Metropolis Weekly Gazette

METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE For the next 15 days we will sell our books at these big reductions: All best authors and will make beautiful and valuable presents Call and look at them. Take no ones word; look for yourself. My Final Reply to Dr. Washington Editor Gazette:—I send you an article from my book beginning page 17. Six reasons for being a Baptist. If Moderator W. Washington will read this article he with others like him can fully decide what I believe and teach. The public will please excuse me from any further reply to Rev. Mr. Washington I am very busy preparing both for our State Convention and our Western Baptist Conven. of which I have honor to be President and have no further time for controversy. Six Reasons for being a Baptist. Let us for a moment examine this principle. A father says "Son do this" but the son does something else, and says to his father. "I thought what I did was just as well as what you told me to do." Again, a master says to his servant, "Do this" and the servant does something else and the servant says to his master. "What I did was more convenient and more proper." Any son or servant acting thus is a direct arraignment of the wisdom and authority of the father and master. Therefore, as Baptists, we are bound by the "Thus saith the Lord" to keep it, tho all the world may go contrary. Hence, this puts the Baptists in opposition to the entire world, and the entire world in opposition to Baptists. The word of God is not a partial revelation, but by it the man of God saith the apostle is thoroughly furnished unto all good works. 2 Tim. 3:16,17. This is the fundamental position of the Baptists. The whole Bible is the foundation upon which the Baptists Church is based and not the decrees of Pope, Councils, Assembles, Conventions We must have for our actions a "Thus saith the Lord," or we are not at all bound to act regardless to who gives the orders. The infallible unchangeable word of God is the guide of the Baptists everywhere, which word of God must stand forever. John 1:2-3-5. Ish. 40:1-8. Relying upon the word of God 1. We believe in a scriptural church, hence, a regenerated membership. 2 We believe in a Divinely called ministry, therefore the e- quality of the ministry. 4. We believe in scriptur. I polity for the church, viz., a government for the church, of the church, by the church alone according to God's word. 5. We believe in the scriptural ordinances, baptism and the Lord's supper, and that only regenerated church members, who are walking according to the teachings of the word of God should partake thereof. 6. We believe that baptism is an immersion in water. Rom. 6:4 Therefore ours, the Baptist church is a New Testatament Church and our discipline is the New Testament and nothing but the New Testament. I am thefore a Baptist because my belief is rooted and grounded upon the word of God as the supreme authority in all matters of religious faith, and practice, and not because my parents or some friends are Baptists, neither because it is convenient to be a Baptist, but because of the teaching of God's word and my faith in that word. Therefore, I am a regenerated Baptist made so by the word of God, for "Thy word have I hid in mine heart that I might not sin against thee." Ps. 119:11. Sure as Thy truth shall last. To Baptists will be wrong. To Baptists shall be given The highest glory earth can yield And brighter bliss in heaven. Old Rambler Old Rambler, left the city on Wednesday of last week, May 27, for Peoria, on invitation of Rev. B N. Murrell, pastor of Mt. Zion Baptist church to preach for his people on Sunday, also to visit the Negro Business and Civic League the 28th. Rev. Murrell, had accepted an invitation to deliver the baccalaureate sermon to the graduating class of the High School of Henderson, Ky. Sunday May 31 He is an ideal minister, successful pastor, safe leader and adviser and one who stands high among alf classes and is doing much for his people in every walk of life. We arrived in the city about MOTTO: "HEW TO THE LINE. LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY noon on the 28th and directed to to the home of Dr. Murrell, where we found his wife Mrs. B. N. Murrell, on the lookout for us as Dr. was out in the city at the time, but who soon came in and took us in charge while his better half was out busying herself in preparing for our comfort and entertainment. She is highly cultured, pleasant and an ideal housewife. We were royally entereined in their home during our stay in the city. We met Business League on the night of the 28, where we had the extreme pleasure meeting Peoria's leading citizens both men and women and they were legions, in fact, the very cream of the city of the colored people, 'togged up' in their best fitting and most costly apparel which was befitting for any people and occasion, they had the appearance of Kings and Queens. If one wants to enjoy a pleasant outing let him visit Peoria, as the old time Southern hospitality and chivalrous spirit is manifested to those who are found within their gates.. We made a short address to the Leage but the address of the evening was delivered by Dr. A. H. Kennibrew, M. D., of Janksonville, Ill., which was excellent which held his audience with wrap attention. We met Drs. Askew, Cotton, Shepherd and Harper and other race leaders and found Peoria to be great field for our professional and business men and women with some capital to enter into business and reap a harvest. We visited I. C. Harper, s Home Pantitorium where he operates a modern plant with several hundred dollars invested for cleaning and repering clothes. He is doing about $10,000 worth of business annually and this of course comes largely from the whites because he gives the best possible service obtainable. On Sunday we were special guest at his most elegant home for dinner and spent a delightful time with his most estimable wife and family, and was delighted in the extreme for the reception tendered us. We attended the S. S. and B. Y. P. U. of Zion Baptist church and addressed them, and them to be uncer excellent discipline and doing exceptionally good work with competent officers and teachers, who take a delight as well as pride in discharging their duties. They all feel proud of pastor Murrell and speak of him in the highest possible terms. We delivered two sermons to the church one at 11:00 a.m. and at 8:00 p.m. The members and congregation are above the average for intelligence. They show their Christianity and love for Christ by their presence and finance as they are liberal contributors. The music rendered by choir was par excellent and inspiring. Our efforts were complimented and invited to return again. Sunday afternoon we met the St. Paul Baptist church recently organized, with Rev. W. M. Hayes, of Cairo, and ex-Moderator of the Mt. Olive Baptist Association pastor. This church was organized two months ago with 50 members and now they have a membership of 150 so I am informed by the pastor. It is "going some." We preached for them Monday night and Rev. Hayes is doing a spedid work, having baptized 26 the 4th Sunday. At present he is giving them half time. They gave us a collection of $4.10 which assisted us materially on our fare and for which we thank these liberal hearted christian for their timely aid. We were invited by many of them to return again soon. We visited with Rev. Geo. Crippens and family of Lincoln Tuesday on our return from Peoria, and found Rev. Crippens, supplying the pulpit for Elder P. C. Cooper of the A. M. E. church who had become disabled by a recent stroke. We are sorry to have disappointed Rev. J. W. Wesley and his good people who went out to listen to us, but we were prevented by circumstances over which we could not control. We we will make good next time, We met the Negro State Business League in its annual session in Springfield, Ill., May 29, and 30. The meeting was a splendid effort on the part of the officers and its members. Some splendid addresses were delivered by Mayor Schnep, Kinnibrew, A. M. Williams, F. W. Hoagland, Rev. T. L. Smith, J. J. Chappelle, Atty. Gibbs and others. We read a paper, "The relation of a Newsper to the Negro," which highly complimented and we