Metropolis Weekly Gazette

METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE Sanitary Store for your Christmas candies, Oranges, China Ware, also your Jewelry. Can buy watches and clocks on Installment plan with small payment down. Trade new jewelry for old. Watches, Bracelets, Umbrellas and other things too numerous to mention. Call and see them. "The Cheapest House in Metropolis" Howel's Variety Store Opposite The Post Office Headquarters for all kinds of 5-10 and 25c goods. A complete line of Xmas Goods. 14000 pounds candy 10c per pound. HOWELL'S. MURPHYSBORO. Miss Madge Thompson a teacher in the Sparta school, was a pleasant visitor with friends in this city, over Sunday. Mrs. Isabelle Patterson of Colps spout the week end as the guest of her pasents Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Merrell. Mr. Henry Forest and Miss Gara Smith were quietly married at the bride's home in Carbondale, Dec. 8th. The bride is the daughter of Rev J. A Smith and is well known here, having once resided here. We wish for them much happiness. There is a great deal of sickness here, the lagrippe being prevalent for sometime. Oscar Brown, who had been in poor health for many months, died Tuesday Dec. 7, at the age of thirty years. Little Susie Lorene Jackson, has been quite sick for a week with bronchitis. She is a regular attendant at our Sunday School, Sunday being the first Sunday she has missed this year. Services to the memory of Dr. Booker T. Washington, held at Sh'loh Baptist church, was well attended Sunday Dec. 12. The services were under the auspices of Booker T. washington circle no.1 of the Colored UNIVERSITY OF KILMURG LIBRARY SMITH'S Store mas candies, Or- e, also your Jew- atches and clocks in with small pay- ade new jewelry PAUST Per Market Street Xmas Gift its, Umbrellas and numerious to men- see them. use in Metropolis" riety Store Post Office quarters 10 and 25c goods. of Xmas Goods. only 10c per pound. ELL'S. DEC 18 1915 OPOLI MOTTO: S ore ies, Or- our Jew- d clocks all pay- jewelry ST et Street Gift Dallas and to men- "ropolis" Store ers : goods. Goods. : pound. But it bers of Circle N ican Be heads in Almight to his Washing ior the and the the np- one wh ever o whose has bee and in t has bee apostle his ract Be it copy of npon th a copy y Re Mrs. of Book No 1 o Whe ington, gone to Be che chu with ou ing a M of one mourn n Prog St. Paul Dec. 19 Opening Invocat Song Dr. W Vocal Dr. W Duett American Benevolent Circle. The music was under the direct supervision of Miss Daisy Renfro, one of the most capable young ladies of the race, and a teacher in Douglass School. An illustrated song by three little girls, Dotrich Taylor, Thelma Blackwood and Beatrice Valentine, deserve especial mention. The following is one of the resolutions read There are times when words are empty and meaningless almost, to give expression to an overwhelming sorrow or a less sustained that seems greater than we can bear. Life and death are always mysterious, but when the dread monster comes and claims one of our race, whose life has been so exemplary, so full of good deeds, unselfishly done for the good of their fellow men, we find ourselves in spite of our faith in God, looking up with a sorrowful questioning, asking our Lord and Saviour why? "Let us pause a moment and learn a lesson. The path of life wanders through a bright and beautiful world where the fragrant flowers of friendship, nourished by the gentle dews of sympathy, grew. But through this bright world there flows a stream whose turbid waters cross the path of every pilgrim." --- --- But it is a part of God's plan. Be it resolved that we the members of Booker T. Washington Circle No. 1 of the Colored American Benevolent Circle, bow our heads in submission to the will of Almighty God, in having called to his reward Dr Booker T. Washington, one whom we loved for the exemplary life he lived, and the manifold deeds he did for the np-building of the Negro race; one whose many virtues we will ever cherish in remembrance, whose words of encouragement has been such a stimulus to us, and in honor of whom our Circle has been fitly named, he being the apostle of industrial training among his grace. Be it further resolved that a copy of these resolutions be spread upon the face of our minutes and a copy be sent out for publication. Respectfully Submitted, Mrs. W. A Jackson, Secrta y of Booker T. Washington Circle No. 1 of the C. A. B. C Whereas, Dr. Booker T. Washington, Our Greatest Leader, ha gone to rest. Be it resolved that we, the che churches of this city, line up with other Institutions in rendering a Memorial Service in honor of one whom the whole race mourns the loss. DUQUOIN. Robert Berkeley, Matthew Woods Obie Huddleston Ann Lyde Thomas. I wish to say through the columns of your worthy paper. We are still on the march to the Land of Promise. Our Sunday School was opened at 9:30 by the Supt. Bro. J. M Haynes and our prices are exceedingly attractive. The treasurer of the S. S. Mr. E. C. Worthon made his report for the last quarter of the year. Committee appointed to arrrge for Xmas tree celebration M. C. Wrce chairman. At 11:45 Rev. P. B. French filled the rostrum and preached an excellent sermon, his text Gen. 16:12 Subject, Man's Captivity. At 7:30 p.m. the church having re-assembled our pastor ascended the rostrum and preached an other strong sermon. Text, Heb. 2:3. Fritts' Block, Metropolis, Ill. "Full wear in every pair." The church having recently been papered by Mr. Wesley, the committee made a partial report of it and the cost was about $18 00, the same was paid for. Cagles Market and Supply Co. Only Complete Market in the city. Largest assorted Stock in merchandise in Southern Illinois. You are always welcome. Look through our Big Stock. At the Big House of Metropolis. J. H. CAGLE, Pres., and Mgr. The Sewing Circle will be entertained at the home of Mrs. Meaulia Brown by Mrs D. Browning this week. The Sunshine Club will entertained at the home of Mrs. Geo. Terry by Mrs. Bessie Gleghorn. The Carnation Club will be socially entertained at the home of Mrs. Anna Owens. New Hope Choir has made a wonderful success up to this date we cannot make no mistake in saying they are extraordinary singers, having been organized less than eight months with Mrs. Anna Owens as organist. This choir meets every Thursday evening and practices. Mr. Samuel Brown and Miss