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Many of our thoughtful men and women are asking if the race is to receive better consideration under the Harding administration than it has under the Wilson administration? The very fact that the former is Republican, assures the race a more sympathetic hearing than it has had under President Wilson. However, what the race gets, depends upon what the race intelligently and unitedly works for. Selfishness on the part of a few or an eagerness on the part of certain groups, whether in known organizations or secret combines; will not bring real freedom to the race. The first intelligent thing that should be accomplished is team work on the part of existing organizations. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, The Equal Rights League, The National Race Congress and many others cannot accomplish single-handed the desires and aspirations of the race. These various organizations need not lose their identity nor the special fields of labor for which they work organized, but they pam submerge for a while their individuality and by hearty cooperation force results from the incoming Congress. If this country is to aid in establishing justice in the world, it must proceed to establish and maintain justice in America. We must not sit still and whine while this is coming to pass but must use what ever powers within our grasp to force this justice so far as our race is concerned. Co-operation is the word now. That organization or person that is unwilling to co-operate now, is unfit for the emergencies of the time and should be let verily alone. This next Congress is to do many things and among them, it must enforce the constitution touching citizenship and its right to the franchise. How this must be done; all of us must have a say. Touching our race in the south, there are two things that can be done—first; cut down the southern representation in Congress and in the Electoral College or enforce the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments as well as the Nineteenth Amendment. Thoughtful Negroes of this, country must come to an agreement among themselves as to what they think should be done. Cutting down the representation does not give the colored voter of the south the right to protect himself at home. He will not have any say as to who will make his laws in the state or who will execute them. As voters the colored race will not be one whit better off after the cutting down than they are prior to it. He is still at the mercy of the vote suppressing white element of the south. The country however will be at an advantage and that is no meaning to accomplish; that is, the south will be dislodged and will lose its power in the national government. The country quakes when the Democratic party is in power for it means the unbridled sway of the south over everybody and everything. The south cares only for itself and nothing else. The nation is duty bound to put an end to this form of lawlessness. We believe Congress should both. The representation should be cut to its voting strength as shown in the elections. After this is done then Congress should see to it that every man or woman that is entitled to vote should have the opportunity. The condition of voting should be the same to every voter. By enforcing the Fifteenth Amendment and the Nineteenth Amendment every voter will be put on equality. We do not object to a limited franchise based upon intelligent qualifications but this must be the same to every voter. The southern primary is the iniquity of iniquities. This primary system of the south has destroyed the franchise of the south to all races save those who are in the political clique. Any person nominated to an office by one-tenth of the voting population, is practically elected and those entrusted with election machinery are put there to see it that they be elected. To make themselves more sure the south has this law that no one can go behind the returns. Any stealing done by the election board cannot be unearthed. The courts uphold this vicious policy. In many of the southern states, not a Federal representative, Congressman nor Senator is entitled to a sept in the Federal Government at Washington. Money may have caused the election of Senator Newberry of Michigan but we are sure that force and intimidation caused the election of southern Senators and many of them are anxious to vote on Newberry. No man has a right to a seat in the federal Government who gets it by fraud, force or purchase. No man has a right to sit in the federal Government who is openly hostile to the rights and privileges of half of the citizens of his district or state. Such is the case with southern representatives in Congress. This whole mat- ter has simmered down to this: shall the Constitution of the federal Government rule or shall the unlawful annulment of the Constitution by the south prevail in this nation? It is not a question of race but one of constitutional rights. If the federal Government permit one class of citizens to destroy the rights of another then the whole system of government is vitiated and our country is without Dr. William A. Byrd. law. We believe it is a mistake to begin any actions in this direction under the present Congress which is hampered by the Wilson Administration. But there should be laid out comprehensive plans whereby the Republican congress under Harding should reconstruct the entire nation. Colored voters are much concerned now because our women have the franchise and they are not afraid of lawless whites who seek to deprive them of their rights. The colored men of the south have accepted disfranchisement as their portion and it will be sometime before enough manhood gets into their spines to cause them to fight for their rights. Colored voters of the North and middle West have the power to bring about reforms through their votes. Under normal conditions, our voters can swing the elections in nine states in the East, North and middle states. These states are the most powerful states in the Union. Republicans of color have the right to demand that their brotherhood of the south be given their rights. The Republican party is the "ship" and demand that they be taken on in the south in all other portions of the country. Have we manhood and vision enough to stand together and bring this about? Self-appointed delegations were going to Marion and are even yet reaching President-elect Harding, imploring him to refuse to appoint colored men to office anywhere in the south where southern Democrats may object. Chief among these assaulters of the liberties of our people of that section is Ex-President William Howard Taft. Southern colored people helped to nominate Mr. Taft when he was running for the presidency the first time. It was the turning away of our people of that section from Mr. Roosevelt in 1912 to Mr. Taft that gave him the nomination that year. In spite of the loyalty or southern colored people to Mr. Taft, during his political career, he now becomes the chief advocate of depriving them of their rights at home in order that he might curry favor with southern Democrats that did all in their power to defeat him and every other man that has run for the presidency on a Republican ticket. Base gratitude on the part of William Howard