Metropolis Weekly Gazette

METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE KREBS CLOTHING CO. ANNOUNCEMENT EXTRAORDINARY! To the residents of this section of Massac and adjoining counties: We have purchased the entire stock of the Clothing and Men's Furnishings department of the Miller Estate, and opened Saturday to the biggest business this store ever experienced, with our CLEAN SWEEP SALE Look for the great big sign of the broon-it is surely one of the best opportunities you ever had to buy goods at less than cost to manufacture Mr. Wm. Wiedeman, who has been with the Miller Store the past 16 years, and we are glad to state that he has taken an interest with us in the store, and will have full charge as manager of the Clothing department. He will be glad to meet all the old customers and we assure you that you will find it to your advantage to trade here in the future. Lack of space will not permit us to give the big reductions in prices on all articles, but as a sample, just look below. Read this Bargain News, Then come in Haste. You. The Advantages are Yours. Read this Bargain News. Then come in Haste. It will Pay You. The Advantages are Yours. Sale Started A Men's, Young Men's and Boys' Clothing in piles on the tables so you can sell Clothing at these prices. $20.00 Suits, Clean Sweep sale price, $9.80 You can't go wrong buying one of these for use, as at present rate of advance in woolen it won't be long before wool will be prohibit clothing. $18.00 Suits, Clean Sweep sale price, $8.00 Just think of it! Here is one lot at less than price—that we couldn't buy at wholesale for than $13.50. We have just received a new shipment of the window. We can't display half of them— Men's Work Shirts "Big Buck" and "Tiger" the best makes 44c. Men Manh E. Don't fail to visit our store, whether you in We want to get acquainted with you. We can upright methods we can gain your patronage we do as we advertise. LOOK FOR THE BIG BROOM KREBS CLOT Sale Started April 1st; Ends May 1st Men's, Young Men's and Boys' Clothing at Sacrifice Prices. Suits all arranged in piles on the tables so you can help yourself. It doesn't require salesmen to sell Clothing at these prices. $20.00 Suits, Clean Sweep sale price, $9.89 You can't go wrong buying one of these for future use, as at present rate of advance in woolen goods it won't be long before wool will be prohibited in clothing. $18.00 Suits, Clean Sweep sale price, $8.89 Just think of it! Here is one lot at less than half price—that we couldn't buy at wholesale for less than $13.50. We have just received a new shipment of the well-known Hart, Shaffner & Marx suits—see them in the window. We can't display half of them—step in and try on one. Don't fail to visit our store, whether you intend to buy or not. You are welcome as the spring flowers. We want to get acquainted with you. We expect to make Metropolis our future home, and if by fair and upright methods we can gain your patronage, we want it, otherwise we can't expect it. Make us prove we do as we advertise. LOOK FOR THE BIG BROOM SIGN, THE STORE THAT SETS THE PACE KREBS CLOTHING COMPANY. Successor to W. C. Miller's Estate ```markdown ``` CURLEE 250 $350 $500 PANTS We Guarantee Every statement made herein and every article too. We will take back, exchange or refund the money on any purchase unsatisfactory for any reason. Krebs Clothing Co. ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY NOTES. Commencement being only a few days hence causes the students to set up and take notice as the final test is sure to come Activity has already begun with some of the students repairing to their different vocations preparing for an early entry next fall. Well our rally was a success APR 29 1916 OLI MOTTO: 8. ME THING EXTRAORDIN of Massac a entire stock cent of the business t P SAL on-it is surely o my goods at less man, who has us, and we are g us in the store, Clothing depart mers and we a ge to trade here i to give the big is a sample, just in Haste. are Yours. Reme for right now, buy for the future for not in a century will such another opportunity be yours to make money ted April 1st; End Boys' Clothing at Sacrifice Price you can help yourself. It doesn't these prices. $9.89 these for future in woolen goods be prohibited in $8.89 at less than half wholesale for less $15.00 Su Clean Sw We want you to values offered in The better t $10.00 Su Clean Sw Everybody says We can't—we just and this makes it $2.00 and Clean Sw ment of the well-known Hart, Shaffner of them—step in and try on one. Ends Ma office Prices. S it doesn't require 6.00 Suits, clean Sweep sale ent you to see for offered in this lot of better the grade, 0.00 Suits, clean Sweep sale body says: "How we just want to makes it easy. 0.00 and $3.00 clean Sweep sale Shaffner & Marx me. $15.00 Suits, Clean Sweep sale price, $7.98 We want you to see for yourself the wonderful values offered in this lot of Men's-all sizes 34 to 42 The better the grade, the bigger the trade. $10.00 Suits, Clean Sweep sale price, $4.98 Everybody says: "How can you afford to do it? We can't—we just want to get acquainted with you, and this makes it easy. You are welcome at opolis our future be wise we can't expect STORE THAT'S COM herly you intend to buy or not. You are you. We expect to make Metropolis our patronage, we want it, otherwise we c ROOM SIGN, THE STORE T LOTHING CO Estate raising upwards of $1600 for which we thank the public, it will go for the purpose for which he was raised; enthusiasm ran high but the White Rose won out by a very large majority. The Red Roses run and worked well but they were simply out classed All of our auxiliaries are doing fine and we are planning for a greater work next year. ```markdown ``` ```markdown ``` Men's Dress Shirts Manhattan, Cluett, Monarch, E. & W. Silks and stripes in all colors MOTTO : 'HEW TO THE LINE, LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY.' Maste. It will Pay Yours. Remember that if you fail to take advan- age of the bargains in this sale you do an injustice to the course that pays the bills is May 1st t prices. Suits all arranged t require salesmen to Hats, keep sale price, $7.98 see for yourself the wonderful this lot of Men's-all sizes 34 to 42 the grade, the bigger the trade. Hats, keep sale price, $4.98 'How can you afford to do it? want to get acquainted with you, easy. $3.00 Hats, keep sale price, 98c. & Marx suits—see them in the Men's Underwear Munsing Porosknit, Chalmers. Setsnug, B. V. D. and Cooper's, all the finest brands, all prices welcome as the spring flowers, future home, and if by fair and can't expect it. Make us prove THAT SETS THE PACE COMPANY. Metropolis, Illinois. Notice, I see by the paper we have a number more B. Y. P. U.'s this year than last, whose slogan is "On to Carbon-dale in June." We hope they will all report in at least one convention during the year. We would like to hear that and it is possible. Let us all strive to be there on time this is the banner year from every view point. I especially commend the interest CURLEE 250 1350 350 PANTS Metropolis, Illinois. of our Sunday Schools for the serious attention of the church that is our future outlook. Come praying to lend a hand. J. N. Washington, Missionary S. S. & B. Y. P U About The Minutes Of The General Missionary Bapt. State 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 loat, but he would send a tracer after them and hunt them up. I have not seen the Maa'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. Jones' letter to Dr. J. F. Thomas under date of January 10th 1916 follows: 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 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 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. 