Metropolis Weekly Gazette

METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS LIBRARY JUN 5 MH VOL HODGES PARK Bro. Editor:--We wish to speak through the paper to the W. E. & M. Societies of the Mt. Olive Baptist District. The time is near approaching that each local auxiliary of the W. E. and M. are asked to send something for education. And this department should be remembered by the S S's. and B Y. P. U's. Each auxiliary is requested to send something for this work. My dear, this problem is up to us and since we have lost the Livingston building we need to apply ourselves to labor and prayer and get together for the purpose of building up and laying plans in a systematic way to do something. Let us not lay dormant on this matter, but be interested, wake up and stir as never before. It has been said that the Livingston School was a failure; but we know that there is opposition and competition in work of every kind, but let us not fight against ourselves and our best interest, for as a race we are successful, but let us work to continue successful. What do we care for discouragement? We have the perseverance to do things and the endurance to last, and that is what wins. We get our lessons for the future from the records of the past. We have succeeded and can succeed again. Let's send something to the convention in June for the educational treasury and remember that Centralia holds the District banner of the W. E. and M. and if we continue to lag they will hold it two years longer. So let us get to work that we can be on record and send something each quarter so we can be in the race by the next annual setting. When we fail each quarter and expect to reach the goal, in the annual meeting we can't succeed. Let us pray that the S. S. and B. Y. P. U. Convention will be a success and come prepared for dress parade, white for purity. Yours in the work, M. J. Blake, Pres. W. E. & M. To The Members of The Mount Olive Baptist S. S. Convention. Dear Co-workers: I wish to remind you of the fact that the time is fast approaching for the Mt. Olive Baptist Convention of Southern Ill., to convene at Carbondale, June 21, 1916. It is hoped that each Sunday School will be well represented and also send the proper representation fees, and see that arrears are paid a few have already done this. Every delegate should come prepared to take part in the grand parade which is being planned as a part of the program for this session. Those participating will be expected to wear white apparel. This paraae is a new feature, and we hope to make it a success by having all members enter enthusiastically into the spirit of it. The president urges that every Sunday School send the names of the delegates to the chairman of committee on program, Miss Ann Lyde Thomas, 452 W. Cole St. Duquoin, Ill., as soon as possible NOTICE. ETROPO MOT LUME XIX. NO 13 Dennis Farrow, President, Ollie Lawton, Cor. Secretary R. F. D. No. 1, Cairo, I. I. St. Paul, Minnesota. Sunday May 21, was another of the wet Sundays in the series Minnesota is now having In fact rain fell steadily all day. Because of this fact the attendance upon the public services in the various churches was very light. More than fifty of the pulpits of the Dretestant churches was filled by Ministers attending the Northern Baptist Convention in Minneapolis Rev. Williard W. Bartlett of Bennington, Vermont, preached in Pilgrim Baptist church at 11:00 A.M. Rev D. W. Hulburt, of Milwaukee, Wis., preached at 8:00 P.M. Considering the weather condition, fair sized audiences came out to hear these splendid Baptist preachers. Rev. and Mrs. Bartlett will leave next September to take up their work in Rangoon, Burma, with one of the strongest Baptist Foreign Mission Stations in India. Dr. Hulbert is the Superintendent of Missions for the state of Wisconsin. As a member of the Pulpit Supply committee for the Twin cities, Dr B. N. Murrell at first hand selected these two able men to speak in his own church. More than seventeen hundred delegates registered their attendance of the Northern Baptist Convention meeting beginning May 17. Of this number, aside from the three colored Baptist churches within the Twin cities representing, there is only one other Negro delegate. Rev. Mr. Fox pastor of the Negro Baptist church of Milwaukee, Wis., is attending The sessions are intensely interesting, and furnish much needed information to all who attend them. In fact the delegation is quite Cosmopolitan in its composition. Practically all leading races are represented. The St James African Methodist church and its pastor are launching another financial campaign to raise enough money to pay off the $1500.00 mortgage on the church property. Their $1000.00 rally held some time ago netted them less than $250.00. But even that did not discourage them. It is hoped that better and lar-results will come by this effort. They declare that their present bonified membership is 551. With this number of members $1500 ought not to be so diffucult to collect. Rev and Mrs. G. W. Camp of the Colored Presbyterian church attended a meeting of their denomination out in the state last week. The session lasted two days. They report a splendid meeting. Attorney Wm T. Francis of St. Paul, has announced his candidacy for Representative from his Senatorial District to the State Legislature, Mr. Francis is the foremost race man of the Law profession in St. Paul. He is attentive, painstaking curtious to all his clients. Since entering upon the procee of his chosen profession Mr. Francis has succeeded well. He is one of the prime factors in the U ion Hall Association which built the magnificent three story brick now being occupied by the colored fraternal organizations of this city. For many years he has been one of the best supporting, and best workers of Pilgrim Baptist church. The citizens of his district irrespective to color or other considerations, are jubilent to give him their support in this campaign. Many public spirited men of both races are to take the platform and make speeches for Mr. Francis. He has the largest Sunday School class of colored people in the city. Mrs. W. D. Carter, wife of Rev. W. D. Carter of Seattle, Washington, is visiting friends in St. Paul. She has been in the city more than a month. She may spend several months to come in the twin cities. It is really surprising to know the number of colored men there are who have bought Lakeside Summer homes since last summer. Added to this comes the information that more automobile owners are soon to be known in St. Paul. Pilgrim Baptist church furnishes the larger number of this comfort seeking class. Be it said to their credit that no other number of men in the city are more loyal to their church than these. They never fail to respond to every need of the church with their money, time and labor. Many of the Baptist ministers of Illinois who are in attendance at The Northern Baptist Convention Meeting, called to pay their respects to Rev. B. N. Murrell, pastor of Pilgrim Baptist church. Rev. Mr Murrell became quite well known to the Baptists generally throughout Central Illinois during his eight years pastorate in Peoria, Illinois, before coming to this state. Among those who greeted him most heartily are Dr. Benjamin Otto, formerly of Peoria but now located in Chicago, Dr. Miller, formerly of Galesburg, but now in Elgin. BROWNFIELD. Editor Gazette: Please allow me space in your paper to say that Sincere Baptist church and Sunday School are moving along nicely. The School is making ready to represent in the Convention. Rev. J. H. Hilly, the pastor held baptizing at this place the 3rd Sunday in this month. Dally Health HInt. Understand that if you are mentally unified with skiness, old age and death, no amount of desire or affirmation can make you well, young, or long lived. To be healthy, you must be mentally in unity with health; to remain young, you must be mentally one with youth, and to live long, you must be mentally unified with life, says Wallace D. Watties in the Nautilus. Household Philosopher. "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." CLOSING EXERCISES The closing exercises of Dunbar High School Tuesday night was a signal success from every view point and it clearly showed that Principal Master-on and his corps of teachers had striven hard to give to the patrons and pupil's of said school their best service from the remarkable record made and interest shown. General satisfaction seemed to prevail. There was only one student, Miss Anna Herron, to complete the course this year but she was a credit to the school and an honor to her race and parents, and is destined to take her place among the successful ones. The singing and music under the leadership of Mrs. Mable Burke, who had trained a class of young boys and girls for the occasion were fitting especially at the Commencement proper at the Odd Fellows' Hall. The commencement address was delivered by Prof. C. W. Merriweather, Atty., of Hopkinsville, Ky., which was rich in rhetoric bristled with common sense truths which were driven home with words that are destined to create a new desire and a greater thirst for knowledge, in fact the address was par excellent and above the average way of thinking and presentation. He recounted step by step the advancement and achievements of the Race in the last fifty years, as well as delving into Ancient and Medieval history of of the worlds nations and Races. He