Metropolis Weekly Gazette

METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE BROOKPORT. Editor: Allow me to say that the Unity Baptist church and S. S are increasing in attendance and the church has took on new life and is busy as bees. Rev J. B. McCrary, accepted the call as Pastor of this church and he was with us the 3rd Sunday and preached his Introductory Sermon from 1st Cor. 11:28. "But let a man examine himself" Subject Self Examination. The sermon was nothing less than gospel truths. It was edifying indeed to the souls of them that heard him. We re-assembled at 8 p. m. and took for a text Psl. 133 1. It was sufficient to stir up the pure minds of christian that heard those two sermons. Rev. McCray understands him self as a gospel preacher, as a man for the cause of Christ, he has stood for the thing that he represent and believes to be right. We have a rally on for the first Sunday in May. We have three clubs out for this month, and we are expecting great results. Yet we are unable to say who will raise the largest amount of money, but we all are busy. Pray for our success. OBITUARY David C. Hughes, was born Oct 27, 1859 in Caldwell, Co., Ky. He came to Metropolis, I.L., in 1877. Was converted in 1878 and joined the St. Paul A. M. E. church. He was married to Louisiana, Herron in 1882. To this union was born 2 children, Edra, Geo. and Dollie. Two with their mother have preceeded him in to the misty future. He taught school at Elizabethtown, Freedonia Ky., and Brookport, Ill. In 1904 he moved to St. Louis, Mo. The deceased was an upright citizen, a good husband, a kind father and a faithful christian man, never discourd along the pathway of life, but always ready to do and act to the cause of Christ. He was stricken with Paralysis Thursday morning 3 o'clock died at 7:15 the same morning aged 55 years 4 months and 18 days. He leaves to mourn his death three sisters, one daughter, three grand children and many other relatives. In the death of the departed the Sisters have lost a kind brother the daughter a loving father the community a good citizen and the church a faithful christian. The funeral was attended at the St Paul A. M E. church, Metropolis, Ill., Snnday afternoon April 18th. Rev. J. H. Smith, pastor officiating assisted by Revs. J. B. McCray and G. W. Rowleett. Many friends and relatives were present. Many beautiful floral designs were presented by friends. MOTTO: "HEW TO THE LINE. LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY The members of Unity Baptist church, Brockport, will have a rally the 11 Sunday in May, at which time all of the friends of the cause of Christ and for a better and greater church building for the people of that hustling and busy little city which will commensurate to their intelligence and financial strength. Let us all contribute something whether we are member or not. The image provided is too blurry to accurately recognize any text. It appears to be a grayscale photograph with indistinct shapes and patterns. [Name of the man depicted] FOR GOVERNOR. FOR GOVERNOR. Hon. Andrew Russell is a full fledged candidate for Governor from the appearance of the Chicago papers. Miss Sudella Heart of Memphis, Tenn., is visiting her father Mr. C. H. Mitchell of 513-15 St. Mrs. Mary Cook of 316 Division is able to be out after several days illness. Miss Addie Ross of 511 - 15th St is very sick. The different clubs of the 12th St Baptist church are doing nicely. Mrs Sarah Evans of 424 - 11th St is indisposed. The Sewing Circle met at the residence of Mrs. Mary Mitchell 513 - 15 St. Thursday Apr. 1st After business was over the the guest were served to a two course luncheon. MENU: 1ST COURSE Salmon salad on Lettuce leaves Light Bread Water 2nd COURSE: Ice Cream with Brandied cherries Chocolate Cake Tinnie Watson, Pres, Mary Cook, Sec CARBONDALE. Sunday School of Rock Hill Baptist church was well attended Sunday. Services were also well attended at 11 o'clock. Sunday after noon a general LOOK! READ!! LISTEN!!! Miss Izora Rodgers, who has just finished a full course in Beauty Culture under the Supervision of Green Lewis Co., Springfield, Ill., will be ready to serve the people of Metropolis, on May 20, 1915. Shampooling, Hairdressing Facial Message, Manluring a Specialty Come and see her and get acquainted and get acquainted and younced not be coaxed. Located at 9th and Pearl Sts. Phone 229 3 Rings. 1. He is a strong man and splendid material for said office. One in whom all factions could center their support. covenant meeting was held and was much enjoyed by every one. At night Rev. Norment preached a powerful sermon to a crowded house. The revival meeting of Rock Hill Baptist church has been a great success as a result for the past week there has been seven conversions. Rev. A S. Webb, left Saturday for Ullin in order to be at his church on Sunday and returned Monday to continue the revival meeting. Miss Mattie Woodson, a teacher of the city school of Mound's visited her sister Mrs. Mary Czeson, Saturday and Sunday. Miss Sarah McCallister was the guest of Mrs. J Greer, Sunday. Among those attending the Teacher's Association of Southern Illinois which was held in Murphysboro, were Mesdames Murray, Jackson, Thompson, Misses Bowes Scisson, Simpson, Claybrooke, McCracken and E. B. Taylor. Editor of the Gazette Mt. Moriah Baptist Church News. The fourth Sunday in April is set apart for the relaying of the corner stone of the Mt. Moriah, M. B. Church by the Masonic Lodge all pastors and their members are invited to take part in the programme, which will begin at 2 p.m. o'clock. The laying of the corner stone will be between the hours of three and four o'clock. One of the principle speakers will be Rev. J W. Davie of Metropolis, Rev. F. Bomar, Pastor. SCHOOLS TO HELP YOUTH WHO WORK GERMAN CONTINUATION COURSE MAKES ABLE BREAD-WINNERS AND GOOD CITIZENS. By Edwin G. Cooley. Schools intended to supplement the elementary education, which is all that most children get, have existed in Germany since the sixteenth century. The center of instruction about which all the studies are grouped is the vocation of the boy or girl. The schools themselves may be classified into three groups, country continuation schools, and in the cities, industrial and commercial. The industrial schools established are for skilled workers such as printers, carpenters, plumbers, or unskilled workmen in any other vocation practiced in the locality. Such schools attempt to train the best possible workmen, citizens and men for that community. Different degrees of emphasts are placed upon the subjects and parts of subjects taught. The subjects usually present are: 1. Mathematics, including geometry. 