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METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE Resolutions. Whereas Dr. Bocker T. Washington, President of the Tuskegee Institute, Tuskegee, Ala. was a Prime factor of the Negro Race, a staunch Baptist and a Christian Gentleman, And whereas the above named gentleman was considered the Leader of this the Negro Race and who did all that was in his power to Educate, to Christianize and to Inculcate Industrial Education, Literary Culture, Baptist Doctrine and History, Aud whereas this great man has fallen and gone where we soon must go. Be it resolved that the B.Y. P. U. of this city hold Memorial Services Sunday, Dec. 5th, at 6:00 p.m in memory of one who has gone and whose place will be hard to fill. Be it resolved that all churches in the city with their pastors be invited to attend and that special services be rendered including program to his honor and in token of the respect and high esteem in which he was held by us as Baptists. Respt Submitted, Edgar S. B McCrary, President of the Mt. Olive B. Y. P. U. Con. Following is the program to be rendered Sunday Dec. 5th, in memory of the Great Educator, Dr. Booker T. Washington. Scriptural Reading Chorus.....Choir Invocation Rev. G. W. Rowlett Chorus.....Choir Address, Dr. Washington as a Baptist.....Rev J. W. Davie Address, Dr. Washington as an Educator Prof G E Masterson Solo Miss Mae E. Roberts Paper, Dr. Washington a Race man Mrs. McCelland Smith Instrumental Miss L. Spurlark Paper, Dr. Washington a Leader er Miss Izora Rodgers Paper, Dr. Washington a success Mrs. Irene B. Haynes Solo Miss Love M. Phillips Remarks Offertory GRAND CHAIN Call not back the dear depart ed, Anchored safe, where lie is oer, On the border land we left them, Soon to meet and part no unre. Bro Jordan Nordon died Sunday Nov. 14, 1915 about 12:35 oclock. He was 75 years old and had lived in our settlement 25 years. He was a christian when he came among us, and remained one until death. He leaves to mourn his loss, a dear wife, and a host of friends. He has been a member of Bellfontaine church for a number of years, and also a deacon he was very taithful to do his duty and always tried to do the best for his church. Bellfontaine has lost a faithful member and deacon. He has been called from labor to reward. Bro. Nordon, it grieves us that thou has left us, our hearts feel heavy and sad, may we be comforted with these words, "our loss is heavens gain." We bid the good night night, sleep on, until Jusus awake thee. To the bereaved wife, we say, grieve not, fight on until you are called to your reward, then you shall meet him again, in a land where there are no deaths, no pains no sorrow. Bro. Nordon requested Brother Robinson keep the doors of the church always op ned and also said when he is gone there is a missionary gone. Thy course is finished, Thou hast fought a good fight. Sleep on. R M. DeHoney. Pastor. NOTICE. To the Sisters of the W. E & M. Convention. Greetings: Dear Sisters, the time is fast approaching for the Executive Board Meeting and the call is for the members of all the auxiliaries of the Mt. Olive Baptist District to be present at this meeting and I hope the local societies will govern yourselves accordingly and send your local president's or representative to this meeting. The Officers are especially asked to be present at this meeting, as there is important business to be transacted. Business that concerns us all, and if we have any love for the district work in which we have labored so earnestly for so many years. Come up to the help of the Lord and let us fight against the mighty waves of discouragement that surrounds us. Let us ask God to help us to work as never before and let us earnestly contend for the faith that was once delivered to the Saints. Let each local send some means to finance the cause and let us remember that we have got to rebuild the Livingston Normal Institute. The world has its eyes on us, and the Master's business requires haste. On to Colps, Ill., before the Third Sunday in Dec District Pres. ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY NOTES. This past week has been a very busy week for the faculty and students. On Wednesday forenoon there were very befitting services held in the "chapel" in memory of our distinguished race leader Dr. Booker T. Washington, many timely expressions were made of the Life's work of Dr. Washington and while he was at his zenith God saw fit to call him from labor to reward, though he has been a peer and has left a monument that will never die. In our Y. M. C. A week of prayer we had one man re-claimed and one conversion. Mr. Booker Harris redained Mr. Gray the convert and with his conversion comes a call to the ministry. Rev. H. J Bailey as pres. of the Y. M. C. A feels proud of the power of God as shown in the young men. Y. W. C. A. is working hard to have a good report to come in regarding the unsaved among the ladies. May God bless her efforts The literary and debating society Mr. Williams president is beginning now to train some real MOTTO : ' HEW TO THE LINE. LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY. ' thinkers and readers through topics selected of the live issues of the day. And from the good material we have here it may not be long ere, Roger Williams will be entered with other colleges of the first grade for an inter-collegiate debating contest. The students attended in a body to the installation services of Rev. Evans our worthy and beloved dean who by the way is pastor also of Siloam Street Bapt. church and it was there where the services were held also Mr Gray was there baptized we met there a cordial welcome and our most worthy pres master of ceremonies. Rev. Evans preached in the morning, Rev. Wm Haynes in the afternoon preached the installation sermon and Rev. John N. Washington preached in the evening Rev Evans has a nice church and good beople. J N. Washington. NOTICE. Cairo, Ill. Nov. 28, 1915. NOTICE. To the W. E. M. Societies of the Mt. Olive Baptist Association you are hereby notified that the Executive Board convenes Thursday before the Third Sunday in December. Each Society is requested to send a representative or send in something for education. Your humble servant; Emma Farrow, Corresponding Sec'y. MURPHYSBORO Mr Editor: Please allow me space in your worthy paper to say our church and Sunday School are getting along very well. Sunday our pastor preached for C. W. Norment of Carboudale. We have began a meeting here and Rev. Noment will conduct the meeting this week. Some of the members of the 17th St. church was in Carbondale, Sunday it being rally day at Rock Hill church. C. A. Macon CAIRO, ILL Nov. 30, '15. Dear Editor: * Please allow me to say through your worthy paper as the Missionary of the Mt. Olive Baptist Association. On the 24th and 25th of this month I preached for the Clover Leaf Baptist church Joppa, Ill. On Thanksgiving day was a great day indeed with the ladies Aid Society of the church under the leadership of Mrs. Effie Bly, they are working like bees in the hive. The thanksgiving dinner was at Bro. Will Talley' grocry store one of the young converts of the church. This was one of the best dinners that I have been in for a number of years, they are working to get new pews. On the 28th I was with the Siloam church and preached two sermon for them It was a bad day it rained hard but however we had a good meeting On the 5th of December I will be with the 1st missionary church Cobden, Ill. I am trying to do my whole duty by the time of our first quarterly meeting. The churches that I have visited this far are moving along nicely. I am yours for the Lord's work. Rev. J H. Knowles. SPARTA. Nov. 28, 1915. Mr. Editor: I am glad of the opportunity to speak a few words in the columns of your worthy paper. We are impressed with the spirit of God to go onward. Our Sept J M. Haynes being at his post our Sunday School was opened as usual. Each class was made to be interested in the les on by Prof. J. D. Allen, response by Rev. L. Thompson. At 11:20 a m the missionary Rev. L. Thompson ascended the rostrum and preached a deep and powerful sermon from Matt. 3:7. At 5:00 p. m. the B, Y. P. U met and was well attended under the leadership of Miss Amanda Haynes. At 7:50 p. m. the church reassembled and Rev. Thompson preached us another gospel sermon Text, 1 Peter 4:7. Rev Thoinson is a powerful man in the mission field, we want more such men. During his stay in our city he stopped at the home of Mr. and Mrs. M. C. Wrice, who know how to make one feel at home. The Missionary highly appreciated the collection which amounted to $3:33. The same was turned over to him. Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Worthon were called by telegram to Duquoin to attend the funeral of his brother John Meridth. They were accompanied by Rev. P. B. French. Mrs. Nettie Macklin also attended the funeral of Mr. John Meridth. The Carnation Club will be entertained at the home of Mrs. Ida Wallace and is doing a good work under the leadership of Mrs. Malinda Foster The Sewing Circle will be entertained at the home of Mrs. Nettie Macklin. This week under the au pices of Mrs. D. Browning the Sunshine Club will be entertained at the home of Mrs. Anna Owens. Mr W. M. Nance was taken suddenly sick last Saturday night and had to have the attention of the doctor. Mr. Samuel Coleman of West Point Miss. is very sick here, he is making his home with his son Loney Coleman Mrs. Margaret Curtis the wife of Mr. Archie Curtis died Sunday night. J J. Taylor. CARBONDALE On Snnday Nov. 28, there was held at the Rock Hill Baptist church the celebration of the second anniversary of the pastor At 11 o,clock Rev. J. H. Hilly filled the pulpit and preacned a gospel sermon from St. John 14: At 2:30 a program was rendered to the satisfaction of all who were present and the choir seemed to be at its best, having rendered excellent music, several papers were read and addresses made by different pastors. At 3 o'clock Rev, J. H. Fulton preached the anniversary sermon from Ps 137:5. If I forget thee O Jerusalem let my right hand forget her cunning, which was very much enjoyed by every one present and our hearts were made to rejoice in the God of our salvation. The contribution for the day was $38 00. Under the two years pastorate of Rev. C. W. Norment he has added to its membership 75. 24. Miss Vesta C. Lewis spent the holidays with home folks in Cairo. Miss Izora Smith of Shawnee-town spent the week-end with Mrs. F. B. Jackson. Miss E B. Taylor. Booker T. Washington's Book Sooh To Be On The Market. Dr. Washington before death prepared a book of his life and work, which will be off the press about Dec. 20th. It will be well illustrated, showing him on the way to school the first time, and all along the read of his busy life from the cradle to the grave. It will read like a romance. The book will sell at $1.25 in cloth binding. This is the best book of Mr. Washington's life. The publishers Mullikin Jenkins Co. Ninth Street, Washington, D. C. are placing salemuel. Any one wishing an agency can get free samples by mailing 15 at postage. Twenty five of this number was baptized by him. During this time the amount $2,500 has been raised. At 7:30 Rev. Norment beautifully preached from 2 Kings 4: FREE Memoirs of In Three The personal reminiscences thirteen years private secret bring out, as no history o interesting side lights on the leaders. De Meneval's de and interest possible only be witness of the scenes and n Their reliability and historic the fact that the very co publicly recommends them. A SPECIAL OFFER By special arrangement with National Weekly, we are able to Memoirs free with a year's subse cation, at a price less than the lo the two papers. Only a limite available, however, so to get the must act quickly. MEMOIRS OF NAPOLEON In Three Volumes A personal reminiscences of Baron de Meneval, for seven years private secretary to Napoleon Bonaparte, going out, as no history can, many enlightening and interesting side lights on the character of the greatest of writers. De Meneval's descriptions have the piquancy of interest possible only because he was an actual eyeless of the scenes and incidents of which he writes. Their reliability and historical interest can be judged by fact that the very conservative French Academy nicely recommends them. 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It will be well illustrated, showing him on the way to school the first time, and all along the read of his busy life from the cradle to the grave. It will read like a romance. The book will sell at $1.25 in cloth binding. This is the best book of Mr. Washington's life. The publishers Mulikin Jenkins Co. Ninth Street, Washington, D. C. are placing salemeu. Any one wishing an agency can get free samples by mailing 15 cts. postage. Quite True. "I have to face the fact," mused the fashionable photographer, as he looked over some recent pictures, "that there are some very ugly features in this business." BUSINESS IN CANADA 5 6000 ‘The remarkable fields that are re- Ported of the wheat crop of Western Canada for 1915 bear out the estl- mate of an average yield over the three western provinces of upward of 25 bushels per acre. There is no Portion of that great west of 24,000 Square miles in which the crop was not good and the yields abundant. An American farmer who was induced to place under cultivation land that he had been holding for five years for speculative purposes and higher prices, says that he made the price of the land out of this year’s crop of cats. No doubt, others, too, who took the advice of the Department of the Interior to cultivate the unoccupied Jand, have done as well. But the story of the great crop that Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta produced this year is best told in the Janguage of the railways in the added cars that it has been necessary to place in commission, the extra trains Fequired to be run, the increased ton- nage of the grain steamers. It is found that railway earnings continue to improve. ‘The C. P. R. earnings for the second week of October showed an increase ‘of $762,000 over last year, the total being only $310,000 below the gross earnings of the corresponding week of 1913, when the Western wheat crop made a new record for that date. The increase in C. P. R. earnings for the corresponding week of that year’ was ‘only $351,000, or less than half of the increase reported this year. Tho grain movement in the West within the past two weeks has taxed the re- sources of the Canadian roads as never before, despite their increased facilities. The C. P, R. ts handling 2,000 cars per day, a new record. The G. T. R, and the C. N. R. are also mak- ing new shipment records. The other day the ™. Grant Morden, of the Can- ada Steamships Company, the largest freighter of the Canadian fleet on the Upper Lakes, brought down a cargo of 476,315 bushels, a new record for Canadia. Jhipping. Records are “go- ing by the board” in all directions this fall, due to Canada’s record crop. The largest Canadian wheat movement through the port of New York ever known 4s reported for the period up to October 15th, when since shipments of the new crop began in August, 4,265,791 bushels have been reloaded for Enefand, France and Italy. This 4s over half as much as was shipped of American wheat from the same port in the same period, And, be it remem- bered, Montreal, not New York, is the main export gateway for Canadian wheat. New York gets the overflow 4m competition with Montreal—Ad- veréPement, All Very Tragic. At the Players’ club in New York the happy ending so essential to a niy’s financial success was being dis cussed, when Butler Glaenzer said: “No play has a happy ending.” ‘They looked at him through the cig- arette smoke in amazement. “No play has a happy ending,” he repeated. “It runs on and on, and at & it ends tragically in some one- orse town, with the entire road com- pany stranded and without the price of an oyster stew among the lot of them.” An Improved Quinine, Does not Cause Nervousness nor Ringing in Head ‘The happy combination of laxatives In LAX. ATIVE BROMO QUININE makes the Quinine fn this form havea far better effect than the ordinary Quinine, and it can be taken by any- Seana Look for signature ot E. W. Grove. 