Metropolis Weekly Gazette

METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE 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 the slogan. To the B. Y. P. U. that represent with the largest amount of money will be given a banner from the National Baptist Publishing Board by the District President. Every Union is requested to rally to the cause and make this the banner year of all our previous meeting. The president ask that every B.Y. P.U. the names of the delegates to the Corresponding Sec'y. not later than May 15th 1916. Thus giving ample time to arrange the programme. For further information concerning the banner that is to be given away write Miss Iola Marie Urquhart, Box 268 Metropolis, Ill., Cor. Sec'y of the Mt. Olive Convention. NOTICE. 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 dears we should not let our banner trail in the dust. We should hold up the standard of the Baptist every where. 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 blanks. I also have constitutions on hand; any local desiring them may write me. I also ask that each local put out small bags and let each member solicit $1.00 for the Educational Cause. Remember we should work while we live. We have lost a Christian Man and the Pres 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. Thrived on Hot Biscuits. An Alabama man, ninety-seven years of age, says he has eaten hot biscuits regularly all his life. Advenience and Prosperity. We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right.-Seneca. NOTICE. To The Baptist Women Of The Mt. Ollve 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 represented 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. Emma Farrow. Cor. Secretary. RESOLUTIONS FROM NEW HOPE BAPTIST CHURCH SPARTA Whereas it has pleased Almighty God in His wise Providence to take from our midst our friend and bro. James Madison Haynes, we therefore cherish his memory and commit his spirit to Him who doeth all things well. And whereas Bro. J. M. Haynes was taken from life instantly by a m sjudged shot in the Moffat Mines April 11th 1916, such an accident as may befall anyone therefore let us all prepare to meet the monster Death. Therefore, be it Resolved that we endeavor with all diligence to ascend to that home of the Bliss where we are sure our bro. awaits us. Be it also resolved that we as Christians bestow our hearts sympathy and care on on his family and relatives in these sad days of bereavement and appoint them to God the great giver of Peace and Consolement. And Be it further resolved that a copy of these resolutions be sent to press, a copy be placed on the Church Record and a copy to be framed and given to the wife of the deceased Brother. COMMITTEE. M. C. Wrice, Bertie Terry, J. J. Taylor, Anna Owens, Nettie Macklin and B. F. Lince. SPARTA. Mr. Editor, please permit me space to say in your paper that our S. S. was opened at 9:30 a.m. by the Supt. and the lesson was beautifully reviewed by Bro. Lence. Rev. P. B French having ascended the rostrum he preached a splendid sermon. He preached an Educational sermon and a nice program was rendered. Prof. J. D. Allen opened the discussion on the five students occupying the front seat who are now ready for high school. This makes 19 students turned out from Vernon School in its two years operation. This is remarkable. Mr. Richard Penny has a very sick child Mrs. Mattie Haynes has a visitor from St, Miss Amanda Hayne accomoanied her. The Carnation Club will be entertained at the home of Mrs. Milinda Foster next week. Good Advice. Since thou art not sure of a minute, do not throw away an hour----Franklin. MOTTO : "HEW TO THE LINE. LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY." SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT The Value of All Values Hart Schaffner & Marx Blue Serge Suits None worth less than $20--some worth more. The Suits will sell at this price only as long as our present quantity remains-from time to time we offer similar special serge values and some of our customers make the mistake of thinking the suits will remain on sale for an indefinite period and have in many cases been disappointed; however, now we have this to say to you--if you contemplate buying one of these suits, do so at once, as we will not warrant them lasting over Saturday and possibly not till then. Money Cheerfully Refunded KREBS CLOSE I. O. O. Saturday night May 13th the Womans Industrial have a sock social at the First Baptist church. G the socks with you that you received with twice my cents as you wear no. of shoe. Ice Cream and will be served. On the following Sunday night May 14th this club reserve Mother's Day with the following program and have the unveiling of the new Communion On Saturday night May 13th the Womans Industrial Club gave a sock social at the First Baptist church. Bring the socks with you that you received with twice as many cents as you wear no. of shoe. Ice Cream and Cake will be served. And on the following Sunday night May 14th this club will observe Mother's Day with the following program and rally and have the unveiling of the new Communion Set. PROGRAM. me Mrs. L. B. Duke REEWILL OFFEE Immunion Set Pastor S. MINNIE ALL Mistress Chorus.....Choir Invocation.....Rev. J. H. Smith Chorus.....Choir Address of Welcome.....Mrs. Jennie Cowper Chorus.....Choir Response.....Mrs. Bessie Cork Solo.....Mrs. Amanda Kimball Paper.....Mrs. Laura Brooks Recitation.....Mrs. Mary Orange Instrumental Solo.....Mrs. H. G. Burke Paper.....Mrs. Mattie Fossie Duett.....Mrs. L. B. Dukes, Miss Margie Tandy Paper.....Mrs. Hattie Beard Recitation.....Miss Allie Barnard Solo.....Miss Love Phillips FREEWILL OFFERING Presentation of Communion Set.....By Pres. Mrs. .....Belle Tyson Solo.....Miss A. L. Tyson Response.....Rev. G. W. Rowlett Closing Address by Pastor.....Rev. J. W. Davie Benediction..... Gone to His Reward. George Bradley, who has been The sick for several years, died the styled 18th inst. about 12:30 a. m. Messr He was a member of the Baptist Blaine church of Joppa. As we go to press funeral arrangements were not made. 38th the Womans Industrial the First Baptist church. that you received with twice p. of shoe. Ice Cream and day night May 14th this club with the following program ing of the new Communion RAM. Choir Rev. J. H. Smith Choir Mrs. Jennie Cowper Choir Mrs. Bessie Cork Mrs. Amanda Kimball Mrs. Laura Brooks Mrs. Mary Orange Mrs. H. G. Burke Mrs. Mattie Fossie Dukes, Miss Margie Tandy Mrs. Hattie Beard Miss Allie Barnard Miss Love Phillips OFFERING By Pres. Mrs. Belle Tyson Miss A. L. Tyson Rev. G. W. Rowlett Rev. J. W. Davie E ALBRITTON, stress of Ceremonics. The Dreamland Cafe, as it is styled, under the management of Messrs. Edgar Orrington, and G. Blaine Alston, is second to none in this the Southern part of Ill. The above named Cafe opened its doors to the public Saturday, I. O. O. F. . Building THE FAR FRA OG A New Cafe Opened. Just for solid satisfai Lovisit Hart Schaffer & Mez THE NEXT FARMER STATE FRANK O OGLE CO THE NEXT GOVERNOR FARMER LAWYER STATESMAN the 13th, with good service. The clerks are:-Mrs. Laura Alston, and Miss Rhoda Orrington, and Henry Hutchinson Their Motto—Cleanliness, good service, courteous treatment and your money's worth. STOP YOUR KNOCKING. Put the hammer in the locker, Hide the sounding board likewise; Anyone can be a knocker, Anyone can criticise. Cultivate a manner winning, Though it hurts your face to smile, And seems awkward in the beginning, Be a booster for a while. Let the blacksmith do the pounding, That's the way he earns his pay. You don't get a cent for hounding Saint and sinner night and day. Perfect Satisfaction Guaranteed GOVERNOR LAWYER SMAN LOWDEN UNTY, ILL. Drop a kind word in the slot; And i'll warrant you'll get a notion On your effort to the spot. Kindness every time beats knocking. Mirth is better than a frown. Don't waste your time picking Flaws with brothers who are down. And it isn't so distressing If you give a little boost To the man who fates are pressing When the chick comes home to roost. KILL SEGREGA- Kansas City, Mo., May 12. At the request of Alderman Fennell of the Fourteenth ward, the ordinance providing for Race segregation as a bar to the Race man securing property and homes in decent neighborhood in his ward was reported unfavorable by the public improvements committee of the lower house.