Metropolis Weekly Gazette

METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE Officers of the General Batist State Convention of Illinois 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 See. Ed. J. B. McCrary. Treasurer Eld. H. C. Armstead. Added Members Eld. F. Bomar Cairo Eld. J. E Haywood Chicago Eld. Jas Swanson Maywood State Missionary H. E. Mewwilliams. State Mission Board Chairman Dr. C. C. Phillips Cor. Sec. Eld. J. D. Davis Treasurer Eld. J. E Haywood Other Members Eld. S. H. Pruitt Deacon R. Lewis Sister Sallie Thomas Chicago Sister M. Hudgin Cairo Sister J. w. winston Oimstead Sister Carrie Cassly Shawnetown Uriah Jenkins Rev. J. A. Royal Chicago " L. Drane Chicago Rev. A. J. Bowers Dewmaine Rev. D. Johnson Dewmaine " B. H. Hubert Evanston " K. V. Howard Grand Chain " Robt. Grey Morphysboro " J. L. Martin Colps Deacon J. Simpson Hallidayboro " J. Baker Brookport Eld. Thomas Morris Metropolis Bro. Chas. Skates Mound City Deacon J. L. Taborn Educational Board Chairman Dr. B. J. Priace Chicago Cor. Sec. Sis. Frankie Jenkie Cairo. Sister willie Greyer Colps Sister Emma Parrow Cairo " J. M. Owens Sparta Eld. J. B. McOrya Metropolis Committee on Nomination C. C. Phillips J. E. Heywood G. H. Mitchell P. Bomar Sister Stella Duprec " willie Greer " M. B. Taylor Elder H. C. Armstead " H. E. Mewwilliams Members of various Committees of National Baptist Convention (Unincorporated.) Foreign Mission Board H. E. Mewwilliams, D. D. Chicago, Ill. Home Mission Board J. B. McOrya, S. T. B. Metropolis, Ill. Educational Board Dr. B. J. Prince, Chicago, Ill. Evangelical Board Elder F. Bomar, Cairo, Ill. B. Y. P. U. Board Dr. W. P. washington, Mt. Vernon, Ill. Benefit Board Elder James Swanson, Maywood, Ill. Publishing Board Dr. J. F. Thomas, Chicago, Ill. Resolutions " J. E Haywood, Chicago, Ill. State of the Country Elder H. C. Armstead, Pulaski, Ill. Vice President Dr. C. C. Phillips, Golconda, Ill. Notice. Cairo, Ill., July 15. Notice. To the members composing the Educational Board of the General Baptist State Association This is to notify you that the Board will meet with the Mt. Moriah Baptist church of Cairo, Saturday Aug. 18, 1617. It is hoped that each member will be present. Dr.' B. J. Prince, Chairman. Chicago. Mrs. Frankie L. Jenkins, Corresponding Sec. July 14th 1915 left us in mourning Remembrance of George McCrary, Sr. gone but not forgotten Sleep On Father! --- The picnic at Belgrade given by the Ladies Aid of the St. Paul A. M E church, Friday July 13, was a decided success. The people of the city were conveyed to this shady little nook in buggies and automobiles. Several from Brookport mingled with the crowd, while the generous people of Belgrade turned out to greet us as is their usual custom. Every basket was ladened with the delacacies of the season which all enjoyed. Many harmless games and sports were indulged in by the young people, such as jumping rope, swinging, ball game, blind mans buff, fat and lean races and others. Miss Margie Tandy was winner in the fat race, Miss Viola Blackwell won in the lean race. Mrs. Johnnie Martin, won in the blind folded contest. Mrs. Desma Whitman, of St. Louis, and Miss Izora Ferrell, of Duquoin, was present. Everyone expressed themselves as having had a delightful time. Reporter. hemselves ful time. porter. Yours for the cause. J. H. Hilly, Missionary. 2406 Poplar St., Cairo, Jil. Care of Rev. F. Bomar. CAIRO. In Mr. Morris' semi-annual report it showed that he was able to turn over the county a surplus after paying all expenses attached to its office. Mr. Morris, is a painstaking, honest and a conscientious man and the tax payers feel justly proud of the interest he has taken and know that every cent collected by him will be applied to the proper place. Gazette: your pa- ast week with me. Yours for the cause, Edna Taylor, Reporter. To the Editor of The Gazette: I wish to speak through your paper to the public, that last week was a very busy week with me. Picnic at Beigrade. Colfax Morris. Circuit Clerk, Makes Good. CAIRO MOTTO : "HEW TO THE LINE. LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY." James Moses Joseph B. Annie Wyly Princess Bell. I was engaged in a revival meeting with the 40th St. Baptist church (Mt. Carmel.) which is proving to be successful. I went to St. John's, Cache, Saturday and held a church meeting which elf a warm feeling with the members of the church; and we believe that the church will move on nicely and we are looking for for great results from that church. We ask that the good people of that community, may do what can to sustain that congregation in rebuilding their church. I was with the 1st Missionery Baptist church, 12, St., Cairo, and was in their S. S., B. Y P. U. and preached for them at 11 o'clock and 7:30 p. m., I wish to commend them of their attendance and appreciation of their church and missionary, I am doing what I can to build a Front line Sunday School and B. Y. P. U.'s wherever I go. I ask the prayers of all christians that my work may be of great success in this district. CAIRO Dear Editor: Please allow me a space in the paper concerning the 12th street Baptist church and Sunday School and B Y. P. U. We are getting along nicely. We had with us Sunday our missionary, Rev. J. H. Hilly, he preached Sunday morning and night. The sermon was enjoyed by all who heard it, also our missionary will be with the first Sunday in August. We ask the prayers of each and every one. PROGRAM Song...... Invocation...... Song...... Scripture Reading.....Mrs. ..... Mattie Fossie Song..... Choir Address..... Object of B. Y. P. U. ..... Rev. G. W. Rowlett Sextette..... Juniors Music..... Avery Woods Reading..... Helen Buchanan Solo..... Mrs. A. Kimball Reading..... Alice Urquhart Instrumental Solo..... Avery ..... Woods Recitation..... Pearl Wheeler Solo..... Mr. Horace Taylor Paper. Benefits derived from B. Y. P. U...... Mrs. Ruth Nichols Solo..... Mrs. L. B. Dukes Reading..... Mrs. Benny Ja k on Instrumental Solo..... Mrs. M. ..... L. Tandy Trio..... Misses Lillie Towes, Netta Blackwell and Mr. Norris Turner Mr. Editor: Please allow me space in your worthy paper to speak something concerning our church and Sunday School. Our school opened at 9:30 a.m. by the Supt. M. C. Wrice, each teacher was present. Review by the Supt. At 11:00 the pastor, Rev. P. B. French ascended the rostrum and preached a strong sermon from Ps. 31-11. At 7:00 p. m. the church held prayer services for 40 minutes the hour having arrived for preaching the pastor read for scripture Zach. 8th chapter after a song by the choir Rev. D. G. Hutson was introduced as the speaker, and chose for a text Jer. 31:28 from which he preached a gospel sermon. The 8th Regiment Ill., N. G. will leave the 25th inst. for encampment in Springfield, to prepare for the present war if needed Let all of churches in the city appoint reporters for The Gazette and news to reach the office not than Tuesday.—Revs. Thomas, Prince' Horris, Drane and Williams, are asked to take this matter up at once. prayer serve the hour have aching the pure Zach. 8th by the choir was introduced and chose for from which l sermon. Our pastor St. Louis, St. been visiting Our pastor arrived from East St. Louis, Saturday where he has been visiting his family and stated that there is very much unrest in there now, owing to the recent race riots. Ediditor, Please allow me a space in your paper to say that I was at Carrier Mills, Sunday. H. J. Morden, of Oklahoma City, Ind. preached at 11 o'clock Rev. Hilly, is need at Mt. Zion church, Carrier Mills. there now, race riots. Mr. T. C to St. Louis, son Thomas business. The Gold Mr. T. C. Owens, was called to St. Louis, last Saturday by his son Thomas, on some important business. The Golden Leaf Club will meet in the home of Mrs. Agnes Smith this week. Mrs. Sallie Goodwin and her son's wife of East St. Louis, visited their cousin Mrs. Anna Nance ```markdown ``` Special to the Gazette: Sunday was indeed a high day at Olivet Baptist church. At 11:00 a.m. the spacious auditorium was taxed to its capacity. It was estimated that 10,000 listened to the discourse delivered by the assistant pastor Rev. Geo. Duncan in the absence of the pastor Williams. The overflow meeting was well attended. The writer worshipped in the basement, as he was too late for the auditorium. More than 30 accessions to the church. Six at the overflow meeting. Sunday was Monument day as the Aid has purchased a monument in honor of the late Dr. Fisher, ex-pastor of Olivet church The monument is just about ready and will cost when set up $300 00 Original Providerce. Ebenezer, Friendship and Bethesda Baptist churches were all crowded. The Chicagoian are all church goers. Every church is doing well, many people from the Southern states are uniting with the various churches. A. A. Martin, M. W G. M. of Prince Hall Grand Lodge Masons was in the city and lectured to the 14 lodges of the city Saturday night. He in company with A. L. McCoo, of this city, Grand