delivered a lecture Wednesday night at First Baptist church on the arrest and trial of Jesus which was without the finest we ever listened to. It will pay any community or church to have him deliver this lecture. After the lecture at the church the choir of said church served cream and cake at the residence of Prof. and Mrs. G. E. Masterson, in honor of Prof. Merriweather and a few invited guests. Wednesday at 10:00 a.m. the graduating class of the 8th grade of Dunbar school rendered a splendid program in Room 3 of said building. There were nine members of the class and every one of them was a credit to the schoop and reflected credit upon Mrs. Irene Haynes, who is the assistant to the principal. The music was fine, Mrs. Burke was at the instrument. The certificates were awarded to the class by Professor Masterson after a brief address. As 1:30 p. m, the parents returned to Room 1 to witness the the program of the primary department and there was not standing room and many stood on the outside of the building at windows witness the closing of this room. The little tots were just eager to satisfy those who had come to listen to them as were advanced grades, and Miss Mae Roberts has developed into a fine primary teacher. At 2:30 p. m. the visitors and parents repaired to Room 2 where Miss Love Phillips, was found with her pupils ready to give a closing program of the very rare musical and literary treat held in store for those present. Miss Margie Tandy was the musical conductor for rooms 1 and 2 and she was equal to the occasion. Single Copy Five Cents CURTIS CLOTHES Get in the Well COME dine Krebs Glo I. O. O. TOI and see the superior are offered by Metrop store. You'll find he ment of new in the Well Dressed COME direct to the Krebs Clothing Co. I. O. O. F. Building THE CURRY CLOTHES THE CURRY CLOTHES PANIS TODAY see the superior values and offered by Metropolis' newest club You'll find here an unrivaled of new and see the superior values and style that are offered by Metropolis' newest clothing store. You'll find here an unrivaled assortment of new Spring Suits For Men and Young Men $15 Made of pure wool B models Lined with si of handsome patterns Plenty of pinch-back m flannels Values without See them today at the KREBS CLOT I. O. O. F. of pure wool Fabrics in all s Lined with silk and alpaca handsome patterns of pinch-back models striped s Values without equal at th them today at the EBS CLOTHING ST O. O. F. Buildi Plenty of pinch-back models striped and solid flannels Values without equal at this price See them today at the KREBS CLOTHING STORE I. O. O. F. Building. At the conclusion of this well rendered program, The Alumni rendered a short program which consisted of vocal and instrument-solos and addresses by some of the members of said association. We are pleased with the work of the school. But there is much discontent and unrest in the minds of the parents of the negro children because they know they have not equal advantages with the white children of the Metropolis schools. There is much need of a modern school building with all modern improvements and aparatus, with another grade and the members of the Board of Education should see to it, give our people equal advantages with themselves and also the colored schools of our neighboring towns. We have spoken to some of the members from time to time about this gross neglect especially the grade. If it is needed for their children it is more so for the negro children because we have farther to climb, having had only fifty years of schooling. How can they expect our boys and girls graduating from the 11th grade to compete with pupils with four years in the High School. We have patiently and silently endured this state of affairs too long already with the result that our children must go ```markdown ``` Dressed Circle rect to the thing Co. F. Building DAY values and style that blis' newest clothing are an unrivaled assort. Fabrics in all sizes and k and alpaca Hundred models striped and solid but equal at this price THING STORE Building. to some other school and spend a year to secure what should have been given them at home. Par- ents members of the Board of Edu- cation, let us work hand in hand for the general advancement of the race. We assisted in giving to the white people their modern buildings and equipments now be fair with us and practice the Golden Rule. ST. JOHN. ILL Editor Gazette: Please allow space in your valuable 'paper to say a few words about our church and Sunday School. We are doing a grand work at St. John Baptist church. We have Rev. J. H. Hilley, as our pastor and he is doing a good work. We had a large number in Sunday School. We are going to have an entertainment tonight for the school and church. Rev. Hilley, is doing all he can to save church. So pray for us that we may go on to victory. 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 fo. 15 cents in postage. KIDNEY MEDICINE DISSOLVES GRAVEL STONES KIDNEY MEDICINE DISSOLVES GRAVEL STONES Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root sells well with us because it invariably produces good results in Kidney, Liver and Bladder troubles. We sold a dollar bottle to one of the inmates of our Soldiers' Home near here, and after using it he brought in about one dozen quinces of large as which he had passed. He states that he obtained wonderful relief from the use of Swamp-Root. ERNEST A. BROWN, Lafayette, Ind. Personally appeared before me this 28th of July, 1999. Ernest A. Brown of the Brown Drug Co., who subscribed the above statement and made oath that the same is true in substance and in fact. DAVID BRYAN, Notary Public. Prove What Swamp-Root Will Do For You Send ten cents to Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y., for a sample size bottle. It will convince anyone. You will also receive a booklet of valuable information telling about the kidneys and bladder. When writing, be sure and mention this paper. Regular fifty-cent and one-dollar size bottles for sale at all drug stores.—Adv. Miss Wated. "Are they well mated?" "Perfectly! He likes to make money and she likes to spend it." SOAP IS STRONGLY ALKALINE and constant use will burn out the scalp. Cleanse the scalp by shampooing with "La Creole" Hair Dressing, and darken, in the natural way, those ugly, grizzly hairs. Price. $1.00.—Adv. Neutral. "Are you a pro-German or a pro- plly?" "Neither. I'm a Pro Bono Publico." —Richmond Times-Dispatch HEAL SKIN TROUBLES That Itch, Burn and Disfigure by Using Cuticura. Trial Free. The Soap to cleanse and purify, the Ointment to soothe and heal. Rashes, eczemas, pimples, dandruff and sore hands yield to treatment with Cuticura Soap and Ointment. Relief is immediate and healment, in most cases, complete, speedy and permanent. Free sample each by mail with Book. Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. L. Boston. Sold everywhere.—Adv. Innocent "Why, Mr. Frontpew," exclaimed his pastor reprovingly, "I am surprised and grieved to see you coming out of a common liquor saloon." "Well—er—you see," stammered Mr. Frontpew. "I—er—just stepped in there to look at the mirror to see if I had a smudge on my nose." The Terrible Infant: Charlie is very fond of reading stories of adventure, and sometimes he lets his imagination run away with him. He was telling about a man's having taken his ball away from him when he threw it into his yard in playing. "He came up to me," he said, "and said, 'Stand and deliver,' and then he—" "He never did," said his sister Lucy. "He just said 'Skedaddle,' and you bet you did." Girl Paul Reveres for Zeps. Girl Paul Reveres now give warning of the approach of Zeppelins over London. They are telephone operators attached to the telephone and who have volunteered to ride a bicycle around to rouse their colleagues. All go to the exchanges where there is a rush of business every time there is an impending raid. There are now 420 women on night duty at the London telephone exchanges, and when there is a threatened raid hundreds more can be called out. Between 80 and 90 per cent of the girls are on duty within half an hour of the call being sent out. MEAL-TIME CONSCIENCE. What Do the Children Drink There are times when mother or father feeds the youngsters something that they know children should not have. Perhaps it is some rich dessert but more often it is tea or coffee. It is better to have some delicious, hot food-drink that you can take yourself and feed to your children, conscious that it will help and strengthen, but never hurt them. A Yorkstate lady says: "I used coffee many years in spite of the conviction that it injured my nervous system and produced my nervous headaches. While visiting a friend I was served with Postum and I determined to get a package and try it myself. The result was all that could be desired—a delicious, finely flavored, richly colored beverage. Since I quit coffee, Postum has worked wonders for me. "My husband, who had suffered from kidney trouble when drinking coffee, quit the coffee and took up Postum with me and since drinking Postum he has felt stronger and better, with no indication of kidney trouble. "You may be sure I find it a great comfort to have a warm drink at meals that I can give my children, with a clear conscience that it will help and not hurt them as coffee or tea would." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Postum comes in two forms: Postum Cereal—the original form—must be well boiled. 