Taft and his betrayal of the confidence of our people is in keeping with his betrayal of the Republican party that refused to re-elect him in 1912. Others beside Mr. Taft have joined him. It is a crusade to keep our men out of office. Their argument is ignominiously fallacious. Southern whites are no better than the whites of the rest of the country. In fact they have been the cause of this country's disgrace before the world. If our men may hold office north of Mason and Dixon's line, they are also entitled to hold office in "Dixie" and this irrespective of what any other person may say. If the colored man is an offence to white men of the south why should he not also be to white people not in the south? Does the constitution of the nation limit our men in holding office to certain sections of the country? We think not. The south is Democratic for the most part and those states that have gone into the Republican columns in the south did so because our vote placed them there. Fair-minded white men voted with our men to make Maryland, Oklahoma, Kentucky and Tennessee Republican. Our vote was doubtless the larger factor in that vote. Where is the sense of justice or right which is lacking in these men who advocate this exclusion program? Why should Mr. Harding as president do violence to the rights of our men in order that he might satisfy the unjust and undemocratic position of a portion of this country which is known for its brutality toward our people? There should be as just a distribution of offices in the south as same grounds as other appointees receive theirs. Efficiency should be the test for all races and this test the same for all. The National Committee from each state, with the Republican Senators and Congressmen should decide this matter of appointments with Mr. Harding. An incumbent man or woman of our race is just as worthy and fit to hold office in the south as is a white man or woman. Both are on the same level in the government and its offices. The time has come when our people of America will not sit idly by and see their mistreated by the south and keep their peace. We are going to fight for the unbridled rights of the race everywhere. As American citizens we recognize no superiors. No race or people are better than we in matters of government. When it comes to fighting for this country no race's blood flows more freely than ours and we may add more willingly. In times of peace we are determined that no race shall receive more of the benefits of this government than we. And we only want our share. We are not hogs to the extent that we desire to root out other peoples and deprive them of their rights and privileges. We are also property in the south shall be again a place where life is safe, property secure and the rights of our nation to establish law and order in the south but so long as men like William Howard Taft and his ilk go around advocating the traitorous policy that he is now fathering, the vile spot in America where Negroes are not counted as much as cattle. We resent interference in our states by any one who does not vote in these states. What we demand in the north we ask for our brethren in the South. We have confidence in Warren G. Harding. We do not believe he will smile the hands that fought for him in the November election and reward the base cowards who attempted to defeat him by raising the race issue. It has become an obsession on the part of certain cowards to advocate that any damnable thing be given or done to our people. The "justification" of their vicious policy is, white people may object to our people holding office. White people who object to an efficient colored man holding an office that is his by merit and because of his party relations, don't deserve the consideration of fair-minded people. Only the dastardly coward will try to inaugurate such a policy at this time. (Rev.) Wm. A. Byrd. Additional Locals Judge W. I. Jamison returned, Jan. 18, from a pleasant month's visit with his son, Lieut. W. Herbert Jamison, in charge of the western branch of his law office. Kansas "Afro-American" are much interested and pleased over the effectiveness of our Ohio Civil Rights and Anti-Lynchings law. Atty. Wm. H. Boyd, former assistant director of law of this city was reported by the Cleveland News as using the derisive and insulting term "coon" in telling a story while making his closing argument in the McGammon trial, recently. We have known Mr. Boyd well for many years and did not believe that he had been correctly quoted. Voluntarily, he has furnished us with a copy of the court record which shows that he did not use the objectionable term and also proves that at least one "cracker" reporter is still employed by that paper whom its managing editor ought to "tame" or "fire." Sherman C. Kingsley, head of the Welfare Federation, addressed the annual meeting and election of officers of our Welfare Association in Corinthian Baptist church, E. 388 St. and Scovill Avenue. He spoke on the plans formulated for the work of the association during 1921. A movement will be started by the association to obtain a building for welfare work, Recreation, library and industrial education rooms' are to be provided. Atty. A. H. Martin was elected pres.; Dr. O. A. Taylor, vice-pres.; Hazel E. Mountain, sec. and R. J. Frackleton, treas. Trustees, re-elected, to supervise the association during the year: Major W. T. Anderson, Dudley S. Blossom, Bradley Hull, P. W. Lemon and Rev. C. G. Fishback. SINGLE COPY FIVE CENTS What Our People Are Doing Each Week—Church, Personal, Social, Lodge, Literary and Musical—Marriages, Deaths, Etc. CORRESPONDENTS must mail all letters for publication at their main postoffice sufficiently early on Monday (or Sunday) of each week to have them reach The Gazette office on Tuesday morning, and always write also, their names and that of their city or town on the outside of the wrapper about returned copies. Unless this latter is done, proper credit cannot be given you. Lists of names, wedding presents, etc., obituary notices, inquiries for relatives and advertisements of all kinds, including items announcing entertainments to be held in the near future, must be paid for in advance at the rate of 25 cents a line, six words to a line. Our rates for display, advertisements will be sent on application. CADIZ—Mr. Alfred West, and Miss Wheeler, were married by Rev G. H. Cotton, last Thursday evening. —Miss Isabella Lucas of Akron, is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Lucas.—Revival service is in progress at St. James A. M. E. church. —Mr. James Freeman and Miss Anna May Robinson were married, last week, by Rev. A. L. Holland. —Mr. Oliver White has returned from an extended visit in Smithfield and McIntyre. —Marion Jackson of 12arrisville was here, recently. —Ida Olmstead has returned from a visit with her mother in Urchrisville. —The musical given by the stewardess, recently, was quite a success. Proceeds $28.50. —Mrs. Katherine Alexander is convalescent. —Quarterly meeting services were held Sunday week. Rev J. M. Gilmere preached morning and evening. Revival services commenced Jan. 16, conducted by the pastor. —Mrs. F. W. Lucas was sick last week. —Born to Mr. and Mrs. George Miller, a son, George Edward, Jr. XENIA.