Metropolis Weekly Gazette

METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE 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 dears, 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 NOTICE. To The Members of The Mount Olive Baptist S. S. Convent- Dear Co-workers: I wish to remind you of the fact that the time is last 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 Dennis Farrow, President, Ollie Lawton, Cor, Secretary R. F. D. No. 1, Cairo, Ill. Basket Meeting and Rally. The pastor Rev. J. B. McCrary of Metropolis, who is doing some splendid work for unity Baptist church was with his little flock Saturday and Sunday. The attendance has increased in the S. S. and church One addition to the church and two to the school. The ladies' Bazaar Club are preparing for a Sock social and a 25 cents rally the 1st Sunday in July also a old fashioned basket meeting The program will appear later. The sisters of the church, and friends are taking an active part and working hard to meet our obligations and to get into our church as soon as we possibly can. Work has been a standstill for several months at this place but we learn that work will begin here again in a few weeks. Reporter. MURPHYSBORO. Dear Editor: We are glad to say thru your worthy paper that our church, S. S and Union are progressing nicely. We will send sister C. A. Macon as a delegate to the S. S convention at Carbondale. Rev. J. D. Davis, was elected pastor Rev. J. N. Washington, is here and preached an excellent sermon Sunday and our hearts were made to rejoice. We are going to have big rally for the benefit of raising money to paint the church and to install electric lights. All are cordially invited over to help us out. Murphysboro, Ill, June 6, '16 I desire to call attention of all B. Y. P. U. and S. S. in this Mt. Olive district, that our annual convention will be held at Carbondale, commenceing June 21, and that all delegates must be elected at once and forward their names to the chairman of the program committee. Miss Ann Lyde Thomas, 452 w. Cole St., Duquoin, as we want every S. S. and Union too in the district to represent and make this meeting our banner effort, so unions get busy and let the rest of the state see what you are doing. There are some matters of great importance to be transacted, so be here and help us in this great work. Get here early and be in the parade. REV. J. N. WASHINGTON. Missionary. Colored People's Progress. A new race history, soon to be placed on the market at $1.50, publishers, Austin-Jenkins Co., Washington, D.C., Warder Building, are now placing agents. Anyone wanting to secure the agency may obtain a fine prospectus FREE for 15 cents in postage. Excursion to Cairo. The Metropolis Giants run an excursion to Cairo, Sunday from Paducah, on the Str. Rapids, and they report a successful trip. It being both pleasing and entertaining, as there were no trouble or mishap during the trip. Don't fail to attend the S. S. convention in Carbondale of the Mt. Olive Baptist Association. MOTTO : "HEW TO THE LINE, LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY We Are Not At The Top But We Are Still Rising. Editor of Metropolis Gazette: The General Missionary Baptist State Association, met with the New Hope Baptist church, Sparta, of which Eld. P. B. French is pastor. Rev. J. N. Washington of Centralia, preached Tues-Jay night; text, "I am the True Vine." He preached a splendid sermon, President. Sist. Bettie Wilkerson, of Mt. Vernon, at the usual hour after the devotional exercises; the writer cannot call to mind who led the song and prayer service, but it is proper to say that the forces from Dewmaine, Colp, and Mt. Vernon, were there at their post of duty. The president. Sister B. Wilkerson, sister B. H. Hamilton of Dewmaine, Sisters Hattie Brown, Dewmaine, Willie Grear, Colp, and Annie Owens, Sparta, kept things in good shape until the messengers filed in, in the afternoon. They continued until Thursday about 5:00 at time they adjourned for the brethren to elect officers and to set things in order for the associational work Friday. They rendered a splendid literary program Thursday night and the president made a very timely address. Dr. W. P Washington of Mt. Ternon, preached for them on Wednesday at 3:00, subject, the work of the women. The writer tried to preach for them at night, subject, the doctrine of Spiritual religion in the work. Friday morning, Dr. G. W. Dorsey sounded the gavel after devotional exercises and began the work of the day and the business of was put thru rapidly and at this point Eld. H. E. McWilliams, of Elgin, General Missionary of the State preached the introductory sermon. The following Elders preached during the meeting. H. C. Armstead, Pulaski; J. D. Davis, of Colp, and P. C. Parker, East St. Louis. A communication was read and adopted from Dr. J. F. Thomas, of Chicago, stating that his Illness was the cause of his absence. His church represented with a number of its auxiliaries, and a special prayer was offered for his speedy recovery. A communication was received from Eld. J. McCrary, of Metropolis, and one dollar membership fee, but nothing said of the one dollar "Free Will offering" that the members of the organization made as a standing rule of the Association, Nothing said of the church of which he is pastor. A communication was read from Dr. Parrish, of Md. City, stating he was in a meeting and could not come, but that he would represent. Dr. you are one of the moderators. A resolution prevailed that 30 days be given to the churches to send a representation fee of two dollars fifty cents to the treasurer H. Allison or pay the same to Brothers McWilliams, Phillips, or Cor. Sec'y. W. P. Washington Mt. Vernon, Ill. In the event that the amount is sent to the treasurer the Cor. Sec'. should be notified that the same may appear in the minutes. Brechren we should not only give the small sum of $2.50 as a representation fee but for the work in general the Home and Foreign field should be looked after, yes, and the State work. We have neglected to say that Dr. J. F. Thomas sent the sum of $5.00 to the Association. Part of the vice president's expenses to the Kansas City National Baptist Convention, in September 1916 While the association was not largely represented, the meeting was a great one, the gospel, was preached with no uncertain sound, and money enouh to pay all bills, get out the minutes and then have a few dollars left in treasury. We have this day mailed to Eld H. Allison, Centralia, $3.50, $2.50 for Mt Pleasant church Golconda, and one dollar membership fee of Eld. A J. Bowers, pastor. The election of the officers and a collection was had in less than 20 minutes which resulted as follows:—Moderator, Dr J. F. Thomas, Chicago; 1st vice, Dr. G. W. Dorsey, Carbondale; 2nd vice, Eld. J. D. Davis, Colp; recording secretary, Rev. J. N. Washington, Centralia; Cor. Sec'y. Dr. W, P. Washington, Mt. Vernon; Treas Elder Henry Allison, Centralia: Elder H. E. McWilliams Gen. State Missionary; C. C. Phillips, missionary for central and southern part. Mission Board, Eld, H. Armstead, Pulaski, Elds. P. B. French, Sparta, S. H. Pruitt, Duuqoin, A. J. Bowers, Dewmaine, Thomas Morris, Metropolis, J. L. Martin, Colp, G. W. Braddock, R. Stovall, Md. City, H. C. Houston, P. C. Parker, East. St. Louis. Educational Board, Dr. J. B. McCraty, Metropolis, D. Parrish, Md. City, L. Thompson, Mt Vernon. This closes our recollection we have. Their names will appear in the minutes. The minutes are to be printed and are to be given to the one that will do the work the cheapest. Last but not least. Eld B. F. Rodman, Financial Secretary of the Illinois Baptist State Associations (white) delivered a strong and very forceful address, as to how to raise money in the State Association, and how to finance a church. He was just from the Southern Baptist convention which met in Ashville, N C. He spoke of the mighty work