15c and 25c pkgs. Instant Postum—a soluble powder—dissolves quickly in a cup of hot water, and, with cream and sugar, makes a delicious beverage instantly. 30c and 50c tins. Both forms are equally delicious and cost about the same per cup. METHODOFFINANCE HOW BANKS "MAKE" MONEY FOR THEIR CUSTOMERS. Little Story Explains the Operation of National Institutions—Whole Process Resolves Itself into a Matter of Credit. It would seem that after the bank takes your money, protects it, pays it back on demand or as you order, lends you money, discounts your neighbor's note for you, it would have nothing else to offer in your behalf. But it has—it "makes" money for you, and incidentally makes money for itself, according to a writer in the Brooklyn Eagle. When you see the president or the cashier of a bank signing his name to a row of four crisp new bills (they always come in sheets of four) you wonder what he is doing, and what is behind it all. We will show you by a simple illustration. Let us suppose you want to borrow $1,000 and offer your note to your banker. He knows you, knows that you will pay, and wants to accommodate you. He looks at his books and says: "I can't spare the money. The law says I must have fifteen cents out of every dollar I owe my depositors in cash, or where I can get it on demand; and I have just what the law requires. If I give you credit for the note and let you check against it, I increase my debts and make my condition worse, for if I do not pay you in cash I must stand ready to do so." But being a resourceful banker and knowing how, he asks you to wait a minute while he goes to his strong box. He finds a government bond which he bought a year ago when he had plenty of spare money, for cash, and comes back smiling and says: "Very well, in three days you can have your money. I will turn this bond into bank notes for you." So he sends the bond to Washington, and in return the government sends him 200 crisp new $5 bills, to be signed by two officers of the bank, cut and handed out to you. The government keeps the bond as security that he will redeem the notes in "lawful money" on demand—that is, pay greenbacks or gold for them if demanded (but this is seldom done), pays him interest on the bond and you pay him interest on your note for the use of his notes, and both are satisfied. You see, by this proposition he has turned your notes into bank notes, with himself behind it and the government behind him. Your promise wouldn't go very far from home; these promises will. Everybody knows them. They are "money" and circulate as such. Now what has the banker done by this process? He has furnished the community as well as you with circulating medium, handy to carry, cheap and satisfactory to all. He has taken your credit and turned it into bank credit. He makes money and you take the money he has made and make some money for yourself. It is a very simple proposition, understood by few, but practiced by many. If you don't fully understand it, ask your banker to tell you more about it. This feature of banking, however, is performed in this country only by banks under control of the federal government, namely, the national banks and federal reserve banks, but is a common banking practice the world over, differing in form but not in substance, it being a universal function of the bank to turn credit which is unknown into that which is known and will therefore be freely taken, and banknote credit is the most common and useful form. Dyed Furs Cause Skin Diseases. Cases of skin disease caused by dyed furs have become so common that Dr. George Manghill Olson of Minneapolis urges, in the Journal of the American Medical association, that the use of the dye called paraphylenidiamin and known to the trade as paramine, ursol, etc., be prohibited by law. All the cases reported are traceable to furs dyed brown or black with this dangerous derivative of anilin. The trouble comes generally on the neck where the fur collar has been in contact with the skin, and appears often after the fur has been wet by rain, snow or the breath of the wearer, or after the wearer has had a close shave. The black pony coats worn by women are the worst offenders, as all of them are dyed with paraphenylenlainlam. Its presence can generally be detected by examining the roots of the hairs, which will show here and there an unnatural brick-red color. Battlefield Made Out of Old Money: There is a stretch of plate-glass windows long enough to accommodate fully 100 persons at No. 411 Fifth avenue, where the American Red Cross has its rooms, and usually there are 100 persons with noses flattened against the windows, looking in at the young women volunteers, busy handling packets. Nearly every young woman is pointed out as this or that heiress a dozen times a day. Just inside there is a model of a battlefield, made of macerated United States currency, furnished by the treasury department. The model shows trenches and troops. One man who inspected it said he'd bet it took more than ten million dollars in macerated money to make the model. METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE. METROPOLIS. ILL. AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS In a communication to the Baltimore News, W. H. Holtzclaw, principal of the Utica Normal and Industrial Institute, Utica, Miss, writes: I have read your editorial of November 15, entitled, "Booker T. Washington's Field." I have found it very interesting, but there are some points in it which I feel ought to be amplified, to say the least. It is for this reason that I venture to write you this letter. For instance, you make a comparison between the Northern Negro and the Southern Negro, and you state that the southern's Negro's progress in 50 years has not been relatively commensurate with that of the Northern Negro during the half century of his freedom. You were kind enough however, to give some very valuable reasons for this. The facts which I have at my command, however, and which can be had from the United States census, convince me that taking everything under consideration, the Southern Negro's progress during the past 50 years has far surpassed that of even the Connecticut Negro of whom you speak. We ought not overlook the fact that the Southern Negro is making progress under tremendous difficulties—among them is the matter of education. The Connecticut Negro has paid, on the education of each of his children, out of public funds, for any given year, more than 15 times as much as we Negroes of the far South receive per capita. Besides, he has educational facilities. For 50 years the Negroes have had here in the South the poorest kind of opportunities to educate themselves—school terms being from three to five months in length, and the cotton fields taking up the remainder of the time of our children. Besides, when they do attend school, the facilities are often so poor that it is almost equal to no school at all. It requires a boy 26 years to complete a common school course under the circumstances. There is often no more than the wreck of a log cabin with no heating apparatus, and but the poorest improvised blackboards, and little or no protection from the elements. The teacher presiding over such a school is often paid as low as $10 a month (that is the case in my own county) for five months, and out of which she has to pay not less than $7 a month for board. If this sounds extravagant, I have only to invite your attention to the latest annual report of the superintendent of education of this state and Louisiana. It cannot be expected under such conditions that the Negroes will make satisfactory progress. But this is not the worst. There are, according to the United States census, about 2,000,000 Negro children in the South who cannot get into even the poor schools that I have just mentioned. That is to say 52 per cent of the Negro children of the South, according to the United States census, attend no school at all. Methodists who sought to have colored bishops provided for work among the colored people failed to receive the sanction of the annual conferences of the Methodist Episcopal church, the affirmative vote failing to reach the necessary two-thirds. Announcement of the total conference vote was made by Dr. Joseph H. Hingeley, secretary of the general conference of the Methodist Episcopal church. The plan was known as the Mississippi proposition Representative L. C. Dyer of Missouri, gave the record of the colored soldiers in the wars of this country at a public meeting at the John Wesley A. M. E. Zion church, Fourteenth and Corcoran streets northwest, under the auspices of the National Memorial association, in commemoration of the fifty-fourth anniversary of the emancipation of slaves in the District of Columbia. The association, which is a national one, is organized for the purpose of procuring a site for the erection of a monument in Washington in honor of the colored soldiers and sailors who fought in the wars of this country. Mr. Dyer said he would do all he could to further this movement by an appropriation by congress, and pledged the support of the Spanish war veterans, of which he is commanding chief. Representative H. Martin Williams, who was master of the ceremonies, made a short address, in which he stated that he was for peace, and that he hoped this country would never be in another war. As a table delicacy the tile fish has established itself firmly under