Metropolis Weekly Gazette

METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE To the Baptist Churches of Mt. Olive Baptist Association It is to be hoped that all of our churches will respond to the urgent need and appeal of our missionary on the field just now. Brethren, it is a sin to place a man on the field to look after the neglected churches and fail to see after his support, while we are at home faring sunaptuously every day with our families and congregations. It is worse than a crime to allow his family to suffer, while we are responsible to send the gospel into destitute places "How can they hear without a preacher, and how can they preach except, they are sent?" Brethren, bestir yourselves as never before; the eyes of our old fathers who have let their mottles fall on us are expecting us to evangeize this field in they labored so earnestly contending for missions and the missionary. Remember the great commission, and let us take the State for Christ. The harvest is white, but the laborers are few. Lift up your eyes and look upon the field. The true missionary spirit is lax in most of our Baptist churches in Southern Illinois. PROGRAM Of The Thirty Seventh Annual Session of the Mt. Olive Baptist S. S. Conversion, Nineteenth Annual Institute, Sixteenth Arrival E. Y. F. U. To be held with the Mt. Moriah Baptist Church, Cairo, Ill. June 20th to the 24th. 1917. 8:30 a.m. Meeting called to order by the Press. J. W. Corneal, Centralia. Devotional exercise Joppa delegates. 9:00 a.m. Welcoming address-M. Moriah, Response, Mrs. Kittle Hill, Mt. Vernon 10:09 Topic- "What is the purpose of the Institute?" Opened by Rev, Levi Thompson, Mt. Vernon. 2:05 Kaper, "Christian Development" Mrs. Hattie Tay- lors, St. Cipriani lor, 12th St. Carlo. 2:20 Introduction of visitors. President's annual address. 2:30 Paper, "The great need of competent E. S. Teachers" Carbondale delegate. 2:45 Music-Mt. Moriah choir. 3:00 Sermon. 4:00 Round table talk "The great need of Missionary workers in our district" Mrs. Ruth Nichols, Metropolis. 8:30 Devotional exercise led by Harrisburg' delegate. 9:00 Meeting called to order by Pres. Edgar S. B. McCrary, Metropolitan Ill. Metropolis, I. 9:10 Roll call of officers. Appointment of committees. 9:30 Welcome Address-Mt. Moriah B. Y, P. U. President, D. H. Young, Centralia. 1:30 Devotionals-New Bethel and Mounds delegate. 2:00 Roll call? Reading morning journal. 2:15 Address, Mrs. Lee Belle Duke, President of Metrop- Let us put out mission cards, preach a mission sermon once a month or a quarter lift a special collection for missions and start the mission box plan. We have a good missionary in the person of Elder J H Hilley, and he needs our support. Let every church send something to the Board which meets with the Sunday School conuion at Cairo, June 13th. All Sunday Schools of the Mt. Olive Baptist S. S. Convention that are not supplied with letter blanks can be supplied by the Cor Sec'y. at the Convention when in session at Cairo. Invention of Cut Glow. Pressed glass was invented by an ample carpenter of Sandwich, Mass, but in the primitive state of Shirley it profited him little. More than 200 years ago a flochman glassmaker conceived the idea of making glass. This idea was destined to revolutionize the entire glass industry of the world. The inventor began by making the walls of the article on which he was working thicker than he wouwot so that he might cut the glass with a sharp knife into figure as he chose. INSTITUTE MOTTO : HEW TO THE LINE. LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY. J. B. McCrarv, Moderator. NOTICE. 9:00 Installation of Officers. Presentation of B. Y. P. U. Bruner. FRIDAY MORNING 9:30 Devotionals Colp and Grand Chain delegates. 9:10 Meeting called by president, Dennis Farrow, Cairo 9:20 Roll of officers. Appointment of committees. 9:30 Welcome Address, Pastor, F. Bomar, Response, Cobden delegate. 9:40 Topic, "How can we free our Individual Responsibility from the S. S. Opened by Carbondale delegate. Discussion. 10:10 Solo, Mrs. Ellen Elder Hunter, Cobden. 10:20 Report of enrollment committee. 10:30 Round Table Talk-"The S. S. (a) Its object (b) The results. 11:00 Preaching, Rev. Jno. Bruen. 11:50 Duet, Mrs. Lee Belle Duke and Miss Margie Tandy. Metropolis. 12:00 Collection and adjournment. After-noon 1:30 Devotionals Md. City delegate. 2:00 Roll Call. Reading morning journal. 2:10 Reading letters. Introduction of visitors. 3:00 Sermon, . H. Starks, Cairo. 4:00 Collection and adjournment. Evening 7:30 Devotionals 40th St. Cairo. 8:00 Sermon-Rev. H. E. McWilliams, Chicago. 9:00 Announcements, collection and adjournment. SATURDAY MORNING 8:30 Devocionals Tamma delegate. 9:00 Roll call. Reading Evening journal. 9:12 Reading of letters, etc. 9:45 Paper Optional, Mrs. Lillie A. Towles, Metropolis. 10:00 Report of various committees. 10:30 Solo J. W. Corneal, Centralia. 10:40 Address Harrisburg delegate. 11:00 Sermon J. H. Willingham. Md. City. 12:00 Collection and adjournment. After-noon 1:30 Devotionals Carrier Mills delegate. 2:00 Roll call. Reading morning journal. 2:30 Report of committees. 3:00 Reading letters. 3:0) Topic "Caring for the Social life of the young," Openal by Mrs. Kittie Hill, Mt. Vernon. Discussion. 4:00 Collection and adjournment. Evening 7:30 Devotonals- Unionville delegate. 8:00 Roll call. Reading afternoon journal. 8:15 Literary program conducted by Pres. of W. E. and M. Convention, Mrs. M. J. Blake, Hodges, Park. 9:00 Reception tendered delegates by Mt. Morizh S. S. Adjournment. 8:30 Devocionals Tamms delegate. 9:00 Roll call. Reading Evening journal. 9:12 Reading of letters, etc. 9:45 Paper Optional, Mrs. Lillie A. Towles, Metropolis. 10:00 Report of various committees. 10:30 Soio J. W. Corneal, Centralia. 10:40 Address Harrisburg delegate. 11:00 Sermon J. H. Willingham. Md. City. 12:00 Collection and adjournment. After-noon 1:30 Devotionals Carrier Mills delegate. 2:00 Roll call. Reading morning journal. 2:30 Report of committees. 3:00 Reading letters. 3:0) Topic "Caring for the Social life of the young," Openal by Mrs. Kittle Hill, Mt. Vernon. Discussion. 4:00 Collection and adjournment. Evening 7:30 Devotonals- Unionville delegate. 8:00 Roll call. Reading afternoon journal. 8:15 Literary program conducted by Pres. of W. E. and M. Convention, Mrs. M. J. Blake, Hodges, Park. 9:00 Reception tendered delegates by Mt. Morish S. S. Adjournment. SUNDAY MORNING 9:39 S. S. conducted by Mt. Moriah Supt. 10:30 Devotionals. 11:00 Memorial service, J. D. Davis, C. W. Norment and D. Parrish. 12:00 Collection and adjournment. 9:39 S. S. conducted by Mt. Moriah Supt. 10:30 Devotionals. 11:00 Memorial service, J. D. Davis, C. W. Norment and D. Parrish. 12:00 Collection and adjournment. Afternoon 2:00 White dress Parade. 3:30 Instrumental Solo. Miss Ann Lyde Thomas. 3:15 Miscellaneous Business. 4:00 Collection and adjournment. Evening 6:30 B. Y. P. U. Local Pres., Frank L. Jenkins. 7:30 Devotionals, 8:00 Sermon, Elder J. B. McCrary, Moderator of the Mt. Olive Baptist Association. Alternate, Elder J. H. Starks. 9:00 Awarding S. S. Banner and installation of officers. 9:30 Collection and hand shaking. Adjournment and Benediction by speaker of the evening. Committee— ELDER JOHN BRUEN " D. H. YOUNG BRO. J. W. CORNEAL. Officers of the General Batist State Convention of Illinois NOTICE. This is to tify every S. S. of of the Mt Olive Baptist S. S. Congress will meet in Nashville, Tenn, from the 13, to 18 of June and as we are you, Institute Conductor will ask that you please send us $1. each on Monday after the 4th Sunday in May to assist us in our fare as we want to bring new methods to our Convention when convened with the Mt. Moriah Baptist church Cairo, in June. Committee on Nomination beg to report as follows: Moderator Eld. J. F. Thomas. 1st Vice Mod. " W. P. Washington. 2nd Vice Mod. Eld. C. w. Norment. Recording Sec. Eld. P. B. French Corresponding Sec. Ed. J. B. McCrary. Treasurer Eld. H. C. Arm- stead. The superintendents and pastors will please take this matter up at once. J. B. McCrary, Institute Conductor. All Weather Good. State Mission Board Chairman Dr. C. C. Phillips Cor. Sec. Eld. J. D. David Treasurer Eld. J. E. Haywood Other Members J. B. McCrary All Weather Good. Sunshine is delicious, rain is refreshing, wind braces up, snow is exhilarating; there is really no such thing as bad weather, only different kinds of good weather.—John Ruskin. 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. On to Cairo, in June To the officers, and members of the Mt. Olive B. Y. P. U. Convention of Southern Illinois, Greetings:— Just one month from the time this article was written until the Mt. Olive B'. Y. P. U. will be called on in another annual session with the Mt. Moriah Union, Cairo. We ask that every Union represent by delegate or letter as we are striving to make this the year. We are sure of $100, this year if you will only do your duty. Remember the Banner that will be given away to the one representing with the largest amount mount of money. a Mrs. L. B Duke, president of the Metropolis Union, says, 'they will still hold the Banner, and will continue until they get tired and give it up.' We ask that the other larger Unions see about her report and get it once. The Union will couvene Thursday before the 4th Lord's day in June. Let us surpass the meeting in Carbondale, Spiritually, numerically and financially. Come prepared to take an active part in the meeting. Iola M Urquhart, Cor. Secy., Metropolis, Ill. In the Sunken Submarine. "It's too annoying that we should be stuck down here. I bought myself the most splendid tomb only last week."