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METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE Paducah's Best Store We save you money on all Dry goods, Coats, Suits, Skirts, Waists, Notions, Corsets, Gloves, Hoisery, Rugs, Carpets, Curtains etc. "Savings Bonds" with every purchase. Meet your friends at Boulware-Alen Shoe Co. Having just remodeled our store 218 Broadway we are now prepared to serve the people with the best of foot-wear. We have the best and up to date lines for those who appreciate high grade shoes. You will find our salesman to be polite and attentive. Having all sizes and widths we are prepared to fit your foot correctly. Meals:-Hot and Cold Lunches on short order When in the city or enroute North or South give me a call. Ice Cream, Cold Soda of the purest and best make. James Robinson Proprietor. Ride With A Dead Man We are now having a big Cut Price Sale on all Shoes, Clothing. Overcoats, Hats, Underwear, and in fact everything that you need for the family this winter. All new goods at Bargain prices. Dont Miss this big Cut Price Sale. KUM BACK SHOE CO. 3rd and Kentucky Ave. The Live Man's Store. Paducah Ky. MOTTO: "HEW TO THE LINE, LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY " How to Conduct a Sunday School. Kind President, friends and visitors, I greet you with a heart filled with gratitude and with a paper which the subject is "How to Conduct a Sunday Sunday" Of all the institutions for the spread of the Gospel. Connected with the modern church the Sunday school holds a place far higher than any other. Any attempt to belittle it or to make it inferior to other means of extending the kingdom is short-sighted in judgement and usually disastrous in affect. No other evangelical method is so fruitful of results as the Sunday school. No other way of teaching the Bible is so successful. No other single means of inculcating the basic doctrines of christianity achieves the desired end so thoroughly. The reasons for this state of affairs are many, in the first place the Sunday School begin its work upon the receptive minds of the children planting the seeds of the christian life at the most important and favorable time of life. Truly indeed has it been said "Train up a child in the way it should go and when it is old it will not depart from it". The little one that goes into the infant class and hears about the wonderful life of Christ cannot fail to remember the story of that life and profit by it. As years pass the child is promoted to a higher class slowly expanding in knowledge of the Bible and things of the religious life and gradually assuming broader and deeper ideas regarding christian religion The good work which is begun in the infant class has its reward when the pupils grow older. The pupil is added to the membership of the church as a vertiable child of God and that priceless soul is saved. There is no doubt among the ministers and chuch workers that the Sunday School is the greatest of all feeders of the church Its results are more regular and satisfying than those of the revival. More sure than those of any other type of church work and produces good and useful workers. Another reason why the Sunday school should be fostered rests in the fact that in the rising generation is to be found the future church. The boy and the girl of today are the church workers of to-morrow. The earnest serious bible student in this years bible class will prove to be the ministers, deacons or superintendents ten years hence. The young woman teacher with her class of boys or girls, not far hence will be teaching boys and girls that will call her mother and thus will go on from year to year the constant growth and spread of God's kingdom through the agency of Sunday school alone. There can be no question what the the church's duty is toward this institution, the church that neglects its Sunday school is making trouble for itself and soon must feel the weight of God's displeasure. Lookaround and see if this is not true. Find a poorly handled or neglected Sunday School and under the same roof you will find an unsuccessful, weak and dying church; find a live, progressive and interesting Sunday school and you also will find a growing consecrated and energetic church. Of all the great institutions that have sprung up in and around the church within the last century not one equals the Sunday school for the amount of work it does in spreading the gospel in homes where the word of God never has been before. New methods are being devised and new programs and schemes for the management and teaching are always being thought out which makes it difficult to outline a single method of conducting a school when the very best of minds seem puzzled over different phases of the subject. Don't get discouraged, and above all pray for help and guidance. Never let the church think the task of keeping up the school is too great; let not the minister think the field of labor is greater than the harvest; let not the superintendent realize his vigilence nor the teacher discouraged. Never think the victory is won or at ease sit down until thou hast gained thy crown. A Live Sunday School. A live Sunday School depends upon the interest taken by the Supt. and teachers. The School school elect such officers who are able to master the work to which he or she is elected. A live Sunday School does not depend wholly upon the Supt or teachers who have the best education, because if it did, instead of the interest being taken there it would be on the ball ground or in the woods hunting nuts or around the card table or some other place, thus we see instead of being at the Sunday School trying to impress upon the minds of his pupils to shun such places, he himself has gone into partnership with the devil and the Sunday is left as a play-ground for his imps. A live Sunday School is one whose Supt. and teachers have the power to stoop down not to stay themselves but to lift up those who are down, tell them of a dear Savior who you are holding up before the world that He may draw all men unto Him A Supt. must be intelligent if true to himself, true to those with whom he or she comes in contact, and true to his God. To have a live Sunday School the leaders must have love for those who come within their presence, be meek and always be strict but gentle. Prove to the School and community that you love the office to which you are elected. Be on time to open your school at the proper time and dismiss the same if you can possibly do, this will not worry the patience of the pupils and them will encourage them to come again. Those who lead the Sunday School, last but not least must be Christians not hypocrites, because this is only an outward form and when the enemies begin Large selection of Xmas presents consisting of the best values obtainable in his line in the city. Call and see our line of jewelery. to approach him he will run and leave his school to perish. Dear Supt, and teachers of every Sunday School be brave pray and strive to make your schools just what they ought to be. Hold up Christ that your influence may go out into the highways and hedges and compel men and women boys and girls to come that you may plant the seed within the minds and hearts that they may grow up in the service of the Lord and be some service on earth and gain for themselves a home in Heaven. This is our third attempt to notify and hold our (Executive Board) first quarterly meeting since the adjournment of our association at Dewmaine August last. Now brethren January 1915 carries five Sundays and from a stand point of duty together with the solicitation of some of the brethren