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METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LIBRARY JAN MI VOL METROPO VOLUME XVIII. NO 44. Oscar DePriest Offered Bribe By City Firemen. ALDERMEN of the SECOND WARD AGGSES WHITE FIREMEN of BRIBERY. States Attorney Hoyne has disclosed an alleged plot on the part of three firemen assigned to the fire prevention bureau to bribe Alderman Oscar DePriest the Negro council member from the second ward. The December grand jury today will be asked to indict the firemen for conspiracy to violate the civil service law, according to Mr. Hoyne. The evidence against the men involves an offer of money to DePriest in order to have him use his influence to obtain their promotion to lieutenancies. Patrick J Leonard, 1425 W. goth street John J Shechan, 7206 Greenwood avenue Peter J. Kelley, 7637 Lowe avenue. At ap aws laid for the three men and Detective Sergeants William Murnane and William Gainer of the state's attorney office were present last Thursday when, it is alleged, $900 was placed in escrow to be given to DePriest. The detectives seized the money. The proposition is said to have been first laid before DePriest in his real estate office at 3439 'So. State street, ten days ago. Besides seeking promotion the firemen also asked that they be retained at the fire prevention bureau. State's Attorney Hoyne's information is that Leonard made an offer of $500 to be promoted from the old list of lieutenants before a new examination is held, and Kelley and Sheehan are charged with having proposed to hand over $200 apiece in return for having their names appear on the eligible list anywhere from the first to the thirty-fifth. DePriest took into his confidence John ..... of Deputy Funkhouser's office, and referred the firemen to the investigators are said to have been present when arrangements for the transfer of the money were made. The trap was sprung at the Lincoln State bank, 3105 South State street By agreement $300 and judgement notes aggregating $600 were placed in an envelope on the stipulation that it could not be opened within ninety days except through the joint signatures of the parties. When the envelope had been handed to Cashier Hardie the detectives took possession of it and turned it over to the state's at- ```markdown ``` ```markdown ``` Detectives Took Money. These Firemen Hit. Detectives Seize $500 The trap is sprung. JAN 10 1916 torney No arrests were made Investigator Hawkins and Ald, DePriest, together with other witnesses, have been summoned to appear before the grand jury. In the event of indictment and conviction the firemen are subject to fines ranging from $50 to $1,000 and imprisonment not exceeding six months, or both. Flat Denials from Firemen. The three firemen denied all knowledge of the alleged attempted bribery. Leonard said he might have called with DePriest during the last week or two, but the subject of promotion was not mentioned, he asserted. —The Illinois Idea. SPARTA Mr. Editor: I am glad to say thru the columns of your worthy paper. We are blessed and encouraged by the power of Jehovah God. Our Sunday School was opened at 9:30 by the Supt. Some brief remarks were made by Miss Vergie Johnson of Alton, Ill., who was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Nance. The Sunday School proceeded to nominate and elect officers for the ensuing year J. M. Haynes, Supt. J. J. Taylor assistant Supt. Miss Edith Gholston Sec'y Miss L. I Browning ass't. Sec'y. W M. Macklin teacher class no. 1. Ben Lance teacher of no. 2. Mrs. Mattie Haynes teacher of no. 3 Miss Amanda Haynes teacher class no. 4. M. C. Wrice S. S. Missionary E. C. Worthon treasurer. Willie Howard librarian. At 11:40 a. m. Rev. P. B. French preached a powerful sermon text. St. John 14:8. At 7:40 p. m. our pastor ascended the rostrum and preached another good sermon. text. 119 Psalms 59 verse. Rev. Jerry Johnson of Joppa, Ill., will preach for us Tuesday night. He is just from Alton, where he went to attend the funeral of his brother. Mr. Archie Buckley of Chicago, is visieing his mother Mrs. E. C. Worthon, who he has not seen for 17 years. The Sewing Cirele will be entertained at the home of Mrs. Amanda Wrice. Tnis week the Sunshine Club will be entertained at the home of Mrs. Anna Owens. M., Hiram Gleghorn of Dewmaine, is visiting his father Mr. Golumbus Cleghorn. Rev. P. B. French went to St. Louis, last week. Mr. and Mrs. Saul Lunderman of Culps, Ill, were guests at the home of Mr. and Mrs J. M. Haynes, last week. Mrs. Sallie Harris visited in St. Louis, last Wednesday, she was accompanied by Little Mary Dell Nance. J. J. Taylor. Culps, Ill, Dec. 22, 1915. Proceedings of the executive board and union of the Mt. Olive District Association, convened with the Baptist church Culps, Ill. The meeting was called to order by moderator, Rev. D. Parrish, MOTTO : "HEW TO THE LINE, LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY." Song, A charge to keep I have Prayer by Rev Allison. Moderator then read a scripture Lesson first division of Psalms. Song My soul be on my guard, etc. Prayer by Rev. C. W. Norment. The meeting was then declared open for the usual order of business. Roll of officers called and absentees noted. Revs. Webb, and French, absent. Rev. J. H. Dennis was appointed to fill the vacancy of Vice Moderator Webb, Rev Prewitt was appointed to fill the vacancy of additional board member Rev. French. Report of committee to see after some out standing debts was called for. Report read and adopted. Committee reported that they had to start court proceedings to collect the money in the hand of the Treasurer. The committee on printing of minutes and auditing of books was reported. The report was received and adopted. A delect was found in the school treas. of $39 00. Missionary's report, Rev. Levi Thompson reported having organized one church at Freeman, Ill., travelled 514 miles, money collected first quarter $10 35 report received and adopted Rev J. H. Knowles reported 13 visits. Renedition Rev J D Davis. AFTERNOON. Devotionals led by the vice moderator Rev. J H. Dennis. Reading of Scripture Lesson Acts 14:1-10. Song, Am I a soldier of the croos. The vice moderator declared the meeting opened for usual order of business. The moderator appointed to preach at evening Rev. J. H. Dennis of Md City, Ill., and Rev. Bomar of Cairo, Ill., alternate. Adjournment until evening, Benediction moderator. EVENING SESSION Devotionals led for 30 minutes by Deacon Haynes of Sparta and Rev. Hilly of Culps, immediately after devotionals Rev Dennis and Bomar ascended the rostrum and Rev Bomar read for a scripture lesson 2nd Timothy 3:13. Then Rev Pruitt lead in a fervent prayer, after which the choir chanted a beautiful anthem. Then the moderator introduced Rev. Dennis as the speaker of the speaker of the hour, he took as a text, 2nd Tim 3:13 from which he preached a soul stirring gospel sermon. Rev. Bomar sang I know that my redeemer livas and then lead in prayer. Committees on finance came forward and raised a collection of $3.05. T. W. Polk pays membership fee in the union 25c M. Duncan 25c Saul London 25c Total $380. Then a motion prevailed that the executive Board would give to the Sisters Friday morning for their work. A communication was read from Mt. Olive Baptist church of Colps asking that a council of elders be appointed to examine Bro. Author Jefferson for ordination. The moderator set Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock. The moderator appointed the following officers to sit in the council, Revs. Allison, McCraig, Knowles, Thompson and Davis. Adjourned to meet on Frida morning at 9:30. Benediction by the speaker FRIDAY MORNING. Devotionals led by Rev. Pruitt of Future City, afterwhich the moderator read scripture lesson Proverb 13 division, 1-13. Song In all my Lord's appointed ways, afterwhich the moderator made some brief remarks which were timely and then declared the meeting opened for business. Then the report of the trustees of the school were called for, then Rev.. J. B. McCrary, came forward and made a brief report as to the burning of the school building and collecting the insurance there which amounted to 1155 05 report received and adopted. A motion was made and seconded to appoint a committee to draw up resolutions to recommend to the association to move the school Rev. McCrary motioned to amend the