Metropolis Weekly Gazette

METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE Leaders Point Out Partnership Between Capital and Labor. SAY INTERESTS ARE MUTUAL Our Future Prosperity Depends on a Better Understanding and Moro Practical Application of Get-Together Spirit in Industry—Must Eliminate Trouble-Breeders and Agitators. A better public understanding and appreciation of the needs and problems of our American industries is conceded on every side to be one of the important national requirements for the development of our future industrial prosperity. Few people seem to understand that the majority of our business men are fair minded, reasonable beings, legitimately engaged in the development of our economic resources. In the opinion of our business leaders this misunderstanding leads the public, through the legislators, into thoughtless and unnecessary acts of reprisal against all branches of industry, which are often inimical to the best interests of their own community. To ensure this lamentable condition it is first essential that a closer degree of co-operative action for the common good be established between employees and employers. The first step in this direction is to eliminate the selfish, destructive agitator. This happy event would greatly facilitate a general get together spirit among employees and workers. The Work That Men Do. The nation is confronted with more work than ever before—ships to build, factories to enlarge, railways to complete, new foreign business to be attracted and help to be extended to the unfortunate or the other side. There are about 30,000,000 men at work if they work ten hours a day that is 300,000,000 hours a day or 90,000,000 hours a year. If they work eight hours it is 74,850,000,000, or a difference of 18.720,000,000 hours a year. At eight hours a day this means that about 7,400,000 more men must be employed to do the work that could be done by the 30,000,000, and where are they to come from? During the past year there has been a unified and standardized banking currency system tried and not found wanting. But there are yet other steps to be taken before the ideal of economic unit is worked out. There are 662,000 stockholders of railroads in the United States. A large proportion of them depend on the earnings of the carriers for a merger income. Many of these stockholders have less than $1,000 a year income, and they are unable to earn more, being elderly persons or women. Thousands of them are former employees of the railroads who depend upon their stock dividends to pay their rent and their grocery bills. Labor and Capital Are Partners. The manufactured output of the United States amounts to $28,000,000.00 in value per annum. This is three times the amount of the yearly output of the ranches, farms, orchards and gardens; it is a dozen times the output of the mines; it is larger than the combined manufactures of any two foreign nations. Labor received, as its share of the fruits of industry, wages amounting almost to seven billion dollars in the single year of 1914. Does not this prove that the interests of employees are joint with those who employ them and that a real partnership exists? Today there are over 100,000,000 people in the land who must be fed, elothed, sheltered, kept warm and many of whom travel for health, pleasure and business. The railway systems are in many places overtaxed in doing this work. What will be the conditions when there are 150,000,000 people to be served? This means an addition of at least 50 per cent to the number of tons of freight moved one mile and the number of passengers moved one mile. There was a total mileage of 41,988 in the hands of receivers in 1915, the total capitalization of which was $2,204,000,000. In that year alone 20,143 miles of road went into the hands of receivers, and these roads had a total capitalization of $1,070,808,628. This compares with 4,222 miles in 1914 with a total capitalization of $199,571,446, in receivers' hands. This is not a healthy condition: it is a malady that affects directly and indirectly every one in the Railways do not belong to a few rich men or bankers. There are at least 1,500,000 owners of the securities of American railways. There are 1,500,000 men approximately employed in the railway service. The insurance companies have $1,500,000,000 invested in railway securities representing 30,000,000 policy holders; savings banks have $800,000,000 invested in which banks there are 11,000,000 depositors. From 1900 to 1913 the States enacted 60,001 and congress enacted 2013 new laws which involved the consideration of more than one-half million legislative propositions, or an annual production of over 12,000 new laws to be assimilated by the business world. SHOPS AND PLANTS FAVOR INDUSTRIAL BETTERMENT WORK Actively Aid Welfare Plans of Every Description For Employees. PHILANTHROPY NOT INTENT. Comfort and Contentment of the Workers Considered Paramount. Hundreds of millions of dollars have been expended during the past decade by American manufacturers for those forms of industrial betterment, in balf of employees, that are generally classed as philanthropic or beyond the meto requirements of laws and contracts. Descent manufacturers—and they are in the vast majority—as are the decent people of other classes—are opposed to grinding child labor, and they strive to pay a living wage to all of their employees. They go much farther than as a study of American industry will show. They devote time, money and effort to provide every possible supplementary means for promoting the convenience, the comfort, the health, contentment and happiness of their workers and of the families of employees. Very few manufacturers consider such work or expenditure to be philanthropy, but, rather, a necessary feature of their business. While their motives may be as altruistic as those of the average of mankind, they find that it is good, from the business point of view, to promote as far as possible the welfare of their employees. Industrial betterment pays. Industrial betterment means an attempt to provide the best kind of working and living conditions, and it implies the co-operative responsibility of the wage earner and the employer in bringing those conditions about and in improving them from time to time. It is not a dole to be handed to the wage earner, but is a token of that spirit of mutuality which, under right conditions, should permeate industry. A thorough description of industrial betterment activities in the United States would require more space than is contained in the most voluminous encyclopedias to be found in the libraries. Indeed, volumes might be written about the welfare work of a single corporation alone—the National Cash Register Company, for instance, or the International Harvester Company, the United States Steel Corporation, Cheney Brothers, the Curtis Publishing Company, the Bethlehem Steel Company, the American Telephone and Telegraph Company, the Eastman Kodak Company, any one of the leading railroad companies, the principal banks, Wanamaker's, or any of a host of other concerns which has developed activities of the sort. There is hardly a concern in the country doing business on a fairly extensive scale that has not initiated some form of industrial betterment for its employees. The honors do not go to the larger companies exclusively either, for many of the smaller business units have developed this side of their activities to a remarkable extent. Naturally it is easier for the larger corporations to put highly trained specialists in charge of the various branches of industrial betterment work. The fundamentals of industrial betterment are observed in furnishing pleasant, sanitary, safe working conditions. Educational and entertainment features, facilities for study and recreation, special opportunities for the exercise of thrift and provisions tending to remove the dread of and to mitigate the sufferings occasioned by sickness, disability or invalidity are matters which next receive attention. Well lighted, well ventilated and otherwise pleasant and safe working places, res MOTTO: 'HEW TO THE LINE. LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY tourists, reading rooms and libraries, rest rooms, emergency kits and hospitals, club rooms, assembly rooms, gymnasiums, lockers and bathing facilities, recreation grounds, bonus and profit sharing plans, special housing accommodations, facilities for the purchase of homes on easy payments, discounts in the purchase of goods, industrial and other educational classes, lectures for entertainment or instruction, moving pictures, excursions, field days, medical attendance, safety committees for accident and fire prevention, sickness, disability and invalidity funds, insurance or benefit associations and pensions are some of the customary features of industrial betterment work, the variety of which has no limit. Tens of thousands of lives are saved each year and hundreds of thousands of lesser accidents are prevented annually through the accident prevention campaign and feature of industrial betterment. The Eastman Kodak Company in five years reduced the accidents in its plants by over 75 per cent per annum through a progressive safety campaign. The Pennsylvania Railroad in ten months decreased the serious injuries of its 33,242 shop employees over 63 per cent by the installation of safety devices and by the constant instruction of the workmen in exercising due caution. As a result of its safety campaign the United States Steel Corporation reduced serious and fatal accidents in its various plants by 46 per cent since 1996. Each year 2,300 of the men employed by the corporation escape who would have been injured under the previous conditions. A CHEAPER KEELEY CURE Candy is recommended as a cure for the man who just has to have a drink. Instead of giving his nickel to buy a drink, tell him to go to a candy store and get a nickel's worth of molasses candy. When he eats it his craving for strong drink will pass. Another cure of a delightful sort is to use plenty of old fashioned New Orleans molasses on your morning pancakes. It is said on good authority that if a man fortifies himself with molasses at time of rising in the morning, and then occasionally take a bite of candy during the day, he will not have any desire for strong drink. We are submitting the above to our friends who unfortunately have formed too intimate an acquaintance with "John Barleycorn." We are thankful to be able to state that we have never had occasion to test the cure; neither have we an interest in any candy or molasses factory; but as prohibition seems to be coming on when it might be that the time between drinks would necessarily be lengthened, it will not be so expensive as a trip to the Keeley institute to give it a trial —Ex. NEW LAW PLANNED AGAINST GUN TOTERS' IN ILLINOIS Mation, Ill., January 27.