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METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LIBRARY JUL 1 2 1915 ME VOL COL. FRANK L. SMITH IS OUT FOR GOVERNOR. DWIGHT MAN IS ACTIVE. PETER H. Illinis will elect a governor in 1916. At this early date there are many rumors of prospective candidates, particularly on the part of the Republicans, but the first to formally announce has been Col. Frank L. Smith, of Dwight, Livingston county and the Seventeenth congressional district. When a man becomes a candidate for a high office such as the governorship there is a natural desire on the part of the voters to learn everything possible about the aspirant who may preside over the destinies of the state. For the purpose of securing such information in reference to Col. Smith a representative of the Pantagraph visited Dwight recently. Native Of Dwight. Mr Smith was born in Dwight, Noember 24, 1867, and past his young days there, graduating from the high school in 1885. His energy and determination to do things was displayed early in life and he was willing to work at anything for an honest living. He was engaged in construction work for the Postal Telegraph lines, where he made good and was not afraid to do his share of manual labor. He was then a clerk and bookkeeper, did his work well, and was at one time in the employ of the Chicago & Alton railroad company. Returns to Dwight He later went to Chicago where he followed railroad work for several years, but all the while was thinking of other and greater things He returned to Dight in 1891 and went into the real estate business on a capital of $125. His success is a wonderful story. He made good from the start and established that has seldom if ever been equalled in a small town. As a proof that his success has been made thru only the most honorable means his best friends are those with whom he has had numerous business dealing. A rich farmer near Oedell told the writer: "I will remember having a deal with Frank when he first went into business." He carried it thru in a manner that convinced me that he was the brightest young fellow I had ever met. I hear he is a candidate for governor; I am for him for anything and the Republicans couldn't find a better man." The people of Dwight speak well, not only of Cur. Smith, but of his parents as well. The father Jacob Smith, who died at the age of 56 was born in Germany of that sturdy stock so well known for their splendid manhood. He was "the village blacksmith" of Dwight. The mother, Miss Jane Ketcham, before her marriage, died at the age of 37: Mrs Smith was a devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal church of Dwight, and the early religious training of her three sons was received in that church. Founder Of Bank. Col. Smith's business has repi lled grown and developed until today it extends into many states and is one of the most complete of its kind in the United States In the year 1905 the First National Bank of Dwight received a charter and was opened for business. Mr. Smith was the leading spirit in its organization and was elected its president Like everything else along business lines that Col. Smith has undertaken the bank has been remarkably successful. To be continued. Importance of Religion to the young people. Mr. President, officers and members of the B Y P U. convention assembled in this magnificent little city. No subject, should engage the public attention more than this. I do not, however, feel that I am master of this subject by any means, but if I can be able to hold your attention for a part of the time allotted me and fix your minds on some of the grand results of religion among the young people, I will feel that I have accomplished something. First, the church delights in her religious young people. Because their influence is felt in every branch of church work. They are found in the Sunday School, as scholars and teachers; they assist in public worship thru the ministry of song, the spiritual life of the church is stimulated by the devotional meetings of the young people It may be said that they are a vital factor in all the great enterprises of the church. The army of ministers and missionaries and lay workers are recruited from their ranks. They are found in every field of social service and moral uplift. They constitute the life of great conventions and supply contagious enthusiasm all along the line. We never despair of the future of a church with religious young people in it. They are the hope of the church for the future. Religious young people should make the services of young people their pre-eminent field. For the church doesn't hold all of her young people as she should Thousands of children in our communities are lost to the life of the church Many who do come into faith in Christ are lost to the church within a few years. Here is a field where the enterprise of faithful religious young christians needs to exert itself. Young people can be won by religious young people. It is necessary for young people to realize that they are saved to serve. They must show the attractiveness of Christ by their joyous christian lives. In every community there are many to one for Christ. Therefore it is important that the young people be religious. Young people may possess this promised Land by spendid conquest and thus come bringing many to glory. It is important to remember that Christirn service must be done in a christian spirit and for the glory of Christ Christian service is sure to be a means of personal and spiritual growth, if it is done unto Christ. Whatever the young people set themselves to do in the work of the church, will be as seers sown in good ground and will reckon wonderful blessings, providing they work in the spirit of love and for the sake of Christ. The religious young people can do immeasureable service by being boosters, and speaking kindly of others, especially of their pastors and church officers, and by saying a good word for their church wherever opportunity offers. "Death and life are in the power of the tongue." The church has much to contend with in the world. She must be at her best continually in order to measure swords with with the enemy. The influence of the Religious young people, thro, kind words and appreciative testimony is very great In church members speak harshly of any one or anything in the church, strangers will feel that it is not the place where they want to be. The cruse of Christ is in the hands of the church. The cause is greater than the difference in any local field. The Religious young people are hereby summons to a right estimate of the mighty proportions of the business of the kingdom, and to a steadfast contemplation of the glory, which will make the love for Christ real. Just here I wish to admonish every religious young person to "Rise in the power of the Lord" and say "Must I go emyty handed thus my Redeemer meet, not one day of service given him, lay no trophies at his feet?" No, no never, let all of the religious young people work faithfully and watch for Him who said, "Behold I come quickly and my reward is with me, to reward every one according to his work." Stevenson's Morning Prayer. The day returns and brings us the petty round of irritating concerns and duties. Help us to play the man and perform them with laughter and kind faces. Let cheerfulness amount with industry. Give us to go blissfully on our business all the day, bring us to our resting beds weary and content and undisturbed, and great joy to the end the gift of sleep. DAIRY FACTS THICK CREAM GAINS FAVOR Colorado State Dairy Inspector Answers One of Most Common Questions Bothering Dairymen. (By R. McCANN, State Dairy Inspector, (By R. McCANN, State Dairy Inspector, Colorado Agricultural College.) One of the most common questions arising among cream producers and handlers of cream is that of how thick cream should be skimmed, when the same is to be used in butter-making. Cream skimmed so as to test between 35 per cent and 40 per cent is of the most desirable thickness. Thick cream keeps better than thin cream, there is also not the waste in handling a smaller bulk of cream than there is of larger amounts in the way of handling and express charges, moreover the skim milk is kept on the farm for feeding calves and plga. If it is too thick, there is a loss in some of the cream going over into the skim milk and also a considerable waste from the amount of cream that will adhere to cans and utensils. A uniform richness of cream may be obtained at each separation. 1. By using the same amount of waste or skim milk when flushing the bowl. 2. By keeping the cream screw the same. 2. By running the separator at the same and at a uniform speed. 