Metropolis Weekly Gazette

METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE FRFD SMITH Candidate for State's Atty. In this issue of the Gazette will be found the announcement of Fred Smith for State's Attorney on the Republican ticket. He is too well known by the voters to require a long write up as he served in said office for four years. He is well qualified for the place and makes an excellent public servant should he elected. Give his claims a fair and an impartial consideration before voting. To the Officers and Members of the Ladies Industrial Club First Baptist Church, Care Mrs. J.B. McCrary, Metropolis, Ill. Dear Christian Friend: Words are inadquate just now with which to thank you collectively and them individually for the hospitable way in which I was entertained while in your city. It shall remain green in my memory for years and years and I shall be only too glad to return the favor in my humble. Only those who are recipients of such an outburst of hospitable entertainment can sympathize with me in my effort to find an expression that would do justice to the occasion. Years truly, H. A. Boyd, Ass't. Secretary, Nashville, Tenn. St. Paul, Minnesota. Mrs. Alice A. Moore, of Syracuse, N. Y., who was called to St. Paul some days ago by the death of her sister, Mrs. Ridgeway, was in attendance at the morning service at Pilgrim Baptist church Sunday. She is now about decided to buy a home and locate permanently in St. Paul. Mrs. Moore is increasing the colored citizens of this city favorably during her stay among them. She is a widow of considerable means. The Pilgrim Baptist church of this city is beginning one of the largest campaigns undertaken by colored church people in this city. The magnificent property they now own is located in the down in town district half way between the old state Capitol building and the new Capitol building It is the most commodious and valuable church property of any colored congregation in Minnesota. Since the congregation came into its present site about forty years ago, a very noticeable change has been made in the resident district of the city. What was at that early date the principal resident district for the larger number of colored citizens is now the real business district. The majority of the members of the church who own their property live more than twenty blocks from the church. Almost $30.00 is spent each Sunday by this congregation for car fares. This is more than $1,000.00 a year spent by the congregation for the lone purpose of reaching their place of Public worship. After studying the condition for more than a year, Rev. B. N. Marrell, the pastor, suggested to the church that it is advisable that steps be taken at once to buy a plot of land (two lots on some corner) in the center of the colored resident district and pay for it in full. When it is the property of the church, then it will the aim of the congregation to set itself to work raising money enough to build and complete a new mod in house in which to worship, and a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LIBRARY MAY - 8, 1916 ETROPOLIS MOTTO: "HE OLUME XIX. NO 9. METR new modern six room Parsonage to be used as the home for the pastor. This suggestion of the pastor was unanimously indorsed by the Trustee and Deacon Boards and unanimously adopted by the church. A committee of three was elected by the church to selec- t the new location. The past- er is chairman of the committee presented. Come pre- as a christian- ting to send for the Nee It is believed that within the next two months the site will have been selected and the campaign will under way to pay for the lots. The whole membership of the church is enthusiastic over the prospects of having the chance to build them a church house more easily accessible to all without the necessity of paying car fare each service. The chairman of the trustee Board reported that already some flattering prices are being offered to the property where the congregation now worships. Frank Denney "Waxed Fat And Kicked" It comes to the writer through one of the members of the California Jubilee Singers, that the road manager, Frank Denny, absconded with $100.00 of the Company's money. He was the first Tenor singer of the Quartet, and proved to be a very valuable asset to the Company. Like others of his class, it required time to determine his real value. Fortunate for the Company that he showed his rightful self at the time he did. The only necessity for the Company to do in this city of Negro Singers was to make known their wish. With four hours Mr. Denney's place was filled by Mr. Claude Jackson of this city. Mr. Jackson is a singer of real merit. He is the Director of a choir in a white Catholic church where for years he has been given that trust. With his service the Jubilee Company is going on taking its engagements Certainly the criminal class of the black folks is emulating the criminal class of the white folks. Not only is the criminal class of the white folks. Not only is the criminal class of the white people guilty of having committed every wrong in the catalogue of crimes, but by his often repeating of it he is teaching the lesson daily to his black brother. Beware of the criminal class let it be white or black. They are both from, and will return to their father, the Devil, Guilty of "The Mann Act" Who Jack Johnson? Oh! no, not this time. it is another white man and more, it is a Negro woman who he brought from Texas to Minnesota for the purpose (she satisfies) of satisfying his lustful desires. What has the Associated Press to say of this case through the dailies? Answer—Nothing. W. H. GREENE. To The Baptist Women Of The Mt. Olive Bapt. Association. This is to remind you that the Missionary Baptist of the State will meet in Sparta, Ill; May 23-28 with New Hope Baptist church Rev. P. B. French, pastor it is the earnest wish of our District president, Mrs. M. J. Blake, that every W. E. M. Society belonging to the District be NOTICE 1916 LIS W TO : "HEW TO THE LINE, LE METROPOLIS. ILLIN MOTTO : 'HEW TO THE LINE. LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY ' r presented in the state work Come prepared to do your part as a christian worker, not forgetting to send or bring something for the Needle work department. Editor: Please allow me space in your worthy paper to say that our S. S. is progressing nicely. Our regular attendance has grown larger and too, we have some money in treasure. The Easter program was nicely arranged by Mrs. Ala Boden, a large crowd attended the exercises Rev. A. Love ace and wife of Murphysboro were present. Deacon Ed Tidell attended the Rally at Md City Sunday. The Trinity Missionary Baptist church has elected Rev. Willingham of Md City for their pastor and is very much pleased with him. Floyd Shofner and brother have returned home from Dewmaine, where they have been visiting relatives. Mr. Editor: Allow me space in your worthy paper to say we are yet on our march to glory. The Sunday School was open at 9:30 a.m. by the Supt. all teachers were present. The lesson was timely reviewed by Bro. Eugene Wallace. At 11:00 Rev. M. E. Parnell ascended the rostrum and preached a powerful sermon using the words Peter therefore was kept in Prison. Acts 12:5. After preaching the pastor and congregation went to the water where seven candidates were baptized. At 3:00 p. m. the church reassembled and had prayer and praise service. After this the right hand of fellowship was given to the candidates. At 8:00 p. m. Rev. French preached a powerful sermon from Romans 8:1. M. C. Wrice and W. M. Macklin are doing a fine job of painting the church on the inside to make preparation for the state convention which is only a few days hence. The Sewing Circle will be sociably entertained at the home of Mrs. Nettie Macklin this week. The Carnation Club will be