—Ex. BEGIN HOT WATER DRINKING IF YOU DON'T FEEL RIGHT Says glass of hot water with phosphate before breakfast washes out poisons. If you wake up with a bad taste, bad breath and tongue is coated; if your head is dull or aching; if what you eat sours and forms gas and acid in stomach, or you are billious, constipated, nervous, sallow and can't get feeling just right, begin drinking phosphated hot water. Drink before breakfast, a glass of real hot water with a teaspoonful of limestone phosphate in it. This will flush the poisons and toxins from stomach, liver, kidneys and bowels and cleanse, sweeten and purify the entire alimentary tract. Do your inside bathing immediately upon arising in the morning to wash out of the system all the previous day's poisonous waste, gases and sour bile before putting more food into the stomach. To feel like young folks feel; like you felt before your blood, nerves and muscles became loaded with body impurities, get from your druggist or storekeeper a quarter pound of limestone phosphate which is inexpensive and almost tasteless, except for a sourish tinge which is not unpleasant. Just as soap and hot water act on the skin, cleansing, sweetening and freshening, so hot water and limestone phosphate act on the stomach, liver, kidneys and bowels. Men and women who are usually constipated, bilious, headachy or have any stomach disorder should begin this inside bathing before breakfast. They are assured they will become real cranks on the subject shortly.-Adv. Not Cool Million. "He talks a lot about being heir to a million." "Hot air." SOAP IS STRONGLY ALKALINE and constant use will burn out the scalp. Cleanse the scalp by shampooing with "La Creole" Hair Dressings, and darken, in the natural way, those ugly, grizzly hairs. Price. $1.00.-Adv. Honest. "Simpkins is always borrowing trouble." "That's true, but I'll say this much for him: He always pays it back with interest." A Bore. P. G. Wodehouse, the English humorist, has been doing of late some theatrical criticism in New York. Mr. Wodehouse went the other evening to criticize the first performance of a play that turned out to be a great bore. He sat in his chair stifling yawn after yawn behind his white-gloved palm. Finally, as he stifled his eighteenth or twentieth yawn, he muttered to his companion: "This dramatic criticism is what I call a hand-to-mouth existence." Called Quilts. Little Maudie will tell "whoppers." One day her aunt thought she ought to be cured of this habit, so she spoke seriously to the little maid, who promised to mend her ways. To point the moral, auntie told the tale of the shepherd boy who was always calling "Wolf!" until no one could believe him. Then one day the wolf really came and ate up the sheep. "All the sheep?" interrupted Maudie. "Yes, every one of them," replied auntie decidedly. "Every single one?" Auntie nodded. "Well," said Maudie slowly. "I don't believe you, and you don't believe me So there!"—Philadelphia Inquirer. EXPERIMENTS Teach Things of Value. Where one has never made the experiment of leaving off coffee and drinking Postum, it is still easy to learn something about it by reading the experiences of others. Drinking Postum is a pleasant way out of coffee troubles. A Penn. man says: "My wife was a victim of nervousness, weak stomach and loss of appetite for years; and although we resorted to numerous methods for relief, one of which was a change from coffee to tea, it was all to no purpose. "We knew coffee was causing the trouble but could not find anything to take its place until we tried Postum. Within two weeks after she quit coffee and began using Postum almost all of her troubles had disappeared as if by magic. It was truly wonderful. Her nervousness was gone, stomach trouble relieved, appetite improved and, above all, a night's rest was complete and refreshing. "This sounds like an exaggeration, as it all happened so quickly. Each day there was improvement, for the Postum was undoubtedly strengthening her. Every particle of this good work is due to drinking Postum in place of coffee." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Postum comes in two forms: Postum Cereal—the original form—must be well boiled, 15c and 25c pkgs. must be well bottled. 10c and 25c pkg. Instant Postum—a soluble powder— dissolves quickly in a cup of lot water, and, with cream and sugar, makes a delicious beverage instantly. 30c and 50c tins. Both forms are equally delicious and cost about the same per cup. "There's a Reason" for Postum. THE GIRL FROM HOME THE GIRL FROM HOME --- By JANE OSBORN. BY JANE OSBORN Julia Dean was drinking chocolate at Brice's when Dan Brown summoned up courage to invite her to go with him to the senior prom. Julia Dean was a daughter of one of the professors, and, except for being absurdly young—she still wore her golden curls down her back and low-heeled slippers at dances—she was unmistakably one of the most popular girls in town. Sometimes when the boys called in the afternoon, clad in their best ralment, she coaxed them into a bout of baseball practice in the garden and when they were inclined to grow sentimental and compliment her on her very pretty blue eyes and her equally pretty golden hair she never seemed to know just what they were talking about. Sometimes she even laughed in their faces. One thing was certain, Julia Dean, although she was young, was a good fellow. And Dan Brown—well Dan had not arrived. Perhaps later he became quite magnetic and no doubt some day he will do himself and his family proud. But just at this stage Dan's youthfulness, unlike that of Julia, simply made him exceedingly bashful, amazingly awkward and as afraid of girls as he would have been of an unfamiliar passage of Greek in an examination. But with Julia, as with the passage of Greek, he saw what was before him and wasted no time. Julia Dean was having chocolate with her mother at the town caterer's where, to the accompaniment of phonographic reproductions of "Madam Butterfly" and the "Lucia" sextette, mingled with the hum of many high-pitched voices, the leisured folk of town were prone to congregate on pleasant afternoons. Dan Brown was buying five cents' worth of his favorite chocolate creams in the front part of the caterer shop, and the sight of Mrs. Dean and the knowledge that he had before him the task of inviting Julia to his senior prom gave him courage to make his way past tables of girls whose faces were familiar at college dances and college games straight up to Julia. He had planned his speech and it it was soon delivered. It was short and to the point. And Julia turned him down. She did it very politely, although with an air that left Dan Brown wondering why in his wildest dreams he had imagined that she—or any other girl for that matter—would have accepted his invitation to a senior ball. The truth of the matter was that for this first senior prom of Julia's career—for this was the first winter that she had been old enough to go to college parties—she had expected to go with Clark Butler. For Clark was, in the parlance of the other town girls, "the one man in all the world" as far as Julia went. That is to say, when there were basket ball games or college plays Julia went with Clark. On Sunday afternoons it was Clark who dropped in at about five o'clock and permitted himself always to be urged to stay to tea with the family. So it was simply a matter of course with Julia that she turned down the bashful Dan. Then she waited for the invitation that she was sure would come from Clark Butler, and for two weeks she waited in vain. There was only a week left before the dance and the strain of the uncertainty was getting too much for her frank nature. "Whom are you going to take to the senior?" she asked. "Girl from home," was Clark's unsatisfactory reply. Julia's frank eyes opened wider. She was not at all used to enigmatic remarks of this sort from Clark, but she made no further query. "I'm not going," was all she said. "What's the matter with going with Dan?" he asked, avoiding her searching glance. "You haven't really turned Dan down, have you?" From the way Clark said this it was clear that it was something that had been long on his mind. "Of course I turned Dan down," said Julia. This time she avoided Clark's gaze, for she caught the tone of reproof it contained although she did not know at all why she deserved it. Perhaps there was a shade of jealousy in her next remark. "I hope the girl from home is very pleasant." Clark seemed to pay no attention to this thrust but asked: "Why did you refuse Dan?" Julia's cheeks, always flushed with the pink of youth and health, turned crimson and there was a catch in her voice when she answered: "Because I thought I would go with you. I thought you would ask me and so I waited. Though I wouldn't have accepted Dan Brown anyway." Apparently this was the answer Clark had been waiting for. "You oughtn't to say that, Julia." He straightened himself to his full height and assumed the full dignity of the senior that he was. "Dan is a fraternity brother of mine. Perhaps you don't know him well, but you have no right to refuse him. You see it is this way—may as well tell you as long as you have been so frank: All the girls' names in town are put on a paper at the 'frat' house the day the ball invitations are issued and then every fellow in the house hands in the name of some girl he would like to take. Sometimes one girl gets a good many slips. I guess you got some half dozen. Then the slips are sorted out and all the fellows that choose any one girl have to draw lots to see which one METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE, METROPOLIS, ILL. gets