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Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1915-01-08

Almost 5000 young men and women,
including 200 Indians, have already
gone from Hampton institute into the
South and West, equipped in body,
mind, and heart to help their race
get land: build better homes, schools,
and churches: and improve social and
economic conditions. Many OF the
Hampton students have literally recon
strueted. in many places. the existing
community life and have brought pros
perity 10 men and women by helping
them increase their earning power.
and showing them how 10 use TO the
best advantage the resources at their
doors.
Hampton institute aims 10 train
Negroes and Indians to earn an honest
living and serve unfailingly and I'M
selfishly their respective races. The
best white people throughout tie
South and West testify that Hampton
has realized its aims and that they
are firm believers In the value OF the
so-ealled Hampton idea of education.
Hampton institute has set the pace
for that form OF vocational education
which fits young people TO work with
skill and persistence. and also gives
them a broad and sympathetic outlook
on life. For A. years under the effi-
cient leadership OF Gen. Samuel c..
Armstrong and DIR. Hollis n. Frisseil.
Hampton institute has been training
boys and girls for safe and sane lead
ership in business. In BODYBUILDING.
In improving church. home and social
life throughout the South and West
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1915-01-08

How was the man dressed who
swindled your
He wore light gray derby. a
fiashy checked suit, red tie with a
diamond horseshoe pin stuck in it, a
tan velvet vest and
That's enough. II you tried to
change a hundred dollar bill for a
chap dressed like that you deserved
TO be swindled"
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1915-01-08

TT Is said that there are thousands
of Greek boys held in bondage
throughout this country BY the pro-
prietors of shoe shining parlors.'
well, Welt"
SThey work for meager wages and
have to turn over all the tips they get
TO their employers
I'm glad you told me that Here
after I will be able to withhold a tip
without feeling the least bit stingy."
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1915-01-08
DIDN'T Mean II That Way.

I'm sorry | can't go to the fheater
with you tonight" said Miss Peach.
I'm already engaged for the evening
But as long as you have the tickets
III introduce you to pretty girl and
you can take her."
But don't want to go with pretty
girl" sorowfully protested Mr.. Lamb
Il want to go with you. Cincinnati
Enquirer.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1915-01-08

A large. rich deposit OF phosphate
has been discovered In the valley OF
the Hausco river. about three hundred
miles north OF Valparaiso. Government
engineers are preparing report
thereon. and it is believed TO be OF
much Importance. since the use OF
phosphate on the farm OF Chile is in
creasing rapidly with good results.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1915-01-08
Suppressed Indignation.

What do you think of that tender
foot's having the nerve to spring a
deck of marked cards on me?" ez-
claimed Broncho Bob
did you shoot him?v
What's the use of killing the goose
that lays the golden egg? | held a
gun in front of him and made him
show me how he marked EN-"
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1915-01-08

J. E. Thompson OF Clearview. Okla.
which Is one OF several prosperous Ne
gro settlements. represents the idea OF
big business among Negroes. Thomp-
son controls 5000 acres OF farm land;
furnishes employment throughout the
year for many members OF his race.
grows crops that are worth selling,
and brings the market TO his products:
employs the methods OF scientific
farming. and breaches the doctrine OF
keep a-pushing.
The son Of slave woman. be be
gan at the age OF thirteen 20 farm.
Today. at the age OF fifty-hye. Thomp-
son actually owns 1900 acres. He
raises mules, horses, hogs and cattle.
This Is In contrast 10 his condition In
1871. when he stood on the porch OF
q renters hovel and. looking iongingly
with his sister into garden full of
mustard, sighed: IF We only had some
meat. We could cook II In plenty Of
mustard"
Logan Morgan, who lives within four
miles OF Mnskogee. Okla. finds that
no color line Is drawn In the market
against his IL and isounce Alberta
peaches. which bring 81 a bushel In
the orchard. His 81 years OF exper-
ience In the Southwest have taught
him the value Of remaining quietly at
work and Of producing among other
crops peaches that can't be beat"
Morgan was married 20 years ago
when he had only six bits and an
SIS pony. Now they own I,4o0 acres
of land.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1915-01-08
Fathers COOKING.

