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And Dr. Fisher, you know you arrogate to your self the authority to write Dr. Throgmorton, editor of the Illinois Baptist and chairman, of the Mission Board of the Illinois Baptist Association, that your Board desired to cooperate with his Board. Doctor Throgmorton, promptly replied that their Board would gladly co-operate with the Board of the General Baptist Convention, for them to pick the men and set the salaries and their Board would pay a part of their salary but of course, the two Boards would have to agree upon the men. Our Board has already endorsed Bros. Phillips and McWilliams Upon this you wrote Dr. Throgmorton, that the Board had declined to c-operate with their Board. It will be remembered that Dr. Fisher's Board did not raise $1.00 the whole of last year. The Circular letter avers this and it stands uncontradicted by Dr. Fisher, in his reply of six and a half columns. Because the Dr. could not handle the money with those long lanky, limber fingers of his and have his kind of cooperation, he wrote to the chairman of the Mission Board, Dr. Throgmorton, that they or rather, his self appointed Board did not want cooperation with the Illinois Baptist State Association and yet it is by the aid of the Home Board and Illinois Baptist State Association that the State Missionary, was able to make the best report that was ever made to the Convention, with not one cent back debt on the Convention. Dr. Fisher, shows here that he cares not for the water that falls on the earth, that gives seed to the sower and bread to the eater, but that more along this line? Why Dr. Fisher, triel to get the Missionary ladies (white) in the city of Chicago, to allow ```markdown ``` the salary of a lady whom they educated in Mission work and put her in Dr. Fisher's school to help in the great Mission cause. I say he wanted her salary to pass through his hands. But they said "na." So he kept hounding her until she left the church, and after his school went to the wall, they retained her, and the school went on elsewhere. Of course modesty forbids us to give the name of the lady in this unpleasant discussion. Dr. Fisher, you say in your reply that you do not belong to anything in the State but the State Convention and the Beth-Association? What did you mean the night we talked over the situation of the Baptist in the State until about 1 p. m., during the National Baptist Convention in Philadelphia, in which conversation I told you the Baptist would not split but would get together, and you replied that you were a Baptist, we said then you ought to be with the Baptist then, and you remarked thus "I am afraid you brethren will get me in that like the brethren got me in the federation in Chicago." You said some other things too, But at any rate if you did not, and had not been a member of the federation, tell what you meant when you said the fellows got you into the federation? Dr. you are the prime mover of that organization, and you know it and the only reason you are not associated with it now, is because you could not be president of the organization. Dr. you had just as well show your hand, everybody knows what you are trying to play and what you have already played. "Show your hand Dr. do not try to hold with the hare and run with the hounds any longer. The truth of the matter is, that while you were away attending the attending the Western Convention last July the ministers came together and elected Dr. Bradden president, that is why the Dr. Fisher does not belong to the federation. But he would have gladly joined the "Maurauders" if he had not been crossed out. He inquired of certain brethren, when and where the meeting for the new organization would be, that he wanted to be with the Baptist that he did not want no MOTTO : 'HEW TO THE LINE, LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY' office, but the brethren gave him no encouragement. So the Circular letter that was adopted by the Mt. Olive Baptist Association while were in the East attending the National Baptist Convention, nailed him to the cross. Now Dr. deny this if you like, and the proof will be forth coming. Now as to your meeting in Rock Island, in June 1915 at which time you call for all Baptist. I now call upon the Baptist of the State of Illinois to stand together and work on for your Master's kingdom. Let us see now what Dr. Fisher regards as being regular Baptist, for instance let us say the white brethren that set up the Federation or Union whatever they are pleased to call it. A rose under an another name is just the same, but at any rate the same organization (white) that gave birth to the Federation, with Dr. Fisher's assistance as president of the General Baptist Convention, for they said in that "Speckle Bird Convention" which convened in Chicago, March 1914. We wish to hear from Dr. Fisher, the president of the convention." It was then and there that Dr. Fisher promised them, the Baptist of the State. It was this same organization (white) that set the machine in motion, that organized six churches (white) in this end of the state, into an association and these churches for the most part had been dropped from the regular Baptist Association as being unsound in the faith. These six churches met last fall at Benton, if we remember correctly, and received 54 Freewill Baptist churches into their fellowship, without change of their vows or without rime or reason. "They are admitted with their doctrinal views as falling from grace, alien immersion, open communion and church Federation." We venture the assertion that there are a host of ministers in the State will not follow Dr. Fisher. It is but a question of a very short time our judgment, when Dr. Fisher, will be seen in his true light, and be unhorsed, stripped of his armor and left of his armour and left on the battle field covered with shame and disgrace, that is if he knows any shame. We now surrender the case to the Baptist of the State as well as the public, to say if the Baptist are split in the state, whether or not Dr. Fisher, or Brother Phillips are guilty. We close with the following summary. 1st, the circular letter charges Dr. Fisher, with usurpation of authority this he fails to deny, but on the other hand he admits the same as being true. "I ruled that Constitution should be enforced which nullified the election. 2nd, He is charged in the circular letter of thrusting certain brethren upon the convention contrary to the vote of the Convention and this stands uncontradicted. 3rd, The circular letter charges him with arrogating to himself the authority to call together his self appointed Board to put on just such persons as he desired. 4th, He is charged with arrogating to himself the authority in self appointed Board to declare office of State Missionary vacant. This he has not denied. 5th, The circular letters charged him with arrogating to himself the authority to write to Dr. W. P. Throgmorton, chairman of the Mission Board, that his self appointed Board declined their farther cooperation. see cause in our foregoing remarks. 6th. The circular letters charge him with giving only $4.00 last year for the State work. This he does not deny, but excusing himself by saying the Olivet church gave $100.00 for the Foreign Mission, etc. 7th. He is charged in the circular letters, of attempting to drag the State convention into the Federation, he refutes that by saying that he did not belong to the Federation, that he and the Olivet Baptist church belong to the Bethlehem Association, and the General Baptist State Convention. 8th. The circular latters charges him him ruling that a certain brother was entitled to hold an office which was contrary to the constitution. His only reply was when the point of order was raised, the point of order is not well taken. 9th. The circular letters, make the charge that his Mission Board did not raise $1.00 the whole of last year for State missions. 10th. The circular letters charge that any church can cooperate with the federation, regardless as to what it teaches for doctrine. This stands uncontradicted by the Dr. 11th. The circular letters avers that what is meant by alien immersion. open communion, church fellowship and Freewill ordination. This stands undenied. 