Metropolis Weekly Gazette

METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE Election FIRST REPU Candidates have endorsed by every men fully qualified aspect for the high which they aspire This Strong T ELECT THESE Can be endor county as men in every respect position to whi THESE Candidates have been endorsed by every county as men fully qualified in every respect for the high position to which they aspire. Wm N. Butler. OF Cairo Candidate For Circuit Judge conventional year. I remain yours for Christ. THE MASTER To Patrons and the Public: The desire to announce to the public, that this week 24 to 28 marks the closing of the "Livingston Normal Theological and Industrial Institute," for the schol- ```markdown ``` DEWITT T. HARTWELL Candidate for Circuit Judge 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 Olive 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 thingsto 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 Election Monday June 7.1915 FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES This Strong Ticket Merits the Attention and Support of Every Voter in this Judicial District DON'T FORGET THE DATE ELECTION MONDAY JUNE 7, 1915 UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LIBRARY JUN 7 - 1915 Dennis Farrow, President 429-15 St. Cairo III. Miss Carrie Urquhart, Cor Sec, Metropolis III. M. B. in the Attention and this Judicial District FORGET THE DATE NDAY JUNE 7 astic year. We attended the State General Assn in Centralia and much keen interest was manifested by those concerned. The prospect bids fair for a creditable opening next year. Several, unsolicited have conscientiously inquired, preparatory to matriculation for the coming year. Let the pastors of the several churches bestir themselves and commend the project from the pupils, and nothing slott of success will crown our efforts I believe that a school, like a church is instituted to live thru the ages—they stand properly related a the spiritual and intellectual monuments of a people, and I resolutely believe, not unlike other school—long after the world has ceased to lisp the names of those concerned—when all that remains of mortal, has yielded up its atoms and mingled with the dross of earth again, Livingston like "Tennyson's Book" shall move on, so long as time is on element in the affairs of men. Pray for our success. We ```markdown ``` WARREN W. DUNCAN Candidate for Supreme Judges WARREN W. DUNCAN Candidate for Supreme Judge The Attention and Support as Judicial District FORGET THE DATE SUNDAY JUNE 7, 1911 shall possibly be in many parts parts of the state soon. William Edgar Bailey, Principal P. S. Circulars of information will be sent later SPARTA Please allow me space in your worthy paper for this little article. The New Hope Baptist church is progressing nicely. All services are well attended. Rev. P. B. French has divided the members into four c'ubs and they are going to begin work this week The Captains with their members are expecting to do great work. Bro. Jim and Mrs. Haynes are expecting to meet the S. S. Convention in Mt. Vernon. The Vernon School held the graduating exercise at the N. H. B. church. George Mitchell is Valedictorian and Franklyn Burton in Salutation. Dr. George Shaw of Jackson- --- M. B. didates are men of legal experi- records second one stands high of his fellow men. REPUBLICAN PARTY THESE candidates are men with years of legal experience and with records second to none. Each one stands high in the esteem of his fellow men. X ELECTION MCN. JUNE 7th, 1915 Reporter. RE-ELECTED. As Teacher Of Centralia Public School. --- ville. Ill. delivered the address to the class Subject the Legacy of duty to the word. CENTRALIA Although the weather was very unclement Sunday the amount of $60 05 was raised at Rock Hill Baptist church. The rally was extended to the Third Sunday in June. Mrs. M. J. Allen has returned home to spend the summer vacation. Miss Lola Autry who has been attending Roger Williams Uni. of Nashville, Tenn. returned home Thursday and reports a very successful year. Miss Blanche Looney of Henry Tenn., is the guest of Mrs. H. Sparks. The body of Mrs. Roberta Rolston, who died at the Anna Hospital at 8 o'clock Saturday night was brought here on No. 2 Monday. Funeral services were held at Rock Hill Baptist* church Tuesday at 1:30 P. M. conducted by Rev. Norment. ALBERT W. LEWIS Court of Circuit Judge FOR SUPREME JUDGE WARREN W. DUNCAN FOR CIRCUIT JUDGES (VOTE FOR THREE) WILLIAM N. BUTLER DEWITT T. HARTWELL ALBERT W. LEWIS Misses Lola and Eva Autry spent Sunday in Cobden. Miss Arminta McCracken has accepted a position in the public school of Carmi. Reporter. Mrs Lena M Phillips, former teacher in the Dunbar School this city, but who has been teaching in the Centralia Public School for 4 consecutive years has been re-elected to teach another year 1915-16 with an increased salary. This speaks well for Metropolis, as well as Miss Phillips, she being a graduate of the High School this city. The Gazette congratulates Mrs. Phillips for her worth and ability. She is considered as one of the best teachers in Southern Illinois. "Oh, Ye of Little