254, Unastieient “I wish and wish again I was in Michigan,” sang the man with the bar- ber shop-tenor. “So-do I,” remarked a man in the front row. Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets are the original little liver pills put up 40 years ago. They regulate liver and bowels —Adv. Proof Positive. “My wife wants to go to the matt mee this afternoon, but I'm afraid it isn't a proper show for her to see.” “What makes you think so?” “Well, if it was she wouldn't want to see it.” Not Gray Hairs but Tired Eyes mate us look older than we are. Keep Soe eect tec Tos hee” die the ies always Murine Your Byes— Don't teil your age. That's All. “Blank & Co. have gone into the bands of a receiver.” “I wonder what the creditors will gtr”. “The creditors will receive what the receiver leaves,” ‘WOMAN'S CROWNING GLoryY fe her hafr. If yours ts streaked with ugly, grizzly, gray hairs, use “La Cre ole” Hair Dressing and change it in the natural way, Price $1.00,—Adv. How Could He? Doctor—Stick out your tongue far ther. . Boy — Can't. It's fastened {' my back —Judge. ‘There's always a woman in the case when a female lawyer is employed. Designed for Use Where Space Is Limited. Should Be Especially Valuable In City Tenement Houses and on Pas. sage Ways Leading to Basements, It often happens in planning a house that the architect is confronted with the impossibility of accommodating a staircase in a narrow space. It is easy enough to lead the narrow stairs down from one floor to the next, but when the landing can be no wider than the stairway he is at a loss to carry the stairs any further. No such difficulties present themselves where there is plenty of room and stairs can be made to turn around a cen- tral opening or can be placed one flight over another with a landing alongside of each floor, To solve the difficulty of narrow space for tho staircase William F. Rodgérs of St, Louis conceived the idea of making a door right in the stairs, these to lift on a hinge so as to open a way to the flight below. He worked out his idea and has just reevived a patent thereon. He calls his device an automatic stair-door. ‘The landing is only the width of the stairs that come down to it. On press- d lA A AA NG A Aa o ING , ay Nee FS XN 1 is . te I SE Diagram of the Rising Stairs. ing a catch on the lowest step—a kick ‘with the toe will do it—four of the stairs rise, swinging on a hinge in the uppermost of the four and moved by a weight hanging from an arm underneath. This leaves an en- trance to the flight below, and one can close the stairdoor on going down by simply giving the weight a push up- ward. Coming up from below, the person who wants to open the stair-door finds @ chain hanging underneath it; a pull on this chain releases the catch and the stairs move upward. ‘The utility of such a device will be found principally on stairs leading to cellars and basements, Poisonous Metals. It {is well known that such metals as lead, mercury, arsenic, antimony, zinc, ete. a8 well as substances con- taining them, have a greater or less poisonous effect upon the human sys- tem. Workers in various industries where poisonous metals are used have to take every precaution for removing particles from the skin, as otherwise slow poisoning is inevitable. It is im- portant to observe that washing with ordinary soap does not completely remove such particles, because the soap tends to form with most metals insoluble compounds which still can produce poisonous effects Ordinary bleaching powder (chloride of lime) is much better than soap for remoy- ing poisonous particles. It loosens them by both mechanical and chem- {eal action. It is also a strong but harmless disinfectant, and is practi- cally as cheap as soap.—c. E. Vail, Colorado, Agricultural College, Fort Collins, Colo. ‘Ghi‘Qwam Twentsede Miles. Miss Eileen Lee, a young English woman of Teddington, swam 21% miles in 6 hourg and 38 minutes in the ‘Thames the other day, one of the most remarkable swimming feats ever ac- complished by a woman. It was, the grace and ease of her style of swim- ming that enabled Miss Lee to accom- plish her record. * ‘This is not the only exceptional per- formance that Miss Lee has accom- plished, for a few days earlier she swam 16% miles in record time. Those who have had experience of long swimming in the Thames pronounce Miss Lee's more recent feat the more dificult because she swam both -on the ebb and flood tide. ‘The most at- tempts at records in the rivef Have been made on the ebb tide alone. It was calculated that the young woman maintained an average rate of” 28 strokes to the minute, * Relic of Sun-Worshis. ‘That the ariciegt practice of em- balming the dead is a religious rite connected with sun-worship is*the the- ory advanced by Prof. G. Biot Smith in a study of the migrations: of peo- ples, published in’ the memoirs and proceedings of the Manchester (Eng- land) Philosophical society, a theory that the editor of the Lancet says Prof. Smith appears to have proved beyond dispute, Professor Smith has traced the prac- tice of mummitying into the remotest corners of the earth. In a het,’dry country like Egypt it was easy to pre serve a body, but in hot, damp cit mates it was, in the words .of. the Lancet, “a very beastly) and never very successful business," that could have persisted only as a religious rite: It probably hadfts origin in Egypt and was spread throughout the world by easly missionaries, METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE, METROPOLIS, ILL. AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS ee en Cr ee eee, back to the antebellum days when he, as a boy, was sold many times on the auction block as a chattel and finally, at the age of seventeen, learning of the war to free the Negroes, he es- caped from his master and found ref- ugo in a camp of Federal soldiers, was occasioned a few days ago in the mind of Rev. J. Preston Watson of Pueblo, Colo., by the receipt of a let- ter from Thomas Gannon, an old sol- dier now residing at Monte Vista, Colo, It was Gannon, then a first lieu- tenant in the Ninth Missouri cavalry, and later promoted to captain, 64 years ago, whé formed a liking for the fugitive colored boy and took him in. Throughout the war, until the close four years later, Watson remained with Gannon. Then they separated with the understanding that Watson ‘was to go to Gannon’s home and un- der his instruction learn the tinner’s trade. But alternating circumstances intervened. Although in the years each frequently tried to find a trace of the other, their efforts proved in vain until two years ago Watson, then a veteran pastor who had done nearly 40 years service for the African Meth- odist church, learned that Captain Gannon was living near, Leadville. This betng in the district which Wat- son toured as presiding elder, he ro- newed his search and finally found Captain Gannon, a feeble, gray haized man, at that time Just recovering from an operation. “Of course neither of us knew the other,” remarked the Rev. Mr. Watson in telling of thé meeting. “When I knew Gannon in war times he was a square shouldered young man with a lorg black mustache and bushy black hair. Half a century later 1 found him an old man, little resem- bling bis former self, But the old friendship still was