who are interested in our district work. I am now calling the board to meet with the Mt. Pleasant Baptist church of Golconda, Ill., on Thursday before the 5th Sunday in January. We select this date so that no pastor will have an excuse to not come, neither to leave before we close on Sunday night. We look for a large delegation. Our watch word on to Golconda, Jan. 1915. MARRIED Mr. Joseph Duncan of Metropolis, and Miss Anna Mae Caldwell, of Union City Tenn., sister of Mrs. Laverda Wilson, of this city were united in marriage at her sister's residence on West Fourth St., Monday eve., Dec. 21 st. 1914 by Rev. J. B. McCrary, in the presence of a large number of friends. Joseph was born and raised in this city and is a hard working young man. We are not acquainted with the young lady but as they are both young we see no reason why they should not live happy and become prosperous in life making desirable and useful citizens. The Gazette wishes them a happy New Year. Eld C. C. Phillips takes up Dr. E, J. Fisher's reply to the Circular Letters sent out for investigation. Note our prelude, watch our interlude and see how we conclude. KISSEL, Metropolis, Ill. As one of the organs of the Missionry Baptist State Association of Illinois, or rather your paper one of the organs. We wish to reply to an article given to the columns of The Tidings, of The Wood River Baptist Association. We feel very grateful to the editor, for publishing the article and also the circular letter wend its way to the columns. As a Baptist organ its mission is to give the churches and public the whole truth regardless as to where it is found. The word Baptist implies that set that is everywhere spoken against. The Baptist as well as the reading public have a right to know about the fume and stir, in the state, that they may better judge whose is right and who is wrong. We gave out some time ago in the columns of the Gazette that if Dr. Fisher had been misrepresented in the Circular letter we would beg his pardon. It is quite remarkable that in the six and a half columns given to the Tidings, he failed to point out one But on the contrary he admits by his silence that every allegation set up in the letters as being true in asmuch as he has admitted that the same is true, the Baptist nor brother Philips have nothing to explain away, if the Dr. has attempted to brand them as a set of hungry mauders, he also attempts to calumniate the baptists because he is unable to remove the crushing weight that lies upon him. He tells the public in so many words that brother Philips is a thief. We have too much respect for the Ministry to deal in that kind of argument, to condemn one because we may not be able to use him to our notion. Yes our regard is to high for the profession to deal in that kind of stock and trade, but see the Dr. has drawn the fire and must induce the flames We wish to remind him of the fact, that they who accuse others must themselves have clean hands or even they who abode in glass houses must not throw stones. Dr. you ought to know that this is not a matter of a trifling moment. You cannot abuse and excuse this important matter out of the minds of the baptists. It would have been better] by far for you to have pointed out the mis representations in the circular letter of which you give Bro. Phillips the unintended honor of writing, and he would have gladly beg your pardon, for misrepresenting you and stood convicted before the Baptist of the State and elsewhere. To be continued. IN THE WRONG TAXI How a Perfectly Sane Girl Was Taken to a Sanatorium. By MICHAEL J. PORTER. (Copyright, 1814, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) Doctor Eastman sat before his desk with a telephone receiver at his ear. The voice that came over the wire was the impatient one of a busy man. "I will send her to your office in a taxicab. I have told her that you are a real estate agent in Westchester. I told you she had a mania for buying real estate, and I can't interest her in anything else. She is so suspicious that I have had to concoct this scheme in order that you may take her to Doctor Widdle's for observation. Once there, I presume, she can be easily persuaded to remain." "It seems rather a clumsy method of getting your ward to the sanatorium, but if that is the arrangement you made with Doctor Gray, I must carry it out. I am sorry that his serious illness prevents him from taking care of this matter himself. Miss Trimble has been under his care and she would have more confidence in him than in a perfect stranger. Still, I will do as you request, and we will telephone you from Doctor Widdle's. Suppose you arrange for her to be here at three o'clock." "Three o'clock. Remember to look for a green taxicab at your door. Just run down the steps, tell her you are Mr. Eastman, the real estate agent, and use the letter I have sent you for the purpose. It is a delicate mission, and I'm placing entire confidence in you. Doctor Eastman." "I will do my best, Mr. Smith," said the doctor as he hung up the receiver. At three o'clock he put on a straw hat and went down the steps to the sidewalk where a green taxicab waited at the curb. With a word to the chauffeur, Doctor Eastman opened the door, stepped inside and seated himself beside a young woman who was gazing intently out of the opposite window. She did not turn her head until the car started and then it was to say carelessly: "You've been a long while, Tom." "I'm sorry," said the surprised physician, apologetically, and at the sound of his voice she turned great brown eyes upon him and uttered a cry of alarm. "Oh, who are you?" she asked indignantly. "What are you doing here?" She lifted the speaking tube and spoke to the chauffeur. "Stop the car!" she ordered. The man on the seat outside did not turn his head but drove steadily on; if anything, their speed increased. The girl turned to the physician with blazing eyes. "You coward!" she exclaimed. You coward! she exclaimed. "Miss Trimble," he said, gently; "pray don't excite yourself. I am Mr. Eastman, the real estate agent your guardian recommended. You may remember now I am to show you a house in Westchester." "You have made an absurd mistake," said the girl coldly. "I am not Miss Trimble—I do not know what you are talking about." The doctor repeated his words patiently. "You may remember," he added, "that you particularly wished to see a place in Westchester county—an old colonial mansion which is for sale. Mr. Smith wished me to show it to you." "Who is Mr. Smith?" she asked curiously. "Jonas Smith, the banker." "I have heard of him," she said slowly. "I was positive you would recollect the circumstances, Miss Trumble," said the doctor, wiping his perspiring brow. "How long will it take us to inspect the place and return?" she asked after a while. "I have an engagement at six o'clock." "It is not a long ride" evaded the physician. "I have directed the chauffeur to lose no time. Perhaps you would like to look over the photographs of the house now. It is a very attractive property." "Thank you," said the girl demurely, as she took the papers that Jonas Smith had sent to him for the purpose. "It seems a beautiful estate, but as I am as poor as a church mouse I am afraid you are wasting your time. I could not possibly buy it." The physician was silent. It was a very embarrassing situation for him, this kidnapping of a beautiful young lady, who appeared to be as sane as himself. Her denial of her own identity convinced him that she was deranged, as her guardian had testified. Also her remarks concerning her poverty were indications of insanity. If he could interest her until they reached