Faith!" Anguished Customer—Are you sure that you have that medicine mixed right?" Druggist—"No, I am not; but I've got it mixed the way the doctor ordered it." Judge. CAP and BELLS PERTINENT QUESTION OF BOY Willie Figures It Out How Father Is So Small and His Uncle Jim So Big and Tall. At a dinner party reference was made to pertinent questions, and Congressman James S. Parker of New York recalled the story of how something along that line was exploded by little Willie. William had an uncle on his mother's side who was a six-footer, while his father wasn't much bigger than a full-grown sparrow. Watching his uncle one day thoughts came into Willie's mind. "Mamma," said he, turning to his maternal relative, "how is it that Uncle Jim grew so big and tall?" "He was always a good little boy," carefully explained mamma, "and because of that God permitted him to grow up tall and strong." "I see," thoughtfully used Willie, and then added, "when father was a boy I guess he must have been some kind of a sinner."—Philadelphia Telegraph. The Masculine Way. "It's a wonder old Adam didn't make a kick when he lost his job as head gardener of Eden," said Growells. "Oh, he was just like the men of today," rejoined his wife. "How's that?" asked the beginner of the trouble. "He waited until he got home," explained Mrs. Growells, "and then proceeded to raise Cain." Fully Qualified. Office Manager—So you want a job, er? What kind of work can you do? Office Manager (interrupting)—Oh, I can use you all right. Come around in the morning and box our mail order shipments, and in the afternoon you can lick the stamps. "Just as Good." We gazed pityingly on the listless drug store clerk leaning against the soda counter. "Haven't you any ambition?" we inquired, kindly and all that. "No," he replied, with brightening intelligence, "but I have something just as good."—Philadelphia Ledger. Alas! Too True. Him—As a rule a man treats a woman as she deserves to be treated. Her—Yes, I suppose so; but there are exceptions to all rules. Him—What is the exception to this one? Her—Well, sometimes he marries her. HANDICAP. C. "So you are busted again! Well, there's a sucker born every minute." "Yes, and take it from me, old chap, there's a shark born every second." True, But Misleading. "Dick hugged me last night before I had the faintest idea of what he was about." "And what did you do?" "Why, of course, I was instantly up in arms about it." "That man wrote a highly abusive letter about the injuries he had received." "Oh, that's not the proper way to write one's wrongs." "Are Italian sunsets any different from other sunsets that they should be so called?" "Yes, inasmuch as they make the day go." HIS WIFE'S MERRY WELCOME She Told Him She Had Sent Suitcase Containing Friend's Belongings to Rummage Sale. Mrs. Tubbs went to the hall and greeted her husband with her usual affection when he returned from town the other evening. After a few moments, when he was seated comfortably in his own particular armchair, he asked lazily: "By the way, queenie, I suppose a suitcase arrived all right about half an hour ago?" Queenie beamed on him roguishly—they'd only been married five months. they d only been married five months. "Yes, darling. And what an awful collection of old clothes it had in it! You naughty boy, hoarding up such disgracefully shabby things, when you had everything new only a few months ago. I sent them straight away to the rummage sale—so there!" Tubbs had gradually assumed a petrified expression, which finally melted into one of extreme terror. "I sent those clothes down here for a special reason. They belong to a business friend who is coming to dinner tonight!"—Pittsburgh Chronicle- Telegraph. A Sad Cynic. "A man should never give up his ideals," said the genial adviser. "What's an ideal?" inquired Mr. Growcher. "Something to which he aspires." "Not always. In some cases ideals are what people talk about in order to throw you off your guard while they are reaching for plain ordinary lucre." Heard in Court. Judge—Why did you strike this man? Prisoner—He called me a liar, your honor. Judge—That is no excuse. Judge... That is no excuse Prisoner—Well, judge, it was my first experience. What does your honor do in such cases? WORK ENOUGH. "What did you raise on your place this year?" "Only the mortgage." Is She So Ingenuous? "Charley, dear," said young Mrs. Torkins, "what does it mean when the paper says money is easy?" "Why it means just what it says." "I'm so glad. I thought it was a quiet reference by some of your friends to the fact that you are trying to play poker again." Just So. "Oh, I'll let you in on the ground floor. You're safe if you can get in on the ground floor of a new enterprise." "I don't know about that. Sometimes the bottom drops out." Doctor—Madam, your daughter needs a complete rest. Mother—But she won't listen to me. What shall I do? Doctor—Appeal to her in the interest of her complexion—Philadelphia Public Ledger. Needless Travel. "You are not going to Europe next summer?" "No. What's the use? You can go to any large American city and eat all the foreign food and hear all the foreign languages