Metropolis Weekly Gazette

METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS 222 MAY 1915 MET VOLUM We'll Forgive, But We Cannot Forget. Three handsome youths who duty it was to entertain the club, slipped one over us when it came to the part of the grub. They served us with cream and water wit nabiscos on the side. Every one that went to the table turned away and sighed. For they had nothing as we could see to eat. No sign of bread no sign of meat. They couldn't even afford some after-dinner mints. The lunch 'tis said just cos eighty cents. One entertainer made a speech just before the lunch. Called himself, we gess squaring up the bunch. Of course we wasn't looking for everything in a heap. But it shocked our nerves to find the bunch so cheap. They ought to ask our apology for being so cheap a bunch we'll gladly forgive 'em, tho we can't forget the lunch. G. BLAINE ALSIÓN. Metropolis, Ill. 1915 The Freewill Baptist S. S. held memorial service of Sister Jane Hodge, a member, at the Free Baptist church; she was treasurer of the S. S. Services I were conducted by Bro. J. B. Davy, there was some very interesting remarks made and some good things said concerning her christian life by Rev. Barnett and Sis. Rosa Davy who had visited her from time to time and done what she could for her and had prayer with her; the pastor Rev. Crim was present and said many good things concerning her life concluded by Bro. Davy who assured the relatives that the S. S. was in sympathy with them, that the S. S. had lost a good treasurer. Peace to her ashes. The Freewill Baptist church decided that the 9th day of May be as Mothers Day; this was decided in regular form, with many good remarks from the pastor, and a decoration of white flowers. Rev, A A, Crim, pastor. R B Missionary Worker Dear Editor: The New Hope Baptist church is progressing nicely, cur S. S. well attended. The Supt., Mr. Haynes being out of town Sister Owens was in the chair. At 3 oclock the Odd Fellows and H. H. of Ruth marched to the N. H. church and Rev. P. B. French preached the annual sermon; prayer by Rev. E. Martin, song by choir, collection $8.50. At 8 oclock Rev. French again ascended the rostrum and preached from John 39:3-9. The B. Y. P. U. was conducted by little Miss Willie Browning. Miss-Amanda Hayns, Messers Jim Hayns and Charlie Wilson were in St Louis Sunday. Mrs. Eliza Burget and daughter were Carbondale visitors Sunday. Mr. Bill Bartholonew has purchased a new automobile. The sewing circle met with The sewing circle met with MOTTO : " HEW TO THE LINE. LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY " Mother Foster last week. Reporter M. Editor: Please allow me pace in your paper for this short article. Two months ago the First Missionary Baptist church of Shawneetown, called Rev. G. W Braddockof Md City, Ill. The Rev. taken holt in earnest and said let me lead and you follow. The first month we had a ten cents rally and raised $14.10 a thing never heard of in Shawneetown, before. This month the Rev. asked for for 50 and 75 cents rally and we raised $53 00. Rev. G. W. Braddock is a good preacher and the best pastor we ever had and can raise more money than anybody I ever saw. Our membership is very small and not a factory in town and business is very dull in Shawneetown Rev. Braddock has succeeded in cementing together some members that they never would never be friendly. We are proud of Rev. Braddock and hope the Lord may keep him in Shawneetown to help up the Baptist here. Our pastor is preparing to repair our church PROCLAMATION. Whereas: A custom has been established by States and Cities to name and designate certain days for Special Observances, and since a demand exists that we place special emphasis upon Sunday School Attendance, Therefore; We are pleased to appoint and name, Sunday, May 23-1915 as Go To Sunday-School Day. It is heartily recommended to our people of all beliefs and denominations, and also those who have no church affiliations, that they shall gather in the several Churches of the City at the appointed hour for this service. Dated this May 17, '15. From His Own Experience. A from His Own Experience. A west end school teacher told a funny one the other day. The teacher was attempting to drill the class in the use of the word "felt." She expected some one of the children to say "The ice felt cold" or "The stove felt hot," or something of the sort. She was much discouraged when one little alten who had raised his hand to volunteer a sentence said: "I felt downstairs."—Boston / Post. Even Worse. "A public man should be careful not to say anything he will be sorry for." "Yes, and yet, he's lucky if he merely says it instead of putting it is writing and signing his name to it." Applied Learning. The Absent-Minded Professor—"My tailor has put one button too many on my vest. I must cut it off. That's funny; now there's a buttonhole too many. What's the use of arithmetic?" — Sourie. Heavy Annual Rainfall The rainfall of a village among the hills of Assam, during the ten weeks from May 1 to July 9 this year, was 250 inches. The village is Cherrapunjil, the rainiest spot in Asia and presumably in the world. Its annual rainfall is something over 450 inches—say, fifteen times as much as London. Cherrapunjil stands on a plateau, overlooking the plain of Sythe, and it is 4,455 feet above sea level.—Westminster Gazette. 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. Shampooing. Hairdressing. Facial Massage. Manicuring a Specialty Come and see her and get acquainted and get acquainted and youneed not be coaxed. Located at 9th and Pearl Sts. Phone 229 3 Rings. On To Centralia. The Watch- A Missionary Baptist Association, is the getting together and strengthening each other in the work of the Master's Kingdom. Along the lines of missions and Education, Home and abroad District, State, Home and Foreign, this covers the four quarters so to speak. It may be said that most all of the churches believe and agree on missions. To this we answer yes, but not on the work on missions. Regular Missionary Baptist are sent out, to baptize the nation these orders were given to His followers at Olivet's shrbrow. The pedo-baptist of whom the State Convention wish to take in its embrace, have orders from the founders of their churches, to (cheo)pour, or (ratidzo) sprinkle the nation, not only the pedo-baptist churches, but the Campbell-lites and Freewills. Thes remarks are not only to inform those who are not informed of the difference between the Missionary Baptist State Association and the State Convention we mean either one. The negro convention or white they are both on the same pattern. If any one thinks the statement far fetched, they have only to inquire into the organization, known as the Southern Association set up in motion by the State Convention [white] last fall at Benton, with six so called missionary Baptist churches and 54 freewills churches without a change of views and these same powers that be organized the Federation with a number of Baptist churches (colored) in Chicago, this is what they call a union. N difference it means the same thing that the federation it is but a rose under another name, but a rose just the same But the Baptist Churches have not been consulted as to whether or not they were willing, lay aside the doctrine as handed down by Jesus Christ and practiced by the apostle, but handed over by a few ministers. Let the old line baptist that have stood by the stuff, for long years, look into the matter and see where they have been landed without their knowledge or consent. The Master hath need of thee, Jesus says, There- Secret of Influence. Secret or Influence. Force, fervor, intensity—these are the qualities which have given their power to great leaders in all the movements by which the world has been swayed. Sometimes they have been present in men who left so little written memorial or whose efforts were folled by adverse circumstances that we can note only the fact that they must have been remarkable because their contemporaries admired and followed them. They possessed the secret of influence, though we cannot tell how they manifested it. 'They are among the riddles of history.—Chambers' Journal. Neuralgia and Rheumatic Pain's yield quickly to the influence of Dr. Miller anti-Pain Pills. No bad or aff- fore pray ye; Hallowed be thy name; thy Kingdom come; thy will be done in earth as it is in Heaven. Therefore said be unto them, the harvest truly is great but the laborers are few; pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest that he would send forth laborers into his harvest. Our mission is to teach, preach and baptize. As to the spirit of prayer, that will be regulated largely by your labor for its end; so I am bound to the conclusion, that the great hindrance to the salvation of the world is chiefly in want of the personal consecration of christians to that end; and men, and women who can give life do not give their life; that men and women who can not give life but can give money, do not give as the Lord prospers them, when we pray for the Lord to send laborers into his harvest, we must do what we can to see that they do go. The laborers must go and those who stay must pray, and contribute to feed those that do go. Give means to prosecute the work. Otherwise the talk of covering the world to God is a mere mock and trifle with God and the souls of men. Strange but true, nevertheless in this great commercial age, we appear to forget God. Our railroads, factories, sciences, arts and the ordinary business affairs and common employment, seen almost to exclude God from the minds of men, the wealth prosperity and social blessing, are derived from another source