Metropolis Weekly Gazette

METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE 'Move Forward Was the Order Given to Israel,'by Jehovah' O₃ to Centralia in May. Editor of Gazette, owing to the fact that we have been confined to our home for about two weeks and unable to get about we think it proper to speak to the churches and brethren thru the columns of your paper, and say that the prospects are bright as the prospects of God, in our State work. 'Viettoy is purched upon the banuer of those that are in the right, whose motto, is to do or die. Baptist brother and sisterhood! let us be doing now; our marching orders are to move forward. Will we do it, or shall we say there is time enough? Do not forget the King's business requires haste". Let us cultivate every foot of ground that comes under our observation. The land is our let us go up and possess it. Brethren and sisters, let us strive to put Our Grand Old State in the front ranks in mission and educational work, where it justly belongs. It should be an encouragement to all of the regular Missionary Baptist to learn that letters are coming from the different parts of state claiming that we stand for the old time faith. That faith that forever characterized the true missionary Baptist from the days of Jesus Christ until now. The "Old war horse, Dr. J. F. Thomas, of Chicago, pastor of the Ebenezerac Baptist church, heads the General Baptist State Association, desires to see all of the regular missionary Baptist of the state to bestir themselves and push the battle to the gate." We mean by regular Missionary Baptist, those that contend for a "regenerated church membership, a New Testament baptism and a New Testament church government. A contention for the three principles, makes the minister regular, the he may have to contend, tolerate some things in the church that he does not advocate, but he has only to teach, preach and practice those things handed down by Jesus Christ and practiced by the apostles, and things will come right. No man can be a "New Testament Baptist Preacher and Coward. His motto should be onward and upward, and by this sign we shall conquer in the district work, in the state work, in the Home mission work, in the Foreign field. Last but not least, conquer in the educational work of the state. Our divine commander says "Ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in Judea and in Samaria, and unto the utmost parts of the earth." We here quote what is said respecting this passage, Jerusalem corresponds to the local church. Of course this is meant that the Mission work must start in the church, (local) but it by no means must stop there. This home charity that never spreads abroad is no charity at all! Judea, corresponds to the state work, (State Missiones) Samaria, the home land, (Home Missiones). The uttermost parts of the earth, (Foreign land, or field). The commission is to go into all the world. Of course there must be a good healthy mission spirit in the churches before we can conk to accomplish anything at home or abroad. The work must first develop in the district, after it leaves the church, then the State, then Home and Foreign. We are very much encouraged to see the mission spirit taking fire and spreading everywhere. Let the good women come up to the help of the Master as never before. Come and be unfettered, that ye may feel free to work for the Master. Come because your faith is founded on God's word and to honor your convictions, this you can do and not hate the many other Christians and this we all ought to do unfinchingly and unblushingly and unhesitatingly. Do honor to your convictions, and enjoy heaven's benedicctions. "Arise and let us be doing." To keep this work before the public let us not forget that entails an expense on the editors, let me suggest that the churches take collections for them, The Gazette and Baptist Truth, Organs. C. C. PHILLIPS. DEWMAINE. Dear editor: please allow me space to say, Rev. C. C. Phillips was not able to be with his church Sunday. Rev. A. J Bowers preached in the morning and Rev. D. Johnson at night. Where Has Joshua Brockett Been for Lo these Many Years? ETROPOL MOT LUME XVIII NO. 2 Where Has Jo Been for Many The right Rev. Joshua Brockett, D. D. L. L. D. and K. Ps. and many other titles which he has affixed to his life in some way, or other, has the following to say, among other things, the Rev. W. P. Washington, by signing his name to the articles in question, assumes the full responsibility for the same, notwithstanding he (Washington) quotes the Illinois Anchoir of December 14, and the Christian Advocate without date. To this strange and unheard of logic is to be found in no court of record on earth, not even in the courts of common sense, it might be found in the asylum, or in the mind of of such men as the right Rev. Joshua Brockett. Much appearant learning has made the Rev. mad. It is indeed very strange, that after the right Rev. Joshua Brockett, D. D. L. L. D. K. of P's, and the many other titles he attempts to shadow himself under, after seeing his character assailed by the public press, remains as silent as Joseph's tomb, and when we quote the character and sign our name, he comes back at us and says, we assumed the responsibility of the publication. Suppose we had not signed our name, would have been the effect? We would have been branded as a coward, and too, justly so. But have we not been apprised of the right Rev's conduct in the five weeks, five hundred dollar rally in Cairo for the 19th St. Baptist church of which he dotes. We perhaps would have given the article only slight attention. Rev., you should have told how quietly you left the city. It remains for you to tell the public why it was that when you wrote the church last fall, that you would like to come down, and hold another rally for them, and tell why you did not go. Did you give your private life, or any part of it, in your five weeks stay in Cairo? The very name of Brockett pollutes and stagnates the great air in and around the 19th St. Baptist church. The right Rev, in his attempt to shadow, or rather, show some of his greatness respecting the great Lincoln memorial affair, give a complicated batch of figures which proves, that the whole thing, was a signal failnre, simply a sky rocket affair, just like its promoter (Brockett) who tells the public himself, that this great little something turned out to be nothing. And yet, he says Mr. Washington, ignorant of all facts in the case, dares to sign his to the malicious libel. "A fool rushes in, where angels would fear to tread. It appears in where angels dare not tread. The right Rev. Mr. Brockett has failed to give his public and private life. In his thirty years or more, as an ordained minister, according to his own writing, his record is traceable to, only two Baptist churches as pastor, viz. Massachusetts, Ave. Baptist church, which he claims to have been called from his Cairo, Illinois five weeks rally at the 19th St. Baptist church, of his sinful and shameful five weeks career, of which should