you may happen to care about." Marital Amenities She—There is only one way a man of your disposition could make any woman happy. He—How's that? He—how's that? She—by making her your widow. Plenty of Us "Ha, ha! this house, though it has no sign, is that of a doctor." "How can you tell?" "Don't you see the tree growing in front of the gate is a sick-a-more?" Retort Courteous. "My dear," said Crowells, "you are simply talking nonsense." simplify talking nonsense. "I know it," replied his better half, "but it is because I want you to understand what I say." Wisdom of Experience. "What," queried the unsophisticated youth, "is the best way to find out just what a woman thinks of you." "Harry has," replied the Strawville "Marry her," replied the Shelbyville sage, "then wait a few days." The Sensible Thing. "Jack told Nell he was simply burning up with love for her." "What happened? "Her father heard him and put him out." METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE. METROPOLIS. ILL FIGHTING FOR LOVE By JOHN PHILIP ARTH. (Copyright, 1915, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) As a boy among boys, Clyde Drew never engaged in battle. Not that he took to his heels every time there was a chance for a scrap, but that he was not naturally belligerent, and if there was a question at stake he was good at argument. There were scrappers at college who called him the deacon and let him go his way in peace. He didn't row, box, run, jump, play football, swim or enter into athletics in any way. He had a good figure and more than the average amount of muscle lying dormant, and he also passed a high examination. When young Drew left college he took a clerical position, and all his exercise consisted in walking. Once a friend took hold of his arm and found it as soft as a woman's. "Gee whiz! where is the muscle?" "I don't have to handle the crowbar or a sledge here," was the reply. "But supposing someone picked a fight with you?" "Why should anyone?" "You may see some day. Maybe you carry a gun." "No." "Well, I'm not going around looking for trouble, but if there is need for scrapping I shall be on hand at the old stand." The conversation made no impression on Mr. Drew. He could hardly conceive of a situation calling for muscle to get him out of trouble. He would insult no one, and no one would insult him. Miss Dora Thorn and Mr. Clyde Drew were engaged to be married, and it was a real love match. Mr. Drew had many admirable qualities and had some money and a good salary. It had been love at first sight, and an engagement followed in a few weeks. Mr. Thorn did not object to the engagement, made without consulting him, but he said to the lovers: "I think you have been over hasty. You know so little about each other that it's my wish that you should put the marriage off several months. When I was a young man I came very near rushing into a marriage that I should have repented the rest of my days." And when the postponement had been agreed to the girl said to her lover: "Clyde, are you going to look for fruits in me from now on?" "I couldn't find a single one if I looked ever so long," was the lover-like reply. "That is nice of you. If you have any faults I have not discovered them yet." Did Miss Dora think it a fault that he was weak of muscles? Had she ever wondered if he was brave or otherwise? Had she ever felt the sense of protection when riding or walking with him that a strong man insures? She knew that he was fair looking and had a good figure, and that filled the bill physically. The loving couple were out for a spin in the auto one afternoon when, as they reached a narrow part of the highway they encountered a young man in a buggy. He was given more than his share of the road, but he was not satisfied with that. He brought his horse to a halt, and sat scowling for a minute before calling out: "Hey, you dude, do you know that you are blocking the road." "There's plenty of room for you to pass," replied Mr. Drew. "You are a liar and a hog, sir!" "Why, the man is ugly drunk!" whispered Miss Dora. She turned to her lover to find him pale-faced and his chin quivering. Mr. Drew had never expected to be insulted, but here it was, good and hot. "Are you going to keep me here all day?" snarled the stranger. "No one is keeping you," was answered, but in a very mild voice. "I say again, you are a liar!" Miss Dora knew enough about man nature that when the lie was passed it meant a knockdown, and she trembled over the answer that would be forthcoming, but there was no answer. Mr. Drew was as white as a ghost and trembling like a rabbit. Was it with anger, or was he holding back on her account? "Not only a liar, but a coward as well," added the young man. No answer—no movement. The buggy was driven up beside the auto, and the driver's whip laid over the shoulder of a cringing man three or four times. Then the whipper said to Miss Dora: "You can see what sort of a cur he it. If you marry him, I wish you joy!" Then he drove on, and after the auto had proceeded a few rods it was turned about and headed for home. Not a word from Mr. Drew. Not a word from Miss Dora. But what