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METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE Meets Death at the Hands of the Man He Robbed. An Old-Time Offender----Served 4 Terms in State Prison. A burglar was shot to death in a revolver battle with his intended victim Tuesday night. Shortly before 4 a.m. Clarence H Owens, a cook, 2332 South Dearborn street, fought the revolver battle in his home with George Wilkinson, a burglar, and shot and fatally wounded him. The man entered Owen's bedroom in the basement flat which he occupied with Evan Crossway and was searching for valuables when Owens was aroused. The latter snatched up an automatic pistol and fired at the burglar, but missed him. The thief ran into the room off the bedroom and he and Owens exchanged shots through the doorway. The burglar fired three times before he fell to the floor with a bullet wound in the head. He regained his feet and staggered into the street, where he fell unconscious. Owens fired five times before he wounded him. The man died before the arrival of the police of the Cottage Grove avenue station. The robber was later identified as George Wilkinson by his wife, and an ex-convict who had served four terms in the state prison at Joliet, Ill., and was released the last time on the 9th of September. Owens was exonerated by the coroner's jury Tuesday afternoon. Owens occupies the front bedroom and Crossway the rear room in the basement flat. The front window was closed, but not locked, and the burglar gained entrance easily. Had $400 Hidden in Flat. Ovens had $400 bidden in the bed clothing, he to'd the police. The burglar had takep his watch before he was di-covered.—Ex. 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 trausacted. 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 VOLUME XVIII. NO 41. ED: VICT lands b- CTIM 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 re-build 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 WILL MAKE FIGHT TO SAVE CAMPBELL; PETITION READY Attorney Barnett Continues Battle for His Client. MAY APPEAL .TO THE GOVERNOR. When news reached Chicago that a Joliet jury had decided "Chicken Joe" Campbell should hang for the murder of Mrs. Odette Allen, a movement was started by anti-capital punishment reformers, anti-circumstantial evidence advocates and Chicago Negroes to carry Campbell's case to the Supreme Court, and as a last resort appeal to Gov. Dunne to commute the convict's sentence to life imprisonment. Three reasons will be given in the petition to Gov. Dunne if the upper court affirms the jury's sentence: 1. Campbell faced prejudice as a Negro 2. Campbell faced prejudice as a convict. 3. Campbell was convicted upon circumstantial evidence, which is not by its nature proper reason for destroying a man's life. Attorney Robert McMurdy, former president of the Illinois State Bar Association, and former Judge McKenzie Cleland announced his willingness to sign a petition to Gov. Dunne. Maurice B Kovnat of the Anti-Capital Punishment Society issued a statement opposing the hanging —Illinois Idea. 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. OBITUARY. Mrs. Mary Jane King, deceased wife of Mr. Wm King was born May 30, 1873 and departed this life Dec. 1, 1915 at the age of 41 yrs 6 mo. and 1 day. Sister King professed a hope in Christ 29 or 30 years ago, when Elder James Howard carried on a revival at old Mt. Zion church MOTTO : "HEW TO THE LINE. LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY " near this present church lot. She joined the Missionary Baptist church and has continued in the faith. Sister King was married to Mr. Wm King in the year 1890 to whose nion there was born 17 children of which 7 survive, and 5 grand children to mourn her loss. Sister King was the devoted wife of Brother King for 25 years and 8 mos. In her last moments she told all her family to never worry over her as all was well with her and her Saviour. In her dying moments she called all her children around the bed and beseeched of them to not worry farther and to love one another and in so doing they would be good children. To her husband she requested that parental care always be upon the children that may grow up to be good women and good men. She was then willing to go and then breathed her last with much fortitude. The funeral was attended by Rev. J. M. Blake at the Siloam Baptist church. Peace to her ashes. HISTORY REPEATS COLOR KISS Causes Fainting Spell----Woman May Recover, Is Latest Report. Illinois reproduced an Alabama kissing case Wednesday. Some years ago a young Negro woman pushing a baby carriage. The baby was very fair and pretty. The young white woman, full of affection, quickly stooped and kissed the baby and, smilingly turning to the young Negro woman, she inquired who was the mother of the child. The supposed nurse girl replied: "She is mine." "What! a nigger child?" she screamed, whereupon the young mother violently laid her hands on the face of the volunteer fainting woman and caused a court case. Now comes this: Joliet, Ill. —When the Rock Island flyer pulled into Joliet today a crowd surged and fought to board it Mrs. F. Milton Collins of Sioux City, Ia., with five bags and suit cases and three children, were in the jam at one of the rear coaches. Half way up the steps she remembered she had forgotten to say good-bye to a relative. Turning hastily, she reached down and planted a kiss squarely on the lips of "Dinah" Brown, a colored porter. Mrs. Collins fainted. We are wondering if this black child is the same that caused the court case about a quarter of a century ago —Ex. SPARTA. Dec. 5. 1915. I am glad to say through the columns of your worthy paper. Our Sunday School was opened by the Supt J. M. Haynes at 9:30 a.m. The teachers were at their places and the classes well taught by them. The Lesson Chart was nicely reviewed by Bro. Ben Lance. Rev P. B. French was absent from the days service having went to St Louis, Saturday evening on urgent business. On his returning early Sunday morning by the way of the I. C. railroad to be at his post of duty his train he was on wrecked at Lynsburg, Ill., he was severly shaken up, he arrived in town at 6:43 p. m. by the way of the Southern. Rev M. E. Parnell of Coulterville, accompanied Rev. French. At 11:00 the church having had awakening prayer and praise prayer. At 8:00 p. m. Rev M E Parnell filled the pulpit and preached an awakening sermon his text was St Matt. 8:19. Under the auspices of Mrs Malinda Foster the Carnation Club made their report for the month which was $3.00. The Sunshine Club will be entertained at the home of Mrs. D. Browning Friday night under the leadership of Mrs. Bessie Gleghorn. The Teachers Institute has arranged to meet Friday night. Rev. Parnell stopped with Mr. and Mrs. Win Mackin where he was well cared for. Deacon J. M. Haynes is expecting to attend the Executive Board meeting which convened at Colps Ill. Thursday before the Third Sunday in Dec. and the church will send up $1.00 to help foster the meeting. The Sewing Circle has given $3.00 toward helping to paper the church. J. J. Taylor. ALL FOR EMMERSON. For the office of secretary of state we declare that our neighbor and friend, L. L. Emerson of Mt. Vernon, who made the gallant, but loosing fight for state treasurer in the election of 1912, is our choice for the office of secretary of state in the coming campaign