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METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE TEXAS GIRL.16. SHOOTS YOUTH IN COURTROOM Fires Revolver When Accused, 20 Turns Away After She Approached Him and Said, "Heres Your Baby." BULLET LODGES IN JUDGES BENCH Case of Young Man on Trial Had Been Postosed---Assailant Says she 'Stood All She Could." CORSICANA, TEX, NOV. 9 Allen Godley, 20 years old, charged with seduction, was shot and dangerously wounded by Miss Alma Morgan, 16, the prosecuting witness, while standing in front of the judge's bench in District Court here today. The bullet from a 198 caliber revolver struck Godley in the neck. He fell to the floor, his legs being paralyzed. Godley was sitting when Miss Morgan approached him, saying "Alien, nere's your baby." He replied he did not want the child and turned to walk away. She fired the bullet entering Godley's back, just below the base of the neck, coming out at the breast and imbedding itself in the district judge's stand. Miss Morgan was taken in charge by Deputy Sheriff Currington. No charge has been made against her The only statement the girl made was she dad "stood all she could." The trial of the case had been postponed immediately before the shooting until February. Godley is in a sanitarium. His condition is critical. —Globe Demoerat, Mr. Editor: I am glad to say through the columns of your worthy paper that we are on the march to a better land in the name of Jehovay. Our S. S. was opened by our Supt. at the usual hour. The lesson was reviewed by Rev. will Jones of Coulterville, Ill. The young people S S Institute under the leadership of Mrs. D. Browning made their report in their social entertainment the previous night $535 the same was turned over to the S. S. Rev. P. B. French preached a powerful sermon at 11.55 Text Behold there arises a little cloud out of the sea, like a man's hand. At 3:10 the church re-assembled in a prayer and praise service in the meanwhile the Lord administered the Lords Supper and with a song all marched out At 7:45 our pastor ascended the rostum and preached a soul stirring sermon. The words of the text was and the Lord said unto him what is that in the hand. Ex. 4 2. Under the administration of our NOTICE. A little while and then, and hoot? And then we are out for Golconda. Illinois to attend the Executive Board Meeting of the East Mt. Olive Baptist Association. Brethren, we are looking for you at Goldonda Thursday before the second Sunday in November, 1915. God has blessed us the past year to do much for His cause, and when we look back at our opportunities, we regret that we did not do more for him. Realizing his goodness in the past, let us go up to Golconda and advise plans, ways and means to do more for him this year. Be here please come, and you that cannot come, send a communication with one dollar enclosed to help forward the work of our Master. I am indisposed, and under the care of a physician been absent from my flock three Sunday's, but I am preparing with all my might to be present at that meeting. O the work that is to be done, how can we still? God bless all the dear pastors, officers and laymen. I know that times has been hard and close, but it could have been worse, let us awake to duty. O how we like to see a full house when we go into our churches on Sunday Morning. Why my dears it takes the same energy for the district that it does for the local church, to insure success for your district. Come let us advance new ideas, new plans help and encourage each other, under the heavy burdens we have to bear brethren, the work is yours, let us be found at our posts. My work at home is great, I am also needd in the district work. We must sacrifice for both, or our home work will be a failure. Lets have a full delegation at Golconda this month. My heart goes out for the work, and I know that I am not alone, there are others whose heart goes out just as mine does, and I look for the fruit of your yearning hearts, to crop out in your attendance at Golconda, this month. Pastors, pastor we are looking for you at Golconda. Oh! ye looking (Ministers) glasses, thru whom the people and nations must see God. Thine on shine out and God and good men will approve your course, and the nations must approve your course, and the people and nations will say Amen, I am yours in His name W. P. Washington, Moderator. I am glad of the pleasure to say through the columns of your worthy paper. The S S opened at 9:30 by the Supt Rev. John Chatman. Rev. R. Wright of Carbondale, visited odr school. There were not any eleven o'clock services. Rev. J. H. Hilley have not returned at this writing. Rev. John Griffin praached at night. False Hopes. After Dave Darrington lost his voice he used to rap on the trough of his pig pen at feeding time. Then a woodpecker went to live in the pig pen, and the hogs went crazy.