altogether. For these reasons men and women are dying before their time, and without thy glory. To accomplish this heavenly mission, the gold and the silver which God created for this great end of advancing the glory of his Kingdom. He gives the prosperity by which every one, of his sons and daughters obtain or accumulate any share of it and the and the prosperity which it represent, and the church can only prosper in her earthly charge when each one of her membership contributes and performs his part in the spirit of the Devinne Rule laid down in the Devinne book. If our churches fail and are beaten back, or even the Association, in the great undertaking for the advancement of the Masters Kingdom, it will be chiefly because some of the soldiers have faltered and have fallen back and discouraged and disheartened others, but with God to help us we shall know no defeat. The ministers and other members in the organization pledged themselves to contribute $100 each independent as to what the churches give. May the Lord stir the good men and women of the state as never before, to come up to the help of the Lord. Let the chairman of the educational board speak out, and let not the chairman mission board be silent. We hope to visit every church in this end of the state, either in person, pen or proxy, before the meeting in Centralia, we have been thindered by sickness for a time from visiting the churches but under God we are getting straight once more we hope. Respectfully, C. C. Phillips. Supt., of Missions. 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. James Robinson Proprietor. I am yours for the Women's General Missionary Baptist State Association of the state of Illinois. W, P. Washington, Correspmding Secretary of the Gemr'l. Missionary Baptist State Association of the State of Illinois. To the Baptist Women of the Mt. Olive Baptist Association and Members of W. E. & M Convention and Circles, greetings: Dear Sisters, you are notified to meet with the State Association at Centralia, Wednesday before the fourth Lord's day in May. Each local society is asked to send a delegate to this meeting. Sisters of the Mt. Olive and East Mt. Olive Association, let us come together to do business for God and the cause of education. We need to come together at this place and organize our forces NOTICE. To the Baptist women of the State of Illinois, after extending to yo my congratulations and greetings for tee New Year 1915, this little note tomes to you from the General Missionary Baptist State Association of Illinois, through her corresponding secretary, informing you, that we feel very keenly the mistake we made last October by not notify and organizing the Women's department of our State Association. But, since the mill never grinds with water that is passed, we will forget those things are passed, and press forward to the mark of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus. Since the organization of the General Missionary Baptist State Association at Mt. Vernon, Illinois, October 1914 it has been my pleasure to travel from one end of the state to other, and we find that the women of our Baptist Zion are getting their eyes open to the fact, that we need a real sure enough Woman's General Missionary Baptist State Association. And since it is, and always has been my disposition to give honor to whom honor is due, I wish to take time and space enough right here, to dash one bouquet if no more, at our original president of Women's State Convention in the person of sister K. L. Cosby. She gave me her word while I was in Chicago, November last, that she was a Baptist, not in name only, but in reality, and cast her lot with them who proved that they were earnestly contending for the Faith, first delivered to the saints. Now, that sister Cosby, and her like-minded Baptist sisters may have an opportunity to help us to earnestly tentend for the Eaith; at our State meeting when convened next May 1915, at Centralia; when we will organize a Women's General Missionary Baptist State Association. Great preparation is being made for that great coming meeting next May, at Contralia Illinois. We are looking for our Baptist women from the North from the West and from the East. ou Baptist women in (this) the Southern part of the state, are watteing the possession of our Baptist Zion, while the ministers and deacons and laymen are fighting and contending for the Faith once delivered to the saints, and instead of this host of Baptist women fainting at the clouds that have been darkening the havens since last June on the hottest battle, and the darkest hour, these women have been heard sining to Dr's. Phillips, Dorsey, Mc, Williams, Starks, Allison, Knowles, Parrish, Armstead, and others who are taking care of, and cultivating this Baptist (State) field, and their song is Hold the fort for we are coming, and John F. Thomas will be in the chair, and all of us Baptist women, sisters? Cosby, Anderson, Bates, Phillips, Bledsoe, O'Connor and others will be there in May. By the grace of God we will there. W, P. Washington. NOTICE and make this a great meeting. We sincerely hope that the Baptist of the state will come together with one purpose and one mind, and in the spirit of meekness asking the Holy Spirit to aid us in one purpose, and let that be to foster a school at home let each local organization send a delegate to help to foster this work financially and to make a creditable report: let us come praying for a successful meeting. You all know I have been hindered by having the care of an afflicted husband; since last June I have not been able to travel over the district but I am looking for you to meet in southern Ill. All great men were not made in one day but we labor to establish one great man in out community and then another So with our S. S work let us establish one school by co operation plans and then another, and another, let us have within us the spirit of mission and remember when the gospel first started out it started in Jerusalem; let us begin. Meet me in Centralia and remember that the King's business requires haste. I am yours for the Womens General Association. M. J. Blake President of W. E. & M. Convention of the Mt. Olive Baptist Association. NOTICE Office of the President of the Mt. Olive Baptist Sunday School Convention of Southern, Ill. Cairo Ill May 2, 1915 To the Sunday Schools Composing the Mount Ollive Baptist Sunday School Convention of Southern Ill. Greeting: Dear Co-workers know ye that that the Sunday School Convention will convene with the Shiloh Baptist Sunday School at Mt. Vernon Ill, in its (35th) thirty fifth annual session Wednesday June 23rd, 1915. All Sunday Schools that are to be represented at said meeting will elect their delegates at once and send names of same to my address, 429-15th St., Cairo, Ill, not later than May 20th 1915 As we have many things to be thankful for in the past year let each pastor and Supt. of each S. S. strive to make their respective schools the banner school at Mt. Vernon - hoping that God has blest each school with abundant success in the past conventional year. I remain yours for Christ. Dennis Farrow, President 429-15 St. Cairo Ill. Miss Carrie Urquhart, Cor. Sec, Metropolis Ill. THEIR ALIEN CHILD Josiah Streeter was unusually sturdy and strong, and he was very proud of the fact. His wife was unusually sturdy and strong, and she was proud of the fact. Farmer Streeter could twist a barrel of cider around as easily as a city tailor could his goose. He could shoulder a bag of flour at the gate and carry it into the house without breathing faster. He could lift a yearling calf over a rail fence, or hang up a dressed hog to cool no matter what the weight. The wife had never been heard to say that she was tired, and had she asked the husband to move a bureau or lift the soap kettle off the fire it would have been a matter of great surprise. When a man hired out to Farmer Streeteer he must be a strong man. If he couldn't work sixteen hours a day and not get tired he was put down as a weakling and advised to look for a job in a clothespinet factory. It was into such an atmosphere that Ruth Streeteer was born, and her coming was a disappointment to her parents and a wonder to others. "Why, she's a dwarf!" exclaimed the father. "Oh, she'll grow, but she'll never be strong," replied the mother. "You can't hear her squall more'n a rod away." "I know it." "If she has the measles or the whooping cough, she'll be a goner, sure." "Yes; she won't last three days." "And what are we going to do about it?" "Why, Josiah, we can't kill her!" "Noap, of course not, but why couldn't she have been a bouncer instead of a little run?" Very early in her young life Ruth betrayed the fact that she was going to be a Streeter only in name. The father and mother had loud voices; the child spoke softly. Most children of her age would have been roaming the fields or climbing trees, but this one had more interest in pictures found in the few books in the house. The hired man would have made a pet of her, but her look of dignity kept them at a distance. When old enough to be sent to the district school, and after she had been a pupil for a couple of weeks, the teacher called at the farmhouse. "You must not let Ruth study her lessons at night. She is so anxious to learn that she will overtax her brain," he said. "Don't she look frail to you?" was asked. "She seems to be perfectly well, but she's never going to make a strong woman." "That's what her father and me are afraid of." "Afraid?" "Yes—that she'll grow up to be a lady instead of knowing about housework! How much education should she have?" "Just as much as she can get." "But we can't have a lady in the house!" "But