Metropolis Weekly Gazette

METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE The Last Chance to take advantage of the great Krebs Clothing Company's PUBLIC SALE! - SUCCESSORS TO - MILLER'S CLOTHING STORE STOCK Must Be Sold Regardless of Cost Notice! To the residents of this thriving and growing city of Metropolis--you are all well posted in regard to the conditions confronting the citizens of the United States as well as the manufacturers. Everything that we wear is advancing in price every day owing to the scarcity of raw materials and the dye situation due to the war. In the face of this, circumstances compel us to sacrifice our entire stock. Look for the Big Broom Sign Over the Door. Easter always means the time to put on Summer attire, especially LOW SHOES Our tremendous business keeps our stock fresh and clean with all the newest styles in Footwear direct from the style centers. And our prices too, you will find lower than elsewhere. It costs you nothing to come in and inspect these New Styles and prices. COMF IN. Courteous Treatment to Everybody. KREBS' CLOTHING COMPANY I.O.O.F. BUILDING SPECIAL One lot of Men's Suits that we bought from a manufacturer that needed cash in a hurry, at 50c on the $1.00. We will close these out while they last at $4.98---mostly small sizes. 33-34-35-36. 100 Children's suits, values up to $5.00, sale, price . . . . 98c. $20,000 Stock EBS' CLOTHI I. O. O. F. B About The Minutes Of The General Missionary Bapt. State Association. Why the minutes of the General Missionary Baptist State Association are not out. A brief statement, and the following letter will explain why they have not been published and sent out to the churches within the 40 days given for same. I feel that an explanation is due, which will relieve the printing committee, as well as myself as a member of the printing committee and corresponding Secretary, at whose door the Eld. D. P. Jones seeks to lay the blame for his neglect of duty. The chairman of the printing committee called the attention of the moderator, Dr. J. F. Thomas, to the fact, both in July and September, that the manuscript had not reached the corresponding Secretary, notwithstanding Rev. Jones, claimed to have sent them some time in July. When the moderator's attention was called to the fact in September, in Chicago during the N. B. C., by chairman Phillips, Rev. Jones, was questioned of same, and said the Man's. had been sent. and possibly had got lost, but he would send a tracer after them and hunt them up. I have not seen the Mss's. since we left Centralia, last May, nor did I hear from them from September 1915, 'til the 10th of January 1916, the Dr. C. C. Phillips, chairman of the printing committee written me, enclosing a letter written to Dr. J. F. Thomas, by Rev. D. P. Jones, and I duplicated his letter and sent the original back to Dr. Phillips. Dr. Jon- later. I received this card from them March 7th 1916. On Monday April the 3rd 1916 I received full satisfaction from the General P. O. Department at Washington D. C. The Washington letter follows. Letter No. Two. Washington, April 1st 1916, Mr. W. P. Washington, No. 239 S. 15, St. Mt. Vernon, III. Sir, in further reply to your communication of March the 4th 1916. You are informed, the postmaster at Rockford, states he has no Record of a registered letter having been sent to you by Mr. D. P. Jones, on November 17th 1915. Respectfully, Third assistant P. M. General. I wish to say to the General Missionary Baptist State Association and the entire Baptist Brotherhood of the State of Illinois. The above is the cause of your corresponding Secretary keeping still these 10 months. I love to serve my people, for this is the way we are to serve God. "As oft as ye did it unto the least of my little ones, ye did it unto me." Now I cannot tell why Mr. Jones held up the Mass's. I have stood ready to compile them every since we adjourned at Centralia last May. The blame have been laid at my door all these ten months, and I had no way of defending myself till now. Victory, comes to them that wait. I would not do justice to Dr. C. C. Phillips, the old war-horse of the East Mt. Olive Baptist Association, should I close this Notice without saying something of his interest in the welfare of our people in the Disticti, and State and the Nation as well. He has done --- es' letter to Dr. J. F. Thomas under date of January 10th 1916 follows: Letter No. One. Rockford. Ill., Jan. 10, '16. Rev. Dr. J. F. Thomas. D. D. Dear Sir: Yours of 8th inst. received this A. M., contents noted. Will say in reply, that I sent Manuscripts under Registered Mail, and hold receipts from local P. O. of date I told you about same, Nov. 17th 1915. Of course if our good brother cannot discharge them, I will be glad to forward draft, I have some on hand for record purpose, I called at local office today and was assured that matter sent on the above date was delivered O. K. I am yours in Christ, D. P. Jones. Mr. Jones' letter placed me in a bad light, which forced me to look after the matter. I wrote to the Management of the Rockford, P. O, and give them the facts in the case, and ask them to look over their record at date mentioned in Mr. Jones' letter, and if their Record showed the Pkg. sent to me on that date, please send me a statement of the same. They answered me, asking me for the same information that I had given, in my first letter them. I repeated the same inquiry. They answered me, telling me that it was unlawful for them to give me the information sought in my letter. I then taken my letter to them and their answer to me, and Rev. Jones' letter to Dr. Thomas, and sent all of them to the General P. O. Department at Washington, D. C., and asked headquarters was I due the information sought in my letter. They sent me a card notifying me my message was received, and they would look after it He has done J. B. McCRABY. 1 Entire Stock Must Be Sold. A Clean Sweep of Everything. all he could as chairman of the Printing committee, in fact. he has been the whole committee and corresponding secretary as well. Mr. Jones has kept my work out of my hands and has im. pressed the State that I was not able to fill the place. But we will meet you at Sparta in May the being willing. W. P. WASHINGTON, Corresponding Secy. NOTICE. All Messengers and Delegates who are expecting to attend the General Missionary Baptist Association to be held with the New Hope Baptist Church in Sparta Ill., May 23-28, 1916, will please send their names at once to Rev. P B. French, that sufficient homes may be secured for all. Don't forget this, do it now. Yours for the Master, New Hope B. Church. Church Rally. The Unity Baptiat Church Brookport, has a rally Sunday April 23, for the purpose of raising money to put a roof on the new church building. Please come out and help us. Let every member pay according as the Lord has prospered you. Several persons of Metropolis, have promised to be present. Don't stay at home members and dodge the responsibility. HE HAS HAD GRAND CROPS And Likes the Laws in Western Canada. I lived near Lee, Illinois, for 40 years. I came to Saskatchewan in the spring of 1912 and bought land near Briercrest. I have farmed this land, 1680 acres, ever since. I have had grand crops. In 1914 I had 100 acres of wheat that yielded 40 bushels to the acre. I sold this wheat at $1.50 per bushel. I like the country and my neighbours. My taxes on each quarter section (160 acres) are about $23 a year. This There Is No War Tax So Called. covers municipal tax, school tax, hail insurance tax—everything. There is no war tax so-called. I like the laws in force here. There is no compulsion to me in any way. I am just as independent here as I was in Illinois, and I feel that my family and I are just as well protected by the laws of the province as we were in our old home in Illinois. What I earn here is my own. I have seven children and they take their places at school, in sports and at all public gatherings the same as the Canadian born. (Sgd.) M. P. Tysdal. "February 9th, 1916." We reprint the following article, complete, without comment, from the latest number of the "Saskatchewan Farmer," an agricultural paper published at Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan: Former Iowa Farmers Are Doing Well in Canada. The attempt to check emigration from the United States to our prairie provinces by publishing alarming statements about the enormous war taxes that are being paid here—$500 on a quarter section year—about forcing young men to enlist for the war; about the cold, no crops and any old story that by its extravagant boldness might influence men and women from venturing north to Canada, is really in the list of curios to our people. Knowing the country, we can hardly take it seriously. Our governments, however, dominion and provincial, are taking steps to expose the false statements that are being made, and thereby keep the channel open for continuing the stream of settlers that has been flowing to us for the past decade.