—The Ransrodders. SPARTA. MOTTO : HEW TO THE LINE. LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY ' pastor the church or the working forces of the clubs raised $23 15 our pastor plained assisted in rebuilding a choir stand oblong being ten by twelve feet by 6 inches high. Mr Johnie Richardson united with our church today. Mr. Will Washington entire family were visitors in Chester, Ill., this week. DEWMAINE. We had a splendid session all day yesterday, we administered the Lords Supper in the afternoon. Deacons Hudgens and E J. Jones conducted the covenant meeting. The church organized two financial clubs to operate six weeks rally, Deacon James Clayborn and Trustee Peter Cox are the captains. The deacons and trustees are lined up against each other the victor is to be crowned on the 3rd Sunday in Dec. each one is confident of being the winner. The ladies club meets every onday evening. The president sister Hattie Brown says she is well pleased with her followers, they have turned out eights quilts since the association, besides the table covers, wall pockets and etc. The editor is expecting to meet the board which meets with the Mt. Pleasant church Golconda, Ill, on Thursday before the second Sunday in Nov. All pastors of the churches composing the East Mt. Olive Association are members of the Board and are expected to be present. ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY NOTES. NEWS OF THE YOUNG WOMEN CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF R. W. U. The Y. W. C. A held its first meeting for this school year on last Saturday night Oct. 30, 1915 Song no. 30 was sung from the Jubilee Message, the scripture reading and prayer by Miss Dornty O. Bennett, then song no. 92 was sung. Officers were elected and installed. Misses Ethel C. Wright Pres. Ardella Owens, Vice Pres. Mamie V. Mathis, Sec'y. Elizabeth M Anthony Ass't Dorthy O. Bennett, Treas. Vievinne Northcross Pianist. The new officers now took their regular places, fees were collected from the ojd members and then a number of new members joined, paying their fees also. Remarks by Mrs. M. C. Kenney. Then the meeting stood adjourned with a prayer by Miss Viola G. Currin. Y. W. C. A. Entertains. The Y. W. C. A. welcomed in their midst the Field Secretary Miss Josephine Pinyon and she offered very good suggestions, we are always glad to have her visit us, "She always brings with her sunshine and leaves anong us its reflecting rays." On Monday night Nov. 1, Miss Miss Pinyon was royally entertained by the Y. W. C. A. There was a program rendered Vocal Duett ..... Misses Moore ..... and Walden, Address in behalf of the Y. W. C. A ..... Miss E. C Wright Vocal Solo ..... Mrs Snoden, Instrumental Sooj ..... Miss Glady ..... Pinkston Respone ..... Miss Josephine ..... Pinyon Afterwhich the members of the Y. W. C. A. and the members of the faculty marched to reception room of Phillip's Hall and there was served a two course menu which was much enjoyed by all. Miss Pinyon leaves us on the evening of Nov. 2, enroute to Knoxville, Tenn. The Roger Williams Literary Society had their regular meeting Friday evening as usual. The Orchestra consisting of Prof. Hampton and Messrs Thornton and Shultz assisted by the pianist who also accompanied the several solos. We have also instituted a merit system for participants in our society that will give them a recommendation for their literary work through a diploma being issued by the literary cabinet. Much interest is being shown here the college spirit is on in force. The foot ball team is priming up for what is expected to be a game of interest in the very near future. Mr. Williams has been elected president of the literary society and is also one of the promoters of the Foot Ball team. Everything is in good shape here now. J. N Washington. NOTICE The Institute and Executive Board of the East Mt. Olive Baptist Association will converse 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 thao to attend, and since we are attending to your business by your order, remember the request o the association, that those who could not attend would end up one dollar to help take care of the FOR SALE. Lot 7 Block 9 100 cash balance also Lot 8 Block $100.00 cash ba month. See FR A 25 cent extract "our own $1.00 bottle bought at Until Saturday Red Cross L. E. 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 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 its spere, and I am praying that the Ministry of our district will soon come to see it that way. W. P. WASHINGTON. DEWMAINE ILL This is to notify all the churches chimposing 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, SKULL CRUSHED MONDAY NIGHT. Gilbert Moore Hit With a Bottle In Renfro's Cafe Monday night Gilbert Moore, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Moore was hit and dangerously cut with a soda water bottle at Renfro's Cafe, by Roy Davy, a young boy of city and the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Davy, in an altercation it is stated arose over a girl that Moore had the night previous. Moore's skull was fractured in two places his left eye almost knocked out and several other bad cuts about the face caused by the breaking of the bottle. Moore was sitting at the count- Notice. 