2. German. 3. Theory of business or industry followed. 4. Drawing. 5. Hygiene and civics. These are all taught from the standpoint of the vocation. German for printers would be very different from that taught to coopers; drawing for plumbers would be quite another thing from that taught to stucco workers; mathematics for carpenters would be quite unlike the same subject for shoe-makers. In every school vocational theory is emphasized, the principles and meaning, the relation to the rest of life of the particular trade at which the boy is working; the clvcs and hygiene are important subjects. In this way, by spending from six to ten hours a week in an industrial or commercial school, which is all that the employers at present allow, or five months full time, in a winter agricultural school, for two years, the great mass of young people in Germany are being helped to "find themselves." The moment they leave school, when home ties are loosened as they go out into the world to work, and the temptations of the world are peculiarly hazardous because so entirely unknown, they are safeguarded by this new system of practical schools which have very little in common with the school system from which they have just passed and the most immediate connection with the work in which their interest is still fresh. Help Workers to Rise. Nor is it to be supposed for a moment that the vocational schools tend to keep the working classes down. They provide a system by which the boy of exceptional ability and ambition is gradually pushed up to the place suited to his talents, and at the same time they give to the great majority of the unendowed and unambitious the chance to earn better wages and to make the most of themselves in every possible way. WISCONSIN'S VOCATIONAL SCHOOLS. The superintendent of schools at Boloit expresses the opinion that more has been accomplished during three years in developing the industrial schools than would have been accomplished in twice the time under the regular school boards. The Racine people say that the industrial board, composed as it is of two shop men and two employers and the superintendent of schools, is "a body that is vitally interested in industry and its greatest resource, the worker." The reaction on the general schools is reported to be a positive benefit. According to the Sheboygan superintendent of schools, any predictions that Wisconsin will come to the unit system of control are made by "educational theorists, and not the men and women who have been actually on the job from the beginning." In Milwaukee the vocational school people are 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. sure that "the sentiment of the community is favorable to the present organization of the schools." Mrs. Bradford, the head of the Kenosha schools, after pointing out that no part of the expense of maintaining the vocational schools has come out of the general school fund, sums up the matter by saying that any little disagreements between the general school board and the vocational school board have been easily smoothed out "when both bodies were brought to a consideration of the real interests involved—the good of the children of Kenosha, which all should unite in promoting." These first-hand reports from the people who are best able to tell them seem to dispel any doubts about the success of the dual system in Wisconsin.—Chicago Daily News. Manual training is an excellent educational exercise, but it has nothing to do with trade instruction—Leslie W. Miller, Principal of the Pennsylvania Museum and School of Industrial Art. I see no reason for transforming the manual training high school; it is a good high school.—Dr. David Snedden, Commissioner of Education of Massachusetts. FARM TEACHING FAILS IN COMMON SCHOOLS IRELAND'S EXPERIENCE SHOWS NEED OF EXPERT DIRECTION OF COURSES. By Edwin G. Cooley. Many years ago Ireland tried to save herself economically by introducing agricultural courses into the nation, i. e., elementary schools. The plan was tried extensively. By 1900 the teaching of agriculture in the elementary schools was conceded to have been a failure, and of the residential schools all but two had been put out of business. A new act for technical and agricultural instruction in Ireland was passed in 1900, providing the following program: 1. To provide at one central institution the highest form of technical education for the men who were to become teachers and specialists in agriculture. 2. To provide at least one high-class agricultural college which would prepare men to enter the Royal College of Science and become agricultural experts. 3. To provide provincial institutions at which young men would be taken as farm apprentices and taught agriculture, both practical and technical. 4. To provide winter schools of agriculture where the sons of farmers, at small expense, could obtain technical training during the winter months, when they could be spared from farm work. 5. To provide central institutions for the training of women in the domestic economy of the farmhouse, and in the work which falls to the lot of woman to perform in connection with the working of the farm, such as dairying and poultry-keeping. 6. To provide education for young women, in domestic economy and "farmyard lore" in residential and day schools. 