have forbidden him to mention, St. Paul Duquoin is his next pastorate. But he tells us in what purports to be his public life, that after he had been ordained a Baptist preacher (1885) and in 1897 he join- We hope Rev. Phillips will be able to be with us the 1st Sunday in March. Those on the sick list are: Mrs. O Clapborn, Mary Moore, Bessie Bell, Irene Russell Mr. P T. Cox, and Mr. W. Porter. Mrs. N Brooks, has returned from Carbondale where she was attending the revival at the A. M. C. church. The Sir Knights gave a free reception Thursday night. Messrs, Henry McQueen, Algie Bradley and Monroe Watkins visited the girls of Golconda, Saturday and Sunday and Sunday and come back with all smiles, while there they organized the B. Y. P. U. Willie Mae Cross MOTTO : "HEW TO THE LINE, LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY ed the joined the A. M. E. church, to study its doctrine. The honorable hands had been laid on his vandal head, and he had been ordained a Baptist Minister, he says he entered the A. M. E church to study her doctrine, Sir (Brockett) You can fool all people part of the time, and you can fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time. Out of your own mouth the public will Judge you. He (Brockett) makes an appeal for sympathy to the Bishops of the Methodist church and a great number of the secret societies, we make no criminal attack on the Bishops he refers to, but with all ta good that his secret societies have done, and are yet doing, they are causing more people to die and go to hell, than any other one thing on earth, under the pretense of lifting up and helping falling humanity; and too, society is placing such men as Mr. Brockett, in a position that all the following of society under their oath, must support him, the he be a dirty Mug-Wump Hear the eulogy he pours out upon himself. "In Sculptural Art." I have to my credit one miniature bust of General Robt. E. Lee." Why the right Rev. has a little picture of General Lee, and a number of others, over thirty years a minister, and has not told in his record of one soul, that has been scuptured out of Sin, by his ministry. His whole life has shown him to be a blank tablet, so far as the Gospel Ministry is concerned. Public and Private Life of the Writer. The above is the ception under which Rev. Mr. Brockett wishes to shadow himself under, and has asked that we give the public our public and private life as he has done. One thing among the many that the Rev. failed to give in his article, and for my benefit, as well as the public's, you (Mr. Brockett) will please give the desired information to the following inquiry, viz. What position did you hold in the A. M. E. church, when you voluntarily withdrew from the A. M. E. church? Where were you in charge of a church, when you withdrew, if so, what was the membership? What salary did you get? Were you presiding Elder when you left the Methodist connection, or did you abandon the connection during the time you were assistant principal of the State Normal at Warrenton N. C. Or did you leave them during which time you say you were professor of practical Theology at Morris Brown College, Atlanta Ga., for a period of five scholastic years? If you will answer the above questions, the above questions, the public, as well as the sixty churches that you say that you say that you are going to visit, be able to judge, as to your sincerity for returning to the Baptist ranks. Now the thing you would like to get out before the public, and that too, you want to come from my own mouth is, whether I was ever convicted of a Felony, and served time in any State Prison, you shall not pine for the evidence. In Massac County, Metropolis the county seat, in the grand old state of Illinois, I. W. P. Washington, was convicted by a jury, and sentenced by a judge to an indefinite term in the Chester Penitentiary, without any evidence whatever, but because the plaintiff was a white man, against a defenceless Negro. I am sorry it ever occurred, but I am not ashamed of it. I left the county jail for the State prison, rejoicing that I could be counted worthy to suffer for the truth's sake, I had rather go to Heaven out of the Ssate prison than to go to hell out of Atlanta Ga., with the honors of being a 33d degree Mason, together with being a professor of Practical Theology. I was charged with raising two checks, (receipts) from seven dollars to seventy dollars, and the amount was in figures thus $7.00, or $70.00 and the seven, or seventy notwritten. However, I served 22 months and one day and a half, and when I came out, I never went to Atlanta Ga. that my tail might follow me, but my tail, and I, stained here where the trouble occurred, and now, men that was on the jury that helped to convict me, together with the general public is declaring my innocence, and there is no people that are attempting to hinder my progress, except such men as Mr. Brockett, who wishes to climb up, and become popular at the death of their constituents. I might say that during my 22 months and one day and a half of incarceration, like Bros, Paul and Silas, ceased not to preach the gospel. God used me to his glory while I was there, and to the salivation of two precious souls that were saved by my earnest work and labor of love while in prison, more than Mr. Brockett has done in his thirty years ministry, if his word is worth anything in the publication of his public and private life. These two saved souls sent communications to the East Mt. Olive Baptist Association August 1903 or 1404 while in session at Murphysboro Illinois. I spoke to over two thousand people in the new cell house at the prison 1903 on Thanks-giving day of that year, prisoners, officers, visitors as well, fell at the stroke of the gospel scythe, as it were being wielded by the Holy Spirit, using prison Washington as its agent. On that day, when I ended my gospel message, there were ten months' time hanging over my head, but the Deputy Warden, Mr. Morris, who lives in Mt. Vernon, Ill., rose up, and said to that multitude "Washington is a man to say the least no man that has the influence as has," over such men as is confined in this prison, and over the officers as well, can be guilty of felony, and the penitentiary was not built for him, and said he Washington, I will see it that you go home. One week from that date I came home. My success has been very great since that time, but to the Lord my Saviour, be all the glory. Yes I served one year under parole, and was called to the three churches while under parole, viz. New Hope Baptist church, and St. Paul Baptist church, Brookport, Ill. and the Hopewell Baptist church, Carbondale, Ill. Since that time I have served five consecuears as president of the Ministers and Deacons' and Members Institute of the East Mt. Olive Baptist Association. I am now serving my third annual term as moderator of the East Mt. Olive Baptist Association. I also have the honor of being the corresponding (quill pusher) secretary of our General Missionary State Association of