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METHODIST CENTENARY CELEBRATION HAS A PECULIAR SIGNIFICANCE FOR THE NEGRO ? ' ? : ? HAV1NU b?an aittured tbat prepara tion* Mv? be*n made far llum. there *r* growing indication* that Uui? numbwf of colored people from the Mouth will attend the Methodlat Centenary at Columbus. Ohio. June J# tt? July IS. Tbia ?vent. Whlch la calculated to bring the Afethodlat Church South and the Methodlat Church North together la a degree of ?^operation without precedent etnce 1M7. baa a peculiar algnlficance for (be Negro hecauae the first borne mlealoaary of the Methodlat Church wad a Mulatto, by name John Stew art. who began hla work ot evangel 1 tat ion among the Wyandot Indiana, aear what la now Upper 8anduaky. to the aute of Ohio. la their enermoua plana, the Meth rN \ , ' . . ? ' Freedman's Aid Society; Bishop O. A. Carter, presiding over the A. II. B. Church of Tennsaaee; !>r. K W. 8 Hammond, editor of church literature. Ruahvtlle. Indiana; Dr. J. W. Rob In ton, Dr. Q. R. Bryant and Dr. K. M Carroll of Chicago; Dr. R. K. Jones, editor of the Southwestern Christian Advocate; Dr W M. H rook a of New York; number of college president* and district, superintendents aa well aa a boat of etell educated, intelligent men and women, lay representativea of the varied field* of African Metb odlat Church activities. . Coiumbua boasta of eight African Methodist Cburcbes. a new Y. U. C A. building valued at $100,000; two community social center houses, one oo the tax duplicate for $26.00#. the SCENE OP A VILLAGE IN AFRICA. Oil* of Many r?atura? of the African Exhibit at the Cantanary J ??? ? *rr- 1 'U U" C?lihratlon . ?){. ? odlsts of the two churches have cre ated a special department to show the work of the Negro in evangeliza tion. and to provido for his entertain ment at Columbus This department ts in charge of Rev. FC I, Gilliam, pastor of St Paul's A. M. K. Church. Oolumbus, and chairman of the Afri can Centenary Hureau. Among Africans of prominence who will he in Columbus to take part In tke Centenary proceedings are: Bishop Alexander Camphor of Mon rovia. Africa; Bishop Issah Sciott of Nashville, Tenn.: Dr W. A C. Hughes. Held secretary of the Hoard of Home Missions: Drs. F. S Delaney of tfie Cincinnatl-Maysviile district, and A. M. Jones, field Secretaries of the Board of Sunday Schools; Dr. W. 3. Sherrill, Held Secretary - or the Board of Foreign Missions; Dr. J. H. P. Coggins. Held secretary of the other for $20,000; a T. W. C. A. war community center: a theater and a movie house, and two good hotels. A thoroughly organized African Centenary Committee is actively gaged in perfecting plans for the par ticipation of nearly 2,000 negroes in various forms of the celebration ac tivities. This committee includes district superintendents -and the pas tors and laymembers of the Columbus churches, who have charge of the enlistment of Africans for pageant and musical service and securing of accommodations' for the Centenary visitors. Already a chorus of 500 col* ored singers, two colpred bands, one of men. the other of women, and eight college quartets, arp pledged and in training- In addition 300 Ne groes will take part In the page ai>ts and assist to the demonstration ex hibits. V LIBERTY LOAN is the Worth Pri Worth any price we have to pay for it! Some of this price we have paid. Many of our boys have paid their all. The rest is up to us ? to us who have benefited by their sacrifices? to us whose peace has been secured. ? Back the Victory Liberty Loan to your limit! ? -ixi, __ . Victory. Libert/ Loan Committee ALWAYS TEEMING WITH LIFE Noises of Animals Birds, pr Insects Ntw Completely Stifled In the V; of Malay, One way aa well try to describe with Justice the crater of an active volcano aa to describe the Jungle of Malay. From without one acea a dense for eat of very Irregular height and of the moat vivid green Imaginable. Here and there towering above the otbere one aeea Immense trees, 200 fe?t high or more. From without the jangle looka Impenetrable, and so It la. except by well-defined tracks, or by hacking one's way through, as I have doue, for 190 miles. / Within the Jungle all is gloom, ex cept overhead, where one can see u mlaty light that Altera up through the delicate foliage. All the trees shoot nt might up, there being practically no horisontal brunches from them. la fact, there are no tr*9 that resemble the oak or other short-trunked trees. The ground is nearly always damp or even aluahy In places, snd Infested with land leeches that crawl up one's clothing and gorge themselves oo your blood. The atmosphere la stesmy, but fsr cooler thsn out In the open. I have taken the temperature Just within the Jungle, and found it to be about 80 de grees, but on placing the thermometer out in the aun It hqs rapidly reached the temperature of 148 degrees. Early In the morning the Jungle re sounds with the cries of the monkeys Just waking up. About 0:30 theso cease and the ordinary day noises of birds, and the ateady hum of Insects prevail. The frequent tap of woodpeck ers, the croak of huge treefrogs and the call of the peacock and argus pheasant re-echo through the Jungle. Every now and then one hears a famil iar cock -o-doodle-doo and the clucking of a hen and imagines one must be near a farm, until It is realized that it la only the Jungle fowj, the ancestor o/ all domestic poultry. Toward sunset, about six o'clock, there suddenly bursts out a perfectly deafening din of buzzing and shrieking Insects. It Is no exaggeration to state that the noise of the insect life at $un set makes it practically impossible to hear oneself speak. This continues un til about seven o'eloek, when darkness has set ta and then It dies away con siderably. Throughout the night one hears all kinds of queer noises that were absent during the day. With luck, you may hear, the growl and roar of a tiger, hunting some poor animal. Frequently one hears n great commotion among the birds and mon keys that had been sleeping in some tall tree, as their sluniber is disturbed hy u snake that has climbed up and .'