that was being done by the Negro Evangelist, employed by the "Home Board" of Southern Baptist Convention. The number of additions last year was 12,000. A mighty work has been done throughout the South among our people. Dr Rodman, has an experience of 35 years and is a very forceful and resourceful speaker. The Illinois Baptist State Association is now eight years old, it raised the first year for missions $4,000. They ran the figures up to $19,000. We remember the report that was made several years ago of the number of additions to the churches were 1350. The same year, the State Convention (white was 450. It must be bore in mind they have much money and great preachers, but they have departed from the "old land mark." We must give heed to the following divine injunction: Remove not the ancient land mark which thy fathers have set. The meeting adjourned to meet with the Hopewell Baptist 1. All the care, study and experience and all that they cost does not show, but when you have found out that $1.50 and $2.00 CLUETT, PEABODY & COMPANY, Troy, N. Y. Makers of Arrow Collars and Shirts Hats, Caps and Gents' Furri KREBS CLOTHING ST I. O. O. F. Buildi church, Carbondale. Reporter. Cyclons Strike Rev. Henry Allison Dead. Rev. Henry Allison, an old veteran of the Civil War and a noted Baptist preacher of Centralia, died at his home June 5th at 6:15 p. m. so writes our friend, J. W. Corneal. The funeral was held Wednesday at 2:30 p. m. He was pastor of the 2nd Baptist church, of that city at the time of his death. He successfully pastored for a number of years the 12th St. Baptist church, Cairo, and was a leading minister of the Southern part of the state. He was the treasurer of the Mt Olive Baptist Association, Baptist Gen'l State Association and member of one of the Boards of the National Baptist Convention at the time of his death, and ex-moderator of the Mt. Olive Association where he labored for more than forty years. He stood for an educated ministry, and racial development. He was held in high esteem for his worth to the denomination and to the Race. He went to his grave full of years and good deeds and many will rise up to call him blessed. We are in deep sympathy with his widow and children and point them to the God before whom we all must soon appear. Miss Lizzie L. Merriott, teachat Carbondale, visited Miss Love M. Phillips, Tuesday. ents' Furnishings THING STORE Building. Cyclons Strikes Metropolis A cyclone of small magnitude struck the north west part of Metropolis, Monday night about 11 o'clock which did considerable damage to shade and fruit trees, flues, porches, roofs, windows, and out houses. Plummer Beard lost his barn on W. 8th street, it was thought for a while that his mules were killed but they were only slightly injured; the top of the front porch of Harriet McCrary's house was torn away and landed in the garden, the flue torn away and damaged otherwise A large tree was blown across a house belonging to Henry Tinsley on 11th and Pearl Sts.; part of the roof of W. P. Crouse's residence was taken away and otherwise damaged; the front porch of Will Adams was taken away; the residence of Harry Williams, was sligtty damaged; a house in the northern part of town owned by Fred Nelson, (white) was taken from its foundation; It struck here about 11 p.m. and lasted 30 minutes and much excitement reigned in the Odd Fellows' hall where a dance was in progress Many of them forgot their step and began calling on the Lord, Some of the church members have vowed to the Lord. "Strange what a difference there in," 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." Man Should Pick Life Work by Time He Is Twenty By FREDERIC J. HASKIN. By the time a man is twenty chosen for him in childhood, an opportunity to determine it for his nations are. If he is to be a man himself tinkering with machines, he already will have composed se tragedy. If he is to be a politician and have several henchmen doing it is such indications as the nation. If his parents and teachers to perceive and encourage these first step toward success. But if and yet studies law because he a father's office, as did one young ment, he has foredoomed himself. For the scientists tell us the ment which enters into a man's and slowly but surely binds him fourteen, perhaps, Tommy mightions. At twenty-one his inclination. At twenty-five he has begun to daze upon the things he can really fixed in his position in life, and His occupation, whether it is the formed permanent grooves in his middle age a radical change is pr I'LL TRY When difficulties line his way, I like to hear a fellow say: I'll try! man is twenty, if his occupation has not been childhood, and if he has not allowed chance to mine it for him, he should know what his inclination is to be a mechanic, he will by that time find work with machines. If he is to be a newspaper man, he composed several epic poems and a blank verse to be a politician, he will be a leader at schoolenchmen doing his algebra for him. Occations as these that reveal the boy's real inclinations and teachers are alert and intelligent enough to encourage these tendencies, the boy has taken the success. But if he has a love for building motors, why because he has an opportunity to go into his child one young man of splendid natural endowment himself to mediocrity. Artists tell us that the fixation of habit is an elephant a man's career as soon as he has chosen it, only binds him to it for better or for worse. At Tommy might adopt any one of several occupations his inclination has become pretty well fixed. Has begun to discover his limitations and specialities he can really do. By thirty he is pretty well in life, and a radical change will be difficult. Whether it is the one for which he is fit or not, has grooves in his mind. By the time he has reached real change is practically impossible. By the time a man is twenty, if his occupation has not been chosen for him in childhood, and if he has not allowed chance opportunity to determine it for him, he should know what his inclinations are. If he is to be a mechanic, he will by that time find himself tinkering with machines. If he is to be a newspaper man, he already will have composed several epic poems and a blank verse tragedy. If he is to be a politician, he will be a leader at school and have several henchmen doing his algebra for him. It is such indications as these that reveal the boy's real inclination. If his parents and teachers are alert and intelligent enough to perceive and encourage these tendencies, the boy has taken the first step toward success. But if he has a love for building motors, and yet studies law because he has an opportunity to go into his father's office, as did one young man of splendid natural endowment, he has foredoomed himself to mediocrity. For the scientists tell us that the fixation of habit is an element which enters into a man's career as soon as he has chosen it, and slowly but surely binds him to it for better or for worse. At fourteen, perhaps, Tommy might adopt any one of several occupations. At twenty-one his inclination has become pretty well fixed. At twenty-five he has begun to discover his limitations and specialize upon the things he can really do. By thirty he is pretty well fixed in his position in life, and a radical change will be difficult. His occupation, whether it is the one for which he is fit or not, has formed permanent grooves in his mind. By the time he has reached middle age a radical change is practically impossible. Confronted by a task that's new, Perhaps a dangerous mission, too, I like to see him think it out, fine, we do chores, and reply. There's something in the boy or man Who rules himself upon this plan: I'll try! Too many say; "I can't" before They've ever looked a problem o'er; Responsibility they shirk And seem to fear unusual work. This is the phrase of do or die. Would there were more young men to day When duty calls