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Just the thing and a Big Bargain for those readers who not care for a large daily paper or who desire to supplement their home dailies by taking a metropolitan paper for the news of the world. ORDER the edition you prefer TO-DAY SAMPLE COPIES FREE. The Globe Printing Company, Publishers To the Baptist Women of the State Convention Galesburg Ill Mar 2, 1914 Dear Sisters: Our State meeting will convene in June at Springfield Ill Our president is calling for $700 this year. Let us begin now to this year. She also desire for every circle to appoint a slum committee and to report to the convention the results of your work. The chairman of the Art and Needle Work department has resigned on account of other work, and Mrs. Laura Richardson, 56, W. 37. St., Chicago, has been appointed as chairman. Let the sisters rally to her the same as to our former chairman, Mrs. Eva Hooper, who will assist her all that she can. Our president Mrs. K. L. Cosby, has moved to Chicago Her address is 3533 Calumet avenue. Yours in the work Susie F. Hazel and journal for every mem- ory Farm and Home Magazine price $1.00 per year. Special Subscriptions for One Dollar. in for those readers who not care desire to supplement their home paper for the news of the you prefer TO DAY SAMPLE Company, Publishers UIS, MO. Cor See. 718 Arnold St. SUCCESSFUL BOARD MEETING A successful meeting of the Mt Olive Baptist Executive Board was held with the 12th St. Baptist church, Cairo last week from Thursday until Saturday. Several of the prominent ministers of both the East and Mt Olive associations were present and rendered valuable service both in the discussion of topics and preaching. Elders, C. W. norment, J. J. Totten, A. Lovelace, I. W. Winston, J. M. Blake and D. Parrish, delivered some very effective sermons to the delight to those who heard them. The theme of the discussion was a getting "together" of the Baptists in Southern Illinois for more and better work along all lines for the moral uplift of the race and spiritual development of --- the churches There are several weak and pastorless churches in the district made so largely on the account of faithless preachers. This evil or vacancy will have immediate presence of Dr. J. H. Knowles, Missionary and Rev. J. H. Hunt who has been appointed as submissionary by Dr. Knowles in his territory. This was done on account of the large territory to be covered by the missionary with so few pastors. Rev. Hunt will report to the missionary and the Board will hold Rev. Knowles responsible for his acts as he was elected by the association. We hope to see them run some successful revivals in the churches mentioned. Rev. Knowles made a good report but the churches failed to send any money to him. Rev. J. H. Starks, pastor of 12th St., church is doing good work when you take in account the trouble that existed in the church before he was called. The messengers were well cared for by the pastors and members. CENTRALIA Go to Church Day. Rev. H. Allison, pastor of the Second Baptist church preached Sunday morning from II. Co., 5, chapter. Subj., "every one must appear before the judgment bar." He told how memory would bring before us every deed whether good or bad and how we would have to give account to God of every deed done. He employ Jesus Christ as their attorney. He very forcibly told of the tate of those who would not accept the plan of salvation and drew a beautiful word picture of those who accepted the plan of salvation. He urged every one to prepare to live, not die because they must die whether they were prepared or not; we must live somewhere through all eternity. Every seat was occupied, chairs were placed in ailes, people were turned away unable to get in the church. The Sunday school, Women's Educational and Mission Society and B. Y. P. U. were largely attended. At night he preached from Numbers 15:37-41. His subject was the "Blue Ribbon." and he told how Christ had done away with signs and wrote his law in the hearts of men. The sermon was an excellent one and many were made to rejoice. The number attending services Sunday was 634 Zenobia Hinds, 802 East 5th St. SUCCESSFUL NEGRO ENTERPRISE. Evidence of the successful management of financial enterprises by Negroes was demonstrated here last Monday when a mortgage note of $4,080.63, due on the Babin plantation, was paid by the General Grand Independent Order of Brothers and Sisters of America, a fraternal organization composed of leading Negroes of the state. The Babin plantation, formerly owned by the late Adlard Landry, a pioneer planter, was purchased two years ago by the Negro society, which paid most of the purchase price cash, the balance being represented by the note liquidated Monday. The fin ancing of the place is said to have been by S. W. Wade and Dr. C. L. Robert of Cheneyville, and Dr. J. H. Lowery and Prof. E. D. Wright of Donaldsonville The plantation is now known as the New African Farm and was planted in rice for the past two seasons by the new owners, who report having made fine and profitable crops.-From Donald soville "Chief." BELGRADE. The mumps are raging in Belgrade this week again Among them are viz: Mr. Will Brown, Mrs. George Warfield, Arthell and Rubie Warfield, Lorraine Brown and John H. Blackwell. Mr. George Long, daughters Jewel and Daisy and son Alvertis visited Mrs. Maymie Maxwell of Brookport Sunday who is very sick. Mesdames Alice and Sarah Blackwell attended the funeral of Mrs. Matilda Blackwell of Brookport Monday. Mr. N. W. Long" of Metropolis called on his sister Miss Myrtle Long Tuesday who was sick. Mrs. Miranda Wiley of Brookport spent a few days with her daughter Mrs. George Warfield last week. Mrs. Ruth Donlow of Brookport visited her parents Mr. and Mrs. George Long Tuesday. Mr. Herbert Sumner of Chicago, Ill., is visiting at the home of his father Mr. Phillip Sumner for an indefinite time. Mrs. Mamie Maxwell of Brookport visited at the home of her parents Mr. and Mrs. George Long Friday. Messrs Hiram Simms and Mace Capps spent Sunday with Misses Myrtle Long and Netta Blackwell. Miss Gertrude Sumner was shopping in Paducah, Ky., last Tuesday. Maater Chester Warfield spent Sunday in Brookport. Miss Myrtle Long is able to be out again after being confined to her room for several days with Lagrippe. Mrs. Dalton Wya.t spent the latter part of the week in Paducah Ky., the guest of her sister Mrs. Edith Mason. Alvertis Long CARBONDALE. Our church is progressing nicely with peace and