Metropolis Weekly Gazette

METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE PILGRIM BAPTIST CHURCH EASTER SERVICES. 10:00 Covenant Meeting.....All members are urgently requested to take part in the service. 11:00 A. M. Preaching.....Subject, "The Resurrection of Christ." Special music by Junior choir. 12.30 P. M The Lord's Supper will be administered. 1:00 Sunday School.....G. W. Willis, Supt. 6:45 The B. Y. P. U.....Mrs. Francis M. Murrell, Pres 8:00 A service of songs by Senior Choir. Each number to be rendered is the production of Negro composers. Anthem. Come Unto Us.....Harry T. Burleigh. Quartette....."Deep River".....Harry T. Burleigh Miss Lenora Barksdale Mr. S. S. Edward Hall. Mrs Hattie E Hall Mr. John Henley Anthem, "Now Late on the Sabbath Day" S. Coleridge Taylor Senior Choir. Solo, "Eternal Light"...W. E. Wier.....Mrs. Homer Goings Anthem "Lift Up Your Heads"...S. Coleridge Taylor Solo. "Through Peace to Light".....Harry T. Burleigh. Miss Gladys Wright. Benediction..... Rev. B N. Murrell, Pastor of Pilgrim. Postlude..... S. Coleridge Taylor..... Mr. Robert Strong. Mrs. Hattie E. Hall..... Music Director of Pilgrim Baptist. St. Paul Minnesota..... April 4th 1915..... 8:00 P.M. BROOKPORT. Dear Editor: Allow me space in your paper to say that the Unity Baptist church is progressing nicely under existing circumstances. We have had lots of sickness in our town. From among the sick the Lord called from our midst Bro Robt. Long, we have lost a good and peaceful member, but our loss is heaven's gain. On Saturday night in our regular church meeting our clubs that we had out for the month of Mar. made their report as follows: Sister Bettie Turley club no. 1 $8 50 ** Martha Hodge club no. 2 15 06 ** Florence Welch club no. 3 16 40 ** Lillie M. Towles club no. 4 7 00 ** Laura Pullins club no. 5 18 69 We had another club that failed to report known as the Rough Riders with Rev. Felix Mayes as captain. Where is he? After the clubs had reported the church called Rev J. B McCrary, of Metropolis, as pastor and we pray that Rev. McCrary, will accept the call for we feel that he can do us good for we feel that he can do us good for we believe with the ability and influence which he has we can be able to build our chureh in the near future. He is no stranger. On last Sunday we had a beautiful S. S. and at night an Easter program was rendered by Mrs. Mamie Maxwell, which was excellent. * The Long and Blackwell girls of Belgrade took part in the exercises. The house was crowded and everybody seemed to enjoy themselves. All were given an egg. Pray for our success. Mrs. Eller Flowers. Card of Thanks. As it pleased the Almighty to take from our wheel one of its spokes, we take this method of thanking the many friends for their kindness tendered to our beloved one during her illness and death. Also wish to thank the following persons for their beautiful floral designs: Quante and Sielbeck Mrs. Kizzie Perkins, Paducah, Ky. Parks Family and Morton. Mrs. Parthenia Dickson, Paducah, Ky. Mr. Thos. Roberts & family. Jeptha Chapter No. 14. Mrs. Tennie Brown, Paducah, Ky. We also wish to thank Jeptha Chapter no. 14 O. E. S. also the --- MOTTO : "HEW TO THE LINE. LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY." Brookport Lodge. It is our earnest prayer that each and every one may be speeded on by the hand of the Almighty. IN MEMORIAM. Sister Nellie Moore was born Mar. 22, 1878 in Metropolis, Ill., the third child of Mr. and Mrs. Green Hodge She was converted in 1891 joined St. Paul A. M. E. church of this city. Sept. 28, 1904 She was united in Matrimony to Mr. Wm Moore, to them were born one son Bernard. On the night of Jan 25th she was stricken. March 4th was taken to Paducah, to the Riverside Hospital, was returned Mar. 22nd. Her husband asked her how she felt about dying, she replied that she was not afraid of death, only she thought of her little boy who would be left motherless. She died Apr. 2, 1914, age 37 yrs. 11 days. She leaves to mourn her death a husband two children, one sister and an aged father and mother. Sister Moore was a kind wife and mother and a good neighbor. May she rest in peace until the resurrection day then corruptible shall put on incorruption, and mortal shall put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written Death is swallowed up in victory. Her trust was in the Lord and upon the arm of Jehovah she was leaning as she passed through the valley of the shadow of death. The order of Eastern Star had charge of her body. They went through with the usual ceremony at the Church and Cemetery assisted by the Brookport Lodge, which were very befitting and well carried out. She was laid to rest in the Masonic Cemetery. The Gazette is in deep sympathy with the bereaved family in this their sad affliction. Peace to her sleeping dust. OBITUARY Brother Ephriam Browden was born Aug. 29th 1880. Died April 1, 1915, age 45 years. He embraced a hope in Christ in the Mt. Olive Baptist church Newbron Tenn.. 1887 and was baptized by Rev. E. Holmes. He was married to Miss Ada Price, the second Sunday in December, 1905. He joined the First Missionary Baptist church of this city Feb. 1906 and lived a consistent christian up to the time he died. He was made and ordained a deacon under the administration of Rev. C. W. Norment. He leaves a wife, two brothers, one sister, five children and a host of relatives and friends to mourn his loss. Rev. J. W. Davies, pastor of the 1st Baptist church of which Bro. Browden was a member officiated. He delivered an appropriate sermon from Col 4:17. Take heed to the ministry which thou hast received of the Lord, that thou fulfill it. He oullined his subject as follows: 1. As a Christian 2. In the Church. 