requested to reproduce the same paper next year with any additional information we care to give for the benefit and guidance of the League. The Negroes of Illinois should come together in a business way. On to Carbondale. Editor of the Gazette, pleas allow us opportunity to speak to the churches and brethren before the State Baptist (General convention meets with the churches in Carbondale, on June 10th. And Bro, editor, we wish to address the brethren personally so far as we can call to mind and we hope that no church nor society will be left behind. Let this meeting be a record breaker. With God to lead and help us, we need fear no harm, regardless of the threatening storm. The laws are plain which His word contains. It means One Lord, One Faith, and One Baptism. So, then brethren, our aim and object, should be, "Missions, Education, and regeneration, Elder H. Allison, of Centrala, 1st Vice Pres," served notice on the churches in this end of the state to show their loyalty to the cause to the cause of the Easter. Dr. Fisher, has a standing article in the Gazette, urging the churches and brethren, to come up to the help of the Lord. Brethren, please do not say that this or that hindered you; you had a whole year to get ready, the meeting is here almost at your doorstep. We had in mind to address article personally to the brethren the presidents, of the Women's work, the importance of their hearty cooperation. Let this be our Motto: That which I can do, I ought to do, and that which I, ought to do, God, being my helper, I, will do. Brethren, let us go up as never before, not to fight, but, to foster the work of the Master's Kingdom. In this, we will be justified, and God will be glorified. C. C. PHILLIPS. Supt. of Missions. INSTITUTION SHOWS REMARKABLE INCREASE IN ENROLLMENT IN LAST YEAR. PUPILS TAUGHT EVERYTHING Course of Study So Varied That Students Are Fitted for Any Career Which Natural Bent or Fancy May Dictate. The Southern Illinois State Normal University is now closing its fortieth year. Since it opened its doors in 1874 nearly 14,000 students have registered and have attended for one or more terms. It has within this time graduated 630 students, most of whom have taught for a time at least, and many of whom are still in service. Its graduates are scattered all over the Union, and some are at work in distant parts of the world. It has furnished five district superintendents for the Philippine Islands, and has a number of prominent superintendents and high school teachers in the best schools of America. The school is today housed in five spacious buildings, the total investment in buildings and equipment approximating $600,000. The newest of these buildings is not only one of the handsomest, but its erection marks a new era in the management of the school. Anthony Hall, erected and equipped at a cost of $75,000, is intended to be an ideal home for a considerable number of the girls of the school. It has every modern convenience and safeguard, steam heat, electric lights, running hot and cold water in every room and an artistically furnished living room and reception parlor, with an attractive dining hall, and, as a special feature, a hospital ward, making up an ideal home for young people. All Records Broken. The faculty numbers 48, each a specialist in his particular line of work. The present term has seen all records for enrollment and attendance broken. The normal and academic departments at present have a total enrollment of 824, not counting the children in the eight grades of the Model school. This is an increase of 53 per cent over the enrollment for the corresponding term of last year, and places the school among the largest within the entire Mississippi Valley. Commencement day will see the graduation of 63 seniors. Last year's class numbered 33, the largest number up to that time. It is evident from this that the increase is uniform all the way along the line. The board of trustees at a recent meeting authorized the establishment of three degree courses. First, a course leading to the classic A. B. Editor Gazette:— I wish to speak to the Baptist Family of Iiiinois: Greeting:—When our Convention adjourned last June in Auroro, it did so to convene with the Pleasant Grove Baptist church of Springfield Ill., June 10th 1914 by their invitation through Pastor J. J. Chappell. We have been resouly informed by them thru our Correspondent Secretary Dr. E. H. Borden that for some cause they could not take the convention. We at once set about with the Cor. Sec'y casting among the churches of the state to see who would care for us this year. At once the doors of the following churches were thrown open Olivet and Providence of Chicago and the two churches combined at Carbondale with Revs. Dorsey and Norment, pastors. The Executive Board was called and a unanimous vote was taken in favor of Carbondale, for June 10th. You are therefore asked as a Dr. Miles' Nurse Master's degree in BURMA- MSM. WEAH HACKE. AS JURGITE, owns the UNIVERSITY 9 JUNE 2019 family to make every needed preparation and come Carbondale, Ill. June 10, 1914 at 9:30 a.m. Let every Baptist church, Sabbath School, Mission circle and indeed every Baptist organization belonging to Baptist churches in the State be represented there without fail. We have established Thursday as Missionary day when every effort will be bent toward raising money for Missions Home and Foreign. We would like to raise that day for missions alone $1000.00 (one thousand dollars) Let us as Baptist for once forget the small amount required for representation fee. But let us come to the help of the Lord as against the mighty and hear our captain say forward march. Go preach the gospel to every creature. Come this year prepared not to raise points of order but to raise money for the extension of the kingdom of our Redeemer. The cause is demanding and the people are looking for men and women of service, and not come to show what we know about parlementary rules of order. The cause is greater than men. Therefore to be like he who sent us we come to minister and not to be ministered unto. Friday is Educational day. Everbody and everything must work toward that end. Both the men and women have said that all moneys sent us must be used for the purpose designated. You need not have any fear come and bring the Lord's money. Western College Macon Mo., and our National Training School Lincoln Heights Washington D. C. must be looked after Livingston School Metropolis Ill., must not be overlooked. The eyes of God and the people are upon us. The want of office should play no part but the doing of the work should claim our whole attention Let every Baptist organization see how much money you can bring or send and how much work you can help do for the advancement of the Kingdom of God on earth. Let it be said of the colored Baptist what was said of the builders of the walls of Jerusalem. "The people had a mind to work." Remember we have only one convention in the state made up of men and women and all working together under one Flag with a triple declaration One Lord, One Faith and One Baptism. Looking for you at Carbondale, Wednesday June 10th 1914 and praying the blessing of God upon every church and pastor with every Mission circle with its Presigent and every S. S. nnd B. Y. P. U. in the state represented in session at Carbondale we earnestly ask that each church will be engaged in prayer to God for the power and presence of the Holy Spirit upon each of us individually and all of us collectively. I am your in Him. 1830 Market Ave., E. St. Louis, Ill. Please publish: That the Baptist General State Convention will meet Wednesday June 10, 1914 with the Baptist churches of Carbondale, Ill., and the fare per day is 75c. E. H. BORDEN, Cor. Sec'y. E. J. FISHER, Pres. TT WAS GREAT JOKE absorption and worry, all the great ‘affairs of Ife which had occupied his time during the strenuous years fok Jowing his graduation from college, ‘had not erased from his mind and ‘heart the memory of dainty carefree ‘Laura Tolman, his old sweetheart of the college days. He had suspected this before he re- turned to the old scenes; now that he was here the conviction came to him with ecreshing force very sbaded walk, every leafy retreat, every part of the old college