love. Our S. S. is alive. March the 15, was celebrated for boys' day, and every one was considered a boy from one year to 100 years of age. Sunday school opened at 9:15 with Frank Jackson of the Free Baptist church, Supt, and Willis Bowers, Sec., protem. Everything was done by the boys; the ringing of the church bell, teaching of classes, singing and playing, reviewing of school, and praying. A grand program was rendered and the girls were highly entained. Music was furnished by Mr. Releford, brother of Mr. Ingram Releford, of this city of this city. Singing conducted by Prof. W. H Thomas, Prin. of Attucks' school. Select reading by Master Leon Wilson; a beautiful talk by W. H. Woods; instructional lecture by Rev. A. W. White. Enrollment of S. S. for this meeting 96; amount raised Gazette's Big Magazine Offer. $1.18 This Is Our Best Offer These Four First-Class Magazines and Our Paper, ALL FIVE ONE YEAR, Only Woman's World, 35c yr. Green's Fruit Grower, 50c yr. Farm Life, 25c yr. 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Mother—"In all the wild storm your sister Maggie went out with her throat all bare and exposed." Brother—"Train won't hurt her. She's got a rubber neck."—Life. --- THE TREASURES $10 20. The young ladies' Bible class report was the largest after all. Rev C. W. Norment gave the boys the church hour, also they showed him their appreciation and gave $5.10. March 29, is girl's day, they say we will excell the boys in attendance and money. Rev Norment preached a soul stirring sermon to a crowded house. Our pastor made a flying trip to Cairo last week to the Executive board meeting and returned home. Friday right, The W. E. & M. Society is doing an abundance of quilting for white and colored, every Thursday at the church and serve lunch. A fire at Mr. and Mrs. U. L. Hudson house and contents were destroyed by fire, and she and baby barely escape. Mide Davis and John Benberry celebrated their twenty-eighth birthday at the residence of Mrs. Catie Davis is Thursday, March 19, at 8 p.m. The Worthy Mason of Marion chapter 17, O. E. S. and members are invited over to murphysboro the 20, ince, to visit Athen chapter No. 40. Rev J. H Knowles gave a grand visit and preached twice for Rock, Hill and Rev. Dorsey's church at The 25th anniversary of our company was celebrated by a factory in the world. Wide-awake men who received our special selling inducement, rendered it necessary to doubt our output. We are spending many thousands of dollars enlarging our sales organization, which will cost you only the price of a postal card. Ask for Catalogue 16 T. THE VICTOR SAFE & LOCK CO. CINCINNATI, OHIO Waterproof. AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS In an address delivered at the Auditorium at Houston, Tex., E. L. Blackshear, the head of the Prairie View Normal and Industrial College for Colored Youths, had this to say concerning the reasons why the negroes of Houston are specially interested in the movement to build a general hospital in Houston. The plan contemplated does not seek to make one hospital do for both races. They will be separate and distinct institutions; but there is to be a hospital for both, and upon the basis that in caring for his own health interests the white citizen must protect the colored as a matter of "Safety First." Following is the address delivered: Rev. Mr. Pevoto of the Baptist sanitarium of Houston in a visit to Prairie View on a recent Sunday used the Sabbath school lesson of the day as the basis of his remarks. It was the lesson of the Good Samaritan, and the speaker saw in this parable the germ of the modern hospital. And indeed, how true is it that this spirit of the Good Samaritan, who picked up a helpless stranger, wounded and sore, and bound up his wounds and placed him in the Eastern inn for care and protection exemplifies the spirit of Christ, now manifested in modern hospitals, and in the Red Cross system of national and international relief. Regardless of race, nationality or creed, the Red Cross spirit, the modern hospital spirit, takes hold of helpless sufferers and gives them relief and medical and sanitary attention. The spirit of Christ is not the secular spirit and pride of nationality or race so well exemplified in the classic civilizations of Greece and Rome, but it is the spirit of humanity, the spirit of the Golden Rule, the spirit of human sacrifice for human good, the spirit of the Good Samaritan. The colored people as a part of God's common humanity need the help of modern medical science and sanitation. From the standpoint of self-protection, the municipality owes its colored population sanitary conditions, for bacterial diseases are no respecter of race or color once they find lodgment; and bacterial infection or contagion, originating from unwholesome conditions among colored people may thrust their fatal hand even into the mansions of wealth and culture. It is of interest to the whites that the bodies and hands and homes of those of the colored people who cook the food and wash the clothing and dress and handle the children of the white people should be clean, wholesome and sanitary. Speaking generally, insanitary conditions and disease among the negro people weaken the efficiency of the city's labor and entail a loss upon invested capital, which is fruitless without efficient labor. In the older days faithful slave women were the nurses of the south. They sat in humble patience at the bedside of the stricken mistress or her children, the dusky Samaritans of an alien race. Just as my grandmother, Aunt Harriet of Mongomery, Ala., was a type of the cooks of old days who, Midaslike, turned whatever cooking material they touched to the gold palatableness, so my wife's grandmother, Aunt Cella of Grenada, Miss., was a type of the nurses of old, who was in truth a Good Samaritan in black, and, for miles around, was sent for to nurse the afflicted white women and children back to health and happiness. Retail dealers in Hongkong are discovering the advantages of window-dressing after the American plan. The honor of class oratory, assigned to a negro at Harvard, is indeed a creditable achievement, though eloquence in this fervid and imaginative race is not an unusual endowment, many negro preachers having manifested this moving quality. It is stated that this graduate-to-be has it in mind to devote his life to the uplift of his race. There is ample opportunity for many lives to be so devoted. The freed race has progressed unevenly, individual specimens attaining to a