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METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE 8tooth A Great Storm In Egypt. We are glad of the pleasure to say thru the columns of your wor- try little parer that we had a great storm last Friday night, Nov. 12, which continued over until the 16, last. Not a violent Disturbance of the atmosphere, nor the wind, rain, snow, hail, thunder nor light- ning but it was one which recruited the oil in our cruse, meal in our bbl., flour in our sack, meat in our box and sugar in our can and many different kind of canned goods with some money on the side. We take this method to express our heart felt thanks to the following named members of the 1st. Baptist Church, 12th, & Walnut street, this city." Brothets.....B. Braeford D Howard, C. Stokley, N Lee. K York A. Watson, J. Brown, T. Tuck Sisters E. Haliday, M. M. Bradford, D. Sewell, W. H. Howard, R. Sparks, J. Lee, O Sparks, L. Drake, I Clair, B. Thacker M. Johnson, A Lytten, A McCaleb, F. Warrington, L. Rollins, M. Wheele, L. Dixson, T Watson D Watson, E. Moody, B Stockley, S. McCaleb, B. Turpin, S. Scruggs, F. Jones, M. Thacker, J Cray, L. Wilson L. Reaves, L. Cobler, E. Howard, We pray God's choice blessins upon the above members; hoping that they will never regret what they have done for us We close by saying, you can scare us again I am you, in His name, J. H Starks, 616 21, St., Cairo, Ill. BROOKPORT There will be a Musical and Literary program rendered at the Unity Baetist Church Sunday Eve. Nov. 28th, under the management of Mrs. Ruth Donlou. Chorus.....Choir Invocation.....Rev. J. B. McCrary Chorus.....Choi Address.....Mr. J H Flowers Paper.....Mrs Leathe Moon Duette.....Misses Towles and Long Declaration.....Mrs. Ruth Donlou Chorus.....Choir Declaration.....Miss Ella Long Solo.....Mrs Mame Maxwell Declaration.....Mr M, Pullens Duette.....Mrs. Donlou and Miss Welch Reading.....Mrs. Maxwell Solo.....Miss Eva Warfield Declaration.....Miss Lovie Kendall Remarks.....Pasor Chorus.....Choir Program will begin promptly at 7:30 Every body cordially invited to attend. Ruth B. Donlou DEWMAINE. Dear Editor: Please allow space in your worty paper to say there has been a change in the weather. Mrs. Irene Russell and Miss Ruth Carter visited the formers sister Mrs Maud Lovings, of Murphysboro, Wednesday. Ben Henderson, of Pulaski, is in the city visiting relatives. Mr. Samuel Smith and Miss Carrie Flippens, have returned from Carbondale, where they went to see the Liberty Bell that was on exhibition in that city a short while. Mrs. Florence Talley has re- MOTTO : "HEW TO THE LINE. LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY " turned irom St. Louis, Mo. Mrs. A. L. Talley and Miss Grace Elders attended the funeral of Mrs. Daniel Johnson, in Car- lon lale, Sunday. Dr. C. C Phillips, the pastor of the Baptist Church was with his flock Sunday and preached noble sermons. Those on the sick list are:- Meadames Bessie Bell, Mattie Curington, Captula Ramsey and Carrie Oiferd and Mr. Cyrus Jordan CENTRALIA We are still pressing onward A series of meetings were held a few weeks ago eleven were added to the church; four by baptism Last Wednesday Eve. Rev. J Ivies, of Rutherford, Ten, was present and preached an inspiring sermon; indeed he is a gospel preacher. Sunday, we the 2nd. Baptist Church celebrated the fifth anniversary of our beloved pastor Rev. H. Allison. Runday at 11:00 a.m. our pastor filled the pulpit. In the afternoon an excellent program was rendered to the delight of all present. The anniversary sermon was preached by Rev. Howe (white) pastor of the 1st. Baptist Church, subj. "The Vine running over the wall." Rev. Howe, is an able speaker he was followed by Rev Davis,(white) pastor of the M. E. Church, he too is a strong gospel preacher;we feel greatly benefited by their services. Both Ministers paid a very high tribute to the late. Dr. Booker T. Washington. All the colored pastors in the city were present and witnessed this grand celebration. As members of the 2nd. Baptist Church we feel that we eave been greatly blessed by having Rev. Allison as our Sheperd. He has over doubled the member-ship in the last five years. We have a large and wide awake Sunday School. The W. E. & M. Society is doing nicely and the Saving Circle is quite busy on a beautiful puilt which is to be given away soon to the one bringing in the most money. Mrs. Z. Hinds, Reporter. Resolutions. Whereas Dr. Booker T. Washington, President of the Tuskegee, Institute, Tuskegee, Ala. was a Prime factor of the Negro Race, a staunch Baptist and a Christian Gentleman, And whereas the above named gentleman was considered the Leader of this the Negro Race and who did all that was in his power to Educate, to Christianize and to Inculcate Industrial Education, Literary Culture, Baptist Doctrine and History, And whereas this great man has fallen and gone where we soon must go, Be it resolved that the B.Y. P. U. of this city hold Memorial Services Sunday, Dec 5th, at 6:00 p.m in memory of one who has gone and whose place will be hard to fill. Be it resolved that all churches in the city with their pastors be invited to attend and that special services be rendered including program to his honor and in token of the respect and high esteem in which he was held by us as Baptists. Respt Submitted, Edgar S. B McCrary, President of the Mt Olive B. Y. P. U. Con. Following is the program to be endered Sunday Dec. 5th, in memory of the Great Educator, Dr. Booker T. Washington. Scriptural Reading Chorus.....Choir Invocation...Rev. G. W. Rowlett Corus.....Choir Address, Dr. Washington as a Baptist.....Rev J. W. Dave Address, Dr Washington as an Educator...Prof G E. Masterson Solo.....Miss Mae E. Roberts Paper, Dr. Washington a Race man.....Mrs. McCelland Smith Instrumental.....Miss L. Spurlark Paper, Dr Washington a Leader er.....Miss Izora Rodgers Paper, Dr. Washington a suc- cess.....Mrs. Irene B. Haynes Solo.....Miss Love M. Phillips Remarks Ollertory SPARTA. SPARTA Our Sunday School opened at 9:30 a.m., the superintendent James Haynes officiating. Part of the teachers being absent. There will be a social given at the hall by church, Thanksgiving Mrs D. Browning, was appointed chairman of the committee. Rev P. B French, preached a good sermon from Isa. 43:13. At 2:15 p.m. our pastor officiated at the funeral service of Mr. Simon Bogy, who died on the 18, of a good age. At 7:45 p.m., our pastor delivered anoteer spiritual sermon from Nehemiah 5:15. We are still engaged in repairing our church, we are expect-ng to paper this week Club No. 1 will be entertained at the home of Mrs. Nettie Macklin's this week. GRAND CHAIN Mr. Editor, Please allow me to that Lord is still blessing our field of labor. Deacon Norton, has fallen by the hand of death. God sent us a young licensed Free-Will-Methodist preacher ac. knwledging One Lord, One Faith and One Baptism. Prav for our success- I remain yours for the Baptist, R, M. Dehoney. ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY NOTES. We had some very distinguished persons with us this week some of whom were in attendance upon the inaugural exercises of the new president of Fisk University. President Hope a former president of Roger Williams was among the visitors and accompanying he was also the president of the West Virginia state institution and the prof. of Mathematics in said school. D. Hovey president of the Virginia Union University Richmond Va., Prof. Brink the field Secretary for the Home Mission Society who is intensely interested in our school as a representative of that society. Dr Weaver pastor of the Emanuel ```markdown ``` Baptist church here, and who also holds many important positions in the city and state and one of the main arteries for our immediate supply, being a stalwart friend of the school. W. M. Valentine President Benedict College N. Y. were our callers this morning all of whom brought to us words of cheer and comfort as only men of this capacity can do. They with members of the trustee board joined instintia praise to our worthy Pres. Rev. Dr. A. M. Townsend, for the work cone for the good of the university. After the exercises in the chapel the students repaired to their classes leaving the distinguished guess in Conference with our board of trustees, Our visitors Wednesday were in the person of Prof B C. Brawley Dean of the Moorhouse College and Mr. Yerkins who visited us in the interest of the Evangelistic campaign which Mr. Raymond Robbins is carring on for the benefit of the southern and eastern colleges. Well the test came at last between the Roger Williams University Foot Ball team and the State Normal team the results a defeat for Roger Williams, score 9 to 0. J. N. Washington, DAIRY FACTS Colorado State Dairy Inspector Answers One of Most Common Questions Bothering Dairymen. (By R. McCANN, State Dairy Inspector. Colorado Agricultural College.) One of the most common questions arising among cream producers and handlers of cream is that of how thick cream should be skimmed, when the same is to be used in butter-making. Cream skimmed so as to test between 35 per cent and 40 per cent is of the most desirable thickness. Thick cream keeps better than thin cream, there is also not the waste in handling a smaller bulk of cream than there is of larger amounts in the way of hauling and express charges, moreover the skim milk is kept on the farm for feeding calves and pigs. If it is too thick, there is a loss in some of the cream going over into the skim milk and also a considerable waste from the amount of cream that will adhere to cans and utensils. A uniform richness of cream may be obtained at each separation. 