was there to be said? Mr. Drew had played the part of a coward so objectly that nothing he could say would excuse him. He had been called a liar and a coward. He had been horsewhipped and had cried over it. He had let the girl be insulted. She was sorry for him in a way, and also knew bitter scorn. She was engaged to a coward, but would she ever marry him? It were better to have a drunkard and a wife-beater for a husband. They drove to her father's house and parted without a word. They both knew it was the end. It was not until he reached the privacy of his room that Mr. Drew awoke from his stupor. Then he, who had scarcely ever used an oath, fell to cursing. He called himself names. He longed for someone to kick him. "I am a coward—a politroon—a thing!" he shouted at himself. "I have debased myself until men ought to kick me out of their company. If I had a pistol here I wouldn't wait a minute before shooting myself." By and by the young man grew a bit calmer, and he sat down and asked himself: "Why did I act the craven? Was I afraid of the man? Even a coward would have put up a fight under the circumstances. There's something wrong with me, and I am going to find out what it is." He went down on the street and called in at the first doctor's office he came to. Fortunately for him, the doctor had studied something besides illness. He let the young man tell his story without interruption, but listened very closely. "I have seen several cases like yours. You should have fought when a boy, to give you confidence in yourself as a man. Your muscles are not as well developed as a woman cook's. You have been a peaceful young man. You have thought peace alone. You have not exercised your arms. You have never swung the clubs nor had the boxing gloves on. You have gone through life thus far thinking the time could never come when you would be insulted and have to resent it or run. Because you were peaceful-minded, you argued that all others were the same. Am I not right?" "Well, in the first place, you were taken by surprise. You saw and heard what was taking place, but you could not credit it because it had never happened before, and it happened now without cause or warning. When the time came to use your muscle you didn't have it with you, and that gave you a helpless feeling. Young man, you are not a natural coward, but you have been a very foolish person. Go and see the boxing master of a club." "And learn to fight?" asked Mr. Drew. "Learn that a man who goes only to hunt with an unloaded gun is an idiot. You may never be called upon to fight, but if you are then you want to lick the other fellow." Mr. Drew left the doctor's office for a club, and that evening took his first lesson at punching the bag. In time he put on the gloves with the instructor and others, and in time again was called a fair boxer. "But this doesn't prove that you have grit," said his master. "I want you to put on the gloves with a slamb and give him a licking. He has been guying you ever since you began. He says you are a milk-and-water sissy, and that a boy ten years old can make you quit." For almost the first time in his life young Drew flew mad and wanted to hit someone. He soon had his chance. He was knocked down the first thing, but he got up and put up such a fight that his opponent took off his gloves. Meanwhile, he had employed a detective to find out all about the man who caused his downfall. He lived about three miles from the spot where he had been encountered and drove into the town regularly every Saturday afternoon. Not a word or line through the long weeks, but he did not hope nor expect. How could he? He must first rehabilitate himself in her esteem. One day an auto approached the Thorn residence from the north, and a buggy from the south. Miss Dora sat on the veranda. The two vehicles met in front of the house and the girl saw and heard all that followed. "Hello, here is the liar and coward again!" sneered the driver of the buggy. Mr. Drew moved his auto out of the road and got down. "This time he is going to run away!" Drew removed his hat and vest and rolled up his shirt sleeves. "Maybe he's going to pick daisies." "He is going to lick you, you loafer, if you dare come down here!" The next moment they were at it, and in her excitement the girl stood up to see. It took her lover just ten minutes to give the fellow the best licking of his life, and as the victor was nursing a bleeding ear and a skinned nose a hand was laked upon his arm and Miss Dora said: "I saw it all, Clyde, and I am proud of you! Father said you would do it some day. Come in and let me dress your hurts." New Asphalt Bed Discovered. An asphalt bed discovered. An asphalt bed which seems to be practically inexhaustible is now being developed commercially in Leyte province in the Philippine islands. The bed lies near the shore line at Tacoban, at which port ships can anchor and take on cargo of the asphalt from lighters loaded at the mines, with practically no overland transportation. The deposits also contain oil of a high grade. The asphalt is almost pure near the surface, and is exceptionally pure at greater depths. The