Metropolis Weekly Gazette

METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE Style and Comfort Dr. Sawyer Cushion Shoe White House and Westport Shoes for Men Service and Satisfaction Buster Brown Shoes for Boys and girls You Are Cordially Invited To Attend The grand opening of the new White House Shoe Mart FRITTS' BLOCK Saturday Nov. 6th 1915 Souvenirs For Everybody Baby Buster Shoes for Babies Topsy Hose Topsy Hose At 11:20 a.m. the hour having arrived owing to the condition of the west end of our church being torn away for repairs rendering it inconvenient for preaching the church proceeded into a prayer and praise se vice. Mrs. Jane Johnson of Eden united with the church and eveyone in the house enjoyed the services. The scripture topic was 1 Tim. 6:17 which was opened by Mrs. Amanda Owens and was well dis- cussed by different ones. The meeting was well attended. The Sewing Circle is doing a great work under the leadership of Mrs. D. Browning. At 7:30 p. m. the church re- assembled in another prayer and praise service and the meeting was enjoyed by all and made a spiritual one. Our church is expected to be ready for preaching services by the 1st Sunday. At 3 a. m. Sunday morning Mr. Howard Covington was taken seriously sick with the cramps and is not much better at this writing. Mr. A Anderson is very sick at this writing. J. J. Taylor. JOPPA. JOPPA. The revival here are doing fine three of the stoutest hearted sinners have professed a hope in Christ. Rev. Wm Thomas is conducting the services, being as- Metropolis. Editor: Please allow me to the columns of your p he had a very interest in Early Meeting, also Woman Mission and Sunday School Co sists from the Free Bac this city. . Patterson, pastor. Mamie Barnett, Mr. J. B. Davy, Mr. J. A. Baker. School Convention, Mary F. Davy, Man Missionary La S. Davy who re- ly letter her and h the condition of the Society which was President of the Woman Society of the Eddo dict promises to viva here in the near unicently treated by the title of Paducah, Ky less them. J. B. Davy. MOTTO: "HEW TO THE LINE, LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY." MURPHYSBORO. Mr. Editor: Please allow me space in your worthy paper to say a few good words. The Mt Gilliam Baptist church and Sunday School are doing nicely here. Rev. J. H. Hilley the pastor is out of town on account of the illness of his son at Colps. We had preaching Sunday night by Rev. John Griffin. Mr. and Mrs. G. E Grimes, of Murphysboro are visiting their daughter Mr. P. L. Joplin of St. Louis. C. A. Macon. ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY NOTES. The Y. M. C. A. is doing a very efficient work under the leadership of Rev. H. J. Bailey who is a young man of capacity and is aiming to be a race benefactor. The Y. W. C. A. is playing their part in College life by placing the right influence around our girls we have long since recognized the fact that any race is lifted no higher than its women. Miss Corine Wright is wisely directing this department too much cannot be said of Miss Wright's ability as a leader. Our literary and debating society had their election two weeks ago, and had their installation of officers Friday night it is now under the leadership of Mr. A E. Williams. The football season has now started and all athletic inclined gentlemen are looking forward to great pleasure in that sport. Sunday School was held in the chapel at 3 o'clock Sunday and religious services were held in the evening under the wise leadership of Prof. Stockler, our Language instructor Rev, Dr. A. M. Townsend president of our university Halloween was celebrated by some of the students playing some pranks as usual riff- cting the student body. I would like to keep interest up in Southern Illinois in our B Y P. U and S. S work some of our last organized unions are now started to outstrip everbody in point of souls saved members added and money sent to the convention also increased interest generally. I would like to say to all churches in the Mt Olive district that have no B. Y. P. U. to organize one at once and to get ready and meet me in Carbondale in June. We are aiming to make this the red letter meeting of the district get your white suits and be ready to fall in line J N. Washington NOTICE. The Institute and Executive Board of the East Mt. Olive Baptist Association will convene with the Mt. Pleasant Baptist church Golconda, Illinois, on Thursday before the 2nd Sunday in November 1915. All members and constituents are invited and specially requested to be present. Program follows or rather I had in mind to say to all the ministers composing the association, that you are members of the board and care expected to attend to help t make the Board Meeting a success. Our opportunities for doing good in the cause of Christ on the mission field is better than ever before, so let us play well our part while the opportunity prevails. It is said that success comes to them that wait, there is an important word left out and that word is work or labor, success comes to them that labor and wait. Now brethren, you have four weeks to prepare for that meeting please arrange your business to be present, and if you find that you cannot be present, remember that it is an expense to them that to attend, and since we are at tending to your business by your order, remember the request of the association, that those who could not attend would send up one dollar to help take care of the expenses of the board, we are expecting you to keep your word. I hope no communication will come up to the board saying that I am in a meeting and cannot be present, for the work of your district in its sphere is just as important as your Church work is in its spere, and I am praying that the Ministry of our district will soon come to see it that way. W. P. WASHINGTON. Donations to Unity Baptist church at Corner Stone one dollar and over Rev. J. B. McCrary $10.00 Henry Fitzgerald 5.00 J. H Yarbrough 1.50 James Baker 1.00 Wash Shelton 1.00 Aaron Green 1.00 Eliza Baker 1.00 H. W. Holifield 1.00 Rev. W. H. Cole 1.00 W. M. Guy 1.00 Richard Winston 1.00 Willis Jones 1.00 FOR SALE. Lot 7 Block 99 100 cash balance also Lot 8 Block $100.00 cash bal month. See 7 Block 99 House $1000.00 cash balance $12.50 per month Lot 8 Block 99, house $700.00 0 cash balance $10.00 per See Lot 7 Block 99 House $1000.00 100 cash balance $12.50 per month also Lot 8 Block 99, house $700.00 $100.00 cash balance $10.00 per month. See --- FREE A 25 cent b extract "our own $1.00 bottle bought at Until Saturd 25 cent bottle of Vanilla "our own make" with every bottle of Medicine bought at our store Saturday Nov. 13th A 25 cent bottle of Vanilla extract "our own make" with every $1.00 bottle of Medicine bought at our store Until Saturday Nov. 13th Red Gross Pharmacy L.E.TROVILLION. Prop. W. T. Holifield 1.00 Jack Douglass 1.00 Bud Kendall 1.00 Byrd Laird 1.00 Ike Moore 1.00 Charlie G.iggs 1.00 George Lowery, was born in ovington, Ky., he came to this city several years ago. In his boyhood he was raised by white parents, who were very good and kind to him. He joined the 1st Baptist church this city several years ago and lived in said church until he died. He was married to Mrs. Norsis Tatum in 1905 under the pastorate of Rev. A. J. Cromwell. He was a kind and loving father to his family. He died at the age of 56 years. Funeral from the church Wednesday Oct. 27th. Rev J. W. Davie pastor, officiating. He leaves to mourn their loss, a wife, one son and two step-sons and a host of relatives and friends. Peace to his ashes. Dear Editor: Mt. Pleasant Baptist church had a rally Sunday Oct. 31st and raised $194 41 Rev. Geo. Brown, preached at 2:30 p. m. Rev. Thompson pastor preached at eleven and at night. Good attendance at both meetings. United States Senator, candidate for president on the Republican ticket made an address in the city Oct. 31st. Mr. Shelby Embry age 28 of North Carolina, and Miss Orphetta L. Robinson, age 20, of this city were quietly married at the office of Squire Liggett, Tuesday evening, Nov. 2nd. Mr. Embry is an employee of --- OBITUARY. HARRISBURG MARRIED A. McCRORY. Union Bridge and Construction Co., and has been here only a short time, but by his appearance he is very industrious and undoubtedly he will make a kird husband. Miss Robinson is a graduate of Dunbar High School 14, and an ex-typo of the Illinois Anchor. She is the daughter of J. W. Robinson, this city. We the Gazette wish them much success. New Shoe Store. The White House Shoe Mart is the name of the New shoe store that is to open its doors to the public next Saturday in the Fritts Block on Ferry Street. We had a talk with the management and he informed us that he desired the patronage of our people and would guarantee them fair treatment. He will deal exclusive in shoes and hosiery for the whole family. Call on him. PERCY EPSTEIN, is the Manager. DEWMAINE ILL Notice. This is to notify all the churches chaposing the East Mt. Olive Baptist Association that the 1st, Executive Board will convene with the Mt. Pleasant Baptist Church, of Golconda, Tuesday before the 2nd. Sunday in Nov. Rev. A J. Bowers and his good people are preparing for all of the messengers. All members of the Board must comply with sec. 12 of the Rules of Decorum. W. P. washington, D. D. Moderator. A H.Bradley, Cor. Sec'y Dewmaine, Unanswered. "George," she asked, "if we were both young and single again would you want me to be your wife?" "Now, my dear," he absent-mindedly replied, "what's the use of trying to start a quarrel just as we have settled down to enjoy a quiet evening?"