Secretary of the above named order visited Mrs. Louise U. Webb, of 3807 Vincennes Ave, Grand Matron of Eureka Grand Chapter, O. E. S. The writer met the distinguished gentlemen at the above mentioned place. Monday a. m. Grand Master Martin and Worthy Grand Matron, Mrs. Webb, left for Rock Island, where they went on business connected with the Home Both are Gazette subscribers. They are hard and earnest workers and each one is devoting much time and energy in the interest of the orders. The Chicago Giants were met Sunday at 3:00 p. m. by A. B. C.'s of Indianapolis Ind. Ambrose Robinson, of Metropolis, arrived in the city Sunday to visit his aunt, Mrs. L. E. Young of 3546 Forest Ave. She is a Gazette subscriber. Mrs. T. J. Dowthard of 11 42 Wabash Ave. was a subscription payer last Saturday. HARRISBURG Rev. Geo. Brown, preached at the A. M. E church, and is proving himself to be great preacher The sermon he preached last night will be felt by many. Mrs. Bessie M. Cork, Mistress of Ceremonies. NOTICE. To our women auxiliaries connected with the East Mt Olive Baptist Association. Dear Sisters the time is near at hand for our great annual meeting which convenes at Murphysboro, Ill., with Shiloh Baptist church Tuesday before the second Sunday in August. Dear sister, let us rally to the standard and push the cause of Christianity and humanity. Working side by side for the betterment of our race and the betterment of our denomination. Sisters, let us work and pray and God will bless our efforts. Each one come prepared to take a part. Ruth L. Rowly. Corresponding Sec'y. Parker. Editor Gazette: I have a few hours wait over here I thought I would give you a short note of the S. S. convention which met with the Mt. Zion S. S. on Tuesday before the fourth Sunday in June. The of June turned out to be a financial month. The 4 weeks rally of the churches was "pulled off" on the 3rd Sunday in June, which amounted to $344.40 all told. The S. S. convention closed on the 4th Sunday. Money from all sources, $210.10, $41.30 and 90 days one dollar pledges for the S. S. work. Understand the Mt. Olive realized upward of $200.00. Good for the East and Mt. Olive S. S. conventions. The A. M. E. S. School met with the A. M. E. S. S. convention met at Colp, the following 'week, They report $204.00. The constituents of the Baptists convention in this end of the state are climbing the financial ladder. Upward and onward is their Motto. May the Lord continue to bless their efforts. Last June the East Mt. Olive S. S. met with the Shiloh S. S. Murphysboro. The best we were ever in. Not quite so much money was raised but we had 16 professions of faith and the writer, baptized six of them as he was acting pastor. We have some money on hand this year to assist the small churches and S. S.'s. May every Baptist man, woman, and child join in the forward march of the great Mission work. The command is "Go Ye. This means, if you can't go, help to send some one. 'How shall they hear without a preacher. How shall they preach except they be sent." From His Own Experiences. From His Own Experience. A west end school teacher told a funny one the other day. The teacher was attempting to drill the class in the use of the word "felt." She expected some one of the children to say "The ice felt cold" or "The stove felt hot," or something of the sort. She was much discouraged when one little alien who had raised his hand to volunteer a sentence said; "I felt downstairs."—Boston Post. Origin of Christening Ships. The ceremony of christening ships is a survival of a barbaric custom when sacrifices were made to the gods, and some living victim or offering was held up and its throat cut so that the blood flowed over the prow of the ship being launched. The vessel was baptized in warm blood. Now sprinkling wine or pure water is used, and the change has many advantages, though the symbolism remains. All Weather Good. Sunshine is delicous, 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. Just a Little Too Much. A business man called his stenographer and dictated as part of a sentence "guasi public institutions." It came to him in typewritten form "cross eyed public institutions." It has a new stenographer. Making Soldiers of Our Boys Food For the Farmer's Brain DON'T BE A SLACKER-INLIST WITH HONOR-NOW Modern American System Is Scientific Throughout—Health of Men Essentially Important—Recruits Are Shaped Into Strong, Self Reliant Units—Merit Is the Road to Promotion In the Ranks—Life In Camp. WHEN the men and the "boys" we love have joined the army and gone into camp, how is it with them? go by—he is only conscious of finding himself in a new light of capability. That is how army strength is made. The army is not only an idea, a state of mind, but a feeling. Camp of Today and Yesterday. Well, the modern camp is illustrative of the care of today compared to the ignorance of yesterday. The camps of 1898, to keep within general memory, were laid out on a plan, but more men died in them than were killed in battle. There was daily medical inspection, but there was as much ignorance as there was inspection and as little plaster, dust with talcum powder to ease the skin, and apply a protective bandage. Hygiene at Close Range. Tent inspection. Each canvas coat with blank bedsack rolled up at the head; equipment laid out; gunrack in center of tent, each man's rifle over his name. This is clean system. And system trained down is shown in field equipment carried on the hike. For camp life every soldier is required to have two shirts, two pairs of breeches two suits of underwear, five pairs of socks, towel, soap, comb, toothbrush. Grandmother shudders, mother weeps, father overenthuses, but actually few in the family or out of it have anything more than a vague, scrambled idea of the provisions of camp life and the care that "our boy" is given in his making of a soldier. And it's "our boy" who means the army to each of us. Then how is it with him? Come out to one camp, "somewhere in America," where 1,948 men are tented on a good sweep of ground, studded with the glowing green of picturesque cypress trees. The regiment occupies a space 345 yards long by 250 yards. In every detail the camp illustrates the science of individual development which makes the soldier and the man and, in his sum total, the army and the nation's morale. It seems almost model, yet it is not too model to be real. The plan is the plan followed by all camp establishments. On one side of a clean line of road are headquarters and officers' tents, on the other the company streets of long, compact rows of khaki tents. Clear cut ditches give perfect drainage. At the head of each street, facing the road, are brick ovens, freshly whitewashed, and utensils for all trash and fly traps. Beyond is the screened mess hall, the front of which is a separately screened kitchen for cook ranges and the pantries. Garbage Burned. The garbage is burned in the inchereators, which destroy as well all liquid refuse of a meal. Not a scrap of food waste is allowed to breed disease. Fly traps do their work. At night men with torches burn the files off the mess hall screens. The sleeping tents are screened, and the men are provided with mosquito bars. No files; no mosquitoes. There is a daily sick call. Men do not wait to go to camp hospital when they are really ready to go to bed. The fellow who is simply not "feeling well" must report and receive medical attention. The whole system of camp life, of army regulation, demands personal hygiene. The army is ahead of the city, ahead of the community, ahead of the home, in its development of health and individual efficiency. a survey of the modern camp teaches. Take the "rookie" out of any little old town or city street. He goes to camp with probably no idea of system in his daily outlook, no idea of physical fitness or the fitness that must come to him individually from strength of discipline that has behind it the idea of a nation. The care of his teeth, his person, his general development, has been casual. Now it is obligatory. He plays at certain hours, he works at certain hours, sleeps and eats to rule. Yet he does not feel hammered into a mass. He is hammered out of a mass, hammered out into burnished, strong, clear lines of the individual. If he has the same lusty strength as the chap next him, the same spirit and unconscious courage, he is blessedly unconscious of stimillitude. He is only conscious, as the big days of overcoming, of getting up to standard, of fitting his own place—as these big days go by—he is only conscious of finding himself in a new light of capability. That is how army strength is made. The army is not only an idea, a state of mind, but a feeling. Camp of Today and Yesterday. Camp of Today and Yesterday. Well, the modern camp is illustrative of the care of today compared to the ignorance of yesterday. The camps of 1898, to keep within general memory, were laid out on a plan, but more men died in them than were