to them, who'd say I'll try! Would fear had not so strong a hold On mortals, and that more were bold; Bold in their willingness to face The tasks that are not commonplace To answer doubt with this reply! I'll try! Edgar A. Guest, in Detroit Free Press. A Few Things That You May Not Know. nine to knead ther has been a man. invented sun protect a wear- woven from Italian nettle alf-pounds. side of the lid A hand-operated machine to knead the stiffness out of leather has been invented by an Oklahoma man. Included with recently invented sun groggles is a shade to protect a wearer's nose from sunburn. Sixty miles of thread woven from the fiber of a species of Italian nettle weighs but two, and a half pounds. Sharp points in the inside of the lid of a new egg cup-out the shell away without disturbing the contents. About 1,729 miles of railroads in the United States have been electrified to about 1,278 in all foreign lands. Bombay averages more than seventy-two inches of rain a year and gets most of it within four or five months. A powerful machine has been built in Germany for compressing scrap metal into more easily handled bales. A wall tie that grips half a dozen bricks instead of two, as customary, has been invented by a Scotch builder. Leather and canvas covers to be laced over automobile springs to keep them clean and dry have been patented. According to a British scientist, weight for weight, macaroni is as valuable a flesh building food as beef or mutton. Patent leather shoes never remain as black as they are polished. Human nature makes us attribute the success of others to chance. A man's strength is estimated by his ability to fight against odds. Smiles add much to a woman's attractiveness, and they cost little. A good mirror tells the truth, no matter upon whom it may reflect. Some men who pay their bills promptly expect a lot of credit for it later. A narrow mind overlooks a charitable act and looks for the motive. If the husband foots his wife's bills she should at least foot his socks. Some men would growl about the weather if it rained silver dollars. Advice to an actor: When the whistle blows look out for the locomotive. Not Entirely a Fool. Knicker—Did Jones lock the stable door after the horse was gone? Bocker—Certainly; there was another horse. --- ```markdown ``` Hit and Miss SMILES Artistic Articles Can Be Made From Remnants of Crash Often in her rambles in the shops the watchful needlewoman will be able to pick up small remnants of crash, just a little too long for towels or of too fine a quality. These she can make up into numerous artistic and useful articles if she but takes the time. There is a new kind of fudge apron which calls for a fine crash toweling. A straight piece of toweling about three-quarters of a yard long makes the front of the apron reaching to the shoulders. To this are attached straps which pass over the shoulders, cross the back and fasten to the front piece just at the waist line at the sides. This is a little cooler apron than the kind which slips over the head, and has an entire back of the crash and requires less material, a yard being almost enough. A suitable cross-stitch design is worked at the bottom of the apron and the entire edge is blanket-sitched with blue, even to the joinings of the straps at the shoulder line. Snaps under covered buttons hold the strays at the sides. A mending bag of generous proportions can be made from a length of narrow crash. The top is slightly curved out to fit the waist and a belt of crash starts from one side and USE PLATFORM Bacon—Don't you think there is a great similarity in a political platform on a trolley car? Ekroner-Sohn, who is supposed to Patience—Peggy says that her face is her fortune. Patrice—Well, it's a good thing it's the kind of a fortune she can't leave to anyone when she's gone. Not Necessary. Lady of the House—Say. Dinah, did, you clean the fish? Dinah—Law, no missus! Why should Ah clean dat fish? He done lib all his life in de wattah—Puppet. Lady of the House—Say, Dinah, did, you clean the fish? Dinah—Law, no missus! Why should Ah clean dat fish? He done lib all his life in de wattah—Puppet. No Doubt. Bill—I see that fresh-caught sea fish are said to form the principal ingredient in an artificial rubber invented in Holland. Jill—Come to think of it, I've heard of some "boincing" sea fish. He (grumblingly)—My hand's always in my pocket. She (sharply)—Then how is it you can't feel there the letters I give you to mail? The Danger. "It was while traveling in Switzerland that I proposed to Miss Smith on the verge of a mountain gorge." "Horrors! Suppose she had thrown you over!" Ain't This Awful. Heiny—Anna Little was recently wedded to Andrew Lott. Omar—Well, what of it? Heiny—Oh, it was merely a case of A Little becoming A Lott. snaps at the other. The bottom is turned up into a deep pocket, which is embellished on the outside with a design of scattered buttons, spools of thread, scissors, etc. The entire edge of the bag is blanket-stitched in blue. A. MISS JUANITA HANSEN. Actress who is playing the leading part in "The Secret of the Submarine," a film war drama that is attracting attention throughout the country. About Women Of the 5,864,442 farmers in the United States, 257,703 are women. Miss Maude Meagher is the world's successful writer of masques. Women in Denmark, Finland and Sweden outnumber the men by over 300,000. Miss Grace R. Finney, head of the circulation department of the public library of Washington, handled over 800,000 books last year. For her relief work in behalf of French war sufferers, Mrs. Edith Wharton, the novelist, has been presented with the French Legion of Honor medal. Women are in a majority in nine occupations—musicians or teachers of music, school teachers, boarding house keeper, housekeepers, laundresses, nurses, servants, stenographers and typists. Education Sometimes Costly. For the education of the 325 seniors at Yale college slightly more than $1,000,000 has been required. While it is figured that $4,073 for the entire four years is the average cost a student, one man alone has spent $15,000 in the process of going through college, while another has required only $500 to provide his education. In this connection it is a noteworthy fact that 120 members of the class have earned their way through college either in part or in whole, having earned to date a grand total of more than $300,000. Comedy in One Reel. NEVER! I'LL END IT ALL HEY! GOLLY! THAT'S GO! WHAT, DEARLE! YOU CAN'T SQUIRT! AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS "Big Boy!" This is the nickname the Hampton institute students have for Allen Wadsworth Washington, now associate commandant of cadets, who is officially known as "Captain Washington." He will be the successor of Maj. Robert R. Morton, the principal-elect of Tuskegee institute. Some years ago it was said that if Hampton had done no more than train Booker T. Washington, it would have paid for itself many times over. Recently the nation, especially the South, has been rejoicing that Major Moton, another distinguished graduate of Hampton, would soon take up Doctor Washington's heavy burden at Tuskegee. Today the friends of Hampton and of Negro education are rejoicing that another self-made, Hampton-trained man, Allen Washington, will become the commandant of cadets at Hampton, where he was graduated in 1891—a product of the pioneer work of General Samuel Chapman Armstrong. Allen Washington came to the Hampton school from Gloucester county, a county which is well known on account of the large percentage of Negroes who own their farms and their homes; Negroes who are lawabiding and thrifty, and who have won the respect of the best white people because of their industry and good character. Allen Washington entered the Hampton institute in September, 1885, and became what is called a "work student;" that is, he worked by day at manual labor and then went to school for two hours on five nights of the week. In 1889 he finished the harness maker's trade and then spent two years in the Hampton day school academic department. After his graduation Allen Washington was employed by day in the harness making shop and by night he helped in the commandant's department. During the next year he spent one-half of his day in the harness shop and one-half in the commandant's office. Little by little he became more active in the disciplinary work, and soon found his full stride in handling boys—handling them with sympathy and still with firmness. The South has made no great headway with the colored soldier idea, though there is a company at Nashville. In Georgia, North and South Carolina, and some other southern states, where by actual count whites and blacks run about even, it was essayed. If the South has shrunk from the thought of colored soldiers, Uncle Sam has not been so particular. There are two regiments of colored cavalry now hunting Villa in Mexico, a regiment of colored infantry at Honolulu, and another enroute home from the Philippines. If the latter is detailed to Mexico, as is quite likely, it is hoped that the gentlemen on the other side of the Rio Grande will not take it too much to heart at being soundly thrashed by soldiers who, on the average, are not marked by a more dusky type than themselves—Cgrespondence Chicago Daily News. It is said that moonshine whisky in the South, instead of being sold, is "lett" by the roadside, the "purchaser" being expected to pick up the jug and leave the monetary equivalent, a case where failure may mean a reminder propelled by a well-known niter compound, one that whistles as it passes by the ear. Considerable progress is being made by the District committee of colored citizens, in charge of the campaign to raise $2,000 in the District of Columbia for the benefit of the Booker T. Washington memorial fund. The effort is a part of the national campaign now being waged to raise a fund of $2,000,000 for the purpose of helping Tuskegee institute, the Negro industrial, school in Alabama, and making it a permanent monument to Booker T. Washington. Public meetings in the interest of this memorial fund were held every Friday evening at the colored Y. M. C. A. building, Twelfth street between S and T streets northwest. The officers in charge are Henry Lassiter, chairman; Miss Nannie H. Burroughs, vice president; John R. Hawkins, financial secretary; Daniel Freeman, treasurer; R. W. Thompson, secretary; Dr. J. A. Cabanen, chairman ways and means committee; William H. Davis, chairman committee on publicity and promotion. The pyramid of Cheops contains 4,000,000 tons of stone. Dr. Hugo Philier, who died recently in Minneapolis, reached this country from Prussia during the Civil war and two days later enlisted and fought all through the remainder of the conflict, first in a New York regiment and later in the surgeons' corps. For an aviator there has been invented in France apparatus which shows the speed at which his acropolis is traveling, the velocity of the wind and the angle at which he is attacking it and whether he is rising or falling. Tuskegee institute is a very interesting place, and every one of the teachers taking the course at the summer school seems so congenial and enthusiastic that I am sure great good will result from the meeting, writes a correspondent of the Birmingham (Ala.) Age-Herald. There are 416 teachers, representing 16 states. Alabama is well represented. Birmingham leads in the greatest number from any one city, as she does in everything else. Tuskegee is carrying out its usual plan, even though the summer school is made up entirely of teachers. The instructors breakfast at five o'clock, the other teachers at 6:15. Our classes begin promptly at seven o'clock, and you would be delighted to see how eagerly the teachers rush to prevent tardiness. We are under as strict rules as the student body. From seven to 10:50 the classroom work is in full swing; at eleven we go to the assembly room to a lecture. Really, the lectures alone are worth the trip to Tuskegee. Notable among those who have come to us are Prof. N. E. Tidwell, Dr. J. H. Phillips, Professor Hobdy and Mr. W. K. Tate of Peabody normal school of Nashville. There are 600 students who are remaining here during the summer. They are working in the different departments in order that they might be able to continue their studies another year. I have visited the various buildings where they are at work, and I am sure I have never seen such thoroughness, such close application to duty. The beauty of it all is the happy, cheerful spirit which seems to pervade the whole place. The students who are being trained here under such splendid instructors cannot fail to take their places very creditably and acceptably in the world. In the New York Charity Organization Bulletin there is made a statement that will probably be surprising to most of the people who read it. "The Negro," according to this high authority, "is more self-reliant in poverty than the white living under the same conditions. He is slower to seek assistance, and more eager to be independent again." These are certainly admirable peculiarities, and the Bulletin, assuming, as is safe, the truth of its assertion, is well justified in asking if in them there is not to be seen a promise to the Negro of ultimate success in his struggle for recognition. It is also somewhat surprising to learn, or at any rate to hear, from the same source, that the environment of the Negroes in that city is more than ordinarily favorable to them, and that in Harlem, with its wide cross streets and the broad, clean stretches of Seventh and Lenox avenues, they have been able to develop their capacities for orderly, intelligent, and prosperous living to a greater degree than almost anywhere else. This they have done through business and professional relations with each other in a fairly homogeneous community of 50,000 colored people. They have not forgotten to be kind, either, for the Charity Organization society has a special committee in Harlem of 19 colored men and women, working effciently, with a colored "visitor," employed jointly by the organization and the Harlem Relief society. Charles J. Orbison addressed a mass meeting of colored Y. M. C. A. workers in the auditorium at Indianapolis on "The Benefit of Organized Effort." The meeting was the second of a series leading up to the launching of the most aggressive membership campaign so far undertaken by the colored branch. The local organization for years held the record for the largest membership among the colored Y. M. C. A.'s in the United States. Recently the associations at Washington, Chicago and Philadelphia pushed Indianapolis down to fourth place, with a membership of 565 men, although this city maintains a $100,000 building and offers cheaper fees for membership. In the points of Bible class attendance, employment obtained for men and educational work Indianapolis still leads. It is hoped to obtain 500 new members in the campaign. The membership fee for this period has been redified one-half. Teams of five members each are being formed for the canvass. Many employees in the large factories are organizing to assist in placing Indianapolis at the front again. The co-operation of the Negro population of Washington in the clean-up and beautification movement was enlisted by Dr. Charles C. Green, city health officer, and leader of the sanitation campaign. At a meeting held at the colored Carnegie library Principal J. D. Ryan appointed the central committee of well-known Negroes which is to co-operate with Doctor Green and to appoint the subcommitteemen all over the city. Plans were formulated for the part which the Negroes are to take in carrying out the campaign. Rest Those Worn Nerves Don't give up. 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Get Donna's at Any Store, 50c a Box DOAN'S KIDNEY PILLS FOSTER-MILBURN CO., BUFFALO, N. Y. DON'T CUT OUT A Shoe Boil, Capped Hock or Bursitis FOR ABSORBINE FOR MARK D. U.S. DAY 462 will reduce them and leave no blemishes. Stops lameness promptly. Does not blister or remove the hair, and horse can be worked. $2 a bottle delivered. Book 6 M free. ABSORBINE, JR., for rushed, the antiseptic balm for Bella, Bruises, Sores, Swellings, Varicose Veins, Allergies Palm and Inflammation. Price $1 and $2 a bottle at druggists or delivered. Will tell you more if you write. W.F.YOUNG, P.D.F., 319 Temple St. SortingRoad, Manh. MOTHER GRAY'S SWEET POWDERS FOR CHILDREN Relieve Feverishness. Constipation, Colds and correct disorders of the stomach and bowels. Used by Mother for Surgery. Allergies. Also. Sample mailed FREE. Address Mother Gray Co., LeRoy, M. Y. Users Of Throashing Supplies Machinig Beijing, Oils, etc., all useful to you or any of the 1916 CATALOGUE WE FREE for the making Weber Imp. & Auto Co. 1900 Locust st. St. Louis Production of copper in the United States is more than 25 times what it was in 1880. 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. MOUTH ORGANS COME FIRST Little Instruments Will Win the Great War, Is the Opinion of Tommy Atkins. Although his clothing was like a hardened mud casing, his rifle and bayonet rusty, his ammunition clips gritty with the dirt, one article of his equipment Tommy kept dry and clean and shining—his mouth organ. A broken rifle was of no concern—another was easily obtainable; but a ruined mouth organ was nothing short of a calamity. In England I regarded these little instruments with contempt. In France, I learned to value them at their true worth. As for Tommy, he has often remarked that high explosives and machine guns and plenty of ammunition are highly important, "but mouth organs is wot's goin' to win the war." They were our one solace and delight. I can say in all seriousness that they saved many a man from losing his grip upon himself during moments when the strain of "sitting" tight was almost unbearable.—James N. Hall in the Atlantic Monthly. Red Cross Seals. Eighty million Red Cross Christmas seals were sold last year as against the previous high record of 55,000,000 the year before. Of the $800,000 realized from the sale, half goes to the Red Cross and half to the local tuberculosis associations which acted as sales agents. Sound health is largely a matter of proper food which must include certain mineral elements best derived from the field grains, but lacking in many foods. Grape-Nuts made of whole wheat and malted barley, supplies all the rich nourishment of the grains, including their vital mineral salts—phosphate of potash, etc., most necessary for building and energizing the mental and physical forces. "There's a Reason" Sold by Grocers everywhere. YOUNG WOMEN MAY AVOID PAIN Need Only Trust to Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, says Mrs. Kurtzweg. Buffalo, N.Y.—"My daughter, whose picture is herewith, was much troubled with pains in her back and sides every month and they would sometimes be so bad that it would seem like acute inflammation of some organ. She read your advertisement in the newspapers and tried Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. back and sides every month and they would sometimes be so bad that it would seem like acute inflammation of some organ. She read your advertisement in the newspapers and tried Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She praises it highly as she has been relieved of all these pains by its use. All mothers should know of this remedy, and all young girls who suffer should try it."—Mrs. MATILDA KURTZWEG, 529 High St., Buffalo, N. Y. An English inventor has patented a perforated comb for spraying perfumes or lotions into the hair. 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 by druggists for 50c. Address Q-Ban Laboratories, Memphis, Tenn.-Adv. In after years a man acquires knowledge while unlearning some things he learned at school. WOMAN'S CROWNING GLORY is her hair. If yours is streaked with ugly, grizzly, gray hairs, use "La Creoie" Hair Dressing and change it in the natural way. Price $1.00.—Adv. There's plenty of room, at the top —but more company below with the crowd. ALLEN'S FOOT-EASE The Antiseptic Powder to Shake Into Your Shoes and use in the Food-Bath. Gives instant relief to tachy, aching muscles, smarting, nervous feet, stops the sting of corns and burrs. 1 Read a few extracts from original testimonials on file in our office. "Allen's Foot-Hase works like magge. He placed some in tight shoes and feet feel fresh and comfortable. It is one of the greatest remedies ever made." "Allen's Foot-Hase has just presented me from throwing away a new shoe of $500 shoes. It is great. Nothing so thoroughly resembles it." "Oh! What Remedy are you from the shoe and makes you comfortable." a delight. We have 30,000 testimonials. Over 100,000 are being used by Allied and German troops at the front. Sold everywhere, 256. Don't accept any substitute. The first dose often astonishes the inviting, giving elasticity of mind. Buoyancy of body, GOOD DIGESTION, regular bowels and solid flesh. Price, 25 cts. DAISY FLY KILLER placed anywhere, attracts and kills cell. Not, clean, ornamental, convenient, charming season. Made of metal, can tap or tip over, will not injure anything. Guaranteed effective. Alfidor orerson or harold boskep, 150 De Kalb Ave., Brooklyn, H. F. files. Next, clean, ornamental, convenient, cleanroom, chemical session. Made of metal, can spill or tip over, will not injure anything. Guaranteed effective. Effective for TURKEY EXPRESS and for FIRE EXPRESS. Harold Somers, 150 De Raib Ave., Brooklyn, N.Y. RAISE TURKEYS by the hundreds, that will not die, ing, rearing and control secrets of the TURKEYS GUARD. 30 pages, 60 cents mail. Bordered, by prompt, by address BANNER TURKEY RANCH, Moran, Kans. GENIUS--WHENCE COMES IT? No Amount of Training or Environment Can Create It, but a Child's Natural Talents May Be Developed by Cultivation. By SIDONIE MATZNER GRUENBERG. No Environment Can Develop: Qualities That Are Not There. "IS IT possible to make a musical genius out of my child by providing a favorable environment for him?" This question was asked by an ambitious mother of a very young infant. This is the kind of question that mothers (and fathers, too, no doubt) often ask themselves, but feel too timid or modest to ask the family physician. When the question is answered in the affirmative efforts are stimulated, and after many years there is disillusionment and disappointment. When the question is answered in the negative there is disappointment and often neglect and indifference. The fact is that the question itself involves a contradiction. A genius is an exceptional person by very "nature"—that is, by having inherited a combination of qualities that makes him distinct from his fellows. The most that the environment can do for him is to make possible the formation of certain habits, the cultivation of certain interests, the development of certain native powers. In other words, the environment can provide conditions favorable for the growth of genius; but it can never create genius out of mediocre capacities. One need not go very far in a study of the development of children to realize how incompletely do the capacities of most individuals ever develop, compared to the possibilities latent at birth. Every individual is born with rather definite limits to what he may become, whether it be in music or in science, in art or in business, in golf or in astronomy. But it is very seldom that these limits are approached in more than a very few directions by any individual. It is because we are so impressed by the remarkable results that can be attained by systematic and continued training, that Mother's Cook Book Fruit Bars. Mix two and one-half cupfuls of flour, two and one-half cupfuls of rolled oats, one cupful each of