—Chicago Record-Herald. NO PLACE LIKE IT By CATHARINE CRANMER. (Copyright, 1915, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) On a pay day the president of the firm sent for Alfred Reed and informed him that he had been promoted to the position of assistant sales manager at a substantial increase in salary. It was the day that Alfred long had sought, and worked all the harder because it came not. He felt a deep satisfaction not only because it was the reward of his labors, but because it would enable him to ask Mabel Elliott to marry him. Mabel was a pretty little auburn-haired stenographer in another department of the office, and although Alfred had paid her much attention and given her good evidence that he cared for her he had felt that he must wait until he had a substantial salary before he asked her to marry him. At the first opportunity after being told of his promotion, he went over to her desk to ask her to go to dinner and the theater with him the next evening. As he approached, a blase salesman of perhaps forty was just leaving and was saying something quite confidentially in an undertone. Alfred frowned unconsciously, for he knew the man was unfit company for any girl, and to see him talking familiarly to Mabel made Alfred want to take her away where she would be safe from such prowlers, as he inwardly termed the man. "Has that old bloat been ogling you again?" he asked. But as soon as he spoke he realized that he had let a proprietary note get into his voice. Mabel, being young and pretty and auburn-haired, didn't like the idea of being approached without due procedure according to the usual rules of the game. "If you're speaking of Mr. Acton, I think you're putting it rather strong, for he certainly knows how to be nice to a girl. And just because I wrote two or three letters for him he wants to take me to dinner at the best hotel in the city." Mabel was childishly frank and only slightly resentful of Alfred's remark. "And maybe I don't like to sail into a big dining room with a man who knows just how to do things. It's a real adventure, Alfred, and adventures don't come along every day to red-headed stenographers." "Mabel, I came here purposely to ask you to go out with me tomorrow evening," said Alfred. "If you'll go, we'll make it as much of an adventure as I know how." And he added a more explicit invitation, which Mabel accepted with only moderate enthusiasm, for there was in her the spirit of daring that made her want to throw off conventions and accept Acton's invitation in spite of its being a sort of unwritten law about the office that stenographers who went out with that type of salesmen were running a risk of being undesirably classified. The next evening, when they entered the big hotel dining room, Mabel was a lovely picture in a soft, white gown, a black velvet hat set at the correct angle on her glistening auburn hair and her eyes almost a match in color for the violets she wore. Alfred tried to make the grand entry as though accustomed to it, but the very effort made success impossible, and he was painfully conscious that Mabel would realize that he was not a man who knew "Just how to do things." In some way, though, they managed to get seated, and while looking over the menu Alfred regained outward composure, though he was unpleasantly conscious of the proximity and veiled scrutiny of the waiter. Conversation lagged somewhat and Mabel cast many an admiring glance at the bare-shouldered, soft-gowned and sleek-coiffured ladies who languidly passed accompanied by men in evening dress. Conversation seemed to lag with many of the couples, too, but the orchestra played loudly from popular light operas and occasionally a high soprano contributed an aria. "Isn't it lovely?" asked Mabel. "Tm glad you are enjoying it; but it looks to me like a lot of these regulars are not enjoying it at all. See how bored this couple over here is?" And he indicated with a glance a handsome woman and broad-looking man near by. "They must live here for that table was held for them, and I saw them in the parlor without hats or wraps when we first came in." Mabel's observation of all these details brought a slight smile from Alfred. "Well married people with no home but a hotel are likely to be bored with each other and with everything else, I should think." "Mercy! I don't see why; I think it's lovely to eat in a hotel where there's music and flowers and no housework to manage and lots of pretty things all about." Mabel's eyes swept the room as she spoke. "Maybe you don't see why people get bored with it because you don't see the main part of their lives, but only a little of the glitter on the outside." They were 'destined to have a glimpse underneath the glittering surface, though, for the voices of the bored-looking couple near by grew audible. There was a tussiness in the manner of this couple that seemed to extend from them to those near them, and although Alfred and Mabel tried to keep up their little conversation, it in no way interfered with their hearing every word, said...by their neighbors at that other table. "Harry Lyons, I collapse if this goes on an hour longer." The handsome woman had her hands clenched in her lap. "You mean you'll have this whole room full of people see you make a dune of yourself, if you're not careful," said the man, with quiet sarcasm. "What do I care for this room full of people? I'm sick of them and of everything. We've made a complete mess of our lives." "And who made the mess, I wonder? How many women know when they are well off? I dare say most people who would see you living in this big hotel with nothing to do but dress up and come and go as you please would think you were having things pretty easy, and yet you talk of collapsing. You have had homes, but none of them suited, and now with the finest suite in the best hotel in town you are less contented than ever." "Well, you have thought of nothing but making money and have left me nothing to do but spend it." "When we had our first home out in Woodlawn I had to hustle to meet the payments, but it was too quiet and the days were too long for you; then moving from one apartment to another and taking up with a swiffer set of people at each move, we've finally landed where we are, with not a single real friend about us just because we haven't been real ourselves. I'd have been glad enough to be at home many a night that we have been gallivanting around." "Oh, of course, a woman always expects to be blamed when things go wrong; since Adam's time men have been entirely consistent in that one way." Just at this point an elderly gentleman diner called the head waiter and sent him to the orchestra leader with a message written on a visiting card. A moment later, the singer, responding to an encore, smiled in the direction of the elderly gentleman and in her clear voice began to sing "Home, Sweet Hame." Mabel was fascinated with the fate of the handsome woman who had been quarrelling with her husband. At the first few words of the song her eyes had a scared expression, then a faraway, infinitely sad one, and gradually her head sank lower until her chin rested on the roses at her corsage. The man lighted three cigarettes and threw them aside in an incredibly short time. When the singer reached that line about "An exile from home, splendor dazzles in vain," the woman's head came up quickly and she looked appealingly at her husband. Then she attempted to rise, but grew white and swayed, the man just barely managing to catch her as