Metropolis Weekly Gazette

METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE S. Bartlett Kerr, Solicitor. Master In Chancery Sale. State of Illinois, Massac County ss. In the Circuit Court, of said County, August Term A. D. 1916. The City National Bank of Metropolis, Ill. Vs. John Lackman and Ada Lackman, Bill to foreclose mortgage No. 297. Public notice is hereby given that in pursuance of a decree entered at the Auction: Term of said court, to wit. on the 29th, day of August A. D. 1916 in the above entitled cause, I, Lannes P. Oakes, Special Master in Chancery of said County, will at the hour of 10 o'clock A. M. Saturday September 30, A. D. 1916 at the east door of the Court house in the City of Metropolis, County of Massac, and State of Illinois, sell at public vendue to the highest and best bidder, the following described real estate to-wit: All of Lot One (1) in Block One (1) in the Goulds addition to the City of Brookport, Illinois, as per recorded plat thereof, and a parcel of ground off the westerly side of Lot number Two (2) in Block number One (1) described as follows:—Beginning at the Southwest corner of said lot number Two (2), thence Northerly to the Northwest corner of said lot; thence easterly on the Northerly line of said lot, 9 feet; thence Southwesterly in a direct line to the point of beginning, being the property conveyed to me this day by H. W. Meyer, situated in the County of Massac, State of Illinois. Terms of sale, Cash in hand. Dated this 30th day of August 1916. LANNES P. OAKES. Lannes P. Oakes, Solicitor Master in Chancery Sale. State of Illinois, Massac County, ss. In the Circuit Court of said County, August Term A. D. 1916. Mary C. McBane Vs. Arthur H- Finley, Chas. Finley, and Elvira Finley. Bill to foreclose mortgage No. 201. Public notice is hereby given that in pursuance of a decree entered at the August Term of said court, towit, on the 6th day of September A. D. 1916 in the above entitled cause. I, S. Bartlett Kerr, Master in Chancery of said County, will at the hour of 10 o'clock A. M. Saturday October 7th A. D. 1916 at the east door of the Court house in the City of Metropolis, County of Massac, and the State of Illinois, sell at public vendue to the highest and best bidder, the following described real estate to-wit. The Northeast fourth of the Southeast quartor of section number Six (6), except one-half acre/ in the Southeast corner thereof; and, also, except Six and one fourth acre which is bounded as follows: Beginning at a point on the South line of said tract fiftyrods West of the Southeast corner thereof and running North thirty six rods to the public road; thence with the public road in a Southeasterly direction forty-eight rods: thence West thirty-five rods to the place of beginning. And fifteen acres off of the West side of the Southeast fourth of the Southeast quarter of section number Six (6) And ten and one-third acres from off the Eastern side of the Northwest fourth of the Southeast quarter of Sec. number Six (6), except a strip of ground two rods wide on the West side of said ten and one-third acres leading from the public road to the Curtis graveyard, which said strip was herefore deeded by David Curtis and wife to the heirs of David Curtis, deceased, for a roadway to said graveyard. And seven acres from off the Eastern side of the Southwest fourth of the Southeast quarter of section number Six, (6), also, seven acres from off the Eastern side of Northwest fourth of the Northeast quarter of section number Seven (7), and all of the above lands lying and being in Township unnumber Fourteen (14) south, Range number Four (4) east, situated in Massac County, State of Illinois. Terms of sale, Cash in hand. Dated this 12th day of September A.D. 1916. S. BARTLETT KERE, Master in Chancery. Long Time in Transit. Neptune takes more than 160 years to make the complete revolution sound the sun. Republican Candidates Coming On Special Train Tuesday, October 10th. The special train bearing the State Candidates, Two Congressmen at large will be in Metropolis, Tuesday, Oct. 10th, at 2:15 p.m. and will remain for 10 minutes, and at Brookport 3:00 They will speak from the Car especially arranged for the occasion. Let all the citizens turn out and meet them at station. Hear the music and see "Trick" elephant the smallest in the state SHOOTING AT DONNELLY ROW Woman is Shot in Shoulder by Husband, Following Quarrel at Home Near Madison No.9. Mrs Charles Underwood colored, living on Donnelly Row near the Madison No.9 mine, was shot in the shoulder Thursday evening during a quarrel with her husband. The wound is not a serious one. Underwood was brought to Marion on Friday morning and is now locked up in the county jail. There are now eight from Donnelly Row in the jail, three of the number having been incarcerated Friday, UNIONVILLE. (By Miss Howard.) Dear Editor: After two weeks rest I now take up my pen and write concerning the people of this vicinity. School is still doing nicely. Wednesday the 25, Co. Supt. W. A Spence, of Metropolis, paid Little Rock school a visit and complimented the work of teach- and pupils highly. We invite him to come again. Mr. and Mrs. T. P. King were at the county seat Saturday on business. Rev. A. A. Crim, returned home Monday from Grand Rivers Ky. where he filled his regular appointment with the Free Baptist church. Miss Siburlie Grubbs, left last week for Ala., after visiting her parents several weeks. She will again teach one of the schools near Selma. Among the churches; Sunday School at the Christian and Free Baptist churches were well attended and very interesting lessons. Both Superintendents are actively engaged and are doing an excellent work for the churches. Siloam Baptist are in a revival effort. The pastor Rev. P. Cross is being ably assisted by Rev. Halsey of Paducah Ky. Sunday the services were above par. Large crowds at each coming together. Total raised for the day $1327. The revival will continue indefinitely. There are now 2 converts and about 12 mourners. Pray for the success of meeting The pastor Rev. P. Cross, will be installed the 5th Sunday in this month. Something every night beginning with Wednesday MOTTO : "HEW TO THE LINE. LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY " add through the above named Sunday Prof. Edgar McCraiy, will be the conductor for the occasion Everybody invited. Mr. Issac Watson, of Paducah, Ky. is attending the revival. ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY NOTES. Our school opened at the time appointed, Sept. 20th with a large number of students. They are gradually coming; it is surprising with what speed they are swinging the different departments of our Institution into action, all or nearly all are running full blast, we are looking for a much larger registration this year than ever. Our singers are still on the road and expect to be in Centrilia, Ill. after which they they will visit Duquoin, Carbondale, Cairo, Paducah Ky., and possibly will pay Metropolis a visit before coming back. They report much success at each engagement. May God bless their efforts. Rev. J. N. Washington STATEMENT OF THE OWNERSHIP, MANAGEMENT, CIRCULATION, ETC., REQUIRED BY THE ACT OF CONGRESS OF AUGUST 24, 1912. Of Metropolis Weekly Gazette, published Weekly at Metropolis, Ill., for October 1st, 1916; State of Illinois, County of Massacsetts. Before me a Notary Public in and for the State and County aforesaid, personally appeared J. B. McCrary, who having been duly sworn according to law, deposes and says that he is the Publisher and Editor of the Metropolis Gazette, and that the following is, to the best of his knowledge and belief, a true statement of the ownership, management etc, of the aforesaid publication for the date shown in the above caption, required by the Act of August 24, 1912, embodied in section 443, Postal Laws and Regulation, printed on the reverse of this form, to wit: 1. That the names and addresses of the publisher, editor, managing editor, and business managers are: Publisher, J. B. McCrary, Metropolis. Ill.; Editor, J. B. McCrary, Metropolis. Ill.; Managing Editor, Edgar S. B. McCrary, Metropolis, Ill.; Business Manager, Mrs. M. J. McCrary, Metropolis, Ill. 2. That the owners are: J. B. McCrary, Metropolis. Ill. 3. That the known bondholders and other security holders owning or holding 1 per cent or more of total amount of bonds, mortgages, or other securities are: There are none. J. B. McCrary, Editor sworn to and subscribed before me this lst day of October 1916. COLFAX MORRIS, My commission expires, July 12th, 1919. Dunbar High School We visited the school rooms of Dunbar High Monday to see if reports were so that have come to me as to the crowded condition of the school and found it even worse than what had been told us. Another teacher is needed if the law is traced. The Board of Education will be asked by the citizens to make Dunbar High School equal with the white High School by adding one more year to the colored school since we must have separate schools. We are going to see what will be done to relieve the situation. Subscribe for The Gazette. Illinois Press Comment. Mt. Carmel Republican: The tax amendment is worthy of adoption and is much needed. Aurora News: The proposed amendment will permit the general assembly to use its discretion in methods of taxing personal property. Pontiac Leader: Voters of Illinois will be asked at the November election to pass judgment on an important tax amendment to the state constitution. Champaign Gazette: It would be a sad waste of effort if this amendment should fail because of lack of information or because a few citizens merely forgot about it. Chicago Post: Leading candidates for governor, regardless of party or faction, say that the state constitution should be amended by the adoption of the tax amendment. Kewance Star Courier: Every voter in Illinois who goes to the polls on November 7 will have a voice in deciding whether or not the tax amendment to the state constitution shall be adopted. Moline Despatch: There is no good reason why any person—even though he is not generally a student of such matters—should not fully understand the pending tax amendment to the Illinois constitution. Quinny Journal: Both farmers and real estate men favor the important tax amendment to the state constitution which is to be voted on at the election, November 7, as pointed out in the resolution adopted by the Real Estate Association of Illinois. Ottawa Republican: The Farmers' institute, has sent out a circular endorsing the resolutions recently passed by the Real Estate association in favor of the proposed tax amendment to the state constitution. Rockford Daily Republic: The greatest economic problem before the state of Illinois today is unquestionably the revision and rearrangement of our tax laws. Our present system of levying taxes upon general property direct has fastened the burden of taxation upon real estate. Edwardsville Intelligencer: Failure to mark the "little ballot" for the amendment will be counted as against it. Therefore, those who believe the tax system should be changed, must remember to vote for the tax amendment and urge their neighbors to remember to vote for it. Chatsworth Plaindaleer: Adoption of the pending tax amendment to the Illinois constitution at the November 7 election was endorsed by a vote of the thirtieth annual convention of the State Association of Supervisors, County Commissioners, County and Probate Clerks at its session in Quincy. Galva News: Those who have taxable property or effects which can be hidden from the eye of the assessor continue to try to hide them, and the poor taxpayer who has so little that it is all, at all times spread out to the public view, will continue to carry a share of the burden which rightfully belongs to his more fortunate brother. Lewistown News: Under the present law of Illinois A may sell a horse to B for $200 and take a note for that amount in payment. A can be assessed for the note and B for the horse, thus creating a double tax. B might sell the horse to C and C to D, each of them taking a note, and there would then be $800 worth of property for taxation and still but one horse. Six hundred dollars of this amount is fictitious and really amounts to a tax upon indebtedness. AMENDMENT RESULT OF YEARS OF WORK Product of Study of Impartial State-wide Tax Commission of 1911. The Edwardsville Intelligencer states the situation accurately when it points out that "too much attention cannot be given to the Tax Amendment." It took years of hard work to secure submission of the Amendment—prepared by the statewide Tax Commission of 1911—to the people. The State Constitution provides that "the General Assembly shall have no power to propose amendments to the same articles oftener than once in four years." Because of this if the Tax Amendment is not adopted, no substantial reform can be accomplished for at least four years in the work of taxing intangible values. The re- UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SCHOOL OF STATISTICS GAZE EY MAY C. 1016. Single Co suit will be that tangible property even more than now will have to bear the burden of the support of government. In addition to this loss of revenue, the wholesale violation of the tax laws will continue. And, no more harmful spectacle can be presented to those who already have too little regard for the mandates of the law than the sight of the rich escaping, by means of evasio from the tax burden which the law expressly places upon the certain forms of property which they hold. The Tax Amendment will make it possible for the legislature to enact just laws that will do away with tax evasion on intangibles. A majority of those voting at the election must vote for the Amendment in order to insure adoption. ILLINOIS BEHIND OTHER STATES Just Systems for Taxation of Intangibles Elsewhere Relieve much of the Tax Burdens Now Borne in Illinois. OUR CONSTITUTION OBSTRUCTS Pending Tax Amendment When Adopted Will Make It Possible to Put Illinois Abreast of Other States In Modern Tax Methods—Muet Have a Majority Vote. While Illinois has remained tied to an impossible system of taxation, other states have devised new systems especially for deriving revenues from accumulated wealth, and not only have other states outstripped Illinois in improved taxation methods, but it is also a fact that nowhere in Europe is the old-time uniform tax system attempted to be applied to taxation of intangible values. In New York state the closest attention has been given to the revenue producing and equitable phases of taxation: Since 1880 the policy towards the taxation of personal property has been to classify such property and to impose a special tax upon each separate class. In 1913, as a result of the classified system, the proportion of tax burden paid by real estate showed a reduction from 87 per cent to 65 per cent. In Illinois the tax proportion of real estate is slowly but surely increasing. In New York in the last year—1906—when effort was made to assess mortgages on the same basis as real estate—the present Illinois system—less than a million dollars of revenue was derived from the tax. At the present time, under the new system, about four million dollars are collected. Classification in Pennsylvania. The Constitution of Pennsylvania provides that "All taxes shall be uniform, upon the same class of subjects, within the territorial limits of the authority levying the tax." This provision has been in the Pennsylvania constitution since 1874. It is much more comprehensive than the amendment to be voted on in Illinois, which permits classification only of personal property. For more than 30 years Pennsylvania has taxed intangible values at the rate of 40 cents on each $100 of full value, and about half of the tax collected is derived from mortgages. The amount of intangible values now assessed in Pennsylvania is somewhat over a billion dollars and invariably each year shows an increase. Massachusetts for Modern System. The state of Massachusetts is now bringing about a more modern taxation system. Minnesota has amended the state constitution so as to give the legislature full power over classification and taxation of all kinds of property. In the year 1911 the legislature to the people. In 1911 the legislature prescribed a 30-cent tax on each $100 of intangibles. At that time the total intangible property assessment in the state was less than $14,000,000. In 1914 the assessment had increased to nearly $200,-000,000, and the number of persons assessed was 1,000 per cent greater than under the old system—showing that the tax is now much more evenly borne. The total tax now collected from intangibles in Minnesota is about twice as much as under the old. Michigan and Rhode Island. In Michigan, where Governor Pingree started the tax reform agitation about 20 years ago, the Constitution was amended in 1906 so as to permit the classification of all kinds of --- ETTE Copy Five Cents even for the moment, formerly had the Illinois system, but abandoned it as impracticable and adopted a system like that of other venue, tax more advanced states. The Wisconsin Constitution gives the legislature broad powers. Maryland began a classification of personal property in 1896. At that time interest-paying bonds, etc., in the city of Baltimore, at a $2.17 rate, yielded only $130,000 in revenue. In 1897, with a 47-cent rate, the revenues more than doubled, and in 1915 a 45-cent rate produced nearly a million dollars. November 2, 1915, Maryland voters adopted an amendment giving the legislature still further powers of classification. Other states have classification systems with low rates for intangible values. At the same time, in almost every state in the Union the movement is for similar reduction of the tax on intangibles. The pending tax amendment will make it possible for the legislatures of Illinois to provide a modern system. This will prevent Illinois from being outdistanced by other states in proper methods for dealing with intangibles. But, it must not be lost sight of that the amendment requires for its adoption a majority of all the voters voting November 7. EVASION IS PROVOKED Excessive Intangible Tax Rate Induces Sequestration. Possible Enforcement Tends to Drive Money and Other Forms of Wealth Out of Illinois. The excessive tax rate on intangible property values explains—if it does not justify—evasion. The theory of taxation has always been that the tax rate should be proportionate to the income of the property. This is not so with the uniform tax rate system of Illinois. Property—and the courts, not the constitution, have defined "property"—includes many things that are not income producing. Money in hand produces no income. An ordinary commercial bank deposit produces little or no income. Savings bank deposits earn three per cent. "Credit"—book accounts against customers produce no interest income based on time. Municipal and State bonds pay only four per cent. If these are made to pay tax at the same rate as actual property half or more of the income will be taken. In some cases a part of the principal will be taken. In time a given sum of money in hand would all be taxed back into the public treasury. If the current tax rate is collected the thrifty wage worker is deprived of two-thirds of the small increment of his savings and would be prompted to withdraw his money and hoard it; or, worse still, abandon thrift and cease to save. A man buys a bond at the time the tax rate is one per cent or less; then, gradually, the tax rate increases until it approximates two per cent—half of his interest income. If a man owns and rents property, if he sells goods, manufactures, or renders professional service, he can increase his charges as his tax and other costs increase. The effect of these conditions is to invite and provoke evasion of intangible value assessments. The intangible owner has an excuse—too good an excuse—for evading the law. The assessor knows that it is in existence but he cannot locate it or determine the ownership. The result of the system is that little or no intangibles are assessed. Mortgages, credits, bonds and stocks pay little or no revenue? They ought to pay as much in Illinois as in other states. They cannot be made to pay more—or, they will move. They are not immovable like farms. The Tax Amendment will enable the legislature to correct these errors of our tax system. It must have a majority of all the votes cast November 7. 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. ```markdown ``` 11 down, a friend of Henri- nat when she married, her to select everything home with the exception en stove. shows better how to select woman," said he. Man- ought the biggest range chest priced one on the mar- fe was very proud of the did have spells of wishing kitchen was larger or the aller, so that each would not conscious of the other's pres- first few years they moved considerably, as is the way with weds, and the bugbear of mov- vas always the stove. Finally, coaxed round a bit and suggest- ant they sell it and get a smaller and hubby accomesled. a week or two, wife had found purchaser in a woman who lived the second-story apartment next door. When the wagon came to take he stove away, they had an awful time to get it out of the kitchen, and the wife breathed a big sigh of relief when she saw it well out of the yard and on its way up the stairs of the next-door apartment. A few minutes later she looked out, and to her horror Alas, Too True. "According to this newspaper a brisk business is being done selling imitation diplomas for $3 each to persons who don't have time to go to college." "Even if that is true, the possessors of imitation diplomas are vastly outnumbered by persons who have genuine diplomas and bogus educations." A Real Hardship. "I went to a summer hotel which advertised all modern conveniences." "Well?" "The first day I was there I wanted to write to my wife—to keep a promise, you know." "And there was no stationery?" "Plenty of it, but I had to go outside the hotel and look around for half an hour before I found a place where souvenir postcards were sold." In No Hurry. M. "See that girl with a wrist watch?" "Certainly." "I guess she carries it around just to show her contempt for time." "Why so?" "She's been dawdling for an hour over a sandwich and a glass of milk." Mistake Corrected. "I hear your newly married daughter and her husband are going to live with you." "That's a mistake." "A mistake? I heard it from good authority." "A mistake, all the same. They are not going to live with me—they are going to live on me." C "Was there ever a case of the office seeking the man?" "I knew of one." "Give me the particulars." "There was no salary attached." "Henry, a poor tramp came to the house this morning with his toes sticking out of his tattered shoes, so I gave him—" "The only extra pair of shoes I had to my name, and they were as good as new. Woman—" "Softly, softly, Henry. Don't lose your temper. Let me finish what I was going to say. I gave him a little box of foot powder and he said he would never forget my kindness." A great many people use slang terms and expressions without knowing their real meaning or their origin. Ninety-nine people out of every hundred, when their health is good, say they are "first rate." Why? "First rate" is a seafaring term and was originally used in the classification of the old wooden line of battleships. "Sailing under false colors"—a term applied to a person who pretends to be other than he is—is a survival of the same period. This latter expression, like "to throw overboard"—to get rid of something—is obviously nautical; but few people know that "skyscraper" was originally sailors' slang. "Close quarters" is another very Warmest Eulogy Worth Nothing to the Ears Hushed In Death By REV. ADAM J. LOEPPERT of Chicago Many people keep the alabaster boxes of their love and tenderness sealed up until their friends are dead. We must not wait until then, but fill the lives of our friends with sweetness. The kind things you mean to say when they are gone, say before they go. The flowers you mean to send to decorate coffins, send to brighten and sweeten their homes before they leave them. If my friends have alabaster boxes stored away, full of fragrance, perfumes of sympathy and affection, which they intend to break over my dead body, I would rather they would bring them out in my weary and troubled hours, when life's struggle is on. I would much rather have a plain coffin without a flower, a funeral without a eulogy, than a life without the sweetness of love and sympathy. The rope must be flung out now while the swimmer can grasp it in his despair. The eulogy's blandest breath is worth nothing if we whispered it in ears that are hushed in death. Mrs. Brown Never Did Like That Big Stove, but It Required Some Skill to Get Rid of It. they were bringing it back down the stairs. "What's the matter?" she called. "We can't get it in the door," said the man, "it will have to be taken up through the window." Wife decided not to show herself again until the stove was well inside the apartment. The next time she peeped out, they were operating a pulley device, by which the horse went round and the stove went up; it was already five feet in the air. "Good," thought Mrs. Brown. In a minute or two she again peeped out, and they were still operating the pulley device, but the horse was going up and the stove down. "Me for action," said Mrs. Brown to herself, and hastily throwing a few clothes into a suitcase, she made for the home of her mother, where she and John remained for several days. What the woman in the next apartment said to Mrs. Brown when she got back home would make another interesting story, but Mrs. Brown only wiped the tears away with her apron, and said that it was just nearly breaking her heart to do without that stove; that there never was an oven that could bake such good pie, cake, etc.—Cleveland Plain Dealer. Japan Sent Us Fragrant Honeysuckle; Now a New Variety Comes From China Years ago Japan sent to this country a vigorous green vine which won favor through its lavish display of fragrant white flowers in late spring. For a time the vine and flowers were kept with the bounds of gardens, lawns and parks. Then it ran away. Today you'll find it roaming along the roadside; climbing stumps and hedges. It needs no gardener, for it can take care of itself. It's the honeysuckle. The Japanese variety which ran away joined some of its American cousins, who are just as pretty and just as fragrant. There's the coral honeysuckle, for example, a famous porch climber in the southern states, with trumpet-shaped flowers, red outside and scarlet within. In England they have the woodbine, a cream-colored fragrant relative of the honeysuckle. Recently there came a new variety from China, where it was found on the tops of mountains 6,000 feet above the sea. Its foliage is almost evergreen, and the flowers are a reddish bronze. Another variety has red flowers, with yellow and buff markings. There's no need to hunt for the honeysuckle. Its fragrance will announce itself before you're near enough to see it. Warmest Eulogy W to the Ears By REV. ADAM J. L. Many people keep the alabaster sealed up until their friends are dead fill the lives of our friends with sw The kind things you mean to, they go. The flowers you mean to brighten and sweeten their homes be If my friends have alabaster b perfumes of sympathy and affection, dead body, I would rather they wou troubled hours, when life's struggle I would much rather have a pl without a eulogy, than a life without The rope must be flung out now wh despair. The eulogy's blandest brea it in ears that are hushed in death. common expression. This, like "first rate" and its accompanying expressions, "second rate," "third rate" and so on, comes from the days of wooden fighting ships. The "quarters" were protections erected along the bulwarks, behind which sailors could lie low and which were used to help to repel boarders. "To sail against the wind"—to be very much in the minority—and "to lower your sail"—to confess yourself conquered—are both terms horrowed from the sea, and the same may be said of "high and dry" and "haid up" and "spliced," the slang term for getting married. When we talk of a person being "knocked into a cocked hat" we mean that he was fipp enough to be doubled up and carried under the arm like the cocked hat of a naval officer. And we say that so and so will be "on the rocks" if he does not "steer clear" of the money lenders.—Milwaukee Free Press. One-Third of Indians Left. Detailed studies by James Mooney of the bureau of American ethnology lead to the conclusion that the Indian population of Amerien, north of Mexico, at the period of the earliest white settlement, was about 1,140,000, of whom about 860,000 were within the present limits of the United States. Mr. Mooney estimates that this number has been reduced by about two-thirds through disease, famine and war, consequent on the advent of the white man. METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE, METROPOLIS, ILL. A Edith Storey. Leading woman for E. H. Sothern in his film presentation of "An Enemy to the King." The older I grow the more confident I am that thoughts go out like arrows; that I am more earnest in the sphere; that men and women are often criminally guilty for the mental touch that goes out from them in electric fire and then—Autobiography of a Happy Woman. Appetizing Apple Dishes. A delicious dish that the children like, and one that the older ones will like to eat in milk, is apple corn bread. Make a johnny cake as usual and stir in a pint of chopped sweet apple. Bake as ordinary corn bread. Apple Puffs. Make the ordinary apple sauce of tart apples, not adding as much sugar as usual. To a quart of the sauce stir in three tablespoonfuls of strawberry jam and with a strong egg-beater beat until stiff, then fill cream puffs with the mixture, place each on a plate and pour around it a soft custard sauce, flavored with almond extract. Apple Cream Pie. Stew a quart of apples till transparent, rub through a colander, sweeten to taste, add one cupful of cream, flavored with a teaspoonful of extract of lemon. Line a pie plate with good pie crust, fill with the apple and bake Worth Nothing is Hushed In Death OEPPERT of Chicago for boxes of their love and tenderness d. We must not wait until then, but sweetness. say when they are gone, say before to send to decorate coffins, send to before they leave them. boxes stored away, full of fragrance, which they intend to break over my child bring them out in my weary and is on. coin coffin without a flower, a funeral of the sweetness of love and sympathy. while the swimmer can grasp it in his th is worth nothing if we whispered until the pie crust is done. Have ready a meringue of whites of two eggs, a pinch of salt and three tablespoonfuls of sugar, flavor with a few drops of lemon and spread over the pie. Bake until a light brown. Apple in Caramel. Put a cupful of light brown sugar into a skillet, let the sugar melt, then add a half cupful of boiling water and drop in five cooking apples peeled and halved. Let these stew in the sirup until they are tender, then put them in a glass dish. In another saucepan have one tablespoonful of butter, melted, add a teaspoonful of flour, mix well and pour over a half cupful of cream. When hot, add to the boiling sirup, stirring briskly for five minutes, then pour over it the apples. Serve either hot or cold. Grate a large apple, mix with a cupful of sugar, then beat into an egg white, beating until it stands alone. Serve as dessert with sponge cake. Nessie Maxwell The Grape Cure. Grapes are advised for the nervous, thin, anemic people whose digestion needs attention. One grape a minute should be eaten for one hour at a time and repeat the dose several times a day until a cure is effected. Sleep at least eight hours out of every 24. AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS Thomas E. Taylor, secretary of the colored men's branch of the Young Men's Christian association, whose resignation was tendered some time ago, will become secretary of the New York branch, and left August 20 to take up his work there. F. E. DeFrantz, who has been physical director of the colored branch for the last three years, has been appointed acting secretary until the position can be filled permanently, reports the Indianapolis News. The branch in New York is in Fifty-thrd street and the property is valued at $75,000. The board of management recently bought a lot in One Hundred and Thirty-fifth street, and work on a $110,000 building will be begun in November. Mr. Taylor's resignation has been deeply regretted by those interested in the success of the Y. M. C. A. branch here. He came here in 1905 when the association had its headquarters in rented property in North California street, and there were only 17 members. Doctor Hummons was president of the board of management when Mr. Taylor came here. During the 11 years Mr. Taylor has been secretary the membership reached 1,000. Mr. Taylor said he attributes much of the success of the association to the interest of George L. Knox, now president of the board of management. In speaking of the association here three years ago when the new building was dedicated, Booker T. Washington said its work was not surpassed by that of any like organization he knew of, and that it was filling one of the greatest needs in the community life of the city. Mr. Taylor said the relations of the Central Y. M. C. A. and the colored men's branch always have been friendly, and that too much cannot be said of the interest of A. H. Godard, secretary, whose advice has always been available and whose influence has been exerted in the interest of the colored work whenever it was needed. Mr. Taylor was born and reared in London, Canada, and for six years before coming to this city was a letter carrier there. He attended the first meeting called for boys by the Central association in London, and held many responsible positions in the boys' department, later becoming a member of the board of directors. The world's fastest runner will never race again. If physicians who are attending him are correct. Howard P. Drew, the colored athlete, who holds the world's record of 9 3-5 seconds for 100 yards and has equaled the mark of 21 1-5 seconds for 220 yards, is suffering from a stroke of paralysis at Los Angeles. His left side is affected and it was announced that he may recover partially, but that the affliction is certain to bar him from fast competition for the rest of his life. Drew is a Springfield, Mass., boy and it was as a member of the high-school track team of that city that he first gained fame. He was on the American team at the Stockholm Olympic contests and has retained the national championship for years. Drew completed in the Lake Front Olympic games at Chicago, and defeated the best of the athletes in that city. For the past two years he has made his home on the coast, competing for a California school. He is married and has a family. Attention has been called before to the wide employment of electric pocket lamps by the fighting men of Europe. According to a recent statement in the Daily Mail, it is learned that two London firms have produced between them no less than 2,000,000 batteries during the last year. Prior to the war only about 50,000 such batteries were made in the entire United Kingdom. The annual encyclopedia of Negro progress issued at Tuskegee contains a list of towns and settlements in the United States populated and governed almost entirely by negroes. Most of these towns are small. Buxton, In., with 5,000 population, 1,000 of whom are whites, being the largest, and Boley, Okla., the next. It will be interesting to witness the results of this experiment. California has several fine sea-level highways. They skirt the shore of the Pacific and are built of concrete. Apparatus to sterilize air and medicate it for the use of invalids has been invented by a Pittsburgh man. A large industry in Christinnia, Norway, has leased its idle land at a cheap rate to its employees, who will erect thereon individual suburban homes of their own. A new trap to be attached to a refrigerator drain pipe permits waste water to flow out, but prevents the entrance of warm air or vermin. Mrs. Eliza Ward, of Asbury, Md., has three sons and seven grandsons in Company L, the Crisfield unit of the First Maryland regiment. The public farewell tendered by the committee of management of the colored Y. M. C. A., in the association rooms, in honor of Thomas E. Taylor, secretary who left for New York, where he is to become head of the New York branch, was evidence of the high regard in which Taylor is held by the colored citizens. The occasion was also a welcome to F. E. DeFrantz, former physical director, who is becoming acting secretary of the work there. Dr. J. H.-Ward, for many years chairman of the membership committee, was master of ceremonies. A number of white and colored citizens participated in the program, all of whom praised Taylor for his self-sacrificing spirit, his courage, faith and optimism. The belief was expressed that few men could have accomplished what Taylor had in the 11 years he has been connected with the colored branch. E. E. Stacy, state secretary of the Y. M. C. A., the first speaker on the program, spoke in the highest terms of what Taylor had accomplished in the state, referring to him as a pioneer in the Y. M. C. A. movement among the colored people of Indiana. He spoke of the genuine friendship existing between Taylor and all the Y. M. C. A. workers, how his enthusiasm and faith in the future of the colored branch had inspired workers of the central association and the field of workers to a larger interest in the success of the colored work—Indianapolis News. The 1916-1917 "Negro Year-Book" estimates that the colored race is now raising $1,500,000 yearly in this country for the support of schools—most of this probably going to denominational colleges and academies, but much being expended in rural districts upon primary schools. The Rosenwald fund for building country schoolhouses, for example, offers contributions only to communities which have themselves raised an equal amount. For private and higher schools for the Negro in 1914-15, the United States, the states and the cities spent $703,356. For colored public schools the 16 former slave states, the District of Columbia and Oklahoma spent $10,665,000, which is a little more than one-ninth the amount expended for white public schools. Taking all schools and the country as a whole, to Negro education was given less than $15,000,000—as against nearly $820,000,000 spent for education of the whites. The combined budget of four or five of our largest universities would equal the amount spent on the separate education of our Negro population! The spectacle of a none too prosperous Negro population giving (for it) large sums ought to inspire more generosity among the whites.—New York Post. Trainmen put off two young men who had boarded a boxcar at Weatherby, Mo. Between that place and Maysville the train had a wreck and that particular car was badly smashed. When the boys later walked into Maysville they hunted up the brakemen and thanked them for saving their lives. The harbor of Hamburg has been equipped with floating docks of two types, which permit them to raise from the water vessels longer than the docks themselves. Two blind men have started a basket-making business near Worcester, Mass. They are Axel Carlson and August Kellstrom, each of whom lost his sight two years ago. They are raising their own willows and have half an acre now about two feet tall, in the rear of their little workshop. An automobile built for the czar can be converted into a motor sleigh by replacing the front wheels with runners and placing chains on the rear ones. The seven principal engineering societies of Germany have combined into a new association called the Deutscher Verein. (German Association of Technical Scientific societies). All the steam railways in New Zealand are owned and operated by the government. There are about 3,000 miles of road in operation, and new lines are under construction. 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Dear laughing eyes, I will not pray That God shall never send you tears That cloudless sunshine, day by day, Shall brighten all your coming years I pray that still through cloud and rain Your inner depths may hold their light, And under happiness or pain You find the Father's meaning bright Reading in all life's meaning right, Your title of high womanhood. Dear girlish hands, I will not choose The softest, daintiest tasks for you God send you strength to give and use God send his work for you to do, The sacred ministry to need. Sell your eggs only to buyers who buy loss-off and who are willing to pay you for quality. Bread may be kept a long time in a suitable oxygen-free atmosphere. In a recent American Chemical society paper, Arnold Wahl pointed out that as the bread cools, the carbon dioxide in its pores is condensed and dissolved in the free water of the bread, and the resulting vacuum causes an absorption of gases from the atmosphere. Cooled in ordinary air, oxidation of the protein by the absorbed gas renders the bread stale in a few hours. Mr. Wahl has found preferable an atmosphere of carbon dioxide freshly produced by fermentation, and when cooled in this bread is so modified as to remain fresh several weeks. Ignoring Each Other's Faults Brings Happy Wedded Life By LAURA JEAN LIBBEY. so apt to turn the pages over tantalizingly until broad daylight. If a wife discovers her bridegroom spends half of his salary in cigars and treating friends—is actually a spendthrift, a fact she never knew before—instead of raising a great row over the missing sum from his weekly pay envelope, she should by womanly tact and loving kindness wean him from his fault by degrees without giving him so much as a hint that she had discovered his weakness and was devoting all her energies to battling silently against it. If she denounced him as a spendthrift, he would lose at once his fear of her finding it out. And so on with the trifling faults of each to the greater ones. The reason why some married couples cannot agree is because they find singular pleasure in throwing up to each other the faults they have discovered. Married life, in the majority of cases, consists of keeping tab on each other and keeping to oneself what she or he finds out. Those who adhere to this plan have a fairly happy life of it together. The couples who taunt each other with what they know of each other's faults or follies wrangle all through their wedded days, having a wretched existence of it. Eve could not keep a secret. She divulged what she had found out. It is natural for her daughters to follow her example. Then