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METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS DR. FISHER DEAD; NOTED MINISTER CALLED BEYOND DIED SATURDAY AFTER NOON AT HIS RESIDENCE, 2940 SOUTH PARK AVENUE. WAS A FRIEND TO YOUNG MEN Members Loyal to Him—Praised by His Big Congregation. Dr. E. J. Fisher, D. D. L. D. & W., pastor of the Olivet Baptist church, Chicago, Ill., passed away at his residence, 1940 South Park avenue, at 3:15 p.m. Saturday, July 31. The doctor had been confined since last April. His illness was attributed to overwork which caused a nervous breakdown. Dr Fisher was called to the pastorate of Olivet in 1903, since that time he has accomplished a great work in building up the baptist denomination throughout the northwest. Shortly after his arrival under great odds he began to organize by calling various ministers from the South and placing them in various charges where most needed. It is unnecessary to call them by name as they are all making good. It is well to say that due to his ability the Baptist church today is a power in the Northwest. Olivet Baptist Church. We recall there was no Olivet. Only the frame stood half completed with a deserted membership, which was worshiping in Arlington Hall. Thirty first street and Indiana avenue, with a sherriff's notice tacked upon the door' reading "Church closed by creditors" A few loyal members banded themselves together led by Steven Griffin, Hicking bottom and others. Feeling that there was yet hope that the building could be saved they formed themselves into a committee and after searching east, west, north and south, they finally in a search throughout the South succeeded in finiDr. E. J. Fisher, whom they succeeded in interesting to come to this city for the purpose of taking charge of Olivet as pastor. According to records, the doctor did not accept or send for his family until he was able to satisfy those who held the notes against the church, which amounted to $46,000. He personally a s sted financially by lending $1,000—which sum he often said was his last dollar—without time or interest; or otherwise doubtless there would not have been a building today at Twenty-seventh and Dearborn streets known as the Olivet Baptist Church. Accepting the pastorate it was not long before 600 members names were enrolled. Since that time he has succeeded in clearing the church of its debt of $46,000 paying off his creditors with the exception of less than $5,000, besides completing the interior at a cost of $17,000, and also building up a memorialship of 3,500 No By A. C. Fox AUG 1 2 1916 greater work has been accomplished in this city by any minister regardless of denomination. Dr. Fisher was well educated a biblical scholar, a teacher and a leader among the race. He had an open heart, ready at all times to give aid to the needy it was not a question as to what denomination that one might belong in case of need; he was always ready to assist. His character and life will long live in our hearts and in our homes. It was a misfortune of the deceased to lose control of his voice within less than one month of his confinement. Nearing the end of his life he became almost speechless and recognized only close acquaintances. He never complained of pain or aches. It was said by one of the family who stood at his bedside at the time of his death that in the last moment "Father only smiled and that was all" Dr. Fisher was born in LaGrange, Ga. August 2, 1857. He was converted and baptized in 1893. He married Miss Flora Neily September 25, 1877, whom he leaves a devoted widow, with two daughters, three sons, a brother and a daughter-in-law to mourn his loss. Dr... Fisher entered the Atlanta Baptist College in 1880 and graduated from the theological department. In 1902 he graduated from the same department of the Chicago University with honors. He was Vice president of the National Baptist Convention including other honors. He was called to Olivet Baptist church Jan. 26, 1903. He was sent by the churoh a few ago to Scotland as a delegate to the international [S. S., convention which convened in Glasgow. His last two acts nationally were, first, to invite the National Baptist Convention which convened in Philadelphia last year to hold its next session at Olivet Baptist church, Chicago, Ill., which was accepted by the convention and the church. His second act was the stand he took against the segregation bill, protesting against the adoption of said measure. His last act locally was his activity in aiding in the election of Oscar De Priest as aid man of the Second Ward, Chicago, Ill. Big Baptizing. There was a big baptizing at Brookport, Sunday at 1:30 p.m. the result of a successful revival conducted at the Unity Baptist church by pastor Rev. J. B. McCrary, assisted by Rev. C. W. Norment of Carbondale. There have been 9 conversions, 7 joined the Baptist church six were baptized Sunday. The meeting is still in progress. Rev. McCrary, certainly delivered some able sermons Sunday both at the church and at the water. He is an able advocate of God's word and the baptist doctrine. Good crowds were at the church all day and highly appreciated those sermons. We have an influential and an intelligent pastor. —Illinois Idea. MOTTO : "HEW TO THE LINE. LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY." We want to begin our church in the near future. So come out and assist us. Revs. McCrary and Norment and Edgar McCrary were guest of Mrs. Rhodes for dinner Friday and Mr and Mrs. Wash Childres for supper. Rev. McCrary and wife took dinner at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Chas Landers Sunday and at the home of Mrs. Moreland for supper. DR. E. J. FISHER DEAD. Dr. E. J. Fisher, D. D. L. L. D., the successful pastor of Olivet Baptist church, Chicago, has gone the way of all the earth, after being confined to his home about five months, caused from an acute nervous break-down the result of overwork. He was a successful pastor and one of the best known Baptist preachers in the United States, a man of ability and high standing. Peace to his ashes and and the Gazette extends sympathy to his widow and children. A Successful Farmer. Thos, P. King, is one of the most successful farmers of Massachusetts. He threshed 1,700 bushels of wheat and will have about 200 tons of fine timothy hay. He has a fine crop of coin, especially the early planting. MAYOR THOMPSON KEEPING PLEDGES Gives Recognition to Another Negro in Prosecutor's Office. Mayor William Hale Thompson added another name to his list of appointments among the Negroes Monday. This time it was J. M. Blumfield, one of the principle workers during the Thompson campaign and a well known politician of the Twenty-first ward, Mr. Blumfield was appointed as an assistant city attorney at a salary of $1,8000 per year. The mayor is setting a record in this line of appointments which is the largest in the history of Chicago EIGHTH REGI- MENT ENCAMP FAMOUS FIGHTING BOYS Leave Town Amidst Cheers and Friendly Greetings Everywhere. The Eighth Regiment left Friday for their annual encampment in Springfield. Vast crowds greeted them everywhere. The boys left with larger hearts this time than ever before, because of the assurance recently given in the way of finances that their beautiful armory will soon be completed so there will be ample room for the members of the regiment. Please allow me space in your worthy paper. The New Hope Baptist church is progressing nicely in every respect. S. S. at 9:30. Services at 11 a. m. Rev. Parmel preached a At 8 o. clock Rev. williams, of Centralia, preached a grand sermon using for his subject the "House" which was beautifully discussed. Collection $3.00. Rev. Williams boarded the I. C passenger this a.m. going South. The Lillie Club will give an entertainment on the lawn of the church. The Blooming Rose gave an entertainment and rendered a nice program. Mrs I C. Owens, Mrs. Fred Shepherd and little Annie Mae Smith were St. Louis, passengers. Mr E. C. Worthom, is improving his home by building more room and new fence and painting. Reporter. HARRISBURG. Mr. John Meyers died Friday and the remains were taken to Unintown Ky. Saturday for burial. Mr. Given's daughter is lying at the point of death at her home. I offer the following topics to be discussed at next meeting of Ministers Union in Sept. which is important to the Paptist of this district. 1st Can a Baptist church delegate its power to the pastor and deacons. 2nd Can a Church do away with Church Meeting's and leave it in the hands officers to transact business and not bring it before the church. 3rd Can a church meeting be held without the church being present. Just the officers and pastor. Yours respa Rev. Geo Brown. 429 W Church NEGROES CHECK MOB CROWD CHASES MAN. Others Interfere and Cause Great Excitement in Detroit. Detroit, Mich., Aug. 1.