Metropolis Weekly Gazette

METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE S. Bartlett Kerr, Solicitor Master In Chancery Sale. State of Illinois, Massac County as. 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 August 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 Mussac, State of Illinois. Terms of sale, Cash in hand. Dated this 30th day of August 1916. LANNES P. OAKES, Special Master in Chancery. Fred. R. Young, Atty. Administrator's Notice. Estate of Fred Jarrett, deceased The undersigned; having been appointed Administrator of the estate of the estate of Fred Jarrett late of the County of massac and the State of Illinois, deceased, hereby give notice that he will appear before the County Court of Massac County at the Court House in Metropolis, at the January Term on the first Monday in January next, at which time all persons having claims against said estate are notified and requested to attend for the purpose of having the same adjusted. All persons indebted to said estate are required to make immediate payment to the undersigned. Dated this 23rd day of October, A. D. 1916. Republican Speaking. Dates and places for Republican Speaking in Massac County, beginning Tuesday Oct. 31st and ending Saturday Nov. 4th. Rev. T. A. Head, of Cairo, has been selected by the chairman of the Republican State Speaker's Committee Presbyterian Church, Grant Presinct, Tuesday night Oct 31st, Brookport, Wednesday night Nov. 1st, Joppa, Thursday night Nov. 2nd Metropolis, Friday night, Nov. 3rd., Siloam, Unionville, Saturday night Nov. 4th. Don't fail to turn out and hear this man of national fame. Club no. 3 will give a trip around the World Social, Monday night Oct. 30th. Beginning with China at Mrs. Rosa Sims on Pearl St. Each country will serve with their own products. Every-one invited to take the trip with us and have a fine time. After arriving at Germany we will listen to a beautiful Progiam before returning to the United States. Uncle Eben's Wisdom. "It's a lucky thing to do human race," said Uncle Eben, "dat de Ten Commandments wasn't loaded down wif phraseology like de laws de legis- tature passes." AN OPEN LETTER. To Arms Baptists! To the Baptists of the Mr. Olive Baptist Association of Southern Illinois. To you we send greetings and wish to inform you that the time is at hand for us arise and gird our armor on, and heed the Macedonian cry "Come ye over and help us." We have a number of small churches a few larger ones in our district that are without pastors and not self supporting and with a little encouragement from the stronger ones, they can be made strong. Our mission work and our District missionaries are greatly neglected, which should not be the case in a land of plenty and prosperity, when, if the pastors and churches would manifest a little more of the Christ like spirit in carrying out the great commission to go into all the world and preach the gospel. Southern Illinois is part of the world, therefore, since it is part of territory we are obligated to Christ to carry the Gospel to perishing thousands in our bailiwick. The churches are only asked to send up 5c per member quarterly to aid the missionaries while in the destitute parts of our district which is a small item to any member, but, would be ample to care for our district work in good shape and missionaries would not be compelled to look like tramps. As intelligent Baptists we cannot afford to let the Banner trail in the dust and be a laughing stock or to be held up in ridicule by others who are less able to care for their obligations. We confidently trust that each pastor and officer in the churches of our associational district will get busy and help to raise the financial standard in our district at the 1st quarterely Board meeting which will be held in Mt. Vernon with Shiloh Baptist church with Elder John Bruen, pastor, Thursday before the 3rd Sunday in Dec. 1916. The church and pastor sending up the most money at said meeting will be placed on honor roll and the cut of pastor will be placed in the columns of the Gazette Respectfully yours Elder J. B. McCrary, Moderator. Church Rally. Rev. J B. McCrary James Baker W B Titsworth J H. Titsworth Hallie Titsworth Aaron Green Manson Kimbrew Lizzie Childres Wm White Mary White Malissa Kendall Frank Howard Christiana Reeves Teunie Oda Eliza Baker Virgie Steele Wash Shelton Bud Kendall Jamss Baker Berry Upshaw Ambus Wiley Lue Landers $1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 7.28 1.00 1.00 2.00 1.60 .50 1.00 1.00 1.25 1.00 .30 .25 .33 2.04 MOTTO : "HEW TO THE LINE. LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY." OCT. 22nd 1916. Sister Malissa Kendall $ . 25 Rev. J. B. McCrary " G. H. Loltis Sister Hallie Titsworth Mr. Norris Turner Bro Bright Long Sister Liza Baker " Nancy Moon " Nannie Blackwell " Liza Childres " Josie Moore .25 " Ida Martin " Necie Moon " Icie Wimberely " Leatha B Moon Bro. James Baker " Will Titsworth " Bud Kendall Mr. John Titworth " John Moreland " Columbus Williams Miss Gertrude Sumner Sister Mary Wimberly Bro. Phillip Sumner SPARTA We are thankful to say upon this occasion our church and Sunday School are progressing nicely. Our school opened at the usual hour by the Supt. and timely taught by the teachers. The Lesson was beautifully reviewed by Rev. French. At 11:45 the hour for preaching the pastor having ascended the rostrum and preached from Psalm 69:6 which the congregation wat made to feel the Spirit. At 7:30 p. m. the pastor selected for a text Prov. 29:25 from which he delivered a strong discourse. The Sewing Circle will be entertained this week at the home of Mrs. P. B French under the auspices of Mrs. D. Browning. The Carnation Art Club will meet at home of Mrs. Wm Washington. The above named club will give an entertainment at the Miner's Hall next Thursday evening. There is a club of women organized here know as the Hughes-Fairbanks club 200 strong. Mrs. Sallie Williams made a flying trip to St. Louis, last week to meet her little daughter Ceretta Harris of West Point Miss. 8TII REGIMENT TO RETURN HOME Camp Lincoln Again A Live Spot. Springfield, Ill.. Oct. 18.