12th, we charge Dr. Fisher, with an attempt to forestalling the resolution of Baptist principles offered at the convention at Carbondale, to reaffirm the declarations of Baptist principles, offered by Dr. William Gray of Chicago, in the Aurora, convention 1913. We have tried to do Dr. Fisher, the honor of standing by the rules of the discussion, that is to give due attention to to what the writer or speaker says. Should these remarks appear personal, it will be seen that we trailed the Dr. So as far as we are concerned the affair may stand closed. We have no ill will against Dr. Fisher, nor is there an ill will ranking in my bosom against any of my brethren but if the Dr. continue to carry on the discussion and deal in personalities he may tempt us to take up that issue, and may dig up the black diamond, and the Indiana land deal of which has been communicated to us by those who seem to be friendly to the Doctor. Resolution of Thanks A committee composed of white people in the city showed the spirit of Christ by giving 300 bags filled with assorted nuts, candy, an apple and an orange for the colored children on Xmas day. They distributed about 1900 packages among the whites and colored. There was no difference in the quality or quantity because all shared alike. The distribution of the presents was given to J. B. McCrary, and in the afternoon of Christmas day the children and a large number of parents and friends assembled at the 1st Baptist church, where prayer and scripture reading was conducted by pastor Rev. J. W. Davies, Revs. Thomas Morris and G. W. Rowlett. Then Rev. McCrary made a short address to the children pointing out the path that leads to ruin and asking them to abstain from drink, the dice, cards and the many evils of life, telling them to be industrious, self respecting, and to entertain a friendly disposition for the white race, to have faith in God and to be strong and courageous, attend church and the S. S., and work hard for an Education. He further told them not to play the bully because bullies never live long and there is nothing to be gained; not to be influenced by the worst type of the negro element nor the white element. That we have bad negroes and bad white men, therefore to live honest pure lives and to associate with the best people of both races. These remarks were highly appreciated by old and young and after calling attention to the presents and who they were given to and by whom, a motion was made by a little boy and seconded by a little girl to give a vote of thanks and the same was carried by a standing vote. The children were then formed into two lines the girls forming one and the boys the other, and while Miss Carrie M. Urquhart played a march the presents were given out by a special committee. The congregation was then dismissed leaving with a better feeling in their hearts for their white neighbors. This is as it should be in every community. The very best of feeling exists between the two races in Metropolis, especially the best element. There is no friction and if the NEW POSTMASTER. Samuel M. Stewart, Receives the Coveted Political Political Plum. Mr. Samuel Stewart, Democrat succeeds Ed, E. Smith, Republican, as postmaster at Metropolis. There were several applicants for the position, all good, reliable and influential men of the democratic faith but Mr. Stewart, had the longest political pull with the 'Powers that be,' thus his selection. This appointment has hung fire for several months as Mr. Smith, offered his resignation to make the race for sheriff, but as his successor could not be named he was held in office which was satisfactory since he failed to secure the nomination. Mr Stewart, has been and is the accommodating cashier of the City National Bank. He stands very high with all classes and the colored people are well pleased with the selection. The editor of The Gazette, wishes to congratulate Mr. Stewon his recent good fortune. saloon and the dives are kept closed here there will be no room for trouble. The editor of the Gazette wishes to turn thanks to the white ministers, churches and committees who contributed in the least for the happiness of our little folks on Christmas. May your store-house and barns ever increase. A Great Revival. One of the greatest revivals to be carried on here since the successful revival meeting conducted by Rev. J. Belfield McCrary, a few years ago at the First Baptist church in which so many souls were saved and are still standing up for Christ as the rock Gibraltar, is being conducted here at the A. M. E. church by Rev. W M. Young, of Harrisburg, the great Evangelist and pastor of the Missionary Baptist church, who chanced to visit this city and God made it possible for him to be called in to help Rev. J. H Smith, pastor. Rev. Young, is a powerful preacher, and when it comes to singing and praying sinners can't stand. Rev. Young is ably assisted by some of the local ministers who are impressed with the importance of making the city better by bringing men to Christ and fells the force of the Great Commission delivered to the "Church." to go into all the world, not simply stop at Jerusalem but to the remotest parts of the earth. Pray God to send more laborers into his vineyard, to take the places made vacant by the mustering out of this war, soldier of and for Christ. Native Salve. We have just recived some more of Native Salve and it is going very fast, those in Carbonand Md. City can secure a box or more now by 50c, per box. Act quick if you want it. Send all orders to Rev. J. B. McCrary. Rev. S. L. M Francis, P Away. BODY HELD IN STAT Rev. S. M. L. Francis, p. of Provident Baptist church died Monday of last week, after a lingering illness of brights disease He was one of the foremost Christian leaders of the city and nightly esteem on the West Side, where he held his pastorate. His body laid in state at the church all day. The funeral was held Friday morning. There is general regret throughout the city over this great loss. The biography of Rev. Francis, will be published later in The Idea — The Illinois Idea. Chicago. The readers of The Gazette, will regret to learn of the death of Rev. Francis, who was a great character. Bi-County Mutual Benefit Association. The Bi-County Mutual Benefit Association, is composed of Negroes of Massac and Poje counties, organized in 1910 with 8 member with headquarters at Brookport, chartered under the laws of the State of Illinois. Men, women and children can become members, from 2 to 55 years of age by paying $2. to join and $1., and one dollar at the death of a member within 30 days after the death, which gives ample time to raise your dollar. Some of the very best Negroamilies belong to the Mutual. This is the cheapest company in the county and pays the larges amount at death according to the money invested. At present there are 242 members and as the charter calls for 500 members want to run it up to its limit by April. There have been only 7 deaths in five years which does not average two deaths a year. The first beneficiary received $154.00, which cost only $2. and the last one received $242.00. There have only been two deaths this year. You pay into the Metropolitan at 100 per week $5.20 per year and would get much less at death The Mutual has paid out to the 7 beneficiaries since its organization $1,581. They have in the Brookport Bank, $246. to meet the next death. Neighbor why not the Mutual now not to-morrow, but to-day? Put your wives and children in it. Come to The Gazette office and let us explain it to you, as we are agent for it. You can save money by joining this company, it will pay you better than the Metropolitan or by putting in the Bank. You can see this if you have a little business ability. Let us build up Negro enterprises for our sons and daughters What say you. Edgar McCrary, the assistant Editor will be in Mound City, Mounds, and Cairo, in a few days. Every one please be prepared to meet him by renewing your subscription. Editor. 9161 NAV ST NORTH DAVID JD 303 332 DIGGING OUT A FOX How a Girl Found a Man to Love and One to Love Her. By BRYANT C. ROGERS. Farmer David Brandon had worked hard all day, and now that evening had come and the cows had been milked, the hogs fed, the hens shut up, and the kitchen wood-box filled up with dry maple wood, he pulled off his boots, with a grunt for each boot, and sat silent. David had been silent for a long ten minutes when his wife looked up from her knitting and asked: "Tired, pa?" "Not uncommon," was the reply. "Ain't you goin' to read?" "I'm a-thinkin'." "Bout Jessie comin' home tomorrow?" "Yes." "And you don't seem a bit glad. You haven't appeared to take a mite of interest in her for the last month. I want you to tell me what the matter is. I've been wanting to talk with you." "The matter is," slowly replied the husband, "that we've been wrong all through this thing." "You mean with Jesse?" "Yes." "How have we been wrong?" How have we been? "We are farmer folks. We began that way, and we shall die that way. We don't aim to put on any style. We can read, write and cipher. We have a daughter Jessie. She went to district school and got a better education than either of us." "That wasn't 'nuff. You got the idea that we must send her off to boardin' school and learn her lots more. She must have a heap of good clothes and other things, and it has been a tight squeeze to keep her goin'. She's learned music with the rest of it, and now we must have a planer for her to play on. It stands there in the parlor, and how many bushels of wheat is it goin' to take to pay for it, and what real good will it ever be to anybody? As a farmer's daughter, Jessie ought to marry a farmer. She will have work to do as a farmer's wife. There will be precious little time to thump on the planer. There will be precious little use for this education that has cost us so much money. They are the things that I have been thinkin of, and I tell you, ma, we have made a big mistake." "Has any one been talkin' to you, pa?" "Well, the tin peddler and the chicken buyer have had something to say." "Then let us start right there. Are either one of them educated men?" "No." "That's just why the one is a peddler and the other a chicken buyer. Miss Walters, the school teacher, is getting $30 a month and free board, ain't she?" "Yes." "And what is Hoyt's gal, Thompson's gal, Ridgeway's gal, getting? They are hired gals at $12 a month. Why? Because they are not educated! Hasn't it occurred to you that Jessie might become