Metropolis Weekly Gazette

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K JEWELER AND Everything for Chri Rings, Bracelets, Umbrellas. Come Corner Third and Ferry Streets, We Deny the Charge as False. crime if such was perpetrated, as a few individuals are responsible and not the whole congregation, because up to this date there has been no vote to accept as a donation $25 00 from the saloon element on any grounds and as all business to be legal in a Baptist church must be by a resolution or motion and then by the ma- jority of the membes present, and It is openly charged and has been claimed from time to time since the election, both by white and black in the town and the country that all four of the Negro churches of Metropolis sold out and accepted $25.00 each to vote in the interest of the Saloon and the members are being held up in ridicule by the non-church members as being hypocrites and excuse. It is also said that the writer of this article was pretending to work for the "Drys" and at the same time this church of which he is a member, the (African Baptist) had received $25 00 hush money or at least they negotiated with the saloon elements to vote with them for that big? a mount, and that we were dishonest and untituthul. We wish to state here as a truth if $25 00 or any amount was received by said church we have no knowledge of it and have been denouncing the report as we know nothing of said deal or donation if such is the case, at the time it was made nor even since. If we would have denounced it openly during the Campaign, and they knew it. We wish to say to the public since we have been almost convinced that $25.00 was passed into the hands of some officer or officers of our church that that was an individual transaction and the body is not responsible nor should not be held as a party to the deal, as we know of a large per cent of the women and a few of the men of said church voted against the open saloon and would not have consented under under any consideration to have allowed the small amount of $25.00 to bribe them and kept them from voting on this moral question and one of the most dammable evils the church and the nation is heir today, (the open saloon). The writer would have considered himself equal to Judas Iscariot, to have prescribed to be with men and women who were fighting for righteousness and then slip out at night and take a little hush money either as an individual or with a body of men to overthrow what we have been preaching and teaching against. We say again that said church has had no hand in this diabolical then by the majority of the members present, and in some cases to make it binding previous notice must be given, therefore no one or ones had any right to bring down upon the church as a body, the sharp criticisms and denunciations that one can here from every side, because it is unjust and unmanly. The negro churches like individuals are poor and need money especially since the buildings were destroyed by the cyclone, but even that condition was not justifiable in receiving money from the breweries, or any interest connected thereto on the part and in the name of the church, because we all understand why it was given at that time. Now, it is stated as a fact that a $25.00 check was passed to our church, if so, some one had to receive and cash it and there is no dodging around it, and since this is true, said report should be made and the party responsible for dickering for it should explain in open church on what grounds it was given and received and have the manly courage to exhonorate his church from all blame and connection. Because we saw in last Sunday's S. S. lesson that Achon's sin prevented the success of Isarel, and the same is never the less true today. We wish for the saloon men, the ministers with whom we worked side by side and the churches of which we are pastoring, that we knew nothing of and had nothing to do with the accepting any amount of money, nor do we wish to be thought guilty of accepting the money and voting against the saloon and we can vouch for a large per cent of our members. Don't look at all of the negro church members, because of the action of a few individuals as being low, without a principle, untruthful and dishonest, because we, as other people have some among us who are endearing to do the right thing as God enables us to see the right. In conclusion we sate again the charge against the church as a body is utterly false, as the members bad neither patt nor let in this matter. If the money was received, then it is up to the individual or individuals to turn on the light and tell us by what authority he had to bring upon the body this disgraceful condemnation. We would ask if the officers of the white churches received and accepted a donation from this organization? If not why? Can you see the reason? We would like for the Metropolis Herald, Massac Journal and the "Bull Moose" to clip though of this article next week to set us right in the eyes of a criticising public, and oblige a member of an oft abused race. J. Beifield McCrary. CARBONDALE, ILL. Saturday night at the Rock Hill Baptist church, Rev. C. W. Norment pastor, presiding in carrying on a large business meeting, with five added to the church three full members, one watch care and one for baptism, in the person of Mrs. Fannie Harmon, of C M. E. church. Sunday was praise day, Sunday School at 9:30 with 53 present. 11:00 services was carried on in an intellegent way, every one expressing his desires to the Almighty; two joiners, one full member and one candidate. At these services two out of town visitors Mr. Perry and Mr. J. W. Corneal the former enroute to St. Louis, on the account of the death of a cousin. At 3:00 p.m. counmion service one joiner, Mr. Belchin of Free Baptist by experience, at 7:30 Rev. C. W. Norment preach another soul stirring service and singing by the choir. This day in every church was considered the Every-body's go to church day, each church in town had committees out to canvas the town for this day. Among the colored from morning services, until night Rock Hill seated 476. Free Baptist 387. The three other churches attended still less. Success was our theme, and were the winners and God blessed our church by adding 8. The first day of Christmas our pastor suggested every body [to enjoy this tally of putting a penny in an envelope for every year we have lived in the world, and he suggested that widows put theirs in an envelope and leave their names off if they wanted to get married. Preaching Christmas Day and serving dinner by church Mrs. Bass is verry ill and also Mrs. Jones. Weather is very cold at present Fine Imported Suits at Reduced Prices Fine Imported Suits at Reduced Prices To the Ladies of Massac County: I wish to announce that I have the Schwartz Importing Co., of St. Louis, a brand new line of suits, Coats, Skirts, Furs and Rain Coats which I am instructed to close out at greatly reduced prices on account of the extreme warm weather. Here are a few samples: I wish to announce that I have Importing Co., of St. Louis, a brand suits, Coats, Skirts, Furs and Rain am instructed to close out at great es on account of the extreme Here are a few samples: $15.00 coats - "27.50 coats - "29.00 suits - "22.00 furs - "12.50 furs - "3.50 skirts - If you want an imported garment style, in the best material you handsome garments. MRS. CANADY At Mrs. Vallee's Millinery Xmas Car Buy your Christmas co Howell's Variety St All kinds at 10c per p Schools and churches send in HOWELL'S VARIETY Across Street from If you want an imported garment of the latest style, in the best material you must see these handsome garments. Xmas Candies Buy your Christmas candies at Howell's Variety Store All kinds at 10c per pound Schools and churches send in your orders. HOWELL'S VARIETY STORE Across Street from Post-Offices Ave. Chicago. New students are entering almost daily. The whole faculty deserves much praise. Several of the churches are paying the wages of students Olivet is sending and paying for six outright. But brother pastors and churches I fear with all of the above done we are leaving much undone. Each church was asked and expected to raise and send to the Treasurer one dollar per month for our state work. How many