—Lustigo Blaetter. The Profits of Gardening. In this unjust world a large part of the profits of a town garden are made by the hardware store.—Atchison Globe. ETTE Copy Five Cents DOUGLASS LAMB CHAR- GED WITH FIENDISH CRIME AGAINST 4 YEAR OLD GIRL. Donglass Lamb, formerly of the city and who conducted a general store for a good number of years on West Lincoln avenue, but now residing in Carrier Mills, and who also conducts a store in what is generally termed the East End, was indicted by the recent grand jury in session here on four very serious charges. He was charged with taking indecent liberties with a 9 year-old white girl, a 4-year-old white girl and two colored girls, aged 9 and 12, were also approached by him with indecent proposals and a 4 year old girl shamefully mistreated. The story told by the 4-year old girl and her mother discloses one of the most fluentish crimes ever committed in this county. According to the evidence given to the grand jury the little girl's mother left her in the care of Mr. Lamb while she came to town, and upon her return home the little girl, who is only 4 years of age and fatherless, complained of feeling bad. The mother investigated and found the child had been horribly mistreated and asked her what had happened and it was then that the little tot told of the dastardly deed committed by Douglass Lamb, who is probably more than 50 years of age and the father of grown children. The 9-year-old little girl then testified that Lamb had taken hold of her arm and tried to get her data a rear room of the store, telling her that he would give her all the candy she wanted to eat if she would be his sweetheart for a short time. The child broke loose from his grip and ran home. Two colored girls, one 9 years of age and the other 12, testified that Lamb had attempted to get them into the rear room of the store, also offering them candy if they Would be his sweetheart for a few minutes. Since Lamb's actions has become known to the residents of Carrier Mills, feelings has been running high and there was some talk of violence on the part of the people who were so wrought up over the fiendish crime against the 4-year old orphan girl. States attorney Lewis has heard of other actions on the part of this man which, if true, are if possible more brutal and inhuman than the crime he is already charged with. The stories of his doings came to Mr. Lewis after the grand jury, but he says they will be thoroughly investigated and the man will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. If these charges are true which in all probability, they are, the negroes of the South have nothing on this man who represents himself to be a human being. States attorney Lewis will have the unqualified endorsement if every estizen in this community in the prosecution of this case. Such men running at large are a menace to the entire community and should be placed where at least infants would be safe. —Harrisburg Chronicle. --- Celebrating Fourth as Our Fathers Did Food For the Farmer's Brain UNCLE SAM'S BIRTHDAY July 4 tion of the whole country been brought to realize the importance of July 4, 1776, when the United States decided to break away from the mother country and be free. In recent years the safe and sane movement has eliminated fireworks in the celebration of the Fourth, and a new order of patriotic enthusiasm has taken place, in which historical pageants have played a big part. This year, when our country has become the champion of liberty and freedom for the entire world, our citizens everywhere have planned greater patriotic demonstrations than ever before. These will show our own thankfulness for the freedom which our fathers have left us and which millions upon millions from other lands have come to our shores to share with us. The old fashioned Fourth of July will again be with us this year, but with a modern setting. To find the old fashioned Fourth in all its glory we must go back about thirty years. By the middle of the eighteens it was obsolescent; and by the nineties it was an anachronism at which the superior might smile. But as the old fashioned Fourth receded the volcanic, homeloid and incendiary Fourth came on apace. Parents gave their children money to buy cannot crackers "because all the other children had them," while they themselves turned to the perusal of the latest history written to prove that the fathers were, on the whole, a bad lot who in some incomprehensible manner effected the Revolution without having the least sympathy from the better classes. Excitement of the Boys. On the evening of July 3 the small boy on the farm or in the village went to bed in a fever of excitement. "Tomorrow's the Fourth of July!" No one had livelier anticipation of a "perfectly corking time." And those anticipations were usually realized, as men in middle life will readily testify. At the first gray of dawn he is out of bed and out in the open, listening with all his might. "Boom!" His heart swells with rapture, his heels go into the air. It is the first salute of the day from the old cannon which has performed that service for the neighborhood each Fourth of July since that remote antiquity when his own father was a boy. Again and again that booming note rolls echoing across hill and vale, prairie and woodland, and everywhere it is heard with a positive thrill of patriotism, enthusiasm and martial ardor. Breakfast is eaten, the carriage is made ready and the whole family starts for the place of celebration. Invarially this is a grove near some village, and here are provided seats of long planks, with trestles for support, and a platform for speakers, choir and committee of arrangements. The chorus is composed of thirty-eight girls in white dresses and gilt caps bearing the names of the states of the Union. And there is one stately and long haired damsel, who is none other than the Goddess of Liberty. Arrived at the plenic grounds, the farmers unhitch at a distance, provide their horses with feed and then stroll about greeting acquaintances, exchanging the usual kindly personal inquiries and discussing the expected program of the day. We now hear the pop of an occasional firecracker of the little old Chinese sort, and the boy who has a bunch of these has achieved his ambition for a full year at least. Practically nothing else is sold on the ground, except lemonade, which is dispensed in big glasses and of generous strength. Fife and Drum Corps. Hark! There is another sound, as thrilling as the cannon which broke the early morning echoes. It is the fire and drum corps playing "Jefferson and Liberty" at the foot of the speakers' stand. The crowd quickly gathers on the benches while the band—there for patriotism and not the union rate—plays on with whole souled enthusiasm. The music ceases, the chairman rises and holds up a solemn hand. Then a venerable man, a retired minister of the place, offers a prayer for the progress and glory of our country, for the permanence of our Union, for the oppressed of the earth, wherever they may be; that we may be ever grateful The Old Fashioned Way of Oratory, Fife and Drum Corps, Singing and Flag Raising, Is Again to Become Part of Our National Life, Only With a Modern Setting. to those who in times of suffering and peril gained for us the boon of freedom. And to all this his hearers, uninstructed by the neo-tory historians, give in their hearts an earnest amen. While the prayer is being uttered we still hear the cries of "Lemonade" from the remote part of the grove, where the more sordid citizens are coaxing the nickels of the late comers. There are now some scandalized murmurs and talk of remonstrance, but the chairman comes forward and announces the reading of the Declaration by the village elocutionist. This is heard with profound attention and absolute belief. Then the choir sings "The Star Spangled Banner," rising rather weakly to the heights of "the rocket's red glare," but finding themselves quite at home again in the "land of the free and the home of the brave." The Speech of the Day. Then comes the speech of the day by some celebrity from the nearest sizable town, usually some lawyer, who is not likely to be a candidate for office before his auditors. Mutual jealousy as well as mutual fairness on the part of the variously minded committee is sufficient to assure this. The speech is rhetorical, flamboyant and full of high flown metaphor, but it inculcates patriotism. At the conclusion of the orator's remarks the band strikes up "Yankee Doodle" or "Buena Vista," and the crowd rises from the benches, and a general handshaking among acquaintances takes place. Then comes the picnic dinner, sometimes served on long, improvised tables, but more often at the convenience of the little family groups gathered with baskets on the ground. At last the remains of the eatables are returned to the baskets, and the interchange of greetings and neighborhood news begins afresh. But soon the fife and drum corps is again before the 5 Dressed as In 1776. speakers' stand, playing "We'll Rally Round the Flag, Boys." with an ardor and enthusiasm which recks nothing of the immense quantity of fried chicken and custard pies which the musicians have so lately consumed. There is another patriotic song by the choir, a few speeches by local orators, then everybody joins in singing "America," and the formal exercises of the day are over. "Girl I Left Behind Me" Then, while the band plays "The Girl I Left. Behind Me," the crowd makes ready for the sports that are to follow. There are a few athletic contests of the simplest kind, without purse or prize, with no betting and with no partisanship or ill feeling. Then comes a contest in which the