a school teacher, and if she does and goes to some village she can earn her $50 a month." "Mebbe she can," grudgingly admitted the husband. "And why do farmers' daughters generally marry farmers' sons? It's because they haven't a chance to marry in another class. The farmer ain't lookin' for an educated wife. An educated man ain't lookin' for an ignorant one. Neither a farmer's son nor daughter has much of a chance to pick and choose." There was a silence lasting three or four minutes. "We owed it to Jessie, pa—we owed it to her. Neither of us had the chance to get an education, and we have had to suffer for it. We don't know much more about the world than two wooden posts. We've had to work hard and scrimp and save to give Jessie a show, but it will come out all right, and you take my word for it. Don't ever let her know that you couter begrudged her an eduction." The morrow came and Jessie came with it. She was glad to be home, and her parents were glad to have her. She went about singing, and it was soon shown that education had not spelled her for housework. She was also busy with the roses and vines and seeds and currant bushes. There was much done to make the old farmhouse look as if a new family had moved in, and she did it. People drove slowly past that they might see the improvements, and the mother said to the father: "It comes of education, pa. Weeds and burdocks looked all right to us, but see what a change Jessie has made!" "But what about her getting married?" he grumbled. As if in answer, three or four young men from the village drove out on fictitious errands that they might get a sight of and a few words with "the college girl," as they called her. And three or four sons of farmers came to see about hogs or sheep, and once face to face with the handsome and self-confident girl they forgot their errand and changed it to fence rails. And Pa Brandon came up from the cornfield half an hour ahead of time one afternoon to wink his wife out behind the smokehouse and says to her: "Ma, what do you think?" "Lots of things, pa." "You know Jim Faraday?" "Of course." "One of the richest farmers in the country. Pays 40 cents a pound for the coffee he drinks and lets the hired man drink it, too." "Well, don't lose your breath. Is he dead?" "Dead? Not much! He was down in the corn with me a hull hour this afternoon. Guess what he wanted?" "Pa, Jim Faraday is forty-five years old." "Yes." "He's a widower with three children." "Yes—three." "He's sneakin' around after our Jessie." "There is no sneakin' about it. He wants her for a wife, and can give her forty times as good a home as any one else. Let's set in and bring it about." "David Brandon, there will be no settin' in!" solemnly warned the wife. "Haven't you got sense enough to understand that when you tie a gal of nineteen to a man old enough to be her father that you are goin' to spile her life. Where's the love—the romance?" "But Jim is rich." "That doesn't count for shucks." "All right. Let her live and die an old maid, then." Two other widowers came, and one got as far as to ask Jessie if she dotted on chicken potpie, but the father didn't interfere again until late fall. Then he suddenly asked: "What do you 'spose Jessie is waitin' in' for?" "For the first snowfall," was the answer. And the next week it came. It was soft and half an inch deep, and every thing that moved in the fields left a clear trail. It was so with the fox who visited the henhouse during the night and carried away with him a plump pullet. Jessie saw his plain trail as she went out to feed the hens in the mornings, and after breakfast, without saying a word to any one, she got ready to follow the trail, carrying a spade on her shoulder. She was going to run that fox to his hole and dig him out and put an end to him. Had the girl asked her father, her mother—had she a brother to ask—they would have told her something about sly Reynard that she did not know, farmer's daughter though she was. Over the meadow, over the stubble, into the woods, she followed that plain trail, and she uttered a shout as it led her at last to a burrow in a hill. She had run the thief to earth, and now to dig him out. She had worked for half an hour, when there was a merry laugh close at her elbow. "Why—why—1!" she stammered in confusion as she looked up and saw a young man whose face beamed with mirth. "I beg pardon," he said, "but you are trying to dig out the fox whose trails leads here." "Y—yes." "Come to the top of the hill and look down there. Do you see that trail leading away?" "It's the same one you tracked to this burrow. Master Reynard has two entrances and two exits to his burrow. As soon as you began digging he skipped out." "You don't live in this country, and how should you know?" asked Jessie, rather defiantly. "Oh, I might have read a work or two on natural history." "But I know my father will say—" "We will ask him. You are Miss Brandon, I believe. My name is Arthur Stewart. I am on the way to see your father for my cousin, Mr. Wakefield. Permit me, please." And he shouldered the spade and walked along beside her, and their talk was of trails and foxes, but queerly enough when the house was reached the question in dispute was not submitted for decision. In fact, it was not thought of again for months, and it was Jessie's mother who said to the father: "Jest let a girl alone, pa, and she'll find a man to love and one to love her, even if she has to have the help of an old red fox! Don't jump out your boots when I tell you that Jessie is engaged!" (Copyright, 1914, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate). Value of Time. It is rather a curious sidelight on the character of men of renown that in reading a life of one of them you almost invariably will be struck by the fact that he exemplified the saying, "Those who have most to do and are willing to work, will find the most time." They are all adept at the art of what Bennett calls living on 24 hours a day. Their time is invariably well arranged, and treasured to the very second, sometimes consciously, sometimes unconsciously. For example, Thomas Jefferson always kept a book on the mantelpiece in his dining-room. If dinner was late, the minutes served him. This priceless power of making the minutes serve them is common to all great men. Use for Water Hyacinth. In Cambodia and other parts of Indo-China where the spread of the water hyacinth has seriously interfered with navigation of the rivers an effort has been made to solve the problem by endeavoring to find some use for the plant, and with this end in view chemists and students have been encouraged to investigate the problem. A French professor named Perrot has extracted the fiber from the plant, and finds that after drying, preferably by a gradual process, it can be made into serviceable rope and twine, as well as coarse thread suitable for matting and sail cloth. METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE. METROPOLIS. ILL. AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS We are permitted to live in a marvelous age. So many wonderful things are happening each day that we scarcely have time to read about them and little opportunity to ponder their significance. We, in the Southland, read the morning paper's report of the progress of the European war—Awful! we exclaim, and then hurry to eagerly search for the latest developments in the cotton situation. We read, we have faith and so we are encouraged to hope for brighter days in spite of the fact that to the average of us there is little said, that we understand, to illumine the situation. One of the causes contributing to our present misfortune is a hopeless struggle to grasp the meaning of giant problems with our pygmy minds, while all around us lie the simple, essential, elemental conditions that make up life, which are easily understood and practical, and which, if given a little serious thinking, will transform this "vale of tears" into a land of joyous living. There are some people in Texas, though, who do appreciate small beginnings and small things, and who are really making things come to pass. We should be thankful that there are still a few farmers who are not cotton crazy. A few farmers who think of hogs, chickens and eggs to raise a few, who like to eat vegetables enough to raise a garden, who raise enough corn to have some meal ground for the old-fashioned antebellum golden egg-bread, who use the milk and butter from their own dairy cows, and whose wives are just old-fashioned enough to make lye-hominy, can surplus garden stuff and fruits and make quilts to keep them warm in the winter. This class of farmers live at home and whether cotton sells or not they will continue to live, to eat and to enjoy some of the blessings of life. The above is suggested by a meeting I attended in Waco, and about which I want to tell the readers of the Houston Post. It was a meeting of Negro farmers, about five hundred of them, representing some ten thousand others who were at home in the North, South, East and West Texas. The 500 had been sent to Waco to work in the nineteenth annual convention of the Farmers' Improvement society of Texas. Here are some of the things they did. They sang songs of praise and prayed God for his blessing on their humble efforts with a fervor surpassing anything I had ever seen or heard in a church. They then discussed, made demonstrations and produced samples of stuff they raised or made illustrating selected subjects pertaining to the farmers' yearly work. They made intelligent written reports from their various county organizations on the work accomplished during the past year and made plans for another year's work. There was wit and humor and song and laughter interspersed with huge chunks of hard common sense. They were sober-minded men and women bent upon finding the way to the better life for themselves and their children. There was order—there was organization.