Addie Dillion were united in the Holy Bonds of wedlock Wednesday night. Rev. P. B. French officiating. Miss Lula Johnson of Eden is on the sick list but is better at this writing. Mr. Anthyna Anderson is seriously sick and not expected to live much longer. Fine Line Mrs. Henderson oliver presented her husband with a fine baby boy early Sunday morning. J J. Taylor NOTICE. Cairo, Ill. Nov. 28, 1915. of Candies and Oranges Cheapest place in town J. L. Ragsdale, Upper Market Street. NOTICE To the W. E. M. Societies of the Mt. Olive Baptist Association you are hereby notified that the Executive Board convenes Thursday before the Third Sunday in December. Each Society is requested to send a representative or send in something for education. Come and See My line of Christmas Goods best and biggest in city Frank C. Johns. Your humble servant, Emma Farrow, Corresponding Sec'y, Misfit Name. Little Florence climbed upon her father's lap on her birthday and put her arms around his neck. Father always called her "Toodles," and until now she had answered to the name. But now she looked at him in surprise. "Why, I'm three now! I should think you'd call me 'Threadles.'" she said BUSINESS REASONS By KEITH KENYON. "Evidently Jack Elliott is getting serious in his attentions to that old brewer's young widow," said Mrs. Morehouse as she looked out from her comfortable porch rocker across the golf links where Jack and young Mrs. Ward were approaching the clubhouse. "It does look that way," replied Mrs. Atwater, between sips of tea. "and just as everybody had concluded that he and Dorothy Winters would make a match of it." "Some say the widow's fortune looks good to Jack; but I wonder what Dorothy thinks of it?" Knowing that Mrs. Atwater was on cordial terms with the rather exclusive Winters family, Mrs. Morehouse hoped to glean some interesting details. "I'm sure I don't know," said Mrs. Atwater shortly. "I notice her out with Chester Hill a lot lately." "So far as fortunes go, Chester's will more than equal Mrs. Ward's, I suppose. Why, bless my soul"—and Mrs. Morehouse opened her narrow eyes to their limit—"if there isn't Dorothy this minute with Chester in his new car!" A moment later a slender, auburn-haired girl in a brown corduroy suit and a soft hat came swinging easily up the porch steps, and beside her puffed a fat, florid man of perhaps forty, dressed in faultlessly tailored motoring togs. They gave a nod of greeting to the two observant women and passed around to the other side of the porch. Until a month before that, Jack and Dorothy had been together so often and were so obviously happy when together that an engagement had been expected as a natural outcome, but one evening when he was to escort her to a dinner dance at an exclusive club she received at the last minute a brief note from him telling that an annoying business associate had made it impossible to get away without giving offense that would endanger his hard-earned chances of being taken into the firm. He was sending Larry Morton to take care of Dorothy that evening, and he begged her to accept his abbreviated explanation and his willing substitute until he could arrive and explain in full. But the evening had passed without his arrival. Percy Anson shook a plump, pink finger at Dorothy as she passed out of the dressing room on her way home, and whispered something about the necessity of her keeping a watch on Jack Elliott, whom he had seen at the Dinsmore hotel at six o'clock with a "ripping sort of blonde woman." Dorothy blushingly wondered whether anyone who heard that stage whisper knew of Jack sending a substitute to take his place as her escort that evening, but just then good-natured Larry came and gently pushed her along to the waiting taxicab. She tried to be cordial as they drove home, but bare civility was all she could accomplish, for her mind was busy trying to reconcile Jack's explanatory note, which had not explained, with the chance importinence of Percy Anson, which had explained. Larry had to hurry away to catch a train for a business trip south, which was agreeable to Dorothy, who longed to be left alone. After she went to bed she planned one minute to avoid meeting Jack to give him an opportunity to simplify his false explanation, and the next minute she reproached herself for letting a foolish remark from a gossip clubman make her doubt that some good explanation would be given for what unquestionably did look bad. Then she reflected that Jack's failure to come before the end of the dance, as he had intimated he would, might mean that his full explanation would not be forthcoming. After an almost sleepless night she went down to breakfast with a gloomy determination to be perfectly indifferent to any explanation Jack might make. Which meant that she was going to be unreasonable, no matter what his explanation. At nine o'clock the telephone rang. Although Dorothy sat almost within reach of it, and although she felt sure that Jack was at the other end of the wire, she sat apparently absorbed in the morning paper while the maid answered the call and informed her that it was for her. "Good morning, Merry Sunshine!" called Jack, not aware of the clouded atmosphere he was trying to penetrate. "Am I going to be forgiven for my sins of omission?" "Good morning," answered a coldly calm voice. "Have I had the full explanation of your sins of omission?" "Really, Dot," pleaded Jack, "there are a lot of people in carshot, which makes it awkward to explain in full. Can't I come out this evening and do that?" "I'm dining out this evening," she replied coldly, "but I happened to hear enough last night to know that there is a good deal to explain; so much in fact, that it will be quite satisfactory to me if you postpone the explanation indefinitely." "Well, that won't be satisfactory to me," retorted Jack, "and it's not fair to deny me an opportunity to explain. You certainly know, Dorothy, how much it means to me—to us. I had hoped—to have me get into the firm, and—" "Indeed, I'd have to take a great deal for granted to say that I know all that, but I must remind you that you are taking things for granted, and if there are so many people in earshot, the sooner this conversation ends the better." The conversation ended abruptly after that, and Jack dug into his desk with such ferocity that two stenographers were kept going at a break-neck speed all