—Mrs. Laura Ross and Mrs. Pinkie Page have returned from Chicago and Mr. Coit Ford, to Detroit.—Mrs. Charles Wright, who underwent an operation some time ago, is again able to be out.—Mrs. Powell, matron at the O. S. and S. O. Home, is ill.—Mrs. Emma Hampton, of Mt. Healthy, visited her sister. Mrs. James Jones, recently.—Mrs. Bettie Alexander has la grippe.—Mr. Henry Ewing died Wednesday morning.—Mrs. Rosa Reed, sister of Wm. Tibbs, is seriously ill in Chicago.—Fifteen hundred enthusiastic fans witnessed the most thrilling encounter last Wednesday night at Beacom Gym. The Baltimore Athenians were defeated by Wilberforce. Score, 34 to 31.—Mr. and Mrs. Stone, of Cleveland, were guests of Dr. and Mrs. Moore, Sunday.—Mrs. M. H. Watson visited relatives in Columbus and Youngstown, the week-end. —Wilberforce's Emery Hall Ladies' quartet gave a sacred concert at St. Johns A. M. E. churen, Sunday evening. —A beautiful Japanese tea was given at Mrs. Minnie Craig's, Thursday evening, for the benefit of the church. Decorations and service were in Jap style. HILLSBORO—Born to Mr. am Mrs. Charles Cole, last week, a son —Charles, Jr.-Miss Matilda Blair was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. A. iroland, Sunday—Rev. J. H. Massey, pastor of the Baptist church here, is assisting Rev. W. C. Allen at Xenia in his revival services. They are having success. Mrs. Spencer Jones, or Washington, C. H., visited her sister, Mrs. Clara Ford, last week.-Mr. and Joe Zimmerman, Mrs. Searce of Batavin, and Mrs. Clara Evans of Dayton attended Aunt Rosie Williams' funeral, Jan 19, at the Baptist church of which she was a member. The pastor, Rev. J. H. Massey, officiated. Mrs. Mamie Hudon- or Sardina- spent Sunday with relatives.-Alphonso Minor's arm, broken two weeks ago, is better.-Susan Day Ernest Thomas and George Gallagher are ill.-Mr. Charles Bolden has returned from Fiqua, accompanied by his grandson, Irvin, who will make her home. Mrs. Rosetta Gidings, of Cincinnati, visited her mother, this week.-Mrs. Mae Young is ill.-"Baby Jim's Minstrels" were played, James Blanton, manager. All played their parts, exceptionally well for "home talent." All the seats were taken. The minstrels will show in neighboring, town this week.-Moses Smith, D. G. C., of Greenfield, installed Hill City lodge officers. Jan. 6: Charence Pleaseant, C. C.; John Killcour, V. C.; James A. Killgour, prelate; Garland Carr, K. R. S.; Rees Williams, M. E.; Starlie Rigges, M. E.; Charles Bolden, M. W.; Wallace Nelson, M. A.; Starlie Bolden, I. G.; John Delaney, O. G.-Rev. J. Burr returned, Monday, from Wilmington, where he assisted Rev. W. L. Tolliver in the revival at the Baptist church. IN UNION FOR A RESTRICTED crats! OHIO NEWS le’ Gazette’s Correspondents out the State Going Each Week—Church, edge, Literary and Musi- ces, Deaths, Etc. They have 21 candidates for baptism and several reclaimed. A number are still at the alter. The meeting will continue, this week. We hope soon to have an active agent in Wilmington for "The Old Reliable" Gazette. AS TO LIBERIA. Some Interesting Inside Facts Concerning That Little African Liberia was settled in 1820 by exslaves from this country, under the supervision of the American Colonization Society. It lies between the San Pedro and Manna rivers on the west coast of Africa. It has 500 miles seaboard, and extends 100 miles inland. It is the richest section in West Africa. Monrovia is the capital. American Negro descendants number 60,000, and there are 2,500,000 natives. They are becoming rapidly civilized. One branch has a written language and books. We hear little of these from the missionaries. In their propaganda to raise money they prefer to give the darkest side. Liberia was recognized as an independent state in 1847. It is ruled altogether by Negroes. Abyssinia, in East Africa, is a growing empire. It, too, is a Negro country. According to its history, when the Queen of Sheba, a Negro woman, visited King Solomon, they were married. On her return up the Red Sea she stopped in Abyssinia and to her was born a boy of this marriage. King Solomon was a Negro. From this son all the lineage of Abyssinian kings has descended. It is the oldest Christian civilized nation and the most powerful little country in the world. It is only surpassed in military strength, by England, China, France, Germany, Russia and the United States. It has a standing army of half a million. Its area is 400,000 square miles. It has railroads, telegraph and telephone systems, colleges, churches, schools, factories and vast resources in minerals, coal and farming. Great lakes and rivers, abound and some of the highest mountains in the world, are found there. The climate is ideal. The population is the size of that of the Negro population in the United States. Uganda, adjoining Abyssinia, is a Negro kingdom highly civilized and little heard of in the United States. It has modern transportation, modern schools and factories. Wool is the chief product. The population is 5,000,000. Mwango is king and Mengo is the capital. Unfortunately England has established a protectorate there. The English exercisel just enough authority to get commercial advantage and to exact tribute for the upkeep of the English empire.—N. Y. City Negro World. THE SOLID SOUTH STILL HOLDS THE NEGRO AS A MUDSILL UNDER FOOT It is a sad commentary of the times that a former President of the United States can publicly give sanction to southern chicane and injustice, as Mr. Taft does in a recent article on "The Nero in Politics." Mr. Taft still labors under that old delusion that the solid South can be broken up by catering to "ily-whiteism." Hayes tried it and failed. McKinley tried it and failed. Mr. Taft himself tried it and failed. The opportunist always will fail in the end. Mr. Taft once said that the new state constitutions in the South indicated a turn for the better. Those constitutions are all violations of the spirit of the constitution of the United States. Nobody denies that the intent of the framers of the new constitutions was to disfranchise the Negro. Will Mr. Taft argue that to make stealing legal means to make it moral? We live under a government which stand sumsoselly for fair play, for equality of opportunity, for a man's chance for a man. There are some good white men in the South, but they are like trees on a Sahara, and they cannot modify the seven general judgement of the session. And some day man like Mr. Taft will learn that temperizing wins nothing. We must take a stand for right, for justice, for fair play, for the constitution, and stand by it. The ideal must not be lowered, but rather the people raised. If we would spend a little money trying to enforce the fourteenth and fifteenth amendments, our moral sense would be better satisfied. Mr. Harding will make a grave mistake, a mistake which will most assuredly be resented by the Negro. if he pays any attention to Mr. Taft's advice on the race question. It ill becomes a form of President of the nation to apologize for most injustice and nave the way for future injustice to 12,000,000 of his fellow citizens.—Nenia (O.) Evening Gazette. One Year . . . $2.00 Six Months . . . 1.00 Three Months . . . . 