The above resolution was adopted by the Republican county central committee of Jackson county at a meeting in Murphysboro, Saturday November 20. It is said that the meeting was largely attended by Republicans as well as the whole committee and that the resolution was unanimously approved. A large number of county committees in this section of the state have indorsed Mr. Emmerson and more of them will do so when their meetings are held. Southern Illinois Republican have united behind Mr. Emmerson as their candidate for secretary of State and his candidacy will be pushed with enthusiasm until the primary election. No man in the state deserves more of the party than Lou Emerson; he has labored long and faithfully for its success, has been true to its success, has been true to it in every adversity and never justly rewarded in its time of prosperity. He has the character, capacity and courage to make him a leader of men and fit for position of great responsibility. He is a good fighter, fair and fearless while the battle is on and big and broad enough to forget and forgive when the strife is over. He deserves success in his ambition. Southern Illinois Repub- licans fully appreciate that fact and are getting behind him in a way that will insure his nomination and election. Dr. R. H. Boyd and the Publishing House. We want it definitely understood that the Gazette is with the veteran Secretary and the National Baptist Publishing House located in Nashville, Tenn., the house that gives employment to our young negro boys and girls and the greatest negro printing plant in the world, turning out to, 000 Sunday School books an hour. Take fresh courage Dr., for the Baptist of Illinois are with you in your contention for Baptist principles handed down to them from Olivet's brow, the ones for which they have contended for throughout all ages and have suffered, bled and died for. Freedom of conscience and a right to worship God under their own vine and fig tree," and the "Majority Rule," not ruled by a Pope or Bishop. You have faithfully done your duty for the denomination doing or the Baptists in a business and a religious way what Dr. Booker T. Washington did for the race, in a literary and agricultural field. You are a hero and stand out in bold relief in a class to your self. Now we are not going to leave our own Publishing House. We helped to make it what it is today and we are going to stand by it, for the literature gets better each passing year, and too. it is the fruit of negro talent and energy which gives confidence and impetus to the youth of our race and denomination. Give us more such men as the Rev. Dr. R. H Boyd. ROGER WILLIAMS UNIVERSITY NOTES. THANKSGIVING PROGRAM. Song.....Audience Scripture Reading.....Rev. G. .....A. Wright Invocation.....M. S. Sishuba Vocal Solo.....Miss Rebeca Collier Thanksgiving Address.....Rev. .....J. N. Washington Song.....Audience Paper.....Miss Ethel Wright Song.....Congregation Sermon.....Rev. H. J. Bailey Duett.....Misses V. Currin & .....B. M. Lymm The above was the program rendered under the auspices of the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A. of our University, the services were very impressive and also suggestive to the large body of students attending. A portion of our students ac companied our athletic association A. McCRORY. to Murfreesboro, Tenn., to witness and encourage them in a raggle for honor on the foo ball gridiron we all pray for the success o Roger Other of our students witnessed the foot ball game between Fiske and Tusk-gee. We are planning to have a social in our chapel Friday the students are looking forward to it with much interest The coral study club is preparing for a recital in the near future. To the Churches Comprising the Mt. Olive Association. I am looking with much interest to see the account of where our churches comprising this association have complied with the terms of the resolution passed at our last association, viz; that the 4th Sunday in in this month would be observed for a special collection to be raised for Livingston Institute, at the time that motion prevailed the school was still standing and preparing to throw open its doors for the reception of students within a few days but since that time fate has played its part and the school has gone down in ashes, a fitting signal for a renewed effort on the part of the churches at least as there never was a time in Southern Illinois that our educational fund needed more attention than now, and I will be glad to hear through the columns of this paper of a universal rally for our educational fund. The Y. M. C. A is preparing special services each week. Last week we were entertained in a scholary manner by Mr. A. Mc E Williams (one of our promising young men) by an address under the caption of "Base Ball and Life." The Y. W. C. A. under the leadership of Miss E. C. Wright is preparing to cooperate with the Young Men's C. A. and we trust that the campaign may be a soul gathering success There was organized a Minister's Union in our college last week and it is a promising enterprise. We have as our advisors Revs. Kenney and Evans. We are looking forward to our Christmas festivities with a deal of interest. The student body is getting down to actual business, you should be here. The Public Rhetorical of a part of the 1st year normal and academic classes were held in chapel last Friday night, many parents and friends of the student body were present making a large audience. The class did well. Those exercises will appear from time to time throughout the school term. Rev J. N. Washington. Wanted-An Idea who can simulate of some simple terms to patient protect your ideas that may harm you. 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Near-sighted editor—I beg your pardon? (Sternly) "No monkeying. Unlumber; produce the blunt." "Pardon me, but I do not exactly apprehend the drift of your—" "Cheese your patter. Don't yee see I've got the drop? Unload yer oof?" "I am totally at a loss, my dear sir, to perceive the relevancy of your observations, or to—" "Whack up, or I'll let her speak!" "Is there any peculiarity in the external seeming of my apparel or demeanor, sir, that impels you, a total stranger, to—" "Once more, will you uncork that swag?" (Hopelessly bewildered) "My friend, I confess my utter inability to gather any coherent idea from the fragmentary observations you have imparted. There is something radically irreconcilable and incapable of correlation in the vocabularies with which we endeavor to make the reciprocal or correspondential interchange of our ideas intelligible. You will pardon me—I suggest that synchronization of purpose is equally indispensable with homogeneity of cerebral impression as well as parallelism of idiom and—" But the highwayman had fled in dismay.—Tit-Bits. To. Protect Her. Chest. Rev. Horace Leonard, continuing his campaign against cosmetics in Washington, said at an al fresco luncheon: "A young husband at the shore noted that in dressing for dinner the other evening his wife had chosen a very decollete gown. "There's a dampish sea wind blowin', he grumbled. 'Don't you think you'd better put something on your chest?' "I've powdered it, twice, dear,' she answered. 