the exploitation of the bureau of fisheries, which undertook to bring its merits to public attention a short time ago. These fish are now marketed in great quantities and are to be found on sale in all the leading markets of the eastern part of the country, so that the government's efforts in introducing it have been eminently successful. Sudan grass yields from one to eight tons of cured hay an acre. to provide bishops for race and languages and was sent to all the annual conferences. The vote, as compiled by Doctor Hingeley, was: Total vote of the conferences, 8,402 Necessary two-thirds for adoption, 5,601 Total affirmative vote, 4,921 Total negative vote, 3,481 The proposition failed of adoption by 680 votes. The vote of the laymen on the proposition was: Yeas, 3,300; nays, 2,425. Necessary for adoption of the proposition, 3,816 votes. The Wilmington proposition, giving bishops of the Methodist Episcopal church in constitutional matters the right of veto, which was submitted to the annual conferences by the general conference of 1912, was lost by a majority of 1,571 ministers and 960 laymen. The Colorado proposition, granting honorary privileges to retired ministers and absentee voting on constitutional matters, had a majority of 2,012 ministers and 818 laymen. These privileges will be granted and will become law by favorable action by the general conference at Saratoga Springs May 1. The three questions now decided have been voted upon by the Methodists since 1912 and were considered the most important propositions before the various conferences. Mr. Washington's creed is emphasized on every occasion—that is, to "do the common things uncommonly well." Courses are being offered in domestic science, basketry, drawing, music, sewing, manual arts, physical training and the teachers' professional course. For recreation we have tennis, volley ball and swimming. We have a band concert every Sunday afternoon from 6:30 to 7:30. There are always between 2,000 and 3,000 people on the lawns, and there is perfect order, not a semblance of authority. Everyone seems thoroughly imbued with the Tuskegue spirit. We motored down to the Alabama Reform School for Juvenile Negro Lawbreakers, located at Mount Meigs. There we found 165 Negro boys, 50 of whom came from Birmingham. We were very much impressed with everything we saw. You remer-ber how earnestly the Negro club women of Birmingham have worked to establish and maintain this school. Recently the state has taken charge. Still, we found much that we can and must do for these boys, who must some day come back to the cities and add to the useful or criminal class their share of good or evil. The superintendent is a Tuskegee graduate, and we could see long before we drove up to the building that the Tuskegee spirit reached even to the reformatory, a distance of 27 miles from the institute. Beautiful flower-beds and shrubbery added to the beauty of the grounds. I feel safe in saying that with the enthusiasm and earnestness which the summer school teachers manifest in the work here that Alabama will not long remain at the bottom of the ladder in flitteracy.—Birmingham (Ala.) Age-Herald. Electrical machinery is used almost exclusively in a Philadelphia ice cream factory that turns out 10,000 quarts a day. The Rev. W. H. Jernagin urged the organization of the forces of the churches throughout the country in support of the monument movement. Thomas L. Jones told of the achievements of the colored race. Among the guests were the commander and staff, Department of the Potomac, G. A. R.; the president and staff, Department of the Potomac, W. R. C.; the Guy V. Henry Army and Navy Union, No. 9; the Spanish-American war veterans, and officers of the National Guard of the district. The anniversary was observed Monday also at Mount Calvary Colored Baptist mission, Twentyth and E streets northwest, under the auspices of the Butler Zonavues Veteran Relief association. Prof. Jesse Lawson was the principal speaker. He voiced the feeling of his race in the sentiment that "the United States of America is the only country we know and her cause is our cause and her flag is our flag, and here together we shall live and never once die. This is our country, our home, our own, our native land!"—Washington Star. The Japanese have many curious superstitions about animals, the chief among which is their belief in the supernatural power of foxes. There are numberless shrines dedicated to foxes in Japan. The badger is another animal feared by the superstitions Japanese mind. It is believed to have power to annoy people and to be able to turn into a priest at will. The mockingbird of the South is sometimes encountered as far north as the Potomac. SERVES AS PRIVATE SCION OF ITALIAN ROYAL HOUSE IN THE RANKS. Duke of the Abruzzi's Half-Brother, in Disgrace, Holds Humble Positon in the Armies That His Country Has Mustered. Though almost every royal house in Europe is represented at the front, Italy's alone can boast of a member who is a simple soldier, fighting among the rank and file. Umberto, count of Salemnt, shares the lot and the labors of peasants and workingmen. He is stationed at Voghera for the moment, in the regiment of cavalry guides. His regiment will soon be dismounted and go into the trenches. Then this scion of the house of Savoy will tramp side by side with the rankers and share their trench life on the exposed and difficult Italian outposts on the dangerous plateau called the Carso. The count is a son of Prince Amedeo, late duke of Aosta, who died 16 years ago. His mother, the duke's second wife, is a Princess Bonaparte. She lives in Turin, and her son, in his soldier's uniform, is allowed to visit her on Sundays, when, with the other men of the troop, he has several hours' leave. His half-brothers are Emanuel, duke of Abosta; Victor, count of Turin, and Louis, duke of the Abruzzol, once the reputed fance of Miss Katherine Elkins. The duke of the Abruzzol now commands Italy's fleet in the Adriatic. The count of Salemni is the only son of Princess Lettia. He has been in disgrace for several years, though the real story is known to only the most intimate courtiers. While at the Naval college he committed some youthful indiscretion, of which even his fellow cadets had but a vague idea, and the king sent him into exile. For several years he wandered through Europe, spending months in Russia, the Balkans, Portugal and Spain. Always shy and retiring, never knowing what to do with his great stature and his hands, a splendid linguist, simple in manners, he became a favorite in Russian society. When the war broke out he wanted to serve his country. He begged the king to allow him to return. "Yes," came the answer, "but you must serve as a simple soldier if you come back to Italy." He came back and was drafted into the cavalry guides and sent to the front. When the regiment returned for a few weeks he went with it to the little town of Voghera, its headquarters. He is now returning with it to fight; but this time the regiment fights on foot. The duke of Salemni performs the same duties as his humbler comrades, and has become so popular that their affection quite embarrasses him sometimes. For instance, when he was going to visit the headquarters of another regiment in Voghera they called out a guard of honor to receive him. "What's the meaning of this?" shouted an officer who happened in. The count murmured that he supposed it was for him. He asked his comrades never to do such a thing again. While at the front he distinguished himself by coolness in handling a quick-firing gun. On one occasion, when the men around him were hard pressed, he saved the situation by rallying them. Medals for A B C Diplomats Miss Janet Scudder, one of the leading sculptors of this country, will design the three gold medals which are to be presented by the United States to Ambassadors Naon of Argentina; Da Gama of Brazil and Suarez of Chile, commonly known as the "A B C mediators." Secretary Lansing awarded the designing to Miss Scudder. The medal will bear an inscription stating that they are presented to the ambassadors "for their generous services as mediators in the controversy between the government of the United States and the leaders of the warring parties of the Republic of Mexico." Miss Scudder lives in New York and takes a prominent part in suffrage work. Borrowing a Piano Suburbanites are indulging in various co-operative measures in their thirst for economy, and neighbors are getting accustomed to an extension of the borrowing principle. But one man, who lives not far from Manchester, at least thinks the idea has gone too far. He was surprised the other day by a request for the loan of a piano by a neighbor who was giving a musical evening to some friends. "I have a patriotic reason," he explained, "as I have sold my piano to buy Exchequer bonds." When he was refused he played another card, "Well, perhaps," he said, "you wouldn't mind me bringing my friends here for some music."—Manchester Guardian. 