3. In the Home. 4. In the City. A large number of relatives and friends were precent to pay their last tribute of respect to the deceased. Bro. Browden was a splendid citizen, a good christian gentleman. He has gone to reap his reward. Peace to his ashes. The time of of our great annual meeting of the General Missionary Baptist State Association is near. At this meeting we are expeting great things of the Lord in our behalf and that we be not disappointed I am advising that our aim be high and our efforts great. Since God's dealing with men is through men let us do our part that God's purpose to do great things for the world may not be thwarted by our negligence and stinginess. Education and Missions is the watch-word of our great State Association that meets in Centralia, in May next. We have attracted the attention of the state toward the Livingston Normal Industrial School of Metropolis, Ill., and this attraction have been talked up only but my dear brethren it will take some work and some money to interest any farther. The Moderator Dr J. F. Thomas is asking the churches of the state to come to Centralia with $5.00 for Education which sum will go to finance the school at Metropolis. Brethren no excuse now the school is actually in operation, with a competent teacher of no mean ability. Work, money and energy will keep him there, and through this medium God can and will do great things for fallen humanity, using the baptist ministry and the baptist church and the Livington Normal Industrial School at Metropolis, as channels thru which his greatness is poured out to bless the world. Let every minister ask himself the question will there be any stars in my crown? Then let him ask his flock the same question then teach them what it takes to set their crown with stars. Brethren the sin of our district state and country is calling for mission work. Last but not least the ignorance of our pulpits are crying for the need of education. Nothing but true christian missionary will remedy the defect. This is the great end that our great general Missionary Baptist State Association has folded in the great minds of her promoters, with God Robinson's Cafe, Just opposite the Illinois Central Station Carbondale, Illinois Meals:-Hot and Cold Lunches on short order When in the city or enroute North or South give me a call. Ice Cream, Cold Soda of the purest and best make. to help us and the people to cooperate with us, the ultimatism is the goal. Nothing else will suffice Education! Education!, Mission! Mission is our watch word until Africa, China and the Iles of the sea shall shake hands with aroud old America and their voices ring out in unison, saying I know the Lord laid his hands on me. All out for Centralia, in May. Editor Gazette The Executive Board met with the Saint Paul Chapel church Marion, Ill., Mar. 25th. The following named brethren appeared on the scene. Elders W. P. Washington, H. C. Armstead. A. J. Bowers, D. Johnson, vice pres. E. J. Jones, Bro. Dan Holley, sec'y. A. J. Bradley state missionary H. E McWilliams, dropped over after having attended the layman's meeting at Harrisburg, and reported a good time. Misses Bertha Adams, Willie Mae Cross and Cornelia Jones came over from Dowmaine, and left rejoicing Sunday evening. Deacons Jones and and Sanders of Marion, put in full time and says from now on they intend to attend all meetings. Good. The meeting was what may be aptly styled a revival meeting 3 sermons a day. Meeting closed Sunday night four being fellowshipped into the church. We must not forget to speak of Rev. J. S. Fields, pastor of the Liberty Baptist church Cairo, was the first to send in one dollar to the board, because of his absence he has represented in this way twice. Rev. Thos. Morris Metropolis, represented his absence with one dollar. In the meeting at Marion, Rev. A. S. Webb, pastor St. John Pulaski, also represented on the silver plan. This proves the brethren interest in the general welfare of both the district and state. They are complying with the resolution of which they voted on in the Association, in-as much as all regular pastors of churches of the ass'n. are members of the executive board in the event they fail to be present they would forward $1.00 for the advancement of the work. We venture the assertion that there is not a church in this whole end of the state that would be unwilling to contribute the amount of one dollar in three months. We are the family of God and must look after his affairs and to this is for us to help in the time of need. New Brownfield, March 28, 1915 Mr. J. B. McCrary, Metropolis, Ill. Dear Sir, by order of Sincere Baptist church, this place notifies you that the aforesaid church is making preparations to accept the Teachers's Institute of the Mt Olive Baptist S. S. Convention to be held Friday before the 4th Sunday in April 1915. We can take care of 15 or 20 delegates. Done by order of the church. Rev. J. H. Hillev, Pastor. We will be at your station on Thursday before the 4th Sunday. Meet all trains. The Cairo. Future City, Mounds, Mound City, Vienna, Colpsville, Carbondale, Centralia, Cobden, Sparta, Ullin, Pulaski, Duquoin, Harrisburg, Mt. Vernon, Olive Branch will have to leave home Thursday morning in order to reach New Brownfield in the afternoon. Messengers from Unionville, Joppa, Belgrade, Metropolis, Rourd Knob, can leave on the afternoon train Thursday and make connection at Reevesville. We hope to have a good representation at this meeting. Come prepared to work and appear on the program. We are expecting the missionaries, the moderator, and some of the pastors who are interested in our district and our Educational and Mission works We are looking for the president. of all the auxiliaries. Be sure and meet us there. J. B. McCrary, Institute Conductor. Rev. A Chavis is doing a good work in Marion, and needs help to complete their new meeting house, and had the brethren complied with the resolution, we could have left with the church a handsome sum of money, however they were well pleased with the work. The work of the district, state and nation were discussed, and the coming state meeting (association) which meets in Centralia, in May 1915, was the ringing rally word. Let us be doing. Mrs. Harriett Lewis, formerly an old citizen of this city but, now of Paducah was brought here Wednesday for buaial. Funeral Thursday from A. M E. church. More next week. The White Funeral Car owned by Undertakers Watkins and Co. of Paducah, was down to convey the body of Mrs. Moore to her final resting place. This indeed is a fine car and we are glad thatit owned by a Negro undertaker. On the account of space we were compelled to leave some of the correspondents out. CAP and BELLS JOBS ARE SCARCE FOR THEM Nothing Doing for Fourth of July Salesman and Man Who Sells Programs at Inauguration. Julian Harris, son of the late Joel Chandler Harris, is Sunday editor of the New York Herald, and on his way home in the early watches of the morn- ing often stops to hear the wails of the "down-and-outs" who flock for a first peep at the "Help Wanted" ads posted at the side of the Herald building, says Washington Herald. Two scantily dressed men, evidently of the "submerged tent," were shivering about the board, their faces blue from the morning