day. Dorothy went out in the back yard and personally supervised the resetting of tulip bulbs until noon, and after noon she slept to make up for the sleeplessness of the night before. That evening, as she went into the big dining room of the Leicester hotel with the Dunstans and Chester Hill, she saw Jack among a dinner party of six, which included a strange blonde woman, who was identified by Mrs. Dunstan as the young widow of Hiram Ward, the brewer. The interest of Dorothy and Chester Hill in each other had seemed to grow steadily since that evening, and Jack's apparent interest in the young widow had kept pretty good pace with theirs, so that on the day they all appeared on the country clubhouse porch, Dorothy and Jack had drifted well apart, without a full explanation having been given her. She knew that she had intentionally made it impossible for Jack to explain fully, yet she felt hurt at his failure to do so; he knew that so long as his explanation was withheld she was justified in thinking him a detestable cad, yet he was so angered at her arrogant manner toward him and her acceptance of Chester Hill's attentions that he delayed his explanation. It remained for fatuous Percy Anson, who had unwittingly caused the trouble, to set things right. Just as Chester Hill was called to the telephone, Percy came along the porch arm in arm with grouchy Henry Ardmore, head of the firm of brokers to which Jack had long sought admission as a member of the partnership. At the same time Jack and Mrs. Ward came up the front steps, and, without knowing of Dorothy's presence, went around to that side of the porch. "Heigho, Mrs. Ward," called Percy, and 'Hello, Jack!' Congratulations, old boy! Ardmore has just been telling me about your adoption into the firm. A well-merited compliment, I have no doubt." And Percy laughed heartily at his little joke. "By the way, Elliott," said Ardmore bluntly, "my sister writes me that you are all sorts of a brick: saju her husband is trying to get well fast lest she begin scheming to get you for her second husband." Then, turning to Mrs. Ward, he added in explanation: "My sister was compelled to be here several hours between trains a month or so ago on her way to some jumping-off place where her husband had been injured in a railroad wreck, and as I was laid up with the grip Elliott was good enough to help me out by taking care of her until her train left." "And he didn't tell me a thing about it at all," pouted Mrs. Ward smilingly. "He didn't have to tell me, for I can prove by Dorothy that I told her about seeing him at the Dinsmore with a stunning blonde. Eh, Dorothy?" The smiling Percy blandly drew Dorothy into the conversation. "Now, Percy, don't expect me to remember all the things you ever told me confidentially." Although Dorothy laughed lightly and looked straight at Percy as she replied, she gave to Jack the fleeting end of a glance into which she put an expression of such penitent understanding that he knew the blundering Percy had brought about the explanation so long delayed and so naturally supplied by Dorothy's imagination. Somehow, in going into the clubhouse a moment later to see a newly decorated room which Chester Hill called to them to come and admire, Ardmore led the way, followed by Percy and the widow, leaving Dorothy and Jack together in the rear. "Dorothy, I know I don't deserve to be forgiven for delaying an explanation you were entitled to a month ago but—" "But because I listened to Percy's gossip and wouldn't listen to your attempted explanation, I didn't deserve to know the truth." Dorothy looked away before she blushingly added: "Then, of course, when I saw you so often with Mrs. Ward, I thought she was the blonde he had seen you with." "And I suppose you thought her millions had lured me, just as I was beginning to think Chester Hill's had lured you. Dearest, we don't want to see those old decorations; let's stay out here and see the sunset." But if they saw much of the sunset they must have seen it reflected in each other's eyes, for they seemed to find nothing of interest anywhere else. (Copyright, 1915, by the McClure News-paper Syndicate.) Some Facts About Limestone. A ton of absolutely pure limestone would burn to a little over half its weight of lime, or about 1,120 pounds, which, counting 80 pounds to the bushel, would give 14 bushels of lime to a ton. The weight of the burned product, however, generally averages more than this, owing to impurities in the limestone, and also because in ordinary kilns the combustion is not complete enough to drive off all the carbon dioxide. A cubic foot of limestone averages in weight from 145 to 175 pounds, which would make a ton of limestone contain from eleven to fourteen cubic feet. Too Much for Him Gyer—A friend of mine who makes moving pictures bumped up against his first failure last week. Gyer—He tried to make a moving picture of two old men playing a game of choss in a village store. METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE, METROPOLIS, ILL. COVETED BY ALL COVETED BY ALL but possessed by few—a beautiful head of hair. If yours is streaked with gray, or is harsh and stiff, you can restore it to its former beauty and luster by using "La Creole" Hair Dressing. Price $1.00.—Adv. Making It Swim. There is a story told that some years ago the keeper of the lighthouse on Tory island (an Englishman) got married to a London girl, and his wife had, among other effects, a piano went after her to her new home. By and by the news reached the island that the instrument was on the mainland, and two islanders were dispatched in a lugger to fetch it across. The lighthouse keeper and his wife were waiting the arrival of the piano which was to brighten the long winter evenings; but to their disappointment they saw the boat returning without the instrument. "Where is the piano?" shouted the lighthouse keeper when the lugger had got within hailing distance. "It's all right," replied one of the boatmen; "sure we're towin' it behind us!" A GRATEFUL OLD LADY. Mrs. A. G. Clemens, West Alexander, Pa., writes: I have used Dodd's Kidney Pills, also Diamond Dinner Pills. Before using them I had suffered for a number of years with backache, also tender spots on spine, and had at times black floating specks before my eyes. I also had lumbago and heart trouble. Since using this medicine I have been relieved of my sut