1. By using the same amount of waste or skim milk when flushing the bowl. 2. By keeping the cream screw the same. 3. By running the separator at the same and at a uniform speed. 4. By having the temperature of the milk the same each time. 5. By keeping a uniform inflow to the bowl. 6. By washing the separator thoroughly after using. Exactly the same butterfat test cannot be expected every time from the observation of the above, as there are other factors entering affecting results, but a close following of the six named checks on variation will work wonders toward getting a uniform thickness of cream throughout the season. Examine Your Own Prejudice EXAMINE Every one is forward to complain of the prejudices that mislead other men or parties, as if he were free, and had none of his own. This being objected on all sides, it is agreed that it is a fault and a hindrance to knowledge. What now is the cure? No other but this, that every man should let alone others' prejudices and examine his own. The only way to remove this great cause of ignorance and error out of the world is for every one impartially to examine himself.—Locke. The Merit of a Snoe Is determined by The Merit of a Snoe Is determined by Syle, Comfort and Durability That's why you should come here for your pair. We stand in back of every pair of Shoes we Sell. Drop in see what we have for less money White House Shoe Mart Fritts' Block, Metropolis, Ill. "Full wear in every pair." FOR SALE. 7 Block 99 House $1000 cash balance $12.50 per mo Lot 8 Block 99, house $700.00 cash balance $10.00 th. 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 A. McCRORY. FREE FREE Memoirs of Napoleon In Three Volumes In personal reminiscences of Baron de Meneval, seven years private secretary to Napoleon Bonaparte, out, as no history can, many enlightening resting side lights on the character of that great scribes. De Meneval's descriptions have the piquet interest possible only because he was an actual master of the scenes and incidents of which he was our reliability and historical interest can be judged fact that the very conservative French Academy nicely recommends them. 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Collier's - - - - $2.50 Metropolis Gazette Special combination price including the three-volume Memoirs of Napoleon, postpaid Call or send subscriptions to this office. If you are already a subscriber, your subscription will be extended for a year from its present date of expiration. THE LONG LANE By CATHARINE CRANMER. (Copyright, 1915, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) Tom Whiteford, once known among his friends as the gay and light hearted, began to feel that his way of life lay through the proverbial long lane that has no turning. Further more, it seemed that behind every mile post by the roadside there lurked some form of hard luck. Just at the time when his business prospects seemed to justify his proposing to the dearest girl in the world, otherwise known as Betty Underwood, the war scare knocked him out of two of his biggest advertising contracts; a big firm at the last minute switched its contract to his least-suspected competitor, and just as he had cinched the contract for a gigantic mail order campaign for another firm there came out a wordy postal ruling making it impossible to use postage stamps for the double purpose of stamping and, without which Tom's unique mailing proposition lost one of its chief charms, and he could not interest the firm in any of his numerous suggestions for a substitute. Soon after all these business mishaps he went for a week-end house party at Hillcrest Lodge, the home of Betty's bachelor uncle, George Wilson. There he was thrown still deeper into despair by seeing Betty accept with evident willingness the chivalric attentions of one Charles Arthur Mowbray, a tall, dark, dreamyed young man, said to have returned but recently from a long stay in the Orient. As the son of her uncle's oldest college chum, he was invited to Hillcrest Lodge, where his delineation of the legends of the Orient was a chief entertainment feature for Betty and some of the other girls in the house party. Added to this young man's charm of appearance and conversation was the appealing way in which he occasionally made reference between heavy sighs to a tragic romance in his own life while in the Orient. "Another legend, I have no doubt," thought Tom when he heard the story. "When a good-looking chap backs up his own tale of woe with a lot of romantic stuff about some faraway land it puts a halo around his head for every girl who listens to him." The morose mood brought on by such reflections did not enable Tom to shine in comparison with the easy, squave, fattering chivalry of Mowbray. And Betty, being young and pretty and fond of novelty and flattery, was visibly impressed. It seemed to Tom that no matter where he turned he found this man with Betty—sitting out dances with her in the evening, walking in the garden with her in the morning, sitting beside her at lunchon, and at all times pouring out in that deep but subdued voice legends, legends, legends. "It bil he he's a crook for sure," said Jack Chisholm as they packed their suitcases Sunday night preparatory to returning to town. "When a fellow purses like a cat I always look out for cat's claws to show themselves sooner or later." Tom refrained from the profane acquiescence he felt with merely, "Should not be surprised." He had made up his mind to have a few minutes alone with Betty before he left, and he hurried downstairs after his packing to find her one of an interested group listening to yet another legend of Mowbray's. When the story ended the talker was drawn into a conversation with his host and Tom lost no time in capturing Betty. "Ive scarcely had a glimpse of you, Betty," he said. "May I steal you away from the others long enough to show you the prettiest October moon on record?" Out on the broad porch Betty clapped her hands rapturiously as she saw the great golden disk hanging just above the horizon and throwing weird shadows through the bare trees. "Oh, isn't it lovely?" she exclaimed. "Lovely enough to have an oriental setting instead of commonplace modern landscape gardening and architecture." "Commonplace! Gee whiz, Betty," protested Tom, "look at that sweep of brown fields on the left and that mass of tree-studded hills in the right, and this big, comfy home on the highest hill of them all. Anything commonplace about it all?" "There is a certain rugged beauty about it," agreed Betty, "but it doesn't suggest romantic legends like oriental lands must do." "Oh, I don't know," said Tom, who had learned from his advertising work not to let any personal anger get in the way of ianding a contract—and he realized that he was now trying for the most important contract he ever hoped to land. "Can't you imagine some Iroquois maiden and her heap big hunter trysting hereabout when it was the land of the red man? You know, we're too busy leading lives today to concern ourselves much with legendy, but in its own good time our land will have its legends." "But isn't it a pity that ours is such a prosy age?" asked Betty. "Prosy? But is it? Modern men are fighting dragons and conquering difficulties as never before." Betty did not reply and a moment later Tom continued. "The same old moon that shines on those faraway lands condescends to shine on ours, and not quite the same, but a better sort of love grows up in the hearts of our men for our women. Betty, I hadn't meant to tell you yet, but my heart is bursting with love for you. I'm fighting dragons for you every day. When I've conquered enough of them to take care