7. To provide for instruction in each county, in agriculture, horticulture, dairying, poultry-keeping and bee-keeping for the farmers and their wives, sons and daughters, by a system of itinerant instruction. Assistant Secretary of Agriculture Campbell says that the only indispensable features of the scheme are numbers 1, 4 and 7—the training of teachers, winter schools and itinerant instructors. One hundred and fifty-two itinerant instructors are now employed, in addition to fifty-three special teachers sent out by the department to assist the small farmers, and a number of creamery experts. These instructors in the years 1911-12 gave 1,292 lectures, attended by 55,263 persons, conducted 424 classes with 4,524 students and made 75,633 visits to farms and dairies. 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 Mr Olive Baptist S. S. Convention to be held Friday before the 4 h Sunday in April 1915. We can take care of 15 or 20 delegates. Done by order of the church. Rev. J. H. Hilley, 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. Institute Conductor. King Alcohol, with the breeder of crime is booked to be wiped out of Illinois and he United States at no distant a c. The hand writing is upon the wall. God has so decreed it and must be true The Wood River Baptist S. S. Institute will meet in Jacksonville, the 15-18. The Springfield Dist. Confidence of the A. M. 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When one of the merchants of Springhill added a stock of drugs to that of his hardware folks said the town was looking up, but at the end of two years nobody had been sick and the sales had not amounted to $5. For the next five years Springhill was known as being such a healthy place that a doctor could not earn enough to pay for oats for his horse. There was no further call for a drug store and none was established. One night, to the amazement of Springhill and the surrounding countries, Jonas Bebee, a farmer, living about two miles out of town, was taken with a serious case of billious colic and had to send seven miles for a remedy. "Begosh! but this won't happen again!" exclaimed Jonas when he was able to get out. Two weeks later he had sold his farm and had blossomed out as a druggist in Springhill. He didn't know anything about prescriptions, but he didn't realize this necessity. The novelty of a farmer, fresh from the plow, turning druggist, brought considerable trade for a year or two. Then several citizens had a narrow escape for their lives, trade began to slacken up, and for several years it was confined mostly to the sales of copperas and hair dyes. Bebee's drug store become the fiding place of farmers and villagers. And every evening except Sundays there was a crowd of a dozen or twenty men talking politics or playing checkers. Jonas was not selling fifty cents' worth of drugs a week. "Jonas," asked a farmer one night as he entered the store, "have you got any porous plasters? I fell off the fence today and wrenched my old back." "Why, yes," said Jonas, "I've got three of them, but they are on my own back! A feller can't bend over a checker board as much as I do without some support for his spine." "Why don't you give up your gosh-hanged business?" asked the farmer as he turned away. "Can't do it, Jeptha, can't do it. I'd have to go back to farm work if I did." A stranger—a young man—had arrived in town about two hours before, and he entered the drug store at the same time as the man in search of porous plasters and heard what was said. He took a general look around and then went out without saying anything to anybody. At ten o'clock the next morning the stranger called and found Jonas sitting on the steps of the store lazily whittling at a pine shingle. "Are you the owner of this drug store?" "The sole and only owner," Jonas replied. "Your stock seems to have got pretty low." "Well, I believe I have got some logwood left, and I don't know but what I could scare up a bottle of vaseline." "Want to sell out?" inquired the stranger. "I dunno whether I do or not. Sometimes I've thought I would accept a fair offer and then again I thought how lonesome I would be without this place." "Do you fill prescriptions?" "Not for my doctor, but when anyone tells me what alls him I give him whatever I think will cure him." The young man turned away to smile. "Supposing you wanted to sell? What would be your price?" "A regular druggist, eh?" "Yes, I am looking for a location. I want to buy the building itself." "Weil, young man, I will be honest enough to tell you that if you are thinking of starting out of here as a regular druggist you will last about two weeks. This is the healthiest town for a hundred miles around. There has been only one case of sickness in the last five years, and they cured that with hot vinegar and red pepper without coming to me." "Of course, I will take my chances," replied the young man. "Give me your lowest cash price." Jonas got up and walked up and down the sidewalk for five minutes. At last he stopped. "Will you let the crowd continue to come here evenings?" "No, sir," was the prompt reply. "Then I will have to charge you $50 more than I otherwise would, for the boys will have no meeting place unless they go down to the sawmill." His price, as he named it, was at once accepted, and the young man, whose name was Frank Rickard, was the owner of the place before night. The next two weeks were full of business around there. The painters and carpenters were called in, and there were changes that surprised the citizens. When the opening day came for "Rickard's New Drug Store" everybody in Springhill had been invited to call and drink a free glass of soda water, a thing only dimly heard of in that place before. There was much praise for the new enterprise, but most of the people solemnly shook their heads. "But he can't make a go of it! Remember what a healthy town this is!" they said. METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE, METROPOLIS, ILL. Seven days after the new store opened an epidemic of measles swept through the town. Almost all the old people had them as well as the young, and the druggist was prepared to do his share of the business. The measles were followed by the whooping cough, and then by a number of cases of malaria. Some folks thought the new druggist was working "a spell," but the doctors who were