her, and then the girls that don't get any slips are paired off with the fellows that don't get the right slip, and, of course, any fellow that wants to ask an outside girl has a chance. I was one of the men that missed out on the slips when we drew for you, so I asked a girl from home. I oughtn't to tell you this—everything that happens in the 'frat' house is more or less secret—but I saw that you didn't understand." "What if a girl refuses the first man that asks her?" "Well, then, of course, she might be asked by another fellow. That's permitted. But it gives the girl a black eye. Do you see? Now, after you had refused Dan—I knew you did, and I told him not to say anything about it because it would give you a black eye. Do you see? I or some other fellow might have asked you and you might have accepted, but everyone would have known you had turned Dan Brown, down and that would make you out a flirt and a fusser. I wouldn't want the men to think of you that way." "But I don't like to dance with Dan Brown," persisted Julia. "I don't care for your old rules. I don't care for your old senior balls, anyway. Don't touch me, Clark Butler"—Clark had tried to lay a soothing hand on the girl's shoulder when she said that. "I'm just as mad as a girl can get. There, and I am not trying to pretend I'm not mad, either." "You don't understand, still. You see, Dan Brown is a perfectly all-right fellow. If he were not he wouldn't be in our frat, and it is up to every one of us to stand by every other one of us, and if a girl snubs one of us it isn't loyal for any other man in the frat to encourage that girl to go on snubbing members of the frat. That's why I asked a girl from home instead of asking you. I thought maybe you would go with me, we're such old friends. But if you had gone with Dan you and I could have seen a lot of each other anyway. We could have had more dances with each other than with our own people—I thought, of course, you would know that. It was very rude of you to snub Dan." But Julia was, as she said, angry through and through and, conciliatory though Clark was, she refused to be soothed. As Clark Butler thought—and as he had predicted—Julla took the next opportunity she had to meet Dan Brown and when Dan Brown, summoning all his courage, asked her a second time—Clark Butler had coached him to this ordeal—she accepted. When he called for her on the night of the ball Dan in his clumsy way tried to express his appreciation for her kindness. "I suppose you know how it is about dance invitations," he said. "I guess Clark told you. You see, I didn't quite understand when I put your name down. I just thought we were to put the pames down of some girl we wouldn't mind taking and you were so sort of young and natural that I didn't mind at all. But I didn't know about drawing lots and I really didn't mean to cut Clark out. I fixed it up so you can have a lot of dances with him." "But I don't want to have a lot of dances with him," Julia protested. "I didn't want to go with him." Then, after a pause, "Is the girl from home pretty?" A broad smile passed over Dan Brown's freckled face. Apparently he recalled some instructions he had had from Clark. "Yes, she is a regular queen. The fellows will be nutty about her—couldn't help it." Julia's cheeks grew pinker and her eyes shone with excitement. "Don't talk to me about her. I know I hate her. Oh, I'm just miserable. I'm not going to the horrid old dance at all. You just asked me because you didn't mind going with me and Clark, who has almost been my very own senior all winter, has got a pretty girl from home. I know I'm a kid and I know I don't dress in grown-up clothes like some of the other girls, and I know I wear my hair down my back. I don't blame any of you—but I won't go to your horrid old dance. I don't care if Clark did tell me I must." She had torn off one white glove and was tugging at the other. "I wouldn't get so cross," Dan said, with a really successful attempt to be comforting. "Clark's just crazy about you and the girl from home is his sister. He asked her up because he said he wouldn't go to a senior dance with anyone but you and, in a way, that sister of his is really for me. I guess he thought maybe it would make you cross enough to agree to go with me." (Copyright, 1916, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate) Busy Syrians. One minute's walk from lower Broadway and you are in the Syrian quarter—an oriental atmosphere. The quarter begins at Rector street, on Washington, and extends two or three blocks. But it is a very busy center. Would it surprise you to know that 90 per cent of all Japanese kimonos sold in this country are made by Syrians? The Syrian quarter of New York is but a business quarter—shops and factories for the makers and jobbers in kimonos and dressing sacks for women and depots for imported and domestic Syrian embroidery work, shirt waists, shawls, jewelry and the like. All the Egyptian cigarette factories that are not in the trust are located in the Syrian quarter. Very few Syrians live there. It is simply a Syrian business center for greater New York. The Syrians live in Brooklyn. AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS For 15 years O. T. Jackson was the only Negro farmer near Boulder, Colo. He was industrious and was well liked by his white neighbors, but in the planting and harvest times when there was a dearth of farmhands they could generally outbid him in the labor market, leaving him without assistance at the crucial times. He found it impossible to keep colored farm hands for any length of time because, with no other members of their race near at hand, they found it a lonely life. In 1906 Jackson began to think about the situation and decided that what was needed was a community of colored people which would be large enough to be self-sufficient. Having come to a decision he started to work out his plans. Since then there has grown up on former government land in Weld county, Colo., a settlement of 250 Negro men and women fairly started toward independence. The name of the settlement is Dearfield, and the force behind it is the Dearfield Developing company, organized on a cooperative basis and preaching self-help. The story of the struggles which the founder and the small group of pioneers which he gathered around him had, and of the momentum which the movement gained as it became successful, is told by W. J. Harsha in an interview with Jackson in the Southern Workman. Efforts were first made to obtain suitable land from the state land office, but none was found available. Then attention was directed to the federal authorities and locations were offered in three different counties in Colorado, Jackson and the two or three men whom he had associated with him finally selected the Weld county site because of its fertility, availability of water, and good railroad connections with the large markets of Denver only 70 miles away. The Jackson family was the first to settle, in May, 1910, and a home was established a year later. Of the first settlers Mr. Jackson says: "I met most of the first settlers in a casual way—in restaurants and barber shops and on street corners. I was invited to speak at our Denver church on the importance to our people of getting land before it is too late; after the meeting people crowded around me asking for particulars. After several men had filed they sent their friends to me. Woman claimants—widows, spinsters, deserted wives—were particularly active. We publish a little paper and mention in it all filings made, and this attracted attention. I am now receiving lots of mail and many callers asking for homes. "The Dearfield settlers were as poor as people could be when they took up homesteads. Their advancement has been something wonderful for our people, who know nothing of pioneer life. Some who filed on their claims had not enough money to ship their household goods and pay all their railroad fare. They paid their fare as far as they could and walked the balance of the way to Dearfield. Soon after arriving in Dearfield they secured work with the wealthy white farmers in the district and began to build houses on their claims. Some lived in tents, others in dugouts, and some in natural caves in hillsides. "The first, year there were only seven families in the settlement, and we had only three teams. We managed to get in some garden corn, meadows, pumpkins, squash, Mexican A big piece of work done at Daytona by Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune was the clearing up of the turpentine districts. Such places have an evil reputation in the South. A man will buy a large tract of pine forest for the purpose of getting the turpentine. He puts up a few shanties and a distillery and gathers together the riff-raff that he can find on the streets and sets them to work at small pay and large promise of rum. Women are sent out as cooks, and the place is soon unavailorily spoken of as a "turpentine camp." "We