'Still, if you don't mind waiting, I suppose I might add another coat.' Useful Friends. "I hope you are selecting playmates whose companionship will be of value to you," said Jimmy's mother. "Oh, sure," replied Jimmy. "Skinny Jones is shown'n me how to spit through my teeth, and Tug Higgins says if I'll give him my roller skates he'll teach me the punch that knocked out Jim Corbett." Blighted Ambition. "Fellice has quit knitting socks for the Belgians." "Maybe the Belgians have enough socks now." "Perhaps so, but Felice quit because she couldn't be chairman of the knitting committee of the Girls' Belgian Relief club." OLD BATTLE GROUND OLD BATTLE GROUND Since Earliest History Men Have Fought in the Alps. Two Thousand Years Ago Armies Traversed the Region That Is Now the Scene of Austrian- Italian Struggle. If the rugged peaks of the Alps could tell their story, there would be many a thrilling and warlike incident to relate; but none so strange as the scenes which are being enacted today between the Austrians and the Italians in these mountainous regions. The Italians are absolutely at home in the mountains, and the Austrians are using every invention of science to counteract this advantage. All the parapets on the steep roads, where summer tourists were wont to motor, have been demolished, and beautiful pine forests have been swept away so that nothing shall obstruct the artillery. Large areas have been mined, and, by pressing a button, the Austrians can hurl an avalanche of rocks and bowlers on to the heads of the advancing Italians or blow up the roads beneath their feet. From the Cottian chain, marking the boundary of France in the west, to the Carnic and Julian Alps, north and east of the Adriatic in Austria, there are literally a thousand passes and routes of more or less note, nearly all traversed by practicable roads, and some shortened by railway tunnels. Over these roads armies marched to battle over 2,000 years ago. Mont Cenis pass may have been Hannibal's route when, in the year 218 B. C., the Carthaginian conqueror invaded Italy with a large army, half of which he lost amidst the Alpine snows. The conquest of some Alpine tribes by Augustus; the desultory warfare of Teutonic and Frankish hordes in the fifth and sixth centuries; and the unceasing, sanguinary strife of Swiss "confederates" and Austrians, which lasted from the breaking up of the Carolinian empire in the tenth and eleventh centuries until the crystallization of the Helvetic republic by Napoleon Bonaparte's act of mediation in 1803—all these fill the chronicles and make nearly every practicable foot of Swiss territory heroic ground. When Napoleon entered Italy, he crossed the Alps with an army of 30,000 by the Great St. Bernard pass, May 15-21, 1800. Later, he constructed the great military road over the Simplon pass, from Brieg, in Switzerland, to Domodossola, in Italy, and thence to Milan. MEANT TO FOIL PICKPOCKET Novel Device Gives an Alarm When One's Purse or Pocketbook Is Tampered With. This device is designed to sound an alarm when the purse or pocketbook is withdrawn from the pocket. When ```markdown ``` the purse is in position in the pocket it bears against a tongue spring. When the purse is removed the resulting movement of the spring actuates a mechanism that causes a sort of hammer to strike a sounding plate.—Scientific American. May Be Valuable Discovery. It has been ascertained that removing the spleen from mice makes them much less susceptible to tuberculosis. Though the explanation is not yet clear, a theory has been put forward that this is due to a substance called tuberculo-splenatin, which possibly has some affinity for the tuberculosis germ. Such is the substance of a paper in the Journal of Experimental Medicine, issued by the Rockefeller institute for medical research, and the implication in the findings of Dr. Paul A. Lewis and Dr. Arthur Georges Margot of the Henry Phipps institute of the University of Pennsylvania. The two investigators suggest the name tuberculo-splenatin for the new substance as "suggesting merely its origin and its apparent relationship to tuberculosis." Hardly anything is yet known of the properties of tuberculo-splenatin. The most characteristic feature of the Swiss agricultural industry since the outbreak of the war, is the inclination in all parts of the country to a more diversified cultivation of the land, and the raising of more grains and vegetables instead of the one-sided systems obtaining heretofore of hay, live stock, dairying and cheese making or of grapes and other fruits. METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE, METROPOLIS, ILL AFRO-AMERICAN CULLINGS In a communication to The Living Church, George F. Bragg, Jr. of Baltimore, advances the following arguments for church unity: A National and Not a Sectional Question. To the Editor of The Living Church: It is perfectly permissible, as well as lawful, within the bounds of Province No. 2, for a congregation of colored persons to be constituted on racial lines. It is permissible, and lawful, also, for colored persons to become members of parishes made up of white people. We certainly would not change this liberty. We would vigorously protest against any law declaring that colored people shall be organized along racial lines. We would as vigorously protest against a law which compelled the admission of colored persons into white parishes. What we now ask is that the several congregations organized on racial lines within the province be permitted either to associate themselves with the diocesan convention of the particular diocese where situate or to associate themselves with similar congregations within the province and be given a "status" of their own, with a convocation and missionary bishop. In every division of the church there will be colored members, but in the racial division the great body of colored people will be found. The point of unity is in the one episcopate. Still again, this unity would be in evidence in the Provincial synod. By such an arrangement, which is not mandatory but simply permissive, the great body of colored churchmen would be associated together in the work of missions, and also in building up institutions for colored orphans, the aged and infirm, and other charitable concerns. Otherwise, they would justly claim the benefits of such institutions now practically confined to white people. Right here is a great and vexing problem that is sure to arise, without the permissive legislation which is sought. We are asking simply for the legislation. The initiative, in every case, must be taken by the diocesan bishops. The question of a more elastic episcopal supervision for the colored race is not a sectional but a national question, and is intimately connected with the subject of church unity. If in 1878, when an entire Negro denomination, bishop, ministers, and laity, asked to be received into the Episcopal church in Virginia, the legislation which we are now asking the general convention to adopt had been a part of our canon law, the church would not have lost such a splendid opportunity. At the next meeting of the house of bishops the bishop of Virginia would have laid the whole matter before that body. And the probable result would have been somewhat like this: North Carolina and Virginia would have been constituted a special missionary district with respect to the colored race, and the very best colored priest that could be secured consecrated a missionary bishop and set to work, with the co-operation and guidance of the bishops of North Carolina