—Representative James H. Felts of this city is preparing to introduce at Springfield, next week a bill which if it becomes a law, will place a ban on the practice of carrying concealed weapons. The bill, claimed by state's attorneys and others who efforts are directed against crime in Illinois, is among the best of its kind ever placed before a state, legislature. Not only does it make it a penitentiary offense to carry concealweapons, but it gives all peace officers the right to arrest and search on suspicion. We have wondered why some such a measure had not been enacted into law before this time in Illinois. We do hope the bill will pass and stand the test of the courts, for it is certainly needed. We will be glad to see the day when "gun toting" will be a thing of the past in Illinois, and it comes very stringent measures will have to be respected to stop it. Why not prohil it the sale of such weapons?—Ex. UNIONVILLE After being silent for quiet awhile, I again fill out a portion of your newsy sheet with some of our school notes, and happenings in our "burg." Rev. P. Cross, pastor of the Siloam Baptist church filled his appointment here Sunday. Rev. A. A. Crim filled his appointment with the Free Baptist at Shady Grove. Mrs. Roa Lee Sylvestr. is visiting her mo her, Mrs. J. E. Jones of Metropolis. Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Howard who have been very sick for three months are convalescing. Wheat is looking good now after the two weeks snow. Mr. Thos. P. King, has purchased one of the best scales on the market, The Fairbanks. The attendance fair. Mrs Lillian Robinson paid us a visit the 30th she said that the school was well organized and under good control. We are learning fast, and the majority of us are looking to be promoted We have only two months now of school and Prof McCrazy will begin making preparations for an Examination soon We will have a program the last day of school. Master T. P. King, has not missed a day in school this year. Good T P. Lydia Welch has only missed four. We enjoy reading your paper, wishing you success. ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY NOTES. We are in the midst of our revival so far we have had five converts. We only have three seekers left, we are in hopes God will give them to us The Revs A D. Hurt and Craft, owing to previous engagements the above ministers were not able to finish. The meeting was turned over to Revs. A. O. Kennedy and J. R. Evans, the latter is dean of our college. God blessed their efforts last night with two souls. After the revival services are over we will lend our aid to the rally, golden jubilee and other activities. Our ten weeks course for ministers is now in progress, we have prospects of a large attendance. METROPOLIS. The B. Y. P. U. is taking on new life. Sunday at 6:30 P.M. the District President was present. The pastor Rev. J. w. Davies, and the president delivered timely addresses to an appreciative audience. In the absence of the Local president, Mrs. L. B Dukes, pre- PROGRAM FOR CLUB CONVENTION FEB- RUARY 11, 1917. SUNDAY MORNING Program by the Ch their Supt. Address by Presid ion Solo SERMON Rev. J. W. Davie, at Rev. G. W. Rowlett, Altern AFTER Instrumental Solo Burke Recitation Duett Mrs. L. B. gerie Tandy Paper SERMON Rev. W. H. Barnett, at Rev. Thomas Morris, Altern EVENT Instrumental S Urquhart Paper Duett Mesdam Lillie Towles SERMON Rev. J. B. McCraig, at Rev. Berry Thomas, Altern MRS. G. E. M HERE WE ARE ORINGTON With the very Latest and most Up- Parlor. All Shines 5c. Ladies Work Clothes called for and Metropolis, Ill., Ferry St., Between 3rd and 4th am by the Children, con t. ss by President of Club Mrs. Be Mrs. Ru Davie, at Rowlett, Alternate Program by the Children, conducted by their Supt. SERMON Rev. J. W. Davie, at 11:00 o'clock Rev. G. W. Rowlett, Alternate AFTERNOON mental Solo Mrs. Ho Station Mrs. J. E. Mrs. L. B. Dukes, M. andy Mrs. Vienn Barnett, at Morris, Alternate Instrumental Solo Mrs. Horace G. Burke Recitation Mrs. J. E. Cowper Duett Mrs. L. B. Dukes, Miss Margerie Tandy EVENING imental Solo Miss rt Miss Allie L Mesdames J. E. owles McCraig, at Thomas, Alternate MRS. G. E. MASTERSON, Mistress of Ge HERE WE ARE AT LAST ORINGTON & ALSTON latest and most Up-to-date Shoe Shinlin es 5c. Ladies Work a Specialty lothes called for and Promptly delivered Ill., Phone 242 between 3rd and 4th. MRS. G. E. MASTERSON. Mistress of Ceremonies. HERE WE ARE AT LAST ORINGTON & ALSTON With the very Latest and most Up-to-date Shoe Shining and Pressing Parlor. All Shines 5c. Ladies Work a Specialty Clothes called for and Promptly delivered Metropolis, Ill. Phone 243-1Ring Ferry St., Between 3rd and 4th. sided in her usual manner Mrs Dukes, is indeed a good church worker and can fill her place and do her part anywhere. Next Sunday at the same hour Mrs. L. A. Towles, will teach the lesson. Everybody is asked to take an active part in this service and make an a-1 B. Y. P. U. in Metropolis. Mrs Styles—"This paper says the total number of useful domestic animals on the globe is believed to be about 1,500,000,000." Mr. Styles—"Don't for one instant think that that pet dog of yours is included in that number." ```markdown ``` children, conducted by ent of Club Convent- Mrs. Bessie Cork Mrs. Ruth Nichols 11:00 o'clock Mrs. Horace G. Mrs. J. E. Cowper Dukes, Miss Mar. Mrs. Vienna Ford 3:00 o'clock WINING Solo Miss Carrie Miss Allie Barnard James J. E. Woods, 8:00 o'clock MASTERSON, Press of Ceremonies. RE AT LAST & ALSTON o-date Shoe Shining and Pressing a Specialty Promptly delivered Phone 243-1Ring Md. City, Ill., Feb. 3, 1917. Rev. J. B. McCrary, Dear Sir: This is to inform you that I am sick, and have not been o since I came back from Tamm Ill., Monday. I called the D and he pronounced my case Pneumonia and "Grippe." Uncle Eben's Wisdom. "It's a lucky thing foh de hum race," said Uncle Eben, "dat de T Commandments wasn't loaded do wif phraseology like de laws de leg lature passes." Neuraigia and Rheumatte Pains F quickly to the influence of Dr. Mi Anti-Pain Pills. No bad alter-wife V Yours truly. G. W. Bradlock. oN MEMORIAL ip SANE: ‘ cny arare. fe. ' ree? Be ge \ ti ! iL a. r i se ed aS wa pf dis ce Ns NS |. ‘The most famous of Lincoin monuments, that in his home city, Springfield, IL, was built by voluntary contri- Dutions. The first entry made by the treasurer of the Memorial association was May 8, 1865, and was from Isaac “Reed of New York, $100. Then came contributions from Sunday schools, lodges, army associations, individuals and states. The Seventy-third regiment United States colored troops at New Orleans contributed $1,437, a greater ‘amount than was given by any other individual or organization, except the state of [linois. Only three states made “appropriations for this fund—Iilinois, $50,000; Missouri, $1,000; Nevada, $500. The total cost of the memorial was “more than $200,000. i. INCOLN MAN OF congress to plead your cause. Yor st 3 seem honest and truthful, and,” wit! : emphasis, “you don't wear hoops, an¢ E HUMANITY IN WARTIME rite whipped if 1 don’t pardon yout other,” é — tary discipline. One of his blogra-| | Hon. Jobn DB. Henderson was ¢ pers, who spent six months with him ons, Snes See is Whole Conduct Is Summed Up | ithe Witte Hoose, has said that i is | GUIDE the war. | Senator Henderso His Immortal Phrase, “With! a great pity that ‘Lincoln could not | [4 preaston ‘9 call upon the Presiden edie fet [hare bad an additional, secretary, | 2, March, 1865, regarding a consider i foward None, With} Tere Sie duty should have been J; | able number of pardons for which bi Ci i for Al’ —He Was w - me rh sho ro ldier | Constituents had requested him to ap 2 e make note of the appeals for soldier | py. Ip Missouri during the war many " Often Condemned For His Many | P#rtous aud the president's action | men had been arrested by the Fed I ons of Spies and Desert- eae from day to day. These incl- | eral authorities and thrown Into prisor 3 ents would have made a priceless | at St. Louis and at Alton, Ill. Some ers volume; “But many such incidents | were to be shot for desertion or a: * PWIN M. STANTON, Linco s “4 grim and iron hearted secre- tary of war, frequently had ; harsh clashes with his chief Deeause of the tender hearted presi. Ment’s