killed in battle. There was daily medical inspection, but there was as much ignorance as there was inspection and as little system. Tents were pitched on the ground, and the men slept on the floor. There were no ditches dug around for fear of stirring up malaria. Malaria was supposed to lurk just beneath the earth's outer cuticle. When it rained water ran through the tents and practically their occupants. There were no screens. For food it was hardtrack, potatoes, onions, bread and coffee, and it was concluded that the man who could not live on that wasn't fit to be a soldier anyhow. The kitchens were at the back of the company streets, and what went on there who dares say? There were no mess halls. The men lined up and grabbed what was coming to them and sat around on the ground to eat. Garbage was allowed to accumulate, to lie exposed for hours at a time and was then buried. Files? This was their home! There were more flies about a single garbage pit of a company kitchen twenty years ago than there are with an entire regiment today. As to personal hygiene, baths followed what is now called "the old tub system," which dignifies a sousing with a bucket of water. And soldiers were made by absorption—those who survived. They were just drilled. There were no field exercises at all. The result was for preciseness rather than efficiency. They were strong on dress parades and grand stand marching. It was a popular superstition that shouting and hollering made martial spirit. Soldiering a Science. Today camp life has become a science, soldiering a business. The greatest thing in army development is inoculation for typhoid fever and vaccination against smallpox. A million men have been inoculated in the past eight years, and there have been but two actual cases of typhoid fever taken under army conditions. When proper drinking water, city or artesian, cannot be had water is sterilized. The ideal of the modern camp is one of practical efficiency. Regulations are stricter; work is harder; the course of instruction more difficult. More time is spent on the private soldier. He has his school. The noncommissioned officer has his. There are lectures. There are drills. Individual, personal hygiene is a law. There are shower baths. The men are required to bathe frequently, and so strong has the bath feeling become in the army the men improvise showers as soon as they pitch camp. They are required to keep their clothes clean, and they wash their garments themselves. But this ceases to be a drudgery when it is appreciated as personal safety. The soldier today knows that if he is shot with dirty clothes on his chances of recovery are 50 per cent less. He knows that if his body is unclean he is running a risk. He bathes daily because in his business it is the safe thing to do. One of the most blessed details he learns in looking after himself is to care for his feet. The daily foot bath hardens and keeps them in condition for hikes. The undressed calfskin boots, with steel studded soles, are adapted to the purse. They keep a man on his feet. They prevent slipping and the hurt of rough roads. And a fellow is taught how to care for the foot blisters that come, to drain the blister with a needle, to bind the foot with adhesive. plaster, dust with talcum powder to ease the skin, and apply a protective bandage. Hygiene at Close Range. Tent inspection. Each canvas cot with blank bedsack rolled up at the head; equipment laid out; gunrack in center of tent, each man's rifle over his name. This is clean system. And system trained down is shown in field equipment carried on the hike. For camp life every soldier is required to have two shirts, two pairs of breeches, two suits of underwear, five pairs of socks, towel, soap, comb, toothbrush and tooth paste. Most men do their own shaving, but there is a company barber. Now for the hike. Every man carries half a tent, the brown roll that he bears across his shoulder. In this he takes one suit of underwear, two pairs of socks and toilet articles, so when the hard day is over he can clean up, which means that he sleeps under better conditions and wakes more physically fit. The old way of pitching the "pup" tent was with little tent poles. The most modern way is to use the rifle and so reduce weight. System, hygiene, efficiency. The young captains of the American camps today are enthusiasts over their men. If the company commander fathers his forces the captains "mother" the boys under them. They listen to the troubles, they give advice. Merit system governs. The fellow who attends all drills and forms, is never late or straggling gets the privileges. "Like to go into town, cap'n." The captain looks him over. "You can't go with teeth in that condition. Brush them." "Can't find my toothbrush, cap'n." "Well, clean them somehow and go looking right." Presently the lad returns. He has used ashes, but his teeth are white, his mouth decent. But above the rank of captaincy individual control of the men is lost. It runs this way. A corporal is in charge of seven men, which form a squad. Two or more squads are in charge of a sergeant. Above the sergeant comes a lieutenant in charge of a platoon made up of three or more squads. There are two lieutenants to a company, then comes the captain. There is no flunkying by officers over their men, though a private may make money on the side by doing odd jobs for his commander. In their spare time the lads may play ball, or some prefer other activities. In the pictures above, for instance, soldiers have made a flag from red and white bricks planted on a hillside, also their respects to the stacker. A clean, wholesome driving development of all that makes the strength the fighting strength of a man. There is the army. There is "our boy." Walnuts as Food. The ancients held the walnut in high esteem. Mortals could and did exist on acorns, but walnuts were so delicious in taste and flavor, so palatable and nutritious, that they were revered as food only for the gods to dine upon. Modern investigation and modern customs have popularized the uses of the walnut to such an extent that it is now regarded not only as a luxury, but as a food of great nutritive value. A chemical analysis of the nut shows that it is six times as nutritious as meat. No vegetable or fruit, with the possible exception of the olive, can be compared with the walnut as a strength giving and fat producing food. All nuts are possessed of elements of nutrition, but the highest in rank is the walnut.-Manchester Guardian. Locating the Cat. An absentminded professor rang the bell sharply, and the maid quickly responded. "Jane, please take the cat out of the room. I cannot have it making such a noise while I am at work. Where is it?" he said. "Why, str, you are sitting on it!"—London Telegraph. FIGHT POTATO DISEASES. Beetles and Blight Can Be Controlled by Spray Treatment. If the Colorado potato bettles are attacking potatoes just as they are coming through the ground the adults should be picked off by hand. The plants may later be sprayed with four pounds of arsenate of lead paste or a pound of paris green to fifty gallons of water. In case paris green is used a pound of freshly slaked lime should be added with every pound of the polson. If the potato patch is small good results may be obtained by dusting paris green or powdered arsenate of lead upon the plants by means of a perforated tin can or a cloth bag. A heaping tablespoonful of either of these ingredients should be mixed with a quart of flour or hydrated lime and used while the dew is still on the plants. The early blight, which is a foliage disease, will become serious if it gets started. Growers should not take a chance on its appearance. This plant disease causes spots on the leaves in the beginning, and later leaves dry up and hang on the plant. Diseased plants will not form tubers. Rainy weather is favorable to this disease. In order to prevent the occurrence of epidemics of the early blight bordeaux mixture sprays, using the 4-4-50 strength, should be used. In order to obtain the best results sprays should be given at intervals of about a week, beginning when the plants are six inches high. The earlier sprays are very important. Bordeaux sprays should be continued up to flowering stage. When spraying for the early blight and the Colorado potato beetle a combination spray of bordeaux mixture (4-4-50) and three to four pounds of arsenate of lead paste or a pound of parsley green to fifty gallons of spray is used. When parsley green is used an equal amount of lime should be added. The flea beetles, which sometimes do considerable damage, may be controlled by the combination spray if the under side of the leaves are also well sprayed. Certain potato diseases, such as wilt and blackleg, cannot be controlled by spraying. Growers should tear out suspicious looking plants; otherwise these plants may form tubers, which will spread the diseases. Increasing the Egg Supply Increasing the Egg Supply. The number of