Ruth is going to grow up and get married and leave you. Don't you think it will help her to get a better husband if she's a lady and well educated!" That evening the matter was talked over between the parents, and the father said: "I can see a heap of trouble ahead for us, but it can't be handled just now. Does Ruth know that you can handle a forty-pound feather bed with one hand?" "She has seen me do it, and didn't seem to care." "Does she know that you can bring two big hams from the smokehouse at once?" "Yes, but she don't praise me." "Has she been told that I can hoe more corn in a day than any man in the county?" "Yes. I told her." "And that I can lift a barrel of cider?" "Yes." "And that I won a prize pitching hay?" "I have told her all this," sighed the wife. "And she—she—" "She asked why we didn't have more books in the house!" It was queer enough that Ruth should be one of the family and not of the family. There was disappointment on the side of the parents—there was a strangeness on her side. "Ma, the Lord sent that girl to the wrong house!" said the father at last. "I've sometimes thought so," was the reply. "And so has she, but nobody's to blame as I can see. She's here, and she's sorter useless, but we've got to bear the burdens the Lord puts upon ma." At fourteen Ruth was sent to the village school. After two years she was sent away to a boarding school. Not because her parents had changed their minds about her being "sorter useless," but as Farmer Streeter had observed as he sat before the fire one evening: "Ma, I'm not complainin' about Ruth any more." "No, you sn't. pa." "I said once that the Lord brought her here." "Yes." "Well, I'm leavin' it to him to bring it around as he thinks best. I wish she had taken to sewin', patchin', makin' bread and cuttin' carpet rags, but as she didn't, mebbe she was sorter told to go the other way. How's her ededucation comin' on?" "I ain't asked her many questions and she ain't told me much, but Parson Davis told me the other day that he heard she was one of the smartest girls in school. She'll be finished up this fall, you know." "And then come back to us?" "Yes." "And then—then—" he queried after a time. "I dunno Josiah—I dunno!" I dumbo, Josiah I dumbo. They had a world circumscribed by the farm limits. They knew what went on in their world, but not in the other. It was work, work in their world. There were four seasons in a year, and particular work for each season. They awoke at just such an hour; they went to bed at just such an hour. Their meals seldom varied. They plowed and dragged and sowed and planted. They gathered the crops. The farmer gave exhibitions of his strength and boasted of his health, and the wife boasted of the soft soap she had made, and her jars of pickled peaches she had put by. Work, work, work, and never recreation! They judged no one by their talk or intelligence, but it was always: "Why, that fellow wouldn't be worth his salt in a harvest field!" One day the farmer came home from town with a stranger in the wagon with him. "His name is Durand," he explained to his wife, "and he says he paints pictures. He wants board and lodgings for the winter, that he may paint some winter scenes. He says he will pay our price and give little trouble. "He'll turn up his nose at corned beef and salt pork, won't he?" "If he does he'll have to go. He looks kinder pale and sickly, and I don't believe he can throw a cat over the fence, but we'll let him come if you say so." And thus it happened that when Miss Ruth returned home she found Mr. Charles Durand, artist, from the city, duly installed and at work on a sketch of late autumn. "I wouldn't give him his board for what corn he could husk," whispered the father that evening. "Why, he don't know enough to put a collar on a horse," added the mother. It was a week or more after her return home that Miss Ruth told her parents that she had heard of Mr. Durand, and that some of his paintings had sold for twice the value of their farm, and that she had made fair headway as an amateur artist and wished to take lessons of him. The father groaned and the mother sighed. "Father," said the girl, "you have owned this farm for twenty years. You have worked like two oxen—you and mother. How much better off are you than when you began? "Two thousand dollars," he proudly replied. "You have worked with your muscle, father, and you have made a hundred dollars a year. A young man will go through college in three years, and then by use of his brains make from three to five thousand a year. You have a contempt for the man who can't life a barrel of cider, and yet he may make more money in a week than you have in a year. Doctor Grey cannot lift a hundred pounds, but when your hired man broke his leg the doctor's bill was $40." Neither father nor mother had a word to say and the girl continued: word to say and the girl continued: "You have been disappointed in me because I am not a big, strong, husky girl and don't take to housework. It took me less than a fortnight to make some sketches over at Brownsville that I sold for one hundred dollars." "Gosh!" exclaimed the father. "There isn't a lawyer in the state that can hold a plow for a hundred feet, and yet the poorest one of them makes ten times the money you do. You have thought me helpless and useless. You have thought all people so not made of iron." "Yes," admitted the father, "sorter useless, and now I can realize that me and your ma have been sorter fools all the time." When a fine landscape is signed "Durand" it isn't always the work of Mr. Charles Durand. It may be the creation of his wife, Mrs. Durand, formerly Ruth Streeter. And father and mother don't have to work any more. Treatment for Deaf and Dumb. Deaf babies sent to the Utah school for the deaf, dumb and blind at Ogden, will, after this year, be segregated from the older children and kept in a new dormitory and kindergarten. Superintendent Driggs and the state board of trustees decided to use this effort to prevent the babies from learning the manual or sign language used by the older children. The school authorities believe that in this way they will be better able to teach the children to understand conversation by the lip method, and that they can be taught how to speak in the same manner by which Helen Keller was taught. Casualties. Probably nobody yet grasps the significance, of casualties running into the millions. If they are published in Hades—which is the most suitable place for them—Tamerlane must be quite crestfallen as he contrasts them with his own amateurish exploits. If this war is civilized we prefer the savage sort, as being, on the whole, a lesser affliction—Saturday Evening Post. METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE, METROPOLIS, ILL. AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS The first funds for the Manassas Industrial School for Colored Youth were collected in and around Marion, Mass., during the summer of 1891. Jennie Dean obtained work as a cook in a boarding house in Marion, and when her day's work was over, she went about talking of her school in churches or to any one that would listen to her. She also went to Washington, where she managed to interest in her scheme several prominent men and women, who formed a board of directors to promote the work. Miss Dean then went to Boston with letters to Dr. Edward Everett Hale, who helped her by sending out an appeal for funds from his own office, with the result that Jennie Dean returned to Manassas in the following spring with the necessary amount. Since the early days of the single frame schoolhouse to its present state of a number of substantial buildings, there have been desperately hard roads to travel, and the end has not been reached yet. Through all these years there has always been the same cry for more funds to carry on the work, for the cause of Negro education does not always call forth the largest contributions. Through all Miss Dean's untiring efforts and struggles, up to the time had the fullest sympathy of the Negroes of her section of Virginia. Many of them were too poor to give money, but there were few who did not give in some form, varying from a barrel of apples to a day's labor. There could never be a moment's question of the real need of an institution of this sort, the natural outgrowth of a deep and fervent desire of a people fully appreciative of their lack of all that would make them of value to the white man's world, of which they were now a part. The interest of the Negroes of this district in the school has increased year by year, and while their contributions are of necessity very small, they manage to raise annually something over a thousand dollars toward an endowment fund through personal gifts, church entertainments, picnics, and frequent church collections. Recently there was erected at the Hampton institute a two-story brick building to be used as a social center for the boys. Contracts were awarded to the trade school departments and student tradesmen did the construction work. Today the building stands completed. It is known as Clarke hall. It is used by the Young Men's Christian association. To appreciate the meaning of these three examples of construction work done by the Hampton tradesmen, one must see the completed structures and realize the building problems which the young Negro and Indian tradesmen met and successfully solved. While construction work calls for ability to read working drawings and follow detailed specifications, the demands made by repair problems are in many instances even more taxing. To make a repair quickly, skillfully and economically, requires unusual ability. Hampton institute is indeed an industrial village in which there is constant demand for men who can do good repair and construction work. So long as his mother lives there is no probability that anyone in our town will be permitted to forget that Lafe Swisgood has a good job in New York. When I consider the cost of this war; when I think of the blood that has been shed; of the property that has been destroyed and the misery that has been caused—I am sometimes inclined to thank God that I am not a member of a superior race. Rather I am disposed to thank God that I belong to a people that cannot hope and does not desire to prosper at the cost of any other race. There is a certain advantage in belonging to a race that has to make its way peacefully through the world; a race that prosperst, if it prosperst at all, because it has made friends rather than enemies of the people by whom it is surrounded. There is a certain satisfaction, also, in belonging to a race whose hope of success in the world consists of making itself useful to the world, and it is not wholly a disadvantage to the Negro that, though he should fight in every war as he has in this, it is not to maintain his own superiority, but that of some other race that he fights.