—Once more Camp Lincoln, is alive with military confusion, and the khaki-clad soldiers wheel and turn with soldierly precision. The Eighth has returned from three months of foreign service on the Texas border. For three months they have endured blistering sun, cold night-breezes, thorny cactus, creeping reptiles, and poisonous insects. Officered by Negro officers, they went to Texas. 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Ransom Churchman, he died in the ful triumph of faith. Our loss is heaven's gain Ozoneva Pyles. 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. A New Delight Libby's Chili Con Carne With real Bayou beans, or plain. Made after the real and famous Mexican formula. The seasoning is most piquant—a zestful tasty dish anywhere—any time. Libby, McNeill & Libby Chicago Look for the triangle Libby's Mexican Style Chili Con Carne WITH MARGARINE Insist on Libby's at your grocer's 15,000 ACRES Will sell 40 and up-$2 an acre; $2.00 cash, balance com- mons corn and. Close railroad. Good schools and. 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"From the fact that foliage in the forest on the mountain sides three miles to the southeast had been scorched as though by flame, hot smoke or toxic gas, and that ground vegetation of scrub grass and weeds had been partially destroyed, leaving the stalks intact and the scorched leaves retaining their form, it was thought that the eruption had been recent. At all events, so recent that the wind had not blown away nor destroyed the fragile remnants of the burned foliage." Giovanni Libretto, dead in New York, ordered $10,000 spent on his funeral. MILK CHEESE MILK CHEESE MILK CHEESE It isn't alone the deliciously sweet nut-like taste of Grape-Nuts that has made the food famous, though taste makes first appeal, and goes a long way. But with the zestful flavor there is in Grape-Nuts the entire nutriment of finest wheat and barley. And this includes the rich mineral elements of the grain, necessary for vigorous health—the greatest joy of life. Every table should have its daily ration of Grape-Nuts "There's a Reason" METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE, METROPOLIS, ILL. Gathered Smiles The Aim of Christian Education Christian education aims to make life a glory instead of a grind, to open a little wider the door of a narrow life, and to add power to the lens of the microscope or the telescope. It aims to take the drudgery out of life, to push one's horizon farther out, in order to give a clearer vision of life. It stands for high and noble pleasures that wealth cannot buy. It means character, wealth, a soul property which no disaster or misfortune can wreck or ruin. It makes you familiar with science and history and teaches you how to make life healthy and successful. It gives us an enlightened citizenship and imparts intelligence as to political and economic problems. It brings the joy of self-discovery, opening up rare possibilities in undiscovered truths. It aims to have one's mentality stirred by the passion of expansion, to feel the tonic of growth, the indescribable satisfaction which comes from the consciousness of perpetual enlargement. It aims to fill a few years with the most delightful associations and cultured people, at an age when ambitions and high ideals have not been dulled or shattered by disappointment, or the unbounded faith in human nature shocked by violated pledges. AFTER LONG YEARS By LAURA JEAN LIBBEY. looking man, who rose up hastily from a table near where the other had sat. "He took my gold-headed umbrella. I'll stop him and I'll bring him back in charge of a police officer, the scoundrel!" AFTER LONG YEARS AFTER LONG YEARS By LAURA JEAN LIBBEY. Without a moment's hesitation he dashed out of the house in hot pursuit of the conscienceless villain. And the proprietor, a cold, hard, unsympathetic kind of a man, has somehow begun to suspect that neither of them will ever come back. — Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph. (Copyright, 1916.) If I should meet thee After long years, How should I greet thee— With silence or tears? In many a woman's heart there is a longing to go back to the place where she spent her girlhood, to find out what has become of the companions of her youth. If she can afford a visit to the old home, both her time and money in gratifying the yearning are well spent. DARREN When the Haitians Fight Business Is Very Bad at Damariscotta Mills. Me. Let a revolution get under way in the Haitian republic and the principal business of Dumariscotta Mills, Me. goes to smithereens, the Boston Globe states. And it has occurred several times in the past. Always, however, it comes back and in the end there is no loss. In the small towns far remote from the great city, the years that flow onward do not bring many changes, except that those who were rich It cannot be otherwise; the little Maine hamlet is indispensable to Haitt, while the black republic is a valuable asset to the village. One of Haitt's staple articles of food is supplied from the Maine town. It is the pickled alewife, a fish closely allied to the shad family. In that it consists of many bones, surrounded by very white and decidedly sweet flesh. Natives of Haitt like it. grow rich and the poor poorer. The woman who flatters herself that she has not changed much in the 20 years she has been a wife, needs but to wander back among her old associates to have the truth that she has been riding swiftly along in Time's chariton demonstrated to her. The old inn keeper and his good wife, who sat in the front pew of the village church on the evening she was wed, failed to recognize her. The postmaster, a handsome, red-checked, cheery young man in those days, faces her now with snowdrifts among his sparse, dark locks, spectacles covering the eyes that had been so dark and sparkling 20 years before. He faces her without the faintest gleam of recognition. His tongue loosens when she makes her identity known to him, and makes inquiry for the girls and boys who had danced at her wedding. Had Hattle Vail and Harry Williams—the two who had "stood up" with her—wed, or had Alice Shaw or Bessie Wells won him? The story of each separate love affair holds her interest absorbed. In