entertained at the home of Mrs. Agnes Smith. Mrs. Essie Oliver was a Murphysboro visitor last week. Rev. M. E. Parnell was royally entertained at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Macklin. Rheumatism, Piles, Kidney Troubles, Bladder Troubles, Heart Troubles, Female Troubles, Stuff Joints, Syshilists, of All Discriptions, Indigestory Corns, Bunlons, Lost of Manhood, All Kinds of Swelling and Fever, Neuraligia. Worms, in Children, All Kinds of Skin Diseases, Mumps, Diptheria, Weak Eyes, All Kinds of Pains, Pneumonia, etc. When your doctor falls, buy you a box Emma Farrow. Cor. Secretary. TAMMS SPARTA J. J. Taylor. DENMAINE. Dear Editor: Please allow me a small space in your worthy paper to say that our church and Sunday School is progressing nicely. Rev. Phillips was with his people Sunday and had three cannies for baptism. William Phillips, the son of West Phillips and Mrs. L. Huggins is on the sick list. Messrs Wilke Wilks, Hertass McRandle and Ben Eason left Sunday for Hot Springs, Ark. The community hope they will be greatly benefited. Mr. A. Perkins and son left for Pulaski, Saturday. Rev. A. J. Bowers and Mr. Panla Jones were Carlondale visitors Saturday. Rev. R. Carron of St. Louis, preached at the Mt. Zion Baptist church Wednesday night. Mrs H Brown left Saturday for Grand Tower, to visit her father. Mr Win Prentice left Wednesday for Peoria, to attend the Miner's Convention Mr Albert Watson has returned from St. Louis. Prof Joseph Douglass the graet Violinist rendered an excellent program here Thursday evening. UNIONVILLE. Editor of the Gazette: Kind $1: You will please allow me a small space in your paper to say a few things about the Siloam Baptist church. We had a grand Easter program which was enjoyed by all present. We also had a good Sabbath School. It was very sad indeed to us to hear of our pastor's sudden demise. We must say that we lost a good pastor, he rendered us good services while he pastored us. To the bereaved we shall not forget them in our prayers. H. T. King. MOTICE. Dear Sisters: the time is fast approaching for the State Association that was organized at Centralia last year and the president is asking all local societies in the churches of each District to represent at this meeting and we hope to have a good representation from the Mt Olive district. I have not heard from our missionary and don't know whether she has been able to visit any of the churches or not, but my dear we should not let our banner trail in the dust. We should hold up the standard of the Baptist everywhere. I am settled at home for awhile, but I am going to work in this part of the field, as the work is somewhat dull at present, but we have a lively set of B. Y. P. U. workers. They are doing real good work and I hope to be able to say the same of the W. E. & M. Society Remember the State work is calling for you in May and will convene with the Sparta Church. The fee for the District is $5.00 and local $2.50. The women will meet on Friday and I hope that each president will send me their address so they can receive their letter Hanks. I also have constitutions on hand; any I call desiring them may write me. I also ask that each local put out small bags and let each member solicit $100 for the Educational Cause. Remember we should work while we live. We have lost a Christian Man and the Press of the Livingston Normal, in the person of the late Rev. J. H. Knowles, so let us close up the Rank and press forward. Yours for Christ, M. J. Blake, President. LOWDEN OPPOSES FOREIGN ALLIANCES POINTS TO WISE WORDS OF FIRST PRESIDENT UPON ENTANGLING RELATIONS. UPHOLDS INTERNATIONAL LAW Colonel Favers Adequate Preparedness Against Aggression in Washington Birthday Address Before Galesburg Business Men. Galesburg, Ill., Feb. 22.—The Washington birthday address, under the auspices of the business men of this city, was delivered at the Galesburg club tonight by Col. Frank O. Lowden of Oregon, Ill. Colonel Lowden repeatedly quoted from the patriotic farewell address of the first president to sustain the points made by him against entangling alliances and in favor of preparedness for peace and the maintenance of morality. "There are men today who boldly assert," said Colonel Lowden, "that because international law has been violated by all the belligerents, we need no longer concern ourselves with international law. This assumes that the old rule of force, and force alone, must govern in relations between nations. It means that international morality is a chimera. It means that the great words—Good Faith, Justice, Sacredness of Plighted Word—stop at a nation's boundaries and are obsolete when applied to nations in their dealings with one another." After quoting Washington's advice to "observe good faith and justice towards all nations," Colonel Lowden declared: "It has been gravely urged in some quarters that we should so shape our course as, at the end of the war, to be in a position to divide with some other nation the trade of the world. Here materialism again speaks. If we listen to this selfish appeal, we will have abdicated our high position in the councils of the world. We have but one duty and that is to ascertain strictly what our rights and duties were under international law, as it existed at the outbreak of this war, and then insist upon our rights and perform our duties, absolutely indifferent as to whether or not it shall profit us in the end. It is peculiarly the mission of America, which was founded upon law, to insist upon the principle of law in international relations. Listen again to this wonderful address: 'But even our commercial policy should hold an equal and impartial hand; neither seeking nor granting exclusive favors of preferences.' War of Alliances Raging. "We have heard often of recent years, and we shall hear oftener in the future, of permanent alliances, either with some power of Europe or with the growing countries in South America. The specious plea will be made, and indeed has been made, that we can form an alliance which will preserve the peace of the world. When has an alliance ever had this effect? The greatest war in history which is now raging is a war between alliances. We are told that the Monroe doctrine can only be maintained by a Pan-American alliance. I do not know whether or not we can maintain the Monroe doctrine alone, but I do know that if we must depend upon the republics to the south of us for its maintenance we would better abandon it. "'Tis our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world.' So says this great address of Washington, and these words are truer today than ever before in our history. No treaty of alliance can be made by which you can receive foreign aid without becoming responsible for foreign faults. In the maintenance of peace with other lands, we have got all we can do to answer for the transgressions of our own people, without taking upon ourselves the transgressions of others." 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. F. 