build- ings and the campus seemed to be alive with her presence As he walked the old familiar paths he seemed to hear the music of her girl ish voles and to oatch the very aroma of her sweet presence. With a groan he admitted it—he ad fafled utterly in the task he had set himsetf out to perform. He had gone away that day when her en- gagement to Bently was announced determined to forget her. The strug- gio that afternoon had been a hard one, and many times he had thought of the river as the most peaceful haven he could find. Finally his pride had triumphed, and, setting his teeth with that peculiar gritty motion ‘the fellows on the gridiron knew 80 well, he had said to himself: “Claude Belknap, brace up. Where ts the spirit of your forebears? Are you to let a chit of a girl ruin your Iife—especially a girl who throws you over for a fellow who ts only after her money? And 20 he had gone bravely away with a song on his lips, bat with gloom tn his heart. He had worked hard, and not without success. The very whole-heartedness with which he ‘threw himself into bis work and which was born of his desire to so ‘eccupy ialmself that ho would forget the Inughing face and saucy eyes of his college sweetheart, ¢rove him on to success. He had taken up a stren- ons profession, and it had carried him to many climes and into much danger. In the stress and heat of the bat- tle with fortune he had flattered him- self that the old wound had healed, and finding himself in the near vicin- ity of the college town, he had rasb- ly decided to revisit the old scenes. Then Mke the rush of the tide came the realization that he ever would love the sweetheart of his youth, wherever the was and whatever ber condition or relationshtp. The realization frightened him when the thought flashed across hts mind that she was the wite of another. eartsick with his own reflections, he sought to escape them by calting on Mins Carrie Sample, who still lived fm the town, and who had been a great chum in the old days. He was tren so warm 2 welcome as to make htm forget for the moment the bier pai in his heart. The conversation naturalty reverted to the old college Gays and the old boys and girls. Bel- kknap had been abroad so long and so occupied with business that he had Jost track of them to s considerable extent, but Miss Sample, having Itved ‘afl the years under the very eaves of the old eoflegs, and being a gosstpy lady, knew where nearly all the old <lassmates were, who they married, how they were prospering, and all the other detafis which so delight the feminine heart ‘The conversation was animated and extended, and Belknap for the time ‘being forgot bis heartache under the magic of this clever and friendly lit ‘te woman. It waa when she ¢ragged torth from ‘@ sacred drawer a bundle of old class photographs that he was most pain- fully recalled to bis great sorrow. “Ok, bat do you remember this pte mic we had,” she exctaimed, shoving @ photograph in front of bis very nose. Did he remember? The blood rushed back into his heart at the memory until he thought he would faint. It was a snapshot of a grouy ts plenic, the girls adorned with the boyw’ hats, and the boys wearing ‘the feminine millinery. It was jus’ outside an apple orchard surrounded by a high stone fence, over which but et s perilous height bung a bough o' Jusctons fruit. In the very center of the picture was Belknap, and perched audaciously upon his shoulder was ‘Laura Tolman, supported by his strong and steady arm, picking the apples and throwing them down to the laughing comrades below, Did he remember that picnic? It was the day when maddened by the contact with her dainty self, he had poured forth his love and then, frighteued at his own audacity, had stammered and tailed to ask the vital question, The photograph brought back all ‘the memories of the afternoou, and erprmeed aff hie latent neassion A« he plunged Into business, and she got ea gaged to that Bently fellow.” “You can't always judge about these collage affairs,” he replied, with ‘4 fine assumption of indifference. “By the way, whatever became of Miss ‘Tolmaa—of Mrs. Bently?” “Oh, dear, didn’t you hear?” she re- plied, with @ shriek of laughter. “No,” he replied, gravely, and @ trifle shortly. “Oh, my, {t's the greatest joke," laughed the girl. “Let mo te yoo— no, positively, 1 must read it to you. Wi—never mind who, but one of the old class wrote ft to me from Sare- toga. Walt, and I'l get the letter.” And away she danced, leaving ber caller wondering whether to be angry or glad. Presently she danced back tm again. “Listen to this,” she said, and then she read: “Oh, Carrie, Just the funniest thing happened here yesterday. You Te- member Laura Tolman, of course. Well, she has been here all the soa- son with her mother—who, by the ‘way, doos not look much older than Lanra. Well, you remember she be- came engaged to Mr. Bently just aft- er sho graduated, and Mr. Bently has been here also all the season, and he has been a perfect shadow to Laura. She has seemed a trifle cool, and one day, presuming on our old class rela- tions, I chided her about it “‘Blla' she said, very solemnly— and you know Laura never was very solemn, Tm awfully afraid Tye made a mistake. ‘There was another be- fore Mr. Bently, and I liked him very, very much. But he seemed tongue: tied, and {t made me angry that he would not speak, and—and I accepted Mr. Bently—and sometimes it seems to me that it would be a sacrilege to become his wife, when my heart Is— somewhere else.” “While we were ialking 3 messen- ger boy came with a note trom her mother that she had left for New York with Mr. Bently, where they would be married the next day, and sbe hoped Lapra would approve and always treat her second father with all due respect—and a lot of other stuff; and she wound up by saying that Aunt Julia woald be a sufficient chaperone during the brief honey- moon trip they proposed to take. “Oh, my, Carrie, what a shock it was to Laura. And really I don’t know whether she was more sngry or more glad. You see, Bently had found out that the widow had old Toiman’s money, although everybody had been led to believe that the bulk of the estate had been left to Laura.” “Now, what do you think of thatT asked Mis Sample, laughing until the tears ran down her cheeks. “What became of Laura?” asked Belknap, with an indifferent show of indifference. “Oh, she’s living an old mald’s ideal life at the old home in Cleve- land.” replied Miss Sample, careless ly, “The Bentlys moved to New York ‘and built a palace on the drive. Laura preferred to live in the old home. Oh, you must not go yet, Mr. Belknap. ‘Where in the world would you go at this ridiculously early hour?” “To Cleveland.” he replied, regard- ing her steadily. After he bad left Miss Sample looked off into space for a moment, and then gave voice to a prolonged whistle. The Beautiful Cypress. Of all the trees in America the ey- press ts in summer the most beaatiful. Ever fresh and green, its tiny leaflets resemble the choicest ferns. Young, it is a thing of charm; mature, it be- comes majestic, towering, with « long, straight, thick trunk, which makes the best of durable lumber. It te « tree of rapid growth. It ) hardy any- where in the corn belt, and southward it has no insect enemies or diseases. A man could plant s cypress tree in his lawn, enjoy {ts wonderful presence during his life, and his sou might out Mt and with the proceeds send the grandson to college for a year. What other tree will afford shade, add beauty and make fine lumber at the came time? Cypress trees transplant ‘easily, though they should te mulched the first’ year and looked after ocea- sionally. Once established, they are able to forage for themselves. Cypress leaves have been found unchanged tn blocks of coal deep down tn the earth. — Breeder's Gazette, Being True to Mature. ‘The lady had been out shopping She returned home with a handsome sable scart. As recorded ta London Opinion, she remarked to her sister, who was admiring the purchase: “That stupid salesman tried to get me to buy a fur with two heads. I cannot tolerate the unnatural {n any- thing. Who ever heard of an animal ‘with two heads?” Her sister looked critically at the seart. Then a smile of amusement lit up her face. “Yes,” she remarked, “you didn’t bay a fur with two heads; but you have bought one with thirteen tala." ‘That's Cifferent. Mrs. Exe (complainingty) — Such servants as We get nowadays! Mrs, Wye—Well, one can't expect all the virtues for four dollars a week, you know. “ Mrs, Bxe~—-But ! pay five Gollara, Romance and Reality, She (sentimentdl)—Three years I was engaged to him--three beautifut appy years—then it was all aver! He (aympathetie)—Oh, 1 suppom you married bim then?