5.0 Subscribers are requested to remit by postoffice money order or registered letter Entered at the postoffice in Cleveland, Ohio, as second-class mail matter. Address all communications to HARRY C. SMITH Editor and proprietor THE GAZETTE, (City), Central 513-K) 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 NEWSIEST AND BEST in the country. 10,000,000 Afro-Americans. 350,000 in Ohio. 35,000 in Cleveland. What fearfully bad luck the Wilson administration is having. The records that burned up were only some old census records. There is a lot less evidence of bolshevism in this country since Emma Goldman announced her preference for America. The whole country will be glad to join President Harding by hanging up its hat and going to work. Needless display will be dispensed with. There will be no reserved seats at the Harding inaugural—thus establishing a new precedent and marking some progress in popular government. As it goes out of office on March 4, the Democratic administration can well say, exultingly, "Well, we set a new high record in spending, anyway." Son-in-law McAdoo thinks the Democratic defeat was due to too little publicity. The voters are satisfied that it was due to sufficient publicity—some very "rotten" Democratic "stuff" from the South. Gossip is still rife about the trouble with Henry Ford and some of his high paid executives. Three of the highest salaried men in the organization have resigned after what is said to have been a stormy meeting with Eldel Ford, the president of the company. Meanwhile Henry himself is busy stirring up an anti-Hebrew storm. Apparently he is now as much a center of controversy as he was a rallying point for advocates of peace at a certain period of the war. If the story of the extravagance, inefficiency, waste and graft imposed upon the American people during the past eight years could be recorded within the pages of a book, there would be no possibility of the return of the Democratic party to power within the next half century. The trouble is that the record is spread through so many departments, bureaus, commissions and boards that it is impracticable to get a summary of the whole bad business in a limited space. It is estimated that it will take two or three years and $2,000,000 to copy off and save the census records damaged by fire recently in the Census Office at Washington. This is another of the little items of waste that can be charged against the retiring administration. At the time the records were put into the cellar of the building, arranged on wooden shelves, warnings were issued as to their probable fate in the event of fire, but no steps were taken to preserve them. The people now pay the bill. A GREAT LACK OF MANHOOD. The Conference at Tuskegee, recently reported that many of our people are being driven out of the country districts into the cities because of a lack of protection. It is a pity that this is true but our people themselves can remedy this state of affairs quicker than any one else. Let them prepare to defend themselves. Let them meet "iron with iron." There are more Afro-Americans in many of these districts than whites and the only reason they are made to cringe is because the "whites" organize and strike. As soon as our people everywhere begin to depend upon their own skill and brawn to protect them and theirs, the sooner will the southern mob disperse and leave them. But when our people run and cry for others to help them, few people will heed their cries for no one has much respect for a baby in man's clothes. Our people should not "start things", but in every instance they should be ready to defend their homes! They have a right to stay anywhere they desire and so long as they obey the laws and deport themselves like citizens white trash or any other kind of trash has no right to interfere with them. The Tuskegee Conference says that our people are "interested in law and order". This is an unknown entity in the south. The more educational institutions teach our youth to be law-abiding, the more the whites of the south teach their boys to be law-breaking and formers of mobs. Winchester rifles will bring these outlaws to their senses. If the officers of the law will not protect our people they must then protect themselves! If they feel that they prefer to get along without fighting back, then let them leave the south entirely. Pull up and leave what you cannot bring and begin life over where civilized people are. It may be hard for the older ones but it will be the making of the younger ones. Judging from the lawlessness of the south one would think that no person would have the chance to drive our people anywhere. Manhood would dictate their leaving all. Manhood would tell them that it is far finer to follow the example of the early Pilgrims than to stay there and be slaves whose lives are at the mercy of uncivilized mobs. OUR CLEVELAND POPULATION Cleveland's Afro-American population has increased 308.1 per cent. in the last ten years, while the corresponding increase in the "white" population has been but 38.1, according to figures made public by the census bureau at Washington, D. C., Wednesday. The "white" population of this city, as compiled in the last census, is 762,005 and our population 34,474. Residents, of all other races, including Chinese, Japanese and Indians, are numbered at 362. The "white" population in 1910 was 551,925 and the number of Afro-Americans, 8,448. Figures show the "white" population now constitutes 95.6 per cent. of the total, as compared with 98.4 per cent. in 1910. Our population makes up 4.3 per cent. of the total at present, as against 1.5 in 1910. The census figures show there are 413,253 males in the city and 388,588 females. The total Afro-American population of Cleveland, as announced by the U. S. census in 1910 and 1920, should have been from four to six thousand in excess of the figures announced. Hundreds, yes thousands of our people are taken for "whites" and others "overlooked," by the census enumerators. It is also true that between five and ten thousand have returned South, since the middle of November last, owing principally to lack of employment and reduced wages. It is interesting to note the fact that Cleveland, last year, had over two thousand more Afro-American residents than Charleston, S. C., that city being credited with only 32,292. MINNOWS WILL EAT ALL THE MOSQUITOES Minnows—"top minnows," so called because they always seek their food on the surface—are, according to Samuel F. Hildebrand of the United States Bureau of Fisheries, especially suitable as mosquito catchers. These little fish are very prolific; they live and breed in almost any clear water, require no special environments for laying and hatching their eggs, and are not driven from ponds by larger predacious fishes, provided there are shallows to which they can escape. But ponds must not be allowed to have many plants with submerged or partially submerged stems and leaves, as these encourage the formation of floating masses where the larvae of the mosquitoes can take refuge from the minnows. Mosquitoes, however, thrive in water so polluted that minnows die almost instantly in it. But the minnows will make ponds fairly free from vegetation uninhabitable to the "wigglers" of the mosquito, and even in those that are full of vegetation the number of mosquitoes reaching the adult stage will be very muth reduced. If the pond be free of vegetation a very few minnows will