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 keepiug 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 J. WALTER ROBERTS Candidate for States Attorney "A self made man" PROGRAM RENDERED At 7:15 P. M. at the First Bapti Song Recitation Beyond The Recitation Beautiful Song Recitation "Rise Recitation "The Rest Song Recitation Recitation "Pennies in Freewill offering by Messers Easter eggs were given to every Each boy and girl was asked to put in Booker Cook's box, and the bution to Mr. Edgar McCrary. Music was furnished by the ch given to each member of the choi This program was over in tin services elsewhere. PROGRAM RENDERED SUNDAY APR. 23rd. At 7:15 P. M. at the B. Y. P. U. of the First Baptist Church. Song.....Choir Recitation.....Beyond The Alps.....Thelma Hodge Recitation.....Beautiful Things.....Viola Henry Song.....Choir Recitation....."Risen".....Iola Urquhart Recitation....."The Resurrection".....Geo Martin Song.....Choir Recitation.....Alice Urquhart Recitation....."Pennies in the Box".....Booker Cook Freewill offering by Messers Edgar McCrary, Booker Cook Easter eggs were given to every boy and girl who was present. Each boy and girl was asked to bring a penny, the pennies to be put in Booker Cook's box, and the grown ups gave their contribution to Mr. Edgar McCrary. Music was furnished by the church choir and a Carnation was given to each member of the choir who was present. This program was over in time for those who wished to attend services elsewhere. Mr. Jones held up the Mss'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 District, and State and the Nation as well. He has done 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 Seey. 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. New Hope B. Church. NOTICE. MRS BESSIE M. CORK. PRESIDENT. NOTICE Dear Editor: 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 Carbon-dale, 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 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. Get the Habit of Drinking Hot Water Before Breakfast Says we can't look or feel right with the system full of poisons. Millions of folks bathe internally now instead of loading their system with drugs. "What's an inside bath?" you say. Well, it is guaranteed to perform miracles if you could believe these hot water enthusiasts. There are vast numbers of men and women who, immediately upon arising in the morning, drink a glass of real hot water with a teaspoonful of limestone phosphate in it. This is a very excellent health measure. It is intended to flush the stomach, liver, kidneys and the thirty feet of intestines of the previous day's waste, sour bile and indigestible material left over in the body which, if not eliminated every day, become food for the millions of bacteria which infest the bowels, the quick result is poisons and toxins which are then absorbed into the blood causing headache, billious atacks, foul breath, bad taste, colds, stomach trouble, kidney misery, sleeplessness, impure blood and all sorts of ailments. People who feel good one day and badly the next, but who simply can not get feeling right are urged to obtain a quarter pound of limestone phosphate from any druggist or storekeeper. This will cost very little but is sufficient to make anyone a real crank on the subject of internal sanitation. Just as soap and hot water act on the skin, cleansing, sweetening and freshening, so limestone phosphate and hot water act on the stomach, liver, kidneys and bowels. It is vastly more important to bathe on the inside than on the outside, because the skin pores do not absorb impurities into the blood, while the bowel pores do. Adv. Embarrassing Affection. A Baltimore woman has in her employ as butler a darky of pompous and satisfied mien. Not long ago he permitted a chocolate-colored damsel, long his ardent admirer, to become his spouse. On one occasion, when the lady of the house made temporary use of the services of her butler's wife, it was observed that whenever the duties of the two brought them together, the bright eyes would shine with extraordinary devotion. "Your wife seems wonderfully attached to you, Robert," casually observed the mistress. "Yes, mat'am," answered Robert complacently. "Ain't is jest sickenin"—"Everybody's Magazine. Power of Lightening Lightning has been proved to have struck a building with a force equal to more than 12,000-horse power. A single horse power, in mechanical calculation, is equivalent to raising a weight of 33,000 pounds one foot in a minute. The force of lightning, therefore, has been proved to be equal to the raising of 384,000,000 pounds one foot in a minute. This is equal to the united power of 12 of our largest steamers, having collectively 24 engines of 500-horse power each. The velocity of electricity is so great that it would travel around the world eight times in a second. GOOD REPORT Physicians know that good food and drink, properly selected, are of the utmost importance, not only for the relief of disease but to maintain health even when one is well. A doctor writes, "I count it a pleasure to say a good word for Postum with which I have been enabled to relieve so many sufferers, and which I count, with its valued companion Grape-Nuts, one of the daily blessings." "Coffee was banished from my own table some time ago and Postum used regularly in its place." (Coffee is injurious to many persons, because it contains the subtle, poisonous drug, caffeine.) "I frequently find it necessary to instruct patients when they take Postum for the first time to be quite sure that it is properly made according to directions, then it has a clear, seal-brown color and a rich, snappy taste, as well as health giving qualities. The above letter, received over ten years ago, i. fully confirmed by a recent letter from the doctor, in which he says: "It is a pleasure to render a good report covering a product of which I am so enthusiastic a friend. "I am using in my home your Postum Cereal in both its forms And, what is more, I am having it used in the families of several patients in which there are children, and all unite in endorsing the fine qualities of your admirable product." 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 pigs. 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. "Bloom's a Reason," for Postum FOOL AND ANGEL FOOL AND ANGEL By IZOLA FORRESTER. (Copyright, 1916, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) Perhaps it was the interminable piano playing of the girl downstairs in the back parlor, perhaps it was only curiosity. Eaton never analyzed the motive that made him bite at Billie Tanguay's April-fool bait. The main point was that he swallowed it, hook and line. "Eaton, have you seen it?" Billie called at his door about nine. "Seen what? He raised his head from the engineering plans on the table under the leaky student lamp. "Airship. Seems to be making for the Long Island shore, crossing from Jersey. If you hurry you can get a look." Eaton hurried. He was in the second floor back room. It took about a minute and a half for him to reach the roof, and then as he stood alone, gazing hopefully up at the star-dotted heavens, he heard the sliding of the roof door over its ladder, the locking and Billie's cheerful challenge: Even then there was nothing tragic about the situation. It was merely ridiculous, and no one cares to be made ridiculous even in one's own eyes. Eaton walked about the roof rather philosophically before the novelty of roofs began to interest him. Their house was one of a long row of tall brownstone dwellings in the West Fifties, near Sixth avenue, New York city. They were old-fashioned enough. Hence the ladder and trapdoor entrance. They all appeared to be about the same. Eaton noticed he stood on the third from the end of the row, after which came a space, he could not tell how wide, and a higher roof on the corner building. And even as he watched he saw a man emerge from the