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Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1915-10-08

coal black He is of pure African de-
scent and nowhere in his family is
there a trace of white blood. When
ne was about forty years of age, he
contracted most malignant case of
malarial fever in Cabarrus county.
North Carolina, and was brought home
on a wagon, quite a distance, so that
he might die with his family. Local
physicians attended him and eventual
ly he got well of the fever. but leuko-
derma made its appearance and dur
ing the last 40 years--he is now an
octogenarian--the affection has gradu-
ally spread until today, with the ex-
ception noted. the entire surface OF
his skin is white with a pinkish tinge.
Leukoderma is described in the books
as a condition in which the pigment
forming tissues have lost their func-
ton OF making and furnishing pig
ment to the skin. This is brought
about by trophoneurosis and is often
associated with neurotic disturbances.
In short. it is due to the nerves. and
In this case the nerves OF the man be-
came affected by the toxic pofsons OF
the malarial attack Leukoderma Is
not at all uncommon among the dark
races and is particularly disease OF
the tropics. Dermatologists have
found many cases where the affection
has attacked a portion OF the skin sur
face. making what is known as pie
bald" Negroes. But the cases In
which this affection has become uni
versal over a mans body are very
rare. and this case is very interesting
to specialists and the medical frater-
nifty generally because of Its rarity.
Uncle" Dolph. as he ~ called by
white and black, has always been a
respectful, respectable and respected
Negro; has been industrious and
raised large family. He has good
eyes and a good memory and can re-
call many incidents OF slavery days
and OF the war. He helped build all
the older buildings In the place and
is the oldest citizen. white or black.
who was here when the town began
to take shape three-quarters OF a cen
fury ago.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1915-10-08
vI0LINS IN BANK VAULTS
Maker Says 20 Instruments VIII BE
Worth 5000 EaciIe In
Future.

IN the vaults OF the Mercantile
Trust and Deposit company. where
thousands OF dollars worth Of securi-
ties and other valuables have been
placed for safe keeping. twenty or
more violins of all descriptions have
been packed carefully away by their
owner in the hope that some day they
will make him independently rich. >
Baltimore dispatch to the Philadelphia
Record states.
The owner Is Frank Della Tore OF
1929 North Calvert street. prominent
in society. The instruments do not
represent much value now, but 20
years hence, the owner says. there
isn't an instrument among Them that
win bring less than $4,000 or 5000.
Della Tore now Is in England.
About eight months ago he was called
to Europe on business. and has been
there ever since. But for months be-
fore he sailed he occupied his time In
collecting all kinds OF yiolins and re-
making them. In this sort Of work he
is remarkably skillful. But II 10 the
old violin that produces the tone
which appeals 10 the trained ear Of
the musician and commands high
prices. Twenty years hence. II Is be-
lieved. violins OF Della Tore will be
classed with the best instruments to
be found In America.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1915-10-08

handle. 3. and spout, 4. Tho spout
has an inner wall, perforated with
holes, 5.
Into the top goes drum, 9. having
a nange. 8, that flfs tightly In the
neck, la. and Is prevented from going
down too far by rim, !. Just above
this rim the barrel Is perforated with
holes. ., and opposite the spout. with
smaller holes, 10, IL is covered by a
lid.
When the coffee boils 1t rises In tho
pot, but flows through tho holes, ?.
into the open space between the drum
and the body OF the pot. This In
stantly cools 1t below the boiling point
and II flows back down through the
holes and into the pot again. The cof-
fee may even boil over the top. but It
will be caught In the open space. 2.
and viii never spill. The liquid is
poured in the usual way. the small
perforations acting simply as a
strainer.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1915-10-08
ResourcefuJ Woman.

DIR. Dudley A. Sargent OF Harvard
holds that sex is no bar TO military
service-that woman would make as
good soldier as a man.
Doctor Sargent, at q tea in Boston,
said to group of flattered. smiling
girls:
"Why shouldn't you. indeed, make
as good soldiers as men? Look how
resourceful You are.
Il know young fellow who said to
q girl, doubtfully:
"T consulted a palmist last eve
ming and she told me would marry a
brunette within three months
"The girl, tossing her golden head,
answered with roguish smile:
Well, can easily be brunette by
that time, jack"
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1915-10-08