Illinois. Mr. Brockett, these kinds of honors come to the dog that keeps himself and tail together, you know the dog's tail will follow him, don't you? Now Mr. Brockett, if you can stay with St. Paul and play lawn tennis and make and make good, and explain away your past conduct, by pointing out the defects in the ministers of Southern Illinois, and keep the people of Duquoin in the dark, we will be content to keep you cornered in Duquoin, you shall not come out until you come right, unless you go back to Atlanta, Ga., Hellena, Ark., or some other Seaport. The fight is on, load up and shoot is your powder is not wet. There are a few questions you put to me that I have not answered, I shall answer them here, and now. My cell number, I have forgotten, my register number was 1893. Now as to the number of living wives I have. I have only one living wife. My first wife and I, lived together 23 years and some months, raised a family of eight children, after which time she left me and for over a year, I begged and persuaded her to return, and she failed to do so. I remained single for five years and four months, after which time, I got my divorce by due process of law, and married another woman, after my former wife han married. Now, your lantern at noon tide, I fail to understand you, unless you mean that your deeds are so black that they becloud your way, so that you need a lantern to light your footsteps, if your lantern is for the purpose of letting the public know that you are blind with sin, such vice, immorality, deception and theft, just come right on. I will pray for you that the thoughts of thine heart may be forgiven thee, and if you mean the reverse, then you remind me of a lamb feeding on a rich green meadow, and a skunk was skulking along on the fence and said to the lamb, "I would come over and play with you, but your breath is too offensive. Mr. Broockett please read the first four verses of the thirteenth chapter of Romans, and give your closet comment on the fourth verse. I am a minister of God to thee for good, but if thou Brockett, do that which is evil, be afraid, for I beearth not the sword in vain. Now the sword that you have is dangerous to yourself and like Saul of old, you shall fall to your death on your own sword. Since I have learned your stamping ground since you were ordained in 1885 down to the present time, from your language and through the Christian Advocate without date; as corresponding secre- tary of the General Missionary Baptist State Association, I shall shadow you f.om 1885 on down to 1915, and turn the search light on your thirty years of Ministerial career, and let the State of Illinois know easy the riff-raff of other seates and territories can find lodging in conspicuous places in her borders, to the expense and death of good man, born and reared in the State, whose whole lives of sacrifice and service. With the columns of The Gazette, the Baptist Truth, open to the stroke of my pen, with the state Association and the East Mt. Olive Baptist Association financing every stroke of my pen, with the Illinois Idea of Chicago, supplemented, your dirty life will be made so plain that he who runs may read. And yet, with this threat of Justice, I feel the impulse of mercy in reserve for you if you will confess your sins, and bring to this district, and this state as well, some real evidence of repentance. If thy brother trespass against thee and repent, forgive him. The above is an historic landmark set by Christ and his Apostles, and (1.) we are to move it. Sir Mr. Brockett, unless you repent, your case is a case of the tail wagging the dog instead of the dog wagging the tail. O thou Proselyte, I fear that thou art two-fold the child of hell, than when you first claimed citizenship in the Baptist (Kingdom) or Methodist church. You must repent, leave or die. The fight is on for true. W. P. WASHINGTON, 239-15th St. Mt. Vernon, Ill. Judge W. W. Duncan Judge Warren W. Duncan, of Marion, has been endorsed by a number counties of Southern Ill., for the position of Supreme Judge of Ill. He is well qualified for the position and he should be given this place on the first ballor. 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WEEK. er and journal for every member of and Home Magazine Section in your year. Special rate, Two Year $1.00. Just the thing and a BlG do not care for a large daily pat- their home dailies by taking a Me-the world. ORDER the edition Company Publishers. JIS MO. n's Cafe, Illinois Central Station le, Illinois A. F. Roby assignee of W. N. Kelley Purchaser CURRENT WIT and HUMOR HE WAS STRICTLY NEUTRAL Diner Orders Conglomeration of Dishes to Comply With President Wilson's Late Request. Two homeless New Yorkers were taking their Sunday dinner at a restaurant. They were friends, but each was concealing from the other the fact that he had no other place to go. The first man to arrive had ordered his dinner and when the second man joined him the waiter was serving it. The layout consisted of roast turkey, German fried potatoes, Vienna schnitzel, French fries, Brussels sprouts, English muffins, Hungarian goulash and Russian caviare. "Good Lord, man," gasped the late arrival, "what's that crazy conglomeration you have ordered?" "Oh, that's all right," replied the other thankfully. "You know President Wilson has asked all good Americans to preserve strict neutrality. I'm a good American and this is a neutral dinner. See?" Comical Reasoning. "Get off from this place and stay off!" roared the colonel. "Confound you, I won't have a worthless soundrel around who steals everything he can lay his hands on!" "Well, uh, law suz, sah!" returned Brother Bogus. "Dat's funny! A pusson would imagine, cuhnel, dat 'twould be a comfort to yo' to have dat saw'tuh nigger round handy, uhkaze when anything was missin' yo'd know right whuh 'twuz at. Yo' does reason mighty comical, sah!"—Puck. Worried. "I am worried about my boy." "He looks all right to me." "I know, but I have never found a dead mouse or an apple core or a snake in his pocket in my life." "Well, why in the world should you?" "Ive always read that a normal boy always—" "Never, except in the funny papers. What you need is a more serious line of reading." Somewhat Caustic "This is the greatest town in the world," said the proud citizen. "It's so healthy here that people never die. They simply dry up and blow away." "Umph!" replied the saturnine stranger. "Some people about here evidently blow away at such a great mate that they don't know what it means to dry up." TRUE. The Soubrette—What does? The Comedian—A mad bull. Not All Dark. "There is a bright side to war." "I can't believe it." "Oh, yes. There is nothing doing at the Rat Mort, the Moulin Rouge is deserted and since there are no American tourists in Paris to cater to, its 'made-to-order' wickedness has taken a slump." Playing Safe Shortleigh—Have you sufficient confidence in me to lend me a dollar? DeLong—Sure! And I'm going to keep my confidence in you—along with the dollar. "A woman has to give up a great deal after she gets married," sighed Mrs. Gabb. "A man does nothing else but give up after he gets married," replied Mr. Gabb. Matter of Sex: Singleton—Then I was mist informed Someone told me it was a boy baby. WAR IS PLEASING TO WOMAN Wife of East End Heavyweight Gentleman Hopes Terrible Struggle Will Last Forever. Mr. McGovern, a heavyweight gentleman of London's East end, who had never been known to work, but who, nevertheless, has added to the population of the earth in figures up to ten, suddenly became heroic, and enlisted. The following dialogue took place between Mrs. McGovern and a lady, Mrs. McGovern being happy and complacent in the receipt of her 27-6 from war office: Mrs. McGovern—Good morning, miss. Lady—Good morning, Mrs. McGovern. I hear Mr. McGovern has gone to the war. Mrs. McGovern (cheerfully)—Yes, miss. Lady—Well, Mrs. McGovern, what do you think of this terrible war? How He Knew. "You say," said the attorney for the defense, "that though the night was very dark, you saw Rastus Johnson leaving your heencoat at midnight from your bedroom window?" "Yes, sir," said the plaintiff. "How could you distinguish him in the blackness of the night?" demanded the attorney. "Why—er," said the plaintiff, "the darkness was so much blacker all of a sudden that Rastus' presence there was obvious. No other human being could cast such a shadow on anything so dark as that night already was."—Judge. SOMETHING WRONG. Woman—The airshaft's out of order Janitor—What ails it? Woman—I can't hear a word that's being said in the apartment below. Paw Knows Everything. Willie—Paw, how do you describe a talk given by one man? Paw—That's a monologue, my son. Willie—And what is a talking act between two men? Paw—A dialog, my son. Willie—And what is a talking act between two women? Paw—A catalogue, my son. Maw—Willie, you go down in the cellar and stay there. A Woman's Strategy. "I once heard of a sadly heinpecked man who made friends with a mouse and by keeping the little animal always about him contrived to get the the upper hand." "A strange story. How long did that state of affairs continue." "Only a short while. The man's wife introduced a cat and the moment the cat pounced on the mouse she pounced on her husband." In Petrograd. The American war correspondent approached the Russian censor with due humility. "Would it be proper," he began, "to call the children of the Little White Father Czardines?" Which is another reason for those Siberian horrors. Dixmude After Rain. "The names of towns and cities in the war zone are sometimes given curious pronunciations." "What is the latest example you have heard?" "An old gentleman commented on the fierce fighting that took place at 'Dixmuddy.'" Suffragettes. Perhaps. "Whenever I see two women engaged in whispered conversation I always suspect them of undermining somebody's character." "You shouldn't be so cynical. Nowadays it's possible that one may be telling the other whom to vote for." A. Fellow Feeling. A mystic says it is always painful for him to come back to earth," remarked Gadsby. "I'm in the same boat," said Jagson. "Every time I come back to earth I have a headache." Up to Snuff. Arthur—Uriah Umson made a great hit at school during the hay fever season. Anna—How? Arthur—He Invented a college yell with a sneeze in it—Judge. A Great Gift. "They say she is splendid in amateur theatricals." "She's a wonder. She can make the most painful tragedy a source of genius amusement."—Life. METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE, METROPOLIS, ILI In the Case of Normal Person There Is Much to Be Said in Favor of Doctors say that this is a dangerous thing to do. If you have hardened and deadened the membranes of your palate and your digestive system by the excessive use of narcotics like tobacco or opium or of alcoholic stimulants, of course you cannot trust the cravings of your degenerate appetite, says Leslie's Magazine. But if you are well and sound and fairly sensible, perhaps the desire for any particular sort of food or drink is as good a guide as one could have for the proper diet. Amusing stories can be collected in almost any company of singular experiences in this line. One hears incredible tales of dying men who gasped out a request for fried oysters or mince ple or something equally silly—were supplied with the coveted dainty and proceeded to get well at once. One lady recently told of a child of four who was lying at the point of death, but who begged for pancakes and ham gravy. One can hardly conceive of parents who had allowed a child of that age to conceive a fondness for those particular edibles—but this one had surely become acquainted with them and liked them. As he seemed likely to live but a few moments in any case, he was gratified. Smoking hot pancakes, liberally enlivened with ham gravy, were given him until his eccentric appetite was satisfied. Then he fell into a gentle slumber, and a few days later was playing about the house as well as ever. MUCH JOY IN ANTICIPATION Its Stimulating Effect Seldom Given the Credit Which It So Thoroughly Deserves. Few people realize how much benefit they obtain from anticipation. Indeed, were it not for its stimulating effect upon our minds half the joy of living would vanish because by looking forward into the future and trying to realize our pleasures and ambitions before they actually come to us we largely increase their happy effects. The man who is unable to anticipate the future in any way whatever, who sees no reason in trying to taste his joys beforehand, who derives no satisfaction in building upon his hopes, misses a great deal of very wholesome pleasure. Common sense tells him, so he argues, that it is unwise to count upon anything in this life unless it is actually in his grasp, but then most of us get some very real Joy at times in acting contrary to the routine teaching of common sense. We do not mean by this, of course, that it is ever best to ignore our better judgment but, even admitting the fact that anticipation is not always the part of wisdom, there is no questioning the fact that it is very delightful to be unwise in this way at times. If we did not look forward to what is to come with hearts full of hope and expectancy how could we get through with some of the harder days of life? If we did not depend in so large a measure upon our anticipations how could we hope to overcome our discouragements? Anticipation is in a way the twin sister of the zest of life—Charleston News and Courier. Properly "Land o' Cakes." Scotland came to be known centuries ago as the "Land o' Cakes," and as such has been celebrated in prose and poetry. One may yet, in traveling through that northern land, come upon country inns and herders' huts, see women who never attended a "cooking school" and who over a peat fire in the great chimney place, a griddle swung by a crane over the slow coals, baking a cake more than a foot in diameter, savory and promising of a meal for the gods, and who when the big cake is ready for the turning will seize the griddle by the handle, give it a toss in the air, and turn that cake with an art motion not to be seen in any other place on earth, the big round slab turning a loop-the-loop and alighting with the other side down in the same place as before to the breadth of a slender stem of the heather. The Dardanelles. The Dardanelles takes its name from Dardanus, who was supposed to have founded the lost city of that name near that other and far more famous lost city, ancient Troy. It is from one to five miles wide, the most romantic part of the passage being only a mile wide between Sestos in Europe and Abydos in Asia, where "Leander swam the Hellespont his Hero for to see," at the time of the largely mythical war of the Greeks and Troyans so celebrated by Homer. The feat of Leander had for long years been pronounced impossible, but Lord Byron, rhyming voluminally of all this region of song, in 1810, swam the Hellespont, club-footed as he was, from Sestos to Abydos. Deadly "Observation Mines." Deadly Observation Mines The "observation mine" is worked from a station on shore. The firing pins are fixed in a buoy, which floats a few feet beneath the surface of the water, and above the explosive reservoir. An electric cable runs from the anchor, beneath the bottom, to the shore station. When a pin is driven into the top buoy, it causes a bell to ring or a light to flash in the shore station, warning the observer on duty that a vessel is passing over a mine. The observer thereupon closes the firing circuit and the mine explodes. BIG MONEY INONIONS JOHN A. SALZER SEED C@BOX 708, LA CROSSE, WIS. MOTHER! LOOK AT CHILD'S TONGUE If cross, feverish, constipated, give "California Syrup of Figs" A laxative today saves a sick child tomorrow. Children simply will not take the time from play to empty their bowels, which become clogged up with waste, liver gets sluggish; stomach sour. Look at the tongue, mother! If coated, or your child is listless, cross, feverish, breath bad, restless, doesn't eat heartily, full of cold or has sore throat or any other children's ailment, give a teaspoonful of "California Syrup of Figs," then don't worry, because it is perfectly harmless, and in a few hours all this constipation poison, sour bile and fermenting waste will gently move out of the bowels, and you have a well, playful child again. A thorough "inside cleansing" is oftimes all that is necessary. It should be the first treatment given in any sickness. Beware of counterfeit fig syrups. Ask at the store for a 50-cent bottle of "California Syrup of Figs," which has full directions for babies, children of all ages and for grown-ups plainly printed on the bottle. Adv. No Wonder. "Do you think the world is getting better, Mr. Gadson?" "Surest thing you know! It's getting better every day." "In spite of the war?" "Oh, yes." "I'm surprised to find you so optimistic." "You wouldn't be if you knew what I knew." "And what is that?" "Ive already cleaned up half a million in wheat and expect to make more." A New Anecdote. Queer requests are often received for prescriptions, which might puzzle either doctor or chemist, far more skilled than the proprietor of the ordinary drug store. Here is one recently reported by Morris Wade: It is a note from an excitable mother, whose nerves were apparently as much in need of treatment as the digestion of her infant: "My little baby has et up its father's parish plaster. Please to send an anecdote by the inclosed little girl"—Youth's Companion. TAKE A GLASS OF SALTS WHEN BLADDER BOTHERS Harmless to Flush Kidneys and Neutralize Irritating Acids—Splendid for the System. Kidney and Bladder weakness result from uric acid, says a noted authority. The kidneys filter this acid from the blood and pass it on to the bladder, where it often remains to irritate and inflame, causing a burning, scalding sensation, or setting up an irritation at the neck of the bladder, obliging you to seek relief two or three times during the night. The sufferer is in constant dread, the water passes sometimes with a scalding sensation and is very profuse; again, there is difficulty in avoiding it. Bladder weakness, most folks call it, because they can't control urination. While it is extremely annoying and sometimes very painful, this is really one of the most simple ailments to overcome. Get about four ounces of Jad Salts from your pharmacist and take a tablespoonful in a glass of water before breakfast, continue this for two or three days. This will neutralize the acids in the urine so it no longer is a source of irritation to the bladder and urinary organs which then act normally again. Jad Salts is inexpensive, harmless, and is made from the acid of grapes and lemon juice, combined with lithia, and is used by thousands of folks who are subject to urinary disorders caused by uric acid irritation. Jad Salts is splendid for kidneys and causes no bad effects whatever. Here you have a pleasant, effervescent lithia-water drink, which quickly relieves bladder trouble.—Adv. Limite In Literature "You've read 'The Heavenly Twins?' asked an Englishman of an Irishman. "Yes, I have." "And the 'Sorrows of Satan?'" "Yes." "And you have read 'Looking Backward?'" "How the devil could I do that?" asked Pat. Rather Mixed. "I don't like that deal you're in." "Don't worry; you won't be answerable if it's questionable." Dry grain, preferably rice, is the best thing to use to clean the inside of violins. Nothing is gained by abusing those whose opinions differ from your own. B DOWN TO BASE OF SUPPLY Manager of Supply Company Forced to a Compromise With Receipt of Large Order. The tea companies were fighting each other for the trade of the town. The Bee Tea company gave premiums with each pound of tea, while the Gee Tea company did not. The result was that the latter concern was being pushed to the wall. Finally the Gee Tea people realized that they must give premiums or quit. So, after careful consideration, they decided to give a quart of milk with each pound of tea. Business picked up at once. "I understand you give a quart of milk with each pound of tea," said a lady one day. "Quite right," answered the manager. "Well, I'm Mrs. Ketchem of Holdem & Starvem. We operate a string of ten boarding houses here. I want 150 pounds of tea. Do I get 150 quarts of milk?" "Why—er—I think so." stammered the manager. "Will you wait till I go back and look over the supply?" In a minute he came back. "Madam," he whispered, "I have figured up and I find that if you will take 200 pounds of tea we can give you a cow." Consternation at the Front. The archbishop of York, in his early days, did a great deal of work among the uneducated classes, and on one occasion a very illiterate woman was godmother to a child at a christening. In the course of the ceremony she was asked in the usual way if she pronounced the devil and all his works, ete. "Oh, yes, sir," she replied briskly. "I recommend them all." "Hello, Erisco." "Just think of being able to sit in a telephone booth in New York and talk to your best girl in San Francisco!" "I've thought of that, and I've been wondering how long it will be before somebody writes a popular song about it." "Pa, what is a skillful strategist?" "A skillful strategist, my son, is a man who knows when to quit." "No; it was a case of true love."— Harvard Lampoon. True. "If I had your hopeful disposition I would be worth a million dollars." "No, you wouldn't." 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Think what you can make with wheat around $1 a bushel and pulsory in Canada but there is a great demand for farm labor to replace the many young men who have volunteered for service. The climate is healthful and agreeable, railway facilities excellent, good schools and churches convenient. 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. 1914 an acre Salzer's Cabbage brought £20; an acre Galzer's Special Introduction Collection for 150 marshbullies hated at Kodron, he selected but 900 CUQ ory. So Salzer's for fortune your boss contains only easy appropriate varieties, until to-day his list contains only many VALUABLE WE do not want to use them and postage our big seed Catalonia free, with one generous £20a. First Early Cabbage; May I eat Carrot; Kale, Queen Alliums; Long Lasting; A History of Daisy; May beds for but 190, contains enough seed to supply you with bis and lots of them, during the early spring and summer. About the first River Pudicato King's Kememite in Galzer's Cabbage. A. SALZER SEED CO. BOX CONIONS on acre Ginions, 800. for 150 and buy 200 QUALITY men to win selective, improving and origi- nates only the cream, for sale to sell them and bring greatly milk one generous package each; salty Cream, salty Cream, salty Cream, supply you with rich, Jutey vege- tarian summer, in Solen's catalogue. C O BOX 708, LA CROSSE, WIS. Sure. Old Style True. At Last It's Reached. Father Vaughan tells a good story of a certain minister who was preaching on "Perfection." "Did you ever know anyone to be perfect?" he asked. "Did you ever read of any man or woman who was quite perfect?" As he paused and looked around among his audience, a pale-faced woman rose up and said: "Yes, from all accounts, my husband's first wife was perfect." Bacon—It is stated that it takes an average of 5,867 bullets to kill a single man in the present war. Egbert—Why, where in the world are the innocent bystanders? The truly dinned man is never ashamed to lay aside his dignity for the purpose of doing his duty as he sees it. Merit is quickly discovered by progressive young men. Fatima Cigarettes are selected by three out of four smokers of 15c cigarettes. They enjoy the mild, delightful Turkish blend. "Distinctively Individual" Lugette & Myers Tobacco Co. 20 for 15¢ FATIMA TURKISH BLIND CIGARETTES Company & Company Co. Lugette & Myers Tobacco Co. "INSIDE" FACTS ON POULTRY KEEPING Just off the press—a new, busy book—has 59 chapters of brand new facts on raising poultry. It’s the first book on poultry raising. It needs 16. 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"CASCARETS" FOR LIVER, BOWELS For sick headache, bad breath, Sour Stomach and constipation. Get a 10-cent box now. No odds how bad your liver, stomach or bowels; how much your head aches, how miserable and uncomfortable you are from constipation, indigestion, billiousness and sluggish bowels —you always get the desired results with Cascarets. Don't let your stomach, liver and bowels make you miserable. Take Cascarets to night; put an end to the headache, billiousness, dizziness, nerv ousness, sick, sour, gassy stomach, backache and all other distress; cleanse your inside organs of all the bite, gases and constipated matter which is producing the misery. A 10-cent box means health, happiness and a clear head for months. No more days of gloom and distress if you will take a Cascaret now and then. All stores sell Cascarets. Don't forget the children—their little insider need a cleansing, too. Adv. UNCLE 'RASTUS UP A STUMP Maybe Ground-Hog Was Responsible for His Injuries, But He Had His Doubts. "I don't know 'bout dat groun'-hawg —I dunno," said Unle 'Rastus, as he wagged his head in a puzzled way. "Am he like a woodchuck? "Am he like a 'possum? "Am he like a 'polecat? "Am he like a 'bar' $ "I dunno—sah—I dunno. All I kin ay am dat de ole woman give me a dime one day to go down to de stob and buy her some snuff. I got into a crap game down dart and lost de dime. When I got back home de ole women says to me: "Wha's dat snuff, ole man? "Sunthin' happened to dat dime!" I says. "You crapped it away, you ole sinner." "No, Linda. A groun'howg took arter pee and run me for seven miles and ober leben fences, and we went so fast dat de diffe melted in my pocket." "I said dalt, sah, and when I cum to I had been 'kleked and pounded, and struck and dragged around 'till it was fo weeks befo' I could git outer bed. Mebbe it was dat groun'hawg, and mebbe not. Ize got a snackin' idea, but I dunno—I dunno!" "Pittsburgh Dlapatch. When the Laws Met. When the Laws met. "The laws sat about the long green table. All the fundamentals were there save one. Even the decrepit Salic Law was present, dozing between the Mosaic Laws and the Law of Primogeniture. "The chairman, the Law of the Land, called the meeting to order. "Are we all present?" he asked. It was the Blue Laws who responded. "I don't see nothin' of the Law of Nations," he squawked. "The Law of Nations has been abolished," the chairman sharply replied. "The business of the convention will now proceed." Notice for Yourself. "Old Mr. Grabbles says there is nothing too good for his daughter." "He has a hard jolt coming to him some day." "What makes you think so?" "A girl who is brought up that way almost invariably picks out a man to marry, who isn't worth killing." And Will Never Forget the Experience. 1. The coffee drinker who has suffered and then been completely relieved by changing from coffee to Postum knows something valuable. There's no doubt about it. "I learned the truth about coffee in a peculiar way," says a California woman. "My husband who has, for years, been of a biblical temperament decided to leave off coffee and give Postum a trial, and as I did not want the trouble of making two beverages for meals I concluded to try Postum; too. The results have been that while my husband has been greatly benefited, I have myself received even greater benefit. "When I began to drink Postum I was thin in flesh and very nervous. Now I actually weigh 16 pounds more than I did at that time and I am stronger physically and in my nerves, while husband is free from all his ails. "We have learned our little lesson about coffee and we know something about Postum, too, for we have used Postum now steadily for the last three years and we shall continue to do so. "We have no more use for coffee—the drug drink. We prefer Postum and health." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, MIch. Read "The Road to Well-ville," in pkgs. Postum comes in two forms: Regular Postum—must be well boiled. 15c and 25c packages. Instant Postum—is a soluble powder. A teaspoonful dissolves quickly in a cup of hot water and, with cream and sugar, makes a delicious beverage instantly. 