called in assured them that it just happened so. Young Rickard proved himself to be a hustler of the first order in more directions than one. He dashed out of the store one day and saved old Mrs. Goodhow from death under the feet of runaway horses. AFRO-AMERIC Improved housing conditions and in crease in individually owned homes have decreased the death rate among Negroes in the United States 3.9 for The newcomer contributed $25 toward the steeple of the Methodist church, chipped in $10 for street improvements, handed the Widow Sommers $5 when she lost her cow, and bought Parson Smiley a new plug hat, the first he had had in seven years. He showed his heroism in various other ways, and inside of three months people were driving ten miles to trade with him. Miss Cliff Dane, the only daughter of one of the richest men of the town, who had been away to school, returned home. She was told about the new drug store and even walked past it and peeped in. Twelve hours later there came to Mr. Rickard a telephone message. "I have been bitten by a kissing bug and my nose is a horrible object. Hurry up with some remedy." And the druggist, who was mixing up a pitch plaster for old Mrs. Welcome's lame side, dropped everything and hurried to the house of desolation. He didn't take time to put on his hat, but ran through the streets barreheaded. "Wet a rag and keep it on your nose all day." he ordered. Of course, she thought him a hustling young man and somewhat brusque, but she was somewhat on that order herself. The kissing bug's bite was soon cured, and an introduction came about. The next time young Mr. Riokars hustled it was for her again. Her uncle had presented her with a saddle pony, and the first time she mounted him he made a bolt and ran through the main street of the town. Opposite the drug store he kicked his heels and she went flying into a bed of burdocks in a vacant lot. The druggist witnessed the accident. He took time to seize the camphor bottle, and then, hastening across the street, he was the first hero to ascertain that neither her neck nor any of her limbs was broken. Mr. Dane, her father, was thinking of buying an auto. A car was sent to him to try and instead of his doing so himself Miss Cliff was the first one to take it in hand. As she had never been in one before, the result was a foregone conclusion. By the greatest good fortune she managed to progress half a mile or so in safety. That machine was no slow-poke, and, becoming tired of the crawling pace, it started off at a gait of thirty miles an hour. In going down the main street of the town it ran from side to side, tipping over barrels, knocking over boxes and scaring numerous people half to death. It was continuing its wild career when the heroic Mr. Rickard leaped in and took charge. The doings of the druggist and his store were talked about by the whole county, and there was a rise of at least ten per cent in price of real estate in the town. Things were going along at a fine pace when it became known that a druggist from Boston wanted to buy Mr. Rickard out. The town was both surprised and indignant. "We cannot let him go," said one to another. "Good lands, we can spare half the town better than he. He has given us such a start as we could never have got without him!" A public meeting was called, a hot discussion-took place, and a delegation was sent to the house of Mr. Dane to ask of Miss Cliff: "Are you a patriot and have you not the welfare of this town at heart?" She replied that she had. And they soon convinced her that it rested all with her whether the community dropped back into its old-time slothfulness or went ahead with new ardor. This was her excuse for sending for the druggest. "Are you thinking of leaving us? Because if so, is there anything I can do to keep you here?" she asked timidly. He blushed and she blushed, and he didn't sell out. (Copyright, 1915, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) First Aid. "Dear me," said the girl, "I've bruised my lip. My mother used always to kiss a hurt place to make it well." "And did that treatment make it well?" "I don't remember. But those old-fashioned remedies were often very good." And then he got busy. "I want to marry your daughter," said the young man. "Oh, you do?" replied the father. "Yes, sir." "And what does she say?" "Oh, she'll say enough after I marry her, I reckon." Edyth-I dearly love to take long walks. Only yesterday I covered a mile in less than ten minutes. Mayme-With your feet, dear, I should think you might cover half that distance while standing still. AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS Improved housing conditions and increase in individually owned homes have decreased the death rate among Negroes in the United States 3.9 for each one thousand population, in the last census decade, according to a bulletin on Negro mortality soon to be issued from the bureau of the census at Washington. In an area representing 19.7 per cent of the total Negro population of the United States, from which comparative figures were available, the department found that in 1910 the death rate among Negroes was 25.5 to each one thousand population, while in 1900 the rate was 29.4. The decrease in death rate among the Negroes of the prescribed area was greater than the decrease in white deaths, although the death rate among whites is much lower than that of the Negroes, from 1900 to 1910. The mortality rate for all races is greater in southern cities than in northern, the report shows, but every city in the South except Memphis and Key West showed a decrease in deaths in the last decade, owing to improved housing conditions. It is discovered that the diseases which prove most fatal to Negroes over the country are malaria, all forms of tuberculosis, pneumonia and whooping cough. The other diseases and causes of death, including accident, homicide and suicide, are more evenly distributed among the whites. One of the chief causes of the decreased death rate among the Negroes in the South is believed to be an increase of 31.4 per cent in home ownership. That increase, along with improved