suffice to keep it free. AN HISTORIC ANIMAL The following is a bill of sale for a burro sold by one old prospector to another at a decadent mining camp "back in the hills;" "Sold to R. H. Jones one lineal descendant of Christ's conveyance into Jerusalem for the sum of seventeen ($17.00) cash in hand. His age is unknown to the present generation, color twilight, guaranteed to be perfectly tame and docile, and easy to catch if hand-cuffed and chained to a mountain; otherwise it is easier to catch four aces. It is also guaranteed that he is the identical jackass selected by the Democratic party for its political emblem so that the country might have a true and correct index of its great vocal and oratorical powers and the high intelligence of its voters."Engineering and Mining Journal. OUR LESSON We must learn to govern ourselves and work together for our own advancement. If we do not learn to govern ourselves and work together for our own advancement, we may be very sure that we will be governed by others in their own interest as well as worked by others for their own advancement and not ours.-George W. Blount. THEIR JOINT PROTEST on Harding Col. Simmons (white) in outlining the purpose of his Ku Klux Klan makes it clear that the authorities of the law and officers of the government in Georgia are in sympathy with it. Besides the Klan makes no public appearance without officers of the law in its ranks. The south is run solely for the benefit of the southern Democratic party. "White supremacy," which has been and is a slogan of southern Democracy, is the chief slogan of the Ku Klux Klan. Part of the troubles now damaging the south is due to workings of this iniquitous organization. Its professions of justice and law-enforcement are not to be taken on their face. Under the reign of Ku Kluxism in Georgia, there has been an ory of lynching, incendiarism, murder and general lawlessness. All of this has been for the most part against citizens of color. Out of the decisions of this Ku Klux Klan, it was decided to cause the defense of Warren G. Harding for the presidency by linking him up with the "Negros" both in blood and sympathy. Harding was booked as the enemy of the south and Ku Kluxism. Under the crushing defeat of November last the Democratic party of the south decided to use the sophistry of Ku Kluxism to reinstate itself into the government of the white American voter. In order that the Democratic party might commit crimes similar to what it is now committing in the south everywhere, it decided to gown itself in a white-robed secret order, where men may take an oath to do anything distantly which will never be told. The southern Democratic party through the Ku Klux Klan seeks to recruit its ranks by means of hate and intrigue. It is avowedly opposed to the race participating in the running of the government. This in itself is subversive of the federal constitution. It pledges itself to maintain "the supremacy of the original white citizens," such as live in murderous Georgia, at all cost and hazards. Why should any honorable men unite under the cover of secrecy to perpetuate a reign of bloodshed as has been going on in Georgia for years? Mr. Taft's advice, to not insult the south is playing into the hands of the southern Democracy. Beware of William Howard Taft! To Fight Disfranchisement—The Census Committee's Contemplated Action Forces the Issue, Says Hon. Jos. C. Manning. New York City, Jan. 15, '21. Hon. Harry C. Smith. Editor, Gazette, Cleveland, My dear Mr. Smith—I have read the letter of our good friend, Rev. Dr. Byrd, in the last issue of The Gazette and note his statement that the fight to reduce representation in Congress has been taken up at the wrong time. This matter has come up in Congress in the regular order since that it was the duty of the Census Committee to report to this Congress a reapportionment bill, and, knowing this, there was nothing left to those who wished that the Constitutional requirement be met either to be silent or to undertake to get Congress to proceed in reapportionment in compliance with the Federal Constitution as set forth in the Fourteenth Amendment. Congressman Tinkham, therefore, started the fight to reduce representation and NOW IS.THE TIME. IT PROTEST Propaganda Bearing ace Only Klux Klan a Part of c Policy-Its Fight arding is able conducting it. It will be recalled that Congressman Crumpacker made the fight when the matter of reapportionment came up ten years ago and following the taking of the census at that time. There has never been a greater opportunity than in this recent hearing of the census committee and in the meantime this fight to get facts about political conditions in the South in the minds of Republican leaders in Congress. Many of the strong and able white Republicans of the North have been urging the case for some time, through letters to members of Congress, while I have been busy for months in writing letters and stating facts through personal interviews in Congress. The facts are that it is sleeping over opportunity in this very instance to be saying that now is not the time to make a fight. The truth is that every fight made helps that much in the colored leaders who have talked in their own public meetings so vigorously have failed to do talking and writing centered upon Congress where it would be very effective. I concur in what has been said as to organization by Dr. Byrd—the duty of colored people to fight this thing through, but there are already organizations galore which fail to direct their influence when opportunity arises as such that given at the Census Committee hearings. Whether believing in reduction of representation or not, there was certainly the chance to state conditions and to state one's own view as to the remedy, no doubt. Every stroke for justice counts when it is made at the right place and at the right time, while it was assured the right time and the right place to be contesting the ground at that committee hearing. CORRESPONDENTS WANTED The old reliable Gazette desires an active agent and correspondent in every city and town in Ohio and neighboring states having a number of Afro-American residents. Only a little time on Fridays or Saturdays is required. We are especially destroys of hearing from persons in the following named cities: Springfield, Dayton, Piqua, 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 "Any prejudice whatever will be insumountable if those who do not share in it themselves truckle to it and flatter it and accept it as a law of nature."