shortening and brown sugar, one-half cupful of sour milk, and a teaspoonful of soda. Flour the board generously, roll thin and cut with an oblong cutter. Put a half pound of dates and a half cupful of pecan meats through the meat chopper. mix this and roll out in a thin sheet and cut with the same cutter. Put a layer of date paste between every two of the cooky dough, sandwich fashion, and bake in a hot oven. When cold pack edgewise in a jar. Hide the jar. Apricot Shortcake. Make a rich biscuit dough, roll out and cut with a large biscuit cutter and bake. Cook six apricots either fresh or dry with the juice of half a lemon, and half a cupful of sugar, mash, strain and flavor with a quarter of a teaspoonful of almond extract. Put three half apricots between the cakes and a half one on top. Pour the sirup over all and fill the top apricot with sweetened whipped cream. Jam Omelet. Beat the yolks of five eggs light with a tablespoonful of powdered sugar; into this stir a teaspoonful of cornstarch mixed with three tablespoonfuls of milk, cook. Then fold in the stiffly beaten whites of the eggs and cook in a buttered omelet pan until set. Spread with jam, fold and serve sprinkled with powdered sugar. Serve as a dessert. Make a white sauce as for creamed eggs. Cook six eggs in the shell, cut in eighths lengthwise, put a layer of white sauce, then a layer of eggs and a layer of chopped olives using a fourth of a cupful of olives, repeat and finish the top with a thick layer of buttered crumbs using a cupful and a half of crumbs. Bake until the crumbs are brown. Egg and Ham Timbales. Cook together two tablespoonfuls each of flour and butter, add a cupful of milk and when smooth and thick cool and add three beaten eggs and two cupfuls of chopped ham, season well with pepper and salt and put into timbale molds to cook in hot water until firm. Stuffed eggs are always appetizing and may be geryed as a hot dish with a white sauce. Nerice Maxwell METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE. METROPOLIS. ILL. The best feed for little turkeys is dry grain chick feed, but it must be free from mustiness or moldiness and be clean and sweet. Weaklings should never be tolerated in the chicken coop. Kill and bury them, for otherwise they will be the first to become infected and later die. More ducks are killed by unnecessary handling, chilling and underfeeding than all other causes combined. Be sure that little ducklings always have plenty, of water to drink, especially at meal time, and deep enough so that they can get their heads into it up to their eyes. Eggs to be used for hatching should not be subjected to either abnormally high or low temperatures. If they can be gathered before they have time to cool after being laid it is all the better for their hatching qualities. From 50 to 60 degrees is the best temperature for storing hatching eggs. Little chicks should be protected from cool, damp surroundings. Nothing is more detrimental to their health and more certain to bring heavy mortality than to let them out, in the wet grass early in the morning. When shipping live poultry to market always allow sufficient room and use a coop sufficiently high, so that the fowls will not suffer from cramped positions while on the road. Any discomfort reduces their weight and costs the producer a certain amount of money. Avoid feeding chicks food that has been in stock so long that it is moldy. It is bound to cause much trouble. To get the most out of your flocks you must adopt present-day methods, so as to be on an even footing with your competitor. The early hatched pullet is the one that begins to lay early in the fall, when eggs are high in price. Undoubtedly many practical frocks of the tailored type made of taffeta will be worn by the young girl as well as by her older sister, and charming examples are on view in shops which make a specialty of clothing for the younger contingent. One such model is fashioned from taffeta checked in green, brown and white and made with a blouse jacket, the waistline of which is defined by a narrow belt of the material placed at a high waistline. The skirt is gathered and untrimmed. The collar and cuffs of white linen embroidered in green and brown silk. Satins are in for a good season. They will contribute to the development of dressy costumes as well as to street frocks and coats. It is anticapped that satins in the dark colors—in so far as they may be obtained—will be in demand. Otherwise there will be satin fabrics in light colors toned down with dark colors to please the woman who likes her demi-tailleur of some fabric other than cloth. Optimistic Thought. What is acquired without labor is seldom worth acquiring at all. Few Women Who Have Plenty to Do Have Fits of Blues By LAURA JEAN LIBBEY. tion in general are the assets she depends on not only to keep her position, but to forge ahead. There are too many helpless ones at home, usually, dependent upon her to encourage fits of the blues. It is only the idlers or those who have little or nothing to do who rail secretly over really insignificant affairs. The women wedded to men who drink up the greater part of their wages, leaving the family at home to fight starvation, ejection from the home that shelters them and with insufficient clothes to cover them, bravely fight the demon discontent, put their shoulders to the wheel and live and dream of the glorious duties they are performing in keeping their children at school and the golden reward that will surely be theirs later on. The childless wife, who has longed for the clasp of little arms around her neck and childish, loving lips pressed to her own, encounters battles which she must fight bravely to outwit attacks of the blues. Philosophical women accomplish this by answering the cry of their lonely hearts with this truth: Whatever should be, will be. Whatever is, is best. He who denies their earnest prayers knows best. Even those who have known and lost love can be made to realize that the heart has been enriched by it through memories of the hours when it was tenderest, triest and at its best. If but one blessing is given us, we should be grateful for that one, shut out discontent and cultivate a happy disposition, though we have it not, and always look on the bright side. we are led to suspect an indefinite increase in talents under proper guidance and cultivation. But when all allowance is made for lack of opportunity and for improper treatment in childhood and youth, we are still far short of being undeveloped geniuses. A suitable environment can help to develop qualities that are present at the start, but no environment can develop qualities that are not there. It is the old question over again, of whether any royal food can be found that will make a gosling develop into a swan. From the goose's egg you will get only a goose, although some goose are better than others. Again, after hatching the egg, proper feeding and care will give you a better goose than can develop through neglect and starvation. With the children of man it is unfortunately true that while feeble-minded stock is likely to remain feeble-minded, the people of mediocre abilities often give rise to combinations of valuable qualities that do not reveal themselves in the appearance of the child or in the wealth of the family. It is therefore desirable that every child receive all the opportunities and all the encouragement to show what his possibilities are. This is necessary quite as much for the enrichment of our lives as for the discovery of the occasional genius. Collars Make Blouses. Do you know how to "trim up" the plain blouse and make it become your individual style? Get a collar in white chiffon or sheerest organdle which, in turning back, covers the nape and the sides of the neck, runs flatly across the shoulders and straight down over the bust, forming a slender "V" opening below the throat. This collar is bordered with pin-tucked