Metropolis Weekly Gazette

METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE 070 ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY NOTES. Among the many visitors and well wishers that we have had to take a interest in us for this week are the following distinguished characters: Dr. West a practicing physician of this city, Miss Joanna P. Moore weighted down under 54 years of actual earnest and unselfish service for our race, yet, she brought to us words of comfort and cheer, as she only knows how, Rev. E. C. Morris of Helena, Ark., a national character Pres, of the National Baptist Convention and a life long friend of the school, with him was Dr. Booker Pres of the Ark. Baptist College, Mrs. Anna Jones of Kansas City, Mo., principal of the public schools there, Prof. Hamilton supervisor of the public schools of Memphis, Tenn. Prof. C. H. Johnson of Wilberforce University and Miss Mayo of Franklin, Ky., principal of Domestic Science there. All of the above mentioned expressed themselves as being pleased with the surroundings here generally and there is no reason to doubt the i- musee as a result of these visit, but that they will robound by ad- ding to the growth of our splendid school. The Y. W. C A as well as all of the other activites have pledged as goes the custom for renew- ed effort. Well Christmas is over 1916 is over has been ushered in and God is still blessing us why should we not press on. The second year Normal and Academic held their Rhetorical Friday night all members of the class did creditable work. After the Rhetorical the Pres. Dr. A. M. Townsend called on several members of the class to give impromptu speeches on subjects as he would pick them after which a short time was given over to the social part of school. I be fore entering into the watch meeting services The examination for the semester will be held on the 19 and 20 of this month gloom has begun to cast its shadow. The Y. M. C. A. will have their election soon the names of the officers elect are in the hands of the nominating committee. The literary and debating society is doing a fine work of itself besides it is co-operating with other interest of the school. The athletic association is beginning to bestir themselves to the greatest activity of their history this season by starting early with scheduled games, they are aiming to arrange a circuit and the belief is if the arrangement can be made satisfactory it will mean so very much for our school. The new students are pouring in every day and we expect the list to steadily grow for at least three more weeks. You should be here now and catch the inspiration. OBITUARY Charles Argustas Hollingsworth eldest son of Mt. John and Mrs Mary Jane Hollingsworth, deceased was born in Clay County Missouri, Mar. 25, 1855. Died Jan. 7th 1916. Aged 60 years 9 mos. 13 days. He lived in Metropolis, Ill. for 40 years, and was one of the oldest citizens. He was the oldest of 8 children 6 brothers and 1 sister, namely: Frank, Thurston, Edmond, John George, Dave and Lizzie. Four of whom have preceded him to the grave. Thurston, John, Lizzie and Dave. He professed a hope in Christ about 28 years ago and joined the then African Baptist church, known now as the First Baptist church of this city and was baptized by Rev. Ferdinand Robinson, who then pastor but since deceased. He made a faithful servant of God during his connection with said church. Later he connected himself to the Antioch Baptist church, where he proved true to his trust until the day of death. He was well known among the church goers as a zealous and conscientious member of the church being one of the leading spirit of said Body. He carried that scripture injunction "Be thou faithful until death and I will give thee a crown of Life." He had been in failing health since April 1915 but was confined to his room only a short time. He died at his home on Broadway Friday Jan. 7th about 4:00 p.m. in the embrace of his wife relative and friends. He was married to Miss Vina Barnes, Oct. 20, 1889, who survives him. He was true to his marriage vow and soiled late and early for his wife and niece Miss Alice Young whom they reared. In his death the church loses a faithful member, the wife a loving and devoted husband and the community an upright citizen. Before he died he shook hands with all present and pointed his finger upward as much as to say I am going up to that place prepared for the upright in heart. He was unable to speak but was sensible to the last. He is safe in the arms of Jesus. Peace to his slumbering dust I was setting all alone today and I thought I would write these few lines to informed you of my present health. I am well except a cold but I hope when these lines reaches your hand they may find you and family injoying the best of health. I so often think of you all there I want to come down if the Lords spare me on my vacation for I want to be at home once more in life. I want to know how everything is there and how the people are getting along. Well write me all of the news. I hope you are not having as much sickness there as we are having here. Well I was at Wish meeting last night, it was a good meeting tho a very bad night, but the people turned out well. Well nothing more at present Answer soon. Th: officers for the ensuing MOTTO! HEW TO THE LINE. LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY. year were installed by Bro. Eugene Wallace. At 11:45 a m. our pastor ascended the rostrum and preached a powerful sermon Text 17:23. At 3:30 p. m. the church having held prayer and praise services. Rev. Wm Jones of Coulterville, preached a soul stirring sermon, Text found Rev. 6:17 At 7:35 p. m. our pastor preached another gospel sermon, his text, Acts 19:18 The Lord's Supper was administered by the pastor. Sunday was a high day with us The Lord has blessed us. The collection for the day $5 85. Our Pastor was a visitor in St. Louis last Friday and Saturday Rev. French and the writer were invited to the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wm Macklin and enjoyed a nice dinner. Everything catable that ones heart could wish. Sewing Circle will meet at the home of Mrs Britton. Mrs Eise Akers of St. Louis, made a week stay with her sister Mrs Wm Macklin. The Sunshine Club will be entertained at the home of Mr. Bolden French. Mr. Samuel Brown was shot with a 38 caliber revolver four times by Dock Smith between 11:00 and 12:00. He cried 1 hour later. Both are colored men and are coal miners and worked together as buddies for more than two years. They were both gamblers and were under the influence of liquor. Sparta. Ill. Jan. 9, 1916. Mr. Editor: I wish to say in your worthy paper. We are on the march to Zion. Our Sunday School was opened at 9:30 a.m. by the Supt. The Lesson Chart was reviewed by bro. Eugene Wallace. At 11:30 a.m. our pastor ascended the rostrum and reached a powerful se mon, text, found Zachariah 13.6. Sunday' was the appointed day for the freewill offering which was $4.50. The Sunshine Club reported $1.56. Mrs Bessie Gleghorn is president. The Carnation club will be entertained at the home of Mrs. Mattie Haynes this week. The Sewing Circle is doing a good and great work Mrs. Pirther Covington have been somewhat indisposed. Mrs Lillie Madison the wife of John Madison is very sick at this writing. Mr A. J. Haigler of Culps, is here working in the Moffat mines here and is making his home with Mr. and Mrs. Mattie Haynes. DUNNE MAY COMMUTE DEATH SENTFNCE TO BALK SHERIFF. SPRINGFIELD, ILL., Jan. 10.