Inclination to pardon condemned ‘or imprisoned soldiers whenever he Could find the slightest justification for Buch clemency either in military regu- Aations or ordinary human mercy. At Himes, it is related, Stanton would talk back” to the president quite in- lignantly when protesting against Some pardon or contemplated pardon. and then when he found that Lin- soln Was positively determined and he guid not have bis way—which was, in it, the way of law in time of war— Secretary would boil over with dis: and rush ont of the presence of iis superior, Mr. Stanton’s notion of military necessity was identical with lat of the sternest general in the field, Wille Mr. Lincoln always took a com- sense view of every such situation nd tempered justice with mercy. “Soldiers tried and condemned by ourt martial for desertion, sleeping on tinel duty or other military crimes pr derelictions never failed to find a friend in the White House if any of fieir relatives or sympathizers could “manage to see the president. ‘The course ‘many a soldier's doom or deliverance fin thus: Court martial condemned, fanton approved, Lincoin pardoned. ir. was seldom able to resist i plea of « woman in bebalf fa husband or a son who was to be hot at daybreak next morning, and if ye Woman carried her baby into the iite House the infant had quite as gh effect upon the tender heart of pI ent as a baby in court has on ‘trying a man for murder. , evening Congressman Kellogg sived a dispateh to the effect that a ‘boy from his own town in New k was to be shot the next day on tion of a serious misdemeanor. yg rushed to Secretary Stanton, was like adamant. ‘Then he rush- ) President Lincoln, who had gone sd, bu congressman managed ee fae crecntive bodchamber. in and Kellogg bad been in con- wether and were old friends. his boy must not be shot, Mr. ft. Why, he is an old neighbor . Lean't allow him to be shot!” in was still in bed. After brief: sidering the matter in bis own 1 don’ Delle shooting, il boy any good. ‘me that amet, 2 ‘priate ors ho mee SE Nears rer Ce Aart ae Ooi le SRA, phers, who spent six months with him in the White House, has said that it is a great pity that Lincoln could not have bad “an additional secretary, whose sole duty should have been fo make note of the appeals for soldier pardons aud the president's action thereon from day to day. These inel- dents would have made a priceless volume; “But many such incidents have been prtserved, which illustrate the inborn kindliness and tenderness of Abraham Lincoln. Sometimes these incidents bad an amusing side owing to the president's habit of saying fun- ny things when he was doing serious things. An elderly woman Induced the fa- mous Thad Stevens to go with her to the president and plead for the life of her son, who had been court martialed and condemned. Mr. Stevens strongly recommended the pardon, stating that he knew all the facts. Lincoln isqed the pardon. As they walked down the hiall the happy old lady said to Stevens, “I knew it was a copperbead lie!” “What do you refer to, madam?” “Why, they told me he was an ugly looking man. He 1s the handsomest man I ever saw in my life!” A young man in a New York regi- ment had deserted two or three times. When finally recaptured he tried to poison his guards, He was condemn- ed to death. It was discovered that the boy had been of unsound mind. His mother went to Stanton, who post- tively refused to hear her. She went to Lincoln, who told ber that he ac- quiesced in Stanton's view, the case being 50 aggravated. Finally at 12 o'clock of the night before the execu- tion was to take place the mother in- duced a United States senator to go to the president and make a last appeal ‘on the ground of the boy's insanity. Lincoln was in bed. “The boy is insane, and it woul} be murder,” the senator said. “We do not ask a pardon, but just a reprieve, so that a medical examination can be made.” Lincoln replied that that seemed Just, and he sent a telegram to Ehnira, N. ¥., where the soldier was confined, delaying the execution, Early the next morning he sent another message by a different line to another individual in Elmira, dnd before the hour set for the execution had arrived the president had sent four telegrams to as many persons by as many different lines in his anxiety that the reprieve should reach Elmira on time. One day a visitor who had influence with the president entered the White ine vewiinls suit saw 4. poorly clad young woman who told him that she had been trying for two days to see Mr, Lincoln,’ but had been ordered away by the attendants, Her only brother, she said, had deserted through ‘bad influences and was sentenced to be shot, ‘The girl was weeping. pees es a little surprised to find the girl in bls office, but he heard | q bt ata, Joes a F poor cloth UR oe congress to plead your cause, You seem honest and truthful, and,” with emphasis, “you don’t wear hoops, and Till be whipped if 1 don’t pardon your brother.” Hon. Jobn B. Henderson was a United States senator from Missourt during the war. Senator Henderson had occasion to call upon the president in March, 1865, regarding a consider- able pumber of pardons for which bis constituents had requested him to ap- i. In Missouri during the war many men had been arrested by the Fed- ‘eral authorities and thrown Into prison at St. Louis and at Alton, Lil. Some Were to be shot for desertion or as ‘spies, others were condemned to long ‘terms of imprisonment, while still oth- ‘ers were simply in jail without much prospect of trial. Senator Henderson, who knew each case fairly well, divid- ed bis pardon applications into three ‘lists. In the first list he placed the aged of those as to whose Innocence i Was practically assured, The sec- ond list was made up of those whom he belleved it would be safe and prop- er under the circumstances to turn loose. ‘Those who in his opinion should be kept in jail he put in the third list. He presented the first list to Lincoln, who asked, in some sur- ‘prise, if Henderson wished him to “turn loose all these people at once.” ‘Henderson replied that he aid aud be thought it ought to be done. “I have no time to examine the evi- “dence,” said Lincoln, “I am constant- ly reproached for my too abundant charity, and what would be said it I should turn loose so many sinners at once?” After further argument Henderson induced Lincoln to pardon the whole bunch of applicants, he promising to be personally responsible for their fu- ture good behavior. “Thank you, Mr. President,” the Mis- souri senator said, “but I have another list here.” “I hope you are not going to make me let loose another lot.” “Yes. I am not so sure about the merits of this lot, but it is safer to err on the side of mercy.” “But, you know, I am charged with making too many mistakes on the side of mercy,” protested the president. “The war is nearly over,” replied Henderson, “Mercy {s and must be, after all, the poliey of peace.” Mr, Lincoln remarked that he guess- ed that Henderson was right, where- upon the latter said he was sure he was and the president ought to sign the pardon jist. “Well, I'll be durned if I don’t,” said Lincoln, taking up his pen.’ “Now, Henderson if these men don't behave I shall have to put you in prison for ‘their sins.” “A correspondent of a New York ‘newspaper related that once Lincoln ‘turned to him and said after granting a pardon to a young soldier condemned to death, his mother having pleaded for mercy in person, “Perhaps I have done wrong, but at all events I have made that poor woman happy.” lie ak She nak eile) ta: ee ‘ham Lincoln—some fim oer was bis very last—was to write a pardon for a Confederate in Missouri who tasomes, te Misarad: Unee te see Me Pages Mees hed | cee ae tt hack a Sporting Items From Everywhere Harry Hebner of the Ilinois Athletic club, one of the best amateur swim- mers in the country and practically in 4 class by himself as an exponent of the back stroke, has retired from Indi- vidual competition, He may swim on the Illinois relay team this season, but next year expects to give up all partict. pation in open events, ‘The retirement of Hebner marks the passing of another of the veteran squad ‘among swimmers. However, new stars are being developed in this country faster than the old ones retire. It’s a mighty poor swimming season that does not produce at least one sensation, Maxwell Takes Hat Off to Folwell. “Babe” Maxwell, former Dartmouth star, is authority for the statement that in a few weeks Bob Volwell taught Pennsylvania more about the art of interference than other drill masters could in three years. “There was more interference for the runner (in the West Virginia game) than we have seen since 1904, Every time a backfield man took the ball four or five of his teammates would precede him, and the runner had an opportu: nity to pick an opening.” Captain King Has Great Record, George A, King, Jr, who has been elected captain of the Harvard cross country team for next fall, made an enviable record in the season recently ended. King was the first Harvard runner to finish in every meet in whieh the Crimson took part. He finished first in the dual meet with M. LT, fourth fii the meet with Cornell, sec- ond in the Yale run and sixth in the intercollegiates. Harry Lord, former third baseman of the Boston Americans, will coach the baseball players of the University of Maine next year. Lord succeeds Monte Cross, one time star of the Ath- letics, who turned out a first class team at Maine last spring and sent Connte Mack several youngsters, Los Angeles to Hold A. A. U. Meet. ‘The national amateur track and field championships have been assured to Los Angeles for 1918. James Leslie Darcy, the Australian | draw a record audience: pugilist, who recently arrived in this| So if Darcy is to make his first ring country, has been accorded. a reception | appearance in New York he Is to face in America which would tend to con- | quite another proposition from what vince an uninformed bystander that} he has been accustomed to in bis ne the new arrival fs a monarch from|tive land. In other words, where some faraway land rather than a mere | James Lesile has been accorded a dis: ring general, tance of twenty rounds at home to But there may be and donbtless are | quell any aspiring mauler, he will be more serious matters facing Demon | required to complete bis job ln New Darcy, Something of a serious pro- | York in just half that time. The Sunday School Lesson Jerus and the woman of Samaria | woman who could make so diréet Gobn fv, 128). Memorize verses 13, | remark pass without a chance to learn 14. Golden Text, Christ Jesus came pee ined he —_ out a sen ; . | tence calculated to make any persom sae te World to sive sinnens {1 ‘Fin | pause’ snd ask questions. “If thou Verses 5-0.