Doctor Widdle's sanitorium he would turn her over to the kindly care of that great specialist with unqualified relief. The whole situation was repugnant to him. Suddenly the girl tilted back her head and laughed. "I wouldn't miss seeing that place for anything," she gurgled. "There can't be another like it in the world, Mr. Eastman!" "There isn't," he said, gloomily, and cooled by her mirth at his expense he sunk into dignified silence. Presently the girl allowed the photographs to slip to the floor, while she turned to the window and looked dreamily out at the fleeting scenery. If she was familiar with the roads hereabouts she might wonder at the route they were taking, but she said nothing, and Doctor Eastman saw with relief that they were nearing the gates of the sanatorium. As they shot through the wide entrance and heard the heavy iron gates clang menacingly behind them the girl whirled about with amazed face. "You have deceived me," she said contemptuously. "Why are you bringing me here?" "Please, please calm yourself, Miss Trimble," begged the young doctor. "I am quite calm, thank you," she retorted. "Remember, please, that I am not Miss Trimble. I never heard of Miss Trimble, and the instant we are within the doors yonder I shall turn you over to the proper authorities." "I hope you will," groaned the unhappy doctor. The taxicab rolled under the portecochere. The chauffeur opened the door. Doctor Eastman stepped out, and, disdaining his offered hand, his companion slipped hastily past him and ran into the house. He was so close at her heels that Doctor Widdle, who had been apprised of their arrival and was coming down the corridor to meet them, saw them standing together. "Well, well, well, my bonny Jean!" cried the grizzled doctor, as he took Miss Trimble into his ample embrace. "Thought you'd come and see your old uncle, eh?" "Uncle?" muttered the distracted Eastman; the man's carrying the farce too far! He stepped forward. "Why, hello there, Eastman!" greeted the specialist. "I was expecting you, but—where is Miss Trimble?" "Here," replied the young doctor, feebly. The girl turned a pink face from Doctor Widdle's shoulder. "Oh, Uncle Sam, I've bad such a dreadful time! This—this man entered my taxi while I was waiting for Tom, and under pretense of being a real estate agent he has driven me here—all places in the world where I would be safest! He's as insane as he can be!" Doctor Widdle looked from the doctor's handsome indignant countenance to the disturbed lovely one on his shoulder. Then a deep rumbling roar of laughter echoed through the long corridor of the sanatorium. "So he thought you were Margaret Trimble? Bless my soul, but that is a good joke!" It was some time before Doctor Eastman really understood what had happened, and how he, through a stupid mistake, had entered the taxicab of Miss Jean Widdle, niece of the great specialist, who was waiting for her brother Tom, who was in a shop farther down the street. "Then what has become of Miss Margaret Trimble?" asked Doctor Eastman. Before Doctor Widdle could frame a reply a nurse came in and reported that Jonas Smith wanted to talk to the specialist. "He telephones that his ward, Miss Trimble, salied for Europe this morning. He has just discovered her flight." Doctor Eastman was left alone with Jean Widdle. Both stared out of the window; then, as if aware that more agreeable views might be had within the room, as by one accord their eyes turned until they met in a long gaze. "I hope you will forgive me," pleaded the doctor, penitently. "Yes," said Jean, gently. "Of course, it was not your fault, and—really, Doctor Eastman, I thought I was locked up with a lunatic! When you were describing—that—house I really thought you had lost your reason!" She laughed deliciously. Doctor Eastman joined her mirth, but he registered a resolve that later on he would tell her that, although he had not lost his reason, he had lost his heart. Oatmeal Vindicated. Investigations conducted at Harvard into the food values of common articles prove that oatmeal gives the highest nutriment of them all for the price. You can't question the impartiality of a verdict rendered in the classic suburb of Boston that gives baked beans only second place. Really it's good news to have an old friend thus approved. Oatmeal won its spurs in the home long ago, and, liberally drenched with cream, it is as good to the taste as anything we know. In these days of the more easily prepared rolled oats even restaurant oatmeal is edible. And now we may turn ourselves loose on it without fear that we are being starved. We can't leave this latest coronation without recalling the old story of the Englishman who slightlyly described oatmeal as "in England food for horses, in Scotland food for men!" and the keener retort of the Scot who heard him: "And where will ye find such horses, and where will ye find such men?" War'e Allies. Somehow, when I picture war as a personality, I always see him attended by two figures, a lean skeleton in a black cowl, with a scythe in his hand, and a bent, emaciated woman's form, with hollow eyes and sunken cheeks. One is called Death and the other is called Famine. It is Death who walks by the side of the men folk, hewing them down with merciful speed, but it is Famine who creeps, stealthily, like a gray shadow, through the loosely swinging cottage door. And the death that comes with Famine is neither swift nor merciful. It is a death that stands ever at your elbow, insistent; a death that follows always at your heels, a death that peers down on you, fortively, as you sleep—Christian Herald. METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE. METROPOLIS. ILL AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS Negroes in Muskogee county, according to the city superintendent of schools, own and control 50,000 acres of valuable agricultural and oil land; they own city real estate in Muskogee that is worth $1,500,000. Their business concerns in Muskogee have a value of at least $1,000,000 and include one clothing store for men, one drygoods store, one ice company, one plumbing and plumbing supplies shop, six contractors and builders, 12 bar shops, three concrete contractors, 50 groceries, four drug stores, one harness shop, 20 restaurants, eight blacksmith shops, 12 shoe shops, 12 tailor shops, one dairy, two ice cream stores, ten coal dealers, two undertakers, one steam laundry, three livery stables, 12 real estate brokers, four cab lines, one moving picture theater, one bottling works. Muskogee has four fine schools for its Negro children. The loys in the Manual Training High school did all the carpentry work last year; on a strictly modern, six-room cottage, 41 by 47 feet, worth $2,000 and renting for $20 a month when times are hard in Muskogee. The aggregate value of the Negro schools is $80,000 and 36 Negro teachers are employed in the public schools. That a prominent white Muskogeean, a public official, should know these facts concerning Negroes in business and other pursuits is in itself important, because it is a common occurrence to find that many, many of the best white people of the South do not know, and, therefore, cannot possibly understand, what the better Negroes are doing to reflect credit on themselves, their race and their community. "I firmly believe that there is a big field for the development of Negro music in America," writes Jesse Rees Europe, Negro musical composer, of New York, "we already have a number of composers of great ability, the two foremost being Harry Burleigh and Will Marion Cook. Mr. Burleigh is remarkable for his development of Negro themes and