4. By having the temperature of the milk the same each time. 5. By keeping a uniform inflow to the bowl. 6. By washing the separator thoroughly after using. oughtly after using. Exactly the same butterfet test cannot be expected every time from the observation of the above, as there are other factors entering affecting results, but a close following of the six named checks on variation will work wonders toward getting a uniform thickness of cream throughout the season. PREVENT COW FROM KICKING Device Arranged Around Hind Quartermasters Acta as Simple Means of Educating Animal to Be Good. With this new arrangement hooked up to her hind quarters, "bossy" will Resolutions. Whereas, it was decided by the Mt. Olive and East Mt. Olive Baptist District S. S. conventions, when convened in their respective districts some time ago to organize a State Baptist B. V. P. U. and Sunday School Conventions, for the purpose of a better unification of the Sunday School work in the State and said district conventions; and to keep step with the progress of the age in which we live in its onward movement in Christian civilization and to be in keeping with every other State in the Union where such conventions exist. And, Wheres, we have hundreds of young men and women of raw material in our district, who are unreached, but are standing idle saying "No man has hired us," while there is plenty of work to be done in our Master's vineyard, and, Whereas, these same young men and young women should be reached through some effort of ours and trained, so as to have recruits for the Master's service, and, Whereas, it should be our constant desire and prayer so to God that we be forceful instruments in God's hands in moulding character, crystallizing sentiment and shaping the desti- ny of these individuals for both time and eternity, which can best be done by organization, constant contact and association, and therefore, be it. Resolved, that we renew our pledge and proceed at the very earliest practical moment after the the adjournment of said conventions to carry out the resolutions adopted by the two conventions; Time and place to be designated and notice to be given so that the workers and all schools may have due notice. Resolved, further that a committee of to be named by this convention to confer with a similar one committee from the East Mt Olive convention on the 1st day of said proposed State organization, to be heinafter named by this convention or on Friday before the 5th Sunday in July 1915, either in Cairo or some other convenient place J. B. McCkARY. The above resolutions were unanimously adopted and the committee appointed by both conventions. Let us hear from President D. Farrow, at once as to location, "The King's business demands haste." Flegance Does Not Make a Home. Elegance of beauty alone will not make home. Elegance of polished refinement and style alone will not make a home, and the elegance of language and form alen. will not make a home and the homes are the schools of life, and it takes love and happiness to make home and where there is love, ther is an industrious home. It also takes contentment and kindness to make a come. We should love our homes and our neighbor, also our neighbor's children, we must also do our duty in our homes. We must live true and upright christiads, love our homes and churches, parents and husbands, and the best of all we should love our home above all, there is no place like home. If things go right in our home they should go right everywhere. The greatest elegance of a home is to have in it Christ which will make it far reaching in its influence and that our children may be led heavenward. The word home always sounds like poetry to me, and it rinses like wedding bells, only more soft and sweet, and its chimes are deeper in my heart. Caring For Self, The home may be an humble spot without velvet carpets to hush your tread; no magnificence to surround your your way, if it be garnished with grace and sweetened with kindness. love and smile, it will be the dearest spot beneath the sun. An ideal home must first have a government; all members should unite to make home happy; or board should be spread with every thing good and enjoyable. Flowers and birds, everything suggestive to sociability. A great many homes are like the frame of a harp that stands without strings in form and outline. They suggest music but no melody rises from the empty space, and thus it happens that home is unattractive, dreary and dull. Among home amusement, the best is the old fashioned habit of conversation. Each one must do his Part to make conversation genial and happy. Most of us are to already to spend most of our time with some other companion at the store or olut-room and forget that home is anything more than a place to sleep and eat and thus we relapse into utter self-illness at our own fireside. A house when one forgets everything but himself, where there are no books, no newspapers, and above all where there is no religion and no Bible cannot be a home. If we would only stop in our daily round of pleasure to think and ask ourselves the question, are there any hearts that are being wounded and torn by our selfish neglect of home, then we would scatter more sunshine in our own home and thereby do our duty to Christ and home. DEWMALE. The Thirtieth annual session of the S. S., Allen's Christian Endeavor League convention and the 2nd Missionary and Stewardess convention of the Cairo Disclosed a pleasant session Sunday night. The convention met with the A. M. E. church, June 29. The convention and auxiliaries comprise the entire district, and we are informed that there were 50 delegates or more in attendance. The session was very enthusiastic. Mt. Sion, Dewmoine Baptist chuch, shared with them in carina for the delegates. We postponed our business meeting on Thursday and Friday nights in order to give the members a chance to attend the convention. Dr. C. C. Phillips, pastor came Friday in company with E. C. Phillips, of Metropolis, his brother and together with the deacons attended the meeting and greetings were tendered to the convention by pastor C. c. and his brother, E. C. Phillipe. Dr. Phillips, spoke of the loyalty of the Mt. Zion members and people of Dewmaine, and among other things he said, he knew the Baptist members would receive them freely and treat them fairly and he desired the convention to see him through his members. Amount raised from all sources $200.03. This was a record breaker for them. We say that's fine and week before last we realized $200.00 and some few cents and the Mt. Olive convention which met in Mt. Vernon, realized $129.00. Amount for the two latter conventions was $329.00. These two conventions comprise almost same district as that of the A. M. E. convention. This was a prosperous year for financially for the S S. conventions. Rev. W. P. washington of Mt. Vernon. overcled Monday night at Mt. Zion. MRS.WADHAM'SCURE By WILLIS STRONG. The sea flashed in the sunlight and Mrs. James Wadham blinked her eyes and turned them toward the cooling green of the golf links. Her glance sharpened as she recognized her husband's portly form. Mis face flamed with heat and his white clothes looked limp. Over one shoulder a bag of clubs sagged heavily. "I wonder who that man is—he looks like the one who arrived this morning; I wonder if Edith—" Her thoughts became chaotic as her husband came up the steps and sank into a chair beside her. "Blistering hot, Meg," he puffed, mopping his brow. "Who is that man, Jim?" she asked. "What man?" he stared. "The one you crossed the links with—the tall man with fair hair." "Oh—that's Denway." "One of the Denways?" she demanded, wide-eyed. marked. "He cared carelessly. "One of the Denway twins, I believe." "Which one?" "Search me! I didn't ask him. Seems to me I heard someone call him Cecil." "Cecil Denway!" Meg Wadham grew pink with excitement. Her black eyes fashed. Her husband recognized the signs, and smiled inwardly. "They've got all kinds of money," he egged her on. "I know it—Jim, I've been thinking of Edith—you know she is too good for the best man on earth!" "Right—for that reason she'll probably marry some good-for-nothing scamp who will expect you to support them both. I'm so sure of it that I'm setting aside a certain sum of money for the purpose." "Jim, you're too absurd. Fancy a Denway expecting you to support him!" "A Denway—hey? Say, Meg, how long has Edith been acquainted with Reggie Denway?" "I thought you said it was 'Cecil,'" she countered. "Well — Cecil — Reginald — any old names that suits you. How long has she known any of the Denways?" "Not at all—she has never met them." "Then why worry about my supporting him? I think women are the most eccentric critters on this footstool." James Wadham beckoned to a hotel servant, and was presently served with two tall, cool glasses of orange juice. One of these he pushed across the table toward his wife. He buried his aggressive nose in the other. "Of course, James," said Mrs. Wadham imperturbably, "you will arrange for Edith to meet Mr. Denway—it's a chance in a lifetime. Cecil Denway is one of the richest men in the world and above the ordinary in character. The other Denway twin, Reggie, is married; he married one of the Evans girls—Beulah Evans married Count Ignace Spattico." Mrs. Wadham rattled off these names with great complacency. She knew her social blue book from cover to cover. Although not of the social set whose doings she watched