Metropolis Weekly Gazette

METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE S. Bartlett Kerr, Solicitor. State of Illinois, Massac County 22. In the Circuit Court, of said County, August Term A. D. 1916. The City National Bank of Metropolis, Ill. Va. 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, Dannes 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 at 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, 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. H. W. HOLLIFIELD, Administrator. ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY NOTES. Sunday evening was set apart for a sacred concert, the President of Fike was one of the chief speakers. The 2nd Academic will hold their rhetorical Friday night. The students are still coming in. The advanced class in Theology has started and is making good. The classes are fast organizing and planning their work for the season. There is some great work mapped out for this season. There seems to be a great interest shown in our different department. The Y. W. C. A. have conducted their week of prayer and the Y. M. C. A. are planning to start their work at the time of the general week of prayer for schools we are praying for their success. Rev. J. N. Washington Native Salve. We have just recived some more of Native Salve, and it is going very last, those in Carbonand Md. City can secure a box or more now by 50c, per box. Act quick if you want if Send all orders to Rev. j. B. McCrary, AN OPEN LETTER. To Arms Baptists! To the Baptists of the Mt. 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 baili wiek. 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 quarterly 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. NEWHOME "I'll get it for my wife" NO OTHER LIKE IT. NO OTHER LIKE IT. NO OTHER AS GOOD. Purchase the "NEW HOME" and you will have a life asset at the price you pay. The elimination of repair expense by superior workmanship and best quality will save you great cost. Insist on having the "NEW HOME". WARRANTED FOR ALL TIME. Known the world over for superior repair qualities. Not sold under any other name. THE NEW HOME SEWING MACHINE CO., ORANGE, MASS. M. OTTO : "HEW TO THE LINE. LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY." A White Man and Negro.Woman Arrested and Fined for Living Open Stats of Adultery. Monday night about 10:30 the residence on Cor. of Pearl and 9th St., owned and rented by Mrs. Parthenia Dixon of Paducah, Ky. was raided by the police and Henry Frend, a white man who said he worked on the yard of the P. & I. R. R. Co., and Essie Frend as she called herself a negro woman were taken out of bed and taken before R. N. Smith, city judge, where a complaint was sworn out by like Brannon, night policeman for living in an open state of adultery. They claimed at first to have been married about six years ago, but when asked to produce a certificate they then claimed that it was a common-law marriage, but when informed that did not go in Metropolis, and given their choice of pleading guilty and being fined or of standing trial the next day. They waived their right to trial pleaded guilty and were given a fine of $10.00 each and costs—and set free. If this had been a negro man and a white woman the associated press would have had it in glaring head lines the next day, and if it had been in Ky., no doubt there would have been a lynching. It is strange to us how it is that a negro is not good enough to ride on the same car, eat in the same restaurant by just such men and yet they are good enough to bunk up with after night. There was a white man struck in this part of the city a few months ago for nosing around where he had no business. This is the cause of so much trouble among the races. KANSAS CITY DRUGGIST TO THE FRONT Dr. Theo. Smith Runs Only Negro Mail Order Drug Store in Country. HAS BRADSTREET RATING It is considered one of the finest and best stocked drug stores owned by Negroes in the United States. Strangers visiting Kansas City, Mo., are cordially invited to call and see it. Dr. Smith is considered one of the largest drug buyers among his people. Having a first class rating and having sufficient amount of cash on hand at all times, enables him to buy in large quantities and sell cheaper than the average drug-gist. Through this method he has built up a large mail order drug business. He makes it a business to carry all of the leading Negro manufactured goods, such as toilet articles, dying combs, hair growers and shampoos. In fact, everything that can be found in the drug line. He also carries all of the lead- ing Negronewsp ois and periodi cics. If you want anything in the drug and sundry line, if you want a position as a dru y clerk, write to Theo. Smith, 1301 East Eighte nth street, Kansas City, Mo., "The Mail Order Drug House of the West." NOTICE. To the Pastors and churches of the Mt. Olive Baptist Association Dear Co Workers:— Your attention is hereby called to the fact that, the time for our "Board Meeting" is near at hand; and the necessities of our missionary and educational work, demands a very strong effort on our part. Our motto for the coming session is "Lift the standard higher." Therefore, we are calling for the hearty co-operation of all the pastors and churches in this Dist; because we feel that without your help we cannot succeed You will please remember that the report on Stare and standing, will show that a good many of our churches are in doubt to the missionaries, for the last associational year's work. And too, the missionaries are in need of of our need of our help, so if we cannot pay all at the "Board," let us do the best we can in the name of Christ. Again you will please remember that a resolution was adopted in the last association, requesting all of our churches to take part in educating Bro. J. N. Washington, by each church sending up the board, the sum of 50c every three months, the same to be sent to him at Nashville, Tenn. in view of this fact, we cordially invite your attention to the forthcoming session of our Executive board, which will convene with the Shiloh Baptist church of Mt. Vernon, Ill. Eld, J. B. McCrary, Moderator. Eld, J. H. Starks, Cor. Sec'y. DUBOIS COMPARES VOTE_OB SOUTH AND NORTH. Dr. W. E. Dubois, in a lengthy article on 'Why the South is in the Saddle,' makes an interesting comparison of the southern and northern vote. It is shown that in 1912 New York, with 45 electors, cast 1,587.983 votes while Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama and Mississippi together with 45 electors, cast 345.988 votes. In Alabama the combined vote of the nine Democatic congressmen was but 75,528, while the combined vote of eight congressmen from Kansas was 483,683 Kiefflin, from Alabama, whose only claim to fame has been the introduction of anti-Negro measures, was "elected" to Congress by 8,100 votes, Iu Mississippi Sisson, another arch enemy of the Negro, received 4,869 votes. The lowest vote received by any congressman from Kansas The "Old Reliable" Shirt for the Man Who Works Price of the Racine Shirt $1.00 to $3.00 KREBS CLOTHING COMPANY I. O. O.F. Building 3rd & Ferry St. KREBS CLOTHING COMPANY I. O. O.F. Building 3rd & Ferry St. There are at least 7 distinct reasons why Munsingwear Union Suits please everybody. They are:-- Perfect fit-- Washability-- Durability-- Comfort--smooth seams, non--binding crotch, soft non-chafing fabrics, non-gaping seat. Strong buttonholes and buttons sewed on to stay. Wide selections in fabrics, styles and weights= Very moderate prices for very fine quality. This is the feature of Munsingwear that will surprise and delight you most. "It would seem," says Dr. Du, bois 'that each Mississippi voter (and only white men vote in Mississippi) casts thirteen votes where a Kansas, voter casts one. We ask in all candor how long is Republican government going to endure such circumstances? How long is this, the most burning question of American democracy, going to be "let alone" by patriotic Americans?"—Kansas City Sun. OBOITUARY Mr. Frank Hollingsworth, died in St. Louis, Mo., a few days ago and was brought back here for burial by his step-daughter, Mrs. Lizzie Collins. Frank was practically raised here coming with his parents and a large family from Missouri when but a youth soon after the Civil War. He left here about 12 yrs. ago for St. Louis, Mo., where he lived at the time of his death. He professed religion several years ago and joined the St. Paul A. M E church of this city, on leaving Metropolis, he connected himself to a Methodist, church of St. Louis, and remained uni death. THE ATTRACTION OF A FINE NEW STETSON YOU will wait many a season before you find a more attractive hat than this—the feature hat of the superb line of Fall and Winter Stetsons. A quality hat for "quality folks," as the oldtime Southern darkey used to say—and one that looks surprisingly well on most men. In fact every one of the Stetsons is a fine hat—a bit finer than usual this Fall. Come try them on. His funeral was attended at the family residence of Mr. George Collins, on west roth and Pearl Sts, Thursday Nov. 16th Rev. J. B. McCrary, officiating, then his body was laid to rest in the family lot in the Masonic Cemetery. He leaves a widow, step-daughter 2 brothers and other relatives. Peace to his ashes Mail Them Early. If you will mail your Christmas parcels ten days to two weeks before Christmas it will greatly aid the post office force in handling the holiday business and will go far toward securing prompt and accurate delivery. Early mailing will also largely prevent loss of and damage to parcels. You are permitted to write on parcels "Do not open until Christmas" or similar instructions. Have all parcels securely wrapped and properly addressed, including name and address of sender, before offering for mailing. Please help us to give you the test possible service. S. M. Stewart, Postmaster. Subscribe for The Gazette. --- WHY DO BOYS LEAVE THE FARM? By JAMES J. WHITE Poultry Keeping On Small Town Lot By F. W. KAZMEIER, Poultry Huebandman, Texas A. and M. Extension Department. It certainly is true that poultry raising on a small town lot can be made to pay. It may also lead to something better. Many salaried men realize that some day they will be too old to hold down their job. They will see some younger man taking their place. It is then that many of these going into the poultry business on a small scale, just large enough to make a comfortable living. It is easily understood how much surer these people would be of success if they had a little previous experience to fall back on. It is true that city lot poultry keeping requires closer attention to details and sanitary measures than farm poultry keeping. It is also true that a flock of chickens in a dirty backyard D D D C C C C B B GARDEN A A A DWELLING STREET A—Movable colony brooder house and yard. B—Laying pens. C—Yards for laying pens. D—Colony houses for growing stock. are not pleasing to look at nor very profitable. On the other hand, a purebred flock of chickens in a comfortable and sanitary house and clean yard are a beautiful sight and substantially profitable. They will turn much waste into dollars and cents. Such a flock and such a flock alone will make it possible to have fresh eggs any and at all times. Fresh eggs are in reality very hard to get, and unless you have a small flock of hens you perhaps not very often get the real fresh eggs. The greatest difficulties in connection with back-lot poultry keeping are the prevention of contamination of the land and the keeping up of the vigor of the stock. The former can only be prevented by proper rotation and planting to crops. The latter may be Man's idea of happiness has always been a city. In the "Pilgrim's Progress" Bunyan's hero was headed for a city. Heaven is pictured as a great city. Man is gregarious. He likes company. There is something about the stir and rush of the big city that attracts him and he goes there. After a while he finds out that the big city is unsatisfactory and mighty cruel to a large part of its inhabitants; that the happiest man in the long run is the one nearest the soil. But as long as YMN An Occasional Fishing Trip Helps to Keep the Boys Contented. human nature is as it is now, the city will be attractive to the farmer boy, even though he does not leave the farm for the city. There never has been a time when it was not really easier to make a living out on the farm than in the city, that is, for the average human. There never has been a time when the cities did not reek with dirt and misery and 0 AFEW JOKES --- done by introducing new blood occasionally or by having the breeding stock each year reared under farm conditions. Most all city or town people have a few farmer friends that would be glad to raise some of their pure-bred poultry on halves. For a good arrangement of a town poultry plant see the accompanying figure. A shows the movable colony brooder houses for small chicks. The