motion by striking out the word move, see amendment. Then Rev Pruitt came forward and presented a letter from the Baptist church of Duquoin, the letter was received the amount sent with the letter was $3.00. Then Rev. J. B McCrary came forward and read a resolution, (see resolution.) Mt. Moriah Baptist church of Cairo, sends $1.00. New Hope Baptist church of Sparta $1.00. Then the examining council retired and jorganized Rev. Allison moderator, Rev. Knowles catechiser, Rev. Davis, sec., Revs. McCrary and Thompson. The council opened with usual form and proceeded to examine the candidate, after examination the council retired and after summing up in their best judgement they found the candidate deficient in the questions asked and recommended to the church that the candidate would study the questions three months longer, and also secure work if possible and to meet the executive board in its next session at Duquoin Ill. The pastor announced preaching at 8 o'clock. Rev C. W. Norment of Carbondale, Rev. J. Knowles alternate. Adjournment. FRIDAY EVENING. A program was rendeled by the Women's Department which was highly enjoyed by all Owing to the lateness of the of the hour the moderator announced Rev. Norment for a short talk. He took for a text Acts 9: 6 For a subject Paul's inquiry, from which he delivered a strong and instructive sermon, then Rev. Phillips led in a fervent prayer. The finance committee came forward and lifted a collection of $2.25. Revs J. H. Hilly and C. W Norment the finance committee read their report. The total amount raised by the union from all sources $11.05. Rev J D. Davis, Corresponding Sec'y MARRIED Mr. Roy Buchanan, of this city and Miss Odie Williams, formerly of Johnsonville, Tenn. but now of this city were united in the Holy Ponds of Wedlock Sunday at 7: 00 p. m. by Esquire Wright. Roy is the son of Mrs. Ellen Buchanan, and is a capable and trust worthy and a graduate of Dunbar High School, this city. Miss Odie is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Tucker, and is a very charming and industrious young laydy. We feel sure that this couple will surmount all the trials that come before them, and will reach the top to success. The Gazette wishes for them a long and prosperous married life. ENTERTAINS At DINNER Sunday at the hour of 2:30 p m. Mrs Norsis Lowery entertained a few of her relatives and friends at a New Year's Dinner. Mrs Lowe y, is well experienced in the art of cooking and she knows how to entertain her guests. This was considered one of the best New Year dinner we have ever been able to enjoy. We trust that Mrs. Lowery will be spared to set many more such dinner. ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY NOTES. The Xmas festivities have been on in full force during the holiday season, and we are about ready to get down to real study once more. Everyone expresses satisfaction regarding the care with which the faculty have taken to make each students feel happy and as a result the xmas was spent quietly on the campus with the exception of a new students that went home to be with their parent. Madam Brown of Indianopolis, Ind, was in our city and give us one very profitable evening by her recitations, without a doubt the madam is a past mistress in the art. The Athletic association held their anual banquet. All students as well as guests expressed themselves as having a pleasant time. The School, Y. M. C. A., Y. W. C. A., Ministers Conference and all of the other activities here have opened again, a number of new students are here. The students many of them returned expressing themselves as being thoroughly satisfied with their trip and ready to get down to business. The xmas festivities made all of the students happy as each one was remembered by tokens from the College. The Williams singers will be in our city. All of the churches as well as the college are selling tickets and are looking forward to the eveni with a deal of interest. During our week of vacation and feasting everything pointed to the birth of Christ and while we still have that object uppermost in our view, yet we are looking at the time when it becomes generally adopted from custom of making new resolutions we are aiming to stick by resolutions and thereby make the world the better by our presence. What say you? Rev. J. N. Washington. Variety. New Maid—"Please, mum, there's a man at the door come to collect on something yes bought on the installation plan." Mistress—"Ask him whether it's the encyclopedia, the phonograph, the brass bed, the piano, or the sewing-machine."—Harper's Bazar. ENTERTAINED Miss Bernice Burkes the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Horace G. Burkes, entertained New Year's Afternoon at their beautiful home on 10th St., from the hour of 2:0 till 5:30 Games were played, consisting of Rook, Checkers, Whizz and etc., At 4:30 the Misses Lyons and Burkes served in style. Sherbert Cake Everyone departed for their several homes wishing Miss Burkes a happy and prosperous New Year. Please allow space in your worthy paper to say that Mt Olive is doing nicely. Our esteemed pastor Rev. S. H. Pruitt was with us Sunday and preached an able sermon at 11:00 from Acts 4:13. We had communion in the afternoon. Sunday night he preached a stirring sermon. Our B. Y. P. U. is doing nicely and gradually improving, also the Sunday School. On our pastor return from the Executive Board meeting at Corp he informed us that the Board would hold its next session here, and we take this opportunity to welcome you, one and all. Miss Bessie Jones who has been sick is some better. Mr. Willie Bibbs is very sick. Mr. Charles Scott was taken suddenly sick Sunday evening. Lillian Bradshaw. DIED. Mrs. Maggie Byrd, died in this city last Monday week of Pneumonia, after fighting a good christian fight. She was a member of the Frer Baptist church, she was converted more than 40 years ago and lived a consistent christian until death. Mrs. Byrd, was the widow, of the late Jerry Byrd, who proceeded her to the "Great Boynd," two years ago. The funeral was attended by Rev. J. T. Harris, of Fulton, Ky., who was her former pastor for ankmber of years. She leaves to mourn their loss two brothers, two sons, two daughter and a number of grandchildren and a host of other relatives and friends Rest in peace. 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 salemu. Any one wishing an agency can get free samples by mail 15 cts. postage. Uncle Eben's Wisdom. "It's a lucky thing foh de human race," said Uncle Eben, "dat de Ten Commandments wasn't loaded down wif phraseology like de laws de legislature passes." WHEN DAISY DARNED By JANE OSBORN. Like a thief in the night, Harvey let himself into his own apartment an hour before his usual evening arrival. He went straight to his own room—Daisy, his wife, was not in and it was Thursday, Jenny's day out. He went straight to his own room—his room and Daisy's, and, with furtive glances, to see that Daisy was not in hiding, opened the chiffonier drawer. There they were, the shapeless piles of unmated, undarned socks, just where they had been for the last month. Harvey seized the afternoon paper he had bought on his way home, bundled the socks into it and then rolled it into a parcel. He cast about for a string to tie it. His eyes caught sight of a piece of Daisy's pink lingerie ribbon lying in her bodkin holder on her dressing table. He seized this and in a minute his bundle was firmly fastened. Then, with guilty side glances, he hurried out of the apartment, closed the door noiselessly and, avoiding the apartment elevator, passed down the narrow, winding stairs. Once out in the open, he turned the corner sharply, jumped on the nearest street car going downtown and breathed a sigh of relief. Daisy couldn't possibly see him now. On his way down town Harvey opened his card case to find a clipping torn out of his morning paper. "For Busy Women and Bachelors—Darning and mending of all sorts done. Anything from a pair of socks to a lace gown mended and renovated by experts. The Mendery, 76 Bristol street." When the car reached Bristol street Harvey slipped off with his bundle, and in a few minutes reached the desired number. It was such a very little shop that Harvey would not have seen it but for the brightly painted sign which dubbed it the "Mendery." It was a charming, silken-voiced young matron wearing an