Mrs. A. G. Clemens LAWYER fering. It is agreeable to me for you to publish this letter. I am glad to have an opportunity to say to all who are suffering as I have done that I obtained relief by using Dodd's Kidney Pills and Diamond Dinner Pills. Dodd's Kidney Pills 50c per box at your dealer or Dodd's Medicine Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Dodd's Dyspepsia Tablets for Indigestion have been proved, 50c per box—Adv. Balky Mule Causes Suit. A balky mule in a mine is a defendant in a suit filed in the district court. Joe Dimarco of Franklin insists that a coal company pay him $4, 053 because of injuries received in a mine when the mule refused to do his duty. Three cars of coal were being hauled. When the mule stopped a timber was put under the wheels of the car. Finally the driver got the mule in the notion of going and told Dimarco to pull out the timber. Dimarco did so and was crushed so badly by the care that he cannot work any more.—Pittsburgh Dispatch Kansas City Star. 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If yours is streaked with ugly, grizzly, gray hairs, use "La Creole" Hair Dressing and change it in the natural way. Price $1.00.—Adv. Varieties. Knicker—I'm thinking of studying law. Bocker—Plain, martial, unwritten or lynch? Not Gray Hairs but Tired Eyes make us look older than we are. Keep your Eyes young and you will look young. After the Movies always Murine Your Eyes—Don't tell your age. It—I dreamed last night, I took the classiest queen on the campus to the prom. She—Did I dance well? 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 To keep clean and healthy take Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. They regulate liver, bowels and stomach—Adv. And often a girl who married for a home doesn't stay there half the time. Write Murine Eye Remedy Co., Chicago for illustrated Book of the Eye Free. The worse a reputation the harder it is to lose AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS It took three years of training at Hampton institute to bring me to the point of being willing to sing Negro songs in the presence of white people. White menstrels with black faces have done more than any other single agency to lower the tone of Negro music and cause the Negro to despise his own songs. R. Nathaniel Dett, director of vocal music at Hampton, says: "There is no more lamentable tendency among certain people than the disposition either to despise Negro folk songs altogether or else use them as means of race caricature; neither is there any practice that should be more condemned. America has no more valuable heirloom, from a historical, traditional or musical standpoint than these folk songs. For this reason it should be the duty of all, especially of Negro musicians, to do everything possible to bring the songs in their proper and full appreciation. Negro music has suffered sufficiently already through ragtime and popular minstrels, and any further attempt to keep Negro music on this low level should be met with the indignant protests of all serious-minded people. "It is imperative, in my opinion, for people who are sincerely interested in the Negro and his one unmistakable contribution to American civilization to use every opportunity to dignify the music of this people, not merely by encouraging the Negro to sing his folk songs in their truly beautiful primitive form, but also by encouraging him to show their possibilities for use as themes for anthems, oratorios and even operas. This will do more than anything else to dignify them in the estimation of educated Negroes."—Southern Workman. "Success depends upon ability to do something useful, to perform sorrowkind of service that the world wants. Teach the Negroes how they may best help themselves; then no one will need to help them." Such is the kernel of the teachings of Booker T. Washington, who was born a slave and died the leader of his race. He did more than any other one man to solve the race problem of the South, and he devoted his energies to educating his people in the practical and industrial pursuits of life. The message which for 33 years he expounded was that the Negro should learn to work skillfully, to acquire property, own his land, drive his own mule hitched to his own wagon, milk his own cow, raise his own crop and keep out of debt. That was the doctrine that took form at Tuskegee, a school that is nothing short of a mammoth laboratory in which a race problem is being worked out, a public service institution developed by a man who was born in bondage and whom three presidents of the United States called their friend, whom university presidents spoke of as "conferee," and to whom Andrew Carnegie once applied the phrase "The combined Moses and Joshua of his people." Washington was born in-Franklin county, Virginia, in 1858 or 1859—he was not sure of the date or the place, and of his ancestry he knew almost nothing. "My mother," he once wrote, "I suppose attracted the attention of a purchaser who was afterward my owner and hers. Of my father I know even less than my mother." I do not even know his name." When freedom came through Lin- The first Alabama Negro state fair at the Tidewater park, Birmingham, Ala., after a ten days' program of attractions and exhibits, was said to equal any of the kind ever before held. One feature worthy of mention is that during the whole time in which more than one hundred thousand Negroes attended not a single arrest was made, not a single drunk was discovered, and not a case of disorder was in evidence. In the fraternal and secret order drills Company 15, Knights of Pythias, of Ensley, of which E. M. Smith is captain, won the prize. In the automobile races George Robertson, driving an E. M. F. car, won the prize, making the five-mile distance on a quarter-mile track in six minutes. "Col-Mike" owned by B. L. Windham and driven by C. Crittendon, made the one-mile pacing distance in 2:35. In Brazil, where the insects destroy wooden telegraph poles, the railroads use worn-out rails, for poles. New England Presbyterian, preachers receive an average of $1,579 a year in salary. After three years of work a government committee has recommended a uniform system of weights and measures for all of India. Breakfast seldom attracts a fashionable audience and never one that is enthusiastic. There is at least one thing women can do that men can't—and that