trouble will catch them if they don't watch out. Plenty of "Things to Read" Provided for Growing Army of Readers, Inquiry Shows The "increase of things to read" is treated with some amazing statistics by John Cotton Dana, in his volume of essays and addresses called "Libraries," the New York Evening Post observes. The market for things to read, as he remarks, has grown much wider. The schools turn out more readers than ever before; every street car invites to practice in reading; every vacant lot bears on its awful front a child's first reader, and on every wayside fence from here to the Pacific is a better first reader than our grandfathers found in their treasured hornbooks. In America libraries of 1,000 volumes and over increased in number in the years 1880-1900 from about 2,500 to over 5,000. The number of volumes in them increased in the same period from about 12,000,000 to about 44,000,000. The most modest guess as to the number of books lent annually by librarians in 1900 was 100,000,000, and this formed only a drop in the total book reading. When we turn to periodicals we find that in America there is printed a daily newspaper every day for every four or five persons, or well over 2,000,000 copies a day. Between 1850 and 1902 the capital invested in the printing and publishing business more than doubled, while in less than the same period the number of copies of papers and journals had done the same—the census of 1900 showing a rise from 4,000,000,000 annually to 8,000,000,000. Other kinds of publications increased much less rapidly than newspapers, which tend to occupy more and more of the periodical field, but they have grown steadily in number. "Did I understand you to say that Dubwaite is a man of cultivated tastes?" "Exactly." "Likes music, art and literature, I presume?" "Not particularly, but he's fond of caviar, Scotch whisky and odoriferous cheese." How to Raise Value of Market Eggs Give the hens clean nests and plenty of them. Gather eggs twice daily during warm weather and daily during other seasons. Handle eggs just as little as possible. Every time they are handled they deteriorate. Market eggs of the correct size, 24 to 28 ounces per dozen. Overly large or very small eggs should be culled out. Clean eggs only will bring best prices. Have clean nests and clean houses. Never wash the eggs as it spoils the bloom and spoils the keeping quality. The last thing a hen does before laying an egg is to deposit a fluid about it which seals it, as it were, and acts as a protection. Produce infertile eggs. They stand shipment better than fertile eggs; they do not develop germs, withstand the heat, cost less to produce, and seldom decay from any trouble in the interior of the egg. Kill, sell or confine the mature male birds as soon as the hatching season is over. Keep the eggs in a cool place. A dry, cool room, or a dry, cool basement or cellar, will prevent shrinkage, mold and chick development. Don't let eggs come in contact with bad odors such as paints, kerosene, cabbage or decaying vegetables or meat. Held eggs deteriorate. They shrink What! Would you that we re-embrace— we two once more? Are these your tears that wet my face just as before? It does not augur well for future happiness for a bride or groom to commence finding fault with each other ere the honeymoon has barely waned. Marriage is always an eye opener to the most romantic, deluded pair. It is wisdom for both to hold the tongue concerning what they have found out about each other. MARY If the wife likes to set up in to the wee sma' hours reading novels—a habit the husband never dreamed she possessed—he will not gain in her opinion or affections by rolling crossly at her. The memory of an unkind word can last for years. Wise is the man who would calmly remark: "When you have finished reading, be sure you turn the light quite out and see that the door is locked," then turn his back and drift peacefully out into the land of dreams. Wifey would not be half Plaited skirts often give trouble with the back closing. To keep it from parting, do not open it in the center back seam if you have an inverted or box plait, but have the skirt ready for the band, all seamsstitched, and pin the plaits in carefully. Then slash down on the right inside crease of the center plait. This makes a closing that will not part, and needs about half the number of hooks and eyes. Allow the band long enough to reach across to the slashed side. Plaits that swing out of place can be stitched to position at the extreme edge on the under side. This is a good method for all cotton and other washable skirts. Race Origins. Herbert Bruce Hannay, an Englishman, has written a book on "European and other Race Origins," in which, taking various peoples back to their earliest ancestors, he sets forth that the Prussians are the descendants of the Ishmaelites, the Dutch and Hessians of the Hittites, the French of the Cannanites, the Slavs of the Medes, the non-Prussians and non-Hessian Germans of the Persians, and the English of the house of Judah. He is quite certain that the English, notwithstanding their alleged descent from the Angles, the Saxons and the Jutes, are not Teutons, but hark back to the Hebrew race. It will be recalled that a theory like unto this was advanced by a Lieutenant Totten, who proved to his own satisfaction that the people of England and most of the people of America were of Saxon origin and that the word Saxons was itself a corruption of "Isachsohns," that is, sons of Isaac, the son of Abraham.—Indianapolis News. If sympathy could only be converted into cash it's doughnuts to fudge that there wouldn't be so much of it wasted. How to Keep Bread Fresh. The Royal Way. Dear laughing eyes, I will not pray That God shall never send you tears; That cloudless sunshine, day by day, Shall brighten all your coming years, I pray that still through cloud and rain Your inner depths may hold their light, And under happiness or pain You find the Father's meaning bright. Reading in all life's meaning right, Your title of high womanhood. Dear girlish hands, I will not choose The softest, daintiest tasks for you; God send you strength to give and use, God send his work for you to do, The sacred ministry to need, The round of household toil and care, The binding up of hearts that bleed, The girding up of hearts that dare— The labor of love's law made good Ia royal years of womanhood. Dear dancing feet, I would not make Your path all smooth from thorn and brier; The climbing road be yours to take, The thorn-set, splendid struggle higher. God give you still life's springtime zest, Never content with what is past; God grant you through earth's wear- lest To walk undaunted to the last. Climbing the steeps of hard-won good To heaven's height of womanhood. —The New Guide. BARREL OF APPLES PAID FOR HURLER NOW FAMOUS That Is All Connie Mack Got for Stanley Coveleskie, Star Pitcher of the Cleveland Team. Every once in a while the papers used to print a story about a pitcher who was with the Washington club, and who, according to the yarn, had once been traded for a hunting dog. Whether the tale was true or not, it made good reading for the fans. But Connie Mack has that beaten. The Washington pitcher never amount- INTERNATIONAL FILM SERVICE Stanley Coveleskie. ed to anything as a big leaguer. Connie got a barrel of Oregon apples for one of the present burlers of the country. And he wasn't even asked if the price was satisfactory. Stanley Coveleskie, who has been doing great work for Cleveland, got his first major league trial with the Athletics a few years ago. He pitched three or four games, in one of which he shut out the Tigers. Connie didn't think the lad was quite ready. So he sent him to Portland, Ore., with a proviso that he could be repurchased. This was very necessary, inasmuch as the Cleveland club, for several years, has had first call on all Portland players. While Coveleskle was with Portland there was some change in the organization of the club, which involved the making out of new papers. The ownership forgot to protect Mack's claim to Coveleskle, and when the deal was completed Coveleskle had a grip on him. Mack naturally protested, holding that the player belonged to his club, in which he probably was right. But he never got any action. 