there. He seemed mighty glad to see me, and for two hours we talked over old times. ‘Then later he came to my house and we sat up all night long talking old times.” Reminiscently in his letter received & few days ago Mr. Gannon said: “Again I recall an incident—the colored boy who wandered into camp, a fugitive from slavery, meek, humble, seeking protection. My boys in blue treated him with kindness and sympathy and I soon realized bis faithful services; honest, truthful and diligent, employ- ing his leisure moments in the efforts to learn to read that he might be help- ful to his fellow freemen. Now, how well he has succeeded. From a hum- ble servant to a devoted servant of the Lord and zealous in the uplift of his people.” Born near Lynchburg, Va., Watson was sold when a baby with his mother to Robert Barnett, Bowling Green, Pike county, Mo. When four years old his mother died and from that time until ten he was sold five times on the auction block in Mis- souri, Educated through his own ef- forts entirely, Rev. Mr. Watson {a one of the prominent retired pastors of his church in the West. He has lived in Pueblo, first 20 years ago and ‘again for the last nine years, and bas been pastor of both the St. Paul's and St. John's A. M. E. churches, Mra, Watson is superintendent of the cok ored orphanage at Pueblo. ‘When white men discuss the Indian problem the discussion generally has to do with a scheme to get the In- dian’s money. An optimist is a man who makes a living in town. A pessimist is one who corns his on a farm. ., “Banneker, the Negro astronomer,” was born at Ellicott: Mills, Maryland, « few miles from Baltimore, several years before the Revolutionary war. He learned to read while doing farm work and managed to study and be- come quite proficient in mathematics. Tn his study of astronomy he was en- couraged sud saaiateh by: Andrew Ht cot, an astronomer and civil engineer of scientifiéattainiments and founder of Eliicott's mills and.connected with some large enterprises, Ellicott was a fri@tid of Waslitxgton hd when he Was employed: to survey. the ‘District of Columbia and locate the city >of Washington he gave employment . to. Banneker. . Afier this Banneker made astronomical calculations and‘ pub lished almanacs. which were used in Maryland ,and some other states. ‘Thomas Jefferson sent one of the al- manacs to the French Academy of Sciences and the secretary of thé navy wrote Banneker a complimentary lét- ter, He died in Baltimore fn 1806 and many’ ‘scientific societies borg testi- mony to the correctness of gis ‘mathe. matical,and astronomical work. Many years after his death, J. H. B, La- ne Everg-comminity produces a cities or two rises, ciiet ambition fs ta make @ ilying exhibiting a fivelegged ates ORF ERs Mts ee A woman can get more into a trunk, but a man has somethifig’ on” her when it omes to stowing a derby hat tafely ina suitcase, Bs | Whatjomientioning ‘him quite casu- ally, became of the old-fashioned man who referred to the Bible as “the Word?” ¢ Im a communication to the Hous. ton Post D. Porter, principal of the Brenham Normal and Industrial col- lege, writes: = Prof, H. L. Blackshear, with his dogged tenacity has succeeded in or- ganizing some of the best Negro farm- ers in Texas into a ‘farmers’ con- gress,” having them to come annually ‘and spend from six to eight days in our stat? school, where they can get strong help by the way of lectures and coming in contact with the ac tual experimental work that cultivates 4, them a strong love for thelr farms and at the same time broadening thelr views upon the plans of getting better results from their many pro- ductive farms. And rishy of our’boys are layiig thelr diplomas in the bot- tom of their trunks and taking # part with thélr fathers in the develop- ment of thelr farms, They are no longer looking at labor as a disgrace, but are rolling up their sleeves, and taking a part in the various commu- nities in whatever vocation they find best to be pursued and are thereby making home worth while, ‘This kind of teaching was the end in mind of the foungers of our state school. Blackshear 1s a southern Negro, and thoroughly understands southern conditions and his constant lectures and conversations with the studenta of that thstitution have 90 thorough- ly fitted them not with a prejudiced mind to his brother in white, but with a knowledge to go, hand in hand with hia neighbor in the various duties of life without the least friction, No one during Blackshear's prinet- palship has heard of a single Prafrie View student having the least trouble with any of our white citizens and we have hundreds of them going out on various roads at the close of that school. ‘ . Now, I was born and reared ‘n Texas, and would not live anywhere else. Have tried to teash 22 years, and do believe that ff there ts any one man in Texas that knows any- thing about that state and the kind of teaching necessary and best fitted for our people, I should know something about ft. I have for the last 10 or 12 years spend much of my time trav- ling and talking to many of our country teachers’ institutions, and 1 find that @ large number or a very large per cent of these teachers are from Prairie View. I have made it my business to talk with each super intendent as to the work, and as to how these teachers get along with their white neighbors. Uncle Tom and Aunt Nancy, Uncle Jim and Aunt Susan who the old ploneers had the highest regard for, are all passing from the stage of the livin; and the young Negro is com- ing on the scene. He has to have that teaching that will enable him to lve in perfect harmony with bis white brother, 3 Not every criminal leaves @ trail The miscreaht who invented bean soup covered his tracks so carefully that he never was apprehended. Men are a good deal like horses tn the respect that the thoroughbred should be picked for speed and the scrub for service. Another precedent has been over- turned by @ Kansas bachelor. He was fm a hospital six weeks a couple of years ago ang did not marry the trained nurse who attended him. tern Sale, a prombnaat ‘citizen of Balti more ra long time connected swith the Balitriore "& Ohio railroad, wrote a”memotr of Banneker ‘which was published .by the Maryland. His- ‘torical society.’” A large newspaper. plant in Phila- ‘delphia tia’ recently been taken over by a company of colored men, who aré preparing to issue a weekly paper for circulation in a number of different cities. Arrangements have been made for sts distribution in Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Wrshington, ‘and. thirty other cities within, a twelve-mile. radius of Phila- ‘délphia are expected to be Included in tts circulation. This is the-first large newspaper enterprise ever undertaken entirely by colored men, and the pur- pose. of the paper is the géneral uplift of the colored.race. The undertaking js well financed, and ‘will enibody. the highest ideals’ of race journalism. 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Came a pretty, trivo- lous young married woman. ““The idea,’ commented the frivo- lous one, ‘of anyone's having time to ‘sew her life up in @ thing lke that.’ “In my time all women did it,’ commented the older woman. “The pretty one flushed. “But nowadays time is so much more valuable,’ she defended. “‘Is it? 1 wonder,’ mused the wise one. ‘Does your time bring you in any money?’ ‘The pretty one shook her head. “Then why not make it save the money your husband’s time brings in, as we did in our day? “Tho dress you wear cost—-$6.98? And cheap at that, no doubt, you think, Yet you could have bought bet- tor material for $2. In two days’ time you could have made it better and more daintily than it is, At that rate your time would have yielded you $2.49 a day. Would you be glad of that much for a day's work if you were being paid for it directly?” “‘Indeed I would!’ responded the girl fervently. ‘I wish I could make some money to help my husband!’ “‘A penny saved ts a penny earned, my dear! If you have contracted the ‘habit of sitting on the veranda and thinking of the things you would buy it you had the money it may be a little hard to devote yourself to a sewing machine and working out a paper pat- tern, But in return you'll have your | $2.50-a day, the pleasure of wearing ‘& dress you have made yourself, and the admiration of your husband.’ “The frivolous one became all at tention. I just thought 1 could buy the dress for less than I could buy the matéria! and have it mado,’ she ex plained. 3 “Ah specious argument, my dear. Of course you could. But you could not buy it for what you could make it yourself, You are young. Help your husband to make and save his money now. Do some real work and credit yourself with it and see how the fam- lly budget is helped.’"—American Magazine. FORMED FROM SINGLE LOG Remarkable Cabin That Is on Exhibi tion In Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. ‘There is a cabin in Golden Gaté park, San Francisco, which is cow structed of a single log of redwood. It ia about twelve feet long and rests upon a heavy platform of timbers, which support the weight of the hob low log. A doorway about five feet high and eighteen inches wide admits visitors to the interior, which forms eae fa > [a : = it : — Aes vs , Bs } Cabin Made Out of a Single Log. a falreized room. The appearance of the cabin is striking because the front presents a cross-section of a large red- wood tree with the bark intact.—Pop- ular Selence and World’s Advance, Romance and War, A pardonadle habit of inclosing ‘thelr names and addresses when send- Ing parcels to soldiers at the front 1s Prevalent among British ladies. It has also been frequently noticed that many happy friendships have been es tablished by the correspondence which followed. It is something unique, how- ‘ever, to put on record the fact that a matfiage has‘resulted from this form of introduction, the lady in the ease being a lassie from the far north of ‘Bcotland, In‘sending a parcel of cig- ‘arettes to the front, a lady of, Wick inclosed her name and address. Some time later she: recotved a request to the sender to write again, An inter- esting Correspondence ensued, and formal ‘letters gradually developed into affectionate “billetdoux.” Photo. ‘graphs weré exchanged, and ultimate- ly the gallant soldier popped the ques- tion, ‘The lady, like Barkis, being “willin’,” the soldier secured a short ‘furlough, and stratghtway matte’ for bonnie Scotland. “6 Eriaht Proenect. * “I suppose you have hopes that your little son’ will be president of the United States some day?” +, ~ “No,” . “Come, come, Fatherly pride 1s all right. 1 wouldn't think any the lege of you if you had such hopes.” “‘Fatherly pride,’ eb? Well, I have plenty of that. In fact, something tells moe that this boy of mine is gotig to row, 50 and pitch @ world series some A CHILD? 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And the neighbors," Taylor added as an afterthought. He stared from the hilltop at the valley. He had been a dweller in Tula for three weeks, and the silence of the mountains almost hurt. So far he had seen just four human beings—old Jed Morse and his daughter, Mandy; the traveler-preacher, Harley Robertson, and young Gabe Williams, who ran the older mill. Gabe and he were friends at least. It was Gabe who found out he was interested in geology. "Thought you was a perfessor or something of the sort when I saw you snopin' round like. Mandy said you was an artist 'count of the way you look, and the old man suspicioned you was from the government. We don't notice him. He used ter get into all kinds of trouble with the government back in the old days, but that's done away with now, since the railroad come through. Mandy went to school three winters." "Like her, don't you Gabe?" Taylor had asked, by way of conversation. But Gabe's face had darkened. He threw a stick at an unoffending hound pup that wandered within range. "Yes, I like her, but I don't stand no sort of show. Ought to see the look in her eyes when the preacher comes around." The preacher came riding down the mountain the next week and stopped to speak to Taylor, working along a ledge of rock. "Won't find any gold or silver there, young man," he called up genially. Taylor turned and saw a youthful prophet type, hair that hung short-cropped below his ears, eyes wide and dark, face thin and fine featured, the face of the enthusiast and dreamer. Later on the preacher would drop in at 'his cabin if it was late and talk awhile with him over the fire. He was a university man from Tennessee, eager to hear of the North and of life in the great centers. "I'm going there some day," he said, staring into the open fire. "Fisher's of men. It is a promise. I am going some day. Here the seed falls on stony soil." Taylor went to one of his meetings at night down in the valley. Mandy stood on a soapbox and sang in a timid, high mezzo, a slip of girlhood, with the torchlight flickering on her pretty face and blue eyes that sought the face of the young preacher, while Gabe hung around the shadows and glowered. Then came the last week in Tula. Taylor never forgot it all his life, the place where he had complained of ennui and loneliness. With Gabe's help he struck a lead and followed it up through the ledge. Gabe told of caves farther up in the mountains, caves that glistened inside, and not with stalactites, either. Taylor went with him and found mica, tracts of mica that lay in great, unbroken sheets, and he knew a fortune lay close to Gabe's door. When he told the big mountainer, he put back his head and laughed. "Guess that'll get her, won't it? Womenfolks like money and pretty things, don't they? You go ahead and fix up the deal and get yours out of it. I'm going courtin'." And the next night Harley stopped on the way down toward Jed's, and said he was going away. God had heard his prayers and listened to the cry of his soul. He was going north to preach the word in the great cities. While he talked Mandy came up with Taylor's milk and bread and stood listening with wide eyes that held fear and a woman's secret in their depths. But Harley rambled on enthusiastically, and Taylor wanted to grip him and make him turn and see the gift that lay for him in the girl's tender eyes. Gabe came back along the road late that night and he pounded on the cabin door. "Has the preacher gone up by here yet?" he called. Taylor said no, he had not seen him. "I'm going ter get him," said Gabe grimly, and passed on. Taylor rose and opened the door. A full moon rode high above the dark mountains. He dressed and went outside, listening. And nearly an hour later he heard Harley coming up the road, singing in his full baritone one of the hymns he loved. He had meant to warn him, but the singing stopped; and, after a while, he judged he had taken another road around the lower bend. But he could not sleep, and went down to meet Mandy at five on her way up with the milk and fresh eggs for his breakfast. She looked radiant and shy. Standing in her little pink cotton dress, barefooted and tanned, she looked like some wildflower of her own mountain land, he thought. "Pop's awful mad," she said softly. "He's going to turn me away. 