sanitary and housing conditions, is believed to have been in direct ratio with the abatement of dangerous epidemics. The idea of having their own church, with their own pastor, with a Negro presiding elder and a Negro bishop, appealed to the Negroes many years ago, and everywhere there were free Negroes the church rapidly spread—into New England, into Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri and the West. A church was started in New Orleans in 1848. In fact, the church in that city was the first one started in the South. After the Civil war, however, this organization grew by leaps and bounds. Soon it took not one bishop, or two, but six, then ten, then twelve and now fifteen to supervise the work. Churches were organized in every state in the Union and these at once became centers of great uplifting influence for the newly emancipated people. The preachers became the recognized leaders, so regarded by both races, and much of the progress of the Negro is due to their intelligent and unselfish aid. But not only in America has the African Methodist Episcopal church been active, but in Africa, South America and the islands. As early as 1820 Daniel Coker, one of the members of the first meeting in 1816, went to Liberia, West Africa, and started a church. In 1824 a minister named John Gordon went to Jamaica, Cuba, British Guinea, South America, Sierra Leone and Gold Coast West Africa, Cape Colony and other parts of South Africa. So great has the foreign work grown that it is now looked after by resident bishops. Bishop J. Albert Johnson is resident bishop of South Africa, and has his headquarters at Capetown. Bishop William H. Heard, a native of Georgia, is bishop of West Africa, and has his headquarters at Monrovia. Six hundred and ninety-one names have been added to the roster of the colored Y. M. C. A. as the result of a six-day membership campaign which came to a close last night, says the Washington Star. The organization has set out to obtain 500 members in six days, and at an enthusiastic meeting last night received the reports of the various teams, which showed that this number had been exceeded by nearly two hundred. The total number of memberships provided for in reality will be in excess of seven hundred, as a number of Washington business men, headed by H. S. Omohundro, promised to contribute one membership for every ten over five hundred brought in by the campaign workers. John R. Hawkins, general chairman of the campaign committee, presided over the closing exercises, which were held in the gymnasium of the colored Y. M. C. A., Twelfth and T streets northwest. The festivities opened with a banquet, after which the various membership teams made reports. Early reports indicated that the 509 membership goal would be reached. The families most closely tied by relationship in St. Louis are those of the Heuers and the Johnsons. Harry Heuer, who is soon to be married to Bertha Johnson, will be the fourth Heuer brother to marry one of the Johnson family. In addition, Minnie Heuer, a sister of the four brothers, is married to John F. Johnson, a brother to the four Johnson girls. The coal required for one journey between New York and Liverpool by a modern liner would fill 22 trains each made up of 30 te-ton cars. Resenting the criticism against colored people made by Professor William Starr Myers of Princeton university, in a lecture at the Academy of Music on February 27, several leaders of that race met at Washington and formed a committee to conduct a campaign against defamors of their race there. The campaign will be carried on by ministers, lawyers, physicians and business men, as well as by all the associations of colored people in Brooklyn. The statement which aroused the indignation of the colored people was that in which Professor Myers said: "A'Young Men's Christian association leader of the South said he estimated that 98 per cent of Negro men in some localities of the South are immoral, and that the percentage of the immorality of the Negro women was as great." He is also reported to have said that "the ballot and whisky are the two great curses of the race. The Negro race is not merely an inferior race; it is a backward race. Even the educated Negro is nothing but a grown-up child." As a consequence of this, the colored people are determined to disprove what Professor Myers said. The Citizens' club and the Carleton branch of the Y. M. C. A., as well as other organizations of colored people, will act together in this matter. The first move will be to hold a mass meeting at the Academy of Music, at which prominent colored people will speak. The people in charge will also try to obtain as speakers one or two white men of influence to uphold their side of the case. The program committee in charge of the arrangements for the meeting is headed by Rev. Dr. A. P. Coles. R. M. Merony, superintendent of the Carlton branch, Y. M. C. A., is secretary. Before going actively into direct opposition to Professor Myers, Secretary Merony was instructed to write to Professor Myers and have him confirm the statements he made, as reported in the newspapers the day after he lectured. Among those who were present at the meeting were Rev. W. M. Moss, G. F. Miller, W. H. Jones, W. A. Lee and George E. Wibecan, president of the Citizens' club. Rev. Dr. S. Parkes Cadman of the Central Congregational church and Park Commissioner Raymond V. Ingersoll have already signified their intention to address the mass meeting for the colored people, if possible. White men and colored men alike are being fed daily at the dinners which the Ebenezer Baptist church in Chicago, one of the largest churches with a congregation of colored people in the city, is providing for those whom winter and war depression in business have thrown out of work. In fact, the whites outnumber the blacks by four to one at the hour of the free meal served five days a week by the women of the church, according to those in charge. The dinners, which are substantial and well cooked, cost the church about $20 a day to feed about 350 men. This is a service which the church tries to