osprey-trimmed hat, with a veil drawn back, who received Harvey's package and, giving him a numbered ticket, promised to have the work done within three days. Harvey traced his way back to his office. For the first time within the year he had been Daisy's husband he felt as if he had deceived her. He sat staring into the inkwell on his deck and fumbled with the pens. He had broken into his own house when they were away, and still, he mused, they were his socks and any man had a right to dispose of his own socks to suit himself. Still Daisy had given him some of the socks—the bright-colored socks that he wore only with high shoes were all her gifts. Perhaps he ought to have left those. Still, a man couldn't go with holes as big as eggs in his heels. He had bought new socks, but he couldn't go on doing that always. And then there was the sort of the socks—that alone was enough to vex the heart of mere man accustomed to having a mother or wife attend to such details. But what had come over Daisy—Daisy, who had up to two months before regarded the slightest detail of her wifely duty as a joy and a delight; Daisy, who had sat at his side in the evening as he read, putting the tiniest stitches into those socks of his and telling him every five minutes what a joy it was to do it? Daisy had changed. Daisy had met some old school friends who had filled her mind with new interests. Now in the morning, when Harvey went to search in his chiffonier drawer for socks, Daisy was already in the dining room, dressed half an hour before he was, and was calling him impatiently to come, as Jenny had breakfast all waiting. Daisy always seemed to be eager now to have Harvey leave the apartment in the morning, and only a few months ago she had begged him so tenderly to stay "just a minute" longer. Harvey pondered over the change that had come in Daisy's attitude toward him. She seemed happy enough, but clearly something or someone was coming between them. Harvey half expected that Daisy might notice the absence of the socks, but when, after a week of the new arrangement, she said nothing, he realized that she didn't even put the socks in the drawer. Jenny, the faithful maid of all work, probably did that after she had laundered them. Harvey sent his office boy to the Mendery the first time, but the next Thursday afternoon he went himself with the week's installment of work. This time he took more than socks. Buttons were missing and rents needed staying in an increasing number of other garments. And Harvey took them all. To be sure, the price for mending the socks seemed rather high. Harvey meant to mention this to the charming young woman behind the counter, but this time there was another in charge, a black-gowned, pompous individual, who looked at the offering he brought through her forgnette with condescension and handed him the numbered card with gloved hands. "There must be a good deal of money in mending," he said to himself as he made mental notes on the quality of her grooming. But the mending was entirely satisfactory and the socks were nicely mated, so that never again did he have to spend ten minutes in the morning trying not to wear a gray and green striped sock with a mate of rasberry color—these were both of Daisy's choosing. For months this satisfactory arrangement continued. One day Daisy approached the subject rather timidly at the breakfast table. "Harvey, dear," she said, "it is a shame. I have been so busy lately that I haven't spent much time on your mending. But I thought if you needed anything done you would tell me, wouldn't you, dear? And I knew you had bought some new socks." Harvey felt the blood rush to his face as the matter of his secret was suggested. "Of course, Daisy," he said, "it's all right. I know you are busy." He longed to ask her what kept her so busy, but as she volunteered no information he was silent. It was getting to be a regular Thursday afternoon performance for Harvey to steal home for his week's mending and take it to the Mendery, where a succession of distinguished-looking attendants presided over the counter. In vain he attempted to broach the subject of overcharging, but he never got his courage to the sticking point. "Today I'm going to make a kick," he said one Thursday after the bill for the preceding week had amounted to $1.95. "I don't care if the dame at the counter does look like a Newport dowager. I'll do it. Those people are making too much money at their game." This day Harvey discovered to his joy that the woman behind the counter was young and petite. He could tell her about it, he thought, without losing his nerve. He might also ask her why the proprietor made such frequent changes of his employees. He was fairly face to face with the young woman when he experienced the shock of his life. "Daisy," he exclaimed, his bundle of socks and pajamas falling to the floor. "I've been waiting here for you for several days," she said. "I first suspected that you came here when I found in my apportionment of mending one of those raspberry socks I gave you before we were married. I could tell those anywhere. You poor dear—" "But, Daisy," he interrupted, gathering together the scattered garments, "why didn't you tell me? I can give you more money. You told me your allowance was large enough. Oh, Daisy, to think that you had to slave like this! You poor dear, why didn't you tell me? How stupid I have been!" Daisy was laughing. "Don't you know, silly? I didn't do this for money. I did it for the Belgians. Didn't you know that this place is entirely run by volunteers? Why, some of the most fashionable and wealthiest women in town give their time, and I felt quite honored when they let me in on it. And it is just the richest young bachelors who send their things here." Here Daisy faltered. "I would have told you what I was doing, only you have said so often that you didn't want to go in for the society game, and I was afraid that if you knew I was working with the D Paysters and the Van Duysenspiels you'd think I was climbing. But truly I'm not. I just wanted to help the poor Belgians." (Copyright, 1915, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate) Wireless Wonders Assertions have recently been appearing in various publications to the effect that submarine torpedoes can now be controlled and directed by wireless; and to the effect that torpedoes which can be successfully controlled by wireless can with equal success be diverted by wireless from their objective. Both claims have yet to be made good in contest, but the claim of a well-known motor car company to control a motor car by wireless has been substantiated fully. At the Indiana state fair a car was started every five minutes by wireless from the company's headquarters five miles away. The car was fitted up with a receiving apparatus and the necessary automatic switches and relays for throwing on and off the electric current of the starter and magneto. An automatic switch was regulated so as to allow the car to run for 45 seconds, after which the magneto was cut off. The operation of starting the car was repeated at five minute intervals. Deductive Range Finding. The Army and Navy Journal tells how some clever English soldiers found the range of a hostile battery. "Somewhere in France" a detachment was suffering severely from shrapnel fired from a German battery so ingeniously hidden that all their attempts to determine the position of it proved futile. Behind the British position was a hillside field. A shell from the German battery went over the trenches, struck the hillside, plowed the surface for a considerable distance, and failed to explode. That gave the data needed to solve the problem. The furrow plowed by the shell of course showed the direction of its flight from the battery to the point at which it struck. The time for which the unexploded fuse had been cut showed how far off the battery was. The battery was promptly silenced. Distrust. "I see that you are warning against speculating." "I am," replied Mr. Dustin Staz. "But don't you profit by the speculation of others?" "Of course. My warnings won't stop 'em. They'll merely think I'm envious of their superlv smartness and want to keep them from making money." METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE, METROPOLIS, ILL AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS Because of a late ruling of the county