of you have done this brethren? All who have not paid in this amount should do so at once that our workers should not suffer. Much is expected of you brethren because of the age in which you live and the work to be done. Don't let the year close and you direlect of duty. You cannot do next year what you should have done this year even if you should live the whole year out. Who will be the first to send in your portion where you are behind? Praying the blessing of God upon every church and pastor and wishing you a merry Christmas The image provided is too blurry and low-resolution to accurately recognize any text or graphics. It appears to be a grayscale background with a speckled texture. To the Missionary Baptist Family of Illinois. This Closing message for the year 1913 comes to you from one whose heart runs out for every one in thoughtfulness to God for preserving the lives of us all to see the closing of another year's work. As we look about us and see what has been done for both missions and education we say what hath God wrought. Many many souls has been born into the Kingdom of God. According to reports from our pastors of the churches and the General Missionary and the District Missionaries more souls have been brought into service than ever before in the history of our State for which we join you in praising the Lord for both the work and the workers. New churches have been established and our pastors and our pastors are being better provided for which enables them to do a more efficient work. For the work man saith holy writ is worthy his hire. God has been good in that all of our pastor's lives have been spared and there is more harmony among the christians. Our educational worth is receiving more attention; at Metropolis the work goes well according to reports and the future will tell for good if the brethren in that portion of the State will only continue to live up and get closer. The Chicago Religious Training Seminary has taken on new life since they have opened in their splendid new and comfortable quarters at 3333 Wabast Brookport Ill. Nov 26 13 To whom this may concern. Greetings This is to certify that I. A. C. Crider have been appointed Dist. Depty. Grand Master of the 7th Dist. of F. & A. M. of Illinois. I will visit all lodges in my district this year A. C. Criler Box 172 TO THE OTHER ONE Man and Woman of World Go Back to Elemental for Mates. By DOROTHY DIX. It was the eve of his wedding day, and Richard Aille sat alone in his luxurious rooms, thinking. The last detail of the arrangements had been completed. The night before he had given his farewell bachelor dinner to his old companions. Somehow he felt that it would be almost a sacrilege to go from that mad, gay feast, with its wit and wine and song, to his pure, little puritan Priscilla, who had been kept as untouched by the world as a snow drop in her prime New England home. "I will see nobody tonight," he had said to the dusky buttons who guarded the outer door of the fashionable apartment house. He wanted to be alone. There was so much to do, so many letters to burn, so many pictures to destroy, so many links with the old life to break. Not that there was anything to cover up, or be ashamed of. Ariile had lived cleanly, but his friends had been the men and women of Bohemia, and—Priscilla would not understand. He glanced about the beautiful rooms, littered with artistic souvenirs and trifles, and sighed as his glance fell upon a photograph with "For Dear Dickle" scrawled across its face. It showed a little dancing girl in short, spangled skirts, waiting her cue to go on the stage. No. Priscilla would not understand. "And yet," mused Airlie, "an honester little creature never lived. By George, I wonder how many of the good women who draw their garments away from her as they pass her, would have the courage to go cold and hungry, as she has done, when they might have champagne and terrapin, and soles for the taking?" On the mantel shelf, in a quaint, gold frame, was another picture—a bold, impressionistic sketch of a woman leaning back in a long chair, the blue smoke of a cigarette curling about her red gold hair. The woman's lips were curved with laughter, her eyes shone on merry, mocking, tender. It was Madge Horton, the cleverest newspaper woman of her day, just as Boothby had drawn her in that very room one night when a party of friends—writers, artists, actors, musicians—had forgathered to celebrate the good fortune of one of them. "Priscilla would not understand Madge either." Alrile repeated to himself. "She would think that a woman who smoked cigarettes, and treated men with the familiarity of a companion, instead of the awe of a demilgod, or the romantic adoration of a hero, wasn't 'nice.'" He smiled at the inadequateness of the world, for his mind had flown back to a dark page in his own life, when he had quarreled with the rich and tyrannical old aunt who had reared him, and he had come to New York to make his living. It was then that he had first known Madge, when they were both doing "cub work" on an evening paper. Fortune had not smiled on him at first, and there had been an evil hour when, after six weeks in the hospital with typhoid, he had found himself facing the world without a dollar in his pocket. Weak, discouraged, disspirited, he lay on his cot, dreading to take up the struggle of life again, when a letter was brought to him. It was a mere typewritten line, enclosing $100, and signed in a hand so crabbed as to be undecipherable. "Dear Airlite," it said, "I return you the money you lent me once in Chicago when I was down on my luck." In his prosperity Airlite had lent many a man money that had never been returned. The wonder of it was that it should come to him now, but in the surprise and delight of having it, for the two crisp fifty-dollar bills meant hope, and courage and life to him, he almost forgot to speculate about the sender, and it was not until years afterwards that he knew that Madge out of her slender salary, for fame and money had not come to her then, either, had been the one to reach out a helping hand in a way that he could not refuse to take. "The heart of a woman and the brain of a man, God bless her," said Aflie, "and yet Priscilla will not think her nices." "A lady to see you, sir, and she says it's important, sir, and I was to give you this card, sir," deprecatingly interrupted a servant. Aflie frowned as he reached out his hand for the card, and smiled as he read the name on it. "Madge, he good of you," he exclaimed as he pushed the long chair she affected up to the grate. "I was just on my way out to dinner," she replied, throwing back the long cloak and showing a slight, tall figure clad in a thin, black dinner gown, "and as I was passing I remembered that this was your last night, and I thought I would drop in and say a final goodbye to you." "You speak as if I was going to die," objected Alirie. "So you are, as far as your old friends are concerned," she returned. "Matrimony is that bourne from which man never comes back to those who loved and lost him." A wife's first duty, you know, is to snub all of her husband's former companions. "Yours, for instance," with a saucy move him, "won't approve of my dropping in to smoke a cigarette with you, and talk things over when they lie heavy on my ribd, and—and—it came to me, as I was passing, that I should—miss it—Dick." Atlile murmured an indistinct some thing about hoping that she and Priscilla would be good friends. "Don't," interrupted the woman sharply, "between a man's wife and his women friends there is a great gulf fixed, and they are wisest who do not attempt to cross it. I—I—am glad you are going to marry, Dick, and I am glad its Priscilla. You are very masculine, Dick, and she is the kind of clinging, ignorant, appealing little creature that was bound to be your ideal. I understand the fascination of that kind of woman—the sort of woman who has been kept safe and sheltered in her home, like a pearl in cotton wool, and who has never known anything of the hard and sordid struggle for bread, or the temptations and the fight of life." "They are like white lilies that the dust has never smirched," said the man softly, "and we who are toiling in the grime lift worshiping eyes upon them." "Yes," she