from afar and envied, her husband's millions often brought his wife and daughter in touch with the charmed circle. Mrs. Wadham's one object in life was to marry her daughter to someone within the magic circle. Edith's indifference to the project and her husband's open amusement at her repeated failures nettled her into greater action. "Edith shall marry this Denway," she said between her clenched teeth, and she fell into a brown study, planning, scheming, plotting to bring about the desired end. "With Edith married to Cecil Denway she would be a relative by marriage to the Countess Spattico, a triumph indeed over the old acquaintances who looked askance upon Meg Wadham's social ambitions. Her husband's voice broke in on her thoughts. "I saw Dick Alnsee this morning and asked him what he was doing down here. Said he was private secretary to Denham." Mrs. Wadham shrugged impatiently. "It does seem as though Dick Alnsee was always appearing in the most unexpected places. It will be very disagreeable for him, when Edith marries Mr. Denway to occupy a menial position in her household." James Wadham grinned broadly. He did not tell his wife that when he had recognized Dick Ainslee on the beach a few hours ago Edith had been with him. The memory of Edith's face as she looked at Dick sealed her father's lips. But he could not help saying with a little sigh: "Money isn't everything, my dear. We used to be mighty happy before I struck oil." "We're happy now," insisted Mrs. Wadham, sternly. Not for worlds would she have her husband suspect that she ever yearned for those old days in the middle Western town when their modest cottage was the social center and the Ladies' Aid society her highest form of social aspiration. "Those days you never had time for golf." "Didn't know what it was," he confessed ably. "I did." have to play to work off my superfluous flesh. I wasn't fat—I worked too hard." Mrs. Wadham was silent. She was gazing in rapt delight at the approaching form of Mr. Denway. There were those at the Harbor hotel who watched Mrs. Wadham's game with ill-concealed amusement. There were others—Edith, and Denway himself—who suffered from her constant supervision—her scheme to thrust Edith upon his notice. Edith herself was in a state of revolt, but after a whispered conversation with her father the old smile came to her face and her eyes shone. If it was just a game—why, it was time that dear, foolish mother was checkmated. So Edith danced and rode and golfed and boated with the rich Mr. Denway—it proved to be Cecil—and Mrs. Wadham nodded and smiled and scrubbed long lists and even surreptitiously ordered a few articles for Edith's trousseau. James Wadham whistled when he received the bills. But, as Mrs. Wadham assured her husband, the sister-in-law of a countess must be properly attired. "But, my dear," he feebly objected, "I don't believe Edith really loves the man!" "I don't see how any sensible girl could help loving a Denway," she retorted, and was afterward angry at the silly remark. Just when her hopes were at pinnacle point—they fell with a crash. It all happened at once. Edith had been missing all afternoon and Cecel Denway had mooned around the plazas, reading the papers and yawning in a bored way. He didn't seem a bit interested when Mrs. Wadham cornered him and began to talk about Edith. It was in the midst of a maternal eulogy of the sweetest daughter in the world that Mr. Denway leaped from his seat with a word of apology and rushed down the steps to meet a large motor car. From the motor car descended a very pretty woman, who was ardently embraced by Cecel Denway. She was followed by four charming children and a French nurse. "His sister-in-law, Mrs. Reggle, I presume?" said Mrs. Wadham to her nearest neighbor. But that dowager only smiled wickedly. "Oh, no, his wife. She was one of the Evans girls. Reggie isn't married yet, though his engagement has just been announced. He's been spending the summer in Europe, you know." Mrs. Wadham didn't know—she felt in that instant that she didn't know anything. Never again would she trust that false prophet, the blue book. Her husband discovered her in their sitting room, the fatal book open on her lap. The page of DeWayns was blistered with tears. "My dear," he said, gently, "Edith is outside—with Dick Alnslee. They want to marry each other; I'm going to boost Dick and—I told Edith that of course you wanted her to marry the man she loved." "Of course I do!" Mrs. Wadham smiled through her tears. "Tell them to come right in—and Jim—just throw this book in the fire!" And she gave her husband the prized blue book. Why should she keep it when Edith had flouted the social register and was marrying the man she loved? "I'm very glad after all," she sighed, and she meant it. Growing Spirit of Thrift There is a growing tendency on the part of the people everywhere to be more thrifty, to save more and to husband their financial resources as they never did before. This quality is being preached from the pulpit, in every schoolhouse and in every well regulated newspaper, the country over. It is developing a characteristic in people for which they will be the better off, more independent, more self-reliant, more sturdy and more resourceful. The tendency is among the best signs of the times. A factor in this education is the newspaper advertisements of various banks appearing in the columns of the press of the country. These are causing the people to think, to save and grow more thrifty than ever. This form of advertisement is a form that is not only helping the banks, but also the people, turning their attention to a subject on which they need to think deeply. The bank ad is responsible for much good. —Terrell Transcript. Come One. Come All. Persons who have gained the impression that the United States is becoming thickly settled, and that pioneering possibilities are ended, may be surprised to learn that there yet remain in the United States upward of 300,000,000 acres of vacant public lands, to say nothing of an even greater unoccupied area in Alaska, where the government is planning a $35,000,000 railway, 1,000 miles in length, which will do for the big peninsula what the transcontinental railroads have done for our own West.—Christian Herald. Pigeons Caused a Fire. Catching fire from combustible materials carried by birds, the bell tower of the Chapel of the intercession at New York was nearly destroyed and 200 pigeons living in it were burned to death. No Cause for Alarm. Fyker--I overheard Skinner telling a friend that he owed you a crudge. Fyker-Oh, that's all right. Skinner never pays anything he owed. METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE, METROPOLIS, ILL. AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS Giles B. Jackson, among the wealthiest Negroes in Richmond, Va., and known throughout the state, was born a slave in Goochland county about sixty-five years ago. He has been chosen president of the exposition which is to be held in that city in July in commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the emancipation and of the achievements of the Negroes in this country. He has secured a federal appropriation of $55,000, an appropriation from the New York legislature of $7,500, a Councilmanic appropriation from the city of Richmond of $5,000 and several lesser donations. Jackson is the leading Negro lawyer in Virginia, and at one time was prominently identified with the political life of President McKinley, who commissioned him as a colonel to take part in the inaugural parade in 1901. In 1905 Jackson was placed in command of the third civil division in the Roosevelt inaugural parade at Washington, and Mr. Roosevelt, when he visited Richmond, in 1906, called at Jackson's office, and from in front of it addressed a crowd of several thousand Negroes, who cheered him lustily. Jackson's law offices are decorated with bronze busts of Presidents McKinley and Roosevelt, a large picture of Gen. U. S. Grant and staff, and a portrait of Abraham Lincoln, besides pictures of all the other presidents from Washington down. Jackson has a vivid recollection of General Grant, whom he saw three times, twice as a prisoner of war. During the war Jackson followed his master, Col. Charles W. Dickinson of Fitz Lee's cavalry, as body servant. When he was captured by the Union troops in Caroline county he asked to be taken before General Grant. There he begged to be allowed to return through the lines to his master, whom, he said, he had left wounded upon the battlefield, General Grant granted him permission and gave him a pass. Jackson says he asked to be allowed to leave the Federal lines at night so that he could guide himself on his journey by the stars. This was allowed. General Grant cautioned him, however, that he might be shot by a picket, and told him if he was halted to stop at once and give the password, which was "Friend of the Union." He started out in the darkness and soon experienced some nervousness, whereupon he recalled the advice of the Union commander. At once he began repeating the password at every