merrymaking instinct of the race is shown—a sack race. A slow mule race is another device which calls out the enthusiasm of the crowd. In this case A rides B's mule, and B rides A's, and the slowest mule is declared the victor. Perhaps there is also a wheelbarrow race or a potato race. Then the crowd gathers around the greased pole, on top of which is a cup containing $5 or $10 in real money. The labors of Sisyphus were light compared with the toll of these climbers, arrayed in fresh overalls and blouses, as they work toward the top and slip back, while the crowd shouts encouragement and laughs and cheers, until one of the dauntless and well blown heroes bears away the prize. At last, when the sun is well toward the west, the long anticipated balloon as A JULY FOURTH GIRL cension is about to take place. The balloon, a huge hot air affair of the era of Montgolfier, rises slowly and passes over our heads and out of sight, while the small boy follows with straining eye the most impressive spectacle and most wonderful and enviable man in the whole world. The picnic grounds are at last deserted, and the crowd melts away to their homes or drifts into the village, where lawn dances are scheduled for the evening and where hospitable homes are open to relatives and friends from the farms. The enterprising lemonade men follow and re-establish themselves in the village streets, and the life and drum corps is still heard at intervals, never deviating from the airs long associated with patriotism. Supper is eaten in homes, in the village hotel, from the still ample supplies of the lunch baskets, and 8 o'clock soon comes. Then we behold the dazzling and long to be remembered display of fireworks—some dozens of Roman candles and a few skyrockets. Ready For Country's Call. Ready For Country's Call. The grand celebration is over, has gone into history along with Bunker Hill and Yorktown. It has been a day of patriotic excitement, of marvel, of fun and laughter, of friendship and good cheer. The small boy goes home in a dream. He performs the chores that inexorably remain to be done, stumbling through the cold and dewy grass. He carries in the dust robes and lunch basket, making a final raid on the latter as he deposits it in the kitchen. It is near the hour of midnight, and it is seldom that he has been out of bed after 9. But he feels no call for sleep after the excitement of the day. Still munching, he goes out under the sky and looks up at the stars with an ecstasy of enthusiasm, associating their beauty and eternity with the stars of his country's flag. Not long, for weariness claims him at last. But he feels a rapturous resolve that when his country needs him he will be ready. Living Icicles. A problem of the zoologist is the endurance of freezing by many animals, Collecting the records, Mile, France and Paul Portier, entomologists, of Paris find that fish have survived 5 degrees F., frogs 8 degrees below, mollusks 184 degrees below and bacteria have come out alive after exposure to 300 degrees below zero. The two French experimenters froze certain caterpillars—Cossus cossus—at a temperature just above zero. They became quite solid and brittle and could be broken like icicles. On warming, however, even broken ones returned to life. Several freezings and thawings were endured, but recovery became slower each time and ceased after the sixth thawing. Other genera showed like results. There seemed to be some physiological preparation for the cold, for caterpillars that survived the winter freezing all succumbed to similar temperatures in the spring. Ancient Greek Games. Allusions to the athletic games of the Greeks are abundant in St. Paul's Epistles. These contests were divided into two classes, the pancreatium, consisting of boxing and wrestling, and the pentathlon, consisting of leaping, running, throwing the discus, hurling the spear and wrestling. Clever Sheep Shearers. Averaging everything, from young wethers, which are hard, to old ewes, which are easy, experts in Australia will shear about 90 or 100 sheep a day. PREVENT COLT LOSSES. Fundamental Principles That All Mare Owners Should Know. Recently the North Dakota experiment station has undertaken the dissemination of information having to do with the prevention of losses among colts. According to the teachings of this station, the early troubles of the foal are apt to be navel ill, constipation and scours. Navel ill seems to be caused by germs that get into the body through the navel cord at birth. To guard against it have the colt dropped in a clean stall or in a pasture. Then the navel cord should be cut off about two inches from the body if it has not already been broken that close or closer, a string dipped in a mild disinfectant tied about the end of the cord and the cord painted over with a mixture composed of one part of the tincture of lodine and three parts of glycerin once a day till it dries off. The udder should be rinsed off with a weak disinfectant, too, before the coit is allowed to suck. The first milk or colostrum is laxative and usually cleans the digestive tract within six to eight hours. If the bowels do not move a laxative as two ounces of castor oil can be given and a couple of ounces of warm water with a little glycerin injected into the rectum. It is hard to determine what causes scours or diarrhea in each individual case, but the common causes are changes in the composition of the mare's milk due to nervousness, overwork or changes in feed, allowing the colt to gorge itself from the full udder of a mare that has become quite warm from overwork, and from filth in the food. When the colt is four weeks old it will begin to eat a little grain; whole oats are the best. The colt should have a chance to nurse every two or three hours until it is about three months old. This is also for the good of the mare, as her udder will fill up in about three hours, and if the colt does not nurse or the mare is not milked there is danger that the udder will become damaged and the milk flow so lessened that there will not be enough for the colt. If cow's milk must be fed dilute it with about one-third water and two level teaspoonfuls of sugar to each quart. Ordinarily a coit should nurse until it is six months old, when it can be weaned without any setback. Grain should be fed, as without it a good growth will not result. The valuable imported horses that have been so much in demand in this country are fed grain from the time they are old enough to eat till mature. Inoculation For Alfalfa. Inoculation for alfalfa may best be accomplished by scattering over the area to be seeded surface soil taken to the depth of four or five inches from another field upon which the crop has been previously successfully grown. The soil should be broadcast at the rate of from 250 to 500 pounds per acre and harrowed in immediately. The spreading should take place on a cloudy day or late in the afternoon, as the sun's rays are destructive to the germs. Soil from the roots of sweet clover plants also will inoculate alfalfa. Care should be taken to avoid introducing noxious weeds or fungous diseases. Barley For Fowls Barley is only a little inferior to wheat in feeding value for fowls, and as the price generally is lower than either wheat or oats it can often be fed to excellent advantage. No one grain should be fed to the exclusion of all others, but if you have plenty of barley or can get it at a comparatively low price a scratch grain mixture carrying 50 per cent of barley is practical and should give excellent results. Barley meal may also be substituted for cornmeal or middlings in the mash if desired. Use Pure Bred Siros. The man is wise who always uses a pure bred registered male in breeding any class of farm stock. Experience teaches that this is especially true in improving the farm dairy. A good cow, bred to a pure bred bull of known heavy milk and butter producing stock, is sure to bring progeny as good or better than the mother. Constantly following this method of procedure is bound to improve the herd.—Farm and Flireside. Handling Chicks at Night. Chicks should be allowed to harden for forty-eight hours or a little longer before being transferred from incubator to brooder and should be transferred at night. They will then not wander away from the heat and become chilled, as they are liable to do in daylight. By morning they will have become accustomed to the location of the source of heat so that they will return to it involuntarily when cold. Profit In Big Breeds. The heavy breeds of fowls are not to be overlooked in making a choice of stock, for most profitable results have been obtained from the Brahmas, Cochins and the Langshans. When properly handled these fowls are capable of producing excellent results for farm poultry raising. Best Incubator Eggs. Many breeders claim that, as a rule, it will be found that eggs from hens in confinement will not hatch as well when placed in incubators as eggs from stock having free range. SOUR MILK FOR CHICKS. Poultry Raiser Found It Valuable In Preventing Broil Trouble Preventing Bowel Trouble. About two years ago I read a recommendation for using sour milk as a food for young chicks. We have experimented along that line and can truthfully say that the results have been highly satisfactory. But instead of feeding the raw clabber we scald it and make it into cheese, writes a correspondent of the Farm and Fireside. In this form it is more convenient to feed, and the chicks like it better. The beneficial effect seems to be equal to that claimed for it in clabber form. In 1915 we fed all our young chicks the clabber cheese as a regular part of their ration until they