—Booker T. Washington in the North American Review. For misinformation concerning any incident apply to a bystander. Next to the search for a good time, that of striving for comfort is the most marked human characteristic. Sim Heckle has a cushion on his wheelbarrow. A man goes back to his old home town and discovers that the girl he mistakes for the one he used to know is her granddaughter. If you are not particular about the way you get it, a good living can be made off those whom the doctors have failed to cure. In an interview at New York Mr. Percy Grainger, noted Australian pianist, said: "Frederick Dellius has a harmonic and polyphonic sense that makes him like a modern Bach, and it is easy to see how he could be attracted by the improvised songs which he heard on his father's plantation. It is not so much the melody in these songs which attracts one as it is the method of singing—especially the part singing." He then referred to his stay in New York and the pleasure he had had in meeting several of the negro composers whose work he had previously known, and in hearing them play. "When I arrived in New York," Mr. Grainger said, "it was a very great pleasure to me to meet Mr. J. Rosamond Johnson, whom I had long admired as a composer, having fallen in love with his delightful song 'Under the Bamboo Tree' several years ago when I first heard it while on an extended tour in Australia, my native country. There were several good singers with me, and I choralized it and we sang it often. An American creative genius that I am particularly interested in is the colored composer, Will Marion Cook, whose choruses, 'Rain Song' and 'Invocation'—to mention only two—are works of great originality and true inspiration, and have a suitable harmonic flavor all their own. "I have had many delicious musical impressions while in New York, but none of my hours has been more happily spent than at the Music School Settlement for Colored People, over which Mr. Rosamond Johnson presided, and where I first heard the Hampton quartette, Mr. Henry Burleigh and several other fascinating Negro artists." No institution of learning is now complete without its extension department, and a recent "exhibit" in this direction was varied, dramatic and full of that humor that borders on pathos. Two men at Tuskegee were brought in from the adjoining country to tell how they acquired land and were now tilling their own farms, tracing their inspirations, of course, to the farmer conferences and to the radiating influences of Tuskegee. One woman told of how she secured a better schoolhouse for the "chillun." Egg selling, chicken raising, and many other ways too well known to the other women of the North, which often indicate an obscure selfishness and a hidden pennuriousness, here became high generalship and splendid courage. But more eloquent than the farmer parsons- or the soliciting schoolhouse bailiffs was the stern Angellike countenance of the wife who said to the preacher, "You go to school and I will take care of the plowing and the children." She said not a word. She received no plaudits, but she, not the parson, moved the silent depths of the soul. One slip of a girl, from the "honor three months" of required cadeting in a country school, told how she not only washed up the schoolhouse but cleaned up the homes in which she boarded, brought in the cook stove that was all right except that it had lost one leg, and taught them how to enlarge their dietary list. The extension department of Tuskegee goes far afield and there were thrilling stories of achievements in South Carolina and other adjoining states.—Exchange. Rev. H. H. Dunn of New Orleans in a sermon has outlined the progress of the colored people of New Orleans for the last year. The first public playground for colored children was opened; $500 was raised by the colored citizens for it, and white citizens contributed $2,300 in addition; white and colored physicians met together to discuss Negro health; public library for Negroes has been started; the city council has purchased a site at a cost of $8,000 and appropriated $2,500 annually for maintenance; a building valued at $33,000 is nearing completion. The public school system still lacks a high school, but there are 8,164 pupils enrolled and 155 public school teachers, of whom eight are white. One new school building has been opened. The eighth grade has been restored in three schools, and will be started in another this month. There are a number of patrons' and parents' clubs. On the McMasters farm in Richmond, Me., there are two families of tame foxes, numbering 13 in all. They were brought up on a bottle and have become pets of the family. At Baldwin Farms, some dozen miles from Tuskegee, a few northern capitalists have secured possession of 2,000 acres or more of land, which they are selling in small lots on reasonable terms to ambitious home-steaders, helping them build the initial cottage, lending them a little money with which to get started. Here college graduates and city bred young husbands and wives are settling down contentedly to the task of making homes on the farm. Says They Are Valuable as Well-Trained Dogs. Mississippi Man Declares He Has Trained Them to Point and Retrieve Small Game in a Perfect Manner. Ever go hunting with domestic cats? This question is meant seriously. T. G. Nimmo of Sturgis, Miss., a hunter of much renown in his state, does this very thing—and says it is great sport. He has trained his cats until they trail, point and retrieve small game as well as any dog. Al- A cat is running away from a man. though they have tracked and helped to kill opossums and raccoons, the fellines are used principally in hunting rabbits, squirrels and quail. Mr. Nimmo says that on sight of game they assume rigid position, like that of a pointer, except that they move their tails slightly, and wait for him to come and shoot the game they have found. Never, he says, have they rushed forward to kill the game or to stalk it. When Mr. Nimmo shoots they retrieve the fallen game, and if it is not dead, kill it by biting it in the neck. "Tom and Jerry," says Mr. Nimmo, "will follow me like dogs for miles through the woods until they see or scent a rabbit or squirrel. Then they squat down close to the ground, wag their tails from side to side, and remain motionless until I see the game and shoot. Then they dash forward, seizing the animal or bird and hold it until I arrive." Gaining on Tuberculosis According to a census bureau report just issued the death rate in the United States in 1913 was about one-fifth of one per cent greater than in the year before, but for the same year the deaths from tuberculosis dropped from 149.5 in the 100,000 to 147.6. That is to say, the general death rate rose a little, while the rate from tuberculosis fell perceptibly in the same period. Tuberculosis is the disease which has attracted the greatest amount of public attention, and the one against which preventive measures have been most vigorous of late years. The people understand the danger, know something about how to avoid it, and are treating the prevention of the disease as a public problem. The figures which the census bureau gives are evidence that they are succeeding and should give new courage to the fight not only against tuberculosis but against preventable disease of all kinds.—St. Louis Republic. Tin Grows Scarce. With regard to the future use of tin, it may be said that we are dealing with the one metal whose known ore reserves are entirely inadequate to even the present demands, and that unless some new source of supply is developed very soon we may expect to find that tin is a very scarce metal indeed. Of the present sources of tin supply, most are either stationary or receding in output. Bolivia being the only one which gives promise of permanency and of future growth. Under these conditions the question of substitute metals becomes of importance and aluminum, zinc and steel all have some possibilities in this direction in one way or another.