—Wade C. Rollins, in the Houston Post. Prospecting for oil near Calgary has resulted in the discovery of a fine quality of oil at a depth of 2,700 feet in what is called the Dingman well. The oil is of such high grade that it can be used successfully in automobiles after having passed through the filter. An antiquarian society has recently obtained one of the most interesting collections in the country. It consists of the commercial tokens and mock coins issued by tradesmen during the Civil war when small change with the government stamp became a rarity. There are in the collection about one thousand varieties of tokens. A successful peach grower, S. J. T. Bush, in a recent talk at Rochester, N. Y., said that 200,000 bushels of peaches rotted on the trees in one New York county alone in 1912 for lack of cars to transport them to market. The newest battleship building for the United States will be 1,400 tons larger than Japan's largest, 3,400 tons larger than Germany's, 3,900 tons larger than Great Britain's, and 6,500 tons larger than anything France plans. It has been discovered that the leaf of the pineapple can be wought into a serviceable cloth. Not many years ago Russia was a strong rival of the United States in the production of petroleum. Now the Russian empire yields only about 68 per cent as much oil as California alone, and not much more than Oklahoma. Germany has 173 stock companies in textiles, capitalized for an aggregate of $81,512,000. The average earning of a film of moderate length is said to be nearly $15,000. If these United States of America should become involved in war, what part do you think the Negro of the South would play? If he were asked to take up arms to help protect the peace and prosperity of the southland—and refuse? If he should stand and tell the people of the South. "No, sah; I'se not gain' ter no war; I'se got der rheumatism?" If the Negro would say, "We's don' tried to help you once, and you turned us off after we'don' won a battle at San Juan hill." If the loafing Negro and the other sons of rest would refuse to give their services as cooks and other required labor? "My dear readers, the above is an 'if.' If these United States of America should become involved in the present war, we, the colored people of the South, stand ready to give our services, property and lives for the peace and prosperity of the southland. Nor would we sneak from the battlefield and hang around the cook pot. We are ready to fall in line and advance in pursuit of the enemy. It is true, when the North and South were fighting, our fathers and mothers were left behind to care for the families and farms. And when "master" came back from the battlefield he found everything better than he left it; all the corn had been planted and all the land had been broken up. We want the good white people of the southland to the old reliable, trustworthy "mammy" and "uncle" is still in the South. We realize that those who refuse to give us justice at times are the ones who have forgotten the good deeds of the old Negro "mammy" and "uncle." The same blood that traced the old "mammy" and "uncle" veins traces their sons' and daughters' veins—C. J. Taylor, in the Houston Post. In the midst of the war situation, it is sincerely to be hoped that the general public will not forget the needs of such institutions as the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial institute, located in Alabama, in the heart of the South. Whatever conditions may arise, it is of the highest importance to continue without interruption to give that training which will insure the prosperity of the South and peaceful relationships between white people and black people. After deducting all sums likely to be received from stated sources, including a sum guaranteed by trustees and friends of the school, there remain to be raised this year by the principal of Tuskegee institute in the form of $50 scholarship, or otherwise, for current expenses, about $125,000. The amount referred to not only includes the direct expenses of the school for the work on the grounds, but the extension work, which influences and reaches a large part of the far South. Even the smallest amount will be gratefully received and promptly acknowledged. The work of the institute is now so thoroughly established, and its great value to the Negro people and to the nation so fully demonstrated, that the school should not be allowed to suffer in its need for current expenses. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON. Principal, Tuskegee Institute, Alabama. The unassallable supremacy of the "Smiths" in London can be estimated from the telephone directory. The honorable family of Jones, for example, occupies not quite four pages. The Robinsons, who have a place with the greatest, do not require two pages. But the Smiths begin on page 732 and end on page 770. The United States forest service has undertaken the reforestation of a large section in northern Idaho destroyed by forest fires in 1910 to determine whether the destruction of trees decreases the flow of streams. Irrigation projects now under way or contemplated by the Union of South Africa call for an expenditure of more than $5,000,000. A new Tennessee law makes provision for fire escapes on workshops and factories two stories and more in height. The bulk of the aluminum ore of the United States is produced in Arkansas. There are said to be nearly or quite one thousand varieties of rice in the Philippine islands. It is probable that some of these will prove nearly duplicates, but the actual number of varieties is very great. In Berlin there has been constructed a skating rink with all the properties of ice, but made of salt, the invention of a German scientist. It is asserted that more children are employed in dangerous occupations now than 30 years ago. REPLACE OLD STEPS HAS TIME OF WORLD Those of Capitol at Washington Reconstructed. Have Been in Service More Than Eighty Years, and Effects of Time Were Very Plainly Visible to Capitol Visitors. Weathered and worn by more than eighty years of service, the wide stone steps leading to the east entrance of the capitol at Washington are to be replaced. The wear on the steps, caused by hundreds of thousands of persons climbing them, has been so great that they have become not only unsightly, but also dangerous in their present chipped and battered condition. It is at the bottom of this flight of steps that the president takes the oath of office every four years. When they were set in place in 1830, the senate and house wings had not yet been erected, and the old wooden dome was still a part of the structure. For beginning the present improvement congress appropriated $50,000, but it is expected that at least $75,000 additional will be necessary to complete it. It is interesting to note that when the District of Columbia was originally laid out, it was the belief that the ultimate growth would be to the southeast. It was because of this that ```markdown ``` The Battered Steps at the East Entrance of the United States Capitol Which Are to Be Replaced After More Than Eighty Years' Service. the main entrance of the capitol was made to face the east. Contrary to plans, however, the growth took an opposite direction, and years ago necessitated the construction of the west entrance to the capitol, which since that time has been the one chiefly used.—Popular Mechanics. Activities of Women. Club women of Oklahoma City have organized a company to build a cotton mill. Montgomery, Ala., has a woman barber who makes a specialty of hobbing children's hair. About 36,000,000 babies are born each year, or at the rate of about seventy a minute. Two thirds of the woman workers in the Tokyo factories receive less than sixteen cents a day. Mme. Koudachef, well known as an explorer, has been attached to the Russian scout service. She rides the same horse upon which she made her famous trip from Vladivostok to Petrograd. Mrs. Mary Mitchell has deeded back to the government her Nebraska farm, valued at $5,000, which she obtained through a method now recognized by her as irregular and dishonest. Protection From Earthquakes Protection From Earthquakes. The problem of protecting against earthquakes in Italy is discussed in a recent memoir by Prof. G. Agamenone, who points out that disasters from this cause are mainly due to faulty construction and bad location of buildings. It appears that after the greater earthquakes of recent times the authorities have formulated rules to insure proper reconstruction, but these have been disregarded on account of the expense entailed and because the danger of another earthquake seemed remote. The author thinks the Italian government should establish a special ministry to control and systematize the work of mitigating the results of earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, flood and other analogous disasters, and should provide state insurance against the losses due to these agencies.