— John Stuart Mill. When writing to or making purchases of any of our advertisers, please mention The Gazette. PROTEST AGAINST WRONG. To submit in silence when we should protest makes co-wards 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 disputes. The king who dare, must speak and speak again to right the wrongs of many. —Ella Wheeler Wilcox. FACTS People who Advertise Can sell Goods. People who sell Goods Can make Money. People who make Money can advertise goods. While it is true that occasional advertising will bring extra business, it is equally true that constant, persistent advertising will keep business growing during "dull days." The merchant who considers riches a burden should never advertise. His store may be like a summer resort in January. Do YOU advertise? The merchant who never advertises under any circumstance or condition may imagine he is wise, but his competitors have no desire to disturb his imagination. It's a good time to "get awake." OHIO, JANUARY 29, 1921 Sincerely yours, Joseph C. Manning. The Best Advertising Medium is "The Old Reliable" GAZETTE. It is a privilege to fearlessly stand for the right— Not a sacrifice, even though you go down. They count not the cost, who fight the good fight, And unflinchingly face the sneer or the frown. Joseph C. Manning. "HUMAN NATURE'S FOULEST BLOT." My ear is pained My soul is sick with every day's report Of wrong and outrage, with which the earth is filled. There is no flesh in man's obdurate heart. It does not feel for man: the natural bond Of brotherhood is severed as the flax That falls asunder at the touch of fire. He finds his fellow guilty of a skin Not colored like his own: and having power To enforce the wrong, for such a worthy cause Dooms and devotes him as his lawful prey. Thus man devotes his brother, and destroys: "Tis human nature's broadest foulest blot. —Cowper. The Pride of Carolina The State Agricultural and Mechanical College of South Carolina Orangeburg, S. C. Next session begins September 28th and ends May 26th, 1921. No Tuition, no Room Rent, no Charges for Water, Lights or Fuel. Entrance Fee $10.00 Board $12.00 per Month in Advance. 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FUNERALS, PATRONIZE JOE HEDGES' POOL ROOM AND BARBER SHOP 3038 CENTRAL AVE. One of the Best in the city. Everybody Welcome! LOGAN OWENS, Pres. WM. BRACK, Vice-Pres. ISOM REEVES, Mgr. FRANK DOCTOR, Asst. Mgr. M. E. HARRIS, Secy. 3033 CENTRAL AVE. CLEVELAND, OHIO CENTRAL SHIRT SHOP A RACE ENTERPRISE G. J. TATE, Proprietor. GENTS' FURNISHINGS, NECKWEAR. Hosiery, Underwear and Arrow Collars and Shirts, Hats, Caps, etc. 2922 CENTRAL AVE. Phone Prospect 441-J. Crowden & Tuck Undertakers and Funeral Directors Bell, Prospect 4264 3350 CENTRAL AVE., COR. E. 34th ST. FUNERALS, $100 See us First for all Goods JOHN S. HALL Prices Reasonable. Satisfaction JEWELER AND OPTOMET 3121 Central Ave., Cleveland, O. 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T. YOUNG, Inc., Dept. G, 1606 South St., Philadelphia, Pa. PAINLESS EXTRACTION Solid Gold Teeth, Gold Crowns, $5.00 White Crowns, Bridge Work ..... Hours 8:00 A. M. to 8:00 DR. GREENFIELD'S, Den OPPOSED TO PAIN 227 Euclid Avenue—Right Across the Street Cent Store. $5.00 AND UP M. to 8:00 P. M. , Dental Specialists O PAIN the Street from Kresge's 5 and 10 more. Solid Gold Teeth, Gold Crowns, White Crowns, Bridge Work ..... Hours 8:00 A. M. to 8:00 P. M. DR. GREENFIELD'S, Dental Specialists OPPOSED TO PAIN 227 Euclid Avenue—Right Across the Street from Kresge's 5 and 10 Cent Store. "I honor the man who in the conscientious discharge of his duty dares to stand alone; the world, with ignorant, infatuated mind, the countenance, 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 relatrices or the hearts of friends."—Charles Sumner. The MECCA For the PUREST AND BEST MEDICINES, SODAS, CIGARS, ETC., and for Prescriptions filled by a Registered Pharmacist is L. A. Lesser's DRUG STORE 2202 Scoville Ave. J. LOMSKY 3820 Central Avenue We carry full line of Dry Goods Ladies and Gents Furnishings DARE TO DO YOUR DUTY "Let us have faith that right makes might, and In that faith let us to the end dare to do our duty as we understand it"—Abraham Lincoln. Free Examination. Expert Bridge Work. 22-K Gold Used. Dr. LeROY N. BUNDY, Dentist, Guaranteed and Efficient Work! Extraction with Gas Administered. Twenty Years' Experience. The "St. John", 2265 E. 40th St. Cor. Central Ave. 'Phone: Bell, Rose. 6978 Excellent Service Hours: 9 to 12, 1 to 6, 7 to 8. Sundays, By Appointment Office, Rose, 1412. Res., Gar. 6557 Princeton 171 Office Hours: 4:30 to 7:30 P. M. Dr. O. A. Taylor PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON 2288 E. 49th St., Cleveland, O. MRS.L.S.BRADLEY 8241 Preble Ave. Cleveland, O. Has Houses For Sale or To Rent Dr. N. K. Christopher Office Hours: 10 a. m. to 1 p. m. 8 p. m. to 8 p. m. Sundays by Appointment 2254 E. 55th St. Cleveland, O. Phone, Rosedale 6165 Office Phones: Main 2912; Central 1424-R Residence, 614 E. 107th St. Phone Eddy 5384-J. Attorney-at-Law Room 510, Blackstone Building 1426 West 3rd Street Notary Public Polish Interpreter Cleveland O. Bell 'Phone Rosedale 5598 Residence, Rosedale, 4417. Hours: 9-11 A. M.—1-3 R. M.—6-8 P. M. Sunday's 3-5 P. M. E. J. GREGG, M. D. Physician and Surgeon 2322 E. 55th St., Temple Theater Bldg Rooms 2-3. Cleveland, O Dr. E. A. BAILEY PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON 2265 E. 40th St. Cor. Central Ave. Cleveland, O. Office Hours: 4 to 7:30 P. M. Phone—Rosedale 2306 Central 1666 L. Residence—8012 Cedar Ave. — Residence Phones — Cedar 1943 Princeton 1459 W. THE TEMPLE THEATRE 2322 E. 55th St. Maurice Bolasny, Manager. Friday, Jan. 28—EILEEN PERCY in "Beware of the Bride" Saturday, Jan. 29—TOM MIX in "The Texan." Sunday, Jan. 30—SPECIAL FEATURE in Six Parts. Also, WM. DUNCAN in "Fighting Fate." Monday, Jan. 31—"SO LONG LETTY"—Musical Comedy. Tuesday, Feb. 1—PAULINE FREDERICK in "A Slave of Vanity." Wednesday, Feb. 2—MARY MILES MINTER in "Eyes of The Heart." Thursday, Feb. 3—"GREAT- ER SINERS." Bride 13—Last Episode. FREDERICK in "A Slave of MAIN THEATRE Scovill Ave. and E. 25th St. O. E. BELLES, Mgr. Scovill Ave. & E. 25th St. O. E. Belles, Mgr. Friday, Jan. 28—WM. DES-MOND in "Women Men Love." This photoplay was made in Cleveland. Saturday, Jan. 29—JOS. DOWLING in "A Kentucky Colonel." Monday, Jan. 31--MILDRED HARRIS in "Old Dad." Tuesday, Feb. 1—CHAS. HUTCHINSON in "A Double Adventure", No. 1. Also EU- GENE O'BRIEN in "A Wonder- ful Chance." Wednesday, Feb. 2—An ALL- STAR cast in "Two Kinds of Love." Thursday, Feb. 3—WM. DUN- CAN in "Fighting Fate", No. 1. Also, WESLEY BARRY in "Dinty." Where to Purchase The Gazette other readers receiving The Gazette regularly should notify as 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. J. E. BRANHAMS 4213 Central Ave. JACKSONS 4401 Central Ave. *PHILLIP LURIE, 3031 Central Ave. Classified Advertising ... Department ... WANTED — Waitress — at the Queen's Palace Lunch Room, at ($12) twelve dollars a week and board; also a good home for the right girl. She must be nice and of fair complexion and between 18 and 21 years of age. Address, 271 Main St., Conneaut, O. Phone, Main 1149. FOR RENT — Rooms — First-class rooms for gentlemen only. Residence of Mrs. M. Hunter, 4127 Cedar Ave. 3t CLEVELAND Social and Personal CLEVELAND Social and Personal Mrs. Carrie Fields of Ann Arbor, Mich., who is visiting her sister, Mrs. Jas. Offer, may locate here. Mrs. Tom O. Queen was former Mrs. Maud Williams. They are newlyweds. Best wishes! Both have many friends in Cleveland. Robert E. Stokes, E., 37th St., well known in sporting circles and manager of Tate's Stars, 1918 ball team, died. Sunday. Continued hemorrhages. This week Friday is the birthday of the editor of The Gazette. Mr. Cohen, owner of the Owl Drug store, E. 38th St. and Central Ave., has purchased the Brown Drug store. Madam Emma French of Toledo, former resident of Ashtabula, Finidlay and Cleveland, arrived in the city, last Saturday, to be the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Bolden, E. 39th St., for several days. Our local organizations, particularly those composed of Christian women, should take immediate steps to stop the sale of "raisin-jack" whiskey by certain drug stores up Central Ave. I. A very pretty souvenir post-card from Jacksonville, Fla. last week, contains the following written by Fred, D. Sampson: "Fine weather down here and that's all." Truth, brother, tell it! Jas. P. Robinson and Miss Lydia Banks were married, Monday, at Mrs. Long's, E. 46th St., by Rev. L. H. Brown. A number of close friends witnessed the ceremony. Dr. E. A. Bailey, 2265 E. 40th St, wishes to announce to his patients and the public that Dr. Leroy N. Bundy the dentist, is no longer in any way whatsoever connected with Dr. Bailey's office—Adv. St. John's recent revival netted: 352 conversions and re-claimed; $2-211.85, offerings; Evangelist Mary G. Evans, $760 and a purse for the purchase of a new suit of clothes. Miss Evans left, Sunday night, for Indianapolis, her home. Police raided the Sixth City Whist Club, 2816 Central Ave, last Saturday night, making 30 arrests. "Lippy" Washington and "Jim" Johnson, proprietors, claim unfair discrimination against them and are preparing to take action for fair play, they say. Mrs. Helen Waller McAllister, former resident of this city, died in N. Y. City, Jan. 21. Mrs. McAllister was a daughter of the late Hon. John M. Waller, years ago consol to Madagascar. She was an active member of St. John's A. M. E. church, an elocutionist and playwriter. A husband, two children, a sister, Mrs. Jenny Christian, E. 43d St., and a host of friends survive her. Dr. E. A. Bailey, 2265 E. 40th St., wishes to announce to his patients and the public that Dr. Leroy N. Buny, the dentist, is no longer in whatsoever connected with Dr. Bailey's office—Adv. Competitive examinations will be held, Feb. 15, for vacancies in the position of laborer in the postal service, with a salary of $1,350, and also for vacancies in the position of watchman and skilled laborer in the custodian service. Custodian employees will be paid a bonus of $200 upon evidence of satisfactory service. The age limits for employees in postal and custodian services are from 20 to 50 years. These boys are playing this season in the following local basketball teams: Pete Willette, with Central High; Ted Hansbary, with West Tech; Henry Middleton, with East Tech; Seconds and Wm. Anderson, with Wilson Strands. Are muking splendid records. Will Hansbary starred in football teams last fall and are very popular with local athletes. THE GAZETTE, CLEVELAND, OHIO, JANUARY 29, 1921. Dr. Geo. C. Sutton has located offices at 10566 Cedar Ave. Beat wishes! Royal Calanthe Drill Corps, No. 1, has elected the following officers for the ensuing year: Mary LaSantee (re-elected), captain, Gertrude Martin, first lieut.; Marie Harris, second; Sarah Lyons, recorder; Ida Fountaine, treas.; Myra Ramsay, right guide; Lillie Ward, left; Mary Winsor, first sergeant. George J. Tate, head of the Tate Stars, Class A baseball team in the C. A. A. A., said the first of the week, that he was satisfied with his position in the C. A. B. & A. A. and that his team would not be listed up in the proposed league on semi-po-teams. It also was reported, Sunday, that Ed. Johnson had only been asked to serve as one of the directors and not as president of the proposed league. Lane Metropolitan C. M. E. church and S. S. were largely attended, Sunday, the latter's contribution being $40. H. M. King, supt. The pastor was at his best at the morning service, preaching eloquently on "Peter's Restoration to the Apostleship." Music by the Junior Choir, Collections, for the day, $262. Dr. Brown will speak, Sunday, on "The Faith that can be Seen" and "The New Heart." Robert L. Bass, an old and well known resident, has opened a grocery store at 4111 Central Ave. and placed his nephew in charge. There are many, very many of our people in that vicinity and there is absolutely no chance that he passing his store to purchase goods (the economy) from some one else not identified with race. His stock will be found to be the best and his prices the lowest. It is a race enterprise. Show in a practical way that you appreciate the fact.-Adv. The Gazette is in indebted to Robert I. Drake, 2243 E. 71st St., for a very pretty "hanger" bearing splendid portraits of President-elect Warren G. Harding and Gov. Harry L. Davis, and a fine poem on "Ohio," written by himself. It is well worthy a place in any home. Do not fail to get a copy. S. E. Woods, Wm. R. Green, Major W. T. Anderson, and several others constituted the committee that called on Maurice Maschke, who invoked the appointment of Selma C. Glenn as an assistant police prosecutor. Mrs. Annie L. Lemon, mother of Mrs. Ester L. Van Riper, bookkeeper for the Empire Sav. & Loan Co., died at Cambridge, Mass., Jan. 20. Mrs. Van Riper, accompanied by her brother, hurried home as soon as they learned of the serious condition of their mother but the angel of death had preceded them. A husband and ten children survive her, with one exception, attended the funeral from the family residence in Cambridge, Jan. 23 at noon. Interment in the cemetery there. The bereaved family have the earnest sympathy of a host of friends in Cambridge and here. A young lady who answered the Globe Theater 'phone, Tuesday afternoon, said its manager had "run away," that the theater was closed, and that a Mr. Maurice Horwitz, who had leased the theater to one Leon Krim, the aforementioned manager, objected to any but Jewish shows at the Globe. We called the Jewish Daily World office and a man there said that Krim was a responsible person and had not run away, but was right here in town. "My Friend from Kentucky," the Darktown Follies' play, had not gone forth at the Globe the first four o'clock of this week with a matinee. Thursday afternoon. The company arrived but of course could not "show." Too bad, as many were anxious to witness the play and the theater would undoubtedly have been packed the four nights and afternoon. DR. LE ROY BUNDY, Dentist, wishes to announce that his new operating room, which is one of the best in the city, is now open for inspection, 2265 E. 40th St., "The St. John." Rosedale 6978. Our advertisers want your trace. Those who do not ask for it in the columns of "The Old Reliable" Gazette certainly care little, if at all, for it. Therefore, we urge our readers and all of our friends to patronize those who ask for your trade in the courses of the magazine. Do not wait for the collector to call on you but call, send or mail your subscription money at once so as to not miss a single copy of "The Old Reliable" Gazette. A NEW SCIENCE. A Clearing House For The Auto Equipment Industry. UNIVERSITY CREATES SPECIAL LABORATORY TO MAKE MOTOR RESEARCHES ANN ARBOR, Mich.