step, and finally began shouting "Friend of the Union" so loudly that he was surrounded by eight or ten patrols, who demanded to know if he believed he was the only friend the Union possessed. Jackson showed his pass and was allowed to proceed. Jackson again fell into the hands of the Federals at City Point, Va., not far from Petersburg. Here he told his captors that he knew General Grant, who had once allowed him to return to the Confederate lines, and he wished to be taken before him again. He showed his pass, whereupon they took him to Grant's headquarters, about five miles away, and to his delight the general recognized him. "Well, my boy," said General Grant, "we seem to have you again. Do you still want to go back to your master, or have we caught him also?" Jackson replied that his master was still living and not yet captured. He begged to be allowed to return to "his people," and Grant consented. In New York recently Booker Washington gave this sound suggestion to his people: "Settle down and get identified with some one place. Then build up there reputations for sobriety and industry. If you can't find the right place in the city, go to a small town near by, or get back to the soil. At any rate, settle down and get hold of some property and start a bank account. You will soon find that your savings are growing and that you are growing faster and bigger than the bank account." We have evidence from a number of sources that Negroes in the rural South are more careful about educating their children than white neighbors. Child labor is not so serious a problem among the Negroes as among the whites. It would not be at all surprising if thus indirectly the solution of the racial problem be obtained. Educated, well-to-do Negroes will produce artists and professional people. Such a group is more powerful than laws. Their wishes are the laws of the future. Chicago Herald. The aniline dye trade, it is interesting to recall, was made possible by an Englishman's discovery. The Germans came to monopolize the trade, and now an attempt is being made to build up an aniline dye industry in England. Professor Perkins first produced colors from coal tar. In a motion picture theater in a Maryland town patrons are admitted at a lower price to a room behind the screen where they can see the pictures as well, although the reading matter is reversed It was after the war, when Richmond was under a military government and Grant was in the White House, that a great dispute broke out at Richmond over the boundary lines of the wards. The two factions, one of which was represented by Jackson, appealed to the military governor, who sided against Jackson and his followers. But Jackson remembered General Grant and appealed to him, and representatives of each side appeared before the president. After listening to the wrangle for some moments the president said to them that he knew only one of their number, and knew him to be honest, because he had twice held him a prioer of war and each time he had begged to be sent back to his master. Then asking Jackson to present to him the map of the plan which he advocated, President Grant took from his pocket a lead pencil and wrote across the ward proposed by Jackson the two words, "Jackson's Ward." And "Jackson's Ward" it remains to this day. E. L. Blackshear, president of the Prairie View (Tex.) State Normal and Industrial college for Negroes, answered those critics of education for the Negro who say that education of the black man only makes him have less regard for law and order. In opening the commencement exercises proper Professor Blackshear gave a short history of the institution. "Some white people express the belief that education of the Negro makes him less honest and less upright," said Professor Blackshear. "This institution was established as an agricultural college in 1878, and the next year was made a normal institution. In her history she has graduated 1,111 students and has given certificates to teach to more than twice that number. Figures show that not one of our graduates has committed a capital offense against the peace and dignity of the state; less than 1 per cent of our graduates have committed the least misdemeanor, and not one of them has committed an act of violence against the white people of Texas. "It is another particularly encouraging fact that since this school's establishment there has never been the slightest tinge of friction or hard feeling between the white people of this county and community and the students, faculty and officers of the Prairie View institute. In view of these statements, which are indisputable facts, I do not think that any one can consistently say that the proper kind of education does anything except encourage the Negro in his attempt to live a better and more useful life." Commencement exercises at Prairie View came to an end with the presentation of diplomas to the graduates by Judge John I. Gulon, president of the board of directors of the Agricultural and Mechanical college, and the Prairie View normal. The presence of a large number of white people at the commencement exercises at Prairie View during the entire week has been the source of much pleasure to the members of the board of directors. Leading citizens of Hempstead, Waltler and counties surrounding the Prairie View normal are enthusiastic in their praise of the institution and the work it is accomplishing.—Houston Post. In the Falkland islands there are five times as many men as women. Professor Arlong of Lyons, France, proved by experiment that human perspiration is an irritant because it is actually poisonous. It actually burns away the epidermis of sensitive skins and leaves them almost raw. It is important that perspiration be not checked; it is equally important in hot weather to change one's underclothing every day. The Texas agricultural station has issued a pamphlet, in view of the great number of houses which have been recently carried away in the floods of the rivers of that state, containing valuable suggestions for anchoring houses exposed to this danger. The first European nation to adopt the metric system of weights and measures was France. This was in 1790, and was followed by Holland in 1816, by Belgium in 1820 and by Sweden in 1889. In every 100 music devotees only one is bald headed, while in every other profession the percentage is 11. Princess Mary of England, only a child of seventeen, has been developed into a keen, practical, as well as sympathetic woman of affairs. She spends almost all her time every day in directing and taking part in relief work for the wounded soldiers of her country and the allies. Mistletoe thrives on the western consts of America to an extent not approached in the East. In many places this parasite growth is responsible, directly or indirectly, for a considerable loss of timber. Triply Protected First, the inner container of paper, next the big yellow carton, and then, the outer wrapping of waxed paper, sealed air-tight and dust-proof. Superior protection for the Superior Corn Flakes— Post Toasties These delightful flakes are made of the finest white Indian Corn, steam-cooked, daintily seasoned, rolled and toasted—crisp and golden-brown. Post Toasties reach you fresh and delicious, perfectly protected and ready to eat. They are mighty good with milk or cream, or with any kind of fruit. "The Memory Lingers" —cold by Grocers everywhere. HONOR GREAT POET Though His Fate Was to Die in Poverty, After a Life of Vicissitudes, His Country Reverses His Memory. In a recent historical study, "Eight Centuries of Portuguese Monarchy," Senor V. de Braganca Cunha gives a striking illustration of the feeling of the Portuguese toward their great national poet, Camaoens. A few years ago, when Portugal was much stirred over the question of compliance with a demand made upon her by a more powerful nation, a leader of the political party that advocated resistance emphasized by a deed more than by words his sense of what he called national humiliation. Crossing the public square with a black veil floating from his hand, he climbed the pedestal of the poet's statue and covered the sculptured face—an act of which the crowd instantly caught the significance. Camoens, whose epic, the "Lusin," celebrates the explorations, conquests and glories of Portugal, especially in India and the Orient, was himself an adventurer in far distant lands. "The life of no poet," our own Longfellow has stated, "is so full of vicissitude and romantic adventure as that of Camoens." The romance began with his seeing at mass one Good Friday morning a very lovely young girl, Dona Catarina de Aalde, in the train of the queen, She had golden braided hair and soft blue eyes, which he was later to celebrate in verse as "charming," "starlike," and—in the phrase that Mrs. Browning's touching poem, "Catarina to Camoens." has made most familiar to us—"sweetest eyes were ever seen." It was love at first sight, and a rapid ardent courtship followed; too ardent, for in endeavoring to elude clandestinely the rigid eliquette and strict supervision that