30c and 50c tins. The cost per cup of both kinds is about the same. "There's a Reason" for Postum. —sold by Grocers. HINDERED BY CLAY STRATA But Atlantic City Contractors Are Still in Fair Way to Earn Bonus by Hard Fighting. It seemed a safe bet that you could bore a hole anywhere on the beach at Atlantic City 500 feet deep and find nothing but sand. The unexpected—a thin layer of clay—was struck by the men who were putting down the foundations for the new Traymore hotel. That seeming trifle now bulks up in the shape of $57,000. The contractors, as I am informed, were to forfeit $1,500 a day for every day after a certain date that the big hotel should remain unfinished. They were also to get a bonus if it were completed on time. That unlooked-for stratum of clay made a difference of 38 days in getting down the piles upon which the huge concrete structure will rest. In the spirit that everybody likes to see a horse win a race in the face of handicaps, so I trust the builders will yet beat old Father Time in spite of that clay, and so win the bonus. And it looks now as if they will do it.—Philadelphia Ledger. CHEERFUL SICKRED VISITOR Mike's Few Words of Consolation Senator Henry F. Lippitt of Rhode Island smiled the other evening when the conversation turned to sweet consolation. He said he was reminded of an incident that happened in New England. A party named Pat was taken quite sick and was confined to his bed for several days. One evening Mike called and found the patient exceedingly depressed. Immediately the tender-hearted Mike became very sympathetic. "Sure, Pat," he said, in a soft and gentle voice, "do yez feel loike ve was sicker?" "It ain't that, Moike," returned Pat, in a melancholy voice. "Oi'm thinkin' av the docther. He has been here fourtane toimes at two bones a throw, an' Oi haven't got a cint in the worruld." "Don't yez worry about the docther, Pat. Don't yez worry about the docther!" was the consoling rejoinder of Mike. "Sure an' he will get his'n all right. Yez have got some insurance, hain't yez?" CINEMAS ON THE SEA. It has been remarked before now that only a salmon stream or a golf course is necessary to add to the completeness of the equipment of the up-to-date modern liner, with its swimming baths, theaters, tennis courts and other amenities, but it has been left apparently to the Orsova, of the Orient line, to receive the first board of trade permit to carry a cinema. For the purpose of the show a stage, including a pretty drop scene, is rigged up on deck, where seating accommodation for some 1,500 spectators is provided, and noninflammable films are used, so that there is no danger of fire. In addition to the ordinary "subjects," special films showing Australian scenes and events are provided for the benefit of emigrant passengers, and in this way serve educational as well as recreative purposes. MUCH IN ERROR "I wouldn't object to reform, particularly if it were not so blatant," said the conservative citizen. "My dear fellow," said his neighbor, "the reformers will tell you that what you mistake for blatancy is nothing worse than righteous indignation and enthusiasm for a just cause." EYE FOR PROPORTION "Do you think there is a chance that bread will get dearer?" "I don't much care," exclaimed the reckless person. "Thinning the slices of bread may do something toward restoring the proper proportions in a ham sandwich." THEIR HOPE. "When deserted belles want to sue, where should they go?" "Why, of course, to a court of appeal." THE CAUSE "Why is it the law wants to muzzle some speakers?" "Maybe it is afraid of their biting remarks." METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE. METROPOLIS. ILL You Look Prematurely Old. WOMAN WOULD NOT GIVE UP Though Sickand Suffering; At Last Found Help in Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Richmond, Pa. — "When I started taking Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound I was in a dreadfully rundown state of health, had internal troubles, and was so extremely nervous and prostrated that if I had given in to my feelings I would have been in bed. As it was I had hardly strength at times to be on my Compound I was in a dreadfully rundown state of health, had internal troubles, and was so extremely nervous and prostrated that if I had given in to my feelings I would have been in bed. As it was I had hardly strength at times to be on my feet and what I did do was by a great effort. I could not sleep at night and of course felt very bad in the morning, and had a steady headache. "After taking the second bottle I noticed that the headache was not so bad, I rested better, and my nerves were stronger. I continued its use until it made a new woman of me, and now I can hardly realize that I am able to do so much as I do. Whenever I know any woman in need of a good medicine I highly praise Lyda E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound." — Mrs. FRANK CLARK, 3146 N. Tulip St, Richmond, Pa. Women Have Been Telling Women Women Have Been Telling Women for forty years how Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has restored their health when suffering with female ills. This accounts for the enormous demand for it from coast to coast. If you are troubled with any ailment peculiar to women why don't you try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound? It will pay you to do so. Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass. Find Live Duck in Fish. A strange specimen of the angel fish was caught by Captain Palmer at Sound Beach, who removed from it two ducks. The wicked fish had stolen the ducks from J. Kennedy Tod's Innis Arden estate. One was alive. The fish was struggling in the water when seen by Captain Palmer, and was landed with a pair of ice tongs. The fish is a yard long, and its mouth is 6 by 8 inches. It was frozen in a cake of ice at the Maher ice plant and is exhibited in the window of a market here. — Greenwich, Conn.) Dispatch to New York World. SAGE TEA AND SULPHUR DARKENS YOUR GRAY HAIR Look Years Younger! Try Grandma's Recipe of Sage and Sulphur and Nobody Will Know. Almost everyone knows that Sage Tea and Sulphur properly compounded, brings back the natural color and lustre to the hair when faded, streaked or gray; also ends dandruff, itching scalp and stops falling hair. Years ago the only way to get this mixture was to make it at home, which is musky and troublesome. Nowadays we simply ask at any drug store for "Wyeth's Sage and Sulphur Hair Remedy." You will get a large bottle for about 50 cents. Everybody uses this old, famous recipe, because no one can possibly tell that you darkened your hair, as it does it so naturally and evenly. You dampen a sponge or soft brush with it and draw this through your hair, taking one small strand at a time; by morning the gray hair disappears, and after another application or two, your hair becomes beautifully dark, thick and glossy and you look years younger. Adv. Her Travels. Two little Los Angeles girls were talking about the big cities of the United States. Rosie, who had traveled a great deal, and had been in many of these places, was telling Goldie about them, at the latter's request. "I want to go to Mexico very much," concluded Rosie. "I have never been out of the United States." "Haven't you?" asked Goldie, in tones of superior ply. "Why, I have. I have been in San Francisco and Nebraska." DISTRESSING PIMPLES Removed by Cuticura Soap and Ointment. Trial Free. Smear them with the Ointment. Wash off in five minutes with Cuticura Soap and hot water and continue bathing for some minutes. Repeat on rising and retiring. These fragrant supercreamy emollients do much for the skin, and do it quickly. Sample each free by mail with Book. Address postcard, Cuticura. Dept. XY. Boston. Sold everywhere.