marketable eggs can be increased by following a few practical suggestions, says the United States department of agriculture. Among the most important of these are the production of the infertile egg after the breeding season is over and the proper handling of eggs by the farmer before sending them to market. The infertile egg is obtained when all male birds are removed from the flock. This does not decrease the number of eggs produced, but it does increase greatly their keeping qualities. The production of the infertile egg and the proper handling and marketing of eggs by the producer would increase tremendously the number of marketable eggs each year by diminishing the quantity that are rendered unfit for food. Best Soil For Beans For beans the soil should be rich and mellow. To get them tender at picking time they should have quick and continuous growth, and this is best assured when they are planted in a warm, rich, porous soil, well drained and given plenty of water. Well rotted manure, dug into the trench, is best when applied at this time of year, and the soil should be made fine with the shovel when digging and finished with the rake. Beans are planted in two general ways—in hills and in furrows or drills. Cleaner cultivation can be given by the hill system, but more can be grown in the same space of garden by the drill plan. Breeds For Small Flock. For the family which wishes to keep poultry for home consumption rather than for the market the so called general purpose breeds are better suited than what are known as the egg laying breeds. Plymouth Rocks, Wyandottes, Rhode Island Reds and Orpingtons are all good varieties for the average person who does not intend to go into the poultry business on a considerable scale. These broeds are good layers, and they also make good table poultry. The neck and shoulders of most horses are all the time changing. The collar that may be all right this year may need considerable readjusting another year. A good hog pasture cuts the cost of growing pigs and hogs in two. Get the sheep out on the pasture while the bite is short. Give a good feeding of hay in the morning before turning to pasture. Some blacksmiths seem to think they must earn their money paring off the horse's hoof. Result, thousands of poor sore footed horses. The feeding period of the hog is short, and the more quickly it is grown the greater the profit. Provide a lamb creep so the lambs can be fed an extra ration of grain by themselves. POULTRY PICKINGS. Cracked and fissured perches harbor lice. Have only sound lumber in your perches. Feed your fowls liberally. Give them a variety of whole- some food. Dry feeding of baby chicks is the only way. Bran is as cheap a food as can be used for the mash. Feed the chicks sparingly the first ten-days. They are apt to eat more than they have any business to do. Water should be given to the youngsters from the start. Baby chicks soon learn to scratch. There is no better med- icine for them. CONSIDER THE PIG. The Hog Produces Meat Quickly and at Low Cost For Feed. As a champion of the pig in its ability to produce meat quickly and at a low cost the New York College of Agriculture points out the hog's value in the present emergency. The college says that as a consumer of waste products and low grade feed the pig has no equal and that there should be at least one brood sow on every New York farm. Pigs make good use of food, producing a pound of gain from each four or five pounds of dry matter in their feed, while fattening cattle are said to require ten to twelve pounds of dry matter for each pound gain in weight. Another advantage claimed for the pig is his ability to fit into intensive agriculture, occupy a small space if necessary and utilize products that otherwise would have no value. The products of the hog lend themselves readily to preservation in the home and may be held indefinitely. Pigs yield from 70 to 80 per cent of their live weight when dressed compared to only 55 to 65 per cent in the carcass of a steer. Many village and suburban homes, it is said, could profitably keep a pig. Buckwheat as a Catch Crop. A plan to increase the buckwheat area by sowing all land where other crops have failed and where meadows and pastures promise to give very light yields is the suggestion of the New York College of Agriculture. Besides furnishing a valuable human food, buckwheat middlings are much in demand as food for dairy cows on account of their high protein content. Buckwheat grain is relished by poultry and because of the high prices of poultry feeds should be planted by poultry farmers this year. Buckwheat may be seeded as late as the last week in June or the first week in July. In order to avoid hot weather while grain is forming, it is desirable to sow as late as possible and yet have the crop well developed before severe frosts occur. Potatoes and Alfalfa For sections where early potatoes succeed the Ohio experiment station recommends this crop as one of the best to precede alfalfa, since the land is usually well fertilized and manured, and frequent cultivation kills nearly all weeds before alfalfa is seeded. The potatoes can be harvested for late July and early August alfalfa seedlings, and a good seedbed can be prepared merely by disking and harrowing. Such mid-summer seedings of alfalfa have been found by the experiment station more satisfactory than spring seedings in oats or barley. Late Hatched Chicks. Although the hatching season proper should be considered at an end by May 1, it may be feasible in some sections of the northern and northwestern part of this country to continue hatching until July. Chicks hatched at that time, with proper feed and management, will frequently begin laying in January of the following year. The maturity of fowls hatched late can be greatly increased if the mother hens are confined until the chicks are weaned. In this way feed that is furnished the chicks produces growth instead of energy to follow the mother. The Poultry House The prime essentials for a small poultry house are fresh air, dryness, sunlight and space enough to keep the birds comfortable. For the general purpose breeds about four square feet of floor space should be allowed for each bird. The fowls should also have as much outside space as possible to run in. Fall Farrowed Pigs The earlier fall pigs are farrowed the better; hence sows that have not yet been bred should be prepared for breeding as soon as practicable. The early fall pig, because it can make greater use of fall and winter pasture, has a decided advantage over the late arrival, while at the same time its greater size enables it to better stand the winter weather. Grow Two Crops. Get at least two crops from most of the garden space. Onions set for green onions should be followed with celery; early cabbages with late cucumbers; early potatoes with sweet corn, celery, beans, turnips or spinach; peas with late cabbage, carrots or beets; lettuce and spinach with beans, cabbage, celery or corn. Sports In General By LEFT JAB Control Makes Alex the Great. Grover Alexander of the Phillies, the highest salaried National league pitcher, attributes his phenomenal success to control. Last year Alexander faced 1,500 batsmen and only fifty of them received bases on balls, a record in fast company. The big fellow joined the Phillies in 1911, and during that season he handed out 129 free passes. In 1912 107 were charged against him. P Photo by American Press Association. Grover Alexander. after which he gave seventy-five in 1913, seventy-six in 1914 and sixty-four in 1915. In addition to the fifty bases on balls last year, Alexander hit ten men at the plate and allowed 323 safe drives. He worked in forty-eight games, pitching 380 innings, with a record of thirty-three victories and twelve defeats. He struck out 167 and made three wild pitches. Incidentally he scored sixteen shutouts. Alexander was thirty years old on Feb. 26. He has been pitching steadily as a professional since 1900. He is more than six feet tall, weighs 185 pounds and is a typical athlete. In the last six years as the Philies' mainstay he has participated in 284 games. He pitched 367 innings in 1911 and worked in 310, 305, 355, 376 and 380 during each succeeding campaign. Last year he extended himself to the limit, going to the mound frequently out of his turn and finally pitching two victories in one afternoon near the fag end of the race. Alexander was batted out of the box four times by the Giants in 1916 and was roughly handled by the Robins in a morning game in Brooklyn, but he never complained of a lame arm. Two days after the disaster at Ebbets field the big fellow came back in his best form and shut out the Boston Braves with two safe hits. When the season ended Alexander declared that his wing was as strong as ever, and for that reason he believed that he would repeat his remarkable performance this year. Because of this unbounded confidence in himself Alexander demanded a $15,000 salary from