give for one month out of every year, says the pastor, Rev. John F. Thomas. Last year 3,752 white men and 1,002 colored men, in all, were fed. One of the white churches of the city which carries on a similar work bars colored men from its charity; but Rev. Mr. Thomas' committee of women welcome anyone who is penniless and hungry, regardless of color, creed or race. The erection of a monument to the memory of Lucius Harkum, colored, who for 52 years was a nurse at Freedmen's hospital, was proposed by Rev. Simon P. W. Drew at funeral services at the Cosmopolitan (colored) Baptist church, Washington. Interment was at Harmony cemetery. In his sermon Doctor Drew said it was proposed to have a nation-wide campaign, and when funds have been obtained to erect a monument in front of the hospital. Tribute was paid to the nurse by Doctor Drew, who characterized him as one of the four great characters of the Civil war. Others who spoke were Dr. D. E. Wiseman, Dr. T. A. Johnson, Rev. P. P. Samuel, Rev. J. N. Beaman, Rev. Charles H. Parker, Rev. A. Barton and Rev. John Davis. The custom has been started in some western cities of printing the malden name of a woman after that of her husband in the directory. A few are geniuses. Others inherit their bad manners and their disagreeable dispositions. The Sarino (Ontario) Canadian says that "Thomas Collins of the first concession of Biddulph township, who is ninety-nine and one-half years old, has just commenced taking music lessons." Much of the best wallpaper is made in part from leather waste. A century ago only 300 species of orchids were known, and these very imperfectly. Now the latest authority gives the number of known species as 10,000. Pick out the most critical smoker you know. Ask him to try one of your Fatima Cigarettes. It would be a strange taste that didn't like the mild, delightful Turkish blend of Fatimas! 3 out of 4 smokers prefer Fatimas to any other 15c cigarette. Liggatt Myrrh Tobacco Co. FATIMA TURKISH BETTES NO COLOR TIPS 20 for 15¢ Preventing Premature Burials. The fear of being buried alive always has been, and is, so widespread that the French Academy of Science some years ago offered a prize equal to $7,500 for the discovery of some means by which even the inexperienced might at once determine whether, in a given case, death had ensured or not. A physician obtained the prize. He had observed the following well-known signs: If the hand of the suspected dead person is held towards a candle or other artificial light, with the fingers extended and one touching the other, and one looks through the spaces between the fingers towards the light, there appears a scarlet red color where the fingers touch each other, due to the blood still circulating; it shows itself through the tissues which have not yet congested. When life is entirely extinct, the phenomenon of scarlet spaces between the fingers at once ceases. The most extensive and thorough trials established the truth of his observation. The Unexpected. "Did you hear about Scootleigh?" "No." "He woke up in the night and went to the cupboard for the bottle of Jamaica ginger. He was in such a hurry he didn't stop to feel for the electric light button, but chanced it." "Dear, dear!" "He grabbed a bottle that he thought was the right one and took a swallow of the stuff." "My, my!" "It burned him painfully." "Oh, that's too bad! What was it?" "The Jamaica ginger." Little Lemuel—Say, paw, is that wild man across the street? Paw—Something like that, son. He is a member of the state legislature who voted against free lunch, and today he had to give up real money for the food he consumed between drinks. Not the Same. "Have you caught any of the divine affilies from the coming of the spring?" "No; all I've caught is the influenza." The injurious action of coffee on the hearts of many persons is well known by physicians to be caused by caffeine. This is the drug found by chemists in coffee and tea. A woman suffered a long time with severe heart trouble and finally her doctor told her she must give up coffee, as that was the principal cause of the trouble. She writes: "My heart was so weak it could not do its work properly. My husband would sometimes have to carry me from the table, and it would seem that I would never breathe again. "The doctor told me that coffee was causing the weakness of my heart. He said I must stop it, but it seemed I could not give it up until I was down in bed with nervous prostration. "For eleven weeks I lay there and suffered. Finally husband brought home some Postum and I quit coffee and started now and right. Slowly I got well. Now I do not have any headaches, nor those spells with weak heart. We know it is Postum that helped me. The Dr. said the other day: 'I never thought you would be what you are.' I used to weigh 92 pounds and now I weigh 158. "Postum has done much for me and I would not go back to coffee again, for I believe it would kill me if I kept at it. Postum must be prepared according to directions on pkg, then it has a rich flavor and with cream is fine." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read "The Road to Wellville," 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. Both kinds are equally delicious and cost per cup about the same. THE PALACE OF THE HOTELS Northern Pacific Ry and Great Northern Pacific S. S. Co. Lake road from Lake Ilbert to Daily transcontinental trains from Chicago, St. Louis, Kansas City, St. Paul or Minne- apolis. Coast Points through the Scenic Highway. Entrance Stop at Wonderful Yellowstone National Park Nature's Own Worlds Exposition Enter via Gardener's Gateway reached only by northern Pacific Ri. View the strange phenomena and unique beauty of the park and through the Park during the season. Send advance for free Expositions folder, travel literature, and information and guidance by your 1915 "Made in America" vacation. A. M. CLELAND, Gen't Post, Agents 517 Northern Pacific Rd. St. Louis, Mo. St. Paul, Minn. NORTHERN PACIFIC YELLOWSTONE PARK LINE BREAKING THE NEWS GENTLY Liverpool Man Exceedingly Careful That He Should Not Shock the Nerves of His Friend. In