are changing conditions down there," Mrs. Bethune declared. "Once a week two or three workers or students of the school are sent to the various camps to speak to the women and children. The people are shown the right method of living, the dignity of the home, and the error of their ways. The children get three months of schooling every year. The men get higher wages and have learned how to spend and save judiciously. We have established a temperance sentiment in everything, and have driven out strong drink. We carried the polls when Day- A new method of using coal in competition with oil fuel has been tried at Vancouver, British Columbia. Those conducting the experiments say that crushed coal can be supplied to steam-producing furnaces by the same method in use for oil. It is proposed to use the new process for smelting in the big mining plants. Japan is planning to adopt an alphabet of 47 letters, including most of the Roman characters, some Russian and the rest original symbols. beans and potatoes. We cleared a few acres for hay ground, removing the sagebrush by hand, the women and children wielding grubbers as industriously as the men, though not as sturdily, perhaps; and after grubbing we plowed, harrowed and burned the remaining brush." Suffering in the little community was intense during the first winter. There were only two frame houses. Firewood had to be carried from three to seven miles. Three of the horses died from starvation, and the other three were too weak to pull even an empty wagon, Mr. Jackson continued. Yet the little group managed to keep up their own and each other's courage, and after the first winter was weathered, further problems and hardships were more easily met and overcome. Now, in addition to having settled all the available claims, a small Negro town is growing up at Dearfield, where professional men, tradespeople, artists and manufacturers on a small scale serve the needs of the farming community. From the inception of the settlement Jackson and his colleagues tried to advertise their movement for a Negro farming community in such a way that white people would not hear about it and come in and take up the land where it was hoped that colored farmers would settle. These efforts were only successful in a measure, and many of the best locations were taken up by white settlers. At the same time Mr. Jackson speaks with considerable satisfaction of the type of white man who came into the community, and of the fact that most of them have shown a willingness to sell out their holdings at reasonable valuations to prospective Negro settlers. Owing to the laws governing the taking up of homesteads it was not possible for the settlers to gather together and clear one common plot for cultivation. Instead, the method of co-operative help used was for a group to collect on the homestead of one settler after another and clear away enough land on each claim to start the prospective owner. In this way each colonist soon had under cultivation the amount of land required by the government for proving up his title to the homestead. After the first few years, during which it was absolutely necessary to devote all the tillable land available to the cultivation of the commonest staples and forage for the stock, the farmers gradually began to add various kinds of vegetables and fruits, including the inevitable watermelon, not only for home consumption, but also as a surplus, was raised, for sale in the markets of Denver. Then attention was turned to improving the yield of the crops, particularly hay, until now the colony has passed from the stage of bare self-sufficiency to increasing prosperity. The scarcity and high price of coal in Spain has become a problem as well as a menace to all manufacturing industries in that country. With lessened importations of British coal and soaring prices for freight more attention is being paid to domestic coal, of which there are large undeveloped deposits. According to returns, 1,595,028 tons of coal were imported into Spain and 167,795 tons of coke during the first 11 months of 1915, in contrast to 2,313,630 tons of coal and 328,107 tons of coke in 1914, a decrease of 718,602 tons of coal and 160,312 tons of coke. tona had to vote on the drink question. Three hundred and fifty of our children marched through the streets singing songs of prayer and faith. I was waiting at the poll and as the men passed me I begged them in the names of their families and the citizenship with which they could do so much, to vote dry—and they did. "I consider the Daytona school a civilizer. I do not know of a better name to give it. The spirit of efficiency is instilled into the minds of the people. I want to bring about a dignity of labor and service. The work has grown a good deal since I first began. We have added truck gardening, poultry raising, dairying, and chair caning to the curriculum. Our girls go out and become efficient workers, among whom are numbered dressmakers, laundresses, teachers, and students in higher schools. A great deal of stress is laid on moral and religious training. I believe that that is the only foundation." The United States public health service maintains a loan library of stereopticon slides. A Californian has patented a document envelope, with an inner lining of asbestos covered with carbon paper to receive and retain copies of inscriptions written on an outer paper covering should the latter be destroyed by fire. The government is encouraging experiments in France with a device to protect against hall, essentially a large lightning rod of pure copper, which is said to so affect atmospheric electricity that hallistones cannot form. Woman Made Well by Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Columbus, Ohio.—"I had almost given up. I had been sick for six years with female troubles and nervousness. I had a pain in my right side and could not eat anything without hurting my stomach. I could not drink cold water at all nor eat any kind of raw fruit, nor fresh meat nor chicken. From 178 pounds I went to female troubles and nervousness. I had a pain in my right side and could not eat anything without hurting my stomach. I could not drink cold water at all nor eat any kind of raw fruit, nor fresh meat nor chicken. From 178 pounds I went to 118 and would get so weak at times that I fell over. I began to take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, and ten days later I could eat and it did not hurt my stomach. I have taken the medicine ever since and I feel like a new woman. I now weigh 127 pounds so you can see what it has done for me already. My husband says he knows your medicine has saved my life."—Mrs. J. S. BARLOW, 1624 South 4th St., Columbus, Ohio. Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound contains just the virtues of roots and herbs needed to restore health and strength to the weakened organs of the body. That is why Mrs. Barlow, a chronic invalid, recovered so completely. It pays for women suffering from any female ailments to insist upon having Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Why. Indeed. "My player plano is out of order. The bellows are so leaky that it's impossible to play on it. I wonder how I could fix it?" "Why trifle with your luck?" BAD COMPLEXION MADE GOOD When All Else Falls, by Cicutura Soap and Ointment. Total Free. If you are troubled with pimples, blackheads, redness, roughness, itching and burning, which disfigure your com- plexion and skin, Cicutura Soap and Ointment will do much to help you. The Soap to cleanse and purify, the Ointment to soothe and heal. Free sample each by mail with Book. Address postcard, Cicutura, Dept. L. Boston. Sold everywhere.—Adv. Some Difference. "No enterprising man wishes to keep his business on a dead level." "How about an undertaker?" COVETED BY ALL but possessed by few—a beautiful head of hair. If yours is streaked with gray, or is harsh and stiff, you can restore it to its former beauty and luster by using "La Creole" Hair Dressing. Price $1.00.-Adv. More Negotiable. "Experience is a good asset." "I'd much prefer the bankroll I exchanged for mine." Whenever You Need a General Tonic Take Grove's The Old Standard Grove's Tasteless chill Tonic is equally valuable as a General Tonic because it contains the well known tonic properties of QUININE and IRON. It acts on the Liver, Drives out Malaria, Enriches the Blood and Builds up the Whole System. 50 cents Defined. "Aren't the fashions this season less extreme?" "Oh, extremely less."—Judge. Kill the Files Now and Prevent disease. A DAISY FLY KILLER will do it. Kills thousands. Lasta all season. All dealers or six seat express paid for $1. H. 