and Virginia. That organization alone would have given him twenty-odd ministers, and more than two thousand communicant members. I know enough about racial life to assert that it is entirely within the range of possibility, some day, for the bishop of New York to be surprised with a request from some Negro body in the state of New York, seeking admission into the church, not as pau- At a colored Baptist ministers' meeting it was decided to hold a citywide evangelistic campaign in Washington during the two weeks beginning October 24. The following evangelists participated: Revs. Richard Carroll and William Carter of South Carolina; S. L. Johnson and S. A. Brown of Virginia; Granville Hunt and C. Le Roy Butler of New York; Junius Gray of Maryland and J. W. Bailey of Texas. An executive committee, consisting of the following pastors, was selected to have charge of the campaign; Rev. M. W. D. Norman, chairman; Rev. J. I. Loving, secretary; Rev. W. D. Jarvis, treasurer, and Revs. Joseph H. Lee, Robert J. Hawkins, William Bishop Johnson, A. Wilbanks, J. E. Willis, J. P. Green, G. W. Brent, A. J. Tyler, Walter H. Brooks, J. W. Howard, S. G. Lamkins, Holland Powell, William H. Jernagin and J. Milton Waldron. It is the general opinion that this was the greatrevival meeting ever held among colored people in Washington. Redditch is where all British needles are made. Rev. Dr. Weston Bruner, formerly of this city, but for some time past at the head of the department of evangelism of the home board of the Southern Baptist convention, is now engaged in work for the evangelization of the entire South, and has already inaugurated a series of meetings in nearly a hundred cities and towns of the South, these meetings including both white and colored Baptist churches. British Columbia reports the discovery of extensive gypsum deposits. pers, but as self-supporting people. Such a happening would almost daze the good bishop, when immediately the vexing character of the new problem would dawn upon him in all its fullness. Under the legislation which is proposed, the solution would be quite easy, and prove a great triumph for the church, and the cause of Christian unity. The clerical and lay deputies in the general convention from the North are not wise in treating this question as pertaining to the South. Southern Negroes are constantly flocking to the North, and when they go they carry themselves. They have the same desire in the North that they have in the South. They want their own convention, and their own bishop. Sooner or later, there will be "trouble" in the white camp if the black saints of the household are "snubbed." Twelve hundred Chicago Negroes have banded together and purchased about eleven hundred acres of land on the shores of Crook lake, just outside Baldwin, Mich., and the islands which dot the lake, and are perfecting a form of government for the colony to be transplanted to the new city the first of next May. At a meeting a committee was appointed to draft a constitution, arrange for an election of officers by postcard ballot and make preparations for building a clubhouse on an island in the lake, which has been rechristened Lake Idlewilde. The new city is to be called Idlewilde. Negotiations are being conducted by a syndicate of Chicago Negroes looking toward the purchase of the Draper Hall summer resort in Oconomowoc, Wis.—Chicago Herald. How the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial institute is teaching Negroes and whites of the South to raise their own food crops; how it is establishing rural schools, largely through donations from Mr. and Mrs. Julius Rosenwald of Chicago, and how it is establishing a farm-colony for graduates are some of the things disclosed in the annual report of the principal, Dr. Booker T. Washington. In the report is made an appeal to the public for funds to carry on the work of this institution for the benefit of the Negro race. Seth Low, chairman of the trustees, announced the annual deficit is about $50,000, and Doctor Washington says there is needed a $3,000,000 addition to the endowment fund; $50,000 each for boys' and girls' dormitories. "The Star of Ethiopia" was the name of a pageant held by colored citizens in celebration of the fiftieth anniversary of the adoption of the thirteenth amendment to the Constitution. The American League baseball park was the scene of the celebration. Mrs. Quincy Shaw of Boston and the Misses Lewisson of New York and others furnished the fund with which this pageant is given. The colored citizens of Washington guaranteed an additional fund of $1,000. Charles C. Hopkins, clerk of the supreme court at Lansing, Mich., is the oldest employee of the state in point of continuous service, having held his present position 33 years. Clerk Hopkins is also the only clerk the supreme court has had since the court was given power to appoint its clerk. Booker T. Washington has issued a circular directing attention to the claims on public generosity of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute, Alabama, of which he is the principal. The school, which was established to educate Negroes, started with one teacher and 20 students, and now has 1,500 students from 33 states and 18 foreign countries, officers and teachers numbering 193. The institution owns 3,000 acres of land, and the entire value of its property is $1,362,000. Training is given in academic studies, trades and religion, and 6,000 graduates and undergraduates have been sent out as farmers, mechanics, housewives, teachers, and business men. The managers are seeking help for operating expenses and to increase the endowment fund of the institution. Seth Low is chairman of the board of trustees. Maxim Gorky is fighting as a volunteer with the Russian army in Galicia. The rivers of the United States are wearing down its lands at a rate of about a foot in 9,120 years. When an aged man recovers from a severe illness the neighbors make the best of it. But they never are able entirely to conceal their disappointment. In communities large enough to support more than one newspaper there always are two sides to every question. The popular conception of the devil is that of a male adult adorned with hoofs and a forked tail. But the devil's people really dread is old age. War upon Pain! 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Women are always threatening something like that, but they hardly ever do it." "That's what I was thinking." "I met your friend Lushe the other day. He said he was on the water wagon." "That must have been on Thursday or Friday, wasn't it?" "It was on Friday. How did you guess?" "He's always on the wagon the last two days before pay day." CHANGE Quit Coffee and Got Well. A woman's coffee experience is interesting. "For two weeks at a time I have taken no food but skim milk, for solid food would ferment and cause such distress that I could hardly breathe at times, also excruciating pain and heart palpitation and all the time I was so nervous and restless. "From childhood up I had been a coffee and tea drinker and for the past 20 years I had been trying different physicians but could get only temporary relief. Then I read an article telling how some one had been helped by leaving off coffee and drinking Postum and it seemed so pleasant just to read about good health I decided to try Postum. "I made the change from coffee to Postum and there is such a difference in me that I don't feel like the same person. We all found Postum delicious and like it better than coffee. My health now is wonderfully good. 