she fell. Many diners rose, but the husband held his wife with one arm and held out the other hand warningly to those about him. Again the tenseness extended to all the people near him. Just as the singer concluded the song, the woman raised her head and without seeming to know that anyone but her husband was near, said in a pitifully tired voice. "Our exile is over, Harry; let's go home." Mabel and Alfred were perhaps the only ones who knew all that she meant. When they were putting on their wraps afterward Alfred saw tears in Mabel's eyes, but neither of them spoke until they reached the sidewalk. "I've seen enough of glitter tonight; let's not go to the theater," said Mabel. And when they reached her little home in an old-fashioned flat Alfred told of his promotion and secured her promise to help him build a home like which no place would ever be found. STUDENTS LAZY, SAYS HIBBEN Princeton Head Blames Colleges for Making Work Agreeable to Those Who Attend. The intellectual pampering of college students, according to a theory that the road to knowledge should be smooth and pleasant, was condemned by John Grier Hibben, president of Princeton, at the eighth conference of masters of church schools, at St. Luke's school, Wayne. "If I were asked to name the greatest defect of the present undergraduate," said President Hibben. "I would say it was his tendency to postpone until tomorrow the task of today. Colleges connive in this by making his work agreeable; the teacher at once helps him over any difficulty. Men in the world must earn their daily bread by the sweat of their brows, but the student can acquire knowledge quite vicariously, without haying to exert himself for it. He should be made to think his way out of difficulties for himself." Ought to Sell "In case your auto hits anything, this device makes a cloud of smoke for you to get away in. No chance of identification." Usual Use "Senator Wombat got an appropriation to do some public building." "And what is he going to do with it?" Bleeker—I see by the papers that an Ohio man has got into a lot of trouble through marrying two women. Meeker—Huh! Most men get into a lot of trouble by marrying one woman. METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE, METROPOLIS, ILL. DOES STOKER'S WORK Claim. Is Made That It Will Do the Work to Better Advantage and Also Effect a Considerable Saving in Coal. Hereafter the locomotive fireman will be a fireman only in name. His work will be to help the engineer watch for signals and to put lubricants in the oil cups. The reason is that coal is to be put into the firebox by a stoker. The Chicago, Burlington and Quincy railroad already has 600 engines so equipped. Hence this is no dream. By this simple change the railroads will use a different size of coal. Because they will do so, they will stop competing with the householder for the lumps in the nation's coal pile. It may be predicted, therefore, that coal for house use will cost so much in future. But—that is getting ahead of the story. From the efficiency viewpoint there are two great drawbacks to the human stoker. Because of the strong draft a locomotive furnace has a tendency to draw small pieces of coal through the stack. Also it was hard work for a man, by the old method, to shovel coal from the tender to the firebox. He made his work easier by shoveling T The Conveyor In Front Carries the Coal to Conveyors in the Two Side Pipes, Which Deposit it on the Fire by Means of the Three Chutes Hanging From the Top of the Device. The Conveyor in Front Carries the Coal to Conveyors in the Two Side Pipes, Which Deposit it on the Fire by Means of the Three Chutes Hanging From the Top of the Device. a lot of coal and then taking a rest. This resulted in fuel waste. Both difficulties are met by the new stoker. A small conveyor, set in a trough, runs from the coal pile to the front of the firebox. This scoops the coal from underneath the pile and carries it forward. At the front of the firebox the coal is forced into a pipe inside which runs another conveyor. Its loaded buckets run up the left-hand side of the furnace and drop the coal into a small pocket from which it is fed down to the fire through three spouts. The empty buckets return to the floor through the pipe down the right-hand side of the furnace. Of the three spouts through which the coal reaches the fire, two are near the front to spread the coal over the forward part of the grate. The third is about in the center of the compaction chamber to spread the coal over the rear of the grate. By means of pieces of mechanism these spouts spread coal upon the fire at stated intervals. By this means the furnace fire is replenished as needed. The effect, in fact, is that of the most skillful hand firing, but done by machinery. Small-sized coal is used. This is known in the East as slack and in the West as screenings. It includes all coal which passes through a screen having openings an inch and a half wide. The use of small coal is a complete reversal of the old railroad practice—Illustrated World. Need for Vocational Training. Of the importance of vocational training particularly at this crisis in international affairs, Dr. C. P. Steinmetz, formerly president of the National Association of Corporation Schools, says: "Vocational training is the most important industrial problem in this country. The supply of artisans with broad training from Europe is now cut off and the training of workmen in this country is of paramount interest. The superiority of America in the electrical industry over all other countries is due largely to educational development and to co-operation between manufacturing companies and educational institutions." Commercial conditions in Chile are showing much more optimism now than for some time past. The great quantities of nitrate of soda shipped have helped restore cheer. This material is used in the manufacture or powder. The United States is the chief purchaser. Palliation Elline—Isn't young Boodle awful cross-eyed? Henrietta—Yes, but since he got that touring car you'd hardly notice it—Judge. AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS The most historic exhibition ever opened for the inspection of the public in many ways was the Lincoln Jubilee Exposition of Half a Century of Negro freedom, which w.s. held in Chicago a short time ago, writes Bishop Samuel Fallows of the Reformed Episcopal church. From President Wilson down leading public men showed a proper appreciation of the necessity for and value of this exposition. The president has been our patron. Governor Dunne and the Illinois legislature made it possible for us to get state financial assistance to the amount of $50,000, while the citizens of Chicago donated $25,000 more. The exposition demonstrated what the Negro has accomplished in his 50 years of freedom. It was divided into 12 departments, as follows: Education, religion, industry, social progress, music, sociology, military, liberal arts, professional, fraternal, athletics and miscellaneous. Out of the mass of statistics regarding the Negro prepared by the commission the following are interesting: 1863 1915. Population—Slave ... 3,963,760 Free ... 487,900 9,828,284 Illiteracy (pct.) ... 90 27 Value of property ... $1,200,000 $1,000,000,400 Colleges and univ. ... 1 400 No. college grads ... 30 2,000 No. lawyers, phys- clains, bankers ... 0 3,000 No. of newspapers ... 1 400 No. of churches ... 400 31,393 Value of church pro- perty ... $ 500,000 65,000,000 Memb. churches ... 40,000 3,207,305 Children in schools ... 25,000 2,009,000 Land owned by Negro groes, acres ... 25,000,000 Hospitals, training schools ... 61 Banks owned by Negro groes ... 72 Value prop. owned by Negro secret societies ... 19,000,000 Per cent of Negroes in gainful occup. ... 