oil deposits—evidenced by oil flowing with water from a spring—contain oil pure enough to be used by the natives for illuminating purposes. For Ivy Poisoning. One of the best remedies for ivy poisoning is to rub the afflicted parts with slices or raw onion AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS The name Manassas conjures up in the minds of most people in this country the great struggle between the North and the South on the battlefield of Bull Run fifty years ago, in that brother-against-brother strife for the freedom for the Negro. It seems, therefore, peculiarly fitting that on this battlefield which witnessed such havoc and bloodshed for the enamel-pation of these people, there should spring up a school where they might learn the value and usefulness of the liberty won for them at so great a cost. Such a school—a school of everyday common-sense training with industrial work supplemented by practical academic studies—came into existence there twenty years ago, under the guiding hand of a colored woman, Jennie Dean. The founding of the Manassas Industrial School for Colored Youth is really the life-story of Jennie Dean. Her parents were slaves, but of the most intelligent class of Negroes, her father having been taught to read and write early in life. He was ambitious after the war, to own his farm, but dled before he had finished paying for it. Jennie Dean, then a young girl, left home and went into service in Washington, her wages going to pay the balance on the farm, as well as to pay her younger sister's tuition at college. Jennie Dean's life in Washington brought to her full realization of the danger her people run in migrating to the cities, and she made up her mind to try to do something to keep them at home. Her first work toward this was the starting of a Sunday school one summer while on a visit home, which later developed, through her efforts, into the founding of a church in Manassas. During the time that she was conducting these Sunday school classes and working for the church, Jennie Dean was also holding Saturday afternoon classes in cooking and sewing, and through this work she realized the possibilities which might develop out of training of this sort for young people. She spent twelve years in this mission work before she determined to devote herself to the industrial education of the Negroes of northern Virginia and to found a school for that purpose. She knew the danger that lurked in the cities for these young people, but she also realized the discouraging situation which confronted them if they remained at home. She was mindful of the skilled labor of slavery days, and bemoaned the fact that nothing had come to replace that industrial side. By this time, Jennie Dean's influence had become very strong in the community, so that they were all ready to help her when she called the people together and said: "Keep your children at home. Don't send them to the cities. You must buy your land; become taxpayers. Make all you can and save all you can. Meanwhile, I will go out and raise the money to build a school where your children may be educated to trades. You do your part here, and I will do mine in the world." While Negroes have progressed, poverty still shows its handicap. The death rate of Negroes in thirty-three northern cities, each having a Negro population of at least 2,500 in 1910, was 25.1 per thousand. This was a decrease of 2 per thousand in a decade, but it was still very high in comparison with the white death rate of 15.7 per thousand, incidentally a It has been a practice in the recent past among our people to stand off and criticize the wayward young Negro and make no effort to help him. Many of us charged him with being responsible for his lost and ruined condition and fussed at him for not turning voluntarily to the paths of rectitude and for not healing his own ills. Others of us blamed our schools and educational institutions for these lamentable conditions, always seeming to excuse parents for their responsibility in the matter. All of which was wide of the mark. It is beginning to dawn now upon the majority of us that there is no effective substitute for good home training. Neither schools, colleges nor reformatories can do a work for the young as effectively as the home. The schools and colleges do all within their power for the morals of the young; the most of their time must of necessity be spent in technical or book instruction, which of itself may or may not better the morals. But conditions which compel fathers and mothers in Negro homes to become breadwinners to the neglect of the children, force The highest temperature ever known in a human being was recorded in the case of an Italian recently. A victim of lung disease, his temperature was 138. Some men who think they are dear are easily bought. No woman is safer than the length of her hatpin. There are 70,000 Indian farmers in the United States. lowering of 2.5 per thousand for the whites. A comparison for twenty-four southern cities showed a rate of 29.6 for Negroes, a decrease of 4 per thousand, and 16.9 for whites, a decrease of 2.9 from 