clerk in which the owner of an oil lease is forced to turn over to the lessee the royalty oil instead of its equivalent, Sarah Rector, the richest Negro girl in Oklahoma, and probably in all the world, now is receiving in royalty $2,000 more a month than formerly. Six hundred dollars a day was her income from one of the most valuable oil land allotments in the entire Oilon district. Her tract of land, which is operated by B. B. Jones, millionaire oil man, is now producing in the neighborhood of 160,000 barrels of crude oil a month. For her share, one-eighth, or 20,000 barrels a month, she was getting 90 cents a barrel, or a total of $18,000 a month, giving her a daily income from her oil royalties of $600. An additional ten cents a barrel premium for her oil was obtained through a decision by Federal Judge Campbell of Muskogee, holding that an oil company operating a tract of land must pay the royalty in oil instead of money if the landowner demands it. The market price for oil is 80 cents, but a premium is being offered for oil as the demand is now greater than the supply. By demanding the payment of the royalty in oil Sarah Rector has sold her oil to the Pierce Oil corporation for 90 cents a barrel, or an increase of $2,000 a month, or $66 a day. The deal was made for her through her guardian T. J. Porter. The Sarah Rector allotment has always been a good revenue producer. It has been producing oil for about two years. She has received from her land in royalty approximately $60,000 in cash up to May 1 of this year, and on that date her royalty oil that had accumulated during the previous four months was said at the then market price, 40 cents a barrel, netting her an additional $65,000, or a total of 125,000. The sale at that time was made to B. B. Jones, the operator of the land, and the contract was continued in force to sell the royalty oil as it accumulated subject to termination at ten days' notice. The Sarah Rector land reached its high tide in production during the spring of this year. It was estimated to be making 20,000 barrels a day during April or 600,000 barrels for the month, of which the little girl's share was 75,000 barrels. For February the Rector production from the deep sand or Bartlesville was 300,000 barrels, and for March it was 325,000 barrels. During the spring months it was the biggest producing property in the field. Prior to getting the deep sand production the Rector land produced oil from the Layton or shallow sand, and during the last months of 1913 this amounted to about $15,000 a month. When the deal was made last spring whereby the accumulation of royalty was sold to B. B. Jones, it was estimated that the Rector land would yield to its owner anywhere from $100,000 to $125,000 in royalty during the succeeding four months, and it was said that the tract would be a big money maker for her for many years to come. With the recent increase in the price of crude oil, going to 80 cents a barrel from 40 cents within a six weeks' period, and with the federal court decision separating the royalty from that of the producing company, the income of Sarah Rector began again to increase, and for October she received "Uncle Isham Griffin, who will be one hundred and five years old next March, was born near Augusta, Ga. and lives now in Chattanooga, Tennessee. He was ten years old when Napoleon died. He was born before the telegraph, the telephone, the phonograph, or the motion picture. The aeroplane and the fireless cooker are ninety years younger than Old Isham." J. D. Clemmer, in Chattanooga Times, writes of him: "Thirty years ago in my 'teens, I stopped at his cabin and he was then the oldest looking darky I had ever met. Since then at every election in Benton, except the last one, I have noticed a crowd gathered around him after he had voted the ticket that he always called upon Daniel Lillard for "The crowd always had him calling turkeys, imitating 'the gobbler, and crowing like a rooster. These he did to a finish, even completing the gargling sounds following their most strenuous efforts. The glass of cider or other kind of drink handed him on such occasions, was too sacred a custom for the law against treating on election days to be thought of by any. There are twice as many people in the United States as in 1880, three times as many as at the outbreak of the Civil war and five times as many as in '49. The increase between 1910 and 1915 is said to have been equal to the entire population at the time of the Revolution. One baby out of five dies before it is a year old. Australia yearly produces 225,000 tons of cane sugar. approximately 18,000 in royalty for her 20,000 barrels, while for April she received 30,000 for 75,000 barrels. In clearing away their agricultural exhibits from the courthouse, says a dispatch from Normal, Ala., the Negroes of Madison county wound up one of the most significant agricultural meetings which has ever been held in this section. The meeting was called to order by Prof. P. C. Parks, director of agriculture at the Agricultural and Mechanical college for Negroes at Normal, and agents for the Smith-Lever extension fund in the Tennessee valley. The courthouse was decorated with the choicest products of the Tennessee valley and the walls were placarded with pointed epigrams which indicate that the Negroes are waking up to the latest ideas in farming. The object of the conference was, "Alabama Must Feed Herself." The audience was made up principally of Negro tenants and land owners, but there was a large number of white people present also. Speeches were made by prominent white landlords, among them Mr. Roe of Triana. From Mr. Roe's address it would appear that the large land owners of the Tennessee valley are anxious to join in any movement which will tend to improve the efficiency and happiness of their tenants. The meeting was opened by David A. Grayson, chairman of the board of trustees of the Agricultural and Mechanical college at Normal, who introduced Ed Johnston, who in turn presented Congressman B. B. Almon, who delivered the principal address. Congressman Almon spoke at length upon the natural resources of the Tennessee valley and the superior agricultural advantages which it offers. He said that the one-crop system has throttled the South since the Civil war and caused the southern farmers to be borrowers instead of lenders. He said that only 15 per cent of the western farm lands are under mortgage, while 85 per cent of the southern farm lands are under mortgage. Congressman Almon favors a rural credit system with low interest and long payment. He seems to regard rural credit, crop diversification and intensive farming as the salvation of the South. Dr. W. H. Mixon, presiding elder of the Huntsville district of the African Methodist Episcopal church, made a very brief and apt response to the address of Congressman Almon in which he urged more friendly relations between the races and paid high tribute to the friendship of the white man for the Negro. In closing the conference, President Buchanan called attention to the fact that in the Tennessee valley alone are about 17,000 Negro tenants, 1,500 Negro farm owners and about 25,000 Negro boys and girls of school age who must be the future Negro farmers of this valley. This great host of 25,000 Negro farm workers must be taught to improve their own efficiency and the productive power of the soil which they cultivate and be made better satisfied with life upon the farm. To this end he expressed great satisfaction in the fact that Negro tenants and owners had assembled in this conference and discussed in the most encouraging manner the most fundamental problems of rural life, namely, better farming, better religious and educational facilities and better relations between landlords and tenants. body. No one attempted to influence his vote because everybody knew that he voted the same kind of ticket 'Uncle Dan Lillard' did. Justice McCoy of the federal Supreme court dismissed an amended bill of complaint filed by H. N. Johnson of Louisiana and other colored men against Secretary McAdoo of the treasury department. The plaintiffs sought to establish a lien for themselves and the descendants of former slaves on an alleged fund of $68,072,388.99 said to have been collected by internal revenue officers on the cotton picked and prepared for the market through the services of