replied, "it is the woman who does not know, and does not understand—who never understands—before whom a man pours out the incense of his soul. It is just because she is so ignorant of all that makes the life of man like you that such a woman fascinates him." "When I first saw Priscilla," Airlie sald, "she was coming down a daisy strewn path in the early morning, and the young day was not more fresh and fair, nor the flowers about her feet whiter, or more innocent than she. I was sick of women with painted faces, and the turmoll of the town, of women who talked in epigram, who could analyze to the last hair the psychic interest of the latest problem play, and she came like a vision of the heaven we worldlings have lost." "Marrying an angel is a risky experiment for a mortal," returned the woman with a grim humor, "and, did you ever think, Dick, that what we call a 'good woman' is the best thing on earth, and the narrowest and hardest? Oh," she held up her hand as he began to speak. "I know what you are going to say—that women like I am are brave and helpful and strong and companionable. That is true, Dick, but men like you do not fall in love with us. We know too much. We have rubbed shoulders with sin, and misery and we are no longer shocked at things. We are only sorry—or amused. We see things like men see them, and so, I understand, that when a man like you meets a woman who has never touched a cocktail, or smoked a cigarette, or seen a problem play, or read a novel that wasn't an ex灌ated edition, her very ignorance and innocence grips him with its charm—its difference. "You haven't wanted to marry me, Dick, and I haven't wanted to marry you, for in a way we have both wanted to go back to the elemental. Your ideal has been innocence and ignorance. Mine, the strength that one could cling to as to the rock of ages. You have found your pure, prim little Puritan Priscilla. I have found—" and she broke off to strip the long, long glove from her hand and show a gleaming diamond. "What, you are going to be married, too?" cried Airlie. She nodded. "No one you know. A man I knew years ago, out west—a primitive creature, with aboriginal ideas of right and wrong and duty, and faithfulness, who has not learned to console himself for a broken heart by analyzing its throbs for a magazine article, as we have, or to dissect his friends in the interest of psychological study. We have our virtues, you and I, Dick, and those of our kinship—we are merry and open handed, and we laugh with those who laugh and cry with those who weep, but one can't live on omlette soufe always, you know, and one wants a grander strain to march through life than the music of cap and bells. "You and I—we shall be very happy, Dick, in our new lives, but don't you think—don't you fear that sometimes we shall be very tired? Won't there be times when our hearts shall be heavy for the old life? When the grand opera will get upon our nerves, and make us long for opera comique? When the ignorance and innocence of your Priscilla will be dust and ashes in your teeth, and the rock ribbed seriousness of my husband will be a burden on my soul? "Then—ah then, Dick—we will long for the old life, the old discussions, the old friends who were broken reeds on whom to lean, but who sang the merry roundelay of life in the same key that we did, and understood our speech. We shall have what we want, but not all we want, for somewhere in every heart is the lurking shadow of that other one who could supply the missing note to make the perfect harmony. Oh, the pathos of it! Oh, the helplessness of it!" She got up abruptly and began drawing on her cloak, and as she stretched her hand out in farewell Airlite stopped her. "Before you go," he said, "drink a stirrup cup with me." He filled two glasses from the wine jug upon the table, and the man and woman looked solemnly into each other's eyes as they touched glasses. "To the Other One," she mugnured, and then with a common impulse they sent the crystal goblets shiv ing on the floor. (Copyright, by Daily Story Pub. Co.) METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE. METROPOLIS. ILL AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS What's in a name? One answer Shakespeare himself gives: "But he who filches from me my "But he who filches from me my good name Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor, indeed." Not altogether in the sense indicated by this reply will my story deal. Surnames of negroes who were slaves were usually of their own selection, as they, like all mankind originally, were known by one appellation, a given name. When it became necessary our Jewish selected surnames that meant something and are generally euphonious, as Rosenbaum, Silverstein, Loeb, Rothschild, and so on. When Anglo-Saxon surnames were added or adopted in the eleventh and twelfth centuries some seem to have been taken haphazard, and are of no significance. Our colored people retained, in the main, after freedom, the surname of "Old Mastash." Most of them felt proud of the family whom they served and spoke of them as "my white folks." "No croger blood in our family, and us cultured ones isn't got no use for po' white trash, neither." Perhaps it is not generally known that the term "po' white folks," so often used by the negro servant, had no special reference to financial conditions, meaning, rather, social status—"Mannahs and customs," as they sometimes expressed it. One example of family reality is the case of Nelson Crews. This really remarkable negro was born on the plantation of Dr. Samuel Crews of Howard county, Missouri, who at that time owned over 500 negro servants. His parents were far above the average in intelligence and integrity. Joanna, the fine old mother of Nelson Crews, lives now in Kansas City. She was the weaver at the Crews home, and I believe there are woolen counterpanes yet in the possession of the family that bear evidence of her skill. With us yet is a stanch, dependable negro woman, industrious and self-supporting, though long past three score years and ten, who, though she has led to the altar—yes, led is the word—three husbands, has never changed her surname; she either made pre-nuptial arrangements with her various sultors or brought them to taw afterward, for Susan Clark she was, is and ever will be. "I was bo'n and bred on the plantation of Beverly R. Clark, the finest white folks in Kaintucky or any whah upon the yearth, and twel I meets up with a betahn name I don't see no 'casion to change mine," insists Aunt Susan. The numerous Collinses, Bradleys, Simpsons, Stones, Smarts hearabouts bear out my assertion that negroes after freedom selected for their own the surname of former owners. Howard, Scott and Wallace Smith, negroes, good and creditable citizens of the vicinity of Kansas City, Mo. were slaves in the family of a sister of Cassius Clay. Though they are proud of the fact that they are of the Clay clan of colored folks, they prefer Smith, the name of the member of the family to whom they were assigned. Among their proudest possessions is a portrait of a handsome, distinguished-looking what man, inscribed on the margin this testimony: The donor was, you remember, nominated presidential candidate by the Liberal Republican party. When Marguerite Williams, two years old, slipped and fell into a creek near her home at Kansas City, Edward Reed, a negro eleven years of age, pulled her out of the shallow water. The girl was unconscious. Then the negro remembered the training he received in the public schools and resuscitated the child by applying first aid to the drowning. A physician said the negro boy's efforts probably had saved her life. George Washington Buckner, the new American minister to Liberia, has been in consultation with Ambassador Page for one or two days this week, reports the London Times. He is a negro doctor of Evansville, ind. Apparently he is approaching his task in the African republic with great zeal and ardor, in company with Lieutenant Martin, a graduate of Howard university, who will help organize the Liberian constabulary. There are 7,000 monks on the Mount of Athos, in southern Greece. Moji, Japan, is to have a new railway station to coat $100,000. In the battle which is constantly being waged by the