place used for garden one year may the next year be used to grow the chicks and the garden put where chicks were the year before. B shows laying house, 14 by 40, divided in two pens, each large enough to accommodate about 75 laying hens. It will be noticed that to each of these pens is attached two yards, C. This makes it possible to use one yard for a garden one year and the next year the other. This system of yarding keeps the ground sweet at all times, and makes it possible to grow wonderful garden crops without buying any commercial fertilizer. D shows the movable colony houses for the growing stock. One of these houses may be used as a cockeer house. These yards should be cultivated when not in use or planted to some crops once a year to prevent their becoming contaminated. A plant of this size properly taken care of can be made to bring in a profit over all expenses except labor, of from $300 to $400. After several years improved breeding, gradually working into the breeding of high-bred stock, either for egg production or for the show, there is no telling to what extent such a plant may be worked. Remember, to make a success on such a plant it is highly important to keep the stock healthy, strong and vigorous, and to prevent the contamination of the ground. The destruction of birds costs this country $1,000,000,000 a year, it is estimated. C. W. Strong Proof. "I thought you said Glithers was not an optimist." "So I did." "Nonsense! He started out yesterday to make a transcontinental trip in a second-hand automobile." In Mourning. "A gentleman of the old school, evidently." "Quite so. When the drastic prohibition law went into effect, what do you suppose he did?" "I can't imagine." "Rather than fill his wine cellar with grapejuice and soda 'pop' he nailed it up and tied a piece of crepe to the door." A Quieting Effect. "This orator made use of a great many quotations from the classics." "So he did." "Do you suppose that has any effect on the average voter?" crime. There never was a time when the individual did not stand for a lot more out in the country or small town than in the big city. Why then do the boys leave the farm? There are several reasons: 1. This is an age of unrest. We do not stop to think that our present prosperity and happiness depend upon what our fathers and our grandfathers have done. Changes are looked upon as improvements. 2. Some young men have a special leaning toward other business. 3. They become dissatisfied with their present surroundings. They see the difficulties of the business in which they are engaged, but do not appreciate the difficulties of those with which they are not acquainted. Here are several reasons why boys should not leave the farm: 1. Farming is the most independent life. Farmers are their own masters. 2. No business in which you cannot 2. No business in which you get so large a return for the investment. 3. No business in which you find so many leisure hours. 4. No business in which success is so assured. 5. No business in which there is a better chance to go. Not long ago the Farmers' Breeze published an article on this subject. The writer says: "We have three great, big, jovial, industrious boys who are piling to get to the farm. One of them—the eldest—has just resigned an honorable and lucrative position in one of the largest banks in the South to go back to the farm. There is a reason, and it is this: The surroundings on the farm are inviting, the labor pleasant and remunerative, the authority supreme and comfort and plenty abounds. In the majority of cases the parent is at fault when the boy leaves the farm. It is always to his credit when he returns." METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE, METROPOLIS; ILL GOATS' MILK FOR CHILDREN BOASTFUL IGNORANCE By DR. SAMUEL G. DIXON Health, Commissioner of Pennsylvania. --- The boastfulness of ignorance is ordinarily not worthy of comment, but when it jeopardizes the health of other people, it is perhaps worth while to take up the cudgels. There is a class of individuals who pooch-pooh all warnings regarding matters of hygiene, and usually end their assertions by informing you that their grandfathers never paid any attention to "such nonsense," and what's more they never have, and here they are alive and well to show for it. Statistics, however, show that these people who violate the laws of nature often meet an untimely death. Unfortunately, some give an ear to such foolish boasting and run headlong into danger. The transmission of disease by germs is most frequently attacked by the ignorant. Those people who accept without comment the statement that the world revolves upon its axis as a part of the solar system, and thousands of other things which they are incompetent to work out for themselves, will bluster about the absurdity of germs causing disease. That typhoid fever, diphtheria, yellow fever, tuberculosis, anthrax, malaria and pneumonia are caused by germs has been proven, just as definitely as the fact that the world is round. Fortunately, exposure to disease, even of a communicable type does not always mean that the individual so exposed will contract it. This is the reason that the booster "May boast and stay And live to boast another day." "I don't know, but it may have affected his hearers tonight in one way." "How was that?" "Well, you know quotations from the classics have a soporific effect on a great many people. Maybe those who were here went away so tranquilized and sleepy that they would rather go to bed than sit up and find fault with the speaker's arguments." Might Have Been Worse. "How did you enjoy your trip through the South?" "Oh, we had fewer hardships than expected," replied the motor tourist. "While there was a woeful lack of roadhouses and most of the towns were 'dry.' I discovered out in the rural districts that I could get all the liquor I could drink by laying a dollar on a designated stump and hooting three times like an owl." daf Sensible Girl. "What first attracted you to Miss Flibber?" "She seemed able to talk about moving-picture actors in an ordinary tone of voice without excessive emotion." "Well! Well!" "So I thought a chap without curly hair and a dimple in his chin might hope to become popular with a girl like that." Mixing With One's Fellows. "Pretty soft for those millionaires who travel to and from their New York offices in private yachts." "Maybe so," replied the gregarious individual, "but I dare say you will find more real sociability