chill. "Tain't likely we'll get anything to- day," chattered one. "Naw," said the other. "Things are a-gettin' worse and worse." "What's your line when you work?" queried the first. "Who—me? Why, I am a Fourth of July fireworks salesman. What's yourn?" "I sell programs at the presidential inaugurations." TWO GOOD AT ANY RATE. Little Daisy—Are all men bad, papa? Her Father—No; you will always be safe with your grandpa and me. The Token. Country House Host (to arriving guest)—Hlo, Jack! Drove over with Miss Cuddles, eh? Ripping sleighing, but cold going, ain't it? Jack (cheerful)—Oh, I didn't notice it. Host—All right, then. Come in and thaw that earring out of your mustache—Judge. Cyclist—Many recruits gone from this village? Shopkeeper—No, sir. Cyclist—Oh, why's that? Shopkeeper—Well, sir, after going carefully into the matter, we in this neighborhood decided to remain absolutely neutral—London Punch. Inherited. "What I can't understand about Billy Wiggle is'why, with such a splendid, manly man for a father, Billy should be so effeminate," said Dubbleigh. "Why, it's simple enough," said Slathers. "His mother was a woman."—Judge A Sad Affair "Why didn't you attend Jack's wedding?" asked a visiting friend of a Jacksonville girl yesterday. "Why? Because I wanted to remember poor Jack as he looked in life," responded the latter in a pitying tone. As Revised. "Say, Pete," queried Meandering Mike, "if youse could live all yore life over again, what would youse do?" "Well, fer one ting," replied Plodding Pete, "I'd cut out all der days wot I uster work when I wus a kid." Under Martial Law "Now mind, Mary, if a sentry asks you who you are, you must immediately answer, 'Friend.'" "Yes'm; but what am I to say if he asks me how baby is?"—Punch. Evidence. "What is all that racket about in the club room?" "They are discussing the best way of preserving harmony among the members." Trained Ability. "The detective they've put on the robbery of your jewels used to be an automobile chauffeur." "Then he ought to be able to run the thieves down." HAIN'T GEORGE WASHINGTON Apocryphal Story Told of Col. George Harvey—Not Remembered as Peacham Boy. A story—apocryphal, perhaps, but at any rate timely—is going the rounds of Park Row about Col. George Harvey, the editor. Colonel Harvey, according to this story, visited his native Peacham a short time after his first brilliant New York success, and, on a cold winter morning, entered the Peacham general store. But nobody, to his surprise, knew him. Colonel Harvey, seated with the Peacham veterans around the hot stove, could not resist telling one or two of his minor metropolitan successes—successes which the Peachamites heard in a cold silence. "And I, too, am a Peacham boy," said Colonel Harvey. "Yet nobody remembers me here. Strange!" He turned warmly to an old man with red chin whiskers striped with gray. "You," he said, "are George Slocum." He turned to another old man who had very large, white, even false teeth. "You are George R. Boone," he said. Then he turned to the whole circle of veterans round the stove and cried impulsively: "Somebody, surely, must remember my name. Come now, think! It's George—George—George——" "Wall, jedgin' from them tales ye bin a-givin' us," snorted an old fellow in gum boots, "I reckon it hain't George Washin'ton, nohow." Resourceful. Blondine—Gerty Giddygad is the most resourceful girl I know. Brunetta—In what way? "The other day the young man she is trying to land for a husband called her attention to a spot of powder on her nose." "Well, well—" "'And Gerty said: 'I always do that every time I eat marshmallows.'" Why She Change I Visitor—Why, Aunt Chloe, I'm surprised to see that you have discarded your corncoch pipe and taken to chewing tobacco. Aunt Chloe—Yes, chile, ah had to. Ah dun got afeard dat ah might get mistaken foh one ob dem brainless New York society women ef ah didn't gib up smokin'—Puck. Locating the Injury. Uncle John permitted Jamie to discharge his old army musket. When the recoll of the gun nearly knocked the youngster off his feet, Uncle John inquired with a grin: "Did it kick you?" "No," replied Jamie, "but it gave me an awful punch in the shoulder." A Trifle Sore "How did you get so muddy?" How did you get so mady? "Aw, I was foolish enough to spend four hours in a damp field trying to find a four-leaf clover." "Then you think a four-leaf clover will bring one luck?" "I did. But now I think anybody lucky enough to find a four-leaf clover doesn't need any additional luck." How He Won. First Business Man—To what do you attribute your success? Second Business Man—To the fact that I was always first at the office. For seventeen years I caught the 6:15 into town. First Business Man—Ah, I see. All due to your early training.—Columbia Jester. WHAT DID SHE MEAN? Her Little Brother—Say, Mame, I believe if I wasn't here Mr. Wise, there, would kiss you. His Sister Mame-For your impudence, you must leave the room at once. Explained. "Yes, Edgah's cigawets are all marked with his monogram, don't you know." "Does Edgah smoke to excess?" Does begin smoke to excess. "Oh, dah, no. It's more monogramming than it is smoking, don't you know." Progress. "Have you read the beautiful, new set of books the agent persuaded you to buy?" "No. I haven't read any of them yet. But I have looked at most of the pictures." Nilly Willy Crawford—Did you have any regular schedule when you went on your motoring tour? Crabshaw—Oh, no; we just naturally stopped wherever the car happened to have its breakdown—Judge. METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE. METROPOLIS. ILL. HELP PITCHING EYE Dummy Figures Used as Batter and Catcher. Really Ingenious Device That Seems to Have Practical Points—Electricity Is the Motive Power of the "Players." A machine for practicing baseball, devised by an Ohio inventor, has two life-size figures that take the part of batter and catcher. An electric motor puts "life" into their movements. Rods, levers, joints and springs contained within the bodies of the dummies cause them to maintain automatically The Baseball-Playing Dummies and the Mechanism That Makes Them Work. their end of the game as batter and catcher. Here is how it is done: In the abdomen of the catcher dummy is a plate which when hit by the baseball thrown by the player who is practicing closes an electric circuit and causes a bell or buzzer to ring. The catcher's arms and hands are mounted to move in and out on a horizontal plane. The batter, on the other hand, moves his bat