of you safely, will you let me claim you?" Betty's eyes were dreamy and her hands were unresisting as Tom took them in his own, but just as she began to lift her eyes to meet Tom's devouring gaze the hall door opened and the tall, slender figure of Mowbray emerged. With catlike swiftness he saw the couple at the end of the porch, and with cat-like silence he approached until quite near them. Then in his purring voice he reminded Betty that she had promised to play his accompaniment while he sang "Beside the Shalamar." Betty and her mother remained at Hillcrest after the other guests departed, and Monday evening after dinner, when the ladies had finished their coffee in the library, George Wilson lighted a fresh cigar and joined them there. "Well, we've seen the last of our oriental guest, I hope," he began, and Betty shot him a surprised look from where she sat toasting her toes before the wood fire. "You see, Mowbray came into my office last week with a tale about being here to get local color for a novel in preparation, and while I saw at once that he was not without weaknesses, I didn't suspect that he was the degenerate I've since learned he is. His faultless manners were so like his father's that I assumed he had some of the deeper good traits of his father, and so invited him out here. His evident uneasiness when I mentioned Judge Morton's having recently come here from his home city convinced me that he wouldn't care to have Morton tell what he might know about his home life. I made it my business to make inquiries today about Mowbray of Judge Morton, who is a professional associate of mine." George Wilson flicked the ashes from his cigar into the ash tray on the arm of his chair. "And were your suspicions well founded?" asked Mrs. Underwood. "Yes, and I mention it only because it will forewarn you and Betty not to be at home should he call. After spending his widowed mother's money Mowbray married a girl who had a snug little fortune. Their bridal trip to the Orient, which was to equip him with the material his genius was later to weave into immortal poetry, used up most of the fortune and seriously impaired the health of the wife, who died shortly after their return. Soon after he married a widow of means, who kicked him out after supporting him in idleness for a while. Then he went back and lay around his mother's home until she died, and, with the money secured from the sale of her home he equipped himself for social conquest, doubtless with the expectation of inducing some other girl to devote her fortune to the development of his genius." The telephone rang just then, and George Wilson answered it himself. Betty and her mother sat silently before the fire and heard Wilson's part of the conversation. "Hello. Good evening, Mr. Mowbray. Yes, quite comfortable. Yes, Miss Underwood and her mother are both here, and I've just been telling them a tale told me today by Judge Morton, of whose ability to tell interesting tales you doubtless know. No, you're not interrupting; the story had been finished and our conclusions drawn, and there will be no sequel to it." The receiver clicked into its holder and George Wilson returned to his armchair by the fire. A few moments later he addressed Betty. "Betty, I've been interested for years in Indian folklore, and my clients, the Brown and Martin Real Estate company, have finally got a clear title to that large tract of land known as the Iroquois Triangle, and supposed to have been the scene of many a wild Indian escapade. They purpose to divide it into small tracts for residence and to enhance its value by weaving some of my Indian folklore into their advertising. Wouldn't you and your mother like to motor through that country with us tomorrow and help fit the folklore into the landscape, as it were?" "Oh, we'd love it, wouldn't we, mother?" To which the mother replied in the affirmative, and asked how many others the party would include. "Just Mr. Martin of the real estate company and Tom Whiteford, who mailed the contract today for the advertising." And it was on that motor trip that Tom's long lane that had seemed to have no turning turned abruptly into a lane that led to success and happiness and Betty. Making Good. "How's your new preacher getting along?" "First rate." "His theology is acceptable, then?" "I don't know anything about his theology, but his looks please the women of his congregation and his game of golf is highly spoken of by the men." Shameful. "Jibway is what I call a mean man. He isn't fit to be a parent." "What on earth has Jibway done?" "He wears a pedometer when he walks the floor at night with his twins, and the next morning he flaunts the figures in the face of his wife." Its Name. "What do you think Nellye calls the album with her admirers' photographs in it?" "What?" "Hen 'him' book." For Both. "This is strange. Here is an aviary built beside a hangar." "Oh, that's all right. The nangar is for the airship and the aviary for the birdmen." METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE. METROPOLIS. ILL AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS Home owning and the reduction of mortality among Negroes go hand in hand. What Hampton and other schools have declared to be sound in theory is now found to be true in practice; namely, education, to be truly worth while, must furnish results in the shape of well and happy people living in clean, attractive Christian homes. The Negro death rate in the registration area, according to the census of 1910, was 25.5 per 1,000 population—a decrease as compared with the rate in 1900, which was 29.4. The white death rate in the same territory was 14.6 per 1,000 population. While, therefore, there is some reason for rejoicing, the fight against the high Negro death rate must be even more intelligently directed. More attention must be given to Negro housing, the care of consumptives, the feeble-minded and other handicapped classes, child conservation and public health education. The figures from selected cities show, with few exceptions, a decrease, according to the census of 1910, in the Negro death rate as compared with that shown by the 1900 census. A study of typical southern cities discloses, however, in spite of a decreasing Negro death rate, a health problem which white and colored people must face bravely, intelligently and immediately. When Negroes are dying at least as fast again as their white neighbors, there is no health security for educated and wealthy people, regardless of their color. Better health for Negroes! This cry should be heeded by school and health officers, business and professional men, church and Sunday school workers, indeed, by all classes of citizens, regardless of race or creed. "The question as to whether the decrease in mortality among Negroes in 1910 as compared with 1900," says a recent bulletin issued by the census bureau, "was due to permanent causes, such as improved housing conditions, better medical attention, and generally improved sanitary conditions, and not to the absence of epidemics, is an important and interesting one." Then follows this significant statement, and the figures which accompany it warrant a respectful hearing: "Undoubtedly one of the factors which have caused the decrease in the Negro death rate is the increase in home ownership among the Negro population." Alabama and Virginia, in which Tuskegee and Hampton are located, make a good showing. In Alabama Negroes owned, in 1910, 33,941 homes (including 17,227 farmhouses), an increase of 44.2 per cent over 1900, or one owned home for every 27 Negro inhabitants. In Virginia there were, in 1910, 56,333 homes (including 32,528 farmhouses), an increase of 23.1 per cent over 1900, or one owned home for every 12 Negro inhabitants. For the southern states as a whole, the figures were, in 1910: Total owned homes of Negro families, 430,449 (including 212,507 farmhouses), an increase of 31.4 per cent over 1900, or one owned home for every 20 Negro inhabitants. To offset this good record for whole groups of states and for the entire South, there is the clearest kind of evidence that the city Negro is not essentially a home owner, despite the lowering Negro death rate in typical cities. Import work remains to be done, not only in forcing down and down the Negro death rate, but also in helping the Negro, rural as well as urban, to own his home. The good work of reducing Negro mortality through home owning should be con- The United States treasury department has started out to defeat the scheme of certain persons operating in the South who are collecting money from former slaves by telling them they are entitled to share in a fund of $68,000,000, an amount said to have been collected in Civil war times as an internal revenue tax on raw cotton. "There is no fund of $68,000,000 or any other sum in the treasury of the United States for former slaves or their heirs, or for any other persons who worked in the cotton fields of the South," declared an official statement issued over the signature of Secretary McAdoo. The former slaves, according to the statement, are informed by the persons behind the project that a part of the alleged fund is due them on account of labor performed by them during the years from 1859 to 1868. Those who would make the collections for the former slaves or their heirs generally propose the institution of a suit in the District supreme court against the secretary of the treasury with utter disregard, it is said, of the fact that it is a familiar law that a suit of this nature There are still three survivors of the original Mormon band to find its way into the valley of the Great Salt lake in 1847. One is Lorenao Sobeski Young, who belonged to the third "ten" of the original company, to which Brigham Young also belonged. His first home was a wagon box lifted from its truck and supported by posts. In making up the numbers for their lotteries the Italians always leave out 13. tinued by white and colored people working together for better housing, better schools and better home life.—Southern Workman. Antipathy to the Negro and unjust abuse of him is born of misconception of his place in southern industrial life. What truth there is in charges made to the grand jury of abuses practiced by city officials against Negro prisoners this writer does not know. But the picture drawn by charges of beatings inflicted, of property confiscated and of general mistreatment of ignorant and unprotected blacks closely parallels the hideous picture of the Black Hole of Calcutta, and constitutes a blot upon the record of this boasted section of civilization. The Negro is yet a ward of this nation, of the white men who compose, guide and direct it, and he is entitled to the protection and care of the courts and of society. He is, too, an important integral part of our industrial life. By his labor the South has prospered, the fires of industry have been kindled and kept alive. He guides the plow in thousands of fields. He delves deep into the bowels of the earth and brings forth treasure for the people. That many Negroes are ignorant is no fault of theirs; that many are vicious is but a natural tendency of the human race, both white and black. Yet the Negro must ever be regarded as a producer, especially in this Southland of ours. Remove him from the industrial fields of the South, and the loss would fall heavily upon capital and progress would be retarded. It is thought that the Bessemer case is not the only one that should be ventilated and punishment follow. The fee system has long oppressed the Negro, and many are the victims of injustice at the hands of official oppressors. The strong hand of the law should be invoked to protect the oppressed, and intelligence and morality should demand fairness for blacks and for whites alike. Let it be remembered that dependence between whites and blacks is mutual in this great industrial district, and to discourage and drive away one class would work serious hardships to the other. The bone and sinew of blacks directed by the brain and capital of whites constitutes the driving force in our march of progress. Is it not probable that such abuses as those alleged against Bessemer officials cause criminal Negroes to so often shoot and kill deputy sheriffs and policemen while in the discharge of their duties in making arrests?—Bessemer (Ala.) Weekly. There are 278 libraries in Massachusetts which have been gifts to the communities, and the donor of 33 is Mr. Carnegie. In 48 towns of the state funds are being accumulated to erect library buildings, and in the free public libraries now in existence there are housed more than six million books, or about two books for each inhabitant. Probably the longest and most luxuriant beard in the world is that of Zachary T. Wilcox of Carson City, Nev., a veteran of the Civil war. He has not shaved or had it cut for 32 years, and his hirsute adornment is now $8\frac{1}{2}$ feet long. Ordinarily it is worn wrapped around a piece of cardboard and thrust under the owner's vest. against an officer of the government is a suit against the government itself, and the government cannot be sued. Suit already has been filed by four persons. The treasury statement, however, expressed the opinion that it is "more than probable that the case will be dismissed by the court on a preliminary motion." Some of the most enterprising farmers in the state are colored men and it is characteristic of them that when they once establish a record they hold to it. Such is the case with G. W. Kistler, a colored farmer of Cumberland county. For a number of years he has been the seller of the first bale of new cotton on the Fayetteville market, and he has just repeated the performance for the present season. Should Kistler ever lose the record, the Observer would confess to disappointment. The Negro, who holds a record in any line of good endeavor deserves the encouragement of his white neighbors and friends, and generally has it—at least that is the sentiment in this section of the state. Charlotte (N. C.) Observer. Mme. Caillaux, the French ex-premier's wife, lately acquitted of the charge of murdering M. Calmette, is finding in the war an opportunity of escape from a position which must have been, after all, very trying, even though the jury acquitted her. She is now in command of a nursing corps at the rear of the main French army. The census that Holland took early this year gave the country a population of 6,336,670, a gain in ten years of 438,241. TRAP FOR 'POSSUM Canned Salmon or Sardines Useful as Bait. Expert Gives Some Hints That May Lead to the Capture of This Delight of the Southern Darky—Fur of Little Value. It is usually easier to take a couple of good dogs into the country, especially that country below the Mason and Dixon line, to secure opossums, than it is to bother trapping them. But this does not mean that Mr. Tousum is difficult to lure into a trap. For bait, use canned salmon or sardines. It will bring every opossum within smelling distance. Set the traps near any thick woods, or in shallow ditches. The best method for water sets is to stake a fish just above the surface of the water and surround A man in a hat is holding a bell in his hand. He is standing in a field with a dog. A Happy Darky. it with traps. Some prefer to build pens of brush with only one entrance to each and place baits in them. The entrances, of course, are guarded with traps. In weeds, place a bait upon a stick about a foot and a half from the ground. Under this place a trap, carefully concealed. One can always recognize the presence of the opossum by the sharp claw-like marks it makes in the mud. Search about until you find a small tree whose roots are above the ground and come together in the shape of a sharp angle. In the back part place a fish. Arrange the pen of sticks about the bait so that it cannot be approached except from one direction, and have the only entrance guarded with traps. Leaves make an excellent covering for sets of this kind. Sets may also be made at the entrances to dens. These, however, must be placed with extreme care, otherwise they will not prove successful. The opossum is known to the trade as a "cheap fur." The reason is that most of the pelts secured are not prime. The skin, too, is of little value, and it was not until lately that there was much demand for it at all. After a pelt is dried, one can tell whether it is prime or not by examining it closely. If black spots are found near the throat, especially the hide is not first class. The larger the spots the loss the value. Great Mushroom. A mushroom weighing more than thirty pounds and measuring three and one-half feet in diameter, was found in Beverly by Mrs. Alice Wool of Boston, according to the Transcript. It was like two great roses of cream fawn color, waxy white and full of irregular holes on the underside. A litter of boughs and pastboard boxes had to be made, two men carried it to the station and placed it in a baggage car on a Boston-bound train. It could not be taken into a street car or a taxi, and Mrs. Wool hired an automobile for its transportation to Horticultural hall for the Mylcological club exhibition. The members tasted it and pronounced it good. Four years ago at this time Mrs. Wool found a smaller specimen in the same spot on the North shore. She has