their ancestors, as slaves. Secretary McAdoo, through United States Attorney Laskey and Assistant United States Attorney Archer, moved to quash the proceeding on the ground that Mr. McAdoo had no personal interest in the fund in question, and that the proceeding was an attempt to sue the United States for property in its possession. If the plaintiffs had any right, the defendant claimed, they had lost it by delaying too long their effort to establish it. There is more gold in the United States than in any other country in the world. The latest treasury figures show that on August 2 there was $2.066,399,539 in gold cash and bullion. The total wealth of the United States, according to the last published figures, is more than one-fourth of the aggregate of all the nations, and it is rapidly increasing, and there is every indication that it will long remain the leading nation, financially, commercially and industrially. FUR TRADE WORKERS SUFFER Said to Be Poisoned by Mercury Used in the Preparation of Material for Hats. Shocking conditions of ill health among workers in the fur trades of New York, due to poisoning by mercury used in the preparation of fur for hats were revealed by a report made recently to the health commissioner by the division of industrial hygiene of the bureau of preventable diseases. The report covered a long sanitary and clinical study of conditions surrounding the workers in 133 shops and the physical examination of 3,000 man and woman employees. Eighty were found to be victims of chronic mercury poisoning, while many other troubles directly due to their working conditions were found. Acting on the report, the health department has issued orders to 71 of the factories for the installation of protective devices against dust and for the providing of protective clothing, such as rubber gloves, etc. It was also ordered that cleaning in the factories must be done either after hours or by vacuum cleaners, and that hygienic flooring must be installed. SITTING CALLED BAD HABIT Human Race, It Is Asserted, Would Be Better Off If Other Positions Were Assumed. A leisurely indulgence in sitting is blamed for a great deal of the failure of our vital organs properly to perform their natural function of properly digesting the food committed to their care. Our chairs generally have hollow backs which allow us to curve our bodies in a way that relaxes the front of the abdomen and lets the large intestine fall down into folds, making kinks that obstruct the movement of food material, causing displacements and ultimate discomfort. In calling attention to this a health magazine says that the natural positions for man are lying down and standing up and that sitting is not a natural position. Mention is made of the custom of the savage, who does not sit in a chair or perch upon a log, but reclines, resting on an elbow or lying flat on the ground. These are natural positions. But we have invented chairs and, finding them convenient for sitting at a desk or table, we get into bad habits. DRIVE TURKEYS LIKE SHEEP. The biggest turkey drive ever known here brought 500 to a produce house. They came 20 miles, and were herded and driven along the road as sheep are, and it took from noon Wednesday until noon Sunday to make the trip. They, with thousands of others, were slaughtered and rushed to city markets for the Thanksgiving trade. Seventy-six possums, caught in six weeks by Mack Vinson and Austin Williamson of Caldwell county, and 39 raccoons, caught by Mike Hayes, are the high marks in this line this season. — Hopkinsville (Ky.) Dispatch, New York World. WISDOM OF EXPERIENCE Messenger—Here's a package for you, sir. Wederly—What is it? Messenger—I'm not sure, sir, but I think it is a birthday present from your wife. Wederly—Oh, very well. Just leave the bill and I'll send a check for the amount next week. ACCORDING TO PRECEDENT. "It was only a summer flirtation. Why are you so broken up?" "But we swore to love each other forever, and I'm perfectly willing to keep my part of the contract." "Piffle! A contract of that sort expires automatically September 1." A CASE IN POINT. "Newdad is on the water wagon pledge." "I always heard that marriage affected a man's spirits." SOME SHAVE. Wittieus—What do you think of this theory that insects have souls? Cynicus—Don't doubt it. I suppose Bill Smith has one. TOO MUCH WEIGHT. Blondine—What makes Gertrude Giddigad walk with a limp? Brunnetta — She lost her ankle watch and had to fasten on an alarm clock. WESTERN CANADA'S WONDERFUL YIELD Wheat Yields Reports Extraordinarily Heavy. When one hears of individual wheat yields of thirty-five to forty bushels per acre, there is considerable incredulity, but when yields, in whole townships extending into districts covering three and four and five hundred square miles in area, of upwards of fifty and some as high as fifty-five bushels per acre are reported, one is led to put his ear to the ground to listen for further rumblings. The writer having heard of these wonderful yields made a trip through the provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, to ascertain first hand their truthfulness. It was remarkable to discover that Dame Rumor was no rumor after all, that modesty was her mantle, that all that had been said of these yields was true, and that yields of over seventy bushels per acre were told of. These were so high that the truthfulness of the story was doubtful and very little was said of them. But such there were, and not in one instance, but in several, not in one locality but scattered in places hundreds of miles apart. Leaving these out altogether, there were large areas in which the average was over fifty bushels per acre, which in all common sense ought to satisfy most people. One hundred and thirty threshers in Alberta have made their returns to the local government as required by an act of the Legislature, and the average of the wheat threshed was fifty-three bushels to the acre. So immense was the yield that official verification was required before giving it out to the public. Sitting in the smoking compartment of a day coach, where on passing through a farming community, there may be gathered the gossip yarns of the neighborhood, one hears also a lot of news. Just now, the sole topic is that of the crops. A man with more or less of a hirsute appendage, smock, clothes and hands giving the appearance of one working in the field, was asked as to the crops. He had got on at Warner, Alberta. Taking out his pipe, lighting it and then crossing his knees, holding his chin in his hands, possessing an air of supreme contentment, and with an intelligent face, he looked the man who could give some information. And he was just the man. He was a thresher and on his way to Milk River to secure some more help. He was requisitioned for information. "Yes, a good season, I've made a lot of money. As for yields, let's see," and then he began to string them off. "Peterson had 63 bushels of wheat per acre on his five hundred acre farm; from 380 acres Roland got 65 bushels per acre; Bugler had one hundred and ten acres that went 63 bushels; Carr had 65 bushels per acre off an eight hundred acre field." And he gave others running from 58 to 66 bushels per acre. All these people lived east of Warner, Alberta. Looking out of the window and seeing immense fields, still covered with stocks he was asked why they were not threshed, he replied that there were not enough "rigs" in the district, and that they would not get through before Christmas. An American writing of a trip he made through Western Canada says: "I went as far west as Saskatoon, back to Regina, Moose Jaw, and down on the Soo line, and I must say that I never saw such crops, or ever heard of anything to compare with it in any country on earth. The country is over the hill, and certainly the farmers have a lot to be thankful for. 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"Then she's thirty 'if she's a day, isn't she?' Important to Mothers Important to Mothers Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, a safe and sure,remedy for infants and children, and see that it Bears the Signature of Charles Mitchell In Use For Over 30 Years. Children Cry for Fletcher's Castoris Flying Starts. Officer (furiously)—What the dooze is the matter? Where are your shots going? Irish Recruit (nervously)—Sure I duino, sor; they left 'ere all right!