high degree of knowledge and culture, while the mass of blacks are as much the wards of civilization as ever they were in the days of bondage. Not till individual culture begins to bear fruit in community uplift can work among the negroes be said to show adequate results. A curious tree of the tropics, the matapalo, grows only with the aid of another tree, which it gradually envelopes and kills. Before an American helix who marries a foreign nobleman places him on exhibition she removes the price mark. Sixty thousand dollars a day is the estimate of the loss due to the recent strike at Dublin, Ireland. It is estimated that the Uruguay wool crop this season will reach a value of $25,000,000. Natural gas consumed in the United States last year was equivalent to 20,000,000 tons of coal. The diamond output of German South Africa is being regulated to maintain prices. "I'm no professional agitator for temperance," said Booker Washington, in a recent address, "but keep whisky away from the negro. In the counties and states where there are no open barrooms the negro is 50 per cent. better off. I don't believe that prohibition increases drunkenness, as one so often hears. Certain men will get whisky anywhere—but in prohibition counties you hear of the ten men who do get whisky—and you don't hear of the 100 men who do not. "There are 200,000 colored people always sick from preventable causes," said he. "Some one is paying the bill. Not the colored man directly—for he can't." He opposes segregation in cities—"not because the colored man objects to associating with his own people. He is proud of his race. He wants to associate with his own kind. But experience has taught him that where he is segregated the street lights are dimmer and the streets muddier and the sidewalks more full of holes and the police service more indifferent than in other parts of the same town—but that he is made to pay his full share of the bills." Nor is he in sympathy with the proposition to plant immigrants on the soil of the south. The colored man, he thinks, is already fitted to his environment. If he is given a fair chance he is the most satisfactory laborer the southern employer can have. But he wants a little of the comforts of life. He wants good church and school and social facilities in the country districts. "The white folks of Dallas county," said he, "held a meeting in the courthouse one night to discuss the question of immigration. Old Jake, the colored janitor, was a very curious old chap. He always tried to find out what was going on—but this meeting stumped him. After it was over he met the sheriff. "Cunnel Jones,' said he, 'w'at you w'ite folks up to now? "Colonel Jones explained. But Jake could not understand that word immigration. Jones had to make it clear. "What do you think of the plan of bringing more white folks to Dallas county, Jake?' asked Colonel Jones. "Foh de Lord's sake, Cunnel Jones,' said he, 'we Dallas county niggers got just as many w'ite folks as we can support now.'" "Tiere are only 300,000 American Indians," said a prominent negro, "and the government appropriates $10,000,-000 to $12,000,000 each year to feed and cloth and educate them. And they're dying off. There are 10,000,-000 of us, and the government isn't called on to do a thing for us, as a race." Of the negroes, 9,000,000 are in the southern states, and 55 per cent. of these in rural districts or villages. He thinks that the negro's best chance is in the south. The southern white is more tolerant of the negro's differences from the white race. He is more inclined to give the negro a chance. "That's all we want," he said. "Just a chance. I saw the other day that $50,000,000 is being spent annually to rescue Great Britain's drunkards from the ditch. We're not in the ditch—but help us keep out of it." The negro, he thought, is worse off in the cities, especially in the northern cities. More than one-half of the money derived from England's income tax is collected from Londoners. In the region between Yorktown and Williamsburg there is a district, where much of the land has long been either owned or tenanted by colored people; but it is a "back country" far from the river and penetrated by few good roads, so that it is and always has been a region of wretched poverty, miserable cabins and neglected soil, very different from the farming district on the eastern shore of Virginia, for example, where there are many well-cultivated farms owned or tenanted by colored men. In this latter region the large estates are being cut up into farms of from 60 to 100 acres, provided with complete outfits of farm buildings, and rented, or sold in many instances, to colored men. Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Norway and other European nations have for many years been making provision for industrial and technical instruction in public schools. In England the Smiths are the most numerous of all families, but in Ireland they are content to rank fifth, after Murphy, Kelly, Sullivan and Walsh. More than 50 per cent. of the sheep of this country are on the large ranches of the west. In the last year Iowa produced 96,953,183 pounds of butter, which was sold for $28,285,240. In Melbourne no Sunday papers are permitted; no hotels are allowed to open their bars. In a year 7,707,000 cigars and 14,000,000 cigarettes were smoked in the United States. METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE, METROPOLIS, IL CAP and BELLS REASON WHY SCOTS SUCCEED Johnny McTurk Figured It Out in His Own Mind How He Would Divide Marbles With Andrew McDonald. "Johnny, dear," said the visitor. John McTurk turned around while the family cat rescued her tail from his grubby fist. "Now that you are going to school," continued the visitor, "I want to ask you a little question: How many marbles would you get if I gave you twenty, to be divided between you and Andrew McDonald?" Johnny thoughtfully rubbed the point of his nose where the cat had scratched him. "I dinna ken." he said. I tinnah ken, he said. "Come, come," said his elder. "How's that?" "Well, ma'm'," said Johnny, "ye see it's a' according. If ye gie me them when we're both here we'd hae ten apiece. If Andrew was here and I wasna' I'd only hae about five. But if I were to get them when Andrew wasna here I dinnah kit whether he'd hae ony at a'"—London Tit-Bits. Horrible. "War is not nearly so dreadful as I used to imagine it." "It is dreadful enough." "Of course it is; but, you know, this grape-shot they shoot the enemy with—" "Well?" "When I was younger I used to think it was grapefruit." Her Hand or a Hand Organ. Heiress—The count is a most ardent lover. Married Friend—My dear, be careful. A man can put considerable for or into his wooing when it's a case of marriage or work.