is, say "good-by" gracefully. The devil doesn't expect to be invited into the parlor the first time. colin's proclamation Booker was put to work by his stepfather in a West Virginia salt furnace. Schooling was intermittent. He learned his first written symbols on a salt barrel. He obtained work in a coal mine and later made his way to Hampton institute, where he worked his way through and was given a place on the faculty. Then Tuskegee institute was started by the joint efforts of Col. George W. Campbell, an ex slave owner, and Lewis Adams, an ex-slave, both of Tuskegee. They conceived the idea of establishing a normal and industrial school for Negroes. They wrote to Hampton institute for a man to take charge of the work. Booker T. Washington was sent. This was in 1881, and Washington began work with a dilapidated shanty and an abandoned church as the school structures and only 20 pupils. Mrs. Ida B. Wells Barrett said: "Our race has lost its greatest leading man. Booker T. Washington was great not only as a race leader but he was one of the greatest orators—I mean oratory in its broadest sense, and he was the peer of any publicist before the country today. "As a constructive force on the lines of industrial education he was the equal of any living educator. We are wonderinw where we will find his successor. There is no Negro before the public today who has the confidence of the influential white people that Dr. Washington had, and that is what makes our loss so great. The natural separation between the two races can be bridged only by one who is in ready communication with both sides." Col. Theodore Roosevelt made the following statement on the death of Booker T. Washington: "I am deeply shocked and grieved at the death of Dr. Booker T. Washington. He was one of the distinguished citizens of the United States, a man who rendered greater service to his own race than ever had been rendered by anyone else, and who, in so doing, also rendered great service to the whole country. I mourn his loss and feel that one of the most useful citizens of our land has gone." The exposition at Chicago, August 22 to September 16, in celebration of the fifteenth anniversary of the emancipation of the colored race, included an exhibit of more than a thousand patents which have been granted to those of that race. Manifestly the list is incomplete, as it is impossible to determine from the patent office records whether an applicant and patentee is white or colored, but much effort was made by Henry F. Baker, who was detailed by the commissioner of patents in charge of the patent exhibit to make it as complete as possible. Mr. Baker, himself a colored man, is an assistant examiner in the patent office, having entered such office in January, 1876, as a copyist. He was appointed to the examining corps in March, 1883, and has been promoted from time to time to his present position as second assistant examiner. Another colored man, Edwin O. Clarke, was appointed to the examining corps in August, 1898, but resigned to accept a professorship in a college. A man thinks he has many sins of omission and but very few of commission. However, the less a man talks, the more he doesn't have to apologize. All the southern states have separate schools for white and colored children. In 1913 there were 426 separate Negro schools in the South, viz. 156 public high schools, and 270 private high schools, normal schools, colleges and other schools. The following states had separate high schools for Negroes, viz. Alabama, 6; Arkansas, 1; Belaware, 1; District of Columbia, 1; Florida, 6; Georgia, 14; Kentucky, 8; Louisiana, 1; Maryland, 1; Mississippi, 10; Missouri, 14; North Carolina, 3; South Carolina, 13; Tennessee, 9; Texas, 27; Virginia, 4; West Virginia, 5. A Pennsylvania inventor has patented a nail puller the jaws of which have a graduated series of serrations to engage nails of different sizes. A machine has been invented to brush bugs from potato vines as it is driven over a field and crush them to death between steel plates. The first thing a young man learns at college is how little his parents know. Electricians in Sweden have succeeded in extracting carbon from tar and making it into electric light carbons and furnace crucibles. Until you have discussed the matter with your wife, you are likely to believe a woman has good taste. There are 8,817,271 persons in the United States whose mother tongue is German. A wasted opportunity comes home to roost. MITATION 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. Darkkeas your hair in the natural way, but contains no dye. Price $1.00. Adv. Coal for Thousands of Years. The results of the investigation of the world's coal resources undertaken by the International Geographical congress in 1913, have just been published. 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"It's all in Calumet's wonderful leavening, and raising power—its absolute purity. Use Calumet for uniform results and economy." Received Highest Awards New Can Bank Free Our Duty in Pound Cane. BAKING POWDER NOT MADE BY THE TRUST CALUMET BAKING POWDER CALUMET BAKING POWDER CO. CHICAGO Cheap and big canBakingPowders do not save you money. Calumetdoes—it'sPure and far superior to sour milk and soda. TIME OCCUPIED BY BOOKS Proof That Other Things Than Sport and Play May Be Held in the Mind of Boy. Out-of-door sports have come to fill a great place in the lives of boys, as they should, but it is a mistake to suppose that boys no longer read Franklin K. Matthiews, chief scout it librarian of the Boy Scouts, who has been investigating the matter, reports that in the schools of a large city, where the question was asked the children as to what they did between Friday afternoon and Monday, it was discovered that the largest percentage of them spent their time in reading. In another city one boy sent in the titles of 28 books which he had read during his summer vacation; and those who watch the habits of boys in camp or at hotels cannot fall to be struck by the fact that as soon as the exercise hour is over the reading begins. In spite of increased activities, reading is still the principal recreation of a host of boys. And many of these boys are still reading the nickel novel, which has taken the place of the dime novel of a generation ago. Accommodating Citizens. A couple of Kansas City motorists who had penetrated the Ozarks found themselves sundry miles from the nearest town with a balky motor on hand and a dismal outlook before them. By and by there came driving along a rectangular native, who offered to drag them and their car to town for $6. "Blankity-blank!" they replied at considerable length. "All right," yawned the native. "Any way to give satisfaction. I'm a notary public. Drag you in for the price I named or swear you in for a dollar apiece." Not Guilty. "Do you know that that young man who is going to marry your daughter is an inveterate gambler?" "Nothing of the sort. He merely thinks he is. Why, I trimm'd him out of $15 myself at stud poker the other night." Reminiscent. "I took my father to see that new musical comedy last night." . . . "How did he enjoy it?" "Very much indeed! He said the jokes took him right back to the days of his childhood." The Right Place. "I've got a lot to tell you." "Come on down to the movies and we'll talk it over."