—Engineering Magazine. An Odd Idea. "To him who keeps his ears open, ideas come from the most unexpected sources." The speaker, William J. Burns, was lecturing on "Alcoholism and Crime," in Pittsburgh. He resumed: "Thus, on the way hither this evening I passed two ladies, one of whom was limping slightly. As I walked by the limping lady groaned: "These shoes certainly do hurt. They're too tight." "Well, dear," said the other lady, soothingly, 'shoes are like husbands—better a bit tight now and then than too loose.'" Soldiers May Smoke Good Cigars. The German soldier is being provided with "smokes," the German Red Cross society having placed boxes in prominent places of the country's big cities into which those who wish can drop cigars for the boys at the front. The boxes are labeled "Cigarren fus unsere krieger." Thousands are said to be collected daily. They are immediately shipped to the battlefields and the trenches to comfort the men who fight. OLDEST PIECE OF WRITING Sumerian Tablet in University of Pennsylvania Records Deeds of Babylonians. A number of ancient Sumerian tablets, recording the deeds of the Babylonians thousands of years ago, have been deciphered by George A. Barton at the University of Pennsylvania museum. One of these tablets, which tells how a farmer rid his field of locusta and caterpillars, is dated 4,000 B. C. and is the oldest piece of writing extant, according to an announcement made by officials of the museum. The farmer, Doctor Barton's translation says, called in a necromancer, who "broke a jar, cut open a sacrifice, a word of cursing he repeated, and the locusts and caterpillars fled." For this service he received a tall palm tree. That a canal was constructed in Babylonia nearly 5,000 years ago is shown by another tablet dated "The year the Divine Naram-Sin opened the mouth of the canal Erin at Nippur." Naram-Sin was a king in Babylonia and is supposed to have financed the construction of the waterway which gave Nippur transportation facilities with the rest of the world. A third tablet, dated 3200 B. C., records the transfer of land and a quantity of grain for bronze money. Gold and silver were known at that time, but were not used as currency. CUTICURA COMPLEXIONS Are Usually Fresh and Clear, Soft and Velvety. Try Ons. The Soap to cleanse and purify, the Ointment to soothe and heal. Thus these supercreamy emollients promote and maintain the natural purity and beauty of the skin, scalp, hair and hands under conditions which if neglected might disfigure them. Sample each free by mail with Book. Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. XY, Boston. Sold everywhere.—Adv. As Seeing the Invisible. No great purpose has ever been achieved by any individual until his spirit has first gone out into some wilderness solitude and there discovered its native strength, its absolute invincibility that it relies upon no help but that of God. This is the experience of all the greatest among men. They go apart from their fellows for awhile, like Moses, into the land of Midian, or like our Lord himself into the wilderness, or like St. Paul into the Arabian desert, and there, in solitary communion with God, from that highest of all companionships, they drink in strength to fit them for the work of our lives. Alone with God, they see visions which fill their souls, visions which never fade afterward even in the light of common day, but which serve as beacon lights to guide them, through storm and darkness, till the purpose of their lives is fulfilled.—Edwin H. Eland. New Kind of Sport He had taken a day off to go fishing, but, alas! his luck had been very bad, and when, on his way home, a fishmonger's shop came into view he was tempted and fell. "I want half a dozen large trout," he told the man. "Yes, certainly, sih," said the other, masking a number one size grin with a correspondingly large hand. "Will you take them with you?" "Yes, please. And I want you to stand over there and throw them at me." "Throw them, sir?" echoed the bewildered shopkeeper. "Exactly! My wife is sure to ask me if I caught them, and I cannot tell a lie." IN A SHADOW Tea Drinker Feared Paralysis. Steady use of either tea or coffee often produces alarming symptoms, as the poison (caffeine) contained in these beverages acts with more potency in some persons than in others. "I was never a coffee drinker." writes an ill. woman, "but a tea drinker. I was very nervous, had frequent spells of sick headache and heart trouble, and was subject at times to severe attacks of billious colic. "No end of sleepless nights—would have spells at night when my right side would get numb and tingle like a thousand needles were pricking my flesh. At times I could hardly put my tongue out of my mouth and my right eye and ear were affected." "The doctors told me to quit using tea, but I thought I could not live without it—that it was my only stay. I had been a tea drinker for twenty-five years; was under the doctor's care for fifteen. "About six months ago, I finally quit tea and commenced to drink Postum. "I have never had one spell of sick-headaches since and only one light attack of billious colic. Have quit having those numb spells at night, sleep well and my heart is getting stronger all the time." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read "The Road to Wellville," in pkgs. Postum comes in two forms: Postum Cereal—the original form—must be well boiled. 15c and 25c packages. Instant Postum—a soluble powder—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 about the same per cup. "There's a Reason" for Postum. —sold by Grocer A Weak, Nervous Sufferer Restored to Health by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Kasota, Minn. — "I am glad to say that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has done more for me than anything else, and I had the best physician here. I was so weak and nervous that I could not do my work and suffered with pains low down in my right side for a year or more. I took Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege- more for me than anything else, and I had the best physician here. I was so weak and nervous that I could not do my work and suffered with pains low down in my right side for a year or more. I took Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and now I feel like a different person. I believe there is nothing like Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for weak women and young girls, and I would be glad if I could influence anyone to try the medicine, for I know it will do all and much more than it is claimed to do." - Mrs. CLARA FRANKS, R. F. D. No. 1, Maplecrest Farm, Kasota, Minn. Women who suffer from those distressing ill peculiar to their sex should be convinced of the ability of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to restore their health by the many genuine and truthful testimonials we are constantly publishing in the newspapers. If you have the slightest doubt that Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound will help you, write to Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. (confidential) Lynn, Mass., for advice. Your letter will be opened, read and answered by a woman, and held in strict confidence. $400 to $600 Buys more Automobile value in Used Cars at Werber Motors, Apt. A, 1900 Locust, St. Louis, 2 planes Than can be found anywhere else in the city. True Christian Spirit. Notwithstanding all that I have suffered, notwithstanding all the pain and weariness and anxiety and sorrow that necessarily enter into life, and the inward errings that are more than all, I would enter my record with devout thanksgiving to the great Author of my being, profound gratitude for all that belongs to my life and being—for joy and sorrow, health and sickness, success and disappointment, virtue and temptation, for life and death—because I believe that all is meant for good—Orville Dewey. Broadly speaking, the people are divided into two classes: The people who do things and their critics. YOUR OWN DRUGGIST WILL TELL YOU Try Martine Rye Remedy for Red, Weak, Watery Bryes and Granulated Myelia No Smirking, or Try Martine Rye Remedy for Yellow Bryes and Free Myelia No Smirking. Try Martine Rye Remedy Co., Chicago The man who has to go after his revolver seldom shoots anybody. Backache Is a Warning Thousands suffer kidney ill unawares—not knowing that the backache, headaches and dull, nervous, dizzy, all tired condition are often due to kidney weakness alone. Anybody who suffers constantly from backache should suspect the kidneys. Some irregularity of the secretions may give just the needed proof. Doan's kidney Pills have been curing backache and sick kidneys for over fifty years. A Missouri Case "Every Picture Tells a Story" M r r. W. A. "Every Picture Schall, $231 Minne- sota, Mo. We, says: "The first sign of kidney trouble in my case was pain in my back, soon involved by soo- daches and dizzy spells. I was nery- ous and irritable and for all our Doan's Kidney pills restored me to good health and I have had no kidney trouble since." Get Donn's at Any Store, 50c a Box DOAN'S KIDNEY PILLS FOSTER-MILBURN CO., BUFFALO, N. Y. The appointment is in succession in smiles and serious only. Inlet or Cutter. If unavailable, order direct. The Cutter Laboratory, Baskell, Ck, or Chicago. A trip to the Panama Expositions should include a VICTORIA, B. C., CANADA invitation to the Panama on the Pacific. Splendid Scenery. Invitation to the Panama on the Pacific. Warm make-up to difference in American citizens. Excellent reasons. Write Publicity commissioner for free booklet. $14 Buys A Banner Hayake, all steel, Banner Hayake, all steel, A Auto Ace, 1000 Lbs. St. Louis ENEMY OF MOSQUITO Ducks Feed Voraciously on Pestiferous Insect. Experiment Proves Ability to Clear Ponds of the Larvae and Pupae in Short Order—Are Better Than Goldfish. The duck is one of the greatest known enemies of the mosquito. Therefore, it is also the sworn enemy of the diseases transmitted by this pestiferous insect. If you are fearful of malaria or any other disease carried by the mosquito, keep ducks. This advice comes from Dr. Samuel G. Dixon, state health commissioner of Pennsylvania, who