on the rear platform of a trolley car." Sycophant. "It's ridiculous to see the way Mrs. Jobbles fawns on Mrs. Grabcoin, the social leader." "It is, indeed. Every time Mrs. Grabcoin sneezes Mrs. Jobbins is threatened with acute pneumonia." An Invalid's Request. With all the aches that flesh is heir to When I must lie in bed and fret. And swallow dose I do not care to. When on the table standing near Are powders, capsules, pills in dozens, I have no great desire to hear Of something that relieved your cousins When as you sit beside my bed A violent coughing fit attacks me, And my pale cheeks turn fiery red And you behold how sore it racks me. In silence it stings me. In silence even let me smother, That's preferable beyond a doubt, To being told what cured your brother If you can tell with (For all my symptoms plainly show it) That my disease removed your anuita. Pass it up it by. Don't let me know it. Just bear in mind, I couldn't hope By passigf up my daily rations To be in the midde of doa That cured your friends and doa relations. —Edgar A. Guest, in Detroit Free Press. Keep Cool. When angry words press between two people, the one who keeps cool and controls himself is the one who has the advantage. GOATS' MILK FOR CHILDREN English Newspaper Asserts That It Is In Many Respects Superior to That From the Cow. Londoners, it seems, have experienced difficulties in getting clean milk of the kind that cows give and there has been some agitation about tuberculosis and other infection. In view of this, a correspondent of the London Times commends goats' milk as a food for London children. Though goats' milk is familiar elsewhere in Europe, it is evident from what the correspondent says that the people of London look askance at it. Though the goat is not an animal immune to tuberculosis, the writer says, it is seldom affected by it, so that goats' milk can be guaranteed tubercle free in almost any given instance. "Unhappily," he continues, "the mere mention of goats' milk provokes contempt. It is said to be unpleasant to taste, it is regarded as indigestible; every fault which self-interest can find has been found. But the truth is that clean-milked goats' milk has no taste at all. It furnishes in itself a guaranty against the filthy methods prevailing in many dairy farms. It is not indigestible, but is on the contrary more easy to digest than cow's milk. Dyspeptics flourish on it; the youngest children are able to enjoy it. It is much richer in fats than cow's milk, and thus forms an ideal food for children with a tendency to tuberculosis. These children, too, are preserved against the danger of new infection by tubercle while taking it. "Some fifty years ago doctors in London used to send their consumptive patients to Scotland to drink goat's milk. The results often justified the advice. Today we are, perhaps, as far from a successful treatment of consumption as we have ever been. Here is a food which our fathers have used with benefit but which we have neglected. It is a cheap food, too, for goats cost less to feed than cows and give more milk in proportion. The peasant who keeps his milch goat has learned these truths by happy experience. The poor man's cow' is a valued possession in many a country district. But in the towns only contempt is bestowed upon it. If goat's milk were obtainable and were given a trial it would soon supplant cow's milk as a staple food of young children and of tuberculosis patients. The wonder is, indeed, in these days of multiplying organizations, one has not yet been formed to supply goat's milk to city dwellers." Yuan's Speedy Immortality. Yuan shih Kai, according to popular belief in China, is not dead at all. He is thoroughly alive, but in a state of extreme low visibility. Yuan saw his difficulties increase till there was no way out. The revolution in the south seemed certain to bring his overthrow and a shameful death. The time was ripe for disappearing. So, according to this popular belief, which already seems likely to become established as an enduring legend, the dictator slipped away incognito to some remote interior region or to some foreign land, while a corpse or a sack of meal was left behind for obsequies which were excessively private. No one could have blamed Yuan for wishing to disappear. Never was a man surrounded by a more harrassing tangle. He could not see any comfortable egress. But wishing to disappear and actually disappearing are two very different things, especially when one is a nation's most conspicuous citizen. It is unlikely that even the craft of Yuan could have worked the miracle. In all probability Yuan is quite dead. The Yuan legend may live, and do no harm, but China's well wishers will hope that the reactionary system of the dictator died with him, and that an era of true enlightenment is dawning for the troubled realm. Germany's Motor Mixtures. Germany's Motor Mixtures Owing to the shortage of gasoline in Germany other motor fuels had to be sought, and it is stated that the one most used is a mixture of alcohol and benzol. According to a report of the American consul at Lyons the results of experiments made with a touring car, with an ordinary carburetor, showed a mileage of 4.06 miles with one plat of a mixture of equal parts alcohol and benzol, at a speed of 42 miles an hour. With one part benzol and three alcohol 4.34 miles were covered at 39 miles an hour. With one part benzol and five of alcohol the car covered 3.72 miles at 36 miles an hour. With pure benzol the car covered 3.79 miles at 42 miles per hour; and with gasoline the record was 3.60 miles at 44 miles per hour. These figures may be of value in this country when the cessation of war demands throw more benzol on the market. Dominican Republic. The Dominican Republic has an area of about 20,000 square miles and is larger than Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Switzerland, or Turkey in Europe, or than the combined areas of Massachusetts, Connecticut, Delaware, and Rhode Island. The population is estimated at about 700,000, which is about 35 people a square mile, while Halit, its neighbor on the west, has about 200 square miles and Porto Rico has more than 300. Most of the fertile land of the country is still virgin. Saves No Good. "That woman's tongue goes as fast as an express." "Which isn't the only point of resemblance, for like an express, it is always on the rail." 