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., Corr. Sec'y of the Mt. Olive Convention. Ex-Grand Master George H. Jessie, Dead. Ex-Grand Master George H. Jessie, Dead. Ex Grand Master of Prince Hull Mason Grand Lodge, died suddenly Sunday night about 8 o'clock after a long illness as his home in Mattoon. Bro. Jessee had served as grand master several years and was succeeded by Bro. A. A. Martin of Cairo, about three years ago. Bro. Jessie stood high in ma-sonic circles and as a citizen. He was a barber and conducted one of the best shops in the city. The Gazette is in deep sympathy with his wife and relatives. Peace to his ashes. EX-Grand Master Henry E. Burris. Dead. of Rock Island, Ill. Ex-Grand Master, Henry E. Burris, who was elected several times to preside as Grand Master over the Prince Hall Masonic Grand Lodge, of Illinois, died recently at his home. He was a city mail carrier at the time of his death and had served for a quarter of Century and had made many lasting friends who held him in high esteem. The prominent white citizens requested to be allowed to act as poll bearers and King Solomon Masonic Lodge of which he was a member granted their request allowing them to act as honorary pall bearers. He was Supt., of the Masenic Home, which is located in that city and rendered very valuable service to the jurisdiction. The Order has lost a very useful member, the city an upright and industrious citizen, the children a loving father and the wife, a devoted husband Peace to his slumbering dust. Variety. New Mald-"Please, mum, there's a man at the door come to collect on something yew bought on the installation plan." Mistress-"Ask him whether it's the encyclopedia, the phonograph, the brass bed, the piano, or the sewing-machine."-Harpes's Barar PROSPERITY IN WESTERN CANADA 900 Million Dollars in New Wealth Added in 1915. Canada as a whole has enjoyed wonderful prosperity in 1915, from the products of the farm, the orchard and the centres of industry. No country wrote a brighter page of history in agricultural and industrial development during 1915 than Canada. Nearly a billion bushels of grain produced. Taxes in Western Canada average $24 and will not exceed $35 per quarter section, which includes all taxes. No taxes on improvements. When Western Canada was faced with her enormous harvest last fall the military authorities decided that soldiers in Canada could give the Empire no better service for the time being than to assist in harvesting the crops. For that reason leave of absence was given to soldiers who wished to work in the harvest fields, and their labor was an important factor in harvesting the big crops successfully. The necessity for increasing the agricultural production is commanding even more attention in 1916, and it is now announced that soldiers in Canada may obtain leave of absence from their military duties in the spring for a certain length of time to enable them to plant the seed for the crops in every Province of the Dominion. The fact that the Government recognizes the seeding and harvesting of Canada's crops as being of the first importance is perhaps the best evidence that conscription or any increase of taxes which would reduce the agricultural activity of Canada will never be considered by the authorities. Owing to the number who have enlisted for overseas service it has been found necessary to secure farm labor in the United States. It is hoped that fifty thousand can be secured.—Advertisement. Gold Dust by Mail. A Watertown (N. Y.) man has just received a bag of gold dust, mailed to him from Klondike in 1889, three tags with 20 addresses showing the lengths to which he had gone to prevent that filthy lucre's overtaking him. The flight of the average man from such a peril would make a glacier look like a Fokker airplane. SALTS IF BACKACHY OR KIDNEYS TROUBLE YOU Eat Less Meat If Your Kidneys Aren't Acting Right or If Back Hurts or Bladder Bothers You. When you wake up with backache and dull misery in the kidney region it generally means you have been eating too much meat, says a well-known authority. Meat forms uric acid which overworks the kidneys in their effort to filter it from the blood and they become sort of paralyzed and loggy. When your kidneys get sluggish and clog you must relieve them like you relieve your bowels; removing all the body's urinous waste, else you have backache, sick headache, dizzy spells; your stomach sours, tongue is coated, and when the weather is bad you have rheumatic twinges. The urine is cloudy, full of sediment, channels often get sore, water scalds and you are obliged to seek relief two or three times during the night. Either consult a good, reliable physician at once or get from your pharmacist about four ounces of Jad Salts; 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 clean and stimulate aluggish kidneys, also to neutralize acids in the urine so it no longer irritates, thus ending bladder weakness. Jad Salts is a life saver for regular meat eaters. It is inexpensive, cannot injure and makes a delightful, effervescent lithia-water drink—Adv. Kindred Thoughts. "Do you know, John," remarked Mrs. Jaggs, as her liege lord stumbled upstairs, "that I've been awake for hours waiting for you to come home from the club?" "If that ain't just like a woman," growled Jags. "Here I've been at the club for hours waiting for you to go to sleep." 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. American dye works are now turning out coal tar colors at the rate of 15,000 tons annually, and a report on the present dystuff situation issued by the bureau of foreign and domestic commerce calls attention to the importance of the fact that those colors are being manufactured wholly from American raw material. To keep clean and healthy take Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets. They regulate liver, bowels and stomach—Adv. The Last Man. Little Lemuel—Say, paw, who do you suppose will be the last man on earth? Paw—Some shoemaker, probably. AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS With the view to making useful and better citizens the entire school forces of the Tuskegee institute are laboring vigorously, and the result will certainly reflect credit on the country conditions. Warren Logan, acting principal, has proved himself equal to the emergency and perfect co-operation prevails among the teachers. The wife and brother of Booker Washington are actively in the work, and their services and kindly touch are noticed in every department. From Tuskegee to the rural schools is spreading the growth of home improvement, and marks of a greater civilization is evidenced in the schoolrooms for miles around, and in many counties of the state; in fact, with the Rosenwald fund in circulation for school buildings, there have been built many civic centers for the farm neighborhood. These schools have inaugurated an alternate system of work and study, hence the kitchen, the garden, barnyard and home are the annex to the schoolhouse, and here the teacher lives. There were many white guests for this occasion, among them Doctor Hyde of Auburn, who gave a most helpful lecture on sanitary conditions in farm homes, and also in towns and cities, and told of the danger to health of the fly. He told of the danger to children, especially, and the death rate of 6,000 children under two years old in the last 12 months, he thought traceable to sanitary treatment. Also of the 4,000 cases of tuberculosis, of typhoid fever, and of pellagra, and the enormous death rate from preventable diseases. Doctor Holberger of the United States Marine hospital service told of the cause and treatment of pellagra. One statement he made will set many minds at ease. He says it is "no more contagious than an ingrowing toe nail." Also he stated that it was more a condition from lack of proper food and that the disease had never been cured by medicine. After a close study of conditions and scientific analysis, he finds a diet of simple food and a plenty of it, composed especially of good, lean meat, peas, cornbread, with plenty of milk taken regularly will cure almost invariably any case. Of course, sanitary conditions make conditions worse or better. These two lectures were delivered in such simple language, yet were so forceful, that every man and woman present received a valuable lesson. If nothing more had been said, they were worth the cost of transportation. These diseases are very prevalent among the Negroes. The schools, the industries, the lectures were all full of interest, but there was a great human interest on my mind—that is, how closely these students were linked with the history of a wonderful past. They are the descendants