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LARGEST MACARONI FACTORY IN AMERICA Queen's Taste Coffee DELIGHTFULLY REFRESHING THIS BLEND PERFECTED BY NOW 25 CENTS SOLD IN 1-POUND CANS ONLY Ask Your Grocer PATENTS Watson E. Coleman, Washington, D.C. Books free. Highest references. Best results. YOU WANT good hard and cheap 2 crops year, warm winters, cool summers, my 15 pay gain list free. Berry Maundy, Lockport, Ark. 15,000 ACRES Willsell @ and up to 75 years, 20 years at South Carolina, bottom corner land, close railroad, low cost. Write owner, St Ranch Co, Neesleyville, Missouri. W. N. U., ST. LOUIS, NO. 39--1916. THE MATTER'S ON ou Equipped With The names and addresses of contrib- cibles must be known to us in every in- stance, in order to secure publication. We want the news of your vicinity each week. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: One Year ..... $1 00 ix Months ..... 75 Three Months ..... 40 Single Copy ..... 05 In Advance. You must mail copy on Mondays to secure publication. Republican Ticket For President Chas. E. Hughes For Vice Pres. Chas. W. Fairbanks For Governor Frank O. Lowden For Lieut. Gov. John G. Oglesby For Sec. of State L. L. Emmerson For State Treasurer Len Small For Aud. of Pub. Ac'ts Andrew Russel For Atty. Gei. Edward J. Brundage For Congressman at-large W. E. Mason, Medill McCormick For Rep. in Cong. Thos. S. Williams "Equalization Board Ralph Proctor "Representatives Oral P. Tuttle ...Claude F. Lacy "States Attorney Walter Roberts "Circuit Clerk ...Colfax Morris "Coroner ...Geo. A. Stewart "Surveyer ...Thos Perkins Hughes and Fairbanks are winners. Frank Lowden will redeem Illinois from democracy in November. Reader if a blue or red mark appears on the head of your paper marked with an [X] it is to notify you that you owe for the paper and are notiged lto pay up. Examine Your Own Prejudice. Every one is forward to complain of the prejudices that mislead other men 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. For Private Telephone service Applied Learning. The Absent-Minded Professor—"My tailor has put one button too many on my roost. I must cut it off. That's funny; now there's a buttonhole too many. What's the use of arithmetic?" —Sourire. Geo. H. Crippins The Blacksmith W. 7th Street, between Market and Pearl Streets; Metropolis, Horse Shoeing and Rubber Tireing is Specialty General Repair Work Give me a trial. All work Guaranteed. Subscribe for The Gazette, ```markdown ``` Services will be held at Unity Baptist church Brockport Sunday by the pastor, and every member is requested to be present. Mr. D. S. Moore transacted business in Paducah, Tuesday. Henry Upshaw has returned from Carrutherville, Mo where he went with Mrs. Williams to identify the drowned body of her son who was missed here on the 2nd of July last while at work on the bridge. He was seen alive last in the hog house asleep after he had made his first shift. She carried about $700.00 insurance on him. Miss Morna Givens, returned home Wednesday from St. Louis Mo., where she visited her sister. Mrs. Maggie Renfro, and son John have bought them a Studebaker car. Mrs. Laura Long, and girl Misses Jewel and Daisy of Belgrade, attended services at the First Baptist church Sunday night. Wm Shannon continues to improves. Messrs. Newton Cork and Onsue Cowper attended the McCricken County Fair at Paducah, Ky., Thursday. Miss Maude Porter passed thru the city Thursday on her way to Golconda, to attend the Pope Co., Teacher's meeting. Mrs Soltonia Martin, daughter Miss Lavada and her son Maurice returned home Wednesday from Sedalia, Mo., where they visited relatives for two weeks. Miss Agnes Neely, left Sunday for St. Louis, Mo., to re-enter "Poro" College. We wish to personally thank Shiloh Baptist S. S., Future City, for the 50c donation to Unity Baptist church, Brookport, who is straining every effort to erect a church for the people. We would be very thankful to ministers who gave us their word that they would give our church a donation on the 1st Sunday in July or August. Come brethren, remember Annanias and his wife Miss Bessie Terry of Ky. is in the city visiting her cousin, Mrs. Hattie Beard a few days. Geo. Murray left Sunday for Champaign, to join his family where they will reside in the future. Misses Alice Young, and Rhoda Orrington, left Sunday for St. Louis, Mo. to attend the voiled phophet parade. Mrs. Ernest Nichols was a Paducah visitor last week. The Sunday School and Allen League will render a program Sunday evening Oct. 8, at the A. M. E. church. Come out and hear it. The Y. G. A. will hold their first annual Marketing Day Saturday Oct. 15, 1916. Notice The Gazette for further particulars. The brothers that promised to pay the editor of The Gazette, for the paper if they lived. Poor fellows! they are dead for they have not paid for the paper. We are preparing to hand a number of names of our subscribers to our collecting agent as they seem to think we can run on cold air. We can't and need our money to pay bills. You need not order the paper stopped until you pay up. The law says so. We will give you this week to pay some if not all. Paper and every other article used in a newspaper have Jump d sky-high, therefore it takes more money to operate a paper than ever before. If you appreciate our efforts to give you a good paper, you will not hesitate to pay up at once $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 catarh cure is the oily 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, 75e. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. The Gazette, office has just received a large consignment of Letter Heads. Envelopes, Bill Heads, Cards & etc. Let us do some of your job work. A very excellent program was re dered at his 1st Baptist church Sunday night. Libbie McCallister, left for St. Louis, Mo Tuesday to join her mother. The editor will leave for Champaign, Monday to attend the Masonic Grand Lodge, of which he is grand chaplain. Rev. J. H. Smith, reports a pleasant session at the annual conference, which just closed its session at Sparta. He has been assigned to East St. Louis, and Rev. Stone, has been assigned to succeed him here. We trust that Rev. Smith, may succeed in his new field of labor as well as he did here. His many friends hate to see him leave. Peace and prosperity may follow he and his good wife is the wish of the Gazettn. Notice To the Ministers and officers of the Mt. Olive Baptist association, we were authorized to print the auditors' report in the Gazette and send out extra copies to the various churches of the action of the Trustees and Secretary and and Treasurer of Livingston Institute, so they could see that the money was handled honestly per report of Auditors. We have attempted to publish the report, but found it to be confusing that we were compelled to stop so far as an itemized statement, as there are 25 pages of legal cap paper and none of them numbered, therefore it is impossible for us to give an itemized report or an abridged report asked for unless the committee will go over same and number them so as to be able to do justice by the report as no one can understand except the committee Following is their report except the itemized statement covering the years 1914 16: We your committee beg leave to submit the following report: We find that the Livingston Industrial and Normal Institute Board received $1,180 insurance from the building burned. The same has been placed to the credo of the Institution in the City National Bank, Metropol s, Ill. on interest. We find also that Bro. T C. Yancy had in the same Bank to our credit at the time the books were audited last fall 1915 the sum of $10 50. For committee expenses $6 00 leaving still in the Bank $5.50 a record of which is in the hands of Rev. G W. Rowl:tt. our present Treasurer. We could find no trace of money having been collected since the books were audited last fall as the school has not been in operation. We also found that $2.50 had been drawn from the Bank before our visit for President and Treas of Board. BROOKPORT ITEMS Rev. J H. Cole left for Conference which was held in Sparta last week. He will be located in Carbondale this year, and Rev. J. Reddick will succeed him. Miss Icie Wimberly and sister, Mrs. Kelley were Metropolis visitors Sunday. Mrs. Irene B. Haynes of Metropolis wat up on business Sunday. Mrs. Ruth Donlow was a Metropolis visitor Saturday. The saloon fight will be up for consideration here in November, we understand that they will win by the Negro's vote, but we think they have missed their guess, a dark skin does not always stand for a darkened understanding or deeds. Rev. J. B. McCrary, pastor of Unity Baptist Church has asked his members to line up against rum with all their voting strength and influence. There will be a rally at the Unity Baptist Church Sunday to raise money to meet obligations and place roof on church building