1900. Malaria, tuberculosis, pneumonia and whooping cough seem to be more deadly among Negroes than among whites, while Negroes are better able to withstand measles, scarlet fever, diphtheria, cancer, appendicitis, diarrhea and violence. Also fewer Negroes commit suicide. Dr. W. F. Brunner, health officer of Savannah, Ga., shows clearly in the current survey, how much of a menace this high death rate is to both Negroes and whites in the South. In 1913 there were about 39,000 whites and 42,000 Negroes in Savannah. Deaths from natural causes totaled 1,038 among the Negroes and only 442 among the whites. The infamous housing upon city dwelling Negroes, North and South, account for this great disparity. Of course, however, the city which permits a high death rate among Negroes pays the penalty among all its people. Bacteria are color blind. That the mortality rate among the colored population is vastly higher than among the whites has long been known. But efforts to learn the cause and to remedy the trouble have not yet gone very far. The New York department of health, however, is going into that task with an energy that promises good results. It is taking up the task with the cooperation of various colored civic organizations, all under an impulse given by Booker Washington and the National Negro Business league. It is generally understood that this heavy death rate is the result of ignorance as to the most sanitary methods of life and the care of aliments in their inception. For example, two types of disease are notable for abnormally large death rates among the colored people. These are infant mortality and tuberculosis. But in both of them it has been shown that right methods of living and care in the treatment of the disease can produce a notable saving of life. The work of training the Negroes to the style of life that will lower mortality is eminently notable in itself. But it is even more so with regard to its effect on the whites. Living as they do, close to us, even when segregated, they cannot convert their quarters into breeding places for disease without enlarging the danger of infection for the white population. It is to be hoped that the New York effort to improve that evil will be successful and widely copied. The will of Lemuel Googins, a colored barber of Baltimore, who died recently, was fled for probate. Googins' estate is said to be worth $200. 000. Letters testamentary were issued to the Colonial Trust company, executor and trustee. The will be bequeaths $4,000 to the Colored Masonic home to furnish two rooms in memory of Florence Googins, a deceased daughter. The residue of the estate is placed in trust with the Colonial Trust company as trustee, the income to be paid to Henrietta Googins, widow of the decedant, as long as she lives. At her death the estate goes to Granville Googins and Lemuel Googins, Jr., sons. upon the schools the impossible task of trying to counteract the evils planted by a lack of adequate hearthside instruction. According to a Negro publication, the Crisis, members of the darker race have gained recognition from scientific bodies in music, in art and also in the more commonplace walks of life. There is a colored man who is a major in the United States regular army, Maj. Charles Young. He has passed all his examinations with flying colors, is a first-class soldier and fighting man and, as a matter of fact, army officers are rather proud of him in an official way. The colored American citizen is not an alien. Reaching this country unwillingly about the same time as the white man, he has demonstrated his loyalty in every war in his country's defense. He is a self-supporting, industrious, thrifty and useful citizen, and has as much right to equal treatment as those who have come later and rendered less service. "She is the sort of girl," said Eph Wiley yesterday in discussing Genevieve Willoughby, "who will turn around to see if she has attracted your attention and then frown at you for looking at her." A man can't do justice to himself as an entertainer when his wife is around. The gold industry of the Rand is estimated to be worth $500,000 a day to South Africa. Tales of Naturalists That Have a Most Decidedly Munchausen-Like Flavor. A few days ago you may have noticed in the quiet of your back yard, only disturbed on Mondays when the family washing is fluttering on the line, swarms of small winged insects whirling in the sunshine. These are male and female ants, and this is their wedding dance, so naturalists say. The husbands and fathers soon fall and die—for their wedding dance is to them a dance of death—and their widows, plucking off their wings for which they have no further use, enter the ground to lay their little white round eggs. Now, a well-regulated community of ants, strange to say, besides its males and females, has a third order, called neuters. These are wingless and they are slaves. After the eggs have been laid these slaves or workers pick them up, so says the patient observer, who has studied them through the microscope, and carry them to special quarters prepared for them, where in fourteen days they become larvae. You may notice