fact they are about the only people in the world who consider salted alewife an epicurean delight. Less than fifty barrels are sold anywhere else on the American continent, while Halit takes between 5,500 and 6,000 annually. The alewife fishing season is in May. At that time the fish come into fresh water rivers and lakes to spawn. Damariscotta Mills, which is at/ the outlet of a large lake, is a favorite spawning point of the fish. They are taken on their way into the lake. Traps are arranged and all fish which go into them land in a pickle barrel. Men armed with dip nets having a capacity of a bushel of fish at a dip take the alewife out of these traps, depositing them in a box-like bin, from which they are shoveled into a sluice. This sluice leads down to the salting place. "They all come here for their mail of an afternoon. You may watch, if you will, and see which, if any, you will be able to recognize." Never had a wanderer who had returned to the old haunts a more exciting, pleasurable hour. She who had been the beauty of the village in those other days, was the first to enter—frowsy of head, with a faded shawl pinned about her shoulders, youngsters clinging to her skirts and a market basket on her arm. The village blacksmith's wife was not pleased to be reminded that she had not made good her boast that her beauty should win her a foreign prince, or at least a millionaire. **Figuring the Profits.** "I suppose," remarked the horse reporter to his friend the humorist, "that you make a good thing out of your paragraphs." "Well, some days I make very little and other days not quite so much," replied the funny man. "Now, take yesterday, for example; I only penned five lines, but it represented twelve big round dollars." The girl who had been the poorest, yet sweetest of them all, was wedded to one who had at last become mayor of the town, while the fair malden who had been the haughtiest of them all, had wedded a circus clown to escape the fate of being an old maid. The doctor's daughter had married the undertaker's son, a very suitable arrangement. The miller's daughter and the village baker had also joined forces. "Well, that isn't so worse for one day's toll," said the horseman. "By the way, what did you write?" "An order to my grocer for interior department supplies," explained the joke carpenter. "Are those colors fast?" asked the woman at the cheap dress goods counter. A Each and every lass and lad had wedded very differently from what they had planned when time was young with them. The come-ups and godowns among them were more interesting by far than the pages of any novel could be. After a visit to the home of her girlhood and noting all that has transpired, the average woman is prone to be more satisfied with her own lot. "They are the swiftest ever, madam," replied the truthful clerk. "After they once get started they run so fast you couldn't catch them with The test of years proves that each one slides into the groove he or she was intended for, no matter what promises illuring youth held forth. We often pity those whom we thought we might envy. a racing automobile. As Others See Us. Hazel—Don't you think Mr. Cumso has rather an arch look? Almee-Yes, now that you mention it, he is awfully bow-legged. But Neither Came Back A man who had just finished a comfortable meal at a restaurant the other evening suddenly rose from his chair, caught up his hat and umbrella that stood against the wall and rushed out of the building. "Why do you call life a hurdle race?" she inquired. "Because we are always jumping at conclusions," he replied. "Stop him!" exclaimed the proprietor. "That fellow went out without paying." Little Lemuel—Say, paw, what is an empty title? Paw—An empty title, son, is your maw's way of referring to me as the "I'll stop him," said a determined- A. H. B. Former ingeneue of the spoken drama who first posed for the motion-picture camera about four years ago and made such a success in her first attempt that she adopted the work for a livelihood. Study Would-Be Husband Like an Algebra Problem, Woman's Advice to Girls Girls of today would make better and more practical marringes if they were taught to study the qualifications of the men they meet and to consider them in the same light as they do algebra problems at school, is the advice of Mrs. Frank Dechant. Mrs. Dechant drew a square on the blackboard, its four corners indicating what, she said, were the four necessary adjuncts to a good husband - ability, reliability, endurance and action. To discover whether a man has these qualifications, she declared, was the problem every girl has to solve at least once in her lifetime, and she should be as carefully trained for it as she is for her school examinations. She advocated mothers talking over with their daughters the characteristics of the young men they know, not only to gain their opinions on the subject, but to give advice and counsel to them for their future life. Every girl, she said, should be sure that the man she chooses has, an abundance of the four qualifications before she makes up her mind to marry him, and she can only be sure if she has been taught and trained beforehand in a calm, dispassionate manner. She also advocated talks on homemaking, division of income and practical methods of housekeeping as a part of all girls' education, whether they are working girls or not.—Philadelphia North American. City Furnishes Free Light. The city of Ashland, Ore., supplies its citizens with free electricity for porch illumination. head of the house when there are visitors present. As Suggested. "Since leaving college," said young Sapleigh, "I am at a loss to find anything to take up my mind." "If you will permit me," rejoined Miss Knox, "I would suggest that you try a small piece of blotting paper." Paralyzed Him Anyway. The One—Our friend Buttinski is suffering from an athletic stroke. ! The Other—You mean a paralytic stroke, don't you? The One—Oh, ether is correct. He was struck by a professional boxer. Another Point of View. "Brains will tell, my boy," said the man who thought he was in the wise class. "Brains do not tell," replied the contrary person. 