'As soon as I made the shift to Postum I got better and now my troubles are gone. I am fleshy, my food assimilates, the pressure in the chest and palpitation are all gone, my bowels are regular, have no more stomach trouble and my headaches are gone. Remember I did not use medicines at all—just left off coffee and used Postum steadily.' Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. Postum comes in two forms: Postum Cereal—the original form—must be well boiled. 15c and 25c packages Instant Postum—a soluble powder—dissolves quickly in a cup of hot water, and, with cream and sugar, makes a delicious beverage instantly. 30c and 50c tins. Both kinds are equally delicious and cost about the same per cup. "There's a Reason" for Postum. sold by Grocers. SPOHN'S DISTEMPER COMPOUND To Fortify the System One Advantage Out for Show. Postum comes in two forms: If we had no troubles but real ones this wouldn't be such a troublesome old world. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are the original little liver pills put up 40 years ago. They regulate liver and bowels.—Adv. A mah never realizes how insignificant he is until he attends his own wedding. Achy Joints Give Warning Tony Picture Wife a Story A creaky joint often predicts rain. It also foretells inward trouble. It may mean that the kidneys are not filtering the blood and are allowing poisonous uricacid to clog the blood and cause trouble. Bad backs, rheumatic pains, sore, aching joints, headaches, dizziness, nervous troubles, heart flutterings, and urinary disorders are some of the effects of weak kidneys and if nothing is done there's danger of dropy, gravel or Bright's disease. Use Doan's Kidney Pills, the most widely used, the best recommended kidney remedy in the world. DOAN'S KIDNEY PILLS 50¢ at all Stores Foster-Milburn Co. Preps. Buffalo, N.Y. Warner's Safe Nervine helps allay pain and irritation and produces restful sleep. It is particularly valuable wherever it is desired to diminish the excessive irritability of the nervous system and is highly serviceable in attacks of headaches, sleeptessness, neuralgia and listlessness. Warner Safe Nervine is especially adapted to the use of people of nervous temperament and leaves no unpleasant after effects. Two sizes, 50 cents and $1.00. Sold by all druggists. Warner's Sale Remedies Co. Rochester, N. Y. and is highly serviceable in attacks of headaches, sleepeasness, neuralgia and listness. Warner Safe Nervine is especially adapted to the use of people of nervous temperament and leaves no unpleasant after effects. Make the Liver Do its Duty PARKER'S HAIR BALSAM A toilet separation of merits. Helps to dredge dendrites. Keeps hair clean. Beauty to Gray or Faded Hair foe, and $1.00 a Druggage. W. N. U., ST. LOUIS, NO. 47-1915. WESTERN CANADA CONTINUES TO WIN The 1915 Yield of Grain Keeps Western Canada to the Front. The great publicity that has been given to the grain yields of the Provinces of Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta, the three provinces that comprise that portion of Western Canada east of the British Columbia boundary, has kept Canada to the front with a prominence that is merited. The grain crop of the three provinces has now been harvested, and sufficient of it has been threshed so that it is no longer a matter of estimate as to the returns. It is safe to say that the entire yield of wheat will be upwards of 275,000,000 bushels, and the average yield well over 25 bushels per acre. In proportion to the aggregate this is perhaps the largest yield ever known on the continent. Most of this wheat will grade No. 1 northern, and better, and with present prices the condition of the farmer is to be envied. Many individual yields are reported, and verified, and they are almost beyond belief, but they go to show that under the careful system of agriculture that produced these yields Western Canada would have far exceeded a 300,000,000 production of wheat in 1915 had the system been universal. It was not in one or two districts that big yields have been made known. The reports come from all parts of the 24,000 square miles of territory in which the growing of wheat is carried on. Mr. Elmir Seller, a farmer south of Strassburg, Sask., has harvested 5,465 bushels No. 1 hard wheat from 160 acres. Jas. A. Benner, near Dayland, Alberta, says his wheat went over 40 bushels to the acre, with an all round crop of 33 bushels to the acre. J. N. Wagner, near the same place, also lays claim to over 40 bushels of wheat per acre. A Norwegian farmer, named S. A. Tofthagen, not far from Dayland, had 23 acres of wheat which gave a yield of 47 bushels to the acre. Well, then, near Gleichen, Alberta. D. H. Engle of Humboldt, Iowa, owns a quarter section of land. This land was rented so that Mr. Engle should receive one-third of the crop, and this gave him $612.65, his net rental for the crop, and there was only 80 acres in crop. Scores of reports give yields fully as large as those given above. A large field of spring wheat near Lethbridge averaged 69 bushels, another 59 and a third 55 bushels per acre. On the Jail farm at Lethbridge 25 acres of Marquis wheat yielded 60 bushels to the acre and weighed 67 pounds to the bushel. A test lot of one acre of Marquis wheat when threshed yielded 99 bushels and a 30 acre field averaged 60 1-3 bushels. This farm had 260 acres under crop to Marquis wheat and it is expected the average from the whole will exceed 50 bushels. In all portions of Saskatchewan and Manitoba, as well, remarkable yields are reported, in many large fields showing averages of from 40 to 55 bushels per acre. When the story of this year's threshing is completed some extraordinary fields will be heard of. One farmer west of Unity, Saskatchewan, threshed 10,000 bushels of No. 1 northern from 200 acres and such instances will not be isolated. Considerable of the wheat grown in Western Canada is finding its way to the markets of the United States, notwithstanding the duty of ten cents per bushel. The miller in the United States finds Western Canadian wheat necessary for the blending of the high class flour that is demanded by some millers. Already nearly a hundred thousand bushels of the 1915 crop has found its way to the Minneapolis, Duluth, St. Louis and other markets. It was not in wheat alone that there were extraordinary yields. A farmer living south of Wadena, Sask., harvested 900 bushels of oats from ten acres. S. A. Tofthagen of Dayland before referred to had oats which yielded 110 bushels to the acre, while hose of J. N. Wagner went 90 bushels to the acre. As is pointed out by a Toronto paper Canada's great good fortune and splendid service as the Granary of the Empire are revealed in the record harvest from her rich fields of wheat and other grains. "The foundation of its prosperity is solid and enduring. While mines may be exhausted and lumber may disappear through improvident management, agriculture is a perpetual source of wealth, increasing from year to year by the stimulus of individual industry and personal interest. A wheat harvest of 236,250,000 bushels from 13,000,000 acres, an average yield of 26 bushels to the acre. The substantial nature of this growth in production is shown by the fact that