'Count of Gabe. Gabe asked him for me and Pop gave me to him, but I promised the preacher, and he's coming for me today. We've going down to Tula and get married. If Gabe or Pop don't shoot him." She said it cimply, fatalistically. It was quite possible, she knew. Taylor told her he would come down and go with them, to be sure of fair play. But the day wore on without any sign of Harley. Pop had found the answer to his special problem in a large jug of cider and had retired from the scene of action. Mandy, with her few belongings and her mother's Bible and sunbonnet beside her, sat out on the water Lench in the shade, waiting pa- tiently the coming of the preacher. But the shadows lengthened and it began to grow dark down in the valley. Then came the sound of hoofs on the road, and she laughed. "I knew he'd come," she said. Taylor was silent. It was Gabe Williams who drew rein at the door and grinned nonchalantly, down, at them both. "Waiting for me, Mandy?" he asked mildly. "Cause I'm ready." "Cut it out, Gabe," advised Taylor, as he stepped up beside the horse and stroked its steaming neck gently. "Preaching in hell, I hope," said Gabe, genially. "Did you tell her I was going to be rich? Tell her I'd take her away from here and she could have anything she liked—diamonds, too. Did you tell her all that for me?" "Where's Robertson?" repeated Taylor, holding the bridle. Gabe avoided his keen, gray eyes. "What did you do, with him?" And all at once the blood of old Jed told. Mandy slipped back into the cabin and came out with her father's rifle up to her chin, leveled at Gabe. Her voice rang out clear and sharp in the still air: "You turn about and lead the way or I'll shoot. I know you, Gabe Williams, and your ways, too. You ride ahead!" And Gabe turned and rode ahead, sullen and dogged, yet proud, too, of her courage in balking him. Taylor tried to take the gun away from her, but she shook her head, white-lipped, eyes brilliant with excitement. "You don't know them up here. You have to cover them," she said. "Go ahead, Gabe." He led them to the mouth of the cave and Mandy waited while the two men went in. Bound fast at feet and wrists, Harley lay on the brink of a pit, within sound of tricking water. "I was coming to see him every day," Gabe said. "I wasn't going to kill him—just frighten him a bit and get him good and hungry. and thirst, then tell him to get out of these parts and never come back after I'd married Mandy. I wasn't going to kill him nohow." "Gabe, you're a primitive male, but you don't know women." Taylor lifted the preacher gently. "Help get him out into the fresh air." "I am not hurt or harmed, praise God," Harley gasped. "The cord around my throat was tight. Loosen it, and I will fight the man in the open air." But out in the twilight Mandy waited, calm-eyed and dominant over the situation. She took Gabe's horse by the bridle and bade him help set Harley in the saddle. Then she mounted behind him, and handed Taylor the gun. "You give that to Pop in the morning," she said. "I'll leave the horse in the village, Gabe. You can get it after we're gone. And if you try to shoot when our backs are turned, you'll get me, too. Good-by, Mr. Taylor." Harley, smiled down at them and waved his hand. Her arms held him with a sheltering love, and the glow of the sky seemed to be in her face as they rode away. Gabe watched them out of sight. "That's Mandy all over," he said gently. (Copyright, 1915, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.) PARTY TREED BY CARABAO Then Governor General Francis Burton Harrison Faced Infuriated Animal and Killed It. Chased up a tree by a wounded carabao, while engaged in hunting in the jungle near Bongambong, Nueva Ecija, Gov. Gen. Francis Burton Harrison had one of the most exciting experiences of his career in the Philippine islands. It was after having been wounded by a bullet from Mr. Harrison's. 405 Winchester that a female carabao charged the governor general and his party, forcing them all to take to the trees, and it was shortly afterward that the chief executive of the Philippines, displaying rare nerve, climbed down from his retreat, and engaging the animal alone on the ground, killed her as she charged, the carabao dropping dead in her tracks 15 feet from where Mr. Harrison stood, his outlet having struck the animal between the eyes. The governor general and the other members of the party considered the experience rare sport and a fitting climax to a very successful hunting trip. One of the oldest superstitions in the navy is that to change the name of a ship is to court disaster and it is a curious fact that the present war has provided several illustrations of the ill luck which seems to attend a renamed vessel. The battleship Triumph was laid down as the Libertad for Chife; the armored cruiser Good Hope as the Africa, the light cruiser Pathfinder as the Fastnet, the armored merchantman Viknor as the Viking, the patrol boat Char as the Stranton, and torpedo boats 10 and 12 as the Greenfly and Moth. All these vessels of the English navy have gone to the bottom. On the other hand, the four British destroyers which sank four German destroyers in October, 1914, the Loyal, Legion, Lennox and Lance were, until early in 1914, known as the Orlando, Vidia, Portia and Daring. "Our doctor is considerate, to say the least." 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Of course that is understandable. It is about as good English as one would expect in a judge's opinion. But it is not good enough for a notice that hundreds of thousands of people are to read every day. Here is New York spending forty millions a year for literary and other instruction for children who, when they ride in the street cars, are exposed to managers' English and taught, as to transfers to "request same from conductors." Shocking! Of course the notice ought to read: "Passengers who want transfers must ask for them when they put their fares in the box."—Life. SOAP IS STRONGLY ALKALINE and constant use will burn out the scalp. Cleanse the scalp by shampooing with "La Creole" Hair Dressing, and darken, in the natural way, those ugly, grizzly hairs. Price. $1.00.—Adv. His 'Lavish Lingualpotence. "Those sonorous sentences that the Hon. Bray Lowder rolls forth with such an impressive wealth of mastodontic pomposity and overpowering orotundity—" "Yeah! 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Western Canada produced in 1915 one-third as much wheat as all of the United States, or over 300,000,000 bushels. Send for illustrated pamphlet and ask for reduced railway rates, information as to best location, etc. Address Superintendent Immigration, Ottawa, Canada, or G.A. Cook, 2012 Main St, Kansas City, Mo., C.J. Broughton, Room 412, 112 W. Adams St., Chicago, IL. Canadian Government Agents THE NEWEST REMEDY FOR BACKACHE, RHEUMATISM AND DROPSY GO Prize Wheat The Exp con imp swe No Ca the co top We as 160 ACRE FARMS IN WESTERN CANADA FREE Is no war tax on land and no consco Send for illustrated pamphlet and ask for reduced Address Superintendent Immigration, Ottawa, Ca G.A.Cook,2012 Main St.,Kansas City,Mo.;C.J.B. Canadian Gov Confused Deities. An Englishman was visiting in an American family in which there was a young boy of eight years. The nobleman was addressed by all members of the family as "My Lord." As soon as the family were seated at the table the lord was served first of all. Each dish was offered him with the remark, "My Lord, will you have this?" or "My Lord, do you care for this?" It happened that the pickle was overlooked, and the nobleman reached to get some. The small boy, seeing this, punched his mother and said in a loud whisper: "Mother, mother, God wants a pickle." Marie, the eight-year-old hopeful of a certain household, was seated at the breakfast table one morning. As usual, eggs were served. Now, either Marie was not hungry or she had grown tired of the inevitable bill of fare, for very earnestly she lifted her eyes to heaven and exclaimed: "I wish to goodness hens would lay something besides eggs!" There's nothing like being ready when opportunity knocks. Kidney, Bladder and Uric Acid troubles bring misery to many. When the kidneys are weak or diseased, these natural filters do not cleanse the blood sufficiently, and the poisons are carried to all parts of the body. There follow depression, aches and pains, heaviness, drowsiness, irritability, headaches, chilliness and rheumatism. In some people there are sharp pains in the back and loins, distressing bladder disorders and sometimes obstinate dropsy. The uric acid sometimes forms into gravel or kidney stones. When the uric acid affects the muscles and joints it causes lumbago, rheumatism, gout or sciatica. This is the time to send Dr. Pierce, Invalids' Hotel, Buffalo, N. Y., 10c for large trial package of "Anuric." During digestion acid acid is absorbed into the system from meat --- Canada in proportion to population has a greater exportable surplus of wheat this year than any country in the world, and at present prices you can figure out the revenue for the producer. In Western Canada you will find good markets, splendid schools, exceptional social conditions, perfect climate and other great attractions. There conscription. reduced railway rates, information as to best locations, etc.awa, Canada, or ; C.J. Broughton, Room 412, 112 W. Adams St., Chicago, Ml. Indian Government Agents Tinted. "Why do they call her a coloratura soprano?" "Great Scott! Can you see the why she's made up? That paint is an inch thick!" Important to Mothers Examine carefully every bottle of CASTORIA, a safe and sure remedy for infants and children, and see that it Bears the Signature of In Use For Over 30 Years. Children Cry for Fletcher's Caustoria "All the world loves a lover. "Except the boss who is expected to raise his salary on the wedding day." COVETED BY ALL but possessed by few—a beautiful head of hair. If yours is streaked with gray, or is harsh and stiff, you can restore it to its former beauty and luster by using "La Creole" Hair Dressing. Price $1.00—Adv. It's all right for a man to wake up in the morning fresh as a daly, but it isn't right to let his freshness, get too fresh. eaten, and even from some vegetables. The poor kidneys get tired and backache begins. This is a good time to take "Anurie," the new discovery of Dr. Pierce for Kidney trouble and Backache. Neglected kidney trouble is responsible for many deaths, and Insurance Company examining doctors always test the water of an applicant before a policy will be issued. Have you ever set aside a bottle of water for twenty-four hours? A heavy sediment or settling sometimes indicates kidney trouble. If you wish to know your condition send a sample of your water to Dr. Pierce's Invalids' Hotel, Buffalo, N. Y., and describe symptoms. It will be examined without any expense to you, and Dr. Pierce or his medical staff will inform you truthfully. Anurie is now for sale by dealers in 500 pkgs. --- Metropolis Gazette PUBLISHED ON FRIDAY BY THE GAZETTE PRINTING CO. GETROPOLIS, . . . . ILL. MRS. M. J. MOCRARY, MANAGER. J. B. MOCRARY, EDITOR FRIDAY DEC. 3. 1915. Office 9th and Pearl Streets, Metropolis, Illinois. Interested as second-class mail matter, at Metropolis, Illinois, Postoffice. Address all communications to J. B. MOCRARY, Box 107 Metropolis, Illinois. The names and addresses of contributors must be known to us in every instance, in order to secure publication. We want the news of your vicinity each week. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: One Year.....$1 00 ix Months.....75 Three Months.....40 Single Copy.....05 In Advance. You must mail copy on Mondays to secure publication. Cut Flowers for Sale at Mrs. JENNIE INMANS. of the Livingston Normal, Theological and Industrial Institute. J. H. Knowles, D. D., President J. B. McCryan, S. T. B., Secretary T. C. Yancy, S. B. Kerr, Attorney Rev. J. M. Blake. Rev. H. Allison Rev. G. W. Rowlett, Treasurer Rev. C. O. Phillips, Financial Agt. Rev. H. E. McWilliams Closing Out. I am closing out my book store goods, at less than cost You'll find what you want if you come to look, Carbon paper, shelf paper, writing paper, and all kinds of books for you. Come and see. C6r. 12, and Ophia Sts. MRS. VALLEE. Chas H. Griggs, was in Brook port, Wednesday to set the window frames of the Unity Baptist church building. The intention of the members and pastor is, to push the building to completion as rapidly as the weather and finance will permit, owing to the unsafe and delapidated condition of the old building we will be forced to abandon the building soon. All members and persons who are interested in this much needed improvement will aid us materially by giving some of their money. Saturday Sunday will be the regular monthly meeting at the Unity Baptist church, Brookport. This being the last one in this year, all members are urged to be present and set themselves in a wholesome condition for the beginning of the new year. Come to covenant meeting and sacrament.—Pastor. The members as a whole, of the Unity Baptist church, Brookport, excells all others in Southern Ill., for doing things, and our Board of officers are unexcelled when it comes to business, of course we have a few sorry members, but they say, they are going to do better, and as to the sisters they can as a rule, be depended upon in evrey respect. "The Working Bees, will finally sting the drones out of the hive." Mrs. Lavada Spurlark, has purchased a new piaro. Rev. J. B. McCrary, has to be in Brookport, quite often on the account of building the church. Letter Heads and Envelopes can be had for the asking at this office. We print them. The Gazette has just received another lot of new type faces and other material which adds much to the output of the work of the office. We deserve your patronage. We have a full line of cards Letter Heads, Envelopes and other material. Let us do some of your work. Let us do your minute work and any other church advertisements. 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 are notiged lto pay up Miss Azalia Summner, Principal of the Garrison School Cairo, spent Thanksgiving with parents Mr and Mrs. Shug Summner. Mrs. Lena Phillips and Miss Corrinne Quivers, were Gazette callers Saturday after-noon. Call again when in the city Ladies. Rev. and Mrs J.B. McCrary, spent Thanksgiving in Brookport. A. A. Tucker, spent Thanksgiving in the city with family. Mrs. Saddie Bedford and little daughter in company with Miss Myra Scott, of Cairo, were in the city Thanksgiving the guest of their aunt Mrs. Rufus Mitchell. Mrs. Mitchell served an elaborate dinner Thanksgiving day with a 10lb. Turkey on toast with cranberries. Mrs. Hessie, of vienna spent Thanksgiving with the Summner family, of Brookport, Rev. J, H. Sydes, P. E. of the Caito District A M. E. Church was in the city Sunday and held Quarterly meeting. Persons who owe the Gazette would greatly lesson the financial burden of the publishers by remitting at once. Misses Mossie and Annie Roberts teachers of the Brookport and Joppa Schools respectively spent Thanksgiving in the city. Miss Edith Jones, who spent the summer in Chicago, returned home Sunday a. m. She was accompanied home by her aunt Mrs. Maggie Brooks, who will visit relatives and friends before returning to the city. Memorial service in memory of Dr. Booker T. Wahington, will be held at First Baptist church by the B. Y, P. U, Sunday Dec. 5th at 6:00 p. m. All churches and pastors of the city are cordially invited to be present and assist in the services. Wanted—100 customers at the Last Chance grocery to buy 3 cans of best tomatoes and corn for 25c. Ordination Licentiate license blanks at the Gazette office. Mrs. Lena Phillips and her friend, Miss Corrinne Quivers, teachers of the Centralia, Public Schools spent Thanksgiving in the city guest of relatives and friends. Miss Gladys Morton went to Carrier Mills Tuesday over the "Q." She was accompanied as far as Foreman, by Mr. Samuel Upshaw. Who said R. B. couldn't come back? Rev J. M. Blake was at his charge Sunday. Native Salve. We have just recived some more of Native Salve and it is going very fast, those in Carbonand Md. City can secure a box or more now by 50c, per box. Act quick if you want it. Send all orders to Rev. J. B. McCrary. Mesdames Ora Brown and Eva Albritton, were Fajucah shoppers last week. Subscribe For The Gazette. $100 Reward, $100. The readers of this paper will be pleased to learn that there is at least one dreaded disease that science has been able to cure in all its stages, and that is catarrh. Hall's "catarrh cure is the oely positive cure now known to the medical fraternity. catarrh being a constitutional disease, requires a constitutional treatment. Hall's catarrh is taken internally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surface of the system, thereby destroying the foundation of the disease, and giving the patient strength by building up the constitution and assisting nature in doing its work. The proprietors have so much faith in its curative powers that they offer One Hundred Dollars for any case that it fails to cure. Send for list of testimonials. Address F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O. Sold by all Druggists, 75c. Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation. Rev. J. H Knowles, Missionary for the Mt. Olive Association spent Sunday in Unionville, with Siloam Baptist church. John Edmonds, of Shady Grove is building a fine two story farm residence. John Morris, a successful farmer and lumberman was in the city Saturday. Profs. A. A. Crim, of Unionville, Kivel, of Brookport and Mrs. Pearl Stewart, of Shady Grove, teachers attended the co. teachers meeting Friday and Saturday. Those on the sick list are: Mesdames Luvenia White, Nannie Jones, Scena Overby, G. W. Rowlett, Lizzie Collins and Francis Smith. Mrs. Thos P. King, of Unionville is at the bed-side of her mother Mrs Nannie Jones, who is very sick Edgar McCrary, has returned home from Cairo, where he visited the Mt. Moriah B. Y. P. U. Mrs. Mary Wyly, of Brookport was in the city Tuesday visiting her twin sister Miss Martha E Hodge. J H. Flowers, of Brookport, was in the city Tuesday on business. Miss Marie Copland, of Dewmaine, is in the city the guest of Mrs. Orphetta R. Embry. Mrs. Parthenia Dixon, of Paducah, Ky, was in the city Tuesday on business. NOTICE Mr. Editor: please allow space in your paper for me to give notice to the district that the Executive Board of the Mt. Olive Baptist Association will convene with the Culpsville Missionary Baptist church Thursday before the third Sunday in December 1915. I ask all the members of the board to be present at this meeting, also the officers of all the auxiliaries to meet in connection with the board The Trustees of the Livingston Normal and Theological Institute to meet too, as we have a great deal of business to transact along Educational lines. I also ask that all the churches send a messenger to to this meeting as our school in Metropolis, has been burned down it belongs to the district which you all know. I find that the Constitution has been violated and ignored by members that belong to this grand body which must be seen after and straightened. Please take notice and govern yourself according. Cilbert Moore, who was hit a few days ago with a soda bottle by Roy E. Davy about the face and eyes and badly cut, lost his left eye and it had to be taken out Sunday Morning as a last resort for his recovery. The operation seemed to have had the desired effect as he is resting better at this writing. Mrs Nelia Morgan, of Murphysboro, spent Thanksgiving in the city with her parents, Mr and Mrs Ellis Shelton Several of the Paducah boys spent Thanksgiving in the city. They were the guest of the Misses Anna Roberts and Maud Porter. Auto riding was quite aad last week. I wonder who it was that fell in the ditch? Resolution. The following resolutions were passed during the Executive Board of the East Mt. Olive Baptist Association, Held with the Mt. Pleasant Baptist church, Golconda, Ill, Nov 14, 1915. Whereas, there is being an unwarranted attack made upon Dr. R. H. Boyd, secretary of the National Baptist Publishing Board as well the entire staff, by designing men of the denomination. And whereas, these designing men are in accord with the incorporated Convention of which Dr. E. C. Morris, was elected by one third majority of the convention in the afternoon of the second day of the convention after which time Dr. E. P. Jones of Vicksburg, Miss., had been elected by the unincorporated National Baptist Convention. And, Whereas, the promoters and designers of the incorporated convention, have and are now endeavoring to destroy the Nation. Baptist Publishin Board, as shown by many letters sent out to the churches and Sunday Schools to purchase the S. S., supplies elsewhere. And, whereas such leadership is both dangerous and hurtful to the progress of the race, and destructive to the interest of the denomination. And, whereas the charter gotten out by the seven brethren is a fraud on its face, and destructive to the best interest of the denomination, and is intended to mislead and deceive the constituents of the regular National Baptist Convention of America. And, whereas, the far fetched notion of a federal charter, to control liberty loving Baptist is known in history sacred or profane, and the attempt to thrust it on the National Baptist Convention is but daring usarpation. Be it therefore Resolved, that we reaffirm the resolution sent up to Chicago, to the National Baptist Convection of America, September 1915 by the Mt. Olive Baptist Association voicing the sentiment of the 7000 Bapiist in Southern and Central Illinois, and re-echoes the voice of the entire Baptist Brotherhood of the states that voted to sustain Dr. Boyd and the Publishing House at Nashville, Tenn We do hereby pledge our unqualified support to the Publishing House, and the unincorporated convention of which Dr. E P. Jones, of Vicksburg, Miss. was elected president in Chicago, Sept. 1915. Committee:—C. C. Phillips, Golconda, Ill.. C. L. Stone, Carmi, Ill., H. C Armstead, Pulaski, Ill., Thos Morris, Metropolis, Ill., A. J. Bowers, Dewmaine, Ill. W. P. Washington, Mt. 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It includes our paper—the best weekly published in this part of the state—and the Four Magazines of national prominence in this part of the state—and the Four Magazines of national prominence shown above, sample copies of which may be seen at our office. We have never sold our paper alone at less than a dollar a year. But on account of the splendid contract we have made with these big publications we are able to give our readers the four magazines with our paper, all one year for only $1.18—just 18 cents more than the regular price of our paper alone. Send us your orders right away, give them to our representative or call and see us when you are in town. As soon as you see these clean, beautiful, interesting magazines you will want them sent to your own home for a year. Rev. Benj Kell, returned from Shady Grove, Monday, and he reports seven converts the result of a two weeks meeting at the Free Baptist church. Rev. Crim is pastor Mr and Mrs Wallace Bell, Messrs Aggrippa Mckinney and Edgar McCray and Miss Georgia Clark were in Brookport Thanksgiving night. The Gazette is in accord with Dr R. H. Boyd, Sec'y., of the National Baptist Publishing Board and Dr. Frank, editor of the Union Review and Dr. E. P. Jones, President, of the National Baptist Convention, of America unincorporated. We ask all of the S. S. to continue their allegiance to the above named Convention. The Minutes of the Association are ready for distribution, and will go forward by express next week. Rheumatism, Piles, Kidney Troubles, Bladder Troubles, Heart Troubles, Female Troubles, Stiff Joints, Syphilis, of All Discriptions, Indigestion, Corns, Bunious, 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 NOTICE Articles sent to this paper for publication must be signed by the writer. If not signed it will find it's way to the waste basket.