small cabinlike exit, run to the edge of the roof and take the jump to the next one. Almost immediately there followed a shot, and Eaton stepped, with natural caution, behind a group of tall chimney-pots. The man had hidden behind a neighboring group, and as a policeman came in sight on the first roof he shot at him, turned and ran directly toward Eaton's shelter. As he dropped behind it, he said huskily over his shoulder: "Beat it kid, I can hold him. Here." He handed over something wrapped clumsily in a handkerchief, a black silk one. And even as he did so, there came another shot, and he rolled over on the graveled roof and lay quite still. The policeman was calling out something to him, Eaton knew. He seemed to want him to come nearer. Hatless, young, thoroughly confident, he stepped over the brick dividing sections and came to the space between. It was too wide to leap unless one were running for life like the man who lay behind the red chimney-pots. "I live in 160," said Eaton. "They've locked me out for a joke—" And then the most peculiar thing happened. Out of the trapdoor from No. 164 there exuded men, another policeman and some plain clothes men, and they seized Thomas W. Eaton without any warning or apology, took the untidy handkerchief bundle out of his grasp and hustled him downstairs past shrinking, shadowy forms and down into the street. He heard one of them say disgustedly that his pal had been faking. When they went after his body it had gone from behind the red chimneypots. Vaguely sensing a growing personal indignation, Eaton was glad he had made a getaway. He kept repeating firmly: "I am Thomas W. Eaton of 160. You can ask anyone living there who I am—" "You're Slimay Louis all right," the man who held his arm retorted so positively that Eaton felt that until he had corroboration, it was useless to argue the point. Then he found himself being pushed up the steps at the corner house, up the elevator to the fourth floor and then into a splendidly furnished apartment, facing the policeman who had fired the two shots and the loveliest girl Eaton had ever laid eyes on. All in pink negligee she was, with her long, dark hair unbound, and her eyes wide with horror at her experience. With her hands pressed to her face she looked at Eaton, but shook her head: "He wasn't here. It was a short, dark man with a mustache." "This one had the jewels in his hand when we got him," they told her, Eaton saw the handkerchief opened and inside was a glittering handful of diamonds and other gems, set in rings and trinkets. One necklace, he noticed, was of pearls. The girl glanced at them and nodded her head. "They're all there, but this is not the other man." "Then there were three of them—" began a policeman. "I am Thomas W. Eaton," began the prisoner again, with a certain quiet dignity and firmness he always used in emergencies. "I live at 160—" "What were you doing on that roof, then?" "I went up to look at an airship—" He paused at the laugh of derision from the men, and only looked at the girl herself, explaining to her just how it was. "And it was just an April fool joke. The boys over at 160 slammed the trapdoor shut and locked me out. I heard a shot, and stepped behind the chimney. A man leaped from this root to the row, and made for my shelter. He evidently mistook me for his confederate, and handed me the bundle." METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE, METROPOLIS, ILL. The nearest policeman patted his shoulder. "Louis, you're improving," he said pleasantly. "You can tell that all to the judge. Come on." "Oh, walt, please, just a minute," said the girl. "I really do think I have seen him around here quite often. I'm going to telephone 160." So she remembered him. Eaton felt a curious thrill of keen interest. He had seen her at different times in the neighborhood, in the drug store at the corner of Sixth avenue, at the elevated station three blocks down, in the florist's where the art students bought spring blossoms for their window sills. He had seen her, and had connected her in his mind with wealth and the magic circle of social security. The meeting in Carnegie Institute Music Hall, Pittsburgh, for the benefit of Hampton institute, Virginia, developed into a memorial to the late Booer T. Washington and to his work. She was telephoning to 160. He could imagine the flustered state of Mrs. Rawlinson, his landlady, when she heard her most exemplary boarder stood in danger of a prison cell. But, no, the girl was only asking if a Mr. Thomas W. Eaton lived at 160. It appeared that he did, but he was not in. She turned to the police with a little smile of relief, and just a shade of pride, too. "I was sure it was a mistake. Mr. Eaton's friend, Mr. Tanguay, will be over at once to identify him." Mr. Tanguay arrived inside of three minutes. His hair was rumped recklessly, and his eyes round with astonishment. But he was straightforward and had no difficulty in convincing the guardians of the law that Eaton was a harmless citizen. "And it's a mighty lucky thing, I should say," added Billie earnestly, "that Mr. Eaton happened to be on the roof at just the psychological moment. He got the thief's whole pile, didn't he?" "And it does seem to me," added Viola quickly, "that instead of staying here guarding Mr. Eaton, wouldn't it really be better to try to catch the real criminal?" She stood for a few moments there in the softly lighted hall, after the men had gone down the step, and Billie lingered at the door. "They were all my mother's jewels that I loved and could never have replaced," she told him gently. "I think it was almost providential, Mr. Eaton, your happening to be on the roof at just that moment. You must call to tomorrow and meet mother. I have let her sleep through this awful trouble tonight. Good night." "Shall you call?" asked Billie when they started for 160. "I'm going to marry her, if she'll have me," answered Eaton grimly. "Billie, you tried to make an April fool out of me, old man, but I landed in paradise." PUTS BLAME ON THE MOON Veteran Ends Argument as to the Cause of Partial Eclipse of Sun. The partial eclipse of the sun was the subject of conversation in the little grocery store, where a number of villagers sat about the stove awaiting the early bedtime. A man happened to be present who was well versed in the subject under discussion, and he was asked to explain the curious phenomenon of an eclipse. He pointed out that the moon simply came between the earth and the sun, and blotted out from view a part of the sun's surface. "Wal," remarked an old veteran, as he unburdened his mouth of a deluge of tobacco juice, "it sure is a pity the moon wasn't full, 'cause then we'd have a total eclipse."