beg leave to suggest herewith that
colored men be utilized to help man
the navy. The Negro has proved him
self loyal to "Old Glory" II anyone has.
and he should be represented In the
navy as well as In the army.
II white sailors and marines should
object 10 their company on board ship.
why not allot certain ships TO them as
certain barracks are allotted to them
In the army2
The plan OF nomenclature in the
navy Is 10 name battieships after
states. cruisers after cities and gun
boats after famous battle fields. but
with the colored units new system
could be used For instance. the gov
eminent might turn over to the col
ored sailors such battleships as the
Alabama and Mississippi OF such
cruisers as the Suwanee and the Dixie.
Among the Negroes may be found
plenty of good loyal material and
Will wager that II they are called upon
no one need ever blush for the record
their ships may make.-H. 7. Hughes.
in the Chicago News.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1915-10-08
DEVICE FOR CATCHING BUGS
Ingenious New York Man Has
Thought Up . consrlvsnce That
should Account for Many Pests.

Knut George Gyllstrom. Richmond
Hili, ". Y. has patented bug catch.
Ing apparatus which should be very
efficacious against the innumerable lit
tie pests that inhabit the air the lat
ter part OF the summer and the early
fall. Placed In a house or public
building. IT ought to catch most OF the
insects which squeeze through the
screens or zip in when the door is
opened.
Mr.. Gyllstrom's device consists OF a
bright electric light to attract the In
sects, placed between an electric fan
and funnel-shaped bag with an insect
trap at the small end. The philos-
ophy OF the invention Is simple. The
bugs. lured by the light. get In the
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1915-10-08
stlll Ahead.

Among the passengers on train on
one-track road In the middle WesA
was a laxative jewelry drummer.
Presently ne train stopped to take
on water. and the conductor neglect
ed to send back = nagman. An en-
press came along and, before II could
be stopped, bumped the rear end OF
the irst train.
The drummer was lifted from his
seat and pitched head first into the
seat ahead. His silk bat was iammed
clear down over bis ears.
He picked himself up and settled
back in his seat No bones had bean
broken. He drew q long breath.
Strengthened up. and said:
We'll. they didn't get By ~. any.
way"
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1915-10-08
LAST JEST OF GREAT WRITER
Witty Remark Made by the Elder Dw
mas as He Lay on What Was
His Beathbed.

Dumas the elder was the son of a
general of Napoleon Bonaparte, who
would take his soldiers by the
breeches and fling them over the pail
sades to an assault.
Dumas inherited much of the same
spirit.
1t is told that Dumas left Paris for
the last time taking with him a single
gold piece. which he solemnly laid
on the mantelpiece Of his room at
Puys.
Toward the end his eye wandered
across the sickroom to this coin, and.
pointing to it, he said to his son:
See there Fifty years ago. when
| came to Paris, had one louis in
my possession. Why am accused of
being a prodigal? / have preserved
and possess it still-see, there it isl"
This was Dumas last jest.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1915-10-08
sIrd protection in east indies.

DIR. w. T. Hornaday. well known for
his activity In behalf OF wtid.lifs pro-
lection in America. communicates to
Science the gratifying news that meas
ures have been taken by the Dutch
authorities to prevent the extermina.
ton OF birds OF paradise In the Dutch
East Indies. Shooting Is now limited
10 three species. except In certain
areas where tho shooting Of any bird
Of paradise in prohibited.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1915-10-08
COFFEE POT
One That Is Guaranteed Not TO
Boil Over.
Ingenious invention for Which House
wives VIII Be Grateful is Shown
Here-sImple in Design, but
Does the Work.

A coffee pot that Is guaranteed not
to boil over is the ingenious inven-
ton for which c. NJ. Smith and NJ. J.
Slezinger of Brooklyn have a patent
application pending. The pots con-
struction may bast be understood by
referring to the diagram. which shows
It In longitudinal section. 1t consists
of o main body Il In the diagram)
tapering toward narrower neck. Ia.
over which rises a faring top. with
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1915-10-08
AFRO-AMER|CAN CULL|NCS