Mr. Cook is a true creative artist. Then, of course, there was Coleridge Taylor, the greatest composer of the Negro race, although much of his music is not Negro in character. What the Negro needs is technical education, and this he is handcapped in acquiring. I myself have had to pick up my knowledge of music here and there, and the same holds true of my fellow composers. I do not believe that the Negro at present should attempt music distinctively Caucasian in type. The symphony, for instance, he does not really feel as a white musician would feel it. I believe it is in the creation of an entirely new school of music, a school developed from the basic Negro rhythms and melodies. The Negro is essentially a melodist, and his creation must be in the beautifying and enriching of the melodies which have become his. "The Negro's songs are the expression of the hopes and joys and fears of his race; were before the war the only method he possessed of answering back his boss. Into his songs he poured his heart, and, while the boss did not understand, the Negro's soul was calmed. These songs are the only folk music America possesses, and, folk music being the basis of so much that is most beautiful in the world, there is indeed hope for the art product of our race." A thrush has built its nest, laid three eggs, and in the natural course of events will, if undisturbed, rear its young on a scaffold pole at the secondary school for girls, England. The nest has been built at the junction of two poles. There are between 50 and 60 men working on the building, but the bird takes not the slightest notice of them. The National Women's Trades Union league is at the head of a movement to establish a national training school for women organizers, the object being to place trained organizers in the field to organize the women workers in all trades and occupations. The industrial commission of Ohio has issued its final report. It deals with the question of wages and hours of labor of women and girls employed in mercantile establishments in Ohio last year. A Russian publication has just put out its one hundredth issue after many difficulties. Twenty-five of the previous issues were confiscated for seditious articles. A Californian takes issue with the statement that the South station in Boston is the busiest railroad terminal and shows that the distinction belongs to the Union ferry, at San Francisco, with 39,955,573 passing through it annually. If Oklahoma has bumper crops this year it will be due in considerable measure to the direct aid rendered the farmers by the schools. Throughout the state the teachers and pupils have been systematically testing seeds for the planters. The men who are working for the education of the Negroes in the South always come North with a cheering word of the results. Of course there are two sides to every problem. It would be possible to point out all sorts of discouraging things about the situation of the Negroes. But men like Booker T. Washington leave the gloom for somebody else to talk about. They point out the wonderful achievements of the race in its comparatively brief opportunity—the number of land owners, the amount of savings, the conspicuous instances of Negroes who have won for themselves a respected place in the community. Such a man as J. M. Metcalf, president of the Talladega college for Negroes at Talladega, Ala., who was in Kansas City last week. Ask Mr. Metcalf what results his school, has achieved and he can point to plenty of specific instances of graduates who have become successful citizens, as well as to the large number of wholesome homes that have been established. He can tell of the farms that have shown the effect of work done on the school farm, of the spread of alfalfa cultivation, of better methods in all the region. He can refer to graduates who have gone into business and have proved successful merchants; of others who have started savings banks and have instilled the habit of saving and of thrift among the people. He can find cheer for the Negroes even in the political situation in the South in the fact that Negroes of standing in Southern communities find no obstacles put in the way of their voting. This side of the problem is one that is often lost sight of. It needs to be emphasized for the cheer of the good Negro citizens who in all parts of the country are working for the advancement of their people—Kansas City Star. There have been many Negro poets in America, but none having a strange and pathetic story which could in any way parallel that of Phyllis Wheatley, born in Senegal, Africa, November 19, 1751, though the day of the month may be doubted, if not the year. She was a child of Africa in a period when slave ships were supposed to be engaged in legitimate commerce, and transported many of the people to those colonies that long after became states which abolished slavery and led in the anti-slavery movement which was really the incipience of secession and the Civil war. Phyllis Wheatley was stolen from her parents and tribe, or sold by one or both of them, and was brought to America in 1761 and sold to Mrs. John Wheatley, wife of a Boston merchant. Her mistress soon discovered that the little girl was remarkably bright and gave her a fair education in English and Latin; and she could hardly more than read and write before she gave utterance to her imaginations in rhyme, doing so with ease and fluency. She went to London with a son of Mrs. Wheatley and there was published a volume of "Poems" dedicated to the countess of Huntington. Sparks, in his "Life of Washington," said it could not be doubted that the poems "exhibit the most favorable evidence on record of the capacity of the African intellect for improvement." On the death of her master and mistress, she married a colored man, Doctor Peters, who "proved unworthy," and she died in great poverty in 1784. William Houston, a colored man, saved the lives of four Brunswick women when, seeing the peril of the automobile party, he rushed up to the machine and shoved it across the railroad track just as a fast moving freight train swept past. In crossing the railroad track the machine was slowed down, and just as it mounted the rails the engine went "dead." The freight train was only about one hundred yards distant. The engineer signaled with the whistle, but the machine remained on the track. It was too close for the engineer to stop the train before reaching the machine. Houston, who was standing near by, rushed to the car, gave it one hard shove and it crossed the track by only a few inches as the train came by—Brunswick (Ga.) Dispatch to New York Tribune. Among the defenses of the Panama canal there will be several batteries of 16 and 12-inch rifles, all of which will be concealed in such manner that, with the use of smokeless powder, it will be impossible for an enemy to locate them. Forty thousand dollars were spent in England on the production of a single moving picture film. Chile has spent $5,657,500 for $23 bridges on government railroads. Missouri's 94,461 trade unionists last year drew $85,019,855 in wages. France last year exported pleasure autos valued at $41,978,850. Musk costs $3.50 for one-eighth of an ounce in Manchuria. Mexican Fable. Has a Moral That is Worth Some. Little Can. Here is a story with a moral which is a popular favorite in Mexico: "Juan," said the father, "I will die pretty soon. All I can leave you is the little burro and a single bit of good advice. This is 'never attempt to have people satisfied with your conduct.'" "Why?" "Come and see." The boy began to walk; then came the burro, and behind the old man. "How