says of the efficiency of the duck as a febrifuge: "After trying the ability of fish to devour larvae and pupae of mosquitoes, with varied success, I built two dams near together on the same stream, so that each would have the same environment for the breeding of mosquitoes. Each covered nearly 1,400 square feet. In one 20 mallard ducks were permitted to feed, while the other was entirely protected from waterfowl but well stocked with goldfish. "The one in which the ducks fed was for several months entirely free from mosquitoes, while the pond protected from ducks and stocked with fish was swarming with young insects in different cycles of life. "To the infested pond ten well-fed mallard ducks were then admitted, and as they entered the pond they were first attracted by tadpoles. They, however, soon recognized the presence of larvae and pupae of the mosquito and immediately turned their attention to these, ravenously devouring them in preference to any other foodstuffs present. At the end of 24 hours no pupae were to be found, and in 48 hours only a few small larvae survived. "While the other birds, fish, spiders, batrachians, arthropods and reptiles are all enemies of the mosquito, none of them has the wide geographical A range and the capacity of devouring large numbers of the larvae and pupae on land and water as has the duck." Animals' Monuments The monument to the cat that saved Lieutenant Lloyd from perishing from cold, which it is proposed to erect at Newport Castle, England, will not be the only monument commemorating the devotion of a dumb animal. Crouched at the feet of William the Silent on his tomb at Delft lies an exquisitely chiseled effigy of a spaiel. This dog saved his master's life by scratching his face and barking when, in a night attack on the camp before Mons, a band of Spanish soldiers were on the point of entering his tent. He and all his guards were fast asleep, and there was but just time for the prince, after the spaiel had roused him, to make his escape through the darkness. "To his dying day," relates Motley, "William ever afterwards kept a spaiel of the same race in his bedchamber." Hobble Skirt's Dire Result: Hobbie Skirts' Dire Result. Some said that the hobble skirt had made all the women here knock-kneed. Of course, the fair ones vehemently denied the impeachment and we had to be satisfied with it. But murder will out. The short skirt and white spats, so much in vogue now, have revealed to all that the person who made the accusation must have had an X-ray sight. Knock-kneedness is not the only defect visible. There were so many pigeon-toed women in a Fifth avenue parlor the other day that it was difficult for those who followed in their wake to tell whether they were intending to cross the street or steer into the nearby store—Pittsburgh Dispatch. Making It Easy for Goldsmith. A letter was sent a few days ago to Oliver Goldsmith in care of certain New York publishers who recently issued a gift edition of "The Vicar of Wakefield." The epistle was from a clipping bureau and contained several printed notices. It suggested that the author would probably desire to learn everything the newspapers said about him and his work. The bureau would on its account be glad to furnish the writer with information concerning the progress his new book was making in public favor, and the prospective reception that any further productions of his would receive.Christian Advocate. METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE. METROPOLIS. ILL Death Lurks In A Weak Heart AN INDIANA MAN TELLS OF WESTERN CANADA He Is Perfectly Satisfied, and Tells of His Neighbors Who Have Done Well. Walter Harris, formerly lived near Julletta in Warren township, Indiana. He now lives at Hussar, Alberta. In writing to his home paper in Indiana, he says that the failure is the man who always blames the country. He fails to see his own mistakes, has missed his calling and is not fitted for farming. The two seasons just past have been entirely different. In 1913 plenty of rain came in June and a good crop followed, but the fall was dry and but little snow in the winter followed by a very dry summer, and a short crop. Only those that had farmed their land properly were able to meet expenses. For example, last year the Crowfoot Farming Company, south of here, threshed from 1,250 acres 38,000 bushels of wheat. One-half section made 26 bushels, the poorest of all. This year on 1,350 acres they threshed nearly 26,000 bushels. Last year's crop sold at 75 cents from their own elevator. What they have sold of this year's crop brought $1.00 at threshing time. Eight thousand bushels unsold would bring now around $1.25. The manager and part owner was raised in Ohio and farmed in Washington several years. He and his wife spent last winter in Ohio. She told me a few days ago that the climate here was much better than Ohio. A man by the name of George Clark threshed 75 bushels of oats, 45 bushels of barley and 35 bushels of wheat to the acre. He had 15,000 bushels of old oats as well as wheat and barley in his granaries that have almost doubled in price. He came from Washington, where he sold a large body of land around $200 that he bought around $3.00 per acre. He then refers to a failure. A large company in the eastern states, owning a large farm near Husser pays its manager $3,000 a year. The farm has not been a success. Probably the manager's fault. Mr. Harris says conditions are not as good as could be wished for, but on the ending of the war good crops, with war prices, will certainly change conditions, and it seems to me that the one who owns land that will raise 100 bushels of oats, 75 bushels of barley or 40 bushels of wheat is the one who "laughs last." The above yields may seem exaggerations to many, and are far above the average, but you should remember that the man who falls is counted in to make the average, and there are instances on record here that would far exceed the above figures. Nor is grain the only profitable thing that can be raised here. There are many fine horse ranches, some of them stocked with cayuses and bred to thoroughbreds, and others imported from the old countries. They run on the range nearly all the year. The owners put up wild hay to feed them if the snow should get too deep for them to get the dead grass. There are several hundred in sight of here most of the time. There are several cattle ranches north of here that have from 500 to 7,000 head of cattle. One man I know sold $45,000 worth of fat cattle this fall. He winches his cattle on farms where they have lots of straw and water, paying 75 cents a month per head, or if there is enough straw to winter 400 or 500 head they buy the straw and water and nave a man to look after the cattle.—Advertisement. Always in the Making. In one of George Macdonald's books occurs this fragment of conversation: "I wonder why God made me," said Mrs. Faber, bitterly. "I'm sure I don't know what was the use of making me." "Perhaps not much yet," replied Dorothy; "but then he hasn't done with you yet. He is making you now, and you don't like it." It would give us more patience with ourselves if we always remembered this. We would not get so discouraged with our infirmities, imperfections and failures if we always kept in mind the fact that we are not yet made, that we are only in process of being made, that God is not yet through making us. . . —Rev. J. R. Miller, D. D. Whenever You Need a General Tonic Take Grove's The Old Standard Grove's Tasteless chill Tonic is equally valuable as a General Tonic because it contains the well known tonic properties of QUININE and IRON. It acts on the Liver, Drives out Malaria, Enriches the Blood and Builds up the Whole System. 50 cents. — Adv. Doctor's Advice. Doctor—You must go away for a long rest. Overworked Merchant—But, doctor, I'm too busy to go away. Doctor—Well, then, you must stop advertising. Talk less and think more. That is easy advice to give, but uneasy to take. 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 with 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 $3.00, $3.50 and $4.00 shoes will give as good service as old stock costing $4.00, $5.50 shoes compare favorably with other makes costing $6.00 to $8.00. There are many men and women wear shoes (would them and they will) Douglas shoes cannot be excelled for CAUTION! When buying W. L. look for his NAME stamped on the bottom. Shoes this stamped are always guaranteed their value and protected the wearer against bighigh heels. Shoes this stamped on the bottom before they leave the factory. Do not be persuaded to take some other make claimed to be just as good. Your dealer will consider and assist the best. 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 and fit better, hold their shape and wear longer than other makes for the price. W. L. Douglas shoes are sold through 60 stores in the large cities and shoe dealers everywhere. W. L. Douglas SHOE Wherever you live ing W. L. Douglas W. L. the price. WAS NOT A FLORAL TRIBUTE Mistake Made by Actress a Natural One, Though Certainly Somewhat Embarrassing. The curtain was rung up for the third time, and Margaret Blake stepped forward and responded to the prolonged acclamation of her admiring audience. She spoke with a graceful modesty that charmed, then gathered her floral tributes. Was it the intense excitement or the blinding array of footlights that dazzled and confused her? Quietly reposing on a lower box rail by the proscenium she saw a magnificent bunch of violets—her favorite flower—ostensibly placed there for her by a sweet-faced, dark-haired lady behind them. With applause still ringing in her ears, Miss Blake leaned forward and took the lovely bouquet, acknowledging the gift by a pretty bow. The sweet-faced, dark-haired lady reached after her with a strange and sudden haste. "Give me back my hat," she cried, hysterically. Outclassed. Member of Anarchist Society—Gentlemen, I vish to resign! President—But vy, brozzer? Vy would you leave us? Member—Ach! der iss no more glory in dis bomb business; eet iss becoming vulgar; everybody is doin' it!