"Of course. you and your wife are
happy"
Yes" replied the young man. But
she Is little thoughtless. Whenever
perform with the chatting dish she in
sists on talking about the superior
Welsh rabbits her father used to
make"
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1915-01-08

"A reception today, my dear, when
you gave party only last night?"
YES; l had a bowl OF fruit punch
left over. and didn't see any use OF
wasting it-"-Kansas City Journal
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1915-01-08
A Tactful Explanation.

MY dear, you are not thinking OF
going to savage islands as a mission
airy. are your"
why not. sir? Don't you think /
am capable of doing the work."
"Oh, it is not that am only afraid
the savages will agree with us at
home here in thinking you are sweet
enough to eat"
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1915-01-08
Household Eoononx

You shouldn't permit the butcher
to throw away all the trimmings after
he has weighed your meat"
Il don't ! take them home and let
thescook throw them away"
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1915-01-08

According 10 figures published by
the Monetary Times OF Toronto. the
sum total Of American investments in
Canada was 1896. 1904. 900 In 1913. as
compared with s417.f43.000 in 1911,
and s27e.075,00O ia 1909.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1915-01-08

A New York homeopath, speaking at
the recent convention 10 Atlantic City,
said that conserving the eyesight was
a phase of health conservation often
overlooked. He said that so per cent
OF the blindness In this country was
due TO conditions that might have
been avoided.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1915-01-08
Minor Noes.

Shell think it Is terrible that Rus
STA joined In this war.
He-Yes, it is going to add vastly
to the cost of humanity.
She-I wasn't thinking of human
ity. | was thinking how hard it is
TO pronounce all those names.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1915-01-08
Handicapped prspepsIe.

DR.. curem-You Will ind your dys.
pepsia greatly aIleviated. Mr.. Peck. by
cheerful and agreeable conversation
nj your meals.
Mr.. Peck--That'R good advice. doc.
but my income viii not permit me TO
eat away from horne. ---Terre Hauie Ell
press.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1915-01-08

An apple tree owned by S. w. Alex
ander of Los Angeles, Cal, is exciting
interest through the fact that, in the
last year, 1t has had two crops. giving
each time different variety of apple.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1915-01-08

Two girls in Budapest who had de-
cided TO fight duel over young man
with whom both we're in love. have
settled the matter by becoming en-
gagged to the two men who volunteered
to act as their seconds.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1915-01-08
GETTING a Start.

How do you want your eggs?r
Soft boiled.
"Yessuh. I'll boil 'em about five
minutes"
Five minutesi"
"Yessuh. Desc is cold storage eggs
an it's liable to take 'em a couple o.
minutes TO thaw"
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1915-01-08

The safety first" idea which has re-
Gently come into general practice on
most American roads is an old one In
Germany and other European coun-
tries where the practice extends to
every form OF industry as well as the
railroads.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1915-01-08
The One Exception.

Americans are expecting to use
-Dtton in every possible form here
after"
Yes, replied the patient native
s.itizen; every form except guncot-
ION"
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1915-01-08

Steel water mains which have been
in constant use at New Bedford, Mass.
during the last II years, have recently
been inspected and show evidence Of a
life OF more than forty-fiye years be-
fore corrosion destroys them.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1915-01-08

Mrs. Lovewett lat a. m.)-where
have you been?
Loyewett-Just fell in wiz an OF
frien', m'dear
Mrs. Loyewett-Fell in, Ell? be-
live you You're soaked.-Boston
Transcript.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1915-01-08

Who told Billy that the champagne
supply would not give out after alls"
i dont know. but ] guess 1t was .
little hot BIRD
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1915-01-08

Eleven surveying parties will be
sent out this year by the United States
Geological Survey TO investigate the
mineral resources of Alaska
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1915-01-08
Extreme Popularity.

You seem to stand well with your
wife's relatives
I'm tell you something that will sur
prise you"
"All right
There's hardly one of them !
couldn't strike for loan with reason
able expectations of getting it,"
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1915-01-08

]. b. Reed of Ithaca asserts he has
trained rabbits to dig up and eat all
the weeds in his garden without dam
aging valuable plants.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1915-01-08

Eight million OF the colored people
of the South still live in the country
! districts, sometimes in the ratio OF
six or seven to one white man.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1915-01-08

Smith took Jones apart to tell hin
The news
What happened fhen?'s
HE told Jones to collect himsele."
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1915-01-08

There are 6s2 pawnbrokers' shops
within a radius OF ten miles from tht
Royal Exchange. London.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1915-01-08
COULDN'T RESIST.

Biil-Dey say dat lot OBJ dem ex-
cursionists got left down de river las
night.
Joe-Of course dey did. A bunch OBJ
dem struck watahmelon patch and
de captain wouldn't wait fo' dem.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1915-01-08

Trying to be content With Rhai Ne
have Is some trial
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1915-01-08

The Jordan Is the worlds most
crooked river, wandering 21s miles to
cover 60.
Metropolis weekly gazette. (Metropolis, Ill.) 1???-19??, 1915-01-08

First Tramp--That man certainly ie
well satisfied looking.
Second Tramp-No wonder. He's
connected with a brewery.
First Tramp-Wish was on his sup
ply line.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-05-01
Marching Through the Streets

T1HEY are marching through the streets
l. today. mothers, wives and sisters. But 1t
would be undlgnned, we are told, for them
to march to the polls.
II the polls are such leprous places that to
enter them would defile womanhood by all
means let womanhood be given the right to
enter them that they may thereby be made
clean. They need tho prophylaxis of
woman's presence.
Women as we'll as men are bipeds. They
possess the Ave senses and most Of them
sixth, intuition. They eat, they drink, they
read, they write. They do everything but
vote, and even that they have been doing for
many years In some of the most progressive
and enlightened parts of the world.
The women trldge along the streets today.
There is no doubt about their enthusiasm,
their courage, their inslstent longing to be
put on political equality with men. They,
too, want to be emancipated. They have to
combat the same prejudices and the same
arguments that were formerly advanced
against granting q general franchise to men,
But the twentieth century is not 80 afraid
of an idea as the eighteenth was. Then the
fight for the vote was on the battlefield Now
It is a peaceful contest, in the streets of the
cities, and constitutes an appeal to reason.
The parade really is the opening Of the
campaign for woman suffrage, a campaign
which will bo waged with vigor and enthu-
siasm until its purpose has been accom-
plished.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-05-01

ton Of straw for felt for summer wear has
been accompanied by such an expansion Of
the inventive and investigatory intellect as
makes the achievements OF all the past seem
trivial in comparison with what has come
since the hrst palm leaf hat made It possible
for Americans to walk about In the heat
with cool heads, however hot the sun may
have been.
The sociological investigator would find
fertile field for his inquiry in the relation
between the summer hat Of the present ana
the progress of the century within which 1t
has grown from a curiosity into a common
place. It would not do to dismiss the whole
subject by saying that post hoe ergo propter
hoe does not apply, for there never was a
propter hoe which was not preceded by
post hoe, and the skill Of the inquirer Is dis
played in his ability to decide which post
was propter.
Indeed what better proof Is needed Of the
popular faith in the value Of the straw hat
as an aid to progress than the joyous cere-
monies with which the day on which It may
first be worn in spring is welcomed, and the
contumely which is dealt out to the man
who wears the hat after the date on which
IL is agreed that It must be called in in the
nutImn7
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-05-01
Cowardice of the Sons of Adam

MO MAN can make a criminal Of another
IN man without the other mans consent.
This obvious and elemental fact is in dam
ger of being obscured by the outgivings Of a
man who is trying to shield himself from
general condemnation for robbing his en-
ployers, by charging them with leading him
astray through drink.
1t is as impossible for a man to mako
drunkard of another without the others con-
sent as to make him criminal.
The responsibility for crime rests on the
shoulders and the conscience of the criminal.
Man Is not dummy or a tool. He Is n free
agent. II the fundamentals Of uprightness
are in him It is impossible for any outside
force to make a criminal of him. or drunk
ard. or a libertine, any other contemplate
thing.
But ever since Adam It has been the habit
of man, when found out. to try to place the
blame on some one else.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-05-01
n clothes are toorn for i0ormth, then toool Is
better than silk.
War Is Not Murder