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Millam, architect, Kidney Institute, St. Louis, Mo., says: "Two years ago I began to suffer from splashes of backache Gradually, the trouble grew worse and my back got so stiff and sore I could not stoop but put them on also had rheumatic twinges in my limbs and the kidney secreting pain and painful in passage. The first box of boots, Kidney Pills had made me cured me. I am now in good health." Get Dan's Any Store, 55c a Box DOAN'S KIDNEY FILLS FOSTER-MILBURN CO. BUFFALO, N.Y. n Once alids Health Through Use Bakham's Vegetable Day it is Household Actor Called it a Now the wonderful effects of Vegetable Compound even on Here are three actual cases: Penn.—"When I was single I suf- cal from female weakness because helped me to stand all day. I took mom's Vegetable Compound for that stronger by its use. After I was the Compound again for a female three months I passed what the growth. He said it was a miracle day as one generally goes under them removed. 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RECOMMEND IER'S SWAMP-ROOT Customers Speak Favorably We have been handling Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root for fourteen years and during all that time we never had a dissatisfied user of Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root; all of our customers speak very favorably regarding it. We know of cases of Gall Stones, Gravel, Catarrch or Inflammation of Bladder and Rheumatism where it produced the most beneficial results. We believe it is a good medicine for the diseases for which it intended. Very truly yours, McCUNE DRUG CO., By N. E. McCune, Bridgeport, Texas. November 11th, 1915. Root Will Do For You inghamton, N. Y., for a sample size bottle. receive a booklet of valuable information, when writing, be sure and mention this paper, is for sale at all drug stores. Terry Pipes on a story iss cured me. I M. WRIGLEY'S THE PERFECT GUM Let us make you acquainted with the new, luscious flavor— WRIGLEY'S JUICY FRUIT CHEWING GUM MADE BY WRIGLEY'S CHICAGO, N.Y. 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As the descendant of a Creek freedman, she happened to be allotted a piece of land in the oil district. Single taxers would hardly share in the enjoyment of this record. But it has its significance in a cumulative way. Says Monroe N. Work, editor of the volume: "Through purchases and increases in values, property holdings of Negroes of the country increased during the year by probably $30,000,000. It is estimated that on the basis of actual values and including exempted and nontaxable property the total wealth of the Negroes of the United States is about $1,000,000,000. They own 21,000,000 acres of land, or more than $2,000 square miles, an area greater than that of the state of South Carolina." This private accumulation and public emphasis on the power of property is the Negro's answer to the white man's hapathy concerning his plight. Rapidly the mere possession of wealth is doing for the Negro what the white man's conscience has failed to do. Racial consciousness is the beginning of racial self-reliance. In an immense variety of ways the Negro is using his own resources to push forward his race, and, too, from many sources he is being aided. Julius Rosenwald, among others, has made interesting gifts to the rural schools. All this activity, the training of the Negro for more and more important services, is bound to have its consequences. On the one hand segregation is increasing—since 1911 13 cities and towns have adopted segregation ordinances—and on the other hand the Negroes are shaped by the schools and other institutions to share in the manifold efforts of the country. Here, in truth, is a genuine conflict of forces. What is the solution? Is it that of the Brazilian statesman who was quoted by Colonel Roosevelt as follows? "You of the United States are keeping the blacks as an entirely separate element, and you are not treating them in a way that fosters their self-respect. They will remain as a menacing element in your civilization, permanent, and perhaps after a while a growing element. With us this tends to disappear, because the blacks themselves tend to disappear and to become absorbed. In a century there will not be any Negroes in Brazil, you will have 20,000,000 or 30,000,000 of them." Negroes are being absorbed in the United States, despite our hostility to miscegenation. The number of mulattoes steadily increases and the number of blacks decreases, despite the widespread laws forbidding intermarriage between the races. Unless the Negro's attitude toward this absorption changes, the gradual disappearance of a colored race seems to be the prospect in America.—Chicago Herald. John Frazer came into town and found employment in a, pressing club. He washed windows and did errands Commendation for the progress made by the colored race during the last 50 years in the face of strong race prejudice was bestowed by H. Martin Williams, reading clerk of the house, in an address before the Negro race conference at Mount Carmel Baptist church. Mr. Williams said: "You have faced it like men, and have made your way up in spite of the utmost difficulties." Following the address of Mr. Williams, the conference took the form of a permanent organization with the election of Rev. W. H. Jernagin of Washington as president, and the election of other officers as follows: Rev. J. Milton; Waldron and E. P. Cheek of New Jersey, vice president; W. M. Alexander of Baltimore, secretary; S. L. Carruthers, treasurer; W. A. Taylor, corresponding secretary, and W. D. Norman, chairman of the executive committee. The organization, on the question of indorsing the Republican nominee for president, voted to appoint a committee of nine to wait upon Mr. Hughes and ascertain his views and purposes in regard to the colored race. The ex- American lumber, tinned goods, shoes, machinery, motor cars, coal and hardware find a ready market in Apla. If a direct steamer service was installed between San Francisco and Apla, Australian competition would be almost eliminated. Gold from lode mines in the Willow Creek district, Alaska, in 1915 was vaulted at $250,000. Government