stupid," the men said. "Why do they not ride on the burro? No doubt the burro will ride on them tomorrow." Both the old man and Juan heard this. Then the old man said: "Now look here, my son; jump on the burro and I will drive him." They reached another town. People who saw them exclaimed: "The old man must be crazy and the boy is a sin verguenza." "Did you hear that?" the old man questioned. "Yes, father." "Well, now I will ride the burro and you will drive him." Another town was reached. Three men were passing by and one of them said: "Never in my life did I see such a man; he is riding on the burro and lets the poor little boy march on foot. That is atrocious." "Did you hear that?" "Yes, father." "All right, jump on the burro and we will both ride home." They followed another trail, and on their road they met a number of people who came in the opposite direction, each one on a burro. Upon seeing the old man and his son riding the burro they exclaimed: "These must be savages. When shall we have a society for the prevention of cruelty to animals? Look at that stupid old man and his son riding together on that poor burro!" "Did you hear that?" "Yes, father." "Well, never from now on try to have people satisfied with your conduct." Extraordinary Skid One of the most remarkable escapes from sudden death which relieves the grim record of fatal accidents in automobile racing, occurred at Brooklands, the famous English speed course, recently. When approaching a turn at an estimated speed of 119 miles an hour, a tire exploded and the car skidded sidewise. For 80 yards the car tore up the track broadside on, and then in quick succession turned two backward loops. By this time the banking of the track at the curve was before the occupants of the car, and up this slope the car ran backward to the very edge. The driver, who had declutched when the car started skidding, suddenly accelerated the engine, the clutch going in with a bang. Strips from the burst tire had become entangled in the chain, locking the right-hand wheel. The sudden acceleration tore those strips away, and down the embankment the car plunged, turning another loop, this time head-on, and dashed off the track, bringing up safely in a plowed ground near by. Origin of Onyx. When waters charged with carbonate of calcium derived from limestone are allowed to evaporate they deposit their load in the form of sinter, or tufa. This process can be observed at many thermal and "petrifying" springs and also in the formation of stalactites and stalagmites in limestone caverns. In this way large masses of compact carbonate are formed, some of them of great beauty. The so-called "onyx marbles," of which the Mexican "onyx" is a familiar example, are formed in this way. Some rock of this class is stalagmatic, in caverns, and some of it is formed by springs. Its variations in color and texture, to which its ornamental character is largely due, are commonly produced by impurities or inclusions, such as oxide of iron, or even mud and clay—United States Geological Survey. Not From West Indies. Some time ago the teacher of a public school was instructing a class in geography, and when it came time to hand out a few questions she turned first to Willie Smith. "Willie," said she, "can you tell me what is one of the principal products of the West Indies?" "No, ma'am," frankly answered Willie, after a moment's hesitation. "Just think a bit," encouragingly returned the teacher; "where does the sugar come from that you use at your house?" "Sometimes from the store," answered Willie, "and sometimes we borrow it from the next door neighbor."—Philadelphia Telegraph. Travel de Luxe "Did you climb any mountains while you were abroad?" "No; we didn't run across any mountains we could climb in an automobile." Circumstantial Evidence. 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The wife of a university professor was recently converted from utter indifference to suffrage to ardent support of the cause. As the cultured woman was recently coming down town she heard the conversation of two laborers engaged in digging up the street. "What do you think about the question of women votin't?" asked one. "Oh, everybody knows that wimmin ain't got sense enough to vote," answered the other. It was enough for the lady. She is now a suffragist. More Valuable Than Gold. The value of the stone production in the United States in 1913 reached the grand total of $83,732,995, according to E. F. Burchard of the United States geological survey. This is an increase of $5,539,775, or seven per cent, over the former record-breaking figures of 1912. The value of the granite produced increased eight per cent, that of trap rock nearly 23 per cent, sandstone two per cent, marble one per cent, and limestone over five per cent. The Peat. "What sort of a chap is Johnson?" "Well, if you ever see two men in a corner, and one looks bored to death, the other is Johnson." Insult. "How did the foight start, Maginnis?" "O'Flaherty asked O'Toole to have a glass o' orange phosphate." Not Taking Her From Him. She—I'm afraid poor pa will miss me when we are married. He—Why, is your father going away? Base Suspicion. It is said that when women get the vote, ballot boxes will button up the back.—Life. Nothing seems to surprise some people so much the failure of the unexpected to happen. To Build Strong Children Supply their growing bodies with right food, so that Brain, and Muscle, and Bone development may evenly balance. Grape-Nuts FOOD was originated to supply, in proper proportion, the very elements required by the human body for growth and repair. To supply children a dish of Grape-Nuts and cream for breakfast regularly, is to start them on the road to sturdy health. "There's a Reason" for Grape-Nuts Sold by grocers. --- TAKE TIME TO SMILE WOMAN IN NEED OF PRAYERS Sister Hannah Had No Husband, But Desired Congregation to Help Her in Getting One. When the topic at a dinner party the other evening turned to the efficacy of prayer this story was told by Miss Julia Sanderson, the musical comedy star: Just before the conclusion of a weekly prayer meeting in a country town one night the minister arose and glanced over the congregation. "Is there anybody present," he asked, "who wishes the prayers of the congregation for a relative or friend? "Yes, parson," answered a tall angular woman, rising quickly to her feet, "I want the congregation to pray for my husband." "Why, Sister Hannah," exclaimed the dominie in a surprised voice. "You have no husband!" "I know I haven't," was the calm rejoinder of Sister Hannah. "I want all hands to pitch in and help me pray for one."