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Alabastine is a dry powder that makes perfectly in cold water. You can apply it yourself or your local painter will do the work reasonably. Be sure that you get Alabastine the job in property ideal packages. Free Color Plans The best decorators advise the use of stencils to produce contrasting wall and ceiling borders. Ordarily, stencils cost from 50 cents to $30 each, but if you will write for a company that maintains hand colored prints of 12 of the very latest stencil effects, we will tell you how you can have your choice of these and 600 other stencils for your home. Write today for this absolutely free decorating service. Alabastine Co. 388 Gravelville Rd. Grand Rapids, Mich. Queen's Taste Coffee DELIGHTFULLY REFRESHING THIS BLEND PERFECTED BY NOW 25 CENTS SOLD IN 1-POUND CANS ONLY Ask Your Grocer "Any news from the front?" asked the war correspondent. "None, whatever," said the general as he hurried by, "except that the front is now the rear." Many School Children Are Sickly Children who are delicate, feverish and cross will get immediate relief from Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children. They cleanse the mouth and the liver, and are recommended for complaining children. A pleasant remedy for worms. Used by mothers for 28 years. All Druggists, Sc. Sample FREE. Address, Mother Gray Co., Le Roy, N. Y. Some people never succeed in finding out which side of their bread is buttered until they drop it. No man ever attains such a high position but someone will call him down. WOMAN'S CROWNING GLORY is her hair. If you is strenuous with ugly, grizzly, gray hairs, use "La Creole" Hair Dressing and change it in the natural way. Price $1.00.—Adv. It's easier for trouble to find your address than it is for good luck. Men who think they know it all are never able to prove it. You Save When You Buy RENFREW DEVONSHIRE CLOTH 62 INCH Cuts economically on account of extra width—32 inches. Makes durable house and outing dresses, children's play clothes and rompers. Made in white as well as colors. Colors woven in, not printed on. The genuine has Renfrew Devonshire Cloth stamped on the selvage. If your retailer cannot supply you, write us. RENFREW MPG. CO. Incorporated 1867 ADAMS, MASS. PATENTS Watson E. Coleman, Wash. est reference. Best result. HANDLE MUCH GOLD Employees of United States Assay Office "Roll in Wealth." Institution Has Been Kept Extremely Busy Lately Handling the Foreign Shipments That Have Come In Such Large Amounts. Within the heart of a Wall street block in New York city is the unpretentious building of the United States assay office, nothing from its exterior indicating the great wealth contained therein. For the past few months, the various departments have been working to full capacity, endeavoring to handle the great shipments of gold forwarded to this country in payment for munitions of war. When the storage Weighing the Gold. space was filled the overflow was put in the vaults of the subtreasury building adjoining. Armed guards are stationed at the entrance and in the rooms wherever deemed essential to protect the wealth of gold that is there. System is observed everywhere. When the foreign coin is received in New York the iron-bound boxes are opened and the bags of coins carefully weighed and recorded. As the alloy standards of France, England and this country are so nearly the same, the process is not a complicated one. The scales are so finely adjusted that the result is disclosed to a very small fraction of an ounce. The bags of gold are then taken to the smelting room and the metal melted. At the right temperature the molten stream is run into brick-shaped moulds, and when full, powdered charcoal is sprinkled over the top and a second mould placed upon it; when this is full another is added and this process is repeated till there are tier after tier of bricks. After these are weighed and marked they are ready for our mint. The work is more complicated with the bullion. While the weighing and melting are the same, in order to reduce the long brick to its constituent parts chemicals and electricity must be applied. The silver is separated and run into special moulds. From the remainder the gold, platinum, iridium, etc., is separated. The gold obtained in this manner is pure and is melted into bars of different sizes. After being tested and stamped, they are put away till wanted. Psychology Gets Its Bumps. Psychology was handed a brand new bump by the aldermen of New York, who do not believe that the cops of the city should be taught the science of the mind in order to detect criminals. Recently the police commissioner appointed two doctors to teach psychology to the uniformed force. After qualifying, a cop was supposed to be able to tell the condition of a man's mind by the way he lit a cigar or a cigarette, scratched his nose or answered the simplest question. The city fathers' upper lips curled when the request for the pay for the psychology teachers was read at the meeting. "The taxpayers don't want psychologists made of cops," said the president. "They're paid to preserve the peace and not to read men's minds by outward actions. An intelligent cop can come pretty near distinguishing between a sane man and one who isn't." It looks as if the psychologists will be dealt with harshly. It Was Too Big a Job. It may not be generally known that Larkin Goldsmith Mead, the American sculptor, is a brother-in-law of William Dean Howells. W. H. Sherwin of Kansas City is a cousin of the novelist, and the other evening told this story: "Someone asked Mr. Howells why he did not have Mead, a talented painter and pen-and-ink artist as well as a sculptor, illustrate his books. Howells replied: I have asked him to do so, but he has answered me by saying that if he made the pictures he would have to read my books, and he would be hanged if he ever did that." Maybe They Were Friendly. The Mesopotamian valley, up which the British expedition from the Persian gulf has made its way, is, according to tradition, man's first—and last—paradise. But Tommy Atkins, toiling through the sand under a blazing sun, fighting fleas and flies as well as Turks and Arabs, did not find the country Edenic. One night when the troops were trying to sleep one soldier was heard to say to another: "Ere, Bill, if this is the Garden of Eden, I wonder what Adam and Eve did with these 'ere mosquitoes a-buzzle around 'am!" METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE, METROPOLIS, ILL. A LAND PROBLEM AHEAD (FROM THE PEORIA JOURNAL.) The Nebraska State Journal calls attention to the fact that Uncle Sam's opening of a 4,000-acre tract in the North Platte irrigation district for settlement practically winds up the "free land distribution" of the nation. It adds: "Free or cheap land has been the American safety valve. A population straining for self-betterment has had its own remedy—to go west and grow up with the country. With the government reduced to advertising an opening of forty-three farms, the safety valve may be considered forever closed. The expansive energy formerly exerted outward, must hereafter work itself out intensively. Increasing land speculation, with rapidly rising prices of land and proportionately increasing dissatisfaction among the landless would seem inevitable. The tone of our politics and the intensity of our social problems cannot but be vitally changed under the strain of dealing internally with a social pressure which hitherto has had the wilderness to vent itself upon. "Land hunger" will soon become a reality in this rapidly growing country and the constant pressure of population, increasingly higher than the ratio of production, is bound to bring us face to face with economic problems that we have heretofore considered remote. The far-sighted statesman and publicist must devote his thought earnestly to the consideration of these questions if we are to escape the extremes which curse the older nations of the world." In the above will be found one of the reasons that the Canadian Government is offering 160 acres of land free to the actual settler. There is no dearth of homesteads of this size, and the land is of the highest quality, being such as produces yields of from 30 to 60 bushels of wheat per acre, while oats run from fifty to over hundred bushels per acre. It is not only a matter of free grants, but in Western Canada are also to be had other lands at prices ranging from $12 to $30 per acre, the difference in price being largely a matter of location and distance from railway. If one takes into consideration the scarcity of free grant lands in the United States it is not difficult to understand why there has been most material advances in the price of farm lands. A few years ago, land that now sells for two hundred dollars an acre in Iowa, could have been bought for seventy-five dollars an acre or less. The increased price is warranted by the increased value of the product raised on these farms. The lands that today can be had in Western Canada at the low prices quoted will in a less time than that taken for the Iowa lands to increase, have a proportionate increase. In Nebraska the lands that sold for sixteen to twenty dollars per acre seven years ago, find a market at one hundred and seventy-five dollars an acre, for the same reason given for the increase in Iowa lands. Values in these two States, as well as in others that might be mentioned, show that Western Canada lands are going at a song at their present prices. In many cases in Western Canada today, there are American settlers who realize this, and are placing a value of sixty and seventy dollars an acre on their improved farms, but would sell only because they can purchase unimproved land at such a low price that in another few years they would have equally as good farms as they left or such as their friends have in the United States. The worth of the crops grown in Western Canada is of higher value than those of the States named, so why should the land not be worth fully as much. Any Canadian Government Agent will be glad to give you information as to homestead lands or where you can buy.