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"Stray Stories. Suggesting a Change Willie is six years old, and when his mother punished him recently he did not resent it, but decided to have it out with her. "It hurts you to whip me, doesn't it, mother?" he said. "Yes, dear," said his mother, "it hurts me very much." "And you only do it to make me good?" "Yes, dear." "Well, mother, forget it next time and it will make me good." Improvement. Mrs. Josiah Cowles, the new president of the National Federation of Women's clubs, was talking in New York about dress. "Women, once they get interested in our movement;" she said, "dress more sensibly. They give less thought to dress. I may claim, in fact"—Mrs. Cowles smiled—"I may claim in fact," she ended, "that these women start making their own clothes and stop picking their friends' clothes to pieces."—Exchange. Not the Simple Life. Little Dorothy had acquired a fixed habit of eating Sunday dinner with her two old and beloved friends, the Brownns, who lived just across the street. Coming home, she found her own family seated at their table enjoying a substantial but plain dinner. A slight wave of contempt crossed her face. "Why, what did you have for dinner?" her mother asked. "Baked chicken, rice, hot biscuits, mashed potatoes, candied sweet potatoes, cranberries, plum jelly and other delinquencies," loftily asserted the little maid.—The Christian Herald. 1 METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE, METROPOLIS, ILL. AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS "With a demand for the Negro in the industries there will be a lessening of Negro congestion in the big centers like New York, Chicago, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Washington and St. Louis," writes Wilson Jefferson, from the Negro point of view, in the New York Evening Post. "With all of the ostracism of the trade unions, and the indifference of employers, there have still been more opportunities for earning a living in the big cities than in the towns and smaller cities. There were always openings in the big cities for Negroes as house servants, porters, hotel men and the like. And more important still there was always a large circle of friends to fall back on if temporarily out of a job. With a greater demand for his services in the smaller industrial towns and in the manufacturing districts around the big cities, there will spring up that community and neighborhood life which he so dearly loves. Besides, the employer will have him present in large enough numbers to fight any competition which might arise over any question of race or nationality. There will not be much incentive to complain about ten or fifteen Negroes in an establishment if there are other capable Negroes to take the places of those complaining. "To get a glimpse of the possibilities wrapped up in Negro labor one has only to investigate the more progressive of the manufacturing cities of the South: Birmingham, Ala., depends almost wholly upon the Negro for its unskilled and semi-skilled labor. Nashville, Atlanta, Memphis and Jacksonville do likewise. But in all of these towns, save in some instances in Birmingham, wages are too low, housing conditions are poor, and the advantages for recreation and pleasure exceedingly limited. It will be from these localities that Negroes will emigrate to the middle West and East, and to localities where wages are good and where there are opportunities for pleasure and self-improvement. No class of labor remains satisfied indefinitely under oppressive conditions. The Negro laborer is no exception to the rule. He has tried the South. He is willing to try the East and middle West. All he has awaited is a genuine call, based upon a real and lasting need. "This movement eastward and westward of unskilled Negro labor will both directly and indirectly help the Negro. The younger element, those of ambition, and of some training in the schools, will be constantly emerging from the unskilled to the semi-skilled classes, with a consequent increase in their pay rolls and a betterment in their methods of living. "A decidedly better treatment of the Negro, both in the North and in the South, will grow out of this scattering of the race. The old condition grew out of the fact that the demand for his labor has been limited and the supply unlimited. Other influences, some sinister and some not so sinister, have worked against him." Pure music for the children of today is an important factor in a nation's scheme of preparedness, in that it will make for a strong and brave race of men and women tomorrow. Such is the conclusion of David Mannes, the violinist, who owes his start in his profession to an old colored musician in the Tenderloin of an earlier New York, and who has devoted his life in large part to guilding and developing the musical genius of the Hends of colleges and secondary schools for education and training of Negroes in the United States have been invited to a conference, lasting from November 21 to 24, at the National Training school, Durham, N. C. They will be entertained at the National Training school, where it is planned to hold three conferences a day during the session, and speakers of prominence in educational circles and men who have devoted themselves to the advancement of colored people, have been invited to make addresses. Among the subjects and the speakers announced for the conference are: "Race Preparedness," an address by Bishop George W. Clinton, D. D., of Charlotte, N. C.; "A General Clearing House for Aid for Negro Schools," by Harry Andrews King, president of Clark university; "A Study of the Rural Schools of North Carolina," by Dr. A. M. Moore, secretary of the Association for Improvement of Rural Conditions Among Schools; "Preparedness of Negro Teachers," by H. J. Joyner, state superintendent of public instruction in Raleigh, N. C., and "What the State of Texas Is Doing for the Educan- The present demand for ships has accelerated the shipbuilding industry at Parrsboro, N. S. Ship carpenters and wood workers are in demand. Norway's cod fishery has closed with a total of 51,397,000 fish. The official value is $20,100,000. England has bought the entire catch. During the kaiser's visit to Mitau two Russian airmen flew over the town and dropped a number of bombs. Negro. Mr. Mannes advanced this thesis as to the importance of music to the human race, irrespective of color, while talking on a favorite theme: the possibilities of the American Negro and the rare opportunity of reaching and developing him through his