ONE does not need to be the seventh
" son of seventh son, nor even first
year student In a law school, to know that
General Pearson's suit TO prevent the sale
OF munitions OF war to the Allies on the
ground that a conspiracy TO commit murder
is involved in 1t, will be thrown out Of the
courts.
The right of neutrals to sell guns and
ammunition to belllgerents is admitted in
the law of all nations But IL there were
no precedent for 1t, a precedent would have
20 be established II small nations were ever
to survive. without such a rule a nation
with big supply of ammunition could wipe
out all the little nations and all the large
nations too, which had not taken the pre-
caution to build munition factories Of their
own capable of supplying all possible needs.
The logical conclusion of the premises
laid down in this action, begun in Milwau-
kee. are so impossible that 1t Is astonish-
ing that any lawyer who cared for his repu-
tion for sound judgment could have been
found to draw the pleadings.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-05-01

and saw the performance. So far there have
been no imitators in this country; but the
perfection Of the necessary instruments and
the progress of sensitive sight-hearlng are
very likely TO make Scriabin's experiment a
real contribution to musical enjoyment.
Students of the technique OF musical COM
position think of seriabin as an anarchist in
music because he has experimental far and
Wide with strange harmonies, has made
strange and sometimes alarming innoya-
uons In scales and chords. But to the man
who knows how TO listen to music. who
knows that the real thing is the thought and
ieehng which the music expresses, seriabin
viii appeal in different way. Why did he
have to experiment I'm harmonic progress
sions? The answer is that he had something
70 say which had not even been suggested
before In music. He had penetrated behind
the veil OF coarse thinking ana feeling, he
had gone Where no composer had gone be-
fore. TO the soul of man and to the souI of
nature not as We eonventionally know IL
but beyond TO what we often think. is the
inexpressible. AS one writer has said tha
wind that blows through the pages OF his
music is not the ordinary air Of the concert
room, but Is the veritable wind OF the
cosmos itself" And when you come 10 ex-
press the soul OF mysterious and awful Ma
turs itself. there Is some excuse Tor forget
tins the SGT rules OF the cOnservatoriss.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-05-01
An Envoy of Futilities

DAUL FULLER, who conducted an inves-
i tigation in Mexico for the benefit of
President Wilson. will go to Haiti next
month to investigate the finances of that
populous and poverty stricken country.
Were he required merely to count Its
money he could arrive in the morning and
get away by noon. But a more difficult task
awaits him. He must strike the rock of
Haiti's resources and force therefrom
abundant streams of revenue. Perhaps a
battle or two staged by the revolutionIsts
for the benefit of the "movies' would be
moro productive OF cash than anything else.
But Mr.. Fuller cannot propose any con-
structive program of that sort. He must
deal in utilities. There is some consolation.
however, in the thought that his salary win
come not from Haiti's, but from Uncle sam's
treasury.
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-05-01
The First Guess on the Coal Tax

FTNHE validity OF the hard coal tax is sus-
l. tanned in the first skirmish in court.
Judge Kunkel finds that, although the law
is loosely drawn, 1t provides for the exer-
else of an undoubted power of the Com
monwealth to tax commodities and busI-
nesses.
But this is only the first guess. 1t is likely
that the dispute will he taken to the Su-
preme Court of the United States before
It is finally settled, so that all the inter-
vening courts may have an opportunity to
speculate about the meaning of the Con-
stitution and the statute. In the mean
time the coal counties, which will profit
by the tax, are hoping that Judge Kunkel,
like the boy in the song. guessed right the
very first time"
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-05-01
Modern Progress Rests on the Straw HAT