99 House $1000.00 $12.50 per month 99, house $700.00 balance $10.00 per A. McCRORY. REE bottle of Vanilla make" with every e of Medicine at our store day Nov. 13th s Pharmacy TROVILLION, Prop. er when Davy who was drinking walked in the cate, and started some trouble in the back part of the place with John Renfro Jr., one of the cate owners, but were parted before serious trouble resulted. Davy then walked to the to front door and started the trouble with Moore that resulted in the fatal throwing of the bottle. Moore was rushed to the offices of Trovillion Bros. and there his wounds were cared for and dressed, and from there he was removed to his home on Johnson St. Davy gave himself up Tuesday to Policeman Ontrue Cowper and was lodged in jail to await the oncome of Moore injuries which are serious. $ \textcircled{1} $ Thus we continue to see the fruits of whiskey. We take this method to express our heartfelt thanks to those who so earnestly assisted us in our recent bereavement in the loss of our dear son and brother William, who died in East St. Louis, Ill., Monday Nov. 8, 1915. And when your home shall be visited by death, if in the day or night dont fail to call us as we will be ready to aid you in any way to lessen your grief. Thanks. Parents. Mr and Mrs Henry Moore, Sisters. Mrs. Venia Tranzor, Mrs. Minnie Evans, Brothers. Ernest, Birtie, Gilbert Adelbert. For Remembrance. Bill—"Since I have come back I find that I'm forgotten by all my friends." Will—"Why didn't you borrow money from them before you left?" Dignamism. Dignam tells us: "There are many risks in business. The wise man allows his competitors to take them." Metropolis. Ill For Remembrance. BURGLAR BRUCE BY JANE OSBORN. (Copyright, 1915, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) For the first minute Constance lay trembling, in such a state of alarm and terror that she was quite incapable of moving. What had wakened her she did not know, and save for the far-off trickle of the little stream behind the house all was quiet. Presently she heard the sound of footsteps. Someone was walking on the side veranda. And to have someone walking about at that time of night was a serious matter, for Constance Preston was the only person in the house except her temperamentally helpless mother, an aged grandmother and a new cook. The boys were away. Billy was with his regiment and Alan was detained in town on business. With an extraordinary burst of courage and the sense of heat own importance, Constance dashed into her mother's room and found her awake and trembling. "Call your grandmother!" she cried, pulling the blankets from the bed and wrapping them frantically about her. "Hush!" whispered Constance, trying to steady her own trembling voice. "Be quiet or they will hear you." The sound of footsteps was again distinct, and then a long, low, terrifying whistle. "Heavens!" whispered Mrs. Preston. "If one of the boys were only home!" "Perhaps I could wake the cook; she is so big and strong—" "But you never could rouse her. But, Constance, you must get your grandmother; her room is right over that side porch." Constance groped her way to the door and opened it stealthily. The low flickering light in the hall cast long, waving shadows on the floor and walls. Almost petrified with fear, she dashed across to her grandmother's room. Grandmother Preston, fortunately, was a very diminutive sort of old lady. So Constance, wasting no words on explanation, lifted her up, bundled her into her slippers and dressing gown, and led her, dazed but docile, back to Mrs. Preston's room. "Oh, if Alan were only here," thought Constance, throwing on what clothes of Mrs. Preston's she could find by the low light of the night candle. Grandmother Preston, who hadn't heard a sound, was sitting huddled in a chair, her feet drawn under her and her head covered with a blanket. She was peering anxiously around. "Hadn't you better cover your heads?" she asked slowly. "If they once get in it's hard to get them out." "What?" asked Constance aloud frantically hooking herself into an evening gown of her mother's. "Do you think it came in by the chimney?" Grandmother Preston went on in her gentle old voice. "Oh, it isn't a bat, grandmother; it's a burglar!" Constance shrieked. But without her ear trumpet the old lady could hear nothing. Just then there was a heavy stamping of feet below. Mrs. Preston clung to her daughter for protection. "I'd give almost anything for a man," Constance whispered. "Let's telephone for one," suggested Mrs. Preston. "The burglar might shoot him," objected her daughter. "But you could call up the police." Then with desperate resignation, Constance swept half way down the stairs to the telephone. There, with Mrs. Preston's nerve-rocking whispers from above and the possibility of an attack from the burglaries from below, she gave the message. "Central," she said, holding the receiver with trembling hands. "The police station—tell them to send up someone to the Preston place—at once." Without waiting for a reply, she sped back to the haven of Mrs. Preston's room, where, speechless, they sat waiting, the monotony of their anxiety broken only by the occasion at sound of footsteps below. Then, after what seemed hours, came the pounding of the old brass knocker, ringing strong and clear. Without a moment's hesitation, Constance ran, downstairs, and, as she passed the hatrack, she seized an old raincoat of her brother's and bundled it around her to hide the rather elaborate array of Mrs. Preston's evening gown. With trembling hands, she opened the front door, and there before her anxious and prayerful eyes stood—Bruce Morrison himself. "Well, of all the confounded doughheads," was what he started to say when he caught sight of Alan's old coat. "Bruce Morrison!" Constance gasped, overcome with joy at seeing a protector. "I always knew you were an angel. I've waited so long, and now you've come." The suddenness of what Bruce took to be a complete surrender rather took his breath away. "I knew I'd win out some time," he