—Yate Record Heard Down the Lines. Hobo—Gimme er loaded acrobat. Barkeep—Wo's dat? Hobo—Tumbler full o' whisky. See! FAMOUS OLD CLOCK Not Only Effectually Aroused Sleeper, but Could Be Arranged to Start Fire and Deliver Books When Wanted. The Jamons clock of the late John Muir, the noted naturalist and explorer, which not only woke him up in the morning, but dumped him out of bed; which delivered his books to him in regular sequence when he was studying and which lighted his fire in the morning, has just been presented to the Wisconsin State Historical society's museum at Madison by the Wisconsin Alumni Association of Northern California. The Milwaukee Journal gives the following account, with illustration, of that extraordinary clock: The clock was used by Muir during his school days at Wisconsin university in the early sixties. Because of his desire to work, he kept late hours and found it hard to get up. First he tried tying a string to his toe and having the janitor pull it at 5 a.m. This worked until some of the students nearly pulled him out of bed. Then he built a clock which would do the work. He built a bed of pho boards with three legs, two at the head and one at the foot. The leg at the foot was in two sections and operated on an elbow. This elbow was held by a peg so that if the peg was released the bed would drop to an angle of 45 degrees. A strong cord, fastened to the peg, led to the clock; on the end of the cord near the clock was a large stone. Before retiring the cord was attached to the clock and at five the clock would, de its deadly work. The noise of John falling out of bed and the falling stone awakened everyone in the building. While teaching in a country school-house he used the clock to start a fire before he arrived at school. The clock upset a tube of sulphuric acid into a mixture of chlorate of potash and sugar placed under the kindling and wood the night before. Instant combustion took place. He also used the clock to open and shut his books when he wished to ```markdown ``` John Muir's Clock, Set for Delivering His Books in Order, study. By arranging his books in a small car which operated on his study table they arranged themselves in a certain order and were placed before him at a stated time by the movement of the clock. Material for Briguettes. Peat and chalk are being extensively used, it is reported, for briqueting in Canada. The peat is mixed with coal breeze and then pressed into briquettes. Such a fuel has been found efficient and economical. Chalk, also, of which there are large deposits in Canada, can be pulverized and then combined with a certain percentage of breeze and solidified tar, the mixture being compressed into small briquettes or pebbles about the size of an egg. The briquettes burn with perfect satisfaction. The fuel has the advantage of being smokeless, has a high calorific value and burns freely. Madame Joffre. She, who had never been separated from her husband, not even for a day, before the war, has since the war broke out, never been to see him, although the general staff a headquarters are scarcely a couple of hours outside of Paris. It is against the rules for a soldier to see his wife, who for a wife to try to visit her husband at the front, therefore, although Madame Joffre has every facility for doing so, she will never go to see her husband. She does not avail herself of any privilege granted through her position, but makes a point of setting the example.—From a Paris Letter. METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE. METROPOLIS. ILL. CAP And BELLS PROUD MOMENT FOR SPEEDER Man Unter Arrest Wanted His Friends "You are charged with speeding." "Impassible, your honor!" "The policeman who arrested you says you were traveling at the rate of 60 miles an hour." "Indeed? I wish some of my friends were here." "Haven't you money enough to pay your fine?" "Oh, yes, your honor. They have made so many uncomplimentary remarks about my car that it would be a source of much satisfaction to me if they could hear this policeman's testimony." Too Painful. "Did you visit Vesuvius the last time you were in Italy?" "No," replied the traveled man? "Not interested, ch?" "That wasn't the reason. I knew that if I saw so much steam going to waste in Vesuvius the memory of the trouble I have every winter in persuading the janitor to heat my apartments sufficiently would make me bitter." Vexatious "I presume every man has a little Ananias club of his own." "No doubt. Still, I find it rather difficult to keep tab on the members in mine." "Yes?" "Every now and then some fellow who has been a member of my Ananias club for years puts over a hard luck story on me and I lend him money." The Right Ratio. "I suppose the world has need of pessimists." "No doubt. They are the leaven of life, so to speak." "I don't quite agree with your definition, but by striking a happy medium between the snarls of pessimists and the cheerful idiocy of optimists one is enabled to appraise life at its true value." Dense Imperance. "If there is anything that makes me tired it is an egregious landlubber finding fault with the United States navy." "I know the type. He's the sort of fellow who thinks the captain's bridge is a private gangplank." ART DEPT Artist--Say, I've got some of the funniest pictures you ever saw. Magazine Editor--Really! Where did you have them taken? Perquisites. "Will you leave office poorer than when you entered it?" "No," replied Senator