—One man was shot and a woman and two men were stabbed in a fierce race riot in Hastings street this evening. Five arrests were made. Two Negroes approached a woman alighting from a car and cut the strings that held the handbag over her arm. The Negroes fled, pursued by a crowd. One took refuge in a car. The trollery pole was lowered, and the crowd surrounded the car. Bricks, sticks and stones were hurled at the car, and the passengers hurried out. Standing alone in the car, the Negro stabbed Max Reisman, who attempted to remove him. Then reinforcements of twenty five Negroes hurled themselves on the whites. They scattered and fled down Hastings street. The yelling Negroes pursued them with knives and revolvers until stopped by the police. A devoted son who recently returned from the California expo tion, where he and his wife enjoyed a pleasant trip, on last Friday, July 30, was asked by his sister to assist in bringing their mother home from the hospital, where she had been sick for some weeks. He was also asked to pay half of the taxi fee. Said son is a great Christian worker. The answer was, "Yes, I will do my part." His mother has been disabled for the last five years, being cared for by her daughter. Said son has plenty of money to travel around but not any to spend on dear mother who worked after the early death of his father and gave him a trade as printer. Now mother is left on the hands of her daughter and son-in-law, who are willing to do all they can for her until death. Notwithstanding the son said he would do his part, this is the postal card his sister received next morning. "Dear Sister—You called me up last night and asked me to help pay mama's taxi bill. Well, I cannot. I have been to a great expense in the last four morties and I cannot help you. Anyway mother has worn herself out by working for you, and so now that she is he pless it is no more than right for you to take care of her. Mother will do the same thing for you again that has nearly cost her her life, and now is the time for you to show your appreciation by doing all that you can to make her comfortable and happy. I don't know when I will be out as Saturday I have work at home, so you will have to get —— to go to the hospital for you. The Great Native Salve Cure an earthly remedy that will HULF Cure you. Price 50c a Box. My agent Henry Bonds, is stopping at 1017 Broadway—See him at once. Satisfaction or your money refunded. No fake to this. I have money on deposit at State National Bank of Metropolis, Ill., to back it up. Ask Bonds he'll explain all. Call on him at 1017 Broadway, Metropolis, Ill. W. H. BEAN; son owner, 786 Indianapolis Ave. Muskogee, Okin. 1,000 testimonials sent free on request. NOTES ON RACIAL PROGRESS. Mr. John Mitchell, Jr., editor "The Plant" has recently installed in his plant a new No. 14 Linotype, the latest creation of Margenthaler Linotye Company, of New York, and the first machine of the type to be introduced in this district, comprising Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia and North Carolina. It has a range of adjustability hitherto unattained in a machine with such new complicated parts. It makes and sets the type for both straight matter and job work. The Art of Sleeping Slumber commences at the extremities, beginning with the feet and legs. That is why it is always necessary to keep the feet warm.—Family Doctor. AGRICULTURE IS DENMARK'S PRIDE SUPPLEMENTAL SYSTEM OF POP- ULAR SCHOOLS GIVEN CREDIT BY WRITER. By Edwin O. Cooley. It is generally agreed by agricul- tural experte that little Denmark is a wonder. Here is a group of barren islands and peninsulas, with a total area about one-fourth that of Illinois, much of the soft swamp and much of it sand, which leads the world in agricul- tural matter. Look at this table of the agricul- tural schools of the country, of the number of courses and hours and students, isn't this the answer? Agricultural schools 23 5.8 9 460 329 1,011 Agricultural schools for small farmers 3 5.9 628 194 771 Delay schools 3 5.8 607 269 183 Horticultural schools (including pro- fessional instruction) 3 5.12 424 945 68 People's high schools with special courses in agriculture 5 223 107 83 People's high schools without special ag- gricultural courses but giving more than fifty hours of instruction to mul- tiple students (agricultural instruction) 35 5 106 82 1,067 The Dahla believe that the farmer must supplement his own experience with the experience of others. For this, reason the government has a system of more than one hundred agricultural counsellors, whose business it is to go about the country making experiments and giving lectures and demonstrations, conducting excursions, etc., for farmers. But as it is seen that such work cannot amount to much unless the way is prepared for it, the system of schools outlined above has been established to give theoretical instruction. Most of the work is done during the winter months, although there are also supplementary courses of a practical nature during the summer months, and courses for girls and women are given at that time. These schools, curiously enough, are private institutions, established by individuals or by agricultural associations. After they have been conducted successfully for two years with an attendance of at least ten students, the government grants each a small subsidy of about $750 as well as an aid to students who need it. According to the Danish plan, country boys after leaving the elementary schools, work on the land for several years. Then they attend for one winter a "people's high school;" an institution which is for its male object the fostering of the spirit of cooperation and patriotism. Agricultural subjects, when they are taught at all, are subordinated to subjects of general culture. After that the young farmer is advised to extend an agricultural winter school, and after his winter there to continue taking short courses in special branches of the subject and to get the help of the agricultural counsellors as long as he needs them. STUDY IN WINTER FOR SUMMER WORK GERMANS APPLY SCIENCE LEARNED IN SCHOOLS—UNDER AGRICULTURAL EXPERT. The idea of utilizing the experience of farm boys as a basis for theoretical instruction during the five slack months in winter, so that the experience of each new season shall be increasingly valuable, originated in Germany about fifty years ago. Many farmers could not afford to send their sons away to school and do without their help for two years. Boys brought up on a home farm would not gain especially by two summers of practice work. What they needed chiefly was to be shown where they rode their mistaken, and where they could get better results. On this theory this system of special winter schools, quite distinct from the regular school system, has gradually grown up. Now they are the most powerful factor in German agricultural education, which has brought the country to a large degree of independence in the matter of food supplies. THE BALLOON PATCH Became Means of Reuniting Two Lovers Who Had Quarreled and Parted. By CLARISSA MACKIE. (Copyright, 1915, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) (Copyright, 1915, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate) Donald Warren carefully blotted the sheet of paper and reread the letter written in his splashing black characters. It was a manly letter of regret over a mistake he had made—a misunderstanding between Donald and the girl he love, and it had parted them. He was in the wrong, and he frankly acknowledged it. Then he had poured out his love and his longing for a reconciliation. He slipped the letter in an envelope and addressed it to Marjorie Hinman at her father's country home over on the other side of the island. His young nephews were calling him with lusty lungs: "Uncle Don! Come and open the box of fireworks!" Smiling, he went out on the lawn where the expressman had dumped the packing case. The three boys were pecking at the boards with hammers and chisel. "I expect if we were to set off the whole box it would shake the island," boasted little Frank. "I'll bet Aunt Marjorie could hear it," remarked Bob. Donald reddened hotly. He paused with one sunbrowned arm in midair. "Aunt Marjorie?" he repeated grimly. "Where did you learn that?" Bob shrugged carelessly. "Cousin Patty said when you and Miss Marjorie were married, why, she'd be our aunt. So I asked her if she minded our calling her Aunt Marjorie right off—just to get used to it, you know," he explained. "What did she say?" asked Donald. "She got awful red and said I was a dear and she guessed she didn't mind. Just like a girl not to know whether she did mind or not!" he added contemptously. "When did this happen?" When did this happen? "Last week. I say, Uncle Don, hurry up and open it, won't you, please?" Amid the splintering