the harvest returns are 72 per cent greater than the average for the past five years. The same satisfactory and highly important success has been attained in other grain crops. The aggregate yield of oats is 481,032,500 bushels from the 11,365,000 acres under crop. Of this yield 305,680,000 bushels are from the three Prairie Provinces. These provinces also contribute 304,200,000 bushels of wheat. The barley harvest is 50,868,000 bushels from 1,509,350 acres, an average yield of 82.7 bushels per acre." "The impression one gets in going through Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba," said a traveler from the East, "is that all the horges and teams and all the threshing machines engaged make no impression on the crops, and that it will take six months to thresh the grain out; but two weeks ago the Canadian Pacific railway were having a daily shipment of 1,700 cars of wheat from the three provinces, and a week ago they had got up to 2,100 cars a day. And besides this there is the Canadian Northern railway and the Grand Trunk Pacific, so an enormous quantity must be being shipped out of the provinces. The wealthier farmers are building large granaries on their farms, while there is a great improvement in the storage facilities provided by the government." It is therefore no wonder that the greatest interest was shown by those who attended the Soil Products Exposition held at Denver a short time ago, when it was demonstrated that it was not only in quantity that Western Canada still occupied the primary position. It was there that Western Canada again proved its supremacy. In wheat, it was early conceded that Canada would be a winner, and this was easily the case, not only did it win the big prize, but it carried off the sweepstakes. What, however to those who were representing Canada at this exposition, was of greater value probably, was winning first and second prize for alfalfa. The exhibits were beautiful and pronounced by old alfalfa growers to be the best they had ever seen. First, second and third cuttings of this year's growth were shown. At this same exposition, there were shown some excellent samples of fodder corn, grown in the Swift Current district. Topping the range cattle market in Chicago a short time ago is another of the feats accomplished by Western Canada this year. On Wednesday, October 13, Clay, Robinson and company sold at Chicago for E. H. Maunsell, Macleod, Alberta, a consignment of cattle, 17 head of which, averaging 1,420 pounds, brought $8.90 per hundredweight, topping the range cattle market for the week to date. The same firm also sold for Mr. Maunsell 206 head, averaging 1,240 pounds, at $8.55, without a throwout. These were all grass cattle. They were purchased by Armour and company. Clay, Robinson and company describe the cattle as of very nice quality, in excellent condition, and a great credit to Mr. Maunsell. It speaks well for our Canadian cattle raisers that they can produce stock good enough to top the Chicago market against strong competition, there being over 4,000 range cattle on sale that day. It is one thing to produce crops such as are referred to and another to get them to market. The facilities of Western Canada are excellent. The railway companies, of which there are three, the Canadian Pacific, the Canadian Northern and the Grand Trunk Pacific, have the mark of efficiency stamped upon all their work. Besides the main trunk lines of these systems, which extend from ocean to ocean, there are branch lines and laterals, feeders which enter into remote parts of the farming districts, and give to the farmer immediate access to the world's grain markets. The elevator capacity of the country is something enormous, and if the figures can be digested, the full extent of the grain producing powers of Western Canada may be realized. The total elevator capacity is about 170,000,000 bushels, or nearly one-half of the entire wheat production of the Dominion in 1915. Of this large storage facilities the country elevators number 2,800, with a capacity of 95,000,000 bushels.—Advertisement. The king can do no wrong—if the queen goes after him with an ace. A GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGMENT. Mr. F, C. Case of Welcome Lake, Pa, writes: "I suffered with Backache and Kidney Trouble. My head ached, my sleep was broken and un- refreshing. I felt heavy and sleepy after meals, was always nervous and tired, had a bitter taste in my mouth, was dizzy, had floating specks before my eyes, was always thirsty, had a Mr. E. C. Case Mr. F. C. Case, eyes, was always thirsty, had a dragging sensation across my loins, difficulty in collecting my thoughts and was troubled with shortness of breath. Dodds Kidney Pills have cured me of these complaints. You are at liberty to publish this letter for the benefit of any sufferer who doubts the merit of Dodds Kidney Pills." Dodds Kidney Pills, 50c. per box at your dealer or Dodds Medicine Co., Buffalo, N. Y. Dodds Dyspepsia Tablets for Indigestion have been proved. 50c. per box.—Adv. Don't worry if a blind man threatens to whip you on sight. WOMAN'S CROWNING GLORY is her hair. If yours is streaked with ugly, grizzly, gray hairs, use "La Creole" Hair Dressing and change it in the natural way. Price $1.00.—Adv. A man soon gets used to the distrust he has of himself. THIS IS THE AGE OF YOUTH. You will look ten years younger if you darken your ugly, grizzly, gray hairs by using "La Creola" Hair Dressing.—Adv. Energy can dispel gloom. METROPOLIS WEEKLY GAZETTE. METROPOLIS. ILL HIS OTHER SISTER HIS OTHER SISTER By CLARISSA MACKIE. (Copyright, 1915, by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate) Jack Fenby came into the dining room waving a telegram at his assembled family. "Guess who is coming tonight," he challenged. "Issabella Drew," hazzarded Betty, with sisterly devotion. "Oh, pshaw!" blushed Jack. "I didn't mean Isabella." "Well, she is coming," went on Betty, smoothly. "Father and mother are going to town on the 8:42 to stay over night and I've telephoned Isabella to spend the night with me there. I'm such a dear, you ought to tell me about your message, Jack!" "It's from Lance Freeman," he replied. "Lance Freeman from Panama?" "Yes. He's up here on business. He has promised to stay with me," he added proudly. "I tell you, folks, Lance is a pretty big gun down there on the isthmus, and Betty"—addressing his sister in an offensively patronizing tone—"it's a good thing you're not, the paint-and-powder sort of girl—Lance detests the whole tribe." "In—d-e-e-d?" drawled Betty, over her toast and tea. "Yes, indeed! He's terribly fussy about women, you know." "He must be a detestable paragon himself," murmured Betty. "Don't quarrel, children," chided Mrs. Fenby. "You must do the honors Betty, and, Jack, try to persuade Lance to make our home his headquarters while he is North. I was very fond of his mother." Mr. Fenby and his wife departed for their train and Jack accompanied them, to spend the day at his office in town. Left to herself, Betty held conference with the cook and then went up to her own room, where she sat down before her dressing table and stared thoughtfully at her charming reflection in the oval mirror. What she saw there must have pleased her capricious fancy, for she smiled and nodded and sparkled at herself. At last, she changed to a street govn, and walked down to the drug store. At