—Indianapolis News. Protection of Game Birds. In the case of State vs. McCullagh, reported from Kansas, the court declares unconstitutional a federal statute for-protection of migratory game birds. There have been three other rulings on similar statutes before, two of which agree and one dissents from the Kansas case. The opinion says in part: "The natural flight of wild fowl from one point to another does not constitute 'commerce', unless word be expanded beyond any significance heretofore given it. Whatever other element may be spared from a definition of this term, it has not been heretofore directed or affected by human intelligence. But, if the fact were otherwise, the circumstances that birds of a particular species do not habitually remain throughout the year in the same state could hardly bring them within the control of congress on the theory that they were thereby impressed with a national character as the subject of interstate commerce. . . The habit of migration does not vest in the federal government the title to the animal possessing it. Wild animals are declared to be subject to the control of the state—to belong to the people of the state—and the rule has been repeatedly applied to migratory birds." Foolish Anxiety. "Dubwaite seems greatly perturbed because some joy riders live in his neighborhood." "Well, it's none of his affair if they should happen to break their necks some night." "Of course not. Still, Dubwaite is one of those unfortunate individuals who actually beloves that he is his brother's keeper." So It Is. "According to the author of this novel, the heroine didn't understand the tragedy of 'Romeo and Juliet' until she herself fell in love." "That strikes me as a round-about way to interpret Shakespeare." AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS The meeting in Carnegie Institute Music Hall, Pittsburgh, for the benefit of Hampton institute, Virginia, developed into a memorial to the late Booker T. Washington and to his work toward the solution of the race problem in America. Every speaker eulogized him, the quartet paid tribute to him in song and an unexpected feature of the meeting was a presentation of a medallion representing Doctor Washington's head, which had been modeled in clay by Miss Ruth M. Harris, now a student in the University of Pittsburgh. There were several hundred persons at the meeting, numbered among whom were many prominent men and women of Pittsburgh as well as many Negroes who realize the work that is being done for their race at Hampton. The program opened with old plantation melodies sung by graduates of the school. Dr. John A. Brashear presided. He drew attention to the fact that at the last Hampton meeting in Pittsburgh, two years ago, Doctor Washington was one of the speakers. Doctor Brashear then introduced George McAney, managing director of the New York Times. Mr. McAneny said he became interested in Hampton's work when he was sent there to write a descriptive story some twenty-five years ago. Since that time he has been active in the work of Hampton, and of the Tuskegee institute, which Booker T. Washington made famous. Mr. McAneny said that Hampton has many phases in its work, but that of which he likes to think is that it is the scene of the greatest attempt to reach a solution of the problem of the place the Negro is to occupy in this nation. He welcomed Maj. Robert Moton, also a speaker of the evening, and the principal-elect of Tuskegee, as Booker T. Washington's successor as the leader of his people. Major Moton's address was an exposition of the aims of Hampton—to wipe from the mind of the Negro the repugnance toward manual labor which came to him when he was freed, to instil in him a knowledge of the dignity and honor of labor of the hands, to teach him to believe in himself, and to respect himself rather than to feel shame at his color or his race. He said that the adjustments of the two great extremes—the white and the black—is the greatest problem this country faces, and he rejoiced in the belief that Hampton and Tuskegee are helping to solve it. A short address was made by Rev. H. B. Turner, chaplain at Hampton, and Miss Harris then presented the medallion to Major Moton to be presented, in turn to Tuskegee. Dr. Kelly Miller, dean of the college of arts and sciences, at Howard university, in Washington, spoke on "The Essential Elements of the Race Problem," at the regular monthly meeting of the Protestant Ministerial association, at Roberts Park Methodist church, Indianapolis. The Negro problem, he said, was "essentially a human problem," with the white race in the position of trustee. He pleaded especially that education and encouragement be given the Negro. Howard university, with which he is connected, is a Negro institution. The Rev. J. H. Crum was chairman of the meeting. A considerable number of colored men and women were in the audience. The Rev. A. B. The Negro population of the United States increased from 757,208, or 19.3 per cent of the total population, in 1790, to 9,827,763, or 16.7 per cent of the total, in 1910. The increase between 1900 and 1910 was at the rate of 11.2 per cent, while during the same period the white population increased by 22.3 per cent. Since 1810 there has been a continuous decrease in the proportion which Negroes have formed of the total population, due, at least in part, to the fact that the white population has been continually augmented by immigration, while there has been very little immigration of Negroes during the past hundred years. The problem of the Negro is one to which the Soultif has not always given sufficient attention. The South is only just awakening to the fact that as the old status of the Negro is gone, never to return, it is its duty to do what it can to establish a new one on an enduring basis. As the Houston Post said the other day: "It is essential to the well-being of the white people that the industrial One of the strangest animals known to zoologists is the tenrec, an insect-eating animal found only in the Island of Madagascar. It is supposed to represent a very ancient type of animal which is now almost extinct. Madagascar, once a part of the mainland of the African continent, was separated therefrom at a very remote period in the past. As a result a fauna peculiar to the island has been developed. Wisconsin bran bread is sold in many states. Storms announced that the program for May would include a consideration of the subject of national charities and corrections and that two or three men of national reputation would speak. Doctor Miller said in part: "The race problem constitutes a challenge to Christianity in the world today. If Christ should come to America, he would not ask of the Christian church how many costly edifices have you constructed, or how well have you organized your schemes of endeavor according to the exactness of business efficiency; but rather what are you doing for the least of these my brethren in black whom circumstances have placed in your own midst?" "The Negro cannot be segregated from the communal life of which he forms an inseparable part. It is not necessary to like the Negro in order to be interested in him. You may hate with deep malignity your fellow-passenger on an ocean steamer, but the moment he becomes afflicted with the smallpox he elicits your keenest interest and anxiety, for he has the power to communicate to you the malady which has afflicted him. "Every ignorant Negro in Indianapolis lowers the standard of Intelligence of the city. Every vicious one impairs its moral reputation, everyone who is sick affects the health of your fair capital. Those disease germs pay absolutely no regard to the doctrine of race superiority. They are not even frightened at the scarecrow of social equality, but gnaw with equal avidity at the vitals of black and white alike and pass with utmost freedom and satisfaction from one to the other. "Strong emphasis should be placed upon the Negro, not because he is black, but because his needs are greatest. In this work of human uplift, you may well lay aside all preconceived theories of racial arrogance and conceit and apply yourselves in the spirit of Christian brotherhood to this great human task. "The Negroes as a mass had to be improved in their efficiency through industrial training, to which Dr. Booker T. Washington devoted his life. At the same time they need leaders to guide them wisely amid the dangers and vicissitudes of life. Just as we appeal to the Christianity, philanthropy and statesmanship of the white race to assist and encourage the industrial training of the masses, we with equal earnestness urge the importance of the higher education for the development of a wise and effective leadership." Nearly 1,000 Negroes gathered at Victoria, Texas, for the grand central meeting of the colored farmers of Victoria and the Southwest Colored School Teachers' association meeting. At noon all formed in line at the school building and