were about three weeks old, then gradually substituted whole wheat, but continued the clabber cheese until the chicks were of good size broiler age. After that we continued an occasional feed of the clabber cheese whenever the milk supply allowed. Not for years was our success as good in raising chicks. We lost not more than one or two from bowel trouble. With our 1916 poultry operations we were also successful, but our losses from bowel trouble among the chicks was somewhat greater than in 1915. I believe the reason was owing to a scant supply of milk and the unusually rainy season. It is a relief to have hit on the right idea for preventing the serious loss from bowel trouble among chicks, and we cannot speak too highly in praise of it. PRESERVING EGGS. Water Glass Will Keep Them Fresh Six Months or Longer. Eggs are much cheaper in the spring than they are later on in the year, and spring eggs can easily be kept over until the high price season by putting them down in water glass, which can be purchased at drug stores for about 25 cents a quart. A quart of water glass mixed with twelve quarts of water that has been boiled and then cooled will be sufficient to preserve about fifteen dozen eggs. A stronger solution should be used for eggs that are to be held six to eight months or longer. Stir the water glass and water mixture until thoroughly mixed. Use a stone jar that has been thoroughly cleaned. The eggs should also be cleaned. Cover the bottom of the jar with eggs stood up on end, the small end down. Pack the eggs so they will cover the bottom. The eggs can all be packed at one time, one layer upon another, or the packing can be done from time to time. Pour in the mixture so the top layer of eggs will be covered fully two inches. A thin coating of paraffin poured over the top of the water glass mixture when the jar is filled will prevent evaporation; otherwise the mixture will require replacing as often as evaporation makes it necessary. Store the jar in a cool cellar—New York Sun. Selecting Dairy Bulle In selecting a dairy bull it is best to consider his pedigree for several generations rather than to base judgment on the wonderful record of his dam, which, though a good cow, may just be a freak. Such a cow will generally transmit only the average qualities of her family. Well bred bulls nine years of age are considered still young enough for valuable herd improvement, and if they are vigorous and of good disposition there is no basis for discrimination against even older animals. Dusting Powder For Hene Take equal parts by measure of powdered sulphur, wood ashes and dry dust. Mix. Get a baking powder can, turn it upside down and punch the bottom full of nail holes. Use an eight or ten penny sized nail. Dust the entire body, excepting the head. For the head use Persian insect powder or something similar, as the sulphur is injurious to the eyes. Dust when the hen first sits, then again in one week and again one week later.—Western Poultry Journal. Currant Worms. Currant worms may be controlled by spraying with arsenate of lead, usual strength. Spray the bushes soon after the leaves appear even though no worms are apparent. Pay especial attention to the leaves on the lower parts of the plants, as it is here that the small worms begin their work. Two or three sprayings at intervals of two or three weeks should control them. ```markdown ``` DAIRY AND LIVE STOCK. A bleating calf within sound of the mother will worry more milk out of her than you can feed in. It is a hard tug on ewes to suckle lambs almost as big as themselves. Separate them be- fore the lambs are too big. Many hogpens harbor more rats than they do hogs. Clean 'em out—the rats—and give the hogs a better chance. The strainer has never been made that would take a bad smell out of milk. There is a lot of money in the early lambs if they are kept growing from the start. Oats and wheat bran will keep them growing fast. Sports In General By LEFT JAB New Star at Shortstop. Bunny Fabrique of the Brooklyn team is regarded as one of the season's phenoms. Fabrique is covering C Photo by American Press Association. Bunny Fabrique. short for the National league champions in a manner that has ginaded the hearts of the Brooklyn fans. Fabrique formerly was with the Providence team of the International league. He not only is a great infideler, but is handy with the but. Cuban Players Popular Practically every white Cuban ball player—every athlete who is good enough to appear on the winter teams of Havana—has been engaged by American clubs for the coming summer. Twenty of them in all have caught on in this country, the list reading as follows: Armando Marsans, outfielder, St. Louis, American league; Mike Gonzales, catcher, St. Louis, National league; Angel Aragon, in and out fielder, New York, American league; Joe Rodriguez, first baseman, New York, National league; Merito Acosta, outfielder, Washington; Manuel Cuezo, in and out fielder, Cincinnati; Emilio Palmero, shortstop, Cincinnati; Emilio Palmero, pitcher, Louisville; Adolfo Luque, pitcher, Louisville; Pedro Dibut, pitcher and outfielder, Milwaukee; Fideldo Hungo, infielder, Minneapolis; Jacinto Calvo, outfielder, San Francisco; Rafael Almela, utility, Montreal; Oscar Tuero, pitcher, Wilkesbarre, Eastern league; Ramon Gonzales, infielder, New London, Eastern league; Joaquin Rodes, outfielder, New London, Eastern league; Eusebio Gonzales, infielder, New London, East York State league; Joe Acosta, pitcher, Vancouver; Andres Ogazon, catcher and utility, Vancouver. Not In the No Hit Class. Two of the greatest pitchers in baseball never have had the honor of entering the select circles of no hit game. They are Walter Johnson of the Washington Americans and Grover Alexander of the Philadelphia Nationals. Eddie Plank of the St. Louis Americans, one of the greatest southpaw pitchers of all time, likewise never has pitched a no hit game. Very few no hit games are staged in the two major leagues, still it is surprising that pitchers of such class as Plank, Johnson and Alexander, who have seen years of service in the "big show," have been unable to go through nine innings without a hit being made off their deliveries. Johnson, Plank and Alexander have neared their goal many times, but always some opponent nicked them for a safe tap which shattered their hopes. Penn to Continue Sports. Athletics at the University of Pennsylvania are not to be abandoned because of the war. Instead the board of directors of the athletic association has decided that every form of athletics will be continued, but with every athlete under the military supervision of Major William Kelley, U. S. A. This course seems to be the most sensible yet adopted by a college in reference to sports and the international situation. All the athletic teams are to be kept intact, it was announced, and the schedules for all will be played out as far as is possible. A number of cancellations are looked for, but the authorities do not expect that they will be sufficient to seriously affect athletics at Pennsylvania. Outfield Bats Left Handed. In Elmer Smith, Clyde Miian and Sam Rice the Washington Senators present an unusual trio, giving to the team the only regular outfield combination in the major leagues batting from the left side of the plate. And yet every one of them throws with his right hand. Much depends on these players this year—that is, particularly as to what they do with the bat, as their fielding ability offers little cause for worry, although Rice should improve somewhat in this respect with a little more experience. But if he can hit close to his 299 mark of last year he will get plenty of chances to smooth out the rough spots. WOMEN'S FASHIONS and THE HOME S MOCKES are appearing in fascinating new guises. This pictured is of white volle hand embroidered in a Turkish design. Crochet buttons strung like cuff links slip through holes to close the peasant front, and the crushed girdle is crimson georgette crape. LUNCH BASKETS. What to Pack In Them and How to Pack Them. The basket lunch is harder to plan and also to prepare than the lunch at home. To begin with, there are many foods which cannot be included in it either because they are not good cold or because they cannot be conveniently packed or easily carried. This leaves fewer foods to choose from, and so extra care is necessary to prevent sainness. Extra care is needed, too, in the preparation of foods that must be packed in small compass and kept for several hours before being eaten. Variety in breads, too, is more important at this than at other meals because of the danger of monotony. Wheat bread, whole wheat bread, corn, rye or oatmeal breads; nut, raisin and date breads; beaten biscuit, rolls, crisp baking powder biscuit or soda biscuit and toast, zwleback and crackers may be used in turn to give variety. Rolls hollowed out can be made to hold a large amount of sandwhee filling, which is an advantage at times. In packing the lunch basket put at the bottom the things beast likely to crush and wrap the sandwiches, etc., into neat parcels, not all in one. Paper cups, jelly tumbers with covers, which can now be bought in several sizes; bottles with screw tops, such as those in which candy and some other foods are sold, and small jars such as those in which some goods are sold by drugstores can all be used for packing jellies, jams and honey as well as the UNCLE SAM'S FIRST TASK. ATTA BOY SAM ACH! BULL BUTTERLIGHT SAMS foods mentioned above. When clean and in good condition empty receptacles of this kind can be saved for use in the lunch basket. Here are some bills of fare for the lunch basket: 1. Sandwiches with sliced tender meat for filling, baked apple, cookies or a few lumps of sugar. 