so as to hold Thanksgiving services in the new buildingr Please come out and help us Every member would do the cause much good and themselves honor by giving $1.00 in the rally Saint or Sinner. Bright Long and sister are confined to their rooms this week. Clyde Moore has been very sick this week. Mrs. Mary Wyly is laid up for repairs the result of rheumatism. Mrs. Nancy Moon and daughter. Mrs. Ida Martin are visiting friends in Evansville Ind. Reporter NOTICE. To the churches, S. S. B. Y. P. U. and W. E. & M's. composing Mt Olive Baptist Association at our meeting held at Colps, Ill. in Sept. ir was recommended that each local department mentioned send up quarterly to the Executive Board 500 to aisist Rev. J. N. Washington. the Suuuay School missionary in paying his expenses through Roger Williams University at Nashville, Tenn. Several of the churches have already paid for the 1st quarter. You can send in for the year, half of a quarter of the year by mail or through delegate at the next executive Board meeting. Thursday before the 3rd Sunday in Dec. at Mt. Vernon, We have notified Dr. A. M. Townsend, Pres. of the University of the action of the action of our Body and he is holding us responsible for same Please tear out this notice for reference as it may not occur again. By order of the Association, Moderator, Metropolis, Ill. Uncle Eben's Wisdom. "It's a lucky thing foh de human race," said Uncle Eben, "dat de Ten Commandments wasn't loaded down wif phraseology like de laws de legislature passes." In the Sunken Submarine. "It's too annoying that we should be stuck down here. I bought myself the most splendid tomb only last week"—Lustige Bisetter. Only "Mind-Readers" With Vast Power and Clerical Force Could Enforce Present Unweftable Law. Assessors in Illinois are not to blame for the tax dodging and evasions of personal tax laws. The Illinois system was planned merely to assess visible property—things that could not escape observation. At first its defect was not gravely serious, but as wealth has increased a larger and larger proportion of the taxable values in the state have come to be intangible in character and invisible—escaping the eye of the assessor. The law makes it as much the assessor's duty to assess intangibles as it does to assess farm lands, but the law does not give to the assessor sufficient power to enable him to hunt out intangible property. "Supposing I had full power," asks one assessor. "What could I do? I might call before me and question, under oath, every person who might possibly have intangibles, and try to compel them to tell of their holdings. The law might provide for their punishment if they failed to answer properly. Even then I should have to be a mind-reader and able to see through walls and into strong boxes. Would the public like that sort of thing?" The assessing bodies have not sufficient clerical machinery even if they had the legal power. In Chicago there are more than half a million of possible taxpayers. To summon, question, and deal with this number would require the handling of a thousand a week every day in the year. And, it would not be possible to extend the work over a year. It would have to be done in two or three months and this means that a thousand a day would have to be disposed of. Realizing that they cannot uniformly assess hidden intangibles assessors are reluctant to assess the few that are returned by honest persons—they don't feel like penalizing honesty! And, in fact the assessor and every one else knows that to tax intangibles at present tax rates will result in driving them from the state to the public loss. Illinois needs a new tax system. The Tax Amendment will make it possible to enact proper laws—laws that will make the taxation of intangibles automatic—and the rate not such as to increase interest rates or drive intangibles out of the State. The amendment, to be adopted, must have a majority of all the votes cast November 7. SPARTA Mr. Editor: I am pleased to say through your worthy paper that our church and Sunday School are succeeding in the name of Jehovah God. S. S. opened at 9:30 by the Supt. and taught by the various teachers. Review by Rev. French At 11:00 a. m. Rev. J. H. Fisher, of Edwardsville, Ill., a member of the Illinois Annual Conference A. M. E. ascended the rostrum and preached an able sermon Heck. 4:6 At 3:00 p. m. Rev. Wm. Hadley of Centralia, preached another powerful sermon from Matt. 5:14. At 7:30 p. m. Rev. J. W. Wylie, of Md City, preached for us a gospel sermon from Acts. 5:15. The Spirit of God was with us in these meeting throughout the day. The Sewing Circle will meet at the residence of Mrs. Mattle Haynes this week. She had a damage suit against the Moffat Coal Mine where her husband was killed about nineteen months ago. We hope she will secure damages. The church realized in the days collection $12.25. J. J Taylor. Easy to Pronounce. The easiest word to pronounce is the English languag, in said to be "murmur." It is simply an expulsor of the breath expelled. The Workerm. "Did a musician of pots score your opera?" "No; the critics did." Master In Chancery Sale. State of Illinois, Maassac County, ss. In the Circuit Court of said County, August Term A. D. 1916. Bernard N. Burns vs. Emma Homberg, J. F. Homberg, Minnie Steers and George Steers. Bill to forclose mortgage No. 287, Public notice is hereby given that in puruance of a decree entered at the August Term of said court, to wit, on the 29th day of August A. D. 1916 in the above entitled cause, I, S. Bartlett Kerr, Master in Chancery of said County, will at the hour of 11 o'clock A. M. Saturday September 30th. A. D. 1916, at the east door of the Court house in the City of Metropolis; County of Maassac, and State of Illinois, sell at public vendue to the highest and best bidder, the following described real estate to-wit: Lots Three Hundred and Eigthy-one (881), and Three Hundred Eigthy-two (382) in Block Thirty-two (32) of the City of Metropolis, in the County of Massac and the State of Illinois, except a strip sixteen (16) feet wide and running back Seventy-five (75) feet out of the northeast corner of said Lot 382, being 16 feet front on the Alley and running back the width of the Sterling Lot, situated in the County of Massac, in the State of Illinois. Terms of sale Cash in hand. Dated this the 5th day of September A. D. 1916. W. L. Krone, Solicitor Master In Chancery Sale. State of Illinois, Massac County, as. In the Circuit Court of said County, August Term A. D. 1916. Mrs. Cora Emmerson Va. Anderson Bryant and Nina Bryant. Bill to foreclose mortgage No. 290. Public notice is herebs given that in pursuance of a decree entered at the August Term of said court, to wit. on 2nd day of September A. D. 1916 in the above entitled cause, I, S. Bartlett Kerr, Master in Chancery of said County, will at the hour of 11 o'clock A. M. Saturday September 30th, A. D. 1916, at the east door of the Court house in the City of Metropolis. County of Massac, and State of Illinois, sell at public vendue to the highest and best bidder, the following described real estate to-wit: Lot number Four (4) in Block Two (2) Mattie Johnson's Addition to the town of Brookport, with all the build- ings thereunto belonging, in Massee County, Illinois. Terms of sale, Cash in hand. Dated this 5th day of September A. D. 1916. S. BARLETT KERL, Master in Chancery. W. L. Krone, Soliciter. State of Illinois, Massac County, ss. In the Circuit Court of said County, August Term A. D. 1916. Fred R. Young, Vs. William Tanner, Bill to foreclose mortgage Ner 286. Public notice is hereby given that in puruance of a decree entered at the August Term of said court, to wit, on the 31st day of August A. D. 1916 in the above entitled cause, I. S. Bartlett Kerr, Master in Chancery of said County, will at the hour of 10 o'clock A. M. Saturday September 30th, A. D. 1916, at the east door of the Court house in the City of Metropolis, County of Massac, and State of Illinois, sell at public vendue, to the highest and best bidder, the following described real estate to-wit: Lot number Eleven (11) in Block number Three (3) in the village of Robinsville, as per recorded plat thereof, in the County of Massac and State of Illinois. Terms of sale, Cash in hand. Dated this 5th day of Sept. A. D. 1916. S. BARTLETT KERR, Master in Chancery: 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. Blematism, Piles, Kidney Trouble, Badder Troubles, Heart Troubles, Female Troubles, Stiff Joints, Syphilis, of All Discriptions, Indigestion Cornea, Bunlons, 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