marched to the public square. A large United States flag was at the head of the line, while about 300 school children each carried small ones. On arriving at the square all formed about the bandstand and joined in singing "America." Following this several influential Negroes addressed the gathering. The teachers were in session all the afternoon and evening in the colored school building. The government of Uruguay will assume control of all telegraph and telephone services and reorganize and improve them. status of Negroes be improved. By teaching them to become efficient and thrifty and encouraging them to better their conditions materially and morally, much will be accomplished toward correcting the conditions that make them easy victims for tuberculosis and other diseases. We cannot say that these things are not our business, unless we confess indifference to our own well-being. The Negroes are not going to make much progress without the co-operation and sympathy of the white people, and we must face the unchangeable truth that we can best help ourselves in fighting tuberculosis by aiding them to rise above the miserable living conditions which so large a proportion of them are now compelled to endure." The Negro is not only the white man's burden but also the white man's problem. But the problem is surely one that can be solved.—Dallas Times Herald. A new motor driven surgical drill is so constructed that it can be thoroughly sterilized without injury in steam or dry heat. 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"Do your teeth ever ache?" asked little Walter as he watched his grandmother take her false teeth out. "Why, no, of course they don't, Walter," she replied. "These are false teeth." "I wish I had that kind," said the boy. "Then I could eat all the candy I wanted to." COVETED BY ALL but possessed by few—a beautiful head of hair. If yours is streaked with gray, or is harsh and stiff, you can restore it to its former beauty and luster by using "La Creole" Hair Dressing. Price $1.00.—Adv. Reading maketh a full man—but they have another name for it in a dry town. Meat Makes Bad Kidneys Too much meat is just as bad as not enough. Such a diet is apt to load the blood with uric acid and to injure the kidneys. Bad backs, Blue, nervous spells, dizziness, rheumatic pains, and bladder troubles indicate weak kidneys, foretell danger of gravel and Bright's disease. Don't neglect this condition. Use Doan's Kidney Pills. An Illinois Case Edwin Gucker, Western Ave., R. F. D. 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Hospitals are great and necessary institutions, but they should be the last resort for women who suffer with ills peculiar to their sex. Many letters on file in the Pinkham Laboratory at Lynn, Mass., prove that a great number of women after they have been recommended to submit to an operation have been made well by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Here are three such letters. All sick women should read them. Marinette, Wis.—"I went to the doctor and he told me I must have an operation for a female trouble, and I hated to have it done as I had been married only a short time. I would have terrible pains and my hands and feet were cold all the time. I took Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and was cured, and I feel better in every way. I give you permission to publish my name because I am so thankful that I feel well again."—Mrs. FRED BEHNKE, Marinette, Wis. Detroit, Mich.—"When I first took Lydia E. 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The first bottle helped, I kept taking it and now I don't know what it is to be sick any more and I am picking up in weight. I am 20 years old and weigh 145 pounds. It will be the greatest pleasure to me if I can have the opportunity to recommend it to any other suffering woman."—Miss IRENE FROELICHER, 1923 Manhattan E., North Side, Bellevue, Pa. If you would like special advice write to Lydia E. Pinkham Med. Co. (confidential), Lynn, Mass. Your letter will be opened, read and answered by a woman and held in strict confidence. MARY HARRIS with female troubles that I could said I would have to undergo and without help so when I read about it it had done for others I thought I Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Co. Pinkham's Sanative Wash and they helped me and today I am ab- Mrs. Thos. 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Send Dr. Pierce 10c for large trial package. Full treatment 50c. All druggists. METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE. METROPOLIS. ILL CAP and BELLS Bed He Was Compelled to Sleep on Was Uncomfortable, but Was Well Supplied With Legs. An army officer said at a dinner: "The mutilated young heroes of the world war will be very finely treated for a few years; then afterward they will be treated no better, but probably worse, than anybody else. "Look at our own Civil war veterans. Nothing very wonderful about their treatment, eh? "I remember a Civil war veteran with one leg who went to Ocean Grove one summer. His bedroom was clean, but the bed was most uncomfortable, and in the morning he said to his landlady: "I couldn't sleep last night, ma'am. The room was clean, but the bed was more uncomfortable than the rocky fields I used to sleep in on my campaigns. The bed, in fact, is unsteady, ma'am. It has only three legs.' "Only got three legs, eh?" sneered the landlady. "Well, you old groucher, that's two more you've got!" Left Behind. "When I wuz a young man, mum, de neighbors where I lived called me a 'human dynamo,'" said the languid looking tramp. "Well, they wouldn't call you that now," answered the housewife. "No'm. But I wuz like a dynamo in one respect." "How was that?" "The energy I created never got me anywhere." Progress. "Why should women want the vote?" asked Mr. Twobble fretfully, "Don't they run everything now to suit themselves?" "Only within certain limits," replied Mrs. Twobble. "To the average woman of intelligence bossing a husband is such child's play that unless she expands her zone of activities she is apt to retrograde." Ancient Anecdotes "What sort of fellow is Dubwaite?" "The kind of man who starts to tell a funny story and then forgets how it ends." "Do you feel like hitting him then?" "Yes, but I don't miss much. The story is usually so old that I know how it ends myself." DIFFERENT THEN. Hubby—It's strange that I can never find anything about the house that belongs to me without your assistance. Wifey—How did you manage before we were married, dear? Hubby—Oh! things stayed where I put them then. But They Don't Pay a Rentette. "So you were up to see the Newly-weds. What do you think of their flat?" "Flat? It's merely a flatette, consisting of kitchenette, parlorette, chamberette and bathlette." Quick Action. "Was your new play a go?" asked the friend of the would-be author. "Yes; that was the trouble," replied the other. "I was in hopes it would stay for a week at least." Father—Holy Moses and Jumpin' Jehoseph! Nurse—Oh, no; we haven't named them yet. Nothing Lacking. "Are you careful about possible ptomaines in your ice cream?" "You bet, we insist on them. We have everything up to date that's going." BE BELIEVED IN RECIPROCITY Typical Street Gamin Makes Novel Proposition to Optician—Would Dazzle Their Eyes. He was a typical street gamin with a blacking kit slung over his shoulder, and as he walked boldly into the store of a Pennsylvania street optician his curly head scarcely reached the top of the counter. "Say," he queried of the elderly gentleman who came forward, "are yououse de guy wot runs dis joint? "I am the proprietor," was the reply. "What can I do for you, my boy?" "I've got one uv dem reserprosity propositions t' shy at youse," said the urchin. "Gimme one uv yeure chairs, an' I'll open up a shoe-sinery in front uv your winder. See?" "Not exactly," replied the optician. "I fall to see what benefit I would derive from such an arrangement." "Well, it's like dis, mister," answered the youthful financier, "yer see, I puts such a dazzlin' shine on me customers' kicks dat it hurts deren eyes an' dey'll hafter come in' an' buy specks uv youse. Savey?"