The term Negro" or "colored peo-
ple." has no definite meaning. Meth
er discloses nationality. These terms
have no place in the science of an
thropology. But their persistent use
with reference to persons of African
descent invites attention. The white
man tried to make brute out of the
black man. To this end the slave
power put the cause Of slavery In the
slave himself. "The cause, dear
Brutus, that we are underlings, Is not
in our stars but in ourselves" Ev-
erything was done to destroy the ma
tionality and hinder the growth of in
dividuality in the captive African. He
was called Negro" to characterize his
kind and condition. The word Ne
gro then became the trade mark of
slavery. 1t is now term of contempt
Il Is so written and spoken. This OPP
probrious epithet should have been la
ken away with the bondage and not
allowed to remain the deadly weapon
of the sycophant and the exploiter
1t is the strongest barrier to the in
vestiture with citizenship OF the Afri-
can dwelling in America, whose long
domicile, fidelity and toll have given
him an incontestable title to the most
honorable distinction of American citi.
zensbip, writes Charles Hatfield Dick.
erson in the Chicago News.
Also "colored people" in the public
mind are nondescripts. None of these
names is respectable. Let them be
abhorred. Let US all have the good
and proper name and patronymic AT
rican," of African descent" and
black" II you please. For | behold
the time when black skin will be as
fashionable as black cloth and as val
liable as sable. There are those
whose ignorance of the glory and
grandeur of Africa makes them
ashamed of their mother country.
But | have sought and found her the
workshop of nature. the cradle of
man. the undoubted source of the civ
ilization of the whole world. OF this
| am confident.
Plato thanked God that he was
man; that he was a citizen of Athens,
lived in the age of Pericles; had the
friendship of Socrates. So do thank
God that | am man, conscious of the
high destiny OF man. clambering with
my fellows up the cloudy SUBMITS of
our times; am a citizen of this great
republic; live in the world of Chicago;
In the reign of Woodrow Wilson, a
man of philosophic mind. who has lin
gered with the muses., learned and
written the grand march OF the Amer
lean people and presides over their
destiny with dignity and grace. And /
am proud to live in the era of Theo-
dore Roosevelt, a man Of great ampli-
tude of mind and vigor OF body. who
has trayersed the globe. enlarged our
intellectual empire and has now be-
come the ubiquitous political genius
of the republic.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1915-10-08

path OF the fans current and are blown
into the bag, where the current,
OF air maintained by the fan prevents
them from escaping. Eventually. the
bugs are driven Into the trap. from
which. Of course. there Is no escape.
It is to be hoped that the patentee
realizes all he hopes from his device.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1915-10-08
Jealous bride Ended Her Life.

Jealous OF her husband every time
he even smiled on baby, jealous OF
his Office work because it took him
from her side. jealous OF him even II
he walked alone on the street, Mrs.
Adele Diaz, a pretty Spanish bride Of
New York city, worked herself up into
such state OF mind that she com
mitted suicide one day after finding
her husbands revolver
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1915-10-08
No Wanted TO sleep.

Say. can I borrow your lawn
mower Sunday morning.
Surely. What time do Jon want
it,
-Oh. III send over for II about six
O'Clock and return II when | get up.
I'm going TO be out late tonight. you
know"
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1915-10-08
subtle Suggestion.

$50 you are still looking for an
honest man.
"Of course" replied Diogenes.
Haven't you found one yet"
Certainly not. What I'm trying to
do is to impress the fact that the
article is SO scarce that the people
may as well turn to me"
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1915-10-08

Visitor lat seanceb--I want to talk
with Mr.. Brown.
Attendant-What Mr.. Brown
VISITOR cannot remember his irst
name. but he II only lately deceased.
Attendant tformeriy . department
store worker)--Piease show the gen.
tleman some Of the latest shades Of
Browns.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1915-10-08

The most remarkable relief map in
the world is in public park in Guate-
maIa City. 1t is of immense proper
tions and represents with minute de-
tails all the physical characteristics
of the republic. Tiny steel bands rep
resent the railroad systems, and water
can be turned into all the river beds.
The maker died OF brain fever not
long ago, after completing his work.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1915-10-08

Experts from the United States and
England have agreed on international
standards for electrical machinery
which are expected to be adoped
throughout the world.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1915-10-08

crude ideas of what home should be.
have gradually been led out into a
finer conception of what home can
be made through persistent thrift and
constant effort to improve the physi-
cal condition OF tn, house. the yard
and the fences.
What the Negroes OF Titustown
have done so quietly and so effective
ly, with the sympathetic cooperation
Of Mr.. Stroud through long period.
can and should be repeated, with nee
essary notifications. of course. wher-
ever there are large numbers OF Ne
groes who should have better hous-
ing.-Southern Workman.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1915-10-08