—Punch. What has become of the old-fash- loned woman who used to carry eggs into town and swap them for snuff and callco? W.L.DO MEN'S $2.50 $3 $3.50 $4.50 WOMEN'S $2.00 $2.50 $3.50 BOYS' $1.75 $2 $2.50 $3.00 YOU CAN SAVE WEARING W.L.D. W.L. Douglas shoes are made of leathers, on the latest models, care expert last and pattern makers in this of equal prices, can compete with W.L. workshops and quality. As comfi- shoes they are unsurpassed. The $3.00 $3.50 and $4.00 shoes will as other makes costing $4.00 to $5.00. $5.50 shoes compare favorably with other makes costing $6.00 to $8.00. There are many men and women wear shoes. Consult them and they will tell Douglas shoes cannot be excelsed for CAUTION! When buying W.L.D. shoes stamped on the bottom. Shoes than stamped worth the price paid for them. For 22 years W.L. stamped their bad value and proof of Shoes. prices for interior shoes by having his NAME A stamped on the bottom before they leave the factor been applied to. Good. You are paying your money and are enti- If your dealer cannot supply you, write traveling prices for W.L.Douglas, 210 Spark St., Brockton There are difficulties and dangers before our nation today just as great as any our forefathers faced. To meet and conquer them requires all the moral brawn and muscle this nation can muster. There are the problems of corruption in business and politics; the terrible scourges of intemperance and the drug habit, and the social evil, deadly to soul and body alike; there are the problems of moral education, of marriage and divorce, of the treatment of dependents—prisoners, defectives, paupers, etc. Any one of these left unconquered would devastate our country as no war could.—Rev. N. T. Houser. OVERWORK and KIDNEY TROUBLE Mr. James McDanel, Oakley, Ky., writes: "I overworked and strained myself, which brought on Kidney and Bladder Disease. 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"Seven men out of every ten are confounded bores!" emphatically declared Alexander Akinside, the dyspeptic dissertationist. "Why except the other three?" snarled J. Fuller Gloom, the widely known and cordially detested misanthropist.—Judge. Important to Mothers Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it Bears the Signature of In Use For Over 30 Years. Children Cry for Fletcher's Castoria It's woman's imagination that keeps her young—if she imagines people can't see through a coat of paint. Lurks In weak, use RENOVINE." Made by MUSEUM OF THE WORLD MUSEUM OF THE WORLD Keeps the Heat in the Oven and Out of the Kitchen STANDARD OIL COMPANY DOUGLAS $0.00 $4.50 $5 $5.50 SHOES $0.00 $3.50 & $4.00 SHOES $0.00 MISSES' $2.00 & $2.50 WE MONEY BY DOUGLAS SHOES the best fully constructed by the most country. 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Users Of Threshing Supplies Machining Belding, Oils, etc., let us mail you a copy of our 1915 CATALOG: 41c FREE for the asking. Weber Imp. & Auto Co., 1900 Locust St. St. Louis. W. N. U., ST. LOUIS, NO. 19-1915. Goshen, Ind., U. S. A. Metropolis Gazette PUBLISHED ON FRIDAY BY THE GAZETTE PRINTING CO. OBTROPOLIS, . . . . . (L.L. MRS: M. J. McCRARY, MANAGER Address all communications to J. R.McRAEY, Box 107 Metropolis, Illinois. The names and addresses of contributors must be known to us in every instance, in order to secure publication. We want the news of your vicinity each week. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: One Year. $1 00 1x Months. 75 Three Months. 40 Single Copy. 05 In Advance. ADVERTISING RATES. made known on application. You must mail copy on Mondays to secure publication. RHEUMATIC SUFFERERS GIVEN QUICK RELIEF 5 DROPS Absolutely Pure Vinegar 5 drops 500 ml Made in the USA Pain leaves almost as if by magic when you begin using the "5-Drops," the famous old remedy for Rheumatism, Lumbago, Gout, Sciatica, Neuralgia and kidnapped troubles. It goes right to the spot, stops the aches and pains and makes life worth living. Get a bottle of "5-Drops" today. A booklet with each bottle gives full directions for use. Don't delay. Demand "5-Drops." Don't accept anything else in place. gist can supply you. If you live too far from a drug store send One Dollar to Swanson Rheumatic Cure Co., Newark, Ohio, and a bottle of "5-Drops" will be sent prepaid. Reader if a blue or red mark appears on the head of your paper marked with an [X] it is to notify you that you owe for the paper and must pay at once. Native Salve. We have just recived some more of Native Salve and it is going very last, those in Carbonand Md. City can secure a box or more now by 50c, per box. Act quick if you want it. Send all orders to Rev. J. B. McCrary. Baptist Women of State Convention. Galesburg, Ill. Feb. 17. '15. Dear Sisters-Greeting: This is to notify you that our annual meeting will convene in Rock Island, Ill, in June, McKinley Baptist church. Let us begin to work in earnest for its success. President is calling for five Hundred Dollars (500.00) this year The banner will be given for the largest amount of money brought in. Remember the art and needle work Department for Foreign Mission. Our Educational needs, Aged Minister Fund Home Mission Fund. REPRESENTATION FEES. District Asso. $5.00 five delegates. Local Circles $2.50 three delegates. Life Members $5.00 Children Pands $1.00 Annual Members $.50 Yours in the work. Susie F. Hazle, 718 Arnold. Subscribe for The Gazette. No morphine or opium in Dr Miles' PAH RULES. All Pain. "One cent a dose." Ordination Licentiate license blanks at the Gazette office. When you want to sell or buy real estate write me for a quick sale. Real Estate Wilson. Mr. and Mrs. Columbus Lassiter of Belgrade, attended services at the 1st Baptist church Sunday. Go-to S. S. Sunday and learn of Christ and his teachings. P. of. A, P. Smith of this city closed a very successful term of school at Carrier Mills last Friday. He arrived in the city Sat. day. AGENTS—It's new—your opportunity. We trust you to $3.60 worth Starr's Powdered Enamel. Repairs chipped and rusty spots on granitware. Stops all leaky metalware without heat, soldering iron or tools. Agents coining money. Sample with particulars, 10c. Starr, 1910 Monroe St., Toledo O. U. For lady's ready trimmed hats go to Mrs. Vallee. Mr. K. D. Barnes was a Paducah visitor Saturday. Miss Rosa Shanon was a Paducah shopper Saturday. Pansies, Verbenas and Asters for sale by Jennie Inman. When you want to sell or buy real`estate write me for a quick sale. Real Estate Wilson. Mesdames Mabel Burke and Bessie Cork, and Miss Love Phillips were Paducah shoppers Saturday. The "Rose" Miss M. P. had better look out for the "thorn" Mr. L. H. has full sway. Mrs. Z. A. Vallee has hair goods in every style and shape. Misses Mae and Anna Roberts, Maud Porter and Mr. John Anderson spent a pleasant evening at the Gazette office Wednesday. Who pepped in the Gazette office door Wednesday night? J. T. Lpons, and "Barber" Moore. Pansie, Verbenas and Asters for sale by Mrs. Jennie Inman. John Jenkins of St. Louis, Mo, is visiting his mother Mrs. Frances Jenkins Mr. and Mrs. Henry Tinsley are on the sick list. Go to Mrs. Z. A. Vallee's Millinery store for Childrens ready-to wear hats for 50c. The only way to get the genuine New Home Sewing Machine is to buy the machine with the name NEW HOME on the arm and in the legs. This machine is warranted for all time. No other like it No other as good The New Home Sewing Machine Company. ORANGE, MASS. For Sa'e by W. P. Daines, Metropolis, Ill. Danger in Pride. No man had ever a point of pride that was not injurious to him. Burke. All persons attending the General Baptist Association at Centrala, in May will be required to pay 75c per day for board. Dont forget to take along your fare please. Let every church of this district represent by letter and a messenger in the General Baptist Association at Centralia. Miss Love Phillips came over to the Gazette office Wednesday to get a piece of candy. Rev. J H Knowles, Missionary preached three strong sermon at the Sincere Baptist church, New Brownfield, Sunday to a large an appreciative audience. At 11:00 a.m. the pastor Rev. J. H Hilly baptized 3 candidates before a large crowd of witnesset. Good collections all day. Rev. Knowles received $3.00 on missions. Rev. J. B. McCrary, was with his family the latter part of last week, returning to Springfield Monday. Eld Wm Lewis, of Paducah, Ky., preached at the Methodist church Sunday night. Mesdames Mary Pierce, Jane Patterson and Maud Whiteside were Brookport visitors Saturday. Mrs. Annie Arrington who for several weeks has been at the bed side of her father, Mr. Geo McCrary Sr., who has been seriously ill, returned to her home in St Louis, Mo., Tuesday. Mrs. Lizzie Singleton, in company with the Misses Carrie and Iola Urquhart were Paducah shoppers Tuesday. Several of the Metropolis people have gone to Pulaski Co. to pick straw berries. Mr. A A. Tucker was seen in the city Tuesday Rev. J. B. McCrary will attend attend the State Association in Centralia May 20-23 Prof, wm Bailey, Principal of the Livingston Normal School will be in attendance at the State Association in Centralia this week. For Groceries and cold drinks go the First or Last Chance Grocery on 9th and Pearl Sts. Send us a trial order for the Great Nature Solve, 50c a Box. Why suffer when you can be relieved for such a small amount. Read our guarantee on the front page of The Gazetre. I have the school books you want, bring me your old ones and I will take them in as part pay for new ones, Z. A. VALLEE. Rev. J H. Knowles, 2407 Poplar street Cairo, is the elected missionary for the Mt. Olive Baptist Association. He is also authorized to solicit money for the Livingston Normal, Theological Industria Institute of Metropolis Ill.. REV. J. H. KNOWLES. Letter Heads and Envelopes can be had for the asking at this office. We print them. Trustees of the Livingston Normal, Theological and Industrial Institute, J. H. Knowles, D. D., President J. B. McCray, S. T. B., Secretary T. C. Yaney, Treasurer S. B. Kerr, Attorney Rev. J. M. Blake. Rev. H. Allison Rev. M. Hayes Rev. C. C. Phillips, Financial Agt. Rev. H. E. McWilliams Enough Said. franciske Old Gent (to schoolgirl who has collided with him) — "When you run into people like that you should say, 'I beg your pardon.'" Girl — "There won't no need. I hear what you said." — Sydney Bullstein. Wanted—100 customers at the Last Chance grocery to buy 3 cans of best tomatoes and corn for 25c. Dont fail to attend the great Baptist General Association which will hold its annual meeting with the 2nd Baptist church Centralia, Rev. H. Allison, the efficient pastor has charge of the arrangement for the large gathering of Baptist men and women who promise to be there. All aboard for Centralia in May where all eyes are centered for the General Baptist State Association to do business for the Master. Meet me in Centralia brother, and lets join hands and swing around the center. (Christ.) HOW'S THIS? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo O. We, the undersigned, have known F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligations made by his firm. NATIONAL BANK OF COMMERCE. Toledo, O. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Testimonialis sent free. Price 75 cents per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. Notice Of Publication In Attachment. S. BARTLETT KERR, ATTY. State of Illinois, Massac County S. S. In the Circuit Court of Massac County III, August Term 1916. Mattie Miller vs Phillip P. Foreman. Margeret Foreman, in attachment, Demand $200. Notice is hereby given to you; the said Philip P. Foreman and Margaret Foreman of Los Angeles California, that a writ of attachment has been sued out of the office of the Clerk of the Circuit Clerk of said County of Massachusetts at the suit of the said Mattie Miller and against the estate of you, the said Philip P. Foreman and Margaret Foreman for one hundred sixty and 20 one hundred dollars, besides interest, directed to the Sherritt of said County to execute, which said writ has been returned by said Sherritt executed, the derengements not found and as having leveled on the following described real estate to-wit: All of Blox No. One Hundred Twenty six (128) except One Hundred Thirty- six reef off of the East side thereof and situated in the City of Metropolis, Massachusetts, Illinois, subject to a mortgage recorded in book "00" page 02 of mortages in the recorders office of Massachusetts, Illinois, in favor of Eugene Laroe for $1600.00, and an un- invoked one nail interest in a part of the West Half of Section Thirty five (80), Township Fifteen (10) south, Range Four (4) east, and P. m. more particularly described as follows: Beginning at a point where the new Vienna road intersects the Jonesboro road, said point being 150 feet due north of the stone set for and being a quarter section corner for and between sections 84 and 85 of said township and range, thence from said point due south on section line 12 rods to the North line of a 4 acre tract sold to one Wentzen, thence east with north line of Wentzen tract, 84 rods to the centre of Jonesboro road; thence in a Northwestern course with centre line of said Jonesboro road 90 12 rods to place of beginning, said tract contains 12 5-10 acres by survey less that portion sold to the Herrin or Southern Railroad Co. by deeds recorded in Vol. "12" of deeds at page 480 in the Records of Office of Massachusetts County, Illinois. Now, unless you, the said Phillip P. Foreman and Margaret Foreman said personally be and appear before the Circuit Court of said County on the first day or the next term thereon., to be hoiden at metropolis in said County, on the Fourth Monday in the month of August next, give special ball and plead to said action, judgement will be entered against you in favor of the said plaintiff and the property attached soid to satisfy the same, with costs. Arthur H. Finley, Clerk. Metropolis, Illinois, May 15th, 1915 No Excitement. "A man doesn't seem to take any pleasure in writing letters to a woman after he has married her," said Mr. Gloomer. "No," replied Miss Cayenne; "he seems to lose all interest when there is no possibility of his letters being read to a jury." Livingston Institute This school is well graded and equipped Grammar School Department. All work is well organized under Departmental and able Instructors, selected for Special Departmental work Special.Courses in Music, Bookkeeping, Shorthand and Type Writing, Bible Study Entrance Fee $2.00 a Session In every case, 4 weeks will be counted for a school month All charges must be paid in advance. For any information and Prospectus Address Chicago, Ill., April 7th, 1915. Dear Co-Workers: Greeting, the time is fast approaching for our state meeting which will convene in Rock Island in June, with the McKindley Baptist Church. God has blessed us in all our efforts and we must still trust Him for the future. We separated last June, filled with the spirit and a zeal to work more this year than we have in the past, but our way has been darkened. Death has visited some of our homes and many of our great leaders have been called from labor to reward; while we are left here for some purpose. God created us for a gloriosa purpose, and said; "Go ye into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature." He is calling for valiant hearted soldiers, those who have tarried at Jerusalem until they were imbued with power from on high, to push this battle to the end. So let us take new courage and fight sin on every side. It is true I am a Baptist indeed and I have been born again, and where Jesus leads I will follow. I do not attribute the success of the state Convention to myself alone but with the assistance of our splendid officers and members of the convention. Our sisters are working in peace and harmony and the conventional year is far spent to respond to the invitation coming from the New State Association. We believe all business for the King must be done in a Christian like manner I studied the matter over prayerfully and have decided that all business should be adjusted at the state convention, and not through the newspapers. A notice of our work through our corresponding secretary, has been before you since Feb. 17th 1915. We hope every Baptist sister will respond to the call and help to make this the banner year. Come singing and praying. The National Baptist convention convenes in Chicago in September. We hope that you will organize new circles and children's bands, and train our boys and girls to work for Christ while they are young. Do not forget the Art and Needle work for Foreign Mission. Sisters Delaney, Taylor and Davis need our support. Dear Sisters God is calling you to help them hear their burden. Let us get busy. We want two hundred dollars for education. We are asking every Baptist woman in the State to help in this great work by giving and praying. Yours for the work, NOTICE. Dear Sisters of the Baptist Brotherhood of the State of Ill. I am writing this notice that your vision may be clear on the contemplated work that shall be done at Centralia, in our General Missionary Baptist State Association in this month. The value of our good women in christian work is inestimable, hence it is our purpose to untrammel you, and give you a chance to help us make good for God, and the Baptist family in the State of Illinois. We are asking that you let no petty things hinder you from attending this meeting. If you want to see a great Benefactor(school) for good in Metropolis, that will mould characters and shape destiny for good in the lives of our race, then let us lay aside every weight and become untrammeled. The schools in the different States is a credit to the race, and we have always helped them tho the amount given might have been ever so small. But listen my dears without a live, active energetic home mission spirit, which is the only sure foundation to build upon, to establish good result for our foreign fields, our mission spirit is a failure. I would ask that you consider our boys in black, who join the armies of Uncle Sam, and 'stake their lives to be called patriotic, and when the fight comes off it is across the great waters to free some other nation, when our own race living and moving under the Stars and Stripes, un-protected, un-noticed only on and just befo e election times. Ah! Our negro boys miss the mark, there is no patriotism about it, it is down right ignorance. So it is in the question of the School at Metropolis. We who rake up our little dab of money and send it to Mo. Tenn., Ohio and other States, when our school in our own state is suffering, pineing only for the want of co-operation and patronage of the Baptist of our State. My dears, such is not a mission spirit , but as in a previous case down right ignorance. Sisters, let us come to Centralia with a righteous ambition, and see to it that our State shall go on the Map with other States reatives to the school question, not in name only but in realis. I am yours for the cause.