—Advertisement. Sometimes it is a man's cowardice that keeps him from getting in bad. IMITATION IS SINCEREST FLATTERY but like counterfeit money the imitation has not the worth of the original. Insist on "La Crèche" Hair Dressing—it's the original. Darkens your hair in the natural way, but contains no dye. Price $1.00.—Adv. Each Chinese schoolboy has to furnish his own stool and table, as well as his own ink, brush and writing paper. CLEAR RED PIMPLY FACES Red Hands, Red Scalp With Cuticura Soap and Ointment. Trial Free. The soap to cleanse and purify, the Ointment to soothe and heal. Nothing better, quicker, safer, surer at any price for skin troubles of young or old that itch, burn, crust, scale, torture or disfigure. Besides, they meet every want in toilet preparations. Free sample each by mail with Book. Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. L. Boston. Sold everywhere.—Adv. Some people act as though they were afraid they might forget their troubles if they didn't talk about them all the tim. STOP EATING MEAT IF KIDNEYS OR BACK HURT Take a Glass of Salts to Clean Kidneys If Bladder Bothers You—Meat Forms Urio Acid. Eating meat regularly eventually produces kidney trouble in some form or other, says a well-known authority, because the uric acid in meat excites the kidneys, they become overworked; get sluggish; clog up and cause all sorts of distress, particularly backache and misery in the kidney region; rheumatic twinges, severe headaches, acid stomach, constipation, torpid liver, sleeplessness, bladder and uninary irritation. The moment your back hurts or kidneys aren't acting right, or if bladder bothers you, get about four ounces of Jad Salts from any good pharmacy; take a tablespoonful in a glass of water before breakfast for a few days and your kidneys will then act fine. This famous salts is made from the acid of grapes and lemon juice, combined with lithia, and has been used for generations to flush clogged kidneys and stimulate them to normal activity; also to neutralize the acids in the urine so it no longer irritates, thus ending bladder disorders. Jad Salts cannot injure anyone; makes a delightful offervescent lithia-water drink which millions of men and women take now and then to keep the kidneys and urinary organs clean, thus avoiding serious kidney disease.—Adv. The stronger the language a man uses the more confidence a woman has in his bravery. THE LION HUNTER By LOUISE OLIVER. BY LOUISE OLIVER. "Dear Hermione: The minute you are free you must come to us. We have all sorts of wonderful things planned for the summer; besides, Dick's cousin is coming for a month or so you know, the one I've told you about—the traveler who has been everything from a Japanese consul to a Peruvian treasure hunter, to say nothing of big game everywhere you can think of. Naturally he has money, so here's your chance, my poor, big, dependent sister. Get your little rich charges off for the seashore, if you must, but don't lose another second. And mind you don't call me names when you read this, for both Dick and I are concerned about your future and are determined to see you comfortably settled. We know what is better for you than you do yourself. "Your own sister." Hermione smiled indulgently. "Dear little Anne! As though her big sister wasn't perfectly well able to look after herself! I can't see why people insist upon pitying me just because I happen to be the only surviving member of the family and earn my own living, and because, too, I have resisted matrimony until I'm the only one of the old set that's left. All right, little sister! I'll hurry to your little cottage by the sea just because I love it and you, but not to bait any lion hunter and 'settle' myself in life, as you put it." The phone rang. "Hello! Is that you, Peter? Doing? Reading a letter from my little sister in Sedgwick. She says she has something for me and she wants me to nurry and get it. You'd never guess what it is!" "A dog!" Peter ventured. "No!" "Jewelry?" "Wrong!" "Some good advice! Sisters are usually long on that." "No-yes! Anyway, it's advice of a kind. She's found me a husband." "I'll kill him!" jealously. An amused ripple was his answer. "How funny from you, Peter! I never knew the quiet, mysterious pool was a geyser, or, rather, to be in keeping with your name, I never suspected that the great, solid, dependable rock was a volcano. Don't be so bloodthirsty, Peter! I have just been thinking that a nice, rich, famous, jewel-conferring husband might be quite a comfort," teasingly. "I tell you I'll shoot him!" savagely. "Peter!" Then, "You are coming tonight, aren't you? I have everything done." "Yes, I wouldn't miss going for a thousand worlds. So I'll reserve my threats till then. Good-by, dear girl!" Hermione turned away with a troubled look. It had been one of the foundation stones of their friendship—in fact, the very ground itself—that everything between them be frank, homely and purely platicon. No sentiment of any kind allowed. It was so comfortable to have Peter to depend upon. He took her to concerts, lectures, anywhere she wanted to go, kept her up on the evolution of Yuan Shih-kai and the Chinese empire, and discussed both sides of the possible embargo on war supplies. He read her "The Gods of the Mountain" or something of the kind while she darned his socks and sewed on missing buttons. She had insisted in this. "Peter," she had said, "don't throw away your socks if they show a hole or two. Let me mend them. I must do something for you." She hadn't dared to tell him the real reason—that the best diet she knew for antisentimentism was plenty of daring. The tone just now had worried her. Peter arrived at eight with a box of candy and a torn shirt wrapped in a paper, with a suspiciously neat-looking hole between the shoulders. Hermione seized it with delight. "Peter, whatever will become of you if you keep on wearing out your clothes? I don't see how you wear a hole away up there. It looks almost like a cut!" "I've been wondering what would become of me if it were not for you, Hermione. I'd be a regular Rip Van Winkle for rags." She flushed appreciatively. Then a serious look came into her eyes, and when Peter had spread out a new magazine and she had slipped on her thimble, she ventured. "I'm going to ask you something tonight—something serious, yet I don't want you to take it seriously." He looked amused. He was accustomed to her odd prefaces, however. But he was petrified for an instant beyond reply when she went on hurriedly: "I want to be engaged to you for awhile. Don't think I am taking advantage of leap year, kind friend—no doubt you've had a dozen proposals by this time; at least if you haven't you should have had. But if you aren't promised I wish you would take me. It will only last over the summer until I come back from Sedgwick. Don't you see how it is? If I'm engaged to anyone, they'll let me alone about Dick's lion-taming cousin!" "Yes, he hunted lions or something in Fern—I mean Africa—and did something else in Japan, and he's very rich, and Ahne writes that he'll be there when I am and they will keep him collared and chained so I can get him for my very own so I'll be fixed for life. He's the husband I told you about over the telephone. If I just announce that I'm engaged to somebody else they'll let me alone, and the METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE, METROPOLIS, ILL. lon tamer won't think I'm throwing myself at his head either. It will make everything so comfortable, and I'll probably have a good rest and a decent time. Otherwise—well, I just won't go, that's all. So you'd better let me be engaged to you, Peter. Think it over." Hermione stopped for breath. Peter did not reply immediately. He seemed to be undecided about something, but Hermione, bent over her sewing, did not see the struggle in his face. "Sure!" he said finally, much as he would have granted a request for a match. "Sure thing, if it will help any. May I ask what may be in the charter of this new corporation?" "What do you mean?" "What happens if either party breaks his contract and gets engaged to someone else?" "Speak only for yourself, Peter. I'll be true to my bargain." "But you may fall in love with this man from Japan." "Never!" "Well, if you do, go ahead and take him, Hermione. That's my advice. I'll never take it to court," emphatically. She looked up quickly. "After all, Peter, you are letting go easily. I believe you'd rather like to join in this conspiracy and marry me off to that other man." "To be candid," returned Peter frankly, "nothing would suit me better." "Here Peter," she said rising. "The shirt's done and I don't think wed'd better read tonight. I—I've a headache and I think I'll go to bed." She held out her hand. "Good night." "Good night," he answered gravely, looking searchingly into the brown eyes. "Being engaged doesn't entitle me to a—" "No, it doesn't," declared Hermione, drawing back a step indigently. Peter's anxiety to marry her off was still stinging. Hermione arrived at Sedgwick in another week and luxuriated in the comfortable cottage on the sea bluff. Dick's cousin had not come to her relief, but every day brought nearer the time of his arrival. Finally the night came that was to be the end of her peace of mind. The others had motored to the station to meet their guest, but Hermione preferred to walk on the sand and watch the moon come up. A mile up the beach and a mile back took most of an hour. Coming back she met a man. The moon shone full on his face. "Peter!" she exclaimed, joyfully reaching out both hands. But Peter's image only lifted his hat courteously. "I beg pardon, but you mistake my identity. Allow me to introduce myself. I am Dick's cousin, the lion hunter, the Peruvian wonder, the man from Japan. Behold!" Hermione laughed. "Don't make fun of me, Peter!" "I'm not. It's gospel truth." "And you're the one they all want me to—to—" "Marry! And I want it, too, dear. And may I remind you that we are engaged—at least for the summer—and being engaged, I think I'm entitled to—" But that is quite another story. (Copyright, 1916, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) War Hits Burnt Cork. Black face comedians of the Ameri can stage have found their labors greatly increased because of the war There is scarcely a minstrel man—or woman—in the country who is not hard hit, for before the war there was available a carbon burnt cork which made blacking up a job of two or three minutes. All that was necessary was to rub cold cream on the face, and then rub on the face blacking. After the show the black could be rubbed off just as quickly as it was put on—a smear of cold cream, a towel, then soap and water, and the minstrel's face was its regular color. Now, however, the importation of this cork has stopped, and the minstrels have to make their own blacking. The carbon burnt cork was better for its purpose than any known substitute, and in its absence the black face actors have to soak numerous corks in kerosene. These are then charred to a powder. Potatoes In Corfu. The French soldiers now occupying the Greek island of Corfu are perhaps not aware that the potatoes which are furnished them at every meal are of French origin. This precious tuber was unknown at Corfu until after the occupation by French troops of the "Seven Isles" in 1807 after the peace of Tilisit. "The French general, Donzeot, says Le Cri de Paris, "commanding the army of occupation, had much difficulty in feeding his troops. He wrote to France and in 1810 a frigate came from Toulon loaded with potatoes. A liberal quantity of these was planted in the island by the soldiers of the garrison. The general offered samples of his first harvest to the inhabitants. They were unanimous in declaring that these unknown tubers had a disagreeable taste and that it was impossible to eat them. Four years later when our troops evacuated the same natives bought the gardens and potato fields that had been cultivated by the soldiers. The natives had changed their minds." Superior Works Harm. In northern New Mexico the fact that wolves and coyotes are becoming a serious menace to cattle and sheep is attributed to the supersition of Navajo Indians, the tribe holding both beasts sacred and refusing to treat them other than with the greatest of respect. AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS A few days before he died Booker T. Washington wrote to the editor of the Forum magazine suggesting the printing of an article dealing with "the definite, indisputable facts relating to the Negro's progress as a race." He enclosed what he called a rough outline of such an article, which, of course, was never completed. What he wrote is presented in its unfinished state in the current issue of the magazine. First he presented striking figures to show Negro progress toward literacy. On emerging from slavery, he wrote, the Negro was not more than 5 per cent literate. The census of 1910 shows that the Negro has reduced his illiteracy from 95 per cent to 30.4. Contrasting the percentage of illiteracy among Negroes with that of other people, Mr. Washington wrote that "if the Negro had done no more good than lead Greece and Italy in the matter of illiteracy his showing would have been profoundly significant." His figures show the comparative percentage of illiteracy as follows: Negroes, 30.4; Bulgaria, 65.5; Greece, 57.2; Hungary, 40.9; Italy, 48.2; Poland, 59.8; Portugal, 73.4; Russia, 70; Serbia, 78.9; Spain, 58.7; Chile, 49.9; Cuba, 56.8; Mexico, 75.3; Porto Rico, 79.6; India, 92.5; Philippine islands, 55.5; Cape of Good Hope, 65.8; Egypt, 92.7. Figures were not available for all of the Negro's wealth, but the census bureau gave the value of the Negro's farm property alone as $1,142,000,000, or $116.20 for each Negro in the United States. Comparing this with the statistics of the wealth of nations, Mr. Washington said that, with the exception of Argentina, whose money wealth is $135 per capita, the Negro's per capita wealth is more than twice that of any nation on earth. Negroes, he wrote, operated 893,370 farms in 1910, having an acreage of 42,279,510, and the value of these farms increased 128.4 per cent during the period of 1900-1910 alone. As against an estimated value of about $1,000,000 of the 550 Negro churches owned in 1863 he set the value of $66,626,159 of buildings alone of the 36,427 churches and halls owned in 1906. This, he held, indicated not only economic progress but a continuing and increasing devotion to religious life. Starting in 1863 with about 2,000 business enterprises, the Negro has developed in some fifty years over 43,000 business concerns with an annual volume of business of about $1,000,000,000. Fifty-seven banks are operated by colored people with a capitalization of $1,600,000, and an annual business of about $20,000,000. Among indications of progress in the standard of living Mr. Washington cited the increase in the southern states alone of the percentage of homes owned free from incumbrance from 20 per cent in 1900 to 22.4 per cent in 1910. Another indication of the rising standard of living cited is the recent widespread legislation to prevent Negroes from buying property in desirable localities. Progress in health is indicated in a death rate of 3.9 per cent in ten years in a registration area embracing 19.7 per cent of the Negro population. Mr. Washington also quoted census figures to show an increased percentage of Negroes entering skilled industries. In general, he argued that when it was considered that the progress made in the last fifty years by the American Negro had been largely in the face of obstacles, it was great progress. O. T. Jackson, founder of the Dearfield Settlement of colored farmers located in Webb county, Colorado, is a big man of broad views, determined purpose, and tremendously vigorous personality. His outlook is distinctly practical, according to the Southern Workman. He lives to put as many of his race as possible on their feet. At this moment he has a bunch of 250 of them fairly started toward independence. He is deeply conscious of the fact that colored people are of the soil in tastes and capacities; he is getting them close to the soil. In a word, he is, in a way and to a degree, a Booker Washington in conviction, purpose and endeavor. His band of settlers is the pluckiest lot of agricultural toilers of whom I have any knowledge. "The first year there were only seven families in the settlement," says Mr. Jackson, "and we had only three teams. We managed to get in garden corn, melons, pumpkins, squash, Mexican beans and potatoes. We cleared a few acres of hay ground, removed the sagebrush by hand, the women and children wielding grub. Louis Merriman, a Negro, who was born when George Washington was president of the United States, died at his home in Kansas City, Kan., a short time ago. Merriman was the oldest man on the United States pension rolls, and claimed to have substantiated the fact that he was born 121 years ago on the Sophar plantation, in Virginia, in 1795. A cutter which can be kept strung on a ball of twine, ready for use, has been patented by a Maryland inventor. The late Dr. Booker T. Washington graduated from Hampton, and his work was the direct result of Hampton's influence. Maj. Robert R. Moton, successor to Doctor Washington as head of Tuskegee, who spoke in Carnegie hall, Pittsburgh, on the occasion of the Hampton singers' visit March 27, is another product of Hampton. The hearty indorsement of well-known public men and educators has been given to the work done there. President Woodrow Wilson, William H. Taft, Theodore Roosevelt, Edward Everett Hale, Charles W. Ellot and many others have enthusiastically indorsed the work. The Hampton quartet, known from coast to coast as the best Afro-American quartet in America, famous for singing of the plantation melodies or spirituals of the South, are the picked musicians from the big choral of 900 voices at Hampton institute, Virginia. Unique and inimitable, it is the only music of this country, except that of the Indians, which can claim to be folk music. These singers make tours to all parts of the country in the interest of the school, and during the past summer won the gold medal at the Panama-Pacific exposition in San Francisco. Hampton is neither a state nor a government school, and must depend largely upon voluntary contributions for its support. It was founded by Gen. Samuel Chapman Armstrong in 1868, and was designed to instruct Afro-American youth in morality, industry and thrift, as well as in earnest and practical Christianity. Ten years later indians were admitted to the Hampton school, which from a humble beginning, with two teachers and 15 students, has gradually developed into an industrial village, with over 1,300 students, 200 teachers and other workers, more than 140 buildings, and an instruction farm of 600 acres. Hampton has sent forth over eight thousand young men and women, equipped to earn honorable livings as teachers, farmers and skilled tradesmen. It has imbued in its students a desire to be of service, and by their own homes, their work and their daily life, to act as examples and teachers to the less fortunate among whom they live. Many of its graduates have been tremendous forces in the struggle for advancement. The New Orleans public school board has arranged for a summer normal school for Negro teachers to be held at Straight university, June 12 to July 21. Superintendent Gwinn has appointed Prof. A. Lawless director with the following advisory committee: Mrs. Sylvia Williams, Prof. J. W. Hoffman, Prof. A. Priestly, Mrs. Hattie V. Feger, Florence Lewis and Roy H. H. Dunn, registrar. An unusually strong faculty will be secured. Many applications are coming in from rural teachers and from all indications the attendance will be much larger this year than last. Now Orleans enjoyed the distinction of having the largest summer normal in the state in 1915. New Orleans offers many superior facilities and advantages in its public and private libraries and the splendid lectures given by some of the finest educators in the country, who are instructors in the Tulane summer normal. Pacific island of Midway is importing shiploads of soil in order to produce land capable of feeding cattle. bers as industriously as the men, though not as sturdily perhaps; and after grubbing we plowed, harrowed and burned the remaining brush. Odr sufferings were intense, as we had scarcely any wood to burn. Three of our horses died from starvation and the other three were too weak to pull an empty wagon. Now we have 20 teams, 28 cows and calves, 32-breeding hogs, 100 chickens, and all kinds of farming implements and tools. We have 595 acres planted to crops and 300 acres in native hay. Conditions point to a very favorable season and we hope to prove our worth to the soil and the community in which we live by raising a bumper crop, so that our success may be an inceptive to thousands of others of our race to come back to the land in some part of this great divide region." With less than half her available farming land utilized, the United States produces one-sixth of the world's wheat, four-ninths of its corn, one-fourth of its oats, one-eighth of its cattle, one-third of its hogs, and one-twelfth of its sheep. A recent invention provides an umbrella frame or skeleton and any suitable number of interchangeable covers therefor, whereby a new cover may be substituted for an old, worn or damaged one, or a cover of one color or figure may be substituted for another, according to the costume of a lady carrying the same. A dinner table reaching around the earth 16 times would be required if the inhabitants of the world sat down at a meal together. Tell Others How They Were Carried Safely Through Change of Life. Durand, Wis.—"I am the mother of fourteen children and I owe my life to Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. When I was 45 and had the Change of Life, a friend recommended it and it gave me such relief from my bad feelings that I took several bottles. I am now well and healthy and well." Vegetable Compound. When I was 45 and had the Change of Life, a friend recommended it and it gave me such relief from my bad feelings that I took several bottles. 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"Why do you keep pestering me to go and have some more pictures taken" inquired Mr. Growcher. "Because," replied his wife. "the photographer is the only person I know of who can get you to make an effort to smile and look natural." SOAP IS STRONGLY ALKALINE and constant use will burn out the scalp. Cleanse the scalp by shampooing with "La Creole" Hair Dressing, and darken, in the natural way, those ugly, grizzly hairs. Price. $1.00.-Adv. Silly Billies. "What is your favorite tune, old chap?" "Fortune, dear boy." This Will Interest Mothers. Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children for Feverishness, Headache, Bad Stomach, Teething Disorders, move and regulate the body and stomach, worms. They are Colds in 24 hours. They are so pleasant to take children like them. Used by Mothers for 38 years. All Drugstores. So. Sample FEER. Address, Mother Gray Co., Le Roy, N. Y. Homeopathic Remedy. "Why do you blow that awful horn so much in your apartment and deafen the other tenants?" "That's only to keep the baby quiet." Whenever You Need a General Tonic Take Grove's. The Old Standard Groves 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 Waste of Time. "You say this naturalist has spent many years studying the monkey language?" "Yes. I understand he can almost converse with them." "Well, well." "You don't seem much impressed." "To tell the truth, I'm not. I don't se what a monkey could say to a human being that would be worth listening to." Stop That Ache Stop That Ache Don't worry about a bad back. Get rid of it. Probably your kidneys are out of order. Resume sensible habits and help the kidneys. Then, kidney backache will go; also the dizzy spells, lameness, stiffness, tired feelings, nervousness, rheumatic paina and bladder troubles. Use Doan's Kidney Pills. 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The incendiary bombs which have been dropped from Zeppelins upon parts of France and England are among the most ingentous and perfectly devised destructive contrivances that the war has brought out. In the scores that have been dropped from Germany's gigantic airships only one so far has failed to explode and this has been seized upon eagerly by the English war officials for examination. It differs from an ordinary explosive bomb inasmuch as it is intended not to scatter fragments over a wide area, but to produce sudden and intense heat at a given point, thus starting a fierce conflagration. The bomb, as a rule, is conical, of ten-inch diameter at the base, corded IGNITION DEVICE THERMIS RESINOUS MATTER ROPE MELTED WHITE PHOSPHORUS CUP round, and has a metal handle at the apex. The base is a flat cup, on to which a pierced metal funnel is fitted, having the ignition device and handle fitted at the top. The funnel is generally filled with thermit, which upon ignition generates intense heat, and by the time of the concussion has taken the form of molten metal of the extraordinarily high temperature of over 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit. The molten metal is spread by the concussion. Outside the funnel is a padding of a highly-inflammable or resinous material bound on with an inflammable form of rope. The resinous material creates a pungent smoke. There is generally some melted white phosphorus in the bottom of the cup, which develops nausea fumes. In some cases celluloid chippings are added, and occasionally a small quantity of petrol. General Merritt's Career General Wesley Merritt was born in New York city in 1836 and died in 1910. He was graduated from West Point in 1860 and in 1861 assigned to a cavalry regiment. In 1862 he acted as aid to General Cooke. In 1863 he participated in Stoneman's famous raid toward Richmond. In the battle of Gettysburg and in the Richmond campaign of April-August, 1864, he commanded a reserve cavalry brigade, and in the Shenandoah valley campaign and the final Richmond campaign he commanded a cavalry division. By the end of the war he had been made major general of volunteers and brevet major general in the regular army. In 1876 he served in the Indian campaigns in Wyoming and Dakota. From 1882 to 1887 he was superintendent of the United States Military academy. In 1887 he was made brigadier general, in 1895 major general. In 1897-98 he commanded the department of the East of the United States army, and he was in command of the United States forces in the Philippines in 1898. He was one of the United States peace commissioners to Paris, and after that was again commander of the department of the East until he retired from the service June 16, 1900. He was the son of John W. and Julia Anne Merritt. Savings Banked in Teapots A considerable amount of gold is being hoarded by people who bank their incomes and business takings and who are anxious to be ready to meet emergency demands; but it is probable that a much larger quantity is stored up in rural parishes throughout the country. The money, which is added to from time to time, lies unproductive in the house, concealed in wooden boxes under the bed, teapots, yases, or in tin boxes. It was stated recently in a local paper in Devonshire that persons who went about the country districts knew instances of from $500 to $4,000 being kept in bedrooms in lonely farm houses, the owners of these dead reserves being in no way tempted by 5 per cent bonds. It has, in fact, been the custom in many families for the family fortune, such as it is, to be handed to the heirs in cash. In certain rustic minds there seems to be not only a distrust of the bank and post office, but an ineradicable objection to outside persons knowing the state of their finances. It is not yet realized that a practice which may be comparatively innocuous in time of peace is positively harmful in time of war.-London Times. Frame of Mind. "Now, why delliberately irritate the cook, my dear?" "She will make a much better job of it if she is mad." METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE. METROPOLIS. ILL Hopes Women Will Adopt This Habit As Well As Men Hopes Women Will Adopt This Habit As Well As Men Glass of hot water each morn- ing helps us look and feel clean, sweet, fresh, Happy, bright, alert—vigorous and vivacious—a good clear skin; a natural, rosy complexion and freedom from illness are assured only by clean, healthy blood. If only every woman and likewise every man could realize the wonders of drinking phosphated hot water each morning, what a gratifying change would take place. Instead of the thousands of sickly, anaemic-looking men, women and girls with pasty or muddy complexions; instead of the multitudes of "nerve wrecks," "rundowns," "brain fags" and pessimists we should see a virile, optimistic throng of rosy-cheeked people everywhere. An inside bath is had by drinking, each morning before breakfast, a glass of real hot water with a teaspoonful of limestone phosphate in it to wash from the stomach, liver, kidneys and ten yards of bowels the previous day's indigestible waste, sour fermentations and poisons, thus cleansing, sweetening and freshening the entire alimentary canal before putting more food into the stomach. Those subject to sick headache, biliousness, nasty breath, rheumatism, colds; and particularly those who have a pallid, sallow complexion and who are constipated very often, are urged to obtain a quarter pound of limestone phosphate from any drugist or at the store which will cost but a trifle but is sufficient to demonstrate the quick and remarkable change in both health and appearance awaiting those who practice internal sanitation. We must remember that inside cleanliness is more important than outside, because the skin does not absorb impurities to contaminate the blood, while the pores in the thirty feet of bowels do.—Adv. Wireless Amateurs' Message. Wireless Amateurs Message. It was a very pretty thing that the amateur wireless operators of the country did on the night before Washington's birthday. At midnight the hundreds of boys who make up that army sat waiting for a message from Davenport, Ia. When it came, everyone within hearing repeated it, and each boy who received it relayed it eastward in his turn, until it reached the operators of the Harvard Wireless club. They delivered it to a delegation of boy scouts, one of whom read it aloud from the platform of the town hall in Lexington. The message was this: "A democracy requires that a people who govern and educate themselves should be so armed and disciplined that they can protect themselves." - Youth's Companion. Lad of Seven Saves Sister's Life. The presence of mind of Archie Burkett, seven years old, in throwing a piece of carpet over his sister, Laura, fourteen years old, probably saved her life recently when he found her clothes a mass of flames. The girl's injuries were not serious. The boy explained that he did just what his mother had told him to do in a case like that.—Pittsburgh Gazette Next Step. "If inventors ever do succeed in making rain, what do you suppose they will try next?" "To make the rain dear." They once tried to shut a woman up in a lunatic asylum—but they say she kept on talking. WISE HOSTESS Won Her Guests to Postum. "Three great coffee drinkers were my old school friend and her two daughters. "They were always complaining and taking medicine. I determined to give them Postum instead of coffee when they visited me, so without saying anything to them about it, I made a big pot of Postum the first morning. "Before the meal was half over, each one passed up her cup to be retilled, remarking how fine the 'coffee' was. The mother asked for a third cup and inquired as to the brand of coffee I used. I didn't answer her question just then, for I heard her say a while before that she didn't Postum unless it was more than half coffee. "After breakfast I told her that the 'coffee' she liked so well at breakfast was pure Postum, and the reason she liked it was because it was properly made. "I have been brought up from a nervous, wretched invalid, to a fine condition of physical health by leaving off coffee and using Postum. "I am doing all I can to help the world from coffee slavery to Postum freedom, and have earned the gratitude of many, many friends." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Postum comes in two forms: Postum Cereal—the original form—must be well boiled. 15c and 25c pkgs. Instant Postum—a soluble powder—dissolves quickly in a cup of hot water, and, with cream and sugar, makes a delicious beverage Instantly. 30c and 50c tins. Both forms are equally delicious and cost about the same per cup. "There's a Reason" for Postum. —sold by Grocera EYE OF SUBMARINE Periscope Described as Really Simple Instrument. Gives Clear Images, but Has Some Defects Which Scientists Are Endeavoring to Rectify—Tires the Observer Quickly. The periscope, the "eye" of the submarine, is described as a simple instrument whose construction has proved a complicated problem for opticians. "In its simple form," an optician says, "it is a vertical steel tube about 20 feet long, with a reflecting prism at the top and the lenses of a telescope at the bottom. It is, in fact, a simple telescope whose line of light 'turns a corner' from horizontal to vertical as it passes through the prism. This instrument takes in 45 degrees of the horizon, or one-eighth of the total field, at one view. By turning the tube on its axis, the rest comes into sight successively. "This periscope gives very clear images, but as it can be used with only one eye at a time it does not allow of distinguishing the different planes of vision very well, and tires the observer's eye rather quickly. Binocular periscopes have been attempted, but luminosity is lost by gaining the advantage of stereoscopic vision. "The so-called combination periscope allows of vision with both eyes, though it is not stereoscopic. A real image is thrown on a ground-glass screen, much like that of a photograph camera; it may be looked at with the two eyes, but no impression of depth and space is given. The screen avoids excessive fatigue, and it can be used only in bright light. The size of the image is often insufficient to bring out detail. To obtain greater enlargement without diminishing clearness too much, magnifying lenses are sometimes added. "The preceding periscope do not enable a commander to take a rapid survey of the horizon; it takes five to ten seconds to make a complete circle. Again, the observer must himself move around with the eye-piece. If the image is to remain upright without moving the eyepiece it is necessary to use a compensatory prism whose movement makes up for that of the eyepiece. "This is the principle of the panoramic periscope whose tube is fixed An Eye Placed at the Observing End of a Submarine's Periscope Sees a Ring-Shaped Image of the Horizon With Direct Image of One Part in the Center. and bears at its summit a glass bulb containing a reflecting prism mounted on a base that may be turned with a handle. There is a compensating prism that turns at half the speed and keeps the image straight. "To observe successively all points of the horizon it suffices to turn the crank, without its being necessary for either observer or eyepiece to change place. "Nevertheless, however rapid the operation, it does not enable the observer to see the whole horizon at once. This is realized in the periscope with ring-shaped eyepiece. At the top of the tube is a ring-shaped lens which refracts toward the base of the tube rays that reach it from all sides. A panoramic image is thus obtained that includes all surrounding objects, although they appear smaller and more distant than with the naked eye. The observer also sees, in the center of the panoramic image, a portion of the field on a larger scale." Dance to Drive Fog Away. The canyons and mountains back of Inceville, near Santa Monica, Cal., resounded at night with the beat of temtoms and the hillsides were lighted by the bonfires of 100 Indians, who spent the night praying in primitive fashion to drive away the fog and rain. The chief of the tribe had been informed that if the fog lasted much longer, preventing the making of pictures for the movies, the Indians would have to be sent back to their reservation in South Dakota. A council was called and it was decided to hold a "sunshine" or "weather" dance. W. E. Brooks, in charge of the Indians, was so notified and Mr.ince contributed an ox to be roasted as part of the ceremony. Two medicine men, Lone Bear, reputed to be more than one hundred years old, and Good Voice Crow were in charge of the ceremonies, in which all the Indians took part. Bonfires were lighted and the tomtoms were pounded on the top of a mountain back of the motion picture camp. As the ox roasted the dance continued—New York Sun. Cuba Lady Discovers New Remedy For Croup-You Just Rub It On VICK'S "VAPORUB" SALVE The close connection between the heart and the kidneys is well known nowadays. When kidneys are diseased, arterial tension is increased and the heart functions are attacked. When the kidneys no longer pour forth waste, uremic poisoning occurs and the person dies, and the cause is often given as heart disease, or disease of brain or lungs. It is a good insurance against such a risk to send 10 cents for a large trial package of "Anuric"—the latest discovery of Dr. Pierce. When you suffer from backache, frequent or scanty urine, rheumatic pains here or there, or that constant tired, worn-out feeling, get "Anuric" at the drugist. It's 37 times more potent than lithia, dissolves uric acid as hot water does sugar. Uneasy rests the aching tooth that wears a crown. 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. Egotistic. He—I have never met more than two really lovely women. She—Ah! Who was the other? No man is without fault—but it's impossible to convince the girl who is about to be married to the man of her choice that such is the case. Important to Mothers important measures Examining a safely bottle of CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it Bears the Signature of Charles Fletcher In Use for Over 30 Years. Children Cry for Fletcher's Castoria Has a $100,000 Woodpile. A $100,000 woodpile—walnut logs heaped over three blocks of ground—is waiting the completion of the new gunstock factory at Chillicothe, Mo. A force of 1,100 men is buying up the walnut timber in Kansas, Iowa, Illinois, Arkansas and Missouri. Trainloads of logs are arriving in Chillicothe daily. The factory alreay has a pay roll of 1,500 men and, when completed, will be the largest plant of its kind in the country. With a decrease in demand for guns, the manufacturing of wooden ware, such as motor car and wagon spokes, will be taken up. A DRUGGIST'S FAVORITE KIDNEY REMEDY FIXED HIM Fifteen years ago I had an attack of acute kidney trouble. I consulted a physician who gave me medicine which only relieved me for a time. After discontinuing his medicine my trouble returned as severe as before. Having heard of Swamp-Root I gave it a trial and can honestly state that three dollar bottles cured me, never having any sickness in fifteen years. I have sold Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root as a druggist for many years and can give it the very best of recommendations at all times. You are at liberty to use this statement any time you wish. Respectfully, W. C. SUMMERS, 1219 Central Ave. Kansas City, Kan. With Grand View Drug Co. State of Kansas County of Wyandotte On this 11th day of August, 1909, personally appeared before me, W. C. Summers, who subscribed to the within statement and made cath that the same is true in substance and in fact. CHARLES WILSON, Notary Public. Prove What Swamp-Root Will Do For You Send ten cents to Dr. Kilner & Co. Binghamton, N. Y., for a sample size bottle. It will convince anyone. You will also receive a bottle of information, telling about the kidnappers and bladder. When writing, be sure and mention this paper. Regular fifty-cent and one-dollar bottle for sale at all drug stores.—Adv. Anything That Will Float: In these times anything that can carry a cargo across the Atlantic is a potential gold mine. About three years ago the steamship Dunholme burned at a New Jersey pier. A wrecking company paid $30,000 for the blackened hulk. Last month the vessel, although it had not then been put into seaworthy condition, was sold for $850,000—Youth's Companion. Apply Well Over Throat and Chest, Then Cover With a Warm Flannel Cloth. Mrs. Ida Ford lives in Cuba, Mo, and not on the island of Cuba, and her discovery is one that many other Missouri mothers have made since Vick's Vap-O-Rub was introduced here from the South last winter. And this discovery is simply this:—that it is no longer necessary to disturb the delicate little stomachs of the kiddies in treating cold troubles. But let Mrs. Ford speak for herself. "I have tested" Vap-O-Rub three times on my little boy four years old for croup, and can say I have never used a medicine of greater value for this trouble. It acted almost immediately. My boy is subject to croup and I have used almost every kind of medicine one could buy for it, but it was always about three days and nights before I could get it checked. Vick's Vap-O-Rub acted almost immediately. You may use this letter if This is the time of year to look out for trouble! We feel weak—our blood seems hot—no appetite. It's time to clean house! This is when the blood is clogged and we suffer from what is commonly called a cold. Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery purifies the blood and entirely eradicates the poisons that breed and feed disease. Pure blood is essential to good health. The weak, run-down, debilitated condition which so many people experience is commonly the effect of impure blood. "Medical Discovery" not only cleanses the blood of impurities, but increases the activity of the blood-making glands, and enriches the body with pure, rich blood. The Flat Dweller's Garden. Indulge your love for flowers to the extent of buying a few daffodils or other spring flowers for the living room once or twice a week. If you haven't yet done so, cut some spring fororsythia and put them in waters to blossom in the house. RECEIPT FOR DARKENING GRAY HAIR WITHOUT DYES Apply like a shampoo to your hair and scalp Q-Ban Hair Color Restorer. Do this every day for a week then three times a week. In a short time all your gray, faded, prematurely gray or gray streaked hair turns an even beautiful dark shade with not even a trace of gray showing. Q-Ban makes scalp and hair healthy, leaving all your hair fluffy, soft, thick and beautiful dark and lustrous. Q-Ban is not dye, is harmless, and is sold on money back guarantee by drug stores big bottle 50c or sent prepaid by Q-Ban, Front St., Memphis, Tenn.—Adv. Where's He Got It? "Bet I know where you got that necktie." "Fire bucks says you don't." "Around your neck, you boob." WOMAN'S CROWNING GLORY is her hair. If yours is streaked with ugly, grizzly, gray hairs, use "La Creole" Hair Dressing and change it in the natural way. Price $1.00—Adv. Andrew Fisher, the new high commissioner for Australia, began life as a pit hand in a Scotland coal mine. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are the original little liver pills put up 40 years ago. They regulate liver and bowels—Adv. We once heard of a woman who was younger than she said she was. Don't Fool with a Cold-Cure It HILL'S CASCARA QUININE BROADIDE 25c At any Drug Store The old standard remedy—in tablet form for unpleasant after effects—No opiates —Cures colds in 24 hours —La Gripe in 2 days —Money back if it fails— Insist on genuine—Box with red top—Mr. Hill's picture on it W. H. Hill Company, Detroit Constipation Vanishes Forever Prompt Relief—Permanent Curd CARTER'S LITTLE LIVER PILLS never fail. Purely vegeta- ble — act surely but gently on the liver. Stop after dinner dis- tress-cure indigestion, improve the complexion, brighten the eyes. SMALL PILL, SMALL DOSE, SMALL PRICE. Genuine must bear Signature Brew Good W. N. U., ST. LOUIS, NO. 15-1916: ers New Remedy You Just Rub It On you wish, and I will take pleasure in answering any inquiries." Vick's Vap-O-Rub is the invention of a North Carolina druggist. He found how to combine Menthol and Camphos with the volatile oils of Eucalyptus, Thyme, Cubebs and Juniper in a salive form, so that, when Vap-O-Rub is applied externally, the body heat releases the ingredients in the form of vapors. These vapors are inhaled with every breath, through the air passages, to the lungs, loosening the phlegm, and, in addition, Vick's is absorbed through the skin, taking out the tightness and soreness. This double action makes Vap-O-Rub useful for a wide range of troubles. From inflammations of the air passages such as head colds, catarrh, asthma-sore throat, bronchitis or deep chest colds, down to inflammations of the skin and tissues, such as burns, bruises, stings, piles and itchings. We particularly recommend it for mothers with small children, as it can be used freely, with perfect safety, on the youngest member of the family. Threesizes, 25c, 50c or $1.00. The Vick Chemical Company, Greensboro, N. G. ORUB"SALVE Metropolis Gazette PUBLISHED ON FRIDAY BY THE GAZETTE PRINTING CO. METROPOLIS, . . . . ILL. MRS. M. J. McCRARY, MANAGER. J. B. McCRARY, EDITOR FRIDAY APR. 21, 1916. Office 9th and Pearl Streets, Metropolis, Illinois. Entered as second-class mail matter, at Metropolis, Illinois, Postoffice. B. Address all communications to J. B. McCRARY, Box 107 Metropolis, Illinois. The names and addresses of contributors must be known to us in every instance, in order to secure publication. We want the news of your vicinity such week. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: One Year.....$1 00 ix Months.....75 Three Months.....49 Mingia Copy.....85 In Advance. You must mail copy on Mondays to secure publication. ANNOUNCEMENTS. We are authorized to announce the name of Roy R. Helm, as a candidate for State's Attorney on the Republican ticket, subject to the will of the voters at the September primary election. We are authorized to announce the name of WALTER REBSERS, as a candidate for State's Attorney on the Republican ticket, subject to the will of the voters at the September primary election. TO THE BAPTIST WOMEN OF THE STATE. Mt. Vernon, Ill., March 25, 1916, Editor of the Gazette: I am again asking for space in the columns of your paper to speak to the Baptist Women of the State to remind them that the General Missionary Baptist State Association of the State of Illinois will soon meet in Sparta May 23-28 with New Hope Baptist church, with Rev. P. French, pastor. We are expecting to come out in dress parade in the name of the Lord. Dear Sisters, the time is not far distant, only two months until the setting of the convention you have no doubt looked for our minutes, but do not despair. I am now preparing to give you the minutes in a few days of the women's work. Would have resorted to this method sooner but we gave the brethren $10.00 to have our work inserted in their minutes and that is why I waited so late. We will give you full details at our meeting. We are asking for a large attendance and a great meeting and ask that each sister be present early Friday morning as I wish to call the Executive Board at 8 o'clock May 26th. I hope every officer will be present and ready to work. Come praying for the success of the meeting as we have much to do. Come filled with the spirit of Christ and of missions and make the meeting greater than it was last year. Come with some good resolutions an plans to offer, so as to help spread the gospel and help each other. We are asking each member of the Executive Board to bring $1. We are pleading with each circle to represent, that is to those who did not represent last year and we are sure of those who id represent last year. Do not forget sister O'Connor in her needle work and art department, bring us all the fancy work and nice things for that department. Come prepared to play your part on the program as they may be a little late in getting out. We are inviting every real genuine Baptist to fall in line for we are all aboard for Sparta in May. Praying that the blessings of God may rest on us all until we 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. In this issue of the Gazette you will see the large add of Krebs Clothing Store, also Epsteins Shoe add. We ask all of our readers to give these stores your patronage. Just before going to press we received the sad news of the sudden demise of Rev. J. H. Knowles, 2407 Poplar St. Cairo, Ill. Funeral arrangements have not been made. Obituaries in next week's paper. Wanted every man woman and child in the city of Metropolis, to visit our store before Easter We can and will save you money. Krebs Clothing Company. Ernest Moore, of Paducah, was in the city this week. Mrs. Mamie Maxwell of Brookport, was in the city Wednesday. Mr. Jesse Bradley and Miss Anna Roberts of Joppa, attended the dance at the Odd Fellow's Hall Monday night. Capt. A. A. Williams went to Centralia, Sunday returning Monday. We have just received the Book, Booker T. Washington's Own Story of His Life and Work, published by Mullikin-Jenkins Co., Washington, D. C. This book contains 512 pages with a complete account of his sickness and death. It is worth its weight in gold and should be in the home of every negro family. Many white people are purchasing the book. The recollection of quality remains long after price is forgotten, buy a Hart Schaffner & Marks' suit for Easter. Krebs Clothing Co., Sole Agents. Edgar S. B. McCrary, the District Pres' of the B. Y. P. U. Convention will give to every child that attends the B. Y. P. U. Easter Sunday, the 23rd. at 7:15 p. m. a candy Easter Egg. Every boy and girl in the city is urged to be present and hear the excellent program that has been arranged. Mesdames Ora Brown, and Eva Albritton, were Paducah shoppers Friday. Several of the Joppa citizens came to the city Thursday to hear the noted Dr. Boyd, at the First Baptist Church on, "Building Front Line Sunday Schools." "Join the Army" of new customers trading here and save money. Krebs Cothing Co. Nathaniel Beard, of Md. City, arrived in the city last week. He will be the guest of his daughters. Mrs. Otto Routen, left the city last Thursday for Rockford, where she will join her husband. Sunday was a High Day at the First Baptist Church, the pastor, Rev. Davie and the Chir seemed to be at their best and rendered excellent service to large audiences. Collection for the day approx. $20. "No War Prices" but high quality and low prices hitched together make a good team. Krebs Clothing Company. I am your humble servant Bettie Wilkerson. Good Advice. Since thou art not sure of a minute, do not throw away an hour — Frydkin. $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 *catarah cure* is the only 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, 75e. Take Hall's Family Pills for consti- pation. Mr. aud Mrs. Thos. Davis, of Brook- port, visited their daughter Miss Izora, Saturday. The best goods for the least money. Krebs Clothing Co., will save you money. Miss Agnes G. Neely, was a Paducah shopper Thursday. Messrs. Clarence Hall, and Marshall Tyson, of Princeton, Ky. arrived in the city last Thursday, the guest of Mrs. Lee Bell Dukes, the latters sister. Mr. Hall, returned on the 10: 50 train in company with Mrs. Bell Tyson, and daughter, Miss Adelaide, while the latter Mr. Tyson, will stay indefinitely. Send just a trial order for the Great Nature Salve, 50c a Box. Why suffer when you can be relieved for such a small amount. Read our guarantee on the front page of The Gazette. Krebs Clothing Co. "'The store that sets the pace", better goods for less money. Make us prove it. Rev. J. B. McCrary, was at his charge in Brookport, Sunday. He was accompanied by his wife and Rev. Geo. H. Crippens, the latter filled the pulpit for Rev. McCrary, at 2:30 p.m. and delivered a short, but interested sermon to a good audience. Hats, Hats, Hats, We sold hundreds of them last week, 98c worth $1.50 to $3.00. Krebs Clothing Co. Clean Sweep Sale. Satisfaction guaranteed or money cheerfully refunded. That's our policy. Krebs Clothing Co. We are "delighted" so will you be if you trade with us. Krebs Clothing Co. SPARTA. Editor Gazette, I am thankful to speak through your worthy paper. Our Sunday School was opened at 9:30 by Ass't Supt. J. J. Taylor. The attendance was large and all teachers were present. The lesson was timely reviewed by M. C. Rice afterwhich a short paper was read on the subject of the lesson by Miss Hazel Burgett. Response by Ass't Supt. Poem read on the Golden Text by Arthur Sales, response by Supt. J. J. Taylor was elected superintendent of New Hope Sunday school to succeed J. M. Haynes. Bro. M. C. Rice was elected Ass't Supt. The committga on program for Easter meets Monday evening under the leadership of Mrs. Anna Owens. At 11:53 a. m. Rev. P. B. French preached a glorious sermon from Mark 9:44. At 7:54 p. m our pastor preached another gospel sermon from St. Mark 11:24 We had a good meeting all day. This was our Rally day but owing to circumstances we only raised $13.92 J. M. Haynes and Jim Glenn (white) walked hack on a smoldering fuse which Haynes had Native Salve. We have just recived some more of Native Salve and it is going very fast, those in Carbonand Md. City can secure a box or more now by 50c, per box. Act quick if you want it Send all orders to Rev. J B. McCrary, tried to light a few minutes before in his room in the Moffat Coal