— Gov, Dunne today re-opened correspondence with Sheriff White of Jackson County regarding the decorum which he demands must attend the execution on January 21 of Ellston Scott, convicted murderer. Three reprieves have been granted Scott by the governor upon representations from the sheriff which have not been satisfactory to the executive Now it is hinted that unless the sheriff accedes to the governor's demands a commutation of Scott's sentence to life imprisonment will be given Gov. Dunne was incensed at the large number of people permitted to witness the Joe Deberry execution a few months ago at Murphysboro, and since then has been in controversy with the sheriff of the county. Scott hanging originally scheduled for week later than that of Deberry. —Globe Deinocrat. CARD OF THANKS. To those who were so kind to me and my husband in his last illness and death, especially to those who visited him and spoke words of cheer to him in the hours of confinement, also to our many friends and neighbors who gave to him nourishments and money. I thank you from the deepest recess of my heart. The Bros. of Silver Crown, No. 26, F. & A. M. were not lax in the discharge of their obligations but contributed liberally both from their private purse and the treasury, for which you have heartfelt thanks and the Lord will bless you for your deeds of Charity and brotherly affection. Should any of you ever meet up with the same misfortune such as has come to me don't hesitate to call on us. Thanking you again one and all. I am Respectfully yours, Mrs. Vina Hollingsworth, wife. Miss Alice Young niece CAIRO, ILL. There was a delightful surprise party given last Friday evening by Mrs. Hester Taylor of 519-12 St in honor of her daughter Mrs. Adelia Lackay of Chicago, Ill, those present were: Mesdames, A. A. Martin, Emma Farrow, Mary Cook, Arminta Lewis M. E. Blanks, Misses, Josie Ruffin, Claretta Blanks, Linett Randolph, Rubie Graves, Lydia Amos, Azalia Dumas, Viola Cunnigham Tannie A. Stephen. Messrr. Alex Martin, Jr. Lester Perkins, Thomas W. Jones, Andrew Miller, J. W. Cook, Luby Lynn, Herbert Blanks, and Andrew Norwood. A three course luncheon was served. MENU: First Course Punch. Second Course Salmon Salad Pickles, Lunch Biscuit Coffee. Third Course Ice Cream Cake. Mrs. Mary Cook. TOO NOISY. Did you ever notice how noisy a certain class of our people ate? It just seems to be natural for some to be noisy. This class talks loud on the streets, in the street cars or wherever they may be. Of course, the undiscriminating public finds it quite convenient to put us all in the same class and to say we are all noisy. This, of course, is not true, but the noisy, loud-mouthed fellows make so much noise and there are so many of them, as compared with the more refined class, that the impression prevails that all Negroes are noisy. Now, some of you noisy fellows are going to read this. Of course you are You don't think you are harming anybody by your noise, and you doubtless think that it is your own noise and that it is therefore nobody's business how much noise you make. Perhaps you are wholly unconscious of the fact that you are noisy. But if you think your noisiness harms nobody you are wrong. For in the first place it harms you. It puts you down as an ignorant or clownish chap It may keep you out of a good job. And then it harms the race to which you belong. In the eyes of many the whole race is judged and condemned by your noisiness and clownishness and through you certain privileges may be restricted or denied. True, people may only want an excuse to deny these privileges, and you furnish that excuse. Did you ever think of it in that light? Empty wagons are noisy. Loaded wagons make very little noise. Ever notice it? Don't be satisfied to be an empty wagon. Next time you are in a bunch of fellows notice how noisy they they are and see if you cannot be a little less noisy yourself and induce the otter fellows to be a little less noisy, too. You owe it to yourself. You owe it to your race. Let us correct our faults whatever they may be, and being too noisy and boisterous is one of these faults. MURPHYSBORO. Dear Editor: We are glad to say thru your worthy paper that our church and Sunday School are yet progressing. Our pastor Rev. J H Hilly, preached a wonderful sermon his text, Rev. 3:16 Our B Y. P. U. is working nicely and we are expecting to represent in the next meeting. Mrs. Arlillion Macon is our president. Yours for the cause. Mrs. C. A. Macon. 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 Mullinik Jenkins Co. Ninth Street, Washington, D. C. are placing salemeu. Any one wishing an agency can get free samples by mailing 15 cts. postage. The minutes have been sent out by Express to most of the churches. Those not receiving minutes can secure them by sending us 20c for postage —Editor Gazette, Box 583. Uncle Eben's Wisdom. "It's a lucky thing foh do human race," said Uncle Eben, "daf de Ten Commandments weren't loaded down wif phraseology like de laws de legislature passen." STATE LEGISLATURE CONVENED TUESDAY. GOVERNOR DUNNE HAS ISSUED A CALL FOR THE STATE SOLONS TO MEET FOR 2ND SPECIAL SESSION. Relief For the Farmers and Stock Raisers Effected in the Foot and Mouth Epidemic Springfield, Ill., Jan. 10—Gov. Dunne has called the forty-sixth general assembly into its second special session, begingunuary 11. The call ask the legislature to: 1. Pass appropriation bills paying those farmers and stock raisers for their losses in the recent foot and mouth epidemic, not cared for in the former appropriation. 2. Validate Cook county good roads bonds. 3. Legalize the state centennial commission. 4. Pass appropriation measures to pay the expense of this extra session. 5. Amendment to primary law to abolish needless product primaries. 6. Amendment to primary law to combine certain elections. The first session adjourned no February 23, 1916. The call out today convenes the assembly January 11. Should all of the business before the legi lature be completed before February 23, 1916, and no new matters arise, a few of the members will gather here on that day and formally adjourn the assembly sine die. Marion Leader. L. Y. Sherman, of Ill., for the President on the Republican ticket for 1916 is the Slogan. He will be able to unite all factions. Illinois is the Pivotal state and has no party factions but will unite all on Shermann. Illinois and the middle west will be for Sherman. The negroes can support him without any grease to swallow him down. The Negroes of Metropolis and Massac County should do something worth recording 1916. They should organize a Bookes Washington Memorial Society and a Negro Business League Association and a Woman's Auxiliary Association like the other live cities and towns. What say you, Fellows? We received from Zion Traveller Baptist church, Md. City in Dec $3.00. $2.00 back dues and $1.00 donation to Ex. Board. The same has been passed to their credit and applied on balance of printing the 1915 Proceedings. This is 1916, and all persons knowing themselves indebted to this office can loosen up the financial tension by sending in what you owe us by return mail. Now is the time to re-love us. Don't wait for us to send you a statement, be honest just for once, as any rate. No morpheme or optimum in Dr. Miller's PAD Pizza. Give All Pain. "One coat at a time." THE AMBER BEADS He was a traveling salesman for a toothpowder concern. She was prescription clerk in a cu-rate drug store. Besides that, she had a creamy, fair complexion and light-brown eyes, shaded, it is true, by a pair of rimless, gold-bowed spectacles. But that was because the light in the pharmacy of the cu-rate drug store was not of the best and there were many prescriptions to fill. He had met her at the school where they make young men and here and there a young woman into druggists, so they both had their diplomas and would some time have a little drug store of their own, and they would not have to keep a clerk, because, no matter what