—Advertisement. Expensive Treatment "Did the doctor give you any encouragement?" "Oh, yes. He said he would have me feeling like a prize fighter in a few weeks." "I wouldn't be at all surprised if he did so." "No?" "Most of the prize fighters nowadays seem to be desperately hard up." DO YOU NEED A KIDNEY REMEDY? Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root is not recommended for everything, but if you have a swamp-root problem, be found just the sensibly you need. Swamp-Root makes friends quickly because its mild and immediate effect is healing herbal compound—a physician's prescription which has proved its great current value in thousands of the most stressing cases according to reliable testimony. All druggists in 50c and $1.60 size. The drug is also the only one of this always reliable preparation by Parcel Post, also pamphlet telling about it. Address Kilmer & Co. Banghamton, NY, and enclose ten cents, also mention this paper-Adv. Yea. Verily. Said He—What is a 'Band of Hope? Said She—An engagement ring. Houston Post. THIS IS THE AGE OF YOUTH. You will look ten years younger if you darken your ugly, grizzly, gray hairs by using "La Creole" Hair Dressing.—Adv Life is a stewardship and not an ownership. It is a trust, not a gift. ITS GLORY HAS DEPARTED The Sausage, Declares the Government, Isn't What It Was Fifty Years Ago. A half a century ago sausage sizzled and burst. On a cold fall evening it diffused a pleasing aroma through the house, and the children, drawn to the kitchen by an irresistible compulsion, were quite sure to get underfoot—which was the great childish crime. Sausage was then at the zenith of its power. It had all seasons for its own, but preferably the fall and the winter of our content. When you say that it sizzled in the pan, you have said much: Sometimes it was necessary to prick it with a fork, lest it burst and send the hot fat flying about the stove. The odor of sage was in the air and the prepared sausage had about it a crispy, frizzly, sagy "bite" that was delicious. But how changed! How fallen from its high estate! Sometimes, we are led to fear, never to rise again. "Commercialism" insinuated its way into the sausage trade, the false commercialism of the writers on political economy. Chopped beef took its place on the links beside the pig, and it has even been said that considerable water was forced into this unnatural federation. Be that as it may, somewhere about the time of the Caliphate of Ben Harrison sausage lost its sizzle. Appeals to the meat men seem to be of little effect, though here and there gleams of hope are held out to the hand only to become apples of Sodom to the teeth. Some of the savants who have studied the subject find that in the old days there was youth, and the appetite that waits on wood sawed in the open air, mixed into the ingredients of the sausage. But this cannot be so, for the children of today show by their actions that sausage is simply food, set on the table, and on a par with all other foods. They eat it, and make no comment. No, sausage has changed!—Minneapolis Journal. FOR STREET CAR DRIVERS Device That Enables Motorman to Tell at a Glance if He Is Running on Time. A time-schedule indicator particularly useful for motormen, is being employed on an English street car line. The central portion of the device consists of an ordinary clock. About the face of the clock is a large circular frame into which is fitted a cardboard ring. This is divided by ra- 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 12 11 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 diating lines into 60 equal segments corresponding to the minutes of the hour. The names of the stops on the motorman's trip are written in clockwise order on this ring. The number of spaces separating the names corresponds to the number of minutes apart these points are on the schedule. The cardboard is then placed in the frame so that, at the time of starting, the minute hand of the clock will point to the name of the place where the journey begins. As the trip continues the motorman can tell at a glance whether he is ahead or behind his schedule. If desired, the return journey can be indicated on the other side of the cardboard. In case the trip is of more than an hour's duration a second ring can be inserted at the end of the first hour.—Popular Mechanics Magazine. War Raises Drug Prices. The big war in Europe is helping to make it costly, if not criminal, to be ill these days. The proverbial ounce of prevention is not only better than a pound of cure, but it is a hundred times cheaper. The war has added from 25 to 300 per cent to the consumer's cost of these drugs, and many of them—entirely disappeared from the market—cannot be obtained at any price. In many instances no sign of lower prices appears. In others there is certainty that diminishing supply must result in the most outlandish price figures. Factors in staple drugs affected by the war are, they insist, endeavoring to conserve the limited quantities they have by fixing prohibitive figures—not for the purpose of gouging the consumer, but to make it possible to hold on to enough of the precious products to supply emergencies. Veronal, its solutions and compounds has almost disappeared from the market, and antipyrin, to be had in only moderate quantities, has advanced from 35 cents to $5 per ounce. A Clincher. "I have here," said the book agent "a set of books which should be in every home." "Not in this one," snapped the man of the house. "I have no time for reading and I hate the very sight of a book agent." "Then these books are the very things you need. Just think how handy they'll be to throw at the next book agent that comes along." Kansas City Women Opposed To Giving Children Medicine Net Contents 15 Fluid Drachms 900 DROPS GASIC ALCOHOL - 3 PER CENT A Vegetable Preparation for Assimilating the Food and Regulating the Stomachs and Bowels of INFANTS & CHILDREN Promotes Digestion Cheerfulness and Rest. Contains neither Opium, Morphine nor Mineral. NOT NARCOTIC. Recipes of Old Dr. SAMUEL PITCHER Magnolia Seed - Alkali Sugar Rochelle Salts Anise Seed Poppy Seed Dr. Morphine Soda Cinnamon Sugar Wintergreen Flavor A perfect Remedy for Constipation, Soil Stomach Diarrhoea, Worms, Teverishness and LOSS OF SLEEP. Fac Simile Signature of Chief Mattei THE CENTAUR COMPANY NEW YORK. At Ginnith Sold 35 Doses 35 CENTS Exact Copy of Wrapper "Just think!" exclaimed the enthusiastic person. "It is now possible to talk all the way across the continent." "What of that?" queried the unemotional man. "Why, it marks a pew epoch in science." "Maybe so, but I notice that the people who talk across the continent don't seem to have anything particularly new to say." TRY DARKENING YOUR GRAY HAIR WITHOUT DYES Shampoo your hair and scalp each morning for about a week with Q-Ban Hair Color Restorer. If your hair is gray, streaked with gray, prematurely gray or faded, brittle, thin or falling, all your hair will then be beautifully darkened and to such a natural, even dark shade no one would suspect that you had applied Q-Ban. Q-Ban is no dye, perfectly harmless, but makes all your hair soft, fluffy, thick, with that lustrous dark shimmer which makes your hair so fascinating. Big bottle sent prepaid or sold by drugsters for 50c. Address Q-Ban Laboratories, Memphis, Tenn.—Adv. Adept "And is your wife a good housekeeper?" "Oh, wonderful, mother! She can heat coffee perfectly with an electric curling iron."—Kansas City Journal. IMITATION IS SINCEREST FLATTERY but like counterfeit money the imitation has not the worth of the original. Insist on "La Creole" Hair Dressing—it's the original. Darkens your hair in the natural way, but contains no dye. Price $1.00—Ady. The Yellow Kind. Maud—I do admire a man of mettle. Marie—So do I. The more gold he has the better.—Boston Evening Trans- script. FITS, EPILEPSY, FALLING SICKNESS Stopped Quickly. Fifty years of uninterrupted success of Dr. Kline's Epilepsy Medicine in Boston. Dr. KLINE COMPANY, Red Bank, N. O.