said, as he led Constance to the living room and settled ner in the old sleepy hollow chair. "Honest, Constance," he asked, sitting down on the floor at her feet. "do you really think you are going to love me a little bit after all?" "Why, yes, I suppose so," said Constance rather sharpy; "but why don't we look for the burglar? He's been trying to get in for over an hour. Maybe he's in now. Oh, I'm so glad you came." "Well, I'm blessed!" was all Bruce dared to say. It dawned on them both all at once what had really been going on. "But why die you keep up that ghastly whistle? It was enough to drive one wild." "And why don't you have a civilized doorbell?" he retorted, "instead of that beastly old knocker? I'd been feeling around for a bell for an hour or so." "Why, that old brass knocker is so picturesque, Bruce. But why don't you tell me about that whistle?" "Oh, that's an old college whistle of ours. I thought Alan was home, and he'd recognize it and know I'd arrived. I didn't try that dodge until I had given up every other known means of waking you. Alan expected I'd come out some night this week. I told him I was going to make one last dying entreaty before I sailed for the South Sea isles or the Fijis or the North pole, or—" "Oh, but you're not going away ever, are you, Bruce?" Constance begged. "Please don't leave us alone—" "Constance! Constance!" came feebly from upstairs. "Have they caught him?" Constance hurried to the stairs. "Yes, mother," she called. "It's all right. It's Bruce." "But haven't the policemen come yet?" asked Mrs. Preston. "I say, Constance!" interrupted Bruce, who was peering anxiously out one of the side windows. "What the mischief is that policeman doing prying around the house at this hour of the night?" he asked. "I suppose he came because we sent for him when we thought someone was trying to break in," she said. "Oh, I'm so glad you're here, because you can explain." Just then the old knocker sounded again. "Patch it up any way." Constance whispered, "only don't tell him who you are. This is such a gossip place." Then she vanished behind the portieres and listened. "Say, this is a nice trick, this is." It was Bruce talking. "You fellows had better get out on your job. Do you think a burglar is going to sit down under a tree and wait for you?" "But there wasn't anyone at the stationhouse to send when the lady phoned, and—and-" "Well, I'm not finding fault with you personally, captain," said Bruce. "but it was a mighty slim way to treat a couple of unprotected ladies. Say, you don't mean to say that they sent you up here alone! Well, that is a fine way to do business. A lot of good one man could have done with a tough like that." "Then you saw him?" queried the policeman. "How could I? Just got here myself and found my mother and my sister in a dreadful state of excitement. But it's all right this time," said Bruce, handing him a five-dollar bill. "Here's the price of a cigar for you. You'll find it worth while not to report this case; d'ye understand? Say, you might tell the boss sometime when you think of it, that he'll never catch many burglaries sending out one man at a time." "Well," explained the policeman, "we've had so many false alarms this summer, that whenever a lady calls us up in the night it's ten to one it's only a mouse. Ladies is very apt to be mistaken, I find." "You're right there, captain, but this time it was the real thing, and no doubt about it. Good night," he said, closing the door. "Good luck." JUDGED HIM BY HIS LOOKS Somewhat Humorous Incident in Railroad Dining Car That Led to Matrimony. A young man, born in America, the son of French parents, went West as a civil engineer. His company completed one of the railroads terminating at the Pacific coast. This work had necessitated his living in the open for more than three years. His skin took on a deep copper shade. He did, indeed, present a picturesque figure as he boarded a train for home, the New York World states. In the diner he shared a table with two young French girls who were touring the United States with their parents. Their parents sat at a table opposite. To the young man's amazement, the girls immediately began to comment upon the "brown man," evidently an American, who sat opposite them. They laughingly took stock of everything from his fine eyes to his hurried table manners. Their parents, however, did not seem quite so much at ease, now and again calling in French, "Have a care, have a care." After the close of the meal, after rising, the young man, in exquisite French, told the young women he was glad to have afforded them so much amusement. They were dumfounded. Their father hurried after the young man and profusely apologized. Introductions followed, and the acquaintance so propitiously started ended in a warm friendship. The engineer married the elder daughter and they now have two sons. Mercenary Motive "What is his chief aim in life?" "He wants to educate the masses." "A philanthropist, eh?" "Not enough to notice. He wants to educate them to use a little household necessity he's put on the market." All in the Family. Heiny—Did I understand you to say Jones was related to you by marriage? Omar—Yes; he married a girl that once promised to be a sister to me. METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE. METROPOLIS. ILL. 