—Boston Evening Transcript. "My dear, I told you that guest I brought home to dinner was a very bashful man." "I know, but what of it?" "Nothing, only you did go and put your foot in it, when you had sheep's head fish for dinner." A Worker. "You say your husband likes hard work?" said one woman. "Yes, indeed," replied the other. "He never appears to be doing any around the house." "No. But you just ought to see him in a bowling alley." Used Her Share. "I see the English language is used more than any other," remarked Mrs. Wombat. "I am proud of that." "And well you may be," insinuated Mr. Wombat. "You have certainly done your share in bringing up the average." WHAT DID SHE MEAN? Gabriele Doria Miss Antique—Don't you think it was awful nerve in him to kise me? Miss Kutting—Well, I should say it was. Post Graduate. "Did you say she was one of your prominent suffragettes?" "That h'l did, sir. Would you be believe h'it, sir, that woman 'as starved 'orself h'out of jyie four times?" "I want you to come to my dance." "Really, I don't go in for dancing." "But you could help fill up." "Well, I am a pretty good eater, if that's what you want me for." A Kentucky Protest. "So your wife has a conservatory?" "Yes," replied Colonel Stillwell, "but what's the good of it? My wife fills it so full of palms and ferns that there isn't room for a mint bed." WHY THE TRICKSTER BOLTED Grubby Hobo Made Determined Effort to Secure Dress Suit of Man Who Never Owned One. The grubby-looking man stood in the doorway with determination on every line of his unshaven countenance. The housewife who faced him was equally determined. "Yes, madam," said the shabby man; "the guv'nor says to me, 'Go and git Mr. Jones' dress suit to be cleaned and pressed. The lady'll give it to yer.' The guv'nor's tailor, you see, mum." "Oh!" replied the lady. "And did you see Mr. Jones?" "I did, mum," came the answer; "wlv me own eyes. He says, 'The lady'll know. I lef' a message at 'ome.'" Plainly Mrs. Jones was perplexed. The trickster felt he had nearly achieved his object. The lady's reply finally crushed him, however. "Well," she answered, "all I can say is that Mr. Jones never had a dress suit, and for the past five years he's been in Canada." The grubby man bolted.—Answers POLLY If He Only Knew. "I wish," wished the man who was always wishing for something or other, "I wish I knew the exact spot where I'm gonna die." "You're crazy," said his friend, "to make a wish like that. Why, man, you'd worry and fret all your life if you knew where you are going to die." "I would not. Gee-whiz, I'd never go near the place!" Fooled Her. Young Wife—I think Charley is entirely too generous to his relatives. Wife's Mother—What makes you think that, child? Young Wife—I asked him the other day, when I missed it, where his fine gold watch was, and he said he had parted with it to his uncle. What He Meant. Small Urchin (to the owner of the horse which ought to have been cat's meat)—Does yer want to 'old 'im, guv'nor? The Owner—No, thanks. He won't run away. Small Urchin—I didn't mean to 'old 'im fast so's he won't run away. I meant to 'old 'im so's e 'won't drap. The Fatal Stop. Automobile Salesman—And, whatever speed you may be going, when you put on this brake you stop in five yards—dead. Prospective Woman Purchaser—How dreadful! I've always thought they were so dangerous—Punch. Not the Life of the Party. "You didn't seem to feel at home at your wife's fashionable party." "To be honest," replied Mr. Cumrox, "I didn't, I felt about as welcome as the ace of spades alongside of four small diamonds." Very True. Browne—Did you ever see a man who really wanted the earth? Towne—Oh yes. Browne—Who was he? Towne—A first-class passenger on an ocean liner when he's seasick. NII Desperandum. "Things in general," said the pessimistic theosophist, "are very, very bad." "Oh, well," replied the optimistic theosophist, cheerfully, "it's all in a lifetime; and, besides, there will be other lifetimes."—Puck. Novel Idea. "And when I finish my career I shall become an aviator." "Why; so as to rise, all the quicker." Severe Vocal Strain. First Office Boy—Wot makes yer so bounce? Second Office Boy—De state o' trade. I hev ter sit in de front office frum 9 till 5 tellin' bill collectors de boss is out—Puck. Refuge in Silence. "You seem fond of moving pictures?" "For a change," replied Miss Cayenne. 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By this is not meant a physic or purgative, for these should never be given to children, nor anything like salts, pills, etc. What the child requires is simply a small dose of the gentlest of medicines, such as Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin, which, in the opinion of thousands of watchful mothers, is the ideal remedy for any child showing a tendency to constipation. So many things can happen to a constipated child that care is necessary. Colds, piles, headaches, sleepeasness, and many other annoyances that children should not have can usually be traced to constipation. Many of America's foremost families are never without Syrup Pepsin, because one can never tell when some member of the family may need it, and all can use it. Thousands endorse it, among them Mrs. M. E. Patten, Valley Junction, Iowa, who is never without it in the house. Mrs. Patten No More "Black Broth" for Him. Among the forgotten dishes of the past was the "black broth of Lacedaemon." "What the ingredients of this sable composition were," says a writer, "we cannot exactly ascertain. Doctor Lister (in 'Apicus') supposed it to have been hog's blood. . . . It could not be a very alluring mess, since a citizen of Sybaris, having tasted it, declared it was no longer a matter of astonishment with him why the Spartans were no fearless of death, since any one in his senses would much rather die than exist on such execrable food." FACE BROKE OUT IN PIMPLES Falls City, Neb.