Liverpool there is a man, writes a contributor to Pearson's Weekly, who is famous for his calmness on every occasion. One day he strolled leisurely into the office of a friend. "I've just had a chat with your wife," he began. "Why, I didn't know she was in town." "Oh, she wasn't in town," replied the other. "I called at your house." "I didn't know she was receiving today," said the husband, with some surprise. "I thought she had a headache." "She didn't mention it to me," said the calm man. "There was quite a crowd at the house." "A crowd!" echoed the husband. "Yes," went on the calm man. "They came with the fire engine." "The fire engine!" gasped the husband. "Oh, it's all right," went on the calm man. "It's all out now. It wasn't much of a fire, but I thought you'd like to know of it." Easy Money. Burglar—Come, now, I just beat up the janitor and got upstairs here and I want your purse quick. Flatdweller—You beat up the janitor? Burglar—Yes. Here, where are you going? Flatdweller—It's all right. I haven't any purse myself, but I'm sure I can raise one among the tenants in a few minutes. Parliamentary. Brown—Where's that fiver I laid on the table a moment ago? Mrs. Brown—You never expected to see that again, did you? Brown—And why not? Mrs. Brown—You told me that in parliamentary practice when a bill is laid on the table it is seldom heard of again—Harper's Bazar. THE WAY OUT Change of Food Brought Success and Happiness. An ambitious but delicate girl, after failing to go through school on account of nervousness and hysteria, found in Grape-Nuts the only thing that seemed to build her up and furnish her the peace of health. "From infancy," she says, "I have not been strong. Being ambitious to learn at any cost I finally got to the High School but soon had to abandon my studies on account of nervous prostration and hysteria. "My food did not agree with me, and I grew thin and despondent. I could not enjoy the simplest social affair for I suffered constantly from nervousness in spite of all sorts of medicines. "This wretched condition continued until I became interested in the letters of those who had cases like mine and who were being helped by eating Grape-Nuts. "I had little faith, but procured a pkg. and after the first dish I experienced a peculiar satisfied feeling that I had never gained from any ordinary food. I slept and rested better that night and in a few days began to grow stronger. "I had a new feeling of peace and restfulness. In a few weeks, to my great joy, the headaches and nervousness left me and life became bright and hopeful. I resumed my studies, and later taught ten months with ease—using Grape-Nuts every day. I am now the mistress of a happy home, and the old weakness has never returned." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read "The Road to Wellville," in pkgs. "There's a Reason." Ever read the above letter? A new one appears from time to time. They are geunzul, true, and fell of humans CENSUS OF THE SKY Country's Winged Citizens Have Been Enumerated. Interesting Discoveries Made Through Investigation by the Department of Agriculture—Robins Outnumber Sparrows. There is a country whose cities are never overcrowded, the present census registering on the average two citizens to every acre. This country is the land of the sky; its citizens, the birds. The United States department of agriculture has discovered the facts and put them safely away in a bulletin which the public may have for the asking, though by what methods the government biologists obtained and substantiated the numbers this same public has not yet been advised. Did they resort to aeroplanes? And once in the aeroplane did they consult Mr. and Mrs. Bird as to the number of their children? We are not yet informed, but it can easily be seen that there might be some confusion. As a rule statistics only stupefy, but there's something to be said for the robin which may interest some people. There is more of him than of any other bird in the United States—six pairs of robins to each farm of 58 acres. The English sparrow is a close second, five pairs to each 58 acres. No other bird is nearly so abundant as either the robin or sparrow. One conclusion which will interest mankind—chiefly because it concerns mankind—is the preference of breeding birds for thickly populated centers. They prefer the Great White Way to the quiet forest. This seems to indicate the beginnings of human intelligence—oh, well, perhaps not intelligence, but it's human, whatever else it may be. And, say the biologists, it seems probable that as our human population increases so will our bird population increase. Thus we get around to race suicide and—it is inevitable—to Roosevelt. Throughout the United States, taking 100 robins as a unit, other birds were noted in the following ratio: Catbirds, 49; house wrens, 28; brown thrashers, 37; kingbirds, 27; bluebirds, 26. Chevy Chase, Md., holds the record for density of population. One hundred and sixty-one pairs were found nesting on 23 acres, 34 species of birds being represented. The department announces that this census is to be repeated and on a much larger scale, if bird lovers are willing to aid. There are no funds to pay for this work, and it therefore depends on volunteers who will contribute the facts in the case. SAFETY DEVICE FOR AVIATOR Wings and Balloon-Shaped Canopy Unfold Automatically in the Event of a Fall. The parachute is attached to the body by straps passing around the waist and over the shoulders. The a wingss as well as the balloon-shaped canopy are ordinarily folded against the body, but unfold automatically and act against the air in case of a fall.