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 Dressling. Price $1.00—Adv. Unruiiv Gorgonzola. Diner—Waiter! Bring me some Gorgonzola. Waiter—Yes, sir. Dher (a few minutes later)— Watter! This Gorgonzola has eaten all my bread. Independence. Josh Juniper—That feller, Aaron Alfred, has got less pride than any young farmer I ever seen! Si Wank—How's that? Josh Juniper—Why, when he goes to town he don't walk his team most all the way an' then whip up an' come whirlin' over the top of the hill an' down into the village, a-snortin' an' a-sawin'; but just comes pokin' along into town like he didn't care a durn whether anybody was lookin' at him or not. TOUCHES OF ECZEMA At Once Relieved by Cuticura Quite Easily. Trial Free. The Soap to cleanse and purify, the Ointment to soothe and heal. Nothing better than these fragrant supercreamy emollients for all troubles affecting the skin, scalp, hair and hands. They mean a clear skin, clean scalp, good hair and soft, white hands. Sample each free by mail with Book. Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. XY, Boston. Sold everywhere.—Adv. Defects of Childhood. "Physical defects of childhood are largely responsible for the retardation of children in their grades at school," says William L. Bodine, president of the National League of Compulsory Education Officials. "Many of our juvenile offenders are not normal children. Proper development of muscle and mind means the betterment of humanity in general. It should begin with the child. Health and the encouragement of fundamental principles that build up health mean a happy as well as a better citizenship now and in the future.—New York Herald. What Mamma Said. Little pitchers not only have long ears, but wide mouths sometimes. One of these is in Buffalo, and when the bell rang the other day, she went to the door, where she found some ladies. "My dear," said one, "will you please tell your mother that we would like to see her?" The child departed silently, and after a while returned, sat down and silently watched the callers. "Well," said one at length, "and what did mamma say?" "She said, 'Oh, dear. I don't want to, but I spose I must.'" Evidently Not Particular At a trial in the court of common pleas in Sandusky, O., in 1872, several citizens were subpenaed to testify as to the character and habits of A—B—, defendant. Among the number was an ex-probate judge of grave demeanor. The state's attorney asked this gentleman if he was acquainted with the defendant, and he replied, "Yes." "Are you sufficiently acquainted with the defendant to know his general habits?" "Yes, sir." "Are they good or bad?" "Fair." "Now, sir, do you before this court and jury testify that you are in the habit of associating with the same kind of company as this defendant?" "Oh yes; Lassociate with all grades "Oh. yes; I associate with all grades of company, from lawyers up." HARD ON CHILDREN When Teacher Has Coffee Habit. "Best is best, and best will ever live." When a person feels this way about Postum they are glad to give testimony for the benefit of others. A school teacher down in Miss. says: "I had been a coffee drinker since my childhood, and the last few years it had injured me seriously. "One cup of coffee taken at breakfast would cause me to become so nervous that I could scarcely go through with the day's duties, and this nervousness was often accompanied by deep depression of spirits and heart palpitation. "I am a teacher by profession, and when under the influence of coffee had to struggle against crossness when in the school room. "When talking this over with my physician, he suggested that I try Postum, so I purchased a package and made it carefully according to directions; found it excellent of flavour, and nourishing. "In a short time I noticed very gratifying effects. My nervousness disappeared, I was not irritated by my pupils, life seemed full of sunshine, and my heart troubled me no longer. "I attribute my change in health and spirits to Postum alone." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Postum comes in two forms: Postum Cereal—the original form—must be well boiled. 15c and 25c packages. Instant Postum—a soluble powder—dissolves quickly in a cup of hot water, and, with cream and sugar, makes a delicious beverage instantly. 20c and 50c tins. Both kinds are equally delicious and cost about the same per cup. "There's a Reason" for Postum. —sold by Grocers. AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS As a result of the sixteenth convention of the National Negro Business league, which recently held its three-day session in Boston, where in 1900 the league was started by Dr. Booker T, Washington and a few like-minded, farsighted colored men, the northern Negro will better understand his southern brother, and the southern Negro will appreciate, even more fully than he has done, how much the South offers him in the form of opportunity to do something worth while, and to become somebody in the life of his community. Out of this better understanding there must come to the race more respect for itself, a greater degree of confidence, a growing determination, especially on the part of young men and women, to begin at once to improve their economic condition by practicing greater thrift, pushing out into new fields of business activity, and becoming more efficient in their everyday business operations. Seven hundred delegates came together from thirty states, including the