—Scientific American Blasphemy. Walter Damrosch said the other day in New York: "Kreisler, the Austrian violinist, has been wounded in the arm, and it may be that he'll never play again. "To use Kreisler as a stop for bullets seems to me a blasphemy to the art of music—a worse blasphemy than the English countess used toward Paderewski. "At a great English country house a countess said to Paderewski one rainy afternoon: "Oh. Mr. Paderewski, you play, don't you?" "Yes, madam,' the master replied. "Then,' said the countess, 'would you mind turning my daughter's music?" —New York Tribune. Single Dial of Chronometer Records It All. Invention Both Mechanically Clever and Artistic Haa Been Awarded a Patent by the Authorities at A chronometer, indicating on a single dial the time at any city in the world, was recently awarded a patent, according to Popular Mechanics. ```markdown ``` Odd Clock Which Shows the Time of Every Place in the World. The instrument consists of a globe of the earth inclosed in a glass dome, around the circumference of which is an hour and minute scale. Half of the characters are in white and the other half black, indicating day and night. The dome is so mounted that it revolves once every 24 hours, so that if it is desired to know the time at Paris, it is only necessary to follow a longitudinal line leading from the position occupied by that city on the globe to the dial. If the figure appears in white, the hour which it represents is that of day. A second dial at the base of the sphere shows the local time, although this could be read on the universal dial. Russia's Monster Aeroplanes. A good deal has been heard concerning the British and German aeroplanes, but the great Sikorsky biplanes used by the troops of the coar have been rather overlooked. These machines, invented by a famous Russian named Sikorsky, are by far the biggest aeroplanes being flown in the war—in fact, they are the largest in the world. They stand 16 feet high, and are about 100 feet wide. The Sikorsky can carry almost as many passengers as an airship. Twenty men can be accommodated in the large passenger cabin, which is constructed of metal and contains numerous windows. In this machine three engines are fitted, which give a total of nearly 1,000 horsepower, for, owing to the Sikorsky biplane weighing in itself one and a half tons, and having so large a crew to carry, it demands high power to pull it off the ground and keep it in the air. The weight of the machine has necessitated an elaborate landing chassis, composed of numerous springs and pneumatic tubes, so that the huge biplane can alight safely on rough ground at a speed of 60 miles an hour. Mark Sullivan's Error. Mark Sullivan, editor of Collier's Weekly, was the speaker of the evening at a recent banquet given in Detroit by the Adcraft club. He was the last on the program. It was noticeable that Mr. Sullivan spoke very rapidly, though eloquently. His remarks were brief, and afterwards it was wondered by those who heard him why he didn't speak longer. "I omitted many things that I intended to say," said Mr. Sullivan to a friend afterwards. "Why?" the friend asked. "It was so late," answered Mr. Sullivan. "It wasn't very late," the friend replied, "and the audience was very anxious to hear you." "I looked at my watch when I got up," said Sullivan, "and it was a quarter to 12. At that hour no one should attempt to make a speech! "Heavens, man!" exclaimed the friend, "you've got eastern standard time. It was only a quarter of 11 when you started." Poor Comfort. Richard Croker, at a dinner at the Democratic club, in New York, said of the war: "Everybody is telling the combatants in Europe what a regenerated world it will be after the war is over—no more armament firms, no more conscription, no more race rivalry. "But the way they are getting killed off, the combatants must feel about all this consolation like Tim Grady. "Tim Grady lay in his sick bed groaning and moaning. "‘Are ye very bad, Tim?’ asked his wife. "‘No,’ said he. ‘It’s the doctor I’m thinkin’ of. What a bill, it’ll be, to be sure, to be sure.’ “Shure, now, Tim,” said his wife. ‘There’s the insurance money, ain’t there?” —Washington Star. CAP and BELLS MAN MUST KEEP ON PUSHING So Would the Lecturer, From Whose Motorcar Youngsters Were Stealing Gasoline to Start a Bonfire. The gentleman with the well-fed appearance, who had motored over from the nearest town to deliver his lecture, "The Art of Getting On," in the village schoolhouse, concluded with a fine burst. "Effort is the keystone of success," he said. "The successful man is the man who strives persistently. His motto is, 'Push, and keep pushing,' for by that, and that alone, he reaches his goal." Before the bulk of the audience made much headway with their clapping a small man at the back got in a laugh that might have come from a megaphone. The lecturer held up his hand for silence. "You, too, my friend, will have to push—" he commenced. "So'll you, I reckon," interrupted the small man; "there's half a dozen youngsters been pinchin' the gasoline out of yer motorcar to light a bonfire." Very Ambitious. "So you think of studying law, Angeline?" "Yes." "The world doesn't produce a Portla every day." "Maybe not. But that doesn't concern me. I don't expect to handle any loan shark cases. I'm going to specialize in corporation law." His Rule. "Why didn't you offer that woman your seat in the street car?" "I make it a rule never to offer any but old people my seat." "Still she wasn't very young." His Rule "And I am always careful never to insinuate by offering my seat that I consider a woman old." Metamorphosed. Guest (departing)—You had better get a horse to take away the bed in my room. Guest—Well, during the night it became a little buggy.—Judge. As She Described It Alice, an enthusiastic motorist, was speaking to her friend Maude in relation to the slowness of a certain young man at proposing. "Charley seems to start easy," she remarked, "and he speeds up well, but just at the critical moment he always skids."—Judge. REPARTEE. L. BAKER She-'Go on, niggah, I doan want none ob. yo' lip. "You are charged with going through the pockets of a man who hired your taxieab." "Guilty, your honor." "A very foolish robbery. Why weren't you content to get his money in the usual manner?" Sympathy. "I believe Mrs. Wasserby would go to any length to appear recherche." "Poor thing! I used to have a friend who couldn't do anything with her complexion, either." Sympathy. Delights to Hear Himself Talk. "So you think Bulger likes to hear himself talk?" "Crazy to. Why, it makes him med to think he can't hear himself when he talks in his sleep." THRILLING CLIMAX TO STORY Startling Results Are Seen in Novelist's Dictation to His New and Inexperienced Stenographer. The short-story writer dictates the seventeenth chapter of his novel, "Loony With Love," to a new stenographer and this is the result: Sylvia rushed into the arms of Armand, A-r-m-a-n-d, comma, the wild cry of a primitive woman issuing from her warm, comma, red lips, period. New paragraph. Clinging to his stout, comma, manly shoulder dash—in an ecstasy of relief dash—she sobbed out her pitiful story period. New Sentence, quotes, "Armand!" exclamation point!" she cried in a convulsive sob, quotes again. "I ruined three men and a roue with an acute accent over the e. In giving one of them his conge, always underline foreign words, Miss Smithers, so the typesetter will put them in italics I spoke to him to you and all that you had meant to me period. He said you were a capital H, and G. Human Gorilla and I had best be on my guard semi-colon; but now I know the true man behind your mask, comma, Armand, and don't forget to capitalize it."—New Haven Register. The Humble Toller. "You must put your shoulder to the wheel in this campaign," said the alert manager. "I understand that," said the obscure but willing worker. "But you want to let me know when you're going to change your mind about going ahead. The last time I put my shoulder to the wheel, the band wagon suddenly backed up and ran over me." Those Fish Fancies "Do you mean to support your friend in his story about catching fish with his bare hands?" "No," replied Mr. Whopkins. "He exaggerates. It's true he took a fish out of the water with his bare hands. But I had to jump overboard and swim like the deuce in order to catch the fish and hold it for him." RETRENCHMENT NECESSARY. DR. JURKEM DENTIST BEFORE BUILDING STORE COMMITTEE ON RECORD The Dentist—What you really need, madam, is some bridge work. Mrs. Swiftly—Can't afford it, doctor—too much bridge play. Union Card Required. Mistress—Mary, I'll make the pudding myself today. Cook—If ye do, mum, I'll have to quit. Mistress—Why so, Mary? Cook—The rules of our union don't allow us to work in a place where nonunion labor is employed on any part of the work, mum. Upset Hia Theory. "The heavy explosions of a battle always cause rain. It rained after Waterloo, it rained after Fontenoy, it rained after Marathon." "But Marathon was fought with spears and arrows, my dear." "There you go. Always throwing cold water on anything I have to say." Sure Thing. "I see where some dentist claims he can tell the age of people, like horses, by looking in their mouths." "Then he would be a good one to deal with the militant suffragettes." "Why with them?" "Because they wouldn't show their teeth." Diminishing Supply Gaspard—Certainly. Haven't you read of the wholesale destruction of houses in Belgium and the suburbs of Paris—Puck. Ready for Him Both Ways. Tallor—This bill has been running for a long time. I'll have to begin charging you interest. Owens—It's against my principle to pay interest on my bills. Tallor—Well, pay the principal then. Owens—No; it's against my interest to pay the principal. He Also Works. Father—My son, I worked my way through college. '17—Maybe you don't call it work to have to wash my runabout before I can take it out every Saturday afternoon.