—Philadelphia Telegraph. Decelved. Little Willie was left alone with sister's beau. "Mr. Champlay," he presently said, "what is a popinjay?" Sister's beau wrinkled his forehead. "Wh-why, a popinjay is a-a vain bird." "Are you a bird, Mr. Champlay?" "Certainly not." "That's funny, ma said you was a popinjay, and ma said there was no doubt about your being a jay, an' sister said there was small hopes of your popin', and now you say you ain't a bird at all. That's funny." Not Very Busy. "Recorder of Deeds" was the sign over the door of a handsome building on one of the more prominent of the golden streets. A new arrival within the pearly gates entered. "The recording of deeds interests me," he announced. "I used to be a lawyer in the other world. But why is it that all the clerks are working except you?" he inquired of the only idle member of the force. "I record the good deeds," explained that member courteously. She Studied the Market. "Of course," said young Mrs. Torkins, reproachfully, "it's easy for a man to adopt an attitude of patient superiority toward the food. A man doesn't have to realize the increase in prices as a woman does." "What makes you tinkt that?" "I have been making an investigation. A ten-cent cigar doesn't cost a bit more than it used to." Hixon—Did the operation on your wife's throat do her good? Dixon—It did us both good She hasn't been able to talk for six weeks. Place of Deposit "I left a wad of gum under the edge of that table," said the lady, coming back. The druggist turned the table over. "Here are 37 wads of gum," said he after taking a quick census. "Can you distinguish yours?" "Pretty Mrs. Hardcash's rich old husband, who was so devoted to her, is, I am told, on his last leg." "You don't say so! She told a friend of mine the other day he was just dying to please her." Paradoxical Interest "It is a wonder there is so much discussion about aviation." "Why is it a wonder?" "Because it is such a soar subject." WATERSPOUT OF TIN VARIETY Swallop McBride Placed Himself in Ludicrous Position While Listening to Sailor's Yarn. Coroner James J. Phelan of Bridgeport, whose investigation of the Stamford wreck has given him a nationwide reputation for courage and astuteness, said to a reporter, apropos of a legal tangle: "These lawyers tried hard to confuse the issue, and, if they had succeeded, they'd have put all hands in the ludicrous position of Swallop McBride. "Swallop McBride, you know, sat listening quizzically, at the lodge, to a sailor who had just returned to Cinnaminson from a world tour. "And did you see any water-spouts?" the voyager was asked. "Water-spouts?" Surr! "And he described a waterspout with all its horrors that had nearly done for his ship in the Indian ocean. "At this point Swallop interposed. "Holy smoke!' he said, 'you make me tired. All this talk about a waterspout. Why, what the dickens is there in a waterspout to be afraid of?" "You'd know soon enough,' said the sailor loftily, 'if you ever ran acrost one." "Ran acrost one?' said Swallop. 'Why, there's three in our back yard, and they don't frighten me no more than a baby.'—Boston Globe. He Was Immune. A deadly turpinite shell exploded in the trench. An hour or two later an officer found the row of soldiers cold in death. Only one man was alive and he was bravely at his post. "Well, well," he exclaimed, "how does it happen that you are alive, when all your companions have succumbed to the terrible gases?" "Oh, pshaw!" replied the soldier, "they never bothered me any; I used to drive a garbage wagon." DIFFERENT KINDS OF LAWN. Mrs. Jinks—What's the best and easiest way to wash lawns? Mrs. Blinks (absently)—Wait until it rains. A Precise Mind. "I don't know what I'm going to do with that boy," said the worried teacher. "Is he stupid?" "Not exactly. I asked him who the rulers of Europe are and he said he didn't know, and he'd bet I didn't, either." Malapropos. "What possessed you, Jane, to say what you did to Mr. Smith when he took you out?" "What do you mean?" "You asked him if he did not enjoy the sight of the blue ether all about him, and he just out of the hospital!" Easy Equipment. "Do you know there is said to be a fish trust?" "I have heard so. But I hardly understand how there can be a fish trust when anybody can be an independent operator who can secure a couple of hooks and a piece of string." An Elaborate Apology "Why do you never make any money?" "Because I am so particular about the company I seek," replied the man who is ever self-reliant. "A fool and his money are soon parted. I associate only with wise men." Tired of Domestic Battlefield. "Mrs. Henpeck is going round in hysterica. Poor Mr. Henpeck is still detained abroad." "No, he isn't." "Then why does he stay?" "Says he'd rather be where the fighting is more general." Taken Literally. "Are you saving up something for a rainy day?" "No," replied Farmer Corntossel. 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Mr. Bicknell says: "While the Red Cross is trying very hard to raise a large war relief fund and is anxious to secure contributions that will increase this fund, we do not feel justified in adopting any policy which will tend to cripple the tuberculosis work in this country, which is dependent for its support to so large an extent on the sale of Red Cross Christmas seals. "At the present time there are over one thousand antituberculosis societies distributed over nearly every state in the Union and even in Vera Cruz, the Canal Zone and far off Hawaii, which are dependent almost entirely upon the receipts from the Red Cross seal sale for their work during the year 1915. The people of the United States must support this local war against tuberculosis, which annually kills 200,000 people, and at the present time is leaving a trail of a million wounded." To Get Rid of Pimples. Smear the affected surface with Cuticura Ointment. 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"When I looked in on you, you were both springing round and round the office like two racers or two prize fighters." "Black frowned "Well, you see,' he said. I'm very well read up on efficiency, and I know of course, that in an important conference you must always have your back to the light, so that your thoughts can't be read. But White, too, has been taken an efficiency course, I guess. He is certainly on to that dodge. Why, when we finally got down to business we were both sitting on the window sill." How Luxury Kills The disastrous effects of luxury are well shown in the death rate in New York city's West side between Eighty-sixth and One Hundred and Twenty-fifth streets, a region which consists largely of palatial residences and elaborate apartments, and where sanitation and hygiene have done their utmost to provide against disease. Here the mortality is 18.70 per thousand, a startling figure when it is remembered that the rate for the whole country is about fifteen and the highest rate in New York, that for the East side district south of Grand street, only 26.31 per thousand. Late hours, heavy eating and drinking, and sedentary habits are advanced by the statisticians as being responsible for this high death rate among New York's well-to-d... The Magic Washing Stick AGENTS WANTED: The Magic Washing Stick is not a soap nor a washing powder, but a truly wonderful article which makes dirty clothes clean and SNOWY WHITE without a bit of rubbing. Price 25c. Money back if not satisfied. Big money for agents. Write for particulars. Address Mr. Woodrow, P. O. Box 269, Sherman, Texas—Adv. He Knew. John R. Drexel, discussing his detention in Germany, said: "The kaiser has forbidden the German troops to drink, the czar has forbidden drink to the Russian troops and France has stopped the sale of absinthe. 