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 CANAD Canada as a whole has enjoyed won- erful prosperity im 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 develop- ment during 1915 than Canada. Nearly @ billion bushels of grain produced. ‘Taxes in Western Canada average $24 ‘and will not excced $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 Em- pire no better service for the time being than to assist iu harvesting the crops, For that reason leave of ab- sence was given to soldiers who wished to work in the harvest fields, and their labor was an important fac- tor in harvesting tho big crops success fully. ‘The necessity for increasing ths ag- ricultural production is commanding even more attention in 1916, and it is now announced that soldiers in Can- ada may obtain leave of absence from their military duties in the spring for @ 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 rec- ognizes the seeding and harvesting of Canada’s crops as being of the first importance is perhaps the best evi- dence that conscription or any in- crease of taxes which would reduce the agricultural activity of Canada ‘will never be considered by the author- ities. Owing to the number who have en ‘sted for overseas service it has been found necessary to secure farm labor tn the United States. It is hoped that fifty thousand can be secured.—Adver tiaament. Gold Dust by Mail. A Watertown (N. Y.) man has just Tecelved 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 Fokker aeroplane. 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 eat- ing 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 be- come sort of paralyzed and logey. 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 ts coated, and when the weather is bad you have rheumatic twinges. The urine is cloudy, full of sediment, channels oft- en get sore, water scalds and you are Woliged to seek relief two or three times during the night. . Either consult a good, reliable physt- ¢lan at once or get from your pharma- cist abont 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, com- bined with lithia, and has been used for generations to cleah and stimulate sluggish kidneys, also to neutralize acids in the urine so {t no longer irrt- tates, thus ending bladder weakness. Jad Salts is a life saver for regular meat eaters. It is inexpensive, cannot injure’ and makes a delightful, effer vescent 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 elub;for hours waiting for you to go to sleep.” SOAP is STRONGLY ALKALINE @nd constant use will burn out the scalp. Cleansb-the scalp by shampoo- jag with, “La Creole” Hair Dressing, ‘and @arken, in the natural woy, those jely, grizzly heirs. Price. $1.00.—Adv. Coat” Tar Colors. American dye works are now turn- ing out coal tar colors at the rate of 15,000 tons annually, and a report on ghe.present-dyestult situation issued Ay the bureau of foreign and'domestic tomimercs. calls “atention to the fm- Portance of tho tact that those colors ate’ belig-manufactured wholly from ‘American raw material, z “te ig tien’ aed fhenlity take: Dr, an 3 part Pic, Eeleta” They regulate » bowels and stomach—Adv. Ks The Last Man. _ Little Lemuel—Say, paw, who do ‘suppose will be the last man on AFRO-AMERICAN GULLINGS 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 coun- try conditions. Warren Logan, act- ing principal, has proved ' himself equal to the emergency and perfect co-operation prevails among the teach- ers. The. wife and brother of Book- er 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 im- provemént, and marks of a greater civ- lization ts evidenced in the schgol- Footas tor willes arcind, att a aby counties of the state; in’ fact, with the Rosenwald fund in circulation for School buildings, there have been built many olvic centers for the farm neigh- orhood. ‘These schools have inaugu- rated an alternate system of work and study, hence the Kitchen, the gar- den, barnyard and home are the annex to the schoolhouse, and here the teacher lives. A ‘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 insanitary treatment. Also of the 4,000 cases of tuberculosis, of typhoid fever, and of pellagra, and the enormous death rate from pre- ventable diseases. ti Doctor Holberger of the United States Marine hospital service told of the cause and treatment of pella- gra. 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 prop- er 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 mille 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 80 forceful, that every man and woman present received @ 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 lec- tures were all full of fnterest, 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. B. B, du Bois on Booker 'T.” Washing- ton is very suggestive and forcefal. Chicago is ‘as caste bound in social de- corum as Mississippi, writes a cor- respondent of the Chicago Post. Some-years ago a Negro, a graduate of Fisk university and of Oberlin col- lege, visited me while on bis way: to Zululand as a missionary. In ¢om- Bishop Branston opened the fifty- third annual session of the Washing- ton conference, in Leigh street Meth- odist Episcopal church at Richmond, Va. Rey. J. B. Hingeley, D. D., of ‘Chicago, led in prayer. The bishop addressed the conference and adminis- tered the Holy Communion, assisted by the district superintendents, Rev. §. H. Norwood called the conference roll of membership. Rev. G. D. John- son, Moses Opher ard J. H. Tucker were reported as having died during the conference year, Rey 8, H. Nor- wood, was élected secretary; Rev. W. S. Jackson, statistician, and Rev. M. W. Clair, treasurer.’ Welcome ad- dresses were delivered by Mayor Ain- slic, Dr. W."T. Johnson of the Baptist ‘¢titireh, and Rev. Dr. 8, S. Morris of the’ African Methodist Episcopal ‘dlitrch: Doctor Widerman of Balti- more’ atid I.ev. J. B."Hingaley of Cht- cago made addresses. A check from ‘the Book Concern for $2,736 was pre- sented for conference claimants. ‘ ‘Sheep used ds beasts of burden in ‘northern India. carry loads of “80 ‘pounds. ‘ ea The'pfum, which was among the ear- ‘est ‘of fFuits to be cultivated and was fdiset “when Thebes, Memphis. and Pentiséus were in thétr glory, ‘also ‘rows wild in Aelia, America and south- h Europe -"® portable but very’ powerful hy- @faulic pYes¥ haé’ been mverted for dending large pipes to any desired curve without injury, ‘The uses of whale oil are more nu- merous at the present time than ever before, , METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE, METROPOLIS, ILL. pany with him I tried to obtain sery- ice at a restaurant and we were re- fused. We tried the barber shops, and were denied a shave, Together we then*went to a number of hotels with similar experiences. r Booker T. Washington unquestion- ably did the greatest work-tot the Ne- gro, 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, 1 was at Minster City, 125 miles south of Memphis. ‘There I met a presiding elder, a cler- gyman of the Methodist Episcopal church, South, who told me the fol- lowing story, I vouch for him as a man’‘of trath. ; “My friend,” he said, “fou 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 thé students pres- eut—-some 400 in number, J noticed that there was not @ coal-black or full- blooded Negro among the students, and I asked Mr. Washington for the reason, "He replied: “I have found thiat the fulFblooded or pure Negroes do not advance beyond a certain point in their education. I have, by experl- ence, tested atid proven that only Ne- groes who have white blood in their veins comprehend, the higher mathe- matics and sciences, and ate the only ‘ones who can become abstruse meta- physical 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 Amer- fean music, so far as it s peculiarly American, is based on Negro melodies. ‘This finds support, for example, in Dvo- rak'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 Dvorak wrote them, but the influence of the plantation song {s apparent. > Of Indian music, as it survives to us, there is much to be said, but. the scope of Negro’ folksong is of more immediate importance, since its effect is mor6 widely felt. But: the Negro ‘is not confined in music to melodies crooned in the field or wailed in meetings or chanted on decks. Thémusician is becoming less essentially Negro, and more widely musical. In other words, here and there Negroes are writing music; not merely repeating traditional tues from’ generation to generation, but composing music chat has no racial qualities to set it apart. In churches all over the English-speaking work, choirs are “singing the | worky of Coleridge-Taylor, a Nerd whose death a few years ago was regretted by all the world “of music,'and ¢horal Societies are singing his beautiful set- ting of “Hiawatha,” And only last week, Amato, the great Italian barl- tone, sang in @ concert in New York song of warring. Italy, which was composed by Harry G. Burleigh, a modern American Negro; whose music has been played in Richmond fréguent- ly, notably by’ that remarkable Negro ‘organization, the Clef Club orchestra. ‘The first American ancestor of Ma- Jor Moton, the pevinslestet principal of Tuskegee, was brought from the West Coast of Africa tf 1735 arid’ was the son of the: chief .of: a powerful tribe.” He had been entrusted by his father with .a doaent\cte snore slaves, captured in battle, fram a, neighboring tritie, ‘and “hé Lain them down to the coast to sell tothe American slave traders. The ypuageAfrican chiet de Hivered “then eae the captain of the ship and Weeived his pay fn trink- ets. He wes fhen\Asked to go out to see this wonderful, sailing vessel. . Af. tor he Alratbpdeted the Ship, he was asked, hy /thh-captain to dine. Me sald that, thi ye him some nico thinga’ to" aii at of which he en- Joved 0: umch ‘that te fol! asioop. When, be awoke-he was chainad to one Of thé“creattres he himself had sold, tind the vessel wis healted toward the United: States World's “Work, >" ‘The Paris board of health’ has’ for- idden thie sale and usqof halr fotions containing tetra-chloride of carbon as dangerous to the heart, head and ‘stomach. _ The tortuous Alaskan coast has so many indentations’ and proméntories 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 tn India, ‘The British meteorological office has established a station for furnishing weather information and forecasts to aviators and acronaut Glass. of Hot Water Before’ Breakfast a Splendid Habit Open ee US ala each Taksonin Rieonioe |. Those of us who are accustomed to feel dull, and heavy when we arise; spliteing headache, stuffy from a cold, Youl tongue, nasty breath, acid stom- ‘ch, lame back, can, instead, both look and feel 98 