—Adv. Very Much So. "Didn't you think the operate prima donna had an unusually high voice?" "I should say she had! My seat cost me five dollars." Head of the Navy Evidently Not an Expert as to the Odor of Alcoholic Liquors. A story is going the rounds in Washington about Secretary of the Navy Daniels which may or may not reflect credit on that official, according to the point of view. According to this story the secretary was one morning conferring with an officer and in the middle of his conference interrupted the proceedings to say: "This is the second morning that I have smelled whisky on your breath, sr!" To which the officer is said to have replied: "I beg your pardon, Mr. Secretary, it was whisky yesterday, but it is gin this morning." No name has been allowed to leak out in connection with this story, and it may be that there is more fiction than fact in it.—Boston Transcript. A "Flying" Malady. The doctors are puzzled concerning a strange malady that has broken out at more than one aeroplane works, and has in one case ended fatally. The malady in some respects resembles yellow jaundice, and it is, rightly or wrongly, attributed to contact with an aeroplane "dope," or to inhaling its odor. Further particulars need not at the moment be indicated, but it has been suggested that the source of the trouble may be amyl acetate, which is used as a "dope" solvent. Some mystery attaches to the affair, the precise nature of the malady not having yet been determined, in spite of close examination and analysis; and, of course, until success is attained in this direction no satisfactory precautions or remedy can be devised. IS EPILEPSY CONQUERED? New Jersey, Physician Said to Have Many Curses to Hic Credit. Red Bank, N. J. (Special).—Advices from every direction fully confirm previous reports that the remarkable treatment for epilepsy being administered by the consulting physician of the Kline Laboratories, of this city, is achieving wonderful results. Old and stubborn cases have been greatly benefited and many patients claim to have been entirely cured. Persons suffering from epilepsy should write at once to Kline Laboratories, Branch 48, Red Bank, N. J., for a supply of the remedy, which is being distributed gratuitously.—Adv. Advantage of Silencer. This crash of the bullet makes the value of the Maxim silencer very little, so far as military efficiency is concerned, in the way that the fiction writer imagines the silencer to be useful, but not to prevent the enemy from discovering the position of the men firing as many fancy. Its value lies in the fact that it eliminates fully half of the recoil of the rifle from the action of the gases in its chambers, and it gives the officers much better control over the fire, because of the lessened noise of the rifles. It cuts down the roar of the Springfield to about the noise of the .25-20 and thus the roar of the rifles at the fireline is much reduced, and the commands of the officers can be heard—Outing. A GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGMENT. Mr. F. C. Case of Welcome Lake, Pa., writes: "I suffered with Backache and Kidney Trouble. My headached, my sleep was broken and un- refreshing. I felt heavy and sleepy after meals, was always nervous and tired, had a bitter taste in my mouth, was dizzy, had floating specks before my eyes, was always thirsty, had a MR. E. G. COSA Mr. F. C. Case. thirsty, had a dragging sensation across my loins, difficulty in collecting my thoughts and was troubled with shortness of breath. Dodds Kidney Pills have cured me of these complaints. Dodds Kidney Pills have done their work and done it well. You are at liberty to publish this letter for the benefit of any sufferer who doubts the merit of Dodds Kidney Pills." Dodds Kidney Pills, 50c. per box at your dealer or Dodds Medicine Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Write for Household Hints, Dainty Tastes; also music of National Anthem. All 3 sent free. Adv. The Only One. "There goes Rev. Dr. Fourthly, one of our most prominent ministers. He stands on a pinnacle alone." "Because of his great sanctity?" "No. He's the only minister in town who hasn't preached an antitango sermon." Speaking of the War. Patience—I certainly am a foolish girl. Patrice—What now? "Why, I followed that advice, 'See America First,' and now there's hardly anything left in Europe to see!" Fit Frame of Mind. "How did the prisoner act when you accused him of arson?" "He showed fiery indignation." 900 DROPS CASTORIA ALCOHOL-3 PER CENT Vegetable Preparation for Assimilating the Food and Regulating the Stomachs and Bowels of INFANTS & CHILDREN Promotes Digestion, Cheerfulness and Rest. Contains neither Opium, Morphine nor Mineral NOT NARCOTIC Recipe of Old Dr. SANUEL PITCHER Pumpkin Seed - Alce Sarmor - Rohdehale Salts - Anise Seed - Peppermint - Milcoronate Sugar - Wine Seed - Clandred Sugar Wintergreen Flavor Aperfect Remedy for Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea, Worms, Convulsions, Feverishness and LOSS OF SLEEP. Fac Simile Signature of Charles H. Fletcher THE CENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK. At 6 months old 35 Doses - 35 CENTS Exact Copy of Wrapper. 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Little Lemuel—Say, paw, what is a philosopher? Paw—A philosopher, son, is a man who bears with resignation the toothache of another man. Perplexed. Inquisitive Incubator Chick — Say, do they figure your birthday from the day you're laid or the day you're hatched?—Puck. Stubborn Colds and irritated Bronchial Tubes are easily relieved by Dean's Mentholated Cough Drops-5c at Druggists. The man who knows himself knows how selfish other people are. A Draft—You Co S Coughs,Cold Stiff Neck Neuralgia lightly on the part where the feeling of comfort and ease overwrought sufferer. Hear What Others Say: acts that equal Sloan's. My husband has neuralgia very his face and that is the last of it.—Mrs. V. V. J. Brown, nurses. niment for family use for years and would not be without of ten children and have used it for croup and all lung he for wounds, of which children have a great many, it trained her ankle last summer and it was in bad shape. marked hard to be good luck even in a week. 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