natives of Africa and the denizens of the jungle 19,104 snakes and 19,000 wild beasts were killed in one year, 1910. You can never tell. Genius sometimes wears clothes that fit. Some men fall in love and never get on their feet again. Many a girl deludes herself with the belief that she has completed her education before she marries. One of the keenest observers of the proceedings in congress is Eugene Patten, the only negro who ever served as a page in the house or senate. Sixty years have whitened his hair, but his step is sprightly and his mind alert, while from mere force of habit the trend of legislation on the hill and the personnel of the two branches which shape the laws are the center of his interest. Patten is still an employee of the government, but in the humble capacity of gathering rubbish from the parks instead of responding to the hand-clap of lawmakers in the lower house. He has a memory like a photograph, wide in its range and astonishingly accurate. The good old days, when the giants of debate sat in congress during the Democratic regime immediately following the era of reconstruction, have become "the ocean to the river of his thoughts," and he loves to linger over the memory of them. As he recalls the incidents and cites the characteristics of eminent men, an absorbing panorama of political history unfolds before you. Patten was born in Huntsville, Ala., and when he drifted to Washington as a lad he was one of the few Democrats of his race. He was no ordinary lad, and his political views were a matter of real conviction. The promptness and intelligence with which he discharged minor errands brought him to the attention of influential members of congress, who resolved to secure him an appointment. Never before in the history of congress had any but white boys been appointed pages, but the men behind young Patten decided to break all precedents. Such celebrities as John Randolph Tucker, Eppa Hunton, Tom Ewing and Alexander H. Stephens exerted themselves in his behalf, and in due course he was appointed a page. One question was debated 50 years ago, and that was the question as to our ability to support ourselves from a physical and personal point of view. There were not a few who 50 years ago predicted that this newly freed race would become a perpetual burden upon the pocketbooks of the nation. It was freely predicted that we would neither feed, clothe nor shelter ourselves. Every year the American congress is asked to appropriate between $10,000,000 and $12,000,000 to be used largely in providing food, clothes, and shelter for about 300,000 American Indians. While this is true of the American Indian (and I have nothing but the highest respect for the Indians) ever since the days of Reconstruction the American negro has not called upon congress to appropriate a single dollar to be used in providing either clothes, shelter or food for our race. Absolutely in all these personal matters we have supported ourselves and mean to do so in all the future, and very seldom in any part of the country does one find a black hand reached from a corner of a street asking for any man's personal charity. Within 50 years, then, we have proven that we can survive from a physical point of view, and we have proven that we could not only support ourselves but contribute taxes from $700,000,000 worth of property toward the support of local, state, and national government.—Booker T. Washington. Paraguay has valuable forest resources, the most important of which is quebracho, particularly rich in tannin. The total acreage of Hungary is about 80,000,000, of which 28 per cent. is in forest. Of this, 50 per cent. is owned by individuals or corporations, 20 per cent. by municipalities, 15 per cent. by the government and 15 per cent. by the church. An aviation school has just been founded-in Lima under the auspices of the National Aero league (Liga Naciona Pro Aviacion) under $27,000 subsidy by the Peruvian government for acquiring aeroplanes and other equipment necessary for such a school. Thimbles have been known for many centuries. Some specimens unearthed by archaeologists are known to be 2,500 years old. They are of bronze, and their outer surfaces show the familiar indentations for engaging the head of the needle. St. Paul's 1914 school budget calls for expenditures aggregating $1,115,210. One hundred thousand miners in Scotland have received an increase in wages of six cents a day. The re-establishment of direct communication between San Francisco and Bristol through the arrangements for the Maple Leaf line of steamers to call at Avonmouth, has rendered valuable aid to the development of the trade in canned fruits and salmon. In St. Petersburg no outdoor musical performances are permitted. Five hundred and fifty-five persons attended the evening classes in academic subjects at the University of Cincinnati last year. 900 DROPS CASTORIA ALCOHOL-3 PER CENT A Vegetable Preparation for Assimilating the Food and Regulating the Stomachs and Bowels of INFANTS CHILDREN Promotes Digestion, Cheerfulness and Rest. 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D. 39, OT bein, Ind, writes: "I had been a suf er from Kidney Trouble for about 25 years. I finally got so bad that I had to quit work, and doctors failed to do me any good. I kept getting worse all the time, and it at last turned to inflammation of the Bladder, and I had given up all hope, when one day I received your little booklet advertising dills and to quit work, and doctors failed to do me any good. I kept getting worse all the time, and it at last turned to infamiation of the Bladder, and I had given up all hope, when one day I received your little booklet advertising your pills, and resolved to try them. I did, and took only two boxes, and I am now sound and well. I regard my cure as remarkable. I can recommend Dodd's Kidney Pills to any one who is suffering from Kidney Trouble as I was." Write to Mr. Fleenor about this wonderful remedy. Dodd's Kidney Pills, 50c. per box at your dealer or Dodd's Medicine Co. Buffalo, N. Y. Write for Household Hints, also music of National Anthem (English and German words) and recipes for dainty dishes. All 3 sent free. Adv. Looks Like It. "Isn't that girl stuck on herself?" "You would think it to see how she's glued to the mirror." The village gossip never has time to take a vacation. WHENEVER YOU NEED A GENERAL TOOL The Old Standard Grove's The Valuable as a General Tonic Drives Out Malaria, Enrich the Whole System. For G You know what you are taking when as the formula is printed on every label tonic properties of QUINNE and IROT tonic and is in Tasteless Form. It has Weakness, general debility and loss of Mothers and Pale, Sickly Children. Relieves nervous depression and low s purifies the blood. A True Tonic and No family should be without it. Guaran Pain in Back and Rheumatism are the daily torment of thousands. To effectually cure these troubles you must remove the cause. Foley Kidney Pills begin to work for you from the first dose, and exert so direct and bear facial an action in the kidneys and bladder that the pain and torment of kidney trouble soon disappears. PISO'S REMEDY Best Cough Syrup. Tastes Good. Use in time. Sold by Druggists. FOR COUGHS AND COLDS Neuralgia counsers and instate relief to Shen's birthright. It paints trates to the painful part— soothes and quiets the nerves. No rubbing—merely lay it on. SLOAN'S LINIMENT Kills Pain For Neuralgia "I would not be without your Lini- ment and praise it to all the suffer with neuralgia or rheumatism or pain of any kind."—Mrs. Henry Bishop, Helena, Missouri. Pole All Gene "I suffered with quite a severe neu- ralgia and had to suffer any relief. I used your Liniament for two or three nights and I haven't suffered with my head since."—Mr. J. K. Sewinger, Lawrence, Ky. FARMS IN WESTERN CANADA FREE Immigration figures show that the population of immigration increased 19% by the addition of 400,000 new settlers from the United States. Most of these have gone on farms in the provinces of Manila, the Philippines, the Philippines and Alberta. 