—Popular Mechanics. Synthetic Resins. New synthetic resins have been discovered recently and are appearing on the market under many trade names, says a writer in the Scientific American. The resins are used in the production of materials such as artificial amber, pipestems, toothbrush handles, beads, transparent jewelry, buttons of all sizes, inlaid work, knife handles, fountain pens, etc., and take the place of bone, horn, ivory, celluloid, amber, casein (gallolith), ebony and hard rubber. These artificial resins in their final conditions do not melt or even soften, appreciably at all temperatures, and do not burn like rubber or celluloid. When heated in the air to temperatures well above 500 degrees Fahrenheit the resins char and burn slowly without a flame. They are quite insoluble in all ordinary solvents, such as gasoline, alcohol, ammoles, washing soda and acids. Winds Favorable to Forest Fires. The weather bureau has recently made some study of the meteorological conditions favoring the occurrence of forest fires and has tentatively established a special service for issuing warnings of the hot, dry winds which seem to be a frequent antecedent and accompaniment of such fires in the valuable timbered regions of the West.—Scientific American. METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE, METROPOLIS, ILL. Death Lurks In A Weak Heart NO WAR TAX ON CANADIAN LANDS Untruthful Reports Circulated by Interested Parties. Defaming a neighbor at the expense of the truth does not help those who are guilty of the practice, and it may be said that those spreading false reports about Canadian lands, in the hope that they may secure customers for their own, will certainly fail of their purpose. False statements so maliciously circulated will sooner or later be disproved. And, as in the case of the lands of Western Canada, the fertility of which is now so well known to people of every state in the United States, the folly of this work shows an exceeding short sightedness on the part of those guilty of the practice. The present war has given some of these people the opportunity to exercise their art, but in doing it they are only arousing the curiosity of those who read the statements and a trifling investigation will only reveal their untruthfulness. A very foolish statement has recently appeared in a number of papers, reading in part as follows:— "It is believed that as a result of the war tax on land imposed by the Canadian Government a number of former Dakota farmers who went to the British Northwest will be compelled to return to the United States. Information has been received that the tax will amount to about $500 for each farm of 160 acres, which in the case of many of the former residents of the two Dakotas would practically amount to confiscation." To show that the public has doubted, hundreds of inquiries have been made the Government at Ottawa, Canada, only to bring out the most emphatic denial. A full-fledged ile of this kind has, of course, only a short life, and will tell in the end against those who forge it and spread it, but, as a Winnipeg paper points out, it is most complimentary to the agricultural possibilities of Western Canada to find that rival farming propositions need audacious mendacity of this description to help them. What is the truth? The Saskatchewan Government has authorized a levy of $10 per quarter section on uncultivated lands owned by non-residents. The Alberta Government has imposed a Provincial tax of 10 mills on the assessed value of all uncultivated lands. There are some special applications of these taxes, but the main provisions are as above. Those vacant lands held by non-residents in Western Canada form a grave problem. They are making for poor communities, poor schools and poor social and economic conditions generally. By having them cultivated the owners as well as the districts in which they are located will benefit alike. It is for this reason that the Government has recently asked the co-operation of the non-residents. The high price of grain for some years to come, and the general splendid character of Western Canada land will make the question well worth consideration.—Advertisement. Reason of His Faith. "Bruddren and sistahs," began Jim Dinger, the gambling man, during the revival in Ebenezer chapel, "I rises to testify dat I has done been snatched fum the slough o' sin and de sasspole o' nickerty wha I has been wallerin' for lo dese many days." "Hallelooyer! Bless de Lawd!" shouted a dozen carnet volences. "Yes, bruddren and sistahs, de Lawd's done made mpu eyesight so po' of late dat I kain't sca'cely see de spots on a cyahd, and I mought dess as well jine de church as to stay outside. Muh days o' usefulness is ovah, anyhow."—Kansas City Star. PREMATURE BALDNESS Due to Dandruff and Irritation, Prevented by Cuticura. The Soap to cleanse and purify, the Ointment to soothe and heal. Daily shampoos with Cuticura Soap and occasional applications of Cuticura Ointment gently rubbed into the scalp skin will do much to promote hair-growing conditions. Sample each free by mail with Book. Address postcard, Cuticura. Dept. XY, Boston. Sold everywhere.—Adv. They are apt to find themselves in a broil." Superstition is what prompts a person to believe a horseshoe over the door has more virtue than a lock and key. New York will conduct a special school for the instruction of street sweepers in their duties. If you want a middle-aged woman for housework you should advertise for a girl. 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Later I became so much worse that I consulted a doctor, who said that I had Diabetes and that my heart was affected. I suffer- Mr. J. M. Sinclair. inmammation of the bladder. Later I became so much worse that I consulted a doctor, who said that I had Diabetes and that my heart was affected. I suffered for four years and was in a nervous state and very much depressed. The doctor's medicine didn't help me, so I decided to try Dodds Kidney Pills, and I cannot say enough to express my relief and thankfulness, as they cured me. Diamond Dinner Pills cured me of Constipation." Dodds Kidney Pills, 50c. per box at your dealer or Dodds Medicine Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Dodds Dyspepsia Tablets for Indigestion have been proved. 50c. per box.-Adv. "What do you think of the way that startup Binks gives himself alrs? Here he was talking the other day about the delights of his salad days." "Well, I could have reminded him that they were not chicken salad days." 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