gone there every season since, but failed to see anything which looked like a polyporus. This leads her to conclude that it takes four seasons for the spawn to form a plant growth and produce a flower. Richea Found Through Dream. Acting on impressions received in a dream, which was repeated four nights, always indicating the location of fabulous wealth, Andrew Nelson, an old-time prospector of Anaconda, Mont., struck a ledge rich in virgin gold. The news of the strange find created a stir in Anaconda, and a rush of prospectors to the cliff above Flint creek started. Religious Belief Causes Trouble. Religious Belief Causes Trouble. Admiral Li of the Chinese navy is a Christian, and his firm adherence to his principles has of late months made his official life unpleasant. He incurred the displeasure of President Yuan by refusing to obey the order that all officials connected with the boards of the army and navy should go to the temple of the war god to worship in the old Confucian manner. Easily Explained. "Why did that young man look so cross when Mrs. Smith told him she heard he had such killing ways?" "She told him that? Great Scott! He's a doctor." Stop That Backache! There's nothing more discouraging than a constant backache. You are lame when you awake. Pains pierce you when you bend or lift. It's hard to rest and next day it's the same old story. Pain in the back is nature's warning of kidney lills. Neglect may pave the way to droop, gravel, or other serious kidney sickness. Don't delay—begin using Doan's Kidney Pills—the remedy that has been curing backache and kidney trouble for over fifty years. A Missouri Case "Berry Picture Wild a Story." Mrs. W. W. Toohey, 5043 Magazine St. St. Louis, Mo. beged for eighteen months with kidney trouble. For a year after, I walked on crutches and flooded a physical wreck. I had to take long vacations away from home to keep alive. Doan I heard of Doan's Kidney Pills. I used them and they restored me to good health. I haven't suffered since. Get Doan's at Any Store. 50c a Box DOAN'S KIDNEY PILLS FOSTER-MILBURN CO., BUFFALO, N. Y. Scares 'Em. "How did you get rid of that life insurance agent so quickly?" "Oh, I'm always prepared for those fellows. I keep a large bottle of cod liver oil in plain sight on my desk, and when an agent calls I greet him with a hollow cough." IMITATION IS SINCEREST FLATTERY but like counterfeit money, the imitation has not the worth of the original. Insist on 'La Creole' Hair Dressing—it's the original. Darkens your hair in the natural way, but contains no dye. Price $1.00.—Adv. Cautious. "Our romance began in a most ro mantic way. My wife saved me from drowning. She's a magnificent swim mer, you know." "But you never go out beyond you depth." "No, not any more. I don't know if she would save me again."—Louisville Courier-Journal. First Seal of the United States First great seal of the United States was cut for Uncle Sam in 1783 and the first document to bear its imprint is dated September, 1782. It is a parchment commission granting General Washington full power to arrange with the British for an exchange of prisoners of war. The document is signed by John Hancock, president of congress, and counterinsigned by Charles Thomas, secretary. The seal was impressed upon the parchment over a white wafer festooned with red in the upper left hand corner.—From the Magazine of American History. Lloyd's Misty History. Now that Mr. McKenna is looking to Lloyd's for a substantial contribution to the revenue from war profits it is interesting to recall that the greatest maritime institution in the world is named, not after a financier or shipowner, but after a humble coffee-house keeper. Of Lloyd's history, says the London Chronicle, little is known beyond the fact that he keg; a coffee house in Lombard street at the beginning of the eighteenth century, which, from its proximity to the Royal exchange, came to be the favorits assembling place of the underwriters. The first mention of his house occurs in a poem. "The Wealthy Shopkeeper," published in 1700: When to Lloyd's coffee house to go he never fails To read the letters and attend the sales in 1710 Steele dated some numbers of the Tatler from Lloyd's and Addt son also makes mention of the house in the Spectator. TURN OVER TIME TURN OVER TIME When Nature Hints About the Food. When there's no relish to food and all that one eats doesn't seem to do any good then is the time to make a turn-over in the diet, for that's Nature's way of dropping a hint that the food isn't the kind required. "For a number of years I followed railroad work, much of it being office work of a trying nature. Meal times were our busiest; and eating too much and too quickly of food such as is commonly served in hotels and restaurants, together with the sedentary habits, were not long in giving me dyspepsia and stomach trouble which reduced my weight from 205 to 160 pounds. "There was little relish in any food and none of it seemed to do me any good. It seemed the more I ate the poorer I got and was always hungry before another meal, no matter how much I had eaten. "Then I commenced a trial of Grape-Nuts food, and was surprised how a small saucer of it would carry me along, strong, and with satisfied appetite, until the next meal, with no sensations of hunger, weakness or distress as before. "I have been following this diet now for several months and my improvement has been so great all the others in my family have taken up the use of Grape-Nuts with complete satisfaction and much improvement in health. "Most people eat hurriedly, have lots of worry, thus hindering digestion and therefore need a food that is predigested and concentrated in nourishment." "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 genuine, true, and full of human "Some men have the commercial instinct highly developed." "For example?" "Well, there's Tom Jones, who used to go to school with me. He started with very little capital and went into the chicken feed business." "Yes, and now?" "He's a dealer in elephant fodder." The truth that lies at the bottom of a well never gets in the milk. Out of Sorts THAT IS, something is wrong just what it is. All motions, lassitude, weakness, loss of heavy breathing, and lack of it are the symptoms of sickness, worms, croup, diphtheria, or so Give the child Castoria. It will operation, open the pores of matter, and drive away the t Genuine Castoria always bears the s ing is wrong with baby, but we can't tell. All mothers recognize the term by the illness, loss of appetite, inclination to sleep, lack of interest shown by baby. These of sickness. It may be fever, congestion, anaemia, or scarlatina. Do not lose a minute.oria. It will start the digestive organs into pores of the skin, carry off the foetid way the threatened sickness. THAT IS, something is wrong with baby, but we can't tell just what it is. All mothers recognize the term by the lassitude, weakness, loss of appetite, inclination to sleep, heavy breathing, and lack of interest shown by baby. These are the symptoms of sickness. It may be fever, congestion, worms, croup, diphtheria, or scarlatina. Do not lose a minute. Give the child Castoria. It will start the digestive organs into operation, open the pores of the skin, carry off the footid matter, and drive away the threatened sickness. Judge Clayton of Alabama tells of a case in a court of that state in which the first witness called was an aged colored man. Before he was sworn the presiding magistrate directed that the usual question be put to the fellow. "Do you know the nature of an oath?" The old colored man shifted himself from one foot to the other before replying. A sly grin crept into his face. "Well, jedge," said he. "I can't say how 'tis wild mos' folks; but, yo' honoh. I reckon it's sorter secon' nature wid me." A Fit Companion. Lunatic (looking over asylum wall) —What are you so pleased about? Crank—I've thought of a way to end the war. Lunatic—Oh, what's the idea? Crank—Sue for peace. Lunatic — Come inside. — Passing Show. Not Gray Hairs but Tired Eyes make us look older than we are. Keep your Eyes young and you will look young. After the Mories always Murine Your Eyes—Don't tell your age. What ignorance. "Shall we have champagne or some other wine?" "Are there other wines?" Most Eminent Medical A New Remedy for Kidney, Bl Medical Authorities Endorse It Aldney, Bladder and all Uric Acid Troubles Most Eminent Medical Authorities Endorse It A New Remedy for Kidney, Bladder and all Uric Acid Troubles Dr. Eberle and Dr. Braithwaite as well as Dr. Simon—all distinguished Authors—agree that whatever may be the disease, the urine seldom fails in furnishing us with a clue to the principles upon which it is to be treated, and accurate knowledge concerning the nature of disease can thus be obtained. If backache, scalding urine or frequent urination bother or distress you, or if uric acid in the blood has caused rheumatism, gout or sciatica or you suspect kidney or bladder trouble just write Dr. Pierce at the Surgical Institute, Buffalo, N. Y.; send a sample of urine and describe symptoms. You will receive free medical advice after Dr. Pierce's chemist has examined the urine—this will be carefully done without charge, and you will be under no obligation. Dr. Pierce during many years of experimentation has discovered a new remedy which is thirty-seven times more powerful than lithia in removing uric acid from the system. If you are suffering from backache or the pains of rheumatism, go to your best druggist and ask for a 50 cent box of "Anuric" put up by Doctor Pierce, or send 10c for a large trial pckg. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription for weak women and Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery for the blood have been favorably known for the past forty years and more. They are standard remedies to-day—as well as Doctor Pierce's Pleasant Pellets for the liver and bowels. You can have a sample of any one of these remedies by writing Dr. Pierce, and sending 10c for trial package. Reduces Bursal Enlargements, Thickened, Swollen Tissues, Curbs, Filled Tendons, Soreness from Bruises or Strains; stops Spavin Lameness, allays pain. Does not blister, remove the hair or lay up the horse. $2.00 a bottle at druggins or delivered. Book 1 M free. 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Price $1.00—Adv. Simply Waiting. "Why don't you learn the new dance?" "Too lazy. I'll just sit and wait for the waitz to come back." Charles H. Flitchie "New shoes, eh? Pretty nifty. They must have cost you at least ten dollars. Do they pinch your feet?" "No, but they pinched my week's salary." BABY LOVES HIS BATH With Cuticura Soap Because So Soothing When His Skin Is Hot. These fragrant supercreamy emollients are a comfort to children. The Soap to cleanse and purify, the Ointment to soothe and heal rashes, itchings, chafings, etc. Nothing more effective. May be used from the hour of birth, with absolute confidence. Sample each free by mail with Book. Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. XY, Boston. Sold everywhere—Adv. "You seem all done up." "Yes. I'm working on the night shift in Wall street." Grand opera is well enough in its way, but the finest music is the rustle of a woman's skirts. The cooks try hard, but they appear to be able to do very little with the navy bean. during many years of experimentation has discovered a new remedy which is thirty-seven times more powerful than lithia in removing uric acid from the system. If you are suffering from backache or the pains of rheumatism, go to your best druggist and ask for a 50 cent box of "Anuric" put up by Doctor Pierce, or send 10c for a large trial pck'g. Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription for weak women and Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery for the blood have been favorably known for the past forty years and more. They are standard remedies to-day—as well as Doctor Pierce's Pleasant Pellets for the liver and bowels. You can have a sample of any one of these remedies by writing Dr. Pierce, and sending 10c for trial package. It Takes Money. "Why don't you open a bank account?" "I would if I could afford it."—Boston Transcript. WOMAN'S CROWNING GLORY is her hair. If yours is strenuous with ugly, grizzly, gray hairs, use "La Creole" Hair Dressing and change it in the natural way. Price $1.00.—Adv. Prophetic. "It's a good play, Bill," said the manager, who had just finished reading Shakespeare's new play of "Hamlet," "but it's too gloomy. Can't you put a little more comedy in it?" "That," replied the author, "will be furnished by the actors who attempt to interpret the stellar role." More Important. "Has your son picked out a career for himself yet?" "Heavens, no! It takes all that boy's time picking out socks and neckties." All men in this great and glorious country may be free and equal, but they don't look it when garbed in bathing suits. They have given remarkable results in the treatment of numberless severe and almost helpless cases. The words of praise from the many who have been benefited by their use prove their great value. Warner's Safe Remedies are carefully prepared, each for the relief of a separate and distinct ailment. Each for a Purpose Warner's Safe Kidney and Liver Remedy $5c and $1 Warner's Safe Rheumatic Remedy $1.25 Warner's Safe Diabetes Remedy $1.25 Warner's Safe A asthma Remedy $75 Warner's Safe Nervine $50c and $1 Warner's Safe Pills (Continuation) $25c At all drugstores, or sent postpaid on receipt of price. Free Sample of one any remedy. Given name of this paper when writing. WARNER'S SAFE REMEDIES CO. Rochester New York Prophetic. METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE. METROPOLIS. ILL. TAB ON THE 'PHONE Meter Tells Exactly How Long One Has Talked. Sweet Conversation of Lovers, and Hereafter you will have no show with the telephone operator when disputing as to whether you talked over your allotted time, and must pay extra, for they have geared a meter to the 'phone so that the time is clearly indicated. The costly whimsicalities of the taxicab meter at once come to mind, suggesting that a new sore trial is to be added to the operation of the telephone. All service in this time of efficiency and exactitude tends to be metered. The gas and electric meters we know; the water meter some oppose frantically, but vainly; the meter in the taxicab drives us mad as it ticks off the miles, and now we are even to talk by meter! Increased efficiency has come to be pretty much the secret of increased subscribers' lists, increased revenue and increased cordiality in the business of telephony generally. Nowhere along the line, however, has the cordiality been more often or more sorely strained than through inefficient, inadequate or careless timing of toll calls. Particularly is this true, declares Telephony, in smaller offices, where the elaborate and necessarily expensive apparatus for timing calls has been too costly for installation, and dependence has been placed upon ordinary clocks, which are, of course, as unsatisfactory to the company itself as to the telephone-toll user. The 'phone-meter, it is claimed, has completely solved this small office-timing problem, and in larger offices it is already proving of great value in timing the handling of calls on the observation desks. As shown in the accompanying illustration, the 'phone-meter registers up to six minutes in one revolution of the dial, and it continues until stopped. When a connection is made the operator starts the meter to record by moving to the right the lever at the top. Moving it in the reverse direction stops the indicator instantly, showing the exact time which has elapsed in minutes and seconds. The dial is graduated to seconds, and the device, it is said, is marvelously accurate. The 'phone-meter is placed upon the keyboard within convenient reach of the operator. If while the conversation is in progress an interruption occurs the meter may be stopped and then started again when service is resumed. The operator is thus not obliged to make any calculations as to the time consumed. The 'phone-meter may also be used by subscribers to check the time of toll calls. This is all very well for the powerful corporation anxious to prevent the slightest loss of earning, but it is said that sentiment is not even remotely considered, says one sweet young thing who has phonomania. "Imagine," she suggests with sorrow and contempt, "hitching a stopclock to a real sweet-and-tender love conversation! Why, they are simply clocking the whole of romance out of the world! This measure by clocks and Here Is the Hello Cupid's Tab Keeper, Which Cannot Be Hoodwinked. meters will simply reduce the human race to unimaginative cogs in a big machine—a perfect mechanism, I will admit, but still a machine." Opposes Western Costume. Dr. Baron K. Takagi, surgeon of the Japanese navy and member of the house of peers, does not agree with Mrs. Akiko Yobano, the noted writer, that the women of Japan should adopt the foreign style of dress in order that the race may become stronger both physically and intellectually. He advises the women to stay in their kimono, believing it more healthful and incidentally more beautiful. He is distinctly the enemy of the present-day craze in Japan to take over the manners and