Sorghum. "It is a mistake to say that a republic is ungrateful to its servants. A republic will loosen, up all right. If you know how to coney a gentle reminder when a tip is due." But it Didn't. That will do. Henry," said Mrs. Twobble loudly. "The yarn you are telling me won't hold water." I wasn't trying to make it hold water. my hairwil replied Mr. Twobble, somewhat pecyibly. "I hoped it would hold you for a while." Mdri to bri. Valued Sectusion. "Do you enjoy your magnificent new library?" "Yes," replied Mr. Cumrox; "for a while I didn't get much good out of it. But you don't know what a nice, quiet place it is to try out the latest records on the phonograph." THEIR CHANCE TO STOP WAR Peace Agitators Meeting In Back Room Given Opportunity to Bring Conflict to End. The peace agitators were meeting in the back room. They had just declared the war must be brought to an end. "It's all up to us," the impassioned chairman shouted. "If we do our duty the thing's accomplished." At that moment the door opened and a military aid in full uniform appeared on the threshold. "Fall in," he cried. "You are now a part of the first company of the Second regiment of the Black Brigade. You start for the front this afternoon! Forward march!" And the little band tramped forth to send the war—Cleveland Plain Dealer. An Achievement. "Are you sure you thoroughly understand that question you attempted to decide?" "No," replied Senator Sorghum; "but I fancy I expressed myself in terms sufficiently obscure to prevent anybody else from taking enough interest to call me down." "She returns my love." "When you get it back you will find that she, being a Boston girl, has chilled it through, and you will have to warm it over." Point to Consider. "I'm afraid Grabson thinks too much about the material things of life." "Perhaps so, but we need a few people in the world like him." "Yes." "If everybody spent 'his time in reading poetry, admiring works of art and listening to soulful music, who'd donate the money to build libraries, art galleries and auditoriums?" Wistful Waiting. "I passed a man sitting in a broken-down motor car while taking a trip through the country this morning." "Did he seem worried." "Not particularly. In fact, he had a far away look in his eyes." "Maybe he was thinking of the place he hopes to reach some day." I would seem so. "I think it's rather above." "Why so?" "Considering the difficulty of making oneself heard on the average trolley car, the person who talks there must have something worth while to say." Just a Theory. "Good heavens! Why does that young woman playing the piano next door sing so loudly?" "Maybe her conscience hurts her." "What do you mean?" "She probably wants to drown out the racket her mother is making in the kitchen washing dishes." Indifference. "Which do you prefer, summer or winter?" "I've no preference," replied Mr. Growcher. "It is equally depressing to me whether I put in a large portion of my time reading about the hottest day ever, or the coldest day ever." Doubtful Aid. "My barber is a Frenchman. Every day while he's shaving me he gives me a little lesson in French." "Fine. But don't you find it rather difficult to make replies?" "Yes, to a certain extent, but the lather that gets into my mouth seems to help my accent." to help my deco Carefully Proportioned. "How were your crops this year?" "Jes' about right," replied Farmer Corntossel; "not big enough to mean much work or risk an' at the same time sufficient to make the summer boarders think that they was livin' on a sure-enough farm." Really Doesn't Matten. "I see you at the theater quite often when Mr. Dubson." Do you enjoy his society, my dear? "Oh," replied the debutante, frankly, "when I'm absorbed in a play. I would as soon be sitting beside him. Dubson as anybody else." Troubles in Store. "Jimlw seems to be an easy-going sort of fellow." "Well, he won't be much longer." "What happened to him?" "He's just bought a second-hand motor car." SUDDEN DEATH Caused by Disease of the Kidneys The close connection which exists between the heart and the kidneys is well known nowadays. 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Address all communications to J. B. McCUBARY, Box 167 Metropolis, Illinois. The names and addresses of contributors must be known so as in every instance, in order to secure publication. We want the news of your vicinity each week. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: One Year ..... $1 00 tr Months ..... 75 Three Months ..... 40 Single Copy ..... 05 In Advance. ADVERTISING RATES. made known on application. You must mail copy on Mondays to secure publication. 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. McCrary, 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 Closing 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, Booker T. Washington's Book Soon To Be On The Market. Dr. Washington before death prepared a book of his life and work, which will be off the press about Dec. 20th. It will be well illustrated, showing him on the way to school the first time, and all along the road of his busy life from the cradle to the grave. It will read like a romance. The book will sell at $1.25 in cloth binding. This is the best book of Mr. Washington's life. The publishers Mulliken Jenkins Co. Ninth Street, Washington, D. C. are placing salemeu. Any one wishing an agency can get free samples by mailing 15 cts. postage. COMING AGAIN. Black Patti, No. 2 who is manager of one of the finest negro minstrel now on the road will appear in the city at the Odd Fellows Hall soon Watch for bills. Her troupe played here recently to a full house and much satisfaction was given and she has been petitioned to return before Christmas and exhibit. Get ready for the big show. Letter Heads and Envelopes can be had for the asking at this office. We print them. Native Salve. We have just recived some more of Native Salve and it is going very last, those in Carbonand Md. City can secure a box or more now by 50c, per box. Act quick if you want it. Send all orders to Rev. J. B. McCrary. Mesdames Ora Brown and Eva Albri ton, were Paducah shoppers last week. Subscribe For The Gazette. ```markdown ``` 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 The Unity Baptist church of Brookport will have all of their brick work of their church complete this week. Miss Beatrice Majors of Brookport and