of pine covers and the chatter of the boys Donald's thoughts ran swiftly. She had said it last week. Ah! Last week all had been well with them; their happiness seemed assured. But now, because of his unreasoning jealousy, their bliss had turned to sorrow and bitterness. There was one comfort, he thought—when he received his repentant letter she might relent. He would take it down and mail it that evening. She would receive it the next morning, the Fourth, and perhaps she would call him by telephone to tell him that he was forgiven and that he must come across the island at once. Perhaps she would meet him half way! His meditations were drowned in a chorus of excited cries as his nephrops fell upon the fireworks and sorted them into shape. "Look, Uncle Don," cried Ned. "One of these fire balloons is torn." "I'll put a patch on it," said Donald. "We'll send that fellow up now, eh? There's a good stiff breeze. Bob, go and bring me the pot pot and a sheet of paper." "Here comes Cousin Patty," said Frank, running to meet the little gosipy, bright-eyed relative whose cottage was almost at the end of the cliff. "Well, Patty?" smiled Donald, as he shook hands. "I am well, Don," said Cousin Patty. "I've been fishing all morning off the Topstone light." "Not much—except that I caught Peter Gray's scarlet sweater and nearly pulled him overboard!" giggled Patty. "Peter Gray—here?" scowled Donald, for he was jealous of young Gray, who had a singularly winning way with him. "Stopping at the Hinnmans, I suppose, as usual. He was out there fishing with Marjorie and her sister. Our boats were quite close together, and my line flew over my head and the hook caught in his collar. It was all very funny. Peter said it would have been a fair capture only he had been hooked already." Donald's face darkened. He wondered if it was one of Gray's ill-timed jests or had Marjorie really accepted him on the rebound? Jealousy possessed him again and he lost his temper. He was glad he had not sent the letter. When Patty had gone on to the house Bobby came running back with the pot of paste. "I couldn't find any paper, Uncle Don," he said. "I have some here," said Don, and, tearing open his letter to Marjorie, he deliberately pasted it over the torn place in the paper balloon. He smiled grimly as his eyes fell upon the opening words: "My darling." Judged by all appearances, she was Peter Gray's darling, he argued, as he helped his nephew light the wick and inflate the balloon. "Which way is the wind, Uncle Don?" asked Ned. "Northwest, and blowing strong," replied Don. "Your balloon will blow out to sea, kiddies!" "And we'll play that what's writen on the patch is a mess. go to some shipwrecked sailor on a desert island," suggested imaginative Bob. "Anything you like," agreed Donald. It was midafternoon of the day before the Fourth when Donald and his nephews stepped back and allowed the balloon to rise up, rooking to and fro until it found balance in a higher current of air. They watched it until it disappeared beyond the trees of the hill back of the house. Then the boys returned to gloat over the fireworks and to store them away for the morrow's celebration, while Donald threw himself into a hammock and flung an arm across his aching eyes. Peter Gray sat on the beach with his arm around a very pretty girl—Gertrude Hinman. Marjorie, with her shoulder discreetly turned to the lovers, gazed sadly out to sea. "See who's here!" chirruped Peter blithely. Marjorie looked around and her glance followed Peter's pointing finger. Behind them, lazily drifting down to the beach, was a limp paper balloon. Its fire was extinguished, and in the shelter of the cliff, where there was no wind, it was coming to earth. "Observe the patch," said Peter as the balloon neared them. Marjorie got up and walked toward the futtering thing, holding up her slim tanned arms to catch it. "Doesn't it look odd?" she laughed over her shoulder, and then the balloon was in her grasp—a smoky, smelling crush of paper with a stiff white patch covered with splashing black characters in a handwriting she knew so well. She tore the letter from the balloon and crushed it into her pocket. Then, flinging the mass of red paper on the ground, she sped to the shelter of the pine grove, where she spread open the letter and read it with shining eyes. Her heart beat madly as she read Donald's confession and apology. "The dear, dear boy!" she murmured softly. "But what a funny way to send a letter? Shall I telephone-or-yes, I will!" In a few moments she was talking to Mrs. Warren. "Donald is down on the beach, Marjorie," said Donald's sister-in-law. "He's sitting there, staring at the sea as if he contemplated jumping in. I'll send Bobby after him. Wait a moment." Donald received the message and went to the telephone with scowling face. "Yes?" he inquired politely. "Donald," wavered Marjorie's voice, "I—I received your letter." "My letter? What—tell me what you mean," he gasped. "Why, didn't you send me a letter by balloon?" she asked tearfully. "Yes, I did," declared Donald, bravely. "I—I'm coming over—may I" "I'm expecting you," said Marjorie, ringing off. When they met he clung to her hands while he repeated the contents of his letter and begged forgiveness. "I was a beast to be so jealous," he admitted; "but you know Gray has been hanging around here a lot!" "He had to," said Marjorie with dancing eyes. "Gertrude is wretchedly lonesome when he's away." "Gertrude?" "They're engaged, you know," explained Marjorie sweetly. Then Donald made a clean breast of how his letter came to be patched upon the balloon. "I thought it would go out to sea," he said. "It was kindly fate that bore it into my hands," she whispered. Cost of a Long Tall. On the highway between Dieppe and Gournay, France, there is an interesting wayside inn that never fails to attract the attention of travelers who journey over the road. Nailed over the door of the inn there is a notice that reads: "Horses boarded here: Rates—Horse with a short tail 50 centimes a day. Horses with a long tail, one franc." No one could understand a discrimination among horses based on the length of their tails until a reporter for a Paris paper questioned the proprietor, and later published the explanation in his newspaper. The honest old inn keeper gave an amusing but logical answer to the reporter's question. "Why, that's very simple," he said. "A horse with a short tail is very much bothered by files and gnats. He is kept so busy driving them off with his head that he naturally cannot eat much. A horse with a long tail does not need to use his head to keep off the files, but can busy himself eating. In that way he eats more than the other. Therefore it is only logical that I should charge a higher rate for his board." The inn keeper's argument surely sounds reasonable. Youth's Companion. The Intoxicating Strawberry. It seems difficult to believe there can be any connection between the strawberries now coming to market and poison gases, but the association exists. The steamships bringing fruit from Brittany to Plymouth refuse to carry passengers when conveying a cargo of strawberries because of the intoxicating fumes given off by the berries when packed in bulk. Even the seamen have orders to keep on deck as much as possible. As strawberries, even tons of them, give off no very pungent smell, the theory has been advanced that the intoxicating effect of a cargo of the fruit is due to the fermentation of the sugar in the berries.—London Chronicle. METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE. METROPOLIS. ILL AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS Mound Bayon, Bolivar county, Miss., is an exclusively Negro town, carved from the virgin forests of hardwood and cane. Isaiah T. Montgomery founded the town 27 years ago. A party of his relatives and friends braved the panther, bear, wolf and other wild animals which infested Bolivar county at that time and labored with him in dragging a surveyor's chain through tanglewood for the town site. In casting their lot at this point the colonists selected what proved the center of the largest cotton producing county in the world. The soil is black loam in the higher parts and sticky, dense black land in the lower parts. The loam pulverizes easily and is almost ideal for cotton raising. It also produces pasture crops. The black land is the famous buckshot, which becomes flinty in summer, cracks and forms itself into clods resembling shot. The population of the town has grown from a small group to 1,000 in the corporate limits and to 7,000 in the settlement. The business has grown with it. There are 23 stores and shops, including two drug stores and a photograph gallery. The business of these stores is considerable and is growing. Each year the merchants are compelled to sell on closer margin, but much