customs of the West. Trade Statistics. An export total of approximately $75,000,000 is the indicated record of American manufacturers of cotton goods in the fiscal year 1915, while imports of cotton manufacturers will probably fall below $50,000,000, making the balance of trade on the export side about $25,000,000, as against an import balance in every earlier year in the country's history, save 1905, when the excess of exports in this group was about $1,000,000. Largest Direct-Current Dynamics. The largest two direct-current dynamos ever built have been completed in Germany, each with a capacity of about fifty thousand 16-candle power lamps. ```markdown ``` WRIGLEYS SPEARMINT THE PERFECT GUM LASTS MINT LEAF FLAVOR and WRIGLEYS DOUBLEMINT DOUBLE STRENGTH PEPPERMINT Delicious, wholesome, beneficial, appetite and digestion-aiding confections The longest-lasting, most helpful and pleasant goody possible to buy. Have you seen "Wrigley's Mother Goose, introducing the Sprightly Spearmen"—newest jingle book—28 pages in colors? As I was going to Saint Ives I met a man with seven wives Each wife had a fine, clear skin, All were fat-not one was thin, And each had a dimple in her chin What caused it? WRIGLEY'S! The "Wrigley Spearmen" want you to see all their quaint antics in this book free! Write for it today and always ask for "WRIGLEY'S"the gum in the sealed package—wrapped in United Profit Sharing Coupons. Chew it after every meal Exceptionally Good Cars at $150 to $500 and up. Some at even your own price. The early buyer naturally gets the choicest selection. Weber Implement & Auto Co., 1900 Locust Street, St. Louis. Both Phones. ( Only 4 Blocks North of Union Station. Poor Excuse. Thomas Mott Osborne, warden of Sing Sing, said at a luncheon in Newport: "This laying of all one's crimes and transgressions at the door of heredity disgusts me. If we sin, we ourselves are to blame. To blame heredity is false and foolish. "These heredity blamers are like the chap who said to the dun: "We can't escape domination of early-formed habits. In my infancy my parents hired a young nursemaid to wheel me about in a baby-coach. And ever since that distant time, alas, I have been pushed for money." To Drive Out Malaria And Build Up The System Take the Old Standard GROVE'S TASTELESS 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. Oh. Memory! "What beautiful thought comes to mind, boys, on this bright, crisp mornings?" asked the teacher. "I know," said Jack, shooting up his hand. "The beautifulfullest thought that comes to me today is of that day when it was so scorching hot that they had to close the school." 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. Correct. "What is one of the characteristics of the Indian race?" asked an instructor in the city college. "They play football to beat the band," replied a former De Witt Clinton boy. it after every meal Soon Forgotten. One Lamp Lights the Room When it's the Rayo The whole room is bright and cheerful with a RAYO lamp on the center table. Plenty of light to read music on the piano while you sit and read—plenty for the children to study by. Winter evenings are pleasant and profitable when you light your home with the RAYO. RAYO LAMPS are sold everywhere—just ask your dealer. Used and enjoyed in over 3,000,000 prosperous middle-western homes. (409) STANDARD OIL COMPANY (Indiana), Chicago, U.S.A. StoryUsed Cars Rally Good Cars at $150 to $500 and e. The early buyer naturally gets the 900 Locust Street, St. Louis. Both Pho WM, WRIGLEY JR. CO. 1404 Kesner Bldg., Chicago "It is remarkable how soon a man is forgotten after he is dead." "And also when he ceases to advertise." 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. Their Only Chance. "The Browns are going to celebrate their silver wedding next week." "Why, they've only been married five years." "Yes, but they want to have it over with before they get their divorce." "Do you ever flatter your husband?" "Yes; I sometimes ask his advice about things." "The cook is leaving tomorrow, John." "What's the matter? Don't we pay her enough?" "She says it's very strange that every time she has an afternoon off our automobile is in the repair shop. She thinks we do it on purpose." Write Murine Rite Remedy Co., Chicago turmed Illustrated Book of the Eye Free. The Lower Level. "Well, I can't tell you how glad I am to sit down to dinner in a plain business suit." "Where have you been all summer?" "At an Adirondack camp."—Life. If it wasn't for the weather a great many loafers would have no excuse for remaining in the business. Metropolis Gazette PUBLISHED ON FRIDAY BY THE GAZETTE PRINTING CO. GETROPOLIS, - - - - - LL. MRS. M. J. McCRARY, MANAGER J. B. McOBRARY, EDITOR FRIDAY NOV. 26, 1915. Office 9th and Pearl Streets, Metropolis, Illinois. Mattered as second-class mail first, at Metropolis, Illinois, Postoffice. Address all communications to J. B. McOBRARY, Box 107 Metropolis, Illinois. The names and addresses of contributors must be known to us in every instance, in order to secure publication. We want the news of your vicinity each week. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: One Year.....$1 00 Ix Months.....75 Three Months.....40 Single Copy.....05 For In Advance. ADVERTISING RATES. made known on application. You must mail copy on Mondays to secure publication. Cut Flowers for Sale at Mrs. JENNIE INMANS. Trustees of the Livingston Normal, Theological and Industrial Institute. J. H. Knowles, D. D., President J. B. McCray, S. T. B., Secretary T. C. Yancy, S. B. Kerr, Attorney Rev. J. M. Blake. Rev. H. Allison Rev. G. W. Rowlett, Treasurer Rev. C. C. Phillips, Financial Agt. Rev. H. E. McWilliams Clasing Out. I am closing out my book store goods, at less than cost You'll find what you want if you come to look. Carbon paper, shelf paper, writing paper, and all kinds of books for you. Come and see. Cor. 12, and Ophia Sts. MRS. VALLEE. Daily Health Hint. Understand that if you are mentally unified with sickness, old age and death, no amount of desire or affirmation can make you well, young, or long lived. To be healthy, you must be mentally in unity with health; to remain young, you must be mentally one with youth, and to live long, you must be mentally unified with life, says Wallace D. Wattles in the Nantilus. --- Thought and Kindness Rest Thought and Kindness. Best It is not written blessed is he that feedth the poor, but he that considereth the poor. A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.—John Ruskin. The Improvident Ones. Some men who fail to provide for their families will go so far when corpered as to tell you that they would never think of usurping this prerogative of the Lord's. Letter Heads and Envelopes can be had for the asking at this office. We print them. For Groceries and cold drinks go the First or Last Chance Grocery on 9th and Pearl Sts. Send us a trial order for the Great Nature Solve, 50c a Box. Why suffer when you can be relieved for such a small amount. Read our guarantee on the front page of The Gazetre. I. C R. R. Time Card NORTH BOUND. Train numbers. Arrives. Leaves. 302 10:10 a.m. 10:20 a.m. 374 2:35 p.m. 3:55 p.m. SOUTH BOUND. Train numbers Arrives. Leaves. 375 10:00 a.m. 10:10 a.m. 2:28 p.m. 2:35 p.m. In the Sunken Submarine. "It's too annoying that we should be stuck down here. I bought myself the most splendid tomb only last week."—Lustige Blatter. Be morphine or captain in Dr Miller's PAH. Please Give All Pain. "One can be a --- The Gazette has just received another lot of new type faces and other material which adds much to the output of the work of the office. We deserve your patronage. We have a full line of cards, Letter Heads, Envelopes and other material. Let us do some of your work. Let us do your minute work and any other church advertisements. Reader if a blue or red mark appears on the head of your paper marked with an [X] it is to notify you that you owe for the paper and are notiged lto pay up Misses Willie and Iola Urquhari, accompanied their father to Paducah, Friday, Mrs. Parthenia Dixon, of Paducah, was in the city Saturday looking after her house that is nearing completion, Mrs. Bettle Turley, Miss Icey Wimbly of Brookport, are very sick this week. Mrs. Rhodes, is improving Mrs. Irenh Haynes, the assistant principal of Dunbar was some what indisposed this week. Several of the Metropolis citizens were in Paducah, Saturday shopping and to see the Liberty Bell which was to appear on the 20th but owing to the fact that the bell did not arrive until 4:50 p.m., they did not get to see it, as the Cowling leave the wharf at 4:30 for Metropolis. Persons who owe the Gazette would greatly lesson the financial