—"My trouble began when I was about sixteen. My face broke out in little pimples at first. They were red and sore and then became like little boils. I picked at my face continually and it made my face red and sore looking and then I would wake up at night and scratch it. It was a source of continual annoyance to me, as my face was always red and slotched and burned all the time. "I tried _____, and others, but I could find nothing to cure it. I had been troubled about two years before I found Cuticura Soap and Ointment. I sent for a sample of Cuticura Soap and Ointment and tried them and I then bought some. I washed my face good with the Cuticura Soap and hot water at night and then applied the Cuticura Ointment. In the morning I washed it off with the Cuticura Soap and hot water. In two days I noticed a decided improvement, while in three weeks the cure was complete." (Signed) Judd Knowles, Jan. 10, 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. Sympathy He was middle-aged and untraveled. For forty-five years he had lived, in the country. At last he made a trip to the city. There, for the first time in his life, he saw a schoolgirl go through her gymnastic exercises for the amusement of the little ones at home. After garing at her with looks of interest and compassion for some time he asked a boy near if she had fits. "No," the boy replied. "Them's gymnastics." "Ah, how sad!" said the man. "How long has she had 'em" "Let us get up a pscatorial excursion." "Can't do it. I've just arranged to go on a fishing party." Its Kind. "How do they propose to entertain the convention after business hours?" "I supposed with canned music." RALPH M. PATTEN says that Syrup Pepsin has done wonders for her boy Ralph, who was constipated from birth but is now doing fine. Naturally, she is enthusiastic about it and wants other mothers to use it. Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin is sold by druggists at fifty cents and one dollar a bottle, the latter size being bought by those who already know its value, and it contains proportionately more. Everyone likes Syrup Pepsin, as it is very pleasant to the taste. It is also mild and non-gripping and free from injurious ingredients. Families wishing to try a free sample bottle can obtain it postpaid by addressing Dr. W. B. Caldwell, 203 Washington St. Monticello, Ill. A postal card with your name and address on it will do. Enjoyment! "Do you get much enjoyment out of the new dances?" they asked the stout man of mellow years. "Enjoyment!" he echoed. "Watch me." Seizing his partner in a grip of iron, he ambled to the right, kicked to the left, doubled his knees, kicked all around, lunged ahead, dipped to the rear, kicked some more, took a short run, beat a retreat, nicked a passing couple and sank down heavily. "Doesn't that l-look like enjoyment?" he stammered. Use for Old Umbrella Rode. The steel rods from old umbrellas make fine plant supports. Disconnect them where they, join the upper part and also where the ring slips the handle and you have a double rod to slip into your flower pots, and if they are painted gray they are unnoticeable. 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Hand Beauty Dr. Pierce's Medical Discovery enser and alternative ur and stomach into It thus assists the pure rich red blood heart—nerves—brain body. The organs thus heals, promotes clean, strong and of tired, weak and you can obtain Dr. Medical Discovery 400,000 Settlers a Year Immigration figures show that the population of Canada increased during 1913, by the addition of 400,000 new settlers from the United States and Europe. Most of these have gone on farms in provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. Lord William Percy, an English Nobleman, says: "The possibilities and opportunities offered by the Canadian West are so infinitely greater than those which exist in England, that it seems absurd to think that people should be impeded from coming to the country where they can most easily and certainly improve their position. New districts are being opened up, which would increase the number of homesites in districts especially adapted to mixed farming and grain raising. For illustrated literature and reduced railway rates, apply to Burt. of Immigration, Ottawa, Canada. G. A. COOK 228 W. 6th St., Kansas City Mo., and 2. J. Brinehouse, 118 H. A. Y. Hilder, Chicago, Ill. Canadian Government Agents If men were as perfect as their wives expect them to be the monotony of married life would be debilitating. The Insult. Lady (ordering boots for her husband)—Do you keep men's boots? Shopman—No, madam, but we keep up to nines in women's—London Opinion. Many School Children Are Sleekly. Children who are delicate, feverish and cross who pet immediate relief from Mother Grace's feverish stomach. They must be the stomach, act on the liver, and are recommended to complain of children. A pleasant remedy for worms. Used by Mother for 24 years. As a Druggist. Le Roy, N. Y. Adv. What Displeased Her. "So your servant girl left you again?" said the woman at the sales. "Yes," replied the neighbor. "What was the matter?" "She didn't like the way I did the work." The Harsh Judge. A judge was recently at a private dinner defending a harsh sentence. "I believe," he said, "that it is better for law and order that sentences should err on the side of harshness rather than on the side of lenity. "Look at nature, the great judge of us all. Was there ever a harsher, severer judge, than nature, who sentences each and every one of us to hard labor for life?" The Haunted Man Again that ringing in his ears! It was the warning he had dreaded. He knew his time had come. Yet, although he had started at the sound, he seemed half-dazed and wholly careless of the consequences. But still the ringing in his ears! "Drat it!" he finally said, and springing from the bed the careworn commuter shut off the alarm clock and proceeded to dress for the 7:10 train.-Puck. Wanted—A New Baseball Rule. Walter Johnson was pitching for the Washington team, and Mr. Jennings who was trying to pump optimism into his despairing players, sent up an ambitious young man to try to make a hit. He acted briefly. After swinging wildly at two of Johnson's offerings, he made a third wild swing, and, entirely by accident, popped up a little fly to first base. As he loped down toward first, and was called out, he turned to Jennings, let out a stream of emphatic and pictureque language, and wound up with this observation: "I am a son of a gun if there oughtn't to be a rule making that guy hang lights on the ball!" Jennings, who got his start in life as a miner, smiled grimly. "Where do you think you're working," he asked softly, "in a coal mine?"