the Philadelphia club. He will receive about $12,500. It is said, together with a bonus of $1,000 if he wins twenty-five or more games. If Alexander retains his effectiveness the Phillies no doubt will again make a determined fight for the pennant, but if the big right hander falls by the wayside it will be the result of overwork, the kind that put Ed Walsh and Joe Wood out of commission and has decreased the value of Walter Johnson. Now With the Minors. Former major league players who will be seen in the International league this year include the following: Fuller, Doolan, Lajode, Knabe, Channell, Jackson, Twombly, E. Onlow, Callahan, Hummell, Leverenz, McTigne, Rehg, Graham, Truesdale, Egan, Alva Williams, Bentley, Blackburn, Cather, Moran, Devlin, McDonald, Zacher, Reynolds, Prieste, Mowe, Keating, Triple, Braindah, Howley, Stafford, E. Zimmerman, Jim Smith, Goodbred, Morrisette, Enzman, Herbert, Pennock and many others. Strangled the Tree A Victoria clergyman had an orange and a pine tree in his garden. One spring it was noticed that the orange tree was drooping, and on digging down he found that the roots of the pine, which stood at some distance, had twisted around the taproot of the orange tree and were strangling it to death. The offending roots were untwisted and cut away, and the drooping plant revived. The tree eventually died. Then on digging down at a greater depth the clergyman found the pine had attacked the orange root lower down and accomplished its murderous end.—London Graphic. Department for Modern Women WAR BOOMS THE SAILOR HAT [CLEANLINESS A FACTOR Ze Faia “4 nat ly 3 hae ‘ - S “ i P a z . ~” or Vo, » ao {4 an understood thing in smart circles that mannish hats shall not be worn except with suitable accessories. The severe biack sailor pictured takes an appropriate palr of heavy gloves, aud the sailor collar of pique Yields uot a bit of femininity tu tte plain fare. | WI, AWW \\\\ \\ At Hf Vy XX em, 7 RS eee at Z S eee bp \ Z ss £3 p + 2) cs I a 4 P . 7 ; ae , ag 4 3 i rem CR x = — Bs . MARKET BASKETS. Wartime Maniute About Deliveries of Groceries. If you see anybody generous with foo! wrappings and string these days You may be sure it Is not the owner of @ foo! business, Many employees, feel- ing uo responsibility, continue to be ax lavish ax of old with bag and twine, but a small dealer almost wept when a customer offered to take home a grape. frutt in her basket without a wrapping. “What! You would save me a cent!” he exclaimed Some groters will ask you if they shall deliver your purehases, whieh roay number half a dozen or more, but they will not let you have a big bax to take them home fn. You ask, “The big bag costs less than delivery, does tt not?” “Yes, but we have to pay for the delivery auyway.” Not willing to drop the subject, you say, “You ought to charge everybady & cents for each deltvery.” ‘The grocer replies: “But that would not pay for what it costs us. Our Wagons cost us $150 a month.” Of course the grocer adds this cost to our foods, and he allows « safe mar- gin. ‘Those who are willing to carry goods home pay equally with thowe who do not, Customers could work a change in one week if they all chose the mar- et basket way, ‘The “enh and carry" stores have lately displayed conspicuously a basket with @ price mark, & cents, Stout and handsome baskets, which will last years, may be bought for less than $1. How much more sensible it is to use these thin to buy paper at present prices, which is used but once! We cannot expect merket development to DAWN. be so one sided a thing as most of us have allowed it to be to the great ex- pense of uur pocketbooks, We have gone to silly lengths iu the free de- livery system. Rice and Pea Soup. One cupful Hee, one pint peas, one pint hot water, one egg yolk, one pint cream, salt and pepper, pinch of sugar, bruwn bread. Wash the rice, put into @ granite kettle and allow to boll gen- tly until tender, adding suMetent wa- ter to prevent scorching. Put the peas in another saucepan and heat. If green peas are used, stew tintil tender, When both are done combine them and add a pint of hot water. Let boll, remove pan to the side of the stove and stir in quickly the egg yolk, beaten with the cream, Season to taste with salt and pepper and a ptneb of sugar. Pour over toasted brown bread cut in squares. French Rabbit. Fill a baking dish with alternate lay er of bread (which has been sliced, spread with butter and cut into small squares) and cheese, elther grated or ground, Molsten this thoroughly with @ mixtute made fn the following pro- portions: A cupful of milk, an egg, salt, cayenne pepper and mustard. Bake until thoroughly heated through aud Drowned on top. Stains on Black Silk. ° To reduce mud stains from black slik or woolen dresses, first let the material become perfectly dry and then brisk off the mud. Any stain that remains should be washed with a plece of flan- nel dipped in hot coffee to which a lt- tle ammonia has been added, Romping With the Little Ones CLEANLINESS A FACTOR IN WARDING OFF DISEASE. A bulletin recently tssued by the North Carolina state health depart- ment says: “Why worry over infantile paralysis now, when there exist a humber of children’s diseases in al- most every section of the state whose after effects are almost as great as those of infantile paralysis and whose mortality is ax great? Worry over them. More deaths occur every year from measles, diarrhea, diphtheria, tuberculosis and whouping cough than frow infantile paralysis, and last sum- mer while the epidemic of infantile paralysis raged in New York there Were for the months of May, June and July more eases of measles, diphtheria, whooping cough or tuberculosis than the epidemic disease. “Phe inference ts plain, We have re- peatedly been told by physictans that Whatever Would protect aguiust such communicable diseases ay measles, diphtheria, scarlet fever and whooping cough Would also protect against pol fomyelitis. Communteable diseases, therefore, should be got rid of be fore summer, and children’s health should be #0 buflt up as to resist dis- ease as far as possible during warm weather. In the meantime every ef- fort should be made this spring by clt- fes aud towns, as well ax by Individu- als, to protect children's health through cleanliness — cleantiness of food, of hatits and of environments. ‘Towns ay well as homes should clean up and keep plean; files and mosqut- toes should be prevented from breed- Sng: food, particularly milk, should be regularly inspected, and above all ev- ery town should observe tn a practical way baby week.” Saving Gas. A gas saver and comfort in cooking on gas stoves Is to place a sheet of zine or sheet Iron an top of the stove the size of the stove top. One lighted burner will heat the entire sheet and serve to cook uy many articles of food ay there ts room for vessels. It also 1s cleanly, protecting the stove from the results of bolliug over, and the sheet is much eusler cleaned than the sev- eral burners are when not so protected. Washing Colored Ginghams. When washing colored ginghams, muslins, ete., soak in cold salt water, then wash In strong suds made by dis- solving white soap in warm water. Was quickly, rinse in cold water and dry in the shade. In this way the color will not fade. HOME BUILDING GAME. Each Player Must Sketch Some Part of the Plan. ‘To play the game called “building a home" a white sheet ts stretched across the archway between two rooms to serve as a canvas for the painter. ‘The guests are seated in front, each being provided with one or more ple- tures cut from magazines or flower catalogues, Those who can draw are given crayons. Now the company dis- cusses In general the ideal home and {ts surroundings and accessories, in- cluding an automobile or horses, chiek- ens, dog and cat. Now let one of the company sketch @ house, blocking out the shrubbery, the walks and tower beds. ‘The leader next culls for cer- tain pictures, an auto in waiting, a sad- die horse, to be ted at the frout gute; a cat on the poreb, a hen and chickens in the back yard, the lady of the house fn her hammock, and so on, As each pleture 4s culled for the Individual holding that one Is blindfolded, turned around several thes and told to put his pleture in position. And now the fun begins, the actual disposition of the varlous accessories being such a far cry from the place in which they are supposed to be; THE BRONZED GRACKLE. This Bird Is Gpaniimes Called the Crow Blackbird. ‘The bronzed grackle is a member of the blackbird family. In fact, he ts often called the crow blackbird, for he looks as black as the blackest crow, If you ket close enough to him, how- ever, you will see that he ts not so black as he looks at first glance. His feathers have a glossy brownish cojor, which makes him appear as if he had been bronzed, and his head shows @ deep metallic bine when the sunlight falls upon it, The grackle is proud of his beauty and struts around on the grass with his head up and his long