up and down. To practice with this machine you take a position about sixty feet from the dummy batter and throw at his bat, which extends over the home plate; if the bat is hit, you can jot down one on the score card. Or, land the ball in the abdomen of the catcher, hit the registering plate and ring the electric bell, and a strike is credited you. If the ball hits the batter or catcher elsewhere than intended, a foul is counted. The inventor insists that the dummies are not unlike natural persons in performing their functions, although some players might not approve of the mode of "catching" the ball described. Rostand on the War In a delightful corner of the Pyrenees a number of temporary hospitals have been established. Quite often a certain visitor of note comes to these little hospitals, bringing to the wounded some small comforts, among which are tobacco, cigarettes and chocolate. He is clothed as a common soldier, although he wears hanging from his neck the cross of a commander of the Legion of Honor. This is Monsieur Edmond Rostand, poet and playwright, the hermit of Cambo, who thus prefers the uniform of an infantryman to the fannel facket of the mountain proprietor or even the green coat of an "immortal." Not all of his "clients" know who is this distinguished visitor. One of them describes him as "a man who has not much hair on his head and writes pieces." M. Rostand has become fat. Our soldiers are getting fat. All the letters from the front certify this. M. Rostand has done likewise and has done well—Le Cri de Paris. Spooning Is Defined. "Spooning" in the public playgrounds of Pittsburgh is to end if plans of W. F. Ashe, superintendent of the new city bureau of recreation are put through. Instead, dances under proper supervision and other healthful social activities will be carried out. "What is understood as spooning." Mr. Ashe says, "is justifiable only when it is the expression of the love of a man for the woman who is to become his wife or the woman for the man who is to become her husband. In young boys and girls it should be discouraged. We shall have choral societies for the boys and girls. Dancing and music will provide the substitute for spooning." Mail From a Shipwreck. Echoes of the tragic fate of the Empress of Ireland still come over the waters. For example, a lady who was at the time visiting in Canada wrote to her sister in England. The letter never arrived, but the sister came back in due course. And now, all unexpectedly, her missive has been delivered, stamped with the words: "Recovered by divers from the wreck of the Empress of Ireland." It speaks well for the quality of the mail bags when one says that the letter shows scarcely any trace of its eight months' immersion in the bed of the St. Lawrence—Pall Mall Gazette. With Precaution Lacking The Chicago bureau of safety tells how men blasting a stump broke a charged light wire on a pole. The wire fell to the ground. The foreman sent a man to the lighting company to order the necessary repairs, but did not place a guard over the wire. A man took hold of the wire and was killed. "Safety first" requires that thoughtful precautions should be taken to avoid such fatalities. AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS Only a few days ago we had as visitors to the Tuskegee institute the governor of Alabama, the superintendent of education, judges of the supreme court, and many other state officers, and, without hesitation, they declared themselves in favor of education of all the people regardless of race and color, says a dispatch from Tuskegee. Progress is being made. Two years ago, for example, in Louisiana 117 children in each thousand between the ages of ten and fourteen could not read or write. Within two years we have reduced that number in Louisiana to 115 in each 1,000. South Carolina, from 150 to 85, in Alabama from 97 to 57, in North Carolina, from 167 to 68, in Georgia from 106 to 58; in Arkansas from 113 to 47, and in Virginia from 97 to 57. Including what they pay in the way of state taxes and in extra taxes in prolonging the school terms and building schoolhouses and supporting private schools, the Negroes in the South now contribute $3,000,000 annually toward their own education. Just now in New York, Booker Washington records, I note that much attention is being given to the investigation of the work of the Rockefeller boards and the Carnegie boards. This investigation should go further. The work of these boards should be followed into our southern states where the money that they have given is helping to make a new South and a new civilization. I wish that those in charge of these investigations could get into the South and trace the influence of the Rockefeller and Carnegie money in bringing about better supervision of the schools by reason of the work of the state supervisors; could trace the influence of these boards in the work of the county supervisors, in the work that the farm demonstration agents are doing, in the work of the canning clubs and pig clubs. I wish the influence of this money could be followed into the colleges, the farms and into the homes of the people. It is here that the influence of the money from these boards may be felt and seen in the bringing about of higher civilization for white and black people. Through the education of both races we are getting rid of the crime of lynching. Twenty-two years ago there were 225 cases of lynchings, mainly in the South; in 1914 there were only 52 cases of lynchings, a reduction of 400 per cent. Through education the white and the black races are being taught how to live together and work together. There are numerous state and local organizations that now bring the races together in friendly and helpful cooperation. Among these are the Virginia Organization society, the Southern Sociological congress, the Business league, chambers of commerce and women's clubs. The buildings of the various institutes at Tuskegee were shown to a visiting party as model schoolhouses, types of the new and better school system which Alabama is trying to multiply. We understand that thirty or more such schoolhouses are slated for completion the next year, all under the energetic direction of Professor Sibley, a native born white Alabaman, who holds an appointment from the state superintendent of colored rural schools. The excursion was in his charge and his energy and enthusiasm Dr. W. D. Weatherford, athlete, author, traveler and Christian leader, addressed a general assembly