—A roadside interview, Leaving Jerusalem behind him, Je- sus set out for Galilee. Jobn says that “he must needs pass through Sa- maria,” giving the impression of an Jnward compulsion, But it was like- wise true that the natural route from Judea to Galilee followed that course, and the necessity may have been mere- ly that of reaching Galilee by the quickest possible route, “So he com- eth to a elty called Sychar.” ‘This is now identified as Askar, a village not far from Nablus, which is a corruption of Neapolis, the city the Romans built on the site of ancient Shechem. “Near to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave to bis son Joseph.” The word translated “portion” in Gen. xivili, 22, fs identical with the name Shechem. ‘The tradition was that Shechem was the ground in question, but this was fittle better than a tradition. “Jacob's well was there.” ‘The Greek makes it clear that this was a natural spring er fountain and not an artifielal well. ‘There is such a fountain about half a mile south of Askar, carefully walled about in order to provide a permanent water supply. It is till known as Ja- cob’s spring by the natives. “Wearled with his journey, Jesus sat” down to rest on the low wall that surrounded the well. “It was about the sixth hour.” If John is using a time reck- oning of his own, as suggested in a previous lesson, this would mean be- tween 5 und 6 p. m. Otherwise, ae- cording to ordinary Jewish usage, It would have been at about noon. “There cometh a woman of Samaria.” ‘This fact, coupied with the subsequent disclosure of her social status, is the thing that John would have his read- ers keep in mind. Jt marks again the universality of Jesus. On her head this woman balanced a water pot, and when Jesus saw it he very naturally asked her, “Give me to drink.” ‘The feeling between the Jews nnd the Sa- maritens was so bitter that “the wom- an” could not resist the opportunity, probably while she was in the act of granting the request, to polnt out the Inconsistency of this thirsty stranger by saying, “How is Jt that thon, being a Jew, askest drink of me, who am a Samaritan woman?” ‘Phe explanatory oie Yee ee een - Verses .44-—The water of tife, - ghat | E Pi tases Hakten'te Retire. 4 alk in Hie Ohnten Trouble Aweite Dares. By A. FAN Portion confronts him in his quest of the famed riches of our land. A casual ‘glance ut the possibilities in sight would indicate that quite a bale of trouble is walting ahead of the Aus- tralian boxer, Several of our aspiring boxers have been mentioned as possible ppponents for the neweomer in. his first bout. Among others are Mike Gibbons, Billy Miske, Jack Dillon, Al MeCoy and Bat- tling Levinsky, ‘There are several cities with reputations as centers of the art of fistiana ready and willing to stage the first real exhibition on our soll between Darcy and any logical op- ponent. But when you come to boll the issue down to a low simmer New York is the real place to stage the mill. Other cities offer a bit better prepo- sition in the way of allowing a Father more extensive and long drawn out combat. But this slight advantage fs re og ino aan i a > g) re 4 x ae Sa (a: v “ie he > + oe . f ie aa Pe ‘ ee FR SS Les Darcy, Australian Champion. offset by the overwhelming advantage enjoyed by New York of belng able to draw a record audience: So if Darcy Is to make his first ring appearance in New York he is to face quite another proposition from what he has been accustomed to in bis na- tive land. In other wonls, where James Leslie has been accorded a dis- tance of twenty rounds at home to quell any aspiring mauler, he will be required to complete his job ln New York in just half that time, & woman who could make so direct a remark pase without a chance to learn deeper truths. So he flung out a sen- tence calculated to make any person pause’ snd ask questions. “If thou kuewest the gift of God and who it Is that saith to thee, Give me to drink, thou wouldest have asked of kim and he would have given thee living wa- ter.” Here was a paradox, A mo- ment ago this man, tired, dusty, empty handed, had been asking drink as a boon. Now he Is talking about God's gift and living water and speaking of himself as a miraculous dispenser. No wonder “the woman” in her mystifiea. tion replied, “Sir, thou hast nothing to draw with, and the well is» deep. Whence, then, hast thon that Mving water?” ‘“Living water” was a local term for water which came from a bubbling spring, such as was this, Probably Jesus meant that she should be thus perplexed. She felt that there was something out of the ordinary about this man, but she could not de- termine what it was. “Art thou great- er than our father Jacob, who gave us this well?’ Could it be possible that this stranger would provide a water supply better than had been found in this ancient well, built by the patriarch from whom the Samaritans claimed de. scent? Jesus does not give a direct reply, but rather expands his previous metaphor. “Every one that drinketh this water shall thirst again.” ‘This remark would suggest that Jesus thought of another kind of living wa- ter. “The water that I shall give him shall become in him a well of water springing up unto eternal tife.” Verses 24-26.—The Messialt revealed, In the course of their conversation Jesus dnd the woman became involv- ed in a discussion of worship. Jesus put forward Immediately the true basis of worship in contrast to the petty details that had separated Sa- marlitan and Jew, “God is a Spirit.” Rather, as in the margin, God Is spirit. “His worship, therefore, must be a matter not of forms and places, but of inward dispositions; not*of types and symbols, bat of moral and. spiritual realities” (MeClymont). “They that worship him must «worship in spirtt and truth.” Forms and sacrifices be- come obsolete: God brings his spirit {nto touch with the spirit that truly seeks him, "F know that Messiah cometh, When he Is come he will de- clave unto us ail things.” The woman ‘was beyond her mental or spiritual Sakai ‘es wads waith, tee die the ‘ eee mene toe Oo ELECTING A PRESIDENT. Power of Congress to Deal With Elec: ‘tied Galeas tele Pea td on EE oe eT ‘The electoral commission established the precedent that congress should not seek to go behind certificates regularly submitted by recognized state govern- nents, ‘That prineiple is also embod- jod in the Edmunds law of 1887, whieh defined and cuinrged the power of con- gress (o deal with electoral college re- tins, : This uct directs that if any. state shall have provided ‘by law before the selection of electors for the final deter. mination’ of contests regarding their appointment the stdte’s decision shell he final unless the regularity of the state's action Is questioned yy both houses of congress, If two or more recurns are received these rules govern: First.-If the state shall have deter. mined that the vétes forwarded in one of the returns were given regularly those votes shall be counted. Second—If two nuthoritie€ each claiming regularity, shall both have de- termined that the different sets of Voters were regularly cast then con- gress must decide which set shall be accepted, ‘Third.—If the state shall have made no determination, then congress shali he free to determine, But if the houses: cannot agree the votes of those plectors Whose appojntment is etified by the governor shall be counted, ‘The general purbort of the act ig to recognize the right of congress to de- cide all disputed questions In regard to the counting of electoral votes which the state has not decided or has de elded Irregularly.—New York Tribune. MADE HIS WORKMEN RIVALS. How Charles M. Schwab Spurred Them ‘on to Grantor Gierté. In telling how he increased the efft- cheney of one of bis departments Charles M. Schwab, the famous steet man, says in the American Magazine “It was near the end of the day; in a few minutes the night foree would come on duty, 1 turned to a workman who was standing beside one of tho red mouthed furnaces and asked bim for a plece of chalk. “How many heats has your #bift made today? | queried, * “Six,” be replied. “I chatked a big “6 on the floor and Passed along without another word, When the night shift came in they saw the “6 and asked about It. “The big boss was in here today, sald the day men, “He asked ns how many heats we had made, and we told him six, He chalked it down.’ “The next morning | passed through the same mill. I saw that the ‘6 had heen rubbed out as a big bees instead. ‘The nigh? shift had ‘an nounced itwelf, ‘That night 1 wéne back. ‘The 7 had: been erased, and a 40 swaggered in ite place. The day, force recognized wo superiors. ‘Thus x fine competition was ited, amd it went om until this sail formerly th» poorest producer, was turning out ‘more than any other mill in the plas.” STING OF THE HONEYBEE. ee et eee a oe eer chine In Existence. In proportion to ite size, the sting of the honeybee tx probably the most ef fective infernal machine in existence, ‘The stinging apparatus ts smaller than that of a rattlesnake, yet « single sting has been known to kill a man, When we realize that it ts almost in- visible and consider what it can do wy cannot fail to be astounded. It seems the very quintessence of devilishness, ‘The honeybee’s xting ts complicated —so complicated that many words and much ink have been used fn discuss ing its construction and use, It is generally conceded that the sting consists of a shaft of three parts, the prineipal due being a sheath within which move two barbed lancets. Like the barbs of a fishhook, the lancets are not easily extracted from the flesh into which they have’ been driven. ‘Tho sbeath and the lancets combined form a hollow tube through which the pole xon flows from the polson sac. ‘Two hairy, soft projections, evident= ly very sensitive, inform the bee when she ts fn contact with a stingable ab- Ject Popular Selence Monthty. ‘The Blactrie Pac. Back in the early eighties Dr. 8. 8. Wheeler, an electrical engineer of New York, was experimenting with a smalt electric motor. In the course of his ex- periments the doctor concelved the iden that steamboats might\ be run with electricity If the propellers could be directly connected to high speed electric motors, doing away with all the gears then in use fn steam propul- sion, With this idea ta mind he had a small screw propeller constructed: and fastened it to the armature shaft of Is small motor, ‘To his surprise, the experiment resulted in a fine breeze of cooling air which niore than delighted the experimenter, for the day was de- cidlediy hot, It is needless to add that the experiments with serew propellers ended right there, and the engineer took up the study*of the electric fan, with the result that" he soon perfected the device until it was a commercial success, Roorbeck. “Ttoorback” is a word that#was adopt- ed Into the politieal vocabulary of the Vnited States in the last decade of the first half of the niueteenth century, With “gerrymander,” which came into use earlier, ands“boom,” whieh was in- vented later, it has long held a secure place in the distionary. “Roorback” ig defined as a fictitious report intended to influence an election and which hurts Sts author.—Christian Selene Monitor. Department for Modern Women THE PALM TREE CUSHION The easy way to make porch pillows is to buy attractive cretone that matches or contrasts your chairs, and after the pillow is covered stitch a quarter inch in from the edge of the seams. If you have more time try this one in tan linen embroidered in morning glories and bees, with a fringe on both ends. MITTENS FOR 12-YEAR-OLDS. How to Knit a Pair That Will Wear During Tobago Time. Use Scotch yarn and medium sized steel needles. Cast 16 stitches on each needle and knit 2 plain and purl 1 until the wrist is 3 inches long. Then knit 5 plain, purl 1, 1 plain, widen 1, 1 plain, purl 1, knit the remainder plain, widening one more on first needle and one on each of the other two needles for this round. * Second round: Knit 5, purl 1, knit 3, purl 1, knit remainder plain. * Repeat, only every fourth row widen 2 between purls until you have 11 stitches between purls. When about two and one-half inches long, measuring from wrist, take a darning needle and a piece of yarn and slip off those stitches between and including purls, making 13 stitches, then cast on 7 stitches and knit plain until when tried on the hand it covers the end of the little finger. Put same number of stitches on each needle. To narrow off * narrow 1 each end of each needle, knitting 1 stitch before narrowing and leaving 1 to knit after narrowing at other end. * That makes six stitches narrowed. Repeat narrowings every third round, until only 6 or 7 stitches are left on each needle, then knit once round between narrowings. When only 2 stitches are left on each needle break yarn and pull through stitches, thread through darning needle and fasten. For thumb, put the 13 stitches on two needles and pick up 8 stitches under thumb. Kilt the required length. Habit of Being Happy. Keeping yourself reasonably happy is a duty that ought not to be shirked. Science is telling us these days that to get out of the habit of enjoyment is to get depressed in vitality and vigor, to weaken in efficiency and grow old before one's time. There is nothing like laughter—not empty headed laughter, but the intelligent, wholesome, kindly hearted kind—to keep people young and fresh and fit for business and the obligation of living. Of course this is a precription not easy to live up to always, but there is no reasonable excuse for not trying to do it. Sometimes it is just about as easy to be happy as to be miserable if one makes up his mind to it, and there is no doubt at all as to which pays the better—Onward. Toast three slices of bread, butter each slice, place a lettuce leaf on each slice and spread with mayonnaise dressing. On the first slice place some nicely fried bacon. Then put on a slice of toast, buttered and lettuce side up. On the second slice place some cold fried chicken. Then put on the third slice, buttered side down, over the fried chicken.—Farm and Fire-side. THE CASH CUSTOMER. LANDS JAME! DON'T SELL US OUT—WE CAN'T EAT MONEY! HE'S WILLIN' TO PAY THE PRICE! U.S. MARKETS FOODS BUYING Club Sandwich Points About the Gayety of the New Season's Mouchoir. The handkerchief today is an altogether conspicuous sort of handkerchief. In blue and pink, maize and violet, brown, tan and green, it peeks forth from pocket or hand bag in utterly unhideable brilliancy of color and strikingness of design. Rose color, popular in everything, is much used for handkerchief this season. And the rose colored handkerchiefs are indeed lovely. They usually show much white in their makeup. Occasionally, however, one sees a very sheet square of rose colored muslin simply with a rolled, whipped edge. The whipping thread is black, white or rose. Black is a good deal used in the new handkerchiefs. Some pink and blue handkerchiefs show a deep border trimming of white or black dots in V-shaped wedges from the hem. Colored centers in all the colors mentioned, with wide hems of white, perhaps an inch and a half, are also considered smart. Linen is by no means the only material used today for the handkerchief. Crepe de chine, different sorts of silk, organdle and dimity are all used for handkerchiefs. Of course it is still possible to get all white handkerchiefs. They can be had in all their old daintiness of fabric and design, with dainty embroidered wreaths of owners in the corner or dotting the edge, with monograms and with initials. Gulmpes are coming into vogue again for children. The practical wash fabrics are still to be among those popular with the smart little folk. Little plaited skirts seem to be used on practically every model, even on the smallest child. Some have the jackets slipped over the head or buttoned on the shoulders. Gulmpes, which have often been made for little folk from their mothers' shirt waist, will be of much use to them this season, since practically all have the little white sleeves and yoke of lawn, linen, batiste, organdle and other sheer materials. For the fancy dresses georgette is used. An old rabbit is good prepared in this way, as it loses none of its flavor in boiling: Put a deep iron pot on the stove with about two tablespoonfuls of smoking hot fat. Have the rabbit cut up, salted and rolled in flour; drop in the pot, sprinkle with pepper and cover. Stir every few minutes until each piece is good and brown. Pour boiling water enough to cover and boil twenty minutes. Add a little milk and flour for thickening. KERCHIEF CUES. Guimpes For Children Smothered Rabbit. SOMETHING for the BOYS and GIRLS GETTING AFTER CHILBLAINS. Some Hints About Remedies For These Winter Pests. Here are a number of cures for frosted feet or chilblains. Some are very simple. Soak the feet in water in which potatoes with their jackets on have been boiled. Soak the feet in strong brine. Soak the feet in bran water containing three teaspoonfuls of muriate of ammonia. Rubbing the parts briskly, but gently, with oil of turpentine. Keep the frosted parts moist with the following: White castile soap, one dram; tincture of cantharides, two ounces. Take equal parts of tincture of iodine and solution of ammonia and paint the bitten parts morning and evening. Another preparation that is good is the following; One ounce of spirits of wine, ten drops of tincture of arnica. Rub well into the frozen parts. Here is an ointment that is recommended: Pure carbolic acid, thirty grains; tannin, thirty grabs; tincture of lodine, thirty drops; simple ointment, two ounces. Apply twice a day. This is best prepared by your druggist. A very simple one is to apply to the affected parts compound tincture of benzoin. One ounce sal ammoniac dissolved in one cup of vinegar. Bathe with soft cloth or gauze. It gives immediate relief. Citron ointment, one ounce; oil of turpentine, two drams; olive oil, four drams. Mix