taf] stuck straight out behind, When he flies the tall spreads out and seems to act as a rudder to steer him where he wishes to go, Singing is not at all th his fine, and all his calls are harsh and grating. Many of’ the grackles stay with us during the summer and nest in the city parks and surrounding groves, The nests are built high up fn the forks-of trees and are so large that they’ can easily be seen from be- Jow. A Laughing Game. ‘The players divide into two sides ‘and choose a leader, who stands in the middle of the room between the lines and tosses a rag doll In the alr, If the doll falls on its fuce the pedple on oue side laugh as loudly as they ean, Any one on the other side who The Sunday School Lesson BOYS TRAIN TO BECOME SAILORS e tent A rare A" “Es, Mme et ’ bt A eee. 4 a ben ere BNA 4 “98 yo 73 | Son q ~—¥ oN As PR z; 3 “8 a “og ge * J are rsd BOYS OF UNITED STATES JUNIOR NAVAL RESERVE AT CORPUS CHRISTI, TEX. Dr. William ‘?, Hornaday, the president of the United States Juntor Naval reserve, in a recent address to the New York cadets said: “The American navy 4s our country’s first line of defense, and the United States Junior Naval re- serve has approximately 50,000 boys in training at our local posts scattered all over the country. We are training the lads not only for the navy, but also for the merchant marine. Our boys are not compelied to go into the regular navy unless they so desire, and their parents can have them discharged from the Junior Naval reserve any time they wish.” The pleture shows a part of the United States Junior Naval reserve at Camp Paul Jones, near Corpus Christi, Pex., just before leaving for the summer camp at Camp Dewey, New London, Comm. ‘Text of the lesson, 11 Kings xvill, 15, to xix, 87. Memory verses, 32, 3%. Golden Text, Ps, xlvi, 1. In our last lesson all that we saw of Hezekiah was good, except in the mat- ter of his not honoring the Lord before the visitors from Babylon, but thts les. son gives a little more insight into the heurt of the man, who, like all the rest of us, would be nothing but sinful but for the grace of God, His great turn. ing to the Lord, with the great Passover and the two weeks’ feast of unleayened bread and the cleansing of the lund from idols, was in the very beginning of his reign, But to begin well ts one thing, while patient contintance In well doing 4s often quite another, and it 4s in the continuance that many fall, Paul said that, having obtained help of God, he continued (Acts xxvi, 22), and that same help is for all who really de- sire tt. In the sixth year of Hezekiah’s reign the ten tribes Were carted into captty- ity in Assyria by Shalmaneser in the ninth year of the reign of Hoshea, thelr king, hecause they obeyed not the voice ‘of the Lord thelr God, but transgressed all that Moses, the servant of the Lord, commanded (xvill, 912), Eight years later, in the fourteenth year of Heze- klah, Senuacherib came against Judah ‘and Jerusalem, and at first Hezekiah tried to buy him off by # measure of ‘submission to him by giving him gold ‘and silver, even the gold from the doors and pillars of the temple (vit, 19-16), ‘That was certainly not trust- ing In the Lord, as he bad done at the beginning, and gave the enemy ground to reproach God and seoff at Hezekiah’s trust (xviii, 22) and made them bold to blaspheme and defy and He, saying, The Lord said to“me, Go up against this land aud destroy it (xvili, 25), While those who bear the name of the Lord may terribly fall, as did ‘some of the kings who sat upon the throne of the Lord in Jerusalem, so that Jerusalem herself was called @ harlot, aud ulso called Sodom and Go- morrah (Isa. 1, 9, 10, 21), those, who ‘like Pharaoh and Sennacherib, and the antichrist of the last days, openly defy God, are the devil In human form, but all such Joftiness shall be brought ‘down, and the Lord alone shall be ex- alted (Isa. Hi, 11, 17). ‘The Assyrian generals were not far from the truth ‘when they said that St was vain to place uny reliance upon Egypt (xviii, 1921), for the Lord Himself had said the saine thing through Isaiah, “The strength of Pharaoh shall be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Kgypt your confusion, * * * for the Egyptians shail help in vain, and to no purpose” (Isa, xxx, 1-7), But when it laughs, however, must go over and Join the laughing side. When the doll falls face upward it is the turn of the other side to Iuugh and win players over. ‘The gaine never fails to end hilarlously when all the players Are won to one side or the other. Try These. Place your finger in a basin of wa- ter for about thirty seconds, take tt out and look at the hole that is left. ‘ ‘The size of the hole represents about the Impressions that ddvice’ makes on 4 foolish mind, What sort of a mind ts yours? ‘a Italian Boys. ‘The favorite game of the Neapolitan street. urab fy called “indorinella,” meaning “the guesser.” It consists merely in guessing how many pebbles ‘are held by the opponent under his bat came to exalting the king of Assyria above the living God and putting Him on a level with Idols, the gods of the nations, that was unbearable, and to such blasphemy the people held thelr ‘peace, and at the king’s commandment answered not a word (xviil, 28-30, 33- 86), ‘This brought Hezekiah in bu- mility to his knees and to the Lord tn whom he so fully trusted at the begin- ning, To mere words we should be able to act according to Ps, xxvili, 18, “Las a deaf man heard not, and I was as a dumb mau that opeueth not his mouth.” When it 1s a bad letter or writing of any kind, then we can spread it be- fore the Lord and commit to Him, as Hezekiah did (xix, 14, 15). Our desire should always preeminently be that God might be magnified before others, and we should remember that as erea- tor of heaven and earth nothing 1s too hard for Him (xix, 15-19; Jer, xxxit, 17). When the servants of Hezekiah sent to Isaiah about it his words from the Lord were full of comfort (xix, 6, 7), “Be not afraid of the words which thou hast heard, with which the sery- ants of the king of Assyria have blas- phemed Me, Behold I will send a blast pow him, * * * and 1 will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.” After Hezekiah had spread the letter before the Lord and prayed, the Lord sent through Isaiah a grandly comforting reply, sayiug among other things concerning Sennacherib, “I know thy abode, and thy xoing’ out, and thy coming in, and thy rage against Me. * * * I will put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in they lips, and T will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.” ‘Then to Hezekiah He said, “I will defend this clty to save it for mine own stke, and for my servant, David's sake” (xix, 27, 28, 34). The blust of which Hy spoke fs deseribed tn xix, 25. It ts grand to trust in the Lord at all times und to pour out our heart be- fore Him, for power belongeth unto Goa (Ps, Isl, 8,11), All the defiance and Ising and blasphemies of past ages shall come to a head tu the willful king of Dan, vil, 8. 20: x1, 36; who shall speak marvelous things against the God of gods and prosper for a time, but he shall come to his end and none shall help him (Dan, xi, 45), He is also the man of sin, the son of perdi- tion, of 2 Thess. 11, 9-10, and the great blasphemer of Rey. xiii, 4-7, who will dare even to fight against God, but he with his companion, the false prophet, shull be sent alive to the lake of fire, at the same time that the devil shall be shut up in the pit by the same Lord God, who heard and answered the prayer of Hezekiah (Rey, xvii, 14; xix, 20). or hand, The little urchins play it hours at a time, even more Industrious- ly than our boys play marbles, ‘They never stop until one boy has all the pebbles there are to win. Italian boys have the gift of whis- tling so well that they charm the listen- ing Itzards, who remain quiet and look up with delight. ‘Their greatest amuse- ment iy watching a bear dance on his hind lege. + Flowers In Ceremonies. When the swarthy Spaniards captur- ed Mexico they found ju the lake which ‘almost surrounded the capital elty many: floating gardens, the fragrant products of which were used only for the tem- ples, In Greece and ‘Rome flowers were made into buge triumphal arches, and a special feast of flowers, known as the Flora, was established in their honor, THINKING VERSUS MANUAL LABOR By Julian Campbell Pe ee re Oe a! Senge. workman, but that was a time when prices of skilled labor were not regu- Inted, as they are now, by means of ‘coulition, and the firm that John work. ‘ed for was not overgenerous, Yean after year passed and children were ‘rattling thetr knives and forks at ‘John’s table, but his wages were just ‘the same as when he had no children ‘at all, John often applied to Mr. Sealp- ‘ton, the president of the safe and lock ‘company, for a raise of salary, and Mr, Scalpton, a fine looking and rather be- nevolent appearing old gentleman, ‘would say | “We're paying you just what we can’ |'at any