—The Popular Magazine. Speaking Of Lunch the wife said, "Bring home a package of Post Toasties ---Sure!" Toasties are wonderfully good at any meal, and somehow seem to match the appetite of both home folks and guests. Bits of selected Indian Corn, delicately seasoned, cooked, rolled thin and toasted to a rich golden brown—that's Post Toasties. Fresh, tender and crisp, ready-to-eat direct from the package. With cream and a sprinkle of sugar— "The Memory Lingers" Toasties sold by grocers —everywhere. NEW FISH HAS LONG NAME Recently Discovered Species Takes Nomenclature From the Reigning Family of Monaco. "Grimaldichtys profundissimus" is the name of a newly discovered species of fish found in the Atlantic by the prince of Monaco, whose passion for oceanography is well known," said John Daly of Chicago at the Raleigh. "The fish was named in honor of the reigning family of Monaco. The depth at which it was found is several hundreds lower than the lowest depths hitherto explored, and tends to prove the existence of other unknown races and species of deep-sea monsters at depths which have never been sounded. "The Grimaldichtys profundissimus is very heavy about the head, but the body diminishes rapidly in size toward the tail. It is covered with a peculiar form of scales imbedded in the skin. The head is round and soft, with the appearance of having been flattened underneath. The eyes are extremely small, but visible, and the teeth are numerous and small. The fish is very pale, and almost without color except for a grayish-violet tinge in certain parts of the head and underneath the body. The inside of the mouth is a dark violet, almost black. "One of the important points of the discovery is to show that even the great depths of the sea are lighted by a feeble and diffuse light." Washington Post. OWE DEBT TO BIRCH CANOE Its Use in Development of Country Has Been of the Most Real Value Imaginable... It is difficult to estimate the value of the birch-bark canoe in the discovery, exploration, development and settlement of the northern part of the continent from the Arctic circle to the great lakes southward, says the Christian Herald. For a century and a half-the birch canoe threading its way through the lakes and rivers carried civilization where no other boat could go. The birch tree has uses now from church pews to kitchen tables, and from organ pipes and musical instruments to newel posts. It furnishes cragles for the young and coffins for the dead. Eleven thousand cords of the wood go to New England each year, tq be made into shoe pegs and shanks. Forty-five million board feet of the wood is put on the market each year. Paper birch is one of the few American species with a hold on the forest stronger than it had when the continent was discovered. It comes in after a forest fire and it has taken possession of enough land to cover hundreds of square miles. WILLING YOUR FEET WARM. Now that winter has really begun the problem of cold feet at night becomes unpleasantly provocative. To many people hot water bottles are an abination—they are to me. But have you ever tried "willing" your feet warm when you get into bed? A man told me the other day that he concentrated his mind, as it were, on his feet, and willed them warm. Presently there was a sensation of tingling in his calves, and then his meeks begin to glow. The last night or two I have tried this method, with some success. When I get more accustomed to it I hope to succeed perfectly. And there is this advantage about it, while you are willing your feet warm you can't be worrying about anything else. It's a great idea.—London Chronicle. MUST BE EXPERT DANCERS. Dancing at the German court is always a matter to be taken seriously. The kaiser is himself an expert dancer, and will have only experts at the state balls. At all these functions the court dancing master occupies a place of vantage from which he can watch the dancers and any mistakes or clumsiness will be certain to bring the delinquent a polite intimation that he must mend his steps or expect no further invitations. A MANAGER'S WOES. "Why do you always take your vacation in Afghanistan?" "In Afghanistan," replied the theatrical manager, "only about ten per cent. of the population are able to read, and write." "What has that to do with your vacation?" "Reduces the number of plays I have to glance over just 90 per cent." Kansas City Journal. METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE. METROPOLIS. ILL WESTERN CANADA CAME INTO EVIDENCE WESTERN CANADA CAME INTO EVIDENCE AT THE CRUCIAL PERIOD FOR SUPPLY OF WORLD'S FOOD-STUFFS. The present demand for foodstuffs in all parts of the world, and the expense of producing it on high-priced lands, would make it seem that western Canada came into evidence at the crucial period. There is to be found the opportunity that will be a large factor in meeting this demand. With its millions of acres of land, easily cultivatable, highly productive, accessible to railways, and with unexcelled climatic conditions, the opportunities that are offered and afforded are too great to be overlooked. There have been booms in almost every civilized country and they were looked upon as such, and in the course of time the bubble was pricked and was burst. But in no country has the development been as great nor as rapid, whether in city or in country, as in western Canada. The provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta have the largest area of desirable lands on the North American continent, and their cultivation has just begun. Even with a two hundred million bushel wheat crop, less than eight per cent. of the land is under the ploughs, four per cent. being in wheat. Less than five years ago the wheat crop was only 71,000,000 bushels. It is a simple calculation to estimate that if four per cent. of the available cultivatable area, produces something over 200,000,000 bushels, what will 44 per cent. produce? And then look at the immigration that is coming into the country. In 1901 it was 49,149,17,000 being from the United States; in 1906 it was 189,064, of which 57,000 were Americans, and in 1913 it was about 400,000, of which about 140,000 were Americans. But why have they gone to Canada? The American farmer is a man of shrewd business institute, just like his Canadian brother, and when he finds that he can sell his own farm at from $100 to $200 per acre and move into Canada and homestead and pre-empt half a section for himself, and similarly for all his sons who are adult and of age upon lands as rich and fertile as those he left, and producing indeed several bushels to the acre in excess of anything he has ever known, it will take more than an ordinary effort to prevent him from making the change. And then, too, there is the American capital following the capital of brawn, muscle and singe, following it so as to keep in touch with the industrious farmer with which it has had dealings for years back. This capital and the capital of farming experience is no small matter in the building up of a country. Nothing is said of the great mineral and forest wealth, of which but little has been touched. No country in the world's history has attracted to its borders a larger number of settlers in so short a time, or has attracted so much wealth in a period of equal length, as have the Canadian prairies. Never before has pioneering been accomplished under conditions so favorable as those that exist in western Canada today.