?aught one or them. A common sound is the despnirlng shriek of a jungle fowl caught hy spme wildVtat. Occn Klonally one's, sleep IS disturbed by a loud crashing of trees and the trum peting of a herd of elephants. In fact, the jungle teems with life and death, day and night. ? G. Carveth Wells, in Oregon Journal. Carburetor Uses Kerosene. An automatic carburetor has been developed In England for which aston ishing claims are made. The details of Its const l'uctton are withheld. Out; Its performance is said on good au thority to be remarkable. During n demonstration test It was used on a two-cylinder, six-horsepower motor cycle. The start, was made with the engine cold and the float chamber half tilled with gasoline. The change to kerosene, while under way, produced no notlceabje difference In.^the per formance of the engine. There was no knocking on grades, no smoke, no odor. The cylinders flred crisply, the pickup was quick, the firing regular at nil speeds, and the power all that could be desired. It Is even claimed that, with the new carburetor, a gallon of kerosene will drive the motorcycle und sidecar the unheard-of distance of,, 98 miles, but there Is no official con firmation of this statement. Learning Deadly Aim. The skill with which American gun ners frustrated the attacks of U-boats, was due, In a large measure, to the use of an ing?yiious target for gun practice during the voyages. The de vice rfcuiilstcd of a framework, abotit thlHy* feet long and five feet wide, built to be drawn through the water, with an imitation conning tower and. periscope mounted on the upper side. It was drawn behind the ship by means of two cables attached one above the other. Hy pulling on the upper one the upper sid<* of the frame was made to project forward, causing the target to rise to the surface, while by pull ing on the lower cable the device would quickly -submerge. Officers out of sight of the gunners manipulated the apparatus, frequently changing the range by paying out or taking In the cables. . * i Getting Rid of Marble Waste. The waste of a Vermont marble quarry is reduced by crushers and rolls to fragments of one-half inch or less, and is then burned Into quicklime. The rotary kiln for this purpose Is 8 feet In diameter and 20 feet long. In clined 4 per cent from the horizontal. It la driven by a belt from a 30-horoe power motor, and has a speed of Q.5 to 1.6 revolutions per second. Producer gas introduced at the lower end ytcftd 8 a temperature of 2.200 decrees F. This converts the rock fragment* Into quicklime by driving off the carbonic arid gas, and the hot material drops from the lower end of the kiln Into a rotating cooling cylinder, in this cylinder (be drift of air passing to the burning gas coole the prodoct tot the storage bins. m mm ' ?v ?? <c ?*!.!.. ?. .-J , .????? ? / ???, il&iv VvriSajfl LEE COUNTY NEWS Items of Inter?*! Gathered FVom Bish opvtlle Vindicator. ?Wall# of the pew brick roUer mill have reached the top of second story and the work l? going forward with no de IU>On Saturday morning April 26 the death augel visited -the home of Mr. and Mrs. Danton Smith and took from them their only child. Virgil LaWton. Among recent wedding* of interest to a wide circle of friends iu this and other States was that of Miss Vashtl DuBoae, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. H. 1 >avls DoBoae of BiShopville, to Mr. Parker Rhyme of Chartotie, N. C., w e took place at the home Of the brides parents 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon, April 20th. the Rev. T. E. Teasley officiating. ... Last Sunday we talked with Mr. Llias McOutchen, who came back with the "30th Division about two or three weeks aK? He was with the ammunition train n?d while they did not go into the trench tights. they were even more efc : j.uM-a U> the enemy's shells. beeau-e their wmk was to carry ammunition and pile it up at the trenches' as fast ax it was shot away. That the shelling was ft severe they had to do most of. the haul-i iug ut night. Last Wednesday Magistrate Lames, Sheriff Scarborough with Constable E. \V Folsom found at Sliapson Kennedy s house on the IWse Hill plantation 25 gallons of sour mash just ready to be dialed imto whiskey, They did not find any whiskey but arrested Simpson and he is now in jail. * On Monday,' W&t Deputy Folsom to Frank Smith's house on same plantation and he got one quart of booze and ar rested him for transporting liquor. John Fultop, in whose house Was found a still last week was arrested last Saturday and Magistrate Cames put him under a cash bond of $1100 and sent, the case to higher court. He was fined' however by the Magistrate $100 or 30 days on gang for storiug liquor. Of course being a whiskey distiller he paid tJji? cash fine. ?? In tbe MidOutchen mill pond not far from K o*e Hill, a young man went fish-j i^g, so our reporter was informed and the lirat thing he pulled up was a five gallon tin can and from its smell had been used as a still. Next mornjng Mr. Dean, the miller, found an empty barrel which had been frewhly lucd - for aour mirfii flnrating at -peer head in the pond. , ?? The Sheriff and Magistrate Lames evidently had wared some rascal to hide Tvfi' hi* trail and no doubt he <vl!l Iwrj hauled t?> justice soon. , | Magistrate Cames sent out his con-^ stables with the Sheriff and deputy and hauled in paraphernalia of three stills ; taken in the Ionio section, one being on the place of Mrs. J. C. Bramlett. James Rivers, Hurt McKniglit and Ixaac Dukes were arreted and are now in jail. They got no booze, but found a barrel of mash which the darkey said was his hog feed. Another was In the still, which was a five gallon tin can, ready for distilla tion, but that darkey got away. Mag istrate Cames says he-> and the Sheriff are going to break the business or fill the jail. ? H I/ast Saturday night' a raid was made on the Express office here and 24 quarts of liquor and one quart of wine taken. 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