2lan to Domesticate Mink The United States department of agriculture will attempt to domesticate the mink which has been bred sporadically in captivity for fifty years or so. The large number of types of American mink, no less than ten, prove it to be a "plastic" animal, and the governmental purpose is to develop a higher and more valuable type than any of those now known. STOP LISTEN LOOK 26children were poisoned last year in only 11 states Fly Poison Kills More Children Than All Other Poisons Combined For Safety's Sake, Use Is there in your home, anywhere within baby's reach, a saucer of arsenic poisoned paper floating in water, or a can with a sweetened poisoned wick? During 1915, 26 cases of fly poisoning were reported from 11 states; in 1914, 46 cases from 14 states. Fly poison kills more children than all other poisons combined. Yet fly poison still is left unguarded except in the homes where mothers have learned that the safe, sure, non-poisonous, efficient fly catcher and destroyer is TANGLEFOOT The Journal of the Michigan State Medical Society comments thus in a recent issue: "Symptoms of arsenical poisoning are very similar to those of cholera infection; unintended infusion of arsenical poisoning were really cases of arsenical poisoning, but death, if occurring, was attributed to cholera infantum. "We repeat, arsenical by destroying delivery tubes, and should be abolished. Health officials should be aroused to prevent further loss of life from their source. Our Michigan Legislature, this last session, passed a law regulating the sale of poisonous A promising young man often breaks his promise. 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. The difference between a compliment and flattery depends on whether it is handed to you or some other person. Whenever You Need a General Tonic Take Grove's. The Old Standard Grove's Tasteful 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. Before Hostilities Began. Jerry—I have traced my ancestry back to an Irish king. Pat—Sure, that's ally. What chanst has a dead man to defend himself? Many Children are Sickly Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children Break up Gold in 24 hours, relieve Feverishness, Headache, Stomachache, colds, breathing Destroy Worms. They are so pleasant to take children like them. Used by mothers for 24 weeks. Mother Gray Co., Le Roy, N. Y. Not Always. "They say there's luck in odd numbers." "I don't believe it. I know a man who got nine years in prison for having three wives." Queens Taste Coffee DELIGHTFULLY REFRESHING THIS BLEND PERFECTED BY NOW 25 CENTS SOLD IN 1-POUND CANS ONLY Ask Your Grocer The Big Bull Tractor Will not only do your Plowing at an amre per hour, and do it well, but will do any lims of work grazing either in a tractor or a farm engine. Let the Bull do these things for you: Bilo Pilling, Piling up Piles, Tearing out Hedges, Pulling Knitting, Graining Stones, Hawring, Hauling Grain Blind's, Hawring, Hauling Potato Dig's, Lifting, Lifting, Pulling Stumps, Smoothing, Smoothing, Hauling Locks, Stretching Wire, Spreading, Pumping, Corn Shelling, Grimming Wire, Spreading, Corn Shelling, Active Dealers wanted in St Louis territory, Weber Inn & Auto Co., 1900 LostuSt, St Louis, 1 hour. BOYS WHO WHITTE can make do information free. Harry T. Young, Thomson, Ga. PATENTS Watson E. Coleman, Washington, D.C. Books free, Highest references. Best results. Federal Tires Weber Inn, & Auto Co., 1900 LostuSt, St Louis, 1 hour. Motorcycles $10-$125. Autos $50-$140. Bicycles $12-$25. Hypewriters $15-$25. Terns, Signs, $175 St Louis, St Louis, Ga. W. N. U., ST. LOUIS, NO. 21-1916. 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 drugstores for 50c. Address Q-Ban Laboratories, Memphis, Tenn.-Adv. Cheerfulness Are you in Opinion? "Yes; when we are talking about the other fellow's troubles." IMITATION IS SINCEREST FLATTERY but like counterfeit money the imitation has not the worth of the original. Insist on "La Crôle" Hair Dressing—it's the original. Darkens your hair in the natural way, but contains no dye. Price $1.00.—Adv. The average woman can praise her husband to other women without believing one word she says. FITS, EPILEPSY, FALLING SICKNESS Stopped Quickly. Fifty years of uninterrupted fasting results. LARGE TREAT BOTTLE DR. KLINE COMPANY, Red Bank, N. J.—AGV. Some men can have a hot time on a little cold cash. Why That Lame Back? Morning lameness, sharp twinges when bending, or an all-day backache; each is cause enough to suspect kidney trouble. Get after the cause. Help the kidneys. We Americans go it too hard. We overdo, overeat and neglect our sleep and exercise and so we are fast becoming a nation of kidney sufferers. 72% more deaths than in 1890 is the 1910 census story. Use Doan's Kidney Pills. Thousands recommed them. A Missouri Case H. T. Calvird, Osceola Hotel, Osceola, Mo. says: "Kidney complaint in my case was brought on by ex-acute pneumonia. Some attacks laid me up for weeks. The pains in my back had flared. My limbs swolled and I had constant headaches and dizzy spells. The kidney secretions linger. I have been told." H. T. Calvird, Osceola Hotel, Osceola, Mo. says: *Kidney was brought on by exposure and carelessness.* Home attacks *Kidney was brought on by exposure and carelessness.* Home attacks *Kidney was brought on by exposure and carelessness.* The pain in my back were dreadful. My back had constipation he hadaches and dizzy spells. The kidney secretions passage and I had at night. After doctor failed, Donna's kidney y sage and I had to get up several times at night. After doctors and medicines failed, Donna's Kidney Pills restored me to good health." Get Doan's at Any Store, 50c a Box DOAN'S KIDNEY PILLS FOSTER-MILBURN CO., BUFFALO, N. Y. Constipation Vanishes Forever Prompt Relief—Permanent Cure CARTER'S LITTLE LIVER PILLS never fail. Purely vegetable—act surely but gently on the liver. Stop after dinner distress—cure indigestion, improve the complexion, brighten the eyes. SMALL PILL, SMALL DOSE, SMALL PRICE. Genuine must bear Signature Every Woman Wants Paxline ANTISEPTIC POWDER FOR PERSONAL HYGIENE Dissolved in water for douches stops pelvic catarrh, ulceration and inflammation. Recommended by Lydia E. Pinkham Med. Co. for ten years. A healing wonder for nasal catarrh, sore throat and sore eyes. Economical. Hair conditioner. Sample Free. 50c. all dandruff, or postpedal by mail. The Paxton Ticket Company, Boston, Mass. "Hunt's Cure" is guaranteed to deliver the terrible tingling. If you are pounded for that purpose and need a refund without question, ask for it. Kitsch, Kitsch, Kitsch. Kitsch. Tetter, Ring Worm. Tetter, Ring Worm. Tetter, Ring Worm. Do not give the box. For sale by all drug stores or by mail from the A. B. Richards Medicine Co., Sherman, Tex. BLACK LOSSES SURELY PREVENTED by Cutter's Blackley Pill. Low- price, which is not referred by Western stockmen, because they protest where other vaccines fall. Write for booklet and tuntmonka LEG 10-class pks. Blackley Pill $1.00 50-dose pks. Blackley Pill $4.00 Use any Injector, but Cutter's best years of specializing in vaccines and serum only. Intest on Cutter's. If unbotanical, order direct. The Cutter Laboratory, Berkeley, Cal., or Cheese, Ill. Kill All Flies! They Spreed Disease Placed anywhere. Delay Fly Killer attracts and kills all Bies. Next, clean, ornamental, convenient, and cheap. Local�ationers, Medi of metal, can't still be from the U.S. tobacco. Ask for Daisy Fly Killer Sold by doctors, or $1.00 by express, pre-paid, $1.00 HAROLD SOMER, 150 DeKalb Ave., Brooklyn, N.Y. PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM A cohesive preparation of merit Helps to graduate nurtured. For Restoring Color and Beauty to Gray or Faded Hair. 60s and $1.00 Druggers. GALLSTONES Avoid operations. Positive remedy— (No Oil)—Results sure Write for our big Book of Truth and Facts To-day. Collison Remedy Co., Dept. C-40, 219 S., Dearborn St., Chicago METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE, METROPOLIS, ILL. World Will Always Be Able to Support Its Population By JOHN HESS of Chicago it approximately 1,500,000,000 acres in area equal to 32 states as large as that an area equal to about thirteen in the rest, or 19 states, lies unplowed. the land susceptible of cultivation in cultivation. Room there is for the millions that are a farmer of today can and does pro-could produce 100 years ago. These thunder forth the falsity of the Mal-will support its population not only can take care of the entire population is now being done. This is the very which prompts men to kill each other. neory, when we stop to think that the live in the single state of Texas, in acre to the family! Government statistics show that approximately 1,500,000,000 acres of land are subject to cultivation—an area equal to 32 states as large as Illinois. These statistics further show that an area equal to about thirteen such states is being cultivated. All the rest, or 19 states, lies unplowed. That is to say, only three-eighths of the land susceptible of cultivation in the United States are now under cultivation. Oh, the need there is and the room there is for the millions that are being slaughtered in Europe! The same statistics show that a farmer of today can and does produce 28 times as much as a farmer could produce 100 years ago. These facts, well established and certain, thunder forth the falsity of the Malthusian theory. The earth can and will support its population not only now but for all time to come. In America we believe that we can take care of the entire population of the earth and do it better than it is now being done. This is the very opposite of the Malthusian theory, which prompts men to kill each other. What folly is this Malthusian theory, when we stop to think that the entire population of the earth could live in the single state of Texas, in