2. Slices of meat loaf or bean loaf, bread and butter sandwiches, stewed fruit, small frosted cake. 3. Crisp rolls hollowed out and filled with chopped meat or fish molested and seasoned or mixed with salad dressing, orange, apple, a mixture of sliced fruits or berries, cake. 4. Lettuce or celery sandwiches, cup custard, felly sandwiches. 5. Cottage cheese and chopped green pepper sandwiches or a pot of cream cheese with bread and butter sandwiches, peanut sandwiches, fruit, cake. 6. Hard boiled eggs, crisp baking powder biscuits, celery or radishes, brown sugar or maple sugar sandwiches. 7. Bottle of milk, thin corn bread and butter, dates, apple. 8. Raisin or nut bread with butter, cheese, orange, maple sugar. 9. Baked bean and lettuce sandwiches, apple sauce, sweet chocolate. Many people do not know that by taking an ordinary sewing needle they can chip ice from a large cake without breaking the large piece too much. Tap the needle with a thimble or small tack hammer and the ice will break off into small pieces. Improvised Ice Chip. SOMETHING for the BOYS and GIRLS WAR ECONOMIES. Suggestions on How to Use Food Scraps. Trimmings From Salad Greens.—Stew in water or stock, together with a little pickle spice, add rice to thicken (three tablespoonfuls to a quart of vegetable stock) and at the end of the cooking strain and season with a boulton cube. A real blood tonic. Use cress in the same way; also mince any leftover sprigs and sprinkle over steak or fish. Cauliflower Leaves.—Cook twice as long as the cauliflower, chop, season as greens and use to supplement the flower itself. Celery Tips.—Spread on papers, dry, store in jars and use for seasoning. Use fresh as a basis for soup, a garnish for salad or meats and for frying in a thin batter. Odds and Ends of Fruit.—Use in fruit salads, fruit gelatins, fruit cups, fruit soups, fruit beverages, tapoacs, compotes of rice and farina and, in case of jelly berries, as raspberries, strawberries and so on; use in drinks and cornstarch puddings. Lettover Fish.—Use in croquettes with rice or potato, creamed as a sauce over brown rice, in salads with celery, cabbage, radishes or shredded romaine, cress of lettuce or use to season cream of fish soup or for stuffing peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers or cabbage leaves. Bits of Cheese and Rinds.-Put cheese scraps through food chopper and use in Welsh rabbit, cheese sauce for fish, rice or hominy; in vegetable scallops, creamed potatoes (German style), cheese croquettes, etc.; grate cheese from rinds and use on spaghetti, in creamed vegetables, to make cheese sticks, cheese biscuits, cheese pie crusts for fruit pies, cheese toast, and serve with stock vegetable soups. Cooked Cereals.-Use in stock pot, soups, scallops, meat, fish and vegetable loaves, griddle cakes, waffles, muffins, puddings and croquettes. The Daily Bath. When one is nervous or tired a sponge bath in water either hot or cold will often prove stimulating and refreshing. Elderly persons and those whose circulation is feeble should avoid the cold plunge, so delightful to the young, because it robs them of vitality. But those in advanced years as well as boys and girls are better for the daily bath from head to foot. A bathtub and a copious amount of water are not pre-requisites if all that one has to depend on a basin and a pitcher. THE GAME OF QUOITS. Suggestion For a Quiet Pastime on the Jaws. A good game to play on the lawn at this season of the year is quolts. A quolts is a flattish ring of iron, generally from eight and one-fourth to nine and one-half inches in external diameter and between one and two inches in breadth. It is convex on the upper side and slightly concave on the under, so that the outer edge curves down and is sharp enough to stick into the ground. The mode of playing is as follows: Two pins, called "hobs," are driven into the ground from eighteen to twenty-four inches apart, and the players, who are divided into two parties, stand at one "hob" and in regular succession throw their quolts (of which each player has two) as near to the other "hob" as they can. The points are counted as in bowls or in curling. To facilitate the sticking of the quolts at the point where they strike the ground a "clay end"—that is, a flat circle of clay about one or two inches in thickness and one and one-half feet in radius—is placed around each "hob." This requires to be kept moist and should have sawdust sprinkled over it. The quolts when it is thrown is grasped with the right hand by one side and pitched with an upward and forward jerk of the hand and arm, which gives it a whirling motion and causes it to strike the ground with its edge. Monkey Bell Ringers. The monkey cage broke in a zoo, and eight monkeys escaped. They had a riotous vacation, but it did not last long. They hopped away from their cage and took the overland route so that nobody might catch them. All night they remained quiet and peaceful somewhere or other, and no one could imagine what had become of them. In the morning the mystery was clear. Everybody knew where they were. They were in the belfry of the church near the zoo. There are bells in the steeple, and the monkeys were ringing them, swigging from one rope to another and making believe that they were in their old original forest. They kept up the ringing of the bells until the fire department men came with ladders and climbed up to get them. An American Eagle. The United States transport Burford, on its way from China to San Francisco, rescued an American eagle in distress far out at sea. The national bird had probably come from Alaska, the nearest land, and it was so tired that it would soon have fallen into the sea if the steamer had not appeared. It alighted in the rigging, and a sailor climbed up and caught it. It was put in a cage and carried by the steamer to San Francisco. The Sunday School Lesson For the Protection of Birds Text of the lesson, John xx1, 15-25. Quarterly review. Golden Text, John xx, 31. LESSON I.—Jesus gives sight to the blind, John lx. 1-38. Golden Text, John lx. 3. "I am the light of the world." We should all appropriate (all true believers) the words of Christ in verse 4. "I must work the works of Him that sent Me," for we are sent by Him as He was sent by the Father, and all our works are prepared for us (John xvll. 18; xx 21: Eph. ii. 10). LESSON II.—Jesus raises Lazarus from the dead, John xi. 17-44. Golden Text, John xi. 25. "Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection and the life." This sickness and death, like the blindness of last lesson, were for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby (verse 4). His delay in coming to the heartbroken sisters, His seeming neglect of them, the death and burial of Lazarus, were sore and severe testings, but resurrection made all right. LESSON III.—Jesus the Good Shepherd, John x. 1-18. Golden Text, John x. 11. "I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd layeth down his life for the sheep." He was no bireling, never thought of pleasing Himself or of seeking anything for Himself, either in the way of His own will or His own glory. LESSON IV.—Jesus annotated at Bethany, John xiv, 1-11. Golden Text. Mark xiv, 8. "She hath done what she could." All is well in this home now, for Lazarus has come back, so it will be in the resurrection reunions, and we shall forget our miseries and remember them as waters that pass away (Job xi, 16). In Mary we see true, loving, believing, costly worship; in Martha restful service, in Lazarus resurrection life, and we look onward to His table in His kingdom. Lesson V.—Jesus welcomed as king, John xii, 12:26. Golden Text, John xii, 13. "Blessed is He that cometh in the name of the Lord, even the king of Israel." That most sad day when He wept over the city because of the sufferings that would come upon it on account of their rejection of Him and His kingdom will yet give place to a glad day, when they shall say: "Lo, this is our God! We have waited for Him, and He will save us." Lesson VI.—Jesus the servant of all, John xii, 1-17. Golden Text, Mark x, 44. "Whosoever would be first among you shall be servant of all." The events of that passover night which He so desired carry us back to the great night in Egypt when the nation was born and on to the future fulfillment when they shall be born again. One Way You Can Help to Save the Poor Little Feathered Creatures From Their Enemy, the Cat. Protection for American birds was the theme of hundreds of special programs in schools all over the country the other day, celebrating the third annual bird day of the Liberty Bell Bird club. Founded in 1913, it now has a membership of 772,500. Eleven governors issued proclamations making the observance of bird day official in their states. More than 10,000 public schools where the study of birds has been introduced by the club had a part in the celebration. The necessity for increasing the nation's food yield this summer has called attention to the importance of "bringing back the birds." Reports show that a large per cent of the birds of the country have been destroyed, and as a consequence the farmers and fruit growers of the country lose $1,000,000,000 a year by the ravages of insects. To increase the bird population the Liberty Bell Bird club is advocating feeding birds in winter, putting up bird houses, establishing bird sanctu- Little Dutch Nightcaps. The children of Holland all wear nightcaps from the day they are born. They are plain or fancy, as the means of the mother will permit, and until they are old enough to walk without danger of falling they wear wadded caps in the daytime, so that they will not injure their heads when they go bumping on the floor or down the stairs. They also wear wooden shoes that seem very clumsy to us, but they soon grow used to them and are as spry and quick as any children in the world. Boys and girls are dressed very much alike, and it is only by the color of the button on the boy's cap that one is able to tell them apart. Dog Likes Flowers. A Seattle family have a yellow dog with a singular love for flowers, which frequently gets him into trouble. The dog, after making sure that the coast is clear, will go into the garden and pluck a number of flowers and, placing them in a heap, will lie down and go to sleep with his nose in the bunch. His favorite flower is the rose, and he invariably bites the stem four or five inches below, so as not to injure the flower. All his actions indicate that he enjoys the perfume of the flowers, and it rarely happens that he is not seen with some choice flower in his LESSON VII.