District of Columbia. Here were some of the most prosperous members of the Negro race. Yesterday many of them were not only poor in a worldly sense, but they were without any influence for progress in their home communities. Many of these same delegates were hopeless fifteen years ago, so far as thinking that they could succeed in business. The way to economic independence, however, was lighted for them by the National Negro Business league. As men without education and property, they exerted little constructive influence either on their black or white neighbors. Today how different is all this! The heart-throbbing stories of uphill climb through long years of sacrifice, work and faith, which were told with directness; simplicity and sincerity, under a fire of incisive questions from Doctor Washington and others, would make even the critical and hard-headed citizen marvel at the Negro's rare progress during the fifty years of his freedom, and especially during the last ten or fifteen years, during which time the pace in business has quickened and competition has become keener. Surely a silent revolution has taken place among American Negroes. Some men in congress, years ago, honestly supposed that Negroes would always have to be fed, clothed and sheltered. They were not able to look beyond the days of reconstruction. Today, however, ex-slaves and their children, in many instances, are powerful landlords, rich merchants, level-headed bankers and important community builders. Today the American Negro is a real asset. Today the best white people of the South are thinking of the Negro as a man and are saying it out loud. They realize that education does help to improve the Negro. The National Negro Business league does not claim all the honor of bringing about the splendid transformation which means, for racial understanding and good will, much more to the white citizen of the nation than it does to the millions of colored people. The league has endeavored, however, to encourage Negroes to go into business, apply to their work the highest standards, and depend for patronage not on any color-line appeal but solely on merit. The league through its annual meetings has been a rare inspirational force. It has discovered human beings and has opened the way for the young, the discouraged or the inexperienced, to catch a vision of what real In a sermon that he preached nearly forty years ago in Plymouth church, Henry Ward Beecher declared that one of the influences that had most strangely shaped his life and character was that of an old colored man, Charles Smith, who worked as a hired man on his father's farm when he was a small boy, the Youth's Companion states. "He did not try to influence me; he did not know, that he did it; I did not know it until a great while afterward. He used to lie on his humble bed (I slept in the same room with him) and read his Testament, unconscious that I was in the room, and he would talk about what he had read, and chuckle over it, in that peculiar, unctuous throat tone that belongs to his race. I never heard the Bible really read before; but there, in my presence, he read it and talked about it to himself and to God. He turned the New Testament into living forms right before me. It was a revelation and an impulse to me." But for the little lad ten years old, who listened, first curiously, then At the twelfth annual meeting of the National Association of Teachers in Colored Schools emphasis was placed on the need for training the Negro vocationally. It was urged that this training should result in really skilled mechanics and well-prepared farmers. The United States does more to stock its inland waters with edible fish than any other nation. Overtalk tires more people than overwork. success in business means, and how that vision may be fully, if painfully, realized. The league's real work, however, is carried on silently and efficiently through its executive officers who help to organize local business leagues; keep alive the existing leagues, 600 in number; administer the necessary tonic for those leagues that seem ready to faint away; offer helpful suggestions to merchants for reaching available Negro customers and for securing better business methods, and keep, through the press, the best interests of the Negro in business before the American public. Doctor Washington summed up the progress of Negroes in business and indicated that hundreds of thousands of opportunities in business await Negroes who are ready to grasp and capitalize them. That the Negro in business must pay the price of success Doctor Washington frankly admits. That the South is clearly the field for the Negro to make his greatest gains is evident from the testimony of Negroes from the North and the South, as well as from such Southerners as the Rev. Dr. John E. White of Atlanta, Ga., and Dr. James Hardy Dillard of Charlottesville, Va., president of the Jeanes fund and director of the Slater fund. That Negroes in business, especially the women, are going ahead with a tremendous stride and are meeting with the co-operation of the best white people everywhere should prove encouraging even to those who are inclined to be pessimistic over segregation legislation, lynching and other handicaps.