self material, straight on its outer edge and widely scalloped along the fine, embroidery-outlined inner edge. Another blouse-dominating collar has a tapering, narrow turnover coming high against all save the front of the neck, and widened by an extremely broad frilling of the plaited material, a jour hommed. In crepe de chine this second collar is extremely practical as well as dainty. Its Contrariness. "A club buffet furnishes but par- adoxical comfort." "How so?" "Because the members often use it when they are out of spirits." (Copyright, 1915.) We have many goodly days to see The liquid drops of tears that you have shed Shake them again transformed to orient pearl; Advantage their loan, with interest, Oftentimes double gain of happiness. Was there ever a woman—no matter how many blessings surrounded her —who did not give herself up completely to a fit of the blues now and then? They have indulged this habit—for it is nothing else, than a habit—from girlhood up until at last it has taken such a hold upon them they are unable to shake off these depressions. The splendid army of working girls should be an example of cheerfulness to the women in good homes who have nothing to do but nurse their grievances. 1910 These working girls, each and every one, know the value of a smile and how to radiate cheerfulness. If you put the question to them whether or not they ever have fits of the blues, the smile will die out of their eyes as they answer gravely that in the business world there is no place for the girl or woman who gives free rein to fits of melancholy and that good nature, a happy mood and a genial dispos- Timely Hints for Poultry Growers. Taffeta Frocks Season of Satin. CASTORIA For Infants and Children. Mothers Know That Genuine Castoria Always Bears the Signature of Chat. H. Hutchins In Use For Over Thirty Years CASTORIA THE CENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK. Net Contents 15 Fluid Drachms 900 DROPS CASTORIA ALCOHOL - 3 PER CENT 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. Recipe of Old Dr. SAMUEL PITCHER Pumpkin Seed - Alc. Sugar Rocky Salt Aniseed Peppermint Ei-Carbonate Soda Wine Yeast Citrulline Sugar Wintergreen Flavor A perfect Remedy for Constipation, Sour Stomach, Diarrhoea, Worms, Feverishness and LOSS OF SLEEP. Face Simile Signature of Chat. H. Hutchins THE CENTAUR COMPANY, NEW YORK. A COUPLE SOLE 35 DOSES = 35 CENTS Exact Copy of Wrapper Puts a ... Stop to all Distemper And prevents others having the disease no matter how exposed. 50 cents and $1 a bottle, $5 and $10 a dozen bottles. All good drinks and good houses. SPOHN MEDICAL CO. Chemists and Bacteriologists, Goshen, Ind. U., S. A. The Wheat Yield Tells the Story of Western Canada's Rapid Progress The heavy crops in Western Canada have caused new records to be made in the handling of grains by railroads. For, while the movement of these heavy shipments has been wonderfully rapid, the resources of the different roads, despite enlarged equipments and increased facilities, have been strained as never before, and previous records have thus been broken in all directions. The largest Canadian wheat shipments through New York ever known are reported for the period up to October 15th, upwards of four and a quarter million bushels being exported in less than six weeks, and this was but the overflow of shipments to Montreal, through which point shipments were much larger than to New York. Yields as high as 60 bushels of wheat per acre are reported from all parts of the country; while yields of 45 bushels per acre are common. Thousands of American farmers have taken part in this wonderful production. Land prices are still low, and few are easily secured in good localities, convenient to churches, schools, markets, railways, etc. There is no war tax on land and no conscription. Write for illustrated pamphlet, reduced railroad rates and other information to Superintendent Immigration, Ottawa, Canada, or G. A. Cook, 2012 Main St., Kansas City, Mo.; C. J. Broughton, Room 412, 112 W. Adams St., Chicago, IL. Canadian Government Agent Puts a ... Stop to all And prevents ot exposed. 50 cen bottles. All good Chemists a So Sudden, Too. Maude—Do you get me? Frank—Is that a leap-year pro- posal? IMITATION IS SINCEREST FLATTERY but like counterfeit money the imita- tion 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.—Adv. Not Discouraged. "Jagsby's wife married him to re- form him." "Umph! How long, ago was that?" "Oh, about twenty years ago." "She doesn't seem to have made much progress." "No, but she's a cheerful little woman. She hopes to accomplish wonders with Jazsy in the next twenty years." DON'T LOSE YOUR HAIR Prevent it by Using Cuticura Soap and Ointment. Trial Free. If your scalp is irritated, itching and burning and your hair dry and falling out in handfuls try the following treatment: touch spots of dandruff and itching with Cuticura Ointment and follow with hot shampoo of Cuticura Soap. Absolutely nothing better. Free sample each by mail with Book. Address postcard, Cuticura, Dept. L, Boston. Sold everywhere.—Adv. The Precocity of Willie. "Mamma and I saw some of the nicest chicken dressing today," said Willie, age ten and wise beyond his years. "Where d'ja see it?" asked the fond papa. "In a dry goods store window," was the bright reply as Willie "dug" for the outdoors—Indianapolis News. 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. Royal Title. "But why do you call him Louis the Fourteenth?" "You see he was invited so there would not be 13 at table."—Life. The Whea Tells the of Western Canada's Rap The heavy crops in Western Canada new records to be made in the hand by railroads. For, while the move You can seldom judge people by their garments—unless you see the family wash out on the line. FITS. EPILEPSY. FALLING SICKNESS Stopped Quickly. Fifty years of misinformed success of Dr. Kline's Epilepsy Medicine insurance company. KLINE COMPANY, Red Bank, N. J. - Avv. So They Are. "This candidate says he believes in talking to the voters, man to man." "He'd better go slow about that." "Why so?" "The women are beginning to figure in politics more or less." The Strong Withstand the Heat of Summer Better Than the Weak Old people who are feeble, and younger people who are weak, will be strengthened and enabled to go through the depressing heat of summer by taking regularly Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic. It purifies and enriches the blood and builds up the whole system. 5cc. Girls with the most cheek do the least blushing. 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. Modesty at its Best. He—I understand Miss Bash is very modest. She—Goodness, yes. She now wears glasses because someone told her to look at something with the naked eye. FRECKLES FRECKLES Now is the Time to Get Rid of These Ugly Spots. There's no longer the slightest need of being ashamed of your freckles, the presupposed beauty guaranteed to remove these homely spots. Simply get an ounce of othine—double strength—from your druggist, and apply a little soak more than one ounce beaded should soon see that even the worm freckles have begun to disappear, while the lighter ones have vanished entirely. It is solid reason that more than one ounce beaded should clearly clear the skin and gain a beautiful clear complexion. But sure ask for the double strength of othine, this is sold under guarantees of money back if it fails to remove freckles—Adv. There are a lot of boarding-house prunes in a life of single blessedness. 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 1x Months ..... 75 Three Months ..... 