—DR. Even a little miss may make a big hit when she grows up. They Find "External" Treatment Better Than Internal Medicines for Children's Colds. We give below letters from a number of Kansas City, Mo., ladies who were selected by their druggists to try out Vap-O-Rub—the "outside" treatment for cold troubles, introduced in Kansas City last winter. Vap-O-Rub is the invention of a North Carolina druggist. It comes in salve form, and has a two-fold action—first, the body heat releases the ingredients in the form of vapors, that are inhaled with each breath—second, Vap-O-Rub is absorbed through and stimulates the skin, aiding the vapors inhaled to relieve the congestion. Mrs. James Hollens, 1928 Tracy Ave, has used Vick's herself for colds in the chest and asthma, and has also used it on her children, and "finds it excellent." Mrs. Almira Turner, 1214 E. 24th st., relieved her husband of bronchitis with two nights' applications. She also used on her four months old baby or cold and on the other children, and says "I find Vap-O-Rub does everything you say." Mrs. T. L. Marshall, 139 N. Lawn- uale Ave. has two children, one six For Infants and Children Mothers Know That Genuine Castoria Always Bears the Signature of Chas. H. Hitchcock In Use For Over Thirty Years CASTORIA THE CENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY. Make the Liver Do its Duty Nine times in ten when the liver is right the stomach and bowels are right. CARTER'S LITTLE LIVER PILLS gently but firmly compel a lazy liver to do its duty. Cures Constipation, Indigestion, Sick Headache, and Distress After Eating. SMALL PILL, SMALL DOSE, SMALL PRICE. Genuine must bear Signature Every Woman Wants Pactine ANTISEPTIC POWDER FOR PERSONAL HYGIENE Dissolved in water for douches steps pelvic catarrh, ulceration and in- fammation. Recommended by Lydia E. Pinkham Med. Co. for ten year- ning healing wonder for nasal catarrh, toe thrust and corne eye. Economical. Has extraciliary cleaning and germicidal power. Sample Free. 50s. all drugs, or postpaid by mail. The Pacton Toilet Company, Boston, Mass. A! "Hipster's Curse" is guaranteed to stop jealousy. It is common for women to be compelled to your money will be promptly refunded without question. You will be昌. Hicha. Teeter. Kring Worm. It also other skin disease. 600 the box. LOSSES SURELY PREVENTED by Cutter's Blankie Pills. Low- weight stockman, because they protect where other vassal labs hold. 10-dose pills. Blankie Pills $1.60 10-dose pills. Blankie Pills $1.60 Use vassal labs, but Cutter's men Opposed Children Medicine years old and one eight months old. The baby last winter had an obstinate cough for quite a while. Mrs. Marshall used Vap-O-Rub and writes— "The cough soon yielded to this treat- ment after several different cough medicines had been tried with no effect." Mrs. Marshall also writes— "Vap-O-Rub appeals to us because the delicate little stomachs are not be- ing loaded down with medicines con- taining opium and other harmful ingredients." Mrs. J. S. Hollis, 3622 Forest Ave. used Vap-O-Rub. for "a terrific cold—could not breathe through my nose at all—impossible to go to sleep. Used Vick's Vap-O-Rub and in five minutes was asleep and breathing easily." Mrs. W. A. Winkler, 6228 E. 15th St. says—"My baby had a cold, almost pneumonia. I used Vap-O-Rub on him as directed, and in one day's time he was better." Mrs. Anna Taylor, 6040 Walrout Ave. has four children, and says—"I have never used anything as good for coughs and colds as Vap-O-Rub." Mrs. Harry Webb, 2123 E. 37th St. says—"Our little girl is very susceptible to colds, and in fact this is the only winter and spring that she has escaped pneumonia, and we believe it is Vap-O-Rub that has kept her from a spell this year." Three sizes—Zinc, 50c and $1.00. ORUB'SALVE Metropolis Gazette PUBLISHED ON FRIDAY BY THE GAZETTE PRINTING CO. METROPOLIS, . . . . . ILL. MRS. M. J. McGRARY, MANAGER. J. B. McBRARY, EDITOR FRIDAY MAY 19, 1916. Office 9th and Pearl Streets, Metropolis, Illinois. Entered as second-class mail matter, at Metropolis, Illinois, Postoffice. B. Address all communications to J. B. McBRARY, Box 107 Metropolis, Illinois. The names and addressees 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 In Months.....75 Three Months.....40 Single Copy.....05 In Advance. ADVERTISING RATES. made known on application. 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 B. HELM, as a candidate for State's Attorney on the Republican ticket, subject to the will of the voters at the September primary election. We are authorized to announce the name of WALTER RONDERS, as a candidate for State's Attorney on the Republican ticket, subject to the will of the voters at the September primary election. FRED SMIH, 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. IMMAN, as a candidate for Circuit Clerk on the Republican ticket, subject to the will of the voters, at the September primary election. We are authorized to announce the name of ARTHUR H. FIMLEY, as a candidate for Circuit Clerk, on the Republican ticket, subject to the will of the voters at the September primary election. We are authorized to announce J. M. MORRIS FIELD, as a candidate for County Commission, on the Republican Ticket, subject to the will of the voters at the September primary election. TO THE BAPTIST WOMEN OF THE STATE. Mt. Vernon. Ill.. 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 guard 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 The Gazette has just received another lot of new type faces and other material which adds much to the output of the work of the office. We deserve your patronage. We have a full line of cards, Letter Heads, Envelopes and other material. Let us do some of your work. Let us do your minute work and any other church advertisements. Reader if a blue or red mark appears on the head of your paper marked with an [X] it is to notify you that you owe for the paper and are notiged ito pay up. Edgar S. B. McCrary, was in Brookport Saturday on business. Mother's Day will be observed Sunday at 2:00 p. m, at the A. M. E. Church. Every-body invited to attend this service. Baptizing Sunday at 3:00 p. m. Rev. J. W. Davie, of the 1st Baptist Church will officiate. Geo. McCrary, Jr. was in Paducah, Ky. Saturday on business. Mr. Thos. Harmon, was called to Memphis, Tenn. Sunday to attend the bed side of his mother, who is in a dying condition. Rev J. M. Blake, passed thru this city Monday enroute to his home in Hodges Park, after being with his church in Bandana, Ky. Rev. J. Evans, of Paducah, was a Gazette caller Tuesday. Mrs. L. P. Alsoon visited her parents, Prof. and Mrs. J. D. Alston Friday. She returned to Paducah, Saturday P. M. accompanied by her sister Miss Naomi Alston. Persons who owe the Gazette would greatly lesson the financial burden of the publishers by remitting at once. Mr. Edgar Orrington went to Paducah, Wednesday to have his eyes treated as he is about to lose the sight of one. Willis Jones visited in Paducah, last week. Miss Willie Urquhart is on the sick list this week. Mrs. Pearl Carter and son, returned to their home in St. Louis, Mo., Thursday after visiting her mother Mrs. Molly Claybrookes. Miss Cleo Anderson of Wynn Ark, arrived in the city Wednesday to visit her cousin Mr. John Brooks of 810 Pearl St. Hillman's famous Orchestral of Paducah, Ky. played at the Odd Fellows Hall Wednesday night to a crowded house. Miss Iola Urquhart has been added to the force of typist at the Anchor Printing office. 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. as who did not represent last year and we are sure of those who did represent last year. Do not forget sister O'Connor Come prepared to play your part on the program as they may be a little late in getting out. $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. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by all Druggists, 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. Send us a trial order for the Great Nature Salve, 50c a Box. Why suffer when you can be relieved for such a small amount. Read our guarantee on the front page of The Gazetre. Edgar McCrary, the District Pres. of the Mt Olive B. Y, P. U. Convention will be in Unionville. June 11th to organize a Union there in order that they represent in Carbondale at the Annual Session either by letter or delegate. There will an Excursion run to Cairo Sunday in order that the Metropolis people might see the last game of a three game series to be played between the Cairo Cubs and the Metropolis Giants. Misses Ella Long, and Myrtle Nance, visited parents in Brookport, Saturday. Miss Leatha Moon, of Brookport, was in the city Saturday on business. Mother's Day was observed Sunday at Brookport. Baptizing at noon by the Pastor. At night Rev. Geo. H. Crippens, p reached a short sermon in connection with he Mother's program. Services good thru-out the day. J. M. Morefield, of Uunionville, is a candidate for re-election for county commissioner; he has served in said office for two terms which qualifies him for better service. Mother's Day Observed Communion Set Unveiled Large Crowd Present. At the Evening Service, Mother's Day was observed at the 1st, Baptist Church under the auspices of the Women's Industrial Club, of which Mrs. Bell Tyson, of Princeton, Ky is President. An excellent propram was rendered to the delight of the vast audience Several of the members spoke in high esteem of their mothers tho' quite a few are sleeping beneath the sod The Choir was at its best, Miss Margie Tandy, the organist has now a choir second to nene in the city. The new $29.00 Silver. Communion Set that was purchased by the W.I. Club was presented to the church by their efficient President, Mrs. Tyson. Rev. J. B. McCrary, of Unity Brookport, responded in choice language. The large auditorium was at most taxed to its capacity which when full seats more than 500. The Club turned out en masse and lifted the largest amount of money that has ever been taken up at one service and not being a rally in general. The collection for the evening was $28.10 for which the club extends thands to every-one that contributed. Dignamism. Dignam tells us: "There are many risks in business. The wise man allows his competitors to take them." Native Salve. We have just recived some more of Native Salve and it is going very last, those in Carbonand Md. City can secure a box or more now by 50c, per box. Act quick if you want it. Send all orders to Rev. J B. McCrary. 