-Jesus the True Vine, John xv, 1-16. Golden Text, John xv, 5, "I am the Vine; ye are the branches." Not only is He the True Vine, the True and Righteous Israel, but He is the Righteous Branch always bearing fruit. The wonder is that He can bear fruit through such as we are, but He who ordains peace for us works all our works in us (isa. xxi, 12; Phil. ii, 13; Eph. ii, 10). In redemption He does all for us fully and freely, and unless He does all in our daily life nothing counts. LESSON VIII.-The importance of self control, Isa. xxviii, 1-13. Golden Text, I Cor. ix, 25, "Every man that striveth in the games exerciseth self control in all things." As in verse 16 of this chapter we have the only sure foundation for all deliverances from sin and self, so it is also in I Cor. iii, 11-15, where we learn that lack of self control or dental may lead to great loss on the part of saved people. LESSON IX.-The Holy Spirit and His work, John xv, 26; xvi, 14. Golden Text, John xly, 20. "He shall teach you all things." From first to last the Holy Spirit is the great and only worker and has been called the executive of the Godhead. He loves to magnify the Father through the Son, guide us into all truth, take of the things of Christ and show them unto us and show us things to come. LESSON X.-Jesus betrayed and denied, John xvili, 1-18. Golden Text, Isa. lili, 3. "He was desplied and rejected of men. When we consider that one numbered with the twelve, though he never was really one of them, sold Him to His enemies, and another who was truly a disciple denied Him with oaths and curses, and all forsook Him and fled, we can only wonder at His faith in God under such adverse circumstances. LESSON XI—Jesus crucified, John xix, 16:30. Golden Text, I Cor. xv, 3, "Christ died for our sins." As we consider this most awful event in all the past history of the world, we should continually ponder and prayerfully meditate upon such words as our Golden Text, along with Gal. iii, 13; I Pet. iii, 24; Heb. 1, 3; ix, 12, x, 10, 12; Isa. iii, 5, 6, and then see Him before His enemies as an example for us, His followers. LESSON XII—The Risen Lord, John xx, 1-18. Golden Text, I Cor. xv, 20, "Now hath Christ been raised from the deed, the first fruits of them that are asleep." We should see ourselves as believers, crucified with Him, buried with Him, risen with Him, seated with Him and coming with Him in glory to set up His kingdom and reign with Him over the earth, and reign with Him over the earth. "Bell the Cat" Photo by American Press Association. The Chicago Humane society has sent out a nation wide request for owners of cats to bell their pets so birds may be warned of their approach. aries in every town and the regulation of cats by putting bells on their necks. mouth. The only trouble is that he culls from every garden that he sees and in consequence has narrowly escaped being shot for his aesthetic taste. Obeying. When you are inclined not to mind mother or teacher turn to your beloved "Jungle Book" and read: Now, there are the laws of the jungle, And many and mighty are they, But the head and the hoof of the law, And the haunch and the hump is obey. Obedience is the first law of nature and extends to all living things. Some children think they must obey their parents just because the parents say so, but that is not the reason. They must obey when they are young so that they may learn self control and help to build character for themselves. The Jolly Concert. A good game is the jolly concert. A good player sits down at the piano and plays a spirited well known selection. The rest of the company are provided cach with a wineglass and spoon, on which they are to play, striking lightly the edges of the spoon at every place marked in the music. The second time it is played they clap hands at the same places, the third time they whistle, at the fourth laugh, and at the 6th time there is a grand finale of spoons. BROTHERS OF THE REGIMENT ANTOINE and Francois Cremieux, brothers, were in the same regiment of infantry in the trenches fighting the Germans. Antoine was a robust young man, Francois the reverse. The latter was very delicately made—indeed, too delicately made for a soldier. Soldiers are disposed to resent anything like cowardice in a companion, Francois' inability to bear without starting the explosion of a shell about his head drew down upon him the contempt of his fellow soldiers. Antoine defended his brother, but a defense served no purpose, for "one convinced against his will is of the same opinion still." One evening the command was ordered to make a raid on the enemy's trenches. The Cremieux brothers were in the same company and marched out shoulder to shoulder. The French drove their enemies out of their stronghold and some distance beyond to the second line. Then the Germans turned upon their enemies and drove them back. It was impossible to see in the darkness who fell in the engagement. It was not till the roll was called, or, rather "noses were counted," who had returned. Then it was discovered that Antoine Cremieux had been left behind on the field. Great was the distress of his brother. Indeed, he shed tears. His comrades endeavored to cheer him, but to no purpose. Those who were permitted to sleep slept, but Francois Cremieux remained awake bowed down with grief. Later in the evening Francois was missed. The captain of his company caused a search to be made for him, but he could not be found. Some one suggested that he had deserted to the enemy. Since he was not popular on account of his want of manly strength, this explanation of his absence came to be believed. During the night the groans of those who had been left wounded on the field were distressing. The commander of the force called for volunteers to go out and bring some of them in, but the Germans were supposed to be very near, and the men who had encountered a murderous fire on their sally were in no mood to encounter it a second time. About 3 o'clock in the morning, when it was still dark, there was quiet on the line. One of the French soldiers saw a dark object which seemed to be coming from the direction of the enemy. There were some trees left that had not been torn away by shot and shell, or, at least, the trunks were still standing. The soldier saw the dark figure move slowly as though staggering between two of these giant tree trunks. At first he was about to rouse the command, thinking that he saw one of many who were skulking forward to make a surprise attack; but, seeing no others, he concluded to await further demonstration. Presently he saw the figure again or another—he could not till which—rise slowly from the ground and appear at full length. The upper part of the body was very large as though a mantle were wrapped around it. But, since it was only a dark mass, nothing further could be distinguished. The soldier watching concluded to call some of his comrades, who were sleeping under arms, but when they strained their eyes for the figure it was not to be seen. But while they pierced through the darkness it again rose up like some large animal on its hind legs and resumed its staggering forward movement. Some of the men leveled their rifles at it, but no one fired. Nearer and nearer approached the unseemly mass till it was within a few yards of the trench. Then it fell in a heap. Several sprang over the protecting embankment and took up two men. One had been carrying the other on his shoulder. Both were carried into the trench, and when a light was brought to bear on their faces they were found to be the Cremieux brothers. Antoine was previously wounded. Francois was exhausted And now it began to dawn upon the command that this weakling, Francois, had dared to do what they had not dared. True, he had gone for the brother he loved so well; nevertheless he had performed a deed of heroism from which they had shrunk. When day came again the general commanding the division was informed of Francois' act, and the young soldier was ordered to headquarters. There the general complimented him on his deed of heroism. What did the boy do but burst into tears. Something entered the general's head, a suspicion that this youth was a masquerader. He spoke soothingly to him. Then, having sent all but Francois away, he said: "You are not a man. You are a woman." Francois, or, rather, Louise, confess-ed. She had been married to Antoine Cremieux just before he marched to the war. Unable to bear the parting, she had donned man's attire and had enlisted in her husband's company. The general sent for more suitable clothes for her and directed her discharge from the army. He also mentioned her act of heroism in orders and decorated her. Then the regiment in which she had enlisted adopted her as its daughter. Antoine Cremieux' recovered from his wound and continued to fight for France. His wife was sent home. 