There are "a Methodist Episcopal
churches in the United States report
ing a membership OF more than 1900
each. Calvary church. New York,
leads with 1900 members. and First
church. Los angeles. is second with q
total membership of 2.400.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1915-10-08

The king OF Spain IL the only mon
arch who does not sign his name to
documents and edicts. He slmp1f
writes Il, the King"
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1915-10-08

Casting Their Shadows Before.
Young Hother-what business will
baby take TO. do you SUPPOSED
Young Father-The feed line. appar-
entiy.--Judge.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1915-10-08

Because of the scarcity of clocks in
West Africa, events are timed by the
regular daily occurrences. For exam
pie, native wrote that she had re-
ceiyed news of her sisters illness "a
little while before the guinea fowl
talk" that is. about five o'clock in
the morning.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1915-10-08

The balance wheel OF watch VI
brates 300 times a minute, 432, 900
times day. or 157,6S0,000 times q
years As each vibration covers about
one and one-half revolutions. the shaft
on which the balance wheel is
mounted makes 236. $4,000 revolutions
in its bearings each year.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1915-10-08

A good many men work hard and
unremittingly and achieve no distinc-
ton other than that OF living to be
more than seventy years old.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1915-10-08

Midway between the sandy beach
at Ocean View, on the southern side
of Hampton Roads, and Norfolk,
rapidly growing southern metropolis,
there has been developed. in the heart
of rich farm-trucking region. an at
tractive Negro community, called tt
tustown. in which all of the people
own their own homes and not a single
renter is found.
In Titustown Negroes have had the
opportunity of buying iigh-class prop
erty at a low price. building comfort
able and attractive individual houses
on easy terms, and living happy lives
in a refined and attractive commu-
nifty.
IL was in 1901 that commission of
ten or a dozen colored men came to
Augustus T. Stroud. a white lawyer
of Norfolk, who had recently gradu-
ated from college. They asked that
some land should be bought and re-
sold to Negroes for home sites. The
Negroes had heard the summons
Move on and sought the good offices
CT a southern white man whose family
had long had a deep interest in the
welfare of Negroes.
Men who in the beginning had very
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1915-10-08

Pluck is all right. but good luck
often leaves Il ut the post.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1915-10-08

When man is caught with stolen
fruit the other men stand around and
criticize it's quality
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1915-10-08

Names elude us SO easily. Who
was the clever fellow who described
a male quartet as a musical organiza-
ton composed OF three men and .
tenorg
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1915-10-08

A commercial wireless service has
been established between stations In
Peru and Brazil.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1915-10-08

There is a well authenticated case
of Negro who was once as black as
the ace of spades but whose skin all
over his body is now pinkish white
with the exception Of few pinpoint
specks on his face, and these are dis.
appearing also. Ii is one of the rare
cases known to medical science and
dermatology where the affection
known to physicians as 'leakoderma"
is universal. The man is Adolphus
Setter, an ex-slave of Newton, n. c.,
where he was born and reared. He
belonged to the large estate of the late
Reuben Setter, who owned much land
and many Negroes before the war be-
tween the states. Up to the time Set
ger was forty years old his skin was
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1915-10-01
NEW BETHEL.

Special to The News.
New Bethel, Sept. 3U.-As I hav.
not seen any news from this commu-
nifty in print for long time. / am
sending "a few dots.
Mr.. +. n. Carnes's mother, Mrs.
Ford of Columbia, has been visiting
her daughter the past week
Mr.. Rome Sapp is remodeling his
home.
Mr.. Bonnie Todd went North
Sunday.
Mr.. Dewey Funderburk of Taber-
nacle visited at the home of Mr..
Rom Sapp Sunday afternoon.
Mr. Roy BlaCkmon was q pleasant
caller in the Camp Creek section
Sunday.
Mr.. Ben Sapp was a visitor in the
Tabernacle section Sunday
Our prayer-meeting at Bethel
church was conducted last Sunday
night by Mr.. Roach Threatt and is
to be conducted next Sunday night
by Mr.. Myrt Baker. 1t is pro-
crossing nicely.
Mr.. Arthur Blackmon OF Lancas-
ter came out Sunday to see his moth
er, Mrs. K. l.. l.. Blackmon. who has
been quite sick for the past week.
Mr.. George Glenn is very bus,
this week making molasses.
Mr.. j. l.. Todd spent Tuesday in
Monroe on business.
Misses Leola and Louise Sapp
visited relatives in the Tabernacle
section Sunday
Mrs. T. III. Mark celebrated her
18th birthday Wednesday, the 29th.
Everybody in this community is
very busy gathering their crops
The health of the community is very
good. If this escapes the waste
basket you may hear from us again
"SALLIE"
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1915-10-01
HEATH SPRING.
Special to The News.