at the university at Washington on a moral and social subject applicable to undergraduate life. A Southerner by birth and education, and in great demand throughout the South as a speaker, he was forced to cancel engagements with five universities there in order to make a tour of northwestern universities and colleges. Doctor Weatherford was a varsity baseball and basketball player at his alma mater, Vanderbilt university, and was for three years director of the gymnasium at that institution. For 13 years he has been the Y. M. C. A. student secretary of the international committee for all the colleges in the southern states. He is the author of several volumes, including two on the uplift of the Negro; and is said to have done more than any other man to enlist the friendly co-operation of college men in Negro betterment. With the exception of lovemaking, there are many new ways of doing old things. The fur of the cat is full of electricity, and before a thunder storm it will be noticed that a cat is always extremely lively and playful, probably on account of its electrical condition. Before rain is expected a cat will assiduously wash its face. Labor, to some people, is not so much a problem as a horror.—Nashville Banner. A cheerful idiot has at least his cheerfulness to commend him to tolerance. showed how it takes personality plus money to achieve success here as elsewhere. At each place arrangements were made to seat the visitors, most generally in an adjoining church, and there was much singing and a little talking. At Madison we found a station named after a pioneer colored man, an ex-slave, whose daughter is the efficient director of the school. The party arrived at Tuskegee early on Sunday evening in time to listen to the quiet singing of the great student body in the beautiful chapel with a capacity of from 1,800 to 2,000, fully utilized. Then began three days of inspection filled with surprises to those who saw for the first time the wonderful work being done at Tuskegee, not only for the colored young men and women of the South, but for the cause of education, for Tuskegee is a contribution to pedagogy as well as to the race problem. Educators everywhere will have to reckon with Tuskegee if they want to bring their theories and practice down to date. Frederick Douglas for two or three decades was one of the favorites of the lycme, which he abandoned only after the emancipation of his race. Douglas was beyond all comparison the ablest man whom the black race ever produced in our country, either among the pure black or the class of mixed blood. He himself was a mulatto. His father was pure white of a distinguished Maryland family. His mother was pure black and his father's slave—that is, his mother was a pure black and his father a pure white. He always gave his mother the credit of his talents. Douglas was born a slave. In early manhood he managed to escape on a ship, and landed in New Bedford, Mass. There he soon learned to read, and worked at such work as he could find. By and by he attended antislavery meetings, and soon became a popular speaker and the pet of the abolitionists. His graphic accounts of his life as a slave were very popular. From giving the story of his life, he gradually branched out into discussions of the political questions of the day, and, next to Phillips, was probably the ablest orator of the antislavery movement. Eventually he went to Rochester and published, for many years, a weekly antislavery paper. Its title was Frederick Douglas' Paper, which, next to Garrison's Liberator and the Antislavery Standard, was recognized as the ablest antislavery paper in America. Then he became a lecturer, and his fame spread so rapidly that he took rank in the favor of the lecture-going public with Phillips and the other leading lights of the lyceum. When Lincoln came into power, Douglas moved to Washington, and was appointed to office in the District of Columbia as marshal, a position he held during the entire period of Lincoln's administration. Douglas' first wife was a plantation Negress without any education. A few years ago he married again. His second wife was white, and a woman of education and ability. The black race has developed under freedom many effective speakers, but Douglas was the only man among them who deserved to be regarded as a real orator. —The Great Divide. William E. Valentine of Indianapolis, widely known as a Negro educator, was selected by the New Jersey State Board of Education to succeed James M. Gregory as principal of the Industrial School for Colored Youths at Bordentown. He was born at Montclair and was graduated from Harvard. He is now a supervising principal of schools in Indianapolis. In Germany the sofa is invested with a sanctity as of a throne. The visitor must not sit on it unless especially invited to do so by the hostess. To take a seat there unasked is an outrageous presumption. Wine tasters, employed in their professional duties, never swallow the wine they taste. They merely hold a slip of the beverage in the mouth for a few moments and breathe through the nostrils. And the average man spends nine tenths of his life trying to accumulate enough money to enable him to spend the other tenth in comfort. About three minutes after starting an average man finds that he can go downhill fast enough without a sled under him. Seville reports a dull olive market, the producers and purchasers being deadlocked, waiting for higher or lower prices, respectively. Using a new airplane gun, United States army officers flying at a rate of nearly a mile a minute 600 feet in the air have made more than 90 per cent of hity on a small target on the ground. FREE ADVICE TO SICK WOMEN Thousands Have Been Helped By Common Sense Suggestions. Women suffering from any form of female ills are invited to communicate promptly with the woman's private correspondence department of the Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass. Your letter will be opened, read and answered by a woman and held in promptly with the woman's private correspondence department of the Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass. Your letter will be opened, read and answered by a woman and held in strict confidence. A woman can freely talk of her private illness to a woman; thus has been established a confidential correspondence which has extended over many years and which has never been broken. Never have they published a testimonial or used a letter without the written consent of the