rising above the cracks in your brick walk here and there little hillocks of clean, yellow sand. It is brought to the surface by the workers, who are preparing the parlors, bedrooms and other apartments of the flat for the new colonies as they arrive. The workers—so the naturalists say, and though they tell truth, it does really have a Munchausen-like flavor—an organized troop of nurses now care for the baby ants, feed them, give them a daily sun bath, and keep them clean. In time the males and females will rise into the air, the males, as their father before them, to perish, and the mothers to return to the ant house to lay eggs for a new family. But a still more wonderful story is told of their use of the aphis or plant louse, a small soft-bodied insect, usually of a brilliant green color, which lives on plant juices. The juice secreted by this insect is a honeylike liquid, of which ants are fond. To obtain this food they tickle the aphis with their antennae, whereupon the aphis gives off a drop of the fluid, which is drunk by the ant. There is yet more to this story, for it is said that some ants carry the aphis into their anthills, or rather into the chambers beneath, where they keep them, feeding them and "milking" them at their pleasure. So these insects have been called the "cows" of the ants. Solomon recognizing the orderliness and business acumen of the ant, gives this advice in his proverbs: "Go to the ant, thou sluggard, consider her ways, and be wise!"—Indianapolis News. Trickster. John H. Finley, New York's commissioner of education, said in Albany, apropos of an argument on Bible reading in the schools: "This argument is straightforward. It does not shift and jump and beat about the bush. It isn't like the tricky schoolboy. "Which would you choose," his teacher asked this schoolboy, 'the tenth or the twentieth part of an apple?' "The boy answered that he would choose the twentieth part, and then, noting with his shifty eyes his teacher's frown, he added, hastily: "I don't like apples, you know."—Washington Star. Timid Youth—What do I have to pay for a marriage license? Facetious Clerk-Well, you get it on the installment plan. Timid Youth—How's that? Facetious Clerk—Two dollars down and most of your salary each week for the rest of your life. The Gentle Hint. "May I kiss your hand?" said he. "Wouldn't that be rather out of place?" quoth she. And he agreed with her to the fullest extent. Tom—She has a wealth of hair. Bess—Oh, I don't know. You can buy those switches new for $6. Barcelona, Spain, does a large business in the manufacture of paper drinking cups. Grape Nuts A compound made of the Berry, Sugar and Tart A FOOD TECHNOLOGY Grape-Nuts with cream or good milk, supplies the food elements in excellent proportion for build- ing brain and muscle tissue. "There's a Reason" MIXED RACES UNDER KAISER Numerous People Gathered Beneath the Banner of the War Lord of Germany. Writers on ethnology during this war have called wide attention to what they insist on as historical fact that the valley of the Elbe, which is now Prussian territory, was once a Slavic land people by a race of Slavic blood called Wends. Remnants of these people are still existent in the German empire, and the Lusatians, or the Serbs of Lusatia, in Prussia and Saxony, and the Slovines or Pomeranians and Kasuby of the Baltic region are reminders of the Slavs that once populated Prussia. The name Prussia was once Borussia, which was corrupted from Po-Russa, a compound word signifying "near the land of the Russ," "po" being the Slavic word meaning "near." Other of the place names in Prussia are said to be of Slavic origin; as, for example, Pomerania, Strieltz and Kolberg. 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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 Miller's PALE PALLE. "You All Pain. "One cent & done" --- Mrs. Martha Boggan is on the sick list. Prof J. D. Altn is having a new porch built and his house is receiing a fresh coat of paint Mrs. Z. A. Vallee has hair goods in every style and shape. Mrs. Carrie Overby was called to Brookport Wednesday on account of the vericus sickness of her sister Mrs Essie Daughterty. Pansie, Verbenas and Asters for sale by Mrs. Jennie Inman. Lonnie Lyons of East St. Louis Ill.. is in the city visiting his parents and children. Edgar McCraig was a Paducah, shopper Saturday. When you want to sell or buy real estate write me for a quick sale. Real Estate Wilson, Vienna, Ill. Mr. James Wade, who has been very sick is able to be out on the streets again. He seem to be very weak yet. Miss Lavada Spurlark was a Paducah, visitor last week. When you want to sell or buy real estate write me for a quick sale. 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. Mr John Irvin is in the city visiting relatives. Mrs Sally Dobson was called to Paducah, last week on the account of the death of her grand-daughter Miss Mamie Barnett who died after three months illness of Tuberculosis. Her remains were shipped to Smithland Ky., her home. Go to Mrs. Z. A. Vallee's Millie y store for Childrens ready-to wear hats for 50c. 