knee, caught refuge in a house which is in what is now a suburb of Springfield, Mass. "Some years ago I bought property there and planned to build a house on the banks of the Connecticut river. In the basement excavation we ran across an Indian burying ground with a number of bodies all sitting on straight. They had been originally six feet underground, but in the course of years fourteen or fifteen feet of additional dirt was washed in a top of them. Among them we found a white man's bones with one knee badly cut apparently by a blow from a sword. "On inquiring from the family about him I learned the story of the Hessian who had sought refuge there and also the fact that he had had a gun which had been carried out into the Western Reserve by some member of the family who moved out this way in the forties. I got the Massachusetts historical society after the gun and finally landed it. Now I have the gun and the bones of the man who carried it both in my collection." In the Newman collection is also included a gun carried by Daniel Boone and every rifle the United States government has used from the old Continental down to the latest Krag. He has also the first piano that was ever built in America. FINGER NAILS ARE AN INDEX Owner Either is a Sloven or a Very Hard Worker is Theory Hard Worker is Theory Altho the eyes may be the "windows of the soul" the fingernails constitute the front porch, and when one enters a neighbor's home he generally pays more attention to the porch than he does to the windows, during his brief wait upon the threshold. Dirty fingernails indicate one of two conditions—that the owner is a roven or a mighty hard working person. There should be sympathy for the worker who has to monkey around with a lot of dirt and grease and other disgraceable stuff that gets beneath his finger nails and pretty nearly buffs eradication, but the ordinary business man or housewife whose nails are not clean is likely to suffer a reverse in estimation at the hands of his or her acquaintances. As breeding places for germs the fingernails are delightfully equipped Hence it is well that in the public schools the teachers see to it that youngsters are compelled to keep themselves clean in this respect. If their parents have been negligent therein. The famous Victoria falls of the Zambezi river, in Rhodesia, it is estimated could be made to yield 35,000 horse power, or just about the same amount as all of Europe's water courses. PIT GIVES UP DEAD OF 150,000 YEARS SKELETONS OF ANIMALS AND BIRDS FOUND INTACT Asphaltum Trap Engulfs Prey Today Just as It Did in Pre-historic Times. Los Angeles, Cal.—Rushes grow around its fringe, an invitation to thirsty wild things to come to the pit and drink. But its murky surface is a deadly trap. Beneath a thin film of water, asphaltum, which fills the pit, seizes its victims in a grip more viscile than quicksand and down, down it drags them until they are enveloped and disappear. The pit is in the oil fields near Los Angeles and today traps birds and squirrels just as it trapped the sabertoothed tiger, the mastodon and the giant ground sloth, creatures of the Pleistocene period, countless centuries ago. Out of the depths have been dug a hundred varieties of pre-historic animals and birds, all in a perfect state of preservation. Even the skull of a human has been discovered. Thus the earth is yielding secrets of the animal and human life of 150,000 years ago. Nature's process of preservation in the pit could not be improved even if man's ingenuity were set to the task, for the asphaltum which entangles the creatures and smothers out their lives does not injure their bones; on the contrary it is a preserving fluid which enters every crevice and prevents decay, so that complete skeletons, including the smallest bones, have been excavated and assembled after burial thru the ages. So complete is the collection obtained there are specimens of the various extinct animals in many stages of growth, enabling the scientists to trace their development from birth to old age. A feature of the pit is that while it was well known for many years as a source of pitch, the value of its other contents was entirely disregarded until recent years. The Indians used the sticky substance in forming their crude utensils. Bones were excavated all this time, but carelessly were thrown aside. It was supposed that some present-day creatures, stray stock for instance, had been caught this way, and nothing more was thought of the bones. Finally one picked up a nine-inch tusk and sent it to the State University at Berkeley. Seen with the scientific eye, it was of immense importance, and was identified as the tooth of a tiger, a huge variety which had two enormous, sharp-edged tusks protruding from its upper jaw. From that time the work of searching for more specimens was pursued steadily, and at present it is conducted by the Los Angeles Museum of History, Science and Art. This institution has the most complete collection of its kind in the world as the result of Nature's care in preserving the specimens entrapped. Among the more recent finds is the skull of a woman, together with a few human fragments, which from their position in relation to the bones of prehistoric animals, are supposed to be many thousands of years old, the experts have not ventured to state with any positiveness just how many thousands of years ago this human victim fell into the trap. The skull is considerably smaller than that of the average person of today, the it is known to be that of an adult. FINDS HER TWIN BABIES PLAYING WITH A SNAKE The Trio Are Having a Jolly Time When Neighbor Rushes In and Dispatches the Reptile. Altoona, Pa.—Hearing her I 1-year-old twins, Harold and Howard, laughing and lisping baby talk that seemed considerably more boisterous than usual, Mrs. Robert Shaal of Wehnwood, a suburb, peeled into the kitchen to see what they were doing. She was horrified to find them playing with a 3-foot blacksnake. The reptile crawled over and about the little ones, and the twins grabbed at its head and tail, but it would wriggle away. Snake and the babies seemed to have the time of their lives. Mrs. Shall screamed for help, and a neighbor rushed in and dispatched the unwelcome visitor. GROOM HANDCUFFS HIS BRIDE Oregon Man Takes Step to Foil Kid-napping by Friends. Portland, Ore.—A wedding ring is all right in a way, but it remained for Leo F. Jones to reinforce the bords of matrimony in a practical manner which left no doubts in the mind of his wedding party that he had taken Miss Esther Louise Bye to have and to hold. When the preacher said the final words, Jones slipped a pair of handcuffs from his pocket, snapped one of the bands to the bride's wrist, and the other to his own. Jones and his wife are honey-moonning now without the handcuffs. Jones explained he had been warned that a number of his bachelor friends planned to kidnap him after the ceremony.