—Mlegend Bleottar’ METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE, METROPOLIS, ILL. AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS LEARNING THE WAYS OF THE FARM Rieti a Meco ys ee i eas ee ere Be ine Ged eee Se y, See ae 3) aR S22 a dn Bit «Sean CR ET a [pire neeeerrehcearint Ss eM are Se Pe 5 ik Ye eran. |p: Soe ss ik a Deals ek y > ee Ee aR ae Cutting corn stalks for fodder at the 600-acre Hampton | called “Shellbanks,” where some four hundred acres are und and 35 students are constantly employed. eet ee ee Reece 4 ee ee a eR .. sa ah Mascon - 1 , ies ages EPP k . 4 DEP me se i Jae ics de? > i iG oe, = ee AW Ne EE sae WAN Bt | a ag MEY tl A Ie aha ea a : OE TSS ita ray Po ng a A “a Mee SREY TS et a eee a IE in. pa ua ee pone. ES aes eS SC ret mare eae ae lone Se coed re eee ess ee IR eM ie Be Catting eora atslks for fodder si the 600acro Hampton institute ‘arm, called “Shellbanks,” where some four hundred acres are under cultivation SGA SE: Seudiats are, Sones at ReMMSIAD SE The Negro Baptist churches, writes @ Chicago correspondent, face a diffi cult moral and social problem in the Ufe of the community. It is only fair to say that much of this condition has been forced upon them. The worst side of the city has been left for them, and their principal street was for a long time the prolongation of our “White Hell” where is permitted barter in human bodies, It is not Strange that over seven thousand five hundred negro men are employed in saloons and pool-rooms, or that their chief arterial street which stands in the very center of their social and business life, is just “one saloon after another.” ‘The influences of these demoraliz. ing institutions upon thelr moral life, as well as other familiar and local institutions of even a lower type, ts indescribable. We wonder if the negro Youth trained in the religion of hiv home church far away, or even the youth of the present city churches, is trained to meet this. We are told that many af the people who come here were taught that religion was chiefly a state of personal joy and happiness. Anything that made them happy was allied to relfgion. The {dea of the moral restraints and the social securities that are born of true religion are not suffictently empha: sized. To be happy, to be joyful, is to be religious, and to be secure. What a field of easy failure must ‘open up before such a young life when transferred to the gaily-lighted streets, the challenging music of sa- Joons and cafes, and the richly. dressed women of the street; and how easily the traps may be set for ‘f life that measures religion chiefly in terms of feeling, and falls away from {ts institutions and practises the mo: ment that inner joy and happiness seems to be broken on the anvil of failure. Te aE en a AT ea ee a bag of potatoes and a 15-pound ham at a grocery store the other day and left them on the back doorstep of an aged resident named Thompsen Thorne. With the supplies wae this note: “This ts returned to you today 4n honor of the fifty-first anniversary since you gave the same to an old, hungry soldier at Valley Springs, Va., during the Civil war.” In Booker Washington's opinion race prejudice is no longer a# violent as it was. By this *e does not menn that the gulf between the races Is be- ing bridged—or should be bridged. But the black man no longer regards the white man as his natural enemy, nor does the white man scorn the col- cored man as he once did, “IT used to hate all whites,” said Washington, “but J got over that. ‘That dwarfed and handicapped me. 1 have no time now to give to hate.” “Uncle Jake,” said he, “had been attending a conference. He found that he had but ten minutes to catch his’ train for homer So he called « hack. “T'm sorry, uncle,’ sald the driver, “but I've never hauled a colored man in this hack. If any one were to see you in it, it would ruin. me.’ “White man,’ said Uncle Jake, ‘J ain't got no time for talkin’. 1 des natchelly got to cateh that train. You git in de back seat and cock you hat ‘on the back of your head and smoke ais segar—and Til git on de front “neat and dribe de horse. Dataway you “get your quarter—and I'l git my train’. > In an endeavor to inerease the rice production of the Philippines the in- sular government is colonizing fertile ‘but thinly inhabited valleys with na- lives taken from less fertile but more densely populated localities. More than 75,000 Irishmen Jeft the “ould #od last year. ie Chie Imperts more thar one hun "red cattle annually from Argentina. ee London bas sre thar Atty publite baths f i: sy Who would have supposed that the number of negro citizens whose names are on the payroll of the United States Feached as high as 22,5407 Of the colored citizens on Uncle Sam's payroll 4.526 are in the army, 1,629 are in the navy, and 2,140 are in the varioue navy yards and stations. Of the rest 6,347 are employed in Washington, and the remainder work in the government buildings through- out the United States. More minute statistics or the subject are supplied in a Washington dispatch as follows: Twenty-seven negroes are employed in the White House, 26 in the state department, 926 in the treasury, 170 in the war department, 174 in the navy department, 87 in the post office de- partment, 43 in the department of jus- tice, 164 in the department of agri- culture, 239 in the government print- ing office, 41 in the interstate com- merce commission, 115 in the senate office building, 46 in the congressional Mbrary, 171 in the Washington post office and 2,413 in the District of Co- tumbia local government. in the de- partment service outside of Washing- ton 16 negroes are employed in the diplomatic and consular service, 1,082 in the treasury branches, 2,242 in the war department, 3,599 in the post of- fice department, 31 in the interior de- partment, 102 in the department of ag- rieulture and 775 miscellaneously ‘There are 625 megroes employed by the government in New York, 670 In Chicago. 195 in St. Louis, from forty to ninety in the other large cities of the country, and 14,130 in mixcella- neous towns, ‘The aggregate sum drawn from the treasury in each year by colored em- ployes is $12,576,760. Of the few American negroes who have found their way to West Africa to settle in the negro republic of L- beria 99 per cent are unprepared to meet the economic conditions and 6x press regret at having left America, These, excepting a few who can not secure passage money, return to the United States. Some have been as: sisted by the American consul in se- curing passage on sailing vessels re- turning to America. Few, other than well-educated American negroes, can accommodate themselves to the exist ing racial, religious and economte con: ditions, the natives always considering them foreigners. ‘There are some sixty thousand ne- groes in Chicago. The number has doubled in the last 16 years, ‘This in- erease has come almost wholly from the South. This fact has to be cow sidered in’ every problem which has to do with church comity. ‘The social and economic pressure which stimu: lated this migration is increasingly active in spite of the faet that in the last ten years the negro has gradually lost almost every oceupation that was originally his in the northern cities. Chicago, however, still has the repu: tation “of offering the largest liberty to all citizens of all colors and Jan: guages of any community in the North.” Over forty-five thousand of these negroes live on Chicago's South side In the district bordered on the north by Twenty-seventh street, and on the south by Fifty-seventh street, extend: ing three blocks eastward and west: ward are ten of the leading negro BapUst churches and seven faptist missions with an aggregate member. ship. of 6,000, and with a Sunday school attendance that would add 2,000 more, The Swiss department of the inte- rior