—Indianapolis Star. Strange, but True. "What is the title of that book you are reading?" "The Woman Who Found Herself." Would you like to borrow it?" "No, thanks. I'm a rather sentimental cuss, and I notice that the women who 'find' themselves usually have a profound contempt for us men." THESE CAMPAIGN FUNDS. The preacher—It's better to be right than president. The Gambler—Yes; and it's a whole heap sight cheaper, too. A Near-Hero. "You say you saved a young, woman from being drowned last year?" "Yes. Several people lost their lives on that day." "Did you have a hard battle with the waves?" "Oh, no. She intended going for a sail in the boat that was capsized, but I persuaded her to spend the afternoon tangging with me." Certainly Not. "These gilded youths don't seem to have much on their minds." "I guess that's lucky for them." "Why so?" "If our streets were paved with pie crust they wouldn't stand much traffic would they?" Unappreciated. "Do you subscribe to the theory that virtue is its own reward?" "I'm compelled to," answered the diligent reformer. "Why so?" "My neighbors don't even thank me for my conscientious efforts to show them the error of their ways." Noncommittal. "Who is this Miss Chiseldine Flub- dub who sends in an account of some affair? I never heard of her in so- ciety?" "Well, say she's a decided favorite in the circle in which she moves." "Daughter, your new beau doesn't remain very late. The last one used to hang around until the milkman called." "Well, you see, dad, this one is a milkman." As She Expressed It. Aunt—You'll be late for the party, won't you, dear? Niece—Oh, no, auntle. In our set nobody goes to a party until everybody else gets there. An Editorial Theme. "Whither are we drifting?" murmured the editor of the Flunkville Paladium. "Guess it's time for another editorial on that." "Aw, that editorial is out of date. The question now is where are we at?" ^ A Little More German. Professor—You're not enough of a militarist, Mr. Smythe. Student Smythe—Why so, sir? Professor—Every time I call on you you're not prepared.—Michigan Gargoyle. A Drawback. "There is one class of votes the politicians will not be able to control when women get the ballot." "What is that?" "The vest pocket vote." The Sort. "You looked very sympathetic when Mrs. Jaggers was talking to you. Was she telling you a moving story?" "I should say so. She's been in six houses in as many months." Buy materials that last Certain-teed Roofing Fully guaranteed — best responsibility For sale by dealers everywhere at reasonable prices General Roofing Manufacturing Company World's largest manufacturers of Roofing and Building Papers New York City Chicago Philadelphia St. Louis Boston Cleveland Pittsburgh Detroit San Francisco Chicago New Orleans Los Angeles Minneapolis Kansas City Seattle Indianapolis Atlanta Bicheno. Houston London Sydney We are wholesale distributors of Certain-teed Products. Dealers should write us for samples, prices and full information. WITTE HARDWARE CO., ST. LOUIS, MO. Fulton Mothers Now Treat Children's Colds Externally VICK'S "VAPORUB" SALVE Mrs. Brindle—Now, Mary, I want you to be careful. This is some very old table linen—been in the family for over two hundred years, and—Mary—Aw, sure, ma'm, you needn't worry. I won't tell a soul, and it looks as good as new, anyway.—Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph. Kidney Trouble Causes Lame Back I am pleased to say a good word for Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, as I was troubled for a year or more with my kidneys and annoying symptoms. My Brother advised me to try Swamp-Root. I took several bottles of this remedy with excellent results. At the time Swamp-Root was recommended to me, my condition was such that I found it an effort in stooping or bending and in attending to my duties as Manager of the $9.99 Store at 122 Main St., Evansville, Ind. Emmeline, Ind. Subscribed and sworn before me, this 21st day of December, 1911 EDW. A. TORCHE, Notary Public. Prove What Swamp-Root Will Do For You Send ten cents to Dr. Kilmer & Co. Binghamton, N. Y., for a sample size bottle. It will convince anyone. You will acquire a booklet of valuable information, telling about the kidneys and bladder. When writing, be sure and mention this paper. Regular fifty-cent and one-dollar size bottles for sale at all drug stores.-Adv. He Knew Slim. "I say, Slim is about to retire from business," said one man to another. "He's going to devote the remainder of his life to doing good." "Really?" asked the other, with a humorous twinkle in his eye. "And who is he—Good, I mean?" 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 fuffy, soft, thick and beautifully dark and lustrous. Q-Ban is not a dye, is harmless, and is sold on a money back guarantee by drug stores; big bottle 50c or sent prepaid by Q-Ban, Front St., Memphis, Tenn.-Adv Hereditary. "She doesn't seem to mind the subway crush at all. Crowds never bother her a bit." "No wonder! Her ancestors came over in the Mayflower." Whenever You Need a General Tonic Take Grove's The Old Standard Grove's 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. A. Son-of-a-Gun. Omar—Marks fell asleep in a car and awoke to find himself rifled. Heiny—He must have been loaded. 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. Much happiness or misery lies within the circle of a wedding ring. Fulton Mothers N Children's They Find Vap-O-Rub Better Than In- Mrs. J. S. Pugh, 510 Market St., and Mrs. Mary Bolton, 105 Ravine St., both of Fulton, Mo., have found, in common with many other Missouri mothers, that it is no longer necessary to dose children with internal medicines for cold troubles. In the South Vick's Vap-O-Rub is the standard remedy for these troubles, but it was only last winter that it was introduced here. Vap-O-Rub was discovered by a North Carolina druggist. He found how to combine Menthol and Camphor with the volatile oils of Thyme, Eucalyptus, Cubebs and Juniper, in salve form, so that when applied to the body, the ingredients are vaporized by the body heat. These vapors are inhaled with each breath, through the air passages, to the lungs, carrying the medication direct to the affected parts, and, in addition, Vick's is absorbed through the skin, taking out the tightness and VICK'S VAP "Does anybody know how Van Geld made his money?" "Evidently not. Otherwise Van would probably be in jail." 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. In order to pose as a first-class theorist a man must have perfect confidence in his imagination. Dr. Pierce's Pellets are best for liver, bowels and stomach. One little Pellet for a laxative—three for a cathartic.