company's mine Tues. Apr. 14, and were killed. Haynes was killed instantly and Glenn died immediately after being taken home. J. M. Haynes was 56 years of age having been born in Shuqualak Noxubee Co., Miss, May 17th 1860, professed religion and united with the Baptist Church April 17th 1878. A few years later he moved to Sparta Ill., and united with the New Hope Baptist Church and served as a deacon for more than 20 years, in the meantime serving as Supt. of the Sunday school with an exception of a few years when he was located at Colps, Ill. He leaves a wife, a son, Arthur and a daughter, Lydia both of St. Louis, and a host of friends. He was a member of the Odd Fellows and Knights and Daughters. His remains were under the auspices of the Odd Fellows which is the largest colored fraternity here The funeral was attended by Rev. P. B. French assisted by Revs. M. E. Parnell. Burden and J. A. Sherman. Our loss is Heaven's gain. Mrs. Grace Gaither of Mt Vernon spent a few days with her mother Mrs. Mattie Haynes. Mr. Walter Dabner, brother of Mrs. Mattie Haynes, of St. Louis attended the funerel. Mrs. P. B. French has returned home from St. Louis where she vrsited her daughter, Mrs. Minnie Wheeler who accompanied her. Mr. Frank Ellis of St. Louis is visiting his Aunt Mrs. Mary Reberson. Mr. Ben Lence has returned from Peoria where he was elected to officiate in the convention of The U. M. N. of A. J. J. Taylor. Died. Elenson Lorenzo Ramsey, the little infant of Mr. and Mrs. Geo, Ramsey of W. 7th, St. died at the home of his parents, Friday morning at 9:15 after a long illness of tuberculosis. The funeral was attended Sunday at 2:00 p.m. from the home, Rev. J. H. Smith, officiating. Roster of New Republican County Central Committee of Massac County, Illinois. Elected April 11th, A. D. 1916. Jay C. Willis, Chairman, Metropolis, Ill. Loren Smith, Secretary, Metropolis. S. Bartlett Kerr, Treasurer Metropolis, Ill. Metropolis Poll No. 1: Jay C. Willis, Metropolis, Ill. Metropolis Poll No. 2: Ontrue Cowper Metropolis. Ill. Brooklyn Precinct: Wm. H. McGhee, Brookport Ill. Jackson Precinct: Thos. P. King, Unionville, Ill. Washington Precinct: Reuben S. Lytton, metropolis R. D. Ill Benton Precinct: O. A. Korte, metropolis R. D. Ill. George's Creek Precinct: Elmer Brown, New Columbia, Ill. Logan Precinct: Claud Lacy, Bosz Ill. Hillierm Precinct: Reuben Hester, Joppa, ill. Grant Precinct Chas, Rose, Choat, Ill. The Chairman, Secretary and Treasurer compose general executive Committee. True restriction. Patriotism is not boastfulness nor the depreciation of other nations. The patriotism that tells is that which is felt, not proclaimed. We learned that Rv J. H. Knowles, funeral will be held at 12:00 Monday April 24th. His mains will be shipped to Carbondale, for interment George L B McCrary was in Paducah, Wednesday A. M. Acquirement of Sympathy. Immost everyone can love, but it is not everyone who can sympathize. Sympathy is born of suffering, and is only truly possessed by those who have been educated in the school of trouble and experience.—Jenn Maclean. Walter Roberts, Soliciter Master in Chancery Sale. State of Illinois, Massac County, ss. In the Circuit Court of said County, April Term A. D. 1916. J. M. Russell Vs. Oscar Davis. Bill to foreclose mortgage No. 247. Public notice is hereby given that in pursuance of a decree entered at the April term of said court, to-wit, on the 11th day of April A. D. 1916 in the above entitled caune, I. S. Bartlett Kerr, Master in Chancery of said county, will at the hour of 10 o'clock A. M., Saturday May 13th A. D. 1916 at the east door of the Court House in the City of Metropolis, County of Massae and State of Illinois, sell at public vendue to the highest and best bidder, the following described real estate towit: Lot (1). in Mattie Johnson's addition to the City of Brookport, Massac County, Illinois. Terms of sale, Cash in hand. Dated this 11th day of April A. D. 1916. W. L. Krone, Solicitor. Master in Chancery Sale. State of Illinois, Massac County, as. In the Cirquit Court of said County, April Term A. D. 1916. L. M. Murrie doing business under the firm name of Murrie Lumber Co. Vs. V. E. Shannon. Bili to Foreclose Mechanics Lien No. 20. Public notice is hereby given that in pursurance of decree entertained at the April Term of said court, to wit, on the 21st day of January A. D. 1916 in the above entitled gauge. I. S. Bart- lett Kerr, Master in Chancery of said County, will, at the hour of 11 o'clock A. M. Saturday May 13th A. D. 1916 at the east door of the Court House in the City of Metropolis, County of Massac, and State of Illinois, sell at public vendue to the highest and best bidder, the following described real estate to-wit: The East One third (1-3) of Lots One (1), Two (2) and Three (3) in Block number Sixty-one (61) of the City of Metropolis, Massac County, Illinois. Terms of sale, Cash in hand. Dated this 11th day of April A. D. 1916. S. BARTLETT KERR. Master in Chancery. Fred R. Young, Solicitor. Master in Chancery Sale. State of Illinois, Massac County, S8 In the Circuit Court of said County, April Term A. D. 1916. Vester Hodge Vs. Charles Hodge, Felix Hodge, Grant Hodge, Hattie Beard, Rena Proctor and L. M. Murrie. Bill for Partition No. 224. Public notice is hereby given that in pursuance of a deeress entered at the April Term of said courts, to-wit: on the 18th day of April A. D. 1916 in the above entitled cause, I, S. Bartlett Kerr, Master in Chancery of said County, will, at the hour of 10 o'clock A. M. Saturday May 29th, A. D. 1916 at the East door of the Court House in the city of Metropolis, County of Massac, and State of Illinois, sell at public vendue to the highest and best bidder, the following described real estate to-wit: Lot number Six Hundred Thirty five (635), in Block Fifty Four (54) of the City of Metropolis, in the County of Massac and State of Illinois. Terms of sale, one third cash in hand balance payable in one year, deferred payment to be secured by good personal note with Six per cent interest, exercised before the execution of mortgage. Dated this 18th day of April A. D. 1916. Persons who owe the Gazett would greatly lesson the financial burden of the publishers by remitting at once. NOTICE. Please allow me to call attention of the B, Y. P. U.'s that in three months we that compose the UNION of the Mt. Olive Convention of Southern Illinois will be called together in Carbondale, Thursday before the fourth Lord's day in June 1916. The new resolutions are: That every B. Y. P. U. send fifty cents for the Livingston Normal and twenty five cents for the Gazette. One Hundred Dollars is the slogan, To the B. Y. P. U. that represent with the largest amount of money will be given a banner from the National Baptist Publishing Board by the District President. Every Union is requested to rally to the cause and make this the banner year of all our previous meeting. The president ask that every B. Y. P. U. send the names of the delegates to the Corresponding Sec'y. not later than May 15th 1916. Thus giving ample time to arrange the programme. For further information concerning the banner that is to be given away write Miss Iola Marie Urquhart, Box 268 Metropolis, Ill., Cor. Sec'y of the Mt. Olive Convention. GIANTS OPEN SEASON The Metropolis Giants Base Ball team opened the season Sunday April 13th with the "Sterlings" of Paducah, Ky. Sunday was a fine day and the Giants were in fine condition and they hit the pill hard that was offered by Ha'e, of the visiting team and romped the bases like Tyrus Cobb of the Detroit Americans. Blakemore, the "Speed ball" merchant was on the mound for the Giants and pitched fine ball for the opening. The score being 15 to 4 in the Giant's favor. There was a large crowd of fans present to see the game. Sunday April 23rd, they will play Cairo, it is said has a strong team this season, but Manager Adams of the Giants, says his boys are sure to win. Any team wishing to book games with them can do so by addressing Wm Adams, Metrepolis, Ill., 20th & Broadway. Card of Thanks We the undersigned desire to extend our sincere thanks to the many friends who so kindly asssitited us in the funeral and burial services of our beloved son and brother Charles Williams, who died in St. Louis, Mo. Apr 5th. May God bless you all in every effort for good. Tennie Smith, Mother, Oma Nance, Sister Sarah Beard, Grand-mother. Colored People's Progress. A new race history, soon to be placed on the market at $1.50, publishers, Austin-Jenkins Co., Washington, D. C., Warder Building, are now placing agents. Anyone wanting to secure the agency may obtain a fine prospectus FREE for 15 cents in postage. The Cumberland Presbyterian Church, of Choat, under the efficient leadership of their pastor, Rev. T. J. Thedford, closed a very successful rally, Sunday, April, 16th. Total amount raised from same $40.97 Dignaism. Dignaise tells us: "There are many risks in business. The wise man allows his competitors to take them."