—William Anthony Aery, in Chicago Daily News. There live in Birmingham today many families of Negroes who have been our family friends always, and as we go to their homes we find pictures of "the old white folia" hung conspicuously on their walls, writes Mrs. J. B Reid in the Birmingham (Ala.) Age Herald. These remind us that the true type of Negro stands by his white friends today, and the whites value that respect and that friendship as a token of justice one to the other. Wherever we can help each other we are only creating a better world, and that is what progress is working for today. The Negro is striving to make his share of it better like the rest of us. Their homes have a peculiar advantage, and they are availing themselves of the privilege. As they serve in the homes of the white people they catch the phase of life that teaches homemaking; they have the opportunity to study home arrangement, housekeeping economy, and good cooking, and the ambitious class is taking these lessons home with them, and are making themselves more comfortable, more cleanly and more healthy, thus better citizens. The Negro teachers are preparing for better service among the parents and children of their race. Booker T. Washington, the leader of the race, is ever on the alert to give opportunity, and in so doing is conserving the interest of both races. The entire plant of a Pennsylvania asphalt block manufacturing concern is mounted on freight cars so that it can be taken wherever there is work for it to do. Unrequited love is one brand of heart failure. But it's never fatal. thoughtfully, to the poor old Negro's devout reading of the Bible, the name of Charles Smith would never have been mentioned beyond his own narrow circle. It is probable that his emotional religion was sometimes actually ridiculed by those who knew him. Had Charles Smith been told that he would bear an influential part in making one of the most famous of American preachers, that his name would be mentioned with reverence in one of the greatest of American churches, and be revived for praise and commendation after forty years, such a result would have seemed to his simple mind quite incredible. It is not unlikely, either, that some humble, unpretending Christian was cheered and encouraged by Mr. Beecher's recital of the incident that day, and that new impulses were started, quite as important and far-reaching as the original one. To many readers of these lines, too, the story will come with a fresh suggestiveness, and the simple faith of a plain, unlettered man may thus influence other lives that Charles Smith never could have dreamed of touching. Forestry experts have found that a plant growing luxuriously in the Philippines and heretofore regarded as a weed is used in other parts of the far East for the production of camphor. The ostrich has the distinction of laying the largest egg. The egg, which weighs about three pounds, is considered equal in contents to 24 hen eggs. Diplomacy is the art of concealing our dislikes. "Goodies!" 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They were, just preparing to leave when a door opened and the jolly old father of the girls appeared. Had it been light they might possibly have seen a twinkle in his eye. "Boys," said he, "we are much obliged. That is, I am much obliged, for I happen to be alone tonight. I am sorry to say that the family's in New York, but I thank you for coming. Maybe you come again you'll have better luck. But in the name of old Princeton, boys, if you do come when the girls are here, don't play to the bathroom window!" Nothing New. "I see," said Billkins, "that a French scientist has discovered a method for staving off old age." "Well, what of it?" demanded Wilkins. "There's nothing new in that. A man can stave off old age by jumping off the Eiffel tower, or dropping a lighted ball in a powder barrel while sitting on it, or by rocking the boat when he's out on the water, or by riding over Niagara falls sitting astride of a log. Those French scientists make me tired with their hullabaloo over nothing."—Harper's Weekly. How Did Aunt Mary Do It? Bobby is long on quaint remarks. One day his mother offered him a pickle, which he rejected. "Better take one," she urged. "Aunt Mary made these pickles." Bobby turned to them with a new interest. "Did Aunt Mary really make these?" he asked. Being assured that they were Aunt Mary's, he took one of the pickles in his hand and examined it with admiring curiosity. "How did Aunt Mary get all these little warts on 'em?' he asked. Her Reason. "What do you suppose made Fanny refuse that young real estate man who asked her to marry him the other day?" "Oh, she got offended the way he proposed." "Why, what did he say?" "Oh, he asked her for a refusal of hand." Quite a Memory. A schoolteacher who had been telling a class of small pupils the story of the discovery of America by Columbus ended it with: "And all this happened more than four hundred years ago." 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"Because I want to catch the first car down," answered the stout one determinedly, while he mopped his brow and waited with a confident expression of having corralled the service. "But the touching of any of the four buttons signals the first elevator going down," protested the cadaverous man. "Is that not right?" he asked the elevator boy as they stepped aboard a car. The youth answered in the affirmative upon hearing an explanation of the question. "Well," said the stout party. "I've sure been wasting a lot of button touching."