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The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is catarrh. Hall's catarh cure is the oily positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. catarh being a constitutional treatment. Hall's catarh is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. send for list of testimonials. Address F. J. cHENEY & co., Toledo, O. Sold by all Druggists. 75c. Sold by an Druggists, Inc. Take Hall's Family Pills for consti- pation. Fried Fish every day at the Grand Leader Cafe. Rev. Thos. Turner, is at home for a few days to visit his family. He reports that he is doing nicely in Tennessee with his four churches. Mrs. Ellen White and daughter Miss Mary, of Brookport, spent several days in Na hville, Tenn., attending the Baptist S. S Congress, also Dixon, and Waverly with relatives. The Metropolis and Brookport delegation mentioned last week, left for Cairo, to at end the S. S. Convention the 19th. Mrs. Lena Phillips, is at home from Centralia, where she has been teaching. She will spend her summer vacation here. She was accompanied home by her little nephew Harry Lytton Carter, of St. Louis, Mo. Bro James Townly left for Gary, Ind. Tuesday. He is a splendid man in every respect and the church haes to see him leave. Let all those who are in arrears to Gazette, come prepared to settle at S. S. Convention. No excuse will be accepted. We need our money. Mrs. Isaac Wilson, of Marion, Ky., is in the city the cust of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Wilson. Mr. Major Sultze was a Paducah, shopper Saturday. Mrs. Mayme Harmon who for some time a typist in the Truth Office, Cairo, is now employed in Paducah, Ky. Miss Allie Barnard went to Cairo. Thursday to attend the S. S. Convention Rev J. H. Smith, was a Gazette caller while in the city last week. Rev J. B. McCrazy, returned home Saturday from Nashville, Tenn, where he attenued the National B. V. P. U. and S. S. Congress. This is the largest meeting of its kind. Thirty-five states were represented. Misses Pearl Smith and Genette Armstead, of Brookport, visited in Metropolis, last week. Mrs. Rosa Sims, went to Jefferson City, Mo., last week to be at the graduation exercises of her brother James Reed. Mr. Don Young, of this ivy died Wednesday at his h me on W 8 h Sr Ed Phillips, of Mattoon, visited his wife here for a few days this week. Rev. Thos. Morris, and Miss Vitu Hughes are attending the East Mr. Olive S. S. Convention this week. Clarence Dunkerson, of Paducah, Kv., is in the city the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Major Sultzer Rev. Hodge, pastor of the Free Baptist church held his regular services Sunday. In the afternoon Rev. Thos. Morris, pastor of the Antioch Baptist church, filled the pulpit to a large audience. CONSOLIDATION OF SMALL-CITY ELECTRIC PLANTS AN IMPORTANT MOVEMENT NOW GOING ON, ESPECIALLY IN THE MIDDLE WEST. This Article Was Written by George W. Weber and is from Weber's Weekly of October 7. It Explains How the Electric Plants of the Middle West Cities Are Being Combined. In Illinois—outside of Chicago—as in other states—each town bad, or has, an electric plant. Each of these was too small to justify the employment of such expert service, machinery and supplies as would bring about the best service or financial results. The requirement for electrical service came simultaneously everywhere, and each place proceeded to provide for its own requirements. Hence many small, unprofitable plants, too often misman- The aim now is, and for some time has been, to unite these isolated plants into operating units. 1. The connection of the individual plants in a group by transmission lines will, when the system is fully developed and properly patronized, insure the cities in the group against accidents that might occur to a single isolated plant. At times of extraordinary demand for light and power—as in the case of a county fair—sufficient can be supplied without danger of a breakdown or overload. 2. Instead of each plant requiring separate administration, or being left to the changing municipal governments, the consolidated plants have but one managerial service and that continuous and selected operations, and are under the State Public Utilities Commission. 3. By uniting a considerable number of small plants a large unit is produced, which has sufficient income and work to make it possible to employ experts and to keep in stock all necessary supplies and repairs. 4. Great economies are possible in financing a group of connected small plants as compared with the overhead charges on the same plants operating independently of each other. 5. All of the plants being connected by means of transmission lines, these lines can be, and are being, extensively used to supply energy to farm houses in the rural districts through which the lines pass. Cities Should Have Surplus Power. Consider this one fact: The single plant, serving a small city, must have capacity equal to the greatest service requirement that may be put upon it. In other words its use at certain hours may be—let us say—equal to 1,000 horsepower, while its low point of service may be as little as fifty horsepower. Unless the plant is equipped separately at great expense—with generators for each different degree of service, the 1,000 horsepower machine will have to run all the time, even, while carrying its smallest service load. Of course, the fuel consumed would be reduced, but that would be about all. Now, suppose that several plants be united by a transmission line. In that event one plant can do the entire service during the hours of minimum requirement. And, ordinarily, one plant can carry the minimum load of ten or twenty plants. The advantages from all of this are obvious. Some of the plants could lie out of service part of the time, but would permit repairs of idle machinery. Another thing, with such a system a twenty-four hour force of operatives would not be required. On top of all of this is the assurance that there would not be a break in the service because of the single "home plant" breaking down. This ideal is aimed at but is prevented in some small cities, and it should be kept in mind that the small city isolated plant can never do better than it is doing now. An electric plant should have a surplus product in excess of the town's present needs so that outside power-using needs so that concerns will locate in the town, for they will locate only where they can be sure of a power supply. The electric light plant, more than anything else, upbuilds the town, and it should be—economically speaking—in advance of the town—always pulling the town up toward its own higher level, as it were. No city can prosper with bad electric service. An overworked or improperly worked, electric light plant is like an overworked team of horses on a farm. Another important consideration is the fact that a group of stations would have business and income sufficiently large to justify the employment of experts, and, this would insure the right kind in larger amount and of greater diversity by having one supply house from which all demands can be furnished. Almost without exception the electric plants of small cities have been organized and financed by local capitalists who were inspired by civic pride and determination to keep their home town up to the times. But, almost always, these undertakings have been financially disappointing. Those who are known to be successful in operating electric undertakings can get mon y at lower rates than the local investr is satisfied with. Thus, while the lal financiers in a small city must have large returns, the gem There are several vacant churches in Southern Illinois, and good pastors are very much in need, especially in the Mt. Olive District. We need broad men, men who are able to construct and reach the unreached and unsaved. We need and must have a good sound gospel minister in the Mt. Olive District for Missionary. Who will it be? It will require an ableman, of exceptional qualifications one apt to teach, pray for the work and that God will send more laborers into this vineyard. Where are the license ministers? of our churches? Have the churches been making and encouraging young men to prepare for the ministry to take the places of those who have passed into their reward, and others who will shortly do so? We must have recruits to fill the place made vacant or soon the Baptist pulpits and churches will be lost for leaders. The churches and older ministers have made a sad mistake by not encouragifif the younger men. They turned down their own for others and now you are in dire need of men your own men who should follow in the footsteps of their fathers. The crisis is upon us, turn your eyes upon the harvest and set that the laborers are very few indeed. Will you correct the evil by appciating your young men. "Take what you have and make what you want." You can make strong preachers if you will. To The S. S. Composing The Mt. Olive Baptist Sunday School Convention. GREETINGS: Dear Co-Laborers, The Thirty-Seventh Annual Session will be held with the Mt. Moriah Baptist S. S on Friday before the fourth Sunday in June at Cairo, Ill. We hope to see every school in the district represented in full. Let us try and make this year 1917 the banner year, notwithstanding we are on the verge of the World's greatest war and handicapped with the high cost of living, with God as our leader we will be successful if we trust