fondness for music. Basing his statement on a long and intimate experience with colored students, Mr. Mannes said that the Negro invariably turned for his musical expression either to instruments upon which he could pick or to instruments of percussion, bowed instruments never having figured in the Negro's repertoire either here or in Africa. Essentially a violinist himself, Mr. Mannes is particularly interested in speculations as to what will happen when the Negro race awakens to the possibilities of the violin and the 'cello, and he likes to think that when the Negroes master the use of the bow, their management of it will approach "the fine and natural legato of their own voices." When it comes to comparing human potentialities, this musician, who was first taught by a Negro and has since made the teaching of many members of that race a labor of love, resents the drawing of a color line. As he warms to the championship of their possibilities of development through music, he pictures what the future has in store. That future may be a distant one, he readily admits, but, he adds, to dream is but to prophesy. "Ragtime is not essentially vulgar, though its text and harmonic sequence may be," he says. "The Negro himself is most sorrowful that he is thought the producer of vulgar ragtime. To my knowledge no Negro has ever written to his music words to which anyone could take exception. Where vulgarity occurs in songs attributed to colored men, it is invariably some white man who has superimposed it. Furthermore, you must acknowledge the Negro's sense of poetry. "To be sure, he is not now developed, but I would set no limit to his future growth. Recognizing his human qualities, who would deny him divine right? If you deny these human qualities, then, of course, you deny the divine attributes. I combat most earnestly the theory that the Negro's capacity for development is limited. "Not having had the opportunity to develop a musical art tradition of their own, our colored citizens must become acquainted with ours. There the difficulty lies because they must retain their natural genius and make their own music. Having no framework of their own upon which to build, their faith must rest on Bach and Beethoven and Brahms."—New York Evening Post. In the seven months from February 1 to September 1, 1916, American yards entered into contracts to build 229 steel vessels of 576,857 gross tons, and completed 55 such vessels of 206,-545 gross tons. To carry smaller boats within large craft a Dutch inventor has patented a vessel with hinged doors at one end of the hull, through which boats can be floated. Automobile service for both passengers and freight over the Andes mountains between Chile and Argentina is contemplated in opposition to the present railroad. tion of Colored Youth," by Prof. J. E. Clayton, principal of the Clayton Industrial high school. The subjects for discussion have been announced at follows; "Religious Instruction in Schools," "Standards of Universities," "Colleges and Secondary Schools," "Duplication of Work in Schools," "Teacher-Training," "Rural Schools." A commission will be appointed by the conference to offer a concrete plan and present it to the public. Japanese scientists are searching for an explanation of an apparent relationship between the frequency of earthquakes at Tokyo and the amount of rainfall and snowfall in other parts of the empire. In an encounter near Lewiston, Me., between a bald-headed eagle and a porcupine, the latter succumbed, but the eagle bore off several trophies in the shape of quills. 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It acts as a no matter how they are "exposed" bottle; $5 and $10 dozen bottles, at all orse goods houses, or delivered by the L. CO., Chemists, Goshen, Ind., U. E. A. Metropolis Gazette PUBLISHED ON FRIDAY BY THE GAZETTE PRINTING CO. CHITOPOLIS, . . . . . ILL. WING. M. D. McGRARY, MANAGER. J. B. McO'GRAY, EDITOR FRIDAY NOV. 24, 1916. Office 9th and Pearl Streets, Metropolis, Illinois. Entered as second-class mail matter, at Metropolis, Illinois, Postoffice. P.O. Address all communications to J. B. McO'GRAY, Box 187 Metropolis, Illinois. The names and addresses of contrib- tors must be known to us in every in- tance, in order to secure publication. We want the news of your vicinity each week. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: One Year ..... $1 00 In Months ..... 75 Three Months ..... 40 Single Copy ..... 60 In Advance. ADVERTISING RATES, made known on application. You must mail copy on Mondays to secure publication. The Churches, B. Y. P. U.'s, S. and W. E. M Societies are requested to send 500 each to the Executive Board which meets in Mt. Vernon, Ill., Dec. 14, 1916 by letter or messenger to assist Rev. J. N. Washington in school at Nashville, Tenn. Don't forget to specify for what purpose. This is aside from the amount churches are required to send up for missionary, and expenses of Board. Please do not fail. Rev. J. B. McCraan Moderator Rev. J. H. Starks, Corresponding Sec'y. 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. We, the pastor and members of the Unity Baptist church, Brookport, ask that every pastor and church in the district lift an after collection after each service Sunday to assist us in paying for shingles to cover our church, it will not hurt you. Send mouey money to pastor, J. B McCrary, Metropolis, and you will be receipted through the Gazette. Who will respond to this Macedonian cry? $3 25 will buy us 1,000 shingles, $1 65 will buy 500 shingles and 85c will pay for 250 shingles. The S. S. and other auxiliares can help us in this hour of need. In the Sunken Submarine. "It's too annoying that we should be stuck down here. I bought myself the most epic did torab only half week"—Lustige Blasten. The Worker. "Did a musician of note escape your jaws?" "No; the critics did." Geo. H. Crippins The Blacksmith W. 7th Street, between Market and Pearl Streets; Metropolis, Morse Shoeing and Rubber Tireing a Specialty General Repair Work Give me a trial. All work Guaranted. $100' Reward. $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is catarrh. Hall's catarrh cure is the only positive cure now new 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 as 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 Druggiata. 