of the trade which sought nearby towns on account of greater variety of goods or lower prices made possible by larger stocks or better credit arrangements is pleased to stay at home. The American Express maintains an office there, with a Negro agent, and its business is upward of $500 a month. The railroad station, which is operated by a Negro, is about the ninth or tenth in importance between Vicksburg and Memphis. The commission to the ticket agent amounts to $1,200 a year. There are two licensed physicians, two lawyers and a real estate agent. There are six churches and the value of their property is around $17,000. The weak point is the school. The enrollment is more than 300, while the equipment is inadequate for 50 pupils. The teachers are poorly paid and the term is not more than five months. The Baptist college, which is maintained by a board of Negro women known as the "Woman's Auxiliary," holds forth in a two-story frame building and has some little provisions for boarding pupils! but its funds are very slim. The American Missionary association maintains a normal and industrial institute. The value of its property is about $4,000 and it costs about $2,000 a year. Efforts have been made, but with little success, to erect a small modern dormitory for boys. The fraternal insurance societies are well represented and the treasury department of the Masonic order, which handles about $100,000 a year, is there under the guidance of Charles Banks. The timber industry has been plied since the beginning of the town and still yields a neat revenue in logs, furniture, staves and spokes. Other woods are cut into framing material by the town sawmills. The three gins of the town wrap and tie most of the cotton raised in the community. The crop will yield this season more than 4,000 bales. The Cumberland Telephone company three years ago installed its system there with a Negro as local manager and with a woman assistant. It has 71 phones in operation. When the late Joshua Ellington's heirs came to settle up his estate, they found he had obligated himself to pay $700 for a privilege which would not have been available to Mr. Ellington until he was one hundred and seventeen years old. Moved by speeches of men prominent in church and business life of the South, 300 southern men and women, delegates to the World's Christian Endeavor convention, in session in Chicago, acknowledged brotherhood with the negro race and determined to extend to it the hand of fellowship. Out of this idea is to grow the southern extension committee of the Christian Endeavor, which Rev. Ira Landrith of Nashville, Tenn., calls the beginning of the Interdenominational Union of the Colored People. Doctor Landrith said: "We are going to take the Christian Endeavor into the Negro churches, organize new societies and help millions of blacks to enlightenment. God has placed at our door the greatest opportunity for Christian work that ever came to any missionaries anywhere." "The play is so old," said Buck Kliby yesterday in discussing one of the current attractions, "that the magazines have reviewed it." In the province of Ontario there are, including kindergartens, night schools, high schools, collegiate institutes and continuation classes, 6,942 public schools—all free—the yearly attendance of pupils being 500,000. Having secured the attention of the crowd, a man goes ahead and performs his trick. The exposition to commemorate fifty years' achievements of the free Negro, held at Richmond, Va., was because of the place selected for holding the exposition, of particular interest to the Negroes of the South. But it is something more than an event of local importance, for as a national celebration it is of interest to all Negroes and to all interested in the progress of the Negro race. President Wilson has issued a proclamation in which he says: "As president of the United States I bespeak the active interest of the nation in the exposition and trust that every facility will be extended to the leaders, whose earnest work has made the undertaking possible." Congress has appropriated $55,000 "to aid in the promotion and consummation" of the exposition, thus giving to the event a significance which, under private auspices, it might have had difficulty in commanding. Few are the Negroes who can draw, from personal experience, a comprehensive picture of the progress of the race since it was released from bondage. Since slavery days two generations have been born in freedom, and have accepted freedom as a normal state and nothing to wonder at. To them the statement that in 1860 not more than one Negro in a hundred possessed himself means nothing, for no Negro who did not actually live under slavery can realize that such an institution actually existed in a country founded on the principle that freedom is a right and not a privilege. To these new generations this exposition should mean a great deal. It should fix in their minds a vision of the progress of the race which no amount of imagining could give them, and it should inspire them with a desire to hand down to their children the traditions of slavery in order that they and succeeding generations may appreciate the blessings of liberty. A "whirlwind" membership campaign was outlined for the provisional organization, colored branch of the Young Women's Christian association at Indianapolis recently, when 81 members of the branch were present, each of these being made a captain of a team. It was decided to place 100 teams in the field with 500 new members as the objective. Previous to the meeting the city was districted and each of the teams will be expected to work in a definite section in order that the entire city may be thoroughly canvassed. The need of an association for colored women has never been more apparent than today when the rooming house problem is more serious than at any previous time in the history of the city. The high cost of living has increased the cost of board till it is impossible for the working girl outside of a profession to board and room, thus making cheap rooms desirable. These are usually found in the less desirable sections of the city, and the result is that the moral standard of the girls and women is being lowered. Those who feel the need of a Y. W. C. A. home for the colored women and girls of Indianapolis, whether members of the branch or not, are urged to join in this campaign and do something for it if nothing more than to take out a membership or secure one member. It is up to the Christian people of the colored churches and the clubs organized for uplift work to give their assistance in this effort.—Indianapolis News. The so-called death watch, with its due to nothing more serious than the mysterious ticking at night time, is furniture beetle. This larva of an insect burrows into the furniture, making the pin-holes which are often seen in old furniture. Jerry Neal, colored, of Cave Spring, Ga., celebrated his one hundred and twenty-fourth birthday anniversary a few days ago. He is, so far as is known, the oldest person in Georgia, if not in the United States. He has papers which establish his age beyond question, and the oldest inhabitants of Floyd county remember that Jerry was a grown-up man when they were in their kiltsies. Jerry, the father of forty-four sons and daughters, distinctly remembers the war of 1812, and many of the Indian wars. He is now a widower, but has been married three times. He is well and hearty, but uses a cane when walking. Recent investigations seem to prove that Bahla, Brazil, is the oldest city on the American continent, having been founded in 1549, or 35 years before St. Augustine, Fla. Italian farmhouses need improving, according to the opinion of the government, which has offered $7,585 in premiums to be awarded for encouraging the construction of model farm buildings. If a man can get his own consent to make an absurd or preposterous statement the probabilities are that the newspapers will print it. Tell a woman the truth and she will not only grow indignant, but probably will claim that you have insulted her. A A Summer Vacation Avoid needless work, especially hot cooking, and plan to get all possible rest and leisure. There are many ways. For instance, a hot breakfast is uncalled for in summer. There's no excuse for early morning cooking with Post Toasties in the house. 