time get a man to do your work for, and we'll continue to pay you your Wages just as long as you do your Work well, and when you find you can do better elsewhere we won't object | to your improving your salary by leav. | ing us,” | John didn’t see ahead so far as the age that was coming, when Mr. Sealp- ton’s business would elther be merged with that of other safe builders to, make prices what he wanted them og when his laborers would band together to make him pay them such wages as they might demand. He didn't like the situation, but he couldn’t help it, so he worked on and fed and clothed his children as best he could. |, But one day John fell ill and remain. er iil for months. His wages were stopped, he had no money to pay # | doctor, and he saw his children rag- j ged and hungry. This was a bitter period for him, but he got well in time | and, going to’ Mr, Scalpton, asked to be permitted to go to work, “I'm sorry, Jobn,” said the gentle- man, “but we were obliged to fill your place, and now that it is filled it would | be an injustice to turn out the man who fills it. Don't you think so your- selry” “Maybe,” John replied, “but it's mighty hard: 1 wish I was a capital- ist lke you, Mr, Sealpton, Then if I got sick my business and my income | would go right on.” | “That's the difference between an | Ability to think and manual labor," re- | Diled the safe maker, “In busy now | and must ask you to excuse me.” | | ‘The gentleman had put a flea in’ Jobn’s ear, He concluded to do a litt tle thinking. He knew more about safes and locks than Mr. Scalpton, and before he had done thinking he bad thought out @ plan to compel that very, [Just man to Usten to him, ‘ A few days later John called on a | frm that owned a Scalpton safe and! | told them that he would prove to them for a consideration that their safe was, worthless. He would open it Mee even any tools, They engaged to pay, his price provided he succeeded. He stipulated that he was to work alone |and without any watchers. ‘They, agreed to this, locking him in a room with the safe, first having searched him, Joun worked in the dark, so 1t would not have been easy to learn his process even if any oue had been pres eut. He remained in the room an hour, and when he called and they entered the safe was open. ‘They asked John who he was, but he wouldn't tell, and since he had done nothing dishonest they couldn't compel him to tell. He pocketed a ten dollar bill and the next day went to another firm using the same kind of safe and made $10 more. This he kept up, doing lucrative business. Very soon letters began to pour in to the Scalpton Safe and Lock com- pany that there was something the matter with their locks. Each con- cern who wrote stated that their Sealp- ton safe clock had been picked by a man who accomplished the feat with- out the use of tools, but as none of them could tell how it was done there was nothing to be said. Then the or- ders for safes made a rapid decline. The company’s business was at a standstill. But when Jobn Riggs heard that they had begun to discharge their workmen he walked into the office of Mr, Scalpton, well dressed and pros- perous looking, for an interview, “Why, John,” said bis former em- ployer, “you have been making mon- ey.” “So I have, Mr. Stapleton.” “How have you done tt?" “Following your advice. When I saw you last you told me there was a great difference between thinking and mun- ual labor. I hired myself out to John Riggs for a Job of thinking, with good results.” “Well?” “I've been picking your locks at $10 apiece.” Sealpton was astonished, “How do you do it?" he asked. “That's my secret. Is there any de- mand for secrets today, Mr. Scalpton ?* “How much do. you want for yours?” “ive thousand dollars and my old place at double salary.” Metropolis Gazette Metropolis Gazette PUBLISHED ON FRIDAY BY THE GAZETTE PRINTING CO. METROPOLIS, . . . . . LL. MRS. M. J. 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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. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. Fried Fish every day at the Grand Leader Cafe. Mrs. Hester Urquhart, and daughters, Misses Iola, Alice and little Spellma are to visit in Atlanta, Ga., with former's parents soon. Mrs Bertha McMurray, and little son, Lawrence, of Murphysboro, are in the city visiting her parents, of Belgrade, Mr. and Mrs. L. G. Blackwell. Mr. Smittie May and Miss Ida May, were quietly married Tuesday night. We wish them the greatest success through life. Mr. and Mrs. Andy Benberry and son, Jno. Mrs. Cannie Davis, of Carbondale, passed through Metropolis, Wednesday enroute to Grand Rivers, Ky., to bury their son Roy who died Monday July 16, at Carbondale. The Gazette, is in deep sympathy with the parents and relatives in their ol grief. Mr. and Mrs. Oto Routen, left for St. Louis, Mo., Friday. Mrs. Laura Hutchison, and grand-children are visiting her daughter in-law in Paducah. Walter Miller, of Marion, is in the city visiting with his mother and relatives. Mrs. Jennie Cowper, went to Paducah, last Friday on business Mrs. jennie Cowper, wint to Paducah, last Friday on business Ontrue Cowper, went to Padu-last Saturday to bring his uncle Alfred Cowper, home with him who was in the hospital to have his eyes treated. He is slightly improved. We wish him a speed recovery. Mrs. Gracy Williamson is on the sick, confined to her room. Rev. Green Hodge, is confined to his room dangerously sick He is an old veteran of the Civil war, and an old citizen of Metropolis. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Palmer returned from Carbondale, Monday where Mr. Palmer, went to visit his parents for a few days, Mrs Lena Phillips, and little nephew, Lytttton, went St. Louis, Mo., Tuesday to visit the former's sisters and the latter's parents. Mesdames Minervia Upshaw, Luella Gunn, Ramalia Lyons, Martha Lyons, Mr. Ed Lyons, Miss Izora Rodgers, and several others are going to Chicago, on a visit the 1st of the month. The Unity Baptist church of Brookport, will give a barbecue August 8th in their park in the rear of the church. Rain will not stop it as they have fine basement for shelter. Rev. J. B. McCray, will baptize next Sunday at Brookport. The window rally of Unity Baptist church, is now in earnest Please help us in this struggle. Rally Sunday July 22nd, as we were rained out last Sunday. Rev. Thos, Turner, is at home for a few days from his work in Tennessee. The bills are out announcing the Celebration of the Emancipation Proclamation, by the churches of our city August 8th. They are too arranging for a big day. Every citizen should become interested, pull off their coat and roll up their sleeves and have an old time parade with a Godess of Liberty. A committee should be appointed to wait on every business man in the city for financial aid as they will be directly benefitted by bringing a large crowd to the city. Get the brass band and have speaking and a flying dutchman, and celebrate your "Dad's" birthday. Mr. Will Rudledge and wife of Newport, Ky., are visiting in the city this week with Mrs. Rosa Davie, the former's aunt. Mrs. Amanda Bernard was a Paducah, visitor Thursday. Alex King, of Tennessee is visiting his sister-in-law, Mrs. Bernard. Rev. J. H. Hilly, the missionary was in the city Thursday. NOTICE. Dear Co-workers of the East Mt. Olive Baptist Association of Southrn Illinois, the time is just a little ahead of us it will not be long before we are to meet in our annual meeting at Murphysboro. Let us come up, go around the walls and make this the grandest meeting in she history of the organization. Come full of religious zeal, financial and spiritual enthnsiasm. Come singing, praying and let us have a glorious meeting Gnd helping us. Look over the field and see the great need of us as Baptist women rallying together, as there is much for us to do along religious lines. I ask all circle to be on exhibit that day Chairman is expect-ecting every circle to represent. You're for the cause of Chia Yours for the cause of Christ M. J. O. Connor, Pres. Ruth Rowlie Cor, Sec. NOTICE. All churches composing the East Mt. Olive Baptist Association, are hereby notified that the association will convene with the Shiloh Baptist church, Murphysboro, Ill., Tuesday before second Sunday in August, 7-12,'16. All pastors of the association who can't attend, please remember our $1. one dollar pledge and forward same to the association to help defray the expenses of the association. All delegates are expected to be present Tuesday morning, 9:00 a.m. W. P. Washington, Moderator, Mt. Vernon, Ill. A. H. Bradley, Cor. Sec. Dewmaine, Ill. Applied Learning The Absent-Minded Professor—"My tailor has put one button too many on my veat. I must cut it off. That's funny; now there's a buttonhole too many. What's the use of arithmetic?"