Is considering the advisability of establishing a eentra! office for pro moting foreign tourist traMe in Swit. zerland. It is proposed to call in a commission of experts and other inter. ested persons in 1914 for considera tion of the proposition to be present. ed by the department. Fashionable women tn St. Peters. burg are painting tiny figures on their fees and necks. Blephants, trees and geometrical designs are the most ¢om- mon patterns, y ick le Oia An fies ae Fine Old Words’ That No Longer Are Heard. “Pernickety” Has Become Obeolete, With Many Other Coloqualieme— Expressions Gave Zest to Canveresih: ete Oe a eee oe jand a number of colloquial expres- sions and pithy phrases which they did ‘not fail to use on proper occasions. ‘Many of these have gone out of use or are beard so rarely that they are marked “obsolete” in the dictionaries. ‘The immense increase of reading, which used to be confined to the Bible jand “Piigrim’s Progress,” has brought ‘the everyday speech of New England- ‘ers to @ dull untformity except per- haps in remote districts. It 4» calculated that every person reads on the average 3,000 words © @ay, and thts can hardly fail to influ- ence his vocabulary toward what is considered proper in print and the dis use of words essentially colloquial. We rarely hear the old words de scribing personal appearance or man- ner, like “biggety,” “uppety,” “meech- ing” and the like; nor that excellent word, “pernickety,” used by one wom an to indicate the manner of another who was a little snappish and partico- Jar about trifies. “Pernickety” disap- peared with hundreds of other words about the time that the last passenger pixeon left New England, How much “more expressive itis than the normal schoo! teacher's equivalent, “suffering from nervous depression.” | “Peart,” entirely distinct from pert and implying no egotism, is not entire- ‘ly out of use, “Trapse” ts occastonally heard, but an equally strong verb, to “serooge,” meaning to crowd or prees, 1a substantially obsolete. Proverblal “expressions like “dark as a pocket,” to run “like sixty,” or he “is not all “there,” have a more tenacious life than the old vernacular words, but ‘they, except in the mouths of persons fond of odd expressions, are used less than formerly. Mra, Stowe had a full command of ‘these expressive folk words, and her San Lawson used them with excellent effect. Rose Terry Cooke was a past mistress of New England colloquisms and never failed to appropriate one eat she beard. Walter Scott, af course, was unmatched in rendering the Scottish vernacular, which, indeed, was his mother tongue. “But modern writers who try to put on paper the speech of pioneers or “western miners and cowboys fall to eateh the spirit of vernacular speech. They make it all slang and artificial distortions, and bring In oddities, some of which may be funny, but are entire ly forced and unnatarel. The bad ex- ample was set by Bret Harte, whose Californians talk fn s dialect never used by frontieramen, because plain men are never affected in language. Our own Mark Twain followed Bret Harte in this regard, though his dia- lect ts far more like human speech. “To hit it exactly writer would have to invent a lifelike character, be- “cause peculiarities of epeech are based on character, But to invent a charac: ter and give it the attributes of life fa the task of genius, so it is not to be “wondered at that most modern dialect writing {s artificial and depends on “grotesque spelling. But the strength of vernacular talk Mes in the words more than in the prosunciation. To return to the point, It seoms « pity that so many of our old New England words are passing into ob- ‘livion. ‘They put things right before “the mind and gave a zest to talk tt “misses In the mouth of the college professor. You cannot combine the | old force and modern correctness. Machinery for Siberian Peasants. A very tmportant feature in the colonization of Siberia is the organiza: ‘lon throughout the country of stores for the sale of agricultural machinery to the peasant population. From a small beginning in 1898 the organiza: ton has rapidly assumed large propor: tions, and at the end of 1912 there wore, at various centers east of Tchel- ybinisk, 67 depots and 120 sub-depots ‘and agencies. The armual turn- over continually increases, and at tained in 1912 the cum of 8,438,000 rubles. The machinery {s sold ou Jong and easy terms of credit. A good system of organization minimizes she number of bad debts. As far as pow sible, machinery of Russian manu- facture only is sold by these stores, but the amount of modern machinery dealt with by,them Is very large. Desperate. It was ber first ball game, and with p deathly pallor creeping into his face and dark rings beneath his eyes, he nerved himself for her next question, “Why do they call that thing the plate?” she asked after getting her second wind. “Because that’s where the drops from the pitcher are caught,” he whis- pered. boarsely. And even the man ‘at the bat had to strike. Nuts From the Philippines. Pilt nuts, which grow abundantly tn the Philtppines, have recently been shipped on @ considerable scale to the United States. They are produced by trees of the genus cavarium, to which belongs the Java almond, are nearly triangular in cross section and con: tain @ small olly kernel of almond-like flavor. Besides being very palatable in thetr natural state, they yield a valuable oil, resembling oi! of almonds Mrs. Aselin Was Restored to Health by Lydia E. Pink- ham’s Vegetable Compound. Minneapolis, Minn. —“‘Aftor ray Httle ‘one was born I was sick with pains in rogers ny sides which the NPR) doctors said were “REE cx200d by inflamma- Pal tion, I suffered a great deal-every x BY) month and grew very | Pe | thin, ! was ander the eae doctor's care for two 5 Ba |long years without xy lany benefit. Finally | 7 after repeated sug” P gestion to try It wo b got Lydia EB. Pint- Vn se [a | doctors said were Oo ‘cansed by inflamma- Pam tion. I suffered a great deal-every P ronthand grew very rf A P| thin, ! was ander the fF | doctor's care for two big long years without i jany benefit. Finally i/ ( latter repeated suge gostion# to try It wo A got Lydia B. Pink ham’s Vegetable Compound. After tak- ing the third bottle of the Conpound I was able todo my housework and today Tam strong and healthy again. I will answer letters if anyone wiehes to know about my caso." —Mrs. JOSEPi ASRLAN, 628 Monroe St.,N.E., Minneapolis, Minn. Lydia E, Pinkham’s Vogetabie Com- pound, made from native roots and herbs, contains no narcotics or barmful drags, and today holds the rocord of being the most successful remedy wo know for woman’s ils. If you need sucls ‘8 medicine why don't you try it? If you have the slightest doubt that Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegeta~ ble Compound will help you, writs to Lydia E.Pinkham MedicineCo. (confidential) Lynn, Mass., for ad~ vice. Your letter will be opened, read and answered by a woman, and held in strict confidence. FREE TO.ALL SUFFERERS THERAPION ==" PATENTS aia 3S 7 Sua ie » Blotter. Tt ts only within recent years that we have been able to obtain any relf: uble information regarding the social, political and religious conditions that surrounded the great founder of the Kebrew race while he dwalt in Ur. Here be married Sarah and here he was surrounded by his friends snd relatives, including Lot, his nephew, who was his companion in his later fourneyings. Here he was surround. ed by m heathen population worship tng Bel (Baal) and Beltis, his consort, and other gods. Here he must fre quently have seen the splendor of Babylonian royalty und the {dolatrous worship of heathen gods. Here tlso he must have been conversant with Babylonian Mterature and familiar with the wedgeshaped cuneiform writ- tog in which all business and officta? correspondence was then conducted. ‘These writings were done with « sty- tus of hard wood or metal with « square end. Thix was pressed on the soft clay, which was then hardened either by sun-drying or baking. These tablets were the stendard writing ma- terials—the stationer'y—of (hat far-off age—Christian Herald. ¢ Teem Taco Brief. “I think @ congressman ought to be elected tor more than two years.” “You can't accomplish much in that tnte, eh?” “Why, my wife can't return ‘all the calla ghe recelves."