guarded the young maid of honor the young man incurred the anger of his sovereigns and was banished from the court. The viciissitudes soon followed. Returning once more, after an ill-fated soldiering expedition to Africa, in which he lost an eye from a splinter during a naval engagement, he found himself still out of favor and his suit impossible. There was a final parting between the lovers, and he sailed for India. He was "half the world away" when he learned of Dona Catarina's death. She bequeathed him, poor girl, the ribbon from her hair for a keepsake. Camoen's further adventures, says the Youth's Companion, included prosperity and adversity; shipwreck and prison; betrayal by friends and false accusations by enemies; fame and famine. He would have died of starvation but for the faithful native, rechristened Antonio, whom he brought from Java, and who, when his master was sick and helpless, begged for both upon the streets. He did die a pauper in the hospital of the Franciscan nuns; even his winding sheet was bestowed in charity. During his last sickness moreover, occurred the terrible defeat of his country's arms in Morocco, when King Sebastian himself was among the slain. To Camoens, who so loved Portugal and had devoted his genius to her glory, that came as the final blow. "I die with my country," he said mournfully. But Portugal, although shortly after his death she did for a time lose her independence, still lives, and so fully appreciates, three centuries and a half after his death, the poet whom she once neglected that her historian can declare today: "Wherever there are men of Portuguese origin speaking the Portuguese language, there the genius of Cameos is one of the important facts of life." Ancient Artisans in Africa. The question has often been asked: Was there any earlier race in occupation of the area in Africa at present held by the Bantus? In Man W. H. Beech reports that in the Kikuyu country some ancient pottery has been said to be the work of a people called Gumba, who displaced the Miathoachiann, cannibal dwarfs. These Matthiacoachlana are now believed to be earth-gnomes, skilled in the art of iron working. Mr. Beuch, with some amount of plausibility, suggests that they were possible bushmen, pygmies, or both, and that they were a local indigenous race of the stone age who used flint instruments often found in the Kikuyu country. The Gumba are said to have made pottery and to have taught the Kikuyu the art of smelting. They may have been pre-Bantau Hamite invaders; but of this there is no evidence and the legend may tend to show that the first discovery of iron was made in Africa. Could Spare Her. Tommy's mother was an invalid, so his Aunt Lavinia looked after him and the house. And she never missed a chance of pointing out a fault or expounding a precept. "Oh, dear," said Tommy 'one day, after auntie had lectured him for ten minutes, "I wish I had winga!" "Why, my pet?" asked mother, pleased at this angelic inspiration. "Oh, I'd fly up in the air with Aunt Lavinia, and I'd fly and fly till I couldn't get any higher." "Yes, dear," said mother proudly, as the little chap paused impressively. "What would you do then?" "I'd drop Aunt Lavinia!" said Tommy savagely.—Stray Stories. Summer Plans. "You are going away for the summer?" "Of course," replied Mr. Bliggins; "that is to say, my family will go away. I'll stay here." "But the climate won't be comfortable." "I don't care anything about the climate. All I want is rest and quiet." Fine Chance for an orator. "Who is the principal speaker, now being introduced?" "I don't know. I heard the master of ceremonies mention his name when he began a few introductory remarks, but that was so long ago I have forgotten what it was." Puffed Injuries. Redd—He seems to be all puffed over his new automobile. Green—Oh, did it hurt him as badly as that? If a man disputes a Salm made by a preacher the members of the preacher's church consider him an infidel. When a man says, "It isn't the money, but the principle of the thing," put that with the other flandoodle. Summer Luncheons in a jiffy Let Libby's splendid chefs relieve you of hot-weather cooking. Stock the pantry the shelf with Libby's Sliced Dried Beef and the other good summer meats—including Libby's Vienna Sausage—you'll find them fresh and appetizing. Libby, McNeill & Libby, Chicago Libby's Peerless Bread water Sliced Dried Beef Libby M. Neill & Libby, Chicago FOX-HUNTERS IN THE WAR Thousands of Men Who Enjoyed That Sport in Britain Are Now at the Front, Waterloo, according to the duke of Wellington, was wen on the playing fields of Eton. Should Britain emerge triumphant from the present conflict we may find someone rising to claim that the campaign in Flanders was won in the English shires. The shires are the headquarters of fox-hunting, which most humanitarians denounce. George Bernard Shaw, for example, has no words strong enough to condemn it with. Mr. Jorrocks, the hero of a sporting novel, describing fox-hunting as "war without its guilt and only 25 per cent of its danger." it has to be admitted, however, that they who follow the hounds have answered magnificently to their country's call. There are it, proves, 150 masters of hounds with the British colors, 2,000 members of hunts and 1,500 hunt servants. To them must be added the officers of the regular army who are accustomed to ride to hounds, likewise numbering some thousands. The total is an impressive one. It suggests that the real attraction of this sport may be that it is, as Jorrocks said, "a sort of war." A Long Vulgarian. "This seems to be a very exclusive restaurant." "Yes, indeed. Why, even the waiters are perfect gentlemen. The only coarse person one ever sees here is the proprietor, and I don't suppose it would be possible to exclude him." A Gentle Hint. The Grocer (to new customer)—Did you find your last order satisfactory, madam? Mrs. Housekeep—Fairly so. But next time I wish you would send us stronger coffee and weaker butter. The Real Thing. Little Lemuel—Say, paw, what is gratitude? Paw—Gratitude, son, is the thing that shows up when a rich old bachelor dies and leaves all his money to the woman who once rejected him. Maybe a Peanut. "Why do you think he has a family tree?" "Because he's a nut." In most localities the porch swing has displaced the top buggy as love's first assistant. How we do love an idle person who comes along and bothers us when we are busy! Never call a bluff unless sure that it is not the real thing. To Build Strong Children Supply their growing bodies with right food, so that Brain, and Muscle, and Bone development may evenly balance. Grape Nuts was originated to supply, in proper proportion, the very elements required by the human body for growth and repair. To supply children a dish of Grape-Nuts and cream for breakfast regularly is to start them on the road to sturdy health. Sold by grocers. KILLED BY THOUGHT Example of Fact Furnished by Paris Woman. Importance of Controlling Thinking Has Been Shown Time and Again— Everybody ought to learn, from early childhood, the importance of controlling their thinking. Thoughts may be, and often are, as deadly as the worst engine of destruction ever invented. Not long ago a Zeppelin went sailing over Paris, dropping bombs as it passed. Fortune was kind to the Parisians, and no one was killed or seriously wounded by the exploding bombs. One woman, however, though untouched, fell dead. She had been killed, not by a bomb, but by a thought—a momentary, devastating thought of fear conjured up in her own mind. There was a train wreck in Illinois. A number of passengers were badly injured, but many escaped without physical harm of any sort. Yet among the latter there were at least a dozen who afterward developed paralysis of arms or legs. These persons, I repeat, had not received the least real bodily harm. The whole trouble with them was that they had thought they must be severely injured, and by thus thinking they had so deranged their nervous system as to cause the development of paralytic symptoms. Bearing cases like these in mind—and they are occurring every day—it is easy to understand and appreciate the force of this emphatic statement by a leading American physiologist, Professor Dearborn of Tufts college: "The aspects of consciousness are the realest of all real things. For every man crushed by a falling rock or an overturning car, dozens are crushed by mental objects such as volitions and feelings." Again and again it has been conclusively proved that thoughts of fear, anxiety, despair, have caused a fatal outcome in case of accident and illness where recovery would otherwise have been assured. Moreover, the world is, and always has been, full of physical wrecks whose invalidism has been directly and solely due to the destroying thoughts on which they have allowed their minds to dwell. Truly thoughts are "the realest of all real things," and the whole trend of a man's life, for good or evil, depends on the kind of thinking in which he indulges. "As a man thinketh, so is he," is no mere picturesque literary phrase. It accords with, and is supported by, the facts of scientific research and everyday observation. Control your thoughts, and the secret of health, happiness and success is in your grasp.