—Sourie. Invention of Cut Glass Pressed glass was invented by an amble carpenter of Sandwich, Mass., but in the primitive state of affairs it profited him little. More than 200 years ago a Bohemian glassmaker conceived the idea of making cut 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 was wont so that he might cut the glass with a sharp knife into figures as he chose. Good Advice. Good Advice. Since thou art not sure of a minute, to not throw away an hour — Franklin. Enough Said. Irascible Old Gent (to schoolgirl who has collided with him) — "When you run into people like that you should say, 'I beg your pardon.'" Girl — "There won't no need; I heard what you said" — Sydney Bullion. of the 16th Annual Session of the East Mt. Olive Baptist Association, to be held with the Shiloh Baptist Church, Murphysboro, Illinois August 7-12th 1917. Eld. W. P. Washington, Pastor. M. D. and M. Institute Tuesday, Devotionals conducted by Marion Mike Messengers. Meeting called to order by President, A. Mrs. of Dewmaine.. Appointment of com- municious matters. on by President A. J. Bowers. Alt. Eld., tion and adjournment. Afternoon and prayer service, led by Mt. Vernon and Messengers. g called to order by the President. M. Mrs. and introduction of visitors and c engers. of an old Minister's Home, opened stead, Pulaski. Illinois. Discussed by the by Elder Jno. Winston, Levings. Alto Duquoin, Ill. Subject, Unity among the by Dr. H. E. McWilliams, Subj. The w set forth in the Scriptures. ment. and prayer service, led by Murpysboro and Messengers. Sermon by Eld. S. H. Pruitt, Du- n. L. Martin, Colp Wednesday 8:30 A. M. and prayer service led by Metropo Messengers. g called to order by President A. J. B. beous matters and introduction of Corre- irs, etc. by Elder Thos. Morris, Metropolis, Illin- fication, and when does it begin? and wh by the Body in minutes intermission and are we yet alive in Minister to be selected by committe e ation and adjournment and prayer service led by Shaw messengers g called to order by President. Miscell and reports of committee by Elder D. Johnson. Alternate Elder Messboro On and installation of officers, etc. Elder D. T. Fox, Duquoin. Alt. Elder Grand Chain 8:30 a. m. Tuesday, Devotionals conducted by Marion and Cerbondale Messengers. 9.00 a. m. Meeting called to order by President, Eld. A. J Bowers, of Dewmaine. Appointment of committees and miscellaneous matters. miscellaneous matters. 11:00 Sermon by President A. J. Bowers. Alt. Eld., J. D. Davis 11:45 Collection and adjournment. Afternoon 1:30 Song and prayer service, led by Mt. Vernon and Dewmaine Messengers 2:00 Meeting called to order by the President. Miscellaneous matters, and introduction of visitors and corresponding Mesengers 8:00 Song and prayer service, led by Murpysboro. and Golconda Messengers. Sermon by Eld. S. H. Pruitt, Duquoin,. Alt. Eld. J. L. Martin, Colp Wednesday 8:30 A. M. 8:30 a. m. Song and prayer service led by Metropolis and Duquoin Messengers. 9.00 Meeting called to order by President A. J. Bowers. Miscellaneous matters and introduction of Corresponding messengers, etc. 9:30 Paper by Elder Thos. Morris, Metropolis, Illinois. Subject Sanctification, and when does it begin? and what is it? Discussed by the Body 11:00 Sermon. Minister to be selected by committee on Divine servise 11:45 Collection and adjournment 1:30 P. M. Song and prayer service led by Shawneetown and Grayson messengers 2:00 Meeting called to order by President. Miscellaneous matters and reports of committee 3:00 Sermon by Elder D. Johnson. Alternate Elder J. J. Farrish Murhbysboro Thursday-W. E. and M. Convention and sprayer service led by Grand Tower ingers Convention called to order by President M. M. Carbondale. Appointment of com- municial matters report of Enrollment committee by Mrs. C. C. Phillips. Subject, Womans of Religion. Discussion optional with the ing of letters on by Elder J, B. McCray, Metropolis, M. M. Olive Baptist Association. ation and adjournment Afternoon and prayer service led by Centralia and D. urs ation called to order by President. M. Mrs. and reading of letters of the various committees on and installation of officers. Adjournme Evening Final programme rendered by the Shilch E. P. U. and literary program as arranged by 8:30 Song and prayer service led by Grand Tower and Galatia messengers 11:00 Sermon by Elder J, B. McCrary, Metropolis, Moderator of the Mt. Olive Baptist Association. 1:30 Song and prayer service led by Centralia and Duquoin messengers 8:00 A partial programme rendered by the Shiloh Baptist Church B. Y. P. U. and literary program as arranged by the women Friday A. M.-Association Proper 8:30 Song and prayer service, led by Golgotha, Elkville, and Liberty, Cairo, messengers and prayer service, led by Golgotha, Elkvill, Cairo, messengers called to order by Moderator W. P. Wash- ment of committees and miscellaneous report of enrollment Committee action of visitors, Corresponding messengers of their correspondence by Dr. B. F. Rodman, Duquoin; Illinois ary of the Illinois Baptist State Assoc- the work of the Baptist State Association Board (white) of Atlanta Ga., and its w groos factory sermon, by Dr. W. P. Throgmon inois (paper) Baptist, and Chairman of Board and adjournment Afternoon and prayer service led by Pulaski and L. Langers called to order by Moderator- Miscellan- d reading of letters and young Folks Covenant meeting re-assemble for business of the Assoc- met Evening ary sermon, by State Missionary, H. E. 9:30 Introduction of visitors, Corresponding messengers, and receiving their correspondence 10:00 Address by Dr. B. F. Rodman, Dnquoin, Illinois, Financial Secretary of the Illinois Baptist State Association. Subject, the work of the Baptist State Association and the Home Board (white) of Atlanta Ga., and its work among the Negroes 11:00 Introductory sermon, by Dr. W. P. Throgmorton, Editor of Illinois (paper) Baptist, and Chairman of the State Mission Board 11:45 Collection and adjournment Afternoon 1:30 Song and prayer service led by Pulaski and Hallidayboro messengers 2:00 Meeting called to order by Moderator- Miscellaneous matters and reading of letters 8:00 Missionary sermon, by State Missionary, H. E. McWilliams Chicago Saturday A. M. 8:30 Song and prayer service led by Cairo and Metropolis meso- sopera and prayer service led by Cairo and Metro stations k of the Association in general by Dr. J. J. Olive. Cairo ion and adjournment Afternoon and prayer service led by Dewmaine and Gr engers house called to order by Moderator. Mi s t of committees. Election and installation right as may be provided by the Committee today services to be directed by committees of welcome by Moderator as may be election. We urge that every pastor and physiabor, bent and determined to add to the Shiloh Baptist church, sufficient to this setting of our Association. Must ist Army to success. Afternoon 1:80 Song and prayer service led by Dewmaine and Grand Tower passengers cers Sermon at night as may be provided by the Committee on Divine service. Sunday services to be directed by committee on Divine services. service. Address of welcome by Moderator as may be compatible to the Association. We urge that every pastor and Messenger come to Murphysboro, bent and determined to add to the Financial Fund of the Shiloh Baptist church, sufficient to dedicate it clear of debt at this setting of our Association. May the Lord lead this Baptist Army to success. Committee:—C. C. PHILIPS A. J. BOWERS W. P. WASHINGTON. A short session of the executive board was held in Cairo, on Saturday June 23, with the Mod. Elder J. B. McCrary, presiding. The first thing under consideration was to find a place for the Association to hold its forthcoming session, as the Shiloh Baptist church, Future City could not care for it. After carefully considering the invitations, a motion prevailed to meet with Siloam Baptist church, Unionville, on Tuesday before the 4th Sunday in Sept. 1917. A motion prevailed that the Educational space on the church letter blanks, be changed to read Livingston Normal Rebuilding and Educational Tax. A motion prevailed that the Woman's District auxiliary be requested to turn over to the treasurer of Trustee Board, all of the money they have on hand for education and same placed in the Bank by him on interest. Eld H. E. McWilliams, came in and was permitted to speak on the Co operative Missionary work. A motion prevailed-thas this subject be special attention in the association next fall. Eld J. D. Davis paid the missionary money of $4.00 for the Mt Olive church, Colp. This closed a short and sweet session of the Board. Elder J. B McCrary, Moderator, Elder J. H. Starks Corresponding Sec. 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 sumptuously every day with our families and congregations. It is wore than a crime to allow his family to suffer, while we are responsible to 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 montles fall on us are expecting us to evangelize 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. 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. J. B. McCrary, 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.