—Courier-Journal. 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The Transvaal colony has local self-government, aybject to the troperial parliament In federal mat- ters, and the same may be said of all the other British colonies, Locky Thirteenth Man. “Frederick, Ym sure you will for give me,” said the beautiful girl, bow fog her head, “when you know ‘the true reason of my breaking our en- ‘gegement so xoon. But when I be came eugaged to you I forgot—" “What is It, Gladys.” he murmured sadly. “Be not afraid. 19 it that you love another? "No, indeed,” responded the girl in dignantly, her eyes flashing at his through @ vell of tears. “But you know bow superstitious 1 am—I for Kot that you would be exactly the thirteenth man Pye been engaged to.” -\ CAUSE AND EFFECT Good Digestion Follows Right Food. Indigestion and the attendant dis comforts of mind and body are cer tain to follow continued use of im- preper food. Those who are still young and fo bust are likely to overlook the fact that, as dropping water will wear a stone away at last, so will the use of heavy, greasy, rich food, finally cause loss of appetite and indigestion Fortunately many are thoughtful enough to study themselves and note the principle of cause and effect in ther daily food. AN. ¥. young wom: an writes her experience thus “Sometime ago 1 had a lot of trou- ble from indigestion, caused by too rich food. I got so I was unable to digest scarcely anything, and medt- eines seemed useless, “A friend advised me to try Grape- Nuts food, praiting tt highly and as ‘» last resort, I tried st. Tam thankful to say that Grape-Nuts not only re- Neved me of my trouble, but built me up and strengthened my digestive or ggans co that Tean now eat anything 1 desire. But I stick to GrapeNuts.” Name given by Postum Co,, Battle ‘Creek, Mich, Read “The Road to Wellville,” io pkgs. “There's a Rea Mies nett the sheen Inttrt A a ert A mew ea wets, te ad dat wa A LESSON OF LIFE Joy and Pain Inseparable, and the Combination Is Known as Love. | Two women—one almost a girl— ‘were seated in the corner of a largo ‘room, where the dusk had gathered in ‘an amethyst softness. Traces of ‘tears were upon the younger woman's cheeks, und se leaned wearily against her companton’s shoulder. No sound echoed in the peaceful room, but the ‘soothing music of the older woman's voice that murmured words of com- fort, “There is a philosophy of life, little one,” sho was saying, “that if but earned will turn all things to gain— even sorrow. - “How we shudder and draw our gar- ‘ments about us at the approach of pain, kneader of hearts, builder of ‘character in disguise! So different is ‘the reception accorded to joy, whom “we walcome with doors ajar and out tees arms. Having joy secure, 80 we think, we bar the door upon pain, peering at him in fear and trembling through the closed iattice when. he Taps. And, lo! when we turn to the hearth joy is no longer there; he has gone to join his lifelong friend on the ‘other side of the closed door. For you “must know that joy, who is sometimes ‘called love, and pain are inseparable. Ofttines, where love is very great, ‘they go hand in hand.” The woman smoothed the girl's soft hair when she stirred restlessly, and the cool quiet of her tolee flowed on “AN really great men and Seomen have wuffered, dear. ‘The noble nature ever grows strong and self-reliant when forced to struggle. It ts the ‘smnall nature (hat pain warps and ex: bitters. ‘To.belteve in the divine order ‘of things und cheerfully accept life (fs tt to—that Is @ philosophy worth while. “1 wonder how long we would care to keep our friends, as friends, should “all our good wishes to them for un- broken rounds of joy and happiness come true? Possessing & sort of eternal earthly bliss, they would soon “become feather-brained creatures, self-centered, unsympathetic and ab solutely without character. ne eee nee rome beloved Shake apeare, dear: "Sweet are the uses of adversity, “Which, fike the toad, ugly and vem ' omous, “Wears yet a precious jewel in bis _—head’—the Jewgt of character.” acta bcs arin: Soon Pe gt the woman drew her tired young body “against her breast » “And x0, child,” she continued, soft ‘ly, “with Joy, whom you have known /as love, welcome pain also, for pain | one ean make you worthy to harbor love, and without him love will not “stay. The heart that knows not both “has yet to learn the lesson of life.” | ‘Then the woman went quietly to the | window and looked upon the pur | ple stillness. When she turned, at a ‘soft touch upon her arm, the faint twilight revealed to her the face of a ‘woman who understood.—Janet Reese, ‘m the Buffalo Express. Women and Checks. A woman who signs her husband's name to checks is not a forger, accord- ing to a recent ruling by 4 Denver court. It appeared that the woman tm question was suing her husband for divorcee and cashed checks by sign- ing her husband's name because her children were in want and ber hus- band bad failed to provide for them. ‘The woman, who was arrested, was not only freed but the court held that her act was proper. Commenting on the case Law Notes says: “The essential clement of forgery, an act to injure or defraud, ‘was absent from the wife's act. Her husband could neither be injured nor defrauded by being forced, to the amount of the checks, to do what he was under legal obligation to do, viz: support his own children. As to the propriety of the act, who will question it? Has it not been the traditional right of the wife to go through her husband's pogkets? Aud has the exer- cise of that inalienable right ever been denominated an unlawful search und seizure, or subjected the good wife to the charge of larceny?” alte ang the Cate. The Maltese—meaning the inhabi- tants of the Mediterranean ‘sland of Malta, and not the cats of that name —-mark this year the centenary of the treaty of Paris, by which old Malta ‘was guaranteed to Great Britain, There are no Maltese cats in Malta now, nor knights in armor, nor Mal- tese crosses, nor is the island a pro- ducer of malt, as some suppose. In fact, Malta has none of these things with whieh its name is popularly as- sociated. Bat it has something better —a host of beautiful women, consid- ered by some experts in feminire charms as the loveliest in the world. Africa, where a man may have all the wives he can support, is only a short distance away. Maltese women being entrancingly lovely, may explain'why there is so great a preponderance of male over female visitors to the Mediterranean isle. ‘They Often Are. “ge sbe hired u private detective. Gut the experiment was a failure.” “Why?” “Well, she found that the private de “petive was too public.” ‘TROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE, METROPOLIS, Re eau au STOP THAT BACKACHE ‘There's nothing more discouraging than a constant backache. You are lame when you awake. Pains pierce you when you bend or lift. It's hard to rest and ‘ext day it's the same old story. Pain in tho back is nature's warning of kidney ills. 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Youna Love’s Rivairy. ‘The following conversation between two little girls, Agnes and May, six and seven years old, respectively, was overheard one day Agnes accused May of having # little playmate, John by name, for a “fellow.” May sald: “You do, too.” “Why do I?” asked Agnes. “You let him walk under your um- brella,” replied little May. “So do you, May." “Yes; but you coax him under!” was May's quick retort, We would have to be gifted wrth second sight to see what some men and women ever see in each other. ‘The spectacle of a man with a fu- ture marrying a woman with a past is ‘ever present. In the Expectant Period Before the coming of the little one—women need to be pos- sessed of all their natural strength. 