burden of the publishers by remitting at once. Paul Baker, formerly of thi city but now of East St. Louis, and Miss Minnie Lashley, of city were quietly married last Friday at the home of the bride's mother on 8, street. Rev. Patterson, officiating. They left on the 10:20 a.m. train for East St. Louis, where they reside in the future. The Gazette, wishes for them much success. Chas. Griggs, the carper went to Brookport, Tuesday on business. Memorial service in memory of Dr. Booker T. Wahington, will be held at First Baptist church by the B. Y. P. U, Sunday Dec. 5th at 6:00 p. m. All churches and pastors of the city are cordially invited to be present and assist in the services. Wanted—100 customers at the Last Chance grocery to buy 3 cans of best tomatoes and corn for 25c. Ordination Licentiate license blanks at the Gazette office. Rev, J. H. Smith, was a Brookport, visitor Friday. Costa Sumner, and sister, Miss Geirtrude of Brookport, were in the city Monday on business. Rev. J. B. McCrary, was at charge Sunday and reports a good success spiritually and financially; one convert in the mid week prayer service. God is surely in that plac. Mesdames, Annie Porter, Deborah Wilson, and Annie Barnard were Paducah shopper Friday. James Robinson, of Carbondale is in the city on business. T. A. Urquhart, of Paducah was down to visit his family last week. Native Salve. We have just recived some more of Native Salve and it is going very fast, those in Carbon and Md. City can secure a box or more now by 50c, per box. Act quick if you want it. Send all orders to Rev. J. B. McCrary. Subscribe For The Gazette. $100 Reward, $160. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is catarrh. Hall's catarrh cure is the oily positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's catarrh is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. send for list of testimonials. Address F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by all Druggists, 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for consti- pation. Editor Gazette: Please allow me a space to say a few words. The church and Sunday School are getting along nicely. We are prepsring to have a rally the 4th Sunday in Dec Algee Bradley was visiting H. Peeler, of Murphysboro, Sunday. The S. M. T.'s gave a banquet Friday night. Mrs. Ida Morgan and Sadie Woods, were visitors Sunday, the guests of Mrs. A J. Bowers Miss Littie Eldgric left for Sparta Sunday. Wes Phillips and little son visited his parents of Pulaski. The A. M. E. church held their quarterly meeting Sunday. Mrs Blang Ramsey, Martha Flippens, and Mattie Postum are on the sick list. NOTICE Mr. Editor: please allow space in your paper for me to give notice to the district that the Executive Board of the Mt. Olive Baptist Association will convene with the Culpsville Missionary Baptist church Thursday before the third Sunday in December 1915. I ask all the members of the board to be present at this meeting, also the officers of all the auxiliaries to meet in connection with the board The Trustees of the Livingston Normal and Theological Institute to meet too, as we have a great deal of business to transact along Educational lines. I also ask that all the churches send a messenger to to this meeting as our school in Metropolis, has been burned down it belongs to the district which you all know. I find that the Constitution has been violated and ignored by members that belong to this grand body which must be seen after and straightened. Please take notice and govern yourself according. I am your humble servant. Rev. D Parrish, D. D. Moderator Quite True. "I have to face the fact," mused the fashionable photographer, as he looked over some recent pictures, "that there are some very agly features in this business." 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" Household Philosopher. "Strange what a difference there is," said the household philosopher, "between things we need and things we want. There are many things we need in the house, but never can find the money for, while somehow we can always find the money for things we want that we personally fancy." AGRICULTURE IS DENMARK'S PRIDE SUPPLEMENTAL SYSTEM OF POP ULAR SCHOOLS GIVEN CREEIT BY WRITER. By Edwin G. Cooley. It is generally agreed by agricultural experts that little Denmark is a wonder. Here is a group of barren islands and peninsulas, with a total area about one-fourth that of Illinois, much of the soil swamp and much of it sand, which leads the world in agricultural matters. Look at this table of the agricultural schools of the country, of the number of courses and hours and students. Isn't this the answer? Agricultural schools (proper) ..... 13 8, 6, 9 400 288 2,014 Agricultural schools for small farmers. ..... 3 8, 6 323 184 171 Dairy schools. ..... 3 4, 8 407 260 188 Horticultural schools (including practical instruction). ..... 8 8, 12 414 845 43 People's high schools with special courses in agriculture ..... 8 8 228 107 89 People's high schools without special agricultural courses, but giving more than fifty hours' instruction to help students (agricultural instruction). ..... 8 8 106 82 1,341 The Danes believe that the farmer must supplement his own experience with the experience of others. For this reason the government has a system of more than one hundred agricultural counsellors, whose business it is to go about the country making experiments and giving lectures and demonstrations, conducting excursions, etc., for farmers. But as it is seen that such work cannot amount to much unless the way is prepared for it, the system of schools outlined above has been established to give theoretical instruction. Most of the work is done during the five winter months, although there are also supplementary courses of a practical nature during the summer months, and courses for girls and women are given at that time. These schools, curiously enough, are private institutions, established by individuals or by agricultura associations. After they have been conducted successfully for two years, with an attendance of at least ten students, the government grants each a small subsidy of about $750, as well as state aid to students who need it. According to the Danish plan, country boys after leaving the elementary schools, work on the land for several years. Then they attend for one winter a "people's high school." an institution which has for its main object the fostering of the spirit of cooperation and patriotism. Agricultural subjects, when they are taught at all, are subordinated to subjects of general culture. After that the young farmer is advised to attend an agricultural winter school, and after his winter there, to continue taking short courses in special branches of the subject and to get the help of the agricultural, counsellors as long as he needs them. STUDY IN WINTER FOR SUMMER WORK GERMANS APPLY SCIENCE LEARNED IN SCHOOLS—UNDER AGRICULTURAL EXPERT. By Edwin G. Cooley. The idea of utilizing the experience of farm boys as a basis for theoretical instruction during the five slack months in winter, so that the experience of each new season shall be increasingly valuable, originated in Germany about fifty years ago. Many farmers could not afford to send their sons away to school and do without their help for two years. Boys brought up on a home farm would not gain especially by two summers of practice work. What they needed chiefly was to be shown where they made their mistakes, and where they could get better results. On this theory this system of special winter schools, quite distinct from the regular school system, has gradually grown up. Now they are the most powerful factor in German agricultural education, which has brought the country to a large degree of independence in the matter of food supplies. False Hope. 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 Ramrodders. Dignamism. Dignam tells us: "There are many risks in business. The wise man allows his competitors to take their." Livingston Institute Second Session Opens Monday March 8th 1915 This school is well graded Department. All work is well technical and able Instructors, select work Special Courses in and in Theology. Entrance Fee $2.00 per tuition. Normal and English tuition. Instrumental music (...) Tuition Typewriting (including Tuition Plain Sewing per month Tuition, Vocal music... Tuition Printing Industrial Department per month Printing Free Board and Rooms able rate. In every case, 4 weeks w All charges must be paid in and Prospectus Address J. B. McGRARY, Box 107 $1.18 This Is Our These Four First-Class Paper, ALL FIVE Woman's World, 35 yr. 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