families of five, and still have a half acre to the family! dress that cannot spoil or that laundering will make as good as new, and either take a car to their destination or walk if the distance is not too great and the weather is fine. A man can well understand such a girl will make a good, prudent wife. His earnings would be safe in her keeping. If an employer finds that a young man has not been able to lay by a dollar of his earnings for a twelvemonth, his declaration that he had spent-it all on girls would bring him sharp criticism, and the statement, would sound almost unbelievable. In looking backward, reckoning all the money spent uselessly on girls, no wonder the squanderer grows bitterly angry with himself. It has been a case of a fool and his money. It does not take some men very long to learn their little lesson. Others are years in finding out that the saving, industrious man, who knows how to take care of his bank roll has far outdistanced him even in the opinion of the frivolous girls. Money is hard to earn. It should not be allowed to sift through a man's pocket like sands in the hourglass. It is a man's reputation for prudently saving which brings him respect, admiration and popularity in a community. CHILD MUST TO MAKE OW --- "Those other boys might be so r A OF all the weak, inconclusive, modern parents—is this what we've come to?" said Professor Marshall to his wife after a scene with their eighteen-year-old daughter, in Dorothy Canfield's new novel, "The Bent Twig." After eighteen years of "training" Sylvia manifests a desire to do what other young people are doing, to drift with the majority, to enjoy people and pastimes not approved by her parents. Having allowed their daughter to make decisions all these years, in the hope that she would thus learn to make right decisions, the father cries out helplessly when her decision in the first really serious situation is opposed to the parental judgment. He is tempted to appeal to "parental authority." We must reach out the hand to pull her back, or she will make a horrible mistake! But the mother sticks to her principles. They had taught their children to think independently, and now it was impossible to use force. They had tried to give the children standards of conduct and by these they would stand. She had faith that in a crisis these standards and ideals would pull her through. The most that parents can do for their children is to give them standards and ideals that will serve in emergencies as well as in the routine of life. But how often are we tempted to lose faith in our own teachings, and to resort to lock and key, as was Professor Marshall! How often do we see no choice but that between force and perdition! As we become more experienced in this business of parenthood our feeling of responsibility grows upon us, we realize how much better our judgment is than that of the children, we realize more and more the dangers and the temptations that beset them. And of course we wish to save them Boys Often Spend Too Much Money on Girls By LAURA JEAN LIBBÉY (Copyright, 1916.) Pleasures are like poppies spread-- You seize the flower, its bloom is shed! Or like the snowflake in the river-- A moment white, then melts forever. The most foolish course a young man who works hard to earn his money can pursue is to lavish his earnings on girls, with the hope of making himself popular with them. 1910 He could make no greater mistake, for the very girls who accept his ice cream and bonbons, theater tickets, etc., are the ones who give him the name of spendthrift. They infer that he cannot keep what he earns, and they might as well have the benefit of it as anyone. If by springtime he has not been able to save enough to buy a new suit of clothes—even inexpensive ones—the girls on whom he lavished his money will be the first to comment on his shabbiness, and decline to be seen in his company. Popularity—that is, the honest kind—cannot be bought. It is given spontaneously and for sterling worth. A sensible young man measures his garment according to his cloth, as the old saying goes. That is, he lets a crowd of jolly girls who expect to be "treated" every time they happen to meet a man, severely alone. That is a sufficient and dignified rebuke to girls who suggest they'd like a soda, etc. The majority of men are too sensible to buy popularity. They would rather just one nice girl would admire them, one who would have her dinner before they started out for a stroll of an evening or to the theater, and would refuse to gorge herself after the show at his expense. The greatest fear many a mother feels is that her boy is spending too much money on girls. It sets the pace for reckless living and has brought many a well-meaning youth to ruin. A girl who accepts the attentions of a young man who she knows carrs his money by toil should study the situation before she accepts an invitation from him that calls for a carriage if she wears her pretty, filmy party dress. She should know that he could afford such extravagance only now and then. If she really has his interest at heart she will wear a THE BLUE OF THE HOUR DO you know all about the latest shade of blue? It is called Russian blue, is of a greenish cast, and is ultrasmart when made into frocks of chiffon or taffeta or of the two materials combined. One model in taffeta has tight sleeves ending above the elbow, and is eked out to the wrist with exaggeratedly puffed undersleeves of chiffon matching a Premet collar joined low on the chest with a self-bow. An other costume in Russian blue taffeta consists of a ruffe-covered skirt and an 1830 basque, carrying collar and sleeve ruffles in chiffon. It is the blue of the hour, and hard to find in moderate-priced fabrics. How He Told. "That horse is only four years old, Tommie." "How do you tell?" "By his teeth." "Oh, did he bite you?" CHILD MUST BE TRAINED TO MAKE OWN DECISIONS By SIDONIE MATZNER GRUENBERG "Those other boys might be so rough or careless in their speech!" MOTHER'S COOK BOOK MOTHER'S COOK BOOK How to Boil Meat. In boiling meat it should be dropped into boiling water and boiled for five minutes to sear over the outside and keep in the juices, then the heat is lowered and the meat simmers until tender. Too long cooking reduces meat to rags and makes it unpalatable and lacking in nourishment. Baisins Keep Indefinitely Raisins are advancing in price; at one time a package cost ten cents, now they are often fifteen. In buying in large quantities one can save quite a sum, and they keep indefinitely if properly packed. A Delicious Sherbet. A delicious sherbet is made of one lemon, two oranges and three cupfuls of thin cream, with sugar to sweeten as desired. Freeze as usual and serve in orange or grapefruit cups. Cottage Cheese Salad. Cottage cheese mixed with canned red peppers which have been put through the ricer or sieve then well seasoned served on lettuce with a little boiled dressing, makes a most tasty salad. Parsnip Fritters. Parsnip fritters are another delicious way of serving this good vegetable. Cook them until tender, mash and season, dip in fritter batter and fry in deep fat. Cheese Ball Salad. Cheese balls of seasoned cheese rolled in chopped chives and arranged in a blanched lettuce leaf, served with any boiled dressing makes a most satisfying salad. Nellie Maxwell "What is the meaning of the word 'purchase,' Tommy. 'Don't know, pop'" "Why, suppose I was to give your mother $10 to go and buy herself a bonnet; what would she do?" Suitable Terms. "What do they call a man who goes up in airships?" "An aviator, of course." "And what do they call the place where they keep the airships?" "An aviary, you booby." BE TRAINED N DECISIONS ough or careless in their speech!" from these dangers, we wish to give them the full benefit of our superior judgment. But there is a limit beyond which the child simply will not profit from the wisdom of others, except in a negative way—that is, in the way of doing nothing at all. Nor should we deny the child the privilege of acquiring his judgment by means of the kinds of experiences that have given us our insight. At any rate, we cannot save the child by building a fence around him, as the mother of a ten-year-old boy tried to do, to protect him from the rough manners and "bad language" of other boys. The mother had kept the child with her almost constantly, when he was not in school. In time she contrived to delegate portions of this burden to paid deputies. When it was suggested to the mother that the boy might profit more from outdoor games and the companionship of other boys, she expressed the fear that some of those "other boys" might be so rough, or so careless in their speech! If the home is not capable of compensating for the roughness of boys and the giggles of girls, he will surely not be saved by padlocks and shutters. For a few years this mother will be able to shield her child from the inconsiderate rudeness of the world outside, just as she was shielded in her youth. But in the absence of a will and a steadfast purpose, her child will either succumb to the temptations that are sure to come when he gets beyond his mother's protection, or he will be obliged to retire for the rest of his days to the only kind of life for which the seclusion and darkness have fitted hind. By tying the hands you may keep one from doing harm, but you cannot thus destroy the desire to do the objectionable deed. It is better to leave the hands free, and to train them to do what you approve. ```markdown ``` Health for Sick Women For Forty Years Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Has Been Woman's Most Reliable Medicine Here is More Proof. To women who are suffering from some form of woman's special ills, and have a constant fear of breaking down, the three following letters ought to bring hope:— North Crandon, Wis.