62.2 The exposition was international, national and state-wide in its interest and scope. Liberia sent an exhibit, and appointed Professor Starr of the University of Chicago as its official commissioner. Haïti also sent an exhibit. From all the states where Negroes dwell, from 400 schools and colleges—especially the industrial and agricultural colleges—from state departments and from the national government we had exhibits which formed the greatest collection of its kind ever made. The United States patent office sent 1,000 of the devices patented by Negroes. From the library of congress there were 400 books written by Negro authors. We had Charles F. Gunther's Lincoln collection, the most complete of its kind, including the Lovejoy press, which was thrown into the river in Alton, ill., by an angry mob. This press was in operation. "Why does society prefer the Negro musician?" The question was recently asked by one of your correspondents. If the Negro musician enjoys any preference at all, he does not enjoy it solely because of his color. His color is a handicap, and wherever he achieves success he does so in the face of doubly severe competition. In certain branches of his occupation the Negro musician has been successful; in furnishing entertainment at dinner parties, receptions and other social functions similar in character, and in furnishing dance music. For work of the former kind his services have always been in demand, because of his Health and prosperity threaten to make us a nation of self-seekers. The exaltation of personal ease and comfort menaces our permanent well-being. In military service every abled-bodied young man subordinates his personal interests to the welfare of information; it is an act of faith by which he recognizes that the enduring life of his people, with the spiritual values it treasures, is of more importance than his own personal happiness, and that one of the greatest sacrifices he can render by his life is to promote the welfare of his nation. Likewise every woman who is willing to forego personal pleasures and comfort, and incur the risk and effort of rearing offspring, subordinates her own personal interest to her nation and her race. America does not want a Negro army, first, because it would be unfit to ask of any one race any more than just a proportion of service. Then the white men of American cannot afford to allow the benefits of universal service to slip from them. Physical strength, alertness of body, ability to engage with others in group State Senator Helen Ring Robinson of Colorado, brought suit against the editor of a New Jersey newspaper because he published a statement in regard to certain legislation, which she says, would make it appear that she countered fictions and immoral legislation. The Turkish mother loads her child with ammels as soo' it is born, and a small bit of mud dipped in hot water, prepared by the previous charms, is stuck on its forehead. unfalling good nature, his genial, kindly humor and his versatility. Until recently those who engaged in this work were for the most part untrained musicians who relied on their natural talents. In the last few years, however, a new type of Negro musician has appeared in response to the demand for dance music of which the distinguishing characteristic is an eccentric tempo. Such music usually takes the form of a highly syncopated melody, which in the early period of its development was known as "ragtime" music. Since the dance is born of music, it is quite apparent that the modern dance is a creature of the syncopated melody. Thus a new field has been opened to Negro musicians. The Negro's success is due to the following facts: He is a natural musician and throws himself into the spirit of his work with spontaneous enthusiasm; so that the music rendered by a Negro orchestra rarely has the mechanical quality which is fatal to dancing. He has a superior sense of rhythm, peculiarly adapting him for dance music. The art of playing the modern syncopated music is to him a natural gift. He excels in the use of the guitar, banjo and mandolin, instruments which are now being generally adopted by orchestras playing dance music to obtain the "thrum-thrum" effect and the eccentric accentuated beat so desirable in dance music; and he was the first to discover the availability of these instruments for such purpose. In addition to his natural talent in the above respects the modern Negro musician is well trained in his art. He reads readily, memorizes marvelously well, interprets naturally, and not only understands the principles of technique in the use of his instruments, but is remarkably skillful in execution, as is to be expected when one considers that the Negro possesses a rare facility for arts requiring physical skill. Perhaps it is fair to say that the Negro has contributed to American music whatever distinctive quality it possesses. Certainly he is the originator of the highly syncopated melody so much in favor today. Some years ago in Cole & Johnson's show, of which I was musical director, there was a number containing a peculiarly syncopated passage which not a single white orchestra ever succeeded in playing correctly, while colored orchestras played it without effort, unconscious of its intricacies. Such preference as the Negro musician enjoys is therefore due to efficiency which is the result of a natural inheritance and to his application to the serious study of his music. Many of the members of those orchestras whose success your correspondent so much deplores are arrangers and composers—James Reese Europe, in the New York Sun. The stings of bees which attacked him on the arm and wrist near his pulse recently rendered a Burlington line freight conductor unconscious. The venom from these little insects partially paralyzed the man's heart. He is expected to recover. In England special colleges for women have been established at Cambridge and Oxford, affording the same instructions and conferring equivalent degrees to those given at the university itself. effort are developed. Courage, and the moral qualities of discipline and self-control, which are valuable in the ordinary walks of life, are enhanced by military training, Compulsory and universal service, drawing upon the sons of the rich and poor alike, from all parts of the country, without reference to race, color or creed, for our national defense, is in keeping with the advanced social ideal of our time. New York Times. Mrs. Marie J. Howe, wife of United States Immigration Commissioner Howe' of New York city, is an ordained minister, a suffrage worker, a playwright and the manager of a theatrical stock company for the production of suffrage plays. Miss Frances Ingram, head of the Neighborhood house in Louisville, Ky. is called the "Janie Addams" of Kentucky. Owing to the shortage of men in the professions, women are now permitted to enter certain universities in Russia. The man who would retain the good will of his friends should remember that there are a great many things he must not forget to forget. Recent experiments have shown that it is possible for the X-ray to find flaws within metal that appears on its surface to be sound. The marketed production of sulphur in the United States last year. 327,634 long tons, was the greatest in the history of the industry. PUT ONE OVER ON BURGLARS Industrious Safe Blowers Found Only Interesting Note Instead of Richa They Expected. Burglaries have been so busy cracking safes on the upper East side with dynamite, nitroglycerin and lyddite that it is impossible for flat dwellers in that vicinity to keep pictures straight on the walls. The storekeepers have been touched so often that they are beginning to get wise. Instead of leaving the day's cash in their strong boxes, they are filling them up with coal and other uncommon things. A clerk in a hat store in that section of town, after removing the money from the safe at closing time, left a note inside of it. A pair of burglaries spent a busy set of hours in the hat store, using sectional jimmies, "can openers" and every known device for successfully approaching the interior of the safe. When they had reduced the strong box to a shredded iron biscuit they looked into its riddled heart and found this note: "Well, what's the idea?" That was all there was in the safe. It is assumed that the subsequent conversation was enough to explode the nitrogllycerin, but one of the annoyed felons took his indelible pencil in hand and wrote as follows: "You ------------, you can ------------ and furthermore, ------------ ! ! !!" Which, considering what their feelings were, was putting it mildly—New York Times. Getting the Doctor Ira Collins calls to our attention the difference that forty years has made in the old time run for the doctor. Forty years ago a runaway team injured a man on the Nemeha bottom. A neighbor saddled one of those famous race horses bred by the Smiths, Mormets and Wittwers and raced him to Sabetha, 18 miles away, for old Doctor Irwin. When he turned in the head of Main street he commenced to shout, "Oh, doc, oh, doc, do-c," and the doctor was on the spot with his thoroughbred old Monk and raced away on the last lap for the life of the Nebraskan. It took two hours and thirty minutes to pace that 36 miles. A short time ago a hay fork jumped from the roof of a big barn near Whiting and stabbed the operator twice in the chest. The injured man was bundled into the farmer's auto and in 38 minutes was upon the operating table in Sabetha, 26 miles away.