—Salt Lake Tribune. ALL BARE. POLICE ARE SHOCKED GIVE BEER! "Do you approve of these barefoot iances?" "No; they are too barefaced." Proof of Innocence. "That's Green sitting at that table over there, and with a woman not his wife." "Where?" "Over there." "So it is. But she's some relative of his." "Do you know her?" "No, but even Green wouldn't dine with such a homely woman unless she were related to him." Contained No Thought "Littewaite says he wanted to get that speech he just now delivered 'off his chest'." "I don't like slang. Why didn't he say 'off his mind'?" "Perhaps his remark was more applicable than you suppose. So far as I could judge, his speech was nothing but sound." Such a Tenderness. Wife—I had to discharge the cook today. Husband—What for? Wife—Oh, she got so tender-hearted she didn't do her work properly. Husband—is that so? Wife—Yes. Why, only this morning she refused to beat the eggs or whip the cream. Costly Items. "The Twobbles complain that married life is dreadfully expensive." "Why, they don't appear to spend much money." "No, you don't see them spending it, but Mr. Twobble employs a detective to watch Mrs. Twobble and she retains one to watch him." Dark Outlook. Hojax-I told Miss Gotrox last night that she was the light of my existence. Tomdix-Then what? Hojax-Then her father called from the head of the stairs and the light went out. Feminine Charity Little Lemuel—Say, paw, what did maw mean when she said Mrs. Jones was queer. Paw—It means, son, that your maw was too charitable to express her real opinion of Mrs. Jones. First Would-be Sport—I'm getting sleepy. Guess I'll go home and turn in. Second Would-be Sport—The idea! Why, it isn't daylight yet. No Impression. Him—Excuse me, but may I print just one little kiss on your ruby lips. Her—No; I don't like your type. METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE, METROPOLIS, ILL BULLET HITS "EARLY BIRD" Soldier Would Have Escaped Being Wounded by Leaden Missile Had He Been Second Later. Private Blank was known to all his chums as "the early bird," probably because it was an exact description, of the very opposite to what he really was, for "the early bird" was always late, the last man to get out of bed at reverie and the last man on parade, and when his regiment sailed for France his chums declared that he was the last into the transport ship and the last out of it. When his regiment was doing its spell in the trenches "the early bird" was sent for by his officer, and as he was creeping along the trench towards the dugout a stray bullet caught him in the shoulder, just as he was outside his officer's shelter. After seeing that he wasn't seriously wounded, the officer explained with a twinkle in his eye. "If you had just been a second earlier you would have missed that." "I would, sir," returned Private Blank, "or if I had been a second later it would have missed me."—London Tit-Bits. New Type of Prodigal "The people in his home town said he never would amount to anything." "And now he's rich. I presume he went back and paid off the mortgage on the old home place, or did something of that sort." "No. This old home place wasn't mortgaged. He went back and demoralized his good old parents by giving them a high-power automobile. Now they are the worst speeders in town." He Let It Go. Fault Finder (in front of dairy restaurant)—I notice the word "Dairy" on your new sign is spelled d-i-a-r-y." Proprietor—I know it is. I was going to have it changed, but the painter convinced me his way of spelling the word was more suggestive. Fault Finder—More suggestive? Proprietor—Yes; he said it conveyed the idea of putting things down. —Judge. A Dire Threat. "I know a man married to a woman who hasn't a single living relative." "Fine! He certainly can't have any trouble with her relatives if they are all dead." "I don't know about that. Every time they have a spat she threatens to visit a spiritualist and call up two or three of the most cantankerous ones." Professional Advice "Well, what's the trouble now?" asked the gruff old doctor of a chronic patient. "Oh, doctor," whined the professional invalid. "I feel such an awful pain in my side every time I raise my hand to my head." "Huh!" grunted the wise M. D., "then don't raise your hand to your head. Two dollars, please." 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I've reached the age where a man should begin to lead an honest life. Unusual Case. NEVER MAKES ERROR "Electric Umpire" for Training Young Pitchers. Device Saves Catchers Much Work and Teaches the Budding Alexander How to Control the Bell What a leading western pitcher describes as a great device for players who are working on new curves, is known as an automatic umpire. It is of especial value for young pitchers who are trying to break into professional company, as they always wear out all the catchers on the club. It teaches control, and never makes mistakes on hairline decisions. The "umpire" is in reality an electrically registering target, which rings a bell when the ball strikes the space over the plate and within the limits between the knee and shoulder of the man at the bat. Though this field is not visible on the target, it is accurately defined, being a panel 3 feet 4 inches long by 17 inches wide, which is pivoted and wired to register strikes. 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