—California Pelican. A Hopeless Case. "You should assert yourself more," said Mr. Woppit to Mr. Meekson. "What's the use," wailed Mr. Meekson. "if my wife positively refuses take me seriously?" METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE, METROPOLIS, ILL You Look Prematurely Old Because of those ugly, grizzly, gray hairs. Use "LA CREOLE" HAIR DRESSING. PRICE. $1.00. retail. Mining Promoter Working in New York In Very Evident a Man Edgar Lewis, moving picture director, told a story to his guests in a café of a confidence man with new ideas. He called the swindler Nat Pierce in telling the story. Mr. Lewis said that he was sitting near a group of rich westerners in the Waldorf when he heard a voice calling "Nat Pierce, please." The westerners became interested. One of them said: "That is the name of the clever promoter we met today. Let's see who is calling on him." They stopped the page and took the card. It was that of Senator Eilhu Root. "Ha, ha!" they said, "he must be all right. Here is Senator Root's card." Soon another page came through please! The westerners stopped him and looked at the card. It was that of M. Jusserand, the French ambassador. "This is enough!" they chorusd, and went out to look for Nat Pierce and his glittering opportunity. They found him carelessly shuffling a collection of cards ranging from Governor-elect Whitman's to that of President Poincare of the republic of France.—New York Sun. At the First Signs Of falling hair get Cuticura. It works wonders. Touch spots of dandruff and itching with Cuticura Ointment, and follow next morning with a hot shampoo of Cuticura Soap. This at once arrests falling hair and promotes hair growth. For free sample each with 32-p. Skin Book, address post card: Cuticura, Dept. X, Boston. Sold everywhere.-Adv. Not Quite the Same. A youth was employed in a business house a few years ago where the assistants had their meals supplied by their employer, who deducted a certain amount each week from their wages to defray the cost of the food. The assistants were not satisfied with their meals and one day the housekeeper, highly incensed at the remarks passed by the youth and his fellow-sufferers concerning the scarcity of food on the dinner table, reported the matter to the principal, with the result that the young fellow was invited the next day to a free lecture by his employer, who began: "I hear that you were one of those who complained about what was provided for dinner yesterday?" "Oh, no, sir!" came the unexpected reply. "You heard wrongly. What I complained about was what was not provided." What He Meant. "Perhaps it is best, after all," remarked the rejected suitor, as he lingered in the hall. "A man of twenty-five would soon tire of a wife who hovered round the thirty-two mark." "Why, Mr. Ardent," said the woman in the case, "how very ungallant of you to insinuate that I am thirty-two." "Well, perhaps you are not," he replied, "but it certainly struck me that you were somewhere near the freezing point." It Made a Difference. Johnnie (puzzled, as to how to pronounce the name of an employer)—Say, father, do you pronounce K-n-u-d with a long or a short "u?" Father (who, of course, doesn't know)—Oh, it doesn't make any difference. Johnnie—Well, I guess it makes a good bit of difference whether a man is nud or nude up in the arctic regions. At lunch, a Western Union office girl was reading a letter from a chum to the other girls. Describing a new dress the letter said: "It is certainly fin de siecle." "Fin de sickle," repeated one of the girls, "what does that mean?" "I don't know. Fin sounds like a fish. Maybe it means it was trimmed with fish net."—New York Sun. How Else? "How do you explain the reported reduction in the size of Boston's smart set?" "Oh, in the usual way." "And how is that?" "There's a strong-minded woman behind it." At the Front. "I have enlisted as a chauffeur." "Well, my boy, drive your car like a man and a soldier." "Father, I'll spill my last drop of gasoline in defense of my country." A Blow to Estheticism. "What's the matter with Professor Biggers. Is he suffering from palsy?" "No. He began to shudder when the Germans first bombed Reims and he hasn't been able to stop yet." FOUR OWN DRUGGIST WILL TELL YOU Murine Eye Remedy for Red, Weak, Watery Eyes and Granulated Eyelids; No Smarting-eyes; No Eye Pain by mail Free. Murine Eye Remedy Co., Chicago "She's more. She's a revenue cutter!"—Judge. It is generally a hard matter to land a soft job. Georgia Farmer Was Looking Forward to Period When Hard Work Should Be Over. A lumber buyer was staying overnight in a little farmhouse in the backwoods of northern Georgia. The men of the house did nothing but sit by the fire and chew tobacco. The lumberman had told how he had held his job for seven years. "You got me beat," said the old cracker. "I've only held mine for six years." "What is your job?" asked the lumberman. "Oh, I sit by de fire and watch dat de kids don't fall in." "What do you do in the summer?" he asked. "I sit by de well and pull de kids out when de falls in." "What will you do when the children grow up and don't need watching?" he asked. "Den, I s'pose I's goner take things easy and retire," he said. Wives Have Money Now. Soldiers' wives find themselves in many cases in receipt of much more money than they were when their husbands were at home. "Is a' this money for me?" asked the wife of a Glasgow soldier when she received her first week's allowance. "Aye, a' for you," responded the genial pay sergeant. "Will I hae a' this money every week?" "Weel, then," said she, "ye can tak' my guild man an' keep him as long as ye like. I never had sae muckle money before."—London Chronicle. An Awful Vision. On an English golf links there is a notice to the effect that "mistresses are invited to allow their housemaids to practice rifle shooting at the range." This "excites great disgust among the recruits." One of them told me of an awful vision he had in consequence. He saw the Germans arriving in town and, meeting them in deadly combat, the local corps of housemaids, while the members of the "new army" had to busy themselves getting the meals and making the beds!—The Bystander. Her Collateral. "Excuse me," said Bridget, putting her head in at the cashier's window, "but do Ol understand that yez lind money here on character?" "Why-yes," hesitated the cashier. "Thin Ol loke fifty dhillars, sorr, on moine," said Bridget, producing a number of greasy references. "They's slvin uv thim from me previous imployers—" But the cashier had fled. The idea of explaining the intricacies of collateral to a lady with seven characters was too appalling.—Judge. Important to Mothers Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it Bears the Signature of In Use For Over 30 Years. Children Cry for Fletcher's Castoria He Knew Two. Miss Paull was one of the teachers at the mission Sunday school. One Sunday the subject of the lesson was "The Second Commandment," and Miss Paull began by asking little Adelbert Dugan the question: "Now, Adelbert, have we any idols in this country?" For a moment the boy hesitated, and then replied: "Yes, ma'am. Me dad's idle, and me uncle, too." Lizzie Would Stay. Mrs. Atwell had had a quarrel with her maid, Lizzie, and the maid remarked that she would leave. "Lizzie," said the mistress, severely, "you must stay until I get another girl." "I intend to, mum," said Lizzie. "Shure it's only right some wan should tell her the kind of a woman ye are." Knew His Daughter. Young Man—I have called, sir, to request the hand of your daughter in marriage. Grumbells—Has she accepted you? Young Man—Yes, sir. Grumbells—Then why do you want to come round and bother me with your troubles? "Hope Springs Eternal." Lady Bountiful—Oh, rector, I thought you would like to know that old Jones is laid up with rheumatic fever. Rector—Thank you so much. I'm always so glad to, hear of a sick parishioner—From the Bystander. Starting Too High. "You told me before I married you that my slightest wish would be gratified." "So I did, my dear, but I had no idea at that time that your slightest wish would be a limousine." Many a man's character is formed before marriage—and reformed after. You can't keep a good man down; nor an upstart. ALL THEY COULD HOPE FOR Under the Circumstances Almost Endless Entertainments Should Have Been in Order. There is a certain Chicago man of a remarkably cheerful and optimistic turn of mind. His wife, on the other hand, takes things very seriously, and has no small difficulty in accommodating herself to the peculiarities of his friends when, as not infrequently happens, they differ from her own. "Henry," said she to her husband