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A farmer who lived in a certain rural village had 20 employees on his farm, and as none of them was as energetic as the farmer thought he should be, he hit upon a plan which he believed would cure them of their lazy habits. "Men," he said, one morning. "I have a nice easy job for the laziest man on the farm. Will the laziest man step forward?" Instantly 19 of the men stepped forward. "Why didn't you step to the front with the rest?" inquired the farmer of the remaining one. "Too much trouble," came the reply. Slakes His Next Morning. Willis Howell's pet bull ate so many apples in the orchard that, according to Willis, he became intoxicated and had to be treated in the barn. The beast "recovered" with a terrible thirst. Willis missed the bull next afternoon and found he had jumped into a well. A block and fall and a team of horses had to be used to get the animal out—Newton (N. J.) Dispatch to the New York Tribune. And Can't Get It. Rinks—You told Jones you lent me five dollars—why didn't you keep it to yourself? Jinks—I wish I had—I need it. For Best Results Use Perfection Oil 60 ACRE Canadian Whea to Feed the World The war's fearful devastation of European crops has caused an unusual demand for grain from the American Continent. The people of the world must be fed and there is an unusual demand for Canadian wheat. Canada's invitation to every industrious American is therefore especially attractive. She wants farmers to make money and happy, prosperous homes for themselves while helping her to raise immense wheat crops. You can get a Homestead of 160 a other lands can be bought at remarkably low prices. can make with wheat at its present high prices, when ble to continue. During many years Canadian wheat bushels to the acre—many yields as high as 45 bushel crops also of Oats, Barley and Flax. Mixed farming is fully as profitable an industry as g lent grasses, full of nutrition, are the only food require purposes. Good schools, markets convenient, c Military service is not compulsory in Canada, but there labor to replace the many young man who have volunteement this year is urging farmers to put extra acreage of 160 acres FREE and low prices. Think of the money you high prices, where for some time it is li- canadian wheatfields have averaged 20 th as 45 bushels to the acre. Wonderful a industry as grain raising. The excl- sely food required either for beef or dairy convenient, climate excellent. Canada, but there is an extra demand for farm who have volunteered for the war. The Gov- ut extra acreage into grain. Scarcity as to reduced railway rates to Ottawa, Canada, or You can get a Homestead or 100 acres FREE and other lands can be bought at remarkably low prices. 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Hunt, and Whereas, he is unsurping authority as an instant missionary which has not been delegated to him, therefore be it resolved, that the churches be notified of same thru the Gazette at once for their government in that the conflict may be avoided. One of Man's Oldest Works. The necropolis at Bahrein, the center of the gulf pearl fisheries, is one of the oldest pieces of man's handiwork in the world. Beware of Ointments for Catarrh That Contain Mercury as murrey) will surely destroy the sense 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 them. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Chenoy & Co., Toledo, O. contains no mucury, and is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. 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If you want your skin to look pretty and soft, try a bottle of Dixie Liquid Bleach at McCrary & Sons Preparations are being made by the churches for entertainments of various kinds during the holidays to entertain the visitors to our city. I am still with you in the School book and Millinery business and earnestly solicit your patronage. I will treat you right. Several prisoners who were confined in the county jail dug their way to freedom Monday while the sheriff and his deputy werr in Joppa. Two of them returned. McKinley Goodloe was one of them he is charged with bootlegging he stayed out about an hour and a half. He said he wanted to hug and kiss his mother. Miss Anna Belle Moore, of East St Louis, is in the city. Mrs. Harriett Lloyd and son Clarence left Thursday, for Oaktown, Ill., to visit the daughter of the former. Cheapest Store in Massac Co., to buy your Holliday Goods. Howell's Variety Store. WANTED Some nice young lady, intelligent, with a good character and a good looker to make me a wife I am young, "brown skinned" with a sweet disposition I have some money and a good job. Will make a good husband. Transportation furnished on request. Apply at the Gazette office. Mr. Dee Cooley was a Paduah, visitor Thursday. Mr. Mingo Long. of Powers, was in town Tuesday. Miss Azalia Sumner of Bel grade, but is teaching in Cairo is at home to spend the holidays. Fine Perfumes at Humma's Bibles and Testaments at Humma's. Mr. and Ms. Henry Tinlly are to have a family dinner to (Friday) and yee editor and faily a among the cho en guest. Mr. Newton Cork, will spend the holidays in Grand Rivers with his parents. Buy your Xmas Candies at Howell's Variety Store. All Kinds at 10c per Pound. Mrs. Nancy Crippens of Lincoln, arrived Saturday to spend the holidays with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Mingo Long, and other relatives. Mr. George McCrary, Sr., father of the editor is very sick. Mother Harmon, continues to be very low. Bibles at Humma's. Christmas Cards at Humma's. Any one needing first class job work can find it at the Gazette office. We have the experience of 19 years as editor and typo. See? All my Christmas books, games & etc. are going at less than cost for the Christmas trade. Call and see for yourself. Mrs. Vallec. Reader if a blue or red mark appears on the head of your paper marked with an [X] it is to notify you that you owe for the paper and must pay at once. A nice line of Christmas cards, Tags, and seals just received at Vallee's. We have just finished some fine job work for Dr. J. H. Knowles, Supt., of Missions of the Mount Olive Baptist Association, M. V. Stewart, Duquoin, Home Support Lodge Joppa, for which we wish to thank them. Every family should have a late history of their own country. For the latest History of Massac County, go to Vallee's Book Store and get one for a Christmas present. John Jefferson, special Detective of East St, Louis, was in the city two days last week on his monthly vacation. "Jack" is making good as an officer. All children like a "Speech book." Get them one for Christmas at Vallee's Book Store, 3 for 25c. Mrs Carrie Overby and Miss Ida Mayes, shopped in Paducah, Tuesday. Mr. Thos Urquhart, of Paducah, Ky., visited his family here last week. High class Music makes a nice Christmas present. You can get 10 pieces assorted, wrapped and tied with ribbon for 50c at Vallees Book Store. Mrs. Lottie Halleck was a Paducah, shopper Tuesday. Mrs. Nollia Gordon and sister Miss Mabel Parks also their niece Miss Gladys Morton were Paducah, shoppers Tuesday. The assistant editor, Edgar S, McCrary, has made the following cities in the interest of the Gazette recently, Sparta, Duquoin, Centralia, East St. Louis and St. Louis Mo. He is expected home Xmas to spend the holidays. The editor made a flying trip to Harrisburg Wednesday on business connected with this paper returning Thursday in time for the turkey dinner to be given Friday. Mr. Amos Strong an old citizen has been very sick. Mother Harmon is still confined to her bed. The Great Native Salve Cure was discovered 3,500 feet down in the earth. Positively no other ingredients have been mixed with it at all. The Great Native Salve CURES Rheumatism, Piles, Kidney Troubles, Bladder Troubles, Heart Troubles, Female Troubles, Staff Joints, Syphilis, of All Descriptions, Indigestion, Corns, Buriones, Lost of Manhood, All Kinds of Swelling and Fever, Neuralgia Worms, in Children, All Kinds of Skin Diseases, Mumps, Diptheria, Weak Eyes, All Kinds of Pains, Pneumonia, etc. When your doctor falls, buy you a box of The Great Native Salve Cure an earthly remedy that will SURE Cure you. Price 50c a Box. My agent Henry Bonds, is stopping at 1017 Broadway—See him at once. Satisfaction or your money refunded. No fake to this. I have money on deposit at State National Bank of Metropolis, Ill., to back it up. Ask Bonds he'll explain all. Call on him at 1017 Broadway, Metropolis, Ill. W. H. BEAN, sole owner, 736 Indianapolis Ave. Muskogee, Okla. 1,000 testimonials sent free on request. ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE FOR FINAL SETTLEMENT. State of Illinois, Massac County, S. S. Estate of John Carr, Deceased. To A. J. Gibbons, Ed Scott, J. A. Obrien, Herbert Hester, Village of Joppa, S. B. Kerr, Lohr Bottling Co., L. H. Flanagan, U. S. District Cottit, J. J. Shirk, H. Kraper and F. E. Fry. 7th class creditors of said Estate: You are hereby notified that on Monday, the 1st day of March, 1915, the Administrator of said Estate, will present to the County Court of Massac County, at Metropolis, Illinois, his final report of his acts and doings as such Administrator, and ask the court to be discharged from any and all further duties and responsibilities connected with said estate, and his administration thereof, at which time and place you may be present and resist such application if you choose so to do. (Signed) George W. Long, Administrator. Just watch our women in their Xmas fronts, they are beauts. It "mighty" cold weather to be separating, Winter will soon be over dont get discouraged, as old ScI will shine out again. In the next Legislature of Ill., we will have two colored representatives in the persons of Major R. R. Jackson and Hon. S. B. Turner of Chicago. Verily, the "Sun do move." S. B. Turner is our old friend and editor of the Chicago Idea, a hard working and deserving man and we know that our interests will be safely guarded by them. Has "Col. Bill" Scott awaken from his democratic night mare? Brother Bill we told you that we were going to "show you." Now prepare yourself to turn over your position to the editor of the Gazette two years, hence, please sir. We wish our many readers a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Visitors to our city during the Christmas week are invited to pay the Gazette office a visit. Mr. Henry Moore, is on the sick list. NOTICE No paper will be issued from this office next week, as our office force are entitled to a little rest once a year. But we will try to serve you regularly every week thereafter as in the past sixteen years. We want to make some repairs and changes in our office and this will afford us the opportunity. The oldest boy of Mr. and Mrs. Lester Fos is commonly called "Texas" by his friends has been very sick with Bronchial Pn: monia. Livingston Institute Second Session Opens Monday October 6th This school is well graded and equipped Department. All work is well organized tional and able Instructors, selected for Speci work Special Courses in Music, Booke and Type Writi and in Theology: Entrance Fee $2.00 a Session Tuition Rates: Tuition, Theology per month..... Tuition, Normal and English courses per m Tuition, Instrumental music (including rent ..... Tuition Typewriting (including rent) per m Tuition Plain Sewing per month..... Tuition, Vocal music..... Tuition Printing..... Industrial Departments Domes nery and per month Printing Free Board and Rooms Board and roo in private fam ble rate. In every case, 4 weeks will be counted All charges must be paid in advance. For and Prospectus Address J. B. McCRARY, Supt. and Box 107 October 6th 1913 and equipped Grammar School and organized under Department ated for Special Departmenta Music, Bookkeeping, Shorthand and Type Writing, Bible Study a Session Mon, Theological Department month..... $1.00 courses per month each " 1.00 (including rent of instrument)..... ..... " 2.50 g rent) per month ..... " 1.50 h..... " 1.00 Free Free ents Domestic Science, Milli- nery and Dressmaking $2 Board and rooms can be secured in private families at a reasona- will be counted for a school month advance. For any information Supt. and Sec'y. Metropolir, Ill. This school is well graded and equipped Grammar School Department. All work is well organized under Departmental and able Instructors, selected for Special Departmental work Special Courses in Music, Bookkeeping, Shorthand and Type Writing, Bible Study Hereafter any church paying missionary dues to any minister not having credentials from Rev. J H. Knowles, who was elected Supt. of Missions by the Mt. Olive Baptist Association, will not be credited by the missionary nor the association. So be governed accordingly. Rev. Knowles was empowered at the Board meeting at Sparta, to use any of the ministers be saw fit to assist him in the mission work and they will have credentials when coming to your church. So ask them to "Show you". If any church in the Mt. Olive Baptist district would like to have a pastor who is in good standing the same can be had for the asking. The Missionary or the Gaze te which is the Organ of your association. Let us be more careful and secure worthy men, and we will have less friction. In the multitude of good council there is safety. There are 17 vacant churches in our district and there seems to be something radically wrong some where. It is not from the lack of ministers, because we have them to let. Then what is the cause? Correct this great evil and elect you a pastor. The editor had no money to bug a Xmas turkey, as our subscribers forgot many of them to pay their subscription, but we were remembered by the Maons on last Monday night with a turkey supper which was given for the members only. S. BARTLETT KERE, Administrator. NOTICE. On Tuesday night we were invited to another turkey supper given by Jeptha Chapter, Eastern Star, where the sisters vied with the brothers in giving suppers. Every one enjoyed the edibles. We pray that they may live long to give many more such suppers. The brothers served at the hall and the sisters at P. of. and Mrs. McClelland Smith's residence. Mr Carrie Urquhart and sister Iola were Paducah, shoppers Monday. The editor. RHEUMATIC SUFFERERS GIVEN QUICK RELIEF 5 DROPS Alcoholic Pure FOR USE IN CINEMAS AND OTHER WORKS WITH A CUP OF WATER AND A BOTTLE OF WATER Pain leaves almost as if by magic when you begin using "5-Drops," the famous old remedy for Rheumatism, Lumbago, Gout, Sciatica, Neuralgia and kindred troubles. It goes right to the spot, stops the aches and pains and makes life worth living. Get a bottle of "5-Drops" today. A booklet with each bottle gives full directions for use. Don't delay. Demand "5-Drops." Don't accept anything else in place of it. Any drug can supply you. If you live too far from a drug store send One Dollar to Swanson Rheumatic Cure Co., Newark, Ohio, and a bottle of "5-Drops" will be sent prepaid. ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE. Estate of Matilda J. Lacy, Deceased. The undersigned, having been appointed Administrator of the estate of Matilda J. Lacy, late of the County of Massac and the State of Illinois, deceased, hereby give notice that he will appear before the County Court of Massac County at the Court House in Metropolis, at the January Term on the first Monday in January A. D. 1915 next, at which time all persons having claims against said estate are notified and requested to attend for the purpose of having the same adjusted. All persons indebted to said estate are required to make immediate payment to the undersigned. Dated this 17th day of November A. D. 1914. NOTICE. Editor of Gazette: Since I have written you, I have read the minute with much diligence and care, but I failed to find the names of the Ministers and the Churches that wished to go down as Charter members of the Missionary Baptist State Association. If they reached the office too late to appear in the minutes please so state, so there will be no mis-under-standing, and no one blamed. We must be mindful of our every official act. Respectfully. C. C. Phillips. Your letter with the names of Ministers came too late for minutes.