Special to The News.
Heath Spring, Sep, 30.-Mr. and
Mrs. Simon Beckham of Pleasant
Hill and the Rev. w. w. Boyce, pas
tor of the A. r. p. church at tha.
place. were guests of Mrs. f. l..
Crenshaw early in the week.
Mr.. Wylie Ussery Of U1mers, Barn
well county, has been the guest of
Mrs. w. ID. Ussery and family for
several days past.
Mrs. M. B. Cauthen and family
came down from Lancaster Wednes-
day to visit the formers grand
mother. Mrs. Caroline Robertson.
who continues quite feeble at her
home near Oakhurst.
Mr.. Frank Bell. assistant postmas-
ter, after spending about three
weeks among friends in Alabama,
has returned to his post of duty here.
Miss Minter has gone to Hickory
Grove, n. c., to visit her brother-in-
law. Mr.. Quinn and family. She VIII
also spend some time with her
brother in Chester while on her trip,
Mrs. Irby Hinson OF Blacksburg is
visiting her parents. Mr.. and Mrs
w. J. Vaughn
Miss Florence Peak, of the school
faculty. left Wednesday afternoon
for her home in Edgefield to atteno
the marriage of her sister.
Mrs. j. w. Crenshaw of Lancaster
is with her sister, Mrs. J. T. Cren
shaw, for a few days visit.
Miss Maggie Vaughn has pos,
ton in the sales department Of the
Hirschs' store az this place
Mr. Robert Therrell of Catawbi
Falls was here for a day or two thi:
| week
| Mr.. o. c. Croxton spent Monda.
and Tuesday in the capital city.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. r.. Mobley spen
Sunday in Kershaw with Mrs. Mob
ley's father, Mr.. Young.
Miss Elizabeth Clark left seyera
days ago for Enterprise, where sh
is engaged in teaching.
Mr.. Ernest Powers has a position
in the wheclwright and blacksmith
shop of Mr.. Fraser McMackin.
Mrs. G.. l.. Mobley has been quit
sick for several days past.
A daughter was born to Mr.. an
Mrs. w. S. Hammond. az Rich Hill
about two weeks ago.
The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1915-10-01
PRACTICAL SAFETY-FIRST.
Salisbury Post.

coiiSDuTy tOSt.
Ever notice railroad man ap.
proach a grade crossing?
He looks both ways and does no,
attempt to cross until he knows there
is no train in sight
Riding in car with Captain II. L.
{, Avery. superintendent of terminals
at Salisbury, we watched the trained
railroad man observing the safety
first" rule to the very letter
Why not?
Captain Avery knows that a train
has the right of way. He knows
that it is too late to escape after be-
ing hit. He knows the way OF To-
comotive engine and he knows
that its ways are to be respected
The man who knows these things
is not likely to be hin at the ever
dangerous grade crossing.
The man who gets hit and perhaps
killed. frequently more than one kill.
eds the racer who disregarded the
big letters of warning and drivers
with wreckless daring that only
too often leads to the grave.
Never in the history Of the country
has the grade crossing been so ad-
vertised as during the past two
months. Yet how many drive with.
out due regard to the danger lurk.
ing there
The Southern is drilling this
'safety-first" principle in every day
Employees of the road know how
earnestly the fight is being made tC
protect lift and limb. and how care
fully the great machinery of the big
system is watched day and night
and every observing man knows the
result of this is shown in the stats
tics of accidents.
Yet people are driving carelessly
every day. Hundreds are walking
the railway tracks day and night
Watch a railroad man drive an au
tomobile. Watch him as he ap
proaches grade crossing and Sc,
how much he respects the signs and
the warnings and see how CAREFUL,
he tries to avoid accident and danger
There is a lesson for all of us.
Safety first cannot be too greatl,
observed.