happened, Alice—that was her name—could manage to tend store for a few hours a day. You know there is a regulation that says that every drug store must have a graduate pharmacist in constant attendance during the day and part of the night to put up prescriptions. Of course one man cannot be at the post all of the time. Alice and Paul—that was the toothpowder agent's name—had it all arranged that they could save money from the first, for since she was a registered pharmacist she could substitute in the store for the few hours that Paul would need to take off. Oh, yes, they were very matter of fact and businesslike about it and had talked over their plans for the future quite frankly. In the meantime Paul was vending toothpowder, trying to save enough money to buy his own little drug store and by careful skimping, with what savings Alice could add, it would take two years before this purchase could be made. A long time, you think? Yes, but if you had seen the steady, soft light in Alice's bespectacled eyes and the lovely blush that came into her creamy, pale cheeks when those eyes met Paul's, you wouldn't have wondered that he was willing to wait. Moreover, to Alice and Paul, marriage was, besides being a beautiful adventure and the one and only romance, something of a business undertaking as well. And there was no reason whatever to be rash and hasty about it. Still, at times when Paul was on the road with his suitcase full of samples and work grew very heavy at the cut-rate drug store Alice's brown eyes grew moist and she had to take off the gold-bowed spectacles and wipe away the tears, tears not of discontent, but just of loneliness and a little impatience. For Alice's mind was full of imagining their wee home—it would probably be a little flat over the drug store to begin with—and two nights a week she was taking cooking lessons at the Y. W. C. A. so that she would be able to concoct puddings as well as plasters. And Paul sometimes snarled a little at the necessity that made him wait so long, and when sales were not as good as usual—that meant smaller commissions for him—he would write a letter of impatience to Alice. One particularly lovely autumn day Paul sauntered into the cut-rate drug store. He had unexpectedly come to town and he wanted to surprise Alice. Alice dropped the test tube she was holding when she heard his voice, and, slipping out of her all-enveloping linen apron, ran out to the counter outside. "Ive had a hurry call to New York, Alice," he told her, "and I've only a few minutes between trains. But I stopped over to see you. And, say, Alice, I've had a specially good run of luck. That new patent cap top on the powder makes a big hit. And I am going to be extravagant. I want to get you something from the big city. I can't afford the engagement ring I ought to have got you, but tell me what piece of jewelry that doesn't cost so very much—say ten or fifteen dollars—you would most like." Alice clasped her hands before her and thought for a second. "A string of amber beads," she said at last. "I have always wanted them." Paul's face showed his disappointment. Somehow he had always associated amber beads with the fact that some old woman he had known about wore them around their necks to ward off chills and fever. If Alice had said a gold-link bracelet, with a heart-shaped padlock and a key, he would have been entirely satisfied with her choice. But Alice stuck to her plea for amber beads. "I love the color of amber so," she said, "and all my life I have dreamed of having them some time." In ten days Paul returned one morning, and, going straight to the cut-rate drug store, found Alice and gave her the beads. Again there was short connection between trains, and in a few minutes he was off again. "I don't really like those beads," he said, "and I can take them back and get the money if you say so. I'll tell you frankly that they cost twelve dollars. I got them at a pawnshop I happened to be passing. I tried to jew the man down, but he wouldn't listen to a cent less. You might take them to some regular jeweler and find out whether I was buncoed or not. Maybe they are only glass." Alice held the beads up to the light and revealed in the soft, golden radiance that shone through them. "I am sure they are real amber," she said. "They are beautiful. But perhaps you had better take them back. "Dollars would be just so much toward the store." "That's right," said Paul, no Indian diger. They're wanted and they're what I have." And in another minu off with he's suitcase full of samples for the next train. At noon that day Alice hurried her sandwich and hot chocolate, hastily taken at the fountain counter of the cut-rate drug store, and with her beads in her hand she went to a neighboring jeweler—not the best in town, but one who was reliable. "I am pretty sure they are real amber," she said, "still if it would not be too great a favor may I ask you to examine them and tell me what I should have paid for them?" The jeweler looked at the beads, but apparently shared none of the joy in their golden radiance that Alice's eyes indicated. "Where did you get them, may I ask?" "Oh, not in town. It was in some pawnb shop in New York. I suppose we should have known better than to trust such a place. But they were so bright and pretty I thought they were real amber." The jeweler eyed her narrowly. "Your idea is to sell them?" he asked. "No. I just wanted to see what they are worth. I thought you would tell me." The jeweler lowered his voice. "I can't tell you just the maximum price that you might be able to get for them. Of course in Europe they would pay more, but traveling is dangerous. I would be willing personally to pay you five thousand dollars for them, perhaps a little more. Of course, if you went to New York you might get more, but then there would be the risk, and you might find a dishonest dealer." Alice thanked the jeweler and fairly staggered out of the store, clasping her precious beads in her hand. She hardly knew whether the man had been teasing her, making fun of her glass beads, or whether she had been insane, or at least dreaming. She made her way to the most conservative and most expensive jeweler in town, unmindful that the clock on the corner pointed five minutes to the time that she ought to be back at the prescription counter. Ten minutes later she was in the darkened examination room with two jewel experts. She seemed to come to a full realization of the situation when she heard one of them explaining: "If you will look through this bead you will see the first letter. Now hold this bead up to the light and see the next letter—marvelous, marvelous. I need no further proof. They are royal amber, one of a few strings of beads that Louis XV had made for his favorites. They are found only in the largest museums now. Perhaps the full value of this string has not been known for a hundred years or more. I will be willing to let you have six thousand dollars for the beads. Of course in Europe they might fetch more. If you wish to accept my offer we will have the check sent to your bank tomorrow or give it to you personally. Of course, in making such a large transaction we have to go through the form of consulting the treasurer of the concern. He is out at luncheon at present." Somehow Alice got back to her post. She was 15 minutes late—unheard of breach of office regulations—but she did not explain. That afternoon she sent a telegram to Paul asking him to return at once to hear the good news. And that is why Alice and Paul didn't have to wait two years. In fact, they waited only long enough to find just the coziest little drug store for $5,000 that you could imagine. And the amber beads—when they have been restrung and properly mounted—will be on exhibition in one of the big museums, although to any but an expert they look much like any other string of amber beads. (Copyright 1915, by the McClure Newspa (Copyright, 1915, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) Prevarication Hard to Beat Prevarication Hard to Beat. The two commercial travelers were boasting to each other of the morals of the respective fireproof safes for which they were agents. "I guess," said the first, "that we've given our safe 'some' test, and I reckon that our best trial was when we heaped up a collection of combustibles round it which took a week to burn out. Inside the safe was a little dog provided with food and water. At the end of the week we raked away the embers and opened the door of the safe which had been in the middle of that blazing bonfire for a week. Out jumped the little dog, well and happy, wagging his tail with delight." "Yours is a good safe," said the other, "but it isn't in the same block with ours. We adopted the same test precisely, and when we'd raked away the embers and come to the safe at last we opened the door and our little dog—" He paused dramatically. "Was dead," interrupted his rival. "Yes, sir," was the reply. "You've hit it. Frozen to death!" "I'm glad I was married in June instead of October," said the bride. "Why?" "Because if we'd married in October we'd have scrapped over whether or not we were going to spend Thanksgiving with my people, and then our honeymoon wouldn't have lasted a month." Not Interested. "Who was it," inquired the student, "that said after me, the deluge?"; "Don't ask me," rejoined the superficial person. "I never did pay much attention to weather prophets." Fitting Food. "Great Scott, Maria, I told you to give me some suitable food, and I'll swear every dish on this table is something pickled." "Well, go on." METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE, METROPOLIS, ILL. AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS Washington's own contribution to the work at Tuskegee was first the plan, then the finding of money to sustain it. He had the address and the kind of persistency which win money from the rich for beneficient purposes. He was perhaps the most successful solicitor of funds the country has ever known. For more than twenty years he has ranged up and down the country setting forth his purposes at Tuskegee, exploiting the effects of his work, and through these appeals winning financial support. The great establishment at Tuskegee, now liberally endowed, is a monument to his industry, his powers of exposition, and of his absolute devotion to a great cause. Ten years ago or more Mr. Andrew Carnegie made direct provision of a fund of $100,000 for Washington's personal benefit. At the time it was predicted that being thus removed from the possibilities of individual necessity Washington's energies in behalf of Tuskegee would suffer a decline. But not so. Up to the day of his death he gave to the institute the same unweary devotion that he had given it in his own days of poverty. It is not too much to say of Booker Washington that the example of his Tuskegee school affected profoundly the educational fashion of the country. Twenty years ago a distinguished man wrote to a famous college president asking if he knew where a white boy might get precisely the training afforded to colored youth at Tuskegee. The inquiry startled the educational world in the sense that it exhibited the practical deficiencies of our system. The effect of it was to stimulate the industrial and vocational idea throughout the country. Because of a late ruling of the county court at Tulsa, Okla., 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, one of the very rich, if not the richest Negro girl in Oklahoma and probably in all the world, now is receiving in royalties $2,000 more a month than formerly. According to this ruling her guardian, J. T. Porter, is permitted to sell this royalty oil in the open market at the highest price available, and has entered into a contract with an oil company to buy it at ten cents premium a barrel, the market price being 80 cents, the price at which she was compelled to sell before this decision was rendered. This girl, who was born in poverty and ignorance, suddenly became very wealthy when about ten years of age. Like all other Negro children of freedman parents living in the Creek nation, she inherited the right to choose or have chosen for her 160 acres of Creek land. Her land was leased to oil prospectors, and when developed became exceedingly valuable. It is said the least now produces 160,000 barrels a month, one-eighth of which is her royalty. This amount, at 90 cents a barrel, brings her $18,000 a month. As several independent refineries are in the market to buy oil at a premium it is probable many other guardians will take advantage of Judge Campbell's ruling. It is estimated that the churches in the United States spent on Negro education during 1912-13 $2,000,000. The Methodist Episcopal church leads the Whenever all the colored people of a community unite earnestly in asking and working sanely and wisely for a needed improvement, whether it is a better schoolhouse, a manual training or cooking equipment, better teachers, better sanitation, or anything else worth while, they usually get it. Scores of delegates at the recent third annual meeting of the Negro Organization society, which was held in Petersburg, Va., testified to this truth. Maj. R. R. Mofon, commandant at Hampton institute and president of the society, said, in part: "The movement among colored people for better schools, better homes, better health, better farms, seems to have made an irresistible appeal to all the people of the state. Religious, benevolent, secret, and educational organization of every character have joined in this movement. Leading white people, including the officials of the Virginia boards of health, education and of charities and correction, have been most cordial in their support. "The state-wide campaign for clean premises, clean homes and clean lives Last year the new wealth produced on American farms was officially placed at about ten billion dollars. This year it will be nearer eleven billion dollars than ten billion dollars. After three years of work a government committee has recommended a uniform system of weights and measures for all India. Honey and wax to the value of more than six million dollars are produced annually in the United States. denominations in the amount of money given. This church gave for the year $412,303. The Congregational church (through the American Missionary society) leads in the matter of permanent endowment for work among Negroes. A report says: "As typical church organizations doing extensive works among Negroes, the following are given: The Congregational church has 65 schools, 12,097 students, and a permanent endowment of over $2,000,000. The Methodist Episcopal church had 22 schools, with 6,588 students, and it has about $1,500,000 invested in school plants. The American Baptist home mission board has 24 schools, 7,351 students, and about $1,250,000 invested in school plants. The Presbyterian board of missions for freedmen has 136 schools (112 of them given as elementary), 16,427 students, and not quite $1,000,000 invested in school plants." Another report concerning denominal education for Negroes closes by saying: "The secretaries of the various church boards at their semiannual meeting in Washington, D. C., February 2, laid definite plans for the future in the following particulars: As far as possible there would be in the future no duplication between private and public schools; the various Negro schools would be standardized; and the denominations would act in concert in preventing schools under different denominal control from occupying the same territory." J. M. Gandy, president of the State Normal school at Petersburg, who is the executive secretary of the Negro Organization society, reported that in one year over 5,000 people had been addressed on subjects relating to community improvements; 502 school terms had been lengthened; 604 school leagues had been reached; $340 had been given to five schools, and that these small gifts had inspired the people to raise thousands upon thousands of dollars for their own schools. T. C. Erwin of Petersburg, the society's field agent, reported that 347 organizations and 643 individuals had become members of the Negro Organization society. Professor Erwin has been at work in 38 Virginia counties. He has carried a message of new hope through organization to thousands of men and women. He has reached school improvement leagues in 19 counties and has aroused the people to the necessity of practicing self-help and working out a constructive plan. Several hundred delegates attended the annual meeting and heard addresses by Mayor Cabaniss and Prof. James E. Shields of Petersburg; Rev. Dr. L. L. Downing, Roanoke; Prof. S. C. Atkins, Winston-Salem, N. C.; W. T. B. William, Hampton institute; J. H. Binford, Jackson Davis, Ennion G. Williams, R. C. Stearnes and Miss Agnes D. Randolph of Richmond; Principal E. A. Long of Christiansburg, Dr. W. E. Atkins and Mrs. Janie Porter Barret of Hamptn, and many other white and colored speakers, who are experts in community improvement. Sediment carried to sea by the Amazon river can be detected 100 miles from the coast. Extensive work has been begun to prove definitely whether petroleum can be found in South America. has received help and support that was little dreamed of. The two races have been brought together on the ground of common needs of humanity. We have given white people a chance which they have long desired—a chance to help the Negro without compromise or embarrassment. They have met us more than half way. "I am most anxious that we shall continue to be sane and wise in what we do and say, and not be swept off our feet by those who feel that the great problems of humanity can be solved by abusing those with whom we do not agree." Reports from delegates, including many women, showed clearly that hundreds of rural communities are waking up to the possibility of making genuine progress by having people work together for common economic and social interests, regardless of religious or fraternal affiliations. Ideas gathered at preceding meetings have been carried to distant rural districts, and have been the means of emancipating thousands from the bonds of poor health, inferior schools and unattractive homes and churches. The world's principal jade mine is in Burma, where the privilege of mining the stone has been in possession of one Indian tribe for many generations. Europe has about three and one-half times the telegraph traffic, nearly twice the first-class mail traffic, but only two-fifths the telephone traffic of the United States. Eighty per cent of Cuba's shoes come from the United States. BEAT THE BILL COLLECTORS Physician Had a Method of His Own, and It Proved in the Highest Degree Effective. "Several years ago," said a New York physician, "there was a physician in this city, dead now, whose greater fame was as a chemist, but he had a fine medical practice. Like a good many others who have money to pay bills with, the doctor was extremely slow pay, and collectors had hard times getting to him. Invariably when one called, the man at the door would ask if he wished to see the doctor professionally, and if the caller said he did not he was assured the doctor was not in. "Finally one of them went at it right and when the men at the door asked if he wished to see the doctor professionally he said he did, and was politely passed into the waiting room. A dozen more patients were ahead of him, but he was inside at last and on his way to the doctor, and he waited patiently. When he reached the doctor and said he had come with a bill there was a great row at once, and the doctor indignantly berated him. However, being honest enough, he paid the bill. "The collector didn't care, so long as he got the money, and straightway told how he had done it. Then another one tried it and was successful, but no more were. The third collector got in with a bill for about $15, but he didn't get out with that amount. The doctor charged him $10 for his professional call and handed him over the balance. One or two others were treated the same way on their professional visits and the word soon got around among the collectors, with the result that the professional calls were abandoned. After which collections were made any way they could be made except that way. The Defective Baby At a time when politicians and generals have to decide almost every day whether to purchase a trench or a hill at the cost of so many human lives, the death of a helpless baby has set a whole nation talking. This happens to be a nation which cannot boast that it cares supremely about its babies, for hundreds of thousands of them die every year of preventable causes. They die of tenements which could be ventilated, of milk that could be kept clean, of neglect that could be remedied. They die because their fathers are underpaid, because their mothers are overworked; they are run over on city streets because there are insufficient playgrounds; they are infected by dirt diseases; they are starved. Given a chance in life most of them would become happy and useful. They are refused that cliff because public opinion is too indolent, because many landlords and business men are too greedy, because politicians are cowardly and ignorant. Every year hordes of fine human beings are condemned to death because it costs too much to save them. But the refusal to keep alive a deformed idiot has become a moral issue throughout the nation.—From the New Republic. Pups on Tombstones: The punster is irrepressible; he even indies his jokes on stonestones. An epitaph in Whitham Abbey informs us that Sir James Fullerton died "fuller of faith than of fears, fuller of resolutions than of pains, fuller of honour than of days." There is another of Daniel Tears: "Though strange, yet true, full seventy years was his wife happy with her Tears." This was written of an organist: "Here lies one blown out of breath, who lived a merry life, and died a Meredith." Another says: "Here lies Thomas Huddlestone; reader, don't smile, but reflect as this tombstone you view, that Death, who killed him, in a very short while will huddle a stone upon you." Use for Prisoners of War. Use for Prisoners or War. Austria has discovered a scientific use for prisoners of war. Doctor Poch, professor of anthropology and ethnology at the University of Vienna, has been granted the sum of $500 by the government to conduct anthropological researches among the captives of Austrian arms. He will measure their skulls, tabulate the color of hair and eyes, collect data as to dialect and otherwise subject these human specimens to the scientific "once-over" many times repeated. The good doctor is said to be wildly enthusiastic over the prospect of so large and varied a collection of human material for his investigation. "Tired Hunter" Was a Corpse. When H. L. Burr went to his grist mill, near Ball's Mills, he found leaning against the door what he at first supposed was a tired hunter who had stopped to rest. When he came closer he found it was the body of H. Franklin Spotts, who had by all indications placed the muzzle of a shotgun in his mouth and pulled the trigger with his foot, blowing out his brains—Williamsport (Pa.) Dispatch Philadelphia Inquirer. Duck Turned Into Soap. At the State university museum in Lincoln, Neb., is the body of a duck that has turned largely into soap. This is the first known specimen of the kind. 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"Heron-Plume had bowled for Rugby and pulled stroke for Oxford in the dear dead days beyond recall, but he went out of training afterward, and when he appeared at the club in khaki a few months ago he certainly made an imposing figure. Chest 84 inches, you know, but a little low down. "Where are you going to fight, Heron-Plume?" I asked, as my huge friend sank puffing into a chair and unfastened a couple of buttons at the —er—breast of his tunic. "But, Heron-Plume,' said another man, 'don't you know the Dardanelles are frightfully narrow?" No. Not Fallen Pedestrians They were out in their Rattier car and had had several breakdowns. As hubby got out his repair kit for the fifth time wife remarked: "Pity we didn't bring a squirrel 'along.'" "What for—a mascot?" "No," she replied; "it could run behind and pick up the nuts." A Premonition. "I think I'll take out that life insurance. It will come in very handy for my wife at this time." "Well, insurance is a fine thing, but you're good for forty years yet." "I don't know. I have a foreboding that the agent is going to talk me to death." His Only Preventive Artist (to model he has just picked up in the street)—A man I had up here the other day stole two pounds when my back was turned. Would you do a thing like that? Model—Oh, no, sir, I haven't the speed—London Punch. Vanished Value. "You can't get something for nothing," said the ready-made philosopher. "Somebody did," exclaimed Mr. Chuggins. "The automobile I bought say before yesterday wouldn't bring half its price if I sold it today." 92 "I have always said there should be no money in politics." "Yes; everybody knows of your strong effort to get it all out/" Creating "Atmosphere," "I judge this is going to be a problem play." "What makes you think so?" "During every pause in the dialogue the hero drinks a highball and lights a fresh cigarette." You and Grump seem to get along pretty well. "Get. You see, he never borrows nothing but trouble, and that's all I ever have to lend." Morel: Don't Get. Found Out. Dix-I never knew a rogue yet who wash't unhappy. won't unhappy. Dix—Of course not. It's the rogues who are not known who are the happy ones. And Gajole the Cream. She—I believe in always using gentle methods. He—Always? Then I suppose instead of beating eggs you coax 'em into a froth—what? HER REMARKS WERE OMINOUS New Englander Told by Prospective Wife She is Going to "Start" With Young Minister. A New England man tells of a man in Westfield, Mass, who had been married four times and been so unfortunate as to lose all his wives. Such a matter of course had this man's weddings come to be in Westfield that when, after a year of widowerhood, he announced his fifth engagement, one of the neighbors said: "Richard, I suppose getting married comes pretty natural to you by this time, doesn't it?" "Well," said Richard, after due reflection, "this fifth marriage ain't going to seem so natural. Old Parson Begg's off on a trip to Europe and he's never failed to tie the knot for me. "I said to Mary that I didn't think it would feel like a wedding without Parson Begg; but she said that it was her turn to choose, and that she meant to start out with that young minister that just came to town and that if he did well she guessed she'd stick to him. She didn't explain what she meant, but it sounded kinder ominous to me." Somewhat Dubious "So your native town is having an 'old home week.'" "Yes," replied the prominent capitalist, "but I don't think I will take part in the festivities." "Why not?" "I'm not quite certain whether my old friends and neighbors look on me as simply a successful business man or a malefactor of great wealth." REBUKED. Office Kid—Aw, I wasn't makin' much noise. Stenog—You were, too. The boss was explaining to his wife over the telephone and I couldn't hear a word he said. Overdid His Plea. "Yes, sir," said the tramp. "I've made a lot of money in my time. The trouble was that I didn't know enough to hang on to it. Could you let me have a dollar?" "No, my friend," replied the stranger. "I couldn't, after the lesson you've just taught me to hang on to mine."—Detroit Free Press. Possible Explanation Author—I invariably eat a raw onion every morning before taking up my pen. Young Lady—Indeed! Then I suppose that accounts for it. Author—Accounts for what? Young Lady—The fact that I fall asleep every time I attempt to read one of your stories. His Stock in Trade. "Why do you smile?" asked the indignant mourner of a stranger at a funeral. "Pardon me," replied the stranger, "but no disrespect was meant, I assure you. I'm a hotel clerk and the smile is chronic." Scattered Around. "Nutting parties are the thing now in suburban circles. You hunt for nuts on the lawn." "But suppose you don't find any nuts on the lawn?" "Oh, you are sure to find them. They are provided liberally by the hostess." Two' Points of View. Mrs. Newpop—Mrs. Stringer is the most candid woman of my acquaintance. Why, she frankly admitted that her baby is not as smart as ours. Newpow-Candid, fiddtsticks! That woman is a base hypocrite. Weary of That. "Understand me, I am always willing to give to charity." "Yes, sir." "But I'm getting tired of having charity come to me with the smell of liquor on his breath." His One Hope. "I suppose you have high ambitions for your boy?" "Well, I wouldn't say that exactly, but I do hope that he won't turn out to be the male assistant to a female dancing teacher." No Mortgage There. "I have found out that the Gaddys do not own their house." "How did you find it out?" "Why, they haven't bought an automobile yet, have they?" All Threadbare Bill Collector—See here, this bill I've been bringing here so often is getting worn out and so is my patience. Debtor—Well, your welcome has been worn out long ago. METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE. METROPOLIS. ILL FAMOUS OLD CABIN Early Home of President of the United States. North Bend, Ohio. Is Known In His history as Having Contained the Res- The home of Gen. William Henry Harrison, at North Bend, which he maintained all through the years of his public services, and to which he retired when in private life, was really in part a log cabin. One who was a guest there in 1846 describes it as a long, rambling structure, part two stories in height, but mostly with one story, with the wide front facing the Ohio river, from which it stood back about three hundred yards. There were nine rooms in all on the ground floor, says the Columbus Dispatch, and one of these—a large one—was the log portion, it evidently having been originally a log cabin standing by itself, to the owner had built additions to it as need was felt and means permitted, until he had quite a pretentious country residence. The whole of the exterior had been covered with clapboards—sawed boards being too expensive in those days—and the clapboards were painted white. Seen from the river at the bend, it is said to have presented a very beautiful aspect, the white building in its setting of green in summer being particularly striking. In this log cabin portion of his residence General Harrison often entertained companies of friends, and elder was the beverage used at these dinners. This hospitality was famous just prior to the presidential campaign in which he led the Whigs, and the contest became known in political circles as the log cabin and hard cider campaign. After the death of President Harrison, Mrs. Harrison returned to the old home at North Bend, and there spent the rest of her life. General Harrison owned a large farm, and it was managed by his son-in-law, W. H. H. Taylor. Mrs. Harrison, who was a daughter of Judge J. C. Symmes, and was born in New Jersey, lived to be eighty-nine years old, her death occurring in 1864, near the close of the Civil war. Her body lies buried beside that of her distinguished husband in the soil of the old farm, where in all probability a suitable monument will soon be erected by the joint efforts of the nation and the state of Ohio. NOTHING DOING PM SO LONESOME! WATCH ME FLURT WITH ME! HELLO, LITTLE ONE, GIVEN US A KISS SIR! I DON'T KISS STRANGERS YES? AND BESIDES HALP! IT'S TOO PUBLIC HERE ANYWAY "Gadden is not like some married men." "..." "I hope not. She appears to be a refined little woman." FOR FUN IN LODGE ROOM Electric "Goat" Has Been Devised to Furnish Amusement to Members Inclined to Levity. An electric "goat" for lodgerooms receives the second prize in the Electrical Experimenter's monthly competition. Its inventor is C. F. Conant, who describes it as follows: Furniture by wwr Drive four small wire brads (a) into the under side of chair seat, letting just the points appear on the upper side of seat. With a fine nail set drive them back so that they remain just below the surface. Fasten a small induction coil (c) and a battery (b) under the seat, soldering the secondary wires (f) to the ends of the brads (a). The parts of the switch (d) can be made from small strips of brass or copper, and screwed to the back of chair, as shown. Run the wires (e) down the back of chair to coil and battery, keeping them out of sight as much as possible. The switch (d) is concealed by a pad or drape of some kind thrown over the back of the chair, as aforementioned, and the chair is ready for the first victim. When said victim leans back against the switch (d), closing the battery circuit with the coil (e), the fireworks begin. The coil may be a one-fourth to one-half-inch spark coil, and it is well to cover over the bottom and legs of the chair with cloth, etc. TO LIGHT MATCH IN WIND Not Such a Difficult Matter If One Knows the Right Way to Go About It. To light a match in a stiff wind is very easy if the wood part back of the prepared end is cut and turned up about it before striking the match, writes E. K. Marshall of Oak Park. Ill., to is cut and turned up about it before striking the match, writes E. K. Marshall of Oak Park, Ill., to Popular Mechanics. The curled up shavings about the striker will catch fire easily and hold a flame, where in the ordinary way it is easily blown out when the composition of the striker has burned up. New Zealand Victoria Cross. New Zealand has its own Victoria Cross—one of the rarest medals ever awarded "for Valor." This cross is very similar to the one so much coveted by the officers and men of the British army and navy. The center, however, bears the wording "New Zealand," instead of "For Valor," and has no lion. This medal was instituted in 1869 by the governor of New Zealand, Sir G. F. Bowen. He exceeded his authority in doing so, but Queen Victoria signed the necessary order for the medals, adding a note, however, that it was not to be taken as a precedent. Altogether only 19 of these crosses were awarded. Kindly Consideration. "What is your objection to me for a son-in-law?" asked the energetic young man. "I don't object to you," replied Mr. Cumrox. "If I seem kind of diffident when you are around, it's because I like you. I'm just wondering how it's going to be when mother and the girls quit welcoming you as a distinguished visitor and begin to treat you like one of the family." "Charley, dear," said young Mrs. Torkins, "I'm so glad that you have gone in for marksmanship instead of horse races. It's much more patriotic." "What're you talking about now?" "Your recreations. You don't know how pleased I was to hear you say that hereafter you weren't going to bet on anything but long shots." Essential Endeavor "Do you think there is any way of bringing your constituents around to your way of thinking?" "My way of thinking hasn't anything to do with it," replied Senator Sorghum. "My job is to keep up with their way of thinking and see if I can change my mind every time the majority change theirs." Rehuffed. "I hope you are prepared to discount the foibles of humanity and look for the good beneath the surface," remarked the altruist. "Oh, yes," replied the man whose curiosity is never satisfied, "but every time I ask people a few simple questions they act as if they thought it was none of my business." .Explained. 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"Well, have you reached the point where you can assemble a motor car?" asked Mr. Chubson. "No, indeed," answered Mr. Jobson. "In fact, I haven't yet reached the point where I can assemble the price." 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. The Fiery Year. The Plymouth Rock—Terrible times. The Leghorn—Yes; I didn't lay my egg to be an omelet. Metropolis Gazette PUBLISHED ON FRIDAY BY THE GAZETTE PRINTING CO. GETROPOLIS, . . . . ILL. MRS. M. J. McCRARY, MANAGER, J. B. McCRARY, EDITOR FRIDAY JAN., 14 1916. Office 9th and Pearl Streets, Metropolis, Illinois. Entered as second-class mail matter, at Metropolis, Illinois, Postoffice. M. Address all communications to J. B. McCRARY, Box 107 Metropolis, Illinois. The names and addresses of contrib- tors must be known to us in every in- tance, in order to secure publication. We want the news of your vicinity each week. 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Notice is hereby given that we cannot print a list of names conributing to churches unless $1 accompanies same. Invention of Cut Glass. Pressed glass was invented by an amble carpenter of Sandwich, Mass., but in the primitive state of affairs it propitted 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. Examine Your Own Prejudice Every one is forward to complaints 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 Daily Health Hint Understand that if you are mentally unified with skinness, old age and death, no amount of desire or affirmation can make you well, young, or long lived. To be healthy, you must be mentally unify with health; to remain young, you must be mentally one with youth, and to live long, you must be mentally unified with life, says Wallace D. Wattles in the Nautilus. Danger in Pride No man had ever a point of pride that was not injurious to him. Turke. Subscribe For The Gazette. 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. Mr, wm King, of Unionville, was in the city Tuesday. Wm Moore, returned home last week from Trenton, Tenn., where he visited his relatives. His niece Miss Lovey Moore accompanied him home. Mrs. Dona Tucker, is slightly indisposed this week. Gus Blakemore is confined to his bed with pneumonia Orrington and Renfro Cafe's have installed electric piano's in their places to the appreciation of all who frequent their places. Alvin Parks has again resumed his position as porter on the Str. George Cowling after being compelled to be off a week on account of sickness. Persons who owe the Gazette would greatly lesson the financial burden of the publishers by remitting at once. The editor of the Gazette hope to give better service this year. We are going to put on a big advertising proposition soon, we want five agents in every town and community. Write for terms. We are agents for the Booker T. Washington memorial edition, The Master Mind of a Child of Slavery and the story of My Life and Work. The latest edition just out from the press. Cloth bindings $1.25. Half leather Library edition $1.75. Give us your orders. 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. Pearl Carter of St Louis, Mo., arrived in the city Tuesday to visit her baby and mother. The funeral of Bro. Chas Hollingworth, was attended Sunday afternoon at 2:00 at the Antioch Baptist church by Rev. Thomas Morris, pastor and Rev. J. B. McCrary. Silver Crown Lodge No 26, F. & A. M, had charge of the body. Interment in the Masonic Cemetery. Willis Jones has been indisposed several days but up again. The high water has cut off travel to and from Brookport, and Belgrade via of lower road, and is still rising at a pace. It appears now that we will have another 1913 rise. Edgar McCrary was in Brookport Sunday and Monday. Mrs. Lavada Spurlerk was in Paducah, Friday on business. Mr. Milton Grooms and Mrs. Georgia Johnson have returned home after spending the ho'ldays in Eddyville, Ky., visiting rela, and friends. Misses Mossie and Annie Roberts' were in the city Saturday and Sunday. MONEY TO PATENT CO. may be secured by our ask. Addre THE PATENT RECORD Bathurst, Mr. $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 oily positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's catarrh is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers that they offer, One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. send for list of testimonials. Address F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by all Druggists. 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. 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 recived some more of Native Salve, and it is going very last, 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. Mr. and Mrs. Wm Tidsworth and Eld. Dan Rodgers, of Brookport, were in the city on business Monday. Rev. J. B McCrary, was in Brookport, Saturday on business Mrs. Capitula Tinsley, returned to her home in St. Louis, Mo., after visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Tinsley and other relatives. Mrs. Lillie Towles, has again resumed her position at Renfro's Cafe. John Perkins one of the Sand Hogs that worked on the bridge here died at the Company's hospital Monday morning after a short illness of pneumonia. Mrs. Parthenia Dixon, of Paducah, Ky., was in the city Saturday on business. Miss Leatha Moon, of Brookport, was in the city Saturday and Sunday. Messrs. Jno. Brooks, George and Edgar McCrary, Mrs. Rosa Simms and Miss Izora Rodgers were in Brookport, last Friday at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Maxwell, where they enjoyed a sumptuous two course, New Year Dinner. Elmer Simms of Brookport, was in the city Sunday to see his best friend. YOU CAN PATENT arviking you invent or improve; also get CAVEAT, IMAGE, MARK, OCT. 'RIGHT' or DESIGN PROTECTION. Send me e-mail, sech, or photo. for free examination and advice. DOCK ON PATENTS FREE. No Atty's. Write to C.A. SHOW & CO. Patent Lawyers. WASHINGTON, D.C. BIG IMPETUS FOR ESTABROOK BOOM "Dark Horse" Fer Republican Presidential Nomination. NATIONAL DEFENSE PIONEER Known as Fearless Advocate of Traditional Republican Principles—Alas Recognized as One of Abbot Campers in United States. Far and away the most interesting phase of the national political situation is the movement that has brought Henry D. Estabrook, of New York and Nebraska, so prominently to the front as a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination. First spoken of as a possibility in connection with the presidency less than six months ago, Mr. Estabrook is today one of the leading candidates, with evidences of strength that are a source of concern to the friends of the other aspirants. He has made speeches in every important city in the East, Middle West, and Far West, an arduous campaign experience that has put him in good condition to meet the rigorous demands made on the head of a party's national ticket, and his friends in Nebraska and other States have formed Estabrook organizations and are going after nificial delegates in the most vigorous fashion. Impartial observers agree that this development of the Estabrook boom has no parallel in the political history [Image of a man with a bald head and a serious expression. He is wearing a dark suit with a white shirt and a black tie.] HENRY D. ESTABROOK of the last 25 years, and they are beginning to inquire whether the popular demand for new leadership is actually so strong as to give this new man the greatest political prize over which men struggle. An All Around Big Man. Estabrook is a big man physically, mentally and politically. Quite six feet in height, erect, rugged, he would be a man of commanding presence in any gathering. His mental attachments are attested by his signal success in the practice of law and by the widespread interest in his overy public utterance on governmental, economic and social problems. He has always been a student and when he discusses a subject he speaks with the authority of one who has mastered it. His conclusions are invariably sound, and, once he has arrived at them, they are proclaimed frankly and fervently, for he is essentially a man with the courage of his convictions. For instance, he has been one of the most drastic critics of President Wilson and the present Democratic administration, arraugling them for their tariff law which bankrupted the federal treasury and which places the American former, the American manufacturer, and the American laborer at the mercy of foreign competition, and for a foreign policy which has destroyed the respect that the American flag and American citizens once commanded in every quarter of the globe. A Preparedness Pioneer. Likewise Mr. Estabrook was the first man prominently before the public to outline a concrete program of national defense, which he presented in an address before the American Bankers' Association September 8th last at Seattle, characterized by the Seattle Times as "one of the most remarkable addresses ever delivered in the Northwest," and he was the first Republican leader to point the way to the reunion and harmonizing of all elements of the party. his "Get-Together" plea before the McKinley Club of Omaha, Nebraska, last October, having attracted widespread attention. From the time Mr. Estabrook opened the Republican National campaign in Chicago in 1836 he has been recognized as one of the ablest campaigners in the United States, and there have been few speakers in greater demand. The issues in the great contest of 1916, which is to restore the Republican party to the administration of national affairs, will be Protection, Prosperity, and Preparedness, in Mr. Estabrook's judgment, with "Get-Together" as the slogan for Republicans of every shade of opinion. He has been preaching this gospel in all sections of the country, and has met with enthusiastic receptions everywhere he has gone. Livingston Institute 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, Bookkeeping, Shorthand and Type Writing, Bible Study 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 J. B. McGRARY. Supt. and Secy. Box 107 Metropolis, Ml These Four First-Class Magazines and Our Paper, ALL FIVE ONE YEAR, Only Woman's World, 35e yr. 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JUST THINK WHAT IT MEARS our Paper and These Four Standard Magazines ALL FIVE ONE YEAR, ONLY 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 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 fa- ther'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. After Dava Darrington lost his voice he used to rap on the trough of his piz pig at feeding time. Then a woodpecker went to live in the piz pig, and the hogs went crazy—'This damnedder. 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 usurping this prevogetie of the Lord's. --- --- Misfit Name. FARM LIFE 50a yr. Farm Life, 50a yr. Home Life, 50a yr. About the Price of the biggest bargain in the best reading er offered to our subscribers. 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