him We hope the delinquent school will come prepared to pay their full indebtness to the convention as we need the money for the expenses of the convention. The convention offers a beautiful banner to the school that send up the largest amount of money. What school will win? There will also be a white dress parade on Sunday June 24th let every delegate come prepared to be in the parade with a white suit. All schools are requested to elect their delegate not later than the second Sunday in May. Send one copy to Rev. John Bruin, Mt. Vernon, Ill., one copy to the president. If you fail to comply with this request and your school is not on the program don't blame the committee or the president. Hoping that we will be spared to meet altogether in June I am your in the cause of Christ and his Kingdom. ACCEPTANCE OF FEDERAL AID MONEY FOR ROADS By S. E. BRADT. (Member of Illinois State Highway Commission.) ARTICLE III. I have discussed a state bond issue for a system of state roads, and an increase in automobile license fees which would be sufficient to pay one- nth of the cost of the bond issue. Connected intimately with these questions is the passing of the federal aid road bill which will allot to this state, $220,000 available July 1, 1916 440,000 " " 1, 1917 600,000 " " 1, 1918 880,000 " " 1, 1919 1,100,000 " " 1, 1920 * total of $2,300,000. The requirement of the federal aid law is that the state shall appropriate an equal amount, or an additional $3,900,000. The department of agriculture asks that this state prepare a definite plan for the expenditure of this $6,600,000 and submit the same to it with the first project for road improvement. They probably will require that the plan shall involve the completion of a restricted system of roads; that is, that it shall either connect up stretches of durably constructed main highways or, if we have no such stretches of highways to connect up, that it shall involve a restricted system by itself. I assume that there will be no question as to the acceptance of this money by Illinois; therefore this sum of $8,600,000 added to the fund derived from $90,000,000 bond issue would give a total of $60,000,00 or approximately $16,500 per mile for a 4,000-mile system, which would be ample to construct a system in which the main roads where necessary would be 18 feet in width and none less than 15 feet in width. This would give us in Illinois a system of federal and state aid roads of 4,000 miles to be improved by the state with such additional help as came from the government; another system of 12,000 miles of county roads to be improved at the joint expense of the state and county under the state aid system or bond issue plan, and a further system of 75,000 miles of township roads to be improved at the expense of the township. As I have said, I believe it impossible to get satisfactory results through the annual construction of a short section in each county on the state aid system, because the people are not time for road improvement. If the willing to wait the required length of county bond issue plan is pursued without the state's first taking over a state system many of our main roads will be inadequately improved and many not improved at all. With a combination of state and federal system of roads, a county system of roads and a township system, all the money expended by the government, the state and the county will be conserved and satisfactory results brought about in the shortest period of time possible. FARMERS INDORSE ROAD SYSTEM Illinois Institute Also Goes on Record for Federal Aid and Increased Auto Fees. At the recent meeting of the Illinois Farmers' institute the following resolution favoring a state-wide system of roads connecting the different communities was adopted: "Resolved, That we favor the appropriation of sufficient money from the general fund of the state to meet the requirements of the federal aid statute for the building of durable roads in Illinois, such roads to be so planned and located as to be of the greatest good to the whole people; and be it further "Resolved, That we favor a reasonable increase in the automobile license fee, the greater increase to fall upon the larger and heavier automobiles and trucks; and be it further "Resolved. That we favor the building of a state-wide system of permanent roads to connect the different communities, markets and principal cities and towns of the state." $60,000,000 BOND ISSUE BILL. The bill introduced in the legislature provides for the construction of 4,000 miles of highways to cost approximately $0,000,000. The system is to be constructed in five or six years, work to start in various parts of the state at the same time and to be carried on continuously in each section. The roads are to be built under the supervision of the state highway department, but not to be less than ten feet nor more than 18 feet wide. They are to be of a type that will outlast the bonds. Bonds are to run 20 years and bear interest of $3\%$, and not exceeding, 4 per cent. The roads are to be maintained by the state after construction. Generally, they will connect large cities, towns and county seats along routes serving the greatest population, the main points to be connected to be selected by the legislature and voted upon by the people of the state at the same time they pass on the question of the bond issue, which, it is proposed, will be the election of November, 1918. The bill authorizes the reimbursement of any county for the construction of any state bond issue road, whether under the state-aid system or the county-bond-issue system. It provides for levying a direct tax to pay principal and interest, except where appropriations are made from other sources to pay part of the indebtedness, for instance, from the state motor fee fund, THREE IMPORTANT HIGHWAY QUESTIONS. Three important questions touching the improvement of Illinois highways come up before the fiftieth Illinois legislature, now in session. They are: 1. A state bond issue. 2. An increase in the automobile license fees. 3. The acceptance by Illinois of the federal allotment for the improvement of main roads. This newspaper will print a series of three articles touching on these subjects written by S. E. Bradt, member of the Illinois State Highway commission. highways. A system of that size would reach practically every county of the state and connect nearly all the cities and villages having more than 2,000 population, as well as many other smaller places. If the forthcoming general assembly should authorize a vote upon this question, it could not be submitted to the people until the next general election, November, 1918. I believe it is desirable to vote upon this question at an "off year" election when there are no national issues to be decided, no national offices, and very few state offices to be filled. If the question of submitting this proposition to the people is not acted upon until the general assembly meets in January, 1919, then the election would be held in 1920 at the time of a presidential election, as well as at a time when our principal state officials are elected. It might then become an issue in the state campaign, or be overshadowed by other questions. If the fiftieth general assembly shall authorize a vote taken in 1918 it would be some months after the election before work could begin; as it would be desirable to have the supreme court pass upon the proceedings in order to give the bonds a stable market. Therefore, if we go at the matter as expeditiously as possible it would be the summer of 1919 before work would be commenced; and it is considered that it would probably take from five to seven years to construct this 4,000-mile system; I believe it is high time that the movement should be started. The next question that arises is, what would be the source from which the money should be derived to pay the principal of a $80,000,000 bond issue and the interest thereon? Assuming that it would require five years to make the improvement and that the bonds would be issued serially under a 25-year limit, all bonds would mature within 30 years from the date of the first issue, or practically at the average rate of $2,000,000 per year. Assuming the interest rate to be 4 per cent, which I believe to be simple under any ordinary conditions, the annual interest would approximate $1,000,000 which would mean an annual payment of $3,000,000 including both principal and interest. (NEXT ARTICLE—"AN INCREASE IN AUTOMOBILE LICENSE FEES.") 4,886,231 PEOPLE SERVED BY 4,000-MILE ROAD SYSTEM. If Illinois constructs a state system of 4,000 miles of permanent highways as is proposed under the $20,000,000 bond issue, 88 per cent of the total population of the state (which was 5,638,591 under the last census) will live either on the roads so constructed or within a radius of five miles. Thus not only will the larger cities, towns and villages of the state be connected, but a great part of the rural population will have the use of highways that can be traveled all the year round. Experts of the state highway department have figured that in addition to the 2,185,283 population of Chicago, 1,520,071 people living in smaller cities, towns and villages will be directly served by the good roads. In addition 82,500 farmers and their families will live along the roads. The added population within a radius of five miles is 1,063,317, making a total population of 4,886,231 that will be served. ALL FOR STATE ROAD BOND ISSUE OF $60,000,000. The following organizations have voted indorsements of the proposal for a $60,000,000 state bond issue to construct a system of 4,000 miles of permanent good roads in Illinois: