Metropolis Weekly Gazette

METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE For the next 15 days we will sell our gift books at these big reductions: All best authors and will make beautiful and valuable Christmas presents Call and look at them. Take no ones word; look for yourself. Do not send off for a book until you see ours. Louis Valee These Four First-Class Magazines and Our Paper, ALL FIVE ONE YEAR, Only Women's World, 35c yr. Green's Fruit Grower, 50c yr. Farm Life, 25c yr. All Five for About the Press Ours Alone This is the biggest bargain in the matter ever offered to our subscribes our paper—the best we can in this part of the state—and the Four Magazines of nation shown above, sample copies of which may be seen at our. We have never sold our paper alone at less than a cent. But on account of the splendid contract we have made with publications we are able to give our readers the four magazine paper, all one year for only $1.18—just 18 cents a regular price of our paper alone. Send us your orders right away, give them to our repressors and see us when you are in town. As soon as you see beautiful, interesting magazines you will want them sent home for a year. 50c yr. Farm Life, 25c yr. Home Life, 28c yr. About the Price of the biggest bargain in the best reading or offered to our subscribers. It in- paper—the best weekly published or Magazines of national prominence which may be seen at our office. alone at less than a dollar a year. ract we have made with these big readers the four magazines with our .18—just 18 cents more than the love them to our representative or call As soon as you see these clean, will want them sent to your own HOME WORLD FRUIT GROW FARM LIFE HOME LIFE All Five for About the Price of Ours Alone This is the biggest bargain in the best reading matter ever offered to our subscribers. It includes our paper—the best weekly published in this part of the state—and the Four Magazines of national prominence shown above, sample copies of which may be seen at our office. We have never sold our paper alone at less than a dollar a year. But on account of the splendid contract we have made with these big publications we are able to give our readers the four magazines with our paper, all one year for only $1.18—just 18 cents more than the regular price of our paper alone. Send us your orders right away, give them to our representative or call and see us when you are in town. As soon as you see these clean, beautiful, interesting magazines you will want them sent to your own home for a year. $1.18 JUST THINK WHAT IT MEANS! $1.18 Our Paper and These Four Standard Magazines ALL FIVE ONE YEAR, ONLY "George," she asked, "if we were both young and single again would you want me to be your wife?" "Now, my dear," he absent-mindedly replied "what's the use of trying to start a quarrel just as we have settled down to enjoy a quiet evening?"—Chicago Record-Herald. A MONTH -- That's most $10.00 a Day WHY NOT MAKE $200.00 A MONTH $50.00 a Week, almost $10.00 a D Selling Victor Safes and fire-proof boxes to merchants, doctors, lawyers, dentists and surgeons of whom reliance is of a safe, but do not know how easy it is own one. Salesmen declare our proposition one of the best, clean-cut money-making opportunities ever practiced. Without providing evidence YOU can duplicate the success of others. Our handsomely illustrated 200-page catalog will enable you to present the subject to customers as as tempting as a曼哈顿 all about you were piloting them through our factory. Men appointed as you were piloting them through our factory. Men appointed as salesmen required advice and instructions for selling sales, giving supervising sales points within it is impossible for a proper customer to dey. Why don't YOU be the first to apply from your vicinity before someone else gets the territory? We can favor only one salesman out of each locality. The 25th anniversary of our company was celebrated by erecting the most modern safe factory in the world. Wide-awake men who received our special selling indoors, rendered it necessary to double our output. We are spending many thousands of dollars enlarging our sales organization, but to learn all particulars, it will cost you only the price of a postal card. Ask for Catalogue 16 Y. THE VICTOR SAFE & LOCK CO. CINCINNATI, OHIO Our New Home. Capacity 20,000 Safes Annually. ```markdown ``` Household Philosopher, "Arrange what a difference there is." sold the household philosopher, "between things we need and things we want. There are many things we need in the house, but never can find the money for, while somehow we can always find the money for things we want that we personally fancy." 1 Unanswered. ```markdown ``` The 25th anniversary of our company was celebrated by a large factory in the world. Wide-awake men who received our special selling inducement, rendered it possible to double our output. We are spending many thousands of dollars enlarging our sales operation, but to keep our staff, we will cost you only the price of a postal card. Ask for Catalogue 16 Y. THE VICTOR SAFE & LOCK CO. CINCINNATI, OHIO MOTTO : "HEW TO THE LINE. LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY." COBDEN Just a few words to let you all know that we are trying to do all we can for the Lord. Rev. R. C. Brown as pastor and with his aid have organized a B. Y.P. U, and hada very pleasant time Sunday Eve. Elder Brown is doing a great work here. Please find enclosed 50cts. subscription for Gazette for S. S. will send the other 50cts. in next letter. Send Gazette to Mrs. D De Baum, I am yours very truly, Mrs. D, Debaum. GALESBURG Dear Co-Workers: The National Trustee of the School for Illinois, Mrs. Eva G. Hooper has sent word that she has to raiae $50.00 by the 1st. Sunday in Feb'y. for said School. This is our part of the State work. Will the circles and individuals send $1.00 or $2.00 or any amount that you have for this cause which all know is a worthy one. The state, circles, and persons will be credited for the same, do not let this appeal go by unnoticed please. Send money to Mrs. Eva G. Hooper 5214—State Chicago, or either to Cor. Sec. Susie B. Hazle, 718—Arnold. Remember no later than the 1st of Feb'y. BELGRADE Our S. S. is still progressing. Miss Mary Lou Blackwell returned to Paris, Wednesday. She has been visiting her parents Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Blackwell. The social given at the residence of Mrs Wm Wyatt was largely attended by the young people an all reported a jolly time. Mr. Herd and Family of Metropolis moved in our vicinity last week, we always glad to welcome good people in our midst. Miss Myrtle Long visited the home of Miss Florence Mooreland Sunday, she was accompanied by her, cousin Clarence Long. Quite a few attended the revival at the New Hope Baptist church in Brookport, Sunday. G. W. Long who has been sick this week is somewhat improved. Mrs Mary Moore of Brookport visited in Belgrade Friday. Isaac Crim of Choat is spending a few days with his daughter Mrs. Wm. Wartfield. Elisha Lutton is indisposed this week. Miss Ollie Lassiter is spending a few days with parents Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Lassiter. Tribue Terrell who is spending a few days in Belgade Sundayed in Prookport. H. A, Long, reporter. Murphysboro, Jan. 11, 1914. To the Editor Gazette: Please print the following in your next issue. The Shilch Baptist Church of Murshysboro met in business session Friday evening Jan. 9, and called Rev. Wm H. Denton, of Carbondale to be her pastor. The Church is prospringing. Yours for His cause. John Woods, Church Clerk. The Workers. "Did a musician of note score you? pora?" "No; the critics did." I. Rev D. Parrish, wish to inform the Baptist of the Mt. Olive Baptist Association that whereas there has been a mistake relative to the Liberty Baptist Church of Cairo, Ill. I have been informed that the East Mt. Olive Baptist Association has not or did not accept of the co-operation of the organization known as Liberty Baptist Church, Cairo, Ill. They only examined the record which was their undoubted right to do, and so far as the record are concerned, in their judgement, they declared it to be a regular organized Baptist Church, but did not accept it into the co-operation. And whereas it is not in the province of any Board or Association to interfere with the local congregations without invitation therefore I advise that the difficulty between the two organization 11th Street and Liberty harmonize the matter between themselves However if they wish advice they have only to inform the Moderator and he will gladly respond to their revuest Rev. D. Parrish, D. D. OBITUARY. Thursday Jan. 8th. 1914r Sister Zilpora Sims, departed this life. She was in the state of Virginia, and moved to Ky. in her early days. She was married at the age of 17 to Wesley Sims, and to this union was born 12 children, all of whom preceded her to the beyond except three, two sons and one daughter; Burt and Doc' of Paducah, Ky. and Mrs. John Morris of Brookport Ill. She united with the Baptist Church for 75 years. She was born in 1824. The Rev. Smith of Washington St. Baptist church Paducah, and Rev J. M. Blake of Metropolis attended the funeral. She leaves several grandchildren and great grandchildren to mourn their loss. The remains were laid to rest at the Rocky Ford Cemetry, Ky. COLPSVILLE Gazette:- I am pleased to say that our church and S. S. are yet alive. We held church meet-Saturday night and it was the greatest ever witnessed. Sunday morning election of officers tor S. S. and our treasurer reported $35.00 on hand. At 11:00 A M. Rev. Hilley preached a strong Gospel sermon, also at 1:30 P. M. and the Lord's supper was administered. A very small sum of $15 75 was raised. It was a glorious time. The following are on the sick list:- Frank Ramsey, Miss M. Cooper, Sist. Jennie Clark, Miss Eliza Hall, is here visiting her sister Miss Hudson, M. Duncan. African Baptist Church Rev. G. W. Rowlett, who has supplying the pulpit for some time, in fact, the acting pastor preached one of the best sermons that it has been our pleasure to listen to for some time. It was full of logic, sound reasoning and gospel truths. Rev. Rowlett is one of the most able ministers in southern Illinois or in the state for that matter, and is worthy of a strong church. The African Baptist is prospering under his leadership as she has more peace now than she has had for more than a year and it seems that the members are coming together and the factional differences are being adjusted amicably and Christianity. We can see no reason why the members under the present state of affairs, taking under advisement the winter, hard times and the indebtness, running expenses and the debt the church will incur by the completion of the interior of the building, that Rev. Rowlett is left at the helm and all the members rally around the center and touch elbows and go forward to the task set before them. Common sense and business like men and women could see this and prosper, Don't put down your own whom you know to be a sale and sane leader for some whom you don't know whether he would suit this particular place or not. Which will pay the church the better to take $25, or $30. per month and have $10, or $15 to her credit or to take $35 00 and pay it all out to a preacher? I am in favor of Rowlett holding the church so long as it is prospering as it is. He is clean, sale and tried, and he is no wine bibber nor whisky sot. I am acquited to write this because I know the man and knowing the financial strain under which all the churches are laboring in Metropolis. it is wise to adjust our expenditures to our income The church should let well enough alone especially this winter regardless to what some people may say about home preachers, they have proven to be your best friends in the hour of need. That Twenty Five Dollars. We wrote an article before Xmas about $25.00 that was said to have been given to the African Baptist church by the saloon interest, and at time we promise to give a statement in these columns about the money as soon as we found out as to who the party or parties were that accepted the money in the name of the church, and at the same church was not responsible for the taking of the money, if such was true. Some of the officers wanted to have us churched for turning on the light or making the inquiry as it was in the mouth of every one, but that suggestion fell flat when we asserted our manhood and told them to church, because we would do it again under the same condition. The more discreet brethren made a motion that the party or parties guilty of bringing the disgrace and reproach against the church without its knowledge prepare an article and have it published in the paper exonerating the church from the charge, and the same was carried. Up to this time this order has not been carried our so far as we know, and if the same is not made public in in the near future, the editor will give to its readers the ones knowing into the transaction and let the blame rest where it rightly belongs. We have found out all about it as some of the parties concerned and not members of the church either have laid bare the whole transaction and the party who paid the money. The church is not guilty as charged. Take the blot off the church. To the Missionary Baptist Family of Illinois. Greeting: This Closing message for the year 1913 comes to you from one whose heart runs out for every one in thoughtfulness to God for preserving the lives of us all to see the closing of another year's work. As we look about us and see what has been done for both missions and education we say what hath God wrought. Many many souls has been born into the Kingdom of God. According to reports from our pastors of the churches and the General Missionary and the District Missionaries more souls have been brought into service than ever before in the history of our State for which we join you in praising the Lord for both the work and the workers. New churches have been established and our pastors and our pastors are being better provided for which enables them to do a more efficient work. For the work man saith holy writ is worthy his hire. God has been good in that all of our pastor's lives have been spared and there is more harmony among the christians. Our educational worth is receiving more attention; at Metropolis the work goes well according to reports and the future will tell for good if the brethren in that portion of the State will only continue to live up and get closer. The Chicago Religious Training Seminary has taken on new life since they have opened in their splendid new and comfortable quarters at 3333 S Wabash Ave. Chicago. New students are entering almost daily. The whole faculty deserves much praise. Several of the churches are paying the wages of students Olivet is sending and paying for six outright. But brother pastors and churches I fear with all of the above done we are leaving much undone. Each church was asked and expected to raise and send to the Treasurer one dollar per month for our state work. How many of you have done this brethren? All who havo not paid in this amount should do so at once that our workers should not suffer. Much is expected of you brethren because of the age in which you live and the work to be done. Don't let the year close and you direlect of duty. You cannot do next year what you should have done this year even if you should live the whole year out. Who will be the first to send in your portion where you are behind? Praying the blessing of God upon every church and pastor and wishing you a merry Christmas. Brookport Ill., Nov 26 '13 To whom this may concern. Greetings: This is to certify that I, A. C. Crider have been appointed Dist. Depty. Grand Master of the 7th Dist. of F. & A. M. of Illinois. I will visit all lodges in my district this year. The Art of Sleeping. Slumber commences at the extremities, beginning with the feet and legs. That is why it is always necessary to keep the feet warm. - Family Doctor WIT and HUMOR JACK NEW UP WITH THE JOB Big Explains to Mrs. Timkins H. Attractor and Assistants into Little Wagon. Mrs. Timkins was telling her neigh- bors how and been betrayed. "You have the said, "we had that man from Newark to look at the big daffee that's going to fall some day a day cut through our house, starting at the roof and not making any stops till it reaches the cellar. "He estimated that it was about fifty feet to the first branch, and he talked as through he had ladders, derricks and hawers enough to move the Washington monument. "Then he went away and wrote us a letter making a bid on the job. We accepted the bid. Then a month went by. "Yesterday he came in a little wagon about two by four, scarcely more than a baby carriage. He had some ropes and four men besides himself. But no ladders. When he found that none of his four men would climb up the first branch and fasten the rope, he said he couldn't take the tree down. "His ridiculous little wagon! I don't see how those five men ever got into it, even themselves." "Maybe they were boys when they started," said Neighbor Jones—New York Evening Post. His Growl. "A man ought to know when to say no." "You know when to say no, all bright." "Thank you. I think I do." "Yes, you said no when you felt sure I would ask you again. And you said yes when you saw me beginning to weaken." Just the Same. "I met Dunkey today for the first time for years. He hasn't changed much." "Oh, he hasn't changed at all, but he doesn't seem to realize it." "How do you mean?" "Oh, he's forever talking about what a fool he used to be."—Stray Stories. Deadly Stuff. "Dobbs seems to be in high good humor." "He's made a great discovery." "Will it benefit science?" "It may benefit the medical profession. He has found a place where he can buy mince ple two inches thick." Altogether Conversational. "Any battles lately?" asked one Mexican journalist. "Not exactly," replied the other. "Nothing more than a skirmish." "Have you all the details?" "Of course not. I don't write short hand." HARD LINES. A. Critic—The first line of your new poem will appeal to everyone who knows you. Poet—Indeed. Critic—Yes. It reads, "I would that I were dead." Putting His Foot in It. Miss Mugg—You wonder who that homely looking man is, do you? Well, he happens to be my brother. Mr. Mixit—Oh, pray excuse me; I should have known it by the resemblance—Boston Evening Transcript. The Solitary Occasion "I never knew old Simpsonacknowl- lors that he had made a mistake." "Ab!! I did once." "Really. How old is happen?" "We got his lighted end of his clear on his mouth."—London Table. (vee) Old. Old Things. "That young drawings stays till a very late hour. Norra. What does your mother say about it?" "She says men haven't altered a bit, so."—London Opinion. Earth is Somewhat Larger Than a Baseball, but Not So Important—Is Splendid Summer Resort. The earth is a ball, so situated in a region called space as to get the full benefit of the sun on bright days and of the moon on romantic nights. It is somewhat larger than a baseball, but not so important. It is not so large as a fixed star, but is much closer and of a much pleasanter climate. It is not so flashy as a charity ball, but much more efficient. It has two poles of which we are certain, because they are vouched for by explorers; a center of which we are not certain, because it is vouched for merely by scientists; an equator and an axis, which are imaginary; Christian Scientists, which are imaginative, and, mathematicians, which are unimaginative. It is inhabited by people, husbands and other insects, animalcule and bacteria. It is connected with the rest of space by sound waves, light waves, wireless apparatus with instruments at the sending end only, telescopes and prayers. It has recently endeavored to exaggerate its ego by the use of aeroplanes. The earth is highly recommended as both a summer and a winter resort for well-to-do persons. Favorable terms to desirable parties.—Puitzer's Magazine. NATURAL EFFECT. DUTTER AND EGGAS "Your friend Banks has a very supercilious air. What makes him hold his nose so high?" "He can't help it, dear boy. He's an official egg inspector." Everything Depends Tommy—May I sit up a little longer? Ethel—What do you want to stay up for? Tommy—I want to see you and Mr. Green playing cards. Mr. Green—But we are not going to play cards. Tommy—Oh, yes, you are, for I heard mamma saying to Ethel that everything depended on the way she played her cards tonight.—Liverpool Mercury. The Merry Life. Some young folks have odd ideas of the life theatrical. "My, but I'd like to travel on the road with a company," said a young man the other day. "What would you like most about such a life?" his companion asked. "I think it would be great," the ambitious one exclaimed, "to sit about the railroad stations playing a banjo and singing songs until the train arrived." -Youngstown Telegram. The Time He Scored: Six years later he returns. His sweetheart of former years has married. They meet at a party. She has changed; between dances the recognition takes place. "Let me see," she muses, with her fan beating a tattoo on her pretty hand, "was it you or your brother who was my old sweetheart?" "Really, I don't know; probably my father." That's Different. Wydeman—Excuse me, young man, but I think your mother needs attention. Nahrow—The lady is my mother-in-law. Wydeman—Oh! I beg your pardon.—Judge. Rare Find "Here's a good joke from a London newspaper." "You don't seem very much excited about it." "Why should I be excited?" "Didn't you say it was good joke from a London newspaper?" "A woman in Pittsburgh says her husband has beaten her 2,080 times." "Weil, can you blame the poor man? Think of having a wife stubborn enough to keep the exact score!" Cheaper to Hire a Taxi. "Biffels is always buying suburban lots. what in the world is the matter with him?" "Oh, he can't resist the free automobile rides by agents." Does the Tom. "No," replied Farmer Corntossel. "He isn't tempted that way at all. He kin talks an act foolish enough to satisty anybody, just naturally." On the Move. "You paid $2,000 for a suite on an ocean liner?" "Yes. I'm trying to disprove that statement about it's being cheaper to move than to pay rent." METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE. METROPOLIS. IL Successful Writer Gives Some Good Advice to Those Who Would Appeal to the Public. Jack London, who says we should all do our work with a motive, and that whether that work be laying bricks or swabbing a deck or writing short stories, we will succeed only by following that principle, was recently in Los Angeles—with a motive. His motive was to arrange for the reproduction of some of his stories on the moving-picture screen. London pleaded guilty to having escaped from the hospital six days after entering, but laughingly intimated that his press agent's story that he had been operated on for appendicitis without anesthetic during his stay in bed was slightly exaggerated. "My 'escape' was connived at by the doctor, who took me home," he said frankly. London looks 30 and talks at the rate of 900 words a minute. But his talk is worth listening to—full of color, out-of-doors, snap and vigor, made up of short sentences, punctuated with occasional forceful gestures and consistently socialistic in tone. "I started writing when I was too poor to buy magazines to find out what a story was," he said. "In those days I went to the library and crammed myself full of the stories that were selling. Then I sailed in. "Successful writing depends on clear thinking. Know what you want to say. The words with which you think out your story are the words you should use. If you are thinking clearly—you see?" "There are tricks and devices that I use—tools in the art. I build on a motive—a thesis, and my story has a dual nature. On the surface is the simple story any child can read—full of action, movement, color. Under that is the real story, philosophical complex, full of meaning. One reader gets the interesting story, the other sees my philosophy of life. "If you are filled with enthusiasm for one thing, if you have one preachment: if you see with a wide vision and hold fast to that one thing, you'll succeed." EASY TO SATISFY MALONEY Asked to Name His Reward, He at First Flew High and Then Descended. It was the recruit squad, and the "rockies" were hot, tired and bad-tempered, as they went awkwardly through the endless drills. "Ye miserable, blithering spalpeens," yelled Sergeant Murphy. "Put some life in it, ye blundering muddlers! "Ha' ye got no bones in yer back at all?" he snorted to one particularly tired-looking recruit. "The only man among ye worth his pipeclay is Private Maloney! Stand a out, Maloney, me bhoy. Ye deserve a reward for the way ye show up this lot. Now, is there anything ye'd specially like that I can give ye?" Straight as a clearing-rod stood Private Maloney, and, coating one eye at his sergeant, he said: "It if makes no difference, sergeant, I'd like the Victoria Cross." "Now, don't ye be a fool, too, Maloney, me man. The cross is only given for conspicuous bravery." "Well, then, sergeant, have yer got an old tunic or an old pair of troussai that you're done with?" asked the redoubtable one. That is an old-time joke that a Philadelphia man turned up his trousers because it rained in London. But the weather exerts a wider influence than that. A Philadelphia manufacturer who employs more than a thousand hands has told me that a bad day reduces the efficiency of his plant 5 per cent. The Bank of England locks up certain of its important books on especially foggy days, not because of darkness, but for fear the dulled bookkeepers may make an error. It has been noticed frequently that a bright day following several stormy ones will stimulate the buying of stock. Men are naturally more optimistic and buoyant when the sun shines. - New Idea. The other evening a man, in what some novelists would call "faultless evening dress." was observed to be a new advertisement in disguise; that is to say, when the man opened his coat and pressed something, certain illuminated letters appeared on his shirt front. Also, on the same evening there was a man walking about the West end of London wearing the ordinary evening clothes and-white socks. His pumps were black. He was not an advertisement for anybody but himself. Here is an idea for some of you young bloods who want to distinguish yourself in the ballroom. Just wear white socks and note the glances. Time to Quit. "You are drinking too much at this ball." "That is because my girl is flirting with other fellows. But I make her jealous. Did you see me talking to younder tall dame?" "I saw you talking to a piano lawyer." "I saw you talking to a piano lamp." Real Truth. You told me you married me for love and then you told one of your horrid bachelor friends you married me merely for my money." "Well, both are right. I married you for love of your money." PUTS HIS LIVE STOCK FIRST Farmer Uses Serum to Save His Hogs, But Lets Members of Family Die of Tuberculosis. Inquiry was recently made of the Minnesota state board of health as to a certain family affected with tuberculosis, says the Journal of the American Medical association. The family was large and the house small, so that such care could not be given to the afflicted as to prevent the infection of others. The father had means and could afford to care properly for those diseased, if compelled to do so. A state board inspector was sent to investigate and this is what he found: A farmer, with a farm of 320 acres, worth $100 an acre or more; a breeder of horses, having at the time of inspection seven imported Percheron horses and a herd of about twenty-five horses in all; a breeder of registered hogs, his hogs being among the first in the state to be given the serum protective against hog cholera. This farmer has lived in one county for about thirty years. Sixteen years ago his first wife died of tuberculosis, leaving three children. He married again. His second wife has had thirteen children. The family now consists of father, mother and fourteen children. A daughter of the second wife, aged 15, died last August of tuberculosis. A son of the first wife, aged 19, has been ill with tuberculosis for at least two years. No precautions have been taken to prevent his infecting others. The mother, with one newly born child and another too young to walk, is responsible for the care of this family of fourteen living children. There is no medical care being given the son afflicted with tuberculosis. Apparently this farmer can appreciate the breeding of horses and the protection of hogs from hog cholera. But he cannot appreciate the danger of tuberculosis or the need of protecting not only the members of his own family, but others also, from this disease. The annual loss in the state of Minnesota caused by the death of wage earners from tuberculosis is about $12,000,000. The number of deaths annually from tuberculosis in Minnesota is about 2,250. The estimated number of cases of tuberculosis in Minnesota at the present time is 10,000 or more. Is this human disease worthy of the same efforts for its extermination as is hog cholera or glanders? NOT EVEN PAYING GUESTS More Than One Reason Why Guests Were Unwelcome Visitors to an Illinois Hotel. A traveler returning to his room in the hotel in Evanston, Ill., recently was surprised to see a couple of bees on his desk. He swatted one and' was chasing the other out of the window when he discovered there was another in the room, located between his collar and the back of his neck. "Wow," he observed, and, seeing half a dozen other coming, sprinted out of the room. A few minutes later there were yells from a room overhead. It was found the bees had swarmed in the hotel and there was a general rush for more comfortable quarters. A temporary hive baited with honey lured the wandering band back into safe keeping. Knew Book of 500 Pages by Heart. A good example of the surprising extent to which Chinese students cultivate the memory occurred at one of the examinations for the diploma of the College of Medicine at Philadelphia. All the students answered the questions correctly, but on comparing the papers it was found that the papers were identical. Words, paragraphs, sentences, full stops and commas were precisely alike. The examiners, new to Chinese methods of instruction, insisted on seeing another paper, for they believed that the students had somehow copied from each other. They drew up five more questions and kept careful watch during the examination. Again the answers were correct and identical in every point. It was only when the examiners looked at the textbook that the class used that the explanation appeared. The students knew the whole book of five hundred pages by heart and they could answer any question word for word from the book. Grape Crop Will Be Small. The survey of the vintage of 1913, published in the London Times shows that, excepting Italy, most countries producing fine wines have been handicapped this year by storms and the inroads of insects. The grape harvest of France is only two-thirds of last year's crop. Of her forty millions of people one and a half million are vineyard proprietors, cultivating 4,000,000 acres, with an average annual production of a billion gallons of wine, valued at $350,000,600. Gigantic Bridge Enterprise. The sanction of the Australian parliament has been asked for a gigantic bridge enterprise which will propose to erect across the harbor to connect Sydney with North Sydney. It will be about half a mile long and will cost about $17,750,000 and its construction will occupy about seven years. Besides four railroad tracks, the bridge will accommodate three roadways from 15 to 35 feet in width. AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS The character of enterprises undertaken by colored persons in a busy city is indicated by the recent investigation of Chicago's negroes made for the Juvenile Protective association. Of "the principal street in the 'black belt'," this report says: "In a mile on State street, from 2000 to 3000, the investigators found 108 colored men in business, who employed 270 colored men. Of these business undertakings 12 were saloons—most of them newly opened; 12 bar bureaus, seven real estate offices—only three of them ten years old; ten restaurants—five of them having been there more than five years and two for more than ten years; six pool rooms—all recently opened; four hair dressers, and three tailors, in addition to confectioners, bakers, cleaners, decorators, dressmakers, druggists and the other miscellaneous shops usually found in a self-contained neighborhood. As ministering to the higher life, there were found in the same block three music stores, one 'art store, one piano store, two printers, and—if they may be included in such a list—a photographer and a florist. all of the latter save one have been in existence for more than five years, in sharp contrast to the ephemeral life of the poolrooms and saloons, only one of which has survived so long, while 11 others have changed proprietors recently. "The total amount of capital invested in the mile by the 108 colored men was found to be $15,750. "Several colored women manage independent hair dressing establishments in Chicago. On State street there are two successful restaurants conducted by women; also one saloon and one florist shop; two widows of their original owners. "There are a large proportion of men, many of whom do business with white people." Following in many details the fiction story which was published a few weeks ago in a leading periodical, the Housekeepers' Alliance of the District of Columbia voted to start a training school for colored servants January 1. Although similar in these details, the idea is not a new one, but has been in the process of formation for several years. The training school will be conducted on an economic basis. In connection with the institution, business women of the District will be taken in as boarders, thus providing an income. It is estimated that it will cost about $1,800 per annum to conduct the school besides this income, making a cost of about $60 for each servant trained. Forty servants will be turned out every year. The site for the training school has not yet been selected, although several sites are now under consideration. The home of the training school was provided for many rooms. Each girl taking the course will be required to present a physician's certificate testifying to good health. Frank Jenkins, a little negro student of Far Rockaway, won the high school cross-country championship of Greater New York over the three and a quarter mile course of the Jamaica High school. Jenkins won as he pleased, although Alvin Robertson of Evander Childs was a close second. J. Gordon Moriarity of Richmond Hill was third. Team honors were won by the Jamaica High school with a total of 83 points. Morris High was second with 94 and Erasmus Hall third with 139. Those who knew John Randolph Tucker of Virginia will not marvel at the affection and esteem in which he was held by the colored page. "How well I remember him," said John A. Patten, former congressional page as he speared a drifting scrap of paper on the lawn. "When he was running for the first time for the office of Attorney General of Virginia he had to make his campaign on horseback, and wherever he stopped he received royal hospitality. "Alighting at the home of a prominent planner, he seated himself with the master of the house on the broad veranda. In response to a request for a drink of water, one of the negro house servants was sent to the spring. "In a few moments he returned with a glass of water, cool and clear. It needed no apology, but there were traditions to be preserved, and Sam hastened to say: "Please scuse the glass, Mars Ran, kase the gourd am broke." A baggage truck invented by a California man has hooks on the handles to permit it to be carried with its load upstairs on a man's shoulders. The Bible College and Institute for Civic and Social Betterment at Washington, D. C., has been in operation in this city for about six years. Under its auspices the interdenominational gospel wagon has been in operation for several years, and the Industrial Center, at 2422 K street, was established for the training of colored women in the useful and practical work of life. The wealth of Great Britain is estimated at $80,000,000,000 and that of France at $65,000,000,000. If every penny of the $4,000,000 raised in the Y. M. C. A. and W. W. C. A. campaign at Philadelphia had been twins there wouldn't have been enough even then to satisfy all the needs of the two organizations. The colored people themselves have been almost feverishly interested in the progress of the money campaign. They worked like Trojans, bringing in each day $2,000 or $3,000, which they had collected in small sums. Mrs. Ransome, the president of the women's branch, is the wife of a colored Baptist minister and a wonderful speaker herself. When the campaign first started several conferences were held at the homes of prominent women, and Mrs. Ransome was one of those who told of the needs of the different phrases of the work. One afternoon one of the officers of the association, while listening to Mrs. Ransome, noticed that the drawing room door was cautiously opened a crack and remained ajar till the end of the conference. After it was over the surprise of the women in charge was great when the old colored butler came up and deferentially asked for a pledge blank. It was given to him. When he handed it back they almost doubted their eyes when they read the amount on it. The old butler had subscribed $1,000. They appealed to the mistress of the house. Did she suppose he had so much money as that? Ought they to take it, even if he had it to give? "Yes," said the employer, "he probably has it. He has been in our family 30 years, and he has saved his money. If he wants to give that amount for the benefit of his own people let him do it. It is a great thing for them and for him." During the four years that John A. Patten, a colored man, served as a page in congress, he was naturally brought in close touch with many distinguished men whose names today are household words. The impressions made upon his mind are vivid, and in describing these men with whom he came in contact, Patten speaks directly and to the point. When asked whom he regarded as the greatest among those towering figures, he replied that when it came to commanding the attention of both parties in the house and the interest of the galleries, there was no one who could compare with the wizened "Little Giant" Stephens. He spoke seldom, but when he did there was a hush of expectancy and rapt attention. Patten chuckled as he recalled a story concerning Stephens. Without coming into the open, a certain member of the house had defeated one of the pet measures in which Stephens was interested. In order to avert suspicion, the man of the underground methods hastened to Stephens's hotel rooms, condoled with him at great length, and involged against the treachery of the man who had balked his pet measure. To all of this Stephens listened in silence until the denunciation of "somebody" was ended. Then, in his well-known falsetto, he turned to his astonished visitor and exclaimed: "Yes, and as Nathan said to David, 'Thou art the man!'" One of the strange sights in the recent blizzard at Cleveland was furnished by four patient camels, attached to a theatrical company on a tour, who plodded resignedly through the blinding snow. Senator Clapp of Minnesota made an address recently at the Cosmopolitan Baptist church, Washington, D.C., recently on "Government Relations to the Negro." The purpose of the meeting was to inaugurate a campaign which has as its purpose the raising of $15,000 to pay off the church debt. "The obligation of the government for the religious and intellectual education of the negro," said Senator Clapp, "is of the same degree as that for the whites." He also discussed the progress of the coldred race during the last few years. "At no time since the emancipation have the negroes been without the assistance of the whites, but the time soon will be here when the race will be able to stand alone and accept its burden independently," said he. The meeting which was the first of a series, was presided over by F. N. Lee. Addresses also were made by Rev. I. N. Ross, of the Metropolitan A. M. E. church, and Capt. H. D. Richardson, of the National Guard. The Chinese have many uses for empty tin cans, fashioning them into various household utensils. M. Clemenceau, the French statesman, owns a mansion which has acquired the habit of riding home in a cab. He enters one and refuses to leave. Finally, the cabman sees the address on his collar, takes him' home and gets his fare. The French parliament has rejected the bill granting the franchise to women. Women outnumber the men by 1,919 in New York city, according to the last census. IN THE GLOAMING Hearts That Were Longing For Dream That Never Came (Copyright, by Daily Story Pub. Co.) After all, most house parries are a mistake. One seea people at too close range, and learns the secrets of their complexions, and the hidden things of their lives. Only the very young care to look at the stage through opera glasses. Older people are glad to cherish their illusions, and to know their friends without knowing their stories. Nevertheless, I accepted her invitation when Sally Grand asked me to one of a party she was entertaining her country place. There were several pretty girls staying with her, a half dozen unattached men, and Tom Foreton, and his wife. "Good heavens!" I sald to Sally the first night of my visit, as she came to my room in kimona and slippers or a bedtime chat. "What made you ask her?" "Because," she replied, with withering scorn, "I couldn't ask him without asking her. I should think even you, no pride yourself on scorning常识性, must see that." "Oh, I suppose so," I replied disascolated. "I am glad you see it," returned Salary. "But after all," she added hopefully, "she isn't so bad as we expect." "I never had your power of Imagination," I answered. "In my wildestancies I never anticipated anything worse than the reality." "Don't you think you are a little unnatural?" began Sally. "I am sure she is very good, and as for her being home—" "It isn't the uginess," I interrupted. "I never object to lack of beauty in another woman. Somehow its a kind of ready-madness about her that gets on your nerves. You feel that she got her religion and her politics and her opinions and her tastes from the most reputable shop, and that she took what was recommended to her as being the proper thing without exercising a particle of individual taste. I don't suppose," I added viciously, "that she ever ate an indigestible thing or had an original sin impulse in her life." "She's always so calm and collected," said Sally. "That's just it," I exclaimed. "You couldn't get up an argument with her to save your life. Poor Tom! Just fancy the misery of being married to a person you couldn't quarrel with—who would always be self-controlled and dignified, and in the right." "It was a queer choice for a man of Tom's temperament," commented Sally, "but it was a fine match for him." "You mean she had lots of money?" I answered brutally. "Do you think Tom mar—do you think that had anything to do with his choice of her?" asked Sally. "No, I don't." I replied hotly, because in my heart I believed it had. You see I have known Tom ever since he was a slip of a lad, and I loved him with the queer maternal feeling God sometimes puts into an old maid's heart, and because he had disappointed me, because I feared that he had sold what was best and noblest in him for money. I hated the woman who had tempted him to marry her for her millions and who did not even know how to understand the soul—as finely tuned as a violin—that dwelt in silence by her side. "He is such a brilliant fellow," went on Sally calmly, "so full of talent and ability that although—er—er—his wife isn't—er—just one of us, I was glad to hear that he had married her. She is so enormously rich, and can help him so at the beginning of his career, and he only needed a chance to get his foot on the first rung of the ladder. I hear he is doing wonderfully, and is quite sure of the nomination for the senate now." "He may be wildly in love with her," I said, "for all I know. Do gustious—you know. I am told there are people who actually like breakfast foods." "Ah!" returned Sally, hopefully, "she'll do him good. She'll discipline him. He's always been so impulsive, and erratic, you know." "But I don't want him disciplined," answered crossly, "that was the charm of him—the wild, sweet ways, and the uncertainty of what he would do next." And with that I put Sally out and locked the door, and lay long into the tight thinking of the man I pictured eating his heart out in lonely silence by the side of his ancomprehending wife. "He asked her for bread," I said to myself as I fell asleep, "and she gives him gold. I wonder if it satisfies the anger of his soul?" It was perhaps a week after this hat we were sitting in the glooming big fire glowed upon the wide earth in the hall, and there was a ungent odor of absinthe and other pertises upon the anti-prandial air. Our was at the piano singing, some aunt, and ballad, that he filled with nutterable tears, that sobbed through he room like the wall of a broken part. When he had finished there his silence, and then one of the men I huskily out of the dusk: By George, Morston, you should gone in for the stage instead of listings. Your voice can draw out of the carpet, when you get on the tremulo chords." "I disapprove of the stage," said Tom's wife, in her thin, high, cool voice, "and I particularly disapprove of all such songs and the way Tom sings them. They seem—or not—or proper." "You are always right," said Tom with covert sarcasm, "feeling is always banal, and love is a myth, so why should one sing songs about it, or eat one's heart out with longing for a dream that can never come true?" It was just at this moment that Sally came into the room waving a yellow telegraph envelope. "After all!" she cried, "she's coming! Isn't it too delightful?" "I don't know," I replied, "seeing that we haven't the faintest idea who she is." "Marion Allerly, "she replied. "What!" cried one of the men. "The paragon among widows. The one who combines all charms and virtues — beauty, enormous wealth, talent, everything, except a heart, for she scorns all men and is so faithful to the memory of the dear departed she declines to lend an ear to the suitors that clamor at her door." "I have met her," said one of the men, slowly, "and for once report does not exaggerate. She is the handsomest woman, and the most fascinating one I ever saw, but what sets her apart from other women is a kind of spiritual look. I can't describe it exactly, but she looks as if she had been through some great sorrow—something that had seared her very soul, and that she had been purified by it. Only, of course, such an idea is absurd in connection with one like her, who has always been a darling of fortune." "There was some story," began Sally. "Tom's hands fell with a crash on the keys of the piano. "Don't tell it," he cried fiercely. "All the good stories have been told, and the others are not worth telling." "It isn't much, and really I never knew the truth of it, for she never spoke of it to me, and it may all have been a canard. The world is always gossiping about beautiful women," replied Sally, who having gotten started was not to be stopped. "But Marijan was married when a mere child by her father—a tyrannical old gentleman with a stern sense of a parent's rights over his children, to a man who might almost have been her grandfather, and who by all accounts did the one decent act of his life when he died and left her everything in his will. For many years the poor child struggled along, trying to do her duty, living a colorless life, but not unhappy until the other man dawned on the scene. He is said to have been a handsome young fellow, brilliant and sympathetic, one who could give to Marian everything she craved in companionship. Neither one of them dreamed of any danger until it was too late. Then, because the man was a gentleman and would not harm the woman he loved he went away and Marijan went back to the dull monotony of waiting hand and foot on her tyrant. That's the story, as I have heard it." "And a pretty enough story, too," commented one of the men. "full of the quiet tragedy that wrecks happiness and blights lives." "Shockingly improper," said Tom's wife. "Now she is free, perhaps they will marry," said someone. "No," said Sally. "It seems it was a double tragedy-for the man was bound, too. Do you know," she added meditatively, "it's none of my affair, but I would give worlds to know who the man is." "Tom," I cried sharply, "I left my shawl in the hammock. Fetch it to me," and as he stumbled blindly out into the dark he accidentally jostled his wife's chair. "You are so awkward," she cried sharply. "Yes," he said dully, "I am always making a mess of things." Marriage Before Three. An afternoon wedding in England can not take place later than 3 o'clock. Such is the ordinance made and provided, and no one need question the why or wherefore. A few days ago a couple appeared with their friends at the parish church at twenty minutes of 3 o'clock p. m. at Great Bealings, in Suffolk. But the parson was not on hand. Minutes after minute ticked away, and the fateful 3 o'clock was nearer and nearer every tick. The parish clerk rose to the occasion. "Send the bridal carriage to Little Bealings," (a mile away), he said, and in seven minutes it was at the rectory there. The coachman told the rector of the couple's plight, and in a few moments it was bowling back to Great Bealings. "It is'3 o'clock, sir," lamented the bridegroom. "Then I can not marry you," said the rector. "Yes, you can, sir." interposed the parish clerk. "It wants four minutes to 3. I put my watch right by station time this morning." "I can do it in four minutes," said the rector—and it was done! Marked for Honors. "What makes you so anxious to sand Three-finger Sam to the legislature. He isn't so very popular. "No. We citizens of Crimson Gulch figured that it would be a great savin' to the general community to get a poker player like Sam located some where else." MIIdIv Sarcastic Ministry Barcette "Are you sure these eggs are still in fresh?" "Yes; but I can have the hens call at your house and lay eggs under your own supervision, if you wish." METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE. METROPOLIS. ILL You Look Prematurely Old "WHY I EMIGRATED" "WHY I EMIGRATED" THE NOTES OF A PROMINENT JOURNALIST WHO MADE A TRIP THROUGH WESTERN CANADA. A prominent journalist from Chicago, some time ago, made a journey through Canada obtaining a thorough knowledge of the land and people and of the "boundless possibilities" that Canada, the virgin land, affords. In an American, Sunday newspaper he published after his return the interesting account which we print as follows. He writes: Why did you emigrate from the United States?" I asked a farmer in Western Canada. "I believe that for a poor man Western Canada is the most favorable land," was the reply, "and I have now found that it is the Paradise of the Poor." The farmer, a pioneer of the west, had five years earlier left Iowa for Canada to secure a new home there. After traversing the country for some time, he started his home on the open prairie and with steady industry devoted himself to the working of the virgin soil. Now he is the well-to-do owner of that endless sea of waving wheat cars that goes on for miles before my eyes. His strong, sunburned figure finds the best background in his farm itself, which is the outcome of his ceaseless activity—a pretty two-storied dwelling house, a large clean stable, in the midst of a hamlet of barns, sheds and outbuildings, a useful garden overflowing with products; horses, cattle, sheep and swine on the rich pastures, and around to the horizon wheat, golden wheat. "In Iowa" the farmer continued, "I farmed on rented land, for at the price of $100 per acre I did not possess money enough to buy. I might farm, I might farm as I could, more than the living for myself and family, I could not attain. Sometimes the harvest turned out good, sometimes bad, but the grand total was a bitter combat to keep want from the door. It was impossible to lay by for bad times and in spite of all trouble and work an old age free of care was not to be thought of. My death would have brought bitter poverty to my wife and children. "I decided to break-up and go to Camida, where at least I could fight out the struggle for existence on my own land. I started out with a mule team, all my earthly possessions were in the prairie-schooner with my wife and children. Then I took up a home-stead of 160 acres to which I added by purchase gradually; now as a whole I count about 3,000 acres as my own. The whole property is free of debt. I do not owe a cent to anyone. I bought my land for $2-$10 per acre, now I would not give it up for $50." "Do you mean to say that you paid for the whole land in the five years?" I interrupted. "In a much shorter time," replied the farmer. "The land paid for itself, some already by the first harvest, and at longest in 3 years each field had brought in its purchase price. If you doubt that land in Western Canada pays for itself within 3 years you can easily convince yourself of the truth of my assertion. Let us assume that a farmer buys a farm of 150 A. at $15 per A. for $2,400. Farm machines, seed, ploughs, mowing and threshing might bring up the outlay to about $10 per acre. If the farmer sows the 160 A. for 3 years in succession with wheat and harvests 20 bus. per acre, then the product of an A. at the average price of 75c. per bu. is exactly $15 per acre. If you deduct the $10 outlay, you will retain a clear return of $5.00. For 160 A. the annual excess amounts to $800, consequently the farm has after the third harvest brought in the purchase price of $2,400. "Sometimes—and not rarely—the land pays for itself by the first harvest of 55 bus. of wheat bring in more than the purchase price of $15 per acre. As in some years I harvested more than 35 bus, you can reckon for yourself how quickly I paid for my farm." "Would you not prefer your own farm in Iowa?" I asked. "No," replied the farmer, "never will I go back, in general very few American settlers return to the old home. In Iowa a 160 A. farm costs $100 per A., $16,000; in Western Canada $15, only $2,400. For the same money that you require to buy a 160 A. farm in Iowa, you can buy here in Western Canada a farm of 1,000 acres. I have money enough to buy a farm in Iowa, if I washed. But there my yearly income would be a small one, whereas here I work for a great gain. There I would only be a small farmer. Here I am a large landed proprietor." In a corner of the farmyard I had during our conversation noticed a mound of earth overgrown with grasses and wild flowers. To my inquiry as to what it was, I received the reply: "That is the ruin of the wooden shack covered with sods, which I called my home when I settled here five years ago." I gathered a wild aster from the ruin and flung it into the air. In a plumish glittering line the wind drove the flower towards the fine, modern-equipped farmhouse. What a contrast between the lowly earthy but of yesterday and charming palace of today! This contrast says enough of the unbounded possibilities, which this new land offers to the willing worker. Row the poor emigrant on the open prairie, through energy and activity, within 5 years worked his way up to being a well-to-do farmer and esteemed citizen! More, the farmer did not require to say. Why did he emigrate? WHY? Why I saw the answer with my own eyes."—Advertisement BUMPED HIS SELF-CONCEIT Young Lady's Reason for Choosing Escort Not Exactly What He Had Imagined It to Be. Mr. Blank (we've got to call him that because he's really a very decent fellow, and he'd kill us if we told his real name) is first tenor in a glee club. He sings in a choir, too. Everybody likes him. The other night a bunch of young people met for a social session at a certain house in the suburbs. They ate and danced and they sang. And when it was all over the prettiest young woman there—she hadn't been escorted thither by any chosen cavalier—said: "I walk home, but it's a lonesome walk and I'm afraid. There have been holdups in this part of town. So I choose Mr. Blank to see me safe home." On the way home Mr. Blank was considerably swelled up. The prettiest girl had chosen him from a crowd of personable bachelors, and his feelings of self-satisfaction were excusable. He couldn't resist saying: "Why did you think I was the strongest and bravest man there tonight?" "I didn't," answered the girl. "I picked you because I knew you could holler the loudest!"—Cleveland Plaindealer. HAD "THE GOODS" ON GERALD Little Sister, After the Manner of Her Sex, Was an Eager Witness Against Small Brother. Geraldine was a meaning patient, and her twin brother, as physician-in-chief was dosing her, to their supreme delight, when their mother chanced to observe them. Being a Christian Scientist, she told them that they must not "play sick"—they must play pleasant games. A few days later Geraldine ran to her mother, shocked and horrified, exclaiming: "Mother, Gerald said an awful bad word!" The mother turned toward the boy, who had sukily followed his sister, and who now sturdily declared: "I didn't!" "Yes, he did, too," protested the girl, dropping her voice to a se pulchral whisper. "He said 'Doctor.'" Something to Be Thankful For. In her dressing room one evening Sarah Bernhardt summoned one of her attendants, and ordered her to bring some peaches from the nearest shop. Either the maid misunderstood the order or she thought, as the saying goes, "That any old fruit would do," for she came back a few minutes later with half a dozen plump, juicy pears in a basket. At the moment, Bernhardt was declaiming to a friend about the dearth of good new plays, and anybody would have thought she was too absorbed in her lamentations to notice the maid's mistake. She took a pear from the dresser slowly and, apparently, unconsciously, and the maid turned to leave the room. In an unlucky moment the girl paused at the door and looked round. Then, with astonishing swiftness and accuracy of alm, Bernhardt raised her hand and the pear flew through space, smashing itself to a juicy pulp on the girl's face. "Thank heaven!" was all she said; "thank heaven it wasn't an apple!"" Tea From Coffee Leaves. Tea, an everybody knows, is made from leaves, while coffee is derived from berries or beans. Just here is where something has been overlooked, in the opinion of a scientific investigator. The leaves of the coffee plant are not only available for making a beverage, but they possess properties which make them more valuable than the coffee beans. In appearance and fragrance the dried coffee leaves very much resemble those of the tea plant. An infusion of them being made, just as in the case of ordinary tea, an aromatic beverage is produced that is bitter to the taste, but not disagreeable so, and which contains almost as much theine as real tea, while there is a much smaller proportion of tannin. It may yet be possible to grow tea and coffee on the same plant. Unpleasant Encounter. "I was told young Staylate had quite an encounter with Maude Brown's father?" "Yes. He did. He met the old man tacking home from the club just as he was leaving and in trying to avoid one another they both fell down the terrace and broke a $7 garden vase. And now the old man says he was assaulted by two burly ruffians, and Staylate doesn't dare to go near the house for fear he'll be recognized as both of them." The Reason. "Mabel is always in'a pet." 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"Dat nigger tole me to keep muh han's often dat pile of sewer pipe," he said, "but de boss done tole me to fetch 'em in, 'an I suttinly were goner fetch 'em. So de big conq ups and takes hol' of muh ahm and says, 'nigah, beat it,' he says." "Did you beat it?" came sympathetically from a listener. "Did Ah beat it? Cose Ah dun! Ah jes' rapped dat coon on de jaw." "Did you hit him hard?" was an other desultory question from the white men. "Hit 'im ha'hd? Man, I jes' nachery ly put everything in dat lick Gawd 'a mighty evah did gimme." It was agreed that it was "some" blow. ERUPTION DISFIGURED FACE Lock Box 35, Maurice, Ia.—"In the spring of 1911 our little daughter, age five years, had a breaking out on her lip and part of her cheek that we took for ringworm. It resembled a large ringworm, only it differed in that it was covered with watery blisters that itched and burned terribly, made worse by her scratching it. Then the blisters would break through and let out a watery substance. She was very cross and fretful while she had it and had very little rest at night. When the eruption was at its worst the teacher of the school sent her home and would not allow her to attend until the disfigurement of her face was gone. "I wrote and received a sample of Cuticura Soap and Ointment, which we used according to directions, and they gave instant relief, so we bought some more. It gradually grew better. We kept on using Cuticura Soap and Ointment and in three or four months the child was entirely cured." (Signed) Mr. Henry Prina, Oct. 22, 1912. Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold throughout the world. Sample of each free, with 32-p. Skin Book. Address postcard "Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston."—Adv. Heading Him Off. "Heaven lies about us in our infancy. Now—" "So does our father. Were you going to tell me something smart that your little boy had said? "All I have to say to you, sir, is good-day!" Many a fellow who goes hunting for a wife bags nothing but his trousers at the knees. The Irishman in France had been challenged to a duel. "Shure," he cried, "we'll fight wid shillalahs." "That won't do," said his second. "As the challenged party you have the right to choose the arms, but chivalry demands that you should decide upon a weapon with which Frenchmen are familiar." "Is that so, indade?" returned the generous Irishman. "Then we'll fight it out wid guillotines." GO TO WESTERN CANADA NOW The opportunity of securing free homesteads of 160 acres each, and the low priced lands of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, will soon have passed. Canada offers a hearty welcome to the Settler, to the man with a family looking for a home; to the farmer's son, to the renter, to all who wish to live under better conditions. Canada's grain yield in 1913 is the talk of the world. Luxuriant Grasses give cheap fodder for large herds; cost of raising and fattening for market is a trifle. The sum realized for Beef, Butter, Milk and Cheese will pay fifty per cent on the investment. 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BEFORE VISITING FLORIDA WRITE FOR OUR BOOKLET HOTEL WINDLE Tourist and Family Hotel. Con- trailly located. Rates reasonable JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA BUY OF GROWER, choice recieved, non-irrigated 113 Alfalfa seed; $7.50 per buk, sucks free. Ben Wilson, R. 5. Winfield, Kansas. W. N. U., ST. LOUIS, NO. 52-1913. Meiropolis Gazette PUBLISHED ON FRIDAY BY THE GAZETTE PRINTING CO. METROPOLIS, . . . . ILL. MRS. M. J. McCRARY, MANAGER. J. B. McORARY, EDITOR FRIDAY16 .JAN. , 1914 Office 9th and Pearl Streets, Metropolis, Illinois. Entered as second-class mail matter, at Metropolis, Illinois, Postoffice. Address all communications to J. B. McORARY, Box 107 Metropolis, Illinois. The names and addresses of contributors must be known to us in every instance, in order to secure publication. We want the news of your vicinity each week. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: One Year.....$1 00 ix Months.....75 three Months.....40 Single Copy.....05 In Advance. ADVERTISING RATES. made known on application. You must mail copy on Mondays to secure publication. REV. J. H. KNOWLES. Rev. J H. Knowles, 2407 Poplar street Cairo, is the elected missionary for the Mt. Olive Baptist Association. He is also authorized to solicit money for the Livingston Normal, Theological Industrail Institute of Metropolis, Ill., Mrs. M. J. Blake, is the missionary for the Woman's Educa-unal and Mission Convention. I. C. R. R. Time Card NORTH BOUND. Train numbers. Arrives. Leaves. 302 10:10 a.m. 10:20 a.m. 874 2:25 p.m. 8:35 p.m. SOUTH BOUND. Train numbers Arrives. Leaves. 875 10:09 a.m. 10:10 a.m. 805 2:28 p.m. 2:25 p.m. Trustees Trustees of the Livingston No. mal, Theological and Industrial Institute. J. H. Knowles, D. D., President J. B. McCrary, S. T. B., Secretary T. C. Yancy, Treasurer S. B. Kerr, Attorney Rev. J.M. Blake. Rev. H. Allison Rev. M. Hayes Rev, C. C. Phillips Rev. H. E. McWilliams OBITUARY. Benj Mcane was born in South Carolina, in the year of 1835. Died at the Anna, Hospital Jan. 8, 1914. He was married to Mrs. Polly Bledsoe in the year of 1866. To this union nine children was born five boys who survive him. He moved here from Tenn. about 21 years ago and has lived here every since. He proffessed a hope in Christ in Mississippi, but never joined any church. He leaves to mourn their loss a widow, five sons Tierson, Poly, Jack, Newton, and Boyd and a host of relatives and friends. Peace to his ashes NOTICE To whom this may concern: The executive Board of the East Mt. Olive Baptist Association will meet with the Mt. Zion Baptist church, Dewmaine Thursday before the 2nd Sunday in February. W. M. Ramsey. Cor. Sec'y. Only One. Little Jack's mother showed him a letter from a "new aunt," who had attained to this relationship by marrying Jack's favorite uncle. "Mama," said Jack innocently, as he laboriously spelled out the signature, "Belle Patne," "does aunty pronounce her front name in two syllables?"—Lippeott's. How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last fifteen years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made his firm. NATIONAL BANK OF COMMERCE, Toledo, O. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Testimonialis sent free. Notice is hereby given that we cannot print a list of names contributing to churches unless $1 accompanies same. We are sole agents for Knox All Rheumatic cure $1. bottle. Try it, McCrary and sons. See our fine line of china ware, at McCrary & sons. Letter Heads and Envelopes can be had for the asking at this office. We print them. The Gazette office for quick work. Reader, to wait for us to send out statements to you for subscription money, by so doing you cause us an extra 3 cents and you know the margin is already quite close. If you want your skin to look pretty and soft, try a bottle of Dixie Liquid Bleach at McCrary & Sons See the novelty department at the Fair. The Illinois Traction System sells tickets from Springfield to East St. Louis, every Saturday and Sunday at $1.50. The Dixie Liquid face Bleach can be found at McCrary and Sons 50c per bottle. J. H. Irons. is the agent for the Metropolis Gazette. Call on aim for prices. $1.00 per year a advance. Rev. R. Earl returned from his charge at Carrier Mills, Monday. Mesdames Stalls, Shannon, Urquhart, and Barnard visited the sick Sunday Afternoon. Mrs. Georgia McGee, is somewhat indisposed this week. Miss Agnes Neely, and Melrose Hensley are on the sick list. Mr. Quincy Martin is visiting in Chicago this week. Messers, Geo. Toombs, and Oscar Calhoun are indisposed this week, also Mrs. Senia Overby is reported sick at this writing. Miss Maud Porter, left Monday for Lincoln Institute where she will finish the year in school. She spent the holidays in this city with parents and friends. The Sunny South Comedy Co. presented their Minstrel at the Odd Fellow's Hail last week, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Clements are confined to their home this week with Lagrippe. Mrs. Samuel Wilson underwent a successful operation last week. Drs. Trovillion and Ragsdale performed the operation. Mrs. Jennie Cowper, whs has been sick for several months made her first trip to town Saturday. The A. M. E. Zion Church is nearing completion. Mrs. Matilda Clements, and sister Miss Lucy Johnson were the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Fossie and the former's uncle Henry Tinsley and family. Mrs. G E. Tossey spent a portion of the holidays with relatives in Eddyville, Ky. Rev. J. J. Johnson of Cairo preached for the Antioch Baptist church Sunday night. Capt Arthur Williams and Leiut. Verce Shannon, went to Chicago. Saturday on business connected with Company M. Ill., National Guards week with his Honor, W. W. Duncan of Marion on the bench. Duncan of Marion on the bench. The docket is extra large with 89 cases to adjust. This promises to be the most interesting session for some time. Henry Allen, and Jerome Hensley will be tried for murder. Jerry Crook, and Jesse Hamilton will be tried for an attempt to murder. This is simply a forecast of what the indictment by the grand jury will be. As the court proceeds we will give our readers the results. Berry Upshaw got his finger mashed Monday. Oscar Calhoun is confined to his bed this week. Rev. R. Earl was at Marion Sunday. Rev J. B, McCrary, will be with his congregation at Brookport Sunday and will preach from the subject "make haste and come down" and get busy. At night Sin and Death. In the afternoon testimonial meeting. Dont fail to hear these sermons. Rev. Robt. Davis, of Joppa, was a Gazette callers Wednesday. He was on the grand jury See our clubbing offer in another column this week. This exceedingly low offer will last for only a short time. If you owe the Gazette send in your back subscription and 19 cents extra and we will mail you all the papers for one full year. If you are not taking the paper now is the time to begin. Act at once as time is short. Dear Editor: Will you please allow space in your paper to say a few words? Our church and Sunday School are getting along nicely. Rev. Phillips was with his flock the first Sunday. Mr. Daniel Rale was killed in the mines Saturday the third, he was the son of Mrs Ibby Bowers. His remains were carried to Pulaski Monday for burial. He leaves to mourn their loss, a mother, wife, half sister and a brother a host of jother relatives and friend. He was a member of the Mason and K. of P. They had cherge of the body. Mr. Robert Boakan got his collar bone broken Friday in the mines. Mrs. Woods of Ullin, who has been visiting her daughter Mrs. Sarah Parran has returned home accompanied with her grand-child Rev. Mrs. Johnson wet to St Louis, and had an operation performed, she is getting along nices ly at this writing. Bro. A J. Bowers went to Golconda Friday to his church. Mrs. Lessia Smith of Chicago, is visiting relatives here. Mr. Sherman Bell and Mr. Wm Bowers of Carbondale, made a flying trip Sunday to see Mrs. Ibby Bowers. They were smiling at the girls. Reporter. New Pension Law. Washington.—Representative Fowler of Illinois today introduced a bill, one feature of which provides age pensioners for the widows of soldiers of the war with Mexico, the civil war, the various Indian wars and t the war with Spain. Widows who have reached the age of sixty years would under the Fowler bill be entitled to receive $18 per month, instead of the $12 as at present, and will not be required to prove that their soldier husbands died as the result of military service. A widow who was married to a soldier during the war, upon proof of his death, would receive $16 per month if under 60 year of age. The bill also provides Undertakers and Funeral Directors Polite Service-Calls Answered Day or Night in Any Part of the County Embalming a Specialty Carriages Furnished for all occasions. We solicit your patronage. Office Cor. 7th and Pearl Sts., Metropolis, Illinois. Phone 228-1 for pensions at the rate of $10 per month for insane, idiotic or helpless children of veterans. Livingston Institute COBDEN. Bro. Pastors and Sept: Sunday School especially I am preparing for my Mission for 1914 and hope that you will prepare to meet me at any time. Pray that I might win the victory. I ask every Supt to rally to the front and also ask every Supt, to stir up the S. S. and arouse the young young people' minds, because they are our future church. This school is well graded and equipped Grammar School Department. All work is well organized under Departmental and able Instructors, selected for Special Departments work Special Courses in Music, Bookkeeping, Shorthand and Type Writing, Bible Study Entrance Fee $2.00 a Session Tuition Rates: Tuition, Theological Department per month ..... $1.00 Tuition, Normal and English courses per month each ..... 1.00 Tuition, Instrumental music (including rent of instrument) ..... Origin of Christening Ships. The ceremony of christening ships is a survival of a barbaric custom when sacrifices were made to the gods, and some living victim or offering was held up and its throat cut so that the blood flowed over the prow of the ship being launched. The vessel was baptized in warm blood. Now sprinkling wine or pure water is used, and the change has many advantages, though the symbolism remains. Their Names Against Them. We are believed to believe that Ananias left no descendants, but there were people so like him as to bear the name of Ananias, or again Ananian. Their descendants have to bear the brunt of ancestral duplicity. So, Mr. Ancresseconte may perhaps trace his descent back to the sweet Greek singer of women and wine. Not unlikely, as his greatest postie brother, Pindef, also has some. In every case, 4 weeks will be counted for a school month All charges must be paid in advance. For any information and Prospectus Address J. B. McGRARY. Supt. and Sec'y. Box 107 Metropolis, Ill. Where Honor Should Be Given. Nobility is not only in dignity and ancient lineage, or great revenues, lands, or possessions, but in wisdom, knowledge and virtue, which in man is very nobility, and this nobility bringeth to man dignity. Honor ought to be given to virtue and not to riches.—Anarcharsis. Ideal Train Service Printing in China E reports are to be relied on, they had the art of printing in China 2,400 years ago." It was block printing, however, though it is said that they had something very like movable type in the middle of the tenth century. There may be some doubt as to the exact period, but there is no room for questioning the fact that for many centuries before it was known in Europe the art was well known in China. BY popular vote patrons of our lines have decided that the Illinois Traction System signifies IDEAL TRAIN SERVICE between St. Louis, Springfield, Peoria, Decatur, Champaign, Urbana, and Danville. Frequent schedules. clean, comfortable cars, Block Signal Protection, parlor cars, and sleepers make possible this IDEAL TRAIN SERVICE. 105 OLDLY MIDDLE No trait of a girl's character is more prized than a sweet and happy disposition. It makes the home life bright, it smooths away the little roughnesses, and it is like a ray of sunshine that brightens the darkest corners and drives away discontent and gloom. The happy girl makes the happy and contented wife, who will bring her girlhood's enduring qualities to make fresh sunshine in her new home—Home Notes. Try The "ROAD OF GOOD SEVICE" Next Time Illinois Traction System (MCKINLEY LINES) Mother—"In all the wild storm your grater Maggie went out with her throat all bare and exposed." Brother "Itam won't hurt her. She's got a ranger seek."—Life ---