—Adv. Ridicule never kills unless the death is deserved. Children Who Are Sickly When your child cries at night, tesses restlessly in its sice, is constipated, fecal wish or has symptoms of worms, you feed them soft food and provide their own comfort and the welfare of their children, should never be without a box of Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children for use throughout the season. They tend to Break up Cold, relieve Feverishness, Constipation, Teeth Disorders move and regulate the body and destroy Worms. These powders are pleasant to take and for parents to use. They for parents to stomach, act on the Liver Trade Mark, and give healthy sleep Don't accept by regulating the child's any substitute. They brought son. They need to Break up Cold, Give Feverishness, Constipation, Teething Disorders, move and regulate the Bowels and Waste. We use powders are pleasant to take and easy for parents to give. They cleanse the stomach, act on the Liver, give healthful sleep by regulating the child's any substitute system. Used by mothers for 23 years. Sold by all druggists, 25 cts. Sample mailed FREE, Address, Mother Gray Co., Le Roy, N. Y. Be sure you ask for and obtain Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children. The Importance of Healthy Kidneys In the removal of waste material from the body, the kidneys are called upon to perform a very important duty. The failure of these marvelous and delicately constructed organs to properly do their work means retention in the system of poisonous matter. This poisons the system, and if permitted to remain results in severe backache, headache, torpid liver, constipation, and eventually Bright's disease. About 40 years ago Warner's Safe Kidney and Liver Remedy, a combination of herbs and other healthful ingredients, was discovered; its value in strengthening the kidneys and liver was at once appreciated. And today it stands as one of the standard remedies in the treatment of diseases of the kidneys and liver. Many persons suffer from diseases of the kidneys unknowingly. The use of Warner's Safe Kidney and Liver Remedy will invariably improve your health, and make you feel that life is really worth the living. It is sold by all druggists in 50c and $1.00 sizes. A sample free if you write WARMER'S SAFE REMEDIES CO., Rochester, N.Y. ECZEMA! A! "Hunt's Curse" is guaranteed to stop and permanently cure that heart attack. You'll be surprised that your money will be promptly refunded without question. Richie K. Ichsena, Tetter Ring Worm, hits other skin disease, so the box. For sale by all drug stores or by mail from the A. B. Richards Medicine Co., Sherman, Tex. PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM A toilet preparation of merit. Helps to eradicate dandruff. For Restoring Color and Beauty to Oiled Hair. 60c. and $1.00 at Drugs. W. N. U., ST. LOUIS, NO. 17-1916. soreness. This double action makes Vap-O-Rub really a remarkable remedy for many forms of inflammations. Either inflammations of the air passages, such as head colds, catarrh, bronchitis, sore throat, or deep chest colds, or inflammations of the skin tissues, such as burns, bruises, stings, piles, itchings and muscular soreness. It is particularly recommended for small children, as it can be used freely, with perfect safety, on the youngest member of the family. But let these Missouri mothers speak for themselves. Mrs. Bolton writes—I have used Vap-O-Rub on baby for bad colds. Results were excellent. I find it better than any internal medicine I ever used." Mrs. Pugh's experience is—"I tried your Vap-O-Rub on three of my children for bronchitis. They would cough so hard at night I could not sleep, so would get up and rub their throats and chests with Vap-O-Rub and they seldom coughed any more that night, and after I had kept it up for several nights they stopped coughing. I be lieve it is better than taking so much medicine internally." Three sizes, 25c, 50c or $1.00. At ad druglusts. Metropolis Gazette PUBLISHED ON FRIDAY BY THE GAZETTE PRINTING CO. METROPOLIS, . . . . ILL. MRS. M. J. MOCRARY, MANAGER J. B. MOCRARY, FINTOR FRIDAY APR. 28, 1916. Office 9th and Pearl Streets, Metropolis, Illinois. Enterered as second-class mail matter, at Metropolis, Illinois, Postoffice. Address all communications to J. B.McEARY, 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 viidity each week. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: One Year.....$1 00 1z Months.....75 Three Months.....49 Single Copy.....05 Star 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 ROBERTS, as a candidate for State's Attorney on the Republican ticket, subject to the will of the voters at the September primary election. For Circuit Clerk. We are authorized to announce the name of NORMAN F. IMMAN, as a candidate for Circuit Clerk on the Republican ticket, subject to the will of the voters at the September primary election. We are authorized to announce the name of ABRHN H. FINLEY, as a candidate for Circuit Clerk, on the Republican ticket, subject to the will of the voters at the September primary election. We are authorized to announce the name of ORAL P. TUTTLE, as a candidate for member of the Legislature, on the Republican ticket, subject to the will of the voters at the September Primary election. TO THE BAPTIST WOMEN OF THE STATE. 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 did represent last year. Do not forget sister O'Connor 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. Mrs. Roxy McGee, of Murray, Ky. spent several days in the city last week the guest of her friend, Mrs. Lavada Spurlark. Mesdames Ruth Nichols, and Lela Hines, in company with Misses Lizzie Mae and Glapys Morton, left the city Monday for Hartford, Ky., where they will visit relatives indefinitely. Rev J. B. McCrary, was with Unity, Brookport Easter Sunday and reports splendid services. Jessee Acre, of Joppa, was in the city Tuesday on business. Ambus Wiley, of Brookport, was in the city Wednesday. Easter was observed at all of the Churches. Appropriate exercises were rendered to unusually large audiences at each coming to-gether. Several of the Metropolis peowere Paducah shoppers last week. For good-looking ladies and girls come to Metropolis. You should have been in this city Sunday and peeped at these High Browns. They were "Tipping Sweet." The egg hunt Monday eve. under the auspices of the Tribe of Dan, at the home of Prof. and Mrs. McCelland Smith, was a decided success financially. Rev. B. C. Long, of Choat, and Messrs. Ledstnger, and Davis, of Choat and Joppa, respectively passed thru the city Thursday at noon enronte for Paducah, Ky. where they attended a Presbyterian meeting. Miss Mary Lue Blackwell, who spent the winter in Paris, Ill. arrived in the city last Thursday after-noon to visit relatives and friends. In this issue of the Gazette will be found the announcement of Norman F. Inman, as a candidate for the office of Circuit Clerk of Massac county on the Republican ticket. A more extended write-up will appear later in this paper. Mrs. Harriett Jefferson, and son Hallie, of East St. Louis, arrived in the city Sunday to attend the wants of the formers father, Mr. Mingo Long, who has been quite sick, but is now convalescent. Misses Ella Long, and Izora Davis, were at their homes in Brookport, Easter visiting relatives and friends. Edgar S. B. McCrary, was in Brookport Saturday on business. Mrs. Effie Rhodes, of 1701 Madison, st. Garie, Ind, arrived in 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. $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 catarrah 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. 75c. the city last week where she will visit relatives and friends Rev. J. H. Patterson, pastor of the Free Baptist Church this city left Tuesday of last week for Marion, Ky., where he attended the Quarterly Conference. Mrs. Ida Mae Hooper, returned home Monday after visiting relatives and friends in Ten. Send us 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 Gazetre. Rev. J W Davie, the pastor of the 1st, Baptist Church this city is in a series of revival meetings. He is being ably assisted by Revs. Diggs and Evans, of Ky. The former is preaching powerful sermons each evening to large and appreciative audiences and the latter Rev. Evans, is leading the song service and is singing strong Gospel songs. The Services were at a high pitch Sunday. 