of old colored families we have, many, known before, and among the teachers many were from Virginia and the Carolinas who have been in touch with the old families and their traditions. Your editorial on the editorial of W. E. B. du Bois on Booker T. Washington is very suggestive and forceful. Chicago is as caste bound in social decorum as Mississippi, writes a correspondent of the Chicago Post. Some years ago a Negro, a graduate of Fisk university and of Oberlin college, visited me while on his way to Zululand as a missionary. In com Bishop Branston opened the fifty-third annual session of the Washington conference, in Leigh street Methodist Episcopal church at Richmond, Va. Rev. J. B. Hingeley, D. D., of Chicago, led in prayer. The bishop addressed the conference and administered the Holy Communion, assisted by the district superintendents. Rev. S. H. Norwood called the conference roll of membership. Rev. G. D. Johnson, Moses Opher and J. H. Tucker were reported as having died during the conference year. Rev S. H. Norwood was elected secretary; Rev W. S. Jackson, statistician, and Rev M. W. Clair, treasurer. Welcome addresses were delivered by Mayor Ainslie, Dr. W. T. Johnson of the Baptist church, and Rev Dr. S. S. Morris of the African Methodist Episcopal church. Doctor Widerman of Baltimore and Lev. J. B. Hingeley of Chicago made addresses. A check from the Book Concern for $2.733 was presented for conference claims. Sheep used as beasts of burden in northern India carry loads of 20 pounds. The plum, which was among the earliest of fruits to be cultivated and was raised when Thebes, Memphis and Damascus were in their glory, also grows wild in Asia, America and southern Europe. A portable but very powerful hydraulic press has been invented for bending large pipes to any desired curve without injury. The uses of whale oil are more numerous at the present time than ever before. METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE. METROPOLIS. ILL. pany with him I tried to obtain service at a restaurant and we were refused. We tried the barber shops, and were denied a shave. Together we then went to a number of hotels with similar experiences. Booker T. Washington unquestionably did the greatest work for the Negro, in the South, in the three R's and for industrial education—"the bond of politics and the deeper foundations of human training." In January, 1907, I was at Minster City, 125 miles south of Memphis. There I met a presiding elder, a clergyman of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, who told me the following story. I vouch for him as a man of truth. "My friend," he said, "you in the North do not understand Booker T. Washington as we understand him here in the South. Some months ago, by invitation, I sat on the platform at the Normal school at Tuskegee, and made an address to the students present—some 400 in number. I noticed that there was not a coal-black or full-blooded Negro among the students, and I asked Mr. Washington for the reason. He replied: "I have found that the full-blooded or pure Negroes do not advance beyond a certain point in their education. I have, by experience, tested and proven that only Negroes who have white blood in their veins comprehend the higher mathematics and sciences, and are the only ones who can become abstruse metaphysical thinkers. So I diplomatically guide the others into other channels of education." These facts may explain some things not generally understood in the educational system of the late Booker T. Washington. Assuming that the basis of what is termed national music is found in folk-song, it may be urged that American music, so far as it is peculiarly American, is based on Negro melodies. This finds support, for example, in Dvorak's "Symphony From the New York World," which abounds in melodies strikingly suggestive of our plantation tunes. True, it is contended that none of these melodies is to be found in Negro music, in the form in which Dvorka wrote them, but the influence of the plantation song is apparent. > OF Indian music, as it survives to us, there is much to be said, but, the scope of Negro folk-song is of more immediate importance, since its effect is more widely felt. But the Negro is not confined in music to melodies crooned in the field or wailed in meetings or chanted on decks. The musician is becoming less essentially Negro, and more widely musical. In other words, here and there Negroes are writing music; not merely repeating traditional tunes from generation to generation, but composing music that has no racial qualities to set it apart. In churches all over the English-speaking world, choirs are singing the works of Coleridge-Taylor, a Negro whose death a few years ago was regretted by all the world of music, and choral societies are singing his beautiful setting of "Hlawatha." And only last week, Amato, the great Italian barbette, sang in a concert in New York a song of warring Italy, which was composed by Harry G. Burleigh, a modern American Negro, whose music has been played in Richmond frequently, notably by that remarkable Negro organization, the Clet Club orchestra. The first American ancestor of Major Moton, the newly-elected principal of Tuskegee, was brought from the West Coast of Africa in 1735 and was the son of the chief of a powerful tribe. He had been entrusted by his father with a dozen of more slaves, captured in battle from a neighboring tribe, and he brought them down to the coast to sell to the American slave traders. The young African chief delivered these men to the captain of the ship and received his pay in trinkets. He was then asked to go out to see this wonderful sailing vessel. After he half inspected the ship, he was asked, by the captain to dine. He said that they gave him some nice things to drink, all of which he enjoyed so much that he fell asleep. When he awoke he was chained to one of the creatures he himself had sold, and the vessel was headed toward the United States.—World's Work. The Paris board of health has forbidden the sale and use of hair lotions containing tetra-chloride of carbon as dangerous to the heart, head and stomach. The tortuous Alaskan coast has so many indentations and promontories that its actual length is greater than that of the United States seaboard proper, all told more than 26,000 miles. A remarkable photograph of the trail of a meteor in flight recently was made by an English soldier in India. The British meteorological office has established a station for furnishing weather information and forecasts to aviators and aeronauts. Glass of Hot Water Before Breakfast a Splendid Habit Open sluices of the system each morning and wash away the poisonous, stagnant matter. Those of us who are accustomed to feel dull and heavy when we arise; splitting headache, stuffy from a cold, foul tongue, nasty breath, acid stomach, lame back, can, instead, both look and feel as fresh as a daisy always by washing the poisons and toxins from the body with phosphated hot water each morning. We should drink, before breakfast, a glass of real hot water with a teaspoonful of limestone phosphate in it to flush from the stomach, liver, kidneys and ten yards of bowels the previous day's indigestible waste, sour bile and poisonous toxins; thus cleansing, sweetening and purifying the entire alimentary canal before putting more food into the stomach. The action of limestone phosphate and hot water on an empty stomach is wonderfully invigorating. It cleans out all the sour fermentations, gases, waste and acidity and gives one a splendid appetite for breakfast and it is said to be but a little while until the roses begin to appear in the cheeks. A quarter pound of limestone phosphate will cost very little at your druggist or from the store, but is sufficient to make anyone who is bothered with billiousness, constipation, stomach trouble or rheumatism a real enthusiast on the subject of internal sanitation. Try it and you are assured that you will look better and feel better in every way shortly. Adv. Social Inanities. She—You know, Mr. Jones, I thought you much older than you are. He—Oh, no; not a bit, I assure you. TENDER SKINNED BABIES With Rashes and Irritations Find Comfort in Cuticura. Trial Free. Baby's tender skin requires mild, soothing properties such as are found in the Cuticura Soap and Ointment. Cuticura Soap is so sweet, pure and cleansing and Cuticura Ointment so soothing and healing, especially when baby's skin is irritated and rashy. Free sample each by mail with Book. Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston. Sold everywhere.—Adv. HOW HER HUBBY MADE OUT Woman Recounts Exploits of Her Worser Half During Brief Grass Widowhood. They were speaking of hubby's boast of how beautifully he can keep house the other evening, when this anecdote was smilingly related by Congressman Swager Sherley of Kentucky. Downtown recently Mrs. Jones met Mrs. Brown, and during the conversation that followed the latter told of a two-weeks' visit that she had just made to the home of her mother. "While I was away," continued Mrs. Brown, "my husband kept house, and insisted on cooking his own meals." "You don't really mean it," exclaimed Mrs. Jones. "How did he make out?" "Well," answered Mrs. Jones, heaving quite a long sigh, "when I got back I noticed that the parrot had learned to swear."—Philadelphia Telegraph. Italians in America As there are at least 2,500,000 Italians resident in the United States, some American manufacturing firms are planning to cater more largely for the household and personal wants of this population. Extensive imports, reaching in value many million dollars annually, are made for them, most of which might be produced in the United States. HANDY HUSBAND Knew How to Get Part of the Breakfast. "I know one dish I can prepare for breakfast as well as any cook on earth," said my husband one morning when the cook was ill and he had volunteered to help get breakfast. He appeared with his dish and I discovered it was Grape-Nuts which, of course, was easy to prepare for it was perfectly cooked at the factory, but it was a good illustration of the convenience of having Grape-Nuts about. "We took up Grape-Nuts immediately after returning from a five years' sojourn in a hot country. Our stomachs were in bad condition and we were in poor health generally. "In a day or two we liked Grape-Nuts better than any other kind of food on the table. We both gained steadily in health and strength, and this was caused by Grape-Nuts and Postum. "A friend of ours had a similar experience. She was seriously ill with indigestion and could find nothing to eat that would not give her heartburn and palpitation, especially at night. "She found that a small dish of Grape-Nuts with cream made her a satisfactory supper and gave her a comfortable night's rest. In a short time she gained several pounds in weight." "There's a Reason." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Ever read the above letter! A new one appears from time to time. They are genuine, true, and full of human WHY HE FELL FROM GRACE Indian's Excuse for Intoxication Not Altogether Complimentary to Ex-President Taft. John Cottonwood had not been a success as a total abstainer, though he had given the Indian agent in charge many promises of a better life. Finally a jail sentence of ten 'days at hard labor had a wholesome effect. The effect was not permanent. Cottonwood was brought in to the agent, if not red-handed at least very red-eyed. "I am ashamed of you, John. How did it happen?" asked the agent. "Have I your permission to explain?" courteously inquired the prisoner at the bar in a musical voice. "Go ahead." "It happened to me that my wife sent me to town with 75 cents she had earned washing that I might buy some groceries." "Well?" "I was walking down the street thinking how now I was able to pass the bad place where liquor is sold by the one-eyed Japanese at the back of the poolroom to Indians." "Yes." "When I arrived at the busy part of town I saw great crowds. I hurried to find why the whole city had come out upon the streets. I came to the steps of the First National bank which were crowded. I saw a friend there standing. I asked of him why so many were collected. He explained that this was a feast day for the reason that the Great Father from Washington, President William H. Taft, was to pass that way this day. Many had been assembled since early morning. I was a happy man. All my life had I wished to see the Great Father. I joined the throng and waited. All the day we waited. It was very hot. Many automobiles passed. The dust was like thick smoke. In the middle of the day came a great shouting. The music of the bands was loud. My heart stopped. My eyes were to see the Great Father. An automobile came up, then another. In the second one was awful bulk. I trembled. 'No.' I said to myself, 'that shape cannot be a Great Father from Washington.' But it was. I could not endure the pain I felt. The next thing I knew was nothing. I am here. I have no more to say. 'sorrowfully concluded the culprit—Kansas City Star. Our Native Humorists. John Kendrick Bangs takes no stock in the opinion that American humor is degenerating. In his new book of reminiscences, "From Pillar to Post," he even asserts that we are so surfeited with first-rate humor that we can't see the wood for the trees. "A period that has produced a Dooley and an Ade and an Irving Cobb and a Bert Leston Taylor," says Mr. Bangs, "is surely not poor in humorous possessions of a scintillating character, whether we demand that our humor shall be a product of pure fun or of profoundly serious thinking. "In the humor that is designed to interpret life itself I find an endless store of it in the works of Wallace Irwin, of Montague Glass, of Miss Edna Ferber and of Mrs. Alice Hegan Rice, the last two, by the way, forming a complete refutation of the preposterous notion that women are devoid of the sentiment that cheers but does not imbriate. "And as for the wits, if Oliver Herford were as lonely among wits as he is unique, I should still find that we were rich beyond measure in that form of humor which is for the most part intellectual, of the mind, rather than of the emotions." Record Load of Logs. The largest load of logs ever drawn by a team of horses hitched to a sleigh was recently hauled fifteen miles from a lumber camp in Beltramti county, Minnesota, to the town of Pine Island, where it was shipped on nine freight cars to the nearest saw mill. Six horses were required to haul the monster load, which consisted of 200 twelve-foot logs, weighing approximately 250 tons. When sawed up these logs produced over 50,000 feet of lumber. The fifteen-mile trip was made in a little more than eight hours, with occasional breathing spells for the horses. In winter logs are always hauled on sleighs, which is a much easier method of transportation than by wagon, inasmuch as the runners of the sleighs do not sink into the ground. It's Red Dye Now. So the red dye is all gone, and we cannot put any more red stripes on the flag nor wear red neckties. What about beet juice as a coloring fluid? But just think. The war has been in progress a year and a half. We have known about this dye shortage all the time. Are American chemists so poor and American capital so short and American enterprise so lacking that somebody has not by this time begun to see red in some plant?