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Active organizations to fight this disease have been formed in Japan, the Philippines, Indla and Aus- tralia. A movement {s on foot for a national organization in China and in a number of cities local work has been started. While no accurate fig- ures are available, those who are in position to know clalm that consump- tlon takes annually from 600,000 to 1,000,000 tives in China alone. In In- iq the death rate is fully as high. and on account of caste distinctions and native superstitions, the problem of prevention and treatment is pecu- Marly dificult. The Japanese govern- ment has taken a hand officially tn the control of tuberculosis, and is co-operating with two well-organized private associations, The death rate, while very high, is lower than in China and India. Under the direction of the United States public health service a movement for the preven- ‘tion of tuberculosis in te Philippines has also been organized. The National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tubesoulo- sis, with headquarters in New York. although organized especially for work in this country, has been largely in strumental in the establishment of anti-tuberculosis movements in most of the orlental countries, as well as in Africa and South America. Spiritual. ‘The new minister in a Western par- ish was making hig first calls, and when he reached the home of the Peevys he said to Mrs. Peevy: “T don't think that T have seen Mr. Peevy gt church yet, have I Sister Bey “Well, no, you ain't,” replied Sister Peevy. “The fact is, Peevy likes to lay abed late of a Sunday morning, and time he get up an’ has his break- fast and gets through the Sunday pa- pers an’ does his Sunday shavin’ an’ mebbe an’ hour or two of tinkerin’ around the house that he allus puts off to do of a Sunday, an’ then has smoke an’ mebbe cuts some o' the children’s hair or beats rugs for me, or even mops up the kitchen if I'm hurried—time he's done all that it’s too late for church, act, 1s Peevy ain't @ real spiritual-minded man no- how—at least not the same as I am.” —New York Saturday Evening Post. ‘Coes Salen “Mr. Snapp, I want two pounds of Mrs, Annie Dallam’s butter. 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The names and addresses of contrib- rators must be known to us in every in- sance, in order to secure publication. We want the news of your vicinity each week. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: One Year.....$1 00 ix 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. ANNOUNCEMENTS. We are authorized to announce the name of Judge W. F. SMITH as a candidate for re-election to the office of County Judge, subject to the decision of voters in the Republican primary election, to be held in September 1911. SHERIFF. We are authorized to announce the name of David L. PARIS, as a candidate for Sheriff of Massac County, subject to the will of the voters at the Republican Primary Wednesday, September 16, 1914. COUNTY SUPT., OF SCHOOLS. We are authorized to announce the name of Miss EMMA BRAINARD, as a candidate for County Superintendent of Schools, of Massac County, subject to the will of the voters at the Republican Primary Wednesday, September 16, 1914. 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. 3:25 p. m. SOUTH BOUND. Train numbers Arrives. Leaves. 375 10:09 a. m. 10:10 a. m. 395 2:28 p. m. 2:25 p. m. Our trimmed hats for Ladies, Misses and Children are now ready for you. Come in and see the big values for little money. Mrs. Vallee. Trustees of the Livingston Normal, Theologi cal and Industrial Institute. J. H. Knowles, D. D., President J. B. McCrary, S. T. B., Secretary T. C. Yaney, Treasurer S. B. Kerr, Attorney Rev. J. M. Blake. Rev. H. Allison Riv. M. Hayes Rev. C. C. Phillips Rev. H. E. McWilliams The only way to get the genuine New Home Sewing Machine is to buy the machine with the name NEW HOME on the arm and in the legs. This machine is warranted for all time. No other like it No other as good The New Home Sewing Machine Company, ORANGE, MASS. For Sale by W. P. Baynes, Metropolis, lil. ```markdown ``` Beware of Ointments for Catarrh That Contain Mercury as mursure, will surely destroy the sense of smell 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 them. 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 Cartarrh Cure be sure you get the genuine. It is taken internally and made in Toledo, Ohio, by F. J. Cheny & Co. Testimonials free. Sold by druggists. Price 75c. per bottle. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. The fact is, the four magazines we sell with The Gazette for 18c extra, 1 represents the biggest reading value ever offered the public. Have you sent us your order? If not, send it or phone us today. The Gazette office for quick work. We want you to get our club of four big magazines. We sell the Gazette and four big magazines a.l for only $1.18. Send your order today by phone or mail. The Illinois Traction System sells tickets from Springfield to East St. Louis, every Saturday and Sunday at $1.50. If you haven't already subscribed to our club of four magazines do it now. You will enjoy reading these splendid magazines. We will sell you the four magazines with the Gazette all one year for only 18c extra. If you want your skin to look pretty and soft, try a bottle of Dixie Liquid Bleach at McCrary & Sons If you will subscribe to The Gazette or renew your subscription, we will include four standard magazines all one year, for only 18c extra. WRITE OR PHONE. See the novelty department at the Fair. Do you know that you can get four magazines in combination with The Gazette by paying only 18c extra? Send your order by mail or phone us. We now urge all of our subscribers to renew their subscription to The Gazette and get four magazines one year for only 18c extra. WRITE OR PHONE. Try it, McCrary and sons. Take our fine line of china ware, at McCrary & sons. Phone us your order for the four- magazine bursgain. Rooms to Rent. We have 3 rooms to rent. See MRS. HARKIET MCCRARY. For 18 cents extra you can get four magazines and The Gazette for one year. If your subscription to The Gazette is due, better pay up now and get four big magazines, all one year, for only 18 cents extra. Letter Heads and Envelopes can be had for the asking at this office. We print them. I have a new supply of hair goods on hand. Call and see them. MRS. Z. A. VALLEE. Buy all your magazines of us. We can give you four magazines one year with The Gazette for only 18c extra. REV. J. H. KNOWLES 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 Industrial Institute of Metropolis, Ill., Don't pay out money for magazines. We can give you four monthly magazines for 18 cents extraft you will subscribe to The Gazette for one year. You are cordially invited to come in and look at cur Ladie's, Mlsses and Children's trimmed hats and you will be convinced of their splendid value. Get ready for spring weather. MRS. VALLEE. Pub your neighbors about our big offer. They surely would like to get The Gazette and four magazines all one year for only $118. Notice is hereby given that we cannot print a list of names contributing to churches unless $1 accompanies same. Persons who owe the Gazette woul greatly lesson the financial burden of the publishers by remitting at once. If you will subscribe to The Gazette for one year we will send you four monthly magazines for only 18 cents extra. Ordination Licentiate license blanks at the Gazette office. You can get four splendid magazines one year for 18 cents extra by renewing your subscription to The Gazette. Mr, Ollie Parks, an employee at the "Custom House" in Chicago visited his relatives, the Park sisters and brother. The Commencement Exercises of Dunbar High School last Wednesday Evening were well arranged. Each graduate did credit to themselves and the school. A large an appreciative audience was present and listened intently to the Addresses and Orations. Profs. J. S. Hunpicutt and J. T. Lyons and family left Tuesday afternoon for their several loctions during the summer vacation. N. W. Long went to Paducah, Wednesday on business. Mrs. Mary Winmon and daughter Garnette will attend the Commencement Exercises at Lincoln High School Paducah, Friday, the 5th, inst. The formers son in the person of Clarence Winmon is a graduate this year. The Exercises at Dunbar last Friday in Rooms 1-2 and 3 were very commendable. Several of the straw-berry p'ckers have returned home from Pulaski. Mrs. Mollie Claybrookes is visiting her daughter and Grandson in St. Louis. Jerry Richards of Harrisburg, is in the city visitng his wife. Lieuts. Wm. Crouse. and V. E. Shannon were in Chicago, Monday in the interest of Company "M." Regular