—Passing Show. 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. Ady. Unanimous. "I understand Reggie Van Boob has gone on the stage in spite of the strenuous objections of his family." "Yes, but now that the public has seen him, it has taken sides with the family and he'll have to retire." Whenever You Need a General Tonic Take Grove's The 'Old Standard Grove' Tasteless chill Tonic is equally valuable as a General Tonic because it contains the well known tonic properties of QUININE and IRON. It acts on the Liver, Drives out Malaria, Enriches the Blood- and Builds up the Whole System. 50 cents She's Again It. "Oh, Mrs. Lawn, we want to get your vote for the Village Improvement society's plans. We met Mr. Lawn on the way to the station, and he—" "Yes? How did he vote?" "Why, he's for it with enthusiasm, so we'll book you—" "You'll book me as against it with enthusiasm. In all the thirty years of our married life my husband and I have never agreed on anything, and it's too late to begin now." Soldiers Want No Children I asked Zeni Peashof, Socialist, what his sensations were when he went out to kill. "It didn't seem real. It doesn't now. Before my last charge the lieutenant and I were filled with the beauty of the night. 'We sat gazing at the stars. Then the command came and we rushed forward. It did not seem possible I was killing human beings.' It is the unreality that sustains men. 'Germans are not human beings—only the enemy.' For the wounded French soldier will tell you he loathes war and longs for peace. He fights for one object—a permanent peace. He fights to save his children from fighting.' "Have you any children?" I asked one soldier, "No, thank God," is the reply. "But why?" "Because," came the fierce answer, "if I had a son I would rather he deserted than see what I have seen." This man is not unusual. The soldiers—not the women—are beginning to say: "We will have no more children unless there is no more war."—The New Republic. THE VERY TIME When Powerful Food Is Most Needed. The need of delicate yet nutritious food is never felt so keenly as when a convulsive gets a set back on account of weak stomach. Then is when Grape-Nuts shows its power for it is a most scientific and easily digested food. 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Ever read the above letter? A new one appears from time to time. They are genius, true, and full of huma- interest. CAP and BELLS HOST WAS PLAINLY RESTIVE Football Player Wanted to Show High- Brow Company What He Could Do In Scrimmage. "Henry," remarked Mrs. Twobble, "I've been thinking over something I want to say to you." "Shoot!" said Mr. Twobble, briefly, "What?" "Excuse me. Proceed." "I wish you would try to appear more at ease when we have company in the house. You are not afraid of people, I hope." "No," answered Mr. Twobble, thoughtfully. "It isn't that. The people you invite here make me so confoundedly uncomfortable with their high-brow talk that I sometimes wish they would try to start something, so I could show them what an old-time football player can do in a scrimmage!" 5. C. The Preacher—Tell me what is the best foundation for success in business? The Merchant—Rocks. Surpassed. "Jinks won't let anybody get the better of him. No matter what they brag of he always has something better. What do you think he said when a man in a bunch where he was boasted of the fine ruby he had on his finger? "What did he say?" "That it was nothing to the carbuncle he had on his neck." A Bigger Haul. "As I was coming home," said the man who had burst breathlessly through the door, "footpads set upon me and took my watch and scarfpin." "How lucky," commented his wife, "that they didn't wait till Saturday night and catch you when you were coming home with the market basket." Missing No Tricks. "People are saying that you do not stand a ghost of a show at the next election." "Good idea!" responded Senator Sorghum. "I have tried to get the influence of about every other organization. Maybe we can do something with the Society of Psychic Research." High Art for Lowbrow. Artist—You see, we moderns strive for the purgation of the superfluous, which throws the accent on the inner urge. Do you follow me? Friend—No, I'm ahead of you. I came out of the asylum last week.—Life. "Had a queer thing happen as we were out in the auto the other day." "Accident?" "No. A fellow in a rig drove out of a side street two blocks ahead of us and ma, who was in the rear seat, never saw him." Not Talking Much. "What are you going to say when you address congress?" asked the friend. "I don't know yet," replied Senator Sorghum. "After the opposition I have met with out home I don't feel called on to make long speeches. I'm lucky to be able to say 'Present!'" Judicial Advantages. "A magistrate has unusual domestic advantages over other men whose wives are always giving them a piece of their minds." "What advantage has he?" "When she starts in to give it he can bind her over to keep the piece." METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE, METROPOLIS, ILL. BOY'S DEFINITION OF DESERT Mother's Suggestion That It Was Place Where Nothing Would Grow Leads to Amusing Reply. A fond mother was assisting the little boy the other evening in the mastery of his geography lesson, and coming to the description of a desert, which formed part of the lesson to be memorized, she quoted the words of the text-book to the effect that it was "a barren tract." The little fellow repeated the phrase after her, but his air of mystification showed that he hadn't the slightest idea of the meaning conveyed by the group of words, and the better to reach his understanding, she endeavored to simplify the description by defining it as "a place where nothing would grow." The boy's face brightened with the light of awakened intelligence, and the mother, proud and expectant, put the question: "Now, Johnny, what is a desert?" Jolting Romance. "Yes, my husband is a veteran of the Spanish war. He was at Siboney, San Juan, in many battles." "Ah, you must have passed many sleepless and apprehensive nights, thinking of him on the battlefield. Tell me of them. I can make a romantic story out of this." "I fear I can't be of much help to you. I didn't meet my husband until about ten years after the war." Joys of Matrimony His Wife—I met an old acquaintance today, Mr. Meeker. You remember he was your rival for my hand. Her Husband—Yes; I hate that man. His Wife—Why, you shouldn't hate him because he used to love me. Her Husband—Oh, that isn't the reason. I hate him because he didn't marry you. Common Scene "You say this picture is worth $5.000, and yet you are offering it for ten." "Yes." "Something wrong here," declared the policeman. "Till have to take you in." "Nothing wrong, officer," interposed the dealer. "He's the artist." Likely Place. Katherine is employed in a newspaper office. "Have a cough drop," she said. The other girls each accepted a lozenge. "Got a cold?" they inquired. Katherine nodded. "Where'd you get it?" "In the circulation department, of course." Dramatic Enthusiasm Nowadays. "My daughter says there's a splendid show at the theater this week," said the nice old lady. "She liked it, eh?" asked the other old lady. "Yes, very much. But from the way she raves about it I'm sure there must be something immodest about it."