six o'clock that evening Jack Fenby brought Lance Freeman home. Eliza, the trim parlor maid, wore a stunned look on her round face. "Miss Betty is in the drawing room," she announced with a toss of her head. Jack ushered his big, bronzed friend from the tropics into the soft lighted room where Betty and Isabella Drew were sitting before the fire. Betty rose and came forward with outstretched hand. She saw a tall, broad-shouldered young man with keen gray eyes that seemed to probe the depths of her heart and soul and come away disappointed, finding evident relief in Isabella Drew's girlish simplicity. The newcomer's evident dismay and disapproval of her own charms—a dismay that his straight-forward nature could not then conceal—struck a pang to Betty's heart. Lance Freeman, eagerly anticipating this meeting with the adored sister of his classmate, saw a slender, golden haired girl in a tight-fitting black satin frock, her feet incased in absurdly high-heeled slippers, her golden hair twisted into the latest mode atop her small head, her blue eyes wide and shallow looking in their baby stare, her face carefully powdered and rouged, eyebrows penciled, lips skillfully tinted, pearls in her ears and en-circling her white throat. A very much painted and powdered, bepeared, showy and altogether shoddy looking young woman—such was Lance Freeman's hasty estimate of his friend's sister. Isabella Drew made a perfect foll for Betty. Jack wondered dazedly if the simplicity of Isabella's attire was studied and if she was in collusion with his mischievous sister to shock Lance Freeman. "Betty!" he gasped indignantly. "Jack!" she warned, giving Lance a limp hand. "I am so glad to see you at last, Mr. Freeman. Jack has talked a lot about you. "Mother left word that you are to make the Oaks your headquarters while you are North." "You are all most kind," murmured Lance, staring at the powdered little beauty, who smiled insipidly. As the two young men dressed for dinner they talked of Lance's life in the Canal zone, of his brilliant prospects for the future, of Jack's first law case, which had been a triumph for the junior member of his father's firm, and when Lance observed that there was a strong family likeness between Jack and his sister, Jack hastily changed the subject. Lance was ready first and he came into Jack's room and examined the photographs on the mantelpiece. One framed portrait he regarded with narrowed eyes. It was Betty's latest photograph, the picture of a charming, merry-eyed girl in a soft, white gown, her simply dressed hair waving away from her broad, low forehead. It was a sweet, thoughtful face, very unlike the painted, shallow countenance of the Betty he had met half an hour ago. "Is this your other sister?" he asked curiously. "You've met my only sister," muttered Jack glumly. "Hum!" said Lance perplexedly. Jack glowed resentfully. "And she takes a diabolical delight in turning the tables on a fellow." A queer gleam came into Lance's eyes, but he made no response. During the dinner that followed, Jack devoted himself to Isabella and left Lance to Betty's tender mercies. The man from Panama had to admit that Jack's sister was clever, even brilliant, in spite of her shallow appearance, and while they conversed, chiefly about life at the isthmus, to which he was soon to return, Lance was studying Betty closely, trying to trace some likeness to the unaffected girl of the portrait upstairs in Jack's room. And Betty? Beneath her masquerade of paint and powder and her mother's pearl necklace, she was raging at herself. Never had she been so attracted to any man as to Lance Freeman, and she read only amused contempt in his steady glance. She had always been used to the unqualified admiration of her brother's friends, and Lance was his most particular chum. She was ready to cry with vexation when the meal was over. Why, she asked herself, had she taken it into her silly head to flout a plain man who hated powder and paint on his woman folks? Why blame him because he wanted them to be as fresh and clean skinned as himself—as frank and unassuming as he was? And naturally Betty was all these things herself. Therein lay the tragedy. In the drawing room Isabella played and sang for them, and presently Lance asked Betty to show him Mr. Fenby's famous collection of orchids. Among the orchids in the conservatory, he told her about the beautiful black orchid which he had seen in one of the jungle swamps of the isthmus and how he could go to the very tree to which the parasitic blossom clung. "Perhaps your father would like one —I will try to get some and send them up by a trusty messenger," he offered. Betty agreed that her father would be delighted, and then followed a delightful half hour during which she animatedly told him how her father had acquired many of his specimens, and she displayed such a knowledge of the subject and so entirely forgot the part she was playing that Lance found his heart slipping from his keeping. They were standing near the fountain and Betty was dipping her fingers in the water, where goldfish darted to and fro. Lance regarded her thoughtfully. "I'm wondering why you took the trouble to disguise yourself under the paint and powder of a circus woman," he remarked curiously. "Sir!" thrilled Betty, trying to wither him with a glance, but crumpling miserably beneath his scorn. She tried to hate him for his brutal frankness, his lack of polish. "Please take me back to my brother." "In a moment," he agreed gruffly. "I-I was hoping you'd wash your face first!" he blurted out. "Wash my face?" stammered Betty. He nodded and gave her a snowy handkerchief. "Please, do," he urged, but it sounded like a command, and Betty, having met her master, meekly obeyed. She held a corner of the handkerchief under the fountain spray and scrubbed the paint and powder from face and lips and brows. When she had emerged, her perfect skin, pink and blooming from the friction, she looked demurely at him. "Well?" she smiled. "And please fluff out your hair the way it is in that lovely picture in Jack's room. There! You don't look so confoundedly sophisticated. Thank you, Miss Betty, you are a brick!" he ended enthusiastically, as she removed the earrings. "A brick," dimpled Betty, as he tucked the damp and smeared handkerchief in his pocket. When they returned to the drawing room Isabella was telling Jack a story that brought reluctant mirth in its train. "Here comes the little imp now," he murmured, as she entered with Lance. "Well, Betty, I'm glad you've emerged from your war paint," he ended in a burst of brotherly frankness. "Where did you raise that black satin horror?" "Cousin Daisy left it here last year; isn't it awful?" she confided. Hours later, in her own room, Betty dropped her newly-purchased rouge pots into the waste-paper basket. Then she relapsed into dreamy inactivity. "Oh, most adorable of men," she sighed at last. "I'm so glad you don't like paint and powder combined with pearls—I detest 'em myself—and even if I did like them I would—but, no—I shall not tell even you"—nodding at her adorably blushing reflection in the glass—"what I am thinking about now!" No Self-Starter: "Oh, dear!" exclaimed Mrs. Gadders. Mr. Gadders broke his arm while cranking up our automobile this morning." "Don't worry," said her friend in a soothing tone. "A broken arm is not serious, and Mr. Gadders will soon get well." "It isn't that," wailed Mrs. Gadders. "The news will get into the papers and then everybody will know that our car is not a late model." Philosophically Considered. "I wouldn't marry you if you were the last man on earth!" said the girl. "Well," replied the young man who takes everything seriously. "If I were the last man on earth I'd be mourning so many friends and relatives that I don't suppose I'd feel much like taking part in a wedding anyhow." 