—When the University of Michigan opens its doors this fall the first distinctly automotive laboratory for testing and research in the United States, if not in the world, will be available. Within a month the board of regents of the university has provided for the establishment of such a laboratory and has made an appropriation of $10,000 for its equipment with the most complete and up-to-the-minute apparatus. The laboratory provided is a temporary one—a structure 60x150 feet long, having seven days of last fall. It will allow the immediate needs of he work and in time will give way to a permanent building. This laboratory will make possible the establishment of research and development work covering co-operative service for inventors, engineers, manufacturers and the public. With the new and old laboratories combined opportunity will be afforded the opportunity to conduct an unlimited, directed investigation, through the establishment of fellowships. As Michigan is by far the largest producer of automobiles and automobile equipment in the United States, the particular location of the university and its laboratory is in the strategic center of the automobile industry in the mid-West, with Jackson, Lansing, Flint, Pontiart, Detroit, Toledo, Ohio, and Indianapolis, cities where the lion's share of cars are manufactured, all within a day's distance. With the new laboratories the university can act as a clearing house for the industry and the public, in the matter of testing out and reporting upon new equipment, accessories, units or complete vehicles. It is planned to install two complete dynamometers for engines and accessory testing, and also a complete chassis testing equipment for the determination of car efficiency and fuel efficiency. PROFITS FOR "PROPHETS" Oil-Boom In Texas And Oklahoma Great Source Of Income For Mediums CHICAGO, Mo.—According to reports that float in from the oil-booming sections of Texas and the present epidemic of speculation is proving a sure-fire source of profit for one hard-work group of persons, namely the spiritualistic mediums, readers of dreams, prognosticators of the future, or whatever else they may elect to call themselves. The parlers of these gifted exponents of the propheteering 'art' are said to be crowded with seekers for advice as to whether certain oil stocks are going up or down, whether they are going to "strike oil" or not nothing but sand and rock. A particularly delightful feature of the business is that if the soysetter hands out the right dope and the seeker of his counsel does make a haul, the latter very frequently shows his gratitude by coming back and handing the medium a portion of the winnings. In Fort Worth, Texas, it is a case of "standing room only" in the anterooms of the spiritualistic mediums, and very wonderful stories are going the rounds of fortunes won from the oil fields as a result of the prophetic powers of these gentry. It is reported, however, that they confine their attention strictly to the business of prognosticating for others and do not threaten us. They invest in stocks. The reason for this, no doubt, is that there is practically no risk in the prophet business. They cannot hand out the wrong advice every time, and frequently returns both coming and going, in bonuses from lucky clients as well as in fees. THIEVES' NEW STUNT NEW YORK—Thieves in subways and elevated railways have discovered a novel and effective way of making a haul, as many of the citizens of the metropolis will testify. While traveling on an elevated train recently a woman was greatly annoyed by an unknown man, who stared at her constantly. But she was still more annoyed—not to say terror-striken and furious—when the train having stopped for a few moments at a station, the man alighted and then deftly reached through the open car window and snatched a diamond lavaliere which the woman was carrying around her neck. S's shouted for help but before the gards on the train and the people on the station platform could comprehend what had happened the train had started and the thief had escaped. In the subways also similar thefts have occurred, but to date only men's new straw hats have gone through 'the car windows' into the possession of the mumble-fingered fraternity. More Trouble. "Her back troubles her a good deal." "Lumbago?" "No, she wants a new spring coat." STRANGER THAN FICTION. Mother Finds Kidnapped Son Living As Indian. SQUAW MAN TRADED COW FOR WHITE BABY AND THE LATTER WAS ADOPTED BY INDIAN TRIBE SAN FRANCISCO, Cal.-One night twenty-four years ago, when Idaho was a frontier and romance still lived in the forests and the hills, a 6 months old baby was stolen from his crib beside his mother's bed in a little log cabin in the Panhandle state. Some time ago Mrs. Erick E. Dengel of the Oakland apartments, Oakland, found her boy at Lapwai Ferry, Idaho. He was living on an Indian reservation as Howard Wilson, adopted son of a squaw man and an old Indian woman, and lawful man of the tribe of Nez Perce. A soldier from Idaho came to the Presidio last January and related at a party in Oakland a strange, traditional story of a white baby that had been stolen from a cabin near a military reservation one June night in 1895. Mrs. Denley heard of the story, and at the end of the trail to which it led she found her son. As soon as Howard Wilson can sell the lands and the cattle left to him by the Indian woman that mothered him for years he will go to his mother's home in Oakland and become Robert Denley, a man of the cities. Mary was born in Vermont, and her mother died when the girl was a year old. Her father went to Idaho to seek wealth in the mines, leaving his daughter with friends in New England. Thirteen years later the girl went to her father, and a short time later he became seriously ill. The girl and the son of her father's partner were called to the bedside, and there they were married. The father recovered, and a year or so later Robert Denley was born. That day in June, 1895, the young husband was forced to go to a nearby settlement for supplies. His wife laughed at his fears for her safety. And, while the mother slept, the baby was stolen from his crib that night. Howard Wilson, who will be Robert Denley, had heard from the Nez Perce Indians the story of his life. A white man and two white women appeared among the Indians at Lapwai in June, 1895, and asked the Indians to care for a baby boy. The Indians refused, and the white persons went away, leaving the infant on a pier. A young Indian mother took the baby for her own. When the Indians went away on a hunting trip the child was left with white persons, and the Indians returned the baby again was missing. But he appeared a short time later at Kooskia. Wilson, a squaw man, had a cow he didn't want. He did want the white baby. The trade was made, and as Howard Wilson the boy grew up. He saw the squaw the boy beat the aged Indian woman, who took the beatings stolidly and said she hoped the white boy wouldn't be like that. The squaw man died, and Howard Wilson was adopted into the Nez Perce tribe. The adoption entitled the tribe to draw government rations for him. When the old woman died the boy received all her property and built over her grave a tombstone such as never was seen before at the Indian cemetery at Lapwat Ferry. Mrs. Denley took up the case with government agents at the reservation. They traced the story of the lost white boy and found it was her son. They told the young man about it. He was doubtful, for he didn't know what a white mother would be like. The night of July 12. Mrs. Denley met her boy. The young man's father died eleven years ago, after thirteen years of vam searching for the baby that was lost in the hills of Idaho. 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