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. Mrs. Margaret Board of Mound City, is in the city visiting her children. Miss Catherine Calhoun is very sick at this writing. Mrs Princess Bell is still on the sick list. Mrs. Addie Frizzell of Lovejoy accompanied Mrs. Lizzie Collins and mother Mrs. Eliza Hollingsworth, home with the body of Frand Hollingsworth from St. Louis, Mo., for interment Mrs. Gracy Williamson is on the sick list this week. Mrs. Millie Griggs is confined to her room still. Jepha Chaper, O. E. S. held a social meeting and entertainment for the members at the home of Mrs. Ella Smith's Tuesday. Mrs. Addie Frizzell of Lovejoy paid the Gazette office a call and subscribed for the paper again—Thanks. Mrs. Laura McClellan is still on the sick list with but little improvement. In the case of the president's election the final result is in question. The report is, that Hughes carried Minnesota by 396 plurality. California is in doubt. We are proud of Illinois but not of all the men who were elected on some of the local tickets—because they are selfish and prejudice to the race. Mrs. Birdie Morris, returned from St. Louis, Mo., Saturday. It is rumored that Oscar Calhoun, and she were married this week. Attend Thank giving services at Unity Baptist church, Brock-port. There will be Prayer service at 4:00 a. m. Preaching at 10:30 a. m. by the pastor Rev. J. B. McCrary. Then a freewill offering will follow. The Bazaar club will serve refreshments and luncheon at noon. A splendid program and concert will be given at night by the young ladies of the church, Miss Carrie Urquhart of Metropolis, will furnish music. Dont miss attending all day Mrs. Lurania Blakemore, was a Paducah, visitor Monday. Miss Necie Moon, of Brookport is in the city. Hilman's famous Dancing Orches ra of Paducah, rendered music at the Odd Bellow a Hall Tuesday night. Bennie Harmon arrived in the city Wednesday from Memphis, where he went to visit a few weeks ago. Boyd McCane has moved into his new residence on Pearl St. Miss Isora Rodgers visited relatives in Brookport, Saturday and Sunday. Miss Cora Stalis has gone to Deatur, to remain indefinitely. Mrs Myra Young has returned to St. Louis, Mo. Miss Maud Porter of New Liberty was in the city Saturday. 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. FREE DELIVERY. City delivery of mail will be inaugurated in Metropolis on January 1st, 1917, and it is important that patrons be ready for the service. The delivery district, as mapped by post office inspectors after making a survey of the city, does not include quite all within the corporate limits but takes in a large area, which will be served by two carriers. It is planned to give two full deliveries each day with possibly three in the business district. It will require some time to adjust the service to the needs of the city and the hearty co-operation of all patrons is requested to the end that best results might be obtained. Advance preparation for the service and thorough co-operation will largely avert errors but it is inevitable that some will be made and we bespeak your kindly patience and forbearance. If your house has not been numbered have it properly done at once. Provide a suitable receptable for your mail. Carriers will not deliver to rear of premises. There will be no deliveries on Sundays and legal holidays. You can retain a box at post office and have your mail put in it on Sundays and holidays and have it delivered to your residence or place of business on week days. You can retain a box at post office and have all your mail put in it if you so desire. It will be well ior all persons to begin at once using their street address advising all of their correspondents of and request them to address all mail to street and number. Please furnish the postmaster, at your early convenience, with a complete list of the names of your family including names of any others who will receive mail at your number, together with your street and number. Write all names and your street and number plainly and hand it to the post office, so that a carriers directory can be completed at an early date. This is very important and I trust every one will promptly comply with this request. Send us a trial order for the Great Nature Salve, 50c a Box. Why suffer when you can be relieved for such a small amount. Read our guarantee on the front page of The Gazette. 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. New York's Pride. The New York public library is the most complete institution of the kind in the world. 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 disappoint us in our next Executive Board meeting. We are expecting a good report for our missiogaries 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 brothren? 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. 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. it was recommended that each local department mentioned send up quarterly to the Executive Board 500 to aist Rev. J. N. Washington. the Sunnay 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 ocur again. By order of the Association. Moderator. Metropolis, Ill. Paper and other article used in a newspaper have jumped 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. 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. 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. Common sense is a well master. In creative thought common sense is a bad master. Its sole criterion for judgment is that new ideas shall look like old ones. In other words, it can only act by suppressing originality. A. N. Whitehead in "An Introduction to Mathematics." Notice. Dear Co-workers, and members, of the Executive Board of the W. E. and M. Association of Ill, I take this opportunity to say to you that owing to the fact that not a member of the Board since its last session has sent in to the president the important correspondence which they promised and pledge it themselves to send in. Now, not a circle has answered the request made by the Board to send in $2.50 to help pay the National representation fee, and we will have very little if any thing to work upon in our expected meeting on Thanksgiving day. I deem it very necessary to say to you that the Board meeting will be postponed for an indefinite date or until some of the work shall have been accomplished and we hear from our sisters. Too, I am sorry to say that at this writing our corresponding secretary is seriously ill at her home Dewmalne, Illinois. Dear Sisters, the time is not as far as it may seem for our next annual meeting, so please do not sleep away the time. As I vowed for my circle for $2.50 but that is not