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Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription makes weak women strong, sick women well, no alcohol. Sold in tablets or liquid. It usually is the man whose distinction is that of being the father of a great many children who deserts them and the woman who bore them. 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. Good Business "A financier, my son, is a man who can borrow money and make the lender pay interest on it." 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. Dyspepsia. Pa, what is dyspepsia? "It is the remorse of a guilty stomach, my son."—Puck. It Tell er age After the Movies go home and Murine your Eyes. Two Drops will rest refresh and cleanse. Have it handy. b. Sends Book of the Eye upon request. Metropolis Gazette PUBLISHED ON FRIDAY BY THE GAZETTE PRINTING CO. GETROPOLIS, - - - - ILL. MRS. M. J. MOCRARY, MANAGER. J. B. MOCBARY, EDITOR FRIDAY DEC. 10, 1915. Office 9th and Pearl Streets, Metropolis, Illinois. Entered as second-class mail matter, at Metropolis, Illinois, Postoffice. E. Address all communications to J. E.MoRABY. Box 107 Metropolis, Illinois. The names and addresses of contributors must be known to us in every instance, in order to secure publication. We want the news of your vicinity each week. TERMS OF SUBSCRIPTION: One Year.....$1 00 1x Months.....75 Three Months.....40 Single Copy.....05 In Advance. ADVERTISING RATES. made known on application. You must mail copy on Mondays to secure publication. Cut Flowers for Sale at Mrs. JENNIE INMANS. Trustees of the Livingston Normal, Theological and Industrial Institute. J. H. Knowles, D. D, President J. B. McCrary, S. T. B., Secretary T. C. Yancy, S. B. Kerr, Attorney Rev. J. M. Blake. Rev. H. Allison Rev. G. W. Rowlett, Treasurer Rev. C. C. 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. Cor, 12, and Ophia Sts. M&S. VALLEE. Booker T. Washington's Book Soon 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 road 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 Mulliken Jenkins Co. Ninth Street, Washington, D. C. are placing salemue. Any one wishing an agency can get free samples by mailing 15 cts. postage. COMING AGAIN. Black Patti, No. 2 who is manager of one of the finest negro minstrel now on the road will appear in the city at the Odd Fellows Hall soon Watch for bills. Her troupe played here recently to a full house and much satisfaction was given and she has been petitioned to return before Christmas and exhibit. Get ready for the big show. Mesdames Lee Porter, Ed Lyons, Annie Porter, Ollie Upshaw and Deborah Wilson were Paducah shoppers Monday. Rev. Wm. Barnett returned from his charge at Tolu Ky., Clifton Co., he fill the pulpit there the 2nd and 3rd Sundays. Letter Heads and Envelopes can be had for the asking at this office. We print them. Edward Hensley spent Sunday in Md. City and reports a pleasant time. Dignamism. Dignam tells us: "There are many risks in business. The wise man allows his competitors to take 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 Mrs. Mary Winnmon and daughter Miss Garnett, went to Paducah Satueday to visit relatives. N. W. Long was in Brookport Monday on business. The Executive Board of the Mt. Olive Baptist Association will convene with Mt. Olive, Culps, Thursday of next week, those who owe the Gazette come prepared to settle your account Aunt Lavenia White, an aged and respected woman of this city who has been partially paralyzed for several years died Tuesday night. Persons who owe the Gazette would greatly lesson the financial burden of the publishers by remitting at once. Hon. L. L. Emmerson, candidate on the Republican ticket for Secretary of State is being strongly endorsed by the Southern Illinois Counties and at present has the lead in the Southern end of the State. The one that beats him will be the nominee. Senator S. W. Latham is being urged by his many friends to make the race for Lieutenant Governor on the Republican ticket. Senator Latham is a strong man. Mrs. Nancy Moon of Brookport had the misfortune to lose her house and contents by fire early Saturday morning. It is supposed to be of incendiary origin. She is a widow and deserves the sympathy and help of all. Rev. J. M. Blake was called to Unionville Friday to preach the funeral of Mrs Mary King wife of Wm. King. The Gazette is in sympathy with the bereft. Mrs. Mamie Maxwell of Brookport was in the city visiting relatives and friends Monday. Sam Gaines is reported very sick. J. H Flowers of Brookport was in the city Tuesday on business connected with the Unity Baptist church. Rev. J H Knowles, the Missionary is expected to be at the First Baptist church this city, Sunday morning on his mission work; he was in Cobden, Sunday. 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. 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 Paducah 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 ooly 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 surfaces 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 consti- pation. Little Robinson Tucker is confined to his bed. Mrs. McClelland Smith is slowly improving. Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Evans have two very sick children. Mrs Pearl Carter has returned to her home in St. Louis Mo., after spending several days with her mother, Mrs. Claybrook and sisters, Mrs. Cork and Miss Phillips, Mrs. J. H. Flowers of Brookport was in the city Saturday on business. Miss Love Marie Phillips, teacher in Dunbar School was somewhat indisposed Monday and Mrs. Bessie Cork substituted for her. Thos. Urquhart was at home with his family Monday returning to Paducah Tuesday Mrs. Morna Givens of Paducah Ky., is in the city visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edd Campbell. Thos. Woodyard is dangerously sick. Mr. and Mrs. Boyd. McCane were Paducah visitors Monday. Mrs. Newt McCane of St. Paul Minn. and her sister of Litchfield Ky. are in the city visiting the former's mother-in-law, Mrs. Polly McCane, also her brother-in-law and family, Mr. and Mrs. Boyd McCane. Mrs. Mary Harmon and Miss Izora Rodgers went to Paducah Wednesday. 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. 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 7,000 Baptist 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. Vernon, Ill. Thanksgiving Dinner Of A.M.E. Church. The two captains of said dinner made their reports as follows: Club No. I—John Renfro, Captain, Miss Izora Rodgers, Clerk Reported $128 60 Club No. II, Rev. Green Hodge, Captain Mr. K. D. Barnes, Clerk Reported $91.25 Total $219.8 Thought and Kindness Bust. It is not written blessed is he that feedth the poor, but he that considereth the poor. A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.—John Ruskin. Livingston Institute This school is well graded and equipped Grammar School Department. 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