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 Mt. 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 St. Paul, Minnesota Sunday, May 7th The Tuskegee Jubilee Quintet sang at the morning service of the St. James African Methodist church. The house was well filled to hear the representatives of the noted school. They have many engagements to fill in the twin cities. The noted Fisk University Jubilee Quartet of Nashville, Tenn., sang at the morning service of Pilgrim Baptist church April 30th There were present more than six hundred people of many races to hear these Jubilee singers of the first rank Prof. Work was at his best, Mr. Meyers noted everywhere as the unequaled singer of Jubilee singers songs added new luster to his many laurels Mr. Meyers is pastor of Horeb Baptist church, Greenville, Miss., and by the urgent request of the pastor, he preached at Pilgrim Baptist church Sunday morning at 11:00 A.M. The Treble Clef Club, and all Star Musical organization of the twin cities (eight ladies) gave an entertainment in Pilgrim Baptist church Monday night, May 1. The house was well filled to hear these "Home Stars." Those who failed to attend certainly missed a very rare treat. They use compositions of colored composers on the program More and more the twin cities are awakening to know better the strength of its splendid citizenship. Begining May 1, Rev. and Mrs. B. N. Murrell, are occupying the magnificent house at 885 St. Anthony avenue Just as soon as the specially committee appointed by the church to locate the new site for the church home reports, it will be the aim of the pastor and church to set to work to accomplish two things namely, erect and pay for another modern house of worship; and to erect and pay for a six room modern parsonage to be used as the home of the pastors of the church. The debate between the St James A. M. E. Sunday school and Pilgrim Baptist church Monday night, May 8th. The Subject, "Resolved That Military PROPERTY FOR SALE. On Market street, Metroplis, Ill., Good location, between 7, and 8th St. Two blocks from the court house square. Price reasouble. For further information Address BIRDIE RENFRO MORRIS, 102 S. Garrisou Ave., St. Louis, Mo. Preparedness is The Best Assurance of International Peace" was affirmed by the St. James A. M. E. school. representatives of Pilgrim denied claim. The judges were three men one, a member of the St. James church; one of Pilgrim and one of the Episcopal church. The Methodists labored hard to prove their assertion, but labored in vain. The baptists debaters crushed them with every drive. "The best proof of the fairy of that assertion is seen by the European war today" said one of the Baptist orators. After being out five minutes the judges returned a decision in favor of the negatives (Baptists) The Twin City Interdenominational Pastor's Association eld its April meeting in the home of Rev. J. P. Simms on Tuesday the 2nd. A splendid session was enjoyed by all present. The committee on Constitution and By-Laws submitted its report. The same was adopted by the association. The June meeting will be held at the home of Rev. M. W. Winters, pastor of Zion Baptist church Minneapolis. Rev.[G. W. Camp pastor of Zion Presbyterian church will deliver the address on the subject, "Jesus Thought of Himself." The St. Phillips Episcopal church has lost quite a number of its members during the past six months. Because of the funeral service he was called upon to conduct the same afternoon, Rev. A. H. Lealtad, the Rector, could not be present at the monthly meeting of the colorzd pastors. Mrs. B. N Murrell, spent a week in Austin, Minn, attend the State Sunday school convention. Miss Grace Wills was the other representative from Pilgrim Baptist Sunday school. Mrs. Murrell, gave her report to the school Sunday May 7. She expressed regrets that all the other schools of our colored churches fail to get information, inspiration and encouragement so much needed by Bible school teachers, and which is so freely offered to all through the convention. For years Pilgrim Baptist church is the only church of colored people in the state that each year represents in all state religious organizations. The Northern Baptist Convention meeting will open in Mill City May 17 and continue through the 24th. Thousands of delegates are expected to attend. Preparation is made to care for, and entertain all colored delegates who in attendance at this session. Practically every pulpit in the twin cities will be occupied by visiting ministers. Mr G. W. James, Mrs. Birdie High Mrs, B N. Murrell and the pastor will represent Pilgrim. W. H. GREENE. Frank L. Smith, candidate for governor on the Republican ticket, will be in the city the 19th (to-day Friday) from 6:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. He wants to meet the voters. Walter Roberts, Solicitor Master in Chancery Sale. State of Illinois, Massac County, ss. In the Circuit Court of said County, April Term A. D. 1916. J. M. Russell Vs. Oscar Davis. Bill to foreclose mortgage No. 247. Public notice is hereby given that in pursuance of a decree entered at the April term of said court, to-wit, on the 11th day of April A. D. 1916 in the above entitled cauae, I, S. Bartlett Kerr, Master in Chancery of said county, will at the hour of 10 o'clock A. M., Saturday May 13th A. D. 1916 at the east door of the Court House in the City of Metropolis, County of Massac, and State of Illinois, sell at public vendue to the highest and best bidder, the following described real estate towit: Lot (1). in Mattie Johnson's addition to the City of Brookport, Massac County, Illinois. Terms of sale, Cash in hand. Dated this 11th day of April A. D. 1916. S. BARTLETT JKERR, Master in Chancery. W. L. Krone, Solicitor. Master in Chancery Sale, State of Illinois, Massac County, as. In the Circuit Court of said County, April Term A. D. 1916. L. M. Murrie doing business under the firm name of Murrie Lumber Co. Vs. V. E. Shannon. Bill to Foreclose Mechanics Lien No. 20. Public notice is hereby given that in pursurance of decree entertained at the April Term of said court, to wit, on the 21st day of January A. D. 1916 in the above entitled cause. I. S. Barr- lett Kerr, Master in Chancery of said County, will, at the hour of 11 o'clock A. M. Saturday May 13th A. D. 1916 at the east door of the Court. House in the City of Metropolis, County of Massac, and State of Illinois, sell at public vendue to the highest and best bidder, the following described real estate to-wit: The East One third (1-3) of Lets 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. 1915. S. BARTLETT KERR. Master in Chancery. Fred R. Young, Solicitor. Master in Chancery Sale. State of Illinois, Massac County, 88 In the Circuit Court of said County, April Term A. D. 1916. Vester Hodge Vs. Charles Hodge, Felix Hodge, Grant Hodge, Hattie Beard, Rena Prector 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 29th, A. D. 1916 at the East door of the Court House in the city of Metropolis, County of Massac, and State of Illinois, sell at public vendue to the highest and best bidder, the following described real estate to-wit: Lot number Six Hundred Thirty five (635), in Block Fifty Four (54) of the City of Metropolis, in the County of Massac and State of Illinois. Terms of sale, one third cash in hand balance payable in one year, deferred payment to be secured by good personal note with Six per cent interest, exercised before the execution of mortgage. Dated this 18th day of April A. D. 1916. Body Blow. A Maryland man eloped with his sweetheart's twin by mistake, and is now happy. This will be a body blow for the soulmatists. →Cleveland Plain Dealer.