writer, and never has the Company allowed these confidential letters to get out of their possession, as the hundreds of thousands of them in their files will attest. Out of the vast volume of experience which they have to draw from, it is more than possible that they possess the very knowledge needed in your case. Nothing is asked in return except your good will, and their advice has helped thousands. Surely any woman, rich or poor, should be glad to take advantage of this generous offer of assistance. Address Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co., (confidential) Lymn, Mass. Every woman ought to have Lydia E. Pinkham's 80-page Text Book. It is not a book for general distribution, as it is too expensive. It is free and only obtainable by mail. Write for it today. ALL RIGHT IN THE FUTURE Proof That Little Dorothy Had imbibed the Policies Advocated by Her Mother. Dorothy's mother is a suffragette of advanced type. Dorothy is a dear little girl in a primary grade, but somewhat inclined to copy her elders. One day her teacher received a note from the secretary of the school board, but waited until after class to read it. Dorothy returned for some books and caught tears in the teacher's eyes (the latter had been denied an increase in salary upon which she had based large hopes), and said: "Why are you crying?" The teacher laughed and said, "The naughty old school board isn't nice to me!" Dorothy took hold of the teacher's hand with both hers and said very seriously, "Don't you cry any more. When we get the vote we women will correct such things!"—The Sunday Magazine. And Not In Vain. Mrs. Bridley (in china shop)—"But I only want the teapot and the sugar bowl. Don't you break the sets?" Clerk—"No, madam. We generally leave that to the servants of our customers." Sure Preventive He—I w-w-w-wish I could fuf-fuf-fun a w-w-way to keep from sta-sta-stam- mering. She—I'll tell you how—don't talk. Mr. Given—Do you believe finding is keeping? Weary Willie—Not in the case of work, mum. If you don't want to be spoiled by success, get a job in the weather bureau. To make good use of knowledge, one needs a strong body and a clear brain—largely a matter of right food. Grape-Nuts FOOD contains proper nutriment for building body and brain—for renewing the tissue cells that are exhausted daily by work and play. Grape-Nuts'food is made from wheat and barley—contains all their nutriment, including those vital mineral salts found under the outer coat, which are especially necessary for the daily upkeep of nerves and brain. "There's a Reason" for —sold by Grocers everywhere Crying Need of Hour Is for More Sleep, Declares a Philadelphia Doctor. Thousands of persons who have a fondness for lying in bed when duty calls them into action will indorse the proposition of Doctor Getson of Philadelphia, who declares that the crying need of the hour is for more sleep and rest. He says that institutions for various diseases are multiplying rapidly, so that in the near future we may expect this world to be an enormous asylum filled with deformed, sick, nervous, exhausted or insane persons. This is not a cheering prospect, but the remedy he offers is simplicity itself. He lays down the rule that sleep and rest permit the human system to destroy and throw off the poisons created by work. Fatigue, he declares, is only the overloading of the human body with these poisons. There is much common sense in this. Rest and sleep are better than drugs, but the danger is that those who will be the most eager to accept the suggested remedy are the ones who are the drones of the world and have the least need for the prescribed sleep and rest. NURSERY RHYME AN OLD ONE Reasons for Believing It Was the First Poetry Written In English In America. There are few girls in this country who have not heard the nursery rhyme sung by the mother: Rockaby, baby, on the treetop; When the wind blows, the cradle will rock; When the cradle bends, the cradle When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall. And down will come cradle, baby and all. But how many know the origin of these lines? Shortly after our forefathers landed at Plymouth, Mass, a party was out in the field, where the Indian women were picking strawberries. Seven of these women, or squaws, as they are called, had papooses—that is, babies—and, having no cradles, they had tied them up in Indian fashion, hung from the limbs of the surrounding trees. When the wind blew, these cradles would rock. A young man of the party, observing this, peeled off a piece of bark and wrote the above lines, which, it is believed, was the first poetry written in America. Girl's Companion. FRENCH TEACHERS IN WAR. Twenty thousand of the 50,000 school teachers of France are in the army, and the frequency with which they are cited in the orders of the day has been marked. Even those who remain with their classes are contributing in an original way to the support of the army. They require their pupils to bring to school at least once each week two potatoes, two carrots, two turnips or other vegetables to be devoted to provisioning the military hospitals. No child is allowed to bring more than two, in order that no jealousy may be created. The object is not so much to assure a supply of food as to teach the children generosity and let them feel that they are filling their role in the war. It has also had a leveling effect between the different classes. From the department of the Deux Sevres in one day more than sixty thousand vegetables were thus collected. NOT SO IMMACULATE Mrs. Wicks—The new curate, I fear, has Buddhistic tendencies. Mrs. Hicks----Good heavens! How so? Mrs. Wicks----He patronizes a Chinese laundry.