observations prove that there is still an enormous amount of gold in this same vicinity. for 30 cents a day, which was fair wages. In his spare moments he watched the workers. Then he took up the iron. Soon he had a table and an iron, and was drawing a wage of $1 a day. For all that he was just a pressing club Negro, Clement Richardson writes in the Southern Workman. Nobody thought of him as anything else. In a few years the owner of the business, a white man, died. Frazer bought the business. As colored folk came in to bring and take back clothes, they inquired for a barber shop. Frazer fitted up a chair, bought a pair of clippers, and advertised for clients; that is, he at first cut hair for nothing. Then, as he mastered the art, he charged five cents, then ten cents, and so on till he reached the standard price of 25 cents. Meantime he had bought a farm and a horse. He said: "Tlake this horse and land and make it pay for another place." Scarcely had he embarked on this proposition when a few choice acres of land on the west side of Auburn were put up for sale. Strangely enough, it was the land of Frazer's father's master. Frazer bought it. He put up a three-story building. He has abandoned the pressing club, but sells clothing. He still runs a barber shop in the rear of the store. His second floor is an assembly room for lodges and amusements. On the third floor he has an undertaking establishment. A few paces from the store he has built a home. A little further on he has put up a hotel cottage, a rare place in the South, with clean, ally rooms, and up-to-date cooking and service. Negro problems are to be considered as a part of the course in sociology at Howard university this year. Prof. Kelly Miller is to teach the first semester, and Dr. R. E. Parks, professional lecturer in sociology of Chicago university, is to teach the second semester of the subject. In order that the course may be available for city school teachers and others interested the time has been set for three o'clock Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. The course is to embrace such topics as growth, distribution and tendency of Negro population, segregation, occupation, crime, vital statistics, education, religious and benevolent organizations, and also the discussion of remedial agencies and the general progress of the race. The advisability of naming colored bishops in the Protestant Episcopal church will be discussed at the general convention in St. Louis this month. A special commission of bishops, clergymen and laymen, appointed at the 1913 convention to investigate the question, has completed its reports, one a majority favoring the naming of colored bishops, the other a minority report opposing the proposal. The majority report, which includes the signature of the chairman, and bishops of North Carolina, Texas and Mississippi and the lay members from Virginia and Rhode Island recommends grouping the colored members of the church in the southern dioceses into one or more missionary districts over which colored bishops would be placed. The minority report is signed by the bishops of South Carolina and Georgia, Reverend Doctor Sifres of New York and Judge Joseph Packard of Baltimore, who favor election of suffragan bishops for this work. ecutive committee opposed the appointment of the committee and urged the immediate indorsement of Mr. Hughes President Jerhagin, in speaking of the conditions among the colored race, said that in the last six months more than 500,000 colored persons had left the South for New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio and northwestern states to take the places of foreign laborers who have returned to their respective countries. He asserted the employers are more than satisfied with them as laborers and are willing to employ 1,000,000 more. He said the leaders of the colored race feel that there are too many of their race in the South yet, and that every effort would be made to secure the migration of the surplus to northern and western states. Chinese railroad embankments are protected from floods by planting them with a native grass with tenacious roots that resist erosion. A new steamship line has been started to transport lumber between New Orleans and Cristobal, Colon. In a Pennsylvania town it was proposed to have Sunday baseball. The burgess declined to license unless the people approved, so boxes were placed in the churches on Sunday. The result was 909 favored and 200 opposed. Snow took the place of Waters in Main street, Winsted, Conn., when Mrs. J. H. Snow moved from the Huggins place to the Pierre house, while Henry H. Waters moved from the Pierre house, to the Huggins place. The Best Known Shoes in the World. W. L. Douglas name and the retail price is stamped on the bottom of all shoes at the factory. The value is guaranteed and the wearer protected against high prices for inferior shoes. The retail prices are the same everywhere. They cost no more in San Francisco than they do in New York. They are always worth the price paid for them. The quality of W. L. Douglas product is guaranteed by more than 40 years experience in making fine shoes. The smart styles are the leaders in the Fashion Centres of America. They are made in a well-equipped factory at Brockton, Mass., by the highest paid, skilled shoemakers, under the direction and supervision of experienced men, all working with an honest determination to make the best shoes for the price that money can buy. Ask your shoe dealer for W. L. Douglas shoes. If he cannot supply you with the kind you want, take no other make. Write for interesting booklet explaining how to get the highest standard of quality for the price, return it, and pay the 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 for gods houses. SPOHN MEDICAL CO. Chemists and Bacteriologists, Goshen, U. I. S. Japan's Rising Cotton Trade. Japan's exports of cotton yarn have shown a large increase since the latter part of last year. According to the Japan Chronicle, report of investigations made by the Spinning association, exports of various cotton cloths amounted in value to $23,415,072. This figure is unprecedentedly large and shows an increase of $4,123,467 over the amount for the preceding six months and $10,966,488 over that of the corresponding period last year. The highest rate of increase was seen in the exports to India, followed by the exports to Siberia, while the exports to the Philippines decreased by about one-half, as compared with the preceding half year. Sticks in His Crop. "What's Badger looking so sour over?" "He was forced to swallow his pride, and he can't digest it." THE SHOE THAT TAKES $3.00 $3.50 $4.00 $4.00 Save Money by Wearing W. L. Douglas shoes. For sale by over 90000 The Best Known Shoes in W. L. Douglas name and the retail price is tom of all shoes at the factory. 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Distemper URES THE SICK ers having the disease no matter how doughed, drunkgs and turt goods houses. SPOHN MEDICAL CO. and Bacteriologists, Goshen, Ind., U. S. A. The iron industry of this country has been adopting the by-product coking process at a marvelous rate. There are practically no by-product coke plants' in the United States, which do not recover ammonia, tar and light oil (crude benzol). In the vast majority of the plants also surplus gas is recovered and utilized either at the plant itself or by distribution to outside consumers. There are possibly two or three very small by-product coke plants at which tar and ammonia are not recovered for disposal to the outside markets, but these would certainly represent considerably less than 1 per cent of the total by-product coking capacity of the country that is not now equipped with benzol-recovery plants, and the by-product coking plants now under construction have either contracted for benzol-recovery equipment or indicated a strong probability that such provision will be made.—Metallurgical and Chemical Engineering. 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. It Takes a Strong Man. One of the assistant directors in a movie studio was in need of some change to pay an express charge last week. "Hey, Glen," he bellowed across the place to Glen White, "can you break a half dollar? "I cannot," the actor shouted determinedly. Then he added indignantly: "Say, who do you think I am, anyway? Samson?" There are five quarts of blood in the human body, half of which may be lost without loss of life. LET US HELP PAY YOUR TAXES AND INTEREST OPEN a Mercantile Trust Company Savings Account by mail. Your savings will draw interest—compounded semi-annually. This money that you must save anyhow will draw interest and so will help you get ahead of your debt. Safety—100% (see list of our connections). Simplicity—easy to deposit and draw as to write back postcard. $1 will open your account. Booklet—"Banking by Mail" trailing a about safe and easy saving, sent on request. Ask for Booklet 2K. MERCANTILE TRUST COMPANY OF ST. LOUIS MEMBER OF THE VIRTUAL MUSEUM SYSTEM-UNDER U.S. GOV. PROTECTION GALL STONES OPERATIONS (No Oil) No more Gall Aches in Stomach, Back, Side or Shoulders; Lives Troubles, Stomach Misery, Dyspepsia, Colic, Gas, Nervousness, Blues, Jawdice, Appendicitis. 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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. Gen. Edward J. Brundage For Congressman at-large W. E. Mason, Medill McCormick FortRep. 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. 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—locks. For Private Telephone service Many British business men are of the opinion that England would have a better telephone service if it were out of the government's hands. Applied Learning. The Absent-Minded Professor—"My tailor has put one button too many on my vest. 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 W. 7th Street, between Market and Pearl Streets; Metropolis, Horse Shoeing and Rubber Tireing a Specialty General Repair Work Give me a tral. All work Guar- tared. --- Rev. J B. McCrary, left yr. day. (Wednesday) for several points north on a speaking tour in the interest of the Republican and National and State ticket. By the request of the State Central Republican Committee, Hon. Ed D. Green, Chairman. Thos. P. King, of Unionville, cently purchased two valuable lots worth $1000 each, with a house on the corner lot. The property was formerly the residence of the late S. D. Poor, corner of 9th and Markets Sts. This property is situated among white residents. He paid $1950.00. Mr King is quite wealthy having made his wealth mostly on the farm. The Y. G. C. A. will be glad to receive your order for nice home-made pigs, baked and delivered to your home Thhridays and Saturday's of caeh week. Give us a trial. Bennie Harmon, went to Memphis, Tenn, his home Saturday. Mrs. Mossie Kivel, of Brookport, was in the city Saturday. Mrs. Hattie Owens and Willie Urquhart were Paducah, shoppers, Monday. John Renfro and Herschel Evans were Belgrade visitors Sun. Mrs. Nancy Crippens is convalescing. Mrs. Hayes, of Madisonville, Ky, returned home Friday after visiting Mrs. Ruth Nichols for several weeks. She was accompanied as far as Paducah, by Mrs. Nichols Mrs. Nollie Parks is indisposed this week. Cornelius Robinson of Carbondale, was in the city last week to attend the funeral of his sister's infant boy who died after a short illness. He returned to Carbondale, Sundas afternoon. Edgar Orrington was in Paducah, Ky., this week. A storm party was given Mrs. Bettia Neely Monday by friends who are in sympathy with her as she has three sick people at her home. She received an abundance of provisions. She thanks all those who donated to her. Grady Mayberry and Notris Turner drove up to Brookport, Sunday night to hear the rendition of a program at Unity Baptist church and to be with some girls, and while in the church some miscreant cut the haruess and did other damage to the rig. Such low-down mischief should be punished severely if found out A man or boy that would do a crime like taat will soon develop into an assasin. Boys, be careful for whatsoever a man sows, that shall he also reap. The Str. Geo. Cowling was laid up on the ways at Paducah, last week for repairs, but left on her regular trips Monday to the delight of her many patrons. Capt Ed Cowling commands the respects of the traveling public, especially the colored people for his Mrs. Birdie Hopsen, of Paducah, Ky, has moved to Champaign. Rev. and Mrs. J. H. Patterson were Brookport*, visitors Sunday to see Mrs. Rhodes, who has been very sick for a number of months. She gradually grows worse. She has our sympathy. Rev. G. N. Loftis of Clilton, Tenn., visited some of his friends of Brookport Saturday. He preached for Unity Baptist church Sunday afternoon and Monday night. Subscribe for The Gazette. $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. 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Envelopes, Bill Heads, Cards & etc. Let us do some of your job work. 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 aist 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, J. B: McCraiy. Moderator. Metropolis, Ill. Rev. J. B. McCrary After extending to you and family our best regards, also wishing you much success in the coming year of labor for the Lord. Would say I have not received the copies of your papers we would like to have ten copies by the coming week. Put me on your list as a subscriber for your weekly journal. I have appointed Miss Mable Williams as a correspondent to your paper. Hoping that the news from our city may be read by our many friends weekly. I. W. Pitts, Pastor. Thanks Rev.— I mailed you to copies last week, am sure you may have them ere this. We will appreciate anything you may do for us as we must stand together as race men. 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. Dear Ministers of the Baptist family we are trying to build up the waste placing in our district by sending our missionaries into this territory, we can only be able to do this to the extent that you co-operate with us in a financial way. We have two splendid men on the field this year, you, through your messengers help to place them there, now, you are obligated to help care for them. Please do not di appoint us in our next Executive Board meeting. We are expecting a good report for our missionaries Elder I. W. Winston and W. D. Simms, and let us care for them and families while they are at work in the destitute field. Will you heed this message brethren? Let us hear from you through the Gazette. Dont forget the 50c promised quarterly from the churches, Sunday Schools. B Y P. U's and Women Societies for Rev. J. N. Washington who are to assist while at Roger Williams University See what Dr. A. M. Townsend, Pres has to say in this issue. Please allow space in the column of your worthy paper to say to the District and those concerned. That the Corinthian Baptist church of Mount Vernon, is now without a pastor. Our honorable pastor, Eld. W. P. Washington, D. D., having of his own accord, offered his resignation on the 29th of September, in a regular Business Meeting, to take effect on the fourth Sunday in Oct. which was yesterday. Which the church reluctantly accepted. The following is a partial copy of his Resignation, and a letter of Reccomendation given him by the church. To the Corinthian Missionary Baptist Church, Mt Vernon, Ill., Greetings: Dear Brethren and Sisters, having served you gentle stren for six and a half years, and led you with an untiring hand, your joys being my joys, your suffering my suffering, your debts my debts, and since you are tired of the old guiding "Star," that wrenched a deed out of Fred P. Watson's hands, at a cost of $300 and interest for five years, and a Mortgage out of Albert Watson's hand of $200.00 with interest for three years, and $80. cost of Law suit, with $72. on your former Pastors salary, $30.50 dry goods and groceries with interest added making a total of $773.93 Realizing after using me six an a half years, and leading you as mentioned above, you are tired of such a leader, and will not pay me, nor, not even respect me, I do, here and now, tender to you my Resignation, to come in full force on the 4th Sunday night in October 1916, with the following understanding. That you give me a Recommendation for my good or bad standing as pastor, morally, religiously, officially and financially. SUPPER You are cordially invited to the supper to be given at the residence of Mrs. Mattie Fossi Saturday night, for the benefit of Silver Leal Club of the First Baptist church, Kent.cky Oysters and other desirable meats will be served also cream and cake LASTMAYBEFIRST Story of the Losing Struggle of Charles A. Mills for Good Job at Springfield and How a Favored Competitor Won Out. Remarkable circumstances surrounding the selection of Jeremiah F. Lyons as assistant superintendent of buildings and grounds at the state capitol at Springfield are being related by observers of civil service affairs as indicative of the mysteries of the political game. Mr. Lyons was given this post as a "temporary appointee" and in due time it was incumbent upon the authorities to draw from the eligible list. Evidently Mr. Lyons was a favorite of the Dunne regime because, while fifth and last on the eligible list, one by one his competitors fell away and with one exception he had a clear field. Charles A. Mills of Springfield, fourth on the list, was the exception. J. T. Erisman of Lincoln headed the list but waived certification because he feared removal later; a colored jantor employed in the state museum was next and he, at first, agreed to accept certification, then changed his mind, and later was given a raise in pay as janitor. The third man, M. C. Bowen, also announced he feared he'd lose the new job if he got it and waived appointment. The next man was Mills, who took a physical examination for the position and for elevator conductor the same day. Mills Found Fit. Mills was physically fit, but the commission held that because he covered two jobs in one test, he should be examined again. Dr. H. C. Blankmeyer was the examining physician of the board. Mills' condition was pronounced "poor" by him and Mills was promptly disqualified by the board, giving the last man, the favored Lyons, the job. The falling-away of all opposition to Lyons probably would have been forgotten if Mills had remained quiescent. He protested and the civil service board was virtually forced to reopen the case as he presented a statement from