one evening, when she had returned home more or less agitated by something. "What do you think they say about Mrs. Eaton, the baker's wife?" "I'm sure I don't know," said the husband. "Nothing serious, I hope." "They say they can tell when she's going to have callers by her washing the children's faces! Now, you're a pretty sanguine man, Henry, but what on earth can you hope for a woman like that?" "Well," said Henry, "I suppose all we can hope for is that she entertains a good deal." "What is that story Bragg is telling of himself about?" "About the limit." The wise young man keeps on the right side of his rich old uncle who is deaf in his left ear. 160 ACRE FARMS IN WESTERN CANADA FREE just as cheap and in the provinces of 160 Acre Homesteads are at Other Land at From The people of European countries must be fed—thus an even greater up the price. Any farmer who can—get a dollar for wheat and raise 20 make money—that's what you can ful yields also of Oats, Barley and Itable an industry as grain raising. are the only food required either for markets convenient, climate excellent Military service is not compulsory in Canada labor to replace the many young men who Write for literature and particulars as to Immigration, Ottawa, Canada, or to 160 Acre Homesteads are Actually Free to Settlers and Other Land at From $15 to $20 per Acre The people of European countries as well as the American continent must be fed—thus an even greater demand for Canadian Wheat will keep up the price. Any farmer who can buy land at $15.00 to $30.00 per acre—get a dollar for wheat and raise 20 to 45 bushels to the acre is bound to make money—that's what you can expect in Western Canada. Wonderful yields also of Oats, Barley and Flax. Mixed Farming is fully as profitable an industry as grain raising. The excellent grasses, full of nutrition, are the only food required either for beef or dairy purposes. Good schools, markets convenient, climate excellent. Military service is not compulsory in Canada but there is an unusual demand for farm labor to replace the many young men who have volunteered for service in the war. Write for literature and particulars as to reduced railway rates to Superintendent Immigration, Ottawa, Canada or to G. A. COOK, 125 West 9th Street, Kansas City, Missouri; C. J. BROUGHTON, Room 412, 112 West Adams Street, Chicago, Ill. Industrious Spiders. They have very industrious spiders down in South America. We think our spiders here work hard enough, but down there they are said to work overtime. Upon one occasion, at least, they completely disorganized the telegraph service in part of the Argentine republic by spinning too many webs across the lines. As soon as dew fell or a shower of rain came on, each one of the innumerable microscopic threads, becoming wet, set in motion a tiny leakage of electric current. These millions of leaks practically stopped the operation of the lines, thus putting the government telegraph department, especially in Buenos Aires, to serious inconvenience and expense. A member of the board of education, serving as chairman of the board of superintendents, was in need of a teacher, and he wanted a certain woman whom he knew to have passed the examination satisfactorily, but who for some reason had not yet been assigned. In his indignation he called up the office of the board and in a sharp, impatient voice asked: "What is the matter with the board of superintendents, anyway?" "The trouble with the board of superintendents," came the slowly drawled reply, "is that they take themselves too seriously. They forget that God made them just for the fun of it." —New York Evening Post Fastidious Shopping. A butcher in a "nice part" of town tells of the curious whims of some of his well-to-do patrons. One of them, it appears, rushed into his shop just about closing time and exclaimed: "My husband desired that I should come in this afternoon and order some special English chops, and I've been so busy until now I haven't had the time. Now I shall be compelled to carry them. And couldn't you please have them wrapped so that they will look like a book?" The governor's wife was telling Bridget about her husband. "My husband, Bridget," she said, proudly, "is at the head of the state militia." "Oi thought as much, ma'am," said Bridget, cheerfully: "ain't he got th' foine malicious look!" "Why did Congressman Blowster retire to private life?" "Oh, for the usual reason" "And what was that?" "Another man got more votes than he did." mature CREOLE" HAIR DRESSING. PRICE Its Size. Their Trouble. Appreciation Forced Out. Fatima Cigarettes mild,delightful Turkish-Blend. 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It modifies order directing The Cutter Laboratories, Berkeley, Cal., or Chicago, 1191 OLD SORES Since 1869 ALLEN'S ULOERINE SALVE has bed more old ores than all other salves combine. It is the most powerful salve that heals sores from the bottom up, drawing out the poisons. By mail 55 cents. Book free. J. P. ALLEN MEDICINE CO., Dept. 824, ST. PAUL, MN READERS of this paper desiring to buy any things advertised in its columns should insist upon having what they ask for, refusing all substitutes or imitations. W. N. U., ST. LOUIS, NO. 52-1914. PRICE, $1.00, retail. Metropolis Gazette PUBLISHED ON FRIDAY BY THE GAZETTE PRINTING CO. ABTROPOLIS, . . . . . ILL. IRS. M. J. MOCRARY, MANAGER. J. B. MOCRARY, EDITOR Office 9th and Pearl Streets, Metropolis, Illinois. Entered as second-class mail matter, at Metropolis, Illinois, Postoffice. Address all communications to J. B.MOBARY, 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. One Year.....$1 00 1x Months.....75 Three Months.....40 Single Copy.....05 In Advance. ADVERTISING RATES. made known on application. You must mail copy on Mondays to secure publication. Persons who owe the Gazette would greatly lesson the finan- cial burden of the publishers by remitting at once. Reader if a blue or red mark appears on the head of your paper marked with an [X] it is to motify you that you owe for the paper and must pay at once. Mrs. Carrie Buchanan, and Miss Dora Woods, of East St. Louis, left for their home Sunday after spending two weeks with Mr. and Mrs. Henry Tinsly their parents and other relatives. Ed Jones, is at home again with his family after some months absence. The Assistant Editor of The Gazette, wat at the Duubar High School last Friday in the interest of The Gazette He succeeded in getting Miss Agnes Neely, to report the High School notes weekly. We would like to get news from Cairo, Carbondale, Duquoin, East St. Louis, and other schools weekly Get busy and choose a good reporter. Card of Thank$- Brother Editor, I wish to speak through the columns of the Gazette. I have been confined to my home since Nov. 17, 1914, but feel that I am somewhat improved at this time. I was agreeable surprised on the 9th of this month to receive a letter from Unionville Baptist church, and friends sending me $2, and ater to have a drayman drive up to my door to deliver a box containing groceries and 3 bags containing supplies to the amount of some dollars, donated by the members and friends of Unionville, sent to supply the needs of myself and family. I have not words to express my gratitude for their kindness and sympathy. I wish to turn my heartfelt thanks to them for their kindness and they shall never be forgotten. We thank each one that put forth an effort to help us in a time of need. We are grateful to sister S. L. A Owens, the solicitor and Bro. Wm. King, for delivering the same! May God bless them. Where Honer 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.—Anarcharchis. On Monday January Eleventh, Nineteen Hundred Fifteen, the Carnation Art Club was royally entertained at the beautiful and palatial home of Rev. and Mrs. J. B. McCrary, on 9th and Pearl Streets. At the hour of 3:00 p. m. the President being late the Vice president in the person of Mrs. Wm Fossie called the club to order, and the 23rd Psalms were recited in concert with the Rev. J. H. Smith leader. The Secretary called the roll and Thirty-three members and visitors responded. This being the largest attendance since the meeting at the Country home of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Long, last Summer. The visitors present were Rev. and Mrs. J. H. Smith, Mesdames G E. Masterson, Nellie Moore, Louise A. Mitchell, Leah Reed and the Misses Mae Roberts and Deborah Barnard of this city, and Rev. W. M. Young, Miss Capitula Tinsley, of St. Louis, Mo, Mrs Nancy Crippens, of Lincoln, Ill., Miss Hattie Cork of Paducah, Ky. They all made excellent remarks concerning club work, and donated liberally. Dues were collected to the sum of $3.75. Mrs. L. A. Mitchell became a member of the Club. After the regular routine of business had been transacted George the eldest son of Rev. and Mrs. J. B. McCrary invited the guest into the dining hall where two tables were beautifully arranged in order to partake of a delicious four course supper, prepared by Mrs McCrary, and Mrs. Jennie Woods of this city, but who has just returned from East St. Louis, Ill. The older ones were invited to the large table and waited upon to the satisfaction of all by Mr. George McCrary, while the young people found room at the second table where they were served in first class style by Mr. Henry Hutchinson. Oyster Soup, Uneeda Crackers Water. SECOND COURSE. Chicken with