—Advertisement. NOTHING TO BOTHER WITH Possibly Uncle Cal Clay's Rebuke to Pastor May Have Had Something Behind It. Booker T. Washington told at Tuskogee a Christmas story. "Old Uncle Cal Clay," he said, "invited the pastor to eat Christmas dinner with him. The parson accepted, and the spread was magnificent—sweet potatoes and celery, cranberries and mince pie, plum pudding, and a turkey so big and yet so tender that the parson had never seen the like before. "Uncle Cal," the parson said, as he spread the pink cranberry sauce on a great, "hearly-white, succulent slice of breast," Uncle Cal, where did you get this wonderful turkey?" "Pawson," said Uncle Calhoun Clay spleemly, when, you preached dat wonderful Christmas sermon dis mawnin', did I ex you you whah you him? "Nuh, no. Dat's a trivial matter." Poor Fellow. Lydia found her father in the library. "Father," she asked, "did Robert call on you this morning?" "Yes, he did," replied the father; "but I couldn't make out much of what he said. "What do you mean?" asked Lydia. "Well," explained the old gentleman, "I understood him to say that he wanted to marry me, and that you had enough to support him, so I told him to go home and write it out."—Lippincott's Magazine. 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The occupants of the crowded on uttered exclamations which proved their dissatisfaction, but hurried out and packed themselves in other coaches. The face of the young man assumed a bland and childlike expression as he settled himself very comfortably in an empty seat. Shortly after, the station agent put his head in at the door and said: "I suppose you're the smart book who told the folks this car wasn't going, aren't you?" "Yes," replied the bright youth, with a grin. "Well," responded the station agent, "you were right. It isn't. The brakeman heard you calling out about it, and so he uncoupled it. He thought you were an official."—Lappincott's Magazine. Bacilli and Relations. Mrs. Baye—"She is simply mad on the subject of germs, and sterilizes or filters everything in the house." Visitor—"How does she get along with her family?" Mrs. Baye—"Oh, even her relations are strained." Logical Result. "What is to be the outcome of the romance?" "Depends on the fellow's income." Never You Need a General Tonie Take Grove's Standard Grove's Tasteless d a General Tonie rove's Tasteless Is Equally Valuable as a General Strengthening Tonic, Because It Acts on the Liver, Drives Out Malaria, Enriches the Blood and Builds Up the Whole System. You know what you are taking when you take Grove's Tasteless chill Tonic, as the formula is printed on every label, showing that it contains the well-known tonic properties of QUININE and IRON. It has no equal for Malaria, Chills and Fever, Weakness, General Debility and Loss of Appetite. Gives life and vigor to Nursing Mothers and Pale, Sickly Children. A True Tonic, and Sure Appetizer. For grown people and children. Guaranteed by your Druglist. We mean it. 500 MARY C. PARKER Metropolis Gazette PUBLISHED ON FRIDAY BY THE GAZETTE PRINTING CO. METROPOLIS, . . . ILL. MRS. M. J. McGRARY, MANAGER. J. B. McGRARY, EDITOR FRIDAY MAR. 20. 1914 Office 9th and Pearl Streets, Metropolis, Illinois. 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McCrary, Box 367 Metropolis. Ill. A night class will be formed to accommodate those who are compelled to work. Either young or old can join our night class. Take advantage of this rare opportunity and improve your talents. A Kindergarten department will also be added to the school. Ministers should be on hand to register in the theological class. A special program will be arranged and rendered during the day and night, also light refreshments will be served by Carnation Art Club Each church is invited to be represented by sending their pastor or a messenger with not less than $t. to assist in the expenses which will necessarily be incurred on the opening of the school. Several of the ministers have promised to be here on date mentioned and take part on the program. It was recommended by the Executive Board that each pastor preach a special sermon on education the 5th Sunday and raise a special collection for the school and bring or send same on day of opening. We trust every church in the district will carry out the request and assist to make this school and part of the state worthy of the name given to it, "Egyyt." Tax Sale Notice March 18th 1914 To W. D. Sperry, Mitchell, Neely, to Heirn, Legatees, grantees, and all parties interested, you are hereby notified, that at a sale of Real Estate made by the Sheriff at the door of the Court House, in the town of Metropolis, County of Massac, and State of Illinois on the 8th, day of July A. D. 1912. S. B. Kerr, purchased the following real Real Estate, situated in the said County, for the Taxes, interest, penalties and Costs due and unpaid thereon, for the year, A. D. 1911, acces- sed in name of W. D. Sperry, being Lot 5, five, Block 99, of the City of Metropolis, Massac County, Illinois. And that the time allowed by law for re- demption of real Real Estates will expire on the 8th day of July A. D. 1911. If you want opportunity to knock it your door tomorrow you've got to make a bid for it today. 