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In every generation there is apt to spring up a body of men who, adding to natural abilities and an uncommon stock of assurance a certain amount of specialized knowledge, terrorize the rest of the world under the guise of "experts." Thinking that they find something rotten in the state of Denmark, incapable of calm reflection, and eager for notoriously, they hit upon a specific for what is amiss, compared with which all others are spurious imitations. Their field of interest may range from solar mythology to eugenics, but the threefold badge of the tribe is an overweening belief in their own infallibility coupled with a proportionate contempt for ordinary human beings, the command of a barbarous jargon and an irrepressible desire to badger and bully their unfortunate fellow-creatures. Hard to Please Everybody. "Doublelady is always trying so hard to correct his own faults that he never has time to find fault with other people." "In that case he ought to be popular with his neighbors." "You'd think so, but they accuse him of being self-centered." Willing to Help. "I don't see anything the matter with you," said the doctor. "Oh, well, I guess I can relieve you of that." The Kind. "Don't you want your son to make his mark in the world?" "Certainly, if it's a dollar mark." Any man who can hold a fussy baby for an hour without saying naughty words is in the same class with Job. MADE HIM CHANGE HIS SIGN Bachelor Found That Persistent Salesmen Had Some Other Way of Getting Business. An old bachelor, in order to prevent men annoying him by knocking at his door to dispose of their wares, affixed thereto a label to this effect: "Hawkers, take notice! The inhabitants of this house never buy anything at the door." Shortly afterward he was aroused by a loud knocking at his parlor window, and looking out he saw two fellows with clothes-props, mats, and pegs for sale. Throwing up the sash, he bawled: "Can you read?" "Yes, master," answered one. "Then don't you see a notice affixed to my knocker that I never buy anything at the door?" "To be sure we do. That's the reason why we thought we would make bold and try to do a little business at the window." The bachelor was pacified, and made a purchase. Immediately afterwards, however, he sent for a painter, and had the addition made to his announcement. "Nor at the window either." Incidentals. "This bill for your new frock is really a bit high," observed the plutocrat to his daughter. "Six thousand dollars is considerable to pay just for an auto suit." "But, papa, the suit itself is quite inexpensive. The most of that bill is for the trimmings." "Trimmings?" "Yes. I spent $5,200 for an auto of the right tint to match the suit."—Puck. On the Right Track "While you were captive of the cannibals, captain, why didn't you teach 'em not to eat people up?" "Well, I did have er try, youngster, but the best I c'd do was to larn 'em not ter eat wiv their knives!"—Puck. An Easy Victim. "What is your attitude toward tipping?" "Oh, the usual one." "And that is?" "A weak-kneed deference to a foolish custom." The number of men who believe a troupe of trained seals owes them a living seems to be increasing. You will never get ahead by following the crowd. cation At Home specially hot cooking, and plan sure. For instance, a hot breakfast There's no excuse for early coasties in the house. and and children better than asties with cream or good milk. aving this dainty food and you worry. entry it takes but a moment to h that pleases all--you save but Toasties from your grocer ation. WITH BARNS FULL OF STOCK Didn't Look Much Like Hard Times in Western Canada. A. Meyer, who left one of the best Counties in Minnesota, probably because he got a good price for his excellent farm, and left for the Canadian West, writes to his local paper, the Bagley Independent. His story is well worth repeating. He says: "To say I was greatly surprised when I reached Saskatchewan and Alberta would be expressing it mildly. In a country where so much suffering was reported, I found everyone in good circumstances, and especially all our friends who have left Clearwater and Polk counties. They all have good homes and those who were reported to have sold their stock through lack of feed, I found with their barns full of stock, and it did not look very much like hard times. They have from 160 acres to two sections of the finest land that can be found. Those that left here two or three years ago have from 100 to 400 acres in crops this year. Prospects for a humper crop are splendid. It is a little cold now, but nothing is frosted, either in gardens or fields. Land can be bought quite reasonably here from those who volunteered their services in the European war. Here are certainly the best opportunities for securing a good home with a farm and independence for life in a short time. Before I started I heard that prices were so high. Flour was reported at $12 per hundred it is $4.25 here. In the west all the groceries can be purchased for nearly the same as in Minn. The only article that I found higher was kerosene at 25 cts per gallon. When I saw the land I wondered why people do not live where they produce enough from the soil to make a comfortable living. We visited T. T. Sater. John Dahls, W. J. and R. D. Holt's, Martin Halmen, Gle Halvorson, Wm. Walker and Geo. Colby, all from Bagley. We found well and prosperous farmers who wished to be remembered to all their Bagley friends." (Sed.) A MEYER Advertisement Perfectly Natural. "So you were a witness in a law- suit?" "Yes." "Did the opposing attorney bother you much?" "Not at all. He kept interrupting me so much that it seemed I was at home telling my story and ma was correcting me as I went along." Going to an Extreme. "Bliggins has an idea that he can run the universe." "Yes. I understand he is training a pet grounddog so that he can be sure of having the kind of weather predictions he wants every year." Why He Failed. "I understand his marriage was a failure." "Yes; he tried to run it the way he ran his business." "How do you mean?" "He was never in the office." Giving Him the Hee Haw! She—How do you happen to be called Jack? He—Oh, it's just a nickname. Why? She—I didn't know but it was an abbreviation. Conversational Discretion. "People are not supposed to tell all they know," said the cautious person. "No," replied Miss Cayenne, "especially in these days of popularized science." In Self-Defense. Applicant—Be youse th' gint wot advertised for a porter, sor? Hotel Proprietor—Yes, but I stated in the ad that all applications must be made by mail. Applicant—Faith, an' do youse t'ink Ol'm ather lookin' lokk a female, sor! Going the Limit. "What is your opinion of government ownership?" "It's a great idea," replied Senator Sorghum. "If the government owned everything and had to pay all its own taxes a lot of my constituents would be better satisfied." Mrs. Gray—The window in my hall has stained glass in it. Mrs. Green—Too bad! Can't you find anything that'll take the stains out? Father—I am glad it's being kept in the family. Nurse—An' it has it's mother's voice. Father—Lord help it!—Life. Parson Snowball (a Methodist)—is yoh all a soljah in de army ob de Lohd? Stranger—Yassah. Ah's a membah ob de Baptist church. Parson Snowball—Den yoh all ain't in de army; yoh's in de navy. Drawing the Line. "Imitation is the sincerest flattery." "Maybe," replied Mr. Cumrox. "But I don't like to have a stenographer copy my mistakes in grammar."—De torte Free Press. SECOND TO KRUPP'S SECOND TO KRUPP'S British Arsenal at Woolwich Is Immense Plant. Munitions of War Being Turned Out In Enormous Quantities to Supply Forces Engaged in France and Turkey. When "Good Queen Bess." In 1585, decided to establish a store of arms and armor at the old Tower house, a mansion in Woolwich Warren, adjoining the then boggy and unhealthy marshes of Plumstead, she little thought that by so doing she was founding Britain's greatest arsenal, which 300 years later would be giving employment to 30,000 men, earning more than $500,000 a week for making munitions of war for the greatest conflict the world has ever seen'. That small armory at the Tower house, however, was the origin of the Woolwich arsenal of today, which covers 600 acres, and where guns of all sizes, every form of military wagon, shot, shell, torpedoes, cartridges, bullets, war signals, life-saving rockets, and high explosives are manufactured. Even in the bygone days, however, Woolwich figured largely in military history. It was Prince Rupert who protected the Warren with batteries in Charles II's reign, and other fortifications, which have now disappeared, were added by that king's successor. The Dutch several times threatened the dockyards at Woolwich and at Chatam, while at the end of the seventeenth century two French privateers were captured off Woolwich. It is obvious that the secrets of the arsenal are most jealously guarded, particularly at the present time. Indeed, the government, since the war broke out, has adopted the precaution of recalling all text-books about the arsenal, although in peace times, when the average number of men employed there is about 14,000, visitors of British nationality, desirous of seeing the arsenal, may do so by obtaining an order from the war office. It might