—St. Louis Star. Novel Weevil Remedy A droll report comes from Birmingham, Ala., of the success of a certain planter in producing a cotton plant that smells so strongly of asafetida that all insects avoid it. The result was obtained by sprinkling several generations, of the plant, with nux vomica. It is hoped that the new plant has solved the boll-weevil problem by depriving the weevil of its food. Censoring the Censor. "Mother," said Kittle, who had been at school with her big sister, "is Miss Morton tongue-tied?" "Not that I know of," said the mother. "why do you ask?" "She said 'beg pawdon,' and I thought maybe her tongue was tied so she could not say it right." How She Was Relieved from Pain by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. 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In these cases; particularly in cases of burns, it seems to draw out the inflammation and has a delightfully cooling effect. Three sizes, 25c, 50c or $1.00. The Vick Chemical Company, Greensboro, N. C. The Genius has VAPORUB This Trade Mark METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE, METROPOLIS, ILL A SPRINGTIME GHOST A SPRINGTIME GHOST "You see, Miss Ewing, the house has the reputation of being haunted." Judson, real estate arbiter of Princess Beach, looked as if he regretted the unfortunate savor of popular prejudice, but was powerless to avert it. "We couldn't rent it to a good customer without hurting ourselves. If this other party wants to buy for cash, I'd sell and call it good ridance." "But he only offers three thousand," Norma remonstrated. "That's perfectly absurd," Mr. Judson smiled deprecatingly, almost sadly. "Property has depreciated the last ten years, too, down along the shore here. I'd take this offer. It's cash, and you won't have any agent's commission to pay out of it. It hasn't been occupied for two years and the stories told are mighty freakish. I'm not superstitions, Miss Ewing, but I wouldn't live in it rent free." The gentleman in the seat forward turned his afternoon paper. Norma regarded the back of his head and shoulders in perplexity. It was hard trying to decide for herself without a single person to ask advice from excepting stout, bland Mr. Judson. The property at Princess Beach had come into her hands through inheritance while she was teaching domestic science in a college town of the middle West. And she had come East this spring with a real affection for it in her heart because it had been her grandparents' home once upon a time. It lay on a rise of ground above the beach, facing Princess Bay, its lawns sloping to the water's edge in terraces, with a long flight of concrete steps leading from the veranda down to a little boat landing. The house itself was wide and hospitable. It was painted a dull, mossy green, and had many clambering vines and several bay windows which jutted out enticingly here and there. There was a small conservatory on the south side next the big dining room, and plenty of fruit trees and berry canes up in the neglected garden. Altogether it seemed to suggest home to Norma, and there were no ties to take her back West. She left the train at Princess Beach and let Mr. Judson go on to Tottenville, where he lived. Perhaps this one last look at the house might help her to make up her mind, she thought. The occupant of the seat ahead got off at this station, too. He was a tall young man, with eye-glasses and a decidedly humorous mouth. He appeared to be a different type from others on the little jerky local train. As she turned down the road to the beach, he spoke to her. It was about her house. He had overheard Mr. Judson's remarks, and he knew the house, too; knew all about the ghost rumor. He himself had not the slightest antipathy to ghosts, it seemed. He was looking for a house on the water-front for the summer for himself and his grandfather. If she cared to close the deal then and there, he would take it for $200 for the season. "Grandfather's a bully old sport, and crazy after the water. The crabbing's fine from the old boat landing, and he'll potter around all summer long, happy as a clam. We've been pals ever since I was in rompers. Grandmother's promised to look us over every now and then to be sure we keep out of, mischief. She likes the city best on account of her clubs and committees and different interests." They went over the old house together. Norma had never penetrated to every room and recess, but the new tenant did, leaving her down on the wide veranda looking toward the sea. When he came back he had a whimical smile and a twinkle in his eyes behind their glasses. "I wouldn't say a word about the house being occupied, Miss Ewing, it might scare away our ghost, and I think I can lay a trap for him." Norma laughed at the time, without catching the significance of his words. It seemed no good to get the old place off her hands for the summer at a good rental that she had almost forgot the ghost. The next week she had a letter from her tenant, Lane Abbott. He had moved down quietly into the old house. Grandfather was having the time of his life planning a melon patch and small garden. Nobody seemed to realize they had moved in as yet. He had used an oil stove instead of building any fires, and had used the wood path to the station. Two letters came from Mr. Judson urging immediate action on the sale of the property. Norma wrote back that she had not quite decided yet what was best to do. Another letter from Abbott brought amusement, and some enlightenment. He had been quietly making inquiries at the local stores about the Ewing family ghost, and had been assured it was a visible presence which had been witnessed by many passers-by and neighbors. It appeared to prefer the old cupola, probably. Abbott suggested, on account of its exposed position. Maybe it had been accustomed to a pulpit in its earthly sojourn. Had she any knowledge of a ministerial ancestor? He added that they were only occupying three rooms in the south wing looking seaward, and were awaiting a manifestation. Only two days after this, Norma was called on the 'phone very early in the morning.' It was Abbott's voice. "I'm awfully sorry to get you out so early, Miss Ewing." he said heartily, "but we laud the ghost last night, and in the general mixup the cupola caught fire—" "Has the house gone?" exclaimed Norma. "Oh, no, indeed," he laughed. "Only the cupola and a slice of the roof on that north end facing the road. Come out and look it over." When she came in sight of the house somebody hailed her from the roadway. It was Mr. Judson in his runabout. He was redfaced and short spoken. "I want to know what you're going to do about this. My boy's been rough handled and burned—" Just here Abbott came leisurely by and opportunely down the lane. His left hand was bandaged, and one side of his hair was visibly singed: "Good morning, Miss Ewing!" he called cheerly. "How are you, Judson? How's the boy?" "You can learn that in court," replied Judson stiffly. "When a boy's life is endangered through a mere prank—" "Prank?" echoed Abbott. "Look here, Judson, that boy had the most complete spook outfit I ever came across, and he had it all nicely planted, too, where I hadn't hunted—in the old artic over the kitchen L. I caught him up in the cupola with his make-up all on, just lighting up the green fire in a tin pan. I waited till he had waved his arms about just as some automobiles came along the road, and then let out that long-drawn wall of his. Then he ducked down and changed his ghost cap for a skull face you know, Judson, that little trick with the red inandescents you work from a pocket battery, and the eyes give out a fiery glow. Well, I was so interested I forgot to grab him. I wanted to see what he'd do next, but he ducked around on me to go to another window, and when he saw me he stepped in the green fire, and I made for him. That white robe he wore caught fire, and I rolled him up in some strips of carpet in the attic till it went out. He isn't hurt much. I got a full witnessed statement out of him before I sent him home." He smiled pleasantly, up into Judson's face. "Of course, if you'd rather