----Judge. HIS SCAPEGOAT "I say, Hodge, why do you always put 'dictated' on your letters? You don't keep a stenographer." "No; but to tell the truth, old chap, my spelling's exceedingly rocky." CLASSICAL TERMINOLOGY. "Why did that boy of yours name his dog Rome?" "I don't know, unless he likes to make it howl." CONTRARY PROCEEDINGS. "Can you make anybody stand for that story?" "Oh, yes; Jaggs immediately fell for it." Scientific Orchardists Have Found a Way to Prevent the Damage From Frost. Scientific orchardists have developed a method of spreading a blanket of smoke over their trees when frost threatens, thereby keeping them warm and saving the fruit. These men have learned that the danger time for their fruit is upon clear, still nights when the thermometer is below 40. When there are clouds there is little danger, for these hold the latent heat of the earth and prevent it from radiating into space. But when the skies are clear the heat goes hurtling away and the danger of frost impends. So the fruit men have developed a substitute for clouds. They manufacture smoke to take their place. This is done by burning straw that is somewhat damp and therefore smokes a great deal as it burns. Great volumes of the smoke boil up and spread out upon the fields. It often happens that many men in a fruit belt may be burning these smudges at the same time and that the whole region may become covered with the smoke. Yet this smoke imparts no warmth of its own to the orchards. It merely serves the purpose of preventing the radiation of the heat that has been stored up in the ground since the time that the sun last shone upon it. NO NOVELTY A Cholly—And will you come and see us when we're married, Lulu? Lulu—Aw! wot's de use? Dere won't be anyt'ing ter see den. You won't be spoony at all after you're married. UTILIZING THE DEAD WOOD. At an expense of $425 for a sawmill and some wages for wood cutters, the city is about to go into the wood business, with a prospect of returns on the venture which would delight many a business man these days. The dead trees are to be cleaned out of the parks in all the boroughs, and on the suggestion of Park Commissioner Weier of Queens the wood thus cut will be sold to the education department at $13 a cord. There is a ready and permanent market, so that the estimated return is $1,200 this year, and a larger one next.—New York Tribune. TOMMY ATKINS' FRENCH Geoffrey Young, in "From the Trenches," gives many amusing as well as grim anecdotes of the British army in France. For all his belief in himself as a linguist, Tommy Atkins can rarely give the names of places where he has fought. The French names, if even heard, are soon forgotten. He dates from "where so-and-so got hit," or "where the woman ran out to give us drinks as we rode by." HIS WAR ZONE. Knicker—Does Jones suffer from a psychological blockade? Bocker — Yes, he is constantly afraid that his wife will blow him up. ONE ARGUMENT HE WON. "Pa, did you ever win an argument with ma?" "Once, my boy; I convinced her that I was the man she ought to marry." PROPERLY DISPLAYED. "What lovely hands Mrs. Flummery has." "Yes, she's one of our most industrious public knitters." INTERVENTION May—Did you lay siege to the heart of that chap from Mexico? Fay—Yes; but father intervened. —Judge. METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE. METROPOLIS. ILL Death Lurks In A Weak Heart If Youre is fluttering or weak, use RENOVINE." Made by Van Vleet-Mansfield Drug Co., Memphis, Tenn. Price $1.00 INDICATIONS OF AN EARLY SPRING Great Prosperity Ahead for Western Canada. The most recent advices from all points in Western Canada report that conditions are apparent for an early spring. Farmers are going over the implements, getting their seeders ready for operation, the plows in shape for extended breaking, and there is a general optimism. A great many new settlers have already arrived, and the reports from Canadian Government agents in the United States point to the fact that in a few days there will begin the usual emigration from various of the Central and Western states. From the Eastern states the number of farmers going to Canada will be greater than in any past year. There has been a fairly large snowfall during the winter, which will greatly add to the precipitation of last fall, which in the opinion of old-timers was in itself sufficient to insure a good crop during the present year. There will be very little tilled land that will be without a crop this year. The authorities, though, are pleasing with the farmers to seed only such land as has had careful preparation, for rich as it is the soil of Western Canada, it is no more fitted to produce good crops uncultivated than is that of any other land anywhere else. There have been accounts of failures in some portions of the agricultural districts of Western Canada, and also reports of small yields in some districts. A good deal of this is accounted for from the fact that notwithstanding the advice of men of experience, there are farmers who will persist in seeding land not properly prepared. This may be done this year, but those who cultivate on reasonable and logical methods will be certain of a paying crop. There is every reason to believe that the high prices of all kinds of grain will continue. With thousands and thousands of acres of land waiting for the husbandman to bring it forth with a crop, it is no wonder that Western Canada is continuing to prove such an inviting field for the agriculturist. Seventy million dollars is a conservative estimate of orders which came to Canada as the direct result of the war. Governments of the allies have been placing large orders in Canada and buying huge quantities of supplies for cash. The total value of exports to Europe from Canada has jumped about 15 per cent since the war started, while in certain lines the increases have been enormous. Therefore the results of the demand of the allies for war and other material is beginning to be felt in the financial life of the Dominion. There is a marked activity in many commercial lines, and conditions are fast becoming normal. Western Canada is receiving a relative benefit to the East.—Advertisement. In Charlie Knoll's Pasture. When Harry Atwood was aeroplaning from St. Louis to New York he alighted to adjust his machine in a field near Fort Plain, N. Y. Atwood wasn't certain what state he was in and wanted to know. A crowd of villagers rushed toward him and he called to them: "Where am I?" "You're in Charlie Knoll's pasture," shouted the nearest man.—Everybody's Magazine. FACE BATHING WITH Cuticura Soap Most Soothing to Sensitive Skins. Trial Free. Especially when preceded by little touches of Cuticura Ointment to red, rough, itching and plimply surfaces. Nothing better for the skin, scalp, hair and hands than these supercreamy emollients. Why not look your best as to your hair and skin? Sample each free by mail with Book. Address postcard, Cuticura. Dept. XY. Boston. Sold everywhere.—Adv. Poor Prospects "The baby has its mother's nose." "Then it is already supplied with a good trouble scenter." Junior—Oh, she's all right.