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When renewing your subscription to The Gazette don't forget to remind us of the magazine offer. Phone us your order for the four-magazine bargain. Rooms to Rent. We have 3 rooms to rent. See MRS. HARRIET McCRARY. For 18 cents extra you can get four magazines and The Gazette for one year. Trustees Buy all your magazines of us. We can give you four magazines one year with The Gazette for only 18c extra. Don't pay out money for magazines. We can give you four monthly magazines for 18 cents extra if you will subscribe to The Gazette for one year. Rev. R. Earl, preached for the Antioch Baptist church Sunday morning and evening Edward J. Hensley closed a very successful term of school at Hickory Grove, Ky., last week. An excellent program was rendered on the closing day, by the scholars. The Gazette is indeed glad to receive the one dollar on subscription for one year from Mrs. Hester Urquhart and J. E. Hensley. Rev. Thos. Turner returned home Wednesday Mrs. Morna Givens of Paducah The biggest bargain we have ever offered our subscribers is The Gazette and four magazines, all one year, for only $1.18 Ky., was in the city this week visiting her mother, Mrs. Elsie Campbell. Tell your neighbors about our big offer. They surely would like to get The Gazette and four magazines, all one year for only $1.18. Notice is hereby given that we cannot print a list of names contributing to churches unless $1 accompanies same. If your subscription to The Gazette is due, better pay up now and get four big magazines, all one year, for only 18 cents extra. Letter Heads and Envelopes can be had for the asking at this office. We print them. If you will subscribe to The Gazette for one year we will send you four monthly magazines for only 18 cents extra. You can get four splendid magazines one year for 18 cents extra by renewing your subscription to The Gazette. The Crescent is a respectable Cale where old and young go to meet their friends and have a good time. I have a new supply of hair goods on hand. Call and see them. MRS. Z. A. VALLEE. The Cresent Cafe is the place to go to get your hot lunches. Fish a specialty. Mrs. Lucy Brown, visited her daughter, Mrs. Irene Haynes of Brookport, last Sunday. Revs. J. M. Blake, and J. B. McCrary, returned from Cairo, Monday where they attended the executive board of the Mt. Olive Baptist Association. Rev. Berry Thomas attended the funeral of Mrs. Hattie Fuller, of Boaz, who departed this Life March 15. He was accompanied by J. B. Davy. Mesdames, Jenne Woods, and Lillie Fossie were Paducah shoppers Tuesday. Mesdames, Annie a. Lila Porter, were in Paducah, last week, on business. Easter will be observed at the African Baptist church, with a program suitable for the occasion. Miss Love M., Phillips is chairman of program committee. Rev. R. Lait, taught the lesson for B. Y. P. U. class Sunday and much interest was manifested. Rev. Wm Barnett, preached two good sermons Sunday at the Arlican Baptist church which was enjoyed by all. Rev. G. W. Rowlett, preached at his charge, Corneal chapel, in Ky., Sunday. Prof Wm Smith closed a very successful school term last Friday at Belgrade. This speaks well for the Professor as this is his fifth term Mesdames Francis Smith and Haitie Beard were present at the program. Miss Sallie Cobb visited in Paducah, this week. Mrs. Mamie Edmonds of Unionville, is in the city visiting. Mrs. Laura Long and daughter Jewel of Belgrade, were in the city Wednesday on business. Prof. A. P. Smith, who is principal of the Marion public school was in the city Saturday and Sunday to visit his family. Willie Washington of Mt. Vernon was in the city this week. Dennis Farrow, of Cairo, is taking a course in law from a correspondence law school and is making good in his studies. He works in the day and is often up as late as eleven o'clock at night. He is going to make good. Why not others of our race employ their spare hours to something that will be useful to them and the race in the future. Miss Mary Reed, was down from Paducah, Ky., Sunday visiting her mother. She had a 'high brown' with her? THE FIRST FASHIONED CAR 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 FRED SMITH, Soliciter Master in Chancery Sale. State of Illinois, Massac County, ss. In the Circuit Court of said County, January Term A. D. 1914. Charles Rodgers Vs. William Crim and James Crim. Bill for partition No. 6782. Public notice is hereby given that in pursuance of a decree entered at the January term of said Court, to-wit: on the 22d day of January A. D. 1914 in the above entitled cause, I. S. Bartlett Kerr, Master in Chancery of said Co., will, at the hour of 10 o'clock a.m. Saturday March 14th, A. D. 1914 at the East door of the Court House in the City of Metropolis, County of Massac, and State of Illinois, sell at public vene- due to the highest and best bidder, the following described real estate to wit: Lot number Four (4) in Block number One Hundred and Two (102) and Lot Number Five (5) in Block number One Hundred and Two (102) in the second addition of the City of Metropolis, Illinois as per recorded plat thereof all situated in the City of Metropolis, Massac County, Illinois. Terms of sale, One half cash in hand, balance payable on or before one year after date of sale, deferred payment to draw Six per cent interest and be secured by mortgage on the premises, with option to purchaser to pay cash if exercised before the execution of Mortgage. Dated this 19th day of February A. D. 1914. S. BARTLETT KERR, Master in Chancery. BROOKPORT. Mr. Editor: Please allow me space to say that the Unity Baptist is moving along nicely under the administration of Rev. James Coleman who was with us Sunday and delivered three strong gospel sermons both spiritual and practical. The attendance of the day was a tull house. We are going to build a Baptist church in Brookport by the help of God for we believe it is God's will. We ask the prayers of all sister churches for our success in every effort that we put forth for good and for the upbuilding of the Kingdom of Christ Prayer meeting every Wednesday night. Building committee every Friday night. Our pastor is with us the first and third Sunday in every month. Bro. B. Baker and Rev. M. Kimbro who have been on the sick list was able to attend the church service Sunday. We thank God for it Thrived on Hot Biscuit. An Alabama man, ninety-seven years of age, says he has eaten hot biscuit regularly all his life. Livingston Institute This school is well graded and equipped Grammar School Department. All work is well organized under Departmental and able Instructors, selected for Special Departmental 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) ..... 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. Illinois Traction System Frequent, Comfortable, Clean Electric Service between ST. LOUIS, SPRING- FIELD, BLOOMINGTON, DECATUR, CHAMPAIGN, URBANA, DANVILLE, CLINTON, LINCOLN, and PEORIA. There's a train your way any hour in the day when ticket reads via Try The "ROAD OF GOOD SEVICE" Next Time