have it tried in court—" "Oh, pass it up," said Judson curtly. "I didn't know Miss Ewing had any other agents handling the property." "Mr. Abbott is my tenant," Norma corrected. "I hardly think that I need an agent, Mr. Judson. The property seems quite salable." They watched the runabout speed down the roadway and Abbott laughed heartily. "You know I've grown to love this place," Abbott said, lifting his chin to the wind that faced them. "The old scam! He deliberately planned to condemn it and buy it in at a sacrifice. It was a put-up job. I wanted to clear it up before grandmother came out to visit us. Couldn't you come the same week? We've got a Jap boy to do the work. It's a shame to waste these spring days." Just an underlying hint of something deeper in his words sent the color to Norma's face. He stood smiling down at her. "Besides you owe something to a good tenant, and I may stay here years. Would you give an option of purchase under certain conditions?" "I'll never sell," protested Norma, confusedly. "I love the old place too well. But—but I do hope you'll stay as long as you are happy?" "That's a life lease," he laughed. Over in the garden the old gentleman pottered around his seeds, like Father Time. He looked back once at the two in the lane and smiled. Spring and ghosts were doing their work well. (Copyright, 1916, by the McClure Newspa- (Copyright, 1916, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) How to Know Cotton Goods. An excellent way to increase one's knowledge of cotton is to obtain samples of first class materials in the standard weaves and study them. Beatrice Denison writes in Good Housekeeping. All large retail dry goods stores maintain an efficient staff of clerks to attend to requests for samples and welcome the opportunity to acquaint the public with their wares. By comparing these guaranteed goods with samples from cheap, less reliable shops, the student of fabrics will add very definitely to her knowledge. In experimenting with different grades of the same kind of material, in closely observing the feeling of weight, firmness, softness, smoothness, elasticity, harshness and stiffness, a host of interesting and delicate differences will be perceived. Nestled within the confines of a square mile in the Pyrenees, the ill-patent republic of Goust, smaller even than the republics of Andorra or San Marin, has had its independence recognized by France and Spain for the past three centuries. It has, says the New York Sun, a population of about 150. The people are ruled by a council of elders, and they pay no taxes or duties of any sort. This civic unit is so tiny that it has to go abroad for its cure of soul and body. For these, it has to go to Laurent, the nearest French town. Even the dead must leave Goust to find consecrated ground in which to lie; the coffins are slid downhill, out of the smallest republic in the world. "Are you afraid of war?" sneered the aggressive citizen. 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Office 9th and Pearl Streets, Metropolis, Illinois. Entered as second-class mail menter, at Metropolis, Illinois, Postoffice The names and addresses of contributors must be known to us in every instance, in order to secure publication. We want the news of your vicinity each week. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: One Year ..... $1 00 Ix Months ..... 75 Three Months ..... 40 Single Copy ..... 05 In Advance. You must mail copy on Mondays to secure publication. ANNOUNCEMENTS. 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. We are authorized to announce the name of ROY R. HEMM, 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 REMBERS, as a candidate for State's Attorney on the Republican ticket, subject to the will of the voters at the September primary election. FRED SMITH, is a Republican Candidate for State's Attorney, subject to the primary in September. For Circuit Clerk. We are authorized to announce the name of Norman P. Iman, as a candidate for Cilentr 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 Anthony H. Furnett, as a candidate for Cilentr Clerk, on the Republican ticket, subject to the will of the voters of 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 id 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, Kavelopes 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. Frank Howard of Brookport, was down Monday in the interest of Unity Baptist church and called at the office. Norman F. Inman, candidate for circuit clerk, paid the office a visit Saturday. Get the habit-trade at Krebs Clothing Company The store that sets the pace. In Hobson 'City, Ala, an exclusive negro town of 750 persons is the only town in the U. S. that is controlled entirely by negroes. There are 350 persons attending school. It is the only town in the state that is out of debt and with money in the treasury. Men of brain are at the head of the city government. Mrs. Mamie Harmon and Miss Izora Rodgers shopped in Paducah, Thursday. Mrs. Minnie Baker and Miss Vita Hughes were Paducah, shoppers Wednesday. You save money every time you purchase at Krebs Clothing Co. Eugene Jefferson, returned to his home in East St. Louis, Sunday. Prof. and Mrs. Ulysses Kivel, went to Paducah, Wednesday to reside indefinitely. Misses Gertrude Hall and Edith Jones attended a dance given in Laducah, Monday night. Base Ball Fans--get your summer outfit at the store that sets the pace--Krebs Clothing Co. Several of the Metropolis and Brookport people were present. Mrs. Belle Tyson and daughter Miss Adelaide, returned to the city Saturday after spending several days at their home in Princeton, Ky. Edgar McCrary was in Brookport Saturday. Mr. John Irvin and Miss Lavuda Martin were in Paducae, Monday. Fishing's good--so is the the pickin at Krebs Clothing Company. Suits, and Hats or hot weather. Persons who owe the Gazette would greatly lesson the financial burden of the publishers by remitting at once. 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 meet. I am your humble servant Bettie Wilkerson, $100 Reward, $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is catarrh. Hall's catarrh cure is the 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. cMENEY & oO., Toledo, O. Sold by all Druggists, 75e. Take Hall's Family Pills for consti- pation. Send us a trial order for the Great Nature Solve, 50c a Box. Why suffer when you can be re- ceived for such a small amount. Read our guarantee on the front page of The Gazette. Prof. McClelland Smith, closed a very successful term of school Friday at Belgrade. This was his 7th term there. At noon the parents served dinner on the grounds which was enjoyed by all. At 1:30 the pupils rendered one of the best program witnessed at that place. We believe in a square deal for all--one man's dollar is good as the other. Try us--Krebs Clothing Co. Rev J. M. Blake, passed thru the city Tuesday from Unionville, enrouted to his home in Hodges Park. 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. 