—"When I was 16 years old I got married and at 18 years I gave birth to twins and it left me with very poor health. I could not walk across the floor without having to sit down to rest and it was hard for me to keep about and do my work. I went to a doctor and he told me I had a displacement and ulcers, and would have to have an operation. This frightened me so much that I did not know what to do. Having heard of Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound I thought I would give it a trial and it made me as well as ever. I cannot say enough in favor of the Pinkham remedies."—MRS. MAYME ASBACH, North Crandon, Wis. Testimony from Oklahoma. Lawton, Okla.—"When I be Vegetable Compound I seemed to and had headaches much of the time before my little child was born and good at that time. I never fail Vegetable Compound to ailing w for me."—Mrs. A. L. McCASLAND. From a Grateful Massachus Roxbury, Mass.—"I was suffie mation and was examined by a ph that my trouble was caused by My symptoms were bearing down and sluggish gish I tried sever cine; then I was asked to try Ly Vegetable Compound. It has c pleased to be in my usual good I and highly recommend it."—M 1 Haynes Park, Roxbury, Mass. If you want special advice E. Pinkham Medicine Co. (co letter will be opened, read and in strict confidence. Quite So. Lawton, Okla.—“When I began to take Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound I seemed to be good for nothing. I tired easily and had headaches much of the time and was irregular. I took it again before my little child was born and it did me a wonderful amount of good at that time. I never fail to recommend Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to ailing women because it has done so much for me.”—Mrs. A. L. McCasland, 509 Hay St. Lawton, Okla. From a Grateful Massachusetts Woman. Roxbury, Mass. — I was suffering from inflammation and was examined by a physician who found that my trouble was caused by a displacement. My symptoms were bearing down pains, backache, and sluggish liver. I tried several kinds of medicine; then I was asked to try Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. It has cured me and I am pleased to be in my usual good health by using it and highly recommend it." — Mrs. B. M. Osgood, 1 Haynes Park, Roxbury, Mass. If you want special advice write to Lydia E. Pinkham Medicine Co. (confidential) Lynn, Mass. Your letter will be opened, read and answered by a woman and held in strict confidence. Quite So. "You'd think the hero and the heroine were really in love with each other, but I'm told they quarrel dreadfully off the stage." "Oh, well, I dare say they make up easily." Naturally. "I hear they appointed an investigating committee to sift the chars against Alderman Jones." "Yes, but all the committee ace pilsed was to throw dust in the ey of the public." Important to Mothers Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it Bears the Signature of Charles Fletcher In Use for Over 30 Years. Children Cry for Fletcher's Castoria The Case Stated. "Beauty is only skin deep." "Yes, and it's got all other good qualities of a woman skinned, too." A Famous Phy Wonde A Famous Physician's Wonderful Discovery After a series of careful experiments and tests at the Invalids' Hotel and Surgical Institute, Buffalo, N. Y., covering many years—Dr. Pierce, the medical director of that hospital, made announcement that he could prove that a medicine which he has developed will be the best uric acid solvent now to be had. An effort for those easily recognized symptoms of inflammation—as scalding urine, backache and frequent urination, as well as sediment in the urine, or if uric acid in the blood has caused rheumatism, humbago, sciatica, gout, it is simply wonderful how quickly "Anuric" acts; causing the pains and stiffness rapidly to disappear. Swollen hands, ankles, feet are due to a dropisal condition, often caused by disordered kidneys. Naturally when the "What is that mob doing around that gate?" "Those are bleacher fans, and they're fighting for their places in the sun." The mind cure may be all right—but the patient must have a mind of his own to start with. Dr. Pierce's Pellets are best for liver, bowels and stomach. One little Pellet for a laxative—three for a cathartic.—Adv. Speaking of batters, the buckwheat brand is as popular as the baseball kind. Buy materi Certain Roof Fully guaranteed —best responsibility General Roofing Man World's largest manufacturer New York City, Ontario Philadelphia St. Louis Boston Buy materials that last Certain-teed Fully guaranteed —best responsibility Roofing For sale by dealers everywhere at reasonable prices General Roofing Manufacturing Company World's largest manufacturers of Roofing and Building Papers New York City Chicago Philadelphia St. Louis Boston Cleveland Pittsburgh Detroit San Francisco Clarendon New Orleans Los Angeles Minneapolis Kansas City Seattle Indianapolis Atlanta Richmond Houston Louis Riverside We are wholesale distributors of Certain-teed Products. Dealers should write us for samples, prices and full information. WITTE HARDWARE CO., ST. LOUIS, MO. A. Quite So. Another Battle. egan to take Lydia E. Pinkham's be good for nothing. I tired easily he and was irregular. I took it again did it did me a wonderful amount of to recommend Lydia E. Pinkham's men because it has done so much 509 Have St., Lawton, Okla. "I hear they appointed an investigating committee to sift the charges against Alderman Jones." "Yes, but all the committee accessed was to throw dust in the eyes of the public." 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 latter by using "La Creole" Hair Dressing. Price $1.60.—Adv. Every time a man starts in business for himself he learns a lot of things he would rather not know. Anyway, one-half the world suspects how you live. physician's fearful Discovery kidneys are deranged the blood is filled with poisonous waste matter, which attaches in the feet, ankles and wrists; no under the eyes in bag-like formations. It is just as necessary to keep the kidneys acting properly as to keep the bowels active. The very best possible way to take care of the kidneys is to take a glass of hot water before meals and an "Anuric" tablet. In this way it is readily dissolved with the food, picked up by the blood and finally reaches the kidneys, where it has a tonic effect in rebuilding those organs. Step into the drug store and ask for a 20-cent package of Anuric, or send Dr. Innes to the pharmacy and ask for a tonic that more potent than lithia, eliminates uric acid as hot water melts sugar. A short trial will convince *ren*.—Adv. "Blenkinson has become a vegetarian." "Since when?" "Since the butcher refused to give him any more credit." WOMAN'S CROWNING GLORY is her hair. If yours is streaked with ugly, grizzly, gray hairs, use "La Cruele" Hair Dressing and change it in the natural way. Price $1.00.—Adv. There are two kinds of fools—ignorant and educated. Give the average man advice and he will pass it up. als that last n-teed fing For sale by dealers everywhere at reasonable prices MARY HARRIS Naturally. Necessity Metropolis Gazette PUBLISHED ON PREVAIL BY THE GAZETTE PRINTING CO. BETROPOLIS, - - - - ILL. MRS. M. J. McCRARY, MANAGER. J. B. McOBARY, EDITOR FRIDAY JANE 2. 1916. Office 9th and Pearl Streets, Metropolis, Illinois. Enterered as second-class mail matter, at Metropolis, Illinois, Postoffice. B. Address all communications to J. B.MC BARY, Box 107 Metropolis, Illinois. The names and addresses of contributors must be known to us in every instance, in order to secure publication. We want the news of your vicinity each week. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: One Year. $1 00 ix 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 ORALP, 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 ROV R. HIRM, 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 ROSSETTS, 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 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. Pinney, 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. Morrison, as a candidate for County Commissioner, on the Republican Ticket, subject to the will of the rosters at the September primary election. Persons who owe the Gazette would greatly lesson the financial burden of the publishers by remitting at once. 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. Read Krebs, Clothing Co's ad this week and then hurry up to make a purchase. We would like for our people to give them your patronage because they advertise in a Race Journal. 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. Paducah is not in it, with the Krebs Clothing Co., when it comes to prices and selections of men's and boys' ready to wear clothes. Save the boat fare by trading at home. Native Salve. We have just recived some more of Native Salve and it is going very fast, those in Carbonand Md. City can secure a box or more now by 50c, per box. Act quick if you want it. Send all orders to Rev. J. B. McCrary. 