—Leavenworth Times. May Be New Industry for India. May Be New Industry for India. New industries may be started in India as a result of the war. Hittierio India has exported large quantities of cotton waste to Germany. Since the outbreak of the war the export has ceased and some of the captains of the mill industry are thinking how best to utilize the cotton waste. The waste was used in Germany to turn into coarse counts, which were used for manufacturing blankets, carpets and other such articles. Some of the mill agents are contemplating the importation of waste cotton plants so as to utilize the waste for the purpose of manufacturing blankets, carpets, etc., in India. Its Offspring. Luke, venturing into town for the first time, essayed to cross the street, and was bowled over by an automobile. He lay in the roadway while the bystanders shouted at him to run. Presently a speeding motorcycle also hit Luke. Then he reached the curb. "Wy, ain't you run when Ah tole you?" demanded a bystander. "Go long, man," responded Luke indignantly. "Hocceume you reckon Ah knows dat contraption hader colt?" Misunderstood. "I hear they have an excellent curriculum at this school," said Uncle John, who was visiting his nephew at college. "You bet your life we have," replied the nephew enthusiastically. "It's built of steel and concrete, and seats 26,000 people. Come over and I'll show it to you." FEED CHILDREN On Properly Selected Food. It Pays Big Dividends. If parents will give just a little intelligent thought to the feeding of their children the difference in the health of the little folks will pay many times over, for the small trouble. A mother writes: "Our children are all so much better and stronger than they ever were before we made a change in the character of the food. We have quit using potatoes three times a day with coffee and so much meat. "Now we give the little folks some fruit, either fresh, stewed, or canned, some Grape-Nuts with cream, occasionally some soft boiled eggs, and some Postum, for breakfast and supper. Then for dinner they have some meat and vegetables. "It would be hard to fully describe the change in the children, they have grown so sturdy and strong, and we attribute this change to the food elements that, I understand, exist in Grape-Nuts and Postum. "A short time ago my baby was teething and had a great deal of stomach ane bowel trouble. Nothing seemed to agree with him until I tried Grape-Nuts softened and mixed with rich milk and he improved rapidly and got sturdy and well." "There's a Reason." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Ever read the above letter? A new one appears from time to time. They are nutritive, true, and full of hummus. MRS. THOMSON TELLS WOMEN How She Was Helped During Change of Life by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Philadelphia, Pa.—'I am just 52 years of age and during Change of Life I suffered for six years terribly. I tried several doctors but none seemed to give me any relief. Every month the painwere intense in both sides, and made me so weak that I had to go to bed. At last a friend recommended Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable tered for six years terribly. I tried several doctors but none seemed to give me any relief. Every month the painwere intense in both sides, and made me so weak that I had to go to bed. At last a friend recommended Lyda E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to me and I tried it at once and found much relief. After that I had no paina at all and could do my housework and shopping the same as always. For years I have praised Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for what it has done for me, and shall always recommend it as a woman's friend. You are at liberty to use my letter in any way." -Mrs. THOMSON, 649 W. Russell St, Philadelphia, Pa. Change of Life is one of the most critical periods of a woman's existence. Women everywhere should remember that there is no other remedy known to carry women so successfully through this trying period as Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. If you want special advice write to Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. (confidential), Lynn, Mass. Your letter will be opened, read and answered by a woman and held in strict confidence. Warner's are purely vegetable, sugar-coated and absolutely free from injurious substances. A Perfect Laxative. For indigestion, biliousness, torpid liver and constipation, they do not gripe or leave any bad after effects. 25c a box. If your drug-gist cannot supply you, we will. Write for Brownie. Warner's Safe Beverages Co. Brownie, R. J. ZAZUO ABSORBINE from a Bone Spavin, Ring Bone, Splint, Clint, Side Bone, or similar trouble and gets horse going sound. It acts mildly but quickly and good results are lasting. Does not blister or remove the hair and horse can be worked. Page 17 in pamphlet with bottle red. *Horse Book 9 & bottle red.* ABSORBINE, JR. the antiseptic liniment for mankind, reduces Painful Swellings, Enlarged Gland, Wens, Bruises, Varicose Veins, heale Sorets, Alla Painy. Will tell you more if you write. $1 and $2 a bottle at F. YOUNG, P. F. R. F. B. Serious Mass. Tutt's Pills stimulate the torpid liver, strengthen the digestive organe, regulate the bowel. A remedy for sick headache. Unsequued as an ANTI-BILIOUS MEDICINE. She—I suppose you got some delicious corn up on the farm. He—You bet. Why. I ate roasting ears until a growth of corn silk came out and covered my bald spot.—Hoston Transcript. THIS IS THE AGE OF YOUTH. You will look ten years younger if you darken your ugly, grizzly, gray hairs by using "La Creole" Hair Dressing—Adv. Many a woman's make-up prevents her from holding the mirror up to nature. It Never Came Back Beckache Sufferer! Thousands will tell you what wonderful relief they have had from Dean's Kidney Pills. Not only relief, but lasting cures. If you are lain in the morning, have headache, nervous troubles, dizzy spells and irregular kidney or bladder action, Bright's disease, gets hold. Use Dean's Kidney Pills, the best-recommended kidney medicine. A Missouri Case Mrs. J. C. O'Dell, Saint第六 St. Joplin, N. J. "Dolan's Kidney Pills were a God- kidney complaint in the worst form, with a dull, leavy and of my hands. When these attacks came moves and for five was unable to do a n' y work. Soon "Every Picture Kills a New" Mrs. J. C. O'Dell, sanitary St. Joplin, N.Y. "Doon's Kidney Pills were a Godsend to me. I had it all when I was in the worst form, with a dull, leavy pain in the small of my chest. When these pills came on I couldn't move and for five weeks was unable to do anything after I used Doon's Kidney Pills. I improved and it wasn't long before the trouble left me. The cure has been permanent." Get Doen's at Any Store, 500 N. Box. DOAN'S KIDNEY PILLS FOSTER-MILBURN CO., BUFFALO, N.Y. JUST HUMOR TICKET SELLER WAS WRATHY Madame Bernhardt Willing to Give Up Afternoon of Rest But Man of Pasteboards Was Peeved. Margaret Illington, the actress, tells of Sarah Bernhardt's last repertory engagement in America. Madame was giving performances every evening and matinees every day but Friday, which afternoon she reserved for rest. A company in Philadelphia was playing "Madame X" at the same time that Bernhardt was playing it, and the manager desired his players to see the divine Sarah in it. They could get away only on one day—Friday. So the Philadelphia manager went to Bernhardt's manager and asked him if it would be possible for Bernhardt to give a Friday matinee. Her manager, eager to please the Philadelphia, but dubious, finally agreed to ask Bernhardt. When he had explained, she readily agreed to give up her afternoon of rest. Her manager went back to the lobby in a daze. "Bernhardt, is more than mortal; she is capable of the work of ten men," he told the Philadelphian. "She is going to give that extra matinee Friday." Suddenly the ticket seller poked his head out of his cage. "Extra matinee Friday?" he yelled. "Good gracious! What does that woman think I'm made of?" Green Book Magazine. Cheerful Prospect. "Young man," queried the stern par- cept, "are you in a position to support my daughter in the style to which she has been accustomed?" "Sir," replied the young man, proudly, "I am able to keep three horses and—" "But what has that got to do, with suppbring my daughter," interrupted the storm parent. "I hope you are not figuring on boarding her at a livery stable." A Cbicken Fancier "Well, Bugh, I hear you are married?" "Yessum," said the former cook. "I've done got me a man now." "Is he a good provider?" "Yasum. He's a mighty good pervider, but it's powerful skewed has gwyne ter gait kotched at it." "You say Chuggs has never been arrested for speeding?" "Never." "The deuce! What does he get out of his cdr?" "As my wife is a head taller than I am and she cries copiously, my first thought is to stand from under." TOO SHORT. THE WHEELS "Aren't you afraid some bold robber will hold you up?" "I always carry a six-shooter." "I preter a six-footer." No Diplomatic Concession. "So Will Blinks blacked your eye, said the small boy's father." "Yes." "And hasn't he apologized?" "No. He won't even refer to it as an unfortunate accident." "Has your town a great tree?" Well, I don't know, great, they are, bit three, at our district, have their pictures published in 'parent medicine', ads every day, Defitit Free Press. Sir or Ma'am? Equestrian—Ara you going fishing; little boy! L. B.