be mentioned, however; that among the most effective guns manufactured at Woolwich are the famous six-inch howitzers of which the French speak so highly, while one of the latest time-saving ideas is to dip military wagons bodily in huge tanks of paint and hang them up to dry. Woolwich arsenal is really divided into three great departments, called respectively the Royal Gun factories, the Royal Carriage department and the Royal laboratory. It is in the latter that every kind of experiment is made with explosives, and where officers and soldiers learn their use and effectiveness, while in the gun factories, which are filled with machinery of the best and most modern kind, guns of all sizes are manufactured for the army and tested over the extensive practice ranges which were formerly the Plumstead marshes. Apart from the actual workshops, there are various important military establishments at Woolwich. There is the Artillery college, for instance, which gives special training to officers of the Royal Artillery in order to fit them for appointments in the manufacturing departments of the arsenal. Then there is the Royal Military academy, the oldest military school in the kingdom, where men destined for the Royal Artillery or Royal Engineers begin their training. The Royal dockyards at Woolwich was closed nearly fifty years ago, but it continues to be used as a military store depot, and it is interesting to note that it was the first, and for very long the principal, dockyard in the kingdom. The Great Harry was built there in 1562, the Royal George in 1751, the Galathea in 1859, and more than 200 other ships. And the curious may spend many an interesting hour in the Rotunda museum, which contains the finest collection of military antiquities and models in the world. BELT VAULT FOR THE BATHER Does Away. With the Necessity of Leaving Jewelry and Other Valuables in a Locker. Made large enough so that it may be used to carry cigarettes and matches, or personal jewelry, including a man's size watch, a water-tight Belt Vault for Batners and Fishers. case fixed to a canvas belt that straps about the body has been devised for bathers. Its use precludes the theft of money or other things of value which otherwise would be left in a locker—Popular Mechanica. METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE. METROPOLIS. IL Veal Loaf, to serve cold: Cooked Corned Beef, select and appetizing. Chicken Loaf, Ham Loaf and Veal Loaf, delicately seasoned. Vienna Sausage, Genuine Deviled Ham and Wafer Sliced Dried Beef for sandwiches and dainty luncheons. Insist on Libby's at your grocer's Libby, McNeill & Libby, Chicago Because of those ugly, grizzly, gray hairs. Use "LA CREOLE" HAIR DRESSING. PRICE, $1.00, retail. COUNTED PROFIT AND LOSS Country Storekeeper Well Advised In Discontinuing Business for That Day, at Least. The present generation is scarcely aware that at one time our one-dollar and two-dollar bills were marked with Roman instead of Arabic numerals. Therefore, when the youth left temporarily in charge of the general store in a small country town was approached by a stranger and asked for change for an eleven-dollar bill, he looked curiously at the greenback, but courteously acceded to the request. The owner of the store sauntered in some time later. "Well, Sam, any business?" "Nothin' 'cept changin' a 'leven-dollar bill for a drummer,' the boy answered unconcernedly. The storekeeper started for the cash drawer, looked long and sorrowfully at the old two-dollar bill, then said sadly: "Put up the shutters, Sam. We've done enough business for one day!"—Collier's Weekly. HAIR OR NO HAIR? It Is Certainly Up to You and Cuticura. Trial Free. Hot shampoos with Cuticura Soap, followed by light dressings of Cuticura Ointment rubbed into the scalp skin tend to clear the scalp of dandruff, soothe itching and irritation and promote healthy hair-growing conditions. Nothing better, cleaner, purer. Sample each free by mail with Book. Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. XY, Boston. Sold everywhere.—Adv. Of Course. Vivlen, aged four, ran screaming to her mamma. At her heels was a playful pup. "Why, Vivlen, what are you crying about?" mamma asked. "The dog is after me, mamma, the dog is after me!" "Why, the dog wasn't trying to get you; it was only running a race with you." Then Vivlen's face brightened, her tears quickly disappeared. "I beat him, too, didn't I, mamma!"—Indianapolis News. To Drive Out Malaria And Build Up The System 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 Iron builds up the system. 50 cents. Adv. Well to Speak Russian. Spanish is the most important foreign language for the American commercial student to learn, but it looks as though Russian might be a close second. One hundred and sixty millions of people, occupying a vast and fertile area, make a customer worth having. Have the Ring of Truth. "An artful angler, you say?" "I never knew a man who was more so." "Peshaw! He never catches any, thing." "I know it, but 50 per cent of his fishing yarns are believed." Officer, He's Out Again! Snicklefritz—I saw a queer thing today. Dinglebatz—What was it? Snicklefritz—A blind man looking for work. Girls should beware of young men who pose as candy kids; as husbands they are apt to develop into lemon drops. Women motor truck drivers in England are being paid $7.50 per week, the same rate paid to men. There is a time in the life of every man at which he becomes a publicity agent for union underwear. Labor laws for women have recently been enacted in Kansas, Maine, Massachusetts and Wyoming. Children CASTORIA What is Castoria? Castoria is a harmless substance, Drops and Soothing it contains neither Opium, Moist substance. Its age is its usual and allays Feverishness. For has been in constant use for Flatulency, Wind Colic, all Diarrhoea. It regulates the assimilates the Food, giving The Children's Panacea—The GENUINE CASTORIA Bears the In Use For O The Kind You Have THE CENTAUR COMP Net Contents 15 Fluid Drachma 900 DROPS CASTORIA ALCOHOL-3 PER CENT. A Vegetable Preparation for Assimilating the Food and Regulating the Stomachs and Bowels of INFANTS / CHILDREN Promotes Digestion, Cheerfulness and Rest. Contains neither Opium, Morphine nor Mineral, NOT NARCOTIC. 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We sell on easy payments. wick-Balke-Collender Co., Dept. YXZ, 623 Wabash Ave., Chicago Canada is Calling You to her Rich Wheat Lands Business Opportunities Business Opportunities Do you know that one of the most profitable lines of trade is a Billiard Room and Bowling Alley in combination with a Cigar Store, Quick Room or Room for the asking. Have you ever asked The Thief for the asking. What was once; stating where you desire to locate. Ask for catalogs of Billiard Tables, Bowling Alley and Fixtures. We sell on easy payments. The Brunswick-Bakle-Collender Co. Dept. XYZ, 623 Wabash Ave., Chicago Canada is Calling You to her Rich Wheat Lands Can to h She vita stea some toba This as ch ever. by til which bush can 160 ACRE FARMS IN WESTERN CANADA FREE She extends to Americans a hearty initiation 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 scre. Think what you can make with wheat around 81. a bushel and pulsory in Canada. There is no conscription and no war tax on lauds. 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 O. A. COOK, 125 West 9th Street, Kansas City, Missouri; C. J. BROUGHTON, Room 612, 112 West Adams Street, Chicago, IL. Joan Sawyer, an actress, has left New York to motor to San Francisco in six weeks on a wager. remature Use "LA CREOLE" HAIR DRESSING. Their Justification. BOWLING Miss Mary Elizabeth Seraner came all the way to Saline county from Fayetteville, O., to become the bride of Francis de Sales Schneider, a young farmer near Saline, and even then came near losing out for a delay at least, but she was equal to the occasion and is now Schneider's bride, says a Saline (Kan.) dispatch to the Kansas City Journal. The promised delay in the nuptial affairs of the young couple was caused by Schneider getting into a runaway accident and sustaining a broken leg, fractured ribs and bruises all over his body, and his sweetheart found him bound in plaster of paris casts so tight he could not move. The situation was discussed, the young lady hooked up the favorite horse to a buggy and came to Saline, secured the marriage license, engaged the preacher and returned to the farm. With the dawn of the millennium we may have an ideal state legislature—one that will repeal more laws than it passes. Ire is the worst half of satire. Children Cry For Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is pleasant. It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Narcotic substance. Its age is its guarantee. It destroys Worms and allays Feverishness. For more than thirty years it has been in constant use for the relief of Constipation, Flatulency, Wind Colic, all Teething Troubles and Diarrhoea. It regulates the Stomach and Bowels, assimilates the Food, giving healthy and natural sleep. The Children's Panacea-The Mother's Friend. "I shall never speak to her again as long as I live." "But you've said that often before." "I know, but what else is there to say when a person becomes as angry as she makes me?"