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. SPARTA Mr. Editor, allow me space in your worihy paper to speak a few words concerning our church and S. S., which was opened by the Supt. J. Taylor, all teachers were present; the S. S. was reviewed by the S. S. Missionary, M. C. Wrice. In the morning Rev. French preached on the resurrection of Christ. At 3:30 an Easter sermon was rendered under the leadership of Mesdames Anna Owens and D Browning. The Carnation Club will be entertained at the home of Mrs. Malinda Haynes under the management of Mrs. M. Foster. The Sewing Circle will meet with Mrs O. Browning. The Gleanons Club will meet and give an entertainment at the home of Mrs. Amanda Wrice. Mr. and Mrs Eugene Wallace visited in Chester last week. Mrs. Leather Clayden of St. Louis Mo. is the guest of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Owens. J. J. Taylor Household Philosophies. "Strange what a difference there is." said the household philosopher, "between things we need and things we want. There are many things we need in the house, but never can find the money for, while somehow we can always find the money for things we want that we personally fancy." Native Salve. We have just, recieved 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. MOTHER'S DAY. Mother's Day will be observed the 2nd Sunday in May at the Unity Badtist church, Brookport by the church and Sunday School. Everyone is cordially invited to be present. All mothers should be present and the children should come to encourage the mother if she is living and if dead to do honor to her memory. Let us make this day brighter and happier for some one's mother. The white carnation should be worn by every one, as it is the flower selected The committee will take orders for the flower. Take part on the program. The Ladles Industrial Club of the First Baptist church, Metropolis will observe Mother's Day also on the 2nd Sunday night. Come and honor your mother with them. A special program will rendered. COMPANY OF SIX SUNDAYED AT REV. AND MRS. B. C. LONG'S COUNTRY HOME. Rev. Geo. Crippens, and wife, Mesdames Harriett Jefferson, of East St. Louis, Chas. S Reed, and Rev. J. B. McCrazy and wife, Sundayed at the lovely country home of Rev Benj. C. Long and family. We found them happy and in a prosperous condition. Rev. Long is one of the most industrious farmers in Grant precinct, not excepting anyone. He has a modern home with plenty of stock. He has in 100 acres of very fine wheat, 20 acres in elover, 20 acres of strawberries which demonstrates what an industries negro farmer can do. He has just put out 75 very fine variety of cherry trees for shipping purposes. He is a member of the shippers association and is figuring on clearing $1100.00 on berries alone this season. We all returned home voting him many prosperous years. MOUND CITY Dear Sir and Brother, allow me space in your paper to say that I had a letter from Rev Hillie stating that the Association could not meet at the 17th St. Baptist church at Murphysboro as they were not able to entertain the Association; therefore I shall have to change the place of meeting and will let you know later where it will meet. As the Association authorized me to change the date of the meeting of the Association so as to keep it from conflicting with the National Baptist Convention. Therefore I set Oct. 17th for the setting of the Nt. Olive Baptist Association. This will give all the Bros. a chance to go to the National Baptist Convention; if any Bro. in the district has any objection to this change, let me know through the columns of this paper. Please give all the churches notice of the change. Rev. D. Parrish. Moderator TAMMS Mr. Editor, please allow ace to say that Trinity Baptist church held its regular church meeting on April 6th and elected Rev. J. S. willingham for pastor Done by order of the church. Rev. J. S. willingham, pastor. Ethel Steele, clerk. NOTICE. All Messengers and Deligates 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. CONVICT ROAD TO BE SCENIC ASSET PLANNED FROM EAST ST. LOUIS TO CHESTER ALONG BIG RIVER OLD FORT GAGE ON WAY Prisoners in Southern Illinois Penitentiary Under Humane Policy of Governor—Honor Camp is Established. A state highway at the foot of the Mississippi river bluffs to run between East St. Louis, Ill., and Chester, perhaps to reach in time to Cairo, has been begun by convicts from the Southern Illinois penitentiary. Besides being a route of scenic and historic interest which is sure to make the completed read a national asset, it is believed this work will stimulate interest in good read building in southern Illinois. While this section of the state has been slower than the northern counties to take advantage of the law permitting the employment of convicts in road building, a beginning has been made. In the last season fifty six convicts were sent to Ava, Jackson county, and camped in tents furnished by the National Guard on the shores of a lake, while they worked on a road from Ava to the Mississippi river. This was the first "boner camp" of Southern Illinois convicts, and was christened "Camp Jackson." Leads to Historic Fort The section of the highway between Chester and East St. Louis now being built is between the prison and Fort Gage. The convicts working here have so far been housed in the prison. This is one of the oldest roads in the state. It was overgrown with trees and impassable during a large part of the year. The territory it traverses is of great historic interest, not only to people of Illinois, but to the entire nation. Fort Gage was an important British post during the revolutionary war and was captured by George Rogers Clark, the American general. Revolutionary relies in the middle West are few enough to be treasured. The outlines of the old fort are still plainly visible. Directly across the Mississippi river from Fort Gage is what is left of old Kaskaskia, which was first an Indian village, and then the first white settlement in the Mississippi valley, where settlers of what is now St. Louis, purchased supplies when the West was a wilderness. The river has washed away most of the old town situ. Near Fort Gage is a state cemetery known as the Garrison Hill Cemetery, to which the remains of the early settlers of Kaskaskia were removed by the state when the old cemetery was about to be washed away. Road Can Be Bufft Cheaply. In a report to Governor Dunne by the warden and commissioners of the Southern Illinois penitentiary, it is said the road to East St. Louis can be built from rock quarried from the bluffs nearby at small expense. Agitation has been begun to induce the counties through which the road must pass to bear their share of the expense. Not a man assigned to the road work from the Chester penitentiary attempted to escape last season, and the amount of work performed is said to have surprised experts. It is the opinion of the prison managers that roads can be built by convict labor cheaper than by any other method. The report to the governor cites the reforms made and new privileges extended to the inmates of the institution at Chester. While attention has not been attracted to this institution, as to Jollet, the policy of humane treatment, as laid down by the governor in his instructions to all state prisons, has been followed faithfully. THE NEXT GOVERNOR FARMER LAWYER STATESMAN 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 e'clock A. M., Saturday May 18th 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 towit: Lot (1). in Mattle Johnson's addition to the City of Brookport, Massae County, Illinois. Terms of sale, Cash in hand. Dated this 11th day of April A. D. 1916. 3. BAKTLETT KERR, Master in Chancery. W. L. Krone, Solicitor, Master in Chancery Sale, State of Illinois, Massac County, s. 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. Va. V. E. Shannon. Bill to Foreclose Mechanics Lien No. 20. Public notice is hereby given that in pursuance 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. Bartlett Kerr, Master in Chancery of said County, will, at the hour of 11 e'cleak 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 (1-2) of Low 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 KERE. Master in Chancery. Fred R. Young, Solicitor Master in Chancery Sub. State of Illinois, Massac County, 58 In the Circuit Court of said County, April Term A. D. 1916. Vester Hodge Va. 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 Ave (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. S. Bartlett Kerr. The Art of Sleeping Slumber commences at the extremitler, beginning with the feet and legs. That is why it is always necessary to keep the feet warm.-Family Doctor.