enough. Awake the Master is calling for laborers. President. Mt. Vernon, Ill. D. H. Hamilton, Cor. See'y. Dewmaine, Ill. Where are the missionaries of the Mt. Olive Baptist Asssociation and what are they doing? We have had nothing from them since the association. Rev. Winston was very poorly at the association. Let every church send in some moey for the missionaries and Rev. J. N. Washington per resolutions passed at the associa- NOTICE To the constituents of the East Mr. Olive Baptist Association. Dear Brethren, the Executive Board will convene with the Sincere Baptist church, Now Brownfield, Ill., Thursday before the 4th Sunday in Nov. 1910. We hope to have a full delegation at said meeting. And too, we ask every pastor and church to remember Dr. Phillips in the affliction of his family, and send or bring some money for him to the Board, let it be little or much and God will bless your efforts. I am respectfully, W. P. Washington, Moderator. CORSET SAVES WOMAN'S LIFE Supposed Hold-Up Man Caught. Harry Gardstine was held up at his store. 2729 Wabash avenue, Wednesday night, October 8. A loot of $150 was trken. After being robbed he was shut up in his ice box until two men passing by released him. Friday morning a man by the name of Joe Harper was caught at 28th and State street who has a boot black stand. And his partner was named Jackson. He was seen late Monday eveing and the police tried to capture him. He opened fire on the police, and a stray bullet hit a woman in her side. It struck the steel corset stay and glanced, inflicting only a flesh wound. Fortunately the corset saved a probable fatal wound. Joe Harper is now being held in $2,000 bonds pending action of the grand jury.—Illinois Idea. Easy to Produce. The easiest word to pronounce the English language is said to be "murmur." It is simply an expletive of the breath repeated. 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. LET'S VOTE "YES" ON TAX AMENDMENT WRITER ADVISES FARMERS. Editorial Commends the Tax Amendment and a Comprehensive News Article Shows Objections to the Present Tax System. "The proposed change has done well for others, it has the approval of careful students of taxation," says the Farmers' Review, "so let's vote 'Yes, on the Tax Amendment November 7.' In addition to commending the Tax Amendment in its editorial columns the Farmers' Review publishes a lengthy article by G. H. Campbell, in which is presented a multitude of reasons showing that the present tax system of personal property is a failure, and that the proposed amendment offers opportunity for an improvement of conditions. Showing the inequalities in the working out of the present system Mr. Campbell points out that, for example, Mercer county returns more than $2,000,000 of "moneys other than banker" while Alexander county, including Cairo, shows only $99,000. Of the same item Cook county, including Chicago, has less than $8,000,000, while the Fourteenth congressional district — made up of the counties of Iraceck, Henderson, McDonough, Mercer, Rock Island and Warren — have nearly $1,000,000. "According to the report of the state board of equalization, 1914," Mr. Campbell points out, "all the merchandise in Cook county has a full value of $3,400,652. This is less than the capitalization of one mail order house, with which many farmers trade. "New York has been experimenting along the lines of the proposed Amendment since 1850," says Mr. Campbell. "In 1913 a subcommittee of the board of taxes and assessments of New York city published a report on the taxation of personal property. This shows, among other things, that a total of $45,600,000 is annually produced in that state by taxes that have been substituted in their respective classes, ior personal property assessment. "The adoption of this amendment will not solve all our problems of taxation, but it will place the whole subject in such a position that those who are competent may attempt their solution with some prospect of success. "If you favor the adoption of the amendment, do not fail to vote "yes," because its adoption requires a majority of all votes passed at the election." STEDMAN. SOCIALIST. Gives Many Good Reasons In A Telegram To B. I. Weaver for the Quincy Labor Convention. Quincy, Ill., Oct. 17.—The following telegrams: B. F. Weaver, to Seymour Stedman, candidate for the Socialist party for governor, and Mr. Stedman's reply, remove any doubts which may have existed as to Mr. Stedman's strong affirmative support of the Tax Amendment. The following is Mr. Weaver's telegram: Quincy, Ill., Oct. 17.—Seymour Stedman, Chicago: Has been stated on floor of convention that you favor Tax Amendment. If so, state reason. Signed B. F. Weaver. Stedman States His Position. Chicago, Ill., Oct. 17.—B. F. Weaver, State Federation of Labor Convention, Quincy, Ill.; I. favor Tax Amendment. It will permit legislature to revise method of collecting revenue, and a proper classification of personal property. It will give power to exempt small savings accounts, household furniture, implements of labor, from taxes which under the law must be imposed if the officials perform their duties. It will permit a method of taxing large paying commercial enterprises for which at present there is no basis for asserting value, and the elimination of complicated method of spreading assessments, the cost of which in Cook County is almost $3.60 per item. It would eliminate complicated and costly method of making assessments, reports and adjustments between the assessors. Board of Review, County Court, etc. It will provide an easy way of knowing the property subject to taxation, and permit distinction between revenue-producing wealth and that which does not contribute as an earning factor to the owner. The only valid objection I see is, that it will not authorize the adoption of the single tax as a fiscal measure. This amendment does not displace any other submitted at the election, and is a great step in advance of our present chaotic method of raising revenues with its fraud, perjury and tax-dodging. (Signed) Seymour Stedman. Examine Your Own Productions Every one is forward to complete the prejudices that mislead other men or parties, as if he were free, and none of his own. This being obtained on all sides, it is agreed that it is a fault and a blindness to knowledge. What now is the cure? No other but this, that every man should let others 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 impartibly to examine himself—Locke.