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 to pay up. The pastor of the Unity Baptist church, will hold its regular church meeting Saturday night and services Sunday. All the members are urged to be present. Rev. C. C. Paillips, D. D. was in the city Wednesday and paid this office a visit. We are thankful to him for the money he collected from the W. E. and M. and the Baptist State Association. Mrs. Pearl Watts of Smithland Ky., visited her aunt, Mrs. Sallje Dobson and relatives Sunday. Mrs. Lee Bell Dukes, and Miss Margse Tandy her daughter were Paducah visitors Saturday. James Robinson, who owns one of the best Moving picture shows in the state is in the city from Carbondale, and good entertainment to the public last Saiuiday night. Every one was well satisfied with the show, thus the Negroes can have a place of their own to visit without jimcrowism. This is what the Race needs, to take what you have and make out of it what you need The Aid Society of the Free Baptist church, under the leadership of Mrs. J B, Davy, is still prospering under careful attention. The meeting is becoming more interesting every week. The society did convene Wednesday evening, but it is now changed to Sunday afternoon at 3:00. The individual communion set that was purchased by the active workers of the Y. G. M. C. A. of which Miss Izora Rodgers is the originator was unveiled Sunday evening at the A. M. E. church. This is indeed a lovely set and church should feel proud of Miss Rodgers and her associates. Miss Birdie Rentro arrived in the city Saturday from St Louis where she will visit friends and arrange for the sale of some property left to the heirs by David Renfro, their father. Mrs. Lizzie Singleton, left Monday for her home in Detriot, Ohio, after spending several days in the city the guest of her mother, Mrs. Sallie Dobson. Rev. B. C. Long, (Negro) is now in the midst of a large strawberry season. The first day's picking bought over 130 crates and Monday he reached the climax when he pulled 375 crates. He is making the largest shipment of any farmer in the county and there are several. We need more Negro farmers in the north, farmers that are able to help to help to supply the consumer Mrs. Jessie Parritt, who has been in Chicago, sequal months is at home for a few weeks only with her husband. Mrs. Algenia Williams, of Eddyville, Ky., is in the city visiting her cousin, Mrs. Gracie Tossie Williamson. Mrs. Lizzie Pryor of Paducah, Ky., was down Wednesday to attend the graduation of her niece. Francis Cordelia English, from the Grammar department of the Dunbar School. Miss Martha Wheeler, formerly of this city, now of Chicago. $100 Reward, $160. 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 ooly 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. look at all the Dragons, too. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. is in the city and will visit relatives here and her sisters in Shady Grove and Brookport. Sunday was a high day at the First Baptist church covenan* meeting at 11 a.m.; baccalaureate sermon at 2:30 p.m., pastor J. W. Davie officiating. He delivered a very fitting address and one in many points to be followed by the students and parents. At 8 p.m. sacrament was administered after a sermon by the pastor, Revs. Thos. Turner and J. B. McCrary, assisting in the services. Collection for the day was about $25. Mrs. Bessie M Cork, and Miss Iola Urquhart, are the delegates to the Mt. Olive Baptist S. S convention from the 1st Baptist S. S and B. Y. P. U. The former named pessor representing the Union and the latter the S. S. Rev. Geo. H. Crippen, filled the pulpit for Rev. J. H. Patterson, pastor of pastor of the Free Baptist church, Sunday morning. Mrs. J. H. Smith, arrived home last week from St. Louis, Mo., where she was called to attend the funeral of her sister. Rev. J. W Davie, returned from Saturday from Paducah, Ky., where he attended the First District Sunday School Convention o which Dr. V. S. Smith, pastor of the old historic Washington St. Baptist church is president. He reports a glorious session from every view point. The Metropolis Giants were in Paducah, Sunday and witnessed the game between the All Stars and Paducah Sterlings. The All Stars efeated the Sterlings by a score of 5 to 3. Dewmaine, has one of the fastest teams in this end of the state. Thos. Urquhart, was down from Paducah, Ky., where he has a position of honor and trust with the I. C. R. R. shops. He came to his family. Otis Modglin, (white) who shot and killed "Buck Town" Morris Higgins, also a few weeks ago over improper relations with the formers wife was acquitted of the charge of murder last week by a jury and was released. It appears the verdict so far as we were able to learn gave general satisfaction. Edd Reynolds of Paducah, was was in the city Thursday. The Great Native Salve CURES Rheumatism, Piles, Kidney Troubles, Bladder Troubles, Heart Troubles, Female Troubles, Stiff Joints, Syphilis, of All Descriptions, Indigestion Corns, Bunions, Lost of Manhood, All Kinds of Swelling and Fever, Neuralgia 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 Don't fail to attend the S. S. convention in Carbondale of the Mt. Olive Baptist Associasion. Thomas. L. Wallace. Thos. L. Wallace, is a candidate for coroner at the coming primary election in September. Mr. Wallace is too well known by the voters to need any introduction from us, only a notice that he is a candidate for re-election is all that is necessary. He has filled the office creditably for almost 20 years as he is completing his fifth term of four years to a term. He is an old veteran of the Civil War, and is unable to do anything else and he can do that. He is not likely to have any opponent. Give him a fair consideration. Dewmaine Wins Meet. The colored Dept., of the Herrin Township High School (Dewmaine, Ill.) succeeded in capturing the prize cup from 5 other High Schools, in the First Annual Athletic Meet held by the colored athletes of Southern Ill., at Dew-Dewmaine, Saturday May 27th. 54 boys participated it the meet, representing 5 schools schools as follows: Cairo; 7. Johnson 8. Mathews 9. White 10. Edrington 11. Bass Marion 27. Blackburn Duquoin 1. Thompson 2. Person 3. Brudford 4. Holmes 5. Thomas 6. Sampson Carbondale. 17. Finnie 18. Birdsong 19. Strayborn 20. Alexander 21. Bass 22. 23. Smith 24. Anderson 25. English 26. Davis. NOTICE CENTRALIA As the S. S. Convention is nearing its time to convene in the beautiful city of Carbondale, we are looking for the program to appear in the Gazette as the program committee are at DuQuoin and Carbondale, we would like to see them get busy. The second Baptist Sunday School elected Mrs. H A. Corneal, Mrs. M, Dudley. Miss Galeta Offutt and our worthy Pastor as delegates. Delegates for the B. Y. P. U. Rev. D. H. Young and Mrs. Lucy Vernon, We hope each delegate will leave their homes in time for the opening session of the Teacher's Institute Wednesday June 21st Come prepared for the work. J. W. Corne I. Pres Galeta Offutt. Cor. Sec'y. Examine Your Own Prejudice. Every one is forward to complete of the prejudices that mislead other man or parties, as if he were free, and had none of his own. This being objected on all sides, it is agreed that it is a fault and a hindrance to knowledge. What now is the cure? No other but this, that every man should let alone others' prejudices and examine his own. The only way to remove this great cause of ignorance and error out of the world is for every one impartially to examine himself.-Locke. Pressed glass was invented by an amble carpenter of Sandwich, Mass., but in the primitive state of affairs it profited him little. More than 200 years ago a Bohemian glass-maker conceived the idea of making cut glass. This idea was destined to revolutionize the entire glass industry of the world. The inventor began by making the walls of the article on which he was working thicker than he was wont so that he might cut the glass with a sharp knife into figures as he chose. Enough Said. Iraschible Old Gent (to schoolgirl who has collided with him)—"When you run into people like that you should say, I beg your pardon." Girl—"There worn't no need. I heard what you said."—Sydney Bulletin. 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. 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. Yours in Christ. Rev. D. Parrish, Moderator NOTICE. To The Baptist Women Of The Mt. Ollive 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. The only way to get the genuine New Home Sewing Machine is to buy the machine with the name NEW HOME on the arm and in the legs. This machine is warranted for all time. No other like it No other as good The New Home Sewing Machine Company, ORANGE, MASS. For Sale by W. P. Baynes, Metropolis, Ill. 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 soul-matists.—Cleveland Plain Designer. Subscribe for The 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. send the names of the delegates to the Corresponding Sec'y, not later than May 15th 1916. Thus giving ample time to arrange the programme. For further information concerning the banner that is to be given away write Miss Iola Marie Urquhart, Box 268 Metropolis, Ill., Cor. Sec'y of the Mt. Olive Convention. 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 dont 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 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 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,