fresh as a daisy always by washing the poisons and toxins frum the body with phosphated hot ‘water each morning, We should drink, before breakfast, ™ glass of real hot water with a’ tea- spoonful of limestone phosphate in tt to flush from the stomach, liver, kidneys and ten yards of bowels the Previous day‘s indigestible waste, sour dile.and poisonous toxins; thus cleans- ing, sweetening and purifying the en- tire alimentary canal before putting More food into the stomach. ‘The action of limestone phosphate and hot water on an empty stomach 1s wonderfully invigorating. It cleans out ail the sour fermentations, gases, waste and acidity and gives ono a splendid appetite for breakfast and it 48 said to be but a little while until the roses begin to appear in the cheeks. A quarter pound of lime stone phosphate will cost very little at your druggist or from the etore, but is sufficient to make anyone who ts bothered with bilfousness, constipa- tion, stomach trouble or rheumatism a real enthusiast on the subject of in- ternal sanitation. Try it and you are assured that you will look better and feel better iu every way shortly— Adv. Social Inanities. She—You know, Mr. Jones, 1 Ghought you much older than you are, He—Oh, no; not a bit, I nssure vou, * 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 fj 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 drritated and rashy. Free sample each by mail with Book. Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. Ly Boston. Sold everywhere.—Ady, ‘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 conversa tion that followed the latter told of a two-weeks’ visit that she had just made to the home of her mother. _. “While Iwas away,” continued Mrs. ‘Brown, “my husband kept house, and fhsisted on cooking his own meals.” “You don't really mean it," ex- claimed Mrs, Jones...“How did he make out?” . “Well,” atiswered’ Mts. Joriés, heay- ing quite a long sigh, “when {-got. back T noticed that the parrot had learned to swear."~Philadelphia Telegraph. ttalians in America, As there are at least 2,500,000 Ital- fans. resident in the United States, ome American manufacturing firms aro planning to cater more largely for the household and personal wants of this. population, atoustve. Imports, ‘reaching in value’ many million dol lars azinually, are’ made for them, most of which might be produced in the United States. _. HANDY HUSBAND Kniéw "How to Get Part of the Break- “1 know one dish I can prepare for Dréakfast ae well as any cook on earth,’ said my husband one morning when the cook was i!! and he hed vol- unteered. to help get breakfam, He appeared. with his dish and. J. diseay- ered it was Grape-Nuts which, of pourse, was easy to prepare for it was Yertectly cooked at the factory, but it was @ good {ilustration of the conven- fence of having Grape-Nuts about “We took up Grape-Nuts: immedt- ately after returning from a five years’ sojourn in a bot country. Our stom- achs*were in bail condition antl we were tn poor health generally. “In a day or two we liked Grape- ‘Nuts, better than any other -kind of food on the, table. We both talsied stoadily, in healt and strength, and this was caused by Grapc-Nuts and , Postunt. gate ik “A friend of oiirs hed a similar ex- perience. She was seriously {li with indigestion and could find nothing. to eat tht would not give her hearthurn and*paipitation, especially at ugh. “She found that ‘a sinait dish of Grapy-Nuts with cream made ber a satisfactory supper and g:ve her @ comfortable night's rest. in @ short time she gained several pounds in weight.” “There's a Reason.” Name given by Postum Co,, Battle Creek, Mich. Siege Sette Sw, aes = genuine, true, aud fall of humaw WHY HE FELL“ FROM GRACE Indian's Excuse for Intoxication Not Altogether Complimentary to Ex-President Taft. John Cottonwood liad not been a success as a total abstainer, though he had given the Indian agent in charge many promises of'a better life, Finally @ Jaii.sentence of ten ‘days at hard labor had a wholesome effect. ‘The effect was not permanent. Cot- tonwood 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 mé@ 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 T ‘was able to pass the bad place where Mauor fs sold by the one-eyed Japanese at the back of the poolroom to In- dians.” “Yes.”" “When I arrived at the busy part of town 1 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 ther stand- ing. I asked of him why so many wero collected. He explained that this was a feast day for the reason that the Great Father from Washington, Presi- dent William H. Taft, was to pass that way this day. Many had been assem- bled since early morning. 1 was a happy man. All my life had I wished to seo the Great Father. 1 joined the thong and waited. All the day we waited. It was very hot. Many auto- mobiles passed, The dust was like thick smoke. Jn the middle of the day came a great shouting, The music of the bands was loud. My heart stopped. ‘My eyes were to see theGreat Father. An automobile came up, then snother. In the second one was ah awful bulk. I trembled. ‘No.’ I said to myself, ‘that shape cannot be a Great Father from Washington.’ But {t was. I could not endure the pain. I felt, The-néxt thing T knew was nothing. am here. 1 have no more to say,” sorrowfully eon- claded the culprit —Kansas Olty*Star. Our Native Humorists, John Kendrick Bangs takes né stock Im the opinion that Ameriqgn. ts degenerating. In his new reminiscences, “From Pillar - he even asserts that we are sqrgur felted with firstrate humor that wg can't nee the wood for the trees. “A period that bas produced = Doo Jey and an Ade and an Irving Cobb and & Bert Lexton Taylor,” says Mr. Bangs, “is sorely not poor in humorous pos- sessions of a scintillating character, whether we demand that our bumor shall be a product of pure fun or of profoundly. serious thinking. “In the humor that ia-destgned to tn- terpret life iteelf I find an endless store of it in the works of Wallace Ir ‘win, of Montague Glass, of Mins dna Ferber and of Mrs. Alice Hegan Rice, the last two, by the way, forming a complete refutation of the preposter- ous notion that women are devoid of the sentiment that cheers but does not inebriate, “And as for the wits, if Oliver Her ford were as lonely among wits as he 1s unique, J should still find that we wore rich beyond measure in that form of humor which is for the most part in- tollectuat, of the mind, rather than of the emotions.” Record Load of Loess. ‘The largest load of logs ever drawn bya team of horses hitched to a sleigh was recently hauled fifteen miles from a lumber camp in Beltrami county, Minnesota, to the town of Pine Island, where it was shipped on ning freight cars to the nearest ‘saw mill. Six horses were required to haul the mon- ster load, which consisted of 200 twelvefoot logs, weighing approxi- ‘mately 250 tons. When sawed up these logs produced over 50,600 feet of lumber. ‘The fifteet-mile trip was made in a little more than eight hours, with occasional. breathing spells for the horses, In winter logg are always hmifed’‘on slelghs, which is a much pasier meéthod of transportation. than ‘by wagon, inasmych as the runners of ‘the sleigh’ do not sink into the ground. “It's Red Dye Now. ; So the red, dye is all gone, and we ‘eanriot put any more red stripes on the fig pot wear redinecktiog, What about juice as *a coloring’ fintd} 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 #0 poor and American ai so short and American an ene lacking that somebody has not by-this time begun Jo see: red, Jn. some plagtt=-Bt., Louls Novel Weevil Remedy. A droll report comes from Birming- ham, Ala,, of the success of a certain planter in producing’ a cotton plant that, smells so strongly of asafetida that all ffisects avoid it, The result wai -dbtainéd by sprinkling several generations, of the plant .with mux vomica. It Js hoped that the new plant has solved the boll-weevil problem by depriving the weevil of its food. Censoring the Censor, “Mother,” said Kittie, who had ‘been at schoo! with her big sister, “is ‘Miss Morton tongue-tied?” “Not that I know of,” said the moth. er, “why do you ask?” “She said ‘beg pawdon’ and I thought maybe her tongue was tied go she could not say it right.” —_— How She Was Relieved from Pain by Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. ‘Taunton, Mass.—‘‘T had pains in both soa and when my periods eame 1 had to stay at home aL work and suf- fer a long time. cm One day woman came to our house rid Jand asked my & oF mother why I was 11) foe a | euffering. Mother 1 told her that I suf- 2 wade) fered every month € and she said, ‘Why i ph: don’t you buy a = Bl i nttle of Lydia E. ee ay eee een from work and suf- ! fer a long time. see One day woman A came to our house a and asked my | ae mother why I was tc wi Jeuffering. Motier es told her that I suf- 2) fered every month a and she said, ‘Why } ed don’t you buy a - bottle of Lydia B. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound?’ My mother bought it and the next month I was £0 well that I worked all the month without staying at home aday. Iam in good health now and have told lots of girls about it.””—Mise CLanice Mone, 22 Russell Street, Taunton, Mass. Thousands of gitls suifer in silence every month rather than consult a phy- sician. If girls who are troubled with Balnfel or irregular periods, backache, dache, dragging-down sensations, fainting spells or indigestion would take Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Com- pound, @ safe and pure remejly made from roots and herbs, much suffering might be avoided. Write to Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co., Lynn, Mass. (confidential) for free advice which will prove helpful, PaaS SENN tas 9 inlachines Sinan Rieti) “When | was a boy: my. father for- bade me to read dima novels.” “You save a great deal of time.” “Maybe. , And yotd sometimes fear it resulted in, saving up my appetite for sensational fiction Ul my time was rather more valuable.” easton ete womawsé/crowelmae ‘alLorv is her alr. I yourk is streaked with ugly, griatly, eray-baire use “La Cre ale" Hair, Dressing and change st tn the mataral way. Price. $1.00—-Adv, o},.From Different Viewpotat., “Titi #0 sorry you don’t Uke my new own,” said Mré. Growell. “Bverybody else says it is perfectly lovely.” “Oh, it's easy for others to pay com. plimonts,” replied Growell, “bet 1 have to. pay the bile” It Never Came Back Rackache Suiferer! Thooeands Will tell you what wonderful relief they have had from Doan's Kidney Pills. 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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. 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