20 Single Copy ..... $5 La Advance. You must mail copy on Mondays to secure publication. ANNOUNCEMENTS. We are authorized to announce the name of ORAL P. TUTTLE, as a candidate for member of the Legislature, on the Republican ticket, subject to the will of the voters at the September Primary election. We are authorized to announce the name of ROY K. HEIM, as a candidate for State's Attorney on the Republican ticket, subject to the will of the voters at the September primary election. We are authorized to announce the name of WALTER ROBERTS, as a candidate for State's Attorney on the Republican ticket, subject to the will of the voters at the September primary election. 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 F. 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 Andrew H. Pingray, 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. Monnfield, as a candidate for County Commissioner, on the Republican Ticket, subject to the will of the voters 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 Gazette. 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 last, those in Carbonand Md. City can secure a box or more now by 500, per box. Act quick if you want it. Send all orders to Rev. J. B. McCrazy. 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. Mrs. Mayne Harmon, is in Paducah, attending at the bedside of aunt, Mrs. Cora Burton, who recently underwent an operation of the stomach. Dr. Wm. Mayfield, of Paducah, was in the city several days this week also last. Tolbert Albritton, is having serious trouble with his eyes. Mrs. Leah Reed, was in Paducah, Friday to witness the performing of an operation on her sister Mr. Cora Burton, and the operation was successful. N. W. Long, was in Joppa last week on business. Mrs. Birdie Hopson of Paducah, Ky., visited parents, Mr. and Mrs. Green Hodge, last week Mrs. Susie Hall, of Princeton, Ky., is in the city visiting relatives and friends. Mrs. Laura Bradley, and son, Harrison of Joppa, were in the city Saturday on business, Mr. and Mrs. U. Kivil of Paducah, Ky., were in the city last week guest of parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Roberts. Mrs. Jas. Townley, is convalescing. Mr, and Mrs. Doll Henry, Mrs. Jennie Cowper aad her sister Effie Sundayed in Round Knob. For a health resort no better place can be found than the Summer Resort, at Dixon Springs, Ill. Wheeler & Cook, Managers. Elmer Beard, went to Mound City, Monday on business. Nathan Beard, of Md. City, is here visiting his relatives. Mrs. Harriet Lloyd, arrived in the city from Paris, to look after her property. An Infant Child Dies. Mr. and Mrs. John Crim, near Joppa, lost one of their children Tuesday. Interment Wednesday in Oak Grove Cemetery. Rev. Thedford, preached the funeral, The parents have our sympathy. Dr. Mayfield, Policeman Cowper, Messrs. Newton and Mack Cork motored to Cairo, Sunday. Geo, Calhoun, got one of his fingers on his right hand mashed so badly until amputation of the member was necessary at the first joint. The Metropolis Giants will play in Colps Saturday and Sunday June 10, and 11th. They were defeated at Cairo, Sunday June 4, by the Cubs in an exciting 11 inning game. Score 6 to 5. Rheumatism, Piles, Kidney troubles, Bladder Troubles, Heart Troubles, Female Troubles, Stiff Joints, Syphilis, of All Discriptions, Indigestion Corns, Bunions, Lost of Manhood, All Kinds of Swelling and Fever, Neuralgia, Worms, in Children, All Kinds of Skin Diseases, Mumps, Diptheria, Wear Eyes, All Kinds of Pains, Pneumonia, etc. When your doctor falls, buy you a box $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 oely 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 Pilis for constipation. TEXAS BEND, MO. Please allow space in your valuable paper to say that our church is getting along alicey. Our pastor R. C. Brown, of Cobden, was with us Sunday and held his regular meeting which was a glorious one and we felt that the Spirit was with us. Plense send me The Gazette, for one year. Mr. M. Coleman. Announcement Mr. John Gaskins of Campburg, Ky., and Mrs. Etolia Campbell, of Paducah, Ky., are to be united in holy wedlock Sunday evening at 8:00 at the home of her brotner 203 Tennessee St., Paducah, by Rev R. L. McCulley, will officiate. 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. Galeta Offutt, Cor. Sec'y. B. Y. P. U. Banner The B. Y. P. U. Banner has purchased and in the hands of the president and ready for the contest at Carbondale. June the 22nd at the B. Y. P. U. and S. S. Convention of the Mt. Olive Baptist Association. Come prepared to enter the contest, as the Union sending up the most money will be awarded the banner. This banner was made by the National Baptist Publishing Board, Nashville, Tenn., and is the best piece of workmanship that we have seen It will be an ornament in any Union or S. S. room. Let's raise the standard financially this year. We should make a strong pull, a long pull and a pull altogether. Meet us in Carbondale, without fail to take part in the white suit and white dress parade on Sunday RAGE WOMAN DEFEND HONOR Col. J. H. Henesy Gets Good Thrashing for Insulting Womanhood. Women in South Must Be Protected. White people in the South not only make laws to humiliate the Race but violate them also. He thinks after him there no one else on earth; that anything he does is manly, gentlemanly and courteous. A street car line runs to Missionary ridge and it was on this line that several thousand people saw a melee that they will never forget, for Col. James H. Henesy will never forget, for he is in the hospital, nursing several wounds of a serious nature. He is styled as a lawyer, of the pompous sort who lives off the reputation that he is an ex-Confederate, was a private but now a colonel because of his pomposity and verbossity. In this section there is the separate car, and white men who do as they please occupy any part of the car they feel like. Col. Henesy seated himself in the "colored" section and occupied a whole seat. Two Race women were in the car and had been standing and were tired from a hard days work. A white woman entered the car and Col. Henesy, who was sitting in the "colored" section, beckoned for the white woman to come to the front and be seated by him. This exasperated the Race woman and she politely sat down on in the seat that the law provided for her, and being of some size was on the colonel's lap. The lawyer shoved the woman off and she shoved back. Then an exciting scene was staged. A terrific battle ensued. The woman gave her name to a reporter as Katherine Johnson was well built. She knew her strength and blood was in her eye. The moment Col. Henesy laid his hand upon her that was almost death to him. The barrister struck her and a moment later, she was upon him hot and heavy. By this time the car was clear not even the conductor or the motorman could be seen. Hundreds of people were around looking at the battle. Miss Johnson, led a right over his heart and he sprawled out for dead. Doctors and an ambulance were called ane he was taken to a hospital for treatment. His eyes, head and face were severely cut. His words to the doctor tending him were: "No more fights with any Race women." The time has come when of the Race to be respected, must fight-and fight as their fathers did during the Civil War,—Exchange. The New Beautiful Dixon Springs. "The season's Opening Ball, Saturday, June 10th. A jolly time assured. THE DIXON SPRINGS HOTEL CO. Dixon Springs, Ill. Robt. Hodge Dies Suddenly Robt. Hodge, who resided on Vienna St., with Mrs. Thos. Jenkings was found dead in bed early Thursday morning. He worked as usual the day before and no one thought the end was so near. Robt., was a good peaceful citizen and liked by all who knew him. As we go to press the funeral arrangements were not made. 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. Garrison 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. 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. Mrs. M. J. Blake, President. 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-matista—Cleveland Plains Demon. 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 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 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.