Dressing, Brown Gravy Thorndike Potatoes Coffee with Cream THIRD COURSE. Fruit Salad in Jelly, Tapioca Custard, Mock Cherry Pie So-Cola. The hostesses and waiters received many compliments for the way the meal was prepared and served, and every one left praying the great blessings upon this family, and to be invited again in the near future. Mrs. Pearl Carter, of St. Louis Mo., who has been visiting her mother Mrs. Mollie Claybrooke and sisters for a few days left for a few days left for home Monday, but she intends coming back soon as she left her baby here. Look out boys, the wedding bell is liable to ring as the Rose, Miss L. M. P. is wearing the diamond ring. Why the Rose Miss M. E. R. is wearing a ruby? Does she mean to jump over the broomstick? Mrs. Lou Thomas, of Joppa was up to visit her mother, Mrs. Nila Casey, last week. The editor was a Brookport visitor last Thursday to attend the meeting of the Bi-County Mutual Association which is composed of Massac and Pope counties. Clarence Lloyd, who left for Paris, a few weeks ago with his mother and siter to spend the winter returned home last week stating that he liked Metropolis best and will remain here. Carbondale, Ill., Jan. 0th '15. Dear Friend:—I saw in ot- days Gazette, where you were in search of a wife. Please write me at 321 East Oak St., Chrbondale, Ill. Mrs. Hattie Hayes, of Paducah, Ky., was in the city last week the guest of Mrs. Lottie Halleck. Alfred Cowper, of Fredonia, Ky., paid his nephew, Ontrue Cowper a visitit last week and they went to St. Louis, Mo., last Thursday to visit a brother, returning Monday. Mrs. G. White of Centralia, was in the city spening a few days visiting her cousin Mrs. Jas. Turner. Mrs. Givens, and daughter, of Paducah, Ky., visited the formers' son Charles, last week. Mrs. Jennie Woods, has returned home from East St. Louis, where she has been for several months. She will remain at home during the winter. What church will take the next Executive Board meeting of the Mt. Olive Baptist Association on Thursday before the 3rd Sunday in March. Notify the Gazette at once please. The minutes are ready for distribution as soon as we receive the money for postage, as we can't send out without it as most of the churches will not pay the Express and I can't pay it for them. We wrote the treasurer Rev. E. Holmes, also moderator Dr. Parrish, and as soon as we ecive the money will mail out. This will be a saving to all of the churches. Wm. Porter, is indisposed this week at his home on Johnson St. The grand jury is in session this week and some of the boys are getting a little nervous. Miss Gertrude C. Hall, a grad uade of Duabar High Shool this city with the class of 1913 is attenling the winter term at the S. I N. U.. at Carbondale. Good. H. I. Boyd, of Paducah, Ky. an undertaker and embalmer, who has been located in Shreveport, La., was guest of N. W. Long, the undertaker several days last week has returned home. Mrs, Mayme Wright is in Paducah, Ky., on business. Dunbar High School Notes The following were either tardy or absent: N. T., F. H., M S., A. E., W. U. and A. N. Mr. O. B. is leading the Latin class in their translations. Mr. F. Y. is also good. The Freshmen class is working very hard to catch up in their studies before the examination. Prof. Masterson gave the school their instructions concerning the examination which will converse Thursday a. m. Jan. 14, 1915, our motto "Work on your merit" The school was very much pleased with the presence of M. Crosslyn, Jas. Dyson and N. W. Long, of this city and H. I. Boyd of Paducah, Ky. The Senior class met in regular session on Tuesday at 3 p.m. every member was present and paid their fee promptly. The regular routine of business was carried on as usual. After wards the class adjourned until next Tuesday L. N. was cautioned by Prof. on talking too much. Prof. Masterson give the school a lecture on making unnecessary waste or the floor. V. W. is a very studious girl and works very earnestly in he arithmetic. A. G N. WANTED Some nice young lady, intelligent, with a good character and a good looker to make me a wife. I am young, "brown skinned" with a sweet disposition I have some money and a good job. Will make a good husband. Transportation furnished on request. Apply at the Gazette office. The only way to get the genuine New Home Sewing Machine is to buy the machine with the name NEW HOME on the arm and in the legs. This machine is warranted for all time. No other like it No other as good The New Home Sewing Machine Company, ORANGE, MASS. For Sale by W. R. Brenner. NOTICE. To the Ministers, Deacons and Members composing the East Mt. Olive Baptist Association. This is our third attempt to notify and hold our (Executive Board) first quarterly meeting since the adjournment of our association at Dewmaine August last. Now brethren January 1915 carries five Sundays and from a stand point of duty together with the solicitation of some of the brethren who are interested in our district work. I am now calling the board to meet with the Mt. Pleasant Baptist church of Golconda, Ill., on Thursday before the 5th Sunday in January. We select this date so that no pastor will have an excuse to not come, neither to leave before we close on Sunday night. We look for a large delegation. Our watch word on to Golconda, Jan. 1915. Hereafter any church paying missionary dues to any minister not having credentials from Rev J. M. Knowles, who was elected Supt. of Missions by the Mt. Olive Baptist Association, will not be credited by the missionary nor the association. So be governed accordingly. Rev. Knowles was empowered at the Board meeting at Sparta, to use any of 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 Departmenta 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. Metropolis Second Opens Monday This school is well graded Department. All work is well-tal and able Instructors, select work Special Courses in M and in Theology. Entrance Fee $2.00 Tuition Rates: Tuition, Normal and English c Tuition, Instrumental music (i Tuition Typewriting (including Tuition Plain Sewing per month Tuition, Vocal music Tuition Printing Industrial Department per month. Printing Free Board and Rooms in able rate. In every case, 4 weeks will All charges must be paid in and Prospectus Address J. B. McGRARY. Box 107 Beware of Ointments for Ca That Contain Mercury as mercury will surely destroy the sense of hue and completely derange the whole system when entering it through the mucous surfaces. Such articles should never be used except on prescriptions from reputable physicians, as the damage they will do is ten fold to the good you can possibly derive from them. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, O., contains no mercury, and is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. In buying Hall's Catarrh Cure be sure you got the genniine. It is taken internally and made in Teichoh Ohio, by F. J. Cheney & Co. Tentimontains free Price 75 cents per bottle. Sold by all Drug-gists. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. I have the school books you want, bring me your old ones and I will take them in as part pay for new ones, Z. A. VALLEE. For Groceries and cold drinks go the First or Last Chance Grocery on 9th and Pearl Sts. Send us a trial order for the Great Nature Salve, 50c a Box. Why suffer when you can be relieved for such a small amount. Read our guarantee on the front page of The Gazetre. You will agree with me that you never saw such stylish hats for the money as I am showing you now, no trouble to show goods Z. A. VALLEE. Notice is hereby given that we cannot print a list of names contributing to churches unless $1 accompanies same. Letter Heads and Envelopes can be had for the asking at this office. We print them. It will be to your interest to come and see our new fall hats before you buy, Z. A. VALLEE. If you want your skin to look pretty and soft, try a bottle of Dixie Liquid Bleach at McCrary & Sons the ministers be saw fit to assist him in the mission work and they will have credentials when coming to your church, So ask them to "Show you". New Maid—"Please, mum, there's a man at the door come to collect on something yez bought on the installment plan." Mistress—"Ask him whether it's the encyclopedia, the phonograph, the brass bed, the piano, or the sewing-machine."—Harper's Bazar. 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S. District Court, J. J. Shirk, H. Kraper and F. E. Fry. 7th class creditors of said Estate: You are hereby notified that on Monday, the 1st day of March, 1915, the Administrator of said Estate, will present to the County Court of Massac County, at Metropolis, Illinois, his final report of his acts and doings as such Administrator, and ask the court to be discharged from any and all further duties and responsibilities connected with said estate, and his administration thereof, at which time and place you may be present and resist such application if you choose so to do. (Signed) George W. Long. Administrator. I am still with you in the School book and Millinery business and earnestly solicit your patronage. I will treat you right. Z. A. VALLEE. Any one needing first class job work can find it at the Gazette office. We have the experience of 19 years as editor and typo. See?. I. C R. R. Time Card NORTH BOUND. Train numbers. Arrives. 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