—Detroit Free Press. The female who parades the streets with a jag on thinks she's a perfect lady. land so easy to get. Wonderful yields also of Oats, Barley and Flax. Mixed farming is fully as profitable in industry as grain growing. The Government this year is asking farmers to put increased acreage into grain. Military service is not com- 1916 Hupmobile Built for Satisfactory Service $1085 F. O. B. Detroit. Waber Imp. & Auto Co., 1900 Locust, St. Louis, 2 phones The Limit. Averse to Slang. Just to show how much averse to slang he was, a small boy in a Chicago school explained to the teacher one day that he had been walking with a friend, but neglected to take off his hat when they met a lady both knew. His friend had nudged him, and whispered: "Take off your lid, you simp!" "What he should have said," explained the boy, was 'Remove your hat, you nut!' The general sentiment is summed up in the words of a small boy, who ventured this: "Anyway, it's only roughfecks who use slang nowadays." Prefers Insanity Doctor recommends baseball as a cure for insanity. H'm. It strikes us that the last state of anyone taking that course of treatment would be worse than the first. But let the sluggard attend a picnic and the ant will surely come to him. If you make a cat's paw of a friend you are apt to get scratched. Cry For Mtter's ORIA ASTORIA Institute for Castor Oil, Pare- tyrups. It is pleasant. It periphine nor other Narcotic guarantee. It destroys Worms or more than thirty years it the relief of Constipation. Teething Troubles and the Stomach and Bowels, healthy and natural sleep. Mother's Friend. ASTORIA ALWAYS Signature of Mtter's. Over 30 Years e Always Bought ONY, NEW YORK CITY. Paxtine In the local treatment of woman's ill, such as lencorrhoea and inflammation, hot douchies of Paxtine are very efficacious, medicated douchies will fail to appreciate the healthy condition Paxtine produces and the prompt relief from soreness and discomfort which follows its use. This is because Paxtine possesses superior cleansing, disinfect- PAYLINE For ten years the Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. has recommended Paxtine, in their men, which proves its superiority. Women who have been relieved say it is "worth its weight in gold." At druggists. "At druggists," the Paxtine Toilet. Co. Bost. boc. large box or by mail. Sample free. The Paxton Toilet Co., Boston, Mass. THICK, SWOLLEN GLANDS that make a horse Wheeze, Roar, have Thick Wind or Choke-down, can be reduced with THICK, SWOLLEN GLANDS that make a horse Wheeze, Roar, have Thick Wind or Choke-down, can be reduced-with ABSORBINE also any Bunch or Swelling. No blister, no hair gone, and horse kept at work. Concentrated—only a few drops required at an application, $2 per bottle delivered. Book 3 K free. ABSORBINE, JR., antiseptic liniment for mankind, reduces Cysts, Wens, Painful, Knotted Varicose Veins, Ulcers. $1 and $2 a bottle at dealers or delivered. Book "Evidence" free. W.F.YOUNG, P.D.F., 310 Temple St, Springfield, Mass. DAISY FLY KILLER placed anywhere, at any time. No clean, ornamental, convenient, or all-time lesson. Made of metal, can spill or tip over, will not sell or move. Anything guaranteed effective. HABOLD BOXERS. 180 Do Kalk Ave., Brooklyn, N. E. JUNET FLOWER Terre Haute VETERINARY COLLEGE ACCEPTS UNIVERSITY EDUCATE YOURSELF FOR BUSINESS AND SUCCESS IN LIFE BY ATTENDING THE St. Louis Commercial College FIVE FINK, GOOD SCHOOLS IN ST. LOUIS Central School, 810 Olive St. Catalog free W. N. U. ST. LOUIS, NO. 32-1915. y Old E, $1.00, retail. Metropolis Gazette PUBLISHED ON FEBRUARY BY THE GAZETTE PRINTING CO. BETROPOLIS, . . . . . ILL. MRS. M. d. McCRARY, MANAGER FRIDAY AUG. 13, 1915. Office 9th and Pearl Streets, Metropolis, Illinois. Entrusted as second-class mail matter, at Metropolis, Illinois, Postoffice. Address all communications to J. B. MOOREY, Box 177 Metropolis, Illinois. The names and addresses of contributors must be known to us in every instance, in order to secure publication. We want the news of your vicinity each week. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: One Year ..... $1.00 1x Months ..... 75 Three Months ..... 40 Single Copy ..... 05 in Advance. ADVERTISING RATES. made known on application. You must mail copy on Mondays to secure publication. There are several prospective candidates for Governor of Illinois on the Republican ticket. The following named persons are the ones mentioned: Andrew Russei, Frank L. Smith Frank O. Lowden, O. F. Berry, Ghas. S. Deneen, Richard Yates. Wanted—100 customers at the Last Chance grocery to buy 3 cans of best tomatoes and corn for 25c. Ordination Liocentiate license blanks at the Gazette office. Mrs. Z. A. Vallee has hair goods in every style and shape. These goods are at my residence on 6th St., third house from Baptist Churc 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 Grocery on 9th and Pearl Sts. Send us a trial order for the Great Nature Salve, 50c a Box. Why suffer when you can be relieved for such a small amount. Read our guarantee on the front page of The Gazetre. For lady's ready trimmed hats go to Mrs. Vallee. FOR SALE 1 Walnut Bed Room Set. 1 Hall Tree. 1 Pair Large Pillows. 1 Walnut Parkor Set. Call at my home on 6th Street Z. A. VALLEE. Sorted In Her Plano. A woman professor of music, who recently died at Marseilles, France has been buried in her piano in obedience to her final wish. She gave as her reason for this strange request that the happiest hours of her life had been spent at her piano. Owing to the great size of this original coffin an immense grave had to be dug Sacrifice of Injuries Force, furor, intensity—these and the qualities which have given their power to great leaders in all the movements by which the world had been swayed. Sometimes they have been present in men who left so little written memorial or whose efforts were foiled by adverse circumstances that we can not only the fact that they must have been remarkable be cause their contemporaries admired and followed them. They possessed the secret of influence, though we cannot tell how they manifested it. They are among the riddles of history.—Chambers' journal. Raisins as Graft of Lutea The life of Cuba is largely sustained by raising, its people consumpting the fruit more generally than any other or of the Spanish-American colonies. John Edmonds of Shady Grove, is one of the best colored farmers in that part of the county. He has made good in the last few years. Wm King, of Unionville, is another very very successful farmer. B. C, Long, of Choat had 100 acres of wheat and will make about 2,000 bushels' He had a very fine strawberry crop, the best in the county. We have several good colored farmers in Massac county and we hope to give a list of them in the near future. Thos. P. King was in the city Saturday on business. Cut Flowers at 'Jennie Inman's' A. E. Townsend of Mounds is the guest of Roscoe Roberts. Mrs. A. A. Tucker and children returned home from Johnsonville Tenn., last week where she has been visiting her mother for the past two months. Mrs. Ellen Buchanan, Sr. was called to Chicago Wednesday by telegram' to the bedside of her daughter, Lula Woods. Miss Maud Porter returned home Monday after visiting in Champaign, and attending the Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows and Ruths. George and Dave Jamison visited in Paducah Ky. Sunday. Scott Crouse and family were Paducah visitors, Sunday. Rev. H. E. McWilliams passed through the city Tuesday. Roscoe Roberts of Carbondale is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Roberts. Cut Flowers at Jennie Inman's Miss Gladys Morton returned to the city Tuesday from Hartford Ky., where she has been visiting her mother for two months. Her mother has been ill but is much improved. Miss Morton was met in Padudah by her best friend, Mr. Sam Upshaw. Leonard Bailey of Paducah Ky. who has been visiting the Misses Parks returned home Tuesday. Touissant L. Alston was out of the city a few days last week. Rev. C. W. Norment pastor of the Rock Hill Baptist church is still assisting Rev. McCrary in a revival at the Unity Baptist church. Rev. and Mrs. J. B. McCrary and son Edgar were royally entertained for dinner and supper Sunday at the homes of Mr. and Mrs. Landers/ Mr. and Mrs. Tidsworth and Mrs. Morion of Brookport Miss Izora Rodgers was entertained Sunday at the home of Mr. and Mrs Boyd McCane. Mr. Edward