and apply to parts freely night and morning. Another, used by an old lady who says it is excellent, is as follows: Mix four ounces glycerin with one dram carbic acid. Paint the affected parts with this once or twice daily, using a small brush in applying and giving another application before retiring at night. Blind the parts with soft cloth. Geisha Bags. A pretty name for a pretty fail! These delightful little bags of brightly printed Japanese silkls in all sorts of patterns and colors come made in simple shapes, with bright cords run through a loosely crocheted edge at the top. The color of the design is repeated in the lining. A prettier use for scraps of Japanese silkls could not be found. If you want something particularly lovely buy one of the embroidered Japanese silk bags, or if you have remnants of an embroidered kilmono or silk scarf turn that into a bag for your party accessories. Green Corn Fritters. With a sharp knife clip off the grains of six large ears of corn, then scrape. Add an egg, one-half cupful of milk, one-half cupful of flour, and salt and pepper to taste. Drop in hot fat and fry. How Being a Pioneer Scout Gives Meaning to His Life. The country boy who becomes a first class scout opens a door for himself into a new world. Trees and flowers, weeds and mosses cease to be just masses of green and brown. All these groups divide into hundreds of distinct individual specimens, each with a history and interest of its own. The little bunch of gray feathers which was once only interesting, as a passable target for stones becomes a white breasted nuthatch, who seems to tell the scout in a contented little voice that she has done her share toward keeping down the insect pests of the farm. The little animal that lives in the stone wall ceases to be just a chipmunk and becomes a particular member of that large cheerful family. At night the spots of light in the sky are no longer merely stars; they group themselves into constellations, they show different characteristics of size and color, and they figure in wonderful legendary stories which can be traced back to the very dawn of knowledge. That H8ful Boy! [A "figurative" rime.] 1 f8ful day a boy went 4th; His dog went 2, 4 fun; The dog stalled a lion cat, Which 4th with tried to run. That poor affoused cat Dashed strayway 2 a fence, And sounds of 3old rage and h8 Now emanised thence. "This chance I can't affd 2 miss," The boy did specul; 4thwith he threw 1 stone, which puss Avoided all 2 is. But some 1 now 2 his surprise At 1ce in view appears And chides in 4cful toons be9 That boy of 1der years. "At1d 2 me," his teacher says, "Why, I'm disconsolls! I'll 4fiy your loder mind With 4titude, not h8." But quite intally the boy Calls to his ca9 creature, And, pointing 4th his 1 inlot, He 6 him on the teacher! -St. Nicholas. Chalk Chase. Corner or chalk chase is a short after school game and is played much like hare and hounds. There is a hare, fox or wolf, or perhaps two. A boundary of about six city blocks is chosen and When Maids Were Bold By A. M. HARPER DOUBT if many women have made a greater swing of the pendulum of social condition than I. In the year 1790 I was put into a crib draped with brussels lace. My father, the Duke of Montmarrville, was a favorite of King Louis XVL, who showered him with favors. Ten years later my father had gone down in the reign of terror and I was an exile. But I had in me the blood of warriors. The great Turenne was an ancestor of mine. Naturally when I found that I could not make a living as a woman I turned to the career of a man. I would have fought for France, but my ancestors had served their country under the royal standard bearing the fleur-de-lis. If I donned man's attire I must fight under the tricolor for the usurper Bonaparte, who was emperor by virtue of the blood of the king. No I would not go into the army. But I resolved to return to France. How I made my way there I can now hardly recall. ' I had become so used to hardship that the days I traveled on foot, the nights I slept in woods, my breakfasts of berries, my dinners—when I had them—given by some kindly farmer's wife, made no lasting impression on me. I remember well that one day I found myself in boy's clothing at the gates of the chateau in which I was born. I asked a man passing who lived there. He said that an army contractor had bought the place from the government, which had confiscated it after cutting off the head of its owner, the Duke of Montmartville. Most women would have burst into tears. Instead, I was enraged. "This is a world of robbery," I said, "and I will rob like the rest." I stole a pistol, but I could find no ammunition to steal and had no money to buy any. But I soon had money a-plenty, for I lay in wait for the contractor who occupied my birthplace, and when he was being driven into the gate by his fat coachman I stopped the coach, ordered the driver to dismount from the box and, opening the door, presented my unloaded pistol at the occupant and demanded his money. He happened to have a well filled purse, which he tremblingly handed me. I found money made by robbing so easy and so lucrative that I bought a horse and equipment for the road. I did not think to wear a mask. I had no cause to hide my visage. I was the daughter of a duke, but not a soul in France knew me as such or knew me at all, for that matter. I robbed only at night, and no one could see my features in the darkness. One night I stopped a coach, and after receiving the contribution of a man in for the BOY "TOTO THE MONK" R THE BIG BOSS Photo by American Press Association. The funny little "monk" in the picture aim in life. He wants to live long eno park, New York city. He has seen his dinary geological curiosity, the rock w band can stir its giant bulk. "What n Ushon Toto's motto. So in fine days hi台ve the rock. So far he hasn't suce day he'll lean against the stone in just The funny little "monk" in the picture is unlike many humans. He has an aim in life. He wants to live long enough to move the rocking stone in Bronx park, New York city. He has seen his dressed up cousins rock the extraordinary geological curiosity, the rock which is so well balanced that a man's hand can stir its giant bulk. "What man can do, monkey can try," is Orang Utan Toto's motto. So in fine days his keeper takes him out, and he tries to shove the rock. So far he hasn't succeeded, but Toto is ambitious, and some day he'll lean against the stone in just the right way. well defined. There should be no misunderstanding with regard to boundaries. To the chalk or hares is furnished a lot of chalk, preferably in lump; he starts at a signal, goes where he pleases, and at another signal from whistle or horn or at the end of one minute begins chalking easily visible marks wherever he bends at a considerable angle from a nearly straight course. He puts a mark on every corner that he turns; if he goes over a fence he chalks the side; if through an old building or an open cellar he does the same at each bend and turn. As many boys may join the chase as can get together, and it means a good, hard job to catch the hares. it and was about to turn away he said: “Madamoiselle, I shall know that voice if I ever hear it again. You are not a man, but a woman.” “I care not if you do,” I replied, “nor if you should see my features or know who I am, for mine is a wrecked life. I would it had been ended, as was my father’s, on the guillotine.” “Who was your father?” he asked. But I could not bring myself to let him know of the disgrace I had brought upon my family, and, putting spurs to my horse, I rode away. A love for a life of adventure grew upon me, and I caught the spirit of a Claude Duval. Herring that a ball was to be given by a person whom Bonaparte had enriched as King Louis had 'enriched my father, a desire seized me to attend it dressed in the apparel of my sex. Donning an ordinary woman's clothing, I went to Paris and bought a costume fit for the rank to which I was entitled. On the night of the ball I hired a coach and a maid and when the entertainment was in full swing drove up to the door, alighted, went to a robing room and then down into the drawing room to the host and hostess, who were receiving their guests. Madame looked at me in wonder, having never seen me before and uncertain whether I had been bidden or had come without an invitation. Her husband, who did not know all the guests, looked at me curiously. Their son, a man nearing thirty years of age, gazed at me with admiration as well as surprise. "Pardon me," said his mother. "I do not recall your features." "I am the Duchess of Mont-what-you-like," I replied. All looked at me in astonishment, but I saw the younger man start. He recovered his equanimity at once and, offering me his arm, led me away. As soon as we were out of hearing he turned to me and said: "I told you that I would know your voice should I ever-hear it again, and to convince you that I was right you are the highway woman who robbed me of 10 nangoles a few months ago." I tried to disengage my arm from his that I might take to flight, but he was stronger than I and held me. "Fear nothing," he said. "I will keep your secret." I never again donned man's attire. My victim persuaded me to permit him through his father to plead my cause with Bonaparte, who was endeavoring to conciliate the old nobility of France. In the end I received back a portion of my estate, including the chateau, and I now live there peacefully with my husband, whom I robbed on the highway. IS and GIRLS ROCKS ROCKING STONE ure is unlike many humans. He has an eugh to move the rocking stone in Bronx is dressed up cousins rock the extraor- which is so well balanced that a man's man can do, monkey can try," is Orang s keeper takes him out, and he tries to needed, but Toto is ambitious, and some the right way. angle from a nearly straight course. He puts a mark on every corner that he turns; if he goes over a fence he chalks the side; if through an old building or an open cellar he does the same at each bend and turn. As many boys may join the chase as can get together, and it means a good, hard job to catch the hares. TRAPPED IN A STOKEHOLE. The Fate That Firemen on a Warship Are Liable to Meet. The soldiers who fight with least recognition in the battles at sea are the stokers of the destroyers running at full speed. Eight men work under the command of a stoker petty officer in a space so narrow that movement of any kind seems impossible. There is a furnace in front and one in the back. Sandwiched in between is a maze of levers, pipes, pumps and gear. Yet within these close quarters the stokers find space to perform their heartbreaking toll in an atmosphere almost too hot to breathe, says the Popular Science Monthly. When the men are at their posts the iron hatch is closed down, and the air sucked in through a ventilator has to pass through the furnace before it gets to them. So long as the pumps work well and the evaporated water is displaced with automatic regularity by fresh neither the tubes nor the boiler casting can get dangerously hot. But sometimes without apparent cause the water slowly descends below the level. Sometimes the cause of mischief is a leakage—a pipe broken or a joint strained that allows the water to escape. If it can be remedied, well and good. But if not and the water continues to drop steadily the stoker petty officer has but one duty to perform—to keep the hatchway from being opened by the frenzied stokers, thus allowing the flames to escape and destroy the entire vessel. The heroes who perish in the stokebolds like so many rats caught in a fiery trap are not even listed. PESTS THAT LIVE ON PESTS. Tiny Scorpion-like Crabs a Deadly Food to Houseflies. To the naturalist or to any one accustomed to observe nature closely the fact is apparent that the problems of existence are proportionately the same in every form or stratum of life. Even the common housefly, which seemingly has nothing else to do but to crawl lazily over whatever is left uncovered and then go happily on its way, doing its best to bring about an affiliation between the clean and the unclean, occasionally meets its Nemesis in the form of a tiny crablike creature which attaches itself to the fly's legs. These little creatures are known to the scientists as pseudo scorpions, or chelifers, says the Popular Science Monthly. They may sometimes be found between the leaves of old books that have stood unused for a long time and also beneath the bark of trees and in mosses. Although they are called false scorpions, they resemble the true scorpion closely in general structure except for their minute size. But they have no poison gland as the true scorpions have. They attach themselves to other insects also, but they seem to be the special pest of the houseflies. Scientists suppose that they seize the fly leg and hold on until the fly dies, either worried or frightened to death by the undesirable presence. When the fly is dead the little creature feeds on the body. Fighting Wind and Wave. In a storm at sea, with a gale blowing in one direction and the sea running in the opposite direction, it takes a stanch ship to stand the water pressure on one side and the contrary wind pressure on the other. Stability is one of the greatest problems to the constructor of a steamship. Naturally the center of gravity should be low. The hull must be of such a form that when the vessel rolls to one side the center of buoyancy shall move sufficiently far to that same side for the forces of buoyancy acting upward to right the vessel. A badly designed ship is liable to many dangers. If light in the stern the screw may come out of the water, race and be snapped off. If too low in the stern when running before a storm breaking waves may fall on board and so tend to swamp the vessel. A ship may be top heavy. 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State of Illinois, Massac County, ss. In the Circuit Court of said County, January Term A. D. 1917. Elizabeth Wymer Vs. C. H, Dunn, and Ella Dunn. Bill to foreclose mort. gage No. 240, Public notice is hereby given that in pursuance of adecree entered at the January Term of said court, to wit, on the lthday of Janusry A, D. 1917 in the above entitled cause, I, 8. Bart- lett Kerr, Master in Chancery of said County, will at the hour of 10 o'clock A. M. Saturday February 10th A. D. 4917 at the east door of the Court House in the City of Metropolis, County of Massac, and State of Illinis, sell at Public vendue to the highest and best bidder, the following described real estate to-wit: Lots Three (3) and Four (4) in Block Seven (7) in the Fostlewaite and Mor- ton Addition to the village of. Brook- jyn, now the City of Brookport, in Massac County, State of Illinois. Terms of sale, Cash in hand. Dated this 11th day of January A. D. 1917. 8, BautLert Kerr, Master in Chancery. Geo. H. Crippins The Blacksmith W, 7th Street, between Market and Pearl Streets; Metropolis, heull- | iat fe pet OA. ee: (seta aan Ooo) \ i Horse Shoeing and Rubber Tire- ing a Specialty General Repair Work Give me atrial. Aj! work Guar- baneée, eee to private soldiers Who Were ww Fe rms offense against roll-| $100 Reward, $100, ‘The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has beoti able to cure in all ita stages, and that is catarrh. Hall's catarh cure is the oely postive cure now now known to the medical fraternity. catarrh he ing a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's Ca- tarrh is taken internally, acting direet- ly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destioying the foundation of the diseasey and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in do ing its work. ‘The proprietors have gc much faith in its eurative powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. send for list of testimonials, Address F. J. CHENEY & 60., Tale do, 0. Sold by all Druggists, Te. Take Hall's Family Pills for consti pation. Mrs. Emma Si nmons, returned t> Chicago, her home Saturday alter attending the bed-side of her mother, Mrs Mollie Clay- brooke, who is much improved. She was accompanied home by her nephew, Master Harry Lyttor Carter, Mrs. Rosa Payne was Padu- cah, visitor last week Mrs. Annie Porter, srtived in the city from Memphis, Tennesee, where she spent several months. Rev. Sydes, P. E. ot Spring- field, was in the city this week. Misses Lottie Mae Rand and Maude Wiley, of Paducah, Ky., visited Miss Grace Mayberry, Sunday. Mrs. Parthenia Dixon of Padu- cah, Ky., was in the city Wed- nesday, Ed Jones returned from Padu- cah, last week. Ollie Shelton returned to her home in St. Louis, after visiting relatives in the city several weeks. Those who owe the Gazette must send in their subscription at once as we need our money. Mrs Luragia Blakemore, dau- ghter of Mr. and Mrs. Miago Loag, is dangerously sick. She was stricken while washing Wed- nesday and fell on the floor, Rev. Geo. Crippens, has taken arelapse and is unable to follow his work. | We are sorry to learn of the sickness of Rev. G. w. Braddock of Md City, and hope be has fully recovered by this time. | George Wheeler, of W. gth St., ‘is very sick. | Mes. Mollie Claybrooke, is tei proving at this writing. The Club Convention of the 184 Baptist church will hold their and quarterly convention Saturday and Sunday, Everbody is cord- ially invited to attend. A special program willbe rendered. Mrs. Bessie Cork, is Presidemt for this quarter. ‘There will be preaching ail day. Prof. J. D. Alston, came home sick last week, | Mrs. Lena Johnson, is at home from California on a visit with her poregts;/ Mi: aod” Mirai homes! Roberts | Rev. and Mrs. B. J Kelly, are on the sick list, Edgar McCrary, was at home from Unienville, Saturday where he is teaching. Mrs. Vina Hollingsworth, and sister, Winnie Pickett, brought their brether here trom Collins- ville, Ill, where he died and he was buried here recently, we sympathize with them. The wile of Rev. Thos. Morris, and his mother-in-law, Mra. Le- mons are both very sick especially the latter. Mrs Amagda Leech, of 11th street, died last Friday night alter the 4. M. E. church of which she was a member, Rev. I, S. Stone officiating. The Gazette extends sympathy to the relat ves. NOTICE IS. GIVEN To our subscribers that beginning with tbe tst of March the sub- scription price of The Gazette, will be raised to One Dollar and Fitty Cents per year in advance, instead of $100 the present price, Those who are io arrears with the paper that will pay up between now and the 1st of Mar and renew for one year can get the paper for $1.00 The price of the news that we have been printing our paper oo advanced the 1st of the year to almost double to what we were paying until we are compelled to raise the price of subscription in order to keep our paper ruwning We cither have to raise the price or cease the publication of his organ. We cannot very well afford to do this, as the Ne- groes of Southern Til, sbould have a mouth’ piece through which to speak. After the 1st of March we will be compelled to place all of our delinquent subscribers Out for collection, because any one could have paid the small price one dollar a year if hadtried. We have several who have ordered their paper stopprd without pay- ing us and these will be placed for collection as the law protects in the collection of subscriptions. The Gazette has been publish- ed since March 4th 1898 and with your assistance we will con- tinve its publication, and give ycu a better paper in the future. We have eliminated the foreign advertis-ments {rom our patent insides ard give you pure reading matter in its stead, and hope to be able in the near future to give you all home print or at least to iacrease the size of the paper. All of the weekly papers white and colored with afew excep- tion of a few colored have 1aised the price of their subscription to $1.50 and $2 00 per year in ad- vance and we not raise our price last fall, as we thought possibly the cost of news print would fall but instead of # fall the price wes raised to almost double. | We would like to have you to enc inve to read the paper. Take notice to the above, and Read! thea Act! DEWMAINE, ILL. iditor Metropolis Gazette Dear Sir: We have noticed your appeal as Moderator ofthe Mt. Otive Association respecting some of the sick ministers in your dis- ‘triet, viz. Revs. Blake and Win- ‘ston, I regard it as being a timely appeal, and feel that every broth- er and sister in this part of the state should contribute something to them, as they are perhaps nearing the Jordan, as all of us ne surely doing, | This should he dome isr-spect- ed of the association. Do our duty and glority Ged. I noticed in the last issue of the Gazette the death of Eld. I W. Winston, of Duqueia, IIL, his family and friends have our sym- pathy It was perhaps in Dec. we re- membered him with a small do- nation, and also Revs. Chavis and F, Holmes, out of th: treasurer of the Institute of which Eld. A, J. Bowers, of Dewmaine, is presi- ‘dent. t May the Lord work especially on the hearts of the bretren mine isters that they may teach pure and undefiled religion. Our services were cut short in every respect Sunday. I guess the bl zzard was felt tar and wide, we fell short in finance too, but you will find enclosed a $1.00 money order for Rev. Blake. We do not know his address, we are azo mailing an order uf $1 00 to Rev, Parker, of Shawneeiown, who has been quite sick for some time. Eld E. Holmes, of Duquoin, should not be forgarten entire y, remember, we, thet are well and hearty today, do not know what may belall us tomorrow. Bro, editor, as you are one of the committee to look after a site for the aged minister's home, it 1s hoped that you ail bring in a fav- orable report. C C Phillies OVERTAXING INDUSTRY. ‘Taxes are not alone the burden of the rich. ‘They tuevitubly doscend aloug the scale und are geueraily shared tn some proportion by all, When exces: sive burdens of taxation emphasize the competitive disadvantages of any cow- tunity for any branch or class of bust- bess that community will invariably suffer a decrease in the industrial de- Yelosment and prosperity of all within ity boundaries, Tu iaany sections of the country re- ports show that industry le often sub Jected to continuons and unreasonable ‘burdens of taxes in ope form or an- other. This condition ts due in purt at least to a mistaken pubile attitude to ward industrial operations or a preju- diced, ignorant or indifferent opinion on the part of pubile officers apd politt. clans. ‘The history of industbial com- munities where such burdens are tim- posed, however, ts the best evideme of whether such n poiley pays anybody, ‘Two manufacturers tn similar lines of business, ove operating a plant in Massachusetts and the other located tn Connecticut, were recently comparing netes. ‘They discovered that for every $100 in taxes which the Connecticut plant pays per annum the Massachw- setts plant Was paying $1,000, or ten Umes as much. The answer to this sit- uatiow ts that Massachusetts has been falllug bebiud fn the percentage of growth as an industria) state compared with some of ber velghboring commu- nities where judustry is not #0 often aimed at by burdensome, unnevesary and unreasonable laws, ‘The following open letter by J. W. Powell, prosideat of the Fore River lass.) Shipbuilding Corporation, ad- dressed to the employees of that com pany hm a recent iseuc of thelr “family magarine,” The Fore River Leg, pre- sents lo a fair way the average bust ness man's view on excessive taxation of tndustrin) plants: “What {8 good for Vore River is good for Quincy, and what ta good for Quin- ey {6 good for Fore River. “The officers and employees of this company and their families make up more than a quarter of the population of the city. ‘Their interests are the same as the interest of Quincy and of the Fore River Buipbuliding Corpora- tion, “This company's besiness ts building ships, which brings 08 into competi- tion with companies building ships in other States, Anything that Fore Kiver must do {n this community that other shipbullding companies o not have to do in thetr cities will, in the long ram, burt os. “Today there are more ships to be built than there are yards to butht them. When the war {s over thece wit! be more shipyards than there ase ships to build. ‘Then the yard that. butids the cheapest will take the con- tracts, and the yard whose costs are highest will disebarge {ts men. “The other big shipyards do not pay Ug taxes. Some of them pay no taxcs at all. If y9u own a house nnd rent tt you add your taxes into the rent. If Fou rent # house you pay the toxes when you pay your rent, #0 the com- pany must add its taxes when ft elisa ship. “Such an assessment and such taxes as have boen levied against this eompany this year in Quincy, whieh {s as uel as the combined cost of its new hos- pital and club, burt tt and will burt you. It ts not fatr to increase this com- pany’s qssossment 00 per cent and to Increase tts taxes nearly 50 per cent thts your ns against a year ago. “Yon tnow that a creat oart of the Applied Learning. ‘The Absent-Mipded Professor—“By tailor bas put one button too many on my vest. I must eut it of That's funny; now thera's a buttorhole too many. What's the use of arithmetic?” —Sourtre. Set Coremon Sense a Bad Master, In creative thought common sense te a bad maater. Ts sate thangs judgment is that now Ideas shall Joel ike old ones. In other words, ft cao enty oct by suppressing originality — A. N. Whitehead t “Am Introductior te Mathematics.” The Grand Leader Gate Opened its doors to friends and well wishers Saturday’ Night, Dec. 30,1916 No. 900 Gor. Ninth and Pearl Sts. For a Nice Clean Cafe, where you will) meet your friends and receive careful and, courteous attention, come to the " Grand Leader Cafe In connection with our cafe, we will con duct a 5c and 10c variety bargain counter, Our Motto: The best is not too good for any of ou customers. Hot and Cold Lunches Served Hot cat fish, “KentuckyOysters” Saturda: night. You can get soup, stew, pork cho ham and eggs, tripe, pig feet, etc., in fac we cai serve you on short order. Give 4, a trial is all that we ask. Everything i, sanitary condition. Watch this space each week, For one and all, a successful New Year. Remember the Place. J. B. McGRARY, Mgr. Subscribe for The Gazet oe, HAIR See ait f Eee ae RES MY ott Si REEORERIEON what yartce (BURR at = om BF pereart vs ies, water irt NGM Eeey § Bloshish joss age ecird Sarees ‘Yours tray, iu Coa ‘Don't let some fake Kink Remover foot Cultweedine ee EXELENTO gun's doce, removes Dandruff, foods the Roots Siew aererc mene thine cl ic neta iithes better toe Barer occurs eee Rac iby nuson Yecipc of starepe orrcoke, AGENTS WANTED EVERYWHERE, me aerate SXELENTO HKDICING CO., Allsnts, On Rev. G W Braddock, of Md. City, recently appointed to fill the vacancy of Eev. 1, W Win- ston, deceased as missionary, died Wednesday night at ,his home after a brief ilinessof pneu monia. Funeral Saturday emer ee | For Private Telepnone vervice, _ Many British business men are of tbe opinion that Eugiand would have a better telephone service if it were ‘out of the government's hands, eee | Dignamtsm. Digeara tells us: “Chere are many ‘Hake In business. ‘The wiee man ah jows bis eompeutors to take thou” Administrator's Notice Estate of Malissa Gaines, Deces ‘The undersigned, having been appa ed Administrator of the Estate Mall Gaines late of the County of Massae the State of Illinois. deceased, her gives notice that be will appear bei the County Court of Massae Cor at the Court House in Metropolis, the April Term on the first Monds April next, A. D. 1917 at which all persone having claims against estate are notified and requested tend for the purpose of havi same adjusted. Al) persone it to said estate are required tom immediate payment te the undersiy Dated this 30th day of January, D. 1917. NELSON Galwes, Adminiatrate 8. Bartierr Kern, Attorney. { Sale of Personal Prope | Notice is Hereby Given that on urday at 1p. m. the 24th day ‘of | ruary, A. D. 1917, next, between hours of ten o'clock in the fore | and five o'clock in the afternoon o |anid day, at the late residence of lissa Gaines, on Lot 1, Block 66, tropolis, Ill., personal property o: decedent, consisting of Hous: goods, and other articles, will be at Public Sale, in accordande wit order of the County Court of County. | Terms of sale: All sales up to ‘cash, and $5.00 and over one m. ‘time with acceptable .security, | Per cont interest from date, February Ist, A. D, 1917, NELSON Gaines, Administ! S. Banrierr Kerr, Atty. Cunt Rosy, ‘The Profits of Gardening, To this unjust world a large tre profits of s town garden are by the hardware store. Mobe.