—Exchange. Her Point of View Said He—Miss Tallman's clothes always look so neat, don't you think? Said She—Yes, considering that she has so little to dress on. Said She—And so she is, but she's awfully thin, you know. The Reason Why A quick-witted newspaper man in the city was asked lately by a friend, "Why didn't Adam take out a marriage license?" "I suppose," answered the newspaper man, "that as long as he went about Eve, he found the bureau was closed." OUR BOARDING HOUSE. R. C. C. "Slowpay is behind with his board." "How do you know?" "I notice he's had the neck of the chicken for three Sundays running." "Marrigues," said the old-fashioned sentimentalist, "are made in heaven." "Yes," replied Miss Cayenne. "But some of them are like motor cars. They run badly after they leave the factory." At a. Disadvantage. "Do you think you can put a man in the penitentiary and then make a perfect citizen of him?" "Not always. If you put him in as warden he's likely to be an object of criticism the rest of his life." REBUKE THAT WAS NEEDED Very Probably, After This Lesson, Mrs. Johones Will Carry Her Small Purchases Home. Mrs. Johones is an inveterate shopper. The other morning she went to the local draper's and, after turning three departments upside down, solemnly bought a reel of cotton, and asked them to send it home. "That's the limit!" gasped the owner, when he heard the result of the lady's visit. "But we'll get even with her." That afternoon a large wagon drew up at the gate of Mrs. Johones' pretentious villa. On the vehicle sat three burly laborers, strenuously holding on to something in the middle of the dray. With many "Whoas!" and sundry other shouts, the dray backed on to the pavement, the laborers struggled and gasped and groaned, and hauled down to the road level—the reel of cotton! This was solemnly rolled up the garden path, and up-ended on the doorstep. Then the men gravely resumed their places on the wagon, which drove away. The delight of the watching neighbors was complete when Mrs. Johones, very red of face, opened the front door, kicked the reel wildly into the road and then slammed the door again.—London Tit-Bits. PAID LICENSE ONLY ON ONE Man's Seeming Violation of the Law Proved a Matter That Was Easy to Explain. A young constable, walking his beat one day in a Staffordshire village, met a man who had a bul- dog with him. Going up to him, the constable said: "That's a nice dog of yours." "Yes," replied the other. "Have you any more dogs?" "Yes, two more," said the man. "You pay license on them all, I suppose?" asked the constable. "Not me. Only on this one," was the answer. Next day the man received a summons to appear before the local bench of magistrates for default in payment of license for two dogs. He duly appeared, and on being asked if he owned three dogs and only paid license for one, he smiled sweetly and replied: "Well, yes; and here are the two I don't pay license on," producing at the same time two china dogs from his coat pockets. The constable looked surprised, the court laughed till the windows rattled, and the man was allowed his full expenses.—London Answers. AGED QUAKERS. Quakers have been noted for the longevity of their members, and an interesting example of the continued truth of the fact was furnished a few weeks back by an "old age party" at Whittier, Cal., to commemorate the one hundred and fifth birthday of a woman Friend. Altogether 73 persons over seventy were present. Active part in the proceedings was taken by elderly Friends of eighty-eight, eighty-three and eighty-two, while others present were aged ninety-six, ninety-four, eighty-six, eighty-four, eighty-two and eighty-one. A LAME EXCUSE. "I'll never trade with that drug-gist again," snapped Mrs. Twobble. "How now, my dear?" said Mrs. Gadders. "After I bought a stamp from him I asked him if he wouldn't lick it for me, and he said I would have to excuse him, as he had a pimple on his tongue." MEAN HINT. "Will proposed to me last night, and he did it so much better than any of the others I have had." "Well, from the number of girls he's tried to impress with it, he ought to be perfect in it by this time." A VETERAN. "I understand he's been in public life a great many years." "Yes. I dare say that fellow has worn out half a dozen. Prince Albert coats." SUITABLE HEADGEAR. "What color do you think most, becoming for our telephone girl's hat?" "I should suggest something on a vell-oh order." TWO FUNERALS HIS PORTION Mayor of Swiss Community Is to Be Credited With Rather a Remarkable Distinction. In the cemetery at Goschenen, in Switzerland, a strange burial took place at the end of the nineteenth century. The coffin, a small one, decently and decorously consigned to earth, contained part of a human leg, a boot, some shreds of clothing, and one franc, fifty centimes of Swiss money. The unusual ceremony was the concluding chapter of a sad history that began on the Rhone glacier eighteen years before. In the summer of 1882 the burgomaster of Goschinen and two friends undertook the ascent of the glacier. All three lost their lives, and the bodies were found a week later frozen stiff. That of the burgomaster was stuck fast in a crevasse, and in dragging it forth the frozen right leg broke off like a snapped icicle, and fell into the blue depths of the fissure. The poor, mutilated body was laid away in the cemetery with every honor, for the mayor had been greatly loved and respected in his little community. The peasants say, "Seven years the glacier grows; seven years she melts;" and in melting she honestly brings to the mouth of her river all that has fallen down her icy, blue throat—a belief that, although partly fanciful, contains much that is true. By this strange operation of nature the leg of the mayor of Goschenen came to light after eighteen years. The boot was still on the foot; some rags of clothing clung to the leg; even the trifling sum of money in the unfortunate man's trousers pocket was honestly returned by the glacier, which keeps nothing not its own. After eighteen years the leg was buried beside its master. The tragic pathos of its recovery robbed the occurrence of all absurdity.—Youth's Companion. WHATCHER TINKER DE NEW TEACHER? I TINK SHE'S ER BIG BUNCHER WIND, BUT ME BIG BRUDDER, TINKS SHE'S ER LALLA PALOOSA HYPERCRITICISM. "I wonder that friend of yours was not ashamed to use such language in my presence." "Why, he said nothing you could object to, my dear." "He did. When you were talking of the canal project he said he was worried over the dam prospect." PLAYING SAFE. "Close is what I call a financial pessimist." "What's a financial pessimist?" "A man who's afraid to look pleas- apt for fear his friends will touch him for a loan."—Boston Evening Transcript. BOUND TO COME The Inexperienced—He says he can hardly restrain himself from falling down and worshiping her. The Rejected—Tell him not to get nervous; she'll throw him down soon enough. London Opinion. QUITE APPROPRIATE. "I would like to bring some of the benefits of our movement to the convicts in this prison." "What is your specialty, madam?" "I am president of the Shut-In society." A LITTLE LATE. Evangeline—How do you like my new hat? 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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 . . . 65 In Advence. 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. Bowlett, 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, Letter Heads and Envelopes can be had for the asking at this office. We print them. O. P. TUTTLE WILL ANNOUNGE Hon. O P. Tuttle, representative from the 51st Senatorial District announced today that he would be a candidate for re-election. He says that he will officially announce his candidacy some time next week. Mr. Tuttle says he feels that his record in the last session of the legislature is one that a man might well be proud of and that he has no hesitation in asking the voters for re-election. —Harrisburg Chronicle. The Gazette can say of a truth that Oral P. Tuttle made a first class showing as a new member of the Legislature. He is a young man and a first rate lawyer and no doubt will leave his footprints on sands of the legal time. Danger in Pride. No man had ever a point of pride that was not injurious to him— Burke. Subscribe For The Gazette. YOU CAN PATENT everything you invent or improve; also get SAVEAT.TRADE.WARK, OR. TIGHT or DESIGN PROTECTION, or tech, or photo, on free examination and advice. BOOK ON PATENTS FREE. No Atty's Write. C.A. SHOW & CO. Patent Lawyers WASHINGTON, D.C. True. Patriotism is not bonafidelity not the depreciation of other nations. The patriotism that tells is that which is felt, not proclaimed. 