Lyons and Miss Remalia Barnard were quietly married last week at the residence of Squire Wm. Wright J. P. George Robinson went to Creal Springs last week on business. Mrs Hattie Beard is somewhat indisposed this week. The O. E. S Grand Chapter of the State of Illinois and Jurisdiction convenes in Rock Island Aug. 10-14. Mr. Roy Benberry of Cabon-dale is in the city visiting relatives. Monroe Leard of East St Louis is in the city visiting. Mrs. L. Berry and children of St. Louis Mo. are the guests of Mrs. Berry's mother. $100 Reward, $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is catarrh. Hall's catarrh cure is the oly positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's catarrh is taken intimately, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers that they offer: One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. send for list of testimonials. Address F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Leslie Renfro of Murphysboro is in the city visiting his parents. Garrett Tranzor of Centralia is in the city the guest of his brother, Alex Tranzor. Mrs. George Murray and children returned home from Champaign after visiting her mother for a few days. Mr. Richard Hensley returned home from Chicago after visiting his son Thomas who recently married. Mesdames H. G. Burke and Jennie Woods and Misses Odie Williams Celeste Jenkins and Bernice Burke accompanied the military boys to Camp Lincoln Saturday. Mrs. Eulla Perry and daughter Verleane of Fulton Ky., are in the city visiting, the guest of Mr. and Mrs Jas. Townley. Miss Isabelle Belmay of Smith land Ky. was in the city Friday on business returning home Saturday. Mrs James Greene and children of Paducah Ky. spent several days in this city, the guest of Mrs. T. A Urquhart and chi'dren. NOTICE. Reader if a blue or red mark appears on the head of your paper marked with an [X] it is to notify you that you owe for the paper and must pay at once. SANDUSKY Mr. Editor, Please allow me space in your worthy paper to say that our church is getting along nicely under the leadership of Elder Wm. Bell. We are now on the eve of putting concrete blocks under our church and finished painting it. On Saturday before the 5th Sunday there will be a grand picnic given by the the church and a grand rally on Sunday for the purpose of making ready for the Association. Rev. Wm. Bell, Pastor. The Danville (Virginia) Loan and Investment Company is capitalized at 35,000. The corporation owns property valued at $40,000 and have made loans to the amount of $13,000. E. H. Adam is president and J. R. Wilson, secretary and treasurer. NOTICE Mr. Editor: Please give notice that I have no power to change the time of meeting by the constitution, but as the brothers want to go to the National Convention they can put the meeting off two weeks longer, but I could not change it. Please give notice for all to meet Tuesday before the 2nd Sunday in Sept. I cannot go unless my child gets better as I have a very sick daughter she has been sick for 5 I. C R. R. Time Card NORTH BOUND Train numbers Arrives. Leaves. 802 10:10 a.m. 10:20 a.m. 374 2:25 p.m. 8:35 p.m. SOUTH BOUND. Train numbers Arrives. Leaves. 375 10:00 a.m. 10:10 a.m. 2:23 p.m. 2:35 p.m. HOW'S THIS? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrah that cannot be bured 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 constipation. Notice Of Publication In Attach- State of Illinois, Massac County S. S In the Circuit Court of Massac County II, August Term 1915. Mattie Miller vs Phillip P. Foreman. Margaret 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 36 one hundred dollars, besides interest, directed to the Sherriff or 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 (125) except One Hundred Thirty- six feet off of the East side thereof and situated in the City of Metropolis, Massac County, Illinois, subject to a mortgage recorded in book "8" page 82 of mortages in the recorders office of Massac County, Illinois; in favor of Eugene Lafont for $1600.00, and an undivided one half interest in a part of the West Half of Section Thirty five (30), Township Fifteen (16) south, Range Four(4) east 2rd P. M. more particularly described as follows: Beginning at a point where the new Vienna road intersects the Jonesboro Road, said point being 180 feet due North of the Stone set for and being a quarter section corner for and between sections 34 and 35 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 Herrin of Southern Railroad Co. by deed recorded in Vol. "20" of deeds at page 486 in the Recorders office of Massac County, Illinois. Now, unless you, the said Philip 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 Native Salve. We have just recived some more of Native Salve and it is going very fast, those in Carbonand Md. City can secure a box or more now by 50c, per box. Act quick if you want it. Send all orders to Rev. J. B. McCrary, months, that is my reason for not going. So please give notice of the meeting at Mounds; let all come to do work for the district. Rev. D. Parrish, Moderator. Enough Sale Irascible Old Gent (to schoolgirl) who has collided with him)—"When you run into people like that you should say, 'I beg your pardon.'" Girl —"There won't no need. I heard what you said."-Sydney Bulletin Livingston Institute This school is well graded and equipped Grammar School Department. All work is well organized under Departmental and able Instructors, selected for Special Departmental work Special Courses in Music, Bookkeeping, Shorthand and Type Writing, Bible, Study and in Theology RESTAURANT FOR SALE. Carbondale My Restaurant, which consists opposite the I. C. Depot; good loc Reason for selling poor health. Terms:- Cash or one half down. James Trustees Carbondal, Illinois My Restaurant, which consists of a complete up-to-date outfit opposite the I. C. Depot; good location and reasonable good business. Reason for selling poor health. Terms:- Cash or one half down. James Robinson Proprietor of the Livingston Normal, Theological and Industrial Institute. J. H. Knowles, D. D., President J. B. McCrary, S. T. B., Secretary T. C. Yanoy, Treasurer S. B. Kerr, Attorney Rov. J.M. Biahe. Rov. H. Allison Rov. G. W. Rowlett Rov. C. C. Phillipe, Financial Agt. Rov. H. E. McWilliams OFFICIALS PLEAD NOT GUILTY Indiana Statemen Appear in Court to Answer to Charges of Crookedness. Indianapolis, Dec. 19.—Walving arrogment, 12 of the 13 offenses and employee of the 1923 legislature, including Lieut. Gov. William P. O'Neill and Secretary of State Hamer L. Cook, speaker of the house in 1913, pleaded not guilty on indictments charging them with signing and presenting illegal claims for payment by the state. Immediately after the defendants and entered their pleas the trial was begun by the introduction of a statement of facts, in which defendants did not deny they signed or prosecuted the claims the state defendants were illegal. The course up to the point of graduation from the grammar school ought to be uniform for all pupils. The tendency to drive the separation of courses and the development of vocational instruction below this point in the pupil's development ought to be extensively resisted. These are the powers which every youth ought to possess, and the information acquired in developing them ought to be the common stock of every man. It makes no difference whether the boy is to be a plumber or professor, tinker or theologian, this is the solid, comprehensive and yet simple foundation upon which his intellectual and productive life ought to be built.—The Apprenticeship Bulletin, Boston. Common Gense a Bad Master. In creative thought common sense is a bad master. Its sole criterion for judgment is that new ideas shall look like old ones. In other words, it can only act by suppressing originality. A. N. Whitehead is "An Introduction to Mathematics." The only way to get the genuine New Home Sewing Machine is to buy the machine with the name NEW HOME on the arm and in the legs. This machine is warranted for all time. No other like it No other as good The New Home Sewing Machine Company, ORANGE, MASS. For Sale by W. P. Baynes, Metropolis, Ill. RHEUMATIC SUFFERERS GIVEN QUIOK RELIEF TEXAS DROPS Alcoholic Pura TEXAS DROPS ALCOHOLIC PURA TEXAS DROPS ALCOHOLIC PURA Pain leaves almost as if by magic when you begin using "5-Drops," the famous soldier remedy for Rheumatism, Lumbago, Gout, Sciatica, Neuralgia and kindred troubles. It goes right to the spot, stops the aches and pains and makes life worth living. Get a bottle of "5-Drops" today. A booklet with each bottle gives full directions for use. Don't delay. Demand "5-Drops." Don't accept anything else in place of it. An drug gist can supply you. If you live too far from a drug store send One Dollar to Swanson Rheumatist Cure Co, Newark, a bottle of "Drops" will be sent prepaid.