—No. Equestrian—No what? L. B.—Durned if I know!—Judge. METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE. METROPOLIS. ILL. NOT CONDUCIVE TO OLD AGE ODD OWNERC "CAID" Youngster of 20 Is Told by Man of 92 He Will Never be Old Man on Account of Habits. The late John Bigelow, the patriarch of diplomats and authors, and the no less eminent physician and author, Dr. S. Weir Mitchell, were together several years ago at West Point. Doctor Bigelow was then ninety-two and Doctor Mitchell eighty. The conversation turned to the subject of age. "I attribute my many years," said Doctor Bigelow, "to the fact that I have been most abstemious. I have eaten sparingly and have not used tobacco and have taken little exercise." "It is just the reverse in my case," explained Doctor Mitchell. "I have eaten just as much as I wished, if I could get it; I have always used tobacco, immoderately at times, and I have always taken a great deal of exercise." With that, Ninety-two Years-shook his head at Eighty Years and said: "Well, you will never live to be an old man!"—Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph. A Hearty Welcome. "And who are you?" asked St. Peter as he peeped through the slats of the pearly gate. "Why, I'm of the earth earth," replied the new arrival. "Just out of college." "Good!" exclaimed the old man. "We need somebody to tell us how to run this place, so come right in and give us the benefit of your advice." "Your wife's dinner parties are always beautiful affairs." "Yes," replied Mr. Cumrox. "At first people didn't seem to want to come to 'em. I guess mebbe the high cost of living is making a difference." WOULD FOR NOTHING "Fido, sit up and show the gentle man how to kiss me, and I'll give you some nice dinner." "I'll do the same thing, and I won't ask for any dinner as a reward, either." What He Would Like. Hobo—Please gimme a nickel, ma'am? Old Lady—Didn't I see you coming out of a saloon a moment ago? Hobo—I guess mebbe you did, ma'am. Old Lady—Well, I wonder you are not ashamed to own it. Hobo—I don't own it, ma'am. I only wish I did. Manipulating the Scales. "Your daughter is doing fairly well with her music," said the professor, "but somehow she just can't run the scales properly." "Oh, I suppose that's an inherited trait," rejoined the fond mother, "Her father made his money in the grocery business." Had Practice. The Coed—I don't see how you can read Chaucer so readily. The spelling is so queer. The Professor of English—I've lots of experience while examining the sophomores' papers—Harvard. Lampoon. Not Safe "Safe burglars do not boast about their work." "Why should they." "Yet they are always blowing about their business." "Fellow that shaved me actually started to talk golf to me." Brown's Home Life. Jones—I don't see your husband at the club of late, Mrs. Brown! Mrs. Brown—No. He stays at home now and enjoys life in his own way as I want him to. Exactly. "I don't believe the woman who has the next apartment to ours ever touches her parlor carpet." "My dear, that's a sweeping arrangement." Of Course, Paw Knows. Little Lemuel—Say, paw, what is an upstart? Paw—An upstart, son, is a self-made man who isn't your friend. Little Samuel-What's an auction, paw? Raw-An auction, son, is a for-bidding place. ODD CHINESE "FAIR" Heid Upon Ground That Was Obtained by Trick. Christian Missionaries Take Advantage of Gathering to Preach the Gospel to Growds That Collect to Buy and Sell. Persons who find a delight in the "county fair" will appreciate a little story by Miss Rose Alice Mace, in the Woman's Missionary Friend, of "The Minting Fair," held in Mintingsheng, China, on February 15, says the Christian Work. This fair has the distinction of being the only one of its kind held in China. It is held on the spot where a temple once stood. A wealthy old gentleman, who admired the spot and coveted it as a burial place for his family, by a clever ruse got the temple moved, and tombs for his ancestors safely erected, when the deception he had employed was discovered, and the people determined upon revenge. There is a superstition prevalent that if the grave of an ancestor be trodden upon his descendants will suffer through life. Thereupon it was decided that on February of each year the people of the surrounding neighborhood should meet and tramp on the graves of his man's friends. Later they began taking a few articles with them to exchange or sell them. The people seem to have about forgotten the original purpose of the gathering, and now, think of it only from a social and business standpoint. But the interesting thing to us is that the missionaries have taken advantage of the opportunity of so large a gathering for spreading the Gospel. Bencheal with awnings are erected near by, a large Chinese sign placed if a conspicuous place extending a cordial invitation to the people to come and listen to preaching and singing. Large Sunday school lesson pictures are exhibited and smaller ones distributed containing the Scripture texts in Chinese, and so interest is maintained. "The people in general," says Miss Mace, "seemed pleased to have an opportunity, of learning something of our belief and doctrine. Many seemed favorably impressed, and several seemed really interested and anxious to learn more about the great truth presented to them." 'ALARM CLOCK' IS SOUNDLESS Made in the Form of a Wrist Watch and Guaranteed to Awake the Soundest sleeper. Designed as a silent alarm suitable for use by dear persons, a wrist watch which is capable of awakening a person without disturbing the other occu-萨its of a house, has been introduced. It has concentric dials, the inner of Wrist Watch That Serves as Alarm Clock. which is used for setting the alarm: A small-sized cord that encircles the wrist or ankle, when the watch is strapped in place, tightens at a predetermined time and awakens the sleeper. The device performs an especially convenient function when traveling.—Robin M. Mechanics. Popular Mechanics Bees Swarm on Bicycle. A bicycle standing at the curb in front of a confectionery store on a business thoroughfare in Whittier, Cal., recently served as a settling place for a large swarm of bees. For more than two hours the insects succeeded in turning shoppers to the opposite side of the street and crowding vehicular traffic well into the middle of the pavement. Oddly enough, the bees in setting chose the seat of the cycle as a clustering place and piled themselves nearly a half-foot deep upon it, also thickly covering part of the frame and rear wheel. Subsequently, a hive was procured and the bees transferred into it by a police man.—Popular Mechanics. smokeless powder dates back some fifteen years, but it was not until about the time it attained its real efficiency and sprang into general use. It must be understood that even the best of this powder is not absolutely smokeless. It is not smoky enough, however, to "do any harm" and as compared with the old powder may well be called "smokeless." Very, Appropriate. What shall I call my new vaudee-sketch? "Why don't you call it Wrinkles if it's a headliner!" IMITATION IS SINCEREST FLATTERY but like counterfeit money the imitation has not the worth of the original. insist on "Le Creole" Hair Dressing—it's the original. Darkens your hair in the natural way, but contains no dye. Price $1.00.