Rev, Yarbrough, of Shady Grove, were in the city Monday, and she showed signs of an early wedding? Geoge McCrary, who was reared by Mose McCrary, is confined to his bed with pneumonia. D. Cooley, was a Paducah, visitor Monday. Do your Xmas shopping with the merchants who advertise in The Gazette. They have real bargains for you, and too, they want your trade and ask for it through our columns. Persons who owe the Gazette would greatly lesson the financial burden of the publishers by remitting at once. Mr B McCarey, and daughter of Brooport, have gone to Evansville, Ind., to attend the funeral of her sister's husband, Mr. Simon Mens. Rev. and Mrs. J. M. Blake, are attending the Board meeting of the Mt. Olive Association, at Colps. Laverne Whittaker is on the sick list. Sam Gaines, is very low at this writing. We received the money from Mra. Ella Weaver, Villa Ridge, for renewal of her paper. Thanks The editor is attending the Executive Board meeting of the Mt. Olive Association, at Colps. Mr Levi Alston and sister Miss Naomi, are visiting the former's wife in Paduoah, Ky., this we k. Carl and Mildred Cowper, who were deserted by their mother in in Chicago, arrived in the city Tuesday. They will make their future home with their nunc Mr. Ontrue Cowper. Miss Alice Young has returned home after spending several days in St. Louis, Mo. 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. Mrs. Elvira Williams, of Brookport, wife of Riley Williams, died after a brief illness. Funeral today (Thursday) The editor of the Gazette is very sorry to learn of her demise as she was a very good woman, She was formerly a member of the Baptist chrch. She said to sister Eliza Baker Sunday that she had always been a Baptist and was coming back we expected her last Sunday night to be present but owing to the weather she was not out. "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 oely 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 constipation. ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY NOTES. Rev. L. G. Jordan secretary of the Foreign Mission Society was in the city and paid our University a visit and being a former students here was in a position to bring us some very wholesome advice in a way that only he can do Our Y. M. C. A. had a very interesting program. Thursday night their usual date for meeting we listened to a very well delivered address by Mr. W. D Brazier of Springfield, Ill., one of our students under the caption "next comes the judge," we are preparing to increase interest in all of our enterprises. The Y. W. C. A. had their very interesting meeting under the direction of their president Miss E. C. Wright. The S. S. is preparing for a great treat here Christmas and we will take time to say here all parties desiring to prepare themselves for future usefulness will find your self well suited in Roger Williams University Nashville, Tenn., do not fail to write for particulars. Our Minister's Conference is doing fine. We get the instruction of the best talent in this country. Our literary and debating society had their regular meeting and they rendered one of the best programs in the history of the school. The English class had their rhetorical Friday afternoon all of the class did themselves justice in the renditions of their peices. Friday night week was held a part of the 1st year Normal and Academic classes they gave a very good account of themselves Everything here is in good shape. NOTICE. Mr. Editor: please allow space in your paper tor 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 Resolution. The following resolutions were passed during the Executive Board of the East Mt. Olive Baptist Association, Held with the Mt. Pleasant Baptist church, Golconda, Ill., Nov 14, 1915 Whereas, there is being an unwarranted attack made upon Dr. R. H. Boyd, secretary of the National Baptist Publishing Board as well the entire staff, by designing men of the denomination, And whereas, these designing men are, in accord with the incorporated Convention of which Dr. E. C. Morris, was elected by one third majority of the convention in the afternoon of the second day of the convention after which time Dr. E. P. Jones of Vicksburg, Miss., had been elected by the unincorporated National Baptist Convention. And, Whereas, the promoters and designers of the incorporated convention, have and are now endeavoring to destroy the Nations Baptist-Publishin Board, as shown by many letters sent out to the churches and Sunday Schools to purchase the S. S., supplies elsewhere. And, whereas such leadership is both dangerous and hurtful to the progress of the race, and destructive to the interest of the denomination. And, whereas the charter gotten out by the seven brethren is a fraud on its face, and destructive to the best interest of the denomination, and is intended to mislead and deceive the constituents of the regular National Baptist Convention of America. And, whereas the lar fetched notion of a federal charter, to control liberty loving Baptist is known in history sacred or profane, and the attempt to thrust it on the National Baptist Convention is but daring usurpation. Built therefore Resolved, that we reaffirm the resolution seet up to Chicago, to the National Baptist Convention of America, September 1915 by the Ms. Olive Baptist Association voicing the sentiment of the 7,000 Bapiist in Southern and Central Illinois, and re-echoes the voice of the entire Baptist Brotherhood of the states that voted to sustain Dr. Boyd and the Publishing House at Nashville, Tenn. We do hereby pledge our unqualified support to the Publishing House, and the unincorporated convention of which Dr. E. P. Jones, of Vicksburg, Miss., was elected president in Chicago, Sept. 1915. Committee:—C. C. Phillips, Golconda, Ill.. C. L. Stone, Carmi, Ill. body which must be seen after and straightened. Please take notice and govern yourself according. Bro. Editor: Please allow me to say in your valuable paper to say that the writer was in your city Sunday and preached at 12:00 a.m. for the Rev. J. W. Davie, pastor of the First Baptist church. Text Romans 13:18. Subj. Subjection and other duties. Good crowd considering the inclementy of the weather. At 8:00 p. m. I preached at the Anticch Baptist church, Rev. Livingston Institute This school is well graded and equipped Grammar School Department. 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