a third physician that his condition was O. K. The board then designated still another doctor to re-examine Mills. He was Dr. George T. Palmer of Springfield, who passed Mills a fit. But Mills Is "Old." Mills, who is fifty-nine years of age, felt quite sure at this juncture that his determined fight at last was to be rewarded. The job is worth around $150 a month and Mills seemed to have swept away all obstacles. However, he reckoned wrong, for the Dunne civil service board, not at all disturbed by Doctor Palmer's favorable report, held that in making up the averages the clerk in their office failed to deduct a certain percentage on account of Mills' age. Because of this error the commission said it was only fair to set Lyons ahead of Mills, which was accordingly done. Incidentally, Lyons in answer to questions by newspaper men has denied that he ever made any effort to prevent eligibles ahead of him taking the job. If Lyons didn't, who did? HE HOLDS THREE JOBS; DR. DYSON A FAVORITE State Veterinarian Is Director of Biological Laboratory and Member Stallion Registration Board. Under Governor Dunne the state civil service law has been repeatedly violated, but one of the outstanding instances is contained in the appointment of Dr. O. E. Dyson to two state jobs. This is not only a violation of civil service regulations, but may come under the inhibition of the state law which says no public employee shall hold two positions at the same time. The facts regarding Dyson, whose "pull" with Dunne is reported strong, are these: Dr. A. T. Peters resigned as director of the biological laboratory March 16, 1914, and on the same day the live stock board appointed Dr. Dyson—then state veterinarian—to the place at $3,000 a year. As state veterinarian Dr. Dyson continues to draw $10 a day every day in the year save Sundays. He also serves as a member of the stallion registration board and is entitled to $5 a day for each day he serves in that capacity. This triple service by Dyson has continued since the date Dr. Peters resigned, or about two years and a half. The directorship of the biological laboratory was classified under civil service when the present administration came in. It is stated as a fact, so, that when Dr. Dyson was given the job the civil service commission was not consulted and it was not until March 31, 1915, or over a year later, that the commission took cognizance of Dr. Dyson's new activities and issued a temporary appointment permit. No permit has been issued since that time, no examination has been held to create an eligible list and no step has been taken either by the live stock board or the commission towards filling the post with a civil service employee. "In my judgment," says Governor Dunne, "more favorable legislation has been obtained during my administration than for any like period in the history of the state." If this is true, give credit to the Republicans and Progressives in the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth general assemblies who created and enacted this legislation, governor. Governor Dunne in his vetoes did some surprising things. He has shown a peculiar bent for negativing measures in which the colored voters of Illinois were interested. In the Forty eighth General Assembly, House bill 5017 prohibited discrimination by cemetery association in the burial of the dead. The bill made it illegal for such as-ociations or corporations to refuse burial to any persons because of color or race. In response responses to requests for information regarding what states give the women suffrage we give below the list of states also dates when women's suffrage was established: Wyoming. 1869; Colorado, 18 93; Utah, 1866; Idaho, 1896; Washington 1810; California, 19 11; Arizona, 1912; Kansas, 1912; Oregon, 1912; Nevada, 1914; Montana, 1914. In 1913 the territory of Alaska granted full suffra- raged to women and the legislature of Illinois has granted name as far as their power extends—that is to offices not created by state constitution. This makes eleven states where women have full suffrage and one nther where they will vote for president and some other officers and also one territory where they can vote on localissues but where no one can vote in the national election.—Ex. Governor Dunne seemed to seek for reasons to veto this measure. He called upon Attorney General Lucey for an opinion. The latter obliged with one holding the proped enactment unconstitutional and the governor promptly vetoed the bill. Along the same line, Governor Dunne during the Forty-ninth General Assembly, *1015,* cut down by a veto from $75,000 to $60,000 an appropriation for an appropriation for an armory for the Fighth Infantry, I. N. G., a colored regiment in Chicago. Fortunately for the colored soldiers, one of the Fergus tax case decisions held that Governor Dunne's "split vetoes" were unconstitutional and, therefore, the cut of of $15,000 in the colored men's armory fund was restored. Mrs. Nancy Crippens is visiting friends in Elkville this week. Rev. J'H. Smith who is pastor of the A. M. E. Church. East St. Louis is visiting his wife for a few days. Former United States Senator William E. Mason, candidate for congressman-at-large, Republican ticket, is out with the following: "Only one commodity has been reduced by the Democrat free trade tariff. The price of shoes, of food and of clothing has gone up, but one thing has been reduced in price, and that is golf balls. And now the farmer and the laboring man can get down on their knees each night and thank God that on the morrow they can buy their golf balls cheaper." Don't forget that Dunne and the Democratic state administration has cost Illinois taxpayers $1,000 an hour more than any Republican administration in the history of the state—$1,000 an hour more every hour and every day of the Dunne rule. DO NOT FORGET THIS. Women of Illinois may vote for presidential electors on November 7. Common Ghee & Bad Matter In creative thought common sense is a bad taster. Its sole criterion for judgment is that new ideas shall look like old ones. In other words, it can only act by supraposing originality—A. N. Whitehead in "An Introduction to Mathematics."