-Kansas City Star. LOCK THAT REQUIRES NO KEY A lock that can be locked from one side without a key, by the simple turn of the door handle, and that when so locked cannot be opened from the other side of the door was patented recently by Anders Gustaf Anderson of New York. It is quite simple and can readily be understood by examination of the accompanying diagram. This lock is intended for use on the doors of such apartments as bathrooms, private offices or doctors' con- sulting rooms, in which the certainty of absolute privacy is desired without the use of a key. The diagram shows a section through the lock. At F the bar on which the handles are turned is seen in cross section. This turns a bar that presses against D D, the two arms of the bolt B thereby drawing this back with the tongue C, which fastens the door. A is a tumbler that falls into place when the handle on the inside of the door is turned. When it has fallen the door is locked so far as the outside handle is concerned, for the latter handle cannot move the tumbler A, and this is in such position that the bolt cannot move back until A has been turned out of the way, which can be done only from the inside. E is a protection to stop A from turning too far. His Next Preferment: Here's a prominent foreigner who has had the Order of the Bath and the Order of the Carter conferred upon him, and probably he's now nervously waiting for the order of the winter underclothes as the next step in the Age of preferment—Ohio State Journ --- METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE, METROPOLIS, ILL. You Look Prematurely Old Because of those ugly, grizzly, gray haire. Use "LA CREOLE" HAIR DRESSING. PRICE, $1.00, retail. Housework Is a Burden It's hard enough to keep house if in perfect health, but a woman who is weak, tired and suffering from an aching back has a heavy burden. Any woman in this condition has good cause to suspect kidney trouble, especially if the kidney action seems disordered. Doan's Kidney Pills have cured thousands of suffering women. It's the best recommended special kidney remedy. A Missouri Case "Every Picture Wills a Story." HAD HIS MOTHER PUZZLED Washerwoman Never Could Understand Son, Therefore She Dubbed Him "Grasshopper." Polly, the washerwoman, was deep in a discussion of her family's short-comings. "Mah fambly suttinly do hab some shawtcomin's," she declared. "Fur instance: Mah son Jawge es jes lak a grasshoppah." "My goodness!" gasped the mistress. "How, Polly?" "Well, buhcawe only two things in de whole worl' worries him: He worries dat he has to wake up to eat, an' den he worries dat he hab to stop eatin' to go to sleep. Ah' suttinly doan undahstan' dat boy." "But how do you conclude that he is like a grasshopper?" queried the perplexed mistress. "Jes' buhcawse he er de most mis- undahstandable creature dat Ah klin think of, dat's why," she answered.— Louisville Times. AT THE FIRST SIGNS Of Falling Hair. Get Cuticura. It Works Wonders. Trial Free. Touch spots of dandruff and itching with Cuticura Ointment, and follow next morning with a hot shampoo of Cuticura Soap. This at once arrests falling hair and promotes hair growth. You may rely on these supercreamy emollients for all skin troubles. Sample each free by mail with Book. Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. XY, Boston. Sold everywhere.—Adv. Two Strings to Little Lester's Bow. Little Lester Livermore—Mamma will you give me a nickel if I am a good boy?" Mamma—No; I haven't a nickel to spare now. Little Lester Livermore—All right, then! Skinny Smart will give me a dime if I can sweater worse than he can—Kansas' City Star. The Noiseless Age. Diggs—Would you like to join our society for the suppression of useless noise? Diggs—Don't know. When are you going to start? Diggs—With the next political campaign. We are going to have the number of cheers reduced from three to one. The Big Idea. "Why do you want me to remain engaged to him another year? By the end of another year he won't have enough money left to get married on." "That's what I was thinking on." Bruin the Hugger Mary—Speaking of animals, which is your favorite? Hazel—The bear. Mary—Oh, yes; of course. Naturally. "The line of battle in Europe just now reminds me of our telephone exchange." "How so?" "It's a line that's always busy." ALLEN'S FOOT-EASE for the TROOPS an antiseptic powder to shake into your salines, Are being used by the German and Allied troops at the Front because it rests the fect, gives instant relief to Gorns and Bimious, not sweaty, but it does not, and makes walking easy. Sold everywhere, 25c. Try it TODAY. Don't accept any institute. Adv. The dollar may not mean happiness, but it means comfort, and you can't blame people for having it. MOST ABLE MEN NOT LARGE World's Geniuses as a Rule Have Been Only Medium or Even Less In Size. We are inclined to lock up to the physically big man, not only literally but there is always a certain presumption in his favor that he must be correspondingly strong mentally, says a writer in Popular Mechanics. People make room for him; they attach more importance usually to what he says than to the same words uttered by an undersized man. We unconsciously picture in our minds the bayonet charge and storming of the trenches as the work of large men. The boy dreams of having a football physique and little sister worships her big brother. Other abilities being equal, the large man has a positive advantage over the small man. And yet many, if not the majority of the great men of the world have been only of medium build and not a few were even undersized. A certain large city in this country had for years made it a rule not to employ in its fire department any but large men. The result was a small army of athletes which never failed to cause a positive thrill whenever they went on parade. They distinctly represented the day of physical might. For some years past the inventive mind has been busy, and very successfully, to produce apparatus which never tires, and calculated to transfer to a great extent the hard work from muscle to machine. The evidences of this evolution may be seen in even small towns everywhere, and now the fire engine drawn by volunteers and worked with hand brakes must be looked for in museums of strange mechanics of the past. In its place is the self-propelled gas-engined machine, carrying its own hose and capable of highly effective work with only two men; and ladder trucks by means of which one small man manipulating some short levers can in a few seconds raise great ladders to dizzy heights, or pour a deluge of water into tenth-story windows while standing in the street below. Hence it has come about that the man small of stature, but nimble of body and alert of mind is not only the peer, but often the superior of the giant in build. There yet remains some work for the big athletes, but it is growing less each year, and the man whom nature has not endowed with great physical strength is coming into his own. Question of Supplies. "Daisy," remarked her Sunday school teacher, "don't love your cat too much. What would you do if it died—you wouldn't see it again?" "Oh, yes, teacher; I should see it in heaven." "No dear, you're mistaken; animals cannot go to heaven like people." Daisy's eyes filled with tears, but suddenly she exclaimed triumphantly, "Animals do go to heaven, for the bible says the promised land is flowing with milk and honey, and, if there are no animals, where do they get the milk!" The Fire Fiend. Mayor Thompson of Chicago, who is advising stricter measures to prevent insurance frauds, said: "There are, you know, a great many business men who in their ideas about insurance are like Exe. "I'm afraid, father,' said Exe's son, this property isn't worth repairing any more.' "Very well, son,' said Exe. 