山 Lord William Percy, an English Nobleman, says: "The possibilities and opportunities West are so infinitely greater than those which exist in England, that it seems absurd to mind that people should be limited to the country where they can most easily and certainly improve their position." New districts are being opened up, which will make accessible the country in districts especially adapted to mixed farming and grain raising. Generated literature and reduced railway rates apply to superintendent immigration, Otaawa, Canada, or G. R. COOK, 125 W. Hill, 125 E. Hill, City, MN, and C.C. College, Burlington, MN 62612. Make the Liver Do its Duty Nine times in ten when the liver is right the stomach and bowels are right. CARTER'S LITTLE LIVER PILLS gently but firmly compel a lazy liver to do its duty. Cures Constipation, Indigestion, Sick Headache, and Distress After Eating. SMALL PILL, SMALL DOSE, SMALL PRICE. Genuine must bear Signature Brenk Good Seemed to Be a Fact That Old Gentleman Had Been Neglecting His Ablutions. Vaughn Comfort, interlocutor of Honey Boy George Evans' Minstrels, is circulating this story: An old rustic, bent and painfully limping, was accounted by a friend, who inquired: "Hello, Zeb! What allin' yo?" "Got a big corn between two toes," said Zeb. "and it hurts something awful!" "Lemme see it. Mebbo I kin do ye some good." "No use, Joe. It's been thataway for six weeks." "Not that it'd be any harm to let have been suffering?" "Just about six weeks." "This ain't any corn," cried Joe. "It's a collar button!"—Youngstown Telegram. Followed the Crowd. "So you owe your success as a stock speculator to stoicism?" asked the interviewer. "Yes," explained the broker. "When- ever there was a declining market it made a practice to grin and bear it." Its Nature. That article is rather vague. "Of course it is. It is all about London fogs." Men who never have occasion to buy an umbrella are pretty good hustlers. WIFZ WON Some people are wise enough to try new foods and beverages and then generous enough to give others the benefit of their experience. A wife writes: "No slave in chains, it seemed to me, was more helpless than i, a coffee captive. Yet there were innumerable warnings—waking from a troubled sleep with a feeling of suffocation, at times dizzy and out of breath, attacks of palpitation of the heart that frightened me. (Tea is just as injurious as coffee because it contains caffeine, the same drug found in coffee.) "At last my nervous system was so disarranged that my physician ordered 'no more coffee.' I capitulated. "Determined to give Postum a fair trial, I prepared it according to directions on the pkg., obtaining a dark brown liquid with a rich snappy flavour similar to coffee. When cream and sugar were added, it was not only good but delicious. "Noting its beneficial effects in me the rest of the family adopted it—all except tray husband, who would not admit that coffee hurt him. Several weeks clapped during which I drank Postum two or three times a day, when, to my surprise, my husband said: 'I have decided to drink Postum. Your improvement is so apparent—you have such fine color—that I propose to give credit where credit is due.' And now we are coffee-slaves no longer." Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Read "The Road to Welville," in pkgs. Postum now comes in two forms: Regular Postum—must be boiled. Instant Postum is a soluble powder. A teaspoonful dissolves quickly in a cup of hot water and, with cream and sugar, makes a delicious beverage instantly. Grocers sell both kinds. "There's a Reason" for Postum. IS IMPORTANT POINT Misplacing of Comma May Have Serious Results. Notable Instances on Record to Provi the Fact-Once Involved Commercial Houses In Most Expensive Lawsuit. Early in the world's history, philosophers urged upon their generation the necessity for considering small Qings, writes Rev. Forbes Philips in London Answers. The comma is about the smallest thing in practical life, but it is far away from being the least important. In a domestic difficulty, where a husband and wife quarreled and sought separation, a legal gentleman was kind enough to try and patch up a peace. He recommended overtures from the husband, and suggested that he should write, to his spouse the simple and touching message: "May Heaven cherish and keep you, from your affectionate husband John." This John duly dispatched on a picture postcard, but he omitted the comma, and the message ran: "May Heaven cherish and keep you from your affectionate husband John." The misplacing of a comma involved two big commercial houses in a lawsuit. A memorandum was sent: "Can let you have the hundred pieces at sixteen and nine, thousand more at same rate." When the message arrived it read: "Can let you have the hundred pieces at sixteen, and nine thousand more at same rate." A careless clerk had transposed a comma, unconscious of the part it was destined to play. Clerics are fond of quoting the proverb "For one point Raynard lost his priory." The story goes, that in pre-reformation days, a good and holy prior, Clement, ruled over his religious house with great wisdom and liberality. Over the entrance to the priory he caused to be written up: "Be open evermore, O thou my door, To none be shut, to honest or to poor." This free invitation was generously interpreted by the mendicants, and people came from far and wide to honor it. When the good Clement died, a very different man was appointed as his successor, a priest of the name of Raynard, who was as niggardly as his predecessor had been lavish. The sign over the entrance of the priory did not interpret his sentiments or his outlook on life. His meanness could not tolerate it, nor would it permit him to go to the expense of a fresh dress. Simply changed the meaning the position of a comrade the couplet read: "armore, O thou my door, shut to honest or to At a dinner in New York a well-known man gave the toast, "Woman—without her, man is a brute." A paper reported Mr. A——as saying, "Woman without her man is a brute." Most people have heard of the message, "Don't come too late," which by the insertion of a comma, became, "Don't come, too late." Then there was the barber who advertised on his signboard: "What do you think I'll shave you for nothing And give you a drink." Of course, there was rush of customers at once, but the barber's rendering was: 'What! Do you think I'll shave you for nothing And give you a drink?' Care has to be exercised in noticing the comma when reading. There is the case of the curate who had to give out the notice, "A sailor, going to sea, his wife desires the prayers of the congregation." But when the nervous curate gave out the notice, the congregation was startled by being informed that "A sailor going to see his wife, desires the prayers of the congregation." Finds Riche in Honey Miss Inez Cooley conducts a bee ranch in southern California. Los Angeles county is particularly adapted to bees, for they have pastureage all the year round. For many months they feed on the Rocky Mountain range back of Miss Cooley's ranch. It gives a flavor to the honey almost as delicious as that which has made Scotch heather honey famed around the world. Miss Cooley is thoroughly up to date in her methods. Her bees do not waste their time eating honey to make comb at the rate of ten pounds of honey to one pound of comb, but store their honey in sheets of stamped paraffin, whence it is removed by centrifugal extractors worked by waterpower. Early Struggles. As a rule the successful man is reticent about his early struggles, especially if they involved any temporary loss of caste. And yet the other day in company with a little group of successful journalists and business men I listened to some quaint confessions. Two men admitted to having "shoved trucks" when things were very bad indeed, and one even boasted that, loading his truck with mineral waters and cakes, he had done a good stroke of business on a bank holiday at Hampstead Heath. An old public school boy pleaded guilty to having "bridged a gap" as a billard marker, and an author, who is also well known as a speaker, told us that he had once shoveled coal for a livelihood.