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 Capt. A. A. Williams and Lieut H. G. Burkes went to Springfield last week Mrs. Tyson and daughter Adeline, of Princeton, Ky., are in the city visit the former's daughters Mrs. Lee Belle Dukes. Mrs. Minnie Lashley Baker, of East St Louis, is in the city visiting her mother and grandmother. Mrs. G. W Rowlett is on the sick list this week Rev. J. T. Harris, cf Fulton, Ky., attended the funeral of Mrs. Maggie Byrd Mrs. Lillie Pierce, of Grand Rivers, Ky., visited Mrs. Minnie Cook lastweek. Mrs Rosa Simms of Columbus, Ga., is in the city visiting her mo her Mrs. Leah Reed. Mrs. Cora Burton and children of Paducah, Ky., spent the holidays in the city with her sister Mrs. Leah Reed. Mr. Cornelius Robinson visited his relatives Xmas. Rev. Wm Barnett spent the holidays in Elizabethtown. Mrs H. G. Burkes and daughter Bernice were in Paducah, last week. Persons who owe the Gazette would greatly lesson the financial burden of the publishers by remitting at once. Mrs. Izetta Dewitt, Miss Izora Rodgers and Edgar McCrary visited in Brookport last week. Mr. and Mrs. Carrie Smith, of Harrisburg. visited Mr. and Mrs. McClelland Smith. Mesdames Millie and Janie Patterson, visited in Almo, Ky., last week. Mr. Lacy Patterson and brother spent Xmas day in Paducah Mack Cork spent Xmas in Star Line Works Ky, Mrs. Andy Winston is in Love Joy. Ill., visiting her daughters. Mrs. Birdie Hopson, Paducah, Ky., visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Green Hodge. 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. Clarence Winmon, of Paducah, Ky., visited in the city Xmas Mr. Harry Carter, of St. Louis, Mo., Xmas day to visit his little son Master Harry Lytton Carter, and other relatives. Mrs. Izetta Dewitt, of Elkville, spent a few days in the city visiting her friend Mrs. Izora Rodgers Mrs. Lulia Hodge, Smithland, Ky., visited Mrs. Senia Overby who is sick last week. Mr. wm Stingfellow and Miss Anna L. Boyd of Paducah, Ky. visited Mr. and Mrs. McClelland Smith, last Sunday week. A. N. Cork, visited his parents in Grand Rivers, Ky., Xmas. Mr. E. C. Phillips of Matton, spent his vacation here with his wife. $100 Reward. $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is catarrh. Hall's catarrh cure is the 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 consti- pation. Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Upshaw of Rockferd, Ill., spent Xmas in the city with their parents. Mesdames Nollie Park and Lavada Spurlark spent a portion of the holidays in Murphysboro, the guest of friends. Key. J W. Davie, was in Hopkinsville, Ky., last week visiting his family The only way to get the genuine New Home Sewing Machine is to buy the machine with the name NEW HOME on the arm and in the legs. This machine is warranted for all time. No other like it No other as good The New Home Sewing Machine Company, ORANGE, MASS. For Sale by W. P. Baynes, Metropolis, Ill. Native Salve. We have just received 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, Mesdames Ora Brown and Eva Albritton, were Paducah shoppers last week. Examine Your Own Predjudice Every one is forward to compile 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. Going. Going. Gone. The three degrees in medical treatment; Positive, ill; comparative, pill; superiative, bill.-Sacred Heart Review. Thought and Kindness beow It is not written blessed is he that goodth the poor, but he that consid- seth the poor. A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.—John Quinn. 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." 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 far 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 usarpation. Be it therefore Resolved, that we reaffirm the resolution seet up to Chicago, to the National Baptist Convention of America, September 1915 by the Mt. Olive Baptist Association voicing the sentiment of the 7,000 Baptist 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., H. C Armstead, Pulaski, Ill., Thos. Morris, Metropolis, Ill., A. J. Bowers, Dewmaine, Ill., W. P. Washington, Mt. Vernon, Ill. Send us a trial order for the Great Nature Salve, 50c a Box. Why suffer when you can be re-eyed for such a small amount. Read our guarantee on the front page of The Gazetre. Notice is hereby given that we cannot print a list of names contributing to churches unless $1 accompanies same. Invention of Cat Glam Pressed glass was invented by an humble carpenter of Sandwich, Mass., but in the primitive state of affairs it profited him little. More than 200 years ago a Bohemian glass-maker conceived the idea of making cut glass. This idea was destined to revolutionize the entire glass industry of the world. The inventor began by making the walls of the article on which he was working thicker than he was wont so that he might cut the glass with a sharp knife into figures as he chose. Livingston Institute Second Session Opens Monday This school is well grade Department. All work is we tal and able Instructors, sele work Special Courses in and in Theology. Entrance Fee $2.00 Tuition Rates: Tuition 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, 35c yr. Green's Fruit Grow All Five for All Ours Alone This is the matter o cludes o in this part of the state—and the F shown above, sample copies of wh We have never sold our paper. But on account of the splendid co publications we are able to give our paper, all one year for only $1 regular price of our paper alone. Send us your orders right away, and see us when you are in town beautiful, interesting magazines y home for a year. $1.18 JUST THINK W Our Paper and These ALL FIVE ON Monday March 8th is well graded and equipped work is well organized ductors, selected for Spe curses in Music. Booke and Type Writ free $2.00 a Session res: Tuition. Theology per month and English courses per re mental music (including rent ing (including rent) per m enting per month music Deparments Domes ning Free Rooms Board and re in private fam , 4 weeks will be counted be paid in advance. Fo address McGRARY. Supt. am This Is Our Best O Four First-Class Magazines an paper. ALL FIVE ONE YEAR, O for About the one This is the biggest barg matter ever offered to o cludes our paper—the and the Four Magazines o copies of which may be see d our paper alone at less splendid contract we have able to give our readers the fo for only $1.18—just 18 paper alone. is right away, give them to our u are in town. As soon as magazines you will want the THINK WHAT IT M mer and These Four Standard Ma FIVE ONE YEAR, O This school is well graded and equipped Grammar School Department. All work is well organized under Departmental and able Instructors, selected for Special Departmental work Special Courses in Music. Hookeeping, Shorthand and Type Writing, Bible Study and in Theology. Entrance Fee $2.00 a Session In every case, 4 weeks will be counted for a school month All charges must be paid in advance. For any information and Prospectus Address $1.18 This Is Our Best Offer $1.18 These Four First-Class Magazines and Our Paper, ALL FIVE ONE YEAR, Only Woman's World, 35c yr. Green's Fruit Grower, 50c yr. Farm Life, 28c yr. Name Life, 28c yr. All Five for About the Price of Ours Alone This is the biggest bargain in the best reading matter ever offered to our subscribers. It includes our paper—the best weekly published in this part of the state—and the Four Magazines of national prominence shown above, sample copies of which may be seen at our office. We have never sold our paper alone at less than a dollar a year. But on account of the splendid contract we have made with these big publications we are able to give our readers the four magazines with our paper, all one year for only $1.18—just 18 cents more than the regular price of our paper alone. Send us your orders right away, give them to our representative or call and see us when you are in town. As soon as you see these clean, beautiful, interesting magazines you will want them sent to your own home for a year. 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 'Threedles.'" she said. The Profits of Gardening. In this unjust world a large part of the profits of a town garden are made by the hardware store.—Atchison Globe. Thrived on Hot Biscuits. An Alabama man, ninety seven years of age, says he has eaten hot biscuits regularly all his life. The Improvident Ones. Some men who fail to provide for their families will go so far when cornered as to tell you that they would never think of usurging this prerogative of the Lord's. --- --- Miefit Name. March 8th 1915 and equipped Grammar School all organized under Department listed for Special Departments Music. Bookkeeping, Shorthand and Type Writing, Bible Study a Session aton. Theological Department month..... $1.00 tourneses per month each " 1.00 including rent of instrument)..... " 2.50 rg rent) per month..... " 1.50 th..... " 1.00 Frer Fre nts Domestic Science, Milli- nery and Dressmaking $2 Board and rooms can be secured in private families at a reasona- t will be counted for a school month advance. 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