—Ohio Sun Dial. Many a political candidate stands on his record for the purpose of keeping others from getting at it. YOUR OWN DRUGGIST WILL TELL YOU Try Marine Eye Remedy for Red, Weak, Watery Eyes and Granulated Byeids; No Smarting—Just comfort. Write for Books on the Eye by Phil Bros. Marine Eye Remedy Co., Chicago. If a young man is really in love he never hesitates to propose because the girl has money. The Cough is what hurts, but the tickle is to blame. Dean's Mentholated Cough Drops stop the tickle—5c at good Druggists. Upon the whole, it is better to be knocked than ignored entirely. W. L. DOUGLAS MEN'S $2.50 $3 $3.50 $4.00 $4.50 $5 $5.50 SHOES WOMEN'S $2.00 $2.50 $3.00 $3.50 & $4.00 SHOES BOYS' $1.75 $2 $2.50 $3.00 MISSES' $2.00 & $2.50 YOU CAN SAVE MONEY BY WEARING W. L. DOUGLAS SHOES W. L. Douglas shoes are made of the best domestic and imported leather, on the latest model, and the most expert last and pattern makers in this country. No other make of equal prices, can compete with W. L. Douglas shoes for style, workmanship and quality. As comfortable, easy walking shoes they are unsurpassed. The $2.00 and $4.50 shoes will give as good service as other makes costing $4.00 to $6.00. The $4.50 and $5.50 shoes compare favorably with other makes costing $6.00 to $8.00. There are many men and women shoes. You can them and they will tall Douglas shoes cannot be excelled for CAUTION! When buying W. L. look for his NAME shoes on the bottom. Shoes have the price paid for them. For 32 years W. L. Douglas has guaranteed their value and protected the wearer against high shipping costs by keeping their shoes stamped on the bottom before they leave the factory. Do not be persuaded to take some other make claimed to be just as good. You are giving your money and assured to back. If your dealer cannot supply you, write for Illustrated Catalog showing how to order by mail. W. L. Douglas, 210 Spark St., Brockton, Mass. If you could visit the W. L. Douglas factory at Brockton, Mass., and see how carefully the shoes are made, and the high grade leather used, you would then understand why they look good, better, hold their shape and wear longer than other makes for the price. W. L. Douglas shoes are sold through 8D stores in the large cities and stores everywhere. Wherever you live W. L. Douglas points to W. L. the price. Douglas shoes AND PRICE are always worth the price paid for them. For 32 years W. L. Douglas has guaranteed their value and protected the wearer against high shipping costs by keeping their shoes stamped on the bottom before they leave the factory. Do not be persuaded to take some other make claimed to be just as good. You are giving your money and assured to back. If your dealer cannot supply you, write for Illustrated Catalog showing how to order by mail. W. L. Douglas, 210 Spark St., Brockton, Mass. Necessarily Slow. A California youngster had been permitted to visit a boy friend on the strict condition that he was to leave there at five o'clock and his mother was very angry. The youngster insisted, however, that he had obeyed his orders and had not lingered unnecessarily on the way. "Do you expect me to believe," said his mother, "that it took you two hours to walk a quarter of a mile?" She reached for the whip. "Now, sir, will you tell me the truth?" "Yees, mamma," sobbed the boy, "Charlie Wilson gave me a mud turtle and I was afraid—to carry it—so I led it home." The man who prides himself on giving others "a piece of his mind" never secures any peace of mind for himself by the process. Great faith never springs out of easy situations. W. L. DO MEN'S $2.50 $3 $3.50 $4. WOMEN'S $2.00 $2.50 $3. BOYS' $1.75 $2 $2.50 $3. YOU CAN SAVE WEARING W. L. I. W. L. Douglas shoes are made of leather and are made with expert last and pattern makers in this of equal prices, can compete with W. L. workmanship and quality. As comfort shoes they are unsurpassed. The $3.00, $3.50 and $4.00 shoes will as closely as possible be compared favorably with other makes costing $8.00 to $8.00. there are many men and women wear shoes. Consult them and they will tell Douglas shoes cannot be for you. CAUTION! When buying W. L. look for the NAME stamped on the bottom. Shoes thus stamped with your name are guaranteed their value and protected the wearer’s prices for inferior shoes by having his NAME stamped on the bottom before the shoes are claimed for good. You are paying your money and are entitled. If your dealer cannot supply you, write a trainee dealer and W. L. Douglas, 210 Spark St., Brockets SIMPLY SPELLING HIS NAME Peculiar Combination of Letters Led to Court Clerk's Rather Natural Mistake. "Spell your name!" said the court clerk sharply. The witness began: "O, double T, I, double U, E, double L, double—" "Wait!" ordered the clerk; "begin again!" The witness repeated: "O, double T, I, double U, E, double L, double U, double O—" "Your honor!" roared the clerk, "I beg that this man be committed for contempt of court!" "What is your name?" asked the judge. "My name, your honor, is Ottiwell Wood, and I spell it, O, double T, I, double U, E, double L, double U, double O, D."—Ladies' Home Journal. Another Echo of That Song. An old negro who had his savings in a Birmingham bank that recently suspended was telling his troubles to a business man. "Don't worry," said the business man. I understand the suspension is only temporary. "But boss," said the old negro, still perturbed, "de white folks say it's er long, long way ter temporary."—Birmingham Age-Herald. A. Different Matter "Then you don't think I practice what I preach, eh?" queried the minister, in talking with one of the deacons at a meeting. "No, sir, I don't," replied the deacon. "You've been preachin' on the subject of resignation for two years, an' ye haven't resigned yet." 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 Claire H. Fletcher In Use For Over 30 Years. Children Cry for Fletcher's Castoris Too Hard for Them. "If the English were fighting on the Russian and Polish border there is one report which never could be made of them." "What's that?" "That they were meeting with pronounced successes." Very Much So. "I heard of a duel lately which was fought with wax bullets." "That was quite a cereous matter." "Ah, see! There is the sun setting?" "That's nothing. So's my hen." Good Title. "Why do you call your play 'The Porous Plaster'?" "Because I want it to draw." A "neutrality meeting" is a dangerous place for any man on the other side.—Philadelphia Inquirer. Twenty-nine states are now producing coal on a commercial scale. The more a man intends to do tomorrow the less he does today. Lurks Ir weak, use 'RENOVINE." 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