MANY and diverse reasons have been ad-
Iil vanced to explain the progress OF the
world since the beginning OF the 18th cen
tury. But insufficient attention has been
given to what might be described as the real
cause. That there has been progress no one
disputes More has been learned of the mys-
terfes OF nature in the past lis years than
had been discovered in the previous 40
centuries, And the material comforts that
make life agreeable today have been almost
all devised since the beginning OF the last
century, The railroad the electric car, the
automobile. the sewing machine, the tele-
phone. the steam radiator, the coal stove
slectrie light and even gas light are all mod
efn Inventions.
And greatest of all, from many points of
view. Is the straw hat for people living in
the temperate zones The first hat OF straw
10 be worn in the United States appeared in
1900. Straw had been used before TO thateh
houses. but not the heads OF civilized citi-
zens. II made comfortable bedding for
cattle. and was stuffed in sacks to increase
ahe softness OF the pine boards used by men
and women to sleep on. But straw for the
heade Never. 1t might do FOR the tropical
sapases. but not for the Inhabitants OF the
great zone IN which the progressive nations
lived.
Previous to 1900 men had worn felt ana
cloth hats The Puritans. even though they
Iaoked with contempt on Saint Clement, the
inventor OF felt ana the patron saint OF felt
hats, wore severely simple head coverings
which reflected the austerity OF their spirit
4nd 4 was not TN the time Of Elizabeth
stat men besan 70 wear hats at an IN dis
IInelien from caps and bonnets The blos-
sanlng ~ literature in the Elizabethan
period Wgs contemporary with the building
tfns "a head coverings ana their trans-
eeiiea iplo hats Ana the sabstita-
Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-05-01
WOMEN AND WAR IN AMERICA
Patriotic Herones Of the Revolution and the Struggle Of 65
Some Reflections on the Brute Strength Theoryof
Fitness to Vote.
By RAYMOND G. FULLER

incident is recited by Miss Repplier in an
essay, Women and War: "In the town OF
Lexington, Massachusetts, where was shed
the first blood spilled In the Revolution, thera
slept peacefully on the morning of April 10,
1775 a young man named Jonathan Har-
rington. To him in the early dawn came his
widowed mother. who aroused him, saying,
Jonathan, Jonathan, wake up! The Regu-
lars are coming, and something must be
done The something to be done was plain
to this young American, who had never
fought, nor seen fighting, in his life. He
rose, dressed, took his musket, Joined the
little group of townsmen the Common
and fell before the first volley fired by the
British soldiers. His wife Che had been
married less than a year, ran to the door.
He crawled across the Common, bleeding
heavily, and died on his threshold at her
feet"
That was defensive war.
Read the story Of the Revolution and you
will read of heroines as we'll as heroes
herones of the battlefield. of the farm and
plantation, of patriotic toll and devotion. AS
Mr.. Bruce says in his book about Women
in the Making of America" mot a few
women paid with their lives for their sub
lime devotion to the demands OF pity, char
ity and patriotism" II
Women Of the Revolution
The antis, in their uninspiring literature
thus: "As women we do not want the strife
bitterness. Justification and publicity which
accompany political campaigns" 1t might
be remarked that properly the question Is
not so much whether they want to partici-
pate In politics as whether they ought TO
want to, but never mind-it Is quite as in
i,or TO
could not go through battle of ballots
with as little harm to womanhood as re-
suited from the War of the Revolution! Ths
American woman of Colonial times did not
shrink from hardship "She was" to quote
Mr.. Bruce again, ''pre-eminently courageous
and resourceful. able to depend on herself
and think for herself. Whether In the older
communities along the Atlantic, or among
the struggling settlements of the mountain
frontier. she displayed wonderful read-
ness In adapting herself to conditions and in
meeting emergencies. There was no peril
which she did not face dauntlessly, no obsta-
Gle she deemed too great to be overcome. II
occasion demanded, as was often the casa
she did not shrink from tasks and dangers
usually falling to men.
"And for all her hardihood and energy
she remained essentially womanly, finding
her chief interest in her home, her husband
and her children. 1t was for them she toiled
and sacrificed, directing her every effort to
the upbuilding and preservation OF a happg
home life"
The Revolution did not make the Ameri-
can woman less woman. In the Civil War
she was equally glorious. There was Mrs-
blXby' TO whom Abraham Lincoln wrote that
famous tribute TO the women of wartime.
The noble martial lines OF 'The Battle
Hymn OF the Repubic"-they were written
by woman.