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. ROCKFORD, ILL., Apr. 21. Miss Agnes Johnson and Mr. Will Upshaw were quietly married at the A. M. E. parsonage by Rev. Lewis Tuesday at 7 p.m. A reception was given to close friends and relatives at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Upshaw for them. They will reside at 622 Loomis street. Miss Anna Roberts, closed a very successful term of school at Joppa, Wednesday the 19th. Tue parents to-gether with the pupils are in hopes that she will be re-employed for another term. Eugenne Jefferson, of East St. Louis, arrived in the city Tuesday to visit his grand-parents, Mr. and Mrs. Mingo Long, and other relatives. Messr. Hallie Jefferson, and Edgar McCrary, were Paducah visitors Tuesday. The Unity Baptist Church rendered a fine program Sunday after-noon. The Belgrade S. S. took an active part. Rev. Berry Thomas, arrived home Monday from Paris, Ten., where he visited his relatives and preached several sermons. Rev. Diggs, visited in Paducah, Ky, Tuesday after-noon. Mr. and Mrs. Thos P. King, of Unionville, were in the city Wednesday on business. Rev J. T. Evans, who assisted Rev. Davie, in his meeting left the city Tuesday for Paducah. Native Salve. We have just recived some more of Native Salve and it is going very fast, those in Carbon and Md. City can secure a box or more now by 50c, per box. Act quick if you want it Send all orders to Rev. J B. McCrary. Hon. Oral P. Tuttle, of Harrisburg, called on the editor this week and placed his announcement as a candidate for the Legislature from the 51st Senatorial district. See announcement in regular column. Rev. W. T Franklin, of Kansas City, Kansas, passed thru the city enroute to Duquoin. He paid the Gazette a pleasant call. It will pay our readers to trade with those who advertise in this paper. By doing so you help men who believe in asking for your trade thru Race papers. See Krebs Clothing Co's. big ad and then hasten there for some of their many bargains before it is too late. In this issue of the Gazette will be found the announcement of Arthur H. Finley, as a candidate for Circuit Clerk on the Republican ticket to succeed himself. His write up will appear next week. ORAL P. TUTTLE In this issue of the Gazette will be found the name of Oral P. Tuttle as candidate for a member of the Legislature. He wishes to succeed himself. He made a splendid showing in the 49th General Assembly, and it is but fair to give him anothe, term. A more extended write up will appear in the uear future. In the case of the City vs Thos. Gillam, of 9th and Broadway, for conducting a disorderly house was tried in the City Court Saturday, before a Jury and the defendent was found guilty and fued. This place is known as the Union Hotel and many complaints have gone in against the management. IN MEMORIAM. A Great And Sainted Man It was Thursday A. M. when the very, very sad intelligence reached me thru our friend Bio. D. Farrow, saying that Rev. Jno. H. Knowles, D D., almost a lifelong companion in Baptist circles and christian work and the very best friend that I have ever had in the Association and Educational work was dead. The first impression I must say which ran over me was, that a long useful, unselfish and consecrated life, entirely devoted to the interest of his race is at an end, but his influence will live on through the years of unbroken ages. He was in the thickest of the conflict during the war of the Rebellion, fighting for Freedom. He was ever faithful to the trust placed to his care by Jesus his captian, who called him into service several years ago. He was ever faithful to his people which naught but death could separate him from them. Truly a great man has fallen, one void of selfishness and revenge, one whose life was filled with alm deeds, the seeds sown nearly fifty years ago is still bearing precious fruit to the glory of God and the future happiness of his race and the Baptist. He was one of the leading spirits of the Mt. Olive Baptist Association and S. S. Convention of Southern Illinois, having served as Moderator, Clerk, Treasurer, of same and at the time of his death was the Missionary of Dist. I. and President and trustee of Livingston Normal, Industrial and Theological Institute of Illinois. He had won national fame and honor. He will be sorely missed by the leaders and laity of Illinois who had learned to look upon him as one of the most consecrated Christian men of his age. We mourn his departure yet we recommend him to that sweet, sweet rest which he has earned by almost ceaseless toil, fully realizing that heaven is enriched by him going home, but we are made the poorer by being denied of his fatherly and Godly counsel and excellent Christian service. Walter Roberts, Solicitor 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 Mas- ac and State of Illinois, sell at public venture 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. S. BARTLETT KERE, Master in Chancery. W. L. Krone, Solicitor. Master in Chancery Sale, State of Illinois, Massac County, ss. In the Circuit 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. Bilt 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 cause. 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. 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 decree entered at the April Term of said court, 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 20th, 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. 'Dignamism. Dignam tolls us: "There are many risks in business. The wise man allows his competitors to take thee." Nashville, Tenn., Your Honor Sir:— In behalf of the Woman's Industrial Club an auxiliary of this, the First Baptist church of Metropolis, having been organized only for a short time of five weeks I take great pleasure in presenting to you this little souvenir, a Desk Set, in honor of our appreciation of you as a gentleman of our race with such noted distinction. I assure you, we as a Club of christian women do highly appreciate the honor of having you in our midst. Learning of y u and your ability years ago is a race Leader, we held you in steem. But since having listened to so noble and wise address from your lips, and having met you we must say that appreciation is doubled, our determination to follow the instructions of our own worthy Leaders, and this evening finds us leaving this house with better and greater resolutions. Trusting that you will never forget the true christian women that compose the Women's Industrial Club of this city that have also prepared a Luncheon in your honor to be served at the residence of Rev. and Mrs. J. B. McCrary, 9th & Pearl Sts. Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime And departing leaves behind us Foot prints on the sands of time. Respectfully, Members of the Club. 12 Reasons Why We Need Saloons 1. Because of its moral uplift to the town. 2. Because it is such a law-abiding institution. 3. Because of its purifying influence on politics. 4. Because its patrons get so much value for their money. 5. Because it makes business for the court and for the police. 6. Because drinking intoxicants helps one to get a good job and keep it. 7. Because saloons always make cities saler, and better places for boys and girls to grow up in. 8. Because all right-minded people, fathers and mothers pray that their boys may become saloon-keepers. 9. Because drunkards, the finished product of the saloon, make such good husbands and loving fathers. 10. Because they help the homes, schools and churches in building up character and raising up honest, sober and prosperous citizens. 11. Because the money spent for booze leaves so much money to circulate with honest merchants in paying debts and buying groceries. 12. Because we need the elevating social environment for the benefit of the women and children who walk our streets; for their sake vote for more saloons —Dr. Clarence True Wisconsin. 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 Art of Sleeping. Slumber commences at the extremities, beginning with the feet and legs. That is why it is always necessary to keep the feet warm—Family Doctor.