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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 Catarrah 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. Testimonials sent free. Price 75 cents per bottle. Sold by all Druggists. Take Hall's Family Pills for套剂 Take Hall,a Family Pills for consti- pation. S. BARTLETT KERR. ATTY. S. BARLETT KERR, AIT1. State of Illinois, Massac County S. S In the Circuit Court of Massac County Ill, August Term 1915. Mattie Miller vs Phillip P. Foreman. Margeret Foreman, in attachment, Demand $200. Notice is hereby given to you; the said Phillip 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 Massac at the suit of the said Mattie Miller and against the estate of you, the said Phillip P. Foreman and Margaret Foreman for one hundred sixty and 95 one hundred dollars, besides interest, directed to the Sherriff of said County to execute, which said writ has been returned by said Sherriff executed, the defendants not found and as having levied on the following described real estate to-wit: All of Block No. One Hundred Twenty six (126) except One Hundred Thirty-six teet off of the East side thereof and situated in the City of Metropolis, Massac County, Illinois, subject to a mortgage recorded in book "3" page 62 of mortages in the recorders office of Massac County, Illinois, in favor of Eugene Lafont for $1500.00, and an undivided one half interest in a part of the West Half of Section Thirty five (35), Township Fifteen (15) south, Range Four(4) east 3rd P. M. more particularly described as follows: Beginning at a point where the new Vienna road intersects the Jonesboro Road, said point being 130 feet due North of the Stone set for and being a quarter section corner for and between sections 34 and 39 of said township and range, thence from said point due south on section line 72 rods to the North line of a 4 acre tract sold to one Wentzel, thence East with North line of Wentzel tract, 54 rods to the centre of Jonesboro road; thence in a Northwesterly course with centre line of said Jonesboro road 90 1-2 rods to place of beginning, said tract contains 12 9-10 acres by survey less that portion sold to the Herrn & Southern railroad Co. by deed recorded in Vol. '20' of deeds at page 486 in the Recorders office or Massac County, Illinois. Now, unless you, the said Phillip P. Foreman and Margaret Foreman shall personally be and appear before the Circuit Court of said County on the first day of the next term thereof, to be holden at Metropolis in said County, on the Fourth Monday in the month of August next, give special bail and plead to said action, judgement will be entered against you in favor of the said plaintiff and the property attached sold 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 Mrs. Gloomer. "No," replied Miss Cayenner, "he seems to lose all interest when there is no possibility of his letters being read to a jury." Livingston nstitute 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 and in Theology Entrance Fee $2.00 a Session Board and Rooms Board and rooms can be secured in private families at a reasonable rate. In every case, 4 weeks will be counted for a school month All charges must be paid in advance. For any information and Prospectus Address J. B. McGRARY, Supt. and Sec'y. Box 107 Metropolis, Ill. M. 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. Metropolis Second Opens Monday This school is well graded Department. All work is well-tal and able Instructors, select work Special Courses in Medicine and in Theology. Entrance Fee $2.00 Tuition Rates: Tuition per week Tuition, Normal and English or Tuition, Instrumental music (including Tuition Typewriting (including Tuition Plain Sewing per month Tuition, Vocal music Tuition Printing Industrial Department per month Printing Free Board and Roomsible rate. In every case, 4 weeks with All charges must be paid in a and Prospectus Address J. B. McGRARY, Box 107 The Republican Judicial ticket in this campaign is greatly strengthened by having such a man as Judge Duncan at its head. When he ends his present term next month he will have served twelve years on the bench of the First Judicial Circuit, and for six years as judge in our appollate courts. Prior to that time he was engaged in the general practice of law in this state for twenty years, and during four years he served os county judge of Williamson county. Aside from his faultless and careful legal training and practical experience, he is a man possessing one of the finest legal Robinson Just opposite the Illi Carbondale Meals:-Hot and Cold When in the city or enroute N Ice Cream, Cold Soda of minds th the state; and thoroughly capable of udholding and maintaining the honor and integrity that has always distinguished the Supreme Court of Illinois. It is very fortunate indeed that the Republicans have nominated a man so eminently qualified to succeed the late lamented Justice Alonzo K. Vicker. It is therefore very important that every Republican in the district take time on Monday (not Tuesday) June 7, to go to the polls and vote for Judge Duucan together with Judges Eagleton. Kern and Miller, his associates on the Republican ticket.