—Adv. Man's Materialism. Perry Belmont, condemning materialism at a Newport dinner, said: "Take the average husband. Could anything be more material than he? "Tell the average husband that his love is growing cold, and he won't so much as lift his eyes from the evening paper. "But tell him that his consomme is growing cold, and—zip, he's off for the dining room in 29-foot leaps." 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. Motor Progress. "Now our new 1916 potent negotiable runabout is the latest thing on the market," said the agent. "What's the advantage?" asked the prospective buyer. prospective buyer. "To begin with, it is a dividend-bearing car," said the agent, "but in addition to that we have arranged with national and other banks in all parts of the world to cash 'em on sight if the owner ever gets hard up." COVETED BY ALL but possessed by few—a beautiful head of hair. If yours is streaked with gray, or is harsh and stiff, you can restore it to its former beauty and luster by using "La Creole" Hair Dressing. Price $1.00—Adv. War Hurt Philippine Trade. In the Philippine foreign trade movement for the year ending June, 1915, the adverse effect of the European war was the leading factor. Imports amounting to $44,479,861 declined $11,500,000, or 20 per cent below the 1914 value; and, though exports were only nominally less than $51,000,000, total of the previous year, greatly increased production of copra alone saved the total, and the high price for sugar was the only market war benefit in an export trade that was very generally reduced—Commerce reports. Because Free From Dandruff, itching, irritation, and Dryness. May be brought about by shampoos with Cuticura Soap preceded by touches of Cuticura Ointment to spots of dandruff, itching and irritation. A clean, healthy scalp means good hair. Try these supercreamy emollients if you have any hair or scalp trouble. Sample each free by mail with Book. Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. XY, Boston. Sold everywhere.—Adv. "We had at our house for about half a day this summer a young man from Kansas City as a boarder," stated honest Neighbor, Hornbeak. "He came with the expectation of staying two weeks, and just natcherly hungered and thirsted for the simple life, as he called it. And then about the first thing he did was to seek to pick a sandburr off from the left hind fetlock of one of the mules. This sorter led me to believe that he thought 'simple' and 'idiotic' were synonymous and simultaneous terms."—Kansas City Star. Unfortunately Not Accomplished. Vagrant—Sir. I was captured in infancy by the Indians and reared in ignorance of all civilized usages. "Well, what of it?" "Why, I don't know, how to lie, steal, boast, bluff or toady, and I'm starving to death."—Life. DISTRIBUTORS the Present. ink Mars is in this war is Kroeger-Amos-James Grocer Co. St. Louis, Mo. Trouble Enough for the Present. Junior Partner—I think Mars is inhabited. Senior Partner—Until this war is over, Jake, we will stick to our regular customers!—Philadelphia Bulletin. Matched. "Did you match that blue ribbon for me today, Henry?" me today, Henry?" "Yes, love. It was the color of the salesgirl's eyes, but they didn't have any more of the ribbon left." SOAP IS STRONGLY ALKALINE and constant use will burn out the scalp. Cleanse the scalp by shampooing with "La Creole" Hair Dressing, and darken, in the natural way, those ugly, grizzly hairs. Price, $1.00.—Adv. Usually the Case. "You owe it to yourself." PATENTS Watson E. Coleman, Patent Lawyer, Washington, D.C. Advice and books free. Rates reasonable. Highest references. Best service. W. N. U., ST. LOUIS, NO. 44-1915. arth of DU PONT $1.00 Worth of Land "In that case, there's no hurry. I and myself a very lenient creditor."— Louisville Courier-Journal. 10c Worth of DU PONT Get rid of the stumps and grow big crops on cleared land. Now is the time to clean up your farm while products bring high prices. Blasting is quickest, cheapest and easiest with Low Freezing Du Pont Explosives. They work in cold weather. Write for Free Handbook of Explosives No. 69F, and name of nearest dealer. DU PONT POWDER COMPANY WILMINGTON DELAWARE Man's Materialism. To Drive Out Malaria Motor Progress. COVETED BY ALL THICK LOVELY HAIR Mixed Adjectives. Matched. 1111 The General Saga: Why send your money away for bargains roofing? They can get the best roofing at a reasonable price. You can get your own local deal- es when you know? Certain-teed Roofing is guaranteed in writing, 5 years for 1-ly 10 years for 3-ly, and 15 years for 3-ly on burglar-proofing, on burglar-proofing inside and outside. Our quality is the highest and is priced the most reasonable. General Roofing Mfg. Company World's largest manufacturer of Roofing Products New York City Boston Chicago Pittsburgh Philadelphia Kansas Cleveland Detroit Baltimore San Francisco Seattle London Hamburg Riyadh What the Woods Teach. A week in the woods with your ear close to Mother Nature's heart and your eyes finding vistas up into the blue eternal mystery, may teach you that your little solifish strivings, your piny vanities, your petty hatreds and jealousies, that make up so large a part of your daily living and your nightly worrying, are of no more worth to the world or you than are the nameless little gnats that so foolishly zigzag in the gloom. Weeping Willow is Chinese. The weeping willow, so called (scientific name S. banylicalia), is a native of China, from which country it has been taken over most of the civilized world. WOMAN'S CROWNING GLORY is her hair. If yours is streaked with ugly, grizzly, gray hairs, use "La Culee" Hair Dressing and change it in the natural way. Price $1.00—Adv. Paraguay has valuable forest resources, the most important of which is queracho, particularly rich in tannin. Break it up THE DAY OF THE WASHBOARD IS OVER Yes, Break Up Your Washboard! Don't it break your back, break your arm, break your health and break your clothes? Hearn't the washboard ruined enough clothes to deserve breaking up? And by such gentle means, Force an you know, never settles things right. Wash like Wiltshire Stiff. It is used with the regular soap. It is not washing powder, nor is it, nor alkali, nor acid, nor any other harmful thing. It does not clean the skin by natural means. It does not damage the finest texture, nor harden the webbing and nor harden the skin by cleanliness of your fine lines, pretty faces and delicate lingerie will be a continual delight. Once you show your help how much clothes, you need have no fear of their ruining your clothes again. "I use no machines and one hour with Magic Washing Stiff puts my clothes on the line. I recommend it to every body." MRS. L. Jr. Wash Days Are Made Joy Days our prices on Field and Poultry OWIGINS WIRE FENCE CO. ```markdown ``` PUBLISHED ON FRITAY BT THE GAZETTE PRINTING CO. aprnerols, - -- > > GL. RS, M. J. MOCRARY, MANAGER. 4.B. MoOmaay, Eprron ——— FREDAY NOV. 5, 915. —— Office gth and Pearl Streets, Me- ropolis, Ulinois. Aentorered as second-class mail mat- er, at Metropolis, Illinois, Postoffice. —_—_——— (Address ait communications to J. B.Mo- BARY, Box 107 Metropolis, illiaots, ——_——— The names and addresses of contrib- sors mast be known to usin evey in- tance, in order to secure publication. We want the news of your vicinity each week. Terms OF SUBSCRIPTION: — One Year... cece te ceee O10 der Mibatine. 5956256 Phree Momths......6. 66. see.se2 140 Bingio Copy....... cece cere eee OE s@- In Advance. ADVERTISING RATES. made known om application. Ger You must mail copy on Mondays to secure publication, Ce eee Cut Flowers for Sale at Mrs. JENNIE INMANS. Trustees ‘ef-the Livingston Normal, Theolog! * cal and Indostrial Institute. WH. KnoWles, D. D, President J.-B. McCrary, 8. T. B., Secretary ‘P.C. Yancy, 8. 