'Send, then, for Smith of the Marine and Fire company at once. Let us always bear in mind the old proverb: What can't be cured must be insured." Keen Rivalry. "All the farmers hereabouts seem to own motor cars. I don't suppose an automobile salesman could do much business in this community." "Oh, yes, he could. The farmers about here have quit trying to see who can raise the finest cattle and the biggest crops. Every one of them is trying to get hold of a car with improvements the other fellows' cars don't have." Nothing Doin'. "Mamma," called four-year-old Harold from the nursery, "please come and sit by my bed until I go to sleep." "Mamma's busy now," was the reply, "Keep quiet and the angels will be with you." "You said that before, mamma," rejoined Harold, "and I have kept quiet ever so long, but a blamed angel has showed up." At the Club. "So our proposal was laid on the table, after all." "I thought it would be dished." When there is family reunion the men present enjoy it almost as much as they do a funeral. Advertising will put a lightweight in the limelight, but it will not always keep him there. Innocent youngsters plead guilty, evidently hoping to go free. It is foolish to acquire principal at the sacrifice of principle. DEVOTED HIS TO GOOD WORK Canada is Calling You to her Rich Wheat Lands She extends to Americans a hearty invitation to settle on her FREE Homestead lands of 160 acres each or secure some of the low priced lands in Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta. This year wheat is higher but Canadian land just as cheap, so the opportunity is more attractive than ever. Canada wants you to help to feed the world by tilling some of her soil—land similar to that which during many years has averaged 20 to 45 bushels of wheat to the acre. Think what you can make with wheat around $1 a bushel and pulsory in Canada. There is no conscription and no war tax on lands. The climate is healthful and agreeable, railway facilities excellent, good schools and churches convenient. Write for literature and particulars as to reduced railway rates to Superintendent Immigration, Ottawa, Canada, or to G. A. C00K, 125 West 9th Street, Kansas City, Missouri; C. J. DROUGHTON, Room 412, 112 West Adams Street, Chicago, IL. Devout Little Johnny Would Give His Penny to Buy Bibles for Poor Kids. The little visitors at Aunt Mary's were Helen, age six, and John age four. They played keeping grocery under the piano, envelopes, books and other articles representing the stock in trade. They took turn about as grocer and customer. The grocer bore the name of Mr. Popcorn. "Mr. Popcorn," said Helen, "have you any rabbits this morning?" "Yes'm," answered the polite grocer, "Are they nice and fresh?" "Yes'm." "Then you may give me a good, big fat one for 15 cents." During a hull in the grocery transactions Aunt Mary gave each of the visitors two cents—two cents in real money. "And what are you going to do with the money?" asked Aunt Mary. "I'm going to put my two pennies in the bank," said Helen. "And I," said John, "I'll buy candy with one penny." "And what will you do with the other penny?" And John, who has been impressed by the missionary talks at Sunday school, answered: "I'm a-goin" to give it to buy Bibles for poor kids."—Providence Tribune. Reminded Him. Mr. Highbrow, who posed as an arbiter of taste, looked round the tiers of boxes at the opera house the other evening and said: "I suppose, if a woman's shoulders are very beautiful, she has a right, a moral right, to wear a very decolleje gown. At the same time—" Mr. Highbrow chuckled and shook his head. "At the same time," he resumed, "the fashionable woman of today reminds me of the prophet." "How so?" said his interlocutor. "How so?" "She hasn't much on 'er in her own country," was the smiling reply. Grim Humor. "There goes Scribbles, the newspaper humorist." "A merry quipster, eh?" "He's a quipster, but seldom merry. The only time I ever saw him smile was when there happened to be a shortage of reporters on the local staff and he was asked to write the obituary of a man he didn't like." To Drive Out Malaria And Build Up The System Take the Old Standard GROVE'S TASTELESS chill TONIC. You know what you are taking, as the formula is printed on every label, showing it is Quinine and Iron in a tasteless form. The Quinine drives out malaria, the fern builds up the system. 50 cents. Adv. Sympathetic. Meker—Poor man! Bleeker—To whom do you refer? Meeker—To the chap who is going to marry my former wife. 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Martin, editor of the Bethesda Blade, $Chicage, cor- rections a3 follows: , The Southern Baptist Conven- tion pledged themselves to §con- tribute the sum’ of $50}000 <in- stead of $15,000 for the school to be located at Memphis, Tenn. by the Negro ;Baptist. _ Rev Martin feels to abuse his brethren because they do not a- gree with him on_ his ffree-will ordination, open communion, alien immersion, and the cherch federation. Waated—100 customers at the Last Chance grocery to buy 3 cans of best tomatoes and coro for 25, _ Ordination Licentiate license | blanks at the Gazette office, BeMrs, Z. A. Vallee bas hair oods in every style and shape. These goods are at my residence ‘on Gth St., third house from Bap- tist Church. There were several S. S. of the Mt. Olive convention which met in Mt. Vernon, recently, among them was Sincere S.S., New Brownfield, but it is reported to ug that Rev. J. H. Hilly their was made delegate and given the ‘money and as he failed to report and’ as we want every school in within the next tea days, they cansend their letter and money to Miss Carrie Urquhart, reeord- ing Qseeretary, Metropolis, who will receipt for same and place in ‘the minutes. The editor, is at home again ‘alter, being away for 3 months. Thanks to our patrons who res ponded to the call for money from our son George who had charge of the paper im our absence. Rambler certainly enjoyed the hospitality of those Mt. Vernon people during our stay in the city While attending the Mt, Olive Baotist $, S. convention, Rev. johnson Long and daughter ee Rev. Lev. Thompson and ie ee OS eT ee Cee Ce oe eS | ghter, Miss Mamie, Mr, and Mrs. | Will Calloway and Mc. and Mrs, 1G. D Norris, certafuly know bew ‘to entertain their guest Rambler, was a member of 4 party for last Sunday July qth at the home of Bro, Washington |Shelton at his farm home. Mr | Samuer and fimily of Belgrade, and the children of the host ef Brookport were present Mr, Shelton understands how to provide for his invited guests, We also was aninvited guest at the home of Mr. and Mrs. S. Sumner the 3rd Sunday in June and we had a delightful time and we are willing and looking for- ward to the time when we are re- quested to make another visit. Rev. A. Chavis, pastor of the Baptist church, has just finished anew church building at Marion, built of concrete blocks, He is tobe highly commended for his faithful work at that place, The members rallied to his support with willing hands and finance which wasso much needed, The dedication isto take place the 2aod Sunday in July. This is to be a high day. Metropolis. isa thriving busy little city with mcre than one million dollars to be expended within the next year for railroad work alone to say nothing @fthe other work of the city, ‘The old soldiers and the wia- ows of the same are being made happy this week, Mr. and Mrs, Nelson Barnett of Marion, are to be compliment- ed for their kind treatment to the deregates on their way to and from the convention afew days ago Father McCrary, is very low with a slight chaace for recovery. Awmos Strong, an old citizen of Metropolis, died Monday morn- ing after along illness, Funeral was held Thursday. The Unity Baptist church will begin a series of meetings trom the 2nd Sunday. All are cord- ially invited to be present and as- sistas inthe work. Rev. Mc- Crary, pastor, will preach Thurs- day .and Friday nights of this week. Itis the intention of the members. to put in their found- ation ‘rext month for their new church building. Mary Jarriett has gone to St, Shuis, to visit her parents. Mr. and Mrs Oscar Jarriett. Letter Heads and Envelopes can be had for the asking at this office. We print them. For Groceries and cold drinks go the First or Last Chance Gro- cery on oth and Pearl Sts, Send us a trial order for the Great Nature Selve, soc a Box, Why suffer when you can be re- lieved for such asmall amount. Read our guarantee on the front page of The Gagetre | For lady’s ready trimmed hats go to Mrs. Vallee. FOR SALE. 1 Walout Bed Room Set. 1 Hall Tree. 1 Pair Large Pillows. 1 Walnut Parlor Set. 1 Feather Bed, 1 Set Bed Springs. Call at my home on Gth Street. 7. A. VALLEE NOTICE, Reader if a blue or red mark appears on the head of your pa- per marked with an [X] itis to notify you that you owe for the paper and must pay at once, $100 Reward, $100. The readerd of this paper ‘will. ‘be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease thet science has beet able to cure in-all its stages, and that is fcatarrh, Hall's tcatarah cure is the oely postive cure nownow knowr to the medical {fraternity, Catarrh he- ing a constitutional disease, requires + constitutional treatment. Hall's ca- tarrh is taken internally, acting direct ly upon the blood and mucous [surface of the system, thereby {destroying th. foundation of the disease, fand giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in do- ing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for lany case that it fails ta cure, send for list of testimonials, Address F. J. CHENEY a 0., Tole- do, 0. "Sold by all Druggists, 7c. ‘Take Hall's Family Pills for consti- paticn. Ball 6a me Another fast Game played in Metropolis by the Metropolis Gi- ants and Cairo Cubs Nonday Jnly 5th, at Neville Park. Metropolis defeated Cairo by a score 3-2, Anderton umpire: Time 1 hr, 25 min, With Blakemore en the mound and Hall the receiver for Metrop: olis the Giants defeated the Cubs ina hardlought battle, both teams struggling hard for the bacos. The first inning Cairo made two runs on. errors but efter this the boys tightened up and didn’t another cub cross the pan, The, Giants stepped then and tied the scores, In the last half of-the second another run was was made by Holland the Giants right fielder, From then on the score weat up without a score. Battery tor Caiso, McMurray and Russell, Struck out by Blakemore the speed ‘‘king’’ 13 McMurray 5 two base hits off Blakemore 1 off McMurray 4. The final score 3-2. Hall caught one of the best game ever seen during his ball career and his peg to second could not be handled by Fossie. Metropolis has one of the fast- est inthis part of the state and book with any first class team. THE GIANTS LINE UP Eugene Faulkner 348 base Reed Hughes short stop Wa Eossie 2nd base | Walter Jones Ist base George McCrary center field | Lester Holland right field Charles Hall catcher Breest Evans Jett field Charles Blakemore pitcher Walter Miller sub catober Terrell Lyons piteher Samuel Upshaw bencb Wm Adams, Manager, Little Ethel Williams, daugh- ter of Captain Arthur Williams, of Company M of Metropolis. IIl., arrived in the city Wednesday to spend afew weeks with Mrs. Lou Ella Young, of 3556 Forest Ave.