services will be held at Belgrade the 1st Sunday in June also business meeting on Saturday night at which time all of the members are urged to be present. But few persons have their hearts unalloyed from sin. Selfishness is one of the greatest sin of the age, especially in America. God will not, and cannot dwell in an impure heart. Impurity blights the life and shuts out of the sul Gods blessed presence. One whose life is hid with Christ in God, will keep on shining radiantly and will transform the life of sinful men into the life of Christ, also pass through the furnace of fiery trials unharmed. The pure in heart is the one that can see God and talk with Him face to face. It is impossible to possess a pure heart without the effects of it being manifested in one's life. To have a vision of and communion with God, you must ascend upon the mountain of pure thought and unselfishness. There are persons who are mirthful, joyous but are not happy. Happiness is an offspring of blessedness. A pure heart, cleanses the mind, the motives and life of any one who is its possessor. To the Baptist Women of the State Convention Galesburg Ill Mar 2, 1914 Dear Sisters: This is to notify you that the General Convention will convene at Carbondale, Ill., in June instead of Springfield, as that church will not be able to entertain the convention. We desire and urge that the circles send a large representation to help unite the forces in this great work that we are trying to do. The Master wants his workmen to be men and women of stability and truthfulness, not workers for a selfish motive, but do unselfishly His work the best we can, giving Him all the glory and the praise. We need more prayer among the workers of our state, prayer sincere and true. We ask that every christian worker that read this appeal will breathe a silent prayer to Him that doeth all things well for peace, unity and unbounded success at our meeting this year, as the Lord has blessed us so let us give. The christian life is a life of service and sacrifice, let us sacrifice a little time and attend this convention. At the recent Board Meeting plans were laid whereby we might increase our funds, when these appeals reach you we urge that each circle will take heed The President is calling for seven hundred dollars for Mission work, Education and aged Minister Fund. This a small amount for the great state of Ill. Pray without ceasing for our Convention. Notice. To the local W. E. & M. Societies of the Mt Olive Baptist Association: You are aware that we held no meeting with the Executive Board in March, being unable to attend myself, and the first meeting was financially poor. Each local is asked to send to the Sec. Sister Allie Barnard, of Metropolis, $1. to assist in the representation fee to the State convention as she will attend. It will meet in Carbondale, June 10. Hoping as many of the sisters and circles will represent in this meeting as can, also represent your circles in the Needle and Art work department. I will be glad to correspond with some sister that can travel in the District Mission work and visit the churches, M. J. BLAKE, Pres. ALLIE BARNARD, Sec. Notice. Mt. Vernon. Ill, 5-26, 1914. Notice is hereby given that the S. S. Convention of the Mount Olive Baptist Association has been changed from Sparta, and will convene with the 1st Baptist 12th St., Cairo, Ill.. Wednesday before the 4th Sundaay in June 1914. Hoping that all of the schools will be fully represented this year. I am yours in the work, Nena R. Smallwood, Cor. Sec. of Teachers Institute and S. S. Convention. Brookport Ill., Nov. 26 '13 To whom this may concern. Greetings: This is to certify that I, A. C. Crider have been appointed Dist. Deputy. Grand Master of the 7th Dist. of F. & A. M. of Illinois. I will visit all lodges in my district this year. A. C. Crider Box 172 Livingston Institute 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 Entrance Fee $2.00 a Session Tuition Rates: Tuition. Theological Department per month.....$1.00 Tuition, Normal and English courses per month each **1.00** Tuition, Instrumental music (including rent of instrument)... 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 Metropolis Second Opens Monday This school is well graded Department. All work is well-tal and able Instructors, selec work Special Courses in and in Theology. Entrance Fee $2,000 Tuition Rates: Tuition per month. Tuition, Normal and English or Tuition, Instrumental music (including Tuition Typewriting (including Tuition Plain Sewing per month Tuition, Vocal music Tuition Printing Industrial Department per month. Printing Free Board and Roomsible rate. In every case, 4 weeks with All charges must be paid in and Prospectus Address J. B. McGRARY, Box 107 Notice. Notice. The S. S. Convention of Mt. Olive Baptist Association will convene with 12th St. Baptist S. S, Cairo, June 24th. D. Farrow, Pres Livingston Notes. Our needs: — We need 2 Doz. small chairs for the Kindergarten department. 1 Doz. small scissors 1-2 Doz. Wall lamps with reflectors for our night school. One Wall clock. One Piano. 200 chairs in our chapel room, at once. Therefore we ask each church, Sunday School, W. E. & M. Society and Ministers also individuals who are interested in education to send us a donation at once. Due credit will be given you through these columns also in our quarterly report. Every minister should register and become a student of the Livingston college by sending $1.00 every month. If he is not able to attend the money can be used to adjantage and his name will increase the enrollment. Try it and let us make Livingston what it should be. ' Any good book will be thankt fully received for our library! The school is now open and students are accepted at any time. For any information write Rev. J. B. McCrary, Supt. and Secy., Box 367 Metropolis, Ill. The Master hath use of the talents of every minister, therefore atten the State Convention. June 10th. Let evry minister of the Mt. and East Mt. Olive Associations attendthe Baptist State Convention which convenes in Carbondale June 10th. A minister who will not attend these meetings should be placed in the rear rank with his class where he will finally go. No morphine or opium in Dr. Miles' Park Plaza. Offer all Pain. "One unit is less." ```markdown ``` MOUNDS Mr. Editor, Please allow space to say to the public, that "The St John Baptist Church," held its regular meeting on the 9th and found that the Pilgrim Rest Baptist church was, and is receiving excluded members from the St. John Baptist church to its fellowship. Therfore the church proceeded at once to take some steps, and notified them to turn them aloose, in which they failed to do, which is disorderly with all regular Baptist churches through out the state, therefore as we are one, and belong to one Baptist family in rules, regulations, principle and practice; we notify all ministers of the Union of the state of Illinois that if any one of them is known to take sides or practicing any of the religious worships with this disorly church known as "Pilgrim Rest" Baptist church, his name shall be published. See constitution of minutes, Sec. 7. Done by order of church, this the 9th day of May. Please send me 3 copies of the paper snd will pay you at the convention for same. Annie Brandon, Clerk. If you wish your articles to appear each week, send on Monday also write short spicy articles, take your dictionary and make it your constant companion it is no disgrace. Don't try to fill up the paper with one article, remember there are others just as worthy asking for space and we anxious to serve all. Don't use slang phrases. Let us put the Gazette on a high class Newsy, Educational and Financial basis. We can do with your cooperation all that we have asked.—Editor. Examine Your Own Prejudice. Every one is forward to complete of the prejudices that mislead other men or parties, as if he were free, and had none of his own. This being objected on all sides, it is agreed that it is a fault and a hindrance to knowledge. What now is the cure? No other but this, that every man should let alone others' prejudices and examine his own. The only way to remove this great cause of ignorance and error out of the world is for every one impartially to examine himself.-Locke.