'B. Kerr, Attorney ‘Rov. J.M. Blake. Rev. H. Allison Rev. G. W. Rowlett, Treasurer Rev. C, 0. Phillips, Financial Agt. Rev. H. E. MeWilliame The citizens of Brookport, en- joved the lovely music and_ sing- ing of the B. Y. P. U. choir of the 1st Buptist church Metropolis, under the leadership of Mrs. La- vada Martin and Mrs Bessie M. Gerk Unity Baptist church choir is ready fora ‘contest with them at any time, and will meet them in their home city and invite them bick again. Now thatthe election is over and people have spoken and their verdict is, a dry town. It is up to the city and state officials to makeit so in the strictest sense ofthe word. The voice of the people should be obeyed and the strong arm of the law siould be brought to bear if it requires every woman, maa and child in the county who believe in decency and order to back it up. The colored citizens of the First ward who are tax payers and contend- crs for morality and strict enforce- ment offfaw should have better protection against the bootleggers and booze-fighters. We stood by ourgans last Tuesday now, have the officers to stand by us. “Black Patti’’ no, 2 will exhi- bit in. Metropolis, next Tuesday night Nov. 9th for the benefit of the Unity Baptist church Brook- port. Watch for bills and street parade. This is a local’ minstrel com- pany of Brookport, but they are there with the goods, See and hear them. Mrs, Ella Flowers, Manager. Letter Heads and Envelopes can be had for the asking at this office. We print them. For Groceries and cold drinks go theFirst or Last Specs Gro- cery on gth and Pearl St»), Send, us @ trial order for the Great Nature Selve, 50c a Box. Why suffer when you can be se- Reved for such a small amount. Read our guarantee on «athe front page of The Gazetre, =P: | nesday where he visited for a few days. 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. Mr. A J. Cork of Grand Riv- ers, Ky. visited his son Newton of this city last week. Mrs. Lavada Spuclark was a Paducah visicor last week, B. C. Long of Choat was in the city Monday and Tuesday. Prof. and Mrs. W. E. Bailey visited in Paducah this week. Little Harry Lytton Carter the grand son of Mrs, Mollie Clay- brooke, is indisposed this week. The Toe Supper given Friday by the Silver Leaf Club, of the ist Baptist chureh, was a success. Mr Mingo Long of Powers at- tended the Corner Stone laying of the Unity Paptist church Sun- day. Persons who owe the Gazette would greatly: lesson the finan- cial burden of the publishers by remitting at once. Chas. Griggs, the Carpenter, ‘is working on the Unity Baptist Church, Brookport. James. Wiley Wiley, of Pine Bluff Ky., isin the city visiting his sister, Norsis Lowery. § : Rambler spent last Thursday in the home of Mr. J. P_ Lewis, Olmstead and was pleasantly en- tertained. We found the Judge busy gathering his crop and pre- paring for wheat, ©) ¢ 7055? Mrs. Elizabeth Alston, who is ao instructor in the Western Ky. College oi Paducah’ visited rela- ‘tives Satarday and Sunday. Mrs. Georgia Milam of Padu- ‘cah visited Mrs. Georgia Martin last week. | Mrs Nannie Roberts and daughters, Misses Mossic, Mae and Annie, were Paducah shop- pers Saturday. N. W. Long was in Brookport Saturday on business. Miss Carrie Urquhart is indis- posed this week. ‘Wanted—100 customers at the Last Chance grocery to buy 3 cans of best tomatoes and corn for 25c. Ordination Licentiate license blanks atthe Gazette. office. Mrs. Lue Ainw Thomas return- edto Joppa Saturday, alter at- tending the bedside of her mother Mrs: Delilah Casey. Mr. Alex Starks was called to Mayfield Ky last week to attend the funeral of his brother, who died very suddenly, Little Artie and Thelma Lyons visited their uncle Geo, Long and iamily Saturday and Sunday, Mrs Mamie Harmon is on the sick list this week Edgar McCrary was in Brook- port Friday. gs Subscribe For The Gazette. $100 Reward, $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has beeu able to cure in all its stages, and that is catarrh. Hail’s Scatarsh cure is the oely postive cure now now known 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 surfaces of the system, thereby destioying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the conatitution and assisting natare in do- ing its work. ‘The proprietors have 9 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., Tole- do, O, Sold by all Druggists, 7c, Take Hall's Family Pills for consti- pation. ; The Corner Stone of the Unity Missionary Bapt. church of Brooke port, was laid last Sunday after- ‘noon per program and announce- in last week's paper There were a large and appreciative audience Present, coming from Metropolis, Joppa, Paducah, Ky., and other part of the county, The program began about 3 o'clock p. m. and lasted for a- bout one hoor The principal speakers for the occasion were Mayor H W. Hol- lifield, who delivered a most ex- cellent address and Rev, W, M, Foster, D. D., of Paducah, Ky., who-is.one of the strongest Bap- tist devines of Western Kentucky, made an address. The financial effort was not what we hoped for but we closed at night with a total amount of $85.00 which was not so very bad when one realizes that there has been no work in the city since August until the last of the mon- th. i | The matty coupliments paid the members of said chtirch, their pastor and the colored citizens for the magnificient edifice mare than amply madé’ up for the’ shortage in finance and should assist large- ly in raising money t> complete the work. The pastor wishes tothank the Persons who so. ably assisted us in making the affair a grand one. The :mdsical and iitedery ‘pro gram at night was largely attend- ed and the choir came in for its share of praise for the excellent, music rendered both in the aftei- noon and at night. RESOLUTION ‘Whereas the Corner Stone of the Unity Missionary Baptist church, Brookport, was laid Sun- day afternoon at 3:00 by Past Deputy Grand Master, Rev. J. B McCrary, who was a special Deputy for Grand Master A. A. Martin fot the occassion, and whereas he rendered valuable ser- vice and was a credit to the Ma. sonic fraternity and the race, in representing. the Grand Master and Prince Hall Masonic Grand Lodge and the Baptist clergy. Therefore be it resolved, that we extend to Rev, McCrary a vote of thanks for his work as special Grand Master and for the high esteem in which he is held by the members of Unity Baptist Church. Be it resolved that we ¢xtend to Pithygoras Masonic Leage Metropolis, Composite Lodge, New Liberty and Rising Sun Lodge, Jobpa, a vote of thank: for the assistance rendered the Grand Master and Grand Lodge officers in the laying of the Cor. ner Stone and pray that the blessings of heaven may cement them with brotherly love and happiness, and enable thi m to be. present at the laying of many more Corner Stones. Be it further resolved that we extend avote of thanks to the several churches and their pastors for their presence und aid render- ‘ed us financially, aamely, Rey Wo. Foster, pastor of the 7th St. Baptist church, Paducah Ky, ‘who made a most excellent ad- dress: Rev. W. H. Patterson, pastor of the Free Baptist church Metropolis, members of the First Missionary Baptist church, the A. M. E. church and the Antioch Baptist church, Metropolis; the Providence Baptist church, Bel- giade; the members of the Free Baptist chuich, Shady Grove, the Siloam Baptist church Union- ville and Revs Benj. Kelley, Berry Thomas, J. H. Yarbrough Unionville and G W. Rowlett, Metropolis and pray that the benediction of heaven may rest yer them. Be it resolved that we also thank Rev. W. H. Cole, pastor of St. Paul A. M, E. Church, Brookport and his members for the financial aid given us, and that we stand ready to aid them ona similar occassion. Be it re solved further that we extend to Mayor H. W. Hollfield, a vote of thanks fo. his presence also for historical and timely address and assure him as members of the a- bove named church and citizens, we cyer stand ready in upholding his arms in upbuilding the strong arm of the law | Be it further resolved that we ever stand ready‘to lend a help- ing hand to those who assisted vs in our financial struggle. ae Be it further resolved, that we! thank Capt. Cowliug for the ne of his boat in bringing the people from Metropolis and Paducah, and pray that he may have a long atid prosperous ihe. | God reigns and the city of Me- tropolis is still dry. Thanks to the good — people both colored and white who saved the Tuesday for the side of tem- perance and righteousnecs. 4 ‘though many of our womed and men voted for the saloon and whiskey, but thanks to God there were enough voted. to ‘continne Metropolis in the dry territory. : All praise to them for standing gut lor ‘*Booze and Boodle.’ : The white people caf see now that the $7000,00 said to have been sent here by the breweries to buy up the negro men and wo- men was not enough to buy all ol the negroes, Please give them credit for standing up like chri-t- jan heroes amid the taunts and in- sults of those who voted and worked for whiskey. | The saloons are doomed so far as Metropolis is concerned, The sentiment against them is being moulded each Sanday by the God given and God sent preacher, the christian Sunday School teacher ot the be r séaked preachers and teachers for the advancement o the Master's Kingdom. | The Unity Missionary Baptist jehurch will have a dinner and upest on Thanksgiving. 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