—London Chronicle. METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE. METROPOLIS. ILL Death Lurks In A Weak Heart Backache Warns You Backache is one of Nature's warnings of kidney weakness. Kidney disease kills thousands every year. Don't neglect a bad back. If your back is lame—if it hurts to stoop or lift—if there is irregularity of the secretions—suspect your kidneys. If you suffer headaches, dizziness and are tired, nervous and worn-out, you have further proof. Use Doan's Kidney Pills, a fine rem- An Indtana Case Mrs. Hewlett, John D. Bass, East St. Madison, Ind., says: "Dark circles appeared on my eyes and my ankles. Inflamed and swollen, crippled up with the rheumatism. My eyes stillly I was a physical wreak. A persistent treatment of specialists failed. Donn's Kidney from the first and before long, re-legs me to good health." "Berry" Picture Tella a Story Whitaker, 405 N. Eat St., Madison, Kansas cities appeared under my eyes and my ankles were infamed and saddened. I was all crippled up with rhamnus. My back ached constantly and I was a physical wreck. Doctors offered a sensitive treatment of specialists failed Doan's kidney Pill helped from the first and before long, retreated me to good health." Get Doan's at Any Store, 500 n Box DOAN'S KIDNEY PILLS FOSTER-MILBURN CO., BUFFALO, N.Y. ROYALTIES' TIPS AR LARGE Crowned Heads Expend Large Sums for Gratuities to Those Who Have Served Them. When a man begins to grumble at the tipping habit in New York, says the Times, he should thank his stars he does not belong to the nobility. The sums paid out by royalty in tipping servants while on a visit would support several families for a year. For instance, the late King Edward's tipping bills ran into the thousands each year. He made it a point that when visiting a friend, even for a few hours, never to leave without bestowing notes among the servants. It is said that when he visited for the week-end he seldom left less than $1,000 to be distributed as tips. When the king went to a shooting party each beater received $5 and the head keeper $25 or more, according to the duration of the visit. The kaiser is said to be the most liberal tipper among royalty of Europe. It is said that every servant in a house which he visits is sure to be remembered. "The day before a visit comes to an end a secretary hands the chief steward an envelope containing the amount to be distributed, and he makes sure each servant receives his allotted share. Even the employees of the stable are remembered. MANITOBA CROP YIELDS Gladstone, Man, reports that the wheat crop of 1913 exceeded all expectations, 30 bushels per acre was the general yield. The grade was never better. One farmer had 400 acres in wheat, which weighed 66 pounds to the bushel. On Portage Plains, Manitoba, there were some remarkable yields. Noah Elgert had 61 bushels of wheat per acre; the government farm 61 bushels; Geo. E. Stacy, 54; T. J. Hall, John Ross and D. W. McCuag, 50; W. Richardson, 51; M. Owens, 61½; Anderson and Turnbull, 60; J. Lloyd, 48½; Jas. Bell and Robt. Brown, 48; R. S. Tully, 52; J. Wishart, 49½; Philip Page, 47; J. Stewart, 45; J. W. Brown, 30; Chester Johnson, 44; E. H. Muir, 42; L. A. Bradley, 43; W. Boddy, 40; Albert Davis, 43; E. McLeenaghen, 37; farming the same land for 40 years, J. Wishart secured a crop of 49½ bushels to the bushel, the best he ever had, and the yield of Mr. Bradley's was on land plowed this spring. Marquette, Man., Sept. 21. -Splendid weather has enabled the farmers of this section to make good progress with the cutting and harvesting of this season's crop. Wheat is averaging twenty bushels to the acre, with barley forty-five and oats going seventy. There has been no damage of any description. Binscarth, Man., says: Good reports are coming from the machines of high yields and good sample. The elevators are busy shipping cars every day. Binscarth, Man., Sept. 3.—Cutting is finished here and threshing is in full swing. This part of the province is keeping up its record, wheat averaging twenty-five bushels to the acre.—Advertisement. Uncalled-For Alarm. Senior Partner (returning from vacation)—"Who brought dot ting in our store? Take it oud, right away!" Junior Partner—"Vot's der matter? Do't a new patent vater cooler I bought last week." Senior Partner (much relieved)—"Oh! Dot's qvite different! I thought it was a fire egs-tinguisher!"—Exchange. Baron Sans Dough—What do you think of my family tree? Mr. Muchgold—The tree may be a good one, all right, but looks to me as if the crop was a failure.—Judge. PUTNAM FADELESS DYES Color more goods brighter and faster colors than any other dye. One 10c package colors all fibers. They dye in cold water better than any other dye. You can dye any garment without ripping apart. WRITE FOR FREE booklet, calendar, blotters, etc. MONROE DRUG COMPANY, Quincy, Ill. ALWAYS WILLING TO OBLIGE Accommodating Man Must Have Made Considerable of a Hit With Storekeeper. A certain class of shopkeepers try to force their wares upon passers-by. A traveler determined to teach one of these a lesson. The offender was a clothing dealer, and had a way of almost dragging people into his place. One day the traveler stopped for a moment to examine a coat hanging in front of the establishment, when out darted the cloister, who asked: "Won't you try on one of those coats?" "I don't know but I will," responded the traveler, consulting his watch. "I have some time to spare. Yes." He went in; but no matter how often he found his fit, he called for more coats. Finally, when he had tried on thirty or more, he looked at his watch, resumed his own garment, and walked out, saying as he went: "Good day, old chap. I won't charge you anything for what I've done. I believe in a man who'll oblige another when he can. If I'm ever this way again and you have any more coats to try on I'll do all I can to help you" SCALP ITCHED AND BURNED 833 South Scioto St., Circleville, Ohio—"My little girl's trouble first started on her head in a bunch of little pimples full of yellow-looking matter and they would spread in large places. In a short time they would open. Her scalp was awfully red and inflamed and the burning and itching were so intense that she would scratch and rub till it would leave ugly sores. The sores also appeared on her body, and her clothing irritated them so that I had to put real soft cloth next to her body. She would lie awake of nights and was very worrisome. At times she was tortured with itching and burning. "I tried different remedies with no benefit for months. I had given up all hope of her ever getting rid of it, then I concluded to try Cuticura Soap and Ointment. The second application gave relief. In a short time she was entirely cured." (Signed) Mrs. Alice Kirlin, Nov. 4, 1912. Cuticura Soap and Ointment sold throughout the world. Sample of each free, with 32-p. Skin Book. Address postcard, "Cuticura, De. L. Boston."—Adv. Why Jaws Are Undersized. Why Japs Are Unsized. Every one is eager to add to his fund of information concerning the Japanese, and there are not many laymen who can tell why the Japs are undersized. Japanese surgeons have made measurements of their army, which show that the smallness of the stature is due entirely to the almost dwarfed condition of the legs. This is no doubt due to the fact that from childhood the Japanese practices an unnatural way of sitting upon the legs. When a Japanese child is old enough to sit upon the floor his legs are bent under him. This in time dwarfs the growth of the limbs. Actual deformity is less common among the peasants than among students, merchants and others of sedentary habits. There is no doubt the coming Japanese, who are rapidly acquiring Occidental customs, will change this habit of sitting upon the feet. Most men would be only too glad to be considered land poor. The Slaash. Paul Poiret, the French dressmaker, was asked by a New York reporter if he thought woman's present mode of dress made for morality. "I do not deal in morality," M. Poiret replied. "I deal in beauty." Then, apropos of the slashed skirt, he told a story. "A young lady in a white dinner gown," he said, "stood under a blazing electrolier and, swinging round before her flance, she asked: "How does my new dress show up?" "Up almost to the knee," the young man replied. "Those white silk stockings with gold clocks are beautiful." USE ALLEN'S FOOT EASE, the Antiseptic powder to be shaken into the shoes of Fender, aching feet. It takes the out of corns and bunions and makes walking a delight. Sold everywhere, 25c. Reuse substitutes. For FIRETIAL package, address A. S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N. Y. Adv She—Has Jack's auto got him into any serious trouble yet? He—Well, I understand he has become engaged to the girl he's been taking out in it—Boston Transcript. Avoid Dangerous Nostrums. Take Dean's Mentholated Cough Drops. They have real value—5c at all good Drug Stores. Quick Suspicion "I notice Mrs. Comeup has a great deal of embonpoint." "Then I bet she got it at a bargain sale." Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup for Children teething, softens the gums, reduces inflammation, always pain, cure wind coolie, $20 a bottle. When a little man stands on his dignity he feels as tall as a two story house. Also to all Owners of Stoddard-Dayton, 1905 to 1914; Columbia Gasoline and Electrics, 1906 to 1914; Everitt Cars of Any Model; Brush, Sampson and Courier Cars Maxwell Motor Co., Inc. 1003 Woodward Avenue DETROIT, MICH. are those living East of the Alleghenies can order New York Co., 13th & East Ave., Long Island chenies to the Rockies, order direct from Max- Co., Newcastle, Ind. West of the Rockies, Motor Sales Corporation, 675 Golden Gate Ave. LESS DYES is all fibers. They dye in cold water better than any other dye, ar. blotters, etc. MONROE DRUG COMPANY, Quincy, Ill. Note: For quicker service those living East of the Alleghenies can order from Maxwell Motor New York Co., 13th East Ave., Long Island City. From the Alleghenies to the Rockies, order direct from Maxwell Motor Newcastle Co., Newcastle, Ind. West of the Rockies, order from Maxwell Motor Sales Corporation, 675 Golden Gate Ave. San Francisco. ak Heart Co., Memphis, Tenn. Price $1.00 THERE ARE THREE GOOD REASONS why you should have your car overhauled now and worn parts replaced. FIRST: The garage man can give you better service—and you can spare the car better now than later. No matter whether you are going to keep the car, or sell or trade it in on a new one—it will pay you well to have it thoroughly overhauled, worn parts replaced by new ones and body repainted. SECOND: We are able to furnish replacement parts for all models of above makes of cars within 48 hours from receipt of order. Have concentrated this branch of the business at Newcastle, Ind. (center of population of the U. S.) Here we have a $1,750,000 investment in plant and stock. 45,000 separate bins of parts. THIRD: And perhaps the best reason why you should secure your requirements now—we must increase prices 20% January 1st, when the new parts price lists will be off the presses. NOW NOTE THIS—Never before in the history of this industry has a new concern, having bought the plants and assets of a bankrupt one, taken upon itself the obligation of furnishing replacement parts for the cars it never made. Write for our booklet, "How to Make Your Car Live Twice As Long." In which we set forth the Maxwell policy toward owners of the above mentioned cars. Address Note: For quicker service those li- from Maxwell Motor New York City. From the Alleghenies to well Motor Newcastle Co., New order from Maxwell Motor Sales, San Francisco. FADELE may other dye. One 10c package colors all fibers. WRITE FOR FREE booklet, calendar, blotters. Expensive Tributes. "People who once threw bouquets at that man now throw eggs." "With eggs at 50 cents a dozen?" exclaimed young Mrs. Torkins. "My! They must think a lot of him." First Old Fellow—Hullo, old chap, how are you? Second O. F.—First class; how are you? The Menu. "Did you have a homily when your minister came to dinner?" "No, we had fried chicken." ten, papers, thoughts, did it SHOES Men's $3.50 $4.00 $4.50 Men's $3.50 $4.00 $4.50 Women's $3.50 $4.00 $4.50 Misses, Boys, Children $1.80 $1.75 $2.00 $2.50 W. L. Douglas shoes are famous wearers. Why not throw a trial? We have a great for your money will astonish you. If you would visit our factory, in the town of Burlington, one roof, and see how carefully L. Douglas shoes are made, you would hear the word warranted to look better, fit better, add the shape and wear longer than other shoes. Your dealer should supply you with them. Don't take a substitute. None genuine without W. L. Douglas sent everywhere, directed from fa- tories. Postal Post, postage free. Now is the time to buy your your footwear. Write today for illu- lated Catalog showing how to order your shoes. 210 Spark St., Brockton, Mass. A Weak Van Vliet-Mansfield Drug Co., Mert THE MAXWELL MOTOR COMPANY DID. We considered it good business, even if not a moral or legal obligation. WE FOUND 122,000 owners out in the cold, as it were —pleading for parts. Their cars laid up and useless in most cases. WE'VE INVESTED about one and three-quarters millions ($1,750,000) dollars in a plant and stock of parts, for over 150 different models, made by the concerns that comprised the United States Motor Company, whose assets we purchased from the Receiver thru the U. S. Courts. WE TOOK THE NAME MAXWELL solely for the protection of 60,000 persons who had bought cars under that name. HAD WE CHOSEN ANOTHER NAME those 60,000 cars would have had almost no value in the second-hand market. As it is, they have a definite value. And by the replacement of the worn parts your car will be good for a long time to come. ANY RECOGNIZED DEALER or repair man—whether he handles the present Maxwell line or not—can procure these parts for you. Or you can order direct. Shipment will be made within 24 to 48 hours after receipt of the order at Newcastle. The Typewriter for the Rural Business Man ```markdown ``` Whether you are a small town merchant or a farmer, you need a typewriter. If you are writing your letters and bills by hand, you are not getting full efficiency. It doesn't require an expert operator to run the L. C. Smith & Bros. typewriter. It is simple, compact, complete, durable. Send in the attached coupon and we will give especial attention to your typewriter needs. Please send me your free book about typewriters. Metropolis Gazette PUBLISHED ON FRIDAY BY THE GAZETTE PRINTING CO. METROPOLIS, ILL. MRS. M. J. MOCRARY, MANAGER. J. B. MOCRARY, EDITOR FRIDAY DEC. 19. 1913 Office 9th and Pearl Streets, Metropolis, Illinois. Enterered as second-class mail matter, at Metropolis, Illinois, Postoffice. Address all communications to J. B.MOCRARY, Box 107 Metropolis, Illinois. The names and addresses of contributors must be known to us in every instance, in order to secure publication. We want the news of your vicinity each week. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: One Year.....$1 00 1x Months.....75 Three Months.....40 Single Copy.....05 In Advance. ADVERTISING RATES. made known on application. You must mail copy on Mondays to secure publication. Rev. J H. Knowles, 2407 Poplar street Cairo, is the elected missionary for the Mt. Olive Baptist Association. He is also authorized to solicit money for the Livingston Normal, Theological Industrail Institute of Metropolis, Ill., Mrs. M. J. Blake, is the missionary for the Woman's Educaonal and Mission Convention I. C R. R. Time Card NORTH BOUND. Train numbers. Arrives. Leaves. 302 10:10 a.m. 10:20 a.m. 374 2:25 p.m. 3:55 p.m. SOUTH BOUND. Train numbers Arrives. Leaves. 375 10:00 a.m. 10:10 a.m. 395 2:28 p.m. 2:35 p.m. Trustees of the Livingston Normal, Theological and Industrial Institute. J. H. Knowles, D. D., President J. B. McCrary, S. T. B., Secretary T. C. Yancy, Treasurer S. B. Kerr, Attorney Rev. J.M. Blake. Rev. H. Allison Rev. M. Hayes Rev. C. C. Phillips Rev. H. E. McWilliams NOTICE. Trustees NOTICE Buy your Christmas books now while you can get them at this great reduction. Regular $2.00 books for $1.25. $1.50 books for $1.00 $1.00 books for .75 50 cent children books will go for 35 cents. Best of authors, beautiful bindings put up for presents. Come and see, take no ones word; do not send off for books when you can see what you are getting at Vallee's Book store. Ladies Carnation Art Club. The L. C. A. Club will give a Grand March Wednesday Eve. Jan. 1st. 1914 at the Odd Fellow's Hall composed of the "Fat" and "Leans." Every-body is cordially invited to take a part. In connection with the March there will be a New Years tree and Helen the Fortune Teller. Two tents will be on the floor in to give every-one chance to have their fortune told. A very delicious supper will be served. Mrs. Effie Wade, left last Tuesday for Indiana Harbor, Ind, after spending several days in the city with her sister, Mrs J. E. Cowper, who was seriously sick but better now. Mr S. Boswell, is reported to be very sick Presiding Elder Sydes of the Cairo District held quarterly meeting in this city Sunday. ```markdown ``` as mercury will surely destroy the son of Small and completely derange the whole system when entering it through the mucous surfaces. Such articles should never be used except on prescriptions from reputable physicians, as the damage they will do is ten fold to the good you can possibly derive from shem. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F.J. Cheney & Co. Toledo, O., contains no mercury, and is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. In buying Hall's Catarrh Cure be sure you get the genuine. It is taken internally and made in Tulsa Ohio, by F.J. Cheney & Co. Tontimonials free Price 75 cents per bottle. Sold by all Druglers. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. Notice is hereby given that we cannot print a list of names contributing to churches unless $1 accompanies same. We are sole agents for Knox-All Rheumatic cure $1. bottle. Try it, McCrary and sons. See our fine line of china ware, at McCrary & sons. Letter Heads and Envelopes can be had for the asking at this office. We print them. The Gazette office for quick work. Reader, to wait for us to send out statements to you for subscription money, by so doing you cause us an extra 3 cents and you know the margin is already quite close. If you want your skin to look pretty and soft, try a bottle of Dixie Liquid Bleach at McCrary & Sons See the novelty department at the Fair. The Illinois Traction System sells tickets from Springfield to East St. Louis, every Saturday and Sunday at $1.50. The Dixie Liquid face Bleach can be found at McCrary and Sons 50c per bottle. J. H. Irons. is the agent for the Metropolis Gazette. Call on aim for prices. $1.00 per year n advance. For Dollis Toy wagons, and Doll Carts etc. get them from Frank John's. You should read our advertisements, if you are looking for bargains, and then follow the Crowd to these places. If you would like to donate the Editor a turkey for Xmas please pay your subscription next week The Christmas shoppers should not fail to see the beautiful display at Hummas. Children's books at Hummas. Misses Love M. Phillips, Mae, Mossie and Annie Roberts, also Mr. N. W. Long went to Paducah, Ky., Friday evening to attend a social. Thos. P. King is building a barn on 8th St. at the original Dorsey residence. Mrs. Jennie Cowper, is improving rapidly. Rember the rally at African Baptist church Sunday Dec. 21. For the Christmas trade I will give you big reduction on all trimmed hats, and high pricee fancy feathers. We make any hat to your special order. Come and see us. Mrs. Vallee. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Baker of Belgrade attended services at the Free Baptist church Sunday. Elsie, Libbie and Percy McCallister visited their mother, Mrs. Cornelius McCallister, of Paducah Saturday. Mrs Queen Goodloe who was confined to her bed with rheumatism, is up again. Bright Light Society. The Society held a very interesting session last Friday night at the Baptist church, a good and Everybody invited to attend each meeting as it is for old and young. The following is the program for Friday evening to be rendered at 7:30 p. m. Music Congregation. Recitation Elsie McCallister. Recitation Bettie Palmer. Music Congregation. Recitation Mrs. F. Smith. Vocal Solo Miss O. Buchanan. Oration Miss Allie Barnard Quartette Male Voices Recitation Alice Urquhart. Recitation Ophelia Palmer. Solo Miss Lenora E. Neweli. Recitation Alvena Brown. Card of Thanks I wish to thank the many friends who were so kind during the illness and death of my mother, Mrs. Sarah Jane Robinson, who departed this life Nov. 25, 1913, and for the many beautiful floral designs I am truly grateful. I feel that special mention should be made of Jeptha Chapter No. 14 members for their faithful watch with me nightly and their interest manifested at all times, also to mention personally, Madams Eva Stalls, Nellie Moore, Francis Smith. Vina Hollingsworth, Miranda McCrary Lizzie Collins and Miss Ruby Smith, Capt. Arthur Williams Rev. Thos Morris, Mr. Thomas Roberts, Rev. J. B McCrary and last but not least Rev. J. M. Blake for his words of encouragement in that sad hour together with others time and space will not permit me to mention at this writing. Yours in Christ Lou Ella Young Chicago, Ill. 3556 Forest Ave. MT. VERNON, ILL. Editor Of The Gazette: Dear Sir, and Brother: This comes to let you know that we have just closed a very successful meeting in Centralia, at Second Baptist Church of which Dr. H. Allison is Pastor. I preached two weeks, we had near thirteen conversions and nineteen additions. The church was greatly revived. Dr. Allison has done a great work here. He has extended the church building and yet he can not seat the people. There is a great opportunity for a good church in the future. This should be the leading church in the District Centralia is taking on new life under his leadership. I am yours in His Name, C. A. Holt. METROPOLIS The Free Baptist organized what is known as the Christian Endeavor, Sunday Nov. 29th. The organization was called to order by their Pres. Mrs. McClelland Smith. Several remarks were made by Rev. J. H. Patterson stating rules and regulations of the above named auxiliary. After the general routine of business the President read three verses of the 5th chapter of St. Matthew; open discussion by the body. After which the president assigned each person one verse to explain Sunday Dec. 21. Total collection 40 cents. Every one is invited to attend each meeting. Mrs. McClelland Smith, Pres. " Elmer Beard, Sec'y Roy Davy, Struck On the Head with Baliard Stick by Robert Kimball. Roy Davy the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Davy, was seriously hurt last Saturday morning in the Egyptian cart. Undertakers and Funeral Directors Polite Service-Calls Answered Day or Night in Any Part of the County Embalming a Specialty Carriages Furnished for all occasions. We solicit your patronage. Office Cor. 7th and Pearl Sts., Metropolis, Illinois. Gurley Pool Room, by Robert Kimball the oldest son of Mrs Amanda Kimball. The two boys had been very chumy up to that time, when the latter began playing pool and Davy brought up an argument which is not known to the writer as yet. However the discussion got to a very high state and Davy rushing to Kimball with a knife and Kimball seeing what his intentions were gave him a hard slap with a pool cue across his cranium, which brought blood from his ears and nose. This school is well graded and equipped Grammar School Department. All work is well organized under Departmental and able Instructors, selected for Special Departmenta work Special Courses in Music, Bookkeeping, Shorthand and Type Writing, Bible Study He was immediately carried to the physician who stated that Davy was seriously wounded Entrance Fee $2.00 a Session He was carried home and later on in the eveing he spoke his first word. Kimbali was captured by the policeman Davis and hands over to the Sheriffs Miller and Roby he was placed in jail to await the County court in January. Davy is reported to be somewhat better and is expected to survive but will not have the action of mind as he did before the serious occurrence. Board and Rooms Board and rooms can be secured in private families at a reasonable rate CENTRALIA. Second Baptist church, Centralia Ill. In every case, 4 weeks will be counted for a school month All charges must be paid in advance. For any information and Prospectus Address We have been in a revival meeting for two weeks, under Rev. Holt of Mt. Vernon, Ill. J. B. McGRARY, Supt. and Sec'y. Box 107 Metropolis, Ill. Eight persons have converted and eleven others have united with the church, making 19 additions to our church. Sunday morning his subject was God is our Eternal Refuge, underneath are his everlasting arms, he counseled us to ever keep this in memory. 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