— Minois Idea. « Miss Edith Jones, left for Chi- cago, this weck to be at the bed- side of ber aunt Mrs, Maggie J. Brooks, of 4546 State street” has been very sick. | from Hie Own Expertence. A west end schoo! teacher told 8 funny ono the other day. Tho teacher wee attempting to drill the cluss fp the use of the word “folt.” She ex pected some one af the children to eay “The toe folt cold” or “The stove felt hot,” or something of the sort She wae much discouraged when one little ‘alien who hed raised bis hand to vol ntoor a sentence eald: “I tak dowe ¢taira."—Doston Post. One of Man's Oldest Works, ‘The necropolis at Bahrein, the cem ter of the gulf pearl Osheries, fs one ‘of the otéaet pleces of man’s bands work ta the world. Wo ere meee tS 1.C R,R. Time Cara soar nooxo [Teal nombers. Armen. Leave, on wom eine iu tone tape See Yon alate | ehalpeneas | ae 0,904. m. 10:10, m. ~ 2:28pm. 285 p. am, HOW'S THIS? We offer One Hundred Dollars Re- | ard for any case of Catarrah that can- not be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. PF. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo 0, We, the undersigned, have known F. ‘J. Cheney for the last 16 years, and be- lieve him perfectiy honorable in alj busineas 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 inter- nally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. ‘Testimonials sent free. Price 7% cents per bottle. Sold by all Draggists. Take Hall,s Family Pills for consti- pation. Notice Of Publication In Attack ment. S. BARTLETT KERR. ATTY. State of Illinois, Maseac County S. § In the Cireuit Court of Massae County Ii, August Term 1915, Mattic 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 @ writ of attachmenthas been sued out of the office of the Clerk of the Cireuit Clerk of said County of {Maseuc ‘at the suit of the said Mattie Miller and against the estate of you, the said Fhullip P. Poveinanand iturgaret Pore- man for one iundred sixty and 26 one hundred doliars, besides interost, di- rected to the Sherritt o: aid County to execute, which suid writ has been re- turned by said Sherritt executed, the detendents not found and as having levied on the following described real estate to-wit: AW of Block No, One Hundred Twenty six (126) except One Hundred ‘Thirty- six feet off of the East side thereof and situated in the City of Metropolis, Massac County, Llinvis, subject to a mortgage recorded in book “4” page 6 04 murtages in Lhe recorders office of Maseae County, Niinots, in favor of ku- | gene Lafont for $150.00, and an un- divided one bait interest in « part of Crs West Half of Section Thirty five (8), Township Fifteen (10) south, ange Four(4) east 3rd P. df. more partrcurarly described as follows: Begining st a point where the new Vienna road intersects the Jonesboro Roud, ssid point being 190 feet due North of the Stone set for and being a quarter section corner for and between fections 4 and U5 of said township and range, thence from said point dua south on section line 72 rods to the North line of a4 aeve tract sold to one Wentzel, thence Kast with North line of Wentzel tract, b4 rods to the centre of Jonesboro road; thence in a Northwesterly course with gentre line of ssid Jonesboro road 90 1-2 rods to place of begining, said tract contains 12 9-10 acres by survey Jess that portion sold to the Hernn & Southern Railroad Co. by deed reeord- ‘ed in Vol, 20” of deeds at page 488 in in the Recorders office of Massac County, Litinois, Now, unless you, the said Phillip P. Foreman and Margaret Foreman shall personaily be and appear before the Cireuit 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 Au- gust next, give special bail and plead to said action, judgement will be enter- ed against you in favor of the «aid plaintiff end the property uttached aoid to satisfy the same, with costs. Arthur H. Finley, Clerk. Metropolis, Miinois, May 15th, 1916 Native Salve. We have just recived some more of Native Salve and it is going very fast, those in Carbon- and Md. City can secure a box or more now by $0¢, per box. Act quick if you want it, Send all orders to Rev, J. B. McCrary, Moavy Annual Ralntaft. The rainfall of a village among the Bills of Avcam, during the ton weeks (rom May 1 to July ¢ this yeat, Was 260 inches. Tho village is Cherrapua Mt, the faintest spot in Asta end pre sumably fn the world. Ite anpual fale fall {9 comething over 450 inoboe—eay, Giteen times es mech es London Cherrapunji stands an @ plateau, orer Joking the plain of Syihea, and it i 8.455 fect above sea level. —Westmnia eter Gazette. c SSBraetrteate tren PRG TES, Badd Saleen Li ingston fnstitute Metropolis - = Illinois Second Session Opens Monday March 8th 1915 This schoo! is weli graded and equipped Grammar School Deportment, Ali work is well organized under Departmen tal and able Instructors, selected tor Special Departmenta work 4 in Music, Hookeeping, Shorthand Special Courses ir, ‘Wriion “bible. Stady and in Theology. Entrance Fee $2.00 a Session Tuiti + Tuition Theological Department Tuition, Normal and English coureses per month each ‘' 1.00 Tuition, lasteumental music (inckucing rent of instrument)... z meas ‘i ‘ odcinek scamicagsSo Ce Tvition Typewritiog (including reat) per month......... ** 1.50 Tuition Piain Sewing per montl ence | OO) Tvition, Vocal music ooepteentthmsossioniie stig SUN Tvition Printing 2... a cca LS igs . Domestic Science, Milli- Industrial Deparments Pomsstic Science, Mite per month Printing Free Board and rooms can be secured Board and Rooms (r7 esmitena «reson ble rate In every case, 4 weeks wit! be counted for asehool month All charges must be paid in advance. For any information and Prospectus Address J. B. McORARY, Supt. and Sec’y. Box 107 . Metropolis, Ill. RESTAURANT FOR SALE. * Carbondal, Illinois My Restaurant, which consists of a complete up-to-date outfit eppesite the I. C. Depot; good location and resonable good basiness. Reason for selling poor health. Terms:- Cash or one half down. James Robinson Proprietor. Trustees of tho Livingston Normal, Tueotogt ted cal and Jadustrial Institute. i 5 , oy A JH. Koo®ies, D. D., President { J.B. MoOrary, 8. T. B., Secretary | f L) } a) Eimet | 4 see = ee Wow. J, Blake. | ea)| el Rew. H. Allison ete = Rev, G, W. Rowlett oe a Rev. 0.0. Phflips, Pinanctsl Agt. | Best a = Rev. H. B. McWilliams i ts — Ca a wer > at FEED MIXER !3 CONVENIENT Barrot Swung on Pivots by Extend Ing Round Wooden Arlo Through Ite Eceliy Moved, A farmer who foods @ number of hogs uses cevoral toed mixors, such &s shown in the sccompanying illus tratlos, eays Farm, Stock and Home A barrel to swung cn pivots by elthor ‘extending a round wooden axle through tho barrel, es at B, or by fastening fron trunnions to opposite sides of eamo with bolts, The berrol ts then suspended In the cir tn tho wooden frame, ne iilustrated. Peed of all Kinds ‘that ts mixed with water may bo quickly mixed tn this devico, and aa quickly emptied th tho trough D Coan ; a a aay aes Wey 7 Handy Foed Mixer. by raletng the barrel and tipping the teod out in the trough. Tre tipping handio 1s shown at C, and a water pipe with tap at A. Two men can eesily move this devien = tavite It. 5 If you want opportunity to knock yt your door tomorrow you've get to Ee's via for it today. (a. Maye 2 fe * . a “ Lip, - Ey =I " one was — The ay wey ) get the genuine 24 | New Home pees Sewing Machine 1 AY) fe to buy the machine ; withthe name NEW ASE HOME ca the gem J DAGa nd in the loge /| ran ‘This machine fe ay warranted for all ae No other like it A st No other as good @ The How Home Sewlag Machine Company, ORANGE, MASS. For Sale by W. P. Baynes, Metropolis, Ill. RHEUMATIC SUFFERERS GIVEN QUIOK RELEF = Pain leaves almost a as if by magic whea Brope ibe fameteck i wont for Rheuma- tism, Lumbago, Gout, mas Sciatica, ee le intact ut 4 po ape ‘the aches [GEORG ite Lovin ing, Cot y a bottle of “S-Drops* today, A booklet with each bottle gives full “ directions for nse, ee TDbrome Dette ae Ise i EP ene Ga ae eice cee bak Swanson Rheumatic Cure Co, pom ‘Obio, and a boitle of “S-Drops” will ‘ent prepaid.